WEBVTT - John Harbaugh's Owners Meetings Press Conference 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.240 Welcome the Ravens Press Pass. Today you will hear from 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.320 head coach John Harball, who is at the league meetings 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.920 in Phoenix, Arizona. Coach Harball spoke for about thirty minutes 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.280 and as you might expect, got a lot of questions 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:19.960 about Lamar Jackson. Here's Coach Harball. I haven't seen the tweet. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.840 That's a i'mgoing process. Uh, I'm following it very closely, 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.960 just like everybody else is here, and uh, looking forward 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.000 to a resolution. I'm excited thinking about Lamar all the time, 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.640 thinking about him as our quarterback. We're building our offense 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.760 around that idea, and Uh, I'm just looking forward to 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:41.199 getting back to football. I'm confident that's gonna happen. Uh. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.880 I do you know, you gotta you gotta plan for 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.360 all the contingencies for sure, But I'm pretty I'm pretty 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.720 fired up about Lamar Jackson. I mean, Lamar Jackson is 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.279 a great player. Lamar came back in great shape last year. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.680 He's fired up to play. Uh. That's the Lamar that 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.120 I'm looking for, looking forward to seeing. Can't wait to 0:00:58.160 --> 0:00:59.680 get back on the grass and go to work. And 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.680 I'm confident that's gonna happen, so you're following them on Twitter. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.399 And no, I don't live in that world, Jared, you 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.880 know I'm not. I'm not a real Twitter guy. Uh. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.880 Have you seen my tweets lately? No, No, that's uh 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:13.840 uh you know you see it. I mean obviously that 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.720 stuff comes through guys. Guys like Jonah share those tweets 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.280 with me, so we appreciate it. And uh and uh 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.080 and it's been kind of fun watching some of that 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.240 stuff too. So Lamar is great on Twitter. I mean 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:24.760 it's fun to follow. He does a great job with 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.160 all that. So, um, some of the stuff you get 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.280 a good you get, you get enjoyment out of it too. 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.320 Direct contact. You know, what's unique situation right now? I 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.360 would say it's different than than most years. That just 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.400 a contract situation. So that's probably just a little different 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.520 than other years, not not as much. So Uh, I'm 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.200 looking forward to getting back, you know, to the to 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:51.040 the normal way of doing things. Like Mark, we're kind 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.400 of well, Albert, you know, that's a great question. I 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.280 Mean the obvious question is yesterday. You know you want 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.680 it done already, but uh, but it's just always possible. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.440 I mean, this is a real world this is this 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.320 is big time pro sports at the highest level, and 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.680 contracts are important and they matter to both sides. The 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.320 thing that I love about the situation, I believe is 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.840 that in the end, you got good people, you know, 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.560 working together. I mean we've been We've been with Lamar, 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:18.799 you know, I've been with Lamar as a coach, and 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.640 players and coaches and and all of us in the 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.000 organization have been together for what five years now. You know, 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.000 we've been through some crazy things, some amazing moments, some 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.400 tough moments, challenges, ups and downs together. You know, we've 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.600 hugged in the locker room after after wins, We've hugged 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.840 in the locker room after losses. You know, those are 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.480 things that last forever. Those relationships never change. So this 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.200 is part of it, you know, this is it's part 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.320 of the story that's being written, and everybody's writing the story. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.560 But I just appreciate that it's been handled with class. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.760 Lamar has handled it with class, and UH and Eric 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.000 and Steve and Ozzie and all the people involved on 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.040 that side of handled it with class. So that's what 0:02:52.080 --> 0:03:00.080 I appreciate about everybody involved. Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely. I 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.760 don't have a gauge on that. You know, it's been 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.240 Oh it's been a while. I mean, you know, it's 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:05.919 it's gonna have to be. It's just like I said, 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.760 it's a unique situation. But when we get back together, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.560 you know, and I'm really hopeful that happens, and that's 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.760 what I want to see. You know, it's gonna be great. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:19.720 It's gonna be good to me. No, it doesn't. I don't. 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:25.760 I don't think about that too much, you know, And 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.920 I had to get all the details of that. I'm 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:29.440 sure that Erk will do a great job with that, 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.000 whatever it is. I mean, you always, everybody's talking all 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.120 the time about everything in this league. That's just the 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.280 way business is done. So I'm sure that business will 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:38.880 be done the way it's always done, you know. But 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.200 for me, my perspective, you know, I'm getting ready for Lamar. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:43.920 That's what I'm doing. In our offense. We've got a 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.280 new offensive coordinator, very excited about Todd Munkin. We're in 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.520 the we're in the lab right now building the offense 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.760 and putting it together with the terminology and the plays 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.200 and things like that. And that's that's what you focus 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:55.960 on as a coach. And the rest of it. So 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.440 you build your team. I mean, you build your team regardless. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.160 I mean, we're building our team all the time him 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:01.680 in all the different areas that you got to build it. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.640 And I know, and that train is moving, man, that 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.200 train is moving fast. But here's the thing. You know, 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.840 when Lamar gets back on board that train, he's fully 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.800 capable of jumping on full full speed. You know, Lamar 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.760 can go. And so in that train's moving and he 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.600 merges in with us, we're gonna be rolling. That's what 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:21.880 as a coach, that's what I'm thinking about. Of course, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.640 of course, you know, and I do prepare for all contingencies. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.360 But you build, you build a great offense for for 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.400 for your players, right, I mean, that's what you do. 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.440 And and Lamar's Lamar's under contract, and that's the guy 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.839 I'm of course, that's the guy I want to CBR quarterback. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.800 You know, that's that's my guy. We we we made 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.159 a decision to go with Lamar Jackson five years ago, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.080 right Why because we love him. We love him, We 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.640 love the way he plays, We love his mindset, his charisma, 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.479 his style. Uh, either way, he's in the locker room, 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.080 everything about him we love him. I love him personally. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:54.839 I love being the coach of the team that he's 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.520 playing quarterback for. So that's what you do, you know, 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.880 you build a team around your players, and that's what 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.200 I'm excited to do. You don't see even relating future. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.839 That's the point you can, you know, bring him back 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:12.120 here and now I don't see that at all. I mean, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:13.480 this is to me, this is part of the way 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.919 it works, you know, And and however works, Hey, in 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.680 the end, when it's all said and done, we're all, 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.760 you know, not around the circle this table right now, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:22.560 we're all see each other. So we're all gonna we're 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.160 gonna give each other hug and say how you doing, 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:25.760 you know, and we're gonna be friends. And and it's 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:27.440 even more so that way with the players and the 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.880 coaches that you work with every single day. So you know, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:31.800 I don't know what direction it's gonna go. I don't 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.480 have a crystal ball. I can't I can't tell the future. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.720 But I know whatever happens, it's gonna be good. It's 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.240 gonna be okay. And uh and I'm and I have 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:40.920 my hopes, you know, And like I said, I love 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:46.960 Lamar Jackson, you were unaware. OK, I'm not getting into 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.800 all that. That's that's stuff. Those conversations happen. It's it's 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:56.400 private getting building content. Well, I mean, you think you 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.000 always are building contingent contingency plans. It's it's a good question, 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.600 and you're building contingency plans for every position. You know, 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:05.640 you can go out there and something can happen to 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.560 any player and they can be not there the next 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.839 day for some reason. So you've got to build depth 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:11.440 in your team. We've always been a team that wants 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.960 to build depth in so every position, we're gonna build 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:15.880 depth into our team. We're gonna try to be prepared 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.360 for every possible outcome. This is a unique one. They'll 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.320 die with Lamar and our quarterback situation, but everybody goes 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.960 through this in some form or fashion with their quarterback. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:30.920 So this is part of it. It's part of the business. Well, 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:32.839 you certainly need to know on the day of the 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.200 first game, you know, and you need to do an 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.080 eleven thirty before one o'clock game because they need you 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.359 gotta put the number of the names in. So that's like, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.080 I know, that's kind of a silly answer, but there 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.640 is no like real hard fast day. Like I said, 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.120 in our situation, Lamar Lamar is a great player. You know, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.279 when he's playing, he's gonna want to play great football. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:52.840 He's gonna want to be out there at his best. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.440 One thing I know about Lamar, He's gonna work hard 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.719 to be the best player he can be. And that's 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.440 you know, that's what you plan for. We could do 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:06.720 coordinator new office to get that. Couldn't say that again. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:12.800 You Yeah, I think it probably does in reality, but 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.680 you know, there's always urgency as a coach man, you 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.600 always want your guys there. But the offseasons voluntary. So 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:28.680 we'll just see how it plays out with all the guys. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:34.480 You know, I don't I don't really go back and 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.760 track all that. I think it's natural. I think it's 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:41.400 part of the natural environment of professional sports. Um, these 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.360 are challenging things. There's way more going on, you know. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.480 You know, and you guys have all written about this stuff. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.400 There's a lot of little moving parts of this deal 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.160 that go beyond um, you know, one player or one 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.160 team or anything like that. You know, there's there's uh, 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.280 there's there's pro sports issues with you know, collective Barty 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.360 agreements and all that kind of stuff that that matter 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.320 to people. And uh, I think that's all kind of 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.040 weaving its way into that and that's just part of it. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:04.920 So you take in stride, you know, you try not 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:06.880 to worry about it too much and and just try 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.160 to for us, keep the focus on the things that matter, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.920 which for us as football you know, we're here for football. 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.040 We're here. Keep it simple and get ready to play 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.480 football as well as we can as a football team, 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.240 and that's what we try to do. An Eric question, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.040 but have you guys maintained object negotiations with Lamar since 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.080 you know, the combine or whatever. Yeah, I mean, I 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.040 don't know exactly how to how to describe that because 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:27.800 Eric's doing that and he does a great job with it. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.760 But but I know that they're working hard at it, 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.240 and they're you know, trying to be in constant contact. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.079 I mean, you're not, you're not talking every second of 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.920 every day. But as far as I know, it's very 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:44.800 consistent whenever the lines conversations. We were talking about our coaching, 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.960 our coaching staff, and we were talking about the offense 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.640 going forward a little bit, you know, it's it was 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.080 more texting That's that's how Lamar kind of likes to 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.040 work and in the off season. But uh, that was 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.000 it Adams football talking about football. He and I are 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.520 talking about contract stuff, a John. I know your perspective 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.319 on this too, kind night. You got to buy um 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.000 as far as you know, with the trade requested, if 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.200 they're coming in earlier, whnapp like as far as the 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.040 context of he can request the trade, but at the 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:14.520 end of the day, there has to be someone that 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.800 wants to dance and even if that happens, you still 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.200 have to get something commensurate with what you would feel. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.080 Wolden makes sense. And if none of those components happen, 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.880 he can request the trade all he wants, right Well, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.400 I mean, I just think the business part of it's 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.040 the business part of it, for sure, you've seen it. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:30.640 I mean that's kind of how it works. It's it's 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.199 just part of the business of pro sports. Those are 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.880 those things come into consideration. Those conversations I'm sure get 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.959 good had every day with every team we've been a trade. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.560 We've got trade conversations with lots of teams about lots 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.400 of players, you know, in all honesty, and we haven't 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.240 made one yet. So uh, you know, um, that's how 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.520 it works. He said that, you know, Lamars a guy 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.480 who marks at the beat of his own drum in 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.440 a lot of ways. Would you like him to see, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.000 you know, take a more traditional approach to han leaning 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.800 himself with everything that's kind of coming out in the 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.200 past month or so. You know, one thing I learn 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.520 from Andy Reid is um And he had to sign 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.000 a little card in the back of his desk on 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.520 the bolton board and said, don't judge. I think that's 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.079 really important. You know. It's uh, you know, everybody's got 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.240 their way of operating and doing things. And we have 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.880 relationships and you know, when we're together, we talk about 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:16.959 things with all the different guys all the time. That's 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:18.960 how you do, that's how you work. And so but 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:20.840 I'm not going to try to judge anybody's style for 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.360 doing things. I love Lamar, love what he stands for, 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.960 love who he is as a person is His mom 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.960 is a wonderful lady. I haven't had a lot of 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.240 time with her, but I've met her. Um, he's got 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.000 he's got a beautiful little girl. Uh, it's just a 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.360 it's a good family. I just nobody's all about as 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.120 a person where his heart's at, and that's that's what 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:43.040 you think about the pressure. I really don't know. I 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.040 don't know. It's uh just all I think it's part 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:46.679 of the way it operates as part of the business 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:52.800 of football. Conversation with him if he does have you know, know, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.439 the opposite is the tag and he will he are 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.040 you certain that he will play under the tag this year? Well, 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:00.840 I don't know, you know, I don't know. I don't 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:06.280 have any Yeah, no, I don't, I don't know anything really, So, um, 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:18.319 how limited happen? Well, I don't think it's been a 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.800 cap restrained issue because that's a solid number, so we 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.280 know what we're at. So it's either going to be 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.080 that number, you know, probably or lower, you know, if 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:25.640 you get a long term deal done than the than 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.840 the cap number for this year can actually come down 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.520 a little bit. So I don't think that's too much 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:30.800 an issue. And as far as the other part of it, 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.240 like we said before, we're really building the whole team 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.320 around around that situation. So the situation is what it is, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.560 and it's always like they're just always guys on your 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.240 roster that you know aren't signed and you keep up 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.040 the business of building your team as best you can. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.560 It's bigger when it's your quarterback, for sure, but other 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.280 teams go through it too, so it's just how it 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:56.920 works the time. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.440 I don't, I don't know. I don't. I'm not sure. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.439 I don't think. I don't think the marque too much 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.120 track and when the meetings happen and things like that. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.240 But he might. I don't read too much into it, well, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.480 because the reality is that you guys knew this, you know, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.640 behind the scenes for a while, and the only difference 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.120 today is that people know about it public things today 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.400 and it's almost been business as will for you behind 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:19.160 the scenes dealing different today. I just think it's an 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.080 ongoing process. I mean, it's a good point, you know, 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.479 It's just this is not it's I know, it's news 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.520 cycles and headlines and scrolls and stuff like that, and 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.240 that's part of it, and that's really I mean, that's 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.599 part of the fun of sports, right. Everybody wants to 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.400 wants to see what's going on. I mean, I pull 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.040 up on my phone and I pull up you guys 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.520 and see what you're writing a bottom or see what's 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.160 going on Ukraine. You know, I'm really interested in that. 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.880 I'd like to see that could get calmed down, you know, possibly, 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.839 So that's I actually look at that first, believe it 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.800 or not, but uh, that's kind of an important deal. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.360 But it's just it's it's it just rolls, you know, 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.760 it's just fluid, and it's gonna work out, and it's 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.720 gonna we're gonna, we're gonna get up the next morning, 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.800 god willing, and we're gonna we're gonna roll and we're 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.520 gonna be playing football. And and nothing's changed in terms 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.160 of the relation and chips. How we feel about Lamar, 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.640 how I you know, how we want to build our team, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.800 the kind of team we want to be. Personality wise, 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.880 Lamar fits us that way. So that's that's how we're 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:16.640 going to put it back in the box. Which it's 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.760 gonna work itself out. You know. It's say, believe me, 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.520 if we're playing football next year and Lamar Jackson to quarterback, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.560 we're all gonna be happy, you know. And he's gonna 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.160 be fired up to play, and he's gonna be happy 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.079 to be out there playing too. And and because that's 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:28.280 the kind of guy he is, I mean, he loves 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.680 the play, and he loves his teammates, and he loves 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.840 his coaches, and I just think that's how that's how 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.360 it works. Like I said, it's a fluid kind of 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.240 a thing. It's there's no there's no periods on any 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.600 of this. You're listening to Ravens Press Best. Please rate 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.559 and review if you haven't already, make sure you subscribe 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.640 and tell your friends and family that they should subscribe 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.080 as well. Now let's get you back to the rest 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:54.800 of Harvests. Suppressor. John, you're weird kind of laughing now 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.319 on the wall in question you got, we're doing that now. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.200 You guys picked up Nelson out dad last week. Just 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:08.280 appear how you see him? Yeah, Cliff, thanks Cliff, Thanks Cliff. Uh, 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.160 I appreciate that. Nelson Nelson. I just excited to have him. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:13.360 You know, he is a guy that we've had to 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:17.679 play against, former first round pick, big range receiver, uh, 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.520 tough player, um pro. You know that's the way he's 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.280 been described, and we had him in for the visit. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.280 That's the way he presented himself. I think it's gonna 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.840 be great for a young receiver room. Uh, you know 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.440 him and bait now, you know, And we're not done. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:31.880 We're not done in there at all. Plus the guys 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.680 we've got coming back, and we'd like the We like 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.200 the guys we've got coming back as well, with DuVernay 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.400 and and Prochet and you know all the guys. So um. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.040 But I think he's gonna be a good addition for us, 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.920 and I'm excited about it. And that's just one piece. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.960 It's one step. I answer the next question. You've had 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.320 a longer time than coming out in this year's drab? 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.720 Are you excited as most people seeing the thing in 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.280 the beat grab at that position? Haven't you seen that? 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.360 From what I have, I've seen all those guys now, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.360 I've seen like forty receivers now on tape, So that 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.480 takes a lot of work. It's like, yes, what are 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.360 you guys doing. We're not sitting around reading tweet all 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.600 the time, you know we are. We're working on stuff. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.400 So it's been fun to look at those guys. And 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.400 I think it is a deep drafted receiver and there's 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.760 a lot of guys that kind of fit the way 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.200 we want to play. And the next step is going 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.160 to be getting with Coach Monk and coach Lewis, coach 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.760 Martin and uh and coach Taggart and talking about Okay, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.800 for what we're trying to build offensively, you know, which 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.960 of these guys do you like the best in terms 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:25.320 of targeting who we want to go after because we're 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:30.800 gonna draft a receiver. Trying to head coach organization. It's like, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:38.640 make it sound like you're sure about hearing all if 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:44.000 you don't understood by now, you know, No, I answer 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:45.720 I really actually with a firm no. I mean, I 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.120 just understand that this is how it works. I mean, 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.480 Lamar is a great guy, and Lamar is doing a 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.560 nice job with the negotiations, and I think that needs 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.520 to be said. People need to understand he's doing a 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.440 good job, okay, and Eric's doing a good job, and 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.320 and Eric's getting advice from Ozzy and from Steve and 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.200 all those things are being discussed. Yeah. I'm involved in 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.560 those conversations too, so I know where we're at. There 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.080 really is no frustration other than the natural normal. Hey, 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.280 this is how pro football works, you know, and it's 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.480 probably easy in college football. They got the transfer portal. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.680 I'd like to be dealing with that, so I feel 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.120 okay about this, it's gonna be all right. Yeah, ye, 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.520 but we have contracts, so it's good. Did you full 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:25.200 APIs do you feel the un certain team position? Negatively 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.440 in fact, that you did you hear from free agents? 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.240 You know, directly or indirectly, because we don't know if 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.960 the correcting we're not Yeah, you know, I don't know. 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.640 I mean, I think guys don't really tell you everything. Yeah, 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.600 if it did, it did, If it didn't, it didn't. 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.560 I really don't know the answer to that, but I'm 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:46.840 not worried about it. Everything is is that the team 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.800 is not needing this value. So this is not a 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.640 team thing, it's not a Faltimore things. Underlining that this 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.960 is monetary. So what rule do you think that there 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.400 is to get closer to what it feels like it's 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.760 his value, so that his situation can be misside by 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.959 the time that you guys need to focus on football 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:06.880 games right. Well, And to me, that's a very good 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.360 question and a very good point because really at the end, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.919 that's the important thing. I mean, you got you got 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.320 two sides that appreciate each other here, you know, and 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.639 I think I think you know, Lamar believes in us 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.600 and we believe in Lamar and we know where we 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.879 want to go forward. So it's a monetary thing that 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.720 can be figured out. That can be worked out. That's 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.720 just a matter of negotiating. And I think you just 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.280 continue down that road and eventually it'll get it'll we're 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.280 gonna work out. There's always gonna be creative ways to 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.880 figure that stuff out. I think we forgot to ask 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.359 you this something combat But I assume Lamar's fully healthy now. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:40.159 Is that the something case? I believe so yeah, yeah, 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.880 earlier the smartest seat him done drawn You need guy 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.480 a lot of parent I don't think I actually said that. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:53.040 You said that, right, thank you. At one point, just 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.680 as you developed a relationship with him, did you sort 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:00.280 of figure that out person? Lamar is a unique kind 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.639 of a guy. Um, well, you know I will say this, 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.720 everybody's unique, Okay, And that's that's really true, right. We 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.560 teach our kids that. And the thing about Lamar, Lamar 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.640 is a great guy. He's a fun guy. And I 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.200 saw that probably when we drafted him and he got 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.040 up there in front of TV cameras and said, you know, 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.080 I'm bringing a Super Bowl to Baltimore, you know, right, 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:20.920 away and he was so fired up and he's there 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.080 with his family, and I fell in love with him 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.119 right in that moment, you know. So then when he 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:26.760 came in for the visit we had a chance to talk, 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.879 and then really every day after that. So, um yeah, 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.280 he's he's he's he's great, he's unique, he's he's he's 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.840 he's fun to be around. You know, he's a charismatic guy. 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.000 The players love him. Um I love seeing him when 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.280 I see him in the building. You know, my, my, my, my, 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:45.040