Speaker 1: Welcome the Ravens Press Pass. Today you will hear from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harball, who is at the league meetings
Speaker 1: in Phoenix, Arizona. Coach Harball spoke for about thirty minutes
Speaker 1: and as you might expect, got a lot of questions
Speaker 1: about Lamar Jackson. Here's Coach Harball. I haven't seen the tweet.
Speaker 1: That's a i'mgoing process. Uh, I'm following it very closely,
Speaker 1: just like everybody else is here, and uh, looking forward
Speaker 1: to a resolution. I'm excited thinking about Lamar all the time,
Speaker 1: thinking about him as our quarterback. We're building our offense
Speaker 1: around that idea, and Uh, I'm just looking forward to
Speaker 1: getting back to football. I'm confident that's gonna happen. Uh.
Speaker 1: I do you know, you gotta you gotta plan for
Speaker 1: all the contingencies for sure, But I'm pretty I'm pretty
Speaker 1: fired up about Lamar Jackson. I mean, Lamar Jackson is
Speaker 1: a great player. Lamar came back in great shape last year.
Speaker 1: He's fired up to play. Uh. That's the Lamar that
Speaker 1: I'm looking for, looking forward to seeing. Can't wait to
Speaker 1: get back on the grass and go to work. And
Speaker 1: I'm confident that's gonna happen, so you're following them on Twitter.
Speaker 1: And no, I don't live in that world, Jared, you
Speaker 1: know I'm not. I'm not a real Twitter guy. Uh.
Speaker 1: Have you seen my tweets lately? No, No, that's uh
Speaker 1: uh you know you see it. I mean obviously that
Speaker 1: stuff comes through guys. Guys like Jonah share those tweets
Speaker 1: with me, so we appreciate it. And uh and uh
Speaker 1: and it's been kind of fun watching some of that
Speaker 1: stuff too. So Lamar is great on Twitter. I mean
Speaker 1: it's fun to follow. He does a great job with
Speaker 1: all that. So, um, some of the stuff you get
Speaker 1: a good you get, you get enjoyment out of it too.
Speaker 1: Direct contact. You know, what's unique situation right now? I
Speaker 1: would say it's different than than most years. That just
Speaker 1: a contract situation. So that's probably just a little different
Speaker 1: than other years, not not as much. So Uh, I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to getting back, you know, to the to
Speaker 1: the normal way of doing things. Like Mark, we're kind
Speaker 1: of well, Albert, you know, that's a great question. I
Speaker 1: Mean the obvious question is yesterday. You know you want
Speaker 1: it done already, but uh, but it's just always possible.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a real world this is this
Speaker 1: is big time pro sports at the highest level, and
Speaker 1: contracts are important and they matter to both sides. The
Speaker 1: thing that I love about the situation, I believe is
Speaker 1: that in the end, you got good people, you know,
Speaker 1: working together. I mean we've been We've been with Lamar,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been with Lamar as a coach, and
Speaker 1: players and coaches and and all of us in the
Speaker 1: organization have been together for what five years now. You know,
Speaker 1: we've been through some crazy things, some amazing moments, some
Speaker 1: tough moments, challenges, ups and downs together. You know, we've
Speaker 1: hugged in the locker room after after wins, We've hugged
Speaker 1: in the locker room after losses. You know, those are
Speaker 1: things that last forever. Those relationships never change. So this
Speaker 1: is part of it, you know, this is it's part
Speaker 1: of the story that's being written, and everybody's writing the story.
Speaker 1: But I just appreciate that it's been handled with class.
Speaker 1: Lamar has handled it with class, and UH and Eric
Speaker 1: and Steve and Ozzie and all the people involved on
Speaker 1: that side of handled it with class. So that's what
Speaker 1: I appreciate about everybody involved. Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely. I
Speaker 1: don't have a gauge on that. You know, it's been
Speaker 1: Oh it's been a while. I mean, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna have to be. It's just like I said,
Speaker 1: it's a unique situation. But when we get back together,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm really hopeful that happens, and that's
Speaker 1: what I want to see. You know, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be good to me. No, it doesn't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think about that too much, you know, And
Speaker 1: I had to get all the details of that. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that Erk will do a great job with that,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. I mean, you always, everybody's talking all
Speaker 1: the time about everything in this league. That's just the
Speaker 1: way business is done. So I'm sure that business will
Speaker 1: be done the way it's always done, you know. But
Speaker 1: for me, my perspective, you know, I'm getting ready for Lamar.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing. In our offense. We've got a
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator, very excited about Todd Munkin. We're in
Speaker 1: the we're in the lab right now building the offense
Speaker 1: and putting it together with the terminology and the plays
Speaker 1: and things like that. And that's that's what you focus
Speaker 1: on as a coach. And the rest of it. So
Speaker 1: you build your team. I mean, you build your team regardless.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're building our team all the time him
Speaker 1: in all the different areas that you got to build it.
Speaker 1: And I know, and that train is moving, man, that
Speaker 1: train is moving fast. But here's the thing. You know,
Speaker 1: when Lamar gets back on board that train, he's fully
Speaker 1: capable of jumping on full full speed. You know, Lamar
Speaker 1: can go. And so in that train's moving and he
Speaker 1: merges in with us, we're gonna be rolling. That's what
Speaker 1: as a coach, that's what I'm thinking about. Of course,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, and I do prepare for all contingencies.
Speaker 1: But you build, you build a great offense for for
Speaker 1: for your players, right, I mean, that's what you do.
Speaker 1: And and Lamar's Lamar's under contract, and that's the guy
Speaker 1: I'm of course, that's the guy I want to CBR quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's my guy. We we we made
Speaker 1: a decision to go with Lamar Jackson five years ago,
Speaker 1: right Why because we love him. We love him, We
Speaker 1: love the way he plays, We love his mindset, his charisma,
Speaker 1: his style. Uh, either way, he's in the locker room,
Speaker 1: everything about him we love him. I love him personally.
Speaker 1: I love being the coach of the team that he's
Speaker 1: playing quarterback for. So that's what you do, you know,
Speaker 1: you build a team around your players, and that's what
Speaker 1: I'm excited to do. You don't see even relating future.
Speaker 1: That's the point you can, you know, bring him back
Speaker 1: here and now I don't see that at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is to me, this is part of the way
Speaker 1: it works, you know, And and however works, Hey, in
Speaker 1: the end, when it's all said and done, we're all,
Speaker 1: you know, not around the circle this table right now,
Speaker 1: we're all see each other. So we're all gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna give each other hug and say how you doing,
Speaker 1: you know, and we're gonna be friends. And and it's
Speaker 1: even more so that way with the players and the
Speaker 1: coaches that you work with every single day. So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what direction it's gonna go. I don't
Speaker 1: have a crystal ball. I can't I can't tell the future.
Speaker 1: But I know whatever happens, it's gonna be good. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. And uh and I'm and I have
Speaker 1: my hopes, you know, And like I said, I love
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, you were unaware. OK, I'm not getting into
Speaker 1: all that. That's that's stuff. Those conversations happen. It's it's
Speaker 1: private getting building content. Well, I mean, you think you
Speaker 1: always are building contingent contingency plans. It's it's a good question,
Speaker 1: and you're building contingency plans for every position. You know,
Speaker 1: you can go out there and something can happen to
Speaker 1: any player and they can be not there the next
Speaker 1: day for some reason. So you've got to build depth
Speaker 1: in your team. We've always been a team that wants
Speaker 1: to build depth in so every position, we're gonna build
Speaker 1: depth into our team. We're gonna try to be prepared
Speaker 1: for every possible outcome. This is a unique one. They'll
Speaker 1: die with Lamar and our quarterback situation, but everybody goes
Speaker 1: through this in some form or fashion with their quarterback.
Speaker 1: So this is part of it. It's part of the business. Well,
Speaker 1: you certainly need to know on the day of the
Speaker 1: first game, you know, and you need to do an
Speaker 1: eleven thirty before one o'clock game because they need you
Speaker 1: gotta put the number of the names in. So that's like,
Speaker 1: I know, that's kind of a silly answer, but there
Speaker 1: is no like real hard fast day. Like I said,
Speaker 1: in our situation, Lamar Lamar is a great player. You know,
Speaker 1: when he's playing, he's gonna want to play great football.
Speaker 1: He's gonna want to be out there at his best.
Speaker 1: One thing I know about Lamar, He's gonna work hard
Speaker 1: to be the best player he can be. And that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's what you plan for. We could do
Speaker 1: coordinator new office to get that. Couldn't say that again.
Speaker 1: You Yeah, I think it probably does in reality, but
Speaker 1: you know, there's always urgency as a coach man, you
Speaker 1: always want your guys there. But the offseasons voluntary. So
Speaker 1: we'll just see how it plays out with all the guys.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't I don't really go back and
Speaker 1: track all that. I think it's natural. I think it's
Speaker 1: part of the natural environment of professional sports. Um, these
Speaker 1: are challenging things. There's way more going on, you know.
Speaker 1: You know, and you guys have all written about this stuff.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of little moving parts of this deal
Speaker 1: that go beyond um, you know, one player or one
Speaker 1: team or anything like that. You know, there's there's uh,
Speaker 1: there's there's pro sports issues with you know, collective Barty
Speaker 1: agreements and all that kind of stuff that that matter
Speaker 1: to people. And uh, I think that's all kind of
Speaker 1: weaving its way into that and that's just part of it.
Speaker 1: So you take in stride, you know, you try not
Speaker 1: to worry about it too much and and just try
Speaker 1: to for us, keep the focus on the things that matter,
Speaker 1: which for us as football you know, we're here for football.
Speaker 1: We're here. Keep it simple and get ready to play
Speaker 1: football as well as we can as a football team,
Speaker 1: and that's what we try to do. An Eric question,
Speaker 1: but have you guys maintained object negotiations with Lamar since
Speaker 1: you know, the combine or whatever. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly how to how to describe that because
Speaker 1: Eric's doing that and he does a great job with it.
Speaker 1: But but I know that they're working hard at it,
Speaker 1: and they're you know, trying to be in constant contact.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not, you're not talking every second of
Speaker 1: every day. But as far as I know, it's very
Speaker 1: consistent whenever the lines conversations. We were talking about our coaching,
Speaker 1: our coaching staff, and we were talking about the offense
Speaker 1: going forward a little bit, you know, it's it was
Speaker 1: more texting That's that's how Lamar kind of likes to
Speaker 1: work and in the off season. But uh, that was
Speaker 1: it Adams football talking about football. He and I are
Speaker 1: talking about contract stuff, a John. I know your perspective
Speaker 1: on this too, kind night. You got to buy um
Speaker 1: as far as you know, with the trade requested, if
Speaker 1: they're coming in earlier, whnapp like as far as the
Speaker 1: context of he can request the trade, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, there has to be someone that
Speaker 1: wants to dance and even if that happens, you still
Speaker 1: have to get something commensurate with what you would feel.
Speaker 1: Wolden makes sense. And if none of those components happen,
Speaker 1: he can request the trade all he wants, right Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think the business part of it's
Speaker 1: the business part of it, for sure, you've seen it.
Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of how it works. It's it's
Speaker 1: just part of the business of pro sports. Those are
Speaker 1: those things come into consideration. Those conversations I'm sure get
Speaker 1: good had every day with every team we've been a trade.
Speaker 1: We've got trade conversations with lots of teams about lots
Speaker 1: of players, you know, in all honesty, and we haven't
Speaker 1: made one yet. So uh, you know, um, that's how
Speaker 1: it works. He said that, you know, Lamars a guy
Speaker 1: who marks at the beat of his own drum in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. Would you like him to see,
Speaker 1: you know, take a more traditional approach to han leaning
Speaker 1: himself with everything that's kind of coming out in the
Speaker 1: past month or so. You know, one thing I learn
Speaker 1: from Andy Reid is um And he had to sign
Speaker 1: a little card in the back of his desk on
Speaker 1: the bolton board and said, don't judge. I think that's
Speaker 1: really important. You know. It's uh, you know, everybody's got
Speaker 1: their way of operating and doing things. And we have
Speaker 1: relationships and you know, when we're together, we talk about
Speaker 1: things with all the different guys all the time. That's
Speaker 1: how you do, that's how you work. And so but
Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to judge anybody's style for
Speaker 1: doing things. I love Lamar, love what he stands for,
Speaker 1: love who he is as a person is His mom
Speaker 1: is a wonderful lady. I haven't had a lot of
Speaker 1: time with her, but I've met her. Um, he's got
Speaker 1: he's got a beautiful little girl. Uh, it's just a
Speaker 1: it's a good family. I just nobody's all about as
Speaker 1: a person where his heart's at, and that's that's what
Speaker 1: you think about the pressure. I really don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's uh just all I think it's part
Speaker 1: of the way it operates as part of the business
Speaker 1: of football. Conversation with him if he does have you know, know,
Speaker 1: the opposite is the tag and he will he are
Speaker 1: you certain that he will play under the tag this year? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: have any Yeah, no, I don't, I don't know anything really, So, um,
Speaker 1: how limited happen? Well, I don't think it's been a
Speaker 1: cap restrained issue because that's a solid number, so we
Speaker 1: know what we're at. So it's either going to be
Speaker 1: that number, you know, probably or lower, you know, if
Speaker 1: you get a long term deal done than the than
Speaker 1: the cap number for this year can actually come down
Speaker 1: a little bit. So I don't think that's too much
Speaker 1: an issue. And as far as the other part of it,
Speaker 1: like we said before, we're really building the whole team
Speaker 1: around around that situation. So the situation is what it is,
Speaker 1: and it's always like they're just always guys on your
Speaker 1: roster that you know aren't signed and you keep up
Speaker 1: the business of building your team as best you can.
Speaker 1: It's bigger when it's your quarterback, for sure, but other
Speaker 1: teams go through it too, so it's just how it
Speaker 1: works the time. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. I don't. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think the marque too much
Speaker 1: track and when the meetings happen and things like that.
Speaker 1: But he might. I don't read too much into it, well,
Speaker 1: because the reality is that you guys knew this, you know,
Speaker 1: behind the scenes for a while, and the only difference
Speaker 1: today is that people know about it public things today
Speaker 1: and it's almost been business as will for you behind
Speaker 1: the scenes dealing different today. I just think it's an
Speaker 1: ongoing process. I mean, it's a good point, you know,
Speaker 1: It's just this is not it's I know, it's news
Speaker 1: cycles and headlines and scrolls and stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: that's part of it, and that's really I mean, that's
Speaker 1: part of the fun of sports, right. Everybody wants to
Speaker 1: wants to see what's going on. I mean, I pull
Speaker 1: up on my phone and I pull up you guys
Speaker 1: and see what you're writing a bottom or see what's
Speaker 1: going on Ukraine. You know, I'm really interested in that.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see that could get calmed down, you know, possibly,
Speaker 1: So that's I actually look at that first, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, but uh, that's kind of an important deal.
Speaker 1: But it's just it's it's it just rolls, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just fluid, and it's gonna work out, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna, we're gonna get up the next morning,
Speaker 1: god willing, and we're gonna we're gonna roll and we're
Speaker 1: gonna be playing football. And and nothing's changed in terms
Speaker 1: of the relation and chips. How we feel about Lamar,
Speaker 1: how I you know, how we want to build our team,
Speaker 1: the kind of team we want to be. Personality wise,
Speaker 1: Lamar fits us that way. So that's that's how we're
Speaker 1: going to put it back in the box. Which it's
Speaker 1: gonna work itself out. You know. It's say, believe me,
Speaker 1: if we're playing football next year and Lamar Jackson to quarterback,
Speaker 1: we're all gonna be happy, you know. And he's gonna
Speaker 1: be fired up to play, and he's gonna be happy
Speaker 1: to be out there playing too. And and because that's
Speaker 1: the kind of guy he is, I mean, he loves
Speaker 1: the play, and he loves his teammates, and he loves
Speaker 1: his coaches, and I just think that's how that's how
Speaker 1: it works. Like I said, it's a fluid kind of
Speaker 1: a thing. It's there's no there's no periods on any
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Speaker 1: of Harvests. Suppressor. John, you're weird kind of laughing now
Speaker 1: on the wall in question you got, we're doing that now.
Speaker 1: You guys picked up Nelson out dad last week. Just
Speaker 1: appear how you see him? Yeah, Cliff, thanks Cliff, Thanks Cliff. Uh,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Nelson Nelson. I just excited to have him.
Speaker 1: You know, he is a guy that we've had to
Speaker 1: play against, former first round pick, big range receiver, uh,
Speaker 1: tough player, um pro. You know that's the way he's
Speaker 1: been described, and we had him in for the visit.
Speaker 1: That's the way he presented himself. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be great for a young receiver room. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: him and bait now, you know, And we're not done.
Speaker 1: We're not done in there at all. Plus the guys
Speaker 1: we've got coming back, and we'd like the We like
Speaker 1: the guys we've got coming back as well, with DuVernay
Speaker 1: and and Prochet and you know all the guys. So um.
Speaker 1: But I think he's gonna be a good addition for us,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited about it. And that's just one piece.
Speaker 1: It's one step. I answer the next question. You've had
Speaker 1: a longer time than coming out in this year's drab?
Speaker 1: Are you excited as most people seeing the thing in
Speaker 1: the beat grab at that position? Haven't you seen that?
Speaker 1: From what I have, I've seen all those guys now,
Speaker 1: I've seen like forty receivers now on tape, So that
Speaker 1: takes a lot of work. It's like, yes, what are
Speaker 1: you guys doing. We're not sitting around reading tweet all
Speaker 1: the time, you know we are. We're working on stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's been fun to look at those guys. And
Speaker 1: I think it is a deep drafted receiver and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that kind of fit the way
Speaker 1: we want to play. And the next step is going
Speaker 1: to be getting with Coach Monk and coach Lewis, coach
Speaker 1: Martin and uh and coach Taggart and talking about Okay,
Speaker 1: for what we're trying to build offensively, you know, which
Speaker 1: of these guys do you like the best in terms
Speaker 1: of targeting who we want to go after because we're
Speaker 1: gonna draft a receiver. Trying to head coach organization. It's like,
Speaker 1: make it sound like you're sure about hearing all if
Speaker 1: you don't understood by now, you know, No, I answer
Speaker 1: I really actually with a firm no. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just understand that this is how it works. I mean,
Speaker 1: Lamar is a great guy, and Lamar is doing a
Speaker 1: nice job with the negotiations, and I think that needs
Speaker 1: to be said. People need to understand he's doing a
Speaker 1: good job, okay, and Eric's doing a good job, and
Speaker 1: and Eric's getting advice from Ozzy and from Steve and
Speaker 1: all those things are being discussed. Yeah. I'm involved in
Speaker 1: those conversations too, so I know where we're at. There
Speaker 1: really is no frustration other than the natural normal. Hey,
Speaker 1: this is how pro football works, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: probably easy in college football. They got the transfer portal.
Speaker 1: I'd like to be dealing with that, so I feel
Speaker 1: okay about this, it's gonna be all right. Yeah, ye,
Speaker 1: but we have contracts, so it's good. Did you full
Speaker 1: APIs do you feel the un certain team position? Negatively
Speaker 1: in fact, that you did you hear from free agents?
Speaker 1: You know, directly or indirectly, because we don't know if
Speaker 1: the correcting we're not Yeah, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think guys don't really tell you everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if it did, it did, If it didn't, it didn't.
Speaker 1: I really don't know the answer to that, but I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about it. Everything is is that the team
Speaker 1: is not needing this value. So this is not a
Speaker 1: team thing, it's not a Faltimore things. Underlining that this
Speaker 1: is monetary. So what rule do you think that there
Speaker 1: is to get closer to what it feels like it's
Speaker 1: his value, so that his situation can be misside by
Speaker 1: the time that you guys need to focus on football
Speaker 1: games right. Well, And to me, that's a very good
Speaker 1: question and a very good point because really at the end,
Speaker 1: that's the important thing. I mean, you got you got
Speaker 1: two sides that appreciate each other here, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think I think you know, Lamar believes in us
Speaker 1: and we believe in Lamar and we know where we
Speaker 1: want to go forward. So it's a monetary thing that
Speaker 1: can be figured out. That can be worked out. That's
Speaker 1: just a matter of negotiating. And I think you just
Speaker 1: continue down that road and eventually it'll get it'll we're
Speaker 1: gonna work out. There's always gonna be creative ways to
Speaker 1: figure that stuff out. I think we forgot to ask
Speaker 1: you this something combat But I assume Lamar's fully healthy now.
Speaker 1: Is that the something case? I believe so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: earlier the smartest seat him done drawn You need guy
Speaker 1: a lot of parent I don't think I actually said that.
Speaker 1: You said that, right, thank you. At one point, just
Speaker 1: as you developed a relationship with him, did you sort
Speaker 1: of figure that out person? Lamar is a unique kind
Speaker 1: of a guy. Um, well, you know I will say this,
Speaker 1: everybody's unique, Okay, And that's that's really true, right. We
Speaker 1: teach our kids that. And the thing about Lamar, Lamar
Speaker 1: is a great guy. He's a fun guy. And I
Speaker 1: saw that probably when we drafted him and he got
Speaker 1: up there in front of TV cameras and said, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing a Super Bowl to Baltimore, you know, right,
Speaker 1: away and he was so fired up and he's there
Speaker 1: with his family, and I fell in love with him
Speaker 1: right in that moment, you know. So then when he
Speaker 1: came in for the visit we had a chance to talk,
Speaker 1: and then really every day after that. So, um yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's he's he's great, he's unique, he's he's he's
Speaker 1: he's fun to be around. You know, he's a charismatic guy.
Speaker 1: The players love him. Um I love seeing him when
Speaker 1: I see him in the building. You know, my, my, my, my,
Speaker 1: My spirit is lifted so um so in that sense.
Speaker 1: If that's walking to a beat of a different drum,
Speaker 1: that's that's a good beat to walk to, for sure.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's part of this? I mean, for
Speaker 1: people who feel strongly about their perception in the world
Speaker 1: and then have strong ideas sometimes run into more f
Speaker 1: when they make their way for the world with the
Speaker 1: business and whatever. It is deep question, no doubt, and
Speaker 1: probably and probably exactly right, you know. I mean I
Speaker 1: think it's probably true. And now what are the things
Speaker 1: that makes Lam are so so good? Is his determination? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean he's been told you know, not by us,
Speaker 1: because you know, obviously we we said day that's our guy.
Speaker 1: But he's been told throughout since he was a little
Speaker 1: kid that he needs to play another position. Take it
Speaker 1: all the way back to that, and he's been firm
Speaker 1: and stubborn, if you want to use that term. He's
Speaker 1: been firm in the fact that he's I'm a quarterback
Speaker 1: and I'm must stick to that. So to me, that
Speaker 1: very mindset that you're talking about the same mindset that's
Speaker 1: gotten him to where he's at as a football player.
Speaker 1: T Martin went down in South Florida. I know his
Speaker 1: sun's playing baseball down there, But did you get a
Speaker 1: chance to meet with lam Are talking him at all? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know they connected in some way. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they got face to face together. He was also
Speaker 1: with Tyler was down there as well, So yeah, T
Speaker 1: get a couple of days off to go down and
Speaker 1: enjoy the sun. You know, I was like, man, I
Speaker 1: felt I felt jealous about that. So I'm not sure
Speaker 1: exactly what the communication was though, I think I think
Speaker 1: they communicated. I know that part of me. I know
Speaker 1: that you said that there's room to get created, but
Speaker 1: do you think conceptually that it's harder, potentially difficult to
Speaker 1: do that, especially with the news that came out with
Speaker 1: regards to you know, a representative in his room, you know,
Speaker 1: reaching out and things like that, if he doesn't get
Speaker 1: engaging to facilitate the talk, given the inertia that's kind
Speaker 1: of been here with that happening too far, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it probably just is what it is. You know, We'll
Speaker 1: just it's the circumstances that that that that exists. So
Speaker 1: you know, again it comes back to the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, we're talking about finances, We're talking about numbers,
Speaker 1: and numbers can be figured out everything. I had a
Speaker 1: great conversation with a Shot about that and about really
Speaker 1: a little bit about that, and a lot about a
Speaker 1: lot of other things. And he's in a great place.
Speaker 1: He's healthy, he's gonna be running in three weeks. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be ready to roll, stronger than ever, healthier than ever.
Speaker 1: Rashad is gonna have a great season. I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in Rashad Bateman. He's gonna he's
Speaker 1: gonna come back greater role. What did he say about
Speaker 1: when he asked him about the tweet? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a private kind of conversation. But
Speaker 1: he's he's in a great place with everything, and he
Speaker 1: talked to he talked to Eric also, so it's all good. Said,
Speaker 1: you've been in the lab with Philith Monk, and Um,
Speaker 1: how at this stage, how likely is that the Raven
Speaker 1: his offense would be I don't want to say you different,
Speaker 1: but a different approachal than you know it, hadds and
Speaker 1: I gets out tight argument about that. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's one hundred percent likely that it'll be different. It's
Speaker 1: always changing, but this will be a bigger change obviously,
Speaker 1: because we've got a new a new offensive coordinator, you know,
Speaker 1: and we've got new coaches in place. You know. T
Speaker 1: is the quarterback coach, Willie Taggart, and what a great
Speaker 1: football coach. Is gonna be our running back coach, Greg
Speaker 1: Lewis is gonna be our wide receiver coach. Keep George Gotsi,
Speaker 1: who just came for the first time last year, is
Speaker 1: a tight end coach. Joe Della Sanders is as the
Speaker 1: offensive line coach, and a lot of great young coaches. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be different. I think we're gonna be I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna be exciting, be fun. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: We're gonna be We're gonna still run the ball, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna throw the ball. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: up Temple, probably even more than we've been. We've been
Speaker 1: that at times. Uh maybe a little more no huddle
Speaker 1: maybe perhaps, but those are all things that uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be working in a lot of worlds with our offense.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm looking forward to. John. As far
Speaker 1: as uh you pack up quarterback tyler Um, is there
Speaker 1: a school room where you might think about adding even
Speaker 1: another veteran quarter back up? Yeah? Man, it's like we
Speaker 1: said before, that's that's a possibility. It's really you try
Speaker 1: to build your team as deep as you can, and
Speaker 1: I think that would be something that we'd be, you know,
Speaker 1: thinking about if the opportunity came around, John, with Josh
Speaker 1: Oliver moving on you in a three great young Titan,
Speaker 1: like it's too great, and then Mark, you give a
Speaker 1: kind of idea who you want is like that inline
Speaker 1: guy that you have kind of lining up along the line,
Speaker 1: I'd say it's to be determined. You know you've got
Speaker 1: those those guys are all good, good inline blockers, but
Speaker 1: they're not Excuse me, that's not that's not where they
Speaker 1: they're bread and butter, so to speak. You know. So, um,
Speaker 1: I think Pat obviously, you know, is a great blocker
Speaker 1: and uh can move and do some things. So that'll
Speaker 1: be the task about Todd and the offensive coaches to
Speaker 1: figure out the best way you use the guys we
Speaker 1: have and then develop those young guys as inline blockers
Speaker 1: as well. And you know, it's moving parts. You move
Speaker 1: guys around, and I played their strengths. John with Lamar,
Speaker 1: you know, he's teased this this interview that he has
Speaker 1: with himself kind of coming up on his YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: There's a situation where you guys have like the kind
Speaker 1: of heads up about what might be coming, so that
Speaker 1: there isn't this kind of blow back or whatever you
Speaker 1: wanna call it. Yeah, not that I'm aware of. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. I just see that the
Speaker 1: the thirty second teas that you call and so, hey,
Speaker 1: it'll be great, it'll be fun to watch Lamar's Lamar
Speaker 1: is great fun and uh, it'll be good. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen with all that. I
Speaker 1: don't worry about all that, you know, I just think
Speaker 1: about the person think about the people involved and looking
Speaker 1: forward to, like I said, getting back on the grass
Speaker 1: and going to work on football, telling them about how
Speaker 1: much and didn't tout we've got a dak down as
Speaker 1: the hound encouraged argue about what he did after he
Speaker 1: st where he may be able to get to the
Speaker 1: next season right well, JK for sure, and also Gus's
Speaker 1: probably both coming off those knee injuries, Cliff, they're another
Speaker 1: year removed from major knee injuries, and they both have
Speaker 1: had had subsequent surgeries too to clean out the cartilage.
Speaker 1: Even Gus had won to clean out the cartlage after
Speaker 1: the after the season, and they both told me what
Speaker 1: a difference that made. So I think those guys are
Speaker 1: gonna be ready to shock the world. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna come back play great football when you're offense line.
Speaker 1: Both both been powers. I think the text that would
Speaker 1: say it would be maybe the fun runner right now.
Speaker 1: That's a great question. You know, Uh, Pat McCarry is
Speaker 1: gonna be in the mix for sure. You know Pat
Speaker 1: Pat Patkins started anytime and anywhere basically, so he's gonna
Speaker 1: want that to do that. And uh, you know Ben
Speaker 1: Cleveland obviously is a young guy that we're bringing along. Um,
Speaker 1: we've we've we've brought some guys in. You know, we
Speaker 1: got we got a veteran guy at the end of year.
Speaker 1: We brought it from Oakland and yeah, John Simpson, who,
Speaker 1: um who I think is gonna surprise some people. You know,
Speaker 1: he's had a nice offseason so far. Then you know,
Speaker 1: we can move Daniel Felele in there too and take
Speaker 1: a look at him. So I think those are all possibilities.
Speaker 1: And and may the best player who plays the best
Speaker 1: win the job. You're you know little, I know you
Speaker 1: hope goes back outside linebacker be two young guys do
Speaker 1: and oh way, the Hounds important look for them to
Speaker 1: step up kind of this year and he parted than
Speaker 1: men Flint Right, for those those two young outside backers
Speaker 1: to step up and be part of the mix is
Speaker 1: critically important. You know. That's just actually had dinner with
Speaker 1: those guys a couple of nights ago and we were
Speaker 1: talking about it, and they are excited. Man, they are
Speaker 1: ready to roll. I believe in those two guys. You're
Speaker 1: talking about two first round picks, that's what they are.
Speaker 1: They are two first round picks. And uh, and then
Speaker 1: they've got you've got tyas Boser, who's a leader. So
Speaker 1: between those guys right there, I think that's a good
Speaker 1: a good group of young players that we can build around.
Speaker 1: And then you know, if a veteran gets added, he
Speaker 1: gets added, or a guy gets add in the in
Speaker 1: the draft, that's fine. But um, I believe those three
Speaker 1: guys are gonna get to the quarterback. You do one
Speaker 1: more guys you needed when that, um, you've got to
Speaker 1: fast player. And uh you know, yeah, well, I mean
Speaker 1: that came out after we had we kind of made
Speaker 1: our changes, so to speak, and that was something that
Speaker 1: you know, it was a mutual thing I guess should say.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I believe I believe in the
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning program. It's really important us. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's to me, the foundation of your program is your
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning program. Most guys are in there every day.
Speaker 1: You've got to you've got to do a great job
Speaker 1: down there because this is a this is a gladiator
Speaker 1: type sport. You've got to be strong, you gotta be fast,
Speaker 1: you gotta be well conditioned, and we try to chase
Speaker 1: that not just in the offseason, but throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the whole season. So you know, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of hard work that goes on down there and by coaches,
Speaker 1: m players, especially by the players you know, who work
Speaker 1: hard at it and it's important what they think. So
Speaker 1: with that whole pole, we take it seriously. We try
Speaker 1: to be as good as we can be at everything.
Speaker 1: We try to be the best we can be at
Speaker 1: every aspect of the program, so when things like that
Speaker 1: come out, but even more, Jeff, when we talk to
Speaker 1: our players one on one every single day, we ask
Speaker 1: those kind of questions and try to you know, and
Speaker 1: we listen to their opinions and sometimes we make changes
Speaker 1: based on it. Sometimes we say, hey, you know, this
Speaker 1: is the best we can do, or we have to
Speaker 1: agree to disagree on this or whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: But you're always in communication with those guys, So it's
Speaker 1: really not surprised by any of it. It was actually
Speaker 1: a pole that was taken a year ago, last March
Speaker 1: the previous year, after the twenty two season or the
Speaker 1: twenty one season. So we'd made steps and I think
Speaker 1: I'm excited about where we're going without all right, Ali, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks that's it for coach Harball. Thank you for listening.
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