Speaker 1: Welcome into the Raves Press Past podcast. It is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: May twenty eighth, and the Raves had another open session
Speaker 1: of organized team activities today. After practice. We had a
Speaker 1: chance to hear from tight End Mark Andrews.
Speaker 2: Mark the between minutes of fan with years of the
Speaker 2: point of the situation and you kind of coming out
Speaker 2: of nowhere to.
Speaker 3: Help with that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I was on my way back from you know,
Speaker 5: after the season, going back to Arizona, and it's a
Speaker 5: scary moment, you know, when someone in front of you
Speaker 5: is you know, kind of going unconscious, and you know,
Speaker 5: but the really cool thing about you know that that
Speaker 5: situation scenario is to see all the people that come together.
Speaker 5: You know that the doctors and nurses on the plane
Speaker 5: and the flight attendants did an incredible job, you know
Speaker 5: of really helping someone you know and you don't know
Speaker 5: if it's a near death experience and you know, me
Speaker 5: just you know obviously being a Type one diabetic, you know,
Speaker 5: lending my tester kit and she was fine. But you know,
Speaker 5: really a big ops to everyone around that, the doctors,
Speaker 5: the nurses and the flight attendants that we were on
Speaker 5: their a game.
Speaker 4: Did you ever connect with the the individual.
Speaker 5: No, No, I haven't heard anything about it. You know,
Speaker 5: that's that's kind of her her deal. You know, I
Speaker 5: know what it's like, you know, to have scary things happen,
Speaker 5: and so you know, just giving her her space and
Speaker 5: her privacy is you know, is what I'm thinking about.
Speaker 4: Mark, what kind of wrinkles through your saying?
Speaker 3: Utads Efen Now in year.
Speaker 5: Two, Yeah, it's been fun, you know, just coming back
Speaker 5: and and seeing just the the little nuances in the
Speaker 5: direction of of what we're trying to do, change up
Speaker 5: keep defenses. Honest, I think we have some really cool
Speaker 5: and dangerous things that he's implementing. It's very much you know,
Speaker 5: we're gonna see the offer, We're gonna see the defense
Speaker 5: make a good call and and make it right. And
Speaker 5: that's that's what you want to be able to do,
Speaker 5: is getting to the right call and and have your.
Speaker 4: Guys fly around.
Speaker 5: So we got a lot of great players, great receivers,
Speaker 5: great tight ends, and quarterback is is second to none.
Speaker 5: So it looks really good right now.
Speaker 6: You for the possibility of the way that you and
Speaker 6: Isaiah can have the field together kind of challenge uh,
Speaker 6: challenge defense problems all that.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be special. You know, when you have two
Speaker 5: guys like that that are dynamic mismatches, you know, all
Speaker 5: over the field, doesn't matter where you put us. That's tough,
Speaker 5: tough to game plan for. And you know, both guys
Speaker 5: that love to play ball, love to compete, and yeah,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be fun, you know. And really our whole
Speaker 5: tight end room is is is special right now, and
Speaker 5: I'm excited about that. We're just trying to grow get
Speaker 5: better each and every day and very thankful to have
Speaker 5: a tight end group that we have and continue to
Speaker 5: get better. So it'll be fun to see what we're used.
Speaker 2: How good do you think they Isaiah or whoever it
Speaker 2: is that's out there has to be a run blow
Speaker 2: They get the kind of that you guys.
Speaker 5: Plus, that's part of being a tight end is doing
Speaker 5: everything you got to keep be able to keep the
Speaker 5: defense honest and you want to come on the field.
Speaker 5: It's not just you know, he's they're passing the ball.
Speaker 5: That's something that you know, I had to learn very
Speaker 5: early on in my careers. You know, be able to
Speaker 5: put your hand down, get dirty, and it just makes
Speaker 5: it tough on a defensive game plan for and every
Speaker 5: guy in our room is able to do that, So
Speaker 5: that's awesome.
Speaker 4: We know you came back.
Speaker 5: Probably there are other people you did dad affect your
Speaker 5: off season preparation at all or once you've started moving up,
Speaker 5: you were kind of good to do everything you're willing
Speaker 5: to do at that time. Yeah, there was still you know,
Speaker 5: some things I was probably battling through, you know, that
Speaker 5: time of year, and obviously wasn't you know, full one
Speaker 5: hundred percent in that game. But you know, worked really
Speaker 5: hard to get to that point, and uh, it set
Speaker 5: me up for a really good off season to work hard.
Speaker 5: I've been running a ton of routes, NonStop routes, you know,
Speaker 5: if my family working out, and I feel really good
Speaker 5: right now. I feel fast, explosive, and but yeah, I
Speaker 5: think it set me up for a really good off season.
Speaker 3: It's just your mentality going into the season. You know,
Speaker 3: you work so hard to come back and got cut short.
Speaker 3: Just going into the season. What's kind of your mentality
Speaker 3: after what you went through last year?
Speaker 5: Just hungry, you know, it's a it's tough to be
Speaker 5: around for the last six years and you know, play
Speaker 5: almost every snap every game and really haven't missed much
Speaker 5: and then you know, have that happen and have the
Speaker 5: type of team that we've had last year and probably
Speaker 5: you know, playing the biggest games that we've ever played
Speaker 5: in and not be able to play in those games.
Speaker 5: And you know that's tough to look at, you know,
Speaker 5: especially for me. You know, guys, I've been here for
Speaker 5: a long time, and so I'm hungry. I'm excited and
Speaker 5: very motivated to continue to help this team win games,
Speaker 5: be there for the guys, stay healthy, you know, God willing,
Speaker 5: and keep it going.
Speaker 7: But there's a there's a report today from NFL Network
Speaker 7: saying the Players Association is basically putting together a proposal
Speaker 7: to do away with the voluntary portion of the off
Speaker 7: season and make training camp start kind of mid June
Speaker 7: early July. Your thoughts, what do you think about how
Speaker 7: the off season is right now?
Speaker 4: You know, I don't really mind it.
Speaker 5: You know, I think this is a good time period
Speaker 5: of guys coming back here, you know, working. You know,
Speaker 5: you get you're able to, you know, get with the team,
Speaker 5: get the plays in, and then you get that you know,
Speaker 5: extra breakof which is kind of nice for your body,
Speaker 5: It's kind of nice for everything, just getting your head
Speaker 5: back right but I don't know the right answer to that.
Speaker 5: It could be both. I haven't done it the other way,
Speaker 5: you know. For the NFL P, I just you know,
Speaker 5: asked that. You know, they ask everybody in the league.
Speaker 5: They ask all the guys and they make sure that's
Speaker 5: kind of consensus that that that guys would want to
Speaker 5: do that, because you know, I really don't have a
Speaker 5: problem with about set up right now.
Speaker 4: One of the biggest editions Derrick Henry. How do you
Speaker 4: think he kind of fits in with this offense?
Speaker 5: It's awesome. You know, you got you got Dereck Henry.
Speaker 5: That's a huge addition for us. And you know we
Speaker 5: have Lamar Jackson, we got Derrick Henry.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: For the defense, it's like, you know, all eyes on them.
Speaker 5: You know, there's those are two elite players at their
Speaker 5: position and that's a scary thing. So for us, you know,
Speaker 5: everybody else around them, it's it's making plays and making
Speaker 5: it tougher on the defense and using them to to
Speaker 5: get open to make plays and do those two together.
Speaker 4: It's going to be dynamic.
Speaker 8: Would you look at a guy like Rashott Badman who's
Speaker 8: sort of showed every component that you need to be
Speaker 8: a high level NFL pass catcher in three years he's
Speaker 8: been here, hasn't missially all come together for him on
Speaker 8: a week to week basis. Yet, what do you think
Speaker 8: it will take for that to.
Speaker 4: Happen this year? I think it's happening right now. You know.
Speaker 5: I think he looks incredible. You know everything, you know
Speaker 5: his route running is, you know, catching the ball and
Speaker 5: bening where he's supposed to be. You know, he's got
Speaker 5: it down to a science. I know he's worked real hard,
Speaker 5: but you know he looks about put together as he's
Speaker 5: ever been. So it's gonna be a big year for
Speaker 5: a shot. Baby, I'm calling it now, Mark.
Speaker 8: I know a lot of players when they can you know,
Speaker 8: it's been in the league for this long and interming
Speaker 8: off seasons they change up things.
Speaker 4: But have you changed that anything this year? Maybe different
Speaker 4: than the previous off seasons.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a little different. You know, I had
Speaker 5: to you know, really I've always worked hard, but really
Speaker 5: dial it in and obviously dealing with the ankle was
Speaker 5: you know, something I had to focus on. And you
Speaker 5: know something sometimes you know, something like that is a
Speaker 5: blessing in his guys. You know, Uh, you don't really
Speaker 5: know what's around the corner. But having to go through,
Speaker 5: you know, that adversity is you know, allowed me to
Speaker 5: really put the work in, you know, see things for
Speaker 5: what they are, and you know, I think I've come
Speaker 5: out better for it.
Speaker 9: I don't know a lot of chance just to talk
Speaker 9: about two kind of sets here Alltimore, because what you
Speaker 9: see a shantages and help your two kind of information
Speaker 9: likely on the same field posession too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you see it.
Speaker 5: You know, all across the NFL, the tight end position
Speaker 5: is growing and growing. These are guys that are you know,
Speaker 5: some of the best athletes on the field, being big, tall, strong,
Speaker 5: able to go get get passes, and you know, I
Speaker 5: love what we're able to do. I think that we're
Speaker 5: gonna continue to grow that obviously, me like and and
Speaker 5: everybody else. But it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be
Speaker 5: fun to be able to play play around, game plan
Speaker 5: for that and and just play some football. Obviously, we've
Speaker 5: got Lamar Jackson and and he likes his tight end,
Speaker 5: so we're gonna we're gonna be open for him.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think John said a couple months ago to Charlie
Speaker 2: was up to like twitter seven pounds or something.
Speaker 9: What do you have seen him?
Speaker 2: A mansion with his body transformation of what do you expect?
Speaker 5: He's working hard, He's focused, and you know, the big
Speaker 5: thing about Charlie is, you know, he just wants to
Speaker 5: do everything. He wants to be great at everything. And
Speaker 5: you know, he loves blocking, he loves hitting people, and
Speaker 5: he loves being universatile. He still catch the hell of ball,
Speaker 5: still catch you know, you can still run incredible routes.
Speaker 5: And you know he's an all round tight end. He's
Speaker 5: gonna be big for us as well.
Speaker 10: Uh how did you feel about the change in the
Speaker 10: wounds and the tackle that injury.
Speaker 5: To Yeah, I think it's you know, it's just some
Speaker 5: sometimes part of the game. I'm always an advocate for,
Speaker 5: you know, making the game safer. You know, you look
Speaker 5: at the last maybe five, you know, five years has
Speaker 5: been a lot of big injuries with that, and so
Speaker 5: just being bringing the awareness to that type of tackle.
Speaker 5: I think it's good. Keeping guys healthy is gonna be great.
Speaker 5: You know, take that tackle out of the game is
Speaker 5: is not a bad thing.
Speaker 4: I don't think.
Speaker 5: I think the defenses can find a way to get
Speaker 5: around that.
Speaker 1: We also had a chance to talk with the other title,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Likely, who had a big season last year. Isaiah
Speaker 1: and Mark are really fired up about taking the field
Speaker 1: together this season, and Likely talked about that today.
Speaker 4: Your football camps, good Man.
Speaker 11: I had a couple of you know, the guys, Papa,
Speaker 11: I have my obviously my people back home Mike Samus
Speaker 11: to all my friends from back home in high school.
Speaker 11: And I had a Leak and Ac pop out from Baltimore.
Speaker 11: It was definitely a fun time.
Speaker 7: I say, what did last year do you for you?
Speaker 3: What did you prove to yourself with the way that
Speaker 3: you really kind of came on last year?
Speaker 11: I say a confidence boost. I mean it definitely showed
Speaker 11: me that, you know, the game is definitely speeding slowing down,
Speaker 11: and you know, the all the off season, all the
Speaker 11: work out preparation I put in during the year, and
Speaker 11: you know, leaning up to the point was definitely a
Speaker 11: time to pay off.
Speaker 10: What kind of.
Speaker 6: Stress can you can you guys put on the defense
Speaker 6: with you and Mark Andrews you know on the field
Speaker 6: or you know, he came back at the end of
Speaker 6: the year, but it was you, it was late the
Speaker 6: two you guys out there together.
Speaker 11: I say, you know Mark's Mark's name holds a lot
Speaker 11: of weight. I mean, he's all pro, He's definitely the
Speaker 11: best in the league at what he does. And then
Speaker 11: not only do you have to worry about him, you
Speaker 11: have to worry about Bating's a outside with our receivers
Speaker 11: as well as Nelly, and then you still have Lamar
Speaker 11: and Derek Henry in the backfield, so those people need
Speaker 11: no recognition. And then you know, finding my way and
Speaker 11: the offense is a chess piece, just seeing where I
Speaker 11: could fit in and then having all so on the
Speaker 11: same on the same field at the same time. I mean,
Speaker 11: you don't know whether it's gonna be run or passed,
Speaker 11: and you'll know where the explosive play can come from.
Speaker 3: What was the thing you work on in the all
Speaker 3: season to make yourself the best player this season?
Speaker 11: I really just say top of the route was definitely
Speaker 11: a main emphasis, just watching film from last year, just
Speaker 11: you know, when I got fatigued just watching working on
Speaker 11: the top of route, working on inline blocking a little
Speaker 11: bit more, and then obviously perimeter blocking a lot, you know,
Speaker 11: progressed as the season went on, and then really just
Speaker 11: you know, just chemistry, not only with Mark and lamar,
Speaker 11: but also with the receivers is making sure everybody's on
Speaker 11: the same page.
Speaker 8: When you said about Mark Andrews and you know, his
Speaker 8: name carrying a lot of weight now a by playing
Speaker 8: that same position, what do you pick up the most
Speaker 8: just when maybe you're not on the field and you get.
Speaker 4: To watch out.
Speaker 11: Uh, really, his charisma, I mean Mark's energy, the way
Speaker 11: he plays football on Sundays is the same way he
Speaker 11: plays that practice. So I say, you know, just watching
Speaker 11: the little details he does that practice where it's individual
Speaker 11: on air, team period or seven on seven, and then
Speaker 11: really just watching his preparation game, how he prepares for
Speaker 11: you know, that opponent on Sunday whenever we play, and
Speaker 11: watching how he goes out and attacks different defenders with
Speaker 11: different leverages and then just always wins. That's something you know.
Speaker 11: I always ask Mark whether he went won or lost
Speaker 11: a rep. I tell him what he saw and how
Speaker 11: he went to how he you know, came up with
Speaker 11: the assumption why he took that rep. Because most times
Speaker 11: it's not Mark's gonna win, So just do it from there.
Speaker 3: In the tight end rooms, do you compare yourself against
Speaker 3: other tight end rooms? Is there any chatter about being
Speaker 3: the best tight end group in the NFL.
Speaker 11: I mean, I don't really like to compare. I mean,
Speaker 11: everybody in the league knows, you know, our tight end room,
Speaker 11: what we do, what we bring to you know, on
Speaker 11: the field every Sunday. So I let them just do
Speaker 11: what they do. And then I mean, if they like
Speaker 11: to compare, obviously, I'm gonna tell them we the best
Speaker 11: all thirty two consider part of that tight end run
Speaker 11: for sure. I mean past that, you know that Swiss
Speaker 11: army knife. I mean, Pat is the best blocking person.
Speaker 11: I feel like in the leagues that sixth offensive linemen
Speaker 11: and last year Pat had at the time the longest
Speaker 11: run after catch against Detroit. I'm pretty sure where he
Speaker 11: kind of screwinged well a check down. It went for
Speaker 11: thirty eight yards, hit a little spin move at the end.
Speaker 11: So at the time, you know, that was like one
Speaker 11: of the longest plays that we had that Here.
Speaker 8: You're in those multiple tight end sets, especially with two
Speaker 8: guys who can catch the ball. Does it take a
Speaker 8: little time though to figure out how to play off
Speaker 8: of each other? I mean, is that a different art
Speaker 8: than being good individually.
Speaker 11: I'd really just say, you know, the preparation for that
Speaker 11: is now. I mean, you know, always being in the
Speaker 11: same room as marked. That's definitely you know, a bonus
Speaker 11: on just being able to say on film, you know
Speaker 11: when you slow everything down, like what'd you see here?
Speaker 11: Or why'd you slow this? Why do you take this
Speaker 11: type of release, so I could focus on why or
Speaker 11: release I'm gonna take, and then just playing off for
Speaker 11: each other and making everything, you know, look different but
Speaker 11: in the same criteria. So I say yes and no
Speaker 11: for the simple fact that you know, everybody's FOOTBA.
Speaker 4: Player the in the day.
Speaker 11: I mean, our job is to play football, you know,
Speaker 11: since you were a little kid right now. So it's
Speaker 11: just really just having fun and be able to just
Speaker 11: play off of each other, to always be just be open.
Speaker 3: What are your year three objectives?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 11: I mean big picture wise, to always have fun. I
Speaker 11: mean I preach myself to always have fun you know,
Speaker 11: at practice in games because that I mean, like I said, now,
Speaker 11: everybody gets to do this every day, play the sport
Speaker 11: they loved since they was a little kids. So a big,
Speaker 11: you know goal I always have is to have fun
Speaker 11: and remember why I do this, and obviously the ultimate
Speaker 11: goal is to win. I mean, whether I have no targets,
Speaker 11: whether I have the most targets that game. The main
Speaker 11: emphasis that game is to win, and whatever I could
Speaker 11: do in that game in that moment to you know,
Speaker 11: come out with the victory to get to ultimate goal,
Speaker 11: winning super Bowl, I'll do it.
Speaker 12: That.
Speaker 9: What have you seen out of Trent Simpson, the guy
Speaker 9: that lines up against you with times throughout this practices
Speaker 9: and stuff.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna give him a little little
Speaker 11: credit today. He definitely beat me on the rep today.
Speaker 11: I know, y'all seen it. I really like you, I
Speaker 11: really like losing a lot. But he definitely, you know,
Speaker 11: he's showing, you know that he's right for the opportunity.
Speaker 11: I mean, he's showing that he definitely took this offseason.
Speaker 11: He's taking this offseason, you know, well like a pro.
Speaker 11: He's definitely showing that. You know, what you guys seen
Speaker 11: on tape against Pittsburgh wasn't a fluke. He's fast, he's physical,
Speaker 11: he's listening, and he's really just you know, soaking everything
Speaker 11: up like a sponge. I mean, whatever Rokwan tells him
Speaker 11: to do during the play or anybody even coach, he's
Speaker 11: taking that and running with it. And he's not you know,
Speaker 11: scared to do anything in the defense from last year
Speaker 11: to this one, Oh for sure. I Mean he definitely
Speaker 11: looks bigger and stronger than last year. And he's definitely
Speaker 11: playing with a lot more you know, instinctive, not really
Speaker 11: you know, being as patient as he was last year.
Speaker 11: He's playing with you know, his athleticism, his intuition.
Speaker 8: He used to see twenty three.
Speaker 11: Uh, I'm as used to seeing twenty three as I
Speaker 11: am on zero on rod So.
Speaker 1: Whyd sheiver ver Shad Bateman has been a big topic
Speaker 1: this offseason, the team reaching extension with him. Just before
Speaker 1: the draft. He talked about that new contract. I think
Speaker 1: this motivation going into this year.
Speaker 5: Shot Mark just said it, John Harbaugh said, Eric to
Speaker 5: Costa said it that your prime have a really big year.
Speaker 4: What in your mind.
Speaker 5: Puts you in such a good position heading into.
Speaker 4: You know, training camp.
Speaker 10: I just think, you know, having a full off season,
Speaker 10: being able to be here with the team, Uh, being
Speaker 10: able to practice, you know, just be able to get
Speaker 10: that chemistry down there. Uh, it's important for me. So
Speaker 10: I'm definitely looking forward to that. I don't know what's
Speaker 10: gonna happen this year, So all I know is i'm'a
Speaker 10: just I'm gonna go to work every day. I'm not
Speaker 10: looking to do anything. I'm just you know, go do
Speaker 10: My thing?
Speaker 4: Was this offseason where I don't think you had to
Speaker 4: rehab any.
Speaker 5: Like big injury?
Speaker 4: Was that almost? How freeing was that for you? That
Speaker 4: you could just kind of focus on doing this?
Speaker 10: It's definitely been good.
Speaker 4: It's a blessing.
Speaker 10: I haven't I haven't had that since I've been uh
Speaker 10: in the league. So just been able to focus, chill, work, grind,
Speaker 10: you know, it's all been good. So uh, just being
Speaker 10: able to you know, stay healthy, that's my manushurn up.
Speaker 3: So I name of you sent you did?
Speaker 2: Why did that feel like the regular friends?
Speaker 10: Because for one, I didn't know what was gonna happen
Speaker 10: with me. I didn't know if I was gonna be here,
Speaker 10: you know, traded, uh or anything.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 10: So, you know, distinction definitely came out of nowhere. Blessed
Speaker 10: for sure. I did not see them doing that. But
Speaker 10: it shows that they believe in me. Uh believe in
Speaker 10: my work, you know my ethic. You know, the team
Speaker 10: believes in me. So it was a no brainer. You know,
Speaker 10: I love playing here, I love his organization. I love
Speaker 10: the fans, so you know, I feel like I still
Speaker 10: got a lot to do. So it was a no
Speaker 10: brainer for me for sure.
Speaker 4: So did you have anyiety traded or what you talk
Speaker 4: about that?
Speaker 10: I s I barely know how this g NFL's business
Speaker 10: stuff work.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 10: I swear, I'm just i'm'a play football.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 10: Whatever team I'm own, that's what team I'm owned. But
Speaker 10: right now I'm part of the Ravens. They drafted me,
Speaker 10: you know, and I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1: What what would you say?
Speaker 6: You know, Ky was your focus from a training standpoint?
Speaker 4: You know th this all season?
Speaker 13: H How did you attack that?
Speaker 4: You know process.
Speaker 10: Like anybody else? Would you know? Just going to work
Speaker 10: every single day. Uh, I'm not really looking to do
Speaker 10: anything special, uh particular. The only thing I could do
Speaker 10: is control. But I can control and that's you know,
Speaker 10: my work ethic. Uh every single day, you know, this
Speaker 10: off season, I've been grinding a day in and day out.
Speaker 10: You know, hopefully that uh the opportunity comes where I can,
Speaker 10: like sh put that on on on tape.
Speaker 4: Help Sota do you for?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 6: The second year of his offense.
Speaker 10: Under type of con very side, I think last year
Speaker 10: we showed a lot of you know, uh hope, you know,
Speaker 10: I feel like we did a lot of good things,
Speaker 10: you know with him and just year one, so you know,
Speaker 10: I definitely feel like we got a lot of room,
Speaker 10: you know, to grow. We just gotta locking on all details,
Speaker 10: you know, see where it takes us.
Speaker 12: Oh Christ saying that she has at leading up on
Speaker 12: top of the spectral. Do you thinks you have shared
Speaker 12: a lot of your potential?
Speaker 8: That's just the ball that land in your hands.
Speaker 12: Say, it's in your own self evaluation.
Speaker 1: Where are you at?
Speaker 12: What were you show last year?
Speaker 10: Did it feel like that kind of I said again,
Speaker 10: did it.
Speaker 12: Feel like you showed everything that you showed it was
Speaker 12: just simply a matter of the ball and not getting
Speaker 12: in your hands?
Speaker 10: Yes and no, Yes and no. I feel like there's
Speaker 10: definitely a lot of things that I could have done
Speaker 10: differently as a receiver, you know, to help Lamar, to
Speaker 10: help the team. But yeah, uh yeah, I'll just leave
Speaker 10: leave it at that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Risha, what.
Speaker 3: What is the feeling for you now being back in
Speaker 3: that position where you know you're gonna see a lot
Speaker 3: of targets, You're gonna be a a primary part of
Speaker 3: this offensive primary focus, you know, to come back around
Speaker 3: after dealt with the injuries and now be in that
Speaker 3: that spotlight again.
Speaker 4: What's the feeling for you.
Speaker 10: I'm just blessed to be healthy. I'm not looking. I'm
Speaker 10: not worried about how many balls I get, not worry
Speaker 10: about Top Muckin called the the play for me.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 10: The only thing I can control, man, is it's what
Speaker 10: I control. Uh, and that's you know, getting open, you
Speaker 10: know when I can, uh, blocking when I can. I
Speaker 10: don't play quarterback. I'm not the ol see, I'm not
Speaker 10: the line. So anything else outside of that, I'm just here.
Speaker 10: You know what I'm saying. I'm'na help this team out
Speaker 10: the best way passile. But other than that, you know,
Speaker 10: maybe that's a question for them or shout out.
Speaker 2: After going through college and not getting hurt, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think you talked a couple of times about how
Speaker 2: you didn't get seriously injured until you got to Baltimore.
Speaker 2: With their point, you kind of had to get over
Speaker 2: like like a A whatloe.
Speaker 4: Was you approach?
Speaker 2: I mean, you did that ever kind of enter your
Speaker 2: brain like why as it's happening?
Speaker 10: For sure, because I mean I've always taken care of
Speaker 10: my body being in college and being here. I'm still
Speaker 10: unsure what the difference is, but I just think it
Speaker 10: was the cars I got dealt. You know, sometimes in
Speaker 10: life you gotta go through certain things. Uh, Different people,
Speaker 10: you know, get different cars, and I feel like those were,
Speaker 10: you know, my cards that I got dealt. It's helped
Speaker 10: me in ways that you know, maybe I didn't know
Speaker 10: that I needed. And I'm thankful for that, you know,
Speaker 10: to be here today, to be able to go through that,
Speaker 10: it can and I can sit here and say that
Speaker 10: I'm proud that I went through that. There was a
Speaker 10: time and place where I didn't like it. You know, Uh,
Speaker 10: it was a it was a dark time and bad
Speaker 10: time just because you know, I never been through anything
Speaker 10: like that, but you know, it was all unexperience. It
Speaker 10: helped me with today, So I'm all good. Appreciate you asking. Sorry.
Speaker 6: You talked about how with a contract extension that that
Speaker 6: brought like some some clarity.
Speaker 4: How did how did that?
Speaker 6: How does that clarity help you? You know, as you
Speaker 6: used you mentioned deal with something certainy, how does that
Speaker 6: clarity help you going into for share.
Speaker 10: It's like if you have a if you don't have
Speaker 10: a house, or you have a house. Now you got
Speaker 10: a house to let your head. Now I got a
Speaker 10: house to lay my head. So that concern, you know,
Speaker 10: is gone. I know who I'm planning for, I know
Speaker 10: where playbook come in, I know who my quarterback is,
Speaker 10: you know, and now it allows me to just go
Speaker 10: be myself freely.
Speaker 7: Obviously, the uh Guardian caps out there, and I I
Speaker 7: think therefore, why's gonna be mandated?
Speaker 10: I think the training?
Speaker 4: Can I believe what's kind of your feelings on them?
Speaker 4: And do you think you would ever consider wearing them
Speaker 4: for games?
Speaker 10: I'm not wearing that in a game. I'm not wearing
Speaker 10: a game, but I have to practice about y'all will
Speaker 10: not ever see me wearing that in the game. So now,
Speaker 10: w W why you have spiritual feelings?
Speaker 4: Wh Why is that?
Speaker 10: It messes up everybody's swag on the field, you know,
Speaker 10: like is is? It's the worst, and I don't think
Speaker 10: that it'll as much. So, I mean, we're not hitting
Speaker 10: out here. I don't even know if it's really helping
Speaker 10: the game because I mean, everybody's playing fast. It's a
Speaker 10: contact sport. Whatever happens out there, that happens. So I
Speaker 10: guess we'll see.
Speaker 8: Yeah, who talks about how at this point you and
Speaker 8: Zay are kind of the guys in the room up
Speaker 8: to set examples and be the model about how to
Speaker 8: be a pro.
Speaker 4: Do you do you like that?
Speaker 8: Do you like being in that position?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Because I feel like if you just stay true to yourself,
Speaker 10: everything just happened naturally. Uh, nothing about me is gonna change.
Speaker 10: I'm not gonna uh speak up more or do this more.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna just continue to you know, come in the building.
Speaker 10: You know I come here early. The guys know that
Speaker 10: I'm always here early. I work hard. You know, I
Speaker 10: write my notes. You know how I carry myself throughout
Speaker 10: the building.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 10: Hopefully that shows, you know, to the younger guys and
Speaker 10: you know whoever else catches on to it. But y'all
Speaker 10: not gonna change anything. I'm'a continue to be myself.
Speaker 1: We also had a chance today to hear from wide
Speaker 1: receivers coach Greg Lewis that like the group is coming
Speaker 1: along here ever we saw a team practices.
Speaker 4: I think the group is coming along real well.
Speaker 13: Uh, A lot of good camaraderie with what the guys,
Speaker 13: the young guys are blending in the older guys are
Speaker 13: bringing guys along.
Speaker 4: Uh it's a good group.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 13: They all wanna be learners and understand what's going on
Speaker 13: and then come out here and try to execute at
Speaker 13: a high level each and every day.
Speaker 9: Reco I'm talking about it said by s Week that
Speaker 9: he needs a superter job getting the shot fishing for
Speaker 9: despite what his numbers finished up with a lot of
Speaker 9: strikes that.
Speaker 4: You see from your job last year.
Speaker 13: Uh Bait comes to work every day and and and
Speaker 13: does a hell of a job with getting in out
Speaker 13: of breaks, doing the things that are asked of him.
Speaker 13: Whatever we ask of him. He's willing and able to
Speaker 13: to get it done. And obviously the ball didn't find
Speaker 13: him as much last year. Uh we still coming back,
Speaker 13: and who's to say the ball's gonna find him this year.
Speaker 13: But he's gonna be coming to work each and every
Speaker 13: day and trying to get better. And that's what we
Speaker 13: all trying to do to win games. So whatever it
Speaker 13: takes for us to win, Uh, Bait and all the
Speaker 13: guys are willing to do that. And when his number
Speaker 13: is called, as you saw today, he's making great plays
Speaker 13: for us.
Speaker 3: How big deal do you think of this?
Speaker 8: And he had a he had a pretty much a
Speaker 8: healthy season last year, and then he's having a healthy
Speaker 8: offseason at least to this point. How big a deal
Speaker 8: would that be to have that long, clean rampof through
Speaker 8: a season health.
Speaker 4: There's always a big thing with just playing this sport.
Speaker 13: The more you out there, the more opportunity you got
Speaker 13: to get better and continue to thrive in those situations.
Speaker 13: So having Bait out here all last year and moving
Speaker 13: forward this season has been tremendous for him and as
Speaker 13: us as an offense, just having that different aspect that
Speaker 13: he brings to the to the group out there, and
Speaker 13: then just getting opportunities and taking advantage of those when
Speaker 13: he gets those chances.
Speaker 7: When you get to your receiver's fourth year, you kind
Speaker 7: of know what you have already, right, But in Rashad's case,
Speaker 7: how much kind of untapped potential is there you think
Speaker 7: still to come from him going forward.
Speaker 13: I wouldn't say it's untapped potential. The ball just hasn't
Speaker 13: found him in situations. He comes out here every day
Speaker 13: and shows what he's capable of doing, whether it's practice,
Speaker 13: and then when he gets opportunities in the game he
Speaker 13: does that. It's just about more and more opportunities and
Speaker 13: then more and more production will come from And I
Speaker 13: think he's doing a great job with with what we're
Speaker 13: giving him and what we're giving everybody to try to
Speaker 13: take advantage of the best of his ability.
Speaker 3: What do you want to see from Zay Flowers in
Speaker 3: year two?
Speaker 4: Just growth, growth all around as a leader.
Speaker 13: He's doing a great job of taking some of the
Speaker 13: younger guys and showing him the ropes. Obviously he went
Speaker 13: through it last year, uh, and just cleaning up little
Speaker 13: small details of route running technique, staying staying in treatment,
Speaker 13: and doing all the little things that help you be
Speaker 13: able to have a long career and get better. So
Speaker 13: he's doing all the little things and then it's showing
Speaker 13: up out here at practice and it's gonna show up
Speaker 13: in game situations.
Speaker 2: You've worked with some wide receivers of have that Alpha
Speaker 2: wide receiver one wave attached them with, say, are there
Speaker 2: is there stuff that he's done that is reminiscent of that?
Speaker 2: Or is there stuff that you know you are kind
Speaker 2: of trying to push it toward.
Speaker 4: That to the I'm not a big guy push guys
Speaker 4: to to anything.
Speaker 13: I want them to beat themselves and whatever that is
Speaker 13: or whoever they are. I just want to accentuate that
Speaker 13: and build off that. And I think we got a
Speaker 13: group of guys that all want to get better, all
Speaker 13: want to do the little things and push each other.
Speaker 4: So it's not a one.
Speaker 13: Guy show, or it's a Za Flower show or a
Speaker 13: Bateman show or any of that. It's just everybody is
Speaker 13: coming out here to work and get better each and
Speaker 13: every day. And I think they bought into that. It's
Speaker 13: a team effort and we need everybody. So just having
Speaker 13: each other to push each other and to get better
Speaker 13: each and every day has been remarkable.
Speaker 10: You see him having justice in the field game.
Speaker 13: He's a sponge. He wants to know everything and he's
Speaker 13: doing a great job with that. You see his length
Speaker 13: and his speed out there on the field and making
Speaker 13: big body catches can test the catches, but then he
Speaker 13: could take the top off coverages. And he's doing a
Speaker 13: great job as far as the offense is concerned. Learning
Speaker 13: and understanding what we're trying to do is different from
Speaker 13: what he did in college, and it's a lot of
Speaker 13: nuances and he's picking He's picking them up seamlessly. So
Speaker 13: I'm excited where he's at now and where he can
Speaker 13: go in the future.
Speaker 6: Hunting college quarterback house the transition for him and what
Speaker 6: do you see it from him in this process.
Speaker 13: Malika is a football player and he loves the game
Speaker 13: and he wants to find any way he can to
Speaker 13: get out on the field. And if it's at receiver,
Speaker 13: it's a quarterbacks, at running back, is that d line.
Speaker 13: He's out there trying to trying to get it done.
Speaker 13: And he's done a great job of transitioning from the
Speaker 13: quarterback position to the receiver position. Working with Zay and
Speaker 13: Sean Ryan and Bait. They bringing him along and teaching
Speaker 13: them the nuances of playing receiver. But he understands spatial awareness.
Speaker 13: He understands that from the quarterbacks perspective, so obviously he
Speaker 13: understands zone coverage. And now it's just getting him to
Speaker 13: do the little things as receivers do it because he
Speaker 13: hasn't done it a bunch.
Speaker 8: You what's the hardest part about learning to be a
Speaker 8: receiver on the fly, even when you are athlete.
Speaker 13: Uh, it's just a lot of being on the same
Speaker 13: page with the quarterback and understanding different leverages of defensive backs.
Speaker 13: And until you're in that situation, you don't know. But
Speaker 13: Malika is a great athlete, and he understands how to
Speaker 13: move around. He he was at quarterback running away from
Speaker 13: the big dudes, getting away from those guys, so he
Speaker 13: can maneuver around DB's and linebackers and figure it out.
Speaker 13: And he's a smart kid. So he's doing a great
Speaker 13: job from that standpoint. But I would say that's the
Speaker 13: biggest thing from quarterback to a receiver is just feeling
Speaker 13: the zones and understanding where you need to be. And
Speaker 13: he's ahead of the curve because he sat back there
Speaker 13: as the quarterback throwing it before.
Speaker 4: So right now.
Speaker 12: A couple of.
Speaker 9: Day and the same frus came over let go tem
Speaker 9: personally for him and then.
Speaker 8: Also said they can push ups and where's that coming from?
Speaker 4: That? Oh? That that's that's all I say. That's all
Speaker 4: I say.
Speaker 13: He's a character, And obviously we don't want to drop
Speaker 13: passes at all ever, but nobody's ever called every pass
Speaker 13: that's been thrown to him in the history of football.
Speaker 13: We understand that we want to get the push ups
Speaker 13: and then get back and get the next place. So
Speaker 13: I think it's it's good that that they's taking that
Speaker 13: leadership role in and finding ways to get the guys
Speaker 13: focused on what they need to get done.
Speaker 4: Uh. And the guys are are owning up.
Speaker 13: To it and and and doing what they need to
Speaker 13: do because I I know they don't want to drop
Speaker 13: the ball.
Speaker 4: No nobody does. They don't wanna do the wrong thing. Uh.
Speaker 13: And just holding each other accountable. That's a big thing
Speaker 13: around here.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 13: And really it should be everywhere, but around here accountability
Speaker 13: and owning what you did and then manning up to
Speaker 13: it and then going to the next situation.
Speaker 12: About now sitting there beats kind of the order of
Speaker 12: the perceivers here. What do you wanna see if them
Speaker 12: play live on and off the field. What stuffs you
Speaker 12: want to just finished during these days?
Speaker 10: Uh L.
Speaker 13: Like I said, I I I don't want anybody to
Speaker 13: do anything that they don't feel comfortable with or that's
Speaker 13: not them. But I I do want they to come
Speaker 13: out and work each and every day. And what he
Speaker 13: does in the meeting rooms with the guys when he
Speaker 13: comes out here, how he practice, that's just a testament
Speaker 13: to him. And that's showing the guys, uh what to
Speaker 13: do and how to do it. You don't have to
Speaker 13: be a raw row guy and do all this stuff
Speaker 13: it's how you work and how you present yourself as
Speaker 13: a professional, and Baita is doing a tremendous job with that,
Speaker 13: and all the guys are so hopefully the young guys
Speaker 13: are sponges and they soak all this information up and
Speaker 13: see what's it like to be a professional athlete and
Speaker 13: go out and execute.
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