Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past podcast. It is Thursday,
Speaker 1: August first. The Ravens held another training camp practice today
Speaker 1: and afterwards we had a chance to hear from head
Speaker 1: coach John Harball.
Speaker 2: Really really appreciate you all being here, hot and crisp.
Speaker 2: That's a good conversation for fried chicken and for this
Speaker 2: practice today.
Speaker 3: That just came to you right there? Is that all right?
Speaker 3: It was?
Speaker 2: It was tough, and our guys responded and it was
Speaker 2: a very good practice.
Speaker 3: Very happy with the guys. What questions Jael about things?
Speaker 4: That's that's why you had seen and words.
Speaker 5: That it is.
Speaker 2: We decided we wanted to kind of shorten up exactly
Speaker 2: a little bit of the time that they were out
Speaker 2: here with the humidity and everything.
Speaker 3: So I think it helped.
Speaker 6: You guys having the later day tomorrow.
Speaker 4: How to seem opening the season on Thursday or.
Speaker 7: Guys, is it too kind of furrow out to think
Speaker 7: you guys are going to be later day process.
Speaker 3: It's a good question, I would say both.
Speaker 2: You know, we are it's not really enter our mind
Speaker 2: per se, but it's in the back of our mind certainly,
Speaker 2: and we are trying to prepare for the first game
Speaker 2: because that's the first game that matter, so we're not
Speaker 2: preparing for the preseason games with that. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of things that we need to do in between there
Speaker 2: to build our team.
Speaker 3: Right, So both John, we'd.
Speaker 4: Be watching tonight more so just the scene.
Speaker 8: To kick off the game.
Speaker 2: It would be good to that television on kickoff and
Speaker 2: kickoff return. I want to see what happens. We had
Speaker 2: a kickoff kickoff return practice today. What you guys saw,
Speaker 2: had the NFL officials here. We'll look at it tonight
Speaker 2: with those tonight with our coaches, and tomorrow morning we'll
Speaker 2: look at it with the officials in.
Speaker 3: There with our players and see what they see. So, uh,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be very interesting.
Speaker 9: We saw a group.
Speaker 2: So what Dak Henry could do today room where Harry's
Speaker 2: what kind of challenge is gonna post teams when he
Speaker 2: gets downhill to that second level. Well, I think everybody
Speaker 2: that knows football knows the challenge Dereck Henry poses when
Speaker 2: he gets going downhill with the football, you know. So
Speaker 2: our goal is gonna be to get him going downhill
Speaker 2: with the football. That's what we want. And Derek did
Speaker 2: a nice job today. I thought all of our backs
Speaker 2: did a nice job with that today.
Speaker 10: God, it's obviously a new test from the pads have
Speaker 10: come on over the last week. So with that being said,
Speaker 10: what do you see him from Borden's and Rosengarten now
Speaker 10: as they are compete in the offensive going right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been I would say steadily improving, you know,
Speaker 2: and I mean it's steadily improving, then something will happen.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, Andrew will be mad about the
Speaker 2: play today where Travis Jones had the great pass rush
Speaker 2: on him, but he had I don't know, numerous numerous
Speaker 2: other very good plays thought Roger. Roger's been doing well,
Speaker 2: deserved a shot with the ones. You saw him get
Speaker 2: a shot with the ones today. So we'll just kind
Speaker 2: of keep working through that and let it play out.
Speaker 11: John past they've talked about You've talked about playing the
Speaker 11: best five. I want to get the best five offensive lineman.
Speaker 11: And how tough is it in the situation of carry
Speaker 11: balancing how much he means as a swing guy inside
Speaker 11: that six offensive lineman. Rolling the port of that with
Speaker 11: trying to get the best five on.
Speaker 2: The field certainly part of the challenge, Jeff. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's part of it. You know, Pat's Pat's greatest
Speaker 2: strength is his versatility. It's also probably his greatest the
Speaker 2: thorn in his side a little bit, so he didn't
Speaker 2: get a chance. Always a lockdown at one position. But
Speaker 2: that's a good problem to have, and we're trying to
Speaker 2: work through that too.
Speaker 4: As sting garden a bunch. Do you think that's something
Speaker 4: you guys want to john him.
Speaker 2: In the midst Well, you know, it's certainly something we've
Speaker 2: done before. You know, we have rotated offensive linemen before,
Speaker 2: which is we're probably one of the probably the first
Speaker 2: team to do it, and I can remember, so it's
Speaker 2: it's in our it's in our we.
Speaker 3: Have a track record of that.
Speaker 6: Related.
Speaker 2: No, he got his head banged a little bit, so
Speaker 2: he's in there. But I'll be evaluating that tonight Paris.
Speaker 4: And he's the guy you've been.
Speaker 5: How you development.
Speaker 3: Idea? Well, that's a great question, Malik is that guy?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: Same same almost like Pat. On the other side, he
Speaker 2: plays inside backer, both of them.
Speaker 3: He plays.
Speaker 2: He plays outside back on our in our in our
Speaker 2: base package, he plays defensive end. Also in our sub packages.
Speaker 2: He plays every special team very valuable player, and I
Speaker 2: see him playing all those positions during the season, just
Speaker 2: as as it as it comes up. But he's done
Speaker 2: a great job. Really really proud of mely, you know.
Speaker 9: Marcine.
Speaker 5: Really wouldn't say I feel like that's pretty even built.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I feel like he and have have had it kind
Speaker 2: of from the first day. That tends to be the
Speaker 2: case with good players and great players and great athletes.
Speaker 2: They see the they figure each other out pretty quickly, right,
Speaker 2: Guys like you and me go out there and there's
Speaker 2: no chemistry.
Speaker 3: So yeah, what if you see to take you to
Speaker 3: the next level? Good question. I think he's going to
Speaker 3: take exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 2: You know, he's a guy that h every day, comes
Speaker 2: in with enthusiasm unknown the mankind, and he gives it,
Speaker 2: you know, everything he's got with a great attitude, a
Speaker 2: high work ethic, always talking ball. So to me, you
Speaker 2: know that process pays off. And when does it pay off?
Speaker 2: You know, I guess when the opportunity comes, So looking
Speaker 2: forward to seeing it.
Speaker 12: Asking about Justice, what have you seen over the last
Speaker 12: few years, the evolution of of him as a player,
Speaker 12: and then what we're looking for from him this year?
Speaker 2: Behind Derek right, great great point. The evolution of Justice
Speaker 2: as a player is that this guy has become a
Speaker 2: starting back in the National Football League. I mean, if
Speaker 2: you watch him play, look at the championship game. Uh,
Speaker 2: he is a he is a high caliber running back.
Speaker 2: So to have him along with with Derek, along with
Speaker 2: the young guys, I think it's it's just it's it's
Speaker 2: really great and he's gonna give us a little different
Speaker 2: style than there Henry. So I see him as a starter.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna play a lot and kind of
Speaker 2: do it his way.
Speaker 11: Oh go, that's kind of top practice today with snoozy
Speaker 11: games things. Just how have you seen the rookie kind
Speaker 11: of settle in defense as the team?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sodus is another guy just kind of a steady guy,
Speaker 2: grinding every day and then comes out today with pads.
Speaker 2: Come on, it's a physical practice and he shows up
Speaker 2: to see that kind of what we expected. I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to see him in the games, you know. But
Speaker 2: very steady, h very conscientious player.
Speaker 11: Jam He replaced Roskins spot with Quincy, wrote Elise Rossick spot.
Speaker 11: Are you good with outside linebacker dat or do you
Speaker 11: think it's something you're gonna have to continue to evaluate
Speaker 11: whether you need other bodies here.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll definitely continue to evaluate every spot, including the
Speaker 2: outside backer spot, because you just never know from one
Speaker 2: day to the next week, especially in camp, because you
Speaker 2: want to have enough guys to practice at a high level.
Speaker 2: But you know, Adis is gonna get back here some
Speaker 2: point in time soon. It's been nagging him. But I
Speaker 2: do think he'll be back sometimes soon. So that's another
Speaker 2: depth piece. I got it.
Speaker 3: We'll count on so but to see where it goes.
Speaker 13: For a little bit of a later question, I saw
Speaker 13: you dropped maybe your practice script or something, and drop
Speaker 13: scooped it up. What do you do when a player
Speaker 13: steals the script?
Speaker 2: Well, he knocked it out of my hands, you know,
Speaker 2: so my my script security was wanting there very badly,
Speaker 2: and I was embarrassed by it. He scooped and scored.
Speaker 2: But then he handed it back to me, which I
Speaker 2: appreciate him. So that's where we're at. And he gave
Speaker 2: me a look, you know, he was disappointed in me,
Speaker 2: and I felt that a minor soft tissue deal that
Speaker 2: he's should be finer soon, very soon.
Speaker 4: John, Maybe I'm impreciated the moment, but it seems like.
Speaker 7: More in the quarterbacks had then more for the flat
Speaker 7: technic hearing me at all kind of kick the ball up.
Speaker 2: To the guys's face to Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 2: it truly, I wouldn't say it's an emphasis per se.
Speaker 2: I think they're doing a good job of going through
Speaker 2: their progressions. We spent a lot of time, you know,
Speaker 2: we spent all we spend this you're watching practice all
Speaker 2: kind of time in passing, game progressions, defensive concepts, how
Speaker 2: we play out the defense against all the routes. And
Speaker 2: I just think they're they're they're getting really good at
Speaker 2: reading stuff out and making quick decisions.
Speaker 1: Next up is running back Justice Hills.
Speaker 4: It's a working relationship.
Speaker 14: Been Mike Ki looking on that looked like, you know,
Speaker 14: having some fun on the sidelines.
Speaker 3: Out bro, let's go over.
Speaker 15: We're just having fun on we're working. We try to
Speaker 15: get better every single day. And and that's what he
Speaker 15: brings to the room too. He's just serious making sure
Speaker 15: we're working and getting better every day, and that just
Speaker 15: fees throughout the whole room. And then when we out here,
Speaker 15: we're just having fun. I mean, it's a it's a game,
Speaker 15: and we just try to have fun with it. I
Speaker 15: mean It's easy to get caught up in all the
Speaker 15: business side and stuff, but we're just having fun too.
Speaker 15: I mean, it was one of the best running backs
Speaker 15: to ever play in a game, and I like just
Speaker 15: to be able to play alongside 'em and learn from
Speaker 15: 'em and watch how he approaches each and every day.
Speaker 15: I mean I was a static you know, y, I've
Speaker 15: been lucky to have some good vets around here, from
Speaker 15: from mark Ingram to Gus, and I've learned so much
Speaker 15: from all those guys, and so I just being here
Speaker 15: f with with Derek the last couple of months, I've
Speaker 15: already learned so much and so uh, it's just gonna
Speaker 15: be excited to see what we do throughout the year.
Speaker 5: And j you gonna have fun that you've.
Speaker 6: A little bit earlier said at the starting.
Speaker 15: And when you hear something like the guy who's been
Speaker 15: placed story waiting and.
Speaker 5: Sets, uh, I mean, it mean it means a lot, man.
Speaker 15: I mean you just work hard, you just enjoyed the process,
Speaker 15: and That's what I've been doing since I've been here.
Speaker 15: I mean, obviously everybody would wanna come in and uh
Speaker 15: be a starter right off the bat, but you know,
Speaker 15: everybody has a different journey, and I've just been enjoying
Speaker 15: my journey getting better every year.
Speaker 5: And uh, I've just.
Speaker 15: Been enjoying just doing that. And so just to hear that,
Speaker 15: I mean that that means a lot. But we still
Speaker 15: got a lot more to do.
Speaker 5: And I just want to go out there and prove
Speaker 5: everybody right.
Speaker 16: How difference does it feel coming into this year knowing
Speaker 16: how about you have relied upon if the end of
Speaker 16: last year, now being you know, the guy right behind
Speaker 16: Derek and starting pla the back, how different does it
Speaker 16: feel this year?
Speaker 5: As you wan guy, I mean, it doesn't feel any different.
Speaker 15: I mean we come to work every day and everybody
Speaker 15: in the room, every single person, everyone back in the
Speaker 15: room has that mindset so where if their name is called,
Speaker 15: they're gonna be ready to go.
Speaker 5: And that's my mindset. Since I've been here, I've always
Speaker 5: been ready to go.
Speaker 15: And so just being able to get those opportunities and
Speaker 15: take advantage of those opportunities has been It's been great,
Speaker 15: and so I just want to continue to do that
Speaker 15: and just have a great year, have a fun year,
Speaker 15: and go.
Speaker 5: And win for.
Speaker 4: Charlotte again.
Speaker 5: You can see those guys, man, they come and work.
Speaker 15: I mean, they're they're young guys, but they have mindsets,
Speaker 15: you know, and that's really what you need, just to
Speaker 15: be able to come in and work through the ups
Speaker 15: and downs of the injuries or.
Speaker 5: Whatever situation you're going through. You know. Definitely with boy,
Speaker 5: he's just the injury.
Speaker 15: Just fighting through that and being strong mentally, it's been
Speaker 15: it's been awesome to see how he approaches each and
Speaker 15: every day and he's just gonna continue to get better.
Speaker 15: I mean, we got one of the best d lines
Speaker 15: in the league and being able to go up against
Speaker 15: that and practice is gonna make the games so much easier.
Speaker 5: So he's been doing well.
Speaker 15: They've both been doing well, and just to see their
Speaker 15: progression from springtime to now getting the pads on, uh,
Speaker 15: it's gonna be exciting to see him get to the season.
Speaker 17: This specifically in the right game with the old line
Speaker 17: and guys kind of moving, figuring out in different spots.
Speaker 7: And still trying to find that Nick, what what has
Speaker 7: been the most impressive.
Speaker 6: Progression to you since camp started?
Speaker 17: What do you think that you guys are gonna use
Speaker 17: You know, if the rest of camp and the reass
Speaker 17: the game is kind of playing to us.
Speaker 4: When they land on that to start up.
Speaker 15: Uh, I think just the mentality Jody the old line coach,
Speaker 15: you know, he brings a certain mentality to where they're
Speaker 15: gonna work hard every day like they're gonna work and
Speaker 15: he's not gonna let anybody slack off. And so with
Speaker 15: that kind of leader at the front of the coach
Speaker 15: at coaching spot, it's kind of hard to even see
Speaker 15: any time to downturn offen the line, no matter who
Speaker 15: is in there. And every single day they come in here,
Speaker 15: they're fine off the ball, working, working on pay level,
Speaker 15: getting strong, and I mean it's gonna be exciting to see, man,
Speaker 15: because those guys always know how to move people off
Speaker 15: the ball, and uh, they're gonna just continue to do that.
Speaker 15: So uh, no words with those guys. They just gonna
Speaker 15: continue to do their thing.
Speaker 5: What was it like today?
Speaker 13: See and Derrick Henry get going downhill a little bit
Speaker 13: more and yourself it's more contact.
Speaker 4: Can see some looty s flying.
Speaker 5: A little bit. I mean that's football. I mean that's
Speaker 5: the fun stuff.
Speaker 15: Like when we're out here in the spring, when we're
Speaker 15: out here with no pads. Obviously it's fun to be
Speaker 15: out here doing the plays, but once you actually get
Speaker 15: the pads on rocking and rolling. I mean, it's nothing
Speaker 15: better than that because that's football, and so it's definitely
Speaker 15: it's just fun. It's just fun. I say that at
Speaker 15: the end of it. I mean, I just love coming
Speaker 15: out here and having fun.
Speaker 6: It's another was to improved every off season.
Speaker 14: There's something that you you wanted to focus on the course,
Speaker 14: the officers that wanted to computing.
Speaker 3: Or.
Speaker 15: I mean, every part of my game I want to
Speaker 15: improve on. So it's not just one single area I
Speaker 15: can point out, but.
Speaker 5: Everything. I mean, from running to blocking to receiving.
Speaker 15: I've been working on all these teams tirelessly, and so
Speaker 15: it's just it's fun to see how the progression goes.
Speaker 5: Each year.
Speaker 15: I feel more confident just because I've been putting in
Speaker 15: that work. And then the more work you put in,
Speaker 15: the more confident you get. And so here's gonna be
Speaker 15: a fun year.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's the corn such as unique type run him back.
Speaker 3: Is there any thing you can get from me? Is
Speaker 3: you're sharing any secret like and sticking the buff of anything,
Speaker 3: you know? I know, got died that.
Speaker 5: Anything you can get from being for a.
Speaker 15: Guy like that, Yeah, I got I got some stuff,
Speaker 15: but I can't tell I can't tell it.
Speaker 5: I mean, he definitely, he definitely giving me some gyms.
Speaker 15: It's something I'm replying, but I just keep down the
Speaker 15: wraps until y'all see it.
Speaker 5: But then y'all seem like, Okay, that might be. That
Speaker 5: might have been something there.
Speaker 15: It might It's all so, uh yeah, you definitely don't
Speaker 15: give me some wisdom, just kind of trying.
Speaker 4: To morgam.
Speaker 18: Ravenson is still then need to be a survival in
Speaker 18: the NFL, like five six seventy.
Speaker 10: Eight years three supposed up for that or the least
Speaker 10: not being a Special Teams contribute as well.
Speaker 15: I really think it's actually a special thing to do
Speaker 15: when you come in because it teaches you the game.
Speaker 15: I mean, like before, I've never played Special Teams before
Speaker 15: I got here, and so I never even realized it
Speaker 15: was a part of the game. Like you obviously you
Speaker 15: know it's a part of the game, but you don't
Speaker 15: realize how important it is.
Speaker 5: To the game. And it teaches you so much technique.
Speaker 15: It teaches you things that you can apply to offense,
Speaker 15: a lot of defense, and even though you're not getting
Speaker 15: those reps on offensive defense, doing things on special teams
Speaker 15: helps you improve as an offensive and defensive player. And
Speaker 15: so the thing that they do allowing people to go
Speaker 15: in and start on special teams and cultivate careers that way,
Speaker 15: it prolongs to everybody's career offensively and even if you
Speaker 15: just stay on special teams. So it's definitely a great
Speaker 15: skill set that I'm glad I've got the opportunity to develop.
Speaker 1: We also heard from some of the offensive linemen, including
Speaker 1: versatile do it all lineman Patrick McCarry.
Speaker 6: We've we've seen you move all over the offensive line
Speaker 6: over the years.
Speaker 10: What has it been like to the start of camp
Speaker 10: where you've kind of been able to focus in on
Speaker 10: right tacks for the top ten.
Speaker 9: Oh, it's been good. It's been good. It's been good
Speaker 9: to uh stack days, focus on one position and get
Speaker 9: better every day, seeing what I need to work on
Speaker 9: and just continue to improve. It's been good.
Speaker 6: Desire values, Yeah, I.
Speaker 9: Just want to play and I want to help the team.
Speaker 9: I'm whatever way that looks like, Uh, that's up to
Speaker 9: the coaches in the front office. But like I said,
Speaker 9: I just want to play and help the team, and
Speaker 9: that's for them to decide.
Speaker 17: Because you got how different do you fill your leadership
Speaker 17: roles in the room after Kevin and Morgan, you know,
Speaker 17: obviously go on to other spots. Is it just feel
Speaker 17: like we're losing around and seeing just a lot of
Speaker 17: guys looking back up at you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean Kevin Morgan, we're great, great leaders. John
Speaker 9: was awesome too to have in the room. But yeah,
Speaker 9: as the years go on, I just I keeping there
Speaker 9: or I continue to be the older and older guy
Speaker 9: in the room and take more of a leadership role.
Speaker 9: And that's good. And the younger guys if you like
Speaker 9: to look up to me and Ronnie and Tyler and
Speaker 9: uh some of the other guys, and it's it's good
Speaker 9: to be in a mentorship role and really guide these
Speaker 9: guys up. And they're doing it. They're doing a great job.
Speaker 11: So yes, Patrick, you obviously were a mentor for Tyler
Speaker 11: Lender Bowen.
Speaker 9: And now you have Roger Roseguard.
Speaker 11: What are your impressions of vim as we've gotten to
Speaker 11: know they.
Speaker 9: Haven't watched him with good m Yeah, Roger has been great.
Speaker 9: You know, he's he's really immersed in the meetings, really
Speaker 9: locked in at practice. He's a pro working to get
Speaker 9: better every day. I like what I'm seeing, so he's gonna,
Speaker 9: he's gonna, he's gonna get it done.
Speaker 11: You gotta have a chance, being nice to be in
Speaker 11: one spot and work there, but you also know that regardless,
Speaker 11: you're probably gonna wind up playing different spots in the
Speaker 11: dards of the season. At what point do you have
Speaker 11: to get other reps? I mean, how many reps do
Speaker 11: you need out of the other positions given in something
Speaker 11: you've done for a lot of years.
Speaker 9: And yeah, you know, I do need the reps right now.
Speaker 9: They have me at right tackle and that's where I'm
Speaker 9: focusing on day to day. But when the time comes
Speaker 9: and they asked me to move around and do other things,
Speaker 9: and I got to lock it in on that position
Speaker 9: and get better there. But just one day at a time.
Speaker 9: It's still early in camp, so just one day at
Speaker 9: a time.
Speaker 4: I know, you're good buddies. With Kyle Linderbaum, what do
Speaker 4: you see from him?
Speaker 13: I mean, obviously he played at such a high level
Speaker 13: last year, But where do you see the difference from
Speaker 13: year two to year three of them?
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, he's an incredible center pro bowler last year.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 9: Planning for him to you an All Pro this year?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 9: Just has all the talent, all the skills. UH, taking
Speaker 9: a bigger leadership role this year, taking more control of
Speaker 9: the offense and UH just focusing on his small, small
Speaker 9: tweaks to get better every day. And he's really working
Speaker 9: at it. I mean early in camp he's already looking
Speaker 9: season ready. So he's he's gonna be great leadership.
Speaker 6: Look like out there on the field for the.
Speaker 9: Tyler taking command of the offensive line, taking command of
Speaker 9: the offense, really controlling the play calls or the defensive
Speaker 9: calls from the offensive line point of view, and just
Speaker 9: making sure everyone's accountable, being on everyone, making sure everyone's
Speaker 9: in the right spot, having the right calls. And he's
Speaker 9: killing it. He's doing great.
Speaker 4: So much change on the offensive line. How he's article
Speaker 4: has image, it's just like having.
Speaker 9: Done the same guy. Yeah, very correct, just with his
Speaker 9: calls and is a consistency with that.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 9: Having two new guys play next to him. It helps
Speaker 9: them out a lot too, to have a guy like
Speaker 9: Tyler in the middle. So UH, it's very helpful.
Speaker 1: Replaces some starters, You replace the starters long offense line,
Speaker 1: where like in the early part of the team here,
Speaker 1: particularly dosive line.
Speaker 9: Development, we're getting we're getting better every day.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 9: It's it's early in camp. Uh there's there's guys shining
Speaker 9: and there's work being done. Uh there's it's still early,
Speaker 9: but I think we're heading in the right direction and
Speaker 9: there's only up to go. So uh, I think we're
Speaker 9: gonna be pretty damn.
Speaker 17: Good under Petal has a bit that you're in your
Speaker 17: two under Todd mubket system, so you aren't learning a
Speaker 17: new scene as well as bouncing around to a little
Speaker 17: different offensive line position.
Speaker 9: That Yeah, being comfortable with the scheme again for now
Speaker 9: the second year. Uh, it helps you know, through O
Speaker 9: t as, through the start of camp, understanding the calls,
Speaker 9: understanding the looks we want on defense and installing it
Speaker 9: and installing it early and having a better understanding of
Speaker 9: it is really helpful. Allows us to play faster. Uh,
Speaker 9: it's it's it's beneficial.
Speaker 13: Given all that and over on the offensive line and
Speaker 13: talk about leadership accountability.
Speaker 4: How much do.
Speaker 13: Guys like yourself in addition Titlingbaum and Ronnie the older guys,
Speaker 13: what do you do in the rooms to kind of, Hey, it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be a younger line. We got to get these
Speaker 4: guys ready to play.
Speaker 9: What do we do in the room accountable?
Speaker 4: What do you do behind the scenes to kind of leave.
Speaker 9: Them, work with them after practice, talk with them after meetings.
Speaker 9: What do you have questions on? What do you need
Speaker 9: help with? It's a you know, coming from college to
Speaker 9: the pros, it's a it's a bigger playbook. The technique
Speaker 9: is more important. So just clarifying with them, letting them
Speaker 9: know that we're here whatever you need, uh, you just
Speaker 9: helping them out if they have a good rep, cheering
Speaker 9: them on on a good rep, they've a bad rep,
Speaker 9: coaching up on it. But it's all, it's all a
Speaker 9: part of it. It's all part of camp. It's part
Speaker 9: of the process.
Speaker 4: You know, Andrew coming back from his injury last year
Speaker 4: and be happening.
Speaker 14: Was there anything you kind of saw in terms of
Speaker 14: maybe being in meetings or anything partwise they did last
Speaker 14: year when you wasn't able to play or really practice
Speaker 14: that prepared him for the role he's.
Speaker 10: Playing in Camel so far.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Andrew was really locked in last year and all
Speaker 9: the meetings, even though he was heard, he knew he
Speaker 9: wasn't gonna play, but he was locked in and all
Speaker 9: the meetings, taking notes in every meeting. So I think
Speaker 9: picking up the offensive calls has been easier for him
Speaker 9: because of how locked in he was last year. And
Speaker 9: I was just getting back tore. I mean, he's been
Speaker 9: out of football for a year. He's getting so much
Speaker 9: better every day. He's a great football player and he's
Speaker 9: gonna get it done.
Speaker 6: Patrick, he'd like to have a.
Speaker 10: Picture, you know, the offensive line set kind of two
Speaker 10: to three weeks in the camp or their bounds. He's
Speaker 10: curious as a crew for yourself, where would you like
Speaker 10: it to fall in that window and how important is
Speaker 10: it in front of just a time for your standpointe.
Speaker 9: I just the best five to go out there and
Speaker 9: play and be great. When that shapes up is when
Speaker 9: it shapes up. Like I said so early in camp.
Speaker 9: But we're getting better every day, and come preseason games,
Speaker 9: I think will be telling a lot of how it's
Speaker 9: going to shape up, but just one day at a time.
Speaker 1: Another really important player along this offensive line is second
Speaker 1: year guard Andrew Vorheas. He's competing for a starting job
Speaker 1: and he talked about that today.
Speaker 13: I just talked about all this meeting work that you did,
Speaker 13: kind of studying playbook, all that stuff you did in
Speaker 13: the classroom last year and how much that's benefiting you,
Speaker 13: getting the calls and knowing what you're doing out there.
Speaker 13: How big a difference do you feel like that's made.
Speaker 13: Has that really helped you this this season?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean just the last eighteen months, I had
Speaker 8: the opportunity to to build a solid foundation and a
Speaker 8: foundation on Rock. It's been great, right being in the
Speaker 8: in the room all last year, having that opportunity such
Speaker 8: a privilege, right, Not a lot of guys get the
Speaker 8: opportunity to to quote unquote red shirt like a lot
Speaker 8: of us kind of called my last year. So yeah,
Speaker 8: I really felt like I put myself in a great
Speaker 8: position and it's plaid off future David in so far
Speaker 8: the busday that.
Speaker 4: Has, you know, playing for you over the physically challenging,
Speaker 4: you know kind of.
Speaker 8: I think I was mostly excited, if I could describe
Speaker 8: my emotions if you will, just excitement, right. It had
Speaker 8: been a long time since I put pads on. It
Speaker 8: been a long time since I hit somebody, So I
Speaker 8: was really thrilled to be back out there and thankful
Speaker 8: at the end of the day. Again, just felt like
Speaker 8: I built a strong foundation this last year to eighteen
Speaker 8: months and so it was exciting to get back out
Speaker 8: there again and go remember the reason why I played
Speaker 8: the game and the.
Speaker 4: Ravens plugged you at the end of last year's draft.
Speaker 17: I mean, obviously I'm sure people were not injured, you
Speaker 17: might have gone gone earlier.
Speaker 4: But that being said, you know they're knowing that you're
Speaker 4: not going to play last year.
Speaker 17: What did that sort of long term investment by the
Speaker 17: team understanding that would take time for you to get
Speaker 17: back healthy.
Speaker 6: What did that mean to you?
Speaker 4: And did that affect your motivation in the last eighteen months?
Speaker 6: Is super built up.
Speaker 8: I mean, it was an investment for sure, right just
Speaker 8: not knowing with my injury and it being so late
Speaker 8: in the process in reference to the whole draft process.
Speaker 9: So yeah, I was.
Speaker 8: It was beyond grateful when when I got the call
Speaker 8: from mister DaCosta and the Baltimore Ravens decided to select
Speaker 8: me as one of their choices.
Speaker 9: Again.
Speaker 8: They they poured into me all last year and I
Speaker 8: gave them everything I had, and UH just felt like
Speaker 8: the foundation that I built for myself and and just
Speaker 8: the belief in the work ethic I had UH with
Speaker 8: with everyone on staff in our weight room in our
Speaker 8: our training room and even our position coaches and stuff.
Speaker 8: Just felt like it all has bay dividends. And I'm
Speaker 8: forever indebted and grateful to this organization for believing in
Speaker 8: me and giving me a shot. I given my circumstances.
Speaker 10: Two things, when did you sort of physically feel like
Speaker 10: we're holding yourself again? And secondly, because you've been here,
Speaker 10: had this important, here's how the games felt.
Speaker 3: What you got back.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, kind of hard to say exactly when
Speaker 8: I felt like my quote unquote again just because how
Speaker 8: how tedious the process is and how long it is
Speaker 8: to come coming back from a major looking at reconstruction
Speaker 8: like I had. But once I got back out there,
Speaker 8: definitely was was speedy for me, just adapting to to
Speaker 8: NFL speed and then doubling down with that being off
Speaker 8: of football for a year. So once the Helmets came on,
Speaker 8: the Pats came on, it was definitely quick at first,
Speaker 8: but felt like I adapted fairly well and quickly, And
Speaker 8: uh so I've been thankful and for that.
Speaker 10: When you're in your downtime, obviously you're you know there's
Speaker 10: stuff we did here.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about sort of outside and York.
Speaker 10: I'm sure there was maybe a little bit more downtime
Speaker 10: I did.
Speaker 9: What did you do?
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're absolutely correct, and and in since I didn't
Speaker 8: have a lot of downtime, so uh, you know, my
Speaker 8: wife and I have We were both California born and raised,
Speaker 8: so our first opportunity being out here on the East Coast,
Speaker 8: just explored and spent time, uh all throughout the East
Speaker 8: Coast and and just enjoyed a lot of the history
Speaker 8: and just a lot of food restaurants and or I
Speaker 8: guess food tours we like to call them. But definitely
Speaker 8: kept busy during the downtime.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and how important thing.
Speaker 10: Game rips although it be complete again and you know
Speaker 10: it's been a while and ago, how.
Speaker 11: Much that may help you know the process and get
Speaker 11: made this season.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you know, anytime you have an opportunity
Speaker 8: to go out there and play football and they're keeping score,
Speaker 8: it's important. It doesn't matter if you're on the Mighty
Speaker 8: Mites or any level football. They're keeping score matters at
Speaker 8: the end of the day. So anytime you have the
Speaker 8: opportunity to go out there and compete and show who
Speaker 8: you are as a football player, it's important. So I'm
Speaker 8: just looking forward to the opportunity to get back out
Speaker 8: there and go compete against somebody who's not a teammate.
Speaker 8: And I could rightfully say so about the rest of
Speaker 8: the offensive line.
Speaker 4: Room with it like sharing a sideline with a guy
Speaker 4: like Derek Kendrick.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's exciting remember watching him, uh in his
Speaker 8: college career, then early on in his professional career, just
Speaker 8: as big and in person as he seems online. So
Speaker 8: thrilled to have him and you talk about an absolute workhorse,
Speaker 8: So excited to see what he does for this team
Speaker 8: this year.
Speaker 18: Andrew didn't really get a chase to play with Kevin
Speaker 18: Zitner last year, but you certainly in the room with him,
Speaker 18: and you watched him on the field during games and whatnot.
Speaker 18: What can you model after his game and in particular
Speaker 18: interest of other leadership things we required.
Speaker 9: At the line of scrimmage that you might have brought
Speaker 9: to play.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Kevin Zeitler will always hold a special place in
Speaker 8: my heart, you know. I mean, given my circumstances last year,
Speaker 8: and given that he is or was one of the
Speaker 8: most veterans, was the most veteran guy in the room. Uh,
Speaker 8: it's just somebody you could count on and uh really
Speaker 8: have the opportunity to to lean on him, and he
Speaker 8: poured into me. So just being the rookie that I was,
Speaker 8: I just tried to just always see what he was
Speaker 8: doing right, whatever it might have been, taking care of
Speaker 8: his body, right, what he was eating, just kind of
Speaker 8: what he was doing, just watching him, just always having
Speaker 8: a set of eyes on him, seeing what he did.
Speaker 8: But Kevin Zeitler, he's dearly missed by me for sure,
Speaker 8: built a good relationship with them over the last year.
Speaker 8: But you know, I think one thing that really sticks
Speaker 8: out about his play is just his physicality and consistency.
Speaker 8: You talking about a guy who's just so disciplined, and
Speaker 8: it's brought him so far in this game and has
Speaker 8: brought so much success. So I feel like if I
Speaker 8: can just even copy that to a percentage of what
Speaker 8: he was able to, I feel like of success.
Speaker 4: How tough has been has Travis Jones been? To block
Speaker 4: out your practice?
Speaker 8: He's a load, for sure. It's he's a big boy.
Speaker 8: It's like a full grown bull just running right at you.
Speaker 8: So but right, you're grateful for that. Right you want
Speaker 8: you want everything to be hard during practice so that
Speaker 8: when it comes time for competition, you're prepared and ready,
Speaker 8: So you know, I'm just grateful for him and excited
Speaker 8: to watch him this year. I think he's gonna have
Speaker 8: a special year and just a tremendous person at the
Speaker 8: end of the day, and more and more plays.
Speaker 7: Along those lines, you know him type of Beerspoth Just
Speaker 7: it's a very very strong man. How many kind of
Speaker 7: degrees or like, how much of the difference is there
Speaker 7: between the kind of strength that you see from two
Speaker 7: guys like that versus the best strongest guy you see
Speaker 7: the USC.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely different.
Speaker 8: You know, the the Pac twelve gets a reputation of
Speaker 8: being smaller or off alignement in general, right, so I'm
Speaker 8: sure might be some merit to it. We'll find out
Speaker 8: with USC joining the Big ten, so we'll see. But
Speaker 8: I know they're both big boys, and they're great athletes,
Speaker 8: and they could move and they're really strong, So definitely
Speaker 8: they're up there, if not the strongest people that I've
Speaker 8: ever had to compete against.
Speaker 1: That was Andrew Vorhees. And you're listening to the Ravens
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