WEBVTT - Zachary Orr Introductory Press Conference 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.560 Welcome into the Ravens Press Past podcast. It is Tuesday, 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:09.840 February sixth, and the Ravens introduced a new defensive coordinator, 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.079 zachary Or earlier today. Zach is gonna take over for 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:16.520 Mike McDonald, who left to become the head coach of 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.880 the Seattle Seahawks. Zach is a former player and his 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.160 passion clearly comes across when he talks with the media. 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.439 Today is to go ahead and listen to that full 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:25.200 press conference. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:31.240 How y'all doing already? Man, I just want to thank 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.640 you guys for coming out. I want to thank my family, 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.960 Thank my fiance, my mom, dad, my brothers, my son, 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.519 close friends, everybody that's supported me throughout throughout my life. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.560 I want to thank the organization, Thank mister Bashatti, coach 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:51.239 John Harbaugh, Eric de Consta, Sashi Brown, everybody in the organization. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.040 So many people in this wonder wonderful organization who's shown 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.280 me so much love all throughout the years. Just can't 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:03.120 thank him enough. Man, So excited, fired up, determined. Uh 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.160 for the opportunity that I have, man, and I'm ready 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:06.720 to get to work. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:15.000 Exact even you know, during your playing career, did you 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.039 kind an and did ever thought about, hey, you know, 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.640 post career and you know offenly getting into coach or 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:22.680 anything like that. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:23.160 Uh not. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:27.120 While I was playing. My plan was honestly, make it 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.000 to the National Football League, play like ten fifteen years, 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.720 you know, go back home, coach some high school football. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.360 But never thought I'd be coaching the National Football League. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.800 Uh So this is this is a blessing. And obviously 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:39.880 with my situation when I got the opportunity to start 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.399 coaching the National Football League, this was one of one 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.959 goal of mine. So it's just crazy to see it 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.960 all come together. But initially it definitely was not. I 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:50.360 never I never thought this would happen. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:51.160 Zach. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:52.440 Can you think but the last time I could get 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.560 a press conference in the year which is a national retirement. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.080 Yeah, and from that point to now this this journey. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:01:59.880 But can can you take us through a little bit 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.040 kind of what's it been like emotionally? 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:02.680 It gets you back to. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.880 This point, man, It it was tough. It was tough 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.440 initially when I had to come in and sit with 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.079 you guys last time and hang up the cleats, hang 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.760 up the pads, hang up the helmet. But like I said, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.240 I had great support from my family and from the organization. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.160 You know, they they they sup poured me right away 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:20.600 talking about the organization. They was like, I know, you 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.000 wanted to get right into coaching. Once you get once 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:24.560 you come right back up here and get the work. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.920 And I did that and I learned what it took 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.240 to be a coach in National Football League, learn from 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.040 a lot of great people, and you know, just continue 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.560 to work, work, work, work, work, fell in love with 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.799 the game as a coach, and you know, now we're here. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.200 But it definitely, it definitely was a crazy journey from 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.120 that moment last time I was here to now. But 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.000 like I said, I'm excited. And it just shows, man, 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.799 you you put into work, you treat people right the 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.919 right way, great things can happen. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:55.079 You just you just alluded to it. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.120 I mean when you when you did start to make 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.040 that transition, who are the people that you leaning on 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.320 the most to sort of figure out how to do 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:03.000 this at your job? 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.799 Man? It was it's so many people. I mean when 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.440 I first got here. I remember when I first got 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.600 back up here to coach. Osie was like, all right, 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.080 now you know these hours are different, so get ready. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.440 And so he's one of the guys, obviously Coach Harball. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.480 I mean, man, it's so many, so many guys in 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:24.360 the building, like you know, Mike McDonald, Wink martindale' Sterling, Lucas, 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.160 Jesse mintzer Man. I could go, I could name on 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.959 the list a list of people, but just so many 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.680 people helped me out along the way, helped me get 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.480 acclimated to what it takes to do this to be 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.000 successful in his profession. And I can't thank those people enough. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:41.680 And I know I named some people, but I know 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.200 I missed a lot, but I have so many people 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:45.680 helped me out. The way it. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.200 Sounded like it happened, it all kind of came together 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.360 pretty quickly. And then you were talking to Green Bay 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.400 one day and then you know, just how quickly did 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.800 it come together for you in terms of you know, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.000 was there even like a lengthy interview process or and 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:02.880 what was that process like for you? 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:04.960 Yeah, so Monday it was crazy. I didn't have had 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.960 a chance to process you know, what happened the day before. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.440 And you know, I had conversations with coach Harball starting 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.920 on Monday, you know, cause we knew, we knew, uh 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.640 what the possibility of things that could happen, uh with 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.920 with the staff. So I was talking with him Monday, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.640 going through the interview process with him as well as Tuesday. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.960 You know, it was it was two days of real, real, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:26.520 real detailed conversations. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:27.000 Uh. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.600 Talked to Green Bay on Monday, interviewed with them Wednesday, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.400 and you know, Wednesday, after the after the interview with 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.480 green Bay, had another conversation with coach Harbor, and that's 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.560 when things really started to pick up steam. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:39.760 After really over the. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.960 Last seven years, it's been a quick assent for you 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:43.080 starting out as a coach now. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:43.599 Being in DC. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:48.000 Is there a moment a conversation where that kind of 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.320 sticks out for you where you thought, okay, being an 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.240 NFL assistant, the coach position, coach, whatever, but that you 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.600 could be a defensive coordinator, that you could have aspirations. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:58.920 That have you sitting where you are right now. Is 0:04:58.920 --> 0:04:59.960 there anything that stands out? 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.880 I just think just the just the process. The more 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.679 the more I got into it, the more I started 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.640 to dive more in the coaching. The first year was 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.720 kind of just getting adjusted, getting acclimated to the transition, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.920 and then second year being full fledged and so forth 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.839 and so uh so on. So I wouldn't say it 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.200 was just a specific moment. I just know that probably 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.719 by year three or four, like I was, I'm fully 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.400 entrusted into into the coaching things. I'm I'm excited about 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.400 the process of of game planning and going through the 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.320 process of studying opponents, offseason studies, all the all the 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.839 little details that go into it. I was fully entrenched 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.440 to entrenched into it, just like how I was as 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.279 a player. So I wouldn't I wanna say specific moment, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.840 but just the the whole process. Man, Like I I 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.440 love what I do. I tell people all the time. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.479 I never thought I would say this is like I 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.400 have no aspirations of playing at all. You know, I 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:52.400 love I love this. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.960 So you've all been a leader as you know, a 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.680 captain a field in termship player. Oh when you transition 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.200 being or clos what are some of the similar areas 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.680 that translated cover from being a leader as a player, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:05.040 and what. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.120 Were some differences in how you have to be I 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.040 think just if you a l if you're a leader, 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.840 it really don't matter what position you in, whether you're 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.279 a coach or player or just in your community, no 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.919 matter what your occupation is. And I think the things 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.080 that go with being a leader is first thing, you 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.120 gotta lead by example. So you gotta do things right 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.800 and uh to the best your ability, do things right 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.200 all the time, you know, be on time, be prepared. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.800 I think that that carries over from being a player 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.240 to a coach. Be organized, you know, and then you 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.600 just gotta show the passion, show that you really care 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.120 uh for for the person that you're trying to lead 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.000 and for the people you're trying to lead. I think 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.520 when people know that you genuinely care about them and 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.159 you care about their well building, well well being, and 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.360 you care about the uh what's what's best for them, 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.520 I think that they'll they'll follow you as long as 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.560 you're you're doing what you say you're gonna do and 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:55.680 and you're leading by example. 0:06:56.120 --> 0:07:02.040 U call basically defensive. What have you done to prepare 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.039 before this in you in your other roles with this team? 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.160 And how do you kind of do you is that 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.920 something you do during your game short of imagine what 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.720 you call or do you do it when you break 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.320 it down the film after? How do you kind of 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:14.000 hand with your fair? 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:14.360 Really? 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:16.840 I think what we do a great job here is 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.920 everybody it's a collaborative effort going into the game plan. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.840 So obviously the coordinator is gonna have the final say so, 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.560 but we all we all have game planned areas. We 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.840 all watch all the film together and we come with 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.240 our own ideas and we bring it to the table 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.280 and everybody's voice is heard, and ultimately one person makes 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.880 a decision, but everybody's voice is heard. And I would 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.880 say probably about three years ago, people were telling me like, hey, 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.480 if you got aspirations of being a coordinator, when you're 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.680 watching the film throughout the week, watching the film on 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.040 your own, you need to start seeing what how you 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.840 would call the game, what would how you would stop 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.679 certain game plans, certain schemes, and how you attack certain schemes. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.360 So always always did that, always had the conversations, and 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.560 like I said, being here, it's easy because it's a 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.760 collaborative effort in the game plan. You very you very 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.160 into that into that role. You know, like I said, 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.640 defensive coordinator has the final say so, but here's a 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.280 collaborative effort, and you see the process and you very 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.760 much part of the process, even as an assistant coach. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.400 So now or you talked about who you band that 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.800 situation when you anc championship bands. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.680 Yeah, and you did overall that. Did you have any 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.760 inclination that a court's. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.880 Fan baker, that's the coordinator doing like McConnell's situation, because 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:31.920 I guess at the veas you're playing in the Super Bowl, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:33.160 you're SI, we're not sitting. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:34.239 Yeah. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.360 I knew it was a possibility, you know what I mean, 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.480 just because you you started seeing guys on our staff, 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.120 guys are getting interviews. Obviously you knew Mike was it 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.840 was a hot name and the head coaching circuit, so 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.600 you definitely knew it was a possibility. But like you 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.040 never know until the thing actually starts happening. So I 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.880 knew it was a possibility. Uh, you know, I was focused, 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.800 fully focused on uh you know, the Kansas City Chiefs, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.360 and then when I got the call from Green Bay, Uh, 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.840 my fiance could tell you. You know, I just started, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.000 I started preparing getting stuff together. So until til it 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.719 really happens, you really don't know. But you knew it 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.280 was a possibility in the back of your mind. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.840 Exact where you're gonna coach game from the coach from 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.400 the field, You're gonna coach from the press box or 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.240 and which way do you think is better? 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:18.559 Were you? 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.040 I got I gotta be on the field, you know 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:22.560 what I mean? I got I gotta look at you know, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.240 players in their eyes and see what's going on and 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.960 get a feel for how guys are feeling out there, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.000 so you know, people have their different ways. I gotta 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.920 be on the field. I'm I'm more like being into 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.520 it and getting a feel off of motion and how 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.280 guys are really feeling out there. You were, you were of. 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.160 Players that what did you What did you look for 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.360 from the decordinator and how much do you think it 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.719 helps you that you can still see things from a 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:47.680 player's point of view. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:54.600 I just looked for, uh, a well detailed organized game 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.440 plan and somebody who can lead, you know, lead with 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.000 passion and energy, you know, lead tell us like lead us, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:02.560 tell us what we need to do, where we need 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.160 to be at, why we need to be there, and 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:06.840 how it's gonna work for us to go out there 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.120 and execute and do what we need to do at 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:08.760 a high level. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.240 So I just try to carry that over man like 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.120 as as a decordinator, I'm looking at boom. First thing. First, 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.480 I got to have my guys prepared from a mental 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.360 standpoint and a physical standpoint, all right. Then I like 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.120 giving them answers to potential problems or to potential questions 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.600 that the offense may present. And I think once you 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.320 do that, you know, you build that trust, you build 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.840 that relationship, and guys will do whatever you need them 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:32.520 to do for you. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:33.480 Zach can take an. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.920 Over one of the best defenses in the league. Obviously, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.880 you want to leave your own fingerprint. What type about 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.920 identity do you want this defense to have? 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.000 The man want to I want our defense to play 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.880 together first and foremost, like eleven people playing as one. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.400 Let's start there. The next thing, I want to be violent, 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.160 very violent, physical. That's just the standard here, man. Everything 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.480 we're gonna do is gonna be with physicality and violence, 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.720 all right. And then just execution, executing at a high level, 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.559 executing in certain situations, executing all the time. And then 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.280 the last thing I'll leave you with is just I 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.560 would say organized chaos. Man, present a lot of problems 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.120 to the offense, all right, never give the answer to 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.520 the offense before the snap. But that's what I'll say 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.320 my identity. First thing first is hit everything that moves. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.280 We're gonna play violent, we're gonna play together and we're 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:23.000 gonna execute. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.199 Zach also a great part of this staff last year. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.079 But you have many metrics to a historical defensive? Was 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:30.000 the team last year? 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.920 How does it fuel the tailor at y'all? Or of 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.119 building upon. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.320 The historic for going to others the defense and trying 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:37.880 to find. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:38.600 Ways to grow up. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.400 It feels great, It feels great. I think one thing 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.839 that I've always lived by is either you you never 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.200 stay the same. Either get better you get worse. And obviously, 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.040 you know last year was a was a great year. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.760 And the thing that we did last year went through 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.720 the process we we started in the off season around 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.200 this time year, self scouted, look what we did good, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.160 Look what we could build on. And I think that 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.960 uh led box. Coach Harb's thing that he that he 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.640 pushes us to do as coaches is we gotta be 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.360 in front of things. You want to be cutting edge. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.240 You always want to evolve and always want to uh 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.640 be ready for the next thing that the offense may present. 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.520 So we're gonna get in the lab this off season. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.560 We're gonna're gonna look at ourselves, look at things we 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.440 did well, Look how we can make it even better, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.080 look at things we need to improve on and and 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:24.719 and get better at that. Then look at some new 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.520 ideas that we can possibly present and get ready to 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.000 roll out there by the time we kick the kick 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.440 off the ball the first week of the season. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.839 So now, what about the off season for you, now 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.080 that you're taking on a new responsibilities, what are you 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.040 looking forward to kind of refine the details of going 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:39.840 into the twenty. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:40.400 Twenty fourth season. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.880 I'm looking forward just diving into the diving into the tape. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.959 You know, during the season, you just you know, you 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.600 you watch the film that you that you played on Sunday, right, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.000 and then now you got to start getting ready for 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.199 the next opponent. We do self scout throughout the season, 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.680 but now we can take a deep dive look at 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.240 our you know, our rules, everything that we're going through 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.400 and how it fits in and how it fits in 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.880 with our UH personnel, what we wanna do. But I'm 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.480 excited about just looking in starting from day starting from 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.240 scratch one, I mean, starting from starting from scratch and 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.400 and see how we're gonna rebuild the defense back up. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.720 Cause it's a process that you gotta go through each 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.400 and every off season. If you wanna continue to build 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.280 and continue to be great, and I'm excited about that. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:19.720 Za. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.560 So much has been made about your your age. You know, 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.520 you've being a one of the younger coaches. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.200 That does that mean anything to you? 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.200 Being able to do this at such a young age, 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:29.920 and that has it kind of caught up to you. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.360 Just how fast is you know it's been. 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.160 I'm sure it hasn't been that fast for you, but 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.280 just the rides you've had such and such a short span. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.640 Oh for me personally, I uh, the age thing is 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.440 not a big deal to me. I just look like 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.400 I just look at it like, man, I'm the next 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.000 man for the job, next man to to for the 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.440 mission to to do it. But from the outside looking in, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.160 you know, I do see how it's as it's inspiring 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.360 to a lot of uh people who are young that 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.320 are into coaching, And my biggest thing to to to 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.840 let those people know is just man, you could. You 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.360 can do great things and you can get great opportunities 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.680 if you just continue to work hard, put your head 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.040 down and and do things the right way and continue 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.640 to learn and evolve. So uh, for me personally, I 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:12.959 really don't pay attention to the age I just look 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.160 at it like I'm the next man for the job, 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.760 and I gotta get ready to get to do that 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:19.680 was I. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.080 Guess what it is, or was the tops when you 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.880 officially got hired on BURSA and kind of what are 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.320 you done stuff? 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.160 What will you shoot? Organized? And we got to get 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.280 ready to get some some more coaches in here, you 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.640 know what I mean. You know, credit to the coaches 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.440 that got opportunities at other places that they're they're heck 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.240 of coaches. That's why they got those opportunities. But now 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.960 we're just going through that process man of uh, you know, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.600 figuring out who's gonna come in and and do a 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.120 heck of a job for us, and and then also 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.800 getting the self scout stuff getting ready to go, and 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.680 then we got the combine coming up. So uh, you know, 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.560 it's it's a lot of stuff going on. But at 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.520 the top of the top of the doler at the 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.640 top of the to do list, it's obviously, you know, 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:07.480 filling out the staff with coach and you know, self 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.000 scout looking at how we can continue to evolve as 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:10.520 a defense. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.680 Right if you have the opportunity to talk to guys 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.160 on the team who are obviously are on the contract 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:17.160 next year, kind. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.480 Of reached out and explain just music, Richard. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.720 Yeah, man, a lot of people reached out. I've seen 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.360 people in the building just in passing and guys are excited. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.080 I'm excited, man, and you're just saying they're gonna get 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.760 every I'm gonna get everything out of them. And I 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:31.320 told them that you're gonna get everything out of me. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.080 So I'm excited. Told them, told them to get ready 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.960 to get some rest, you know, get your body ready, 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.640 and when we get back, it's own. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.160 Have you taught about those das your following europe defensive. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:46.680 Ensive corn I haven't thought of that specifically. I know 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.760 what the standard is here as a as a as 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:53.440 a defense here in Baltimore, and it means a lot 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.760 to me, So I haven't thought about that specifically. But 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.600 obviously there's been a lot of great coaches that come 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:00.800 through here, a lot of great defensive coordinators that have 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.560 come through here. So yeah, man, I'm next in line. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.000 I got a big challenge and a big opportunity, but 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:08.040 I'm excited for it. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.000 That two years ago, you asked Mike McDonald if you 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.320 wanted to build off of the previous scheme or if 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.120 they wanted to create its own and you say they 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.240 wanted to build off of the previous one. What is 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:21.240 your approach from now McDonald's scheme and what do you 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:25.400 want to continue and what something what are some things 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.920 that you might want to change or navigate differently. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.280 Yeah, I mean we definitely want to want to build 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.600 build on that, like that's that's a scheme that we 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:36.400 helped build here, uh for for years. It's been it's 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.160 been a scheme in making. And kind of going back 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.520 to the point I made earlier, all those questions that 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.800 you just asked, we would find out in the off 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.080 season studies, you know, and the self scout studies of 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.160 what we want to do and how we're gonna build 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.200 on it and what will change up and how we 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.000 can get better. Like I said, we're always looking to 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.480 get better. I think that's why you've seen great defenses 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.760 here in the in the in the past, and that's 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.600 what we got to do to continue. Always gotta look 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.840 at yourself and look at how you can improve and 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.119 how you can make it better. And on top of that, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.600 staying in front of what's coming next, because you know, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.200 we know it's gonna be something that the offense is 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.639 gonna get together and try to present to us new 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.760 this year. So we're trying to stay in front of that. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.480 But that's part of the process. That's part of what 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.080 we're excited to go do and uh, you know, we 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:22.159 can't wait to get started on that. 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.560