WEBVTT - Training Camp Stock Risers 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.320 Welcome into lounge. I'm Ryan Mink here with Garrett Downing, 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:12.280 and we are going to talk about who has improved 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:17.280 their stock during Ravens' training camp so far. Of course, 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:19.960 it's still early. We haven't even gotten to the first 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.919 preseason game, which will kick off Saturday at Mt. Banks Stadium, 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.760 but we've seen about almost two weeks of practice now. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.000 The pads have come on this past week. There's been 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.440 some high intensity practices as this team gets prepared for 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:38.000 that preseason opener. And Garrett, we'll start with a player 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:42.199 that I think is generating maybe the most buzz of 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.400 anyone at Ravens training camp, and that's rookie wide receiver 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:46.440 Jacoby Lane. 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.560 You can't go anywhere in Baltimore right now without somebody 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.800 stopping and asking, how's Jacoby Lane looking? 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:52.600 Is he really as good as advertise? 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:57.480 Is the hype reel all this stuff, and my feeling 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.360 on it is that the excitement around him, based on 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.880 what I've seen in practice is justified. He has been 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.200 better than advertised. He's making seemingly a play a day. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.720 And the if you were to just stack up, if 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.800 you power ranked, give me the ten best plays of camp. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.399 Jacobe lane probably has like eight of them, and so 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.600 he's delivering like these highlight reel plays. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.959 He's doing it with consistency. 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:24.400 And he's doing it against the first team defense in 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.920 many occasions on many occasions, and he's put himself in 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.840 a position where I think he's going to be a 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.680 starter or like a one to a starter this year, 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.600 depending on what the packages are that they want to 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.319 run on offense, but in three receiver sets, like, I 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.160 think he has done enough to show that he is 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.199 going to be in that top three receiver group. 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.400 Yeah, I think that's not quite decided yet. I think 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.120 Devantees Walker is still going to fit a lot of runtime. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.640 I think Zay Flowers and bait Rashad Bateman obviously are 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.720 gonna see a lot of action. It's too early for 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.280 me to say, oh, I'm gonna squarely put him ahead 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.120 of Devonte's well in this pecking. 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.600 Order here, I guess I would says he's done a 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.760 better way to put it rather than a starter piece. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:07.960 He has done enough to show that he is going 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.440 to have a role on offense this year. He is 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.040 absolutely going to have a roll on off. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.040 Absolutely, and I think I feel comfortable saying it's going 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.320 to be a bigger role than I envisioned even two 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.040 weeks ago before training camp began. He's been a quick 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:26.120 study and he is an extremely talented player that you know. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.440 We've seen the highlights from his college tape of making 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.200 these highlight real catches and you're like, well, can you 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.680 do that in the NFL. Well, he's done it in practice, 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.200 at least practice is different from a game. But he's 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.240 done it against some pretty darn good corners, including Marlon Humphrey, right, 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:47.360 And so he definitely has momentum. I think that is real. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.959 The talent is real. He has a lot more to 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.800 momentum to build and a lot more to improve on 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.639 to become a guy who consistently makes plays like that 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:01.320 in NFL games. But gosh, you can't love. You can't 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.919 not love what you're seeing so far from him, and 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.080 I think that he is proving that the sky He 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:09.760 has sky high potential. 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:11.800 What I like is that it's not just like a 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.639 one trick pony in that like, oh man, he's got 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.400 great speed and he's just getting behind everybody or while 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.640 he can go up and make contested catches, Like to me, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.920 he's running a complete route tree. He's making plays on 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.600 deep balls, he's making plays on short routes. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:25.320 He's made some of these. 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:30.000 Highlight reel catches. Like it's the collection that really has stood. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:30.120 Out to me. 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.799 And the Ravens talked, Zay Flowers talked about this for 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.280 Sean Bateman talked about it is how they're using receivers. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.240 They're moving them around a little bit. It's not just 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.920 so defined as you're the outside receiver, you're the slot receiver. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:43.520 There's a lot of. 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.000 Movement and Jacobe Lane seems to be comfortable in all 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.680 the different ways that he's being deployed. He doesn't seem 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.400 like he's out there trying to figure out what he's doing. 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:52.960 Like that's the thing you worry about as a rookie, 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.120 like do you know what you're doing? He knows what 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.280 he's doing and that's allowed him to play fast, to 0:03:58.280 --> 0:03:58.880 make those plays. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.200 Decklan Doyle did say that Jacoby came up to him 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.600 after one of the practices last week and said, hey, 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.440 you know, I know what I screwed up on, you know. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.080 And so it's not like he's he's making not making 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.240 any mistakes yet He's a rookie, right, and this is 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.960 a very detail oriented offense. But the fact that he's 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.840 learning from those mistakes, that he's recognizing those mistakes immediately, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.120 that's already a good sign. I think what stood out 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.960 to me are some little things about him that I'm 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.840 impressed with. And I'll specifically reference Sunday's practice that I 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.520 was here for, and one was his first catch up 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.640 practice was like a fifteen to twenty yard er working 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:43.640 against Marlon Humphrey. Tight coverage by Marlon, and I really 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.600 liked that Jacoby worked back for the ball. He could 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.920 sense that Marlon was in his hip pocket and he 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.480 came back to the quarterback to make that catch. If 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.520 he didn't do that, I think Marlon probably breaks up 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.800 that pass from reaches around and breaks up that pass. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.880 And that's kind of just a savvy, almost veteran thing. 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:04.880 You see that all the time on NFL broadcast when 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.600 you're watching his Oh man, look at him. He knows 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.240 how to work right for the ball, like this is 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.599 a rookie doing that. And I was like, oh, nice 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.320 heads up play there. The other one blocking on the perimeter. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.920 It was an outside Derrick Henry run and Jacoby's blocking 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.200 on the perimeter against the corner. That really allowed Derek 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.560 Henry to get more yardage out of that that run 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.160 that he maybe otherwise would have. That's gonna get him 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.480 on the field more too. Coaches going like that, Coaches 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.400 love that. And we've seen his willingness to block. We 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.440 saw him blocking Zyeon Young, throwing his nose in there 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.560 and getting after a big outside linebacker, and so little 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:43.000 things like that are what encouraged me that to your 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.800 earlier point, that it's not a one trick pony kind 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.800 of situation, that he is becoming this complete receiver and 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.720 it's not just oh he's a situational guy. We're gonna 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.520 use him in red zone packages. We're gonna use him, 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.839 you know, in go balls down the sideline to draw 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.599 pis and make some big contested catches. I think that 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.719 that's kind of all When you saw his college stats 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.240 and he led the nation in touchdowns two years ago, 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.240 Elija Thrat did it last season, then you're like, well, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.279 these guys are red zone threats, they're gonna be situational players. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.640 I think Jacobe Lane is already proving that he's more 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.320 than that. He could be more than that, even as 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.480 a rookie. Yeah, and so I think that's what gives 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.720 me a lot of encouragement about him. I'll also say, like, 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.080 it's not just buzz from media members. Yeah, that's not 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.480 just gonna say yeah Jameson Hensley. I mean he tweeted 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.120 that he hasn't seen a rookie have a training camp 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.039 like this in all of his years covering the Ravens. 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.240 That's from a veteran reporter. You've seen a lot of 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:40.800 training camps. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:41.640 Yeah right. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.600 For him to say that means something. But it's not 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.920 just the reporters, it's coaches, Declan Doyle comparing him to 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.320 his hands to Michael Thomas. Ye right, one of the 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.880 great receivers in his generation who got off to a 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.560 crazy fast start in his career, then four straight thousand 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.440 yard seasons to begin his career. Yeah right, Like, and 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.960 coaches are usually pretty wary of really hyping a rookie, right, 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.919 it's usually the all right, pumped the brakes, everybody, I know, 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.280 it's training game. We're all exciting, pump the brakes. The 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.040 kid's got a lot of letc Like Deckam Doyle thrown 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.320 out there that says something, Right, it's former greats like 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.640 Mike Thomas, you know, like like these other great players 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.040 who keep looking at Jacoby and being like, yeah, this 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.800 kid's something, He's going to be something like it's teammates, 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.880 you know. Elijah Surratt said, it's like he's effortlessly good, 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.720 you know what I mean. That doesn't mean Jacoby Lane's 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.280 not putting an effort. He is, but like he just 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.480 makes it. He makes plays that way, he. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.400 Makes a look at for this, I look at like 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.760 the what his teammates, That's what I stood out to me, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:44.920 teammates on both sides of the ball. We sat down 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.880 with Marlon Humphrey on the podcast and he talked about 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.120 how he's just been incredibly impressive. He joked like at 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.120 one point it felt like he was standing on his back. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:54.840 He went up and caught the ball so high, standing 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.320 on his shoulders. And Derek Henry has talked about how 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.440 good he's looked. And then on the defensive side, Marlin has, 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.240 Jalen Hawkins has, So it's like this consistent drumbeat of 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.480 players who are praising everything he's doing. And there was 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.640 a play with on Sunday where he made a nice 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.760 catch along the sidelines and then him and Derek Henry 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.360 kind of celebrate. Henry runs down the field to jump 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.240 up and they celebrate together, like he's got buying from 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.000 his teammates. And the other last point I'll make on 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.080 Jacoby is jesse Minter talked about how he had a 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.800 conversation with Lamar of like test him kind of in 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.200 training camp, of see put it in some spots, see 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:32.640 if you can go get it, See how we respond 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.960 to an tested catches, Like this is what training camp 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.200 is for. You want to see how guys can handle it. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.760 This is how you build chemistry. And so Lamar has 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.439 thrown it up there at times and like let's see 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.640 if you can go get it. Jacoby has been able 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.240 to go get it. And I think that all of 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.480 those things helped build the chemistry and the trust that 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:49.760 Lamar is gonna have in him. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:51.160 And like we're. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.400 Seeing with Lamar, Yeah, if he trusts you, he's gonna 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:54.000 keep throwing to you. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:59.520 Yep. I've seen Lamar's Sunday Lamar and Jacoby frequent conversations 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.040 between the two of them. Lamar was really Zay Flowers 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.360 didn't practice on Sunday, but a lot of you know, 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.360 multiple conversations with Seoan Bateman and Jacoby Lane, you know, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.800 and and when you're when you're getting reps with the ones, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.600 when you have your star quarterback pulling you into the 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.040 side and talk talking to you and giving you tips 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.840 and you know, going back and forth about different routes 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.080 and what he wants to see. All good things for 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:24.400 a rookie third round pick. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:25.800 Yeah, yeah, totally agree. 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.280 So the hype train like has left the station on him, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.120 but I think it's warranted and I think that the 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.200 next step for him will be how does he do 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.760 in these preseason games. I think most Ravens fans when 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.960 they come to the game and mp MT Bay Stadium 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.360 on Saturday against the Eagles, or they turn on turn 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.160 on the TV, they're gonna want to see Jacobe Lane. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.880 Like that's gonna be who they are most excited to 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:46.480 watch in that game. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.800 Dude, it was wild on Sunday, just on the sideline 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:54.200 and kids are screaming Jacoby Jacob like, you know, you 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.160 don't often see a third round rookie pick, like the 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.360 kids are yelling for. 0:09:58.360 --> 0:09:59.559 Him getting the star treatment. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.040 Yeah, yeah, it's it's I mean, it's cool. And I 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.319 asked the kids, I was like, is he one of 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.400 your favorite players he's there. Yeah, of course we see 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:07.160 the highlights. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.360 If he can keep this up, he is he is 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.200 definitely going to be a star. And I think that 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.120 in Baltimore and around the league, and he is. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.160 Certainly comfortable in that environment. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.400 His personality lends himself the social media presence all that 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:24.560 makes him like even a young fans favorite player, right, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.439 He just connects really well with young fans in particular. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.480 Yeah, I totally agree. So, uh, good start to him. 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.680 So I think we would agree he's the first guy 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:35.720 in the notebook. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.079 When you're talking about stock up. Who else has stood 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:38.440 out to you? 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.000 I'm gonna go with Tyler Loop the kicker. Second year 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.319 kickers has been really good over the weekend, made every 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.720 one of his live field goal attempts. He had multiple 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:52.400 fifty plus yarders in practice. Sunday. The offense kind of stalled. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.120 It had an uneven practice, I would say on Sunday 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.680 in part because of some you know, it was false 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.480 start penalties. They had some penalty issues. You just more 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.200 yellow flags than you'd like to see, which back then 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.840 put them in kind of negative scripts down in distance wise. 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:13.480 And so Tyler Loop was the got a lot of opportunities. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.800 That was the byproduct, and he made the most of them. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.840 So that's what you want to see, of course with 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:22.199 Tyler Loop because of how last season ended. Really you're 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.320 waiting for clutch, high pressure situations. That's where he's going 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.480 to prove that he's beyond that. And we all know 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.839 he's a talented kicker, he's a really good kicker. Until 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.319 we get those situations, and I think everybody's going to 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.640 kind of hold their breath a little bit. But all 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.760 you can do is make the kicks that you're given 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.840 in training camp, and for the most part, that's what 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:44.840 Tyler Loop has done. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.160 And the Raves have tried to simulate those situations end 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.000 of practice, fifty push ups on the line, that type 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.840 of stuff. And I'm not going to sit here and 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.840 say that's the same type of pressure as you feel 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.280 at the end of the season in Pittsburgh with the season. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.199 On them, But like, the best you can do is 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:00.800 what you can do in this environment. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.920 And so I think I agree that the test for 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.520 him is going to be how you do once you're 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.719 back in that game situation, how you respond late game situation, 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:12.920 all of that, and you're not going to know that 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.760 until you know it. And I think that all the 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.400 early indications on him in training camp have been positive, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.680 which is all you can hope for at the time 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:22.079 of the year. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.680 Yep. All right. Next player I'm going to point to 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:30.480 is safety Jalen Hawkins, And you know he's been in 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.880 the middle of some collisions here, one with with Zay 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.920 Flowers that sent him off early earlier with a quad 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:42.080 confusion for Jay Flowers, and then another one with Rashad 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.640 Bateman in Sunday's practice where I mean he it was 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.120 a pretty big hit over the middle when Rashaw went 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.720 up to make that play. Now, you want to go 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.520 up and you want to protect your players, and I 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.600 don't think Jalen Hawkins. I know Jalen and Hawkins isn't 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.960 going out there trying to hurt guys, you know, obviously, 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.959 But I do think that you see that this dude's 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:09.360 gonna hit, and I think he's gonna be a force 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.160 on the back end of this defense. And Jesse Minner 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:13.840 was asked like, do you have to have a conversation 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.160 with Jalen about some of these hits, and he said, 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.800 like he doesn't want to put that on Jalen like 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.560 even in practice, of course you're trying to take care 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.680 of your teammates, but it's bang bang, And like he 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.280 likes that Hawkins is there to make up play and 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:31.880 when in games situations he would be leveling some dudes. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:36.000 And so I like that from Jalen Hawkins. And you know, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:40.280 we've seen Kyle Hoilton is a very physical player who 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.959 just we've seen him destruct blocks near the line of 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.880 scrimmage unlike any other safety in the league, to make 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:52.559 tackles for loss and just create disruption on the back 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.600 end of the defense, kind of that roving hitting safety. 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.480 Because we don't see Kyle Hoilton in that role, or 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.920 we haven't at least I think he might do more 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:07.560 of it. But Jalen Hawkins I think could bring some 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:08.320 more of that. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.120 He's around the ball a lot, he plays physical. I 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.360 think we all knew when the Ravens drafted him about 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.000 the production he had from a takeaway standpoint led the 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.320 Patriots last year. Like we've said that line like a 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.560 hundred times and whenever talking about Jalen Hawkins. But I 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.960 don't think I fully appreciated or was totally aware of 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:27.120 just how physical he could be. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.080 Yep, And I've seen that at practice. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.800 You want to to the point like you don't like 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.680 seeing him in Zay Flowers collide. That makes your your 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.240 stomach drop a little bit when you see that. Once 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.480 you get into the season and you're delivering some of 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.640 those hits against you know, posing teams, I like that 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.120 a lot. But I think that he plays with the style, 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.360 he has the knack for the football. He's around the ball. 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.400 I want safeties that are around the ball a lot, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.440 and that's what he is, ye. And so I've been 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.040 impressed with him, and I think he's going to be 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.280 a really important piece. Like him, is there there's no 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.760 better safety trio in the league right than Kyle Hamilton, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.160 Malachi Starks in Jalen Hawkins. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.080 Like tough tough to find one better. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.480 One, ye then that especially when you have Kyle, who 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.480 I think we both agree is probably the best safety 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.000 in football. And Malachi is also a guy that we 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.120 could probably put on the list of who's look good 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.400 in camp so far stock up, everybody's talking about how 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.000 he could be one of the best safeties in the game. 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.920 So those three, I think are going to be a 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.520 strength of this team. And if the Ravens defense is 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:29.840 going to be as good as we think it is. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.400 They will be a strength of the team, and Jalen 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:33.960 Hawkins is going to be a big reason why. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.520 Yep, absolutely agree. Let's stick with safety, and I'm gonna 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:38.760 go with KeAndre Jackson. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:40.960 Oh, let's get another one. I'm talking to the other three. 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.000 Let's talk about the deaths. Let's talk about the fourth. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:43.840 Yeah. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.360 Yeah, And KeAndre I think that all of us thought 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.359 he could he could be really a special team standout 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.000 if he continued the momentum that he built during his 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.920 rookie season and really kind of take over a leading 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.280 role on the special teams units, which he certainly can. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.760 But I've been really impressed with what he's done defensively. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.880 I mean multiple interceptions. Now, he got one off snoopunt 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.560 Lee during Sunday's practice. Just I mean it was a 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.560 pretty quick throw, it got out pretty fast, and Kandra 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.200 Jackson just broke on the ball immediately and undercut the 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.880 receiver to make the pick. And so you talk about 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:24.720 getting interceptions, making plays, does anybody have more than Kandre 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.720 Jackson to this point in training camp, I'm not so sure. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.760 And so to me that you know, you have to 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.960 have depth. We talked about that the Ravens are going 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.840 to use a lot of three safety looks. Well, knock 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.760 on wood, if if anybody were to go down for 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.880 any amount of time, if KeAndre Jackson's out there making plays, 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.040 you don't have to really change what you're doing defensively. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.200 Plug him in. He's the next guy up right, and 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.680 you don't have to tweak what you want to do 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.680 game plan wise with a heavy three safety rotation. I 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.080 think that Kandre Jackson is proving yeah, he's he you 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.000 can rely on him if called up. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.440 Also, similar to how we talked about Jalen Hawkins. From 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.679 a physical standpoint, that's one of the strengths of Candre 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.640 Jackson's game, Like he just he does not shy away 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.639 from contact. I think he seeks it out and he 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.359 plays with this like relentless motor. And that's what I 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.399 think caught the coach's attention last year's Like, man, this 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.800 guy just plays hard. He's around the ball like there's 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.520 no quit in him. And that's what coaches, especially like 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.800 from a special teams player, undrafted rookie, like how do 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.000 you find your way onto the field, Just have like 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.119 this relentless motor be around the ball and like no 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.480 quit attitude, and that's what he brings, and so I 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.359 think that he would have that same mentality. He definitely 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.440 would have that same mentality if he gets called into 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:40.040 a bigger role on offense. And I like him as like, 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.520 I just think he brings energy. That's the thing about 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.840 when I think of Candre Jackson, I think of like 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.440 a big, physical safety that brings energy, yep. And I 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.600 like guys that you want guys to embody that. And 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.840 I've been impressed with him all the way through. I 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.080 don't know, Like I always just in my head envision 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.399 perfect health for everybody any across over the course of 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.160 the year. So like, I don't know what the role 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.480 will be for him on defense. I kind of hope 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.639 that it's not that significant just because the guys who 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.639 are ahead of him continue to stay healthy and play 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.840 as well as we just talked about. But if he 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.520 does need to play, if he does need to step 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.639 into the lineup on defense, I think he's ready. And 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.080 then from a special team standpoint, I think he's gonna 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.680 be one of the best special teamers on the team. 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.040 And like you look at the you look at the 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.800 Ravens history, They've always had a guy or two who's 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.160 like the leader of the special teams unit. Anthony Levine 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.600 is a perfect example. Now he's the coordinator of the group, 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.160 and so like, who's gonna be that special team's leader. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.560 I think he Andre Jackson could step into that role 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:38.960 this year. 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.920 Yeah, I totally agree. I'm keeping in the secondary. I'm 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.320 gonna stick with a cornerback this time, which one Okay 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:52.080 TJ Tampa. DJ has just quietly just had another really 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.560 strong offseason. I thought he was one of the Ravens 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:59.200 better training camp players last year and then just saw 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:03.080 he saw defensive action certainly more last year than he 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:07.359 did as a rookie. But the way he's playing in 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:11.320 training camp this year, I think that he could work 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:15.360