Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five NFL Draft is complete for the Ravens. They made
Speaker 1: eleven picks over the course of three days. Let's run
Speaker 1: through the list. The first round, they took safety Malachi Starks.
Speaker 1: They follow that up with outside linebacker Mike Green in
Speaker 1: the second round and offensive tackle Emery Jones in the third.
Speaker 1: On Day three, the Ravens took linebacker Teddy Buchanan from
Speaker 1: cal then offensive tackle Carson Vincent from Alabama A and M.
Speaker 1: In the sixth round, they took cornerback balal Kone from
Speaker 1: Western Michigan. They then took kicker Tyler Loop from Arizona,
Speaker 1: wide receiver Lejohntay Wester from Colorado, defensive lineman and Unice
Speaker 1: Peebles from Virginia Tech, cornerback Robert Longerbeam from Rutgers, and
Speaker 1: finally they took offensive lineman most likely a guard, Garrett
Speaker 1: Dellinger out of LSU. After the draft, we got a
Speaker 1: chance to hear from general manager Eric Tacosta and head
Speaker 1: coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: It was a long day, a couple of days, but
Speaker 2: today was a long day. Happy the way that it transpired,
Speaker 2: I think we added some really interesting, good developmental players,
Speaker 2: some guys that can come in and help us right away,
Speaker 2: and some guys that like looking out. You know, I
Speaker 2: think we'll be looking back and saying, hey, these guys
Speaker 2: really helped our team. So just quickly, some quick things
Speaker 2: on these guys. Buchanan was a guy that I did
Speaker 2: late in the process. The coaches and scouts like them.
Speaker 2: I saw a guy that played very hard, very gifted mover, explosive,
Speaker 2: excellent coverage linebacker. Should translate well to special teams. I
Speaker 2: think he's a really polished, tough, tenacious guy. Carson Vincent
Speaker 2: coach warhop one of his favorite prospects. A small school guy,
Speaker 2: a tremendous size and strength. I can tell you he
Speaker 2: came into my office last week. He visited last week
Speaker 2: and almost broke my hand and then he tried to
Speaker 2: shake my hand and just leave my office, and I
Speaker 2: just looked at him said I'm good. But he's just
Speaker 2: a big, strong, physical athletic player. I think coach Warhawp's
Speaker 2: excited to work with him. B K from Western Michigan,
Speaker 2: as he likes to be known, tall, long corner. I
Speaker 2: think he runs really well, good ball skills. I think
Speaker 2: he can, you know, get stronger, but I think he's
Speaker 2: got really good coverage ability. Think he's a guy that
Speaker 2: can play from off and play from press, good developmental
Speaker 2: corner with the size that we look for and the
Speaker 2: speed that we look for.
Speaker 3: Tyler Loop, the kicker.
Speaker 2: We told you guys that we would consider drafting a
Speaker 2: kicker if the right one was there, and this was
Speaker 2: a guy that you know, for the last I don't know,
Speaker 2: three weeks, Randy Brown, our kicking coach, has been out
Speaker 2: canvassing the country looking at kickers and evaluating guys, and
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest, it was kind of nice having
Speaker 2: him out of the office for an extended period of time.
Speaker 2: Oh no, just a joke, But I think Randy does
Speaker 2: a phenomenal job evaluating these kickers. And he came back
Speaker 2: and he said, really, hey, Eric, there's one guy that
Speaker 2: I really covert and it's Loop. And so, you know,
Speaker 2: I think for us, we've kind of felt like we
Speaker 2: had to draft him and it was just a matter
Speaker 2: of getting the right spot and kind of working the
Speaker 2: picks and kind of come up with the right combination.
Speaker 2: And we think he's got a really strong leg and
Speaker 2: He's got a lot of potential. I think Wester is
Speaker 2: a guy that you know, what stands out about him
Speaker 2: is really his returnability. If you watch him, I think
Speaker 2: he's a twitchy, explosive punt returner. I think, you know,
Speaker 2: last year, it became evident that we could probably get
Speaker 2: better there at that position. I feel like last year's
Speaker 2: probably I didn't do a good enough job making sure
Speaker 2: that we had a good punt return around the team.
Speaker 2: We had some guys, but we couldn't get the right mix,
Speaker 2: the right guy to really do it. And we think
Speaker 2: Wester has a chance to really come in here and
Speaker 2: be an impact punk returner for us. So excited about him.
Speaker 2: Ania's peoples is coach Arbot one of his guys. He
Speaker 2: loved his tape. We loved his explosion and he's a
Speaker 2: little undersized, but he's a twitchy, disruptive player who can
Speaker 2: rush the passer, who plays hard. I think he's got
Speaker 2: a really, really good skill set for us as a
Speaker 2: third down sub rusher who runs to the football and
Speaker 2: can make some plays that way longer beam I think
Speaker 2: another corner as I was looking at it, you know,
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks for me, the two guys
Speaker 2: that were most intriguing corner wise well with BK and
Speaker 2: Longer Beam. And you know, I think we were kind
Speaker 2: of going back and forth because they were so close
Speaker 2: and both so talented in different ways. And I think
Speaker 2: our goal was to get one of those two guys.
Speaker 2: And as we got to the end of the draft,
Speaker 2: Longer Beam was still there. It was like a no
Speaker 2: brainer for us to take him. He's just a really
Speaker 2: really quick footed, good corner who can play off coverage.
Speaker 2: He supports the run, he plays bigger than his size,
Speaker 2: and he's got tremendous speed. You know, one thing we
Speaker 2: know here in Baltimore is you can never have enough corners.
Speaker 2: We think now we have a really really good mix
Speaker 2: of veteran corners and also younger developmental guys too who
Speaker 2: can help us get better. And then the final guy
Speaker 2: is Garrett Dellinger, another offensive lineman from LSU. We watched
Speaker 2: him this year at the Senior Bowl. He's in get
Speaker 2: the talented athlete, a big, wide body guy, a true guard.
Speaker 2: He's physical, he's tough. I think he's a smart player. Incidentally,
Speaker 2: born in the state of Maryland, so that was kind
Speaker 2: of cool. A guy that we're excited about. We think
Speaker 2: he has traits and we like the way he plays questions.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know, area, it seemed like it was a
Speaker 4: very heavy defensive draft.
Speaker 5: How you got especially early on. How much do you
Speaker 5: think you impacted the defense with this rap?
Speaker 2: Well, I think, you know, we went into it, you know,
Speaker 2: thinking maybe that we would allocate some resources to that
Speaker 2: side of the football. You know, I think it's very cyclical.
Speaker 2: Some years we spend most of our picks on offense,
Speaker 2: some years more so on defense. Some years were balanced.
Speaker 2: You know, I think early on this year we did
Speaker 2: spend some some picks on defense. I think we got
Speaker 2: some great football players at important position, you know, uh,
Speaker 2: guys that can make plays on the football, Guys who
Speaker 2: can get to the quarterback. You know, I think that's
Speaker 2: that's great. And probably the one thing we couldn't do
Speaker 2: is get that big, wide body type guy. And I think,
Speaker 2: you know, that's something that will assess and the address
Speaker 2: after the draft, and you know, we're already starting to
Speaker 2: talk about that, so we're aware of that. But I
Speaker 2: think the guys we took can really impact the defense
Speaker 2: for short and we're excited about him.
Speaker 5: Like the back of him nos Te to make up from.
Speaker 2: Michael Pearce's a big, you know, first and second down
Speaker 2: run stuffing type of guy. Probably have a place for
Speaker 2: a guy like that. We had a couple of guys
Speaker 2: late that got picked in the late in the draft
Speaker 2: that we were targeting potentially and and they got picked.
Speaker 2: But I think we do have some options. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: with street free agents and different things that we will
Speaker 2: have an opportunity to address that in some way.
Speaker 6: The selection of a kicker, I mean, is the expectation
Speaker 6: that you would, i mean compete with Justin Is the
Speaker 6: expedition that he would come in and be the kicker?
Speaker 3: Is it too early to say with what you're thinking
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's a really talented player, and I
Speaker 2: think that you know, right now, they're both on the
Speaker 2: on the roster, and you know, it was a situation
Speaker 2: for us where we're just trying to find the best
Speaker 2: football players. So we're excited to see what he can do.
Speaker 2: I've actually never met you know, uh Tyler. I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to that he'll be here next week, get a
Speaker 2: chance to see his leg and that will help us
Speaker 2: address you know, what our decision making is going to
Speaker 2: be moving forward.
Speaker 7: Do you guys get carried outic updates from the d's
Speaker 7: investigation into Tucker?
Speaker 5: And have you gotten any ballpark idea when?
Speaker 7: Why do you concluded, you know, June training him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, so I'm not a part of that loop,
Speaker 2: so to speak. Uh, you know, I do get some
Speaker 2: updates from Sashi periodically. I haven't gotten anything recently, and
Speaker 2: we're not really under any you know, idea when that
Speaker 2: timeline is going to be. We're just kind of waiting.
Speaker 5: Hearing a fire you do attracting the kicker? How much
Speaker 5: that what does that do to impact you Justin's roster
Speaker 5: spot at all?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 2: I haven't really thought about that at this point. I
Speaker 2: just thought he was a really talented player, and uh
Speaker 2: it made sense for us to do that for a
Speaker 2: lot of different reasons, you know. I mean we've we've
Speaker 2: told you guys multiple times this spring that we would
Speaker 2: look at kickers, and so for us, it's like any
Speaker 2: other position this year. We evaluated all these guys, we
Speaker 2: felt like he was draftable, we felt like he was
Speaker 2: the best kicker, and uh it made sense for us
Speaker 2: to take.
Speaker 5: Him any trade.
Speaker 9: The decision for you guys to make your move when
Speaker 9: you did or was it all planned when.
Speaker 2: You had Uh, you know, that's a good question, Jerry.
Speaker 2: I think it certainly. You know, it's it's like this
Speaker 2: with every position, right, So you have a player that
Speaker 2: maybe you like, and you know you're certainly aware of
Speaker 2: runs and we see that all the time, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's something that we're very attuned to, and that's really
Speaker 2: a thing. It's like it's like momentum in sports, right,
Speaker 2: It's it's there was a run, and so you know, uh,
Speaker 2: we had sort of targeted if we were going to
Speaker 2: take this guy, it was going to be somewhere probably
Speaker 2: in the third day of the draft and probably in
Speaker 2: one of the latter rounds. But when you see sort
Speaker 2: of the toothpaste open up, you know, you have to
Speaker 2: be aware that, hey, this could start a run. And
Speaker 2: you know we've seen it with other positions. We saw
Speaker 2: it last year with offensive lineman in the second round.
Speaker 2: You know, we saw it a few years ago when
Speaker 2: we drafted Jordan Stout with punters. So it does happen.
Speaker 5: Aware of that.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it necessarily like, uh, increase the urgency
Speaker 2: for us necessarily, but it was definitely like Okay, this
Speaker 2: is the time and we probably have to go ahead
Speaker 2: and do it.
Speaker 4: You close relationship with just and it's see someone you
Speaker 4: talk to give my heads out that you're playing a
Speaker 4: drafting kicker.
Speaker 5: You think he's been around a long time. When he
Speaker 5: understands that's right.
Speaker 10: Both, you know, I don't think we would have to,
Speaker 10: but we we had talked to him. He was he
Speaker 10: was in this week kicking and working out. So we
Speaker 10: had conversations and he already understood. He knew the situation
Speaker 10: and you guys knew he had seen all those kind
Speaker 10: of quotes too, so he knew that was possibility.
Speaker 5: Kind of stood out, you know, and you've you've put
Speaker 5: Hi around a few kickers.
Speaker 11: What stood out to you when and looking at what
Speaker 11: you saw from from Tyler?
Speaker 10: Yeah, well yeah, I watch the tape with Randy took
Speaker 10: me through it. Randy saw him in person. Also, we
Speaker 10: looked through all the guys and uh, he's good. I mean,
Speaker 10: he's talented guy. He's he's strong, and he's very consistent
Speaker 10: with his leg swing. I think he's one of these guys.
Speaker 10: He's a he's a kicking nerd. Do you like to
Speaker 10: see that? I mean he's really into every detail and
Speaker 10: technique and he studied, Uh he studied justin a lot,
Speaker 10: you know, and a lot of other guys too, and
Speaker 10: he studied our operations, so he I know, he's excited too.
Speaker 5: He signed Cooper Russia.
Speaker 3: You have a veteran backup.
Speaker 4: Was there any consideration of drafting a developmental quarterback during
Speaker 4: this draft?
Speaker 5: We did look at that.
Speaker 12: We had a few guys that we liked.
Speaker 2: We were probably in a situation on a third day
Speaker 2: when we might have done that, and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: I can I can tell you one guy got paid
Speaker 2: that we really did like. We talked about it. I mean,
Speaker 2: we still think Devan has a chance to develop, and
Speaker 2: I think he improved over the course of the year.
Speaker 2: But again, there were some guys we liked, one in
Speaker 2: particular that we might have taken, but he got picked.
Speaker 3: Or can you.
Speaker 4: Explain the rationale? Be kind that one trade with the Titans?
Speaker 4: What was see kind of odd to move back five
Speaker 4: in one round and then move out five in the past.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It's kind of an analytics thing for us. I know,
Speaker 2: I agree it kind of looked weird, but it also
Speaker 2: had to do with our draft board and where we
Speaker 2: thought we had to take guys and that just a
Speaker 2: combination of picks, you know, potentially tied to the kicker,
Speaker 2: just for us to gain some additional flexibility in the
Speaker 2: sixth round and maneuver a little bit that way. It
Speaker 2: really wasn't anybody that we really coveted that specific point
Speaker 2: when we picked, so we just liked the movement in
Speaker 2: the sixth round for us to kind of get some
Speaker 2: things accomplished, and also we felt like it might be
Speaker 2: an opportunity for us to actually use potentially use some
Speaker 2: of those six round picks potentially to acquire some picks
Speaker 2: next year, which we we sort of did by by
Speaker 2: trading a sixth round pick and then as part of
Speaker 2: another deal but to get a fifth round pick. So
Speaker 2: it was really an analytics thing, a strategy that we
Speaker 2: used based on the board, the type of players that
Speaker 2: we thought were there, and then also the percentages that
Speaker 2: we not to get to geeky.
Speaker 5: But we we.
Speaker 2: Have this list that Derek gam does which gives us
Speaker 2: percentages of when guys are going to be there in
Speaker 2: each round at each point at each pick. So for us,
Speaker 2: based on that and the players that we wanted, we
Speaker 2: thought it made some sense.
Speaker 9: Since we're not been talking for a while, do you
Speaker 9: have any uptake on your offer?
Speaker 2: I do not, thank you.
Speaker 1: We also heard from some of the prospects today, including
Speaker 1: linebacker Teddy Buchanan out of Cal, the Ravens fourth round pick.
Speaker 1: They were ables took him at pick number one twenty nine.
Speaker 1: Here's what he had to say about joining the Ravens.
Speaker 13: Congratulations Teddy, thank you your your final season that Cal
Speaker 13: really seemed like you really came on, had a very
Speaker 13: strong season. What really do you feel like led to
Speaker 13: that where it all kind of came together that last season?
Speaker 14: Man, I feel like, you know, I worked extremely hard
Speaker 14: four years at Davis, and I feel like all that
Speaker 14: work just kind of, you know, came to a came
Speaker 14: to a point, and you know, I was just able
Speaker 14: to show what I was able to do on the
Speaker 14: national stage. You know, I had great coaches, great teammates
Speaker 14: around me, and yeah, just getting a chance to shut
Speaker 14: that and really just put it all out there and
Speaker 14: I think put together a really good season.
Speaker 15: We'll go to Gianahan, I said, Rats, I was wondering
Speaker 15: how much you have talked with Ravens defensive coordinator and
Speaker 15: Zach or what it means don't have a DC has
Speaker 15: inside linebacker experience.
Speaker 14: Yeah, honestly, haven't. Haven't talked to the Ravens as much
Speaker 14: as other teams, but you.
Speaker 5: Know, I'm just super grateful to to get the.
Speaker 14: Opportunity, and you know, I'm just gonna give everything I
Speaker 14: got to this organization and I'm just blessed to be here.
Speaker 3: We'll go to Garret Downey.
Speaker 1: Did you say you haven't talked to them that much,
Speaker 1: so it sounds like you were maybe surprised when they
Speaker 1: were the team that called. What was your reaction when
Speaker 1: you found out it was the Ravens, Oh.
Speaker 5: Man, I was exciting.
Speaker 14: You know, Ravens are a team that, you know, just
Speaker 14: a great organization and a team that I followed my
Speaker 14: whole life as a football fan.
Speaker 5: You know, I think about raven.
Speaker 14: Linebackers, you know, obviously, you know ray Lewis just kind
Speaker 14: of epitomizes what a middle linebacker was for me growing up.
Speaker 5: So so you know, I wasn't surprised.
Speaker 14: I kind of had a gut feeling that it was
Speaker 14: going to be a team that I didn't talk to.
Speaker 14: So I'm just grateful for the opportunity and just excited
Speaker 14: to give everything I got.
Speaker 3: Brian Whacker.
Speaker 16: Hey, Teddy, congrats mentioned you know, following the Ravens a
Speaker 16: little bit, just how familiar argue with their defense and
Speaker 16: their schemes and some of their players, and what do
Speaker 16: you think you add in that respect?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 14: I mean for me, really, I'm just gonna add whatever
Speaker 14: whatever coach wants needs me to add. First of all,
Speaker 14: it's just gonna be effort and and toughness and just consistency.
Speaker 14: And you know, I'm not really really looking to do
Speaker 14: anything outside of my realm, just doing whatever whatever coach
Speaker 14: needs for me, and just whatever the team needs.
Speaker 3: Ran Mink.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Teddy, I saw that you have a little bit
Speaker 13: of a quarterback background, uh or linebacker. How do you
Speaker 13: feel like that helped you as a linebacker?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I helped in a bunch of ways, just you know,
Speaker 14: understanding first of all, the mentality of a quarterback.
Speaker 5: You know what things affect them.
Speaker 14: You know, the processing speed of playing quarterback definitely translates
Speaker 14: right over to defense. And then you know, just understanding
Speaker 14: offense and how they're trying to attack RPOs and different
Speaker 14: things like that, especially in college.
Speaker 5: So definitely was definitely was helpful.
Speaker 3: Go back to Brian Whacker.
Speaker 16: Yeah, real quick, Teddy, just on your first name, a
Speaker 16: little bit of an unusual spelling. I guess at the
Speaker 16: at the end, is there anything to that or just
Speaker 16: just the way you guys spelled it.
Speaker 5: Or that's just that's a question for my parents.
Speaker 14: But you know, I like it if if I feel
Speaker 14: like it makes my name unique, you note to me
Speaker 14: if it's the Teddy with the E.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Clifton Brown, Yeah, Teddy, congratulations.
Speaker 17: One, I know a lot of Ravens players, rookies come
Speaker 17: in as special teamers. Just want to know you're reacting
Speaker 17: to that maybe you experience on special teams. And two
Speaker 17: about you know, being learning from a guy like Rokwan
Speaker 17: Smith who's in the linebacker room with the Ravens.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean for me, special teams is you know,
Speaker 14: going to be your priority for me, I'm super excited
Speaker 14: to play special teams. I played special team in college,
Speaker 14: you know, played all four of them.
Speaker 5: So I'm super excited in that regard.
Speaker 14: And you know, I'm I'm super excited to learn from
Speaker 14: guys like Rocon and just pick their brain and do
Speaker 14: everything I can to you know, see how they're pros
Speaker 14: and and just follow their lead.
Speaker 3: And then we will close it out with Jonas Schaeffer.
Speaker 9: Hey, Teddy, congrats. I saw from your UC Davis profile
Speaker 9: that you were a design major there. I guess could
Speaker 9: you kind of talk about just your interest there and
Speaker 9: what did you did you continue those studies when you
Speaker 9: got to Cality or did you take up the track.
Speaker 14: Yeah, so I have a bit of an art background,
Speaker 14: so you know, I went into design at Davis and
Speaker 14: you know, I learned learned a lot of cool things
Speaker 14: about design there and then I follow that up with
Speaker 14: I got my certificate and business administration at cal SO.
Speaker 14: A bit of a different route, but yeah, design definitely
Speaker 14: stemmed from our background.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 18: Well, Teddy, congratulations again, thank you for joining us, and
Speaker 18: we look forward to meeting you here in Baltimore soon.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 3: Thank you everybody.
Speaker 1: Next up, we heard from offensive tackle Carson Vincent out
Speaker 1: of Alabama A and M.
Speaker 18: It's our pleasure to introduce Cartson Vincent from the newest
Speaker 18: Raven from Alabama A and M. Carson, thank you for
Speaker 18: taking the time to join us today. As always, please
Speaker 18: utilize the ray's hand function if you have a question,
Speaker 18: and we will call on you and with that we
Speaker 18: will kick things off with Ryan Minks.
Speaker 13: Carson, can you talk about Yeah, can you talk about
Speaker 13: your your emotions being selected by the Ravens and how
Speaker 13: much pre draft contact you have with them.
Speaker 19: Did you think you could end up in Baltimore?
Speaker 20: You know, I had my thirty visit with them and
Speaker 20: it was an amazing time. And you know, you always
Speaker 20: think in the back of your head, but especially coming
Speaker 20: from a small school, like it's almost surreal, like you
Speaker 20: never like you think it's gonna happen, but you never
Speaker 20: really know. So, like I seen the bottomorren number pop up,
Speaker 20: and everything kind of slowed.
Speaker 19: Down a little bit. It kind of slowed down. I said,
Speaker 19: let me answer this call. But it's just it's been
Speaker 19: a blessing.
Speaker 20: I don't know if it's even still hit me yet,
Speaker 20: but I can't put in the words how much I'm
Speaker 20: blessed to be putting into this position.
Speaker 7: Luke Jones, congratulations Carson. Going through the pre draft process,
Speaker 7: you said it coming from a small school, what kind
Speaker 7: of feedback did you get the teams liked and where
Speaker 7: do you feel you need to improve the most for
Speaker 7: your game to translate to the next level.
Speaker 19: Yes, sir.
Speaker 20: So, like the biggest thing with me is like I
Speaker 20: bring tenacity and I'm an athlete. Those two things I
Speaker 20: really hang my hat on. And a lot of things
Speaker 20: that the Ravens organization can help me with other things
Speaker 20: that I need to work on, as like my technique.
Speaker 20: Coach Warharp, he's a great coach. So it's a lot
Speaker 20: of things like that where I feel like I'm in
Speaker 20: a perp position to be the best player that I can.
Speaker 3: We'll go to Brian whacker th Parson.
Speaker 16: Congratulations, man, things just you know how familiar argue with
Speaker 16: the Ravens just as an organization in terms of what
Speaker 16: they'd like to do on offensive line and obviously getting
Speaker 16: a chance to work with guy you know, veteran All
Speaker 16: Pro guy like Ronnie Stanley and so forth.
Speaker 20: Yes, Sir, like Ronnie Stanley, he's a great He's a
Speaker 20: guy that I watched a lot of tape on because
Speaker 20: I feel like me and him had a lot of
Speaker 20: similarities and.
Speaker 19: Stuff like that. So I watched a lot of tons
Speaker 19: of tape on him.
Speaker 20: And when I think of the Ravens, I think of fast,
Speaker 20: physical players and like getting up and down the field,
Speaker 20: and that's really who I am as a person. I'm fast,
Speaker 20: I'm violent, That's really what I do. So it's a
Speaker 20: blessing made of heaven. And I just can't thank you
Speaker 20: guys enough.
Speaker 1: Garrett Downy than Garrison, just as you went through this process,
Speaker 1: were the Ravens a team, he kind of circled and
Speaker 1: hoped that you would end up here. How did you
Speaker 1: view the possibility of potentially coming to Baltimore.
Speaker 20: It's so it's so crazy because my agent and he's
Speaker 20: gonna love it. Because my agent he literally tellts me
Speaker 20: before the JEV he says, I can literally envision you
Speaker 20: in the Ravens jersey and it's happened.
Speaker 19: So I guess he's the man. This is man I taught.
Speaker 20: You know, this process is a long process, but you
Speaker 20: know that I was able to get up there for
Speaker 20: a visiting and it really felt like home. It really
Speaker 20: felt like a place that I can live with, I
Speaker 20: can live grow up in. So is an amazing.
Speaker 9: Jonas Schaefer, Hey, Garson, congratulations, Uh what what? How important
Speaker 9: do you think was the Senior Bowl? Your experience there?
Speaker 9: I saw that you were the only HBCU player invited there.
Speaker 9: I mean, did do you feel like that was a
Speaker 9: kind of, you know, a momentum changer for you during
Speaker 9: this pre draft process.
Speaker 20: Yeah, so I really think it was that Senior Bowl
Speaker 20: was able to put me on a on the stage
Speaker 20: where I can really prove myself against the best of
Speaker 20: the best athletes, especially like when you're coming from a
Speaker 20: smaller school. That's one thing that a lot of people
Speaker 20: have questions on is if it can translate into a
Speaker 20: higher level. So the Senior Bowl was a blessing to
Speaker 20: get the invite and then to prepare myself to play
Speaker 20: well at it.
Speaker 19: With just the ice on the cake.
Speaker 3: We'll go to Jionahan and then Brian Wicker.
Speaker 15: Again kind of going off the fact that you came
Speaker 15: from an HBCU.
Speaker 21: What does it mean to have the chance to represent
Speaker 21: them at the sex level being.
Speaker 20: From an HBCU. Is it's so special because you're been
Speaker 20: like over this entire process. When HBCU guys get past
Speaker 20: our space, you know, we have our rivalries and we
Speaker 20: have the teams that we go at each other, but
Speaker 20: after when we get past it, like we're all one
Speaker 20: big family, We're all one big thing. So I mean,
Speaker 20: I've got support from every single team from a HBCU
Speaker 20: especially after I got the Singing Bowl invite. After games,
Speaker 20: they would say, hey, you're gonna do great things at
Speaker 20: the So it's all one big family, and you know
Speaker 20: what the transport on the way things is a lot
Speaker 20: of guys feel like they have to transfer up to
Speaker 20: go to where they want to go. But it's really
Speaker 20: important to me that, you know, I say that Alabama
Speaker 20: A and M for all four years. You know, it
Speaker 20: was the best four years of my life. And you
Speaker 20: can go anywhere you want to from the institution that
Speaker 20: you're at. So it was really it was really important
Speaker 20: for me.
Speaker 3: Brian Wacker and then Ryan Mink.
Speaker 16: Yeah, Curvison, speaking of A and M, I think you're
Speaker 16: the first player get drafted from there in like thirty years. Yes, sir,
Speaker 16: what does that kind of mean to you? You know,
Speaker 16: is it sunk in? And and you know, does it
Speaker 16: doesn't matter where a guy comes from, ie small school
Speaker 16: versus big school and so forth.
Speaker 20: Man, you know, football is just an amazing sport that
Speaker 20: there's people from all walker life. That's why football is
Speaker 20: the ultimate team sport. There's people from all watks of life,
Speaker 20: every single background, and that's the really thing that brings
Speaker 20: the sport together. So, you know, being from a smaller school,
Speaker 20: it was so amazing, just like the family feel that
Speaker 20: I got from there, and then they built me up
Speaker 20: because everything I am right now is that Alabama A
Speaker 20: and M built So you know, I credited them and
Speaker 20: my coaches and those training staff and they got me together.
Speaker 20: And you know, it's really just to be a blessing
Speaker 20: that can not only be coming from those institutions, but
Speaker 20: when I get to where I'm at, I can give
Speaker 20: it back.
Speaker 19: Because that's one of the most important things too, is
Speaker 19: giving back.
Speaker 3: Ryan and then created parks.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Carson, I'm curious about your decision not to leave
Speaker 13: A and M and enter the portal and try to
Speaker 13: go somewhere else. Why did you make that decision specifically?
Speaker 13: And then secondarily, why how did everybody miss on recruiting
Speaker 13: you out of high school? Like how did that happen
Speaker 13: given your size and everything? Why were you so lately recruited?
Speaker 20: Yeah, you know, I'm from Carry, North Carolina and n
Speaker 20: C State's right here, Duke's right here, North Carolina's right here.
Speaker 19: None of them wanted me. None of them wanted me.
Speaker 20: I slipped through the crass. But ada been in A
Speaker 20: and m They found me. They found me, and they
Speaker 20: took me in with open arms. So especially like when
Speaker 20: those schools came back around calling I grew up in
Speaker 20: North Carolina, man, I wanted to go to Carolina and
Speaker 20: they came back all around my junior same year, and
Speaker 20: I wasn't gonna go because you didn't want me out
Speaker 20: of high school. So it was really just a chip
Speaker 20: on my shirt that I took through about college and
Speaker 20: I said, Okay, I'm gonna do it from the school
Speaker 20: that wanted me first.
Speaker 3: Created do you have a question I do?
Speaker 22: Hi, Carson, I just wanted to circle back you were
Speaker 22: when you were talking about being from an HPP. You
Speaker 22: said it's supportant for you to give back.
Speaker 19: So I'm just.
Speaker 22: Curious if you could just tell me what it is
Speaker 22: that you're looking to do, Just give me more insight
Speaker 22: on that piece.
Speaker 20: Yeah, so I want to pour into it, like when
Speaker 20: you when you get past the HPC. It's really important
Speaker 20: not only just to give money. Anybody can give a check,
Speaker 20: but it's really important to be there and give be
Speaker 20: hands on because you know a lot of times when
Speaker 20: we make it from these spaces, we might give a
Speaker 20: check back or might give some money back, but I
Speaker 20: really want to go back to my institution and be
Speaker 20: there where they could see me because it's important. I
Speaker 20: know when Robert Mathis came to practices, when we had
Speaker 20: John Saliver come to practices. It's really easy when gods
Speaker 20: say like, Okay, this guy's did it, this guy's get it,
Speaker 20: But when you see them in the flesh, it becomes real.
Speaker 20: So I knew it was real because I've seen Robert
Speaker 20: Mathis in person and he went to the same institution
Speaker 20: I did. I seen John Stalwart, So it's really important
Speaker 20: to be there, and that's how I really wanted to
Speaker 20: give back. It's about me being hands on.
Speaker 18: We have time for two more, so we'll go to
Speaker 18: Jonas Schaeffer and then wrap it up with Ryan mink.
Speaker 9: Hey Carson. Yesterday, one of the picks that the Ravens
Speaker 9: made was on one of your fellow Senior bowlers, of
Speaker 9: Mike Green. I don't know if you guys ever matched
Speaker 9: up when on one or in practice, but what were
Speaker 9: your impersions of him as a player and a person?
Speaker 19: Man that due is a dog, you know.
Speaker 20: I we didn't get to match up at the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 20: but I saw clips now especially dabaira one that everybody
Speaker 20: was talking about. So, you know, and that man is
Speaker 20: he's an animal, he's a dog. He's going to help
Speaker 20: our organization. We're going to Super.
Speaker 3: Bowl, Ryan mink, Ryan un mute please.
Speaker 19: Sorry?
Speaker 13: Yeah, Carson, I know you went against a couple of
Speaker 13: SEC teams Vandy and Auburn. You know during your career,
Speaker 13: how'd you feel like that that went when you kind
Speaker 13: of had this big teams as opponents.
Speaker 20: Yeah, those are amazing experiences because you really see how
Speaker 20: you match up against those guys, and you really see
Speaker 20: on what you're made of, and you know, those are
Speaker 20: great experiences for me. Those are games that a lot
Speaker 20: of scouts and a lot of people wanted to see
Speaker 20: from me. So it was just an amazing experience to
Speaker 20: play against those players and really show that, you know,
Speaker 20: I can do this, and then you go to a
Speaker 20: space out of Singer Bowl, which is the best of
Speaker 20: those best and it just is just exponentially better.
Speaker 18: Well, Carson, we are appreciative of your time today. Thank
Speaker 18: you very much, and again, congratulations. Look forward to meet
Speaker 18: you in person soon.
Speaker 19: Yes, sir, I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1: Next up is cornerback Balalcone. Out of Western Michigan.
Speaker 18: It's our pleasure to welcome balal Cone, the newest member
Speaker 18: of the Baltimore Ravens. Blall, thank you very much for
Speaker 18: joining us today. So finder, please use the race hand
Speaker 18: function if you have a question. And to start things off,
Speaker 18: we will go with Ryan mink.
Speaker 13: Well, congratulations below. Uh, you just talk about your your
Speaker 13: connection with the Ravens and the pre jaft process and
Speaker 13: and whether you thought that they could be the team
Speaker 13: for you.
Speaker 23: Well, I've always been a fan, you know, the defense
Speaker 23: has always been just a great defense to watch. They
Speaker 23: got Dogars, you got Kyle Hamilton, and then you just
Speaker 23: got Malachi Stars with someone who I've had a relationship
Speaker 23: with about the last couple of months. We've been working
Speaker 23: out at the same spot over in Tampa, so we've
Speaker 23: been competing against each other and making each other better
Speaker 23: for joking around.
Speaker 5: So we got we got close throughout there.
Speaker 23: So like being able to come here with him and
Speaker 23: getting right back to it is really really great, really great.
Speaker 3: We'll go to Garrett Downing.
Speaker 1: I guess just along those lines, what happened your impressions
Speaker 1: of Malachi and the two of you working together and
Speaker 1: and just kind of the thoughts of of certainly you'll
Speaker 1: be connected and coming here to Baltimore, but then action
Speaker 1: that the two of you will share here as rookies
Speaker 1: coming here.
Speaker 5: Yeah from can you guys still see me? Yeah?
Speaker 23: For me, the connection we got already is just going
Speaker 23: after everything, just going going at each other, learning about
Speaker 23: each other, the type of type of player we are,
Speaker 23: the type of type of attitude we come in with.
Speaker 23: So yeah, I can't wait to see what it brings.
Speaker 13: Go back to Ryan Manker, Yeah, can you just tell
Speaker 13: us you know what you're gonna bring here to Baltimore,
Speaker 13: what kind of player you are.
Speaker 5: So you're gonna get a dog. You're gonna get a
Speaker 5: guy who's wanting to play whatever it is.
Speaker 23: That's a that's about winning, that doesn't that doesn't care
Speaker 23: when it is he has to lace up.
Speaker 5: You're gonna get that type of player. You're gonna get
Speaker 5: a dog with a chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 23: You're gonna get a guy who's been through the longest journey.
Speaker 5: You're gonna get a guy who has fought through every
Speaker 5: type of adversity.
Speaker 23: You could probably think of a guy who's seen a
Speaker 23: lot of different perspectives and is grateful and humble, but
Speaker 23: at the same time willing to work and ready for
Speaker 23: that spot at any time.
Speaker 5: That's that's the type of guy you get in.
Speaker 3: Giannahan.
Speaker 17: Congrats.
Speaker 21: I was wondering if you know or have watched any
Speaker 21: of the current Ravens cornerbacks and what you're excited about
Speaker 21: working with them once you got here.
Speaker 5: Honestly, for me, it's.
Speaker 23: I'm grateful to be working with anybody who's in who's
Speaker 23: in the NFL. You know, guys, I'm going to be
Speaker 23: able to learn from you. Guys have a tremendous group,
Speaker 23: always been known as a great defensive defensive team. So
Speaker 23: I'm I'm ready for whoever is willing to help me out,
Speaker 23: you know, be a be a mentor in that room.
Speaker 5: That's that's all I'm ready for.
Speaker 3: Go back to Garrett Downing.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the journey and the university, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: that's going through your head when you get a moment
Speaker 1: like this. How have you Is that something you kind
Speaker 1: of thought about in the moment of getting this pick,
Speaker 1: of the culmination of all that led up to this moment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 23: I mean, just going from Juco to art to Indiana
Speaker 23: State to Western Michigan.
Speaker 5: All those flashbacks are definitely reminiscent around.
Speaker 23: These times right now, especially just sitting down and washing
Speaker 23: Washington happened in front of me. It is a surreal
Speaker 23: full circle moment as well, you know, just just seeing
Speaker 23: all this and then having my family here and seeing
Speaker 23: what I've been through, seeing the challenges that overcame throughout football.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's real.
Speaker 1: It just on the Juke route, Like, how what does
Speaker 1: that mean to go from the Juco route to make
Speaker 1: it to this point to the NFL.
Speaker 23: Yeah, so the Juco route it's where you find out
Speaker 23: how much you really love football, you know. It's a
Speaker 23: place where you just sit, put your feet in the
Speaker 23: dirt and work every day, you know, and if you
Speaker 23: don't really like football, you're probably gone before the end
Speaker 23: of the week. So it showed me my purpose. It
Speaker 23: showed me how much purpose I really have. It showed
Speaker 23: me how much I'm willing to sacrifice, and I found
Speaker 23: my consistency there.
Speaker 5: So I'm grateful for sure.
Speaker 3: We'll go to sam.
Speaker 8: Con Able all congratulations. I saw you would you would
Speaker 8: post it on Twitter. I believe it's your your late
Speaker 8: baby brother's birthday. Just serious, how special it is to
Speaker 8: be drafted on today, of all days.
Speaker 5: I me and my brother got on the phone.
Speaker 23: My brother plays basketball over in Australia, so we got
Speaker 23: on the phone and he told me, like, there's no
Speaker 23: coincidence about this happening to day, and we know that
Speaker 23: for a fact, and we're just so blessed that I
Speaker 23: was able to get picked on this day. And it's
Speaker 23: also my little brother's birthday, so not two births with
Speaker 23: one that's my it's another day to celebrate my birthday,
Speaker 23: my brother's birthday.
Speaker 5: I was thinking about that all morning.
Speaker 23: Honestly, that was that was more on my mind than
Speaker 23: a lot of things.
Speaker 5: So I'm really grateful.
Speaker 23: And I know he's watching above, just guiding all of us,
Speaker 23: so I'm appreciated for him.
Speaker 3: We'll go to Ryan and then wrap things up with Gianna.
Speaker 13: Please, Yeah, can you talk a little bit more about
Speaker 13: your upbringing childhood. I read that you know your your
Speaker 13: family was on house for a bit and you you know,
Speaker 13: found kind of different housing and moved in with some people.
Speaker 13: Can you talk about the challenges that you've already overcome
Speaker 13: in your life and how that has shaped you as
Speaker 13: a person.
Speaker 23: Yeah, I mean a lot of challenges I mean coming
Speaker 23: here first from Ivory Coast, I mean I was born here,
Speaker 23: but I came, I came back to the US.
Speaker 5: I had to learn English, you know, I.
Speaker 23: Had my first language was French, so picking up English.
Speaker 23: Going from my freshman year, my little brother passed away,
Speaker 23: and that's that's when like the motive came, That's when
Speaker 23: the purpose came a little bit, and I had an
Speaker 23: idea of how how great a person he was unshard.
Speaker 23: But then that's when perspectives came in. And I grew
Speaker 23: up a little quicker than most guys had to. And
Speaker 23: so carrying that onto to Juco was was kind of
Speaker 23: what willed me a little more than other guys. That
Speaker 23: kept me around and knowing that I had something that
Speaker 23: I wanted to make something out of people that I
Speaker 23: wanted to make proud of my little brother. And so
Speaker 23: me and my brother always fought like that for him.
Speaker 23: We always put our best foot in front, not for us,
Speaker 23: but because of my little brother.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 23: That's what we do every day, and that's what my
Speaker 23: mom does every day, and we just we lived through
Speaker 23: him as well. So going through through that, going to Juco,
Speaker 23: that's that's honestly when it started for me. But then
Speaker 23: in high school, Yeah, I did end up moving out
Speaker 23: out of my mom's place because we can't we couldn't
Speaker 23: be together because of financial reasons. So I moved in
Speaker 23: with some other people who really helped me out throughout
Speaker 23: the way, and I was grateful for that as well,
Speaker 23: And so a lot of perspectives have have really helped
Speaker 23: me until this day, which I'm super grateful.
Speaker 3: Ford and Gianna will close it out with you please.
Speaker 15: I saw the university that you suffered injury last year
Speaker 15: where I guess you weren't able to eat for a while.
Speaker 21: Can you talk about that and what it was like
Speaker 21: to fight back through that and then get to the
Speaker 21: point you are now?
Speaker 5: You said what, I'm sorry.
Speaker 21: The injury that you suffered at the end of last
Speaker 21: season that had you missed the end of the season.
Speaker 12: What was it like to fight back through too?
Speaker 5: Sorry?
Speaker 21: Oh yeah, and going from I guess like a liquid
Speaker 21: diet and then getting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was It was a crazy time.
Speaker 23: Honestly, it happened during the game when I was at
Speaker 23: Indiana State, and but I didn't feel until after the
Speaker 23: game was over. And after the game was over, I
Speaker 23: had I told them I couldn't.
Speaker 5: I couldn't. I could barely breathe, I could barely eat.
Speaker 23: So I stayed the night when we were I think
Speaker 23: we're in South Dakota and I.
Speaker 5: Stayed the night there instead of flying back with the team.
Speaker 23: And they told me that I kind of like fractured
Speaker 23: something in my hyoid I think it was, and so
Speaker 23: that that took me out for just like a month
Speaker 23: or something, a month maybe, but yeah, I didn't finish
Speaker 23: the rest of that season. But I mean I could
Speaker 23: barely eat, so I was on liquid diet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was it was not fun.
Speaker 23: I was I was missing my burgers, I was missing,
Speaker 23: missing a lot of those.
Speaker 5: Types of things that I usually eat.
Speaker 23: So but I bounced back quick just because I wanted
Speaker 23: to heal and I knew I needed to transfer. I
Speaker 23: needed to get to my new situation. So I bounced
Speaker 23: back pretty quick.
Speaker 1: And finally we heard from kicker Tyler Loop out of Arizona.
Speaker 1: It sound like congratulations. Just what was the yeah, what
Speaker 1: was the reaction when you got the call in? You know,
Speaker 1: the Ravens Rainny Brown, I know had been looking at
Speaker 1: different kickers. Had you met with him during the process,
Speaker 1: and what were your impressions throughout those process.
Speaker 24: Oh dude, total elation getting the call. I saw saw
Speaker 24: the area code come across my phone and I was like,
Speaker 24: let's go.
Speaker 12: I'm going to Baltimore.
Speaker 24: But yeah, total totally awesome, big big fan of Randy,
Speaker 24: and this whole process has been really fun.
Speaker 12: Uh, just getting.
Speaker 24: To learn learn from him, even just in the conversation
Speaker 24: of like, Hey, you know, no, no guarantee that we
Speaker 24: you know that we end up together, but I, you know,
Speaker 24: here's what here's how I've helped guys find success in
Speaker 24: the league.
Speaker 12: And you know, here's what I think you do.
Speaker 24: Well, here's where you know, if you're with us, we
Speaker 24: can improve and go try and win games and make
Speaker 24: kicks and be successful in Baltimore. And it's been a
Speaker 24: it's been a really cool, cool process getting to know
Speaker 24: Randy and it's been special.
Speaker 3: James and Hansley.
Speaker 11: Hey, graduation, Tyler, how many total total times did you
Speaker 11: meet with the Ravens and what was kind of did
Speaker 11: you think what was kind of your confidence level that
Speaker 11: you would be getting taken by the Ravens today.
Speaker 24: Oh, as far as times we've met, I don't have
Speaker 24: a great ballpark.
Speaker 12: Howd a good like good amount of phone.
Speaker 24: Calls, conversations, like I met with a scout at the
Speaker 24: Hula Bowl and then at the at the combine, I
Speaker 24: got to chat with Randy during the specialist workout and then.
Speaker 3: He came.
Speaker 24: You know, we got to got to chat a bunch
Speaker 24: and got to exchange film and just talk about that
Speaker 24: and just through the process, especially the draft. I think
Speaker 24: the moment that was like all right, hey, I think
Speaker 24: I think we're gonna We're gonna end up at Baltimore
Speaker 24: was right after the Patriots took Andy other right here
Speaker 24: goes like yeah, here, here we goa Baltimore raven and
Speaker 24: going to.
Speaker 12: Be with Randy and Harvlle and uh, Pete the raven
Speaker 12: Is is pump and pumped.
Speaker 3: Pete Gilbert the congratulations.
Speaker 18: I'm curious, what does it mean to you to be
Speaker 18: the first kicker ever drafted by the Ravens.
Speaker 12: Oh, it's so special. That was that was a cool thing.
Speaker 12: My my dad had mentioned.
Speaker 24: It's like, hey, like the Ravens never drafted a kicker,
Speaker 24: and uh, it's it's really special.
Speaker 5: I mean just.
Speaker 12: You know, to get to get drafted in itself.
Speaker 24: Is just so cool, and especially in organization like the Ravens.
Speaker 12: That's I mean, it's you couldn't you couldn't dream of
Speaker 12: anything cooler.
Speaker 3: We'll go to Child's Walker.
Speaker 6: Congratulations. Obviously there's uncertainty around justin Tucker's situation. Are you
Speaker 6: thinking that you might end up competing for the job
Speaker 6: with a guy that many people regard as the greatest
Speaker 6: kicker of all time? What's your what's your sense of
Speaker 6: that situation as of right now?
Speaker 24: I'm just excited to get there and be be around
Speaker 24: the be around those guys and learn from you know,
Speaker 24: be be with the team and find ways to make
Speaker 24: kicks in Baltimore, you know, finding be being successful up
Speaker 24: there is what matters the most, going and making kicks
Speaker 24: and winning games and uh, just taking it one day
Speaker 24: at a time. So I'm gonna celebrate today and tomorrow,
Speaker 24: get right back to work and stack some days and
Speaker 24: figure out how we can, you know, be have success
Speaker 24: up there.
Speaker 12: Gianahan, congratulations.
Speaker 21: I know a lot of NFL kickers have said that
Speaker 21: the AFC North is a really hard division to kick in.
Speaker 21: What sort of experience do you have kicking in weather
Speaker 21: like that and anticipation you have to be in this division?
Speaker 24: Yeah, you know, I've being in the pac twelve got
Speaker 24: to go up to Washington and Washington stay Oregon and
Speaker 24: play up there and some some cold weather and some
Speaker 24: wind and crazy conditions, and it's it's something that gets
Speaker 24: me excited, you know. I think having having a challenge
Speaker 24: to go conquer and you know, a skill set to
Speaker 24: to refine and really work on and become an expert
Speaker 24: of kicking in those conditions is something that gets me
Speaker 24: fired up. You know, learning from learning from coaches who
Speaker 24: have been up there for a long time and learned
Speaker 24: how to be successful in the AFC North kicking like that,
Speaker 24: that's something that the sound of gets me pumped up.
Speaker 12: So we're looking forward to it and learning all that.
Speaker 16: Brian Whacker, Hey, Tyler, congratulations. Obviously it's curious who were
Speaker 16: maybe some of your favorite kickers growing up and and
Speaker 16: and knowing, you know, kind of alluding to the question
Speaker 16: about Justin Tucker earlier, is that you know, is that
Speaker 16: something you just have to set aside or how do
Speaker 16: you kind of apartmentalize that?
Speaker 24: I guess, Yeah, So as far as kickers that I
Speaker 24: really looked up to growing up, you know, especially especially
Speaker 24: like getting into college. Nick Folk, uh Beel Arizon a Wildcat.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 24: You know, obviously Justin Tucker's from from Texas and I
Speaker 24: was I was a long horn fan growing up, so uh,
Speaker 24: you know, there's elements of guys like that who have
Speaker 24: passed success in the league and been regarded as like
Speaker 24: the elite place kickers in the NFL.
Speaker 12: You know, I admire a lot of parts of their games,
Speaker 12: but it's.
Speaker 24: One of those where it's like, hey, I you know
Speaker 24: the I've got I've got things that i can do
Speaker 24: to to learn from them, but I've also got my own,
Speaker 24: my own style and my own kicking and just figuring
Speaker 24: out what's gonna work to be successful in Baltimore and
Speaker 24: it kicks and win games.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 24: You know what that looks like is, you know, just
Speaker 24: stacking days and learning and taking input and just competing
Speaker 24: every day.
Speaker 12: So that's that's what.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do.
Speaker 12: That's what I'm ready for.
Speaker 13: Ryan Mink, congratulations, Tyler. You talk about your style of kicking.
Speaker 13: Can you describe what your style is and did you
Speaker 13: feel like you had the biggest leg of any kicker
Speaker 13: in this year's draft.
Speaker 24: I'd say the one thing that I my hat on
Speaker 24: is U loving like being a student of the craft.
Speaker 24: You know, guys in golf and baseball, you have a
Speaker 24: swing coach because we're doing the same thing, trying to
Speaker 24: hit the same.
Speaker 12: Ball every time.
Speaker 24: And so I was super fortunate to have a coach
Speaker 24: here in Texas through Cole's kick and Morgan Laneberry and
Speaker 24: uh from my sophomore years, like, Hey, we're going to
Speaker 24: figure out, we're gonna learn your swing, we're gonna learn
Speaker 24: what works, what keys worked for you, and we're going
Speaker 24: to be.
Speaker 12: As efficient as possible.
Speaker 24: And that's something that that I really enjoy because there
Speaker 24: are days where you don't feel good. There are days
Speaker 24: where you're not in a groove, and if you're not
Speaker 24: feeling it, you know you can always fall back run
Speaker 24: your mechanics to be to be successful, to make kicks,
Speaker 24: and so that that gets me excited knowing that that's
Speaker 24: just something that I enjoy, is the mechanics of the
Speaker 24: game and how kicking works. And as far as life strength, Like, dude,
Speaker 24: there's some rest of legs in this class, I definitely
Speaker 24: would think I'm up there, but man, it was it
Speaker 24: was really fun like competing with those.
Speaker 12: Guys at the combine and just seeing how talented they are.
Speaker 24: And just that that brotherhood is really special, so it
Speaker 24: was fun.
Speaker 3: Jameson Ensley.
Speaker 11: I mean, you know everyone talks about Justin Talker and
Speaker 11: how he's the most accurate kicker in NFL history. How
Speaker 11: much pressure would it be?
Speaker 5: Do you would you feel whether.
Speaker 11: It's competing against him or following in his footsteps. I'm
Speaker 11: just trying to gate how much pressure you would feel
Speaker 11: in that type of situation.
Speaker 24: I think it's I think it's really exciting more than pressure,
Speaker 24: just because it gives me something to shoot for. Right
Speaker 24: There's you know, we always want to be improving, We
Speaker 24: always want to be chasing, chasing perfection and learning how
Speaker 24: to adjust well and make kicks, and you know, getting
Speaker 24: to get him to fall in the footsteps of a
Speaker 24: guy like that has been and so elite and get
Speaker 24: to compete with him and they learn from him like
Speaker 24: that just gets me. That gets me fired up and
Speaker 24: I'm ready to get up there and start start competing
Speaker 24: and final ways to win games, to make kicks.
Speaker 21: Giannahn Tyler, I know this snapping and holding is a
Speaker 21: really big part of what you do. I was wondering
Speaker 21: if you've had a chance to follow the Ravens seven
Speaker 21: hold operational or if it's something that you've talked with
Speaker 21: Grandy Brown about.
Speaker 24: Yeah, we've we've chatted about it a little bit.
Speaker 12: Now, I'm I'm excited.
Speaker 24: I think the operation they got up there is is
Speaker 24: top level.
Speaker 12: You know, those guys care deeply about their.
Speaker 24: Job and they take it, take it seriously, their true
Speaker 24: professionals and just getting the I'm so excited to get
Speaker 24: up there and work with them and start building that
Speaker 24: chemistry and find ways to be finally to be successful
Speaker 24: with them.
Speaker 18: We have time for two more. We'll go to Brian
Speaker 18: Wacker and then close it with Jonah's Shafer.
Speaker 16: Sorry, I'm good, actually, thank you good guess.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Jonas close this out please.
Speaker 5: Sure thing um.
Speaker 9: Tell Sorry if I hopped on late, did you already
Speaker 9: have that raven shirt handy or were you just kind
Speaker 9: of heading your bet and had a bunch of shirts?
Speaker 12: No, we were, we were ready with it.
Speaker 5: We were ready with it.
Speaker 12: It was Andy Well order it ordered a couple of
Speaker 12: days ago.
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