Speaker 1: Welcome in the Ravens Press Pass. Today, we'll hear from
Speaker 1: running back JK Dobbins, wide receiver Rashad Bateman, and head
Speaker 1: coach John Harbaugh. Let's start with running back JK Dobbins.
Speaker 2: How do you feel physically right now?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's been a while since the injury play?
Speaker 4: Ye know me physically? How do you feel?
Speaker 5: I feel amazing. I feel pretty dang good. I'm'a just
Speaker 5: leave it at that cause I feel so good.
Speaker 6: JK.
Speaker 3: When we asked John at the beginning of training camp
Speaker 3: why you weren't practicing, he said, that's a JK question.
Speaker 3: So we'll we'll ask you straight out. Why why weren't
Speaker 3: you practicing.
Speaker 5: At the beginning of training Uh, that's a tough question.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: I was just you know, being cautious.
Speaker 5: You know, my teammates need me, you know, so I
Speaker 5: wanna be there for my teammates, you know.
Speaker 4: And that's all it was.
Speaker 5: You know, my teammates understood, you know what was ha
Speaker 5: what was going on. So it's all good now I'm
Speaker 5: out here.
Speaker 3: That difficult was I?
Speaker 7: I guess the decision both now and when you play
Speaker 7: after sea four weeks.
Speaker 3: When you how did you I guess that.
Speaker 4: Oh I was.
Speaker 5: I was here the whole time. I was here the
Speaker 5: whole time. I was going to meetings right right, Sorry,
Speaker 5: but I I had to practice. Oh that was you know,
Speaker 5: that's tough. That's always tough for me cause I'm a
Speaker 5: guy who who loves to play football. I love playing football.
Speaker 5: I love being with my teammates out there, and they
Speaker 5: love when.
Speaker 4: I'm out there. So it was it was super tough,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 5: But we got through it, you know, and we'll we'll
Speaker 5: continue to get better as a team, you know, with
Speaker 5: me out there, and it'll be great.
Speaker 4: It'll be a great year. It's gonna be a great year.
Speaker 8: Take a you get to your confidence, your optimism around
Speaker 8: the type of year when.
Speaker 3: You can have this year.
Speaker 4: You said, what did you speak.
Speaker 8: To the confidence the end the optimism you have around
Speaker 8: the type of season and you could have this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm pretty confident.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty that confident, you know, especially coming off of
Speaker 5: you know, the end of the year last year, when
Speaker 5: a lot of people could see that I wasn't all
Speaker 5: the way with one hundred percent healthy, but still had
Speaker 5: some pretty good games there. But I always say, like
Speaker 5: those those games that I had good games could have
Speaker 5: been even better if I was one hundred percent. So
Speaker 5: you know, if I get the volumes some of the
Speaker 5: other guys, it'll be it'll be a real good year.
Speaker 3: Lines.
Speaker 9: You were pretty honest at the end of last year
Speaker 9: about wanting to have a bigger workload, wanting the ball more.
Speaker 3: It's a new office.
Speaker 9: Coordinator, new offense. How confident are you is that you
Speaker 9: don't have a bigger workload, then they don't.
Speaker 5: Have a defens Well, what I mean by having a
Speaker 5: bigger workload is like if the game is going like
Speaker 5: if we're running the ball good, you know, that's all
Speaker 5: I meant. Like I didn't mean like I don't want
Speaker 5: to be a ball or anything like that, Like whatever,
Speaker 5: what if the game is flowing and I'm hot, let's
Speaker 5: let's let's rol you know what I'm saying and stuff
Speaker 5: like that. That's what I meant, you know. But if
Speaker 5: the game is going good in the past game, let's
Speaker 5: keep passing it, you know. So that's all I meant,
Speaker 5: you know, And you know, hopefully I have a hot
Speaker 5: hand this year, and everyone has a hot hand. So
Speaker 5: defensive coordinators are having nightmares and they see the ravens
Speaker 5: on the schedule because we have so many weapons. We
Speaker 5: have an amazing quarterback, you know, we just we have
Speaker 5: an amazing line, like amazing defense.
Speaker 4: We really have a lot of tools here. So hopefully
Speaker 4: it'll be good, a good year for all of us.
Speaker 9: KJK it mentions that you weren't you feel her percent
Speaker 9: last last year?
Speaker 5: Do you feel her per cent as we're speaking right now, Yes, sir,
Speaker 5: I do, and by one hundred percent, like one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: I mean, my knee felt good, my body felt good,
Speaker 5: but I didn't have the off season that I needed
Speaker 5: to to be me, you know, so I didn't have
Speaker 5: all my speed there and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: But now it's a little different, yeah, JK.
Speaker 7: Obviously the business side of the NFL is very tough,
Speaker 7: but seems to be even tougher now for running backs.
Speaker 3: How has it been for you as as a person that's.
Speaker 5: In a contract situation like that, It's been a blessing,
Speaker 5: you know, because for me to even be in a
Speaker 5: situation in the NFL, you know, a lot of people
Speaker 5: will dream of being an NFL and for me to
Speaker 5: even be talking about a contract another contract is as
Speaker 5: a blessing, you know. And with the with the whole
Speaker 5: running back thing. Like each organization knows who they have,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Each each organization knows who
Speaker 5: they have as a whole team. So you know, each
Speaker 5: organization stands alone, you know, like guys like Sakuan and
Speaker 5: those guys.
Speaker 4: Those guys are amazing.
Speaker 5: Guys, and only that organization knows what to do with
Speaker 5: that situation, you know. So whatever the next organization wants
Speaker 5: to do with the with the running back they have,
Speaker 5: they feel special about them, then maybe they pay them.
Speaker 5: You know, you can't say that because like Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 5: makes a lot of money, you know. So I think
Speaker 5: it's all about what the organization wants to do. And
Speaker 5: far as me, I love I love it here, you know,
Speaker 5: and I always want I want to finish my career here.
Speaker 5: I want to be I'm a one, I'm a loyal man,
Speaker 5: so I only want one team. So hopefully that happens.
Speaker 5: But you never know what God has planned. So we're
Speaker 5: just gonna keep going, keep playing playing good football.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 6: You and you have had productive conversations with Eric about
Speaker 6: the possibility be here, beyond this here or is that.
Speaker 3: Just on a hold enough? Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we the conversations. You know, mister Eric is he's
Speaker 5: a great He's a he's the best gym, the best
Speaker 5: gem in the game, you know, So he'll get it
Speaker 5: worked out. Whatever happens happens. You know, he's gonna get
Speaker 5: it worked out. We have good conversations and I and
Speaker 5: I have much respect for mister Eric and mister Harball,
Speaker 5: coach Harball, everyone, mister Steve.
Speaker 4: So it is what it is, you know.
Speaker 5: But I'm you know, when the time be, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: go out there and play and and do good, you know.
Speaker 5: So hopefully I'm playing for the Ravens for the rest
Speaker 5: of my life, my football career.
Speaker 4: Jake k you you preach positive usually.
Speaker 5: There were a lot of negative reactions to your absence.
Speaker 3: Did you shield yourself from that?
Speaker 5: How do you take that in when there are those
Speaker 5: who are critical of your stands?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5: A lot of a lot of people don't really know
Speaker 5: what it takes to be in a position as as
Speaker 5: I am, and you know what it takes to just
Speaker 5: go out on the field. You know, it could be
Speaker 5: pretty dangerous and things like that. And you know, with
Speaker 5: that being said, a lot of people don't like didn't
Speaker 5: like what was happening. No one even knows the truth
Speaker 5: that was what was happening, right, So I see that
Speaker 5: and it I see it as a positive thing because
Speaker 5: God chose me to be the people throw all the
Speaker 5: stuff at me, the dirt on my name and stuff
Speaker 5: like that, and I did see a little bit of stuff.
Speaker 4: You know, like oh, what is he doing? What is
Speaker 4: he doing? This and that.
Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, I do think
Speaker 5: I'm pretty good at football, and the numbers will say
Speaker 5: that and things like that. So I'm positive about it
Speaker 5: always because at the end of the day, the people
Speaker 5: who really love me, who really help me, that's the
Speaker 5: only thing that matters. And the people who genuinely care
Speaker 5: for me, I care for them back. So even if
Speaker 5: even if a person is rude to me or anything
Speaker 5: like that, I'll just pray for him, you know. I'll
Speaker 5: pray for those people that were talking negative about me,
Speaker 5: because that's not gonna bring me down. I've been through
Speaker 5: too much to care about what someone I probably don't
Speaker 5: know says about me, you know. But to those people
Speaker 5: who say great things about me, I'll do, like I'll
Speaker 5: literally do anything for any of the good people I
Speaker 5: don't know who's all good here right now. But if
Speaker 5: you are, if you needed any help for me, I
Speaker 5: would help you, right So that's why that's why I
Speaker 5: stay with it. You know, I would always help like
Speaker 5: anyone like, if you ever needed help, I would make
Speaker 5: sure to help you. Unless you just straight out rude
Speaker 5: to me, then I can't help you. Sorry, you got
Speaker 5: it on your own. But nine times out of ten,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna help you. So shame on those people who
Speaker 5: talked about me, because I do feel like I'm a
Speaker 5: great guy and that I would do anything.
Speaker 4: I would do a lot. I would do a lot
Speaker 4: for people you know that need help.
Speaker 5: So always always man, I I I do think that healthy.
Speaker 5: You know, I can be one of the top backs
Speaker 5: in the league. And that's that flashes that flashes sometimes,
Speaker 5: you know, but I just gotta prove it, and I'm
Speaker 5: gonna prove it one day.
Speaker 4: One day. It would happen more.
Speaker 10: In in Todd's offense, you know, it's pretty clear that
Speaker 10: the running backs might be more of a receiving and
Speaker 10: your just what are your thoughts on that and what
Speaker 10: you bring to the table there?
Speaker 4: I mean, y, you see, you see, I know I
Speaker 4: gotta say you can see it. You'll you will see it.
Speaker 4: You know you will see it. You'll see it.
Speaker 3: Lomore Jackson right before the season last year. So we're
Speaker 3: just done with this stuffing laugh on the scene.
Speaker 4: Is that going to be your approach as well? We'll see,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 5: Uh, Like I said, each person stands alone in that
Speaker 5: type of situation, and I I if that that worked
Speaker 5: for him, that works for him.
Speaker 4: We'll see.
Speaker 5: We'll just see what God has planned for you know
Speaker 5: what's happening. I just hope I'm raving for life, That's
Speaker 5: all I said.
Speaker 6: Going back to Landover given your work, your life, your
Speaker 6: career kind of behind you. You said, what you're going
Speaker 6: back to Landover FedExField, you know for anything after you
Speaker 6: if it it's like a.
Speaker 3: Part of your kind of story behind here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, that was that was a great thing for
Speaker 5: me to go back, you know, just to feel like
Speaker 5: in it, like just to feel and see everything again
Speaker 5: because that.
Speaker 4: That was a hard time for me. But it's also
Speaker 4: a blessing in disguise. You know.
Speaker 5: It made me a stronger man, made my face stronger,
Speaker 5: It made me a better person, you know, and so
Speaker 5: I it sucked at the moment, but now that I
Speaker 5: look back and when I went back there, I was
Speaker 5: just it was it was all smiles because I made
Speaker 5: it through that. That was a hard time and I'm
Speaker 5: still getting better from it, you know, and it's a blessing.
Speaker 1: Next up is wide receiver Rashad Bateman.
Speaker 11: I think it's still good to get back out there
Speaker 11: with the guys. So just still getting a hang of things.
Speaker 11: So it feel good to be back out there.
Speaker 3: We've had various coaches saw us. They have seen you
Speaker 3: be on a roller coaster, you know, in the last
Speaker 3: year closer closer year. How how would you describe it?
Speaker 2: I would definitely say that it's been tough.
Speaker 11: Uh, it's been a battle, but I'm happy to be here,
Speaker 11: blessed be part of this organization.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 11: My teammates have had my back the whole time, so uh,
Speaker 11: very thankful for them. And you know, I guess we'll
Speaker 11: see what this year holds.
Speaker 4: We're shot, I'm sorry, We'll think. We'll give the work
Speaker 4: first questure.
Speaker 3: But the how do you feel that the foot feels
Speaker 3: at you at at.
Speaker 2: This moment, it feels good.
Speaker 11: I feel strong better than I was uh during Ota,
Speaker 11: So making good progress so far.
Speaker 7: Come close to a hundred percent of what you said, you.
Speaker 2: Feel ninety nine very close.
Speaker 8: I remember sit, they they've they've added a bunch of
Speaker 8: pieces and this is an exciting proceiding course.
Speaker 3: Just how excited are you about.
Speaker 8: The potential where you fitted with this group with all
Speaker 8: these pieces around you, How how that can help you.
Speaker 4: Succeed as well.
Speaker 11: I'm happy with the new pieces that we added. You know,
Speaker 11: Odell is a you know, both incredible receivers.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 11: We all bring different things uh to the table. So
Speaker 11: you know, new offensive coordinator top monkey, and he's using
Speaker 11: us very well right now. So I'm definitely excited to
Speaker 11: see what we can do week one and the rest
Speaker 11: of the season.
Speaker 7: Mentioned Odell with two things on him. What what's he
Speaker 7: brought from we? Uh, obviously the catches in the round
Speaker 7: right hand s w But what's he draw up you know,
Speaker 7: inside locker room, inside practice and.
Speaker 11: So forth, and both I would say, brunts of swag
Speaker 11: and personalities to the locker room, not that we didn't
Speaker 11: have it, but Obj is OBJ, so you know he's
Speaker 11: gonna bring that energy with him. It's gonna changeous. You know,
Speaker 11: we all feed into it. So you know, he's been
Speaker 11: good for the locker room for sure.
Speaker 7: And then what's what's that like when he was with
Speaker 7: fans are out here channing his name. You know, he's
Speaker 7: he's obviously a pretty certain level of the start up.
Speaker 11: I mean it's the same. It's the same for us.
Speaker 11: This is the same for you and the kids. So
Speaker 11: I still don't really understand it, but I kind of do.
Speaker 11: But you know, it's obj So and Lamar Jackson on
Speaker 11: the same team, So I think you go hear a
Speaker 11: lot of that this year for sud H.
Speaker 10: How did last season and missy much of the year,
Speaker 10: how did that change you.
Speaker 1: As a person, as a player, and and br do
Speaker 1: you know where you are now?
Speaker 11: I would say it changed me a lot. I ain't
Speaker 11: never been through anything like this before, never been hurt, uh,
Speaker 11: especially two years in a row. D have some off
Speaker 11: the field, you know, personal issues too, but it's been fine.
Speaker 11: You know, I'm here, I'm excited, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 11: So I'll ask for and so far and how.
Speaker 3: Does it change?
Speaker 1: Is very different?
Speaker 10: Hunger level?
Speaker 7: What what is different?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 11: Just taking you know, these are the cars that was
Speaker 11: D dealt to me, you know, so I gotta deal
Speaker 11: with that, you know, stay in my lane, keep working,
Speaker 11: keep grinding.
Speaker 2: That's all I really could do. Control out and control
Speaker 2: to those to.
Speaker 3: Those who're saying now that you're you're injury prone, or
Speaker 3: that you have to prove that you're not an injury
Speaker 3: from or what I mean?
Speaker 4: Does that?
Speaker 3: Does it irritate you? Do you shut it out?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 6: How do you r?
Speaker 3: How do you deal with that?
Speaker 2: I don't really care?
Speaker 4: It is what it is? Should I could?
Speaker 3: Could you kind of take us through the I guess
Speaker 3: the decision making.
Speaker 7: Process last year that looked like you might have gotten
Speaker 7: hurt a couple of weeks before you a can have
Speaker 7: the surgery where you just kind of.
Speaker 3: Trying to play through it. Hope it they heal on its.
Speaker 4: Own or what hop?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I did get hurt and then I tried to
Speaker 11: play through it, and then I heard it more when
Speaker 11: I tried to play through it, so obviously I needed surge.
Speaker 11: I couldn't push through it anymore. So, uh, in that
Speaker 11: end of my year.
Speaker 7: Shall like you said, you haven't gone through the the
Speaker 7: last two years, the things.
Speaker 1: You've gone through, the jury?
Speaker 3: Why did you haven't gone through that before in your
Speaker 3: football career?
Speaker 7: How frustrat you hasn't been to deal with those issues
Speaker 7: on the field, especially when it's something.
Speaker 3: You got to deal work before.
Speaker 2: All, like I said, is very frustrating.
Speaker 11: But you know, I guess it happened to me for
Speaker 11: a reason, and I'm here to see what that reason
Speaker 11: it's gonna bring.
Speaker 4: What shull?
Speaker 3: Did you feel like you had productive conversations?
Speaker 4: Been there at the Costa.
Speaker 1: After and uh little.
Speaker 4: Think I'm playing?
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, he said his piece, I said mine. We
Speaker 11: had a conversation and now we're best friends. So it's
Speaker 11: kind of how things work around here.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like this is where you should be
Speaker 3: right now? Like I mean, or you or you?
Speaker 2: I love Baltimore. I love everything about it.
Speaker 11: I love my teammates, the chemistry, and I love my coaches, position, coaches.
Speaker 11: I love everything about it. I'm in the NFL. You know,
Speaker 11: I'm blessed. I'm playing my dream. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: Everything's not gonna be perfect. I'm not gonna be perfect,
Speaker 11: the coach is not gonna be perfect. You know, we're
Speaker 11: gonna have all battles. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 11: long as you can communicate, talk it out, you know,
Speaker 11: make sure everybody's on the same pace.
Speaker 2: Then it all work out a real time.
Speaker 9: Although you've gone through the challenge, do you feel like
Speaker 9: there's been any.
Speaker 1: Profens come from it?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I definitely, uh say matured me. And I don't
Speaker 11: even know what ways that is, but I definitely can
Speaker 11: feel it.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 11: My approach to the game, my approach to life, Uh,
Speaker 11: just taking it, you know, one day at a time,
Speaker 11: not thinking too far ahead, you know, uh, just enjoying
Speaker 11: what I can, my family, my friends, you know, and
Speaker 11: just cherishing the game with all my heart.
Speaker 9: Throw shall would have been your impressions with Todd Monking
Speaker 9: and his views on the passing game.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 11: It's very different, so I don't wanna say too much,
Speaker 11: but you know, hopefully some good things this season for sure.
Speaker 8: Sorry, cause it's there's been a lot of talk about Paul,
Speaker 8: the receivers that have been added.
Speaker 3: Is there enough to go around for everybody? Was kind
Speaker 3: of your feeling on that now being and kind of
Speaker 3: a a loaded offense.
Speaker 11: Now, I'm here to see just like y'all, i'm'a see
Speaker 11: how we go do it. I just wanna be there
Speaker 11: with everybody to get their ring. I don't really care who,
Speaker 11: you know, got too many catch catches and touches. I
Speaker 11: just wanna be a part of the something big.
Speaker 3: Wish I wasn't meaningful to you and uh remarking what
Speaker 3: you might.
Speaker 2: Receive the word that stuff.
Speaker 11: For sure, you know, my teammates still believe in me.
Speaker 11: They know my capabilities, they know what I can do.
Speaker 11: I've done it before, I do it in practice, you know. Uh,
Speaker 11: it just sucks that the injury has been in the
Speaker 11: way in a way for me to prove it to
Speaker 11: y'all and everybody else. So hopefully, you know, third time
Speaker 11: it's the charm and charm city, So we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 3: Just curious to your captain, was that something.
Speaker 11: I knew somebody would ask about that Me and my
Speaker 11: friends got it in twenty twenty, Uh, when George Floyd
Speaker 11: passed away. I was in Minnesota at the time, and
Speaker 11: Fafrican Americans there was just a very tough time, and
Speaker 11: you know, it's still a tough time for us. So
Speaker 11: you know, you got to really find your lane out here.
Speaker 11: And man, my friends got a tattoo to kind of
Speaker 11: remind us to stay humble, you know, remember each other,
Speaker 11: and never forget where we'd come from.
Speaker 1: Now you'll hear from head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 6: Good day today, and we're kind of in the middle
Speaker 6: of a short week. We're getting ready to head down
Speaker 6: to Tampa to play the Bucks in our last preseason game,
Speaker 6: so we're trying to get prepared for that. But we're
Speaker 6: also at the same time pointing towards the Houston game
Speaker 6: and trying to get focused on that as well. We
Speaker 6: do have a few decisions still to make in terms
Speaker 6: of the roster, and then also guys are playing for
Speaker 6: opportunities here and everywhere else, so there's a lot of
Speaker 6: steak going forward, and but really trying to focus on
Speaker 6: having a good practice day today and tomorrow and then
Speaker 6: go play the game on Saturday. So what question do
Speaker 6: you have if you we.
Speaker 3: Fans out there?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it did it did It felt kind of quiet,
Speaker 6: you know, kind of we have a we have a
Speaker 6: saying b yoe right, bring your own energy, bring your
Speaker 6: own enthusiasm. So, uh, we had to do that today.
Speaker 6: Then they got the dirt out here, you know, they
Speaker 6: got to get the I'd tell you this is the
Speaker 6: greatest organization ever. Right, not only do they resawe the fields,
Speaker 6: they reside the resaw the side grass. You know, this
Speaker 6: is Steve Bushatti is the best.
Speaker 5: John Obviously, the left dog battle has been something you
Speaker 5: be talking a lot about.
Speaker 3: You feel any better about that pending decision now as we.
Speaker 10: Get closer to the end.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I think we've got a good handle on all
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 8: All.
Speaker 6: You guys have all played well and we're still rotating guys.
Speaker 6: You saw in the last game we moved some guys
Speaker 6: around and got them work in some different spots. So
Speaker 6: we'll continue to do that, probably through the last preseason
Speaker 6: game because it's the way it goes during the season.
Speaker 6: But we'll probably wait to make any kind of like announcements.
Speaker 6: If we do before the first game, we'll make them
Speaker 6: after the next game with respect, you know, for what
Speaker 6: we have to do Saturday night.
Speaker 7: Think that those positions want to solve before you have
Speaker 7: it sold in the seasons or something that.
Speaker 6: Competition, you know, that's a great question.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 6: I think when you go, when you go in, you
Speaker 6: go and you know planning it for it to be settled.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know that's what you want. You want
Speaker 6: it to be. You want to go well, and you
Speaker 6: want those those guys to be cohesive and work together
Speaker 6: and become a unit. But also with the ability for
Speaker 6: guys to plug in and not have any kind of
Speaker 6: drop offer any change at all. So really we're working
Speaker 6: for all that stuff. So I think your que the
Speaker 6: answer your questions. Yeah, we want to work, you know,
Speaker 6: we want to be great, but we'll also be working
Speaker 6: for all the variables.
Speaker 10: You got rocket scene and other corners back on the
Speaker 10: field today, you feel like obviously good about them being back.
Speaker 1: In the amount of time they have to ramp up threek.
Speaker 6: One, I do I do. I think they've got to
Speaker 6: go to work, you know, they've got to keep picking
Speaker 6: up speed and all those kind of things, get their
Speaker 6: get their technique home. That's a lot of time to
Speaker 6: be out. But by the same time time they were
Speaker 6: in great shape before so though, and they've been in
Speaker 6: all the meetings, they've been in the walkthroughs, so they
Speaker 6: should be up to speed mentally. So I feel really
Speaker 6: good about where they're at.
Speaker 3: We didn't see Andrews out there, So he's dealing with
Speaker 3: some kind of.
Speaker 6: Interest thing, nothing serious. He's just uh, he's dealing with
Speaker 6: something that we're kind of working through right now. Wave
Speaker 6: got a few weeks two week, but if you anticipate
Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson playing the last preseason.
Speaker 4: Game at all.
Speaker 6: You know he wants to, I can tell you that much.
Speaker 6: So that's that's really all I have to say about that.
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 6: What is that? What Forrest Gump said, It's really all
Speaker 6: I have to say about that. We'll leave it at that.
Speaker 6: A Forrest Gump quote. H.
Speaker 3: JK. He's been out there, but it's been.
Speaker 7: In this weekend saying now what I what did you
Speaker 7: see that?
Speaker 4: As him?
Speaker 7: But the more important as the guys ramp up seeing
Speaker 7: that process.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a great point. And we're gonna want to
Speaker 6: see JK. I mean, Jk's looked fast out there, He's
Speaker 6: looked good. Give him more and more work here in
Speaker 6: the next two weeks. I think he's gonna be taking
Speaker 6: tons of reps and getting ready to go. H he's
Speaker 6: not gonna play in the last preseason game. You know,
Speaker 6: he probably wouldn't do it anyway, you know, based on
Speaker 6: what happened last time. So he'll be ready to go
Speaker 6: in the regular season and and uh, we'll get him ready.
Speaker 3: Then you've talked about how hard you saw Bateman work
Speaker 3: to come back.
Speaker 6: Who were maybe a couple of the signs that you
Speaker 6: saw along the way that me to say, I think
Speaker 6: this is going well. That question well, I mean, you know,
Speaker 6: I don't know. It's just it was where he cared
Speaker 6: so much. I guess i'd probably if you can say
Speaker 6: a sign quote unquote, he just cared so much and
Speaker 6: there was some emotional roller coaster. He'll probably tell you that.
Speaker 6: You know, there's some emotional roller coaster through that whole process,
Speaker 6: and he had to kind of deal with that and
Speaker 6: the only only an individual can deal with himself. You
Speaker 6: can't do anything for him that way. But he kept fighting,
Speaker 6: he kept working. He looks really good out there, and
Speaker 6: I'm expecting him to have a real great season.
Speaker 3: I think, uh Gino and Chamara or not.
Speaker 6: Chamar has a sprained ligament in his knee. It's multiple
Speaker 6: week kind of deal, so he won't you won't see
Speaker 6: him Saturday. U Gino's okay, just got a little sore
Speaker 6: with the ankles, so we just kind of held him
Speaker 6: out todays.
Speaker 3: Respect your side.
Speaker 6: Think the the screws out of the having that surgery down.
Speaker 4: It's religious BN last year.
Speaker 7: I mean, this is kind of a fascinating of an
Speaker 7: Areo pending for whatever it comes.
Speaker 3: When he's actually technical contact.
Speaker 4: Was what could have happened pay back from that with
Speaker 4: rank injury?
Speaker 6: You know, it's a very fair question, but I don't
Speaker 6: know the answer. I think this is kind of what
Speaker 6: we expect him to be back. That was what the
Speaker 6: conversation was all along. But you know how it is.
Speaker 6: It's always challenging, it's it's ever easy. I'm just happy
Speaker 6: that he's back and he's practicing and he'll be ready
Speaker 6: to go jump.
Speaker 9: You know they haven't been here too long, but Clowney
Speaker 9: and Darby, how have they looked now with a few
Speaker 9: practices over the Belton?
Speaker 3: Do you want to see them in the last preseason
Speaker 3: game like you.
Speaker 6: Know I do, Yeah, honestly, And again you know, those
Speaker 6: guys are talking to me like they want to go,
Speaker 6: but we've got to talk about that kind of as
Speaker 6: a staff and organization. Also the player weighs in, you know,
Speaker 6: what's best for them to be ready for the first game.
Speaker 6: And you know, I don't know that we'll make those
Speaker 6: decisions on some of those either or guys until probably
Speaker 6: you know, Friday Saturday.
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