Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens completed
Speaker 1: their last day of mandatory mini camp and after practice,
Speaker 1: we had the chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh,
Speaker 1: cornerbacks Marlon Humphrey and Rocky Scene, and right guard Kevin Zeitler. First,
Speaker 1: let's start things off with head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Okay, great seeing everybody here. Thank you for being here
Speaker 2: the whole mini camp and throughout the off season. We
Speaker 2: sure appreciate it, and it's been very productive. Spirits have
Speaker 2: been high, you know, body mind, spirit. Guys have been
Speaker 2: doing a great job trying to take care of themselves
Speaker 2: in every single kind of way, be the best player
Speaker 2: that can, be the best teammate they can be, and
Speaker 2: that's what we try to strive for. So this is
Speaker 2: the end of this part of it and then we'll
Speaker 2: start the next part of it when the guys get back,
Speaker 2: and this interim time is some time that they need
Speaker 2: to kind of, like Marlin talked about to the guys
Speaker 2: right now, think about what you want to accomplish this year,
Speaker 2: you know, and what you need, whatever it might be.
Speaker 2: And everybody's got somewhat of a different motivation and whatever
Speaker 2: that thing is think about it and think about how
Speaker 2: you're gonna get accomplished. And I thought that was a
Speaker 2: great message to everybody going forward. So what questions you have?
Speaker 3: I mean, you just mentioned about mortals.
Speaker 4: Did you have any particular message?
Speaker 2: I did, I did, I did, may not say you
Speaker 2: the main one, now I remember it was brilliant by
Speaker 2: the way. No, I just said, preparation pays off. You know,
Speaker 2: we rep what we sew and let's make the most
Speaker 2: of the next few weeks and be gare to roll.
Speaker 2: I did say the days are long, the years are short,
Speaker 2: the weeks are even shorter, and the days are even
Speaker 2: gonna be short as it gets close to camp. So
Speaker 2: the time is coming. Let's roll. John.
Speaker 5: We haven't seen JK out there the last three years.
Speaker 6: Do you have any of the job there out there?
Speaker 2: I really don't know. I expected JK to practice and
Speaker 2: it just it wasn't in the cards apparently, So we'll
Speaker 2: just get ready for training camp. Tell me over the.
Speaker 5: Course of the three involved that at the minus sum
Speaker 5: you've hear that as a plus for the defense minus
Speaker 5: from the offense and offensively, how do.
Speaker 6: You change that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You try, And I mean that's a little bit
Speaker 2: of a dilemma because we're not in pad. So the
Speaker 2: offensive line can't do what they would do to keep
Speaker 2: those hands down because it's a non contact thing. So
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways, the offense has big advantages
Speaker 2: because the defense isn't contesting any passes. So you see
Speaker 2: a lot of passes completed that the defense would contest
Speaker 2: in a regular environment. This is when that goes to
Speaker 2: the defense because the offense can't do what they've got
Speaker 2: to do to block those guys to get their hands down.
Speaker 2: So and I don't want to keep the hands down
Speaker 2: because I want guys to practice batting the ball down.
Speaker 2: I think that's a learned trait and it's a reaction.
Speaker 2: So we go ahead and let them do it, and
Speaker 2: then help me figure. We put the ankle weights on
Speaker 2: the quarterback in the sense that you've got to learn
Speaker 2: to throw through those hands with the ankle weights on,
Speaker 2: you know, six weeks at camp and need to pitch
Speaker 2: the part serves.
Speaker 6: J.
Speaker 2: Housers. Don't have any issue with JK. He should be ready,
Speaker 2: Tyas should be ready. Riccard won't be ready to start.
Speaker 2: He'll be on pop to start, but he should be
Speaker 2: ready shortly there after he's said he had hip surgery,
Speaker 2: So there's a certain timeline to that one. And uh
Speaker 2: Jalen Armor Davis should be ready to roll. That's the
Speaker 2: ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Speaker 2: He just came back. His knee kind of kind of
Speaker 2: bothered him a little bit. He was ready to go.
Speaker 2: He's rehabbing full speed, and then when he came back
Speaker 2: his knee kind of flared up for some reason.
Speaker 7: Johnny JK and Gus not being on the field this spring,
Speaker 7: Justice Hill seemed like it took all the reps with
Speaker 7: its starting of offense.
Speaker 2: How do you think he How pleased were you to
Speaker 2: get him back to figured out he did? He did
Speaker 2: a good job. I mean he u all those reps
Speaker 2: helped him. I think he was looking uh I you know,
Speaker 2: repetition is the name of the game, you know, opportunity
Speaker 2: to get better. You know, you you get better, you
Speaker 2: get worse. It takes one hundred percent effort to get
Speaker 2: one percent better. You're gonna say, well, he's throwing all
Speaker 2: these cloches out, Yeah, but they're cliches for a reason.
Speaker 2: There's truth involved. Some of these are self evident truths,
Speaker 2: you know, and uh. I think I think Justice made
Speaker 2: the most of it. John Longosa Lines.
Speaker 5: Who saw the rookie of all over It would take
Speaker 5: a lot of first team reps at left guard. No
Speaker 5: one's heart to judge without the pass, but as he
Speaker 5: himself in the position to compete for the.
Speaker 2: Starting job coming, he has childs, he has, he has
Speaker 2: done a great job, and he's in the mix right now.
Speaker 2: I'd say he saw him with the first team. We
Speaker 2: wanted to get a looked at him in there and
Speaker 2: see how it looked with him in there. One thing
Speaker 2: we always try to do, and I think this is
Speaker 2: a little bit rare, but we want to see what
Speaker 2: guys look like with the first group. You know, what
Speaker 2: does it look like? I can you can speculate all
Speaker 2: you want. If they start doing a good job with
Speaker 2: a second group or the third group and you feel
Speaker 2: like they are up to it, you know, I want
Speaker 2: to see how that fits and it looks like it
Speaker 2: fit well.
Speaker 7: John, how close is kind of what you had heard
Speaker 7: about Todd before you hired. It is what you had
Speaker 7: seen here, including your sister's scoutgy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, it's a man. There's nothing like
Speaker 2: the real thing, right and seeing Todd in real life
Speaker 2: is is even better than reports. I would say, you know,
Speaker 2: he's he's he's a very good teacher. You know, he
Speaker 2: does it in a very energetic kind of way, the
Speaker 2: way that we love to see around here. You know, uh,
Speaker 2: he's just very relatable. He's also you know, a very
Speaker 2: detailed coach, especially in the passing game, but not just that,
Speaker 2: you know, the protection, the run game, the quarterback, reads everything.
Speaker 2: He's very involved, very hands on. You know, our coaches
Speaker 2: over the years have all been like that. I think
Speaker 2: Todd Junique in his way of doing it. You guys
Speaker 2: get a chance to see it. You know, how can
Speaker 2: I describe it? You guys just watch it. What you
Speaker 2: see out there is what what the what? He is
Speaker 2: all the time. You know, that's his personality, and I
Speaker 2: think it's a great way to reach guys. Gon he is.
Speaker 3: I think it was a couple of weeks ago to
Speaker 3: Ota l Mar said, in this offensive tools, you're going
Speaker 3: to throw the ball more. And of course everyone's going on,
Speaker 3: what's that going to look like?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 4: You know what, how do you envision that?
Speaker 3: I mean, do you feel that this is an offense
Speaker 3: where you are going to throw the ball a little
Speaker 3: bit more and maybe how money works.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's it's like, it's not a comparison,
Speaker 2: it's it's a comparison question what you're asking me, And
Speaker 2: you know it is it is very well veiled, you know.
Speaker 2: And and you know you do what you got to
Speaker 2: do from year to year, from game to game based
Speaker 2: on what you need to try to do to win
Speaker 2: the game. Which way We've always looked at it, whether
Speaker 2: it was last year, it's specially towards the end of
Speaker 2: the year. You know, what was done was done because
Speaker 2: if it gave us the best chance to win in
Speaker 2: our eyes, and we were playing pretty good football, you know,
Speaker 2: right there at the end. So but this is this
Speaker 2: is the new year. We have new players, you know,
Speaker 2: we have new opportunity, we have a new system. We
Speaker 2: put a whole new system in. I like the system
Speaker 2: because I like the temple of it. I like the
Speaker 2: way it communicates, the way it operates, and I think
Speaker 2: within that system, we're gonna be able to do whatever
Speaker 2: we need to do. So we're gonna be able to
Speaker 2: run the ball. You know, We're gonna be physical, for sure,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be part of it. But we're gonna be
Speaker 2: able to throw the ball too. And then as far
Speaker 2: as Lamar's six thousand yard thing, you know, I heard
Speaker 2: that quote. You know, I was there. I know what
Speaker 2: he meant. You know, he was saying, basically, how many
Speaker 2: yards you gonna throw for? Whatever the question was, He's
Speaker 2: basically saying, how about six thousand? You know you want
Speaker 2: a number, And he was really saying it was, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter how many yards we throw for. We could
Speaker 2: throw for ten thousand yards. But the point is we're
Speaker 2: gonna try to win the game. Someone's gonna misconstrue that
Speaker 2: someone's gonna misconstrue that we could throw for two thousand.
Speaker 2: Who cares? Who cares? Nobody cares. You know, what we
Speaker 2: care about is what we need to do to win
Speaker 2: the game, play winning football, winning offense. And I know
Speaker 2: that's what Lamar was saying, which he tried to explain
Speaker 2: yesterday again, and I'm sure those who were listening, you know,
Speaker 2: they understood it. So but thanks, thanks for the opportunity.
Speaker 7: That's okay, I'm just sweetening out that.
Speaker 2: Media job with the Progers. You've seen them, Yeah, great question.
Speaker 2: You know all those pass rushers for sure, Dafe and
Speaker 2: a job, you kind of put them together. But uh,
Speaker 2: David has done great. He looks great to me. I
Speaker 2: told him today. I just I'm really excited to see
Speaker 2: him and when the pads come on, see what you
Speaker 2: can do. Those guys. We've definitely been holding those guys back.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's it's not a pass it's
Speaker 2: a pass rushing technique camp. But you know, we're staying
Speaker 2: with the quarterback and we will be in training camp too,
Speaker 2: but we will have one on ones and things like that.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see those guys roll, you know
Speaker 2: for the games. You know, preseason games are gonna take
Speaker 2: on a big time added interest watching those guys rush
Speaker 2: the passer.
Speaker 3: John said at the end of the season day, I
Speaker 3: think you mentioned about revamping the wide receiver from a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: Did you envision I mean, he's have like five for
Speaker 2: more first round picks. Now, this is exactly what we
Speaker 2: had in mind. Of course, you know, I envisioned us
Speaker 2: doing the best we could and uh and ignoring much
Speaker 2: of the media reports that you know, receivers didn't want
Speaker 2: to come here and all that all that nonsense, you know, Uh,
Speaker 2: and that's uh, and that's what you do. You know,
Speaker 2: because I feel like this is a great destination for
Speaker 2: any player all the time, especially guys that love football. Now,
Speaker 2: if you don't like football and you don't like to practice,
Speaker 2: you like to lift weights, you don't like meetings, you know,
Speaker 2: it's not your thing, then you definitely don't want to
Speaker 2: come to Baltimore. But if you like football, you love football,
Speaker 2: you know, and you like to compete. You're tough, and
Speaker 2: you're you're smart, and uh you like to be a
Speaker 2: good teammate, this is definitely the place for you. And
Speaker 2: those guys saw that, you know, and now we got
Speaker 2: to go get good. I mean, okay, how good are we?
Speaker 2: We're as good as we play. And that's the next step.
Speaker 3: I'm wondering, John, do you embrace the attention you can't
Speaker 3: walk go past the TV in the morning where you
Speaker 3: have to do enough to blog on the ravens? Do
Speaker 3: you tell your players don't look at.
Speaker 2: That or it's there? It's you know, do you jerry
Speaker 2: kids not to look at TV and social media?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 2: I mean, are gonna look at it? Your to your point?
Speaker 2: So the answer is no. I think it's a great question,
Speaker 2: and uh I I I think our guys understand, you
Speaker 2: know what it means to be a professional. And I
Speaker 2: mean there's a lot of things that are said that
Speaker 2: aren't positive either, you know, and you're not gonna live
Speaker 2: in that world either. So I I think we focus
Speaker 2: on being as as good of a football team and
Speaker 2: and and get our execution to where it needs to be,
Speaker 2: then go out there and let it rip on game
Speaker 2: day and and see what happens. And Stanley's just no, no,
Speaker 2: they had they had issues of uh Odell, I think
Speaker 2: you got a whole some bad fish or something yesterday
Speaker 2: and he was very sick and uh uh Ronnie just
Speaker 2: is uh he got stepped on and I think he
Speaker 2: wanted to. It was Ronnie's choice, you know, just to
Speaker 2: play it safe a little bit, and I I was
Speaker 2: fine with that.
Speaker 9: I know what, maybe very premature. You kind of looted
Speaker 9: that we may see guys like a jaga in the preseason.
Speaker 9: We didn't see any starters in the preseason last year.
Speaker 2: He thought him, Did we not play a job on
Speaker 2: the preseason last year? You know, you got a short memory.
Speaker 2: I'm a whole corner right goldfish. He wasn't oh job, well,
Speaker 2: I was thinking of Dae. Did we see a DAFE
Speaker 2: last year. We did, we did pass rushes, we did okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you. He did play okay. So with that context,
Speaker 2: because you were kind of taking the context in another direction, I.
Speaker 9: Don't even know if you thought about it.
Speaker 2: What have you thought about how you want to handle Well,
Speaker 2: those two guys are going to get out there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they'll get out there.
Speaker 10: John did the limited snaps of some of those top
Speaker 10: line receivers. You think that's gonna get your way of
Speaker 10: evaluation of this passing games, But haven't leave.
Speaker 2: I would say we're not evaluating yet.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: You know, Zay had so soft tissue thigue he was
Speaker 2: fighting through for the last couple of weeks. That's not
Speaker 2: unexpected for rookies that come in and do a lot
Speaker 2: of running, although he is in great shape. So we're
Speaker 2: gonna have a We're gonna have a lot of bodies
Speaker 2: in here, all competitive guys fighting for either thoughts in
Speaker 2: the team or practice squad spots. So as long as
Speaker 2: our numbers stay high, it won't be a problem. I
Speaker 2: do want to see all the starters out there in
Speaker 2: training camp. Obviously, we need that. They need to be
Speaker 2: out there practicing. Uh and you know, when they're not,
Speaker 2: that's that's something you have to overcome. So hopefully they'll
Speaker 2: all be out there and be rolling the whole time.
Speaker 10: Question you know, well, the last time we see you
Speaker 10: for training camp, you know, ceculation, that was what possible
Speaker 10: addition you got to go?
Speaker 6: I'm sure you got.
Speaker 10: As an ongoing dialogue with Eric, I guess just kind
Speaker 10: of where you think this rosser stands and old.
Speaker 2: Bad boys might be afford. I mean to me, the
Speaker 2: roster is good enough to go play, you know, with
Speaker 2: no changes, and uh it's it's never so good that
Speaker 2: it can't be improved, you know. So, uh well, if
Speaker 2: there's an opportunity, I'm sure that we'll and because that's
Speaker 2: how Eric thinks, we'll make the most of it. All right, Thanks, guys.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Past podcast. That was
Speaker 1: head coach John Harbaugh talking to the media after practice.
Speaker 1: We also got the chance to hear from cornerback Marlin
Speaker 1: Humphrey and here he is.
Speaker 3: Now team out there. Can you just kind of share
Speaker 3: and what kind of motivated you to deliver that message?
Speaker 4: Actually, we'll motivate it.
Speaker 8: Uh Me and Lamar were talking in the training room
Speaker 8: the other day, but just talking about you know, a
Speaker 8: quick message, just you know, I think to win a
Speaker 8: super Bowl, you know, you gotta put a lot of
Speaker 8: time and effort in. And I think, you know, while
Speaker 8: we we got in some good work OTA's Mini camp,
Speaker 8: you got this big break. Whether it's you want to
Speaker 8: hang out with your dog a lot, wanna hang out
Speaker 8: with your girl a lot, wanna hang out with this
Speaker 8: try to do as much as that as you can,
Speaker 8: cause when we come back, we want everybody to be
Speaker 8: putting as much time in the football as you can.
Speaker 8: You know, the off seasons are long, plenty of time,
Speaker 8: but when you you don't these days, these practices, you know,
Speaker 8: being in the NFL, it's a it's a very short
Speaker 8: span compared to the rest of your life. So I
Speaker 8: know that's one of the things that I plan on,
Speaker 8: you know, making different different in this season, putting as
Speaker 8: much time as I can than I than I ever
Speaker 8: had before. So you know, I think we can all
Speaker 8: echo that be on the same you know one accord,
Speaker 8: I think special things can happen with this team.
Speaker 3: Going alone with that, it seems like your team, uh
Speaker 3: just your vocal leadership.
Speaker 5: Is this what you envisioned when you were a wide
Speaker 5: having ownership takes leadership over the team.
Speaker 8: It's it's definitely come full circle. When I first got here,
Speaker 8: I mean I just had you know, SiZ, you know,
Speaker 8: we or beat car Jimmy. I honestly didn't see it
Speaker 8: then because there was just so many guys that were
Speaker 8: those leaders for me that I still, you know, you know,
Speaker 8: look up to guys that just put so much in
Speaker 8: my ear. But it was, you know, the last year
Speaker 8: or two, you know, you start realizing you're telling stories
Speaker 8: and nobody else was here other than you, so uh,
Speaker 8: you know, it's you kind of you know, you feel
Speaker 8: like a young guy, and then you realize you're not
Speaker 8: a young guy. Yeah, guys coming up. Man, I watched
Speaker 8: you in high school and I'm like, okay, like what
Speaker 8: do you what are you trying to say? So you
Speaker 8: kind of just realize, you know, it's kind of your
Speaker 8: time to do that now. And you know, I think
Speaker 8: you know that being here for for so long and
Speaker 8: you know, getting a second deal, I think that was
Speaker 8: something that kind of was the unwritten thing that they
Speaker 8: expected me to do. And I think it's a challenge
Speaker 8: of times, but with these it's a challenge with these
Speaker 8: young guys sometimes, but it's, uh, you know, it's it's
Speaker 8: kind of my duty to to do that, and so
Speaker 8: I just try to do the best I can.
Speaker 10: You're about the offense and codd long getting from your
Speaker 10: perspective is how do.
Speaker 2: You think it's coming along?
Speaker 10: What have you seen from and how encouraged are you
Speaker 10: lining up against it in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: That looks good.
Speaker 8: You know, it's we it's been We've had a year
Speaker 8: or two to me to where on paper, you know,
Speaker 8: we look scary. I think the product we put out,
Speaker 8: you know that that that's really all that really matters.
Speaker 8: But on paper, man, we look very scary.
Speaker 4: And that's uh.
Speaker 8: I know when I go into the season, you know,
Speaker 8: obviously before the season even starts, you look at everybody
Speaker 8: you play, You're like, Okay, they've got a core, they've
Speaker 8: got a core, they've got this, they've got this.
Speaker 4: And then we're we're one of those teams.
Speaker 8: So the only thing I feel for us, you know,
Speaker 8: we got the pieces, it's just putting them together, working together,
Speaker 8: figuring out how it works, you know, putting out a product.
Speaker 8: You know, I think it's it's really easy to talk
Speaker 8: about all the great receivers, we got all the great
Speaker 8: running backs, we got all the great dbs, we got
Speaker 8: the good d line. But I think this is a
Speaker 8: year of just proving it.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 8: You know, Lamar gets a big contract, Let's prove it.
Speaker 8: I'll get a big contrat. Let's prove Roquond gets a
Speaker 8: big count, Let's prove it. So I think, you know,
Speaker 8: we got a lot of good players, But to me,
Speaker 8: I just wanna prove it.
Speaker 9: Oh, obviously, Obj's one of the bigger names that's been
Speaker 9: added to this ross.
Speaker 2: If you guys have had back going.
Speaker 9: Up against each other, and gage's it been like to
Speaker 9: go up against.
Speaker 4: Them their practice, Uh, it's been good, you know.
Speaker 8: Uh uh meeting him in the off season actually uh
Speaker 8: at uh Givonte Davis's fight meeting him then and then
Speaker 8: you know, Uh, anytime I meet a guy that just
Speaker 8: signed our team, in the first conversation you have is
Speaker 8: about a Super Bowl is uh is a really good
Speaker 8: thing to me?
Speaker 6: You know it.
Speaker 4: I know his mind's right.
Speaker 8: I've been talking to him as he's been training up
Speaker 8: there with say quant and everything, So I know his
Speaker 8: mind's right.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 8: And we come back, Uh, we're all gonna be just
Speaker 8: ready to go training camp, get the battles going. Him
Speaker 8: and all the guys we got. I'm just really excited
Speaker 8: to get some really good working in training camp with
Speaker 8: some really elite receivers, uh him and along with the
Speaker 8: other guys that we've had here and the other guys
Speaker 8: we've signed. So really excited for that.
Speaker 6: Uh I did it was?
Speaker 3: It brought up the uh the one field scuffle at
Speaker 3: all between you guys to.
Speaker 8: Uh he he said in training camp, He's gonna have
Speaker 8: to throw me a jab. So I'm not looking forward
Speaker 8: to that. But uh well, once we get that out
Speaker 8: of the way, it'll just be uh competitive battles after that.
Speaker 2: Carlin.
Speaker 10: He talks about your contracts that guys can't come back,
Speaker 10: and think some of the leaders who are back, including themselves,
Speaker 10: have you had during this OTAs or many campus times.
Speaker 10: It kind of reflects on just how many questions the
Speaker 10: word of me in the last season, and and.
Speaker 2: How you guys have been able to maintain.
Speaker 10: This degree of continuity that you know when to take
Speaker 10: a lot of mess.
Speaker 2: The feel was gonna be pay better than the school.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think we we we haven't had those conversations,
Speaker 8: but you know, I was. I was very and that
Speaker 8: was actually one of the messages coach Harbs and uh
Speaker 8: DC had with us when we started mini camp was
Speaker 8: just this offseason, we they felt more than ever, and
Speaker 8: I felt as well. Looking outside looking in, it felt
Speaker 8: more than ever. We put a roster together that should
Speaker 8: be able to compete for a super Bowl. And I
Speaker 8: think that's to me. I think Ravens fans, everybody has
Speaker 8: has seen a difference in that. You know, you you
Speaker 8: pay the best quarterback in the league, you get O'Dell,
Speaker 8: you put all these pieces together. The talent is there,
Speaker 8: it is just putting it all together. So I've been
Speaker 8: very pleased with the front office what they've done this offseason,
Speaker 8: you know, I think, and so that that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 4: That was the whole point of my message. Let's not
Speaker 4: waste this window. You know, we all know.
Speaker 8: Windows open and they close very quickly. So let's not
Speaker 8: waste his opportunity because we got a really good opportunity
Speaker 8: in front of us.
Speaker 7: Would have been your impressions of wrong coming in and
Speaker 7: looking like he's gonna start out on the outside opposite
Speaker 7: of you.
Speaker 4: Loo's good.
Speaker 8: I've really liked some of the corners we've signed. I
Speaker 8: knew we were probably gonna sign one or two. Got
Speaker 8: Got Trey, got Rock Kyu. It's actually Q, but I
Speaker 8: call them KYU. But I really really like I think
Speaker 8: in the secondary, man, we just want to figure out
Speaker 8: who can be doesn't matter if your safety doesn't matter,
Speaker 8: of your safety playing this out of your corner. We
Speaker 8: want to get the best six dbs on the field.
Speaker 8: How you can do that, We got a lot of
Speaker 8: different pieces, so how you spin it around. We kind
Speaker 8: of want to be to where anybody can play any position,
Speaker 8: and so I think we got some really good pieces
Speaker 8: to be able to do that. He's a strong guy,
Speaker 8: so I'm I'm a fan of how strong he is.
Speaker 8: He plays really tough. You know, as as we've talked,
Speaker 8: he just we we both kind of build from the
Speaker 8: same cloth as far as you know, the physicalness. Don't
Speaker 8: really care if you get beat. You know you want
Speaker 8: to have You want to have corners and dbs that
Speaker 8: don't have any egos. You know, you get beat, you
Speaker 8: get to the line, you play the same way. You're
Speaker 8: not worried about this, not worried about that. You don't
Speaker 8: care who makes the play. You're just wanting somebody to
Speaker 8: make the play. So I really like, you know, Rock's mindset,
Speaker 8: Marx's mindset. I mean, I been a year with him,
Speaker 8: but I love his mindset as well. So the guys
Speaker 8: we got, you know, we leave him the right way,
Speaker 8: we get going, and uh, there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 8: of good battles.
Speaker 5: A lot of headlines. Guys are in the league and
Speaker 5: investigative for Gamble League. Parvos said that Eric I'll talk
Speaker 5: to you guys about that when he did talk to
Speaker 5: you on Monday.
Speaker 9: Do you worry about that at all?
Speaker 5: I mean, do you think there's any sort of lack
Speaker 5: of clarities among the guys about what you can do
Speaker 5: and what you can't do or do you think it's
Speaker 5: pretty straightforward?
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's there's a lot been going on, but you know,
Speaker 8: coach did talk about that. Coaching ADC talked about that
Speaker 8: and in the meeting, So hopefully that's the end of that.
Speaker 3: Well about like the offense and kinds of weapons they
Speaker 3: put around Lamar, I mean, are you interested in seeing
Speaker 3: so what now Lamar can do as far as you
Speaker 3: think elevating his game, as far as passing and throwing
Speaker 3: the ball, with everything they've done around him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean he's got he's got a lot of
Speaker 8: good pieces obviously, but I'm really excited for how all
Speaker 8: that messes. Obviously, we all know the talent Lamar is.
Speaker 8: You know new oc, you know a lot, a lot
Speaker 8: of new things. So I think camp will be really
Speaker 8: good to get a good vision. But you know, everything
Speaker 8: looks on paper right now, and I'm so excited for
Speaker 8: us just put in the work and really earn that
Speaker 8: and just go out and prove it.
Speaker 6: I know, it's just your career.
Speaker 9: You you've done a lot individual you do you are
Speaker 9: you still at the points of where individually you're still
Speaker 9: trump that they are still gold that you want to achieve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are.
Speaker 8: For me, it's just it's it's always it's always really
Speaker 8: accomplishing to feel like you're one of the best in
Speaker 8: the league. And I feel that, you know, we all
Speaker 8: know it's a passing it's a passing league. It's a
Speaker 8: passing league. So you can defend the past, you're gonna
Speaker 8: have a pretty good chance. So for me, I know,
Speaker 8: if I can play my best football, we have a
Speaker 8: really good chance of winning football games. So that that's
Speaker 8: the biggest thing for me, there's no you know, my
Speaker 8: dad all the time played in that Super Bowl. I
Speaker 8: don't know how bad they lost, but it was pretty bad.
Speaker 8: So I'm I'm I'm trying to do that. Tryna, you know,
Speaker 8: get out of those footsteps, but but be on the
Speaker 8: other side celebrating. So for me, uh, individual complishments are great,
Speaker 8: But for me, I just want to be able to
Speaker 8: play my best football to give our cha, our team
Speaker 8: the best chance at winning.
Speaker 3: See times Uh by the golf cart, Pokoma, Steve and
Speaker 3: the little bit. We are some of the conversations that
Speaker 3: you have.
Speaker 4: You know, we have some good conversations.
Speaker 8: Uh, mister Brashati, I've honestly, if if I'm really being honest,
Speaker 8: we were talking about ladies, specifically my lady. You know,
Speaker 8: it's giving me some advice on love. Actually, believe it
Speaker 8: or not. At football practice we were talking about love.
Speaker 4: So he gave me.
Speaker 8: He gave me some good advice there. I've it's have
Speaker 8: a very unique relationship with Shoddy Harbs e DC. I've
Speaker 8: actually told all three of these men about my love life.
Speaker 8: So I got I got a special lady. I've been
Speaker 8: proud just about everybody in the building that it's really
Speaker 8: not really, but it's uh, yeah, that's what we were
Speaker 8: talking about.
Speaker 4: It was a pretty good conversation. But you know, I
Speaker 4: just love it here. Honestly.
Speaker 8: I I can't really stress it enough. How they've you know,
Speaker 8: brought me in, came in at twenty. You know, I've
Speaker 8: really tried to earn you know, these guys respect. Honestly,
Speaker 8: I've just tried to come do things the right way.
Speaker 8: You know, I say I say often. I really don't
Speaker 8: say often, but I said at the first time the
Speaker 8: other day. But I just feel like I'm a product
Speaker 8: of my parents, and you know I was. I got
Speaker 8: lucky enough to get to be fortunate enough to get
Speaker 8: really a really good mom and dad, and you know,
Speaker 8: I just try to not shout too much away from
Speaker 8: you know, their teachings and you know, a product of
Speaker 8: my environment as such. So just being able to come
Speaker 8: in and be honest and talk to guys like that
Speaker 8: that have that have welcomed me like you know, their
Speaker 8: own it's it's really just been a blessing to me.
Speaker 10: With the raised point and salt minkins, obviously, I'm sure
Speaker 10: you have some experience Flushing Alabama, Georgia the.
Speaker 2: Past couple of years. I was, what's excited about that offense?
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 8: I haven't got to know them that much. I was, actually,
Speaker 8: you know, you learn coach about what the You learn
Speaker 8: coaches a little bit about what they wear. You know,
Speaker 8: there there sweater, they're a short guy, they're.
Speaker 4: A hat guy.
Speaker 8: Hita, he's he's a little bit of a runner, you
Speaker 8: know what I mean. I don't use him when he's running,
Speaker 8: that means we did something bad, so and he's a
Speaker 8: Georgia guy, so we're not on the best terms as
Speaker 8: of now. But you know, hopefully he can do more
Speaker 8: running during the season, lesson training camp for us and
Speaker 8: we can be on a really good foot.
Speaker 2: How a home you feel here?
Speaker 5: Especially in second contract and mentioned fight at Orioles games
Speaker 5: urs this offseason and went to prekiens.
Speaker 2: And how important to you?
Speaker 10: What is it to kind of go to these things
Speaker 10: around the area and and feel settled in this community?
Speaker 10: And is that something you try to encourage.
Speaker 8: Other guys on this team that, Yeah, it's really cool
Speaker 8: getting to go to Ools games, you know, meeting Ools players,
Speaker 8: going to the tank fight. I see this guy celebrating
Speaker 8: really aggressively, and then it's Ray Lewis right in front
Speaker 8: of me. I'm like, I don't know how I didn't
Speaker 8: see this still swoll guy in front of me. Ray,
Speaker 8: But it it's really cool to to do those things
Speaker 8: in the city. It's just the more I I hang out,
Speaker 8: you just realize, you know, Baltimore and the Ravens are
Speaker 8: just one, you know what I mean. So that's that's
Speaker 8: the That's been the really cool thing, going to different
Speaker 8: events and Preakness and it's really cool, you know, I
Speaker 8: think you know, when I was coming from Alabama, it's
Speaker 8: all about Alabama football. So just having a pro team
Speaker 8: to root for, playing for a team that you know,
Speaker 8: it's nothing but love, It's it's pretty cool. So and
Speaker 8: then moving down, moving downtown has really sparked a lot.
Speaker 8: I've I've really got to see the city a lot more,
Speaker 8: just going out to eat, different things, just being able
Speaker 8: to walk around.
Speaker 4: So it's a cool city. Uh for me. I I
Speaker 4: really enjoyed it, and uh look forward to, you know,
Speaker 4: just being home for a really long time.
Speaker 9: Marlon, what have you learned about yourself or doing these
Speaker 9: past couple.
Speaker 4: Weeks, past couple of weeks, past couple weeks. Football, it doesn't.
Speaker 9: Matter I see you're you're a lover.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've.
Speaker 8: Uh communication a lot off the field, the lady, but
Speaker 8: also on the uh in the building as well. Uh,
Speaker 8: I've actually it's it's been communication breeds understanding at a
Speaker 8: couple poor communications on the field couple times.
Speaker 4: But that's okay.
Speaker 8: But uh, that's gonna be a big thing I think
Speaker 8: going forward, coming back on the field. Just communicating, communicating,
Speaker 8: communicating as loud as you can. And I've already allowed guy,
Speaker 8: so that's really shouldn't be too hard for me to communicate.
Speaker 8: But I think communication is key, whether you're telling somebody
Speaker 8: to jog off, whether someone's telling you to jog off
Speaker 8: the field, little things stand in your break community, Just communicating,
Speaker 8: talking unnecessarily is never a bad.
Speaker 4: Thing in football.
Speaker 8: So past couple of weeks, love lock communication, football communication,
Speaker 8: and uh everything else. Just communicated, be loud and proud.
Speaker 4: That's all I got.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens press past podcas Now let's
Speaker 1: hear from cornerback rock you have scene.
Speaker 7: I don't think we've got a chance to walking into Baltimore.
Speaker 7: Would have been your impressions since shaning Ravens.
Speaker 6: Uh, great environment, a great team like vibe, a lot
Speaker 6: of hard workers, a lot of good players, great organization overall.
Speaker 2: People were talking about you coming here for the months
Speaker 2: before it actually got done.
Speaker 6: Yeah, why did you? Ultimately, why did Why did you
Speaker 6: wanna be your I mean, I I like to fit.
Speaker 6: I like the defense, like the culture, like the organization.
Speaker 6: I mean a lot of really good players to compete with,
Speaker 6: you know, gods to learn from, you know, a great
Speaker 6: locker room, great organization. Like I just felt like it
Speaker 6: was a good fit for me.
Speaker 2: Is there anything in particular that that stood out about
Speaker 2: that feared those conversations.
Speaker 6: Around uh just watching the film, seeing how those guys play,
Speaker 6: you know, uh, seeing kind of locker room those guys have.
Speaker 6: You know, you got guys like Marlow, Marcus row Patrick,
Speaker 6: you know, Dafe. I mean it's just I this list
Speaker 6: goes on, you know, on defense then I mean you
Speaker 6: got probably the best player in the league in Lamar.
Speaker 6: So I mean it's it's just a great, you know,
Speaker 6: great situation for me. I believe what's like it stands
Speaker 6: out to your other personality. So a lot of different personalities,
Speaker 6: you know, but everybody's like comes in, you know, with
Speaker 6: the right attitude, hard working. Uh, you know, competitive, tough, skilled,
Speaker 6: you know, and everybody's like competing and everybody's trying to
Speaker 6: get better. So you know, whenever all of us are
Speaker 6: competing and we're all getting better, I mean, that's great
Speaker 6: for the group.
Speaker 5: In terms of your role, do you do you expect
Speaker 5: to be on the outside mostly.
Speaker 1: Or is that you have to be determined.
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna do whatever they ask me that. I'm
Speaker 6: not sure right now. I mean, I'm working mostly outside now,
Speaker 6: but you know, things change.
Speaker 2: You have a preference, you know, one over the other.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: For myself, I've been playing outside, you know, my first
Speaker 6: four years in the league, So I mean, I probably
Speaker 6: prefer to be out there. But like I said, we'll
Speaker 6: see how it goes.
Speaker 3: Statistically, it looks like you're, especially in the life, you're
Speaker 3: playing at the top of the game. Do you feel
Speaker 3: that that you're, you know, even just even in this
Speaker 3: flowing the league, that you're you're playing at the top
Speaker 3: level right now?
Speaker 6: I feel like I've you know, put together a solid
Speaker 6: last two years of ball. In twenty twenty one in Indie,
Speaker 6: then starting twenty two last year in Vegas, I feel
Speaker 6: like I put together, you know, a decent two years.
Speaker 6: I just want to keep getting better, tho. I don't
Speaker 6: want to become complacent at all. I want to you know,
Speaker 6: that's one of the reason I wanted to come here,
Speaker 6: you know, play and learn from you know, guys like
Speaker 6: Marlin and his coaches, you know, gods that got into
Speaker 6: the place where he is.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: So I'm trying to, you know, learn and continue to
Speaker 6: us sin.
Speaker 10: With the nice reputation of compilations. What if answered that
Speaker 10: to you about to your personal family?
Speaker 6: For his kind of yourself, his knowledge of the game
Speaker 6: is like outstanding being around him, just the the small
Speaker 6: things you know in the meeting rooms and then like
Speaker 6: outside out here on the field, even after practice, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean, you can hang out with him
Speaker 6: for five or ten minutes and you just talk ball
Speaker 6: with him. I mean, he felt like you learned so
Speaker 6: much and you know, such a short amount of time.
Speaker 6: So like, I love being around him. Him and Chris,
Speaker 6: they're like their wealth of knowledge is like amazing.
Speaker 2: It was such an interesting name. I didn't Wikipedia, but
Speaker 2: could you explain us Rock your.
Speaker 6: Real name, and Rock is definitely not my given name.
Speaker 6: My given name is Abdurahman. Even Ram Odin yees Seene.
Speaker 6: It's an Arab name. I'm actually a Muslim, so obviously
Speaker 6: we have you know, Muslim names. But Rock came about
Speaker 6: in high school. Abd Man is like kind of Tom Twister,
Speaker 6: a little bit hard on English speakers. So I had
Speaker 6: a coach man. He couldn't get it for nothing in
Speaker 6: the world. So he was just calling me Rock, and
Speaker 6: I mean, it's stuck all the way till now.
Speaker 2: Thanks you Rock. When you're hungering, you're off you if
Speaker 2: you call me braves kind of.
Speaker 5: Confirm your feelings about the place and culture and whatever.
Speaker 6: That's the place in h I was actually in. I
Speaker 6: was in Vegas last year with Anthony Everett, so you know,
Speaker 6: we talked about, you know, the culture here, you know,
Speaker 6: the guys, the locker room, you know all the time,
Speaker 6: you know, like and you know how it is, you
Speaker 6: know when your teammates would have guy and you're playing
Speaker 6: out the side of a guy. We talked about the
Speaker 6: places you've been, and so I had a good idea
Speaker 6: of what Baltimore was like.
Speaker 2: The wide receivers like here.
Speaker 5: I mean, in terms of the guys you messed up
Speaker 5: with over the last couple weeks, who stood out to.
Speaker 6: I mean they're they're humming, man, they're playing really well.
Speaker 6: Lamar's getting in the ball. Snoops getting in the ball.
Speaker 6: Nelson's looking great, O'Dell obviously, Sean Ryan, I mean Wallace,
Speaker 6: uh pro duve. I mean they all look good, man.
Speaker 6: If they're running really good routes, they're being coached well,
Speaker 6: they're competing, they're taking the ball out the air, so
Speaker 6: you know, iron iron sharpens iron out there, so you know,
Speaker 6: as they get better, we'll get better. As we get better,
Speaker 6: they'll get better. So I mean that's always good for
Speaker 6: the team.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. You just
Speaker 1: heard from Cornerback, Rocky Scene, and now, last but not least,
Speaker 1: let's hear what right guard Kevin Zeitler had to say
Speaker 1: when he spoke to the media after practice.
Speaker 2: So what's your.
Speaker 3: Initial impressions of this new offense?
Speaker 11: Very fun, like meeting Monkin for the first time. Obviously
Speaker 11: me and him were supposed to work together back in
Speaker 11: twenty nineteen in Cleveland, but that didn't work out as planned,
Speaker 11: but so kind of fun to you know, everything comes
Speaker 11: full circle and we get a chance to work together
Speaker 11: now you know, great energy, a bunch of new concepts,
Speaker 11: a lot you know, a lot of potential, I think,
Speaker 11: And obviously you had a good start today, a lot
Speaker 11: of long way to goo, a lot of nice hard
Speaker 11: training camp coming up, and I'm excited to see what
Speaker 11: we can do.
Speaker 2: Kevin, You're and you're obviously going into the least year
Speaker 2: of your deal. Is that is that on your mind
Speaker 2: at all?
Speaker 5: Would you would you like to get some sort of
Speaker 5: extension done or where where's where are you going up?
Speaker 11: I mean, when it comes to that side of this business, like,
Speaker 11: of course, you always would love to you know, when
Speaker 11: you're in place this good, you'd love to finish out
Speaker 11: your career here. I have no intention of stopping anytime soon,
Speaker 11: you know, not coming to Ota this for the first time,
Speaker 11: I kind of made it real clear.
Speaker 4: I still need this game.
Speaker 11: I love this game, and I want to play this game,
Speaker 11: and I have no touches is stopping anytime soon. And
Speaker 11: but honestly that side doesn't really matter. You know, when
Speaker 11: I'm here with my teammates, I howach them to work
Speaker 11: hard every day and you know, and do whatever we
Speaker 11: can try to get this team a super Bowl.
Speaker 5: And when the offensive line is really playing well.
Speaker 7: As last season went on the Ronnie out back, you
Speaker 7: lost spend powers and pre and sea with the rest
Speaker 7: of the start lines and attacked. How important is that
Speaker 7: continuity and how exciting is that even with.
Speaker 11: The new offense, just to have that matters, you know,
Speaker 11: playing on so many different teams over the years and
Speaker 11: having a lot of places that didn't have continuity, like
Speaker 11: it really does make a difference. The fact that you know,
Speaker 11: you know, I just came back the last couple of days,
Speaker 11: and you know, it's just like you know, last year
Speaker 11: just ended, like we're talking, same communication, we knew what
Speaker 11: each other meant. I think it's gonna be a great
Speaker 11: thing coming to the training camps at.
Speaker 4: You know, I think it's gonna be pretty fast.
Speaker 11: You know. I think we're gonna attack and attack and attack,
Speaker 11: and you know, just keep you know, you know, tempo
Speaker 11: and all that good stuff, and you know, we'll see
Speaker 11: if it works out.
Speaker 2: Do you like your leadership?
Speaker 6: Well, you've been working for such a long time, people.
Speaker 2: Come to you for advice, how do you.
Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, absolutely, you know, I try to like stick
Speaker 11: with the on line, you know, all these young guys
Speaker 11: because there's so many different ways to play a line nowadays,
Speaker 11: so you know, a lot of different ways to describe things,
Speaker 11: and I've done it, done a bunch of different ways.
Speaker 11: So you know, anytime a young guy comes up, it's
Speaker 11: great to help him out and you know, try to
Speaker 11: make him figure out what's right for them.
Speaker 7: Been here a few days, Big Sola, the rookie running
Speaker 7: with the ones that left guard. What are your impressions
Speaker 7: of him? You know, maybe not as much on the field,
Speaker 7: but maybe just.
Speaker 11: An immediate great attitude. You know, he's really open minded.
Speaker 11: You know, nothing's gonna bug him. He's very athletic, so
Speaker 11: you know, I think he has you know, the whole
Speaker 11: world's running from all the potential in the world, and
Speaker 11: I can't wait to see what he does with it.
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