1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: Welcome into Ravens Press pass. Odell Beckham Junior was in 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: the building today and officially signed his new contract with 3 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: the Ravens. Odell also met with the media today alongside 4 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: coach Harball and Eric da Costa as the team introduced 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 1: the newest raven Now, before we jump into Odell's introductory 6 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: press conference, Mink and myself will be giving our takeaways 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: from today's press conference on a new episode of the 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: Last so be sure to check out the Ravens Lounge 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: feeds soon for that episode that's going to be dropping. So, 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: without any further ado, here's Odell Beckham Junior with Coach 11 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 1: Harball and Eric da Costa. Thanks for coming out today. 12 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: It's exciting for us and a great opportunity for us 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: to announce Odell Beckham as our latest addition to the team. 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: Welcome to his family's beautiful family, who had a chance 15 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: to spend some time with them last night, and his son, 16 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: who I'm already I want to represent in about twenty 17 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: years because he's gonna be a heck of an athlete. 18 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: But it was really a whirlwind for us. This has 19 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: been something that's been really percolating over the last year. 20 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: We've had conversations with Odell's agent, Zeke, who's here today, 21 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: and you know, this has been something that we've been 22 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: focused on for really going back to probably last October. 23 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: We've had conversations to try and possibly potentially get something 24 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,199 Speaker 1: worked out. And it's a great it's a great feeling 25 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: for us. You know, we had a chance to attend 26 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: Odell's workout last month in Arizona. We also had the 27 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 1: chance to spend some time with him in Arizona during 28 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: the owners meetings several weeks ago. Great meeting, and you know, 29 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: we went into it knowing we were the underdogs, and 30 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: sometimes it's a great story. Sometimes the underdog wins. And 31 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: we're thrilled to have him here today and we're thrilled 32 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: for what this means for our football team. That was 33 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: an exciting across. By the way, he's exciting. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. 34 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: He wants to be on the ground running around right. Yeah, 35 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: he's uh, he was trying to get on that table 36 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 1: last night. He was like really excellent quickness, agility, short 37 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: area burst. Couple times he's ready, questions good, Um. You 38 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: know I've talked to Themarrow while he was out there, 39 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: and I know that's a better discussion for these two 40 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: as far as how that get handled. UM. But the 41 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: goal was, you know, to come here and and have 42 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: that possibility to play with him, And I'm excited about 43 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: that opportunity as far as the team, and I just 44 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: ready to bring leadership, ready to bring I've been out 45 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: for a long time. I had to sit there and 46 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: watch everyone else play. UM. I'm just excited to get 47 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: back on the field, you know. And it's good to 48 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: be where you wanted. UM. And you know, like we said, 49 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: we've had communications since last October and UM, you know, 50 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: you guys showed me that you wanted me to be 51 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: here and then I was going to be a very 52 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: big piece to this organization. So I'm definitely excited about that. 53 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: Before you signed, you didn't get any assurances from Lamar 54 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: that you got from a Pew point together this year, 55 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: didn't get any assurances for anything. You know, life's uncertain. UM, 56 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: I think that you know, we don't we don't know 57 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: what's gonna happen tomorrow, the next day. You know, we 58 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: only know what's happened in the past. So to me, 59 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: it just was excited about the possibility of that, you know, 60 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: my thoughts would be that he would be here. I 61 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: know that, you know, these two want them to be here, 62 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: um and you know, at the end of the day, 63 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: that's that's going to be up to them. In your career, 64 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: you've always see the natural fit in the big city 65 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: in New York, in LA, you're a star personality. All 66 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: poor doesn't necessarily fit that profile. So well, I wasn't Cleveland, 67 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: so I mean, not the biggest of cities, you know. 68 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: For me, it was great to be in you know, 69 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: New York early in my career, and then I went 70 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: to Cleveland, I didn't have much success. And then I 71 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 1: went to LA and I had success. But like at 72 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: the end of the day, the common denator, common denominator 73 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: between all that was I cared about football. I cared 74 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: about being great. I cared about you know. I mean, 75 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: I worked my entire life since I was I don't 76 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: want to say his age, but since I was four 77 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: years old. Look at my mom and I was telling 78 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: that I'm practicing for Sunday. So to me, it's always 79 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: been about football. You know, the big cities are great. 80 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: They gave me extra opportunities off the field, but at 81 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: the end of the day, I didn't care what was 82 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: going on as long as I was catching touchdowns and 83 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: having that hard work kind of payoff. He went on, Yeah, 84 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: we had a great relationship in Cleveland, to be honest, 85 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: And it's like there just wasn't you know, when certain 86 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: situations just aren't for people. It's not anyone's fault or 87 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: anything that happens. It's just life. Life goes that way, 88 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: and things, you know, don't work out the way that 89 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 1: you want to. So we had great rapport there, UM, 90 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: great communication. I remember him and I are trying to, like, 91 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: you know, really figure out what's going on and uh, 92 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: bring everyone together. So I have nothing but love for him. 93 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: I got to watch what he did at Georgia, watched 94 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: the success he had, UM, and you know, just excited 95 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: about the opportunity that's in front of me, and you know, 96 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: just kind of watching that offense and seeing what was done, 97 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: I just know that it should be a lot of fun. Well. 98 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: I have not talked to Lamar since the signing. UM, 99 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: there's been interaction along the way. UM, you know Lamar's 100 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: and our plans. We love Lamar, our feelings about Lamar. 101 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: I have not changed one bit since the end of 102 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: the season. Uh, we're hopeful still that we'll get a 103 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: long term deal done. Um. He's the right player for 104 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: this team to lead us to where we want to be. 105 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: I think the locker room knows that, the organization knows that. 106 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: I think the fan base knows that. So it's ongoing. UM, 107 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: But I can't think of a situation where we wouldn't 108 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 1: think that our best team is with Lamar Jackson on 109 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: the team. In September, I mentioned that footballisions about that decision, 110 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 1: and I want to play with Umarum definitely. You know that. 111 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: Obviously it's obviously you know fit in the room. UM. 112 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: But I've been around I was in the ANFC North, 113 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 1: I've been around Baltimore and got whooped by on plenty 114 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: of times. I know what kind of team they are. 115 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: One of my favorite things that you were talking about 116 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: was that that underdog story. And you know, I was 117 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: an underdog all my life. I wasn't the number one 118 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: receiver in my class. I wasn't in the fourth I 119 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 1: was a fourth star. You know, I did have it 120 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: easy coming up until I got to New York and 121 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: then I had some success. So I've been the underdog 122 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: all my life. I've still been counted out. I'm still 123 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: counted out and that kind of excites me. And you know, 124 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: this is a team that has, you know, great talent 125 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: all across the board, offensive line, running backs, receiver, room, 126 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: defense is great. It's just it just it boiled down to, 127 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: you know, I'm in a place in my life where 128 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: it means a lot more to be wanted than you know, 129 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: someone would love to have you, because a lot of 130 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: places would love to have you, but where you really wanted, 131 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: you could then pour your heart into that even more, 132 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's just it's just a 133 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: lot easier from where I'm at, just the type of 134 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: person I am. And that was this situation. You know, 135 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: it wasn't about so much money, It wasn't about anything. 136 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: It was that they showed that they wanted me to 137 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: be here and that they see me as a piece 138 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: to come here and help them win. And you know, 139 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: I got one ring, you know, and it was a 140 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: bitter sweet, bitter sweet champagne. And I remember, you know, 141 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: having you know, talks with God, and he was just like, 142 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: I know, it wasn't exactly what you wanted to know, 143 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: its bitter sweet. He was like, next time that you 144 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: get to taste that champagne, it'll be the best thing 145 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: you ever tasted. So to me, it's all about getting 146 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: these rings. It's all about being great, excellent every single 147 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: day and winning championships. What are something to think to 148 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: show you love and show you how much they wanted 149 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: to here. It's the conversations for one, you know, Um 150 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: Steve reached out and there there was that conversation. You know, 151 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: I remember texting my agent like, I think I want 152 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: to be a raven. Like he had me fired up 153 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 1: just about the opportunity, about the team. And I don't 154 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: know how else. I don't know how to say it, 155 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: but it was just to show you we want you here. 156 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: It's the only way I could break it down to you. 157 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: I can't give you like a specific example of what 158 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: it was. It just was the love that was showing. 159 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: I'm a person who was all about love, showing love, 160 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,040 Speaker 1: you get love, and they showed me a lot of 161 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: of And now it's my duty to give that back, 162 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: you know, And that's something that's going to be very 163 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: easy for me because I know that I was wanted 164 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 1: here the Super Bowl, Um, you were coming back from 165 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,199 Speaker 1: the second all I mean, where are you with that 166 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 1: process or are you feeling healthier than you have in 167 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: a long time? And I was like, well, I'm feeling great. 168 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: And I guess I don't know if it's the second 169 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: AHL because the whole that whole season, I was playing, 170 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: you know, without it, UM and it was a crazy thing. 171 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: I signed with the La Rams and UM. I remember 172 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: El Trish comes down there and he's he's like, I 173 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: just got to inform you that you don't have AHL. 174 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: You know, we could redo your surgery right now. And 175 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: this was week nine of the season and I had 176 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: been I just told him. I was like, I've been 177 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: through way too much to come here and sign. There 178 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: was way too much talk on my name, you know, 179 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: the past year, Like I came here to help win 180 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: the championship UM, and I told him I'd die on 181 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: the sword and that was just you know, the kind 182 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: of reference that I used. Uh, you know, I just 183 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 1: cared that much about about playing. So I feel great now. 184 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: You know, I'm still in my process of getting ready 185 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: for September, you know, because we don't play tomorrow, we 186 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: don't play a week from now, a month from now, 187 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: like we're playing September. So it's about getting ready for that, 188 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: being in the best physical shape that I can be, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, 189 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: all that, Um, and I had to sit back and 190 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: watch everybody have fun last year and through backflips and 191 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: end zone and hit the gritty and just everybody got 192 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 1: to have fun. And I was just you know, looking 193 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: at the chops. Um, you know, wanting to be back 194 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: out there. Football isn't who I am, but it's a 195 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: big part of me because I could have played a 196 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: bunch of other sports and I sacrificed a lot to 197 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 1: play this one. So um, you know, my most important 198 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: thing and focus this year is only about this year, 199 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: and that's the only thing that's out of my mind, 200 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: not looking to the year after it, not looking to 201 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: the past years. It's about this year and what I 202 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: can do and what I could bring this team. A 203 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: lot of saying about the count given Odale. We know 204 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 1: who's missed the last year and done a lot in 205 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 1: this league, but a lot of people have acquitted year 206 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: in the game. What gives you the confidence there? The work? 207 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: You asked me, I didn't, Yeah, okay, yeah, no, listen, 208 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: we evaluate the players. This is a player that we've 209 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 1: played against many times and um, you know that's what 210 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: we do for a living. Um, we talked to people, 211 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 1: we evaluate the player. UM, we have a lot of 212 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: information and where we are as a team right now. 213 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: This was the guy that we felt could help take 214 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: us to the next level. Um. We saw him his 215 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: last game that he played in quite honestly, he was 216 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 1: probably the best player on the field. We've had lots 217 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: of players come back from this type of injury and 218 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: flourish over time. And uh, we've, like I said, we've 219 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: we've played huge games against this guy. Remember the game. Uh, 220 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: you know, it's a tough game for John and I 221 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: but in New York and uh, I don't know how 222 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 1: many yards you had, but it's probably about it was 223 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: about it was. It was a lot of yards. And 224 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: our players have a lot of respect for this guy. 225 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: Our fans are gonna love watching Odell play football. He's 226 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: one hundred percent invested. That's one thing, like as a 227 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: scout that we're always looking for is is this guy 228 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: going to come in and be one hundred percent invested 229 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: in our program and what we believe in in our culture. 230 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, like, after two minutes and 231 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: near a zona, sitting across the table from Model. I 232 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 1: had no doubt in my mind that this was the 233 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: right guy for the team helping me. Adele, how do 234 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: you feel like you can bring your experience in your 235 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,199 Speaker 1: leadership and what has your conversation's been like with sing 236 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: your your time so far? Um, you know one quote 237 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: I had always lived by, as you know, you're only 238 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: as good as your last game, and um, it could 239 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: be up for debate, but you know, I think I 240 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: was will on the way to be in MVP in 241 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: that game. And it's just the type of mentality that 242 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,839 Speaker 1: I have. It's in my heart, Um, since I was 243 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: a kid, Like, I'm not worried about coming back from 244 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: this because I came back from it before and I'm 245 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: now I'm way past the mental part of Uh, Am 246 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,560 Speaker 1: I going to be our right and all of those. Yeah, 247 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: you know football is different. When you get out there, 248 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: you're getting hit. You're gonna have to get used to 249 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 1: that anyways. But just as far as the teammates, you know, 250 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 1: reaching out and just being able to be that guy. 251 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: I know it's a bunch of younger receivers in the room, 252 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: but I remember when I was the younger receiver. It 253 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: still was kind of a I was still kind of 254 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: the veteran in the room even when I was the 255 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: younger guy. So now I'll be able to teach, you know, 256 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: plenty of things I've learned. I'm also one of the 257 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 1: people who I can always learn from anyone. I can 258 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: learn from someone way younger than me, way older than me, 259 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,679 Speaker 1: and I think if you're not can learn from him too. 260 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: So if you're not in a place where where you 261 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: can learn and pass on the knowledge, then you know 262 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: you're probably in the wrong place. And I'm just excited 263 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: about given what you went through to come back and 264 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,559 Speaker 1: what you said about having to sit out the last 265 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: year was an emotional process for you when you fully 266 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: read to this deal and has it's been an emotional 267 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: a couple of days for you. I think I'm still 268 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: trying to process the emotions, you know, like it all 269 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: happened so fast. It was very when the when the 270 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: surgery first happened to you know, two to three months 271 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: after that, it was very hard on me. Um, it 272 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: was some some dark days that you know, I had 273 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 1: to really climb myself out of u and now, you know, 274 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: being here at the Black and Purple on or the 275 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: all black over there and just you know that part's 276 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: all behind me and I have a vision, I have 277 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: a future of something that I'm looking forward to. Um, 278 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: I'm just excited, you know, I'm excited, But I'm also 279 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: like very determined and hungry. So I don't know, if 280 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: you know through the smiles, there's still like this that 281 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: that I that I really want this badly, Like I'm 282 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: ready to be great, ready to be excellent again. Um, 283 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: I'm just ready for the opportunity. At one point, ye um, 284 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: I talked to him, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to 285 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: give him a few headbuts and we're gonna have to 286 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: We're gonna have to We're gonna have to hug it, 287 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: hug it out, and then you know it's we're on 288 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: the same team and our goal. I know that for sure, 289 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: it's gonna sharpen each other each and every day. I'm 290 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: excited about being able to work for somebody like that. 291 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: This is you know, one of the great corners in 292 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: the league, all Pro Pro Bowl corner. Um. But definitely 293 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: get the battle it out and you know, you know, 294 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: talk a little to each other and then you know 295 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: that's it because we're on the same squad um, and 296 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: I know that I've already communicated with them to communicate 297 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,479 Speaker 1: with them that I think we're both excited about this opportunity. Um. 298 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the day, you don't 299 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: never have I don't. I don't have beef with anybody. 300 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: I don't have any you know, bad blood, nothing like that. 301 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: Life's way too short for that. I've got, you know, 302 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: things going on in my life that are that are 303 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: very important. So it's um, I think we're both excited 304 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: about it physically kind of turn and then wiser where 305 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: we were physically when I turned the corner. I couldn't 306 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: give you an exact day, but there was there was 307 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: definitely a time period where it was a lot harder 308 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: for me. And now, you know, after being a year removed, 309 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: I think going into that thirteen months, fourteen months out 310 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: of your surgery, you start to really turn the corner. 311 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: And I look at it, We're in early mid April, 312 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: you got to May, June, July, August. It's five months 313 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: until you know we're on the field and rolling. And 314 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: for me, that's plenty of time. I got plenty of confidence. 315 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: It's just time to get to work and I'm excited 316 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: about that. And now, like I said, it's very hard 317 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: for a man to have no vision and feel as 318 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: if you have no purpose, then you have no direction. 319 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: There's nowhere really to go. And that was kind of 320 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: you know, the path that I was on, and this 321 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: gave me that structure. They gave me that excitement again. 322 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: You know, I've been waiting for a long time to 323 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: get back on the field, so I couldn't give you 324 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: an exact day, but where you were injury, what you said, 325 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: I don't know how to exactly answer that, but I 326 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: guess we'll see in September. But I'm excited about it. Um. Yeah, Well, 327 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: like I said, why I tweeted, I say, we're gonna see. 328 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 1: You know, you've had many players coming in for freeating physics, 329 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: graft physics. Was there anything particular? I know, you know 330 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 1: Dell across the pass before. It's like you don't know 331 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: each other, But it is there anything particular you were 332 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: hoping to learn or that you learned a batt O'Dell 333 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: when you met with him in Phoenix? What was that 334 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,679 Speaker 1: whole kind of experience Like, yeah, not really just Phoenix, 335 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: probably the whole process going back to November last year, December. 336 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: We had a few conversations throughout those kind of conversations, 337 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: especially where Odell was at and we were fighting to 338 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: try to to you know, make a season, and he 339 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,439 Speaker 1: was fighting to get his way back. I think he 340 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: kind of wanted to maybe think about playing at that 341 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: point in time, and we had some really honest conversations. 342 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: That's what struck me more than anything. Was just as honest, 343 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: you know, it was he was very much an open 344 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: book in terms of what he was thinking, what he 345 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: wanted to do, where he was going, really not trying 346 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 1: to sell anything or talk about anything other than this 347 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: is really where I'm at, this is what I'm thinking, 348 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 1: asking where we were at, just those conversations and kind 349 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: of culminating Phoenix when we had a chance to be 350 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 1: face to face and uh, just kind of connecting that way. 351 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: But it was really easy and normal, natural, and I 352 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 1: just was struck by his straightforwardness and honesty. Did you 353 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,639 Speaker 1: have any concern when designing was signed here giving the 354 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 1: uncertainty mad position? I mean, if you look at the 355 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: other situations I was going into the everything was uncertain, 356 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 1: you know, and like I said, life's uncertain. Um obviously 357 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: I would assume that it's going to work out. You know. 358 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: I have that that faith and that hope and Lamar 359 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: I know if you're watching, you know, and I would 360 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,120 Speaker 1: love to love to get to work with you. I'll 361 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: talk to these guys over here, and you know, hopefully 362 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: that gets done. You know. I think when you when 363 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 1: you think about the Ravens, you definitely think about Lamore 364 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 1: and I know that that's something. You know, I was 365 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 1: excited about that possibility, and um, life's life's not certain, 366 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: you know. Just to keep it short, you know, the 367 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 1: camp when I get on the field, um, you know, 368 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: that'll be a you know, discussion with the training room, coaches, everybody. 369 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: Like I said, I think I've been in this situation 370 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: before where this is made more important by this side 371 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,120 Speaker 1: of the room than you know, your teammates. If you're 372 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: if you had OTAs and you were a great guy 373 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: and you get out onto the field during the season 374 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: and you don't perform, I don't think your teammates are 375 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: gonna be like, well, he was at OTAs and he 376 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 1: was you know, he was there. It's more about that 377 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 1: guy that's gonna come short for you on Sundays and 378 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,640 Speaker 1: be able to produce and um, you know, but there's 379 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: also being in a new group group and being able 380 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 1: to bond with those guys. I get the balance. So 381 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,679 Speaker 1: it's something that will sit down and figure out. But 382 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: I always always, deep down the side, I thought that 383 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: it was made more of a thing over that way 384 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: than it really is with the guys that you you know, 385 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: share blood, sweat and tears with and you're with more 386 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: hours than your family. So, um, yeah, John putting together 387 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: a team, I'm playing it now with the years, it's 388 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: more as much arts science once the art of bringing 389 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: in a major personality star its rate him into a 390 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,919 Speaker 1: team where he is part of the team, not just 391 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: the the guy that other guys know. Yeah, you know, 392 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: it's probably just simpler than that. Just it's football then, 393 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:40,679 Speaker 1: you know, Del, I don't care who you are in 394 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: this league. You've been part of the teams your whole life. 395 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: You've been in locker rooms, you've been around guys. It's 396 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:46,239 Speaker 1: just part of being part of a team. It's like 397 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 1: the practice schedule and everything is just paced in terms 398 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: of what puts us in the best position where we 399 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 1: need to play the games in September, you know, So 400 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 1: him getting with the guys in the locker Room's gonna 401 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: be easy, that's gonna be normal, it's gonna be meeting rooms, 402 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: it's gonna be football, just keeping about football, keep it 403 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: about a bunch of guys trying to be the best 404 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: they can be. And uh, you know, we're fine. We 405 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: got we got good guys. We got a really strong 406 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 1: group of people and it's a good person So I'm 407 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: excited to see it. I can't wait to get in 408 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: the middle of it, you know, get on the grass 409 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: and just be watching these guys operate together. That's what's 410 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: fun for our coach. If you're listening to Raven's Press Pass, 411 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: if you're currently getting this episode of Raven's Press Pass 412 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: in the Lounge Feed, make sure you do not forget 413 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: to subscribe, rate, and review if you haven't done so already. 414 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: Now let's get you back to the rest of Obi 415 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: J's introductory press conference. Eric I knew you said day 416 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: kevintall to more since the signing, but more of sit 417 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: the question to treat it back on the march. Have 418 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 1: you spoken to the more since that point and what 419 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: was the conversation like it and do you feel that 420 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: lamar One speak, Yeah, well we have, we have communicated 421 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,719 Speaker 1: since that date. It would probably be not smart on 422 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: my part to talk about those details because you know, 423 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,679 Speaker 1: Lamar and I have decided together that we were going 424 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,199 Speaker 1: to discuss that stuff personally. In saying that, Uh, you know, 425 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: as I said, we only think of Lamar as the 426 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: quarterback of this team, and uh, we're hopeful to get 427 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,199 Speaker 1: a deal done. Um it's been, as as you all know, 428 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 1: a very long process. But uh, a lot of times, 429 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: the best things in life take a long time. And uh, 430 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:27,959 Speaker 1: I go back to this guy right here, It took 431 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 1: a long time to get him here. We started last 432 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: year and uh and we finally got him and so 433 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: you know, UH, these things take time. They take a 434 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 1: lot of work, and they take a lot of patience. 435 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,679 Speaker 1: And uh, you know, we'll continue to work to do 436 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: what we can to feel the very best possible team 437 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 1: come September, uh, to win a championship, which is our 438 00:22:48,640 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: ultimate goal, to share its fire absolutely. Um. You know, 439 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: he seemed excited it. I think I don't know if 440 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: he called me, I called him or whatever, but he 441 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: was just like you know, obviously trust but he just 442 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: was excited about it, like excited about the opportunity of 443 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: the possibility, and like I could sit up here and 444 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: tell you I've been in the middle of it. I've 445 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: been in the contract negotiation. I've been in the side 446 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: where you've worked your entire life for one first to 447 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: get to the NFL. Then the second most important thing 448 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: is to take care of your family and get your contract. 449 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: And it's a very thin line when it's you know, 450 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: it's your heart that's involved, and you are a personable 451 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: person and you feel like you've done so much and 452 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 1: you deserve this, and then the business side gets in 453 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: the way. It's just the nature of the business that 454 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: we're in. Like, it's very it's very tough. It's no 455 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 1: written script for it or how to handle it or 456 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: how to deal with it. But I could definitely tell 457 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: it he was, you know, excited about the opportunity to 458 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 1: be able to get to work if that does present itself. 459 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,640 Speaker 1: You know, I think at the end of the day, 460 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: that's you know, obviously, he's who I would love to 461 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: play with it. I've watched him for years. He reminds 462 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: me of one of my favorite players, a guy who 463 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 1: I grew up in Atlanta for a little bit playing 464 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,360 Speaker 1: in the Georgia Dome when I was seven eight years old, 465 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: and I remember how Mike Vick looked at me, um 466 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: and looking in my eyes and gave me love. How 467 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: you doing, young man? Blah blah blah and I and 468 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: that made me who I am today in the sense 469 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,159 Speaker 1: of that I was always going to be like that 470 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: for the kids. I was always going to be able 471 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 1: to um show them that love. And that's why I 472 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 1: think I love kids so much, is because of how 473 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: he placed that on me. Um. So I'm excited about it, Lamar. 474 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: I hope, you know, I hope that it all works 475 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: out for you and it gets done. You know. It 476 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: feels I can hand it over to you. I hand 477 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: it over to you, but that's not my side of 478 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: my pay roll. So I'm just excited about it. I 479 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: can't I can't wait for the opportunity for me. Yeah. Yeah, 480 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 1: Todd's fired up, man, I mean, Todd's excited, you know. 481 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 1: I'm I'm most surprised you're not sitting there right now. 482 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 1: He's probably drawing up plays, you know, for for dal 483 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: and Lamar. You know. So yeah, that's that's a coach 484 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 1: and they have they have they know each other, I know, 485 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 1: they've talked and um, he's in the laboratory. You know, 486 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: I've seen some of the drawings, so we got some 487 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: good stuff. We'll be ready to go. How many people 488 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 1: when when you got that working out last month before, 489 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 1: where you're not opening to see listen first? Well, him 490 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 1: him reaching out is really I feel like what said it, 491 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: you know, over the edge, um, And like I said, 492 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: the conversation we had, we we we just chopped it 493 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: up as two men talking. You know. It wasn't so 494 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: much the business side and all everything that was going on. 495 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: We just he made me feel wanted. He made me 496 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: feel like somebody wants me to be here, wants me 497 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: to be great, wants me to be a part of 498 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 1: his team in this organization. And at this point in 499 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 1: my life, that's everything I need, um, is to be wanted. 500 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: And that was That's pretty much the story for me. 501 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 1: And again that allows me to come here and put 502 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 1: my hard hat on every single day and know that 503 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: these guys believed in me. Um, you know, not to 504 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 1: say what no one else did, but they believed in me. 505 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: And that's gonna I'm gonna come here and put my 506 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,879 Speaker 1: best foot for it every day. Oh yeah, everywhere you played, 507 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: numerous teammates have thought about how much they loved playing 508 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: with you. What a great teammate. How important is that 509 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: to you? And why do you think sometimes you haven't 510 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: didn't see you that. I'll be honest, you know, I've 511 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 1: made mistakes in my past, you know, but who hasn't 512 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: as a as a young man who's got then the 513 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 1: entire world spotlighted on him again. I always tell people, 514 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:45,919 Speaker 1: you know, when I was out there making one hand catches, 515 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: I wasn't holding the camera and pointing at it making 516 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: the catch saying look at me. You know it was 517 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: you know, I'm not pointing any of y'all out. But 518 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: I think the stories came more from over there, and 519 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: then headlines came, and titles came, and the drunk this whatever, 520 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: And where our world works is those five names. They 521 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: take them and they run with them, and they run 522 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,719 Speaker 1: with them each place they go, and that's just how 523 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: it works. But everyone who's ever met me as far 524 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: as a teammate, um, I mean, not that I know 525 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: of anyone's gonna say anything bad. And when I'm when 526 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 1: I'm in the room with people, it's a completely different, 527 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: completely different feel. Um I definitely think that. You know, 528 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: I could have did some things different as a young man, 529 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 1: but you know, we all live and learn and we 530 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 1: grow through our mistakes. And here I am now, um 531 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: that I can acknowledge, you know, some of the things 532 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 1: that I did. But I know who I am as 533 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: a person, and I think my my perception of who 534 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: I am is always going to walk into the room 535 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: before I do. And that's just the nature of where 536 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: I'm at in life. And I could deal with that. 537 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: I could live with that deep down inside because I 538 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 1: know who I am and that's just the reality of 539 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: the situation. As a father is obviously violantly clear. You 540 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: talk about how your son has changed you as a 541 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: person and as a player, I can't even Um. I 542 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: would say sleep is one of them, but I can't. 543 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 1: I can't express what he does for me when I 544 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: when I look at him in his eyes, or you know, 545 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 1: I haven't seen him in a couple of hours and 546 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 1: I come home and I could have had the worst 547 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 1: ever and he's at the door, dadda, you know what 548 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: I mean, Like, there's no there's no words to um 549 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: describe that feeling. I remember my mom used to always 550 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: joke at me She's like, just wait till you have 551 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: a kid, and I was like, I already know, and 552 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: like it's just a different feeling when I have him 553 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,120 Speaker 1: in my arms or he's running around and I see 554 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: the smile that's on his face. He's completely changed me. Um, 555 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: you know, forever. And you can't do it alone. You know, 556 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 1: his mom was a great mom. My mom's there to 557 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 1: take care of him, His auntie's there, his papa was 558 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: over there. You know, my whole family is here and 559 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: they help. You know, it takes a community to raise him. 560 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: And I'm just blessed to have that kind of love 561 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: around me that gives me that support and then I'm 562 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: able to do what I need to do. And it's just, 563 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: you know, it's a great team that I have. I 564 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: couldn't do it without any of them characters. Momentum to 565 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: off season when you're building a team, and does shut 566 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: feeling or extra that's a deep question. Uh, you know, momentum, 567 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: I think it's just really how you just attack every day. 568 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: It's kind of we just try to stack a lot 569 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: of positive days as best as we can. Sometimes you 570 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,719 Speaker 1: can't even you all may not realize, but it might 571 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: just be we find some good guys on tape that 572 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,479 Speaker 1: we like. In the draft, it may be just signing 573 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: somebody to a minimum deal. You're just stacking good days 574 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 1: coming in, being positive, working together and trying to do 575 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 1: whatever you can to build the best team. You're not 576 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: always going to hit the home run. You can hit 577 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: a bunch of singles, you can walk, you can steal 578 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 1: a base. There's a lot of different ways to go 579 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 1: about it. In the end, you want to hit some 580 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: home runs. But certainly for us um you know, as 581 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: we approach every single day leading up to the draft, 582 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: it's sake every day I go home, did we get 583 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 1: better as a football team? What do we do today 584 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: to get better? Maybe it's we saved some capital, Maybe 585 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: it's we signed a vet. Maybe it's we saw a 586 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: player at Sagonaw Valley State who we like quite a bit. 587 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: But it's just, you know, that mindset of every day 588 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: just kind of building the best team we can. I 589 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: think if you do that over time, you're gonna win 590 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: some games. And that's how we how we approach the roster, 591 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: try to position at recent years more of a priority. Yeah, yeah, 592 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: I mean I think we still we still believe very 593 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 1: strongly in the draft, and I'm very excited to see 594 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: our young guys this year. Let me say that first 595 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: and foremost, I believe very very strongly in Rashad and 596 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: Devon and James and Tyland, all those guys we brought 597 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: in Nelson. I mean, we really do believe in that group. Um. 598 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: There's a lot of different ways to attack the roster. 599 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: And one of the things, as you think about it, like, 600 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: is there a way for us to bring a veteran in, 601 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 1: a proven veteran who's proven that he can win a 602 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: game for you when the game needs to be won. 603 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 1: Does that possibility exist? And you know we've tried in 604 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: the past. This isn't the first time we've tried to 605 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: do that. Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't. And 606 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of different factors. Sometimes, you know, 607 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 1: you might have the best offer and the guy feels 608 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: really good someplace else. Um, sometimes you may not win 609 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 1: that financial game. Um no, I'm saying, but but sometimes, 610 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: but sometimes you might, like a guy may not want 611 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: to play on the East coast, right, Sometimes a guy 612 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: wants to be in the southeast. Sometimes a guy you 613 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: know wants to play for a specific coach, whatever it is. 614 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 1: So there's a lot of different reasons why. But in 615 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,959 Speaker 1: this case, we found the right person to come here. 616 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: Odell wanted to be here. We wanted Odell very badly, 617 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: and we think that this is gonna be a great 618 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: acquisition in the short term and hopefully the long term. 619 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: Perception in the past that, whether it's fair or not, 620 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: that three time white receivers don't don't want to come 621 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: and play or don't want to play in this offense. 622 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 1: Did you think through that at all? Was that a 623 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 1: factor for you at all? And if you think that that, 624 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: that is kind of a miscouided perception. I mean, I 625 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: don't know if I ever thought about it. You know, 626 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: I just seen them or eight out there, and I 627 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: know that he could throw the ball. You know, we 628 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: always talk about perception and perception versus reality, and um 629 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: you know, there was perception that Lamar wasn't a passer, 630 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: and then there's reality that he could throw the ball 631 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: all over the field. Um. So I don't really take 632 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: too much in a perception anymore. I kind of just 633 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 1: live in my reality. And for me, it was about 634 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: being wanted. And you know, I know what Monkin did 635 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 1: a Georgia. I know what this team has and what 636 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 1: they're built around. UM. And again, like I said, I 637 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: was in Cleveland, so it's I was in I was 638 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: in a running, you know style. I was in the 639 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: same division, and I went to LSU where we ran 640 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 1: the ball all the time. I still went for a 641 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 1: thousand yards like it's, you know, to be able to 642 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 1: have a great pass game, you gotta be able to 643 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: run the football, so it's always balanced. I don't really 644 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: think I thought about, um, why there wasn't anybody who 645 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 1: didn't come through here. I don't, you know, I don't. 646 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: I don't think I thought about that. One of the 647 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 1: more popular players in the league and you're one of 648 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 1: you guys in locker room to kind of can relate 649 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: to that. Does that help in terms of the locker 650 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: room country as far as being a popular player. I 651 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 1: think once, you know, like I said, once we leave 652 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,360 Speaker 1: right here and we're all in the locker room, like 653 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: we don't, we don't think about that. I don't think 654 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 1: about if I wasn't me and me walked into the 655 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 1: locker room, I wouldn't as might be just kind of 656 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: the person am. I wouldn't think about, you know, how 657 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: it is he or anything like that, or he's a 658 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 1: big personality. I just you know, we're all humans. You know, 659 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we all have mothers, frothers, brothers, brothers, sisters, 660 00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,479 Speaker 1: we all have emotions, we all have things that are 661 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 1: in common. I think that's where the people in the 662 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: locker room, that's how we relate to each other. It's 663 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 1: not so much the outside stories or anything like that. 664 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,160 Speaker 1: It's more about, you know, how humans connect to one another. 665 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,479 Speaker 1: Jo Hysteric negotiates with Lamar and ode folks to catch 666 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,200 Speaker 1: passes from Lamar. You're a head coach who is facing 667 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 1: the uncertainty as you can try to compare our team. 668 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: That's the first time you've been in this position. How 669 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 1: is that practically campact? Dude, you're offseason and I think 670 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,520 Speaker 1: you're in this position there all the time. It's just 671 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 1: a different type of a circumstance. So, uh, you know 672 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 1: what positions you need, h who you're looking at, who 673 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 1: you look in the draft. I just think it's ongoing. 674 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 1: You're always trying to build your team. It's just this 675 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,839 Speaker 1: move is a big move, you know, it's we talked about. 676 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,719 Speaker 1: It's an exciting move for us. It's a big move 677 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,960 Speaker 1: for us, but it's a move that we we had 678 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: an opportunity to make, and he wants to be here 679 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: and and we wanted him here and he fits perfectly, 680 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 1: So you know, you strike, And I think that's true 681 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 1: for all things. Eric was talking about, all the different moves, 682 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,480 Speaker 1: whatever they are, you try to build your team, So 683 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,600 Speaker 1: just keep doing it. I'm of infinite that all that 684 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: stuff has a way of working itself out in the 685 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: end and everything ends up the way it's supposed to 686 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: be because you do your best and everybody's in a 687 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,400 Speaker 1: good place. So it hasn't been hard at all. You know, 688 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,680 Speaker 1: we're just working hard and trying to make our team 689 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 1: as good as good as it can be. And today's 690 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,359 Speaker 1: a really good day. You know, today's a great day 691 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:23,680 Speaker 1: for the Ravens. What kind of machine is going to 692 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,839 Speaker 1: be made to the offense now with an additional play? 693 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,440 Speaker 1: Odell two year after, Oh yeah, we talked. I mean 694 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 1: you talk about kind of the in terms of philosophically 695 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 1: or kind of how you're gonna try to build the offense. 696 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 1: Then with that the details commit and how you how 697 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 1: you structure the plays and things like that. It's not 698 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 1: going to be anything that's gonna be Uh. Oh we 699 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 1: have Odell. Now we're gonna run this play. You know, 700 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: it's how it's how you fit all the pieces together 701 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,719 Speaker 1: within the concept. So we've got the concepts that are 702 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 1: good for Lamar, are good for our offensive line, good 703 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,600 Speaker 1: for our backs, good for our tight ends, and good 704 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 1: for this receiving room that we're building as best we can. 705 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,319 Speaker 1: And then you know that you place guys even day 706 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,320 Speaker 1: to day, week to week in those watch you know 707 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:01,880 Speaker 1: what route is he gonna be running today? How are 708 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 1: we gonna try to open him up, you know, against 709 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,879 Speaker 1: this defense or the coverage that we think they're gonna play. 710 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,560 Speaker 1: You know what's the best matchup that we can find? 711 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,920 Speaker 1: That's just like day to day football stuff I think 712 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,440 Speaker 1: that you do. We have a player like this, it 713 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 1: makes it more fun. It gives you more options, you know, 714 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,640 Speaker 1: and uh and of course a quarterback like Lamar that 715 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,600 Speaker 1: even makes it better. So that's fun for a coach. 716 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:33,279 Speaker 1: You see, I was not there. We sent a coach, 717 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,840 Speaker 1: Keith Williams, who great evaluator, and uh, he was excited 718 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,920 Speaker 1: to go out there for a couple of days. Um, 719 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 1: we got the video. We have the video, watched the 720 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,560 Speaker 1: video play four times with some of the pro staff, 721 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: coach guiding staff, some of the coaches. But we just 722 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,239 Speaker 1: want to see, you know, number one, how's he moved, 723 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: body control, all the things we look for when any player, really, 724 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,560 Speaker 1: how's he catching the ball, how's he adjusting to the 725 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 1: ball just mechanically, how's he is he able to drop 726 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: his way, burr's quickness, speed aty conditioning as well, and 727 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,880 Speaker 1: you know, obviously controlled environment. But we saw everything we 728 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,480 Speaker 1: needed to see, knowing that it's going to just improve, 729 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,560 Speaker 1: you know. And that's the thing, like when a guy 730 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,959 Speaker 1: has a serious injury in general, it only gets better. 731 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,719 Speaker 1: It may take time, sometimes it takes longer, but it 732 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,200 Speaker 1: only gets better. What we saw was extremely encouraging, and 733 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: you know, I can't wait to see the progression from 734 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,520 Speaker 1: March to April to May to September. And that's probably 735 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 1: the thing, Jonas, that we're most excited about, is that 736 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,879 Speaker 1: we're getting somebody who's ready to explode again, and he's 737 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 1: in the right environment, with the right quarterback, with the 738 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,359 Speaker 1: right team and the right city. It's the perfect player 739 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:58,160 Speaker 1: at the perfect time. I remember, we will be dropping 740 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,280 Speaker 1: an Odell Beckham Junior enter doctory Press Conference Takeaways episode 741 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,879 Speaker 1: of The Ravens Lounge. Make sure you check that out 742 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: tomorrow to hear what Make and I have to say 743 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,399 Speaker 1: about today's press conference. You do not want to miss it. Also, 744 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,680 Speaker 1: don't forget that you can get every media availability and 745 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,759 Speaker 1: press conference right here on Ravens Press Pass. So if 746 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: you have not done so already, this is your time 747 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:25,239 Speaker 1: to subscribe, rate and review the podcast. Go and do 748 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,719 Speaker 1: that right now. 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