WEBVTT - John Harbaugh, John Simpson, Ronald Darby: Ravens Practice 8/29 Press Conferences 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.279 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Tuesday, 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:09.799 August twenty ninth. The Ravens had to trim the roster 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.520 to fifty three players today and before that point we 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.520 had a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh, 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:21.279 left guard John Simpson, and cornerback Ronald Darby. Let's kick 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.000 things off with coach Hardball. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:25.800 All right, good to see everybody. I appreciate you being here. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.640 Very good practice. I'll put the pads on. Guys were 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.760 very much into it, very happy with what we did today. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.720 What questions you have, John with the roster cutting? 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.360 Is there a difference at practice for some guys? Do 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.480 you feel or is do you think it's a businesses. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.960 Or I think it's business as usual. Guys did a 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.960 nice job. They always do. I thought of everybody's business, like, 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.960 everybody understands what we need to get done as a 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:51.360 team today, and they did a good job of it. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.000 Talking about the list, how different was Jes, You're working 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:55.920 on a new offense. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:58.320 It different making the list now? 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.640 Well, I mean there's always subtleties, but in the big picture, 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.720 I'd say, no, you know the big picture of the process, 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.600 the way you handle it it's still you try to 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.560 do it's in the best interest to your team, and 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.679 and you really try to, you know, allow decisions to 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.319 make themselves based on the way guys play and practice 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:15.840 and perform. 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.800 John, I know a kind of a soft timeline when 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.520 when Marlin had to put surgery. But are you still 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.039 feeling comfortable that he'll be able to make it back 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:25.360 in the first unseason. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:34.440 I am, yeah, he's okay. There's different guys have different things, 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.240 so there's nothing, h nothing to report. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.440 The most improved player in training. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:47.440 Camp a most improved player? Oh man, Well, you know, 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.400 you say somebody, then you leave some people out. I 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.280 tell you, I just really really, I mean ever, everybody's 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.680 improved too different degrees. Just as a team. I think 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.520 we've come a long way, you know, And that's what 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.760 I'm pleased with. The coaches or please with the players 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.840 are pleased with it because they feel it in terms 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.480 of execution. Now it's time to go see where you're 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:06.960 in a game now. You don't know until you play 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.480 a game, and then then you start over again. You 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.040 know where are we now? Once you play a game? 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.720 I don't know, John Simpson, I guess the other night 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.280 he talked about how he maybe lost some of those 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.720 confidence the last year and how he's built it. I mean, 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.960 did you did you see that with the way he 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.040 attacked the opportunity this the summer every how would you 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:26.160 say he kind of sees that job. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.560 Well, he definitely sees the job. And I read the 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.440 same thing and I was really it was intriguing to 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.320 read it. You know, he never u He's always showed himself, 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.200 you know, his confident guy and stuff. But I was 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.600 just proud of him, and I thought he just just 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.600 came to work every day, kept it simple. H made 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.880 it about being the best player he could be day 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.799 in and day out. I think he took coaching really 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.000 well and and obviously he's a very talented player. So 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.920 if he's playing with confidence, now, I'm all for it. 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:54.639 You know, I feel really good about hearing that is 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:55.119 a good thing. 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.239 I just a fellow on two offensive line considerations you 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.360 mentioned earlier in can't it's solid just full time and 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.880 you think interior guy and pole. I know you talked 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.639 about maybe or putting inside of guard, but you see 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.880 him on the outside the right. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.920 Yeah, Sala will be focusing interior at guard and Flele 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.079 will be focusing outside of tackle, but we'll also I'm 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.560 sure work those guys from time to time, you know, 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.160 in a different spot, just because you have to all 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:21.520 the time. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.080 But then he looked like he handled his own his 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.919 job pretty well on the side there. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:28.560 I agree. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.160 I agree, he didn't get tons of reps there, but 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:31.480 he did fine when he was in there. Right. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.320 That was head coach John Harball. Now after the game 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.800 on Saturday in Tampa Bay, he announced that John Simpson 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.480 is going to be the team's starting left guard going 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.040 into this season, and Simpson talked with reporters today about 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.559 what that means to him. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:50.200 Just what did it. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.080 Mean to you when you hear the news that that. 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:53.120 You were going to be the start? 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:54.280 Uh? 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.640 Ad meant a lot to me. Uh they you know, 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.360 for them to trust me in that position, and you know, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.360 just getting that news, it just it it meant a 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:03.760 whole lot. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:05.160 What did you find out? 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:05.800 Did you take it through? 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:05.960 Help? 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:06.080 Went? 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.520 It was after practice one day, Uh, Coach Jod came 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.400 to me and said, yeah, if we play, uh like tomorrow, 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.080 you'd be the starter. But it wasn't. It was like 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.200 last week or something like that. Uh So I just 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.600 learned that I learned like a few days before everyone else. 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.720 But what did your focus drinking? What what did you 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.960 kind of set out to prove, you know, to the 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.320 team during that direction too. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.719 I wasn't really trying to prove, Like I'm not gonna 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.159 say I wasn't trying to prove anything, but like I 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.320 just wanted to come in with my best foot forward 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.320 and you know, just put my head down and go 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.719 to work. I wasn't trying to like, you know, be 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.039 it arrogant or you know, cocky and think that I 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.039 ran everything or whatever. I just did whatever, like try 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.039 to do whatever they asked me to do, and if 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.160 I didn't do it right, I try to do it 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.599 right the next time. And uh, you know that's pretty 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.080 much how I went. I s I just you know, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.919 try to get better every day. Like I said before, 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.760 I just want to get better one step at a 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.880 time every day and just look at it like that, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.120 you know, every every day's opportunity to get better. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:03.360 So that's how I look at it. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.240 John, you said on Saturday, and you talked about how 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.480 the confidence was lacking after leaving Las Vegas thing, But 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.520 where do you think you've improved the most since you arrived, 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.320 that you're at this place now where you're starting, and 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:15.760 clearly more confident than you. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:20.640 Had the Yeah, I mean, I don't know. It's it's 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.120 kind of weird, like because when I came in, like 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.600 I said, I was, I liked confidence, and I just 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.680 didn't really know like what would happen or what was 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.560 going on. And I think that mindset that I explained earlier, 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.280 just like getting better one day at a time just 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.880 kind of like changed my mindset and my confidence a 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.560 little bit. It's just like mistakes are gonna happen, I 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.120 know that, just try to overcome them or and just 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.640 go to the next play or whatever whatever's next to 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:48.960 try to go through that. And that's kind of how 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:50.840 I kind of helped build my own confidence. And then 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.120 I got guys like Tyler. Sam must have heard he 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.080 you know, He's been a great help for me. You know, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.279 Morgan Moses, all those guys has just been there for me. 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.000 Whenever I would make a mistake or something like that, 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.560 they just be there and let me know that I'm 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.760 capable of, you know, doing the right thing. So working 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.719 with coach Joe, coach Jod, he's a he's a great coach. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.200 He you know, he's been around the game for a 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:16.000 long long time and he you know, he he knows 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.120 what his guys are capable of. And uh, like, you 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.200 can't ask for nothing better than that an O line coach. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.320 He also gives me like great confidence. You know, he'll 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.159 he'll get on me when I make a mistake and 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.040 then he'll you know, giv him praises when I when 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:29.400 I do good so and I mean, that's all you 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.280 can ask for in an O line coach. 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:36.680 So around that they needed to change the scene. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.640 Nothing against the operations Vegas. 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.000 But you feel like it kind of you were re 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.600 energized getting here. You said, a coaches around a new teammates. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.000 They kind of served as a fresh stuard for you. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.080 Yeah. Yeah, I mean that that definitely played a part 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:52.279 in it. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:52.839 Uh. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.440 I think, you know, just getting here, uh and and 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.560 realizing like it's still just football. I think that helped 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.880 me out a lot. And nothing against those guys, Uh 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.040 they're it's a great organization and everything like that, but uh, 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:08.720 change the scenery did I think helped me out a 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:09.120 little bit. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:15.960 Your mindset that's purved meization feel when you put in 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.200 confidence to getting you try to play catch up and 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.160 then fighting for job is getting a job? How to 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:23.920 have especially the n part there. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:28.480 How did that your mindset many change. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.480 Or for yours? 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.800 Well, I mean I don't really, I don't think it 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:36.000 changed a whole lot besides from like when I first 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.080 got here, like you said, and until like uh this 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.840 the summer, like training camp started training camp. But I 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:43.520 I think, like I said earlier, is just you know, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.160 putting one one thing at a time, one day at 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:47.960 a time, is just trying to get better. Honestly, I 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.320 got I. I wish I had a different answer, but 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.320 that's kind of how I. How I went about training 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.360 camp is just like and and coach says it all 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.360 the time. He says, you know, the one thing at 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:57.760 a time, one day at a time, one play at 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.720 a time, whatever it is, just do that and you'll 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.840 you'll see improvement. And I and I've been trusted in 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.440 his process and it's been played off, paid off for me. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.000 Did you did you like did you like being part 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.040 of what turned out to be pretty direct competition? I 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.640 mean we knew Left Guard was kind of up for 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.320 grabs coming in. Yeah, then it pretty quickly it was 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.000 you and you and Salid obviously nothing against him, But 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.360 I mean, is that is that energizing in a sense? 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.720 Oh yeah, I mean for sure. I mean any any competition, 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.880 Like I'm a competitor, like anybody as a competitor wants 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.640 to compete. And uh, I think, Uh, that kind of 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:31.920 gave me a little juice. 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.160 I'm yeah, I mean it did. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.160 It gave me a little juice and uh and it 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.520 I feel like it kind of helped me throughout camp 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.679 and it gave me something to look forward to every day. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.400 And not saying that I won't have that same mindset, 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.400 but it definitely did play a part in how I 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:47.160 competed in camp. 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:49.559 What would you have said, you know, like back in 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.720 the center was applying to practice right here in the 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.439 city and he started cards. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:54.120 Going through the season. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.600 Uh, shoot, I don't know, I really, I don't. I 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:05.920 have no idea, honestly, I just I don't know. That's 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:07.880 a good question. I gotta think about that. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.920 It's been like being in direct competition with Sla but 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.320 also working with him in your experiences with. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.680 That, it's I mean, it's been fun. The training camp 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.360 has been fun. I you know, go like competing against 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.320 a guy like Salah. He's young. He just came in 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.160 and he's trying to figure out everything, and I mean 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.160 I kind of am trying to figure out things about 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.760 this program and stuff like that. So I feel like 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.400 we're we were kind of in the same position. But 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.720 I had a few years on him, and I think maybe, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.360 like I don't know if that's what you know, I 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.200 don't know if that's what it was or whatever, but like, 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.640 I think that was the biggest thing. But I was 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.000 always there trying to help him, and you know, vice versa. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.000 We always got shared shared news with each other or 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:47.959 share things with each other and try to help each other. 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.560 That was starting left guard John Simpson. We also heard 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.720 from cornerback Ronald Darby. He was a free agent acquisition 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.240 late in training camp. He's played a lot of football 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.000 in his career, really valuable player who the Ravens were 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.600 excited to get, and he talked about his decision to 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.240 come here and join this team. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.160 Oh, can you just talk about you know, what led 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:09.880 you to to signing with the Ravens. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.400 Uh. I felt like it was a good fit. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.880 It's a winning team, got a lot of homey guys around, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:17.880 and I feel like it could help me a lot. 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.319 Got great safeties. Of course, that's an important thing. Great 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.840 up front linebackers experienced defense. So yeah, uh huh, I 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.560 know you uh played with in high school? 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.520 Did Yeah? I talked to Tavon all the time. That's 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:33.560 one of my close friends. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.680 Like you said, we went to high school together, so 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.480 you know, he was excited and everything. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:40.640 How uh, I. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.400 Guess how how are you doing in terms of the 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.760 recovery from from from then injury, I mean and and 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.200 went along that timeline. Did you kind of say I'm 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.360 feeling pretty confident. I'm I'm feeling like myself. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:50.959 Uh. 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:55.000 Really once I got cleared, like you know, I stressed 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.719 the process of you know, getting the strength back, and 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.880 I made one thing I made sure I did come 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.280 and off of this uh knee injury is run. I 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.640 ran a lot doing rehab just to you know, get 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.400 my top side speed back up and everything. So I 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.040 was working, you know before I even as signed anywhere. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:11.319 And when were you play when? 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:11.760 When did you? 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:13.079 Uh about like two months ago? 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:13.600 Really? 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:14.120 Yeah? 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.920 What what have uh been your versions of this defense 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:18.200 in the time that you've been here in in the 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:19.320 world and you can play on that? 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.160 Uh, I'm really impressed by the defense. How to communicate, 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.599 you know, id driven, they yard how each day to 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.840 come out ready to work. And you know I came 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.559 later in camp and like they gave me like first 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.400 week energy once I first got out here, like them guys. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.600 Be flying around on both sides of the ball. So 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:36.640 you know, I like that. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:38.839 So how do you feel that you've come on and 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.839 and picking up the defense given the late start. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.840 Uh, I'm picking it up pretty well. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.080 Like you know, the places I've been, we didn't have 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.280 new head coaches every year, so like I didn't have 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.439 like three new head coaches every year. This fourth new 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.760 head coach, so like, I mean, I know how to 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.079 pick it up fast. It's corner, you know, it's cover 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.240 one's own, same stuff. You just gotta learn the names. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.720 Have you ever been in the camp where you're. 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.520 Going against some of them, the big white outs that. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:06.760 Uh the way was happening. 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:12.800 Uh. I've been some real good places. The closest I. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.600 Could probably say is my f my Wikie year in 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.839 Buffalo when they had you know, Sammy Sammy Walkins before 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.840 you know he broke his foot. They had Robert Woods, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:27.120 a good win, they had Chris Hogan, Percy Harve and 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.480 it was they had they were squaded at receiver, so 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.319 they gave us work each day, me and Gilmore when 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.000 we was over there. But just a very talented wide 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:35.760 receiver group. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.240 Ow you come here and you, like, like Kevin said, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.719 you're going up against guys like O'Dell and then when 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.760 you're trying to work back your your work your way 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.920 back onto the field after that injury. How much confidence 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:48.880 did I give you to be able to run with 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.199 some of them receivers your garter and practice right now? 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:51.559 Uh? 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.120 One thing I'm tryna stress, you know, getting back into 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.480 for a football shape is you know, just working my 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.880 technique and like being up against these guys give you 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.360 a confidence to line up in front of anybody like 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.520 these some of the top receivers in the league. So 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.040 it's like a blessing that really had 'em out here, 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.360 cause it'll help get you back on track fast. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.840 The attention to the Ravens a lot, and growing up 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:14.559 in the area. 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.679 Uh No, I grew up in Washington. Fine, yeah, I'm 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.400 from the DC PG area. 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.719 So yeah, so how well, you know, as you kind 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.920 of have got settled in here, how how ready do 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.000 you feel like you are to play all tomot earlier 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:27.439 in the season. 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:28.360 Uh, I'm ready. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.679 That's what I'm out here doing, like getting myself back 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.240 into football shape. But like I get called on, i'm'a 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.400 go out there, you know, giving my Uh like I 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.439 don't feel like any doubt or anything or you know, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.439 I won't be out there getting the reps and stuff 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:41.040 that I'm getting. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.160 So yeah, Oh they can take. 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:44.640 A lot of a lot of guys, you know, more 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:46.320 than a year to come back from the ACL. But 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.559 so when you got hurt and you you spoke to 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.120 the doctors after that injury last year, did did they 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.320 give you a a timetable for when you you know, 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:54.880 when they thought you might be good to go? And 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.360 did did you beat it with ease? I mean, if 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:57.679 you were clear of the two months ago, it seems 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:58.800 like you made pretty good time. 0:13:59.040 --> 0:13:59.280 Yeah. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:00.520 Uh uh. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.760 When it comes to the ACL, was really about the 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.440 work you put into it, you know, Like like I said, 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.800 I was busting my ass like rehabbing running. I was 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.600 having like two days like all through the week. So 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.640 like I made sure I put the load on my 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.320 body knowing that you know, I wasn't in OTA's knowing 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.440 I wasn't in the first half of camp, Like, I 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.560 made sure I did more so I could be ready 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.800 and have confidence on it. That's what it's mainly about, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.200 having a confidence on your knee. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.240 When you when you didn't meet with the Ravens, what 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:32.920 did they tell you they were looking for? 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:35.200 Uh? 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:37.960 They just said they liked me. Really, you know, I 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.200 did the workout. It was my first time going through 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.680 this process. Normally I always been on the team, So 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.600 they were just like, you know, they liked me and they. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.480 Help everything work out, you know what I mean. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.040 Were there other. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:51.720 Teams contacting you at the time or what? 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:53.560 Uh? It was some other teams you you know, I 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.880 was to my age. But you know it's a great fit. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.440 A lot of friends and family come out a week 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.840 one most likely. Yeah, you know they right down the road. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.240 You know, I'm gonna I gotta keep a number on it. So, yeah, 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:07.960 I was gonna let that get road. 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:09.960 On another Super Bowl. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.240 You're gonna get another Totoo logo? 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.240 Oh yeah, for sure. I don't know why I'm gonna 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.480 put it for. I'm definitely gonna get another Super Bowl 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:15.920 side too. 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:22.120 One that was cornerback Ronald Darby. You also heard from 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.600 John Simpson and head coach John Harbaugh. 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