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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past podcast. It is Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: August twenty seventh. It was a busy, busy day for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens heading into Labor Day weekend. The team announced

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Speaker 1: this morning that it had reached a contract extension with

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Speaker 1: safety Kyle Hamilton. The deal will make him the highest

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Speaker 1: paid safety in the NFL and it's going to keep

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Speaker 1: him here on Baltimore through the twenty thirty season. This

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Speaker 1: is a big move for both Hamilton and the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: and er Tacosta made the move during a press conference

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. He announced it to the reporters and here's

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Speaker 1: what he had to say over the course.

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Speaker 2: Of that presser. Hello, everyone, thanks for coming out. As

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Speaker 2: you guys all know, it's extremely busy forty eight hours

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Speaker 2: or so for us in scouting. You know, I have

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Speaker 2: a lot ongoing. In fact, probably right now we should

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Speaker 2: find out our players that are getting claimed. That list

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Speaker 2: should be coming out. So I'm actually doing you guys

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Speaker 2: a great sir at the expense of myself being here

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Speaker 2: at noon. But I also wanted to announce, and this

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Speaker 2: is going to be fun, that we have reached a

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Speaker 2: four year contract extension with Kyle Hamilton actually just signed

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Speaker 2: it about an hour ago, maybe excited about that makes

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Speaker 2: him the highest paid safety in the NFL. Well deserved,

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Speaker 2: as you all know. Phenomenal player, phenomenal person, a great leader,

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Speaker 2: A very very proud of Kyle everything he brings to

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Speaker 2: we think that this really recognizes his impact on our

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Speaker 2: this done and get this off my plate. I also

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Speaker 2: want to thank Nick Mattio, who has been working on

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Speaker 2: this contract for quite some time. Athletes first, Kyle McCarthy,

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Speaker 2: Brian Murphy, those guys. Phenomenal job by them as well.

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Speaker 2: So excited about that. Any questions on that the negotiations.

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Speaker 3: With Kyle sort of pick up momentum over the last

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Speaker 3: culmination of a lung process And I guess bigger picture,

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Speaker 3: I mean, do you see him as maybe joining that

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Speaker 2: Well, we started really kind of engaging with Kyle and

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Speaker 2: But I would say that you know, talks started to

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Speaker 2: the dialogue that we had with those guys, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I think I think the deal really does speak to

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Speaker 2: how we feel about Kyle. The highest uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: we don't take lightly. We've had a few players over

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Speaker 2: I think when you are the highest paid, that's that's

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Speaker 2: that's an important distinction. And I think Kyle has proven

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Speaker 2: that he's going to carry that very well and we

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Speaker 4: Eric to get this done before the start of the.

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Speaker 2: Season, I'm happy you know this. I think you know,

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Speaker 2: as a GM my job is really to look at

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Speaker 2: the short term of the team and build the best

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Speaker 2: future and look at what the team's going to look

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Speaker 2: like in twenty twenty six, in twenty twenty eight, in

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Speaker 2: of your very best players and get them to sign

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Speaker 2: a long term contract extension, I think is a great thing.

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Speaker 2: I know, Steve Bashatt he's very happy about it. I

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Speaker 2: think it's a great day for the Ravens, a great

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Speaker 2: here from where the.

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Speaker 5: Defense started last season to how you guys finished to.

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Speaker 6: Be one of the best secondaries in the NFL. What

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Speaker 6: role did Kyle play in that?

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Speaker 7: And what about that sort of transformation at secondary maybe

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Speaker 2: Well, I think one of the things you love about

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Speaker 2: Kyle is he's just kind of a unicorn. He can

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Speaker 2: You know, I wouldn't say that really the the improvement

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Speaker 8: One of those lines where you at with other extensions conversations,

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Speaker 2: Themar Yeah, I think those are ongoing, you know. You know,

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Speaker 2: We've got a lot of different things going on. We've

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Speaker 2: that's going to be something that continues. You know. Back

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Speaker 2: We'll try to get as creative as possible. I think

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Speaker 2: Nick Mattio does a great job helping, you know, being

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Speaker 2: takes to to tango. Certainly, will continue to be aggressive,

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Speaker 2: but we also understand that at some point we're gonna

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Speaker 3: Eric specifically, I know there's a lot of tension, especially

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Speaker 9: His copumber goes, you know, over seventy next year.

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Speaker 2: Wordman, probably not. You know, I appreciate the question, but

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Speaker 2: I think it's good to keep these kind of things

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Speaker 2: kind of segue into the roster. Very very tough decisions

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Speaker 2: Emotional day yesterday, tough decisions to make you as you

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Speaker 2: all know, we kept three undrafted guys on defense. Excited

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Speaker 2: So for three guys to make it speaks to what

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Speaker 2: phone calls that we've received over the last two or

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Speaker 2: three days about the roster, about our players. We investigated

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Speaker 2: some trades, nothing came to fruition. Unfortunately. We feel really

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Speaker 2: We didn't. We weren't faced with that situation this year,

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Speaker 4: Kind of become the postal organization for having undrafted guys

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we've got a great process that you know,

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Speaker 2: when you've been together thirty years, over twenty five years

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Speaker 2: We spend hours on those guys as evaluating those players

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Speaker 2: really just hoping to hit on one guy every year,

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Speaker 2: Really more than three guys, because we had some other

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Speaker 2: probably had five guys legitimately that we thought had a

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Speaker 2: great year. You know. I didn't think we did a

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Speaker 2: I think our guys really kind of rallied this year,

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Speaker 2: and like I said, the scouts and coaches did a

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Speaker 5: especially when you consider how much comes back from last

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't expect it, for sure. I think these

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Speaker 2: And then you know, honestly, teams call ask about these guys, right,

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Speaker 2: just became abundantly clear that these were talented players that

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Speaker 10: Undrafted this year, when he was un drafted last year

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Speaker 10: or before, Corey Bullet, did you expect him coming into

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Speaker 5: And you made a decision to have Tyler be the

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Speaker 2: Expectation for that union? Excited man, I mean Jaira. I

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Speaker 2: everything he does, love what he brings. Hopefully we can

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Speaker 2: keep him on the practice squad again. Really really tough,

438
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 2: kind of nuanced decisions, really challenging to make because I

439
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 2: really admired Bo in many ways. Physically, just a tough guy,

440
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 2: a great mentality, all football local kid. Hold him in

441
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 2: very high regards. Like I said, we'd love to have

442
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Speaker 2: him on the practice squad. That's one of our goals

443
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Speaker 2: coming out of today, and we'll see what happens. It

444
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,280
Speaker 2: seems like when you look at the old season, I mean,

445
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,479
Speaker 2: now Hamilton get the extension, Derrick Henry Bateman, I mean,

446
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 2: does just go.

447
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 14: Back to when you kind of were talking about trying

448
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Speaker 14: to be proactive to keep these guys not waiting until

449
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Speaker 14: they hit eat you get close to free agency.

450
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Speaker 2: I think so, you know, I sort of equate it

451
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Speaker 2: to that old game we used to play. Maybe some

452
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 2: of us play. I don't think they've played anymore but

453
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 2: musical chairs, right, And you know, we got a lot

454
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 2: of really good players, and we're just trying to get

455
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 2: as many guys signed as we can until we can't.

456
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 2: It's really what it amounts to. I guess it's a

457
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,120
Speaker 2: good problem to have. I think the roster speaks for itself,

458
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,680
Speaker 2: but it's it's it is a challenge, and it does,

459
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,160
Speaker 2: you know, keep me awake at night. I feel really

460
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,440
Speaker 2: really good about this team, but I want to feel

461
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Speaker 2: as good about the twenty twenty seven team in the

462
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Speaker 2: twenty and thirty team as I feel about this team.

463
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Speaker 3: You look at your top two draft picks, do you

464
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Speaker 3: feel like those guys have both sort of demanded to

465
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Speaker 3: be on the field right away or with the way

466
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Speaker 3: they've performed, I.

467
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Speaker 2: Would say, you know, I think they both had I

468
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Speaker 2: think you got probably agree they both had good camps.

469
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Speaker 2: But again, you know, until they play, it's hard to say,

470
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 2: right they got to play in real games. But yeah,

471
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 2: they're both excited, super excited about both players. The mentalities

472
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 2: have been outstanding, the maturity where they carry themselves every day.

473
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Speaker 2: They don't to me, they don't feel like rookies. They

474
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Speaker 2: feel like guys that have been here and uh and

475
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 2: that really speaks well. I think of what we should

476
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Speaker 2: expect for those guys this year, and I think they're

477
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Speaker 2: ready to play. It's just a matter of going out

478
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Speaker 2: there and doing it.

479
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Speaker 6: For thanks with how they can deal for Lamar, with

480
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Speaker 6: the woulden.

481
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Speaker 11: Impasse there, for giving you guys being able to luck

482
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Speaker 11: down big money extensions for other guys, or are you

483
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Speaker 11: able to kind of forecast without that in place?

484
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't, I don't. I don't think so

485
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 2: Johan and I Jonas. I think like it's basically just

486
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 2: comes down to, you know, who are those guys going

487
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:54,439
Speaker 2: to be?

488
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Speaker 6: Right?

489
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Speaker 2: It's we have opportunities to sign more players and we'll

490
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Speaker 2: try and do that. It's just a matter of who

491
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Speaker 2: can we get a deal done with, and at some

492
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Speaker 2: point we're probably going to have to kind of recalibrate,

493
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Speaker 2: and let's say we got to know these draft picks

494
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Speaker 2: and we need these younger players to really be good

495
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 2: because we can't sign every single guy back. And we're

496
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 2: okay with that, you know. I mean, it's it's not

497
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 2: I'm not okay with it, but I understand it, you know.

498
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 2: It's it's kind of like when I was just hired

499
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 2: and we lost those four guys on defense, right, And

500
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Speaker 2: I've talked about that, but losing you know, Sizzle and

501
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 2: and Weddel and Zadarius and c J. That was really tough,

502
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 2: really tough. But that's the nature of this business and

503
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,439
Speaker 2: what we do. So we'll keep trying to sign as

504
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 2: many guys as we can. I think Nick does a

505
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 2: great job with me of explaining what our cap situation

506
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 2: is going to look like this year, potentially next year,

507
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 2: trying to forecast out so that we have a sense

508
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 2: for what we can do, what we can do with

509
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 2: the goal of really never having a true window that's open,

510
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,120
Speaker 2: door closed. I hate that idea of just a closed window.

511
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 2: Being a GM on a closed window team gives me anxiety,

512
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,400
Speaker 2: and I don't want to be that GM you talked about. Well,

513
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 2: guy starts at Mike Green.

514
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 1: But just your overall impressions of this rookie class, even

515
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Speaker 1: including the undrafted guys that you all kept.

516
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 15: Just you know, I know it's early.

517
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 16: What's your impression of the group?

518
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Speaker 2: I mean, so for so good, Ryan, I mean, I'm optimistic,

519
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 2: but I'm also cautious again because they haven't done it yet.

520
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 2: So I think generally speaking, these guys have shown in

521
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,719
Speaker 2: glimpses and practice what they can do and what they

522
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 2: may become. I think we'll have contributors this year. So

523
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Speaker 2: one of my goals is always to find at least

524
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Speaker 2: two or three guys I can contribute right away. You know,

525
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Speaker 2: I know everybody wants all of the guys to contribute

526
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 2: right away, but certain guys just develop at different paces,

527
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Speaker 2: And again it's one of the byproducts having a strong team.

528
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 2: Some guys really don't get the chance to contribute as

529
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 2: soon as other guys might. So but from what I've

530
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 2: seen with these guys, I think our scouts did a

531
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 2: great job and our coaches did a great job of

532
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 2: lining guys up. I think we'll have some guys that

533
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 2: contribute quickly and make plays right away in different ways,

534
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 2: and there'll be other guys that, you know what, they

535
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,239
Speaker 2: may not do a lot this year, but then next

536
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 2: year you'll see him and go, Wow, that guy looks

537
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: pretty good. And you can all think about guys like

538
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,640
Speaker 2: that in the in the past who kind of fit

539
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 2: that definition. And that's that's just what we do, right

540
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 2: So it's a little different from baseball. We don't have

541
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 2: a minor league system right but we expect our guys

542
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 2: to contribute right away because that's what our sport is.

543
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 2: But in a way, some of our guys are in

544
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 2: the minor leagues right now. It might take him a

545
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 2: couple of years before they make it to the big leagues.

546
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 2: Thanks guys.

547
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: We also had a chance to talk with Kyle after

548
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 1: he signed his contract, so her safety Kyle and fresh

549
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: off signing that big extension.

550
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 15: Thank y'all for being here.

551
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 6: In the NFL.

552
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 15: It's crazy, it's a it's a dream come true. And

553
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 15: just first, I just want to thank a lot of people,

554
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 15: want to thank God first and foremost, and h so

555
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,239
Speaker 15: many situations and things that happened in my life that's

556
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 15: got into this position. And I think back to draft night,

557
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 15: and so many people have made or some people said

558
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 15: some things about where I was drafted, this and that

559
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 15: and where I could be drafted, And at the time,

560
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 15: I think I was the least mad at anybody. I

561
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 15: knew that I came to the right place. And I

562
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 15: think that's how God just works sometimes, you know, you

563
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 15: got to see the bigger picture and has bigger plans

564
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 15: for us. So thank you the man above, and also

565
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 15: to my family, my parents, my brother, fiance, all my friends,

566
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 15: everybody just had a part in this. And this is

567
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 15: a it takes a village and I truly mean that,

568
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 15: and I truly feel that way. And to mister Bashati,

569
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 15: to EDC, to coach Hars and everybody who's got me

570
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 15: to this point and developed me. And I really, I

571
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 15: really feel like I've been kind of molded into the

572
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 15: player I am today by them, and goes to show

573
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 15: how why this organization is the way it is and

574
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 15: why it's such a great organization and they do a

575
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 15: great job and it's going to be rewarded.

576
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 5: Did you feel a lot of pressure to get this

577
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 5: extension done before going for this season.

578
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 6: How important to you in general?

579
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I wanted to get it done because I feel

580
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 15: like it would have been a distraction, and you know,

581
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 15: it's just human nature to kind of think about those things,

582
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 15: even though I try not to. And but no, I think.

583
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 15: I think the Ravens and credit to them and everybody upstairs.

584
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 15: They did a great job just engaging in conversation and

585
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 15: my agents as well, Comm McCarthy, Brian Murphy, everybody, athletes

586
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 15: first had a wonderful job. And Charlie Charlie is that's

587
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 15: like the third time he's butt into a meeting. But

588
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 15: but no, I mean I was. I was included and

589
00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 15: everything going on and really professionally on both sides, and

590
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 15: they wrote some really good emails too, and it was

591
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 15: it was really cool to see the ins and out

592
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 15: to a contract negotiation. So to answer your question, yeah,

593
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 15: I wanted to get it done. But if it hadn't

594
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 15: got done, it wouldn't be a huge deal. But I'm

595
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 15: glad it did.

596
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 5: Reaction CONTROLLI there and send out a tweet two I

597
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 5: said for a dollar just kind of what the reaction

598
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 5: from the guys been in the locker room.

599
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 6: Just how happier they for for you.

600
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's it's pretty cool.

601
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 6: You know.

602
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 15: I love every one of those guys in there, and

603
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 15: it's it's it's kind of funny like on a day

604
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 15: like today where or yes, they're guys are getting cut

605
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 15: and you guys getting signed back to practice squad. Like

606
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 15: seeing guys who get signed Peace Squad coming to walk

607
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 15: through and congratulate me and knowing that everybody's in a

608
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 15: different situation. It shows how much love there is in

609
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 15: that locker room. So again, I've been saying it a lot,

610
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 15: but I really would not be in the position I

611
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 15: am I'm in right now without everyone in locker room

612
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 15: sacrificing for each other and makes it easy to go

613
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 15: out there and make plays. When your three technique is

614
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 15: taking two guys up in the block, you'll get a

615
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 15: TfL and it all boils down and stuff like that.

616
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 15: And it starts in camp, starts at dinners off field,

617
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 15: and it's just it's a brother in there. So I'm

618
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 15: happy to be a part of it.

619
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Speaker 3: When you sign a deal like this, I mean, people

620
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 3: fans start to think about things with kind of a

621
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 3: big pictures sense. I mean, are you driven by the

622
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 3: idea of being one of those names that people talk about,

623
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 3: and remember when it comes to the overall story of

624
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 3: the Ravens, you know that that kind of breadaway was

625
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 3: reading the lineup succession.

626
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean a little bit, but mostly no, I

627
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 15: think I'm trying to carve my own path, and obviously

628
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 15: those guys, I don't think it can be replicated what

629
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 15: they did. You know, they set the bar for not

630
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 15: only the Ravens but NFL what it means to play

631
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 15: the position that they played. And you know, I'm lucky

632
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 15: to even be in the same breath as them. Not

633
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 15: saying that me personally, I don't think I'm even close

634
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 15: to there yet, but you know, it would be cool

635
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 15: one day, looking back on kids and grandkids to kind

636
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 15: of show them my body of work and be proud

637
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 15: of it. But as of right now it sounds cliche.

638
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 15: But I'm worried about the bank or worried about the

639
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 15: bills and trying to get onto that and get our

640
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 15: season started. So that's so far down the line. I'm

641
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 15: not It's not even in the front of my mind

642
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 15: at all.

643
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 8: When you hear people talk about the game.

644
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 13: So maybe kind of year people say.

645
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 6: It's not the safety is more than.

646
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 5: That, What does that mean for you in terms.

647
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 6: Of everything this team does ask.

648
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 7: You to do and you're playing close, You're on scream

649
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 7: at second level deep safety, a whole lot down the

650
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,959
Speaker 7: stretch last year, I mean, to be able to do

651
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 7: all that, what does that mean for you as far

652
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 7: as the value you can bring your team?

653
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 6: Yeah?

654
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 15: I mean, first off, it's just the amount of trust

655
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 15: they've been trusted me with in that stuff and helping

656
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 15: help them run the defense with row and just playing

657
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 15: my part whatever that may be on a snap to

658
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 15: snap game to game basis. And you know, I feel

659
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 15: like I'm talented enough in different areas to do what

660
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 15: they asked me to do. But they also have to

661
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 15: feel like that too, and then I have you go

662
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 15: out there and produced. So it's a group effort. But

663
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 15: I'm if I'm willing to play wherever whenever they need

664
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 15: me to, whatever job responsibility I have during the play,

665
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 15: I'm all for it. And credit to Notre Dame. I

666
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 15: kind of got dealt with that a little bit in college.

667
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 15: So I got to the league and I feel like

668
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 15: my rookie kind of trying to find a spout where

669
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 15: I fit in at and then figure that out at

670
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 15: Nickel and then I was always able to play safety,

671
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 15: so con just came naturally.

672
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 5: This roster is regarded as one of the best in

673
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 5: the NML. We just talked to Eric about an hour

674
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 5: or so ago. He said, I want to make sure

675
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 5: that the championship window never poses. You know what about

676
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 5: the long term outlook for this for this franchise, makes

677
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 5: you feel good about the signing extension for.

678
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 15: The next four years, Yeah, I mean eight helps out

679
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 15: a lot.

680
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 16: We got eight, We got a.

681
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 15: Chance, So I mean we could put whoever around him.

682
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,479
Speaker 15: I think we go as as he goes, and you know,

683
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 15: I think everybody in the building kind of agrees with me.

684
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 15: As long as he's here, we're we're we're we.

685
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 6: Have a chance.

686
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 15: You're lifting that shop at the end of the year.

687
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 15: And that's not hyperbolic at all. I mean he's one

688
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 15: of the best to ever do it, and you know

689
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 15: he's him for a reason. So uh yeah, that kind

690
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 15: of goes as being a raven right now in this era.

691
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 15: You know you're gonna play with Lamar Jackson. You're gonna

692
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 15: play some big games. You're gonna play hopefully for some

693
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 15: champions in the future. So I think that goes for coaches, players, staff,

694
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 15: people in the cafeteria. You know, expectations are high because

695
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 15: of that guy right there, and know it's a lot

696
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 15: of pressure on him, but I don't think he really

697
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 15: feels it.

698
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 12: You know, Ever since a fifty year option question is

699
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 12: answered back a few months ago, your contract has been

700
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 12: a pretty popular topic. How quickly did all this come

701
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 12: together or has this been going on over the course

702
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 12: of a couple of months.

703
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think you know, everybody's experiencing situations is different

704
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 15: when it comes to that stuff. Some guys get it

705
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 15: done right after the season. I wasn't in a huge rush.

706
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:36,879
Speaker 15: I knew that it was probably gonna get done before

707
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 15: the season. Talks really ramped up probably a few weeks ago,

708
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 15: and like I said, the Ravens and Nick Matteo, everybody

709
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 15: and EDC done a great job just engaging with us

710
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 15: and having constructive and real conversations and for lack of

711
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 15: a better words, just not be us and each other

712
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,240
Speaker 15: on both sides. And I think earlier in the spring

713
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 15: I was more so focused on just get my body right,

714
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 15: getting my mental right for the season, and they had

715
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 15: draft stuff and free agency, all this stuff going on.

716
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 15: So it's like, I'm not really about to bother them

717
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 15: right now, Like I know I'm going to be here,

718
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 15: so we'll get it done at some point. But I

719
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 15: think we both both sides wanted to get it done

720
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 15: for the season that ultimately helps it come to fruition.

721
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 7: They like this, What does that.

722
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,760
Speaker 6: Do for you mentally going into the year and beyond.

723
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, I don't want to sound ungrateful, because

724
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 15: obviously I am. It's a it's a crazy amount of

725
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 15: if you just talking about money, crazy amount of money,

726
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 15: and blessed to be in the position I'm in. But

727
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 15: my mom always told me money just makes you more

728
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 15: of who you already are, So you know, I think

729
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 15: it's a blessing and I'm excited to help my family

730
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 15: help others with it as well, But I don't think

731
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 15: it really changes my outlook or my procession of who

732
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 15: I am as a person, and I pride myself on

733
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 15: that no matter what you're talking about, whether it's money

734
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 15: or experiences or accolades, I try just say the same, Kyle.

735
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 15: So for me personally, I don't want to change a

736
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 15: whole lot about myself. Maybe get a watch or something,

737
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 15: but other than that I'm just gonna put in the

738
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 15: piggy bank and save for any day.

739
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 5: You know, you sound super involved in this process. A

740
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 5: lot of guys say, oh, that's for my agent, but

741
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 5: it doesn't.

742
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 6: Sound like your level of involvement.

743
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 5: What with this process? Did this teach you about how

744
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 5: the league works, how things work in terms of payment

745
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 5: at your position and sorting that being Was it important

746
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 5: for you to.

747
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 6: Be the highest pace safety?

748
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 15: I don't think necessarily. I don't think we were going

749
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 15: off highest paid safety. Not to get into it too much,

750
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 15: but it's just whatever my team thought my value was

751
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 15: compared to other people other positions in the league, and

752
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 15: I think the Ravens did a great job of honoring

753
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 15: that as well. And at the same time, I think

754
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 15: to answer your question about just the business side of it,

755
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 15: because I was interested in it and you know, obviously

756
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 15: going through contract negotiations that my team says A and

757
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 15: they say B. And you know, reading those emails like

758
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 15: sometimes they might be like triggering to somebody, but I

759
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 15: honestly respected and that they were very well written emails

760
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 15: and even a little like humor in it. So it

761
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 15: made it enjoyable for both sides and not trying to

762
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 15: divulge too much information, but I think you can grasp

763
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 15: from that. It's just pretty cool to see the business

764
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 15: side of it. If I ever did want to be

765
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,280
Speaker 15: a GM one day, which I don't forceive for myself

766
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 15: right now, but you know, it's kind of a cool

767
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 15: little tidbit right now.

768
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 12: Other than Kolar, what's asking for something from you? What

769
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 12: are what are your plans?

770
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 2: Anything you mentioned to watch?

771
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 12: Any immediate plans to celebrate?

772
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 15: Uh no, maybe a new driver something. I know everybody's

773
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 15: getting a mini driver right now, so I might have

774
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 15: to do that. My boy works for Callaway, so Alex

775
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 15: people give them a shout up.

776
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 6: Yeh.

777
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 15: Maybe I'll try to get a little discount a mini driver,

778
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 15: but nothing has in that. I want to do some

779
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 15: philanthropic stuff obviously, and try to just give back because

780
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 15: like I said, it takes a village and there's numerous

781
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 15: people that have gotten to this point. So just doing

782
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 15: my best to pay forward. That's probably the plans that

783
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 15: you have close.

784
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 10: To your any causes immediately that comes to mind that

785
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 10: are close to your heart.

786
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 15: I've done some stuff with the why, grew up going

787
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 15: to the Why a little bit. Me and my brother,

788
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 15: So that's I feel like experiences like that makes it

789
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 15: a little more genuine and then tough, which is a

790
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 15: t uff organization. Adam Shibley went to Notre Dame with

791
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 15: me and was walking on the football team he started.

792
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 15: And it's premise pretty much just to provide like shoulder pads, cleats,

793
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 15: all this stuff for underprivileged kids who don't have them.

794
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,720
Speaker 15: So maybe a little something like that, not one hundred

795
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 15: cent sure yet I've also been interested in like financial

796
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 15: literacy for people and like some stuff like single mothers

797
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 15: as well. But I mean this is just me.

798
00:38:58,760 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 16: Spitballing right now.

799
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 15: Hopefully get around all those things and hopefully make it happen.

800
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 15: But off the top of my head, that's where I'm at.

801
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 11: Is there a next step for you that you want

802
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 11: to take as a player, just something that you are

803
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 11: hopefully something you were hoping has reflected in your game

804
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 11: stats whatever in twenty twenty.

805
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 16: Five Super Bowl?

806
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 15: Really, I think you know, you check a lot of

807
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 15: boxes off, hopefully throughout your football career, and not to

808
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 15: my own hornor I feel like I've checked a good

809
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 15: bit ever since high school and Super bowl s, sois

810
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 15: you have to be checked so you know, that's the

811
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 15: next one that I want to check off. All the

812
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 15: personal accolades and stuff, that's cool, but I feel like

813
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 15: as a team, as an organization. Talk to mister Bashati,

814
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 15: it's just like Super Bowl and we're not trying to

815
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 15: wait anymore. So I want to get greedy with that.

816
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 15: I want to do that now as soon as possible

817
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 15: and stack them play.

818
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 4: Kyle.

819
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 2: Appreciate y'all.

820
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,240
Speaker 1: Today we also heard from head coach John Harbaugh.

821
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,919
Speaker 17: Okay, good to see everybody. Appreciate everybody being here. Shout

822
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 17: out to bow Smolka. He's got a second child going

823
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 17: to Notre Dame. Just wrote that check at tuition check. Congratulations.

824
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 17: It's not many people that have such smart wives. But

825
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 17: really happy with camp. You know, see the ice cream

826
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 17: truck out there. It's a small reward for the work

827
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 17: these guys put in. The level of work, all right,

828
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 17: the work capacity that was put forth. We monitor, we

829
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 17: keep track of that stuff. Maybe I could say I'm

830
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 17: up here one of these days to explain it to you,

831
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 17: but it's just high level. It's more than it's more

832
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 17: than anybody else does. And I'm just proud of the

833
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 17: way these guys do it. I think we've made the

834
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 17: most of the effort, had the best training camp we

835
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,439
Speaker 17: could have. We've traveled just as far as we could

836
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 17: travel in training camp. Now it's time. It's time to

837
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 17: start the next part of the journey, which is the

838
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 17: regular season. So this was kind of an opportunity this

839
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 17: week to tie some things together and get ready for

840
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 17: the season. But our guys will be excited to get

841
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 17: back here on Monday and be one hundred percent into

842
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 17: the bills preparation. Disappointment is we can't play until Sunday night.

843
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 17: We gotta wait till Sunday night. So but we'll be there,

844
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 17: we'll show up, we'll be right on time, and we'll

845
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 17: be ready. So proud of our guys, excited about the roster,

846
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 17: happy about the practice squad. Uh, really really happy for

847
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 17: the guys that made the team, that we're kind of

848
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 17: on the bubble. Uh and and we're ready to go.

849
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 17: What question do you have, John.

850
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 3: Calham didn't find it a pretty good extension Monday?

851
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,959
Speaker 7: Kind of your thoughts about Kyle and giving that that, Well.

852
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 17: I'm gonna ask you to pay for the ice cream

853
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 17: truck today. First of all, that'll be his job. But really,

854
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 17: happy for him. I obviously very well deserved to be

855
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 17: the highest paid safety in football at this point. And uh,

856
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 17: and he's earned it, you know. And he's a guy

857
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 17: that I don't think there's anybody surprised by that. I

858
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 17: think everybody, and you know, everybody in the raven flock

859
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 17: was hoping to see that happen.

860
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 13: And uh and that's not the end of it either.

861
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 17: But you know, see Kyle with his fiance and here

862
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 17: today and how happy they were, so many so many

863
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 17: beginnings and uh, and really the thing about Kyle is

864
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,399
Speaker 17: is like he's not He's not really, I'm he's pretty

865
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 17: even keeled, you know, He's just not like he's doing

866
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 17: cartwheels down the hallway or anything. He's he's just ready.

867
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 17: He's ready to come to practice. And and that's where

868
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 17: he wanted to get to practice and even talk to

869
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 17: the team afterwards, and he just talked about starting to

870
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 17: check those boxes off starting in Buffalo.

871
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 13: So yeah, it's great, it's great for the Ravens.

872
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 4: You never know how players will progressed, but you know,

873
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 4: just to see Kyle's progression to this point, I'm sure

874
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 4: this is somewhat at least to what you guys were

875
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 4: hoping to get out of him. Just what does it

876
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 4: feel like to be able to feel happy about the

877
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 4: investment you guys have made to him, just even going

878
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 4: all the.

879
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 17: Way back to drafting, it's really a great point because

880
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 17: you know, not everybody makes it. You know, you don't

881
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 17: hit on all your picks, and you certainly you don't

882
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 17: hit on all your first round picks. And to have

883
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 17: two first round picks from that one year hit the

884
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 17: way they have, it's just it's just a great thing

885
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 17: for all of us, for everybody, but mostly for them.

886
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 13: It speaks to the guys.

887
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 17: And you know, Kyle was a guy that people were

888
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 17: even criticizing us for taking him where we took him.

889
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 17: You know, he took a safety Why would you do that?

890
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 17: You have all these other needs and here we are today,

891
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 17: So the same thing for the same thing for for Tyler.

892
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,959
Speaker 17: You know, why just take a center? Well that's why,

893
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 17: you know, because you see the way they play. So

894
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 17: just proud of those guys, and I'm just really happy for

895
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 17: Kyle and his family.

896
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 7: Coach, now that you have the fifty your man roster

897
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 7: in practice, but how do you feel as a coach

898
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 7: entering your your number eighteen.

899
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 2: You see, this is a players very talented.

900
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 6: What is in your mind going to this new season?

901
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 13: Well, I just really I like the roster.

902
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 17: I mean, to your point, go through my mind when

903
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 17: I watch in practice is this is a really good

904
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 17: football team, you know, And and and every season, every

905
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 17: season is its own season, Every every week, every game

906
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 17: is its own game. I mean you take them all

907
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 17: one at a time, truly, and so your focus gets

908
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 17: very narrow. But when I take a step back and

909
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 17: I watch practice, I know that we're a very good

910
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 17: football team. So it's our job to go out there

911
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 17: and play very well, you know, and coach very well.

912
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 13: And that's what that's what we plan to do.

913
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 6: Show us all the video.

914
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 5: Of Aaron talking to the undrafted free agency for you

915
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 5: guys who made the team yesterday, and then of course

916
00:43:58,880 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 5: that you're you.

917
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 12: Had a chance of hide it on the day of

918
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 12: practice to talk of them.

919
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 6: And what's that like seeing?

920
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 5: You know, just that most of the guys that many

921
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 5: guys work drafted you can go to look to to shine.

922
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:10,720
Speaker 2: In the roster.

923
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 17: Well, it's definitely unusual. I mean, I don't know how

924
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 17: many times it's really happened. And you're talking about undrafted

925
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 17: free agency making a team especially you know, a team

926
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 17: that's you know, I was highly thought of as this team,

927
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 17: and this roster is also guys that were in some

928
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 17: cases weren't even signed the first go round. You know,

929
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 17: guys that were tryout. Guys like Keon are guys that

930
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 17: didn't have any signing bonus. You know, Uh, that's uh,

931
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 17: that's pretty amazing, and just goes it goes to me.

932
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 17: It goes to the fact that, you know, football is

933
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 17: probably the truest meritocracy in our society. I mean, I'm

934
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 17: sure there's a lot of meritocracies. Broadway is probably one.

935
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 17: You know, you've got to be really good to be

936
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 17: on Broadway and stuff. But when it comes right down

937
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 17: to it, it's what you do on the field. It

938
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,919
Speaker 17: doesn't really matter where you played or how you got here.

939
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 17: Once you're here and you walk out there in that grass,

940
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 17: it's about how you play. And and the best players

941
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 17: are the players who play the best, and when they

942
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 17: play the best, they should be recognized as such. And

943
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 17: we try to give everybody an opportunity. We try to

944
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 17: coach everybody up to the max and try to bring

945
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 17: it out and put them in position to do the

946
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 17: things they do well, and so you know, kind of

947
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 17: to the questions you guys are asking, it's it's a

948
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 17: great thing because it reinforces what it's all about. It

949
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,839
Speaker 17: reinforces that meritocracy part of the whole deal. And now

950
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 17: let's steal. Let's go play some ball, let's go win

951
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 17: some games.

952
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 7: As specifically about Fion because he's a tryout, Guys that

953
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 7: the other day is prayer to try the seniors.

954
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 4: Saying, what was it about kem when he showed.

955
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:40,879
Speaker 2: You all to make him in a section?

956
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 17: Well, you know, I look at defensive players, especially especially

957
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 17: defensive backs, and you know, something I've read in my

958
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 17: notes is a no hesitation play or a no hesitation

959
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 17: player a player that can process accurately and quickly and

960
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 17: then without hesitation, go respond and then show up where

961
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 17: he's supposed to show up on time or ahead of time.

962
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 17: That's what Kean does. He's you know, he's come to

963
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 17: a football family. His dad played I don't know, maybe

964
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 17: Adam in the backyard all those years, but but he doesn't.

965
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 17: He just processes so well. Just like the interception against Washington,

966
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 17: that's a kind of a combination coverage that we're in there,

967
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 17: and he really doesn't have to be out there under

968
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 17: that route. It's really not part of the necessarily part

969
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 17: of the process. But he diagnosed the play and he

970
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 17: was out there waiting for the ball. So and not

971
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 17: just that one play, He's been doing that all the

972
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 17: way through camp. Sometimes you'll see players step a. Shoddy

973
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 17: points us out to me just today we were talking.

974
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 17: Sometimes you'll see players will flash in preseason games and

975
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 17: you're like, man, you got to keep that guy. Sometimes

976
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 17: it's real. Sometimes it's just a flash, a flash in

977
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 17: the pan. But when it's backed up, when those players

978
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,479
Speaker 17: are backed up by what you see in practice every day,

979
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 17: then you know what you have. And all three of

980
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 17: those guys keon. Definitely, Uh, that's what happened.

981
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 8: When you're watching those guys, obviously you're focused on of

982
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 8: what they're doing and building all that up. But when

983
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 8: you step back from it, that's surprised that three of

984
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,320
Speaker 8: those guys make the roster, and second it was you

985
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 8: make those decisions that much tougher.

986
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 17: Yeah, I get surprised. You know, if you look at

987
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 17: that way, you get so deep into it you really

988
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 17: don't think in terms of being surprised because by this

989
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:16,879
Speaker 17: time we.

990
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 13: Know the guys so well.

991
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,760
Speaker 17: They're just they're they're part of the ninety man roster

992
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 17: and you're just watching them play every day and you're

993
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 17: coaching them up, you're sending them a video, you're talking

994
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 17: to them, and you're just sorting it out as you go,

995
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,240
Speaker 17: you know, and trying to put together the best fifty

996
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 17: three and the best you know, sixteen after that that

997
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 17: you possibly can. So I think, yeah, when you step back,

998
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 17: you have to say, gosh, that's that's unusual. But in

999
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 17: the process of it's just it's just trying to put

1000
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 17: the best team together you can.

1001
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 9: Really, as you're preparing for what f scenario is how

1002
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,320
Speaker 9: nice is it to bring back Tyler Huntley as a

1003
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:46,240
Speaker 9: veteran quarterback.

1004
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 13: You know, you're hoping you don't have to go there.

1005
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:49,720
Speaker 9: But you know you certainly you can have some trust

1006
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 9: in yeah, you know.

1007
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 17: And I think one thing, it's pretty interesting when you

1008
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 17: watch Tyler. I've been watching his games on tape. You

1009
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 17: see the growth, you know, and and he's he's had

1010
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 17: to travel a journey. You know, it's been it's been

1011
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 17: a hard road for Tyler, but that's how you grow right.

1012
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 17: You know, the scars are stronger than the other parts

1013
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 17: of the bone, and he's had his bones broken, so

1014
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 17: to speak a little bit and bounce back and compete it.

1015
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 13: And I see him out here today.

1016
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 17: He looks really good, you know, and uh, I think

1017
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 17: it's really it makes our team stronger to have him

1018
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 17: that spot.

1019
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 6: We just missed.

1020
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 16: We didn't see Kyler.

1021
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 6: We just missed over anything.

1022
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 17: Yeah, no, I don't know if you missed him or not.

1023
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 17: But he They kicked at the stadium today, so they

1024
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 17: were down there. The Jordan punted and you know, obviously

1025
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 17: Nick snapped, but but Tyler was kicking at the stadium today.

1026
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 6: We didn't see Marlins.

1027
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 17: Okay, Yeah, Marlin kind of needed to rest, you know.

1028
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 17: I felt like just watching him yesterday, it was a

1029
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 17: good rest day for Marlin. Okay, great, thank you, thank you.

1030
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:53,919
Speaker 1: Another big move this week is that the Ravens trim

1031
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,280
Speaker 1: the roster to fifty three players, and they had three

1032
00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 1: undrafted rookies make the squad. Those three plays or linebacker

1033
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: Jay Higgins, defensive backs Ruben Lowry and Kean Martin. Here's

1034
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: what Higgins had to say today during his time with

1035
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: reporters after practice.

1036
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,280
Speaker 6: You guys are doing. It was pretty good. Pretty good.

1037
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 5: Jay, you kind of doubled over in Eric's office for

1038
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 5: a minute and you needed a minute. What was sort

1039
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 5: of the physical sensations you were going?

1040
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 18: Yeah, lightheaded, lightheaded for sure. I was sitting at lunch,

1041
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 18: actually sitting next to Jake and Linderbaum, and you know,

1042
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 18: I was eating my meal and they you know, got

1043
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,919
Speaker 18: tapped on the shoulder and as I was walking down

1044
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 18: the down the hall, I just felt my heart rate

1045
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 18: keep rising and rising. Came up the steps, walked in

1046
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 18: office and then that's all Eric and it really start

1047
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 18: really started beating. And so I was just just lightheaded.

1048
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 18: When he when he told me, I was I was

1049
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 18: so so surprised. You know, I knew there were so

1050
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 18: many talented players, uh, you know on the on the roster,

1051
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 18: and you know we got a lot of those guys

1052
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 18: back on the practice squad, and so it was just

1053
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 18: you know, the numbers for me. Uh So when he

1054
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 18: when he told me, I was just you know, really surprised.

1055
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 18: I mean, the here your hear your dream coming true?

1056
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 18: Uh and you're standing up. I guess my my legs

1057
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,479
Speaker 18: were locked out. So I should have had a slight

1058
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:23,240
Speaker 18: bend in the knee. So I did that wrong?

1059
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,839
Speaker 6: Have you watched the video? Yeah?

1060
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 18: I actually actually did. I get a little cringey when

1061
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 18: I like see myself. Uh you know, so I tried

1062
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 18: not to, but uh my my parents sent it in

1063
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 18: the family group chat. I don't know how because none

1064
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 18: of them are on Instagram, so it must have been

1065
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 18: on Twitter. Uh uh and they sent it to me,

1066
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 18: you know, and I just had to watch it and

1067
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 18: then uh, Coach Santucci actually played it in the linebacker room,

1068
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 18: uh this this morning with all the guys and we

1069
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,800
Speaker 18: you know, we were just we were celebrating everybody, Reuben

1070
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 18: and Key as well, you know, just to see the

1071
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 18: surprise in our face and you know, just just how

1072
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 18: happy we were. And I think the coolest part was

1073
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 18: just like the family's response, uh to to what happened.

1074
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 18: And you know, it's kind of it's kind of community success.

1075
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 18: I felt like the whole family one that day.

1076
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 6: So did you do?

1077
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 3: Zach Orr had a particular appreciation for the journey that

1078
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 3: you were trying to make. And then he was also

1079
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 3: an undrafted linebacker.

1080
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah, I remember, you know talking to my agent,

1081
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:28,359
Speaker 18: uh sixth round actually uh, and he he he called,

1082
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 18: and he was like, you know, there there's a couple

1083
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 18: of picks left, but we need to start making a

1084
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 18: list of where you want to go.

1085
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 10: Uh.

1086
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,240
Speaker 18: And he he mentioned that, you know, the the defensive

1087
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 18: coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens was an undrafted linebacker. You

1088
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 18: know that that I knew that, you know, it wasn't

1089
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 18: gonna be enough, that connection wasn't gonna be enough to

1090
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 18: just get me on a Super Bowl when super Bowl

1091
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 18: ready team. But I knew that if if you go

1092
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 18: to the Baltimore, you play hard, play physical. You know,

1093
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 18: they respect their linebackers. I felt like this was a

1094
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,800
Speaker 18: good fit for me. Uh, you know, just coming from Iowa,

1095
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 18: the programs and what they stand for, I think they're similar.

1096
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 18: So I felt comfortable coming here, uh knowing I had to,

1097
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 18: you know, keep my head down and work and show

1098
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 18: up every day. And then you know, when there's special

1099
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 18: connections like that, you gotta, you know, got to use

1100
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 18: them to your advantage.

1101
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 10: Jay, we saw that Rippon took whole you guys out

1102
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 10: for dinner. I guess can you speak to the closeness

1103
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 10: of that group and what it's been like to be in.

1104
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 6: A group like Ril yeah, definitely.

1105
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,800
Speaker 18: Obviously when I when I got here for Rookie Mini Camp,

1106
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 18: I just remember because those guys aren't even here yet.

1107
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 18: But I just remember seeing his name in front of

1108
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 18: his locker, and then you look down two more lockers,

1109
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 18: it's Lamar Jackson. You look down at the locker it's

1110
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 18: Derrick Henry.

1111
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 6: Uh.

1112
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 18: And so it's like you're quickly like fanned out because

1113
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 18: you're like these these Pro Bowl players that you're literally

1114
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 18: watching on TV three months ago.

1115
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:56,399
Speaker 6: Uh.

1116
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 18: Now you're you're in the same locker room as those guys,

1117
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 18: you know, and as as ot As gets going, and

1118
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 18: the longer you hear and the more workouts you put

1119
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 18: under your belt, the more comfortable you you start to feel.

1120
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 18: But obviously just respect for him as a player, you know,

1121
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 18: just just turn on his tape and it's obvious how

1122
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 18: how good he is.

1123
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 10: Uh.

1124
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,879
Speaker 18: But when when you start getting to the linebacker meeting room,

1125
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,720
Speaker 18: you see how he you know, diac knows his plays,

1126
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 18: how he triggers on certain things, how he views the game.

1127
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 6: You start to see how he separates himself.

1128
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 2: Uh.

1129
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,240
Speaker 18: You know, and I think the coolest thing about Roquan

1130
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 18: who he is off the field, Uh, I think he's

1131
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 18: done a great job of there's football roquand and then

1132
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 18: there's Roquan Smith the human being. And I think every

1133
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 18: football player has got to have that balance, and he

1134
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 18: does a great job.

1135
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 6: And just he he.

1136
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:48,280
Speaker 18: Allows you know, the rookies, anybody in the room access

1137
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 18: to both parts of his life. Uh So, just learning

1138
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 18: that from him, you know, learning mental health and how

1139
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 18: important it is to to be okay off the field

1140
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 18: so you're your your best on the field. Uh you know,

1141
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 18: it's just been cool learning from him, getting closer with him.

1142
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 5: We see how expressive your dad is on social media

1143
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 5: and his support for you and Iowa.

1144
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 6: I don't know if you can buy that. I mean,

1145
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 6: I promise he is.

1146
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 18: He has been like that my entire life, my entire

1147
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 18: life like this. He was like that when I was

1148
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 18: playing AU basketball and the shorts were too big for

1149
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 18: me and my jersey was too big and my socks

1150
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 18: are pulled all the way up and there was a

1151
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 18: rim on top of the rim so they could we

1152
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 18: could shoot at the lower room.

1153
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 6: He's been like that my entire life.

1154
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 18: Like there, there's no there's no camera or platform that

1155
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 18: made him like that.

1156
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 6: And it was it was funny because the day I

1157
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 6: got to Iowa, he was like that.

1158
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 18: And I mean it took me three years to be

1159
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 18: a starting linebacker there, but I was running down on

1160
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 18: kickoff and this. You would have thought I was a

1161
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 18: buckets winner when he was. You know, just his presence

1162
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 18: on social media. Uh so when he when he says

1163
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:03,399
Speaker 18: he's he's my biggest fan, my biggest supporter, he means

1164
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 18: that from day one.

1165
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 5: I mean we saw a little bit of that phone

1166
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 5: call on the video and that it looked.

1167
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:10,839
Speaker 6: Like he wanted to call him back.

1168
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 5: What was that like, just kind of luxuriating in that

1169
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 5: moment with your dad.

1170
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 18: Yeah, when it when it comes to when it comes

1171
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 18: to my family and anything to do.

1172
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 6: With success, My my dad's uh.

1173
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 18: Super emotional. He he's a family guy. Like he he

1174
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 18: lives off me and my sister and in anything we do,

1175
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 18: he's he's willing to support it. I mean, I could

1176
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 18: I could tell him I'm trying to do anything. You know,

1177
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,439
Speaker 18: my dreams are anything. Him and my my mom they're

1178
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,959
Speaker 18: willing to support you know anything, and just to see

1179
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 18: you know, where my my football career has gone. And

1180
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 18: then just like these these last couple of months of

1181
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 18: my my football career have taken like a drop, and

1182
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 18: it's like I was doing really good in college and

1183
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 18: you know, everything was good. Uh then you know, the

1184
00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 18: combine came around and the draft came around, and it

1185
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 18: was kind of hard on me because I was like,

1186
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 18: I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. But to

1187
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 18: see him not waiver, I think that's why you you

1188
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 18: saw some of that emotion on a phone call, because

1189
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 18: for me, it's it's hard to say like I knew

1190
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 18: this would happened, Like I knew everything would work out.

1191
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 6: You know.

1192
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,800
Speaker 18: I was having real conversations with myself after the draft

1193
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 18: if football is in my future, if I need to

1194
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 18: go do something else. But if you would ask him

1195
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 18: after the draft, he knew this day was gonna happen.

1196
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,919
Speaker 18: Uh So just knowing I gotta I gotta a father

1197
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 18: like that in my my corner.

1198
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 6: I think that's that's what the video show.

1199
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 3: Used to being underestimated or it was just a little

1200
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 3: bit of experience.

1201
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 18: My career has got it's got loops. It's like cycles around.

1202
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 18: You know, recruited not not really recruited out of out

1203
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 18: of high school from Indianapolis, Indiana, didn't get an IU offer,

1204
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,959
Speaker 18: didn't get a Purdue offer. You know that that means

1205
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 18: a lot from a from an Indianapolis football player. I mean,

1206
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 18: I'm forty minutes from you know those campuses. Uh, and

1207
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 18: so Iowa was my first big ten offer. Go to Iowa,

1208
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:14,280
Speaker 18: sit for three years. Uh, you know, true junior, watching

1209
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 18: other people play. You know, then I play. I do

1210
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 18: everything I possibly can do, and you know people tell

1211
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 18: you it's not enough. So you know, all I all

1212
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 18: I can do is focus on me, Uh, focus on uh,

1213
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 18: you know, running the ball, tackling the ball, and getting

1214
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 18: better every day, and usually things tend to work themselves out.

1215
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 4: I'm curious, Zach were talked about how a lot of

1216
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 4: college linebackers he stays like athletes who get moved to

1217
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 4: linebacker late in their career.

1218
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 5: You you've just been a linebacker.

1219
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 8: How how do you think that that got you to

1220
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:47,479
Speaker 8: this point?

1221
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 5: And what does being an inside linebacker need to you?

1222
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 18: Yeah? Yeah, I think the game's changed. I mean, dudes

1223
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 18: are dudes are athletic. I mean you can you can

1224
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 18: get a six or four guy who's two twenty five.

1225
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 18: Now you've used to play safety. I think that's just

1226
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 18: a testament to you know, guys getting bigger, faster, stronger

1227
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 18: every year. But I mean, I I think I think

1228
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 18: the games won and the xes and o's. You know,

1229
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 18: I'm not the biggest guy, obviously not the fastest guy,

1230
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 18: but I think there there's a feel for inside zone,

1231
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 18: like there's a feel for pinpool, Like you got to

1232
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 18: like feel those things. And maybe it's because I went

1233
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 18: to ioland I played with a I see you a

1234
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 18: fullback and you know Linderbaum and you know big guards

1235
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 18: for five years. But there's something about like just filling

1236
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 18: the offensive line and who they're working up to and

1237
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 18: when that guard's pulling, like you don't you just like

1238
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 18: gotta you gotta feel those things. And it's cool because

1239
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 18: Rokwan talks like that, like he can't really explain why

1240
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 18: he did what he did every single time, but he

1241
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 18: has a really good feel of what's gonna happen and

1242
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 18: what how the play is going to develop.

1243
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 6: And I think that's that's what makes a good linebacker,

1244
00:58:57,880 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 6: all right.

1245
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: Next up is cornerback Kean Martin.

1246
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 2: Check and checking.

1247
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 12: So what does it feel like from a tryout here?

1248
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 2: Coming here not knowing what they can be tyofa three man.

1249
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 14: H it's been a it's been a fun road since

1250
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 14: training camp O Ta to fall camp Man. I've just

1251
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 14: been enjoying every day of it, just enjoying every day

1252
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 14: being in the.

1253
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 6: National Football League.

1254
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 14: Every day I step in this building, I know that

1255
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 14: I'm beating the eyes and I'm and it's a blessing.

1256
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 14: So I'm just I'm just enjoying the journey.

1257
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 6: Really, what do you feel like all those teams missed

1258
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 6: about me?

1259
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 14: I mean, I feel like it was just destined for

1260
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 14: me to be at the Ravens. I don't really think

1261
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 14: the teams they missed out on me. I just think

1262
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,360
Speaker 14: the Ravens, the scouting, the scouting they'd seen something in

1263
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 14: my play.

1264
00:59:57,120 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 6: They've seen the way that I played. They seen I play.

1265
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 14: Aggressive, fast, and a very instinctive football player, and they

1266
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 14: took a chance on me. And that's all I really,

1267
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 14: all I could ask for in college, That's all I said.

1268
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 14: I just needed a team to check a chance on me,

1269
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 14: and I promise they won't regret it.

1270
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 5: So obviously we've been talking about the plays you've made

1271
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 5: and the press some games, you know, when you leave

1272
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 5: this stadium Saturday, or you feeling like, Okay, I made

1273
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 5: my best case, I have a good chancewer where you're

1274
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 5: still pretty nervous.

1275
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 6: What you would love?

1276
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 2: Y'all? Did it?

1277
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 6: I mean I don't, not really. I don't really think

1278
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 6: about it like that.

1279
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 14: I mean a lot of people, you know, everybody see

1280
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 14: the plays that I make, the big plays from points

1281
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 14: on the boards to sack the pick six. But then

1282
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 14: when I go back and watch them, I look at

1283
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 14: the plays that I messed up on.

1284
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 6: I could have had.

1285
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 14: A way better game than everybody else seen. But so

1286
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 14: I feel like I could always play a better game.

1287
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 14: I'm always my biggest critic, but I feel like that's

1288
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 14: the best way to get best.

1289
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 2: If you critique yourself.

1290
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 14: Better than anybody else critique you, you're gonna play a

1291
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 14: long time in this game.

1292
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 12: A lot of well could draft and then people signed

1293
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 12: as undrafted players right after that, and then you're still

1294
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:06,479
Speaker 12: out there.

1295
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:10,840
Speaker 6: Come here as a try out candidate. What was that time.

1296
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 13: Like and how many teams did you.

1297
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 6: Try out for?

1298
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 10: Uh?

1299
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 14: Well, I only tried out the Ravens was the only

1300
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 14: one that called me. Uh So I only had one tryout.

1301
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,200
Speaker 6: It was pretty It's pretty hard on me.

1302
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 14: I'm not gonna lie being honest, coming out like right

1303
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 14: after the draft, realizing that nobody was gonna sign me.

1304
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 14: But once I got that call out the minichim, I'm lie,

1305
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 14: it's on me now. So I knew that if I

1306
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 14: wanted to come in and do what I really wanted

1307
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 14: to do in the NFL, I just had to come

1308
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 14: out and improve it.

1309
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 4: You know what was kind of the mindset you had

1310
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 4: gone through this entire summer, I mean, starting from the

1311
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:49,240
Speaker 4: trial all the way to this point, was there like

1312
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 4: a feeling like did you feel like you had to

1313
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 4: make an impact on every day?

1314
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 6: Just like what was your daily mindset out here?

1315
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:59,880
Speaker 14: My daily mindset was just winning the day, get better

1316
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 14: every day. If I come out here, don't worry about

1317
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 14: the next week when we in full pass, don't worry

1318
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 14: about Thursday when we in the stadium. Just think about

1319
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 14: today and if if I accomplished today, and I know

1320
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 14: that I did my best today, and then when tomorrow come,

1321
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 14: then I focus on tomorrow. But my mindset was always

1322
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 14: that I deserve to be out here.

1323
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 5: Said coming to Baltimore on I mean, obviously, this enfranchise

1324
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 5: is a long legacy by.

1325
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 11: Drafted free agent sploded guys who are in the.

1326
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 7: Ross from down ball, plus the thing best coordinator p's

1327
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 7: a former undrafted freege where your food did any of

1328
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 7: that legacy or history or any of those specific people

1329
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 7: maybe easier to particularly this preseason.

1330
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 6: I think so.

1331
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 14: I think once I got that that call by many

1332
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 14: Camp from the Ravens, I was like, if I'm gonna

1333
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 14: play for any team in the NFL, it's gonna be Ravens,

1334
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 14: just because the history of the defense, and I just

1335
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 14: know the way that I play defense and the savdiness

1336
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 14: and aggression that I play. I know that on defense

1337
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 14: I played like a Raven.

1338
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:04,479
Speaker 11: So so you know it was an.

1339
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 8: Hours, minutes whatever leading up to it when you found

1340
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 8: out Votevo was.

1341
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 6: Up waiting for you found out about the fifty three.

1342
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 10: Yeah, uh.

1343
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:17,840
Speaker 14: I mean the night before, it really wasn't on my

1344
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:22,960
Speaker 14: mind really, honestly, I wasn't anxious. I wouldn't see if

1345
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:27,040
Speaker 14: I had a good night's sleep. Really, But I woke

1346
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 14: up the next morning and then I think it really

1347
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 14: the only time I really got a little nervous, Like

1348
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 14: I walked in here and I carried myself like any

1349
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 14: other days. When they came in and came and tapped me,

1350
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 14: it was like, yeah, they want to see us stair.

1351
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 14: That's when I'm like, okay, all right. Heart was racing

1352
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 14: a little bit, but I thought, I, you know, everybody

1353
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 14: know about them tough conversations. I thought that's what I

1354
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 14: was going up there for. But when you know, when

1355
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 14: they told me, it was just a relief that, Okay,

1356
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 14: I'm in this building for a little bit longer. Even

1357
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 14: though I gotta you know, it's nothing solidified. You still

1358
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 14: got I still gotta prove myself weekend and week out.

1359
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 14: So but it was just all right, I'm here for

1360
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:03,439
Speaker 14: a little bit longer.

1361
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:07,480
Speaker 8: You thought you were getting come when you got that tip.

1362
01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, most definitely.

1363
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 6: Yes, the reason to put out a video of him.

1364
01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 2: The guys get tacked into the decision to the cameras,

1365
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:17,760
Speaker 2: have the name of the watch the video and on yeah,

1366
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 2: I watched it.

1367
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:19,360
Speaker 6: I watched the video.

1368
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 2: Man. It was.

1369
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 14: It was even better seeing my man, my man, Rube

1370
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:26,640
Speaker 14: and j Man just to see their family. Because I

1371
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 14: caught Rube when I was walking up the stairs. He

1372
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 14: was walking down and I was like, oh, and I'm

1373
01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 14: like I just gave him a hug. I'm like, yeah, man,

1374
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 14: we did it because you know, we both came in,

1375
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 14: you know, with the with the the same mindset, because

1376
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 14: we you know, he he came in the same way

1377
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 14: even though he signed after right after the draft, you know,

1378
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 14: no sign of bonus and you know, like the bottom

1379
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 14: of the depth chart. So like it was just man,

1380
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 14: it was just a joy just to see him accomplish

1381
01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:57,920
Speaker 14: that too.

1382
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, we also saw that video. If you called your

1383
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 7: mom and you started to talk a little bit about

1384
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 7: how close you are to her, can you elaborate the

1385
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 7: more on how she influenced your journey?

1386
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 14: Man, my mom, she's my that's my best friend. Really,

1387
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 14: I could talk to my mom about anything. But uh,

1388
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 14: you know, growing up, she always supported me. She always

1389
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:18,920
Speaker 14: literally she came to every game high school.

1390
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 2: She came to every game.

1391
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 14: And you know, once I got to college, you know,

1392
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 14: she even asked me and my brother he was in

1393
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 14: college playing college for by the time, she asked me, like,

1394
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 14: how do you feel she wanted to go back to

1395
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:32,520
Speaker 14: school and get a doctor's but how do you feel about.

1396
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:33,000
Speaker 2: Me going back to school?

1397
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 14: I won't be able to make every game, And I

1398
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 14: mean it did bothers me. I'm like, my god, you know,

1399
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:40,640
Speaker 14: pursue what you want to do. But she always made

1400
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 14: sure that she watched every game, and you know, she

1401
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 14: always supported me, like even when I had my highs

1402
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 14: and my los and you know, my mom know, my

1403
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 14: parents both know my confidence is through the roof, but

1404
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:53,920
Speaker 14: sometimes you had them them thoughts, and she always uplifted

1405
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 14: me when I had that. So, man, my mom she

1406
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 14: always been that, she always knew that I could play

1407
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 14: at this level. And then like just giving her that

1408
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 14: call is just yeah, that was that was amazing. I

1409
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:05,440
Speaker 14: can't wait to see it, or I can't wait see

1410
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 14: my moment. She getting adoptors in English, so she graduates

1411
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 14: next spring, next spreen she would be doctor.

1412
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 1: And lastly here's safety Ruben Lowry.

1413
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 2: So we have to be on the same thing. Like

1414
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 2: when when you get that news, they need to see upstairs,

1415
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 2: what's what's.

1416
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 1: Going through your head?

1417
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:37,160
Speaker 16: Man probably respond to Sack same way he did. But

1418
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:39,920
Speaker 16: it's just a moment you know that you've been waiting for.

1419
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 16: You know, when the moment comes. I was talking about

1420
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 16: being ready for the moment. So when you go, when

1421
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:46,560
Speaker 16: you get up there, you're ready for you know, whatever

1422
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 16: decision he wants to make, and you prepare for it.

1423
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 16: And you know there's a lot of motions, going on,

1424
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:53,200
Speaker 16: a lot of feelings. But you know, when you put

1425
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 16: all your work you can do, you know, everything you

1426
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:58,160
Speaker 16: can give each and every single day that you can,

1427
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:00,680
Speaker 16: you can be at peace with whatever decision is. And

1428
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:05,320
Speaker 16: I'm at peace right now. But but but still, definitely,

1429
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 16: it was a it was a moment. It was like

1430
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 16: a moment of triumph and the moment of you know,

1431
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:13,080
Speaker 16: accumulation of everything went over in camp and the whole journey.

1432
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 6: So it was awesome. Sat at home two days ago,

1433
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 6: did you think that you did enough to make the team?

1434
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 2: I wasn't. Really.

1435
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:23,680
Speaker 16: My mindset wasn't on did I do enough? My mindset

1436
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 16: was basically, did I give it my all every single day?

1437
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 16: I feel like doing enough that really, you know, you

1438
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 16: can toss it up to you know, the coaches and

1439
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:35,440
Speaker 16: you know the people that evaluate those things. It's like,

1440
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:37,480
Speaker 16: look at myself in the mirror and say like that

1441
01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 16: I do everything I gave today and kind of wake

1442
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 16: up and do it again and again and again. And

1443
01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 16: even when that moment does come like Okay, yes you

1444
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 16: make the team all those good things, can I continue

1445
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:48,400
Speaker 16: to stack days and do that consistently? So that that

1446
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:50,720
Speaker 16: was that was the mindset and I'm glad I got

1447
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 16: a chance to and still do have a chance to

1448
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 16: keep doing that.

1449
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 5: We just heard say that you guys had a moment

1450
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 5: on the stairs like that did you make it?

1451
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 10: That was?

1452
01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 16: What was that?

1453
01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 2: Like what's the relationship? And like going the same thing

1454
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:00,800
Speaker 2: with him?

1455
01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:01,800
Speaker 6: Key man?

1456
01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 16: He's awesome. You know, he talked about it a little bit.

1457
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 16: But we met during rookie mini camp and he was

1458
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:10,080
Speaker 16: a guy that we initially played the same exact position

1459
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:12,680
Speaker 16: and we were, of course we both deep in the backs,

1460
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:14,840
Speaker 16: but it was the same exact nickel position, and it

1461
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 16: was a guy we've been competing this whole time, and

1462
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 16: you know, you can that brotherhood, in that bondship that

1463
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 16: comes with competing with one another, but not not in

1464
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:23,840
Speaker 16: a talks away, in a brotherly way. It was awesome

1465
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:25,880
Speaker 16: to share that moment with him, you know what I'm saying.

1466
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:28,280
Speaker 16: I learned so much from him as a defensive back.

1467
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:30,839
Speaker 16: And you know, you're going out through the camp process,

1468
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 16: you see a guy who just continuously works, just works

1469
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:37,680
Speaker 16: every single day on his craft, who's technically sound. So

1470
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:39,720
Speaker 16: when you're when you're walking down the stairs, you see

1471
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 16: him with a big smile, and you know he knows

1472
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:43,679
Speaker 16: and I know we didn't have to say any words.

1473
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:45,680
Speaker 16: We just it was just a big hug. It was

1474
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:48,200
Speaker 16: like a movie moment, honestly, but it was awesome.

1475
01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:48,960
Speaker 6: It was awesome.

1476
01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:52,000
Speaker 5: You know a lot of teams say, hey, you can

1477
01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:53,680
Speaker 5: go prove it out with the we will get your

1478
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,640
Speaker 5: hispot do it on the field. Was that did that

1479
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,640
Speaker 5: field particularly true as you're going through this process with

1480
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:03,160
Speaker 5: the ring, I mean, were there points where you wonder like,

1481
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 5: is there anything I can do to get a spot?

1482
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 5: Or did it feel like throughout the process you always.

1483
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 6: Had a chance to earn your spot.

1484
01:09:09,400 --> 01:09:12,719
Speaker 16: Honestly, every single day they harped on in the meetings

1485
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,000
Speaker 16: is you have to earn it. And I truly believe that.

1486
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,840
Speaker 16: You see the way they treat everybody here is the

1487
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,640
Speaker 16: exact same way. If you're the highest paid player, if

1488
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 16: you're the lowest and the depth chart, you have to

1489
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 16: earn everything that you have. And that's what you love

1490
01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:27,400
Speaker 16: with That's the beauty of this organization. That's the beauty

1491
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 16: of the team that you play for, is that it's

1492
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 16: consistent all around. And you know, I love that I

1493
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 16: got a chance and still get a chance to play

1494
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 16: for this team and play for an organization like that

1495
01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 16: where every single day you have to bring it.

1496
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:39,920
Speaker 19: To the fact that you played nickel back in the

1497
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 19: spring and when you were making plays then we were

1498
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 19: noticing then what kind of went into transitioning? I know

1499
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 19: you're still playing for nickel, but what went into the

1500
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 19: conversation and everything as far as you play safety and

1501
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:50,800
Speaker 19: what was.

1502
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:53,519
Speaker 6: That like and you think that helped ultimately making the team?

1503
01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:56,600
Speaker 16: Of course, yeah, it was playing dB. I played a

1504
01:09:56,640 --> 01:09:58,640
Speaker 16: lot of depositions in college and all that stuff, and

1505
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:01,760
Speaker 16: just the ability need to be versatile, especially here on

1506
01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 16: this team. It's just it's an awesome ability. And you know,

1507
01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 16: I wanted to I wanted to challenge myself and even

1508
01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:08,760
Speaker 16: a recommunicant we talked about it like playing safety a

1509
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 16: little bit, and I wanted telling himself to learn that position.

1510
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,320
Speaker 16: And it was it was hard, you know, learn two

1511
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 16: positions at the same time and not knowing which one

1512
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 16: you're gonna play at certain days. But definitely like when

1513
01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:19,720
Speaker 16: once you learn those positions, you understand the defense better,

1514
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:22,640
Speaker 16: you understand the scheme better, and then ultimately it just

1515
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 16: helps you with your play. And I mean how it

1516
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 16: kind of went from Nickel to safety or safety to Nigel.

1517
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 16: It was just you know the needs, you know what

1518
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 16: I'm saying, Like, you know, training campus long, people go

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01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 16: down or we need people to feel spots and that's

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Speaker 16: kind of how it came about.

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Speaker 5: Another big announcement today was that Kyle Hamilton got sign

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01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:42,040
Speaker 5: this organization for the long term.

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Speaker 6: Me working with a guy like that in the secondary,

1524
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:46,799
Speaker 6: what has.

1525
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 16: He done for an event for you?

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01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:50,519
Speaker 5: Because you kind of get amplimented to how to play

1527
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:51,679
Speaker 5: defense in this organization.

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01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:53,760
Speaker 16: It's funny we were talking about versatility. I mean, he's

1529
01:10:53,880 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 16: the epitome of versatility, literally plays every position on the defense.

1530
01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:59,320
Speaker 16: And you know, to have a guy that leads you

1531
01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:02,080
Speaker 16: in that way, you know, intellectually, and then you have

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01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:03,640
Speaker 16: a guy that you know actually puts it on every

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01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 16: single day, puts the paths on every single day and

1534
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:05,800
Speaker 16: works hard.

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Speaker 6: It's very rare.

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01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:09,400
Speaker 16: And you know a guy that you can go up

1537
01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:11,280
Speaker 16: and ask a question midplay if you don't know what

1538
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 16: you're doing, he knows, like and you might be a

1539
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:15,759
Speaker 16: corner you might be to say that he knows exactly

1540
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:18,080
Speaker 16: what you're supposed to be doing. And it's just awesome

1541
01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:19,560
Speaker 16: to play for a guy like that, it's awesome to

1542
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 16: you know, lay it on the line because you know

1543
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:22,640
Speaker 16: he's gonna lay it on the line for you, and

1544
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 16: you know he's all about ball and all about playing

1545
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 16: for his brothers.

1546
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:31,920
Speaker 7: Is there any advice that he gave you the can but.

1547
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 1: You kind of apply.

1548
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:37,519
Speaker 16: I would say the advice, I wouldn't say give it

1549
01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:39,640
Speaker 16: to me specifically, But he's, like I said, he's a

1550
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 16: leader for the defense and the team, and he always

1551
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 16: talks about pushing forward. So just pushing forward every single

1552
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:47,840
Speaker 16: day and like knowing that yesterday is in the past.

1553
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 16: You know, you might have a good day, yesterday, my

1554
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:51,080
Speaker 16: bad yes, say yesterday, but you still have to go

1555
01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:53,680
Speaker 16: out today and do what you do. And I think

1556
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:56,000
Speaker 16: that's the like you said, that's the beauty of it all,

1557
01:11:56,040 --> 01:11:58,320
Speaker 16: earning it every single day. And he's a leader that

1558
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 16: does those things, not just those things. He does those things.

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01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:05,760
Speaker 6: Mother teams calling you up in the draft about signing.

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01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 2: There, and if so, what led you here?

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Speaker 16: No, it was a it was a quiet period after

1562
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:13,560
Speaker 16: the draft. It was I was with my family and

1563
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 16: it was about you know, our hour or two after that,

1564
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:18,519
Speaker 16: we were sitting, we were waiting and it was it

1565
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 16: was radio silence. You can imagine how that goes. And

1566
01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 16: then ultimately we got that call from the Ravens and

1567
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:26,240
Speaker 16: it was a it was a joy. It was so

1568
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:29,120
Speaker 16: much joy around people's faces. My grandpa was there. It

1569
01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:31,679
Speaker 16: was amazing. It was a it was definitely a moment

1570
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:34,320
Speaker 16: to celebrate. And then you know, coming up here for

1571
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 16: a community camp, it was it was great to see

1572
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:38,920
Speaker 16: the organization and the people and get a feel for

1573
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:42,280
Speaker 16: what we were about to walk into stup days.

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01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:45,960
Speaker 3: Uh, had that been like a painful, stressful couple of

1575
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 3: days feeding into that before you got.

1576
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:48,280
Speaker 2: That called up?

1577
01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:53,040
Speaker 16: It wasn't painful or stressful because it kind of goes

1578
01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:54,760
Speaker 16: back to what we talked about earlier. You just know,

1579
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 16: you know the work that you put in, and you

1580
01:12:56,880 --> 01:12:59,600
Speaker 16: know that the journey that you're gonna go on, and

1581
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:01,799
Speaker 16: you know, for me, it was like if God allowed

1582
01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 16: me to go on a team or be on a team,

1583
01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:05,680
Speaker 16: then awesome, But if he didn't, then I was going

1584
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:08,160
Speaker 16: to continue to work hard at the next thing. And

1585
01:13:08,400 --> 01:13:10,519
Speaker 16: I've been blessed to be in this position and blessed

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01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:13,720
Speaker 16: with this opportunity and to do this with all these

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01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:15,240
Speaker 16: people and all these awesome teammates.

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01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 12: Gratis, do you have a.

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01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:20,600
Speaker 10: History of undrafted free agents? I guess have you been

1590
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:23,000
Speaker 10: able to wrap your mind around going from undrafted to

1591
01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 10: making the roster of a team that's always in all

1592
01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:27,519
Speaker 10: the contention.

1593
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 16: It's really it is hard to wrap your mind around,

1594
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 16: honestly right now because your your brain, especially in camp,

1595
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:36,920
Speaker 16: has been so focused on working, working, work and working

1596
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 16: and like not looking back and taking a step. So

1597
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:42,519
Speaker 16: my brain actually hasn't. I haven't digested actually the moment yet.

1598
01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:45,040
Speaker 16: But I think that's also a good thing, you know,

1599
01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 16: like not to stay complacent like this moment, but to

1600
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:51,080
Speaker 16: continue to work. But you know, one day or one moment,

1601
01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:52,639
Speaker 16: I'm gonna definitely look back on it be like, wow,

1602
01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 16: this is this is insane.

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01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:58,640
Speaker 8: Which is harder than mechanical engineering or this?

1604
01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 16: That's a good question. Different aspects I would say. I

1605
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:06,840
Speaker 16: would say here just because it's a new it's a

1606
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 16: new atmosphere, it's new people, it's a you have to

1607
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 16: you know, kind of adapt to new environments. You know,

1608
01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:14,960
Speaker 16: mechanical engineering is hard, but you just go into a

1609
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 16: classroom every day and you figure it out. Like he

1610
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:19,519
Speaker 16: get as many reps as possible for mechanical engineering. You

1611
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:21,320
Speaker 16: can just go practice one hundred times a day, but

1612
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 16: here now it's a we're play like a Raven means

1613
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:25,960
Speaker 16: something here.

1614
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:27,799
Speaker 6: Appreciate it. Awesome.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Past Podcast. The Ravens

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Speaker 1: want to have a few days off before getting back

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01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:40,480
Speaker 1: to Baltimore on Monday to really dive into the preparation

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Speaker 1: for the game coming up against the Buffalo Bills on

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01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:47,519
Speaker 1: September seventh to kick off their NFL season. That's it

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Speaker 1: for us on the Press Past Podcast. Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back with you again on Monday.