Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The NFL Draft
Speaker 1: continued tonight for rounds two and three, and the Ravens
Speaker 1: made a pair of picks. In the second round. They
Speaker 1: took offensive tackle Roger Rosengarten out of Washington, and then
Speaker 1: they follow that up in the third round with outside
Speaker 1: linebacker Adissa Isaac out of Penn State. We had a
Speaker 1: chance to talk with both those prospects on zoom calls
Speaker 1: after they were picked, as well as hearing from head
Speaker 1: coach John Harbaugh and general manager Eric Tacosta as they
Speaker 1: recapped the second day. Let's kick things off with ADC
Speaker 1: and coach Harball.
Speaker 2: Well, guys, we're excited to have a pretty successful day today.
Speaker 2: I think with our two picks, Roger rosen Garden tackle
Speaker 2: that we've really been following since the Senior Bawl. We
Speaker 2: were fortunate as an underclassmen with the rule changes, he
Speaker 2: was able to be down there this year, and we
Speaker 2: watched him at length and followed him and saw him
Speaker 2: at the combine. We interviewed him at the combine. He
Speaker 2: was a player that we had kind of had our
Speaker 2: sites set on. Today he's one of our top players
Speaker 2: in the entire round. Today, and I think fortunate that
Speaker 2: we got him when we did. It was a trend.
Speaker 2: As you guys saw all those offensive linemen get picked
Speaker 2: after him. I think they were like ten or eleven
Speaker 2: guys in a span of like maybe twenty picks. So
Speaker 2: we were fortunate, almost like with the corners yesterday, we
Speaker 2: got out in front of that trend. So it's better
Speaker 2: to be at the front of those moves and at
Speaker 2: the end. And then when the DESA was My first
Speaker 2: school visit this year was the Penn State West Virginia game.
Speaker 2: I had a daughter there at Penn State. I scouted
Speaker 2: the Lisa. They had a lot of players on defense
Speaker 2: this year, and I love his body, love us frame,
Speaker 2: his upside. He's a very explosive player, very physical, can
Speaker 2: be used in a lot of different ways. He's got
Speaker 2: a great story.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Patrick McDonough, one of our scouts, did a phenomenal job
Speaker 2: scouting him. Uh. He was his Red Star player this year,
Speaker 2: which is kind of cool. And we just feel like
Speaker 2: he's a raven type of guy. Fits us in many
Speaker 2: different ways mentality and with his just physical style of play.
Speaker 2: So we're excited to get him.
Speaker 4: We talked to the Rose garden, he said, And your
Speaker 4: combined is that you told it didn't even go to
Speaker 4: the full length.
Speaker 5: And he said, you told him he checked all the boxes.
Speaker 6: What would lead you.
Speaker 7: To say that, Well, it might have been about the
Speaker 7: seventh or eighth interview in a row, back to back.
Speaker 7: They stacked it up by so we needed a break.
Speaker 7: But uh, he came in there and just we try
Speaker 7: to focus on football, you know, we we do. We
Speaker 7: do a lot of our scouts do a great job
Speaker 7: of uncovering all the other stuff and if something needs
Speaker 7: to be asked, Eric will do a great job asking question.
Speaker 7: But we try to get in there with football. And
Speaker 7: he was just so on point. He was on point.
Speaker 7: He knew his technique, he knew his assignments, he was
Speaker 7: very self aware of the things he needed to get
Speaker 7: better at, and just seemed like a motivated guy. He
Speaker 7: seemed like a raven Like both these two guys were
Speaker 7: just our kind of guys. So, you know, we didn't
Speaker 7: we needed a break and he checked all the boxes.
Speaker 8: H he seems to seem like he plays on the
Speaker 8: right side, right tackle. Uh, do you think there's a
Speaker 8: chance that he can come in and start ideally?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, absolutely, I mean, we draft him with that
Speaker 7: idea that he'll compete for that. You know, that's the idea.
Speaker 7: All these guys will be competing for playing time and
Speaker 7: opportunities to start and in his case, right, and you know,
Speaker 7: we're gonna we're gonna look at him everywhere. He's he's,
Speaker 7: he's he can he can play guard if we needed
Speaker 7: him to, and he can play left tackle if we
Speaker 7: need him to. We're just gonna let, you know, roll
Speaker 7: little offensive line out there and let him compete.
Speaker 9: How do you see Isaac's pass rushing skills translate to
Speaker 9: the NFL?
Speaker 10: Does need more development.
Speaker 2: Or can you come in to meet m F Well,
Speaker 2: I mean, I think heavy most of these guys need
Speaker 2: some some development when they get to this level as
Speaker 2: pass rushes. But what I like about him is he's
Speaker 2: got great length, which is a critical factor. Uh, he's
Speaker 2: got heavy hands. Uh, he's got some different moves. He's
Speaker 2: he's got speed and quickness, and I think he's tenacious.
Speaker 2: And so I think all of those things when you
Speaker 2: think about our best pass rushers, I think those are
Speaker 2: a lot of the traits that those guys have, and
Speaker 2: so we're very excited. I watched you know a lot
Speaker 2: offensive linemen this year in the Big Ten. Obviously we
Speaker 2: have a need at that position, and so I watched
Speaker 2: a lot of these guys, and Adize is a guy
Speaker 2: that kind of reatavoc in the Big Ten this year.
Speaker 11: You guys and Robbers at best player available team, you
Speaker 11: go into day three of.
Speaker 2: The draft, probably each had argument three?
Speaker 6: Is that just how the board fell?
Speaker 9: Was this particularly draft that is kind of conducive to
Speaker 9: being able to.
Speaker 6: Get that about done?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 2: I think, you know, so far, we've gotten pretty lucky.
Speaker 2: You know, we've I was you know, I talked about
Speaker 2: trading up yesterday, and you know, I was tempted at
Speaker 2: one point. I got scared today a little bit, but
Speaker 2: we just stayed patient and we were four. You know,
Speaker 2: I think when your need and best player kind of
Speaker 2: match up, then you really have something special. And I
Speaker 2: think that's happened a couple of times for us, and
Speaker 2: so it's it's good. You know. I think tomorrow we're
Speaker 2: in a position where we're just basically open highway and
Speaker 2: we can just sit back and just draft the best
Speaker 2: guys that we see on the board without any real
Speaker 2: thought to like position or how they're gonna fit. Roster wise,
Speaker 2: we're just gonna draft the best football players you.
Speaker 6: I think he's happened the ros and Garden pick.
Speaker 4: The TV cameras showed at least the m that showed
Speaker 4: you kind of had me a conversations that over possibly
Speaker 4: the trade up Offertunty not doing it.
Speaker 12: No.
Speaker 2: I think I asked them if I could have a
Speaker 2: glass of red wine in the draft.
Speaker 6: Room at that point.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know we were happy. I don't
Speaker 2: know what we were talking about. I think we had
Speaker 2: there was a team that had called us about trading
Speaker 2: up to our spot, and we'd considered it. Uh and
Speaker 2: I don't want to, you know, really give away too much,
Speaker 2: but a team that was just behind us called us
Speaker 2: about trading up, and then they decided to not do it,
Speaker 2: and so we drafted Roger. And then they they did
Speaker 2: trade up right behind us and took a different tackle,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, there's a theory that they were
Speaker 2: drafting Roger. So that's what we were talking about. I
Speaker 2: think just we got lucky that we didn't go back
Speaker 2: a few spots because we might have missed out on
Speaker 2: the guy that we wanted. You know, you think if
Speaker 2: you go back to spots. Pretty good chance to get
Speaker 2: your guy. But there was a there's a chance we
Speaker 2: might have been disappointed.
Speaker 6: On Roger a lot to talk about how great his
Speaker 6: mobility is.
Speaker 13: Where's the greatest area for him to grow is it?
Speaker 6: Is it power? You know, well, he's.
Speaker 2: Young, he's a young player. You guys will see him.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just he's young. He's gonna get stronger.
Speaker 2: We'll get him in the weight room. He's a very
Speaker 2: gifted athlete. He's played some left tackle, he played left
Speaker 2: tackle at the Senior Bowl. Very good feet, body mechanics,
Speaker 2: exchange the direction, agility. He's just got to get physically stronger.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of guys, do you know, And so
Speaker 2: he will, Uh, he'll fill out and get stronger, have
Speaker 2: a great strength program and uh and he'll see quick results.
Speaker 3: I think, well it's a lot.
Speaker 5: Do you think how uh signific it was the was
Speaker 5: the mobility in the decision giving direction in the offense?
Speaker 2: I guess, uh yeah, I mean I think it's just
Speaker 2: you know, fast protection wise. You know, the guys that
Speaker 2: really kind of flourish at our level of the guys
Speaker 2: that have enough strength and the guys that can really
Speaker 2: move their feet and uh, and that's you know, it's
Speaker 2: that's great. I mean in our offense, you know, we
Speaker 2: do a lot of things out in space. Guys have
Speaker 2: to be able to pull. And you know our screen
Speaker 2: game was was good this year, and you know, we
Speaker 2: get these guys out there and we have fast players
Speaker 2: and a quarterback obviously is a tremendous athlete. So you know,
Speaker 2: you want guys that are mobile. We want big, strong guys,
Speaker 2: but we want these guys to be mobile too.
Speaker 5: Is there any consideration why either in the third round
Speaker 5: or is it just one of those situations.
Speaker 6: Obviously you'd like the guy you got.
Speaker 5: It's a pretty receiver playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think what you have to try
Speaker 2: and do in that any situation is look at your
Speaker 2: needs and who's the best player available, and then what
Speaker 2: are your chances I think getting a player at these
Speaker 2: other positions in the coming rounds. And so we've got
Speaker 2: a pick in I don't know what is it, thirteen
Speaker 2: picks away, fourteen to fifteen picks away, whatever that is,
Speaker 2: I don't know. So we have to kind of assess
Speaker 2: who we think is going to be there at that pick,
Speaker 2: and then we have another pick after that in the
Speaker 2: fourth round, and so everything we do is based on percentages,
Speaker 2: and so again I'll give I'll give Derek Yam credit.
Speaker 2: He said today, at the start of the day, there
Speaker 2: was an eighty percent chance that we would get Roger
Speaker 2: roseen Garden eighty percent, and I said that seems kind
Speaker 2: of high to me, and he got kind of nervous
Speaker 2: and goes, yeah, it seems kind high to me too,
Speaker 2: But we got him. So he's he's a free man.
Speaker 5: How much does it factor into Roger, who's a right
Speaker 5: tackled recovering the line for.
Speaker 6: Is the added value in doing that job? Yeah, I
Speaker 6: think that's a good point.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 7: And he's at He's just an athletic guy when you
Speaker 7: watch the tape, Like Eric had mentioned, he's young, but
Speaker 7: he can move his feet. I think Brian was kind
Speaker 7: of talking about that, the athleticism part of it. He
Speaker 7: can move so it's not going to be a challenge
Speaker 7: for him to go either way.
Speaker 14: He's young.
Speaker 7: We'll bring him in all these guys we look at,
Speaker 7: especially early on. He live be in a mini camp
Speaker 7: in here next weekend and he'll be playing both sides
Speaker 7: and just see what they look like and kind of
Speaker 7: see how it shakes out over the course of mini camp,
Speaker 7: training camp and all that. But the fact that he
Speaker 7: was with the left handed quarterback on the right side,
Speaker 7: I think is kind of part of that. Yeah, what
Speaker 7: do you what do you?
Speaker 5: What do you?
Speaker 6: Kind of how you in your defense?
Speaker 7: Well, I saw a guy on tape that makes a
Speaker 7: lot of plays and he does it in a real
Speaker 7: athletic way. I mean, he's a very athletic guy, very
Speaker 7: explosive starter, very.
Speaker 14: Can cover ground.
Speaker 7: He can get to you can get to the edge
Speaker 7: of a tackle and beat him on the edge with
Speaker 7: quickness or beat him underneath the quickness and then you know,
Speaker 7: long arm power, he's got that too, So he's got
Speaker 7: some real pass rush ability. He's heavy handed against the run.
Speaker 7: So for us, he's going to be in the rotation
Speaker 7: just like last year, and he's probably from a number standpoint,
Speaker 7: you know, in Jadevian spot with those guys. So you
Speaker 7: got all those guys back, we're going to add We're
Speaker 7: gonna add David, you know, because he's going to be healthy.
Speaker 7: We got van Nei back and then we got our
Speaker 7: other guys. So who are you know, I mean, we
Speaker 7: got a pretty good group out there. Coming off the edge,
Speaker 7: setting the edge outside backers, defensive ends, and he's going
Speaker 7: to be a part of that. So I like having
Speaker 7: fresh guys out there playing really hard, you know, and
Speaker 7: especially deposition.
Speaker 4: Your evaluation of athletic pass rushers changed it all because
Speaker 4: you guys do got Chust who he's one of the
Speaker 4: best to kind of crafting, you know, scale out of
Speaker 4: maybe some rougher edges.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, I think Jonas I really pay
Speaker 2: attention to Chuck. I mean when he talks, I listened
Speaker 2: because he is a great pass rush specialist and he's
Speaker 2: looking for traits and he gets excited by certain guys
Speaker 2: and uh, and I like that. I love his enthusiasm.
Speaker 2: He's a he's a he's a joy to work within
Speaker 2: the draft meetings because he's you know, if he loves
Speaker 2: a guy and uh, and that's exciting. That's what you
Speaker 2: want as an evaluator. And there's a guy that kind
Speaker 2: of organizes the draft. You really want, you know, your
Speaker 2: your scouts and your coaches to take ownership of certain
Speaker 2: guys and get on the table for guys. And Chuck
Speaker 2: does that. And he's a great coach. And so if
Speaker 2: he sees these trades and somebody I get excited. I
Speaker 2: think we all saw how our guys developed last year
Speaker 2: and emerge and what we did, and I think Chuck's
Speaker 2: a big part of that.
Speaker 6: Big picture of the draft has surprised you, so Fartman.
Speaker 5: And any of the positional run tapping it different times
Speaker 5: than your respecting.
Speaker 2: Maybe well, I just think it's you know again it
Speaker 2: you know, I feel we feel fortunate because you know,
Speaker 2: we took Nate and then we saw those corners go
Speaker 2: at the beginning today like all of the guys we
Speaker 2: like to get picked, and then uh Roger and then
Speaker 2: I mean, I've never seen anything like what we saw
Speaker 2: today where every single guard and tackle on the front
Speaker 2: board got picked in a span of twenty picks. Never
Speaker 2: seen that before, so that was kind of surprising. It's
Speaker 2: just been it seems like, if you're going to define
Speaker 2: this draft is to the draft of the run, because
Speaker 2: you sew the quarterbacks in the first round, and then
Speaker 2: you saw the corners kind of at the end of
Speaker 2: the second into the at the end of the first,
Speaker 2: end of the second, and then for the end of
Speaker 2: the second into the thirty sell of the offensive alignment.
Speaker 2: So it's been unusual.
Speaker 15: Is that a big part of Derek Gams kind of
Speaker 15: job is your job is analyzing where's that run going
Speaker 15: to start? How can we get ahead of that run
Speaker 15: or earlier than run at least?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I try to do that. I think
Speaker 2: I study that list, the damn list. I have it,
Speaker 2: and I study it, and you just kind of if
Speaker 2: you look at it long enough, you start to see patterns.
Speaker 2: And I did feel I can't say that I thought
Speaker 2: the offensive line would work out like it did today
Speaker 2: because I actually thought that we would have an opportunity
Speaker 2: tomorrow to get some pretty good offensive linemen.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: But at the corner position, I did kind of see
Speaker 2: there was a trap that if you didn't get a
Speaker 2: corner in the first round and you weren't picking high
Speaker 2: in a second, you were going to be in trouble.
Speaker 2: I did see that, and so and I think that
Speaker 2: was the case.
Speaker 4: Ericor John, I think rosing Guard obviously was coming off
Speaker 4: that kind of disappointed and that Washington Michigan game. Was
Speaker 4: he as high on your rate or as central on
Speaker 4: your radar going into the Senior Bowl then when he left,
Speaker 4: I mean, you guys already really liked him going into
Speaker 4: Mobile to be kind of open, you guys, I was
Speaker 4: to have a look of a prospect he was there, Well.
Speaker 2: You know I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: So we went that We went to the National championship.
Speaker 2: John and I we were blessed to be able to
Speaker 2: go to that game and it was a great result,
Speaker 2: as John would say, in a fun night. And you know,
Speaker 2: I'll be honest, I really I did scout a little bit,
Speaker 2: but I was really just kind of taken in the
Speaker 2: atmosphere the game at that point. I didn't know a
Speaker 2: lot about Roger at that point. My first real you know,
Speaker 2: exposure was at the Senior Bowl and I was very
Speaker 2: impressed by him. Came back and before the draft meetings,
Speaker 2: watched his tape, was more impressed and uh and then
Speaker 2: he you know, went to the combine interviewed him. Super
Speaker 2: impressive guy, great background, great makeup.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so that's kind of what happened with that, which
Speaker 2: you know was.
Speaker 5: That and what any impact that And to approach the.
Speaker 2: First of the draft, you know, Rishard as a player
Speaker 2: that I just I've said it a million times and
Speaker 2: I think coach would say the same thing, like I
Speaker 2: am extremely excited to watch for shot this year. I
Speaker 2: think his best football's ahead of him, and so to
Speaker 2: get him back was kind of a no brainer. It's
Speaker 2: something he wanted, it's something we wanted. When both sides
Speaker 2: kind of see the same goal, then it's easy to
Speaker 2: kind of accomplish. And so I just feel like he's
Speaker 2: a really, really talented player who's had some bad luck
Speaker 2: with injuries. I think he's got a very bright future
Speaker 2: and I'm excited to watch him play.
Speaker 3: You guys, so you got them.
Speaker 1: Thanks, So they're certainly excited about these moves. And now
Speaker 1: let's hear from offensive tackle Roger Rosegarten, who the Ravens
Speaker 1: took in the second round at pick number sixty two.
Speaker 8: Hey, congratulations, Roger. You're obviously known for your past blocking
Speaker 8: at Washington. What's how do you kind of sunk in?
Speaker 8: How's it going to feel to be a pass blocking
Speaker 8: for Lamar Jackson?
Speaker 9: I mean, as soon as I said I heard Baltimore,
Speaker 9: you know that's the first thing I came on. My
Speaker 9: blocking for Lamar an elite level quarterback and MVP level quarterback.
Speaker 9: I mean, it's it's a dream come true. I mean,
Speaker 9: Baltimore is one of those places where it's been a
Speaker 9: historic program for such a long time and just to
Speaker 9: year my name called and have everybody in the staff
Speaker 9: come and congratulate me.
Speaker 6: It was it was such a great feeling.
Speaker 10: We'll go to Garrett Downing.
Speaker 1: Hey, Roger, congratulations. You know, you know for you obviously
Speaker 1: played a right tackle Washington. Just kind of what do
Speaker 1: you feel like at your best position here at the
Speaker 1: NFL level and how do you feel like you're getting
Speaker 1: projects to this next this next level?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, uh, I'm most for sure comfortable with
Speaker 9: tackle both tackles. I grew up playing left and then
Speaker 9: kind of got switched over to right. But you know,
Speaker 9: my main thing is is I actually want to come
Speaker 9: in and compete and uh, you know, Earn Winz helped
Speaker 9: help this team earn wins for the program, and uh,
Speaker 9: I mean it means a lot to me that Baltimore
Speaker 9: chose me at this position. And uh, you know, I
Speaker 9: take a lot of pride in playing offensive line, especially
Speaker 9: especially offensive tackles.
Speaker 10: So Jeff's the reeback.
Speaker 3: Rocher.
Speaker 11: What was your level of interaction with the Ravens. Did
Speaker 11: you come to Baltimore or for pre draft visit? Did
Speaker 11: you meet with them at the combine and did you
Speaker 11: kind of have a feeling that they were going to
Speaker 11: be one of the teams that was going to be
Speaker 11: interested you here in that second round.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean I met with them first at Senior Bowl
Speaker 9: kind of briefly within the scouts, and then I think
Speaker 9: that progressed on to a Combine visit and I had
Speaker 9: a formal meeting with them and that went super well.
Speaker 6: I remember, you have the alloweded.
Speaker 9: Seventeen or twenty minutes whatever it was, and our meeting
Speaker 9: ended up going ten minutes.
Speaker 6: Coach Harbaugh and.
Speaker 9: The offensive line coach and the rest of the staff
Speaker 9: really said, hey, man, like you check all the boxes.
Speaker 9: I mean, no, there's no need to spend all seventeen
Speaker 9: minutes on this. So I know, I knew from there.
Speaker 9: My meeting went super well with them at the Combine,
Speaker 9: and then I didn't end up doing a thirty visit,
Speaker 9: but that's kind of all the extent was.
Speaker 6: And yeah, we'll.
Speaker 10: Go Childs Walker and then Ryan Mink.
Speaker 13: Yeah here, Roderick, congratulations. Where do you feel like you
Speaker 13: have the most room to grow in your game?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I mean, for me as an offensive lineman, I feel
Speaker 9: I'm my own biggest critic, you know, I feel like
Speaker 9: there's a super It's unbelievable to say, but I think
Speaker 9: there's a lot in my games that I need to
Speaker 9: critique and get better at. You know, so when it
Speaker 9: comes back to game film, I wish I could give
Speaker 9: you one strong answer, but I mean, I got a
Speaker 9: whole lot to work on my game.
Speaker 6: You know, my game isn't perfect, but you know, I.
Speaker 9: Feel like I have certain strengths in certain areas and
Speaker 9: certain weaknesses and areas. But I mean it's it's all
Speaker 9: broad in on offense line. It could be get off,
Speaker 9: it could be hand placement A to Z.
Speaker 6: Really, so.
Speaker 15: Ran me, Roger, congratulations. Yeah, I just want to build
Speaker 15: off those strengths that you see. Where where do you
Speaker 15: feel like right now are the biggest strengths in your game?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I mean, just coming from college, we were past heavy offense,
Speaker 9: so obviously I feel very confident in my past set,
Speaker 9: but also my run blocking. I feel like my run
Speaker 9: blocking is underrated. We were kind of in that spread offense,
Speaker 9: kind of spread offense, run scheme, zone scheme. But I
Speaker 9: mean it doesn't matter what what scheme it is, uh,
Speaker 9: I mean I feel confident within run pass screens, getting
Speaker 9: out in space, I just feel confident at all.
Speaker 10: So we'll go to Brian Whacker and then Gianahan.
Speaker 17: Hey, Roger, congratulations, you know you mentioned you run blocking obviously,
Speaker 17: Derrick Henry here just got to hear how excited kind
Speaker 17: of are you to be able to block for him
Speaker 17: and and sort of what what how familiar are you
Speaker 17: with with the raven scheme and what Todd Mulkin likes
Speaker 17: to do and so forth.
Speaker 9: Yeah, as soon as you brought up Dereck Henry, I
Speaker 9: mean that was one of the first things when I
Speaker 9: thought Baltimore.
Speaker 6: You think Lamar and then you think the new addition
Speaker 6: of Derrick Henry.
Speaker 9: Uh, you get a guy that that high level running
Speaker 9: and guy runs hard.
Speaker 6: Trust his O limeon. I know he loves his old
Speaker 6: linement from just.
Speaker 9: Watching him back when he was at Tennessee and to
Speaker 9: see him now finally on Baltimore, it's it's super exciting.
Speaker 9: And just to note that I'm going to get reps
Speaker 9: at blocking for Derrick Henry, it's a it's something that
Speaker 9: you know, you don't really think of growing up watching
Speaker 9: him when he was at Alabama, and then he wins
Speaker 9: the Heisman and uh, kind of come full circle and
Speaker 9: get a get a block For a guy like that,
Speaker 9: it's it's a super special.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Gianna, congratulations.
Speaker 18: Kind Of going off of the last question and response,
Speaker 18: when it comes to blocking Lamar, what you've seen just
Speaker 18: watching him, is there anything unique that entails since he
Speaker 18: is a very different type of quarterback. Obviously he can
Speaker 18: lift your game. But is there anything you'll have to
Speaker 18: adju us to learn to play with Lamar?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 9: I mean, I think obviously Lamar is one of the
Speaker 9: strong suits is his ability to scramble and get it
Speaker 9: out of the pocket. But a lot of that came
Speaker 9: with Mike Pennix back at school before he kind of
Speaker 9: came to Washington and everyone saw him as a true
Speaker 9: pocket passer and seeing what he can do in practice,
Speaker 9: he would he would definitely burge out and kind of
Speaker 9: get in that scrambled mindset, and I learned to adapt
Speaker 9: to it very quickly. I mean, thankfully he didn't have
Speaker 9: to do that too much in games, but I mean
Speaker 9: in practice, it was it was, it was on and
Speaker 9: uh when it came to that scramble mentality that he
Speaker 9: had when it needs to be and uh, you know,
Speaker 9: going from la Lamar's standing there and he'll rip it
Speaker 9: and rip it, but he'll also get out in the
Speaker 9: pocket when he needs to.
Speaker 6: So I'm excited.
Speaker 10: We'll go Nikkeel and then back to Jeff's the rebec.
Speaker 19: Hi Rober, Congratulations, Welcome to Baltimore. I know someone already
Speaker 19: asked you a little bit about what your feel is
Speaker 19: about Todd Monkin's offense, But coming from that Washington offense,
Speaker 19: how do you feel like what you did in that
Speaker 19: Washington offense is going to translate directly to the NFL?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, just from Todd's offense when he's in
Speaker 9: that gun formation, I know he trust this offensive line
Speaker 9: very much, so, especially the edges and the tackles, and
Speaker 9: you know, I think just that supreme confidence of in
Speaker 9: his offensive line within the past game in also run game,
Speaker 9: I mean, it speaks millions to what I could bring
Speaker 9: to the table and coming in and competing.
Speaker 20: And yeah, Roger, have you gotten the sense from the
Speaker 20: Ravens where whether it's gonna be the right or left
Speaker 20: side or is it just not got conversation not gotten
Speaker 20: specific yet with that, and.
Speaker 6: That hasn't gotten really specific obviously.
Speaker 9: I think you know, I played right the majority of
Speaker 9: my career with my starts, but I'm flexible to just
Speaker 9: come in and compete for both.
Speaker 6: You know, that's my main thing.
Speaker 9: I just want to come in and compete and earn
Speaker 9: the respect of my teammates and the coaches.
Speaker 6: And yeah, we'll go.
Speaker 10: To Kyle Barber.
Speaker 21: Hey, Roderick, congratulations. You know in past protecting for Michael Pennix,
Speaker 21: being a left handed quarterback on the right side, you're
Speaker 21: essentially protecting his blind side. Just how translatable is that
Speaker 21: for your game on the right side with with pass protection.
Speaker 21: Do you think that kind of gave you a benefit
Speaker 21: in refining your past skill pass protection skills?
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
Speaker 9: I mean just knowing your blind side, you know, you
Speaker 9: got to sharpen up your edges. You know, you can't
Speaker 9: get loose on an edge and give up an edge
Speaker 9: pressure because you know quarterbacks I could be able to
Speaker 9: see it, but I mean there's just those added extra
Speaker 9: I don't even think it's pressure to me. I think
Speaker 9: it's it's a privilege, you know, those privileges that come
Speaker 9: with the blindside. And you know, especially my two years
Speaker 9: of starting and having that left handed quarterback, you know,
Speaker 9: I ate all that pressure up and took it for
Speaker 9: all those worth so yeah.
Speaker 10: Ryan Mank and then Jonash Schaeffer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Roger.
Speaker 15: One thing the draft pundits talked about is is your
Speaker 15: weight at three ten at year pro Day? Is that
Speaker 15: something are you looking to put on more weight or
Speaker 15: is that where you feel comfortable because of your great mobility.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Like you said, I just want to I just
Speaker 9: want to make sure I'm mobile, I feel athletic, So
Speaker 9: I can probably range from three to fifteen to three
Speaker 9: oh five.
Speaker 6: It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 9: I just want to feel strong, especially mobile, feel athletic
Speaker 9: on the edge, and get out in space. So that's
Speaker 9: my main thing. So if that's three fifteen, three twenty
Speaker 9: three ten, my weight can vary. I'm not like one strong,
Speaker 9: one strong way I could it could varies as long
Speaker 9: as I feel good at that weight running around and
Speaker 9: taking sets and getting off on runs.
Speaker 6: I feel ready.
Speaker 22: Hey Roger, congratulations. Was there a offensive lineman for you
Speaker 22: growing up who you modeled your game after? And then secondly,
Speaker 22: did you kind of get a sense from the Ravens
Speaker 22: whether they would encourage your kind of aggressive style on
Speaker 22: pass sets? I mean, you'd be bringing the the forty
Speaker 22: four Special to Baltimore. Is that a little bit too
Speaker 22: far down the road.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean absolutely, I just want to come in
Speaker 9: and compete right away, you know whether obviously I gotta
Speaker 9: use the technique that coach once to.
Speaker 6: Install, and I you know, well, coach has a really good.
Speaker 9: Plan for offensive linemen that come in and you grown up,
Speaker 9: I watched a lot of the Joe stalies.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm thankful to have him in my corner training.
Speaker 9: And uh, you know, I've heard stories about my old
Speaker 9: uh DE line coach in high school.
Speaker 6: His name is Travis Kirski. He was UCLA teammates with Jonathan.
Speaker 9: Ogden, and you know that's uh he he told me
Speaker 9: crazy stories of how Jonathan Ogden was such a legend
Speaker 9: over here, and uh, yeah.
Speaker 14: Did you ever get to meet Ogden?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: I didn't. I I've heard.
Speaker 9: Uh he's one of the biggest humans, at least my
Speaker 9: D line coaches I've met. And Travis Kirsky was not
Speaker 9: a small individual, to say the least.
Speaker 10: So we'll go to Brian Whacker and then close it
Speaker 10: out with Jeff Curiebeck.
Speaker 17: Roger, I know you're also a pretty good basketball player
Speaker 17: back in high school.
Speaker 14: Just how much one did that help?
Speaker 17: You know in terms of your full work and ability
Speaker 17: into how do you think that translates, you know, to
Speaker 17: your skill set.
Speaker 6: Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 9: You know, going back to my old line meetings with
Speaker 9: Coach Huff, you know, in the old line room, basically
Speaker 9: what would happen was He's like, get to a good point,
Speaker 9: get get to a good position to punch and pass
Speaker 9: pro and then once you're there, it's basically just playing
Speaker 9: basketball with them. And that for me just clicked right away.
Speaker 9: Like you said, you know, whether that's your guarding the
Speaker 9: guy in the perimeter and interior, you block a guy
Speaker 9: with your feet first, and.
Speaker 6: I find that very very true with offensive line play.
Speaker 9: So I mean that basketball background background definitely helps me out.
Speaker 6: A ton.
Speaker 14: So did you have a favorite basketball player ground up?
Speaker 9: I wouldn't say I really had one, but I've really
Speaker 9: being a colorad of kid, and uh, you know, I've
Speaker 9: really come to uh loved Jokic's game, just how he
Speaker 9: plays and how he dominates and it makes it look
Speaker 9: so easy. You know, I think just bringing those same
Speaker 9: uh skill traits to offensive line and uh, you know,
Speaker 9: I'd love to and they and make it make it
Speaker 9: look easy.
Speaker 1: So we lastly, let's close it out with outside linebacker
Speaker 1: A Lisa isaac whose the Ravens took in the third
Speaker 1: round to pick number ninety three.
Speaker 15: Congratulations. Just just want to get your take on on
Speaker 15: joining the Ravens. Were they a team that you felt like,
Speaker 15: you know, was coming after you the whole time, that
Speaker 15: you had a good chance of Lanta with or what's
Speaker 15: the what's the emotions?
Speaker 23: I mean, it was kind of you know, surprise when
Speaker 23: you had a good feeling of you know, the Ravens had,
Speaker 23: you know, they had high hopes for me, and you
Speaker 23: know they don't me, so you know, I thought they
Speaker 23: it was a good bit. And you know I have
Speaker 23: one of my former teammates, Ado Fine anyway, so you
Speaker 23: know he helped with me to play State.
Speaker 3: So that's when we you know, we were close.
Speaker 23: So just seeing that connect thing and seeing how you know,
Speaker 23: just how it ended up happening to me.
Speaker 10: We're going to Gianahan.
Speaker 18: Hi, Lisa, congrats. I know Eric Acosta said that he
Speaker 18: was up there for the West Virginia game visiting his daughter.
Speaker 18: Got to see you.
Speaker 3: But did you talking during that it?
Speaker 18: And I guess what is it like having a GM
Speaker 18: whose daughter was a I guess a classmate of yours.
Speaker 3: Actually I didn't see it. Talked to him during that game.
Speaker 23: But that's crazy, like the amount of the nexting that
Speaker 23: the Ravens have with play State and just how many
Speaker 23: familiar pacing and just connexing is.
Speaker 3: A small world. So just the pit itself piece is perfect.
Speaker 17: Go to Brian Whacker, Hey, congratulations, two quick things. How
Speaker 17: familiar are you with Adafi Alway? And and you know
Speaker 17: have you talked to him much or any of that
Speaker 17: sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very familiar with him.
Speaker 23: You helped keep me the Penn State Models, and then
Speaker 23: we ended up playing together a couple of years and
Speaker 23: we're to the Ravens, so you know, we're real tight.
Speaker 23: You know, some similar area to me, so you know
Speaker 23: we have a lot of comiction there, you know. Just
Speaker 23: so he was a great, great, great team, a great
Speaker 23: big butt to me, permanent to the Tain States. You know,
Speaker 23: I just think him to you know, hap to me
Speaker 23: when I first got there. They learning and now now
Speaker 23: for it to come to the circles, it's it's it's
Speaker 23: a very unique situation.
Speaker 17: And then just secondly curious how you're you know, your
Speaker 17: relationship with with your siblings kind of impacted you growing
Speaker 17: up and so forth, and and what kind of relationship
Speaker 17: you have with them.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, we're all.
Speaker 23: Close and they have their own verbally, So people may
Speaker 23: think that it's it's prowent being communicated them or whatnot.
Speaker 23: But I feel like, just you know, obviously going up
Speaker 23: within my whole life. They're just in your siblings. That's
Speaker 23: how I look my brother my sister, because my brothers
Speaker 23: my sister. So it's just I mean, I check think
Speaker 23: the same. So it's nothing, nothing new, you know. I
Speaker 23: feel like, you know, just like how you would teach
Speaker 23: your brother and talk to your brother. You know, we laugh,
Speaker 23: we joke, we uh, you know, we play fight, you.
Speaker 3: Know, just everything.
Speaker 23: So I love him to beat and you know, I
Speaker 23: think things, you know, just the motivation and inspiration to
Speaker 23: me in my lifetime.
Speaker 3: They just everything.
Speaker 10: I think that everything they've been long, say, the leasing
Speaker 10: any game to do, We'll go to Clifton Brown.
Speaker 12: Yeah, congratulations at least a little like things really clicked
Speaker 12: for you to your last couple of years at Penn State.
Speaker 12: Why do you think things clicked for you? And do
Speaker 12: you think that you're really kind of just scratching the surface,
Speaker 12: so to speak, because you know, you kind of didn't
Speaker 12: have the you know early starting.
Speaker 6: Football that a lot of guys did, right.
Speaker 23: I feel like after I got hurt that so much
Speaker 23: on one season and we'll just you know, open.
Speaker 3: My mind to a lot.
Speaker 23: You know, this is like you being able to watch
Speaker 23: more and not have they thigured to do certain things,
Speaker 23: and it puts a newer.
Speaker 3: Train on your on your mindset.
Speaker 23: And that's kind of what I've begun to field at
Speaker 23: that time in that year, and it made my whole standard.
Speaker 23: And I think back that from the front of two
Speaker 23: season and getting rolling into that teage on the season,
Speaker 23: I mean, you know, kind of building on what I
Speaker 23: taxed and I took from and from just from just
Speaker 23: to go on from the agy the adversity and taught
Speaker 23: me a lot it is good and so you're using
Speaker 23: all of that and the kind of making a bull
Speaker 23: of positivity from it kind of slung me into that
Speaker 23: t th season where I was just extra confident, you know,
Speaker 23: far away from the injury. You know, a great, great
Speaker 23: coaching and you know better kind of better strung one
Speaker 23: like you last year.
Speaker 3: So that was appetit to that. It didn't a lot
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 10: We'll go to creative Parks and then Garrett Downing.
Speaker 9: DSA.
Speaker 16: You kind of alluded to it a bit, but I
Speaker 16: wanted to ask you, just bouncing back from that Achilles
Speaker 16: injury and just the perseverance that it took and the
Speaker 16: adversity that you faced, how do you think that that
Speaker 16: will help you as you move forward to the next level.
Speaker 3: It's gonna help me tremendously.
Speaker 23: I feel like a diversity I wanted to live up
Speaker 23: the words may be something Malaga things and it won't
Speaker 23: really be much of a much of a hittup because
Speaker 23: I'm I'm gonna find a way to make that making
Speaker 23: something out and get the best out of it.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a little bad. I feel like it
Speaker 3: just it just blews your mind to be able to
Speaker 3: handle adversity.
Speaker 23: Is in the big waves, Yeah, I mean there's a
Speaker 23: lot of a lot of great things that come from
Speaker 23: I don't want to make it seem like it's big
Speaker 23: to get hurt, but they do a lot of good
Speaker 23: things to each other.
Speaker 3: Luke, and I'm an injuries in these congratulations is that?
Speaker 3: I guess?
Speaker 1: How would you describe yourself as a player?
Speaker 17: What the Ravens are getting and you I.
Speaker 23: Would say, I'm just a disruptive on very lengthy, bandy pitches.
Speaker 23: It's violent play like very versatilele and you know, I
Speaker 23: can't make make plays some dropping they play some ruts
Speaker 23: and they play from in the London. So I'm just
Speaker 23: a very versatile player the plug and play anywhere. And
Speaker 23: I just feel like I bring a lot to the
Speaker 23: Ravens and you know they're obviously.
Speaker 3: A great tradition here, so I'm great. I'm just excited
Speaker 3: and uncle, all.
Speaker 23: These prooven have been played, just get better and you
Speaker 23: know what I think to be the best version of
Speaker 23: myself that I mean, We'll.
Speaker 10: Go to Kyle Phoenix and then Childs Walker.
Speaker 6: He congratulations, Lisa.
Speaker 21: Is there a quarterback that you are most hoping to
Speaker 21: get a sack against? Is there anybody that comes to
Speaker 21: mind that you're excited about now that you're here.
Speaker 3: I need I need that.
Speaker 23: My home sick and I need that need that. I
Speaker 23: need that job I liked. I like explaining the bigger bodies.
Speaker 23: So he's kind of outyety, so it will give me
Speaker 23: a little bit of challenge and more back.
Speaker 13: M hm, congratulations. Curious do you do you know much
Speaker 13: about about Chuck Smith? Who is kind of the the
Speaker 13: past Rush expert on the on the coaching staff.
Speaker 6: And is it exciting to you.
Speaker 13: The idea of kind of kind of getting in the
Speaker 13: lab with somebody who will really drill down on the
Speaker 13: specific the specifics of that croft.
Speaker 3: Oh definitely. I've heard a lot about him throughout my
Speaker 3: throughout my college career.
Speaker 23: I've always heard the name Chuck Smick, Chuck Smith, and
Speaker 23: it's never is able to put a face to it.
Speaker 23: So now you know just how it came from the circle,
Speaker 23: I'm able to working for one.
Speaker 3: So it's just amazing and I'm just excited to you.
Speaker 23: Know, learn from you know, like like you said, a
Speaker 23: lot of great coaches want to experience. So I'm just
Speaker 23: excited to you know, just improve myself and met all
Speaker 23: these exciting coaches.
Speaker 10: We'll go to Ryan mink.
Speaker 3: Easy.
Speaker 15: I'm just curious about the competition you have with Chopp Robinson,
Speaker 15: your teammate out in Penn State, and do you expect
Speaker 15: a similar competition now reuniting with a Dope.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, definitely definitely.
Speaker 23: I Mean before Top came, you know, me and me
Speaker 23: and Dophin bro It's you know, it's I'm excited to
Speaker 23: kind of re unite that and you know, get some
Speaker 23: funny topic.
Speaker 3: Six are going again and it's a lead more sweeter
Speaker 3: than this, say he just excited.
Speaker 10: Giannah.
Speaker 18: Between you know, Adolphe being on the team and the
Speaker 18: Ravens defensive success. I'm curious how much you watch him
Speaker 18: through this last season if anything stuck out to you
Speaker 18: about why they found so much success and why you
Speaker 18: think you would fit in with all that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Doctor is a hell of a player.
Speaker 23: And you know, I've been watching sixty pay from the state,
Speaker 23: so seeing how he's the goal and seeing the praise
Speaker 23: that he's making on the Ravens his first year with
Speaker 23: the year, it's amazing and miss you know, the type
Speaker 23: of caliber playing years.
Speaker 3: You know that he's even to minis athletes.
Speaker 23: You know you have a tennis state set that you
Speaker 23: know you can lead them anywhere.
Speaker 3: The Hathles, So just.
Speaker 23: Taking taking certain things from his game, seeing how he
Speaker 23: kind of approaches tackles in his hands and just kind
Speaker 23: of takes certain certain news from him that I feel like,
Speaker 23: you know, it's gonna it can fit in my two
Speaker 23: that I feel like we have a singular similar skill
Speaker 23: set and so I can kind of see some many moves,
Speaker 23: which is why you know so much, because you do
Speaker 23: a lot of things so much similar, and so he's
Speaker 23: excited to you know, you're not my boy.
Speaker 10: We can do two more. We'll go Jonas and then Nikhil.
Speaker 10: You close us out.
Speaker 14: Hey, Desa, congrats.
Speaker 22: I think Chopp said during the pre draft process that
Speaker 22: he was actually a Ravens fan.
Speaker 14: I know he obviously grew up in Maryland.
Speaker 22: Has he reached out to you tonight, uh, in any
Speaker 22: way to kind of extend his congratulations to you.
Speaker 23: Yeah, he actually tried poll me while I was on
Speaker 23: this interview, So that's a big time out.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm pretty sure that you know, excited that
Speaker 3: I'm in his home child, no doubt. You know, it's
Speaker 3: it's it's a great day. It's a great baba.
Speaker 6: Hidsa. Congratulations, Welcome to Baltimore.
Speaker 19: Obviously, the Ravens of Lamar Jackson Dereck Henry now strong
Speaker 19: offensive identity, but for the since the franchise was founded,
Speaker 19: really it's been a very defensive oriented franchise. How do
Speaker 19: you feel joining and what kind of legacy do you
Speaker 19: want to leave?
Speaker 23: This exciting just it's all about being a raven growing up.
Speaker 23: You know, I didn't play football. You meet a nice Steeds,
Speaker 23: but the one team that constantly heard was the raven
Speaker 23: You know, Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 3: And Ogonham and Tom when ray Lewison.
Speaker 23: Doing these things, so you know it was it's a
Speaker 23: it's a very history franchise and you know, I'm just
Speaker 23: excited to doing ex edition is you know, be the
Speaker 23: best player I can be in the scene, contribute to
Speaker 23: the team.
Speaker 1: So it's clear that the Ravens are excited about the
Speaker 1: second round of the draft, and as Eric Costa talked
Speaker 1: about Friday night, they feel like the board is following
Speaker 1: pretty much perfectly in terms of how the Ravens are built,
Speaker 1: the needs that they have, and what it means for
Speaker 1: this team moving forward. Also, now they go into Day
Speaker 1: three having checked off some of the biggest remaining needs
Speaker 1: on this roster, and they have a lot of freedom
Speaker 1: and some picks on Saturday, so Eric can get creative
Speaker 1: about how he uses those pits and we'll see what
Speaker 1: tricks he has up his sleeve Saturday afternoon as the
Speaker 1: draft concludes. Thanks so much for listening to the Ravens
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