Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. Training camp is
Speaker 1: officially underway. The Ravens held their first practice of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three training camp Wednesday afternoon, and we're off
Speaker 1: and running on this upcoming season.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: After practice, we also had a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harbaugh along with some key veterans, quarterback
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and cornerback Marlon Humphrey. Here's what head coach
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh had to say after the first practice of camp.
Speaker 3: Okay, great to see everybody. Appreciate you being here. It's
Speaker 3: pretty exciting. Great media turnout, thanks for coming. Great kids turnout, right,
Speaker 3: got kids everywhere running around out here, and that's what
Speaker 3: it's all about. I'm reminded of the picture that I've
Speaker 3: really seen so many times of Johnny Unidas taking a
Speaker 3: picture with a young fan back.
Speaker 2: In the seventies.
Speaker 3: Gotta be the seventies, a little boy about probably ten
Speaker 3: eleven years old in a white button up collar, all
Speaker 3: dressed up like he was going to Sunday school. That
Speaker 3: was Steve Bashati, you know. And that's that's what it's
Speaker 3: all about, always has been, always will be. So welcome back.
Speaker 3: What questions you have.
Speaker 4: A birthday.
Speaker 2: It was a good start.
Speaker 3: It was a very good start. I thought the guys
Speaker 3: worked really hard. They're ready to go. It's definitely a
Speaker 3: step ladder working our way up in terms of intensity. Uh,
Speaker 3: this is our first practice, will probably our least overall
Speaker 3: quote unquote intense practice because there's a lot of mental
Speaker 3: work going on there and things like that, and we
Speaker 3: want to bring bring them into football shape is as
Speaker 3: well as we can.
Speaker 2: There's timely Sundry Medichampion Office, Edemans routes be a little bit.
Speaker 2: I'm sure today there was none. Event today I see
Speaker 2: him get.
Speaker 3: A little mound.
Speaker 2: I did you know.
Speaker 3: It seems to me that Odell has a good plan
Speaker 3: and I see him working himself on a schedule to
Speaker 3: be ready to start the season. I think you saw
Speaker 3: that today. It's it's interesting you notice that because that's
Speaker 3: exactly what I saw too. And he's he's definitely not
Speaker 3: where he's gonna be, but you could see the step
Speaker 3: from mini camp, so that was a good step in
Speaker 3: the right direction.
Speaker 2: I thought he looked good.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: It's it's definitely always we're building it. It's new, there's
Speaker 3: gonna be things. Lamar's a perfectionist. He wants everything exactly right,
Speaker 3: and uh I like that about him. So we've got
Speaker 3: a long way to go, but we've got some time
Speaker 3: to get there.
Speaker 2: Bosham Watkins sing for buell uhbout in the bestially possible and.
Speaker 3: Take that next step. You know, I don't know best.
Speaker 3: You know, we'll do the best we can. I think
Speaker 3: we've done the best we can and I think we're
Speaker 3: really good. I think we have a chance to be
Speaker 3: a really, really good football team. And uh so everybody
Speaker 3: do their part every day. Let's see where we go. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, say it has been just nothing but impressed.
Speaker 3: You know, with everything he's done, he's just been. He's been.
Speaker 3: He kind of you get to feel like he's not
Speaker 3: a rookie. You get to feel like he's he's a veteran.
Speaker 3: He just seems really mature. I think what he's been
Speaker 3: through in his life as a player and as a person,
Speaker 3: his family, things like that great family. He's gotten them
Speaker 3: this point so far, and again we'll take it one
Speaker 3: day at a time.
Speaker 1: Of those.
Speaker 3: You know, that's a JK question, is a it's uh
Speaker 3: I wish it was a simple answer. You know, there's
Speaker 3: always a lot of things that go into the football,
Speaker 3: but there's some complexity to it and we're working through
Speaker 3: all that. JK is working through it, and I'm looking
Speaker 3: forward to when he's out there. Say, you know, it's
Speaker 3: really hard to make a measurement like that. I don't
Speaker 3: know that there's a measurement.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I know he'll get ready. He's in all the meetings
Speaker 3: mentally and doing those kinds of things. And then I
Speaker 3: also believe this about JK. Is he he he'll he'll
Speaker 3: be happy when he's out there. You know, he wants
Speaker 3: to be out there so and we both want the
Speaker 3: same thing.
Speaker 5: John, We've seen that. But he has a great trek
Speaker 5: in the seven team, you have great individual players. Think
Speaker 5: Gas League, that great team that you played.
Speaker 2: Right well, you know, I mean all the things that
Speaker 2: go into it.
Speaker 3: You know, over the years we've been we've been great finishers,
Speaker 3: you know, in terms of December and January football, and
Speaker 3: I do think the last four or five years, you know,
Speaker 3: that has not been the case. And we've been playing
Speaker 3: good football. Last year, I thought we were playing really
Speaker 3: good football, uh, our best football of the season, and
Speaker 3: you know, we just didn't play winning football in certain
Speaker 3: ways and those plays bite you in games like that,
Speaker 3: and uh, that's kind of how it went. So we've
Speaker 3: got to play winning football at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: We've got to do everything we can to be as
Speaker 3: healthy as we can be. Uh, and our guys are
Speaker 3: you know, I think we're built. I think we're building
Speaker 3: something for the long haul. That's what we try to do.
Speaker 3: Let's see if we can get it done.
Speaker 2: Something we did today or a Chicken Dons takeingting game.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, every day.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, if he doesn't get a word right,
Speaker 3: if he doesn't get a snap count right, if emotion's
Speaker 3: not right or something like that, or read's not right,
Speaker 3: you know, he's he's hard on himself, you know.
Speaker 2: And uh, you appreciate that about him. What we like
Speaker 2: about right, well, you know, Melvin's a pro.
Speaker 3: I had a chance to get to know him up close.
Speaker 3: We knowed him as a as a defense Now we
Speaker 3: get to see him as a teammate. Very he's very
Speaker 3: excited to be here, he's very excited to make a
Speaker 3: statement about where he's at in his career. For sure,
Speaker 3: I thought he looked really good, you know after today
Speaker 3: physically he ran the conditioning test really well, he's in
Speaker 3: great shape, and I'm really happy we have him.
Speaker 5: Kind of president for him, everybody.
Speaker 3: Stayed the same, and everybody passed him. They did a
Speaker 3: good job of it. Happy with the guys.
Speaker 2: He seems surprised by that. He kind of seems surprised
Speaker 2: by that.
Speaker 5: What they pay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you balance?
Speaker 5: How do you.
Speaker 3: Differ?
Speaker 1: How do you balance?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's just I don't know how to
Speaker 3: balance exactly, other than the fact that we just have
Speaker 3: work to do.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a process. So we've got work to do.
Speaker 2: It's daily. It's take a one day at a time.
Speaker 3: Let's make the most of the moment, you know, let's
Speaker 3: have a good play, Let's have a good day, and
Speaker 3: let's go.
Speaker 2: From there.
Speaker 3: Work. I think he comes from really good bloodlines, you know, fast,
Speaker 3: a lot of speed in that family, and he's got
Speaker 3: it really also, i'd say, very determined, very confident, great personality. Uh,
Speaker 3: he's got a shot. He's got a shot in this league. No,
Speaker 3: really wouldn't be able to say at this time. Yea, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 3: So both those guys, it's hard to categorize it, but
Speaker 3: I would say both those guys are dealing with things
Speaker 3: that are like kind of side issues to their recovery,
Speaker 3: so no setbacks. Tyas's achilles is fine, Bateman's Liz Frank
Speaker 3: surgery is good.
Speaker 5: He's fine.
Speaker 3: But with that sometimes other areas compensate and get a
Speaker 3: little sore, and that's what we're dealing with.
Speaker 2: There are some timelines to that.
Speaker 3: I really don't want to share him right now, but
Speaker 3: they're reasonable timelines, and uh, you know, we'll be excited
Speaker 3: when they get back. Yeah, maybe they were thrown away
Speaker 3: from him. You have to ask the quarterbacks and coach Monkin.
Speaker 3: But uh, I think I think Marlin is in great shape,
Speaker 3: and uh maybe maybe he's a hard working guy. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think he's really determined to have a great season.
Speaker 2: Our guys.
Speaker 5: Two more questions.
Speaker 3: I do feel like sets it to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's just a good start. I knew
Speaker 2: that they were gonna come out and be into it
Speaker 2: and be excited.
Speaker 3: To be a little nervous, obviously, but I thought they
Speaker 3: did a good job of taking care of one another.
Speaker 2: And really, these guys know how to pay themselves. They're pros. Uh,
Speaker 2: they they're workers, you know, so it's time.
Speaker 5: To get to work, basically, said more and Stall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good question. You know, I think the
Speaker 3: pace stays the same. Actually, Jerry, I think it's a
Speaker 3: good point. I think the guys probably are thinking terminology
Speaker 3: more so. There may be some more terminology issues. Oh
Speaker 3: I thought it was this or I made that check
Speaker 3: or you know, I I I. We used to call
Speaker 3: it this coverage, you know whatever. But we'll get through
Speaker 3: all that.
Speaker 2: Johnny Solo, the episode worked out out some months.
Speaker 5: As your mom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, round the big part of campers dancing time one.
Speaker 3: He deserves a lot of credit for working his way
Speaker 3: into position Slad we're talking about to get some times
Speaker 3: at the ones. That's something he's earned because of what
Speaker 3: he's done since he's been here so far.
Speaker 2: And you know, one day at a time. Thanks coaching,
Speaker 2: Thanks everybody appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Of course, all eyes are always on quarterback Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: and this is no different going into his sixth season,
Speaker 1: fresh off signing that big contract extension this offseason, Lamar
Speaker 1: talked for reporters after practice about his expectations for the
Speaker 1: upcoming year.
Speaker 3: Yours for you, how do you feeling and what can
Speaker 3: you do greciate from other tradie campers.
Speaker 5: Year six for me? I feel young still even though
Speaker 5: I'm not old, but like, yeah, but I feel more experienced.
Speaker 5: I'm just glad to be back out here, you know,
Speaker 5: being around my guys and being minded coaches, and the
Speaker 5: atmosphere feels different. Smell is different, probably be popcorn right now,
Speaker 5: but it's made a different.
Speaker 2: How does it feel different?
Speaker 5: Just like I said, you know, it was just experience,
Speaker 5: and the guys like, I don't know. It's like our
Speaker 5: guys got more pepping. They stuff like, I don't know
Speaker 5: if it's here six for me, and I'm just realizing
Speaker 5: it chrise. You know, raves always play fast, but it's
Speaker 5: like it's different now, just as different.
Speaker 2: It's spression.
Speaker 5: Right now, I feel like it's a slow rump up.
Speaker 5: Well not really. I feel like it's been going pretty fast.
Speaker 5: Our guys, you know the dollar in the playbook, look
Speaker 5: like they learned more off season, well during the off
Speaker 5: season with that little money off or whatever. After Mini camp,
Speaker 5: like our guys came back ready and everyone looks closer.
Speaker 5: So I say, it's fast, not not really slow.
Speaker 4: What did you get at the working out sessions?
Speaker 1: It's say.
Speaker 5: Those guys, I feel like those guys are ready. I
Speaker 5: knew they was gonna come in ready. Uh hey, his
Speaker 5: new name is Joystick because how he be moving out
Speaker 5: there so swift and making stuff happened. His new name
Speaker 5: is George Stick. We gonna call him jorys Stick, not.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 5: We have our moments, I'm gonna say, because I'm gonna
Speaker 5: get just like him out You see him. She said,
Speaker 5: just get these guys the ball and let them do them.
Speaker 5: You know, we got the guys who gonna make stuff happen.
Speaker 5: Get yack after the catch.
Speaker 4: That's all.
Speaker 5: The only thing goes to my head is just get
Speaker 5: them the ball and just let them do them.
Speaker 3: How do you feel like it's paid off in the
Speaker 3: offseason programs?
Speaker 2: Are you guys working out in Florida to seeing it
Speaker 2: sort of inaction here today.
Speaker 5: I feel like it paid off a lot, just learning chemistry,
Speaker 5: learning those gods speed and you know, they learning my
Speaker 5: what my I'm gonna say, my past velocity on the ball,
Speaker 5: and you know, the timing and knowing where to be
Speaker 5: at and stuff like that. I feel like it paid
Speaker 5: off a lot offenses physically, anything different off season because.
Speaker 4: The Navy's a different skills you've been using in the past.
Speaker 5: Oh no, not really. I just had to learn the
Speaker 5: terminology at the offense and just learning without using the
Speaker 5: wrist band because coach Monkey he want to call it
Speaker 5: and haul it. And that's what it's been so far.
Speaker 5: More you mentioned the you know, it doesn't feel like
Speaker 5: when to take a rand puppy.
Speaker 4: Do you feel a sense of urgency to get more
Speaker 4: plays off and it be quicker and everything the offense
Speaker 4: be quicker.
Speaker 2: Just didn't make me playing stuff?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, absolutely, because because you know the season right
Speaker 5: around the corner, you know, uh, money like money away
Speaker 5: and it's is right here. So I feel like the
Speaker 5: faster we go, the more, the more quicker we'll learn.
Speaker 5: Then that's that's what it's about.
Speaker 1: Right now, you play.
Speaker 5: Liokers has faster, you get feel there's less some of
Speaker 5: your shoulders that you.
Speaker 1: Have to make up plays and that because you know
Speaker 1: you can't get it to your playmakers and if they can.
Speaker 5: Make a player, you know what A yeah. I never
Speaker 5: thought I had a pressure on my shoulders.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: I always felt like we had guys who gonna make
Speaker 5: things happen. You know, they just need the opportunity. And
Speaker 5: right now, of course Monkey being here, he letting the
Speaker 5: guys you know, just freelancing them do them. Man, that's
Speaker 5: what it's about, like I said, is getting them the
Speaker 5: ball and letting them do them. You should see magic
Speaker 5: you expect. I'm not gonna say that. I'm saying for
Speaker 5: right now begetting the train to camp. But you know,
Speaker 5: I don't know how the Playboy might get know longer
Speaker 5: throughout the process, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: Hey, Lauren, I know it's only day one, but how
Speaker 1: long until you and Odell and Joystick testing Marlin on
Speaker 1: the outside?
Speaker 5: Can you learn fast? Say you say test on? I mean,
Speaker 5: you know it's day one, so you know one. I
Speaker 5: bet they are. You know, our fans pump, we got
Speaker 5: the best crowd, we got the best fan base. But
Speaker 5: we're gonna see. Man, it's gonna happen, probably gonna be
Speaker 5: this week. Laura.
Speaker 3: What were some things that you did just better understand
Speaker 3: the playbook in the new system.
Speaker 2: So you can't from now to study like if you
Speaker 2: test yourself or anything.
Speaker 5: Like how I had to study and then just saying
Speaker 5: the plays out loud, sat them in my mind, turn
Speaker 5: the page, say the player, then go back see if
Speaker 5: I'm right correct on the play Just learning the routes
Speaker 5: on the play stuff.
Speaker 4: Like that cause feel more simple system.
Speaker 5: I mean the the the old system when we had Gero,
Speaker 5: it was simple. So I wouldn't say that it was both.
Speaker 5: You just gotta learn it, you know, to make it simple.
Speaker 5: And I wouldn't just say one harder than the other.
Speaker 2: Running backs got a lot of cases today and.
Speaker 3: Have during the many campus they're working emphasis dumb walls
Speaker 3: and the backs.
Speaker 5: In the south pisst uh just going through your progression,
Speaker 5: you know sometimes it be a lot of yards when
Speaker 5: the when the back at the ball cause you know linebacks,
Speaker 5: my drop coverage or I running back just that elusive
Speaker 5: like when you see a guy like Gonna go back
Speaker 5: in junior.
Speaker 3: Ye know, you watched him from a far pinne and
Speaker 3: then you're actually throwing you fastest to him.
Speaker 5: How does how does that feel that you feel great?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: There his household name. He built that on his own
Speaker 5: and it speaks for himself. We've seen that out the
Speaker 5: other day.
Speaker 2: Is there case his ability has always make even the
Speaker 2: toughest of catchers.
Speaker 6: Is your confidence level when you throw the ball that
Speaker 6: kind of like you have that feeling that he's gonna
Speaker 6: come to anyway possible, He's gonna come down with him.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, He's just giving me a lot of co confidence
Speaker 5: because you know, during the off season he was like, Man,
Speaker 5: if you throw it anywhere in my perimeter, it's not
Speaker 5: gonna be in the session. I'm gonna do my best
Speaker 5: to slap it down, make the tackle, whatever, break it up,
Speaker 5: but most likely to make the cats. And that's what
Speaker 5: I like to hear.
Speaker 2: If you talk to j K jobs at all about
Speaker 2: this situation, how.
Speaker 5: Say you can? Oh no, I haven't talked him about
Speaker 5: the situation, but I'm very excited. You know, JK is JK.
Speaker 5: I know he gonna work his tail off and can't
Speaker 5: wait he out here.
Speaker 3: Lamar with any like first day of trading can There's
Speaker 3: always like an optimism and an energy and a lot
Speaker 3: of hope.
Speaker 2: When you look at this year's team.
Speaker 4: When you guys run out there and take part in this,
Speaker 4: this you your first practice. What do you see?
Speaker 5: I see a bunch of guys running around, happy, happy
Speaker 5: to be back, happy to be back in the building. Guys,
Speaker 5: guys just pump for the season because I know I am,
Speaker 5: and that's what I like to see from our guys.
Speaker 5: So that's all I see offensive.
Speaker 2: This new offense.
Speaker 4: You have to take your goals terms of your ability.
Speaker 2: To call for all the holes, to make changes up
Speaker 2: the line, and you're busne the passes.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, absolutely, that's pretty much what coach Todd got
Speaker 5: us doing right now. If we see it, we made
Speaker 5: the audible, you know if we if we right, you know,
Speaker 5: if we wrong, we gonna talk about it after the play.
Speaker 5: Were gonna talk about it in the meeting room. But
Speaker 5: most like that, I feel like, uh, how he's coaching
Speaker 5: us what we're gonna be right? Nine times out of ten.
Speaker 4: That excited.
Speaker 2: You said something you really had years good change.
Speaker 5: He is very exciting and you know, I just can't
Speaker 5: wait to get it get out there and regularly on
Speaker 5: the shore.
Speaker 6: The roul.
Speaker 5: Appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Barlin Humphrey is coming off of Pro Bowl season
Speaker 1: and his expectations are always very high for himself and
Speaker 1: this defense. He talked about that today.
Speaker 4: Make a thing of training camp.
Speaker 6: It looked like you got a lot of action out
Speaker 6: there and the uh the team for really.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was a good person day. I think we sh
Speaker 4: we uh.
Speaker 6: It's a little bit shorter than the usual first day,
Speaker 6: but it was all by by design we wanted to
Speaker 6: I think we wanted to get more high yardage without
Speaker 6: as much drag, and I think it worked really well.
Speaker 6: I think a lot of guys got really good working
Speaker 6: but in less volume. So it was it was a
Speaker 6: good first day.
Speaker 4: Let me go back to a lot of questions coming
Speaker 4: back to he looked good. He looked good for the day.
Speaker 4: He was out at.
Speaker 6: Mini camp, and then I tried to connect with him
Speaker 6: down in I think Miami. He invited him down there,
Speaker 6: so I know he was training. I know he feels great.
Speaker 6: I was actually kind of watching his pre practice routine.
Speaker 6: It was it was pretty long, so you know, I'm
Speaker 6: always trying to figure out different ways to get warmed up.
Speaker 6: So he's got a pretty good system he does, so
Speaker 6: I'm alway trying to add to my routine. So looked good.
Speaker 6: I'm really excited for the obj era. So I think
Speaker 6: that comment that that combo can be really special.
Speaker 3: But just a good impression.
Speaker 5: So it ut the off from that team the.
Speaker 4: Other side and then to tempo.
Speaker 6: Until Fred's Yeah, it's really early to tell, but based
Speaker 6: off how I've talked with the guys, you know, asks him,
Speaker 6: how do they like it? What's the difference is between
Speaker 6: you know, g row and this one. A lot of
Speaker 6: them seem to say it's a lot more simple. It's
Speaker 6: pretty Sometimes football can be complicated and sometimes it can
Speaker 6: be pretty simple. So from what the guys have said,
Speaker 6: it sounds like, I know we got the player. So
Speaker 6: sometimes simple might be the better. Some game plans a
Speaker 6: little more complicated. But from from what I've heard and
Speaker 6: what I've seen, it's looking pretty good.
Speaker 4: So you and their guarding save flowers. And sometimes what
Speaker 4: makes him to show dy name.
Speaker 5: Is particularly that is a younger player.
Speaker 6: He's a young player, but you know a lot of
Speaker 6: times you get in front of a younger guy but
Speaker 6: not as polished. Usually a lot of just kind of
Speaker 6: raw talent. There's a lot that you know, they might
Speaker 6: have to work on different things. As I've gotten older
Speaker 6: in the league, you gard more and more rookies. But
Speaker 6: he's pretty polished. He's really he's definitely has that South
Speaker 6: Florida route running, breaking cutting that Mary Cooper, Calvin Ridley,
Speaker 6: Jerry Judy. He has that that X factor that a
Speaker 6: lot of those South Florida guys have. So you know,
Speaker 6: you know, we had one of those guys in Hollywood,
Speaker 6: and you know, ad Z, I'm really I think this
Speaker 6: Skuy's the limit for our receiving corps.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us what you saw a guy like
Speaker 1: Rock and Kyle and kind of you did get to
Speaker 1: act and bolst them that.
Speaker 6: Winning kind of receiving that Now, I've loved Rock since
Speaker 6: he's got here, along with Kyle. I'm really excited to
Speaker 6: see Kyle in a bigger role this year, as far
Speaker 6: as you know, starting safety. You know, obviously he played
Speaker 6: some nickel game plan. I'm sure he'll He's a guy
Speaker 6: that can play anywhere, but for now we got him
Speaker 6: predominantly a safety. So but we're really excited to see
Speaker 6: him go there. And then Rock we talk all the
Speaker 6: time about, you know, different things. He's trying to take
Speaker 6: suff from my game. I'm trying to take stuff from his.
Speaker 6: So I really like the group of corners we have.
Speaker 6: I'm excited for, you know, to see how many corners
Speaker 6: we can have. You know, being in this league for
Speaker 6: so long, you can never have too many good corners.
Speaker 6: So I know, we just signed Arthur today. You can
Speaker 6: never have too many good corners. In Rock act of
Speaker 6: that room really well crack the top.
Speaker 5: One hundred in the NFL.
Speaker 2: What it has means to you to get that type
Speaker 2: of recognition.
Speaker 6: From Yeah, the coaches were they asked me today, was
Speaker 6: their nine to one guys better than me?
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, I will see.
Speaker 6: But it's a you know, any any sort of ranking
Speaker 6: that that players put out, it's always an honor.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: I don't really take I don't take any recognition lightly.
Speaker 6: When it comes to peers recognition. It's I mean, it's
Speaker 6: it's a cool thing. It's I it's it's it sucks
Speaker 6: when you're not on it.
Speaker 4: I do know that. But being high it's cool. But
Speaker 4: that that's that's about it, really.
Speaker 1: Strongly anything that we're working on, in particular.
Speaker 3: In your game during drinking game.
Speaker 6: For me, it's the good thing about having really good
Speaker 6: wide receivers is a lot of different releases, a lot
Speaker 6: of different speeds, a lot of different guys tempos.
Speaker 4: For me, I want to get back.
Speaker 6: To winning the winning and press man winning in the
Speaker 6: first five yard Should I say, I think I think
Speaker 6: I can stop with anybody. I think I can run
Speaker 6: with anybody. But I want to make my job a
Speaker 6: lot easier at the line of scrimmen. So you know,
Speaker 6: trying to get in front of a you know, Odell Bateman,
Speaker 6: Prochet Doune, trying to get in front of these guys
Speaker 6: and try to get hands on.
Speaker 4: I really want to.
Speaker 6: I really want to try to make these guys better,
Speaker 6: but also make myself better as well. So I think
Speaker 6: the more competitive battles we can have at the line
Speaker 6: of I want the hardest corner any of our wide
Speaker 6: receivers to see is me Rock and the guys.
Speaker 4: We got a corner. So that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to leave that look, leave that room, and
Speaker 6: everybody follow up and there's not a big gap from
Speaker 6: the best guy to the worst guy.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: We want to have that that gap as small as possible,
Speaker 6: and I think if we can do that, we'll be
Speaker 6: very successful.
Speaker 2: US Slayer.
Speaker 4: Over line, I get pressions.
Speaker 6: Yeah Slay which should have been a raven, which still
Speaker 6: is a pointed in that. But he he told me
Speaker 6: a lot about them, and since I've gotten here, I've
Speaker 6: been nothing but excited.
Speaker 4: I think him and coach Chris are very similar in.
Speaker 6: Coaching styles, and I think you know, I've seen you know,
Speaker 6: coming into this year, we wanted to be the best
Speaker 6: secondor in the league. And I think because Chris is
Speaker 6: elevated his game, I think all the players have elevated
Speaker 6: the games. I think everyone in the room is we
Speaker 6: made as a collective. We decided that's all step up.
Speaker 6: Let's all take a step up. And I think Coach
Speaker 6: nar was a perfect piece to that, to that pie
Speaker 6: to make it full. So really excited to get Coach
Speaker 6: up underneath him and you know, hopefully be the best
Speaker 6: secondor in the league. As Gus is my locker mate
Speaker 6: and I told him I'm gonna hit him at some
Speaker 6: point this training camp to see if he's ready to go.
Speaker 6: So it was really just talk. But now I have
Speaker 6: the cap on, so I guess I got a stick
Speaker 6: to my word. So if I get ran over by
Speaker 6: Gus or if I knock him back either one, don't
Speaker 6: be surprised.
Speaker 4: But that was just a joke with Gus.
Speaker 6: But I think I'm gonna keep it on and maybe
Speaker 6: get a little contact this training camp. So I uh,
Speaker 6: they said you're supposed to be cooler with it on.
Speaker 6: I don't know if that's true or not, because I
Speaker 6: felt harder today, but I do have I am the
Speaker 6: outlier with the Guardian cap. But I don't really care
Speaker 6: too much about the look anyway. So as you see,
Speaker 6: my swag is not the best.
Speaker 4: But that was a joke with Gus.
Speaker 6: But uh, and now I gotta keep it on for
Speaker 6: sure because JK was talking smack to me on the
Speaker 6: sideline today, so I got to hit him when he
Speaker 6: comes back.
Speaker 4: It sounds like it's.
Speaker 2: A couple of days.
Speaker 4: I think it.
Speaker 6: It makes a man amongst boys, for sure. I think
Speaker 6: those hot days they're obviously really tough. I don't know
Speaker 6: if we play any South games early. I'm not sure
Speaker 6: the schedule, but those days are always fun. They're not
Speaker 6: really fun going through them or after or the days
Speaker 6: to come, but you talk about them, they're good memories.
Speaker 6: So it's always good to get that really hot weather
Speaker 6: practices just to see. You know, it's a mental battle
Speaker 6: within each player, miss sax go higher. You want to
Speaker 6: try to limit those, so it's really a mental game
Speaker 6: when it's those really hot days like we got.
Speaker 4: I think Friday, the.
Speaker 2: Draft to Djin.
Speaker 5: Gets set up.
Speaker 2: I think you set up.
Speaker 6: I to answer your question, yes, I think with t
Speaker 6: being the new QB coach, Monkey coming in, the weapons
Speaker 6: we have, I think I think Lamar's gonna be Lamar
Speaker 6: no matter what. But I think the the the added
Speaker 6: style him being able to be more flexible with what
Speaker 6: Lamar wants to do. I mean, you look at the
Speaker 6: top quarterbacks in the league. They get the call, they
Speaker 6: they look at everything and they kind of make their
Speaker 6: own decisions. I think when you you not necessarily take
Speaker 6: that away, but when you give that green light to quarterback,
Speaker 6: I think things just open up tremendously because nobody can
Speaker 6: see it better than the guy that's looking at it all.
Speaker 6: So with with the new ability he can do, I
Speaker 6: think this is this is a great situation for Lamar
Speaker 6: and then everybody just puts it all together and then
Speaker 6: it would be great watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I think I've said before, you know,
Speaker 4: on paper we look great. This is all about proving it.
Speaker 6: This year, we we got one of those teams where
Speaker 6: you look, there's not many there's not even really any holes.
Speaker 6: There might be a couple of cracks, but there's not
Speaker 6: really any holes in any of the things we can do.
Speaker 6: If there's so many guys, I can just step up
Speaker 6: and fill in those cracks. And so it's it's all
Speaker 6: there is, just putting all together, earning it and not
Speaker 6: being a paper team, being a real life teams.
Speaker 5: Playing opposite Marcus left the guy who talk a lot,
Speaker 5: people recognized stuff.
Speaker 4: Feel like.
Speaker 5: Or now, how would that affect you?
Speaker 6: I think I've I've really noticed a change with Marcus Williams. Williams,
Speaker 6: He's he's he's been a lot more vocal this year,
Speaker 6: hopefully you know as camp goes on, Uh, Cola, get going.
Speaker 6: You know, Marcus is coaching me, yelling at me, He's
Speaker 6: coaching Kyle, he's coaching Rock. So that's we always I'm
Speaker 6: a I'm a better I'm better when I'm told what
Speaker 6: to do, told what to see.
Speaker 4: Work off, walk off my guy.
Speaker 6: That's just how I've been since Eric Well has been here,
Speaker 6: since Earl has been here, since all my safeties have
Speaker 6: been here. I want the safety to kind of put
Speaker 6: me in the right position and go like that. It
Speaker 6: was crazy that Marcus was doing it playing corner, which
Speaker 6: is crazy off the side, but I think Marcus Williams
Speaker 6: has really taken a big step with that as far
Speaker 6: as coaching guys, toeng guys with the holding guys accountable.
Speaker 4: So that's that's been a big difference this year.
Speaker 1: That was cornerback Marlon Humphrey, also head coach John Harbaugh,
Speaker 1: and quarterback Lamar Jackson. You're listening to the Ravens Press
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