Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. Today, we had
Speaker 1: a chance to see some of the Ravens in action
Speaker 1: out on the practice field today as a team continued
Speaker 1: football school, which is part of the voluntary off season program,
Speaker 1: and we also had a chance to hear from wide
Speaker 1: receiver and return man Devin Duverney, new offensive coordinator Todd Munkin,
Speaker 1: and special teams coordinator Chris Horton. First up, let's start
Speaker 1: with offensive coordinator Todd Munkin.
Speaker 2: Your football there's football school aspect here. What are you
Speaker 2: trying to kind of, you know, dear across and trying
Speaker 2: to get you get across to the guys.
Speaker 3: Of this Just putting our system. Really, that's that's really it.
Speaker 3: You know, it's always fun to get back out with
Speaker 3: the players. I mean, that's what you do. As much
Speaker 3: as you enjoy meeting and putting the plan together in
Speaker 3: your playbook and what you want to do moving forward,
Speaker 3: there's nothing like having the players around.
Speaker 4: How do you feel like it's going so far?
Speaker 3: The Oh, it's great. Were excited about the guys that
Speaker 3: are here and the installation and we're working through it.
Speaker 3: What they've done the past, what I've done the past,
Speaker 3: what our coach has been in the past and building
Speaker 3: it the best way we know how.
Speaker 5: Is this just kind of like a ground up, you know,
Speaker 5: construction of the offense for you, I assume it's probably
Speaker 5: the same whether you're returning to your former team or not.
Speaker 5: But it is that same consystem where you're just evaluating
Speaker 5: everything you have and then trying to figure out what
Speaker 5: could work on the paper.
Speaker 3: For sure, And I think it's always a little more
Speaker 3: challenging it was when I left the NFL went to Georgia,
Speaker 3: and you're trying to assess the difference and levels difference
Speaker 3: in terms of the players that you have. So it's
Speaker 3: the same coming back the field, spacing the players that
Speaker 3: you have, the issues you may have more at this
Speaker 3: level that you don't at that level, and then the
Speaker 3: types of players that you have. So I think that's
Speaker 3: a great way of putting it from the ground up.
Speaker 3: You're trying to assess, you know, what you've done the past,
Speaker 3: what you've done in the past in the NFL, the
Speaker 3: players that you have, but making it, you know, simple,
Speaker 3: so you can execute and play fast.
Speaker 6: If you're introductory preshcars. You talk a lot about space
Speaker 6: players and how the game is changed in that regard
Speaker 6: how good is the safe flowers who seem like you
Speaker 6: would be about a perfect fit, and that in terms.
Speaker 3: Of what you're looking to do for sure, you know,
Speaker 3: I think whenever you acquire talent, I think that's what
Speaker 3: you're always trying to do. Then you assess, Okay, where
Speaker 3: can you put those players in the best position to
Speaker 3: showcase that talent. If you have a bigger receiver, then
Speaker 3: you can do different things with them. You have a
Speaker 3: space player, like say, you have to be creative in
Speaker 3: ways to get him the ball and showcase that I.
Speaker 4: Mentioned the players that are here.
Speaker 7: Have you got an impression of when Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4: Maybe here for the program in spring?
Speaker 7: And how long do you anticipate your starting quarterback into
Speaker 7: your system before you fill you.
Speaker 6: Up to people?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, first off, we're excited about the guys that are here.
Speaker 3: I know Lamar's working hard. I know the guys that
Speaker 3: aren't here are working hard, they're pros. And when they're here,
Speaker 3: they're here, you know, and we look forward to getting
Speaker 3: them here and getting up to speed to what we're
Speaker 3: doing offensively. You know, I think that's probably the biggest challenge,
Speaker 3: But it's football. You know, when they get it, they
Speaker 3: get it and we'll get them up speed.
Speaker 8: You talked about pace, you know, playing at a we're
Speaker 8: tempo a coming season. It sounds like, on how important
Speaker 8: is that and what have you seen so far that
Speaker 8: in turn of that.
Speaker 3: You, guys, well, it's early because we've only really been
Speaker 3: on the field now week and a half, so we're
Speaker 3: just in the infant stages of doing some of that.
Speaker 3: But in terms of the installs and game dictates tempo.
Speaker 3: Players dictate tempo, so as we move forward, we'll have
Speaker 3: a better idea in terms of where that presents itself
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 4: Thought.
Speaker 5: Let's say you have a quarterback with a speed of Lamar,
Speaker 5: do you have a general philosophical preference for whether you
Speaker 5: surround him with guys who are fast so you can
Speaker 5: you know, have that on the field, maybe more spacing,
Speaker 5: or starting with guys who are bigger so you have like,
Speaker 5: you know, slower defensive matchups. I mean, do you have
Speaker 5: a kind of preference for speed versus size but with
Speaker 5: a guy of Lamar's talents.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it's uh, I'm not laughing at the question.
Speaker 3: Please don't take it that way. It's just I just
Speaker 3: you're always looking for big, fast, physical, smart at every position. Unfortunately, here,
Speaker 3: you know, you draft players, and so you're just trying
Speaker 3: to surround your quarterback with talent and trying to surround
Speaker 3: him with players with unique skill sets that you can
Speaker 3: try to take advantage of. You don't always have those choices.
Speaker 3: At Georgia, we had probably a lot bigger advantages in
Speaker 3: terms of choices in terms of who you had and
Speaker 3: the matchups that you had, where here you don't. So
Speaker 3: you just try to surround them with the most talent
Speaker 3: you can, starting up front, because it always does start
Speaker 3: upfront with the guys you have up front, and then
Speaker 3: surrounding your quarterback with weapons that allows him to showcase
Speaker 3: his ability, which is what every quarterback wants.
Speaker 5: I just asked because I think James Jones said on
Speaker 5: you know, his NFL show the other day that I
Speaker 5: will quote him.
Speaker 4: That you want to really play a lot of spread attacks.
Speaker 3: For Lamarth mean, well, I mean I think that what
Speaker 3: dictates spread You'd like to right, you'd like to be
Speaker 3: able to spread the field, use every blade of grass.
Speaker 3: What dictates that your ability to function doing that? Have
Speaker 3: enough players that a defense would have to respect you know,
Speaker 3: using all that, which is true, you'd love to be
Speaker 3: able to have weapons where they have to defend every
Speaker 3: skilled player that you have. So there, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: But then what takes you out of that injuries the
Speaker 3: players that you have. This, you know, in terms of
Speaker 3: are we up to speed in terms of I don't
Speaker 3: want to say it, in terms of what the defense
Speaker 3: presents itself to you, because the more spread out you get,
Speaker 3: the more you have to put on your quarterback in
Speaker 3: terms of issues in the run game or our pos
Speaker 3: So the more condensed you are, sometimes you can protect
Speaker 3: gaps and protect the quarterback a little bit more. So
Speaker 3: some of that is, uh, you know, reliant on the
Speaker 3: players that you have and the abilities that they have.
Speaker 9: Just more broadly speaking, what do you see as the
Speaker 9: possibilities now with all these wide receiver editions that that
Speaker 9: you guys have had it?
Speaker 3: Well, again, we're excited about one, you know, getting Bateman
Speaker 3: back healthy. You know the other guys that have been
Speaker 3: here that the organization drafted that. It's our our job,
Speaker 3: our duty. We're in the development business to develop them
Speaker 3: and to maximize their measurable skill set. That's what we're
Speaker 3: paid to do. And the additions of Nelson and Odell
Speaker 3: and say to add to the room. So I'm excited
Speaker 3: when they all get here to see that and see
Speaker 3: the competition and and our tight ends as well, Mark
Speaker 3: and say, you know our running back room. I'm excited
Speaker 3: to get started. But there is only one ball.
Speaker 10: You're asked up your quarterback on board than in the
Speaker 10: first five seasons, the Lamar in your kind of offense
Speaker 10: and philosophy, you vision Lamar running less.
Speaker 4: In your offense.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say this again. I think it
Speaker 3: goes back to the players that you have. I think
Speaker 3: the more talented you are around your quarterback, the less
Speaker 3: he has to burden take on that burden, shoulder the
Speaker 3: load because you're excited about getting others the football where
Speaker 3: they can utilize their skill set. So I think I
Speaker 3: think that kind of answers itself. You know, I think
Speaker 3: that as you get further into your career, you know,
Speaker 3: as Lamar gets older, as everybody does. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: you know you want to you want to take some
Speaker 3: of that off of the player as best as you can,
Speaker 3: but he has a unique trait, a unique skill set.
Speaker 3: You can't take that completely out of his toolbox, because
Speaker 3: that's a huge weapon for him and for us is
Speaker 3: using his feet.
Speaker 11: Confact, from when you were hired to now, I mean
Speaker 11: the the offensive, I guess a lot of skill position
Speaker 11: players have been added. We're talking about Lamar and obj
Speaker 11: and Zack and from your perspective, just kind of watching
Speaker 11: the talent come in on that side of the ball, Like.
Speaker 4: What's that been like?
Speaker 11: You know, since you were hired to now watching the
Speaker 11: collection of talent come here, well, it's a.
Speaker 3: Lot more fun that way, you know. I mean it's
Speaker 3: a you're paid to move the football and score so
Speaker 3: and that's a lot easier with talented players. As always say,
Speaker 3: cookies taste better with sugar than they do with vinegar,
Speaker 3: so you surround yourself with sugar.
Speaker 8: Going back to Plamark for a second, have you gone
Speaker 8: in indication when he might be here?
Speaker 4: And the same thing for Odell.
Speaker 3: We're in constant communication with those guys and we're getting
Speaker 3: him on, you know, opportunities to talk football and try
Speaker 3: and catch them up to speed. And we're excited about
Speaker 3: the guys that are here and I knew though that
Speaker 3: they're working hard. We get updates from those guys in
Speaker 3: terms of you know, working so again when that again,
Speaker 3: it is voluntary, but we're excited. Like I said about
Speaker 3: the guys that are here, But I do think that
Speaker 3: we'll be able to get those guys here, hopefully in
Speaker 3: a short amount of time. But until that happens, we'll
Speaker 3: get up to speed with the guys we got.
Speaker 7: And I know that you've been working with this idea
Speaker 7: that Lamark would be a quarterback for a while. But
Speaker 7: when he signs that extension, when everything's kind of set
Speaker 7: in stone, is that change anything for your sense of
Speaker 7: sort of imagination, inspiration, sort of feeling, this feeling that, Okay,
Speaker 7: some of these concepts that I've been drawing up or
Speaker 7: thinking up, they're actually gonna be executed with the guy
Speaker 7: that I thought, h.
Speaker 3: Well, I was imagining that, planning on him being here,
Speaker 3: because if he wouldn't have been, that imagination kind of
Speaker 3: you know, turns there, that dream turns into a nightmare.
Speaker 3: So you're already imagining those things. You were already you
Speaker 3: know when I took the job, it was because the organization, organization,
Speaker 3: the structure of the head coach, the players that were here,
Speaker 3: the players that were under contract. Hoping that Lamar would
Speaker 3: be here and the excitement that I had in terms
Speaker 3: of what I thought we could do or expand upon.
Speaker 3: And that's not taking anything with from what they did,
Speaker 3: because they did an unbelievable job with him. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: Greg did. And like I said, if you look back
Speaker 3: at nineteen, it's not that long ago with the talent
Speaker 3: that was around him and what they did offensively, and injuries,
Speaker 3: you know, can hurt that. So I'm excited. Uh, I'm
Speaker 3: excited that he signed the contract and he'll be with us,
Speaker 3: as I'm sure a lot of people are sure t witch.
Speaker 10: Your impressions of you signed up have to rookie in
Speaker 10: quarterback Norman Anderson.
Speaker 4: What kind of some of your initial and pleasures in them?
Speaker 3: Well, he did a great job. You know, it's never
Speaker 3: easy for those guys to come in on a weekend
Speaker 3: and you jam, you know, installs down their throat. This
Speaker 3: is what we've got to do, and they're in control
Speaker 3: of the they're the epicenter of your communication. But I
Speaker 3: thought he did a great job handling that. He showed
Speaker 3: tremendous poise. Loved his confidence, and that's not easy, especially
Speaker 3: if you go from a no huddle system to a
Speaker 3: little bit of some of the things you're doing communication wise,
Speaker 3: So I thought he did a great job. That was
Speaker 3: I was very impressed.
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Speaker 1: is wide receiver and return man Devin Duvernet, followed up
Speaker 1: by Special Teams coordinator Chris Horden.
Speaker 4: How long did it take any get back?
Speaker 2: And where where are you at in our process?
Speaker 4: That took a couple of months.
Speaker 12: But as far as where I'm at right now in
Speaker 12: this process, it's I'm doing good. I'm you know, I'm running,
Speaker 12: I'm uh doing things. Still got a little bit to go,
Speaker 12: but but feeling good though, feeling good making progress.
Speaker 4: That difficult was the completely harm display that you just much. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I was just running. Yeah, how difficult was the timing
Speaker 4: of that?
Speaker 13: If you're playing so much, you guys are making a
Speaker 13: playoff push and just to finish this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure it was.
Speaker 12: Unfortunately, it was very frustrating, but it's part of the game.
Speaker 12: You learn that, you get over it. But yeah, definitely
Speaker 12: was frustrating at first, And yeah, playing making a playoff push,
Speaker 12: trying to impact the games, but you know, it is
Speaker 12: what it is that was so much change to.
Speaker 11: The live recuper room and Mark coming back.
Speaker 3: Everything feels new.
Speaker 10: How do you feel like your plays right now in
Speaker 10: that room and what you'll be able to contribute with
Speaker 10: a wall?
Speaker 12: I mean I feel good. I feel good. You know,
Speaker 12: new year, new opportunity. All I can do is take
Speaker 12: care of myself, work, work on myself, and uh, you know,
Speaker 12: let the rest, you know, play out.
Speaker 6: And then when you said she has to off the top, manket,
Speaker 6: you know, what are your impressions of what you've seen
Speaker 6: early on here his offensive?
Speaker 14: What?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 9: What? What that will look like?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 12: No, it's been great. It's been great learning from him,
Speaker 12: hearing him talk leading us, it's been great. I think
Speaker 12: this year will be big for a lot of us.
Speaker 12: And uh, you know, we're all excited about the offense.
Speaker 13: You remember the moment when he found out Lamar's contract
Speaker 13: is basically gone.
Speaker 6: And what was that like?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 12: No, it was yeah, it was exciting. I was actually
Speaker 12: I just landed, uh from a flight, but uh found out.
Speaker 12: It's super excited. I knew you knew it was coming,
Speaker 12: doesn't matter of when, but uh, yeah, super excited for him,
Speaker 12: you know, and his family and you know for this team.
Speaker 13: Devin, you've played with someone veteran wide receivers, but someone
Speaker 13: like Odell Beckham joining the MiGs if they had a
Speaker 13: chance to talk to him, and you know, what, are
Speaker 13: you really hoping to.
Speaker 4: Learn from things people?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I've talked to him a little bit, you know, definite.
Speaker 12: I think like when he was big, I was like
Speaker 12: in high school, So it'd definitely be kind of, you
Speaker 12: know different, just getting to, you know, learn from a
Speaker 12: guy like him, and uh, you know, someone you've been watching,
Speaker 12: you know, for forever, you know, still doing it at
Speaker 12: a high level. So so I'm excited about that.
Speaker 6: During Lamar's rushet to peep throughout it like they from
Speaker 6: six thousand yards as a receiver, I gotta believe that's
Speaker 6: something that's kind of music to hear.
Speaker 12: You're yeah, yeah, definitely looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: Definite schedule gets from Thursday.
Speaker 5: But today about being up the London game, just kind
Speaker 5: of your reaction.
Speaker 12: Vives and yeah, no, it's pretty cool. I've never been
Speaker 12: to London. Excited about it and looking forward to it,
Speaker 12: and uh, yeah, I think it'll be fun.
Speaker 11: Aside from the game.
Speaker 4: Is there anything you're four too, thou alongside.
Speaker 12: I guess just being being in Europe experiencing it probably
Speaker 12: some of the biggest thing.
Speaker 5: Uh, what do you think this team, this offense could
Speaker 5: be next year with both speed that you guys had.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, everyone runs like a four four
Speaker 4: four to three.
Speaker 5: What kind of stress can I put on the defense
Speaker 5: of the special n Lamar's the quarterback.
Speaker 12: Yeah, definitely, a ton, definitely a ton of different ways
Speaker 12: to stress the field, do things. Got a ton of
Speaker 12: different guys that can do a you know, a multitude
Speaker 12: of things. So, like I said, and we you know, talk,
Speaker 12: I think he's a guy for the job, and you know,
Speaker 12: we'll have a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Did you watch bunch of Todd Monkins Georgia Hobbinson's happened?
Speaker 4: I know they run TV a lot last were going
Speaker 4: to the chap Yep, Yeah, no, no, I did not.
Speaker 12: I don't watch too much college football, but yeah I didn't.
Speaker 4: Didn't.
Speaker 12: Didn't get to see a better heard about it though.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Todd's of offense feeling a pretty big departure from
Speaker 9: previous offenses and doesn't seem like a new language. You know,
Speaker 9: how big of a change is it?
Speaker 12: In so perfect that's not crazy you know, the verbage
Speaker 12: is kind of different, but uh, you know, I feel
Speaker 12: like at this level, you know, football's football. Everybody kind
Speaker 12: of runs kind of the same things, just kind of
Speaker 12: how you utilize them and you utilize different personnel.
Speaker 4: Before you got heard.
Speaker 14: You know you gotta put even Roll as a wide
Speaker 14: receiver offensively? How much do you think that will help
Speaker 14: this year? And where you open to take your game
Speaker 14: for what it was this year?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 12: No, I mean just each year, just making improvements, taking
Speaker 12: steps each year is my goal. And uh, you know
Speaker 12: I gain more knowledge each and every year. She's really
Speaker 12: each and every game. And you know, all I can
Speaker 12: do is just continue to learn and continue to you know,
Speaker 12: better myself.
Speaker 15: Good morning, Good to see everyone. Uh what an exciting
Speaker 15: time it is for us right now to just be
Speaker 15: out here, get out of the meeting rooms, come outside,
Speaker 15: move around a little bit with our guys, and just
Speaker 15: really build that build that foundation, uh, that groundwork before
Speaker 15: we get into the ota s. I know, the guys
Speaker 15: guys that are out here working, man, they're they're excited
Speaker 15: to be out here. Uh, and we're just trying to
Speaker 15: get better. Uh, we're doing football movements. Our guys are
Speaker 15: guys are working the things that they're that they're gonna
Speaker 15: need to translate as we continue to progress to the season.
Speaker 15: We're fired up for each and every guy. What questions
Speaker 15: do you have and.
Speaker 2: How important is it? Which everyone you know you see
Speaker 2: your training campaign when you go four speed, but how
Speaker 2: important is it to kind of have this kind of
Speaker 2: foundation to go over kind of Is it more of
Speaker 2: the small details and things like that.
Speaker 15: Uh of course, I mean, uh, I anytime you get
Speaker 15: to come out and work football, uh, it's in it's important,
Speaker 15: right because that's our job. That's what we do.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 15: We're for football coaches and we're football players, the players
Speaker 15: that are out there. So anytime you get to come
Speaker 15: out here and just work football, uh in a in
Speaker 15: a control in a controlled setting, Uh, it's it's I mean,
Speaker 15: it's it's great. It's it's great for all the guys
Speaker 15: to just learn that footwork to slow it down really
Speaker 15: hone in the things that we really focus on that
Speaker 15: we believe is the foundation to our punt team and
Speaker 15: working our footwork and making sure that's right before we
Speaker 15: put bodies out in front of him and Chris.
Speaker 5: Win, Trenton Sentmens got drafted and John Harbot said on
Speaker 5: Chris Warnin's gonna love this guy?
Speaker 4: Why is why isortonna love this guy?
Speaker 15: I mean it was it was pretty easy to love
Speaker 15: this guy. You turn on the tape, you watch you
Speaker 15: watch him fly around, you watch him get to the football,
Speaker 15: you watch him make plays. When I had the privilege
Speaker 15: to evaluate that guy as a special teamer, uh, it
Speaker 15: was it was a no brainer for me. Uh, I
Speaker 15: want that kind of player. That's the kind of that
Speaker 15: guy has the traits, those raven traits that we look for.
Speaker 15: He was tough, he was fast, he was physical. Uh,
Speaker 15: he loved playing football, and his energy was just off
Speaker 15: the chart. And that's the kind of that's the kind
Speaker 15: of players we've had in this building. So I truly
Speaker 15: believe that guy's gonna do some good things for us
Speaker 15: this year.
Speaker 4: Did he do much of a team's work at comes In?
Speaker 15: He did? He had early in his career, he played,
Speaker 15: He played some teams. So I kind of go back
Speaker 15: and I just want to watch him. I want to
Speaker 15: see what he did when he wasn't the starter, because
Speaker 15: that tells me a lot about players. Right what's his
Speaker 15: one play mindset? You're not the starter right now? How
Speaker 15: are you playing on teams in college? If you're flying
Speaker 15: around that stuff translate to our game, Chris.
Speaker 12: If you guys you signed Christian Well, Delgean Phillips, just
Speaker 12: the sale dour wordy bunch of guys that played roles
Speaker 12: in special teams.
Speaker 4: How much is a continuity?
Speaker 5: I know there's still fifty three to get to and
Speaker 5: we have ways to go, but how much is a
Speaker 5: continuity there when you but you know, you bring.
Speaker 12: In guys that know the importance of special teams and
Speaker 12: make sure you keep on that.
Speaker 15: It's a It's a great building block for us to
Speaker 15: have those guys around because they understand, they understand the culture,
Speaker 15: they understand what we're looking for. And then when we
Speaker 15: bring those those young guys and incorporate them into into
Speaker 15: that group, it just it just carries on to what
Speaker 15: we're trying to get done. Uh, having all those guys back,
Speaker 15: I mean, they all play well for us. That's that's
Speaker 15: that's that's our group, you know, and uh, you know,
Speaker 15: all those guys we look forward to just having those
Speaker 15: guys are on and getting them out there and let
Speaker 15: them continue to work.
Speaker 13: John mentioned z Flowers potentially being in the mix as
Speaker 13: a returner when you watch him, I mean, obviously with
Speaker 13: you see the athleticism, but what stands out that could
Speaker 13: make him an exciting factor in that regard.
Speaker 15: I mean, he's he's dynamic with the ball in his hands, right.
Speaker 15: So I think a lot of the same things that
Speaker 15: you saw from him on offense, catching the football, after
Speaker 15: with the ball in his hands, after the catch, running,
Speaker 15: all those abilities translate over to the punt return game.
Speaker 15: But but more importantly it's uh, you know, you guys,
Speaker 15: hear me say it every year. It's about catching the
Speaker 15: ball first, right, And so he did have some returns.
Speaker 15: He did have some returns in college. It was good
Speaker 15: to see those. It was good to see those on tape.
Speaker 15: And we're just gonna hone in on our fundamentals and
Speaker 15: making sure that when we do put him out there
Speaker 15: that you know what, secure the football first and let's work.
Speaker 15: But he did a great job in the rookie mini
Speaker 15: camp with that. It was easy for him.
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