Speaker 1: Welcome in the Ravens press past. We are in week
Speaker 1: two of Ravens OTAs. Today we heard from quarterbacks coach
Speaker 1: t Martin, new wide receivers coach Greg Lewis, as well
Speaker 1: as tight end Mark Andrews and linebacker Patrick Queen. Let's
Speaker 1: jump right into this press converfass Patrick.
Speaker 2: What's your mindset going into this year?
Speaker 3: Obviously year four for you contract year, but you found
Speaker 3: a way to get better and better each year.
Speaker 2: What's kind of your focus.
Speaker 4: On the year, Just playing playing my style of football.
Speaker 4: I think I'd have figured that out the last back
Speaker 4: out of the season last year, So I think at
Speaker 4: this point it's just me going out there and playing football.
Speaker 4: It's no more building into no more can't he take
Speaker 4: the leave? It's just me playing my style of football.
Speaker 2: It's kind of your reaction to one you learned back
Speaker 2: peop weren't kicking.
Speaker 4: Out the fifty year offs. It's a blessing in disguise, really,
Speaker 4: you know, you see guys go both sides of it
Speaker 4: and get paid either way. And at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, I'm just focused on being the best teammate
Speaker 4: that could be, being the best player that I could be.
Speaker 4: In just going out there and improving myself, going out
Speaker 4: there and playing a game that I love to play
Speaker 4: at a high level. I don't forget after that, you
Speaker 4: don't have no one has to be here right now.
Speaker 2: But after that, especially in really it happens.
Speaker 5: What makes you lean in and work harder versus distancing
Speaker 5: yourself to be happening.
Speaker 4: Just trying to get better. Uh, obviously requined, it's it's
Speaker 4: here now again the uh off season with us, So
Speaker 4: just trying to build that chemistry and then trying to
Speaker 4: learn Mike more, trying to learn the defense more. Tryna,
Speaker 4: you know, all all of us just get on the
Speaker 4: same page. That's my main focus right now. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, was that hard to do mentally? Just after note
Speaker 6: and you're y I you know, you see the social
Speaker 6: media stuff, take away the the Ravens logos and whatnot.
Speaker 6: But so, I mean there's an emotional attachment to that,
Speaker 6: right and then it's about to be here in the
Speaker 6: buy Ina That tak me just like, what's that journey?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: I think that's anything in life you go through emotion sane. Uh,
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, Uh, it may take
Speaker 4: some all the some others longer take it over and
Speaker 4: I just uh, I just had many talks from many
Speaker 4: people and different outlooks on it, and uh, I just
Speaker 4: came the realization that everything is not a bad thing.
Speaker 4: And uh the front office talk to them a little bit,
Speaker 4: and just they keep me around, didn't let me know
Speaker 4: where it really was and how they feel and stuff.
Speaker 4: So at the end of the day, you know, this
Speaker 4: is the place that I wanna play at. This is
Speaker 4: where I wanna be. And uh, however the chills fall,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm happy. How I'm happy with it.
Speaker 2: You got to take you touched on it.
Speaker 7: Put an opportunity to go through a full pre season
Speaker 7: and a full season was real qun. I mean both
Speaker 7: you guys seem to bring the best out of each
Speaker 7: other last year. How much you're looking forward to having
Speaker 7: a full year with it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh I can I can't wait. Uh it's just
Speaker 4: tho us two guys is just uh I actually put
Speaker 4: us as the best linebacker do or no discussion about it.
Speaker 4: Uh if you turn on the tape and you will
Speaker 4: see it. So at the end of the day, we
Speaker 4: get a full off season to go with each other. Now,
Speaker 4: full train and count full whole season. So now we
Speaker 4: just we just gotta build a chemistry.
Speaker 2: I mean mostly don't mind about uh.
Speaker 8: Uh, you know you on the scale.
Speaker 9: And either way, what's your idea of playing a way
Speaker 9: for this year?
Speaker 8: And what do you like right now?
Speaker 9: It's so you go.
Speaker 4: Uh, I think this year I should stay around two thirty.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 4: Last last year I was in between two forty, two
Speaker 4: forty five and stuff. So uh I think this year
Speaker 4: two thirty, I'll be in a lot lot better shape, uh,
Speaker 4: be able to finish games a lot better than I
Speaker 4: did last year.
Speaker 11: Is that just because you're playing not I don't like anymore?
Speaker 4: You can kind of play a little Uh. I think
Speaker 4: it's just whatever you're comfortable with.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 4: Uh, they're not too too strict Onna wait here. They
Speaker 4: just whatever you could play at and you're good at
Speaker 4: and you're in shape, that's what they let you roll with.
Speaker 4: But I feel like best for me is just being
Speaker 4: a slimmer, uh, being able to still fly around, then
Speaker 4: the game still be being me.
Speaker 12: As you're going into the year in your contract here,
Speaker 12: do you ever think about, I mean, whether you have
Speaker 12: a future.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you have a future still here
Speaker 2: in Baltimore?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Uh, But like I said at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, I ain't focused on the future. I'm just
Speaker 4: focused on right now. And I think if I take
Speaker 4: care of my business and do what I'm supposed to do,
Speaker 4: all that's gonna fall into place.
Speaker 3: And now when you have good this year with this defenses, right, Okay, Now,
Speaker 3: last year you you, I know, the one of the
Speaker 3: emphasis was you wanted to really show you could be
Speaker 3: at all a three down linebacker. And as the year
Speaker 3: went on, you were able to show that.
Speaker 2: What's kind of your focus going into this year. What's
Speaker 2: the next place of your game?
Speaker 4: You wanna see just staying going, just staying consistent, going up,
Speaker 4: always just getting better, uh, never taking a step back. Think,
Speaker 4: the biggest thing for me was to consistent over over
Speaker 4: the years, me and consistent and stuff. So I think
Speaker 4: now it's just the point of me just playing my
Speaker 4: game and playing out our level and planning consistently.
Speaker 11: Did you feel like a gun player still? I mean, you're.
Speaker 4: Brooks coming in. There's twenty five, twenty six. I'm like,
Speaker 4: y'all are old, but I mean four years in and
Speaker 4: still feel like I'm just getting here. So I mean, uh,
Speaker 4: it's just I'm a bus to be this young and
Speaker 4: being going into year fours. Souh, you know, I just
Speaker 4: think you parents having me when they did.
Speaker 6: Seeing how that the defense was last year in the
Speaker 6: core of that coming back this year, then you see
Speaker 6: what they're doing on offensive for all the gidiations from
Speaker 6: aar locked up. What's I mean, where's your expectation for
Speaker 6: this team? Is it kind of like a super Bowl bus.
Speaker 8: Kind of thing?
Speaker 2: What do you feel?
Speaker 4: I think everybody around the locker room is saying super
Speaker 4: Bowl is I don't think it's super Bowl bus. I
Speaker 4: think it's just super Bowl because you know how to
Speaker 4: bust mindset an any year you come in your mindset
Speaker 4: to get to the super Bowl. So, uh, with the
Speaker 4: keep with the pieces we got with the defense, we
Speaker 4: got the offense, we got the new coordinator, Uh everything,
Speaker 4: special teams, we got head coach, everything, the whole organization.
Speaker 4: Every than we got we need. We got right here.
Speaker 4: We don't need anything else.
Speaker 2: And talks about living in the now, and I see
Speaker 2: you change into your NiFe slides really quick.
Speaker 3: How big is comfort when you're dressing yourself in comes
Speaker 3: an outfit.
Speaker 4: I'm not a big outfit guy, super country long sleeve shirt,
Speaker 4: some shorts are sweats and some sandals and I'm good,
Speaker 4: that's rude.
Speaker 11: We just talked to to market. You know, played against
Speaker 11: someone the practice field for a couple of years now, I
Speaker 11: G it's just.
Speaker 8: How valuable is it?
Speaker 11: Kind of a receiver like that, just from growing up
Speaker 11: as I can, I can go get your first time.
Speaker 8: Basically.
Speaker 4: Remember, I think Mark, Uh, he's just deceptively fast.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: I think you look at him on film, you don't
Speaker 4: think he's that fast. Well, once you get into him
Speaker 4: in person, Mark and Roll and his routs, best routes
Speaker 4: out of the tight end group. Uh, just he's everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah that you want a tight end her reliable, great hands,
Speaker 4: the runner routes, big guy, he go up and get
Speaker 4: the ball and he he does it all. So when
Speaker 4: you got a guy like that, that's why he got
Speaker 4: paid what he got.
Speaker 9: Patrick.
Speaker 4: Have you got to look at those uh air conditioned
Speaker 4: helmets down at LSU. Yeah, I see that. I I
Speaker 4: don't think gotta need to. I think at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, we've been fine without them.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: If that helps, I mean, go for it. If not,
Speaker 4: then I mean I'm I'm good without it. I don't
Speaker 4: need it.
Speaker 8: So you.
Speaker 10: So Mark, you added some of some pieces at wide
Speaker 10: receiver around here a part of this pass and attack.
Speaker 2: How good this pat could this pass attack be?
Speaker 8: If you I think it's super exciting.
Speaker 5: You know, I just uh from being out here for him,
Speaker 5: you know, the last two days and obviously seeing as
Speaker 5: they run some routes he was run some incredible routes
Speaker 5: today getting open and then obviously OBJ and and some
Speaker 5: some of the other young guys that I'm excited about.
Speaker 8: I think it's gonna be a dangerous offense.
Speaker 5: I've really loved with, you know, coach Monkins, you know,
Speaker 5: had to teach and the way he's teaching and his
Speaker 5: energy that brings very enthusiastic. So I think the sky's
Speaker 5: the limit. I think for us it's just about you know,
Speaker 5: taking charge, taking control of this offense, making it ours
Speaker 5: and just keep on going and keep on working.
Speaker 4: Mark.
Speaker 7: But you know you've ever been here a couple day
Speaker 7: for your conversation, because what really stood out about him
Speaker 7: knowing he's gonna be off just fired.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 5: He's super enthusiastic about what he's teaching. He really believes
Speaker 5: in his stuff, and you know it makes us believe
Speaker 5: in it too. So you know, his offense is definitely
Speaker 5: very player friendly. He's very very player friendly, and I'm
Speaker 5: just excited to get around him, you know, pick his
Speaker 5: brain and continue to grow as a player, but as
Speaker 5: an offense and get this thing rolling.
Speaker 6: Is there any concern there are not enough balls to
Speaker 6: go around with all these additions in the past.
Speaker 8: Game, I don't really care.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm not one of those guys that cares
Speaker 5: about that. But yeah, I know that if all of
Speaker 5: us are doing our jobs, all of us are playing well,
Speaker 5: that we don't have to worry about that type of thing. Man,
Speaker 5: We're all gonna make plays, We're all gonna be happy
Speaker 5: for each other. And that's what makes a team great,
Speaker 5: is the unselfishness all these you see.
Speaker 2: That as a possibility, defenses can just time man, only
Speaker 2: eager that you might.
Speaker 5: Have more offers, you know, maybe you know, uh, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know the last you know, I guess five years.
Speaker 8: It's been you know, a lot of attention.
Speaker 5: And you know, I'm blessed to be able to to
Speaker 5: be around these great players right now and have a
Speaker 5: lot of pieces to help me out. And you know,
Speaker 5: I'm excited about that part about it. But at the
Speaker 5: end of the day. I'm gonna go out and do
Speaker 5: what I do, win my one on ones when my
Speaker 5: you know, double teams and just play ball.
Speaker 3: Last offense obviously was very tight and centric in the
Speaker 3: past and game.
Speaker 2: Aren't you seeing any of those same in this new offense?
Speaker 5: Very featured, you know, he features everybody though, And uh yeah,
Speaker 5: I think that's the great part about it is that
Speaker 5: we're gonna be able to be extremely you know, you know,
Speaker 5: diversify what we're doing, you know, outside receivers, inside receivers,
Speaker 5: tight ends and different reads. So I'm really liking what
Speaker 5: I'm gonna see. I'm still learning a bunch, but yeah, do.
Speaker 11: You think you'll get a tight end end around like the.
Speaker 8: Jordan tight ends that I hope? So shut my wheels
Speaker 8: off a little bit.
Speaker 9: Yeah, right.
Speaker 12: Mark said last week that he feels like this offense
Speaker 12: to be running less through for.
Speaker 2: You've been here throughout his whole question, where did you
Speaker 2: see that as kind of bold?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, first of all, extremely happy, you know,
Speaker 5: just for you know, everything that's gone down in the
Speaker 5: last you know, two you know year, and all the
Speaker 5: scrutiny he's been under and how he's handled it. That's
Speaker 5: not an easy thing to do, just shows how strong
Speaker 5: he is. And you know, he looks you know, just
Speaker 5: coming back here today and seeing him throw, seeing the
Speaker 5: way of seeing the game, and his balls are incredible.
Speaker 5: He's you know, he's he's putting the balls on the money.
Speaker 5: So he looks incredible. And yeah, man, I think you know,
Speaker 5: him throwing the ball is a good thing. Obviously, his
Speaker 5: legs are incredible and and special, you know, unlike anybody else.
Speaker 8: But you know, so is his arm.
Speaker 5: So I'm proud of him, and I know he's ready
Speaker 5: to work and grind and get together and make this
Speaker 5: team great.
Speaker 2: This off season we.
Speaker 3: Saw the team really focus on the offensive side of
Speaker 3: the ball, new wide receivers and the new offensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: As an offensive.
Speaker 3: Player, how do you feel coming into the season seeing
Speaker 3: the team put more emphasis.
Speaker 2: On that side.
Speaker 8: It's big, you know, it's big. You know.
Speaker 5: There there's there's a lot of you know, great opportunities
Speaker 5: for guys to step up and you know, and make
Speaker 5: and make a name for them name for themselves, and
Speaker 5: make a spot for themselves and just be true. Man,
Speaker 5: this is a great place to play. So if you
Speaker 5: can step up, do your job the right way, you're
Speaker 5: gonna find time, Mark at.
Speaker 2: The end of the year.
Speaker 6: You know, there were just so many questions going forward,
Speaker 6: particularly you know with tomorrow what you're gonna do is
Speaker 6: gonna be here, to have all that behind you and
Speaker 6: to have the ambitions.
Speaker 2: Just how different is the.
Speaker 6: Outlook, just the lives from where it was. You know,
Speaker 6: it's January to now.
Speaker 8: Just thank god, man.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of a lot of stress, just relief,
Speaker 5: you know obviously, and trying of respect for you know,
Speaker 5: Snooping and Anthey and you know the.
Speaker 8: Other guys that are here.
Speaker 5: But you know, obviously you know, been here with Mars
Speaker 5: since day one, and there's a lot of uncertainty. You know,
Speaker 5: in my mind, I never had a doubt that's my guy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm just happy, man, I'm happy he's here. I'm happy
Speaker 5: he's here for good And like I always say, man,
Speaker 5: that's my quarterback.
Speaker 4: Mark.
Speaker 12: I mean, your proles all pro you know how hard
Speaker 12: it work.
Speaker 2: You got to have your goals, you know, now just.
Speaker 12: Posting you out of your what are you kind of
Speaker 12: kind of focused on personally?
Speaker 8: Understand?
Speaker 5: You know, obviously there's there's things I want to do
Speaker 5: in my career that I haven't done. And you know,
Speaker 5: obviously I want to win a Super Bowl. You know,
Speaker 5: that's number one. I think that, you know, this city,
Speaker 5: this place, this organization deserves that we put a lot
Speaker 5: of work in.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I think about, you know, the guys that were drafted
Speaker 5: in you know, my twenty eighteen draft class, and you know,
Speaker 5: it feels like kind of what we started, what we built,
Speaker 5: and you know it's time, it's time for us to
Speaker 5: to make that step. I'm extremely, extremely driven right now.
Speaker 5: I'm excited about that.
Speaker 13: So yeah, you know, we've seen you kind of line
Speaker 13: up in line in the slot last year. We saw
Speaker 13: you line up like as of isolated X and you know, good,
Speaker 13: you know, go get jump balls. I mean, do you
Speaker 13: feel like just your development as a player is kind
Speaker 13: of obliged to play wherever LOO.
Speaker 11: Can need to and be effective you know in ways
Speaker 11: that maybe other side that is kind of camping for sure.
Speaker 5: You know, I've been doing this, you know, for for
Speaker 5: a long long time. You know, growing up in high school,
Speaker 5: I was outside receiver. I've I've been doing it and
Speaker 5: there's not a lot of tight ends that you know,
Speaker 5: I feel like can do the certain things that you know,
Speaker 5: I'm able to do that.
Speaker 8: So yeah, but you know.
Speaker 5: There's a there's a lot of doubt, but there's no
Speaker 5: doubt in my head.
Speaker 8: What was.
Speaker 5: Just being driven? You know, I told you, I told
Speaker 5: him before that. You know, there's there's a lot of
Speaker 5: things that we've done, you know, as a team, you know,
Speaker 5: as a player, But the only thing I really want
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 8: Is is win a championship.
Speaker 2: It's hours you can work in bars away.
Speaker 4: Would you make any change or your routine office of
Speaker 4: the routine before you got here, or has it been
Speaker 4: the same thing you always done. I'm just curious at
Speaker 4: this stage that you can be here. I know you're
Speaker 4: always looking for ways to get better.
Speaker 2: If you take the same approach that you do anything.
Speaker 5: Differently, Yeah, man, I like I said, it's I've been
Speaker 5: extremely motivated. There's a lot of things that we've gotta do,
Speaker 5: look forward to and you know, getting my body strong,
Speaker 5: get my legs strong, getting faster, getting stronger.
Speaker 8: Just just all that.
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm you know, one of the best
Speaker 5: shapes of my life. So I'm excited to show it.
Speaker 13: Are there lots be made as the receiver, editions for
Speaker 13: the tight hand groups, little strong you got Guysay likely
Speaker 13: you got Charlie.
Speaker 11: Kohler and yourself.
Speaker 2: What are you exciting at Lifeline color in your.
Speaker 8: Entitlement big man.
Speaker 5: Those guys are going to continue to learn, grow and
Speaker 5: you know those guys that come to work every day
Speaker 5: have fun, get better. Uh, they want to learn and
Speaker 5: just joys to be around. I'm lucky to have two
Speaker 5: guys like that.
Speaker 8: In the room.
Speaker 13: We know hotels made Arizona kind of a fluffies and
Speaker 13: known that you guys been able to connect at all.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Texts just.
Speaker 5: Just a little bit super excited to be able to
Speaker 5: you know, kind of have him around the group and
Speaker 5: get him get him over here and start learning the
Speaker 5: offense and and working with us. It's going to be
Speaker 5: a special It's gonna be a talented group. And I
Speaker 5: know he's just gonna make it that much better.
Speaker 8: Thank you, guys, can seeing you up. Boys.
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Speaker 1: wide receivers coach Greg Lewis and quarterbacks coach t Mart.
Speaker 11: Baltimore.
Speaker 7: A good fit for you and and how have you
Speaker 7: enjoyed your trying Uh.
Speaker 14: What made it a good fit is just being around
Speaker 14: UH coach Harball and Philadelphia and just knowing how he
Speaker 14: operates and the expectation that he has for for the organization.
Speaker 9: And the team that that he's in front of. Uh.
Speaker 14: It it was exciting to get back and be a
Speaker 14: part of uh something like that.
Speaker 9: And Baltimore has been fantastic.
Speaker 14: UH thus far from me, I haven't got out that much,
Speaker 14: but uh the the Castle Suite, so uh I've seen
Speaker 14: that pretty much uh every day.
Speaker 9: But UH, I've heard about Baltimore.
Speaker 14: My aunt's from Baltimore, so I know a little bit
Speaker 14: about it, and I'm gonna get around and see the
Speaker 14: city and see what asks.
Speaker 2: What's been kind of your first Jay out there?
Speaker 14: Zay has been uh fantastic. He's an eager player, eager learner. UH,
Speaker 14: wants to be great, wants to be great at everything
Speaker 14: he does. UH, and it's been fantastic to see him
Speaker 14: out here getting opportunities to make some plays.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 14: His quickness and explosion shows up daily. UH and how
Speaker 14: he catches the ball, the photos he takes UH with
Speaker 14: the ball. It's been fantastic UH to get him out
Speaker 14: here and and get him going.
Speaker 6: Greg, do you come into a situation like this, how
Speaker 6: much do you go back and watch here you have
Speaker 6: a receiver from before versus or do you.
Speaker 2: Want not everyone to know that. I just want to
Speaker 2: watch you now and see where you are.
Speaker 9: How do you balance that away with me personally?
Speaker 14: I obviously I've seen them play from previous teams and whatnot,
Speaker 14: But me, I want to give them all a clean
Speaker 14: slate and see what I see and evaluate from that standpoint,
Speaker 14: and then work with what we got in and continue
Speaker 14: to help each guy get better each and every day.
Speaker 14: So it's not a big I heard about this or
Speaker 14: heard about that. I'm not really into that. I'll watch
Speaker 14: it because that's just being a pro at my job
Speaker 14: and doing my due diligence. But it's a clean slate
Speaker 14: for everybody, and what you do moving forward is what's
Speaker 14: gonna affect you as a player.
Speaker 7: Along those lines, Before you were even hired, Eric and
Speaker 7: John talked about wanting to revamp the wide receiver room.
Speaker 2: Since you've been hired, they bring him Orbja. They had
Speaker 2: Nelson aguilara a former pressure on pick and then Zay
Speaker 2: just as a position coach. When you see that kind
Speaker 2: of talent added to what was already. How exciting is that?
Speaker 14: Well, they weren't here when I got here, like you said,
Speaker 14: and I was excited to get here and work with
Speaker 14: the guys that were here. And then you always want
Speaker 14: to add great players, and Eric and then staff do
Speaker 14: a great job with that, and I'm excited to get
Speaker 14: to work with all the guys when they get in
Speaker 14: here and give them everything I got. So it's been
Speaker 14: it's been a blessing. It's been exciting, but it's no different.
Speaker 14: I mean, I wanted to be here because I wanted
Speaker 14: to be a part of what they had already, and
Speaker 14: just adding new pieces is just a bonus.
Speaker 2: What's the potential that you see for the screen.
Speaker 14: I'm not a big potential potential guy or reading to
Speaker 14: the stars or whatever that stuff is called. We come
Speaker 14: to work every day and that's my that's what I do.
Speaker 14: That's what I've done. Uh, and then we we let
Speaker 14: the chips fall what they may. Guy's gonna come to work.
Speaker 14: I'm gonna come to work, and we're gonna go out
Speaker 14: here and get better each day. And then when we
Speaker 14: show up on Sundays or Thursdays or Tuesdays or whatever day, Uh,
Speaker 14: we're gonna see what we.
Speaker 1: Got versatility that these guys, that these pieces together create.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the versatility, you know, the several pieces in
Speaker 1: the in the room.
Speaker 14: I mean, every everybody has a different skill set at
Speaker 14: each position, and some guys do some stuff differently than
Speaker 14: other guys. Monk has done a great job of implementing
Speaker 14: the offense and then trying to fit pieces and do
Speaker 14: different things. You always want to get guys in positions
Speaker 14: do what they do well and then continue to accentuate
Speaker 14: and work on the things that they're not as good at.
Speaker 14: But it's been fun and it's gonna be exciting, I
Speaker 14: believe early.
Speaker 7: Days obviously gonna put it what your impression of the
Speaker 7: group as a holes or anything that's.
Speaker 9: Stood out for it's a tight knit group.
Speaker 14: They care about one another, They want to see each
Speaker 14: other do well, and that's been a positive.
Speaker 9: That's that's what I've been.
Speaker 14: A part of a lot of the time as a
Speaker 14: player and as a coach in the NFL. IS position
Speaker 14: groups are very tight and they care about one another,
Speaker 14: and that's what you want to see.
Speaker 9: You want to see guys helping each other.
Speaker 14: At the end of the day, we know we all
Speaker 14: not gonna be here, but the fifteenth guy is getting
Speaker 14: helped by the first guy, or the second guys getting
Speaker 14: helped by the fourteenth guy, or it could be vice versa.
Speaker 14: And you love that with guys at this level to
Speaker 14: to help each other get better because iron sharpers iron,
Speaker 14: and we want to be the best we could be.
Speaker 15: I know.
Speaker 2: What just kind of stood out in your conversation said
Speaker 2: you know, I'm sorry, I know it, y'all's not here.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've had conversations with that, signed with you.
Speaker 2: Watch would have kind of stood out?
Speaker 9: Can kind of hear what? What's all well in the
Speaker 9: conversation we've had.
Speaker 14: I mean, I I would rather keep that between me
Speaker 14: and him from from that standpoint, but uh, when he
Speaker 14: when he's here, he's he's been positive. When he's not here,
Speaker 14: he's been positive from that perspective too. But what we've
Speaker 14: talked about, I'm gonna keep it between me and him.
Speaker 3: What's it been like to work with Keith and how
Speaker 3: these guys as coaching styles kind of found.
Speaker 14: To send each other out it it's been it's been
Speaker 14: also to get the opportunity to work with Keith. I
Speaker 14: knew about him from my days in UH Kansas City. UH.
Speaker 14: He he worked with UH a couple of guys previously before
Speaker 14: he was here, and I've heard great things about him,
Speaker 14: and then actually getting the opportunity to be in the
Speaker 14: room with him, I've learned a tremendous amount from him.
Speaker 14: He sees it from a different angle than I see
Speaker 14: it at times, and that's that's a positive because you
Speaker 14: grow together. I say stuff, and he learned stuff, and
Speaker 14: then he says stuff and I learned stuff, and that's
Speaker 14: helping our group get better. So I'm enjoying every second
Speaker 14: that I get opportunity to work with him, and hopefully
Speaker 14: he feels the same way about me.
Speaker 6: He's been a guy coming off Andrey, He've made a
Speaker 6: few players and they just I know it's early, but
Speaker 6: whatever you've seen from stef Up.
Speaker 14: There a true pro, just just coming out to work
Speaker 14: every day, getting opportunities, making the most of opportunities that
Speaker 14: he's getting. But the big thing that stood out was
Speaker 14: just his professionalism in the meetings on the practice field
Speaker 14: whenever needed.
Speaker 9: He's been a true pro and I love that about him.
Speaker 14: And then obviously, at the end of the day, we
Speaker 14: all want guys that's gonna make plays and you saw
Speaker 14: it today. He's getting the opportunity and he's making some
Speaker 14: plays out there, and that's always a positive because that's
Speaker 14: what we're gonna be greater on at.
Speaker 9: The end of the day. See, I'm not a trainer,
Speaker 9: so I couldn't.
Speaker 14: I couldn't tell you Adrian or or some of them
Speaker 14: dudes could could talk more about physically where people are.
Speaker 13: Greg talk amunkin a former NFLI receivers coach himself. Do
Speaker 13: you feel like you know you need to see the
Speaker 13: game the same way? And I guess just you know
Speaker 13: in your communications with him, what do you think he
Speaker 13: is footing priority on in terms of what you get fuming.
Speaker 11: From that by receiver group.
Speaker 14: As far as seeing stuff the same way, I don't.
Speaker 14: I'm not a big guy that wants to see stuff
Speaker 14: the same way as somebody else. You you want some
Speaker 14: I'm not gonna say, for lack of a better word, conflict.
Speaker 14: You want disagreements so you can grow as a as
Speaker 14: a coach. And I may see it one way, Coach
Speaker 14: Monk sees it another way. At the end of the day,
Speaker 14: what's the best way to get this done and what
Speaker 14: he wants to get done and that's what we're gonna
Speaker 14: roll with. So it's been a positive communication between him
Speaker 14: and in the entire staff as well as with myself.
Speaker 14: So I'm excited about what we're doing. Obviously it's not
Speaker 14: a game yet, so we we haven't seen it, but
Speaker 14: what we're doing on the field each and every day
Speaker 14: has been positive.
Speaker 11: And that's where what's on top of that wistfto you
Speaker 11: guys epher side.
Speaker 14: At that position, Uh, just playing fast, playing fast, and
Speaker 14: and knowing what to do and how to do it it.
Speaker 9: It is the big thing.
Speaker 14: Cause if you don't know what to do and you
Speaker 14: don't know how to do it, then we we not
Speaker 14: gonna have a chance. So uh, that's been the emphasis
Speaker 14: for us.
Speaker 11: Thank what's it like to be.
Speaker 3: The new quarterback coach and kind of what was your
Speaker 3: mindset going into What was the one impact you wanted
Speaker 3: to make, uh the quarterback from.
Speaker 15: Well, first of all, it's just great being back at
Speaker 15: my natural position in the position I grew up playing,
Speaker 15: played throughout my career and started coaching, you know, coaching
Speaker 15: quarterbacks and so it's like riding a bike, you know,
Speaker 15: just getting back on it and the game has changed
Speaker 15: and you're coaching a a quarterback who's different than a
Speaker 15: lot of different early quarterbacks, very similar to how I played,
Speaker 15: but way better. And so the drills have been enhanced,
Speaker 15: you know, the things that we're doing with Coach monket
Speaker 15: system a little different than what we have done here
Speaker 15: in the past, and so we just adjust and everything
Speaker 15: was built around Lamar. You know, I went back and
Speaker 15: a lot of things I had done with players I
Speaker 15: had worked with in the past at the quarterback position.
Speaker 15: He's so different and so unique that I just went
Speaker 15: back and just revamped all the drills towards Lamar's movement
Speaker 15: skills and things that we can do to improve him
Speaker 15: and and continue what he has already built since he's
Speaker 15: been here as a rookie since a rookie year, to
Speaker 15: getting him to the next levels to the part he
Speaker 15: wants to be. So that's what it's all about, his, uh,
Speaker 15: you know, improving his already great skill set.
Speaker 6: Do you think it helps, let me know, knowing him,
Speaker 6: knowing where you were and what you did at Tennessee
Speaker 6: and the way you played, there's a there's a level
Speaker 6: of credibility that comes when you speak to him about,
Speaker 6: you know, playing the position well.
Speaker 8: You said it.
Speaker 15: I think that's that's what it does. You know, having
Speaker 15: someone you know play the position that kind of see
Speaker 15: the game very similarly in terms of when you decide
Speaker 15: to do things like pass or run or or decide
Speaker 15: to do something athletically that it's it's hard to explain
Speaker 15: unless you've done it. And so I think there's a
Speaker 15: comfort level with that. And then you know when I
Speaker 15: when I say something to him or suggest something, I
Speaker 15: think it goes a little bit further. But the comfort
Speaker 15: level is there, and the trust is there, and just
Speaker 15: looking forward to continue to work.
Speaker 2: When do you say taking and taking TheMark to the
Speaker 2: next level.
Speaker 12: Is there a part of the game that you're kind
Speaker 12: of focusing on on trying to help and maybe just
Speaker 12: progress just a little bit.
Speaker 15: Well, I think the first thing is new system and
Speaker 15: the way we do things in the new system, the
Speaker 15: drop footwork, the play action footwork, where our eyes go,
Speaker 15: progressions reads, the type of accuracy we have to have, anticipation,
Speaker 15: ball location, you know, things of that nature. So it's
Speaker 15: not just one thing that we're trying to pick out.
Speaker 15: First of all is the graphs of the system, and
Speaker 15: it's how we want to play the position. Through the
Speaker 15: system that we're playing in now. Taking those things right
Speaker 15: now in ota in this time period, then the month
Speaker 15: that we're gonna have away, coming back with a better
Speaker 15: plan in training camp for this is what we did
Speaker 15: in OTAs, this is how far we got it. This
Speaker 15: is where we wanna get it before we start the season.
Speaker 15: To go out and have the best season that we
Speaker 15: can have. From the quarterback position, it's.
Speaker 13: Easier the way of the Mark talked about the position
Speaker 13: last week. It seems like there's gonna be maybe more
Speaker 13: things that he has to learn, more challenge, but that's
Speaker 13: also gonna give them more opportunities to manage the control.
Speaker 11: And what's not is that kind of a fair characterization
Speaker 11: of the campsis.
Speaker 8: No, that's that's true.
Speaker 15: You know, a coach's system is very quarterback friendly in
Speaker 15: a sense of you have the opportunity to change routes
Speaker 15: when need be. You do a lot of operation well,
Speaker 15: I like to say doctoring at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 15: in terms of protections. You see it blends in one way,
Speaker 15: you can slide the line a different way. All of
Speaker 15: these type things. Not that we didn't do it in
Speaker 15: the past. We're just gonna be doing more of it,
Speaker 15: and we're gonna be more vocal about it. So you'll
Speaker 15: see him operating at the line of scrimmage a lot more.
Speaker 15: You'll see him communicating with receivers, running backs, tight ends
Speaker 15: a lot more than what you may have seen in
Speaker 15: the past.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 15: There's an element of working at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 15: right where we're doing all the talking right So, uh,
Speaker 15: that's where the growth is. And with that growth and
Speaker 15: with that responsibility, it comes out of responsibility of the
Speaker 15: film work you gotta put in and the extra work
Speaker 15: you gotta put on the field to where you're right
Speaker 15: most of the time. You're not gonna fool the defense
Speaker 15: every time or you're gonna gonna beat him every time.
Speaker 15: But we want to be right most of the time
Speaker 15: and putting ourselves in in great plays and great positions
Speaker 15: to move the ball down the field.
Speaker 3: I know it's really but how has he handled the
Speaker 3: the at the line adjustments.
Speaker 8: In so far? He's been great?
Speaker 15: L L L lamar. If if you could look back
Speaker 15: to to last year, I just thought last year's Miami
Speaker 15: Dolphins games first game I I could think of where
Speaker 15: we pretty much worked from the line of scrimmage you know,
Speaker 15: they had a pressure package that we didn't wanna be
Speaker 15: in the huddle cause the year before that we tried
Speaker 15: the hold away. Last year we decided to do it
Speaker 15: from the line of scrimmage, and he was very, very comfortable.
Speaker 15: He was very vocal s signaling out and I just
Speaker 15: saw like the expression on his face when he came
Speaker 15: off the field that he was like in a good place.
Speaker 15: And so with that being said, fast forward to now
Speaker 15: where you're doing it all the time. I think he's
Speaker 15: in a great place. Today. We had, you know, a
Speaker 15: drill where he operated from the line of scrimmage a
Speaker 15: lot today and was very very comfortable, got us in
Speaker 15: some really good past situations and moved the ball down
Speaker 15: the field and uh and did really well. So as
Speaker 15: we go, he's getting more and more comfortable. He's still
Speaker 15: really early and that's positive. So I just look forward
Speaker 15: to him continue to grow there, yep and Tea.
Speaker 10: You know, we can talk about more of a lot
Speaker 10: of people are sometimes critical about him throwing outside the numbers,
Speaker 10: but then you'll hear people go, well, you know, he
Speaker 10: needs people outside them. Where do you think where it
Speaker 10: has as far as suspectiveness has been throwing outside of them.
Speaker 15: Well, I don't really know where that came from, because
Speaker 15: because since I've been here, being the former receiver coach,
Speaker 15: I don't think that's true, because we got open outside
Speaker 15: of the numbers and he would throw it and we
Speaker 15: would catch it. So I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 15: All I know is he could throw the ball to
Speaker 15: all areas of the field. He has touch for the
Speaker 15: shorter passes, more touch passes, and he has elite arm
Speaker 15: strength to throw the ball down the field, and his
Speaker 15: deep ball accuracy has improved over the years. So I
Speaker 15: can't answer to where that came from. All I can
Speaker 15: say is since I've been here, I haven't witnessed that.
Speaker 15: I've seen him make all the throws to all areas
Speaker 15: of the field, and we will continue to improve in
Speaker 15: those areas.
Speaker 7: Tee, how does it help having a guy like Josh
Speaker 7: Johnson to your room, which even Lamar is still pretty young,
Speaker 7: is a quarter back, no question.
Speaker 15: Josh is just a veteran, you know, and not only
Speaker 15: for for Lamar but even us as coaches. He's seen
Speaker 15: so much, He's been exposed to so many different systems
Speaker 15: that he just he could just suggest something that we
Speaker 15: may have not have been thinking about or just looking
Speaker 15: at it from a different angle or that leads us
Speaker 15: to an answer. So, uh, just having that veteran presence
Speaker 15: in our room, UH is great.
Speaker 8: And that's something that.
Speaker 4: We haven't had.
Speaker 15: You know, we've had, you know, capable backups and guys
Speaker 15: that do a good job. But you know he's been
Speaker 15: here before, like a few weeks, right, But to have
Speaker 15: him here early to where he's a part of what
Speaker 15: we do on a day to day basis leading us
Speaker 15: into games, UH, is even more valuable to us.
Speaker 11: Maybe this goes back into the the pre stamp stuff.
Speaker 13: So why do you think, uh, being more upto is
Speaker 13: gonna be advantateous for Lamar and for the South eense.
Speaker 15: I just think the quicker you can get to the
Speaker 15: line of scrimmage, the quicker you could see things and
Speaker 15: and operate. Sometimes you have to change play. Sometimes the
Speaker 15: play that you're in may be good. And that was
Speaker 15: just a matter of getting to the right read and
Speaker 15: competing the pass or getting us to the right run.
Speaker 15: And so you know, in the past, we were a
Speaker 15: huddle team, and you know, we kind of got to
Speaker 15: the line of screamers. The players were already called and
Speaker 15: we ran what was called. Now he has opportunity to
Speaker 15: be at the line of scrimmage. Okay, Coach, I like that.
Speaker 15: I like this a little bit better. Let me do that. Okay,
Speaker 15: why'd you do it? And we could talk about it? Right, So,
Speaker 15: when I say quarterback friendly, it's the quarterback having more
Speaker 15: freedom to do to do what he feels he needs
Speaker 15: to do to have success on that particular play. And
Speaker 15: as coaches, why did you do it? What is the
Speaker 15: feedback and how do we adjust to him when he's
Speaker 15: in control. There are times and Coachmunkin says it where
Speaker 15: I'm the coordinator, I call the player.
Speaker 8: You like it, keep it running.
Speaker 15: When you changed that play, you became a coordinator, right,
Speaker 15: and we wanted to work. So with that being said,
Speaker 15: the film study the time invested to where when Lamar
Speaker 15: does take over and he is the coordinator during that time, right,
Speaker 15: he's doing a good job and getting us in the
Speaker 15: right places and operating offense.
Speaker 9: O good, right? Good.
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