WEBVTT - Derrick Henry: Ravens Press Conference 5/19/25 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:06.080 Welcome into the Ravens Press Past podcast. As Monday, May nineteenth, 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.880 the Ravens had a press conference today with running back 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:11.520 Derek Henry. He was in the building to put pen 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.239 to paper on a new contract extension that will keep 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.440 him here in Baltimore through the twenty twenty seventh season. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.799 After signing that deal, Henry met with the media alongside 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:22.520 running backs coach Willie Taggert. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:31.400 Welcome, thank you all for being here today for a 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:36.720 great announcement. As you can see, I'm excited. I know 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:41.840 Derek excited, and our entire organization is excited about Derek 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.120 being here with us for a few more years. You know, 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:48.280 so excited about it, Derek, I know you excited to 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:52.320 be here, and remember getting a text from you, fired 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.959 up about being back and looking forward to it. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.000 First and foremost, we want to give a big thing 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.360 instead of a shotty family, Eric Tacassa and his staff 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.720 and Raven Nation, Flocked nation for all the support and 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.760 you know, a d C and Missa give me opportunity 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.600 to be able to get this extension, and you know, 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.679 I'm very grateful and blessed to be in this position. 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.839 Couldn't do it up my teammates who helped me. 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.959 Get in this position to receive a blessing like this, 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.240 and I'll give all the glory to God. 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.199 And you know, always keep God first. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.680 State my family, my girl, my my daughter's my motivation, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.120 and I'm just grateful to be able to be in 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.680 his lead this long and get another opportunity like this. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:44.759 I mean, once you finally got it got it done. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:46.880 What what does it mean to you to kind of 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:48.320 you know, for the reasons to. 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.960 Go and you know, commit to you for even more 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.080 than you know was last year as well. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.600 You know, I'm just very grateful for this organization. You know, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:01.200 just like last year, calling off the season I had, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.360 you know, I wasn't really happy, and you know, I 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.600 wanted to prove myself and just get an opportunity, and 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.880 they gave me the opportunity. And you know, I very 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.959 appreciative of how much you know, they value me to 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.680 to give me an extension, and you know, I just 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.160 want to show them how much it means to me, 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.120 how much this organization means to me by the way 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:25.880 I work in what I do in the field. 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.040 Deer at this when we first talked to you last year, 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.679 after you initially signed. I'm sure you know this is 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.160 an eye opening experience for you after how long you've 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.040 been in Tennessee. At what point of your first season 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.360 in Baltimore did you kind of figure, Okay, this is 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:45.880 definitely where I want to be. I know my contract, 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.280 but we could extend this even more as this is 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.720 the place I want to be potentially finished my career. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:55.480 Right yeah, I think just embarking on a new journey. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.840 You know, I was in Tennessee for eight years, so 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.679 come here. Everything was new and all I wanted to 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.880 do is is gained my respect from my form, my 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.519 teammates and everybody in this organization by the way I work. 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:10.800 And carried myself. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.639 And over time as I got here, you know, I 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.760 just you know, fell in love with with everything, with 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:19.359 the brotherhood, by the way they work, how they approach everything. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.400 And then getting to the seasons, it's like icing on 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.040 the cake, you know. I know we came up short, 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:26.800 but it was it was a lot of fun. And 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.680 you know, we have a lot of great players, a 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.440 lot of top players in this league, uh playmakers. So 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.400 it's always fun when you got guys around you that 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.560 are at the top of the position. And can change 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.640 the game at any point. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.360 Derek along those lines, Uh, you mentioned I think you 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.440 know war was one of the reasons you came here 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.960 and so forth. I don't know if you've had thought 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:52.960 about it at all, but did you sort of look 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.920 back on the last year. What was that like in 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.600 terms of YouTube playing together from what you could do 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.000 and what you find guys can do going forward. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:07.720 Yeah, I really enjoyed last season a lot, you know, 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.640 cause like I said, I was in Tendesse for for 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:15.520 eight years, and being being able to play alongside a 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.360 player at like Lamar, best player in the league. It 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.520 was just a dynamic and a lot of fun. You know, 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.560 there's a lot of young guys on offense and on 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.160 this team, so I feel like they they give me 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.320 youth and get and give me a lot of energy. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.920 And you know last year, Uh, it was a lot 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.919 of fun. We accomplished uh when the division you know, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.600 got into the playoffs, but you know, ultimately we came 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.880 up short. So I mean it's a lot of a 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.039 few of that should should go into the season. Guys 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.720 should be motivated. I'm motivated and hungry, uh to get 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:49.560 ready for the next one. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.920 Willie obviously this was a pairing that worked out really well. 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.800 If you were to summarize why, why is there such 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.479 a great fit here in Baltimore. Oh, I think he 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:04.760 fits our our our identity as a organization and fit. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.800 I think he fits Baltimore at a s as a 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.440 city and and what the city stands for, you know, 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.000 And when you watch him play and you watch the 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.120 Raven play, when you always watched the Raven play, it 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:18.000 was always dominating and physical. And when you watch Derrick run, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.559 it's dominating physical, you know, and you think about our city, 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.599 We're dominating and physical. So I think he just fit 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.680 everything about Baltimore and the Ravens organization. And you know, 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.560 everyone I talked to about the raven organization before I 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.000 got here and now being a part of it, it's 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:35.400 always been top notch. 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.080 The Ravens organization is one of the best in the leagues. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.680 And and then Therek came here and he's top notch 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.479 and uh on the best running backs in the league, 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.840 and and he just fit everything about us. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:48.520 There. 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.280 Going about to playing with Lamar, you know, when you 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.479 signed your first count here were asking about age and 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.960 everything sh did claim as Lamar while you. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.240 Did you when you did last year? 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:02.400 And maybe he's some clusper in there. Yeah, I think definitely. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.680 I mean he's just so dynamic. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.160 You know, you gotta count from every single play and 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.160 i's are gonna gonna be on him just you know 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.840 about the player he is, uh with his arm and 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.799 with his legs, And for me, that makes me happy. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.800 So you know, I get more opportunities, and you know, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.280 you know, they know they gotta account for for him. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.400 It's just as much as they they they account for me. 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.160 So it's fun playing al uh alongside him and all 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.159 these guys on on offense, just play makers all around. 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.040 And I know he has a lot of fun. I 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.840 mean you just like you gotta see the highlights and 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.120 the plays he make. You know, these guys love playing 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.360 for him, and I love being a teammate. 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:42.160 Yeah. 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.520 I think if you get thirteen hun or thirteen hundred 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.120 yards as you going to the top ten all time 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.080 and on rushing, wo, I mean how important is that 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:51.480 for you? 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.080 I mean cause then you're getting into like a really 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:55.440 big historical categories. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:56.560 Yeah. 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.160 You know when you say something like that, it's just 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.520 like it's a surreal moment to be able to have 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:06.800 that opportunity and you know, being that that that conversation, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.120 God has best blessed me tremendously. And you know, since 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:12.760 I was five years old, you know, I fell in 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.120 love with this game, you know, and playing this position. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.320 You know, I always looked up to you know, great 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.440 running backs who who played this game at a high level, 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.880 who are legends of the game, and you know, dreaming 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.040 of my name being mentioned with them one day and 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.640 for me to you know, somewhat have the opportunity, and 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.320 it's it's so surreal. And you know, God is so good. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.080 I've had a lot of people throughout my life to 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:37.520 help me get to this point. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.960 Where can you in conversations with het An injustice or 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:43.000 what do youleve forward. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.120 To building along with And yeah, then you know they 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.040 just told me you kind of congratulations, which I really appreciated. 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:52.800 And we have so much fun in that room and 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.280 we all are are are so competitive. We all we 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.680 wanna do is make each other better. You know, they're 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:00.960 I like brothers to me. You know, we always try 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.880 to help each other get better any aspect that we can. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.040 And you know, coach coach Tag make sure that we 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.960 are on our details. You know, we're doing what we 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.640 need to do, getting the best out of us when 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.080 we on the field, and letting the translate from the 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.800 position meetings to the field, you know, so we can 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.440 be out our best and that's all we want for 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:19.800 each other. 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:30.320 Lines in that room, For that h's who's played at 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.920 a high level his entire career, and to come in 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:38.360 and and the way he practiced, the way he take beats, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.160 and for those younger guys to see that, I mean it, 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.560 it sets an example for them. You know, they all young, 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.800 they all want to have a career like Derek. And 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.800 to see that he's just deep into his career and 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.520 he still take it as if he's of the rookie 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.719 has changed our our room dramatically. 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:54.920 You know. 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.559 Those guys come in and they want to be on 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.480 top of their game. They don't want to make a mistake. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.959 They don't want to take Derek off, you know. But 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.520 but more important, they wanna they wanna play at a level, 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.079 at a at a standard that Derek has set, has 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.640 set from the beginning. And it's been fun like being 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.120 in there and watching all those guys grow and all 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.679 those guys getting confident each and every day and I 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.360 think that by hisself is gonna help them become a 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:20.280 better football player. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:26.120 Really, you know, the stereotypes about like backs when he hits. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.319 Or why do you think Derek defies that? 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.680 When you look at a contract like business clear Baltimore, 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.120 the organization's not ready to Derek consumer, Why do you 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:37.679 think he kind of makes. 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.000 That not matter in a lot of hits. 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.360 Well, I think you if you watch his work ethic 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.199 and you see the way he works on and off 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.839 the field, how you take care of his body, and 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.720 then just to watch him out there, you don't see 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.120 a downside. You know, he's still getting stronger if you 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.319 aks me, you know. And but the way that he works, 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.160 and and then the performance. You look at the performance 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.520 he had last year, you know, one of his better years, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.200 and that's towards I mean that's nine years in that's 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.199 that's big time, you know. But Derek works hard. It's 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.839 important to him. He told you guys a minute ago 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.839 he wants to win the Super Bowl, you know, and 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.480 I know he's gonna do everything he can to help 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.760 his football team to accomplish that. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.599 Really, what does it mean a team sort of Baltimore. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:24.040 Lay the best. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:26.800 It's some of the reputation. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.079 Well, it's just it's great and it g like I 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.400 said a minute ago, like Derek fits again our our 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.719 our identity as a football program organization, you know, and 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.240 and to continue to have good running backs come in 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.199 here and and setting the standard, uh again what we're 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.559 gonna be. It's exciting, you know, and exciting to have 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:49.959 him for a couple more years here with us and 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:51.959 being able to to watch him go do what he 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.880 does best, and that's run the football and run through 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.960 people and make all of us excited by scoring touchdowns. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.560 They're kind of a two part question. And one how 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.040 quickly did this come together? 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.400 I know you had said early in the off season 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.160 and you like to finish your career here, So how 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:08.880 quickly did the. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.679 Process come together? And was it significant to you to 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.240 make more, to get paid more than any thirty plus 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:15.240 rank backs ever got. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.679 You know, I mean, you know, anytime it's a negotiation, 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.600 you know between two sides, you know, uh, it might 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.880 might might take some time, you know, but that's just 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.240 the the business side of things, you know. But when 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.480 you both want to get something done, and it'll eventually happen. 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.760 But you know, I just you know, stay patient and 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.439 that my represented my age and them, uh talk to 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.480 them and you know see how far you know we 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:43.120 we would come. 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.800 And you know, we finally got to an agreement which 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:46.760 I was was happy with. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:51.720 But I mean not so much like focus on being 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.880 uh highest paid thirty year old Uh I mean in 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.960 the NFL ever, But you know, just you know, both 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.880 of us coming to agreement with both make sense on 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.400 both sides and us both being happy with and I'm 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.199 very happy that we were finally able to to get 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:09.559 that done there. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.439 How much how much pride do you take in you 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.400 look throughout your career professionally do whatever the the consistency 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:20.200 has always been there, and even at times talk about 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.080 the age of running backs, it seems like people wait 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.800 for a cliff that hasn't shown up yet. Like how 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.839 much pride do you take in the consistency and just 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.200 the eliteness that you've played with. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:30.680 Ever you did? 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.800 Yeah, I just think, I mean, uh, I wanna be great. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.040 So you know, I'm no matter how good it is 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.520 or no matter how bad it is, I'm always focused 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:46.079 on me trying to get better each and every day 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.320 and and e and each and every way I can 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.520 and I think, you know, for you to be great, 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.480 you gotta focus on being consistent. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.319 You gotta outwork every everybody. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.480 And that's an approach I try to take every day 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.240 I wake up, even in the days you know you 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.120 don't want to, you gotta, you gotta find a way. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.559 And I think as long as you focus and determined 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.280 on your goals and what you wanna do and the 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:12.320 player you wanna be and. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.200 What what your play and how you carry yourself helps 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:18.600 your team. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.480 And I think you know, you gonna do whatever you 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.760 can to you know, make make make make that happen, 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.240 to accomplish everything you wanna accomplish as a team. And 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.600 if you have any any any any visual goals as well. 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.440 There Uh, how important as being the support of your 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.199 family throughout your careers. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.040 And especially now for you, you know, for you to 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.840 make a decision to stay two more years, says I say, home, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.040 I'm timing sorry, Uh been the. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.600 The support of your family throughout your career and especially 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:45.040 not to. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:45.800 Stay two more years. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.280 Yeah, I mean, yeah, they're they're excited. You know, my 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:53.319 family has my backbone, that's th that's my support. You know, 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.280 whatever sension I make, they gonna support me regardless, and 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.679 they were definitely happy that, you know, I was able 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.319 to where you're where we'lda work through and and getting 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.559 a stitch and done so I can be here for 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.760 a couple more years. I mean, they they love it here. 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.559 They love the city, love the uh, the organization. You know, 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.480 we're we're all happy and excited for sure. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.080 They are there. Now you're signed through twenty twenty seven. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.600 Do you when you sign a contract, do you think, Okay, 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.719 you know now I can't push my career here or 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.720 do you think, you know what I can maybe even 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:22.760 play beyond beyond this contract. 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.480 Yeah, I think it's just, you know, focus on this 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.320 year and then you know, focus to k continue to 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.040 get better. He had the year that I'm here, and 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.880 that's always gonna be my focus. And yeah, I mean 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.440 I love football. I love playing. I know people look 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.840 at the age, but I don't really try to focus 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.560 on that. I just focus on how can Derrick Henry 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:44.920 be better? 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:45.400 Be better? 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.680 How can Derrick Henry help the Ravens get to where 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.920 they wanna get to? And me being the best team 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.640 that I can be to my teammates there. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.400 Mention those you know, not being happy with last season 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.680 in terms of how it edit falls short of the goal? Serious, 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.360 how long does something like that take you to get 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:01.680 over it? 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:03.160 Oh? 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.320 How much does that plan on the motivation help quickly 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:07.440 your kind of back out. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.120 Of it again? Yeah, I mean I think you you 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.320 never get over it. I think you just you just 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.760 deal with it, cause that's just what it is. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:19.200 And when you get the opportunity again, try to make 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:24.000 it a different outcome, especially on my part on how 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.720 I play, and I think everybody who's on this team 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.160 feel feels that same way. But I think, you know, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.040 you gotta put the work in for that to be 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.000 able to happen. And then when we all here, you know, 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.880 push each other, hold each other accountable, and make each 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:38.920 other better, so we on that field, you know, all 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.200 it all comes together and we all get what we 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:42.200 want at the end of the day. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.360 They're a lot of prisons to do to I like, 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.200 get over to make us where the personally. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.480 What you use to do that? Yeah, I mean I 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.720 think I always think, I d I can do my 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:59.080 job uh a lot better, you know than I did 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.480 last season. And I think you know, the saying is 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:05.680 you only as as good as your last game, and 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.600 I don't think my game last game was to part 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.080 to to my standard. I think when I'm in our 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.960 position again and just just play better. But right now, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:18.080 just focus on getting better, improving and getting stronger, working 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.440 on my weaknesses and the proof of the things that 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:22.840 I'm I'm good at to be able to help this 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.120 team and be better than I was last year, just 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:26.760 so we're better. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.680 Derek, A lot of the Times sees press conference guy's 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.200 rolling about twenty minutes before, so I either deal. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:32.720 Would talk to us. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:34.880 Seems like he were here very early this morning. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.120 He's that that accurate. Yeah, I was of a thirty 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.640 minutes to sleep. Was that of a thirty minutes a sleep? 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:42.720 Oh oh yeah. 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.640 I got in here this morning and and worked out well. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.600 I just had a had some flight trouble. I think 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.080 it was bad weather in Dallas and my flight got 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.360 a little delayed, so I got in really late, and 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.160 once I got in it was almost time to get here, 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.640 like it's I think I got home like four forty 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.920 five in the morning, and I wanna get here like 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.120 at sixth something. So I was thought, I'm just gonna 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.119 stay up and just come get here and. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.640 Go work out. You can stay from workout after New Yal. 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.440 No, I mean I I worked out before, I worked 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.280 out before, I've work worked out before, and yeah, so 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:16.600 I wanna go to sleep, but I just couldn't. I 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.080 was like, I just stayed up. I was like, I'm 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:19.720 just gonna wait and then to go to the facility. 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.639 Alright, how quick are you uh your work at routine? 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:23.880 Obviously, ever that was matter. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:25.280 How quick after the season. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:26.400 Are you like back in the gym? 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.800 Yeah, I think I well, yeah, I think I'll waited 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.560 think like a week uh after we after we played 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.440 Buffalo and my mom was going crazy, I was like, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.560 I gotta go work out, So I just came back 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.639 in here and start start working out. I couldn't. I 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.159 couldn't wait no more. I couldn't hold hold off, So 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.000 I came back in the Cily SR. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.639 Does it matter to you at all that, you know, 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.399 when the season ends in Buffalo and we one, you 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.840 guys right back into playing them again? 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.359 Nah? Not really, cause it's a it's a new season. 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.760 I mean, they won that game and you can't do 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.000 nothing about the about the past, But I mean you 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:03.840 can do something when you play one. We played on 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.800 Week one. But yeah, I mean, they were the better 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.680 team in the playoffs and that's why they advanced. So 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.119 we gotta focus on being a better team and we 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:12.639 see them week. 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.320 One big picture question for you. 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.680 You're from Yule. They take a lot of pride in you, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.479 and you're a NFL career. Just what does it mean 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.320 to you to have a wrechevity even success that you've 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.320 had in the league and just being a role mode 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.240 of that younger kids back inly hard looking up to. 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.840 Yeah, you know, I take uh very much proud in 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.159 that and being someone that the you can look up 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.640 to in admiric cause I was just that same kid, uh. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:42.800 Back in the day. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.480 And I'm very grateful to be able to play this 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.639 long and have these opportunities. And all I wanna do 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.000 is just open doors up for for kids in yu 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.480 Lee and Jacksonville and the whole uh Nino foll Duvall 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.560