WEBVTT - Isaiah Likely, Charlie Kolar, George Godsey: Training Camp 8/5 Press Conferences 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.480 Welcome into Raven's press pass. Today we'll hear from tight 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:11.479 ends coach George Gotzy, tight end Charlie Kohler and fellow 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:12.800 tight end Isaiah Likely. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.120 I have asked John and todda last year too. I mean, 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:19.720 the two younger tight ends that we're gonna talk to 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.560 you today, Charlie and and Isaiah, what do you feel 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:26.239 like they need to do? It's their earned significant snaps. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:26.720 And targets this year. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.200 Yeah, well, Mark's out there, so he's gonna get his 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.720 reps and uh, you know he's obviously he's gonna get 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.479 his targets. But Charlie and Jay, they're coming along. You know, 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.599 it's another year as a pro, another year with their schedule, 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.479 you know, recognizing coverage. I think our defense is doing 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.760 a great job of showing us unique looks. So you know, 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.040 I think every every day there's a goal to get 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:47.720 a little bit better, and that's what their goal is 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:55.200 right now. You know, is second your players just recognition, 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.240 I would say recognition a certain looks sown versus man, 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.760 depth of row distribution in the passing game, in the 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.480 running game too. It's just technique and where their hat 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.360 needs to be, their hands you know, it's a it's 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.319 a complicated game, and especially in our job. You know, 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:15.120 we got pass pass game responsibility and routes, protections, run 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.039 game responsibility, front side, backside, where detached. So you know, 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.360 we're using a lot of roles in Todd's offense. So 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.200 we love it, we accept it, and you know, I 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:24.440 think every day we're getting better. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.959 We see from Charlie in terms of in terms of 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.040 his inline blocking. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.080 Yeah, it's we've had the prads out here for you know, 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.520 four days, so we've been anxious to get out here 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.360 and do that. So we've gone against some good guys 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.880 on the edge. You know, it's quickly getting our hands 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.480 on the opponent quickly. He's got the frame, you know, 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.000 the length. It's good using having that size. He's put 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.640 on a lot of weight ten pounds in the off season, 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.040 you know, five pounds of muscle. So he's worked hard, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.680 you know, compared to this time last year where we 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.480 had a set back injury wise. So this is a big, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:55.400 big fall for him. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:02:00.880 George give them the setbacks of an injury. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.440 Really required particular and what he attributed as it as 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.960 the tight ends group. How do you have to prepare 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.200 the other tight ends. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.000 Yeah, it's a good question because you never know. You know, 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.680 it's a limited roster on game day, so everybody's learning 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.440 not just their personal role for practice, but another role 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.680 in case something does happen. So between Ben between you know, 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.760 vocalect obviously Charlie's ay, they know the role there, uh, 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.960 and then Mark's got his unique role, so that we 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:28.799 got to be versaal at that position. That's part of 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.799 the number one job of a tight end, making sure 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.680 that you can fill in those spots when something happens, 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.080 because it happens instantly, and we got to make that 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:37.200 work right away. 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.239 I know, obviously this Raven's offense is not gonna get 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.119 with odds Ovine. 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:42.440 Was in Georgia. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.440 But I watched the film last year. It's a lot 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.880 of guys, six six players on the liners to run 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.880 I running concepts that they did. You feel like that 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.239 he increases the need for you guys to have or 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.320 the rival line guy there at the end of the 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:54.920 kind of stuff. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.320 Yeah, it's a mix of both. You know, it's both 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:01.280 running pass and making sure they tie in together. So 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.520 we're trying to, you know, keep keep in with that 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:08.480 versatility word that I used earlier, so you know, first 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.080 down to second down they got to look the same, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.079 and then third down is obviously more of a passing down. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.359 So it's about getting open. But yeah, we're versatile players 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.560 and making sure we fit in. You know with the 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:18.680 offense are do you. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.120 Feel like the roles and responsibilities and the tight end 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.240 is pretty different in tides offense compared breaks. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.240 You know, tight end position, we get a certain there's 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.280 different kind of tight ends. You know, guys that are 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:31.919 in the backfield, guys that are in line, guys that 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.639 are detached in our in our room. We got guys 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.160 that can do it all. So that's that's the number 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.840 one thing about Art scouting department. We've got versatile guys 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.400 that can play all those different roles. Split us out, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.200 keep us in line. We'll be able to do those roles. Coach, 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:46.120 think about this system. 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.440 How beneficial do you think this new system will be 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:49.360 for Patrick Weegard? 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.760 Yeah, thank you everything. Patrick's established player. You know, he's 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.000 able to block people, move people, he's a good protector. 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.640 His roles physicality, you know, so with every offense there's 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.600 got to be that component. So you know he's demonstrated 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.880 that for the past few years. I think most of 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.280 the opponents will say that too, exactly. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.160 Think Oil's the year. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.359 Yeah, I mean Mark, Mark's a very productive player and uh, 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.960 he wants to win and that's what our room's about. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.480 And so you know, when when things are things are 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.440 not going the right way, he's a guy that's stepping up. 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.080 He's always been like that since I've been here. You know, 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.440 I love working with him. He's a hell of a pro. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:30.120 Uh. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.960 We both learn off of each other. It's a good relationship. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.120 When we talked to Isaiah on locker pain out there 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.800 last year, he said, I know I was my own 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.760 worst send me at times my rookie year with some 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.000 of some of the mistakes that I can't make. And 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.200 he said, you know, I'm definitely gonna come back having 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.480 addressed that too. Do you feel like you've you've seen 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.320 that And how do you think he went about that? 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.000 Well, that attitude we love in him, you know, because 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.600 he's a true pro and he's going to take responsibility 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.280 for everything. But you know, being shoved into the amount of 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.800 plays that he had last year as a rookie, we 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.440 think he did a hell of a job. And I 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.480 only see that trend going up too. So he's a 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.440 very detailed person. Uh, takes good notes, ask good questions, 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:11.800 and then he shows it out in practice. So yeah, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.040 I see, I see that trending up. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.240 Georgia. It seemed like Isaiah's best games last year where 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.760 when Lamar's or the chief Mark's role was a little 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.320 limited or think he was out, did you learn anything 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.400 about like how to position both those guys in the 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:28.000 passing off. That's what we taking out the dynamic together. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.640 And not have one stepping on to Yeah, there's only 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.400 one ball, so we got to kind of work off 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.159 each other a lot of times markets two guys maybe 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.080 on them. So that's the time for us to get open. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:38.680 He saw it in the Pittsburgh game, you know, on 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.279 a critical play at the end of the end of 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.320 the half. So Isaiah knows that and when it's a 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.080 one on one, uh, you know, opportunity. We got to 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.560 take advantage of that. Everybody receivers tight ends running backs 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.600 if we're putting that role, So I think they all 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:52.680 understand that, you know. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:55.840 Is gonna be exposed with two tight ends on the 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:56.360 fielder together. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.720 Yeah, I think I think we're we're looking for opportunities 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.400 in our room, and when we get those, gotta make 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:00.760 it happen. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:03.640 A little bit about hurt. 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.359 Yeah, I mean again, same thing. Rookie coming in, learning, 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.479 learning an offense that's got a lot of different avenues 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.000 to it, run game, pass game, and showing up like 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.200 he is. You know, we just gotta keep putting one 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.080 foot in front of the other. I makes just to 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.320 see him out in preseason games. We think he's gonna 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.080 do well. Uh, He's definitely practicing that way, So you know, 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:28.760 I'm impressed. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:30.960 Thanks. 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.760 Next you'll hear from tight end Isaiah Likely. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.880 So the energy that cub Mont game has the offense, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.279 you're getting that energy on his new training camp. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:44.200 Oh for sure. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.720 I mean coach Monkey comes out there energy every day 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.000 of practice. Whether it's a Monday or Saturday practice, it's 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.080 the same every day. So, you know, just putting that 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:52.720 in the offense and having us feed off of him, 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:53.400 it's been amazing. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.440 When we talk to you at the end of last season, Unlock, 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.920 I mean you said, I'm gonna take responsibility for not 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:03.120 making some of the mistakes time. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:04.320 Made it as a rookie the undercoming. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.920 What did you do in the off season to do 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.279 that to come back as a more polished for the player. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.800 I really just watch film on the little details and 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.760 on the major details. Just really watch, you know, major 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.640 games where I felt like I didn't play my best 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.440 to help the team win, and then just stack those 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.320 days every day in the off season and just really 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.520 prepare and then just find my comfortability out here in 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:24.920 OTAs and training camp? So far? 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:26.800 Did you feel like you got the results that they want? 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:34.640 I feel like I'm definitely improving the takeaways from really 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.080 just seeing different titands with their unique skill set and 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.280 how they really approach a game and different types of 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.160 either route complications or really in the blocking game, and 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.240 just seeing how they're coach, and then how work coach 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.680 here at the Ravens by coach g and then really 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:49.880 just implying into the game. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.640 There's a lot of playmakers on the offense right now, 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:55.640 you guys in the off season, I mean a lot 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:56.920 of people are gonna want the ball, lot of people 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.000 whosoke the ball. When you feel like you have to 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.880 show the coaches to make sure you're one of the 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:02.800 guys out there consistently getting targeted. 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.320 I felt like coach Monkin is gonna put the ball 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.400 on everybody's hands that needs really in the playmaker's hands. 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.000 I mean, at the end of the day, everybody on 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:12.840 this team's really trying to win the Super Bowl. So 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.920 whether I get eight targets a game or whether I 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.960 get one target a game, as long as the main 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.200 focal point is on this team and on this offense 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:30.840 is winning, I'll be happy with any Really just being comfortable. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:32.920 I felt like as a rookie, I felt like I 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.160 put a lot of weight on my shoulders, whether it 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.360 was when I was starting some games where Mark wasn't there, 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.240 or really just finding my role in the offense in 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.480 my rookie year. So really just you know, taking it 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.079 one day at a time and really just being comfortable 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.480 and learning to playbook and just attacking every day. 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.880 Munkins said, you know, we are looking for guys who 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.880 can do someone what Josh Oliver did last year, you 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.280 know some of that in black and stuff. Do you 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:57.559 see opportunity in that? 0:08:58.360 --> 0:08:58.760 Definitely? 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.960 I mean everybody, I feel like the main quote unquote 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.800 knock coming into the in the league was I couldn't block. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.959 So really just keeping that as a focal point, hearing 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.480 in keeping it as really initiative to every day to 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.720 get better as a blocker, and seeing myself being able 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.480 to put in line, split out in in the slot. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:21.360 That's a real film to over thea. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.200 Those are something physically that you do. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.320 Best, so center. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.800 But sure I felt I played last year to forty 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.000 I'm now two forty five, so I did add some muscle, 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.800 got a little bigger. So definitely, as there's been. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.679 A lot of bass supposed to offensive the cloth the 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.679 tight ends not just passing fall up the front car 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.000 as well. You know it's you and Mark feel at 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.080 the same time and you're kind of stressed fee there. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.120 Really we want to, you know, just make defenses start 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.280 having to playoff for us. If it's base personnel, you 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:56.920 really want to have two tight ends with having me 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:58.320 and Mark to be able to pass the game. And 0:09:58.320 --> 0:09:59.719 if they're a nickel, you really want to be able 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.199 to run run the ball. So really just having them 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:03.960 have no answer for our offense, and I really feel 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.880 like that's the best play to be explosive, the defense 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:08.360 to be I'm just. 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.400 Gonna have it's not interceptions that it's kind of like 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.160 you have a day like this is the trash off 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:13.480 from them. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.040 The coaches getting after y'all. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.720 What is that. I wouldn't say it's really coaches getting 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.679 after us. I mean, at the end of the day, 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.680 we're all pros. It's gonna be a hard day for 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.760 the offense. I mean it was starting long, so you know, 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.079 as a defense, you want to be in those situations 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.120 because you want your pass rush to get back there 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.920 and you really want to be able to have you know, 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.640 the secondary be able to just make their plays and 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.920 be special. So as the offense, it was really you know, 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.360 we was playing uphill today and I felt like for 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.080 the first time we did it this training camp, it 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.080 was it was a learning experience. I mean, you said 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.240 you could say the defense one, but in my head, 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:44.600 we don't really lose. We just learned. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:46.320 If you want, if. 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.160 They Flowers figured it out your day. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.320 Nickname, I mean. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.120 Right now, kind of not really. We just really go 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.760 off of whose voice you hear. So if we're on 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.000 the same time, felt the same time, you could hear 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.160 coach say big Z a little za every every now 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.880 and then say that's a little funny, but it is 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:06.560 what it is. 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.679 Good season last year, big step forward is a pass ball. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:11.640 So as a. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.840 Hopefully turn the bit really just you know, just not 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.480 forgetting the little details when I go up to the 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.840 line of scrimmage and in the run game. Really just 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:29.120 fine tune in understanding that I can do this. I'm 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.080 a pro. They got me here for a reason. Really 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.800 just laying my talent shine. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:35.199 Thank you. 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.120 And last but not least, here's tight end Charlie Kohler. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.160 Charlie just said you added ten pounds, you know, a 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.880 lot of muscle this offseason. Just you talk about what 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:48.520 you wanted to accomplish this offseason. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.079 Yeah, I knew with Josh and Nick Leaven there's a 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.640 lot of reps availe block and wise and stuff, and 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.840 I can just play an effective role in that. Hars 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.560 just getting stronger and just tried to work on that 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:58.839 and that was a big focus. And I feel like 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.640 I just job, but just want to maintain it throughout 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:02.040 the season. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.440 So yeah, something you have a target playing lead. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.800 I'm too sixty five right now. I mean, try to 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.760 keep it on. I love cheeseburger, so I gotta like 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.760 keep it a little bit down. But I don't know, 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.079 it's always everyone, like, especially guys in a our't naturally lose. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:18.719 We'll lose weight as a season go, so just try 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.960 to keep as close as possible. But I feel pretty 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.959 good right now. Sixty five seventy maybe, but yeah, I 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:23.560 don't feel bad. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.360 Tonal how beneficial has been before us and. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:30.120 Gets sist thing under Monkey. Yeah, it's been great. He's 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.440 done a good job. It's interesting always learning a new 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.560 offense through terminology. But were like Monkey's got great energy. 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.920 He involves every position group. Yeah, I like him a lot. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.480 It's been fun to work for what else? 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.679 Just beyond getting bigger and stronger, it goes into becoming. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.400 A high level blocking tight end when you had that Yeah, well, 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.040 I mean I had surgery the beginning of training camp 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.880 last year, so like most of the seasons, trying to 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.640 get healthy. So then actually get the off season to rehab, 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.000 get my core and hips and everything back to stronger 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.400 than I was. And then just like that was great 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.240 with last year with Nick and Pat and Josh is 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.560 like there's so much fun incricacies of like the technique 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.360 of your aiming points, your pad level, how to notice 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.560 fronts and blitzes so you can react faster. So just 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.120 trying to learn day by day. You know, I was 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.720 mostly receiving in college, like, just keep trying to learn, 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.480 and but yeah, it's been George's great coach. It's been 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.200 fun to work with those guys last year and then 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:20.920 we're like the room we have this year. So just 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:22.800 trying to learn those little things, keep getting better a 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:23.720 little bit every day. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.360 With Josh and Nick both gone. Now do you kind 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:27.760 of look at it as an opportunity to like, hey, 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.840 if I can, if I can prove myself as a blocker, 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:31.400 I can take some of those reps. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.560 Yeah, for sure. Obviously you want to be like the 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.920 most complete tight end possible. But you know right now, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.080 in this offense and the Lion's share the targets tight 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.840 ends mark and then so just trying to do what 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.560 I can to get on the field is the best way, 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.480 and just try to develop the passing game in the 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.079 blocking game. But like you said, right now, it's obviously 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:49.679 there's more reps in the blocking world. So if I 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.559 can keep getting better and effective with that, I think 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:52.800 there's a lot of opportunity there. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.960 Sure, I've thind the coaches talk to you about your 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.800 potential as a blocker, because I mean physically, I think 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.599 you have a pretty passively experience takes a more guy. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:05.439 Thank thanks, thank thanks. Never been competent on my wake 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:09.760 span before, but I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean I 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.160 was I wasn't like super strong in college. I was 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:19.160 was long along, but I played it like two fifty 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.240 five to sixty In college, I just like I was 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.800 a little fat. So now just trying to like really 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.840 get stronger and just like trans like like I'm similar weight, 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.360 I'm just a little better body compass stuff. And part 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.400 of that is just like learning how to you know, 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.280 eat better, training better and stuff. I mean there's a 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.600 lot of long limbed and I got long arms and stuff. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.840 So definitely just trying to keep maintained. Like I feel 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.160 like like this camp, I've been pretty much a sixty 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.640 five the whole time. I don't I don't feel that heavy, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:47.680 So I feel like I can as long as I 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.880 can keep adding good weight, I think definitely, that's it's 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.040 an option I like to keep. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:56.360 To have a work when you were hitting a ser. 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:07.000 Yeah huge, that's one of like the biggest obviously, you 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.000 know it sucked, like you never want to come in 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.320 and the first thing they tell you is you have surgery, 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.040 like the first second week, and so try and just 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.680 like focus as much as possible day by day, where 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:19.360 even though like it feels a long way the way 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:20.920 when you're gonna be playing, just trying to learn a 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.160 little bit and like watch them and do some stuff 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.240 and ask their opinion on the film, pick their brain 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:27.960 on like different looks, like what do they think out 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.480 of this three point on how do they affected like 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.840 a five tech versus six tech? And just different stuff 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.240 and just trying to take a little bit day by 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.840 day and then just just listen and trying to ask 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.280 too many questions all the time, but just really just 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.200 try to pick up little bits and pieces because it's 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.080 just there's so many interestingcies of like these vatsube been 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.240 playing for eight, ten, twelve years, Like they're so good 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.400 at these little things, like you watch Morgan and these 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.240 guys do that stuff. So it's trying to win little things. Yeah, 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:52.880 it was awesome. 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.000 It was awesome as you as you watched the front 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.160 office go out and get a bunch of playmakers. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:58.280 In this off season. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.160 Obviously you talk about Mark Womson's already here a lot 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:02.920 of guys who are gonna want the ball and deserve 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.040 to get the ball. I mean, is it is there 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.160 an element of wow, it's I'm not really have to 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.600 show something to get the ball, or like, what did 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:10.680 you make of all that? 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:11.360 You know, all that. 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:12.400 Change on. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:23.520 I uh, sorry, easily distracted. I really don't pay that 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.320 much attention. Like I try not to shut up. Yeah, 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.360 it's some rough looks in the Iowa in Iowa state 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.760 football world right now. But I'm sorry, I beat the question. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.720 Just you know, they bring in all those playmakers in 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.760 the offseason. You, as a guy who was known as 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.000 a receiver coming out of college, what are you sort 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.840 of saying to yourself about what am I gonna have 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:43.200 to do to. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.880 Get the ball? I mean that's like it's definitely like 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.840 obviously you can't not notice it. But one thing, like 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.360 the like having the veterans last year and like has 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.960 helped me this year is just you know, what can 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.320 you do today? And like me, worrying about a target 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.480 share is just a total waste of time, and so 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.440 just focusing on exactly what I can do today to 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.160 be better, how I can help the team tomorrow, how 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.160 I can help the team today. It's like I really 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.040 don't think about that much. And also like they're all 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.560 great too, it's like it's fun to work with, Like 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.800 you know Obj. You know, they're bringing in Odell, Like 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.760 everyone wants to ask how Odell is, and like he's 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.199 been nothing but a great teammate. Like's it's like you 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:22.879 always hear about these big name guys and you get 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:24.800