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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens held

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Speaker 1: their season review press conference today with general manager Eric

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Speaker 1: Acassa and head coach John Harball. Here's what they had

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Speaker 1: to say.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks for coming in guys. Obviously, you know it's

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Speaker 2: a long season. We appreciate you guys covering the team

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Speaker 2: every day and being out here and writing about our

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Speaker 2: team and our players, and I think it's great for

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Speaker 2: the community. And so if you guys have questions, offer

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Speaker 2: them up.

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Speaker 3: John and Eric, since you guys come back to Buffalo,

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Speaker 3: have you talked to Mark Andrews?

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Speaker 4: What's kind of his mindset right now? And Eric, I

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Speaker 4: think Andrew's going into this filent year.

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Speaker 5: Can you talk about the future for Mark as well?

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Speaker 6: Mark is We communicated, and.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna tell you what like, Mark Andrews is one

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Speaker 7: of the very best football players, one of the most

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Speaker 7: committed football players. Nobody cares more about the success of

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Speaker 7: this football team to Mark Andrews, and that's why. And

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Speaker 7: he made numerous plays in the game up until the

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Speaker 7: plays that everybody's talking about and in the season, and

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Speaker 7: one of my messages to him was we are not

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Speaker 7: where we're at Throughout the course of the season or

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Speaker 7: in the game without the contributions to Mark specifically in

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Speaker 7: the game and the plays that he made spectacular plays

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Speaker 7: all season, and then the unsung aspect of all the

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Speaker 7: blocking he did in line and on the perimeter. So

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Speaker 7: Mark Andrews is a great football player, and he's also

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Speaker 7: a very tough minded individual. So yeah, he takes it

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Speaker 7: heart and he because he cares so much. But I

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Speaker 7: love Mark Andrews, Eric loves Mark, All of our players

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Speaker 7: love Mark. Mark is a huge part of our future

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Speaker 7: and we love him, and you know we're there for him.

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Speaker 7: But if anybody can take a tough circumstance like that

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Speaker 7: mental toughness, it's most definitely Mark Andrews.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with John and Mark and I have communicated.

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Speaker 2: I'll leave those those thoughts to myself. But as far

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Speaker 2: as Mark's contract goes, you know, he's He's no different

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Speaker 2: of our tight ends are in the last year of

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Speaker 2: their contract coming up in twenty twenty five, so you know,

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Speaker 2: we'll have some decisions to make moving forward, not as

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Speaker 2: many I think, you know, tough decisions this year looking

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Speaker 2: at it, which I'm thankful for. But obviously, as we

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Speaker 2: So a year from now, we'll have some tough choices

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Speaker 2: and decisions to make regarding players. But yeah, so that

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Speaker 2: room right now, all three of those guys are in

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Speaker 2: the last year their deals. Ironically, Charlie and Isaiah and

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Speaker 2: Mark were blessed to have, in my opinion, the best

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Speaker 8: We'll be will be blessed this year on the field

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Speaker 8: as well well.

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Speaker 9: Eric, obviously, you know another bigger guys have a really

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Speaker 9: good regular season, you win a division, your time team,

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Speaker 9: Unfortunately you fall short and you have ultimate goal. How

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Speaker 9: do you equit this season? How do you view this

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Speaker 9: season as a successful season.

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Speaker 4: In your lot?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, perspective over what you know, twenty nine

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Speaker 2: seasons and we've had twenty seven seasons like this.

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Speaker 10: You know, I think my math is right. But I'm

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Speaker 10: I'm very proud of the team this year. It was

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Speaker 10: a successful season.

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Speaker 2: Not gonna sit up here and say it was not

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Speaker 2: a successful season. It wasn't just about every way of

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Speaker 2: looking at it. But I'm disappointed, and John's disappointed. We're

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Speaker 2: all disappointed. Our team's disappointed. You know, we had higher

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Speaker 2: I think it was a successful season. I'm very proud

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Speaker 2: of the team, the players, the coaches, support staff, everybody,

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Speaker 2: and and I've already moved on. I've started watching tape.

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Speaker 2: I'm immersed in college and pro scouting right now, talking

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Speaker 2: about contracts, negotiations and different things. And that's one I

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Speaker 2: think for me, that's one of the blessings of my

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Speaker 2: the off season, which is not I it's it's a

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Speaker 2: it's a misnomer because it's my busiest time of the year.

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Speaker 2: But I love I love being a part of the solution,

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Speaker 2: and that's what we'll be Eric.

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Speaker 9: Have there been any conversations with Lamar or will you

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Speaker 9: kind of keep his hand down the road as far

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Speaker 4: To get a little bit more calf friendly, whether it's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've seen teams do that, and uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, Lamar and I We've had a lot of

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Speaker 2: I'll probably talk to Lamar. I'm just really happy, blessed

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Speaker 10: You know, we just finished the season.

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Speaker 2: I want Lamar to relaxed little bit and kind of

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Speaker 2: think back on what we accomplished as a team and

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Speaker 2: what he accomplished individually, you know. And so I will

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Speaker 2: Lamar's you know what I've seen just with Lamar's He's

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Speaker 2: a player, as a leader, as a person. I love

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Speaker 2: talking with him. We communicate all the time, you know,

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Speaker 2: and as I said, I've been blessed to be with

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Speaker 11: Speaking of about Lamar is for both of you guys,

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Speaker 11: how does he change the narrative from what he's done

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Speaker 11: to the regular season as opposed to the postseason, you know,

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Speaker 11: changing what people think about him after the regular season

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Speaker 11: adds is there anything more he can do?

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Speaker 8: And what do people think about him?

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Speaker 12: Well, there's the difference with the numbers and the way

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Speaker 12: he performs between the postseason and regular season. So I

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Speaker 12: didn't think he played poorly the other day, but that's

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Speaker 12: perception out there at all falls seams.

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Speaker 4: On the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: I can say there's no player I'd rather have on

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Speaker 10: He's you know, I think he's the best quarterback in

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Speaker 8: So that's my answer to that question.

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Speaker 13: Or website everyone both read is what you guys you

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Speaker 13: know the rind thirty long you know would have been

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Speaker 4: You know, what are you hoping to do there?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think Vinny, you know, our goal is to

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Speaker 2: and we made a tough call last year to to

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Speaker 2: And we knew we'd have a few growing pains. I

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Speaker 2: I think it was absolutely the right thing to do,

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Speaker 2: meshes a unit in Geil. You know, Uh, we are

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Speaker 2: aware that we have some you know, guys that contracts

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Speaker 2: have some discussions with players, and we'll look at potentially

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Speaker 2: bring back our guys. We'll look at the draft, we'll

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Speaker 2: look at free agency. We'll unturn, overturn every rock to

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Speaker 2: find as many good offensive linemen as we can. And

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Speaker 2: I think we have some good young players on the team.

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Speaker 2: They've shown that. And one thing that we've seen over

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Speaker 2: gonna be the case with the guys we have. We're

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Speaker 2: have conservatively ten or eleven draft picks this year, a

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Speaker 4: Especially with long status in mind. What did you see

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Speaker 3: The first ball is an NFL player, But see someone

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Speaker 9: I final is.

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Speaker 10: Back just wait thought the via, Well, he's played both

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Speaker 2: I mean this year is it's a very hard thing

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Speaker 2: I think a year in the way room's gonna really.

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Speaker 10: Serve him well, as it will all of our guys.

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Speaker 2: But I think that we were very I can speak

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Speaker 8: It's a very tough.

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Speaker 2: excited to see what he looks like next year.

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Speaker 5: I know there's always moving pieces on the coaching staff

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Speaker 5: and Todd's interviewed, what is your last year? You basically

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Speaker 5: had to overhaul your almost entire defensive snaff staff. Do

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Speaker 6: Well, it's not for me to really know. I don't

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Speaker 7: I think it's awesome and great that these coaches have

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Speaker 7: But whatever chances, they get the most deserving of And

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Speaker 7: I'm happy for him. Of course, I'd love to keep them,

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Speaker 7: I'm rooting for you, you know, and I'll definitely tell

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Speaker 7: if it doesn't work out for you, I'm really happy

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Speaker 7: that you're staying with us. And I think our players

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Speaker 7: We've talked to a lot of our players, and I

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Speaker 4: Have you talked a Dean about that? Obviously that's a

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I have, and a little more nuanced things. Just

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Speaker 7: Zach feels the same way. Defensive coaches. It just helped us,

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Speaker 7: have Dean come back and experience that reconnected us to

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Speaker 7: continuing in some sort of a role. I do think,

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Speaker 6: Uh Mel. His wife is amazing.

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Speaker 10: She was here.

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Speaker 6: It's a team effort.

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Speaker 16: Eric for the twenty twenty two draft class is now

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Speaker 10: Well, we'll work on that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we've I think I sat up

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Speaker 2: In that particular situation, I really didn't see a lot

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Speaker 10: Potentially it was a total.

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Speaker 7: What can I do? What can I do? What can

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Speaker 7: know the way the performance and.

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00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:35,680
Speaker 6: Never never pinted on any one thing.

443
00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,440
Speaker 7: There's no way to pin it on any one thing, Vinny,

444
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:39,320
Speaker 7: You know that you got to kind of look at

445
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,399
Speaker 7: it as a whole and and there's a lot of

446
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 7: factors in there. But I know this, I was impressed

447
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,800
Speaker 7: by the way Marcus handled himself through all of that,

448
00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,760
Speaker 7: because sometimes the tougher thing is how you responded to

449
00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,639
Speaker 7: the to the disappointment and the adversity that he faced

450
00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 7: as a result of maybe not playing as well.

451
00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,919
Speaker 6: And he did a good job with that. He was

452
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,240
Speaker 6: a team guy through and through. He's probably added to

453
00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:02,399
Speaker 6: his positive right to the end.

454
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,320
Speaker 7: He supported his teammates. That's kind of the measuring stick

455
00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,240
Speaker 7: for me as a man. I'll probably handle it and

456
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,480
Speaker 7: I'll be forever proud of him and grateful for that.

457
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,479
Speaker 16: Eric that opened the door for our Darius Washington instead.

458
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 16: Then he made several impact plays for this team down

459
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:18,360
Speaker 16: the stretch.

460
00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,159
Speaker 4: Just you your thoughts on this season.

461
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Ardarius got a chance, and I'll credit

462
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:25,880
Speaker 2: the coaches, you know, I mean, we had a point

463
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 2: in the season where we were looking for solutions to

464
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,120
Speaker 2: play better, and John and Zach and Chris, they all

465
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,639
Speaker 2: kind of got together and had had a game plan

466
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 2: and I give the coaches a lot of credit for

467
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:37,120
Speaker 2: doing that.

468
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,399
Speaker 10: It really turned our season around. And our Darius is

469
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 10: a great example of a guy that got a chance

470
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,399
Speaker 10: and ran with it. We knew, you know, I'll go

471
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,160
Speaker 10: back to his draft class year.

472
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 2: You know, he went undrafted because he's a step slow,

473
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 2: he's a couple of inches smaller.

474
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Speaker 10: And we got him and we were excited when.

475
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Speaker 2: We got him as an undrafted free agent because he

476
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 2: was a great football player. And the question really becomes,

477
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 2: Kenny do the same thing and at our level that

478
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 2: he did at the college level. He got hurt a

479
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 2: couple of years, unfortunate injuries, a lot like Rashaden that way.

480
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 2: You know, his early first couple of years got held

481
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,679
Speaker 2: back a little bit. This year he stayed healthy and

482
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 2: he became that guy that we saw in college, you know, tough, physical,

483
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 2: a playmaker, instinctive, smart, a leader.

484
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 10: Great story.

485
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 2: Just another one of these undrafted guys over the years

486
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,880
Speaker 2: that we've had that's developed into.

487
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:36,920
Speaker 8: Being a really good football player.

488
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 10: We're proud of him.

489
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 2: He's going to be a restricted free agent this year

490
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 2: for US and uh and we're fortunate that we have

491
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:44,120
Speaker 2: him back again next year.

492
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Speaker 14: Eric, in a similar thing, how would you assess the

493
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 14: season of your first round technique with it?

494
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Speaker 4: And what do you think each year?

495
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 10: You know, we knew Nate was a great athlete and

496
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 10: a great cover guy. He's young.

497
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:00,920
Speaker 2: I mean when you look at him, I mean, I've

498
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 2: got two sons, and you know I'm getting older, but

499
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,159
Speaker 2: I look at him and he just seems young to me.

500
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 2: He's a tremendous athlete.

501
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 8: He's got a very bright future.

502
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 2: We want to get him stronger, you know, I mean,

503
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,679
Speaker 2: you've all seen his body. I think an offseason is

504
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,120
Speaker 2: going to really serve him well. Had some nagging injuries

505
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 2: and things that he fought through, handle some adversity, I

506
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 2: think pretty well. You know, he had the unfortunate car

507
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 2: accident earlier in the year, which probably derailed him for

508
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 2: a few weeks. But he's got a very very bright

509
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 2: future because he can do some things that other guys

510
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 2: can't do. And I think, you know, eventually, like how

511
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 2: far he develops is really going to be up to him.

512
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 2: His future is unlimited because he can do some things

513
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 2: that just are very unusual and unique at his position,

514
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 2: and I can't wait to see what a good offseason

515
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 2: does for him. Everything is fast forward, full speed ahead

516
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 2: with him. I mean, he's he had a good year.

517
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,159
Speaker 2: He can be great next year, but it's gonna be

518
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 2: up to him.

519
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 18: Going back briefly to the position, you know, I'm sure

520
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 18: was a tough decision to carry so many safeties on

521
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 18: the roster once it was kind of kind of apparent

522
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,679
Speaker 18: that ourdiers would be the answer there of what happens

523
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 18: with Eddie Jackson. You know, when John mentioned sort of

524
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:24,119
Speaker 18: the positivity that Marcus carried through, you know, his tough struggles.

525
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,959
Speaker 18: Was was there a different situation with the Jackson that

526
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 18: led the team to cut ties with him.

527
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 2: I would say that's probably more of a roster decision

528
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 2: in terms of us needing a spot at that time.

529
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 2: I think Eddie is a veteran player, and sometimes when

530
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 2: you add veteran players, it's you've really you know, as

531
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 2: a GM, you've got to look at the player and

532
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 2: you've got to figure out is this player going to

533
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 2: be happy in his role? This is a guy that's

534
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 2: I think Eddie is a two time pro Bowl safety

535
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,880
Speaker 2: earlier in his career, and you know, it really comes

536
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 2: down to you know, probably I failed because this was

537
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,640
Speaker 2: a guy that didn't really want to accept his role

538
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 2: as a backup safety and a special teamer.

539
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 10: And I understand that.

540
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 8: I really do. It was a good value for us to.

541
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 2: Get him the way we did, and I think sometimes

542
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 2: if I'm guilty of mistakes, it's finding value but not

543
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 2: always considering how that player is going to handle the

544
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 2: situation he's being forced into. And uh, you know, Eddie

545
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,959
Speaker 2: just he just wasn't happy with his role.

546
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 8: He wanted to play football.

547
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 10: He got probably distracted at times. But I appreciate Eddie.

548
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 2: He's a great player. He's been a great player in

549
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,439
Speaker 2: his career. He's played well against us in the past.

550
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 2: I think he's got a lot of football left and

551
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 2: I wish him the best.

552
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 10: I enjoyed being around him.

553
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 2: Uh, it just didn't work out for him as well

554
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 2: as he wanted it to, and it probably didn't work

555
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 2: out as well for us as we wanted it to.

556
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 2: But I think he can play football, and hopefully he

557
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 2: has a good situation next year where he flourishes.

558
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 4: What have you learned about?

559
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 18: You?

560
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 6: Guys?

561
00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 4: Are gonna have the spread season. Everyone was completely focused

562
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 4: on getting the where you want to get.

563
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 3: So you do all the things that comes down to

564
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 3: a couple of inches y or a bottle there, and

565
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 3: it doesn't go away.

566
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 4: What do you learn about.

567
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 14: Handling the part that you can't hand, you can't control and.

568
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 4: Dealing with that, And is your growth as a head coach?

569
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Speaker 7: Well, I think you know you're going to be a

570
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 7: coach in this profession, and last you're going to have

571
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 7: to understand that you know and and put things in perspective.

572
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 7: You know, there's a lot of perspective that goes on.

573
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,959
Speaker 7: So you know, we we we emphasize, we talk about,

574
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 7: we practice, we drill, we train.

575
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 6: The guys talk about it all the time. And then

576
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 6: a football game is played.

577
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 7: And that's what makes it so interesting because you really

578
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 7: can't predict anything that's going to happen. And like you

579
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 7: want to draw correlations and you want to draw you

580
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 7: want to find the one reason for this or that,

581
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 7: But the reason is that it's a football game, you know,

582
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:45,959
Speaker 7: and and you try to learn from it. And that's

583
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 7: why I said, individually and collectively to to to try

584
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 7: to be better the next time and to try to

585
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 7: mitigate anything, every anything that you can control in your favor.

586
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 6: And that's what we work so hard to do.

587
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 7: And when you get into these situations and these circumstances

588
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 7: in the playoffs, and we've had numerous opportunities now because

589
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 7: you've earned our way in. You want to put four

590
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 7: good games together, you know, or three good games together

591
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 7: if you get the number one seed, and stack them

592
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 7: back to back, and they need to be more so

593
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 7: in the playoffs than anything. They need to be as

594
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 7: positive centric as possible. You can't really afford too many

595
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 7: negative plays because they can make a difference. If you

596
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 7: look at our team this year and in the past,

597
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 7: for the past seventeen years, you don't see us getting

598
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 7: blown out. You don't see us falling apart, either in

599
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 7: a game or in the season. You always see us

600
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 7: fighting back. I think that is the real measuring stick,

601
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 7: not the narrative that, oh, you can't do this, you

602
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 7: can't do that. And you keep striving forward to put

603
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 7: to stack those games together, you know, and put three

604
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 7: or four really good games together, air free games together

605
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 7: and go ahead and win a Super Bowl. And when

606
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 7: you do that, it's really a great accomplishment and so

607
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 7: we're capable of doing that. We put ourselves in a

608
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 7: position to do that, and we'll keep striving for that.

609
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 7: So if I've learned anything, I've learned that John John.

610
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 9: Want to the last year of your contract he planned to,

611
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 9: or having had any conversations about your age.

612
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 7: You know, I talked to Eric every day, talk to

613
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 7: Steve every day, not every day. Can't do Steve wouldn't

614
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 7: talk to me every day, talked to Sashi about every

615
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 7: other day. But uh, you know, I'm I'm happy, man,

616
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 7: I'm happy. And however that goes, I trust God, I

617
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 7: trust I trust the people I work with every day,

618
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 7: who I love, who are my friends. But more importantly,

619
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 7: we're on a mission together and as long as that goes,

620
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 7: as long as God permits that to go, that I'm

621
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 7: I'm all about it, you know, I'm fired up for it.

622
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 6: And not worry about those kind of things. They take

623
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 6: care of themselves.

624
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 18: Eric, to go back to the secondary for a minute,

625
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 18: you know. Marlon talked to us at various times.

626
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 4: About his approach his last season.

627
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 18: Obviously, getting healthy was a key thing for him based

628
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 18: on the way he played. I mean, did you see

629
00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 18: anything different in Marlon's prep for this season and what

630
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 18: you know, difference doesn't make for his defense as a whole.

631
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 18: With Marlin as effective as.

632
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 4: He wasn't secret.

633
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, Marlon is It's a great story. I

634
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 10: love Marlon.

635
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 2: We spent a lot of time talking together different things,

636
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 2: usually about life stuff, not so much football. I think

637
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 2: a big thing for Marlin was just staying healthy, you know,

638
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 2: his offseason, how he trains, what he does, how he eats,

639
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 2: how he runs, how he works out his mindset. He

640
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 2: came in, he was focused day one. You think he

641
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 2: felt like, you know, Marlin's the type of guy he

642
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 2: wants to he wants to challenge, he wants to be challenged,

643
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 2: he wants to have a chip on his shoulder. And

644
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 2: I think, you know, he would probably say that he

645
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 2: heard some of the criticisms and some of the complaints.

646
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 2: You know, he's a highly paid player, and he came

647
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 2: back this year and he proved everybody wrong.

648
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 10: And made plays.

649
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 2: Attitude was great, a leader of physical like he's always been,

650
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: big play guy.

651
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 10: Uh just I mean outstanding.

652
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 2: I thought it was great and it really helped our defense,

653
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 2: you know, through the tough times, and his performance really

654
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 2: never wavered from game to game.

655
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 10: He was very, very consistent.

656
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 2: I think he's in a great place and he's another

657
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 2: guy that we're very fortunate that we have under contract

658
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 2: next year.

659
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 9: Stevenson and how long are.

660
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 4: You do with his bus Tucher?

661
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 2: You know, b Steve is a great pro, awesome attitude,

662
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 2: he's a great teammate.

663
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 10: He'd probably say.

664
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 2: Didn't have as good a year this year, but his

665
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 2: attitude never waivered.

666
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 10: He's out there very very.

667
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 2: Dependable, good practice player, tough physical guy.

668
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 10: He's a free agent, so there's a lot of pressure

669
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 10: on him.

670
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 2: I think in his mind, you know, he was a

671
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 2: great pick and I'm proud of him. Just a guy

672
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 2: that's really only been playing dB for about four or

673
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 2: five years and he's grown a lot, and he's been

674
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 2: a good player for us over the years. And we'll

675
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 2: have to see what happens with him. You know, he's

676
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 2: probably gonna have a chance to test the market and.

677
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 8: See what his value is.

678
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 2: But he's helped us win a lot of games over

679
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. UH, he's been a big

680
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 2: part of our success and UH and am proud of

681
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 2: him for that.

682
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 14: Go back on the Bills game, one of the key

683
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 14: sequences was you guys had a first and goal of

684
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 14: the two and got held to a field goal. And

685
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 14: a lot of people are critical of the fact that

686
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 14: Derek Henry had a one touch in that. What do

687
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 14: you say about that sequence and do you do you

688
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 14: think of that once.

689
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 4: The season is over?

690
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 14: Do you kind of put that game off more more than.

691
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 4: A week to week?

692
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 6: No, No, we look at it very closely.

693
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 7: And when when you when you don't you're not successful

694
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 7: to play calling is going to be in question.

695
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 6: You know, we question it too. We look at it

696
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 6: really hard, and we.

697
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,719
Speaker 7: Ran it the first time and they ran it all

698
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 7: out pretty much on all our blitz and stopped it.

699
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 7: You know, you can you can definitely run three times

700
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 7: into and all a blitz if you want, but that's

701
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 7: probably not very smart.

702
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 6: We had a play.

703
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 7: The second play was an idea to get to get

704
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 7: kind of sneak Ronnie out and you got to give

705
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 7: the the you know, you can say, well it's a

706
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 7: bad call, but if it works and he's wide open,

707
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 7: it's a great call, you know, and it's it's a

708
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 7: little bit of a trick play probably, So we tried that.

709
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 6: Sure, I'd like him both back, I'd like to throw it.

710
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 7: I would like to have thrown it on first down

711
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 7: and not run the trick play on second down.

712
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 6: And then now we're now we're you know, in.

713
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 7: A situation where we're we pretty much in a passing situation.

714
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 7: They again were pretty much loaded up and they got

715
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 7: pressure and got a sack. So I think that's football.

716
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 7: That's the way it goes. Sometimes disappointing. The play calling

717
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 7: is not good if it doesn't work, you know, that's

718
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 7: the bottom line.

719
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 6: And that's how you look at it.

720
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 15: Joe, Justin Tucker, he did finished and seems like coming

721
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 15: off the buy, you know, he got everything on the track.

722
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 4: What did you see? What? What did you see that

723
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 4: change that all of a sudden everything seemed like it

724
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 4: correct and sold.

725
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 6: You know the thing about the Justin Tucker thing.

726
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 7: And we had a great conversation yesterday and really long,

727
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 7: honest conversation and it was it was great because we

728
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 7: talk all the time and he's really a good guy,

729
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 7: and he's a mature guy and he's a thoughtful guy.

730
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 7: You know, maybe we all saw that Justin Tucker is human.

731
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 7: You know, maybe we've got a chance to see that.

732
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 7: It's hard to be a great kicker in this league

733
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 7: and be as consistent as he's been and and he

734
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 7: ran into that this this adversity, probably a lot later

735
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 7: in his career than most of these guys do, but

736
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 7: it's something that had probably had to happen in terms

737
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 7: of his growth as a as a as a player

738
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 7: and even a even as a as a as a performer.

739
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 6: You know, it's a it's it's like golf.

740
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 7: It's like making a great driver, great put time and

741
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 7: time again. And he went through this thing that was

742
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 7: really more here than it was here because he was

743
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 7: kicking so well in practice and he knew exactly what

744
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 7: the what the format was, stay and balance, follow through,

745
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 7: hit it clean. And that was kind of his his

746
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 7: his swing thoughts that he would make he would make

747
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 7: he would make him practice and then taking those to

748
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 7: the game under the duress of having those misses. When

749
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 7: he didn't do that, you know, when he didn't get

750
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 7: himself somewhat in the right frame of mind to be

751
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 7: able to make that that type of contact on the

752
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 7: ball that he wanted to pull himself out of. That

753
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 7: was going to be the test. And the fact that

754
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 7: he went through that pulled himself out of it because

755
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 7: there's only him. Only he can do it. He's the

756
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 7: only one in his mind that can do that. If

757
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 7: you're a high level performer, maybe you understand that more

758
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 7: than those of us who aren't athletes at that level.

759
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 7: And that's the thing I was proud of them for

760
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 7: and I think that's going to serve him well going

761
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 7: forward in his career.

762
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 18: John, you dealt with a bunch of injuries to Deantay

763
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 18: Hardy and obviously Keaton Mitchell coming back in the return game.

764
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 18: At being said, cycled through a bunch of returners this year,

765
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 18: there were a couple of games where it seemed like

766
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 18: some of those judgments were tough or you know, there

767
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 18: were muffs. How do you kind of look at the

768
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 18: whole of the return game this year and where it needs.

769
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 4: To get better?

770
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think from a personnel standpoint, we'd

771
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 7: like to get settled there. You know, we do kickoff

772
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 7: returns different than part return Eric kind I talk about

773
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 7: this a lot. You know, you can find kickoff returners.

774
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 7: Running backs seem to be really valuable in this new

775
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 7: return game thing. And we have really good running backs.

776
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 7: Who are you know, we have three guys that are

777
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 7: really good at it as running backs, and so I'm

778
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 7: pretty excited about those guys. Going for pump return is

779
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 7: a whole different thing. You know, how many guys have

780
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 7: done both. I had Brian Mitchell, Brian Westbrook was able

781
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 7: to do both. James Trash was only a kick returner.

782
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,399
Speaker 7: The guys who've been here over the years have been

783
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 7: kind of like that. Some have been both, some have

784
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 7: been more pump return oriented. But we need to get

785
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 7: settled at pump returner. You know, that's a huge.

786
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:20,280
Speaker 6: Role on the team.

787
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 7: Whether it's one of the guys here right now or

788
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 7: someone that we are able to bring in, that's an

789
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 7: important position for us. I think you're making a good point, Eric,

790
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 7: would you.

791
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 4: Say to Kyle Hamilton his role changed this year.

792
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 18: He did an excellent job in the new role, but

793
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 18: would you prefer to have him do more of when

794
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 18: he did a year ago?

795
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 4: And does that make finding another safety priority for you guys?

796
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 10: Well, we'll look at that.

797
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 2: I mean, I think we definitely saw a different type

798
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 2: of performance from Kyle this year.

799
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 10: But I mean, if you look.

800
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: At overall how our defense blossomed with him back there,

801
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 2: I think it was worthwhile. Did he make as many

802
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 2: splash plays. Probably not, But I take the improvement in

803
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 2: the defense rather than Kyle making splash plays not being

804
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 2: very good on defense. So you know, if we can

805
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 2: add another safety, you know, obviously it would be really

806
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 2: good for us. Gives us that, you know, multiplicity on

807
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 2: defense and the ability to do a lot of different things.

808
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 2: Kyle becomes that sort of jack knife again. But listen,

809
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 2: we're blessed to have Kyle and oar Darius back there.

810
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 10: We've got good young corners with Marlin. You know, I

811
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,280
Speaker 10: think we'll see hopefully.

812
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 2: I mean, I would anticipate our secondary is gonna play

813
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 2: like they did over the last eight nine ten games

814
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 2: of the season next year.

815
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 10: And that's a comforting thing. I am.

816
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 2: I am actually ironically looking out of safety upstairs right

817
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 2: now in the draft, So you know, no, but we'll

818
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 2: go through it and we'll we'll look at all the

819
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 2: players and we'll rank the board like we always do,

820
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 2: and if the best guy is a free safety at

821
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 2: that pick, then we'll take him.

822
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 8: We'll be very happy with it.

823
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 4: John, how did you like hard Knocks being in the building.

824
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 4: Was it a distraction at all? I thought I thought

825
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 4: that made you look great. I thought it made the facility.

826
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's a way you know, it looks like, you know,

827
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 10: he mad who wants to workout?

828
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 6: Uh?

829
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 4: Were you aware that it.

830
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 15: Might be a selling point to free agency and how

831
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 15: the Ravens do things.

832
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 4: I thought it was a really good piece to be

833
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 4: on it.

834
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 7: You know, it's a great question and point. We didn't know,

835
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 7: did we We didn't know, and it wasn't like we

836
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 7: had a choice. But I will say credit to the

837
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 7: Hard Knocks people in NFL films that were here.

838
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 6: They were first class.

839
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 7: They were non intrusive, you didn't even know, you didn't

840
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 7: even know what you forgot. They were around so many times,

841
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 7: which they probably wanted, but you know, they they were great.

842
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 6: They were great to work with, They.

843
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 7: Were professional, They respected the guys and the space, and

844
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 7: I thought they they portrayed it in a way that

845
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 7: was was really pretty accurate and pretty true. You know,

846
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 7: it felt it felt right the stuff I saw, So

847
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 7: I don't know I would I wasn't a big advocate

848
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 7: of it before, you know, I'd joked I never watched it.

849
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 7: I did watch these just recently, you know, And and

850
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 7: I give those guys a lot of credit their pros

851
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 7: and they deserve they deserve whatever credit they get for

852
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 7: what they put out there, that that was a really

853
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 7: good series, and they handled the.

854
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 8: Infestation pretty good.

855
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 7: Well there, that's crazy because the trailer, you guys got

856
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 7: to hear this.

857
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 10: The trailer was infested with crickets.

858
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 2: The entire time, and they you know, and they handled

859
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 2: it really well. I mean they had they were surprised

860
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 2: that crickets could actually thrive in winter conditions.

861
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 8: But they did.

862
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 6: Well, it's a warm trailer.

863
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 2: It was a warm trailer, but I mean it was

864
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 2: really tough for them to handle that every single day,

865
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 2: the chirpping of all the crickets.

866
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 10: So I'll give them a lot of credit for that.

867
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 7: They did discover the cricket infestation though, event they did

868
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 7: find some credit, and they did find the.

869
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 6: Root cause and they pinpointed the culprit.

870
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 8: And they found about twelve crickets.

871
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 4: Who places crickets in there?

872
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 7: Right, well, we know they they they did find out

873
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 7: who placed the crickets. The cricket place were actually they're

874
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 7: taking credit for it. At the end, it's like.

875
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 4: How many people would get or anything.

876
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 6: What was the first part of it?

877
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 4: How many people would get a money back and.

878
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 6: Get him back?

879
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 4: What was.

880
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 6: How meaningful, meaning is there anything that.

881
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 18: You want for this twenty five offense that you know

882
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 18: this year's em didn't know so accessful.

883
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 7: That's two very different questions. It will be very meaningful

884
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,359
Speaker 7: if and when we get Todd Monk and back.

885
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 6: I'm very hopeful that we will. Have you heard something

886
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 6: sounds like you're tapped in pretty good? Was there any

887
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 6: jobs open yet? Are all the jobs closed? Jaguars Raider Raiders?

888
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 7: So that's not a done deal yet. But Todd Munk

889
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 7: will be a great head coach. I'll just say that

890
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 7: he's he's uh, he's a he's a really he's a

891
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 7: really good football coach. He's an old school football coach

892
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 7: with kind of a new school and a creative mind,

893
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 7: always always creating. He works well with the staff. We

894
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 7: have a great staff around him. So because of that,

895
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 7: it will be very meaningful if and when we get

896
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 7: him back and we can continue forward. And I really

897
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 7: am excited about, you know, three point zero, that iteration

898
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 7: of this offense going forward, because we found ourselves through

899
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 7: the last offseason and into this season in terms of

900
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 7: how we wanted to organize the offense and tie it

901
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 7: all together and use the different the different platforms that

902
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 7: you can use. We're kind of in every world offensively,

903
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 7: and it's not easy to do that.

904
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 6: But we can do that because of our quarterback.

905
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 7: Because our quarterback is capable of living in all those

906
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 7: different offensive worlds, and that's tough for a defense to defend.

907
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 7: How we can continue to evolve that so we can

908
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 7: operate it more efficiently, more effectively, more quickly, with less

909
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 7: verbiage and all those kind of things. But everybody's on

910
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 7: even more and more on the same page. That's what

911
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 7: we'll be striving for.

912
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 4: I wanted to ask. I know it's been a lot

913
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 4: of noise arm more hands online, but recently a Buffalo

914
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 4: fan they created a GoFundMe and they raised I think

915
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 4: sixty four thousand dollars to donate to March's charity.

916
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 9: So I just wanted to ask if you all had

917
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 9: heard about that, in which you will think about that.

918
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 2: I hadn't heard about it. I don't have any thoughts

919
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 2: really on it. It's nice, you know, John, to.

920
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 4: Go back to Todd for a second.

921
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 18: I want to ask a question about age, so I

922
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 18: want to be delicated, but I think you know the

923
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 18: archetype that a lot of people think of for offensive coordinator.

924
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 18: So the hot young wonder kin his thirties or forties

925
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 18: was great new ideas.

926
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 4: This is just something to be said based on success.

927
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 18: Todd has had the ravens for a guy who I

928
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 18: mean you called them an old school coach kind of

929
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 18: putting the work in a bunch of different places.

930
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 4: And has that experience.

931
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,879
Speaker 7: Yes, there is, and you know, don't underrate experience, right,

932
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 7: You know, there are no new ideas in football. There

933
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 7: are new iterations, new ways are organized, new ways are applied,

934
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 7: great ways they're taught or not taught. Creating a vision

935
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 7: for your for your team, getting everybody on the same

936
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 7: page so they can execute and operate together, making the

937
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 7: best use of your ability and your talent. But the

938
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 7: challenge for our coach has been around over the years

939
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 7: is the ability to get out in front and stay

940
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 7: ahead of the fact that it's always moving and you've

941
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 7: got to keep moving. I keep staying ahead of the

942
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 7: the what people are doing. You know, there's split safety

943
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 7: coverages changed over the last three years, and people caught

944
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 7: up with them this year again. So what's our next

945
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 7: iteration of that going to be? Across the league? This

946
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 7: is always an ever moving kind of a game, a

947
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 7: chess game, but it's a higher level than chess.

948
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 6: There's more to it.

949
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 7: And Todd's one of those guys that can apply his

950
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 7: experience along with the fact that he's always thinking ahead,

951
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 7: He's always trying to come up to the next idea.

952
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 7: And then he's also very much a collaborator. You know,

953
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,959
Speaker 7: you've got Tea and George Goatzei and George Warhop and

954
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 7: Travis Sweitzer and Greg Lewis and Willie Taggert, those guys

955
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 7: all bringing all these ideas to the table and those

956
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 7: guys working together. To me, sometimes a young coach does

957
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 7: a good job of that. Sometimes the experienced guy understands

958
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 7: the value of that and he is able to utilize

959
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 7: his people really well around him. And it's the guys

960
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 7: that last. Those are the guys that kind of prove

961
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 7: themselves over time, I think. And Todd's one of those guys.

962
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 4: Two hour job that warm Off did because that.

963
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 6: Was the team into the top and those.

964
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 12: Offenses, I mean, where they went from you know, being criticized,

965
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 12: the leading you know Pro Bowl guy you know and.

966
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 4: Call George did an awesome jobs. Agree.

967
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 7: You know, George is known as one of the best

968
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 7: offensive line coaches in the league and everybody respects him.

969
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,439
Speaker 6: And for him to be available. I've told you this before.

970
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 7: I've known him since we were twenty five years old

971
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 7: when he was working for Mike Godfred at the University

972
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 7: of Kansas and we spent a week together talking football,

973
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 7: you know, and Mike came to one and spent a

974
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 7: week with us this week during the season and spent

975
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 7: time here. So you know, those are those are the

976
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 7: connections that you make. And he's he was a great

977
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 7: coach then and he's a great coach now. How many

978
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 7: guys could have come in that circumstance. I mean, Joe

979
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 7: Dee has loved respected, did an amazing job. Here, we

980
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 7: have the Joe, we have a Joe Dee Award, we.

981
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 6: Have a room named after him. We love him.

982
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 7: And for for a coach to be good enough to

983
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 7: to to adapt to the things that that the offense,

984
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 7: the way was built, the calls, the way they were made,

985
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 7: the way the techniques were taught, and still put his

986
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 7: imprint out it because you got to coach it the

987
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 7: way you believe in it being coached and doing a

988
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 7: seamless way where the guys it makes sense to the guys.

989
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 7: You know, you got to be really good to do that,

990
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 7: and that's to me, that's George Warhopper.

991
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 6: I think he deserves a lot of credit for it.

992
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 6: To your point, sure, Eric.

993
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 14: If you we talked without patri Gard yesterday or whatever,

994
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 14: he said he wants to.

995
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 4: Retire at the Raven, have you had a discussion. There's

996
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 4: only so many teams that you.

997
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 14: Can use a fullback, and this team seems ideally shooting

998
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 14: for one.

999
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,919
Speaker 4: Have you had discussions about bringing back and what's what's

1000
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 4: his future here?

1001
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 10: No, we haven't had those discussions yet.

1002
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 2: His agent's a good friend of mine, and you know,

1003
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 2: I think I think pat knows how we feel about him,

1004
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 2: and I would love for him to retire as a

1005
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 2: Raven too. I mean, he epitomizes everything that we're all about.

1006
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 2: And he's another undrafted guy who just became, in my opinion,

1007
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 2: the best at his position.

1008
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 8: So you know, we'll have those discussions.

1009
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 2: This is not the first time that he's been a

1010
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 2: free agent, and so I think, in fact, I think

1011
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 2: he's signed at least two deals with US after his

1012
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 2: rookie deal, so this is probably his fourth contract now

1013
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 2: with US. If we can get him signed and uh,

1014
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 2: and I would say that would be the goal.

1015
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:07,879
Speaker 4: To work with with John.

1016
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 3: With John, uh, w has kind of stood out to

1017
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 3: you about him as as headcouter seventeen years.

1018
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 2: Man, that's a deep question. I wish I had more

1019
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 2: time to reflect on it. But I think coach has

1020
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 2: changed a lot. I think John has changed a lot

1021
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 2: over the years in different ways and mostly all good ways.

1022
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 2: I think he he he But that's but that's but

1023
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 2: when I say that, I think.

1024
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,720
Speaker 6: Uh, that was your next question.

1025
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 2: I think that, Uh. His passion for the team, for

1026
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 2: winning is never wavered.

1027
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 4: Uh.

1028
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 10: He's resolute in his beliefs. He's a man of faith. Uh.

1029
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 2: He comes to work every day he uh. And that's

1030
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 2: inspiring because he has a passion that practice every day

1031
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,760
Speaker 2: that's probably unmatched amongst anybody players coaches.

1032
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 10: I know.

1033
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 2: I what I appreciate about John is you might have

1034
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 2: a fight with him, you might argue, you know, it

1035
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 2: might be a bad argument, and the next day is

1036
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 2: gonna come in and he's gonna put his arm around

1037
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 2: you and he's either gonna say, you know what, I

1038
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 2: still think him right, or he's gonna say, you know what,

1039
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 2: I was wrong, But he has those conversations with you,

1040
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 2: and that's why you always gonna be a friend with John,

1041
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 2: because he doesn't hold a grudge. He's willing to consider

1042
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 2: the other point. He's not stubborn. I mean, he can't

1043
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 2: be stubborn, but he's always gonna come back around. And

1044
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 2: it's about making the right decision. Not his decision, not

1045
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 2: my decision, not Ozzie's decision, not To's decision. It's what's

1046
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 2: the right decision for the Ravens.

1047
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 9: Was he able to confact if you're still going and

1048
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 9: this is something that just needs rest and off season.

1049
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 7: Form, or yeah, I think you had a great chance

1050
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 7: to play in this next game. It was doubtful was

1051
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 7: a good designation for this game. They want to work

1052
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,359
Speaker 7: him out before the game and just just in case,

1053
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 7: but I wasn't counting on it, honestly, and I'm not

1054
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 7: gonna rule him out until he's out. Uh, this next

1055
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 7: game would have had a real chance, so it should

1056
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 7: be fine going forward. I don't think it's gonna be

1057
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 7: a surgery in the end, but they haven't determined that

1058
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 7: for sure yet. If they do it, they'll probably just

1059
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 7: do it to kind of be sure. But Yeah, that's

1060
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 7: where it was at alum mine.

1061
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 16: Are there any minor being surgeries operating you expect.

1062
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 7: From I'm not aware that, Eric. Can you have anything anything,

1063
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:34,399
Speaker 7: I don't think we have any Yeah, I.

1064
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 2: Mean, if we get to that point, we'll be able

1065
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 2: to share some information with you guys, probably at the combine,

1066
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 2: But right now everything's still kind of in flux. We're

1067
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 2: still doing in our eyes and X rays and different things,

1068
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 2: second opinions and all these different things, and so it's

1069
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 2: it's too close to the end of the season for us.

1070
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 8: To really say that definitively.

1071
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,279
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