Speaker 1: Welcome into the Raves Press Past podcast. It is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: August twentieth. Today we had a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harball.
Speaker 2: Just have appreciate the work ethic and the attention to detail,
Speaker 2: guys being locked in all training camp every day. That's
Speaker 2: how you make make progress. And I feel like we've
Speaker 2: come a long way, but we've got a long way
Speaker 2: to go. And uh, the next part of this starts
Speaker 2: really right now. We'll go to Green Bay. It'll be
Speaker 2: a nice practice against those guys and then play the
Speaker 2: game and then we'll be playing for real.
Speaker 3: So we're ready to go and we'll see where it
Speaker 3: takes us. What questions you have? Balls practice yet?
Speaker 4: How have you seen is the government is a.
Speaker 2: Blocker down He called a lot of balls today and
Speaker 2: I know he's a big target obviously as a pass catcher,
Speaker 2: but as a blocker that's kind of what he's been
Speaker 2: focusing on. And he's developed quite nicely. I mean, you
Speaker 2: see him in the games. He's he's more physical than
Speaker 2: he's ever been. Uh, he's uh, and we're gonna find
Speaker 2: out because he's gonna be out there blocking.
Speaker 3: And I really have a lot of confidence in him.
Speaker 3: I think he's going to do really well, David, job
Speaker 3: of getting you know, that actional on Saturday.
Speaker 5: Would you go back and watch what did you see
Speaker 5: from him?
Speaker 6: And it kind of what were you expecting versually what
Speaker 6: you saw?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I kind of I would say, first
Speaker 2: of all, I thought it was really good. I mean
Speaker 2: I thought he was physical to a degree I maybe
Speaker 2: didn't I was hoping for I can I expect him
Speaker 2: to play like that, but to see it out there
Speaker 2: the very first game was really neat because he wasn't
Speaker 2: tentative at all. He was really he's in a good mindset.
Speaker 2: He was in a you a, you know, a game
Speaker 2: day mindset, and he hadn't played that much in the
Speaker 2: last couple of years. So that was quite a statement
Speaker 2: I think from him that way. Really, the way he's
Speaker 2: been practicing is the way he played. So that's what
Speaker 2: you want to see down.
Speaker 7: Did you Philip heed to sort of reach out to
Speaker 7: extra and help him sort of keep his spirits up
Speaker 7: after he suffers another major injury.
Speaker 3: Did in two years David last year?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: David?
Speaker 2: Uh, Well, heck, yeah, I mean we we've had I
Speaker 2: can't tell you the conversations that David and I have
Speaker 2: had that are just awesome conversations a lot about a
Speaker 2: lot of things. He's very smart. He's a very deep thinker,
Speaker 2: kind of a philosopher, you know, he really is. And
Speaker 2: I learned a lot talking to him. And he's kept
Speaker 2: his head on straight, he keeps things of perspective. He's
Speaker 2: got a really strong family, and yeah, he I don't
Speaker 2: know that I really had to say anything other than
Speaker 2: the fact that this kind of conversation is good sometime.
Speaker 2: But he's been in a good place, you know. I
Speaker 2: think he gets down because he wants to get out
Speaker 2: there and contribute and he wants to be a part
Speaker 2: of it. But he's excited to get going.
Speaker 8: John, do you feel you've made the necessary strides or
Speaker 8: of hopeful strides that you've wanted from the getting of
Speaker 8: training camp to where you're at right now?
Speaker 3: I do, you know?
Speaker 2: I think I do believe that we're in a good
Speaker 2: place right now. But this is a moving target, you know.
Speaker 2: It's it's always evolving type of a deal. It's like life.
Speaker 2: You never know what's going to come next, and we'll
Speaker 2: just have to respond as we go. But I do
Speaker 2: believe we're about as good as place as we can
Speaker 2: be in right now. For where we're at, the guys
Speaker 2: have done everything they can possibly do to be as
Speaker 2: far along as they can be, So I feel great
Speaker 2: about that as a coach.
Speaker 3: It's good.
Speaker 4: A few days now with George Warhop, what have you
Speaker 4: seen about the way that he's working with the guys
Speaker 4: that are just sometimes fresh eyes on the players offer
Speaker 4: a different perspective than the age.
Speaker 2: Sure, I mean, you know, George is George is a
Speaker 2: is a very experienced coach. You know, he and Joe
Speaker 2: go back a long way too. I think he's picked
Speaker 2: right up. But to make it seamless, you have to
Speaker 2: be really good. To step into a.
Speaker 3: Role like this at this time is really hard.
Speaker 2: So you've got to be a high, high level coach,
Speaker 2: I think to be able to do that. And that's
Speaker 2: why George Warhop was such a just such an opportunity
Speaker 2: for us, such a blessing that that was available. I mean,
Speaker 2: I do believe it's a god thing, I really do.
Speaker 2: So it's going really well. The guys that were at
Speaker 2: responding really well to him. I think he understands exactly
Speaker 2: what we're trying to get done. I know he does.
Speaker 2: And h and he's doing a great job. And then
Speaker 2: our prayers and thoughts were still with Joe D. I mean,
Speaker 2: Joe D is making good progress from what I understand
Speaker 2: talking to his daughters, texting his daughters, but on the
Speaker 2: on the phone and the information that they're sharing is
Speaker 2: they're very encouraged by his progress. He's still got some
Speaker 2: work to do, but he's he's he's a fire man.
Speaker 2: There's nobody tougher than Joe Dean and things are looking
Speaker 2: good right now.
Speaker 9: I think your first year in Baltimore's had prschaganda as
Speaker 9: a second year guy be Grub, the second year guy
Speaker 9: Jason Brown stepping in as a rookie at center. Either
Speaker 9: from that experience or just over your years, what have
Speaker 9: you kind of learned about what it takes to kind
Speaker 9: of keep an even keel but also assureing some of
Speaker 9: that development from you on mom at the lines.
Speaker 2: Well, it's such a great point and you look back
Speaker 2: and it's kind of the nature of what we do.
Speaker 2: You know, it's nice to have be nice to have
Speaker 2: twenty two starters out there that you you just they'd
Speaker 2: been playing and they were all great players, and you
Speaker 2: knew how they were going to play. And they were
Speaker 2: kind of self sufficient, improving guys. But that's never the case, right.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I'm excited about these guys, and the exciting thing about
Speaker 2: that kind of a situation is that the upside is
Speaker 2: something that's kind of you kind of lean into from
Speaker 2: an optimistic point of view. You say, what can the
Speaker 2: these guys be?
Speaker 6: Why?
Speaker 3: Why not be great? You know?
Speaker 2: And that's kind of how I'm looking at these guys
Speaker 2: right now. I can't wait to see what they develop into.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's not going to be I
Speaker 2: understand why the concern, you know, I get the questions.
Speaker 2: We're all gonna find out real soon and it will
Speaker 2: be an ongoing I think as we go in the season,
Speaker 2: they're going to continue to get better and better.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 5: Make care you okay we can see the name there.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, they are.
Speaker 6: John.
Speaker 10: I know you've been really high on Zach since you've
Speaker 10: elevated him over the course of these two preseason games.
Speaker 10: Is there anything that you've kind of learned as he's
Speaker 10: taken on the new responsibility to play calling, anything about
Speaker 10: his management style that struck you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I might.
Speaker 2: I guess the thing I learned is Zach's not afraid
Speaker 2: to be who he is. You know, he's been He's
Speaker 2: just been Zach, He's been who he is. He's genuine,
Speaker 2: He's not trying to be something that he's not personality wise.
Speaker 2: I think that's what endears him to the guys so much.
Speaker 2: Very smart, very aware. Like as we were talking throughout
Speaker 2: the game, I mean you had mentioned about the boots
Speaker 2: and some of the run fits and things like that.
Speaker 2: You know, when I'd ask him, I say, what do
Speaker 2: you see in there? He always he had he was
Speaker 2: on it. You know, he knew exactly what was going
Speaker 2: on and where the where the mistakes, and where the
Speaker 2: good things were. Uh So that was that was great.
Speaker 2: I didn't I wasn't surprised by that, just as you expected.
Speaker 2: But he's he's really on top of it.
Speaker 8: Have you seen out of Daniel fall Falle at right
Speaker 8: guard that gives you confidence in the strides that he's
Speaker 8: taken and maybe what what are you looking for in
Speaker 8: his game specifically in this third preseason game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean I think he's done a really
Speaker 2: good job in terms of past protection. You know, he's
Speaker 2: he's been in front of his guy. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of technique things his his room for improvement is really
Speaker 2: vast because he's so talented and he's naturally able to
Speaker 2: do so many good things. And then I think when
Speaker 2: he takes the next step in terms of like just
Speaker 2: almost an.
Speaker 3: Urgency in the movement.
Speaker 2: With that comes with confidence, you're going to see a
Speaker 2: more physical player because the physicality is there. You know,
Speaker 2: he's big, and he can move and he can bend.
Speaker 2: He's a powerful man and he wants to be good.
Speaker 2: So I think the upside is pretty immense.
Speaker 12: John, you guys have a joint practice with the Packers
Speaker 12: off Thursday, and you've pretty much been doing on a
Speaker 12: yearly for a little bit. Now, what's the biggest benefit
Speaker 12: in seeing feet practice.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you have a chance to go against
Speaker 2: a different style, like, for instance, their offensive line is
Speaker 2: an upfield penetrating kind of an offensive a defensive line,
Speaker 2: their defensive line is an upfield penetrating type of affront.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be hitting gaps and getting up field. We
Speaker 2: haven't seen that really in two preseason games or in practice,
Speaker 2: but we are gonna see it in the games.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys are gonna do it, for.
Speaker 2: Instance, So that's something that we need to get ready
Speaker 2: for so, here's an opportunity to see some a different style.
Speaker 3: That we haven't seen before.
Speaker 2: Plus just the level of intensity getting guys locked in
Speaker 2: and focused after at the end of a long camp.
Speaker 2: There's a benefit in that.
Speaker 6: Was it a.
Speaker 9: Conscious choice by you and we've lert to just do
Speaker 9: the one.
Speaker 6: Day instead of two?
Speaker 3: It was? It was, uh yeah.
Speaker 2: The league's starting to encourage that a little bit too.
Speaker 2: You know, it seems like, well I think I think
Speaker 2: I think you're talking about you know, some competitive human
Speaker 2: you know, and and everybody.
Speaker 3: Wants to win all the time.
Speaker 2: So that practice, you know, intensity gets to a level
Speaker 2: sometimes where on the second day where it's not as
Speaker 2: productive as it is on the first day.
Speaker 6: All right, John, you said that pre Sara's game, that
Speaker 6: Adisa you recheck him for a couple of days or whatever.
Speaker 6: Is that anything here?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he's got a soft tissue issue again. You know,
Speaker 2: it's the other leg, but uh it's not it's not
Speaker 2: like it was before. It's not the one that's gonna
Speaker 2: keep him out like it was before. So he's just
Speaker 2: got to keep working through this. I mean a Lisa,
Speaker 2: you saw how well he played, right, So it's just
Speaker 2: a matter of him working into football shape. I think
Speaker 2: it's just that you think the guy's gonna come out
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden he's healthy, and it's like boom,
Speaker 2: he's gonna be one hundred percent. But there's all those
Speaker 2: practices callous these guys. They get these guys to the point
Speaker 2: where they can handle the volume, they can handle the load,
Speaker 2: they can handle the reps, the high level intensity reps,
Speaker 2: rep after rep.
Speaker 3: So he's gonna work into that.
Speaker 2: We call it football shape, right, He'll have to work
Speaker 2: into that, and I'm sure he will.
Speaker 1: We also heard from veteran running back Derrick Henry, what.
Speaker 10: What kind of comfort level do you have in this
Speaker 10: offense but also with your new teammates have been getting
Speaker 10: out of the last few months, but.
Speaker 11: You don't comfortable? Now, Yeah, I'm right at home. Training
Speaker 11: camp was was good and we got a lot better.
Speaker 11: Still getting better, but yeah, uncomfortable and right at home.
Speaker 7: Did you want to have any or maybe in this
Speaker 7: in this practice where the backers are in one of
Speaker 7: these games, do you feel like a couple of hits
Speaker 7: just to get ready for the season. You're like, no,
Speaker 7: I'm good, I don't I've done that for ten years.
Speaker 3: I don't need it.
Speaker 6: Are you saying like a real content like playing any game?
Speaker 7: Yeah, like the practice or might be some real contact.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm sure real scrimmage against those guys.
Speaker 11: Get some good contact in as far as going against
Speaker 11: her defense and as far as the game. And I
Speaker 11: haven't played a preseason game. I thinks it's twenty eighteen,
Speaker 11: so I mean, I think it's.
Speaker 6: Worked out pretty well. Feel pretty good about it.
Speaker 13: Derek, regarding those joint practices or practice, how do you
Speaker 13: approach that? I mean, do you look forward to I
Speaker 13: mean just one day that you're gonna go against the opposition.
Speaker 6: Do you look forward to that?
Speaker 13: What are you trying to get out of it?
Speaker 6: But I think it's fun.
Speaker 11: I mean we've been going against one another for about
Speaker 11: a about a month now, so we'll getst another jersey,
Speaker 11: you get the practic against another another team, see some
Speaker 11: different looks, and you know, uh, kind of give us
Speaker 11: a good look to see how how far we are,
Speaker 11: and then things work on as an offense going against
Speaker 11: a different team. So it's fun and it's some good work.
Speaker 13: So, Derek, in terms of the mesh point with Lamar
Speaker 13: and some of the Reid options and the leaders are
Speaker 13: running in the past years. How fast out do you think.
Speaker 3: You guys would be in terms of handling that.
Speaker 5: We haven't really seen it so far.
Speaker 11: I mean when we work on it out here and
Speaker 11: if there's anything we need to talk about amongst each other, but.
Speaker 6: We do that and yeah.
Speaker 11: So yeah, just just going through and out here running
Speaker 11: the place and uh, getting the feel for it and executing.
Speaker 6: So that's the big thing. It's making it work.
Speaker 4: So does it feel you just in practice when you
Speaker 4: running behind?
Speaker 11: Oh, I mean that's something I look I look forward too.
Speaker 11: So anytime for tuos in front of them, I'm comfortable.
Speaker 6: So I'm good. Gotta make it, gotta make some happen.
Speaker 1: It just had it back to school. It was man,
Speaker 1: I know you do things back and you're from but
Speaker 1: how did it feel to get out to the Baltimore community.
Speaker 7: And start making your marking that way?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Uh yeah, I was happy too, And you know, I'm
Speaker 11: blessed to do those type of things.
Speaker 6: You know, just wanted to get.
Speaker 11: My hands in the community early and uh, you know,
Speaker 11: I reached out, uh to the organization to see where
Speaker 11: I could help and they fell out that was a.
Speaker 6: Good area and I'm glad I was able to go out.
Speaker 11: There and help those kids and build 'em to ha
Speaker 11: T to get them some uh tools to be prepared
Speaker 11: for the for the school year, and looking forward to
Speaker 11: doing more.
Speaker 6: Some of these community events.
Speaker 10: Does it get your feeling for how excited the community
Speaker 10: in Baltimore is to see your debut as.
Speaker 6: A rape play? Yeah, I definitely.
Speaker 11: They love their football, so I love that, So I'm
Speaker 11: excited to see their excitement.
Speaker 6: For sure.
Speaker 8: You feel that you're more frequently playing out of pistol
Speaker 8: or shotgun formations than you had the nearest prior, And
Speaker 8: is there nuances to that that you can describe as
Speaker 8: challenging to learn or what is kind of feeling?
Speaker 6: No, not at all.
Speaker 11: I mean I ran we ran pistol before, and I
Speaker 11: was in Tennessee and ran out a shotgun. My biggest
Speaker 11: thing is doing my job and do my job effectively
Speaker 11: and being efficient.
Speaker 4: Is there any part of you that's kind of itching
Speaker 4: at this point to see what it looks like in
Speaker 4: a real game with a new team, you know, do
Speaker 4: you do you have a good idea of what that's
Speaker 4: gonna look like come week one? Or are there still
Speaker 4: questions kind of.
Speaker 11: In your mind. Yeah, I mean I'm definitely excited to
Speaker 11: play and can't wait until that time comes.
Speaker 6: But it's all about polishing.
Speaker 11: And getting everything down and continue to continue to get
Speaker 11: better until that time comes. But I'm sure everybody's out
Speaker 11: here itching to to get the week one.
Speaker 6: For sure.
Speaker 4: You're not out here stick farming your teammates.
Speaker 6: Nah. I don't do that. Nah.
Speaker 12: Nah you practice your stick farmer?
Speaker 4: Is that just completely natural? So?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it comes natural.
Speaker 11: I've been doing since I started playing ball, and it's
Speaker 11: got more effective. Uh the h the higher I went,
Speaker 11: the more I've uh elevated my game is from high school,
Speaker 11: college to pro.
Speaker 6: So I think it's something that that comes natural. But
Speaker 6: I wouldn't do it to my teammates.
Speaker 11: Now, Nah, not at all. No, we have some good
Speaker 11: battles through the years, so I think that's done.
Speaker 8: To know with.
Speaker 5: Derek.
Speaker 9: Have the coaches told you guys that they expect you
Speaker 9: to write bikes to the practicing green day a parents?
Speaker 11: You know, they haven't told us about it, but I
Speaker 11: I mean I saw it uh on Instagram.
Speaker 6: I mean I've s seeing it through the years. Uh.
Speaker 11: That's their Uh, that's their tradition. But if we have
Speaker 11: to think the kids are involved, So if it's a kid,
Speaker 11: I don't care. I mean I love doing STFF like that,
Speaker 11: especially with kids bikes. H I haven't in the why
Speaker 11: so I might be a little rested. Kid have to
Speaker 11: help me stay balanced, But no I should I should
Speaker 11: be fine. So this scene seems like some fun they do,
Speaker 11: you know, for the community and the kids, so have
Speaker 11: no problem doing it.
Speaker 1: Lastly, we heard from third year outside linebacker David Ajaboya.
Speaker 6: Smiling obviously. Yeah.
Speaker 10: How good as it then to you know, be out
Speaker 10: doing what you've loved to do after after the.
Speaker 3: Wait so long.
Speaker 14: Yeah, there's no better feeling, honestly, you know, that's what
Speaker 14: I do for a living. I enjoy I love competing
Speaker 14: and you know, to be out here with the best
Speaker 14: of the best man, you know, it's it's a dream
Speaker 14: come true.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Again, has it surprised you that you've been able to
Speaker 7: come out and you look like yourself again right away?
Speaker 7: What we've seen after going third through such a tough
Speaker 7: dream to get to this point.
Speaker 5: No, it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 14: I know the type of player I am, you know,
Speaker 14: and uh, you just got to go out there and
Speaker 14: you know, put it on tip honestly, you know, and
Speaker 14: I know the work I put into, you know, so
Speaker 14: you know, the work always come to like.
Speaker 10: It'sok a while last year, before we found out that
Speaker 10: you weren't to be able to play for us, a
Speaker 10: year out could take us a little bit through, you know,
Speaker 10: the steps of of you know, what it was like
Speaker 10: to kind of maybe try to keep hope alive as
Speaker 10: long as possible and keep pulled out hope that you
Speaker 10: were gonna play last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, So it just started off as a springing ankle
Speaker 14: got rolled up on and uh at the Indie game
Speaker 14: and then uh, just some swelling came up at my
Speaker 14: knee and no one really knew what was going on.
Speaker 5: So we just wanted to swelling to go down.
Speaker 14: And then we got an MRI and uh we just
Speaker 14: you know, made made the best medical decision.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 14: Uh, I definitely could have played, but uh for the
Speaker 14: long run, you know, career wise, and just you know,
Speaker 14: for my best interest, teams best interest, you know, just
Speaker 14: go ahead and get it fixed so I could be
Speaker 14: back hundred percent like I am.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 8: Were there days when it was tough to keep your
Speaker 8: spirits up because I mean two years in a row.
Speaker 7: You you can't play the way that you know what
Speaker 7: you want to and kind of who helped you through that?
Speaker 5: Oh man, stay prayed up.
Speaker 14: I have a very strong family, you know, I have
Speaker 14: a good you know base around here, you know da
Speaker 14: fe It's like my brother beaks like my better So
Speaker 14: I live through them, you know, just them three things man,
Speaker 14: you know, God, family, friends like I really honed in
Speaker 14: on that. And of course the work man. You know,
Speaker 14: nothing comes easy, so I just put my head down
Speaker 14: to work. That's all I know. So you know, I'm
Speaker 14: right back.
Speaker 12: Talking a little bit about your work baby with Chuck
Speaker 12: Smith and deveuilding a pass rush plan.
Speaker 13: We saw a great spin move the other night. Maybe
Speaker 13: even take us through that and give us a little
Speaker 13: inside football.
Speaker 14: Yeah, man, Chuck Man, that's the guru. You know, he
Speaker 14: really knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 14: You know, everything he says comes to light, you know,
Speaker 14: regarding just moves to use, when.
Speaker 5: To use it, how to use it and all.
Speaker 14: We're all just good listeners honestly, you know, because you
Speaker 14: know he will look over to my on the sideline,
Speaker 14: you know, in practice, and he'll really walk us through
Speaker 14: a move to do on the sideline we execute, it
Speaker 14: ends up working, you know, so you know it's just
Speaker 14: a testament to him and uh his knowledge and he
Speaker 14: passes it down to all of us, and uh it's working.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 13: It maybe any keys you work off on that spin
Speaker 13: move specifically that you're you're looking for the opponent to
Speaker 13: do something before you.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I just edge edge.
Speaker 14: We I was working on edge a lot, and uh
Speaker 14: got a good get off pressure on the left side.
Speaker 14: So I knew, you know, first down I seen they
Speaker 14: were in a past stance, so I know in his
Speaker 14: mind he's thinking that he just got beat on the edge.
Speaker 14: So as soon as I seen him jump up, you know,
Speaker 14: just get him over.
Speaker 9: What when you're going through this process to get back
Speaker 9: out here, what when did you feel like you your
Speaker 9: old self, I guess, or have your Yeah, I.
Speaker 14: Guess yeah, yeah yeah. So uh you just shout out
Speaker 14: to the doctors.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 14: In terms of like the ramp up, you know, there's
Speaker 14: definitely a slow ramp up leading up to you know,
Speaker 14: playing my debut game back, and uh yeah, every stage
Speaker 14: of the way I felt as I was supposed to,
Speaker 14: you know, and uh, like I said, man, just shout
Speaker 14: out to the doctors. And the training staff man they
Speaker 14: got me right, yes, man.
Speaker 8: Projection for you to play in the first preseason game,
Speaker 8: was that kind of what you were hoping? Or did
Speaker 8: you get news that more medically cleared? And is that
Speaker 8: part of the process initially?
Speaker 14: Uh, you got to ask the doctor, my surgeon all that,
Speaker 14: you know.
Speaker 5: They I just do as.
Speaker 14: I'm told, And uh, they had a plan in place.
Speaker 14: I know that for sure. And I was clear for
Speaker 14: the second game and I went on and did my thing.
Speaker 4: We talked about making the decision that the best and
Speaker 4: the best interested team and up yourself to go ahead
Speaker 4: and have the surgery last year. How hard of a
Speaker 4: deliberation was that for you personally, considering you'd already missed
Speaker 4: your year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, it was tough.
Speaker 14: You know, Like I said, that's what I do for
Speaker 14: a living, so to to not be able to do that,
Speaker 14: you know, and kind of being out of your control.
Speaker 14: You know, that's why you just lean on God, Dean,
Speaker 14: on your family, you know, people around you, and just
Speaker 14: know that everything will work out for good.
Speaker 10: Even though you know it's been a long two years
Speaker 10: of recovery. Ravens people getting the roster, I mean, they
Speaker 10: still have a lot riding on you being very successful
Speaker 10: this year? What does it mean to you that the
Speaker 10: team keeps the expectations high for your performance?
Speaker 5: And man, it's no better feeling than that.
Speaker 14: You know, we all want to be you know, feel
Speaker 14: like we're special, feel like you know, we're dependent on
Speaker 14: and you know it's on me to put into work
Speaker 14: to make that you know, vision come to life. So
Speaker 14: it's a blessing man. You know, everybody wants to be wanted,
Speaker 14: you know, and to know that this team wants me
Speaker 14: and wants me to be successful, you know, it's a
Speaker 14: blessing man.
Speaker 10: Think but obviously you have a lot of confidence in yourself,
Speaker 10: but knowing how hard you work to get back, how.
Speaker 12: Much did you need to see tangible results from all
Speaker 12: that hard work like you did on Saturday?
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I mean that's I just can trou why
Speaker 5: I can.
Speaker 14: You know, the way I practice very hard, you know,
Speaker 14: the way I study very hard, I expect it to
Speaker 14: translate to the field. So you know, I just, uh,
Speaker 14: what I can't control is you know, the the the
Speaker 14: practice field. You know, I go out there do my
Speaker 14: thing and then come game there just let it loose
Speaker 14: and the results wo be data do.
Speaker 7: You see almost any national what prediction of what the
Speaker 7: Ravens are gonna be like this year? They have strengths
Speaker 7: and weaknesses.
Speaker 3: Most will say pass rush.
Speaker 7: That's a question marks.
Speaker 3: What's your reaction to that?
Speaker 14: M man? I'm I'm focused on the Ravens, you know,
Speaker 14: and just what we got in here. There's a lot
Speaker 14: of noise outside that I can't control, you know, cause
Speaker 14: Harbaugh can't control, you know, so to whoever said that
Speaker 14: in that's their opinion.
Speaker 5: You know, we just control.
Speaker 14: We can work hard every day in practice and you
Speaker 14: know we'll take care of itself.
Speaker 10: They do what we wa We will watch your practice.
Speaker 4: It's obvious how much fun that you're having out on
Speaker 4: the practice field has Has the injuries impacted that? Did
Speaker 4: that give you a different appreciation of the game?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Man, honestly just kind of like I said, have my
Speaker 14: brothers like Dafa and Beaks and you know, trave like
Speaker 14: I was living through them. You know, I couldn't do myself,
Speaker 14: So I knew that when I came back. You know,
Speaker 14: I'm a cherish every moment. You know, you really never
Speaker 14: know when it's gonna be a last you know, uh
Speaker 14: testament to even Zo or coordinator. You know, he just
Speaker 14: had the year of his life. You know, you never
Speaker 14: know when it's gonna be a last snap, so just
Speaker 14: cherish every moment. You know, I'm in a very blessed
Speaker 14: position playing the NFL for one of the best organizations.
Speaker 14: So you're every dawn out here man just smiling through
Speaker 14: it and uh, just making my best day.
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