WEBVTT - Full Ravens 2023 Pre-Draft Press Conference 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.800 Welcome into Ravens Press Pass. Today, the Ravens held their 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.840 annual pre draft press conference with general manager Eric DaCosta, 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.360 head coach John Harbaugh, and Director of Player Personnel Joe Hortiz. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.400 The trio took a handful of questions about the wide 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.920 receiver position, the number of picks Baltimore has in this 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.800 year's draft, and of course, the cornerback draft class. As 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.920 we all know how much the Ravens love their dbs. Harbaugh, DaCosta, 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.040 and Ortiz spoke for about forty minutes. So with that, 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:38.040 here's today's Ravens pre draft press conference. First and foremost, 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.360 the Oils. I think open up at home this week, 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.000 right Tomorrow's week tomorrow, and Bruce Springsteen's gonna be here 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.920 on Friday night, so it's a big week. And I 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.680 didn't do the peloton today as well, so I'm won't 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:54.640 be sweating anyways. I think the offseason has had a 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.440 set of challenges in different ways, but we're excited about 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.880 where we are as a team. We're very happy that 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.319 we could bring back a bunch of players that were 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.080 with us last year. I think the Combine was a 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.800 really good week for us as well. Our coaches and 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.959 scouts are now canvassing the country, going to Pro Day's, 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.520 watching guys work out. We'll start our final set, well 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.720 our almost final set of draft meetings next week with 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:22.920 the coaches, first time the coaches have a chance to 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.880 talk about the players. The board will be basically set 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.560 probably next Friday or Saturday, with a few tweaks along 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.560 the way. We're excited. We see the draft there's a 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:38.560 great opportunity for us to get better as a team. 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.800 We've got five to five picks. We wish we had more. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.119 Our goal is probably to get more along the way 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.200 if we can, depending on how things fall. But we 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.760 see a great opportunity for us to add some quality 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:58.440 players and to be a better football team come September. Questions, 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:03.480 it's been a week, remark Develops having the trade of 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.760 the quest saying the body of the fans, I think 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.200 the rads have you had a chance to talk to 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.800 him since what was the conversation like? And you know 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.800 when the player asks to saying he wants to be traded, 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.920 what's your confidence level of him being able to be 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.720 in being playing this year with the Raiders? Yeah, so 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.679 those are you know, I understand the need to ask 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.880 those kind of questions, I think just out of respect 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.320 for the process. This is a draft launching and we're 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.120 gonna try to keep u as much of this discussion 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.720 as we can to the draft to the coming weeks 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.280 building the best football team we can build. UM. So 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.200 I understand those questions. I think we've spoken about this 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.880 situation probably five different times this spring in various different 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.280 press conferences and such. So we're gonna try to just 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.440 kind of defer to those questions and move forward to 0:02:50.480 --> 0:03:01.359 the draft. Like corners fast, I mean, that's twenty two, 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:11.240 you know, yeah, many it's a strong position. Probably four 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:12.960 or five guys that you look at and say, yeah, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:14.600 that's the first round type of guy. That's a first 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.239 round pick. Maybe six guys. So you know, us, we 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.440 have a history of draft in defense in the first round. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.639 We love corners. Our defense is really built to succeed 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:28.080 with a great, strong secondary. UM coach Arba loves big, physical, 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.200 press type guys. There's a lot of these type of 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:31.880 guys in the draft, so for us to look at that, 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.040 we think it's one of the most important positions on 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.200 your football team, and it's a position that we'll always 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.960 look at very closely of the draft and you're looking 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.320 at your area needs beyond cornerback, the very positions where 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.000 you see there's a lot of depth scenario where you're 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.040 want to go shopping. Yeah, man, I think the fans 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.840 will be happy. That's a strong receiver class, you know. Um, again, 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.160 we see a multitude of guys that can go in 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.920 the first couple of rounds. Um, it's a great opportunity 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.160 for us. I think offensive line is a strong position 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.880 this year. Some defensive lineman that we like as well, 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.000 So you know, we think it kind of shapes up 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.440 nicely based on our needs. Of course, you have to 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.840 have a little luck on draft day, but we see 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.640 a lot of players that make us a better football 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:20.120 team at those positions for sure. Conspecting that this is 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.880 about the draft, but also spec the fact that a 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.320 lot of what you guys will be doing in the 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:30.599 draft could hinge on what happened over the next weeks 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.679 with Lamar and potential offer seat. What's the I guess 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:39.840 your stance or preferred I guess outcome over the next 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.480 few weeks before we come on where things stands with 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:46.400 themar Would you like to see kind of an outcome 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.760 before round one, or what's your guys outlook regarding where 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.520 he seems and where the organizations seems before the draft, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.640 something kind of fin us. Yeah, I mean, I think 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.360 the things that we control are really getting the list, 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.200 the draft board set, evaluating the players as best as possible, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.320 being aware of the players the free agents that are 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.839 available now post draft, who are the players that we 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.080 might have a chance to bring in post draft that 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:13.800 could make us a better football team as well, And 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.520 then doing the best job we can in terms of 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.080 recruiting free agents. Our scouts do a phenomenal job of that. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:20.719 I think our coaches do a great job of that, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.840 and just putting ourselves in position to win draft weekend. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.440 Are you looking at quarterbacks differently because of the situation's plan? 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:30.640 You know, I don't think we really are. I mean, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.880 we go into every draft trying to take any kind 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.440 of bias out, any kind of need based situation out 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.080 of the draft equation. We really do try to build 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.320 a board that's really best player available, and that process 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.360 involves really nine months starting in you know, the you know, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.279 in early August, from our scouts go out on the 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.520 road and they generate the profile and the evaluation to 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.840 get as much information as possible. We then segue into 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.600 a set of meetings in December, and then we get 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.560 into the meetings in January and the All Star Games 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.080 and all those different things, really trying to assess this 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.919 player versus a player, and it's really just comparisons and 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.120 how these players stack up. Who do we think has 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:08.479 the best chance to come in and make us the 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.320 best football team. And so if that's a quarterback, if 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.839 that's a receiver or corner, an offensive tackle, we're gonna 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.400 look at that very strongly and make the best decision 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.240 we can, knowing that over time, we think building a 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.720 team best available player is the right way to go. 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:29.599 You will add, well, I think, Stan, we've done that 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.720 nine times in the last four years, so I think 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.200 the chances for us to be able to do it 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.039 are pretty decent. Of course, if we're in love with 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:38.920 somebody while we're on the clock, we're gonna make the pick. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.600 You know, we always have to gauge that, you know, 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.279 how strong do we feel about the prospect he's available 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.119 versus a chance to go back and get additional picks. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.839 And sometimes you get lucky in that there's a guy 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.640 that you might really want, you make the tough decision 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.800 to trade back and you can still get them. It 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.040 happens more than you think. Not all the time, though, 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.039 of course, So we have to look at that. We 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.680 have to look at the capital we can get by 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.000 trading back, and we'll make the best decision we can. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.320 John and Joe. When you have a coordinator change what 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.920 extra work goes in should be last whole months leading 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.080 up to the draft. No, you're not reinventing the wheel offensively, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.480 but maybe there are some trades, different points of emphasis 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.400 that you have now A feeding wouldn't have been the caseable. Yeah. Well, 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.680 the first thing we did in scouting, uh was we 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.440 got todt in there in the room and talked about 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.160 his offensive philosophy, the types of players he wants at 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.000 each position, and what he thought about our players and 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.080 the guys that are here, how they match, what he 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.840 can do. Who you know who fits his scheme, his system. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.360 The thing and talking to him that you love is 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.680 he's versatile and he's going to he's just getting players 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.880 and he'll make him work. So, um, that's exciting to 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.400 here's a scout. So now you just go out and 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.920 try to find the best players for the Ravens and 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.400 and see as we go through the process, through the 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.040 pro days, through the combine, through the workouts, and then 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.560 uh um next week in the meetings, if they fit 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:59.280 our scheme and can help us. What do you deem 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:05.840 this is your biggest need? Oh man? Uh you know, 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:07.600 I never want to go into a draft nicking where 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.880 that was said in any position. Of course, you know, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.640 we we see a lot of times. I mean, I 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.000 remember one year we thought we had a really strong 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:15.680 tight end room and then like in the span of 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.200 like a few days, we had a bunch of guys 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:18.480 that got hurt and we were trying to find tight 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.840 ends all year. Um. You know we saw that, you 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:23.800 know a few years ago at running back, you know, 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.000 with with j K and Gus in justice. So our 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:31.160 needs can change. I wouldn't want to, you know, pigeonhole 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.480 and one specific thing, but you know, in general, I think, 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.559 you know, secondary is always something that we can address. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.720 Offensive lines always something the defensive line that we should address. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.680 The receiver position, um, you know those positions where you 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.480 need multiple guys to play. Um, I think those open 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.200 important positions every single year to draft players. So that 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.640 you have a continuous depth in terms of when guys 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.920 get hurt, you can put guys in. And I think 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.240 last year, last year's team was a good example of that, 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.360 where we had depth on the offensive line and in 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.120 the secondary to be able to withstand some injuries. And 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:12.480 our goal is to always be in that position. And 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.760 you said you be able to add more. But how 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.160 does that affect your strategy killing me into the drafts? 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.439 Which is you know you had much more of that. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:24.959 I was justifect the strategy into the drafts. Uh, well, 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.080 you know, like last year, you know, my strategy was 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:29.960 I had to watch as many guys as I could 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.600 because we had so many picks. UM. I still want 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.880 to watch as many guys as I can, but I 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:40.200 don't feel the tremendous anxiety knowing that we have six 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.960 fourth round picks. UM. Our goal would be to add 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.000 picks if we can. At some point in saying that, 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.000 I think it's important to note that we've had a 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.559 lot of picks over the last four or five years, 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:58.000 and you get to a point where maybe having too 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.400 many picks isn't necessarily the right thing. In any given year, 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.200 you almost have to have a purge at some point 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.600 because you have all these young players on the team 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.680 and they can't all make the team if you have 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.880 just keep stacking these huge, massive draft classes. So I 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.800 wouldn't say that it was intentional this year. But for 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.360 us like to say that our second round pick was 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:21.199 Roquan Smith, I'm pretty happy with that, you know, um, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.120 you know, i'd like to get you know, if we 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.960 had five picks this year, if we only have five 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.160 picks this year, I'd like to get back to nine 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.880 or ten picks next year for sure. But having a 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.280 smaller amount of picks this year, based on what we've 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.960 done in eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, that's 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:51.200 not necessarily the worst thing. I wouldn't say we've necessarily 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.360 done that, Vinie. We kind of treat the prote is 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.680 kind of the same. UM. We always canvas, We always 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.480 send a lot of guys out. We always try to 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.720 have um a position coach at almost every pro day. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.400 You can't always get that done with all the offseason 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.360 stuff they're doing. We'll have an area scout in some 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.120 cases an area scout, a director possibly and also a 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.440 potentially a coordinator, a position coach, whatever that might be 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.720 we try to get as much coverage as possible. The 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.560 other thing it's changed so much over the years is, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.240 you know, we get all the prods on digitized now, 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:27.920 so we have all the pro days. We get all 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:32.280 the pro days within twenty four hours. Event. Basically you 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.800 don't get the hands on personal attention that you might 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.720 get at the school visit, but you do get the 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.760 video on tape. You get a chance to assess that 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.079 as well, so it's not like it was maybe ten 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.000 or fifteen years ago when you didn't have access to 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.640 that stuff. Yeah, there's so much attention about the wide 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:51.400 receiver position as there always seems to be around character 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.240 that basically benefit in this offense. You're trying to build 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.839 what in particular you're looking for in terms of the 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.800 wide receiver you can break in. Well, I think you 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.120 look at the big picture. It's a great question. There's 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.080 there's a lot of guys that we like, right Eric, 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.280 I mean, in really every round, I think there's there 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.880 are guys that can make our team. In the early rounds, 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.840 there are a number of guys that could start for us. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.880 You know, even so you start with that, then it's okay, 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.160 who fits us? You know, in terms of what Todd's 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.199 looking for, how we're building the offense, terms of the 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.720 guys you already have. So I would say that, you know, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:26.040 between Eric and Joe, myself, Todd, Greg Lewis, you know, 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.480 all the scouts. Really you start saying, Okay, which guys 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.760 do we really like for what we're trying to do 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.240 for our room, and who compliment the other guys in 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.240 the room, and you know that's uh, those are names, 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.600 you know, so probably not sharing those with you guys 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.120 right now, but we have those names you know, already 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.840 targeted and we'll probably finalize that next week. In terms 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.600 of the guys that we'll be looking at, we feel 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.920 fit of the best and hopefully hopefully we get one 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.480 of those guys. But that being said, you never know. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.000 You know, you might up somehow you find a guy 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.080 that falls your way and you really wasn't one of 0:12:58.080 --> 0:12:59.199 the names that you thought was going to be a 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.640 great fitting term to be a great player. So as 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.520 long as we've got you know, enough players, I think 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.520 we do to get guys that can help us and 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:11.559 we'll be in good shape. What's your ID say? It's 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.480 pretty strong up top? Um, you know those four guys 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:18.000 are best being listed in the moss going high. They're 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:22.200 all talented and good in their own rights. Um. You know, 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:27.280 if you break them down, you know Bryce is extremely accurate, cerebral, intelligent, winner. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.640 They're all winners, actually, every one of them. So it 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.520 was what you love, um, and then uh, you know, 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:38.240 Richardson's got just raw physical talent, strong arm, athletic, big, physical, 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.760 tough UM. Probably the least experience of the four of them, 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.960 but you know, has a chance to really blossom and develop. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:50.400 Will is again a physical, strong guy with a lead arm, 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.840 and has gone through two different offenses the past two years, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.080 so he's adjusted to players changing around him. His whole 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.839 offensive line was revamped. And then CJ. You know, he's 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.599 just matured and grown and gotten better and better. It 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.600 played his best game, his last game of his career, 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.080 I thought, and uh, really accurate, has a great feel 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:13.199 for the field, um, and showed off his athleticism certainly 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:17.440 in that Georgia game. One of your things was watching 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.840 the cornerbacks. I think that was one of Eric's things 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:25.680 that he was watching huffily of the joy Porter Junior, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.200 What would be kind of that be? Like? Considering the 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.440 history of the Ravens with his father. I mean, seeing 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.280 Enjoy Porter's senior Ravens fan, I think that'd be that'd 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.720 be great for all of us, but all Enjoy. Of 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.440 course he would you for your family first, man, I'm 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.280 gonna get mc call and I'm gonna find out, you know, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.160 but because it would be good to do. I know 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:48.440 for me, it's family first. But Joey Porter Junior is 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.160 a heck of a player, you know. And it's not 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:51.760 just him. I mean there's a lot of good corners, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.840 like Eric said, guys that would be excited about. But 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:55.720 this this dude knows how to play. I mean, I 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.720 love the way he plays his style. Um, yeah, he's 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.040 he's the Joey Porter's senior, your version in a dB 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.200 for him. You know, he's got got a great mentality. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:11.360 So we'll see what happens. So quarterback, because of the combine, like, oh, 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.440 we got combined work out believal. Now it comes to 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:18.120 the super sofa. You want to hear that quarterbacks? Is 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:23.040 that different to see because the physical things he did? Yeah, gosh, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.160 it's so hard because like we go to the combine 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.040 and we know what he already is a lot of 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.120 times um. So I don't think any of the scouts 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.680 were surprised that Richardson ran fast and looked away Dick, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.840 because we go through the school and you watch the 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.200 LSU game. You see him take off on the seventy 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.200 five yard run and nobody catch him. So it's really 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.280 not surprising. I think it's just so impressive and you know, 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.240 awesome to see it. That was physical trays on display, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.280 so he gets the buzz um. You know, I think 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.600 a lot of scouts throughout the league looked at Richardson 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.240 as a first round talent, So I don't think he 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.360 really jumped up in our eyes. I think it's just 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.640 the display he put on was impressive. You're listening to 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.280 Ravens Press Pass. Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.080 if you haven't already. Now let's get you back to 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:13.520 the rest of the pre draft press conference. You select 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.200 the data the JOBO last year with just one year 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:21.359 old starting experience. How difficult is it's pruge future performance 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:25.280 in the NFL Anthony Ridginson for example, for a player 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:29.000 in college that hasn't limited playtime. Yeah, it's good question. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.160 Factor that in for sure. It's hard, you know, production 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:37.040 is really important. I think production is a great predictor 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.840 of future success, but it's always talent, and so that's 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.720 what we have to try to do. In some cases, 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.520 you may have a very small sample size with some guys, 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.280 you know, years and years and years and years ago. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.760 I remember god named Ziggyanza came out and he was 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.680 basically he had one year and he might have had 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.480 I think, well, I don't know how many sacks he had, 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.240 but you could just see the talent. But he had 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.120 to you know, there wasn't a lot of history. Um, 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:04.960 there was a lot of questions about them. You just 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.600 didn't know much about him. Those guys are challenging to 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:11.000 evaluate in many different ways. I think good scouts UH 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.639 can can really help the process when it comes to that. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.040 And I think we're blessed here to have the continuity 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.160 on staff with our scouts UM to be able to 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.600 settle some of those debates, some of those questions about 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.840 you know, one year of production, injuries and things like that. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.280 But that's that's that's a challenging aspect of our business, 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.520 I think. And sometimes you're gonna make mistakes. I mean, 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.720 let's not forget now, this is a business that you know, 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.639 if you can go seventy five percent, it's pretty good. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:42.119 I would say you're gonna you're betting on people. Sometimes 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.600 you don't have all the answers, and uh so it's 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:46.640 a challenge associate. Obviously, if you have a guy that's 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:51.119 a four year starter in a in an sec uh, 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:52.880 you know, you have a lot to go on. When 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:54.240 you have a one year starter or you have a 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.760 small school guy, you have a guy that's injured, that 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:04.840 makes that conversation a lot more difficult. In January said 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:09.439 John had any interesting in rebuild? I guess class what 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:13.520 it is you can come in and be offestional in 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:17.200 BacT out of your want You said the quarterback? Is 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.840 that what you said? Uh? Well, I mean I think 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.080 that you know, I don't want to insult anybody in 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.080 the draft, Um, but you know, I would say there's 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:30.639 probably more than four guys that can that can be 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.880 significant quarterbacks in this league in this draft class. Um, 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.400 you know, there's forget about where they might get big 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.399 more than four. But I mean, i'm you know what, 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.280 am I gonna say seven to eight? Whatever it is? 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.520 But the fact is that we think that you can 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.240 get a quarterback in the first round or the third 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.159 round or the fourth round, who have a chance to 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:56.560 develop and uh, you know, go back to uh Tyrod Taylor. 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:58.320 I don't know when we drafted him. Is that the 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:02.480 fifth round, sixth round, whatever it was, years and years 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.840 and years ago. Derek Anderson took him in with the 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.280 six or seventh, right, So you can get good quarterbacks 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:10.960 that you saw what the Niners did last year with 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:15.359 brock Party. It's quite possible to get a good quarterback 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:19.800 at any point in the draft. Obviously the Goat, as 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.360 my son would say, Tom Brady was a six round pick, 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:24.440 so they were all over the place in the draft. 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.720 You have to have good scouts, you've got to have conviction, 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:28.800 and in some cases you got to get lucky too, 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:35.120 back in the first round. Consolation, it depends on the board, Jamison, 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.320 really does. I mean, I'd have to say yes because 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.800 we have quarterbacks in our top thirty one. So just 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.240 based on that alone, simple math, I would have to 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:48.080 say yes. Away from the deadline, it says, say, if 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.840 you'll be picking out half off, Yeah, that'll be a 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.479 discussion we'll have with Patrick. Wouldn't want to announce anything 0:19:54.520 --> 0:20:01.359 too premature. With all you guys been here, how much 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:10.639 different reception with boss is doing and you would have 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.600 been twelve years ago. Yeah, I would just say that 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.720 jen joking comment, But I think coach has done a 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:20.640 remarkable job out and talent. You know, every year they've 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:22.959 got a number of guys that can play at our 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.600 level and play very very well at our level. So 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.440 I think that speaks to the job he's really done 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.840 down there. Yeah. Yeah, he's just having seen him over 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.760 the years and watched him where he's been, He's always 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.879 been a great evaluator of talent and recruiter. Tom has 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.879 always produced players at the schools he's been at, and 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.879 so he's done a great job building that program and 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:46.919 adding really you know NFL talent to the roster. And 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.720 Maryland's you know, always put out some good players, but 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.200 it seems like the group has grown as as he's 0:20:52.200 --> 0:21:02.000 been there. You know, Google, you don't all that, you 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:08.240 know all he didn't, Yeah, exactly right. It's probably an 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.600 interesting point. Uh, he's uh, he's actually worked with a 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.600 number of these guys already, you know, just professionally as 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.920 as a as a pass rush trainer, so he knows 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:19.600 the personalities. That's an advantage for us. We have a 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:21.840