Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. Today is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: June thirteenth, and it was the first day of the
Speaker 1: Ravens Mandatory Mini camp. The Ravens got out there on
Speaker 1: the practice field today and we also had a chance
Speaker 1: to hear from head coach John Harbaugh and some key players,
Speaker 1: including wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior and defensive lineman Justin Mattabique.
Speaker 1: They talked with reporters before practice today and let's kick
Speaker 1: it off with head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: With Adel being here, what do you kind of expect
Speaker 2: those boys on his level space new times right?
Speaker 3: Well, you know he's going to be full go in
Speaker 3: terms of health and all that. But I also expect
Speaker 3: us to ramp up a lot of our guys. You know,
Speaker 3: we're going to see where guys are at. We're not
Speaker 3: going to be in a hurry to throw guys out
Speaker 3: there too much, too many reps. We want to get
Speaker 3: a feel for everything he's learning in the offense for
Speaker 3: the first time, just like a lot of guys have been.
Speaker 3: So I think it will be a kind of a
Speaker 3: see as we go go through individual, take a few
Speaker 3: reps and group and team and see how he and
Speaker 3: the other guys feel and we'll go from there.
Speaker 4: Tom, we saw going LCAs that Bit was doing individual
Speaker 4: and working up to the side of you expecting him.
Speaker 3: To be a part of the words, not expecting Bait
Speaker 3: to be a part of it. Right now. He had
Speaker 3: a shot, you know, for healing purposes, courtazone type deal,
Speaker 3: so that'll keep him out for a couple of days.
Speaker 3: So we just decided to just let him keep rehabbing
Speaker 3: and make sure he's ready to go for training camp.
Speaker 2: Coach taking Dolbin's being here, how do you see the
Speaker 2: potential of bringing the beds out of him under the
Speaker 2: Monkeys offense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great point. I think that is something
Speaker 3: that JK is excited about, Todd's excited about, we all are.
Speaker 3: It's going to be interesting how he fits in because
Speaker 3: Jk's got a lot of dynamic ability, you know, backfield motion,
Speaker 3: wide plays, inside plays, even the a gap plays that
Speaker 3: we've always run as a receiver on the back foot.
Speaker 3: I think he's got a lot of potential. So I'm
Speaker 3: very excited about JK and how he's going to fit in.
Speaker 4: Here's definitely go for a second.
Speaker 2: The heights of restarts and receive him coming back after
Speaker 2: you know, almost two years off. You know, just that
Speaker 2: is that add juice to the room, Is that add
Speaker 2: used to going on the field.
Speaker 3: For that well, I mean, you love great players and
Speaker 3: great people and guys who love football, you know. And
Speaker 3: the one thing I've seen about Odell, like all of
Speaker 3: our guys, is he loves football. And the other thing
Speaker 3: that we like his guys who want to be here,
Speaker 3: and he's very excited to be here. He wants to
Speaker 3: be here. So that combination is good. You know, any
Speaker 3: any football coach loves that. But he's a He's a
Speaker 3: highly decorated player, without question, has been in all the
Speaker 3: big battles, you know, over the years, he's he's worked
Speaker 3: really hard to get himself back to this point where
Speaker 3: he's you know, he's excited to go and he's I'm
Speaker 3: sure he's a little anxious and you know, anticipating getting
Speaker 3: back on the field for the first time. So you know,
Speaker 3: we're not going to go crazy out here, but I
Speaker 3: think it's a good first step for him. And of
Speaker 3: course we're excited that he's here. We're excited that all
Speaker 3: of our guys are here.
Speaker 2: You're ty Rosport, the camp yes, you know, Michael Pierce
Speaker 2: is someone you've seen throughout the spray, the football school,
Speaker 2: OTAs everything. You can put him back and we get
Speaker 2: to the hold if you booked, and what are your
Speaker 2: expectations for him considering you didn't have.
Speaker 3: Him very long last year before get right exactly, Michael
Speaker 3: Pierce has looked great. He's been here every day, He's
Speaker 3: worked extremely hard, moving very well. Think he's very determined,
Speaker 3: you know. I mean Michael was on a trajectory and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden had a couple of injuries
Speaker 3: that sidetracked him the last few years. So I think
Speaker 3: he's very determined to kind of get back on track
Speaker 3: that way and have high expectations for him.
Speaker 2: What about Man d k coach, We're gonna be talking
Speaker 2: to him later.
Speaker 5: What are you looking for him? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I expect him to take off, you know, even to
Speaker 3: just really and I say take off, but kind of
Speaker 3: continue on the same track, take the next step as
Speaker 3: a player. I think he's gonna have a great year.
Speaker 6: John.
Speaker 4: I know it may not be two competition mode just yet,
Speaker 4: but he put the wide receivering room. It looks like
Speaker 4: this may be probably the most competitive one you've had
Speaker 4: in camp in a while, and are you excited just
Speaker 4: about the competition within that position.
Speaker 3: Where Yeah, I was looking at picture. Uh, actually it
Speaker 3: was in my basement.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Above I got this pool table. It's one of those
Speaker 3: old like pool room pool tables. You know, you got
Speaker 3: to put the coin in it, except now you don't
Speaker 3: have to put the coin in it, right, but you
Speaker 3: still gott to push the button. And above that is
Speaker 3: a picture of this. Jacobi Tory, Steve Smith are in
Speaker 3: there and we're like doing something to practice.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I thought that was a good group, right. This group
Speaker 3: rivals that group, you know, and it might be the
Speaker 3: best we'll see. I mean, that's up to that's up
Speaker 3: to them to determine that. But I'm very excited about
Speaker 3: those guys.
Speaker 2: A lot of stories over the last few months about
Speaker 2: guys around the league being investigated for gambling. Just just curious.
Speaker 2: What do you guys do to make sure that your
Speaker 2: players know what they can do and what they can
Speaker 2: do And doesn't worry you ever that maybe there are
Speaker 2: a few confusing points in there. It's hard for guys
Speaker 2: to know exactly.
Speaker 3: It does concern you that, you know, it's not always
Speaker 3: too clear. I mean, the clearest thing would be just
Speaker 3: stay away from it. But you know, guys are gonna
Speaker 3: be on vacation and they may they may play black
Speaker 3: jack or whatever. There is nothing wrong with that if
Speaker 3: they do that, if that's what they do. But it
Speaker 3: is very clear in terms of sports gambling, in terms
Speaker 3: of where you can be during the season, those kinds
Speaker 3: of things, in terms of not betting on football, you know, period,
Speaker 3: end of story. Uh, that's pretty darn clear. So I
Speaker 3: don't think it's that hard to figure out.
Speaker 5: Really.
Speaker 3: If you if you want to push it, then you're
Speaker 3: probably doing yourself a disservice, putting yourself at risk. And
Speaker 3: if you have any questions, you should ask before you
Speaker 3: get into anything. Right, So, I think the rules are
Speaker 3: fair and smart and good. And we spent a lot
Speaker 3: of time yesterday talking about it with the guys. Even
Speaker 3: Eric came down and talk to the guys about it.
Speaker 3: So our guys should understand what's going on talking about
Speaker 3: that specifically, talking about gambling specifically.
Speaker 5: Right, I think, is there anyone else that you would
Speaker 5: have for today, just.
Speaker 3: As you wish? Not that I can think of off
Speaker 3: the top of my head, but I'm probably forgetting somebody.
Speaker 3: If want to give me a name, I'll remember the
Speaker 3: guys though. Peppe's out, Jalen is going to do a
Speaker 3: CT and some individual Pepe he's gonna be out probably
Speaker 3: maybe even he tells me he's gonna be back to
Speaker 3: start training camp.
Speaker 5: We'll see.
Speaker 3: That's where he's at with his process.
Speaker 5: John Dell, you know, he does still kind of needed
Speaker 5: everything here in it. That's gonna be kind of your impression,
Speaker 5: because I mean everyone kind.
Speaker 7: Of has this these thoughts of Odell and they won't
Speaker 7: see him and think there's a certain image.
Speaker 5: What's kind of the in your impression of him.
Speaker 3: My impression of Odell Beckham has been nothing, but I
Speaker 3: love the guy. I mean, he's a pro. He's a
Speaker 3: he's a He's what you would expect from a world
Speaker 3: class athlete. It's a highly competitive guy. He wants to
Speaker 3: play at the highest level, on only the highest level.
Speaker 3: He's not interested in not playing and performing at the
Speaker 3: very highest level. From everything I've heard, he's a he's
Speaker 3: a big time practice player. Uh, everything I've seen, he's
Speaker 3: a big time trained, train himself guy. You know, workout guy,
Speaker 3: get ready to play. So you know, those are the
Speaker 3: things that you always respecting. I don't think you can
Speaker 3: perform at the level he's performed at or some of
Speaker 3: the guys. I think back to, uh trell Owens for instance.
Speaker 3: You know, we had him in Philadelphia. He came in
Speaker 3: all the hype and all this things. From the person
Speaker 3: I standpoint, nobody worked harder at practice, nobody worked hard
Speaker 3: in the weight room. The guy came to special teams meetings.
Speaker 3: I mean, he was into football, you know, so to
Speaker 3: be those kind of guys reached that level for a reason.
Speaker 3: And you know, he's in a place in his career
Speaker 3: where I think he feels like he has a lot
Speaker 3: to prove at this point, and I think he feels
Speaker 3: like he's gonna be the healthiest he's been in a
Speaker 3: few years. So let's go Jonavan.
Speaker 2: He said that you were getting sort of updates on
Speaker 2: the Hodell's training and he was out in what Arizona?
Speaker 5: Uh you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Was there anything about discuss just going to pop it
Speaker 2: out to you or anything that you saw that's like
Speaker 2: a man getting this guy or what does this he
Speaker 2: goes hard?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Not really. I mean it's hard to watch a video
Speaker 3: and see too much, but I trust him and I'm
Speaker 3: sure he's ready to go.
Speaker 2: Enough with the competition to ways, is the right, left,
Speaker 2: the bar is or any other position into the roles,
Speaker 2: and he kind of focused on the conceivingly with the competition.
Speaker 3: Leading in the main Toordan account, of course, I mean
Speaker 3: every position you focus on, and every position's got a
Speaker 3: different kind of a priority list to it. But you know,
Speaker 3: we'll be looking at the in the secondary. We'll be
Speaker 3: looking to kind of firm up our different roles back there, corner,
Speaker 3: inside and outside. That'll be something that'll be important our
Speaker 3: outside backers, you know young kind of plug those guys
Speaker 3: into their spots, see how they emerge. D Line certainly,
Speaker 3: you know what the rotations are gonna be. Offensive line
Speaker 3: you talked about already.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 6: You're excited about seeing how Lamar takes on a new
Speaker 6: freedom of calling plays at the line. Are changing plays
Speaker 6: and do that? Hobviously you trust him to do that.
Speaker 3: How do his responsibilities change and does his preparation change as.
Speaker 5: He takes on that? What might be more responsible?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean Lamar is always prepared really hard, like
Speaker 3: like like everybody. I mean, but it's it's gonna be
Speaker 3: a different type of preparation because it's gonna be different
Speaker 3: things he's gonna be responsible to be looking at. You know,
Speaker 3: it'll be a different different lens he's gonna be looking through.
Speaker 3: So in terms of the way the offense has been built,
Speaker 3: every offense is built a little differently, so he's looking
Speaker 3: at certain things that he'll be looking that he wasn't
Speaker 3: looking at before in a certain way. The way it's worded,
Speaker 3: the way Todd teaches it, the way the offensive coaches
Speaker 3: have put it together, will be his perspective on it.
Speaker 3: So I think he'll study differently. I do think it's
Speaker 3: gonna fit Lamar. I've told him that. We had a
Speaker 3: great talk about it yesterday. I think it's going to
Speaker 3: fit the way he sees the game really well, that's
Speaker 3: the hope. He feels that way right now. So now
Speaker 3: we just got to get to work and I'll let
Speaker 3: it rip and see what happens. Ye well, set great,
Speaker 3: Thank you guys.
Speaker 1: We also talked with wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior. He
Speaker 1: arrived in Baltimore this week from mandatory mini camp, and
Speaker 1: Odell was the big free agent acquisition for the team
Speaker 1: this offseason. He is going to be a key piece
Speaker 1: of this offense, and it was good to hear from him.
Speaker 1: And here's what he had to say in talking with reporters.
Speaker 3: First impressions, Odell be in here, not.
Speaker 5: Really the first, but you know, just happy to be
Speaker 5: back in the bill. Been away from the game a
Speaker 5: little bit of time, so it just feels good to
Speaker 5: finally be back here and you know, get things going.
Speaker 2: Well this practice field. I mean you've had a lot
Speaker 2: of practices in your choreatia. Uh will this practice be
Speaker 2: any different just because it's been a while since, you know, dead.
Speaker 5: The injury in this bowl be an apple on the field,
Speaker 5: I don't necessarily know.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 5: Just coming here with the mindset, you know, we're all
Speaker 5: professionals and just get back to having fun. You know,
Speaker 5: learn to playbook. You know, it's a lot there's still
Speaker 5: a lot of you know, things to do. So I
Speaker 5: think the focus is just you know, have fun, you know,
Speaker 5: stay locked in and be a pro.
Speaker 2: Hell, can you can you even develop some kind of
Speaker 2: chemistry this week doing what you're doing?
Speaker 4: What what are your goals in this mini camp?
Speaker 2: What do you want to get accomplished?
Speaker 5: Uh? I mean, you know, chemistry is is gonna develop
Speaker 5: over time, I think, Uh, I know, I'll be down
Speaker 5: in Florida trading with them. So Webplant is it's not
Speaker 5: something that you know, I'm worried about. You know, the
Speaker 5: most important thing is getting ready for a season coming
Speaker 5: up in September, and that's when we play. I think
Speaker 5: just being here, being around the guys, you know, being
Speaker 5: around your your brothers. Uh, just getting to know people.
Speaker 5: And you know, like I said, just be a pro.
Speaker 5: You guys.
Speaker 1: With it yet so you guys already have plans and place.
Speaker 5: After this to Yeah, yeah, we been talked about it
Speaker 5: all off season. We're supposed to catch some time in Asy,
Speaker 5: catch some time in Miami. But it's something that you know,
Speaker 5: it's not really uh, I think.
Speaker 6: What do you put your participation level of practice?
Speaker 5: If you ever after few days? I mean I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm'ta have like a set play amount or a number
Speaker 5: that's in my head. I think it's just like I said,
Speaker 5: you come here, be a pro, You get your reps,
Speaker 5: get your work, you talk. You know, you don't have
Speaker 5: to always build chemistry so to say, by you know,
Speaker 5: taking reps. It could be you know, communication thing. How
Speaker 5: do you see it or uh? And then like I said,
Speaker 5: we have a whole off season or after this camp
Speaker 5: breaks to to really get it going.
Speaker 2: Posed to a real positive posted about your progress.
Speaker 5: Black Man's mother from your foot or if sheep me
Speaker 5: your knee? I'm sorry where I know you're focusing towards
Speaker 5: Week one?
Speaker 6: But where are you right now? Do you feel like
Speaker 6: to that elusive A hundred percent?
Speaker 5: Uh? I mean I don't know, I've a I've been
Speaker 5: asked this question all my career and I've never given
Speaker 5: a percent of number, cause then it you know, you
Speaker 5: say you're a hundred and then y, it just is
Speaker 5: not really a good question set up for me. So
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm where I'm at right now. Uh, it's
Speaker 5: still in my process and just trying to gear up
Speaker 5: and get ready for a week one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's safe to say that you feel good about where.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I feel good. It's it feels good to
Speaker 5: be able to get out of bed and not feel
Speaker 5: you know, pain. It feels good to feel like if
Speaker 5: I need to take off running right now, I could
Speaker 5: take off running, you know it. It it's it's been
Speaker 5: a a long journey this time around, and it was
Speaker 5: its own process, so I just had to take that
Speaker 5: for what it was.
Speaker 4: Oh damn, what's your familiarity with this offense? I know
Speaker 4: you've had a history with Tom markin. Is it a
Speaker 4: lot of similarities from the last time.
Speaker 5: You were with him? Yeah, I mean I was, it
Speaker 5: was a while ago, but it's all the same. Like
Speaker 5: football is all different verbage and languages. It was a
Speaker 5: foreign language. You just you know, readjusting to different words,
Speaker 5: but you know, conceptually there's a lot of things where
Speaker 5: you know, it might have been called here over there
Speaker 5: and it's called this over here. So just you know,
Speaker 5: familiarizing myself with the the offense to playbook everything. Like
Speaker 5: I said, the most important thing for me was just
Speaker 5: getting back to being healthy and the rest will always
Speaker 5: take care of yourself.
Speaker 1: You're how did a jersey get on the field today?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 6: Is that m emotional? Is that meaningful?
Speaker 5: I think it is. I think I I've been trying
Speaker 5: to you know, not think about it uh so much
Speaker 5: because there's been so many disappointments, and I just I've
Speaker 5: been in a good mental s mental headspace to where
Speaker 5: I've tried to downplay this, but I definitely think that
Speaker 5: I'll be excited to be able to put a Jersey
Speaker 5: On and you know, go out and and do the
Speaker 5: thing that you've done your whole life and uh what
Speaker 5: you love to do. So I'm excited about that.
Speaker 7: In Arizona for all of the teams, where would you say, like,
Speaker 7: when you you know, when you're doing all your you know,
Speaker 7: your routes and all that other stuff, are you thinking
Speaker 7: about your speed?
Speaker 4: Where do you think you.
Speaker 7: Are now at this point and where you w what
Speaker 7: you were trying to.
Speaker 6: Build to compared to when you were in Arizona.
Speaker 5: We're doing that.
Speaker 2: Workout for all those teams.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm definitely better. I got more time, you know.
Speaker 5: I it was feels like that was so long ago
Speaker 5: and I don't know exactly how far it was. But
Speaker 5: I feel good. Uh. Like I said, I don't have
Speaker 5: a number of a percentage or again, it's never really
Speaker 5: a a good answer for that cause it just feels
Speaker 5: like a set up, But uh, I feel good, feel healthy, speedwise,
Speaker 5: immunism definitely fast. Everything you're describing the getting acclimated here,
Speaker 5: you sound like, yeah, a great deal of patience for
Speaker 5: this process.
Speaker 6: How hard was that to kind of mentally.
Speaker 2: Build that patience given the last game we saw you
Speaker 2: and you were at the the sports highest level.
Speaker 5: Uh, it just was It's a process. You know, it's
Speaker 5: hard when you you get to the pinnacle of you know,
Speaker 5: the success in this sport and you felt like it
Speaker 5: was taken away from me. It wasn't something that was
Speaker 5: easy to live with. It was very hard to to
Speaker 5: go through that. And then you know, have surgery and
Speaker 5: your son be born four days after and just you know,
Speaker 5: so many mixed emotions uh uh that I've had to
Speaker 5: deal with over the years. But it kind of all
Speaker 5: gets put the rest, you know now, cause it's like
Speaker 5: you're here and I'm just excited about that opportunity and
Speaker 5: just trying to again keep gearing up to to when
Speaker 5: it's important, which is uh, you know, when you come
Speaker 5: back here at the end of July for camp and
Speaker 5: you're getting ready for the season, that's when it really matters.
Speaker 5: Not to say that anything else doesn't, but at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, you know, we could write all
Speaker 5: the stories in the world, but it it all comes
Speaker 5: down to what you do on the field during the season.
Speaker 5: How do you live back on the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you have the championship ring forever, but
Speaker 2: you know, the step back you describing how do you
Speaker 2: get back?
Speaker 5: It sucks, you know, there's no way around it. It's literally,
Speaker 5: you know, you've dreamed of you know, I've watched plenty
Speaker 5: of Super Bowls and finally it was, you know, my opportunity,
Speaker 5: and I was so locked in. I remember my mom
Speaker 5: and my people were like, I've never seen you, you know,
Speaker 5: like that before a game, and I would just I
Speaker 5: could just feel it that day when I woke up,
Speaker 5: I knew that I was probably gonna be the best
Speaker 5: person on the field. I had been feeling it all week.
Speaker 5: And it just sucks, you know, I didn't get to
Speaker 5: live out that moment. It's not for the Instagram posts
Speaker 5: or nothing like that, Like this is really something I've
Speaker 5: dedicated my entire life to this game and this sport
Speaker 5: and just wanted to have that moment. But I told
Speaker 5: my I think it was my pops. I said, you know,
Speaker 5: God that already came to me. And he said, if
Speaker 5: I win the next time, showfully this year, you get
Speaker 5: an opportunity. He said, I know the champagne was better,
Speaker 5: but we'll make sure that it's probably the best use
Speaker 5: of taste. And that's probably in my mind. That's just
Speaker 5: how I keep the perspective is that hopefully I'll get
Speaker 5: another opportunity to do that. And you know, life happens
Speaker 5: to you, so you just got to keep rolling with
Speaker 5: the flow of it.
Speaker 2: And we live and we learned talk about how excited
Speaker 2: are you being part of someone like Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's, you know, one of the reasons why
Speaker 5: I signed here. You know, I've watched him for years.
Speaker 5: I watch him when he was at Louisville. So I
Speaker 5: don't know who's faster, you know, I don't know that
Speaker 5: answer to that question, but he's definitely we all know,
Speaker 5: one of the most electrifying players that we've seen at
Speaker 5: that position. Uh And you know, one of my favorite
Speaker 5: players growing up, I'm sure he always used to get
Speaker 5: the comparison was Mike Vick and he just he just
Speaker 5: has that he has that it to him. And I
Speaker 5: think I remember being in New York Saquon Barkley and
Speaker 5: seeing another guy put on cleats and you just know,
Speaker 5: like they're special people. So I got to make sure
Speaker 5: I stay on my blocks and not get busy, you know,
Speaker 5: watching him when he's doing his things. Sometimes, you know,
Speaker 5: we all we all want to see it. But I,
Speaker 5: like I said, I'm excited about that opportunity. I think
Speaker 5: that was a lot of the reason why I signed
Speaker 5: la Moore.
Speaker 2: Said that in this offense that he feels he's gonna
Speaker 2: be throwing more than running than ever before as a passer.
Speaker 2: What what he pressed you about, Lamore?
Speaker 5: And and what do you think as far as his
Speaker 5: his ceiling as for as just throwing the ball. I
Speaker 5: mean again, that's you know, perception versus reality. Always talk
Speaker 5: to you about that. And he's plays quarterback. You know,
Speaker 5: he's been throwing the ball all his life. And to
Speaker 5: watch him, you know, catch up your pass from earlier today,
Speaker 5: he's got a strong long like it. It gets up
Speaker 5: pointing fast. So I'm just excited about that. I know
Speaker 5: he wants to throw the ball. You know, I'll tell
Speaker 5: you this, I'll I'll take ten passes over ten runs
Speaker 5: all the time. So I'm all for it. You know,
Speaker 5: if we're if we're gonna air it out, that's that's
Speaker 5: fine with me. But uh, it's definitely about winning games.
Speaker 5: So whatever that takes. You know, I've been from passing
Speaker 5: to always running the ball that I've been Uh, I've
Speaker 5: been in the mix of both uh. Also went to LSU.
Speaker 5: You know, nothing against them, We we ran the ball
Speaker 5: a lot, So I played a lot of football. I know,
Speaker 5: you know the the balance of both.
Speaker 6: But I've still a lot about uh the wide receiver
Speaker 6: talent level in this season.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: John, And you said, just be contend with some of the.
Speaker 1: Best that they've had to get the uh uh over
Speaker 1: their history.
Speaker 5: What does that mean when you think to you, what
Speaker 5: does it mean to you?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: I think I've just been you know, you guys come
Speaker 5: up to you and it's like, oh, I remember watching
Speaker 5: you in middle school and it's like, you know, you
Speaker 5: start to it, start to give you that make you
Speaker 5: feel old kind of thing. And I just I think
Speaker 5: I know what my role will be as far as
Speaker 5: you know, coming out and and being able to show
Speaker 5: it every day and being able to theed and also
Speaker 5: feel like a good leader has to be a good follower.
Speaker 5: So just being able to be there for these guys,
Speaker 5: you know, questions that you need that I might have
Speaker 5: questions myself. So just you know, we we're all here
Speaker 5: to learn. And I'm excited about that room. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of talent in that room. There's gonna be a
Speaker 5: lot of competition for spots, so you know, we just
Speaker 5: gotta we gotta all work and work together and it it.
Speaker 5: It's definitely got a good feel in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sailor and the Orioles hat you all saw you
Speaker 1: at the pretense it it seems that you're kind of
Speaker 1: embracing the city, but you're how excited are you to.
Speaker 5: Be part of this community? You know? It's just y,
Speaker 5: I've heard a lot of great things about it. You know.
Speaker 5: Jamal McLain and I played together for you know, the
Speaker 5: last year he played in the Giants, and he just
Speaker 5: was telling me, He's like, you'll love it. Uh, you'll
Speaker 5: love the city. Probably don't get me in trouble now,
Speaker 5: but I'm not to say that I'm Oris fan. You know,
Speaker 5: I got a team home, but I'm excited. I wanna
Speaker 5: go to wanna go to a game and and just
Speaker 5: check it out, check out the atmosphere. It's just fully
Speaker 5: embracing exactly where I'm at now and where my feet
Speaker 5: are at. And I think that's something that I've learned
Speaker 5: over this process, is just being president and staying in
Speaker 5: the moment. You talked about the room.
Speaker 2: Babeman obviously a younger receiver, is coming back from an injury.
Speaker 2: You have a lot of experience with that. If if
Speaker 2: you guys talked about that, do you do your wisdom
Speaker 2: to to give him on that?
Speaker 5: Do you feel like, yeah, I definitely do. I know
Speaker 5: that it's never easy, but each injury's you know, usually different,
Speaker 5: But it's just about helping each other out with the mentality.
Speaker 5: And you know, when you come back from being injured,
Speaker 5: there's always that little bit of fear that you have
Speaker 5: to get over. You know, it's you don't want it
Speaker 5: to happen again or whatever. So we haven't. We haven't
Speaker 5: you know, talked about it as much in the room,
Speaker 5: but he was trying to me at Exos and you know,
Speaker 5: we chopped it up about it. So I think he's
Speaker 5: head in the right direction. I think we're all gearing up,
Speaker 5: getting ready, you know for the season.
Speaker 6: How do you confront that fear that you just talked
Speaker 6: about that?
Speaker 5: You know, for me, it was the very first time.
Speaker 5: I just remember just you just there's no really way
Speaker 5: except for the dive in. You know, there's no way
Speaker 5: to uh to go through it except to do it.
Speaker 5: So it just was Now I feel like after having
Speaker 5: surgery for the first time, Like the second time it
Speaker 5: came around, there really was no fear because it's like
Speaker 5: I've already I've already n I already know what I've
Speaker 5: been through, So just gotta do it, I guess, you know.
Speaker 5: But it's just a mentality.
Speaker 7: What hell Father's day.
Speaker 5: Is coming up?
Speaker 4: What's been your favorite thing about being Dad?
Speaker 5: Every every moment just watching you know, for his daily
Speaker 5: development and uh but speaking more, you know, Dad giving
Speaker 5: you love, like it just it's crazy to see your
Speaker 5: little human you know, grow up in front of your eyes.
Speaker 5: And I love every minute, every second of it. He's
Speaker 5: here with me now, so it's like, you know, you
Speaker 5: can't wait to you know, not to be done with work,
Speaker 5: but you can't wait to like go see him and
Speaker 5: be with him and just spend those moments and just
Speaker 5: really uh cherishing value that time with him. Oh do
Speaker 5: I knew you wouldn't be back?
Speaker 2: Once you knew you confident you could be back to
Speaker 2: the level that you wanna play at.
Speaker 3: Where does that confidence that'll come from?
Speaker 2: Cause he has having that time off, I'm sure some
Speaker 2: people might have spects.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I've been doubted all my life, so
Speaker 5: that's really you know, for the other people to do
Speaker 5: when it's their own you know, that's the that's what
Speaker 5: they got going on. That's not what I got going on.
Speaker 5: But yeah, the time off just allowed me to grow
Speaker 5: and learn, you know, because when it first happened, I
Speaker 5: just wasn't in the best of place to even think
Speaker 5: about playing football again. After I just you know, did
Speaker 5: that and got back on the horse, and then it
Speaker 5: happens at the you know, the worst moment, and if
Speaker 5: you think about it, it was it was the longest
Speaker 5: season for me ever because it made it to the
Speaker 5: Super Bowl. Also, had started training since last November consistently,
Speaker 5: so I was training, you know it. It was just
Speaker 5: a long season. I was at the end. I remember,
Speaker 5: you know, Cooper Cup and I looked at I looked
Speaker 5: at each other and I was like, I'm happy this
Speaker 5: is the last week cause I can't do another one.
Speaker 5: So the doubts is for whoever has them to have them.
Speaker 5: But that's not what enters my mind and my body.
Speaker 5: It's just something that I've carried myself with all my life.
Speaker 5: I know what I could do. I'm just excited about,
Speaker 5: you know. The It's still a process to get to
Speaker 5: August and then getting into the camp, so still got
Speaker 5: a lot of time, no like to do one more place.
Speaker 5: It looks like he had had a pretty fun offseason
Speaker 5: going to Monaco and your finals game.
Speaker 2: Do you do you enjoy though, getting back to you,
Speaker 2: like you said, the process of playing football?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's important to live life. You know,
Speaker 5: once you get here at the end of July, you're
Speaker 5: here until you know, hopefully February seventeenth, and you spend
Speaker 5: every single day with these people, your teammates, your brothers,
Speaker 5: more than your your family, and there is no time
Speaker 5: to go anywhere or do anything. And you know, when
Speaker 5: I get to, like an NBA Finals game and I'm
Speaker 5: sitting right there and I'm looking at Jamal Murray's, uh,
Speaker 5: the intensity he has in his eyes and knowing he
Speaker 5: has an opportunity to win a ring or you you
Speaker 5: see these guys like it's it's always motivating for me.
Speaker 5: It's cool to like enjoy the atmosphere of a game.
Speaker 5: But I really go to watch as an athlete, not
Speaker 5: like a a spectator, Like I really get motivated by
Speaker 5: watching my brother d book play, or watching Lebron play,
Speaker 5: watching KD, watching these guys who in their respective sport
Speaker 5: is the same mentality as I am, and it wanna
Speaker 5: be great. So that's always fun. You know. I love
Speaker 5: being able to get out the country what I can.
Speaker 5: It was the only trip that I really had so
Speaker 5: definitely excited about, you know, had had fun with that,
Speaker 5: but more excited about just it's finally getting close to
Speaker 5: tom to you know, be able to to line up
Speaker 5: in the stadium again, and I have to watch it
Speaker 5: from the TV.
Speaker 4: So oh deel real quickly.
Speaker 7: I was just wondering. Deodre Hopkins is also on his
Speaker 7: free agency tour as curious if you've had any exchange
Speaker 7: with him more suggestions and also to that end, do
Speaker 7: you think there is there anything to prove with a
Speaker 7: wide receiver going over the thirty year mark?
Speaker 5: Uh, thirty thirty or more? Oh no, I mean if
Speaker 5: you could play, you could play. I don't really think
Speaker 5: age is you know, more of a mindset. And that
Speaker 5: might just be me trying to you know, not get old,
Speaker 5: but that's just how I feel. It's just really a mindset.
Speaker 5: And you know, we we both were in Arizona and
Speaker 5: we were joking way before the draft even happened, you
Speaker 5: know about you know, possible big going here, and I
Speaker 5: don't know what happens from here. You know, that's not
Speaker 5: not really my call another GM or coach anything like that.
Speaker 5: But I do know that he was, you know, kind
Speaker 5: of craving to be able to play football again. You know,
Speaker 5: he had a shorter season last year as well. But
Speaker 5: he just don't know where he's going to end up.
Speaker 5: But I'm excited for him, excited to watch him again,
Speaker 5: and I think he can still ball from from what
Speaker 5: I seen when we were working out Wedell.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That was wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior. The
Speaker 1: big free agent acquisition that the Ravens made this offseason,
Speaker 1: and another key player for the team is Justin Mattabek.
Speaker 1: He is going into his fourth season. He came on
Speaker 1: really strong last year and the Ravens have high hopes
Speaker 1: for what he'll be able to do this season. And
Speaker 1: here's what he had to say, going into his fourth
Speaker 1: year and the final year of his rookie contract.
Speaker 6: Like him back man, after all that time off and
Speaker 6: now you look around the locker room and all these
Speaker 6: new editions of twenty twenty three, it's been good. It's
Speaker 6: been good to be back with the guys out in
Speaker 6: the Grassland football field. Just building that team caramaraderie and
Speaker 6: building the defense back together so we can set towards
Speaker 6: our goals for this upcoming year.
Speaker 2: So just did you look at this year?
Speaker 6: You know, coach Army just talking about how I think
Speaker 6: got high.
Speaker 5: Ups for you.
Speaker 1: It'spect me to continue on your your ejaculations.
Speaker 2: What are your expectations for yourself this year?
Speaker 6: Uh, just to keep working hard, just keep sharpening all
Speaker 6: my tools and stuff like that, and just keep learning,
Speaker 6: just keep being a better teammate, better player, stepping up
Speaker 6: on defense. And you know it's taking up one day
Speaker 6: at a time. You know, we have the ultimate goal
Speaker 6: as a team and we all know what that is.
Speaker 6: So just it starts.
Speaker 2: Now you're heading into the last year of your rookie build.
Speaker 2: Does that add any greater urgency for you? Or I
Speaker 2: mean I I I I know you've always you've always
Speaker 2: gone out at art, but is it does it? Does
Speaker 2: it change anything for you?
Speaker 6: You know er e everybody at this uh point of
Speaker 6: their career when their past three years, they definitely get
Speaker 6: to this year and you know you can make it
Speaker 6: a bigger deal than it is, or you can just
Speaker 6: put your head down and work hard, and I choose
Speaker 6: to pick that route. Every year's a big year, I
Speaker 6: feel like. So it doesn't change nothing. You just keep
Speaker 6: working hard, you keep even sharpening and getting closer to
Speaker 6: the details, and just try to be the best player
Speaker 6: you can be on off the field and for your teammates.
Speaker 2: Has there been any dialogue about an extension.
Speaker 3: Or anything like that for this point.
Speaker 6: Right R Right now, I'm not even focused on that, honestly,
Speaker 6: I'm just trying to just put my head down and work,
Speaker 6: you know, and uh, focus on the guys, focus on
Speaker 6: these new rookies and showing them the way, the way
Speaker 6: like Kala's will showed me the way you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, and pass that down. So you know, just
Speaker 6: tryna take a one day at the time, keep working
Speaker 6: hard and showing them how to work.
Speaker 5: Is it did? Is it a little different not having
Speaker 5: klais uh In in the room now? Yeah?
Speaker 6: A little, But he's real loud, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: And he's a overveed, but you know he was. He
Speaker 6: show showed us a lot of great things, and uh,
Speaker 6: I definitely want to pass that forward and just you know,
Speaker 6: definitely be a a a l a leader by example,
Speaker 6: and when I feel like I need to say something,
Speaker 6: I'll say something thing. And you know, it's tryna work
Speaker 6: out every day cause we have ultimate god mind.
Speaker 5: Have you taken you know, more of a relationship role
Speaker 5: in the in the room now?
Speaker 6: I I I I think I would say so. A
Speaker 6: lot of young guys asks me questions and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: They like the way I work and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: They tell me that, so you know, I like to
Speaker 6: inform them about stuff that you know, I was informed
Speaker 6: of by older guys and stuff like that. So you know,
Speaker 6: just try to pass it down, but also try to
Speaker 6: work hard and try to can make sure that I'm
Speaker 6: leading by example and just doing the right things and
Speaker 6: just focusing on a little details more than everybody else. Yes,
Speaker 6: do you guys get the chance.
Speaker 2: To work with Chuck Smith if the past rush moves
Speaker 2: too like the outside guy?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we do, we do. Yeah, absolutely. I even work
Speaker 6: with Chuck even uh before he got here in Atlanta
Speaker 6: and uh so we had a relationship prior to him
Speaker 6: coming here. So when he came here as a team,
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, this is great. You know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying. We're gonna learn so much from you, so
Speaker 6: look at I'm I'm excited.
Speaker 5: What makes it so special? Since you working with him?
Speaker 6: He played in the league, He's been at our shoes,
Speaker 6: and uh, you know, he knows what it takes to
Speaker 6: get get to that quarterback. He knows what it takes
Speaker 6: to for the whole d line to be on the
Speaker 6: same accord so we can have a gre rush playing.
Speaker 6: And I feel like he's a great addition to our team.
Speaker 6: So I'm glad to have him here for real.
Speaker 5: You got a h a signature pass rush from here?
Speaker 6: Uh? Nah, not not not a signature yet. I'm still
Speaker 6: working on. But you know, definitely club rib That's what
Speaker 6: Chuck will be be preaching club rip, club break. Don't
Speaker 6: forget the rip. If you do a great pastors roof,
Speaker 6: he'll show it on film. It look good. But if
Speaker 6: you don't have a rip, he's gonna call you out
Speaker 6: on it. So he just focus on the little details,
Speaker 6: and that's what I love about him.
Speaker 5: How close did you watch the Lamar proceedings?
Speaker 6: Is best? See that what I'm down. How close did
Speaker 6: you watch the Lamar contract proceedings as past p Uh, Honestly,
Speaker 6: I didn't give it too much attention.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: Really, my family was like, are you all gonna sign him?
Speaker 6: You're gonna sound like I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 6: You know. I'm just focused on what I can control.
Speaker 6: That's that. That's my main thing. I try to focus
Speaker 6: on things that I can control and let the rest
Speaker 6: and let the chicks fall what they may. So I'm
Speaker 6: glad he's here and he's he's a great quarterback and
Speaker 6: we all love him as a teammate as a person.
Speaker 6: So yeah, and justin beyond this camp, cause there's a
Speaker 6: month of freedom. How do you look at that?
Speaker 5: What do you during it?
Speaker 6: And do you kind of get away from football completely?
Speaker 5: What's your approach?
Speaker 6: I say, definitely go tap in and see my family,
Speaker 6: but then after that, definitely get back to football. You know,
Speaker 6: campus around is around, the corner is gonna be here
Speaker 6: before we all know it. You know, football is our life,
Speaker 6: so we definitely take it seriously and we do money,
Speaker 6: keep grinding, but also take time to see your family
Speaker 6: and see how they're doing and stuff like that, and
Speaker 6: take care of your body and stuff like that. So
Speaker 6: that's when you.
Speaker 2: Said you put a focus on, uh, sharpening all of
Speaker 2: your tools as off seas thirty think that you kind
Speaker 2: of wanted to work on specifically you're hoping to show
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 6: Uh, I mean we're gonna sack celebration honestly, to be honest, huh,
Speaker 6: I don't know. I'm still working on I'm trying to
Speaker 6: get some ideas. I'll let you know soon though, So.
Speaker 5: All good, All right, thanks, no problem.
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