Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: July twenty ninth. The Ravens continued with training camp today
Speaker 1: and after practice we had a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to see everybody. Appreciate you being here once again.
Speaker 2: Enthusiastic crowd, you can hear the guy. The people got
Speaker 2: a bunch of football teams here and kids are here everywhere,
Speaker 2: so we're enjoying that. And they were allowed during practice.
Speaker 2: Good practice, tough practice, hot, and the guys did a
Speaker 2: good job working through it and we got got some
Speaker 2: good work done.
Speaker 3: What questions you have?
Speaker 4: What does a lot you ever think about? Maybe we'll
Speaker 4: cut off the period to year like that. Did any
Speaker 4: guys try to perforate you.
Speaker 3: No coaches to going train? Yeah? I think Isaiah's doing
Speaker 3: a really good job.
Speaker 2: You know, he's uh, he's a guy that understands how
Speaker 2: to fight through these kind of days. You know, his
Speaker 2: legs are a little tired, focuses on technique, tries to
Speaker 2: lock in on his assignment, and you know, had a
Speaker 2: good day as a result. So it's one of the
Speaker 2: things you try to get out of a day like this.
Speaker 3: John have you got any sense Sean Bacon's okay or
Speaker 3: this stuff? Yeah, I don't think it's a serious thing.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a more soreness steal.
Speaker 2: So they're took him to be safe.
Speaker 3: Same thing, same kind of thing and little things.
Speaker 5: I want to probably approach you with an abundance of caution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, help, Yeah, kind of ramping him up now, you know,
Speaker 2: more and more reps, more and more drills.
Speaker 5: Won't be long before you'll see him in one on ones.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: He did.
Speaker 3: He's a lot of energy.
Speaker 5: Looks good out there.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: I think we are in some guys some cases not
Speaker 2: the whole thing. You know, it's probably gonna be as
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 5: Once we get to the Eagles game.
Speaker 2: And I think the game itself is important to you know,
Speaker 2: you want to see what you see in practice confirmed
Speaker 2: at least in a game, if somebody is really on track,
Speaker 2: and then the other guys will show up in the
Speaker 2: game and we'll see what they can do. So we're
Speaker 2: on pace in some cases and other cases not. But
Speaker 2: that that was probably would be the ideal, you know,
Speaker 2: and if it happens that way, great, But we still
Speaker 2: got there, still a lot.
Speaker 3: Of time between then and now.
Speaker 6: That's like once.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure a much so he killed us the thing,
Speaker 3: but that could be like a.
Speaker 2: You know, I think with all of our players, all
Speaker 2: of our employees, I mean, I get these physicals every year.
Speaker 3: They do a great job.
Speaker 2: When they stopped giving me my physical every year, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna start worrying. You know, it's like, don't you care anymore?
Speaker 2: So Lamar gets tested, Mark gets tested. All of our
Speaker 2: guys get tested thoroughly, especially when you're sick, so they
Speaker 2: look at every possibility.
Speaker 3: Tell me, if you've got.
Speaker 7: A mount of bodies in your secondary you can see
Speaker 7: you're constantly rotating all these guys.
Speaker 3: How deep an soon you're a bench.
Speaker 4: In terms of these secondary guys, I feel.
Speaker 3: Like we're playing them.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: It's a great point in question because I feel like
Speaker 2: we're very deep in the back end, you know, and
Speaker 2: I think we're deep throughout our team. But we've got
Speaker 2: a lot of guys, We've got a lot of confidence,
Speaker 2: and even some guys that aren't practicing.
Speaker 3: I mean TJ.
Speaker 2: Tampa, you haven't even seen out there with the sport
Speaker 2: Turney and he'll be back in a.
Speaker 5: Couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: So I just want to see those guys keep doing well,
Speaker 2: keep growing, keep getting better, and see where it takes us.
Speaker 1: We also talk with quarterback Lamar Jackson. He was sidelined
Speaker 1: at the start of training camp because of an illness,
Speaker 1: but he was back on the practice field today. He
Speaker 1: said he felt wonderful out there. Here's what he had
Speaker 1: to say about missing that time and also his expectations
Speaker 1: and thoughts about the upcoming season.
Speaker 3: How are you feel feeling wonderful Man? Good to be
Speaker 3: back back out my guys, back with the coaching staff.
Speaker 3: Good to be back in August man football season? You
Speaker 3: feel like he feelings like you feel? You feel good, James,
Speaker 3: feel good? What happened when they hit you don't know.
Speaker 3: I kind of just get a bug. You know, you
Speaker 3: really never know when the buck when the bug hits you.
Speaker 3: But got hit the bug. But I'm good now. I
Speaker 3: feel like this. How impressed here? I mean ever since
Speaker 3: day one, you know, I just seen the potentially I
Speaker 3: was likely, and he showed each and every day, you know,
Speaker 3: each and every day he wanted to be a better player.
Speaker 3: And then you know you got a guy like marking
Speaker 3: his room, who's showing on the roads and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And him being himself at the same time. It's just
Speaker 3: magic happens. And he just gotta keep going to keep
Speaker 3: keep bringing that each and every day and keep trying
Speaker 3: to be a better player. When you are.
Speaker 8: For that period of time, how do you keep yourself?
Speaker 4: You know, so when you come out and run it's good.
Speaker 3: I mean just because I was down and I'm I'm
Speaker 3: still locked in, you know, I know, I know what
Speaker 3: what what time is it right now? You know it's
Speaker 3: it's camp time, you know. So with me going down
Speaker 3: for a couple of days, my mom was still in it,
Speaker 3: like I gotta hurry up and get better so I
Speaker 3: can be out with my guys. Sous. It's how you
Speaker 3: drove out. So I wasn't. I wasn't penitential to it,
Speaker 3: you know, I was. I was out, So I wasn't
Speaker 3: really penitenttion to it. Man, But I appreciate that coming
Speaker 3: from coach, And how do you in your mind, how
Speaker 3: do you grow it out? Keep doing what I'm doing,
Speaker 3: keep trying to get better. They keep trying to win
Speaker 3: these games, keep trying to reach that goal.
Speaker 2: Alright, what you've always had your back, because that is
Speaker 2: that's how praise.
Speaker 3: It's good y'all just messed me up. He was, go ahead. First,
Speaker 3: we know it's a couple of lists the prays on
Speaker 3: the offensive line.
Speaker 2: What what do you saying from the offensive line, these.
Speaker 3: Guys are fighting something of those spots. What are you
Speaker 3: saying from the offensive line. We know it's three spots
Speaker 3: kind of open for prayers right now, what are you
Speaker 3: saying that these guys are fighting for? Those guys just
Speaker 3: getting after you know, they busting the tail out there,
Speaker 3: trying to get better, you know, trying to trying to
Speaker 3: win the position. I really can't pattention to them because
Speaker 3: I'm trying to pettest to the defense, see what they're doing,
Speaker 3: seeing what they giving me, you know, just trying to
Speaker 3: get the ball out of my hands. So, but for
Speaker 3: what I do see, guys are fighting, they busted tail.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. So I think I did the right thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: coach is always had it back.
Speaker 8: I don't go the thing I mean that's the toss
Speaker 8: the round place.
Speaker 3: Then go Yeah, I'm not I'm not the go tom
Speaker 3: Brady to goat, Tom Brady to goat. So he said
Speaker 3: something like that. Motivation, Yeah, I believe that's motivation. I
Speaker 3: appreciate that. You know, I'm still still on my way. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's within plays, you know, it's inside of the locker room.
Speaker 3: We're talking about players. That's that's went on on the field,
Speaker 3: telling them what I'm saying for defenses and saying why
Speaker 3: I see he should be you know, on the field,
Speaker 3: things like that, just talking about ball, talking ball and
Speaker 3: playing a game sometimes too, you know that Bill. Chemistry
Speaker 3: and communication as well. We saw on Saturday when you
Speaker 3: came back. I saw everybody reacting the.
Speaker 7: Kids you're missing if you is it on your mind
Speaker 7: that like everybody's waiting for you, for you.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not thinking they're missing. They're missing me. I'm
Speaker 3: missing them. So I'm trying to get back out to
Speaker 3: those guys and you know, just be happy around my teammates.
Speaker 3: That's all, man. But them missing me, the kids missing me.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 3: I love it all missing.
Speaker 5: And trying.
Speaker 3: At this point when the offense because when everybody were
Speaker 3: absolutely you know, I was here early on in voluntary,
Speaker 3: so that helped out a little bit, you know, so
Speaker 3: me being down and it really then to slow me down,
Speaker 3: you know, just for me not being on my guys.
Speaker 3: You know, each and every day. I'll take that as
Speaker 3: a little slow down. But other than that, we was
Speaker 3: pretty good. It seems like illness more than entry. Illnesses
Speaker 3: kind of kept you out of them some practices over
Speaker 3: the years. Have you kind of thought your wife? Yeah, man,
Speaker 3: I'll be thinking that sometimes because in Lortleville, I never
Speaker 3: got sick. I never was sick, you know, but comes
Speaker 3: and goals. Yeah, you don't think it's anything. It's not
Speaker 3: like something like pronic or anything like that.
Speaker 5: On going.
Speaker 3: No, doctor jamis, No, I don't think anything. I'm concerned
Speaker 3: about you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna play out lawyer the whole thing with Troy
Speaker 8: a man and.
Speaker 3: About We're gonna keep it football. We're gonna keep this
Speaker 3: about football story. That's outside noise. That's outside noise. I'm
Speaker 3: sticking it with Count. We're talking about Count football. That's it,
Speaker 3: not else. Very comfortable. We're talking a lot inside the building,
Speaker 3: saying things on the field, talking to coach, you know,
Speaker 3: talking to the guys, uh, making checks here and there.
Speaker 3: I'm getting very comfortable with the system.
Speaker 5: Very comfortable.
Speaker 4: We are another good pass out there today.
Speaker 3: Imagine you're too You think could be his computer. I
Speaker 3: always tell you guys, this guy's the limit. You know,
Speaker 3: I really don't know what his potential can be. He showed.
Speaker 3: I believe he showed day and day out. You know
Speaker 3: what type of player he is and as he as
Speaker 3: he gets older mature the time of TEL, I think.
Speaker 4: He's mentioned that as a championship teams you spoke, that's like,
Speaker 4: what went into that and what why?
Speaker 3: Why do people want to do that? Because I just
Speaker 3: know how how important it is to him, you know
Speaker 3: that moment, how important it is to all of us,
Speaker 3: and you know how people would be you know about
Speaker 3: what we're on during the game, but all of us
Speaker 3: play a part as the team spore at the end
Speaker 3: of the day. And I was let him know that you.
Speaker 4: Coming out for a second and since you've been an
Speaker 4: all point business for you.
Speaker 3: Super Bowl kind of the last check box in your mind,
Speaker 3: at least because the media goals that you have for yourself.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's been the first check box for me
Speaker 3: since twenty eighteen. You know, I said that April twenty sixth,
Speaker 3: whenever we were drafted. Whenever I was drafted, I said that,
Speaker 3: you know, and I meant that, but you know, this
Speaker 3: the just the highest level of this of this game.
Speaker 3: You know we played, so you got to go out
Speaker 3: a champion. That's what I want to be labeled as
Speaker 3: a champion, you know, not just MVP here and there, Like,
Speaker 3: I want to be a champion. Yer health quickly.
Speaker 5: Else this morning?
Speaker 3: Okay, I had that was a real question. I was
Speaker 3: really actually a question. I didn't say it again.
Speaker 2: So how long is it to take care of your health?
Speaker 5: Quick lays her earr Trust a quarterback.
Speaker 3: You see, Oh man, it was pretty easy. I'm sending
Speaker 3: him attack the ball. I'm seeing him when I'm when
Speaker 3: the cornerback has outside leverage on the outbreaking route, he's
Speaker 3: dropping him. He's winning off back. He's just had my trust. Man,
Speaker 3: him catching the ball and doing what you do. That's
Speaker 3: all the quarterback want.
Speaker 5: A lot of.
Speaker 2: You, I know, you don't want to be fake anything
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 6: That me like, hey, I forgot a lot of people
Speaker 6: play I.
Speaker 5: Could have.
Speaker 3: Ocasion is the key, you know, only a few quarterbacks
Speaker 3: you want to want to spit Bowl In the last
Speaker 3: few years. You know a lot of people have haven't
Speaker 3: won it, you know, But I'm focusing on me and
Speaker 3: I just want that really bad, you know, So I
Speaker 3: just focus on what I can control and go from there.
Speaker 5: You just look like winning the LEA.
Speaker 3: I was telling him slow it down a bit. They
Speaker 3: was flying around, got guys just flying around doing what
Speaker 3: they're supposed to do. But then I was also talking
Speaker 3: trash to him, you know, just I believe iron shopping
Speaker 3: is iron, you know. And we got one of the
Speaker 3: best defenses in the league. So me just talking trash
Speaker 3: to those guys, those guys talking trash to us, and
Speaker 3: we're just going after each other. I believe that that's
Speaker 3: what builds a great team.
Speaker 5: I feel like, yeah, I'm all.
Speaker 3: In him through Yo, Marlin. I told him to get
Speaker 3: his hands right. That's why I'm study throing intersessions to him.
Speaker 3: He dropped a few last years, so I'm hoping that's
Speaker 3: helping him out. Like he was asking, just what you've
Speaker 3: seen from Zac? What's the character?
Speaker 9: Six times?
Speaker 3: Those guys like the throw back Ravens defense. You know,
Speaker 3: just blood shit. You know a lot of smack talk,
Speaker 3: a lot of big hits. We shitting all from my defense.
Speaker 3: You know, guys actually tackling a little bit out there.
Speaker 3: I don't think we should be, but we're looking good, man.
Speaker 3: I'm loving it.
Speaker 1: Last week, we heard from left tackle Ronnie Stanley, who's
Speaker 1: clearly motivated going into this year.
Speaker 9: Sorry to keep you guys waging. I had a stretch man.
Speaker 9: I'm sick of cramping. Yeah, you know, I'm trying to
Speaker 9: get a good stretch here after every practice. You know,
Speaker 9: I think it's it's the right time to get a
Speaker 9: good stretch when you're already, you know, pretty warm.
Speaker 6: What was this practice like, I mean it felt hot
Speaker 6: to us and we were trying to find the shape.
Speaker 9: It was a grinder today. You know, it was just
Speaker 9: one of those days, you know, one of those camp days,
Speaker 9: call it the dog days, you know, so just one
Speaker 9: of those days you go through and you know we
Speaker 9: got better today as a team, that's for sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's obviously a lot of attention on this offensive
Speaker 6: line with all the starters that you guys are replacing.
Speaker 6: How much of that kind of outside perception, the noise
Speaker 6: do you pay attention to?
Speaker 9: Absolutely none, Personally, I'm pretty sure you know, my guys
Speaker 9: in the room are the same way. Having new guys
Speaker 9: in the line, that's nothing new to Baltimore Ravens. You know,
Speaker 9: I think every year played with at least a couple
Speaker 9: of new guys every year or so. This is the
Speaker 9: time where we're building our chemistry and getting better as
Speaker 9: a unit.
Speaker 6: How much does the Olphins playing kind of put on
Speaker 6: its back? I mean, if Lamar is protected, if the
Speaker 6: blocking is there for the run game, it all kind
Speaker 6: of breaks down. So you know, it's it's imperative for
Speaker 6: this offense flend play a high level. Is that kind
Speaker 6: of the mantra in this room?
Speaker 3: In your room?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean that's always the mantra. We know, we're
Speaker 9: the we're the start of it all. We're the tip
Speaker 9: of the spear, so us and the D line, we're
Speaker 9: the ones send the line. So we set the tone
Speaker 9: on both sides of the ball, and you know, we
Speaker 9: take pride in that and knowing that we can help
Speaker 9: LJ make, you know, all these fantastic plays that he does,
Speaker 9: and we can make these things you know, easier for him,
Speaker 9: give him less anxiety to where he can really perform
Speaker 9: at you know, the highest levels.
Speaker 8: All right, I've seen you talking to Andrew in the
Speaker 8: offensive line corner there and seems like.
Speaker 3: You maybe are mentoring a little bit. Can talk about
Speaker 3: your relationship with.
Speaker 9: I think Andrew's great. I mean ever since he's gotten here.
Speaker 9: You know, he's been a student of the game and
Speaker 9: just been trying to learn even the times he couldn't
Speaker 9: really be on the field in practice, he's been in
Speaker 9: all the meetings, he's been here throughout all the off season,
Speaker 9: and you know, I come out, I'm very impressed with
Speaker 9: how fast he's learning things, how fast he's getting up
Speaker 9: to the speed of the game. You know, how good
Speaker 9: of a shape he's in and everything is, you know,
Speaker 9: moving really fast forward. But he's also adjusting really fast,
Speaker 9: and he's getting better and better every days.
Speaker 8: Of stunt handles and whatnot.
Speaker 3: Tackle on your side, has.
Speaker 5: He been good with those?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I think you know there's going to be struggles and
Speaker 9: you know, passing off twists, and that's why defensive line
Speaker 9: run those twists because we have to be on the
Speaker 9: same page tackling guard. And every single time we've run
Speaker 9: it every day he's getting better and better and gives
Speaker 9: me confidence as a TI knowing that you know, the
Speaker 9: guard's going to make sure he's stopping the penetration vice versa.
Speaker 9: You know, each way it comes.
Speaker 8: Is there any kind of kinship with with with Andrew,
Speaker 8: with you having had a season where you basically to
Speaker 8: miss most of it because of injury, and obviously him coming
Speaker 8: off of that with the ACL. Is there any kind
Speaker 8: of extra you know round there for you guys to
Speaker 8: build along?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I feel like if there was that
Speaker 9: probably happened during his injury. You know, it's probably more
Speaker 9: when he was going through the rehab process. But now
Speaker 9: it's we're just talking about football. We're not really talking
Speaker 9: about injuries, and he's not complaining about anything. He's been
Speaker 9: full go. You know, I think everything's been good from
Speaker 9: that perspective. But yeah, right now we've just been focused
Speaker 9: on football.
Speaker 6: How important has it been for you personally to be
Speaker 6: out here every day practicing consistently?
Speaker 9: That's been great, you know, just being able to come
Speaker 9: out here. You know, I go through the same sorenesses
Speaker 9: as everyone, but to be able to come out here
Speaker 9: and you know, work through it and be able to
Speaker 9: perform day after day, you know, in these hot days
Speaker 9: against you know, our great defense is is it's very
Speaker 9: affirming to me.
Speaker 6: Reaffirming to me, you're a motivated guy after last year
Speaker 6: and the injuries and all this stuff. I mean, would
Speaker 6: you is it fair to say that this is the
Speaker 6: most motivated that you've been.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I would say that's pretty fair. I mean, I
Speaker 9: think the last couple of years have not been my
Speaker 9: best and I haven't really been happy about it, you know,
Speaker 9: in a long since, a long time, you know, since
Speaker 9: I can remember as a football player. So I feel
Speaker 9: like I have a lot to prove to myself and
Speaker 9: just just be the player I know I can be.
Speaker 9: And you know, they say there's no testimony without a
Speaker 9: test so I'm very fortunate to just have the opportunity
Speaker 9: to prove myself and to prove that what I know
Speaker 9: I can do.
Speaker 8: Last year, the last four ball games in particular, LOO
Speaker 8: because play was a significant notch. I thought from the
Speaker 8: previous places to concluding the playoffs, I'm fucking about now can.
Speaker 5: You build off that?
Speaker 8: Is that something that you felt too in terms of
Speaker 8: your play getting back to a securely high level of
Speaker 8: the very end of the season.
Speaker 9: I definitely felt felt to get better, but still not
Speaker 9: to the level where you know, I'm comfortable where I
Speaker 9: come out of the game feeling. You know, I feel
Speaker 9: like I played at the level that I'm capable of.
Speaker 9: So I still thought there was room to improve in
Speaker 9: that aspect, and you know, last year was tough, just
Speaker 9: battling through you know, multitude of injuries and whatnot, and
Speaker 9: you know, things happen as part of the game. But
Speaker 9: right now everything that was I was feeling last year
Speaker 9: is not feeling. So it's it's been good.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 9: It's just like I said, just having the normal you know,
Speaker 9: sorenesses and aches. But other than that, you know, everything
Speaker 9: is just pretty solid.
Speaker 6: In terms of like feeling like you're playing up to
Speaker 6: your potential. I know there's only practice, but it's been
Speaker 6: if you've kind of practices, do you feel like you're
Speaker 6: kind of playing past that point last year? Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I feel like I'm already playing better than I
Speaker 9: was at any point last.
Speaker 5: Year for sure.
Speaker 6: The biggest headaches to block out there in practice.
Speaker 9: I mean, Dafe is always a headache, Metabik is always
Speaker 9: a headache.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 9: You know, you got Jabbo on the outside, you got
Speaker 9: Kyle on the outside. You know, those guys are always
Speaker 9: you know, they create different problems. They're they're all great
Speaker 9: at different things, you know, and you know they got
Speaker 9: a great coach there, you know, giving them great advice.
Speaker 9: So it's been good. You know, it's been good to
Speaker 9: get all these reps and just learn from each each rep.
Speaker 8: How or is this part of camp for a guy
Speaker 8: like Roger? You know, how to make that jump from
Speaker 8: you pack twelve football to the NFL football and seeing
Speaker 8: guys in paths?
Speaker 6: What's it?
Speaker 3: What's it like? Right hand?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 9: You know he's going through, you know, those same things
Speaker 9: that any rookie would go through, just adjusting to the speed,
Speaker 9: you know, and you know, learning the new plays and whatnot.
Speaker 9: And as those things come along, you know, the game
Speaker 9: will just slow down for him. But you know, all
Speaker 9: in all, Rogers are pro. He's a pro football player
Speaker 9: and he definitely belongs in the NFL. You know, I
Speaker 9: see it and the way he prepares, the way he
Speaker 9: thinks about the game, his IQ and just as tanasty,
Speaker 9: the ways you know, not not as not scared to
Speaker 9: go after blocks, and he does it in a controlled way.
Speaker 8: Is is ballhawk Marlin Humphrey any different in the locker
Speaker 8: room than than non ball Paul hawk went.
Speaker 9: I think Martin Humphrey is the most authentic person you'll
Speaker 9: ever meet. Wherever you see from him, That's how he
Speaker 9: is all the time.
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