Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Presspass podcast. It is Monday, March
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, and the NFL Owners meetings are taking place
Speaker 1: this week down in Florida, and to kick things off,
Speaker 1: head coach John Harbaugh I met with the media for
Speaker 1: about thirty minutes this morning during the NFL coaches breakfast
Speaker 1: and their media session. So here's what head coach John
Speaker 1: Harbaugh had to say during that time with the media.
Speaker 2: So, if we can start off with your offensive line,
Speaker 2: you're replacing three starters there.
Speaker 3: What's kind of your vision there?
Speaker 4: I mean, do you think, you know, expect me to
Speaker 4: be a free agents a guy stepping up and how's.
Speaker 3: What do you kind of expect that the offensive well,
Speaker 3: I think I expect it to be better than last year.
Speaker 3: You know, that's always the goals to improve. So along
Speaker 3: the offensive line, we want to be even better than
Speaker 3: we were last year. I thought. I think Joe Dellas
Speaker 3: Sandras is an amazing job coaching the offensive line, and
Speaker 3: so you know we've still got Joe, so that's a
Speaker 3: big plus. We're able to bring Ronnie back. I'm excited
Speaker 3: about that. Ronnie regaining his form really with his health
Speaker 3: and strength, that's gonna be a big plus four US.
Speaker 3: You know, Tyler is just one of To me, I
Speaker 3: think he's the best center. I'll go with Tyler if
Speaker 3: I'm making that vote along those lines, and then we've
Speaker 3: got to find who the next guys are gonna be.
Speaker 3: We have guys in house, we have a free agents
Speaker 3: that we've signed, obviously, you know that, and then we've
Speaker 3: got the draft. So I'm confident we'll have a very
Speaker 3: good offensive line.
Speaker 2: You just picked up Josh Jones, you know what? What
Speaker 2: made him appealing to you guys, And it's a nice
Speaker 2: It seems like he has some versatility because you do
Speaker 2: have three open starting.
Speaker 3: Spots right now. No doubt he's been. He's been, you know,
Speaker 3: he's been on the left side both in Arizona and
Speaker 3: in Houston. And he's very athletic. He's a former third
Speaker 3: round pick, kind of like John Simpson a little bit,
Speaker 3: if you think about it, a very similar type guy.
Speaker 3: And John came to us and had a great year,
Speaker 3: signed a big contract. You know, Uh, he didn't have
Speaker 3: a lot of options going into last year. I don't
Speaker 3: think anybody's I don't remember you guys being so confident.
Speaker 3: You know that John was gonna play that well, who knew,
Speaker 3: you know, but he was determined to get better and
Speaker 3: he did. And I feel like Josh is, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of in that same place. And he's a talented guy. Hey, John,
Speaker 3: where do you like the special teams? We'll put the kickoff?
Speaker 3: We'll propose right. Well. The thing the thing about that
Speaker 3: that I really appreciate, really appreciate about Roger Goodell is
Speaker 3: that the passion and the determination to get the kickoff
Speaker 3: back into the game, to keep the game as exciting
Speaker 3: as it can possibly be. I mean, the kickoff return
Speaker 3: has been around for a long time in football. You know.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of kind of passionate about that myself, and
Speaker 3: I just think I think for Roger to be championing
Speaker 3: that and get behind that and to be exploring every
Speaker 3: opportunity to keep the kickoff returning the game, make it exciting.
Speaker 3: That's that's what you know, I'm happy about. And I
Speaker 3: think that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 4: Is there a concern that just a transition to you know,
Speaker 4: the different line man, Yeah, it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody understands. Yeah, Cliff, you're not gonna leave it alone.
Speaker 3: That Cliff, that's good. I appreciate it. Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 3: It's always into details, and that's the challenge we're gonna
Speaker 3: have right now with that. I mean, the line of
Speaker 3: scrimmage is a big part of football. It's been around
Speaker 3: for quite a while, and that play kind of takes
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage out of it. So it's a
Speaker 3: it's a drastic kind of move that's going to be
Speaker 3: way different if it gets passed than what we've seen
Speaker 3: out a kickoff and kickoff return in the past. It's
Speaker 3: just a different kind of a football play. So I
Speaker 3: just appreciate that we're exploring every option, hopefully explore every
Speaker 3: option up to that point to where we've got to
Speaker 3: make that kind of a that kind of a move.
Speaker 3: So is that the right move at this time? I
Speaker 3: don't know. I think that's to be determined, but I'm
Speaker 3: confident that, you know, we'll come to a good conclusion somehow.
Speaker 2: Explain to the people yesterday, what did you feel like
Speaker 2: the feedback was the reaction?
Speaker 3: Do you think it was well received? It was well received.
Speaker 3: With the part that's well received is the idea that
Speaker 3: we want to get returns back. Everybody wants to get
Speaker 3: returns back, so everybody's on the same page with that.
Speaker 3: How you go about doing that? There's a lot of
Speaker 3: questions because you know it's a big change. So I
Speaker 3: think they're just a lot of questions. John, I know
Speaker 3: it's a might probably a free agency. Got cug with
Speaker 3: us about Patrick Queen going to the Steelers out rab
Speaker 3: and what can you do for that? Well, I mean,
Speaker 3: Patrick's a great player, great guy. I love Patrick Queen.
Speaker 3: He's one of my all time favorite people. You know,
Speaker 3: we're gonna be friends for ever. Uh. I'll give Hi
Speaker 3: a hug, I guess before the game, but you know
Speaker 3: it's uh, and I'll root for him except for then.
Speaker 3: But he'll bring a great football player, great attitude, great
Speaker 3: work ethic, everything he brought to us. A big fan
Speaker 3: of pack Wings. At the same topic, what are you
Speaker 3: guys losing? Kevin Zyler run Awaiian's game, right? Kevin Zeitler
Speaker 3: all ball, every single day. Ball and bakery. I mean
Speaker 3: his wife bakes the best stuff. So I think, yeah, everything.
Speaker 3: I mean, everybody in Detroit and that building is gonna
Speaker 3: get some of the best baked goods they've ever gotten
Speaker 3: had in their life. But Kevin's a backs on football player.
Speaker 3: He's got a lot left in the tank. Very tough,
Speaker 3: physical guy, kind of the you know a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: You know, it was about the personality of our team.
Speaker 3: He kind of establishes that way. Hey, you think the
Speaker 3: hip rules gonas? Do I think it's gonna pass. It's like,
Speaker 3: I'm not a politician, Cliff, I don't know that stuff.
Speaker 5: Jared, Jared, Sorry, yeah, okay, I mean you got your Mike.
Speaker 5: I can't see you guys, No, Jared, I do. Uh,
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I'm for it. I think the
Speaker 5: hip drop, taking the hip drop out of the game
Speaker 5: is the right thing to do. I think again, Roger
Speaker 5: and Troy on the right path with that.
Speaker 3: The competition for me, he's in the right path with that. Uh,
Speaker 3: it'd be good. It'd be good if it does pass,
Speaker 3: in my opinion.
Speaker 2: John, In replacing Patrick, you have Trenton Simpson, who I'm
Speaker 2: sorry about that pretty Where are you with him as
Speaker 2: far as how he progressed last year and some thoughts
Speaker 2: on bringing that Chris Ford, do you feel like you
Speaker 2: kind of have you know that have that covered? I
Speaker 2: guess so to speak.
Speaker 3: In replacing Patrick, Yeah, well, I know we have it
Speaker 3: covered because it's just the way the league works. You know,
Speaker 3: we have to have it covered, Luke. I mean that's
Speaker 3: just that's what we do. You have to do that,
Speaker 3: So hopefully we'll do it. Well. I'm really excited about
Speaker 3: the opportunity Trent's gonna have and he's gonna be ready
Speaker 3: for it, and I think he's gonna play really well.
Speaker 3: You know, Chris Board's another guy that just you know,
Speaker 3: I didn't like it when he left, you know, so
Speaker 3: now I'm happy that he's back. And we had a
Speaker 3: we had a great conversation, a great hug, and it's
Speaker 3: gonna really how our special teams man, he's gonna he's
Speaker 3: a he's a good solid backup linebacker as well. John,
Speaker 3: what kind of head coach of the segawskar?
Speaker 6: You're gonna get Mike to Bell?
Speaker 3: Uh, well, they're getting a great person. First of all,
Speaker 3: Mike is a uh is an a plus person. His wife,
Speaker 3: Steph is even better. And uh, you know, Steph is
Speaker 3: a singer. She sings at our Catholic church uh in
Speaker 3: in Baltimore. There so any Catholic church, and he's an
Speaker 3: amazing singer. You've got Steph, so she's the most talented one.
Speaker 3: In the family, no doubt about it. But Mike's a
Speaker 3: great guy, great coach, smart, detailed, determined, passionate, gonna work
Speaker 3: really hard. So they got a great coach. What about
Speaker 3: his defense, he said, for the personnel he at work,
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean he's just again, he's it's we
Speaker 3: you know, we've we've built a good system over the years,
Speaker 3: and Mike's been on the ground floor of that for
Speaker 3: ten years. You know, he's been he's been a part
Speaker 3: of that that uh, that process. So he as a creator,
Speaker 3: he understands it insight out. The way it's organized, and
Speaker 3: it's sound and it's it's simple for the guys to learn.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a good system.
Speaker 4: You'll do great out of trying to I'll say, I
Speaker 4: likely really flats and you know that. But Mark, because
Speaker 4: you guys already knew he was, we had a lot
Speaker 4: of talent. But looking forward to next year with Mark
Speaker 4: and Isaiah maybe playing war together and what two titans
Speaker 4: has got a possibility And this is your whole view
Speaker 4: on the even Charlie, the tight end being even more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do. I think those young guys, Cliff, you know,
Speaker 3: bad about that man. That's terrible it's like I gotta look,
Speaker 3: but you got the cameras here, the kind of it's
Speaker 3: hard to look at everybody. So I have had my excuse.
Speaker 3: The young tight ends evolving, you know and growing is
Speaker 3: gonna be a big part of what we're doing, with
Speaker 3: no doubt. So, like I think Charlie's gonna take a
Speaker 3: big step, Isaiah's gonna take even another big step. It
Speaker 3: took a big step last year. He's a talented guy.
Speaker 3: Uh you know those two guys. We still got Patrick
Speaker 3: Carr kind of doing what he does in that kind
Speaker 3: of hybrid role. And then Mark, you know Mark, Mark
Speaker 3: is the star. He's one of the stars, the superstars
Speaker 3: in the National Football League. So they're all they're all
Speaker 3: receiving tight ends, are all willing blockers.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: So I think we're a good, really good place at
Speaker 3: tight end kind of you guys want Bullard to develop
Speaker 3: into the kind of more inline guy or receiving a
Speaker 3: flood who's that, Charlie? Charlie, Well, I think being an
Speaker 3: inline guy would be great for us because we kind
Speaker 3: of need that, you know. So, I mean he's six
Speaker 3: foot six, two undred and seventy seventy five pounds, right,
Speaker 3: that's a big body, you know, and Charlie's a tough
Speaker 3: guy and he's really determined to be a good blocker.
Speaker 3: So that would be the step that you'd like to
Speaker 3: see him take. I trust him as a receiver, just
Speaker 3: a big target and all that, but I'd love to
Speaker 3: see him, you know, keep keep growing as a blocker,
Speaker 3: got wid revenue.
Speaker 1: You kind of got the.
Speaker 3: Wide receivers into the visits himself there and get some
Speaker 3: turnover there.
Speaker 2: How do you sort of biginal and obviously last year
Speaker 2: and thinks that Dell and how do you sort of
Speaker 2: see that that.
Speaker 6: You come and try to watch out to help him sad?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, the uh you know, we drafted two great
Speaker 3: players in the last three years in the first round,
Speaker 3: you know, and I would think that Rashad and Zey
Speaker 3: would would be excited, you know, to kind of step
Speaker 3: to the front together.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: That's that's where it kind of begins. And then you know,
Speaker 3: we get we get a veteran player back who and
Speaker 3: Nelly who did such a great job last year and
Speaker 3: kind of he was a former first round pick. You know,
Speaker 3: he played at a high level. He's real versatile player.
Speaker 3: But then you know, after that we got Thailand. You know,
Speaker 3: I think Tyland gets a chance he's gonna do well.
Speaker 3: We got well Sean Ryan and there as a young guy.
Speaker 3: So you never know how those young guys are gonna
Speaker 3: keep developing. But we think all of our young guys
Speaker 3: are really talented guys. And when we got the draft,
Speaker 3: so I think we're gonna be in a great shaper
Speaker 3: wide receiver. Like I'm really excited. To me, it's you know,
Speaker 3: and I'm losing Odell obviously, you know he's I love Odell.
Speaker 3: But to give those young guys a chances, yeah, they do.
Speaker 4: John, How do you feel Lamar's success has maybe changed
Speaker 4: how quarterbacks get evaluated coming out of college.
Speaker 3: I think, uh, I think it's changed everything. I think
Speaker 3: Lamar's success and how Lamar plays the game has changed
Speaker 3: everything in terms of how quarterbacks are viewed, how they're
Speaker 3: viewed by scouts, how they're viewed by coaches, how they're
Speaker 3: viewed by the fans, you know, how they're viewed by society.
Speaker 3: And that's a that's a really cool thing.
Speaker 4: Did you think that impacts kids coming out now and
Speaker 4: kind of what they viewed.
Speaker 2: Their ceiling as?
Speaker 3: I absolutely do. To me, it's A. It's a it's
Speaker 3: just something that shows It's just one more piece in
Speaker 3: the puzzle that shows young people, you know, what they
Speaker 3: can do and what they're capable of doing, what's out
Speaker 3: there for them in this country, and that's a great thing.
Speaker 5: New staff in Washington, Do you guys think you'll keep
Speaker 5: the joint practices going.
Speaker 3: We have to see. We haven't got the preseason schedule yet,
Speaker 3: so I hope we can. Uh, we'll just have to
Speaker 3: see how that goes. I know Dan a little bit,
Speaker 3: and we'll see if it's something they want to do.
Speaker 2: Yes, John, do you do you are you still interested
Speaker 2: in bringing either David or Duvin Book back or are
Speaker 2: you still kind of look at that we're gunning crack
Speaker 2: for a kid knowing that, Yeah, you just get Dereck Henry,
Speaker 2: but Keith Mitchell is.
Speaker 3: Still never going to be coming this way back. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think we're just gonna kind of see how it
Speaker 3: shakes out. You know. It's uh some moving pieces to
Speaker 3: that part, you know, and I'll just kind of let
Speaker 3: Eric candle out. But if we bring someone back, if
Speaker 3: we bring one of those two guys back, I'd be
Speaker 3: happy to do it. If we're not able to do it.
Speaker 3: You know, we'll we'll find some young guys. And I
Speaker 3: don't even talk to you since Arthur Letty's signe.
Speaker 4: You're talking about what he brings, you know, coming back
Speaker 4: to that slot. But he's and also the versatility of
Speaker 4: your secondary kind of with so many guys can play.
Speaker 3: More positions, it kind of goes hand in hand. I mean,
Speaker 3: your point is exactly right. Arthur can plays. He's a
Speaker 3: great slot, but he can play outside if you needn't
Speaker 3: play outside. He's a special teams player too. He's a
Speaker 3: good player across the board. I just love the way
Speaker 3: he plays. I like his style. You know, the guys
Speaker 3: all hard. He's a talented guy. He's always been an
Speaker 3: underrated kind of a guy. And he, like he said,
Speaker 3: he found a home with us in Baltimore. And then
Speaker 3: you know, look at a guy like Gardarius Washington. Here's
Speaker 3: another virtual player. He can play in the slot for us.
Speaker 3: When he was healthy, he's played great. Hopefully he can
Speaker 3: you know, get a whole season under his belt. But
Speaker 3: he can also play safety, so he gives us a
Speaker 3: swing guy there. Then you know Marlin who plays outside
Speaker 3: but he can play in the slot, play all across
Speaker 3: the board on either side.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then Brandon can do the same, but he's more
Speaker 3: outside although he can go to safety. So those guys
Speaker 3: being versatile is a big plus. John, I know every
Speaker 3: offenses always evolving. But you know with Derrick Henry New
Speaker 3: you know, a different offensive look to the offensive line.
Speaker 4: How different do you think this offense would a more
Speaker 4: will look for some time you see you want.
Speaker 3: To, Uh, I don't know, you never know. I mean
Speaker 3: it'll look different, There's no doubt about that. That's the
Speaker 3: one thing that we believe in in keeping it moving.
Speaker 3: You know, you can't, you can never keep it the same.
Speaker 3: My wife's she reads a lot of sniper books, you know,
Speaker 3: and she showed me this quote on the plane coming
Speaker 3: down that one of the one of the snipers from
Speaker 3: Afghanistan was talking about and they were talking about one
Speaker 3: of their missions and whoever they were going against in
Speaker 3: war created a pattern and uh, and the sniper was
Speaker 3: able to take advantage of it.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: It's like, no patterns, you know, we don't want patterns.
Speaker 3: We don't want to be predictable in what we're doing.
Speaker 3: To use the analogy, Okay, I'm not advocating for snipers
Speaker 3: or something like that, right, just be clear. But you
Speaker 3: know you can learn lessons from a lot of people, right,
Speaker 3: So yeah, we want to keep it moving. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be sorry I said that. I think I see Michelle
Speaker 3: and shaking her head like not good, not good, John, I.
Speaker 2: Know, clown, he's taking some business or in some reports
Speaker 2: of other teams have an interest where are you guys
Speaker 2: with him maintaining dialogue? And you know, is there still
Speaker 2: optimism that you know that he can come back?
Speaker 3: There is about j D and also about Kyle. Is
Speaker 3: optimism with both with both. I've been texting with j
Speaker 3: D and Kyle you know, here and there over the
Speaker 3: last weeks, and so yeah, I'm hopeful we get we
Speaker 3: get one of both of them at okay, any sense
Speaker 3: that's time table to them? They might make as I
Speaker 3: don't know. I think it's this business, you know, John,
Speaker 3: what are what are some of the things I make?
Speaker 3: Keith Williams a good coach and where are the Saints
Speaker 3: good found? Keith is one of the all time great
Speaker 3: coaches of of of D. He tailed route running. He's
Speaker 3: a great route running coach, you know, and all the
Speaker 3: other things that go with He's also great with the guys.
Speaker 3: He relates well with the guys. He's got relationships with
Speaker 3: the guys.
Speaker 2: Uh he he.
Speaker 3: He knows the game, you know, he knows the structure
Speaker 3: of the scheme and all that really well. But but
Speaker 3: I think he's I've never seen a better route running
Speaker 3: coach than Keith, And you know we're gonna miss that, Saint.
Speaker 3: You're getting a great coach to spend some time with.
Speaker 6: The mayor wiching hired and talking about it. Have you
Speaker 6: got in your new money that's get.
Speaker 3: Better at be your big tea? Yeah, uh yeah, I
Speaker 3: know some of the some of the guys I knew
Speaker 3: VERKND know everybody better every day, I guess right. But uh,
Speaker 3: I'm really excited about the new staff. I like the coaches.
Speaker 3: I like, I like, I like, I like, I like
Speaker 3: what they're bringing to the table as far as, uh,
Speaker 3: just new ideas, new ways to look at the game.
Speaker 3: We'll keep it moving because we've got some new coaches
Speaker 3: and bringing some new ideas. And that's kind of how
Speaker 3: you get better if they keep winning. For when you're
Speaker 3: gonna go with someone else, you're back your message. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you just kind of do it by the opportunities you
Speaker 3: get to people that you have, So we'll have we'll
Speaker 3: have someone in that room that's kind of have somebody
Speaker 3: in mind right now, so we'll see if that if
Speaker 3: that shakes out, kind of a young guy, younger coach
Speaker 3: kind of in that role. Is there a kind of
Speaker 3: a trait that you guys on from your tone, you know,
Speaker 3: right Tack, we do a part of a les saving
Speaker 3: kind of shoot the gap stuff act, you know, being
Speaker 3: those stuff. Is there something that's unworking wants to use
Speaker 3: you guys kind of want to prioritize that back on
Speaker 3: the dot one spot, Yeah, I mean, I think the
Speaker 3: biggest thing is that you know, Alignment have to the
Speaker 3: bottom line is that when you watch tape, is Aligneman
Speaker 3: is he blocking people? You know, you've got to be
Speaker 3: able to block people, you know. I know it's like
Speaker 3: over simplistic because you get into you know, skill sets
Speaker 3: and foot speed and range and moving ability versus anchor
Speaker 3: and all these different kinds of things that you kind
Speaker 3: of got to lay out. But to me, can they
Speaker 3: control the block and finish the block?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 3: So you know, you know Daniel, you say he's more
Speaker 3: of a gap scheme guy because of his size and
Speaker 3: his hip you can come off the ball, right, and
Speaker 3: that's what we want Daniel to do because that's what
Speaker 3: he was kind of born to do. But he can
Speaker 3: he can make a reach block too. He's got great
Speaker 3: feet and he can sustain a block. So the ability
Speaker 3: to sustain a block either way to me, whether it's
Speaker 3: run or pass pass, zoner gap or a man drive block,
Speaker 3: he's really the bottom line. And then where they kind
Speaker 3: of maybe excel a little bit more, you kind of
Speaker 3: kind of game plan and call plays a little more.
Speaker 3: That way, it's before he's gonna be ready for is
Speaker 3: he fully go?
Speaker 7: Full go?
Speaker 3: Now he's full go. He'll be full go when you
Speaker 3: come back for the off season. Yeah, how is his
Speaker 3: Snoot's not coming.
Speaker 4: Back as the backup and he's talking about the backup
Speaker 4: for the weston the league and Josh and learn what
Speaker 4: you see and.
Speaker 3: From what you see can god Yeah, I mean Josh,
Speaker 3: Josh would be the backup quarterback.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: Uh he's uh, he's coming back.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Thrilled to heave him back. I think he's he's he
Speaker 3: can still play at a really high level. He knows
Speaker 3: the offense inside. Now he contributes to the offense. He
Speaker 3: and Lamar have a great relationship. So I think he
Speaker 3: brings so much to us. Malik is you know, kind
Speaker 3: of just an opportunity for him. He's a great guy.
Speaker 3: I love love his personality. From what I can see,
Speaker 3: his work ethic is really good, all those kind of things.
Speaker 3: Uh So that's just see what happens with that and
Speaker 3: see how he looks when we get out there. What
Speaker 3: kind of problems did Aaron done? Was well, we just
Speaker 3: talked about lineman be able to be able to block people.
Speaker 3: That was kind of the trade. The defining trade for
Speaker 3: Lineman is blocking people. Right, Aaron Donald's pretty much unblockable,
Speaker 3: you know with one guy. Uh really the ability for
Speaker 3: him to ruin the play before the play gets started,
Speaker 3: I would say he jumps out in my mind, you know,
Speaker 3: he makes one little movement or twitches or kind of
Speaker 3: looks a certain way. Next you know, he's in the
Speaker 3: backfield making a tackle and you're kind of like, what happened.
Speaker 3: I seemed to make a habit of doing that offenses.
Speaker 3: You guy's great at what he did me with. That's
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. If he didn't do anything, we put a
Speaker 3: couple of guys on him.
Speaker 4: That was a think of the drawing, but obviously been
Speaker 4: injuries the last couple of years, kept from block. Can
Speaker 4: you talk about where he is and how important of
Speaker 4: the year is should be for him? Get kind of
Speaker 4: you know, so what he's what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think David's gonna just I think he's gonna
Speaker 3: break out, you know. I think he and a Dafe
Speaker 3: are you know, gonna be partners in crime?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I think those guys are gonna play great together. Uh,
Speaker 3: they're they're raided role man. I mean every time I
Speaker 3: talk to him, every time I see him the broom
Speaker 3: with enthusiasm, they're they're they're working hard. He's healthy, They're
Speaker 3: both healthy. Can't wait to get to work with those
Speaker 3: guys are good. Hey, I'm just.
Speaker 7: Curious what's your process or you know, going through with
Speaker 7: your coordinators from last year, the things that you kind
Speaker 7: of said that obviously you like as you didn't like,
Speaker 7: and then if you can highlight some of the things
Speaker 7: yourself as you move into this season, in particular offense,
Speaker 7: you know, you guys very far again, very well, but
Speaker 7: what's the next Eschel one that you want to see?
Speaker 3: The offensive all too? Yeah, that's kind of the bottom
Speaker 3: line kind of what you said, they're at the the
Speaker 3: the last part of it, I think, more than anything
Speaker 3: is just keep improving and getting better. So, you know,
Speaker 3: special teams wise, with Chris Horton, who I think is
Speaker 3: an amazing coach, you know, we've got we're looking at
Speaker 3: the new kickoff rules and then uh personnel and then scheme,
Speaker 3: so you know, where can we tweak the scheme and
Speaker 3: and the way we teach our techniques. So that's kind
Speaker 3: of set, but there's still ways we can improve. Defensively,
Speaker 3: We'll start with Zach Orr. I mean, Zach's gonna be
Speaker 3: a new coordinator. We've got you know, new coaches on defense,
Speaker 3: so that's gonna be huge. I mean, that's a that's
Speaker 3: taking what we do with and adding the ideas and
Speaker 3: the talents and new coaches haven't taken Zach's personality and
Speaker 3: putting his stamp on it.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: Then offensively first year to second year is big. So
Speaker 3: the opportunity to take an offense that was pretty dramatically different,
Speaker 3: you know, we was it was like the old offense
Speaker 3: or the previous offense, and the fact that it was
Speaker 3: so different from what everybody else was doing. So I
Speaker 3: think it's it's it's alike in that it's different, but
Speaker 3: it's definitely different than what we did. So with that
Speaker 3: there comes a lot of a lot of nuances, a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of details that you've got to
Speaker 3: you know, become really good at to tech plays and
Speaker 3: the way you do it in this offense is different
Speaker 3: than the way you did in the previous office we
Speaker 3: were running, So our ability to take the next step
Speaker 3: Todd leading that got great coaches and Greg Lewis and
Speaker 3: Willie Taggart, George Goatsee all those guys just do a
Speaker 3: phenomenal job working together, Travis Switzer of building this thing.
Speaker 3: So we're kind of we're way way underwater right now
Speaker 3: working on taking the next step in our offense, and
Speaker 3: I'm excited about where we're going at.
Speaker 2: Thanks John, I'm sorry if asked us already speaks to
Speaker 2: a special teams background.
Speaker 3: I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the kick off
Speaker 3: most of them. Yeah, and we talked about that. I'm
Speaker 3: just I'm excited about the I'm excited about I just
Speaker 3: think Roger Goodell is doing a great job of driving
Speaker 3: bringing the trying to bring the kickoff return back into
Speaker 3: the game and make it exciting for the fans. The
Speaker 3: fans the fans like excitement, right, So you want to
Speaker 3: play that's more than a ceremonial play, and it's been
Speaker 3: a ceremonial play really for the last number of years,
Speaker 3: and so a way to bring it back and bring
Speaker 3: it back safely, that's what I'm for. How we go
Speaker 3: about doing that, that's the conversation. It is not easy,
Speaker 3: but we'll come to something really good. But look up
Speaker 3: the play is that gonna be hard to get over
Speaker 3: all way, but uh, well there's a lot. There's a
Speaker 3: lot too. It's just really different. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 3: have a line of scrimmage. It's just a different play
Speaker 3: to get your arms around. And really the biggest thing
Speaker 3: about it when you really dig dig down deep, is
Speaker 3: that there's just unpredictable. There's a lot of unintended consequences
Speaker 3: and you don't know what it's gonna look like. So
Speaker 3: that's what everybody's kind of trying to get their arms around.
Speaker 6: John Fossil said yesterday, I think you asked the most
Speaker 6: questions when he was presenting it to the group.
Speaker 3: What were your questions? And is that it's your assessment
Speaker 3: it is, and uh, and his answers were very good.
Speaker 3: And John did a great job and and and Darren
Speaker 3: Rizzy Rizz did a great job too. Those guys are
Speaker 3: great coaches. And I think they were tasked with making
Speaker 3: that play work and uh, they went to work on
Speaker 3: that and they figure out a way to make the
Speaker 3: play workable. So I'm satisfied that the play's workable. I
Speaker 3: don't know what it's gonna look like. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: there's not a better answer maybe, but uh, that's what
Speaker 3: you know. Everybody's gonna put their heads together and kind
Speaker 3: of decide then really just to see how it works
Speaker 3: out to you a lot on Shani.
Speaker 6: When you're in the vote for yes or no or
Speaker 6: you don't think you guys had conversations about it.
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, we talked about last night as a matter
Speaker 3: of fact. So I don't know what we're gonna do yet.
Speaker 3: We'll see, honestly, real football. I think it makes sense.
Speaker 3: The Eagle's proposal. Yeah, it's good. It's a it's a
Speaker 3: it's kind of cleaning things up a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I like it. John, that's the lawn's gone forrest period.
Speaker 3: His rushes have goe down. Do you think people with
Speaker 3: the addition of the Derrick Henry, do you think it
Speaker 3: will still his? You know, the more you know the
Speaker 3: design runs and evens and scramble will even go Dell
Speaker 3: even brother. I don't know. Lamar is gonna play the
Speaker 3: way Lamar plays, and that's what I'm for, you know.
Speaker 3: I love the way he plays the game. I think
Speaker 3: he's intuitively an intelligently uh just a phenomenal football player.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: He sees the game in a very unique ways, very
Speaker 3: smart ways. So I'm for him playing the way that
Speaker 3: he plays, you know. And I think that just Derrick
Speaker 3: Henry being there, plus Lamar plus the other guys, it's
Speaker 3: a good formula. I'm in a big last year you're
Speaker 3: undertaking for the costo with the wide receiver entering the draft.
Speaker 3: If you have a kind of pet project entering quest
Speaker 3: h yeah I do. But if I told you that,
Speaker 3: I'd be kind of give them a rare draft plans
Speaker 3: run way. Yeah, it's a very very clever way to
Speaker 3: ask the questions. I'm smart, Yeah I have. I'm finished
Speaker 3: with my first round of assignments. Now I'm going to
Speaker 3: the second level after this. These media, I can take
Speaker 3: this for what positions or especially uh No, I don't
Speaker 3: have a very I'm gonna answer for you on that. Eric,
Speaker 3: he does a good job answer knows. You'll probably see
Speaker 3: him around. Why why aren't the gims here doing this?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: They are? Do they do the media?
Speaker 6: So okay, I don't don't Soar and obviously texting a lot,
Speaker 6: and he kind of has some ideas the season, what
Speaker 6: seems to be his self assessment, what he's working on,
Speaker 6: what he.
Speaker 3: Thinks his next step should. Yeah, Lamar his feelings about
Speaker 3: his next step. You know, he's got a lot of thoughts.
Speaker 3: I'm he's, he's, he's, it's it's like any there's no
Speaker 3: one football thing, you know. I think he's looking at
Speaker 3: every aspect of his game. He starts with himself. That's
Speaker 3: what I love about Lamar, what can I do better?
Speaker 3: And that's why he continues to improve. And then he
Speaker 3: goes to what we need, you know, what we need
Speaker 3: schematically in his in his view, and he you know,
Speaker 3: he trusts the coaches and he wants to like he
Speaker 3: we talked that week and shared ideas schematically also personnel wise,
Speaker 3: and then we're kind of working on that now and
Speaker 3: he'll come back and he'll look at everything and we'll
Speaker 3: want to know what he thinks, you know, like do
Speaker 3: you prefer this or this? It's more comfortable in this
Speaker 3: direction or that direction? You know what do you like
Speaker 3: any other ideas you had since since we talked last?
Speaker 3: And Lamarro will be part of the architect I believe
Speaker 3: he'll be a big part of the architect on the offense,
Speaker 3: having free agents design.
Speaker 7: What do you see?
Speaker 4: How he think?
Speaker 6: Sevens? I guess how particle is he?
Speaker 7: Who?
Speaker 3: Who's at Lamar?
Speaker 7: Just for you together?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Lamar, Yeah, Lamar's that's I'd say that's one
Speaker 3: of his greatest strengths as the locker room. You know,
Speaker 3: he's just he's just you you or you know him.
Speaker 3: I mean, he who what you see is what you
Speaker 3: get and even like more fun because he's got his
Speaker 3: guard up a little bit, I'm sure you know in
Speaker 3: his public persona, but when he lets his guard down,
Speaker 3: he's just kind of being who he is. Funny, funny dude,
Speaker 3: a funny guy, lovable guy. He's just he likes people.
Speaker 3: He's a he's a magnet. You know, in the locker room,
Speaker 3: the guys love him. Has he provided a wish list
Speaker 3: of guys and he's looking at guys now. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he and I agree on a few guys. We haven't
Speaker 3: disagreed on anybody yet, so sharing our vision together, talking
Speaker 3: about wide receivers or tight ends already come about anybody
Speaker 3: like a position? Well, he's more interested in the wide
Speaker 3: receivers and tight ends. Yeah, he isn't hasn't waited in
Speaker 3: any offensive lineman just yet. Yeah, that's true when you
Speaker 3: guys are treated mosts. I think there was some confusion
Speaker 3: on the band and it seemed like he was on
Speaker 3: relatively team bring the deal he had injury gets to
Speaker 3: pick the Southeast and picks plays kind of explained the
Speaker 3: decision to move on and it works to pick out here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's a tough explanation because I think the fans
Speaker 3: are right in the sense that, wow, you know, that's
Speaker 3: just looking at that as a as a signal, a
Speaker 3: single move.
Speaker 7: You know it was.
Speaker 3: He's a heck of a player. Everybody loves him. He
Speaker 3: works hard, he's he's productive, played through injuries last year
Speaker 3: and was on a team friendly contract. But in the
Speaker 3: big picture, when you kind of step back and you
Speaker 3: look at the whole cap structure, uh, it was. It
Speaker 3: was tight, you know, and that was an opportunity I
Speaker 3: think where you know, unfortunately, trade pick up the pick
Speaker 3: up the cap space, create some cushion, a little bit,
Speaker 3: a little bit of a buffer that we needed and
Speaker 3: we have a you know, we have a young player
Speaker 3: there that has a chance to to to kind of
Speaker 3: step forward and play well. So that was a tough decision.
Speaker 3: Dylan as now the second one, this tenured coach in
Speaker 3: the league. You ever take time to think about like
Speaker 3: your future all world in the dead one like you,
Speaker 3: I hope to have one. Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm for
Speaker 3: having a future, not not much more than the immediate future.
Speaker 3: To be honest with you, you know, I think about
Speaker 3: the past. Because someone showed me a clip of our
Speaker 3: press conference and they asked me if it if it
Speaker 3: felt like thirty years ago. I said no, but it
Speaker 3: did look like thirty years ago. You know, Steve and
Speaker 3: I both looked at you a lot younger than that
Speaker 3: press conference. So you know, you look, you look, you
Speaker 3: do you look in the mirror, whatever, and you say, wow,
Speaker 3: this is really amazing. And the people that we've been around,
Speaker 3: the great moments and the tough moments, but that's what
Speaker 3: makes it so great. And I just I love what
Speaker 3: I'm doing. I love these kind of the setting here.
Speaker 3: I love I love you guys, you gals, I believe
Speaker 3: it or not, you know, it's it's something that you
Speaker 3: know someday, you know, we're all gonna look back on them.
Speaker 3: We're gonna say, wow, that was pretty cool. We got
Speaker 3: a chance to do that. So I just want to like,
Speaker 3: look look at it right now and say, wow, this
Speaker 3: is pretty cool that we get a chance to do
Speaker 3: that and make the most of it. You foul just
Speaker 3: to tackle at this point or at their chance that
Speaker 3: he couldn't. I would say, let's focus a tackle right now,
Speaker 3: you know, definitely, Jeff. Let's let's see if we get
Speaker 3: that right tackle thing and give him a chance to win.
Speaker 3: Your job on his life is a state of pullback.
Speaker 3: He's not ob you hard or anything. Correct. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: saying her heads have prevailed. That's why I look at it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's he's great at what he does, so let's let's
Speaker 3: let him be great. Have you guys heard one way
Speaker 3: or the other from the NFL on anything relating today?
Speaker 3: Just status kind of thing, no updates. Uh, that's I
Speaker 3: don't really have any details on that. I don't I
Speaker 3: don't have nothing I could really share in that right
Speaker 3: now if that would help Ton.
Speaker 2: There was a report earlier in the off season that
Speaker 2: you guys might be.
Speaker 3: Bringing Jerry Rossbern back in some capacity. Anything you can
Speaker 3: share with that, I mean, were there talks? Was there
Speaker 3: a decision just not to do it? Like, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I I thought that was way like overblown, you know.
Speaker 3: And and Jerry, Jerry. I talked to Jerry a lot.
Speaker 3: You know, Jerry's one of them. He's my best friend,
Speaker 3: you know. I think he's a he's a great coach
Speaker 3: and uh and he's he's a wise person, you know,
Speaker 3: so you seek you seek wisdom and advice where you
Speaker 3: can so in some form or fashion. I think, you know,
Speaker 3: if Jerry did it with Denver, he did that and
Speaker 3: he became the head coach for a couple of couple
Speaker 3: of games. So you know, I'm sure Jerry's interested. Or
Speaker 3: he told me that he might might maybe in some
Speaker 3: role if we wanted and if we needed him, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, that'd be cool, you know, And and
Speaker 3: let's kind of see where that goes, you know, and
Speaker 3: see if there is something that would make sense, but
Speaker 3: not not on a full time type basis. That was
Speaker 3: really never the conversation. That's not what we talked about.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then we'll just see where we go with our
Speaker 3: staff and see if there's a place where just kind
Speaker 3: of as a as a consultant advisor type of of
Speaker 3: a position that would help us, only if it would.
Speaker 6: Help us, like to see or he's around.
Speaker 3: So could you say it again, he's around? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was great. I was sitting right across in the
Speaker 3: meeting from from Joe and from my brother Jim, you know,
Speaker 3: so couldn't help, like, you know, catch catch their eye.
Speaker 3: But we weren't. We weren't. We weren't making faces or anything.
Speaker 3: It was it's just neat to see those guys. And
Speaker 3: Mike was sitting right over there. That was cool. Joe's
Speaker 3: Joe's wonderful. You know, he's just a He's a great person.
Speaker 3: You kind of you miss those guys and you see
Speaker 3: come back and you see them and you're like, man,
Speaker 3: I miss you, you know, but you move forward and
Speaker 3: they get their opportunity and that's great. He seems like
Speaker 3: with Odell though, I mean, you guys love them. He
Speaker 3: love to be here.
Speaker 4: What kind of do you think went into the fact that,
Speaker 4: you know, he is one of probably play else.
Speaker 7: With the show.
Speaker 3: I just think it was more. I think it was
Speaker 3: just more financial, you know, I think it has more
Speaker 3: to do with it. I'm sure I didn't. I wasn't
Speaker 3: involved any of that, but I'm sure that that he
Speaker 3: and Eric talked and it just wasn't gonna work out,
Speaker 3: you know, just from a number standpoint, probably as much
Speaker 3: from we're at you know, we're in a tight set
Speaker 3: cap type situation and kind of was a mutual understanding.
Speaker 3: I think that way turns Brandy Brown, what is the
Speaker 3: name of your what is the name for your organization?
Speaker 3: That lets me especially teams guy? Now you look at
Speaker 3: two top highest pay kickers. Now, so are you are you?
Speaker 3: Are you related to Randy Jersey guy? Okay, yeah, Uh
Speaker 3: In all serious is Randy Brown is a great coach.
Speaker 3: You know, I think he's he's a pioneer. Uh you
Speaker 3: know how he got into the league. What he's done
Speaker 3: is he was the first one to do it. Really
Speaker 3: and there's a couple other guys kind of back back
Speaker 3: in those days with Randy and Randy's he's he's been
Speaker 3: around for a long time, and now he knows the
Speaker 3: special teams game inside out. He knows the rules really well.
Speaker 3: He brings a unique personalities everybody around here, you know
Speaker 3: when they laugh, you know, as you know, he's one
Speaker 3: of the kind, and I think he does a great
Speaker 3: job with those guys. He coaches a specialist really like
Speaker 3: nobody else in the league. But even beyond that, you know,
Speaker 3: he coaches the special teams too. So, Uh, he's been
Speaker 3: a he's been a really strong Uh, he's been a
Speaker 3: strong addition for us. He's been a strong part of
Speaker 3: move accompassed over the years. You do two more gus, Johnny.
Speaker 3: It happens to me a lot too, you know, Uh,
Speaker 3: anybody else, John Sometimes we don't get a chance to
Speaker 3: ask you about too much.
Speaker 2: But Roderick Washington last year, did you make up his season?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 2: It just didn't seem like maybe he stood out quite
Speaker 2: as much as he did the year before. I mean,
Speaker 2: you guys extended him last summer. Men, just where do
Speaker 2: you think you know kind.
Speaker 3: Of where he is right now? Yeah, Brody, I saw
Speaker 3: Broddy in the building just last week. He's in there
Speaker 3: lifting weights and working hard. You know, that's the thing,
Speaker 3: and I thought he had a good season last year
Speaker 3: and he's gonna be who he is. You know, he's
Speaker 3: gonna be a very good player for us. He's gonna
Speaker 3: be a guy that's gonna it's gonna he's gonna stop
Speaker 3: the run. He's gonna be where he's supposed to be.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be running to the ball. He's gonna be
Speaker 3: brushing the quarterback from the inside, pushing the pocket.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: He gives us valuable reps and he's he's a great teammate.
Speaker 3: So he gotta have those kind of guys. I those
Speaker 3: Nutt and Bolt guys like Broader Washington or guys that
Speaker 3: kind of you get you. That's part of your structure.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: If you don't have guys like that, your structure doesn't
Speaker 3: hold together. So that's why, well that's why we love him.
Speaker 3: So when he brings to the table is just exactly
Speaker 3: what we need him to bring to the table. So
Speaker 3: I expect him to have a great year and kind
Speaker 3: of do what he does. Bits I think we mentioned
Speaker 3: of the combine without your admiration to the Dolphins and
Speaker 3: to do with the RPO just getting the call up
Speaker 3: quickly or maybe maybe not our do what the Dolphins do? Oh,
Speaker 3: the Dolphins get the ball out quickly. I guess you
Speaker 3: guys are using more propios this year. The markt developed bicker.
Speaker 3: You want to see that kind of continue and they
Speaker 3: get How would you kind of evaluate the increcia where
Speaker 3: you guys would up? Yeah, I mean, I think we're
Speaker 3: in the right place with our RPOs. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's something that we're gonna like go wholesale towards because
Speaker 3: Lamar's got so many different ways he plays the game
Speaker 3: and there's other things we like to do, to be
Speaker 3: honest with you, so RPOs are a part of it.
Speaker 3: I don't see it's going towards like anybody's specific offense
Speaker 3: that runs those more than anybody else, or like anybody else,
Speaker 3: because our quarterback is different, you know, than anybody else's,
Speaker 3: So none of these quarterbacks are exactly the same. And
Speaker 3: to me, you've got to build the offense around your
Speaker 3: specific guy. So RPOs will be a part of what
Speaker 3: we're doing, for sure, They're not gonna be the main
Speaker 3: part of what we're doing. It really hasn't been that way.
Speaker 3: It's not like the number one thing we do some teams.
Speaker 4: It is.
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