WEBVTT - John Harbaugh & Players: Ravens OTA Practice 5/22 Press Conferences 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.320 Welcome to the Ravens Presspass podcast. It is Wednesday, May 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.240 twenty second. The Ravens hit the field this afternoon for 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.200 organized team activities OTAs started earlier this week and today 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.360 was the first chance for the local media to be 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.520 out there watching practice, as well as talking with some 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.880 of the players and head coach John Harbaugh after the 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.280 practice session. Let's kick things off with coach Hardball. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:28.960 Okay, good to see everybody. Appreciate you guys all being here. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.600 Beautiful day, great day for football. Every day is a 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:34.800 great day for football. This is also a great day 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.400 for a lot of other things too, So it's fun 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.000 to have the guys out. We worked hard, good tempo practice. 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.920 We had at a big number of coaches here, not 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.360 all the coaches that were here yesterday for the clinic, 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.199 but most of them were here, got a chance to 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.000 watch practice. They were in some meetings today with some 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.440 of our coaches and that was really worthwhile as well. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.640 Of course, coming off yesterday, we had kind of a 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.440 day of coaching clinic. So what questions you have about 0:00:59.440 --> 0:00:59.840 the Ravens. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.840 There's a lot of talk about Lamar when he said 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.960 he's lost a lot of weight. This this off season. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:06.959 He said he's found to to something whatever. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.080 Uh can you down to two something or whatever as 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:11.479 well something? 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:19.160 Luckily I don't play quarterback, but we're all thankful. But 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.760 with Lamar, I mean, can you see that? Can you 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.720 see the weight lost one in? And what do you think? 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:24.880 What do you think of that? 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.440 Yeah, I mean it's fine. I don't I think that's Lamar. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.280 He's a pro. You know, he knows what he's doing, 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.600 he knows where he wants to be with that. My 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.120 concern is that he's in shape best shape of his life, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.720 and he's working toward that, and he's he's ready football wise, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.520 all the details that go with that and mentally, physically, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.640 spiritually ready to go. That's kind of what I think 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.520 about I do. I know he's you know, he talks 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.600 to the strength and conditioning people, He's got his own people. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.600 He talks to Sarah all the time. You know, he's 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.960 a pro. He knows what he's doing. You encouraged by 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:51.920 the guys get out here. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:53.960 It's work out that Inventum's getting out play. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.880 Yeah, I mean, I'm always encouraged by everybody that comes out. 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.880 I just you know, to me, it's easy as a coach. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.120 You know, we're here. We want to be here, we 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.280 want we want to we want to do football. We're excited. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.160 And we had a heck of a practice out there 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:05.520 today and it was a lot of guys out there 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.720 today and it was exciting. And a couple of guys 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.480 were in, a couple of guys were here that weren't 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.280 out there, a couple of guys aren't here. It it's 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:12.880 all part of it. But it's uh, it's most of 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.000 the team out there practicing, so very excited about that. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.720 Later doing joint protect with them. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.799 Can you is that it or practices or or you 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.120 have another right? 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.560 Uh? That that's it. At this point, it's gonna be 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:31.280 one day up in up in Green Bay. We we 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.200 don't have anything else playing with the other teams at 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:34.880 this point. I don't think we will. But you know, 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:36.800 that could change. We could decide and talk to somebody 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.760 in Atlanta or Philly and do something. But right now, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:40.639 that's that's where. 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.639 We're going Saturday game. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:44.440 John. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.120 There's obviously a lot of interest with the offensive line 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:48.440 and what it's going to look like this time. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.280 You understand it. I have a lot of interest in 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.040 it too. I think about it pretty much every day 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.680 understanding OTAs and the structure that what are you really 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.320 looking at right now in terms of evaluate just where 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.920 these guys are. Yeah, you know, there's always competition for everything, 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:07.520 but it's not always the obvious combat competition. You know, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.839 they're not fighting battles out here against each other during 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:14.040 the play, but there's competition against assignment, footwork, timing, competition 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.560 against conditioning, you know, football shape, that kind of thing, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.560 doing things the right way, technique, that's what guys are 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.720 competing against themselves and convenient against the clock. So they're 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.720 preparing for that. That combat competition is going to happen 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.200 in practice going forward. But we want to see guys 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.799 working together. We want to see them knowing what they're doing. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.120 We want to see technique. I want to see cohesiveness, 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.880 all those things. This time last year we were out 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.320 here and Brandon Stevens was playing safety, and then of 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.280 course he gets juggling around, he ends up a cornerback 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.280 where he had played in college. What most impressed you 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.960 last year about the way he played cornerback and forth? Ye, Well, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:47.800 it's always interesting. I think the best way I could 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.960 describe with Brandon is he's always been meticulous, detailed guy 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.680 wants to do things exactly right. I would say, as 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.520 you develop, when you when you never want to make 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.720 a mistake, you want do things exactly right. You're so 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.440 chances that way, it might slow your reaction time down 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.560 a little bit because you want to be right. Well, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.160 his reaction time picked up. So through all that work 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.040 of doing things right, I think he gained some confidence, 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.280 he gained some suredness, maybe believed in his technique even 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.600 more and more as he knew more, got more experience, 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.599 and then he started playing faster, and he started playing faster. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.200 He had already had mastered all the techniques in the assignments, 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.560 and it showed up in the in the in the result, Donkie, 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.160 you mentioned wanting you to see Andrew Orgy snack. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.000 Out here after you know, a long year off. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:30.479 Initial impressions in. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:31.560 Him getting some work in. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.120 Yeah, he looks good, looks real good and shorts, you know, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.520 and I think he's got a good chance to translate 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.719 that once we put the pads on a training camp. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.160 Because he's strong. I mean, he's been in that weight 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:42.839 room for a whole year. It's all he's been doing. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.400 He's been caged in the weight room, locked the doors 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.039 behind him. He just leave him in the weight room, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:48.800 set him a meal, a couple of meals every now 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.039 and then in a protein shake, you know, and lift 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.400 another time. And there he is. You see him out there. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.760 He looks really good, speaking offensive line and saws the 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.239 day in getting some Christine grips attack on Jones in Cleveland. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.040 At the guards spots, obviously. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.719 It's like you're charting when we're playing all these guys 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:06.120 or something. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.480 Well, just we're lean in this process and kind of 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.320 de part is it a is it kind of you 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.520 sort of just look for the best combinations at this 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:14.359 point in trying. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:15.760 To find you know, what would you like? 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:17.720 It's a great question. I think it kind of goes 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.640 a little bit back to the Brandon Stevens question. It's 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.600 like you just don't know what's gonna happen. You don't 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.200 know what guys are gonna look like. I always want 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.400 to look at guys at different spots, unless they're established 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.120 at that position, see where they see, where they look good, 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:29.800 where they look the best. You never know what you 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.000 might see, and then see where they're needed and also 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.240 where they might be needed sometime during the season, god 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:36.080 Lamar said that. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.320 The players are still talking. They still talk about that balls. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.120 They answer Championship King balls. As a coach, it's kind 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.719 of like a coach Gecademy of question here. As a coach, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.000 do you like that that still motivates the players or 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:49.960 would you prefer a let's let's. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:50.800 Move let's move past that. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.080 I think it's both, you know, I mean, you never forget, uh, 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.920 you forgive, but don't forget. Well, we don't really forgive either, 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.000 I guess, but we don't forget for or and try 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.160 to improve. It's all. It's always gonna be part of it. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.000 I want them talking about everything. You know that what 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.000 we're talking about is confronting everything. It has to do 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.400 with us being the very best we can be as 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.960 a football team and as an individual player. So if 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:13.800 that's part of the confrontation of it, let's go, man, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.120 let's talk about it, let's get better, and then let's 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:17.160 find a way to beat those guys. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.000 Any motivation for week one, but I mean Kansas City 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.840 in the first game of the season, is that you 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.880 do you expect with sort of that afftertase, that guys will. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.360 Be you know, hyper ready for the first time. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.000 Well, I mean yeah, I mean they gotta be ready. 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.760 They would have been hyper ready. To use that term, 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.800 which is your term, just for the record, hyper ready. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.200 I don't usually say hyper ready uber ready. Maybe that 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.120 you might have used that term would be even cooler. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.400 You know, uber ready. We're gonna be uber ready, but 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.800 we'll be ready and we'ld have been ready for any 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.520 opening no matter who we're playing, you know, and uh 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:52.600 looking forward to it. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.159 John, I know you have more a lack of going 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.120 on throughout the off season and stuff like that that 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:59.840 would kind of take your mind away from it. But 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.120 does it stick around even for you? 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.440 Everything sticks around? You know, everything sticks around, sure before 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:08.000 you get to know it. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:09.760 Jeric, what are you learning about him as a player 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:10.640 on an office field? 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:12.520 You know one thing about Derek one of many things. 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.320 I mean, he works. He is a worker, one hundred 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:21.200 percent every day, locked in asked questions, Texas coach at night, 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.200 ready to go with practice in the weight room, training room, 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.760 Very impressed. This guy is a true pro, ultimate pro. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.240 Is Keith Mitchell making the progress or do you have 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.280 a better idea when he might be out if. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.120 We saw him out there? Obviously just watch it. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.120 And if Marcus Williams was good, right, he didn't need any. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:39.880 For sin director. 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.920 See, I don't think he had anything after the season. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.120 Marcus swims out, he's fine. Keith is you know, it's 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.360 it's not it's not a comeback during training camp or 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.200 or the first game type of thing. I think we 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.160 all know that it's sometime during the season. So it's 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.000 not like right around the corner. We shouldn't be, you know, 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.840 biting our fingernails. Is he gonna back? But I will 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.280 say he's on schedule, maybe ahead of schedule. He's doing 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.040 really well. Uh so he's got a smile on his face. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.280 He's gonna start jogging on the Ultra g next week. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.800 So that's a positive thing. And see where it goes. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.840 Two more, there was the report of Jamal Adams coming 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.800 in through visit yesterday. How did how did that go? 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.080 And you know, what do you what could he potentially 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.600 out of that? You know, we we he and I 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.320 at the Pro Bowl like four years ago. When we 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.600 were there. Uh, we rode the bus back and forth 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.640 every day for whatever reason, you know, and uh we 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.080 got to be kind of pals. You know, we had 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:30.920 a we had a fun time and kind of carried 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.360 that relationship forward. Then we came back and we met. 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:34.600 He met with a lot of people, but he met 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.640 in my office and we had another great conversation. Very impressed. 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.720 Very impressed was his mindset. And we'll see what happens. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:42.920 I know, we'll get you one here too. 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:48.160 Yeah, I know, congratz coach Harbor Academy was your to 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.199 take from yesterday? Having Bill Doug. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.880 Taken that, it was incredible. And Tom Crean, I mean 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.559 between Bill and my dad and Tom Crean, I was 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.440 like on vacation man. It was like it was fun 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.760 just listening to those guys and I know, the coaches 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.720 at the clinic. It was like that was the price 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.360 of admission right there. Not that they had to pay. 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:04.800 It was free. And they had a free meal and 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.800 they might have had a beer for him too along 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.719 the way, you know, but they got to hear from 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.760 those three guys. Was just it was really really awesome. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:20.079 Help of Jones, did Jed throw you off right there? 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.240 He always he's always Johnny come lately with the questions, 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:23.720 So we got. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:26.880 Ask me questions. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.000 John Marcy doesn't really have like a target wing for 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:32.160 himself playing wise, and. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.160 Is there like a threshold that which you would feel 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.200 comfortable with them, considering and everything he's kind of put himself. 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.679 Yeah, yeah, I think that's a very good question. And 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.599 the answers No, you know, we don't worry about it. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.280 Like I said, he's he's a pro. He knows what 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.720 he's doing. I mean, I'm sure if you got crazy, 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.040 you know, if he came in a two hundred fifty pounds, 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.800 that might be a little concerned. If he came here 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.760 one hundred and fifty pound, I'd probably be a little concerned. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.960 But he's going to be in there where he needs 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:57.400 to be. He's going to be in great shape and 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:57.800 ready to go. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.960 That was head coach John Harbaugh. We also heard from 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:07.120 quarterback Lamar Jackson for the first time since the twenty 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.920 twenty three season ended. He talked with reporters about shetting 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.520 so wait this offseason, the motivation that he has going 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.880 into this year and his mindset going into this season. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.880 Like to have you worked with Derrick Henry. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.400 H backfield looking explosive. I'll see that. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.200 I believe it'd be great, but it's still OTA's right now. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:35.760 You know, you can't tell them to the season company 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:37.240 for you. 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.880 How many pounds exactly have you lost and why do 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:40.280 you feel like. 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.880 That was important for you? I don't really know how 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:44.840 how many pounds I lost night to something right now, 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.360 but I'll just say it was the point of enough 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.360 I can be able to move around a little bit extra, 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:50.000 that's all. 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:51.760 Did you share how you did it as a diet 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.040 exercise Mediterranean? 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:54.600 I'm a charge. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.400 I'm a charge for that, you know, because people be 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.839 doing these little plans and stuff and they still be 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:00.600 you know, having. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.880 They weight on 'em. No, not not to offend anyone, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.520 nothing like that, but uh yeah, you gonna have to 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.520 pay for that. It was hard get wait for one 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:14.040 uh just just under two thirty and it what what 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.199 what's the main reason for for you know? Used that way? 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:18.040 Uh? 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.679 Just so I can be more agile, be able to 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.000 move more so. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.360 A Tait the Lark. How was your off season? 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.400 We saw you in Germany? How was that experience there? 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.079 That was a dope experience for y'all. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:28.240 Uh? 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.079 Never been to Germany, never been on that side of 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.800 the country. Uh Man, great people, Uh different food. I 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:36.199 was enjoying it. I was enjoying it. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.280 I was surprised about the fans we had over there. 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.400 I was surprised about that, but it was a great experience. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:42.240 So you were skilled and talking art. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.160 Yeah, they you know, I had a little something going 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:46.640 I think I tweeted about that too, like I had 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.800 a little something going on. But you know, hopefully they 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.760 try to draft me after I'm doing football. 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.000 More to get be a more agile out of your 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:53.600 mis guild. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.839 Heck, yeah, gee, I feel great, feel great to be 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.360 back out here with my guys, man grinding, getting better. 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:00.360 I feel great. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:00.960 Now. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.240 May you've lost some Wait, it's kind of weird with 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.160 Derrick Henry in the backfield, as big as he is. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:06.920 As big as he might. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.640 Oh, I'll just get the balling go big gold Gold. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.400 You know, I'm cheering like the fans and. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:16.040 That's all like being seeing him on your side of 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.560 the line. You're obviously you guys going back and forth 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.800 so so many years against Derek. What what's it like 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.800 kind of having him in the backfield as a resource. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.439 Well, I never had to go against Derek ever, so 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.120 that's a plus for me. But it's great to have 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.280 him in our backfield. Man got a great line to 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.360 block for him and We know what type of player 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.040 he is, you know, we know type of defense we have, 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:35.679 know what type of skill players we have here. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.720 Man, I feel like we were getting there. You getting there? 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.360 You said you feel more agile out there. Do you 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.720 remember the last time he felt the way you feel 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:44.760 right now moving around? 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:46.160 Nah? 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.720 Nah, it's been so long. You know, we had COVID 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.160 and stuff happened to us. You know, it slowed us 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.760 down a little. But I feel great right now. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:53.920 Feel great. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:55.960 Do you feel like you're sacrifice saying anything in terms 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.640 of protecting yourself because a block of passer back taking this. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:12:59.440 Weight off of fright now? 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.880 N I I believe, you know, we sacrificing our body 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.000 each and every game, you know practices. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.720 So yeah, I I believe it really don't matter about 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:07.760 the wait what more? 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:08.320 How long. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.760 From power last season? And you know that. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.680 Now, you know that's I believe. 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:18.400 I believe it. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.240 It hurt more went losing before the Super Bowl than 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.000 actually like being a part of it, you know, cause 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.240 it was like, we don't work so hard seventeen weeks 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.800 plus the little playoff games and we get to a 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.439 game away and lose, you know, and we didn't put 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.160 really we really didn't put any any points on the board, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.160 and we were just scoring like thirty some points against 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.000 crazy team cr great defenses, Don't get me wrong, that's 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.480 a great defense as well, but like you know, the 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.920 top ranked defenses and stuff like that. But you know, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.120 we just gotta finish, man, We gotta find a way 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:45.920 to move the ball and in the right direction and 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:46.800 put points on the board. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.880 Cause our defense did they think the whole night if 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:50.400 you watched the. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.400 Did you watch the f on that game as you 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.800 what did you kind of take away? Did you sort 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.839 of learn whatever how you wanna put it, you know 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:58.640 that you bring it to this season to kind of 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:00.640 your past the stuff. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.800 Got what I took away from it? Put points on 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:03.240 the board. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.719 You know we I I believe we were driving the 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.040 ball down the field, you know, not how we wanted to, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:09.480 but we drove the ball down the field. We just 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:10.839 got to put points on the board. You know, we 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.959 had two costly turnovers in the rams On. You know 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.760 that the game would have been different at twenty one seventeen, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.440 right though, you know, so it is what it. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.920 Is, man, John Horba tem It's a lot about getting 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.880 Rishon Dateman more involved in this is how did you 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.920 feel coming out of the season in terms of wanting 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.320 to get him make him a bigger part of this offense. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:30.280 Yeah, yeah, no doubt. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:30.800 Man. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.600 He he's a lusive receiver man, great out the ball, 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.080 you know, great separation. We just gotta give him the ball. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.360 That's all toward you know, point blank period. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.640 Is there any specific focus for you this offseason in 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.640 year two on the Todd's offense? And how do you 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.720 feel entering this offense compared to last year at this 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.120 time and this year one of your. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.480 Sh man you say, how set again? How I feel entering? 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:53.000 Yeah? 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.680 Entering you Does it feel different this year this offseason 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.280 now that you've had a year under your belt with 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:58.040 Todd and and. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.320 What's your specific focus this year in. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:01.360 Year or two under Hid? 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.600 Yeah, I'm a lot more comfortable with everything. You know, 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.440 how he pl how he call him the plays, and 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.360 you know what he's expecting us to do and stuff 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.880 like that. But I'm just looking forward to just do 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.080 what we gotta do though, put us in great situations 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:12.520 this season? 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:14.760 Or uh was your reaction when. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.040 We saw it because we would be part of the 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:16.760 opening game. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:17.560 In Kansas City this year? 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.960 Let's go shit, look go to football. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.600 Maybe it on that note, I mean, is it the 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.760 way that last season ended. I know that the stakes 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.240 of this game are different. Is it nice to have 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.200 Kansas City just right back around again? 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:31.160 Kind of tackle that head on. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.400 I mean, I really don't care who he played, you know, 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.120 everything didn't matter. You know, at the end of the day, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.200 our goal is to make it to the super Bowl. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.400 We lost to them in the playoffs. Just us beating 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.400 them in the regular season really don't do anything, you know, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.440 it just helps us, you know, just keep stacking up 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:46.840 wins to m hopefully. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:47.280 Make it to the playoffs. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.280 If anything, though, try to get in that same position 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.280 again and hopefully, you know, be successful. But it really 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.160 don't matter who we play. First game, obviously it's the Chiefs. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.080