Speaker 1: Welcome into Raven's press pass. Today we'll hear from the specialists.
Speaker 1: That's kicker Justin Tucker, punter Jordan's Stout, new long snapper
Speaker 1: Tyler Ott, and special teams coach Randy Brown. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the goat kicker, Justin Tucker.
Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, how are y'all doing? All right?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: Jerry Rosberg was here, uh this last week, so in
Speaker 4: his spirit, I should say fire when ready?
Speaker 5: Do you have any stories about Chef the dog he
Speaker 5: Do you ever tell you about that one? What is
Speaker 5: Chef My Dogs by Jerry?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: But for Youandy, does I have any feel like? I
Speaker 5: know it doesn't plug field this way, but being the
Speaker 5: longest tenured guy here, man, I mean, is that something
Speaker 5: you recognize and doesn't feel different?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of yes and no, And in
Speaker 4: a lot of ways, I feel like I've I've been
Speaker 4: here for a while. I like you said, I'm the
Speaker 4: most tenured guy on the team, But I still come
Speaker 4: in with the same attitude that I had my rookie year,
Speaker 4: where I'm just trying to take it one kick at
Speaker 4: a time and get better each and every day just
Speaker 4: a little bit, and keep the main things the main things.
Speaker 6: You know, I've said this.
Speaker 2: Before, the the.
Speaker 4: The idea of focusing on the action and not the consequence,
Speaker 4: and not just in a given kick, but a given day,
Speaker 4: a given week, a given year.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: Just you know, being where my feed are has been
Speaker 4: a focus of mine for a while now. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I feel like the most tenured guy on the team,
Speaker 4: and I'll just take that as I have experience in
Speaker 4: a lot of different environments that different stadiums, field conditions, personnel.
Speaker 2: Whoa jeez, I'm just happy to be here.
Speaker 4: But at the exact same time, I feel like a
Speaker 4: rookie and I'm I'm just getting started.
Speaker 2: Just like I said, you're you're.
Speaker 8: A happy guy that they were able to find Tyler
Speaker 8: to stuck in for Nick. Can you kind of expect
Speaker 8: what he's done to fit into that detailed machine?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Those first of all, continuing to think about Nick and
Speaker 4: what he's going through. You know, Nick's our boy, and
Speaker 4: it's it's tough to you know, see somebody that uh not.
Speaker 4: You know, we don't just work closely together, you know,
Speaker 4: we're good friends. So to see what you know he's
Speaker 4: going through and to to hear hear from him, and
Speaker 4: you know know that he's got, as of right now,
Speaker 4: a pretty long road ahead. Uh that's a tough deal.
Speaker 4: So we're definitely thinking about him. But uh, you know,
Speaker 4: at the same time, as it always has been and
Speaker 4: will be in this business, it's there. You know, you
Speaker 4: got to buy into the next man up mentality, And
Speaker 4: for us, we're really lucky that Tyler was available. I
Speaker 4: don't keep tabs on who the free agent or rookie
Speaker 4: long snappers are out there, but the fact that Tyler
Speaker 4: was available, we were able to bring him in and
Speaker 4: sign him. Tyler's don an excellent job in this first
Speaker 4: wave of camp, and we we had every expectation that
Speaker 4: he would be doing a great job. I mean, he's
Speaker 4: a former Pro Bowl caliber long snapper and a current
Speaker 4: Pro Bowl caliber long snapper, and we we would all
Speaker 4: say the same thing. We got great people around us,
Speaker 4: starting with Chris Randy TJ. Sam Cook coaching us all up.
Speaker 4: You know, I've said this before, I'm a system kicker
Speaker 4: and the ball kicks itself, but it applies to all
Speaker 4: of the positions in the specialist world. The long snapper,
Speaker 4: the holder, the punter. We're all part of intricate, detailed,
Speaker 4: well thought out system that if we just buy into
Speaker 4: what we're being coached to do, we will have success,
Speaker 4: and Tyler's doing a great job of that so far.
Speaker 4: Kind of a nod kicking question for yet, how big
Speaker 4: is it kind of scheem to have a shot based
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 2: I'm a field the guy.
Speaker 4: It's great to see with Shod working. Obviously, I'm not
Speaker 4: the head coach, and I can't comment on injuries because
Speaker 4: I'd like to think in my you know, my senior
Speaker 4: years here that I'm I'm a little wiser than that.
Speaker 4: But I will say it's really good to see him
Speaker 4: out there. It's good to see Patrick Card out there
Speaker 4: work as well, running around, you know, not just as
Speaker 4: teammates but friends, you know, seeing them back on the
Speaker 4: field and seeing them, you know, get to work and
Speaker 4: doing what makes them happy.
Speaker 2: That's uh, you know, that's that's that's good for all
Speaker 2: of us.
Speaker 9: Yes, you've got one of the top kickers in the
Speaker 9: lead for a while down how do you keep it fresh?
Speaker 3: But bullet mate to come in here and try to
Speaker 3: somehow getting better than the.
Speaker 4: Already Yeah all right, So last year around this time,
Speaker 4: harbes Uh kind of challenged us to post on the
Speaker 4: board and the like the bulletin board in the locker room,
Speaker 4: like first thing you see when you walk in, put
Speaker 4: a picture up or maybe a phrase or a saying
Speaker 4: of what's your why? You know, a lot of guys
Speaker 4: put up a picture of their family, or a lot
Speaker 4: of guys put up a picture of like a Lombardi trophy,
Speaker 4: and you know you ask, like, essentially, like, what's kind
Speaker 4: of keeping me motivated? I think for all of us
Speaker 4: are why? Is a collective yearn for that championship experience
Speaker 4: and bringing that to a town that deserves a championship
Speaker 4: unlike any other. And at the same time, you know,
Speaker 4: our whis don't just stop there my why? It might
Speaker 4: be something different every single day.
Speaker 6: It might be.
Speaker 4: You know, cementing ourselves as the most elite kicking battery
Speaker 4: that's ever stepped foot onto a football field. And then
Speaker 4: the next day it might just be you know, getting
Speaker 4: a chance to see the guys and sit around the
Speaker 4: breakfast table or the launch table in the cafeteria and
Speaker 4: have a good conversation. But the way we get to
Speaker 4: elevate all of those experiences and share them together is
Speaker 4: by working our tails off, taking it a day at
Speaker 4: a time and ultimately hoisting the Lombardi at the end
Speaker 4: of the year. And I think that's what we're all that,
Speaker 4: you know, that's what we're all working toward, and that's
Speaker 4: what we got our eye.
Speaker 8: On the process that care in that process. That's sure.
Speaker 4: That's a great question. I'm not going to answer it
Speaker 4: fully because I don't want to give away trade secrets.
Speaker 4: But the way we operate as a field goal kicking unit, uh,
Speaker 4: we emphasize being aggressive and intentional in everything that we do,
Speaker 4: starting with the snapper. So for me, if I can
Speaker 4: see and feel the confidence of our long snapper before
Speaker 4: the you know, before he even put you know, gets
Speaker 4: in his stance and puts his hands on the ball,
Speaker 4: and as Jordan is getting set up, I can just
Speaker 4: feel that we're gonna make this kick. It all starts
Speaker 4: with what we do out here on the practice field.
Speaker 4: The intricate little details that I'm not necessarily going to
Speaker 4: get fully into, but knowing that we work day in
Speaker 4: and day out on those things, it kind of helps,
Speaker 4: you know, the whole process becomes streamlined toward our main
Speaker 4: our main goal, and that's just making kicks.
Speaker 2: Four years for years, the specialist Creto, the ball wolf back.
Speaker 2: Last year we've played around with fuld back two point home.
Speaker 4: What would you like to call this group on the
Speaker 4: air of this year? We haven't really thought about it
Speaker 4: too much. I think, you know, check in with me.
Speaker 4: Maybe next week I'll I'll have an answer for you,
Speaker 4: or maybe not. I don't really know. I'm less worried
Speaker 4: about that, more worried about just smashing kicks. So well,
Speaker 4: we'll go that right, Watch out for that spider right there.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 9: You got.
Speaker 1: Next up you'll hear from punter Jordan Stout as he
Speaker 1: enters his second season.
Speaker 2: I thought this year was pick novack camp. That's last year.
Speaker 2: You know, I've been doing that process for you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, something I really like to do in the off
Speaker 10: season is get around as many other punters as I
Speaker 10: can to see where I'm at.
Speaker 2: So it was great though.
Speaker 4: Talking about you.
Speaker 11: I did last year at this time, there's a lot
Speaker 11: of tears that how much better.
Speaker 2: Was starting your aspect.
Speaker 10: I'm not going to do my own horn, and I
Speaker 10: won't much. I'm pretty humble, but I'm a really good holder.
Speaker 2: And you know Sam Sam Sam was great.
Speaker 12: He taught me a lot.
Speaker 6: Randy as well. So it's been great that.
Speaker 10: No, I don't know if that helped as much as
Speaker 10: just taking a little break and then coming back and
Speaker 10: I was just way better. Somehow, must have taken a
Speaker 10: lot of creatine.
Speaker 8: Randy says that.
Speaker 11: He thinks Hunter takes the biggest three between the season
Speaker 11: one and the season two.
Speaker 5: Do you do you.
Speaker 2: Do you see that coming? And where do you think
Speaker 2: we'll see the well?
Speaker 10: As a punter, I think what we do is all
Speaker 10: about confidence, and I think my confidence last year was lacking.
Speaker 10: And I feel like I'm extremely confident now because you know,
Speaker 10: talking about one of those camps in the off season,
Speaker 10: and I went and I did really well, and I
Speaker 10: confidence comes from preparation, and I prepared my butt off,
Speaker 10: so I think it will.
Speaker 3: Why did you Why do you think you slacking next year?
Speaker 10: I think it's just a new thing. You know, in college,
Speaker 10: I was doing phil goals, kickoffs and punts. You know,
Speaker 10: if I had a bad punt in a game, I
Speaker 10: wasn't gonna dwell on it because I was gonna have
Speaker 10: a field goal the next drive. So now only focusing
Speaker 10: on punting. It's like if I have a bad punt
Speaker 10: in the past, it would affect me and you know,
Speaker 10: I just have to have a one kick mentality and
Speaker 10: go out on the next and hit a good balls.
Speaker 8: A new staffer, Nick.
Speaker 10: Well, it sucks it Nicks out because we love Nick.
Speaker 10: Nick's a great snapper. But Tyler picked up right where
Speaker 10: he left off and he's doing an incredible job. He's
Speaker 10: he's a good guy and he's he's a great snapper,
Speaker 10: so we're happy to have him.
Speaker 12: Good Jordan, your guys are I know you're former DNY Lyons.
Speaker 4: No official AP pole yet, but the coaches pull at
Speaker 4: at state at number seven. If you talked to any
Speaker 4: former teammates, anybody out there.
Speaker 10: I have not talked to him yet, but I think
Speaker 10: I think we're gonna make a national championship run this year.
Speaker 10: That team is stacked so excited for that. Well, you're
Speaker 10: on that national championship gro Yeah for me?
Speaker 12: You already here first. Now we'll hear from new long
Speaker 12: snapper Tyler.
Speaker 2: How's it going Tyler Rott long snapper?
Speaker 1: Can you talk about how you ended up laying here
Speaker 1: and what the process of change?
Speaker 7: Sure?
Speaker 11: Yeah, My contract last year with the Seahawks expired after
Speaker 11: I was hurt for the whole season, and really I
Speaker 11: got cleared in like January, mid January from my injury,
Speaker 11: and from that point on it was just you know,
Speaker 11: training like usual, waiting for you know, a call from
Speaker 11: whoever it was. And and I didn't think it was
Speaker 11: gonna take as long as it did, obviously or honestly.
Speaker 11: And I was actually at we were hosting my son's
Speaker 11: third birthday party when my agent called and said, hey,
Speaker 11: we got your call. You're going down to Baltimore in
Speaker 11: like two days. I was like, all right, well, let
Speaker 11: me finish this birthday party and cut the cake and
Speaker 11: then I'll pack up and start driving. But I was
Speaker 11: really I was really planning on being somewhere, regardless of
Speaker 11: where it was, it didn't really matter.
Speaker 2: At that point. I knew I was ready, I knew
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 11: Healthy, and now once I got the call to come here,
Speaker 11: it was obviously I knew what kind of system, as
Speaker 11: has Tuck alluded to, I was stepping into, and the
Speaker 11: excellence that they expect and have come to expect and
Speaker 11: have experienced.
Speaker 2: And and I.
Speaker 11: Knew coming in that my job was to make that
Speaker 11: system run perfectly.
Speaker 2: And it's always been my goal as a snapper since
Speaker 2: day one.
Speaker 11: Anyways, Yeah, my goal is to come in and make
Speaker 11: Jordan's job as easy as possible, so that Justin's job
Speaker 11: is as easy as possible. And that's that's the whole
Speaker 11: goal of a snapper is just they don't hopefully they
Speaker 11: don't have to really do anything but put the ball
Speaker 11: down and then kick it.
Speaker 9: Back to.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 11: I might be one of the rare ones that started
Speaker 11: in Little league. I actually used to kick. I used
Speaker 11: to toe kick, and then one of my best friends
Speaker 11: in fifth grade was a soccer player, and he came
Speaker 11: over and started kicking field goals for us, and my
Speaker 11: only way to stay involved was I said, Hey, I'll
Speaker 11: try snapping.
Speaker 2: I was playing other positions.
Speaker 11: I played tight end through high school and through college,
Speaker 11: and uh snapped through high school and in college, but
Speaker 11: probably never really thought about snapping being the route to
Speaker 11: the NFL until senior year of college.
Speaker 2: I was lucky in high school.
Speaker 11: I had a coach, Carl Johnson, that he had coached
Speaker 11: special teams and snappers at the University of Houston before
Speaker 11: he was our high school coach, and he actually knew
Speaker 11: the fundamentals of snapping, and so that was where my
Speaker 11: foundation was laid. And from there it was all for
Speaker 11: the most part self taught and tinkering and figuring out
Speaker 11: what works and a benefit and I guess maybe a
Speaker 11: benefit looking back in hindsight is that when I was
Speaker 11: playing tight end in college and snapping, I never had
Speaker 11: time to think about snapping. So I think that just
Speaker 11: instilled the confidence that I carried to this day in
Speaker 11: snapping that I never got to warm up on the
Speaker 11: sideline before a kick or for a punt. I just
Speaker 11: went out there and ripped it back there and didn't
Speaker 11: think anything of it. So obviously I put more thought
Speaker 11: into it now, But I think it's just it's been
Speaker 11: a ability that I've had that I didn't really take
Speaker 11: full appreciation of until I knew I could make it
Speaker 11: as a snapper in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I kind of the long snappers an for the trips.
Speaker 8: Didn't do any of that stuff and snapping in the.
Speaker 3: Meeting car or anything.
Speaker 11: No, I never wanted to break any windows.
Speaker 2: You know, that's stuff cool. It's never been I'm not.
Speaker 11: I mean, if you if you look at my social media,
Speaker 11: I'm not posting a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: It's just not my personality to be really out there.
Speaker 11: So you know, I'm not gonna say I haven't tried
Speaker 11: to snap into a trash can or something every now
Speaker 11: and then, but hit the crossbar maybe, But I find
Speaker 11: that a lot of times that actually might hurt your
Speaker 11: snapping ability the job you're trying to do when you
Speaker 11: start messing around with that stuff, even though it might
Speaker 11: be cool. But I'm here to snap, I guess so.
Speaker 6: For a long time.
Speaker 11: On the shoulder injury in the Coppers.
Speaker 6: Now back to houses, how.
Speaker 2: Hit the colt was that was coming back and had, Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: it is tough.
Speaker 11: I think a lot of you know, I don't know
Speaker 11: what happened with you know, the end of my tenure
Speaker 11: in Seattle, but I think a lot of a lot
Speaker 11: of coaches and front office and medical might see that
Speaker 11: as like a death sentence for a snapper. But you know,
Speaker 11: I saw a great surge and I had a great
Speaker 11: team of athletic trainers.
Speaker 2: I was back.
Speaker 11: Quicker than expected and stronger, and I honestly felt coming
Speaker 11: off of a year of missing a full season, as
Speaker 11: bad as that is, I had a full season first
Speaker 11: time since you know, seventh grade, a full year to
Speaker 11: recover and be healthy and be strong and be ready
Speaker 11: for this next stint of however, long it's going to
Speaker 11: be here or the next team, whatever it's going to be.
Speaker 11: And I realized that which was that was the toughest
Speaker 11: part about being hurt last year was not the physical
Speaker 11: part of it.
Speaker 2: It was the mental part.
Speaker 11: Understanding that I got my job in Seattle six years
Speaker 11: ago when I filled in for a hurt snapper, so
Speaker 11: I knew exactly what was at risk, and I didn't
Speaker 11: think it was going to happen.
Speaker 2: I did my best where it wasn't going to.
Speaker 11: But it's the way the cards were dealt, and I'm
Speaker 11: here now to make the most of this, to make
Speaker 11: the run with these guys and do everything we can
Speaker 11: to be the best unit in the NFL.
Speaker 12: Next up, defensive tackle Broderick Washington.
Speaker 6: Appreciate it. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Mans around your.
Speaker 6: Ends, Uh one.
Speaker 7: I was very excited, man, I'm just blessed to even
Speaker 7: be in the position.
Speaker 6: I'm glad my mom wasn't here.
Speaker 7: I would have cried, and you know, I kind of
Speaker 7: supposedly a tough guy here, so you know that wouldn't
Speaker 7: have looked good on me.
Speaker 6: But yeah, man, I'm just excited. I'm feel with emotion.
Speaker 7: I'm happy to be able to call I'm happy to
Speaker 7: be able to be home for the next three years, man,
Speaker 7: and I'm glad it's here. I don't have to go
Speaker 7: anywhere different. I don't have to learn a new scheme.
Speaker 7: I know everything already. I'm comfortable, and I'm just really
Speaker 7: excited for the opportunity to grow each and every year.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 7: Uh, no, not at all, But I mean it's a
Speaker 7: blessing to be in this position. All I did was
Speaker 7: just kept my head down and just worked really and
Speaker 7: Coach Harb's during our tas like he kind of he
Speaker 7: kind of mentioned it, but you know, I didn't wanna
Speaker 7: let it get to my head because at the end
Speaker 7: of the day, I'm still trying to get better and
Speaker 7: I haven't even I barely scratched the surface of what
Speaker 7: I could really be. And I just look forward to
Speaker 7: the opportunity to be able to do that here. And
Speaker 7: I just blessed.
Speaker 8: Whatever to get your money season happened, and I.
Speaker 10: Want to think that.
Speaker 7: I mean, for me personally, I didn't want My whole
Speaker 7: thing was just getting better every day. I really didn't
Speaker 7: think about it because there's more there's a lot of
Speaker 7: guys that's in my class that's more deserving, I feel like,
Speaker 7: but like I said, I'm blessed to be in this
Speaker 7: position and I'm super excited to be able to call
Speaker 7: the Baltimore Ravens home for the next few years.
Speaker 11: Robert, what did it mean to be able to kind
Speaker 11: of celebrate with your guys at midfield after practice?
Speaker 6: It seemed like they were all pretty fired.
Speaker 10: Up for you to get the deal.
Speaker 6: Don Uh.
Speaker 7: It was a great feeling because normally, like I kind
Speaker 7: of just stayed to myself in the in the building,
Speaker 7: and like I speak to everybody and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: But just to see those guys embrace me the way
Speaker 7: they did, it meant a lot.
Speaker 6: And shoot, I was just I was just feeled with happiness. Honestly,
Speaker 6: when the coaches talk.
Speaker 9: About you, they say, so this guy's he's every time
Speaker 9: he comes back to the ability, he's better than he wanted.
Speaker 10: To listening when he left the experience coming into this season.
Speaker 8: Is there a specific thing you wanted to work on?
Speaker 5: I mean, how are you better now of yew Worth there?
Speaker 7: If I had to point out one thing, I would
Speaker 7: just say, it's my confidence in myself.
Speaker 6: Like I'm a pretty confident guy, but and for some reason,
Speaker 6: like yeah, I.
Speaker 7: It's honestly hard to really put anything on it. But
Speaker 7: coming into the season and during the off season, my
Speaker 7: thing was working on past rush because without Calais, you know,
Speaker 7: there's a lot of past or snaps up for grabs,
Speaker 7: and I'm trying to be one of the guys that
Speaker 7: gets some getting some of them. So my main focus
Speaker 7: was just passed rush over the all season. Yeah, yeah, whynot.
Speaker 7: I'd be a fool not to, you know. But yeah,
Speaker 7: and Chuck. Every day he got something for the guys
Speaker 7: in the pastor's department, and I mean he's been a
Speaker 7: great help for everybody, for the whole room. Honestly, he
Speaker 7: makes us better as a unit, and we're gonna continue
Speaker 7: to grow with him. I think.
Speaker 2: In Washington here we don't.
Speaker 1: Have to talk about where that.
Speaker 6: Uh. For me, it's from my mom.
Speaker 7: I grew up in a single parent home for the
Speaker 7: most part, and shoot, I watched my mom grind through
Speaker 7: everything by herself. So I come in and I don't
Speaker 7: I don't allow myself to have excuses. You know, my
Speaker 7: faith in God is really really high, so I know
Speaker 7: that if I remain faithful and continue to work, He's
Speaker 7: gonna bless me and.
Speaker 6: Shoot, he'll just continue to bless me. You know. So
Speaker 6: I don't care about any time limits.
Speaker 7: I don't care how long it takes, as long as
Speaker 7: I can play football and be out here or I'm
Speaker 7: gonna work and I'm gonna get better each and every day.
Speaker 8: Earlier you said, uh, you barely scratched the surface.
Speaker 3: Right, So like entry this year with this with this
Speaker 3: deal already done, you know where do you feel right
Speaker 3: twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Three, you're gonna make the biggest stripes? Can you already
Speaker 5: feel yourself kind of heading in a certain direction where
Speaker 5: you're gonna get better your game coming into this season?
Speaker 6: To be honest, it's not really.
Speaker 7: I just take it day by day and you know,
Speaker 7: just continue to work on the small things and you know,
Speaker 7: see where we fall when this season is in.
Speaker 6: You know your mom and you coming up and how
Speaker 6: you know single parent home.
Speaker 3: What was that conversation strike after.
Speaker 5: You were able to get the deal done or if
Speaker 5: if you can talk to your family yet moving back the.
Speaker 7: Conversation like with you back nits ear Yeah, to be honest,
Speaker 7: I haven't really had that conversation yet because I know
Speaker 7: my mom's gonna be out here this week for the game,
Speaker 7: so I know that'll be an emotional time, and you know,
Speaker 7: I look forward to it. I've been trying to hold
Speaker 7: hold back the emotion just for her because that's who
Speaker 7: I really want to share a moment with. I want
Speaker 7: to share it with my whole family, but my mom.
Speaker 6: She's been with me through it all.
Speaker 7: I always had my back, and shoot, I just can't
Speaker 7: wait to just embrace her and have that moment with her.
Speaker 7: Oh one more thing, I want to shout out the
Speaker 7: guys upstairs for having faith in me and believing in
Speaker 7: me to even put me in this position, and thank
Speaker 7: you all for being here today.
Speaker 12: And last but not least, special teams coach Randy Brown.
Speaker 9: I never want to forget about how we got here,
Speaker 9: and that is the Ravens family.
Speaker 3: You guys know, I've been here sixteen years and.
Speaker 9: What the Ravens family has allowed us to do is
Speaker 9: my son's been here for eighty plus games, years of practices.
Speaker 9: My Ryan's done six seven games too, and it's just
Speaker 9: the family. That's the family atmosphere here with Steve and
Speaker 9: works this way down with Eric and John and it's
Speaker 9: it's amazing and I'm blessed that that this weekend's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: So questions.
Speaker 8: You worked and he puts her into the unit last
Speaker 8: year to be working like a whole interview.
Speaker 2: What was that great.
Speaker 8: Detail about how quickly just.
Speaker 9: So you're talking Tyler Tyler the new long snapper, So
Speaker 9: I think we go back just a little bit. And
Speaker 9: great credit to George Kaknas and Darius and the personnel
Speaker 9: personnel group.
Speaker 3: When we first heard that Nick was hurt.
Speaker 9: Uh, we went through seventy long snappers that were available,
Speaker 9: and you know, I've got my list, George got has
Speaker 9: his list, and we're really fortunate for Tyler's out there.
Speaker 9: You know, a guy's played eighty five games Harvard grad,
Speaker 9: really good long snapper, pro bowler. So we're fortunate that
Speaker 9: Tyler was there for us, and he's fitting in really
Speaker 9: really well, and we're blessed that we have it.
Speaker 3: And Justin's happy every day, which makes me happy.
Speaker 5: Okay, when you're he worked with Justin obviously able to
Speaker 5: know his act wades and we're going lads for times
Speaker 5: like this in the spring and then summer, what do
Speaker 5: you work on because a lot of people go with
Speaker 5: a second Justin couples ad, what does he need to.
Speaker 2: Work on because those that you think that is so.
Speaker 3: I always talk about Justin as not only.
Speaker 9: Did we start together all these years, nobody has seen
Speaker 9: him kick every kick like I've seen him kick. So
Speaker 9: the great part about Justin is he always wants to
Speaker 9: get better Jamison, And there will be times on field
Speaker 9: three that it's just not going the way he wants it,
Speaker 9: you know, and will say to me or say to Sam,
Speaker 9: hey are you saying anything or what are you saying?
Speaker 9: And he's always open because he gets better every day,
Speaker 9: wants to get better every day, and we have a
Speaker 9: great relationship and we watch film.
Speaker 3: We watch film every day. And that's the thing.
Speaker 9: It's you know, you think a guy like him, you know,
Speaker 9: he just comes to work. Well, he comes to work
Speaker 9: and he works and we watch film every day.
Speaker 3: We work on field three every day. It's he gets
Speaker 3: better every day.
Speaker 9: And if femus is a sixty five yarder, he's pissed
Speaker 9: in practice, which we know we see the biggest stretch
Speaker 9: from I've always believed this is my thirty second year
Speaker 9: coaching football, twentieth in the NFL, and that jump for
Speaker 9: specialist from year one to year two is usually the
Speaker 9: biggest why because in college they're asked to do punts, kickoffs,
Speaker 9: field goals, so they really can't sharpen their craft on
Speaker 9: just one thing. So you come here and and now
Speaker 9: you create a system of practice where you can do
Speaker 9: the repetition over and over again.
Speaker 3: His practice is great. But this is why I like
Speaker 3: about Jordan, and the dude smiles all the time. He's happy.
Speaker 9: He really likes to get better, and he comes to
Speaker 9: work with me and Sam Cook every day and he's
Speaker 9: a sponge for information. And what I if you really
Speaker 9: look at what Jordan his holding is tremendous, best holder
Speaker 9: in the NFL. Right now, Okay, you watch watch him
Speaker 9: on the field. Ball gets down fast, all right, He's outstanding.
Speaker 9: So I think the punting will continue to increase his
Speaker 9: abilities to put ball the balls inside the ten, all right,
Speaker 9: and get good turnover balls.
Speaker 3: So we love the progress that he's making.
Speaker 11: When you, guys, Jordan, we're office talked about just how
Speaker 11: mean some of those punts that are here before you
Speaker 11: saw it feel a whole lot.
Speaker 2: And here was I just kind of trying to bottle
Speaker 2: the backs. He tried to get better that very.
Speaker 6: Actually the ball play the part.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so you know in college it was just he
Speaker 9: could kick it as far as he could, right, And here,
Speaker 9: as you know, we're a directional punting team. Uh. But
Speaker 9: in practice every day he's hitting five oh's, five to
Speaker 9: two s, five threes. But as you know, we pride
Speaker 9: ourselves in coverage, and we've pride ourselves of the punting
Speaker 9: knowing where the ball ball is going to be. And
Speaker 9: and as to me, as he gets older and more mature,
Speaker 9: he gets more relaxed.
Speaker 3: All right, he continues to get up and through the ball.
Speaker 3: So you're going to see some of them. You'll see
Speaker 3: some of them probably on Saturday night.
Speaker 8: So again, if we heard about Michael Felts all the
Speaker 8: lats he takes in the point, is there a limit
Speaker 8: to that other kicks per day you want Justin take?
Speaker 3: That's a real good question.
Speaker 9: So it's what I want and what Justin won. So
Speaker 9: there's two separate things, right. Yeah, we know each other now,
Speaker 9: and you know he kicks three or four days a week,
Speaker 9: and he knows when he's had enough. But you know,
Speaker 9: it can range anywhere between thirty kicks one day and
Speaker 9: sixty kicks another.
Speaker 3: It depends what the day of the week do we
Speaker 3: have a game that day.
Speaker 6: So is there any.
Speaker 5: Technique wise things that he changes even from like last
Speaker 5: year or this year anything like, or does he try
Speaker 5: to maintain pretty much the same technique.
Speaker 9: As if you remember in his sixty minutes interview he
Speaker 9: talked about hitting the ball in the sweet spot, which
Speaker 9: is one inch blow the middle of the football. He
Speaker 9: makes sure he hits every kick at that sweet spot
Speaker 9: over and over and over again. So there was there's
Speaker 9: never a rehashing or retooling of the technique. You know
Speaker 9: what I mean, it's let me hit that ball on
Speaker 9: the same spot every time.
Speaker 3: And that's what he does, and he does so.
Speaker 5: Well, and they can get, you know, over and older.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you don't become a point with the leg strength
Speaker 5: and everything you've never ever talked about just because it
Speaker 5: seems like you he good. Does there become a point
Speaker 5: where he does have to kind of you know.
Speaker 3: One comes the best, Like Justin.
Speaker 9: They're talking about your leg strength here and I said,
Speaker 9: you got strongest leg in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 9: Any other questions about Justin's leg strength's your son?
Speaker 10: Has there been any competitive trash happy but you know,
Speaker 10: has there been a competitive channer?
Speaker 9: So when the When the schedule for preseason schedule came out,
Speaker 9: it was a little family chatter back and forth, but
Speaker 9: I'm really proud of what Tyler has done as assistant
Speaker 9: special teams coach there. It's pre season, so I expect
Speaker 9: our guys will play hard and his guys will play hard,
Speaker 9: and I know he's going to get his guys ready
Speaker 9: to play.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 9: But I'm just proud that my son's coaching the National
Speaker 9: Football League and and and went to the Super Bowl
Speaker 9: last year.
Speaker 3: So I just want to mention this with a heavy heart.
Speaker 9: Last Thursday, early morning, my son's eighteen year old brother
Speaker 9: passed away suddenly. I want to express to the family,
Speaker 9: to Ann and Bill, mom and dad, and to Tyler
Speaker 9: and to his other brother Danny, sincere condolences from the
Speaker 9: Ravens family. It's been really really challenging five days for
Speaker 9: the family. And I just have to also say the
Speaker 9: support and the Phildelph Eagles have given ty I learned
Speaker 9: and my family it's been amazing for just such an
Speaker 9: unspeakable tragic event that happened in our family. So it's
Speaker 9: with a heavy heart, but thank you for all the
Speaker 9: love and support that we've received. Not just here in
Speaker 9: the organization but outside.
Speaker 12: Thank you for listening to Raven's press past.
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