WEBVTT - Justin Tucker, Broderick Washington, Jordan Stout, Tyler Ott, Randy Brown: Training Camp 8/9 Press Conferences 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:07.080 Welcome into Raven's press pass. Today we'll hear from the specialists. 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.680 That's kicker Justin Tucker, punter Jordan's Stout, new long snapper 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:16.320 Tyler Ott, and special teams coach Randy Brown. Let's start 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:18.960 with the goat kicker, Justin Tucker. 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:21.880 Hey, everybody, how are y'all doing? All right? 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:22.040 Well? 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.079 Jerry Rosberg was here, uh this last week, so in 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:27.320 his spirit, I should say fire when ready? 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.880 Do you have any stories about Chef the dog he 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.000 Do you ever tell you about that one? What is 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:34.920 Chef My Dogs by Jerry? 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:35.839 Yeah? 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.760 But for Youandy, does I have any feel like? I 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.640 know it doesn't plug field this way, but being the 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.720 longest tenured guy here, man, I mean, is that something 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.120 you recognize and doesn't feel different? 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:48.000 Uh? 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.800 You know, it's kind of yes and no, And in 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.200 a lot of ways, I feel like I've I've been 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.120 here for a while. I like you said, I'm the 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.880 most tenured guy on the team, But I still come 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:00.800 in with the same attitude that I had my rookie year, 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:02.240 where I'm just trying to take it one kick at 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.520 a time and get better each and every day just 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.839 a little bit, and keep the main things the main things. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:08.520 You know, I've said this. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.000 Before, the the. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.640 The idea of focusing on the action and not the consequence, 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.320 and not just in a given kick, but a given day, 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.480 a given week, a given year. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:18.080 Uh. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.600 Just you know, being where my feed are has been 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.560 a focus of mine for a while now. So yeah, 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.120 I feel like the most tenured guy on the team, 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.080 and I'll just take that as I have experience in 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:36.119 a lot of different environments that different stadiums, field conditions, personnel. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.280 Whoa jeez, I'm just happy to be here. 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.960 But at the exact same time, I feel like a 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:44.800 rookie and I'm I'm just getting started. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.480 Just like I said, you're you're. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.080 A happy guy that they were able to find Tyler 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.920 to stuck in for Nick. Can you kind of expect 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.520 what he's done to fit into that detailed machine? 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:57.320 Yeah? 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.320 Those first of all, continuing to think about Nick and 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.960 what he's going through. You know, Nick's our boy, and 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:09.160 it's it's tough to you know, see somebody that uh not. 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.560 You know, we don't just work closely together, you know, 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:17.120 we're good friends. So to see what you know he's 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.480 going through and to to hear hear from him, and 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.920 you know know that he's got, as of right now, 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.760 a pretty long road ahead. Uh that's a tough deal. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.480 So we're definitely thinking about him. But uh, you know, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.800 at the same time, as it always has been and 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.200 will be in this business, it's there. You know, you 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.560 got to buy into the next man up mentality, And 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.040 for us, we're really lucky that Tyler was available. I 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.880 don't keep tabs on who the free agent or rookie 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:50.359 long snappers are out there, but the fact that Tyler 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.520 was available, we were able to bring him in and 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.400 sign him. Tyler's don an excellent job in this first 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.920 wave of camp, and we we had every expectation that 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:01.960 he would be doing a great job. I mean, he's 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.760 a former Pro Bowl caliber long snapper and a current 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.919 Pro Bowl caliber long snapper, and we we would all 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:10.800 say the same thing. We got great people around us, 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:15.760 starting with Chris Randy TJ. Sam Cook coaching us all up. 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.200 You know, I've said this before, I'm a system kicker 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.760 and the ball kicks itself, but it applies to all 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.600 of the positions in the specialist world. The long snapper, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.960 the holder, the punter. We're all part of intricate, detailed, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.920 well thought out system that if we just buy into 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.280 what we're being coached to do, we will have success, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:35.920 and Tyler's doing a great job of that so far. 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.560 Kind of a nod kicking question for yet, how big 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.040 is it kind of scheem to have a shot based 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:40.320 out there. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:41.000 I'm a field the guy. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.360 It's great to see with Shod working. Obviously, I'm not 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.160 the head coach, and I can't comment on injuries because 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.640 I'd like to think in my you know, my senior 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.920 years here that I'm I'm a little wiser than that. 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.200 But I will say it's really good to see him 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.760 out there. It's good to see Patrick Card out there 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.080 work as well, running around, you know, not just as 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.360 teammates but friends, you know, seeing them back on the 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.800 field and seeing them, you know, get to work and 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:09.000 doing what makes them happy. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.480 That's uh, you know, that's that's that's good for all 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:11.720 of us. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.720 Yes, you've got one of the top kickers in the 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.239 lead for a while down how do you keep it fresh? 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.720 But bullet mate to come in here and try to 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.159 somehow getting better than the. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:26.840 Already Yeah all right, So last year around this time, 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:32.880 harbes Uh kind of challenged us to post on the 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.880 board and the like the bulletin board in the locker room, 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.159 like first thing you see when you walk in, put 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.559 a picture up or maybe a phrase or a saying 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.880 of what's your why? You know, a lot of guys 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:44.800 put up a picture of their family, or a lot 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.520 of guys put up a picture of like a Lombardi trophy, 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.440 and you know you ask, like, essentially, like, what's kind 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.719 of keeping me motivated? I think for all of us 0:04:55.080 --> 0:05:02.200 are why? Is a collective yearn for that championship experience 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.440 and bringing that to a town that deserves a championship 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.599 unlike any other. And at the same time, you know, 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.800 our whis don't just stop there my why? It might 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.440 be something different every single day. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:15.200 It might be. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:22.440 You know, cementing ourselves as the most elite kicking battery 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.560 that's ever stepped foot onto a football field. And then 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.239 the next day it might just be you know, getting 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.560 a chance to see the guys and sit around the 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.520 breakfast table or the launch table in the cafeteria and 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:40.200 have a good conversation. But the way we get to 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.039 elevate all of those experiences and share them together is 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:45.840 by working our tails off, taking it a day at 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.200 a time and ultimately hoisting the Lombardi at the end 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:49.640 of the year. And I think that's what we're all that, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.120 you know, that's what we're all working toward, and that's 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:51.960 what we got our eye. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:06:07.479 On the process that care in that process. That's sure. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.320 That's a great question. I'm not going to answer it 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.360 fully because I don't want to give away trade secrets. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.040 But the way we operate as a field goal kicking unit, uh, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:21.040 we emphasize being aggressive and intentional in everything that we do, 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:25.000 starting with the snapper. So for me, if I can 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.880 see and feel the confidence of our long snapper before 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.600 the you know, before he even put you know, gets 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.320 in his stance and puts his hands on the ball, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.920 and as Jordan is getting set up, I can just 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.360 feel that we're gonna make this kick. It all starts 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.119 with what we do out here on the practice field. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.160 The intricate little details that I'm not necessarily going to 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:52.520 get fully into, but knowing that we work day in 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.840 and day out on those things, it kind of helps, 0:06:56.120 --> 0:07:00.400 you know, the whole process becomes streamlined toward our main 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.599 our main goal, and that's just making kicks. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:07.000 Four years for years, the specialist Creto, the ball wolf back. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.920 Last year we've played around with fuld back two point home. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:11.920 What would you like to call this group on the 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.480 air of this year? We haven't really thought about it 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.920 too much. I think, you know, check in with me. 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:18.960 Maybe next week I'll I'll have an answer for you, 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.760 or maybe not. I don't really know. I'm less worried 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.640 about that, more worried about just smashing kicks. So well, 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.480 we'll go that right, Watch out for that spider right there. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:27.840 All right? 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:28.360 You got. 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.120 Next up you'll hear from punter Jordan Stout as he 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:34.360 enters his second season. 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.320 I thought this year was pick novack camp. That's last year. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.560 You know, I've been doing that process for you. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.320 Yeah, something I really like to do in the off 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.160 season is get around as many other punters as I 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:47.200 can to see where I'm at. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:48.679 So it was great though. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:51.000 Talking about you. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.680 I did last year at this time, there's a lot 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.520 of tears that how much better. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.480 Was starting your aspect. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.040 I'm not going to do my own horn, and I 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.760 won't much. I'm pretty humble, but I'm a really good holder. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.160 And you know Sam Sam Sam was great. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:11.280 He taught me a lot. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.800 Randy as well. So it's been great that. 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.400 No, I don't know if that helped as much as 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.040 just taking a little break and then coming back and 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.360 I was just way better. Somehow, must have taken a 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:24.040 lot of creatine. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:25.640 Randy says that. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.160 He thinks Hunter takes the biggest three between the season 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:29.400 one and the season two. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:30.800 Do you do you. 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.080 Do you see that coming? And where do you think 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:34.600 we'll see the well? 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:36.280 As a punter, I think what we do is all 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.920 about confidence, and I think my confidence last year was lacking. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.720 And I feel like I'm extremely confident now because you know, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:44.839 talking about one of those camps in the off season, 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.880 and I went and I did really well, and I 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.719 confidence comes from preparation, and I prepared my butt off, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.400 so I think it will. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.520 Why did you Why do you think you slacking next year? 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.560 I think it's just a new thing. You know, in college, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.200 I was doing phil goals, kickoffs and punts. You know, 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:03.320 if I had a bad punt in a game, I 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.520 wasn't gonna dwell on it because I was gonna have 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.079 a field goal the next drive. So now only focusing 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.360 on punting. It's like if I have a bad punt 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:11.920 in the past, it would affect me and you know, 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:13.640 I just have to have a one kick mentality and 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.280 go out on the next and hit a good balls. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:23.400 A new staffer, Nick. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.400 Well, it sucks it Nicks out because we love Nick. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.719 Nick's a great snapper. But Tyler picked up right where 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.439 he left off and he's doing an incredible job. He's 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.640 he's a good guy and he's he's a great snapper, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:37.840 so we're happy to have him. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.040 Good Jordan, your guys are I know you're former DNY Lyons. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.800 No official AP pole yet, but the coaches pull at 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.280 at state at number seven. If you talked to any 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:49.679 former teammates, anybody out there. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.320 I have not talked to him yet, but I think 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.000 I think we're gonna make a national championship run this year. 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.640 That team is stacked so excited for that. Well, you're 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.160 on that national championship gro Yeah for me? 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:05.400 You already here first. Now we'll hear from new long 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:06.640 snapper Tyler. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.840 How's it going Tyler Rott long snapper? 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.000 Can you talk about how you ended up laying here 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:17.760 and what the process of change? 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:18.400 Sure? 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.440 Yeah, My contract last year with the Seahawks expired after 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:27.920 I was hurt for the whole season, and really I 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.600 got cleared in like January, mid January from my injury, 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.560 and from that point on it was just you know, 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.880 training like usual, waiting for you know, a call from 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:44.559 whoever it was. And and I didn't think it was 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.920 gonna take as long as it did, obviously or honestly. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.760 And I was actually at we were hosting my son's 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.520 third birthday party when my agent called and said, hey, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.960 we got your call. You're going down to Baltimore in 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.679 like two days. I was like, all right, well, let 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.880 me finish this birthday party and cut the cake and 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.959 then I'll pack up and start driving. But I was 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.480 really I was really planning on being somewhere, regardless of 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.120 where it was, it didn't really matter. 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.760 At that point. I knew I was ready, I knew 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:14.120 I was. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.719 Healthy, and now once I got the call to come here, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.679 it was obviously I knew what kind of system, as 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.760 has Tuck alluded to, I was stepping into, and the 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.400 excellence that they expect and have come to expect and 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:28.440 have experienced. 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.200 And and I. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.280 Knew coming in that my job was to make that 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.120 system run perfectly. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.439 And it's always been my goal as a snapper since 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:38.839 day one. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.160 Anyways, Yeah, my goal is to come in and make 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.000 Jordan's job as easy as possible, so that Justin's job 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.920 is as easy as possible. And that's that's the whole 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.520 goal of a snapper is just they don't hopefully they 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.400 don't have to really do anything but put the ball 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:59.880 down and then kick it. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:05.760 Back to. 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:07.600 Well. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.199 I might be one of the rare ones that started 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.880 in Little league. I actually used to kick. I used 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.000 to toe kick, and then one of my best friends 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.160 in fifth grade was a soccer player, and he came 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:23.840 over and started kicking field goals for us, and my 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.080 only way to stay involved was I said, Hey, I'll 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:26.640 try snapping. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:30.120 I was playing other positions. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.320 I played tight end through high school and through college, 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.400 and uh snapped through high school and in college, but 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.120 probably never really thought about snapping being the route to 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.800 the NFL until senior year of college. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.640 I was lucky in high school. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.640 I had a coach, Carl Johnson, that he had coached 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.559 special teams and snappers at the University of Houston before 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.760 he was our high school coach, and he actually knew 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.080 the fundamentals of snapping, and so that was where my 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:02.320 foundation was laid. And from there it was all for 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.280 the most part self taught and tinkering and figuring out 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:11.000 what works and a benefit and I guess maybe a 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.000 benefit looking back in hindsight is that when I was 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.880 playing tight end in college and snapping, I never had 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.679 time to think about snapping. So I think that just 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.240 instilled the confidence that I carried to this day in 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.840 snapping that I never got to warm up on the 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.080 sideline before a kick or for a punt. I just 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.480 went out there and ripped it back there and didn't 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.160 think anything of it. So obviously I put more thought 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.360 into it now, But I think it's just it's been 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:42.520 a ability that I've had that I didn't really take 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.960 full appreciation of until I knew I could make it 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.240 as a snapper in the NFL. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.080 I kind of the long snappers an for the trips. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.080 Didn't do any of that stuff and snapping in the. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:55.240 Meeting car or anything. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.560 No, I never wanted to break any windows. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.360 You know, that's stuff cool. It's never been I'm not. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.600 I mean, if you if you look at my social media, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:04.880 I'm not posting a lot of stuff. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.560 It's just not my personality to be really out there. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.880 So you know, I'm not gonna say I haven't tried 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.800 to snap into a trash can or something every now 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:17.880 and then, but hit the crossbar maybe, But I find 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.400 that a lot of times that actually might hurt your 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.120 snapping ability the job you're trying to do when you 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.640 start messing around with that stuff, even though it might 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.840 be cool. But I'm here to snap, I guess so. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:32.800 For a long time. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.240 On the shoulder injury in the Coppers. 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.000 Now back to houses, how. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:41.960 Hit the colt was that was coming back and had, Well, yeah, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:42.560 it is tough. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.720 I think a lot of you know, I don't know 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.080 what happened with you know, the end of my tenure 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.200 in Seattle, but I think a lot of a lot 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.840 of coaches and front office and medical might see that 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.880 as like a death sentence for a snapper. But you know, 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.640 I saw a great surge and I had a great 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.160 team of athletic trainers. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:04.880 I was back. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:10.120 Quicker than expected and stronger, and I honestly felt coming 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.600 off of a year of missing a full season, as 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.720 bad as that is, I had a full season first 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:21.600 time since you know, seventh grade, a full year to 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.880 recover and be healthy and be strong and be ready 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.760 for this next stint of however, long it's going to 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.320 be here or the next team, whatever it's going to be. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.240 And I realized that which was that was the toughest 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.080 part about being hurt last year was not the physical 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:39.560 part of it. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:40.480 It was the mental part. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:44.320 Understanding that I got my job in Seattle six years 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.920 ago when I filled in for a hurt snapper, so 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.360 I knew exactly what was at risk, and I didn't 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:51.160 think it was going to happen. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:52.920 I did my best where it wasn't going to. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.160 But it's the way the cards were dealt, and I'm 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.240 here now to make the most of this, to make 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.600 the run with these guys and do everything we can 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.920 to be the best unit in the NFL. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.200 Next up, defensive tackle Broderick Washington. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:09.720 Appreciate it. Appreciate it. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:17.720 Mans around your. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:17.720 Ends, Uh one. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.360 I was very excited, man, I'm just blessed to even 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:21.120 be in the position. 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:24.160 I'm glad my mom wasn't here. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.720 I would have cried, and you know, I kind of 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.760 supposedly a tough guy here, so you know that wouldn't 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:32.280 have looked good on me. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:38.000 But yeah, man, I'm just excited. I'm feel with emotion. 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:42.360 I'm happy to be able to call I'm happy to 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.760 be able to be home for the next three years, man, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.000 and I'm glad it's here. I don't have to go 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.400 anywhere different. I don't have to learn a new scheme. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.960 I know everything already. I'm comfortable, and I'm just really 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.200 excited for the opportunity to grow each and every year. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:00.320 Right. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:06.760 Uh, no, not at all, But I mean it's a 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.720 blessing to be in this position. All I did was 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.439 just kept my head down and just worked really and 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.199 Coach Harb's during our tas like he kind of he 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.400 kind of mentioned it, but you know, I didn't wanna 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.639 let it get to my head because at the end 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.280 of the day, I'm still trying to get better and 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.399 I haven't even I barely scratched the surface of what 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.800 I could really be. And I just look forward to 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.040 the opportunity to be able to do that here. And 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:42.560 I just blessed. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:47.800 Whatever to get your money season happened, and I. 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:48.320 Want to think that. 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:56.040 I mean, for me personally, I didn't want My whole 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:57.840 thing was just getting better every day. I really didn't 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:02.480 think about it because there's more there's a lot of 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.760 guys that's in my class that's more deserving, I feel like, 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.639 but like I said, I'm blessed to be in this 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.360 position and I'm super excited to be able to call 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.560 the Baltimore Ravens home for the next few years. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.080 Robert, what did it mean to be able to kind 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.600 of celebrate with your guys at midfield after practice? 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.200 It seemed like they were all pretty fired. 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:21.000 Up for you to get the deal. 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.480 Don Uh. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.840 It was a great feeling because normally, like I kind 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.520 of just stayed to myself in the in the building, 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.640 and like I speak to everybody and stuff like that. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.720 But just to see those guys embrace me the way 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.720 they did, it meant a lot. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:43.400 And shoot, I was just I was just feeled with happiness. Honestly, 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:45.880 when the coaches talk. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.480 About you, they say, so this guy's he's every time 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.320 he comes back to the ability, he's better than he wanted. 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:55.119 To listening when he left the experience coming into this season. 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:57.840 Is there a specific thing you wanted to work on? 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.960 I mean, how are you better now of yew Worth there? 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.080 If I had to point out one thing, I would 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:11.720 just say, it's my confidence in myself. 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:18.479 Like I'm a pretty confident guy, but and for some reason, 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:23.720 like yeah, I. 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.159 It's honestly hard to really put anything on it. But 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.679 coming into the season and during the off season, my 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:36.399 thing was working on past rush because without Calais, you know, 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.720 there's a lot of past or snaps up for grabs, 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:40.359 and I'm trying to be one of the guys that 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.520 gets some getting some of them. So my main focus 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:48.720 was just passed rush over the all season. Yeah, yeah, whynot. 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.720 I'd be a fool not to, you know. But yeah, 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.200 and Chuck. Every day he got something for the guys 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.119 in the pastor's department, and I mean he's been a 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.679 great help for everybody, for the whole room. Honestly, he 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.480 makes us better as a unit, and we're gonna continue 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:06.840