Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens are
Speaker 1: in the final week of OT practices and today after practice,
Speaker 1: we had the chance to hear from head coach John Harball,
Speaker 1: outside linebackers coach Chuck Smith, and safety Kyle Hamilton. Let's
Speaker 1: start things off with head coach John Harball.
Speaker 2: I know it's still ots, but Nel snack or was
Speaker 2: there like he had a pretty get it What if
Speaker 2: you've kind of seen it from hen join Sauls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you saw today pretty much what we've
Speaker 3: seen all the way through Jamison. He's he's uh, he's
Speaker 3: been on point. He's been here, you know, pretty much
Speaker 3: every day. He's missed a few days here and there
Speaker 3: for personal reasons. But uh, he's a talented guy, former
Speaker 3: first round pick. He looks it rangy, big catch radius,
Speaker 3: all things you saw today, I feel like he's been
Speaker 3: doing all along.
Speaker 4: Hey, coach, ends up being just a few weeks.
Speaker 5: But what is the thing that stands out with the
Speaker 5: most when you want all the rookies from from.
Speaker 3: Bill like you know, before they drove in, Now the
Speaker 3: yield you do you try to you try to see, uh,
Speaker 3: what's gonna carry over? You know what you saw on tape.
Speaker 3: Is he gonna carry over to what you see out here?
Speaker 3: And I would say pretty much. All the guys look
Speaker 3: look a little better even, you know, look in this environment,
Speaker 3: they look smooth, they're moving well, they're learning. All the
Speaker 3: guys are learning well. So we're happy with those guys.
Speaker 3: All all the rookie's doing a good job. Now, you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's it's rehearsal right now, it's not really competitive,
Speaker 3: so we'll see once the pads come on, and once
Speaker 3: it gets competitive, we'll know more.
Speaker 5: So you had and faidwell when you like how to
Speaker 5: hit them and.
Speaker 3: Can practice the other former first round pick obviously, and
Speaker 3: you know what you find out about guys, and knew
Speaker 3: a little bit, but we've never been around him. Really
Speaker 3: a termined, determined guy wants to wants to be really good,
Speaker 3: you know, physical practice, worked hard to work out, came
Speaker 3: out here pretty much knew what he was doing. You know,
Speaker 3: after getting here less than twenty four hours ago. He
Speaker 3: didn't make a mistake out there. I think that says
Speaker 3: a lot about who he is. So he'll be in
Speaker 3: the mix. We'll let him compete and see how he does.
Speaker 3: John looking at.
Speaker 6: Them see the room, you guys, that was clearly an
Speaker 6: area of focus for you guys.
Speaker 7: It's all season.
Speaker 6: How are you feeling about the competition in that room
Speaker 6: amongst those guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's good question. I'm really not feel
Speaker 3: in the competition yet because we're not really competitive yet.
Speaker 3: I'm feeling good about the work ethic of the guys
Speaker 3: that are out here doing it. I know the guys
Speaker 3: that aren't here, one or two, whatever it is, guys,
Speaker 3: I know they're working hard to get in shape. We'll
Speaker 3: see them next week. But the guys are doing a
Speaker 3: good job learning the offense, practicing quick, practicing fast, and
Speaker 3: just I'm excited about it. But you know, like you said,
Speaker 3: must training, Cam comes around with no more.
Speaker 6: John, what's your overallssessment?
Speaker 1: Just these three makes of guys learning as much of
Speaker 1: the offense as they can right now at the time.
Speaker 3: I think it's pretty darn good. You know, I'm really
Speaker 3: happy with the coaching staff. I think the guys have
Speaker 3: been determined. They've you know, we're trying to expand upon
Speaker 3: the idea of being a student of the game. You know,
Speaker 3: every guy understanding how they can improve in that area,
Speaker 3: and some guys are great at it. Some guys can
Speaker 3: learn from other guys those kind of things. And I
Speaker 3: also think the coaching staff has done a really good
Speaker 3: job of creating a system that's that's learnable, you know,
Speaker 3: that ties together well, but still very flexible and what
Speaker 3: we can do. I think Todd's leading to charge with
Speaker 3: all the guys that are all very good teachers, a
Speaker 3: lot of energy, a lot of dial expected back and forth,
Speaker 3: which I like to see.
Speaker 7: This is your reaction with JK.
Speaker 5: Dobbins put out a series of tweets almost the I
Speaker 5: think was last week saying he kind of expectedly out
Speaker 5: of his uncertainty about his future.
Speaker 4: What was kind of reaction?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I didn't really have any reaction because
Speaker 3: I didn't look at it, but but Chad told me
Speaker 3: about it, and basically I guess it was, you know,
Speaker 3: I want to be back, but I don't know how
Speaker 3: you is that.
Speaker 7: What it was?
Speaker 3: I would probably I probably agree. I mean, we want
Speaker 3: him back, but who knows the future. So nobody knows
Speaker 3: the future. If somebody can tell me whether JK is
Speaker 3: gonna be back next year, i'd like to know if
Speaker 3: you're certain about it, But who's who? Knows anything about anything. Uh,
Speaker 3: I think I know JK. When he gets back here
Speaker 3: will be determined, excited, He will work hard, his energy
Speaker 3: will be high. I know he'll be in great shape
Speaker 3: because I know who he is as a person, and
Speaker 3: I expect great things out of this year. John, we're
Speaker 3: talking to Kyle Almlinton after you. As of right now,
Speaker 3: do you envision him being mostly in one of those
Speaker 3: traditional dedicated safety rules or do you think we'll see
Speaker 3: him still a lot of nickel at your resolves from help? Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not going to be then nickel. You know, per se,
Speaker 3: he'll be a safety traditional safety role, probably not in
Speaker 3: our defense because we move our guys around. Our safeties
Speaker 3: are rushing the passer, they're playing linebacker, they're running from
Speaker 3: online scrimmage back to the deep middle. We do a
Speaker 3: lot with those guys. So the fact that he's able
Speaker 3: to do all that really helps us be who we
Speaker 3: want to be on defense.
Speaker 5: Jhner mentioned earlier in the off season about follow A
Speaker 5: potentially being a candidate left guard roos.
Speaker 4: He don't move around us.
Speaker 3: What are you seeing in his development now going to
Speaker 3: do or two?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I think we're just going to try to
Speaker 3: give him every opportunity to see what you know, kind
Speaker 3: of worry worry flashes right now is a great time.
Speaker 3: I wanted to see what he looked like before we
Speaker 3: got out of the mini camp and the OTAs at
Speaker 3: left guard. He look good, you know, he gets stay
Speaker 3: a little more square, things like that. But his feet
Speaker 3: look good, his hands look good. He's able to punch
Speaker 3: quickly with his hands and react pretty quickly in there,
Speaker 3: so I wouldn't rule him out, you know, as a
Speaker 3: potential left guard. Would also say that John Simpson has
Speaker 3: done a great job in there. Ben Cleveland has been
Speaker 3: working both sides, but we got him working right tackle.
Speaker 3: Now you saw that, then Sala is doing a nice
Speaker 3: job in there. You may have noticed that he looks
Speaker 3: good in there, so it's gonna be quite a quite
Speaker 3: a fight for that spot. Yes, he had a kind
Speaker 3: of a tweak soft tissue thing. He should be back
Speaker 3: next week.
Speaker 7: For the LAS.
Speaker 6: Johnny off to the side of trainers.
Speaker 2: Did you have anything in the off season and is
Speaker 2: he gonna be ready.
Speaker 6: For Mini caamp training camp?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I think minicamp partially ready. I'm
Speaker 3: hearing training camp is supposed to be fully ready. Uh yeah,
Speaker 3: this just wasn't quite ready to get back on and
Speaker 3: practice yet. No setback. Uh maybe they're being a little cautious,
Speaker 3: but that's what they're doing.
Speaker 5: There anyone that we shouldn't expect to practice at a
Speaker 5: minicamp next week.
Speaker 3: I don't really have to listen for me. I can't
Speaker 3: remember who everybody is right now, John Lamar, you mean,
Speaker 3: like as far as reporting to minicamp or injury wise.
Speaker 3: The injury wise, I'm not sure it's nothing other than
Speaker 3: the guys you already know about, but uh, expect everybody
Speaker 3: to report, you know, mandatory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lamar and p Martin both talking about how he's
Speaker 2: gonna have a little bit more flexibility at the line,
Speaker 2: a little bit more free doing.
Speaker 7: How do you think that is going?
Speaker 4: And kind of just as kind of the evolution.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is the evolution, you know, and it's something
Speaker 3: that he's we've we've been in that world before, but
Speaker 3: not to disagree to me, the offense starts in that
Speaker 3: world more than it did before. And I'm excited about that.
Speaker 3: I know Lamar is excited about that. He and I
Speaker 3: have had conversations about it. Obviously, Todd is right in
Speaker 3: there with Tea coaching the offense to the quarterbacks. That's
Speaker 3: been really good. We've had a lot of one on
Speaker 3: one sessions in terms of, you know, just how we're
Speaker 3: going to operate and how how the quarterbacks need to operate.
Speaker 3: I think you saw today the communication probably better than
Speaker 3: what you saw last week, right, So we just got
Speaker 3: to keep building on that. All right.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, you're listening to Raven's Press Past podcast. That
Speaker 1: was head coach John Harwald talking it's the media after
Speaker 1: today's practice. We also got a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: safety Kyle Hamilton and here he is now, Kyls, your
Speaker 1: second year, how does it having a full off season
Speaker 1: in the building and being really familiar with the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: all your teammates.
Speaker 8: How does that impact you building in your second year time?
Speaker 4: I think gives me more confidence.
Speaker 8: I know what to expect now on a day to
Speaker 8: day basis, and lesser and for excuses stuff like that.
Speaker 8: A little more focused in a sense of trying to
Speaker 8: lead just by doing the right thing every day, being
Speaker 8: in the right spots in practice, still messing up, but
Speaker 8: trying to minimize those mistakes, make new mistakes every day,
Speaker 8: and just getting more experience.
Speaker 3: How as the year went on.
Speaker 6: Last year, it looked like they were adding more and
Speaker 6: more onto your plate. Right now where you and it's
Speaker 6: still kind of they're still giving you more to do
Speaker 6: in terms of your responsibilities on the field, or does
Speaker 6: it kind of looking like the way it did on
Speaker 6: the back end of last year.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's it's June's what sixth, So we're
Speaker 8: still getting the kicks out at this point. But as
Speaker 8: of right now, I've been getting a lot of reps
Speaker 8: in safety. Didn't get a ton of reps in safety
Speaker 8: last year, just in terms of the room that we
Speaker 8: had and the positions I was playing with position I
Speaker 8: was put in. But yeah, I mean, that's still a
Speaker 8: lot to learn from me back there at that position
Speaker 8: at this level, given the lack of experience I had
Speaker 8: last year. But like I said, I'm learning new stuff
Speaker 8: every day, making new miss sakes, and get more comfortable
Speaker 8: day by day.
Speaker 3: Because if I'm gonna say that's ultimately where you want
Speaker 3: to be, I mean, that's that's how you see yourself
Speaker 3: long term as as as.
Speaker 4: Safety, I don't know.
Speaker 8: I think I think as of right now, I feel
Speaker 8: like I can do a multitude multitude of things, and
Speaker 8: I feel like nobody's really trying to pin me in
Speaker 8: one place at this point. And like I said, still June.
Speaker 8: Depending on the week, depending on the game personnel, we
Speaker 8: might switch, but who knows. At this point. I'm just
Speaker 8: trying to, uh just get everything down pad as much
Speaker 8: as possible.
Speaker 7: Really to play Carols and positions.
Speaker 8: If there are some things comfortable back, I wouldn't say
Speaker 8: there's one that's specifically most comfortable.
Speaker 4: It's different.
Speaker 8: I mean Nicol, you're closer to the action, Uh, you
Speaker 8: can't see as much behind you.
Speaker 4: That's a safety job.
Speaker 8: You got to communicate a lot more at safety, and
Speaker 8: I think they compliment one another at the same time.
Speaker 8: At Nicol, I feel like full work in terms of
Speaker 8: man man coverage, getting out through his own job. Stuff
Speaker 8: like that compliment playing safety when you got rolled down
Speaker 8: and cover one and safety also and just knowing where
Speaker 8: everybody's supposed to be at, knowing your check stuff like
Speaker 8: that will compliment playing Nickel and other positions. So that's
Speaker 8: why I said, I'm just trying to get as much
Speaker 8: down as possible as much as I can, try not
Speaker 8: to overload.
Speaker 5: At the same time, I know you talked about how
Speaker 5: last year was kind of a new experience for you
Speaker 5: in that slop position. But you know, just looking at
Speaker 5: what you did in Notre Dame, looked like there were
Speaker 5: times when you would kind of find yourself in the
Speaker 5: slot or in the box. So I guess was it
Speaker 5: just the amount, like the volume STAPs that you were
Speaker 5: getting in that nickel slop position that was different structurally
Speaker 5: from maybe what you did in Notre Dame or what
Speaker 5: was kind of the the you know, the the dividing
Speaker 5: line between college and NFL experience.
Speaker 8: I mean, really it's the guys are going against. I
Speaker 8: mean there's guys in college that we played that were good,
Speaker 8: but you know, I go against some Mary Cooper in
Speaker 8: the Slaughterer of College. I mean, there's guys every single
Speaker 8: week that are really good, and guys out here that
Speaker 8: test me every single day and remind me how hard
Speaker 8: it is be at this level and be successful at
Speaker 8: this level. Just makes me want to grind even more.
Speaker 8: I feel like that was the biggest difference from college
Speaker 8: to NFL. I mean, scheme wise is tougher, but I
Speaker 8: mean you run enough players, you'll get the scheme down.
Speaker 8: But I mean you're not gonna replicate the talent out
Speaker 8: here on a week week basis.
Speaker 4: In college last year, it looked like there.
Speaker 6: Was a point where you where you kind of figured
Speaker 6: it out and you just really started to ascend. Do
Speaker 6: you remember when that was for you, where it kind
Speaker 6: of clipped to you like, okay, you you understand the
Speaker 6: sign that you understand what your role is.
Speaker 7: Uh Uh.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's one specific like point in time.
Speaker 8: I just felt like I was young getting reps, and
Speaker 8: the more reps I got, the more comfortable comfortable I felt.
Speaker 8: And I'm sure that's a common thing throughout the league.
Speaker 8: And at a certain point, I just told myself just
Speaker 8: let loose. I don't play well when I'm playing tight
Speaker 8: or thinking too much. When I just let loose and go,
Speaker 8: that's why I play my best. So that's what I
Speaker 8: try to do. And while doing that, play within the
Speaker 8: defense as well and make the right place most important
Speaker 8: to take where.
Speaker 3: You have last year that you're like alight, now I
Speaker 3: know that and for your two that will allow.
Speaker 7: Me to do action whatever.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 8: Just consistency, I'd say at this level, consistency is everything.
Speaker 8: It's what have you done for me lately? In terms
Speaker 8: of your success stuff like that. So, I mean last year,
Speaker 8: I guess I ended well, but at the same time,
Speaker 8: I got a replicated be consistent this year, minimize mistakes,
Speaker 8: maximize good plays.
Speaker 4: So that's probably what I'm taking in this year.
Speaker 3: You know what you were working at a Notre Dame
Speaker 3: in the off season.
Speaker 7: Was there a specific goal?
Speaker 3: I mean, was there a physical thing you wanted to
Speaker 3: improve this offseason.
Speaker 8: Or yeah, I mean I resurgery, so I was rehaving
Speaker 8: that at the same time, just trying to get as
Speaker 8: healthy as possible. It feels great right now, no limitations
Speaker 8: on that, but in terms of just getting my wind up,
Speaker 8: knowing that probably gonna be playing more snaps and just
Speaker 8: trying to also be in the playbook. I told them
Speaker 8: sem my iPad Notre Dame. So I've just study and
Speaker 8: come back not feel like I've dropped off at all. Physically,
Speaker 8: just trying to get a little stronger, a little bigger.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you guys can tell or not,
Speaker 8: but maybe I don't know. It's up to you all
Speaker 8: to decide that. But yeah, just trying to stay in shape,
Speaker 8: stay hard while still was cool.
Speaker 6: What does your pre game plays look like?
Speaker 4: Uh, pre game playlist.
Speaker 8: Actually, I throw a little Frank Ocean in there, a
Speaker 8: little Frank Ocean.
Speaker 4: It's weird. I go Frank Ocean.
Speaker 8: Maybe some young boy, uh, Drake for sure, touching leather
Speaker 8: by Drake for sure, some house dance hall. Listen to everything.
Speaker 8: And then when they just say it's time to go outside,
Speaker 8: just take it off.
Speaker 2: Cause Marcus Williams getting hurt. And then how you use
Speaker 2: your guys And they have like a ton of reps
Speaker 2: next to each other this year. If you do get
Speaker 2: a lot of reps, and what could that do playing
Speaker 2: next to a player like that to you as far as.
Speaker 4: You know what you can do when you get Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, Marcus is one of the best in their league.
Speaker 8: And it sucks that he was hurt a good amount
Speaker 8: of last year because y'all saw what he did before
Speaker 8: and after the injury and how great he is on
Speaker 8: the field. But just having somebody like that in the
Speaker 8: room every single day. He's been through it this year seven,
Speaker 8: I think for him. So he's getting he's getting old.
Speaker 8: But uh, but I mean he tells me every day
Speaker 8: it's just not even football wise, just mentally out of
Speaker 8: attack every day, how to watch film, how to adapt
Speaker 8: to certain coverage that were playing stuff like that, not
Speaker 8: to overthink.
Speaker 4: It gives me a lot of confidence in my game.
Speaker 8: So he's helped me a lot the past two years
Speaker 8: and hopefully it's gonna be bright future.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Past podcast. Now let's
Speaker 1: hear from outside linebackers coach Chuck Smith. Just you know
Speaker 1: how you're enjoying the job so far and this transition
Speaker 1: to the coach.
Speaker 9: On the NFL team, Well, I'm enjoying the transition. It
Speaker 9: couldn't happen to a It couldn't happen. It's a great
Speaker 9: place to be, you know, And the transition has been
Speaker 9: easy because I know a lot of people here. You know,
Speaker 9: I did the my Bill Wash minority coaching program, got
Speaker 9: my start here and helped kick off my training career,
Speaker 9: you know, with when coach Harballs first year, you know,
Speaker 9: I was a lot younger.
Speaker 7: He was a lot younger.
Speaker 9: But so everybody here, even guys on the staff, There
Speaker 9: are guys here that I train, you know, Eric, mister Basha,
Speaker 9: I've known a lot of these people for a long,
Speaker 9: long long time. So if there was a perfect place
Speaker 9: for me to come and start, you know, really kick off.
Speaker 9: My first year again, it was the Baltimore Ravens when
Speaker 9: you were playing.
Speaker 3: Did you know even then that you you felt like
Speaker 3: you would have something to offer as a as a coach,
Speaker 3: as an.
Speaker 2: As a trainer?
Speaker 3: What when when did that enter your mind as a
Speaker 3: kind of the next sixty.
Speaker 9: Well, always knew in the early nineties that I wanted
Speaker 9: to train pass rushers because there was no one really
Speaker 9: doing it, and as far as that, because there was
Speaker 9: a boy there and I just had a love of
Speaker 9: pass rush from you know, back in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 9: I think when Jack Youngblood there was seventy nine when
Speaker 9: he broke his leg, watching him and then watching LT
Speaker 9: being the first person like you know, going through being
Speaker 9: being from the South, we like college players, growing up,
Speaker 9: loving Derek Thomas, Wilbrim Marshall, guys that were in the SEC.
Speaker 9: So pass rush was always around, you know, uh, and
Speaker 9: so getting the blessings of playing with Reggie White, learning
Speaker 9: from Reggie White, learning from Derek Thomas, playing with great coaches,
Speaker 9: watching great you know, different defenses. Always had a passion
Speaker 9: for pass rush and it wasn't really normal kind of
Speaker 9: back then people kind of looked like, man, that's kind
Speaker 9: of weird because it was a run first offense. So
Speaker 9: then when I got to the NFL, I was watching
Speaker 9: inside the NFL. I was at Carolina. I was coming
Speaker 9: to the end of my career. Me and my wife
Speaker 9: were sitting on the couch in South Park and by
Speaker 9: no Charlotte was sitting in Charlotte on injured reserve and
Speaker 9: we're watching inside the NFL and Greg Gumble was like, well,
Speaker 9: there's a new trend going on of you know, there's
Speaker 9: these there's an NFL players that are working with the
Speaker 9: trainer and it's changing the game. And there was this
Speaker 9: guy Steve Clarkston, you know, and from California. He's the
Speaker 9: first guy to really do it with NFL players for money.
Speaker 9: And so I was sitting there and I had already
Speaker 9: been doing that in the nineties.
Speaker 7: My wife was like, dang, babe, you've been doing that too.
Speaker 9: I had already been doing it so cause you know,
Speaker 9: a lot of people they didn't believe in that you
Speaker 9: could train, you know, because everything was about lifting people.
Speaker 9: There was not skilled trainers. So right then two thousand one,
Speaker 9: I get went on in your reserve. I went back
Speaker 9: to Atlanta and I started training pass rushers, and that's
Speaker 9: kind of how it happened. And uh, but when you're
Speaker 9: like the second person, it's it's hard to visualize. Back
Speaker 9: in those days, I wasn't welcomed because it was a
Speaker 9: different culture.
Speaker 7: You know, with coaches. There weren't guys like me. You know,
Speaker 7: there weren't even iPhone.
Speaker 9: So that's a you know, so you could get no clients.
Speaker 9: You had to put out flyers. I was passing out flyers.
Speaker 9: So that's a whole nother story. So that's kind of
Speaker 9: how that's how my life was. As far as with
Speaker 9: the pass.
Speaker 6: Rush trying to went on, I don't think, oh wait,
Speaker 6: what's kind of been your point of emphasis for him
Speaker 6: to take his game to the next eleven other passers?
Speaker 9: You know me, Well, the first thing you wanna do
Speaker 9: is teach 'em to understand that if you use moves,
Speaker 9: you'll have success. The best players in the NFL who
Speaker 9: use moves have success, the all time greats who have
Speaker 9: get sacks and are produc He was move. If I
Speaker 9: think of Suggs, I think of a long arm with power.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 9: If I think of von Millery, all you guys can
Speaker 9: say he does a what spin right?
Speaker 7: Reggie White does it what.
Speaker 9: Exactly right? Lawrence Taylor did power, Dwight Freennie did what.
Speaker 9: I'm schooling y'all right. But so now after this year,
Speaker 9: when you see Adafe, you're gonna know his signature passed
Speaker 9: for us move.
Speaker 7: So when you think Max Crosby, he's a spinner.
Speaker 9: But the beauty of this whole thing is this, Everyone
Speaker 9: of those guys were taught, So we're teaching them to
Speaker 9: do high performance moves, but most importantly, how to fix
Speaker 9: them when flaws come about.
Speaker 7: And that's where I come in at. But it's not
Speaker 7: just a DAF.
Speaker 9: It's you know, it's Ojabo, you know, it's Jeremiah Moon,
Speaker 9: it's Tavius Robinson. All these guys are working for a
Speaker 9: common calls and ultimately to be the best team defense
Speaker 9: we can be. But the big prizes, trying to win
Speaker 9: the Super Bowl pass rush for us to get there, that's.
Speaker 7: Gonna have to be a big part of it. We're
Speaker 7: all gonna have to develop moves. What do you see
Speaker 7: it too far.
Speaker 1: From David Ajado and just his explosiveness.
Speaker 9: He's everything I thought he was when he was at Michigan.
Speaker 9: He's quick, he's uh confident, he's twitchy, he has a
Speaker 9: high uh pass rush iq and he has mastered a
Speaker 9: lot of different moves and they they're learning how to
Speaker 9: do it. But it's like a all time We're con
Speaker 9: constantly talking every second, every minute on text, on threads,
Speaker 9: all of us, you know, communicating about it.
Speaker 7: And he has a pass rusher's mindset.
Speaker 9: I'm just he's got that dog mindset and he's gonna
Speaker 9: have He's gonna have a lot of success.
Speaker 7: I actually think. I mean, he's a lot better.
Speaker 9: Than I'm sure people have an idea what they think. Now,
Speaker 9: you know, like, oh man, he's coming back from Achilles.
Speaker 9: Dude is ready and he's gonna have an impact. Those
Speaker 9: dudes are getting ready. They're working really hard. And that's
Speaker 9: the best thing I can say about them at this
Speaker 9: stage right now, how much you see he and.
Speaker 1: Oa really feeding up each other from you know, their
Speaker 1: high school days. Like, is that a real thing that
Speaker 1: can translate to successful?
Speaker 9: It is a real thing. Those guys are locked together.
Speaker 9: And here's the best thing about those guys now, they're
Speaker 9: helping each other. When they're lined up out there, they're communicating.
Speaker 9: Ojabo might need this or he might ask Doc this.
Speaker 9: They come off because they talk the same language. So
Speaker 9: from from the standpoint of football language, you know, So
Speaker 9: they're talking the same language, and they're helping each other.
Speaker 7: They're constantly talking.
Speaker 9: And now one of the things that we've been working
Speaker 9: on is being in real time helping the other guy
Speaker 9: stand up front. You're not a young guy anymore, you
Speaker 9: know what I'm saying, So stepping up and part of
Speaker 9: that just comes with being in the moment.
Speaker 7: And so they're always talking.
Speaker 9: I mean, I'm telling you if you ever when you
Speaker 9: guys here watching, I mean you can see them talking,
Speaker 9: pointing fingers because they've spent a lot of time together,
Speaker 9: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: So they have literally been working with the ones and
Speaker 7: going the whole time.
Speaker 9: What it's help is it help O Jabo get up
Speaker 9: to speed because Dov knows Rush, he knows Sam. So
Speaker 9: but it's been in a pretty awesome to watch, and
Speaker 9: so now that trickles down to the other guys. So no,
Speaker 9: they're absolutely they're helping each other. It's it's not just
Speaker 9: the friend thing. This is the work thing. So I'm
Speaker 9: talking about not the buddy buddy were hanging out I'm
Speaker 9: talking about all getting ready to try to win the championship,
Speaker 9: to get do Jabo up to speed.
Speaker 5: One of the things that the Ravens talks about when
Speaker 5: they brought in DoD Back was as that great your speed,
Speaker 5: but being able to take convert speed into power. I
Speaker 5: know that's something that your work with a lot of
Speaker 5: your guys. What does it take to kind of make
Speaker 5: that leap from having all that speed but also being
Speaker 5: able to harness it and what's the full rusher guy?
Speaker 9: Well, the first thing I told him is size weight
Speaker 9: really doesn't dictate the best bull rush.
Speaker 7: Who's the best bull rushers? Right?
Speaker 9: It has to do with speed off the ball and
Speaker 9: how you generate power in the angles you take towards
Speaker 9: the offensive lineman.
Speaker 7: So last year he had some good bull rushes.
Speaker 9: But there are our times when you're going against big guys,
Speaker 9: it's about movement.
Speaker 7: You want to get a moving right.
Speaker 9: So a lot of times when you go straight into
Speaker 9: a bull rush, he's gonna be there, wait and it's
Speaker 9: stay nfl. You're not just gonna surprise anyone if you're
Speaker 9: just going straight at him. So from a bull rush standpoint,
Speaker 9: we've been working on stutter bull where when you stutter,
Speaker 9: it's gonna make him do what. He's gonna get light
Speaker 9: on his feet. We're gonna work on different angles. You know,
Speaker 9: there's certain angles that you just don't. You don't bull
Speaker 9: rush from five yards out. But the mindset is, if
Speaker 9: I get five yards out, I'm a bull rush. But
Speaker 9: if you're five yards out, who doesn't give more time
Speaker 9: to see you're gonna bull rush. You want to be tighter.
Speaker 9: It's about angles. So we know we're gonna add power.
Speaker 9: But when you got that kind of speed, oh, he's
Speaker 9: gonna have power and he's gonna have success with the
Speaker 9: bull rush.
Speaker 7: That's just part of it.
Speaker 9: Because the beauty of the thing is look at the
Speaker 9: guys at bull rush. Leonard Floyd, who just got signed,
Speaker 9: let's get I mean, if you go back and look
Speaker 9: at the Super Bowl, that's all they did in the
Speaker 9: end of the game. The la Rams against Cincinnati were
Speaker 9: bull rushing.
Speaker 7: Leonard is too. I love Leonard to death. He's a guy.
Speaker 7: Leonard's like two thirty five. So it has nothing to
Speaker 7: do with side. You know.
Speaker 9: So in some of the worst bull rushers or guys
Speaker 9: that are big because they don't understand angles and movement.
Speaker 9: So no, every guy that we have is gonna be
Speaker 9: able to bull rush, and it's gonna people will recognize
Speaker 9: that that we can bull rush, cause that's part of
Speaker 9: being a skilled pass ruff and that that is a move.
Speaker 5: Coach.
Speaker 7: You mentioned the sign there's special guys in the street.
Speaker 2: There's been a lineage here with Las Campbell, Justice Houston
Speaker 2: and having a guy who's kind of done it all,
Speaker 2: seen it all.
Speaker 7: That's not really in the mix right now? Is that
Speaker 7: something that you and the person else department talking about?
Speaker 4: Nah?
Speaker 9: Man, they't got nothing to do with me. Come on,
Speaker 9: I'm just learning how to use the Exos computer. So
Speaker 9: nah and I and I didn't mention Leonard had anything
Speaker 9: to do with anything. I wanna make sure we clear
Speaker 9: that up. I'm just mentioning Leonard because you guys watched
Speaker 9: the Super Bowl against a team that we competed against
Speaker 9: in the RAMS, and I was just talking about strictly
Speaker 9: that a l a smaller guy can bull rush. But
Speaker 9: as far as that, naw, that's Eric and those guys
Speaker 9: and the guys are working hard, and my role is
Speaker 9: just to coach and continue to grow and learn from
Speaker 9: Coach Weaver and all these great coaches that are in here,
Speaker 9: and so I can't be worrying about Eric John to
Speaker 9: worry about, like I said, learn and keep working on
Speaker 9: that PowerPoint and all those other things that I'm doing now.
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