Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: April seventeenth. The Ravens offseason conditioning program is underway, and
Speaker 1: today we had a chance to hear from strength and
Speaker 1: conditioning coach Scott Elliott as well as some key players.
Speaker 1: So let's kick things off with Scott.
Speaker 2: All right, we're good first time or so bear with me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as you all know, Monday we started the off
Speaker 3: season program, had a great turnout.
Speaker 2: It's been awesome.
Speaker 3: I mean, today's Wednesday, so you have the natural high
Speaker 3: on Monday, you know, and you're riding that and emotionally
Speaker 3: you get gear back up to finish the week strong
Speaker 3: and continue Phase one.
Speaker 2: So Phase one we love.
Speaker 3: I'm talking from a biased point of view strength and conditioning.
Speaker 3: That's when we get you know, time on the field,
Speaker 3: with the guy's time in the weight room. You know,
Speaker 3: on field we're working everything from max acceleration or max
Speaker 3: velocity acceleration, change the direction DCEL and then then into
Speaker 3: tissue prep conditioning, cardiovascular uh conditioning. That's going to carry
Speaker 3: us through Phase one into Phase two OTAs and then
Speaker 3: mini camp. In the weight room, we're working on structural balance,
Speaker 3: so we're really trying to build build a base right,
Speaker 3: so front to back, left to right, something that we
Speaker 3: can lay down as as the foundation to go into
Speaker 3: more of a power phase. Take us into mini camp
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, a successful twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited. It's been a great turnout. We've had
Speaker 3: a lot of fun with it. Uh, the guys are
Speaker 3: working their tails off and can't wait to keep going.
Speaker 2: Is there any questions?
Speaker 1: How would you kind of describe run down there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's the core philosophy? I guess so of the program
Speaker 1: as you as you build out, starting out throughout the
Speaker 1: entire season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So with the core philosophy, it all comes back
Speaker 3: to really what you hear coach Harball say, you know,
Speaker 3: throughout the year, we want to be the strongest team
Speaker 3: in the NFL, And yeah in Week one, but in
Speaker 3: December and then even beyond right December football means the most.
Speaker 3: But that's what carries us into the playoffs. So that
Speaker 3: is the baseline for our core philosophy. So what we're
Speaker 3: doing now when I say structural balance, we're really trying
Speaker 3: to look at these guys as sky skyscrapers in the
Speaker 3: sense of they're larger than life. So with that, with
Speaker 3: a skyscraper, you got to dig down deep. You gotta
Speaker 3: have a foundation that supports that. So you can talk
Speaker 3: into your prevention, your talk performance, you can talk all
Speaker 3: these sayings, but what it comes down to is what
Speaker 3: we do out here and especially in the weight room
Speaker 3: makes them the best version of themselves out on the field.
Speaker 2: That's what it all comes down to.
Speaker 4: Your job, fairly or unfairly, often is judged mostly by
Speaker 4: injury of version and injuries. Just what's your philosophy regarding that?
Speaker 2: How do you handle that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you can't be the best version of yourself
Speaker 3: if you're not available to play. So you know, there's
Speaker 3: an old saying that the greatest ability in football is availability,
Speaker 3: and the second of that is repeatability. You know, can
Speaker 3: you do it time and time again? So you know,
Speaker 3: there's a couple of things that play into that strength.
Speaker 3: Through full ranges of motion I put a high priority on,
Speaker 3: and then in the controlled environment, put them in positions
Speaker 3: and in places that we can strengthen so that when
Speaker 3: they're putting it out in a dynamic environment, they've been
Speaker 3: there before, because injury can occur when it's when the
Speaker 3: body's put in place that hadn't been before. It's got
Speaker 3: to react, So we're trying to kind of train that
Speaker 3: to a degree.
Speaker 5: How important is it for.
Speaker 4: These guys sort to come in here all right sort
Speaker 4: of shape.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at the ground running. Oh it's great.
Speaker 3: And you know, again you're talking to a biased opinion here,
Speaker 3: but the raven way, you know, we've got the guys
Speaker 3: have come in in phenomenal shape. So that allows us
Speaker 3: to kind of start one step ahead of maybe where
Speaker 3: you'd have to start elsewhere, you know, start more basic.
Speaker 3: So it's a huge value, and then it allows us
Speaker 3: to kind of progress more efficiently leading into phase two
Speaker 3: and then to phase three when they're you know's in
Speaker 3: the mini camp.
Speaker 5: How do you work with.
Speaker 6: Guys who have all season programs or a personal trainers?
Speaker 5: How do you mesh your program with what they're doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we sit down with the guys as they come
Speaker 3: back and we go through an audit. You know, what
Speaker 3: they're looking to gain out of this program? Our program,
Speaker 3: because we say our program, it's not the Strength SaaS program,
Speaker 3: it's it's collectively it's our program. So we're looking at
Speaker 3: what they've done, you know, whether they were away for
Speaker 3: the last eight weeks or or really a lot of
Speaker 3: times will be in communication with the trainer that they're
Speaker 3: working with, so that we know so that we can
Speaker 3: either advance what they're doing, we can redirect, we can
Speaker 3: work together on it to kind of help meet the
Speaker 3: needs of the athlete.
Speaker 7: How do you balance your good year? I mean, they'll
Speaker 7: be pasts in thousand, but you guys are a pretty
Speaker 7: good year on the injury front.
Speaker 5: How do you.
Speaker 7: Balance trying to stay cutting edge and push things forward
Speaker 7: with not wanting to kind of tinker with some of
Speaker 7: the stuff that worked really well last year on that.
Speaker 3: Front, Yeah, you're always looking to progress, right, but you're
Speaker 3: also kind of the Garrett's point of the core foundation.
Speaker 2: You want to stay true too. Bluss you we we
Speaker 2: had a great year in that regard. We had great preparation.
Speaker 3: Really, to maybe be more specific in that answer, my
Speaker 3: word for them this week was intent, right. I said
Speaker 3: last year was effort and energy. Bring the effort, bring
Speaker 3: your energy, We match it. This year was intensity. But
Speaker 3: we talked about it in the sense of how do
Speaker 3: you get to intensity. It's not the raw raw, it's
Speaker 3: not the one rep max. It's your level of intent.
Speaker 3: So I think that's how we take it this year
Speaker 3: what we were able to kind of accomplish last year
Speaker 3: and with the high level of intent or tenacious intent
Speaker 3: to make intensity.
Speaker 2: That's where we can be specific.
Speaker 3: We individualize the programs, We make it customized to them
Speaker 3: to give them the best opportunity to get be the
Speaker 3: best version themselves out on the field.
Speaker 8: That's the energy like right now among the team and
Speaker 8: what are they building.
Speaker 5: On in this phase.
Speaker 3: Energy's high with an edge the simplest way to say it.
Speaker 3: You know, just obviously you have the ability to reflect
Speaker 3: back on last year during the off season and guys
Speaker 3: have come back with high energy because they know the
Speaker 3: path that we kind of venture down as a group
Speaker 3: and the court. We got a large portion of the
Speaker 3: team back, We've got great additions, so there's an edge
Speaker 3: to it in the sense of taking the next step
Speaker 3: the injury.
Speaker 5: Would we see of the biggest successes you guys have last.
Speaker 7: Year where that you want to throw it off though
Speaker 7: there were some.
Speaker 5: Manys people see because he had into those offices.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say, you know, building off the successes
Speaker 3: last year's is the engagement with the weight room, the players,
Speaker 3: understanding that we're here to work for them and with them, right,
Speaker 3: But you know, we talked about the customization work of
Speaker 3: the workouts, and then we talk about you know, different
Speaker 3: recovery modalities that we've implemented with the guys through training
Speaker 3: camp throughout the year.
Speaker 2: And then we kind of reworked.
Speaker 3: We tweaked last year, We've continued to tweak it this
Speaker 3: year of how we approach our programming. Our programming is
Speaker 3: still as consistent as it as it ever has been
Speaker 3: over the last handful of years, but we lead into
Speaker 3: it much more with a care of approach, with mobility
Speaker 3: and activation focus, and then we get into our primary
Speaker 3: movers and what that's kind of built on or built
Speaker 3: built for us is players having that intent when we
Speaker 3: get to the work of what the work is focused on,
Speaker 3: so they feel ready, they attack it, and that allows
Speaker 3: for us to grow it.
Speaker 9: You running back this year with Derek Henry notorious workout legend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd like to take credit for that, I wish, But.
Speaker 9: What's that process been like? And then kind of spinning
Speaker 9: forward obviously a guy who's thirty now and kind of
Speaker 9: on that back end of things that in terms of
Speaker 9: you see declined and running backs or how do you
Speaker 9: sort of manage to avoid those situations.
Speaker 2: I guess so.
Speaker 3: So Derek was here on Monday, you know, yesterday and today,
Speaker 3: and you know, when you get past just the all
Speaker 3: factor of you know, as advertised everything you see and
Speaker 3: we played them last year, and of course we've seen
Speaker 3: him over the years, but to see him in here
Speaker 3: running lifting, I go back to the word intent. He
Speaker 3: attacks everything with such a high level of intent, intent,
Speaker 3: with with tenacity.
Speaker 2: That's why he's Derek Henry.
Speaker 3: That's why what we're gonna you know, what we're gonna
Speaker 3: help him do is keep that same trajectory. He's he's
Speaker 3: he's one, had one heck of a career. Our goal
Speaker 3: is that it gets even better from here, you know,
Speaker 3: and not age, not years of service, not that he
Speaker 3: keeps getting better and better. And it's his work ethic.
Speaker 3: I mean, that was evident in the last seventy two hours.
Speaker 3: It's immediate. The guy has a high level focus, He
Speaker 3: prioritizes his body, he works extremely hard, and that's.
Speaker 2: What's gonna that's what's gonna continue.
Speaker 7: Lamar always seems to kind of be like the high
Speaker 7: type or people want to be around them.
Speaker 5: And they follow them.
Speaker 7: How much does when he's around involved. How much does
Speaker 7: that kind of lift a level and expectations of the room.
Speaker 2: He's a magnet. Everybody sees it.
Speaker 3: You see kind of the media, you see Lamar out
Speaker 3: on the field, he's a magnet. But in the weight
Speaker 3: room out here running. But how physically gifted is is
Speaker 3: one aspect of it. But his personality, that's that, that's
Speaker 3: you know, paired with it. Guys are drawn to it,
Speaker 3: and and then there's a competitive nature and and you know,
Speaker 3: all of us, I'd say all of us in the building.
Speaker 2: Are drawn towards Lamar's personality.
Speaker 3: So having him, you know, engage with us and and
Speaker 3: and bought in is just in It's been incredible.
Speaker 5: It's got on those lines.
Speaker 7: I think people saw them Mark coming into the building
Speaker 7: looking a little bit lean.
Speaker 2: I guess how much is he work reading into someone's
Speaker 2: physical appearance.
Speaker 3: At this point in the account right right, you know, Lamar,
Speaker 3: Lamar coming in on Monday, everybody's talking about being leaned.
Speaker 2: Lamar is in great shape.
Speaker 3: And what it's allowing us to do and I had
Speaker 3: just got done with the training session with them before
Speaker 3: coming out here is to add lean muscle on top
Speaker 3: of it. We did shoulder conditioning uh today, you know,
Speaker 3: to help him be the elite quarterback.
Speaker 2: That he is.
Speaker 3: So I say, I'll say this, I've never been more
Speaker 3: excited in April for Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: We also heard from veteran linebacker Roquan Smith.
Speaker 5: Perfect what's up.
Speaker 1: Here around the guys and getting things kicked off of
Speaker 1: this season.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, it's awesome being back here around the guys,
Speaker 10: building a good base this week with the guys in
Speaker 10: the weight room and whatnot, and so happy to be back.
Speaker 10: And we all know what our goal is, but it's
Speaker 10: very early right now, So just enjoying the time with
Speaker 10: the guys, seeing everybody around the building, including you guys.
Speaker 5: You know, so it's good to see you guys faces.
Speaker 1: How would you kind of describe But I guess the vibe,
Speaker 1: the energy, you know in the locker rooms. Everyone's back
Speaker 1: and looking ahead for the season.
Speaker 10: Yeah, obviously last season is last season. This season is
Speaker 10: a totally new year, and I think everyone is very
Speaker 10: excited about what all we have coming forward, and we
Speaker 10: know the potential that we have with this team. We
Speaker 10: added pieces and I'm sure throughout the draft and throughout
Speaker 10: the rest of the off season we'll add more pieces.
Speaker 10: I'll leave that to the people upstairs. But I'm definitely excited.
Speaker 10: I'm ready to get the year going. But there's a
Speaker 10: process and I'm very respectful of that.
Speaker 5: Oh weird is that Patrick working out over the year.
Speaker 5: It's not weird at all.
Speaker 10: You know, life happens, so and he's somewhere else right now.
Speaker 10: I gotta tear his picture down in the linebacker room,
Speaker 10: you know. So we have like linebackers all over the wall.
Speaker 10: So I need to probably make a video of me, like,
Speaker 10: you know, maybe punching it and like something like that.
Speaker 10: But or maybe I'll ask see Hort get out there
Speaker 10: on special teams, maybe a punt play and hopefully it's
Speaker 10: d State just to get some with him.
Speaker 5: But no, I'm happy for him.
Speaker 10: I'm wishing him all the best and it'll be good
Speaker 10: to see him twice a year. He's still my guy.
Speaker 10: But you know, it's when war's war, that's what it is.
Speaker 4: What are you saying, potentially, Trenton Simpson they playing.
Speaker 5: Next year this season? Yeah?
Speaker 10: No, Simp just been like even talking with him this
Speaker 10: off season, even throughout last season. I know the type
Speaker 10: of respect he had for the game and for himself
Speaker 10: as well, and the way he's been busting his tail,
Speaker 10: like all off season talking with Scott and everyone.
Speaker 5: How he's you know, guys.
Speaker 10: Busting his tail, want to be the best, and I
Speaker 10: know his mindset, so I'm excited. He has all the
Speaker 10: potential in the world. Is just gonna be about putting
Speaker 10: that on the field week in and week out.
Speaker 5: And just trusting his ability.
Speaker 10: And if he does that, like, I think he'll be
Speaker 10: the best second year linebacker in the league in my opinion.
Speaker 11: I know how your standards are. You know, you guys
Speaker 11: have a lot of talented players on this defense and
Speaker 11: has lost some talented players and coordinator. How much you
Speaker 11: think it'll a little they a motivating factor for you
Speaker 11: guys just sholder, Hey, we're still the radious defense.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that come that comes with time. But
Speaker 10: have the utmost respect for ze O and the way
Speaker 10: he run things. Fiery guy, very intense, really match my personality,
Speaker 10: but I think it matches the defensive personality as well
Speaker 10: as well as the organization. Like uh as being a raven,
Speaker 10: I think, uh what he embodies is exactly what you want.
Speaker 5: And a coordinator. Uh.
Speaker 10: Very thankful for Mike and everything that he uh had
Speaker 10: done here. But the players, you know, life goes on.
Speaker 10: So at the end of the day, you know, wish
Speaker 10: all those guys the best who've you know, going on
Speaker 10: with their career, but uh, don't anything change here. We're
Speaker 10: still the Ravens and we're still gonna get the job done,
Speaker 10: uh and finish it by any means necessary. So that's
Speaker 10: our mindset. And I know each and every guy uh
Speaker 10: that's putting in the work this off season here or
Speaker 10: not here knowing exactly uh what our mindset is and
Speaker 10: how we're gonna get there.
Speaker 2: Sits downing each of the guys a super names.
Speaker 8: He's like, probably don't know already over the off season
Speaker 8: what your person goes are, what is it then rate.
Speaker 11: To go through that process of doing and know what
Speaker 11: you've already gone.
Speaker 5: The way you get together honestly, uh with Scott.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so like even when the season ended, like, uh
Speaker 10: that's so. So I like do a lot of my
Speaker 10: training on my own. So then getting with Scott and
Speaker 10: for getting a plan together for me throughout the off season,
Speaker 10: which I think is huge for me. So coming in
Speaker 10: it's just like you know, something little tweaks here and there,
Speaker 10: but things that I had already been doing pretty much
Speaker 10: throughout the off season running wise, as well as lifting.
Speaker 10: So I think it's great, you know, having a guy
Speaker 10: like him here can relate to the players in any
Speaker 10: way younger guy know what's going on, and just knowing
Speaker 10: knowing how to approach guys and knowing how to push
Speaker 10: guys as well as getting the best out of.
Speaker 5: Each and every guy. And I think when you have someone.
Speaker 10: Like that, it's always great to have that person in
Speaker 10: the building and keep a smile on his face, bring
Speaker 10: smiles on the others faces. So definitely grateful to have
Speaker 10: him and entire staff here. Bro.
Speaker 5: What's your thoughts on the audition to Derrick Hendrick to
Speaker 5: the squad.
Speaker 10: Yeah, No, I think that's huge. I think it's gonna
Speaker 10: make us stick to what we do. Having a guy
Speaker 10: like him anytime you need to play with him and
Speaker 10: lamar back there.
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be crucial. I'm excited.
Speaker 10: It's gonna open up a lot for everyone going against
Speaker 10: the guy type of threat that he opposed to other defense,
Speaker 10: So it's gonna be scary. I'm excited to see and
Speaker 10: as I would say, I'm glad that I'm on the
Speaker 10: defensive side and watching those guys cheering them on, playing
Speaker 10: and play out. Told a couple of my friends in
Speaker 10: the off season, maybe I'll have to get some popcorn
Speaker 10: on the sideline and you know, while I'm watching those
Speaker 10: guys go to work. So I'm definitely excited. I think
Speaker 10: it's a great piece added to us and it's gonna
Speaker 10: help us get to where we want to be.
Speaker 4: That you know, this is a new season. It's last
Speaker 4: season was last week. How long did it take to
Speaker 4: get over the thing of last season? We were physically
Speaker 4: frustrated with how it ended when we were.
Speaker 10: Spoke to you that, yeah, no, totally. It was definitely
Speaker 10: very very tough. You know, after all you go through
Speaker 10: throughout the year physically, emotionally, all those things play apart,
Speaker 10: and you know, to come up short it sucks, you know,
Speaker 10: And like I would say, you know, at the end
Speaker 10: of the year, there's only one winner. But I'd rather
Speaker 10: have my heart ripped out every time in a big
Speaker 10: game as opposed to losing when we did. But at
Speaker 10: the end of the day, there's just more few to
Speaker 10: the fire, and I'm sure it's gonna inspire and few
Speaker 10: each and every guy that was here last year to
Speaker 10: know that we have to do what it takes to
Speaker 10: get us over the hump this year. But there's a
Speaker 10: process in place and trusting the process, and I know
Speaker 10: each and every gut here will do the same.
Speaker 5: And if we do that, the skuy's the limit. We're go.
Speaker 12: With the draft coming up, how much of you know
Speaker 12: the draft Round one on Thursday or you're gonna watch
Speaker 12: And what do you remember about your draft experience?
Speaker 10: Honestly, I'll probably like have some alerts on my phone
Speaker 10: or something like that, but I'm not too sure if
Speaker 10: I'll actually be watching it. It's kind of crazy because
Speaker 10: like when I was a kid and then high school
Speaker 10: and then my first year or two in the league,
Speaker 10: I was like watching the draft throughout, like from the
Speaker 10: first pick to the mystery irrelevant like so I was
Speaker 10: like one of those type guys. But thinking back to
Speaker 10: my experience at the draft, it was it was great
Speaker 10: out in Dallas. Funny story, I was actually I'd never
Speaker 10: really done it. I was journaling out in Dallas throughout
Speaker 10: the draft because I knew it was just like a
Speaker 10: really special moment and I wanted to definitely cherish it
Speaker 10: and remember every single moment, so I was like writing
Speaker 10: the things down, but having my name called walking.
Speaker 5: Across the stage. It felt very.
Speaker 10: Surreal being where from, Like not anyone else was gone
Speaker 10: first round where I'm from, and not many people can
Speaker 10: say that as well through a lot of great legends
Speaker 10: throughout the game. So definitely was grateful for that and
Speaker 10: it was a great experience for me and I wouldn't
Speaker 10: change it for anything.
Speaker 7: That journal out.
Speaker 10: The last time I pulled that journal out, it was
Speaker 10: actually this off season. So this off season, I think
Speaker 10: when I got back to Chicago or something, I like
Speaker 10: looked in the clauset and I was like, oh, here's
Speaker 10: the journal because I was about to write some notes
Speaker 10: for something else, and I randomly came across the journal,
Speaker 10: and it was pretty sweet just realizing like the thoughts
Speaker 10: that I was having then as opposed to like now
Speaker 10: being way more mature and then like just seeing how
Speaker 10: everything unfolds and being an adult. So it was definitely
Speaker 10: pretty sweet.
Speaker 1: Though just here from Roque gets to be fired up,
Speaker 1: and we've got a long way to go before the
Speaker 1: start of the season, but he clearly is excited about
Speaker 1: this team and the foundation that they're building. He's also
Speaker 1: excited to have Derrick Henry on his side and no
Speaker 1: longer have to tackle him in these games. Today we
Speaker 1: heard from King Henry, no either, Derek, what are you?
Speaker 7: What are your imprecious?
Speaker 1: Here is the off season program get started and you're
Speaker 1: just getting to know your new teammates.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been fun getting to know everybody putting the
Speaker 6: work in, you know, something that that I love to do.
Speaker 6: Everybody's been putting working all week, been working hard, just
Speaker 6: talking and get to know each other.
Speaker 5: So it's fun.
Speaker 6: I'm a new guy on the block, so it's it's different,
Speaker 6: but it's been fun.
Speaker 5: Deck.
Speaker 4: Was it important to you to be here for the
Speaker 4: voluntary portions of this offseason program?
Speaker 5: And if so? White? Yeah, definitely. No.
Speaker 6: You know, I I'm the new guy, so I wanna
Speaker 6: make sure that you know I show up and I'll
Speaker 6: show my teammates and show this organization. I'm I'm here,
Speaker 6: I'm committed, and I wanna come work and wanna put
Speaker 6: the work in, be around my teammates and developed that
Speaker 6: relationship with them, and you know, the really just putting
Speaker 6: the work in and work as hard as I can
Speaker 6: while I'm in the building.
Speaker 9: There is it have stream I mean, obviously you're a
Speaker 9: Tennessee short career and now you're in a build thing
Speaker 9: and you, guys, I mean, do it?
Speaker 5: Does it?
Speaker 9: Is there any part of it that feels odd or
Speaker 9: or you were you invigorating or you know, now that.
Speaker 5: You're at this point, I mean it, it's different.
Speaker 6: You know, I was there for eight years, so it's
Speaker 6: gonna be some some adjusting. But you know, I'm excited.
Speaker 6: It's a new opportunity, a great opportunity, uh for me.
Speaker 6: I'm excited to be a part of this organization, be
Speaker 6: around my teammates, come in, put the work in, learn everything,
Speaker 6: and sometimes change is it's good sometimes, And I'm excited
Speaker 6: And it's been fun these last couple of days there, Pip.
Speaker 1: If we saw you walking out of the wait room
Speaker 1: a day, Flowers is what's getting your impression with him?
Speaker 5: Ager?
Speaker 1: You're starting to get to know him to build that relationship.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Zay has kind of like that, a veteran UH presence.
Speaker 6: You know, he's UH has great energy. He's always out
Speaker 6: here flying around, working hard. We all got to go
Speaker 6: to dinner last night and get to know them. He's
Speaker 6: a Florida bottom of Floorida boy. So you know, it's
Speaker 6: kind of easy. You know, we got to Florida route, so.
Speaker 7: Definitely talk to you at here post signing press coming.
Speaker 7: So you hadn't had a chanceship to catch up with Lamar.
Speaker 7: I know, we we know he's he here, Like what
Speaker 7: if your interactions been with him and kind of how
Speaker 7: we're excited? Are you to keep kind of getting to
Speaker 7: know him better and develop your relationship with him?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mar's a cool guy.
Speaker 6: You can tell, uh, he's a great leader by how
Speaker 6: everybody flocks to him he comes out here.
Speaker 5: He has great energy as well.
Speaker 6: It works when when he's here, only been around him
Speaker 6: for a little bit, but seemed like a great guy.
Speaker 5: You know, his body work speaks for itself.
Speaker 12: So you're a new level of maybe excitement or something
Speaker 12: a feeling you you didn't really anticipate when you actually
Speaker 12: get in the building around all your new teammates and
Speaker 12: maybe the possibilities of what you guys can do together,
Speaker 12: you know, maybe you start thinking about that a little
Speaker 12: bit more. I mean, is there anything that kind of
Speaker 12: surprised you walking in here getting getting started?
Speaker 6: Oh no, not really. I was excited to be here,
Speaker 6: be around, be around them, and you know, get to
Speaker 6: work and get to know everybody, not getting too caught
Speaker 6: up on things that you know are in the future.
Speaker 6: Just focus on the present right now is putting the
Speaker 6: working with them, getting to know them, earning my respect
Speaker 6: from them, and then let everything translate as time goes on.
Speaker 8: You obviously have your own training plan that you go
Speaker 8: through the season. On the off season, Scott told us
Speaker 8: that he talks with new new guys trainers so that
Speaker 8: there's a new voice for you. How has that been
Speaker 8: throughout the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: It's been been good for me. You know.
Speaker 6: I I love working out, I love training, I love
Speaker 6: staying in shape. So you know that comes, you know
Speaker 6: natural to me as far as doing those things and
Speaker 6: then coming here getting adjusted and seeing the things that
Speaker 6: they do and you know, seeing the other guys go
Speaker 6: through it and me just just just doing those things,
Speaker 6: just tryna trying to fit in and getting to know
Speaker 6: them and them get to know me.
Speaker 5: But still work is work at the end of the day.
Speaker 5: Yawd you like the King henroll sait again?
Speaker 10: King hen Roll?
Speaker 5: Was it sweet?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, fire, it was good. I gonna try that.
Speaker 6: It was r really good. So they did a good
Speaker 6: job with that one.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, through your careality, staying motivator has never
Speaker 11: been a problem for you.
Speaker 5: But at this stage of the year, one, are the things.
Speaker 11: Really driving really right now?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 11: You know at this point, I'm I remember once all
Speaker 11: your projet was all about. You've already studied running backs
Speaker 11: and being a long gevity. I mean, is that on
Speaker 11: your list? So what are the things on you're listening?
Speaker 6: You know, I you know, I just love playing this
Speaker 6: game and gonna continue to play until you know, I
Speaker 6: feel like it's my time is up.
Speaker 5: It's as long as guy uh al allow.
Speaker 6: Me to play and play it at a high level
Speaker 6: and you know, a new opportunity. Like I said that,
Speaker 6: I'm excited for a great organization and really wanna hold
Speaker 6: that trophy up at the end of the year. But
Speaker 6: you know, it starts, you know, right now, putting the
Speaker 6: work in and doing all those things that qualify for
Speaker 6: you to be in a position when it's that time.
Speaker 6: I don't wanna get too you know, hyped up or
Speaker 6: to you know, oh whelm, I'm talking about that, but
Speaker 6: just you know, putting the work in, just so you know,
Speaker 6: you prepared and ready to go when the season comes
Speaker 6: and you know, be be be able to play at
Speaker 6: a high level.
Speaker 5: What is uh pre crack ficeed for life in town?
Speaker 5: The black line set again? What is pre pre practiced
Speaker 5: for life? Does that thing in town? I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, I wasn't trying to on Monday. They're pretty good,
Speaker 6: so I hope that's true. I hope I'll be able
Speaker 6: to come and get me some more.
Speaker 5: In the future. And you see, pretty good.
Speaker 12: So Derek just wanted to ask real quick about the
Speaker 12: draft coming up. How much do you anticipate watching, like
Speaker 12: starting Thursday, of the NFL Draft And what do you
Speaker 12: remember most about your draft process.
Speaker 5: With your kidnap.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I love watching the draft, watching the guys coming
Speaker 6: to lead to finally get the opportunity to see their
Speaker 6: dreams coming true, see their reactions and and things like that,
Speaker 6: And I think that's pretty cool, and it's pretty cool
Speaker 6: for kids who had those same dreams and aspirations to
Speaker 6: to see that as well. And you know, my my
Speaker 6: draft night, you know it was it was a little
Speaker 6: different for me. I had a had a draft party
Speaker 6: on the UH on the UH the first night first
Speaker 6: round didn't end up going so had to go home.
Speaker 6: And you know, watch from the couch. But when I
Speaker 6: finally got that call, it was a surreal moment. Moment
Speaker 6: I never forget.
Speaker 1: For sure, workouts are obviously voluntary, but you talk about
Speaker 1: why it's important for you to be here. When you
Speaker 1: look around and Lamar Jackson's here and rope On Smith,
Speaker 1: you know you have the team leaders that are here.
Speaker 1: What what kind of tone does that set for the
Speaker 1: entire team?
Speaker 6: That just shows the the leadership that's here and the
Speaker 6: type of leaders Lamar and Row are. You know, you
Speaker 6: you watch them I'm from Afar throughout the league, and
Speaker 6: you know, see their body of work and the consistency
Speaker 6: that they play with. But then you see them here
Speaker 6: showing up early, putting the work in, putting the work in.
Speaker 6: That speaks volumes I'm sure throughout you know the team
Speaker 6: and shows the type of leadership that they that they
Speaker 6: have and the leaders they are for this team.
Speaker 1: That was Derreck Henry, who's clearly excited to be here
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. One of the guys who's gonna be blocking
Speaker 1: for Henry is center Tyler Linderbond.
Speaker 5: How's everyone doing good school?
Speaker 10: Like I were with the emphasis on uh, you know,
Speaker 10: getting the shape.
Speaker 5: And working in the weight room. How has it been
Speaker 5: here at UH with the Ravens with you for you, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's been awesome. You know.
Speaker 13: I think we've got a really good strength strength staff
Speaker 13: here pushes guys, tries to get the most out of them.
Speaker 13: I think they do a good job just you know,
Speaker 13: working with certain groups on what they specifically need. You know,
Speaker 13: I think each year that's an emphasis and trying to
Speaker 13: improve that. They're asking questions what we like, what we
Speaker 13: want to see when we want to do better, you know.
Speaker 13: And it's been good and we have good three days
Speaker 13: of training under our belts so far and just need
Speaker 13: to keep building off of that.
Speaker 9: Why important for you to be back to the team
Speaker 9: at this early in the off season.
Speaker 5: I think the biggest thing, Well one, you know, been
Speaker 5: away for two months.
Speaker 13: You want to get around the guys and then just
Speaker 13: you're building off for the next season, the four twenty
Speaker 13: five season, and it starts now you know, this is
Speaker 13: the foundation, this is.
Speaker 5: The next step and where we want to go.
Speaker 13: So, you know, I'm glad to see a good amount
Speaker 13: of guys back, and I know the guys that aren't
Speaker 13: here that they're working their tail off towards this next
Speaker 13: Upcomingbert you.
Speaker 4: And mind Stanley always starts back offensive, lying, that's sort
Speaker 4: of change your leadership.
Speaker 10: Role when you guys coming in, how you got more
Speaker 10: vocal maybe.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, you know, any anytime, you're gonna have,
Speaker 13: you know, experience under your belt. You know, especially Ronnie
Speaker 13: has been here quite a bit. You know, we got
Speaker 13: Pat McCarey then obviously me, I've gotten two years on
Speaker 13: my belt in the organization. You know, we're gonna have
Speaker 13: guys that are gonna have to step up and fill in.
Speaker 13: I think we have a good group of guys, a
Speaker 13: good coaching staff to be able to help the younger
Speaker 13: guys and whoever else we add that's gonna step in
Speaker 13: and plays.
Speaker 1: To walk into the room and like some of the
Speaker 1: familiar faces that you've been around for, you know, the
Speaker 1: start of your career. What was this in sightler but
Speaker 1: not here anymore? Is is it kind of a weird feeling?
Speaker 1: Is this aligne goes through the shift in the transition.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it's definitely different, you know, but that's
Speaker 13: the part of the business. You know, other guys get
Speaker 13: different opportunities elsewhere, you know, it's just the next guy
Speaker 13: in mentality. You know, we got a good group of
Speaker 13: young guys, you know, that are eager to step in
Speaker 13: and show what they can do. And I'm excited, you know,
Speaker 13: to see how you know, we build off of that.
Speaker 7: Do you watch any lineman coming in? I mean, do
Speaker 7: you do any scouting ahead of time before the draft?
Speaker 7: Do you give any feedback to Joe d or Eric
Speaker 7: about different guys you like or you know of or
Speaker 7: are you not there yet?
Speaker 13: I'm not there yet. No, I couldn't tell you too
Speaker 13: many offensive live and coming out. But you know, each
Speaker 13: year there's there's a lot of talented kids, you know,
Speaker 13: so you know, whether we had guys in the draft,
Speaker 13: had guys in free agency, you know, they handle that
Speaker 13: upstairs and it's our job just getting better right now
Speaker 13: as a unit. And then you know, once guys get here,
Speaker 13: you know, just building off of that into OTAs and
Speaker 13: build that chemistry.
Speaker 12: Tyler, what are you going to be doing next Thursday night?
Speaker 12: Round one of the draft? Do you watch it? How
Speaker 12: much attention do you.
Speaker 5: Pay to it? Shoot?
Speaker 13: I mean it goes pretty late, so I might be
Speaker 13: in bed, but we'll see, I mean, I'll probably it's
Speaker 13: a fun thing to watch.
Speaker 5: You know, it's I remember, you know.
Speaker 13: Back when I got drafted, it was a special moment,
Speaker 13: and it's it's gonna be special for all those guys
Speaker 13: to get drafted, any of the guys who you know
Speaker 13: don't get drafted, just have the opportunity to make it
Speaker 13: to a team. You know, it's exciting times a new
Speaker 13: chapter in guy's life. So it's a pretty special event.
Speaker 13: So you know, I'll probably turn it on.
Speaker 9: You know when you got drafted.
Speaker 12: What is so memorable about that experience and what you know,
Speaker 12: the moment that you just kind of see that dream realized.
Speaker 13: Yeah, just I think for me just being around my family,
Speaker 13: being around you know, I got trying to invite as
Speaker 13: many people that made an impact on my life to
Speaker 13: get there and enjoy that special moment. So it was
Speaker 13: really cool to see all the people that made an
Speaker 13: impact on me be there to support me.
Speaker 5: Afraid of sharing this class about draft top steps and
Speaker 5: also that works to thaks off and seems to go
Speaker 5: have usually gotten to the other since off season Earth
Speaker 5: since this.
Speaker 8: Isn't I need to talk about the main things you
Speaker 8: want to do to you know, maybe get a little.
Speaker 5: Further in This is an alter of offense.
Speaker 13: No, we haven't talked about that. I mean, the biggest
Speaker 13: thing right now that I'm focused on is how the
Speaker 13: old line plays. You know, how we play together, how
Speaker 13: we work together, And like I said earlier, just starts now.
Speaker 13: It starts with getting guys back working out together. And
Speaker 13: once football school starts up, OTA's building that chemistry and
Speaker 13: all the other things will take care of itself, you know.
Speaker 13: As as the old line, we don't need to really
Speaker 13: worry about much. We just got to block the guy
Speaker 13: in front of us and work together. So that's kind
Speaker 13: of what we're focused on til you cooked to having.
Speaker 11: Two years under your belt, is your approach at this
Speaker 11: point any different.
Speaker 5: Than previous years, No, I mean it's always.
Speaker 13: I think last year going into last year, had a
Speaker 13: you know, a better grass on the NFL just rookie
Speaker 13: rookie season, the long season, kind of don't know what
Speaker 13: to expect, you know, last year, just a better grip
Speaker 13: on things. And then going into this year, just know
Speaker 13: what I need to work on, know the things that
Speaker 13: I need to get better at, and then you know,
Speaker 13: like I said, just building that chemistry with the unit.
Speaker 9: Given that, you know, year three, some of the turnover
Speaker 9: that you were just talking about in the group, do
Speaker 9: you view yourself as kind of I think you have
Speaker 9: opportunity to be more vocal, more kind of a leader
Speaker 9: within that Within that group, obviously you still have some
Speaker 9: guys come back that that have been around. But do
Speaker 9: you sort of view that, I guess as an opportunity
Speaker 9: for you to sort of do that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean I feel like I'm the same since
Speaker 13: I came in. You know, I'm gonna be the same.
Speaker 13: Just comes with the position. You know, you're gonna you're
Speaker 13: gonna have to be vocal, You're gonna have to communicate
Speaker 13: with guys. So I don't think in that in terms
Speaker 13: of that things haven't changed. Just be the guy that
Speaker 13: teammates can look look look towards and uh, you know,
Speaker 13: they can have trusted me that I can get the
Speaker 13: job done.
Speaker 5: Been your first impressions of Derrick Henry awesome?
Speaker 13: I mean sure, the guys, the guys very built and
Speaker 13: strong and fast. So he'll be a good addition for us.
Speaker 13: You know, we're excited to have him on our team,
Speaker 13: you know, and you know we're looking forward to, you know,
Speaker 13: to see the things that he can do for us.
Speaker 5: In Caitlyn Parker lead here.
Speaker 13: I mean that's uh, this past four years is most
Speaker 13: women's basketball ever watched. And I watch it more than
Speaker 13: the men's basketball.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 13: The thing that she's done for the game of basketball,
Speaker 13: it has been fun to watch and just being able,
Speaker 13: you know, from Iowa. She's from Iowa, and just to
Speaker 13: see the development and the growth that she's done for
Speaker 13: that program and the support of women's basketball has been awesome.
Speaker 5: So all right, thank you.
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