1 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Welcome into Ravens pressfests as we introduced Todd Munkin as 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: the new offensive coordinator. Go ahead and take a listen. Hey, everybody, 3 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: good to see you. Welcome. It's been a long time. 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 1: It seems like it's been a long time. We've been busy, 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: so but thanks for coming. We're here to introduce Todd 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 1: Munkin as a new offensive coordinator to the Baltimore Ravens 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: and I'm very very excited to be able to do that. 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: But before we get into that, I want to first 9 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: of all, thank some people. Thank the candidates that were involved. 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: We had some amazing candidates that we had a chance 11 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: to talk to, both college and pro coaches. Now want 12 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: to thank them for their time, their effort, and for 13 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: their work in the interview process. I also want to 14 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: thank the committee. We had a committee led by coach 15 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: Anthony Weaver who did a great job. Steve Claggett was 16 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: on the committee and Scott Cohen was on the committee. 17 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: And those guys interviewed Todd, and they interviewed all the 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: other candidates too, pretty thoroughly. So I appreciate those guys 19 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: ephy and they weighed in on the decision all the 20 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: recommendations and calls and and conversations that we had with 21 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 1: different people about all the different candidates. Want to thank 22 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: all those people too, because it was a big It 23 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: was a big help. You know. We made a decision 24 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: to throw a big net out there, and uh and 25 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: when you do that, when you cast a big net, 26 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: you know, it's a big undertaking and it comes with challenges. 27 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: You know, it's um there's a lot of calls, there's 28 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: a lot of conversations, there's a lot of information gathering. 29 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: A lot of people in the building helped us with that. 30 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 1: We got to know a lot of people. We got 31 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: to know their stats, we got to know their families, 32 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: their backgrounds, all those kind of things we had. We 33 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: had the zoom meetings with with everybody on a first level. 34 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: Then we had in person meetings with a pretty pretty 35 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: big group of guys that were here at the building 36 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: and really enjoyed that. And it gets emotional, you know. 37 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: I mean, this is a it's a career opportunity for 38 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: a lot of coaches, and you kind of go through 39 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: that with them, you know, and things are moving fast 40 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: and things are happening, and people are getting pressure in 41 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: different directions and I kind of wrote that roller coaster 42 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: with different guys, but there's a lot of rewards that 43 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: go with it too, and just personally, it was a 44 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: great experience, a chance to get to know some people 45 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: really well that I didn't know before, Todd obviously being 46 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: one of those, but also all the other candidates that 47 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,119 Speaker 1: were involved got to know their families. In some cases, 48 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: got to learn a lot of football, you know, in 49 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: different ways that people do things, whether it's systems or 50 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: how they approach it, or how they relate to their players, 51 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: how they run their no huddle offenses. I mean, all 52 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: those things are things that were, you know, just interesting 53 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: and valuable. And you get to find out and you 54 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: realize that there's a lot of great coaches in this profession, 55 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: a lot of great people in this profession, both in 56 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: the NFL and at the college level, and it made 57 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: me feel great to be a part of the profession, 58 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: to get to know these people. And then it came 59 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: back to Todd Munkin and it started with a call 60 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: I got. Todd doesn't even know this. It started with 61 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: a call that I got from my sister, Jonie Crean 62 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: and Tom Creed because when Todd was to Georgia. The 63 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: last couple of years, Johnie and Tom got to know 64 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: Todd and his wife and Terry, and they got to 65 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: be friends, I think, you know, and spend a lot 66 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 1: of time together. And Jonie just tells me, you've got 67 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: to talk to Todd Monka. He's amazing, his wife's amazing. 68 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: He's a great coach. We've seen what he's done here 69 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: at Georgia. Got on the phone with Tom. Tom reiterated 70 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: that how much you respected Todd, and that really got 71 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: me thinking in that direction. So we reached out and 72 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: had a chance to talk to Todd, and I think 73 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: on the phone first and then the Zoom meeting, just 74 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: talking ball, really talking background. We're kind of both from 75 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 1: the Midwest originally, but so we know a lot of 76 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: the same people. And I'd know Todd from Afar, you know, 77 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: I'd watched him coach, we'd coached against each other. But 78 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: then just talking ball, and just how how how really great, 79 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: how extensive his knowledge is, how broad his knowledge is, 80 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: how how adaptable he is, how versatile he is in 81 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: terms of what he's able to do with his with 82 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: his exits and nose and his scheme stuff. So the 83 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: ability to move in different kind of systems, different kind 84 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: of types of football, different personnel groups, run game, pass, 85 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: game protection RPOs, quarterback driven stuff, downhill run game play, 86 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: action stuff tied to it, all the stuff that we're 87 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: kind of looking for, different kind of tempos, huddle, no huddle, 88 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: real fast, controlled tempo, call plays at the line, don't 89 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: call plays at the line. I mean, these are all 90 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: things that you talk about, things that he brings to 91 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,919 Speaker 1: the table. He's really, I just think, very versatile with 92 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,919 Speaker 1: and that's gonna be very valuable for us. So that 93 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: part of it, the relationship part of it was really 94 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 1: good too. You know, you talk to different people that 95 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: have been around Todd, players especially, but also coaches. He's 96 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: just got a great way with players. He's got a 97 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: great way in the meeting room. He's very talented in 98 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: the meeting room, gets the guys going, gets them laughing 99 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: a little bit, You'll see. You know, he can talk 100 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: and he can tell a story, but he can challenge 101 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: the guys too and hold him to the highest standard. 102 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 1: I know our players are gonna love him, are gonna 103 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,479 Speaker 1: love being around him every single day. And also I think, finally, 104 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: I guess the biggest part for me you know, character obviously, 105 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 1: relationships obviously, but the ability to and the focus on 106 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: building an offense around the talent that you have. Not 107 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: necessarily a one system type of an approach. This is 108 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: our system when we fit the players to the system, 109 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: but a player driven approach that we're going to build 110 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: a system around the players and around the you know, 111 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: around the personality of the team. I think our fan 112 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: base is going to be really excited with what we 113 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: see from this offense going forward. I know I am. 114 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: So we're gonna get started today and I guess with 115 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: no further ado, I'm going to introduce to you our 116 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator, Todd Munkin. Thank you and a big 117 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: shout out to Steve Biscotti and obviously coach and Eric, 118 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: to Costa and Sashi, you know, they were all part 119 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: of it. So excited, excited to get started, and you know, 120 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: we got a lot of work ahead of us, obviously 121 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: starting with staff and then obviously putting a plan together, 122 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: building off of what's been really successful in the past, 123 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: Power Run game play Action and then trying to build 124 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: off that and us So it's been exciting. I've been 125 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,239 Speaker 1: here since last Wednesday, so it's been fun to get started, 126 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: and I know it's going to go fast, so we 127 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: have a lot of work ahead of us. Tom I 128 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: knew obviously could have seed at Georgia. I think it 129 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: was pretty well known about that. What mean what made 130 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: this so appulate? Well, why did you do this job? 131 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: Were you awaiting? I think versus the challenge doing against 132 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: the best in the world, I think everybody aspires to 133 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: have that challenge. Um, if I was going to do it, 134 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: it was going to be somewhere that was parallel to Georgia. 135 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: Part of the reason I went to Georgia, one of 136 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: the main reasons was because a culture head coach winning 137 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: really good on defense obviously trying to find a way 138 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: to do it better on offense. So I thought that 139 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: was a parallel that I thought fit me. Um, So, 140 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: irrespective of who was or wasn't going to be on 141 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: the roster, I felt like it was. It was something 142 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 1: I really wanted to do, and then I've always wanted 143 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,799 Speaker 1: to do. So that doesn't mean that I'm not grateful 144 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: for Kirby Smart and the coaches that I worked with there. 145 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: I get way too much credit for our success. I 146 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: came in there and the culture was already set, the 147 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: players were already recruited. The staff that we put together 148 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: was tremendous in terms of our success. But this was 149 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: what was next. And you can't be two places at once. 150 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: That's just the way it is sometimes in life. That 151 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: was a great job and it was hard. You get 152 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: close to the players, but you can't be two places 153 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: at once. And this is what's next here in Baltimore. 154 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: You have to be able to coach more about hot 155 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: profile players in Lamar Jackson if you had a chance 156 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: to talk to him. Yet. I really haven't a chance 157 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: to talk to any of the players you know yet. Really, 158 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: just getting here last Wednesday, just trying to get my 159 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: feet wet, working through a lot of things that come 160 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: from staff, what we're gonna do moving forward, all that, 161 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: Just trying to figure out where I'm headed when I 162 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: drive to the facility coaching the NFL. What do you 163 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: learn over these last three years waiting in the highest 164 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: that can take away to take yourself. I think the 165 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: game's changed. I think the game has become more of 166 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: a space game, using all fifty three and a third 167 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: yards and using the width and depth of the field, 168 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: using space players and your skill players I think that's changed. 169 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: Years ago, maybe it was inside zone and run duo downhill. 170 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: Now it's utilizing athletic quarterbacks. The game has changed. It's 171 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: changing from you know, one time it was taller you know, 172 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 1: pocket passers, and now you're seeing more shorter athletic players. 173 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 1: The game has changed in terms of using their athleticism, 174 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: using players athleticisms, what they what they bring to the table. 175 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: Um because the game is about space, it's about being explosive. Well, 176 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:46,719 Speaker 1: how do you create explosives? Well, part of it is 177 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 1: creating space, So that's probably the biggest thing is how 178 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: do you find a way to incorporate that into your offense. 179 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: I think also being no huddle some tempo um, what 180 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: that provides that creates because we were all no huddle. 181 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: It's a little different then because of the dynamics of 182 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: a signal system and then you know the green dot 183 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: to the quarterbacks. You have to work through some of 184 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: that that'll take some working through. But um, just a 185 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: it's a speedbump, not a hurdle. John, how you're you're 186 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: not with it to a system, but you you you 187 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: build your office around the talent that you have. And 188 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: I've heard that over and over from from people I 189 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,439 Speaker 1: talk to you who work with you. Is that a 190 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,199 Speaker 1: philosophy that you had from early on? Like I know, 191 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I know your dad was a longtime coach. 192 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: I mean, is that something you learned from him or 193 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: where did that come from? That approach? Uh? Well, first 194 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: of all, I learned a lot from my dad, but 195 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 1: at that age I probably wasn't you know. I was 196 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: just happy to be on the field and be a 197 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: water boy. And all my heroes were my dad's players. 198 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you are when you're a coach's kid, 199 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 1: is and it's not always the players are the best players. 200 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: I learned this. This one thing I learned from my 201 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: dad and some coaches is that And you try to 202 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 1: tell the players and coaches, is that, um, you know, 203 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,719 Speaker 1: young people's favorite players at first start off to be 204 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: the best players, but then eventually it's the ones that 205 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: make you feel special. And so that's your job is 206 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: to make people feel special, and that you know you're 207 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: job is for them. You know you have a job 208 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: for them. That's why you have a job, is to 209 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,679 Speaker 1: create the best version of them. And the moment we 210 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: forget that, we're wrong, we're dead wrong. You know, I 211 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: think when they say adapt to the personnel you have, 212 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,679 Speaker 1: let's start off by this. Everything works better with really 213 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 1: good personnel, So let's start with that, irrespective of what 214 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: that may look like from running back, tight end, receiver. 215 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:22,959 Speaker 1: And I've been really lucky to be a lot a 216 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: lot of really good coaches that I was a part 217 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: of that. You know, one time I was at Louisiana 218 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: Tech and that was when Gary Croton and they were spread, 219 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 1: and that's when it started off with bubbles and getting 220 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: the ball out in the perimeter. And then I went 221 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 1: with less miles and his fourth and four was just 222 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: tossing to Jacob Hester like it was power run game 223 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: and inside run was thirty minutes, and you practice for 224 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: three hours, and there's certain aspects of all of that 225 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: that you gather that you learn from and you take 226 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: that and what you realize is that good football still 227 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: surrounded by don't turn it over, be explosive, score touchdowns 228 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: on the red zone, be good on third downs, don't 229 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: have lost as plays, and athletic quarterbacks that make off 230 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 1: schedule plays. The rest of it just falls into that. 231 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: That's the analytical part. How do we get to that model, 232 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:14,959 Speaker 1: don't turn it over and how are we explosive? I 233 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: don't know if we're a fullback without a fullback, four wide, 234 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,719 Speaker 1: three wide. My cousins at Army wanted to run a 235 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: triple option that works. Okay, Now you can only run 236 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: what you know. Can't just make stuff up. I mean, 237 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:27,959 Speaker 1: it's fun to do that, but usually it doesn't work. 238 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: But the reality is is that it's there's a lot 239 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: of ways to skin a cat, but still the principles 240 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: of how you win are the same. You know, Costa, 241 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: what did they tell you concerning the long term availability? 242 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 1: But our jackson and did any uncertainty their way in 243 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 1: your decision? Well? Okay, first of all, I count on 244 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: Eric and John. They're best in the business. They're going 245 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: to take care of anything that has to do with 246 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: any player, not just mar sure, any player that's part 247 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: of a roster where you're going into you have an 248 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: interest of what the roster is going to look like. 249 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:11,679 Speaker 1: But ultimately I want to be someplace where structure, organization 250 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: great on defense from top to bottom, and everywhere I 251 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: talked to and everybody I talked to excuse me, said 252 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: you want to be you want to be a Baltimore Raven, 253 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:26,719 Speaker 1: you want to be a part of that organization moving forward. Oh, 254 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll be behind. But it's still just football. 255 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: I mean, I think sometimes we make this out to 256 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: be way too much, you know. I mean, it's just football. 257 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: It's been playing. I don't know when he started, maybe 258 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: five years old with the Purple Pounders or something in 259 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: Miami or something. I mean, there's a football like well 260 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: cater to what he knows and play. But I mean 261 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 1: it's like any player. You know, if any any players 262 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: like that, you know, to where they'd be. The more 263 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: time you spend with them, the more comfortable they get 264 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,719 Speaker 1: with any system that's or relationship that's part of it. 265 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: And there's a big part of that relationship from a 266 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 1: quarterback coordinator, play caller, position coach where they're comfortable and 267 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 1: there's a trust that is a big part of that 268 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: and that's built over time, even beyond individual plays. Is 269 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 1: that comfort of like, hey, we're going to give you 270 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,439 Speaker 1: the keys of this car, let's see what you can do. 271 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: That happens a lot more in the off season. I'm 272 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: kind of now expanding it, Like in the off season 273 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 1: is where you experiment. That's where you kind of you know, 274 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: let the quarterback have some rings with is. You get 275 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: closer to the season, that kind of goes away a 276 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: little bit. You have to start game planning and really 277 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,319 Speaker 1: be dialed into what you're gonna do. You've worked with 278 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: a lot of different quarterbacks. How do you describe the 279 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: skill set you would have to work with? Elite? You know, 280 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: he's got an elite skill set. I mean it's obvious 281 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: when you watch him on film. I mean the things 282 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: he can do with the football and the plays that 283 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,319 Speaker 1: he makes. And I think he's underrated it as a 284 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: passer maybe, I think so in terms of his ability 285 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,679 Speaker 1: to make plays and throw it down the field. Um, 286 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:08,839 Speaker 1: so you've all seen it. I mean I'm like you, 287 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: I haven't. I'm no different than you. I watch what 288 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: you guys watch, you know, and it's pretty amazing. You 289 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: weren't with anyone somewhere in your no. No, So what 290 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: would you say some of the strifts and weaknesses of 291 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: this office? I mean, I've assuming you. Yeah, you know 292 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: that's hard because, um, first of all, when I first 293 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: started watching film, first of all, you know there's a 294 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: transition because Lamar has been here for a while. You know, 295 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: and the roster changes around players and injuries add to that. 296 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: And I first started watching and I'm like, wow, they 297 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: do like they do really good stuff in the run game, 298 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: Like holy cow, that that's very creative. And at first 299 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: I was watching, going, I have no idea of why 300 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: they want me there, Like, I don't know what I'm 301 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: gonna be able to be better at. Truly, you know, 302 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: I was like, wow, they did some really good things. 303 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: And you know, as you continue to watch, and you know, 304 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: players dictate style of play. They do. Players around the 305 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: quarterback dictate a style of play. There's no way around it. 306 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: When I was at Tampa, we had really good receivers. 307 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: We had to Seawan, We had Mike Evans, we had 308 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, we had Adam Humphreys, and we had Oj 309 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: Howard and we had Cam Brake, and we had quarterbacks 310 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: that love to throw it. Sometimes of the other team, 311 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: but they like to throw it. But we were much 312 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: better throwing it. So that's what you right, that's where 313 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: you play to the strengths of who you have. Right, 314 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: we had to be good throwing it. We weren't nearly 315 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: as a depth running it, and I need I needed 316 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: to do a better job probably scheming it okay, So 317 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: then you get in somewhere we start losing some of 318 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: your perimeter players. It's still about winning, so it's hard 319 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: to judge because you don't know the rosters that make sense, 320 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: like why are they doing the things they're doing offensively? 321 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 1: Because it's still about winning. You have to do the 322 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: things that give you the best chance to win every week. 323 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: But I do think that being able to use I 324 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: think years want to play in a game that space 325 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: is the field. I think when you go into an 326 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: install meeting, all of your skill players want to say, 327 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: where are my opportunities coming? Where am I going to 328 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: get a chance to touch the football and showcase my ability? 329 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: And I think the more you're able to do that 330 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: and utilize that because to me, balance isn't run past balances. 331 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: Make them cover all five year guys, make them defend 332 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: the field, make them defend you know, the depth of 333 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: the field. So I think it's all of those things 334 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: easier said than done, sometimes based on personnel, but I 335 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: think that's where players want to play. They see themselves 336 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: in that the game has gone that way, That's the 337 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: way the college game has gone. That's what they're used to. 338 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: They're not used to anymore being under center five step drop, 339 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 1: that doesn't exist. They're used to being a gun RPOs, 340 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: spreading the field, using space players. That's what they're used to. 341 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: So I think that's the style they want to play. 342 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: And so if he said, yeah, is that who we're 343 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: going to be, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying 344 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: I think that's got to be a part of what 345 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: you do. You mentioned that the more you think is 346 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: underrated as pass I think he's that way. I think 347 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 1: it probably started off when he came out. I think 348 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 1: that was already a narrative. I think sometimes there's narrative 349 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: that gets put out there and it just carries right. 350 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter. There's 351 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,160 Speaker 1: narratives in all of our life of what some person 352 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: can become, who they are, where they were born, at 353 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: the city. It doesn't matter. You put a narrative as 354 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: to what they can be. I think that started from 355 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: the get go of what he can and can't be, 356 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: and I think in a lot of ways he's proven 357 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: that to be a falsehood in terms of what he's 358 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: capable of. And but again, some of those things is 359 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: a little bit. I got to be careful of how 360 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: far I step out there because I've never worked with him. 361 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: So you're sitting there saying things that you know, what 362 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: was taught, how they schemed it, all those things. But 363 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: it's impressive. You're listening to Ravens Press Pass. Make sure, 364 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: if you haven't done so already, to subscribe, rate and review, 365 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: and while you're at it, go ahead and search the 366 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 1: lounge and subscribe and rate and review that as well. Yeah, 367 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: on the last podcast. We've been doing it for several 368 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 1: years now, more than several years, Yeah, going back a 369 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 1: long ways, and our goal with it is to allow 370 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: you to pull back the curtain, step inside the castle, 371 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: take a seat in the lounge, and get to know 372 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 1: people in this building in a unique way. So we're 373 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: talking about all the big news happening around this team 374 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: this offseason and throughout the entire year. We have unique 375 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: conversations with coaches, executives, front office, media members, players, players 376 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: of course, and it's it's a fun time. Yeah. So 377 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: now back to Todd Munkin's introductory press conference. Todd, you 378 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: had two really good tight ends in George of this 379 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: past year. You walk in down with Mark Andrews and 380 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: Isaiah Liking. Specifically with Isaiah Liiking, how do you feel 381 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: like you can help take his game to the next level? Oh? 382 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: I don't you know. We became that because they were 383 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: two of our best players, and of course that pissed 384 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 1: off every slot we had. So just the way this works, right, Okay, 385 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: you're eleven personnel, your tight ends are mad, you're in 386 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 1: twenty one person night. It's just the way this goes. 387 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: I get it. You know everybody wants to play. I mean, 388 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 1: I get it. Well, are two of our best players 389 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: were those guys. Luckily, our slots were very team warrient it. 390 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: They were great kids. They understood that some of our 391 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: best leaders. They didn't get the opportunities they wanted, but 392 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: ultimately were paid to score, move the football. They were 393 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,640 Speaker 1: two of our best players. That always plays itself out. 394 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: And so when you look at the rest of you see, Okay, Mark, 395 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: who's done it for X amount of years? And Mark 396 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 1: won't remember this. Oh you got two got to So 397 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell a story just for the hell of it, 398 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: or since I have the microphone. So twelve years ago, 399 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: I'm in Oklahoma State. Mark probably wasn't remember this. So 400 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 1: I'm in Oklahoma State Casey Dunn as a wide receiver coach, 401 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 1: I'm the coordinator. We're flying to Arizona to watch a 402 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: quarterback throw and a receiver run routes. This is twenty eleven. Okay, 403 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:40,479 Speaker 1: we go there. I'm dog custom in the whole way. 404 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: I can't believe we're going to see sophomores. There's the 405 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: dumbest thing going. I get there, it's Kyle Allen throwing, 406 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,360 Speaker 1: and it's Mark Andrews catching as a sophomore, sixteen year 407 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: old playing wide receiver. And of course he goes to 408 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 1: Oklahoma but and I'm in Oklahoma State. So but but 409 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is is that he's a 410 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: tremendous player, done it for a number of years. You 411 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 1: got a young player that is learning how to play 412 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: at the professional level. But they both have the ability 413 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:07,199 Speaker 1: to make place down the field, run after catch. UM. 414 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:11,719 Speaker 1: So it's a great um starting point because I think 415 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: they're tough matchup guys. I think it starts with matchups 416 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: where if once you get out of the run play 417 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: action world, now you're in a matchup world. Running backs 418 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 1: that can win on linebackers, tight ends that can win 419 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: and it forces them. Are they going to go big 420 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: and you win matchups? Or are they going to go 421 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: small and you're better off in the run game. Those 422 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: guys create matchup issues for you, which is a great 423 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: starting point. Are you about Tyler humans is being keeping 424 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: most of the offensive staff in place or are you 425 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,120 Speaker 1: still figuring that out as a possible you can bring. 426 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: It's still a work in progress, you know, I just 427 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,719 Speaker 1: got here last Wednesday. Um, they did a tremendous job. 428 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: Or you can look at film and some of the 429 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: things they did an offense were tremendous. So it's still 430 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: a work in progress to the institutional thing, cause you 431 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: got to flow up to the NFL seat play calling. 432 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: So I'm mad less years what do you think it 433 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: will be? Mad, I think it's already started. You can 434 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 1: see it just the teams that were and they'd already 435 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: started that years ago. Is Um, when I got to 436 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: Jacksonville my first up fifteen years ago, two thousand and seven, 437 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: and they started to do stats of like under center 438 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: and gun and all it does is all it's done 439 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: is continue to climb. One with spread offenses and the 440 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: evolution of more athletic quarterbacks utilizing you know their legs. 441 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 1: Now that comes with a price because you can get 442 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 1: beat up, right, I mean you can get hurt. I mean, 443 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: do you expose yourself a little bit more. But the 444 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: game has changed in terms of that, where, like I 445 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: was saying, with quarterbacks, you're seeing less and less big 446 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: pocket throwing quarterbacks. I'm not saying that's going away, because 447 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 1: you still have to have an elite skill set, doesn't 448 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 1: matter what it is, but you're seeing a lot more 449 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: where it's like, okay, what are you going to sacrifice? 450 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: Would you rather have a six five statue? Okay? Um? 451 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 1: Or would you rather have some of this maybe a 452 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: little more athletic, And first of all, you love one 453 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: that's a really good player, because you wouldn't turn down 454 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,640 Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Right. So I'm not saying that never still 455 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 1: have to be elite. But the point is is what 456 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 1: you're having to look at. There's more and more athletic quarterbacks. 457 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: There's more spread, and the more spread you are and 458 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: the more empty you are, it's more fun. If you 459 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: guys athletic. He can get you out of trouble, like 460 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: he can buy yards. And the Super Bowl I think 461 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 1: Mahomes had forty yards even with a bad ankle and 462 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: the other quarterback had seventy. Well, that's hidden yardage. That's 463 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: auxiliary yardage gets you out of trouble because you're rarely 464 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: going to be perfect in protections right, and the more 465 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: spread you get right, the more space, the more okay, wow, 466 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: they start to cover down and he makes a guy miss, 467 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: he can make you pay. I think the game has 468 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: changed that way. Where years ago when I was at weak, 469 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: there were more fullbacks, there were more mic linebackers, there 470 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 1: were more big tight ends, or more Mercedes Lewis hell 471 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,640 Speaker 1: he's been playing since I was in Jacksonville for God's Six, 472 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: and we got a guy coming out, Darnell Washington. He's 473 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 1: a throwback. Why try to find a Why try to 474 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 1: find a blocker in college? Try to find that. It's 475 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: very difficult. You're finding more air raid wide outs that 476 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: were big. Kittle was two hundred five pounds out of 477 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 1: high school. He was playing wide out. Well, those are 478 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: your matchup guys because they were wide outs. They got 479 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: raised in a wide out offense and they got bigger, 480 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,439 Speaker 1: so that they're even more of a matchup because they 481 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: can route, run, they can separate. So I think that's 482 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: where the game has changed for matchup players and teams 483 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: are more willing to do that. When you take Wes 484 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: Welker playing an ex receiver for the Dolphins, and they 485 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: were ahead of their time. They put him in the 486 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: slot and he's a Hall of famer, you leave at 487 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: x or Z. He's not a hall of famer. He's 488 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: a good player, not a hall of famer. So what 489 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 1: is it that you do with a certain player that 490 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 1: creates that advantage? Same with tight ends years ago? You know, 491 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: at one time Kellen Winslow was like that was a novelty. 492 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: That was like, boy, that's a holy cow. He's not 493 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: the novelty. That is what it is. Now that's the 494 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: game today. I don't even know the rules. Can I 495 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 1: speak on it? Oh? So that I can speak, You 496 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 1: can't speak on a guy that's under conright, Okay. I 497 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: really like Odell Odell super athletic twitch, he really likes football. 498 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 1: I mean I really did you know? It didn't work 499 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: out the year I was there. But ultimately he's like 500 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,959 Speaker 1: every skill player. He's no different. I don't know, everybody 501 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: gets piste off like he wants the ball well really, 502 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: like I don't know where I've been where a great 503 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: player didn't want the ball. I didn't know where a 504 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 1: basketball player didn't want shots or a baseball player didn't 505 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,959 Speaker 1: want to get bat bats. That's what they want. They 506 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: want opportunities to showcase their ability. I think it's awesome. 507 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: I think he's tremendously skilled and and I like his personality. 508 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: Likes to compete. He has a tough deal though, because 509 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,679 Speaker 1: he's a he in my opinion, and he may think differently, 510 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: and it's like it's tough being a a face. Does 511 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: that make sense? Like NBA deals with all the time, 512 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: But there's very few NFL players outside of quarterbacks that 513 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: they really know their face that they're they're a market there. 514 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: And he's that way, and I think that makes it hard. 515 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: You know, at times when you're under the microscope like 516 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: he is, it really is our But I liked Odell 517 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: a lot, like the skill set, like his work ethic, 518 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: He fought through an injury tremendous. I think, you know, 519 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 1: he didn't really understand football until he got to the 520 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: port with you and he said, well that's that's way 521 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: too much. I mean obviously then you know he was 522 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: under he was at a camera and he had to 523 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: say that, you know what I'm saying to say that, So, 524 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's get let's get real, like, um, 525 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: you know, the reality is he was a really good 526 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 1: player of him. I was already thinking about my answer 527 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: before I actually heard the second part of the question. 528 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: What was the second part of the question. Sorry, see, Um, 529 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: I think it's the reverse of that. I think it's 530 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: how they see the game, I think, and then figuring 531 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: out what they already know, like how they see it. 532 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,239 Speaker 1: Are they capable of certain things? Some players are more 533 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: capable than others, right, Like anything any job that you have, 534 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: some people are more capable than others of certain tests. Right. 535 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: So some quarterbacks want control. Some quarterbacks want to be 536 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: in charge of changing routes and protections, and some don't. 537 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: Some don't want that. Some players, there's a lot that 538 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: goes with that. He wanted that. He's very smart, he 539 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: was older, He understood football. He just didn't understand certain 540 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: things that if you want to play in the NFL 541 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to know. So, you know, for him 542 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: to say that, um, you know, I mean, I don't know, 543 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: you know, But the reality is is I think you 544 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: see it through the player's eyes first, and then you 545 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 1: go from there because you can't you can't force someone 546 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: to do something they're not capable of. You can't take up, 547 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: you know, fullback and say hey, we want you to 548 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 1: be a matchup guy in a linebacker. You know, things 549 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 1: like that that you just have to work through. In 550 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: the past five years, are consistently throwing football and watching 551 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 1: some of the film that you have with this team. 552 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: How much can his team proof, especially in the past game, Well, 553 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: it starts with um working together an elite passing game 554 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: as timing, it's working together. And I think the less 555 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,160 Speaker 1: you have of that based on off season or rotating 556 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: your skill players, I think the harder that becomes, and 557 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: I think the more consistent. The other thing is we 558 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: have to do a great job of building concepts that 559 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: fit together so it fits in a quarterback's brain and Okay, 560 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: this is X, Y Z whatever, but it's very similar 561 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 1: the same of how we start. And I think the 562 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: more you go down that road, I think the user 563 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: it becomes. Obviously, the better you run the football, the 564 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 1: better it is to throw it. So it starts with 565 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: the excellent run game and then go from there. One 566 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,719 Speaker 1: for the fans, And that was a good one though. 567 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,239 Speaker 1: I like the way that said, like, it wasn't your 568 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,200 Speaker 1: questions for the fans. Who's gonna let down the fans? 569 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: For God's sakes? Right? You had to go with that 570 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: question then, a cow. I'm probably where there is an 571 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: avid fan base that hope and praise that you are 572 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 1: the one that is going to fix this offense which 573 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: has struggled. How do you is there a pressure that 574 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: comes with that, and how do you personally handle a 575 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 1: screw even comes with it? This year? Well? I think, 576 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: first off, as we all know in this profession, let's 577 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: start with this. This is week to week, month to month, 578 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: a year to year. Because I don't think that fan 579 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: base would have said that nineteen right, I would have 580 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 1: doubted that would have been the way that they thought 581 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: of it. And things go year to year, and and 582 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: then you reassess, does that make sense? Who doesn't like offense? 583 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: For God's sakes? The league revolves around fantasy football? I 584 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: mean they want to see scoring, right, I mean that's 585 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: it's interesting. You could win forty one forty or you 586 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: can win seven six, and you think the forty one 587 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: forty teams just killing it it's the way it is. 588 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 1: It's what we're built around. Right, Um, I only control 589 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: what I can control. You say, is there a pressure? 590 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: Run it? There's pressure everywhere. There was pressure Georgie. You 591 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 1: can say, well you had the best players. Yeah, but 592 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: they expect us to go ten and two at a minimum. 593 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: That's pressure. You know, you can't lose many games, you know, 594 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: so's there's pressure. If it's what we do, that's what 595 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: we sign up for. That that's our job like that. 596 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: Anybody says that doesn't come with the territory, they're lying. 597 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: That's a big part of what we do. And yet 598 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: that's some of what drives us, you know, that challenge 599 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: of doing it better than they do it, because that's 600 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: what it comes down to in the NFL. You got 601 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: good players, got good coaches, got good scheme. How do 602 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: we do it better than they do it? How do 603 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: we gain percentages? Whatever? There's a one percent here. Whether 604 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: it's analytics, whether it's special teams, whether it's protection, whether 605 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: it's a player, you're just trying to gain percentages to 606 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 1: give you the best chance to move the football. So 607 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited to get started. But again again, 608 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: like I always say we're paid to score, you know, 609 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: and if you don't score, that's no fun. Man. I 610 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: don't know what else to say. And it's fun obviously 611 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: I get it, you know. So thanks for listening to 612 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: Ravens Press Fast with Todd Munkin introduced as the new 613 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. I thought he came off really well, very 614 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: likable guy, and gave a few clues to what his 615 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: offense might look like and his excitement level working with 616 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, joining a franchise with such a great defense 617 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: and great culture, and you could definitely tell how excited 618 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: he is to be to be with the Ravens now. 619 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: So thank you for listening. If you haven't done so already, 620 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: make sure you subscribe, rate, and review, and we'll be 621 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: back with you next week at the NFL Scouting Combine 622 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: with press conferences with general manager Eric Decasa and head 623 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: coach John Harball. Thanks for tuning in.