Speaker 1: Welcome into Ravens pressfests as we introduced Todd Munkin as
Speaker 1: the new offensive coordinator. Go ahead and take a listen. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: good to see you. Welcome. It's been a long time.
Speaker 1: It seems like it's been a long time. We've been busy,
Speaker 1: so but thanks for coming. We're here to introduce Todd
Speaker 1: Munkin as a new offensive coordinator to the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 1: and I'm very very excited to be able to do that.
Speaker 1: But before we get into that, I want to first
Speaker 1: of all, thank some people. Thank the candidates that were involved.
Speaker 1: We had some amazing candidates that we had a chance
Speaker 1: to talk to, both college and pro coaches. Now want
Speaker 1: to thank them for their time, their effort, and for
Speaker 1: their work in the interview process. I also want to
Speaker 1: thank the committee. We had a committee led by coach
Speaker 1: Anthony Weaver who did a great job. Steve Claggett was
Speaker 1: on the committee and Scott Cohen was on the committee.
Speaker 1: And those guys interviewed Todd, and they interviewed all the
Speaker 1: other candidates too, pretty thoroughly. So I appreciate those guys
Speaker 1: ephy and they weighed in on the decision all the
Speaker 1: recommendations and calls and and conversations that we had with
Speaker 1: different people about all the different candidates. Want to thank
Speaker 1: all those people too, because it was a big It
Speaker 1: was a big help. You know. We made a decision
Speaker 1: to throw a big net out there, and uh and
Speaker 1: when you do that, when you cast a big net,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a big undertaking and it comes with challenges.
Speaker 1: You know, it's um there's a lot of calls, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of conversations, there's a lot of information gathering.
Speaker 1: A lot of people in the building helped us with that.
Speaker 1: We got to know a lot of people. We got
Speaker 1: to know their stats, we got to know their families,
Speaker 1: their backgrounds, all those kind of things we had. We
Speaker 1: had the zoom meetings with with everybody on a first level.
Speaker 1: Then we had in person meetings with a pretty pretty
Speaker 1: big group of guys that were here at the building
Speaker 1: and really enjoyed that. And it gets emotional, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a it's a career opportunity for
Speaker 1: a lot of coaches, and you kind of go through
Speaker 1: that with them, you know, and things are moving fast
Speaker 1: and things are happening, and people are getting pressure in
Speaker 1: different directions and I kind of wrote that roller coaster
Speaker 1: with different guys, but there's a lot of rewards that
Speaker 1: go with it too, and just personally, it was a
Speaker 1: great experience, a chance to get to know some people
Speaker 1: really well that I didn't know before, Todd obviously being
Speaker 1: one of those, but also all the other candidates that
Speaker 1: were involved got to know their families. In some cases,
Speaker 1: got to learn a lot of football, you know, in
Speaker 1: different ways that people do things, whether it's systems or
Speaker 1: how they approach it, or how they relate to their players,
Speaker 1: how they run their no huddle offenses. I mean, all
Speaker 1: those things are things that were, you know, just interesting
Speaker 1: and valuable. And you get to find out and you
Speaker 1: realize that there's a lot of great coaches in this profession,
Speaker 1: a lot of great people in this profession, both in
Speaker 1: the NFL and at the college level, and it made
Speaker 1: me feel great to be a part of the profession,
Speaker 1: to get to know these people. And then it came
Speaker 1: back to Todd Munkin and it started with a call
Speaker 1: I got. Todd doesn't even know this. It started with
Speaker 1: a call that I got from my sister, Jonie Crean
Speaker 1: and Tom Creed because when Todd was to Georgia. The
Speaker 1: last couple of years, Johnie and Tom got to know
Speaker 1: Todd and his wife and Terry, and they got to
Speaker 1: be friends, I think, you know, and spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time together. And Jonie just tells me, you've got
Speaker 1: to talk to Todd Monka. He's amazing, his wife's amazing.
Speaker 1: He's a great coach. We've seen what he's done here
Speaker 1: at Georgia. Got on the phone with Tom. Tom reiterated
Speaker 1: that how much you respected Todd, and that really got
Speaker 1: me thinking in that direction. So we reached out and
Speaker 1: had a chance to talk to Todd, and I think
Speaker 1: on the phone first and then the Zoom meeting, just
Speaker 1: talking ball, really talking background. We're kind of both from
Speaker 1: the Midwest originally, but so we know a lot of
Speaker 1: the same people. And I'd know Todd from Afar, you know,
Speaker 1: I'd watched him coach, we'd coached against each other. But
Speaker 1: then just talking ball, and just how how how really great,
Speaker 1: how extensive his knowledge is, how broad his knowledge is,
Speaker 1: how how adaptable he is, how versatile he is in
Speaker 1: terms of what he's able to do with his with
Speaker 1: his exits and nose and his scheme stuff. So the
Speaker 1: ability to move in different kind of systems, different kind
Speaker 1: of types of football, different personnel groups, run game, pass,
Speaker 1: game protection RPOs, quarterback driven stuff, downhill run game play,
Speaker 1: action stuff tied to it, all the stuff that we're
Speaker 1: kind of looking for, different kind of tempos, huddle, no huddle,
Speaker 1: real fast, controlled tempo, call plays at the line, don't
Speaker 1: call plays at the line. I mean, these are all
Speaker 1: things that you talk about, things that he brings to
Speaker 1: the table. He's really, I just think, very versatile with
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be very valuable for us. So that
Speaker 1: part of it, the relationship part of it was really
Speaker 1: good too. You know, you talk to different people that
Speaker 1: have been around Todd, players especially, but also coaches. He's
Speaker 1: just got a great way with players. He's got a
Speaker 1: great way in the meeting room. He's very talented in
Speaker 1: the meeting room, gets the guys going, gets them laughing
Speaker 1: a little bit, You'll see. You know, he can talk
Speaker 1: and he can tell a story, but he can challenge
Speaker 1: the guys too and hold him to the highest standard.
Speaker 1: I know our players are gonna love him, are gonna
Speaker 1: love being around him every single day. And also I think, finally,
Speaker 1: I guess the biggest part for me you know, character obviously,
Speaker 1: relationships obviously, but the ability to and the focus on
Speaker 1: building an offense around the talent that you have. Not
Speaker 1: necessarily a one system type of an approach. This is
Speaker 1: our system when we fit the players to the system,
Speaker 1: but a player driven approach that we're going to build
Speaker 1: a system around the players and around the you know,
Speaker 1: around the personality of the team. I think our fan
Speaker 1: base is going to be really excited with what we
Speaker 1: see from this offense going forward. I know I am.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get started today and I guess with
Speaker 1: no further ado, I'm going to introduce to you our
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator, Todd Munkin. Thank you and a big
Speaker 1: shout out to Steve Biscotti and obviously coach and Eric,
Speaker 1: to Costa and Sashi, you know, they were all part
Speaker 1: of it. So excited, excited to get started, and you know,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of work ahead of us, obviously
Speaker 1: starting with staff and then obviously putting a plan together,
Speaker 1: building off of what's been really successful in the past,
Speaker 1: Power Run game play Action and then trying to build
Speaker 1: off that and us So it's been exciting. I've been
Speaker 1: here since last Wednesday, so it's been fun to get started,
Speaker 1: and I know it's going to go fast, so we
Speaker 1: have a lot of work ahead of us. Tom I
Speaker 1: knew obviously could have seed at Georgia. I think it
Speaker 1: was pretty well known about that. What mean what made
Speaker 1: this so appulate? Well, why did you do this job?
Speaker 1: Were you awaiting? I think versus the challenge doing against
Speaker 1: the best in the world, I think everybody aspires to
Speaker 1: have that challenge. Um, if I was going to do it,
Speaker 1: it was going to be somewhere that was parallel to Georgia.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason I went to Georgia, one of
Speaker 1: the main reasons was because a culture head coach winning
Speaker 1: really good on defense obviously trying to find a way
Speaker 1: to do it better on offense. So I thought that
Speaker 1: was a parallel that I thought fit me. Um, So,
Speaker 1: irrespective of who was or wasn't going to be on
Speaker 1: the roster, I felt like it was. It was something
Speaker 1: I really wanted to do, and then I've always wanted
Speaker 1: to do. So that doesn't mean that I'm not grateful
Speaker 1: for Kirby Smart and the coaches that I worked with there.
Speaker 1: I get way too much credit for our success. I
Speaker 1: came in there and the culture was already set, the
Speaker 1: players were already recruited. The staff that we put together
Speaker 1: was tremendous in terms of our success. But this was
Speaker 1: what was next. And you can't be two places at once.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is sometimes in life. That
Speaker 1: was a great job and it was hard. You get
Speaker 1: close to the players, but you can't be two places
Speaker 1: at once. And this is what's next here in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to coach more about hot
Speaker 1: profile players in Lamar Jackson if you had a chance
Speaker 1: to talk to him. Yet. I really haven't a chance
Speaker 1: to talk to any of the players you know yet. Really,
Speaker 1: just getting here last Wednesday, just trying to get my
Speaker 1: feet wet, working through a lot of things that come
Speaker 1: from staff, what we're gonna do moving forward, all that,
Speaker 1: Just trying to figure out where I'm headed when I
Speaker 1: drive to the facility coaching the NFL. What do you
Speaker 1: learn over these last three years waiting in the highest
Speaker 1: that can take away to take yourself. I think the
Speaker 1: game's changed. I think the game has become more of
Speaker 1: a space game, using all fifty three and a third
Speaker 1: yards and using the width and depth of the field,
Speaker 1: using space players and your skill players I think that's changed.
Speaker 1: Years ago, maybe it was inside zone and run duo downhill.
Speaker 1: Now it's utilizing athletic quarterbacks. The game has changed. It's
Speaker 1: changing from you know, one time it was taller you know,
Speaker 1: pocket passers, and now you're seeing more shorter athletic players.
Speaker 1: The game has changed in terms of using their athleticism,
Speaker 1: using players athleticisms, what they what they bring to the table.
Speaker 1: Um because the game is about space, it's about being explosive. Well,
Speaker 1: how do you create explosives? Well, part of it is
Speaker 1: creating space, So that's probably the biggest thing is how
Speaker 1: do you find a way to incorporate that into your offense.
Speaker 1: I think also being no huddle some tempo um, what
Speaker 1: that provides that creates because we were all no huddle.
Speaker 1: It's a little different then because of the dynamics of
Speaker 1: a signal system and then you know the green dot
Speaker 1: to the quarterbacks. You have to work through some of
Speaker 1: that that'll take some working through. But um, just a
Speaker 1: it's a speedbump, not a hurdle. John, how you're you're
Speaker 1: not with it to a system, but you you you
Speaker 1: build your office around the talent that you have. And
Speaker 1: I've heard that over and over from from people I
Speaker 1: talk to you who work with you. Is that a
Speaker 1: philosophy that you had from early on? Like I know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know your dad was a longtime coach.
Speaker 1: I mean, is that something you learned from him or
Speaker 1: where did that come from? That approach? Uh? Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, I learned a lot from my dad, but
Speaker 1: at that age I probably wasn't you know. I was
Speaker 1: just happy to be on the field and be a
Speaker 1: water boy. And all my heroes were my dad's players.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you are when you're a coach's kid,
Speaker 1: is and it's not always the players are the best players.
Speaker 1: I learned this. This one thing I learned from my
Speaker 1: dad and some coaches is that And you try to
Speaker 1: tell the players and coaches, is that, um, you know,
Speaker 1: young people's favorite players at first start off to be
Speaker 1: the best players, but then eventually it's the ones that
Speaker 1: make you feel special. And so that's your job is
Speaker 1: to make people feel special, and that you know you're
Speaker 1: job is for them. You know you have a job
Speaker 1: for them. That's why you have a job, is to
Speaker 1: create the best version of them. And the moment we
Speaker 1: forget that, we're wrong, we're dead wrong. You know, I
Speaker 1: think when they say adapt to the personnel you have,
Speaker 1: let's start off by this. Everything works better with really
Speaker 1: good personnel, So let's start with that, irrespective of what
Speaker 1: that may look like from running back, tight end, receiver.
Speaker 1: And I've been really lucky to be a lot a
Speaker 1: lot of really good coaches that I was a part
Speaker 1: of that. You know, one time I was at Louisiana
Speaker 1: Tech and that was when Gary Croton and they were spread,
Speaker 1: and that's when it started off with bubbles and getting
Speaker 1: the ball out in the perimeter. And then I went
Speaker 1: with less miles and his fourth and four was just
Speaker 1: tossing to Jacob Hester like it was power run game
Speaker 1: and inside run was thirty minutes, and you practice for
Speaker 1: three hours, and there's certain aspects of all of that
Speaker 1: that you gather that you learn from and you take
Speaker 1: that and what you realize is that good football still
Speaker 1: surrounded by don't turn it over, be explosive, score touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the red zone, be good on third downs, don't
Speaker 1: have lost as plays, and athletic quarterbacks that make off
Speaker 1: schedule plays. The rest of it just falls into that.
Speaker 1: That's the analytical part. How do we get to that model,
Speaker 1: don't turn it over and how are we explosive? I
Speaker 1: don't know if we're a fullback without a fullback, four wide,
Speaker 1: three wide. My cousins at Army wanted to run a
Speaker 1: triple option that works. Okay, Now you can only run
Speaker 1: what you know. Can't just make stuff up. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's fun to do that, but usually it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: But the reality is is that it's there's a lot
Speaker 1: of ways to skin a cat, but still the principles
Speaker 1: of how you win are the same. You know, Costa,
Speaker 1: what did they tell you concerning the long term availability?
Speaker 1: But our jackson and did any uncertainty their way in
Speaker 1: your decision? Well? Okay, first of all, I count on
Speaker 1: Eric and John. They're best in the business. They're going
Speaker 1: to take care of anything that has to do with
Speaker 1: any player, not just mar sure, any player that's part
Speaker 1: of a roster where you're going into you have an
Speaker 1: interest of what the roster is going to look like.
Speaker 1: But ultimately I want to be someplace where structure, organization
Speaker 1: great on defense from top to bottom, and everywhere I
Speaker 1: talked to and everybody I talked to excuse me, said
Speaker 1: you want to be you want to be a Baltimore Raven,
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of that organization moving forward. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll be behind. But it's still just football.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think sometimes we make this out to
Speaker 1: be way too much, you know. I mean, it's just football.
Speaker 1: It's been playing. I don't know when he started, maybe
Speaker 1: five years old with the Purple Pounders or something in
Speaker 1: Miami or something. I mean, there's a football like well
Speaker 1: cater to what he knows and play. But I mean
Speaker 1: it's like any player. You know, if any any players
Speaker 1: like that, you know, to where they'd be. The more
Speaker 1: time you spend with them, the more comfortable they get
Speaker 1: with any system that's or relationship that's part of it.
Speaker 1: And there's a big part of that relationship from a
Speaker 1: quarterback coordinator, play caller, position coach where they're comfortable and
Speaker 1: there's a trust that is a big part of that
Speaker 1: and that's built over time, even beyond individual plays. Is
Speaker 1: that comfort of like, hey, we're going to give you
Speaker 1: the keys of this car, let's see what you can do.
Speaker 1: That happens a lot more in the off season. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of now expanding it, Like in the off season
Speaker 1: is where you experiment. That's where you kind of you know,
Speaker 1: let the quarterback have some rings with is. You get
Speaker 1: closer to the season, that kind of goes away a
Speaker 1: little bit. You have to start game planning and really
Speaker 1: be dialed into what you're gonna do. You've worked with
Speaker 1: a lot of different quarterbacks. How do you describe the
Speaker 1: skill set you would have to work with? Elite? You know,
Speaker 1: he's got an elite skill set. I mean it's obvious
Speaker 1: when you watch him on film. I mean the things
Speaker 1: he can do with the football and the plays that
Speaker 1: he makes. And I think he's underrated it as a
Speaker 1: passer maybe, I think so in terms of his ability
Speaker 1: to make plays and throw it down the field. Um,
Speaker 1: so you've all seen it. I mean I'm like you,
Speaker 1: I haven't. I'm no different than you. I watch what
Speaker 1: you guys watch, you know, and it's pretty amazing. You
Speaker 1: weren't with anyone somewhere in your no. No, So what
Speaker 1: would you say some of the strifts and weaknesses of
Speaker 1: this office? I mean, I've assuming you. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: that's hard because, um, first of all, when I first
Speaker 1: started watching film, first of all, you know there's a
Speaker 1: transition because Lamar has been here for a while. You know,
Speaker 1: and the roster changes around players and injuries add to that.
Speaker 1: And I first started watching and I'm like, wow, they
Speaker 1: do like they do really good stuff in the run game,
Speaker 1: Like holy cow, that that's very creative. And at first
Speaker 1: I was watching, going, I have no idea of why
Speaker 1: they want me there, Like, I don't know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be able to be better at. Truly, you know,
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, they did some really good things.
Speaker 1: And you know, as you continue to watch, and you know,
Speaker 1: players dictate style of play. They do. Players around the
Speaker 1: quarterback dictate a style of play. There's no way around it.
Speaker 1: When I was at Tampa, we had really good receivers.
Speaker 1: We had to Seawan, We had Mike Evans, we had
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, we had Adam Humphreys, and we had Oj
Speaker 1: Howard and we had Cam Brake, and we had quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that love to throw it. Sometimes of the other team,
Speaker 1: but they like to throw it. But we were much
Speaker 1: better throwing it. So that's what you right, that's where
Speaker 1: you play to the strengths of who you have. Right,
Speaker 1: we had to be good throwing it. We weren't nearly
Speaker 1: as a depth running it, and I need I needed
Speaker 1: to do a better job probably scheming it okay, So
Speaker 1: then you get in somewhere we start losing some of
Speaker 1: your perimeter players. It's still about winning, so it's hard
Speaker 1: to judge because you don't know the rosters that make sense,
Speaker 1: like why are they doing the things they're doing offensively?
Speaker 1: Because it's still about winning. You have to do the
Speaker 1: things that give you the best chance to win every week.
Speaker 1: But I do think that being able to use I
Speaker 1: think years want to play in a game that space
Speaker 1: is the field. I think when you go into an
Speaker 1: install meeting, all of your skill players want to say,
Speaker 1: where are my opportunities coming? Where am I going to
Speaker 1: get a chance to touch the football and showcase my ability?
Speaker 1: And I think the more you're able to do that
Speaker 1: and utilize that because to me, balance isn't run past balances.
Speaker 1: Make them cover all five year guys, make them defend
Speaker 1: the field, make them defend you know, the depth of
Speaker 1: the field. So I think it's all of those things
Speaker 1: easier said than done, sometimes based on personnel, but I
Speaker 1: think that's where players want to play. They see themselves
Speaker 1: in that the game has gone that way, That's the
Speaker 1: way the college game has gone. That's what they're used to.
Speaker 1: They're not used to anymore being under center five step drop,
Speaker 1: that doesn't exist. They're used to being a gun RPOs,
Speaker 1: spreading the field, using space players. That's what they're used to.
Speaker 1: So I think that's the style they want to play.
Speaker 1: And so if he said, yeah, is that who we're
Speaker 1: going to be, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I think that's got to be a part of what
Speaker 1: you do. You mentioned that the more you think is
Speaker 1: underrated as pass I think he's that way. I think
Speaker 1: it probably started off when he came out. I think
Speaker 1: that was already a narrative. I think sometimes there's narrative
Speaker 1: that gets put out there and it just carries right.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter. There's
Speaker 1: narratives in all of our life of what some person
Speaker 1: can become, who they are, where they were born, at
Speaker 1: the city. It doesn't matter. You put a narrative as
Speaker 1: to what they can be. I think that started from
Speaker 1: the get go of what he can and can't be,
Speaker 1: and I think in a lot of ways he's proven
Speaker 1: that to be a falsehood in terms of what he's
Speaker 1: capable of. And but again, some of those things is
Speaker 1: a little bit. I got to be careful of how
Speaker 1: far I step out there because I've never worked with him.
Speaker 1: So you're sitting there saying things that you know, what
Speaker 1: was taught, how they schemed it, all those things. But
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Speaker 1: now back to Todd Munkin's introductory press conference. Todd, you
Speaker 1: had two really good tight ends in George of this
Speaker 1: past year. You walk in down with Mark Andrews and
Speaker 1: Isaiah Liking. Specifically with Isaiah Liiking, how do you feel
Speaker 1: like you can help take his game to the next level? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't you know. We became that because they were
Speaker 1: two of our best players, and of course that pissed
Speaker 1: off every slot we had. So just the way this works, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're eleven personnel, your tight ends are mad, you're in
Speaker 1: twenty one person night. It's just the way this goes.
Speaker 1: I get it. You know everybody wants to play. I mean,
Speaker 1: I get it. Well, are two of our best players
Speaker 1: were those guys. Luckily, our slots were very team warrient it.
Speaker 1: They were great kids. They understood that some of our
Speaker 1: best leaders. They didn't get the opportunities they wanted, but
Speaker 1: ultimately were paid to score, move the football. They were
Speaker 1: two of our best players. That always plays itself out.
Speaker 1: And so when you look at the rest of you see, Okay, Mark,
Speaker 1: who's done it for X amount of years? And Mark
Speaker 1: won't remember this. Oh you got two got to So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell a story just for the hell of it,
Speaker 1: or since I have the microphone. So twelve years ago,
Speaker 1: I'm in Oklahoma State. Mark probably wasn't remember this. So
Speaker 1: I'm in Oklahoma State Casey Dunn as a wide receiver coach,
Speaker 1: I'm the coordinator. We're flying to Arizona to watch a
Speaker 1: quarterback throw and a receiver run routes. This is twenty eleven. Okay,
Speaker 1: we go there. I'm dog custom in the whole way.
Speaker 1: I can't believe we're going to see sophomores. There's the
Speaker 1: dumbest thing going. I get there, it's Kyle Allen throwing,
Speaker 1: and it's Mark Andrews catching as a sophomore, sixteen year
Speaker 1: old playing wide receiver. And of course he goes to
Speaker 1: Oklahoma but and I'm in Oklahoma State. So but but
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is is that he's a
Speaker 1: tremendous player, done it for a number of years. You
Speaker 1: got a young player that is learning how to play
Speaker 1: at the professional level. But they both have the ability
Speaker 1: to make place down the field, run after catch. UM.
Speaker 1: So it's a great um starting point because I think
Speaker 1: they're tough matchup guys. I think it starts with matchups
Speaker 1: where if once you get out of the run play
Speaker 1: action world, now you're in a matchup world. Running backs
Speaker 1: that can win on linebackers, tight ends that can win
Speaker 1: and it forces them. Are they going to go big
Speaker 1: and you win matchups? Or are they going to go
Speaker 1: small and you're better off in the run game. Those
Speaker 1: guys create matchup issues for you, which is a great
Speaker 1: starting point. Are you about Tyler humans is being keeping
Speaker 1: most of the offensive staff in place or are you
Speaker 1: still figuring that out as a possible you can bring.
Speaker 1: It's still a work in progress, you know, I just
Speaker 1: got here last Wednesday. Um, they did a tremendous job.
Speaker 1: Or you can look at film and some of the
Speaker 1: things they did an offense were tremendous. So it's still
Speaker 1: a work in progress to the institutional thing, cause you
Speaker 1: got to flow up to the NFL seat play calling.
Speaker 1: So I'm mad less years what do you think it
Speaker 1: will be? Mad, I think it's already started. You can
Speaker 1: see it just the teams that were and they'd already
Speaker 1: started that years ago. Is Um, when I got to
Speaker 1: Jacksonville my first up fifteen years ago, two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: and they started to do stats of like under center
Speaker 1: and gun and all it does is all it's done
Speaker 1: is continue to climb. One with spread offenses and the
Speaker 1: evolution of more athletic quarterbacks utilizing you know their legs.
Speaker 1: Now that comes with a price because you can get
Speaker 1: beat up, right, I mean you can get hurt. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you expose yourself a little bit more. But the
Speaker 1: game has changed in terms of that, where, like I
Speaker 1: was saying, with quarterbacks, you're seeing less and less big
Speaker 1: pocket throwing quarterbacks. I'm not saying that's going away, because
Speaker 1: you still have to have an elite skill set, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what it is, but you're seeing a lot more
Speaker 1: where it's like, okay, what are you going to sacrifice?
Speaker 1: Would you rather have a six five statue? Okay? Um?
Speaker 1: Or would you rather have some of this maybe a
Speaker 1: little more athletic, And first of all, you love one
Speaker 1: that's a really good player, because you wouldn't turn down
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Right. So I'm not saying that never still
Speaker 1: have to be elite. But the point is is what
Speaker 1: you're having to look at. There's more and more athletic quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: There's more spread, and the more spread you are and
Speaker 1: the more empty you are, it's more fun. If you
Speaker 1: guys athletic. He can get you out of trouble, like
Speaker 1: he can buy yards. And the Super Bowl I think
Speaker 1: Mahomes had forty yards even with a bad ankle and
Speaker 1: the other quarterback had seventy. Well, that's hidden yardage. That's
Speaker 1: auxiliary yardage gets you out of trouble because you're rarely
Speaker 1: going to be perfect in protections right, and the more
Speaker 1: spread you get right, the more space, the more okay, wow,
Speaker 1: they start to cover down and he makes a guy miss,
Speaker 1: he can make you pay. I think the game has
Speaker 1: changed that way. Where years ago when I was at weak,
Speaker 1: there were more fullbacks, there were more mic linebackers, there
Speaker 1: were more big tight ends, or more Mercedes Lewis hell
Speaker 1: he's been playing since I was in Jacksonville for God's Six,
Speaker 1: and we got a guy coming out, Darnell Washington. He's
Speaker 1: a throwback. Why try to find a Why try to
Speaker 1: find a blocker in college? Try to find that. It's
Speaker 1: very difficult. You're finding more air raid wide outs that
Speaker 1: were big. Kittle was two hundred five pounds out of
Speaker 1: high school. He was playing wide out. Well, those are
Speaker 1: your matchup guys because they were wide outs. They got
Speaker 1: raised in a wide out offense and they got bigger,
Speaker 1: so that they're even more of a matchup because they
Speaker 1: can route, run, they can separate. So I think that's
Speaker 1: where the game has changed for matchup players and teams
Speaker 1: are more willing to do that. When you take Wes
Speaker 1: Welker playing an ex receiver for the Dolphins, and they
Speaker 1: were ahead of their time. They put him in the
Speaker 1: slot and he's a Hall of famer, you leave at
Speaker 1: x or Z. He's not a hall of famer. He's
Speaker 1: a good player, not a hall of famer. So what
Speaker 1: is it that you do with a certain player that
Speaker 1: creates that advantage? Same with tight ends years ago? You know,
Speaker 1: at one time Kellen Winslow was like that was a novelty.
Speaker 1: That was like, boy, that's a holy cow. He's not
Speaker 1: the novelty. That is what it is. Now that's the
Speaker 1: game today. I don't even know the rules. Can I
Speaker 1: speak on it? Oh? So that I can speak, You
Speaker 1: can't speak on a guy that's under conright, Okay. I
Speaker 1: really like Odell Odell super athletic twitch, he really likes football.
Speaker 1: I mean I really did you know? It didn't work
Speaker 1: out the year I was there. But ultimately he's like
Speaker 1: every skill player. He's no different. I don't know, everybody
Speaker 1: gets piste off like he wants the ball well really,
Speaker 1: like I don't know where I've been where a great
Speaker 1: player didn't want the ball. I didn't know where a
Speaker 1: basketball player didn't want shots or a baseball player didn't
Speaker 1: want to get bat bats. That's what they want. They
Speaker 1: want opportunities to showcase their ability. I think it's awesome.
Speaker 1: I think he's tremendously skilled and and I like his personality.
Speaker 1: Likes to compete. He has a tough deal though, because
Speaker 1: he's a he in my opinion, and he may think differently,
Speaker 1: and it's like it's tough being a a face. Does
Speaker 1: that make sense? Like NBA deals with all the time,
Speaker 1: But there's very few NFL players outside of quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: they really know their face that they're they're a market there.
Speaker 1: And he's that way, and I think that makes it hard.
Speaker 1: You know, at times when you're under the microscope like
Speaker 1: he is, it really is our But I liked Odell
Speaker 1: a lot, like the skill set, like his work ethic,
Speaker 1: He fought through an injury tremendous. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't really understand football until he got to the
Speaker 1: port with you and he said, well that's that's way
Speaker 1: too much. I mean obviously then you know he was
Speaker 1: under he was at a camera and he had to
Speaker 1: say that, you know what I'm saying to say that, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's get let's get real, like, um,
Speaker 1: you know, the reality is he was a really good
Speaker 1: player of him. I was already thinking about my answer
Speaker 1: before I actually heard the second part of the question.
Speaker 1: What was the second part of the question. Sorry, see, Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's the reverse of that. I think it's
Speaker 1: how they see the game, I think, and then figuring
Speaker 1: out what they already know, like how they see it.
Speaker 1: Are they capable of certain things? Some players are more
Speaker 1: capable than others, right, Like anything any job that you have,
Speaker 1: some people are more capable than others of certain tests. Right.
Speaker 1: So some quarterbacks want control. Some quarterbacks want to be
Speaker 1: in charge of changing routes and protections, and some don't.
Speaker 1: Some don't want that. Some players, there's a lot that
Speaker 1: goes with that. He wanted that. He's very smart, he
Speaker 1: was older, He understood football. He just didn't understand certain
Speaker 1: things that if you want to play in the NFL
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to know. So, you know, for him
Speaker 1: to say that, um, you know, I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, But the reality is is I think you
Speaker 1: see it through the player's eyes first, and then you
Speaker 1: go from there because you can't you can't force someone
Speaker 1: to do something they're not capable of. You can't take up,
Speaker 1: you know, fullback and say hey, we want you to
Speaker 1: be a matchup guy in a linebacker. You know, things
Speaker 1: like that that you just have to work through. In
Speaker 1: the past five years, are consistently throwing football and watching
Speaker 1: some of the film that you have with this team.
Speaker 1: How much can his team proof, especially in the past game, Well,
Speaker 1: it starts with um working together an elite passing game
Speaker 1: as timing, it's working together. And I think the less
Speaker 1: you have of that based on off season or rotating
Speaker 1: your skill players, I think the harder that becomes, and
Speaker 1: I think the more consistent. The other thing is we
Speaker 1: have to do a great job of building concepts that
Speaker 1: fit together so it fits in a quarterback's brain and Okay,
Speaker 1: this is X, Y Z whatever, but it's very similar
Speaker 1: the same of how we start. And I think the
Speaker 1: more you go down that road, I think the user
Speaker 1: it becomes. Obviously, the better you run the football, the
Speaker 1: better it is to throw it. So it starts with
Speaker 1: the excellent run game and then go from there. One
Speaker 1: for the fans, And that was a good one though.
Speaker 1: I like the way that said, like, it wasn't your
Speaker 1: questions for the fans. Who's gonna let down the fans?
Speaker 1: For God's sakes? Right? You had to go with that
Speaker 1: question then, a cow. I'm probably where there is an
Speaker 1: avid fan base that hope and praise that you are
Speaker 1: the one that is going to fix this offense which
Speaker 1: has struggled. How do you is there a pressure that
Speaker 1: comes with that, and how do you personally handle a
Speaker 1: screw even comes with it? This year? Well? I think,
Speaker 1: first off, as we all know in this profession, let's
Speaker 1: start with this. This is week to week, month to month,
Speaker 1: a year to year. Because I don't think that fan
Speaker 1: base would have said that nineteen right, I would have
Speaker 1: doubted that would have been the way that they thought
Speaker 1: of it. And things go year to year, and and
Speaker 1: then you reassess, does that make sense? Who doesn't like offense?
Speaker 1: For God's sakes? The league revolves around fantasy football? I
Speaker 1: mean they want to see scoring, right, I mean that's
Speaker 1: it's interesting. You could win forty one forty or you
Speaker 1: can win seven six, and you think the forty one
Speaker 1: forty teams just killing it it's the way it is.
Speaker 1: It's what we're built around. Right, Um, I only control
Speaker 1: what I can control. You say, is there a pressure?
Speaker 1: Run it? There's pressure everywhere. There was pressure Georgie. You
Speaker 1: can say, well you had the best players. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they expect us to go ten and two at a minimum.
Speaker 1: That's pressure. You know, you can't lose many games, you know,
Speaker 1: so's there's pressure. If it's what we do, that's what
Speaker 1: we sign up for. That that's our job like that.
Speaker 1: Anybody says that doesn't come with the territory, they're lying.
Speaker 1: That's a big part of what we do. And yet
Speaker 1: that's some of what drives us, you know, that challenge
Speaker 1: of doing it better than they do it, because that's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to in the NFL. You got
Speaker 1: good players, got good coaches, got good scheme. How do
Speaker 1: we do it better than they do it? How do
Speaker 1: we gain percentages? Whatever? There's a one percent here. Whether
Speaker 1: it's analytics, whether it's special teams, whether it's protection, whether
Speaker 1: it's a player, you're just trying to gain percentages to
Speaker 1: give you the best chance to move the football. So
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited to get started. But again again,
Speaker 1: like I always say we're paid to score, you know,
Speaker 1: and if you don't score, that's no fun. Man. I
Speaker 1: don't know what else to say. And it's fun obviously
Speaker 1: I get it, you know. So thanks for listening to
Speaker 1: Ravens Press Fast with Todd Munkin introduced as the new
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. I thought he came off really well, very
Speaker 1: likable guy, and gave a few clues to what his
Speaker 1: offense might look like and his excitement level working with
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, joining a franchise with such a great defense
Speaker 1: and great culture, and you could definitely tell how excited
Speaker 1: he is to be to be with the Ravens now.
Speaker 1: So thank you for listening. If you haven't done so already,
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Speaker 1: with press conferences with general manager Eric Decasa and head
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