Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, August sixteenth, and welcome into the Ravens Press
Speaker 1: Pass podcast. The Ravens wrapped up their second day of
Speaker 1: joint practices with the Washington Commanders leading into the preseason
Speaker 1: contests in Washington coming up on Monday night. After practice,
Speaker 1: we heard from head coach John Harbaugh, linebacker Brokwan Smith,
Speaker 1: offensive lineman Kevin Zeitler, and wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior.
Speaker 1: Let's start things off with Coach Harball.
Speaker 2: Okay, good seeing everybody out here. Appreciate the scene, you know,
Speaker 2: you look around, you see the fans. Both teams had
Speaker 2: fans are obviously they'd some fans that came up, which
Speaker 2: is fun. Appreciate Ron Rivera, the Commander's organization for bringing
Speaker 2: the team up here. Appreciate their team for the good
Speaker 2: good competition, man, good practices, and just just the first
Speaker 2: class coaching staff there and all that. So I'm just
Speaker 2: really happy that we got a chance to get this in.
Speaker 2: I think we got better as the you know, because
Speaker 2: of the practices and all that, and hope they feel
Speaker 2: the same way. Now we'll be onto our next routine.
Speaker 2: We'll play them Monday night and we'll be going forward
Speaker 2: from here, So what question do you have Johnson?
Speaker 3: The report out that Tomorrowlin he's gonna require foot surgery.
Speaker 3: What can you tell us about that?
Speaker 2: Can you repeat the last part?
Speaker 4: There's a report that.
Speaker 5: He's gonna require foot surgery and he's gonna have to
Speaker 5: miss some of the regular season, can you right?
Speaker 2: I can't comment on how much you'll have to miss
Speaker 2: because I think that's that timeline is indeterminate right now.
Speaker 2: It's it's uh, it's uh, it's it's just hard to determine.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna be a long term deal though, And
Speaker 2: he is getting foot surgery today. That's confirmed, so I'm
Speaker 2: sure he is going to have practice. No, it's been
Speaker 2: a lingering thing. And they took a look at it
Speaker 2: and uh said, you know what, that's something we want
Speaker 2: to take care of.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Instead of waiting men out a really.
Speaker 4: Good day, you can tell them about needs development.
Speaker 2: Charlie Cohler, you know that's good. I mean I was,
Speaker 2: I was kind of managing a lot of things. So
Speaker 2: I haven't seen the tape yet, so uh, to hear
Speaker 2: that makes me happy. You know, they had a really
Speaker 2: good day because that's what we've been shooting for. Charlie's
Speaker 2: a big, physical, talented guy, and I want him to
Speaker 2: express himself out to that way as a player. And
Speaker 2: that's good to hear that he did it. I can't
Speaker 2: wait to see the tape.
Speaker 6: Ans and made the same set up for the instancing game.
Speaker 3: That Star's gonna play at all until you beat under guys.
Speaker 2: It'll be in the neighborhood. I don't know exactly what
Speaker 2: you know, which way we'll go with certain guys, but
Speaker 2: it'll be in the same along the same lines.
Speaker 4: John, I mean, just like a general practice question, like.
Speaker 3: Have you ever in your in your.
Speaker 4: Rear like you feel like you gained in your mantage
Speaker 4: from seeing like a better team to practice or see
Speaker 4: if you have the team practice and when.
Speaker 3: You off the head advantage from someone saying yours or
Speaker 3: saying glacier.
Speaker 2: I think it's a really good question. Certainly an advantage,
Speaker 2: how significant is the thing you have to decide, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, if anything's out there. I'm sure that this
Speaker 2: was live stream, so I'm sure that you know the
Speaker 2: other teams will have those plays that they see and
Speaker 2: all that, So don't look at that. Your scouts will
Speaker 2: look at the players on it, just like they would
Speaker 2: a game. We do the same thing. You know with
Speaker 2: other practices. You have to make a determination for the organization.
Speaker 2: Do you want to shut it all down now let
Speaker 2: your fans see any of it, or do you want
Speaker 2: to give your fans a chance to see it so
Speaker 2: you know that you weighed out coaches. Obviously we're more
Speaker 2: concerned with the information, but I also feel like it's
Speaker 2: worth the work. It's worth getting out or going against
Speaker 2: another team and getting the work. And we're pretty conscientious
Speaker 2: about what we allow. You know, what we what we call,
Speaker 2: and what we run.
Speaker 6: It's not going up against the other team to get
Speaker 6: a different types of matchups because they're a specific matchup,
Speaker 6: one against the commanders. That allowed to look at a
Speaker 6: specific people in your own team more devils and.
Speaker 3: Then you know them.
Speaker 2: That's a really good, in depth, you know, precise question.
Speaker 2: And I would have to say I was thinking more
Speaker 2: big picture probably. You know, now you go back and
Speaker 2: you watch the tape and you start to see that,
Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's players we're looking at on our
Speaker 2: team and their team and different things like that that
Speaker 2: we want to learn, but nothing to that to that
Speaker 2: point really per se done that.
Speaker 3: Art about as you talk about about how imaginings m R.
Speaker 3: Talk to me, I see classic needs to change.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would have to say it's both
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, I mean, I do think
Speaker 2: it's an evolution because so many the schemes are similar
Speaker 2: and and a lot of the words in terms are
Speaker 2: the same. We kept a lot of it Todd. Todd's
Speaker 2: done a really good job of trying to blend it
Speaker 2: all together to create what we're going to be going forward.
Speaker 2: Now that's what you try to do. Does it becomes
Speaker 2: something different, something new? Yeah, nineteen it really was how
Speaker 2: new and how different it'll be we'll find out, but
Speaker 2: it will be what we feel we need to do
Speaker 2: to be most successful. And that's what you try to do.
Speaker 3: Kind of rock and now.
Speaker 7: Lol.
Speaker 3: It makes your level of trying to change to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's two levels of concern. The one
Speaker 2: levels long term there's no long term concern, that's good,
Speaker 2: and then there's a short concern. There's plenty of short
Speaker 2: term concern, and we've got to look at that. And
Speaker 2: it starts with the guys you have. We have guys
Speaker 2: that are ready to play, and they'll get an opportunity
Speaker 2: to get out there and and uh and continue to
Speaker 2: improve and get the reps and we'll see what they
Speaker 2: can do. And of course we're always looking for players too,
Speaker 2: all right, John, When when.
Speaker 3: A position, when a specific position gets you know, hit
Speaker 3: with the dailus, the.
Speaker 2: Venus like cornerbacks, like, what's the message to that room
Speaker 2: or that position to kind of even though they're going
Speaker 2: through it and missing a lot of guys.
Speaker 4: How to keep put out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's any specific messages
Speaker 2: needed because these guys are pros. You know, they know,
Speaker 2: they know what they're they know what the situation is,
Speaker 2: and most guys look at like an opportunity. Here's my chance.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna make the most of it. And
Speaker 2: that's what you want them to do.
Speaker 8: And I think you dressed the same day that it
Speaker 8: sounds like we'll continue to look for guys for a bell.
Speaker 2: They're just giving. I donna agree with your game.
Speaker 8: Sorry, you guys are gonna continue to look at quarter
Speaker 8: certain defens backs who are the bell they're giving all
Speaker 8: the injuries and just pays out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, you will look at them, but you
Speaker 2: know you canna understand, you know, it's it's late. You know,
Speaker 2: guys are most guys are on teams right now. So
Speaker 2: part of that with the guys who are veteran guys
Speaker 2: is who's in shape. I mean, you know, who's been working,
Speaker 2: who really wants to play this year? Because if you're
Speaker 2: guys out and you've got some you got some pedigree,
Speaker 2: you gotta be in shape, you gotta be ready to go.
Speaker 2: And that's you look at that. So it's really on
Speaker 2: those guys to be ready to play.
Speaker 8: John, we didn't see that.
Speaker 2: You didn't see a shout out there, and particular just
Speaker 2: the less are.
Speaker 3: Or if he ever to kind of setback.
Speaker 2: No, no setback, no, se BIG's a process. I mean
Speaker 2: there's a process to getting guys back. So he's on schedule.
Speaker 1: That was head coach Jean Hardwall providing some key injury updates,
Speaker 1: particularly as it pertains to cornerback Marlon Hunphrey. We also
Speaker 1: had a chance to hear from linebacker Rokwan Smith after practice.
Speaker 3: How would you say things went these past couple of
Speaker 3: days real fall.
Speaker 9: I thought things went great, got some good work versus
Speaker 9: the commanders. We came out, did what we had to do,
Speaker 9: and I felt like we got better as a team.
Speaker 9: So that's all you can ask for in these joint practices.
Speaker 9: And I'm sure those guys will say the same.
Speaker 3: In South here, guys like.
Speaker 6: You haven't been able to go up against another teams
Speaker 6: to like finally being needed.
Speaker 4: To hit a different jersey.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, It's always great when you're having an
Speaker 9: opportunity to go out hit guys on an opposing team
Speaker 9: as opposed to hitting your own guys for three weeks
Speaker 9: or so, So it was great. And then being able
Speaker 9: to just get out and work against people who may
Speaker 9: not know your moves as good as someone from the
Speaker 9: opposing team may know.
Speaker 4: So I enjoyed it and I thought it was great
Speaker 4: work and we all got better.
Speaker 5: Group ons that Marlan's gonna have to up surgery.
Speaker 4: The timeline for him turn not to turping yet.
Speaker 5: But you know, having Marlon out for any figure period,
Speaker 5: how does that impact the debut?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it definitely hurts the defense, you know when a
Speaker 9: leader like Marlon is not out there with us. But
Speaker 9: I know he'll get back as soon as he can,
Speaker 9: and uh, we'll pick up trying to pick up the
Speaker 9: slack where he's not there. When he's not out there,
Speaker 9: but looking forward to him being out there pretty soon.
Speaker 3: What if you thought of the performance of the two
Speaker 3: young guys.
Speaker 4: All, I think those guys are getting better each and
Speaker 4: every day.
Speaker 9: Watching nine nine and nine zero, you got the guys
Speaker 9: coming out ready to work, and it showed, you know,
Speaker 9: going up against the commanders and the reps, that the
Speaker 9: guys are getting So I'm looking forward to seeing what
Speaker 9: those guys are able to do come Sundays in the
Speaker 9: regular season when you have when.
Speaker 7: You have a list of CBS go down, or you
Speaker 7: know guys are out with injury in one specific group.
Speaker 7: As a leader as a team, do you at all
Speaker 7: go up to that kind of position group and talk
Speaker 7: to them like, hey, we need more out of you guys.
Speaker 2: Now, or now's your opportunity or trying to shine or
Speaker 2: anything like that.
Speaker 9: Or what do you planning to No, you can't really
Speaker 9: put much pressure on guys plate like that because at
Speaker 9: the end of the day, we all opportunists. So you know,
Speaker 9: guys are getting opportunities that may opportunities that may have
Speaker 9: never gotten the opportunity before, and you know, when you
Speaker 9: take advantage of that and just show the coaching staff
Speaker 9: exactly what you can do. When your name is called
Speaker 9: on and when the guys are down, you know, we
Speaker 9: room for the guys to get back as soon as
Speaker 9: they can. But the guys are out there with us.
Speaker 9: They're part of the team, so we're here to cheer
Speaker 9: mone and we expect them to make the same type
Speaker 9: plays as a Marlow as well.
Speaker 3: OK, wasn't play for any play there all the time
Speaker 3: and talk it out. But what's your question about all
Speaker 3: offense is not less.
Speaker 4: They have the same shoot.
Speaker 9: I think honestly, you should just probably watch the offense
Speaker 9: versus their defense and that'll let you know for sure.
Speaker 9: But from my from what I watched on film, you
Speaker 9: know the eye and the skuyt on lies they say.
Speaker 9: But I think it's good work going up against our offense,
Speaker 9: and they give us so many different pictures. Getting big
Speaker 9: ball can spread you out, can do so many different things,
Speaker 9: and I think that can prepare you for just about
Speaker 9: any opponent you'll face throughout the year. So I'm excited
Speaker 9: to see what our offense is gonna do uh weekend
Speaker 9: and week out, specifically.
Speaker 4: With Lamar and no Deell. I know you're linebacker.
Speaker 3: You're more folks on that.
Speaker 5: Have you seen how that that kind of relationship has
Speaker 5: to go out in the field free Lamara.
Speaker 10: And Ubie Dragons.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I see those guys, you know, kicking it
Speaker 9: as well, so and I think that's a good, good
Speaker 9: way to have that chemistry amongst those guys. And I
Speaker 9: think there's gonna be a lot of great things, a
Speaker 9: lot of deep balls, intermediate balls, and balls all over
Speaker 9: the field for those guys and that they're going to
Speaker 9: be sharing amongst each other.
Speaker 4: So I'm excited about that connection with those two.
Speaker 11: Focus like yourself, get wraps in the preseason, that's your
Speaker 11: biggest is to take away for your good got the.
Speaker 3: Preseason, good year.
Speaker 4: I think it's the most realistic work. And it's no rookie.
Speaker 9: It's not my first time not having reps in the
Speaker 9: preseason or whatever like that. So I think I know
Speaker 9: how to play ball, and it's just always good just
Speaker 9: to be able to go out here and get game
Speaker 9: like scenarios versus quality opponent and the commander. So it's
Speaker 9: it's never bad and you can never turn down good work.
Speaker 4: Well, and you guys got Simson.
Speaker 6: Backs on Monday, and I know he looks like he's
Speaker 6: easing his way back in what's the your impression.
Speaker 3: Of his return to help spor since he's.
Speaker 9: Come happy, you could tell he don't have the camp
Speaker 9: legs unless he's just twitched up like that. But yeah,
Speaker 9: I'm excited for the guy to keep learning, keep growing
Speaker 9: into his body, and so I think it's there's a
Speaker 9: lot of great things in store for him, and you know,
Speaker 9: Zo and Mike's just gonna keep molding into the player
Speaker 9: he's gonna be.
Speaker 6: That's what we talk a lot about, Patrick point and
Speaker 6: being able to get a couple of together.
Speaker 3: Have you voted guys being able to build the second chemistry?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 9: Absolutely, I feel like it's it's night and it's night
Speaker 9: and day, and sometimes can like kind of just assume
Speaker 9: where he's gonna be on certain plays. And I feel
Speaker 9: like just the more reps we get with each other
Speaker 9: in like joint practices of this sort, it just brings
Speaker 9: out the best in both of us and also just
Speaker 9: amp all communication up and makes us like actually know
Speaker 9: what one another gonna do and tough situation and game
Speaker 9: like situations.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Rokwan Smith. We also heard from a
Speaker 1: veteran offensive lineman, Kevin Zeiler, who talked about this offensive
Speaker 1: line and the mindset going into this season.
Speaker 6: Kevin, what could you make up in the last two
Speaker 6: days being up to go against the the Madison.
Speaker 2: And there in Festive line.
Speaker 12: Oh, it's great for someone to come in and get
Speaker 12: some work with. Have a lot of respect for them.
Speaker 12: Obviously a very talented group, very tough to go against.
Speaker 12: But I think it's long gonna make us better in
Speaker 12: the long run. We learned a lot and now we
Speaker 12: have to use it and get better.
Speaker 4: Kevin, I guess all you talked gays.
Speaker 10: Wet for he.
Speaker 4: He's kind of trying to like as keeper and kind
Speaker 4: better level.
Speaker 12: Oh no, I was just asking him what he was
Speaker 12: thinking on that of the play right beforehand. You know,
Speaker 12: I thought they were trying to set something up and
Speaker 12: I was just, you know, curious if I read it right, Kevin,
Speaker 12: there's a.
Speaker 2: Good competition going on at the other hard spot. I mean,
Speaker 2: what is shoot out to you about both sala and
Speaker 2: and Simpson.
Speaker 12: I'll say this, both very talented guys. You know, sala
Speaker 12: coming in as a rookie, being able to move the
Speaker 12: way he does, the way he's picking things up, the
Speaker 12: way he plays. You know, you know, it's impressive for
Speaker 12: a guy that young, you know, to be able to
Speaker 12: do that.
Speaker 10: And then John, you know, coming in keeping a cool head.
Speaker 12: You know, he's big, he's strong, he can do anything
Speaker 12: we ask of him, and he keeps getting better every day.
Speaker 12: So I think, you know, no matter who ends up
Speaker 12: in that spot, I think we're gonna win in the
Speaker 12: long run.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of pats. You know, what's its extent
Speaker 3: about how it happens the top four?
Speaker 10: I'd say it's very fast, you know.
Speaker 12: I think he wants to make everything efficient, fast, clean,
Speaker 12: you know, so we you know, just one play, two, play,
Speaker 12: three play. You know however that goes like uh, you know,
Speaker 12: he's just trying to make it very efficient, so we
Speaker 12: know we can do what we do.
Speaker 4: Kevin, how how important is it for this guy?
Speaker 10: Starters were notartular really playing much precison.
Speaker 2: To kind of scratch that from type of pitch against
Speaker 2: another team.
Speaker 12: For any it's always good, you know, to you know,
Speaker 12: get after it. You know, honestly, we treat these last
Speaker 12: two days ass game days. You know, That's how we
Speaker 12: approach it as an on line and you know, I
Speaker 12: think we uh worked on the communication part.
Speaker 10: It felt like a game while we were out there
Speaker 10: and uh, you know, it's good for us, the typest.
Speaker 6: Thing about it.
Speaker 3: But I think it's you guys are hate.
Speaker 4: As they are.
Speaker 10: They're just super super good, super strong and super big.
Speaker 12: You know, you don't see guys like that every day,
Speaker 12: let alone, you know, the entire front built up of
Speaker 12: guys like that, So you know, you can't ask for
Speaker 12: better work than.
Speaker 3: That worthy people, you know.
Speaker 12: I think just more so than anything, it's confidence. You know,
Speaker 12: he knows football and now he's been in the league year.
Speaker 12: I mean he's just taking everything, his knowledge, his command
Speaker 12: to the line, to the next level.
Speaker 10: And I'm pretty glad he's on our team.
Speaker 5: What kind of between the connection between LA ball and
Speaker 5: you go, I think everyone he said once a talking
Speaker 5: about that.
Speaker 3: You know, do the big games and the football wine.
Speaker 10: I think it's just getting better.
Speaker 12: You know, like you said, like two of the you know,
Speaker 12: outlier best players in this league, you know, being together,
Speaker 12: I think that just allows, you know, for magic to happen.
Speaker 9: Guys.
Speaker 3: I guess really strong reference that it looks like you
Speaker 3: guys set a good really good pocket well passing.
Speaker 4: Hills today or how much confidence exact.
Speaker 3: You people a rest of football years?
Speaker 12: I mean, I think you know, anytime you go against
Speaker 12: a good competition and you know you battle and do
Speaker 12: all right, you know, I think it, you know, sets
Speaker 12: you up for the future. But I'm sure you know,
Speaker 12: you don't even know if we feel all right about
Speaker 12: you know, we're gonna watch them. We're all gonna banging
Speaker 12: our heads on our desks, like, all right, we got
Speaker 12: to get better. You know, we still have some time, uh,
Speaker 12: you know before the season starts, so we have to
Speaker 12: use every minute we can.
Speaker 4: N Uh, you've come for a lot of other.
Speaker 2: Organizations, of course, and uh talk a little bit of
Speaker 2: the coaching staff and if the winnings of the clothing companies.
Speaker 3: Obviously Simpson between him with a big problem with that.
Speaker 3: He said, wait, a couple of outside of the great weeks, you.
Speaker 12: Know, I think it's just you know, we work technique
Speaker 12: every day, We work about finishing, you know, trying to
Speaker 12: be in good position. And you know we have refs
Speaker 12: here all the time, so you know they're gonna call
Speaker 12: it if you know what happens during practice, so we
Speaker 12: know what the refs are thinking. And how like, you know,
Speaker 12: we can be sneaky and get away with it or
Speaker 12: better yet, you know, not do it, hope.
Speaker 7: A lot of talk about you, Mars increased the command
Speaker 7: of you huddled before the snap and have you seen
Speaker 7: him throwing that that carts are not in trouble?
Speaker 3: They play the knowledge of change.
Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely, any time Lamar. You know, it makes any
Speaker 12: sort of change or call. You know, we know he's
Speaker 12: about to do something magical, so pretty excited when he
Speaker 12: does it.
Speaker 3: You know the opic the time was that George? Because
Speaker 3: I'm not hardly classified, but so how are all the time?
Speaker 10: I think?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 12: I mean, I think you know, we have you know
Speaker 12: a lot of really cool unique personnel all around the ball,
Speaker 12: so I feel like we're able to do anything and everything.
Speaker 12: So it's just on us, you know, and being on
Speaker 12: show them. You know, we can master it all and
Speaker 12: get it done. Talk about decisions, I know more so
Speaker 12: any think I feel like it. You know, when things
Speaker 12: are going well, you know, it breeds energy, you know,
Speaker 12: makes us want to do it more and more and
Speaker 12: keep going, and you know it's on nusty and shape
Speaker 12: and get it done.
Speaker 3: You think you're better Cardio dash ReLit this year because it.
Speaker 4: Really toping for many last year.
Speaker 12: You know, I think I always stay in shape, but
Speaker 12: you know, it doesn't hurt, you know, running tempo and
Speaker 12: doing all that good stuff all the time.
Speaker 1: That was veteran offensive lineman Kevin Zeitler. And last, but
Speaker 1: not least, we also heard from veteran wide receiver Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham Junior. He talked about his impressions of this offense
Speaker 1: and where he thinks he is heading into this season.
Speaker 3: Emmanuel Forbis a couple of times got out of four, three, five.
Speaker 3: Feed that a orometer where you feel.
Speaker 4: Like, what's his forty? Nah, but you just got to
Speaker 4: finish the play.
Speaker 11: Knowing that he's a younger guy was it was good
Speaker 11: to be able to go against someone else and you know,
Speaker 11: just communicate about things that they're learning and just seeing
Speaker 11: how they play technique and how they see things and
Speaker 11: things that He's definitely got some.
Speaker 4: Speed, but you know, I said, I told you I
Speaker 4: still got a little bit of lifting here, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean.
Speaker 8: On that same tchip, though Marlon said him wouldn't do
Speaker 8: to him what you might do to the opposition.
Speaker 3: Do you hold a gear back.
Speaker 4: In practice against against our teammates. Yes, yeah, there's some
Speaker 4: things I wouldn't do to my teammates that I you know,
Speaker 4: due to somebody else.
Speaker 11: So it's that fine line of like competing but keeping
Speaker 11: each other healthy and safe and uh, just being able
Speaker 11: to find work. So again, like I said, it was
Speaker 11: great to be able to go against another team and
Speaker 11: in different competition. I think the the last two days
Speaker 11: are very fine, very beneficial on both sides.
Speaker 3: Is that your first time going up against competition?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, than how your mind? It was good.
Speaker 11: Like I said, it was been over nine hundred days
Speaker 11: to sit back and just you know, watch everybody have
Speaker 11: fun and compete. Uh, which wasn't easy, but at the
Speaker 11: same time, there was some peace in it, just being
Speaker 11: able to have that time that I wouldn't normally have
Speaker 11: to spell my son, but just to be able to
Speaker 11: go against somebody else. Keep sharpening your skills and perfecting
Speaker 11: your craft. I still care for this game deeply. I've
Speaker 11: always been a perfectionist, so little things will definitely, you know,
Speaker 11: piss me off. I don't catch a pass or feel
Speaker 11: like I could have ran a better route. I'm still
Speaker 11: very you know. My biggest credit.
Speaker 2: Oh, now.
Speaker 6: The offense has started to hit on the summers that
Speaker 6: make the blades, then we're starting to see We're starting
Speaker 6: to see guys like Dobbins and Lament working their way
Speaker 6: back in.
Speaker 3: Are you starting to see this offense kind of blossom
Speaker 3: into what you guys are expecting.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, it's a it's a work in progress every single
Speaker 11: day at the same point in time, just to be
Speaker 11: able to get guys back. You know, you you slowly progress.
Speaker 11: You we all joke about it. You train our off season,
Speaker 11: it doesn't matter. You come out here, you run eight
Speaker 11: players in a row and you know you're you're gasping
Speaker 11: for air. So it's definitely a different shape that you
Speaker 11: have to get into. But you know, seeing Rashad, he
Speaker 11: looks great and his comeback. I just try and always
Speaker 11: keep people aware of you know, take your time, don't
Speaker 11: ever feel pressure to to get back in because at
Speaker 11: the end of the day, everyone on the Steam wants
Speaker 11: you to be a very best and be healthy. So
Speaker 11: just you know, those guys working their way back in,
Speaker 11: we have a great opportunity here. It's just about making
Speaker 11: the most of each and every day, finding ways to
Speaker 11: get better, even on those days you know we're all
Speaker 11: dog tired, just finding ways to progress.
Speaker 3: Odell, you can't know much.
Speaker 5: About Lamar or you know Lamar very well, before you
Speaker 5: signed and you guys went out to dinner that night.
Speaker 5: If you knowing much before then, and how much do
Speaker 5: you think where do you think that relationship has grown
Speaker 5: out since then?
Speaker 11: I mean I always knew of him and you know,
Speaker 11: never like hit him up, and you know we didn't,
Speaker 11: we didn't talk like that, but it was always a
Speaker 11: mutual respect from Afar. You know, I watched him when
Speaker 11: he was in college. I watched him when he was here.
Speaker 11: You know, you have a deep respect for greats and
Speaker 11: you know, the relationship is definitely developing. It's it's just
Speaker 11: cool to be able to kick it, you know, on
Speaker 11: and off the field, and what do you see or
Speaker 11: how do you see it?
Speaker 4: And a receiver always wants to work, you know for
Speaker 4: his quarterback.
Speaker 11: You know, you there's a guy who you're gonna he's
Speaker 11: gonna have to hang in there and take a hit
Speaker 11: every now and then to get you a touchdown and
Speaker 11: you have to take a hit.
Speaker 4: To complete the pass for him. Or it's a.
Speaker 11: Mutual you know relationship that you guys have to have there.
Speaker 4: So everything is cool. I'm definitely loving that.
Speaker 8: That said that happened kind of organic quotes head and
Speaker 8: he come to.
Speaker 4: You kind of it was coursed. Nah, you know it was.
Speaker 11: It was just it was just natural, you know, like
Speaker 11: I said, when you have a when you have a
Speaker 11: respect for somebody, you could see eye eye on things,
Speaker 11: or you know, you get to know how someone is,
Speaker 11: or you know, what's their family history, how do they
Speaker 11: grow up?
Speaker 4: You know, just those things. Just sitting there chopping it
Speaker 4: up again.
Speaker 9: Like I say, I'm coming across the middle expecting to
Speaker 9: take a hit for him, He's gonna have been hanging
Speaker 9: out and taking one.
Speaker 4: From the B line and every now and then or somebody.
Speaker 10: So every day we just trying to get better one percent.
Speaker 3: Like he quoted him, a lot of this stuffing from
Speaker 3: a lot of ordinative. It's standing out to you about
Speaker 3: knotting us.
Speaker 4: Oh, I definitely think he definitely thinks he wants to.
Speaker 11: Throw the ball, and we got a lot of talented guys,
Speaker 11: so I think just finding ways to get the playmakers
Speaker 11: the ball in their hands and being explosive offense, I
Speaker 11: think that's what stands out the most.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, as.
Speaker 11: Things progress, and obviously we play in September, we still
Speaker 11: have some time here to work out the kinks and
Speaker 11: get each and every play in concept down, I think
Speaker 11: that this would be a very explosive offense. It's explosive
Speaker 11: team as well, but specifically with the offense, I think
Speaker 11: that's the goal is to you know, be explosive.
Speaker 3: Radell, you mentioned the explosive plays. How would you assess
Speaker 3: the teams in the passive league with that?
Speaker 11: With that's whatever turn right, you know, I think there's
Speaker 11: always things you can improve on, and that's just me
Speaker 11: being a perfectionist, Like I'm always gonna say there's room
Speaker 11: for improvement. But I think we're at today, at this point,
Speaker 11: on whatever day it is in camp, I think we're
Speaker 11: in a good place. It's just about, you know, like
Speaker 11: I say all the time, just getting one percent better
Speaker 11: each than every day.
Speaker 4: But that I want to hope.
Speaker 3: So the cut it up for sad that he said
Speaker 3: that community get hurt in the first to turn down guys.
Speaker 11: That I've seen it, and you know, I hate the coulda,
Speaker 11: would have should have. But I could sit up here
Speaker 11: and tell you as someone at four or five years old,
Speaker 11: I always felt I was one of the best athletes, man.
Speaker 11: I mean that from the bottom of my heart. So
Speaker 11: I don't know about two hundred million. I would have
Speaker 11: definitely loved to have that. Uh, But you know, I
Speaker 11: just know that if I wouldn't, I would have loved
Speaker 11: to see what would have happened in my career if
Speaker 11: I had never been hurt. But I think God placed
Speaker 11: this journey for me to be here, specifically to be
Speaker 11: able to, you know, be.
Speaker 4: Exactly who I am today.
Speaker 11: And you know, the adversity that I've been through will
Speaker 11: allow me to you know, later on in life when
Speaker 11: things hit, I think I'll be able to handle it
Speaker 11: a little bit better.
Speaker 6: Oh, they're always seen guys like Sean Ryan, he had
Speaker 6: a good piece of the game to Blacksman good all summer.
Speaker 3: What have you seen from like the younger guys in.
Speaker 11: The arm, just that hunger that want you know, like
Speaker 11: I said, this this is their opportunity of a lifetime.
Speaker 4: And you know it's a tricky business. It's only fifty
Speaker 4: three that make it. And you know we got ninety
Speaker 4: guys in there, so every everyone's fighting for a spot.
Speaker 4: You know, it's all love and these are your brothers.
Speaker 11: But at the end of the day, each and every
Speaker 11: time you step on the field, each and every ref
Speaker 11: you take, this is your opportunity.
Speaker 4: To make the team.
Speaker 11: So these young guys that came in and braced the challenge,
Speaker 11: worked hard, you know, tried their best to perfect the craft,
Speaker 11: and they're out there making plays.
Speaker 4: So I love to see it.
Speaker 11: I'm always here to be you know, any advice you
Speaker 11: need or anything of that matter. I'm just happy for
Speaker 11: those guys. I'm happy when they score or catch a pass.
Speaker 11: It's like, so I gotta catch one. So it's all
Speaker 11: love in our room for sure.
Speaker 1: That was wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior. You also heard
Speaker 1: from Kevin Zeitler, Rokwan Smith, and Coach Harbaugh. And that's
Speaker 1: it for us on today's episode of the Ravens Press
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