Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past Podcast.
Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, August eighth, and the Ravens continue their
Speaker 2: training camp practice today. After practice, we got to hear
Speaker 2: from the running backs. Running back Gus Edwards, Melvin Gordon,
Speaker 2: and Justice Hill all talk with the media, as well
Speaker 2: as running backs coach Willie Taggert and head coach John Harball.
Speaker 1: Let's kick it off with coach Hardball.
Speaker 3: Good to see everybody. Appreciate everybody being here. Big night
Speaker 3: last night. Glad you all made it out of there
Speaker 3: without any damaged your houses. So big storm, but it
Speaker 3: did cool things off, it seems like right, and we
Speaker 3: had a good practice a little bit cooler. Appreciate the
Speaker 3: effort of our guys. A lot of kids out here today.
Speaker 3: We love that the kids are having fun. So what
Speaker 3: questions you have.
Speaker 4: A new fout against the Eagles with a T shirt or.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, right, right right, Well, yeah, I guess it
Speaker 3: is it always is that, right, it's always you want
Speaker 3: to we want to know. We got to talk about
Speaker 3: one day at a time, one play at a time,
Speaker 3: you know, So we'll go with that.
Speaker 5: John.
Speaker 6: We're gonna hear from Willy tagger today. Obviously he has
Speaker 6: any family history, you know with the horrorball. What has
Speaker 6: he brought to the definition to get in the running backsports?
Speaker 3: All right, Well, Willie, you know we go way back.
Speaker 3: You know, he's he's he's a Harriball brother. We're Taggart brothers,
Speaker 3: I guess. Uh. My dad and Willy are so close,
Speaker 3: you know, from the time when WILLI is a quarterback,
Speaker 3: through coaching and coaching with my dad. We'll coach with
Speaker 3: my dad, coaching with Jim. Just such a such a
Speaker 3: close relationship. My dad and Willie's dad are great friends.
Speaker 3: We're great friends. So heavin Willi here is a big,
Speaker 3: big advantage for us. He's a very established coach, you know,
Speaker 3: great offensive coach, great head coach, groundbreaking head coach in
Speaker 3: so many ways in college football. Now to be here
Speaker 3: with our guys, I know, our players love him. He's
Speaker 3: added so much to our staff. So uh, we're just
Speaker 3: thrilled that we were able to bring him on board
Speaker 3: and his family and Tanisha and all the kids and stuff.
Speaker 3: So uh, so we're rolling with Willie.
Speaker 6: I quite a few plays Maine down the tail today.
Speaker 6: Are you saying any knitting things that showed you that
Speaker 6: these guys are getting more comfortable.
Speaker 3: It's good to see the plays made downfield. We've been
Speaker 3: close a lot of times, as you know, throughout throughout camp,
Speaker 3: but they were completed and they were completed under heavily
Speaker 3: contested coverage too, So you see guys tracking the ball,
Speaker 3: running good angles on that route. We've got coaching points
Speaker 3: that they follow and thought they did a good job
Speaker 3: with that. So you always want to see big plays.
Speaker 6: I know what I know. We asked you every week,
Speaker 6: Bob about to office a lot of people about the
Speaker 6: frost of the running back room, the side of the build.
Speaker 3: Right well, I feel really good about the running back
Speaker 3: room as far as how they're practicey. I think every
Speaker 3: single guy is doing a really great job and stepping up.
Speaker 3: I mean you can go right through every single guy
Speaker 3: and they're all doing excellent out there. I love the
Speaker 3: way they're playing, so that's been exciting. Of course JK.
Speaker 3: That's in the balls in Jk's court. We have talked.
Speaker 3: We talked again yesterday. We had a great conversation. You know,
Speaker 3: I do expect him back very soon, but I don't
Speaker 3: have anything to say about it. It's all it's up
Speaker 3: to JK. So hopefully that'll happen soon.
Speaker 7: And this is looking very far ahead.
Speaker 6: But is there an issue with like what he didn't
Speaker 6: this what equity during this part of.
Speaker 8: The season season words?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I would want to talk about any
Speaker 3: specific player in that sense, but generally speaking, of course,
Speaker 3: you know, of course, generally speaking, you know, you want
Speaker 3: it to be a great player. You know, you need
Speaker 3: to put in the time and the effort and get
Speaker 3: with the team and and just get right, you know,
Speaker 3: And he wants to do that in his case. And
Speaker 3: that's why I kind of expect him back here pretty soon.
Speaker 6: Find like wings around the preseason to talk about the
Speaker 6: preseason win streak? You even know how many straight you wanted?
Speaker 8: Of course?
Speaker 3: Is it twenty three? Is all right?
Speaker 4: Dad?
Speaker 7: Is this something that you even bring up, like the
Speaker 7: young guys, do you even bring this up? Is this
Speaker 7: any kind of a talking point whatsoever?
Speaker 3: Now, it's like it's like it's like a it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, it's like it's like a no hitter, right,
Speaker 3: it's like a hitting streak. It's unspoken, you know till
Speaker 3: maybe after the game, you know, uh, but it's it's
Speaker 3: something you know, it's funny because I feel it's I'm
Speaker 3: in the biggest grand scheme of things. Okay, people have
Speaker 3: their opinions.
Speaker 4: And I get it.
Speaker 3: But you know, different things are important to different people.
Speaker 3: And I know that the guys who played in those games,
Speaker 3: the guys that made the plays to win those games
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter, because most of those games were
Speaker 3: won in the fourth quarter with guys making plays, right,
Speaker 3: they'll remember it. It's important to them for the rest
Speaker 3: of their life, and therefore it's important to me, you know.
Speaker 3: So it's meaningful in that sense. And you know, but
Speaker 3: we're playing a game. We have a lot of goals,
Speaker 3: a lot of things that we're trying to accomplish. It's
Speaker 3: not about that at all, not even about that per se.
Speaker 3: It's about becoming better as a football team, evaluating our
Speaker 3: players and each individual guy improving. So that's what we're
Speaker 3: looking for.
Speaker 6: You said, you said a couple of times that for
Speaker 6: gells how to clean playing from if you have almost
Speaker 6: hold them back sometimes rather than you know, because.
Speaker 9: I don't know, I think some things out of here
Speaker 9: every day, and he's not being kind to get better.
Speaker 6: And better and things.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's right on schedule, I know, not really,
Speaker 3: I mean I feel like he's just kind of pushing
Speaker 3: himself as he feels, and it's pretty much been almost
Speaker 3: full steam ahead, you know. Uh, the last couple of
Speaker 3: days has been his you know, most work and he's
Speaker 3: probably had his best days. So I think he's right
Speaker 3: on schedule. And he's just a worker. He likes football,
Speaker 3: he likes being around the guys, no different than the
Speaker 3: other guys. He's into it, you know, and you appreciate
Speaker 3: that I'm.
Speaker 1: Beating off his bath.
Speaker 10: Having the rampop and he's apology twit. You just reassuring
Speaker 10: as I've been on planning the schedule that you set
Speaker 10: for him, and also just reassured him.
Speaker 7: He is.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, you know, you go by what
Speaker 3: you see for sure. Bill Parcell said it. You know,
Speaker 3: he said, I don't go by what I remember. I
Speaker 3: go by what I see. And I think that's a
Speaker 3: good adage for a coach, uh in any sport, especially football.
Speaker 3: And so you want to see it and guys are doing.
Speaker 3: I see Melvin Gordon out there, he's working on his
Speaker 3: own extra or here. He's been around, he's been around,
Speaker 3: he's been at every practice, He's taken every single rep.
Speaker 3: Having a heck of a camp. So there's a lot
Speaker 3: of guys that you put in that category good for.
Speaker 6: What you've seen from him, are you You know, it's
Speaker 6: one thing to see him like for other team, but
Speaker 6: now that you've seen him a couple of weeks now
Speaker 6: in the practice field.
Speaker 4: Have been taken that h I agree.
Speaker 3: I think he's looked really good and I've seen What's
Speaker 3: interesting to me is I I feel like I've seen acceleration.
Speaker 3: You know, his ability to change, to change speed through
Speaker 3: the whole and accelerate, change the angle on a tackler.
Speaker 3: We'll see in the games. But I, you know, obviously
Speaker 3: he's a very talented player and he sure looks good
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 6: So I takes to ask me about party on the
Speaker 6: scene done for the season when you're.
Speaker 3: Putting somebody in that list that or it looks like it,
Speaker 3: you know, with a toe it's a toe surgery. I
Speaker 3: really I can't say exactly if it's a whole season
Speaker 3: or not, but but it's a pretty definitive toe surgery.
Speaker 1: Or thank you, thank you, that was hey, coach John Harball.
Speaker 2: We also talked with running back coach Willie Taggert, who's
Speaker 2: a new addition to the staff. This year. He talked
Speaker 2: about coming here to Baltimore and what his impressions are
Speaker 2: of this running back group.
Speaker 10: H Hardball that he works for. That he's been like
Speaker 10: working for John.
Speaker 5: It's been like working for Jack Harball all over. You know,
Speaker 5: it's the same way working for Jail. It was like
Speaker 5: working for Jack Harball.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: It's it's been great. You know, they all have different personalities.
Speaker 5: They all are great coaches and go about doing things
Speaker 5: their own way, and it's been it's been pretty cool
Speaker 5: to watch John and how he go about running running
Speaker 5: the organization, our team and our staff, and uh, it's
Speaker 5: been good. Now I can say I work for all
Speaker 5: three of them, and I can tell you all three
Speaker 5: of them are different, but they're the same, you know. So,
Speaker 5: uh it's been fun.
Speaker 11: Billy, What are you saying.
Speaker 6: From these years from running backs?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 6: I'll just Ja kas and out there in the chefs
Speaker 6: on one the guys.
Speaker 5: I've been really excited about all of the guys, you know,
Speaker 5: starting back in the springtime and going through the new
Speaker 5: offense and being really impressed on how how the guys
Speaker 5: are taking the time to learn the offense, you know,
Speaker 5: and they make my job easier when they come in
Speaker 5: and know exactly what to do, you know, and then y'
Speaker 5: all you have to coach him up on the little
Speaker 5: details of things. But our guys are pros. They come
Speaker 5: to work, to go to work every single day. Great
Speaker 5: group of young men and really excited. I mean I
Speaker 5: get excited every day I get to go in that
Speaker 5: meeting room because they bring it every day and they
Speaker 5: want to get better.
Speaker 6: Just's those guys, but they all should do in Simon,
Speaker 6: what do you what do you like about.
Speaker 1: Justine?
Speaker 5: Just He's a guy to just do things right. You know,
Speaker 5: he's gonna he's gonna be the first in the meeting,
Speaker 5: the last leave. He's gonna know everything he's supposed to do,
Speaker 5: and the people around him what he's supposed to do,
Speaker 5: and and he's gonna be there for the young guys
Speaker 5: to help them.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: Justin's been great. He's been a great pro, a great teammate.
Speaker 5: He's been great to coach. I really enjoy coaching him.
Speaker 5: He's a guy you can put in.
Speaker 4: You gotta worry about him knowing what to do. He's
Speaker 4: gonna know exactly what he needs to do.
Speaker 8: Really, he hasn't been putting.
Speaker 4: View those out.
Speaker 6: The relationship with the checks.
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's important to develop relationship with all
Speaker 5: the guys, you know, not just JK, but all of them.
Speaker 4: Get to know them.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I haven't worked with those guys before, coaching them before.
Speaker 5: And I think that's a big part of coaching this
Speaker 5: one is get to know them, get to know them
Speaker 5: on a personal level, and and for them to get
Speaker 5: to know me on a personal level. I think once
Speaker 5: we do that, then it's easy for me to coach
Speaker 5: them and it's easier for them to be coached by me.
Speaker 5: So that started way back when I got the job,
Speaker 5: you know, and and start that relationship. And we've been
Speaker 5: building that along the way. And Uh, like I said,
Speaker 5: I I enjoy every single one of the guys, JK included.
Speaker 5: And it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you one. I just experience it, not intruding, uh,
Speaker 6: not worried about class.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I gotta check my phone to see if it
Speaker 5: still works.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I don't have to be checking out all the time anymore.
Speaker 5: And I tell you that is different, you know, that
Speaker 5: is it's the first time I coached in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Been recruiting for so long, and really it is. It's
Speaker 5: different not looking at your phone, not texting and doing
Speaker 5: those things. I feel kind of like awkward a little bit,
Speaker 5: but it's it's it's nice to be able to coach football,
Speaker 5: you know, and and and that's what you're doing. You're
Speaker 5: coaching ball and getting those guys ready to go, and
Speaker 5: and to be a part of a great organization like
Speaker 5: the raven has just made it that much better.
Speaker 6: We got to be get come up out for the
Speaker 6: even drump to me foul.
Speaker 5: Or well again, I didn't know exactly what I was
Speaker 5: going to do, you know, and then I had some opportunities,
Speaker 5: had some opportunities in college, and uh, then this opportunity
Speaker 5: came with the Ravens and having an opportunity to work
Speaker 5: for John again it was hard hard for me to
Speaker 5: say no, you know, and and then being able to
Speaker 5: come work with John, I just looked at it as
Speaker 5: now I get I get an opportunity to be the
Speaker 5: assistant coach that I wanted for me. I can be
Speaker 5: that for coach harball and it's great.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: It's been thirteen years since I had my own room,
Speaker 5: you know, and being able to coach ball and be
Speaker 5: out there again so it's been fun being around there
Speaker 5: doing those little things.
Speaker 6: Again, well, good run back to Sleepers until a while.
Speaker 7: Let's kind of getting your sense from him, kind of
Speaker 7: a work points deploy as station his career.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's a young man that's hungry. He's hungry,
Speaker 4: he wanted help, you know.
Speaker 5: And and what's been great, great addition that he's brought
Speaker 5: some competition to that room, you know, but he's also
Speaker 5: brought him being a vet been here and been a pro,
Speaker 5: and teaching the young guys how to do those things,
Speaker 5: you know, and you can see it how you prepare,
Speaker 5: how he studies, and again he's been great from that standpoint,
Speaker 5: really helping the young guys out. And I had one
Speaker 5: of the young guys come to me and like, Coach,
Speaker 5: I see what you mean now about how to study
Speaker 5: and all. He spent some time with Mail, and Mail
Speaker 5: was teaching them different ways of how to learn the offense.
Speaker 5: And I thought that was I thought that was pretty
Speaker 5: cool because Coach Harbor always talked to our team about
Speaker 5: their worth and it comes in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 5: And for Mail to be able to do that to
Speaker 5: a rookie and and for the rookie to be excited
Speaker 5: about being coached up by a vet was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: That was running backs coach Willy Taggart. We also had
Speaker 2: a chance to talk with Gus Edwards. He is somebody
Speaker 2: who's been a bell cow running back for this offense
Speaker 2: at times throughout his career, and he talked about his
Speaker 2: mindset going into this season.
Speaker 10: The first two questions of the new offens how are
Speaker 10: you enjoying it?
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 9: We're shown a lot of fascists, got a lot to
Speaker 9: work on, But I think it's it's it's it's work.
Speaker 9: I mean, he's finding a lot of ways to get
Speaker 9: guys open, a lot of ways to spread the ball around,
Speaker 9: and I'm excited to see how everything plans out.
Speaker 10: You want for big years spread apart, and you have
Speaker 10: a great opportunity to getting lesser van field backs.
Speaker 9: And yeah, it's a great opportunity to see like some
Speaker 9: lighter box in the past, like like you guys are aware,
Speaker 9: we had to run through some tougher boxes. So great
Speaker 9: opportunity to get our running backs in some space, and
Speaker 9: I think we're gonna make the best out of it.
Speaker 9: He feels, yeah, I feel great. I feel great. I've
Speaker 9: been practicing every single day. Didn't have to pull back
Speaker 9: now once and I'm just building off of that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, as good as a fulk to be in that position,
Speaker 10: knowing how hard you worked over the last couple of
Speaker 10: years to.
Speaker 11: Get back to the sea.
Speaker 9: It's a it's a blessing for real. I had a
Speaker 9: lot of people around me that really helped me. Uh,
Speaker 9: shout out to the Raven Organization for keeping me you
Speaker 9: know what I mean around and just giving me all
Speaker 9: the support that I need. And uh, it's been tough,
Speaker 9: but I'm back and I'm happy and I'm excited to
Speaker 9: see what his ear brings, that's honestly, but ill to talk.
Speaker 6: About joy texts, what's shift discussion the whole station.
Speaker 9: I mean, I see him every day. He's in there,
Speaker 9: he's still working hard.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 9: I know he's gonna be ready because that's the type
Speaker 9: of guy he is.
Speaker 6: So yeah, he as one of routes out there.
Speaker 9: John Barball was bragging on your route running to the
Speaker 9: other day, like, you're excited to bear so show others
Speaker 9: backs up of their game potentially your x ya. I'm
Speaker 9: ready to do whatever this often allows me to do,
Speaker 9: you know, ready to make plays in different ways, and
Speaker 9: I feel like that's something I've always been able to
Speaker 9: do and and and this often is gonna it's gonna
Speaker 9: put me in that space to make those plays and
Speaker 9: get get open and checkdowns and stuff.
Speaker 6: Use last year, at this time of years, I don't
Speaker 6: certainly thinking about branding be out, how long it take?
Speaker 6: How you velop compared to truss? How you feel this
Speaker 6: time of year? You heard the last year's just not happening,
Speaker 6: that uncertaina oh it's night and day.
Speaker 9: At this time last year, I was probably questioning myself like, man,
Speaker 9: how how is it gonna play it out? And I
Speaker 9: mean it might even gonna be back this year, you
Speaker 9: know what I mean. But there was a lot of doubts.
Speaker 9: And this year I'm just I'm I'm I feel great
Speaker 9: in the position that I am right now, help flies
Speaker 9: and and I'm just ready to uh do what I
Speaker 9: can for my team.
Speaker 6: Forgar success.
Speaker 7: You know of flight off the bad once you started
Speaker 7: tow and now boards are you needed to see what
Speaker 7: you know?
Speaker 2: Where you are now?
Speaker 6: Now I'm being healthy hand.
Speaker 9: And then doctor, yeah, I think it's year six. I
Speaker 9: got a lot of experience under my belt and same
Speaker 9: year six, it seems like, Wow, it's time flashing. But
Speaker 9: I'm ready to have my best year. I'm ready to
Speaker 9: put it all together. I feel like I'm in a
Speaker 9: great position to do that. And and I'm I got
Speaker 9: a chip on my shoulder, and I just want to
Speaker 9: prove a lot of people wrong.
Speaker 6: People you can't come back and be better.
Speaker 9: I mean, I fought through a lot last year.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 9: It was a lot of times when I had to
Speaker 9: step back from the game, even during the season when
Speaker 9: I when I just a little Nixon and stuff. So
Speaker 9: this year, I feel like I just have so much
Speaker 9: to prove. And maybe it's just a it's an inner
Speaker 9: it's an inner thing.
Speaker 6: But still so you're a scout in the wood of
Speaker 6: Merton Good's best from hoping.
Speaker 11: Since he's been.
Speaker 9: He's been showing me a lot of flashes. He's catching
Speaker 9: the ball out of the backfield. He comes to work
Speaker 9: every single day. Uh this is yeah, Well I think
Speaker 9: I might be wrong, but he's bringing a lot of
Speaker 9: experience in the room, speaking up as a leader, and
Speaker 9: it's been great having him in the room.
Speaker 7: Just did you want to change your body at all?
Speaker 6: After you after rewiset to put yourself in the best
Speaker 6: of my bobs score.
Speaker 8: And just kind of pack here where you were the core.
Speaker 9: I'm just taking care of what I got to do
Speaker 9: in the training room, and I'm still in there every day,
Speaker 9: just making sure that everything is strong and everything is ready,
Speaker 9: and I'm in a great position and I want to
Speaker 9: keep building off of it.
Speaker 1: That was Gus Edwards.
Speaker 2: Also here is Justice Hill, who the Ravens re signed
Speaker 2: this offseason. It could be an important piece of this
Speaker 2: offense spring.
Speaker 6: You're probably taking more rapids running back than anyone. How
Speaker 6: do you think trying to get form through something.
Speaker 11: It's been a fun count just being out here learning
Speaker 11: new system, learning new system has been fun.
Speaker 8: It's like going to a new team.
Speaker 11: Man, it's been fun going out and just being able
Speaker 11: to process things and just getting a whole bunch of
Speaker 11: Reds men.
Speaker 8: It's been fun.
Speaker 6: Hocus like talk back. That's got a replications for involving
Speaker 6: in the backs. How much do you like that ass back?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 6: When you see that a possible over and I say
Speaker 6: that's getting better.
Speaker 5: Training?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean getting the ball ian hands as many
Speaker 11: ways as possible is always ideal. And so it's been
Speaker 11: funny coming out here with Monk and it's a different system,
Speaker 11: being able to do things outside and getting some space.
Speaker 8: I mean that's a running back dream. So it's been fun.
Speaker 6: You talked about that idea of space, Sam, It's no
Speaker 6: secret for running back last couple years have been running
Speaker 6: off against really crowded box from boxing thing.
Speaker 7: Just that idea.
Speaker 6: You feel like that's something that maybe you can feature
Speaker 6: your skill set a little more than maybe in the past.
Speaker 8: I mean definitely.
Speaker 11: I mean at running back, you want to be able
Speaker 11: to do it all. And so if it's a power game,
Speaker 11: I want to be able to do that. But then
Speaker 11: if coach wants us to be in space and do
Speaker 11: things out there too, I want to be able to
Speaker 11: do that. And so I'm just honing it in onto
Speaker 11: details every single day, trying to stack and get better.
Speaker 8: I mean, there's a running back dream out here.
Speaker 10: So because you're always being called a.
Speaker 6: Lot of teeth growing a back and you don't seem.
Speaker 3: To be called out their life, you know, worry about.
Speaker 11: How do you take that of put and they look
Speaker 11: you know, opportunity always comes, and whenever it's my opportunity,
Speaker 11: I'm always be ready.
Speaker 8: And so every single day, it doesn't matter who's in
Speaker 8: front who's behind.
Speaker 11: I just take it one day at a time, and
Speaker 11: you know, whenever it's my time, my time will be
Speaker 11: here to keep the job.
Speaker 4: It's the long time.
Speaker 6: How much interact with during this from your courts here, meetings,
Speaker 6: and how much can you tell how much it's looking
Speaker 6: to get backed out the man.
Speaker 8: We're all excited to get JK. Bick out here and
Speaker 8: it needs a playmaker.
Speaker 11: And now, yeah, we talk every single day and whenever
Speaker 11: things get ready for him, he'll be right back out here.
Speaker 11: So until then minute, we're out here learning and having
Speaker 11: fun every single day. We got a whole bunch of
Speaker 11: guys in the room and it's fun to see everybody
Speaker 11: just kind of show what they can do.
Speaker 6: So that's I'm hoping you find people in your life
Speaker 6: asking you what's going on?
Speaker 3: You say that a the time you find when your
Speaker 3: life asking what's going off that situation because you're practicing need.
Speaker 8: To project da not really at all. I mean we're
Speaker 8: just coming in and work.
Speaker 6: So getting your impression of Willie Taggers when you've been a.
Speaker 11: Box it brings a good energy, uh, super super cool
Speaker 11: guy and as a as a running back and being
Speaker 11: in a room, he always want that chemistry and so
Speaker 11: he helps build that camaraderie with all of us, and
Speaker 11: so it's been fun.
Speaker 8: Man. He's a good dude, a good coach, and excited
Speaker 8: to play for him.
Speaker 1: That was Justice Hill.
Speaker 2: And last year we had a chance to hear from
Speaker 2: running back Melvin Gordon. This is a former Pro Bowl
Speaker 2: running back who's been highly productive over the course of
Speaker 2: his career. He joined the Ravens during training camp, and
Speaker 2: he talked about his early impressions of life in Baltimore.
Speaker 6: Team and offense.
Speaker 4: For everybody, how do you think you know camp is
Speaker 4: gone for it's going good? I mean, you know, obviously
Speaker 4: the first couple of weeks, you know, I wasn't here
Speaker 4: for mini camping and OTAs and whatnot, and so, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, I kind of got the playbook a little late.
Speaker 4: But it's coming along. I'm starting to feel a little
Speaker 4: more comfortable, starting to play a little faster. So you know,
Speaker 4: he coach throwing some new stuff at us every day,
Speaker 4: so uh, you know, he keeping us on our toes.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's it's good for us though. But
Speaker 4: you know, right now I'm feeling good. Could be better
Speaker 4: to always.
Speaker 6: Why didn't you think this was a good opportunity for it.
Speaker 4: It's just a great organization, you know, and uh, you
Speaker 4: know that's just kind of what I want, uh to
Speaker 4: be a part of. You know, I I got to
Speaker 4: go to Kansas City and I kind of seen what
Speaker 4: a great organization was. You know, what comes with a
Speaker 4: great organization, So you know, rings come with with with
Speaker 4: good organizations. So you know, this this style of offense
Speaker 4: kind of fit what I do always have since I've
Speaker 4: been at Wisconsin. You know, you only hear, you know,
Speaker 4: great things about this organization around the league. So you know,
Speaker 4: I just thought it was a great opportunity just coming
Speaker 4: here and show what I could do.
Speaker 10: Thinking your impressions of Todd Monkins offense so far, I.
Speaker 4: Think it's good.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: Uh you know, we really won't know until we go
Speaker 4: out there. You know, we go out there and and
Speaker 4: and show what we can do, you know, this weekend
Speaker 4: and and you know later on and so forth. But uh,
Speaker 4: you know, right now, just going up against our defense, Uh,
Speaker 4: you know, I think we've been doing pretty good. We
Speaker 4: got a really great defense, I feel like, and uh,
Speaker 4: you know, we we move the ball at times against them,
Speaker 4: and you know, we go back and forth Uh. So,
Speaker 4: you know I think, uh, I think coach has done
Speaker 4: a good job with we're putting plays together for us
Speaker 4: and and putting guys in positions to win.
Speaker 10: Ultimately, it's the coach's decision of who plays and doesn't
Speaker 10: the preseason.
Speaker 9: But if you had to what you.
Speaker 4: Want to be out there, it's it's the coach's called, man,
Speaker 4: you know, it's you could look at it either way.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't really know how you know, coach
Speaker 4: coach do it here, but you know how every do
Speaker 4: it will be ready for it. So that's that.
Speaker 7: When running backs obviously pick Moreton's probably than any other
Speaker 7: position I've just seen dream fear.
Speaker 6: I mean, how does your body feel?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I feel good. Man. I've always shared
Speaker 4: the ball really, you know, since since high school. Really,
Speaker 4: you know. In high school, I shared the ball with
Speaker 4: vont Jackson he went to Wisconsin. I shared it with
Speaker 4: money Ball, shared it with James White. I had that
Speaker 4: one year where I played by myself when I got
Speaker 4: to you know, the Chargers. My first year, I shared
Speaker 4: it with Danny Woodhead. Second year, I got to do
Speaker 4: it by myself because everyone got hurt. Third year, Austin
Speaker 4: Eckler had that for two years, and then I went
Speaker 4: over there Philip Lindsay and then after that Javonte for
Speaker 4: two years. So you know, I've been blessed and lucky
Speaker 4: to have a great running mate with me thus far,
Speaker 4: and it's kind of it's kind of helped me. I think.
Speaker 4: I think it helped me out a lot. So my
Speaker 4: body feels good. You know, I definitely don't feel twenty one,
Speaker 4: but I still feel good for the most part.
Speaker 6: Never with your impressions of Lamar being able to be out.
Speaker 4: There with him, well I didn't really need to see,
Speaker 4: you know anything Differently I witnessed at first hand and
Speaker 4: being across from him when I was with the Chargers,
Speaker 4: I was just like, this dude is the.
Speaker 8: Dude is a freak.
Speaker 4: We had to bring in an extra dB as a
Speaker 4: linebacker to try to stop him for what he do. So, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, obviously running the ball is what he do,
Speaker 4: but uh, he can make some great throws too, So uh,
Speaker 4: you know, that's been cool to see up close. So
Speaker 4: I'm excited to see what he do in this new offense.
Speaker 7: Smoking A lot of vetter, a lot of veteran running
Speaker 7: backs have just kind of hoisted out about how they
Speaker 7: don't feel that the position is being as much respect
Speaker 7: and maybe as financially as much respect as other positions.
Speaker 7: How what's kind of your stance?
Speaker 4: Now, we just got to go out and play.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: At the end of the day, I think, you know,
Speaker 4: the talking and and this and that is is not
Speaker 4: gonna get anything done. I think we just have to shine,
Speaker 4: you know, in the brightest moments. You know, when we
Speaker 4: get to the playoffs. You know, the backs that are
Speaker 4: on that team got to take initiative to be like,
Speaker 4: you know what, I'm gonna take over, and I think
Speaker 4: that's when things will start changing.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: At this point, it's tough. You know, it's the league
Speaker 4: is changing, you know, and it sucks to say, uh,
Speaker 4: it's a passing league and uh, but you still need
Speaker 4: a great run game. Let's not let's not let's not
Speaker 4: get away from that. But you know, I think for
Speaker 4: us to really get changed, because the CB I don't
Speaker 4: think changed for what another what four or five years
Speaker 4: or something like that, So we kind of screwed. I
Speaker 4: feel like, uh, for the next couple of years. The
Speaker 4: only thing we could do is just kind of stack
Speaker 4: it and just ball out. You know, we got some
Speaker 4: great backs on on every team. I feel like that
Speaker 4: can that can do that. So you know, it's challenged
Speaker 4: out to us.
Speaker 6: Obviously a story to hearing that that chick has off
Speaker 6: the practicing. You've been around one time, You've seen a
Speaker 6: lot of different situations. What's your perspective?
Speaker 4: Lowns, I really don't have one. You know, how he
Speaker 4: feels towards what he has to do is on him.
Speaker 4: You know, everybody's situation is different. You know, I dealt
Speaker 4: with the same thing. I had a lot going on.
Speaker 4: I can't tell you what he's thinking, how he's going
Speaker 4: about it, but you know I do know. Uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I know what type of player he is. I've watched
Speaker 4: film on him. He's a great player. So when he
Speaker 4: come out, he's not gonna do nothing but help the
Speaker 4: team and better us. And uh, you know, when he's
Speaker 4: out here, it's gonna be open arms. We're gonna be
Speaker 4: ready for him to to make plays and do what
Speaker 4: he do. He's a playmaker.
Speaker 8: What can you guys do as a room to not
Speaker 8: let that become a distract?
Speaker 4: Oh, we just gotta go here and do what we
Speaker 4: gotta do. Man, You know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: we just gotta go out here and help the team
Speaker 4: at the end of the day. That's that's what it's about,
Speaker 4: you know. You know, like I said, when he comes back,
Speaker 4: you know, whenever that may be, we're gonna embrace them,
Speaker 4: the team embrace them. I think he got a lot
Speaker 4: of respect around the locker room, you know, me just
Speaker 4: being new to the locker room and seeing how guys
Speaker 4: interact with him. You know, there's no there's no bitter
Speaker 4: feelings towards anything. I think the guys love him in
Speaker 4: the locker room and he has a presence there, so
Speaker 4: you know, we know what he what he can do,
Speaker 4: but we know what we need to do too, as
Speaker 4: well as a running back room, and we're all looking
Speaker 4: out for one another, and we're just gonna go out there.
Speaker 4: We put our best before. You know, we want to
Speaker 4: shine too, to.
Speaker 8: See is that something to get done throughout her here
Speaker 8: or kind a kind of a richet?
Speaker 4: Uh nah, I've been doing that my whole career, man.
Speaker 4: I just you know, I just want to stay on
Speaker 4: top of my game. I dropped the pass out here,
Speaker 4: so I went and got on the drugs. I was
Speaker 4: a little pissed about that. But anything I feel like
Speaker 4: I lack or something, or I feel like I need
Speaker 4: to get better at you know, that's what the extra
Speaker 4: practice is for. At the end, they give us a
Speaker 4: little time to do a little something, so I've always
Speaker 4: done it. I hate to be unprepared. So, like I said,
Speaker 4: if anything I feel like I need to address that,
Speaker 4: I felt like I lacked on in practice, I'll get
Speaker 4: it after you.
Speaker 2: That was running back Melvin Gordon. You also heard from
Speaker 2: Gus Edwards, Justice Hill, Willie Taggart, and John Harbaugh. Now,
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