1 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 1: It's been really tough just getting you know, different injuries 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: each here. Every time I started to get something going 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: in one of the seasons and injury will come along. 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: Never kind of expresses like the same confidence. They think 5 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: I can do great things. I just gotta stay healthy. 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: He thought I was like six ft three when he 7 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 1: watched my highlight tape and then he saw me in person. 8 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: He was like, this is camping era. Welcome into the 9 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: lounge for a win and get in episode. Yeah, this 10 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: is where you want to be. Well, obviously you know 11 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: of it, you're about to be in. But there's a 12 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: lot of teams that would be happy to be in 13 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: the situation where it's a win. Again, in situation in 14 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: Week seventeen, you're at home, you're playing against team you've 15 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: already beaten this year as a division rival. Should be 16 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: a good atmosphere Sunday. So look, the Ravens have been 17 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: in the situation before. Most recent time was in two 18 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,559 Speaker 1: thousand fourteen, Week seventeen home against the Browns. That game 19 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: one was a little closer cover for a little tight. 20 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: It has a lead in the fourth quarter May the 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: fourth quarter the Browns were winning. Yeah, if you remember 22 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: Tory Smith had a big catch down the sidelines and 23 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: I came back with the touchdown. I think next play, 24 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,559 Speaker 1: yeah hit him. It was quick, like it flipped quick. 25 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: But still, let's hope we're not in that situation. I 26 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: don't want to have to be on NFL dot Com 27 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: being like, what's that Titan score? What's the Bill score 28 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: right now? Like updating it every thirty seconds. Well, the 29 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: key there is, at the end of the day, the 30 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: Ravens won the game. So that's that's all that matters. 31 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, Raves gonna go out 32 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: there and win the game. And so it's gonna be 33 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: an exciting week. Yeah, and so we brought in a 34 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 1: guy who come off a big week. He was coming 35 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: off a big weekend. Hey, you could have a big 36 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: week again this week. Michael Camponaro, if you remember, caught 37 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: a big touchdown to help the Ravens beat the Colts 38 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: in another tight rope walk there. Uh so, Mike, you know, 39 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: kind of hit the nation with this meet celebration. We're 40 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: gonna ask him about that. But before we get to that, 41 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: you gotta read the newest sponsor here. Yeah. Well, CSX 42 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: is our game day sponsor for this week's regular season 43 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: finale at Empty Bag Stadium, and approximately every three hours 44 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: in the United States, either a vehicle or a pedestrian 45 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: is involved in a collision with a train. So this 46 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: is not, you know, a joking matter. So stay a 47 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: lort around railroad tracks. We don't want anybody texting or 48 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: headphones or have any other distractions that would prevent you 49 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 1: from hearing an approaching train. And the CSX would like 50 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: to remind Ravens fans that the only freight trains on 51 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: game days, they're all outside the stadium. They can come 52 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: from any direction, at any time and on any track, 53 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: So please be safe around the tracks around Empty Bag Stadium. 54 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 1: So look, yeah, you're listening, you're listening to Lounge. Don't 55 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 1: do it around the tracks, yes, exactly, do it in 56 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: your car on your way to the game, you know, 57 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: but once you hit the parking lot, once you stop 58 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: the car and you're walking to the stadium, we don't 59 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: need you to listen that want to get in, you 60 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: can plug back in. We love our listeners and we 61 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: love you so much. We don't want to see you 62 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: get whacked by a train. Yes, So with that said, 63 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: let's move into our interview with Michael Campanero, Like we 64 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: just grabbed you out of the cafe where you were 65 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 1: having some breakfast with Joe and Matt Scura and somebody else. 66 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: Who else is there? Luke Blanco and Luke Blanco? Right? 67 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: And you know, did you tell Joe that you were 68 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: coming on the pod with us? No? I didn't tell him. 69 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: You didn't him, because yesterday I asked him if he 70 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: come on the pod, and he turned me down? Right, 71 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: So then, so then we asked you if you come 72 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: on the pods. So I just I just teached me. 73 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,399 Speaker 1: I said, see, Joe, what happens when you turn us down? 74 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: Now we got the B list celebrities. You should have 75 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: told him, that's true. I should have been like, it 76 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: was upgrade Dad. You're right, I blew it, And you're right, 77 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: I blew it. You had to set up on a 78 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: te right there. Camara's bolling up right now, And you said, Joe, 79 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: all right, Joe, he turned us down. We went ahead, 80 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: you know, fall up wards. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You booked 81 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: a bigger guests. Joe was acting it's too big time 82 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: for the podcast. Yeah, that's right, that's right. So funny, 83 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: it's a little shot across. You know, it's a little 84 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: chin music for Joe. Know, you gotta come on the pod. 85 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: So you know you are kind of blowing up that 86 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: we joke about it, but you really after the game 87 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: against the Colts, so national televised game, you get in 88 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: the end zone, first receiving touchdown to the season, and 89 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: then you do the little celebration, right, So what do 90 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: you call that celebration? Um, it's just a game. I 91 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, it's a circle game. It's a 92 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: circle game. But we we've played around here for all 93 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: year long, so I don't know what you call. But 94 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: people have been calling the circle game. Um, you're just 95 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: trying to get people to look give him some punches. 96 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: It's turned into some other things, uh, you know, around 97 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: the locker room and just around like the country. I've 98 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: seen people doing different stuff. But it was it was funny. 99 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: Guys were cracking up on on the team. They didn't 100 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 1: think I was gonna do it. I didn't tell anyone 101 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: about it, so what I did, everyone was dying laughing. 102 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: Jensen kind of sold it to the canvas still. Yeah, yeah, 103 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: he went along with that. Chris Moore was funny too. Yeah. Yeah, 104 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: So so you also got me on it, as well 105 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: as a lot of people around the country here on 106 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: the podcast. I wanted to give you your shot. You get, 107 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 1: you get to punch me in the arm, I get 108 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: too munches. Don't hurt your hands on him. Yeah, but 109 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 1: but you know I did get you in the locker 110 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 1: room afterwards. Yeah, I was interviewing him. So I'm interviewing 111 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: one other you want to get you want to return 112 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: the favorite again. I don't want to hurt him, you know. 113 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: I know I've been hitting the weights hard, so you 114 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: know what't be a good look hard, might be kind 115 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: of piste. Yeah, um, but I did get you in 116 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: the locker room, did I not? Yeah, that's everyone's been 117 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: doing that to me now, everywhere everywhere I go, people 118 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: are doing that to me. So it's uh, he's starting 119 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: to get a little annoying. Wants to get retributions. I'm 120 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: glad we could add to that. So what's it like 121 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: when you come in from a game like that and 122 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: you look pick up your phone for the first time, Like, 123 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: how many texts calls are we talking? Um? I had 124 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: about my brother, asked me. I had about three texts 125 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: and then I didn't have too many calls. People don't 126 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: really call it just an attacks, but it was. It 127 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: was funny. It was just tons of people like uh, 128 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: sending photos of of like that because they were watching 129 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: the game obviously with their families and it was over holiday, 130 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 1: so people are just saying you got me, you got us, 131 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: and it was it was pretty funny. But yeah, a 132 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 1: ton of people were hitting me up. And then my 133 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: social media mentions were just nuts because um it kind 134 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: of went viral with barstool and World Star things like that, 135 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: so it was cool. It was it was a good 136 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: celebration just to get like the audience involved and it 137 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: went well how many how many followers do you think 138 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: you picked up to them? I don't know. I mean, 139 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: I just it keeps going up, but definitely a few thousand, Yeah, 140 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: I have been going up. So basically just by that 141 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: you have more followers than character he was already. It's 142 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: not like you know, he's already I was saying just 143 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: that more followers than we've ever had exactly, So it's 144 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: in all serious. There's no seriousness. I mean, what is 145 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 1: that kind of moment? You know this we want to 146 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: talk a little bit about your story, you know, as 147 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: you're on the pot here, but you know that play, 148 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: I feel like that's probably something that you felt like 149 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: it's a long time coming. You know, you hadn't had 150 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: you had a farm return touchdown earlier this year, but 151 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: and had a receiving touchdown since Workie year. Um is there? 152 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: You know? Is that something that's kind of going through 153 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: your mind in that moment of all that it kind 154 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: of took to get back to that point? Uh? I don't. 155 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: I don't think you know, right in the moment, I 156 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: was thinking that, but I was just out there playing, 157 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: just having fun. But you know, you go back after 158 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: the game and you kind of look at just you know, 159 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: where I've where I've been, and where I'm at now, 160 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: you definitely think about things like that. Um, I'm just 161 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: happy just to have the opportunity to be out there 162 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: playing and just making a you know, impact on the offense. 163 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: And it was just it was a big play in 164 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: the game just to get us on the board. So 165 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: it was it was exciting. How difficult has that been 166 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: for you? Because obviously when you were first drafted here, 167 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people said, even just through practice, 168 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: we were like, mane, this do you play like you know, 169 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: I remember teammates on the bench being like, kipping here, 170 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: you can't come room like all this stuff, and we 171 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: all saw the potential there and then just injuries kind 172 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: of derailed things, you know. I mean, this is your 173 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: first healthy year. Everything's been great, sixteen games this year, 174 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: been healthy the whole way. But how how difficult has 175 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: it been for you to withstand all that stuff? Yeah, 176 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: it's it's been tough. I mean it's it's it's been 177 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: really tough just getting you know, different injuries each year. Um. 178 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: I feel like every every time I started to get 179 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: something going in one of the seasons and injury will 180 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: come along and kinda you know, just sidetrack me. But um, 181 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: and then it's as hard to you know, once you 182 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: are healthy, Um, there's more guys you gotta compete with. 183 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: You know sometimes UM like they bring in like a 184 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: j every Maclin where you know you gotta you gotta 185 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: sit behind and and just try and just fight for opportunity. So, UM, 186 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: it's it's been tough. But you can ask the coaches. 187 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: You know, my confidence has stayed there and UM, players 188 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: have have helped me out, Coaches helped me out. Um, 189 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: just staying ready for my opportunity and just continue to 190 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: get better, keep practicing UM and just way and for 191 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 1: opportunities like this to help out the team and go 192 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: out there and make some plays, make a name for myself. 193 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: You know when you say what what it felt like? 194 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 1: Whenever something started kind of good started to happen, then 195 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: there was like a setback. The one that kind of 196 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: really sticks in my mind in that regardless of Steelers game, 197 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: you have that play the end of around you took 198 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:19,719 Speaker 1: a couple of guys dive into the end zone and 199 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: then you broke your back that game, Yeah whatever, you 200 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: blow your back, right, and so then you had to 201 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: go on into the reserve from there. And that was 202 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: the one because I think that season it would been 203 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: kind of a struggle to get things going offensively, and 204 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: it was like, all right, let's get this guy to 205 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: the ball here and things can happen. When you're going 206 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: through that, I mean, how do you keep from saying 207 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: like it's maybe it's just not gonna work out. Yeah, 208 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 1: it's tough of that. The high of that game just 209 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: just scoring a TV like I think it was a 210 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: Thursday night game, and then ended up you know, leaving 211 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: the stadium in a wheelchair. Was it was terrible? And um, 212 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: I think like a week or two goes buy and 213 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: you're you're feeling pretty down and depressed about things. But um, 214 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: once you start working out again and rehabbing, um, you 215 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: kind of just start looking forward to like your goal 216 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: and the next thing. Um you start thinking about how 217 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:09,719 Speaker 1: you're gonna get back and how you're gonna do. So 218 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: I'm thankful to have a good support system with my 219 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: family and friends. Uh so they always keep me in 220 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: and um, this is my goal. I mean, I want 221 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: to play and do big things and and kind of 222 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: make a name for myself. So I'm always just working 223 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: towards that. Who is it would you say, like in 224 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: the coaching staff, who is your biggest advocate? You know, 225 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: because a lot of guys, I feel like, who go 226 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: through that many injuries or whatnot? And and it's not 227 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: like you had a chance even to be on the 228 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: field enough to really show what you could do just 229 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 1: on the practice field. They would have been like, all right, 230 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 1: we're moving on for this guy, you know what I mean? 231 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: Like who who in the coaching staff or front office 232 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: has your back stands on the table. I don't know, 233 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: I really don't know who. I mean. Yeah, I mean 234 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: I've I've had talks with with so many people around 235 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: the organization from like management standpoint and coaches, UM, and 236 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: everyone kind of expresses like the same confidence. They think 237 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: I can do great things. I just gotta stay healthy 238 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: and I've I've been able to do that this year 239 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: and I'm starting to get some more opportunities. So UM, 240 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: hoping to prove everyone right around here. I mean coach 241 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 1: Harves definitely has confidence in me, like he he's always 242 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: telling me, UM, he thinks I can do great things 243 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: for the team and myself. So UM, I know he 244 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: definitely thinks I can help out just make plays. But 245 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: coach Ingram is also done. UM just just wonders in 246 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: my career, just just mindset wise and confidence level wise. 247 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: I mean, he played in the league forever and he's 248 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: seen players like me who have gone through some injury 249 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: problems early on and um that can play and has 250 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: stuck with it and some guys who haven't. UM, so 251 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: he's been great to lean on. I mean, you bring 252 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: that up, it kind of reminds me of Uh, you know, 253 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: Edelman went through some injury stuff and you know, even 254 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: I think West Folker has the injury stuff. He was 255 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: kind of a slow start in his career. To you 256 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: guys that I know, even when we drafted you, Eric 257 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: to Cosa brought up those names. Um, so has it 258 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: helped you at all to be able to look at 259 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: their careers and say, man, these are two guys just 260 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: like me, went through slow starts, but look at where 261 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: they are now. Yeah. Absolutely, It's not just those two guys. 262 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,199 Speaker 1: To me, there's tons of guys that multiple positions, but um, 263 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: those are two guys who are similar to my playing style, 264 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: have gone through the same same kind of just issues 265 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: and uh, they've just been able to figure out their 266 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: bodies and then you know, get a little lucky and 267 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: go through a nice you know, uh time of their 268 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: career where they've just been healthy and be able to 269 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: you know, show their kind of their skills. So what 270 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,320 Speaker 1: did you figure out this year? How have you been 271 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 1: able to stay healthy? Um? I don't know. I mean 272 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: I think it's started the off season. Um, you know 273 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: I had something o t S but that was like 274 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: super fluke um had nothing really to do with some 275 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: of my previous injuries with like soft tissue stuff. But 276 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:52,599 Speaker 1: I think just working with Steve our new strength guy. Um, 277 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: there was a there was a guy guy within the offseason, 278 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: like a physical therapist who we kind of just we 279 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: started working on different things, different exercises, things like that. 280 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: I think really helped my body and just being able 281 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: to um do stuff in my lower back and hammies 282 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: and glues and things like that. So I've kind of 283 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: eliminated those issues I've had in the past. So I 284 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: got I want to go back a little bit in 285 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: your history. Obviously, you're the local kid river Hill High School. 286 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:19,679 Speaker 1: I got to cover you when you were in high 287 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: school when I was working at the Washington Post. I 288 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: think I cast a vote for you for player of 289 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: the Year. Yeah, yeah, one it was me and uh 290 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 1: I think, yeah it was Defenda. Yeah, so it was. 291 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: I mean, you were a beasts in high school running back. 292 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 1: He did a little quarterback too, didn't you? Mostly running back, 293 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: running bag receiver defense. Yeah. Yeah. Terence West always talks 294 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: about about how how beast like. So Terence West, he 295 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: never saw me in high school until we went to 296 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: Notre Dame this junior day and he always tells the story, 297 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: you guys in the locker room, he thought I was 298 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: like six ft three my highlight tape and then he 299 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: saw me in person. He was like, this is camping arrow, 300 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: Like I thought he was like six three. So we 301 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: joke around about that all the time. That's great, But yeah, 302 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: so what is it like, you know, going to your 303 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: hometown team. I mean, you literally went to high school 304 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: like ten minutes from this facility. How what are the 305 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: advantages of that and what are the disadvantages of playing 306 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: so close to him? I think like, it's it's been awesome, 307 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: like since I've been drafted here and it's been awesome, 308 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: Like I have tons of family and friends in the 309 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: area still, uh, my girlfriend and her family are in 310 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: the area, So it's it's worked out great just being 311 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: drafted back home. I would say a disadvantage is kind 312 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: of like everybody knows you, so you're gonna get more 313 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: attention than your normal seventh round pick. We get um 314 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: and more expectations. But I don't it doesn't really mind. 315 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: I don't mind it. It's it's been great and just 316 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: I've been playing at the stadium since peewee ball, Like 317 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: we played championship games there and then we're able to 318 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: play some state championships there in high school so it's 319 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: cool every time I take that field. Just you know 320 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: where I've come to my football career since being in 321 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: seventh grade playing here until now, well you got drafted here. 322 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 1: I mean every player talks about all I thought I 323 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: could have gone to the could go to this team 324 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: or that, and a lot of that ends up not 325 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: being the case. But did you think that this was 326 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: a realistic opportunity. And obviously I'm sure you were excited 327 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: about the possibility of playing for your hometown team and 328 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 1: all that, but were you going through that process taking like, 329 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: I really think it could be the Ravens and I 330 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: hope that's the case. I did. I thought this would Uh, 331 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: I had a chance of coming here. Um, not like 332 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: not the biggest because I felt like a few other 333 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: teams were showing me way more interest and texting me 334 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: throughout like the draft, and I thought I was gonna 335 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: get picked before the Ravens would pick a receiver. Um. 336 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: And then as we got to the sixth round and 337 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: they picked Keith Winning, I was like, oh, I'm not 338 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: going to Ravens because I was their last pick they had. 339 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: So then I was just hoping somebody would pick me. 340 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: I got anybody anybody. But then Ozzy called to their 341 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: trade back in the draft, which was cool. So that 342 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: was that was a great day. That takes a lot 343 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: for us to like trade future draft picks. I mean 344 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: that says something. And then to come back in and 345 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: get you. It's true, especially being here, I know how 346 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: how much they value the draft picks here. And so 347 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: back to the hometown thing. Do you like when you 348 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: become a football and the NFL player, do you have 349 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: to say goodbye to a lot of your childhood friends, 350 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: like your high school friends, because you're you're kind of 351 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: turning a new page in your life. You know, most 352 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: guys when they leave for college and then they go pros, 353 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: like you know, they kind of leave that stuff behind, 354 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like that was high school 355 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: or whatever. Your high school friends are probably all around 356 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: here now. They probably want you to pay for every dinner. 357 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: You know, how does that work? Uh? Honestly, I do 358 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 1: have a lot of high school buddies still around, but 359 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: a lot of my closest ones have been uh they 360 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: they they're not in there. You know, there are other 361 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: places working doing other things. But um, I think like 362 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: my last closest high school buddy just moved to Nashville, 363 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: but we used to. I mean we it was great. 364 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: We would go out all the time, hang out. Um, 365 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: it was fun being back home. But uh, it's it's 366 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 1: been fun. I mean I got every I go out 367 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,119 Speaker 1: all the time with people that I've known since i 368 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: was young, and um, you know, it's it's cool having 369 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 1: guys on the team that I'm friends with. I go 370 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 1: out with guys I grew up with going out with, 371 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: so it's been a blast. And my brothers are here, 372 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: so we always hang out and do stuff to bring 373 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 1: a full circle. You know, we started with this by 374 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: asking you about Joe. You're talking about going out with 375 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 1: some guys on the team. I know, typically on the road, 376 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: whenever see you guys going out, you and Joe and 377 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: a few other guys with Dennis Is on the team, 378 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: you've got to have a good going out with Joe's 379 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,640 Speaker 1: story because he's like he just put puts on his persona. 380 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: You know, it's super chill and all that, but you've 381 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 1: got to have a good one from the We're gonna 382 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: put you on the spot here. I'm trying to think, 383 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of on the heads up on this, Yeah, 384 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: you should have you give me another question, and I 385 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 1: was it here and think about one. Yeah, all right, 386 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: all right then tell us, well do you think about that? 387 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: Tell us who cares about their hair more, Joe or Dennis. 388 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: I'll definitely go Dennis. Yeah, Dennis. Then this cares the 389 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: most about I got a good story about going out 390 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:23,640 Speaker 1: with Joe. It's more about Dennis than Joe. Uh. Yeah. 391 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 1: So we're so we're out eating dinner. We were downtown 392 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: and um, a group of older women had to be 393 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: fifties sixties. Uh, they had a little too much of drinking. 394 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: And any time you got with with Joe or Dennis, 395 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 1: they're just I mean they're both six six, like they're 396 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: in they're they're recognizable faces. So they don't so they 397 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: come they come up to the table, and first they're 398 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: standing there asking for photos and stuff and like that's 399 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: normal usually. And then one of the ladies sits down, 400 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,199 Speaker 1: sits down next to Joe and starts talking and and 401 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 1: then Dennis. You could just see, like Dennis hates when 402 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,200 Speaker 1: he's eating dinner and we just got our food. It's 403 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: and and he yeah, it's pretty rude. So he gets 404 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: he gets so mad. So then then like the other ladies. Like, 405 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 1: then another lady comes around, like sits down next to Dennis, 406 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: and then the two sit down, like they sit down 407 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: at the table while we're eating. Then yeah, and they 408 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: started talking and Dennis is he's he's so mad. At 409 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: this point, I'm cracking up because like I'm in the 410 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: middle and I'm just like hitting their legs, like messing 411 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 1: with them. And it gets to the point where Dennis, 412 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: like the ladies talking to Dennis, and Dennis isn't even responding. 413 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 1: He's just like this like blank face, not like responding 414 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 1: to like anything she's saying. He's just so pissed, like 415 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: he just wants to eat his food. And Joe, like 416 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: me and Joe were being good sports about it, like 417 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: trying to get them. We're being we're trying to get 418 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 1: them to get up and leave while we eat. But 419 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: Dennis wasn't having at all, and I was cracking up phenomenal. 420 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 1: Dennis hasn't put up with that at all. It was 421 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: pretty bad that our food just got there. We were 422 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: trying to eat, right, What is what is Joe when 423 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 1: when he's just out in the public sphere, like, are 424 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 1: you kind of amazed at how low key he is 425 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 1: or receptive he is that stuff or what's he like? Now? 426 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: He's good. I mean anyone who wants to uh get 427 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 1: an autograph, get a photo, he's he's good with them. Um, 428 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: He's not like some other athletes you hear about that 429 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: are like two big time to give a take a 430 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: quick minute and give a photo and stuff. It's it's 431 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,679 Speaker 1: good though. We uh we try and we'll get like 432 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,360 Speaker 1: a private room or something when we go to bigger places, 433 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,120 Speaker 1: just so he doesn't get bombarded. I went to Wegman's 434 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: with him one time and it was the biggest mistake ever. 435 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: We went to Wegman's to get like, uh just some food, 436 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 1: and like they got like a burger spot, a sushi spot, 437 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 1: and it was the biggest mistake ever. Like and he 438 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I've never been to a grocery store 439 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: in Maryland, likes for that reasons, Like my wife always 440 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: goes for this reason. I was like, this is awful. 441 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: It was bad. Like the people who are working at 442 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: Wegman's were like like leaving their responsibility for their job 443 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: and running over. I mean, it was pretty bad. I 444 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: gotta ask you about one more Joe story before we 445 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 1: let you go. When he signed his most recent contract extension, 446 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: he told the story that he walked into the racquetball 447 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: courts or basketball basketball courtsball courts, and he showed you 448 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: the signing bonus check. How many heroes? Boy? I think 449 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:24,360 Speaker 1: it was. It was it was forty million, but it 450 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: was it was after taxes, so it was whatever you yeah, yeah, 451 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: but it was. I think that's what it was. And 452 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: I don't remember this too exactly. I was in shock 453 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 1: when I saw that. Me and Juice O. Our mouth dropt. 454 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: We couldn't believe it. But um, that's something Joe would, dude, 455 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: is to come show off to us, you see. But Juice, 456 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: but Juice got paid a little bit in San Francisco, 457 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: so he's, uh, he's got some money now. But yeah, 458 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 1: we were We couldn't believe it. And he didn't even 459 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: tell us like, I'll be right back. So we're sitting 460 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: here waiting for him. We're playing horse and then he 461 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: comes back down like, hey, check this out. Will you 462 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: get your show on the check? Exactly exactly, Mike, Thanks 463 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 1: thanks for having me on. Thank you all right. We're 464 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 1: really good stuff from Mike. I really like, Yeah, Mike's 465 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: great He's one of my favorite guys. You know, it 466 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: just seems like your buddy. We had a great guy 467 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: in Brandon car last week. We're on a role here. Yeah, 468 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: great guys. Joe Joe Flacco also a good guy. We're 469 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna put the working out there, Joe. You 470 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: know we need January Joe on the podcast. A little 471 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: sprinkling of January Joe. Yep. Yeah, Well Joe has done 472 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: the podcast, so it's not like you need to repeat visit. 473 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: He said he'd think about it. He was like, I 474 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: think because that means that was a note for this week. 475 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: But I've kind of laid the guilt trip on him 476 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: in the cafeteria this morning. I'm sure it did nothing. 477 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,879 Speaker 1: Ye slow play. Yeah, but you know, and last I 478 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 1: said that guy came on. Remember we said, Joe, when 479 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: you have a big game, you come in off of that, 480 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 1: and you know that'll be the time he's had like 481 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: four big games. That's true, that's true. Well, you know 482 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: he's getting camp and Aero got the pre podcast bump. 483 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 1: You know, he had the touchdown because he knew that 484 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: there's could be an invitation in his future for the podcast. 485 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: So he got the pre podcast bump. Maybe that's what's 486 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 1: happening with Joe right now. He's been on like a 487 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 1: good month stretch. The podcast invitation is comic, so it's 488 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: a pre podcast bomp. He's gonna get over three hundred 489 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: yards if he comes to the podcast. True, that's true. 490 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: So one funny thing I do you want to point 491 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: out about Mike. He was telling us the story as 492 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 1: he was leaving. And this is another chapter in the 493 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: Mink Camp and Aero connection. Okay, because I'm gonna write 494 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: this guy's biography. One you have been You've been there 495 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 1: since day one, and we both I will say we've 496 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: both been on the Camp and Ara bandwagon. If there's 497 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: two guys in the building. You know when he was 498 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 1: talking about the advocate advocate, he gave the wrong answer. Yeah, 499 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: it's always like give if anybody has been by our office, 500 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: listening to the lounge, watched mail bag, stood by us 501 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,919 Speaker 1: in the press box, or really just got within shouting 502 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 1: distance of us at any point, Da've heard us say 503 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 1: at some point, get this guy involved. Yep, we we're 504 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: big fans. But another chapter was at the Senior Bowl. 505 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: When he was in the Senior Bowl, I was down 506 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: there and interviewed him and his parents. Very nice family. 507 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: But the funny thing about that was that Campanero had 508 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: broken his collar bone like at the end of his 509 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: season or whatever, at the end of wake for a season, 510 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: and so it wasn't fully recovered by the time the 511 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 1: Senior Bowl rolled around in late January. But he, knowing 512 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 1: that he was going to be a late draft pick 513 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: or on the brink, was like, I gotta go play 514 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 1: because I have to make an impression. So he asked 515 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: his doctor like, am I good? What's gonna happen here? 516 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,199 Speaker 1: And the doctor was like, look, you can play, but 517 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 1: just don't get tackled, which is really easy for a 518 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: football player, right. So Cam was like, all right, I 519 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: guess I'm gonna strap up. And so he goes out 520 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,159 Speaker 1: there and, uh, he's feeling a punt in the Senior 521 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,160 Speaker 1: Bowl game, feels a punt, looks up, sees several dudes 522 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 1: bearing down on him, as like, uh, runs a couple 523 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: of yards and then just slides right. So then later 524 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: after the Ravens drafted him, Cava was talking to Harball 525 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: and Harvest is like, yeah, so I watched that Senior 526 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: Bowl type and I was like, why is this dude 527 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 1: so soft? Like he's avoiding contact? What's up with this? 528 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,959 Speaker 1: Charater was like, whoa a right? Playing with a broken collar? Right? 529 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: So kind of kind of a funny story. They still 530 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 1: went for him, though, They were like, all right, whatever, right, Well, 531 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I think that kind of 532 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 1: illustrates um. I think too often when guys deal with injuries, 533 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: they get unfairly labeled as soft. And hey, first of all, 534 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,199 Speaker 1: you can't get troll injuries. It's not like someone's out 535 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 1: there like I want to get hurt today. You know, 536 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 1: like that's not the case. And then also you don't 537 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,360 Speaker 1: have any ideas sometimes what a guy is playing through. 538 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: I think in many cases, guys that have dealt with 539 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,120 Speaker 1: a lot of injuries are the opposite of soft. Sometimes 540 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: they're the toughest guys on the team because they've been 541 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 1: dealing with so many injuries and they just play through it. 542 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: I mean, I think about you gave him credit this year. 543 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: He did miss a couple of games, That's true, I did. 544 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: I said, even had succeeen. But yeah, he had a 545 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 1: shoulder injury. He had shoulder injury, that's true, But I 546 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 1: was kidding the benefit he's nice enough to come on 547 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: the part a little bonus point, little lust points, but 548 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 1: in all seriousness. So he hurt that shoulder against Minnesota, 549 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 1: but if you remember that game, there was like no receiver. 550 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: It was Griff Whalen and there was no man. There 551 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: was no pairman. There's no receivers that game. And so 552 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: he was one of the few guys that was healthy, 553 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: and he wasn't healthy by the end of the game, 554 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 1: but he still finished it. And that to me, it 555 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: was like a sign of this guy just guts it 556 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: out and tries to play through as much as he can. 557 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 1: He's had some bad luck with the injuries, but he's 558 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: really tough. Dude. Yeah, I think he's still made it 559 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: a catch after the shoulder. I remember seeing him at 560 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 1: to the game and I was like, it's not in 561 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 1: good shape. He is not in good shape. So thank 562 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: you to Michael Capanaro and thank you to all our 563 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 1: listeners out there. As always, you can reach us at 564 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 1: the at the lounge at Ravens dot NFL dot net 565 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: and Garrett hitting with that CSX yeah exactly again one 566 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: more time. CSX is our game day sponsor for this week. 567 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: And do you know how many football feels it takes 568 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: to stop C xx C s X train. How many 569 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: football fields? Like the length of the breaking Yeah wait, 570 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: let me guess on this. I'm gonna say three. Holy Holy, 571 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: They gotta get some better breaks. Yeah, eight seeing to change. 572 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 1: It's a lot of weight they're going into high speed. 573 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: Uh so eighteen football fields. So I'll remember to play 574 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,920 Speaker 1: it safe around railroad tracks. That means of being signals, 575 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: keeping your distance, and never trying to beat one across 576 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: the tracks. That never is a good idea. CSX is 577 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: proud to support the Ravens and even prouder to protect 578 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 1: their fans. If you're going to the game this week, 579 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 1: please play it safe around the railroad tracks. So abay 580 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 1: those signals, keep your distance, and again, never try to 581 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: beat one across the tracks. One more trivia question. After 582 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: all the holiday cookies, you ate what weighs more CSX 583 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: train or you? It's awesome. It's awesome anyway, Thanks for listening. 584 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 1: We'll be back with you next week for a playoff 585 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: of the lan