Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens continue
Speaker 1: training camp Today is Wednesday, August second, and after practice
Speaker 1: we had a chance to hear from some of the
Speaker 1: guys in the trenches, the offensive lineman as well as
Speaker 1: offensive line coach Joe Diela Sandras and of course head
Speaker 1: coach John Harbaugh. Let's kick things off today with Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl left tackle Ronnie Stanley.
Speaker 2: Hexam.
Speaker 3: You know, it feels great, you know, just to be
Speaker 3: out here with the guys. Don't take it for granted,
Speaker 3: the blessing to just be out here experiences and go
Speaker 3: through this process.
Speaker 4: But how far long do you feel like you guys
Speaker 4: are as a group of building that coordination, that plam coordination.
Speaker 3: You know, I feel very comfortable with where we are
Speaker 3: right now in our process as an offense and you know,
Speaker 3: as a team and building our chemistry. Probably the furthest
Speaker 3: long I felt, you know, on any team that I've
Speaker 3: been on at this point, things are really starting to
Speaker 3: click early and you know, coaches on us, you know,
Speaker 3: executing and focused on the right things, and everyone's kind
Speaker 3: of doing what they're supposed to do. It's just good
Speaker 3: to see.
Speaker 5: How good do you feel do you feel like the
Speaker 5: guy that was before that Steelers game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel really good.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: You know it's kind of hard to tell, you know,
Speaker 3: exactly what that person is, but I can tell tell
Speaker 3: you the person I am now. I feel great.
Speaker 6: It's your take on so.
Speaker 3: So has been you know, he's been great. He's uh,
Speaker 3: he's gone out there, done everything coach asks him to do.
Speaker 3: He's putting all the effort that he needs to put in.
Speaker 3: He's putting in the extra work. He's smart. He uh,
Speaker 3: he's a quick learner. And you know, this is this
Speaker 3: is part of the camp where you really grow and
Speaker 3: develop as a player. And you know, and I'm starting
Speaker 3: to see him, you know, definitely make strides every day.
Speaker 3: He gets better every day.
Speaker 7: That he really kind of thinks the responsibility or you know.
Speaker 3: Bringing him oh yeah, you know him playing next to
Speaker 3: me as well definitely gives me uh more of an
Speaker 3: opportunity to kind of help him and you know, just
Speaker 3: be there for him anytime he needs help.
Speaker 1: Rock You've been born to some good offensive lines here
Speaker 1: in between nineteens. You know, it's probably maybe the best.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like this group could be as good
Speaker 1: as that one? They can have that season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this group has the potential to be there.
Speaker 3: And what a give you that do this? I just
Speaker 3: know the type of players that we have, you know,
Speaker 3: the experience, Vets, uh, you know, me, Morgan, Kevin Zeiler,
Speaker 3: and then you know, we got a lot of some
Speaker 3: young guys, you know, Tyler's in there, and then we
Speaker 3: got the left guard you know position, and and I
Speaker 3: just I really think we have the pieces to to
Speaker 3: bring that same type of offensive line and you know
Speaker 3: we could be better. So just about us, you know,
Speaker 3: putting that together and actually doing it, what is it?
Speaker 5: Fully health the offseason in preparation to get to this point.
Speaker 5: It can't meant to you as far as that as
Speaker 5: far as.
Speaker 3: Getting ready for that, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: It just takes out a lot of the part of
Speaker 3: you know, coming in and just getting into football things
Speaker 3: again and you know, learning how to cut and you know,
Speaker 3: just be more coordinated. So that whole process that I
Speaker 3: deal with before is kind of I don't have to
Speaker 3: deal with that now and just really hone in on
Speaker 3: football and my technique, which is really you know, just
Speaker 3: helped me be be overall better player and a better leader.
Speaker 4: Mentally helpful.
Speaker 5: Is that suld just not have that pressure and stress
Speaker 5: worried about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it takes off a lot of stress and makes
Speaker 3: everything a lot easier because you know, it's just the
Speaker 3: main thing you have to focus now on is the
Speaker 3: game and and you know that's hard enough as it
Speaker 3: is is you know so, but trying to focus on
Speaker 3: you know, rehab and doing all these things outside of that,
Speaker 3: which is you know, it's still part of it, but
Speaker 3: having that be a main priority definitely took away a
Speaker 3: lot of you know, mental capacity.
Speaker 2: Why thinking back to this place.
Speaker 4: Is there ever a part of you that one year
Speaker 4: am I ever going to be what I was before
Speaker 4: I ever would be able to play that level play?
Speaker 6: Is systems like it for.
Speaker 2: All the starting out?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's you know, for sure doubt, you know, especially
Speaker 3: early on an injury where you're really not sure you know,
Speaker 3: how you're gonna run or if you if you're going
Speaker 3: to run again, and you know, just kind of hobbling walking,
Speaker 3: you know, anywhere, not really doing anything athletic. You really
Speaker 3: don't know until you know you start to turn that
Speaker 3: corner on you know, the product the rehab progression and
Speaker 3: to be able to first hand see you know, Okay,
Speaker 3: I can't do these drills. I can feel comfortable doing
Speaker 3: these movements, just you know, slowly built up that confidence. Again.
Speaker 3: I sess that this scene is mentally last year, there's
Speaker 3: so many guys in your quession.
Speaker 4: You didn't know they were coming back from.
Speaker 7: Major in injuries because keep playing.
Speaker 8: There's not as much, nearly as much of that this year.
Speaker 3: Does that make a difference you feel like.
Speaker 8: It is seems confidence and just where you feel like
Speaker 8: you're at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it makes a big difference. You know,
Speaker 3: just guys being around and seeing guys you know able
Speaker 3: to be on the field and just available. I think
Speaker 3: it makes a big difference mentally, you know, you know
Speaker 3: at this point of the year, especially you know so early,
Speaker 3: we want to keep as many guys as healthy as possible.
Speaker 8: I know, you've got to know all Crease pretty well,
Speaker 8: can be a legendary center. You're playing with Tyler Linderbaum.
Speaker 8: That a great rookie year. Have you seen any similarity
Speaker 8: with human or on the field or.
Speaker 3: On I mean off the field, they're completely different people,
Speaker 3: but on the field they very similar tenacity. I would say, uh,
Speaker 3: they play with the same tenacity and just kind of
Speaker 3: you know when when when they get when they get upset,
Speaker 3: you can there there's definitely another switch about him where
Speaker 3: they're they're just not going to take anything from anyone.
Speaker 3: So they both have that about him, and that's something
Speaker 3: you always want to see in your center.
Speaker 5: Rank you.
Speaker 1: That was left tackle Ronnie Stanley, who is going to
Speaker 1: be a store for a really big season this year.
Speaker 1: It certainly is good to have him healthy going into
Speaker 1: the upcoming season. We also talked with second year center
Speaker 1: Tyler Linderbam. He had a great rookie season as a
Speaker 1: first round pick, and he talked today about what he's
Speaker 1: expecting going into year two.
Speaker 2: Tyler, just where do you feel like, you know, what's
Speaker 2: changed for you in year one?
Speaker 4: Years eager if you made your and your stride.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think, uh, I just think being more comfortable,
Speaker 9: you know, playing at this level, you know, kind of
Speaker 9: first year here, everything's coming at you so fast. You know,
Speaker 9: just getting used to the speed of the game is important.
Speaker 9: So definitely having a season under your belt is is good,
Speaker 9: but there's still a lot of improvements to go, Tyler.
Speaker 8: Mike Ears said that you think you're a lot stronger
Speaker 8: than you were last year. Did you think that's the
Speaker 8: case or just better to happen.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think a little bit of both.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 9: Obviously in the off season, still working on strength, trying
Speaker 9: to get better at technique, you know, putting myself in
Speaker 9: positions to where I can use my strength to my advantage.
Speaker 9: Just little things like that.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, so you have some really.
Speaker 4: Good pieces on the O line.
Speaker 1: Just what are your expectations for having to get the
Speaker 1: script to do?
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, obviously only what six seven days in,
Speaker 9: you know, doing a lot of good things, but you know,
Speaker 9: there's still a lot of improvement to be done. You know,
Speaker 9: I think from execution standpoint, just being more consistent because
Speaker 9: at the end of the day, the old line leads
Speaker 9: a charge. You know, we're the guys up front that
Speaker 9: set the tempo set you know, set the tempo of
Speaker 9: the game, you know, and make everything happen and let
Speaker 9: the playmakers around us do their thing.
Speaker 4: So as a coordinated group, are you guys well ahead
Speaker 4: of where you were at this point last year? I
Speaker 4: mean obviously running wasn't practicing at this point last year,
Speaker 4: you had the injury in camp, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I think from a number standpoint, we
Speaker 9: have a lot more guys, you know, and the young
Speaker 9: guys too are are are playing awesome football too. Just
Speaker 9: showing a lot of a lot of progress from OTAs
Speaker 9: and to now and to camp. So definitely having more numbers,
Speaker 9: you know, more competition in the room always helps to
Speaker 9: push guys faster along. And then obviously, yeah, you know,
Speaker 9: knock on wood, Obviously you don't want injuries to happen.
Speaker 9: So yeah, whenever you have everyone there that can practice
Speaker 9: and you know, keep stacking the practices, keep stacking these days.
Speaker 8: That's good.
Speaker 2: Tyler brought that he's seen them more confident you in
Speaker 2: your two where do you feel that the most?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I'm definitely feel more confident. I mean
Speaker 9: it's like coming in, you know, into college as a
Speaker 9: as a freshman or something. You know, obviously you're going
Speaker 9: to be a little more more reserved and things you're
Speaker 9: gonna say. But you know, I think as the season
Speaker 9: progressed last year, you know, I had to I had
Speaker 9: to have a role of talking and speaking, you know,
Speaker 9: because you know, going up there making the calls, making
Speaker 9: the frounts and being confident in them so guys you know,
Speaker 9: can follow you. But I think certainly, you know, as
Speaker 9: we progress, as you know, time goes on, just you know,
Speaker 9: continue to have that build that leadership role and have
Speaker 9: guys go up there and trust me on what needs
Speaker 9: to be done.
Speaker 5: Tyler, As you look at Ronnie through this off season now,
Speaker 5: as he was able to be a fully healthy throughout
Speaker 5: and so far in camp, you see it. How different
Speaker 5: is it from what you say a year ago at
Speaker 5: this point where you're just trying to figure out even
Speaker 5: who he is or.
Speaker 6: What he could be.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, obviously Ronnie, you know, you go back
Speaker 9: to film what five six years ago, and he's on
Speaker 9: there playing really good football, and I think he's working
Speaker 9: his way to get back to that level. You know,
Speaker 9: obviously having his injury. You know, he's worked his butt
Speaker 9: off to get to where he's at today, and he's
Speaker 9: and he's continued to get better and better and better.
Speaker 9: You know, he's another guy, you know, he's played a
Speaker 9: lot of a lot of football. A lot of young
Speaker 9: guys can go to him ask him questions. He's very
Speaker 9: knowledgeable of the game and he's like another coach in
Speaker 9: the room. So you know, he's a good guy to
Speaker 9: have around and very knowledgeable about the game, but also
Speaker 9: he plays really good football patter.
Speaker 2: What speaking of young guys, what have you seen out
Speaker 2: of in Salah?
Speaker 7: You know, a lot of as years in Sanitian year
Speaker 7: a year.
Speaker 4: Who.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think he's handled it well. You know, obviously
Speaker 9: kind of being thrown in into the fire with the ones,
Speaker 9: you know, he's he's done well. You know, obviously a
Speaker 9: lot of new stuff come up just because he's first
Speaker 9: time went in this offense in some of these plays,
Speaker 9: but you know he's handled it well. You know, he's
Speaker 9: he plays with confidence and you can tell that in
Speaker 9: his game, and you know he's only going to get
Speaker 9: better and better. So I'm excited for him.
Speaker 4: Any advice that you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, just play with confidence. You know he's here for
Speaker 9: a reason. I think that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 4: Kind of flip a switch.
Speaker 2: When you get angry on the footle field, you don't
Speaker 2: take anything.
Speaker 1: To anybody says that's important trade for a center in
Speaker 1: your words, When when you get angry.
Speaker 3: At the football field, what play comes out?
Speaker 9: You know, I just think I'm a competitive you know,
Speaker 9: it's competitive spirit. You know, I think a lot of
Speaker 9: guys on this team have that, So you know, any
Speaker 9: time we're in a competitive situation, you know, a little
Speaker 9: fire comes out. So I think it's a good thing
Speaker 9: to have.
Speaker 3: A last year.
Speaker 9: No, I mean it all depends, you know, whenever I
Speaker 9: step on the field, and you gotta play the game hard,
Speaker 9: you gotta play it the right way. So sometimes things
Speaker 9: like that happen.
Speaker 8: You look around the league and their interior rushers team
Speaker 8: page like edge rusher is just you know, how I
Speaker 8: guess or what is kind of thud the bar for
Speaker 8: being a good to your past blocker considering just how
Speaker 8: dance some of these guys.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean guys around the league, you know, they're
Speaker 9: getting better and better just at the end of the day,
Speaker 9: just being consistent, you know in the game, you know,
Speaker 9: not not letting one or two plays, you know, build
Speaker 9: on top of each other, you know, because guys are skilled.
Speaker 9: Guys are really good. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 9: you were all here for a reason. And I think
Speaker 9: OL linemen are pretty good too. So you know, I
Speaker 9: saw our jobs to stop guys like like uh into
Speaker 9: your guys around the league.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Tyler.
Speaker 1: That was center Tyler Linderbaum. Now we also talked with
Speaker 1: the guy who coaches up the men in the trenches
Speaker 1: and that would be offensive line coach Joe Dielli Sandris.
Speaker 6: Training camp. Good to have everyone here, your six round pick. Yeah,
Speaker 6: he's got more. He's got more letters in his name
Speaker 6: than alphabet.
Speaker 4: What has impressed you the most for him?
Speaker 9: I mean, you don't have a lot of rookies that
Speaker 9: step in immediately training camp and work with the ones
Speaker 9: would have stood.
Speaker 7: Out for you.
Speaker 6: You know, what he is a football means a lot
Speaker 6: to him. He's worked. He's worked throughout his career to
Speaker 6: grow to become a good football player, from high school
Speaker 6: to junior college to college. And he's got a tremendous
Speaker 6: work ethic and real receptive the learning and takes the information,
Speaker 6: applies it. And it's been a pleasant surprise so far.
Speaker 6: So you know, the first three days in pads he's
Speaker 6: done are two days and pads and today he's making
Speaker 6: nice progress. So he's a work in progress and we'll
Speaker 6: see how it continues to grow.
Speaker 1: Good you big this offense line?
Speaker 2: Me and he got veterans. He got the first round pick,
Speaker 2: and center you got Stanley and Tony One's vesta. He
Speaker 2: just how quid it It's going to be well?
Speaker 6: You know, and it just like like I said, it's
Speaker 6: a it's a day. Every day's a work in progress,
Speaker 6: and I don't want any accolades early. Let's just keep growing.
Speaker 6: You know. We have our first preseason game coming up
Speaker 6: and they will see how we do there and then
Speaker 6: keep seeing which players fit in each position and grow.
Speaker 6: But the foundation's there for good growth.
Speaker 8: Bring the biggest guys in the linder Belt here.
Speaker 7: Mood his confidence.
Speaker 6: I mean, now he knows, you know, we speaking codes
Speaker 6: a lot up front, so and that's throughout the league,
Speaker 6: and he now understands everything that takes place, and he's
Speaker 6: really the coach's voice and eyes on the field. So
Speaker 6: he's reiterating what's being taught in the class room and
Speaker 6: then he goes to the field and we work on
Speaker 6: the field, and he's continued doing that process. So he's
Speaker 6: doing a really great job and he's a great leader
Speaker 6: and an excellent performer.
Speaker 4: Got as.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 6: I don't know, I'm not going to make that determination yet,
Speaker 6: but you know what, he's doing a very nice job
Speaker 6: here so far. Leave camp and we're going to try
Speaker 6: some other guys at other positions just to see who's
Speaker 6: the best, you know, I mean, the good news about
Speaker 6: our business. We get to see who rises up to
Speaker 6: earn that spot.
Speaker 4: Style school is in terms of the Indian enjoy that
Speaker 4: jo all this thats let's do some of diff puts
Speaker 4: some coaching.
Speaker 6: Well, you know what, that's what I know. I grew
Speaker 6: up that way, you know, and and uh in my
Speaker 6: career I started, I was very fortunate to come under
Speaker 6: a coach when my first job was at Livingston University
Speaker 6: and Southwest Alabama, and I had a great offensive who
Speaker 6: was a head coach who was a former line coach
Speaker 6: that helped me grow in that area and I always
Speaker 6: thank him for what he was able to do. He's
Speaker 6: past incident, but he was excellent and we developed and
Speaker 6: the time as the game has gone on, I've developed
Speaker 6: more styles and more techniques, et cetera. But there is
Speaker 6: a way to do things. I expect offensive line play
Speaker 6: to be played a certain way and that's in my
Speaker 6: vision that I see how it's supposed to be played
Speaker 6: and I try to teach it that way and the
Speaker 6: guys try to apply it that way. So it's a
Speaker 6: work in progress.
Speaker 8: Makes how rare is it have someone that has developed
Speaker 8: is try to figure about that center positions?
Speaker 6: Oh, I think it's fantastic. I mean, you know, to
Speaker 6: get a young man and he's just a fantastic person
Speaker 6: and football player. The way he carries himself and the
Speaker 6: respect and he's diligent at his job up so he
Speaker 6: wants to know, yes, the easy answers, but he wants
Speaker 6: to also find out the hard answers. So so we'll
Speaker 6: give him, put him in that position where he has
Speaker 6: to grow in that area, and he's doing a fast,
Speaker 6: fantastic job.
Speaker 8: Lamar had a purenvironment and stuff, whereas because they're more
Speaker 8: on his plays history.
Speaker 6: Def protections, you know what I think, I think what
Speaker 6: he does, yes, I mean whatever. We always try to
Speaker 6: let our quarterbacks and he and the center and work together,
Speaker 6: so they communicate together, they work with each other and
Speaker 6: try to make the playwork with your communication.
Speaker 9: Joe, you know for years, Yeah, I know Greg when
Speaker 9: Greg Wan when he was to play called it likes
Speaker 9: particularly blocks a certain way. That how bitch of a
Speaker 9: difference as far as.
Speaker 2: Just blocking schemes and blocking style.
Speaker 7: Has it been changed under under what Todd Munkin would
Speaker 7: like to.
Speaker 6: Do well and Greg and I had a lot of
Speaker 6: the same philosophy. So we're staying with a lot of
Speaker 6: the same things that we have been doing, so and
Speaker 6: and and there's some things that Todd is implemented that
Speaker 6: we're still using some of that stuff too. So it's
Speaker 6: a it's a combination of a lot of schemes.
Speaker 2: Joe, what Dad said that you're going to be flipping
Speaker 2: John Simpson and salah at this week to get the
Speaker 2: impressive of the ones, and what has been Cleveland need
Speaker 2: to do to remain competitive and battling for this nuff
Speaker 2: guard start.
Speaker 6: I think Ben, he just needs to continue to grow
Speaker 6: and get more consistent. So and he's and he's working
Speaker 6: at that. So we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 3: To your mind.
Speaker 4: How important is getting to have everybody out there helping
Speaker 4: from the sertive campus here and we're just working together.
Speaker 6: That's that's vital, right, just like anything else. And uh,
Speaker 6: the unity at the offensive line. All five guys playing together,
Speaker 6: communicating and they are able to understand when they when
Speaker 6: each one talks to each other, they're on the same page.
Speaker 6: And then what what I call fits of blocks. They
Speaker 6: have to know how to fit the blocks and they
Speaker 6: know how to do that together. Well, if you don't practice,
Speaker 6: it's not going to work as well, So the consistency
Speaker 6: continuity is very important.
Speaker 4: Joe Sean Manning's if young guy who guy's drawing in
Speaker 4: for the draft and crest seeing of him that you've
Speaker 4: got anything, Aunt, Sandraz.
Speaker 6: What do you do?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 6: I can tell you this. He likes contact, so he's
Speaker 6: a contact player, which is great, and so he's a
Speaker 6: very good football player, very intelligent young man, really growing
Speaker 6: and learning. So he's been a pleasure to work with.
Speaker 6: Thank you you all have a good day.
Speaker 1: That was offensive line coach Joe Diela Sandris. We also
Speaker 1: talk with the old ball coach, head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 7: Okay, good to see everybody here. Appreciate you being here.
Speaker 7: Another good day. A lot of excitement with the crowd.
Speaker 7: Guys are into it focused. What questions you have?
Speaker 2: We followed the.
Speaker 4: Us inside all security over how did that idea of
Speaker 4: the Richard.
Speaker 7: That originated with George Gotsei our tight ends coach and
Speaker 7: Scott Cohen, our personnel coach, and those two guys had
Speaker 7: run that summer before, so they're in charge of that.
Speaker 7: A lot of fun. You know what value too, right,
Speaker 7: You got to be able to handle and recover a
Speaker 7: wet football. So check that one off the box. We've
Speaker 7: worked on that.
Speaker 1: We fucking lot about.
Speaker 2: As operating and the new offense. I mean think he's
Speaker 2: blokes velocity and as an accuracy, and he's throwing.
Speaker 7: The ball and I think he's looked very good at that.
Speaker 7: And it's a good question. We do measure all out,
Speaker 7: you know, we have we have metrics on that. There's
Speaker 7: chips in the ball and when we look the numbers
Speaker 7: on that, and the numbers bear that out too. So
Speaker 7: whatever you're seeing in terms of your eye, uh with
Speaker 7: with with the way he's thrown has been held true
Speaker 7: by the numbers. He's throwing the ball really well. I
Speaker 7: noticed him here, don't like in the play look at
Speaker 7: your bonding stealing out there.
Speaker 2: Now he looks like he did.
Speaker 7: I think Pete's looking good, Yeah, I do. I feel
Speaker 7: like Ronnie's moving around really well. Uh he's uh, his
Speaker 7: feet are good, he's strong, he's a really good shape,
Speaker 7: working very hard, you know, great attitude. Uh So you
Speaker 7: know he's just putting the work in right now, and
Speaker 7: I know he'll be ready to start the season.
Speaker 4: Johnson had a special team's coach out there.
Speaker 2: He very hands on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, coach.
Speaker 7: Rosberg is back with us for a week. You know,
Speaker 7: he's going to be a coach here for a week,
Speaker 7: coaching special teams and and everything else. Probably he does
Speaker 7: a great job. Jerry's family wants a raven, always a raven,
Speaker 7: and we love Jerry. But uh, yeah, he's out there.
Speaker 7: I saw him work on the field goal team and
Speaker 7: the pump return team, and he probably misses it just
Speaker 7: a little bit.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: You can see that his whole rockout.
Speaker 6: Have you got any education?
Speaker 7: Yeah, the initial indication was not not a serious thing,
Speaker 7: but let's wait and see what we hear. Well, no more,
Speaker 7: once it gets once they get a look at it
Speaker 7: another compare.
Speaker 2: It for passion, the whole gets.
Speaker 7: Lamar Jackson this year com last years.
Speaker 3: You have a sense of the finishing his ring that to.
Speaker 7: You know, I, I, oh, I don't know. I haven't
Speaker 7: thought about it. It's really not something that matters. You know.
Speaker 7: We've got a lot going on right now, so I
Speaker 7: haven't really thought in those terms. I think he's doing
Speaker 7: great right now. I think he's into it. Attitude is great,
Speaker 7: you know. I felt like he was great last year too,
Speaker 7: so I really couldn't say that. But I'm really happy
Speaker 7: with him fast growing and wed them.
Speaker 2: To an obviously put at the same page, it's still off.
Speaker 7: Sure supporting, you know, I don't know. It's a fair question,
Speaker 7: and there is a point in time where you know,
Speaker 7: it does become a concern because you know, you he
Speaker 7: knows and Jay JK and I talked last night. We
Speaker 7: talk a lot. He wants to be out there and
Speaker 7: he needs to be out there, just like any player does.
Speaker 7: And other than that, there's nothing else I can really add.
Speaker 7: I don't know when he's gonna come back, but I
Speaker 7: know I'm gonna be really happy when he does. Well,
Speaker 7: you miss JK, you know, I mean, he's the player.
Speaker 7: You know you want him out there. He's a great player,
Speaker 7: and it's just it's one less great player we have
Speaker 7: out There's.
Speaker 2: A buying still conating new offense of the time, especially
Speaker 2: since some of the guys working here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think they look really good. I think the
Speaker 7: offensive line is looking really good. Pass protection has been firm.
Speaker 7: You watch one on one pass protection, they win a
Speaker 7: lot over there. I feel like the footwork and the
Speaker 7: timing and the run game. We got two days, the
Speaker 7: last two days yesterday and the day before of good
Speaker 7: run blocking, which you really have to have. We don't
Speaker 7: probably get enough of it, but they look good doing it.
Speaker 7: We have a lot of work to do, but probably
Speaker 7: the toughest area to get synchronized, but a lot of
Speaker 7: good prospects. Plus I would add this, I think the
Speaker 7: rookies really are doing a good job. His rookies are
Speaker 7: making big strides. Joe is doing a great job with
Speaker 7: those guys. Did you Steelers Course and Love come Sol
Speaker 7: Raves rid of what you know takes played for the
Speaker 7: first time in a very long time.
Speaker 3: Un Loved.
Speaker 6: Looked a good bit about.
Speaker 7: That going up.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh, we've run that drill every year, but you saw
Speaker 7: it today. I think it will be a part of
Speaker 7: the offense for sure. We'll probably you know, I mean,
Speaker 7: if we throw the ball more. You've got to see more.
Speaker 7: Those concerts you've always had him, we probably didn't do
Speaker 7: them well enough to make make him or often enough
Speaker 7: to make you remember him. So as a coach, you know,
Speaker 7: it's like that hurts, but we'll get over it, and
Speaker 7: something we need to be good at. You know, people
Speaker 7: are gonna preussure you get in your face, and you
Speaker 7: got to make them pay for that sometimes.
Speaker 4: They talked about the rookies.
Speaker 7: So impressions, he's done well. I haven't seen any step back,
Speaker 7: nothing to make you think he's been slowed down or
Speaker 7: nothing to disappoint. Still continues to make steady progress. And
Speaker 7: also say John Simpsons, so you know, same thing. He's
Speaker 7: had a great camp, and next week we'll flip it.
Speaker 7: You know, he'll go with the ones and solid we'll
Speaker 7: go with the two. So two weeks in, have it
Speaker 7: kind of both guys, and we'll both look at those
Speaker 7: guys doing it and both with both groups of guys.
Speaker 7: So that's how we set it up.
Speaker 4: Did you feel like the offensive line later became a
Speaker 4: source of stability for you guys last season and do
Speaker 4: you feel it that's carried over until the end of
Speaker 4: this summer?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Childs, I mean I think they have for the
Speaker 7: last few years. You know, we've always had whenever we've
Speaker 7: been good, our offensive line has been really good. To me,
Speaker 7: it all starts. We said it sixteen years ago. Football
Speaker 7: begins in the trenches, always has and always will. If
Speaker 7: you're not good in the trenches, I don't know how
Speaker 7: you can think that you're gonna overcome that. So it's
Speaker 7: a priority for us. I love our offensive line.
Speaker 9: I think it all.
Speaker 7: You know, they're the core, They're the rock in the
Speaker 7: middle of that offense. That has to be you know,
Speaker 7: it has to be impregnable. So that's what they're chasing
Speaker 7: right now. I've heard a lot of dogs hats.
Speaker 3: Back. I don't r might be un I mean it de.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we had some guys that were out and did
Speaker 7: they were doing different lifting, they were doing some U
Speaker 7: I wrote to calls as far as running and conditioning.
Speaker 7: Then they were kind of helping the guys with coaching.
Speaker 7: So we did that with a few guys. Morgan Zeitler,
Speaker 7: a few guys like that today, hiks.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harball. We also heard from
Speaker 1: offensive line coach Joe Diela, Sandris, center Tyler Linderbaum, and
Speaker 1: left tackle Ronnie Stanley. Now, if you did not check
Speaker 1: out the episode of the Lounge podcast that posted on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: go ahead and do so. We had a chance to
Speaker 1: sit down with cornerback rock you scene. I think you
Speaker 1: really enjoyed the conversation with him, getting to know him
Speaker 1: both on and off the field. We have an audio
Speaker 1: version of that available wherever you get your podcasts, as
Speaker 1: well as a video version on YouTube. That's it for
Speaker 1: us today, but stay tuned. We got more coming on
Speaker 1: the Ravens Press Pass podcast tomorrow after press conferences