Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast is Thursday, September seventh,
Speaker 1: and the Ravens are getting ready for the season opener
Speaker 1: coming up against the Houston Texans. Today, we had a
Speaker 1: chance to hear from new Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Unkin
Speaker 1: as well as DC Mike McDonald and special teams coordinator
Speaker 1: Chris Horton. Let's kick things off the special teams coordinator
Speaker 1: Chris Horton.
Speaker 2: Good to see everyone, Hope everyone's doing well. Just you know,
Speaker 2: as we get for looking forward to this week. You know,
Speaker 2: our guys have done a great job the last two
Speaker 2: days getting ourselves ready to play. We're looking forward to
Speaker 2: the challenge with Houston.
Speaker 3: They're a good.
Speaker 2: Football team, special team. So for us, man, let's just
Speaker 2: go out there and do our jobs and let's go
Speaker 2: have fun. Questions.
Speaker 4: Let's give me a lot of attention on how kickoffs
Speaker 4: are hands America.
Speaker 3: And all that.
Speaker 4: Did you get any sense from how teams were going
Speaker 4: about in pre season that it could happen? And in
Speaker 4: terms of how you handle what do you expected to
Speaker 4: be kind of.
Speaker 2: A week to week you know, uh, for the first part,
Speaker 2: a kind of a sense of it from throughout the preseason.
Speaker 2: I think every coach is gonna do, you know, what
Speaker 2: they feel is best for their team. Uh. For us,
Speaker 2: I think it'll be it'll be a week to week basis.
Speaker 2: I feel like we feel like we do a pretty
Speaker 2: good job returning the ball. So uh, and we got
Speaker 2: we got Devin Duvernet back there. We're gonna allow him
Speaker 2: to return to football.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: But again that'll be that'll be a week to week basis,
Speaker 2: depending on what we see from the opponent as well.
Speaker 2: So now that we have that option, I do think
Speaker 2: it'll be it could be something that could be utilized.
Speaker 1: Tyler.
Speaker 4: Tyler Rott talked about kind of being a part of
Speaker 4: this new kicking unit with Jordan Stout and Justin Tucker,
Speaker 4: kind of being able to slide.
Speaker 2: Right into places where any more left off.
Speaker 6: What are you looking forward to seeing from.
Speaker 7: Them week one and how they press throughout this training camp.
Speaker 8: With the chemistry that they built.
Speaker 2: You know, I think that the three guys when they
Speaker 2: came in, when Tyler came in, you know, he he
Speaker 2: fit right in there. He a pro, he's a veteran guy.
Speaker 2: He's not you know, It's not like we had to
Speaker 2: go out and get a rookie, a first year guy
Speaker 2: that that's never done in this league. He's a veteran guy.
Speaker 2: He understands the job that needs to be done in
Speaker 2: order to have success. So when he came in, uh
Speaker 2: and we we paired him with Jordan, and we paired
Speaker 2: him with Tuck. Then he just then he just learned, okay,
Speaker 2: how do they do things at the Ravens. And then
Speaker 2: once he figured that out, he fit. He fit right in.
Speaker 2: Now he's gonna be he's gonna be good. He's gonna
Speaker 2: be great. Looking forward to seeing those guys again in
Speaker 2: the in a real game. Now it's it's gonna be
Speaker 2: it's gonna be good on good uh and and and
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a little bit different, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: see a lot of different things. It's not gonna be
Speaker 2: just a lot of six boxes and easy. You know,
Speaker 2: there's nobody attacking the snapper. Now, guys are gonna come
Speaker 2: after you. So it's gonna be fun to see those
Speaker 2: guys working. I know right now he's he's working really
Speaker 2: hard and he's gonna do a really good job.
Speaker 7: For us running down the fields with the coverage team.
Speaker 3: What are you looking for?
Speaker 7: But as you're doing that, you know.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm just having a little fun.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: I think when you're out there with the players, man,
Speaker 2: those those guys like when you just bring a different
Speaker 2: type of energy to it. Hey, I could still do it.
Speaker 2: So I want to go out there. I want to
Speaker 2: run around have fun with them. But I'm trying to
Speaker 2: stay out of their way. I'm trying not to get
Speaker 2: run over, right, making sure. I go home to my
Speaker 2: wife and she's like, Chris, why are you Olympic?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be doing that. So my jobs
Speaker 2: to just stay out of their way. Let those guys work.
Speaker 2: But I love just getting out there. Might challenge him
Speaker 2: a little bit. See if I beat you for ten yards, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's wrong with that?
Speaker 3: You know? So just little it was a little fun. Chris.
Speaker 9: You talked to Jordan not too long ago, and you
Speaker 9: said he struggling with the battle with a confidence issues
Speaker 9: a couple of times last year. What have you seen
Speaker 9: from him leading up to this point to show that
Speaker 9: he is more of a more confident player.
Speaker 2: You know, Jordan's just maturing right as a as a
Speaker 2: first year player. I think it's like any first year guy,
Speaker 2: You're gonna have those ups and downs, and then there's
Speaker 2: gonna be times in situations where you're pretty down on yourself, right,
Speaker 2: And I think it's our job best coaches to kind
Speaker 2: of riel him back in and just help him understand, like, hey, man, it's.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, you're a first year player.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be those things, but let's find some consistency.
Speaker 2: And I think now that he's found that consistency and
Speaker 2: he's continuing to find it, his confidence is just continued
Speaker 2: to rise and it's going to continue to rise throughout
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 1: That was Special teams coordinator Chris Horton. We also had
Speaker 1: a chance to talk with Mike McDonald, who's entering his
Speaker 1: second season as the Ravens defensive coordinator. He talked about
Speaker 1: where the defense is at this point going into the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 10: How's it going? Good to see everybuddy excited to get going. Man,
Speaker 10: it's about time. So it's been a long time as.
Speaker 6: We've played for real, So excited to see the guys
Speaker 6: go out there and play. So what do you got?
Speaker 7: So you have to kind of go back to your
Speaker 7: roots and watch a lot of Ohio State film with
Speaker 7: c J. Spalt this weekend.
Speaker 10: No, I mean obviously just watching their preseason stuff and
Speaker 10: going back to San Francisco and a couple of other
Speaker 10: guys on staff have been some other spots that we've
Speaker 10: checked out. But yeah, just you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 10: a great challenge. It's a tough first game of the year.
Speaker 10: There's not as much information that you used to acting on,
Speaker 10: and you're trying to blend last year's stuff to this
Speaker 10: year's stuff and try to a pat you know how
Speaker 10: they've attacked us before. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 10: we're just trying to hone our crafts and we're sharp
Speaker 10: on our stuff and you know, ultimately trying.
Speaker 6: To make him react to how we play. So that's
Speaker 6: that's the mentality corners.
Speaker 2: There's just you have new guys, guys coming off injury.
Speaker 3: No more than that's for a week one. That's a
Speaker 3: tough start.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel great. I feel great. We've got a
Speaker 6: lot of confidence in those guys.
Speaker 10: We've had a great, great couple of days of practice,
Speaker 10: and uh, you know, we'll see who's out there at
Speaker 10: certain times. I don't want to give that away quite yet,
Speaker 10: but you know, whoever will be out there. We got
Speaker 10: a lot of confidence in them, and then I think
Speaker 10: they're ready to go.
Speaker 7: Do you think there might be a situation where you
Speaker 7: might rotate some guys early on to kind of get
Speaker 7: a feel for things.
Speaker 6: I think you might see a little bit of a rotation.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't.
Speaker 10: I wouldn't say for the reason of getting a feel
Speaker 10: for it. But you know we have for reasons, you know,
Speaker 10: for who's in there and win and all that. So
Speaker 10: you know, we'll see who see who's end up in
Speaker 10: the snap counts. You know, I probably couldn't tell you
Speaker 10: right now. You know, I'm not keeping that from you.
Speaker 10: I just don't know that yet.
Speaker 5: Like specifically, what have you seen from Ronald Darby since
Speaker 5: he arrived and what makes him a good fit for
Speaker 5: what you want to do defensively? Just in a big pictures.
Speaker 10: Oh, he's a quick study, and he's really quick footed,
Speaker 10: has a great feel for what we're trying to do.
Speaker 10: He's just he's played a lot of a lot of
Speaker 10: good football and understands the game route concepts and splits
Speaker 10: and distributions and things like that.
Speaker 6: So he's just been a great guy to have around.
Speaker 10: I mean, it just it seemed like he picked it
Speaker 10: up seamlessly just for the first day he got here.
Speaker 6: So we're excited to see what he can.
Speaker 11: Do, like major changes in Stroud just the last couple
Speaker 11: of years since he had scouting him.
Speaker 5: In his college.
Speaker 10: Honest, it's it's it's been a lot of football between
Speaker 10: the last time he was on the opposing sideline. But
Speaker 10: you know, he looks impressed at me, like you know,
Speaker 10: he doesn't. It doesn't look like a rookie on preseason tape,
Speaker 10: and he's he's seems to poilsed back there and comfortable
Speaker 10: and he's always been a really accurate pastor that definitely
Speaker 10: hasn't changed. So I think that the scheme and him
Speaker 10: fit well. And uh, you know, obviously he's a really
Speaker 10: talented guy. He's got he's got a pretty good command
Speaker 10: to what they're doing, it looks like, so it would
Speaker 10: be a great challenge for us.
Speaker 6: So we're ready to go, though.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he had a defensive players for
Speaker 4: nice this job that he was this preseason and stuff.
Speaker 4: How much have you talked to him, I know you
Speaker 4: have a special relationship with him. How much have you
Speaker 4: talked to him heading into this game and made sure
Speaker 4: he's not you know, fixating on any of the stuff
Speaker 4: and the questions and all that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, David's isn't a great spot.
Speaker 10: I mean, we we've had a conver We've had conversations,
Speaker 10: not just about the preseason, but just you know, because
Speaker 10: well I'm one of his coaches, you know, as with
Speaker 10: a lot of other guys in the roster. But the
Speaker 10: message to him is say get lined up, unlet's roll
Speaker 10: thirty fastball. You know, sometimes you're gonna get blocked, and
Speaker 10: like just like every other NFL player to ever step
Speaker 10: out there, but we want you to go play the
Speaker 10: way you know how to how to play and and
Speaker 10: just go go go go make him go, make him
Speaker 10: block you. You know, don't don't give him a playoff. And
Speaker 10: I think he's responded really well. But he's in a
Speaker 10: great spot mentally. He's had a great couple of days
Speaker 10: of practice.
Speaker 6: So I'm looking to see what how he plays on Sunday.
Speaker 7: Jo.
Speaker 11: I'm curious in your skinning and planning against the rookie
Speaker 11: is a different I you you know how much you
Speaker 11: think against tendencies that studying the pass and safes using
Speaker 11: him hasn't looked, you know, has seen it takes it
Speaker 11: that make sense.
Speaker 10: Yeah, a lot of times you're facing a quarterback that
Speaker 10: has a longer track record there you have just a
Speaker 10: bigger database of stats of how well he's played and
Speaker 10: reacted to certain things that you can present him with,
Speaker 10: and you just don't have that with a rookie.
Speaker 6: So that's okay.
Speaker 10: You know, it's definitely a little bit more, uh, you know,
Speaker 10: leaning towards the scheme and the and the things that
Speaker 10: they present historically, you know, in that family of offense
Speaker 10: that you're thinking about defending in addition to the quarterback,
Speaker 10: rather than starting with a quarterback and then going to
Speaker 10: the scheme, if that makes sense. So at the end
Speaker 10: of the day, we got to we got to go
Speaker 10: play our style ball and and uh, you know, make
Speaker 10: them try to move the ball and what we're gonna
Speaker 10: give them.
Speaker 12: I know, this year's team is not last year's team,
Speaker 12: But did the struggles, especially in the secondary from early
Speaker 12: in the season inform how you went about preparing for
Speaker 12: the season anyway?
Speaker 10: You know, No, I just we had a fresh perspective
Speaker 10: coming in here with the guys that we had, and
Speaker 10: then the focus is really from day one of who
Speaker 10: we had, what we can do well with a with
Speaker 10: a with an idea of the vision that we're trying
Speaker 10: to build over time, and see how close we can
Speaker 10: get to that. With the movement a little bit in
Speaker 10: the secondary, I think that might have changed some of
Speaker 10: the things we were trying to do and ultimately we'll
Speaker 10: ultimately be able to.
Speaker 6: Get to that point.
Speaker 10: But you know, I'm just very confident where we're at
Speaker 10: right now, and the guys have a ton of an
Speaker 10: amazing job. I mean, we're really communicating well right now.
Speaker 6: We're sharp. Got a lot of confidence in those guys back.
Speaker 6: There are there a lot.
Speaker 12: Of insights that you maybe pick up in the off
Speaker 12: season self study that you wouldn't get from being the
Speaker 12: kind of you know, OCD a guy that you are,
Speaker 12: and ever I appreciate.
Speaker 6: That, thank you, could you I don't I don't understand
Speaker 6: the question all here was I mos CD.
Speaker 12: Is there a lot to learn about you know, how
Speaker 12: you play, how your defense plays as you pick up
Speaker 12: over the off season when you have that amount of
Speaker 12: time that you're going to be didn't.
Speaker 4: During the week to be grinds with.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think you know, we're a defense built on concepts,
Speaker 10: so you can't just throw out the final you know
Speaker 10: entree week one to the guys in training camp, let
Speaker 10: alone OTAs and expect it to work. It's a building
Speaker 10: process and you have to build a foundation and start
Speaker 10: to layer things over time. So just a process that
Speaker 10: takes longer than you want, but you have so you
Speaker 10: have to be patient with it. But like I said,
Speaker 10: just having a clear picture with the end game in mind,
Speaker 10: you know, I wouldn't say it makes it easier, but
Speaker 10: it's definitely clearer on what you're trying to get to.
Speaker 5: Other than the obvious production, what's specifically standard in the
Speaker 5: years and trying to stop.
Speaker 10: Him with Damian Pierce, man, he's a he's a great player.
Speaker 10: Just we say he runs angry, you know, well, first
Speaker 10: guys is gonna have our time bringing him down. So
Speaker 10: it's gonna take a group efforts. That's definitely a point
Speaker 10: of epsis this week. But uh, you know, we want to.
Speaker 10: It's it's we haven't tackled in a real game yet,
Speaker 10: especially with our ones. So that's been a message throughout
Speaker 10: the week of Hey, we want to. We want to
Speaker 10: bring our game with a tackle and make sure we
Speaker 10: get eleven hats to the ball and taking great angles,
Speaker 10: you know, so we're not giving any of any loose plays.
Speaker 7: You get feeling from when you see like you know,
Speaker 7: Patrick and broken and some of these practices that they're itching.
Speaker 6: I get that feeling from the whole team.
Speaker 1: That was Mike McDonald and last but not least, we
Speaker 1: also talked with offensive coordinator Todd Munkin. The status of
Speaker 1: the offense going into this game is one of the
Speaker 1: big mysteries and areas of intrigue for the Ravens offense.
Speaker 1: There's lots of curiosity about the changes that Monkin has
Speaker 1: brought to this team since his arrival this offseason. How
Speaker 1: much are the Ravens going to pass? What's this offense
Speaker 1: going to look like? How will he utilize all the
Speaker 1: new weapons that the Ravens have added to the mix.
Speaker 1: Munkin talked about all of that during his press conference today.
Speaker 7: Going into a season where you don't have the starters playing,
Speaker 7: you know, at all in the preseason, for you, is
Speaker 7: there uncertainty of when you actually get everybody on the field,
Speaker 7: how a role kind of mets especially early.
Speaker 8: On, Well, I mean, you're taking I don't want to
Speaker 8: say this, yere, You're going to take what you've seen,
Speaker 8: which is in practices and then the closest thing we've
Speaker 8: had has been, you know, with the commanders. So that's
Speaker 8: what you go by, and you go by. It would
Speaker 8: be a little bit different if say Lamar was a
Speaker 8: first year player, but he's not, or JK. Dobbins or
Speaker 8: we have a lot of experience our guys that have played,
Speaker 8: maybe not so much in what our terminology is now,
Speaker 8: but football's football. An inside zone plays, an inside zone
Speaker 8: play a curl flats curl flat for verts. So you
Speaker 8: rely on that just to make sure that the language
Speaker 8: gets communicated across and then we can execute a high level.
Speaker 8: But I don't have any concerns over it. Sure would
Speaker 8: it be nice to have played in games, of course,
Speaker 8: that's obvious, but uh but I don't feel it any
Speaker 8: different other than I think we're excited to go play.
Speaker 1: A lot of fans, all of us probably are just curious,
Speaker 1: that's intrigue about what this offense will look like this
Speaker 1: year at you know, I guess where do you feel
Speaker 1: like the offense is as you're either building it and
Speaker 1: you know what what shows I mean.
Speaker 3: I think I think we're in a good spot.
Speaker 8: I think that's been really overplayed in a lot of ways,
Speaker 8: what this offense will look like, or what we've done
Speaker 8: in the past, or what I think I get it.
Speaker 8: There's excitement. I mean, I'm excited to get started.
Speaker 3: I mean, I am.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's it's but it still comes down to
Speaker 8: execution and it trumps everything. It doesn't matter what we're running,
Speaker 8: is playing at a high level. Are guys excited to
Speaker 8: play and being able to stack plays? But again, what
Speaker 8: it'll look like, I'm excited to see it. I'm excited
Speaker 8: to see where we're at in a lot of ways,
Speaker 8: and I've seen it in practice and now I'm excited
Speaker 8: to see it in the games.
Speaker 12: If you have a guess, a preference long term or
Speaker 12: whether you want this offense to be multiple in the
Speaker 12: sense that you can run whatever kind of personnel grouping,
Speaker 12: or if you want.
Speaker 8: To major and be like a couple certain sets, I
Speaker 8: guess I really don't care who's on the field. To
Speaker 8: be honest, if you stay within the framework of really
Speaker 8: what wins, which is don't turn it over or being
Speaker 8: successful on offense, be explosive, eliminate loss yardage plays, score
Speaker 8: touchdowns in the red zone, and be lead on third downs.
Speaker 3: If you stay within that framework. The personnel.
Speaker 8: Really it's putting the best players on the field that
Speaker 8: give you a chance to be successful. The more talent
Speaker 8: that you have, the more exciting it is. You can
Speaker 8: be more versatile. If you have multiple backs, you can
Speaker 8: play some of you're twenty one personnel. If you have
Speaker 8: multiple tight ends you like to get on the field,
Speaker 8: that gives you opportunities to put personnel in the field.
Speaker 8: I think we're we're in a good place in terms
Speaker 8: of the personnel that we have that allows you to
Speaker 8: be versatile a lot of ways. You just have to
Speaker 8: be careful of getting spread too thin and having weigh
Speaker 8: too much and being.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe easy to.
Speaker 8: Defend because you have things you do specifically in certain packages.
Speaker 8: But I'm excited about our guys the versatility I think
Speaker 8: we'll have.
Speaker 9: It's been a lot made about the quarterback having more
Speaker 9: control in this offense. Has that usually been the case
Speaker 9: with you and your other stops giving quarterbacks that type
Speaker 9: of control? And why is that important?
Speaker 8: Well, it's been asked a lot, and I don't It
Speaker 8: doesn't seem universal to me. It seems pretty normal that
Speaker 8: the guy in charge has a big say in what
Speaker 8: you do and how we do it, his careers on
Speaker 8: the line, how we have successes on the line. Now,
Speaker 8: with that being said, I think the more you empower
Speaker 8: people it's not just a quarterback. The more you empower people,
Speaker 8: your coaches, your staff, people that work for you, all,
Speaker 8: the more you empower them. To me, you're going to
Speaker 8: get more out of them. They're going to embrace their role.
Speaker 8: They're going to want to be They're gonna bring ideas
Speaker 8: to you. If you poop who every idea someone has,
Speaker 8: they stop bringing the ideas.
Speaker 3: It just works that way. Now you've got to earn that.
Speaker 8: You know, you don't just allow anybody to have control
Speaker 8: of an offense or changing things or in any business.
Speaker 8: You don't allow just anybody to be empowered without earning
Speaker 8: that that comes with that. But I think it's the
Speaker 8: only way to be elite. I learned that from people
Speaker 8: empowering me. That's not something I developed. This isn't a
Speaker 8: Todd Munkin thing that is a life that is a
Speaker 8: life thing that makes sense a life thing. But I'm
Speaker 8: just saying in general, that's what makes it, what makes
Speaker 8: people grow, is trusting people.
Speaker 5: Tom when you see him from a healthy Rashad Bateman
Speaker 5: in these last couple of weeks, and what do you
Speaker 5: like about him that's unique that he can bring to
Speaker 5: this offense.
Speaker 8: Well, first of all, it's since I've been here over
Speaker 8: the last two or three weeks plus, it's been great
Speaker 8: to see Bait with a smile on his face. I think,
Speaker 8: like any any human being, when they're not in a
Speaker 8: good place, that's just isn't football what he does for
Speaker 8: a living, Being hurt, being frustrated with rehabbing it coming back.
Speaker 8: Like I said, we're always better when we're in a
Speaker 8: good place, and I think he's in a really good
Speaker 8: place terms of where he is and what we do
Speaker 8: offensively and where his health is. So with that being said,
Speaker 8: you start to see some of the explosion that he has,
Speaker 8: the speed, the playmaking ability that that you love to
Speaker 8: see that you've already seen. Now it's a matter of
Speaker 8: being able to stay healthy and that for him because
Speaker 8: you know it's what he loves to do.
Speaker 4: We're about to talk about how we fullback will fit
Speaker 4: in or could fit in your offense and how.
Speaker 9: You utilize the will the back.
Speaker 4: How do you view Patrick orcard overall as fitting into
Speaker 4: what you want to.
Speaker 3: Do offensively well.
Speaker 8: I think he's an invaluable piece. It's it's trying to
Speaker 8: figure out where and when, what spots of the field,
Speaker 8: what situations, what package is what set of plays best
Speaker 8: utilizing his skill set that fits into what we want
Speaker 8: to accomplish, you know, throughout the course of a game,
Speaker 8: which is a lot of coach speak, I guess, but
Speaker 8: that is the way it is with any player. You know,
Speaker 8: when you're thinking about, Okay, why are we going to
Speaker 8: play this slot receiver, Why are we going to play
Speaker 8: this tight end, Why are we going to play this player?
Speaker 8: Pat has a unique skill set and so us trying
Speaker 8: to fit that in and.
Speaker 3: How do we.
Speaker 8: Utilize him in more aspects. He is certainly going to
Speaker 8: be value in four minute goal line, coming out short
Speaker 8: yardage when you want to run the football. A certain
Speaker 8: physicality that the Raven's helmet stands for. You have to
Speaker 8: have that on your team. But now, how do you
Speaker 8: add packages to that. That's to be determined basically week
Speaker 8: to week. We've thought so much about the versatility of
Speaker 8: your skilled players, and you can light you do different things.
Speaker 3: Yes, athleticism on the old line.
Speaker 12: Linderbaum and Stanley particular how much does that allow you
Speaker 12: to be creative.
Speaker 3: Because of the things they can do that maybe some
Speaker 3: almal center attack we can't. It's a great question.
Speaker 8: I mean, when you when you have an athletic center,
Speaker 8: you're not as nervous in certain fronts when you have
Speaker 8: to pull a center instead of a guard. Obviously some
Speaker 8: of your toss crack schemes and your screens come into
Speaker 8: play when those guys can get on the perimeter. And
Speaker 8: then in terms of movement, you see so much upfront movement,
Speaker 8: twists and stunts. Their ability to recover I think is
Speaker 8: critically important. So you know, it's just it's it's it's
Speaker 8: not a luxury, it's just what you're looking for in
Speaker 8: a center and a left tackle. That's really he said,
Speaker 8: what are you looking for? Smart, intelligent, tough athletic And
Speaker 8: you know that's I guess that's what you're looking for
Speaker 8: at every position.
Speaker 3: I guess. But we're lucky to have those guys.
Speaker 9: As you get ready for week one with JK.
Speaker 5: Dobbins getting a late start for training camp, do you
Speaker 5: feel like he's at the point you want them at
Speaker 5: now as you go into the regular system.
Speaker 8: I really like where he's at you know, all along
Speaker 8: he's had again. I think he's been ready to go
Speaker 8: from the start again. I don't get into someone's business,
Speaker 8: but I thought he did a great job of being
Speaker 8: in the playbook, asking questions. Thought he was in great spirits.
Speaker 8: It's fun having him out there. He loves playing football,
Speaker 8: and guys like that. You can feel in the practice
Speaker 8: field you really root for those guys because they love
Speaker 8: playing football. They bring that energy on the field and
Speaker 8: they bring people with them.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 11: Sure that the days drought on the other side. Everybody's different, obviously,
Speaker 11: but curious in your experience, that's what's the hardest thing
Speaker 11: with looking quarterback time coming ways, making the first start.
Speaker 8: Oh, I don't I don't know. It's hard to speak
Speaker 8: for him. I just think that I think it's really
Speaker 8: I think it's hard in any profession when you start
Speaker 8: a new job. I think it's hard.
Speaker 3: I just do.
Speaker 8: I just think you learn as you go and you improve.
Speaker 8: I don't care how talented a writer you are or
Speaker 8: how talented a journalist, you've all gotten better from the
Speaker 8: first time you wrote and whenever you spoke. Same with me, right,
Speaker 8: So I think it's hard to come right out of
Speaker 8: the block and be where you're going to be. At
Speaker 8: least I hope that's the freaking case. Let's at least
Speaker 8: put it that way, right that hopefully it takes him,
Speaker 8: you know, at least another four days. Okay, let's talk
Speaker 8: about that. But he's a tremendous player. I mean, last
Speaker 8: time I saw him, we were in a barn burner
Speaker 8: with him in the playoffs. So he's a tremendous player
Speaker 8: and a great, great young man. But I think, just
Speaker 8: generally speaking, and again I wouldn't want this to come
Speaker 8: out like I'm speaking for him, but just in general,
Speaker 8: I'm just saying, in general and any profession, it's hard
Speaker 8: when you first start. That's every position. Your rookies are
Speaker 8: going to have bumps. It just happens that he's in
Speaker 8: control the offense. It's more obvious. Does that make sense?
Speaker 8: I think the first game I called plays, we went three.
Speaker 8: We went seven straight three and outs. You talk about
Speaker 8: want to quit calling plays? I mean, my goodness, you know,
Speaker 8: so that was awful and I was like, I thought
Speaker 8: this was gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: This is terrible. I mean, there's nowhere to go about
Speaker 3: the play caller. It's like you're that guy. So I
Speaker 3: do think it's hard whenever you start.
Speaker 8: And I think that's just the beginning of it, as
Speaker 8: you you know, like any Like I said, any profress,
Speaker 8: he just happens to be at this point in his career,
Speaker 8: and I think he's gonna have a heck of a career.
Speaker 3: I just hope, like I said, I hope it doesn't
Speaker 3: start in four days.
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