Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: June eleventh. The Ravens wrapped up their first day at
Speaker 1: Mini camp practice and afterwards we had a chance to
Speaker 1: hear from some key players a head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Let's kick things off with Coach Harps.
Speaker 3: Okay, good seeing everybody appreciate you being here. We had
Speaker 3: a really good practice. I was excited about that Mini camp,
Speaker 3: the first mandatory practice of the year, and we enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: And it's great to see the guys out there. On
Speaker 3: top of that, we had eighty Ravens legends here with
Speaker 3: their families. Uh, kind of reminiscing. I think the Ravens
Speaker 3: do a great job. Matt Little with the Ravens alumni
Speaker 3: does an amazing job. I think all our all of
Speaker 3: our people do.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: They got to cook out over there now. Kids are
Speaker 3: playing touch football or tackle football and everybody's having a
Speaker 3: great time. So really enjoying that. It's it's a once
Speaker 3: a Raven, always a Raven you really he really is
Speaker 3: a family type of a of a an organization. And
Speaker 3: when you see the guys back, the smiles their faces,
Speaker 3: who want to introduce their kids to you, our players
Speaker 3: go over, take them minute to meet their kids, to
Speaker 3: sign autographs, to do pictures. It's to me, it's what
Speaker 3: it's all about.
Speaker 5: How many did you recall?
Speaker 3: Well after I was told I got them all. But
Speaker 3: you know, sometimes the face is the name of the body.
Speaker 3: You know, everything kind of changes over time, Jerry, except
Speaker 3: for you. Yeah, you used to always stay the same.
Speaker 5: John.
Speaker 6: We talked to Ronnie about the lapse after fall starts.
Speaker 6: He said, you know, it's gonna get guys to learn
Speaker 6: very quickly the day when is that something that you
Speaker 6: just thought you bounding into that or like, you know,
Speaker 6: how long do you think you'll be continuing the rule?
Speaker 3: Well, as long as we don't, there's a really easy
Speaker 3: way to stop it. You know, don't be don't be
Speaker 3: jumping off sides. But we've been going through the off
Speaker 3: season and we're doing a lot with cadence, We're doing
Speaker 3: a lot without the line of communication, and it's challenging.
Speaker 3: So we understand there are gonna be those moments and
Speaker 3: you have a choice. You either always go on one
Speaker 3: or you say we're gonna push through it. We're gonna
Speaker 3: have that, We're gonna live with mistakes, but we're gonna
Speaker 3: We're gonna get good at it. So we want to
Speaker 3: get good at because we think it's cadence is a weapon,
Speaker 3: and we want to be able to communicate the line,
Speaker 3: and we want to be able to protect our communication.
Speaker 3: So if Toddy must the guys to run after they
Speaker 3: jump off side, they'll do it. And I appreciate Josh
Speaker 3: Johnson being the first guy to be the leader and
Speaker 3: get out there and take the first lap. So that's
Speaker 3: what leaders do.
Speaker 7: Ronnie was saying he hasn't felt the skitsin's twenty twenty.
Speaker 8: I guess it's that about what you're seeing a similarity
Speaker 8: between what you looked like before that.
Speaker 4: Season and now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't remember twenty twenty. It seems so long.
Speaker 3: That whole year is just a blip. It's just gone.
Speaker 3: You know. Did anybody remember twenty twenty? Apparently Ronnie does.
Speaker 3: And it was a good year for Ronnie, bad year
Speaker 3: for everybody else, but a good year for Ronnie. Where
Speaker 3: are we going with this? I think Ronnie's doing a
Speaker 3: good job. I really do. I mean, he got in shape,
Speaker 3: it looks like he's ready to go. That's exciting. I
Speaker 3: love Ronnie, I love I love you. Know who he
Speaker 3: is personality, but also love what he's capable of doing
Speaker 3: on the football field. You know, if we get Ronnie
Speaker 3: Stanley out there playing to that level, that would be wonderful.
Speaker 9: You along those lines, do you see a guy who's
Speaker 9: interrport from maybe or fit. Obviously he doesn't have injuries
Speaker 9: to deal with. Now if you did, you of the
Speaker 9: season in spirited in the practices and they are sensing, uh, motivation.
Speaker 5: Is probably after that work.
Speaker 9: So are you sensing something out of him is hus impressive?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I you go by what you
Speaker 3: see as a coach, you know, and and uh, as
Speaker 3: Bill Parcells said, now what you remember, you know? And
Speaker 3: uh what I see from Ronnie is he's moving his feet,
Speaker 3: looks like he's got a good anchor, and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: he'll get into the pads and just just work, just
Speaker 3: gotta get to work and really get everybody ready. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's the same as everybody else. But obviously having a
Speaker 3: a talented left tackle playing at a high level would
Speaker 3: be really good for a football team.
Speaker 5: John sol.
Speaker 6: I know, I know, and Ot there's some insight with
Speaker 6: the new door and do you have any update on
Speaker 6: the line.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 3: I guess I can say now I've talked to him
Speaker 3: a few times. The last couple of days. His baby
Speaker 3: is in the hospital fair five week old daughter.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: They brought her back in the hospital this weekend and
Speaker 3: now the last couple of days. So he felt like
Speaker 3: he couldn't really leave his family. So we understood and
Speaker 3: we excused him for that.
Speaker 5: John, we saw Kyle Hamilton is observing.
Speaker 9: Is he dealing with a physical issue and you're gonna
Speaker 9: be ready for training?
Speaker 3: Kyle will be ready. Kyle had some loose bodies in
Speaker 3: his elbow that they went ahead and just plucked out.
Speaker 3: So it's a two to three week deal.
Speaker 5: Shot with Derek, you know, running back at thirty years old.
Speaker 5: So all the wearing Terry's head over his his career.
Speaker 8: Do you guys view him as someone who can meet
Speaker 8: to him the same kind of Workplader he had.
Speaker 5: He's gonnessee here? Sure?
Speaker 3: I mean we do you know? I mean I watched it.
Speaker 3: I watched the wear and tear that he put on
Speaker 3: defenses you know and ours included over the years. And
Speaker 3: he came out, He's come out. He's in great shape.
Speaker 3: He's a stickler for detail, knowing knowing the plays, and
Speaker 3: he's moving really well. So I can't wait to see
Speaker 3: him in action.
Speaker 6: John's on that note without pads, and then they didn't,
Speaker 6: you know, roll saying that you.
Speaker 7: Know when when pads are on, that's really where he
Speaker 7: shines obviously took What can you kind of tell about
Speaker 7: this fit within the offense when you're.
Speaker 5: Doing a meaningful work?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, we run a lot of the
Speaker 3: same plays that that that everybody runs. You know, we
Speaker 3: run inside zone, outside zone, run the gap schemes. You know,
Speaker 3: we got some lead schemes, some traps. He's run all
Speaker 3: those plays before. He's really good in past protection. Uh,
Speaker 3: So you know it's uh, I don't think it's even
Speaker 3: gonna be an issue with the fit. Uh. He's gonna
Speaker 3: help us, He's gonna make the make the offense better.
Speaker 3: He's gonna help Lamar all those things.
Speaker 10: John, I know it early and and a lot of
Speaker 10: the practices is scripted right now. But when when you're
Speaker 10: when you do have Henry and Lamar out there together,
Speaker 10: are you seeing some of the uh, just the human
Speaker 10: aspect of defenders trying to guard those two guys and
Speaker 10: read option whatever the case may be.
Speaker 5: Just that hesitation that they may get.
Speaker 3: Definitely, I think to your point, you can see the
Speaker 3: potent of it, but you know, it's just it's just
Speaker 3: it's a fit drill right now. So there's really no
Speaker 3: stress being put on the defense over the offense physical
Speaker 3: physical physicality wise, but hopefully you know, the idea that
Speaker 3: he can attack from the A gap all the way out,
Speaker 3: and then the offense can attack from the A gap
Speaker 3: all around and they've got to defend him and and
Speaker 3: Lamar full with the field and the other guys full
Speaker 3: with the field. That's just the width of the field,
Speaker 3: not the depth of field. Hopefully that stretches the defense out.
Speaker 3: You know, it's kind of a big picture concept of it.
Speaker 3: But the guy that when he runs down there, it's
Speaker 3: going to be meaningful.
Speaker 5: So trying to feel like.
Speaker 2: The team is adjusting to hold the changes to the
Speaker 2: coaching staff over.
Speaker 3: The office's I think he's been great. Coach has been great.
Speaker 3: You know, our guys have come in and done a
Speaker 3: great job, and uh, you know, just I look at
Speaker 3: the product and I also look at the job the
Speaker 3: process and the process has been amazing. I think we've
Speaker 3: got we've had some great coaches and sometimes it's good
Speaker 3: to mix it up a little bit and turn it
Speaker 3: around a little bit and get another uh, just another
Speaker 3: kind of a look at things. We haven't changed our
Speaker 3: scheme on defense, but we've added stuff, We've tweaked stuff.
Speaker 3: We haven't really changed our philosophy on offense, especially from
Speaker 3: last year, but we've definitely grown the offense special teams.
Speaker 3: We're chasing this new kickoff kickoff return things, trying to
Speaker 3: figure that out. So it's a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of excitement.
Speaker 5: John Dow's that everyone's back. You've got a lot of
Speaker 5: differents in the locker room.
Speaker 1: How do you find a way to send messages to
Speaker 1: the team when you're talking to them in meetings?
Speaker 4: That's gonna resonate both with your two time MVP and
Speaker 4: the undrafted rookie trying.
Speaker 5: To make his first roster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. It just just come comes to
Speaker 3: us as coaches, you know, then the guys, and then
Speaker 3: usually you go by what you see. It's the great
Speaker 3: thing about coaching is that people say kind of keeps
Speaker 3: you young. You know, it kind of does because you're
Speaker 3: in there with the guys. You're in there with the
Speaker 3: guys every day and there's a lot of banter and
Speaker 3: back and forth and fun. We had fun out there today.
Speaker 3: Mark and I were going out of the huddle and
Speaker 3: trying to get this thing templed up. And that's that's
Speaker 3: what you live for. I mean, that's the way. It's
Speaker 3: got to be just open and honest and just lay
Speaker 3: it out there and try to find a way to,
Speaker 3: uh to confront everything that has to do with our
Speaker 3: football and uh, I don't know. I just think we
Speaker 3: got a good bunch of guys, so it's really not
Speaker 3: hard to communicate with him.
Speaker 5: Ota and Minihammers have changed over the years and produce
Speaker 5: some of the physicality in years passes. With their reunion here,
Speaker 5: have you gotten.
Speaker 9: The bunch of the the guys coming back giving reviews
Speaker 9: on what they make of VOTs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't say you about, you know, putting the
Speaker 3: flags on guys or anything like that. They didn't mention
Speaker 3: that they were they were happy to be back. And
Speaker 3: really it's always been that way. It was always supposed
Speaker 3: to be no contact, but back in the day, you know,
Speaker 3: they didn't really police it. I remember my first my
Speaker 3: first time out here with the Ravens, first time we
Speaker 3: had an o TA practice and the defense was blitzing
Speaker 3: every play. You know, Rex was bringing the heat and
Speaker 3: they were causing wreaking some havoc, you know, running through
Speaker 3: gaps and stuff like that, and uh, you know, I basically,
Speaker 3: you know, told him to calm down, and they started
Speaker 3: calling the offense. Little brother Cam got ticked off. I
Speaker 3: thought Cam and Rex were gonna go at it. Will
Speaker 3: anybody pay to see that fight? Cam and Rex? So,
Speaker 3: uh so, I don't know. Some guys said something. I said,
Speaker 3: it's a couple of things. Back to the defense. Next thing,
Speaker 3: you know, Jared Johnson's walking out in the field coming
Speaker 3: toward me. You know, you know, we're the what do
Speaker 3: you say? We were the number six defense in the
Speaker 3: league last year, you know, and I did know my numbers.
Speaker 3: I said, points, you were twenty four. Okay, point you
Speaker 3: were twenty four, So, you know, so he comes walking
Speaker 3: to everything. I looked at him. I said, I said,
Speaker 3: you want to go? You want to go right now?
Speaker 3: What I meant was, do you want to go off
Speaker 3: the field back to the locker room. He thought, like,
Speaker 3: you want to drop the gloves and go, you know,
Speaker 3: So we made up pretty quickly at that point.
Speaker 5: Johnny thought over.
Speaker 11: The offensive line, and we know those positions and the
Speaker 11: names that are competing.
Speaker 4: But how far out are you comfortable taking this realistically speaking,
Speaker 4: are you going to go through all preseason or do
Speaker 4: you want to make some of the decisions.
Speaker 5: Like you did for John last season.
Speaker 3: Great question. I really like the earlier the better. I mean,
Speaker 3: it would be nice if we can kind of by
Speaker 3: the first send of the second week in training camp.
Speaker 3: I'd be a goal to kind of have a good
Speaker 3: idea to go into the games. You know, it could
Speaker 3: go into the preseason games, but maybe just one spot
Speaker 3: maybe up for grabs or something like that. That'd be okay.
Speaker 3: But the sooner the better.
Speaker 4: You mentioned the new kickoff rules. I've been seeing a
Speaker 4: couple of teams are kind of opening up the door
Speaker 4: to anyone. They are really thinking out outside the box
Speaker 4: on who can return. I know you guys have brought
Speaker 4: in harding, and you have guys on this team that
Speaker 4: have been returned specially, But in your mind, is there
Speaker 4: anybody that's like, I'm not putting.
Speaker 11: Them back there?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's a lot of guys. Yeah I'm not
Speaker 3: going back there. Yeah, And Lamar's not going back there,
Speaker 3: and Mark's not going back there. Kyle's not going back there,
Speaker 3: Beast's not going back there, Quan is not going back there.
Speaker 3: Who else you know? Who? Mat A bk not going
Speaker 3: back there. File is not going back there, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Stanley not going back there. Now, it's a lot there's
Speaker 3: a lot of nose catching kicks. Was he Steven Shotty's
Speaker 3: returney kicks? If Steve wats return kicked, Steve may go
Speaker 3: back there. Yes, he's allowed, he can do whatever he wants.
Speaker 3: But no, we're gonna stick with it to the serious point.
Speaker 3: You know, we're gonna it's gonna be our We're not
Speaker 3: gonna put Zay back there. We're gonna put our return
Speaker 3: guys back there. You know, those are the guys that
Speaker 3: do it. I mean, if we got an emergency and
Speaker 3: we had to have a guy because of injuries, we
Speaker 3: would do it. That shouldn't happen. We've got guys that
Speaker 3: can do it. We have returners that can do it,
Speaker 3: and some young guys that want to do it. So
Speaker 3: we'll love the guys.
Speaker 2: We also talk with veteran linebacker Roquan Smith.
Speaker 5: You've had a kind of.
Speaker 1: Success, you had kind of all grow up, the contract
Speaker 1: all this stuff.
Speaker 5: How do you approach from year to year?
Speaker 12: Where do you think that you get Oh, there's a
Speaker 12: lot of things where I think I can improve personally,
Speaker 12: but I think it's all about the team and personally
Speaker 12: and as a team, we came up short, so there's
Speaker 12: always room to get better. And part of being here,
Speaker 12: like pretty much the entire time, is that you know,
Speaker 12: I love this. You know it's my up and I
Speaker 12: love what I do, and so it's just about finding
Speaker 12: little ways to get better. But I think there's ways
Speaker 12: all across the field, whether that's you know, certain ways
Speaker 12: to beat different blocks, maybe route recognition, even quicker things
Speaker 12: like that. So I think there's a numerous amounts of things,
Speaker 12: and it's always about getting better, because you're not getting better,
Speaker 12: you're getting worse, in my opinion.
Speaker 10: Recognition to credit for your receptions today or what happened on.
Speaker 12: That one, Oh, No, I just knew most quarterbacks are taught,
Speaker 12: and then I knew we had some pressure going. So
Speaker 12: I knew most quarterbacks are taught. When the defender back
Speaker 12: is turned going up the middle, shoot just to.
Speaker 11: Lay it up.
Speaker 12: So I knew I had to get my back turned,
Speaker 12: and then somehow made a play real when you.
Speaker 7: First But do you think back to when you first
Speaker 7: met Zach Orr, how did you kind of build trust
Speaker 7: in one another and start to build that bond And
Speaker 7: obviously he's in a bigger job now, but how did
Speaker 7: you build that religionship?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Absolutely, I'm extremely proud of zero happy form and you
Speaker 12: know the way he worked got busses his tail day
Speaker 12: in and day out. Career ended short because he probably
Speaker 12: would still be playing right now if if that, if
Speaker 12: it wasn't for that. But I think it started from
Speaker 12: when I first got here, when I first got traded,
Speaker 12: my first day here, I remember him going up to
Speaker 12: his office, me going over pretty much every play that
Speaker 12: was a lot in my head was spinning a little bit,
Speaker 12: but like how he was very patient with me and
Speaker 12: was able to teach the information that I would need
Speaker 12: in order to succeee with playing a game within like
Speaker 12: six days. So I think that's just a credit to
Speaker 12: like how he get down, how he's about his business,
Speaker 12: and I'm just excited for him to show the world
Speaker 12: exactly how he called a game and how he motivates
Speaker 12: defense like no other.
Speaker 5: What is it been like going guys, Derrick Henry practice now.
Speaker 7: And what is it like knowing you.
Speaker 5: Don't have to do that Dams?
Speaker 12: Yeah, no, for sure. With d hand, it's a lot,
Speaker 12: it's a lot. It's a lot more chill right now.
Speaker 12: Because it's OTA's mini camp. He don't have on his
Speaker 12: pass so this is not his strong suit more so,
Speaker 12: it's when he put his on that's when he become
Speaker 12: that demon and whatnot. But it's great being able to
Speaker 12: line up across from that guy, one of the best
Speaker 12: backs of our generation. Got a mad respect for him
Speaker 12: and all the things he's accomplished, and I still see
Speaker 12: he has a lot of tread left on the tire.
Speaker 12: So I'm just excited for him to show the world
Speaker 12: exactly what he can do. And yeah, lining up against
Speaker 12: across from him is a lot different than lining up
Speaker 12: to go to war with him.
Speaker 4: You talking about team success, You guys last season were
Speaker 4: number one in sacks, turnings or some points allowed.
Speaker 5: How do you help yourself with that same standard going
Speaker 5: to this year?
Speaker 11: Last year doesn't matter anymore. It's a new year, new team.
Speaker 12: But we still have a lot of these dogs on
Speaker 12: the team and it's just about staying hungry. We hunt
Speaker 12: as a pack and just like I think of like
Speaker 12: safaris and things like that, like a pack of hyenas
Speaker 12: like lions or whoever it is. Don't really want to
Speaker 12: run up on those guys. So I feel like we
Speaker 12: got that kind of mindset and guys on all three levels,
Speaker 12: and we play hard and effort is something that we'll
Speaker 12: never question and just being relentless and everything we do,
Speaker 12: and I feel like if we do that, our talent
Speaker 12: will take care of everything else we got.
Speaker 8: You got a lot of chances to see trying in
Speaker 8: OTAs and the sweet in your eyes.
Speaker 5: What are the strives he's made that you can see
Speaker 5: so far early this summer.
Speaker 12: Yeah, no, I think man, I think he's gonna surprise
Speaker 12: a lot of people. Man, he's still learning, for sure,
Speaker 12: But I just think the way he don't make the
Speaker 12: same mistakes over and over every day, he learned from
Speaker 12: his mistakes, and I think that's crucial when you're young,
Speaker 12: being able not to make the same mistakes twice.
Speaker 11: And I don't think he truld well.
Speaker 12: I know he don't understand how fast, how explosive, and
Speaker 12: how powerful he is. But once he actually understand that,
Speaker 12: which I think will be very soon, watch out.
Speaker 7: Brookland how beneficial is it having Zach Oh as a
Speaker 7: defensive coordinator playing the same position that you played, Like,
Speaker 7: is that kind of helped that relationship in helping it evolved?
Speaker 11: Yeah, No, absolutely.
Speaker 12: With him being a former linebacker playing it playing at
Speaker 12: an all pro level, not many people can say they've
Speaker 12: done that and then switch over to the coaching transition.
Speaker 12: I think it definitely helps out. We see things a
Speaker 12: lot similar he played back in this league, so the
Speaker 12: way he saw things as the backer, he kind of
Speaker 12: teach it from that, which I think makes things a
Speaker 12: lot easier to understand. So I think it's gonna be
Speaker 12: great and I'm just excited to put it on display
Speaker 12: this fall. But you know, there's a process in place,
Speaker 12: and I'm respectful of that.
Speaker 11: You know, Zach has.
Speaker 6: Already talked about how being a first first time play caller,
Speaker 6: there's some challenges that come with it. His first challenge,
Speaker 6: of course, is gonna be the Kansas City Chiefs and
Speaker 6: Patch Grumps. You know, Zach, how do you think he's.
Speaker 12: Gonna be able to have pand of that step up
Speaker 12: to the plate and whatever comes is gonna throw everything
Speaker 12: he got and he's gonna be prepared, like no other
Speaker 12: than I got the utmost respect for him and the
Speaker 12: utmost confidence that he's gonna do the job with Flying Colors.
Speaker 12: I don't think there's any other questions to be asked
Speaker 12: about that.
Speaker 5: Is there stuff you do off.
Speaker 7: The field to increase that sentive partnership with and I
Speaker 7: mean like, were you texting him, you know, during during
Speaker 7: the off season. I mean, is there is there something
Speaker 7: that we don't see that's building?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 12: No, we're definitely building building a relationship. I feel like
Speaker 12: last year was a little different, younger guy, you know,
Speaker 12: head spinning.
Speaker 11: All over the place and whatnot.
Speaker 12: But there's numerous things that we do now starting off season,
Speaker 12: we're actually going to take a trip together, uh and
Speaker 12: then going to lunch dinners and things like that, and
Speaker 12: kind of understanding because I think once you understand an individual,
Speaker 12: you're able to you know.
Speaker 11: Get closer with them.
Speaker 12: And being able to understand a person that makes them
Speaker 12: lean on you a little bit more and like actually
Speaker 12: know what gets them going and what like kind of
Speaker 12: you know, takes a person. I think that's just all
Speaker 12: part of understanding someone.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 11: Well, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, no idea. So yeah, Machu Peach, you that
Speaker 12: was amazing, one of the seven winners of the World,
Speaker 12: like I recommend you go.
Speaker 11: And then learning about.
Speaker 12: The history of the Incans, uh and whatnot, which I
Speaker 12: think is is pretty awesome. And then I'm a history
Speaker 12: and just being able to go see that and experience that.
Speaker 12: I actually went there with running, so it was it
Speaker 12: was pretty unique and that's one of them.
Speaker 11: So got to get get to a couple more though.
Speaker 1: Now the big addition for the Ravens this offseason was
Speaker 1: he talented veteran running back Derek Henry King. Henry is
Speaker 1: now in Baltimore. Everybody is fired up about that and
Speaker 1: he talked with the media today.
Speaker 10: Why from here, But now that you have spent time
Speaker 10: in the off season, just what are your impuestions of
Speaker 10: this team they don't.
Speaker 5: Feel especially with Lamar.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's been cool, you know, it's the culture is
Speaker 13: just like I expected to work hard. That's togetherness, our brotherhood.
Speaker 13: Everybody to pushes each other on all sides of the ball.
Speaker 13: And it's been fun learning getting everybody, but just trying
Speaker 13: to do my job as well.
Speaker 5: I think off the field with Lamar's that that has
Speaker 5: helped h.
Speaker 9: I think it developed that relationship with a little bit.
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 13: I mean we haven't did anything off the field yet,
Speaker 13: but I think it just comes natural. I mean, two
Speaker 13: guys that are are down to earth, love winning, love
Speaker 13: playing football, and like I said with Zay, we both
Speaker 13: from Florida, I think it comes easy.
Speaker 8: How has the adjustment been to you for you coming
Speaker 8: to a new team, You know, you played in one
Speaker 8: team for sillball, just to ski here.
Speaker 5: How do you feel like you're catching up with all
Speaker 5: of that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's it's it's it's definitely different terminology and everything,
Speaker 13: but you know it's it's a challenge and it's fun
Speaker 13: and uh doing something new, there's always uh gonna bring
Speaker 13: uh a challenge to it. But you know, I I
Speaker 13: embrace it. It's been fun learning, uh guys helping me,
Speaker 13: uh running back coach, coach Tag helping me as well,
Speaker 13: and you know, just continue to grow, continue to learn
Speaker 13: everything and let the transition on the field.
Speaker 2: Is it the terminology or what else is really new
Speaker 2: here as compared.
Speaker 5: To the city.
Speaker 13: It just uh the way the way they do a
Speaker 13: certain thing things different than how we did in Tennessee.
Speaker 13: Some can be saying but different terminology, but it's just
Speaker 13: it's it's fun learning new stuff and uh brings the
Speaker 13: challenge to it. See how smart you are on the
Speaker 13: field as football players.
Speaker 5: So they're Columbus type.
Speaker 9: Are rich things that you've brought with you Tennessee and
Speaker 9: trying to do as a like certain designs, things they
Speaker 9: do that that you like, uh you know, not getting
Speaker 9: too in different strategy, but pretend that you like me
Speaker 9: that they do and you kind of have that dialogue with.
Speaker 13: Uh nah h, I gotta come here and show them
Speaker 13: I can do the the the things that they they
Speaker 13: present first for I even get the opportunity even I
Speaker 13: mean if it even even comes. So you know, I've
Speaker 13: just been a spunge trying to learn anything and going
Speaker 13: out going out there and trying to do my best.
Speaker 4: I know, was it in early and yet you guys
Speaker 4: haven't done a lot yet. But are you s when
Speaker 4: you go up against the defense, are you starting to
Speaker 4: get a feel of how they're playing you with you know,
Speaker 4: when you're back there with Lamar, how they're reacting to you.
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 13: I think the defense is gonna gonna do what they
Speaker 13: he's always done, be physically fast and and get to
Speaker 13: the ball no matter who's back there. So it's been
Speaker 13: the same from from now how they operate in the
Speaker 13: physicality they play with to when I was playing, when
Speaker 13: I was up an opponent at Tennessee.
Speaker 2: So O, hows you through at at but just happing
Speaker 2: the morning next year?
Speaker 5: How much will that open opportunities for you?
Speaker 2: Obviously he takes so much attention of the defense, but
Speaker 2: how how much do you think that will create opportunities
Speaker 2: and lanes over you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 13: You know it definitely uh prates a different aspect because
Speaker 13: he's uh ah a dual threat quarterback and he's dangerous
Speaker 13: with his legs just as he is with his with
Speaker 13: his arm, And it's gonna be fun and uh a
Speaker 13: breath of fresh air not being the center of attention
Speaker 13: knowing that uh eyes are gonna be on him as well.
Speaker 13: But I'm just excited to get the work and put
Speaker 13: the work in out here and let it all come
Speaker 13: together when it's that time there.
Speaker 6: MOR's never really had a running back the caliber of
Speaker 6: you and and what everything that you bring. How much
Speaker 6: pressure do you think think you can take away and
Speaker 6: take off of the marshal ers just being being through
Speaker 6: the back.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think you just just just doing my job
Speaker 13: and executing, being efficient and everything that I do so
Speaker 13: we help one another. And my job is just being explosive,
Speaker 13: making disposive runs, being a threat in the run game
Speaker 13: and any anywhere else they asks me to, uh uh
Speaker 13: help out this offense. So it just me focused on
Speaker 13: doing my job just so I'm a threat to opposing
Speaker 13: defenses as long.
Speaker 5: As you can get in Tennessee. I'm sure the rhythm
Speaker 5: of things and set up of things you got rid
Speaker 5: of wrong the whole what are the ravens done here
Speaker 5: to like kind.
Speaker 9: Of help them find you?
Speaker 5: And then maybe some things that they've done with this
Speaker 5: sort of how preaches you're experience can new markets for
Speaker 5: the first time?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think football is football, and it's just uh
Speaker 13: learning the terminology and uh the way they do things.
Speaker 13: And then once all that comes all that comes together
Speaker 13: with the experience and reps out here, then I can
Speaker 13: you know, you can go be yourself. But some of
Speaker 13: the things you know, you just used to from experience
Speaker 13: doing out the years, run plays and different things like that.
Speaker 13: But your every offense has different things and and how
Speaker 13: they do it. But it's just a repetition and and
Speaker 13: getting familiar with it and then going out there and
Speaker 13: being yourself and being a great player, but you know
Speaker 13: how to be.
Speaker 3: Unique challenges and not just coming to a new team's aligned,
Speaker 3: but coming to a team that's still figuring out.
Speaker 5: It's in line with so many starters gone.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 13: I think we all just focus on getting better every year. Uh.
Speaker 13: Each team is gonna be different, and uh that's just
Speaker 13: how this business goes. And I think, uh, each guy
Speaker 13: is a it's uh embracing every single one of their roles.
Speaker 13: I know I'm uh embracing mind. Trying to work is
Speaker 13: as hard as we can and that's all you can
Speaker 13: asks for your teammates and everybody as a whole.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 9: You talk about being the center of attention for much
Speaker 9: of your career, and here go to the games where.
Speaker 14: You're not the center of attention.
Speaker 9: Do you feel like you could be as impactful in
Speaker 9: games where maybe you don't get twenty carriers?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm gonna take try to take advantage of my opportunities.
Speaker 13: I'm not gonna say no, I'm not gonna get impactful.
Speaker 13: I expect me to be impactful. Uh every time I
Speaker 13: touch the ball in each and every Sunday or whatever,
Speaker 13: uh game day, it is every day is on and
Speaker 13: have an impact and do my job the best way
Speaker 13: I know how, So for sure, Derek, have you.
Speaker 6: Had a chance to explore Baltimore in Ifsode?
Speaker 5: How do you like it?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 11: I love it.
Speaker 13: I ain't had a bad meal here yet.
Speaker 11: The food good as hell.
Speaker 13: So it's been It's been fun, especially getting around my teammates,
Speaker 13: them showing me around.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so it's been cool.
Speaker 13: So I can't wait to see to see more when
Speaker 13: I'm fully here when season starts.
Speaker 3: Derek expeaking about food, how do you plan to attack
Speaker 3: this whole pre crab cake thing from Jimmy's famous Uh?
Speaker 5: What are the restraints there? How many crab cakes have
Speaker 5: you eaten at one time? And what else does it include?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 13: I went to uh Jimmy's Uh the first week I
Speaker 13: was here, great presentation. They gave me so much food.
Speaker 13: I was like, I can't eat all this. I'm about
Speaker 13: to take some of it home. But I definitely appreciate
Speaker 13: them their crab cakes. We're good as advertised. I don't
Speaker 13: know eat much during the season. I usually try to
Speaker 13: stay in a strict diet, but I might I might
Speaker 13: have one or two on the victory spending.
Speaker 5: On how I feel.
Speaker 1: Another really important player for this team is left tackle
Speaker 1: Ronnie Stanley.
Speaker 2: Here's what he had to say after practice.
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, I, first of all, I just think
Speaker 8: it's always good to just be around the guys and
Speaker 8: be able to do football things, be able to do drills.
Speaker 8: You know, it's some stuff you really can't mimic on
Speaker 8: your own. So it's just good good in the case.
Speaker 8: And also, I just know we have, you know a
Speaker 8: lot of new faces, a lot of new guys you know,
Speaker 8: going to be part of this team, part of this offense,
Speaker 8: and just want to make sure we just you know,
Speaker 8: get our chemistry off on the right start, do a
Speaker 8: lot of.
Speaker 4: Things help wise last season, playing through how you're feeling
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 5: At the start game.
Speaker 11: I feel great.
Speaker 8: I feel great. You know, I feel like I'm as
Speaker 8: you know, strong and as quick and as athletic as
Speaker 8: I've ever been. So you know, you know I'm ready
Speaker 8: to put that all in the field.
Speaker 5: Deal.
Speaker 7: Why did that ultimately feel like the right decision?
Speaker 8: Well, I just really because you know, Baltimore is you know,
Speaker 8: like a second home to me, you know, being here, uh,
Speaker 8: going in on my ninth year, and you know, missing
Speaker 8: a lot of time, and you know, you know, if
Speaker 8: that was my last year, it just wouldn't really sit
Speaker 8: right with me, you know it. I'd probably have some regret,
Speaker 8: you know, just not leaving Baltimore on the the note
Speaker 8: that I want to leave it on.
Speaker 4: You said, you're feeling as athletic as ever.
Speaker 5: Can you take us through the cash you had last week?
Speaker 8: And if you can see any of that from you
Speaker 8: could see that, Yeah, I mean it was just a
Speaker 8: split reaction thing. I mean, Herb, you know, tit the
Speaker 8: ball like he always does. You know, I just caught
Speaker 8: the ball and just made a quick move on Herb.
Speaker 8: I don't think anyone's really uh expecting it too much,
Speaker 8: but turned on the film, it was a pretty nifty move.
Speaker 5: They talk about.
Speaker 1: Building chemistry with the different combinations of offensive line we're seeing.
Speaker 5: Take me through that little bit. How are you working
Speaker 5: with them to kind of build chemistry as guys are
Speaker 5: moving in and out of different spots.
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, it's it's a lot about you know,
Speaker 8: the guy you play next to, and you know, in
Speaker 8: my case, you know, working with you know Andrew and
Speaker 8: Josh and you know the different guys in there. Sala
Speaker 8: just making sure the communication, you know, from the huddle
Speaker 8: to the line of scrimmage is clear and we know that,
Speaker 8: you know, we don't need to you know, repeat a
Speaker 8: whole play call. There's key words that we need to
Speaker 8: focus on and we can remind each other and you know,
Speaker 8: make the game easier for each other.
Speaker 6: Ronnie, what do you feel like you're implying that year
Speaker 6: is your leadership a little different just based off the
Speaker 6: guys who didn't.
Speaker 5: Come back and then something younger guys were kind of
Speaker 5: fit their shoes.
Speaker 8: I don't think the leadership rule is any different. I mean,
Speaker 8: I think one thing is, you know, I'm definitely, you know,
Speaker 8: right now, the clear oldest guy on the offensive line.
Speaker 8: So last year we had a little more veteran presence,
Speaker 8: but you know, this year we still have some older guys,
Speaker 8: but you know, maybe not as veteran.
Speaker 14: Yeah, Rod, coming back to last years obviously dealt with
Speaker 14: injuries and things. How just how frustrated, how difficult was
Speaker 14: that when it was on said and done and they
Speaker 14: didn't take you a while to get over This is
Speaker 14: the Watson.
Speaker 5: In the championship?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, you know, it was killing me. You know, uh,
Speaker 8: you know, we may have been you know, playing well,
Speaker 8: but it was really killing me on the inside, just
Speaker 8: you know, knowing that I wasn't playing to my potential
Speaker 8: and you know, and that's that's something that you know,
Speaker 8: it's hard for me to live with. So, uh but
Speaker 8: moving on from last year, I'd feel very good about
Speaker 8: this upcoming season.
Speaker 9: Kind Of physically going into this year, we're pretty scared
Speaker 9: into practice.
Speaker 5: Is energetic et cetera.
Speaker 8: Fit Yeah, I feel good. You know, I'm coming out
Speaker 8: of practice and coming out of practice, still want to
Speaker 8: have an energy, you know, still be still I could
Speaker 8: do drills right now with the guys, you know if
Speaker 8: we wanted to. So feeling real good physically, only returning starter.
Speaker 5: How have you seen him maybe step up in leadership
Speaker 5: this season?
Speaker 3: Tyler?
Speaker 8: You know, he's always been a leader since he's been here,
Speaker 8: and uh, you know, as a center, you kind of
Speaker 8: have to, you know, step into that role because you
Speaker 8: really are the eyes and ears though the line. You're
Speaker 8: you're the epicenter of everything going on. So but I
Speaker 8: mean this year, he's you know, just taking another step
Speaker 8: in this communication roles. He's always been clean and uh
Speaker 8: sharp with everything he said to us, and you know,
Speaker 8: I think he's continuing to, you know, just making sure
Speaker 8: everything is as clear as possible.
Speaker 6: What you think about the after the fall starts the lapse?
Speaker 6: You know, these days as a player, what are you
Speaker 6: thinking about this?
Speaker 8: I think we're gonna learn quickly, you know. I think
Speaker 8: it's it's gonna get through our heads. For sure.
Speaker 11: You've been the best.
Speaker 6: Player in your position, and I know you hold yourself
Speaker 6: to the high standard if you're healthy.
Speaker 5: How much far have you given?
Speaker 8: Like, hey, I'm still that guy to Oh yeah, I
Speaker 8: mean there's zero doubt in my head. You know, I'm
Speaker 8: playing the way I need to be, playing to my standard.
Speaker 8: I'm the best tackle in my head, so.
Speaker 5: You know, no pads yet, so it's hard to get
Speaker 5: that fields here running behind you guys, what do you
Speaker 5: think that's going to be?
Speaker 8: Like, I think it's gonna be very physical football, you know,
Speaker 8: smash mouth football and h and he's also an elusive
Speaker 8: player and I just look forward to to blocking for
Speaker 8: him and learning more about, you know, the type of
Speaker 8: things he sees during a run. So I can you know,
Speaker 8: make make the runs as good of a play for
Speaker 8: him as possible.
Speaker 4: Of your career.
Speaker 7: I mean, do you kind of see this as a
Speaker 7: season of renewal where if it goes well, it gets
Speaker 7: set up three or four more years. Or do you
Speaker 7: think about that?
Speaker 12: No, not really.
Speaker 8: I mean I just take every season as if it
Speaker 8: would be my last, you know. So I feel like
Speaker 8: that's why I think I care so much about you know,
Speaker 8: how I'm performing or uh my standard that you know,
Speaker 8: how I'm helping the team.
Speaker 4: Ronnie, As you're preparing for the season mentally and physically,
Speaker 4: was there something you wanted to emphasize on coming into
Speaker 4: the year.
Speaker 8: I just wanted to be able to be the player
Speaker 8: I know it could be, you know for the whole season,
Speaker 8: you know, for for my team and you know, for myself,
Speaker 8: for my family, but you know, just really uh making
Speaker 8: sure that cause I I know what it takes to
Speaker 8: do that, and just making sure that I was focused on,
Speaker 8: uh doing the things I needed to do to get there.
Speaker 8: And it may have been different from you know, other
Speaker 8: years in the past that I needed to focus on
Speaker 8: to to be to that same level. And so this
Speaker 8: off season was you know, did a lot of things
Speaker 8: to to get there.
Speaker 6: For your physical shape, What when was the last time
Speaker 6: do you think you were you felt that you're at
Speaker 6: this level.
Speaker 8: Uh yeah, I would say beginning of twenty twenty, I
Speaker 8: think ordinate Scien.
Speaker 9: You were maybe might look at you with broken when
Speaker 9: the news about the contract alteration came out.
Speaker 5: Was that intentional or or did you?
Speaker 14: Did you you want to kind of not head you
Speaker 14: mine on football and when you were going through the concourse.
Speaker 8: Uh no, I was actually there like weeks before I
Speaker 8: posted that picture, so but yeah, I just happened to
Speaker 8: post it around the same time.
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