Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: August thirtieth, and today we heard from head coach John Harbaugh,
Speaker 1: wide receiver Tylon Wallace, and defensive back Arthur Mallett. Coach
Speaker 1: Harbaugh talk today about the process of trimming the roster
Speaker 1: to fifty three players.
Speaker 2: I appreciate everybody being here.
Speaker 3: Thank you for being here. So that culminates what we're
Speaker 3: going to do preseason now and everything we do starting
Speaker 3: Monday is going to be game related. So obviously we're
Speaker 3: working on some game plan stuff out here the last
Speaker 3: three days as well. I was happy with what we
Speaker 3: did the last three days. We've got the roster pretty
Speaker 3: well organized. There are some ongoing gymnastics so to speak,
Speaker 3: that we're we'll be involved with and until we finalize it,
Speaker 3: and then you know, throughout the course of the season,
Speaker 3: things are ever ever changing, evolving, revolving. That's how the
Speaker 3: NFL works. What question do you have, John, You've talked.
Speaker 4: So much about the difficulty of those conversations with cuts,
Speaker 4: But what's that's like on the flip side and tell
Speaker 4: a guy like even and the league that they have
Speaker 4: made this team.
Speaker 3: It's truly Yeah, thank you for that, it's it's awesome.
Speaker 3: You have an opportunity to tell guys they made the team,
Speaker 3: like those two young guys that necessarily maybe necessarily I
Speaker 3: would say they were hoping to but didn't necessarily expect to,
Speaker 3: and then they make it. Also guys who made the
Speaker 3: practice squad. I mean there's guys making the practice squad
Speaker 3: who were just thrilled that was their goal and that's
Speaker 3: their foot in the door. So yeah, those are really fun.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of hugs, there's a few tiers sometimes. Uh,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of laughs usually, So it's all, it's all,
Speaker 3: it's all, you know, it's it's not a bad day.
Speaker 3: It's not a bad day. It's a good day because
Speaker 3: you know, you're just involved in people's lives that way.
Speaker 3: I I kind of cherished the day as a coach,
Speaker 3: and you're right, that probably makes it. That tops it off.
Speaker 1: John, one of these guys jobs jobs and.
Speaker 5: Lost it behind them the four quarterbacks and opposites and
Speaker 5: rule in the rules the.
Speaker 3: Year to get some guys that put up. Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: a lot, there's a lot of that question. There's a
Speaker 3: lot involved in that, and I think we'll see that
Speaker 3: kind of unfold here today tomorrow kind of what our
Speaker 3: plans are going to be. So I'll just kind of.
Speaker 6: Leave it to that.
Speaker 3: But we have thought all that through.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: Obviously Josh had a heck of a heck of a camp,
Speaker 3: played really well all through, all through practices, was outstanding,
Speaker 3: and then you know, the last two games he was
Speaker 3: couldn't have been any better. So we love Josh and
Speaker 3: we'll just let it play out here next twenty four
Speaker 3: hours or so.
Speaker 8: John, in your opinion, was separated the undrafted guys keeping
Speaker 8: in the league from rest of the competition when I picked.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of things involved. I don't
Speaker 3: think you can put it to one specific thing. Sometimes
Speaker 3: it's just opportunity and need, you know, sometimes it's what
Speaker 3: they can bring to the table immediately that your team
Speaker 3: just happens to need. And I'd say that's part of it.
Speaker 3: But they earned it. Every single guy. We just told
Speaker 3: these guys, every guy out there standing in that circle,
Speaker 3: coach and player, star player and guy who made the
Speaker 3: practice scuff for the first time, they.
Speaker 2: All earned it.
Speaker 3: They all earned it. And what goes with that, and
Speaker 3: the reason they earned it is because they Andrew stand
Speaker 3: that then now you have to earn it every day.
Speaker 3: You have to continue to earn it every single day,
Speaker 3: and I'm confident they'll do a great job of that.
Speaker 5: Appear from fans media about what's this new offense? Like
Speaker 5: when when does the regular season starts?
Speaker 7: What do you have quch a feeling.
Speaker 6: Of what kind of this identity we'll look?
Speaker 5: I mean, could you've been building it throughout the whole
Speaker 5: all rame?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I you know, we all have an
Speaker 3: understanding of what we're trying to do. You know, we
Speaker 3: have an understanding what the vision is. We've been working
Speaker 3: hard to communication. We all understand how it's built and
Speaker 3: how we uh, how we you know, how we want
Speaker 3: to operate, you know. So we're gonna go out there
Speaker 3: and do our best, put our best foot forward. Uh
Speaker 3: and we'll see what happens. I mean, that's why you
Speaker 3: play the games. You've got to go play the games.
Speaker 3: You know. All the talk is talk, and then you
Speaker 3: go play the games and see where you're at. And
Speaker 3: once we play the first game against the Texans, we'll
Speaker 3: have a much better idea where we stand.
Speaker 8: The conversations you talked about Mark and Mallett ormatics we're
Speaker 8: gonna get this way that you see.
Speaker 6: In him, the ability to having him on.
Speaker 7: Your line, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was tough for Arthur because he had the hamstring,
Speaker 3: you know, and that really that was tough and he
Speaker 3: was he was pretty upset about that, you know, all
Speaker 3: when it happened, and really all the way through it. It
Speaker 3: was not a great hamstring. It was one of those
Speaker 3: ones that takes a while to heal. But he's back now. Uh,
Speaker 3: And he had done so much. I think he had
Speaker 3: done all the right things before that happened, and then
Speaker 3: we knew him as a player coming in and he
Speaker 3: was the kind of player that we're looking for. So
Speaker 3: he's back out there today doing that. You guys saw
Speaker 3: him at practice. We're excited to have him on the team.
Speaker 5: Oh No, we had some decisions to make probably the
Speaker 5: last few offensive line spots, but it seems like you
Speaker 5: most are we're able to get back with the guys
Speaker 5: on the practice spot. I mean, were you ultimately happy
Speaker 5: with the way that worked out in.
Speaker 2: The big picture.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of strategy that goes into it,
Speaker 3: you know, and you've got to kind of extrapolate a
Speaker 3: little bit in terms of what might happen or might
Speaker 3: not happen, and try to keep as many of the
Speaker 3: of the players that you want, as many players as
Speaker 3: you can, and we were able to do that in
Speaker 3: the ad line to your point, for sure, I mean
Speaker 3: we kept we were able to keep all those guys
Speaker 3: and that was good for us. So really happy. I'm
Speaker 3: Sam to your point, probably the key the key guy
Speaker 3: there being Sam, right, and for him to still be
Speaker 3: here and be providing us depth at center like he
Speaker 3: does that kind of a player, that's a huge, huge
Speaker 3: win for us.
Speaker 10: With the practice squad years ago, if you just to
Speaker 10: have a few spots and their veterans.
Speaker 3: Were not involved, does the cutdown feel any less dramatic because.
Speaker 6: You know, you can bring sixteen people back now.
Speaker 3: I don't know about the drama part of it, but
Speaker 3: it's a big advantage to have more practice squad players.
Speaker 3: It's a great move by the NFL bow. You know,
Speaker 3: more guys get a chance to work, more guys get
Speaker 3: a chance to develop, More veteran players get a chance
Speaker 3: to stay and continue to play, you know, and there
Speaker 3: their number comes up so fast, you know, because you know,
Speaker 3: I think we try to make sure guys are healthy
Speaker 3: before they come back. So now the practice where guys
Speaker 3: are moving up and playing. Just told those guys you've
Speaker 3: got to be ready to play on Sunday. Your mindset
Speaker 3: when you come in on Monday is that you're you're
Speaker 3: playing on Sunday. That's how you got to think. Because
Speaker 3: it's gonna happen like that when it does, so I
Speaker 3: would say, yeah, it's a great thing. I'm really happy
Speaker 3: about it. We like coach guys. It's good to have
Speaker 3: more guys to coach.
Speaker 8: One of those back was both he's a nice preseason.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you're pleased to be.
Speaker 11: Able to turn his comes back.
Speaker 10: Where you where do you go?
Speaker 7: He's a surprise that he still be.
Speaker 3: I don't and I wouldn't say surprised. I mean I
Speaker 3: think there was a chance, but uh, we're just happy
Speaker 3: to have him back more than anything, just happy pleased.
Speaker 3: He's a young, good developmental tight end. He knows exactly
Speaker 3: what he's got to work on. Very smart, I mean,
Speaker 3: just very self aware guy. So, uh, we're thrilled to leave.
Speaker 12: When the guys.
Speaker 10: Day were out with the summer, where did you.
Speaker 12: See him make strides?
Speaker 10: And what they believe, you know, earned.
Speaker 6: Him at spot on the game.
Speaker 3: The biggest thing with Ben is uh is that he
Speaker 3: was able to be out there every day, and so yeah,
Speaker 3: he made the strides, you know, and not just in
Speaker 3: one area, pretty much across the board. In the past
Speaker 3: he's kind of been in and out, in and out
Speaker 3: with different kinds of injuries. He stacked all those days
Speaker 3: in training camp and then turn on the game film
Speaker 3: when you watch it and I know you have Jeff.
Speaker 3: He played well. He blocked people, run and passed. So
Speaker 3: that's the bottom line. All the work he put in
Speaker 3: it showed up in the games. He played well.
Speaker 6: Kyer Uh. I mean, is that just kind of the
Speaker 6: the risk and the game that played some honey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard to bat a thousand, you know. And
Speaker 3: uh And really I think some of that goes with
Speaker 3: the fact that we had the injuries to the to
Speaker 3: the corners and we need to bring in some some
Speaker 3: some you know, veteran corners, and that kind of squeezed
Speaker 3: our our developmental opportunities out just a little bit. So
Speaker 3: we were hoping to get Kaya to the practice squad.
Speaker 3: He was I'm sure he would have come to the
Speaker 3: practice squad. He was very happy here. But what an
Speaker 3: opportunity for him to go to Seattle and uh and
Speaker 3: you know, and be on the fifty three. So I
Speaker 3: texted him really happy for him, and you know, we'll
Speaker 3: be pulling for him.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harbaugh. And one of the
Speaker 1: players who made that fifty three man roster was wide
Speaker 1: receiver at Tylan Wallace. It was a bit nervous for him.
Speaker 1: He talked about that today, but he was clearly fired
Speaker 1: up to be on the team and staying in Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Was there any sense of the league when the main
Speaker 2: official or you just played but say I'm both got No,
Speaker 2: for sure, always a sense of relief when you know
Speaker 2: they put that out. You know it's in this business,
Speaker 2: I like, you know, you never know. So I definitely
Speaker 2: very blessed and very honored to, you know, be here
Speaker 2: and be a part of the roster.
Speaker 1: For sure.
Speaker 7: How did you feel like you're playing your best of
Speaker 7: all since you've for sure, I think over the past
Speaker 7: couple of years, I feel like I've really just grown
Speaker 7: as a player as a person and really got to
Speaker 7: understand what the game is like and really just lock
Speaker 7: in this year and know what I had to do
Speaker 7: coming in and I just feel I feel better than
Speaker 7: ever for sure after.
Speaker 5: The Washington and used any reference kind of changing up
Speaker 5: pretty good, a little busus offseason. Can you go into
Speaker 5: a little more you tell us as to watch that move.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I mean obviously going being in the
Speaker 2: Leaf for the past two years, you know, you kind
Speaker 2: of get you obviously, you get an idea of how
Speaker 2: things work, how the game is played, how much faster
Speaker 2: the game is played, how things are ran. So you know,
Speaker 2: coming in, I knew what I had to do in
Speaker 2: the off season, so you know, obviously I got a
Speaker 2: new trainer with UH chadmar with more strength out UH Frisco.
Speaker 2: He has a new facility now, but just kind of
Speaker 2: switching up little things like that, getting my old high
Speaker 2: school receiver coach, getting drills in earlier on in the
Speaker 2: off season, just doing stuff and just knowing what type
Speaker 2: of shape I had to be in, and just knowing
Speaker 2: how much work I had to put in to come
Speaker 2: and pr UH perform during the season.
Speaker 4: I don't think you ever feel secure in the NFL.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's proven that no job is safe, But
Speaker 4: was it extremely difficult or stressful to see kind of
Speaker 4: off season moves and the names that were coming in
Speaker 4: here and then kind of knowing when you look at
Speaker 4: the roster there's not much rooms.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a big competition.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, always. I mean you see uh them bringing
Speaker 2: guys in. You know, obviously that means there's only so
Speaker 2: many spots left. So that's always you know, a little
Speaker 2: bit stressful. But I also look at it as a challenge,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, you know, this game is
Speaker 2: all everything's competitive, so you know, it's never hurt might
Speaker 2: come out and compete. So I think that's that was
Speaker 2: a good thing, you know, just for me to be
Speaker 2: able to realize that and come out and know what
Speaker 2: I had to do and just come out and just
Speaker 2: compete with everybody.
Speaker 1: How big it back?
Speaker 5: Do you think special teams was some equation and what
Speaker 5: do you respect there? Uh?
Speaker 2: I think it was a huge factor for me. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm very honored to you know, be able to be
Speaker 2: able to be on such a great special team program,
Speaker 2: just like the Ravens are. So I think that was
Speaker 2: a huge help for me, you know, and obviously I'll
Speaker 2: continue to take pride in that and being on all
Speaker 2: special teams and just uh, you know, just keep it going,
Speaker 2: change nothing from what I've been doing. I've been on
Speaker 2: special teams since I got drafted here, so I planned
Speaker 2: to continue that throughout my whole career.
Speaker 8: Was how to building up the right to talk about
Speaker 8: the LASH so self is involved with other trainers. Is
Speaker 8: that something that you took in the focus about the
Speaker 8: off season just working on your special team's ability? Is
Speaker 8: that something that you can necessarily train for individuals?
Speaker 2: I think that's kind of more of like for an
Speaker 2: individual thing, you know what I mean, especially with certain
Speaker 2: positions that you play on special teams. But definitely was
Speaker 2: a factor that I knew going into it. I needed to,
Speaker 2: you know, probably step step it up there for sure,
Speaker 2: and you know, just keep keep working at it and
Speaker 2: keep doing what I was doing. So I knew going
Speaker 2: into it. I don't know if really special teams is
Speaker 2: the thing you a lot of guys can really work
Speaker 2: on in the off season, but you know, I think
Speaker 2: it was a thing that you would definitely know. I
Speaker 2: knew that I had to definitely be great at to
Speaker 2: be a to make the team. For sure.
Speaker 10: There are guys like the Raven I think least the
Speaker 10: guy who is known for his commitment to special team.
Speaker 11: Can you be proud to be a guy who makes his.
Speaker 2: Way in the NFL for you can, oh for sure.
Speaker 2: I Mean, like I said, there's three phases of the game.
Speaker 2: You know, special teams is one of those phases. So
Speaker 2: I mean it's just it's just as important as offensive defense.
Speaker 2: So I mean I would be just happy to be
Speaker 2: on the field at all. So I mean that, you know,
Speaker 2: that doesn't matter me offense, defense, special teams. I mean,
Speaker 2: as long as I'm on the field playing football and
Speaker 2: just competing, you know, I'm happy.
Speaker 8: What's it been like sharing a meeting room with Odell Beckham?
Speaker 2: It's crazy. So, yeah, that's crazy. That's great. So when
Speaker 2: he first got here, it was kind of like, oh wow,
Speaker 2: like you know what I mean, I remember watching this
Speaker 2: dude like growing up and now like I'm his teammate.
Speaker 2: So it's crazy. Definitely, be you know, teammates with guys
Speaker 2: like that and being able to you know, pick their
Speaker 2: brains and just see how they work, and you know,
Speaker 2: just hearing their past experiences and just learning from them.
Speaker 6: What's something that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean, uh, just a few things more
Speaker 2: just football related stuff, just kind of like how we
Speaker 2: run certain routes and stuff. Like that. So it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Like last year we actually had a route named called Odell,
Speaker 2: So it's crazy to come, you know, actually have him
Speaker 2: here and be like, all right, so you know, that's
Speaker 2: that's his route, so we ask him how he runs
Speaker 2: that and different things he does the versus different looks,
Speaker 2: so it's it's awesome to have a guy like that
Speaker 2: our team. Okay, what's that, No, it's kind of that
Speaker 2: that end zone corner I guess you could call it.
Speaker 2: We called that a kind of an Odell route, so
Speaker 2: we kind of good to be able to pick his
Speaker 2: brain about that route for sure.
Speaker 6: What's that?
Speaker 2: We called it like an end zone corner route, kind of.
Speaker 6: Like all the guys y a Adel do you guys?
Speaker 2: I mean it's great. I mean obviously with guys like
Speaker 2: Nelly and having Odell, like those older VET guys, you know,
Speaker 2: it's pretty great.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: I feel like the meeting room is pretty it's fun,
Speaker 2: but also we're we're focused at the same time, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. We're we're getting in doing what
Speaker 2: we're supposed to do, learning we're supposed to be learning,
Speaker 2: and we're also having fun. So it's really good to
Speaker 2: have those older guys, like I was saying earlier, just
Speaker 2: to be able to pick their brains and then having
Speaker 2: that knowledge of just reading defenses and just reading corner
Speaker 2: play and stuff like that. So it's great to have
Speaker 2: those older guys.
Speaker 10: The conversation you know, you made the team or was
Speaker 10: there nothing set that?
Speaker 2: So there's yeah, there was actually nothing said. So I figured,
Speaker 2: if you know, nobody said anything, I I figured I
Speaker 2: was good.
Speaker 8: Four o'clock I was.
Speaker 2: I was waiting. I sat in my car and I
Speaker 2: wait till it hit four, and I was like, alright,
Speaker 2: I'm good. So then and then I drove home, So
Speaker 2: I was good for sure.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 2: That was part right outside for sure with Lamar.
Speaker 12: And the past years and before you got here week
Speaker 12: one this offense, so it's just not waited long to
Speaker 12: get going, like what is about you Lamar or lock
Speaker 12: in and really get that that head start on the season.
Speaker 6: Oh dah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's it's great, especially and then
Speaker 2: having all the guys that the guys that we have
Speaker 2: just on the whole team in general, I mean, we
Speaker 2: can do great things. So I think having everybody locked in,
Speaker 2: everybody you know, just really focuses in and knowing what
Speaker 2: we have the capability to do this season, I think
Speaker 2: we're gonna be great and be awesome.
Speaker 5: Both up Oklahoma State roots. Did that help you strike
Speaker 5: up a report with them at all a little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know we could go back and kind of
Speaker 2: he was there before I was there, but definitely, you know,
Speaker 2: brings up some stories or some things that you know
Speaker 2: that he he was. Uh, a lot of the coaches
Speaker 2: that were with Monkey when I was there, So when
Speaker 2: I went there, all the coaches that coach with Monken
Speaker 2: were still there. So it was great to you know,
Speaker 2: kind of talk to them a little big and the
Speaker 2: idea cause before when when he first got hired, I
Speaker 2: talked to them. They were telling to get Monk's a
Speaker 2: great guy. You know, get to know him. He's awesome.
Speaker 2: So it was, Uh, it's nice to have that Oklahoma
Speaker 2: State love, you know back in the back in this building.
Speaker 12: Do you think that his rival is part.
Speaker 1: Of reason and that has helped you maybe to teach
Speaker 1: the game, but you know, just kind of keep trying
Speaker 1: to do your guests right now?
Speaker 2: Is that I think? I think the way I mean,
Speaker 2: I I would say just the you know, really the
Speaker 2: the kind of want to throw the balls kind of help.
Speaker 2: And I also I feel like ties into Oklahoma State
Speaker 2: as well. You know, it's kind of we were air
Speaker 2: raid offense. So I feel like that, you know, bringing
Speaker 2: in a guy like Monk and knowing that that's his
Speaker 2: intentions definitely wanted me make me want to step it
Speaker 2: up and be like, I want to be a part
Speaker 2: of offense like that. I want to be able to,
Speaker 2: you know, be a part where we're throwing the ball
Speaker 2: down the field and you know, receivers are just making plays.
Speaker 1: That was wide receiver Tylan Wallace. And another important player
Speaker 1: who made the fifty three man roster was Arthur Molett.
Speaker 1: He's a veteran cornerback and nickel back who'ld be a
Speaker 1: really important piece of this defense. And he's a former
Speaker 1: Steeler as well, and he talked today about joining the
Speaker 1: Ravens after spending the last two years in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8: Martha, did you have a formal conversation on making the
Speaker 8: fifty three men roster?
Speaker 6: No formal conversation.
Speaker 9: I'm just honestly blessed because I didn't play any preseason games, right, Uh,
Speaker 9: Like I said, I'm just blessed to be here. You know,
Speaker 9: obviously I'm a tough guy. I kind of fit this scheme.
Speaker 9: I like the way that their defense is set up.
Speaker 9: I think I'm going to thrive in it. So I
Speaker 9: just can't wait to get out there and play. Honestly,
Speaker 9: see another color.
Speaker 1: An opportunity at corner, especially early in the year with
Speaker 1: tomorrow than that bringing out, how how do you feel
Speaker 1: like you are a stepping playing right away.
Speaker 9: Or it's called upon uh corner. I don't think they're
Speaker 9: gonna be putting at the outside. Think I'm gonna be
Speaker 9: base more on a nickel in the inside. That's why
Speaker 9: I make my money out obviously. But uh, I'm ready
Speaker 9: to go week one. Whatever they need me to do,
Speaker 9: I'm gonna cut our list off and get ready to
Speaker 9: do it. So I'm just great for the opportunity and
Speaker 9: get ready to play and see another color?
Speaker 12: Was it hand trading injury?
Speaker 8: Frustrating that you're you know getting as a nature of
Speaker 8: its real obviously good.
Speaker 9: Position r Yeah, man, it was definitely uh frustrating, and
Speaker 9: uh that's why I was just talking with Harbor about.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm just grateful for them to honestly believe
Speaker 9: in my talents and the way I play. I learned
Speaker 9: to playbook pretty fast. Uh, it's pretty simple. I'm a
Speaker 9: downhill guy, aggressive uh nickelback, So I think I fit
Speaker 9: the scheme perfectly. And you know, I'm just ready to
Speaker 9: obviously just show my skill set and uh help this
Speaker 9: team uh be successful this season.
Speaker 10: Earth of you're nowhere near the former dealer to be.
Speaker 11: But was there kind of a curiosity how it feel
Speaker 11: when you first on you and you've played so many
Speaker 11: big games against them over the years and a in
Speaker 11: a kind of a hard for arrival, right, do you
Speaker 11: have any kind of speaking to notions about how it would.
Speaker 9: You like to kind of come in this build there,
Speaker 9: you know, being from the other side, uh m, you know,
Speaker 9: formerly being at Pittsburgh, you know, Uh, I just saw
Speaker 9: how hard these guys working, how hard you know it
Speaker 9: was to beat you guys.
Speaker 6: Uh obviously you know. And there's just the culture.
Speaker 9: That's what I wanted to see, what the culture was like,
Speaker 9: just looking at it from the opposite side, right, and
Speaker 9: it's everything at more. I love it a lot of here.
Speaker 9: You take care of y you guys take care of
Speaker 9: your players, you know what I'm saying. And like I said,
Speaker 9: you guys trust your players and you trust ve so
Speaker 9: you know, I'm decided just to be here and put
Speaker 9: on the black and purple.
Speaker 10: Now, people see you said these teams instrute teams are
Speaker 10: built and arts are similar way what they value, what
Speaker 10: they work as. You've seen that, have you've seen that?
Speaker 9: So yeah, absolutely hard, smart and tough. You know, you
Speaker 9: know they don't want any uh players that make mistakes.
Speaker 9: You know, you have to be smart. You have to
Speaker 9: be tough as nails. In this day of S division.
Speaker 9: You know FC nor it is tough football. So you
Speaker 9: know that you thrive on you know, hartsmart and tough.
Speaker 9: You know play so you know to S S some
Speaker 9: some similarities but a little bit different.
Speaker 8: You asked the Stillers to let.
Speaker 5: You go and test the market really really late in
Speaker 5: the free agency. Techargy, what what winning.
Speaker 1: Did that decision?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 9: I wouldn't say fairly late, but uh, just uh just
Speaker 9: knowing my skill set, knowing what I can bring to
Speaker 9: the table, and not just trusting in my work in
Speaker 9: the off season and the work that I put in. Man,
Speaker 9: obviously you know I'm a I'm a vet year seven,
Speaker 9: and uh, you know, I just wanted a little something
Speaker 9: to a little security man, you know, just to feel comfortable.
Speaker 9: I know, I I think I I earned that, you know,
Speaker 9: and Baltimore gave me that, which was surprisingly that it
Speaker 9: was a rival routine, right, so obviously they believe in me,
Speaker 9: and that that just shows that just makes me feel
Speaker 9: good about the work I put in an off seasons.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously when the Ravens called, and what was
Speaker 1: your first.
Speaker 3: Reaction any.
Speaker 9: Honestly, it wasn't any reaction. I'm a guy that uh
Speaker 9: bounced around a lot of my career. You know, I'm
Speaker 9: undrafted guy, just ready for any opportunity at hand. And
Speaker 9: when they called, I was familiar with this division, you know.
Speaker 9: And you know I had some pretty good success against
Speaker 9: the Ravens when I played at Pittsburgh. But you know,
Speaker 9: now that I'm here, I'm just focused on just being
Speaker 9: better every day, getting healthy and helping his team win.
Speaker 9: That's all I'm about right now, just being a team
Speaker 9: player and just helping all I can. Did you want
Speaker 9: to say, honestly, bro, whatever you know, God put me.
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I'm just grateful for the opportunity. Like I said, I'm just.
Speaker 9: I work hard man, you know, as long as I'm
Speaker 9: on the roster helping the team and being successful. That
Speaker 9: that's all I can you know, I can uh ask.
Speaker 6: For opportunity play against the game like that. It's circled
Speaker 6: on my calendar for sure.
Speaker 10: This team is known for. You probably experienced special teams
Speaker 10: where Steam's known for. You've played against them a lot.
Speaker 10: When you go out there and you see having time
Speaker 10: and devotion to detail and all that they put in
Speaker 10: special teams, that's pretty much confirmed what you suspected.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 9: We start everything one hundred miles per hour with special
Speaker 9: teams when we start practice.
Speaker 6: So that just shows how much they that is. You know,
Speaker 6: that is uh, that is really special here. A lot
Speaker 6: of teams don't do.
Speaker 2: That, you know.
Speaker 9: They they wait, they they they kind of put it
Speaker 9: on the back burner. But you know, special teams is
Speaker 9: part of the three phases of a successful team, you know,
Speaker 9: so it all has to work hand in hand.
Speaker 6: So smart, smart team.
Speaker 1: That was defensive back Arthur Mallett. You also heard from
Speaker 1: Tyler Wallace and head coach John Harbaugh. Now the Ravens
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