WEBVTT - John Harbaugh, Tylan Wallace, Arthur Maulet: Ravens Practice 8/30 Press Conferences 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:06.320 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Wednesday, 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.080 August thirtieth, and today we heard from head coach John Harbaugh, 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.120 wide receiver Tylon Wallace, and defensive back Arthur Mallett. Coach 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:17.360 Harbaugh talk today about the process of trimming the roster 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.120 to fifty three players. 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:21.759 I appreciate everybody being here. 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:25.160 Thank you for being here. So that culminates what we're 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.400 going to do preseason now and everything we do starting 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.560 Monday is going to be game related. So obviously we're 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:33.400 working on some game plan stuff out here the last 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.000 three days as well. I was happy with what we 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.640 did the last three days. We've got the roster pretty 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:42.560 well organized. There are some ongoing gymnastics so to speak, 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.960 that we're we'll be involved with and until we finalize it, 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:47.519 and then you know, throughout the course of the season, 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:52.159 things are ever ever changing, evolving, revolving. That's how the 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.160 NFL works. What question do you have, John, You've talked. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.880 So much about the difficulty of those conversations with cuts, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:59.560 But what's that's like on the flip side and tell 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.720 a guy like even and the league that they have 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:02.400 made this team. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.800 It's truly Yeah, thank you for that, it's it's awesome. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.400 You have an opportunity to tell guys they made the team, 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.240 like those two young guys that necessarily maybe necessarily I 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.600 would say they were hoping to but didn't necessarily expect to, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.160 and then they make it. Also guys who made the 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.360 practice squad. I mean there's guys making the practice squad 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.600 who were just thrilled that was their goal and that's 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.840 their foot in the door. So yeah, those are really fun. 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.800 There's a lot of hugs, there's a few tiers sometimes. Uh, 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.479 there's a lot of laughs usually, So it's all, it's all, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.360 it's all, you know, it's it's not a bad day. 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:33.840 It's not a bad day. It's a good day because 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.000 you know, you're just involved in people's lives that way. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:37.720 I I kind of cherished the day as a coach, 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.920 and you're right, that probably makes it. That tops it off. 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.480 John, one of these guys jobs jobs and. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.960 Lost it behind them the four quarterbacks and opposites and 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:50.040 rule in the rules the. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:54.640 Year to get some guys that put up. Yeah, there's 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.920 a lot, there's a lot of that question. There's a 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.800 lot involved in that, and I think we'll see that 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.520 kind of unfold here today tomorrow kind of what our 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.680 plans are going to be. So I'll just kind of. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:04.360 Leave it to that. 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.040 But we have thought all that through. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:06.520 You know. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.120 Obviously Josh had a heck of a heck of a camp, 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.200 played really well all through, all through practices, was outstanding, 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.320 and then you know, the last two games he was 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.799 couldn't have been any better. So we love Josh and 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:21.919 we'll just let it play out here next twenty four 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.240 hours or so. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.200 John, in your opinion, was separated the undrafted guys keeping 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:27.959 in the league from rest of the competition when I picked. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.400 You know, there's a lot of things involved. I don't 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.760 think you can put it to one specific thing. Sometimes 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.600 it's just opportunity and need, you know, sometimes it's what 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.679 they can bring to the table immediately that your team 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.360 just happens to need. And I'd say that's part of it. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.480 But they earned it. Every single guy. We just told 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.400 these guys, every guy out there standing in that circle, 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:53.480 coach and player, star player and guy who made the 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.440 practice scuff for the first time, they. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:56.040 All earned it. 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.520 They all earned it. And what goes with that, and 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.440 the reason they earned it is because they Andrew stand 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.200 that then now you have to earn it every day. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.120 You have to continue to earn it every single day, 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.400 and I'm confident they'll do a great job of that. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:13.239 Appear from fans media about what's this new offense? Like 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.720 when when does the regular season starts? 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.760 What do you have quch a feeling. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.480 Of what kind of this identity we'll look? 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.040 I mean, could you've been building it throughout the whole 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:22.560 all rame? 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:23.799 Uh? 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.320 Well, I mean, I you know, we all have an 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.120 understanding of what we're trying to do. You know, we 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.040 have an understanding what the vision is. We've been working 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.600 hard to communication. We all understand how it's built and 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.040 how we uh, how we you know, how we want 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.840 to operate, you know. So we're gonna go out there 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.200 and do our best, put our best foot forward. Uh 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:41.680 and we'll see what happens. I mean, that's why you 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.800 play the games. You've got to go play the games. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.720 You know. All the talk is talk, and then you 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.200 go play the games and see where you're at. And 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.119 once we play the first game against the Texans, we'll 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:52.920 have a much better idea where we stand. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:59.520 The conversations you talked about Mark and Mallett ormatics we're 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.280 gonna get this way that you see. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.440 In him, the ability to having him on. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:04.080 Your line, right. 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.680 Yeah, it was tough for Arthur because he had the hamstring, 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.040 you know, and that really that was tough and he 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.320 was he was pretty upset about that, you know, all 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.080 when it happened, and really all the way through it. It 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:14.640 was not a great hamstring. It was one of those 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.039 ones that takes a while to heal. But he's back now. Uh, 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:19.920 And he had done so much. I think he had 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.640 done all the right things before that happened, and then 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.840 we knew him as a player coming in and he 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:26.359 was the kind of player that we're looking for. So 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.040 he's back out there today doing that. You guys saw 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.680 him at practice. We're excited to have him on the team. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.400 Oh No, we had some decisions to make probably the 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.320 last few offensive line spots, but it seems like you 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.880 most are we're able to get back with the guys 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.839 on the practice spot. I mean, were you ultimately happy 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.280 with the way that worked out in. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:41.800 The big picture. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.240 Yeah, there's a lot of strategy that goes into it, 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:45.960 you know, and you've got to kind of extrapolate a 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:47.840 little bit in terms of what might happen or might 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.719 not happen, and try to keep as many of the 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:51.920 of the players that you want, as many players as 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.640 you can, and we were able to do that in 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.560 the ad line to your point, for sure, I mean 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.960 we kept we were able to keep all those guys 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.000 and that was good for us. So really happy. I'm 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.880 Sam to your point, probably the key the key guy 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.240 there being Sam, right, and for him to still be 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.880 here and be providing us depth at center like he 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.160 does that kind of a player, that's a huge, huge 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:12.600 win for us. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.479 With the practice squad years ago, if you just to 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.640 have a few spots and their veterans. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:22.560 Were not involved, does the cutdown feel any less dramatic because. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.760 You know, you can bring sixteen people back now. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:26.800 I don't know about the drama part of it, but 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.440 it's a big advantage to have more practice squad players. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.599 It's a great move by the NFL bow. You know, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.120 more guys get a chance to work, more guys get 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.400 a chance to develop, More veteran players get a chance 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.680 to stay and continue to play, you know, and there 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.720 their number comes up so fast, you know, because you know, 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.240 I think we try to make sure guys are healthy 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:46.920 before they come back. So now the practice where guys 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:48.920 are moving up and playing. Just told those guys you've 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:50.640 got to be ready to play on Sunday. Your mindset 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:52.680 when you come in on Monday is that you're you're 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.719 playing on Sunday. That's how you got to think. Because 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.039 it's gonna happen like that when it does, so I 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.280 would say, yeah, it's a great thing. I'm really happy 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.080 about it. We like coach guys. It's good to have 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:01.800 more guys to coach. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:06.600 One of those back was both he's a nice preseason. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.560 I'm sure you're pleased to be. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:09.600 Able to turn his comes back. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:10.800 Where you where do you go? 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.760 He's a surprise that he still be. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.280 I don't and I wouldn't say surprised. I mean I 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.479 think there was a chance, but uh, we're just happy 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.240 to have him back more than anything, just happy pleased. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.120 He's a young, good developmental tight end. He knows exactly 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.440 what he's got to work on. Very smart, I mean, 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:31.400 just very self aware guy. So, uh, we're thrilled to leave. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:32.880 When the guys. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.359 Day were out with the summer, where did you. 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.080 See him make strides? 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.760 And what they believe, you know, earned. 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:41.560 Him at spot on the game. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.720 The biggest thing with Ben is uh is that he 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.800 was able to be out there every day, and so yeah, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.400 he made the strides, you know, and not just in 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.880 one area, pretty much across the board. In the past 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:53.640 he's kind of been in and out, in and out 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.120 with different kinds of injuries. He stacked all those days 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.279 in training camp and then turn on the game film 0:06:58.279 --> 0:06:59.919 when you watch it and I know you have Jeff. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.560 He played well. He blocked people, run and passed. So 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.080 that's the bottom line. All the work he put in 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:07.600 it showed up in the games. He played well. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.760 Kyer Uh. I mean, is that just kind of the 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.320 the risk and the game that played some honey. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.040 Yeah, it's hard to bat a thousand, you know. And 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.920 uh And really I think some of that goes with 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.960 the fact that we had the injuries to the to 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.400 the corners and we need to bring in some some 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.400 some you know, veteran corners, and that kind of squeezed 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.240 our our developmental opportunities out just a little bit. So 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.000 we were hoping to get Kaya to the practice squad. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.480 He was I'm sure he would have come to the 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.960 practice squad. He was very happy here. But what an 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.560 opportunity for him to go to Seattle and uh and 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.920 you know, and be on the fifty three. So I 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:45.920 texted him really happy for him, and you know, we'll 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:46.560 be pulling for him. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.400 That was head coach John Harbaugh. And one of the 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.200 players who made that fifty three man roster was wide 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.440 receiver at Tylan Wallace. It was a bit nervous for him. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.760 He talked about that today, but he was clearly fired 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.080 up to be on the team and staying in Baltimore. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.760 Was there any sense of the league when the main 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.280 official or you just played but say I'm both got No, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.000 for sure, always a sense of relief when you know 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.280 they put that out. You know it's in this business, 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.560 I like, you know, you never know. So I definitely 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.080 very blessed and very honored to, you know, be here 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:19.000 and be a part of the roster. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:19.440 For sure. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.080 How did you feel like you're playing your best of 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.360 all since you've for sure, I think over the past 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.440 couple of years, I feel like I've really just grown 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.000 as a player as a person and really got to 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.680 understand what the game is like and really just lock 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.199 in this year and know what I had to do 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.000 coming in and I just feel I feel better than 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.959 ever for sure after. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.320 The Washington and used any reference kind of changing up 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.360 pretty good, a little busus offseason. Can you go into 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.240 a little more you tell us as to watch that move. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.920 Yeah, for sure. I mean obviously going being in the 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:49.320 Leaf for the past two years, you know, you kind 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:50.720 of get you obviously, you get an idea of how 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.560 things work, how the game is played, how much faster 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.679 the game is played, how things are ran. So you know, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:57.319 coming in, I knew what I had to do in 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:58.959 the off season, so you know, obviously I got a 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.200 new trainer with UH chadmar with more strength out UH Frisco. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.360 He has a new facility now, but just kind of 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.520 switching up little things like that, getting my old high 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.760 school receiver coach, getting drills in earlier on in the 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.320 off season, just doing stuff and just knowing what type 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.160 of shape I had to be in, and just knowing 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.000 how much work I had to put in to come 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:16.520 and pr UH perform during the season. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.760 I don't think you ever feel secure in the NFL. 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.679 I mean, it's proven that no job is safe, But 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.920 was it extremely difficult or stressful to see kind of 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.679 off season moves and the names that were coming in 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.480 here and then kind of knowing when you look at 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.040 the roster there's not much rooms. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.079 It's gonna be a big competition. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.240 Oh yeah, always. I mean you see uh them bringing 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.160 guys in. You know, obviously that means there's only so 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.600 many spots left. So that's always you know, a little 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.360 bit stressful. But I also look at it as a challenge, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.040 you know what I mean, you know, this game is 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.360 all everything's competitive, so you know, it's never hurt might 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.360 come out and compete. So I think that's that was 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:47.880 a good thing, you know, just for me to be 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.880 able to realize that and come out and know what 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:51.240 I had to do and just come out and just 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:52.040 compete with everybody. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:54.160 How big it back? 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.160 Do you think special teams was some equation and what 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:57.680 do you respect there? Uh? 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.480 I think it was a huge factor for me. You know, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.760 I'm very honored to you know, be able to be 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.840 able to be on such a great special team program, 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:05.800 just like the Ravens are. So I think that was 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.160 a huge help for me, you know, and obviously I'll 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.360 continue to take pride in that and being on all 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.679 special teams and just uh, you know, just keep it going, 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.640 change nothing from what I've been doing. I've been on 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.280 special teams since I got drafted here, so I planned 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:18.520 to continue that throughout my whole career. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.640 Was how to building up the right to talk about 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.959 the LASH so self is involved with other trainers. Is 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.280 that something that you took in the focus about the 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.880 off season just working on your special team's ability? Is 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.760 that something that you can necessarily train for individuals? 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.000 I think that's kind of more of like for an 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.200 individual thing, you know what I mean, especially with certain 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.760 positions that you play on special teams. But definitely was 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.959 a factor that I knew going into it. I needed to, 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.160 you know, probably step step it up there for sure, 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.880 and you know, just keep keep working at it and 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.920 keep doing what I was doing. So I knew going 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.040 into it. I don't know if really special teams is 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:52.559 the thing you a lot of guys can really work 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.600 on in the off season, but you know, I think 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.719 it was a thing that you would definitely know. I 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.679 knew that I had to definitely be great at to 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:00.920 be a to make the team. For sure. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.559 There are guys like the Raven I think least the 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.720 guy who is known for his commitment to special team. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.240 Can you be proud to be a guy who makes his. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.800 Way in the NFL for you can, oh for sure. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.679 I Mean, like I said, there's three phases of the game. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.280 You know, special teams is one of those phases. So 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.680 I mean it's just it's just as important as offensive defense. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.920 So I mean I would be just happy to be 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.000 on the field at all. So I mean that, you know, 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.800 that doesn't matter me offense, defense, special teams. I mean, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.920 as long as I'm on the field playing football and 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:32.400 just competing, you know, I'm happy. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.559 What's it been like sharing a meeting room with Odell Beckham? 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.920 It's crazy. So, yeah, that's crazy. That's great. So when 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.800 he first got here, it was kind of like, oh wow, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:41.800 like you know what I mean, I remember watching this 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.280 dude like growing up and now like I'm his teammate. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.480 So it's crazy. Definitely, be you know, teammates with guys 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.760 like that and being able to you know, pick their 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.880 brains and just see how they work, and you know, 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.320 just hearing their past experiences and just learning from them. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:55.200 What's something that. 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:58.960 Yeah, So I mean, uh, just a few things more 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.079 just football related stuff, just kind of like how we 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.360 run certain routes and stuff. Like that. So it's crazy. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.920 Like last year we actually had a route named called Odell, 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:07.720 So it's crazy to come, you know, actually have him 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.400 here and be like, all right, so you know, that's 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.480 that's his route, so we ask him how he runs 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.800 that and different things he does the versus different looks, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.000 so it's it's awesome to have a guy like that 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.719 our team. Okay, what's that, No, it's kind of that 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.719 that end zone corner I guess you could call it. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.400 We called that a kind of an Odell route, so 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:24.719 we kind of good to be able to pick his 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:25.840 brain about that route for sure. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:28.199 What's that? 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.440 We called it like an end zone corner route, kind of. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.720 Like all the guys y a Adel do you guys? 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.240 I mean it's great. I mean obviously with guys like 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.959 Nelly and having Odell, like those older VET guys, you know, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:45.720 it's pretty great. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:45.959 You know. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.520 I feel like the meeting room is pretty it's fun, 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.520 but also we're we're focused at the same time, you 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:51.880 know what I mean. We're we're getting in doing what 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.560 we're supposed to do, learning we're supposed to be learning, 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.000 and we're also having fun. So it's really good to 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:57.959 have those older guys, like I was saying earlier, just 0:12:57.960 --> 0:12:59.880 to be able to pick their brains and then having 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:04.120 that knowledge of just reading defenses and just reading corner 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:05.679 play and stuff like that. So it's great to have 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:06.600 those older guys. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.599 The conversation you know, you made the team or was 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:10.599 there nothing set that? 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.319 So there's yeah, there was actually nothing said. So I figured, 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.480 if you know, nobody said anything, I I figured I 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:16.880 was good. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.360 Four o'clock I was. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:20.800 I was waiting. I sat in my car and I 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.280 wait till it hit four, and I was like, alright, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.240 I'm good. So then and then I drove home, So 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:25.280 I was good for sure. 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:26.480 I was. 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.239 That was part right outside for sure with Lamar. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.440 And the past years and before you got here week 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.400 one this offense, so it's just not waited long to 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.839 get going, like what is about you Lamar or lock 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.559 in and really get that that head start on the season. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:42.880 Oh dah. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.000 I mean, I think it's it's great, especially and then 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:46.839 having all the guys that the guys that we have 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.800 just on the whole team in general, I mean, we 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.920 can do great things. So I think having everybody locked in, 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.360 everybody you know, just really focuses in and knowing what 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.600 we have the capability to do this season, I think 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.040 we're gonna be great and be awesome. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.040 Both up Oklahoma State roots. Did that help you strike 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:03.960 up a report with them at all a little bit? 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.599 Yeah, you know we could go back and kind of 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.920 he was there before I was there, but definitely, you know, 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.000 brings up some stories or some things that you know 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.640 that he he was. Uh, a lot of the coaches 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.720 that were with Monkey when I was there, So when 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.319 I went there, all the coaches that coach with Monken 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.240 were still there. So it was great to you know, 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:19.760 kind of talk to them a little big and the 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.960 idea cause before when when he first got hired, I 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:23.440 talked to them. They were telling to get Monk's a 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.560 great guy. You know, get to know him. He's awesome. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.760 So it was, Uh, it's nice to have that Oklahoma 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.840 State love, you know back in the back in this building. 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.640 Do you think that his rival is part. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.920 Of reason and that has helped you maybe to teach 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.280 the game, but you know, just kind of keep trying 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:38.000 to do your guests right now? 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.040 Is that I think? I think the way I mean, 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.720 I I would say just the you know, really the 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.840 the kind of want to throw the balls kind of help. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.400 And I also I feel like ties into Oklahoma State 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:50.760 as well. You know, it's kind of we were air 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.320 raid offense. So I feel like that, you know, bringing 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.640 in a guy like Monk and knowing that that's his 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.080 intentions definitely wanted me make me want to step it 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.320 up and be like, I want to be a part 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.000 of offense like that. I want to be able to, 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:02.920 you know, be a part where we're throwing the ball 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.280 down the field and you know, receivers are just making plays. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.160 That was wide receiver Tylan Wallace. And another important player 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.200 who made the fifty three man roster was Arthur Molett. 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.160 He's a veteran cornerback and nickel back who'ld be a 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.240 really important piece of this defense. And he's a former 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.880 Steeler as well, and he talked today about joining the 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.200 Ravens after spending the last two years in Pittsburgh. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.560 Martha, did you have a formal conversation on making the 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:31.480 fifty three men roster? 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.160 No formal conversation. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:39.680 I'm just honestly blessed because I didn't play any preseason games, right, Uh, 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:41.600 Like I said, I'm just blessed to be here. You know, 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.400 obviously I'm a tough guy. I kind of fit this scheme. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.520 I like the way that their defense is set up. 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.040 I think I'm going to thrive in it. So I 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.240 just can't wait to get out there and play. Honestly, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:53.640