WEBVTT - 2025 NFL League Meetings: HC John Harbaugh 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.320 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday, 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.879 March thirty. First, the NFL's annual owners meetings are this week, 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:11.639 and earlier this morning, we had a chance to hear 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.480 from head coach John Harbaugh. He bet with the media 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.360 for about thirty minutes at the league meetings, and here's 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:18.200 what he had to say. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.400 Congratulations on the new contract. Thank you, Jamison, appreciate it now. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:25.000 I mean, what is it for you? 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.240 What does it mean, you know, having again a new 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.160 contract for me being around here for you twenty twenty 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:30.840 eight or wherever. 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.400 It is, It means God is amazing and uh and 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:39.000 the Ravens organization is amazing. I was talking to talking 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.320 to actually my agent. We kind of he said something 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.800 to me. It really was just really Italian thing. He said, 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.920 you're five for five and you're in your head coaching career. Definitely. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:49.400 I kind of looked at him, like, you guys are 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.319 all looking at me right now. Yeah, he said, you're 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.080 five for five. He said, you've had the two best 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.760 team presidents in the NFL, You've had the two best 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.640 general managers in the NFL, and you've got the best 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.240 owner National Football League. Five or five so that's that's 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:07.360 the blessing, and uh, that's why we've probably why we're at, 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.840 That's why we're at where we're at right now with that. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.800 So I'm very grateful for that now. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.280 You know, when you when you get you know, the 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.120 new deal and you know you're about to have you 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.080 ever thought about how much. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.600 Longer you want to be? I mean it's eighteen years. Yeah, 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.240 I just I'm happy to be alive. I hope that 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.280 continues for a while. People have a I say to 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.639 my dad, you know, it's say you say happy birthday, 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.119 or you're you're feeling older or whatever. It's like, hey, 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.039 it's better than the alternative, you know, so let's keep 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.240 let's keep rolling. And then really, what you think about, honestly, 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.760 what you think about is is, uh, how are we 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.800 going to get better today? You know, how can we 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:44.959 get better? What do we need to do? Your players, 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:50.200 coaches three like that? Really, I mean, and everybody thinks 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.680 about it, but it's not really, it's not forefront of 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.240 my mind. I just hope I make it there to 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.160 make a decision. You know, at some point in time, 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.320 I will still be breathing. And you never have had 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:02.680 those conferencation to me. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:07.800 You know people are worst about. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.560 Well, my dad has the best advice. I think my 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.600 brother shared this recently. He said, Hey, you coach until 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.400 you just can't can't take it anymore, until it's just 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.760 too much and you just you just there's no way 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:20.920 you want to do it, you don't want to come 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.440 to work anymore. When you get to that point, you 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.160 coach for two more years and then you move on. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:32.639 So that's that's dad's advice. John. You haven't told you. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.320 Since some of the free agent activity, some of the losses. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:37.880 What do you like about where your roster. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.280 Is now at this point as you closer of the draft. Yeah, 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.000 I mean I think, I think, I think the best 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.800 way to describe it. I love the fact that we 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.919 can line up and play right now. You know, I've 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.640 heard I've heard it said before, and it's a good philosophy. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:51.440 You don't We don't play any games still September. So 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.760 when you have issues or holes, if you want to 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.920 call it that, you do have time to get better. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:57.960 But we we could play a game right now with 0:02:58.000 --> 0:02:59.919 our roster. We have a really good roster right now. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.400 I love our players, I love our depth, even not 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.240 that we can't get better. So what our mission right 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:07.960 now is to try to improve, is to try to 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.920 take take to the next level. And the way the 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.120 roster is set up, it gives us an opportunity to 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.440 really to go after the best player we can get, 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.520 you know, whatever the position might be, to improve our 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.840 team and make the whole better. So looking forward to 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.119 the draft, we still have some options in free agency. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:33.320 Keep improving, hot Oh yeah, d hot Man. I was 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.400 in a parking lot in Tampa getting ready to go 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.760 see my daughter play lacrosse game, and we got on 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.760 the phone, you know, and I had a chance to 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.880 talk to him about what his vision was for his 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.320 future and what he wanted to accomplish, and amazingly enough 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.560 and aligned perfectly with the Ravens vision. You know, it 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.800 was right in line with what we're trying to do. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.920 And he's a guy that just have always felt like 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.360 should be a raven That was always something I always 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.040 kind of watched him play and when we're playing against him. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.600 Felt the same way about Derrick Henry, you know, and 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.400 Lamar when we saw him in college state. But to 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.400 see him now with us in our building working out 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.080 already with the guys, it's uh, it's pretty cool. O line. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:14.960 You got to do a big to keep Ronnie Stanley. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.280 Just what's the view of the O line US word? 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.080 Well, I I feel good about the on line right 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.000 now today. I think, like I said, we got, we got, 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.000 we got, we got. We could play with five starters. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.520 We have competition even there, but we can we can 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.800 use a couple more guys too, you know. And uh, 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.160 and we'll be looking at bolster the debt but also 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.320 bolster the competition in the in the old line. But 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.520 bringing Ronnie back was was a huge part of that. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.400 We couldn't say that if Ronnie wasn't coming back, if 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.039 Ronnie had decided to go elsewhere, we would have had 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.800 to have addressed that in a big way. And Uh, 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.839 I expect Ronnie to even continue to ascend, you know, 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.520 not just back to where he was pre injury, but 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.080 past that now, you know. And just love his mindset, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:05:00.080 his maturity, his work ethic, his determination to be a 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.400 legacy type player. You know, that's really what he wants 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.040 to accomplish right now. And that's that's really important for 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:09.919 our team. John, Your commitments and the run game has 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.520 been renowned for many years with so many teams last 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.360 year really precommitted, obviously yourself, somebody around the league. I'm 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.560 wondering why you think that Pennhut swumps back to that 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.560 position in the runt game. Way, Yeah, it has swung back. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.560 Probably probably people realize that, you know, that's football, And uh, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.880 I think I think I've heard it said, you know 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.960 football or in the NFL is a passing league, which 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.160 it is, and the rules are kind of skewed that 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:34.680 way a little bit, and it's tough to defend the 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.000 great quarterbacks, but uh, you know, two headed monster is 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.120 better than one. And the ability to run the ball, 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.640 I think just it just adds a layer that is 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.279 fundamental to the game. It's a physical game. If you 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.920 can run the ball, you can control the ball if 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.240 you can if you can stop the run, you can 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.000 put the offense in tougher passing situations. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:55.200 You know. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.920 So we've just always felt like it starts with stopping 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:58.880 the run and running the ball. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.320 John obviously there's a big boat coming bar and so's 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.239 pushed with the egos run the quarterbacks team without running 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.800 quarterback like Lamard and to feel one way or the 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:08.560 other on the. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.640 Play, Well, we don't do it with Lamar. Well, it's 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.200 not something that we do. Uh yeah, I feel like, uh, 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.400 I feel like it's a football player, you know. I mean, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.560 if if the if it's determined that it's it's a 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.520 it's an injury risk play, which I think the doctors 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.479 are concerned about right now, then that's something that we 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.320 have to address if we if we don't, if we 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.040 if we don't think it's an injury risk play, then 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.000 it's just a play in football. So it's gonna be 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.120 I'm looking forward to discussion. We really haven't decided our 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:36.960 position on that yet. Kind of want to hear some 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:37.760 more of the conversation. 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.760 What about the old mom that moll carriers weren't able 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:41.920 to get the pushed from behind? 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.159 You didn't like going back to that can kind of 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.600 meet some of the pressure round Well, yeah, I mean 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.839 that's it's if you want to be consistent, just take 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.960 take all those kind of pushing situations out of the game, 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.240 right downfield or wherever they are. I mean, you know, 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.120 we can't push the quarterback, maybe we shouldn't be able 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.240 to push the guards either. You know, we can't push 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.040 the defensive line on a field goal rush. Why are 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:03.599 we pushing the guards? If you want to make that 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.680 a rule, it might it might make sense to make 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.000 a comprehensive but right now it's pretty narrowly written. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.040 So love to see what happens either running back ked Minchell, 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:13.880 you know, last year and coming back from the injury, 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.120 and that's a tough year, and it's about maybe his 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:18.760 off season vis or what way. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.000 You think he may be for next year. Right Well, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.120 that's a great question. I do think Cliffy's on he's 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.400 been on schedule, he's been on track. That was a 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.960 really tough injury. So the fact that he got back 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.160 when he did was to me almost like Marakis said, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.120 he was out there playing it all. I'm I'm I'm 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.800 almost certain as much as you can be sure he's 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.400 gonna be a whole other level coming back in the 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.800 spring and then again into training camp because he's going 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.440 to be, you know, a year and a half out 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.480 of that deal, so this will be his second year. 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.000 Most injuries at your second year this one. I think 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:55.720 that's especially true about count How do you say about 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:56.520 the States back? 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:57.880 Ye? 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:05.000 Say the second party right now? Yeah, I feel great 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.200 about the linebacker position. I think we do need some guys. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.440 I mean, you know, it's uh, it's we lost a 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.360 bunch of guys. Uh, so we we've got to place 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.160 those guys. I think we've got some good young guys 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:14.640 coming up. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:15.080 Uh. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.240 William Quemco and nobody knows about him, but he played 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.360 two games last year. I'm kind of excited him as 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.160 a as a special teams guy and growing developing linebacker. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.239 But Trent and Simpson expect him to be the starting 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.920 uh early down. Will you know, we do a lot 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.840 on passing downs with dime and different kind of personnel 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.920 groups in the field. He can he can continue to 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.400 grow into that. But I think he's gonna take a 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.400 big step this year. I remember Pat Queen took a 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.080 big step his third year as well, so that would 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.160 be probably our expectation. He's working hard, man, He's already 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.080 in the building every single day. He's watching film on 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.800 his own. He's in a phenomenal shape. He could probably 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.800 I'm sure he could play a game right now. So 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.440 he's he's he's uh, he's he cares, you know, and 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:56.440 that's that's where it starts. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:03.400 He had scary more pentimes. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.719 Well, yeah, I mean, Brandon, look what he accomplished. You know, 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.040 he didn't play defensive back until like his junior and 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.040 senior year in college. Came in kind of like raw 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.280 in that sense, and became one of the better corners 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.000 in the league last two years. And for him to 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:21.599 get that kind of a contract and a deal, I 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.600 got to know his family really well. His mom went 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.360 through a situation with his brother, as you remember. For 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.800 this to happen for him is a blessing, and so 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.600 we're happy for him leaves us, you know, needing a corner, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.680 but we got cheetoh, you know, and that was a 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.760 huge signing for us. So and he's he's been he's 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.000 been one of the highest ranked corners when he's been healthy. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.160 So our goals to get him back out there, get him, 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.760 get him healthy, really work with all the soft tissue stuff, 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.600 and try to do the best we can to bring 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.120 him back to where he at a high level of play. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.120 So he should help us. And we've got TJ Tampa 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.440 in the mix. I think TJ is going to take 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.640 a big step. Health is big for him too. And 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.840 then Jalen armor Davis is another guy with the health. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.480 So Jalen's always been talented and he's always played well 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:04.000 when he's been out there. So those are all guys 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.559 in the conversation. And then our Darius. You know, the 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.560 Darros can can drop down into the Nickel spot. So 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.959 we've gotten answers. We could definitely add a guy in 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:16.040 the draft too. So you like him an inside outside. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.400 I love Marlin anywhere, you know, I like him on 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.520 the field, but I do like him inside. I mean, 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.199 he's he's a he's a he's a game changer in there. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.840 Nobody plays like Marlin. There's no Nickel who plays the 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.480 way Marlin plays in the slot. He can play outside 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.480 with the best of them, but I don't think there's 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:31.840 anybody like Marlin in the slot. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.439 He's the building a pass rush and we will just 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.720 Smith for that, right, Chuck Smith is Yeah, it's a unique, 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.160 unique guy, right, he's the pass rush. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.200 Yeah, we call him the guru. Uh he he would 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.040 probably blush if he heard me say that, but he 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.280 is h He's passionate about pass rush and he brings 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.400 that to the table with our guys. Even just figured 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.920 if you have a skill that's really important, then it 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.079 needs to be trained in taught every single day, and 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.199 he does that and he does the other things to him, 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.079 he coaches a position in the assignments, he coaches the position, 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.280 but he but he focuses on all the guys, the 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.679 defensive lineman, the edge rushers, the defensive backs, the linebackers 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.040 on their pass rush technique. So he does a great job. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.640 I'm really proud of Chuck. Guys on Chuck chuck' donald. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:23.680 How you see cout back? Two things? What's what's his role? 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.280 I know it's a flower for the backs all the times, 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:27.960 sticking there, but how do you kind of see that 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.640 playing uh playing out? Yeah, I think we got a 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.319 good mix back there. You know, of course Zach is 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.640 the coordinator, is involved with every part of it, and 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.360 then Chuck and then Don Donald and uh, those three, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.480 those three guys will be focusing on the back end. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.800 But you know, Chuck brings that experience. And then Donald's 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.360 a young guy. You know, he's just he's been in 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.120 the league three years and now he's really proven himself 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:51.960 as a as one of the up and coming coaches, 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.040 I think in this league. So it was just a 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.800 good chemistry between these two guys. I felt like, uh, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.720 Chuck bringing the experience and the style you guys know Chuck, 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.480 and he's he's just he's got a great way with 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.960 those guys. He's he's unique. He's been been there and 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.800 done all that. You know, he's seen about everything you 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.600 can see in football, and so I think that experience 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.280 is gonna be really good for us. I think they're 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.760 gonna like his style. I think Donald's like cutting edge 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:16.959 right now. They've been what they've done in Kansas City 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.080 with Steve Spagnolo. You know that's we have ties to Steve, 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.760 as you know, our systems are very similar. And for 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.439 Donald to take a step with more responsibility with us, 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:30.520 he's good too. So I'm very fired up about that situation. Guy, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.360 we weren't talk talk about. Want to get on that 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.840 phone call and you're just kind of kind of together, Yeah, 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.760 you think about it, And I'm just kind of like, hey, 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.720 you know, I know this great secondary coach. You know, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.000 I wonder if he'd be interested in, uh in coming back, 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.880 and uh, I didn't know. I didn't. I didn't. I 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.720 didn't know because he's pretty happy out there, he's got 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.560 the grand babies. But uh, his first, his first, his 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.200 first I think his answer was, you know, when do 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.400 I when do we start, you know, let's get back 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:01.160 to it. So let's chuck, come you and air with that. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.480 You would, look, you're starting to look at kickers as 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.600 possibility when you're going to get. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.480 To this draft, you expect to draft the kickers going 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.720 to fit this draft. That's a great question. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:11.040 Uh. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.000 I think there's a lot of good kickers in the draft. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.920 From when I'm told Randy Brown is out there, he's 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.080 been putting up the frequent flyer miles all over the 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.160 all over the country. The last Eddie Edi texts me, like, 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.840 I get it's like Sanna tracking Santa, you know on 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.600 Christmas Eve. You know, it's tracking Randy on the on 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.880 the on the evaluation of kickers right now. But he's, uh, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:30.800 he's doing a great job with that. So he'll have 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.120 his list. We'll look at those guys next week when 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.000 we get back and and it definitely, you know, it's 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:37.960 obviously there's a lot of a lot of layers to 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.960 that whole conversation, but we we it's something we would 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.400 have to do no matter what. You know, it's at 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.240 this point in time, you gotta look, you always gotta be, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.480 you always gotta you got to do your due diligence, 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:52.400 so we'll be prepared to do that, uh uh draft 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:53.880 ed if we feel like we need to and if 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:54.720 the right guys there. 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.600 So the way the few friends came together, we would 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.040 end the last year and you've been how much did 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.520 you them make me feel like? Hey, that could be 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.640 kind of just thought and going. 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:05.000 H. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.680 That's how exactly how it made me feel, Cliff like, 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.480 that's where we begin. I was, I was. I was 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.480 surprised that we had this just I was surprised in 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.520 the midst of it that we were struggling the way 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.360 we were, because you know, I just felt like those 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.560 weren't you didn't you didn't see some of those problems 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:25.160 cropping up the way. You couldn't anticipate those coverage problems 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.080 could crop up the way they did. But looking back 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.680 on it, not so surprised, you know, just kind of 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:35.200 what we went through, h what we were dealing with quarterbacks, 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.200 that we played, all those kinds of things. But the 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.960 fact that we were able to get it turned around collaboratively, 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.760 We got together, we worked on it and got it 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.720 fixed and in a real big way. I was really 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:44.160 proud of that. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.560 Literarier about the versatility in the secondary. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.080 How big is it to have another stafety to allow 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:51.120 some of it, like. 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.880 Hamilton move around in our areas to move around. How 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.000 big it is a piece of that. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.840 Yeah, I think another safety in the mix playing would 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.560 would definitely do that, you know, And I think we 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.440 have two young guys from last year. He did a 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.520 good job on special teams. Expect those guys in that 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.160 conversation or anybody that we might add in the draft 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.760 or free agency. Still but uh, we like we do. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:13.320 We like the uh, the moving parts. We like that 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:18.520 that would help us. John here's still signing plays the 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:27.520 biggest safety deal ding What do I was it? That's 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.200 a good question. I wish I had that answer. It's 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.600 probably a lot a lot to that, you know, that's 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.000 it's hard to understand. But by no means do I 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.160 think that that he's not going to play really good 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.920 football going forward. I've even said that before. I thought 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.840 it would happen even last year at one point. So 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.520 he's a talented guy, he's a very conscientious person. I 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.320 was really just impressed in the way handled. I thought 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.240 he handled like a pro and like the good person 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.920 that he is. He was a good teammate and he'll 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:58.600 do really well going forward. I'm sure somewhere. It's a 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.360 lot of tough to all season Mark Andrews status. Do 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.400 you fully expect him to be and even heavy? 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.000 You kind of talked to him throughout the offseason given 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.640 how his season ended last year. 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.800 Yeah, we've been in contact, you know, back and forth. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.560 I mean, you know, it's not like guys. It's not 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.640 guys want here for me every day, you know, any 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.280 of them saying coach, you call me again, you know. 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.280 But h Mark's in a good place. He's working really hard. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.200 I fully do I do fully expect him to be 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.240 playing for US next year. He's just too good a player, 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.840 you know. I mean, obviously with any player, there's always 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.720 that any player. I just coaches players. It's it's national football, 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:39.800 and that's part of the deal with things happening. So 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.640 you never I never could say anybody, but Mark would 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.080 be one of the few guys I would expect not 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:49.000 to be here. So we'll see what happens, but I 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.920 fully expect. My plans are that we've got Mark, we 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.880 got Isaiah, we got Charlie, we've got Patrick Card all 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.400 in place doing all those jobs. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.280 Just really picking about to push. I know there's been 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:02.320 a lot of talk about it. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.560 I know you guys are used to with market that's 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:10.280 something Yeah, well we uh, like we said here a 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.159 minute ago, it just has it has to do with safety, 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.520 So doctors have some concerns. I think we just want 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:16.879 to hear more about how the doctors feel about it 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:18.960 in terms of there's not a lot of those plays 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.480 so far, so if there's a if there's if there's 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.080 potential for a wrong kind of injury, then you know 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.040 then that we'll have to think about that. If they 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:28.840 feel like it's safe for or it can be made 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.360 safe for whatever, the fine. But if it's safe, it's 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.040 a football player, so we have no problem with it. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.080 If there's a if there's a problem with it's safety wise, 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.400 and we we need to consider what they're talking about. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.240 That's how that's where we're at withally, you think that 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.320 the general SENTI I mean no safety. If your raise 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.679 then people will really lucky. I don't know, that's a 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.040 great question. I haven't really pulled. I haven't done a 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.560 poll on it. But uh, if they have it still 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.080 in the game, we'll still be doing it with Mark. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:56.679 And if they take it out of the game, then 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:58.640 we won't. And that's pretty much where we're at where 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.560 the football wise question out. 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:07.840 Something and Candy girls flag football right and the Ravens 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:09.680