Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: March thirty. First, the NFL's annual owners meetings are this week,
Speaker 1: and earlier this morning, we had a chance to hear
Speaker 1: from head coach John Harbaugh. He bet with the media
Speaker 1: for about thirty minutes at the league meetings, and here's
Speaker 1: what he had to say.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on the new contract. Thank you, Jamison, appreciate it now.
Speaker 2: I mean, what is it for you?
Speaker 3: What does it mean, you know, having again a new
Speaker 3: contract for me being around here for you twenty twenty
Speaker 3: eight or wherever.
Speaker 2: It is, It means God is amazing and uh and
Speaker 2: the Ravens organization is amazing. I was talking to talking
Speaker 2: to actually my agent. We kind of he said something
Speaker 2: to me. It really was just really Italian thing. He said,
Speaker 2: you're five for five and you're in your head coaching career. Definitely.
Speaker 2: I kind of looked at him, like, you guys are
Speaker 2: all looking at me right now. Yeah, he said, you're
Speaker 2: five for five. He said, you've had the two best
Speaker 2: team presidents in the NFL, You've had the two best
Speaker 2: general managers in the NFL, and you've got the best
Speaker 2: owner National Football League. Five or five so that's that's
Speaker 2: the blessing, and uh, that's why we've probably why we're at,
Speaker 2: That's why we're at where we're at right now with that.
Speaker 2: So I'm very grateful for that now.
Speaker 3: You know, when you when you get you know, the
Speaker 3: new deal and you know you're about to have you
Speaker 3: ever thought about how much.
Speaker 2: Longer you want to be? I mean it's eighteen years. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just I'm happy to be alive. I hope that
Speaker 2: continues for a while. People have a I say to
Speaker 2: my dad, you know, it's say you say happy birthday,
Speaker 2: or you're you're feeling older or whatever. It's like, hey,
Speaker 2: it's better than the alternative, you know, so let's keep
Speaker 2: let's keep rolling. And then really, what you think about, honestly,
Speaker 2: what you think about is is, uh, how are we
Speaker 2: going to get better today? You know, how can we
Speaker 2: get better? What do we need to do? Your players,
Speaker 2: coaches three like that? Really, I mean, and everybody thinks
Speaker 2: about it, but it's not really, it's not forefront of
Speaker 2: my mind. I just hope I make it there to
Speaker 2: make a decision. You know, at some point in time,
Speaker 2: I will still be breathing. And you never have had
Speaker 2: those conferencation to me.
Speaker 3: You know people are worst about.
Speaker 2: Well, my dad has the best advice. I think my
Speaker 2: brother shared this recently. He said, Hey, you coach until
Speaker 2: you just can't can't take it anymore, until it's just
Speaker 2: too much and you just you just there's no way
Speaker 2: you want to do it, you don't want to come
Speaker 2: to work anymore. When you get to that point, you
Speaker 2: coach for two more years and then you move on.
Speaker 2: So that's that's dad's advice. John. You haven't told you.
Speaker 3: Since some of the free agent activity, some of the losses.
Speaker 4: What do you like about where your roster.
Speaker 2: Is now at this point as you closer of the draft. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I think, I think, I think the best
Speaker 2: way to describe it. I love the fact that we
Speaker 2: can line up and play right now. You know, I've
Speaker 2: heard I've heard it said before, and it's a good philosophy.
Speaker 2: You don't We don't play any games still September. So
Speaker 2: when you have issues or holes, if you want to
Speaker 2: call it that, you do have time to get better.
Speaker 2: But we we could play a game right now with
Speaker 2: our roster. We have a really good roster right now.
Speaker 2: I love our players, I love our depth, even not
Speaker 2: that we can't get better. So what our mission right
Speaker 2: now is to try to improve, is to try to
Speaker 2: take take to the next level. And the way the
Speaker 2: roster is set up, it gives us an opportunity to
Speaker 2: really to go after the best player we can get,
Speaker 2: you know, whatever the position might be, to improve our
Speaker 2: team and make the whole better. So looking forward to
Speaker 2: the draft, we still have some options in free agency.
Speaker 2: Keep improving, hot Oh yeah, d hot Man. I was
Speaker 2: in a parking lot in Tampa getting ready to go
Speaker 2: see my daughter play lacrosse game, and we got on
Speaker 2: the phone, you know, and I had a chance to
Speaker 2: talk to him about what his vision was for his
Speaker 2: future and what he wanted to accomplish, and amazingly enough
Speaker 2: and aligned perfectly with the Ravens vision. You know, it
Speaker 2: was right in line with what we're trying to do.
Speaker 2: And he's a guy that just have always felt like
Speaker 2: should be a raven That was always something I always
Speaker 2: kind of watched him play and when we're playing against him.
Speaker 2: Felt the same way about Derrick Henry, you know, and
Speaker 2: Lamar when we saw him in college state. But to
Speaker 2: see him now with us in our building working out
Speaker 2: already with the guys, it's uh, it's pretty cool. O line.
Speaker 1: You got to do a big to keep Ronnie Stanley.
Speaker 1: Just what's the view of the O line US word?
Speaker 2: Well, I I feel good about the on line right
Speaker 2: now today. I think, like I said, we got, we got,
Speaker 2: we got, we got. We could play with five starters.
Speaker 2: We have competition even there, but we can we can
Speaker 2: use a couple more guys too, you know. And uh,
Speaker 2: and we'll be looking at bolster the debt but also
Speaker 2: bolster the competition in the in the old line. But
Speaker 2: bringing Ronnie back was was a huge part of that.
Speaker 2: We couldn't say that if Ronnie wasn't coming back, if
Speaker 2: Ronnie had decided to go elsewhere, we would have had
Speaker 2: to have addressed that in a big way. And Uh,
Speaker 2: I expect Ronnie to even continue to ascend, you know,
Speaker 2: not just back to where he was pre injury, but
Speaker 2: past that now, you know. And just love his mindset,
Speaker 2: his maturity, his work ethic, his determination to be a
Speaker 2: legacy type player. You know, that's really what he wants
Speaker 2: to accomplish right now. And that's that's really important for
Speaker 2: our team. John, Your commitments and the run game has
Speaker 2: been renowned for many years with so many teams last
Speaker 2: year really precommitted, obviously yourself, somebody around the league. I'm
Speaker 2: wondering why you think that Pennhut swumps back to that
Speaker 2: position in the runt game. Way, Yeah, it has swung back.
Speaker 2: Probably probably people realize that, you know, that's football, And uh,
Speaker 2: I think I think I've heard it said, you know
Speaker 2: football or in the NFL is a passing league, which
Speaker 2: it is, and the rules are kind of skewed that
Speaker 2: way a little bit, and it's tough to defend the
Speaker 2: great quarterbacks, but uh, you know, two headed monster is
Speaker 2: better than one. And the ability to run the ball,
Speaker 2: I think just it just adds a layer that is
Speaker 2: fundamental to the game. It's a physical game. If you
Speaker 2: can run the ball, you can control the ball if
Speaker 2: you can if you can stop the run, you can
Speaker 2: put the offense in tougher passing situations.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: So we've just always felt like it starts with stopping
Speaker 2: the run and running the ball.
Speaker 5: John obviously there's a big boat coming bar and so's
Speaker 5: pushed with the egos run the quarterbacks team without running
Speaker 5: quarterback like Lamard and to feel one way or the
Speaker 5: other on the.
Speaker 2: Play, Well, we don't do it with Lamar. Well, it's
Speaker 2: not something that we do. Uh yeah, I feel like, uh,
Speaker 2: I feel like it's a football player, you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: if if the if it's determined that it's it's a
Speaker 2: it's an injury risk play, which I think the doctors
Speaker 2: are concerned about right now, then that's something that we
Speaker 2: have to address if we if we don't, if we
Speaker 2: if we don't think it's an injury risk play, then
Speaker 2: it's just a play in football. So it's gonna be
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to discussion. We really haven't decided our
Speaker 2: position on that yet. Kind of want to hear some
Speaker 2: more of the conversation.
Speaker 5: What about the old mom that moll carriers weren't able
Speaker 5: to get the pushed from behind?
Speaker 2: You didn't like going back to that can kind of
Speaker 2: meet some of the pressure round Well, yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: that's it's if you want to be consistent, just take
Speaker 2: take all those kind of pushing situations out of the game,
Speaker 2: right downfield or wherever they are. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: we can't push the quarterback, maybe we shouldn't be able
Speaker 2: to push the guards either. You know, we can't push
Speaker 2: the defensive line on a field goal rush. Why are
Speaker 2: we pushing the guards? If you want to make that
Speaker 2: a rule, it might it might make sense to make
Speaker 2: a comprehensive but right now it's pretty narrowly written.
Speaker 4: So love to see what happens either running back ked Minchell,
Speaker 4: you know, last year and coming back from the injury,
Speaker 4: and that's a tough year, and it's about maybe his
Speaker 4: off season vis or what way.
Speaker 2: You think he may be for next year. Right Well,
Speaker 2: that's a great question. I do think Cliffy's on he's
Speaker 2: been on schedule, he's been on track. That was a
Speaker 2: really tough injury. So the fact that he got back
Speaker 2: when he did was to me almost like Marakis said,
Speaker 2: he was out there playing it all. I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 2: almost certain as much as you can be sure he's
Speaker 2: gonna be a whole other level coming back in the
Speaker 2: spring and then again into training camp because he's going
Speaker 2: to be, you know, a year and a half out
Speaker 2: of that deal, so this will be his second year.
Speaker 2: Most injuries at your second year this one. I think
Speaker 2: that's especially true about count How do you say about
Speaker 2: the States back?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 2: Say the second party right now? Yeah, I feel great
Speaker 2: about the linebacker position. I think we do need some guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's uh, it's we lost a
Speaker 2: bunch of guys. Uh, so we we've got to place
Speaker 2: those guys. I think we've got some good young guys
Speaker 2: coming up.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: William Quemco and nobody knows about him, but he played
Speaker 2: two games last year. I'm kind of excited him as
Speaker 2: a as a special teams guy and growing developing linebacker.
Speaker 2: But Trent and Simpson expect him to be the starting
Speaker 2: uh early down. Will you know, we do a lot
Speaker 2: on passing downs with dime and different kind of personnel
Speaker 2: groups in the field. He can he can continue to
Speaker 2: grow into that. But I think he's gonna take a
Speaker 2: big step this year. I remember Pat Queen took a
Speaker 2: big step his third year as well, so that would
Speaker 2: be probably our expectation. He's working hard, man, He's already
Speaker 2: in the building every single day. He's watching film on
Speaker 2: his own. He's in a phenomenal shape. He could probably
Speaker 2: I'm sure he could play a game right now. So
Speaker 2: he's he's he's uh, he's he cares, you know, and
Speaker 2: that's that's where it starts.
Speaker 1: He had scary more pentimes.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, Brandon, look what he accomplished. You know,
Speaker 2: he didn't play defensive back until like his junior and
Speaker 2: senior year in college. Came in kind of like raw
Speaker 2: in that sense, and became one of the better corners
Speaker 2: in the league last two years. And for him to
Speaker 2: get that kind of a contract and a deal, I
Speaker 2: got to know his family really well. His mom went
Speaker 2: through a situation with his brother, as you remember. For
Speaker 2: this to happen for him is a blessing, and so
Speaker 2: we're happy for him leaves us, you know, needing a corner,
Speaker 2: but we got cheetoh, you know, and that was a
Speaker 2: huge signing for us. So and he's he's been he's
Speaker 2: been one of the highest ranked corners when he's been healthy.
Speaker 2: So our goals to get him back out there, get him,
Speaker 2: get him healthy, really work with all the soft tissue stuff,
Speaker 2: and try to do the best we can to bring
Speaker 2: him back to where he at a high level of play.
Speaker 2: So he should help us. And we've got TJ Tampa
Speaker 2: in the mix. I think TJ is going to take
Speaker 2: a big step. Health is big for him too. And
Speaker 2: then Jalen armor Davis is another guy with the health.
Speaker 2: So Jalen's always been talented and he's always played well
Speaker 2: when he's been out there. So those are all guys
Speaker 2: in the conversation. And then our Darius. You know, the
Speaker 2: Darros can can drop down into the Nickel spot. So
Speaker 2: we've gotten answers. We could definitely add a guy in
Speaker 2: the draft too. So you like him an inside outside.
Speaker 2: I love Marlin anywhere, you know, I like him on
Speaker 2: the field, but I do like him inside. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's he's a he's a he's a game changer in there.
Speaker 2: Nobody plays like Marlin. There's no Nickel who plays the
Speaker 2: way Marlin plays in the slot. He can play outside
Speaker 2: with the best of them, but I don't think there's
Speaker 2: anybody like Marlin in the slot.
Speaker 6: He's the building a pass rush and we will just
Speaker 6: Smith for that, right, Chuck Smith is Yeah, it's a unique,
Speaker 6: unique guy, right, he's the pass rush.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we call him the guru. Uh he he would
Speaker 2: probably blush if he heard me say that, but he
Speaker 2: is h He's passionate about pass rush and he brings
Speaker 2: that to the table with our guys. Even just figured
Speaker 2: if you have a skill that's really important, then it
Speaker 2: needs to be trained in taught every single day, and
Speaker 2: he does that and he does the other things to him,
Speaker 2: he coaches a position in the assignments, he coaches the position,
Speaker 2: but he but he focuses on all the guys, the
Speaker 2: defensive lineman, the edge rushers, the defensive backs, the linebackers
Speaker 2: on their pass rush technique. So he does a great job.
Speaker 2: I'm really proud of Chuck. Guys on Chuck chuck' donald.
Speaker 2: How you see cout back? Two things? What's what's his role?
Speaker 2: I know it's a flower for the backs all the times,
Speaker 2: sticking there, but how do you kind of see that
Speaker 2: playing uh playing out? Yeah, I think we got a
Speaker 2: good mix back there. You know, of course Zach is
Speaker 2: the coordinator, is involved with every part of it, and
Speaker 2: then Chuck and then Don Donald and uh, those three,
Speaker 2: those three guys will be focusing on the back end.
Speaker 2: But you know, Chuck brings that experience. And then Donald's
Speaker 2: a young guy. You know, he's just he's been in
Speaker 2: the league three years and now he's really proven himself
Speaker 2: as a as one of the up and coming coaches,
Speaker 2: I think in this league. So it was just a
Speaker 2: good chemistry between these two guys. I felt like, uh,
Speaker 2: Chuck bringing the experience and the style you guys know Chuck,
Speaker 2: and he's he's just he's got a great way with
Speaker 2: those guys. He's he's unique. He's been been there and
Speaker 2: done all that. You know, he's seen about everything you
Speaker 2: can see in football, and so I think that experience
Speaker 2: is gonna be really good for us. I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna like his style. I think Donald's like cutting edge
Speaker 2: right now. They've been what they've done in Kansas City
Speaker 2: with Steve Spagnolo. You know that's we have ties to Steve,
Speaker 2: as you know, our systems are very similar. And for
Speaker 2: Donald to take a step with more responsibility with us,
Speaker 2: he's good too. So I'm very fired up about that situation. Guy,
Speaker 2: we weren't talk talk about. Want to get on that
Speaker 2: phone call and you're just kind of kind of together, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you think about it, And I'm just kind of like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, I know this great secondary coach. You know,
Speaker 2: I wonder if he'd be interested in, uh in coming back,
Speaker 2: and uh, I didn't know. I didn't. I didn't. I
Speaker 2: didn't know because he's pretty happy out there, he's got
Speaker 2: the grand babies. But uh, his first, his first, his
Speaker 2: first I think his answer was, you know, when do
Speaker 2: I when do we start, you know, let's get back
Speaker 2: to it. So let's chuck, come you and air with that.
Speaker 3: You would, look, you're starting to look at kickers as
Speaker 3: possibility when you're going to get.
Speaker 2: To this draft, you expect to draft the kickers going
Speaker 2: to fit this draft. That's a great question.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of good kickers in the draft.
Speaker 2: From when I'm told Randy Brown is out there, he's
Speaker 2: been putting up the frequent flyer miles all over the
Speaker 2: all over the country. The last Eddie Edi texts me, like,
Speaker 2: I get it's like Sanna tracking Santa, you know on
Speaker 2: Christmas Eve. You know, it's tracking Randy on the on
Speaker 2: the on the evaluation of kickers right now. But he's, uh,
Speaker 2: he's doing a great job with that. So he'll have
Speaker 2: his list. We'll look at those guys next week when
Speaker 2: we get back and and it definitely, you know, it's
Speaker 2: obviously there's a lot of a lot of layers to
Speaker 2: that whole conversation, but we we it's something we would
Speaker 2: have to do no matter what. You know, it's at
Speaker 2: this point in time, you gotta look, you always gotta be,
Speaker 2: you always gotta you got to do your due diligence,
Speaker 2: so we'll be prepared to do that, uh uh draft
Speaker 2: ed if we feel like we need to and if
Speaker 2: the right guys there.
Speaker 3: So the way the few friends came together, we would
Speaker 3: end the last year and you've been how much did
Speaker 3: you them make me feel like? Hey, that could be
Speaker 3: kind of just thought and going.
Speaker 5: H.
Speaker 2: That's how exactly how it made me feel, Cliff like,
Speaker 2: that's where we begin. I was, I was. I was
Speaker 2: surprised that we had this just I was surprised in
Speaker 2: the midst of it that we were struggling the way
Speaker 2: we were, because you know, I just felt like those
Speaker 2: weren't you didn't you didn't see some of those problems
Speaker 2: cropping up the way. You couldn't anticipate those coverage problems
Speaker 2: could crop up the way they did. But looking back
Speaker 2: on it, not so surprised, you know, just kind of
Speaker 2: what we went through, h what we were dealing with quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: that we played, all those kinds of things. But the
Speaker 2: fact that we were able to get it turned around collaboratively,
Speaker 2: We got together, we worked on it and got it
Speaker 2: fixed and in a real big way. I was really
Speaker 2: proud of that.
Speaker 1: Literarier about the versatility in the secondary.
Speaker 2: How big is it to have another stafety to allow
Speaker 2: some of it, like.
Speaker 1: Hamilton move around in our areas to move around. How
Speaker 1: big it is a piece of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think another safety in the mix playing would
Speaker 2: would definitely do that, you know, And I think we
Speaker 2: have two young guys from last year. He did a
Speaker 2: good job on special teams. Expect those guys in that
Speaker 2: conversation or anybody that we might add in the draft
Speaker 2: or free agency. Still but uh, we like we do.
Speaker 2: We like the uh, the moving parts. We like that
Speaker 2: that would help us. John here's still signing plays the
Speaker 2: biggest safety deal ding What do I was it? That's
Speaker 2: a good question. I wish I had that answer. It's
Speaker 2: probably a lot a lot to that, you know, that's
Speaker 2: it's hard to understand. But by no means do I
Speaker 2: think that that he's not going to play really good
Speaker 2: football going forward. I've even said that before. I thought
Speaker 2: it would happen even last year at one point. So
Speaker 2: he's a talented guy, he's a very conscientious person. I
Speaker 2: was really just impressed in the way handled. I thought
Speaker 2: he handled like a pro and like the good person
Speaker 2: that he is. He was a good teammate and he'll
Speaker 2: do really well going forward. I'm sure somewhere. It's a
Speaker 2: lot of tough to all season Mark Andrews status. Do
Speaker 2: you fully expect him to be and even heavy?
Speaker 5: You kind of talked to him throughout the offseason given
Speaker 5: how his season ended last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been in contact, you know, back and forth.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's not like guys. It's not
Speaker 2: guys want here for me every day, you know, any
Speaker 2: of them saying coach, you call me again, you know.
Speaker 2: But h Mark's in a good place. He's working really hard.
Speaker 2: I fully do I do fully expect him to be
Speaker 2: playing for US next year. He's just too good a player,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, obviously with any player, there's always
Speaker 2: that any player. I just coaches players. It's it's national football,
Speaker 2: and that's part of the deal with things happening. So
Speaker 2: you never I never could say anybody, but Mark would
Speaker 2: be one of the few guys I would expect not
Speaker 2: to be here. So we'll see what happens, but I
Speaker 2: fully expect. My plans are that we've got Mark, we
Speaker 2: got Isaiah, we got Charlie, we've got Patrick Card all
Speaker 2: in place doing all those jobs.
Speaker 5: Just really picking about to push. I know there's been
Speaker 5: a lot of talk about it.
Speaker 2: I know you guys are used to with market that's
Speaker 2: something Yeah, well we uh, like we said here a
Speaker 2: minute ago, it just has it has to do with safety,
Speaker 2: So doctors have some concerns. I think we just want
Speaker 2: to hear more about how the doctors feel about it
Speaker 2: in terms of there's not a lot of those plays
Speaker 2: so far, so if there's a if there's if there's
Speaker 2: potential for a wrong kind of injury, then you know
Speaker 2: then that we'll have to think about that. If they
Speaker 2: feel like it's safe for or it can be made
Speaker 2: safe for whatever, the fine. But if it's safe, it's
Speaker 2: a football player, so we have no problem with it.
Speaker 2: If there's a if there's a problem with it's safety wise,
Speaker 2: and we we need to consider what they're talking about.
Speaker 2: That's how that's where we're at withally, you think that
Speaker 2: the general SENTI I mean no safety. If your raise
Speaker 2: then people will really lucky. I don't know, that's a
Speaker 2: great question. I haven't really pulled. I haven't done a
Speaker 2: poll on it. But uh, if they have it still
Speaker 2: in the game, we'll still be doing it with Mark.
Speaker 2: And if they take it out of the game, then
Speaker 2: we won't. And that's pretty much where we're at where
Speaker 2: the football wise question out.
Speaker 1: Something and Candy girls flag football right and the Ravens
Speaker 1: that game there.
Speaker 5: And just what are your thoughts on the importance.
Speaker 1: Of that initiated, especially given them LFKA an opportunity in
Speaker 1: the newports right now.
Speaker 2: A hugely important, big fan of the flag football initiative
Speaker 2: men and women. And uh, probably because I have a
Speaker 2: daughter and a wife who both tell me that they
Speaker 2: just disappointed they didn't get a chance to play. You know. Uh,
Speaker 2: I think Allison would have been a heck of a
Speaker 2: lefty quarterback, and Ingrid would have been a heck of
Speaker 2: a quarterback or a wide receiver or wing back or something.
Speaker 2: She's a pitbull. She might have been a corner out there,
Speaker 2: you know, playing man covered. So uh, that's the that's
Speaker 2: the sentiment I hear from a lot of from both
Speaker 2: of them, and from there, you know, Allison's friends, it's like, man,
Speaker 2: I wish i'd have had that when I was coming up.
Speaker 2: I would have loved to have played. So yeah, that's
Speaker 2: just a great opportunity. It's a great game. Flag football
Speaker 2: is fun, man, and we all did you play it
Speaker 2: in gym class, coming up right, you know, you spin
Speaker 2: away and get to take the flag away. I just
Speaker 2: I think it's awesome. What do you though?
Speaker 5: It's now about the possibility of the Olympics and then
Speaker 5: holding it maybe in July and having NFL players.
Speaker 4: Would that would be a favorite losing some guys in
Speaker 4: training camp in the Olympic flag football.
Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't hear about that. I know,
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I got a quarterback that'd probably be pretty
Speaker 2: good at it. I'm not a big no, I'm not
Speaker 2: that excited about that. I mean I do. I'm a
Speaker 2: big of Marry. I believe in America. I don't want medals,
Speaker 2: but there's a limit, that's right, We're not supposed to
Speaker 2: have put it. You guys talked to Lamar at all.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's a lot being made about his contract
Speaker 5: and again, you know, which is fine this year, but
Speaker 5: it does get up next to it is there have
Speaker 5: been any effort of the organization to try to.
Speaker 2: You know, keep deal with this contract or maybe extended. Right,
Speaker 2: there's been conversations about that internally. I know how far
Speaker 2: along that is or whatever. I don't know, but I
Speaker 2: definitely think it's an obvious point that you're making. H
Speaker 2: That's that's that's gonna continue to have to be addressed
Speaker 2: really with all those guys. I mean, you know, you
Speaker 2: just got to kind of manage that dance, the salary
Speaker 2: cap dance. And uh, Lamar is the main part of
Speaker 2: that because he's he's he's the he's the franchise player.
Speaker 2: So that's possibility I think, you know, sooner or later
Speaker 2: definitely is gonna have to happen. Is it hard to
Speaker 2: put a value? And one more? Yeah, I mean the
Speaker 2: value is about is the top you know. I mean
Speaker 2: when Lamar, when the mar gets paid, he's gonna be
Speaker 2: the highest paid player in football. You know, he's just
Speaker 2: like he was last time. I think he's contracting signs
Speaker 2: probably until he decides to hang up his cleats. He's
Speaker 2: gonna be that guy. I am looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: You know that that that facial expression that that isn't
Speaker 2: that clip. I've seen that look before. He's looked at
Speaker 2: me that way a couple of times. It's a tough
Speaker 2: look right there, you know, so uh yeah, he's got
Speaker 2: the face of an actor.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: I just let's we don't we just don't need to
Speaker 2: get too excited about the acting too early. Let's let's
Speaker 2: finish the football first. But I know he feels that way.
Speaker 2: So you know, we're all the people try to get
Speaker 2: better every year. You know, one gets a year other
Speaker 2: than we've got his doe shooting ourselves in. Sorry, we've
Speaker 2: gone out of our own play. It's gonna have to pace.
Speaker 5: We don't hear that.
Speaker 2: It what they'll step back from it. What do you
Speaker 2: think you guys sort of about hoping to simpleness. You know, turnovers.
Speaker 4: Get short.
Speaker 2: There is a simple as that lost. It's both it's
Speaker 2: as simple as that. And then chasing that is always nuanced,
Speaker 2: you know. So that's that's that's the theme that we
Speaker 2: we've had here, we've had for seventeen years is uh
Speaker 2: is get out of our own way beyond the same page. Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, we we really want to be as in
Speaker 2: sync as we possibly can, and everything we do, we
Speaker 2: try to chase every detail in terms of things that
Speaker 2: are important winning football. We call it the football, the winning,
Speaker 2: the winning football, intangibles, the impactful, the importance to winning.
Speaker 2: Those are the things you want to be great at.
Speaker 2: And you're not going to be great. You're not gonna
Speaker 2: necessarily be perfect in all those things in every game,
Speaker 2: but you want to chase perfection in every area. So
Speaker 2: you get into a game and things don't go your way,
Speaker 2: you get you get unlucky, the ball doesn't mount your way,
Speaker 2: you make mistakes, but the calls don't go your way.
Speaker 2: Whatever it might be, you're still so good in all
Speaker 2: the other areas that you're able to overcome those things
Speaker 2: and find a way to win the game. Irregardless. We've
Speaker 2: been able to do that a lot because we've won
Speaker 2: a lot of games, and every one of these games
Speaker 2: is really important and impactful. In the playoffs, we haven't
Speaker 2: been able to put it together for you know, four games,
Speaker 2: three or four games to win the Super Bowl Championship.
Speaker 2: And that's that's the hard thing. That's why only one
Speaker 2: team does it. So we understand that that's that's the
Speaker 2: way it's set up. But we want to be that
Speaker 2: team and we're good enough to do it, so we
Speaker 2: want to find a way to do it. So the
Speaker 2: the the challenge there is the not simple part of
Speaker 2: it is is setting everything up in a way that
Speaker 2: makes those things intent that that we'ren't so that we're
Speaker 2: intentional about those things every single day, so when those
Speaker 2: moments happen in the biggest moments, it's something that we've
Speaker 2: been doing all along and that's normal for us, and
Speaker 2: then we have the best chance to have it go
Speaker 2: our way in those games. And that's that's what we're
Speaker 2: really talking about right now as the coaching staff, is
Speaker 2: the best way to intentionalize all those things so that
Speaker 2: you know in those big moments that we we can
Speaker 2: follow through and and get to the end.
Speaker 3: Jonas, I know you say you've been talking to a
Speaker 3: lot of players nearly and you said you talked to
Speaker 3: Justice at them around the comb I know, have you
Speaker 3: talked to Justin Letely?
Speaker 2: And you know where where's Kay's mind right there? Right?
Speaker 2: I haven't talked to him for a few weeks. I
Speaker 2: do need to give him a call because he's probably
Speaker 2: he's on my list on my rotation, but I haven't
Speaker 2: tried to make it anything more than well the normal
Speaker 2: conversations we would have. It's just nothing that there's nothing
Speaker 2: else I can talk to him about. Besides, we've had
Speaker 2: that one one conversation about it, so it's just kind
Speaker 2: of in that mode right now. Years in one entirement.
Speaker 2: I know you've got to be out there. Is that
Speaker 2: kind of like the Chambers offseason?
Speaker 4: In the draft?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because you know, we got to make sure
Speaker 2: we've got a good, solid defensive line. So the good
Speaker 2: news is the draft is really deep there and there's
Speaker 2: also some options of some we can bring some guys back.
Speaker 2: You know, I like our guys too that we can
Speaker 2: bring back. I'm very confident we're gonna be We're gonna
Speaker 2: be have a good front. But you know, I'm happy
Speaker 2: for Mike were a great career. I mean, look where
Speaker 2: he came from. You know, what are you accomplished in football?
Speaker 2: One of the best, you know, one of the best people,
Speaker 2: the best dudes, guys that you'll ever be around. Just
Speaker 2: love that guy. And when he got that interception, man,
Speaker 2: I mean it's just the best. Wait, what a way
Speaker 2: to go out. Just the allegations of this thing right
Speaker 2: now out of those give person that you knew that
Speaker 2: you I don't employed for so many years. Yeah, just
Speaker 2: really shocking, shocking, surprising. Uh didn't see that one coming
Speaker 2: found out about at the same time everybody else did.
Speaker 2: Uh don't know what to make of it. Just feel
Speaker 2: really bad for the people involved that were affected. By it,
Speaker 2: especially his family and then the people that were the
Speaker 2: you know, the victims of that love Melissa and the kids.
Speaker 2: That's really just a disturbing situation. Since you can't you
Speaker 2: believe mock drafts have got the global pub there wonder
Speaker 2: gonna viewed an area of five valuable tools to prepare
Speaker 2: a draft. If it's just like people now have a
Speaker 2: lot of opinion to talk what you guys would pick up? No, no,
Speaker 2: we do. Eric uses those to a great degree in
Speaker 2: the mock drafts because it gives you a consensus basically
Speaker 2: on how how the players are viewed, and it gives
Speaker 2: you an idea of where the players are going to
Speaker 2: basically be taken. So we look at those pretty pretty thoroughly.
Speaker 2: Is this something you guys developed internally or are you
Speaker 2: looking at the public consensus? Well, we're looking at all
Speaker 2: the different things that are published. You know, I'm sure
Speaker 2: there's a lot of phone calls made too, especially by Eric.
Speaker 2: I don't really do that he I'm sure he does
Speaker 2: some polls himself, but there's so much information out there
Speaker 2: it kind of gives you a pretty good view of
Speaker 2: how the draft is viewed.
Speaker 5: You know, we has Regissier year offensively, but the Continuity
Speaker 5: were a team with out to them all at the
Speaker 5: top MOUNTI barde B team the Nucleas player. Yeah, what
Speaker 5: do you feel like this offense still hasn't read It's kind.
Speaker 2: Of well, I'm definitely banking on that. I mean, we're
Speaker 2: really looking to take the next step next iteration three
Speaker 2: point zero as we called it to UH, to get
Speaker 2: this to the point where we're doing we're doing more
Speaker 2: things better. So we want to do more and we
Speaker 2: want to do it fundamentally better. That those are two
Speaker 2: conflicting kind of uh principles or goals sometimes, but you
Speaker 2: got to chase conflicting principles. You gotta chase things that
Speaker 2: are seemingly at odds with one another to be highly successful.
Speaker 2: So we we're trying to figure out how ways to
Speaker 2: do that with the system and the way we're building
Speaker 2: the system, and I'm kind of excited about what we're
Speaker 2: going with, a very excited and the Continuity is a
Speaker 2: big part of that, along with grow.
Speaker 1: And it seems like every year you just keep following up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I I well, you know he's supposed to.
Speaker 2: He's he works hard and he's got a growth mindset,
Speaker 2: and he wants to he wants to be better, you know.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing is, that's what I love about
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson. He just wants to improve and all the
Speaker 2: time he's never satisfied. And uh and you know he
Speaker 2: talks about winning the super Bowl and when he went
Speaker 2: to super Bowl, not if, but when he went to
Speaker 2: super Bowl, He's still not gonna be satisfied. He's gonna
Speaker 2: want to get another one, you know. And that's just
Speaker 2: the way he's built still that way, He's gonna record
Speaker 2: through as he plays. But I'm like, what that is
Speaker 2: the Lincoln Sea one specific thing is nice super his game. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: Tea's day to day with Lamar, you know. I mean
Speaker 2: T is a great coach and he's a great person
Speaker 2: and they have a great relationship. And t t his
Speaker 2: coach quarterback. He's he's coordinated offenses, he's played quarterback at
Speaker 2: a high level. All those things I think really factor in.
Speaker 2: But he's also really just highly organized. I mean, he
Speaker 2: does it. He's got a great system for teaching the quarterback.
Speaker 2: So I think he's a great job and it's a big, big,
Speaker 2: big part of it.
Speaker 5: It's a sign team that the deaf team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, resigning Bank Cleveland. I think it was just a
Speaker 2: good smart football move for us. He uh, he's he's
Speaker 2: he's he's done everything we've asked him to do. Like
Speaker 2: when he comes into games. He plays solid football. He's
Speaker 2: versatile and he can play both guard spots. He can
Speaker 2: play center, and you can even put him out there
Speaker 2: tackle and he kind of he hangs in there, you know,
Speaker 2: which he's not built to be a tackle, but he
Speaker 2: hangs in there. He goes in as the extra alignment
Speaker 2: sometimes a tight end and blocks. So uh yeah, that's
Speaker 2: uh that and he wanted to be here. He wanted
Speaker 2: to be with the Ravens. He appreciates his role. He's
Speaker 2: on field goal protection. He probably the best field goal
Speaker 2: protection guy in the league. I mean, nobody talks about it,
Speaker 2: but he's great at that, you know. So he's a
Speaker 2: good he's a good guy. Uh. As far as the
Speaker 2: situation he had, you know, that's to be determined what
Speaker 2: what the punishment will be for that, and he understands that.
Speaker 2: We understand that as well. But that was a good
Speaker 2: solid football move for our team.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Genleman being the second one of his ten dure coach
Speaker 2: in the league. Now he's still I know. I mean,
Speaker 2: what's a takedown to continue the passion of excite you know?
Speaker 2: This tip job?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, how do you not like? I just
Speaker 2: think we have the greatest job ever. And you guys
Speaker 2: love what you do, like you're here, You're you're having fun, right,
Speaker 2: It's in a great environment. I just love it. I
Speaker 2: just love I love every part of this job, even
Speaker 2: the things that are hard, even the disappointing moments, you know,
Speaker 2: I you know, we all the great moments we had
Speaker 2: this year, and then you know, we had disappointing moments too,
Speaker 2: especially the one of the end. But I didn't feel
Speaker 2: I didn't feel I felt disappointed, But I didn't feel
Speaker 2: bad because I was proud of our team. I was
Speaker 2: proud of the way they fought. I was proud of
Speaker 2: the the what they accomplished and what they achieved. And
Speaker 2: I just I felt I felt connected to the guys,
Speaker 2: you know, And I think as long as you feel
Speaker 2: that connection with the guys and you feel like I
Speaker 2: also feel like there's a lot more to do. Like
Speaker 2: I feel like I have a lot more to prove,
Speaker 2: Our team has a lot more to prove, and I
Speaker 2: and I feel like I have a lot of good
Speaker 2: ideas in our in our in our our group has
Speaker 2: a lot of good ideas. We're still growing big time.
Speaker 2: I just feel like there's no stopping us, you know,
Speaker 2: and can't wait to try this stuff out next. So
Speaker 2: as long as I feel that way, I think, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep coaching. You do two more I'm coaching.
Speaker 2: I went to know I wasn't on our table. Sorry
Speaker 2: about that. I went through. Know you were feeling about
Speaker 2: like Lamar winning the MVP. Uh, well, he's my m
Speaker 2: v P. You know. I can tell you that Lamar
Speaker 2: Jackson to me is my m v P H. But
Speaker 2: he has been every year. So he had a great season.
Speaker 2: He's he's a team player. That's what he cares about
Speaker 2: the most, you know, and that's what's most important to
Speaker 2: Lamar and all of us. But I'm always proud of Lamar.
Speaker 3: Often is a prior.
Speaker 2: Definitely in the conversation, I know that's been talked about,
Speaker 2: and yeah, I'd love to see that get done as well. Right,
Speaker 2: Thanks coaching? All right?
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