Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Presspass podcast. It is Friday, July
Speaker 1: twenty sixth. The Ravens wrapped up another practice of training camp.
Speaker 1: It was a first practice in full pads in this
Speaker 1: year's camp, and you could definitely feel the difference out
Speaker 1: there watching the action. That's practice. Head coach Sean Harball
Speaker 1: talked about having the pads come on and what that
Speaker 1: meant for this team.
Speaker 2: Everybody is Jamison pointed out today was the first It
Speaker 2: was the first day that coach Jack Harbaugh was here,
Speaker 2: so it's good to see coach Jack here. He broke
Speaker 2: the huddle at the end with a who's got it
Speaker 2: better than us? Nobody and really nobody. Does you get
Speaker 2: out here in a day like this with the football
Speaker 2: team that you love, with the fans going crazy cheering
Speaker 2: for the team they love, in a beautiful day with
Speaker 2: the pads on. I mean, that's what football is. This
Speaker 2: is the start of football. So we've done all the
Speaker 2: stuff we need to do to prepare us for today.
Speaker 2: You get ot here today and you start evaluating the
Speaker 2: football team. So it was exciting, It was fun. Guys
Speaker 2: did a nice job. You can't wait to look at
Speaker 2: the tape and get back again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: What questions you have.
Speaker 4: Six and anything?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's fighting through.
Speaker 2: An illness, working with our doctors, doing all the tests,
Speaker 2: even more tests to make sure we got everything covered,
Speaker 2: and I'm confident he'll be back, you know, pretty soon.
Speaker 2: So it's just unpredictable deal. I mean, you guys have
Speaker 2: been sick before, you know, and sometimes it's not easy.
Speaker 2: So that's what we're dealing with.
Speaker 5: Physical paths.
Speaker 2: I did like the physicality if I thought it was good.
Speaker 2: The lines both look good.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: What you don't want to do is see guys get
Speaker 2: crazy with their technique when they come out and put
Speaker 2: the pads on it.
Speaker 3: And I felt like we didn't.
Speaker 2: They stayed square, they stayed in control, They had their
Speaker 2: feet underneath themselves. They played good, solid football. We didn't
Speaker 2: have a bunch of mistakes.
Speaker 3: A little bit. There were some, but not too many
Speaker 3: mental layers, not too much.
Speaker 2: Jumping off sides, things like that with the pads on
Speaker 2: the first day, with.
Speaker 7: Respect to obviously privacy in all his help.
Speaker 4: But I did see him after the other.
Speaker 7: Day for an hour and then went back. Yeah, did
Speaker 7: he did he start feeling kind of ill again?
Speaker 8: I would see it.
Speaker 2: It just wasn't good for him.
Speaker 4: To be out all this stuff going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I think that between Lamar and the
Speaker 2: doctors figuring that out. I just wasn't feeling up to
Speaker 2: it in terms of all the different things. I mean,
Speaker 2: you got hydration, there's an energy level thing. It's part
Speaker 2: of being sick, really.
Speaker 8: John, I.
Speaker 3: Would say so, yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 2: They were talking to each other a little bit in
Speaker 2: the meetings and different things like that this week, so
Speaker 2: everybody was pointing toward today.
Speaker 3: They were excited about it as obviously.
Speaker 8: Lashos, How do you think he's handled that just running
Speaker 8: the offensives?
Speaker 2: Express, Yeah, he'd done a real good job. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think he's got a great grasp of the offense.
Speaker 2: He handles it well, he operates it well, he makes
Speaker 2: all the decisions. He's throwing the ball well, playing good football.
Speaker 2: You know, that's why he's here. And uh, you know,
Speaker 2: you think about the big picture in the long run. Uh,
Speaker 2: there's a there's a real benefit of that of him
Speaker 2: getting a lot of reps.
Speaker 8: Because kids Walker in touchdown catching cancer see guy used.
Speaker 4: To stacking practice parization.
Speaker 3: Tess Walker a touchdown retcher see guy used to stacking practices.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I mean Tess is doing a great job stacking practices.
Speaker 2: I really had a plan there. I mean, we're gonna
Speaker 2: go three plays. We were gonna, you know, go tackling
Speaker 2: with the young guys to start the camp off, and uh,
Speaker 2: Todd calls the fade and Boot put it up there
Speaker 2: and Tess makes the play and uh periods over so
Speaker 2: that can happen.
Speaker 8: John Let's says the.
Speaker 9: Last food, last practices with the Mats, How did you
Speaker 9: go about I kind of like, I haven't a genuine
Speaker 9: concern about the tackling at the start of the.
Speaker 2: S Yeah, you know, really honestly, in the last I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say a long number of years, there hasn't been
Speaker 2: a lot of tackling camp. Even back to when I
Speaker 2: started ninety eight, there was very little tackling to the ground.
Speaker 3: There were more.
Speaker 2: Padded practices for sure, but it was still mostly front
Speaker 2: of You did have a couple of scrimmages and you
Speaker 2: had more preseason games, so uh, it's a it's it's
Speaker 2: more of an emphasis on teaching tackling with the dumb
Speaker 2: the bags, uh, front up tackling technique, tackling being in
Speaker 2: position to make tackles, but the real tackling practice probably
Speaker 2: does come for the most part in the games.
Speaker 8: Telling about text, what did you see Texas?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a rookie, you know, he's he's learning.
Speaker 2: He's uh, he's he's makes mistakes and then he corrects him.
Speaker 2: You know, he's he's it's a process for all the rookies.
Speaker 2: I think he's doing a really good job. I see talent,
Speaker 2: you know, and the speed and you can change the
Speaker 2: direction he catches the ball, all the things that are there,
Speaker 2: and let's just see how fast he comes along.
Speaker 7: God, I know it's practice one if the padded practices.
Speaker 7: But what what did you see out of the offensive
Speaker 7: line in the stamp. Obviously the defense is going to
Speaker 7: have advantage at this point, but in terms of combinations
Speaker 7: and so forth, I mean, is it's still still pretty
Speaker 7: early familiar with for you guys in this process in
Speaker 7: terms of we've seen workings. Obviously the left guarder off
Speaker 7: that otherwise is it is it still.
Speaker 4: Too early on the season.
Speaker 2: It really is a little too early to make any
Speaker 2: kind of statement. I thought as a group, they looked
Speaker 2: good today. They played square. They were physical and stout,
Speaker 2: but today's when you really start getting a more of
Speaker 2: a better feel. Until the pads come on, you can't
Speaker 2: make any determinations about offensive line play. We have, you know,
Speaker 2: a number of days here in pads coming up, and
Speaker 2: it should be interesting to see how it plays out.
Speaker 3: I mean, I hope, I hope.
Speaker 2: It's tough in the sense that they're all doing great,
Speaker 2: But the main thing is that we get enough guys
Speaker 2: doing great that we can build our line around. You said,
Speaker 2: you said during the Yankee you said during the NACAM
Speaker 2: you'd like to have pretty clear.
Speaker 3: Idea would be on the line.
Speaker 6: I go, you know, their stories in the game.
Speaker 3: Is that still kind of the timeline.
Speaker 2: I'd love for that to be the case. You would
Speaker 2: love for that to be the case. Is that unrealistic?
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe, but that's the that's the best
Speaker 2: case scenario. I don't necessarily expect it to be the case,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, the game is a big deal.
Speaker 3: So if if you.
Speaker 2: Go into that first week with a good idea and
Speaker 2: the game confirms everything, then you'd be pretty You feel
Speaker 2: you feel great, You're a good spot. If you don't,
Speaker 2: then you're okay. You just keep working the guys in
Speaker 2: as you go, and one guy establishes himself and the
Speaker 2: next guy, then the next guy. Then you have a
Speaker 2: line and you have your you have your depth chart
Speaker 2: at different The main thing is like in the past, protection,
Speaker 2: bull rushes, twist games. The penetration aspect of it's a
Speaker 2: big part of it. Then the run game, the fits
Speaker 2: are we getting movement? Are the tight fits? We're giving
Speaker 2: up penetration Without pads, you.
Speaker 3: Really can't tell.
Speaker 2: No Van though he had a little issue, a little
Speaker 2: neck thing, he's dealing with, nothing serious.
Speaker 3: We just held him out for that.
Speaker 1: Now, all eyes went to the guys in the trenches
Speaker 1: during a padded practice, and offensive line coach Joe di
Speaker 1: Leasandris talked about the development of the old line.
Speaker 5: Did you see everyone here? How about that first day pads?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 10: They we've got nice crew come out here to check
Speaker 10: us out. Everyone doing well?
Speaker 4: I know good?
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, we'll be it will be okay though there
Speaker 10: I saw some good things out there, So that's good news.
Speaker 8: What kind of a presence, you know what?
Speaker 10: So as you well know, we have to what graduate
Speaker 10: the pads, which we did, and today was the first
Speaker 10: day in pads, and you heard pads popping, and that's football, right,
Speaker 10: and that's what it was supposed to be. So I
Speaker 10: saw the linemen do a very nice job. I saw
Speaker 10: a lot of good I told them all. I saw
Speaker 10: a lot of good blocks by all of you. But
Speaker 10: I saw some blocks we got to get better with
Speaker 10: and that's my job to help them get better and
Speaker 10: we'll do that.
Speaker 5: Okay, So that's the good news.
Speaker 10: But you saw hustle, you saw effort, you saw finish,
Speaker 10: and that's part.
Speaker 5: Of being a good football team.
Speaker 7: What specifically would you like to see a little bit
Speaker 7: more out of its specific than the guys are competing
Speaker 7: for those open spots.
Speaker 10: Well, I think it's gonna all take care of itself
Speaker 10: each day. As we always a value, we evaluate them,
Speaker 10: they evaluate themselves, and we just want to see how
Speaker 10: many how often that person can succeed and is he
Speaker 10: succeeding more than the other guy against equal competition, and
Speaker 10: that usually takes care of itself.
Speaker 6: Can tell me a little bit about what you're seeing
Speaker 6: from Daniel von Wallay in terms of both flip there, which.
Speaker 5: I know you're very big on, and as you know what,
Speaker 5: his footwork is not bad.
Speaker 10: He's learning in a new position. Playing inside. Everything happens faster.
Speaker 10: The movement happens faster, decisions have to faster, communication happens faster.
Speaker 5: And he's growing in that area.
Speaker 10: And we've got to just continue using his hands better
Speaker 10: to relocate, either place your hands on and relocate the
Speaker 10: hands et cetera. But first day, let's see what he does.
Speaker 10: In about a week, you know, see if it gets better.
Speaker 8: It's flying around, benefics offensive, fine, that's looking at the less.
Speaker 5: It's great. The more they give us, I'm happy.
Speaker 10: I like it, and that it tests me to as
Speaker 10: a coach where I have to try to come up
Speaker 10: and problem solve fast to help them and give them
Speaker 10: a solution and and they and they have to adhere
Speaker 10: to what they see and then communicate and be able
Speaker 10: to get their bodies in position to block. Because today
Speaker 10: it happened. One time I saw two look like a
Speaker 10: jail break. I saw two coming free. Well, that was
Speaker 10: all movement and now adjusting the movement, helmet, adjusting the movement.
Speaker 5: Andrews doing a great job. He's doing a great job.
Speaker 10: He's learning that left guard position he's playing as a
Speaker 10: teaching him how to play center. And I'm very pleased
Speaker 10: with what I see with him right now. He competed
Speaker 10: very well out there today.
Speaker 2: You talk it out all that makes you think he
Speaker 2: might be a really good.
Speaker 10: Sense well one six eight sixt nine. He's three hundred
Speaker 10: and I'm gonna give them the low end. I'm gonnaive
Speaker 10: them three, okay. And he can move his feet. He's athletic,
Speaker 10: he's flexible, and he's intelligent. So let's see what happens
Speaker 10: if he can, that's gonna be a feather on nark cap.
Speaker 10: We'll see how that goes. But it's a work in progress,
Speaker 10: and all of them are right. It's the development of
Speaker 10: players until they build some experience and in confidence, and
Speaker 10: that's what's gonna come.
Speaker 4: With him too.
Speaker 7: It's kind of a competition at right tack where we've
Speaker 7: obviously seen the killer you know some you know what,
Speaker 7: we all know his talent, right but just in terms
Speaker 7: of the other guys.
Speaker 10: You know right now, you've got Pat who's very talented
Speaker 10: and consistent and reliable player. We picked up Josh Jones
Speaker 10: who's working at left and right and he's got experience
Speaker 10: and he's doing a very nice job. And then we
Speaker 10: took Roger rose Garden and he is really getting He's
Speaker 10: working at his craft every day. He's a diligent worker.
Speaker 10: One thing about Roger, He's gonna play hard, play, He's tough.
Speaker 5: And he competes.
Speaker 10: And those are three great good qualities a young man has.
Speaker 10: So the rest of it will come with time and
Speaker 10: experience and coaching.
Speaker 5: Hopefully, Joe.
Speaker 4: Your future to move violently and perfect to apply at
Speaker 4: right tackle or.
Speaker 5: You guys gonna well, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to
Speaker 5: let this play out a little bit.
Speaker 10: I want to just see it just takes time when
Speaker 10: you when you move guys to different positions, and I'd
Speaker 10: like to and I and I'm an advocate of cross
Speaker 10: training and playing multiple positions because I know what's in
Speaker 10: store for us when the season starts.
Speaker 5: But this time of the year, I'd like to see if.
Speaker 10: We could settle in, see if everyone can get their
Speaker 10: fundamentals and technique down in their assignments, and then.
Speaker 4: We'll go from there.
Speaker 1: One of the key players along that offensive line is
Speaker 1: third year center Tyler Linderbaum. He was a Pro bowler
Speaker 1: last year, really established himself as one of the best
Speaker 1: players at his position in the NFL. He talked about
Speaker 1: the pass coming on and also the development of this
Speaker 1: offensive line as a whole.
Speaker 4: How's it going good?
Speaker 8: So how was the first practice?
Speaker 4: And Pats, it was good. You know, this is how
Speaker 4: the game's played.
Speaker 11: So just to be out here, you know, in front
Speaker 11: of fans, going against each other, making each other better.
Speaker 4: It's good first practice. So got to build off of that.
Speaker 4: See that again.
Speaker 11: Just the physicality, uh, you know, you can you know,
Speaker 11: both sides of the ball can actually hit people, work
Speaker 11: on you know, your technique when everyone's actually going one
Speaker 11: hundred percent.
Speaker 4: So it's uh, it's it was a good first day.
Speaker 11: You know, guys were out there competing and working against
Speaker 11: each other and got to keep improving from there's.
Speaker 2: A lot of the tech from.
Speaker 9: The offense's PLYFA for hive guys cover.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, kind of next man in mentality.
Speaker 11: You know, whoever, whoever the starting five is, you know,
Speaker 11: we expect to play at a high level with each other.
Speaker 11: And you know that's started in OTAs and starting fall
Speaker 11: camp of building chemistry with each other, you know, growing
Speaker 11: that room.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm excited the direction we're heading, but we.
Speaker 11: Still got a lot to improve upon kind of right, yeah,
Speaker 11: I mean we got a talented D line group. So
Speaker 11: you know, they certainly give us challenges, you know, make
Speaker 11: us work big, strong athletic, you know, and for day one,
Speaker 11: you know, I think, you know, we're making each other better.
Speaker 11: So you know, I like, I like the group that
Speaker 11: we have on both sides because I think, you know,
Speaker 11: a lot of improvement's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Here here.
Speaker 7: Three for you, how much more responsibility it's kind of
Speaker 7: given to you in terms of you know, obviously calls, protections,
Speaker 7: other guys, leadership, all the bath and and sort of
Speaker 7: how much to you sort of seek that out every
Speaker 7: level time?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm still gonna be the
Speaker 11: same guy. You know, the responsibility isn't really gonna change.
Speaker 11: You know, I'm still you know, still got to be
Speaker 11: the center and make the calls, make the protections, you know,
Speaker 11: and just you know, you know, leave the guys out there,
Speaker 11: you know, because you know, everyone has a goal of winning,
Speaker 11: and that's you know, that's our job doing everything in
Speaker 11: our power, you know, throughout the week, throughout practice is
Speaker 11: putting ourselves in the best situation to win.
Speaker 4: You know, I just try to do that vocal and and.
Speaker 7: Sort of you know, idea get you with them then
Speaker 7: then maybe you know, first.
Speaker 3: Year or whatever.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I just try to be myself. You know, I
Speaker 11: don't think there's much difference from me to year one
Speaker 11: to year three. Just try to be myself out there,
Speaker 11: try to win games.
Speaker 8: How they're related to that.
Speaker 6: You had Kevin Zeitler last year. What do you miss
Speaker 6: most about having him around? And then I'm sure he's
Speaker 6: a great guy in terms of the played on the field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, zeit was awesome to play for with
Speaker 4: or to play with for two years.
Speaker 11: You know, I think he's gonna kill it with Detroit
Speaker 11: and but you know it's it's next man in mentality.
Speaker 4: Like I just said earlier to where you know he
Speaker 4: played at he kind of set that bar.
Speaker 11: He set the standard of how that position is supposed
Speaker 11: to be played, and you know you got to match
Speaker 11: that or try to exceed it for the next guy
Speaker 11: coming in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know, I love the group.
Speaker 11: You know, I think it's a group that wants to
Speaker 11: get better, wants to work hard. You know, four or
Speaker 11: five days in, you know, we're improving each and every
Speaker 11: day with each other. You know, that's a uniqueness about
Speaker 11: the position is you know, the chemistry that you need
Speaker 11: to have, you need to build and it doesn't take
Speaker 11: one or two days. You know, it takes time. So
Speaker 11: just continue to build that in the room. You know,
Speaker 11: feel each other out, and I think you know we're
Speaker 11: moving the re direction.
Speaker 4: Said becausiness as usual with that tomorrow year. Is it
Speaker 4: a little weird to go for training team without another field? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 11: You never know throughout the course of the season, whatever's
Speaker 11: gonna happen, So you always gotta you know, it's always
Speaker 11: get get work with, you know, other people. But you
Speaker 11: know we'll be excited when Lamar's back, that's for sure.
Speaker 9: You're not a big snake.
Speaker 8: Sureli's question about this team.
Speaker 4: First, when I get on my burner accounts, you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes I see it. No I don't, I don't see it.
Speaker 4: You know, it's obviously you know, the questions are warranted.
Speaker 11: You know, we lose three guys and we gotta do
Speaker 11: you know, we got to replace three guys, and you
Speaker 11: know it's our job, you know, continue to get better
Speaker 11: and to improve.
Speaker 4: And you know, I like the room that we have,
Speaker 4: you know, and certainly we're gonna work our tail off
Speaker 4: to get to where we want to be.
Speaker 2: Ideal will who's like to have a good idea of
Speaker 2: who's gonna be starting me to go in the christ
Speaker 2: pre season?
Speaker 3: Is that they're on the best case scenario in your mind.
Speaker 3: I mean you talked about even to build the chemistry.
Speaker 3: How long does that take?
Speaker 4: I mean is it sort of the longer the better.
Speaker 11: I mean, let's over long, Coach Harbaugh and Coach d
Speaker 11: says it takes. You know, guys are working, guys are
Speaker 11: trying to improve, so you know, and that's all said
Speaker 11: and done, you know, and I think the one thing
Speaker 11: about that too is you know, it's it's never solidified.
Speaker 11: You know, we got to play at a high level
Speaker 11: consistently from week one, week two, week three, so you know,
Speaker 11: I think we got a lot of guys.
Speaker 4: That can play a lot of high level football. So
Speaker 4: that's the exciting part.
Speaker 11: That's yeah, you know, it's it's certainly fun to have
Speaker 11: someone that large next to you, you know, and you
Speaker 11: Daniels continue to get better and better. Obviously you know,
Speaker 11: he hasn't played that position much, but he's just he's
Speaker 11: a natural for his size, how well he moves, you know,
Speaker 11: and just now he's just getting familiar with that position
Speaker 11: and then you know, working with each other on you know,
Speaker 11: certain combo blocks, how we see things and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean a lot of that stuff too happens
Speaker 4: in the meeting rooms. So you know, anytime a team.
Speaker 11: Can give empower the quarterback to have more responsibilities and
Speaker 11: take more control, I think the better the team off,
Speaker 11: the team is going to be.
Speaker 4: So, you know, giving the quarterbacks whoever that is.
Speaker 11: The role, you know, especially the more of that role
Speaker 11: to you know, take control, you know, and and have
Speaker 11: that responsibility, I think is big and I think it
Speaker 11: takes a step in the.
Speaker 4: Right direction to where we want to go as a unit.
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