Speaker 1: Welcome into Raven's press Pass. Today we'll hear from the coordinators,
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Todd Munkin, defensive coordinator Mike McDonald, and special
Speaker 1: teams coordinator Chris Horton. Let's start with offensive coordinator Todd Munkin.
Speaker 2: All right, everybody good, great, all right, that's it perfect, perfect,
Speaker 2: that's perfect. Yeah, Washington, Oh man, it was awesome. Awesome
Speaker 2: to compete against another team. Different looks kind of heightens
Speaker 2: the intensity of a practice. It reminds you of what
Speaker 2: this is all about. I mean, it's it's about winning.
Speaker 2: It's about competing and uh, winning individually and then ultimately
Speaker 2: winning as a team.
Speaker 3: But it was really not it was really great. It
Speaker 3: was great.
Speaker 4: To come into Frank camra the off season. It's like
Speaker 4: a very detail idea what you want to do.
Speaker 5: Offensive look like?
Speaker 4: How much did that picture kind of change all once
Speaker 4: you get working with guys at Steeple the Gray and
Speaker 4: you know see person and person.
Speaker 3: All the above.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have an idea what you wanted to
Speaker 2: look like. It's always a work in progress. We're always
Speaker 2: under construction. A player is an offense is as we
Speaker 2: still learn each other and strengths and weaknesses.
Speaker 3: And it's a little bit harder.
Speaker 2: When you don't play a game yet, right, you don't
Speaker 2: you don't know that what it'll look like Week twelve,
Speaker 2: thirteen fourteen, compared to what it will be to start
Speaker 2: that remains to be seen.
Speaker 3: I want to talk.
Speaker 2: About setting and sending you and team plays and ideas
Speaker 2: and plays of a scene, and then you're you know,
Speaker 2: receptive and hearing that.
Speaker 3: And that's something things you've always done. Talking about that
Speaker 3: process a little bit.
Speaker 4: Of your listening to your players and the ideas that
Speaker 4: they are played as a niche and running well.
Speaker 2: First off, if you empower your players, then I don't
Speaker 2: say this there they're more you're more receptive of their
Speaker 2: ideas and they put more time and effort into it,
Speaker 2: not just things that they see, but things that they
Speaker 2: may see on film or what's on their mind in
Speaker 2: terms of a better way of doing it. Because if
Speaker 2: they don't have confidence in what we do, you're really
Speaker 2: in trouble. So I think that's a step in the
Speaker 2: right direction. And when players have ideas or thoughts or suggestions,
Speaker 2: it's been my background of hey.
Speaker 3: Let's take a look at it.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at what you see as long
Speaker 2: as it's well thought out and I think it fits.
Speaker 2: There does come a point where you can't have twenty
Speaker 2: eight suggestions for God's sakes.
Speaker 3: But the reality is you do want them involved.
Speaker 2: You do want them feeling good about the process how
Speaker 2: we go about game planning. And once they do that,
Speaker 2: then there's, like I said, a certain amount of empowerment
Speaker 2: ownership into what we do. And then they feel terrible
Speaker 2: when it doesn't work because it was their idea.
Speaker 3: They become the oc U. It was your idea. And help.
Speaker 6: Y'all you said that you kind of you think of
Speaker 6: what you say between sous to give you.
Speaker 3: A little more on Bluebell, Ba Nace and that Timestam.
Speaker 6: We're to see that right now.
Speaker 3: You're developing always.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 2: Years ago at the Manning camp, Peyton told one of
Speaker 2: our quarterbacks and it was Nick Mullins at Southern miss
Speaker 2: I said, what'd you get out of it?
Speaker 3: Said Peyton?
Speaker 2: Manning said, never get tired to run the same routes
Speaker 2: over and over and over. Don't ever get tired of
Speaker 2: being elite at the little things like don't ever get
Speaker 2: tired of That's how you build a certain chemistry, an
Speaker 2: idea of how they're going to come out of their
Speaker 2: breaks and win, their body language, what they put into
Speaker 2: their route. So I think that's always ongoing since we're
Speaker 2: Odell's new year, but Odell is an elite route runner
Speaker 2: does take pride in that. So I think as we
Speaker 2: continue to go and move forward, I think they'll continue
Speaker 2: to build suggestions.
Speaker 5: Do you like trick plays or a fan.
Speaker 2: Like plays at work? So if that works, then I'm
Speaker 2: into trick plays. So I don't I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's, uh, we'll see. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: it's usually that's what the players come up with. You know,
Speaker 2: that's usually what they like. They've got like the triple
Speaker 2: reverse pass, you know, something like that, and they're usually
Speaker 2: the ones throwing it.
Speaker 3: Just just to say that, have you seen the hands
Speaker 3: up thats like there has been a better feel with
Speaker 3: memmore and I mean, has there been something like you
Speaker 3: did that you've seen the past?
Speaker 6: Think?
Speaker 2: So, I think so, I think with all of the guys,
Speaker 2: Odell's a part of that and the players that have
Speaker 2: been out there, I think that comes with reps like
Speaker 2: anything comes the same with offensively, the the things we
Speaker 2: do in practice that you have success with builds confidence
Speaker 2: into calling it. Same with players. The players that you
Speaker 2: keep and that you trust show it in practice. So
Speaker 2: when you see certain things in practice, it's easy to
Speaker 2: carry over and call it in the game. If not,
Speaker 2: then you're just guessing. So there's a lot of work
Speaker 2: that goes into it. With you just want to see
Speaker 2: it run around a little bit. You've seen it for
Speaker 2: a couple of days.
Speaker 3: Now, what do you see from you make? What do
Speaker 3: you make what you see?
Speaker 2: He Well, we're excited to have him out there, and
Speaker 2: so what we've seen so far is to me, a
Speaker 2: player that's eager to get going. He loves playing football,
Speaker 2: That's what I see. And he's he's being diligent in
Speaker 2: what he's missed from a mental standpoint, That's what I like.
Speaker 2: He's still building himself up to being able to go
Speaker 2: a full practice. But I see diligence. I see a
Speaker 2: guy that's eager to get going. He loves playing football.
Speaker 5: Be really dynamic out here in practice against the Ravens.
Speaker 5: To see him do it against the Commanders, to see
Speaker 5: him jut a guy in the first press game.
Speaker 3: What does that show in what we see every day?
Speaker 3: I mean that that's just it. You know, it's.
Speaker 2: Usually a player's elite skill set shows up. Right, That's
Speaker 2: a physicality of a player will show up. The ability
Speaker 2: to stop on a dime and make people miss. You'll
Speaker 2: see that show up. So now, uh, with that, that
Speaker 2: is a obviously a strength of his. Now we're working
Speaker 2: to refine some of the other things. Uh, that will
Speaker 2: make him a complete player?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Mark Andrew's highly competitive and astute learner. I mean he
Speaker 2: wants to know how we see a concept and he
Speaker 2: wants to do whatever he can to help us win.
Speaker 2: I mean to me, that's what he's always done. But
Speaker 2: you don't see that till you get around him. How
Speaker 2: he loves to compete, how you know how he approaches
Speaker 2: every day. Is one of the first guys in our
Speaker 2: offensive meeting. He's sitting right there, ready to go. He's
Speaker 2: wide eyed, he's taking notes and that's impressive.
Speaker 3: Back a JK for a.
Speaker 6: Second can get from the field and now you're able
Speaker 6: to up with them with the team.
Speaker 5: Is there a point where maybe like an idea pops
Speaker 5: into your head when you see JK running out there
Speaker 5: or a band, What do you see or how does.
Speaker 3: Your mind work there?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 2: I mean it's hard because it's early, but all players
Speaker 2: are like that, including JK. What you see on a
Speaker 2: daily basis builds us and do what you want to call. So,
Speaker 2: whether it's a matchup player at running back, tight end
Speaker 2: or receiver where you feel like they can win on
Speaker 2: their own, or you start to see how they run
Speaker 2: the football, their skill set I think adds to that.
Speaker 2: So with every day, I'll be able to see more
Speaker 2: of that. Not that I haven't seen film, but I
Speaker 2: haven't seen in person yet. Upstairs, much easier to spread out,
Speaker 2: much easier to stay calm.
Speaker 3: The emotional side of it is much easier.
Speaker 2: Because at the moment you feel like you can scream.
Speaker 2: No one's right there, even though you think they can
Speaker 2: hear you through the glass. But the reality is it
Speaker 2: allows you to stay a lot more focused and try
Speaker 2: to keep it as calm as you can.
Speaker 3: As calm as you can.
Speaker 2: I'm human, so it doesn't mean I don't get frustrated
Speaker 2: or I don't make mistakes, but it has always allowed
Speaker 2: me and I can see it better.
Speaker 3: You can see it better in person.
Speaker 6: Year carefully about problem, drac.
Speaker 2: Well, what we're trying to show is what our guys
Speaker 2: know and what we can go to the field and
Speaker 2: they can execute. So we're not playing everybody. So when
Speaker 2: you're not playing everybody, the group that's out there, what
Speaker 2: can they run and execute at a high level.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: So we're showing what I think they can execute, if
Speaker 2: that makes sense at this moment in time.
Speaker 1: Next up, defensive coordinator Mike McDonald, How are you navigating?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I've thought about it, and you know,
Speaker 4: I assumed that question was going to happen, but I
Speaker 4: think it's an opportunity to one just you know, give
Speaker 4: a shout out to Marlon and the things that he's done,
Speaker 4: you know, for our for our defense and our team.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're talking about a guy that, uh has
Speaker 4: been here in the off season, has taken on a
Speaker 4: leadership role. He's out there every day, he practices extremely hard,
Speaker 4: he practices the right way, and uh, you know, he's
Speaker 4: a teach.
Speaker 6: He's a teach tape every every practice.
Speaker 4: So you know, obviously, you know, we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 4: the length of time that he's gonna miss. We'll miss
Speaker 4: him absolutely, But you know, we do have we do
Speaker 4: have good players in our back end, and and you know,
Speaker 4: the expectation is to come in and and to uh
Speaker 4: and to produce and execute and and play the way
Speaker 4: that we play. So we'll take it one day at
Speaker 4: a time. I'm sure you know there'll be pieces moving
Speaker 4: from here from between now and the and you know,
Speaker 4: when we get kicked off and see where we're at.
Speaker 4: But I think right now we're just trying to figure
Speaker 4: out where to where to put all the spots. And
Speaker 4: I think he will come into clear focus as uh
Speaker 4: as the season approaches. Yeah, we have you know, with Kyle,
Speaker 4: it's it's a function of you know, how much how
Speaker 4: much we want to move him around on a on
Speaker 4: a per play basis. You know, it's not easy going
Speaker 4: from one one position to another. If you can package it,
Speaker 4: uh to make a little cleaner with you know, and
Speaker 4: someone whoever fills in for his role if we do,
Speaker 4: if and when we do move him, you know, that's
Speaker 4: something else that we're considering as well. So it's not
Speaker 4: just Kyle that we're you know, we're uh, we're considering
Speaker 4: when we're talking about moving him.
Speaker 2: You've had somewhere in cars from and I've seen a
Speaker 2: lot of Hardarius Washington that can nick that's something how
Speaker 2: do you think he's here that there's overall about the Yeah.
Speaker 4: Ur Darius has done a great job, and I think
Speaker 4: he really felt him in the game. He plays extremely fast,
Speaker 4: he plays decisive. You know, he's not the biggest h
Speaker 4: d B of all time, but he throws his body
Speaker 4: around and he doesn't play little. You know, he plays
Speaker 4: like he plays like a big player. So you know,
Speaker 4: I give him credit for that. He's a tough player,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, he's very He's a lot more
Speaker 4: consistent this year, and I'd say that this time last year.
Speaker 4: I think he'd tell you the same thing. So H
Speaker 4: pleads with with AD's progress for sure, John Seymour, H,
Speaker 4: I think he's had a great camp. You know, I
Speaker 4: think you put him in the ar Darius conversation of
Speaker 4: just being more consistent. I think he's playing more confidently
Speaker 4: and especially as man de man techniques. But he's a
Speaker 4: guy that you know, he's just he's he's had a s's,
Speaker 4: he's kind of had been in a few places. He's
Speaker 4: been a great special teams player. And you know, I'm
Speaker 4: sure that you tell you that he's excited about having
Speaker 4: an opportunity to expand his role on defense. So you know, when, if,
Speaker 4: and when his opportunity comes, you know, I expect him
Speaker 4: to be out there making plays just like everybody else.
Speaker 1: Like maybe the the sip, the line of the quarterback
Speaker 1: death that.
Speaker 5: You get really the safeties and marks child, How confident
Speaker 5: are usual those guys?
Speaker 3: Sometimes the way to pick up the slider going you
Speaker 3: see the jor handed a quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I would say I'm extremely confident for
Speaker 4: them to go in and play.
Speaker 6: Really good football.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say they got to pick up any slack,
Speaker 4: you know. I just you start trying to do things
Speaker 4: outside of what we're asking you to do within this scheme.
Speaker 4: I think that's when you get when you get holes
Speaker 4: and and uh and in seams that you're not trying
Speaker 4: to create. So they're doing a great job. Uh, they've
Speaker 4: had both had great camps and have a lot of
Speaker 4: confidence in those guys. But I think it's gonna be
Speaker 4: exciting to watch them on the game. But the expectation
Speaker 4: is not to do anything extra but just do their jobs.
Speaker 3: Alid just kind of stood out kind of hand back.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, like to your to your point, James,
Speaker 4: this is first camp. I mean he's really he really
Speaker 4: is a rookie, I mean in really almost every matter
Speaker 4: of the of the words. So we're preaching consistency, just
Speaker 4: like we did with with a DAFE last year, and
Speaker 4: focusing on day to day routine, Okay, the process, taking
Speaker 4: it snap by snap, no hide, don't get too high,
Speaker 4: don't get too low. It's a long season and and
Speaker 4: we want him out there, you know, for the long haul.
Speaker 4: So you know, the expectation is is that, uh, he's
Speaker 4: going to be able to produce for us, you know, consistently.
Speaker 4: So that's the message that we're trying to get get
Speaker 4: get towards him. And I think he's accepting it. And uh,
Speaker 4: you know i'd say, I'd say for being a rookie,
Speaker 4: it's a it's a good first good camp, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I would just piggyback on my answer there. I think
Speaker 4: you do see a daily focus from him on what
Speaker 4: we're asking him to do within the defense. I say,
Speaker 4: his his rush is a lot more decisive. I think
Speaker 4: you see a more consistent plan on a down in
Speaker 4: and down out basis. And uh, you know, the message
Speaker 4: to him is you know I told the other day,
Speaker 4: is you know, let's can you do it for fifty
Speaker 4: five plays. Can you do it for sixty plays? That's
Speaker 4: a challenge and I and I think he's taken that
Speaker 4: on head on. So I'm proud of his approach there
Speaker 4: and his mentality. But we'll see that's that's the next step.
Speaker 2: For him yet.
Speaker 6: But give it a yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, it's the hand that we've been dealt, so you know,
Speaker 4: we got to take it on head on and we're rolling,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's if you take it.
Speaker 4: If you have a different approach, then you know all
Speaker 4: you're doing is just wasting time. But to your point,
Speaker 4: you know, there's certain things that we wanted to get
Speaker 4: to at this point if you would have considered everyone
Speaker 4: was available, you know, so you got to kind of
Speaker 4: put your ego aside and table those things. And for
Speaker 4: certain guys, based on where their development is, you know,
Speaker 4: you have to evaluate that. And you know, now you're
Speaker 4: looking at hey, let's you know, let's make sure we're
Speaker 4: doing all the stuff and everybody's on the same page.
Speaker 4: We'll get to the stuff that we want to get
Speaker 4: to in time when it's the correct time. But right now,
Speaker 4: time is to get everybody, get everybody rolling up to
Speaker 4: speed for sure.
Speaker 1: And lastly, special teams coordinator Chris Horton.
Speaker 7: Good to see everyone today. Hope everyone's doing well. Just
Speaker 7: a quick little recap from the game. It seems like
Speaker 7: it was forever ago, but I'll just try to give
Speaker 7: you as much as I can remember. I thought, I
Speaker 7: thought all the guys went out there, they play well,
Speaker 7: they compete it. We gave him an opportunity to try to,
Speaker 7: you know, make some plays. We didn't really have that
Speaker 7: many opportunities in the part return game. You know, one
Speaker 7: of the glaring moments we did put a ball on
Speaker 7: the ground. Obviously we've been coaching our butt offs with that.
Speaker 7: James knows, you know, what we expect whenever he's back there.
Speaker 7: Ball security first. The last two days have been really
Speaker 7: good for us. I thought the commanders came in here
Speaker 7: and really did a good job and gave us a
Speaker 7: great look. I thought we got some really good punt
Speaker 7: and punt return work, which is what we look forward to,
Speaker 7: is what we needed, and we got some young guys
Speaker 7: doing some good things. Just really looking forward to seeing
Speaker 7: those guys go out on Monday night and perform at
Speaker 7: a high level. Questions you see, I'm keeping as you know,
Speaker 7: ke Keaton's doing a great job. We got him back
Speaker 7: there for a reason. He's got he's got elite speed,
Speaker 7: he's got great vision, and his ball.
Speaker 6: Security is outstanding.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, so we're just gonna continue to give him
Speaker 7: opportunities back there. Uh. We got some other guys that
Speaker 7: will also put back there this week and give opportunities
Speaker 7: to But Keaton's doing a great job. We put him
Speaker 7: at gunner, We're letting him, you know, we're letting him
Speaker 7: play out there. We put him as an inside player
Speaker 7: on kickoff and just allowing him to utilize his skill set,
Speaker 7: you know, his speed, his physicality whenever he's out there.
Speaker 6: You know, Jeff I do.
Speaker 7: I thought Jordan came out. He punted the ball very well.
Speaker 7: He had great hang time on those punts. He gave
Speaker 7: our gave our coverage an opportunity to get down the field. Obviously,
Speaker 7: there's some things that we're going to continue to work on,
Speaker 7: uh as far as keeping the ball out of the
Speaker 7: middle of the field. But when the ball was in
Speaker 7: the middle of the field, he had hang times which
Speaker 7: allowed our guys to get down the field and uh
Speaker 7: and and cover.
Speaker 6: So I'm really pleased where Jordan is. And obviously we're
Speaker 6: going to continue to work.
Speaker 3: Christ you've spoken high. We have Tyler rots from them.
Speaker 3: He arrived with pretty pleased to see you've seen him
Speaker 3: practice carry over to the game.
Speaker 6: Did you see it?
Speaker 3: Kind of?
Speaker 6: You know, practice has carried over to the games.
Speaker 7: And again I thought, uh, you know, in the preseason
Speaker 7: games you don't really get as many rushes.
Speaker 6: But I thought, the last two days, what we got
Speaker 6: out of him.
Speaker 7: From the commanders and what we've seen from the commanders
Speaker 7: has really just really proven our proven ourselves right that
Speaker 7: this guy, this guy can get it done. And I thought,
Speaker 7: I thought his field goal snap on that sixty yard er, man,
Speaker 7: it was from snap to hold to the to the kick,
Speaker 7: it was outstanding.
Speaker 4: When contacts gonna get on limited at what are you
Speaker 4: looking for when you when you're value waiting young guys
Speaker 4: were good opera guys, you might work, you.
Speaker 6: Know, we're just looking for that.
Speaker 7: We're looking for guys that fly around, play with a
Speaker 7: play with high level of intensity, play with good effort,
Speaker 7: play with physicality, and just really see who could who
Speaker 7: could execute under pressure and not make the minimal mistakes. Uh,
Speaker 7: And then we will give those guys opportunities throughout the
Speaker 7: game to kind of really go cover some kicks and
Speaker 7: make some plays, and we just want to see guys
Speaker 7: play the raven way.
Speaker 5: Justin's sixty yards, it looks like it could have been
Speaker 5: further from significantly longer. You all messit measure exit velocity
Speaker 5: or how far kicks could have gone, where they could
Speaker 5: have been made.
Speaker 3: Like is there an analytics pression all that kind of
Speaker 3: stuff you take.
Speaker 7: It, you know Roun there probably is, But I don't
Speaker 7: think when when we're in the game, I don't think
Speaker 7: Randy's thinking about that.
Speaker 6: I think, uh, throughout the.
Speaker 7: Pregame, Randy knows Tuck's line and he's he's like, hey,
Speaker 7: we can we we can be good from here. And
Speaker 7: we line up there, we kicked the ball and you know,
Speaker 7: we put Tuck out there, he's gonna expect to make
Speaker 7: the kick. And it was a it was a great
Speaker 7: night for.
Speaker 3: It personally seen from.
Speaker 4: Tyler Walls.
Speaker 7: Again, all these guys are doing a really good job,
Speaker 7: specifically Thailand. You know, Thailand's in his third year, right
Speaker 7: and and if if we just remember when Tailand was
Speaker 7: a rookie man, he played, he played lights out for us,
Speaker 7: and then last year it wasn't he wasn't so great
Speaker 7: for him, and I think this year he's come back
Speaker 7: and he's putting himself, given himself a great opportunity again
Speaker 7: to really go out and uh excel on special teams.
Speaker 7: As far as some of the other guys, what I'm
Speaker 7: seeing from from Dante and Sean, you know, I just
Speaker 7: want those guys to come out there and just be physical,
Speaker 7: run around, put their helmet on somebody, and just play
Speaker 7: our style of football.
Speaker 6: And they've done a really good job with that.
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