WEBVTT - Smith & Coordinators: Ravens Press Conferences 1/1/25 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.440 Welcome to the Ravens Presspass podcast and Happy New Year 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.119 to everyone. The Ravens had practice today as they gear 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.120 up for their game on Saturday against the Cleveland Browns 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.159 to close out the regular season. If the Ravens win 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.320 that game, then they will be AFC North champs. Today 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:17.880 we had a chance to hear from the coordinator. So 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:21.000 let's kick it off with offensive coordinator Tom Lunkett. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.680 With Lamar, he's putting up some numbers bats so he 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.920 has been done with yet end up with more than 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.120 forty touchdown pass is less than five the receptions with 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.960 Albany guards eight hundred rushing yards. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:38.720 I mean, have you have you. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.440 Anything comparable that you've ever been you know, an athlete 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.000 or a player like that you've ever been around. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:49.080 No, I mean, it's it's been amazing, you know. It's 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.519 it's a credit to him, the work he's put in, 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.120 you know, and the work he puts in every week. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.600 It's a credit to our coaches, Tea who works with 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.680 him every day, to our coaches who've gained plan every week. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:03.880 You know. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.679 The other thing is we've been healthy. You know, Rashad 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.600 has been healthy for most of the year. Zay In 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.400 his second year, tight ends have been healthy, our old 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.960 line has been relatively healthy. So that allows you and 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.000 in our second year as a staff, allows us to 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:20.680 continue to push forward and eliminate some of the drag 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.720 that we had at times last year. You're gonna have 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.720 that year in the NFL. But the credit goes to him. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:30.840 I mean, you know, he's an unbelievable playmaker, wants to 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:35.360 be coached, wants to be great, and he's about as 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.720 humble as you could ever ask for a star player. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.800 I mean, super humble. That's why his teammates love him, 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.200 because he works hard and he's humble. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:51.320 And owns it. Teams obviously evolved through the course of 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:51.800 the season. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.000 You guys were getting under center with the fullback and 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.320 Derek and Galts and people that way for a while, 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.840 and I know there's always adjustments in coming out of 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.280 the whether it's opponent or related or not. Derek went 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.280 from running sixty plus percent of the time on the 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.800 center over sixty percent of the time out of pistol 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.440 on the shotgun with Lamar and now that's been super effective. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.840 Was that a self scout thing? Was that something you 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:13.840 guys talked about during the. 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.880 By or some of it's some of we didn't have Charlie. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.400 You know, Charlie's kind of our sea gap tight end blocker. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.639 So it's got a little bit of both. And who 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.480 we were playing certain teams presents itself, you know, for 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.080 us to be under center a little bit more, and 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.000 then so combinations of self scout, combination that we're playing 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.720 in combination of Charlie, all the all the above, one other. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:34.480 Thing along those lines. 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.440 If I could, I watched there, all all the cut 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.200 ups on everything you guys have done out of there, 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.800 out of pistol on the shotgun since the buy and 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.480 Lamar does not have a keeper against an eight man box, 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.240 but he's averaging over eleven yards for carry when he 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.440 does like every single time, like he it's it's Derek 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.440 like it's it just seems like how much of this 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.680 is just is what he does in those situations? 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.840 Knowing what is do we pullet more often? 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.240 Anybody? I'm with you, Well, I'm gonna have to go 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:02.720 look at that. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.760 I mean zero literally it's a zero percent keeper rate 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.960 against the eight man like is that is he We 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.320 talk about his evolution as a passer, but what about 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.079 his mind in that part of. 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:15.560 The run game. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:23.280 Well, he does a tremendous job of being disciplined. You know, 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.919 one thing that happened early last years we put the 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:30.359 ball on the ground with some of our exchanges. That's 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.720 would but it's like, okay, so we've been better with 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.480 our exchanges. You know, you can trust that in all situations, 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:43.600 red zone, four minute critical situations. But whether it's eight 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.200 man spacing or whether it's a two shell and a 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.160 seven man box, most of the time doesn't have a 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:50.760 lot to do whether he pulls it or not. Usually 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.680 the edge rusher, somebody that we're reading is a part 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:59.920 of that. So certain teams that we've played have decided 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.200 that they want to jet up the field. The Steelers 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.960 are one of those, and at times the Texans were 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.520 like that to try and not let Lamar beat us 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.880 and get the ball in the perimeter, which that's their decision. 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:11.120 You know. 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.960 Obviously having Derek and getting him running downhill has been 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:18.920 good for us, and there's certain things that we've evolved 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.880 to and there's other things that I think are better 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.560 for Derek and us. We're under center, but I just 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.960 think he does a great job with it. Derek is 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.680 really blended and well with what we've asked him to do. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.359 Before the season started, I asked you the identity you 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.400 wanted for this offense, and you said, a nightmare to defend. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.279 Would you say the offense has evolved in that way as. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:41.880 You envisioned it. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.039 I don't know that. You'd have to ask others how 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.839 they view us. I don't make that decision as a 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.840 coaching staff, and for us, we just try to use 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.600 the personnel that we have to the best of our 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.359 ability to give us the best chance to score points. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.320 That's what we're paid to do. You know, I don't 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.800 care where we're at statistically, it's week to week. Can't 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.640 carry over points, can't carry over yards. The challenges this week. 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.840 Like I said, we've we've got really good coaches, we've 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.560 got really good players, We've stayed healthy. I think our 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.200 guys do a really good job of trying to attack 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.400 who were playing. Like I said before, I think our 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:26.039 system gives us the versatility to whether it's zone schemes, 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.720 gap schemes, perimeter run, power our belly, throw the ball, 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.560 quick play action, stretch the field vertically, horizontally, all the 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.360 things you want to be able to do. And having 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.880 really good coaches and having really good players allows you 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:39.240 to do that. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.360 Save Flowers had a really strong rookie season. What do 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.360 you see in his game? What's he done this year 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.040 to kind of take it to another level in the 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:48.560 year two. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.279 I think just I think any players should take that 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.799 leap in their second year. In terms of being comfortable, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.280 it is a long season. I think, learning how to 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.480 take care of your how to prepare each week. I 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.560 think the other things that go unnoticed is we're all 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:12.159 the same offensively, especially the skill guys. The terminology is 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.320 the same, the way that they're being coached is the same. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.520 Little nuances of routes, what you're asking them to do 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.200 that they're now able to fix it. It's the same 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.760 with Bait being healthy, Zay being part of that. All 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.880 of our players kind of get what we're trying to 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.240 do and you can say, well, why does it take 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.240 that long, Well, didn't take that long. It's just your 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.760 you know, you become more comfortable, more confident and what 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.239 you're asked to do. And when you carry over those 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.960 concepts and carry over the teaching and the coaching, I 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:45.960 think we play at our best when we are confident 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.239 and comfortable. And I don't mean comfortable and neglecting. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.520 The work, but just in terms of how we go 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:52.200 about things. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:55.520 I think John a couple of years ago said that 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.640 one of the most impressive things about Lamar was just 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.080 his memory and just how he was able to access 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.160 that and use it to his betterment. You know, you've 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.000 been with him for for almost two years now, how 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:06.640 has that kind of played out in your experience? 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.600 Well, he's been great. I mean, you know, he sees 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.400 the field extremely well. He understands what we're trying to 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:20.680 accomplish super smart. I mean, he understands, he can picture 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:24.320 what we're trying to get done. And with every week, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.120 with every month, with the year, he becomes more comfortable 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.120 with being involved. I mean it's a rarity that I 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.640 don't agree with what he's thinking, or tea brings to me, 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.000 or someone says, hey, what about this with the running back? 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.360 What about this? In terms of our spacing? What about this? 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.400 And that's when you get that from your coaches and 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.120 your players. You get this collaboration. It gives you a 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.120 chance to really shine. It's not it's not a one 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.360 way street. We're doing this together and he's become more 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.640 and more comfortable that way, and it's just going to 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.920 continue to grow just the way it is, and you 0:07:55.000 --> 0:08:00.840 empower him in that manner. That's where we've gotten to 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.760 at this point, and we've got so much more that 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:04.360 we can continue to grow as an offense. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.520 A great running back give you extra peace of mind 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.400 in the same year going into these high six games. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.120 You don't know what the weather's gonna be like, but 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:14.840 you know you have that guy you can sort of 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.400 lean on no matter what the context is. 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.720 Sure, I think physicality travels, you know. I mean, there's 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.640 no question you can't control wind, rain, snow, whatever it 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:28.320 happens to be. You're gonna need to convert in short 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.880 yardage situations. The game are really close. So where does 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.880 that come up? Third and short fourth downs, when you 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.520 go for it and you get it, and when you don't, 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:37.880 you go for it and you don't get it in 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.679 the red zone scoring touchdowns. That's why we've been really 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.600 good in the red zone. That physicality, Derek, and then 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.840 Lamar as the playmaker. You know, we're gonna run it 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:49.079 if we can run it, and if not, Lamar is 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.480 gonna make a play to give us a chance in 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.280 the red zone, and that's kind of been the formula, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.719 and most really good red zone teams have that they 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.560 have that ability. But having a great running back like 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.080 Derek and him being healthy all year year and you know, 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.720 your ability to come. Less Miles used to say this 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.880 years ago, and of course then I was a receiver coach, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.000 and you know, but he used to say, you know, 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.680 there's nothing like being able to turn around and comfortably 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.200 hand off the ball of the running back. And there's 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.320 something to that, and some of those times, like we 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.560 were talking about under center, it's kind of a smoke 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.800 break for your quarterback, like there's not much processing, Like 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.520 you know, you just turn around, hand the ball off, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.160 and there's not a lot of okay, reading it, throwing 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.840 it protection. I can hand the ball off and that 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.720 that's big. That's really big. Get to exhale a little 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.000 bit for the quarterback. And now Less was an extreme 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.280 because he loved to toss it to Jacob Hester on 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.920 fourth and fourth. That was a little extreme and okay, 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.000 I'm not trumping to go there, but there is something 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.880 comfortable being able to turn around, hand and the ball 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.719 off to a running back and know you're going to 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:49.400 gain yards. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.160 We saw in a hard knocks that you know practice 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.920 leading up to the Christmas Day game, several players were 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:57.880 running as fast as they've run all year, some faster 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.800 than they ever had. And after it'sburgh on such a 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.320 short week, obviously they have how it looked like they 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.360 played as well too. So what is I mean is 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.960 when your game plan getting ready, how surprised were you 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:09.480 at this point a year to be able to have 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.480 that at your that kind of resource And have you 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.520 seen that before with a group that's this latest season 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.520 and that ready to roll? 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:19.880 Oh, I don't know. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.760 I mean I really before Houston we walked through, so 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.640 I didn't know we were fast. It might have been 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.160 the fastest walkthrough we had. But they did play fast. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:30.920 I mean, they played their rear ends off. They were 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:32.959 ready to go. They knew it was a stape at stake. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.520 That's that's a credit to our guys and our staff 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.440 that gets them ready, you know, and to coach, you know, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.920 in terms of reading their bodies and where we have 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.240 to be come game day to be at your best. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.240 I mean, that's really what it's all about. I mean, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:51.440 and that balance between the physicality the reps that you 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.800 get and then being able to take that to the game. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.440 That's everything you know, what you do and how you 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.839 do it during the week, your meetings, your preparation, your practices, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.240 and then carrying over to the game and let it 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.400 come to light, you know, because that's what it is. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.160 I mean, everything we do tries to eliminate the drag 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.320 and make it as clean as we can because the. 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:12.680 Players that make it come to life. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.240 We're the ones that have to get it to a 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.560 point where they understand what we're trying to get done 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.000 and let them make it come to life. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:23.320 Two more, Please, No matter what happens in this game, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.360 you guys are going to be in the playoffs and 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.600 sort of around here that's kind of when everybody gets judged. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:28.800 Right. 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.800 It is the team that every year has Super Bowl 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.480 aspirations and for whatever reason, and a lot of this 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.480 predate you, the offense just hasn't been able to play 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.439 at that regular season level in the playoff. 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.200 Did you go back and look at. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.480 Any of those previous games with Lamar in the playoffs 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:43.719 before you got here? 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.160 And are there anything you guys think you can do? 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.839 Obviously, playing tough teams, I get that, but to keep 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.079 it humming at close to the regular season level. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.040 In the postseason, not really, unless it's an opponent that 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.319 we were getting ready to play, then you might look 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.240 at you know, that's a big thing with them about 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.760 how they play other teams, how they play Lamar. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.079 So that comes up with whoever that is. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.880 But I can only speak to last year, and we 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.280 didn't play good enough in the second game. You know, 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.720 we played good enough in the first game. So just 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:13.880 having the second game that we just didn't play well enough, 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.120 didn't coach well enough, didn't call it good enough. And 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:20.800 so you know, try to forget as best I can. 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:26.080 That's hard because you're always gonna have scars. That's just 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:27.800 what you do. That's how you learn, that's how you 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:33.040 get better. And but the bottom line is, I'm worried 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.559 about this year and who we played this year. And 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.480 once we get in and you know, playing our best football, 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.480 then and you're right, you do play you do play 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.280 tougher teams. It doesn't matter in what professional sport you 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.280 get to the playoffs. I mean, you're seeing the best 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.400 pitchers in baseball, you're seeing the best defenders in basketball, 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.720 You've seeing the best teams. So and we are one 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:51.040 of those teams, and we need to be able to 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:52.400 do it when it counts, that's for sure. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.079 Next, let's hear from defensive coordinator Zach Or. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.640 Was that the most awkward landing you've had on the 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.400 sideline playing. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:07.680 Or not playing? 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:08.439 Definitely? 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.959 Definitely, i'd even know it honestly happened. I was till 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.000 after the game and my mom she showed me to like, boy, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.520 you crazy, look look what's going on. I was like, man, 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.480 I was just so amped up. I felt pretty hard, though, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.360 I'm not gonna lie, fail pretty hard. So I was 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.800 a little worried at first. See a couple of days like, man, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.600 I hope I didn't hurt anything. Two serious, But I'm 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:24.000 good though. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.160 But it was. It definitely was awkward landing, for sure. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:27.640 What were you trying to do? 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:29.880 Honestly, I don't even know. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:31.760 Like, I was just so amped up, man, that was 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.960 like one of the best players I've seen in recent memory, 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.439 and I was just so excited just trying to celebrate 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.360 and support support my guys, and then that ended up happening. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.640 So that was just a lot of emotions just being 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:42.480 expressed right there. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.360 How cool was it to see a guy like Gardarius 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.320 having moments. We've seen him multiple times, so moments like 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.959 that in these huge games when he wined so long 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:52.360 and went through the injuries, all that stuff. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.800 To I mean, it's great, man, that's what you kind 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.200 of getting this profession for man, to see the hard 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.160 work that guy's put in behind the scenes. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:00.720 I mean, obviously his story, he had a. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.320 Lot of injuries, battled earlier on his career, rehabbed, never complained, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.240 battle back, always on the kount of the bubble, the roster, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.240 making plays out here in practice, and then when he 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:11.560 gets opportunity now he's. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.720 Making big time plays for the world to see. I miss. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:14.920 It is a great thing to see, man. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.000 And just one of the things I personally always believed 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.400 in is hard work always gonna pay off, no matter 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.000 it might not happen, it might not show when you 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:23.800 wanted to, but if you keep on putting the work in, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.800 it's gonna pay off. And I think that's what's happening 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.000 with a d right now. So it's real neat to see. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.320 It's no surprise to us. I'm just glad that the 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.440 world's starting to see that all the hard work he 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.600 putting in and what type of player he is xactly. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.400 So do you see yourself and him a little bit 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.440 too us, you know, as for undrafted guys getting up 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.200 there and playing at a really high level. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.040 Yeah, I definitely feel I could relate to it, man. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.400 I mean, you know, obviously I understand what it's like 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.840 to be, you know, undrafted, where you've I gotta fight 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.040 for everything, you get, get counted out. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:51.840 A lot of people. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.080 You know, you really can't make any mistakes because that 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.560 undrafted label is always gonna follow you. So I could 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.960 definitely relate to what he's doing and where he's come from. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.720 So it's really good to see. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.560 Zach Calvino is at a career high sacks at thirty 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.320 three years old. I'm curious from your perspective, what's made 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.280 this season so successful for him and at what point 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.640 preseason or during the season did you realize that he 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:12.680 was on the street directory to. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:13.160 Reach that mark. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:14.720 Yeah, I mean, I think last year he had he 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.360 had a great year, and we got him in the 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.080 middle of what September or something like that, so we 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.800 anticipated him having a great year from the standpoint off. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.640 He had a full offseason, a full year uneath his belt, 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.160 just from a physical standpoint, and then just him another 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.880 year being with us, us being familiar with his game 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:31.680 and him just putting. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:31.960 The work in. Man. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.360 I mean, he had a great training camp, and anything 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.520 that he's doing right now not surprising us because he 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.720 works hard at it, man. And like I've always said, 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.120 he's one of the best students of the game that 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.320 I've personally been around. So he's able to apply everything 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.640 he sees on film, everything does out on practice to 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.680 the game, to the game at a high level, man, 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.960 and what he's done for us being real valuable. So 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.480 I'm happy with kV Man. I'm proud of him. Another 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.200 testament of a guy who's putting in the work in 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:58.240 and it's showing on game day. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:15:59.680 Being in the old head in the room. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.200 Does his success kind of permeate through a lot of 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:02.560 that group. 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.920 I think that it just shows those guys man, that 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.280 there's no limitations that you know, even people you might 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.240 try to put limitations on. You can't pay attention to 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.600 the outside noise. You block that out, You show up 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.520 that work every single day, and you you put into work, 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.200 it's gonna pay off. So I think he's been a 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.720 great example for not only those guys, in the outside 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.640 linebacker room. But for our whole defense and our for 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.400 our whole team that no matter you know, how long 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.280 you've been playing, no matter what people say, if you 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.200 do if you do things the right way, it's gonna 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.080 work out for you. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.440 Yeah, we never know really what we're gonna get with Marlin, 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.680 whether he's gonna be interested in talking and what he does, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.840 what he's gonna say. How unique of his personality you see, 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.280 and you know how well have you gotten to know 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:43.320 him over over. 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.680 The years you've been, Man, I've got no Marlowe real well, 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.760 and he definitely has a unique personality. But the thing 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.120 I love about it is he's gonna be himself and 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.840 you're gonna get Marlin. He gonna tell you the truth. 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.320 He gonna tell you how he feels, and that's always 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.200 coming from a good place. So, you know, I think 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:01.000 Marlowe really stepped up his leadership this year here. And 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.200 he's always been a guy who's always been himself. He's 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.520 been he's been a little bit more vocal, which I 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.639 feel like he realized he has to because he's he's 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:12.120 he's you know, he's what you're eight year seven, He's 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.400 one of the longest tenured ravens here. So gods look 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.639 up to him, Gods listen to him. And he's not 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.800 only leading by with his words, he's leading with his 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.840 actions most importantly. So we love Marlin. We want Marlin 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.840 to be himself. He's not himself, then something's wrong, you know. 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.000 So we want Marlin being his crazy self, and we 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.400 appreciate it, and I think he appreciates us for letting 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:31.080 him be himself. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.600 Speaking of outside noise, just curiously, when there was so 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.760 much noise earlier as the season about the defense and 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.520 so what is that just like for you personally to 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.560 go through that and deal. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.560 With it, I mean, it was it was tough. It 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.880 was tough for me personally. It was tough just because 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:52.600 you know the family, my family and all that, My 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.479