Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, July thirty first, and you're listening to
Speaker 1: the Ravens Press Pass podcast. After practice today, we had
Speaker 1: a chance to hear from Raven's head coach John Harball.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to see everybody here. Appreciate you gutting it
Speaker 2: out today.
Speaker 3: Uh, it was.
Speaker 2: It was a hot one, you know, and the guys
Speaker 2: focus as well and pushed it. Fans are great as always.
Speaker 2: And then we had the first responders from the key
Speaker 2: Bridge collapse and I got some coins and some patches
Speaker 2: which I'm very very proud of right.
Speaker 3: Here, and.
Speaker 2: Fire Dive Rescue the whole group, so we appreciate them
Speaker 2: very much. It's very meaningful when we have the heroes.
Speaker 2: The real heroes are here, so we honor those guys.
Speaker 2: What questions you have.
Speaker 4: Yet?
Speaker 5: Together, we.
Speaker 4: Take a lot of heat pails for that.
Speaker 2: There was well, we we worked on a lot of
Speaker 2: were down third and six to twelve situations, so some
Speaker 2: of that stuff comes up pushing the ball downfield.
Speaker 3: Then we had a big blitz period where the offense
Speaker 3: hit numerous plays downfield in the blitz period, so.
Speaker 2: That was that was important to see and it was
Speaker 2: good to see the ball was coming out quick and
Speaker 2: executing like we need to against that that that pressure.
Speaker 3: So that's a big step for us. I thought the
Speaker 3: guys did a great job of that.
Speaker 6: The camps.
Speaker 4: It's Arthur Moett.
Speaker 6: How cares it.
Speaker 4: Can sign that.
Speaker 2: Very key to re sign Arthur Mallett. You know, he's
Speaker 2: he's a guy that I was pretty confident we were
Speaker 2: gonna resign all the way. You know, I felt like
Speaker 2: he wanted to be here and we wanted him back,
Speaker 2: and Eric had a good plan and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of one of these things. You know, sometimes
Speaker 2: sometimes the right players looking for the right team, and uh,
Speaker 2: I feel like Arthur was the right player for us
Speaker 2: and we were the right team for him. And it's
Speaker 2: really it's really paying off.
Speaker 4: What happened to the leik have and just how disappointing
Speaker 4: is it. Local kid made the team last year.
Speaker 7: It had been a really good.
Speaker 3: Last My league was doing so well.
Speaker 2: Local guy, Uh really, you know he had to had
Speaker 2: the injury last year and it's it's so amazing because
Speaker 2: you go back and watching the tape up until when
Speaker 2: the injury happened, he was having a great practice. He
Speaker 2: had numerous run stops, he had a sack and then
Speaker 2: just a freaky little thing where he had to put
Speaker 2: his foot in the ground and got pushed a little
Speaker 2: bit right at that moment, and sometimes that's what happens
Speaker 2: with the A c L. So he has a clean
Speaker 2: a cl A tear. Uh, So he does mean he's
Speaker 2: out for the season, but it also means it boats
Speaker 2: well for a very good recovery. Now, his spirits were
Speaker 2: very upbeat, positive about the test he's gonna go be
Speaker 2: going through in the testimony that he's gonna have an
Speaker 2: opportunity to make when it's all said and done. But
Speaker 2: I'm sure, uh he's very disappointed, you know when he's
Speaker 2: back in the quiet moment by himself and uh, he
Speaker 2: was he was gonna play for us this year or so,
Speaker 2: but his time will be coming here. Yeah, trayvon Mullin
Speaker 2: landed on his shoulder, uh sub lectsed it. So it'll
Speaker 2: be a few weeks and then we expect him to
Speaker 2: be back.
Speaker 7: And he even saw Sean walk off kind of later
Speaker 7: in the practice.
Speaker 2: Was that Hope cautioner or you know, Yeah, he's dealing
Speaker 2: with a little issue, kind of a soft tissue issue.
Speaker 3: I think he's trying to nurse through right now.
Speaker 2: What do you what are you hoping you guys might
Speaker 2: get from Travis Jones this year and what would constitute
Speaker 2: a good step forward to him?
Speaker 6: Think?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'm you know, I have a big
Speaker 2: vision for Travis. He and I have talked about it,
Speaker 2: a real big vision.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: I really have high expectations for Travis Jones to have
Speaker 2: one of those years that is going to be memorable.
Speaker 2: I really believe that's going to happen this year. I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to it. He's put the work in and
Speaker 2: he's continues to do the work.
Speaker 3: He looks great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, defensive back, you talked a little bit about this.
Speaker 7: You've got a lot of guys, a lot of talented guys.
Speaker 7: A good problem to have, how I guess, tricky build up,
Speaker 7: make that a few weeks from now in terms of
Speaker 7: figuring out you know.
Speaker 8: To do that.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a good point, like to really take it
Speaker 2: one day at a time and get there you know first,
Speaker 2: you know, then uh then there'll be opportunities, you know.
Speaker 2: But we've got a deep group back there. Man, there's
Speaker 2: every single guy in the secondary, to my eyes, playing
Speaker 2: playing very well, playing like a playing like a fifty
Speaker 2: three man type of guy.
Speaker 3: So it's a good thing.
Speaker 4: Here is the year is now get especially the wide
Speaker 4: receiver at the tight end on the roster. Can you
Speaker 4: just talk about what you've seen from them.
Speaker 2: As a tight end that, Yeah, Kader Ismael is doing
Speaker 2: a great job, really and everything's been asked to do.
Speaker 2: He's even in there blocking really pretty darn good. I'm
Speaker 2: sure he could use a couple more squats and bench
Speaker 2: presses before he's really ready to go in there and
Speaker 2: do it. But man, he doesn't back down from any challenge.
Speaker 2: And he's playing tight end, but he's also playing receiver.
Speaker 2: We're kind of moving him back and forth, doing the
Speaker 2: same thing with Scotty Washington and uh, but I think
Speaker 2: I think he's doing a great job.
Speaker 3: Scotty's doing doing a very good job too.
Speaker 6: How much do you think Trent Simpson benefited from the
Speaker 6: opportunity last year to come of get in an NFL
Speaker 6: streadth and tniching program, to be in those benings, to
Speaker 6: be with.
Speaker 8: Veteran linebackers, right, Patrick Green it have you.
Speaker 4: Kind of seen him take that jump this year?
Speaker 2: I've seen him take the definitely seen Trent take that
Speaker 2: jump this year. Jeff he's he's and there's still things
Speaker 2: he's got to work on. I mean there's times, you know,
Speaker 2: you've got his zone coverage, you've got to carry a
Speaker 2: crossing route back across the field, or or you've got
Speaker 2: to get under something that's coming back inside, and he's
Speaker 2: he may be pushing out when he should be pushing
Speaker 2: in those kinds of things. But but that's all part
Speaker 2: of the process, and probably the last part of the
Speaker 2: process is understanding all the zone coverage details. He's flying around, man,
Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's running, he's making plays, he's confident,
Speaker 2: he's a quick learner.
Speaker 3: I think he's doing a great job.
Speaker 4: If then the projects like that's going to be things
Speaker 4: saying to the bats and he's to be frond down
Speaker 4: together in stas describe.
Speaker 2: Uh sure, I mean, you know they they want to
Speaker 2: they want to be making plays offensive line the same
Speaker 2: way they don't want to anybody penetrating any gaps either.
Speaker 3: So we've got to just do a good job of
Speaker 3: working together in days like this.
Speaker 1: A really important player for the Ravens this year is
Speaker 1: linebacker Trenton Simpson. He is in line for a starting role,
Speaker 1: and he talked about the expectations going into this year.
Speaker 9: Just how do you feel with.
Speaker 4: You especially putting on the pads when I kind of
Speaker 4: abolish that stuff.
Speaker 6: I feel like it's been going great.
Speaker 10: I put in a lot of work and just studying,
Speaker 10: spending more time with my coaches, my teammates, asking Roquan
Speaker 10: questions every day. I feel like just being able to
Speaker 10: put the pads on this now is allowed to just
Speaker 10: be able to play football and play fast, physical football
Speaker 10: that we preachate the Ravens.
Speaker 6: What do you think you've grown the most?
Speaker 11: I mean, you just said all the work that you
Speaker 11: put in, where do you think you've grown the most?
Speaker 1: As firsts?
Speaker 4: Where you are now compared to even the end of
Speaker 4: last season.
Speaker 10: I'd said I've grown the most by just knowing what
Speaker 10: to expect, just being in our system for a year now,
Speaker 10: knowing what to expect, communicating better with this defense. Everybody's
Speaker 10: on the same page. We're very vocal and everybody's talking
Speaker 10: every place. So I mean, I think that's the sign
Speaker 10: of a great defense. So definitely communication wise, exactly.
Speaker 6: That's a good work.
Speaker 4: Performing the Ravens line up.
Speaker 10: It's been great man just being able to be him,
Speaker 10: being my linebacker, coach my rookie year to seeing him
Speaker 10: grow and be the defense corder than me.
Speaker 6: Just growing up under him.
Speaker 10: It's been awesome being able to communicate with him as
Speaker 10: a player and he's just off the field, you know.
Speaker 6: So it's been great.
Speaker 4: Should we Should you get physical out there? You know
Speaker 4: at times? Sack you?
Speaker 1: Is that just kind of how you how you play
Speaker 1: the game, and then said, trying to set the town
Speaker 1: talk to me about that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, just playing fast, physical man, just playing relentless, playing
Speaker 10: like a raven is my goal.
Speaker 6: Definitely.
Speaker 10: I feel like offensive and defense have been very physical.
Speaker 10: We're just trying to protect each other. But me just
Speaker 10: going out there, sending the messages, playing as hard as
Speaker 10: I can, you know, and matching ro CON's energy every day.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: So there was play a couple of days ago.
Speaker 6: June dere Kelly, who's the guy.
Speaker 10: I have to go back and look at it. But yeah,
Speaker 10: we're just trying to take care of everybody. But I
Speaker 10: don't think it was closed line, but yeah, just trying
Speaker 10: to take care of him. I was close to it,
Speaker 10: but yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I think you went on.
Speaker 6: You spent some time in the office. He's not a
Speaker 6: vacation game and with Rofon Smith, right, how much time
Speaker 6: do you spend talking about football during those trips?
Speaker 10: I feel like, I mean it's a good good balance
Speaker 10: us knowing each other's friends on and off the field.
Speaker 10: But also when we together were talking ball and me
Speaker 10: being a younger player, I'm asking him questions and like,
Speaker 10: you know what I mean, when I'm with him, it's
Speaker 10: a great person to learn from, So just get some
Speaker 10: advice every time I get around him. I mean, he's
Speaker 10: a great teammate, great leader, and I'm always trying to
Speaker 10: learn from any aspect of life.
Speaker 6: So yeah, those lines.
Speaker 4: You know, he talks about the flipping switch.
Speaker 1: You know, he's like one of nice guys off the field,
Speaker 1: but you know a different story. What's you know between
Speaker 1: the lines is do you play that same way? And
Speaker 1: how you feel if you don't that energy?
Speaker 6: Yeah, now that's real man.
Speaker 10: When you get in between those lines, you gotta be
Speaker 10: locked in focusing on you know, just serious. I mean,
Speaker 10: it's a goal. You gotta go out there and perform.
Speaker 10: So I mean it's no time to have, you know,
Speaker 10: play around on the field.
Speaker 6: You got to be focused.
Speaker 10: And when I'm off the field, you know, great guy
Speaker 10: smiling all the time. When it's getting between those lines,
Speaker 10: it's time to play ball.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's just for you watch that relationship ortant.
Speaker 6: Is it beneficial to have that postal relationship with the guy.
Speaker 4: That you're getting next to me?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Man, that's great.
Speaker 10: I mean I mean, once you can trust somebody you
Speaker 10: know on the field off the field, I mean, it
Speaker 10: just grows that bond and just having somebody out there
Speaker 10: that you can talk to mid play asking questions. It's
Speaker 10: been awesome for me and great person to learn from
Speaker 10: for sure.
Speaker 12: With his defensive teammate and his slogger neighbors last year
Speaker 12: said you guys stop talking.
Speaker 5: I guess have you gotten used to it? Do you
Speaker 5: listen to it?
Speaker 6: I mean, I've got used to it.
Speaker 10: But I mean it's always good stuff, you know, So
Speaker 10: just learning and just bringing positive energy every time I'm
Speaker 10: around him.
Speaker 6: So yeah, well he's.
Speaker 9: Huge, but here he evolved and being a guy who's
Speaker 9: played a lot to being a guy who never came
Speaker 9: off the field though. How huge is that something that
Speaker 9: you know you're respiring to be? How much do you
Speaker 9: think about that? How much that god be a guy?
Speaker 9: And hey, third day and secondary or it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: I'm a glowing up field man, that's the goal.
Speaker 10: But you know, coming and attacking every day, and that
Speaker 10: comes with earning the trust of my teammates, my coaches,
Speaker 10: and everybody around me. So I mean the mare I
Speaker 10: go out there every day performing practice and uphold to
Speaker 10: the standard that would be the more playing time I
Speaker 10: earn and with my coaches to believe that I should
Speaker 10: get out there.
Speaker 4: So yeah, watching.
Speaker 10: A lot because he you know, he played at a
Speaker 10: very high level, and just to see him and learn
Speaker 10: from him my rookie year, I mean, I mean, he
Speaker 10: had a great year. You know, the way he prayed,
Speaker 10: he got what he deserved and I learned a lot
Speaker 10: from him. So just watching how he moved his pre
Speaker 10: snap alignments and things like that. I did a lot
Speaker 10: of studying of him this year.
Speaker 7: But what do you coach enjoy about the position and
Speaker 7: more specific for your involved.
Speaker 10: I say, just being able to play fast, physical football,
Speaker 10: and I just alignment to just be able to you know,
Speaker 10: read and react like I see something trigger don second guest,
Speaker 10: just play fast and you know, just playing one hundred
Speaker 10: percent of cover up a lot of things. So you know,
Speaker 10: I'm just excited for this year to be able to
Speaker 10: just do me, that's been awesome, man. Just you know,
Speaker 10: it's been that Clemson growing together, winning some games together.
Speaker 10: Being on the ACC championship team with him was awesome.
Speaker 10: But uh, just seeing him come in every day compete,
Speaker 10: and I mean he's young, just like I was last year.
Speaker 10: So him asking Marlowe questions be Steve Quay, I mean
Speaker 10: it's awesome because I mean the events we have and
Speaker 10: is this organization is talking taking all the younger guys
Speaker 10: under and I like feel like that's good to help
Speaker 10: improve a lot of guys career.
Speaker 6: How do you deal with these sticks?
Speaker 3: I mean there's you know when you coaches off well
Speaker 3: Trent Prince, he's still probably gonna make some of the sticks.
Speaker 3: That sure, how but what do you try to get
Speaker 3: out of it?
Speaker 10: I mean during the game, you gotta move on next
Speaker 10: play and you get to it the next week, you
Speaker 10: know when you study in the film. But you gotta
Speaker 10: have a short mindset in this game, I mean mentality,
Speaker 10: you gotta put it behind you next play and then
Speaker 10: in film just corrected.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 6: So yeah, you know, but that's how many questions you ask.
Speaker 9: Said?
Speaker 6: Man? I mean.
Speaker 10: Probably like you know, from the time we walk in
Speaker 10: the weight room to I mean, it's not all about ball,
Speaker 10: but just trying to pick up you know, dietician habits,
Speaker 10: how you take care of your body, you know, just
Speaker 10: things just trying to learn, you know, from a great vet.
Speaker 6: So yeah, a couple of questions, Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Henery obviously, who who is your other favorite guys
Speaker 2: talk to, whether it's ball.
Speaker 6: Or whatever, just on the team in general. H Tavious, Robinson, Tavias.
Speaker 10: I talked to the league, Malik Harrison all the time,
Speaker 10: Chris Board, Josh Ross, all the guys in my room.
Speaker 10: I mean, I feel like we have a great relationship.
Speaker 10: We're working out, we go grab dinner and stuff together.
Speaker 10: So I feel like, I mean, like just talking about
Speaker 10: that trust in that bond you have off the field
Speaker 10: makes it a lot special on the field.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you haven't had attacked.
Speaker 6: Like going up against I mean, it's been awesome.
Speaker 10: I mean growing up watching him at a young age
Speaker 10: to being on the practice field with him now, it's
Speaker 10: been awesome and it's full circle. But I mean it's
Speaker 10: been co just bringing my energy every day and just
Speaker 10: imagining that I mean, I know he's gonna make me better,
Speaker 10: and I hope I'm making him better as well, and
Speaker 10: it's been awesome.
Speaker 1: Another important player on this defense is Arthur Molett. He
Speaker 1: re signed with the Ravens this offseason after one year
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, and he really felt like this was a
Speaker 1: place where he could flourish as a player, and he
Speaker 1: talked about that today.
Speaker 6: What has this year have been like for you?
Speaker 11: Last year you came in right before trading camp, he
Speaker 11: had an unfortunate injury early and here to have a
Speaker 11: full spring and now to be established with this team.
Speaker 3: You know, how's that going for you now?
Speaker 6: With your chill? I think it's going well for me.
Speaker 6: Just trying to prove myself every day, you know, make
Speaker 6: sure the team knows that they didn't waste their investment
Speaker 6: on me. Just want to grind out with the guys,
Speaker 6: get better every day, and you know, just I got
Speaker 6: some uh some goals I want to accomplish, so, you know,
Speaker 6: just pushing myself every day to get better.
Speaker 3: John just said he always thought you would be bad,
Speaker 3: that he thought it was too good a fit.
Speaker 6: Pre for did you the same thing. I didn't want
Speaker 6: to go anywhere. I love it here. This is like
Speaker 6: a second home to me. You know I want in
Speaker 6: my career here man. So you know, I just want
Speaker 6: to prove every day that I'm worth you know, their investment,
Speaker 6: like I said, and you know, keep grinding away and
Speaker 6: getting better every day.
Speaker 1: What do you think is allowed you to making plays
Speaker 1: a lot during these training camp practices?
Speaker 4: What is it that it's allowing me to play at
Speaker 4: the high level?
Speaker 6: Here? We can my off season work. I worked out
Speaker 6: every day. I didn't take too much time off, just
Speaker 6: broke down the film and saw all my weaknesses and
Speaker 6: attacked them and you know, just got in the lab. Man,
Speaker 6: just was be just was truthfully honest with myself. I
Speaker 6: wanted to be you know, a bigger piece this year,
Speaker 6: you know, help this team win. Man. And I think
Speaker 6: we'll have one time and goal and we know what
Speaker 6: it is. So yeah, so you have really good share. No,
Speaker 6: I think they're personal.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 6: If I do it, I do it. If not, then
Speaker 6: I just have more work to do.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 6: Just one of those things where you know, uh if
Speaker 6: I don't push myself to a higher standard than no
Speaker 6: one else. Will you mention in your life your experience?
Speaker 6: What about it?
Speaker 7: Did you love information?
Speaker 3: How do you see yourself having bigger.
Speaker 6: I just you know, obviously, uh, I do a lot
Speaker 6: of work in the community. 's it's it's like similar
Speaker 6: to where I'm from in New Orleans, Louisiana, Baltimore. Football
Speaker 6: is everything here. We have a good season, the city
Speaker 6: thrives and have some pretty good uh less crime all
Speaker 6: that stuff, you know. Uh And just for me, man,
Speaker 6: I just want to prove myself, bro, just prove to
Speaker 6: everyone that you know, it's not a waste, honestly.
Speaker 4: Team and there's a lot of guys who play of
Speaker 4: riding the roles. I don't played a lot and slash.
Speaker 7: It's a long time as a as a different corner
Speaker 7: of yourself.
Speaker 6: Is it also like, hey, I'm hitting with my teammates
Speaker 6: here to get that share every one hundred percent. You know,
Speaker 6: there are really good guys, all pro guys, you know,
Speaker 6: top one hundred guys, and I'm glad they're pushing me.
Speaker 6: You know, it brings my game to another level. So
Speaker 6: you know, it's not gonna be easy. So we're gonna
Speaker 6: compete every day and we're gonna talk junk to each other,
Speaker 6: and you know, it's fun, man, It's fun to have
Speaker 6: you know, other guys that play at a high level
Speaker 6: to push you and you know, make you better.
Speaker 4: I love business.
Speaker 7: To a ton of carry over, but or what are
Speaker 7: maybe some of the nuances and differences play to s?
Speaker 6: I mean, honestly, he played the game. You know he
Speaker 6: knows what we're going through. You know we're gonna do
Speaker 6: dog days in camp. You know he's pushing us to
Speaker 6: a high standard. You know he played the game. He's
Speaker 6: familiar with it. He knows what you know it's going
Speaker 6: through our minds. So you know, it's just there's no
Speaker 6: really no drop off. Man, just know, I just know
Speaker 6: he's pushing us hard. For a few people in this
Speaker 6: team have as much special teams experience as you do.
Speaker 6: We talked a lot about the tough coaches about the
Speaker 6: new kickoff for a f How different is it for
Speaker 6: a player like you that's kind of you covered a
Speaker 6: lot of kicks in your career and you I don't
Speaker 6: want to say confusion, but how interested are you and
Speaker 6: how it's gonna play out? I think it's gonna play
Speaker 6: out really good for a guy like me. You know,
Speaker 6: we get to use our speed. We're only like five
Speaker 6: yards apart from guy and so for me I think
Speaker 6: it's I'm gonna thrive in it. I like it. I
Speaker 6: think I'm gonna make a lot of plays in it.
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna go good. Honestly, definitely. What do
Speaker 6: you like about Wiggans so hard for What's up? What
Speaker 6: do you like about Wiggans? So many Wiggins? He's really fast.
Speaker 6: Everybody's like that, right, really fast, open airs, ready to learn,
Speaker 6: cool with taking criticism and learning. Like that's the biggest
Speaker 6: thing with rookies that you don't see a lot of.
Speaker 6: You know, he's open with, you know, taking criticism and learning,
Speaker 6: and he asks questions and he's in a film study
Speaker 6: and you know, he works on his techniques and not
Speaker 6: all of its relying on his speed. So I really
Speaker 6: liked that about him. You know, he's going to be
Speaker 6: a really good player for the future.
Speaker 4: And yeah, well Lamar got back on the field this week.
Speaker 4: How does that that change things? When you guys think
Speaker 4: that's going against an offense?
Speaker 6: You know, he extends plays so much, man, you know,
Speaker 6: it makes us, uh, it makes us really better, you know,
Speaker 6: because there's so many broken plays and that's one of
Speaker 6: his special talents that he's had of many right, the
Speaker 6: broken play aspect of everything. It's big on defense. If
Speaker 6: you don't plaster and you don't cover your guide, then
Speaker 6: you know it could be a touchdown there any given second.
Speaker 6: So you know, it just helps us out with a
Speaker 6: communication and play with one another with a SIPs and.
Speaker 5: Setting off his whatever you see him so far, especially
Speaker 5: here in a.
Speaker 6: Sun, I've seen a lot of growth, good communication. He
Speaker 6: knows where his help is. You know, he plays to
Speaker 6: his leverage. He's doing a lot of He's doing a
Speaker 6: good job on those tight ends and passing, and he's
Speaker 6: not scared to stick his nose in in the run game.
Speaker 6: So I think he will be fine.
Speaker 5: And I guess it's someone who switched from one team
Speaker 5: to the other.
Speaker 6: PQ. We know the food's not better, bro, we know
Speaker 6: the city's not better. Bro. Come on, come on, man,
Speaker 6: you a lot of those first strength events plays. You're
Speaker 6: now far from Trent Simpson. I'm excited.
Speaker 5: I guess Sark size, what if you've seen from from him?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 6: You know, helping the fresh tap being trends kind of sense.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, like like I said, man, he
Speaker 6: knows he's the next guy up right, So is he
Speaker 6: got a fill in big shoes, Peq was a really
Speaker 6: good player for us, right So at the end of
Speaker 6: the day, man, you know, for him, you know, it's
Speaker 6: just like I said, learning the scheme, knowing where his
Speaker 6: help is, being technique sound, knowing where his assignment is,
Speaker 6: and he's doing a really good job of it. And
Speaker 6: and like I said, I think he's going to be
Speaker 6: a really good asset for us this year.
Speaker 1: Someone else who had a great year last year is
Speaker 1: Brandon Stevens. He established himself as a starting caliber corner
Speaker 1: at a really top notch player last year in his
Speaker 1: first season as a starter, and he thinks that he
Speaker 1: could take his game to an even greater level this year.
Speaker 11: Brandon, what it is has it been like for you
Speaker 11: this year compared to previous years when you're cross training
Speaker 11: as so many different positions. Has it allowed you to
Speaker 11: kind of hone in on maybe the finer details that
Speaker 11: maybe we're a little more challenging.
Speaker 6: To do in the past.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I'm locked in that corner, you know,
Speaker 8: approaching it the same way, you know, still trying to
Speaker 8: you know, become a better version of myself. But yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm locked in on corner. And uh, you know that's
Speaker 8: that's really just my my only job right now.
Speaker 5: Brandon com you guys have a new defensive story trying
Speaker 5: to be here out her own Rogers.
Speaker 12: How do you balance when your starting quarterback? He goes
Speaker 12: into I don't know, saw snack girls to ask you
Speaker 12: guys kind of how do you Uh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean we just attack each day, you know,
Speaker 8: with enthusiasm, you know, and uh, no matter no matter
Speaker 8: who's out there. You know, we're built to attack, you know,
Speaker 8: in playoff style defense. Like yeah, man, his speed, he's
Speaker 8: definitely got the speed, but you know the way also
Speaker 8: the way he just approaches every day, you know, always
Speaker 8: trying to learn, you know, asking the right questions, you
Speaker 8: know what I mean, and just trying to learn from
Speaker 8: you know, guys that have been here.
Speaker 3: Brendan.
Speaker 1: After you have a year like last year, like you
Speaker 1: established yourself as a certain corner of the league, what.
Speaker 6: Is what is next for the year to get to
Speaker 6: do this year?
Speaker 8: Yeah, just like I said, just become a better version
Speaker 8: of myself. You know, last year was last year. Uh
Speaker 8: so you know my focus this year is just taking
Speaker 8: it up a notch, you know. Uh, you know, making
Speaker 8: a place that you know that I left out on
Speaker 8: the field last year, you know, and just becoming you know,
Speaker 8: one of the best dv's corners in the league.
Speaker 4: Talent everyone got to have a sense, I don't know,
Speaker 4: definitely talented.
Speaker 8: We we we definitely had that, you know, like you said,
Speaker 8: you know, but you know, just because you have that
Speaker 8: doesn't mean that that's gonna get the job done, you know.
Speaker 8: So we we know that we still have to go out,
Speaker 8: you know, attack each day, uh, you know, and take
Speaker 8: what's ours and you know, with the skies the limit
Speaker 8: for us and we know that, but we just got
Speaker 8: to continue to work and work as a unit.
Speaker 3: So much death.
Speaker 4: How do you sort of see that manifestingmatic.
Speaker 7: Sings, you know going into.
Speaker 4: This season for the playss like how you you.
Speaker 8: Man that that might be a z O question, but
Speaker 8: uh but yeah, I mean, we we have guys that
Speaker 8: can play, you know, all sorts of positions, you know,
Speaker 8: from the top down, to be honest, and uh, you know,
Speaker 8: if you put guys in different positions, you never know,
Speaker 8: uh you know what, you know, the offense can never
Speaker 8: know what's being thrown at them. So being able to
Speaker 8: have guys that can you know, play multiple positions, you know,
Speaker 8: it definitely is uh in our favor in.
Speaker 11: Last year year want to play targeted quarterbacks, you know,
Speaker 11: aster the great season you had last year, you expect
Speaker 11: that to be the case of getting scared or even care.
Speaker 8: Uh man, I honestly, I really don't care. Uh just
Speaker 8: you know, honestly, my mindset every play is the ball's
Speaker 8: coming to me, even if it's you know, fourth and inches,
Speaker 8: I feel like the ball's gonna come to me.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I'm just you know, win my one on
Speaker 8: ones and uh you know that's that's that's how my
Speaker 8: mind said, is.
Speaker 4: You still feel like you're out to prove.
Speaker 8: Yourself absolutely, man. Uh you know last year was just
Speaker 8: you know, I just felt like I, you know, just
Speaker 8: got my feet wet last year.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: And you know I don't even think about it last
Speaker 8: year anymore, to be honest. Uh you know, it's a
Speaker 8: it's a new year. I gotta you know, go out
Speaker 8: and improve myself. I'm sure there's you know a lot
Speaker 8: of dots still out there. You know. I'm like I said,
Speaker 8: I'm expecting the every play. Uh and so yeah, I
Speaker 8: definitely have a chip on my shoulder.
Speaker 6: H Yeah.
Speaker 4: Every player good as a contract and that how how
Speaker 4: do you deal with that?
Speaker 6: Mentally, I'm not even worried about it. You know, I'm
Speaker 6: just here to do my job.
Speaker 8: The rest will take care of yourself, uh, you know,
Speaker 8: and you know, I let that side just uh, you know,
Speaker 8: just just handle itself. You know. I can't really do
Speaker 8: anything about it on my own. All I can do is,
Speaker 8: you know, come out here on the field and you know,
Speaker 8: continue to prove myself.
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