Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens out
Speaker 1: another week of OTA practices and quarterback Lamar Jackson was
Speaker 1: out there on the field as the Ravens went through
Speaker 1: this day of practice. Now, after practice, we also had
Speaker 1: a chance to hear from Lamar along with head coach
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh. So let's kick things off with quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: Hey, Lamar, first impression of these new offense?
Speaker 3: And how do you see this epetition with interfit?
Speaker 4: You're getting a new offense is smooth, more verbaice than usual.
Speaker 5: I like it.
Speaker 6: I'm loving it so far.
Speaker 7: Are you saying anything in this offense so far that
Speaker 7: maybe you wanted to see out of the new offense
Speaker 7: coming in?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: Well, I just said it, you know, like more verbage coach,
Speaker 4: like basically just giving us the keys to the offense.
Speaker 6: Really and like I said, I'm loving it really.
Speaker 2: Working out there.
Speaker 8: He's my Monk and Daklin talking in. What's it like
Speaker 8: being going through a practice with them?
Speaker 6: Not even just practice?
Speaker 4: I want to say, gee, I say, even in the
Speaker 4: meeting through like coach very active, like he's talkative, and
Speaker 4: like you enjoying it, like the learning process of what
Speaker 4: He's saying, you know, teaching us the n uh the
Speaker 4: new offense, and it's fun.
Speaker 8: Last year, different circumstances obviously, But why did you feel
Speaker 8: it's important to be here today?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 6: Y new offense?
Speaker 4: You know how to had to get that down pack
Speaker 4: before the season roll land cause the season a getting there,
Speaker 4: even though I got a couple months left, but still
Speaker 4: just wanted to learn the new offense and give with
Speaker 4: my guys.
Speaker 3: I'm Martin expected it to be here for the rest
Speaker 3: of those hears.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I do lamorrow.
Speaker 5: How do you find yourself learning this new offense? I mean,
Speaker 5: how how's it coming along?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: Studying?
Speaker 4: Uh being in the meeting room, staying after when everybody
Speaker 4: leaving the building, I'm still here with UH coach t
Speaker 4: and Coach Monk and going over things.
Speaker 8: Early in p uh impression of Jay Flowers.
Speaker 5: You know it's early days.
Speaker 8: But putting there, you guys just go back to the
Speaker 8: South Florida connections.
Speaker 4: Uh Zay shifting say very fast, explosive. He can stop
Speaker 4: on the dime. I know y'all seen that like I
Speaker 4: seen it yesterday when you guys wasn't here, and I've
Speaker 4: seen it today.
Speaker 6: So he smooth.
Speaker 10: How good is it to back out there?
Speaker 4: Oh, it's great to see my guy back out there.
Speaker 4: Receive one for sure. I'm glad to see him back healthy.
Speaker 4: Can't wait to hear on the field.
Speaker 11: Marble say, Uh, coach is basically giving the keys to
Speaker 11: the offense tool? What what exactly do you.
Speaker 5: What do you mean by by that?
Speaker 3: Just?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 6: You know you can change things when you want to.
Speaker 4: You know, you see the defenses not looking right to you,
Speaker 4: see some guy blixing. You might want to a receiver
Speaker 4: to do something different cause giving you the free will
Speaker 4: to do whatever you want to.
Speaker 13: Can you look at all the guys that can't approach
Speaker 13: and there's so many guys always targets out there?
Speaker 10: Well, what are you back making it everybody happy?
Speaker 13: I mean, there'd be some guys that are gonna be
Speaker 13: right if they don't.
Speaker 2: Get the ball out.
Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like if we win it, everybody
Speaker 6: should be happy. So we gonna see how I go.
Speaker 3: Wow, when uh Lamar.
Speaker 8: Looked for you, see it seemed like you indicated that
Speaker 8: you wanted style of offense.
Speaker 3: But what does that mean to you?
Speaker 8: And I guess you feel like a monkey does kind
Speaker 8: of have an office for you.
Speaker 6: I mean just being able to throw the ball down
Speaker 6: the field.
Speaker 4: You know, we sometimes sometimes you know, we can't running
Speaker 4: out gonna running can't only take you so far, you know,
Speaker 4: And I feel like with this new era of UH
Speaker 4: teams and offenses in the league, I feel like we
Speaker 4: need that. In Coach Todd Munkin, when I'm sitting his
Speaker 4: offense so far is looking tremendous.
Speaker 8: Do you feel like you're didn't wanta have to run
Speaker 8: as much and that'll maybe be scaled back a little bit.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, especially with the receivers we have Bade objz
Speaker 4: duve Pro all those guys gots Isaiah the title. I
Speaker 4: can't say z Isaiah the tight end mark. My guy
Speaker 4: is looking real good and just run a whole.
Speaker 10: The standpoint helps it feel to be out there.
Speaker 4: Tim feel great to be out here again, even though
Speaker 4: I was on the sideline a little bit, but you know,
Speaker 4: it feel great see my guys and seeing everyone work
Speaker 4: so hard to you know, try to chieve his goal
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 10: In terms of your physical preparation, is there anything in
Speaker 10: particular where you're working on this off season. I know
Speaker 10: last season you want to come in, you want to
Speaker 10: come a little bigger. I mean, is there a focus
Speaker 10: this summer?
Speaker 4: Everything just just getting back to me and that's just
Speaker 4: being the best that I can be.
Speaker 7: That's all up in this office that you feel like
Speaker 7: will allow you to showcase the area of your game
Speaker 7: maybe that we've seen before, but showcase it more than
Speaker 7: just you know, the running ability.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, less running and more throwing. I say,
Speaker 4: you know, Uh, I hear a lot of nose about
Speaker 4: throwing and stuff like this, yards to achieve and stuff.
Speaker 4: But I'm not really worried about the yards as much
Speaker 4: a it's it's about us just winning, so that that'll
Speaker 4: be all the winning category off anything.
Speaker 11: Do you think, Lauren, when you say less running, do
Speaker 11: you think that's something that could in your mind, could
Speaker 11: th could pick your life, could extend your career, or
Speaker 11: is that something that doesn't really your a mindset that's
Speaker 11: the least look.
Speaker 6: Uh I, I really don't.
Speaker 4: To me, it really don't matter. I feel like I have
Speaker 4: a guy. However long God want me to play, that's
Speaker 4: what it'll be. It don't matter about how long I'm
Speaker 4: go'na run cause the running backs.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: Frank Gore played how many years in the league he
Speaker 4: was a running back, you know, so it don't really
Speaker 4: matter about running, you know, I feel like it's on
Speaker 4: you and God.
Speaker 3: Lamar, is there a peace of mind for you?
Speaker 14: You're here in a football setting and you can only
Speaker 14: you know, you're only gonna be as football questions now
Speaker 14: for a few years.
Speaker 5: About something else. Is there a peace of mind there?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: Nah?
Speaker 4: Cause I was cool regardless, you know, but it it's
Speaker 4: it's much funner, you know about football.
Speaker 6: We keeping it about football and nothing else.
Speaker 15: How much do you like you talk about top monking
Speaker 15: kind of giving you the keys and being able to
Speaker 15: change plays and stuff like that. How much do you
Speaker 15: enjoy that process? Do you feel like that can kind
Speaker 15: of unlock another elements to the offense?
Speaker 6: Uh I, Uh, I enjoyed a lot, you know, I
Speaker 6: actually love it.
Speaker 4: And just hearing coach just call out the playing then
Speaker 4: just stopping practice when something wasn't looking right, and how
Speaker 4: he just you know, blurnt stuff out. It was pretty
Speaker 4: funny to me. But yeah, man, I I'm I'm enjoying
Speaker 4: this so far.
Speaker 6: Enjoy A few.
Speaker 9: Weeks ago, you said we're looking at the playbook when
Speaker 9: you're siding what you saw a any other prep that
Speaker 9: went into it.
Speaker 5: Are you watching like Georgia film?
Speaker 8: Are you sort of like, how are you experiencing?
Speaker 4: Nah, I haven't watched Georgian film. I've just been you know,
Speaker 4: watching us practice, you know, the football school practices. I
Speaker 4: I'm watching those guys and you know, just trying to
Speaker 4: learn much as I could.
Speaker 8: Like Lauren did the sense from retard that the somethings
Speaker 8: want with a.
Speaker 3: Clicker pace and kickboy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, I I feel like I feel like it is.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a little college in it, like a
Speaker 4: little college system a little bit, but definitely faster.
Speaker 6: Definitely faster that It's cool to me, you know, it's new.
Speaker 12: I'm more on the on the subject of leadership. You've
Speaker 12: got five years in the league now, you've got a
Speaker 12: nice contract that you learn what is the responsibility as
Speaker 12: you see it of leadership in your position?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: I feel like just being you.
Speaker 4: You know, at the end of the day, gouds just
Speaker 4: want to see you being you and true to yourself
Speaker 4: and true to them as well, you know. And I'll
Speaker 4: just say i'm'a try to be more of a vocal leader,
Speaker 4: you know, cause they coach was like, you need to
Speaker 4: start speaking more. But it was like, you know, I
Speaker 4: just try to lead by example if anything, but I'll
Speaker 4: try to be more of a vocal leader if anything off.
Speaker 15: The field or off the field, where both both.
Speaker 10: The amount of conversation among the fans just spell whether
Speaker 10: you were here to come to ots or not.
Speaker 13: Do you do you kind of finding that funny?
Speaker 3: Do you do? You do?
Speaker 10: You ignore it?
Speaker 3: Like? What do you make of that?
Speaker 6: I ignore it? But it's funny. It's funny.
Speaker 15: Man.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. That was
Speaker 1: quarterback Lamar Jackson talking about this offense in the new
Speaker 1: system that Todd Monkin is putting into place. We also
Speaker 1: had a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh
Speaker 1: and here he is now.
Speaker 13: Okay, appreciate everybody being here, Thanks for coming out. Great
Speaker 13: beautiful day. As my old coach Tom Reid used to say,
Speaker 13: it's a great day for football. Every day is a
Speaker 13: great day for football, and today was a great day
Speaker 13: for football. Our guys were into it. They were energetic, enthusiastic,
Speaker 13: they were on point for the vast most part, especially
Speaker 13: second ota day. So as a coach, you feel good
Speaker 13: about that and you know, now we're on our way
Speaker 13: we did have some visiting coaches here, the coaches, the
Speaker 13: entire coaching staff from Morgan State was here, and the
Speaker 13: entire coaching state from Bowie State was here. So it's
Speaker 13: great having those guys. They came early in the morning
Speaker 13: and they've been shadowing our coaches all the position meetings,
Speaker 13: rookie meetings, special teams meetings. They've been involved in everything today.
Speaker 13: So great opportunity to get to know those guys. Great
Speaker 13: opportunity just to kind of get back from a football perspective.
Speaker 13: And I know, you know, coaches, we like talking ball,
Speaker 13: so it's good having those guys here. Okay, what questions
Speaker 13: you guys have, John, I know everything.
Speaker 5: He's all voluntary.
Speaker 3: But what's you know, what's the significance.
Speaker 5: How important is it to have theo Lamar here to.
Speaker 11: Hurt meetings and I'll work out.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Well, I just I'm happy with the numbers and
Speaker 13: we've got a lot of guys here, Jamison. The numbers
Speaker 13: are really high. Uh, That's that's exciting. The energy is
Speaker 13: really good. I always you know, I mean, I think
Speaker 13: it's important. I'm a coach, you know, I want everybody here,
Speaker 13: you know, and I want I want you know, I
Speaker 13: want every player here all the time, doing everything you can. Now,
Speaker 13: is that necessarily the best thing? I don't know, you know,
Speaker 13: I mean there's everybody's got their own circumstance, and that's okay.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 13: I think about what Obj is doing, for instance, out
Speaker 13: there in Arizona. I don't have any problem with that,
Speaker 13: or Mark's doing out there. Nope, they'll be in here
Speaker 13: soon enough, whenever they're ready, and when they when they
Speaker 13: need it, and they talk to me and tell me
Speaker 13: what they're doing. Uh, they're working hard. So you just
Speaker 13: you don't try to worry too much about it. But
Speaker 13: from an important standpoint, if you want to rank it,
Speaker 13: you know, today's the most important day there ever was,
Speaker 13: you know, because you know, tomorrow's a hope and yesterday's
Speaker 13: a memory. So I try to focus on today.
Speaker 3: The coach, now they're going to be three quarterbacks the team.
Speaker 11: How beneficial is to left the league for your team?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 13: I think it's well, I think it's good for the league.
Speaker 13: You know, it's good for the sport. So the circumstance
Speaker 13: and we actually put this real proposal in. Ozzie Newson
Speaker 13: put it in it, Scott Cohen and Nazzie Newson worked
Speaker 13: on it during the season last year. We proposed it
Speaker 13: for the playoffs and hey, you know what hindsight twenty twenty, right,
Speaker 13: But but those guys actually thought of it before, you know,
Speaker 13: so you don't want to be in a situation now
Speaker 13: with the way protocols are going, where you know, a
Speaker 13: team is deprived of a quarterback. So I think it's
Speaker 13: common sense. I applaud the league. I applaud the competition Committee,
Speaker 13: the owners for voting it, in the league office for
Speaker 13: supporting it. Applaud them because I think it's a good move.
Speaker 13: And you know, we'll just have to figure out our
Speaker 13: roster going forward with rule in mind.
Speaker 10: So what fair catches on?
Speaker 2: Tis coming out to the twenty Times.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the fair catch rule. We had a chance to
Speaker 13: weigh in on that with all special teams coaches. We
Speaker 13: went to Uh, we had a we had a long
Speaker 13: talk and discussion about that. We weren't for it, you know,
Speaker 13: we voted against it. We think it's going to create
Speaker 13: more you know, high speed head trauma than than not
Speaker 13: having it in there. That's our position on it. And uh,
Speaker 13: but we'll see, you know, they want to give it
Speaker 13: a shot and take a look at it, and we'll
Speaker 13: give it a shot and take a look at it.
Speaker 13: So it's in and and because it's in, we support it.
Speaker 13: But uh, we thought there were better ideas, you guys,
Speaker 13: added Josh Johnson.
Speaker 5: What was kind of something the resinking like that?
Speaker 13: Well, Josh is a is a veteran you know, he's
Speaker 13: a veteran quarterback who we know, you know, and Josh
Speaker 13: is uh, I mean, I think he said a record
Speaker 13: from men teams he's played forl Right, Yes, that's pretty cool,
Speaker 13: you know, it's pretty darn cool.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 13: It's it's everybody's got their journey, and and Josh's journey
Speaker 13: started at the University of San Diego. His head coach
Speaker 13: was Jim Harbaugh and his running back coach was Jack Carball.
Speaker 13: How about that they was coaching running backs then for
Speaker 13: that team, and Josh came out there a young guy,
Speaker 13: and he has his hat. He has had I'm not
Speaker 13: gonna put it on for the cameras because I know
Speaker 13: you guys that picture will go viral, But the hat
Speaker 13: was actually on sideways. And my dad said, Josh, there's
Speaker 13: just one thing that I want to share with you
Speaker 13: right now. There's the right way to wear a hat
Speaker 13: and the wrong way to wear a hat, and your
Speaker 13: way is not the right way. So that's how you
Speaker 13: do it. So my dad was out here yesterday just
Speaker 13: watching practice, and Josh came out because he got cleared
Speaker 13: on his physical. My dad's hat was this way, and
Speaker 13: Josh came out, picked up the hat and turned it
Speaker 13: sideways out of his said, my dad's river Josh right
Speaker 13: away he knew the story. So, uh no, it's great
Speaker 13: having him back. He's going to be great for a room,
Speaker 13: our team. He'll compete for the second quarterback spot and
Speaker 13: we'll see how it plays out.
Speaker 10: You were very positive about the way that Ubernet and baby,
Speaker 10: and we're looking a month or two ago. You know,
Speaker 10: does that does that continue into seeing.
Speaker 13: Them out there that Oh yeah, yeah, I think you know,
Speaker 13: Duve has been out there working hard and he's kind
Speaker 13: of building a stam in the back up and everything
Speaker 13: and with his with his feet and his legs, and
Speaker 13: I think he's doing a good job. And then baits
Speaker 13: right on schedule from what they told us, and you
Speaker 13: know he wants he's chomping the bit and you know
Speaker 13: trainers are holding them back a little bit. We want
Speaker 13: to be Oh, we want to be cautious, probably more
Speaker 13: than anything right now. But but he wants to get
Speaker 13: out there too, So feel good about those guys. Yeah,
Speaker 13: we we didn't take any folk cheap reps. That's just
Speaker 13: a matter of Hey, get in here and get settled
Speaker 13: and learn everything. Absolutely, you know, we want to ramp
Speaker 13: him up bow a little bit. You know, this is
Speaker 13: his first day was yesterday. Ramp him up in terms
Speaker 13: of the conditioning. He's been working. But with the conditioning here,
Speaker 13: the running, the lifting, the throwing, just kind of learning
Speaker 13: the offense. Just ramp him up out there. Then he'll
Speaker 13: be ready to go up. He'll probably do a little bit,
Speaker 13: you know, more tomorrow than a little bit more the
Speaker 13: next day, and we'll work from there.
Speaker 7: Job.
Speaker 2: We didn't get to askers out Sam musta for the
Speaker 2: Owens Mills guy and has started quite a bit in
Speaker 2: the league. How much do you like having him for
Speaker 2: depth behind Linderbaum? And could he be in the mix
Speaker 2: a left guard at all?
Speaker 13: You know, I think Sam, I'm gonna say right now,
Speaker 13: not that he couldn't be in the mix, but I
Speaker 13: think he's we kind of see him as a center primarily,
Speaker 13: so we see him as a potential backup center, and
Speaker 13: you couldn't have a better backup center than a guy
Speaker 13: who started thirty seven games in National Football League. The
Speaker 13: local guy, you know, loves the Ravens.
Speaker 3: You like that.
Speaker 13: You know he wants to be here. It's meaningful and
Speaker 13: he really does know what he's doing out there. So
Speaker 13: it's a big plus for us.
Speaker 15: Speaking a left guard, we've been your impressions of John.
Speaker 5: Simpson so far.
Speaker 13: John's been good. Yeah, John's been good. He's uh, He's
Speaker 13: another guy who's played a lot of football, talented, moves
Speaker 13: his feet. I was just talking to him out there.
Speaker 13: He's really moving his feet well, working on his balance
Speaker 13: and his platform a little bit, and I think getting
Speaker 13: better every day at that and big, strong guy, good athlete.
Speaker 13: Excited about him.
Speaker 11: I did you know for more he's been a wat
Speaker 11: since he's actually been out good I mean just physically
Speaker 11: held heavy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I don't really, I don't have an evaluation right now.
Speaker 13: I mean just you look good, okay, But you know,
Speaker 13: we're just working back with all the guys, and I'm excited. Yeah,
Speaker 13: I'm excited to he's here, of course, you know, but
Speaker 13: I knew he was going to come in sometime right
Speaker 13: around now, and for him to be here is great.
Speaker 13: He was into it into the meetings, he was he
Speaker 13: was locked in last two days, been completely locked in,
Speaker 13: and you know he's getting getting back with the guys
Speaker 13: and everything. So so it's a good thing.
Speaker 2: As you seen Todd's offense coming to form just early
Speaker 2: a few days.
Speaker 3: What are your impressions and what.
Speaker 11: Do you like the most so far?
Speaker 13: Well, I mean, I like the energy. I really like
Speaker 13: the energy. I mean we have we usually have energy,
Speaker 13: but you know, I think Todd has got a style
Speaker 13: that kind of lends itself to an up temple type
Speaker 13: of an offense. Just his personalities like that. He's got
Speaker 13: an up temple personality. You may have noticed, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 13: yeah you can. And he's like that all the time,
Speaker 13: you know, and I think our guys appreciate it. But uh,
Speaker 13: but there's a lot of little things we got to
Speaker 13: work out. There's so many, so many little, so many
Speaker 13: layers to putting it together, you know, and we're just
Speaker 13: kind of in the beginning of that whole process right now.
Speaker 13: So we've still got a lot of decisions to make
Speaker 13: in terms of how we want to operate situationly and
Speaker 13: things like that. But but I like, I like where
Speaker 13: we're going, and I think the players do too.
Speaker 6: Would you have two more guests.
Speaker 8: On an injury wise any opinion that's they for reasons.
Speaker 8: This is the last time I talked to you. That
Speaker 8: might you guys out at Oota's or anything like that.
Speaker 13: Uh now off the top of my head, you know,
Speaker 13: I mean we had what we had a situation we
Speaker 13: did at Michael Thomas. Michael Thomas has separated his shoulder.
Speaker 13: Uh he he kind of leaning for a ball and
Speaker 13: ended up falling and landed on his shoulders. So, uh,
Speaker 13: that'll that that could be a surgery, possibly for his labor.
Speaker 5: So we'll see the signing of Angela Blackson went into that.
Speaker 13: Uh, another defensive lineman, you know, a big, physical, hard playing,
Speaker 13: a tough, rugged defensive lineman. And also another guy that
Speaker 13: really wanted to be here. I wanted to play for
Speaker 13: the Ravens. You know, likes the way we play. So
Speaker 13: you know we like that. And he's and he can
Speaker 13: help us.
Speaker 6: John we call Himilta.
Speaker 13: Yeah, he just kind of tightened up, you know. He's
Speaker 13: he's coming back from Notre Dame and he was at
Speaker 13: Notre Dame doing those tough workouts there, and uh came
Speaker 13: here and you know, just tightened up a little bit.
Speaker 13: But uh, you know, he's gonna love.
Speaker 5: Me for saying that.
Speaker 13: You know, but I got good reports from Notre Dame.
Speaker 13: I had a spy. I just spy at Notre Dame
Speaker 13: keeping an eye on his training programs, you know I'm
Speaker 13: talking about Yeah. So, but he's doing He'll be fine.
Speaker 5: Fine.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast feed OTAs
Speaker 1: continued today for the Ravens, and after practice, we had
Speaker 1: a chance to hear from a veteran and a young guy.
Speaker 1: Linebacker Roquand Smith talk with reporters as well as second
Speaker 1: year center Tyler Linderbaum. Here's Rokwand Smith talking with the
Speaker 1: media after today's practice.
Speaker 10: How do you feel rocking the number zero in New Jersey?
Speaker 16: It's pretty sweet. I just got to add a little
Speaker 16: more swag to it. But with the help of PQ
Speaker 16: Dale and z O, I think they'll help it out
Speaker 16: a lot.
Speaker 2: Roklin, you handled a very quick acclamation last year when
Speaker 2: he came in and waiting for this season. How much
Speaker 2: more comfortable are you now and just being able to
Speaker 2: have a full off season and really kind of did
Speaker 2: your teeth into the defense and really understand it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Absolutely, I think it's critical, you know, being out here,
Speaker 16: getting the spring game and just more time with the coaches,
Speaker 16: so like understanding the terminology and whatnot, because mid season
Speaker 16: is just like you're just trying to understand the concepts,
Speaker 16: not much of the terminologies. And I just think it's
Speaker 16: a great time to be out here bunding with teammates
Speaker 16: and enjoying the game that we all love. So I'm
Speaker 16: excited and there's always room for improvement, so I'm just
Speaker 16: trying to find little things to get better at.
Speaker 15: Does it feel different from a leadership perspective being here
Speaker 15: all off season?
Speaker 16: It definitely has a different feel to it far as
Speaker 16: like leadership wise. But I felt like I've let my
Speaker 16: presence be known as soon as I got here. It's
Speaker 16: not like more raw raw, but also just like leading
Speaker 16: by example on the field. So I feel like with
Speaker 16: that and then guys, you know, seeing me out here
Speaker 16: and now it's more of a time to be more
Speaker 16: vocal and you know, let the guys know what you're
Speaker 16: feeling and how you're feeling. But you know, you have
Speaker 16: to be able to put the work in in order
Speaker 16: to be that way.
Speaker 13: You know, Well, the business side of this watching you
Speaker 13: come out and still take part in otis knowing that obviously,
Speaker 13: the business side the little frushing room.
Speaker 10: Where does that say about him and.
Speaker 2: What's like working with him?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I truly enjoy working with that guy. I think
Speaker 16: he's a pro at the end of the day, and
Speaker 16: he's out here to get better with the guys and
Speaker 16: he's just trying to, you know, make this year his
Speaker 16: best year thus far. And talking with him, I think,
Speaker 16: you know, a heck of a talent. So I'm excited
Speaker 16: to just be next to him, playing against playing with
Speaker 16: him and making each other better.
Speaker 5: What are you here as well, because.
Speaker 11: Obviously are volunteers, but have your your talk back.
Speaker 5: Oh it's crucial.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 16: Everyone has their different decisions to make, and uh, it's
Speaker 16: big of him if when he decides to come in,
Speaker 16: like with him being out here is big new offense,
Speaker 16: So I think it's gonna be great. And the guy's
Speaker 16: a gamer, so I'm just excited for this season with
Speaker 16: him and Monk at the him for going on, I
Speaker 16: don't think we've.
Speaker 8: Talked to you since we retired pud Monk And obviously
Speaker 8: you're you're a Georgia guy.
Speaker 5: What was your reaction to that?
Speaker 8: And you have site argument for what's out of considering
Speaker 8: just how you know how productive it was in their
Speaker 8: last years in Georgia.
Speaker 16: Yeah, absolutely, very excited about Monk. I actually, like I
Speaker 16: vividly remember watching uh plenty of games.
Speaker 5: Over the fall.
Speaker 16: Obviously watching the Dogs even though they made it look
Speaker 16: easy a lot of times, but just how he utilized
Speaker 16: everyone in their positions and like some like a lot
Speaker 16: of eye canny and things like that. I'm like, man,
Speaker 16: and some of this stuff was brought to the league,
Speaker 16: like it's going to create some problems because I know,
Speaker 16: like it made me think a little bit, so like,
Speaker 16: and I'm speaking for other guys as well, so I
Speaker 16: think it's gonna be a great It's obviously a great addition.
Speaker 5: I'm excited to go against him every day and practice.
Speaker 10: What are your early impressions of Trendon Simpson And is
Speaker 10: it weird to how these young guys come along and
Speaker 10: sort of say that they almost grew.
Speaker 5: Up watching you.
Speaker 10: I mean he's talked about how he want model himself after.
Speaker 16: He w Yeah, because it's crazy when like I heard
Speaker 16: that like a couple weeks back, because I think, like, man,
Speaker 16: I just turned twenty six. I still feel like a
Speaker 16: kid at times. And then it's like, oh, this man,
Speaker 16: he's like looking up to me and whatnot. But about
Speaker 16: that guy, like from like the first day, Man, the
Speaker 16: guy's just so eager to learn. He's busting his tail
Speaker 16: whatever it is. He's just trying to get better. If
Speaker 16: there's little things, he's like always asking questions. So I
Speaker 16: got a great deal of respect for a rookie coming
Speaker 16: in like that and just trying to get better and
Speaker 16: be the best rookie he can be. So I'm excited
Speaker 16: about his future and I think there's a lot of
Speaker 16: great things in store.
Speaker 5: What's some of the advice you've shared with the rookies
Speaker 5: versus authority?
Speaker 16: For I would say, just be yourself at the end
Speaker 16: of the day, because you know you're coming into a
Speaker 16: new world. You're not very familiar with anyone here, but
Speaker 16: you just let your personality show. And I think if
Speaker 16: you do that, that'll be the best version of yourself
Speaker 16: and bust your tail day in and day out, and
Speaker 16: people are gonna notice that real quick.
Speaker 12: You worked out your own contract, and since you did,
Speaker 12: Lamar gave as well both significant contracts. What does that
Speaker 12: say about a player's ability to take control of his
Speaker 12: own business and what do you say to other players
Speaker 12: who might ask about that experience and its.
Speaker 5: Value for you? Yeah?
Speaker 16: Absolutely, I think every situation is different, and I think
Speaker 16: it depends on the individual. But I know nowadays and
Speaker 16: personally speaking for myself, transparency is key. A lot of
Speaker 16: players want to be at the table for themselves, and
Speaker 16: you know, see how GMS coaches and everyone think of
Speaker 16: you and how what light they see you in, and
Speaker 16: I think that's the clear picture you can get by
Speaker 16: being there yourself. And so it's big time, and you know,
Speaker 16: I'm happy for the guys that do it that way.
Speaker 16: But you know, there's obviously a lot of great agents
Speaker 16: out there as well, So I think it just more
Speaker 16: so depends on the individual.
Speaker 10: He's a voluntary y'all's rocon.
Speaker 7: Why do you feel like it's important for.
Speaker 6: You to be here?
Speaker 16: Honestly, I love the game, and I felt like the
Speaker 16: game has done so much for me and like going
Speaker 16: to do even more for me in the future. So
Speaker 16: I'm just excited to be out here and like just
Speaker 16: bunding with the teammates, and I think it's it's just
Speaker 16: great just to be out here playing the game that
Speaker 16: I love and getting better because you know, no one's
Speaker 16: ever too good.
Speaker 5: You can always find room for improvement.
Speaker 16: Angelo Sign, Oh yeah, Angelo is my guy back in Chicago,
Speaker 16: So yeah, I got a great deal of respect for him.
Speaker 5: Like the guy like runs to the ball, play hard.
Speaker 16: So I'm excited just to be back out here with him,
Speaker 16: hang out with the guy from another familiar face. So
Speaker 16: I think it's gonna be a great It's I know,
Speaker 16: it's a great addition to our defense, and I think
Speaker 16: he's gonna help us.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast feed that
Speaker 1: was betteran linebacker Roquan Smith, and here is second year
Speaker 1: center Tyler Linderbond talking about lessons from his rookie season
Speaker 1: and what he expects in year two.
Speaker 3: Go On, there's impression that you're out with the Lamar Jacksons. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean it's good to have you know, a Lilamar
Speaker 3: back last year.
Speaker 14: He wasn't here for Ota, so just to kind of
Speaker 14: be able to work with him in the OTAs you know,
Speaker 14: I think a lot of guys are happy about it.
Speaker 1: It was a like going through a practice with Monk
Speaker 1: and I mean we see him out here.
Speaker 9: He's he's allowed, he's high energy.
Speaker 15: What's it like for you guys?
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's been good, you know, just during this football
Speaker 14: school period, just being able to install and then now
Speaker 14: getting on the field, you know, going against you know,
Speaker 14: an opponent the defense given looks.
Speaker 3: You know, it's been good to a good adjustment.
Speaker 14: You know, guys are learning and you know as time
Speaker 14: goes on, you know we'll be able to form a
Speaker 14: you know, identity on who we want to be an offense.
Speaker 3: But you know it's still still pretty early.
Speaker 10: It's gonna be a different philosophy. I blocking, do you
Speaker 10: think for too early to say.
Speaker 14: That or no, I think you know, Ravens offensive line
Speaker 14: is gonna be Ravens offensive line. You know, so come
Speaker 14: off the ball, you know, push people back and you know,
Speaker 14: I think you know, as like I said, you know,
Speaker 14: as time goes on, will form my identity you know
Speaker 14: in terms of you know, if we want to run
Speaker 14: the ball, pass the ball, but you know, still staying
Speaker 14: philosophy and technique.
Speaker 7: Taller learning his second offense now in two seasons. How
Speaker 7: how are you with learning this new offense.
Speaker 3: With talk about for you as a center, Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: been it's been a good transition. You know.
Speaker 14: I think he's doing a really good job at you know,
Speaker 14: helping the guys, you know, verbiage wise, keeping some similar
Speaker 14: stuff and then you know there's a little tweaks here
Speaker 14: and there, but at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 14: this is what we do for a living, so you know,
Speaker 14: we've got to be a professional and you know, work
Speaker 14: together with each other and just learning the offense.
Speaker 15: Does it feel very different for you in year two
Speaker 15: as opposed to coming in as the starting center as
Speaker 15: a rookie in.
Speaker 14: Your own I think, you know, whenever you got eighteen
Speaker 14: games under your belt and then if it's definitely gonna
Speaker 14: help you, you know, there's still a lot for me
Speaker 14: personally to get better and to improve on, you know,
Speaker 14: but we got a great coaching staff here and a
Speaker 14: great group of guys here that are you know, willing
Speaker 14: to help each other out.
Speaker 9: Lamar was just saying that he wants to be more
Speaker 9: of a vocal leader this year, and I know it's
Speaker 9: only been two days, but just seeing any sort of
Speaker 9: different energy from him on that front, or do you
Speaker 9: sense anything different from him?
Speaker 14: No, I mean I think Lamar has always been, you know,
Speaker 14: a leader. I've always thought he was vocal, you know,
Speaker 14: when needed to be. So No, that's good for him though,
Speaker 14: you know, that's definitely what what the team needs because
Speaker 14: everyone looks up to him, so he'll be good.
Speaker 5: Lamar talked about being able to change place more with
Speaker 5: the line.
Speaker 9: How does that impact you as a center in this offense?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think anytime you have a quarterback, you know,
Speaker 14: being capable to get you in and out of stuff,
Speaker 14: you know, of certain looks they don't like.
Speaker 3: It definitely helps the team out.
Speaker 14: You know, there's certain situations where a place called and
Speaker 14: it doesn't look too good against the defense that they're
Speaker 14: showing you, and just being able to get in and
Speaker 14: out of stuff is going to help the team.
Speaker 1: Hey tell her, what have been the things that you've
Speaker 1: gotten to look on you after your rookie season this
Speaker 1: offseason that you.
Speaker 8: Try to really focus on.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think you know, every day, especially now you
Speaker 14: just come out here work on your technique. That's something
Speaker 14: that you can always improve on, you know, just in
Speaker 14: the weight room, getting bigger and stronger, faster. Uh, they're
Speaker 14: just taking it one day at a time, you know,
Speaker 14: being able to you know, have the offense down with
Speaker 14: the new offense. Just being able, you know, to understand
Speaker 14: what you need to do and then go out there
Speaker 14: and do it and work on your technique as you
Speaker 14: go along.
Speaker 5: Could you have any weight? Do you want me to
Speaker 5: hold a room?
Speaker 3: No? Same weight?
Speaker 8: Three or five teler you know trade camp last last
Speaker 8: year you missed a little time with that foot injury
Speaker 8: or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: That's kind of feeling that slf.
Speaker 3: That you did you need any cleanup books with that? Yeah, No,
Speaker 3: that just healed over time throughout the season. So good.
Speaker 10: No, how was your days a celebrity of Preakness?
Speaker 3: It was good.
Speaker 14: It was a good first experience. You know, it was
Speaker 14: a I've never been to something like that and it's
Speaker 14: kind of it's kind of cool to see the horses,
Speaker 14: you know, move like that. But it was a good
Speaker 14: time hanging out with some friends.
Speaker 15: What were some of the most important lessons that you
Speaker 15: took from your rookie year that you're applying to this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, you know, I think just coming in.
Speaker 14: I don't think you realize how hard of a game
Speaker 14: it is, especially the kind of talent that you're going against.
Speaker 14: You know, every every rep that you have in in
Speaker 14: a game in practice, you know it's it's not going
Speaker 14: to be easy. So just being being more consistent, I
Speaker 14: think is is what everyone strives to be and something
Speaker 14: that everyone's trying to get better at. But that's definitely
Speaker 14: something that you know is going to help set you
Speaker 14: up for success in this league.
Speaker 3: Is just being consistent and you know, doing your job.
Speaker 10: I think there was a play of perception that coming
Speaker 10: out of college you would need to work more on
Speaker 10: your past blocking than your run blocking.
Speaker 13: I mean with a your was that Do you think
Speaker 13: that was true at all or not?
Speaker 5: Really?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Absolutely, especially coming from a run style of offense in college.
Speaker 14: You know, it's always something just to get back those
Speaker 14: reps that I you know, I didn't get, but no
Speaker 14: going up and or going to college at Iowa, you know,
Speaker 14: having the coaches that I had and you know, teaching
Speaker 14: me and then coming here, you know and being around
Speaker 14: such a great group of guys, you know, you can
Speaker 14: get you can get better at everything, and you know,
Speaker 14: I mean, certainly pass blocking is one of them. But
Speaker 14: I think everyone around the league saying that, So everyone
Speaker 14: can improve on that.
Speaker 1: That was Tyler Linderbaum along with Roe Kwan Smith. And
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