Speaker 1: Welcome into Ravens Press Pass. Today you'll hear from fullback
Speaker 1: Patrick Ricard, head coach John Harball, wide receivers coach Greg Lewis,
Speaker 1: and assistant wide receivers coach Keith Williams. Let's start with
Speaker 1: Project Pat.
Speaker 2: So factor pullback is that is that the player forward?
Speaker 3: Now, you know, I think I'm a football player and
Speaker 3: I played for the Ravens, so it's kind of wherever
Speaker 3: I'm asked to play and wherever, you know, it's more
Speaker 3: most babble of my time for the team and myself
Speaker 3: is where I play. And I'm just trying to get
Speaker 3: ready for week one. You know, I'm coming back from
Speaker 3: my hip surgery midway of camp, so any new offense,
Speaker 3: so I'm just trying to you know, take it dead
Speaker 3: by day and just try to find my role and
Speaker 3: you know, make the most of it and be ready
Speaker 3: for week one.
Speaker 4: And that's player mum.
Speaker 1: Players the opens like a do different things, Ken Mason,
Speaker 1: Travis Colk, like they've around the offense and how comfort.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the way that Ted Ends have been
Speaker 3: using this offense so far, just from you know, not
Speaker 3: practicing and watching what they can do. It's you know,
Speaker 3: it's awesome to see it's awesome to see that we're
Speaker 3: using versatility and we're using guys in different ways, you know,
Speaker 3: either blocking past protection, running routes and the run game.
Speaker 3: Whatever it is, it's it's awesome to see. It helps players,
Speaker 3: it helps the team.
Speaker 5: So you know, I'm all for that.
Speaker 2: They see your most in mindset. I don't know fullback
Speaker 2: this year is that is that basically interchangeable at this point?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think most of my career here,
Speaker 3: I've I've been used all over the place. You know,
Speaker 3: You'll see me lining up as a sly, You'll see
Speaker 3: me playing D line, you see me in all these
Speaker 3: different positions. So I think it's just I just try
Speaker 3: to prepare my belt, myself the best I can to
Speaker 3: play multiple roles and whatever the play is called, and
Speaker 3: whoever's you know, the personnel I'm in with. You know,
Speaker 3: maybe I'll be the why this time with you know,
Speaker 3: saying them with uh Mark or Zay, you know whatever.
Speaker 3: The how the play is kind of where I see myself,
Speaker 3: you know, fitting in.
Speaker 4: What was it about off playing offensive line that made
Speaker 4: you just suggest that you wanted to try it out?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you know, I probe myself in versatility
Speaker 3: ever since I've been here. You know, I was on
Speaker 3: drafted defensive lineman, and I was playing both sides of
Speaker 3: the ball my first couple of years, and then I
Speaker 3: was playing some tight end and some fullback and it's
Speaker 3: just you know, I just I'm just trying to always
Speaker 3: kind of expand my role and kind of see what
Speaker 3: I can do, and you know, and if it helps
Speaker 3: myself it helps the team, then then that's awesome. So
Speaker 3: you know, I'm always trying to see what I can
Speaker 3: do in different roles and you know, see see how
Speaker 3: everything fits out and how everything you know goes.
Speaker 6: Could you.
Speaker 7: Do me a burg.
Speaker 3: Something in the future or you know, I'm always open
Speaker 3: to whatever is asked me, and you know, whatever I
Speaker 3: think helps myself to be on a team or to
Speaker 3: give value to a team. And if I have to
Speaker 3: put off it's a line I will, but the end
Speaker 3: of the day, I'll you know, I'm just doing whatever's
Speaker 3: asking me and what I think I can give myself
Speaker 3: most value to myself and the team.
Speaker 5: Those which.
Speaker 2: I can kind of oh man, trying to think.
Speaker 3: You know, all the different different things that I've done
Speaker 3: so far. I do miss playing defense. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I think I
Speaker 3: just love playing football, you know. I think I think
Speaker 3: any role that I'm playing, as long as I'm playing,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be happy with.
Speaker 4: You think there's value to an offense just to have
Speaker 4: the ability to be personal.
Speaker 8: And I don't think kind of what you guys run
Speaker 8: with the personnel care beats you guys have and you'll
Speaker 8: be able to go.
Speaker 4: Eleven personnel one, you know, one drive twenty one the next.
Speaker 5: I mean, just kind of keep the defense on the toes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, if you have myself and
Speaker 3: marking the game, you know what kind of defense they
Speaker 3: canna put out there? Are they gonna put out a
Speaker 3: bigger front? Okay, if they do, then we're gonna go
Speaker 3: play action and you know, Marks and me mismatches or
Speaker 3: if they try to get lighter for Mark and all
Speaker 3: the receivers, then we're gonna start running the ball. So
Speaker 3: it's kind of like those things where versatility can just
Speaker 3: it's it's so valuable of how you can you know,
Speaker 3: exploit defas and all the different advantages that you can have.
Speaker 3: So as long as guys can play all different spots.
Speaker 3: Then it's it's great for everybody. You don't want just
Speaker 3: to be like one trick pony and only doing one thing,
Speaker 3: because then defenses are gonna know what you're gonna do,
Speaker 3: and they're gonna, you know, have success against you.
Speaker 8: I have someone I'm bothering you all the last year,
Speaker 8: and how do you feel them now you go taking
Speaker 8: care of little year.
Speaker 5: Kind of years.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I started noticing like some sharp pain midway of
Speaker 3: the season last year, and I knew it was the
Speaker 3: same thing that happened to my other hip two years ago.
Speaker 3: I knew it was gonna be a torn labrum, and
Speaker 3: it was just you know, having sharp pain midway throughout
Speaker 3: the rest of the year and just managing soreness throughout
Speaker 3: pretty much all the way to the playoff game. And
Speaker 3: it feels great now. I mean the ramp up has
Speaker 3: been awesome. I think I'm getting strength back in it.
Speaker 3: I'm not having any pain, just you know, normal soreness
Speaker 3: coming back from a surgery. But I think it's going
Speaker 3: great so far.
Speaker 4: How did you manage it the heavy workout last year?
Speaker 4: And I think you were playing the free cents and
Speaker 4: half of those those games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man.
Speaker 3: You know, shout out to everybody that was taking care
Speaker 3: of me, my trainers, massager, therapists, you know, cole tubs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a lot of work, but I you know,
Speaker 3: I knew that it's all worth it. You know, I
Speaker 3: knew that it was helping the team win, So I
Speaker 3: was happy to play that much. You know, I'm always happy.
Speaker 3: I'd play every single snap if I was asked to,
Speaker 3: or play zero snaps if if that's what it was.
Speaker 3: But you know, it was a lot of fun. So,
Speaker 3: you know, just trying to take care of myself every
Speaker 3: day as best I can.
Speaker 7: What is the greatest dreams comment?
Speaker 3: You know, I think the biggest thing is just spreading
Speaker 3: out the offense. You know, we have a lot of
Speaker 3: great skill players. We've pretty much brought in a whole
Speaker 3: nother room of skill players here to compete for different roles.
Speaker 3: So I think that's kind of the biggest difference. Is
Speaker 3: gonna be more spread out. You know, mores try to
Speaker 3: be more explosive offense. And you know, I loved you round.
Speaker 3: I love everything we did with him, So hopefully, you know,
Speaker 3: we're gonna have grazy sets either way. But so far,
Speaker 3: I'm really liking what we've been doing so far.
Speaker 5: I know you offense, I would tell M, have.
Speaker 2: You been taking a seat?
Speaker 5: They didn't see that. We get the pensive of what.
Speaker 8: They could have had in this afen.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean O'Dell's arguably one of the best receivers
Speaker 3: to play play this game, and I think Lamar is
Speaker 3: also arguably one of the most special quarterbacks to play
Speaker 3: and have them together is just gonna be just just
Speaker 3: explosive plays. I mean, it's it's been a lot of
Speaker 3: fun to Washington and practice so far. And I think,
Speaker 3: you know, as the season keeps going, they're gonna be
Speaker 3: jelling more and you know, and other great receivers that
Speaker 3: we have. I think it's just gonna be a big
Speaker 3: blend of just guys wide open all the time. And
Speaker 3: you know Lamar, I think you know, everything he does
Speaker 3: in the quarterback position of extending plays and moving around
Speaker 3: the pocket, I think it's just gonna be It's gonna
Speaker 3: be a lot of fun this year.
Speaker 5: Next up is head coach John Harball.
Speaker 2: Good seeing everybody really appreciate you being here.
Speaker 7: Good practice pads coming off one day and then too
Speaker 7: pad of days before that. So three out of four
Speaker 7: days in pads. I thought the guys did a real
Speaker 7: good job with that. It was it was crisp, it
Speaker 7: was physical, competitive, yet it was took care of each
Speaker 7: other really well.
Speaker 2: So happy with that.
Speaker 7: With that, what questions you have, John h Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 7: we reached an agreement with Jadavian Clowney and with Ronald
Speaker 7: Darby as you know, two guys that can help us
Speaker 7: positions that you know, you guys have been talking about
Speaker 7: a lot obviously, and positions. Uh, I think we've done
Speaker 7: a good job of kind of looking at our options
Speaker 7: and bringing in two of the right guys, you know,
Speaker 7: and and uh, I'm excited. I'm just excited. I think,
Speaker 7: uh g Javian is a is a tough, hard nose,
Speaker 7: throws his body around kind of player. We played against
Speaker 7: him so many times. We understand how he plays. And uh,
Speaker 7: we're excited to have him and he's excited to be here.
Speaker 7: So I think he's a good fitness defense. Ronald Darby
Speaker 7: again another guy that's a really good fit in this defense.
Speaker 7: Wanted to be here and we wanted him here. You know,
Speaker 7: He's he's uh, he's a guy we kind of be
Speaker 7: keeping our eye on with the rehab from the knee,
Speaker 7: came in and worked out and worked out really well,
Speaker 7: looked really good.
Speaker 2: It was in really good shape and that's a credit
Speaker 2: to him.
Speaker 7: And he came out of practice today and and looked
Speaker 7: like you've been practicing the whole camp.
Speaker 2: So so we're happy with both those signings. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think fit sucking. These guys kind of had the history
Speaker 2: of that and veteran dolls you know. Uh, well, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7: I'll tell you he's uh, he's a high energy player.
Speaker 7: He's a very physical player. He's a guy when he
Speaker 7: plays he's kind of reckless with his body. I mean,
Speaker 7: he throws it around. He's heavy handed, he's a he's
Speaker 7: a power rusher. I think he could even you know,
Speaker 7: he's a really good pass rusher. I think he's a
Speaker 7: little underrated as a pass prusher and uh, you know,
Speaker 7: top picking the draft and all that and uh, but
Speaker 7: as a as a play hard, heavy handed edgesetter gives
Speaker 7: us a chance to get you know, four pass rushers
Speaker 7: on the field on third down situations that are true
Speaker 7: pass rusher type guys is a real value in that. John,
Speaker 7: have you talked about Derby's condition and you saw him
Speaker 7: out there, you know a little bit and let him
Speaker 7: on eleven to him, does that kid even evidence he
Speaker 7: can help you resumer rather than the absolutely, yeah, we
Speaker 7: expect him to help us, you know, preseason. Probably play
Speaker 7: a little bit and get him ready and we'll see
Speaker 7: and then right away week one.
Speaker 2: He should be out there playing hard and doing a
Speaker 2: good job for us.
Speaker 4: Better residents than Jami and Briggs. How much do you
Speaker 4: think that helps the development excuse.
Speaker 7: Young guys that they well, yeah, it's always a help,
Speaker 7: you know. I think he's a he's a really good guy.
Speaker 7: He's a team guy, wants to be with these guys,
Speaker 7: He likes these guys. He spent time with these guys,
Speaker 7: We spent we spend a lot of time together, he
Speaker 7: spent time with the coaches. We have a really high
Speaker 7: comfort and conference level and how he's going to fit in.
Speaker 2: Jacob.
Speaker 5: But so JK.
Speaker 4: Dobbin's doing let's say more cool team still but it's
Speaker 4: like he's kind of, you know, catching up for the
Speaker 4: offense and really getting the driver.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, JK and Rashad both they were both out there
Speaker 7: in team drills moving around looking good.
Speaker 2: So that was great to see.
Speaker 7: And I think our training staff, our strength staff have
Speaker 7: done a great job and those guys themselves, you know,
Speaker 7: I have done a great job. I mean, Rashad has
Speaker 7: worked really hard to get himself back to where he
Speaker 7: is right now.
Speaker 2: And and uh, you know it looks like you look
Speaker 2: good today.
Speaker 3: Wasn't out there, I know.
Speaker 2: The training camp where herd of seeing.
Speaker 3: The chemistry and kind of rain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you've seen it. Just you see it
Speaker 2: in the plays that they make.
Speaker 7: It's not like it's not like some secret sauce that
Speaker 7: you can't see, you know, it's it's in the play,
Speaker 7: you know. And I figure just gets better and better.
Speaker 7: It's going to continue to get better. Uh, I'm happy
Speaker 7: with where it's at for sure. Uh there's no doubt
Speaker 7: that Obj still has it.
Speaker 2: You see it.
Speaker 7: I mean he's he can move and he makes catches,
Speaker 7: a great route runner. Uh So I'm excited about that,
Speaker 7: not just him, all the guys really feel that.
Speaker 4: For a second. You know, he had that touchdown something
Speaker 4: like that. I think back from the injury they had,
Speaker 4: what was it due for him emotionally?
Speaker 7: Confidence From your perspective, yeah, I would say it does
Speaker 7: a lot. I mean it'd be a great question for him,
Speaker 7: for sure. But I'm you know what, it helped my confidence.
Speaker 7: I felt great about seeing it.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: I was a heck of a catch, was he How
Speaker 7: did he stay in bound? How did he make the catch?
Speaker 7: How do you track the ball? And they go in
Speaker 7: there and just throw it in there like that first
Speaker 7: day back.
Speaker 2: And that kind of a drill. Very impressive.
Speaker 5: But don't.
Speaker 7: Yeah that no that He's been going so hard and
Speaker 7: I think just a little rest. You know, he is
Speaker 7: coming off at knee surgery, right, so a chance to
Speaker 7: rest that thing and get it, get it feeling good
Speaker 7: is what we wanted to do that day.
Speaker 2: From Moses too, same thing for Moses.
Speaker 3: Went on the you see, I mean b a lot
Speaker 3: of talk whether to move the froll back the offense
Speaker 3: for the.
Speaker 2: First I guess how you receive him.
Speaker 7: And seen Jasons well, I think what you try to do,
Speaker 7: and Todd is a big advocate of this as well,
Speaker 7: is take the guys you have and use them the
Speaker 7: things they do well. So if you got a patricard,
Speaker 7: I would put Ben Mason in the same category. You
Speaker 7: got guys like that. You want to use those guys
Speaker 7: and do what they do well. So this gives you
Speaker 7: an extra thing you can do, Why limit yourself and
Speaker 7: you have somebody that can do something at that level,
Speaker 7: why not make a defense defendant? And I think I
Speaker 7: know that's how Todd's thinking is as capable of being
Speaker 7: in the line tight ending at this point as absolutely yeah,
Speaker 7: I have total confidence in him blocking at the line
Speaker 7: of scrimmage and running crossing routes and flat routes.
Speaker 2: He'll tell you he can run a sea him in
Speaker 2: a corner. He'll tell you that.
Speaker 4: So, John, you clown, he's been described as an edge resser.
Speaker 8: Do you have any kind of idea of which room
Speaker 8: he gets best in the defensive line, like as that linebackers.
Speaker 2: Do you know kind of where I see him in
Speaker 2: the outside backer room?
Speaker 7: You know, those rooms are kind of they work together
Speaker 7: so closely anyway, they're together in most of their meetings anyway,
Speaker 7: because they combine on the nickel stuff, you know. So
Speaker 7: we'll classify him as an outside backer, which I think
Speaker 7: he's always been, and it's really a good fit for
Speaker 7: our defense the way we structured he's that's what he is.
Speaker 8: Do you three of his best seasons worre with Beaver
Speaker 8: and you said, I guess how much to treat involve
Speaker 8: him the process.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Anthony Weaver has been totally involved in this
Speaker 7: process from day one, from the beginning, he's been talking
Speaker 7: to him. Uh yeah, to me, was is a I'd
Speaker 7: say it was a strong advocate for bringing bringing him
Speaker 7: in here.
Speaker 2: And you know that carries a lot of weight.
Speaker 3: Jump to Marlin a surgery, can't have it pad again.
Speaker 7: And yeah, he had the surgery. It went very well,
Speaker 7: and I would say that the timeline is pretty well defined.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna give it to you, but it's not
Speaker 7: super long, you know, and when he's getting close, you'll know,
Speaker 7: so he don't need to ask probably for a few weeks.
Speaker 7: But uh, he's gonna be back pretty early in the
Speaker 7: season and he'll be ready to roll. The good thing
Speaker 7: about the surgery, what just to give you a kind
Speaker 7: of little background. He could have definitely played with it
Speaker 7: the way it was, but you do risk it getting
Speaker 7: worse with the surgery that he got. It's it's taken
Speaker 7: care of, so when he comes back, you won't have
Speaker 7: to be concervative for the rest of the season. And
Speaker 7: it was Marvelin's decision, and that's why he decided to
Speaker 7: go ahead and get that done.
Speaker 2: This time general he was, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't want to get into at this point his foot.
Speaker 7: All right, lower leg, I'm giving your foot. That's way
Speaker 7: better than lower leg. Right a pinpointing into the foot.
Speaker 7: You shouldn't ask, you can't. You can't ask pretty more
Speaker 7: than that. I don't remember, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: Here come the wide receiver coaches. We'll start with wide
Speaker 1: receivers coach Greg Lewis, Greg Sliver, San.
Speaker 2: Bagman doing seven seven, So I'll make the great catch.
Speaker 2: I know it's I'm still getting ramped off. But what
Speaker 2: have you seen from him and comfortables?
Speaker 6: Uh, he's continuing to get comfortable within the offense. Uh,
Speaker 6: he's in all the meetings understanding the language that we're speaking.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 6: And then he's getting a couple opportunities to continue to
Speaker 6: progress and come out here and do some of the
Speaker 6: seven on seven and some of the individuals drills. And
Speaker 6: he's doing a fantastic job. It's excited to see him
Speaker 6: out there. And then we're just gonna keep building as
Speaker 6: a group with him.
Speaker 2: Okay, they're kind of getting them DAGs.
Speaker 6: I mean they're both professionals, they've been doing it for
Speaker 6: a while. They understand what they need to do. Uh,
Speaker 6: they get work after practice, before practice and the indoor
Speaker 6: and do some stuff and then it shows up on
Speaker 6: the field. Not every play is a completion, but they're
Speaker 6: getting on the same page and doing a hell of
Speaker 6: a job working together and trying to grow, uh the
Speaker 6: receiving cores and just from quarterback receiver standpoint, just the
Speaker 6: whole group. And I think it's awesome just to see
Speaker 6: that work after practice, before practice, and then it shows
Speaker 6: up at times during practice. But we got a couple
Speaker 6: of weeks left before it's time, and I believe we'll
Speaker 6: be there when the time is right.
Speaker 1: Yes, how much as Tom Monkins said that you know
Speaker 1: your working makes a Flowers complete receiver, and we've all
Speaker 1: seen the shiftingness and quick beat and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: What aspects of this gam.
Speaker 6: You really trying to focus on just a total package.
Speaker 6: And I wouldn't even point out just say, I would say,
Speaker 6: as a group of receivers, we we don't focus on
Speaker 6: one particular thing. We try to make them good at catching,
Speaker 6: good at running, good at run after the catch, good
Speaker 6: at blocking, and then put it out there and then
Speaker 6: we're all interchangeable to do different things. But Jay is
Speaker 6: a special talent. Everybody sees that, and just to get
Speaker 6: them out there on the field doing the things understanding
Speaker 6: the offense, it's been awesome and just continue to grow
Speaker 6: with him and when we can get him the ball,
Speaker 6: let's get him the ball because he can do some
Speaker 6: special things.
Speaker 2: We saw him trun fly.
Speaker 5: And land steps out there together. What if they kind
Speaker 5: of up to get your attention for some compete.
Speaker 6: It's been a lot of competition in the receiver room
Speaker 6: and that's what you want. You want everybody at their
Speaker 6: best and then make the best rise to the top.
Speaker 6: And I think Sean is doing a great job. Tariq
Speaker 6: made a few plays today and it's awesome to see
Speaker 6: those guys competing for roster spots for jobs in the
Speaker 6: NFL and letting their abilities show.
Speaker 5: And that's what we want.
Speaker 6: We want them to be able to play fast and
Speaker 6: do what they're able to do, and then whatever happens happened,
Speaker 6: you know, you put your best foot forward. It's been
Speaker 6: great competition in the room and I'm excited for the
Speaker 6: game coming up.
Speaker 7: What do you tell those guys that's young, your seniors
Speaker 7: fins from maybe one of those two finals spots you
Speaker 7: get closed.
Speaker 6: I mean I sort of use my story a lot
Speaker 6: of the times for a lot of guys that are undrafted,
Speaker 6: uh free agents or sort of just moving around from
Speaker 6: team to team. Uh me being the sixteenth receiver in Philadelphia.
Speaker 6: When I got there, it was like what else can
Speaker 6: you do other than work each day and put your
Speaker 6: talent out there and then let the chips fall what
Speaker 6: they may. But you can't let the opportunity pass you by.
Speaker 6: You can't take anything for granted. You got to come
Speaker 6: out every day like it's your last day because it
Speaker 6: could be. And whether that's harsh or not, that's the
Speaker 6: reality of it. And as a football player, all you
Speaker 6: want to know is where I stand, and that's where
Speaker 6: you stand at right now, and then now what are
Speaker 6: you gonna do about it? So I just try to
Speaker 6: be real with the guys and let them know what
Speaker 6: it is and then it's up to them to take
Speaker 6: advantage of it.
Speaker 4: Greg, when O'Dell's signed, he except the playing for him
Speaker 4: was scrampuff, so that he would be hitting this pig.
Speaker 8: You know, regular season, how much have you seen he
Speaker 8: kind of compressed when you first laid eyes on him.
Speaker 8: Your guys where he is now, he's running.
Speaker 6: It's light years away from where he was when we
Speaker 6: first got up here to where he is now. But
Speaker 6: that's that's everybody, I mean, or else. We're not doing
Speaker 6: our job if people not getting better each and every day.
Speaker 6: So he's doing a tremendous job with that stuff, just
Speaker 6: taking care of his body, understanding his body, working with
Speaker 6: the training staff, the weight room staff, to the analytics
Speaker 6: staff and all those guys, and then we work in
Speaker 6: conjunction and then we figure stuff out and we do
Speaker 6: us best for the player. And Odell is out here
Speaker 6: putting his best foot forward just like everybody else, and
Speaker 6: he's making plays uh. And and the big thing with
Speaker 6: him is he's doing a great job with the younger
Speaker 6: guys uh in the room and just teaching them some
Speaker 6: things and bringing them along and lett him understand what
Speaker 6: it means to be a pro.
Speaker 3: They have process and trying to get back out there
Speaker 3: and Randy the house kind of you added Tode and
Speaker 3: just killing friend like the mindset I'm trying to get back.
Speaker 6: I mean, I can't speak for his mindset, but from
Speaker 6: day one when I I introduced myself to him, when
Speaker 6: I got the job, we we got on the same
Speaker 6: page and that that's what I wanted with with all
Speaker 6: the guys. We all had individual meetings and we talked
Speaker 6: about what his goals are and what he wants to do,
Speaker 6: just as long as with everybody else. And he's been fantastic.
Speaker 6: He's been on task with everything that that I've asked
Speaker 6: of him and everything that he knows he needs to do. Uh,
Speaker 6: he's been He's been awesome, and it's it's a it's
Speaker 6: not a surprise to me because that's what I heard,
Speaker 6: but uh, it's been great, not great good.
Speaker 8: I think say said yesterday and that he feels like
Speaker 8: he's's chemistry with Lamars at like sixty pim winning on
Speaker 8: want one on one and sometimes the team hills and
Speaker 8: he went only get a couple of targets.
Speaker 4: I guess as a coach, what do you kind of
Speaker 4: do to to read that chemistry or the right spot?
Speaker 6: Just state just state of course. I mean, every ball
Speaker 6: is not gonna be completed to you. Everything is not
Speaker 6: gonna happen the way you want it to happen. Just
Speaker 6: state of course, continue to do what we're coaching you
Speaker 6: to do. Lamar will continue to do with what they're
Speaker 6: coaching him to do and then everything will work together
Speaker 6: when it's time to be But I think they're doing
Speaker 6: a great job. I wouldn't say sixty percent. I'd say
Speaker 6: one hundred percent for me personally with what they're doing.
Speaker 6: But each and every day you got to come out
Speaker 6: of work and you got to work at it. And
Speaker 6: those guys are doing that. And like I said before,
Speaker 6: when when whatever day the first game is comes up,
Speaker 6: we'll all be ready to go there.
Speaker 1: This is assistant wide receivers coach Keith Williams.
Speaker 2: Pop work with a lot of wide receivers. It's the
Speaker 2: course of your coaching career.
Speaker 4: What's it been Mike being able to work with their
Speaker 4: going back them now over its.
Speaker 9: Trading team, right, It's been awesome. He's been great. He's
Speaker 9: a hard worker. He wants he wants to still improve,
Speaker 9: you know. He he knows that he can get better
Speaker 9: and he works at that every day. He's been great
Speaker 9: on the field, great leadership. He's been great in the
Speaker 9: in the classroom with the young guys. He's been great
Speaker 9: in the cafeteria. He's been great. Everywhere he's been. He's
Speaker 9: been really good. He's a hard worker and like I said,
Speaker 9: he wants to get better, and you know he's ready
Speaker 9: to play, he's ready to get going.
Speaker 2: But I mean, you've been a good shout for multiple
Speaker 2: years obviously, How good was it to see him and
Speaker 2: to great that back me out there?
Speaker 9: It was awesome because he's been you know, he's he's
Speaker 9: been a little frustrated with it, you know, trying to
Speaker 9: get back because he's been chomping at the bit to
Speaker 9: get on the field. So for him to get out
Speaker 9: there today and make a few kind of difficult catches
Speaker 9: on his first date, that was great to see. Uh,
Speaker 9: good for his confidence and he felt good about it all.
Speaker 9: But I felt great about it.
Speaker 3: Good And Lamar, have you seen instans out there where Okay,
Speaker 3: you get sEMG never be at.
Speaker 9: Age right, Well, you know you see it every you
Speaker 9: see it every day. We work at that and the
Speaker 9: chemistry comes with reps. Chemistry comes with time. But the
Speaker 9: good thing about it, Odell's a veteran. He understands football.
Speaker 9: Lamar is obviously a veteran. So those guys understand football.
Speaker 9: So them getting on the same page and getting rhythm
Speaker 9: is in chemistry is gonna It's not gonna take as
Speaker 9: long as as some may think. And we we have
Speaker 9: seen examples of that so far, and uh, you know,
Speaker 9: just go keep on building those blocks, hew he and
Speaker 9: you few it.
Speaker 2: That's fine on one or two receiver.
Speaker 5: Spots on this frost.
Speaker 9: It's real competitive, you know it's but it's more or less.
Speaker 9: You know, each guy verse himself. You know, when you
Speaker 9: come out here, you gotta be you gotta be on
Speaker 9: the top of your game for yourself. It's not to
Speaker 9: necessary you verse another guy's. You verse yourself and want
Speaker 9: to give yourself the best chance to make plays every
Speaker 9: time you have opportunity.
Speaker 5: Then after that, just let the car as far as
Speaker 5: they may.
Speaker 4: What is to see a lot of three wide receiver
Speaker 4: what's Todds offense? Just how happy are the receivers about that?
Speaker 9: And they see coming to well, you know, you're always
Speaker 9: happy if you're out there and it might be a
Speaker 9: pass at white out, so you know, uh, they're excited
Speaker 9: about you know, our passing game, and you know how
Speaker 9: Monk is calling it and how he sees it in
Speaker 9: his approach to it. So yeah, those guys are excited
Speaker 9: and uh, you know they're happy about that.
Speaker 3: What's your play?
Speaker 2: Nice block?
Speaker 9: Say?
Speaker 2: Excuse said you say, wow, you have a young guys,
Speaker 2: what's the most like.
Speaker 9: He's actually not as good And I'm just kidding now, Well,
Speaker 9: you know, you know what we saw in him, you know,
Speaker 9: in the draft process. You know he's shown it. And
Speaker 9: then something the one thing about him is that he
Speaker 9: is a hard worker. Aside from the traits and the
Speaker 9: speed and the all you know, all the characteristics.
Speaker 5: His skill set is obviously there.
Speaker 9: But the thing that I think I was surprised, not surprised,
Speaker 9: but impressed by is that he's a worker. He's very smart,
Speaker 9: and he wants to get better every day. And I
Speaker 9: mean he's hungry to be the kind of player that
Speaker 9: we all think he can be, and so he brings
Speaker 9: that attitude to work every day.
Speaker 5: So that part has been really impressive.
Speaker 4: Earlier in the week, during time practice and wing on
Speaker 4: the sideline, he said, White persists to make him play?
Speaker 3: Why not make him play?
Speaker 4: It made a lot of great players today. What are
Speaker 4: you happous to see Troll the days practice?
Speaker 9: Just just what you said, completing the play when the
Speaker 9: ball is in the air and if and if it's
Speaker 9: intended to you, you come down with the ball regardless
Speaker 9: of if the circumstances were in your favor. If your
Speaker 9: release was good, the route was bad, good doesn't matter.
Speaker 9: When the ball's in the air and it's coming your way,
Speaker 9: do whatever you can to come down with the ball,
Speaker 9: you know, and that's what we call making the play.
Speaker 9: The circumstances might not be set up just right, it
Speaker 9: might not be the best route you ever ran in
Speaker 9: your life, but the ball is still thrown.
Speaker 5: Bring it back to the ref, Keith, how well did.
Speaker 4: You know Greg Willis before your partnership there?
Speaker 9: I knew him, not not very well. I have been
Speaker 9: around him a little bit a few times, but I
Speaker 9: didn't know him very well. But he and I have
Speaker 9: a great chemistry. He's a he's a heck of a
Speaker 9: guy and a heck of a coach, and I'm having
Speaker 9: a blast working with him.
Speaker 4: Shot and famous talking about how he got voted down
Speaker 4: the guys player.
Speaker 5: What is the guy?
Speaker 4: You see someone like that?
Speaker 9: I think it's invaluable, you know, whenever uh, you know,
Speaker 9: somebody you look up to is in your in your
Speaker 9: presence every day, and it's able to tutor you and
Speaker 9: and give you an example and teach you anything that
Speaker 9: you may need to know. It's been great for him.
Speaker 9: You know, like like we said, Bait hasn't been on
Speaker 9: the field, but he's been getting a huge dose of
Speaker 9: education in tutelage from from Odell in the classroom. And
Speaker 9: so it's been awesome and I think it's gonna it's
Speaker 9: gonna show up on the field too.
Speaker 4: You think that there's greater value for this offers a background.
Speaker 5: Nothing.
Speaker 9: So you know, anytime you you know, as an offensive coordinator,
Speaker 9: if you're familiar with the position uh and you're you
Speaker 9: know you're and you're trying to throw the ball a
Speaker 9: little more, that's always valuable. In his experience as a
Speaker 9: whiteout coach has helped because he understands the plight of
Speaker 9: the white out in certain circumstances where you know, you
Speaker 9: may not understand that hat you not played white out,
Speaker 9: and so his experience or have not coach white outs,
Speaker 9: and so his experience coach of white house has been very,
Speaker 9: very beneficial.
Speaker 2: That's exciting breaking.
Speaker 4: When you're just talking about that.
Speaker 9: You may have to some degree, you know, everybody, every
Speaker 9: off has different nuances. There's certain routes for more or
Speaker 9: less the concepts are the same. Because you're not gonna
Speaker 9: reinvent the wheel. But in our offense, every new offense
Speaker 9: there's some new routes with new nuances, different depths, different
Speaker 9: styles of the way you want to get to the
Speaker 9: same destination, but different different paths to it.
Speaker 5: So our offense is not any different in that regard.
Speaker 9: But uh, for the most part, you know, it's the
Speaker 9: same concepts, but it's different, you know, for a different language.
Speaker 4: What are your conversations like with Rashad? You know, given
Speaker 4: past years in the health.
Speaker 2: And injuries and going to a big year three with
Speaker 2: your kind of sands.
Speaker 9: Just look forward, you know, don't look in the rear
Speaker 9: view mirror, look through the windshield, you know, and just
Speaker 9: keep going forward because you can't change what happened in
Speaker 9: the past. So there's no need to dwell on it.
Speaker 9: It's not gonna make you better. Only things are gonna
Speaker 9: make you better is what you do now and going forward.
Speaker 9: So our conversations have been what he's gonna do on
Speaker 9: the field now. We haven't spoken much about the past, uh,
Speaker 9: because that's not gonna help him.
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