WEBVTT - Coaches & Coordinators: Ravens Press Conferences 12/3/24 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:06.160 Welcome into the Lounge Podcast. It is Tuesday, December third. 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:08.400 The Ravens are in the midst of their bye week 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.880 and the coaching staff is taking a look at everything 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:13.320 right now and finding ways for this team to improve 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:15.880 for the final stretch of the season. Today, we had 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:17.400 a chance to hear from the coordinators of some of 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.439 the assistant coaches, So let's kick it off with offensive 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:21.840 coordinator Todd Munkett. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.520 When you look at Lamar in your kind of times 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.760 with him, has there been anything this year that has 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.519 kind of impressed you with what he has kind of 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.160 grown or really improved upon. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:42.320 Oh, there's a lot of things he's improved upon. He 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.680 was already a great player, you know, And I think 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.000 some of that just comes through experience and playing and 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.639 the same system, same terminology, a lot of the same players, 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.200 a lot of the same guys he's throwing to, same center, 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.600 you know, a lot of things from a communications standpoint. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.720 But I think he's always been able to see the 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.280 field great. I think he's doing a better job of 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:07.679 working through his progressions. He's he does a great job 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.920 of seeing receivers down the field when he gets outside 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:14.720 the pockets. So I just think he's doing a great job. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.000 I don't know where before I got here where he was. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:19.440 I know he was a great player. I don't I 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.160 don't mean to say that. It just I just see 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.000 a lot of things. He protects the football. He doesn't 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.160 want to put us at risk. He wants to win 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:32.759 in the worst way. So, you know, like I said, 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:37.000 I don't know exactly where where it started, but he's 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:37.800 an elite player. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:43.240 Cions the progressions, you know, how do you weigh you know, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.399 going through those progressions and the balance of whether he 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.120 runs continues to go through those progressions, like he talked 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.120 about that obviously Sunday A little Well. 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:56.320 That's that's hard because he's such a weapon, you know, 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:57.800 when he's got the ball in his hands and when 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.400 he gets outside the pocket and finding guys down the field, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.640 and you know, so he's got such a great. 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.960 Feel for the rush. It's unique. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:10.160 It's rare, you know, to see defenders and escape and 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:14.240 make those plays. Gets us out of a lot of 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:20.040 you know, tough plays, you know, tough situations. So that balance, 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.520 I don't know where to start and where to finish 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.560 with it, because it's yeah, there's times I think maybe 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.640 he could check it down, but then he gets outside 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.639 of it and he makes a play. So it's just's unique, 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.280 you know, in terms of his ability to to do that. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:34.919 Did you know he was one. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:36.800 Main thing the fact that he didn't run more, as 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.480 Mom said that he should have run. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.720 I don't know where that comes from. I did not 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.440 see that in the game. But mom knows best, you know, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.519 so I mean, I guess that's I did not see 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.000 that in the game, that he should have taken off 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.080 more and that there were those opportunities. I did not 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.320 see that. But I'm not criticizing Mom. I mean, she 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:55.960 says he should have run more than he should have 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.839 run more, but I didn't see that. I don't want 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.079 to be critical in that matter. I thought he did 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.600 an outstanding job the other night, Todd. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.360 Obviously, the Eagles have a heck of a defensive line. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.480 But when when you're. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.799 Having some struggles blocking any team's interior, as a play caller, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.000 how do you really try to account for that? I mean, 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.000 edge players, you chip guys, you can, you know you 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.840 have a blocking tight end, but when it's that inside, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.760 you know, inside problems like that, how do you account. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:22.760 For that. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:24.480 Well? 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.680 From a protection standpoint, there's things you can do, there's 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.480 ways you can slide the protection. Being able to run 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.040 the ball helps at. Staying out of the chains helps at. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.720 That doesn't mean that that doesn't occur even on play 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:42.480 actions and other things. But and you're not expecting it. Again, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.160 guys are gonna get beat, Guys are gonna get covered, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.400 Guys are gonna drop a pass, We're gonna make a 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.720 poor throw and we haven't you know, hasn't shown up 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.240 to where it's been multiple you know, issues. 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:55.480 With it, so we don't ever expect that. 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.640 But they're really good upfront, and we got to do 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:03.160 a better job myself coaching, protecting, being able to run 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.000 the ball, move the pocket, be able to screen some 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.280 take the pressure of those guys as part of it. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:09.680 Time. 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.560 You heard Zach on the defensive side talk about, you know, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.000 early on he felt like he was maybe trying to 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:17.839 disguise too much or do too much. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:18.760 Just curious. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.680 On the offensive side, are there is that you know, 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.520 you've so many weapons and the offense is obviously played 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.680 really well in the most parts, but is there a 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.880 challenge of or what is the challenge of when you 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.880 have all of that at your disposal and maybe trying 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.880 to do too much or trying to find that tw 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:39.839 we'd spot against. 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.600 It's a great question. Doesn't bother me at all. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:49.000 I mean, as much as I'd love for every skilled players, 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.680 I've said this before, I'd love for all of them 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.360 to be a huge part of when we when we 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.760 move the ball and we score, but I don't always 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.279 control that. Some of that I do, and some of 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:02.120 that I don't. The defense controls it where Lamar ends 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.280 up with it or we don't get a protection, you know, 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.279 But at the end of the day, we're paid to 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:13.040 score or not. I can't always control who touches it, 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.920 and so we don't ever try to do too much. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.840 I don't believe. I don't think we're trying to do 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.280 too many things, do I think, you know, we're all 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.800 cognizant of using our weapons and having those guys be 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.640 a part of it. But you know, we didn't get 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.359 Bigsa the ball, you know, early in the game, but 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.200 we tried to. You know, we had a banana route 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.120 that we didn't end up hitting for a couple of reasons. 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.880 And you know, across again, it just it just shows up. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.120 It's not not a problem for me. I'm glad we 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:42.840 have all those guys. It's a good problem to have. 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.760 When you don't have those guys, you're pissed. You know 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.359 that that's tougher than having a lot of weapons. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.159 You've talked about the best protection in the philadelph game 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.720 in particular. Bit when you look at the offensive line 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.839 overall and kind of take stock, is it, is it 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.560 where you wanted to be at this point of the season. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:00.479 Sure, I mean, and it's. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:02.600 Overall. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.600 Offensively, we forget the offensive We did not play as 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:10.279 well as we're capable of, so irrespective of that, we 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:11.880 could certainly coach better and play better. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:13.400 That's that's what we have to do. 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.120 You know, in the games that we we've lost the 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.320 last couple of weeks. A few weeks ago, it was 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.960 turnovers and penalties. This week it was touchdowns in the 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.320 red zone. The penalties you know, we didn't have this week. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.480 We really hadn't been turning it over and we've been 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:27.960 really good in the red zone. We just didn't take 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.920 advantage of the opportunities we had. That's us offensively scoring touchdowns. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:37.279 So those are the ways you win, you know, the 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.240 ways you win is don't turn it over, be explosive, 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.760 don't have lost sharage plays, you know, touchdowns in the 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.839 red zone, third down conversions, off schedule plays, bear quarterback. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.200 All of those are the reasons you win and you 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.640 score and you move the football. And in those two games, 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.719 weren't we weren't as efficient as we had been. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.279 Considering how many questions there were about the one coming 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:56.520 into the season. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.960 I guess, how have they compared to what you thought 0:06:59.000 --> 0:06:59.520 they might be. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.840 Or what the price will? 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:02.200 Oh? 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.320 I think they played great, you know. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.320 I mean, you know, everybody has their moments or they 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.840 don't play as well as they'd like to. There's calls 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.480 i'd like back, you know, every game may you can 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.600 only imagine. And if you have sixty play calls in 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.400 a game and twenty of them go for nothing or 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.400 lost yard, It's like, well, it's a third of my calls. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.520 I'm like, well, I wasn't worth the damn, you know. 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.360 I mean, So that goes with players. They're gonna make mistakes, 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.920 they're gonna lose, They're not who's going to win, and 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.400 we got to help them out at every position. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.680 You know, sometimes receivers need help getting off the line 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:35.720 of scrimmage. You need a motion. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.800 Sometimes you're alignment against certain matchups, need us to help 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.160 them in pass pro. You know that that's just the 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:42.960 way it is that every team goes through that. We're 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.000 not the only team that deals with certain matchup issues. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:46.640 It's the NFL. 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.480 There's great players on the other side, and so we 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.360 just got to do a better gut job coaching them, 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.840 preparing them, and uh and then playing on Sunday. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.960 Got get the first episode of Hard Knocks tonight. I 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:03.080 know you've been that all access thing at Oklahoma State. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.680 In your position as off a supporting I mean, you 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.040 can have the time of day to kind of wonder 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.200 what makes the final cut or is it just completely. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:09.440 Help your radar. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.440 I even forgot about it till you brought it up, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:15.160 So that sucks you brought that up. I think it's 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.360 a major distraction. So I don't deal with it. So 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:19.840 I know it's not that what they want to hear. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.680 But it's hard enough to focus and get ready and 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:24.960 then worry about I just have to worry about this 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.200 once a week, you know, I don't want to worry 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.640 about it every day of what I say, how I 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.360 say it, how it's perceived. Whatever it is, it's it's 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.680 hard enough to win in the NFL than to stay focused. 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.600 And what we got to do this week is a 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.800 coaching staff, let our guys get rest, get ready to 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.679 go for this four game stretch, analyze who we are, 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.520 where we want to continue to go, how we've got 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.520 to continue to get better, who we're going to be 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.240 playing to give us the best chance to win every week. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.440 Tn't that one of all? 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:54.120 Good? Hut? 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.680 I mean kind of, I guess, kind of along similar lines. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.920 This is the time of year when people start to 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.440 speculate about the job openings and the tussing names around 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.640 all the rumor columns. I mean, your name is in 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.880 some of those. How do you deal with that? 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:12.720 No, I don't deal with it. I don't deal with 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:14.719 it because it's got nothing to do with the here 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.320 and the now, and nobody really knows anyways. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:18.320 Now. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.480 I don't control that. All I control is the job 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.600 I have here. That's the most important thing, is us 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.440 winning here and scoring points. Because you don't worry about that, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.040 then you don't have the job here, and then the 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.680 other stuff doesn't happen. So the idea is, right, now, 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.560 are players, how we get better this week and again 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.760 playing winning football. That's what we're paid to do here. 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:40.840 The rest of it takes care of itself. I mean, 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:42.720 that's just the way it is. And I again, I 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.400 don't control what's being said one side of the other. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.760 I've been on both sides of it. You know, when 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.880 you're not very good, or you're good, or you're not whatever, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.800 And I don't. I really don't pay attention to it, 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:53.640 to be real honest. 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.520 Just going back to some lamar and just what have 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.480 you seen in a leadership since or hidden from you know? 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.840 A step forward? Even from last year to this year. 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.679 It seems like he's been more vocal. Maybe he's full 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.840 of last year, but maybe taking another step forward if 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:11.360 you've seen that. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:17.840 And if so, in some ways, I think the more. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.800 Success you have, which he's had success, but he's also 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.800 been healthy, the same players you're around every day, it 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:32.640 becomes easier to to say things to guys, same system, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.040 you know. I just think he's more comfortable being able 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.520 to say things to the players. He's done a great 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.960 job with him in terms of promoting that, you know, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.040 which is part of that, like it's okay, you know, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.559 the players love to play with Lamar because he's highly 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.600 competitive and he's such a good dude. He's such a 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:55.240 good person. 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.240 They love him. It's hard not to love Lamar Jackson. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.960 But with that, when you become the quarterback, is okay, 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.840 how do you want it to look? You're an extension 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.000 of us. I mean, you're the closest thing tied to 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.520 winning that we are. The quarterback is I mean, that's 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.640 a fact. I mean, no one critiques a skilled player 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.319 for not winning the Super Bowl. I've ever one person 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.719 critique one of our players for not winning Super Bowl. Well, 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.480 they're all over his ass. You know, that's just the 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.520 way it comes with So he's an extension of us. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.560 So okay, how do you evolve to you know, hey, okay, 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.000 you're an extension of us. You're an extension of our team. 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.000 How do you want it to look? And that's not easy. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.880 It's not easy for us, not easy for him to 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.440 be that. But winning is important to him. Being a 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:46.200 great teammates important to him, Being coachable is important to him. 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.160 All the things that you want in a quarterback. And 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.840 he's just starting to grow and he's bringing that out 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.080 in him, you know, to be able to do that again, 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.480 that's not easy for any player to do that with 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:57.520 their teammates. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.719 How you developed in the film room. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.520 I know some of the guys said, he's pointing out 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:03.840 more things than not, just. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.520 Like all of you guys are meetings. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:06.600 The outside the facility as well. 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.320 No, I think and T can speak to that. You know, 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:13.120 it's I just think he's dialed in. I really do. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.200 I think he's always been dialed in. But you know, 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.040 in terms of what he's seeing, you know, and what 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.520 he likes, what he dislikes. I just think he's from 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.719 what I've seen, and again he can speak to that 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.040 is I think they've got a great rapport and I 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.679 think they've got a way of communicating, Hey, what they're seeing, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.080 why we're doing what we're doing. It gives us the 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.920 best chance to win. That's really It doesn't matter what 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.199 I see. It's always through the eyes of the quarterback. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.440 Always does not matter. That's how this works. You know, 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.120 everything's got to be through the eyes of your players, 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.040 especially the quarterback, how he sees it, how he sees 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.679 the game, and that's our job to make sure that 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.320 we do the best job we can possible to fit 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.440 around his skill set and that he sees it. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:13:03.720 The way we see it. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.679 Up is quarterbacks coach t Martin. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.079 The second year system. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:12.800 Just where have you seen mars developments with Todd Monkeys? 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:14.600 Where is he I improved? 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:20.080 Right? Development wise? Physically? I think as a passer, you know, 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.800 he's taken leaps and bounds from where we started off 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.559 season last year, spring training camp last season and then 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.120 picking up where we left off. He made some goals 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.720 to be quicker, you know, on his feet. We saw 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.520 how he looks now when he reported the training camp 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:43.760 and past technique wise, being more accurate at all of 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.560 the throws and all field zones. We made a key 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:50.160 point to work on throws outside the numbers, in the 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:54.000 deeper field zones, outside the numbers, post route go routes, 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.320 things of that nature. On the run, scrambled throws. Those 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.840 are things that we intentionally wanted to come into the 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.120 season to be improved at and better at. So as 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.600 you look at his numbers, you look at statistically where 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.520 he's at, he's improved in all of those areas. As 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.320 far as the system, he's just another year advanced in 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:17.240 it from protections, from progressions, from knowing what to expect, 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.160 so that he can anticipate and get the ball out. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.480 He's not being sacked as much, he's not being flushed 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.600 as much. That helps out the whole line and so 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.640 on and so forth. But the addition of Derrick Henry 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:32.200 having another complimentary back, another explosive weapon with him and 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.880 being able to make it all work together and still 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.680 have the type of performance that he's having at quarterback. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.040 You know it's complimentary to him and the work that 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.800 he's been putting in. But you know, coaching every day, 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:47.040 listening to him, working with him, you know his mind 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.240 is on another level. What he sees, what he thinks about, 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.760 what he anticipates, and how he acts on it is 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.600 another year advanced and really proud of where he's come 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.880 from and where he's at right now, how he's playing. 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.880 And the physical improvement talk about with him from a 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.640 technical standpoint, is it is it fullwork elements, arm angle 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:11.120 stuff and is your where what's sort of evolved in. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.760 That sense right? Just being consistently accurate all the time 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.360 when he does all those things. And what I did 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.560 when I first started coaching was I went back and 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:24.560 watched over seven hundred passes throughout his career and what 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:29.720 he naturally did and created an environment around his natural 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:34.640 movements and started coaching from there because he's already talented. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.880 He was Lamar Jackson before I ever met him, you know, Heisman, 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.640 first round pick, MVP, all of this stuff, And what 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.520 you look at is how do you make those things 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.760 better by creating an environment so that he does it 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.280 all the time to where he doesn't think about it 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.760 when those things happen. And so with that being said, 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.320 something that would have caused anxiety early in his career 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.360 is now not causing anxiety and it's just like an 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.600 everyday play for him. So that's what we try to 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.720 create in our individual drills, sometimes within the play scheme, 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.320 but allowing him to be who he is, which is 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:11.000 one of the best in the world at doing what 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.240 he does. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.760 You said, his mind's on another level. Just can you 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.120 talk about that aspect of his game and where you've 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:17.920 seen those strikes? 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:19.960 Yeah, last year was a year for me. It's like 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.520 when we first started dating somebody, like, I can't believe 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.000 what they're saying, you know, is that right? I don't 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.080 see it that way, you know, But we're gonna work 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.840 it out. We're gonna work it out. And then the 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.080 second year you're like, yeah, he really sees that, he 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.160 really knows exactly what he's thinking, exactly what he's doing, 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.400 and he's acting on it. And so just the second 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.640 year of our relationship, second year of him trusting me 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.640 and just that relationship, he's more vocal about how he 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.720 feels and what he sees and he stands on it. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.920 And so he's very defining to who he is and 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.120 what he wants to do. And with his footage now 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.040 his footage down as we all know, and uh, but 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.080 he's just being more within himself and the things that 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.679 we're asking him to do and the feedback. You know, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.800 last year he wasn't so comfortable with saying this is 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.199 what I want, you know, this year is like, now 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.040 I want it this way, this is how I want 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.080 to do it. And so that's just growth and development. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:16.399 Really proud of that from him. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.679 I guess along those lines, when you have that clarity 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.560 and of what he wants, how does that affect the 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:23.600 offense as a whole. 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.120 I think what it does for the players that play 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.480 with him, what it does for Todd calling the players, 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.600 what it does for me having to coach and navigate 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:37.240 all the things. It's just clear. It's clear cut. It's 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.560 black and white, it's no gray, and you rather be 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.120 that way than greatness. And sometimes when you're going from 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.720 a system to a different system, it's all trusted. It's 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.399 all I've never done this before. What is he asking 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.639 me to do? And now you have it on tape. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.080 You have it on tape against opponents from last season, 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.720 off season, against our defense, preseason, so on and so forth. 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.920 And so there's a body of work that builds trust, 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.720 and you know what does work, and you know what 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.639 doesn't work, and so and you combine that with his 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:11.520 career and totality and his experience. He knows what he's 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.560 talking about, and we trust him. 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.920 He seemed mad and kind of an energized way after 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.600 Sunday's game. Having gone through that game with him at 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:21.960 this point, what do you think was kind of at the. 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.119 Root of that. I'll tell you what. That last drive. 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.000 You know, you're down two scores, and anybody could have 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.440 chosen to put the backup in and gott of the game, 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.199 or put the starters in and ran the ball and 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.280 got out the game. But for him to continue to 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:43.040 play get completions the Scramble says, it all about who 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.400 he is and how much he wants to win and 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.080 not quit, because anybody could have just got out the pocket, 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:54.400 slid or whatever he was trying to score and get 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.440 in the game on side kick, get the ball back, 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:00.000 win the game. He never quit, and so he cared 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.879 that energy into the locker room. We spoke after the 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.200 game and he spoke to his mom, shout out Miss Felicia. 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.439 Got out of him a little bit, but by the 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:11.440 time he got to the podium, it was that energy 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.840 that you guys felt, but it never stopped. It was 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.840 that way the whole game. He was He was ready 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.080 to play that game. He wanted to win it for everybody. 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.680 And but it really started, you know during the game, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.239