Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: November twenty eighth, and the Ravens are in the midst
Speaker 1: of their bye week. The players have the week off
Speaker 1: and the coaches are going through a self scouting process
Speaker 1: to get ready for the final stretch of the regular season. Today,
Speaker 1: we had a chance to talk with some of the
Speaker 1: assistant coaches, So let's kick things off with defensive line
Speaker 1: coach Anthony Weaver.
Speaker 2: So, Justin Mattie, Kay, what would you say in coaching him?
Speaker 3: What does he maybe do better than like like other
Speaker 3: players that you've coached over the year. So it is
Speaker 3: there something that he does that just is like maybe
Speaker 3: it stands out more.
Speaker 2: Than anything else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the biggest thing with Justin is just
Speaker 4: he's tenacious, Right. He attacks every day exactly the same.
Speaker 4: You have some guys that you know, they have the
Speaker 4: good days, right, and they have their bad days. I
Speaker 4: don't know that he's ever had a bad day. He
Speaker 4: just shows up to work with the same mentality every
Speaker 4: single day and that's why you've seen.
Speaker 5: The production you have.
Speaker 6: What's different this year?
Speaker 4: I don't know that any thing's really different. I just
Speaker 4: think he's continuing continuing to mature as a football player, right,
Speaker 4: his football intelligence goes up. He starts to recognize some
Speaker 4: of the things that are happening around him, and he's
Speaker 4: also probably getting more opportunities without a claus here and
Speaker 4: things like that.
Speaker 7: How do you think that you and compliment each other?
Speaker 8: Because whenever we talk to either an outside linebacker or
Speaker 8: a d lineman, they bring up both your names.
Speaker 5: But how do you work together?
Speaker 4: Well, we're all in the same room, right, so, so
Speaker 4: that I think helps in itself. Often when you have
Speaker 4: the outside backers in one room and then the defensive
Speaker 4: front another room, then you have two guys on the
Speaker 4: edge of two of my guys on the inside. There
Speaker 4: there's a disconnect there sometimes, So I think just the
Speaker 4: sheer nature of us being in the same room helps Chuck.
Speaker 4: Chuck does a tremendous job of making sure that these
Speaker 4: guys are constantly throwing moves. He holds them accountable to
Speaker 4: that and and teaching him how to attack certain leverages
Speaker 4: on the guy and things of that nature. So the
Speaker 4: sheer like individual rush aspect of how to attack guys
Speaker 4: like he's solely focused on and does a really good
Speaker 4: job with.
Speaker 9: Our guys is it the biggest improvements however you want
Speaker 9: to say, is it recognition things or is it technique
Speaker 9: things where he's he's made.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's probably it's probably a combination of both, to
Speaker 4: be honest with you. And the thing about Justine is
Speaker 4: funny because I was just talking Kevin Zeitler about this
Speaker 4: the other day. He's like, there's some guys you worry
Speaker 4: about him running around you and out athletic and out
Speaker 4: being more athletic than you, but you don't worry about
Speaker 4: him running you over. He's like, he can do everything
Speaker 4: so that that obviously causes a problem. So you know,
Speaker 4: I'm just so happy for the kid. He's walked in
Speaker 4: this year with just mission minded from the beginning. I'm
Speaker 4: talking bad. This is like in March, and to see
Speaker 4: it all come to fruition, it's been.
Speaker 5: Awesome, Anthony.
Speaker 6: What does it tell you? And I guess how satisfying
Speaker 6: is to you when you see guys like Michael Pierce
Speaker 6: and Brent Urban going eight ten yards down the field
Speaker 6: to finish a play and to get on the football.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we're we're constantly preaching that, right, That's
Speaker 4: that's the raven way life. Short running the ball. When
Speaker 4: you don't do that, you have a tendency to stand out.
Speaker 4: So it makes it easy from a coaching standpoint, just
Speaker 4: to hold everybody accountable to that standard.
Speaker 5: So I love it.
Speaker 4: Right to me, if you're an offensive team right and
Speaker 4: you're watching us on tape and you see these ten
Speaker 4: year vets, three hundred and fifty pound guys running out
Speaker 4: of the stack ready to hit you, that sends a message.
Speaker 10: A two part question for you. One you mentioned being
Speaker 10: in the same room the d line. Is that new
Speaker 10: or has it always been that?
Speaker 5: One?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, that that is that is new, And
Speaker 4: really that's everywhere I've been that's been in the structure,
Speaker 4: it's always been like that. The outside backer coach handles
Speaker 4: his room and in the defensive line handles their room.
Speaker 4: It just it just becomes hard when you're on a
Speaker 4: you're at a four down rush and two of my
Speaker 4: guys are in there and two of your guys are
Speaker 4: in there. Sometimes there's disconnecting terms of what you're seeing
Speaker 4: in it. From a communication standpoint, when you're in the
Speaker 4: same room, you can talk about all those things throughout
Speaker 4: the week and it makes it more cohesive on game.
Speaker 10: Day and then second question for you, Clowney, his rush
Speaker 10: styles seems so like almost reckless, like he just brows
Speaker 10: his body, like have you ever seen I've seen another
Speaker 10: rusher like him? And is there any part of you
Speaker 10: that's surprised to see the success he's having this, you know,
Speaker 10: at this stage of the game for him?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: This this is my fourth fourth year I think with Jadavion,
Speaker 4: So I've been watching this a long time. And the
Speaker 4: thing I've always said about Jadavion is he plays the
Speaker 4: game violently, right. Sometimes that doesn't always show up on
Speaker 4: a stat sheet, but it doesn't mean he's not being impactful.
Speaker 4: So to have him come out here, you know, and
Speaker 4: play the way he's playing right now, and if he's
Speaker 4: a year ten like, it's just funny. Just from my aspect,
Speaker 4: just seeing him is like the year thisss old grizzled
Speaker 4: vet Now, right when I got him, he was this
Speaker 4: young buck. But it's really not surprising at all because
Speaker 4: what you see from him every Sunday so far this
Speaker 4: year is what I've seen from him for a number
Speaker 4: of years.
Speaker 11: Now, Anthony, where have you seen Travis Jones grow the most?
Speaker 11: You know, from year one to year two? And you know,
Speaker 11: kind of just what's the next step.
Speaker 2: For him in his development.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, well, first, you know, he played at Yukon,
Speaker 4: so they had like four wins in four years, so
Speaker 4: that was tough. But uh, you know, just his sheer
Speaker 4: run technique and his just his recognition of when to
Speaker 4: get off blocks when it's sitting there and fight a
Speaker 4: double team. That has all been drastically improved from year
Speaker 4: one to year two, and he still has strides to go.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you watch him and just look at him,
Speaker 4: he is physically just freaky. He is an absolute specimen.
Speaker 4: And as soon as he learns to play a little
Speaker 4: bit lower late in the down, particularly in his past rush,
Speaker 4: there really shouldn't be anybody that can stop his power.
Speaker 12: Talking about some of the younger players like Travis and
Speaker 12: another one I want to bring up is Roderick Washington,
Speaker 12: just we've seen a lot of impact from veterans at
Speaker 12: the start of it. You feel like it's starting to
Speaker 12: matriculate down with them, Like in the numbers, like the
Speaker 12: last week, Broderick and Travis Jones got more Mundan sack numbers,
Speaker 12: and just the production rates of them, you see that
Speaker 12: just kind of slowly going downward to like flowing.
Speaker 13: To them a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's it's all cyclical, right, Like this
Speaker 4: this game, you really can't force any of it all.
Speaker 4: We require that everybody go out there and do their
Speaker 4: job to the best of their ability and let the
Speaker 4: place come to you and inevitably, like they'll all they'll
Speaker 4: all eat. Right, That's that's what we preach. Do your
Speaker 4: job first and then help out and ultimately like everybody
Speaker 4: will reap the rewards of that.
Speaker 9: How please?
Speaker 13: Amusing with Mike Pierce?
Speaker 1: You know he last year gets hurt.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and kind of the last several years for him
Speaker 14: have kind of been up and down, you know, when
Speaker 14: he's in Minnesota and not playing a lot of injuries.
Speaker 14: For him to come back and be healthy this year
Speaker 14: and playing.
Speaker 6: It seems like at a high level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I am so happy for Mike because one, I
Speaker 4: know how much he cares, right, he absolutely loves this
Speaker 4: football team and wanted nothing more than like it from
Speaker 4: a year ago, just to be out there and contribute
Speaker 4: and to be with his guys.
Speaker 5: So for him to have the year he's.
Speaker 4: Having and and just stay healthy and be out there
Speaker 4: and contributing, like, oh, I love it.
Speaker 5: Right, because I love the kid. But he's a little
Speaker 5: bit like Ja Damien. Right.
Speaker 4: Sometimes his stats don't necessarily show up on the sheet,
Speaker 4: but he does all the dirty work, right. He's getting
Speaker 4: middle pocket pushed, which is going to help your edges.
Speaker 4: He's keeping your linebackers clean. I mean, his his value
Speaker 4: to us is he meant. I'm so happy he's out there.
Speaker 4: I've just been here as a player and a coach.
Speaker 4: What is it about?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Culture is the right word that allows guys like Jadavion
Speaker 6: Clowney and Kyle van Noy and you know, the list
Speaker 6: can go on of like veterans sometimes making close to
Speaker 6: the vet minimum to come in here and fit in
Speaker 6: so well and really enjoy it and become you know,
Speaker 6: big time contributors where maybe they were coming off years
Speaker 6: where they weren't doing that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: I think that that's truly a credit to like Eric
Speaker 4: and his staff, and then the cohesiveness and an alignment
Speaker 4: he has with John and us and that they bring
Speaker 4: in like smart, tough and dependable football players and when
Speaker 4: you add them to our defense, which is very multiple,
Speaker 4: they can they can be productive, right, regardless of how
Speaker 4: late they are in their career.
Speaker 5: If you have that high FBI and.
Speaker 4: We're gonna give you everything, and then you can pick
Speaker 4: and choose the parts that you can utilz has to
Speaker 4: help your game. Those guys that like Jadavian and Kyle,
Speaker 4: they take full advantage of that.
Speaker 5: Who got man first? Sec? I mean he's sort of
Speaker 5: lost and everything. What do you what can you say
Speaker 5: about him? Yeah, Tavis Robinson, Like, first off, I don't
Speaker 5: really like.
Speaker 4: Rookies, okay for for a number of reasons, right because
Speaker 4: you're gonna YOU'RENNA You're gonna live through some of that
Speaker 4: those uh, those rookie like headaches. Right, You're gonna let
Speaker 4: them make the mistakes. And you understand that this kid
Speaker 4: tries to do everything right. He's super meticulous, He works
Speaker 4: his butt off, and you're you're just at the tip
Speaker 4: of the iceberger what He's gonna be here for years
Speaker 4: to come.
Speaker 12: About the off season signings of the players, but this
Speaker 12: off season also saw a lot of coaches brought in.
Speaker 13: You just feel that this has been you know, and
Speaker 13: they've all been impactful. Do you just feel this is
Speaker 13: a special group regarding your coaching staff as well?
Speaker 5: I truly do.
Speaker 4: I think we have an incredible staff, both on offensively
Speaker 4: and defensively. I think Denard Wilson was a huge ad
Speaker 4: right to see him and Chris Hewett working that the
Speaker 4: b room is awesome.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: I coached that gore in college, so I knew exactly
Speaker 4: what we were going to get out of him. Right
Speaker 4: with the linebackers and you see how they play. And
Speaker 4: then I think we have a bunch of positioned assistants
Speaker 4: that you never hear about, that are that are up
Speaker 4: and comers in the in the profession, like the Matt Robinson's,
Speaker 4: Brendan Clark, Andrew Rogan. It's it's awesome.
Speaker 5: We have.
Speaker 4: We have one Mariana I want to butcher her last name, Solace,
Speaker 4: I think it's how you say it, who puts together
Speaker 4: one of the best dB tip sheets I've ever seen
Speaker 4: in my life. So we have a we have a
Speaker 4: really solid group from top to bottom, led obviously by
Speaker 4: Mike Mack, who I think is incredible and I truly
Speaker 4: do believe we have a special staff.
Speaker 15: Anthony, have you seen more attention paid to justin this
Speaker 15: year because of how well he's been doing by offensive lines?
Speaker 15: And what is what is life like as a as
Speaker 15: a mark man?
Speaker 2: As an interior guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's hard, right.
Speaker 4: I think it's easier to scheme away edge guys right
Speaker 4: with chippers and turning the protection and is that nature.
Speaker 4: It's hard now when you have a guy on the interior,
Speaker 4: particularly when you have the edges that we have, right,
Speaker 4: you can't take him all away. So while I think
Speaker 4: people are cognizant of where he is and what we're
Speaker 4: trying to do with him, I think it's hard to
Speaker 4: scheme him out.
Speaker 1: That was defensive line coach Anthony Weaver. We also talked
Speaker 1: with wide receivers coach Greg Lewis.
Speaker 2: Great everything we like about to practice the odcs A.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's like one of the first guys out
Speaker 2: there every single time. What have you seen?
Speaker 3: A kind of his work hathic and it seems like
Speaker 3: it's been there front probably from the front the beginning.
Speaker 16: Yes, it has been there from the beginning. That the
Speaker 16: kid is a guy that wants to be great, wants
Speaker 16: to soak up all the information as possible, much as possible.
Speaker 16: He talks to coach dub and I daily about things
Speaker 16: that he could work on that get itself better. He's
Speaker 16: getting out early to get stretched out making sure he's
Speaker 16: ready to go. So it's just a young guy. To
Speaker 16: see him do those type of things is pretty impressive
Speaker 16: on his end, as professionally as he is as early
Speaker 16: in his career.
Speaker 9: Where's the biggest area, the biggest theory of improven for him?
Speaker 9: From say week one to network, you know more than
Speaker 9: halfway through the season, where you see him make.
Speaker 16: Like there's just understanding the offense and understanding the different
Speaker 16: positions and where you can be utilized at. For a
Speaker 16: young player to come in to the NFL in any organization,
Speaker 16: learn a new offense, learn the verbiage, and understand that
Speaker 16: it's hard to learn one spot, let alone two or
Speaker 16: three spots. And he's grown immensely throughout the season as
Speaker 16: far as understanding the entire schematic of what we're trying
Speaker 16: to get accomplished and how he fits into the puzzle
Speaker 16: and then going out there and letting his talent shine.
Speaker 6: Greg pre season or probably back in training camp, a
Speaker 6: lot of people are talking about Rashad Bateman and his
Speaker 6: how he's handled everything, how he struggled a little with
Speaker 6: always being heard in his role. How have you seen
Speaker 6: him and his maturity this year deal with everything to
Speaker 6: the point where you know he's making plays pretty much
Speaker 6: every week.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I can't speak on what has happened in the
Speaker 16: past and how he's evolved since I've been here. I
Speaker 16: had a conversation with him day one and we talked
Speaker 16: about where we're headed and the positive mindset going forward
Speaker 16: with different things, and Baita has been awesome daily, uh,
Speaker 16: with just trying to continue to work his craft and
Speaker 16: get better each and every day, and it's showing up
Speaker 16: every every week as you as you just noted. Uh,
Speaker 16: And that's a positive for us as a team because
Speaker 16: the more the more guys we have out there capable
Speaker 16: of making plays, the the better for us the scoring
Speaker 16: points on offense. So it's been awesome to see him
Speaker 16: continue to grow into this offense and grow as a person.
Speaker 16: And I'm looking forward to the future with him as well.
Speaker 14: Correct any more about the conversation that you said you
Speaker 14: had with him day one. I'm sorry, I'm just curious
Speaker 14: if there's any more you can share about the conversation
Speaker 14: you had with the day one.
Speaker 1: Is that was that something you would do with all
Speaker 1: these guys?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 16: No, that's something that's something I've done everywhere I've been Uh,
Speaker 16: when I come in, I want a clean slate with
Speaker 16: every person, and I base you off of what we
Speaker 16: got going forward and my expectations. I want to know
Speaker 16: your expectations and then we move forward. So it was
Speaker 16: a great conversation with him, but I had one with
Speaker 16: everybody in the group.
Speaker 17: When when Shot has been healthy, he's had these big
Speaker 17: breakout games and even this year receiving being able to
Speaker 17: stack cornerbacks on the sport flow route of the seasons,
Speaker 17: being to make the catches. Why do you think they
Speaker 17: haven't seen a kind of breakout.
Speaker 16: Games in because there's only one football. There's only one football.
Speaker 16: It goes around to everybody. We have an enormous amount
Speaker 16: of playmakers with ability on offense, and we try to
Speaker 16: get everybody involved. And when your number is called, the
Speaker 16: expectation is for you to make those plays. And when
Speaker 16: Bates number has been called, he's made those players. It's
Speaker 16: the case with everybody else. So, uh, we we talked
Speaker 16: about that from day one. It's one football and that's
Speaker 16: the way it goes. We're in it to win games,
Speaker 16: and when your number is called, your opportunity presents itself.
Speaker 16: We need you to make that play and then it
Speaker 16: could be another one two plays later, or it could
Speaker 16: be another one twenty plays later. But that's just the
Speaker 16: way it goes. As far as us being as potent
Speaker 16: as we are on offense, with all the skilled players
Speaker 16: that we have and the guy delivering the ball to us,
Speaker 16: it is just pick your poison and we need to
Speaker 16: take advantage of that.
Speaker 5: You have a great mix of youth and veteran leadership.
Speaker 18: I'm wondering like a guy like Nelson, I'll over only
Speaker 18: talked to him a few times, but it always seems
Speaker 18: to be optimistic.
Speaker 5: What is he being able to bring As far as leadership,
Speaker 5: Nelly has been tremendous in the room.
Speaker 16: Having I actually coached Nelly back in Philadelphia and having
Speaker 16: that relationship with him, I knew the type of the
Speaker 16: guy that he was, and Ti obviously coached him at
Speaker 16: USC and Dub actually worked with him previously, so we
Speaker 16: all knew the type of guy Nelly was and bringing
Speaker 16: him into the group was a big positive because of
Speaker 16: his work ethic, how he presents himself. He comes to
Speaker 16: work each and every day professional and then his skills.
Speaker 16: I mean, at the end of the day, he's a
Speaker 16: skillful player and he and he comes out and shows
Speaker 16: it each and every day, but just from a leadership standpoint, uh,
Speaker 16: showing guys how it is to be a pro. Having
Speaker 16: been in the league nine years, he understands that he
Speaker 16: was a rookie once and and just those younger guys
Speaker 16: latching onto him, to Odell to uh uh do those
Speaker 16: type of guys to tread and just seeing how those guys.
Speaker 16: It's a very professional room. We enjoy each other's company.
Speaker 16: We enjoy playing, all right, but when it's time to work,
Speaker 16: the guys are ready to work and they know what's
Speaker 16: at stake.
Speaker 5: We've we've seen how.
Speaker 8: Deadly o'dellas on those slats.
Speaker 7: What is it about?
Speaker 5: Why is he so good?
Speaker 16: In particular, he's explosive after after the catch. I mean
Speaker 16: he can run the slant route, get the guy off
Speaker 16: his out of his back pedal, and then set a
Speaker 16: great angle and then Lamar throws delivers a great ball
Speaker 16: to him, and then the guy with the ball in
Speaker 16: his hands is very explosive, and he has a dB
Speaker 16: linebacker type of mindset. When he does get the ball,
Speaker 16: he's physical and fast, and that's what's happened. When he's
Speaker 16: getting space, it's opportunity to make plays and he wants
Speaker 16: to take advantage of each and every one of us.
Speaker 3: And with Odell, where in what ways have you seen
Speaker 3: him kind of impact as being a leader with this group.
Speaker 16: Just how he approaches it, just talking to guys. Having
Speaker 16: been in the league nine years as well or ten years,
Speaker 16: he's been through a lot and seen a lot, and
Speaker 16: different situations have presented himself to him throughout his career,
Speaker 16: not necessarily from a football on the field deal, but
Speaker 16: just dealing with different situations. He's helped those guys a
Speaker 16: lot from that standpoint. Obviously, he's a great player and
Speaker 16: his skills show and he's able to teach some guys
Speaker 16: some different things. But as far as what he's been
Speaker 16: through and how he's been able to continue to make
Speaker 16: it in the league for going on ten years is remarkable.
Speaker 16: And to help those young guys understand that that this
Speaker 16: is what it takes to be at this level, to
Speaker 16: be at this elite level, each and every year it's
Speaker 16: gonna be this this difficult lines.
Speaker 9: What is he like in the in that realm in
Speaker 9: the wide receivers room and the guys are going through things.
Speaker 9: Is your vocal guy and how does how does he
Speaker 9: sort of impart that that way.
Speaker 16: Yes, well, the the the room is open. I obviously, uh, myself,
Speaker 16: I lead by example and ask questions and and Coach
Speaker 16: Dubb asked questions as well, and and and we're the
Speaker 16: leader of the group and we give out the information.
Speaker 5: But it's open.
Speaker 16: It's open to guys because it's different ways to do
Speaker 16: different things, and guys have been different places, whether it's
Speaker 16: Zay or Odell or Nelly or tread or tie or
Speaker 16: do or bait or Sean, any of those guys have
Speaker 16: done all the routes that we're doing and may have
Speaker 16: used a different technique and we're open to hear some
Speaker 16: of that stuff and maybe implement some different things into
Speaker 16: what we're trying to get accomplished. But it's been awesome, uh,
Speaker 16: just to hear and learn different things, because even as
Speaker 16: a coach, you always learning trying to find different ways
Speaker 16: to get to guys and get him to understand what
Speaker 16: we're trying to get accomplished. So it's been fantastic to
Speaker 16: have him in there. But it's been everybody doing the
Speaker 16: same thing and just trying to learn from each other,
Speaker 16: listen to what's the.
Speaker 10: Next step for Za Flowers, What do you want to
Speaker 10: see from him here down the stretch?
Speaker 16: Just continue to improve each each and every week. It's
Speaker 16: no magic thing that he needs to do. Just continue
Speaker 16: to stay focused on what we got going on. Uh,
Speaker 16: come to work each and every day like he does,
Speaker 16: and just continue to find ways to help the team
Speaker 16: and help us win games. That's the only thing that
Speaker 16: I'm looking for.
Speaker 14: It seems like Odell has kind of been heating up
Speaker 14: over the past month or so after Dallas Majers earlier
Speaker 14: in the year.
Speaker 13: What do you expect from him down the stretch here?
Speaker 5: The same thing.
Speaker 16: I expect the same thing from everybody to be part
Speaker 16: of the offense when their number is called, to help
Speaker 16: us be successful on offense and move the ball down
Speaker 16: the field and get touchdowns. However that may be. It
Speaker 16: may be him catching a pass on the slant and
Speaker 16: maybe him blocking on a run play. But the expectation
Speaker 16: is for us to do our part, our one eleventh,
Speaker 16: each individual from the receiver room when they get out
Speaker 16: there on the field working with Keith.
Speaker 13: Williams and and how do you find your coaching styles
Speaker 13: compliment one another.
Speaker 5: It's been awesome.
Speaker 16: I had known of Keith and I recruited his son
Speaker 16: back when I was at San Jose State. Obviously he
Speaker 16: didn't go there, Keithy. They didn't want to mess with
Speaker 16: me there. But it's been it's been fantastic to get
Speaker 16: around a coach that is like minded. We were very
Speaker 16: focused on the details of receiver play and understanding each
Speaker 16: and every nuanced that that needs to take place. But
Speaker 16: we also are regular and it's regular talking to people.
Speaker 16: Is not talking like we were some scientist or something
Speaker 16: we're not. It's been refreshing just to get around a
Speaker 16: guy that enjoys it just as much as you do,
Speaker 16: if not more like Keith has been awesome, awesome to
Speaker 16: lean on, awesome to learn from uh and then I'm
Speaker 16: hopefully helping him in the same way. And then we're
Speaker 16: hopefully helping the group of receivers that we got and
Speaker 16: hopefully it permeates throughout the offense and to the team
Speaker 16: as well. But his excitement, his passion for receiver playing
Speaker 16: us it has been great to be a part of.
Speaker 17: Is there a skill to catching passes from the kind
Speaker 17: of unique arm angles as Lamar throws it, or is
Speaker 17: just all fundamentals apply the same way?
Speaker 16: Either catching is catching. I mean, when you see the
Speaker 16: ball coming at you, you you catch. It's no science
Speaker 16: to it in my opinion. Now, some of the stuff
Speaker 16: that you may see Odell do it practice with the
Speaker 16: one handers. That's his deal. I'm a two hand catcher,
Speaker 16: and when it gets thrown to me or thrown to
Speaker 16: our guys, I expect you to catch it. If he's
Speaker 16: throwing it underhand, overhand, sideways, if he's kicking it to you, however,
Speaker 16: you get it. The objective is to catch his No,
Speaker 16: you see something, if I threw something that you right now,
Speaker 16: you just catch it because you don't want to get hit.
Speaker 5: So that's how I look at it.
Speaker 1: That was wide receivers coach Greg Lewis. We also had
Speaker 1: a chance to talk with quarterbacks coach Tim Martin, who
Speaker 1: discussed Lamar Jackson's development and where he is seeing the
Speaker 1: quarterback make the biggest strides.
Speaker 10: So you just where have you seen Lamar make his
Speaker 10: biggest strides, particularly.
Speaker 6: As a passer.
Speaker 7: I just think just having his pre snap and postnapp plan.
Speaker 7: I think once the play gets called, he's already processing,
Speaker 7: you know what he wants to do, and he puts
Speaker 7: in the work early in the week to kind of
Speaker 7: have an idea of what to expect from a covered standpoint,
Speaker 7: from a blazing standpoint, and he's getting through his progressions
Speaker 7: really quick and just having a good plan. If something
Speaker 7: breaks down, if it's there, he takes it. And he's
Speaker 7: being very disciplined in his progressions, and that's allowing him
Speaker 7: to be consistently successful in the passing game.
Speaker 13: Excuse we'll see.
Speaker 14: We had shift about this in the pass spect you know,
Speaker 14: he had to play and Sunday's game where he kind
Speaker 14: of he got doing James, I think it was to
Speaker 14: jump and the side on them.
Speaker 1: Do you coach that side of arm stuff? Is that
Speaker 1: just natural ability for him?
Speaker 13: What's your thought on that?
Speaker 7: First of all, it is natural ability. I'm not gonna
Speaker 7: take all the credit for that at all, But I
Speaker 7: think that one of the best ways of learning is
Speaker 7: through play. I think that you can talk about things,
Speaker 7: you can discuss things, you can go in the field
Speaker 7: and drill it. But I think ultimately, with the time
Speaker 7: that we have in the NFL, you don't have thirty
Speaker 7: minutes to do individual like say college, where you can
Speaker 7: just work on several drills in the day. We have
Speaker 7: a small amount of time to get the guys ready
Speaker 7: to go. So how I do it is I out
Speaker 7: at like a d lineman. You will see us in pregame,
Speaker 7: You'll see us at practice at times where out at
Speaker 7: like I'm rushing them and I'll getting his vision and
Speaker 7: try to distract them and doing different things.
Speaker 5: Just let him be him, you know.
Speaker 7: But I'm not taking the credit for that. That's Lamar.
Speaker 7: He's been doing that for a long time. But we
Speaker 7: do try to assimilate if something were to break down
Speaker 7: and it happened that way through play, you know, sometimes
Speaker 7: look like we're goofing off, but it's actually beneficial. When
Speaker 7: the bullet started flying lines.
Speaker 19: Is that first question about how you've seen him improve
Speaker 19: as the passers. There a moment in a game this
Speaker 19: year where you kind of found yourself thinking, man, Lamar
Speaker 19: did something there where maybe in years previous, last year
Speaker 19: that wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 7: You know, Yeah, several times, several times, and it's just
Speaker 7: his growth. It's becoming the norm, you know, And it
Speaker 7: really started doing training camp. I know, you guys remember
Speaker 7: the one practice we had we threw just too many
Speaker 7: interceptions at quarterback and and we came back and we
Speaker 7: went the rest of training camp with maybe like one
Speaker 7: the rest of training camp. And from that moment, you know,
Speaker 7: Lamar is so competitive and he doesn't like to be wrong.
Speaker 7: He doesn't like to have it all looked like it
Speaker 7: was him, and so he took it upon himself to
Speaker 7: just continue to study more and learn the concepts inside
Speaker 7: out to where he knows that when we watch film
Speaker 7: and see what the defense does, that people are gonna
Speaker 7: play him different. So even when we're presenting passing plays,
Speaker 7: Lamar is already saying, well, whether they do this, whether
Speaker 7: they do that, whether they blitz me. So you go
Speaker 7: back to the Detroit game where you know we had
Speaker 7: a naked you go back to the Cleveland game, we
Speaker 7: had a naked He gets blitzed, He finds Mark Andrews,
Speaker 7: gets Mark passed. They's supposed to play Gus Edwards. You
Speaker 7: know in the Detroit game, it's a naked guy in
Speaker 7: his vision. He finds Gus and it's another is supposed
Speaker 7: to play pat Riccard the wide open play. To him,
Speaker 7: it's it was meant for something that happened down Field's
Speaker 7: not there, not there, pat was in protection, leaks out.
Speaker 7: He finds him for another they're supposed to play. So
Speaker 7: I think that that's where you can see the maturation
Speaker 7: of lamar Is. I understand the intent of the play,
Speaker 7: but if it's not there. You saw Sunday you saw
Speaker 7: Sunday night him checking down in situations where Isaiah likely
Speaker 7: got huge gains when the past concept W was meant
Speaker 7: for us to go deeper downfield, but it wasn't there.
Speaker 7: They were dropping underneath it, they were deep. He checked
Speaker 7: it down and we were still averaging like nine yards
Speaker 7: per reception on those type plays. So I s I
Speaker 7: think that he's grown in those areas He's always been doing.
Speaker 7: It's always been there, but I think he's consistently doing
Speaker 7: it more when it presents itself. Uh, this season just
Speaker 7: he fall as.
Speaker 19: A follow up to that, what would've happened in previous years?
Speaker 19: You know, with that as words in mark and and
Speaker 19: recard play, like what what do you think would have
Speaker 19: happened in in previous years?
Speaker 7: I think before he was just heh, he would rely
Speaker 7: sometimes on his own talent and and it would be great.
Speaker 7: I mean it's like you get a chance to see
Speaker 7: how dynamic he could be, sometimes using his legs, sometimes
Speaker 7: starting to use his legs and finding Mark Andrews downfield
Speaker 7: and doing different things. You know, Lamar is so dynamic
Speaker 7: and it's so many different ways that plays can play out,
Speaker 7: you know, and so like, you know, specifically to say
Speaker 7: what he would have done in the past, I can't
Speaker 7: say that, but I can say that, Uh, he's constantly
Speaker 7: doing things like that this year and it feels different,
Speaker 7: you know, watching the games and just being around them
Speaker 7: every day.
Speaker 11: Yes, you just mentioned Mark Andrews, and as someone who
Speaker 11: played quarterback at a very high level, Yeah, when you
Speaker 11: lose your top guy and you know it's not just
Speaker 11: for a game or two, you know, maybe he comes
Speaker 11: back at the end of the season. How does that
Speaker 11: impact your approach as a quarterback? I mean just I
Speaker 11: mean there's so much history at them and so innate
Speaker 11: on their chemistry. How does that impact your approach as
Speaker 11: a quarterback?
Speaker 5: Then? Moving forward?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's the trust factor, and it's the factor of
Speaker 7: Mark and Lamar. They think so similar. There are times
Speaker 7: where they do things and they do it so fast
Speaker 7: that you think that that was the play. You know,
Speaker 7: Mark may break around for Lamar may throw it back
Speaker 7: shoulder or throw it on the angle that it wasn't
Speaker 7: meant for it to be thrown in an angle, but
Speaker 7: he saw Mark's body language going that way. He threw
Speaker 7: it towards that angle. And you just can't make that up.
Speaker 7: You can't practice that, you can't recreate that. So what
Speaker 7: happens when that guy's not there and someone else is
Speaker 7: doing it. It's how much time do I have working
Speaker 7: with him doing it to where I can read his
Speaker 7: body in language. Does it look like he's stopping or
Speaker 7: still continuing on? Is he going up fields? He flattening out?
Speaker 7: And so and and Lamar and I we had that conversation,
Speaker 7: and we just talked about just spending more time with
Speaker 7: guys that can be in those situations to do the
Speaker 7: things that he and Mark did, whether it's Isaiah at
Speaker 7: tight end, whether it's another wide receiver, he and Jay
Speaker 7: Flowers and those guys are getting to that point. Like
Speaker 7: you saw even Keith Mitchell, He's on a scramble play,
Speaker 7: He's almost out of bounds and he see's keeping it.
Speaker 7: It's like a little dump pass and and we uh
Speaker 7: nearly got the first down in the game. And so collectively,
Speaker 7: I think as a group, they're all getting to a
Speaker 7: point and we we practice scramble drill a lot. That's
Speaker 7: something that's new this season where we actually take time
Speaker 7: out during practice to practice scramble drill and and and
Speaker 7: really coaching it in detail. And I think that we've
Speaker 7: grown in that area as a unit to where now
Speaker 7: only just Lamar and Mark, but it's other guys saying
Speaker 7: that these things are gonna happen. This is the NFL.
Speaker 7: It's it's gonna happen. You know, they're gonna rush the quarterback,
Speaker 7: someone's gonna come free, he's gonna get outside of the pocket.
Speaker 7: But the play is not over. That's the second play,
Speaker 7: and we need to be successful on that play. And
Speaker 7: so I think as a group we're growing in those areas.
Speaker 7: You know, even Odell it was a past where you
Speaker 7: saw the more kind of move and they were on
Speaker 7: the same page and he he dumped the ball to
Speaker 7: him early in the game. So I think, uh, ultimately,
Speaker 7: that's what you miss is that trust and that you know,
Speaker 7: being on the same page and it happening fast. The
Speaker 7: guys would get eventually get there, but the quarterback sack
Speaker 7: by then, what he and Mark we're able to do
Speaker 7: is it happened so quickly that he just thought it
Speaker 7: was a natural. Uh, he thought that that was the play.
Speaker 7: Sometimes you do you think that when.
Speaker 8: A play does a breakdown and he's and he's scrambling
Speaker 8: to extend it, Is he doing that now more than
Speaker 8: I I'm making a pass play and then taking off
Speaker 8: and creating a run. Is that a difference that you
Speaker 8: noticed from maybe a couple of years ago.
Speaker 7: Well, I think that he is, uh seeing the benefits
Speaker 7: of doing it more often.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 7: And it just kind of goes to mark and the
Speaker 7: and the scramble drill and things like that. Is when
Speaker 7: early in seasons as a quarterback and you do it
Speaker 7: and you get rewarded for doing it, you're more likely
Speaker 7: to do it again, and you get positive players out
Speaker 7: of it, and then you start seeing the effects of
Speaker 7: a defense having to cover everyone and it taking pressure
Speaker 7: off of you having to be superman all the time.
Speaker 7: So I think that that's maturation. That's him having the
Speaker 7: experience that he's had in this league, knowing how people
Speaker 7: are gonna defend 'em. Okay, they're spying on me. They
Speaker 7: can't be in coverage, right, they're blitzing me. Someone is open,
Speaker 7: and him just having an understanding through experience and through
Speaker 7: systematically him understanding where my answers are. I think that
Speaker 7: uh it just it just speaks to his uh maturity,
Speaker 7: uh A in the year in his I the year
Speaker 7: that he's in right now, in the programming in the system.
Speaker 7: But what's really cool about it is he's doing those
Speaker 7: kinds of things in the first year of a new offense,
Speaker 7: and that's really unique for someone to be as advanced
Speaker 7: in a new system, new terminology, and it's like this
Speaker 7: has been the way the whole time. And so that's
Speaker 7: why I think it's really unique about what Lamar's doing
Speaker 7: this season.
Speaker 3: To Lamar and we asked him like, hey, you know
Speaker 3: Rams leading the ants he gets quote it's not the
Speaker 3: super Bowl. Yeah, we talk, Hey you win, You're getting
Speaker 3: this record now it needs a BAPU stable. Do you
Speaker 3: feeling dealing with him? That's kind of how he he
Speaker 3: ultimately defines himself because it's he's like he always.
Speaker 5: Mentions super Bowl.
Speaker 7: Well, he said it when he was drafted, he said
Speaker 7: it when he signed his contract, and he says it
Speaker 7: all every week, right, So he means it, you know,
Speaker 7: he really does. And and you know we're sitting on
Speaker 7: the sideline at times. And I mean it's even to
Speaker 7: this point where we're winning a game, we're up by points,
Speaker 7: like the game is decided, and guys are starting to
Speaker 7: go hey man, and he's like, dude, game's not over,
Speaker 7: like we're you know, he's he means it. And you
Speaker 7: know another thing, he likes to get the information on
Speaker 7: the next team before he leaves the locker room of
Speaker 7: the current game. And so he'll meet with you all
Speaker 7: after the games. And I put in his locker the
Speaker 7: advanced report for the next team, and on his way home,
Speaker 7: he's already getting ready for the next team. So he's
Speaker 7: serious and he's working that way. You know, he's he's
Speaker 7: not accepting even when we win. He's not happy about
Speaker 7: the fashion at times. And ultimately it's about how he
Speaker 7: feels like he played, and then collectively as a unit
Speaker 7: and then as a team. He he knows the capability.
Speaker 7: And I'm not speaking for Lamar here, but I think
Speaker 7: he sees us every day as a team and knows
Speaker 7: how good we can be and how far we can go.
Speaker 7: And and he's not stopping until we get to that
Speaker 7: point about and he's.
Speaker 1: Kind of speaking to being locked in, and he said
Speaker 1: that over over again. How have you kind of seen that?
Speaker 14: I mean, is he taken that to another level this year?
Speaker 14: Til locked in?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we talked about the idea of being locked in,
Speaker 7: is locking things out and to where we're focusing on
Speaker 7: the main thing, which is winning games, you know, and
Speaker 7: and that's where he's at.
Speaker 5: You know, he's been around.
Speaker 7: You know, we're talking about a a a a man
Speaker 7: who's you know, coming to a league where he was doubted,
Speaker 7: he was questioned, Uh after being the MVP doubted in question.
Speaker 7: I'm watching TV this morning being doubted and questioned, And
Speaker 7: so it's a chip on his shoulders, uh, to be
Speaker 7: to not only prove to people, you know, what he is,
Speaker 7: but to prove the people what we are as a
Speaker 7: team and how far we can go as a team.
Speaker 7: And it comes with a certain level of focus, It
Speaker 7: comes with a certain level of attention to detail. And
Speaker 7: you can't get to those points if you're not locked in.
Speaker 5: Do you don't? Could you?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 17: As a player would way till lamar in any way
Speaker 17: in terms of that champion you ca caspraised on me,
Speaker 17: you could winning that national player of Tennessee to build
Speaker 17: any kind of hole.
Speaker 7: For you, Yes, And I I understand where he's at
Speaker 7: because you know, I say that after we wanted that
Speaker 7: shalchampionship game. This is the first time I've taken a
Speaker 7: deep breath and exhaled. You always feel like you're on
Speaker 7: this roller coaster ride where you're holding your breath and
Speaker 7: you're going on the ups and downs, and not until
Speaker 7: the ride stops do you go, who that was fun?
Speaker 7: You know, And so a championship season feels like that.
Speaker 7: You're gonna have your bumps, You're gonna get jerked, you know,
Speaker 7: here and there. Alight, it's gonna be fun for a minute.
Speaker 7: It's not gonna be so fun, you know. And then
Speaker 7: at the end, when you're happy with your work and
Speaker 7: you got the ultimate gold, which is a super Bowl
Speaker 7: or a championship, then you you can excel a little bit.
Speaker 7: And so I I that's the feeling I had, you know,
Speaker 7: not speaking for him, but when you're on a journey,
Speaker 7: you understand, you know, it's like climbing the mountains. Sometimes
Speaker 7: you can't see the peak. You just take the next
Speaker 7: step and it may be foggy, it may be trees, bears, whatever, right,
Speaker 7: and you just keep taking your steps and ultimately you
Speaker 7: clear the clouds and you can start seeing the top
Speaker 7: that's playoffs, and then you get to where you're trying
Speaker 7: to go. So I think that's what we're speaking to here.
Speaker 9: See a couple of things inform the sheet that you
Speaker 9: put in his locker. Is that is that something that
Speaker 9: UH is new this year?
Speaker 6: Did you implement that or how did that come about? I?
Speaker 7: I would think so. I I don't know for definite.
Speaker 7: I just know that that that was something that I
Speaker 7: wanted when I was a player. It was something that
Speaker 7: how I was raised. You know that quarterback is okay,
Speaker 7: we won the game, That's what we were intending to do,
Speaker 7: and I was about the next team and going home.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: I I was sometimes at home games, leave the stadium,
Speaker 7: see my family, have dinner or whatever we did, and
Speaker 7: then go back to the facility to start on the
Speaker 7: next game, you know, when I was in college.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 7: It is a ever you know, just a constant UH
Speaker 7: thirst for information, thirst for knowledge. You wanna know the opponent,
Speaker 7: like you know your defense, lamark and go and play
Speaker 7: against our defense. And he he knows how Pat Pat's
Speaker 7: body language looks. Well, he's blitzing or rope Cowan or
Speaker 7: or you know Kyle. He knows Whenkyle is blitzing, when
Speaker 7: he's not blit. He has a good feel for him
Speaker 7: and he can feel and just be himself and play
Speaker 7: against them. That's how you wanna feel going into a
Speaker 7: game against an opponent that you may not be familiar with.
Speaker 7: You wanna have watched them so much that you know
Speaker 7: when they're bluffing. You know what they're playing is to
Speaker 7: to uh attack you, you know, and so, but it
Speaker 7: starts as soon as the previous game is done, exactly.
Speaker 9: Yeah, manifested worth this year than then maybe last year.
Speaker 7: Well, I just think every champion has to self motivate somehow,
Speaker 7: and you find different things to to use this motivation.
Speaker 7: I just know that he wants to win the Super Bowl,
Speaker 7: and we all want that. But I just think that
Speaker 7: sometimes you don't always wanna talk about it. Sometimes you don't,
Speaker 7: you don't feel comfortable I guess.
Speaker 5: To say it. But when you know, you know, like
Speaker 5: where you know you're good, you know you're good, you.
Speaker 7: Stepped into the building knowing you can do this, and
Speaker 7: where you know you're one of the best teams in
Speaker 7: the league, say it, you know it, And so I
Speaker 7: think we're he's there and uh, he's living in that
Speaker 7: and so uh, I love seeing it.
Speaker 6: Do you think one of the players I think was
Speaker 6: Ronie Stanley was talking earlier about Todd Bunkin and how
Speaker 6: musing he can be, and he said he cusses a lot.
Speaker 6: What is a meeting like with uh? And and what's
Speaker 6: that been processed?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 6: Getting to know him a little bit and all kind
Speaker 6: of working together In.
Speaker 7: One word, I would say, uh, animated. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 7: lot of energy. It's fun at times, but we get
Speaker 7: down to the point, you know, UH talk can you know,
Speaker 7: be whatever he needs to be to get the point
Speaker 7: across UH demanding Uh, very detailed UH coaching you know,
Speaker 7: just about any position that needs to be coached up
Speaker 7: and we confront issues and not people, you know, and
Speaker 7: that's something that that John talks about. That is a
Speaker 7: program saying here and I think that he does that
Speaker 7: and we get ultimately want to be on the same
Speaker 7: page and know how he's thinking, whether he's with the unit,
Speaker 7: whether he's in our room. He's always asking them questions
Speaker 7: about what they think, how they feel. If you don't
Speaker 7: like it, you won't do it. And I think that
Speaker 7: that's new and that's different. His approach is they're animated
Speaker 7: however he gets there. But we enjoy the atmosphere and
Speaker 7: the culture that we have this season.
Speaker 1: That was quarterbacks coach t Martin. We also talked with
Speaker 1: outside linebackers coach Chuck Smith, who is really specialized in
Speaker 1: the past rush focus for this team. The Ravens lead
Speaker 1: the NFL with forty seven sacks on the season and
Speaker 1: Chuck has been a huge piece of that equation. He
Speaker 1: discussed his approach to pass rush and what has allowed
Speaker 1: the Ravens to be so successful in that area this year.
Speaker 7: How's this right been? Man?
Speaker 18: Just I don't think anybody saw this production coming into
Speaker 18: the season. It's been blowing up in your big.
Speaker 10: Part of it.
Speaker 5: So that's it.
Speaker 20: Well, first and foremost, I want to give a lot
Speaker 20: of the credit and a lot of the credit to
Speaker 20: coach Weaver. Coach Weaver's done a fantastic job with the
Speaker 20: pass rush plans. We work in conjunction as a defront
Speaker 20: So whereas I know a lot of people would say, hey, Chuck,
Speaker 20: you've come in there and changed the trajectory of the
Speaker 20: pass rush, but I want to make sure everyone understands
Speaker 20: that coach Weaver deserves a lot of credit. He's a
Speaker 20: defensive coordinator. Basically coordinating the defront is what we call ourselves.
Speaker 20: And you know, so I just want to make sure
Speaker 20: that people understand that it's just not me teaching past
Speaker 20: Rush and Spends.
Speaker 5: He works with dof, I'll work with Beaks, I'll work
Speaker 5: with Mike p he works with JD.
Speaker 20: So it all works together, and I think I just
Speaker 20: want to make sure that's understood and that answers your
Speaker 20: question as well.
Speaker 9: Like you mentioned, you know you guys both being in
Speaker 9: the same past groups, being in the same room. Can
Speaker 9: you speak to the importance to that and what impact that.
Speaker 20: I just had to have the d Line and co
Speaker 20: Bettors in this se cause I think when you look
Speaker 20: at our that room, we're connected like a puzzle. You
Speaker 20: can't put a puzzle together without making sure all the
Speaker 20: piece is fit. So our dfront is basically a puzzle.
Speaker 20: The edge guys do some of the same things that
Speaker 20: the interior guys do or will replace them when it
Speaker 20: comes to the different fronts and different positions. You'll see
Speaker 20: we'll have van neyd lined up in the three Travis
Speaker 20: Jones at three fifty lines up sometime.
Speaker 5: In a five doff over the nose.
Speaker 20: You know, JD plays multiple places, Brent Urban, he'll play
Speaker 20: defensive end. So people were like, man, this guy's six seven,
Speaker 20: three hundred pounds. So to me, it really is the evolution,
Speaker 20: honestly of the NFL, particularly when you're in the base
Speaker 20: three man front, because our guys who play on the edge,
Speaker 20: think about it, those guys are truly hybrids. Jenney Mount
Speaker 20: Clowney was probably in a defensive end when he was
Speaker 20: in he was at South Carolina, So when you look
Speaker 20: at it from.
Speaker 5: That standpoint, this is the evolution.
Speaker 20: I believe a lot of teams are gonna start doing
Speaker 20: that because you can't be in two separate rooms and
Speaker 20: try to come together and say, you know what, let's
Speaker 20: piece this again. So it's basically like I'm putting the
Speaker 20: puzzle together. Then we'll wait and try to figure out
Speaker 20: how to put the other part together. So we're putting
Speaker 20: it all together at the same time.
Speaker 14: With Clowney, what has allowed him to have the success
Speaker 14: that he has this year, I mean, he's ever one
Speaker 14: of the best season of his career at.
Speaker 5: The stage of career. Well, one thing I want to
Speaker 5: say about Jadevion, it's what have you done? Now?
Speaker 20: This is Jadeveon Clowney who we see today, and it's
Speaker 20: a credit to him of his hard work, his belief
Speaker 20: in himself, cause he went places where you know, he
Speaker 20: didn't have the success. And there's nobody in this building,
Speaker 20: probably except Lamar Jackson that's had as much.
Speaker 5: Pressure as Jadeveon Clowney.
Speaker 20: And when you look at him, the first thing I'll
Speaker 20: say is years ago, I was training Clowny years ago.
Speaker 20: The the bottom line is he was trying to learn
Speaker 20: how to do the cross chop, simple as that. That's
Speaker 20: his go to move. He's always had power. He's what
Speaker 20: you see is the difference in Jevon Clowney and Tennessee.
Speaker 20: The differ between Jaevion Clowney and other places is that
Speaker 20: he's developed a skilled move. But also add in he
Speaker 20: has a complementary pieces around him that he's not Jadevion Clowney,
Speaker 20: the first round pick, the number one guy man, He's
Speaker 20: just Jay right.
Speaker 5: So he's not treated any different than Mike p.
Speaker 20: He's not treated any different than Tavious when it comes
Speaker 20: to the overall how we look at our you know,
Speaker 20: the structure of the defense and so he comes in
Speaker 20: with a learning attitude and he's using moves, and to me,
Speaker 20: that's the biggest thing with Jadevion. And you know, he's
Speaker 20: always had the physical presence to always have the violent hands.
Speaker 20: And now I think also, we hear this all the time,
Speaker 20: the culture, and my wife's always like, here we go
Speaker 20: with the culture. All right, here we go to you guys,
Speaker 20: hear the culture. But I'll say the culture in that
Speaker 20: defront room is insulated by like a guy like Mike McDonald.
Speaker 20: Then it's insulated again by coach Harball who's basically saying, hey, man,
Speaker 20: y'all do what y'all need to do. This isn't the
Speaker 20: coach that's pounding us in. Don't spend well, you ran
Speaker 20: too far past the quarterback. Don't do that again. Man,
Speaker 20: We're gonna be cutting edge when it comes to teaching.
Speaker 20: And I really appreciate a guy like Jadevion saying, you
Speaker 20: know what, I'm gonna try this.
Speaker 5: You know, like the other day he's trying to do
Speaker 5: a spin. I'm like, let's just work on that, right.
Speaker 20: But the point being, it's is kind of like a culture,
Speaker 20: and Jedevion is just reaping the benefits of a culture
Speaker 20: that Coach Harball and all the folks here.
Speaker 5: Have already set.
Speaker 20: Because I tell you this, most places would have never
Speaker 20: brought me in and said, hey, Chuck, go ahead and
Speaker 20: work on that cross shop.
Speaker 5: Most people didn't like, go ahead and work on that spin.
Speaker 20: So JD's benefiting from what the folks here already gave
Speaker 20: me and Coach Weaver the opportunity.
Speaker 5: To do so. If that answers the question when.
Speaker 19: You bring in a guy like Clowney, a guy like
Speaker 19: van Ney, I mean, you see, the potential is why
Speaker 19: you're bringing them in. But how satisfying is it for
Speaker 19: you and other coaches to actually see you know what
Speaker 19: you envision coming to.
Speaker 5: For a wish? Well, I see it come to fruition.
Speaker 20: But I told you guys a while back that we're
Speaker 20: gonna get to the quarterback, no question, you know. But
Speaker 20: I think it feels good, and not as much for me.
Speaker 5: It's not to me.
Speaker 20: It doesn't feel as much good for me. Particularly, I
Speaker 20: love seeing Jadevion and kV getting their flowers. Jadevion Clowney
Speaker 20: is what we see now, I mean to season. Oh well,
Speaker 20: let's look back. We can't look back right now.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 20: Of course, you're gonna be always evaluated because you're the
Speaker 20: top overall pick. But the dude right now is as
Speaker 20: good as any rush in the league. He's a game wrecker,
Speaker 20: and like we always tease him, I mean JD, He'll
Speaker 20: said he could have fifteen seventeen sacks right now right now,
Speaker 20: So I'm not as much about me, man. I'm so
Speaker 20: happy to see people talk about them positively. I'm happy
Speaker 20: to see kV who is sitting on the couch, which.
Speaker 5: He could always play.
Speaker 20: But then, you know, I'm glad to see those guys
Speaker 20: get their props and I am excited to win and
Speaker 20: that both of them or one of them gets the
Speaker 20: ten man for their careers and their lives. You know,
Speaker 20: you brand that your double digit sacker. It's just something awesome.
Speaker 20: I can't wait for them to see it.
Speaker 18: Do you look at guys that identify if they're a
Speaker 18: better swim move old rush or you sentuate the positive
Speaker 18: or are you always trying to incorporate.
Speaker 13: New moves into what they have?
Speaker 20: Well, the moves were started for us. Well, start off
Speaker 20: with JD. I've been training JD for years. I mean
Speaker 20: we were training when he was in Tennessee. We're training
Speaker 20: when he was in Cleveland. We're training for years before
Speaker 20: I was a coach. Right, he would come to Atlanta.
Speaker 20: So he's been working on this stuff for this one
Speaker 20: move for a minute, you know. And I used to
Speaker 20: call him when he was at Tennessee like, dude, that's
Speaker 20: not it. You know, Me and my assistant Dave would
Speaker 20: send him videos. We were like, you know, I used
Speaker 20: to consult guys from home things like that. But no,
Speaker 20: my philosophy is, I'm gonna teach you to skip moves
Speaker 20: and we execute them.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 20: I don't believe. I'm not a big swim person. I
Speaker 20: don't like to swim because it opens up your hip.
Speaker 20: I'm a rip guy. Some people don't necessarily feel that way.
Speaker 20: But those are things that I believe have success. But
Speaker 20: when it comes to developing a pass rusher, I'm gonna
Speaker 20: teach them the signature pass rush moves at work, simple
Speaker 20: as that. We got guys that use push pulls. We
Speaker 20: got guys that use pops. We got guys use rip pumps.
Speaker 20: We got guys use chop drives like Travis every The
Speaker 20: big thing is when came to developing all of our guys.
Speaker 20: One thing me and coach we've talked about. We wanted
Speaker 20: everybody in the front to be a threat. We wanted
Speaker 20: every blind in the front to have a sack. So
Speaker 20: when you look at it, everybody that we put in
Speaker 20: that game is a threat that has developed a move
Speaker 20: and a credit to the off season program it started.
Speaker 20: We were pass rushing. I mean, we did a lot
Speaker 20: of pass rush. We did a lot of pass rushing
Speaker 20: the preseason. So I think everybody developed a skill, you know,
Speaker 20: and we still go out there and do one on ones.
Speaker 20: We still do one on ones, So with coach Joe,
Speaker 20: we're still working at it. So that if that answers
Speaker 20: your question, Yeah, everybody develops moves, and my philosophy is
Speaker 20: we're gonna execute moves. If you're gonna if you're gonna
Speaker 20: block us, you're gonna block us because we use the move,
Speaker 20: not because we're not skilled been using move. So you know,
Speaker 20: we've had success, but also we've had highs and we've
Speaker 20: had some lows, and this is how the game goes.
Speaker 20: The percentage to say there's gonna be a time where, hey,
Speaker 20: every game's not gonna be where we're getting two, three,
Speaker 20: five sacks are getting nine ten hits on the quarterback.
Speaker 5: But the one thing that won't change.
Speaker 20: If they're gonna beat us and we don't get those numbers,
Speaker 20: it won't be because we're not using high performance skill.
Speaker 5: Pass rush moves us.
Speaker 8: And we heard the news yesterday that David Jabo using
Speaker 8: the surgery. We know how excited you are about his future.
Speaker 8: How do you maybe help keep him focused on the
Speaker 8: way at the end of the tunnel as he goes
Speaker 8: through another rehabb.
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's the nature of the business.
Speaker 20: But Ja's a big part of you know, everything that
Speaker 20: I've seen from the standpoint of what we want to
Speaker 20: be about.
Speaker 5: Joe's about being a pass rusher. Jaw is a good person.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 20: Ja is just unfortunate that he got injured and Jock
Speaker 20: can rush. And I would have loved to see Jo
Speaker 20: out there. He could do all the different things that
Speaker 20: you know everyone else is doing out there. So you know,
Speaker 20: I'm in constant communication with Jah and you know I'm
Speaker 20: keeping them in my prayer. But I told y'all the
Speaker 20: other day, you know what the best part about this
Speaker 20: is we on the other side. Every day is a
Speaker 20: day getting closer to you coming back, And that's the
Speaker 20: way I look at it, and that's the way I
Speaker 20: want him to look at it, because it's true. You know,
Speaker 20: he's gonna get healthy and he'll be back. But it
Speaker 20: takes one day at a time. But we got love
Speaker 20: for him.
Speaker 2: Where is he kind of excelled as far as it
Speaker 2: as a pass right.
Speaker 5: Well, I think again he accepted using skilled moves, you know.
Speaker 5: But again, I want to.
Speaker 20: Say this too, Beake was already on fire he came
Speaker 20: out last year, but a lot of people never brought
Speaker 20: up back what he was doing because we were looking
Speaker 20: at class and justin Houston so.
Speaker 5: Much, you know, and they're great players.
Speaker 20: But last year give him credit and the guys who
Speaker 20: were here last year, Beak was already rolling, you know
Speaker 20: what I'm saying, doing some great things. What did he
Speaker 20: have six or something like that? So I mean he
Speaker 20: was only four away from you know ten. But I
Speaker 20: think coming in this year again, that culture, I mean
Speaker 20: one things we want. We want to have a pass
Speaker 20: rush culture.
Speaker 5: That's what we got.
Speaker 20: I mean, we're gonna stop to run, but all week
Speaker 20: I'm thinking pass rush. So Coach Weave as responsibility he
Speaker 20: doing the run. Let me just tell you we does
Speaker 20: a lot. Now he had that door cracked, we'd be
Speaker 20: in there. Man, he'll just look up. I gotta go,
Speaker 20: gotta go. But for me, it's always passed for us.
Speaker 20: So there's a person around here. I'm talking past us
Speaker 20: every second. It's a pass for us.
Speaker 5: Culture.
Speaker 20: You know, we're going before the game, Beaks with you know,
Speaker 20: before the game, he'll work on his moves. He'll come on, say, coach,
Speaker 20: I need to use my rip. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 20: He works on moves. Beac has beaks. You seen Beaks
Speaker 20: got a sack on the spin. You seen Beaks get
Speaker 20: a sack on a cross shop. You've seen Beats get
Speaker 20: a sack on a chop drive. He's worked on his skills,
Speaker 20: you know, and basically took what he did last year
Speaker 20: and brought that forward. And the last thing I and
Speaker 20: I said this early on the year by beak Man,
Speaker 20: dude is a really when you hear a dog, we
Speaker 20: throw at it around again a lot cliche. Beaks is
Speaker 20: really the kind of dude's absolutely trying to knock your
Speaker 20: head off every play.
Speaker 5: There's no other way to put it. So from that.
Speaker 20: Standpoint, we're gonna throw them when you think like that
Speaker 20: effort comes into play to be a dog.
Speaker 17: Some players coming to the year with numerical goals for
Speaker 17: sacks get it's do you or or does this staff
Speaker 17: have any quantifiable goals or did they come into this year?
Speaker 20: Well, I don't say we had goals, but when we
Speaker 20: were doing like I was doing our PowerPoint, one of
Speaker 20: the goals was, of course, we want to lead the
Speaker 20: league in sacks. On my PowerPoint, that was one of
Speaker 20: the first things. And in the credit again the coach weave.
Speaker 20: You know when they say he y'all write y'all goals
Speaker 20: up there, and there are guys that I'm not gonna
Speaker 20: say who they are, that are on that brink of
Speaker 20: having those reaching their potential and reaching their goal. But nah,
Speaker 20: that's not really a thing that we're sitting in there saying, hey,
Speaker 20: we want to be the you know, get sixty sacks
Speaker 20: or break the team record or nothing like that, because
Speaker 20: we talk a lot of pass rush.
Speaker 5: But it's not because we know we got so much
Speaker 5: more to go.
Speaker 20: I mean, you know, we could be sitting here another
Speaker 20: two weeks and y'all like, man, y'all ain't got no sacks,
Speaker 20: you know what I mean? So no, it's not like that,
Speaker 20: but you definitely as a pass rush coach and the
Speaker 20: outside linebacker coach, there's no question. Just like our offense,
Speaker 20: what's the one thing that we want to do. We
Speaker 20: want to coach hardboss as. We want to want well
Speaker 20: lead the league in rushing, right, we want Lamar to
Speaker 20: lead the league in passing percentage. Right, So I also
Speaker 20: would like to lead the league and beating up quarterbacks,
Speaker 20: honestly putting quarterbacks, making them where they on the ground,
Speaker 20: where they you know, they lean to get back up.
Speaker 5: So that's the kind of goal we got.
Speaker 20: We want to put put hands on quarterbacks and that
Speaker 20: can affect the game and the sacks come after.
Speaker 10: That sayon that, you know, at this stage of his career,
Speaker 10: he's asking you what he's saying, spin dude, you know
Speaker 10: like that he's still trying to add those tools at
Speaker 10: this stage.
Speaker 5: It says a lot, but it says that he wants
Speaker 5: to be better. But it to me, it really not.
Speaker 20: It really says though he wants to help this organization
Speaker 20: win the Super Bowl. When your guy like that's will
Speaker 20: as to sacrifice and say, you know what, I've been
Speaker 20: this guy, the same guy that everybody said, I was
Speaker 20: all these years, you know, an underachiever. But you know what,
Speaker 20: I'm gonna take coaching. I'm gonna listen to other guys.
Speaker 20: I'm gonna be a leader because JD's a leader. Kyle
Speaker 20: van Noyd, he's the leader. I want to make sure
Speaker 20: I'll mention that. So it tells me that he's willing
Speaker 20: to make sacrifices, to humble himself to say, you know what,
Speaker 20: maybe this could help. But ultimately the big picture, JD
Speaker 20: wants to win the Super Bowl, so he hadn't talked
Speaker 20: about no goals like that. He is not one of
Speaker 20: those guys. Of course he wants to get the number,
Speaker 20: but Jenavian is not sitting around like, hey, I want
Speaker 20: to get ten fifteen sacks. I just think he's doing
Speaker 20: it for the whole defront room is really a gang
Speaker 20: of grown men, you know what I mean, just trying
Speaker 20: to do it for the common cause and which is
Speaker 20: pretty cool to see, especially in the first year. Ain't
Speaker 20: no drama. I mean it literally is no drama. Excuse me,
Speaker 20: We just come to work. You know, we got great
Speaker 20: guys in great.
Speaker 17: LEADERSHIPKA when a DAFE was going through the pre draft process,
Speaker 17: you know, we had the four pot forty time, but
Speaker 17: he turned on the tape and a lot of times
Speaker 17: he might have been the last guy that kind of
Speaker 17: crossed the line of scrimmage. Yeah, how important has him
Speaker 17: improving his getoff been for his development as a pass pressure?
Speaker 17: And what can be done to help a guy with
Speaker 17: as much athletic gifts but make it more translated with football.
Speaker 5: Well, I know, great athleticism doesn't always translate to getting sacks.
Speaker 20: We've seen that if you go study the history of
Speaker 20: past rush around the league, some of the slowest guys
Speaker 20: of all time become some of the best rushers. Matter
Speaker 20: of fact, not saying he's the slowest guy of all time,
Speaker 20: maybe the greatest, the second greatest defender of all time?
Speaker 20: Who played here? Who's our leading soacker? What was this
Speaker 20: forty time sucks? I'm just asking, Okay, just asking so
Speaker 20: that answers that question. From that to me, that's kind
Speaker 20: of like a myth. But from a dock's standpoint, you know,
Speaker 20: he continues to work on it. You know, we continue
Speaker 20: to work on it. You have, you know, great get
Speaker 20: offs and just like anyone else, whether you Max Crosby,
Speaker 20: whether you Brian Burns, everybody has those days, you know,
Speaker 20: and so, but Doff continues to work. We continue to
Speaker 20: evaluate it, push him harder, to continue to do the
Speaker 20: little things like a get off will help, especially when
Speaker 20: you want to four to three, you know. So I
Speaker 20: think that he continues to work on that, and that's
Speaker 20: something that we do put an emphasis on. But he's
Speaker 20: had it, you know, he's been getting off on the rock.
Speaker 20: And we'll continue to keep working on the skills in
Speaker 20: these next five games, you know, keep working on the
Speaker 20: things that are going to help us work in the
Speaker 20: entire defense, because we can't just be you know about Doff,
Speaker 20: which you know, when you get a sack is just
Speaker 20: about dof.
Speaker 5: But yeah, he's working on his get off and U
Speaker 5: but he's done a good job this year.
Speaker 1: That was outside linebackers coach Chuck Smith. We also had
Speaker 1: a chance to talk with secondary coach Chris HEWITTT.
Speaker 21: I doing guys, you know, I don't do the opening
Speaker 21: statement things.
Speaker 5: Just go ahead and shoot me straight. What's up, Chris JH.
Speaker 2: What's it been like working with nardos yere.
Speaker 21: Ah, man, it's been it's been really awesome. You know,
Speaker 21: you get another guy in the room to help you
Speaker 21: out and you know, you can see the results in
Speaker 21: what's been going on with our with our secondary. But
Speaker 21: it's definitely been at plus.
Speaker 2: Chris.
Speaker 11: We've seen Brandon Stevens, i mean really take off in
Speaker 11: year three. You guys moved him from safety to corner,
Speaker 11: back and forth a lot the first couple of years,
Speaker 11: even started at safety. This summer, what is click for
Speaker 11: him maybe the most to not just be able to
Speaker 11: play on the outside, but play at a high level.
Speaker 11: I mean even some really good secondary players can't play
Speaker 11: on the outside like that, right.
Speaker 21: I Mean, he's always had the ability and that's the
Speaker 21: reason why we drafted him to be a corner. And
Speaker 21: you know, when he first got here, we had the
Speaker 21: deed at safety and that's the reason why he moved
Speaker 21: from there at safety. But he's got so much ability
Speaker 21: that you can move him to so many different places.
Speaker 21: But you know, selfishly as a coach, it's like, all right,
Speaker 21: Brandon can do this and Brandon can do that. You know,
Speaker 21: so you always moved him around. But this year he
Speaker 21: had an opportunity to just soak at corner and the
Speaker 21: reps and the opportunity to be there just playing corner
Speaker 21: the entire time. And the injuries that we've had there,
Speaker 21: we didn't have to move him around, so he was
Speaker 21: our best player at corner. And just to answer your question,
Speaker 21: the reps has been helpful for him just playing one
Speaker 21: spot the entire time, and now he's process send things
Speaker 21: a lot faster and he's playing playing at a high level.
Speaker 5: He's always had the ability.
Speaker 6: Sure, you have confidence in all your guys, but I mean,
Speaker 6: could you have foreseen this jumps as well as he's
Speaker 6: playing for a guy that you know hasn't been there
Speaker 6: full time.
Speaker 21: I'd be lying to say that I could I've foreseen
Speaker 21: him being playing as well as he has. But he's
Speaker 21: always had that account of ability. And again because we've
Speaker 21: moved him around so much, now he's had the opportunity
Speaker 21: to really soak with the position, and you know, his confidence.
Speaker 5: Is just growing and growing and growing.
Speaker 21: And now he realizes where what he can do and
Speaker 21: what he can't do when he gets out on the field,
Speaker 21: being able to match you know, the best wide receivers
Speaker 21: in the league and go out there and go play.
Speaker 2: You just mentioned it.
Speaker 18: How going to as obij and say every day how
Speaker 18: much does that get these guys ready for what they're
Speaker 18: going to see every Sunday.
Speaker 21: I mean, that's that's that's been one of the biggest things,
Speaker 21: is uh, in practice the type of talent that you
Speaker 21: got to play against in practice, if raises everybody's level.
Speaker 21: And you know we got that that term iron, sharpen
Speaker 21: and iron. That's that's exactly what's happening here with this team.
Speaker 21: So they're making each other better every day, just competing
Speaker 21: in practice. So yeah, to answer question, that's exactly what's
Speaker 21: going on.
Speaker 6: What's about to handle things season?
Speaker 1: And how high?
Speaker 21: I mean I told you from the beginning, my first
Speaker 21: person in the beginning of the year, I told you
Speaker 21: that he was gonna be a pro pro, pro, pole
Speaker 21: type level player. I mean he does everything. I mean,
Speaker 21: he covers, he blitz his tackles. There's nothing that that
Speaker 21: that can't that kid can't do. You know a lot
Speaker 21: of things that people don't really realize about him is
Speaker 21: you know, don't let the baby face fool you.
Speaker 5: You'll try to rip your face off. I mean, he's
Speaker 5: he's a great player.
Speaker 8: Chris, you too, I mean you have had injuries to
Speaker 8: talk guys this year, as you have in the passim
Speaker 8: you've seen how difficult that depends the passers. Why do
Speaker 8: you think it's been so much more seamoss this year.
Speaker 5: The other thing.
Speaker 21: One thing about it is it's it's year two in
Speaker 21: the same system. The coaching has been consistent and we
Speaker 21: haven't had to move guys around as much as we've
Speaker 21: had in the past. Guys have been in a particular
Speaker 21: position and just and they've been able to soak and
Speaker 21: get better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what are you talking about?
Speaker 14: Ye?
Speaker 3: He even talked about last year's a rookie, there were
Speaker 3: times when it was kind of struggles for him.
Speaker 2: Was there a point when you saw something quick with
Speaker 2: him last year at one point?
Speaker 21: One thing about it is it's like when you come
Speaker 21: in as a rookie. You know, it's over roelming. You know,
Speaker 21: you're playing, you're learning new playbook, you're playing and playing
Speaker 21: against guys that you know lot are the top players
Speaker 21: in the world, and it's an adjustment and going through
Speaker 21: with the first part of the year new system, being
Speaker 21: able to adjust and then after that, you know, I mean,
Speaker 21: Cayl Hamilton's has unbelievable ability, So I don't care where
Speaker 21: you put him. He was gonna shine. So but he's
Speaker 21: just grown over the over the last two years. In
Speaker 21: the position that he's playing. He's playing safeties or as
Speaker 21: well as playing nickel corner. So just the amount of
Speaker 21: reps that he's gotten at that same position, that's the
Speaker 21: reason why he's grown and playing as well as he has.
Speaker 5: And it's just it's the reps the football.
Speaker 2: When they talk about footall and holdings with him.
Speaker 21: His football IQ has always been high. That's I can't
Speaker 21: I can't take credit for that. When he came in
Speaker 21: here from Notre Dame, he had a high IQ coming
Speaker 21: in here. It's not that's not mine doing.
Speaker 9: You mentioned growing Where where are the maybe is there
Speaker 9: an example of one or two areas when you've really
Speaker 9: seen him.
Speaker 21: Make It's it's the command of an entire defense, knowing
Speaker 21: how the pieces fit. He knows where everybody's supposed to be.
Speaker 21: He knows where the linebackers in the corners and everywhere
Speaker 21: everybody's supposed to fit in the defense. So he knows,
Speaker 21: you know, what leverages to play, and he's able to
Speaker 21: unwind things where you know some and sometimes things he
Speaker 21: is a little crazy out there and he's able to
Speaker 21: unwind it and get everybody in good position.
Speaker 10: So player like that, do you see his swagger, Kyle's
Speaker 10: swagger kind of taking off. You know, we saw them
Speaker 10: too small and the back and all that, Like, do
Speaker 10: you like to see that from the young player?
Speaker 6: Do you feel like that can be beneficial playing with
Speaker 6: that kind of swagger? Absolutely, That's that's that's what it's
Speaker 6: all about.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 21: The guys feed off of energy, and if he's playing
Speaker 21: like that, guys are seeing and there they want to
Speaker 21: be a part about all of that too, and it
Speaker 21: picks up everybody else's play on defense.
Speaker 5: The guys you out of.
Speaker 6: Fairly waiting the game, Darby Mulet.
Speaker 2: Why have those guys fit in as well as they
Speaker 2: have because they're pros.
Speaker 21: Those guys have been they played a lot of football,
Speaker 21: and you know, and and again it's all about the
Speaker 21: reps and their repetitions that they those guys are able
Speaker 21: to go out there and play and practice and those
Speaker 21: guys having the experience of playing. You know, I think
Speaker 21: Arthur's in his seventh year or eighth year or something
Speaker 21: like that and Darby's in.
Speaker 5: His ninth year.
Speaker 21: Guys have played a lot of football, so they've seen
Speaker 21: the coverages. There's we're not I'm let's not get a
Speaker 21: twisted we're not putting new coverages or anything like that,
Speaker 21: and they've played everything that we're doing. So those guys
Speaker 21: being pros and just being able to get the verbiage
Speaker 21: of all the things.
Speaker 5: That we're doing.
Speaker 21: That's how those guys are able to just plug it
Speaker 21: and just go play.
Speaker 18: Richie mentioned that you didn't see the trajectory on be Steve.
Speaker 18: Probably the same thing with Gino Stone, a guy that's
Speaker 18: been underestimated his entire pro career. Small, but he's pleading
Speaker 18: the league of interceptions of men.
Speaker 21: Well, I mean, they're a little bit difference with Gino.
Speaker 21: Gino has been always been an extinctive player, high IQ
Speaker 21: football player. It's all about the opportunity and all the
Speaker 21: opportunity that he's had, even last year and even as
Speaker 21: a rookie, every time he's come in he's played well.
Speaker 21: Now this year, the ball is finding them, and that's
Speaker 21: just being confident in the system. He knows the system well,
Speaker 21: and just like Kyle, he's being able to unwind things
Speaker 21: now and just go out there and just go play
Speaker 21: free and just go play football because he's always been
Speaker 21: an instinctive football player. So that's that's one of the
Speaker 21: reasons why We drafted him because of his instincts. It
Speaker 21: wasn't because he ran real fast, he jumped real high.
Speaker 21: People don't know about it. Gino got some bunnies. He
Speaker 21: can get off the ground too, now he can, and
Speaker 21: but his instincts of other things that that are making
Speaker 21: him take off.
Speaker 17: You know when you look at the analytics that people
Speaker 17: put out and you guys are near the top of
Speaker 17: the league and they're just like the pre snap disguises,
Speaker 17: how difficult is that as a teacher to implement as
Speaker 17: well as you guys have. And you know how quays
Speaker 17: Awards have been for you guys this year.
Speaker 21: Well, I mean it's it's all about trying to make
Speaker 21: things look different to the to the quarterback and try
Speaker 21: to light at the quarterback as much as possible. And
Speaker 21: Mike has done a really great job of coordinating all
Speaker 21: those things with our blitzes and earn our coverages to
Speaker 21: be able to to light at the quarterback. But those
Speaker 21: those are reasons why we're being successful and that the
Speaker 21: teaching has been consistent. So a lot of the things
Speaker 21: that we do with our disguises, and not to give
Speaker 21: you too much, but with our disguise, is it it
Speaker 21: helps us being able to blitz with Marcus going back.
Speaker 10: Do you see him now he's a little healthier and
Speaker 10: able to be kind of that difference maker that we
Speaker 10: all know he can be kind of down this last stretch.
Speaker 21: Yeah, that's I mean, we definitely need Marcus to be, uh,
Speaker 21: that guy that we saw last year early in the year,
Speaker 21: and he will be. You know, he's just you know,
Speaker 21: having having that injury and you know there was one
Speaker 21: or two games he went out there he basically played
Speaker 21: with one arm, and you know that's a that's a
Speaker 21: tough injury to come to overcome. And you see here
Speaker 21: in the last game he's starting to tackle better, he's
Speaker 21: having more confidence in the arm, and I have no
Speaker 21: doubt that he's gonna take off as a as a
Speaker 21: player because he's always I mean, he's a very confident
Speaker 21: football player and a guy that we need going down
Speaker 21: to stretch to help us win these games.
Speaker 6: John Harbaugh for a couple of straight weeks, was asked
Speaker 6: about him and are you concerned about the tackling and
Speaker 6: kind of way and in your mind, why is and
Speaker 6: important that he's on the field even though there were
Speaker 6: those limitations Maybe, I.
Speaker 21: Mean, for any quarterback to go back there and see
Speaker 21: thirty two back there, and you're gonna you're gonna think
Speaker 21: twice about throwing the ball up there, even with one arm.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 21: Now that's not the situation anymore. He's he's a lot
Speaker 21: more confident in it and he can go out there
Speaker 21: and go tackle. But have him Marcus back there in
Speaker 21: the middle of the field, it's gonna it's gonna caust
Speaker 21: some concern for a quarterback to throw the ball up
Speaker 21: it because he can go get it at any time.
Speaker 13: To the character and the toughness of Marcus for battling
Speaker 13: through an injury like that and still being on the
Speaker 13: field and playing a physical brand that he's known to
Speaker 13: play for, and the fight through all this.
Speaker 21: I mean, I applaud him, you know, to the utmost
Speaker 21: guy that he could have really just he could have
Speaker 21: packed it in and said, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 21: go ahead, get surgery. But he sees that the the
Speaker 21: opportunity that we have as a football team, this is
Speaker 21: a special group, and he wants to be a part
Speaker 21: of the special group to go ahead and the ultimate
Speaker 21: goal is to go out there and win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 21: And that's that was his ultimate goal is to try
Speaker 21: to get there and win that Super Bowl. So again,
Speaker 21: awesome dude, and I applaud him. I mean, it takes
Speaker 21: a lot of character and a lot of toughness for
Speaker 21: him to do what he's doing.
Speaker 6: I think when we talked to you maybe during training
Speaker 6: camp last.
Speaker 17: Year, I believe he said of Kyle that, like, you know,
Speaker 17: he's a guy who doesn't.
Speaker 2: Make the same mistakes twice.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 17: Are are there any you know, kind of examples of
Speaker 17: that athletic intelligence that you could think of or just him,
Speaker 17: I mean, I guess, or maybe how important is that quality?
Speaker 17: Is that something that you can kind of identify a
Speaker 17: guy who right away.
Speaker 21: Well, I mean, you know, it's it's one thing to
Speaker 21: go out there and go and make a mistake and
Speaker 21: not be able to make the same mistake twice. The
Speaker 21: mistakes that he did make earlier in his career. He
Speaker 21: was making those mistakes in games. He's making those mistakes
Speaker 21: in practice and it doesn't show up in the game.
Speaker 21: So that's just his growth as a as a player
Speaker 21: and a and a growth as a as a professional.
Speaker 21: Now he's he's really taking that that step. I don't
Speaker 21: know if that answers your question, but that's where he's at.
Speaker 1: That was secondary coach Chris Hewett and the Ravens are
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