Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: July twenty third, and the Ravens held another practice of
Speaker 1: training camp today. Afterwards, we had a chance to hear
Speaker 1: from head coach John Harpball.
Speaker 2: Okay, great to see you guys here. Appreciate you heat
Speaker 2: it up again today and it was good for us.
Speaker 2: Everybody handled the heat very well. There's an acclamation element
Speaker 2: to that. Our guys are doing a good job getting
Speaker 2: in football shape in the heat. And then we've got
Speaker 2: taps here, one of the great programs military related for
Speaker 2: military families that have made that sacrifice, and we really
Speaker 2: appreciate when they come out. That's a great group of people,
Speaker 2: family oriented organization.
Speaker 3: What question do you have.
Speaker 4: A way out there? I did see the big competible cap.
Speaker 2: I had to pull the reins it on a little bit,
Speaker 2: you know, and he understands.
Speaker 4: We guys stay.
Speaker 2: Away from the quarterback as much as possible. You don't
Speaker 2: want to have any any car crashes out there. But
Speaker 2: he's doing a great job and he's bringing it. He's
Speaker 2: pretty much been in the backfield every play, so we
Speaker 2: appreciate it. John did fall Ala is someone that you
Speaker 2: guys have talked about moving at guard in the past,
Speaker 2: but haven't done it a whole lot.
Speaker 3: In the spring and alis sort of camp, he's worked
Speaker 3: there a lot.
Speaker 4: How does he look there and what do you like about.
Speaker 3: Him that maybe that now's the time for him to
Speaker 3: play more.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a great point. When we do, we're gonna
Speaker 2: give it a shot and see how it looks. And
Speaker 2: Daniel's got very good feet for his size. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's a big man, but he can move his feet.
Speaker 2: He can also bend and create leverage. And you've got
Speaker 2: that kind of size and you're coming off the ball
Speaker 2: in some of those combination blocks. We feel like he's
Speaker 2: got a chance with with Tyler to move people in there.
Speaker 2: So all those things keeps working on using his hands.
Speaker 2: Things happen quicker. You gotta get your hands up quicker,
Speaker 2: get your hands on.
Speaker 4: People a little quicker. He's working on that part of
Speaker 4: it too, so we'll see how he adapts.
Speaker 5: John playing a.
Speaker 4: Root tape a bunch of guys wrote his thoughts a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks aga, Well, you know we're gonna try it.
Speaker 2: We've got certain guys that are moving in certain positions,
Speaker 2: you know, Pat McCarry right tackle mostly right now. But
Speaker 2: also you know he's gonna be center, backup center, so
Speaker 2: he'll some backup center reps. So kind of they work
Speaker 2: their primary spot their secondary spot. Some guys work both guards,
Speaker 2: some guys stay on the left side. Different guys, different situations.
Speaker 6: You see.
Speaker 7: I know there are different peoples and snaps at center
Speaker 7: than the last three days that just to push from
Speaker 7: even to the eleven and eleven feels.
Speaker 5: Full light out, the trendy.
Speaker 4: Else are just wanting to get a look at you're
Speaker 4: finishing well.
Speaker 2: I think it's a function of that, those two things,
Speaker 2: plus the fact that.
Speaker 4: The more you can do, the better you are.
Speaker 2: And you always got to have a center that's capable
Speaker 2: of snapping making the calls. I mean, if you get
Speaker 2: to a game and you got a center, you don't
Speaker 2: have a center, you get two injuries and you're out
Speaker 2: of business.
Speaker 4: That's a problem.
Speaker 2: So if you can develop your guards usually to play
Speaker 2: to be a backup or a third center, that just
Speaker 2: gives you a peace of mind when the time comes.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you don't want to give up the reps here,
Speaker 2: but I think it's worth it. Those guys going in
Speaker 2: and getting those reps get there I'm sure he's closer
Speaker 2: to getting out there than he was. It's just a
Speaker 2: matter of when he's gonna you know, the doctors are
Speaker 2: gonna clear him. He's gonna feel goodenough.
Speaker 5: John Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: I mean it's not something that in training camp as
Speaker 2: a coach you give much thought to right now because
Speaker 2: we're immersed in our team. But uh, you know, I
Speaker 2: just think it's good to see the NFL, in the
Speaker 2: NFL PA work together on these things. That's you like
Speaker 2: to see everybody kind of come together for what's best
Speaker 2: for all all all parties, including the fans. I mean,
Speaker 2: the fans are kind of the main driver of all
Speaker 2: of it. So we'll see where it goes. But we're
Speaker 2: focused on what we're doing.
Speaker 8: Uh, we're here for Alata later. We know how versatile
Speaker 8: he is, but just to hear the press means how
Speaker 8: much you think he might get you got you got
Speaker 8: to talk about the Valantine and who could be I
Speaker 8: might be able to do most damage about doing this
Speaker 8: or that or just wander.
Speaker 4: You know, as he gets older, it gets more experienced,
Speaker 4: and he's so flos to as you guys might.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean that's again, the more he could do you
Speaker 2: move guys around. You always try to have players do
Speaker 2: what primarily as much as possible, what they do well
Speaker 2: and minimize the things they don't do quite as well.
Speaker 2: So you have a player like cal Hamilton does so
Speaker 2: many things so well, you want to get him in
Speaker 2: a position to do all those things you guys do.
Speaker 2: Backfuss like, yeah, I think we could see more of that.
Speaker 2: You know, we've got certainly got the guys for it
Speaker 2: back there that can play it so and and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we've got a younger, a younger version of
Speaker 2: p Q now, so that's kind of probably where we're
Speaker 2: at with him, John, What.
Speaker 9: Do you see is that trojects me for Jayden Armor
Speaker 9: Davis and Pepe Milliam's kind of same draft year struggle
Speaker 9: with some injuries.
Speaker 4: What do he sees their projector?
Speaker 2: And he sees that you have a big year for
Speaker 2: both those guys, Uh, Pepe and and Jalen. And they're
Speaker 2: we both practicing so well right now. That's the thing
Speaker 2: I'm excited. First three days in they've both been excellent.
Speaker 2: I mean, Jalen's made numerous plays in the ball. Peppy
Speaker 2: hasn't had those chances, but he's been in the right
Speaker 2: spots all the time, moving well. Pepe's finally healthy, Jalen's
Speaker 2: finally healthy. So we'll see what they can do. But
Speaker 2: I'm I'm very I'm very confident that they're gonna do well.
Speaker 6: Yea light healthy.
Speaker 4: Well he cam.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see him out during games. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's a guy we really liked last year. He's healthy,
Speaker 2: he looks strong to me, another guy we're excited to see.
Speaker 4: He looks good.
Speaker 5: We can do more good.
Speaker 4: I mean, fully back down. He does.
Speaker 2: He even told me that, you know, he's finally back
Speaker 2: and he's right and he looks right, so that's a
Speaker 2: good thing.
Speaker 1: We also talk with cornerback Marlin Humphrey, who's been one
Speaker 1: of the standouts so far in training camp.
Speaker 10: You get sick, Yeah, I I slimmed down a little bit.
Speaker 4: I Uh, it's kind of about.
Speaker 10: A sign, but it was, Uh, I just I kind
Speaker 10: of looked at the past, kind of looked at some
Speaker 10: of my better seasons and I was a little bit
Speaker 10: lighter in those in those years.
Speaker 4: So decided to to get around a little bit lower
Speaker 4: a weight.
Speaker 10: And uh, I've been I've been feeling I've been feeling
Speaker 10: moving pretty well at it, so we'll kind of see
Speaker 10: how wiggles.
Speaker 4: Around with training camp.
Speaker 10: I've been I've really been taking advantage of uh Sarah
Speaker 10: our new uh nutritionists I think her title is. But
Speaker 10: I've really been Uh I've been really trying to lean
Speaker 10: on the resources that's the Ravens offer, and uh do do.
Speaker 4: Things kind of the.
Speaker 10: The right way instead of my usual which is just
Speaker 10: like don't eat, which is just not not the best route.
Speaker 10: So UH really really been trying to slim up a
Speaker 10: little bit and then UH just kind of go to
Speaker 10: kind of the plan that she's put out for me.
Speaker 10: I'm around the one ninety. I came in one. I've
Speaker 10: been playing the past couple of seasons, probably around two
Speaker 10: hundred or so, so that's uh basically ever since I, Uh,
Speaker 10: I've tore my peck as I hit I think around
Speaker 10: like twenty five. I got my grown man weight on
Speaker 10: me and it just never went off. So I just
Speaker 10: stuck with it. But uh, it's a young man's game,
Speaker 10: so I decided to get a little lower.
Speaker 2: You direct your career inside out and trying to Verdon
Speaker 2: first of the watching.
Speaker 4: And Kyle Hamilton to be able to tys for.
Speaker 10: Him and then, uh, I wish I could say that,
Speaker 10: but Kyle is he's a he's a he's a man
Speaker 10: of his own. But how he's able to go from
Speaker 10: safety to to nickel to bounce really play wherever, you know,
Speaker 10: I always tell people, I think, if you had, if
Speaker 10: it had to be coll to play every position on
Speaker 10: the on the defensive step nose guard, because he just
Speaker 10: can't put on as much weight.
Speaker 4: It's not Pierce.
Speaker 10: But I think with his ability to move around, my
Speaker 10: ability to move around, it'll work really well for this
Speaker 10: secondary that you can get me be Steve Nata on
Speaker 10: the field all at the same time, Brandon's played inside
Speaker 10: in the past, He's played safe at the past. So
Speaker 10: I think with just the what Nate's already shown, and
Speaker 10: if he continues to keep building those days, it'll be
Speaker 10: just a lot of plays being made for this secondary.
Speaker 10: With Eddie included, there'll be so many different packages so
Speaker 10: and teams just won't know what we're doing, who's playing
Speaker 10: what Anybody can line up anywhere, and that's kind of
Speaker 10: the exciting thing about being in the secondary. It's just
Speaker 10: you know, we just got to keep working day by day.
Speaker 10: Coach Chris always says and I don't even know if
Speaker 10: this is true.
Speaker 4: I'm assuming it's true.
Speaker 10: He says, some guy came up with a cotton gin
Speaker 10: and he made one that you can move, all the
Speaker 10: pieces they can put wherever, and he uses that as
Speaker 10: an analogy of our secondary. I don't know who that
Speaker 10: guy is, but long story shorts basis say, learn every position.
Speaker 4: So in a game the best six dvs can play.
Speaker 10: You don't ever want to be in a position where
Speaker 10: you got a guy that should be a planned but
Speaker 10: he can only play one position. So that's the biggest
Speaker 10: thing that I think we'll see a lot in the secondary,
Speaker 10: just because you know EDC and the scouting department has
Speaker 10: put the star players all we have enough depth to be.
Speaker 4: Able to do that the most parts of the people.
Speaker 4: It seems like we've got to really Florida team. So
Speaker 4: he's really fit right in.
Speaker 10: It kind of seemed like he didn't really need to
Speaker 10: make any new friends honestly, which was rare. But uh,
Speaker 10: you know, I loved Ddie when I played with him
Speaker 10: at Obama. Obviously he's a ball hog. Already had a
Speaker 10: pick six I think yesterday. So what is gonna bring
Speaker 10: to the team is you know, kind of filling in
Speaker 10: that that uh, that role that Gen know play last
Speaker 10: year where he was able to be very successful and
Speaker 10: then different other other pieces he can do. So he
Speaker 10: was definitely a piece we we needed to kind of
Speaker 10: we kind of got that depth in the corner position
Speaker 10: in the draft and we just kind of needed that
Speaker 10: one more safety and a couple of other editions that
Speaker 10: I'm sure we'll probably add. Uh, you know, we always
Speaker 10: love it late in the camp signing, so problem sure
Speaker 10: there's more pieces to come. But I love the team
Speaker 10: we got, love the guys we got. I think if
Speaker 10: we could start the season right now, we'd be good
Speaker 10: to go. But if they feel we need to add guys,
Speaker 10: it's it's a it's never a bad things.
Speaker 2: The talk at any point baseball last a couple of
Speaker 2: years going to the safety and in particular what the iss.
Speaker 4: No, there hasn't been.
Speaker 10: That's uh, That's something I've always seen myself doing, though
Speaker 10: I've just uh, that's just kind of now how I
Speaker 10: how I kind of envisioned my career. Honestly, it's kind
Speaker 10: of coming in the league was not how it should be.
Speaker 10: I always had this weird thing that I wanted to
Speaker 10: play for like six teams and then I realized that's
Speaker 10: not cool at all to play for a lot of teams. So, uh,
Speaker 10: but safety is something that I that I still think
Speaker 10: I'd end up doing one of these one of these years.
Speaker 10: So it hasn't been any talks of that, but I
Speaker 10: know there's definitely been talks of me or b Seve
Speaker 10: bumping in a nickel, you know, just like I said,
Speaker 10: just to be able to where we can bump move
Speaker 10: around in any way.
Speaker 5: Okay, because you and then you don't make excuse you
Speaker 5: feel healthy at any point lesson how do you feel now?
Speaker 10: For yeah, man, it's uh. Last year was it was
Speaker 10: a unique year. It was Uh, it was it was
Speaker 10: a lot of first I would say it was a
Speaker 10: mentally you know, I always felt I don't know, I'm
Speaker 10: just I'm a mental guy. So I always go into
Speaker 10: any game thinking I'm ready to go. I mean the
Speaker 10: first game I sprent it one time before I played
Speaker 10: in the first game on that Friday.
Speaker 4: So it was a lot of things of.
Speaker 10: Every time I felt like I was pretty healthy, I
Speaker 10: seemed like it seemed like I hurt the next game.
Speaker 10: So but you know, not really making you know, the excuses,
Speaker 10: but it's, uh, basically what I what I've tried to
Speaker 10: do this offseason is to prepare a little better for
Speaker 10: even when you're hurt, getting whatever or whatever's you know,
Speaker 10: you got to prepare for the worst. So even if
Speaker 10: your leg is hurt, what can you do to still
Speaker 10: get mental reps and also just breathing as much as gain,
Speaker 10: doing anything with your arms, getting whatever you can. I
Speaker 10: think that's kind of some of the things I regret
Speaker 10: last year, is attacking the rehab, but also what can
Speaker 10: you do to stay in it for when when you're
Speaker 10: ready to go.
Speaker 4: So that was probably the one of the things.
Speaker 10: I was trying to have certain injuries where you needed rest,
Speaker 10: and I think I overtook some of the rest time
Speaker 10: and then just thought I could just play in the
Speaker 10: game Sunday and be be.
Speaker 4: My usual self.
Speaker 10: So that's probably some of the things I regret. But mainly,
Speaker 10: you know, it's it's such a long season. I wasn't
Speaker 10: really used to being hurt a lot, you know, so
Speaker 10: it was it was it was just something I wasn't
Speaker 10: used to. I know a lot of guys going to
Speaker 10: games hurt every single game. I've done that a ton
Speaker 10: in my past as well, but last year just was
Speaker 10: was a little different for me. But but I'm kind
Speaker 10: of ready for whatever the ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like I like playing Nickel.
Speaker 10: I I Nickel, you you kind of I like hitting
Speaker 10: people and uh, you can get pretty aggresive at corner,
Speaker 10: but you just can't get too aggressive. So playing Nickel
Speaker 10: is I've a The first time I ever played Nickel,
Speaker 10: it was with Wink and I think we had to
Speaker 10: our first two games. It was a top receiver at Nickel,
Speaker 10: I mean had a slot receiver, and he was like,
Speaker 10: why don't you just match up and follow the guy
Speaker 10: in there.
Speaker 4: I wasn't very comfortable with it.
Speaker 10: I didn't really want to do it, but I just
Speaker 10: I was just a team guy, so I went with it,
Speaker 10: and then I really kind of started enjoying it. You know,
Speaker 10: made my first two Pro Bowls kind of predominantly playing
Speaker 10: inside there.
Speaker 4: So it's a place I'm comfortable in.
Speaker 10: But you know, whichever, whichever way it goes, whatever week,
Speaker 10: the game plan is. I know, Kyle is a Swiss
Speaker 10: army knife, so what he can do with Nickel and
Speaker 10: and safety and everything is is whatever.
Speaker 4: So I'm kind of down for whatever.
Speaker 1: Another first round quarterback is Nate Wiggins that he talked
Speaker 1: with the media today.
Speaker 9: You're being targeted that much through OTAs and training cap
Speaker 9: or and Minnie camp. But we've seen you get targeted
Speaker 9: a few times in training camp already been making plays
Speaker 9: on the ball. Do you feel like there's been a
Speaker 9: shift in You're a billion bike plays on the ball
Speaker 9: now that the ball is getting actually thrown at you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like that's a it's a good job.
Speaker 7: It's a good thing. That's the ball again passing my way,
Speaker 7: so I can, uh, you like, better work on my technique,
Speaker 7: getting my eyes around for the ball, playing the ball better.
Speaker 6: So I feel like it's a good thing.
Speaker 5: It's only been a.
Speaker 9: Few days, but it's a power for you. What's the
Speaker 9: biggest difference between getting.
Speaker 7: Right for the season in college and then you're really
Speaker 7: just I mean probably just meetings, longer meetings for real.
Speaker 6: I mean, football is gonna be football. It's really not.
Speaker 7: It's really not different than college is just probably been
Speaker 7: been in the billing all day.
Speaker 6: It's really a job now. So yeah, and you.
Speaker 2: If you're a guy who's watched at the college tape,
Speaker 2: totally trust your make up spears.
Speaker 3: It's clearly you do.
Speaker 2: And then at the NFL level, if you're beend in an
Speaker 2: additional pressure and get a little bit more gravvy than
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 6: Uh No, I don't really feel like I'm getting grabby.
Speaker 7: I just feel like, uh I'm better, Like I'm trying
Speaker 7: to work better than not like using my ketch up,
Speaker 7: speeding more, using my hands better than line of scrimmers.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 7: Uh, I'm not trying to use my speed. So yeah,
Speaker 7: I I feel like that's what I need to change.
Speaker 8: You need a lot of a lot of corners that don't
Speaker 8: practically especially, but I feel like the to talk and
Speaker 8: go with.
Speaker 4: Refusers or uh how would you would you put put
Speaker 4: yourself in that kind of category.
Speaker 5: You're a talker out.
Speaker 6: There, Yeah, I'll talk a lot. Uh that's this is
Speaker 6: part of my game.
Speaker 7: I feel like, uh, this bring me more confidence in
Speaker 7: my game, just talking to the receiver.
Speaker 6: Getting in his head.
Speaker 4: So what do you think the reaction?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: Some receiver it don't talk.
Speaker 7: Some receiver try to talk about So it's all dependent
Speaker 7: who the receivers are.
Speaker 4: Who's been fun to engage with the camps so far?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 6: Uh my auto receiver test, you know.
Speaker 7: Uh, meant to go back to college, say Flowers, Uh,
Speaker 7: Bateman's just like all the receivers nearly. It's just it's
Speaker 7: just good competition. So we getting all getting each other
Speaker 7: better for her.
Speaker 8: Trust from Marland, Humphrey wanted me to ask you aback day.
Speaker 6: See that. Okay, this is not my nickname. He gave
Speaker 6: it to me.
Speaker 7: He he called me nasty Nate. You know he's because
Speaker 7: I guess I play nasty defense. I guess, so that's
Speaker 7: his nickname for me. He wanted me to tell y'all
Speaker 7: that that's my nickname, but it I I ain't.
Speaker 6: It's not official for me yet, so I don't know.
Speaker 6: It might get official, but we don't know yet.
Speaker 4: As a compliment, yeah, I take that comment.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely from Marlin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, sir, he's only been the.
Speaker 3: League for three years.
Speaker 4: How much is he can talk?
Speaker 7: How much you kind of you know, leadership because for
Speaker 7: you he brings uh a lot of leadership to the
Speaker 7: uh to the room. Just just been there, you know,
Speaker 7: like most of the whole defense. So I asked him
Speaker 7: questions and he just put me in where I need
Speaker 7: to be.
Speaker 4: Ley down.
Speaker 8: How much do you think it's gonna help you? Playing in
Speaker 8: the secondary where there's so much talent, you know, and
Speaker 8: gods should have experiences.
Speaker 4: You can go to multiple people for a.
Speaker 5: Blafe, you know.
Speaker 6: I feel like that's gonna help me a lot.
Speaker 7: Like you said, I can just go to anybody, anybody
Speaker 7: in the dB room asking them questions.
Speaker 6: So I feel like that's gonna happen me in the
Speaker 6: long run.
Speaker 8: You feel like that's kind of taking you under their wing.
Speaker 7: And I feel like everybody, like all the events in
Speaker 7: the in the room, taking all the young kids, uh,
Speaker 7: guiding them through the through the coverages, through the practice.
Speaker 1: So the Ravens also have Kyle Hamilton on the back
Speaker 1: end of the defense. He's one of the best, the
Speaker 1: most versatile players in all of football, and he talked
Speaker 1: about what his expectations are for this year.
Speaker 3: It's everybody, how are we doing? How was summer?
Speaker 9: Sure?
Speaker 3: Nice, It'll be back few.
Speaker 9: Seasons, Zam. We've seen you do just about everything that
Speaker 9: a safety can be asked to do in the NFL.
Speaker 9: Do you feel like there's still things that you can
Speaker 9: add to your game or is it more about refining
Speaker 9: and improving all the different aspects of things that you Uh.
Speaker 3: I think it's a yes to both of those.
Speaker 11: I think there's a lot of stuff that you guys
Speaker 11: may not notice that my coaches may not notice that
Speaker 11: I know I can improve on do better. And I
Speaker 11: think there's a lot of players that I left out
Speaker 11: there last year and gives me something to kind of
Speaker 11: work on and uh in terms of that including in
Speaker 11: addition to the leading and being more vocal and stuff
Speaker 11: like that, kind of stepping into a role now that
Speaker 11: I've you know, had a good year, it's just time
Speaker 11: to build on that, not only as with my play,
Speaker 11: but also as a leader.
Speaker 8: When you came into the league, did you envision yourself
Speaker 8: playing this many spots?
Speaker 4: And has it grown on you? I mean, do you
Speaker 4: like it more than you thought? Or did you something
Speaker 4: you always wanted?
Speaker 8: If it's curious what your thought was gonna happen supposed
Speaker 8: to what has happened.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think at Notre Dame, I did a little
Speaker 11: bit of everything. Coming in the league. You know, I
Speaker 11: don't know, I really didn't expect to. I think I'm
Speaker 11: more expected to just play both safety spots. I think
Speaker 11: that was going to be the extent of my flexibility.
Speaker 11: But it's been awesome to just be able to move around,
Speaker 11: learn more about the defense, stuff like that. And I
Speaker 11: just said something to somebody else over there, like I
Speaker 11: just go week to week.
Speaker 3: Just Monday meetings, come in.
Speaker 11: Whatever they need me to do, if that's play deep,
Speaker 11: play in the half, play down the box, cover whatever
Speaker 11: they need me to do, I'm here for it, and
Speaker 11: uh just want to get better at everything.
Speaker 5: Do you notice that from inside the secondary?
Speaker 3: How do you mean conspicuous?
Speaker 11: Okay, I thought you were trying to say it was suspect.
Speaker 11: I was like, oh wow, uh I didn't graduate. Can
Speaker 11: repread the question? Sorry, this secondary looks fast?
Speaker 3: Okay, there we go. Yes, it does look fast to
Speaker 3: me as well.
Speaker 11: Kind of funny you look around the room and you
Speaker 11: know Nate obviously ran forward too. I'm probably the slowest
Speaker 11: guy in there at well, at least at the combine.
Speaker 11: But yeah, we got Marlin in there, Marcus is running.
Speaker 11: Everybody's running in that room. And I think that's a
Speaker 11: big thing along with us conditioning and being out there
Speaker 11: getting a lot of reps. You know, running fast for
Speaker 11: a long time not getting tired is a huge advantage,
Speaker 11: especially going in the later parts of the season. And
Speaker 11: you know, it's just say that we can't get off
Speaker 11: the field in a series and we're going in to
Speaker 11: play thirteen in the high red zone and we need
Speaker 11: to stop. And that's something that we might have given
Speaker 11: up a touchdown on last year, and so we're just
Speaker 11: building on conditioning and add more speed to the room.
Speaker 2: Attention wise, it's not something you're really big into when
Speaker 2: we talked about that last year. But now that you've
Speaker 2: become a star in the league, But what was it
Speaker 2: like going for the off season in regard whether opportunities
Speaker 2: for thing to do.
Speaker 4: If you embrace that a little more, you're still like, oh.
Speaker 9: God, this sucks.
Speaker 3: Yes and no.
Speaker 11: I think it's kind of funny to see, I guess
Speaker 11: for lack of better where it's just like notoriety that
Speaker 11: I've gotten from playing well and kind of almost feels
Speaker 11: like expected, like this is supposed to happen. And in
Speaker 11: my household and my mom is just like my dad,
Speaker 11: everybody's just like, yeah, you're supposed to get better here
Speaker 11: two and do well and get accolades.
Speaker 3: So that's just.
Speaker 11: Kind of what the norm was. I mean, it's obviously
Speaker 11: I'm super grateful for it and everything that's come with it.
Speaker 11: I've always said I want to be rich. I don't
Speaker 11: want to be famous. So I mean, I think I'm
Speaker 11: cool where I'm at on the level of fame. Uh,
Speaker 11: maybe could get even lower, but but now it's it's
Speaker 11: super exciting just to have the opportunities as well.
Speaker 3: And be part of all this.
Speaker 11: Eddie Jackson, oh Bell jack he's uh, well he first
Speaker 11: practice he went out there got a pick six, which
Speaker 11: was fire.
Speaker 3: He's really cool, dude.
Speaker 11: You know, it's always funny hearing him tell stories about
Speaker 11: college Marlon and how wild he was, and you know,
Speaker 11: he's kind of toned it down a little bit now.
Speaker 11: So but he's another vet that we seem to do
Speaker 11: this all the time, just get these vets that come
Speaker 11: here and do so much for us during the season,
Speaker 11: and it's it's gonna be so big for us to
Speaker 11: have him as a part of the team. And with
Speaker 11: the other guys in the dB room, we're just so
Speaker 11: deep at that in that room that it's just we
Speaker 11: can never get tired. We can never have somebody that's
Speaker 11: on the field that's a liability. It's just such a
Speaker 11: disadvantage for the offense to trot it out the same
Speaker 11: people and have us rotating guys, and I think it's
Speaker 11: really special to have him where my.
Speaker 3: Mom SATs Marlin did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess have you noticed it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 11: I mean, uh no, Yeah, I actually did notice a
Speaker 11: little bit. He was getting a little gut last year.
Speaker 11: He wasn't playing a lot. I mean, he just had
Speaker 11: a little chunkiness, but he dropped it. He's at his
Speaker 11: property and Dama doing the workouts, and you know, he's
Speaker 11: looking good. He's uh, he's got the abs back, he's
Speaker 11: looking good out there, he's running, he's covering very well
Speaker 11: right now, and excited to see him this year.
Speaker 8: Now, when you watch film from week to week, how
Speaker 8: much do you ever go to the coaches to say, like,
Speaker 8: I think this week, if I do this, I can
Speaker 8: cause most damage and like you're looking forward to maybe
Speaker 8: as you learn more, having even more input, like a
Speaker 8: back and forth with them about what you should do.
Speaker 11: Not really, honestly, I kind of let them do their
Speaker 11: job in that area also. I mean I was in
Speaker 11: year two last year even though I was playing well,
Speaker 11: It's like kind of got earn your stripes before you
Speaker 11: start doing that. So but yeah, they did a great job.
Speaker 11: Was just putting me where I needed to be. And
Speaker 11: putting everybody in the position to be successful last year,
Speaker 11: So I really didn't feel the need to say that
Speaker 11: going into a game. If there were any disputes or
Speaker 11: confusion out on the practice field during a game week,
Speaker 11: they're all for us saying something or we don't see
Speaker 11: it playing like this, We see you playing like that,
Speaker 11: and we'll change it for the game plan. And I
Speaker 11: appreciate them. And that's top to bottom with the offense
Speaker 11: as well. They do that and special teams. It's just
Speaker 11: it's a symbiotic relationship between us and the coaches for sure.
Speaker 11: And all hearing this about Marlin, you seem to be
Speaker 11: a guy who's one of his closest friends in the building.
Speaker 3: Did you sense last year how much he was annoyed
Speaker 3: that he wasn't able to be himself of the injury
Speaker 3: six stee and one.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think he's still, I mean super young. I
Speaker 11: think he came in at twenty so he's going into
Speaker 11: year eight. He just turned twenty eight, and he's still
Speaker 11: moving really fast. He's one of the fast guys on
Speaker 11: the team. And I think he hasn't had a ton
Speaker 11: of injuries besides the peck. I think a few years ago,
Speaker 11: and it's just it's tough to see a guy work
Speaker 11: so hard and not be able to reap the benefits
Speaker 11: of it. And he's one of those guys where he's
Speaker 11: the same guy every day, and you don't get a
Speaker 11: lot of them in the league. That's the same guy
Speaker 11: no matter what's going on, what his situation is. It's
Speaker 11: always about the team and super fun to be around.
Speaker 11: And I don't think the Ravens are what the Ravens
Speaker 11: are right now without Marlin the past eight years. And
Speaker 11: you know, losing a guy like that in and out
Speaker 11: last year it could be tough on the team, But
Speaker 11: for him, it didn't affect him at all in terms
Speaker 11: of his support for us. And he was always there,
Speaker 11: whether he was on the field or not, trying as
Speaker 11: much as he can to help, and whether that's making
Speaker 11: us laugh or actually helping with the coverage. I think
Speaker 11: that he does a great job both of those. So
Speaker 11: that guy said, I'm excited for him to get I
Speaker 11: can get back to who he is.
Speaker 4: I guess the thing that jumps out under Zach Or
Speaker 4: with his vision three dice.
Speaker 11: As the secondary, I would say, just letting us go
Speaker 11: out there and play. I think that's such a big
Speaker 11: thing that can get lost sometimes in defenses because it's
Speaker 11: a very ego field business sometimes and not saying that
Speaker 11: within the Ravens, just stuff I've heard is just like
Speaker 11: we're gonna do our defense this way, and this a
Speaker 11: you're gonna do it, and this you're gonna play, and this
Speaker 11: leverage you're gonna play, and that's it. It's no way
Speaker 11: of fans or butts. And I think Zo and everybody
Speaker 11: in the room has done a great job of just saying,
Speaker 11: like like I was saying earlier, like what do you
Speaker 11: see this as? And I want you guys be able
Speaker 11: to play fast if I can simplify it for y'all
Speaker 11: and not trying to dress up everything to cover every
Speaker 11: single play that the offense has and just let y'all
Speaker 11: play fast. Y'all are good enough athletes to go take
Speaker 11: care of it. So I think that's something he's done
Speaker 11: really well with and he just does a great job
Speaker 11: just managing everything.
Speaker 3: I'm super excited for him.
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