Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: July twenty second. The Ravens held their second practice of
Speaker 1: training camp today and after practice, reporters had a chance
Speaker 1: to talk with head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to see everybody appreciate you being here. You
Speaker 2: all look suspiciously dry. Why is that? Oh, there's a
Speaker 2: good Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: It's good.
Speaker 2: Good to see you had a good practice. Uh kind
Speaker 2: of fun out there in the rain. That was good,
Speaker 2: and guys worked hard. So day two in the books
Speaker 2: and get to work on day three. What questions you
Speaker 2: have jobs?
Speaker 4: Is there anything you tell your guys when you're practicing
Speaker 4: in the rain that you know, wanting these conditions to
Speaker 4: mimic it like if you have a game like that
Speaker 4: in real life.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's a part of an opportunity when you get
Speaker 2: rain like this, because you know you can't you can't
Speaker 2: can't create rain when it's not raining. So we're gonna
Speaker 2: play games in rain. We had numerous games in rain
Speaker 2: last year, so you get that. Work was plus four
Speaker 2: us was the mark closer kind of same as yesterday.
Speaker 2: I really I couldn't really say, yeah, he's still sick.
Speaker 2: Couldn't make it today.
Speaker 5: Can he tells the programs of the Rashina League got
Speaker 5: something good of his n to stay?
Speaker 3: You say you again, Rashina Lee. Can he tell us
Speaker 3: the progress.
Speaker 2: Of Rashina Lee. I thought he had a really good
Speaker 2: day today. You know, he looked good, quick, made some
Speaker 2: catches coming along and nicely.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we sell you guys, got back there a worlding
Speaker 6: of what do you look at?
Speaker 4: What does he bring to his defensive.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, darre a worthy veteran player, been here a
Speaker 2: long time. I think he's been a big part of
Speaker 2: the Ravens here since he got here. Physical presence in
Speaker 2: the back end, physical presence on special teams. Healthy now
Speaker 2: you know, he got the the the tear that he
Speaker 2: had in the peck healed and he was excited to
Speaker 2: get back. We're excited to have him back.
Speaker 7: Wiggins interception day.
Speaker 6: How quick is he getting.
Speaker 8: Acclimated to the.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Nate's been looking good, you know, working on technique again
Speaker 2: only the second day. A nice play, great technique, nice
Speaker 2: and square in man coverage there and made the pick.
Speaker 2: Was nice play he was he was He actually came
Speaker 2: running right back through the middle of the fear which're
Speaker 2: supposed to not do that, but that was where I
Speaker 2: was standing, you know, and I was just happy that
Speaker 2: he didn't hit me right ran around, so that was nice.
Speaker 2: But he was coming very fast.
Speaker 3: Very fast would have been your first impression.
Speaker 2: To Blacky Jackson pro a great demeanor. Eddie Jackson seems
Speaker 2: like he's picking up the defense. I mean, he's only
Speaker 2: been here for gosh a little over twenty four hours
Speaker 2: or so, and he's uh and he didn't you know,
Speaker 2: he didn't make any mistakes today that I saw, so,
Speaker 2: but he's gonna be digging in that playbook really hard.
Speaker 2: And he looks good.
Speaker 3: Now we're gonna hear.
Speaker 9: From Oway later.
Speaker 3: We saw Away in the backfield a lot today. How
Speaker 3: had he looked for you? And what are you kind
Speaker 3: of plot on the program? Big year? He's looked very good.
Speaker 2: Dafes looked very good, and I'm hoping that he has
Speaker 2: h I guess you'd call it a breakout year, you know,
Speaker 2: if you want to call it that. Make those plays
Speaker 2: in the quarterback. He had a lot of pressures last year,
Speaker 2: you know, take it the next level and go ahead
Speaker 2: and get the guy and get the quarterback on the
Speaker 2: ground problem. I'm sure he wants to do that and
Speaker 2: then continue to be an explosive player, really unique skill set.
Speaker 2: I mean, he can really move and run around and
Speaker 2: be be disruptive. So that's what I'm hoping for and expected.
Speaker 2: I know you're ramping up, but when you don't have
Speaker 2: Lamar at the beginning, do you change anything schedule or
Speaker 2: wise or what you're trying to do? We don't, you know,
Speaker 2: we just stay right on schedule and uh and he'll
Speaker 2: merge in when he gets here, you know, and uh,
Speaker 2: And that's that's what you do with anybody really in
Speaker 2: that situation.
Speaker 4: Obviously, difficult conditions today with growing the ball and your
Speaker 4: defense is very you know, actor making plays. But is
Speaker 4: there are there a specific stride to at the quarterbacks
Speaker 4: you highland arm what you'd like to see by the
Speaker 4: time campaigns short?
Speaker 2: Okay, certainly. I mean, you know you want your you
Speaker 2: want your quarterbacks behind your starting quarterback to be to
Speaker 2: be prepared to play, you know, to be prepared to
Speaker 2: go in there and win for you and play play
Speaker 2: play starting quarterback level football. You know they're not going
Speaker 2: to play like like like the starter, They're going to
Speaker 2: play their way, but you want him to be ready
Speaker 2: to do that, have commanded the offense and be ready
Speaker 2: to win.
Speaker 8: For you get Henry officer today and you've had too
Speaker 8: many battles with him over the years that you've seen
Speaker 8: him in the field. Have you learned anything since he's
Speaker 8: actually you know, been on the same team together, anything
Speaker 8: that you've.
Speaker 2: Kind of stood after you Yeah, I guess the main
Speaker 2: thing that stood out is like just what a what
Speaker 2: a great guy is what a hard work or what
Speaker 2: a pro you know, he's so diligent, great shape and
Speaker 2: diligent about every single every play everything he does. You know,
Speaker 2: you can see why he's been so successful.
Speaker 3: Good seem of him.
Speaker 4: A left both the post making nig That's like the
Speaker 4: book could be kind of want to go around to
Speaker 4: build into very people if they're a value to having
Speaker 4: both of them dread.
Speaker 3: Well certainly.
Speaker 2: I mean what you'll see is personnel groups with different
Speaker 2: guys in different spots. So you know, the basic personnel
Speaker 2: group and with with Arthur at Nickel is a group,
Speaker 2: you know, and then you've got a group with Marlon
Speaker 2: at Nickel. You know, you've got a group with with
Speaker 2: Kyle down there that spot Kyle could be over the time.
Speaker 2: So I think that's the beauty of where you have
Speaker 2: an opportunity to do and a lot of guys to
Speaker 2: play at the starter level, to be on the field,
Speaker 2: mix it up a little bit and create problems for offenses.
Speaker 6: Rashad had some some catches out there today. He is
Speaker 6: out of basically sort of really practice of Pasca. It's
Speaker 6: a successful most successful copy for them.
Speaker 2: I think that's true, right, you know, it's like all
Speaker 2: of us, you know, you do some good things and
Speaker 2: more good things seem to come, hopefully, But Mishaw has
Speaker 2: been working for to make plays. To see them come
Speaker 2: out and make those catches. Those are great catches, them
Speaker 2: traffic catches. One catch he plucked off the ground there,
Speaker 2: so I was excited. Everybody was fired up about it.
Speaker 2: But that's what we expect from Rashad Bateman. He's he's
Speaker 2: expected to be a top receiver in.
Speaker 3: The league for us.
Speaker 2: You know, that's what we're planning on. So to see
Speaker 2: him true to form today was nice to see.
Speaker 1: Board has also met with the key free agent acquisition
Speaker 1: this offseason, veteran running back Derrick Henry.
Speaker 10: Everybody doings, everybody doing.
Speaker 3: Damn the rain got everybody in the news.
Speaker 2: He's been things about experience for training camp with all
Speaker 2: the fans going your name.
Speaker 10: That's been fun, very cool and you know, look forward
Speaker 10: to more practices, meet more fans.
Speaker 3: But it has been cool, good turnout for sure.
Speaker 6: Obviously been a lot of training camp practices over the year.
Speaker 6: Is it How does this wan compare? Is it you're
Speaker 6: invigorating different? Havenst it compared all those other years?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Training camp is just work. I think it's the same.
Speaker 10: I don't think you trying to make too much of
Speaker 10: it being somewhere different. You're gonna work regardless wherever you're
Speaker 10: at and definitely work here, So not too much to it.
Speaker 10: You know, when you come in training camp, respect to work.
Speaker 3: So that's what it is.
Speaker 6: There, got s s curious?
Speaker 11: Uh your thoughts on that's all the tweet from the
Speaker 11: Titans reporter who's kind of schooling Titans fans, so.
Speaker 3: Needing pretty end. Yeah, you your thoughts on that?
Speaker 10: No, just like man a, all of the stuff, that's
Speaker 10: what you talking about. I mean, I mean, if if
Speaker 10: they want to, uh, I appreciate it. They don't, you know,
Speaker 10: I understand, But I was just like, I mean, why
Speaker 10: why are we.
Speaker 3: Talking about this? R? R? Right now.
Speaker 10: I mean there's other stuff that you can talk about,
Speaker 10: and the Titans training campus coming up.
Speaker 3: I'm over here, so I'm all good. Appreciate if you
Speaker 3: do and if you don't understand too.
Speaker 7: So you have for a few few months now and
Speaker 7: you have probably an idea of what it's gonna be
Speaker 7: like when you signed, which is now. Where do you
Speaker 7: learn over the last couple of months about what the
Speaker 7: possibilities may be.
Speaker 3: For this office?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I wanna get too much in you know, uh possibilities,
Speaker 10: but you know, you know, it's everything that I imagine
Speaker 10: they work here, the culture, the brotherhood that they have.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: Grateful to be here.
Speaker 10: It's excited for the opportunity putting the work in now
Speaker 10: and training camp just so the things that we want
Speaker 10: to happen will happen. But not getting into like any
Speaker 10: possibilities or making any predictions. Just put the work in
Speaker 10: now and then let it all come together when it's
Speaker 10: time to suit up and we'll get some dubs.
Speaker 11: Derek, I know you said, uh, training camp is is
Speaker 11: work and you know it as you move on. I'm
Speaker 11: sure it's a grind, but how I guess reinvigorating is
Speaker 11: it for you? Coming in, you know, new surroundings, new teammates,
Speaker 11: new scheme and everything like that.
Speaker 3: As far as your career, yeah, I mean it's uh
Speaker 3: uh a new start.
Speaker 10: But you know, like like you said, I've been coming
Speaker 10: in since OTA's and you know, I'm excited for the
Speaker 10: for the opportunity. You know, it's a different it's a
Speaker 10: different ror for me. So I'm just excited for everything
Speaker 10: and bracing every day and and and putting the work
Speaker 10: in so I can say, okay, so when.
Speaker 3: It's time very guys like you up his offense.
Speaker 10: Uh, just you know, the playmakers that we have and
Speaker 10: their and their abilities, you know, p playing against them
Speaker 10: and watching them from afar and being their teammate.
Speaker 3: I think it's pretty cool.
Speaker 10: And you know it just excited to you know, see
Speaker 10: what uh everybody does this year and then putting the
Speaker 10: working together to to training camp on all three phases
Speaker 10: and uh going out there and being explosive and doing
Speaker 10: great things go to help this team and being the
Speaker 10: great offense there gonna show.
Speaker 7: You're plenty motivated right now for the season. But t
Speaker 7: you hear people talk about the running back position and
Speaker 7: they look at thirty as kind of the age where
Speaker 7: they feel like running.
Speaker 8: Backs aren't peeking anymore.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 10: How do you look at that?
Speaker 3: And uh?
Speaker 7: Does that in the actual motivation for you just to
Speaker 7: show that you can still play at a high level.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think I can control what I can control
Speaker 10: by what I do and how I work and my
Speaker 10: approach to my my job every day.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 10: Uh that's I think that's always gonna be said when
Speaker 10: when back it's up in the age and cause that's
Speaker 10: the other stigma on the on the position. But you know,
Speaker 10: I just focus on me being healthy, doing doing my
Speaker 10: job when I'm here and then let my play speak
Speaker 10: for you know, my age and everything else.
Speaker 4: Controlling what you can control.
Speaker 3: Reading about you and the athletic over the weekend, Have
Speaker 3: you not eat a meal today?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, I usually wait until like twelve or one o'clock.
Speaker 10: So in Tennessee, we practiced at early in the morning
Speaker 10: and then I wouldn't eat until after practice. But you know,
Speaker 10: we we practiced at one here, so I can't go
Speaker 10: out on the field and I have nothing to my stomach.
Speaker 10: But you know, I ate my spinach killed avocado, uh
Speaker 10: this morning, and then around lunchtime. Uh, I just put
Speaker 10: a little little something like some not nothing heavy, but
Speaker 10: I don't really try to eat until later.
Speaker 4: How long have you had that sense of discipplaining about
Speaker 4: taking care of you of audience? Like where does that
Speaker 4: come from? Was that something that was natural to you
Speaker 4: that you always wanted to do or did you feel
Speaker 4: really teach.
Speaker 3: Yourself to do that?
Speaker 10: Yeah, but cause before I w I wasn't eating. I
Speaker 10: was e whatever I wanted, chicken wings, pizza, anything. I
Speaker 10: was like, dang, that's that's not gonna sustain it. So,
Speaker 10: you know, I just challenged myself to try to to
Speaker 10: try to see if I can do it. And then
Speaker 10: once I got you know, got used to it, you
Speaker 10: know it, it became easy. And then now now now
Speaker 10: my body feels great. And then you know, just seeing
Speaker 10: how my my body responded to it and the routine
Speaker 10: and and the diet, you know, I love it.
Speaker 3: And that's something I probably keep doing the rest of
Speaker 3: my life for real.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you coming from a a system where you had
Speaker 11: first contact a little bit earlier, closer to a lot.
Speaker 9: Of scrimge than uh has been happy to be.
Speaker 3: Running backs here and gold back. How much how much
Speaker 3: between Lamar and the.
Speaker 11: Offensive line and the one scheme and the whatnot. How
Speaker 11: much did that play into your decision to come here?
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, just uh watching them through the
Speaker 10: years and playing the playing against them. This is style
Speaker 10: that they play with, you know, the offense that they run,
Speaker 10: having Lamar who's different, who's really different. So you know,
Speaker 10: I played a big, big factor into it as well.
Speaker 10: And then the success that they had last year. You know,
Speaker 10: I something I definitely you know, wanted to be a
Speaker 10: part of and be it being added peace to this offense.
Speaker 10: And yeah, man, it's it's always been a certain type
Speaker 10: of culture and the style of play at the Ravens.
Speaker 3: Play and something I was excited to, you know, come
Speaker 3: be a part of. Yeah, you always hear about wearing tear.
Speaker 8: That comes running back, especially when you someone who's.
Speaker 3: Carried the ball as much. Did you have it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you look like you're pretty good. Do you feel wearing
Speaker 3: tear at all?
Speaker 10: No, I mean I feel I feel good. I mean
Speaker 10: I don't really try to try to worry about that.
Speaker 10: I don't know, it's just it's just kind of it's
Speaker 10: kind of funny, like ever since high school. Sometimes I
Speaker 10: got fifty six Carr, he's in the game, fifty seven.
Speaker 10: The next week, College forty four, forty six, NFL thirty
Speaker 10: thirty five. It's just I really think it's just your
Speaker 10: mindset and how you take care of your body, and
Speaker 10: not to not get too caught up on who who
Speaker 10: he say, she say, If it works and you feel
Speaker 10: good and just keep working and keep doing what you do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for what you see I call Hamilton flying around.
Speaker 8: Maybe they get to getting picked today a good bays
Speaker 8: applying on the edge.
Speaker 9: But I'm pressed with have you been by this young
Speaker 9: school wall in the defense? Yeah?
Speaker 10: They they they they're definitely find around today. You know, Kyle,
Speaker 10: he's uh one of the best setis in the league.
Speaker 10: They uh come from Clinton being being a top player
Speaker 10: first round pick uh of tru Uh that's what you
Speaker 10: expect out of him. And I'm excited to t to
Speaker 10: to see them to training camp and see how better
Speaker 10: they get put it all together as a defense. But
Speaker 10: you know, it's definitely exciting to see them find around
Speaker 10: making players as earliest for sure.
Speaker 7: There he carollably a new air from your stuff by
Speaker 7: there any new.
Speaker 4: Goals that you have that you got called by handker
Speaker 4: new called super bowl?
Speaker 10: Okay, that's the goal. Oh, still to go to super Bowl.
Speaker 10: I mean that's always been the goal. But super Bowl
Speaker 10: is definitely where I'm at now. So yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 10: done have you know, chances and got close. But that's
Speaker 10: that's what it is right now.
Speaker 4: Is that something you me and Lamar would say the
Speaker 4: same thing that the same question said something you and
Speaker 4: he have talked about a bit that's full dreams.
Speaker 3: Well not that is what we know. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: that's that's just what the what we want to do.
Speaker 10: That's an expectation, that's what we expect and you know
Speaker 10: it starts out here, but you know that's definitely you know,
Speaker 10: a bang a main goal and the number one go
Speaker 10: for me to get a super Bowl.
Speaker 3: You wish she was full contact on Rainy Daves then
Speaker 3: sitting wish was full contact on Rainy Daves like that.
Speaker 10: Hell yeah, because we feel like we can't even can't
Speaker 10: do nothing. Just got Dersey's own and his rainey slipping.
Speaker 10: You can't even run with your shoulders. So yeah, it's
Speaker 10: it's different with Drasy, but the pasts be on pretty soon.
Speaker 1: Another newcomer to the squad this year, the Ravens, just
Speaker 1: signed over the weekend and that's veteran safety Eddie Jackson.
Speaker 1: Jackson is a two time pro bowler and he practiced
Speaker 1: with the Ravens over the weekend. On Monday, his second
Speaker 1: practice with the team, he had a pick six interception.
Speaker 1: He's got off to a strong start so far on
Speaker 1: ball this morning he talked about that with reports.
Speaker 5: Interception field to day. Uh, it felt good, you know,
Speaker 5: just to get back into the rhythm of things and
Speaker 5: back into a routine and being able to compete and
Speaker 5: make plays and they could you talk us.
Speaker 6: Through the process, so coming a raid and work out
Speaker 6: and so you got reacted with different players throughout the process.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh, it was just pretty much, you know, I came
Speaker 5: here on to visit, met with the coaches, a lot
Speaker 5: of the training staff, equipment staff, people like that, and
Speaker 5: it just felt it felt like a perfect fit, you know,
Speaker 5: and just knowing what they have and it's building and
Speaker 5: the tradition of things, I just knew it would have been.
Speaker 5: It's it's a perfect fit for me to come in
Speaker 5: and compete and you know, do what I gotta do
Speaker 5: to you know, help the team get better and you know,
Speaker 5: hopefully win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: Is there something in the.
Speaker 4: Scheme wise think you or philosophy wise and taking you
Speaker 4: feel like, hey.
Speaker 5: This much fat for my role really just the defense.
Speaker 5: You know, you look at the the guys that the
Speaker 5: type of talent they have on the defense side of
Speaker 5: the ball. Man, it's from the front to the back.
Speaker 5: So well, you know, being able to come in and
Speaker 5: plug in as much as possible and whatever role that
Speaker 5: I can do to contribute to that is it is huge.
Speaker 5: So you know that that went into a lot of
Speaker 5: thought about it on making the decision as well.
Speaker 4: But what's that experience like and that is there a
Speaker 4: comfort factor.
Speaker 3: That that just kind of learned that person. Man, It's
Speaker 3: it's fun. You know, I played a role for five years.
Speaker 5: So just knowing the type of person he is, the
Speaker 5: type of player he is, uh, the type of leader
Speaker 5: he is, and what he brings to the team and
Speaker 5: as well as the defense. You know, every Sunday when
Speaker 5: he steps on the field, you know, just knowing his mentality,
Speaker 5: him going out there flying around making plays, you know,
Speaker 5: one wanting to put everything on his shoulder, wanting everybody
Speaker 5: to follow him and you know kind of mirror him
Speaker 5: and how he plays the game. You know, it's something
Speaker 5: special and just to be back with him, man, to
Speaker 5: be really united. It's it's cool.
Speaker 9: It's the biggest.
Speaker 7: Challenge getting him coming in like justice training, camping against
Speaker 7: and everything is new.
Speaker 6: How do you how do you get through that?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 5: Just come in here and work, you know, keep your
Speaker 5: head down Blinda's own and just continue to work.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Like I said, it's a great group of guys in
Speaker 5: that locker room. So everyone's so open with open arms,
Speaker 5: you know, it's so welcome. So it felt like I'm
Speaker 5: right at home.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I know a lot of the guys, you know, I
Speaker 5: grew up with a lot of the guys in the
Speaker 5: locker room were from the same place. So it just
Speaker 5: felt it was like I said, it just felt natural,
Speaker 5: you know. And and even the staff everyone around the
Speaker 5: building just been treat me so well. Everyone's been so
Speaker 5: welcomed him, and so it was it's it's easy getting
Speaker 5: the shell, you know, to try.
Speaker 4: To throw over and what best station you did?
Speaker 3: You could?
Speaker 10: God put him back.
Speaker 3: Kind of from the injury in the foot and all that.
Speaker 5: What what do you go from the show that I'm
Speaker 5: still the type of player that I know I am,
Speaker 5: that I still can go out there, I can compete.
Speaker 5: I can fly around, make plays and just things like that,
Speaker 5: and I can come in contribute to a team. You know,
Speaker 5: I know the type of person I am off the
Speaker 5: field as well. Just want to show that around the
Speaker 5: league and to everyone. Hey, what did uh was like
Speaker 5: you re conci.
Speaker 3: Did he share with you?
Speaker 1: What did you thoughts on what it's like to play
Speaker 1: here and do? What would this conversation with them?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: We had a brief conversation, nothing too deep, you know.
Speaker 5: He just sent me a text like, look, let's get
Speaker 5: to work. Glad to have us back. We had a
Speaker 5: look chat, you know about the defensive ski that I
Speaker 5: love it, how they play, how the guys fly around,
Speaker 5: and how they use the guys in the back end especially,
Speaker 5: so just things like that.
Speaker 3: It was just the thing of think of joining the contender.
Speaker 3: You know a team that you know, you look at
Speaker 3: this team, they've got a real shot. I know Chicago
Speaker 3: they clubbed up to tough couple of years. Would you
Speaker 3: like to join the team. It's got a real shot.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 5: It's just you know, when you're going out there, you're
Speaker 5: working for you working towards something. Not saying that wasn't
Speaker 5: the thing in Chicago but you know, the results didn't
Speaker 5: show up when it came to the record. But seeing
Speaker 5: like I said, the roster, the the record, and what
Speaker 5: these guys have been able to do over these last
Speaker 5: few years and even last year, how close they came.
Speaker 5: I'm just coming in trying to be that missing piece
Speaker 5: on that back end of that defense and doing whatever
Speaker 5: I can to contribute and you know, help us eventually
Speaker 5: it come to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Hey, how excited are you.
Speaker 7: To be joined the safety room guys like Kyle Hamilton
Speaker 7: and Marcus Nordons as well.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, man.
Speaker 5: I feel like this is probably the most deep and
Speaker 5: competitive dB room out in Hasseins, Alabama, with Minka, Runnie
Speaker 5: and Marland, you know. And to be back there with
Speaker 5: cal And and Marcus and those guys been able to
Speaker 5: help me, you know, teach me things that you know,
Speaker 5: answer any question I have. Even with some of the
Speaker 5: younger guys, you know, I've been looking at them for help,
Speaker 5: you know, just learning to playbooks and things like that.
Speaker 3: So it's definitely special.
Speaker 8: And you said, you uh, grew up with some of
Speaker 8: these guys and those Save Flowers Adventual of forty you
Speaker 8: remember from this team that you might play with or
Speaker 8: against growing up.
Speaker 5: Ma, it's me and Zay, like you know, it's like
Speaker 5: basically like my like my little cousin. You know, I've
Speaker 5: seen him since he was small, you know x Man
Speaker 5: when he had the civil teeth. You know, so I
Speaker 5: Kneway Trayvon Mullins, you know Marlon Derreck Henry from college.
Speaker 5: So just being reunited with guys and them with them guys, man,
Speaker 5: it's just it makes it feel so much special.
Speaker 3: You know, you look at Derrick Henry.
Speaker 7: Now and you see you marvel or hear you are
Speaker 7: at thirty and still looking like he did in college.
Speaker 5: Man, that's just d here. He was looking like that
Speaker 5: since high school. So it's like it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 5: Like I was touching the guys today.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: When d hen first walking on the field, when I
Speaker 5: see them Alabama, I could believe how big he was.
Speaker 3: You know, you've seen a.
Speaker 5: Film him being a Florida guy. That you see him
Speaker 5: in person, it's like like he's a creative playoff a game, getting.
Speaker 4: A second practice.
Speaker 3: I mean, you just go out there and work and
Speaker 3: you play ball.
Speaker 5: You know, the coaches put us in great position to
Speaker 5: make players on the ball it's just it's just on
Speaker 5: us to come up with it and.
Speaker 3: Do the rest.
Speaker 4: I know you haven't seen him yet, but a lot
Speaker 4: of defenders that end up coming here are happy they
Speaker 4: don't have to go against Lamar Jackson anymore.
Speaker 3: So what's the thought of that?
Speaker 5: Like, man, I've been a fan of there Jay since
Speaker 5: we was younger, Like we grew up probably fifteen minutes
Speaker 5: from each other, so watching him play since he was
Speaker 5: younger as well when he played for the Pump and
Speaker 5: No Cowboys and I played for a lot of the
Speaker 5: Lakes Vikings. You know, it's just just always been a
Speaker 5: fan of his game and basically call him my cousin
Speaker 5: because we both Jackson's, but to be on the same
Speaker 5: team as him is you know, it's like a one
Speaker 5: of those type of feelings. And just seeing what he
Speaker 5: brings to this game, to this league and just how
Speaker 5: he's himself all the time, and and just how everyone
Speaker 5: rallies around him.
Speaker 3: It's it's special.
Speaker 1: Reporters also talked with fourth year past rusher a Dafe.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, he's going into a critical year. The Ravens
Speaker 1: had a lot of confidence in him, and he talked
Speaker 1: about his mindset going into this season.
Speaker 6: What your first two practices getting back real quick from times?
Speaker 4: Just how you're feeling right.
Speaker 9: Now and what your palkidens up. Oh, I feel pretty good.
Speaker 9: I thank god, it was a good offseason. Recovered from
Speaker 9: my surgery pretty well. So yeah, I feel good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You talk about your training downa in Atlanta.
Speaker 10: That's happening sa you and some other.
Speaker 3: Guys's joined them down there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, uh, we were in Atlanta. It was me beeks h.
Speaker 9: A job of Tavius came a little later. I was
Speaker 9: good work, hot, really hot. I feel like that's gonna
Speaker 9: prepare us for you know, the weeks the head, especially
Speaker 9: in training camp. But we got a lot of good
Speaker 9: work with uh dad's des walker. So yeah, it's good work.
Speaker 3: Big big part of you may see what happened with
Speaker 3: that DKA last year and how that's gonna doubt for
Speaker 3: him or was that part of the prison say yuh,
Speaker 3: how'd you do a little better?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I had to tap in it. What are you doing?
Speaker 9: Man? I like something what you were eating? You know, uh,
Speaker 9: what you were watching. So it was good to see
Speaker 9: him work and you know, have a good camaradie with
Speaker 9: the brothers. I also work with David, you know, see
Speaker 9: how he's doing as well, So it was good, good work, Goffer.
Speaker 3: What was your thought when Mike McDonald was hired away?
Speaker 3: And what's your for some person you ever got to
Speaker 3: work in your name?
Speaker 9: You know? Obviously you know Mike's a a good coordinator,
Speaker 9: great actually great coordinator. So it's sad to see him leave,
Speaker 9: but also was happy for him to get a you know,
Speaker 9: a great opportunity to being a head coach. I feel
Speaker 9: like that was something that you know, he really wanted
Speaker 9: and I'm happy that he got it. But Zach is
Speaker 9: you know good, uh, probably just as good as as well,
Speaker 9: so he's gonna have a good opportunity to show that.
Speaker 9: Zach brings a different style, you know, more of like,
Speaker 9: you know, just kind of relatable style and you know,
Speaker 9: physical well sort of kind of the same thing. But
Speaker 9: I'm really excited just to see, you know what he's
Speaker 9: gonna bring it this type of dese How would.
Speaker 7: That be in a former play there or an act
Speaker 7: when you.
Speaker 9: Give you about this, That's what I'm saying. You know,
Speaker 9: you you he was a former player, so he kind
Speaker 9: of you know, understands, you know, what we go through,
Speaker 9: certain fits, certain you know, s speeds of the game
Speaker 9: and stuff like that. So it's gonna be a different perspective,
Speaker 9: you know, having me as a as a DC, you
Speaker 9: know how a kind of a big.
Speaker 1: Picture level, how how would you describe your mentality.
Speaker 3: Game and you see something you know, I'm just I'm
Speaker 3: leaning on God.
Speaker 9: I know, I know who I am.
Speaker 3: I know what I could do.
Speaker 9: A lot of the players that you know I I
Speaker 9: know I can make are gonna be there right there
Speaker 9: for me, and it's just for me to go and
Speaker 9: take it.
Speaker 3: So I'm ready. Yet you mentioned surgery.
Speaker 7: I don't think that's something that John holds develop because
Speaker 7: that's the a myor.
Speaker 9: Thing, yeahs myor thing, quick fix.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh, you guys had happened a third year defensive
Speaker 6: or lay after your across the boards changes these guys
Speaker 6: like today beating et cetera. You ca your experience, do
Speaker 6: you feel like any pressure with different point, like any.
Speaker 9: More field than any Nah, same time around this year
Speaker 9: before Jadeveon was even here, the same mentality. You guys
Speaker 9: don't even know that we were gonna get sixty sacked
Speaker 9: last year, So it's just kind of the same mentality.
Speaker 9: You know, we're We're just trying to hunt. We're gonna
Speaker 9: continue to hunt, continue to get better on the Chuck
Speaker 9: still got Kyle. You know, Kyle made a lot of
Speaker 9: great players for us as well. So you know, I
Speaker 9: very grateful for what Jadeveon you know, brought, and he
Speaker 9: also taught me and everything. But you know, it's the
Speaker 9: next man up, So be ready.
Speaker 7: If you're facing derrick an raid the last couple of years,
Speaker 7: to have him now be a part of his team,
Speaker 7: what does it mean and in them to get him.
Speaker 2: To know him a little bit to him and go
Speaker 2: up a closer.
Speaker 9: Person like this for your impressions, Yeah, he's a freak.
Speaker 9: Its uh physical specimen. You know, he look like he
Speaker 9: can play d end for real, for reals. So yeah,
Speaker 9: I'm excited to see what he brings to the team.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm just happy he's on our side for real.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is your second year with Chuck Smith.
Speaker 5: What do you think is the biggest thing that he's
Speaker 5: added to your game so far? And what are you
Speaker 5: looking to.
Speaker 9: Work with they want mostly year Uh, I probably say
Speaker 9: like the mentality of being you know, just dominant pass rusher,
Speaker 9: a plan. He has something that he always says like
Speaker 9: finish the the rep with a rip, so you know,
Speaker 9: bringing that as well, you know, just just trying to
Speaker 9: be a savant pass rushing. You know, he brings that
Speaker 9: to the table.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know what he was long being a
Speaker 7: push on pick.
Speaker 1: What is you have to be about Nate Wiggins and
Speaker 1: his approach?
Speaker 2: He wiggans he is getting southern.
Speaker 9: Uh, He's confident, he's real intentional about everything he does.
Speaker 9: Keeps his head down, just trying to work. You know,
Speaker 9: he's he's fast, physical and stuff like that. So he's
Speaker 9: gonna have a good hear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have unfortunately a sing a lot of dava personal
Speaker 2: in season provis what you people know about him and
Speaker 2: work and you see what you say, push.
Speaker 4: Your plants down.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know he's he's ready. He's just waiting to
Speaker 9: show you guys, all show you guys all it when
Speaker 9: you know, when it's sharpened and ready and and you know,
Speaker 9: I have complete faith in him. You know he's he's
Speaker 9: he's a guy where like he just wants to everything
Speaker 9: to be all together before he shows you. He's gonna
Speaker 9: be ready, trust me. Like he looks good, like real good.
Speaker 9: And I saw a lot of that when we were
Speaker 9: in Atlanta. I see it now, so yeah, I have
Speaker 9: a lot of confidence.
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