Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. Training camp continued
Speaker 1: as the Ravens moved into week two. They had their
Speaker 1: first off day of camp on Sunday, but they were
Speaker 1: back on the practice field Monday afternoon. After practice, we
Speaker 1: had a chance to hear from both coaches and players.
Speaker 1: The press conferences today included head coach John Harbaugh, assistant
Speaker 1: head coach and defensive line coach Anthony Weaver, linebacker Patrick Queen,
Speaker 1: and defensive tackle Michael Pierce. Let's kick things off with
Speaker 1: coach Harpaul.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to see everybody. Appreciate you being out here.
Speaker 2: First day in pads. Exciting day. Guys, had a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. We got a little bit better. Can't wait
Speaker 2: to see the tape. So what question did you have.
Speaker 3: Genel, We've got heat Picky Mancer earlier with the parent angles, Andre.
Speaker 4: If you get there on that.
Speaker 2: No, nothing really to say. It didn't look too serious.
Speaker 2: We'll get some more information as we go here.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about seven and we'll look forward to seeing
Speaker 3: the pads get on.
Speaker 4: What kind of things started to look at.
Speaker 2: Well, this is the first time when the pads come
Speaker 2: on that it becomes a physical contest. A football contest
Speaker 2: in that sense, So you don't have that before you
Speaker 2: put pads on and get to these drills that are
Speaker 2: though they're not one hundred percent live by any stretch,
Speaker 2: they're still gonna be physical contests. He just wants to
Speaker 2: see how he holds up and see how he competest.
Speaker 2: It was a good practice from just being out here
Speaker 2: live seeing it right now, I thought the guys did
Speaker 2: a good job. It was a cleaning practice. Guys did
Speaker 2: a nice job also taking care of each other, but
Speaker 2: still being physical and playing fast.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Then we just I'm sure we have a lot to
Speaker 2: work on the set of.
Speaker 6: Back right.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know, obviously to your point, I think
Speaker 2: he's had He's had a really great start to training camp.
Speaker 2: Michael Pierce's has really expressed himself out here the way
Speaker 2: he does, you know, physicality, And today we put the
Speaker 2: pads on, so we had a chance to do it
Speaker 2: a little more for real, and uh, he looks great
Speaker 2: doing it. I think he's in really good shape and
Speaker 2: excited to play some football.
Speaker 4: Look like Tyler.
Speaker 6: The right, Tyler's done a good job. I think Tyler.
Speaker 6: What I've seen from Tyler is he's.
Speaker 2: Been on point.
Speaker 7: He really has.
Speaker 2: He's been on point every day. He's stacked days in
Speaker 2: terms of tension to detail, fundamental execution, and that's what
Speaker 2: we were looking for. He's doing a good job.
Speaker 8: Ta saw Grand and Steven Sage Presto much in the slot.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe I said earlier in the summer, I'm like,
Speaker 2: may more safety this year?
Speaker 6: Is he a real candidate to be Yeah? Oh heck yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it's competition, you know, especially for that spot
Speaker 2: right now. They all all those guys want it. So
Speaker 2: we'll just see how it goes next few weeks.
Speaker 1: Nice touched down and he's pretty good over the course
Speaker 1: of the spring.
Speaker 6: Another one game.
Speaker 8: Let's stays outside about Adlar.
Speaker 4: And what you want?
Speaker 9: I think you can help us on it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean it's it's really the same thing
Speaker 2: we have been talking about Aray Garrett. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: he's a pro. You know, Nelson knows how to play.
Speaker 2: He's a big rangye receiver like you saw there and
Speaker 2: when we made that catch. He runs routes really well.
Speaker 2: He's a he's a hard worker, he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2: And uh, I'm sure glad we have him.
Speaker 8: Heavy believes out today you've got a lot of young corners.
Speaker 8: How important is this camp, especially added position of winning
Speaker 8: to develop the coach's confidence in young guys.
Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly it. I mean, you have to establish
Speaker 2: yourself at some point, right, Jerry. I mean at some
Speaker 2: point in time as a player, you've got to establish
Speaker 2: yourself as a fifty three man roster, as a as
Speaker 2: a viable consistent contributor, and then as a as a starter,
Speaker 2: and then as an established starter and then from there,
Speaker 2: you know. So those guys are on the first, uh,
Speaker 2: the first leg of that journey.
Speaker 6: Got you think, that's what it's sixth down training camp.
Speaker 7: You guys shot out to change.
Speaker 6: Who talks about what makes walking through his brain?
Speaker 7: What do you think close stands out? When do you
Speaker 7: see a day in day out?
Speaker 6: What makes what's that kes happening? Anything?
Speaker 3: For me?
Speaker 2: What I see, you know, the physical talent is pretty clear.
Speaker 2: But what I see as a competitiveness, I mean, he's
Speaker 2: a he's a pick bull competitor. He really is. And
Speaker 2: that's what I appreciated about him the most. An offeason
Speaker 2: continuity for Patrick Queen with the same as coordinators and
Speaker 2: it's time backers.
Speaker 3: Coach say, you know, running mate Roeband what do you
Speaker 3: think that's gonna be for him to go years.
Speaker 8: Year for Patrick?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think this guy's a limit for Patrick.
Speaker 2: My expectations for Patrick hard to have a stellar season,
Speaker 2: you know, and it's it's only been affirmed by the
Speaker 2: way he's practiced, the way he's carried himself, you know,
Speaker 2: and he's in that he's in a contract year and
Speaker 2: all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes guys get distracted, and he has not been
Speaker 2: distracted at all. He is locked in on the mission
Speaker 2: ahead and you appreciate that. And it's showing up in
Speaker 2: the way he's playing every day.
Speaker 10: Another inside linebacker, rookie Simpson, Like you can see him
Speaker 10: flying around there today.
Speaker 6: I just want to receive for him him exactly.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a young player, so he's further. You know,
Speaker 2: he's got these he's a rookie in terms of learning
Speaker 2: the defense, learning the special teams. But yeah, the twitch,
Speaker 2: the ability to cover ground, to go from point A
Speaker 2: to point z B anywhere in between. He's showed the
Speaker 2: ability to do that. And he's got a great attitude.
Speaker 2: He works really hard. Yeah, I think the office is
Speaker 2: coming together, you know, it's we're less than a week
Speaker 2: ind you know, and uh, And the first couple of
Speaker 2: days you look at and you're like, you're like, boy,
Speaker 2: they got a long way to go. But but you
Speaker 2: can travel far, you know, as long as you travel together.
Speaker 6: And they're doing a good job of that.
Speaker 2: And I feel I feel like we've made some big
Speaker 2: strides on offense last few days.
Speaker 1: Definitely have communication And what have you seen from time
Speaker 1: of communication standpoint?
Speaker 6: You feel like they're louder now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, communication, Uh, And we talk about we have two
Speaker 2: words we talk about communication football communication. We use the
Speaker 2: word gregarious and we use the word obnoxious, and we
Speaker 2: want both of them out there. And we actually if
Speaker 2: you start with obnoxious and then they can go to gregarious.
Speaker 2: But a lot of defenses, it is usually a great
Speaker 2: defense because it's a confident defense but knows what it's
Speaker 2: doing and it's on the same page, you know. And
Speaker 2: I really feel like our guys are working very hard
Speaker 2: at that and have done well with it.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harbaugh. Also, we had a
Speaker 1: chance to hear from linebacker Patrick Queen, who talked about
Speaker 1: his expectations going into his fourth NFL season.
Speaker 7: Gotta be more physical.
Speaker 9: I think that's the main focus today was even if
Speaker 9: you mess up, mess up one one to percent being physical.
Speaker 9: So everything else we could correct in the film room
Speaker 9: in the classroom, but the main focus today is just
Speaker 9: come out since your past day one set the tone
Speaker 9: and just look to get better from there. A.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it was good. I think it could
Speaker 7: have been a lot better.
Speaker 9: It was like two runs that wasn't explosive runs, but
Speaker 9: it was still like a seven yard run. So those
Speaker 9: who eliminate those two that we had, I think it
Speaker 9: was an over a good day.
Speaker 2: Signs converging specials from the contact standpoint, are you get ballast?
Speaker 9: I mean, at the end of the day, I'll get
Speaker 9: to play football in the National Football League, So that's
Speaker 9: a blessing in itself. Uh. I mean I talked to
Speaker 9: Hard talkt to Eric and you know, uh, everything is good,
Speaker 9: good and selling right now.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 9: I'm not focused on a contract. I'm just looking to
Speaker 9: play ball. I mean, at the end of the day,
Speaker 9: IM good to go out here to play football and
Speaker 9: make my market what I wanted to be. So I'm
Speaker 9: not stressing any things, just going out there having fun
Speaker 9: with my teammates, having fun with my coaches and just
Speaker 9: getting to play ball.
Speaker 11: When you want to situations technos, the passing, getting out
Speaker 11: there to players one years, the outsts.
Speaker 8: What are this complicity?
Speaker 4: Thats like?
Speaker 9: Uh, I think everybody's situation is different. So uh, I
Speaker 9: know JK faith is strong. Uh. We both trust in
Speaker 9: God to the Leader's in the right direction and wherever
Speaker 9: that direction may be, ours is totally different right now,
Speaker 9: and his situation is different than mine. Jk's been heard before.
Speaker 9: I think he's seen how scared That's how it could be.
Speaker 9: So I think he got his own perspective on things.
Speaker 9: I got my own perspective on things. And then at
Speaker 9: end of the day, you gotta respect our decisions. Everybody
Speaker 9: on the outside has views of how we should feel,
Speaker 9: how sh how we should do things. But at the
Speaker 9: end of the day, Uh, like I said, he'd been,
Speaker 9: he've been in a situation before, so I can see
Speaker 9: where you're coming from.
Speaker 2: Is there a particular conversation when alsaser somebody who range
Speaker 2: on to sort of figure out how your order in
Speaker 2: proach it? We we did get to that play, Okay,
Speaker 2: just gonna put my head down. This is around in jail.
Speaker 4: Was there somebody who helped you get there?
Speaker 7: Uh, really myself and God just praying.
Speaker 9: Uh. Everybody around me was pissed, Uh, but I always
Speaker 9: pissed myself. But at the at the end of the day,
Speaker 9: like I said, I get to go out here and
Speaker 9: play in football in the National Football League.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 9: Too many people don't get to do that. And Uh,
Speaker 9: like I said, my faith is strong. I believe in
Speaker 9: God for what I want. And at the end of
Speaker 9: the day, i'm'a just gonna come out here, give one
Speaker 9: one hundred percent effort uh for my teammates, for my coaches,
Speaker 9: for my family, and just be the best place I
Speaker 9: could be and try to get better.
Speaker 6: Have those teams entire. Last year's steal.
Speaker 5: The offense down, mar camera destruct thirds its more.
Speaker 7: Than that did like business see this year that yeah,
Speaker 7: most definitely.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: I think that's the whole uh thing about our standard here.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 9: We don't like the league stuff on the field, and
Speaker 9: we Looke definitely left some players on the field last year.
Speaker 9: So now we're all just coming back tryna. Like I
Speaker 9: said the other day, were trying to communicate better all
Speaker 9: our players. Last year that we messed up on was
Speaker 9: communication era. So we all understand that. That's why we
Speaker 9: coming out here. You see everybody talking and we all
Speaker 9: flowing together. Everything's clicking right now. So uh, it's definitely
Speaker 9: n finished business.
Speaker 4: I got your play to the ups and downs that
Speaker 4: you went through in your first two or three years
Speaker 4: of Baltimore. I made it easier three years. But you
Speaker 4: find the food, find a lottle motivation to keep getting better.
Speaker 5: And run your art.
Speaker 4: Though that's like a much higher thanause.
Speaker 6: People are getting incredible.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Uh, coming into the league, a lot of people know. Uh,
Speaker 9: I didn't play that much in college, and switching position
Speaker 9: from college to the league. Uh, playing mic is a
Speaker 9: very difficult task. And just being able to switch from
Speaker 9: my first year to midway through my second year, learned
Speaker 9: a whole new position was a challenge itself, But I
Speaker 9: think I kind of found like a common ground in
Speaker 9: which I needed to be prepared for knowing both positions. Uh.
Speaker 9: I think when I first learned Michael was just learning
Speaker 9: my position. That's what really messed me up, Like not
Speaker 9: knowing both positions, and that would have helped me in
Speaker 9: the defense itself. Just knowing both and would have been
Speaker 9: a whole lot less mess ups and stuff. But I
Speaker 9: think that's actually helped me now, So now that I
Speaker 9: know both positions, it's way easier. Uh.
Speaker 7: Just we had to take my time and just play football.
Speaker 11: Have like you said, play a lot of.
Speaker 8: In college and that have never been a players since
Speaker 8: you've been here.
Speaker 3: But you're still one of the younger players in the league.
Speaker 8: Feel like you're kind of scratching the surface of the
Speaker 8: type of player you're gonna be.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I definitely haven't even got closer to the service the
Speaker 9: players like I could be. And everybody around here knows it.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 9: I think people around the league know it. And that's
Speaker 9: why I'm out here just trying to get better, trying
Speaker 9: to compete, uh, trying to just master my craft. And uh,
Speaker 9: I think when I do that, I think the whole
Speaker 9: league gonna be unoticed take any more patience.
Speaker 7: And I definitely did.
Speaker 9: Uh boy boys out there balling, uh when win it,
Speaker 9: Uh dealing right down the street. So whenever he get
Speaker 9: up there, uh with the Nationals, I'm gonna go up
Speaker 9: there and catch some games and stuff. Most definitely one
Speaker 9: could have most definitely, Uh, I was actually talking to
Speaker 9: some schools, had some schools reach out. Definitely could have
Speaker 9: went that route. Uh, but I just I should have
Speaker 9: went that out. I shoulda I should have tried to
Speaker 9: do both. I should have did both experimental a little bit,
Speaker 9: but I think it all worked out little. That's uh,
Speaker 9: first of though, not really. Uh, just to up every
Speaker 9: step that I had, one, more tackles, more picks, forced fumble, sacks,
Speaker 9: whatever it may be. Uh, I just want to up
Speaker 9: each category that I had.
Speaker 8: What you talk about, given I'm seven years of run,
Speaker 8: it's like it was a twenty yard run, just even
Speaker 8: without the last year. This year, how couldn't you think
Speaker 8: it was the run defense can be.
Speaker 7: Uh, it could be great. Uh, we all know how
Speaker 7: good we could be.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 9: Really, all the guys is on up front already been
Speaker 9: in the fire, every single one of them. So we
Speaker 9: know what the standard is. That's why I said, like
Speaker 9: the seven yard runs, we know that, we know we're
Speaker 9: better than that. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 9: a team might get seven yards, but the most you
Speaker 9: could limit and just get better off of that, I
Speaker 9: mean holding teams to less than seventy seven yards of carriage,
Speaker 9: I mean a game. So just that's stuff that we
Speaker 9: need to build on.
Speaker 7: We're talking to peers after year.
Speaker 2: I mean, if he's able to be out there allway, mostly.
Speaker 9: Season, how big deal is out for definitely Hughes. He
Speaker 9: gonna definitely knock people off the ball hard to get
Speaker 9: their hands on him. And when he get his hands
Speaker 9: on he could do whatever he wants. So that's a
Speaker 9: guy that we just can't wait to see go to action.
Speaker 9: Appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Patrick Queen. We also talked with defensive
Speaker 1: tackle Michael Pierce today. Now, Michael started last season strong,
Speaker 1: but then he went on injured reserve. He had an
Speaker 1: injury that knocked him out for the remainder of the season,
Speaker 1: but he's healthy now and he has big hopes for
Speaker 1: this season. He talked about that today.
Speaker 8: Up following.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was fun, man, especially for me, Like I said,
Speaker 12: missing those last two years. Uh, it was fun to
Speaker 12: get the pads on, try some new stuff that I've
Speaker 12: been working on with Chuck, working on a weave. Like
Speaker 12: I said, for linemen, especially those guards, d tackles, the s,
Speaker 12: the shells as we call 'em, or those soft pads
Speaker 12: don't really tell much. So that's where you get to
Speaker 12: see the young guys and who you think will make
Speaker 12: the team and all that kind of stuff. And then
Speaker 12: for me, it's about trying stuff and just making sure
Speaker 12: I have some different things in my repertoire going to
Speaker 12: the season.
Speaker 6: So I had a blast to day.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 10: You guys you come channel for some last year.
Speaker 2: Three years, different streak differently together for this year.
Speaker 6: And make sure.
Speaker 12: Yeah, certainly obviously you started with rehab. Like I said,
Speaker 12: I came here, didn't miss the day OTAs.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: Just staying there with the training staff.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 12: They got me back strong, got me back healthy relatively quickly.
Speaker 12: So just doing the things I need to do every day.
Speaker 12: Took up hot yoga. Was talking to somebody over there.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 12: I go to the mine and do hot yoga each
Speaker 12: and every Saturday, probably twice a week. So just being
Speaker 12: more flexible, more stretching, dialing in with sernutrition, just doing
Speaker 12: all the little things that you can, like I said,
Speaker 12: especially as you get older in this league, you start
Speaker 12: to notice different things in your body. So just investing
Speaker 12: in myself, making sure I cross off every little thing
Speaker 12: that I can to make sure I can be here
Speaker 12: endurable for the next seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 6: However many weeks forgot Make sure you tam Oh, certainly.
Speaker 12: Like I said, Man, I undrafted, fought my way from
Speaker 12: the back to be looked up as a leader on
Speaker 12: this defense and on this on this d line is
Speaker 12: just it's it's more than it I can ever a
Speaker 12: dreamed of or imagine.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 12: So just to add an opportunity to lead those guys
Speaker 12: and play next to Brody and Beats and everybody is
Speaker 12: a blessing in itself. So now, man, it's it's about
Speaker 12: proving who I am and just earning that each and
Speaker 12: every day and then when the games come, putting it
Speaker 12: on film.
Speaker 10: Every week, talking the strategy, you go up to nutrition
Speaker 10: through the first like week of training camp, how you
Speaker 10: notice a difference how you're feeling, how you're moving, Like,
Speaker 10: is there anything different you feel out there.
Speaker 4: As a player on the field.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Like I said, for me, when you miss like
Speaker 12: those old tas and stuff, or you missed like tons
Speaker 12: and tons of rep throughout the season, you can get
Speaker 12: a little rusty. But like for now, like I said,
Speaker 12: I hit the ground running, OTAs came out here, started
Speaker 12: affecting the quarterback right away. That's something I've been working
Speaker 12: on the past few years. But like I said, the
Speaker 12: past two years I've been doing really well, just had
Speaker 12: those in seasons cut short. So Nah, I feel good.
Speaker 12: I'm moving well, I'm affecting the quarterback obviously, playing the
Speaker 12: run well. But like I said, I feel good in
Speaker 12: my pass rush. And I've just been really really drilling
Speaker 12: that stuff with Chuck and all those guys this off season.
Speaker 12: So it's been paying off pretty well. And like I said,
Speaker 12: the pass I keep telling the story like the.
Speaker 11: Pass came on to the guys from the xcept to
Speaker 11: tell you see the guys that never line sayings.
Speaker 6: And yeah, like I said, here, hello sis branding. We
Speaker 6: can go on and on.
Speaker 12: Those guys set the tone each and every Sunday, and
Speaker 12: Mike and the staff has done a really good job
Speaker 12: of just reminding and drilling us through that each and
Speaker 12: every day. They show a little clips of different things
Speaker 12: and how we just chop things down, work things out
Speaker 12: as an organization from two thousand on. So it's a
Speaker 12: standard that you got to re established every year, and
Speaker 12: I think we did a good job of that today.
Speaker 6: But like I said, we got a long way to go.
Speaker 12: It's just about doing that every day and making sure
Speaker 12: each and every team knows when they play us, we
Speaker 12: might not have one hundred million dollar guy, whatever the
Speaker 12: case may be, but when they plays, it's gonna hurt.
Speaker 6: So that's the thing.
Speaker 5: Take it upon yourself.
Speaker 1: Somebody see the offensive line and like Vanderboud's going to
Speaker 1: year two, Sala's running up the first to you take
Speaker 1: it upon yourself to be like, all right, I've been
Speaker 1: trying to sharpen these young.
Speaker 12: I don't look at it that way. Like I said,
Speaker 12: I just make myself hold up to the standard. But
Speaker 12: I think it's more so about helping those guys alone
Speaker 12: as well as not just succeeding against them. Like I said,
Speaker 12: we all on the same team at the end of
Speaker 12: the day, So if I may hit the move that works,
Speaker 12: if they have a question or something, I definitely talk
Speaker 12: to them.
Speaker 6: Like I said, I don't hold too much back on them.
Speaker 12: But that's just for me making sure I'm where I'll
Speaker 12: need to be, but also bringing them along and helping
Speaker 12: them with anything that I may beat them on or
Speaker 12: anybody else may beat them on. So it's kind of
Speaker 12: like an iron sharper is kind of things what we
Speaker 12: use here. But uh, like I said, I think they
Speaker 12: are doing really well, doing really well. It depends like
Speaker 12: I said, if I get them on a couple moves
Speaker 12: like same time, same type of thing every day, yeah,
Speaker 12: they'll say what was that? How do you see that?
Speaker 12: How do you you know, fit that in? Different types
Speaker 12: of things like that. But like I said, for the
Speaker 12: most part, we kind of just leave each other to yourselves.
Speaker 12: Like I said, Coach d does a great job of
Speaker 12: coaching them up. But now, man, I don't hold too
Speaker 12: much back on them. As we get closer to the season,
Speaker 12: we'll start talking more. But right now, like I said,
Speaker 12: they pretty pretty amped up, and you know, they got
Speaker 12: to stop me, like I gotta beat them.
Speaker 6: So I think right now we kind of just keep
Speaker 6: it even. So like that sounds you guys like yeah,
Speaker 6: that's yeah, man.
Speaker 12: Like I said, we had those guys like Terrell Suggs
Speaker 12: and Bart Scott and ray Lewis, and they read you
Speaker 12: need those energetic Kayan guys, and you you failed to
Speaker 12: mention Row. Row will talk to you, especially if he
Speaker 12: gets a good hit on them. And you know, Marlin's energetic.
Speaker 12: So I'm kind of the even kind of guy out
Speaker 12: of everybody. But like I said, it's awesome to have
Speaker 12: those guys because even when like I may not be
Speaker 12: having a good stretch of plays. Those those kind of
Speaker 12: guys give you a lot of energy and keep the
Speaker 12: getting keep things moving. And uh, like I said, I
Speaker 12: definitely enjoy playing next to all three of those guys.
Speaker 5: Fuck, what what was what was your software last year?
Speaker 2: I mean, because at this time last year, we're feeling
Speaker 2: really good. You got to you got a roll, good summer,
Speaker 2: and you're definitely a very acute questions there when I
Speaker 2: was hard.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, definitely, man, like I said, for me, not
Speaker 12: only being out that season before, just seeing how well
Speaker 12: we were playing, like I said, and just to see,
Speaker 12: like you know, watch those plays two years in a row,
Speaker 12: Like damn, I could have made that player, you know,
Speaker 12: I could have helped trave out on this or just
Speaker 12: missing the locker room in general is tough. So like
Speaker 12: I said, you definitely have a swing of emotions, especially
Speaker 12: like when you go through surgery and you know, like
Speaker 12: I said, you don't get to travel. You kind of
Speaker 12: just in rehabs, sitting in there hours and hours a day.
Speaker 12: But at the end of the day, like I said,
Speaker 12: I didn't want to give up on my career obviously,
Speaker 12: and like I said, I just take that and stride,
Speaker 12: and I said, we've seen a lot of people do
Speaker 12: a lot of amazing things here missing time and then
Speaker 12: come back. Ronnie Stanley comes to mind. He's back playing
Speaker 12: at the all pro level, so you don't have time
Speaker 12: to really get down on yourself if you want to
Speaker 12: keep playing, So uh, you take it on the chain
Speaker 12: and mind up for next year.
Speaker 6: He over here and rating d.
Speaker 9: Kind of to go for it.
Speaker 4: Course he.
Speaker 5: Talk a little bit about travels Jurgers just similar.
Speaker 3: To their three opportunities.
Speaker 6: I would say yes and no.
Speaker 12: So there was not a justin Metabku to take those
Speaker 12: kind of reps when we were there, so I think
Speaker 12: we had traded Timmy Jernigan and that was kind of
Speaker 12: more of a neat thing. Now Travis is an amazing
Speaker 12: player if you watch any of his reps. Like I said,
Speaker 12: I don't want to date myself or anything, but he
Speaker 12: probably a little stronger than I am. So like I said,
Speaker 12: big guy physical kind of reminds me of Brandon, but
Speaker 12: he has like some really really exquisite mood skills, So
Speaker 12: I don't know how much, maybe like in run situations,
Speaker 12: but like I said, we got beats there and you're
Speaker 12: not really gonna take a lot of reps away from him. So,
Speaker 12: like I said, we have a lot of guys who
Speaker 12: can do a lot of different things, not only him,
Speaker 12: but Brody as well, So that'll be hard for teams
Speaker 12: to game plan, just different fastballs and stuff like that.
Speaker 12: But yeah, I definitely look forward to playing at least
Speaker 12: a couple of runs with Travis for true, Like I.
Speaker 2: Know, Tyler didn't see a lot of guys her size
Speaker 2: and good plans they could showed a time from training
Speaker 2: camp last year.
Speaker 5: Can you tell the improvements that he's made, especially in
Speaker 5: past protection.
Speaker 12: One, Yeah, no, you can tell you very very technically sound,
Speaker 12: but he can anchor a lot better. I don't know
Speaker 12: if he ain't a little way or not, or just
Speaker 12: just getting stronger as he's growing, But now he's he's
Speaker 12: definitely gotten a lot better. I said, I don't know
Speaker 12: if I don't watch Big ten football a lot. I'm
Speaker 12: from Alabama, so I'm a SEC fan, But now he's
Speaker 12: definitely got a lot better. Like I said, technique wise,
Speaker 12: he was always sharp, but just like those grown man things,
Speaker 12: dealing with those grown man moves, different hunt moves, all
Speaker 12: that kind of stuff where you just need that muscle,
Speaker 12: that girth and that anchor.
Speaker 6: He's definitely anchoring a lot better.
Speaker 8: Trying stuff added to the class guys far, it's been awesome.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 12: I actually went to him twenty eighteen and he gave
Speaker 12: me some things. I just failed to put him in
Speaker 12: uh at that time. But having him here and she's
Speaker 12: bringing a different perspective, he said, Coach Wi has been awesome.
Speaker 12: But like I said, those guys obviously specialist for a reason.
Speaker 12: And uh, he's done a great job not only with
Speaker 12: Jabo and dafaing everybody, but also with the d tackle.
Speaker 12: So one on ones, I lost two of them. I
Speaker 12: don't normally lose a lot of them. But it's just
Speaker 12: trying new things and just figuring out your body and
Speaker 12: what works for you. Like I said, I've been getting
Speaker 12: a rod on the passer a lot, just changing my
Speaker 12: stance in different things. So he's definitely put a lot
Speaker 12: of things in my brain as well as everybody else.
Speaker 12: And it's just about finding those two or three things
Speaker 12: that will change up obviously from a bull rus from
Speaker 12: a nose guard position. So now he's been he's been
Speaker 12: a godsend for real, and I think we'll that'll that'll
Speaker 12: pay off for sure.
Speaker 1: The final person we heard from was defensive line coach
Speaker 1: and assistant head coach Anthony Weaver. Here's what coach Weaver
Speaker 1: had to say.
Speaker 7: Everybody's doing.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: Wow, I think we have a veteran led group right.
Speaker 3: Probably starts with like Mike Pierce, Brent Urban, but the
Speaker 3: guys who are going in their fourth years, Broderick Washington,
Speaker 3: justin Mattabek, They're hungry. They're chomping at the bit. They
Speaker 3: want to you know, we obviously miss class. We love them,
Speaker 3: but they want to show that they can and not
Speaker 3: only pick up the slack but do more. So I'm
Speaker 3: excited about where where the group's heading. Love their work ethic,
Speaker 3: just love their attention to detail. Think it's gonna be
Speaker 3: a fun year.
Speaker 4: What's your sense of what mi L.
Speaker 5: Pierce wants to get out of the rest of his career.
Speaker 5: He was so ready last year and then they have
Speaker 5: the injury.
Speaker 4: Yeah, where is Mike's been working all offseason.
Speaker 3: He's been here the entire time, and behind all adversity
Speaker 3: is a blessing and a lesson, Right, So you get hurt,
Speaker 3: you're disappointed, but all that time he's just got He's
Speaker 3: gotten work. So his goal is to come out here
Speaker 3: and completely dominate, right, win a Pro Bowl, prove that
Speaker 3: he's worth every dollar he's been paid. And he's got
Speaker 3: the ability to do all that. So hopefully God will
Speaker 3: and he can be out there for all seventeen. And
Speaker 3: if he is, he's going to help this defense an
Speaker 3: awful lot. I'd love to play behind him if I
Speaker 3: was six and zero. Right, guy eats up two gaffs,
Speaker 3: he says in a.
Speaker 2: Chimp when he's showing him as Joe.
Speaker 3: Without question, Pierce loves the game of football. He loves
Speaker 3: the Baltimore Ravens. So him not being out there absolutely
Speaker 3: killed him. And he just wants to go out there
Speaker 3: and let the world on fire. And I think he
Speaker 3: has a chance to do it.
Speaker 8: Justin Mattie had a career year last year. Did you
Speaker 8: see him making even bigger some big strides.
Speaker 6: From last year this year?
Speaker 3: Yes, DK, Right, you've got to talk to him. He's
Speaker 3: kind of quiet. He's not gonna give you a bunch
Speaker 3: of long answers. But that guy loves ball and all
Speaker 3: he does is work.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 3: You see a guy who's now he started for three years,
Speaker 3: you know two three years could have a sense of entitlement,
Speaker 3: think he's arrived. He doesn't feel that way at all.
Speaker 3: When you go out there and watch him. He actually
Speaker 3: he's gonna get chopped tomorrow. So because of that mindset
Speaker 3: he has.
Speaker 4: You can absolutely get better and improve on a year
Speaker 4: ago some of.
Speaker 6: Those interior guys pass rush.
Speaker 4: You know, I didn't really start to figure on the
Speaker 4: fast rush.
Speaker 6: Until like a year four, year five.
Speaker 4: Why do you think that that kind of hell learning fervos.
Speaker 8: The way it is and how do you kind of
Speaker 8: see that track you could play justin nik against.
Speaker 9: That his career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a lot of that just happens through
Speaker 3: pre snap identification.
Speaker 4: As a rookie.
Speaker 3: You're just trying to come and learn what to do,
Speaker 3: where to go, right as you progress in your maturity,
Speaker 3: right as you gain more experience. Once you know that,
Speaker 3: now you can look at some of all the other
Speaker 3: extraneous things happening. You can hear protection slide calls no
Speaker 3: one to take advantage when you do get that one
Speaker 3: on one.
Speaker 4: So I think that's probably why that happens.
Speaker 3: It's that maturation of having been in the scheme, knowing
Speaker 3: the system, where now you can take some graduate level
Speaker 3: steps and see all the other stuff happening around it.
Speaker 5: And this is something stopping from the shows put into
Speaker 5: the losses at the season for Central.
Speaker 3: As you exploit, Yeah, we we we obviously go into
Speaker 3: games with plans, but we try to empower our guys
Speaker 3: as much as we possibly can. We We we give
Speaker 3: them as much pre snapp information as possible. Hopefully right
Speaker 3: what we see it on tape holds true, and then
Speaker 3: they have opportunities to call that those games. Obviously from
Speaker 3: our perspective, we're trying to exploit space and the protection
Speaker 3: and if they can identify that and tell us that
Speaker 3: off the field, hey call what you want and let's
Speaker 3: take advantage of it.
Speaker 5: We saw Roderck Wassington really haven't really good year, said, wouldn't.
Speaker 11: Played to his growth, hasn't.
Speaker 3: Played from the spotlash. Yeah, I don't know that there's
Speaker 3: a person in this building that works harder than Broderick Washington.
Speaker 4: That guy.
Speaker 3: I mean, just if you look into his body from
Speaker 3: when he's got there to how it is now, he
Speaker 3: looks completely different. You talk about a guy that's taken
Speaker 3: every bit of coaching and then some it's him. So
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised by any of his success and I
Speaker 3: would expect more. Yeahs bad hard, Yeah, we'll see it's
Speaker 3: it's probably going to be a bi committee approach, right.
Speaker 3: There's we're missing Tyas Bowser, who's not out there right now.
Speaker 3: He's going to take a bunch of those justin Matt
Speaker 3: at BK. It'll probably be a little bit different, right
Speaker 3: Kalais was out there, he's kind of a finesse rusher.
Speaker 3: We have some guys that can power the pocket and
Speaker 3: Mike Pierce and Travis Jones. So it's definitely gonna be
Speaker 3: a bi committee approach. But I think we can attack
Speaker 3: him in waves with complimentary pieces that'll be changed up
Speaker 3: to the offense too, which could be fun to watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna.
Speaker 8: Seem what do you just want to see from Travis Jones.
Speaker 4: You see him a test, the tests and watch.
Speaker 11: Out the technos.
Speaker 6: The pad shocks everyone.
Speaker 4: Definitely, it's still.
Speaker 8: Just kind of technique getting self technically to where he's.
Speaker 6: Physically for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think from Travis you want to see him
Speaker 3: to see the same progression that we saw with Broder Washington. Right,
Speaker 3: he comes in his first year. There are some things
Speaker 3: he struggled with a lot of that was from a
Speaker 3: technique standpoint. It was the exact same thing with Travis.
Speaker 3: I think it's important for him to get all these
Speaker 3: reps in the preseason as much as he possibly can.
Speaker 3: Repetition is a mother of skill, and hopefully through that
Speaker 3: right he can build that foundation and then allow his
Speaker 3: God given ability to take off. So hopefully, God willing,
Speaker 3: we see the same thing we saw at of Broadert.
Speaker 12: I think.
Speaker 5: Michael pears great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that could definitely happen. A lot of that's
Speaker 3: based on opponent and scheme and what we're gonna see.
Speaker 3: If it's obviously it's a heavy run team, you could
Speaker 3: definitely see that package. Or there may be just a
Speaker 3: couple of soft guys inside that we want to mash
Speaker 3: and you can see them out there too. But I
Speaker 3: would not rule out that combination at all. All right,
Speaker 3: thanks guys.
Speaker 1: That was Raven's defensive line coach and assistant head coach
Speaker 1: Anthony Weaver. We also heard from defensive tackle Michael Pierce,
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