WEBVTT - Flowers, Bateman, Simpson & Harbaugh Ravens Press Conferences 9/3/24 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:05.760 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens are 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.560 preparing for their game Thursday night against the Kansas City Chiefs, 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.000 and today we had a chance to hear from head 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:11.040 coach John Harball. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.040 Good to see everybody, appreciate you being here. We're looking 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:22.360 forward to the game, uh and the preparations essentially finished 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.079 as far as the main on the field work, but 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.040 we'll be working right up until game time to be 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.479 ready to try to put our best foot forward. What 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:31.920 questions do you have? 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.080 Too many battles against Derek ken Ras. 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:39.080 What's up with this work code that's got hits? 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:41.400 What do you do? 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:43.200 You have TV? 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:48.720 Jamison has TV. It's an opportunity to prove all the 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.120 all the pundit's wrong, people who say you have you're 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.200 a radio guy. You know you have a face for TV. 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.160 You're a good looking guy. Got a new haircut too looking, 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:58.960 charp nice and you clean up well? 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:03.920 Thank you. He's got too many battles against the years. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.240 How's it gonna feel though to have him kind of 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.800 in your back in game action. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.039 It's gonna feel great to have Derek Henry Henry on 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.640 our side. It's gonna be a wonderful thing looking forward 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:15.800 to it. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.520 Coach, how do you account for his improvisational skills and 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.800 making plays on the run, flicking the ball. 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.920 And stuff he does, Well, you really do have to 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:29.399 account for it, Todd. I mean, nobody does it like 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.160 Patrick Mahomes does it in terms of I'm not talking 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.560 about the level of I'm talking about the style of it. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.280 He is his own guy in terms of the way 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.840 he plays, how quick the ball comes out on the 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.440 ones down to get it outs and uh, and how 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.160 long he'll take as long as necessary to try to 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.600 find a completion nor scramble run on the ones that 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.560 are now fast. So that's his skill he's great at it. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:51.800 I think their offensive line, they're passing him, everything is 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.400 built around his skill set that way. They've done a 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.400 great job of that and that's one of the biggest 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.000 reasons that they're successful as they are. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:00.760 What was it important in that ies O the decals 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.920 for their Joe d and Jacoby Just why was that important? 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:04.040 So? 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.400 I know you said with a season you're dedicating to them, 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.760 but to have that decal and the helmet this season. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.639 Very well, it's a great question. Why is it important 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:16.360 to honor and remember Jacoby and Joe d with the 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.400 helmet decal, And really it comes back to what's the 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:20.840 most important thing. And we do have a lot of 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:25.359 great conversations here about games and expectations and what went 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:26.840 right and what went wrong and how you're going to 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.040 defend this player or that player and all that stuff 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.600 is what we do, but it's it's not who we 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.760 do it with, really, And the reason is is because 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.360 the who we do it with, whether it's in our 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.920 job or our family life, our friends, just our walk 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.799 through life, who we do it with is really the thing. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.160 And then what we do about the people for the 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.760 people with the people that we do it with. And 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:56.880 so what an opportunity to remember, honor love two people 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.160 that we were with, you know, all those years. And 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:01.720 then I think the biggest reminder of that to me 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.040 is I look at that helmet decal. It's a reminder 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.399 to remember the people that you're doing it with now, 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.040 you know, your family, your friends, your co workers, even 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.799 your competitors you're competing against, you know, uh, to make 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.560 the most of these moments because our time on this 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.720 earth is short, man, it's short lived. Life is short, 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:19.560 you know, run to the ball, it's a it's a 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.799 flicker where we're grass. It burns up in the day 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.520 in the daytime sun, and it's what you do between 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.080 those two dates that matter. So I think it's kind 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:30.960 of a reminder of all that kind of stuff. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.720 John, especially with Joe d It's it's still so fresh 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.200 for for all you guys. How have you how have 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:46.000 you seen guys kind of work through what you guys 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.680 are going through to kind of kind of get the 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.480 business of football and how intermingled are are they big 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:53.320 in the work right now? 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.280 Well, you know, it's the it's this, it's it's things 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.080 happen and and but but but time still keeps moving on. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:01.360 You know. 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:03.520 I always talk to the guys about going to the 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.280 ocean and sitting on the beach, you know, and sit 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:06.920 on the beach. Some people think it's boring. I think 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.240 it's fascinating to sit on the beach and just watch 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.600 the waves come in because they don't stop. They don't, 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.480 they don't, they don't, they don't stop. Sometimes sometimes they're 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.320 kind of calm and nice and fun and warm and inviting, 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.440 and other times they get a little rough, you know, 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.280 and there's storms and they come in one after another, 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.279 and they're high, and they can they can be dangerous. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.520 But that's that's kind of a time analogy that those 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.280 waves just keep coming, man, So you just got to 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.360 keep swimming. You got to keep you got to keep 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:33.960 at it. So I think that's what our guys have done. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.560 They've they acknowledged, you know, the people that they loved, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.320 they remember them, and they keep going, you know, and 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:41.160 that's what you have to do. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.280 John, Any folks you know, all off seats in the 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.520 trading camp about you know, the AFC Championship game now 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.120 two days away from the season opener. I mean, is 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.719 there any carryover do you feel from that game going 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:55.080 into this? 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.680 Oh, there's always carry over, absolutely. I mean there's carryover 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.400 for both teams, there's carryover strets, strategically, there's carryover for 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.200 the individual battles that guys are going to have they 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:04.440 are still on the team. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:05.080 Uh. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:06.800 You know, one thing always leads to the next. You know, 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.200 one wave leads to the next wave, and these two 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.039 waves happen to be coming right after the other one. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.160 So that's the that's an interesting thing. It's a storyline, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.520 but you know it's uh, it's part of it for sure. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.640 What are your kind of emotions or anxiety? Obviously, you 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.359 know Week one every year. I'm sure you're anxious to 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.720 get going when it's Is it different when it's against 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.719 a Kansas City first game, prime time, all of that? 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:30.480 Does it like? 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.560 What is that day leading up to the all of that? 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.599 Like for you, it's it's it's like it's it's uh. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.039 I'm not gonna try to under downplay it, but I 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.720 don't want you to think it's different either. I mean, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.080 it's always. It's always. There's always. It's not anxiety. The 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.120 word we use is tension. There's always tension because you 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:49.640 want to go out and do well and if you 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.520 want to be strong, if you want to be successful. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.920 It's like a bridge, you know, like a like a bridge, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:56.760 hanging bridge. What are those called? 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:57.360 Suspension? 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.760 A suspension bridge? Right, those cables, they they have tension 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.400 to hold that bridge up there and keep everybody safe. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.680 There's tension when you're lifting weights. There's tension in your 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.159 arms and your muscles. There's got to be tension. So 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:09.680 guys are gonna be tense, they're gonna be locked in, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.760 they're gonna be focused. You feel that way, and it's 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.320 the first game, So it adds to that. But beyond that, 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.000 there's there's not anxiety, there's not there's no fear at all. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.280 There's excitement to go play the game. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.159 John, what do you notice from some of these rookie 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.200 guys that are about to place their first regular season game, 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.800 real game, even Trenton sevsonho was about to get a 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.920 start for the first time in this level. For the 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:33.640 remainder of the season, you felt like you had to 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.000 say anything to these guys. 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.440 They're ready to go. I think we say something to 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.120 them every day and how we operate, you know, and 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.240 how we play and how we teach and how they practice, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.400 and and they'll stand on that going into this game, 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.559 just like all the guys will. And they'll just trust 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:49.120 their fundamentals and trust their training, trust their talent, you know, 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.120 trust the fact that they've been working their whole life. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.000 The thing we want to do is you make a 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.120 decision going into any game or any any a career. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.400 You make a decision about how you're going to do it. 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.120 You know what's gonna come in front of you know 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.480 what challenges you're gonna have. It's like, okay, ahead of time, 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.839 you decide if this happens, this is how I'm gonna respond. 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:06.200 You know. 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.000 So if I'm rushing the passer and the ball gets 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:09.320 out quick, what am I gonna do? Am I gonna 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.120 go look and see and decide if I need to 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.280 chase the ball? Or I already decided I'm gonna put 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:14.560 a foot in the ground and go chase the ball. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.920 You already make that decision. So that's how our guys 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:18.560 are thinking. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.320 In the locker room. We also heard from wide receiver 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:29.840 Rashaan Bateman. Where do you feel like that chemistry is 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:30.440 with La Mark? 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:32.760 I feel like I said a good point right now. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:34.080 We put it in a lot of work. You know, 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.080 I was able to do training camp, so we're looking 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:36.840 forward to it. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.360 So how did you describe the excitement going into this game? 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.040 This opponent at the stage all that I. 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:43.840 Never played out heard it's crazy, So you know, definitely 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.640 up for the challenge, you know, decided to take the 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.480 field of these guys and we'll see what happens. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.520 This year's second year of the offense under Todd Mounket. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:52.920 How how much better I guess prepared? 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:54.480 Ready? 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.000 You know, well, you think the offense this is a 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.760 whole knowing that you guys have had in a season 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.200 under your belt, under toide, you. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:01.440 Definite a little bit more comfortable. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:01.640 Uh. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.640 I feel like, uh, you know, switching offenses could be 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:09.160 hard at sometimes, but playing last year having success, we 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:10.360 kind of know what to expect now. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:11.240 Uh, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.600 Working with Lamar, working with UH coach Monkin, I feel 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.080 like we're all on the same page. So just been 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:16.440 out there being able to get those reps. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:17.680 It's been important cause. 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.760 It's obviously gonna be an emotional line for those guys 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:20.960 celebrating their Super. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.600 Bowl win, is it? And you're when you kind of 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.200 see what the Chiefs have done. Is it good to 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:27.800 have somebody to shoot for? 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.360 Somebody and sort of the bull's eyes, so to speak, 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:31.480 that that you guys can. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.720 Be got to broke through against I We're not aiming 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.439 for nobody, I mean, and I'm pretty sure they're not 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.319 aiming for us. I mean, they beat us far and 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.200 Squire last year. And you know, I feel like we 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:41.720 just gonna play football again Thursday night. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.840 I shall and hearing uh, John Harball here and Lamar 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.160 really talk you up a lot this off season, and 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:48.480 you had a really good camp. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.920 What what does that do for your confidence? Now going 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.120 into this season. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.520 Doesn't really do anything for my confidence. It just shows 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.640 me that this teammate, this organization you know, believes in me. 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:59.800 I've always had the confidence in myself to go out 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.520 in you know, play football and do the things I 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.480 need to do. Uh, but you know, to sign the 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.520 extension here, it it shows that you know, the Costel Pashadi, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.120 Lamar uh Hardwall, you know, Munckt, whoever it is, you know, 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.200 it shows that they all believe in my abilities. And 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.760 you know that's a you know, that's a a peaceful 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.040 mind accomplish that comes with that. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.839 I'm sure everyone you know goes into this game with 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:19.960 different different feelings. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.400 It's kind of how are you approaching this? 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:22.120 Uh? 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:23.240 Given out last year end? 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.720 It is this a turn to turn the page twenty twenty. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.000 Four where you still think about how last year end. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.080 It just gonna cover your impersonally. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.560 Nobody in NFL cares about what happens the year before. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.120 We onto you know, new things, bigger things, and that's 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.680 the only thing we hoping to accomplish right now. And 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.719 for me, you know, this is my first f UH 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.720 full off season fully healthy UH training campt fully healthy. Yeah, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.679 I know, I missed a couple of days, but it's 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.600 so long as I've been on the practice field, you know, uh, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.680 since I been here. So I'm definitely excited to go 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:55.600 out there and you know, do my thing. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.800 It's kind of how what is what is that feeling 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.720 for you kind of going into the season now with 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:01.280 that healthy off season. 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.240 And you know, you mentioned how people are kind of 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.280 looking to you and noticing that you're you're those. 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:05.679 And things out there. 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.640 Uh, it's definitely the exciting feeling hopefully you know it. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.200 It all can be on put on, put on. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.080 Show lots of one of your bite We saw your 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.080 uh your tweet you know that kind of grew up 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.920 about just kind of hoping and praying for a big 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.560 year in big game on that. Yeah, I just going 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:20.199 along with that. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:20.480 You know. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.440 I how does that kind of play into the excitement 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:23.520 that you have going into this year? 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:25.400 What the tweet? 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.920 Yeah, I mean does that kind of encapsulate your your mindset, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.480 your excitement going into this year? 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:30.160 Yeah. 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:30.720 I mean. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.240 Baltimore drafted me and there's been a lot of you know, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.240 he says, she's say uh about me. But you know, 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:40.600 at the end of the day. I love playing here. 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.000 I do love Baltimore. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:43.040 I love my teammates. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.600 So for me, I just wanna go out and you know, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.440 do it right for the city. You know, put the 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.160 you know, sew the guys, you know that you can 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.240 depend on me, So this city that you can depend 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.680 on me. So this you know, the coaching staff, you 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.120 know those things as well. So I'm definitely excited to 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:58.760 go out and you know, hopefully bring a Super Bowl 0:10:58.800 --> 0:10:59.480 back to Baltimore. 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:12.559 We also talked with fellow wide receiver Zay Flowers. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.120 A way last year ended, how how much have you 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.120 been looking forward to this game and more than kind 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.480 of what are your emotions like and so. 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.880 Far it's a different season now, so I ain't really 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.360 too worried about last year. Were trying to get a 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.160 championship this year, so that's out the window. 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:25.400 We just gotta go win this game. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.199 So you said at the end of the last season 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.000 that you could use obviously umble in the end zone, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.440 that's the slame shot to become a better player. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.719 How do you think that motivation that's transitd in the 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.240 last couple of months. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.520 I'm just I just want to have a better season. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.400 So I've been practicing with the guys. We've been working 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.400 towards I mayn't go which is a championship. So last 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.360 season with last season, and I mean, I use it 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.320 as fuel, but it ain't really I don't. It's a 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.520 new season. I think about that. I'm messing myself up 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:55.120 for this season. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.760 So where do you feel like, uh, the chemistry is 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.360 with the receivers on the MA going into this year? 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:02.079 Uh? 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.760 I mean it's the second end is often so I 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.800 feel like the chemistry is way better. It got uh better, 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.600 connections better. You know, I can't give out too many kids, 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:10.920 but we getting better. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.040 We working tay. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.560 Given how ye season and say that the Chiefs are 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.480 from being one match up, it's not one of those thoughts. 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.800 Play are going through your mind year to get the 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.240 camp for this game or kind of how. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.120 You feel going into it? 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:24.840 Uh huh Nah. 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.000 I'm prepared the same way. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.840 I'm'a go out prepared, probably dance around the field, do. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.800 What I do and get ready for the game. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.959 I got my team Bahamas, so we all good tip 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:36.960 to that end. To that point, Yet you know, if 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.480 he put camped up, I mean there's something about a 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.440 season opener but when you are the season open for. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.480 The entire league, I mean, how much more special is that? 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.000 What do you expect you in Thurston lay? 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:47.920 Uh? 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.720 I mean we put we had a hard training camp, 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.080 so I mean everybody on our team ready. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.480 We gonna be ready to go. We gonna be ready 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:53.880 to play. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.240 Our coach I think put together a great game plan 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.680 for us, so we gonna get ready to play our ball. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.440 They say you think Bateman's about ready to exploit this season. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.880 Absolutely, yeah, he gonna have a go in this year. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:08.320 Cause the work he put in, the work he put 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.000 in this off season, you could tell he been focused 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.640 in the meeting rooms. He been talking to Lamar, he 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.840 been talking to He's just been getting involved with everybody 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:17.840 more and the more involved in the offense. So I 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:19.400 feel like it'll be a great year for him. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.520 How do you think having Derick Henry could change the 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:22.600 way that the secondary is. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:23.040 Trying to cover? 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.680 You guess you gotta tackle him first. That's why, like, 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.000 you gotta go tackle Derrick Henry. Then well, let me 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:30.640 put it like this way. You gotta tackle Lamar and 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.680 Derrek Henry out the back flod and then you gotta 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.120 worry about all the receivers, Mark lightly me bait, and 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.000 people coming out the bench. So we got a lot 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:38.960 of playmakers everywhere. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.320 He's, hey, I think Week won last season. Your first 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.120 NFL game, you had like twenty targets something crazy. You know, 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.040 you had a big first game. Yeah, how are you 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.719 different now than you were going into Week one as 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:50.080 a rookie? 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.400 I say, the game of the speed, like the speed 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.880 of the game it was, it was faster. So I 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.680 was out there just I was just off of all instincts, 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.720 like not really knowing what's going on. 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:01.840 I was really more just playing football. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.960 Is there anything different about playing in prime time? 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.640 One of the lights for you? Nah, I cheat all 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:09.960 the games the same. I go out and play. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.320 I go out and play hard every game, and I 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.520 really just cheat all of 'em the same and play 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:14.960 my game. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.000 How would you sum up the the atmosphere of the 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.240 excitement from a team standpoint going into this game of 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:21.720 the season. 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.680 You know, we all decided especially what like like you said, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.120 well happened last year, and we sh we get to 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:29.800 start it off with him and start the season off 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:30.240 with a bang. 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.320 So we gonna go out there and play our game. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:37.680 They you seem unveils Luatacas for Joke Games Robe today. 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.080 Jakobe was here during during summer. Did you get a 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:42.120 chance of talking off? 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah he I think I end up at Lamar. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.720 I think threw me a ball and it was like 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.920 came out right off my fingertips and I was running back. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.640 He was like, hey, don blood, you better than that. 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.080 I know you better than that. And I'm looking him like, man, 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.280 who talking to me? I'm thinking it's a fan, and 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.280 then I just see him runing up to me because 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.840 you know, he was a childhood like, childhood like legend, 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.160 like from when I was young. I see him taking 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.600 back kid returns, punt returns, deep balls, winning games, Super Bowl. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.720 So he always been a legend in my book, like 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.760 always knew who he was, always rooted from, and always 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:16.560 cheered for him since I was a kid, always been 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:17.080 a big fan. 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.040 If you were to pick one breakout kind of that 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:22.960 this year among your teammates, WO would have been. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.600 All the receivers, including the tight ends. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.000 Everybody gonna have a good year. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.440 And lastly, today we had a chance to hear from 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.400 linebacker Trenton Simpson, who's preparing to take over a starting 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:46.560 role in this Ravens defense, and I'm excited. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.160 I feel like all off season been training or practicing 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.280 the right way, earned the respect of my teammate and 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:53.800 my coachest. Some man, I'm excited to go out there 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.200 and see the work that I put in payoff. 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:56.800 For sure? What are you most excited out you want 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:57.600 to come to this defense? 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.600 Man? Just the versatility to all the pains we have, 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.720 the players we have and playing a a along some 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.360 great players. So uh, just going out there everybody been 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.400 on the same page, and the speed this defense has been. 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.760 I'm excited. Yeah, for for you as. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.440