Speaker 1: Welcome into Raven's press pass Today on the eve of
Speaker 1: the first practice of training camp. We are going to
Speaker 1: hear from tight end Mark Andrews, tackle Morgan Moses, and
Speaker 1: linebacker Rokwan Smith.
Speaker 2: First up, let's hear from Mark.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of excitement. I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of excitement in Baltimore.
Speaker 4: We know what this team can be, but right now
Speaker 4: it's just focusing on us each and every day trying
Speaker 4: to get, you know, just a little bit better each
Speaker 4: and every day, to get to the point where we
Speaker 4: need to be. And I'm excited to start training camp,
Speaker 4: get things going, and just see the hunger in this group.
Speaker 5: You guys never shy away from the high expectations, but
Speaker 5: knowing what the roster looks like, the money that's invested
Speaker 5: in it, do you see kind of a small window
Speaker 5: and do you feel that as far as what could
Speaker 5: happen this season and potentially next.
Speaker 3: I don't know about small window.
Speaker 4: You know, I think that we've been you know, we've
Speaker 4: been a really good team for you know, a long time,
Speaker 4: and some things have happened here or there, But you know,
Speaker 4: you do look at our roster and there's a lot
Speaker 4: of talent, a lot of talent on both sides of
Speaker 4: the ball. And I love our coaches too, just in
Speaker 4: an organizationally, it's just an amazing place to be in place.
Speaker 4: So you know, that's why there's a lot of excitement
Speaker 4: in this town, in this facility and and everywhere. So
Speaker 4: it's time for us to to get to practice, work
Speaker 4: hard each and every day. That's that's really what it's
Speaker 4: all about.
Speaker 6: Mark, you, when you look at this roster and named
Speaker 6: everything that you that you guys just did for the
Speaker 6: roster of this all season, do you feel any more
Speaker 6: optimistic about you gask the chances this year that maybe in.
Speaker 3: Years there, I don't know about any more.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm always you know, extremely optimistic and excited.
Speaker 4: You know, I think anytime you know you're playing out
Speaker 4: a place like this, you've got a chance to win.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there's definitely a lot of you know, excitement
Speaker 4: and optimism, especially with you know, the the few additions
Speaker 4: that we've had and.
Speaker 3: Like I said, you got you gotta look at both
Speaker 3: sides of the ball. It's dangerous unfinished business at all.
Speaker 6: And considering me with the last couple of years and
Speaker 6: we are not being there at the end, you guys
Speaker 6: were right there and close, but couldn't get worry when
Speaker 6: to get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we've gotten close, you know, And that's
Speaker 4: part of it. I think that's gonna be something that
Speaker 4: drives you, drives each and every one of us that
Speaker 4: that's been here and played here during those years, is
Speaker 4: just letting those guys know that we do have unfinished
Speaker 4: business and it's time the role.
Speaker 7: What about Mark, You've had to excel not a lot
Speaker 7: of great pieces around you on the outside, and now
Speaker 7: you do have all these other pieces. But you've been
Speaker 7: Lamar's safety valve for so many years.
Speaker 8: So how do.
Speaker 7: You justify getting everybody all their their balls? But you've
Speaker 7: been the guy that's been moving the chains for so long.
Speaker 4: Just being a team player, you know, I think that
Speaker 4: you do things the right way, you play the right way,
Speaker 4: the balls will come to you, you know. But at
Speaker 4: the same time, you know it's it's it's important to
Speaker 4: spread the ball out and I know that the guys
Speaker 4: that we have on this roster are able to get open,
Speaker 4: make the big time catches and do all those different things.
Speaker 4: So again, being a team guy, I just want to
Speaker 4: win games. That's all that matters to me.
Speaker 9: Got to play it all this safety valve idea. I
Speaker 9: mean you've you've thrived finding open space sometimes when it
Speaker 9: plays break down. What's sort of the balance with Todd
Speaker 9: Monkin in the new walk defensive, you know, having additional
Speaker 9: structure or new structure, but still giving you some space
Speaker 9: and freedom to find some of those teams.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm still learning, you know, I'm still learning the offense.
Speaker 4: And that's why I'm so excited to get back to
Speaker 4: training camp and really carve up, you know, my role
Speaker 4: and find out the douce and don'ts of the offense
Speaker 4: and you know, find times where maybe I'll take something
Speaker 4: that maybe I shouldn't.
Speaker 3: But the mars on the same page with that mark.
Speaker 10: Does it feel like with the talent that you guys
Speaker 10: have on offense at every position? Does it does it
Speaker 10: remind you all like that you had a home over
Speaker 10: there were stars basically everywhere you looked on that chart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you look around at the room and.
Speaker 4: It's it's a lot of dogs. It's a lot of
Speaker 4: dogs everywhere. And that's why we played with in Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: So that's a that's a beautiful thing, you know, and
Speaker 4: that's what this time of year is about is getting together,
Speaker 4: having all these personalities messed together, getting better together, grinding together.
Speaker 4: This is a tough time of year, so we got
Speaker 4: to embrace the grind as one.
Speaker 8: Mark, you guys have.
Speaker 6: Had great years and think back to next twenty nineteen
Speaker 6: year and you guys were fourteen game you you've shown
Speaker 6: the ability to be a really good regular season team.
Speaker 6: What do you think it will take for you guys
Speaker 6: to really put it all together in January?
Speaker 3: That's a great question.
Speaker 4: I just think it's, you know, we've been so close,
Speaker 4: and I think that, you know, if we get the
Speaker 4: opportunity to get there again, you know, we've got the lot,
Speaker 4: a lot to prove and and things that you know,
Speaker 4: it's unspoken business. So I'm excited to get to that point.
Speaker 11: Mark.
Speaker 12: You the veteran in the uh tight end rom with
Speaker 12: Nick uh no longer hear uh?
Speaker 3: How does that uh your role change in that in
Speaker 3: that sense?
Speaker 4: Uh, it's you know, it's you know, I've obviously learned
Speaker 4: uh so much from Nick and being that young guy
Speaker 4: and him being a third year I learned a lot
Speaker 4: from him just being a leader.
Speaker 3: You know, you look up to guys that are older,
Speaker 3: th older than you have been through it.
Speaker 4: And so I'm just gonna be there for those guys,
Speaker 4: you know, try to give him as much knowledge as
Speaker 4: I can, and you know, just be a be a
Speaker 4: good person and uh teammate and you know, show 'em
Speaker 4: the ropes.
Speaker 9: Mark?
Speaker 12: Did having a new offense, being in a new offense
Speaker 12: change the way you prepare for the season in terms
Speaker 12: of is there certain things you worked on more? Did
Speaker 12: you spend more time in the playbook than you normally
Speaker 12: have been in an offense.
Speaker 1: You were familiar with?
Speaker 4: Not really, you know, it's it's you know, it's one
Speaker 4: of those things where you know, I feel like I
Speaker 4: can grasp the offense pretty quickly and that. But it's
Speaker 4: you know, this is the time where we really dive
Speaker 4: down and and learn and get to it. But basically
Speaker 4: the same thing. It's been working hard. You're getting strong,
Speaker 4: getting fast, And I say that every year, but I
Speaker 4: can't wait for the season and I can't wait for
Speaker 4: this training camp to start and to getting better.
Speaker 8: What do you think I mean? Because you had mini
Speaker 8: camp and looking at and in the off season.
Speaker 13: Looking at the new offense, what kind of stood out
Speaker 13: to you maybe as maybe a little bit different than
Speaker 13: maybe what you guys have done that.
Speaker 4: Well, it's kind of look different, you know, And I'm
Speaker 4: excited for all the Baltimore fans really everybody to see,
Speaker 4: you know, the difference of of what this offense could be.
Speaker 4: You know, I have a lot of respect for Coach
Speaker 4: Roman and what we've had and and kind of the
Speaker 4: the things that we built here. I think there's a
Speaker 4: lot to stand on with that. This is gonna be
Speaker 4: a different offense. There's gonna be little nuances here there.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be able to throw the ball and you know,
Speaker 4: do good things. You know, I'm excited about the receivers
Speaker 4: and Coach Monkin's doing his thing. He's really teaching well
Speaker 4: and making us all excited about learning and installing his offense.
Speaker 3: Your role changing in this offense that you're that you
Speaker 3: start to work over, I think it'll be different. You know.
Speaker 4: It's it's hard to you know, pick out one one
Speaker 4: little thing, but I think I'll be able to do
Speaker 4: some different things, different routes, different combinations of routes that
Speaker 4: we can feed off of. But you know, I feel
Speaker 4: like I could run any route in the tree, and
Speaker 4: so I thinkna be, I'm gonna be able to do
Speaker 4: that and be utilized that way likely.
Speaker 3: And colder in year two.
Speaker 7: And you, is this the deepest tight end room in
Speaker 7: the league.
Speaker 4: And it's a deep one. Yeah, it's for sure deep one.
Speaker 4: I think we've got a great group. We have a
Speaker 4: great coach, coach Goatsee. He's kind of really the ring
Speaker 4: ring leader of it all and we learned a lot
Speaker 4: from him. So it's gonna be a fun year. It's
Speaker 4: gonna be fun tight end group. And I can't wait
Speaker 4: to see the guy the plays that these guys make.
Speaker 1: How much tight you this year?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 4: I didn't go, Yeah, I didn't go. I unfortunately had
Speaker 4: a wedding I had to go to. But I know
Speaker 4: Isaiah went. He had a great time. I saw those
Speaker 4: all the videos of those guys, and uh, I think
Speaker 4: it's just an incredible event for those guys to get together,
Speaker 4: mesh and and learn from each other.
Speaker 3: Market's talk about.
Speaker 1: Your your role changing in different combinations. Is that exciting
Speaker 1: for you to have kind of a new, something new
Speaker 1: that you can kind of focus on?
Speaker 14: You know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's new and exciting. I think anytime
Speaker 4: you can learn something that you've been you know, I've
Speaker 4: been playing in the same offense for you know, like
Speaker 4: the last five years, so I think and as a player,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be able to grow learn and I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna soak it all in like I'm a like I'm
Speaker 4: a rookie.
Speaker 9: Mark.
Speaker 15: At some point, you see Raven's veterans I've been here
Speaker 15: for a while, they graduate to the point where they're
Speaker 15: getting vet days at practice, where they have that league way. Yeah,
Speaker 15: is John Harbar which Gotzie came to and say, hey, Mark,
Speaker 15: you know you wanna get on that plane or is
Speaker 15: that something you'd endorse.
Speaker 3: Or or I don't push you out.
Speaker 10: You've like going out there and practicing every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I I love to worry.
Speaker 4: You know, a body feels great, you know, I feel
Speaker 4: like you know, if they come to me and say, hey,
Speaker 4: you want to you want to off day, I'll probably
Speaker 4: fight it a little bit. But I've got a big
Speaker 4: picture of mind where you know, I want to be
Speaker 4: playing late in the playoffs and feel incredible.
Speaker 3: That's my goal.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 4: I know things happened, but being smart as part of it.
Speaker 4: You know, Todd Heap was someone that you know, he
Speaker 4: talked to us two or three years ago, and he
Speaker 4: said by year four or five, he said, the biggest
Speaker 4: thing for me was I learned to practice and play smart,
Speaker 4: and so I'm trying to adapt that a little bit.
Speaker 10: Made a lot of strides as the blocker and taking
Speaker 10: a lot of pride in that. Do you think that
Speaker 10: in says will help you make will help make you
Speaker 10: better as a receiver, as a you know, right on
Speaker 10: play action everything like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just being versatile. You know, I know what my
Speaker 4: bread and butter is. It always will be, you know,
Speaker 4: being a danger in the past game. But I think
Speaker 4: you know, you know, I feel strong. I know I'm
Speaker 4: able to do those type of things. So you know,
Speaker 4: hopefully we'll be able to use that in different ways
Speaker 4: and you know, maybe be hidden a little bit. I
Speaker 4: don't know if I'll ever be hidden, you know, to defenses.
Speaker 3: But we'll see. Mark.
Speaker 12: I know you were around him a little bit than
Speaker 12: many camp Bekham has been around this league for a
Speaker 12: long time. Being around is there anything that surprised you
Speaker 12: about him that you that you didn't know?
Speaker 4: I don't know about surprise. You know, he's got a
Speaker 4: great attitude, great personality. He's an infectious person to be around.
Speaker 4: He's kind of got that factor to him and really
Speaker 4: excited to see you know, all that hard work you
Speaker 4: know he's been putting in, and see him in training
Speaker 4: camp and and just get this offense, offense meshing together
Speaker 4: as one and and moving towards the same goal and
Speaker 4: you know, not taking any days off and pushing pushing
Speaker 4: each other to be great.
Speaker 1: Aside from next as in a sorry, just what about
Speaker 1: him as a coach?
Speaker 3: Has really stout he's firing, and he's fired.
Speaker 4: He really loves what he's doing. You know, I really
Speaker 4: believe that there's no other place he'd rather be. And
Speaker 4: then you know the Baltimore Ravens, you know, this year
Speaker 4: right now teaching these guys. So I think that's an
Speaker 4: awesome thing. That's I think it's a cool thing to
Speaker 4: have a coach that's so fired up, loves what he does,
Speaker 4: really believes in his you know, offense, and you know,
Speaker 4: I think it's cool.
Speaker 11: Seeing the off season work that Obja and say Flowers
Speaker 11: to put in with the more does it give.
Speaker 3: You more confidence going into the season that everybody's on
Speaker 3: the same page.
Speaker 4: You know, I think that that those type of things
Speaker 4: are important you know, I think it's more so important
Speaker 4: just chemistry. I know that Mars gonna put the ball
Speaker 4: where it needs to go. And but yeah, I think
Speaker 4: it's awesome. I think it's awesome those guys were able
Speaker 4: to get together, work together, and just just shows their
Speaker 4: commitment to to to working together and being teammates.
Speaker 8: Mark, you're talking.
Speaker 16: About having dogs everywhere on offense? Yeah, Now does it
Speaker 16: feel like that the identity of the Ravens as a
Speaker 16: hole is gonna come from that side.
Speaker 11: Of the ball?
Speaker 10: To you?
Speaker 4: I hope it comes from both. You know, I think
Speaker 4: that's where where dangerous teams come from. Is is uh
Speaker 4: is having a great you know, obviously defense, which I
Speaker 4: think we have. It's a very good defense, and then
Speaker 4: a great offense. So if we can feed off each other,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a dangerous team. I usually it's a
Speaker 4: little bit lopsided. It's usually how teams work. But if
Speaker 4: we can make you both those happen, it's a good team.
Speaker 16: And then you George Kittle said that, uh, you know,
Speaker 16: he would take your hands if he was building you know,
Speaker 16: the ideal tight end of the league. Do you agree
Speaker 16: with that? And then who else would give you.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of those guys have incredible hands.
Speaker 4: That's very sweet of him to say that, but yeah,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of great tight ends in this league.
Speaker 4: I think everybody's got their unique style, unique playing abilities,
Speaker 4: and that's why it's such a cool position, is because
Speaker 4: everyone brings their own flavor to it.
Speaker 1: Good stuff for Mark Andrews. Next up is tackle Morgan
Speaker 1: Missus when.
Speaker 8: Started training camp. Is it still exciting this many years? Oh,
Speaker 8: it's really exciting, man.
Speaker 13: Obviously, the opportunity to get back to playing football is
Speaker 13: obviously a great one. But just the changes that we've
Speaker 13: made as an organization and as a team, it's hard
Speaker 13: not to get excited, you know, to get to play
Speaker 13: with Odell and obviously Lamar's a flowers seeing those guys
Speaker 13: connection throughout the off season and just being focused in
Speaker 13: h and ready to go.
Speaker 4: Where's your comfort level.
Speaker 5: From the offense from when we saw you in the
Speaker 5: field last to playbook the off.
Speaker 8: Season to now, you know, obviously he's always a work
Speaker 8: in progress, you know.
Speaker 13: I you know, going into year ten, I've played in
Speaker 13: a uh a lot of different offices, schemes, and but
Speaker 13: it's always good to have a challenge to be able
Speaker 13: to come in and and and and be you know,
Speaker 13: be able to get in something different.
Speaker 8: I think that allows you to grow.
Speaker 13: And I'm looking forward to seeing the whole offense grow,
Speaker 13: just not myself, but the offensive line adapting to the
Speaker 13: new scheme. Lamar obviously being able to have more hands
Speaker 13: on with the play calling and just all the players
Speaker 13: that we have surrounded him just gives us a great
Speaker 13: good deal of talent. And obviously it looks good on paper,
Speaker 13: but you know, we got to put it together and
Speaker 13: I look forward to doing that.
Speaker 10: Morgan, do you expect this offense to be among the
Speaker 10: faster he played in or just faster than last.
Speaker 8: Year's as was, you know, a a lot faster.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 13: Obviously you give a you know, you know Zay Flower
Speaker 13: seeing him and what an unbelievable rookie he is. Man
Speaker 13: just to be able to, uh, you know, have him
Speaker 13: come into mini camp and OTAs and he already has
Speaker 13: that mindset of if you ever had a chance to
Speaker 13: sit down and talk to him, he has a mindset
Speaker 13: that he's been in the league already for three years
Speaker 13: and every you know, and obviously he's a sponge. You know,
Speaker 13: he's willing to ask questions and to soak it up
Speaker 13: and and uh and learn. And obviously when you have
Speaker 13: a rookie and rookies and a lot of our rookies
Speaker 13: are like that, you have a group of rookies coming
Speaker 13: and willing to do that. Man, the sky's the limit
Speaker 13: for those guys as well.
Speaker 10: So I was actually talking about the tempo between.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, that's that too.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 13: Obviously, you know, the offense, allowing Lamar to check plays
Speaker 13: and get into a little different things that he sees
Speaker 13: to get us in the right place, just to be
Speaker 13: able to hit those you know, those things.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 13: Obviously we had a little bit of struggle last year,
Speaker 13: you know, getting out of the huddle a little bit
Speaker 13: and things like that. So being able to call a
Speaker 13: lot of stuff at the line of scrimmage and get
Speaker 13: plays at a hot tempo, it's it's it's incredible, incredible.
Speaker 6: You're going into year ten and you've been known as
Speaker 6: a guy that's always available.
Speaker 17: Right now, how much pride do you take in to
Speaker 17: that at this stage.
Speaker 15: In your careers.
Speaker 13: I mean, you can't make the team in the tubs, man,
Speaker 13: That's always been the model, right, So you know, just uh,
Speaker 13: you know, like you said, going to year ten, But
Speaker 13: it's just that that mindset of not letting your guys down.
Speaker 13: You know, you got fifty three guys that are willing
Speaker 13: to lay it on the line. You never want to
Speaker 13: be that guy that's in between.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 13: So just being ready and being focused and doing everything
Speaker 13: you can to be sure that you you're available.
Speaker 8: That's always been my model and my key to my
Speaker 8: success in my career.
Speaker 13: So so far, clearly you're excited about some of these
Speaker 13: new pieces in terms of the new pieces, the largers,
Speaker 13: can you signed here long term?
Speaker 9: Like how does all of that kind of just affect
Speaker 9: the energy and the exciting going into this season.
Speaker 13: You know, it was a long, long off season for
Speaker 13: all of us for a while, you know, but we're
Speaker 13: here right and that's the exciting thing. We got things done.
Speaker 13: I know, everybody's happy to get out there. And you know,
Speaker 13: obviously mini camping o Ta's was a snippet of just
Speaker 13: what what what you see on offense and obviously, you know,
Speaker 13: having a defense that's going into year two of a
Speaker 13: you know, our defensive coordinator and they're playing faster, and
Speaker 13: they're they have a lot of talent. You know, obviously
Speaker 13: a job boing those guys and a da FE, They're
Speaker 13: gonna challenge us.
Speaker 8: And that's what you want, right as a veteran guy.
Speaker 13: You want to go out there knowing that you're gonna
Speaker 13: be challenged every day so you can raise the bar
Speaker 13: day by day.
Speaker 8: And I think we've done that. And that's your question.
Speaker 7: I was wondering, what do you see on the other
Speaker 7: side of the ball with a da FE and year
Speaker 7: three now a job of coming into year two. You
Speaker 7: see these guys every day, people wondering where the rush
Speaker 7: is gonna come from?
Speaker 2: What you see?
Speaker 13: Well, number one is uh, you know they have a
Speaker 13: great teacher mentor and Chuck Smith. You know, you look
Speaker 13: at his resume and the things that he's done over
Speaker 13: his course of career of coaching and and challenging rushers,
Speaker 13: and you can see it already in ot A's and
Speaker 13: and mini camp, you know, just you know, talking ball
Speaker 13: with those guys and saying, hey, I can see this
Speaker 13: amount away and then I'm changing it like that. And
Speaker 13: that's uh, that's the belief of iron sharpens iron, right,
Speaker 13: So when you can have that effect in your locker
Speaker 13: room where guys are just trying to get better and
Speaker 13: sharpen that iron and sharpen that tool. The successes, you know,
Speaker 13: it's it's never limited.
Speaker 8: Just the second send you also the off of all
Speaker 8: office of line except for left guards, going back into
Speaker 8: how important is that? What offenses line that have that?
Speaker 10: And then where do you think these guys can take
Speaker 10: office of mine this year?
Speaker 14: You know?
Speaker 13: Obviously, you know we have some great veterans, you know, Zeitler,
Speaker 13: Tyler Linball stepping up off the amazing rookie year. And
Speaker 13: then you know Ronnie coming back, you know, healthy, you know,
Speaker 13: and and and you know he he played his butt
Speaker 13: off and for the time that we had him throughout
Speaker 13: the season. And I know it's a challenge to get
Speaker 13: back from injuries like that, cause I've experienced it myself.
Speaker 13: Just having a full offensive line, you know, and obviously
Speaker 13: the left guard spot is wide open. But uh, that's
Speaker 13: the challenge, right We're challenging those guys to step up
Speaker 13: and whoever may take that rein and we'll bring them along.
Speaker 13: And that's the part of being a veteran group. Did
Speaker 13: your preparation off season change when you're going for more
Speaker 13: of a run centric offense to more of a passing
Speaker 13: the offense, well, n not necessarily because you have to
Speaker 13: run the ball to set up the pass, you know. Uh,
Speaker 13: even though you know we got all these weapons and
Speaker 13: things like that, you know, you just can't sit out
Speaker 13: there and throw the ball forty fifty times.
Speaker 8: You got to set it up, you know. And that's
Speaker 8: what the league is about.
Speaker 13: And you know, I think you know, with the skill
Speaker 13: set that we have, we have the capability to not
Speaker 13: only you know, free up some players like Mark Andrews,
Speaker 13: who you know has used to getting double teams and
Speaker 13: and and things like that. Now we have guys that
Speaker 13: can win one on one on the outside. And so
Speaker 13: that's the beauty of the uh of this offense, allowing
Speaker 13: Lamar to his growth, you know, to keep on growing
Speaker 13: as a quarterback, but also being able to spread the ball,
Speaker 13: you know, to the running backs, receivers and the Titans
Speaker 13: as well.
Speaker 8: What's your watch.
Speaker 4: Running backs struggle to get the contracts that they feel
Speaker 4: to deserve all across the league.
Speaker 3: As a guy who opens holes for them, what do you?
Speaker 9: What do you?
Speaker 4: And obviously if you got tackled to get paid top
Speaker 4: dollar running backs lest so, just what is your perception
Speaker 4: on what you've see where that's unfold.
Speaker 13: I mean, I think you know you see that kind
Speaker 13: of creep up every other year for for that position,
Speaker 13: you know, But I would say this, man, the running
Speaker 13: back is important position, right because they carry the ball,
Speaker 13: you know, and I understand we have Lamar as a
Speaker 13: runner as well, but just to be able to have
Speaker 13: that three headed monster, you know, whether it's running back
Speaker 13: by committee or you have one one superstar guy back there,
Speaker 13: it takes all eleven to operate on the offense.
Speaker 8: Man, it doesn't take one guy.
Speaker 13: The offensive line has to do his thing, the quarterback
Speaker 13: has to get us in the right call, and and
Speaker 13: obviously we have to execute. So whoever may take that
Speaker 13: role this year, you know, obviously you know JK. Dobbins
Speaker 13: being being healthy, Gus you know, being healthy, and all
Speaker 13: the other guys that we have, we just look forward
Speaker 13: to them stepping up and and and getting getting it done.
Speaker 17: Around the Ravens coming into this season with all the
Speaker 17: insitions they've added of going into you know, ye and
Speaker 17: temper you have you been m as optimistic as you
Speaker 17: are about this season?
Speaker 9: Uh before?
Speaker 13: You know, definitely, like I said, man, you know, it
Speaker 13: looks good on paper, you know, everything looks good on paper,
Speaker 13: but we have to go out there and execute, and
Speaker 13: you know, it's it's not gonna beautiful every day. It's
Speaker 13: not gonna be you know, exciting every day. But it's
Speaker 13: a learning experience for all of us, right because we
Speaker 13: n I don't think any of us played with this
Speaker 13: amount of talent on this side of the ball before. Uh,
Speaker 13: especially for myself, I can speak for myself. So being
Speaker 13: able to have a great play caller and and Todd
Speaker 13: Mockin and and also having Lamar you know here and
Speaker 13: signed up for multiple years, that just gives uh, the
Speaker 13: offense a little bit more comfort. And so you'll see guys,
Speaker 13: you know, raise the bar and find their roles in
Speaker 13: that offensive scheme and and we'll just see how it
Speaker 13: goes by day by day.
Speaker 2: What's been your first impression style of the rookie year?
Speaker 2: And what do you say to him?
Speaker 15: Is heet or sister?
Speaker 14: Sure?
Speaker 13: You know he's young, athletic and he's poised to learn,
Speaker 13: like he really wants to learn. You know, he aksu
Speaker 13: he aks questions all the time and as much as
Speaker 13: much time he takes up aksing questions and meetings right it,
Speaker 13: But he asks those he aks those questions, and that's
Speaker 13: what you want for young players to do, you know.
Speaker 13: And I tell myself, you know, it's a cree reason
Speaker 13: I keep on coming back, right, It's because, like I
Speaker 13: feel like I can still learn the game.
Speaker 1: And uh.
Speaker 8: And when you have that mindset, man, it's a it's
Speaker 8: a beautiful thing.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 13: Once you once you're able to put that ego aside
Speaker 13: and say, hey, like I just wanna learn football and
Speaker 13: whatever way that you guys want me to learn it,
Speaker 13: i'm'a do that and i'm'a put my spin on it
Speaker 13: and it comes out with a h A A master recipe.
Speaker 10: Morgan, His offense last year wasn't very reliant on the screens.
Speaker 3: But be up, you're in the leite movers.
Speaker 15: I like that.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 10: I like that.
Speaker 14: You warming.
Speaker 8: He's warming me up over here. Okay, keep on, keep on,
Speaker 8: keep on, keep on.
Speaker 10: What do you what are you excited about that dimension
Speaker 10: of the offense? Could bee with podmonnk and what he
Speaker 10: did at your orda and you know, putting you guys
Speaker 10: and and against a bunch of smaller people.
Speaker 13: You know, yeah, you know obviously you know you look
Speaker 13: at our division right, and we have top rushers in
Speaker 13: Miles Garrett, TJ. Watt, and you find you have to
Speaker 13: find ways to like, how can I you know, mess
Speaker 13: them slow them up a little bit. So being able
Speaker 13: to add that to the game definitely controls the rush
Speaker 13: a little bit more. But also, like I said, man,
Speaker 13: spreading the ball out and getting your athletes out in
Speaker 13: space and letting them do their thing is also a
Speaker 13: beautiful thing too. So being able to open up the
Speaker 13: offense like that is I'm looking forward to it obviously.
Speaker 13: Like you said, I'm an elite runner. I appreciate that,
Speaker 13: you know, but just getting out of space and just
Speaker 13: having fun with it, right, because you know, nobody wants
Speaker 13: to sit there and just hand the ball off and
Speaker 13: straight drop backs all the time. You gotta have some
Speaker 13: gimmicks to get the guys open and out in space,
Speaker 13: and that's how you just get the ball.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: Those are those are cheap easy yards we call it.
Speaker 13: So anytime you can get the ball out in space
Speaker 13: and get twenty fifteen yards, whatever the case is, it's
Speaker 13: all about moving and sticks forward.
Speaker 1: So and last but not least, let's listen to inside
Speaker 1: linebacker Roquan Smith.
Speaker 7: Different rope one. Being here day one, you know your
Speaker 7: way around town, you.
Speaker 3: Know the building, instead of coming in halfway through the season.
Speaker 7: How much different is it starting out for season here?
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's a lot more different. Very comfortable to say
Speaker 14: the least. Uh, you know, just happy to be here
Speaker 14: with the guys, more familiar faces, and just excited to
Speaker 14: get the ground off running. Starting camp here. So I
Speaker 14: think it's gonna be good and help me starting season
Speaker 14: off on a high note.
Speaker 3: Have you thought about like, kind of where you were
Speaker 3: last year?
Speaker 14: You know, where you are now, more financially secure, you
Speaker 14: with new team, and what that's kind of been like
Speaker 14: for you. Oh yeah, last year or this year. I
Speaker 14: think that's what life. That's that's what life's all about,
Speaker 14: in a nutshell, And not saying that I wasn't financially
Speaker 14: secure before, but you know, it definitely definitely nice to
Speaker 14: you know, to have have the bag that I have
Speaker 14: now and whatnot. But I'm just more worried about going
Speaker 14: out there with my guys, laying it all on the line,
Speaker 14: not having any worries at all, and you know, whatever
Speaker 14: happens happens. I just know I'm gonna give everything got
Speaker 14: while I have it really movie saw.
Speaker 10: You know, obviously you got the the record deal from
Speaker 10: main Edmands at Chicago got the uh the nice deal
Speaker 10: for l For a little while there was making some
Speaker 10: talk about the the devaluing at in Thailand position. Why
Speaker 10: do you think depends on this swung back the other way?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 14: I think honestly, you know, when you get at the mic,
Speaker 14: sometimes you know, you just say what uh comes to
Speaker 14: your mind in a in a sense, and I think
Speaker 14: that goes you know whoever, whatever you have to say
Speaker 14: that comes out of your mouth. But I don't think
Speaker 14: it's a devalue at the position. You look across the
Speaker 14: league from myself, different Warners, the Leonards, uh Edmonds in there,
Speaker 14: uh Foyer like all of the guys. So I think
Speaker 14: there's a lot of and teams that win.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 14: I think a lot of 'em have really good uh linebackers,
Speaker 14: unless you have a superb guy like you know, my
Speaker 14: homes and whatnot. But not saying that they don't have
Speaker 14: uh good linebackers over there as well.
Speaker 8: Reoqingy a lot.
Speaker 10: Of talk to of course, here's you know the at
Speaker 10: Odell Beckham Junior and that new play Hall and all that.
Speaker 10: But defensively, What are kind of the expectations.
Speaker 12: Here for for grades?
Speaker 14: Uh, I feel like the expectations are very Yeah, you know,
Speaker 14: I feel like if we played to our standard, uh,
Speaker 14: everyone stays healthy. I think the defense we were not
Speaker 14: weak in any spots. If you ask me, I like
Speaker 14: our d line versus anyone. I like our secondary versus anyone.
Speaker 14: I for sure like all linebackers versus anyone. So when
Speaker 14: I look at it from that perspective, I feel like,
Speaker 14: you know, we do our jobs and we get the
Speaker 14: ball back to Lamar and the O. There's gonna be
Speaker 14: a lot of great things that's gonna happen. Mike Daniel in.
Speaker 17: The year or two, like you got your halfway through
Speaker 17: the storts to watch his evolution through his rook years
Speaker 17: as a play caller. Now to see him you're getting
Speaker 17: ready for your chould you see differences already in the
Speaker 17: way he's approaching the maturation.
Speaker 14: Or absolutely, I got a lot of you said Mike, right, yeah,
Speaker 14: uh absolutely, Uh, just making sure, but yeah, I got
Speaker 14: a lot of a lot of respect for Mike and
Speaker 14: his play calling, even from when I got here mid
Speaker 14: season last year, and just because it's someone first season
Speaker 14: calling plays that don't mean that they're like their first
Speaker 14: time calling plays in a sense from like the outside
Speaker 14: view in a sense. But yeah, I'm very grateful to
Speaker 14: be playing for Mike. I think there's a lot of
Speaker 14: great things that's in store for the defense, and he
Speaker 14: put a lot of guys in a lot of good
Speaker 14: positions to be successful. So I think it's gonna be
Speaker 14: really good for the defense. And uh, we're all just
Speaker 14: decided to put it all on the line for him.
Speaker 9: Having some returns and and having you a place in
Speaker 9: the middle and and Patrick places in the middle. Do
Speaker 9: you think this defense could you know, take take more
Speaker 9: big swings, make more risks, and and kind of come.
Speaker 15: Up with some bigger plays that way this year.
Speaker 14: I think when you just surround uh, when you're surrounded
Speaker 14: by playmakers, uh PQ next to me, you got Marcus
Speaker 14: Kyle on the back end, Marlow you know, uh betting
Speaker 14: up front, we got our guys, And I think when
Speaker 14: you just surrounded by playmakers and everybody just doing their
Speaker 14: job to the best of their ability, playing balls to
Speaker 14: the wall, I think just good things are gonna happen,
Speaker 14: and we're just more focused on that. And I we
Speaker 14: just gonna take it one game at a time, and
Speaker 14: I feel like if we do that, uh, good things
Speaker 14: are in store for us.
Speaker 15: Grow ye know, you're a big traveler. Was the cool
Speaker 15: thing to did this off season that didn't involve football.
Speaker 14: Uh, well, it kind of did involve football, but it
Speaker 14: was uh when I went over to uh Okinawa, Japan,
Speaker 14: uh with the USO and whatnot that was over in June,
Speaker 14: and just being over there with the soldiers uh and
Speaker 14: their families and then put on like three football clinics,
Speaker 14: and I thought that was like it it was pretty
Speaker 14: sick and very eye opening, like just the impact that
Speaker 14: we have on like the soldiers who are you know,
Speaker 14: making the ultimate sacrifice, you know, putting their lives online
Speaker 14: day in and day out to keep us safe. And
Speaker 14: just to see how that brightens their day, in their kids' days,
Speaker 14: and you know, the wid significant others. It meant so
Speaker 14: much to me, and I felt like, I can, you know,
Speaker 14: never repay those guys for what they do, but like
Speaker 14: just being able to take time out of my off
Speaker 14: season to go over there and like spend time with them,
Speaker 14: it meant the world of me. So I thought that
Speaker 14: was probably the best thing I did this summer, and
Speaker 14: I would love to do that at anytime, any chance
Speaker 14: I get real.
Speaker 11: Pon, you took another trip to Asia before that, I
Speaker 11: know with uh three of your teammates. Is there an
Speaker 11: instance where you guys went through something uh together, you know,
Speaker 11: being in a foreign country not speaking the language where
Speaker 11: you feel like it kind of brought you guys closer together.
Speaker 11: We saw a different side of Ronnie Marlin or Tias.
Speaker 14: Honestly, UH when those guys uh, like when you first
Speaker 14: got there, you know, you was hearing uh all all
Speaker 14: these different personalities from the different guys, like you know,
Speaker 14: running personality with Marlow and then Tabo as well then myself,
Speaker 14: you know, still learning the guys and whatnot. But it was,
Speaker 14: it was, It was great the entire time. There was
Speaker 14: never really like a time where it was like a
Speaker 14: language barrier anything like that. You know, Google Translate for sure.
Speaker 14: And then had the guys, uh, had the guys just
Speaker 14: there and like most places, they spoke English. So that
Speaker 14: was always good. But it was great just being out
Speaker 14: there and seeing how we interact in other countries. I
Speaker 14: think we all, you know, learned something about each other.
Speaker 14: It would have to ask each and every guy what
Speaker 14: they learned about, uh one another which one.
Speaker 17: John talks about iron shopping iron and you this year
Speaker 17: against the practice against.
Speaker 8: A lot of playmakers from Alvin Gordon to Odell to Lamar.
Speaker 8: How important is that to help your defense going forward?
Speaker 14: Uh? I think that that's gonna be huge, uh for
Speaker 14: our defense going against like, you know, a very good
Speaker 14: old line with Tyler's starting to center our own to
Speaker 14: like the tackles with Zeitler well tackles and Moses and Stanley,
Speaker 14: and then with the inside as well, and with the
Speaker 14: backs you know, from the Jk's, the Melvins, you know,
Speaker 14: all all of those guys and the receivers on the
Speaker 14: outside and having a match up against Mark you know,
Speaker 14: and no better work than that to get in the league.
Speaker 14: So I think it's gonna definitely make the defense better.
Speaker 14: I'm going in like practice just like a game, you know,
Speaker 14: trying to get those guys better as well as you know,
Speaker 14: getting myself better as well. So I think it's gonna
Speaker 14: be great. And I'm just looking forward to, uh those
Speaker 14: hot summer, hot summer camp days with the guys bunding you.
Speaker 1: With so much talent on those sides of the balls
Speaker 1: during all the additions from maybea There's a lot of
Speaker 1: exciting around Baltimore with what do you feel like is
Speaker 1: the mentality of this team the approach of this team.
Speaker 2: As an enterstream?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think it's uh one and foremost, you know,
Speaker 14: getting the most out of each other, staying healthy and
Speaker 14: playing to our standard and not getting complacent because like
Speaker 14: it's easy to be paper champs, but what really matters
Speaker 14: is like what you do between those lines, and like
Speaker 14: what are we gonna do, you know, starting starting today
Speaker 14: when meetings uh officially kick off, and like just our
Speaker 14: mental intensity or attention to detail. And I think if
Speaker 14: we uh abide by those things and you know, do
Speaker 14: we have to do? I think the sky's the limit
Speaker 14: for all of us.
Speaker 5: What are you anticipating with the crowd that's gonna be
Speaker 5: out there for training camp, all the fans that are
Speaker 5: gonna just to watch you guys.
Speaker 3: Start to stay in and day out.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm excited. You know, gives you uh something to
Speaker 14: look forward to, cause, like some sometimes in camp, the
Speaker 14: first couple of days are easy, and then after that,
Speaker 14: you know, then you get tired, you get the camp
Speaker 14: legs and things like that. But then when you know
Speaker 14: the fans are paying their hard on the money to
Speaker 14: drive down here, you know, just to come out to
Speaker 14: watch us practice and whatnot. You definitely wanna give them
Speaker 14: a show and like some that are not fortunate enough
Speaker 14: to make it out to some of the games and
Speaker 14: then have some of the interactions with some of the players.
Speaker 14: So I'm looking forward to that and just being able
Speaker 14: to uh chat and mingle with as many fans as
Speaker 14: I can UH over camp because i think if it
Speaker 14: means the world, and I'm very grateful for those guys
Speaker 14: because they give us way more support than I sometimes
Speaker 14: I feel like we deserve.
Speaker 8: In a sense.
Speaker 11: Have you down any more baseball since you uh through
Speaker 11: the first Oils game?
Speaker 8: I have not. I didn't think I was gonna get down.
Speaker 8: One brought up today.
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