Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: August twelfth. The Ravens wrapped up another day at training
Speaker 1: camp practice and afterwards we had a chance to hear
Speaker 1: from head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: All Right, good seeing everybody. I appreciate you being here.
Speaker 2: Another great day and uh a good a good camp practice.
Speaker 2: Our guys really got locked in and focused on trying
Speaker 2: to improve and uh competed a lot of ones against
Speaker 2: ones today and it was good to see the competition
Speaker 2: and that's how you get better. What questions you have.
Speaker 3: I Kyle old Man annoyed from.
Speaker 2: The beginning, what kind of difference does that bring as
Speaker 2: far as his leadership in a position group where he's
Speaker 2: definite the better There no question Kyle has definitely I
Speaker 2: think he's enjoyed being here from the beginning. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, you come in once the season has begun
Speaker 2: and you just kind of trying to play catch up
Speaker 2: with with the with the defensive scheme, but also with
Speaker 2: the relationships. Now he's one of the guys. Everybody knows
Speaker 2: him respect. He's definitely a leader, knows the defense very
Speaker 2: well and practicing hard every day. So it should should
Speaker 2: be a plus for us.
Speaker 4: In regards to Chuck Smith, kind of that last season
Speaker 4: definitely improved your pass rush and a year positions as
Speaker 4: pass rushing coach more specific with his specialty being in
Speaker 4: that avenue, just how much is that beneficial for you?
Speaker 2: And then you know it's kind of a unique way
Speaker 2: to do it. And Chuck, Chuck's it all around football coach.
Speaker 2: You know, he can coach. He coaches every part of
Speaker 2: the position. He was a pass rusher as a player,
Speaker 2: one of one of the all time great pass rushers,
Speaker 2: and then kind of took that on as a as
Speaker 2: a as an obsession almost, I would say, and he's
Speaker 2: become one of one of the maybe the best foremost
Speaker 2: pass rushing coach in the business. I feel that way
Speaker 2: about him. So to have him here with our guys,
Speaker 2: I mean that speaks a lot to what we're you know,
Speaker 2: I think the way the guys are building into his
Speaker 2: style and what he teaches, and I know they love it.
Speaker 2: You know, they love learning from him. So let's see
Speaker 2: where it takes is it was good last year?
Speaker 4: John?
Speaker 2: Along those lines, how much did Chuck contribute to the
Speaker 2: decision to get it this draft from Jeoh? Chuck was
Speaker 2: a part of that for sure. I mean he's looking
Speaker 2: at all the pass rushers and all the all the
Speaker 2: trades of those outside backers generally, So he had a
Speaker 2: big influence on that. Practicing in the flow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they always have.
Speaker 2: A sort of a ramp up plan that we try
Speaker 2: to abide by and follow, and those guys are on
Speaker 2: that on that path. But it was good to see
Speaker 2: him back out there. Pile Hamilton are beginning to go
Speaker 2: to work on the train. If you have an update
Speaker 2: on him and what kind of your plan for him
Speaker 2: the next week, right, Well, yeah, it would be kind
Speaker 2: of ramping back a little bit. He's he's good, you know,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's kind of a minor a sprain,
Speaker 2: i'd say a sprain. And so we got out there
Speaker 2: and moved around little bit today and he'll just kind
Speaker 2: of progress each day a little more be out there going.
Speaker 2: Oh so shots like that l brackets all at once?
Speaker 2: Is it just shot bag?
Speaker 5: Is it just a matter of a pain issue? More
Speaker 5: injury play and way back?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Do we really need to get in all that specifically? Okay,
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. He'll be he'll be fine, He'll be okay,
Speaker 2: he'll be fine. He's trying. He's trying to gt himself
Speaker 2: out there and as much as he can, and he'll
Speaker 2: be out there soon.
Speaker 6: Our Garius Washington's had a couple of really good practices
Speaker 6: in a row. Coaches have spoken very highly of him
Speaker 6: over last season and.
Speaker 4: A half or so.
Speaker 6: Talk about what you've seen in his development over the
Speaker 6: last while.
Speaker 2: Then, yeah, you know it's funny. Darius and I had
Speaker 2: a conversation today in my office and it was a
Speaker 2: good one. Wasn't called to the principal's office. It was
Speaker 2: just to guy of talk about his vision for the
Speaker 2: season and what he thought, uh, he could accomplish. And
Speaker 2: he's playing at a high level. You saw it today.
Speaker 2: He's playing both safety positions. He's playing the nickel and
Speaker 2: you could play the he could play the corner outside
Speaker 2: if you had to. You got to get you out
Speaker 2: of the game. And he could go in a dime
Speaker 2: if he had to. He knows the defense that well.
Speaker 2: His style is is pretty much patented. That's his style,
Speaker 2: the way he plays, and I think it's a style
Speaker 2: worthy of emulating. So very glad he's on our team.
Speaker 3: You can boil down what it is, Josh Johnson. That's
Speaker 3: kind of earned your confidence over the years.
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Josh Johnson's a vet, he's a pro.
Speaker 2: He's he's when he's played in games he's played, He's
Speaker 2: played good football in games. Hadn't been a lot, but
Speaker 2: he's played good football games. He's gonna run our offense. Well,
Speaker 2: we we love Josh damn.
Speaker 4: Like, what is that Ramball Plambell play?
Speaker 2: Would you like to see him in the preseason? I
Speaker 2: would love to see him in Preseason's just gonna depend
Speaker 2: on the you know, his ability to do it with
Speaker 2: the uh, the recovery from he had bilateral uh sports
Speaker 2: herney of surgery. So uh, I think he's got a
Speaker 2: good shot. You just have to see how it comes
Speaker 2: along the next week or.
Speaker 3: So on the entight imfilstation. How do you see Kenny
Speaker 3: to his male people being in the bestat in blocking game?
Speaker 2: You know, Uh, he's kind of a surprise as a blocker.
Speaker 2: And the physicality if he saw it out there today,
Speaker 2: he's he's he's he's definitely a player NFL player and
Speaker 2: coaches kid. I mean, he's tough, he's not afraid. He
Speaker 2: throws it in there and plays bigger than his size,
Speaker 2: And you know, I think he's doing a good job.
Speaker 2: I think we're just one of the.
Speaker 1: Trendit Ganthier several weeks in. How do you kind of
Speaker 1: see the team come together.
Speaker 2: Around set out as the.
Speaker 4: Sort of this and building around that?
Speaker 2: You say it against complicated questions. You just asked me,
Speaker 2: I kind of lost I lost you there. To be
Speaker 2: honest with you, how has it you got to.
Speaker 1: Come together around the vision, change to set it out.
Speaker 4: At the start?
Speaker 2: All the teams come together around the vision. That is
Speaker 2: kind of a complicated question. I would say, very well,
Speaker 2: you know, and I think the vision what you become
Speaker 2: as a football team is a product of the people
Speaker 2: who do it and what they do, you know, and
Speaker 2: what happens every day and the things the challenges that
Speaker 2: you have and the obstacles you have to overcome and
Speaker 2: how you approach those things and if you're willing to
Speaker 2: keep fighting and keep getting back up and uh and
Speaker 2: never quit and then you know it's it's not The
Speaker 2: fight's not over until you say it is, no matter
Speaker 2: what happens, and that's you know, it's it's a big statement,
Speaker 2: but camp's a little bit like that. You know, you
Speaker 2: got to keep coming back every day and come out
Speaker 2: and grind and and try to become better, become a
Speaker 2: better player, to better team every day. And I think
Speaker 2: our guys are doing that and that's really the task
Speaker 2: at hand right now. And our areas had another nice
Speaker 2: practice that's really got a lot of them came up.
Speaker 1: How significant you know, he's obviously just that it's being healthy.
Speaker 4: And then obviously if you got him the terms of
Speaker 4: the secondaries, this should be hard.
Speaker 8: For game with me and everything.
Speaker 2: Can you ask me again, are Darius how significant is
Speaker 2: it haven't been happen to see and making plays?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, the same question you asked. All right, it's very significant.
Speaker 2: He's playing very well and he I would just tell
Speaker 2: you this. I mean, you're right. I mean, it's great
Speaker 2: to have Maltres. He's been hurt a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: and he's not He's he's healthy, and I think he's
Speaker 2: fulfilling what we always hoped he would do. And I
Speaker 2: really expect him have a big year. I think he's
Speaker 2: gonna play great football for us. So it's a it's
Speaker 2: a big deal. Yeah, absolutely too.
Speaker 1: Well, did Lamar get the answer that he wanted when.
Speaker 3: He showed the rest of the I pad.
Speaker 2: It's a good question. I don't know, it's a great question. Now,
Speaker 2: that's the best question today right there.
Speaker 1: We also heard from veteran linebacker Kyle van Doy.
Speaker 6: Has it been having this full year to be with
Speaker 6: the team now as opposed to coming in so lain
Speaker 6: What kind of differences are they?
Speaker 8: A lot of differences. I know, the playbook that helps,
Speaker 8: no teammates, and then just yeah, a lot of different things,
Speaker 8: just expectations, standard and people on staff just kind of
Speaker 8: just come in and flow, and it's been awesome. It's
Speaker 8: fun getting to see young guys compete, and myself being young,
Speaker 8: competing out there with them.
Speaker 3: It's been good.
Speaker 4: Jokingly or maybe not jokingly, said you're at the quodium
Speaker 4: after one of the games last year that printing camps overrated.
Speaker 8: That's funny, that's good, you're good. Good memory weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean for me, it's I'm here, so I'm gonna
Speaker 8: do what I have to do to get better. Right
Speaker 8: That was then, this is now. We're getting better as
Speaker 8: a unit. Just the growth from the first day on
Speaker 8: the field to where we're at now offensively, defensively, and
Speaker 8: special teams.
Speaker 3: With the new schemes and new.
Speaker 8: Rules that are in place, just everybody getting comfortable and
Speaker 8: you can see a huge difference and we're just getting better.
Speaker 8: And I know it's cliche to say, but after being
Speaker 8: on the first day to where we're at now, it's
Speaker 8: like a side of relief because it's like everybody's finally
Speaker 8: feeling comfortable and learning kind of what is expected younger
Speaker 8: guys and then the older guys trying to continue that
Speaker 8: standard that's been in place.
Speaker 3: You get to the point where you get to that
Speaker 3: was good you bully did right there.
Speaker 2: When you get to the point where you get to
Speaker 2: choose what team that you want to go to as
Speaker 2: a pass pressure is how much moo withdrawal is that
Speaker 2: you get the chance.
Speaker 3: To work with Jumpston.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a really good question. I think it's a
Speaker 8: big draw right now because not many teams have somebody
Speaker 8: that's like him, that is has played in the NFL
Speaker 8: a long time and was successful and is a high
Speaker 8: level coach that is teaching technique. A lot of places
Speaker 8: worry about scheme. This place worries about scheme and technique,
Speaker 8: and he's a pass rush technician and he's very very good,
Speaker 8: and he's helped me a lot in my career, and
Speaker 8: he's helped other players, and I'm excited to get back
Speaker 8: to work with him again.
Speaker 4: You had, Joe Evans had a very long night the
Speaker 4: other night in there.
Speaker 2: Big Joe, unbelievable amount of work and you obviously sat
Speaker 2: out the game. What do you talk about on the
Speaker 2: sidelines with somebody like.
Speaker 8: Jen, Yeah, that's mister Iowa right there. He's a Iowa
Speaker 8: hawkey if I've ever seen one. Big Joe. Just love
Speaker 8: his passion for the game. I love that he didn't
Speaker 8: complain one bit. I mean, not only is it a
Speaker 8: interview for this place, right it's an interview for thirty
Speaker 8: one other teams.
Speaker 3: And he did a really good job.
Speaker 8: Obviously he wasn't perfect, but to play as many snaps
Speaker 8: as he did, and you know the you know, his
Speaker 8: pass rush and just being all over the place.
Speaker 3: I was proud of him.
Speaker 8: And you just I don't try to I try to
Speaker 8: stay back and if they come up and ask, you know,
Speaker 8: or if I see a pointer, I don't. I don't
Speaker 8: ever want to be in somebody's flow like that, especially
Speaker 8: when they're grinding the way he was grinded to be, Like, hey,
Speaker 8: do this. You know, it's easy for me to say so.
Speaker 8: I was really proud of how he played, Like it's awesome.
Speaker 8: He's a he is a team favorite right now for sure.
Speaker 3: Is talking about your role kind.
Speaker 4: Of focusing a lot of the pass rush being passed
Speaker 4: rush of the season.
Speaker 5: How much can that focus that level Pasdelli into that
Speaker 5: aspect the game really helped home better pass rusher at
Speaker 5: this stage your career.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I have answered this one before, but
Speaker 8: again I'll answer it again. I haven't played on the
Speaker 8: ball like this for very long out of my eleven years. Now,
Speaker 8: this will be year three out of my eleven that
Speaker 8: I solely haven't had to worry about playing middle linebacker
Speaker 8: with a Green DoD and telling I still kind of
Speaker 8: tell people what to do every once in a while,
Speaker 8: but not as much communication. Just focusing on my task
Speaker 8: and opportunity to win a one on one and just
Speaker 8: getting better at it and grinding at it. It started
Speaker 8: back this offseason with my past rush coach in Salt Lake,
Speaker 8: who we grinded a lot, and then with Chuck, you know,
Speaker 8: grinding it when I've gotten here to just get better
Speaker 8: and then not only myself, but to continue to harp
Speaker 8: on the other guys too, like, I don't want to
Speaker 8: just do it by myself. I want everybody to come
Speaker 8: with me type of you. And I'm excited. Uh Doff
Speaker 8: has looked really really.
Speaker 3: Good this camp.
Speaker 8: I'm excited to see him play and Jaws getting healthier,
Speaker 8: and then t Rob's gotten a lot better. So the
Speaker 8: group is really grown, and I'm happy that everybody is
Speaker 8: trying to perfect their craft because one year can change
Speaker 8: your life, and so I hope all those guys really
Speaker 8: continue to grind because they they're able to now have
Speaker 8: the opportunity to change their lives.
Speaker 3: That was good, you win you Yeah, kind.
Speaker 5: Of touched on it at the end of that.
Speaker 6: But the young Edgebrushers that are expected to make that
Speaker 6: league this season, where are you see nerve as growth
Speaker 6: and development?
Speaker 8: That's a good question. I've just like, I like to
Speaker 8: be honest. I mean, we can go collective. I'm just
Speaker 8: gonna put them all together because all of them are
Speaker 8: learning at different paces right. Some have been injured, some
Speaker 8: have been on the field a lot, and now would
Speaker 8: just be I would just say confidence is the main
Speaker 8: thing that I've seen, the confidence to really know their job.
Speaker 8: And then the confidence of making plays and being able
Speaker 8: to feed off one and stacking another. And you know
Speaker 8: that's just not only confidence but confidence a practice and
Speaker 8: then putting a week and putting a preseason game, and
Speaker 8: you're gonna see it this next Uh, this whole week
Speaker 8: we've seen progression, but then you'll see it in this
Speaker 8: next game. The progression of just that confidence. I really
Speaker 8: think it is going to continue to show each and
Speaker 8: every game.
Speaker 1: How are you seeing him leave the offense, leave.
Speaker 8: The offense and taking short Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3: Very proud of him.
Speaker 8: Me and LJ are have a good relationship and I'm
Speaker 8: happy for that. And just seeing his growth not only
Speaker 8: as a player but as a person's awesome too. Just
Speaker 8: his leadership skills being off the field is grown, and
Speaker 8: then his leadership skills on the field has grown. Just
Speaker 8: wanting something done precisely and going and communicating that and
Speaker 8: then just talking trash. He's always going to do that.
Speaker 8: So it's always fun to have those competitive periods against them,
Speaker 8: and you know, just him working on his craft. You
Speaker 8: can see his mechanics, you can see him, you know,
Speaker 8: pushing the ball down the field and then just running.
Speaker 8: Right now, I don't know very many people right now
Speaker 8: that can catch them. I mean, he's he's one of one,
Speaker 8: and it's been really impressive to see him in the
Speaker 8: open field during practice. Obviously we're not tackling, but there
Speaker 8: are a lot of misses are happening. So it's fun
Speaker 8: to go against a top quarterback like that every day
Speaker 8: to get better and just excited to see what he's
Speaker 8: going to do this year. When you came your last year,
Speaker 8: you saw Ronnie Stanley's running through some of.
Speaker 3: The minor injuries that you can't feel that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what we've seen him with you know, coming by
Speaker 4: guess three or four weeks now in Rafrey camp for
Speaker 4: him as he's like attention.
Speaker 3: To how do you feel about being the last question? Though?
Speaker 8: Okay, winner, Ronnie's done a really good job of blocking
Speaker 8: out the noise. I know he dealt with it a
Speaker 8: lot last year and it's tough. I've been in that
Speaker 8: situation too a time in my career where you just
Speaker 8: had one of those injury bug years and you just
Speaker 8: try to you know, we call it thug it out
Speaker 8: or you're just trying to do whatever you can to
Speaker 8: get through the games and try to play it the
Speaker 8: best of your ability and I think he did that.
Speaker 8: He literally laid it on the line for trying to
Speaker 8: win a championship last year, and you know, he deserves
Speaker 8: a lot of credit for that. But I know, I know,
Speaker 8: I don't want to speak for himself, but I know
Speaker 8: he wants to be great, right And this year he's
Speaker 8: done a great job of leading the group. He's been
Speaker 8: kind of the spokes men for that line with the
Speaker 8: guys like Moses and Kevin Zeidler leaning. He's really done
Speaker 8: a great job of being the voice and you know,
Speaker 8: picking it up and letting everybody know and you know,
Speaker 8: they need to be better and beyond their stuff. It's
Speaker 8: awesome to see, especially during one on ones, he's coaching
Speaker 8: the guys up and they're getting better and he's got
Speaker 8: to be that to go where we need to go.
Speaker 8: And it's awesome to see him play at a high level.
Speaker 8: And it's awesome to go against too. He's a top tackle,
Speaker 8: he's been all Pro. So it's a good look for everybody.
Speaker 8: So awesome. Yeah, thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: Lastly, we heard from pass rush coach Chuck Smith. He's
Speaker 1: really an expert in the past rush department. He talked
Speaker 1: about how the Ravens was going to grow in that area.
Speaker 6: You obviously had a big impact on Justin Mettabka last year.
Speaker 6: Can you talk to us a little about how you coach,
Speaker 6: any differences and similarities you see in coaching into your
Speaker 6: versus edge pass rushing.
Speaker 7: Well, the first thing is making the inside guys understand
Speaker 7: that they're more than just big guys. You know, let
Speaker 7: him know Beaks know their understanding that you're more just
Speaker 7: a two gapper. In the modern era, now pass rush,
Speaker 7: the big guys are getting double digit sacks if you
Speaker 7: look around the NFL. So the mindset of the traditional
Speaker 7: three four team was that the big guy's gotta be
Speaker 7: what space eaters. Now as you see from a guy
Speaker 7: like Meta Beak and some more other guys that can
Speaker 7: you know, really rush the passer and around the league,
Speaker 7: you know, you try to explain to them. It's a
Speaker 7: mindset initially about you know, how do I see myself?
Speaker 7: Because if you pigeonhole yourself into I'm just a big guy,
Speaker 7: too gapper, then you always be that way.
Speaker 5: So and given the player a lot of credit Beak.
Speaker 7: Putting a lot of work of training, he continues to
Speaker 7: be on the same regimen and he works hard and
Speaker 7: he bleeds in himself.
Speaker 3: To answer your question one, the difference of similarities to ed.
Speaker 7: Rushing, Oh, the difference is, well, the bodies inside are
Speaker 7: a little more compact together. The guys outside are more streamlined.
Speaker 7: And I call it like the one second rule. For
Speaker 7: guys inside, you have to execute your move at one
Speaker 7: second because the offensive linemen are gonna have their hands
Speaker 7: at one second. Outside it's somewhere around two seconds. So
Speaker 7: when you understand that, it's the difference really between a
Speaker 7: fastball and a curveball, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 7: inside it's gonna be a fastball. Outside it's more of
Speaker 7: a curveball. To answer your question, yep, all right.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 2: What special about Kyle Van Nory's in passbaw.
Speaker 7: He wants to be a great pass rusher, And I
Speaker 7: think what's really special is that after all these years
Speaker 7: he's been at multiple teams now he says, man, I've
Speaker 7: never had a chance to just focus on all pass rush.
Speaker 7: I mean he's a nickel rusher and all the other
Speaker 7: places he was off the ball, he was on the ball.
Speaker 7: Sort of thing that's cool is he really understands how
Speaker 7: the games work, you know, inside because he's done those
Speaker 7: kinds of things and he just loves it, and he talks.
Speaker 7: We talk about pass rush all the time. When he
Speaker 7: comes off the field, We'll be walking by each other,
Speaker 7: we talk about pass rush and offseason, you know, he'll
Speaker 7: send me some videos because he put in a lot
Speaker 7: of work this offseason as well as last offseason, and he.
Speaker 5: Really just loves pass rush.
Speaker 7: And it's pretty awesome when you get a guy, you know,
Speaker 7: at this stage that says, you know what, I'm cool
Speaker 7: to come off, but basically come off the bench, so
Speaker 7: to speak, No, not as it started, not traditionally bench
Speaker 7: sounds kind of a little harsh, but you know what
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, to come off and accept my
Speaker 7: role and thrive at it. And he's always just talking
Speaker 7: and has great ideas and as everybody here you might
Speaker 7: have noticed, I mean, dude is super smart. I mean
Speaker 7: he's really I mean, he played for Belichick. He played
Speaker 7: for a lot of great guys, so that, you know,
Speaker 7: it does give you some credibility with understanding defense with.
Speaker 4: The Daphe what do you what do you what you
Speaker 4: need to do to take that sure the next step?
Speaker 3: Obviously he's happy I see you out here.
Speaker 5: He's in the back for a lot.
Speaker 2: What do you what does he need to do? Just
Speaker 2: kind of make that next ram I.
Speaker 5: Guess the games.
Speaker 7: Okay, well, let me explain something first about a DAFE.
Speaker 7: Let's so for everyone here that looked at last year, Okay,
Speaker 7: first things first, a DAFE came out, you know, smoking right, Okay,
Speaker 7: a DAPE end up having five sacks, all right, he
Speaker 7: missed what four or five games? Pretty miss four and
Speaker 7: then he went out half on another against five games.
Speaker 7: He ends up being on a team that brings in
Speaker 7: two veterans that get over.
Speaker 5: Two hundred and fifty snaps. Easy.
Speaker 7: So when you look at the big picture, if a
Speaker 7: DAPE is healthy, and remember we gave JD and kV
Speaker 7: almost five hundred is it might be more that because
Speaker 7: I think JD had over three hundred something snaps. So,
Speaker 7: from all fairness to a DAFE, and I know you know,
Speaker 7: it's all about production, and I do understand that when
Speaker 7: you look at it from a past first standpoint, the
Speaker 7: numbers just didn't equate because the guys absorbed a lot
Speaker 7: of his reps too, you know what I mean. So,
Speaker 7: and that's not making an excuse for him, but that's
Speaker 7: just keeping it, being truthful about it.
Speaker 5: From his situation now, what.
Speaker 7: He needs to do first and foremost, he just needs
Speaker 7: to have those reps. He needs to be on the
Speaker 7: field and continue to get those reps. He needs to
Speaker 7: continue to you know, do what he's doing now, you know,
Speaker 7: playing fast, executing his moves and things like that. And
Speaker 7: you know, if he gets those five games and those
Speaker 7: other f m arguably four or five hundred.
Speaker 5: Reps, heah, he's a double digit sacker, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 7: And and again even again he missed for and to
Speaker 7: have five games go count, I mean, you got I
Speaker 7: always hear the little jokes about sometimes about him missing sacks.
Speaker 7: He did miss seven eight nine sacks I mean in
Speaker 7: the season. So again he's getting there. He's gonna be
Speaker 7: an a list rusher, and I'm just excited for him.
Speaker 7: You know, he's buying in and as he always has.
Speaker 7: He's a good dude, and no one deserves to finally
Speaker 7: reach that pinnacle in the DAFE. And I think he's gonna, uh,
Speaker 7: you know, go a hundred percent to reach that goal.
Speaker 5: Last year, guys let lead in sacks.
Speaker 7: He probably before the season that if people wanted to
Speaker 7: look at you guys that way, but this year have
Speaker 7: to lose in JD. Now he learned some of these
Speaker 7: name whereas the passman. How much you guys, players and
Speaker 7: even yourself take that as a challenge.
Speaker 5: Man, I really don't aven't care what people think.
Speaker 7: I mean being honest with you, because at the end
Speaker 7: of the day, you know, we're gonna go out and
Speaker 7: do our best. If we don't reach the goal that
Speaker 7: we were we want. Everybody wants to be the best
Speaker 7: pass rust in the league. But from my standpoint and
Speaker 7: the guys, if it doesn't happen, we're not gonna be like,
Speaker 7: oh man, We're gonna get back to the drawing board
Speaker 7: and see what happens moving forward, you know. But it's
Speaker 7: not one of those things. And it relates to JD.
Speaker 7: When JD came in, I taught JD's okay, So I
Speaker 7: mean everyone you know he came in here and got taught.
Speaker 7: He's already being taught. So JD wasn't some you know,
Speaker 7: what do they say, a guy who came in and
Speaker 7: saved to day. No, we had already trained him. So
Speaker 7: he was really already under kind of the Ravens somewhat window.
Speaker 7: Because I have been training him for years. So but nah,
Speaker 7: I'm not trying to be But that's really weird. I
Speaker 7: don't even think about that. I could care less. All
Speaker 7: I want to do. My goal is to really impact
Speaker 7: quarterbacks by beating them up.
Speaker 5: Similar as that.
Speaker 7: If we beat up the quarterbacks and his ending's not
Speaker 7: always the way he wants, then we've had an impact
Speaker 7: and the numbers will come.
Speaker 6: When did you first hear about Ajiza Isaac Isaac?
Speaker 2: And what did you like about him that made you
Speaker 2: find him on the team?
Speaker 5: And now since then, what.
Speaker 3: Are you working about him?
Speaker 5: Well? First time I seen him just watching Penn State Auburn.
Speaker 7: Now it was that last year or two years ago,
Speaker 7: Penn State Auburn and they beat the Brakes.
Speaker 5: Out of Auburn.
Speaker 7: Now I don't know any War Eagles around here, but
Speaker 7: I'm of all. But that's a whole nother story. But
Speaker 7: I watched him. He was fantastic. And when I watched
Speaker 7: his film, he was explosive, had power, had you know,
Speaker 7: the ability to change direction and all those other things.
Speaker 7: They was super smart, you know, and uh, you know,
Speaker 7: he had good length and I'm not a person that's
Speaker 7: caught up. And he's tall and long. I could care less,
Speaker 7: but he's tall and long, and he has you know,
Speaker 7: a lot of strength, and he was a good dude.
Speaker 7: I got a chance to talk to him and thought
Speaker 7: he would fit in. And we were in the market
Speaker 7: for someone, but also wanted someone that can fit in,
Speaker 7: has the right mindset that can work in a team,
Speaker 7: cause the team.
Speaker 5: Was kind of like a puzzle.
Speaker 7: All the pieces gotta fit and our room has got
Speaker 7: to be like that as well.
Speaker 5: I like, you know, a DC.
Speaker 7: I mean he's out there just getting started, you know,
Speaker 7: and it's exciting to see him do some good things
Speaker 7: about obviously, hell of today fading in y'allo is hitting
Speaker 7: this rep fields.
Speaker 4: What do you see in his game?
Speaker 3: He does?
Speaker 6: He need to make his strikes kind of have to
Speaker 6: break out.
Speaker 5: And this year, well you know, you want number one.
Speaker 7: I'm sure Harbes has talked about it from I can't
Speaker 7: get into the medical stuff, but I know he's working hard,
Speaker 7: you know. I know he's you know, had a good
Speaker 7: spend today. I know he's running to the ball, I
Speaker 7: know he's striking blocks. I know he's showing signs that
Speaker 7: you know, he's improving, you know. And I've had a
Speaker 7: torn acl and anybody's ever had one knows.
Speaker 5: It takes time to come back.
Speaker 7: But he's out there fighting, he's out there scraping, and
Speaker 7: I just think that if he continues the way he's going,
Speaker 7: he's gonna, you know, have success because he knows how
Speaker 7: to He's got moves. Now, we just gotta, you know,
Speaker 7: give him the opportunity, you know, for him to be
Speaker 7: healthy to be able to execute those moves.
Speaker 4: Soh some turnover from the pass rushing her blaster to
Speaker 4: this year, you make sure, not really caring about.
Speaker 5: The sack totals that they'll come.
Speaker 4: What is it that at this point can't that excites
Speaker 4: you the most of the move?
Speaker 7: Well, we're in the year two of guys who we've developed,
Speaker 7: the guys inside. Everybody in our unit has a skilled move.
Speaker 7: Everybody in the unit understands the language we talk. We
Speaker 7: have a specif ethic language that we taught. We have
Speaker 7: certain moves, how we say it, certain approaches, certain things
Speaker 7: that we wanted to kind of implement last year where
Speaker 7: everybody on the front has can be a threat at
Speaker 7: some point, whether we're in our raven group with three bigs,
Speaker 7: you know, Mike p y'all watched Mike p he was
Speaker 7: rushing last year, Roddy got sacks, Travis got sacks. Herb
Speaker 7: had three sacks last year. So you want, you know,
Speaker 7: everyone to be able to do that. And that's kind
Speaker 7: of the good thing is that we want everybody to
Speaker 7: be a threat threat. You know, to ask your question,
Speaker 7: I might have been rambling. Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: About body competition of pass rushers or Tavius Robinson's kind
Speaker 6: of a unique building a guy and he's had some
Speaker 6: time to develop in the system.
Speaker 3: Now what do you see from him?
Speaker 5: Man, he's a glass eater.
Speaker 7: Tav's Robinson is He's never turned down one rep since
Speaker 7: he's been here. That's the best way to describe this dude.
Speaker 7: Every play and I'm not exaggerating. He has given effort
Speaker 7: every day. Tavus Robinson listens to the coach every day.
Speaker 7: He works out hard, he's early every day when he
Speaker 7: gets in those drills, he puts hands on people in
Speaker 7: the run. He continues to work hard to continue to
Speaker 7: develop as a pass rusher and his main responsibility for
Speaker 7: us because remember Tavi's played last year. I mean Tavia's
Speaker 7: was in big games early on. He's not I mean
Speaker 7: he's not like a second year guy's never played. I
Speaker 7: mean he's went out there and smashed with some of
Speaker 7: the great teams that we faced. But I really can't
Speaker 7: say enough about him as far as who he is
Speaker 7: and how physical he is and he takes shows no mercy.
Speaker 7: Tavius Robinson is everything you look for and what like
Speaker 7: Coach Harbaugh says A raven Tavius and I always member here,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna tell you he has never turned down a rep.
Speaker 7: He's never not run to the ball, and that's that's
Speaker 7: saying a lot about a player. And I mean he's uh,
Speaker 7: it's all the truth. I'm just telling you who he
Speaker 7: really is. And everybody here will say that.
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