Speaker 1: Training camp is officially underway. Welcome into the Ravens Press
Speaker 1: Pass podcast. It is Saturday, July twentieth, and the full
Speaker 1: Ravens team reported to Baltimore today for the start of
Speaker 1: training camp. After the players arrived, we had a chance
Speaker 1: to hear from a few of them, including veteran linebacker
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith.
Speaker 2: Travels any good places since we last talked?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I was fortunate enough to get over to Paris.
Speaker 3: Paris was really cool. Got to hang out with a
Speaker 3: good bit of my guys and other guys around the league.
Speaker 3: Did Spain as well. Spain is pretty cool. I've been before,
Speaker 3: just did Barcelona this time and then got over to Germany,
Speaker 3: which was a random spot for me, but I was
Speaker 3: over there in Europe, so I'm like, why not try
Speaker 3: something new?
Speaker 4: So it was cool. It was interesting.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 5: What are your thoughts on the addition to Eddie Jackson.
Speaker 6: And you played with?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'm very happy to have an here.
Speaker 3: I think he'll be a great asset to our team.
Speaker 4: Put a lot of playmaking ability.
Speaker 3: He's proved it before, so I think with the group
Speaker 3: of guys that we already have here him coming along,
Speaker 3: I think it'll be really good for him and being
Speaker 3: really good for us as well.
Speaker 5: Did you put in a good word with their did?
Speaker 5: He asked, Hey, would you would you think Eddie?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like you know, I always tell the truth.
Speaker 3: I got great respect for Eddie. Been knowing Eddie since
Speaker 3: I came into the league, And like I said earlier,
Speaker 3: I think he's a great asset for our team. Obviously,
Speaker 3: been making plays in this league for a very long time,
Speaker 3: and with the guy with the pieces that we have here,
Speaker 3: and then with his talent and having him in his role,
Speaker 3: I think it'll go well for us.
Speaker 5: Obviously, the defense have unbelievable year last year. The guys
Speaker 5: lost a few players on that side, brought in some guys.
Speaker 5: Can they be can you can the unit be as
Speaker 5: good as last year?
Speaker 7: And it's so how.
Speaker 3: I think we can be better, honestly, and I know
Speaker 3: we can not, just more so think, but yeah, have
Speaker 3: a great deal of respect for the guys that we're
Speaker 3: here before. Good luck to those guys and the places
Speaker 3: that they are. But I have the utmost respect for
Speaker 3: each and every guy that's in here, and I know
Speaker 3: the potential that each and every guy have, and so
Speaker 3: it's all about just going out and proving it week
Speaker 3: in and week out, and I think it starts in
Speaker 3: training camp, day in and day out. You know, it's
Speaker 3: definitely everybody's decided early on. And I know we got
Speaker 3: the mindset of guys pushing through diversity when we face that.
Speaker 3: But I love the pieces that we have here and
Speaker 3: I think we'll be able to show that to the
Speaker 3: world soon enough, and maybe we'll come back to this
Speaker 3: conversation at the end of the year and we'll be like, Wow,
Speaker 3: can we be better than that?
Speaker 6: What do you think about that?
Speaker 2: Because obviously whenever he changed coordinators, people are going to
Speaker 2: be like, how different is it going to be? I mean,
Speaker 2: you have a lot of the course in core players back,
Speaker 2: but you know, with Zach being here, how much different
Speaker 2: do you think this defense will walk?
Speaker 3: I think the pieces are very similar that's here, and
Speaker 3: I have a great deal of respect for Zach. His
Speaker 3: mind's that he's been out there on the field, and
Speaker 3: believe it or not, Like obviously him and Mike are
Speaker 3: two totally different people and they're unique in their own way,
Speaker 3: but through the headset, they actually sound the same. It's
Speaker 3: like all these every voice I've heard through a headset
Speaker 3: all sound the same, and I'm like, is that Mike
Speaker 3: or something like?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 3: I told Zeo one day during OTA, So it's pretty funny.
Speaker 3: But I'm excited for Zo, for him to showcase what
Speaker 3: he's able to do with the pieces that we have
Speaker 3: here and showcases to the world. And you know, we've
Speaker 3: all been doubted before things. Oh may not be as
Speaker 3: good as this or that or the third, but hey,
Speaker 3: that's what the game gives us.
Speaker 4: An opportunity to prove that.
Speaker 3: And I have a great deal of respect for Zo
Speaker 3: and that he'll prove it weekend and week out. And
Speaker 3: it's gonna start here in training come preparing for the year.
Speaker 2: Mike didn't really blitz heavily out there. Do you think
Speaker 2: Zach might be a little bit more aggressive than than Mike.
Speaker 3: Hey, I think we're all They're all unique in their
Speaker 3: own ways. So you know, come week one and you
Speaker 3: know throughout the season, we'll all see for ourselves and
Speaker 3: not just a word them out.
Speaker 5: Look one, Trent and Simpson, you know we've heard you
Speaker 5: talk a lot about him. What have you seen out
Speaker 5: of him football wise, IQ wise, et cetera that he can,
Speaker 5: you know, can step into that role next to you
Speaker 5: again sort of you guys, maybe not miss a beat there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Trent Man, the guy works his tail off
Speaker 3: like no other, always trying to find ways to get better,
Speaker 3: and you can see it day in and day out,
Speaker 3: his approach to the game, his extra meeting time, and
Speaker 3: the guy is probably one of the most athletic people
Speaker 3: on the team, if not, you know, jumps out the
Speaker 3: gym four to three speed, can do everything. And I think,
Speaker 3: you know, with more reps in him putting it all together,
Speaker 3: I think the guy really has a chance to be
Speaker 3: special and he has a hungry attitude. So I'm just
Speaker 3: excited to go to work with him, and I know
Speaker 3: we'll be complimentary to each other out on the field,
Speaker 3: and I'm excited for it.
Speaker 8: At the end of Minnie Camp, you said he had
Speaker 8: plans to go with the Trent on a trip to that.
Speaker 7: Was that able to work out and what was it
Speaker 7: like being with him if so?
Speaker 6: With any stories of the checks.
Speaker 4: No, we actually wasn't able to make it out.
Speaker 3: We tried to make some last minute adjustments, but at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, you know, we all have
Speaker 3: lives outside, so he had some things he had to do,
Speaker 3: and you know, I still got me a few trips in,
Speaker 3: but I'm sure he got out on a trip as well,
Speaker 3: So I was excited for him, and I try to
Speaker 3: tell him, you know, it's about getting out and experiencing life,
Speaker 3: you know, outside of just American in a sense, and
Speaker 3: like you know, understanding other cultures and things that you
Speaker 3: know just bring you joy and it and you know
Speaker 3: you can learn a lot. So I think he's he's
Speaker 3: taking that in and he got out and enjoyed himself
Speaker 3: a little bit, and that's what it's all about, enjoying yourself.
Speaker 4: Now it's back time and the work.
Speaker 7: How's the new music thing you got? Jatia don Oh?
Speaker 4: It was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: So it was just a little sneak peak weekend, the
Speaker 3: July sixteenth weekend, I think that was. Yeah, so it
Speaker 3: officially opened up in August, So excited about that.
Speaker 6: Should be pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Look, one, this team has done so well in the
Speaker 2: regular season, you know, and put yourselves in great positions
Speaker 2: for the season. You guys haven't gotten to where you
Speaker 2: want to be that what do you think in your
Speaker 2: mind it has to be, you know, to get this
Speaker 2: team just over that one extra hurdle to get.
Speaker 6: To that super Bowt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think it starts right now.
Speaker 3: I think it just honestly starts with each and every
Speaker 3: person looking themselves in the mirror day in and day out,
Speaker 3: and when times get tough and taking that extra step saying, hey,
Speaker 3: this is what gonna get us over the hump, and
Speaker 3: every person raising their standard, even myself, there's things I
Speaker 3: can do better, There's things every single person on the
Speaker 3: team can do better, And it's about if you hold
Speaker 3: yourself to that high standard, which I know each and
Speaker 3: every guys felt the pain last year, and having that
Speaker 3: drive and that pain filling all throughout the offseason as
Speaker 3: well as throughout camp when times get tough, just going
Speaker 3: back to those moments and not forgetting why you're doing
Speaker 3: it and who you're doing it for outside of you know,
Speaker 3: the name on the back of your jersey, but for
Speaker 3: the guys that's in the locker room, for everybody that's
Speaker 3: paying their hard on money, for the sick kids who
Speaker 3: are huge fans of us, that you know or do
Speaker 3: anything in the world to be in our position. So
Speaker 3: I think when you think about all of those things,
Speaker 3: it just truly like gives you an extra drive. And
Speaker 3: I think when you look at each and never got
Speaker 3: in the locker room. I think that's the attitude that
Speaker 3: we have, and I'm just excited for us to showcase
Speaker 3: that starting out in training camp, getting better against each other,
Speaker 3: and it'll always be about competing against each other because
Speaker 3: that's what it'll be out.
Speaker 4: On the game that game field as well.
Speaker 8: When you talk about your belief that you feel like
Speaker 8: the defense can be better this year than it.
Speaker 9: Even once last year, is it because of that mentality?
Speaker 10: What do you feel like.
Speaker 4: Feeds into that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that mentality is definitely part of it.
Speaker 3: But I think also with the guys, you know, more
Speaker 3: experience playing with each other. You know, there are a
Speaker 3: couple pieces that are gone, but I think the most
Speaker 3: more time that we've had together understanding each other, this
Speaker 3: bunning throughout camp and I think willing to put everything
Speaker 3: on the line just a bit more for one another
Speaker 3: and knowing that what the ultimate goal is to get
Speaker 3: to where we want to go and we all know
Speaker 3: where that's at. But it's going to start a one
Speaker 3: game at a time and one day at a time, honestly,
Speaker 3: and I'm excited for it.
Speaker 11: Requin just individually, is there anything in training camp that
Speaker 11: you're looking to accomplish, or any particular area that you.
Speaker 7: Want to focus on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of a lot of things honestly
Speaker 3: that I want to focus on. But talking with coach
Speaker 3: de Leon, which I think is a great asset for
Speaker 3: us as well, Like there's something that where we're gonna
Speaker 3: do as linebackers, like you know, each and every day,
Speaker 3: where it's writing things down where it's like, Okay, these
Speaker 3: are things that I want to focus on and getting better.
Speaker 3: But I think there's so many things I can get
Speaker 3: better at, like whether that's you know, disengaging off blocks
Speaker 3: quicker because there's never you never could be quick enough.
Speaker 3: Whether that's route recognition, matching routes better, you know, catching
Speaker 3: more interceptions. I dropped a few last year, so getting
Speaker 3: on the jugs even more so like things like that
Speaker 3: and causing more have it, forcing more turnovers, that's like
Speaker 3: definitely a thing that I want to do. Get a
Speaker 3: lot more punches on the ball, so expect that a
Speaker 3: little more, a lot of big hits. But people I
Speaker 3: know curl up sometime when I'm coming. But the fist
Speaker 3: is coming as well, So I'm excited about that and
Speaker 3: being able to showcase that and try to take my
Speaker 3: game to a new level.
Speaker 1: We also heard from veterans tight end Mark Andrews.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're seven.
Speaker 2: I mean how different does it feel? I mean, does
Speaker 2: it feel like you're seven?
Speaker 7: For you?
Speaker 9: You know, time flies when you're having fun.
Speaker 7: It doesn't feel like you're seven.
Speaker 9: It feels like just yesterday coming here as rookie, and
Speaker 9: but you know, so excited, a lot of work has
Speaker 9: been put in and excited to see where this team
Speaker 9: goes during training camp.
Speaker 8: Mark, you said you're feeling pretty good as you broke
Speaker 8: for the off season. Just puts your healths out aside
Speaker 8: right now?
Speaker 7: What are you feeling great? Yeah? I feel awesome. I see.
Speaker 9: Like I said, I spent a lot of work in
Speaker 9: the off season to work on myself and again after
Speaker 9: as you know, just put in that work and excited
Speaker 9: to go out there and help this team and continue
Speaker 9: to grow in this offense and get better together. And
Speaker 9: I feel hundred percent, you know, if not better than
Speaker 9: I ever have.
Speaker 8: How does it feel going from working out and training
Speaker 8: as a rehabilitation versus working and training gets stronger and
Speaker 8: improving and not having to get back to where you were,
Speaker 8: but growing.
Speaker 7: I think it's a delicate balance.
Speaker 9: And I think, you know, that's one of those things
Speaker 9: when your body knows, it knows, you know, And there's
Speaker 9: a point this off season, you know where I was.
Speaker 9: You know, it's like you go to bed one one
Speaker 9: day and you wake up the next day and then
Speaker 9: you start going. You start, you know, you work on
Speaker 9: your strength to start working on the football stuff instead
Speaker 9: of the the rehab stuff. And you know, thankfully, pretty
Speaker 9: early on in my my training, you know, sessions of
Speaker 9: the off season.
Speaker 7: You know that happened.
Speaker 5: I think you last time, you know this, you mentioned
Speaker 5: you did some things differently maybe in the off season
Speaker 5: that it liud the you know, coming back from injury
Speaker 5: and so forth, as an example of maybe something different
Speaker 5: you did. You know, you're seven versus year two or whatever.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: I think for me, you know a lot of balancing
Speaker 9: a little different muscles and started doing a little bit
Speaker 9: of Pilate's stuff like that.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 9: But I ran a ton this offseason, you know, I
Speaker 9: think everybody knows, you know, I like to work hard,
Speaker 9: to like to the only way to get better at
Speaker 9: football is playing football. So we spent the time, you know,
Speaker 9: me and my family and everybody involved to run a
Speaker 9: lot of routes, catch a lot of balls and excited
Speaker 9: to show that.
Speaker 6: Off Who was covering you this year and who was
Speaker 6: throwing the ball in your family?
Speaker 7: My brother, my brother was covering me, my dad.
Speaker 9: We have the ball machine, so he's he's the quarterback
Speaker 9: gun thing that he's a sniper on it.
Speaker 11: Mark last year, you all are learning todd marketing confidence.
Speaker 11: Having the year under your belt.
Speaker 7: Now, how has that changed this training camp for you and.
Speaker 9: The rest of the off It's great, you know, it's
Speaker 9: it's only going to evolve more and more. I think
Speaker 9: as guys get more comfortable as always in year two
Speaker 9: after having an offense and learning it, things are new.
Speaker 7: You're trying to figure out who you are and as
Speaker 7: an identity.
Speaker 9: And I think right now we've got a really clear
Speaker 9: picture of what we want to be, how we want
Speaker 9: to operate and be efficient and give the tools to
Speaker 9: Lamar and coach Monk to to being the best player
Speaker 9: at all times. And yeah, it's gonna evolved. It's gonna
Speaker 9: look little bit different, but I think it's gonna be
Speaker 9: really well polished.
Speaker 10: I know it's probably hard to remember a year ago,
Speaker 10: but does it feel like you're.
Speaker 8: Starting from a much higher platform this year's you kick
Speaker 8: off training camp as opposed to.
Speaker 7: The last year with one hundred percent.
Speaker 9: You know, I think just the knowledge and understanding of
Speaker 9: you know, of what we know of the offense, terminology,
Speaker 9: all that stuff.
Speaker 7: But you know, having a year in the offense, you're.
Speaker 9: Able to see, you know what kind of works, you know,
Speaker 9: where dangerous at you know, mostly in what plays, you
Speaker 9: know in certain instances, and so we're taking all the
Speaker 9: information you know, applying it and uh and growing off that.
Speaker 7: How good do you think this is?
Speaker 10: This secondary We went up against some training camps.
Speaker 9: We got an incredible defense and that's and that's you know,
Speaker 9: with iron sharpens iron, and you know, we're gonna have
Speaker 9: our hands full with with going against those guys and
Speaker 9: excited about those competitions. It's gonna make us better, you know,
Speaker 9: Let's make our receivers better and make the tight ends
Speaker 9: better and we're gonna be flying around. We're gonna be competitive.
Speaker 9: But at the same time, you know, it's it's, uh,
Speaker 9: you know, we love each other.
Speaker 5: A little bit different edge training camp when you know
Speaker 5: it's the Chiefs week one.
Speaker 9: You know, I think that's a. It's it's fun to
Speaker 9: be able to look forward to that. You know, it's
Speaker 9: a big game. It's it's the first game of the year.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm some of that. You know, I take
Speaker 9: one game at a time, so right now it's you know,
Speaker 9: it's one practice at the time, and I'm.
Speaker 7: Focused on that right now.
Speaker 9: Obviously, it's an exciting thing and if it gets it going,
Speaker 9: it gets you going. But for me, it's just day
Speaker 9: by day getting better, you know, helping this team get
Speaker 9: better and you know, taking each practice to work on something,
Speaker 9: to to make us as well rounded as we can be.
Speaker 5: Adding a guy like Derek Henry, just how excited her
Speaker 5: here for what he can bring to this offense.
Speaker 7: It's incredible.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 9: You know, you have a guy like like Derek, and
Speaker 9: then you got number eight in the backfield. It's you know,
Speaker 9: we've been against you know, Derek so many times, you know,
Speaker 9: in the last you know, seven years I've been you know,
Speaker 9: playing here. So you know, just knowing that the type
Speaker 9: of type of player that he is, you know, how
Speaker 9: tough he is, and the type of game plans you
Speaker 9: have to have for a guy like Derek is it's
Speaker 9: gonna be all eyes on him and eight, you know,
Speaker 9: and so for us, you know, being around those guys,
Speaker 9: it's it's making the plays. You know, that's going to
Speaker 9: open things up for for some really good things, which
Speaker 9: I'm excited about.
Speaker 2: And Mark, I mean, you did so much to get
Speaker 2: back to just even the AFC Championship game, and you know,
Speaker 2: everything you did in the spring I think probably exceed
Speaker 2: the expectations here. When did you kind of feel for
Speaker 2: yourself that you like you said you feel one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: When did you kind of feel like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm one hundred percent, and and how did I feel?
Speaker 4: What should you got there?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: It was probably you know about you know, March April,
Speaker 9: about a month after the season ended. You know, I
Speaker 9: put in some work stabilization stuff, but it felt incredible,
Speaker 9: you know, be able to go out there, you know,
Speaker 9: run her out. You know, I know I know what
Speaker 9: it had felt. You know, we worked really hard, you know,
Speaker 9: right after I got the surgery because it was a
Speaker 9: quick turnaround, so you know, the pain.
Speaker 7: Thresholds and all that stuff had to go through a lot.
Speaker 9: So for me to be able to go through the
Speaker 9: off season and go through a training session and feel incredible,
Speaker 9: you know, be flying around and have the next day
Speaker 9: and be able to do it again.
Speaker 7: That was a great, a great feeling.
Speaker 2: And with Lamar and now I mean again you know
Speaker 2: seventy and with Lamar too, With you guys, is there
Speaker 2: anything that you have seen that maybe if in his
Speaker 2: progression that has really impressed you the most, maybe if
Speaker 2: it's even over the past, like just this past year.
Speaker 9: Being with one, Yeah, I think he's just I think
Speaker 9: Lamar is just like everybody else, you know one. He's
Speaker 9: the most special player in the world. You know, there's
Speaker 9: no one else like him. He's the best quarterback in
Speaker 9: the NFL. And he continues to show you know why
Speaker 9: he's labeled that, you know, and and for me in
Speaker 9: my head, it's just constantly making the big plays, constantly
Speaker 9: making the right decisions and leading us guys. You know,
Speaker 9: he's our he's our captain, our leader, and we all
Speaker 9: look to him. And he's got a heavy burden on
Speaker 9: his shoulders, but he comes to work every day, has fun,
Speaker 9: enjoys it and.
Speaker 7: Just year after year he's impressive.
Speaker 9: He grows and that's not easy to said because he's
Speaker 9: already at the very top.
Speaker 4: And how is that?
Speaker 2: I mean, because obviously as a team. You guys have
Speaker 2: been very successful, and he has been very successful, but
Speaker 2: you haven't been to where you want to be. A
Speaker 2: lot of that criticism gets placed on Lamar. How has
Speaker 2: he been able to kind of handle when it seems like,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously, as a team you win and lose,
Speaker 2: but he sometimes kind of gets the brunt of it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I think that's a part of the
Speaker 9: position and part of being Lamar. He's grown up and
Speaker 9: had to had to, you know, deal with things like
Speaker 9: this his whole life. And you know, the thing that
Speaker 9: stands out about him is he's got an incredible faith
Speaker 9: and belief in God and in himself and and his teammates.
Speaker 9: And uh, when you have belief in something else, it's
Speaker 9: it's easy to get through things. It's easy to you know,
Speaker 9: help other people carry that weight. And he does a
Speaker 9: great job of, you know, just you know, just being
Speaker 9: himself and not letting the outside noise affect him.
Speaker 1: Defensive tackle Justin Madabike also talk with the media. He's
Speaker 1: expected to have a big season after signing that contract
Speaker 1: this offseason. He discussed his goals and expectations going into
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 11: So, how'd you spend your time away past two weeks,
Speaker 11: I was here majority of the time. Other than that,
Speaker 11: I was in Atlanta training, uh, getting better, polishing up,
Speaker 11: getting ready for the season. But usually I just was chilling,
Speaker 11: hanging out, working out, and it's trying to stay cool,
Speaker 11: getting ready for the season. So yeah, any training from
Speaker 11: that later I would I would Jabo dathe t rob
Speaker 11: my my man dads walked out. I've been training with
Speaker 11: the past uh three off seasons, so uh, you know,
Speaker 11: I definitely told her Jabo and d uh Daph about it,
Speaker 11: and trop C attacked along as well. So it's cool
Speaker 11: to have my boys with me out there and training
Speaker 11: and just getting better.
Speaker 12: But uh, yeah, now I'm going with Zach is the
Speaker 12: defensive coordinator. Yeah, A lot of people until they get
Speaker 12: to see you guys playing games. How different it's gonna be.
Speaker 12: You know you spend here in the spring. I mean,
Speaker 12: how different do you think this defense will.
Speaker 6: Be on under Zach?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 11: I think it'd be great under Zach. You know, Zach
Speaker 11: is a defensive mastermind. He knows where UH put us
Speaker 11: some positions to be successful. You know, you know it's
Speaker 11: our weaknesses, you knows, he knows our strengths. He knows
Speaker 11: how he can utilize us to play great on defense.
Speaker 11: You know, I feel like our defense gonna be even
Speaker 11: better than uh last year.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 11: I just feel like guys are being accustomed to each
Speaker 11: other and just growing as just not only players, just
Speaker 11: as brothers. And I think we just create uh strength
Speaker 11: and growth and trusting each other. I think it's gonna
Speaker 11: be a testament to how good we're gonna be this year.
Speaker 3: That's at every year of your career, you've gotten better.
Speaker 5: You double with your sack tails.
Speaker 10: Every year, and then that would be lofty for this
Speaker 10: year if you doubled it, But how do you get
Speaker 10: better this year?
Speaker 6: I just stay present. I just stay in the moment.
Speaker 11: I always have to understand that I always had to
Speaker 11: put the work in to get the results that I
Speaker 11: wanna get, and I try to stay uh true to that,
Speaker 11: and uh just focus on the little things like you know, sleep, diet, nutrition,
Speaker 11: you know, just little things that I can just j
Speaker 11: ju j just as little pub just as little pebbles
Speaker 11: that just add up over time. I try to focus
Speaker 11: on those things. I know, uh, putting in the work,
Speaker 11: you know, that'll check that list off. But just doing
Speaker 11: the little things as well throughout camping, throughout the season,
Speaker 11: and just adding of a thing, go.
Speaker 10: It is your very exact cool but this year higher
Speaker 10: than it was last year.
Speaker 6: How what you couldn't for last year?
Speaker 11: Uh, it might be, it might not be, you know, uh,
Speaker 11: but it's definitely it's d d uh definitely double dig
Speaker 11: just for sure.
Speaker 6: I know I can.
Speaker 11: I'm that type of player. I know I expect highly
Speaker 11: of myself and uh, I have to hold myself to
Speaker 11: that standard. But I just take one day at a time,
Speaker 11: stay present and put the work in just.
Speaker 6: A whole along those lines.
Speaker 10: And did see someone like Aaron Donald, you know, just
Speaker 10: be an All Pro last year and still only finished
Speaker 10: with like seven or eight sacks? I mean, does that
Speaker 10: kind of help you caliber your expectations of what a
Speaker 10: successful season can be on an individual level?
Speaker 6: Yeah? For sure.
Speaker 11: You know, he's one of the greats, w one of
Speaker 11: the greats of all time to play. And you know,
Speaker 11: I honestly when I came in as a rookie year
Speaker 11: and I wanna be like, not like him, but play
Speaker 11: like him in a sense of just being great and
Speaker 11: just being a known player in this league. And you know,
Speaker 11: I just out of that focus and I guess you
Speaker 11: could say year after year after year, I've gotten better,
Speaker 11: and I guess it's been working. But you know, I
Speaker 11: have a long way to go and to d even
Speaker 11: be mentioned in the same sentence as him in terms
Speaker 11: of play. But you know, I'm determined, I'm willing, and
Speaker 11: I'm just gonna take one day at a time.
Speaker 5: Just didn't know. Yeah, we talked to you obviously in
Speaker 5: the side the extension and talking about how flash do
Speaker 5: you were for that? I'm curious is that also come
Speaker 5: with pressure that you feel added pressure when you sign
Speaker 5: something like that.
Speaker 4: And so do.
Speaker 11: I wanna say pressure? I would say, uh, expectations from
Speaker 11: uh people. You know, teams are definitely gonna be you know,
Speaker 11: maybe blocking me different uh uh expecting d uh different
Speaker 11: ways that they're gonna try to swow me down. So
Speaker 11: I guess you could say pressure intls of ruh. Pressure
Speaker 11: myself to uh stay polished and stay focused and stay
Speaker 11: better than I was last year. So that's the only
Speaker 11: pressure I feel. Outside of that, it's just expectations and
Speaker 11: just the world to keep working.
Speaker 8: So this one's been like working with new Uh, that's
Speaker 8: like Frish Dennis Johnson.
Speaker 4: Uh, just going through everything.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Dennis is great. You know, d Uh, Dennis is cool.
Speaker 6: He he he he.
Speaker 11: He kept protects in Baylor. I'm protected, so we had
Speaker 11: that connection. But outside of that, you know, he's just
Speaker 11: a good guy. Uh, somebody that you know has very
Speaker 11: good insight about the game and tryna find ways to
Speaker 11: get better and brings a good end.
Speaker 6: You too. I like that and it's good. You know,
Speaker 6: you prepare in.
Speaker 10: Any different way or try to use try to perfect
Speaker 10: any different moves when you're expecting to get more double teased.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Uh, but overall, I think the uh most important thing
Speaker 11: for me is just staying in shape, staying you know,
Speaker 11: in great shape, having a high motor and uh, just
Speaker 11: focusing on waste and I get tired. And that's why
Speaker 11: I was talking about earlier about the nutrition and just
Speaker 11: uh sleeping, all those little things to add up it
Speaker 11: will help me standpoint and in those things.
Speaker 5: So what's your biggest focus of you know, from a
Speaker 5: technique standpoint, on something you want to improve on or
Speaker 5: goal or so forth.
Speaker 11: Uh man, I mean this is obviously I worked on
Speaker 11: everything strength, uh, technique, pass, rush moves. So I'll just
Speaker 11: say everything is getting better in at at everything, every
Speaker 11: aspect of the game just be you know, a whole
Speaker 11: where well rounded, uh player, I think would just be
Speaker 11: great for our defensive Yeah.
Speaker 6: Did you feel like you ended last.
Speaker 7: Year maybe playing the best you ever did? I mean
Speaker 7: that Texas game is came was incredible.
Speaker 10: Chiefs game incredible that you feel like you're almost disappointed
Speaker 10: to see the season in short, as you were almost.
Speaker 7: Reaching new heights every single week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I always feel like I can do better.
Speaker 11: I just feel like, uh, you know, after those performances,
Speaker 11: even though I played well, I just in my head,
Speaker 11: I'm like, no, they haven't seen nothing yet. You know,
Speaker 11: I I c I I can even be better. I
Speaker 11: can even be stronger, I can be faster. So that's
Speaker 11: just the mentality I I come into work with. And
Speaker 11: you know, I just try to put into fruition through
Speaker 11: the hard work and just staying focused and you know,
Speaker 11: the let the chips fall, oh where they may, you know,
Speaker 11: the one more for justee and this seems you.
Speaker 2: Know, one division champion titles, the fag the number one
Speaker 2: seed in the playoffs. Obviously you haven't gotten to the
Speaker 2: point where you want as a team. What what do
Speaker 2: you think it?
Speaker 6: You know, it won't happen.
Speaker 2: What will have to do this team have to do
Speaker 2: to get to that next world of good tat you before.
Speaker 11: Everybody's just being dialed in, focused and locked in you
Speaker 11: know every every day, you know, control what you can control.
Speaker 11: I mean that's really all you can do. And just
Speaker 11: put in you know, your heart we're gonna have every
Speaker 11: single day and just leave it out, leave it all
Speaker 11: out there on the field. And I mean that's all
Speaker 11: you can do. If everybody does that, from from coaches,
Speaker 11: just strain, staffs and players to everybody, I think we're
Speaker 11: going to get to where we want to get to
Speaker 11: and win.
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