Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It's Tuesday, June tenth.
Speaker 1: The Ravens wrapped up another day of organized team activities
Speaker 1: after practice, we had a chance to hear from a
Speaker 1: few players and coaches. First up, Roger Rose Garden.
Speaker 2: Roger, after such a successful rookie season, what are kind
Speaker 2: of year two goals for years?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, after last season, I know I wanted
Speaker 3: to immediately take a little time off, but it was
Speaker 3: immediately hit the gates for me personally physically getting in
Speaker 3: the weight room, getting.
Speaker 4: Faster, bigger, faster, stronger, and just.
Speaker 3: Building onto year two because now I know I got
Speaker 3: the ropes everything, and you know, just where my confidence
Speaker 3: in my play starts to really tickets next level steps.
Speaker 2: So how did you change its ait?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think it was a couple of
Speaker 3: dieting things when I went back to uh off season,
Speaker 3: and you know, compounding that with really good workouts and
Speaker 3: staying strict and disciplined for myself, and you know, I
Speaker 3: came back to you know, phase one, phase two of
Speaker 3: offseason as best as I've felt. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: I kinda I kind of lost a little bit of
Speaker 3: weight just to give myself a little bit more healthier
Speaker 3: after the season because I had some nick and bruises,
Speaker 3: but uh then kind of slowly started to put it
Speaker 3: on the way I wanted it to.
Speaker 4: So I'm back to where I've been playing at. So yeah,
Speaker 4: you know went viral.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, when do you stop being a nobody?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, actually I think last year I nobody was
Speaker 3: kind of a harsh word for myself.
Speaker 4: I'd much rather say, I know, I'm a rookie.
Speaker 3: But you know, just going into this year, you know,
Speaker 3: it's I'm gonna play way more, way more confidence, So
Speaker 3: gonna go and it's a lot of good teams, a
Speaker 3: lot of good players, So I'm excited for it. Response
Speaker 3: from Garrett kind of give you a feeling that you
Speaker 3: belonged here and and may give you that confidence.
Speaker 2: For the rest of the year.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely. It wouldn't only just uh Garrett. It
Speaker 3: is a lot of the other players you know that
Speaker 3: didn't get caught on film that U you know, just
Speaker 3: had interactions with so fellow offensive lineman and other defensive
Speaker 3: linement throughout the last season, you know, just stuff to build.
Speaker 5: On what was against liked in the city to that
Speaker 5: bull of the bols out.
Speaker 2: Like self of Johnson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think my first play is in
Speaker 3: the NFL is not how you wanted to go. But uh,
Speaker 3: you know that just building on you know, starting from
Speaker 3: the bottom now it could get better. So I just
Speaker 3: wanted to build off that. And you know, I thought
Speaker 3: I did a really good job myself and bringing others
Speaker 3: with me on, you know, making myself better each day
Speaker 3: day and day out, and just that days.
Speaker 6: So kind of questions, he said, Look, across sports, we
Speaker 6: seeing the athletes.
Speaker 7: You give like a lot of like abus like online
Speaker 7: you have like gam and so you guys, and sounds like, yeah,
Speaker 7: have you chose.
Speaker 2: That personally in any way as other pleasures rookie year
Speaker 2: at college.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, it was I think it was more so college.
Speaker 3: You know, I had a situation in the National Championship.
Speaker 3: It was actually pretty funny. A lot of the betters
Speaker 3: would find my Venmo and Venmo requests me like you
Speaker 3: lost me so and so I thought I got a
Speaker 3: laugh out of it. So but you know, at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, you never want that stuff to happen.
Speaker 3: So you just got to make sure you're on your
Speaker 3: a game at all times.
Speaker 2: So does it feel like you're almost like helpless to
Speaker 2: get here, like you can't stop guy gonna line you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean that's what you sign up for.
Speaker 3: When you know, when you're playing at the biggest stage,
Speaker 3: when you're getting televised each weekend, week out, you know
Speaker 3: happens to everyone. So you know that's that's a part
Speaker 3: of it. And you know, it's a different, different eras
Speaker 3: my dad says that that I play and you know,
Speaker 3: they didn't have, you know, the cell phones back in
Speaker 3: the day, but now we're in the modern era of
Speaker 3: you know, if you.
Speaker 4: Play bad, it's probably gonna probably gonna hear about it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, at the end of last season, we were
Speaker 2: talking to you about the possibility that you could go
Speaker 2: to the left tackle. Obviously with Rannie signing, that's not
Speaker 2: going to happen.
Speaker 1: How thankful are you about just staying at right tackle
Speaker 1: and able to focus there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I remember I was on I took
Speaker 3: a small vacation with him my family, and I was
Speaker 3: texting Ronnie and calling him every day.
Speaker 4: I was like, hey man, I was like, left side's
Speaker 4: looking real good.
Speaker 3: Uh, just because you know, I thought we had a
Speaker 3: really good dynamic duo of me and him and bouncing
Speaker 3: off each other from left to right. So you know,
Speaker 3: I think it all played out at the end of
Speaker 3: the day and you know it's, uh, glad, he's glad
Speaker 3: he's back.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 2: What did you say to him when when you finally deal?
Speaker 3: I was more so like a finally. It wasn't like
Speaker 3: a thank you. It was more like a finally because
Speaker 3: I was bugging him so so much. So you know,
Speaker 3: I was trying to bring other teammate, other guys in
Speaker 3: the old line. I was like, come on, Ronnie.
Speaker 4: I was like, gotta get gotta get something done here.
Speaker 4: So and it ended up working out.
Speaker 6: So when you think back to like your first encounters
Speaker 6: with with a lot on Pittsburgh last year, how often
Speaker 6: you got help from a tight end or from a
Speaker 6: hip block or something. I know, like that is kind
Speaker 6: of a test in itself, But is you know, going
Speaker 6: from your one year through, just how much the coach
Speaker 6: is trusting you to leave you one on one against
Speaker 6: some of these high end pass rushers, is gonna be
Speaker 6: like to you a mark of just how much you've
Speaker 6: throwne how much these coaches trusted him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think trust is a big thing,
Speaker 3: you know, especially game planning. You know, the coaches have
Speaker 3: a plan within each game and each matchup. But you know,
Speaker 3: whatever the game plan is, whether that's me one on
Speaker 3: one or a chip block on the right or left side,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Build my game plan towards it, and you know, just
Speaker 4: roll with it.
Speaker 6: I know it's early and there's.
Speaker 1: A ton of physicality in the blocking encounters right now,
Speaker 1: but what are you seeing out of the ed rushers
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball, particularly and Mike Green?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know those are I know, Dafe and Mike.
Speaker 3: Mike's a newer guy, but you know, Dafe has been
Speaker 3: one of the better edge players in my opinion and
Speaker 3: the NFL. And you know, he's he's definitely shouted this
Speaker 3: this this OTAs you know, he came back bigger, faster, stronger.
Speaker 3: So you know that just as a testament to myself,
Speaker 3: and you know, I gotta I gotta raise my level
Speaker 3: as these guys get better too.
Speaker 4: So and and Mike's doing good too.
Speaker 3: He's he's picking up picking up off where where he
Speaker 3: came off in college.
Speaker 4: So yeah, they're both doing a real good.
Speaker 2: Jobs their area.
Speaker 1: In your game, in the year two where when you
Speaker 1: watched your rookie film, You're like, all right, you know,
Speaker 1: I did really well, but I feel like I can.
Speaker 2: Improve in this area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there was too many to list for
Speaker 3: me to you know, I'm I'm a super critical myself
Speaker 3: on being my own coach, and you know, I went
Speaker 3: back and through these this offseason phase. I've been watching
Speaker 3: every single game on and I take notes, taking notes
Speaker 3: on where I want to improve my game. So I
Speaker 3: wouldn't say there's one one specific thing. There's probably ten
Speaker 3: or eleven things that I can that guy I can
Speaker 3: list off. So yeah, good deal, Thanks guys.
Speaker 1: Next up, Andrew Voorheats.
Speaker 6: George just said that the pressure was kind of off
Speaker 6: you last year as you could watch Patrick.
Speaker 2: Did you say that? Did that make you Vetteran? How
Speaker 2: do you approach that this year coming off of how
Speaker 2: that you played out?
Speaker 7: Yeah, last year was obviously an interesting situation. Uh, personally,
Speaker 7: you know, I just I went out there every day
Speaker 7: just looking to make the best of my opportunities. So
Speaker 7: obviously early on in the season that role looked different
Speaker 7: than as did later on in the season. But having
Speaker 7: a guy like Patrick McCarey had to me to look
Speaker 7: forward to and to lean on in terms of just
Speaker 7: maturity and an expertise all on the field was huge
Speaker 7: for my growth and development.
Speaker 3: It's not difficult for you, you know, obviously for injuries,
Speaker 3: it out, it's.
Speaker 2: Kind of plays. Just how hard was that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it definitely was not favorable or something that you
Speaker 7: you dream of as a football player. But you know,
Speaker 7: going through what I went through my my red shirt years,
Speaker 7: as a lot of people referred to it as, I
Speaker 7: feel like it gave me a lot of perspective and
Speaker 7: and really gave me the opportunity to take a step
Speaker 7: back and look at things from a bigger picture. And
Speaker 7: so I think I was able to lean back onto
Speaker 7: that adversity as just kind of a cornerstone uh last year,
Speaker 7: and and I felt like I was in a good
Speaker 7: spot mentally throughout the whole process. So really thankful for
Speaker 7: that opportunity.
Speaker 2: Was the action that you got at the end of
Speaker 2: the year also important in that.
Speaker 7: Sort of give you a chance to prove yourself that
Speaker 7: you're developed. Every years absolutely, you know, go prove to myself,
Speaker 7: Go prove to uh, to you guys, Go prove to
Speaker 7: my teammates, my coaches everything, and uh just show that
Speaker 7: I that you know, you know that wasn't necessarily playing
Speaker 7: on Sundays at the time, right, I was still developing
Speaker 7: a practice being a great scout team player, giving our
Speaker 7: our defense opportunity to get ready for the games and
Speaker 7: all that. So you know, I was proud of my
Speaker 7: performance in that last game that I have to play
Speaker 7: in in Cleveland, uh, the last week of the regular season,
Speaker 7: and uh just look forward to building off of that
Speaker 7: and and just proving uh uh what I.
Speaker 4: Could do and there last week.
Speaker 2: But just some thing that most easy to know, another
Speaker 2: off season of.
Speaker 6: Your belt, Like then you feel much better than you
Speaker 6: did coming into camp last year.
Speaker 7: And yeah, I mean just physically more mature, mentally more mature,
Speaker 7: just more opportunity in the playbook.
Speaker 4: Uh you know.
Speaker 7: So a great group of guys in this room that
Speaker 7: we have right now, and and we all push each
Speaker 7: other to be the best that we could be best
Speaker 7: versions of ourselves. So that's uh, something that's super awesome
Speaker 7: that we have going on.
Speaker 2: You mention, not just like getting physically better, but the
Speaker 2: mental hurdle getting back out there in the grind.
Speaker 4: What would you say really got over.
Speaker 7: That you know, just a lot, I would say, just
Speaker 7: leaning on the other guys in the room, you know,
Speaker 7: and I just I said that I commended them and
Speaker 7: in the special UH bond that we have, and you know,
Speaker 7: I really do believe it's some special and unique about.
Speaker 4: UH US, specifically of tackle. Yea, that's tremendous player being
Speaker 4: better dude. Uh.
Speaker 7: You guys don't get the opportunity to spend as much
Speaker 7: time as we do. But you know, Ronnie's an awesome dude,
Speaker 7: and uh, you know, it's just when you get the
Speaker 7: opportunity to play next to UH an all pro player,
Speaker 7: kind of makes your life a little easier at times.
Speaker 7: So really stoked to see what he does, excited to
Speaker 7: have him back and looking forward to him this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're kind of a different question.
Speaker 6: So like for us, like all sports, can see like
Speaker 6: a lot of a like abuse online from like gamblers,
Speaker 6: and it was a bat.
Speaker 2: That started yell with them players. Have you ever exposed
Speaker 2: it a little? You know, and you've never seen a
Speaker 2: happy chance?
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, nothing, kind of stay out of that world.
Speaker 7: But thankfully I'm not subject to it. But yeah, no,
Speaker 7: I haven't ever been involved.
Speaker 3: Andrew, you've dealt with this a little.
Speaker 6: Last year we could talk about competition to be starting.
Speaker 4: Do you how do you approach this year, George?
Speaker 6: You just said he wants that one guy wants the
Speaker 6: guy that kind of be the clear winner.
Speaker 3: Like does that experience last year help you with this
Speaker 3: or do you kind of just regard as, look, I
Speaker 3: I need to go.
Speaker 4: Win the job.
Speaker 7: I mean good either way, right, I mean that always
Speaker 7: just wanted about there and be the best football player
Speaker 7: that you could be. And yeah, I mean to my perspective,
Speaker 7: it's just there's an open position out there for grabs,
Speaker 7: and uh, it's up to somebody, and so why not me? Right,
Speaker 7: why not anybody else for that sake? But yeah, I
Speaker 7: mean just kind of take it day by day and
Speaker 7: uh we'll just see what what uh what happens when
Speaker 7: it's all uh settles down and we get ready for
Speaker 7: a week a week one opener.
Speaker 2: Trying particular trouble by four. In the past, an average
Speaker 2: athletes have become too pullers who're like those men at
Speaker 2: first words, How I feel you think you can coach
Speaker 2: in terms of the pulling askt.
Speaker 7: Specifically, I mean just shout out to coach Monk honestly
Speaker 7: for uh, the design that he is, he's put together
Speaker 7: for us in terms of our our offense and stuff,
Speaker 7: and just coach Warhap just coaching us.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: Definitely feel like he prepares me and they put us
Speaker 7: in good positions to succeed out there. So definitely feel confident.
Speaker 7: And aspect of offensive line play.
Speaker 1: Last, but not least, offensive line coach George Warhop.
Speaker 2: Wonderful reduction in penalties in after week ten. Put it
Speaker 2: to the offensive line up in particular.
Speaker 6: We can talk about some of that, and then I
Speaker 6: also want to ask you if I take a distension
Speaker 6: between a pre snap foul and a declinable post snap foul.
Speaker 5: My gosh, this last year just was an emphasis, was
Speaker 5: an emphasis from John on down in particular with the
Speaker 5: holdings right number one with the holdings, and then as
Speaker 5: an offense with the pre snap penalties.
Speaker 2: So it was just just a point of emphasis.
Speaker 5: Okay, the rest of it, you need to talk to
Speaker 5: the head coach about that, because I don't pay that
Speaker 5: close attention to that stuff, right, So if they want
Speaker 5: to decline it, they can decline it. If they don't,
Speaker 5: they don't. Outside of that, we just don't need to
Speaker 5: be causing them. That's my mindset.
Speaker 4: Okay, Rose Garden changed from his Brookie year.
Speaker 2: Into this year.
Speaker 5: So far, there's certain things we wanted him to work
Speaker 5: on that we talked about at the end of the
Speaker 5: season last year and coming into this year, and he's
Speaker 5: so far doing that, uh, and it's gonna be he's
Speaker 5: helpful to him. He still has some stuff to work on,
Speaker 5: but the stuff we've talked about that was a major emphasis.
Speaker 2: He has definitely embraced that and it's changed. Can you
Speaker 2: tell us any of what he's been working on with uh? No, No, Georgia,
Speaker 2: you saw it. You were very much a part of the.
Speaker 6: We required, you know, with your advocacy for uh. Carson Vinzon,
Speaker 6: Just I guess how did he kind of catch your
Speaker 6: eye and what do you envisioned for him at you know,
Speaker 6: over the couple of years.
Speaker 5: Carson's interesting, alright, So he played at a smaller school.
Speaker 5: The talent level that he was playing against wasn't that great,
Speaker 5: and he was really just okay on his college tape.
Speaker 5: But when he went to the Senior Bowl and he
Speaker 5: was playing against better players, Uh, I liked how he
Speaker 5: competed and you got to see him going against guys
Speaker 5: his size, his t on a level. He wasn't perfect,
Speaker 5: but he competed right, and so that's what we need
Speaker 5: to see. We need to see guys with his size,
Speaker 5: his range, his length, and his ability to compete and
Speaker 5: not back down. So once I saw that and how
Speaker 5: God made him, uh, and there's not that many guys
Speaker 5: like that, I was like, if we have a chance,
Speaker 5: we need to draft them. So I just thought I
Speaker 5: needed to push as much as I could for him
Speaker 5: every time he came up so.
Speaker 4: Injury. I guess, what have you been able to do
Speaker 4: with him to make sure he gets as.
Speaker 2: Up to set as I said.
Speaker 5: One thing about Emory and both the guys Deli Deli
Speaker 5: from LSU, both those guys. This is probably the fifth
Speaker 5: or sixth kid I've had from that offensive line coach.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: They all come in well prepared. Emory's very smart, he's
Speaker 5: very engaged. He's plugged in. He'll get off to the
Speaker 5: side and try to do the stuff we're doing. Not
Speaker 5: he can't do what we're doing, but he can mimic
Speaker 5: it on his own. I've been most impressed with him
Speaker 5: and with Deli in the meeting rooms, just understanding what
Speaker 5: we're doing and there very very very close to being
Speaker 5: really good pro players in that regard.
Speaker 2: So do you feel like you've been encouraged by what
Speaker 2: you've seen in Ota so far? Too many full starts,
Speaker 2: so no, no, we got to be better.
Speaker 6: Yeah, A lot of discussion on the left guards, Bob,
Speaker 6: do you want one player to take that job or
Speaker 6: how do you envision that competition playing out?
Speaker 2: For the lawyers? I believe in a starter. I don't
Speaker 2: like playing two guys.
Speaker 5: So you know, we got two veteran guys here with
Speaker 5: with Andrew and Benn.
Speaker 2: Let them fight it out, right.
Speaker 5: If one of the young guys come in, you know,
Speaker 5: come up and they can add competition to that, we'll
Speaker 5: let that happen. But I prefer to have a starter
Speaker 5: and a backup. I don't like going in with combination guys.
Speaker 5: So that's my hope. What do you like about Andrew
Speaker 5: h He's continued on from what he started at the
Speaker 5: end of the year last year. I thought the fact
Speaker 5: that he got to sit when Pat took over being
Speaker 5: the first year player, it allowed him to kind of
Speaker 5: develop through the year. And when he had to play
Speaker 5: against Cleveland, I thought he played very very well. Uh,
Speaker 5: and so far this spring he's done a nice job.
Speaker 5: So I'm impressed with what he's done.
Speaker 2: What way does it?
Speaker 4: What does it all?
Speaker 5: Mass?
Speaker 2: Is the us really way? When the hope.
Speaker 5: Well, just no pressure, right, I mean we don't. People
Speaker 5: don't understand how much pressure there is to be a
Speaker 5: starter in this league.
Speaker 2: Right, and then when you're really, in essence, a rookie.
Speaker 5: Right, he was here his first year, but he was
Speaker 5: on IR so in essence, he's a rookie and he's
Speaker 5: going out there first time in this environment fighting his
Speaker 5: ass off to be successful. There was a ton of
Speaker 5: pressure and if you have one bad play depends on
Speaker 5: the guy, right, you don't know how long that's gonna
Speaker 5: linger for him. So when you're able to sit back
Speaker 5: and watch Vecterans do it, watch how they handle those situations, Okay,
Speaker 5: it kind of calms you down. So when you go play,
Speaker 5: you know, one play is not the end end, all right.
Speaker 5: I can overcome that and still play well in a game.
Speaker 5: And I think that's what he got to at the
Speaker 5: end of the year.
Speaker 2: Do you might perhaps co Carson kind of said, he
Speaker 2: looks the the way you're containing kind of a tough love.
Speaker 2: The type of situation with m sometimes how do you
Speaker 2: s you've seen HIV given developed though, even if it
Speaker 2: was a mess.
Speaker 5: Oh oh, he's come a long way in the past
Speaker 5: couple weeks. One thing about Carson that's really impressive is
Speaker 5: number one, Uh, he wants to be the best version
Speaker 5: of himself every day. So when he comes out here,
Speaker 5: he's trying to get better from what he did yesterday.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: And then I I can crawl right up his stuff
Speaker 5: and he does not ever blink. He does not blink.
Speaker 5: You see him out there, he just kind of looks
Speaker 5: at me. Yes, certain, he goes on and he does
Speaker 5: what he's supposed to do. But you know, he's a
Speaker 5: he's a young kid, so we're trying to get him
Speaker 5: up to speed as fast as possible.
Speaker 2: So it's whatever means necessary to get that done.
Speaker 5: But I I I am really this whole rookie class
Speaker 5: we have here that they brought in. All these guys
Speaker 5: really do a nice job. They work, Uh, they try
Speaker 5: to get better game. I mean they're at all different stages,
Speaker 5: they offer m different spots. But I'm really really impressed
Speaker 5: with the group these guys brought in. Eric did a
Speaker 5: great job with that. He do is yelling through a
Speaker 5: guy cotin in the next center. Next year, we're starting
Speaker 5: to work here and read both Okay at center. I
Speaker 5: don't know if they'll get team reps at it, but
Speaker 5: with Delhi Plate Center at LSU, so both of those
Speaker 5: guys eventually will be pulling the ball in practice.
Speaker 2: So all right, thank you for no prop.
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