Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Past Podcast. Today is Sunday,
Speaker 1: May fourth, and today we got to see the rookies
Speaker 1: on the field for the first time. After practice, we
Speaker 1: heard from head coach John Harwall.
Speaker 2: So off to a good start, as you can see
Speaker 2: a lot of guys here, well over sixty players for
Speaker 2: the rookie mini camp. At levels you go from the
Speaker 2: draft choices to the undrafted signed free agents to the
Speaker 2: tryout guys, and the tryout guys is since when you
Speaker 2: were doing it. It's we've got a lot more guys
Speaker 2: now in the tryout deal than we used to have.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe he had that at one time, Vinnie, I
Speaker 2: don't know it. You bringing a ton too. The Cowboys
Speaker 2: used to bring like two hundred guys a training camp. Right,
Speaker 2: we're not quite there, but but these guys are great
Speaker 2: guys who are looking for a shot month the opportunity,
Speaker 2: and you know, we're here to provide an opportunity and
Speaker 2: see how they do. And I was really pleased with
Speaker 2: the first practice. Just told him, I said, I said, no,
Speaker 2: you know you came in here. Your your football player.
Speaker 2: You know, on you once you make your first tackle,
Speaker 2: your first block. My dad always used to say, when
Speaker 2: you do that, whatever level you might be, in third grade,
Speaker 2: you make your first tackle, you're a football player, so
Speaker 2: my dad says, and you'll always be a football player.
Speaker 2: These guys come in to your football players. But now
Speaker 2: after this practice, they can call home, call their mom,
Speaker 2: their dad, their girlfriend, their brother, whoever, their buddy, and say,
Speaker 2: now I am a pro football player. I'm a pro
Speaker 2: football player. Because they're a little nervous. It's the first
Speaker 2: practice ever, you know, in a pro field. What's it
Speaker 2: going to be like, and it's just it's rookies the
Speaker 2: next phases in front of them. But it's a big
Speaker 2: step for these guys and it means a lot to them.
Speaker 2: They had a really good practice. It was clean, didn't
Speaker 2: have a lot of mistakes, didn't have a lot of
Speaker 2: pre snap issues, didn't have anything that was you know,
Speaker 2: out of line with the temple of the practice. Guys
Speaker 2: are on their feet, taking care one another, still practicing,
Speaker 2: rehearsing quickly and fast and getting things right. So it's
Speaker 2: a smart group of guys. So we feel really good
Speaker 2: about where we're at after after day one. All right,
Speaker 2: what question do you have?
Speaker 3: Johnny had six draft pick in the defensive.
Speaker 2: So awe you put your top two.
Speaker 4: I mean, how I know it's very early, but how
Speaker 4: much pencil do you think they could make an impact
Speaker 4: in this Nam?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, all those guys are are
Speaker 2: real good players. You know, the draft picks and you
Speaker 2: start with Malachi and work your way right down through
Speaker 2: and uh, we drafted all those guys for a reason.
Speaker 2: And and they're uh, they're they're guys that have made
Speaker 2: plays at a high level in college. You know, disruptive
Speaker 2: type players, every one of them. So yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2: I think they can all they all gotta they all
Speaker 2: got a shot. We'll see how they do.
Speaker 5: So Emery was sidelined for I guess all the factors,
Speaker 5: or at least the start of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be a little while. You know, he
Speaker 2: had he had a labor shoulder issue that I think
Speaker 2: you guys were aware of. And so when that's gonna
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna clear up now, you know,
Speaker 2: probably be looking at training camp, maybe maybe earlier, but uh,
Speaker 2: we'll just have to see how you go. So he's
Speaker 2: not gonna practice in the immediate future.
Speaker 5: You don't think many a possibility for him.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I don't think we'll probably push it.
Speaker 2: I mean, if he can do it, we'll do it.
Speaker 2: But I'm not thinking about pushing it there if it's
Speaker 2: if it's if it's not totally ready yet done.
Speaker 6: Yesterday, you guys signed Joe Nople offensive lineman, swing swing tackle,
Speaker 6: especially given in the wake of mccarrey leaving and knowing
Speaker 6: how versatile he was. How nice is it to bring
Speaker 6: someone in who has played I think four of the
Speaker 6: five offensive line positions in doing that, and.
Speaker 2: He's in Baltimore now, so maybe we get five out
Speaker 2: of five, right? Uh he uh yeah, to get to
Speaker 2: get Joseph no Boom in here, a veteran, played, talented guy,
Speaker 2: played both sides. Really to focus probably as a swing
Speaker 2: tackle as much as anything for us. I mean that's
Speaker 2: kind of where we really really need that veteran presence
Speaker 2: as a swing tackle play both sides, uh and then
Speaker 2: uh yeah. He could pop down in our guard, but
Speaker 2: I think we'll be focusing on tackle. But really big
Speaker 2: signing for us. We're really excited to talk to him
Speaker 2: last night. He's fired up, he's excited to be here, Luke, and.
Speaker 5: It's one thing to like watch these guys on tape.
Speaker 2: Now you're getting to see him on the field itself.
Speaker 7: Well, a guy like Mike Green, what stands out when
Speaker 7: you actually see.
Speaker 2: Him, Like, yeah, you know, I think you see it.
Speaker 2: You see it kind of up close and personal, the
Speaker 2: explosiveness and the size. You know, he's a big guy.
Speaker 2: And as much as anything, I just like seeing the faces,
Speaker 2: you know, the guys, how excited they are, you know,
Speaker 2: the fact that this is something that they've been dreaming
Speaker 2: of and working for and here they are, and they're
Speaker 2: so excited and so nervous to get out there and
Speaker 2: get after it and get started. And then at the
Speaker 2: end of the practice they feel like, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: I feel good about it. You know, I got through it.
Speaker 2: I can do this. And Mike's no different than all
Speaker 2: the guys that way, you know, the first time through.
Speaker 2: So it's good to see.
Speaker 7: Jack you had offensive tackle this. You're a lot of turnover.
Speaker 7: But next year all the tight ends and Patrick required.
Speaker 7: Of course, their contracts are up after this year. How
Speaker 7: much do you concern yourself with that as opposed to
Speaker 7: letting you you see where.
Speaker 2: At that, Well, yeah, I'll let DC worry more about
Speaker 2: than I will. I mean, you always, it's always everything's
Speaker 2: in the back of my mind. But it's a it's
Speaker 2: year to year, week to week, day to day operation, really,
Speaker 2: So we build a team for this year, one year
Speaker 2: at a time, and then you know, d C Eric
Speaker 2: he's got to be thinking in terms of the long
Speaker 2: term with the contracts and things like that, which you know,
Speaker 2: nobody does it better, so I'll let him worry about it.
Speaker 8: Joh And I know Brandy did a lot of the
Speaker 8: kicking scouting. What was it like for you, Chris and
Speaker 8: the other guys to see each other live kick here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good. It was good to see it.
Speaker 2: It's good to hear it, I think as much as anything, Gianna,
Speaker 2: it's good to hear a kicker, you know, and the
Speaker 2: way the ball comes off his foot is impressive. And
Speaker 2: both kickers I thought, looked really good today. So we
Speaker 2: got them out there behind the line of the snap
Speaker 2: and everything, and I think they made them all, didn't they.
Speaker 2: You guys were watching, so that's that's good to see.
Speaker 2: So it's a good start that way.
Speaker 8: John.
Speaker 9: With a guy like Mike Green that plays in the trenches,
Speaker 9: I know you guys aren't doing a lot.
Speaker 10: Of physical stuff.
Speaker 6: These days, But are you able to kind of see
Speaker 6: a little bit of what you're.
Speaker 5: Hope and who's with them once you he.
Speaker 8: Does get it.
Speaker 2: It's a great question, you know. It's like we tell
Speaker 2: these guys, this is not practice in the sense, it's
Speaker 2: not competitive, it's rehearsal. So you're really what you're what
Speaker 2: you're competing against is your execution. We're looking for execution.
Speaker 2: If you saw the practice, we built it from no helmets,
Speaker 2: you know, just without without even running the play, just
Speaker 2: coming up to the line of scrimmage and getting the snap.
Speaker 2: Then we built it into you know, do everything fast
Speaker 2: pre snap, but then go half speed. Then we put
Speaker 2: the helmets on and we did it fast. But it
Speaker 2: wasn't competitive, and that's kind of the the I guess
Speaker 2: the ramp up we try to do. So can we
Speaker 2: see things? Sure? Can you see everything? No, you can't
Speaker 2: see everything.
Speaker 11: Of course he did some the field to pick off
Speaker 11: the back well, do anything just when it's kind of
Speaker 11: playing the eye balls on him.
Speaker 3: Did anything kind of stand out with you about him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, traits about Carson. I mean he's big, he saw him.
Speaker 2: He's big, he's rangey, he's got long arms, he's he's
Speaker 2: high cut, he's he can and he can really move,
Speaker 2: you know, he moves his feet really well.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then the other thing is you see how how
Speaker 2: young he is. I mean, I guess I look at
Speaker 2: that that that that frame, and you say, man, we
Speaker 2: can grow so much into that. And he's gonna get
Speaker 2: in that weight room and get to work right away.
Speaker 2: And and you know he's kind of like a young
Speaker 2: you know, a young colt out there trying to trying
Speaker 2: to learn how to control that that that frame.
Speaker 3: John Collins Schleier, Maryland kid trying to potentially earn a
Speaker 3: spot in your quarterback room.
Speaker 10: Did you have any early impressions you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, arm man, what an arm he was. He was
Speaker 2: throwing some bebies out there, especially in the outbreaking routes
Speaker 2: on the sideline. Uh. And the kind of striking is
Speaker 2: I didn't realize how big he was. You know, he's
Speaker 2: a great looking athlete.
Speaker 7: John, What do you hope that Malachi can not only
Speaker 7: learn from this off season but also the safeties in
Speaker 7: your room right now Kyle Antennerberg's watch.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, yeah, I hope he becomes I hope he
Speaker 2: learns how to be like an all pro. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's guy. What you hope I mean you hope for
Speaker 2: the best and uh and plan for the best too,
Speaker 2: I guess, and I expect him to do really well.
Speaker 2: You know, he's he's our first round pick. A lot
Speaker 2: is a lot to who much is given, much as
Speaker 2: much as required, and nobody understands it better than him.
Speaker 2: Is a young guy. Really impressed with his maturity. He
Speaker 2: broke the huddle today. That's not an easy thing to
Speaker 2: do your first time. So uh, so far, so good.
Speaker 5: We'll we'll be Would you like to see the next
Speaker 5: progression for this group going forward?
Speaker 10: Let's what's the next step to do?
Speaker 2: That's a good question, Jerry. I think the next step
Speaker 2: is probably you know, recovery and then taking what they
Speaker 2: learned in the media is post practice out to practice
Speaker 2: the next day and see what gets cleaned up. So
Speaker 2: they're gonna be a little sort tomorrow. You know, they
Speaker 2: haven't been moving in a football practice for a while.
Speaker 2: Can they get back out there and repeat it, move
Speaker 2: around and and then you know, build on today. I
Speaker 2: think there's a gain website. You said you guys might
Speaker 2: be having great practices. Here's anything you.
Speaker 10: Can say about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would just say, it's all up in the
Speaker 2: air right now. If we've talked to the Buccaneers about that,
Speaker 2: talk to the commanders about that. But the league controls
Speaker 2: who you end up playing. So we're still waiting to
Speaker 2: hear from the league in terms of what our preseason
Speaker 2: games will actually be. I've actually talked to some other
Speaker 2: coaches that we maybe could be playing to see if
Speaker 2: they'd be interested, and there's expressed interest. So I think
Speaker 2: we will be having joint practices. Hopefully we'll have a
Speaker 2: day here. You just have to see if it works out.
Speaker 3: I think he gets there with a lot of bactors
Speaker 3: after the p private league set.
Speaker 12: From the definite.
Speaker 10: It's that dynamic.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's giving a lot of attention on that dynamic.
Speaker 3: How do you put see it time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, for.
Speaker 3: Those guys to be guiled and toxifate.
Speaker 2: To say, right, great question.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, as you know, Justin's been in the building
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, kicking and everything, and if
Speaker 2: you have a chance to talk a little bit, been
Speaker 2: working hard. I would just say, like from a standpoint
Speaker 2: of the investigation and all that, I mean, it's we
Speaker 2: don't know anything. I mean we haven't been given any information,
Speaker 2: and that as it should be. You know, it's all
Speaker 2: done the way it's done, So we don't know anything
Speaker 2: along those lines. So you can't make any decisions based
Speaker 2: on that. Every decision we make has to be based
Speaker 2: on football. There's a lot of layers to that. You know,
Speaker 2: you've got a rookie kicker and here you took them,
Speaker 2: took him in the sixth round early in the sixth round.
Speaker 2: He's a talented guy. Uh, just from a football standpoint,
Speaker 2: salary cap, you know, all the different things that you
Speaker 2: just take into consideration. Uh, whatever we decide to do
Speaker 2: over the next few weeks will be based on football.
Speaker 8: Son.
Speaker 5: I think you mentioned at the end of the season
Speaker 5: that maybe's a would get throughgery, would put the need
Speaker 5: than anything ever coming.
Speaker 2: In good question. It did not go to surgery.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: He actually he was doing a little dance and the
Speaker 2: way you missed last week and he said he's he
Speaker 2: said he's feeling great. His knees back, but he did
Speaker 2: it with rehab and and yeah, he should be ready
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 4: The mental part is so important with the kicker position.
Speaker 4: Is that something you can really evaluate.
Speaker 5: In this kind of setting, or is it.
Speaker 10: You know, you just kind of have to wait and
Speaker 10: see l guy does in the game.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, it's a good question. You probably can
Speaker 2: evaluate it to a degree. I mean, you know, there's
Speaker 2: pressure out here, especially when you're trying to win a job,
Speaker 2: and you go back to when Justin won the job
Speaker 2: how he handle it. But I don't think you're ever
Speaker 2: going to really know until I mean, everything guys do
Speaker 2: the first year is like a new day, So you know,
Speaker 2: it's a kicker. Every kick is going to be the
Speaker 2: first time he's done it over the course of his
Speaker 2: rookie season, So that's always going to be a little
Speaker 2: bit of certainly going to be an unknown if you know,
Speaker 2: whenever you go with the rookie kicker, that would be
Speaker 2: an unknown.
Speaker 9: Sorry, do you fear the rookies in particular show up
Speaker 9: more prepared, more better knowing their craft already because there's
Speaker 9: so much more from out there and you're going from them,
Speaker 9: whether be're elead eleven type of camps all the way
Speaker 9: up through now, and the way that you approach and how.
Speaker 2: You what you can do with them on day one.
Speaker 2: You know, I think that's a great point, Pete. I
Speaker 2: would say, yes, they are more prepared than ever for
Speaker 2: whatever reason. Maybe it's coming up through high school and
Speaker 2: you got all the camps with all the little helmets
Speaker 2: on and all the flag football and all the passing leagues.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but these guys come
Speaker 2: in ready, and I think the college programs do a
Speaker 2: great job of preparing them.
Speaker 10: And Nebraska the start years.
Speaker 2: See here, No, we signed him, yeah, I believe. So
Speaker 2: it could be wrong, but we're checking the the wrestler. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we've only got sixty nine guys here. Okay, yeah, we
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 10: Back to you.
Speaker 2: I like them today. Look good, strong, one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty six and oh I think right? Is that good?
Speaker 10: That's very good.
Speaker 2: Probably we'll see when we play Kelly, Greg you leveraged.
Speaker 2: He leveraged those blocks really well. Yeah. I watched him
Speaker 2: play in college. I mean he played against Michigan a
Speaker 2: couple of times, so a chance I was kind of
Speaker 2: we were talking in the uh in the hallway. I
Speaker 2: ran into him talking about the Michigan Nebraska game, so
Speaker 2: the Michigan was too.
Speaker 10: And all one time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't I might have mentioned that maybe anything else.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks, appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1: Then we heard from first round safety Malachi Stars.
Speaker 6: Malachi, how exciting is it to be on the field?
Speaker 6: And John Harball told us she even broke down the
Speaker 6: huddle just kind.
Speaker 2: Of what is that? What was that like for you
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's just a great opportunity to be here.
Speaker 12: More organization like this, and uh, we got a really
Speaker 12: good group of guys here, so just to be able
Speaker 12: to go out there today again, afield, move around, communicate,
Speaker 12: just kind of get a little taste of what it's
Speaker 12: gonna be like.
Speaker 10: I think it was good for everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you expect to break down the team?
Speaker 12: No? He he threw me off with it, but it
Speaker 12: was a honor, you know, and I don't I don't
Speaker 12: take it lightly. I'm I'm happy I got to do
Speaker 12: it and hopefully I can do it again.
Speaker 7: Ye now kind it alway kind of let your football
Speaker 7: iq right, And I'm how impressed the worthy interviews and
Speaker 7: whatnot tickets to Like, what would be some advice you'd
Speaker 7: give another player that can play kind of well next
Speaker 7: year in terms of picking up and playbol for.
Speaker 2: How you how you go about that?
Speaker 12: Yeah, honest say, just really dive into it. You move
Speaker 12: so much faster in the game of football when you
Speaker 12: know what people around you are doing. Uh So, just
Speaker 12: being able to kind of pick up on what your
Speaker 12: other safety is doing, and then your corner, and then
Speaker 12: your your nickel, and then the linebackers, and then when
Speaker 12: you get to the front, you know you're fit. And
Speaker 12: then at that point you know defense. So now you're
Speaker 12: just playing with the offense. Okay, what's the offense giving me?
Speaker 12: They're gonna give me this? How can I How can
Speaker 12: I beat that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 12: So at a certain point you just get to where
Speaker 12: you're playing defense, but you're playing with the offense while
Speaker 12: you're play and defense.
Speaker 10: Okay, can you can you share a little bit about
Speaker 10: what your message was breaking down?
Speaker 12: Yeah, Like I said earlier, it was a really good day.
Speaker 12: Uh gods had really good energy. Everybody was on time
Speaker 12: the meetings. I told him just to be on time again,
Speaker 12: to come out tomorrow with the same energy and just
Speaker 12: keep having fun. You know, we're all here chasing our dreams,
Speaker 12: so we're all supporting each other and just you know,
Speaker 12: keep it, keep it going.
Speaker 10: You've been through a couple of practices. Have you seen
Speaker 10: the difference between the John hobball.
Speaker 9: Maybe that you were needing during drafts and maybe now
Speaker 9: in practice moved game.
Speaker 10: He's the same. He's the same guy day in and
Speaker 10: day out. He really is.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 12: And just like his energy when he's out there, and
Speaker 12: just like what he brings to to practice and to
Speaker 12: the team. I mean, like it's it's crazy, like he
Speaker 12: walks out there and he starts talking and it's like
Speaker 12: everybody's just boom, let's go to work.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 12: So I said he was blessing to have him as
Speaker 12: a coach.
Speaker 9: Break down the teams, as he mentioned up here too,
Speaker 9: with kind of like with the first round pick, there's
Speaker 9: a lot expected of you, and that's when you're to
Speaker 9: be that kind of leader. To see this kind of
Speaker 9: was that a reminder to you of kind of what
Speaker 9: they're going to expect from you going forward despite the
Speaker 9: fact that you just.
Speaker 12: Got Yeah, yeah, but I already knew it just kind
Speaker 12: of coming in.
Speaker 10: We had talked about it.
Speaker 12: Uh, just you know, being that being that leader, keep
Speaker 12: being myself who I was when I came from the
Speaker 12: University of Georgia. So just being able to continue to
Speaker 12: be myself and really dive into being a pro and
Speaker 12: bring gods along with me as well.
Speaker 10: I think it's huge for me. How did your when
Speaker 10: did your leadership?
Speaker 1: I kind of plays the first take you Is that
Speaker 1: always been there?
Speaker 3: Or how did you develop yourself?
Speaker 10: You know, I think it's it's always been there.
Speaker 12: But I think when I got to University of Georgia,
Speaker 12: I just followed the right people, uh, the leaders that
Speaker 12: were there before me. Like I watched them and I
Speaker 12: saw what they did, and then I figured out how
Speaker 12: I wanted to lead myself. And I feel like you
Speaker 12: should always lead by example, So that's what I do.
Speaker 12: But like, I've learned different styles and techniques that people use,
Speaker 12: and I kind of picked it up and put.
Speaker 10: It into my own leader.
Speaker 12: So just being able to watch people the right way
Speaker 12: and the right guys has helped me a lot. Nolan Smith,
Speaker 12: Christ Smith, Dan Jackson, who's in this process with me,
Speaker 12: A lot of guys like that just really helped me out.
Speaker 7: Coming from a successful program in Georgia now being drapped
Speaker 7: into another successful franchise. What does it What does it
Speaker 7: mean to you to be able to play for Randy
Speaker 7: a playoff?
Speaker 10: Yeah? I love winning.
Speaker 12: So I'm excited, I really am, and I really I'm
Speaker 12: excited to learn. I'm excited for the vests to get
Speaker 12: back and you know, even the guys. I'm here right
Speaker 12: now just learning from everybody and just really diving into
Speaker 12: the whole process.
Speaker 10: Uh No, you gonna go ahead, Kyle and are Darius?
Speaker 10: What do you hope that you can learn from them? Options? Yeah,
Speaker 10: I just want to be a sponge.
Speaker 12: Like they know so much football and like watching tape,
Speaker 12: you see it, they just moved so fluently, like I
Speaker 12: had talked about earlier, Like they're on a different level
Speaker 12: of like knowing knowledge of football, and I.
Speaker 10: Want to get there.
Speaker 12: So just being able to, you know, be a sponge
Speaker 12: and listen and you know, really just dive into it
Speaker 12: with those with those guys and everybody in the room
Speaker 12: two as well.
Speaker 10: I'm excited we.
Speaker 6: Got a chance to talk to Hamilton or any of
Speaker 6: those guys.
Speaker 8: Yet.
Speaker 12: I know that I had restarted Colin text him, he
Speaker 12: had text me back, and then I texted real Quin
Speaker 12: as well. So I've got the chance to talk to
Speaker 12: a few guys.
Speaker 8: All read that.
Speaker 1: Next we heard from second round outside linebacker Mike Green.
Speaker 10: Something.
Speaker 5: You know, it's always great to be drafted, but is
Speaker 5: there something to be drafted being a defensive player?
Speaker 10: And coming to the Ravens and knowing all the defensive history.
Speaker 11: Here, Yeah, it means a lot. This This team has
Speaker 11: a has a lot of great culture that's that's been
Speaker 11: going around. And you got to think about the guys
Speaker 11: that's been through here, ray Lewis, Terrell, Suggs and and
Speaker 11: so forth. It's just like it means a lot more.
Speaker 11: Since I'm a defensive player as well, and just seeing
Speaker 11: all those great defensive players walk through here, it means
Speaker 11: a little bit more for sure.
Speaker 7: I so like your.
Speaker 3: Emertional draft ball and the murder and ne drafted. Can
Speaker 3: you take us inside your emotions.
Speaker 4: At that point.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I really just wanted to get picked up, you
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying. I didn't care if that was
Speaker 11: the first pick of the draft or if that was
Speaker 11: mister Irrelevant. I just wanted to get picked up. And
Speaker 11: and just when I when I met with Eric DaCosta,
Speaker 11: he told me when I came on my thirty visit,
Speaker 11: if I see a four one no number, that's him.
Speaker 1: So we laughed it off.
Speaker 11: Whatever, And it's crazy because everything just came in full circle.
Speaker 11: I'm I'm sitting down on the couch and I'll see
Speaker 11: that four one, No Number, and I knew it was him,
Speaker 11: So it meant a lot, and uh, me and my
Speaker 11: family got to celebrate that, and it was great, like some.
Speaker 2: People had to pick.
Speaker 3: And was comment waiting or just the fact that you
Speaker 3: got drafted by team that you know defensive rich from.
Speaker 11: Home to Yeah, of course, of course it's tough, just
Speaker 11: just knowing that you got first round potential and uh,
Speaker 11: just knowing that regardless the team that you was gonna
Speaker 11: go to, that you just wanted a chance to get
Speaker 11: the first round. And and then that was a goal
Speaker 11: that I set for myself. Didn't didn't really get to
Speaker 11: see it, get to get that goal. But coming to
Speaker 11: the Ravens was a blessing in disguise, and uh and
Speaker 11: I live by that, and I mean that, I honestly
Speaker 11: can say, I don't think there's a better program or
Speaker 11: franchise that I can be a part of than the Ravens.
Speaker 11: So I'm blessed to be here. It's an honor. I'm
Speaker 11: ready to get to work.
Speaker 6: How much, like how much would this motivate you going forward,
Speaker 6: the fact that you had to wait maybe longer than you.
Speaker 11: Anticipated, Yeah, I mean a lot. I feel like all
Speaker 11: my life I've been able to keep a chip on
Speaker 11: my shoulder and I feed off of that, and I
Speaker 11: feel like just going just being able to go out
Speaker 11: there with with just a chip on your shoulder, it
Speaker 11: means a little bit more. And I feel like just
Speaker 11: just going through that process of of of knowing that
Speaker 11: I have potential to go somewhere but and go to
Speaker 11: a certain a certain pick, but but not. It's just
Speaker 11: something I'm gonna keep on in the back of my
Speaker 11: head when I when I'm able to go and get
Speaker 11: these other teams team maybe every single team, every single team.
Speaker 10: Yes, we're very you were very candidates.
Speaker 11: Combine about the past and secual assault allegation with.
Speaker 6: Correct and how much did you worry that that was
Speaker 6: going to cost you in the draft process.
Speaker 11: I mean throughout the draft process, you really just need
Speaker 11: one team to to choose you, and and that happened
Speaker 11: to be the Ravens. And I'm just blessed to be here.
Speaker 11: Unfortunately I didn't get picked up in the first round
Speaker 11: like like I wanted to. But but like I said,
Speaker 11: this is a blessing in the skies. I'm glad to
Speaker 11: be here, and uh, I'm just focused on moving forward
Speaker 11: with my with my life and with my career and
Speaker 11: and that's gonna be here with the Ravens.
Speaker 6: How much did the Ravens ask you about the accusations?
Speaker 6: I mean how much dialogue did they specifically ask you
Speaker 6: about what happened?
Speaker 11: Every team asked me and and I've been completely open
Speaker 11: about everything, and.
Speaker 10: It's just it's.
Speaker 11: Something that I had to go through and I got
Speaker 11: through it. And like I said, this point forward, I'm
Speaker 11: just focused on moving on with my career at the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Like you know, you denied but.
Speaker 8: That allegations, but you shouldn't like how it happened that
Speaker 8: there were two separate allegations.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and a great question. Like I said, I'm just
Speaker 11: focused right now on moving forward with my career at
Speaker 11: the Ravens. I'm blessed to be here as an honor
Speaker 11: and uh, like I said, I'm glad to see what
Speaker 11: the future might hold for me.
Speaker 8: Have you done any work in the there's like training
Speaker 8: or therapy improved, so these.
Speaker 11: Things that happened again, Yeah, technically, I feel like throughout
Speaker 11: the pre drive process you got a lot of things
Speaker 11: going on, and I feel like I was able to
Speaker 11: to to to do many resources that not just helped
Speaker 11: me with with just on the field, but mental aspect
Speaker 11: as well. And I feel like, regardless, that was some
Speaker 11: resources that I was going to use.
Speaker 5: So yeah, Mike, did they talk to you about specifically
Speaker 5: your role how quickly you have an impact of what
Speaker 5: do you see that being?
Speaker 11: Yeah, they talked about my role, and like I said,
Speaker 11: there's no better place that that will fit me more
Speaker 11: the Ravens. You know what I'm saying. They it's first
Speaker 11: in run defense, second pass rushing or sacks, So you
Speaker 11: got to think about what more can you add to
Speaker 11: your defense? And I feel like the Ravens did a
Speaker 11: great job of pick somebody up that that had previous
Speaker 11: success at getting to the quarterback. So I mean, I
Speaker 11: feel like they just did a great job of adding
Speaker 11: adding to the to the skill set that the pass
Speaker 11: rush room already got. And uh yeah, So so I'm
Speaker 11: just I'm just glad to be here.
Speaker 5: Man, how many.
Speaker 2: You've got a team? You got one more? You got
Speaker 2: guys coming up?
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I appreciate talking.
Speaker 1: Finally, we heard from six round defensive tackle Anias Peoples.
Speaker 1: So what if kind of.
Speaker 2: Your first impression correction NFL Considallly.
Speaker 4: Just kind of been a prety, right, I mean, I
Speaker 4: just say it's everything I dreamed of. You know, it
Speaker 4: really takes me back to, you know, when I was
Speaker 4: a young kid, you know, playing in the backyard, you know,
Speaker 4: envisioning all those you know, fourth and longs and you
Speaker 4: know third and fifteen's, you know, for the wins. Like
Speaker 4: just being in here and being in this amazing football
Speaker 4: environment and this you know culture of winning. It just
Speaker 4: takes a beat to when I was a child. So
Speaker 4: I'm loving it.
Speaker 10: He is.
Speaker 6: How excited are you to work with someone like a
Speaker 6: Pro Bowl defensive tackle and now being not a VK.
Speaker 6: But also when you kind of look at this seam
Speaker 6: but it's not a whole lot of established defensive lines after,
Speaker 6: you feel like, you know there's a pathway for you
Speaker 6: to really be able to make it impact.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean just to be able to come in
Speaker 4: and you know, watch those kind of guys like you said,
Speaker 4: like Matt a BK guys I've you know, watched my
Speaker 4: whole college career, you know, always going out there and
Speaker 4: trying to emulate their game. You know it's gonna be
Speaker 4: it's gonna be special. You know, I'm gonna be a
Speaker 4: little starstruck, but you know, I'm gonna try to hold
Speaker 4: it in and you know, make sure I'm getting back
Speaker 4: to work.
Speaker 12: It seems like you had to put a chip on
Speaker 12: your shoulder that you lasted as long doing In the guy,
Speaker 12: you just take us through your emotions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's the same trip I've had my
Speaker 4: whole life, whether they had to do with the NFL
Speaker 4: draft or whether they had to do it, you know,
Speaker 4: just how I came up in high school. You know,
Speaker 4: I just feel like I've always had that trip on
Speaker 4: my shoulder, and you know, it's help. It's helped to
Speaker 4: get me here. So you know, I just continue to
Speaker 4: let that fuel me.
Speaker 7: Yes, you know, college do we see seem to be
Speaker 7: more moves for inside line than that. I typically see.
Speaker 4: What's your go to my go to like moves and
Speaker 4: what is pass. It's kind of just on what the
Speaker 4: offense lineman's given me.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: I kind of pride myself and being able to do
Speaker 4: a lot, you know, and with that being said, you know,
Speaker 4: it kind of just goes against So I'm going against
Speaker 4: the personnel and you know the kind of ballplayer he is.
Speaker 4: And the film I watched earlier that week.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sure you've been asked other people this, But
Speaker 7: what goes through your head that first, the very first
Speaker 7: time that you see just the NFL jersey it's actually yours.
Speaker 4: I mean, it almost brought tears in my eyes. And
Speaker 4: I'm not just saying that, like I mean literally, like
Speaker 4: I said earlier, Man, it just it just reminds me
Speaker 4: of just my childhood and you know, the thing I
Speaker 4: dreamed of my whole life just come to fruition, you know.
Speaker 4: And I told my parents that that, like you know,
Speaker 4: and this is just the beginning, you know, and my
Speaker 4: job to my and my job to them, and you know,
Speaker 4: my the stentderd I have to upholder is this is
Speaker 4: gonna be the last time they see it. So that's
Speaker 4: just what I try to go through every day.
Speaker 10: It's gonna kind of like think the biggest supposes you.
Speaker 3: Got the drafted to need somebody eat out to.
Speaker 2: You didn't expect or any any big surprises suit you've
Speaker 2: gotten drafted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, just just you know, just being able
Speaker 4: to be so close to I guess I could say
Speaker 4: legends and guys I looked up to, you know, just
Speaker 4: being able to you know, reach out and call guys
Speaker 4: like better BK and being able to reach out and
Speaker 4: know that hopefully one day I can turn around to
Speaker 4: see ro kuwand Smith behind me, you know, those kind
Speaker 4: of things like that, Like that's probably the biggest That's
Speaker 4: probably the biggest shock to me.
Speaker 3: He's come from up. How much are you going to
Speaker 3: ask stuff to treat to cut out after when the
Speaker 3: draft is over and everything.
Speaker 6: About the U for the rest of the NFL and
Speaker 6: the GM's the.
Speaker 10: Message not much.
Speaker 3: You've come from a football faniler band. Go back to
Speaker 3: the grand following when did you first to see? All right,
Speaker 3: the NFL statue goal? That's what are some of the
Speaker 3: messis that you got in your family?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I mean from earliest I can remember,
Speaker 4: I always imagine playing in the NFL, you know, And thankfully,
Speaker 4: something I don't take for granted is that I have
Speaker 4: a lot of good role models, like you said, like
Speaker 4: my grandfather being one of them, my dad being one
Speaker 4: of them. So just having those kind of role models
Speaker 4: growing up was just always a huge thing for me.
Speaker 4: So it was always a dream for me growing up.
Speaker 4: And I'm just proud of myself and you know, trying
Speaker 4: to you know, Oh, I owe it to him to
Speaker 4: keep this thing going.
Speaker 3: That's all you can learn is that a little sack cancer.
Speaker 4: You never know what had to see what we get there.
Speaker 5: You mentioned your parents set, you talk about the inspiration
Speaker 5: for your name and just how cool, just something.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, no doubt about it. I assume you're talking
Speaker 4: about Nias. Okay, good? Uh yeah, So you know I
Speaker 4: was named after Nias Williams. So you know, growing up,
Speaker 4: my dad, like I said, always been being a big
Speaker 4: football family. So you know, seeing one of the legend's
Speaker 4: name of Nias Williams, like it was just something that
Speaker 4: my parents just thought was amazing. With that being said,
Speaker 4: my brother, you know, his nameive the Brayln Edwards. So
Speaker 4: you know, it's just we got a whole big football family,
Speaker 4: and you know, I hope to keep that tradition going on. Well,
Speaker 4: you know, I got the nickname Fub when I was
Speaker 4: a little kid, so you know, I mean I rarely
Speaker 4: even hear my hear my government name nowadays, but uh,
Speaker 4: you know, when I was a baby, I was fan Chubby,
Speaker 4: so they always call me Fubby growing up, and you
Speaker 4: know now that I got older, it got short of fuff,
Speaker 4: So you know, I just I ran with it all right.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
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