Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, September sixth, and it is kickoff week.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are getting ready to play the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: on Sunday at M and T. Banks Stadium. We can't
Speaker 1: wait to see the Ravens flock back in action for
Speaker 1: this week one game. As the Ravens prepare for this game,
Speaker 1: we had a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh,
Speaker 1: quarterback Lamar Jackson, and wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior. Let's
Speaker 1: kick things off with Coach Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Appreciate everybody being here. Good practice. Guys came out and
Speaker 2: took care of business. So we're one step closer, trying
Speaker 2: to take it one day at a time, focus on
Speaker 2: our preparation, get ready to play very good football team.
Speaker 2: What questions you have, John saw that.
Speaker 3: The offensive lineman had an expended inside at the beginner.
Speaker 4: Any other adjustments just because of the extreme heat today
Speaker 4: we did.
Speaker 2: We had a couple of things, you know, with water
Speaker 2: breaks and things like that, and everybody did a great job,
Speaker 2: felt good about where they worked.
Speaker 5: And we got the day in, got a lot of.
Speaker 3: Cycle and a lot of energy maybe and anxiety.
Speaker 6: How was he ning to coach channel.
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: It's funny you mentioned that, because that's exactly what we
Speaker 2: talked about today in the team meeting, is that's the
Speaker 2: excitement of the first game, is there, just like the
Speaker 2: fans are excited, players and coaches are excited, you know,
Speaker 2: and sometimes you gotta you gotta take a deep breath,
Speaker 2: you know, and just kind of kind of sell you
Speaker 2: settle yourself a little bit and take care of what's
Speaker 2: right in front of you. And today but it was
Speaker 2: right in front of us was meetings, uh, taking care
Speaker 2: of themselves physically and then having a good practice. Now
Speaker 2: it'll be another set of meetings and then taking care
Speaker 2: of their bodies again. So one step at a time,
Speaker 2: one revolution at a time, and then get ready to
Speaker 2: play for Sunday.
Speaker 3: Have more bucks out there?
Speaker 5: You look good? Look fine?
Speaker 3: Okay, right quarter on those guys.
Speaker 5: Right. It's a good question.
Speaker 2: It's not really something you do way too much because
Speaker 2: we've got to focus on what we do, uh, and
Speaker 2: and their scheme on what they do.
Speaker 5: You know, we know that CJ. Stroud is extremely talented.
Speaker 2: We know that I watched them play a lot obviously,
Speaker 2: and h have the utmost respect for him his ability
Speaker 2: for for their offense, for the system they run, for
Speaker 2: the players they have. Uh, they've got you know, great
Speaker 2: skilled players. They got a great run game, you know,
Speaker 2: downhill run game. They had that last year too in
Speaker 2: terms of the you know, run, the zone scheme, fall
Speaker 2: back on the field, all those things.
Speaker 5: That we have to be ready for.
Speaker 2: But uh, we're just gonna have to do what we do,
Speaker 2: try to do our best that we can and let
Speaker 2: the chips fall.
Speaker 5: John.
Speaker 3: Obviously we've won play. There's a lot of new players
Speaker 3: on these teams. The fans are excited to see.
Speaker 7: And I know you're ready to see all these guys play,
Speaker 7: But is there anybody that you're kind of anxious to
Speaker 7: see on Sunday?
Speaker 2: You know, I'm I'm anxious to see everybody. I mean,
Speaker 2: really honestly, I'm anxious to see the team. That's That's
Speaker 2: the anybody I'm anxious to see as the team and
Speaker 2: all the parts of the team you know that are
Speaker 2: gonna be out there playing trying to do their best.
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to play very well, very much, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna try to do our best.
Speaker 5: John. Uh, this is gonna be adults first game in
Speaker 5: about a year and a half.
Speaker 6: They any bogs of or any talk about any snap
Speaker 6: count for him for as.
Speaker 2: No, we haven't had that conversation. I think it's gonna
Speaker 2: be part and parcel of the game plan and the
Speaker 2: personnel groups that go on the field.
Speaker 5: But he's ready to go.
Speaker 6: Hey, John Odell's gonna be speaking a little bit here today.
Speaker 6: He shared in an interview that he texted you to
Speaker 6: tell you that you run a world class organization. I
Speaker 6: know you're not fishing form.
Speaker 3: What does that?
Speaker 5: Well, thank you, Mark?
Speaker 6: What does that mean to get that sort of a
Speaker 6: nod from a player?
Speaker 2: You know, I'd be a lie to say it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean something, right, I mean it means something because there's
Speaker 2: a guy that you know, he's been around, he knows
Speaker 2: what he's talking about, you know, and have so much
Speaker 2: respect for him. I think that's you respect when it
Speaker 2: comes from somebody that works so hard every day at
Speaker 2: his craft. But yeah, it was meaningful, It was it
Speaker 2: was appreciated. But uh, yeah, we're not fishing for compliments.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 8: I know he hasn't been here the whole time, but
Speaker 8: do you have a sense of sort of what he's
Speaker 8: at last year and half and realized to get back
Speaker 8: to this.
Speaker 5: Point I do. I just talk to him coming off
Speaker 5: the field.
Speaker 2: You guys saw that, you know that was that was
Speaker 2: really kind of he'll probably tell you, but that's kind
Speaker 2: of what he's talking about. That's what he's thinking about.
Speaker 2: He's very aware of the fact that he hasn't played
Speaker 2: in a long time and how important it is now
Speaker 2: excited he is, how much he's put into getting himself
Speaker 2: back to this point. I mean, when you when you
Speaker 2: commit so much, you make so many sacrifices, you work
Speaker 2: so hard, you know that those are investments that are
Speaker 2: made with your time and your energy and your effort
Speaker 2: and your emotions and everything else.
Speaker 5: And I know he's looking for that to pay off.
Speaker 2: You know, he's hoping that that's gonna pay off, and
Speaker 2: he's gonna be out there playing just as hard and
Speaker 2: as well as he can because of it.
Speaker 6: John, I think the.
Speaker 9: Attribute we're supposed often associated with coach markets billion and
Speaker 9: is still confidence in his quarterbacks that he works.
Speaker 10: But we know Lamar, he's a pretty unprofitable guy.
Speaker 3: Alds confidence.
Speaker 9: So you know, how do you think that is gonna
Speaker 9: You know how Lamar the person he's.
Speaker 5: Going Yeah, I mean, Lamar's his own man. You know Lamar.
Speaker 2: Lamar is a confident guy. And he's confident because he's
Speaker 2: another guy that works so hard at it. I mean,
Speaker 2: Lamar has put everything into it. He's been out here,
Speaker 2: he's been studying day and night. Uh, he's been he's
Speaker 2: been working, he's been working on all his fundamentals and uh,
Speaker 2: and he's ready to go. And he's ready, like we
Speaker 2: said last week, he's ready to be on point with
Speaker 2: everything he does. So I think Todd and here they
Speaker 2: get along great. You know, they've got to be like that.
Speaker 2: They are like that, they talk a lot and then
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens and not. It's not just one
Speaker 2: game either. You know, we're gonna talking about a whole
Speaker 2: season in front of us.
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know, John.
Speaker 8: I think it's implied by the amount of investment you
Speaker 8: put it to the passing attack, including giving the margin contract.
Speaker 8: But do you see him, you know, just attempting more
Speaker 8: passes this season?
Speaker 10: Maybe?
Speaker 8: Do you see him maybe setting passes, are passing the
Speaker 8: attempt of single high season highs And how can that
Speaker 8: influence your offense?
Speaker 5: Team?
Speaker 2: I mean, well, probably the answer is gonna be We're
Speaker 2: gonna do whatever we feel like we need to do
Speaker 2: to win, because that's always the answer. You know, it
Speaker 2: was never it was never you know, not throwing the
Speaker 2: ball or not running whatever.
Speaker 5: It was never that.
Speaker 2: But I think just by virtue of the of the
Speaker 2: personality of the team, it's a pretty fair assumption that
Speaker 2: we're gonna throw the ball more, no question about that,
Speaker 2: and I'm excited about that. But again, game to game,
Speaker 2: series to series, whatever needs to be done, that's what
Speaker 2: our guys are up for.
Speaker 9: John, I understand you're not gonna abu close the game
Speaker 9: of push, But defensively, I don't know that there's a
Speaker 9: corner you had that was one other than Ardarius watching
Speaker 9: the day that was out their practice get the entire time.
Speaker 9: How much do you have to rely on kind of
Speaker 9: versatility and match ups sort of especially early in the
Speaker 9: season and some of the corners finally floating kind of
Speaker 9: going back and the form.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I trust those players, you know, I
Speaker 2: trust those players who go out there, corner safeties, linebackers,
Speaker 2: the whole defense, the whole team really to go out
Speaker 2: there and play well. And we you know, we've got
Speaker 2: guys in our team for a reason. You know, it's
Speaker 2: because they're very good players, So you know, that's that's
Speaker 2: not really a road I need to travel down in
Speaker 2: terms of concern, because I know those guys are gonna
Speaker 2: go out there and play their hearts out, you know,
Speaker 2: and they're and they're excellent players, and and you know,
Speaker 2: the bar is high, and I'm i'm I'm I'm very
Speaker 2: certain that they're gonna play very well.
Speaker 3: Two more guys, John Safeflowers.
Speaker 8: Obviously, guys just created a ton of interest around themselves
Speaker 8: over the last in a couple of months.
Speaker 4: What's your sense best on what you've learned about him
Speaker 4: about how he's going to make that transition from what
Speaker 4: he's gonna be in the summer to kind of the
Speaker 4: real stage.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's just probably the pundits and
Speaker 2: the prognosticators to quote Jack Harball. You know, I'm not
Speaker 2: one either one of those, So I don't have a
Speaker 2: prediction in terms of, you know, how he's gonna fare.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna fare really well, you know, because
Speaker 2: he's a really good player, and he works really hard,
Speaker 2: and you know, guys like that tend to do really well.
Speaker 2: You know, he's got talent, So I think he's gonna
Speaker 2: do great. But how he's going to transition and all that,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know. I just think he's gonna
Speaker 2: come out and play great football for us and win
Speaker 2: games for us. And that's all we really ask to
Speaker 2: make it more than that, you know, it's kind of like,
Speaker 2: what are we talking about here?
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harball. You're listening to the
Speaker 1: Ravens Press Pass podcast. We also had a chance to
Speaker 1: hear from quarterback Lamar Jackson, who talked about the team's
Speaker 1: mindset going into this home opener.
Speaker 8: Can you look at this week one obviously get any
Speaker 8: action preseason, what do you kind of anticipating this offense
Speaker 8: is gonna look like?
Speaker 3: What are you sort of eager to see.
Speaker 8: How things work in live action against another team?
Speaker 7: For one, I'm anticipating us going out there and planning
Speaker 7: to get someone actually, you know, first first offense. We
Speaker 7: haven't been going against no One but our guys. I'm
Speaker 7: just ready to get the ball rolling right now. Hype guys, Hype,
Speaker 7: go aheady.
Speaker 1: Where did you think of uh Say's performance in gat
Speaker 1: working township?
Speaker 7: Sh shure, He's explosive, quick, joystick, Like I said, shifty,
Speaker 7: the singing, oh oh oh, that was nice. That was
Speaker 7: nice performing Kodak he he was nice. I thought he
Speaker 7: was Kodak a little bit.
Speaker 9: Mar if you if you played them but receive uh
Speaker 9: like it's it's good for years whatever?
Speaker 7: Ah man, I I feel like I had guys who
Speaker 7: who was able to contribute to the team every year,
Speaker 7: you know, but these these guys obviously it's different. You know,
Speaker 7: everyone brings some different to the table. So it's different.
Speaker 7: And I'll say that it's different.
Speaker 10: More talk all off season is you know, how comfortable
Speaker 10: are you gonna be with Mokan's offense now that ready
Speaker 10: play regular season games?
Speaker 3: Just how comfortable do you feel?
Speaker 4: Uh? I?
Speaker 5: I feel very comfortable.
Speaker 7: I feel great actually just uh just the explosiveness to
Speaker 7: getting the ball out my hand faster, getting guys open.
Speaker 5: It's just can't wait to see it, you.
Speaker 7: Know, in the regular game now so we can actually
Speaker 7: talk about it more in depth.
Speaker 3: More.
Speaker 8: Do you do you think it's just given me a
Speaker 8: situation where you know there were do you play calls
Speaker 8: in the game where it feels like he trusts you
Speaker 8: to do things? I mean if you had a a
Speaker 8: DC bigous jay, I.
Speaker 9: Mean it is there is there a level of trust that.
Speaker 3: You can have with the coordinator that you feel like
Speaker 3: it's strong.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, Uh he he's been showing to during practice, you know,
Speaker 7: just trusting me, you know, being able to make players
Speaker 7: at the line, you know, going against the ones defense,
Speaker 7: stuff like that, and that's all I need, you know.
Speaker 7: I know it's gonna transition over to the game. So
Speaker 7: just gonna see what are you one.
Speaker 5: Of big games?
Speaker 3: But you had quite a few big games in Week one?
Speaker 7: What is it about these Week one games that you
Speaker 7: allow you to go out there and consistently play so well?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 7: Just missing the game, I'll say, you know, just not
Speaker 7: being out there on the field in the in the
Speaker 7: real game, you know, just the physicality out there that
Speaker 7: goes on making the fans happy. Uh, I don't know,
Speaker 7: it's I don't know. I love every game, do not
Speaker 7: just week one?
Speaker 5: So I don't know.
Speaker 9: You no, it is this off season.
Speaker 8: There's a lot of uncertainty for you, there's a lot
Speaker 8: of uncertainty.
Speaker 9: For other guys.
Speaker 3: And it's Robster, how like it's pleased? Are you?
Speaker 9: How everything came together in your situation with the guys
Speaker 9: you have, the guys you're throwing to. Is this kind
Speaker 9: of is this kind of your vision on how this
Speaker 9: was going to work out in the end?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 7: I really, I don't know. My vision is hoping to
Speaker 7: be be playing at February. So but just to have
Speaker 7: the great group of guys ever doing it, doing a
Speaker 7: great job of keeping guys here and and bringing their
Speaker 7: new guys and you know, just building you know, helping
Speaker 7: our offense bill defense bill.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: That just has off.
Speaker 7: Him, you know, and we just gonna see when to
Speaker 7: see when it's when the game come hide it all
Speaker 7: play out more.
Speaker 3: I know you mentioned one when you at throw out
Speaker 3: Godell about his speed.
Speaker 4: Hell, its kind of uh, I mean, is that the
Speaker 4: biggest thing that is really cut the the begin preussion
Speaker 4: that you've made.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've now had the whole training.
Speaker 10: Camp with that.
Speaker 7: Uh, not just his speed, you know what his route
Speaker 7: running is very smooth. You know, actually been on the
Speaker 7: same team and him team is him and not watching
Speaker 7: him do it on the you know, on opposing side line.
Speaker 7: Just to be on his team and him doing what
Speaker 7: o'dell'll do.
Speaker 5: Is it's crazy?
Speaker 1: You ever for him to get back out there again,
Speaker 1: did you have a sense for what it means for
Speaker 1: Adelle to get back out there and.
Speaker 3: Play a real game.
Speaker 7: Oh absolutely, you know, I know he's passionate about the
Speaker 7: game and he just can't, you know, wait to show
Speaker 7: people in the road like what he's still still able
Speaker 7: to do.
Speaker 8: Mar Is there someone you think that's under the radar
Speaker 8: that's prime for a a breakout, Say, someone that's.
Speaker 7: Crosser, So i'm'a actually try to keep him under the radar.
Speaker 7: But I feel like we got a great group of guys.
Speaker 11: Uh, when you were one season stroud to think this
Speaker 11: first start here is what do you remember going into
Speaker 11: that right? Then making your first start for your uh
Speaker 11: difficult for you out too right?
Speaker 3: You got to call so that.
Speaker 5: I think we played Cincinnati my first start.
Speaker 7: Yes, Uh, I remember going into the game, Uh, nervous, hot,
Speaker 7: butterflies until you know the actually my first snap, but
Speaker 7: like you said, we got the dub.
Speaker 5: But after the first.
Speaker 7: Snap, I think the nervousness went away and I was
Speaker 7: just ready to go hit the ground running.
Speaker 10: A little more story that's been bubbling up lately is
Speaker 10: the raisins coming at all black quarterback, black coaches.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, two black quarterbacks, two black coaches, and to
Speaker 3: seeing at the first in.
Speaker 4: The NFL like for you, what do you think, how.
Speaker 7: Significant do you think it is for people to see that,
Speaker 7: and what does it mean to you.
Speaker 3: To be a part of it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Man, it's awesome for people to see, you know, just
Speaker 7: a new era in the league. You know, all across
Speaker 7: the board, you know every level, you know, collegiate level, NFL,
Speaker 7: and it's great for me to be a part of,
Speaker 7: you know, first time for everything, Lamar.
Speaker 8: I mean even s s before you got into the
Speaker 8: league kind of fought people trying to pigeonhole you and
Speaker 8: with your running talent and saying you're one kind of player.
Speaker 8: Do you think with the new offense, the receiving threats
Speaker 8: you have just hear new contract, do you think things
Speaker 8: are set up to show people the kind of quarterback
Speaker 8: that you have always seen yourself ass and and show
Speaker 8: your arm talent.
Speaker 9: Just as much as you're running talent.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 7: I believe so, But I also believe it's gonna always
Speaker 7: be doubt no matter what you know, no matter what
Speaker 7: you're showing showing people. You know, it's it's all about
Speaker 7: you know, proving yourself right, not everyone else. So just
Speaker 7: go out there and and do what I do, you know,
Speaker 7: we gonna see.
Speaker 3: Come on, what's up with the new.
Speaker 6: Coatry staff down there in the Texans?
Speaker 3: Is it different to prepare for it?
Speaker 6: Cause this, you know, you haven't seen the Texans with
Speaker 6: this new coachery step before any film with that.
Speaker 3: Is it a little bit more challenging going into this game?
Speaker 9: Cause there might be a.
Speaker 3: Little bit more uncertainty is about how that defense might look?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 7: It depends, like like you said, you know, def different,
Speaker 7: you know, coach, different players, but the system is you know,
Speaker 7: sort of similar to other teams you know who who
Speaker 7: we played in the past. And from watching film watching
Speaker 7: forty nine Ers, Uh, defense and coach coming from forty
Speaker 7: nine ers similar defenses.
Speaker 8: With Todd Mounkin, w what is stood out to you
Speaker 8: about him as Uh?
Speaker 5: I being outspoken?
Speaker 7: Uh, I said, I think I said that before, you know,
Speaker 7: just being outspoken and you know, being loud in the
Speaker 7: meeting rooms.
Speaker 5: I'm like, like, it's early. You know, he got his
Speaker 5: blood flowing. I feel like that stick out to me
Speaker 5: the most.
Speaker 1: Might be a while.
Speaker 3: Since you been on the.
Speaker 4: Comes Sunder, do you anticipate feeling any differently as you're
Speaker 4: getting ready for this game?
Speaker 9: I mean, I'm not sure if your guy has still
Speaker 9: getting butterflies at this point, but any.
Speaker 3: Other opener for you or will it'll be a little
Speaker 3: different field to be given all those transpires. So it's
Speaker 3: time to down the field.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: I say, I'm a little bit anxious, but you know,
Speaker 7: coach Coach Harbot said in the me you know, don't
Speaker 7: peak too soon, So I'm trying not to peak too soon.
Speaker 7: I was lifting earlier, uh with coach Scott, and I
Speaker 7: was telling him like, I feel like I'm ready, like
Speaker 7: cause I was running around and walked through early too.
Speaker 7: So I'm just pumped, to be honest, and I'm pumped.
Speaker 7: I can't wait to get out there.
Speaker 11: You think you're a little more anxious.
Speaker 7: I haven't played since December and like November one of 'em.
Speaker 7: It's a long time. Say it's a long time. That's
Speaker 7: a long time. So I'm just I'm just pump on't
Speaker 7: ready to get out there on the field. Why did
Speaker 7: you have a slough?
Speaker 5: I don't wanna watch it. I don't wanna watch it.
Speaker 7: I don't I don't like being hurt, so I definitely
Speaker 7: don't wanna watch it. But I've seen it. But you know,
Speaker 7: I'm I'm back I'm back. I feel like I'm better
Speaker 7: a hundred percent, so I'm ready to show it.
Speaker 1: How about you describe the team chemistry in this group
Speaker 1: and it seems like it's a close group. You know,
Speaker 1: what do you think of this team chemistry and how
Speaker 1: preparers to teams should have.
Speaker 5: Been out before of us?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 7: You know all around here in this organization. You know,
Speaker 7: our chemistry man always be you know, joint together. We're
Speaker 7: gonna always be close on with one another. And you
Speaker 7: know this year, yea, I feel like we're we're older now,
Speaker 7: so I feel like the chemistry is even better.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson. We also talked with veteran
Speaker 1: wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior. You can tell when listening
Speaker 1: to Beckham today that he is fired up about this
Speaker 1: opper Henry to play for the Ravens and get back
Speaker 1: on the football field. You can't wait for Sunday. I
Speaker 1: think Ravens fans feel the same way. Here's what OBJ
Speaker 1: had to say for your first game in a couple
Speaker 1: of years actually being on the field, I meanly emotional
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: What are the emotions going into this first game?
Speaker 10: I think so it's like over four hundred and fifty
Speaker 10: days in count I don't know exact dates, but it's
Speaker 10: been a long time. It's been a long time in
Speaker 10: my mind, it's been a long time in reality, and
Speaker 10: I've just been you know, we're trying to tend like
Speaker 10: it's not here for the whole training camp and just
Speaker 10: go about it and be grateful to be back out there.
Speaker 10: But I'm excited. I don't know what emotions will be
Speaker 10: running through me. I know I'll be excited to play
Speaker 10: football again. So I'm just ready to get there. Trying
Speaker 10: to take it a day at a time and you know,
Speaker 10: ease my way into it.
Speaker 1: So the tweet kind of to that point about how
Speaker 1: excited you are for this game. How do you try
Speaker 1: to kind of keep a level head going to this
Speaker 1: game knowing what all that's going on for the past
Speaker 1: two years getting.
Speaker 3: You back to this point.
Speaker 10: I don't know if there's a manual for it. Just
Speaker 10: one day at a time, you know, like like coach
Speaker 10: always talks about one meeting at a time, when practice,
Speaker 10: one player at a time. Just trying to keep that mindset, uh,
Speaker 10: And that'll keep me, you know, never too I never
Speaker 10: too low. But I can tell you this I'm excited.
Speaker 10: I'm excited to be back on the field. It's truly
Speaker 10: a blessing. Uh. You know, God really, you know, gave
Speaker 10: me another opportunity to play. The Ravens gave me another
Speaker 10: opportunity to play. And I don't I don't take it
Speaker 10: for granted.
Speaker 1: When you did the interview with Childs, who you talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, texting her ball and the about the operation
Speaker 1: that he runs here, and it it seems like you
Speaker 1: just been you know, we really enjoyed.
Speaker 3: The fIF years since you've arrived.
Speaker 1: What is it that stands out about the team, about
Speaker 1: the way you run things since you've been here.
Speaker 10: It's wa it's just world class.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 10: I could see it from the way meetings go in
Speaker 10: and they the things that we focus on and you know,
Speaker 10: the little things that actually important of the game that
Speaker 10: you don't really like harp on and and give much
Speaker 10: detail to. He goes over that and then you see
Speaker 10: it come up in the game and you just know
Speaker 10: exactly why he's doing it. So it's that it's it's
Speaker 10: the way that they run things around here, practice, the
Speaker 10: weight room, training room. It's just it's just world class.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: I was kind of blown away by coming here. You
Speaker 10: never know what to expect anywhere you go, and it's
Speaker 10: just been great. It's been a great fit doing my best. Dad,
Speaker 10: I can to be the very best me that I
Speaker 10: could possibly be, for the guys around me, for myself,
Speaker 10: and for this team.
Speaker 4: Odell, don't I don't know that you need to tell
Speaker 4: anything in the way of advice. But what do you
Speaker 4: remember about way way back, you know, the first time
Speaker 4: you were out there for real after being a first
Speaker 4: run tick and all the hype and all the preparation
Speaker 4: and everything that went into it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 10: I mean, I haven't told him anything yet, but I'm like, listen,
Speaker 10: you know who you are, and he's got a lot
Speaker 10: of confidence in himself. I don't really know if there's
Speaker 10: gonna be much that needs to be said. Maybe I
Speaker 10: need to give him a little bump, get him hype,
Speaker 10: or tell him to calm down. Either way, you know,
Speaker 10: I'm I don't know how much advice I can give him,
Speaker 10: cause i'ma be right there with him, you know. As
Speaker 10: far as excitement, it's I feel like this is my
Speaker 10: first game. Uh So I think we're both gonna be excited,
Speaker 10: and he has every capability in the world. There's a
Speaker 10: reason he was as high as a draft pick as
Speaker 10: he was as a reason. You know people are raving
Speaker 10: about him, go point, but there's a reason he's here.
Speaker 10: So I I don't know exactly what I'm gonna tell him,
Speaker 10: but I know he's gonna be ready.
Speaker 8: Do you really feel like this is kind of like
Speaker 8: your first gave me?
Speaker 5: It really does?
Speaker 10: Uh, the whole the whole thing feels like a reset
Speaker 10: for me. There's been a lot of like dejavou moments
Speaker 10: of little things that's happened that just kind of feels
Speaker 10: reminiscent of my rookie year in a sense, just the
Speaker 10: the feeling of the excitement that I have to play
Speaker 10: football and just a new opportunity, a new life. So
Speaker 10: I don't know what to expect, but I'm excited.
Speaker 8: Adill he played with some really great veteran quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: You live and that.
Speaker 8: M Lamar now like six years in his career. What
Speaker 8: are some of the tr rates that you see that
Speaker 8: really show to you that, hey, here's a guy who's
Speaker 8: a veteran who's really establishing himself and has sort of
Speaker 8: veteran traits and presence.
Speaker 10: I just think you anybody who has those traits is
Speaker 10: one who's followed. And you know, we all follow eight.
Speaker 5: We go as he goes.
Speaker 10: So every quarterback anybody's had is is probably different. And
Speaker 10: he's definitely different than uh any other quarterback I've had,
Speaker 10: But it it's the leadership comes from, you know, the
Speaker 10: smile on his face, the confidence he puts, you know,
Speaker 10: within us as far as making a throw, whether the
Speaker 10: coverage is tight coverage or whether you know you're wide open,
Speaker 10: it's it's it's a connection that you have and he
Speaker 10: gives me the confidence to go out there and know
Speaker 10: that you know, you do what you gotta do and
Speaker 10: get open. I'm'a throw you the ball and if you
Speaker 10: didn't get open after of the ball anyway, make the play.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: So I don't know the exact traits, but it's just
Speaker 10: you know it. He's a leader and we follow him.
Speaker 11: So do people are gonna be saying about Todd Monkins
Speaker 11: offense and his new scheme after week one?
Speaker 10: I mean, we gotta see, you know, Uh, I don't really,
Speaker 10: r really have an answer for that. I never put
Speaker 10: out any expectations, but you know, the goal is the
Speaker 10: score points. I don't have any numbers for you or
Speaker 10: anything like that. But the goal is to score points,
Speaker 10: score points more points than the other team, and make
Speaker 10: plays and be explosive. You know, we got a lot
Speaker 10: of a lot of guys that need a ball in
Speaker 10: their hands. Uh, it's only one balls. So we just
Speaker 10: gotta find a way for everyone to eat and and
Speaker 10: be efficient into their job and what the capable of doing. So,
Speaker 10: I don't know, I'll let you write up what what
Speaker 10: what they expect about his offense after week one?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you have you ever played with with the achieving group?
Speaker 5: It's good.
Speaker 10: I don't wanna look back to other groups, but I'll
Speaker 10: just focus on this group specifically. I don't wanna compare
Speaker 10: do any of that, cause I play with a lot
Speaker 10: of great guys. But I look around and you know,
Speaker 10: ra Sha Baby was an uh first round, Nelly was
Speaker 10: a first round. I was the first round. So it
Speaker 10: was the first round. And even the other guys that
Speaker 10: we have in there, Tread was the first round, you know,
Speaker 10: Duve Tie, even you know young hids like, we've got
Speaker 10: a bunch of guys who can make plays.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 10: So we have a pretty selfless demeanor in that room,
Speaker 10: and we know whoever's in has got to be the
Speaker 10: one to make plays and they need to come out.
Speaker 10: Whoever's coming in is gonna make plays like That's the
Speaker 10: mentality we carry in that room is we're going to
Speaker 10: make place. So I'm just excited to be a part
Speaker 10: of this. This is, you know, the best group I've
Speaker 10: played with right now at this moment.
Speaker 3: Going into this first the first game back.
Speaker 4: How much of the of a motivation of hey, I
Speaker 4: can be the same receip I was.
Speaker 3: How much is that there are motivations like that any.
Speaker 10: Uh? I mean, I don't know. I just think that's
Speaker 10: how I carry myself. I feel good. It's been a
Speaker 10: lot of hard work to get to this point. I
Speaker 10: know who I am. It's it's just time to you know,
Speaker 10: let your hair down, have fun. Uh So I'm excited, man,
Speaker 10: I'm not. I'm not giving out any numbers or expectations.
Speaker 10: I just I feel good and ready to play football again.
Speaker 10: Mardell saw you or.
Speaker 4: On the sideline before practice, and he's someone who's double
Speaker 4: his own challenges of injuries.
Speaker 3: Have you been able to give him any words of wisdom?
Speaker 3: And how's your relationship involved with him?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I give him all the wisdom and the I I
Speaker 10: talk to him though, and anytime he needs to talk
Speaker 10: about anything, you know, I never like to put you know,
Speaker 10: people's business out as far as that that goes, but
Speaker 10: there's definitely been those conversations about how do you keep
Speaker 10: your mind right and all those things, and each person's
Speaker 10: experiences they own. So what I've gone through is never
Speaker 10: what the next person has gone through, even if we
Speaker 10: had the exact same injury, you know, it's it's a
Speaker 10: different experience. Different things that go on in our life,
Speaker 10: different families, styles, different lives, you know, are all of
Speaker 10: those things. But I just try and encourage him to
Speaker 10: you know, if he ever needs helps in anything, There's
Speaker 10: gonna be days where I need him. There's gonna be
Speaker 10: days where he needs me. And that's just the like
Speaker 10: I said, that's a mentality we we have in this room.
Speaker 10: So I'm always there for him, just trying to encourage
Speaker 10: him that he's capable of doing anything that he wants
Speaker 10: to do, and just to see him back out there.
Speaker 10: I know that he's excited that it's been a little
Speaker 10: rough journey for him too, So I just try and
Speaker 10: give him whatever words that.
Speaker 5: I can do.
Speaker 3: It's like you're one more place.
Speaker 5: Is there someone?
Speaker 8: Is there someone you think flying on the radar on
Speaker 8: the steam that's set up for a breakout season or
Speaker 8: surprise season.
Speaker 10: Damn, I make you, uh is it that have to be?
Speaker 7: I don't know. I all of us.
Speaker 5: Like we're all ready to break out?
Speaker 10: Man? Uh Zay, I just I just look around and
Speaker 10: there's there's so much talent. You know, on offense, I
Speaker 10: let the defense talk about the defense. But on the offense,
Speaker 10: you got Zay likely Mark Andrews, you all the receivers
Speaker 10: we have, you got three running backs, a quarterback. The
Speaker 10: offensive line is great, Like, I don't see too many
Speaker 10: missing pieces. So hopefully all of us break out and
Speaker 10: we all do our jobs to the best of our ability,
Speaker 10: and we'll see what happens from there.
Speaker 1: That was wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior. You can tell
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