WEBVTT - Starks, DeCosta & Harbaugh: Ravens Press Conferences 4/25/25 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.559 Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens have 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.200 made their first round draft pick in the twenty twenty 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:13.320 five NFL Drafts, selecting safety Malachi Starks out of Georgia. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.320 He's clearly fired up to be a Raven and he's 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.400 going to bring some real versatility to the back end 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.120 of this defense. He was a highly productive player at Georgia, 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.520 had six interceptions in his college career, and he was 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.560 the guy who had been linked to the Ravens throughout 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.040 this process, and the Ravens certainly were excited about the 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:34.080 potential of getting him with their first round pick. Eric 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.280 Tacosta and John harball I met with the media after 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:37.760 the pick and here's what they had to say about 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:42.360 drafting Malachi Starks. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:49.959 Well, everybody, we are happy to take Malachi Starks. He's 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.560 a player that we've seen over the last couple of years, 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.000 a great football player at a great football program, wired 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.360 like a Raven, great mental, probably one of the most 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.160 impressive interviews we've ever had at the combine. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:05.399 Ballhawk. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.720 He's a physical guy. He's a very very good tackler, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:13.200 and I was reminded that the last time we took 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.759 a starts in the first round. He ended up intercepting 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.399 a pass in the Super Bowl, so hopefully that ends 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.680 up happening again. Questions you can chair with. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.680 Malachi and you kind of touched upon the interview with 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.120 the kind of back Was there anything else that kind 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.280 of stood out throughout the draft process? That kind of 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.039 means you and kind of stooted out. 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.200 Together, you know. I just think that as we go 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:38.039 back and look at our very best players, they've just 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.480 wired a certain way, they play a certain way consistently 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:46.120 and throughout the process. Malachi was a guy that just 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:50.640 really passed every single test he we have, you know, 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:55.200 as far as football GPA, very very high production as 0:01:55.200 --> 0:02:00.600 a player, durability, ability, everything. Really, it just made a 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.040 lot of sense for us to take him. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:06.280 John, do you already are to kind of visualize what 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.760 your defense looks like, especially now teaming him up with 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:11.120 Hamilton who walls and does. 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.520 A variety of league we have we have I think 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.040 when you when you look at Malachi on tape and 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.600 you guys have seen him, I'm sure all different positions 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.440 he plays. He plays both safety, he plays nicol he 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.040 plays the dime linebacker spot, which is what Kyle does. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.360 Which is what Adarius does. And then Marlon plays inside 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.320 and outside. So the ability to move all those pieces 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.919 around and get him in different positions is pretty pretty exciting. 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.040 The other thing is, you know, Eric kind of just 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.600 mentioned this, but when we first came out of the season, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.640 we had a conversation about just the type of mindset 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.160 that we were looking for and the guys who are 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.400 going to bring in, and to me, Malachi he fits 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.760 that perfectly. You know, he's smart, he's tough, he loves football, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.200 he loves everything about football. And you saw it when 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:55.560 he walked up to see I saw it when he 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:56.960 walked you can see it when he walked down the 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.000 hallway there and out to the stage. It looked like 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.519 he was coming through the tunnel game day. He's ready 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.119 to go, you know, and we're just I think he's 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:06.840 just excited to be a raven, as we are excited 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:07.640 to have him be a raven. 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:10.840 Do your phone ring? 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.600 Do you consider being back it all up? Was starting 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.280 to target all along, and how busy was. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:16.600 That at the time we were going a far. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.680 Well, you know, I think that as we looked at 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.080 this draft, you know, the first round, we kind of 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.840 got a sense for most of the players that were 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.200 going to get picked in front of us, and we 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.080 had maybe three or four players that we thought might 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.120 have a realistic chance of being in when we picked 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.040 the phone started ringing. We had some opportunities to trade back. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.560 In the end, you have to look at you know, 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.720 the you know, the excitement of actually getting some additional picks, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.560 which we do love, versus you know, what kind of 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.000 player are you're going to get potentially, And you know, 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.720 for me, maybe I'm getting older and just you know, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.080 a little bit more conservative than I used to be. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.720 But you know, I think looking at the quality of 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.320 player that we had with Starks versus what we might 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.120 have to get, it just it didn't make enough sense 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.440 for me. This was a guy that really checked every 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.800 single box for us in a lot of different ways. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.160 There were some other players that we covered it as well, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.560 but in the end, he was by far the best 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.160 guy available for us when we made the pick. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.880 Were you surprised to how things kind of happened with 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.159 so many guys that world into you or you thought 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:23.560 of you that fits near Multimore? 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.080 You know, I really wasn't surprised by the way this 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.680 this draft kind of unfolded. You know. In fact, I 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.080 think that in a lot of cases I kind of 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.400 knew which players were going to get picked, generally speaking, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.200 and that was one of the reasons why for me 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.080 that I was nervous this year in the first round, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:42.960 I was kind of nervous that we weren't going to 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.440 get a chance to get the player like Malachi, just 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.760 because this is what I would refer to as a 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.520 flat draft, and so you have, you know, probably ten 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.520 players that everybody puts up there, and then it really 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.720 flattens out and it stays that way. It's gonna stay 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.400 that way in a second and third and fourth round. 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.680 So from that standpoint, it's a really good draft if 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:01.719 you have a lot of picks because it's flat in 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.680 the middle. But that being the case, you know, there 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.280 were really just a few players that we thought we 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.560 might have a chance to get, and fortunately we got 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.000 one of those guys, Aaron or John. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.520 I think GM's and coaches some don't talk about how 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:20.279 hard it is to evaluate safeties just in general. Is 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.080 there any that you guys, did you wait more or 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:24.720 less and more doing that evaluation. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:25.560 That's a sort of. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.680 Position good John. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.599 I don't think it's that hard to evaluate safeties. I mean, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.200 he's running the guys, running around, making plays all over 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.320 the field. You know, we've done pretty well with those guys, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.560 and we missed on guys just like everybody else. But 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.000 I mean he's a very versatile player. You know, he 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.279 covers people man the man, he comes up and tackles people. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.560 He he's in zone. He plays nickel zone responsibility, which 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.720 is really kind of tricky. You know, he's got a 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.479 good feel for that in the deep middle. You know, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.960 he's got range. So he showed ball skills, he showed 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.400 all the things, and then you you kind of put 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.280 on top of that the mentality that we talked about, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.000 the mindset, kind of the football character. I guess you 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.880 could call it. The guy just loves to be out 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.200 there and he wants to He loves to play. He 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.680 can't wait to hit the grass. And to me, that's 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.840 a that's been a good recipe for success. It really 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.960 kind of no matter what the position is. But he 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.160 looks like a safety to me. We'll see, but I 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.760 bet I bet he'll prove us right here. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.960 John's utul This is a little bit but last year 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.160 with Kyle label something you had to play a little 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.520 more split safety second half of the year, or not 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.800 just getting a player that starts as talent as he is, 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:35.360 but being able to maybe free. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.320 Up Hamilton to be as versatile as he can be. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:39.680 I mean, how important is that for you? 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.400 Definitely gives us that option, you know. And uh, and 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.400 it's not to say that Kyle won't be back there, 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.520 because he will be. But but the good news is, 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.520 like the offense isn't gonna know who's going to be 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.320 back there on any given play, not gonna be able 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.080 line up and say, Okay, Kyle's gonna be deep, you know, 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.240 or even our Darius is going to be deep, or 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:56.800 Darius all three of those guys could be on the 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.239 field a lot, or Marlon Marlin can go back and play, 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:01.919 can play deep if we wanted them to. But really, 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.960 now it's it's those three guys. You know, it's interchangeable 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.280 parts playing any one of those four positions in there. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:09.960 That's pretty pretty exciting. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.600 I'm sure you had, you know, a bunch of guys 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:19.360 obviously help would defense in that in that attention and 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:20.520 getting a guy. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:23.240 Back. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.120 Yeah, so, I you know, I didn't, we didn't go 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.920 into it. You know, thinking that we'd take a defensive player. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:31.680 You know, we were going into it thinking we're gonna 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.320 take the best football player we can take. And uh, 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.000 you know, there were some guys on the offensive side 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.080 of the ball too that got picked, and there were 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:39.720 a few really good players that were still there when 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.960 we picked Malachi. But you know, I think generally speaking, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.880 we want to be a balanced drafting team. You know, 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:48.880 we want both sides of the ball to be really 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.320 strong and so, uh, you know, we're fortunate this draft, 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:53.880 as I said, we have a lot of opportunities the 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.080 next coming in a couple of days to get some 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.200 good players. And uh, I think you'll see us uh 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.080 fill some needs, take some really good football players, and 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:03.320 hopefully hit on a bunch of guys. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.000 Eric, here's a high level starter at one of the 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:07.800 best burms in the country for three years. I mean, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.080 does that Does that always give you more confidence than 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.160 a guy will step right on the field and help. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:13.280 I think so. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.320 I mean, you know one thing that I've I've learned 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:16.880 from Assie. I mean, over the years, you look at 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.480 some of our best picks in their big school guys 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.640 sec you know, big ten, you know, pack ten back 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.680 in the day, guys like that, experienced guys from winning programs. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.240 That's a big deal. That's important, and that's something that 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.720 we we definitely look for. I mean, let's face it, 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.880 you know, the SEC is if not one, I mean 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.560 probably one, but one or two in terms of the 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.160 best football conferences in the country. And this is a 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.720 guy that's won national championships and played at a very 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:46.280 high level. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.520 That's important. You guys keep your draft playing so close 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:51.320 to the best. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.040 Were you I don't know, concern is the right word, 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.760 but were you aware of which is I mean there's 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.000 so much talk that you love stars. You know, he 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.280 said that he was your ideal pay That makes you 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.400 at all comfortable during this week? 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.800 You know, it did again, like I I sort of 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.160 like handicap it and model this thing out, and I 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.320 figured like, okay, well, you know, if Starks gets picked, 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.440 you know, and this is going to be another player there. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.719 We had a few players that we really liked, and uh, 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.920 but yeah, you know, it was kind of weird to 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:28.760 just always consistently seeing us you know, tied to him. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:33.640 I mean there were a few other players too. In 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.920 the end, I think it's just it it fell for us, 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.600 and we're lucky that it did. But I can promise 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.480 you that if if somebody else has been there, the 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.520 right player, that we would have taken him. And I 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:44.880 believe he'd be a really good player. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.040 For us because of you know, you sound like he did, 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:53.000 like Starks was already thought about possibly trading up at all. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.640 Uh, you know, I'm not. I'm not really, you know, 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.480 I feel like you guys ask me this question every year. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:01.040 I'm not. I'm not a big, big bl in trading up. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.559 I just I just don't think that the data supports 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:09.080 that generally speaking. But you know, we always look at 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.640 it potentially, and again, I think it's assessing what other 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.680 teams are going to do. It's kind of the flow 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.439 of the draft. As you get to you know, we're 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.200 picking twenty seven. As you get to say, eighteen or nineteen, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.440 that's when you might consider trading up, probably, But then 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.040 you look at the players that are still there, and 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.360 you start looking at each pick, and every time a 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.480 player gets taken outside your range or out of your sequence, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.400 you're like okay, And you finally get to the point 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.600 where we're like, okay, this three or four guys, we 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.120 don't have to trade up. We're gonna get one of 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.160 three or four of these guys. We feel happy with 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.280 all these guys and we're good to go. So when 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.200 that happens, you know you're at peace. It's a good 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:44.679 place to be. 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.400 You said it was one of the best combined interviews 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:49.959 you've ever done or. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:50.880 Having a player. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.200 What does that look like and what. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.720 Is it that impresses you so much? In that second? 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.800 I just think it was remarkable, you know, the way 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.200 that he could discuss football, his awareness, his ability to 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.000 call out the plays from their defense before we even 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.760 showed the play. It's just based on formation. His ability 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.400 to dissect and talk about what happened at any given play 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.920 and to know what his teammates were doing in any 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.800 given play. I mean, it was like he was a coach, 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.320 and you know, we just when he got up, we 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:19.959 just were all kind of like looking at each other 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.839 and we you know, we use a grading scale. We 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.400 gread every interview and seven is the best, and across 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.080 the board he got straight sevens. So it was just 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.720 super impressive. I haven't seen that type of detail in 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:33.360 a long time. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.160 You said you had a really good feel for how 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.559 this first round was going to break. Do you feel 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.760 that for the second and third rounds as well? Or 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:41.760 is that a little bit more weed? 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.160 And see, yeah, you know, it really drops off. I mean, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.360 my prognostication ability falls off a cliff when you get 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.640 into the second and third round, I think, because you know, 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.120 I mean, you guys cover the first round, right, everybody 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.160 covers the first round, the media and it's so much 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.520 mocking now and all these different things in social media 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.160 and just you know, generally speaking, I've said, as I 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.600 said before, like the first rounds nowadays were a lot 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.240 less unpredictable than they used to be. Now you might 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.160 get one or two picks that kind of go rogue, 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.000 but you know, now everything's fairly predictable. Like our list 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.920 of top thirty two players, you're gonna see thirty players 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.120 drafted off that list right now. So but when you 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:17.599 get to the second round, that's where you start to 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.440 see the deviation and you start to see random players, 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.080 and you start to see slippers and you seequen from players. 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.240 Random players get picked. So now you might see, you know, 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.640 a player that we have rated at like one ten 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.880 get picked at forty two. And then we start high 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.559 five and then we're laughing, like we can't believe he 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.720 took that guy, and that guy might end up in 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.000 the Pro Bowl, you know, but that's just the nature. 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.120 That's just the nature of the draft. As you get 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.480 into these rounds now and you see a lot of 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.400 really differences in your sequences, you can edit that. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.800 Interview processes that set out if you're out in the 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.160 mail or in addition to just foll like print. 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.000 I mean, it's a fifteen minute interview. But he's smart. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.840 He knows that he knew the defense. But just the 0:12:57.880 --> 0:12:59.480 fact that he was a red star guy, I think 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.240 kind of was the story. You guys have heard that 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.800 here and you look at the bording areas with the 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.200 red stars sitting next to his name, and then the room. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:07.920 You know, the way the scouts felt about him once 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.680 we once we picked him, you know, they were like jacked. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.960 You know, they know this guy better than anybody. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.800 So, yeah, they don't always clap upstairs. They clapped this year, 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.440 So you know that's how oide the scouts. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.600 Well, sometimes they're always a clap, but sometimes. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.400 It's it's like a little bit of like one of 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.680 these kind of class There are how much changes now 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.400 when you get your guy, your red star guy quickly. 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:31.480 For you it's tomorrow. 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.760 Do you change a lot more when you kind of 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.360 get maybe you're slammed dunk on day one. I mean, 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:38.760 I think we just have to now what I have 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.559 to do tomorrow morning has come in and be stack 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.880 and and that's a process where you know, it's painful 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.439 because there may be some other really good safeties, right 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.839 and we could still take one. But the reality of 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:50.920 it is there's like some really good safeties in this draft, 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.040 and so you know you have to now kind of 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.360 look at it and be like, well, we're not going 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.120 to take six safeties, you know, so there's gonna be 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.480 some really good safeties somebody else. We got the best one, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.000 somebody else is gonna get probably get the second best one, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.800 is what it amounts to. And we'll find other guys 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.600 that are in those same clumps very close and find 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.480 the best guys in those clumps that we can use. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.160 We can use in different ways. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:15.920 I think it's like that. I think it's like the 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.760 ninth time they it's select the defensive back and the 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.280 first down. As you know in the industry, do you 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.040 think it's just the way that sometimes the board has 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.800 fallen over the years, or do you feel like there 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.840 there is an investment, there is a priority placed. Uh, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.880 kind of in the in the in the secondary. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:35.360 Fast well, I mean, you know, usually four or five 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.680 guys are playing in the secondary and any in any 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.320 given place, so you got more guys. But secondly, you know, 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.480 in my experience, like if you're gonna lose a game, 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:44.720 an easy way to lose it is by having a 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.680 bad secondary. So you know, we never want to be 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.640 in that position. That's a bad place to be. So 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.440 you know we're gonna have a strong secondary. And John 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.440 was a was a secondary coach in Philly for a 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.560 while too. He understands the importance of it as well. 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.840 And uh and so, and I really appreciate that because 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.280 you know, I think it's a really important critical part 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:02.920 of your defense. 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.800 Played a little bit in the retirement. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.560 We need to see the tape. 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.160 Just out of curiosity. There was a giraffe in the 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.600 background and those draft room was the plan. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:16.560 Who's I do with that? 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:16.920 Is that? 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:17.960 I'm sure he's been in there. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.080 I'm story behind that. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.760 Yeah, But you know, I mean there's certain things we 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.640 can discuss and there's certain things we can't, but that 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.520 giraffe has been in there for a long long time. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:33.080 That was my son, Michael, who's now seventeen. That was 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.200 a gift to him when he was born. And I 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.800 got the idea years ago because we we were talking 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.680 to the scouts and I'm saying, guys, you know, the 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:46.520 best scouts stand on the table, they stick their next out, 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.600 and I just it just popped into my brain. I 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.960 had this old giraffe back at home, and so one 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.080 day brought it in and we put it in the 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:54.960 draft room as reminded for these guys too, if they 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.760 really like somebody to stand up on the table and 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:02.880 stick the next out, Hi, guys off. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.720 We also heard from Alchai soon after the pick as 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.840 he met with the media on a virtual press conference, 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:16.800 and here's what he had to say. Hey, Malchai, congratulations. 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:19.760 I know the Ravens have been linked to you throughout 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.680 this process. Did you feel like this was the place 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.160 that you could land and get a good feel for 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.400 the team in the organization throughout this process. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.600 Yeah, I feel like it was a really good place 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.640 for me to be just with the type of organization 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.200 that they've running. You know, the history they have there 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.360 as well, just to think that they've been doing the 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.000 last few years. I think it's a great fit for 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.160 me just to come in and learn from a guy 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:41.640 like call Himlton and a lot of events in the 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.880 world like Wild Huntfrey. I think I think it's a 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.760 I think I fit the culture very well, and. 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.400 I should mention for the media members joining us, if 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.280 you can use the raise hand function please, I will 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.640 call on you accordingly. Why don't we jump to Brian 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.920 Wacker the Baltimore Sun for the time being. 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:11.200 Brian, there we go, can you hear me? 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:11.760 Kai? 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:12.520 Yes, sir? 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.800 Well, first, congrats, Just how familiar argue with with the 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:23.800 Ravens defense playing alongside obviously now Kyle Hamilton and some 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:25.040 of their other players. 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.199 Yeah, I think I got a good feel for it 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.760 through through the whole process. I met with him when 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.960 I went to come on, and I had some zooms 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:33.720 as well, So I got a good feel for it 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:35.719 and I'm ready to go learn. There's a lot more 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:37.480 I have to learn, but I'm ready to get in 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.159 and like I said, just learn from the Vets and 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.119 you know, really to dive into the whole process of 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:42.000 being a Raven. 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.679 And just what was your reaction when you got the 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.000 news and found out. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:50.240 Yeah, I was, uh, I was. I was sitting on 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.200 the couch about to play. Who know, it's been a 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.560 long night, so I was just trying to stay stay 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.199 calm through the whole thing. And then I heard the 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.800 phone ring and I knew I was at even So 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.000