Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: June sixth. The Ravens wrapped up another day of organized
Speaker 1: team activities and after practice we had a chance to
Speaker 1: hear from head coach John Hartball.
Speaker 2: Good to see everybody out here. Appreciate you being out here.
Speaker 3: Beautiful day, great setting, This awesome head coach Gruden here
Speaker 3: and for two days working with us, and we've just
Speaker 3: had so much respect for him over the years. He's
Speaker 3: a football he loves football. He's a great football coach,
Speaker 3: great football mind. And he studied our team and gave
Speaker 3: us some insight players, coaches, schemes, all of it, you know,
Speaker 3: and and we just really appreciate having him here. So
Speaker 3: it was a real blessing. He was commenting on this
Speaker 3: setting here, you know, he couldn't even believe it. This
Speaker 3: is like he said, this is like football heaven. You know,
Speaker 3: I said, like I said, coach, I think I said
Speaker 3: that before. I've said that quote, Jerry, you remember that one.
Speaker 3: This is like football heaven.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 3: You got these trees around here, the setting, there's no
Speaker 3: there's no fences, there's no traffic. You know, there's a
Speaker 3: little construction, but that's not gonna last forever. Did you
Speaker 3: guys hear did you get the fumes during practice?
Speaker 4: The tar?
Speaker 2: The tar? That was part of our strategy.
Speaker 3: You want the guys to go to, you know, play
Speaker 3: no huddle when they're tired with tar fumes in their face.
Speaker 3: You never know when that could happen. But the construction
Speaker 3: Whiting Turn is doing a great job. And then we
Speaker 3: got doctor Z here today. I read about his story.
Speaker 3: I think it was the Baltimore Sun, maybe it was
Speaker 3: the Banner. I don't know who was it who did
Speaker 3: the doctor Z story. Nobody's taking credit for you. Guys
Speaker 3: are sports guys. You don't know. Stay in your lane.
Speaker 3: That's probably wise. Right there you go, There you go.
Speaker 2: He's he's the doctor that.
Speaker 3: Sees patients in downtown Baltimore mostly free at charge whatever
Speaker 3: they can afford to pay, and has been doing his
Speaker 3: whole career, saved lives, countless lives with what he's done.
Speaker 3: He's here with his whole family, and we get a
Speaker 3: chance to honor him. Somebody that's doing you talk about
Speaker 3: doing the good works. You doing the good works Jonas,
Speaker 3: you know the good works Capital g W the good
Speaker 3: works man. This is it's an honor to have him here.
Speaker 3: He's a real hero. Okay, what questions you have with Rudin?
Speaker 5: How did that come out? I mean, did is there
Speaker 5: any story behind that?
Speaker 2: No, we talked from time to time.
Speaker 3: I happen to see him in Tampa a couple of
Speaker 3: times because we're down there with my Alison's playing down there,
Speaker 3: and he's down there and Loots got his office and
Speaker 3: his place there. And then we went down there last
Speaker 3: off season off of an offensive staff as Monk and
Speaker 3: I and George gotsee and spent some time with him
Speaker 3: down there. So you know, he's been around with us,
Speaker 3: and UH known him since he was in Philly. Uh
Speaker 3: when I was coming in and he was he was
Speaker 3: going out to be the head coach of the Raiders.
Speaker 3: Got to know him a little bit, just utmost respect.
Speaker 2: What he gave him a locker you gave him here.
Speaker 5: Did you give him the playbook?
Speaker 3: No, we didn't give the playbook. We didn't give a
Speaker 3: script either. You know, only goes so far. You know
Speaker 3: you gotta draw the line somewhere. Good, good question.
Speaker 5: What what did he see? You know? Some some terms of
Speaker 5: looking at you guys visit So I.
Speaker 2: Didn't say to share just to give you a general overview.
Speaker 3: He studied us, you know, and basically the message was,
Speaker 3: you know, if I was game planning against you your defense,
Speaker 3: what would I do and how would I attack you guys?
Speaker 3: And he didn't just stop there. He watched our offensive guys,
Speaker 3: He talked to our offensive guys, looked at all the players,
Speaker 3: had something for each player, just you know, phenomenal and
Speaker 3: very very detailed.
Speaker 2: Great teacher too.
Speaker 3: Moders, Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. He Yeah,
Speaker 3: he was grinding pretty good on some guys. You know,
Speaker 3: he was letting he was letting them know where they
Speaker 3: can get better, which I respect him. I think a
Speaker 3: great coach is not afraid to tell people where they
Speaker 3: can improve and don't don't don't every doesn't.
Speaker 2: Every player want to know that, you know.
Speaker 3: And he has so much respect for guys and and
Speaker 3: still at the same time letting them know that, hey,
Speaker 3: this is what I see you can improve at.
Speaker 5: Aaron kind of just your reaction of having hair Rodgers.
Speaker 2: In the division, I really don't have a reaction.
Speaker 3: I mean just respect, you know, respect for respect for
Speaker 3: the Steelers, obviously, respect for the h the team that
Speaker 3: they have, the coaches that they have, uh the head coach,
Speaker 3: coach Tomlin. And then obviously we've always respected Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: as a player. I mean he's Hall of Fame quarterback.
Speaker 3: So we'll have to go against the hall of fame
Speaker 3: quarterback with uh with one of the premier teams in
Speaker 3: the league, you know, and who happens to be our
Speaker 3: arch rival, So we'll be preparing for that.
Speaker 2: Speaking about contract extension and mentioned.
Speaker 6: How he hopes to kind of create a new era
Speaker 6: for wide receiver meeting and reception in Baltimore.
Speaker 4: What does it meaning is seeing him get that contract in.
Speaker 3: Just his desire and the success that he's had as
Speaker 3: a draftive wide receiver meetings with there, well, it means
Speaker 3: a lot, you know. And he's uh, him and Zay
Speaker 3: I think both have done so well as drafted wide
Speaker 3: receivers here first round picks. To see those guys be successful,
Speaker 3: to see where Shod be successful. I just I love him,
Speaker 3: always have from day one. I think he's always been
Speaker 3: so determined, he just wants so badly to be great
Speaker 3: and h and to watch him grow these last couple
Speaker 3: of years the way he has to where he's at now.
Speaker 3: And I really believe where he's going ago, just looking
Speaker 3: for him to continue to to just like a rocket
Speaker 3: ship man take off.
Speaker 5: Got me another chance to talk to Chuck a Donner yesterday.
Speaker 5: Now that he's been here, back here for a few months.
Speaker 7: Now, what's it been like, Because it was a long
Speaker 7: time ago when he was here, how have you kind
Speaker 7: of seem not necessarily changed, but maybe evolve as a
Speaker 7: coach compared.
Speaker 2: To how he was back then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Luke, the days are long, but the years is short.
Speaker 3: You know, it seems just like yesterday, you know, when
Speaker 3: Chuck was here. But it's been great. Chuck has never
Speaker 3: changed in the sense he's always just been a great guy,
Speaker 3: high enthusiasm, enthusiasm unknown to mankind, kind of a coach,
Speaker 3: kind of a person, family man, leader, friend. The players
Speaker 3: have really attached themselves to him in a great way
Speaker 3: from the back end, and and I think Zach as well.
Speaker 3: I mean, those guys are getting along great. And Chuck
Speaker 3: just wants to He just wants to help this team
Speaker 3: be the best team it could be in that secondary
Speaker 3: to play at the highest level of can it's all
Speaker 3: he cares about. So it's just great to hapen backle.
Speaker 5: More out here. Since the I think it was the
Speaker 5: second oga that we were the first one. We were
Speaker 5: at the second one last week. Did you expect that?
Speaker 5: Is it to your knowledge? Is it just Lamar being
Speaker 5: Lamar and just choosing to not be or is it
Speaker 5: contract related.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, I'm not taking any position on it's judge,
Speaker 3: you get whatever. Lamar the day he was out here
Speaker 3: played great. I could see he was in great shape,
Speaker 3: through the ball, great, made the reads, new the offense
Speaker 3: excellent in an excellent kind of way. I thought he
Speaker 3: was fantastic. And when he comes back in practices, when
Speaker 3: that happens, I expect him to play.
Speaker 2: At that level.
Speaker 3: That's what you measure. You measure for any player, it's
Speaker 3: how they play. I'm not measuring, you know, really the attendance.
Speaker 3: I mean it's a voluntary camp, you know, So measuring that.
Speaker 3: I mean I love being out here, and I think
Speaker 3: all the players do. And when Lamar's out here, I
Speaker 3: promise you he loves being out here. You could see
Speaker 3: it when he was out here. So he's my guy.
Speaker 3: I love him and I can't wait to I can't
Speaker 3: wait to just get into this season and get going.
Speaker 2: John we uc Kane.
Speaker 5: Make a few players on the ball.
Speaker 3: What role do you envision him and Bo Brady playing
Speaker 3: this season?
Speaker 6: And do you think you're gonna add another safety before
Speaker 6: training camp?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I envisioned those guys stepping up. I mean they
Speaker 3: have to, you know, and they have in training camps
Speaker 3: or in in Ota so far. Heading into the mini camp,
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to prove it. They're gonna have to
Speaker 3: earn it. And uh, there's always the possibility bringing someone in.
Speaker 3: I mean that's what we do, you know, So we'll
Speaker 3: see where that goes. But I think those guys are
Speaker 3: doing a great job.
Speaker 5: Come to keep the train a little bit. What did
Speaker 5: you see from him now two years from from that improvement?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks good.
Speaker 3: I mean he looks way better than he did at
Speaker 3: the end of last season, I think, just as far
Speaker 3: as movement. Uh so, Uh, you know, I got high hopes.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. I would never lie.
Speaker 2: Never lie. Might not tell you everything, never lie. H
Speaker 2: But I have high hopes for him, you know, I
Speaker 2: expect him to I expect him to be really good.
Speaker 7: We're also talking to Nate Wiggins today. What have you
Speaker 7: seen now and coming to the second season out of
Speaker 7: Nate and his development.
Speaker 4: At this office.
Speaker 2: Well he saw him today.
Speaker 3: Right, when you have a pick and a key breakup
Speaker 3: and a critical situation, expect him to be locked in
Speaker 3: and focused on on the little things, you know, rain
Speaker 3: drops make oceans. Man locked in on every little detail
Speaker 3: to be great, you know, and that's what he's focusing on.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen hi.
Speaker 5: Jake Humble with someone who got signed a little in Freez.
Speaker 5: We haven't seen him out here as are anything.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know it's voluntary doms anything there is.
Speaker 3: He had had a baby in the last few days,
Speaker 3: had a little baby boy. Uh, we should put that.
Speaker 3: We should announce that if he wants us to, we
Speaker 3: should put that out there with Jake baby. Yeah right, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a good point. So that's why he's not here.
Speaker 5: But last one not the officiality where a positive? Do
Speaker 5: you have account for Tyler Dans game hicles?
Speaker 2: Do we have one? Tyler?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, do it count? Yeah? You can get you right.
Speaker 3: We must have had a bad angle, yeah yeah, no
Speaker 3: it was. There was no I can tell you this.
Speaker 3: They were all right down the middle, sou but I
Speaker 3: had a good angle seeing them. They were right down
Speaker 3: the middle. I made that sixty yarder you know, easily.
Speaker 3: So it was a good start, all right.
Speaker 2: Thanks? Yep.
Speaker 1: We also heard from a second year cornerback date Wagings.
Speaker 7: The exactly where talked about your off season strength and
Speaker 7: conditioning routine.
Speaker 2: Can you talk about what you did this offseason and
Speaker 2: how much weight you put on?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this was all s it was a big
Speaker 4: off season for me, or just just gain weight and
Speaker 4: get a stronger. I gained like ten pounds. Uh I'm
Speaker 4: a lot strong, a lot bigger for uh yeah man,
Speaker 4: uh one eighty five?
Speaker 6: What LOADI they ad qute when you wanna focus on
Speaker 6: adding eight?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Really just I mean I was just uh getting a
Speaker 4: lot like injury wasn't my big things last year? Or
Speaker 4: just hitting the ground or like my shoulders hit the ground. Uh,
Speaker 4: body couldn't assort the contact. So really it was just
Speaker 4: uh again my body to physical take the con uh
Speaker 4: the con compact and yeah, you know what y'all BA
Speaker 4: said getting wait for him, he poked a.
Speaker 5: Lot of pouring meals and meal craft. What did you
Speaker 5: have to do to put.
Speaker 4: On that way?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: Really just stay and a lot of pro like mess
Speaker 4: potato stuff like that. I you know, a lot of
Speaker 4: steaks so yeah, is that hard for you.
Speaker 5: To do that? They have way generally speaking periods of music.
Speaker 4: Uh nah, it's it's a hard thing for me cause
Speaker 4: I got a fast on the type of them, so
Speaker 4: it's really hard for me to keep weight.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So like, uh, I mean when I get when I like,
Speaker 4: when I gain weight, I'm really like happy.
Speaker 7: So yeah, they you you played mostly left corner back
Speaker 7: last year, obviously right corner back.
Speaker 5: To get possibilities this year. You have a favorite shoulder
Speaker 5: to the player?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: Nah, I don't really my favorite shoulder, Like which, what's
Speaker 4: you like?
Speaker 5: Like you you like the see the bawl gonna go
Speaker 5: with one shoulder?
Speaker 4: Oh nah, I don't. No, I don't really have a
Speaker 4: favorite sholder. I I think I'm good on b great
Speaker 4: on both sides.
Speaker 3: So hey, where how do you feel like you grow
Speaker 3: up most at uh this spring compared to where you
Speaker 3: were even maybe.
Speaker 5: At the end of last season or just for growth
Speaker 5: as a player?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: I feel like my girlfriends a players uh commit Uh
Speaker 4: Like it's it's growing a lot. I mean from especially
Speaker 4: as last year. Like you said, like, uh like last season,
Speaker 4: I mean I don't feel like I was like really
Speaker 4: a pro yet now I'm getting like really like how
Speaker 4: how to be a pronoun? So I feel like, no,
Speaker 4: like it's it's gonna it's gonna play off may Con team.
Speaker 7: Uh bringing in Malachi Starks in the drive. Now you
Speaker 7: got Starks you Hamilton Humphrey. How do you feel about
Speaker 7: the prospects heading into this season of this secondary Uh?
Speaker 4: I mean I feel great about it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: I feel like we gonna uh come out, come out fast.
Speaker 4: Uh we gonna come out fast. We're gonna come out
Speaker 4: uh like like everybody expected has.
Speaker 1: To come out.
Speaker 5: How's it been working with uh Chuck for Dynond.
Speaker 4: Uh, It's been great. I mean, you know, he like,
Speaker 4: uh one of the Hall of Fame coaches, uh coaching
Speaker 4: Hall of famers. So I mean it's great picking up knowledge,
Speaker 4: uh everything he knows about the game.
Speaker 5: So it's great.
Speaker 4: I feel like him him come in is gonna help
Speaker 4: us and continue us to grow us great players.
Speaker 6: We hed good. He came in immediately, had individuals she
Speaker 6: bout for guys. She sought it out.
Speaker 5: Did you seek it out?
Speaker 3: And what were some of the things plays situated.
Speaker 2: About the summer?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Uh the main thing. Then he came in, H
Speaker 4: what's focused on me about what's just uh my press.
Speaker 4: He was like just getting my hands on since I'm
Speaker 4: like probably I wanted the fastest.
Speaker 5: Oh god, so he was.
Speaker 4: Like getting my hands on receivers. Shoot my hands guy,
Speaker 4: cause I wasn't really like running in the receiver in
Speaker 4: the league.
Speaker 3: So they they were, uh quarterback can individion the Robbers
Speaker 3: and Pittsburgh there is uh I how much before you're
Speaker 3: looking and facing.
Speaker 5: Him and uh and I'm sure you'd like to get
Speaker 5: a perfection.
Speaker 4: To see Yeah, I mean it. It would be great
Speaker 4: to get to pick on uh A rod Man probably
Speaker 4: all think quarterback. I mean, uh, he's gonna yeah, I
Speaker 4: it's great facing him. I mean yeah, I really think
Speaker 4: I yeah.
Speaker 5: I know he wasn't uh you taking the gun pick off?
Speaker 4: What I mean?
Speaker 5: What's it like to see him on the other side,
Speaker 5: to feel a lot of them tricks that.
Speaker 2: A guy that you probably watched grom Yeah, got it
Speaker 2: now that you're right, well.
Speaker 5: Who what's kind of your thoughts when you see him
Speaker 5: on the other side.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's amazing this uh cause we both went
Speaker 4: to Clemson. Uh huh uh we both got like we
Speaker 4: both like know like the Clemson stuff. We both like, uh,
Speaker 4: he come to he can come Clinton lot when I
Speaker 4: was there, so I mean we got like a lot
Speaker 4: of connections and it I mean it's great. I know
Speaker 4: he like twelve year in the league. I mean, yeah, man,
Speaker 4: it's it's great going against and he could teach me
Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of knowledge.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we also heard from running back Keaton Mitchell.
Speaker 5: You have to eat Throb.
Speaker 6: I just feeling good, Yes, sir, it's feeling great.
Speaker 5: Was there a point, uh when you felt like you
Speaker 5: turned us more? Obviously you came back in that season,
Speaker 5: but yeah, kind of had a schedule and I and
Speaker 5: I'm sure he's Yeah, we often see guys in the
Speaker 5: second year after that of the year you kind of
Speaker 5: get back from the rough.
Speaker 2: Was there?
Speaker 5: What did you have that kind of moment from.
Speaker 6: You at all to where I felt back normal?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah.
Speaker 6: Once we got that break, I did a lot of rehab,
Speaker 6: like really like being focused on coming back and being
Speaker 6: back to myself. So, uh, when I came back, I
Speaker 6: was back normal. So cause it feel different this year definitely,
Speaker 6: it's a.
Speaker 5: What's it been like now?
Speaker 7: I mean Derrick Henry, of course this is his second
Speaker 7: year here in the off Is he you being a
Speaker 7: young running back going through what you went.
Speaker 5: Through last year? How are you how he interview, what
Speaker 5: kind of influences he out on you? How has he
Speaker 5: helped your going back?
Speaker 6: Just really taking care of my body off the field.
Speaker 6: You know, he a Hall of Fame type of guy.
Speaker 6: Just making sure everything that he say, make sure don't
Speaker 6: go through one year one ear and out the other.
Speaker 6: So just taking that in consideration and just uh looking
Speaker 6: up to him, watching him what he do like at
Speaker 6: like watching how he became a vet, Like just taking
Speaker 6: care of his body, how he uh been in the
Speaker 6: league for so long and just stuff like that.
Speaker 5: So he in last ye year you were focused on
Speaker 5: getting back on the.
Speaker 4: Fields the time.
Speaker 6: Are there any particular.
Speaker 3: Parts of your game that you're looking at mcrew or
Speaker 3: ways that you wanna contribute more in the offense, what.
Speaker 6: Special team whatever, whatever they need me to do, I'm
Speaker 6: dying to do it. Just is taking a step in
Speaker 6: his role. So I'm just feeling in his spot doing
Speaker 6: all the dirty work whatever they need me to do.
Speaker 6: So I'm ready for what they need me to do
Speaker 6: just to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Johnny just said that if you're much different now than
Speaker 3: you were even at the end of the last year.
Speaker 5: As a how tentative was.
Speaker 2: Were you, say, November December when you first came back
Speaker 2: last year versus now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, just like the mental part, uh coming back, you know,
Speaker 6: you always thinking about your knee, worried about what's gonna happen,
Speaker 6: what's gonna happen if I get tackled, But just overcoming that.
Speaker 6: I'm way much better. I'm out there like normal, not
Speaker 6: worried about what my need doing, just being confident in
Speaker 6: my knee and my rehab.
Speaker 7: So we did about a month ago twenty two point four.
Speaker 6: Is there?
Speaker 5: Is that still your your top speeding? I guess what
Speaker 5: we're condition.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So when I first got here, I ran like twenty
Speaker 6: two point two. Uh so I just hit twenty two
Speaker 6: point four a couple of weeks ago. So definitely feeling good,
Speaker 6: uh back to myself.
Speaker 3: So I know, was that through really high process, TV,
Speaker 3: through you know, and everything, something helpfully like through the
Speaker 3: off season, get back on the field, get back.
Speaker 5: From we're gonna mentioned something, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh, you know, when you face adversity like a career
Speaker 6: ending injury, you need those type of guys with you.
Speaker 6: Just to keep you in a positive mindset and making
Speaker 6: sure you're okay. So I appreciate them guys trying Tavius
Speaker 6: uh for being there for me. So hats off to them.
Speaker 2: Guys you often like a n.
Speaker 6: They was just making sure I made it to the
Speaker 6: season and made it the OTA safely. So then I
Speaker 6: think it was gonna be correct ending. Nah, just cause
Speaker 6: I know who I am and like how was raised
Speaker 6: that gotta finish what I started, So anything that it took,
Speaker 6: I know I was gonna come back and be ready
Speaker 6: to go. I'm definitely doing that, especially uh since if
Speaker 6: it's a touchback, they'll go to the thirty five. So
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure teams are putting in play and I
Speaker 6: want to be the one to return the kickoff returns
Speaker 6: and being able to be like a Devin Hester, like
Speaker 6: don't kick it that type of guy.
Speaker 2: So you want to do.
Speaker 6: Whatever they need you to do. But aside from winning
Speaker 6: your Super Bowl, what does success look like for you individually? Individually,
Speaker 6: success playing preseason game one and finish it to the
Speaker 6: last game, whatever that is, just staying healthy and available
Speaker 6: for the team.
Speaker 5: I know's a have a lot of experience with the
Speaker 5: turn I don't.
Speaker 6: Remember kick return, and in college they didn't really let
Speaker 6: me do too much to keep return. So but it's
Speaker 6: like a natural instinct. It's like an outside zone play
Speaker 6: for a running back. So uh, it's kind of natural.
Speaker 5: So yeah, and with that, where where'd you do'd you clock?
Speaker 6: That? We was in the indoor We were doing some sprints.
Speaker 6: I was like, really, uh, Anthony Miller, me and him
Speaker 6: were running with each other and he was like, uh,
Speaker 6: he trying to hit top speed today. So I was like, really,
Speaker 6: I wasn't planning on running that fast, but I guess
Speaker 6: I just came back. He was like, I hit my
Speaker 6: pr for the soya.
Speaker 7: I know it doesn't matter a whole lot until what
Speaker 7: kinds come on, But what do you see from trends
Speaker 7: sens of in his development.
Speaker 6: Just coming out here being like a vet vocal leader,
Speaker 6: trying to tell the younger guys what to do. Uh,
Speaker 6: but most of being a vocal leader.
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