Head Coach John Harbaugh, cornerback Jaire Alexander, outside linebacker Kyle Van Noy, and cornerback Marlon Humphrey speak with the media after Day 2 of training camp.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Thursday,
July twenty fourth, and the Ravens held their second practice
of training camp. Afterwards, we had a chance to hear
from some of the players and head coach John Harp.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Okay, good seeing everybody here. And by the way, what
do you think of our new little setup here?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
You like it? It's pretty nice?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Hear it.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
It's tough to hear. Tough to hear.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So let Steve know that all that money he spent,
guys have a tough time here and the media, the
medium pool party.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Maybe I'll just won't bring it up at all. What
do you guys got there?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Everything right now?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, he'll be okay, kind of fell on.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
His knee and you know, his leg yesterday on that
sideline play, So just probably abundance of caution. I just
held him out today.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
A lot of couple of days.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
Not with Reagan's record, who's one score games?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Figure other ordering a few of the guys to look
at better or happier this season the broader context being
a very successful organization, But did you get better.
Speaker 7 (01:10):
At one score games?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I think we're really good in one score games. You
look at the stat that I just saw two days ago.
We're dominating one score games. We've lost a couple, but
we've won a ton of one score games. Look at
Lamar's record one score games. Look at our record. Look
at our record two score games over the last number
of years. So one score games, two score games. We
win a lot of football games.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Catch on one though, going back to the spring rookie
free agent, they haven't asked about them.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Ruben Lowy.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
They've seen him play some brane him playing safety. No,
what's stood out about him?
Speaker 8 (01:43):
It seems like he's around the football often.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
He is a doing a great job. Rubin is Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He's all ball, you know, he's all ball every day.
All he thinks about, all he talks about, eats, it sleeps,
it comes out here, flies around. Very smart player, doing
a nice job.
Speaker 9 (02:00):
Obvious.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yes, Keith Mitchell looks more explosive this summer. I mean,
I'm sure Itt got your eye. See the kind of
guy that guess.
Speaker 9 (02:07):
Coaches talking abouts spanning a role in the outfense.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, it looks great. I mean, you know, he looks
really good. He had got one around the right side today.
You saw you saw the speed uh, doing all the
things really well. Uh, I just want to keep seeing
him grow through the rest of camp, you know, But
it looks like he's back as far as all the
things you're talking about, the speed and the explosiveness is
sure looks like it's back.
Speaker 10 (02:26):
See a big year for Kyle Vinoy last year. What
have you seen her?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Think that gives you the confidence that like he can
defy the age thing again and have another successful game.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Uh, he looks good. I mean, he's out here making
plays again, you know. And Uh, I don't know what
the age thing is, so I can't answer defying it
what that would really mean.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I mean, you just go by what you see. Guys.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Guys play until they can't, you know, And he's playing great.
So some guys can't play anymore. When I was twenty one,
I couldn't play. But I probably couldn't play before that either,
you know, I could never play. So guys play as
long as they can generally, and then they don't. So
he's still playing really at a high level. So all
these other narratives, the age, the age narrative, the one
(03:05):
score narrative, it's all nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It's all nothing. Maybe you've got it before I John
Rowland was wearing a.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Goat brow on the kick. What is that new? What
do you get out of that?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It's a little bit new.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
We get out we see what he's we see what
he's looking at for one thing, but we also see
his foot placement from that angle. So I was just
watching that with Randy the other day, and there's a certain.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Type of a that's that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I think that's Steve.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
There's a certain type of an angle that you want
to have the plant foot and you want to have
the kicking foot on the ball, and you can see
it from that angle better than anywhere, and I think
it helps the kickers with that too.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
But it's kind of cool to see. So they played
a lot more than.
Speaker 10 (03:50):
The slot last year his rookie season.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
You can't hear very well in here.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
They played more in the slot last year year with
Hopkins and now in the fold to you expect to
see that continue to increase this season.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
And what do you like about it?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think it's I think it's impossible to say. I mean,
you know they're gonna be in their different spots. We
do a lot of motions, a lot of quarterback driven stuff,
we motion in, we motion out, we motion across. You
can start outside and come in and take a hand off.
I mean, de Hop's been in the slot quite a
bit also, so I feel like you're gonna see guys
at different spots or tight ends. We had our tight
ends outside today. You may have seen that, you know,
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So the guys will play in different spots.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
The child, I know it's kind of been puffing down
with him since he's been drafted.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
But what do you think to see from him for
him to kind of show.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
That he can be a consistent part of you guys defense.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I think him being on the field consistently will be
the key. You know, he didn't play it all his
first year. Last year he got a little bit nicked up.
I think he's healthy strongly he's ever been looks great
out here in the first two days, so you know,
expect him to play great. I mean this, this guy
is a highly touted player, you know, and the narrative
that has been pushed by some in this circle and
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the words that get used are just insulting. But the
guy busts his butt and he's a hell of a player,
and I expect him to have a great year, there's
a lot.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Of talk league wide about the preseason how much.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
To play starters?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
Do you guys look at that every year, you know,
to kind of make that decision, especially when you see
your first part of your.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Schedule and know the type of competition you've got at the.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Poss Yeah, yes we do.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
We do go about the preseason differently this year. The
last few years you haven't played a lot of the start.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I'll just say we have a plan right now. I
have a plan for it. I think I know what
I want to do.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
But it's still two weeks away, then three weeks away,
then four weeks away before we play these games, so
you know, there's a lot of water to go into
the bridge still, So I kind of want to see
probably where we're at when we get closer to it.
But we think about that stuff very very closely, and
probably going to be a more appropriate question when we
get to, uh, you know, closer to the first game
than it is now, because I just couldn't answer it now.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Kind of have a idea of what kil loops, raining
camp schedules gonna look like. Every didn't see them back today,
and I know it was kind off and on during
OTAs and the camp.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Rough idea.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, we have it all laid out. Yeah, we have
it all laid out. He'll be out there tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I know that. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I mean we got a certain rotation for the deals
and we're not putting out a schedule though, So you
guys will be here every day anyway. So right, I'm
here coming every day. You didn't You didn't see Tucker
last year or year before the year before that, you
were here, right, he never kicked every day?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
M hm okay, all said good. Good.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
In addition to coach Harball, we also heard from the
newest addition to the team, quarterback Jaiyeir Alexandrew.
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Oh Less See, I'm I mean, I'm in love.
Speaker 10 (07:00):
You know.
Speaker 11 (07:01):
What can I say?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (07:02):
The weather's great, the fans are great, I mean, the
city's great. So I think I'm in a great place.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
What does it mean to you to.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Come to an organization with such a story pasted on defense?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Especially?
Speaker 11 (07:17):
Uh, it's actually an amazing feeling, you know. I mean,
defense win championships. Defense wins championship. So I'm in the
right place to do.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
That, I guess looking back on your tenor in Green Bay, Like,
what would you say is kind of the biggest lessons
you learned from how it did? And and what do
you think that'll change? Will change anything? And how you
operate in that mature?
Speaker 11 (07:36):
Well, you know, I think uh as he cut that
phone off, uh, I think you know, you know, looking
back to Green Bay, I I made a lot of
long lasting relationships there. You know, I got nothing but
love for the city, and I think I just wanna
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move forward and focus on how it can excel here
and how we can get that Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
A large joke ballas home.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
We recruiting you a little coup here and the next
day that happened.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
How much that really play into a relationship with that?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (08:10):
I mean it, I that's my boy, you know, like
a first name, last name basis like, you know, so
we you know, it's funny. We was always talking about
about this, you know. So it it's crazy how God
works and and br and brought us together. So I mean,
I'm happy to come here.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
If he wasn't on the teo, ah.
Speaker 11 (08:29):
That'd be tough man Like I I I probably would
explore more options, But that's my boy, and I want
I wanna win one with him.
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Uh, testing you a.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Little bit yesterday?
Speaker 10 (08:38):
First, say back out there or what was it like
to be on the field 'em again?
Speaker 11 (08:41):
Uh? Who Tamar oh Lamar? Yeah, I yeah, he threw
a back shoulder. You know, he tried to throw a
back shoulder on me with d hops, So you know
I had to give him a little a little jazz
about that. You know, I said, come on, man, I
know it's my first day, but man, you know it's
still meat. You know what I mean, It's still meat.
So but you know, it's always fun. Man, we can
joke like that.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
You said, you said, let's get that super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I mean, was that also a big part of it?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Coming somewhere where you knew the team was set up
to make a real run.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
I mean, uh, you know, I I guess in in
any NFL career, the span isn't that long, so the
time is not a win always, you know. So I
always wanna put myself in that position, and then I
always wanna uplift the team and however I can, So
however I can make this defense better than this team better.
That's what I'm here to do.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Questions about your health O past couple of years physically
How are you right now?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Basically, I'm great.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
I'm out there practicing and I and I can't and
I can't thank God enough.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Dr a legacy that the Baltimore defenses and past. What
do you feel like you bring to the defense?
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Uh, I mean, first off, i'm'a bring that energy in
that juice so everything else will fall into play. But
I'm gonna bring the energy and I'm gonna bring the juice.
But you'll see you get in the secondary a.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Lot of talented pieces in the second area.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
I'm the first round face.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Back there this w What do you think about?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
The Secondary's a whole lot of pips.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Man.
Speaker 11 (09:58):
I love the secondary. I love to put potential that
we have. Man, Marlin's a dog, He's been here. I
love watching Marlin play. I love being around him. You know,
I thought I was weird.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (10:09):
He might got me beat, So I I love it.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Man.
Speaker 11 (10:13):
It's it's fun. Everybody's cool, and we all jailed really
well together with the waygo.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Last four years have gone in terms of missing time
and whatnot.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
Would you embrace a.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Role where you're playing, say one passing games.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Obviously that might happen anyway with him through a slot.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (10:28):
No, I I'm embracing any role here. Like I said,
you know, my my my goal, and I know the
team goes to win the Super Bowl, so however we
can do that.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Spend the last month kind of getting up the speed.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
I mean, you were signed on the last day of
Benny camp and everyone kind of breaks up.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
You know what what did you do to kind of.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Get speed with the defense?
Speaker 12 (10:43):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (10:44):
Well, I mean the first day I was here, everyone
was stressing the conditioning tests and I'm like, oh gosh,
So I just started running. The next day like I
was running, and I ran the day after. So I
just been uh, you know, getting in shape for that
for for this kind of camp. This is this is different.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
What's it been like working with Zach orr And and
some good defensive staff here and didn't.
Speaker 11 (11:03):
Find that Uh man Zo so cool. You know, he's
down to earth, you know, relatable, somebody you can talk to.
And then the defense man it's it's it's so complex man,
and and I just I mean, the guys who got
our front is gonna make the job easier in the
back end.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
The there was a kind of a story about kind
of behind the scenes, behind your signing here, and it
kind of mentioned that when you came here you didn't
you weren't sure yet, Like what was that like that
day when you got here and what did you need
to see and hear in order to follow through and
put your name on a contract.
Speaker 11 (11:34):
Well, you know, vibes never lie big on energy and
know energy exchange, so you know, I I got good
vibes here and I and it seemed like, you know,
they want him here, they cared so th that's really
that played the biggest part into it. You know, coming
from the.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
NFC, Nolty you you used to you obviously have had
matchups against top tier receivers and you seem like you
always get excited for those matchups. Are excited that you
for some of the receivers you'll see twice.
Speaker 11 (12:01):
Oh man, I'm super excited, man, Like you know, iron
sharpens iron man, and I want the best. I want
the best and and that's you know, like I can't
even explain how excited I am about the opportunity to
face these guys or you When Mark.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Andrews were disappointed that they cut.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
The drill off before you had a chance to.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Go one on one, was that what you were talking
about out there.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
Yeah, yeah, that's what he was talking about. I was,
you know, I wanted one more just one more rep.
You know, No he doesn't talk about that. Thank god,
you know, thank god, you know that was This camp
is different?
Speaker 7 (12:39):
How is this camp different?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Mothers you've been in? Uh?
Speaker 11 (12:43):
You know, we work, you know, we work hard here,
you know, work really hard. Not to say I didn't
work hard before, but you know the workouts are intense,
you know, very intense. Not something that I haven't been
a part of. So you know, the atmosphere that the
practice is such fast tempo. So you know, you get
out there here.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
Seventeen on your calendar or anything.
Speaker 11 (13:04):
Nah, nah, I'll start there every week. Everybody's gonna get it.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
It's obviously a place where take a lot of big
characters have kind of left their mark on the uh
on the culture? Was Green Beavor a place where you
felt like you had to kind of not be where
you were personality wise? And is there any kind of
different in that kind of culture going from the Green Bay,
Baltimore and see.
Speaker 11 (13:24):
Yourself, it's definitely a different culture here, I would say,
you know, it's definitely a different coature. My head coach
squats four hundred pounds. Let's give it up for him.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
Huh.
Speaker 11 (13:33):
But nah, I mean, like I said, man, I had
a great time in Green Bay, but I'm here just
to move forward.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You know, Alexander's clearly excited to be here in Baltimore,
and he's also fired up to play in the secondary
along with quarnerback Marlon Humphrey, who we heard from today
as well.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
It's been great.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
He is.
Speaker 12 (14:07):
He's a confident guy, so it's it's pretty fun to
practice with him. We communicated over the break. He's talking
about each other's game. He was watching some of the
he was watching some of the Steelers tape. I guess
when I try attempted to fight a couple of linemen.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
He was like, I really like that. I love that.
Speaker 12 (14:26):
So he's a guy that's uh. I think it's gonna
be really fun to play with. We've been we've been
talking kind of you know, me playing nickel, he's playing corner.
You know how I play things. So it's it's been excited.
But what I like the most is just his his
swag to the game. I think confidence is the biggest
key you can have at corner, and I think.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
You can never have too much confidence.
Speaker 12 (14:49):
I think at corner and some of the guys that
you know don't have enough. Anyone can add something to it,
including myself. So I think he's just he's a perfect
perfect fit for our.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
Secondary said he.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Considers itself.
Speaker 12 (15:06):
Yeah, I was told we were quite similar in the past,
but he may or may not have changed his practice
at time because of me.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Yesterday, so I think, Uh, he was like.
Speaker 12 (15:17):
Why'd you cut your shorts? I was like, honestly, bro,
I don't even know. So he's he's a pretty weird guy.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Up, we do the.
Speaker 12 (15:27):
Early morning lift at six am. It's about eight of us,
and he's he's like, man, I need a speaker right
here as loud as canna be. And I'm like, we
are not alike in that aspect at six am. But
he's a cool guy. We're We're both, I would say,
on a little bit of a strange side, but we're
really jelling. Well we it's if you I mean, we're
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already starting our day at seven am, but I guess
you know a couple of guys we want to get
going as soon as possible.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
So I'm an early morning guy anyway. So it worked
it was.
Speaker 12 (16:02):
It kind of has come back from a couple years
ago when I was when I was younger, kind of
the that.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Breakfast club lift. So it's it's been good.
Speaker 12 (16:12):
If you don't come in there at six o'clock on
the dot, six o' one, you gotta go back. You
gotta wait for the seven o'clock group. So it's a
you better get up early, cause it's, uh, we're we're
we're looking at the clock waiting on it to be
six and to send somebody back. But I love the
breakfast club lift.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
What was it?
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Now?
Speaker 12 (16:29):
It is a combination between me Baiten's a uh kind
of leading that that uh early group.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
Yeah what oh?
Speaker 12 (16:36):
I mean I felt like when I I think I
was maybe year one or two, they were kicking you
out of five fifty nine and I'm like, dude, who's
not even six yet? So we are waiting until six
for six o'clock fifty nine seconds where we kick somebody out.
So but it's always good, you know, being on time
is just we're trying to create an environment where everything matters,
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you know, six oh one, Like does it really matter?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
No?
Speaker 9 (17:01):
But does it yes?
Speaker 12 (17:02):
So it's kind of just another thing we're trying to
do everything matters.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Accountability is gonna be the key to the season. Breakfast
club lift and he's in there.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
First day, Yeah, first day we we we uh uh
ant kind of we were like, what time we doing it?
Everybody got six so it's right now it's about seven
eight guys. A couple guys fell fell out after day one,
but uh it's it's good. Well we'll keep it going
and uh it's fun.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Aways been high expectations internally and externally. How have you
dealt with those over the years?
Speaker 9 (17:40):
You know, I think I I don't know.
Speaker 12 (17:45):
I I think, you know, I usually try to stay
away from expectations for the most part.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
I think.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
NFL is just y, you just I don't think you
can really predict what is gonna happen. Just kind of
try to put your head down and work. I know,
when I first got here, obviously the Ravens defense was
I felt like teams, you know, feared what we did.
Now you know, we're we are trying to get that back.
But I mean, I don't think you know, the Bengals
fear are defense. I mean, I don't think the Steelers
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free are different. So those expectations when it's in your
own division, people kind of like sweet we play the Ravens.
I think whatever expectations are put upon us, it doesn't
really phase. I think MEA doesn't really face his team,
So to me, expectations are just something a talking point.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
I guess amongst the media.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Last year, and you talked a lot about wanting to
get the standard back.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
As you were just talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I know we're only two days in a training camp,
but have you seen anything that kind of makes you.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Feel like you're going in the right direction so far
to that point?
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Oh, I think.
Speaker 12 (18:46):
Based off you know, kind of what we're seeing defensively,
I mean, guys are really running to the ball like
it means something I try to use. I try to
use an analogy that, well, there currently is a brick
wall behind me, but if you told me to take
off running, just turn around and take off running. You
shouldn't look and see there's a brick wall behind you.
Should just run directly into the wall. And I know
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for a fact real Quwan plays like that. I'm trying
to add that to my game, and I think if
we can get if we can get nine guys doing that,
I think we'll be a good defense. But if we
can get eleven guys doing that to where it could
be a cliff behind, you just turn around and you
just we all go into the cliff together. I think
if that mindset, because hustling run to the ball, that's
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something everybody can do. And I think, you know, if
someone throws a screen and big Travis Jones is coming
three hundred pounds of them, all that and it's no
wide receivers gonna either want to do a juke whatever
and get down. So I think that's that's something that
I've seen early on that I think if we can
keep building on, that will be a great defense.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
The conversation about we've.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
Got that's the biggest one.
Speaker 12 (19:55):
I think that we had a great day yesterday, but
we had a good yesterday, but ultimately we had zero turnovers.
And if you're just percentages to win a game go
drop extremely low if you don't have a turnover.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
So that's kind of the key. You know, I know
everybody want to see.
Speaker 12 (20:13):
Lamar throw his little touchdowns, but we're trying to get
the ball and then obviously know it pads on, but
you know, forced fumbles. Were trying to you know, get
a tempts on air, but turnovers is by far the
biggest thing that is being preached. It basically practices kind
of grated. Did everyone do their job? That's one piece,
and you can check all the boxes, but if the
turnover boxesn't checked it, it wasn't too good of a practice.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
It stuck out to you about Cheetos so far.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
All right, I've enjoyed Cheeto as well. I think you know,
we both are drafted in that same draft class. I
saw a lot of the work he put in at
Senci over the years. But he's a really smart player.
That's something I've been really surprised with Cheeto Jaw. They're
really smart players. I think it is hard to stick
around the league at cornerback for a long time with
that kind of happens smart to you, but it's they're
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They're very intelligent, and it does take a little bit
of time to kind of figure out how guys operate.
You know, you give them the call, you know, did
they understand the call? They give you the call? Did
I understand the call? That it's like a I know
Kyle knows, I know Nate. You know, if Kyle gives
me the call, he can just tell by my face
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if I understood the call, if I know what I'm
supposed to be doing. So that's kind of what we'll
work through in camp to figure those things out, figure
out one another. And it's it's man the secondary. I'm
just I'm really excited for the group that a group
of guys EDC's brought in and I just think the
sky's really the limit for us.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Spoken in the past about kind of bigger picture stuff,
and I believe you're NFLPA alternative.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Ye Are you.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Concerned about the state of things? Uh, given all that's
been in the news lately.
Speaker 12 (21:55):
Lucky for me, I was I got to enjoy my
family time over the break and I let Ronnie do
all the calls, so I was checking in with him
to see if he was gonna be able to to
be on the calls. And so I'm not fully in
on the loop. It was a little some of the
news was a little surprising. Speaking with the I actually
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cannot think of his name right now, but speaking with him,
I know he had great plans for the PA. You know,
we spoke many times at the annual in the NFLPA meeting,
we spoke at the NFLPA Golf Tournament.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
I really liked the vision he had for the PA.
Speaker 12 (22:41):
I know some things, you know, some things happened Blade,
but I do think he had the right right mindset
at heart. And obviously you know what happens next from
from all this stuff, it'll it'll be, it'll be discussed
and they'll be figured out. But I think we'll get
somebody that will represent us and represent us really well.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Sorry we didn't have to break fanagh point over here,
but does everything good with that mount past Dark's interception
like that.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
We didn't see a big count of reaction from you guys.
Uh what do you? Oh?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
Yeah, I think it was a I'm not really I'm
not really sure exactly something. It was a little weird.
I I I don't I don't know. It did count.
I'm pretty sure it definitely counted, but I don't know.
It was kind of weird. Lamar was mad. It's something
I don't know really what I mean. It was very weird.
Speaker 12 (23:38):
Everybody did stop. I don't really, including myself, so I'm
not I don't know. We were tired of what, But anyway,
it did count. Shout out to Malachai shout at Malakai.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Who were the eight guys in the morning above?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
And and who's the biggest morning person of that group?
Speaker 9 (23:54):
For sure?
Speaker 12 (23:55):
JayR Alexander, like I said, he wants music blasting. He said,
I need to speak get right here. I was like, yeah,
we got them in the ceiling. He said, nah, I
need the boom box right by here, right in my ear.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
I'm like, all right, that's different.
Speaker 12 (24:08):
But the eight, honestly, it'd be pretty early. I couldn't
even tell you honestly who the eight people are, but
we're in there working early. It's I could not tell you, honestly,
I really could not tell you everybody that's in there,
because there's our group, a couple of bigs mid there's
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a couple of people in every group from different groups.
And then Harves in there getting swollen early in the morning,
so he's usually finishing up his deal. And if you
had some plays that you messed up on, Harves is
there to tell you right there at six am. So
it's good to get your work out in, get humbled
early in the morning, and then go about your workout.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Next up today, we heard from veteran outside linebacker Kyle
van Ny.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
What's up for everybody? How you doing? Obviously being at
this stage of your career, how do.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
You approach through training camp now compared to your first
three four years in a league? Is what's the most
different about that?
Speaker 10 (25:18):
I mean, I'm in year twelve, so that's different. I
know what I'm doing that's different, and honestly, I'm just
trying to still get better. Uh this will be my
third season here comfortably and then just getting better at
the pass rushing stuff, always working to get better. I
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felt like, you know, I did a lot of good
things last year, and you know, I led the team
in sacks, QB, hits, I think TFLs and there's so
many more plays to be made to help the team out,
but also help other guys around, not just myself. Just
help the team get better, insert myself a little bit more,
just more comfortable as a team. Just hungry to get
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back to where we keep failing, which is the playoffs.
You know, we got to get off to a hot
start this year. When I got here, we went we
didn't have a hot start, and last year we didn't
have a hot start. So we're just trying to get
off to a hot start and keep that momentum all
through the season. So it starts now, started way back
in spring, but it starts even more now.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Was that that was pretty good answer the Super Bowls?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
You know, people talk about this defensive talented guys.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
How much did advantage it was that do that?
Speaker 9 (26:38):
And how much I have to do that?
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Yeah, I think ask me that at a couple of
weeks into the season, I'll be able to answer it better.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
It's still way too early.
Speaker 10 (26:50):
Like on paper, we got some guys, but it doesn't
mean if we don't play together.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Right.
Speaker 10 (26:55):
We had guys last year that were talented and we
didn't work out as well as we did right in
the beginning. And you know, we got it together towards
the end of the season. But we're way beyond that.
We're at a new ground and we're all hungry. I
think this group is determined to right the wrongs that
we've had. We've felt like we've let some games slip
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and we just got to knock it off, you know,
just in general, like as a team. And I think
with you know, Harbaugh, the way he's been coaching us
and the players receiving what he's saying and then going
out for the first two days. I think you're going
to continue to see progress through this spring ball or
excuse me, through the fall camp or summer camp whatever
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people call it now. I don't know, but we're just
going to continue to get better. I think everybody's on
that right page. But you know, on paper it's fine.
But we'll see when we put it together.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
In the year.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
What holds Hilay kind of getting.
Speaker 10 (28:06):
Yeah, I mean that's his role as a pass rush coach,
as a D line coach, to get the most out
of us as well as I think the I think
now nowadays everybody reads you know, social media.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
And sees and gets tagged.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
I get tagged and all sorts of stuff nowadays, So
I see it, and you know, I just for me personally,
I just like to continue to prove the people in
my circle right that have believed in me as as
well as myself. I've always been very underrated valuable, and
so I wanted to bring that and continue to do
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that here and then as a group collectively, you just
have a lot of guys with that that same mindset.
Adafe Uh Robinson a Jabo is gonna I mean, he's
he looks really good. Mike green at him and the
other young guys in the room. We're just going to
continue to get better at the outside and then can't
forget those guys in the middle. Travis Jones and uh
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nomdi are are special. They're a special duo to me.
I think they're the they're the best duo in the league.
They're not talked about enough. I mean, if you go
watch the first couple of games when Travel was healthy,
I mean trave was, you could argue he was just
as dominant as Dexter Lawrence out there. If you really
watch the film he was that. He was that dominant,
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and you know, hopefully he's learned from you know, what
he can do to stay healthy. I know he got
nicked up there and kind of battled through a whole
seat and still played really good. But just those guys
that I mentioned, the group's been together for three years now.
We just got to continue to raise that bar to
the next level.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Barlar talked about how everything is deemed great.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now, all these little details hats and as that winever,
how much is little tails situations?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
There's fundamentals like how much.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Is that stuff matter?
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Hold?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I mean it really matters.
Speaker 10 (29:58):
Uh, it matters a lot, especially when you get later
into the season. Uh, when you get into the playoffs,
those little details need to be executed at a high level.
You can't just talk about it. You gotta be about
it every single day. I think we're doing that. I
think we've been doing that. I think we've just had
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a couple of lacked situations that have ultimately have bit
us in the butt, and we just got to knock
it out, like I knock it off, like I said earlier,
And I think with the group that we have, with
the with the leaders that we have and the quarterback
we have, I think will be will be in good shape.
And I know everybody's sick of hearing that, right, Like
it's easy to say, but at the same time, it's
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it's hard to do, right, It's hard to continue to
get back.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Back to where we were. It's it's all. It's all hard.
Speaker 10 (30:49):
We just got to continue to, like you said, figure
out those details, iron those out, and then when the
lights of the Bride is performed.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
You know, the kind of sense that you had last
year played a role in that thought and answer.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
That's a good question, I mean, to be honest, I right,
it's been an interesting offseason. Yeah, but I'm here. It's good.
I'm just grateful to be with my teammates. Honestly, Uh,
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I would love to celebrate with my family. That would
be a cool experience with my kids getting to that
last game. But you know the obviously I'm not Lebron
and Steph Curry. But the end is closer than the beginning, right,
I know that. I think everybody knows that. But I
can play as long as I want to. That's my mindset.
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I thought about a lot this offseason, and you know,
I'm just grateful to continue to play. My body's still
good and I can still play at a high level.
I really think I'm one of the best in the league.
I mean, my stats show it. The last two years,
I'm top ten and a lot of stuff I still
go under the radar, which is fine. I just got
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to keep waking people up, and I'm grateful to do
it with people that feel the same way, that have
the same mindset. I expect a lot of big things
from our defense after the performance we had entirely last
year wasn't up to the standard that was set way
before I was here, and we just want to make
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that amend and make sure Zo is happy with the
product that he continues to want us to put on
the field.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Too.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Clarify, if you're saying and you talk about a lot
to me about.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Retiring, I want to go into that. There's just other
situations where I feel like I'm very valuable, and I'll
just you know, some people think I'm more valuable than others.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
You've talked about some of the good teams that these
guys that you guys have had. Have you taken the
time maybe in the allseason to think about maybe like
why you haven't necessarily gotten your achieved the goals that
you want to achieve, which is obviously one of the Super.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
Bowl Yet.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
Oh man, I mean, we could be here all day
talking about that. I mean, I don't like bringing up
the past, but you know, we didn't play well enough
on both sides of the football. You know, defensively, you
go back and look at the Chiefs game. We got
out performed in the first first half and we turned
the ball over. The Buffalo game, we didn't perform well
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enough offensively and defensively in the first half, which ended
up not helping us at the end of the game.
So if we just continue to play complimary football, which
we do majority of the season. If we continue to
do that each and every game and stack, I think
we'll put a better performance in the postseason. The coaches
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do a great job of getting us ready, us players.
You know, leadership all need to get on the same
We are on the same page, but just with the
right mindset every single time and be cohesive and execute
at a high level during the high pressure games. I mean,
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I think my mindset is just different. I'm part of
the old school.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Cloth.
Speaker 10 (34:40):
I'm just built different than a lot of these kids nowadays.
And you know, I'm I played for a lot bigger
purpose than myself. I'm on God's team and I played
for uh my family, and my story is is pretty
different than others. A lot of people nowadays get gifted
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stuff from when they were little all the way on.
I didn't go to camps. I didn't have the typical hut,
you know, the typical upbringing you do in sports nowadays,
where people you know, do all the sorts of stuff
for their kids to make it to this level. My
parents are. They live on like a little farm, and
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you know, they were supportive. But football wasn't everything in
our family, but it was everything to me, and so
any chance that I had to be able to showcase
and take whatever stuff I had off the field to
perform on the field, that's something that I took pride in,
and you know, that's what I still take pride in
this day.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
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we will be back with you again tomorrow
Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Thursday,
July twenty fourth, and the Ravens held their second practice
of training camp. Afterwards, we had a chance to hear
from some of the players and head coach John Harp.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Okay, good seeing everybody here. And by the way, what
do you think of our new little setup here?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
You like it? It's pretty nice?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Hear it.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
It's tough to hear. Tough to hear.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So let Steve know that all that money he spent,
guys have a tough time here and the media, the
medium pool party.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Maybe I'll just won't bring it up at all. What
do you guys got there?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Everything right now?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, he'll be okay, kind of fell on.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
His knee and you know, his leg yesterday on that
sideline play, So just probably abundance of caution. I just
held him out today.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
A lot of couple of days.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
Not with Reagan's record, who's one score games?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Figure other ordering a few of the guys to look
at better or happier this season the broader context being
a very successful organization, But did you get better.
Speaker 7 (01:10):
At one score games?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I think we're really good in one score games. You
look at the stat that I just saw two days ago.
We're dominating one score games. We've lost a couple, but
we've won a ton of one score games. Look at
Lamar's record one score games. Look at our record. Look
at our record two score games over the last number
of years. So one score games, two score games. We
win a lot of football games.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Catch on one though, going back to the spring rookie
free agent, they haven't asked about them.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Ruben Lowy.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
They've seen him play some brane him playing safety. No,
what's stood out about him?
Speaker 8 (01:43):
It seems like he's around the football often.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
He is a doing a great job. Rubin is Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He's all ball, you know, he's all ball every day.
All he thinks about, all he talks about, eats, it sleeps,
it comes out here, flies around. Very smart player, doing
a nice job.
Speaker 9 (02:00):
Obvious.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yes, Keith Mitchell looks more explosive this summer. I mean,
I'm sure Itt got your eye. See the kind of
guy that guess.
Speaker 9 (02:07):
Coaches talking abouts spanning a role in the outfense.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, it looks great. I mean, you know, he looks
really good. He had got one around the right side today.
You saw you saw the speed uh, doing all the
things really well. Uh, I just want to keep seeing
him grow through the rest of camp, you know, But
it looks like he's back as far as all the
things you're talking about, the speed and the explosiveness is
sure looks like it's back.
Speaker 10 (02:26):
See a big year for Kyle Vinoy last year. What
have you seen her?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Think that gives you the confidence that like he can
defy the age thing again and have another successful game.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Uh, he looks good. I mean, he's out here making
plays again, you know. And Uh, I don't know what
the age thing is, so I can't answer defying it
what that would really mean.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I mean, you just go by what you see. Guys.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Guys play until they can't, you know, And he's playing great.
So some guys can't play anymore. When I was twenty one,
I couldn't play. But I probably couldn't play before that either,
you know, I could never play. So guys play as
long as they can generally, and then they don't. So
he's still playing really at a high level. So all
these other narratives, the age, the age narrative, the one
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score narrative, it's all nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It's all nothing. Maybe you've got it before I John
Rowland was wearing a.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Goat brow on the kick. What is that new? What
do you get out of that?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It's a little bit new.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
We get out we see what he's we see what
he's looking at for one thing, but we also see
his foot placement from that angle. So I was just
watching that with Randy the other day, and there's a certain.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Type of a that's that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I think that's Steve.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
There's a certain type of an angle that you want
to have the plant foot and you want to have
the kicking foot on the ball, and you can see
it from that angle better than anywhere, and I think
it helps the kickers with that too.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
But it's kind of cool to see. So they played
a lot more than.
Speaker 10 (03:50):
The slot last year his rookie season.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
You can't hear very well in here.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
They played more in the slot last year year with
Hopkins and now in the fold to you expect to
see that continue to increase this season.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
And what do you like about it?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think it's I think it's impossible to say. I mean,
you know they're gonna be in their different spots. We
do a lot of motions, a lot of quarterback driven stuff,
we motion in, we motion out, we motion across. You
can start outside and come in and take a hand off.
I mean, de Hop's been in the slot quite a
bit also, so I feel like you're gonna see guys
at different spots or tight ends. We had our tight
ends outside today. You may have seen that, you know,
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So the guys will play in different spots.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
The child, I know it's kind of been puffing down
with him since he's been drafted.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
But what do you think to see from him for
him to kind of show.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
That he can be a consistent part of you guys defense.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I think him being on the field consistently will be
the key. You know, he didn't play it all his
first year. Last year he got a little bit nicked up.
I think he's healthy strongly he's ever been looks great
out here in the first two days, so you know,
expect him to play great. I mean this, this guy
is a highly touted player, you know, and the narrative
that has been pushed by some in this circle and
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the words that get used are just insulting. But the
guy busts his butt and he's a hell of a player,
and I expect him to have a great year, there's
a lot.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Of talk league wide about the preseason how much.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
To play starters?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
Do you guys look at that every year, you know,
to kind of make that decision, especially when you see
your first part of your.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Schedule and know the type of competition you've got at the.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Poss Yeah, yes we do.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
We do go about the preseason differently this year. The
last few years you haven't played a lot of the start.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I'll just say we have a plan right now. I
have a plan for it. I think I know what
I want to do.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
But it's still two weeks away, then three weeks away,
then four weeks away before we play these games, so
you know, there's a lot of water to go into
the bridge still, So I kind of want to see
probably where we're at when we get closer to it.
But we think about that stuff very very closely, and
probably going to be a more appropriate question when we
get to, uh, you know, closer to the first game
than it is now, because I just couldn't answer it now.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Kind of have a idea of what kil loops, raining
camp schedules gonna look like. Every didn't see them back today,
and I know it was kind off and on during
OTAs and the camp.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Rough idea.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, we have it all laid out. Yeah, we have
it all laid out. He'll be out there tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I know that. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I mean we got a certain rotation for the deals
and we're not putting out a schedule though, So you
guys will be here every day anyway. So right, I'm
here coming every day. You didn't You didn't see Tucker
last year or year before the year before that, you
were here, right, he never kicked every day?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
M hm okay, all said good. Good.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
In addition to coach Harball, we also heard from the
newest addition to the team, quarterback Jaiyeir Alexandrew.
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Oh Less See, I'm I mean, I'm in love.
Speaker 10 (07:00):
You know.
Speaker 11 (07:01):
What can I say?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (07:02):
The weather's great, the fans are great, I mean, the
city's great. So I think I'm in a great place.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
What does it mean to you to.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Come to an organization with such a story pasted on defense?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Especially?
Speaker 11 (07:17):
Uh, it's actually an amazing feeling, you know. I mean,
defense win championships. Defense wins championship. So I'm in the
right place to do.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
That, I guess looking back on your tenor in Green Bay, Like,
what would you say is kind of the biggest lessons
you learned from how it did? And and what do
you think that'll change? Will change anything? And how you
operate in that mature?
Speaker 11 (07:36):
Well, you know, I think uh as he cut that
phone off, uh, I think you know, you know, looking
back to Green Bay, I I made a lot of
long lasting relationships there. You know, I got nothing but
love for the city, and I think I just wanna
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move forward and focus on how it can excel here
and how we can get that Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
A large joke ballas home.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
We recruiting you a little coup here and the next
day that happened.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
How much that really play into a relationship with that?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (08:10):
I mean it, I that's my boy, you know, like
a first name, last name basis like, you know, so
we you know, it's funny. We was always talking about
about this, you know. So it it's crazy how God
works and and br and brought us together. So I mean,
I'm happy to come here.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
If he wasn't on the teo, ah.
Speaker 11 (08:29):
That'd be tough man Like I I I probably would
explore more options, But that's my boy, and I want
I wanna win one with him.
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Uh, testing you a.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Little bit yesterday?
Speaker 10 (08:38):
First, say back out there or what was it like
to be on the field 'em again?
Speaker 11 (08:41):
Uh? Who Tamar oh Lamar? Yeah, I yeah, he threw
a back shoulder. You know, he tried to throw a
back shoulder on me with d hops, So you know
I had to give him a little a little jazz
about that. You know, I said, come on, man, I
know it's my first day, but man, you know it's
still meat. You know what I mean, It's still meat.
So but you know, it's always fun. Man, we can
joke like that.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
You said, you said, let's get that super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I mean, was that also a big part of it?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Coming somewhere where you knew the team was set up
to make a real run.
Speaker 11 (09:08):
I mean, uh, you know, I I guess in in
any NFL career, the span isn't that long, so the
time is not a win always, you know. So I
always wanna put myself in that position, and then I
always wanna uplift the team and however I can, So
however I can make this defense better than this team better.
That's what I'm here to do.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Questions about your health O past couple of years physically
How are you right now?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Basically, I'm great.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
I'm out there practicing and I and I can't and
I can't thank God enough.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Dr a legacy that the Baltimore defenses and past. What
do you feel like you bring to the defense?
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Uh, I mean, first off, i'm'a bring that energy in
that juice so everything else will fall into play. But
I'm gonna bring the energy and I'm gonna bring the juice.
But you'll see you get in the secondary a.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Lot of talented pieces in the second area.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
I'm the first round face.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Back there this w What do you think about?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
The Secondary's a whole lot of pips.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Man.
Speaker 11 (09:58):
I love the secondary. I love to put potential that
we have. Man, Marlin's a dog, He's been here. I
love watching Marlin play. I love being around him. You know,
I thought I was weird.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (10:09):
He might got me beat, So I I love it.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Man.
Speaker 11 (10:13):
It's it's fun. Everybody's cool, and we all jailed really
well together with the waygo.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Last four years have gone in terms of missing time
and whatnot.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
Would you embrace a.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Role where you're playing, say one passing games.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Obviously that might happen anyway with him through a slot.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (10:28):
No, I I'm embracing any role here. Like I said,
you know, my my my goal, and I know the
team goes to win the Super Bowl, so however we
can do that.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Spend the last month kind of getting up the speed.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
I mean, you were signed on the last day of
Benny camp and everyone kind of breaks up.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
You know what what did you do to kind of.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Get speed with the defense?
Speaker 12 (10:43):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (10:44):
Well, I mean the first day I was here, everyone
was stressing the conditioning tests and I'm like, oh gosh,
So I just started running. The next day like I
was running, and I ran the day after. So I
just been uh, you know, getting in shape for that
for for this kind of camp. This is this is different.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
What's it been like working with Zach orr And and
some good defensive staff here and didn't.
Speaker 11 (11:03):
Find that Uh man Zo so cool. You know, he's
down to earth, you know, relatable, somebody you can talk to.
And then the defense man it's it's it's so complex man,
and and I just I mean, the guys who got
our front is gonna make the job easier in the
back end.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
The there was a kind of a story about kind
of behind the scenes, behind your signing here, and it
kind of mentioned that when you came here you didn't
you weren't sure yet, Like what was that like that
day when you got here and what did you need
to see and hear in order to follow through and
put your name on a contract.
Speaker 11 (11:34):
Well, you know, vibes never lie big on energy and
know energy exchange, so you know, I I got good
vibes here and I and it seemed like, you know,
they want him here, they cared so th that's really
that played the biggest part into it. You know, coming
from the.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
NFC, Nolty you you used to you obviously have had
matchups against top tier receivers and you seem like you
always get excited for those matchups. Are excited that you
for some of the receivers you'll see twice.
Speaker 11 (12:01):
Oh man, I'm super excited, man, Like you know, iron
sharpens iron man, and I want the best. I want
the best and and that's you know, like I can't
even explain how excited I am about the opportunity to
face these guys or you When Mark.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Andrews were disappointed that they cut.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
The drill off before you had a chance to.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Go one on one, was that what you were talking
about out there.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
Yeah, yeah, that's what he was talking about. I was,
you know, I wanted one more just one more rep.
You know, No he doesn't talk about that. Thank god,
you know, thank god, you know that was This camp
is different?
Speaker 7 (12:39):
How is this camp different?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Mothers you've been in? Uh?
Speaker 11 (12:43):
You know, we work, you know, we work hard here,
you know, work really hard. Not to say I didn't
work hard before, but you know the workouts are intense,
you know, very intense. Not something that I haven't been
a part of. So you know, the atmosphere that the
practice is such fast tempo. So you know, you get
out there here.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
Seventeen on your calendar or anything.
Speaker 11 (13:04):
Nah, nah, I'll start there every week. Everybody's gonna get it.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
It's obviously a place where take a lot of big
characters have kind of left their mark on the uh
on the culture? Was Green Beavor a place where you
felt like you had to kind of not be where
you were personality wise? And is there any kind of
different in that kind of culture going from the Green Bay,
Baltimore and see.
Speaker 11 (13:24):
Yourself, it's definitely a different culture here, I would say,
you know, it's definitely a different coature. My head coach
squats four hundred pounds. Let's give it up for him.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
Huh.
Speaker 11 (13:33):
But nah, I mean, like I said, man, I had
a great time in Green Bay, but I'm here just
to move forward.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You know, Alexander's clearly excited to be here in Baltimore,
and he's also fired up to play in the secondary
along with quarnerback Marlon Humphrey, who we heard from today
as well.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
It's been great.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
He is.
Speaker 12 (14:07):
He's a confident guy, so it's it's pretty fun to
practice with him. We communicated over the break. He's talking
about each other's game. He was watching some of the
he was watching some of the Steelers tape. I guess
when I try attempted to fight a couple of linemen.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
He was like, I really like that. I love that.
Speaker 12 (14:26):
So he's a guy that's uh. I think it's gonna
be really fun to play with. We've been we've been
talking kind of you know, me playing nickel, he's playing corner.
You know how I play things. So it's it's been excited.
But what I like the most is just his his
swag to the game. I think confidence is the biggest
key you can have at corner, and I think.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
You can never have too much confidence.
Speaker 12 (14:49):
I think at corner and some of the guys that
you know don't have enough. Anyone can add something to it,
including myself. So I think he's just he's a perfect
perfect fit for our.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
Secondary said he.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Considers itself.
Speaker 12 (15:06):
Yeah, I was told we were quite similar in the past,
but he may or may not have changed his practice
at time because of me.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Yesterday, so I think, Uh, he was like.
Speaker 12 (15:17):
Why'd you cut your shorts? I was like, honestly, bro,
I don't even know. So he's he's a pretty weird guy.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Up, we do the.
Speaker 12 (15:27):
Early morning lift at six am. It's about eight of us,
and he's he's like, man, I need a speaker right
here as loud as canna be. And I'm like, we
are not alike in that aspect at six am. But
he's a cool guy. We're We're both, I would say,
on a little bit of a strange side, but we're
really jelling. Well we it's if you I mean, we're
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already starting our day at seven am, but I guess
you know a couple of guys we want to get
going as soon as possible.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
So I'm an early morning guy anyway. So it worked
it was.
Speaker 12 (16:02):
It kind of has come back from a couple years
ago when I was when I was younger, kind of
the that.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Breakfast club lift. So it's it's been good.
Speaker 12 (16:12):
If you don't come in there at six o'clock on
the dot, six o' one, you gotta go back. You
gotta wait for the seven o'clock group. So it's a
you better get up early, cause it's, uh, we're we're
we're looking at the clock waiting on it to be
six and to send somebody back. But I love the
breakfast club lift.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
What was it?
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Now?
Speaker 12 (16:29):
It is a combination between me Baiten's a uh kind
of leading that that uh early group.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
Yeah what oh?
Speaker 12 (16:36):
I mean I felt like when I I think I
was maybe year one or two, they were kicking you
out of five fifty nine and I'm like, dude, who's
not even six yet? So we are waiting until six
for six o'clock fifty nine seconds where we kick somebody out.
So but it's always good, you know, being on time
is just we're trying to create an environment where everything matters,
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you know, six oh one, Like does it really matter?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
No?
Speaker 9 (17:01):
But does it yes?
Speaker 12 (17:02):
So it's kind of just another thing we're trying to
do everything matters.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Accountability is gonna be the key to the season. Breakfast
club lift and he's in there.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
First day, Yeah, first day we we we uh uh
ant kind of we were like, what time we doing it?
Everybody got six so it's right now it's about seven
eight guys. A couple guys fell fell out after day one,
but uh it's it's good. Well we'll keep it going
and uh it's fun.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Aways been high expectations internally and externally. How have you
dealt with those over the years?
Speaker 9 (17:40):
You know, I think I I don't know.
Speaker 12 (17:45):
I I think, you know, I usually try to stay
away from expectations for the most part.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
I think.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
NFL is just y, you just I don't think you
can really predict what is gonna happen. Just kind of
try to put your head down and work. I know,
when I first got here, obviously the Ravens defense was
I felt like teams, you know, feared what we did.
Now you know, we're we are trying to get that back.
But I mean, I don't think you know, the Bengals
fear are defense. I mean, I don't think the Steelers
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free are different. So those expectations when it's in your
own division, people kind of like sweet we play the Ravens.
I think whatever expectations are put upon us, it doesn't
really phase. I think MEA doesn't really face his team,
So to me, expectations are just something a talking point.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
I guess amongst the media.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Last year, and you talked a lot about wanting to
get the standard back.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
As you were just talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I know we're only two days in a training camp,
but have you seen anything that kind of makes you.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Feel like you're going in the right direction so far
to that point?
Speaker 9 (18:42):
Oh, I think.
Speaker 12 (18:46):
Based off you know, kind of what we're seeing defensively,
I mean, guys are really running to the ball like
it means something I try to use. I try to
use an analogy that, well, there currently is a brick
wall behind me, but if you told me to take
off running, just turn around and take off running. You
shouldn't look and see there's a brick wall behind you.
Should just run directly into the wall. And I know
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for a fact real Quwan plays like that. I'm trying
to add that to my game, and I think if
we can get if we can get nine guys doing that,
I think we'll be a good defense. But if we
can get eleven guys doing that to where it could
be a cliff behind, you just turn around and you
just we all go into the cliff together. I think
if that mindset, because hustling run to the ball, that's
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something everybody can do. And I think, you know, if
someone throws a screen and big Travis Jones is coming
three hundred pounds of them, all that and it's no
wide receivers gonna either want to do a juke whatever
and get down. So I think that's that's something that
I've seen early on that I think if we can
keep building on, that will be a great defense.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
The conversation about we've.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
Got that's the biggest one.
Speaker 12 (19:55):
I think that we had a great day yesterday, but
we had a good yesterday, but ultimately we had zero turnovers.
And if you're just percentages to win a game go
drop extremely low if you don't have a turnover.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
So that's kind of the key. You know, I know
everybody want to see.
Speaker 12 (20:13):
Lamar throw his little touchdowns, but we're trying to get
the ball and then obviously know it pads on, but
you know, forced fumbles. Were trying to you know, get
a tempts on air, but turnovers is by far the
biggest thing that is being preached. It basically practices kind
of grated. Did everyone do their job? That's one piece,
and you can check all the boxes, but if the
turnover boxesn't checked it, it wasn't too good of a practice.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
It stuck out to you about Cheetos so far.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
All right, I've enjoyed Cheeto as well. I think you know,
we both are drafted in that same draft class. I
saw a lot of the work he put in at
Senci over the years. But he's a really smart player.
That's something I've been really surprised with Cheeto Jaw. They're
really smart players. I think it is hard to stick
around the league at cornerback for a long time with
that kind of happens smart to you, but it's they're
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They're very intelligent, and it does take a little bit
of time to kind of figure out how guys operate.
You know, you give them the call, you know, did
they understand the call? They give you the call? Did
I understand the call? That it's like a I know
Kyle knows, I know Nate. You know, if Kyle gives
me the call, he can just tell by my face
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if I understood the call, if I know what I'm
supposed to be doing. So that's kind of what we'll
work through in camp to figure those things out, figure
out one another. And it's it's man the secondary. I'm
just I'm really excited for the group that a group
of guys EDC's brought in and I just think the
sky's really the limit for us.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Spoken in the past about kind of bigger picture stuff,
and I believe you're NFLPA alternative.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Ye Are you.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Concerned about the state of things? Uh, given all that's
been in the news lately.
Speaker 12 (21:55):
Lucky for me, I was I got to enjoy my
family time over the break and I let Ronnie do
all the calls, so I was checking in with him
to see if he was gonna be able to to
be on the calls. And so I'm not fully in
on the loop. It was a little some of the
news was a little surprising. Speaking with the I actually
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cannot think of his name right now, but speaking with him,
I know he had great plans for the PA. You know,
we spoke many times at the annual in the NFLPA meeting,
we spoke at the NFLPA Golf Tournament.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
I really liked the vision he had for the PA.
Speaker 12 (22:41):
I know some things, you know, some things happened Blade,
but I do think he had the right right mindset
at heart. And obviously you know what happens next from
from all this stuff, it'll it'll be, it'll be discussed
and they'll be figured out. But I think we'll get
somebody that will represent us and represent us really well.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Sorry we didn't have to break fanagh point over here,
but does everything good with that mount past Dark's interception
like that.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
We didn't see a big count of reaction from you guys.
Uh what do you? Oh?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
Yeah, I think it was a I'm not really I'm
not really sure exactly something. It was a little weird.
I I I don't I don't know. It did count.
I'm pretty sure it definitely counted, but I don't know.
It was kind of weird. Lamar was mad. It's something
I don't know really what I mean. It was very weird.
Speaker 12 (23:38):
Everybody did stop. I don't really, including myself, so I'm
not I don't know. We were tired of what, But anyway,
it did count. Shout out to Malachai shout at Malakai.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Who were the eight guys in the morning above?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
And and who's the biggest morning person of that group?
Speaker 9 (23:54):
For sure?
Speaker 12 (23:55):
JayR Alexander, like I said, he wants music blasting. He said,
I need to speak get right here. I was like, yeah,
we got them in the ceiling. He said, nah, I
need the boom box right by here, right in my ear.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
I'm like, all right, that's different.
Speaker 12 (24:08):
But the eight, honestly, it'd be pretty early. I couldn't
even tell you honestly who the eight people are, but
we're in there working early. It's I could not tell you, honestly,
I really could not tell you everybody that's in there,
because there's our group, a couple of bigs mid there's
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a couple of people in every group from different groups.
And then Harves in there getting swollen early in the morning,
so he's usually finishing up his deal. And if you
had some plays that you messed up on, Harves is
there to tell you right there at six am. So
it's good to get your work out in, get humbled
early in the morning, and then go about your workout.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Next up today, we heard from veteran outside linebacker Kyle
van Ny.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
What's up for everybody? How you doing? Obviously being at
this stage of your career, how do.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
You approach through training camp now compared to your first
three four years in a league? Is what's the most
different about that?
Speaker 10 (25:18):
I mean, I'm in year twelve, so that's different. I
know what I'm doing that's different, and honestly, I'm just
trying to still get better. Uh this will be my
third season here comfortably and then just getting better at
the pass rushing stuff, always working to get better. I
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felt like, you know, I did a lot of good
things last year, and you know, I led the team
in sacks, QB, hits, I think TFLs and there's so
many more plays to be made to help the team out,
but also help other guys around, not just myself. Just
help the team get better, insert myself a little bit more,
just more comfortable as a team. Just hungry to get
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back to where we keep failing, which is the playoffs.
You know, we got to get off to a hot
start this year. When I got here, we went we
didn't have a hot start, and last year we didn't
have a hot start. So we're just trying to get
off to a hot start and keep that momentum all
through the season. So it starts now, started way back
in spring, but it starts even more now.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Was that that was pretty good answer the Super Bowls?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
You know, people talk about this defensive talented guys.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
How much did advantage it was that do that?
Speaker 9 (26:38):
And how much I have to do that?
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Yeah, I think ask me that at a couple of
weeks into the season, I'll be able to answer it better.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
It's still way too early.
Speaker 10 (26:50):
Like on paper, we got some guys, but it doesn't
mean if we don't play together.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Right.
Speaker 10 (26:55):
We had guys last year that were talented and we
didn't work out as well as we did right in
the beginning. And you know, we got it together towards
the end of the season. But we're way beyond that.
We're at a new ground and we're all hungry. I
think this group is determined to right the wrongs that
we've had. We've felt like we've let some games slip
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and we just got to knock it off, you know,
just in general, like as a team. And I think
with you know, Harbaugh, the way he's been coaching us
and the players receiving what he's saying and then going
out for the first two days. I think you're going
to continue to see progress through this spring ball or
excuse me, through the fall camp or summer camp whatever
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people call it now. I don't know, but we're just
going to continue to get better. I think everybody's on
that right page. But you know, on paper it's fine.
But we'll see when we put it together.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
In the year.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
What holds Hilay kind of getting.
Speaker 10 (28:06):
Yeah, I mean that's his role as a pass rush coach,
as a D line coach, to get the most out
of us as well as I think the I think
now nowadays everybody reads you know, social media.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
And sees and gets tagged.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
I get tagged and all sorts of stuff nowadays, So
I see it, and you know, I just for me personally,
I just like to continue to prove the people in
my circle right that have believed in me as as
well as myself. I've always been very underrated valuable, and
so I wanted to bring that and continue to do
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that here and then as a group collectively, you just
have a lot of guys with that that same mindset.
Adafe Uh Robinson a Jabo is gonna I mean, he's
he looks really good. Mike green at him and the
other young guys in the room. We're just going to
continue to get better at the outside and then can't
forget those guys in the middle. Travis Jones and uh
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nomdi are are special. They're a special duo to me.
I think they're the they're the best duo in the league.
They're not talked about enough. I mean, if you go
watch the first couple of games when Travel was healthy,
I mean trave was, you could argue he was just
as dominant as Dexter Lawrence out there. If you really
watch the film he was that. He was that dominant,
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and you know, hopefully he's learned from you know, what
he can do to stay healthy. I know he got
nicked up there and kind of battled through a whole
seat and still played really good. But just those guys
that I mentioned, the group's been together for three years now.
We just got to continue to raise that bar to
the next level.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Barlar talked about how everything is deemed great.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now, all these little details hats and as that winever,
how much is little tails situations?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
There's fundamentals like how much.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Is that stuff matter?
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Hold?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I mean it really matters.
Speaker 10 (29:58):
Uh, it matters a lot, especially when you get later
into the season. Uh, when you get into the playoffs,
those little details need to be executed at a high level.
You can't just talk about it. You gotta be about
it every single day. I think we're doing that. I
think we've been doing that. I think we've just had
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a couple of lacked situations that have ultimately have bit
us in the butt, and we just got to knock
it out, like I knock it off, like I said earlier,
And I think with the group that we have, with
the with the leaders that we have and the quarterback
we have, I think will be will be in good shape.
And I know everybody's sick of hearing that, right, Like
it's easy to say, but at the same time, it's
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it's hard to do, right, It's hard to continue to
get back.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Back to where we were. It's it's all. It's all hard.
Speaker 10 (30:49):
We just got to continue to, like you said, figure
out those details, iron those out, and then when the
lights of the Bride is performed.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
You know, the kind of sense that you had last
year played a role in that thought and answer.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
That's a good question, I mean, to be honest, I right,
it's been an interesting offseason. Yeah, but I'm here. It's good.
I'm just grateful to be with my teammates. Honestly, Uh,
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I would love to celebrate with my family. That would
be a cool experience with my kids getting to that
last game. But you know the obviously I'm not Lebron
and Steph Curry. But the end is closer than the beginning, right,
I know that. I think everybody knows that. But I
can play as long as I want to. That's my mindset.
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I thought about a lot this offseason, and you know,
I'm just grateful to continue to play. My body's still
good and I can still play at a high level.
I really think I'm one of the best in the league.
I mean, my stats show it. The last two years,
I'm top ten and a lot of stuff I still
go under the radar, which is fine. I just got
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to keep waking people up, and I'm grateful to do
it with people that feel the same way, that have
the same mindset. I expect a lot of big things
from our defense after the performance we had entirely last
year wasn't up to the standard that was set way
before I was here, and we just want to make
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that amend and make sure Zo is happy with the
product that he continues to want us to put on
the field.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Too.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Clarify, if you're saying and you talk about a lot
to me about.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Retiring, I want to go into that. There's just other
situations where I feel like I'm very valuable, and I'll
just you know, some people think I'm more valuable than others.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
You've talked about some of the good teams that these
guys that you guys have had. Have you taken the
time maybe in the allseason to think about maybe like
why you haven't necessarily gotten your achieved the goals that
you want to achieve, which is obviously one of the Super.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
Bowl Yet.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
Oh man, I mean, we could be here all day
talking about that. I mean, I don't like bringing up
the past, but you know, we didn't play well enough
on both sides of the football. You know, defensively, you
go back and look at the Chiefs game. We got
out performed in the first first half and we turned
the ball over. The Buffalo game, we didn't perform well
(33:48):
enough offensively and defensively in the first half, which ended
up not helping us at the end of the game.
So if we just continue to play complimary football, which
we do majority of the season. If we continue to
do that each and every game and stack, I think
we'll put a better performance in the postseason. The coaches
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do a great job of getting us ready, us players.
You know, leadership all need to get on the same
We are on the same page, but just with the
right mindset every single time and be cohesive and execute
at a high level during the high pressure games. I mean,
(34:34):
I think my mindset is just different. I'm part of
the old school.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Cloth.
Speaker 10 (34:40):
I'm just built different than a lot of these kids nowadays.
And you know, I'm I played for a lot bigger
purpose than myself. I'm on God's team and I played
for uh my family, and my story is is pretty
different than others. A lot of people nowadays get gifted
(35:03):
stuff from when they were little all the way on.
I didn't go to camps. I didn't have the typical hut,
you know, the typical upbringing you do in sports nowadays,
where people you know, do all the sorts of stuff
for their kids to make it to this level. My
parents are. They live on like a little farm, and
(35:24):
you know, they were supportive. But football wasn't everything in
our family, but it was everything to me, and so
any chance that I had to be able to showcase
and take whatever stuff I had off the field to
perform on the field, that's something that I took pride in,
and you know, that's what I still take pride in
this day.
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