Head Coach John Harbaugh, Inside Linebackers Coach Tyler Santucci, wide receiver Devontez Walker, and inside linebacker Teddye Buchanan speak with the media after practice Thursday.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome back to the Press Past podcast. This is Cassie
Cherigo and the Ravens have just wrapped up their practice
on Thursday, August twenty First it was the last full
practice before the Ravens preseason finale at the Washington Commanders
on Saturday. First up, you'll hear from head coach John Harball,
who provided an update on quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Gay.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good to see everybody, appreciate you being here. A good
day to day. Actually got a little weather, which is
kind of fun, so we got some work with the handling,
the ball handling with the rain and everything like that,
which was a nice bonus for us. Obviously cooled off.
I think the hurricane is coming.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Of a boarder.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I know what hurricane, whether you're.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
There, it is. It has been cool the last couple
of days, so that's been kind of a good thing
for our guys because we had so much heat during
training camp. So happy with the guys. Today's practice was
focused on the game Saturday. That's what the reps were
pointing towards. The first time we've done that this week,
so those guys can kind of get a feel for
the game and we're looking forward to the opportunity to
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go down there and play John.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
We didn't see them more out there at any upbeats
on him.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah. Yeah, he got his footstepped on. Like we said yesterday,
I think Chad had mentioned that they did a quick
X ray and there's not no damage or anything like that.
I'm sure it's a little sore today. So we just
kept him in. But he's fine. He's gonna be good.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
How much of a relief was that for you after
bearing that ideas?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It was a big relief. Yeah. I told the guys,
I said, prayers do get answered, because I was praying.
I was praying and God came through. So but but
he's good.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Do you sense around like this time of wins get
clipped for their roster cut down? Is there a different
especially with the guys that know they might be fitting
for their NFL lives here?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Is there a.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Change in just the you know, this environment or atmosphere
or anything when those guys.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, that's a good question. I think it's a subtle change.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I think it's a subtle change to our Uh Okay,
it's it's uh, it's real, you know, and uh and
you know what what's next for me? You know, am
I gonna have an opportunity here or or possibly somewhere else?
I think that's on guy's minds.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
What do you see.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
From Chandler Martin? The matinee is one of those guys
that's Chandler Martin. What do you kind of choling Martin?
Chandler or Chandler Martin? Cham Okay, sorry, what do you
kind of see from beings the change? Yeah? Chandlers look good? Uh,
you know, I think he and Jay have both done
a really good job. Will coin COO's doing a good
job before he got hurt. Uh, but uh, those guys
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have played good ball. You know, they've learned the defense
well and played well. And uh, you know I've done
well on special teams. So very happy. You know he's
he's in the mix. Uh, he's one of those guys
in the mix for sure.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
We have mean seeing Patrick McCard in a while. Is
everything okay with him?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, he's got a little soft tissue thing or just
hold him out this week, he'll be She'll be back
next week.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Total after kause, how much do you weigh what you
see in fact this versus what you're see in a game,
because it's.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Not always right. Yeah, I think it's a kind of
a combination of both. Your factor in both. I mean,
the body of working practice is important because there's so
much of it, and it does give you a real
good foundation. And I think the games are kind of
like the front porch in the yard. I mean the
games of the final the final piece. You know, you
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want to put it all together and and see guys
do it under the lights as well, So ties together
that way.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Probably, John, We're talking to Tyler Santucin soon, the scarious respective.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
What's he been like in first training camp here? Yeah,
Tyler's done a great job. He's a heck of a coach.
He proved that in college, you know, as a defensive
coordinator Georgia Tech and all the stops before that came
highly recommended. But he's a very detailed coach. He's he's
very determined that the guys have a clear picture, you know,
of what their job is. And I think he's a
really good teacher. So all those things, and he's doing
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a heck of a job. I know, he's uh, he's motivated.
You know, he wants his guys to play well, and
you really appreciate that as a as a head coach. Okay,
pretty straightforward, all right, great? Thanks? All right.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Next year From New Ravens insidelinebackers coach Tyler Santucci.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
How's everyone doing good? Good?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Even that's gotten a lot of attention as maybe a
surprise gan to me press his higgins.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I mean, what what have you?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
How would he kind of oppressed you over this last
this last period?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I think uh, I think Jay just goes about his business.
Every single day.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
He gets better every single day, he gets corrections after
one time, he can take it from the meeting room
to the field pretty abruptly. He did it in college
at a really high level. He was very productive in
college in games, and I think that that's what he's
showcasing right when he plays in these games, he showcases
what he's best.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
At, and that's playing football. And kudos to him.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
He's put the work in since the day he's gotten here,
and he's worked extremely hard to understand the defense where
he needs to be when he needs to be there.
Really proud of him in his progress over these last
couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Since you've gotten here.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
What has it been like just being part of this defense?
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Working with Zach or well, yeah, like extremely grateful, just
mister Bashati, coach Harbaugh, Eric the Costa like to be
a part of this organization.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
It's been phenomenal.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
And then Zach Orr right, like, having somebody in the
coordinator position that's been in the shoes that I'm in now,
I think is invaluable in terms of like, hey, it's
my first time in the NFL. Number one, it's then,
but he's also been a linebacker coach, so working with rotations,
how practice goes, things of that nature, the expectations and
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having him to lean on throughout this whole process has
been unbelievable. And then the whole organization, the linebacker unit.
Just having Roque as a sounding board, it's just been phenomenal.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
It's been a great experience.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
A founding board for a year.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
He's just been here.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
You know, he understands this place, He understands the defense
in terms of like, hey, this is this is how
I want to teach this. Does it make sense to you?
This is how I understand it, this is how I
want to teach it. And maybe it'll be a side
meeting with him prior to meeting with everybody else, just
so that the communication is clear, and there's not like
two languages within the room. There's a specific language we
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use in the Ravens defense, and that starts with Zach
and then it goes through me and it filters through
the players, and I just want to make sure that
we're all on the same same page as we get
that going.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
How does your background as a college coordinator help you
with being a position coach in the NFL And are
there aspects of the college game that that, like you
can kind of bring to the NFL.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Yeah, well, I think I think as a as a
position coach, first, you understand that your job is to,
you know, help the coordinator as much as you can
make his job as easy as possible. Is kind of
like what my thought always has been as a GA
doing that, as an assistant coach doing that, and now
as an assistant here doing the same thing, hopefully for Zach.
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And then yeah, there's some different things that we see
in college that maybe haven't made its way to the
NFL yet, but hey, maybe it's on its way.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
So hey, we just got to make sure we have
rules for A, B and C. We have rules for
this over here, but these.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Are the other things that could show up, and I think,
you know, Zach has been open to at least hearing
the discussion and building some rules maybe for some some
outlier things that that hadn't showed up yet.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
John said, maybe ago that you came highly recommended because
anything you can share about kind of how this came
together and would have been like for you to have
to give that.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
First NFL job, Well, yeah, it's it's it kind of
happened out of out of the blue. I got a
phone call. I was in Northern Virginia at a home
visit recruiting.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I got a phone call.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
I did not anticipate it, not one bit, and uh yeah,
this is the closest I've ever been to home, to
my wife's home, to family, and to be at this
organization coaching this position.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I like hung up the phone, almost shed a tear.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Driving, had to pull over, called my wife and she
started crying.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
So it's like it was just like one of those things.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Is like, you know, God works in mysterious ways, and
uh yeah, that was one of the ways that it
just kind of happened out of the blue, and.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Very grateful for it.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Yeah, yep, Oh, I didn't know it was him and
I answered it because I usually just as long as
it doesn't say spam on it, I usually answer it.
So I did answer it, and uh, yeah it.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Was coachar Boss. That was pretty cool. We considered to
move to the NFL previous Well.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
It's been a dream of mine quite honestly. Uh, and
I love coaching college football, but this has been a
long dream of mine to work with the best in
the world at what they do, coaches players alike, and
to get the opportunity. I felt like it was, you know,
all the stars kind of aligned with the place, the people,
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and just what this this this place really had to
offer from a football standpoint.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Did you have like a mutual friend or colleague that
connected you in the coach Arball.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Yeah, I mean there was maybe some conversation, but no,
nothing mutual. At Dave Clausen is a is somebody that
I worked for i graduate. I was a graduate assistant
for him at Wake Forest. I know Coach Harbor and
he had had a pretty good relationship over the years,
So that would probably be the closest one, along with
Mike Elko, who also got to.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Build a little bit of a relationship with Coach Harball.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Tyl when you looked at some of the break downs
in the middle of the field last year and you
can talk to the guys, was there any kind of
common denominator that that stood out to you as just
breaking down what l actually led to some of those
bad moments for the defense.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Yeah, you know, I don't know. You know, I can't
speak on what happened a year ago. I know I
have a job to do now that I'm here, and
that is to make sure that we're on the same
page every single time that we're out on the field together,
and that that may just be us together as linebackers,
that may be us, you know, working with dbs in
coverage or in run fits, and our job is to
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do that and do that at the highest level because
that's the expectation in the standard here.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
So we're going to continue to work at that.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
And that's probably more of what I focused on rather
than what has happened, rather than what we can control.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Since I've gotten.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Here, I seen from Trent and Simpson from when you
got here and until now.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Yeah, I mean, he just he's a little bit like
Jay in terms of like shows up to work every
single day, is a warrior like meaning like, hasn't missed
a practice, hasn't missed a repid practice since the day
I've gotten here, has continued to progress. The small things
that we talk about in the meeting room. He shows
up and he does it out on the field, and
it's there was a little little bit of like an
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aha moment in the spring and it was a small
the smallest thing. It was like an adjustment in his stance,
and he was like, Oh, I feel it.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
That's a difference. That makes me feel a little bit
different in my stance.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
And that's what we're working towards, those small things that
will make a difference, you know, in the games.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
You know.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
So I'm really proud of Trent and where he's come
up to this point. Yeah, Teddy, I think he's very
mature as a rookie. Obviously I've never had a rookie class,
but to me, he's mature, meaning he understands the game,
he understands the expectations. Uh, he takes the playbook, he
learns it. He's learning both positions right now, which is
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not an easy thing to do. And he takes coaching well,
so he can do the same things. Like I've got
a great group like everyone in that room, they take coaching.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
We can do it in the meeting room. We practice it.
We walked through it and they got it.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
And that's what Teddy just like all those guys, he
just he has that point that that point to him
and it's really important to him. And anytime it's really
important to you, you know you you try really hard
to be right, and that's what these guys do and
including Teddy.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Second year wide receiver tes Walker then addressed the media.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
What were your goals coming into this camp.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
And do you feel like.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
How the gift that you want to die?
Speaker 11 (12:37):
My goals are the same as coming in last year,
like finding that role in this offense, being another asset
for Lamar. And I feel like I've I've done a
good job in this camp showing my abilities and things
like that.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
So I would you kind of describe your from that done?
You know, it's good.
Speaker 11 (12:54):
Catches like it's grown, like you know, just going up
to him like in locker room, conversating with him like
where he needs me to be?
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Where you know he.
Speaker 11 (13:05):
Asking me like where would I like the ball and
stuff like that, how you want me to break on
this route of that route, So pretty much just just
conversating and stuff like that and then going to show
it on the field. And that's why it's been the
way it's been.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
What does a camplate this do you when you as
a young player, you know you're coming into rookie and
it's hard to you know, make plays consistently, and now
you're doing it in the training camp for like your
confidence and just you in your career.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
What does the camp lay just did?
Speaker 11 (13:30):
Like you said, I feel like it builds a lot
of confidence. You go out there making play and stuff. Uh,
the coaches see that and you know they come up
to you like that's all. Like I said, it just
builds a lot of confidence. And I feel like that's
what this camp has done.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
And what ways do you think you've improved from last
year's camp to this year?
Speaker 11 (13:48):
Think showing like I can you know, run every route
in the tree. You know last year and I came
in it was more so you just down the field,
third level threat. Like I feel like off these this camp,
these last couple of games, I showed I can win
underneath and stuff. So I feel like I've s I've
shown that I've been out I'm growing into a complete receiver.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Doesn't hope you guys to talk about uh be hopping,
get the good veteran presences and anything you've been able
to help you with specifically, or any guy that you're
going to him for.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
Yeah, for him, for him telling me like just going
out there and play, you know, coaches there there, you know,
to coach you up, do all all those things. And
he's just like, you know, clear your minds to go
out there and play like you play the fastest when
you just you could go out there and do it.
And like the place he's been, he's done it, been there,
done that in this league.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
And that's how he said. He he's went about about it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It's the last your difficult hit all for you. You know,
do the strafsics.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Weeks and you do things like that, and he's like, you.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Not really having good you know, thinking little bit had been.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Too tough at all?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Is adjusting me?
Speaker 11 (14:49):
Oh yeah, yeah it was. It was a little adjustment.
But I mean I just had the mindset, you know,
be ready when that that number is called. So FOREL
Like when I when I did get out there, I
made it most of my opportunities. And I having that
mindset I feel like that helped me out a lot.
So I wouldn't I wouldn't say it was like disappointing
or frustrating. It was just, you know, that's that's how
that's how I approached it.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
What did the what did the touchdown?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Like the season or something like for year?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Surreal moment.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (15:13):
You know I've up during of being in the NFL
in my whole life. So fin finally getting first catching
scoring that you know that, Uh, that's a moment our
chairs fail.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
What's that football now? Uh?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Sitting on my dresser at home in my park.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
So, I mean when you hear that they signed Hopkins
and something like a mixed thing of like, while I
get to play with somebody I grew up watching, but
there's another guy who's who's gonna need the ball, and
you know, maybe that makes it harder, Like is it?
You know, what do you how do you kind of
process on?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (15:41):
I I was excided, like you said, like this is
somebody I've I've watched it since middle school. So being
being in the same locker room on the same field
as somebody that that uh, that caliber that I you know,
kind of modeled my game after a little early on.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Uh, it was, it was. It was amazing seeing that.
So I've I've really enjoyed it so far.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
What mis like you went down you can't win it,
like hearing tis.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Still he said, lamar mar mm, I'm sorry. He guys
said hey one more time, he said.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
He wanted to others in betteran his communication this camp.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
What is it been like through camp? Just like that communication,
hearing his thoughts and.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Alls that here.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Yeah, it's it's it's been real good.
Speaker 11 (16:16):
You know, like after you know, probably a series or
something out there, like he'll come to us, bring pull
pull us to him, and you know we'll talk through
like the route or the concept or whatnot, like what
he what he wants, what he needs, what we want,
what we need and stuff, and then just going out
there and showing it and then also like communicating that
stuff that he that he needs to the coaches and stuff.
So all the dogs being on one accord, you know,
staying and I feel like that's helped me out a lot,
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like I said before, like just building.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
That confidence and rapport with with him. So is there
anything specifically like from him in the camp? Off the
off the top of my head, I can't think of
it right now, but very sure. Some things thoff, what's what's.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What work on super Rock? Others with you all on Dells.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Mmm, uh, it's it's it's been real good.
Speaker 11 (17:02):
You know Cooper Us he's he's very different than than
Lamar like he he has a lot of thought those
a lot of throat like anticipation and stuff like that.
So I feel like I feel like it's been real good.
I feel like he's gonna be, you know, a good
piece for us, going up and made a number.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Of contestant catches and practice. How much of that is
kind of the confidence factor that he talked about earlier,
just knowing it I can go up and make his.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Fast and how much of it is d hop and
that's what he's done his own career.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Do you get in front receive for that now?
Speaker 8 (17:28):
Uh? It.
Speaker 11 (17:28):
It builds a lot of confidence, especially, you know, knowing
you have that a building and the coaches see that,
like it gives them more confidence, you know, to put
you out there in the game situation maybe you know,
ball ain't where it's suposed to be, but knowing they
got a receiver who can, like you know, go back
to it or adjust to it, he's gonna catch it.
That that you know means a lot to them. And
then like you know, d hop he coming up to
you saying, you know that was a great catcher stuff
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like that. Uh, this is a real good feeling.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
But have you been able to gain from work with
your guys like la Sean and Dave, even Thailand who
were here with.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
You last peak.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
Mmm, I'm I've been able to gain a lot, you know,
watching them how they you know, approach, like you know
the details and they routes and like being able to
you know, do those things in their routes. Like it's
helped me out lot, like watching them and then trying
to go out there and do what they did. Like
that said, I feel like I feel like it's it's
it's been real big for me. How much is going
against uh the DB's this team ass how much has
that helped you any point that you guys in particularly
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employs you aint throwing against the summer. Oh, yeah, it's
it's definitely helped me out, especially like getting out there
in the games, Like what I'm going against the the
best defense in the league every day, So you know,
it's nothing that I that I haven't seen already when
I get out there in the game, and that makes
it all makes me a lot more comfortable out there
and stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
So that like you know, a deep white.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
Receiving with then you know, COCHRVA talks about the value
special teams. I guess what have kind of coach has
called you about how you can bring snaps.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
For a regularly for season?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (18:47):
Uh, they ain't taught me how the specific but you know,
I kind of had an idea of, like, you know,
go out there and make play off special teams, like
I can you know, earn that trust to go out
there and do the same when we get out their
offense and stuff. So I would say special team has
been real big since house as I've got here last year.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (19:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Here from rookie and sidelinebacker Teddy Buchanan on his development
and learning both the Will and Mike positions.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Where do you feel like, you know, from the start
of rookie Unica until now in training camp, where have
you kind of seen your biggest strides?
Speaker 6 (19:26):
I mean kind of everywhere. I feel like, you know,
coming in fresh learning the defense. You know, it's it's
a lot to take in at once, but just as
time goes on, you're going to progress naturally and just
working hard, taking a day by day. I think I've
been able to grow in every aspect, especially understanding the defense,
getting used to the speed.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
Of the NFL. Yeah, really overall, just improving.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Did you feel like you took a good step from
your first preseason give me your second?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Yeah, I would definitely say that, you know, kind of
getting my feet wet that first first preseason game and
then you know, getting to feel humfortable and you know,
whole defense, whole team is really able to play really
well a second preseason game.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
So yeah, just continue to build every single day.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Seddi, was it like working with color since he's experting
to know him and.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Beating you know, yeah, coach too.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
She's He's an amazing instructor, amazing man, you know, looks
out for us as players and as people.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
So it's been a it's been an honor to work
with him.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
I know it's his rookie year in the NFL as well,
so getting to go through that together has been a
really cool experience. And you know, I've learned a ton
from him in a really short time, he.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Said, been sounding board for him.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He's rookwand kind of been a similar.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
Similar for you in those meetings. Absolutely yeah. I mean
Rokwand's list of accolades go on and on.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
So getting able to learn from a guy like that
is you know, invaluable for me as a as a
rookie and just getting to see how he thinks about
the game, the processes he goes through has helped me
a ton and helped me grow really fast.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
SEDDI a lot of stars on both sides of the
ball on this team. I mean, is there ever a
feeling of just wanting to keep up, you know, keep
up the pace that those guys are saying.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
I mean absolutely.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
You know, when you've got great teammates around you, that's
just gonna push you to be better. And that's I
feel like a great, great part of being on this
team is that I have to elevate my game every
single day. And you know, the Iron Choppers Iron So
it's great to go against great players on offense and
have great players around me on defense to to you know,
really just bring the whole team up every single day.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How do you feel like you can not just make
the team but push your way onto the field. Do
you feel like special teams is maybe the first avenue
or what's what's your your buck?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Yeah, I mean, I think every aspect of the game,
special teams, defense, It's really just about for me. I'm
focused on the process of every single day, improving every
single day, and you know, I'm pretty short sighted in
that aspect, just trying to do what I can today
and tomorrow to get better and just let the rest
take care of itself.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You're saying teaching talks about how you're learning both intodline
backer positions that that's not an easy thing to do.
Did you do that in college? Also play play multiple positions,
and how have you gone about learning multiple spots?
Speaker 9 (22:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
So at Davis I spent four years there. I played
dime like the week sidebacker my whole time there. Then
when I got to cal I switched over to mike.
So I do have experience playing both, but never played
both at the same time. And I think having to
learn both really forces you to understand the defense, you
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know on a deep level and just know what piece
of the puzzle you are and you know many different scenarios.
So it's been a process that I've really enjoyed just
getting to understand the defense on a deeper level. And yeah,
just getting to play both gets puts you in different
spots and more opportunities to make place.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That's something I easizing for everyone in the room, or
is that something you've specifically asked.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
I mean, there's certain guys who play one and certain
guys who play both. I just happen to be one
of the guys who's who's learning both. All Right, thanks,
thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
That's it for today's edition the Press Past podcast. We'll
be back with you after Saturday's game.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
H
Welcome back to the Press Past podcast. This is Cassie
Cherigo and the Ravens have just wrapped up their practice
on Thursday, August twenty First it was the last full
practice before the Ravens preseason finale at the Washington Commanders
on Saturday. First up, you'll hear from head coach John Harball,
who provided an update on quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Gay.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good to see everybody, appreciate you being here. A good
day to day. Actually got a little weather, which is
kind of fun, so we got some work with the handling,
the ball handling with the rain and everything like that,
which was a nice bonus for us. Obviously cooled off.
I think the hurricane is coming.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Of a boarder.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I know what hurricane, whether you're.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
There, it is. It has been cool the last couple
of days, so that's been kind of a good thing
for our guys because we had so much heat during
training camp. So happy with the guys. Today's practice was
focused on the game Saturday. That's what the reps were
pointing towards. The first time we've done that this week,
so those guys can kind of get a feel for
the game and we're looking forward to the opportunity to
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go down there and play John.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
We didn't see them more out there at any upbeats
on him.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah. Yeah, he got his footstepped on. Like we said yesterday,
I think Chad had mentioned that they did a quick
X ray and there's not no damage or anything like that.
I'm sure it's a little sore today. So we just
kept him in. But he's fine. He's gonna be good.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
How much of a relief was that for you after
bearing that ideas?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It was a big relief. Yeah. I told the guys,
I said, prayers do get answered, because I was praying.
I was praying and God came through. So but but
he's good.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Do you sense around like this time of wins get
clipped for their roster cut down? Is there a different
especially with the guys that know they might be fitting
for their NFL lives here?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Is there a.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Change in just the you know, this environment or atmosphere
or anything when those guys.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, that's a good question. I think it's a subtle change.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I think it's a subtle change to our Uh Okay,
it's it's uh, it's real, you know, and uh and
you know what what's next for me? You know, am
I gonna have an opportunity here or or possibly somewhere else?
I think that's on guy's minds.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
What do you see.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
From Chandler Martin? The matinee is one of those guys
that's Chandler Martin. What do you kind of choling Martin?
Chandler or Chandler Martin? Cham Okay, sorry, what do you
kind of see from beings the change? Yeah? Chandlers look good? Uh,
you know, I think he and Jay have both done
a really good job. Will coin COO's doing a good
job before he got hurt. Uh, but uh, those guys
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have played good ball. You know, they've learned the defense
well and played well. And uh, you know I've done
well on special teams. So very happy. You know he's
he's in the mix. Uh, he's one of those guys
in the mix for sure.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
We have mean seeing Patrick McCard in a while. Is
everything okay with him?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, he's got a little soft tissue thing or just
hold him out this week, he'll be She'll be back
next week.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
Total after kause, how much do you weigh what you
see in fact this versus what you're see in a game,
because it's.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Not always right. Yeah, I think it's a kind of
a combination of both. Your factor in both. I mean,
the body of working practice is important because there's so
much of it, and it does give you a real
good foundation. And I think the games are kind of
like the front porch in the yard. I mean the
games of the final the final piece. You know, you
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want to put it all together and and see guys
do it under the lights as well, So ties together
that way.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Probably, John, We're talking to Tyler Santucin soon, the scarious respective.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
What's he been like in first training camp here? Yeah,
Tyler's done a great job. He's a heck of a coach.
He proved that in college, you know, as a defensive
coordinator Georgia Tech and all the stops before that came
highly recommended. But he's a very detailed coach. He's he's
very determined that the guys have a clear picture, you know,
of what their job is. And I think he's a
really good teacher. So all those things, and he's doing
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a heck of a job. I know, he's uh, he's motivated.
You know, he wants his guys to play well, and
you really appreciate that as a as a head coach. Okay,
pretty straightforward, all right, great? Thanks? All right.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Next year From New Ravens insidelinebackers coach Tyler Santucci.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
How's everyone doing good? Good?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Even that's gotten a lot of attention as maybe a
surprise gan to me press his higgins.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I mean, what what have you?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
How would he kind of oppressed you over this last
this last period?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I think uh, I think Jay just goes about his business.
Every single day.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
He gets better every single day, he gets corrections after
one time, he can take it from the meeting room
to the field pretty abruptly. He did it in college
at a really high level. He was very productive in
college in games, and I think that that's what he's
showcasing right when he plays in these games, he showcases
what he's best.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
At, and that's playing football. And kudos to him.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
He's put the work in since the day he's gotten here,
and he's worked extremely hard to understand the defense where
he needs to be when he needs to be there.
Really proud of him in his progress over these last
couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Since you've gotten here.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
What has it been like just being part of this defense?
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Working with Zach or well, yeah, like extremely grateful, just
mister Bashati, coach Harbaugh, Eric the Costa like to be
a part of this organization.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
It's been phenomenal.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
And then Zach Orr right, like, having somebody in the
coordinator position that's been in the shoes that I'm in now,
I think is invaluable in terms of like, hey, it's
my first time in the NFL. Number one, it's then,
but he's also been a linebacker coach, so working with rotations,
how practice goes, things of that nature, the expectations and
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having him to lean on throughout this whole process has
been unbelievable. And then the whole organization, the linebacker unit.
Just having Roque as a sounding board, it's just been phenomenal.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
It's been a great experience.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
A founding board for a year.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
He's just been here.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
You know, he understands this place, He understands the defense
in terms of like, hey, this is this is how
I want to teach this. Does it make sense to you?
This is how I understand it, this is how I
want to teach it. And maybe it'll be a side
meeting with him prior to meeting with everybody else, just
so that the communication is clear, and there's not like
two languages within the room. There's a specific language we
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use in the Ravens defense, and that starts with Zach
and then it goes through me and it filters through
the players, and I just want to make sure that
we're all on the same same page as we get
that going.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
How does your background as a college coordinator help you
with being a position coach in the NFL And are
there aspects of the college game that that, like you
can kind of bring to the NFL.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Yeah, well, I think I think as a as a
position coach, first, you understand that your job is to,
you know, help the coordinator as much as you can
make his job as easy as possible. Is kind of
like what my thought always has been as a GA
doing that, as an assistant coach doing that, and now
as an assistant here doing the same thing, hopefully for Zach.
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And then yeah, there's some different things that we see
in college that maybe haven't made its way to the
NFL yet, but hey, maybe it's on its way.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
So hey, we just got to make sure we have
rules for A, B and C. We have rules for
this over here, but these.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Are the other things that could show up, and I think,
you know, Zach has been open to at least hearing
the discussion and building some rules maybe for some some
outlier things that that hadn't showed up yet.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
John said, maybe ago that you came highly recommended because
anything you can share about kind of how this came
together and would have been like for you to have
to give that.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
First NFL job, Well, yeah, it's it's it kind of
happened out of out of the blue. I got a
phone call. I was in Northern Virginia at a home
visit recruiting.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I got a phone call.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
I did not anticipate it, not one bit, and uh yeah,
this is the closest I've ever been to home, to
my wife's home, to family, and to be at this
organization coaching this position.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I like hung up the phone, almost shed a tear.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Driving, had to pull over, called my wife and she
started crying.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
So it's like it was just like one of those things.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Is like, you know, God works in mysterious ways, and
uh yeah, that was one of the ways that it
just kind of happened out of the blue, and.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Very grateful for it.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Yeah, yep, Oh, I didn't know it was him and
I answered it because I usually just as long as
it doesn't say spam on it, I usually answer it.
So I did answer it, and uh, yeah it.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Was coachar Boss. That was pretty cool. We considered to
move to the NFL previous Well.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
It's been a dream of mine quite honestly. Uh, and
I love coaching college football, but this has been a
long dream of mine to work with the best in
the world at what they do, coaches players alike, and
to get the opportunity. I felt like it was, you know,
all the stars kind of aligned with the place, the people,
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and just what this this this place really had to
offer from a football standpoint.
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Did you have like a mutual friend or colleague that
connected you in the coach Arball.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Yeah, I mean there was maybe some conversation, but no,
nothing mutual. At Dave Clausen is a is somebody that
I worked for i graduate. I was a graduate assistant
for him at Wake Forest. I know Coach Harbor and
he had had a pretty good relationship over the years,
So that would probably be the closest one, along with
Mike Elko, who also got to.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Build a little bit of a relationship with Coach Harball.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Tyl when you looked at some of the break downs
in the middle of the field last year and you
can talk to the guys, was there any kind of
common denominator that that stood out to you as just
breaking down what l actually led to some of those
bad moments for the defense.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Yeah, you know, I don't know. You know, I can't
speak on what happened a year ago. I know I
have a job to do now that I'm here, and
that is to make sure that we're on the same
page every single time that we're out on the field together,
and that that may just be us together as linebackers,
that may be us, you know, working with dbs in
coverage or in run fits, and our job is to
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do that and do that at the highest level because
that's the expectation in the standard here.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
So we're going to continue to work at that.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
And that's probably more of what I focused on rather
than what has happened, rather than what we can control.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Since I've gotten.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Here, I seen from Trent and Simpson from when you
got here and until now.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Yeah, I mean, he just he's a little bit like
Jay in terms of like shows up to work every
single day, is a warrior like meaning like, hasn't missed
a practice, hasn't missed a repid practice since the day
I've gotten here, has continued to progress. The small things
that we talk about in the meeting room. He shows
up and he does it out on the field, and
it's there was a little little bit of like an
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aha moment in the spring and it was a small
the smallest thing. It was like an adjustment in his stance,
and he was like, Oh, I feel it.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
That's a difference. That makes me feel a little bit
different in my stance.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
And that's what we're working towards, those small things that
will make a difference, you know, in the games.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
You know.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
So I'm really proud of Trent and where he's come
up to this point. Yeah, Teddy, I think he's very
mature as a rookie. Obviously I've never had a rookie class,
but to me, he's mature, meaning he understands the game,
he understands the expectations. Uh, he takes the playbook, he
learns it. He's learning both positions right now, which is
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not an easy thing to do. And he takes coaching well,
so he can do the same things. Like I've got
a great group like everyone in that room, they take coaching.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
We can do it in the meeting room. We practice it.
We walked through it and they got it.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
And that's what Teddy just like all those guys, he
just he has that point that that point to him
and it's really important to him. And anytime it's really
important to you, you know you you try really hard
to be right, and that's what these guys do and
including Teddy.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Second year wide receiver tes Walker then addressed the media.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
What were your goals coming into this camp.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
And do you feel like.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
How the gift that you want to die?
Speaker 11 (12:37):
My goals are the same as coming in last year,
like finding that role in this offense, being another asset
for Lamar. And I feel like I've I've done a
good job in this camp showing my abilities and things
like that.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
So I would you kind of describe your from that done?
You know, it's good.
Speaker 11 (12:54):
Catches like it's grown, like you know, just going up
to him like in locker room, conversating with him like
where he needs me to be?
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Where you know he.
Speaker 11 (13:05):
Asking me like where would I like the ball and
stuff like that, how you want me to break on
this route of that route, So pretty much just just
conversating and stuff like that and then going to show
it on the field. And that's why it's been the
way it's been.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
What does a camplate this do you when you as
a young player, you know you're coming into rookie and
it's hard to you know, make plays consistently, and now
you're doing it in the training camp for like your
confidence and just you in your career.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
What does the camp lay just did?
Speaker 11 (13:30):
Like you said, I feel like it builds a lot
of confidence. You go out there making play and stuff. Uh,
the coaches see that and you know they come up
to you like that's all. Like I said, it just
builds a lot of confidence. And I feel like that's
what this camp has done.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
And what ways do you think you've improved from last
year's camp to this year?
Speaker 11 (13:48):
Think showing like I can you know, run every route
in the tree. You know last year and I came
in it was more so you just down the field,
third level threat. Like I feel like off these this camp,
these last couple of games, I showed I can win
underneath and stuff. So I feel like I've s I've
shown that I've been out I'm growing into a complete receiver.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Doesn't hope you guys to talk about uh be hopping,
get the good veteran presences and anything you've been able
to help you with specifically, or any guy that you're
going to him for.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
Yeah, for him, for him telling me like just going
out there and play, you know, coaches there there, you know,
to coach you up, do all all those things. And
he's just like, you know, clear your minds to go
out there and play like you play the fastest when
you just you could go out there and do it.
And like the place he's been, he's done it, been there,
done that in this league.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
And that's how he said. He he's went about about it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It's the last your difficult hit all for you. You know,
do the strafsics.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Weeks and you do things like that, and he's like, you.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Not really having good you know, thinking little bit had been.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Too tough at all?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Is adjusting me?
Speaker 11 (14:49):
Oh yeah, yeah it was. It was a little adjustment.
But I mean I just had the mindset, you know,
be ready when that that number is called. So FOREL
Like when I when I did get out there, I
made it most of my opportunities. And I having that
mindset I feel like that helped me out a lot.
So I wouldn't I wouldn't say it was like disappointing
or frustrating. It was just, you know, that's that's how
that's how I approached it.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
What did the what did the touchdown?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Like the season or something like for year?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Surreal moment.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (15:13):
You know I've up during of being in the NFL
in my whole life. So fin finally getting first catching
scoring that you know that, Uh, that's a moment our
chairs fail.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
What's that football now? Uh?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Sitting on my dresser at home in my park.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
So, I mean when you hear that they signed Hopkins
and something like a mixed thing of like, while I
get to play with somebody I grew up watching, but
there's another guy who's who's gonna need the ball, and
you know, maybe that makes it harder, Like is it?
You know, what do you how do you kind of
process on?
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Uh?
Speaker 11 (15:41):
I I was excided, like you said, like this is
somebody I've I've watched it since middle school. So being
being in the same locker room on the same field
as somebody that that uh, that caliber that I you know,
kind of modeled my game after a little early on.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Uh, it was, it was. It was amazing seeing that.
So I've I've really enjoyed it so far.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
What mis like you went down you can't win it,
like hearing tis.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Still he said, lamar mar mm, I'm sorry. He guys
said hey one more time, he said.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
He wanted to others in betteran his communication this camp.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
What is it been like through camp? Just like that communication,
hearing his thoughts and.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Alls that here.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Yeah, it's it's it's been real good.
Speaker 11 (16:16):
You know, like after you know, probably a series or
something out there, like he'll come to us, bring pull
pull us to him, and you know we'll talk through
like the route or the concept or whatnot, like what
he what he wants, what he needs, what we want,
what we need and stuff, and then just going out
there and showing it and then also like communicating that
stuff that he that he needs to the coaches and stuff.
So all the dogs being on one accord, you know,
staying and I feel like that's helped me out a lot,
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like I said before, like just building.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
That confidence and rapport with with him. So is there
anything specifically like from him in the camp? Off the
off the top of my head, I can't think of
it right now, but very sure. Some things thoff, what's what's.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What work on super Rock? Others with you all on Dells.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Mmm, uh, it's it's it's been real good.
Speaker 11 (17:02):
You know Cooper Us he's he's very different than than
Lamar like he he has a lot of thought those
a lot of throat like anticipation and stuff like that.
So I feel like I feel like it's been real good.
I feel like he's gonna be, you know, a good
piece for us, going up and made a number.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Of contestant catches and practice. How much of that is
kind of the confidence factor that he talked about earlier,
just knowing it I can go up and make his.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Fast and how much of it is d hop and
that's what he's done his own career.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Do you get in front receive for that now?
Speaker 8 (17:28):
Uh? It.
Speaker 11 (17:28):
It builds a lot of confidence, especially, you know, knowing
you have that a building and the coaches see that,
like it gives them more confidence, you know, to put
you out there in the game situation maybe you know,
ball ain't where it's suposed to be, but knowing they
got a receiver who can, like you know, go back
to it or adjust to it, he's gonna catch it.
That that you know means a lot to them. And
then like you know, d hop he coming up to
you saying, you know that was a great catcher stuff
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like that. Uh, this is a real good feeling.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
But have you been able to gain from work with
your guys like la Sean and Dave, even Thailand who
were here with.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
You last peak.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
Mmm, I'm I've been able to gain a lot, you know,
watching them how they you know, approach, like you know
the details and they routes and like being able to
you know, do those things in their routes. Like it's
helped me out lot, like watching them and then trying
to go out there and do what they did. Like
that said, I feel like I feel like it's it's
it's been real big for me. How much is going
against uh the DB's this team ass how much has
that helped you any point that you guys in particularly
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employs you aint throwing against the summer. Oh, yeah, it's
it's definitely helped me out, especially like getting out there
in the games, Like what I'm going against the the
best defense in the league every day, So you know,
it's nothing that I that I haven't seen already when
I get out there in the game, and that makes
it all makes me a lot more comfortable out there
and stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
So that like you know, a deep white.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
Receiving with then you know, COCHRVA talks about the value
special teams. I guess what have kind of coach has
called you about how you can bring snaps.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
For a regularly for season?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (18:47):
Uh, they ain't taught me how the specific but you know,
I kind of had an idea of, like, you know,
go out there and make play off special teams, like
I can you know, earn that trust to go out
there and do the same when we get out their
offense and stuff. So I would say special team has
been real big since house as I've got here last year.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (19:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Here from rookie and sidelinebacker Teddy Buchanan on his development
and learning both the Will and Mike positions.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Where do you feel like, you know, from the start
of rookie Unica until now in training camp, where have
you kind of seen your biggest strides?
Speaker 6 (19:26):
I mean kind of everywhere. I feel like, you know,
coming in fresh learning the defense. You know, it's it's
a lot to take in at once, but just as
time goes on, you're going to progress naturally and just
working hard, taking a day by day. I think I've
been able to grow in every aspect, especially understanding the defense,
getting used to the speed.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
Of the NFL. Yeah, really overall, just improving.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Did you feel like you took a good step from
your first preseason give me your second?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Yeah, I would definitely say that, you know, kind of
getting my feet wet that first first preseason game and
then you know, getting to feel humfortable and you know,
whole defense, whole team is really able to play really
well a second preseason game.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
So yeah, just continue to build every single day.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Seddi, was it like working with color since he's experting
to know him and.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Beating you know, yeah, coach too.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
She's He's an amazing instructor, amazing man, you know, looks
out for us as players and as people.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
So it's been a it's been an honor to work
with him.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
I know it's his rookie year in the NFL as well,
so getting to go through that together has been a
really cool experience. And you know, I've learned a ton
from him in a really short time, he.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Said, been sounding board for him.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He's rookwand kind of been a similar.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
Similar for you in those meetings. Absolutely yeah. I mean
Rokwand's list of accolades go on and on.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
So getting able to learn from a guy like that
is you know, invaluable for me as a as a
rookie and just getting to see how he thinks about
the game, the processes he goes through has helped me
a ton and helped me grow really fast.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
SEDDI a lot of stars on both sides of the
ball on this team. I mean, is there ever a
feeling of just wanting to keep up, you know, keep
up the pace that those guys are saying.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
I mean absolutely.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
You know, when you've got great teammates around you, that's
just gonna push you to be better. And that's I
feel like a great, great part of being on this
team is that I have to elevate my game every
single day. And you know, the Iron Choppers Iron So
it's great to go against great players on offense and
have great players around me on defense to to you know,
really just bring the whole team up every single day.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How do you feel like you can not just make
the team but push your way onto the field. Do
you feel like special teams is maybe the first avenue
or what's what's your your buck?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Yeah, I mean, I think every aspect of the game,
special teams, defense, It's really just about for me. I'm
focused on the process of every single day, improving every
single day, and you know, I'm pretty short sighted in
that aspect, just trying to do what I can today
and tomorrow to get better and just let the rest
take care of itself.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You're saying teaching talks about how you're learning both intodline
backer positions that that's not an easy thing to do.
Did you do that in college? Also play play multiple positions,
and how have you gone about learning multiple spots?
Speaker 9 (22:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
So at Davis I spent four years there. I played
dime like the week sidebacker my whole time there. Then
when I got to cal I switched over to mike.
So I do have experience playing both, but never played
both at the same time. And I think having to
learn both really forces you to understand the defense, you
(22:34):
know on a deep level and just know what piece
of the puzzle you are and you know many different scenarios.
So it's been a process that I've really enjoyed just
getting to understand the defense on a deeper level. And yeah,
just getting to play both gets puts you in different
spots and more opportunities to make place.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That's something I easizing for everyone in the room, or
is that something you've specifically asked.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
I mean, there's certain guys who play one and certain
guys who play both. I just happen to be one
of the guys who's who's learning both. All Right, thanks,
thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
That's it for today's edition the Press Past podcast. We'll
be back with you after Saturday's game.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
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