July 29, 2025 • 23 mins
Team insiders Ryan Mink and Garrett Downing discuss what they saw in Monday's practice, including a statement from Mark Andrews, a catch by DeAndre Hopkins that could change the playbook, a defensive rookie who looks better with the pads on, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome into the Lounge presented by DraftKings. I'm Rian Ink
here with Garrett Downing and we are fresh off the
field following the Ravens first padded practice of training camp.
This day that we all look forward to, and you know,
it feels more like football today.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I thought it felt more physical when the energy was
definitely ramped up, like it was. It's not just lip
service that it felt like a different practice. There was
way more physicality and energy and it was fun to watch.
I thought like, in particular, I thought the defense came out, which,
like the first day I've hadded practice, you kind of
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feel like this is a defense day. I always feel
that way, Like the defense gets revved up, they're ready
to go, They're really excited.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
To take the physicality, to get paid to hit people.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, exactly, like that feels like a defense day. And
I thought that like they came out to play that way.
I know they've spent a lot of time talking this
offseason about wanting to be a feel defense and kind
of get back to that brand of football, and I
thought that they came out and played today with an
attitude that was resembled that mindset that they have.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, I agree with that. I thought the offense hit
it shots though too.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I didn't think it was like a dominated you know
that the defense just totally.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Dominated the day.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
There was a lot of zach Orr and the defense
brought a lot of pressure, a lot of pressure. The
offense handled, you know, handled it well sometimes and the
defense got home sometimes. But I thought, actually, the offense
like did pretty well with it. And uh, you know,
Lamar found out. Let's found Derrick Henry on one that
he kind of gashed him on on a little screen
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is what it looked like. So I thought it was
just a good day all the way around. And I'll
tell you one guy that stood out to me that
should be no surprise. That's a big dog, Mark and
Yes Manrews was O Barkin, Yeah, and he I think
it was the first play of eleven's Lamar to Mark
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Andrews gets gets kind of behind row down the scenm
then just runs runs through two tacklos. I think it
was Nate Wiggins and a safety and just just kind
of was like, nah, I'm running through this the two
of you, and then later had a eighty eighty five
yard touchdown where I think he was you know, nobody
was even following him after forty yards, and he just
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continued just roll like a runaway train down the field
just to kind of prove the point it was.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It was classic Mark Andrews.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I mean, runaway train that was going full speed, like
he didn't slow down. He was sprinting.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Runaways trains don't slow down fair like he.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Was sprinting when there was nobody within twenty.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yards of him. Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, I thought Mark was good.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I actually thought I was watching individual drills and this
is just when they're kind of getting loose and getting
warmed up, and he was like coming in out of
he was barking, coming in and out of his brakes,
like huffing and puffing, and like you could hear him
just watching watching the drills like no big dog bark
And yeah, I think that, Like I know, there's a
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lot of talk about Mark Andrews this offseason, and both
of us were firmly in the camp of the team
is better with Mark Andrews on it, and so it's
I'm very glad that he's here. And I think that
there's been like multiple moments to me in training camp
that illustrate that point. Today being one of them where
I thought the defense, I thought, especially early in practice,
the defense was was winning practice. I thought that they
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were handling the line of scrimmage, they were getting pressure,
and there were a couple of moments where like Lamar
just finds Mark Andrews when you need when you need
to play, like when you need something to happen. Mark
is the guy that's there. And like he he plays hard.
I think he's a tone center. That's the other thing
that like it's hard to quantify, but like Mark has
such an edge to him and he plays hard all
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the time. That like when you go out there on
the first day of pads and the defense is revved up,
Like I just mentioned, who's going to match that on
the offense? Well, I think Mark Andrews is the perfect
guy to match that intensity.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Talk about another guy who plays with physicality, and that's
wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, who should have, in my opinion,
had the highlight of the day.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, one handed catch in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Uh, just a phenomenal play and gets called for the
offensive pass interference. I'm going, you know, we're we can
review the tape on that one, but I'm calling Belgoney
on that.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, Nate Wagas was the one of coverage.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I'm sure he meet you with disagree he he disagree
with you firmly.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The DBS and that and the guys on defense definitely
thought it was O PI.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That's correct, it was. I thought it was pretty clean,
little hand fighting both ways. I did.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I did enjoy the way and they afterwards kind of
went up to Lamar and was like kind of celebrating
rate in the space to kind of be like suo,
so you can didn't get me, you know, and Lamar
kind of jokingly kind of punched the back of his
shoulder pads and uh, they were having fun out there.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
But I'll tell you that that was a heck of
a catch by Nuke. Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Look, we've we've talked in the past week just about
how DeAndre Hopkins continues to make plays.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Thought that that was another one.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I mean, that was regardless of whether it was OPI
or not. Like Wiggins was right there, like he had
great coverage. This is the situation of like when he's
not open, he's still open. Wiggins, who I think is
going to be awesome this year, was right there and
Lamar put it up where only Hawkins could get it,
and he makes a one handed catch toe tap in
the back of the end zone.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Remarkable play.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now again some hand fighting and DBS would say it
was OPI and Hopkins felt like it wasn't. Probably could
have gone either way or no call, and obviously the
ref ended up throwing the flag on it. But still
like from in terms of just watching practice and having
a great play and feeling like feeling good about a player,
I come away from that feeling like, man, DeAndre Hopkins
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just continues to impress me.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Here's what I take away from that is there's one
call down in the red zone that I really.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Loathe, and that's the jump ball.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It just it just feels to me, I don't have
the analytics on this. Maybe I should ask the football analytics,
as they know a lot more than I do.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It feels low percentage to me.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I think generally speaking, the analytics show that it is
a low percentage play.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And and really that isn't like you're not throw fades
to say Flowers lobs, you know, jump balls to Zay Flowers.
It's not really Bateman's game either, Like does it put
that with d hop I don't. I don't hate the call.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, it kind of.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Puts it in the repertoire potentially for Todd Munkin. Now,
I'm not sitting here calling for fades all day long
now with Derreck Henry in the backfield and the other
all the other assortment of weapons that the Ravens have
that are so dangerous in the red zone. But like,
to me, d hop gives you that's a matchup problem,
especially with all the other weapons.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He's gonna be one on one. Yeah, And I don't,
I don't hate it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I think it's gonna be tough for DB's like he's
got a size advantage over most dbs. He's got great hands, Yep,
he can still go up and get the football. So
it's a low that fader out being low percentage. The
percentage ticks up when it's Hopkins in that one on
one situation.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Does it put it in the play, But I think
it does, that's the question. I think it probably does.
I think that, like it's probably in the mix.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Well and honestly, like, yeah, it's practice right and opa
OPI got called, but you're going against Nate Wiggins and
he made a hell of a catch. And if you're
top monking and you're watching to make that catch, you're like,
all right, yeah, you know, maybe maybe maybe I'll give
that a shot.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Look, he's He's caught plenty of back shoulder, deep or
fade routes.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Right, So I want to roll it back when Di
hop catches the fade touchdown this year, run it this
tape back, mark the date down, mark it down, first
day pads.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
We were calling it for the first day, call.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
For on the we got it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, I think I think it could be part of
the repertoire this year. And like when we talk about
Hopkins and elements that he's adding to the offense, that
is one of them. I think the outside the numbers
can test to catch stuff is really what we're talking
about in large measure, and that is a piece of
that equation.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yep, I thought offensively. Another guy that continues to stand
out for me is keithon Mitchell. I mean, you know
you talk about even when the pads come on, like
this dude, that's kind of the test, right. It is like,
all right, he looks really fast, confirmed, but I thought
the pads come on, he was still running with physicality,
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running between the tackles. It's not just like, it's not
just gadget stuff with him. I thought he looked good today.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, I thought like he didn't break any big runs, yeah,
which is caught his calling card.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I will tell you one he sidestep Ojabo and it
was just a whiff. I mean it was a ridiculous
cut in a phone booth.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Well, what I like about Keith Mitchell And I remember
this with him as a rookie with a small guy
who's calling card to speed. You think, can't run between
the tackles, right, exactly that, And it was not the case.
He could still run between the tackles and he didn't
hesitate to get out there today. And there were some
there was a couple of plays where like it was physical,
there were bodies kind of battling in there, and he
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was able to find some some yardage. Again, no big
runs for him, but I do like the willingness and
like the his ability to make people miss even in
tight spaces.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yep, all right, flipping over the defensive side. You know,
this is the first padded practice for the rookies. And
one dude that caught my eye throughout practice was rookie
Mike Green, the outside linebacker, second round pick. This dude,
you know, lead the nation and sacks last year, but
he is not a finesse rusher. Is a big, physical man,
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and honestly today he stood out to me more today
than he has at any point during training camp so far.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, I would agree with that. I think that he
seemed to take a step when the pass came on.
There was one playing in particularly now it was kind
of a jailbreak play. There were like five guys in
the backfield, but he was probably the first, the first
one there to meet Cooper Rush in the backfield and
you saw the power and the athleticism and the and
the kind of the burst to get to the quarterback,
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and so he was right there. Probably would have had
a sack on that play. Again, there were like three
others in pursuit, so I don't know what was going
on in the protection on that play, but he was
in the backfield and that wasn't the only play where
he got into the backfield he was.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
He's good.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
He has he has a full arsenal of pass rush moves.
He has the athleticism and like he's big and physical,
like you look at him just when you when he
steps onto the field for these practices.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
He does not look physically like a rookie.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Sometimes you see a guy out there and you're like,
he's he really needs a year to get in the
weight room and to get his body ready for NFL contact,
and there's he can still be good, but you might
still need to put on weight. Like, he does not
look physically like a rookie, and that was evident today. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I thought a couple of plays. One he kind of
peeled back to tackle Keaton. I thought it was good
play to get off the block and kind of get Keaton.
He also in one on one drills put a dude
on his back.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Huh. I thought that was eye opening. And and then.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Did the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, exactly, Yes, that was one of the viral clips
from the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That was the guy went in the first round.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, I forget who it was, Josh Connell, Yeah, connor Ley.
It's been so long since the draft, it feels like
two years ago. But you know, one play that caught
my eye with Mike Green was like Lucas Scott, who's
an undrafted former offensive lineman. He's converted to fullback. This
is a big dude six three three h five came
across the formation and he and Mike Green just it
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was a coalition and like, that's a big fullback hitting you.
And Mike Green stood in there and just took that lick.
And I was just like, oh man, that was a
big one. And I just I just I it wasn't
like Mike just like he bounced off of Mike or whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Like it was both of them got a good lick.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It was a collision and uh and I just I
just was like this dude. I come away from the
practice being like, Mike Green is a physical, powerful man.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, he feels like he feels pro ready, and I
think that he is somebody who when the pads come on.
I've kind of felt like he's gonna look even better
once the pads come on, because he's not, like you said,
he's not a finesse player who's just like relies only
on a speed who's gonna look really good in short,
It's like he's a powerful He's a powerful rusher who
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has a lot of different ways that he can get
to the quarterback and and powers one of them yep,
and he can put you on your back, or he
can stand in there and you know, take a hit
from a three hundred punds full back coming across the middle.
So I like the way that he plays the game.
And I think that today was a good sign for him.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Well, we'll stay on the outside.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Linebackers and the rookiesdafe Oa and Carson Vincent. Yeah, I
mean early in practice, this was kind of early indicasion.
Pads are on, it's a different kind of day, and
those two got into it a little bit. And oh
way swinging and with Vincent, which all right, like fine,
you know you hey, you don't want.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
To see O dafe Away get hurt.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I don't really love you know, he's a very important
player swinging with helmets on.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I don't really love that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I do kind of like that. The rookie, I don't know,
it depends on what sparks it. But like Carson Vincent
being a physical rookie and like getting after somebody a.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Little bit, like all right, you know, like you're kind
of a rookie. It depends on what he did.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah, but yeah, something to know.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I think sometimes like when the pats come on and
guys are getting physical, that's the type of stuff that
that can see that you.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
See and credit to both guys like flared up, cool down,
real fast. You know, it wasn't like it was something
that it derailed practice by any stretch of imagination.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
But like this stuff happens.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It's hot, it is really hot out there first fat
of practice, and so like it happens. But I thought,
you know, it's a way as a monster. He's been
I think, really good in training camp and like, all right, rookie, rookie,
he's giving him, giving him something, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I mean, look, we're talking like pass rush. A thing
that stood out to me.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There's a period during eleven on a eleven drills where
the defense really ramped up the pressure like they were
bringing it one at one point in particular, like they
were sending dbs while Humphrey came downhill and had a
collision with Derrick Henry in the backfield. Another one Kyle
Hamilton came down just crashed down and just kind of
blew up the line a nice spin move. Yeah, Like
they just kind of blew up the protection on that play.
And I thought in that period, like the defense really
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seemed to win it for me, like they they they
were getting after the quarterback. Both Lamar and Cooper Rush
were under a lot of dress.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I thought, generally speaking, I thought the interior blocking was
pretty good, but yeah, the defense was bringing the heat.
You're gonna lose, Like when that happens, you're gonna lose
some Yeah, right, they're bringing extra pressure.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I will also say it does make me think about
like how more how much more aggressive this defense could
be this season under Zach Orr especially and John Harball
talked about a little bit when if you have confidence
in your outside corners to match up man to man
one on one, you know, and and maybe playing single
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high coverage or whatever, like you have Jay r Alexander
now Nay Wiggins and year two that you're expecting to
take a big step, you got Marlon Humphrey, you know, cheeto,
like you're loaded at corner. If you feel really good
about your ability to play outside, which John Harwall referenced
like outside the hash marks, you know those boundary what
is he called red line the red line areas, Like
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if you feel strong about that, it gives you more
ability to do more blitzing and like kind of saw
Zach Gord Island it up today.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And also with guys that like are good blitzers from
the dB standpoint. Kyle Hamilton and Morton Humphrey are both
really good blitzers, yes, and they're they're willing to do
it sure, And so I think that like you have
players who you have the good corners like you're talking about,
but then you also have dbs who are really good
at getting after the quarterback when called upon in that situation.
So they kind of have the advantage on both ends.
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And I think we got a taste of that today
and I really thought like particularly they brought the heat
on Cooper rush Tom and Mike Green as we just
talked about, he was one of the guys in that
situation as well.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yep, it was a little bit of a tougher day
for Tyler Loop had his first misses of training camp today,
three misses, one of which went his first one went
off the left upright, whereas John Hoyland did not have
any misses today. So a good day for John Hoyland.
But you know, I think that Tyler Loop overall has
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had a really good camp. He had misses a forty
three to thirty eight and forty five yards. I think,
you know, as I said, these are his first of camp,
but uh yeah, I think that overall he's been good.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
He's been good. Today was not his best day. I
do like he bounced back, you know, it's all like
he kind of went went into a hole after missing kicks.
He bounced back and then was able to hit the
kicks after missing him. So you know, that's that's part
of what we're gonna see here, is how these two
young kickers. I think the first last week, Tyler Loop,
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we were really talking about him.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Later in the week.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
He had a sixty three yarder in full team and
he had a sixty eight yarder earlier in practice, not
during the full team portion, but he showed off the
leg and the accuracy, and so now you got to
keep it going.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You need to be consistent, and today wasn't as consistent.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
But I think that him being able to bounce back
and get back on track is going to be kind
of the story for him over the course of camp.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, and that'll be kind of a storyline tomorrow. Right,
you have a tougher day, you bounce back and go
perfect next day, right.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Like, obviously he's not going to go perfect throughout training camp.
That's just not realistic. But you want to be as
close to that as possible and you don't want to
see any kind of trend. So three misses in one
day is more than you'd like. And and then, like
you said, the story for the next day will be
how we respond to it.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yep, all right, let's take a break.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
When we come back, we'll talk about some injury updates
from practice as well as what we heard from Zay
Flowers today on podium.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
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is Yours. So we did have some injury updates today.
JayR Alexander did not practice today. John Harbaugh said after
practice that he had some swelling in his knee, and
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so did say that he expect him out there tomorrow.
But that's why he was not out there practice today.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Right, He missed that.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
The knee was why he missed time last year and
he's coming off of arthroscopic knee surgery, So like keep
that in mind, right, Like, this is a player who
had season ending surgery ultimately last year. So you know,
he said he feels great and all that, but I think, hey,
John said he expects him back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I wouldn't. I'm not raising the alarms here.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
The other thing too, is for guys who are he
wasn't on the team this entire offseason and so these
are his first practices. He hasn't practice, so he's been training,
but he hasn't practiced until this last week. So also
Razar Bateman did not practice, just sick, sent home sick.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, and then the last one, the rookie Blokne was
not I practice today.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
John Harwell said he landed on his shoulder. Expects him
to be back soon. Yep.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
So there's some injury updates off After practice today, we
also had a chance to hear from day Flowers and
some interesting notes and takeaways and hearing from Day one
of which is that he said that he's faster, Like
he said that he went to work this office. He's
already super fast. Okay, let's start there. So I don't
know how much faster he could get, but he said
he went to work this off season trying to improve
that speed running hills. Maybe he's taking lessons from Derrick
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Henry running hills.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
So we saw him with Lamar running away best.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, yeah, he's doing all of that, and so that
was part of his off season training. And he said
that since he's been out here on the field, he
feels faster, feels more explosive, and his teammates are saying
the same thing to him.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And Greg Lewis, the Ravens wide receivers coach, backed that
up with the analytics, said that, yeah, the analytics show
that he's faster. His day kind of was like, I
don't know, I don't pay attention much attention to that stuff,
but Greg Lewis did, and he said, yeah, it's it
says he's faster too, So you know, he also said
to your question that he expects hit more deep plays
this year than that's a focus of theirs. And certainly
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if you feel faster, you know, yeah, there you go
hit more plays over the top. And I mean it
was the first I think it was Lamar Jackson's first
throw a training camp was a cross or to Zay Flowers,
like a ten yard crosser or something. That he took
and just looked like got was shot out of a
cannon after he caught that ball and just ran through
the Ravens secondary in the route to a touchdown. So
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you looked he does, to the eye, look very very fast,
And I think that that is kind of a you know,
I would say, certainly as a rookie, and even last
year when I would talk about za Flowers, the thing
that stood out to me was his shiftiness, his ability
after the catch to break your ankles, the jukes, all
that stuff. Super shifty. Like I didn't say, like, oh,
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that's the fastest guy on the field. You know, like
when you watch Keaton Mitchell run, you're like that dude's
crazy fast. Will I will say, And again it's not
like he's like that much faster or whatever, but like
he does look fast.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
He looks faster.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It's kind of like a couple of years last year,
Lamar lost the weight and came back in training camp
and like we were like, wow, he looks faster compared
to what he was now. It's not like there's been
a body change with Zay, but sometimes you just watch
practice and you're like, man, that guy just seems faster.
And I get that sense with him, like he's been
awesome early in camp, He's made a lot of plays,
and honestly, sometimes I would say in training camp, star
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players are often quiet in camp, Like that's because they're
not going crazy with the number of reps that they're
taking and they're not force feeding it. And star players
can often get the star treatment and they're not like,
you know, they're easing in a little bit and so like.
But that's not been the case with say, Like he
has been putting up big plays. He's getting a lot
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of action. I just think he looks great and it's
really encouraging.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
He's he's a hungry dude too.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I mean you think about how his rookie season ended
in the AFC Championship Game and the pain of that,
and then last year he didn't even get a chance
to play in the playoffs because of his knee injury. Yeah,
and like this is a hungry, hungry young guy.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Coming off a career year top one thousand yards and
went to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, I do think he could take given another step
this year, and just seems like he seems like he's
going to be such a he's already like a focal point,
but just seems like he's going to be somebody that
when other teams are playing the Ravens, like starting the
conversation with how they stop Zay Flowers in the passing game,
I think is going to be a critical piece for that,
for opposing defensive coordinat.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I think it always starts with Lamar and then it
probably gives the Lamar.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Is obviously conversation point number one.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Derek Henry might be right behind him.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
There's a lot of weapons.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
There's a lot of guys to talk about a lot
of weapons, and honestly that helps say man, that opens
it up for everybody, including him and I I think
he's gonna top of the thousand again and he's gonna
be really good.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, I think he looks great, So I'm a curt
And John Harball even made the point too, like what
do you expect from him?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Like we expected to be one of the best.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And that's that's the view that the Ravens have Ham
and their outlook for what he could do.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yep, yep.
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Welcome into the Lounge presented by DraftKings. I'm Rian Ink
here with Garrett Downing and we are fresh off the
field following the Ravens first padded practice of training camp.
This day that we all look forward to, and you know,
it feels more like football today.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I thought it felt more physical when the energy was
definitely ramped up, like it was. It's not just lip
service that it felt like a different practice. There was
way more physicality and energy and it was fun to watch.
I thought like, in particular, I thought the defense came out, which,
like the first day I've hadded practice, you kind of
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feel like this is a defense day. I always feel
that way, Like the defense gets revved up, they're ready
to go, They're really excited.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
To take the physicality, to get paid to hit people.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, exactly, like that feels like a defense day. And
I thought that like they came out to play that way.
I know they've spent a lot of time talking this
offseason about wanting to be a feel defense and kind
of get back to that brand of football, and I
thought that they came out and played today with an
attitude that was resembled that mindset that they have.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, I agree with that. I thought the offense hit
it shots though too.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I didn't think it was like a dominated you know
that the defense just totally.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Dominated the day.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
There was a lot of zach Orr and the defense
brought a lot of pressure, a lot of pressure. The
offense handled, you know, handled it well sometimes and the
defense got home sometimes. But I thought, actually, the offense
like did pretty well with it. And uh, you know,
Lamar found out. Let's found Derrick Henry on one that
he kind of gashed him on on a little screen
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is what it looked like. So I thought it was
just a good day all the way around. And I'll
tell you one guy that stood out to me that
should be no surprise. That's a big dog, Mark and
Yes Manrews was O Barkin, Yeah, and he I think
it was the first play of eleven's Lamar to Mark
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Andrews gets gets kind of behind row down the scenm
then just runs runs through two tacklos. I think it
was Nate Wiggins and a safety and just just kind
of was like, nah, I'm running through this the two
of you, and then later had a eighty eighty five
yard touchdown where I think he was you know, nobody
was even following him after forty yards, and he just
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continued just roll like a runaway train down the field
just to kind of prove the point it was.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It was classic Mark Andrews.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I mean, runaway train that was going full speed, like
he didn't slow down. He was sprinting.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Runaways trains don't slow down fair like he.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Was sprinting when there was nobody within twenty.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yards of him. Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, I thought Mark was good.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I actually thought I was watching individual drills and this
is just when they're kind of getting loose and getting
warmed up, and he was like coming in out of
he was barking, coming in and out of his brakes,
like huffing and puffing, and like you could hear him
just watching watching the drills like no big dog bark
And yeah, I think that, Like I know, there's a
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lot of talk about Mark Andrews this offseason, and both
of us were firmly in the camp of the team
is better with Mark Andrews on it, and so it's
I'm very glad that he's here. And I think that
there's been like multiple moments to me in training camp
that illustrate that point. Today being one of them where
I thought the defense, I thought, especially early in practice,
the defense was was winning practice. I thought that they
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were handling the line of scrimmage, they were getting pressure,
and there were a couple of moments where like Lamar
just finds Mark Andrews when you need when you need
to play, like when you need something to happen. Mark
is the guy that's there. And like he he plays hard.
I think he's a tone center. That's the other thing
that like it's hard to quantify, but like Mark has
such an edge to him and he plays hard all
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the time. That like when you go out there on
the first day of pads and the defense is revved up,
Like I just mentioned, who's going to match that on
the offense? Well, I think Mark Andrews is the perfect
guy to match that intensity.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Talk about another guy who plays with physicality, and that's
wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, who should have, in my opinion,
had the highlight of the day.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, one handed catch in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Uh, just a phenomenal play and gets called for the
offensive pass interference. I'm going, you know, we're we can
review the tape on that one, but I'm calling Belgoney
on that.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, Nate Wagas was the one of coverage.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I'm sure he meet you with disagree he he disagree
with you firmly.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The DBS and that and the guys on defense definitely
thought it was O PI.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That's correct, it was. I thought it was pretty clean,
little hand fighting both ways. I did.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I did enjoy the way and they afterwards kind of
went up to Lamar and was like kind of celebrating
rate in the space to kind of be like suo,
so you can didn't get me, you know, and Lamar
kind of jokingly kind of punched the back of his
shoulder pads and uh, they were having fun out there.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
But I'll tell you that that was a heck of
a catch by Nuke. Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Look, we've we've talked in the past week just about
how DeAndre Hopkins continues to make plays.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Thought that that was another one.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I mean, that was regardless of whether it was OPI
or not. Like Wiggins was right there, like he had
great coverage. This is the situation of like when he's
not open, he's still open. Wiggins, who I think is
going to be awesome this year, was right there and
Lamar put it up where only Hawkins could get it,
and he makes a one handed catch toe tap in
the back of the end zone.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Remarkable play.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now again some hand fighting and DBS would say it
was OPI and Hopkins felt like it wasn't. Probably could
have gone either way or no call, and obviously the
ref ended up throwing the flag on it. But still
like from in terms of just watching practice and having
a great play and feeling like feeling good about a player,
I come away from that feeling like, man, DeAndre Hopkins
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just continues to impress me.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Here's what I take away from that is there's one
call down in the red zone that I really.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Loathe, and that's the jump ball.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It just it just feels to me, I don't have
the analytics on this. Maybe I should ask the football analytics,
as they know a lot more than I do.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It feels low percentage to me.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I think generally speaking, the analytics show that it is
a low percentage play.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And and really that isn't like you're not throw fades
to say Flowers lobs, you know, jump balls to Zay Flowers.
It's not really Bateman's game either, Like does it put
that with d hop I don't. I don't hate the call.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, it kind of.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Puts it in the repertoire potentially for Todd Munkin. Now,
I'm not sitting here calling for fades all day long
now with Derreck Henry in the backfield and the other
all the other assortment of weapons that the Ravens have
that are so dangerous in the red zone. But like,
to me, d hop gives you that's a matchup problem,
especially with all the other weapons.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He's gonna be one on one. Yeah, And I don't,
I don't hate it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I think it's gonna be tough for DB's like he's
got a size advantage over most dbs. He's got great hands, Yep,
he can still go up and get the football. So
it's a low that fader out being low percentage. The
percentage ticks up when it's Hopkins in that one on
one situation.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Does it put it in the play, But I think
it does, that's the question. I think it probably does.
I think that, like it's probably in the mix.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Well and honestly, like, yeah, it's practice right and opa
OPI got called, but you're going against Nate Wiggins and
he made a hell of a catch. And if you're
top monking and you're watching to make that catch, you're like,
all right, yeah, you know, maybe maybe maybe I'll give
that a shot.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Look, he's He's caught plenty of back shoulder, deep or
fade routes.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Right, So I want to roll it back when Di
hop catches the fade touchdown this year, run it this
tape back, mark the date down, mark it down, first
day pads.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
We were calling it for the first day, call.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
For on the we got it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, I think I think it could be part of
the repertoire this year. And like when we talk about
Hopkins and elements that he's adding to the offense, that
is one of them. I think the outside the numbers
can test to catch stuff is really what we're talking
about in large measure, and that is a piece of
that equation.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yep, I thought offensively. Another guy that continues to stand
out for me is keithon Mitchell. I mean, you know
you talk about even when the pads come on, like
this dude, that's kind of the test, right. It is like,
all right, he looks really fast, confirmed, but I thought
the pads come on, he was still running with physicality,
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running between the tackles. It's not just like, it's not
just gadget stuff with him. I thought he looked good today.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, I thought like he didn't break any big runs, yeah,
which is caught his calling card.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I will tell you one he sidestep Ojabo and it
was just a whiff. I mean it was a ridiculous
cut in a phone booth.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Well, what I like about Keith Mitchell And I remember
this with him as a rookie with a small guy
who's calling card to speed. You think, can't run between
the tackles, right, exactly that, And it was not the case.
He could still run between the tackles and he didn't
hesitate to get out there today. And there were some
there was a couple of plays where like it was physical,
there were bodies kind of battling in there, and he
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was able to find some some yardage. Again, no big
runs for him, but I do like the willingness and
like the his ability to make people miss even in
tight spaces.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yep, all right, flipping over the defensive side. You know,
this is the first padded practice for the rookies. And
one dude that caught my eye throughout practice was rookie
Mike Green, the outside linebacker, second round pick. This dude,
you know, lead the nation and sacks last year, but
he is not a finesse rusher. Is a big, physical man,
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and honestly today he stood out to me more today
than he has at any point during training camp so far.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, I would agree with that. I think that he
seemed to take a step when the pass came on.
There was one playing in particularly now it was kind
of a jailbreak play. There were like five guys in
the backfield, but he was probably the first, the first
one there to meet Cooper Rush in the backfield and
you saw the power and the athleticism and the and
the kind of the burst to get to the quarterback,
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and so he was right there. Probably would have had
a sack on that play. Again, there were like three
others in pursuit, so I don't know what was going
on in the protection on that play, but he was
in the backfield and that wasn't the only play where
he got into the backfield he was.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
He's good.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
He has he has a full arsenal of pass rush moves.
He has the athleticism and like he's big and physical,
like you look at him just when you when he
steps onto the field for these practices.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
He does not look physically like a rookie.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Sometimes you see a guy out there and you're like,
he's he really needs a year to get in the
weight room and to get his body ready for NFL contact,
and there's he can still be good, but you might
still need to put on weight. Like, he does not
look physically like a rookie, and that was evident today. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I thought a couple of plays. One he kind of
peeled back to tackle Keaton. I thought it was good
play to get off the block and kind of get Keaton.
He also in one on one drills put a dude
on his back.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Huh. I thought that was eye opening. And and then.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Did the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, exactly, Yes, that was one of the viral clips
from the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That was the guy went in the first round.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, I forget who it was, Josh Connell, Yeah, connor Ley.
It's been so long since the draft, it feels like
two years ago. But you know, one play that caught
my eye with Mike Green was like Lucas Scott, who's
an undrafted former offensive lineman. He's converted to fullback. This
is a big dude six three three h five came
across the formation and he and Mike Green just it
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was a coalition and like, that's a big fullback hitting you.
And Mike Green stood in there and just took that lick.
And I was just like, oh man, that was a
big one. And I just I just I it wasn't
like Mike just like he bounced off of Mike or whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Like it was both of them got a good lick.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It was a collision and uh and I just I
just was like this dude. I come away from the
practice being like, Mike Green is a physical, powerful man.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, he feels like he feels pro ready, and I
think that he is somebody who when the pads come on.
I've kind of felt like he's gonna look even better
once the pads come on, because he's not, like you said,
he's not a finesse player who's just like relies only
on a speed who's gonna look really good in short,
It's like he's a powerful He's a powerful rusher who
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has a lot of different ways that he can get
to the quarterback and and powers one of them yep,
and he can put you on your back, or he
can stand in there and you know, take a hit
from a three hundred punds full back coming across the middle.
So I like the way that he plays the game.
And I think that today was a good sign for him.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Well, we'll stay on the outside.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Linebackers and the rookiesdafe Oa and Carson Vincent. Yeah, I
mean early in practice, this was kind of early indicasion.
Pads are on, it's a different kind of day, and
those two got into it a little bit. And oh
way swinging and with Vincent, which all right, like fine,
you know you hey, you don't want.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
To see O dafe Away get hurt.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I don't really love you know, he's a very important
player swinging with helmets on.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I don't really love that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I do kind of like that. The rookie, I don't know,
it depends on what sparks it. But like Carson Vincent
being a physical rookie and like getting after somebody a.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Little bit, like all right, you know, like you're kind
of a rookie. It depends on what he did.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah, but yeah, something to know.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I think sometimes like when the pats come on and
guys are getting physical, that's the type of stuff that
that can see that you.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
See and credit to both guys like flared up, cool down,
real fast. You know, it wasn't like it was something
that it derailed practice by any stretch of imagination.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
But like this stuff happens.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It's hot, it is really hot out there first fat
of practice, and so like it happens. But I thought,
you know, it's a way as a monster. He's been
I think, really good in training camp and like, all right, rookie, rookie,
he's giving him, giving him something, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I mean, look, we're talking like pass rush. A thing
that stood out to me.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There's a period during eleven on a eleven drills where
the defense really ramped up the pressure like they were
bringing it one at one point in particular, like they
were sending dbs while Humphrey came downhill and had a
collision with Derrick Henry in the backfield. Another one Kyle
Hamilton came down just crashed down and just kind of
blew up the line a nice spin move. Yeah, Like
they just kind of blew up the protection on that play.
And I thought in that period, like the defense really
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seemed to win it for me, like they they they
were getting after the quarterback. Both Lamar and Cooper Rush
were under a lot of dress.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I thought, generally speaking, I thought the interior blocking was
pretty good, but yeah, the defense was bringing the heat.
You're gonna lose, Like when that happens, you're gonna lose
some Yeah, right, they're bringing extra pressure.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I will also say it does make me think about
like how more how much more aggressive this defense could
be this season under Zach Orr especially and John Harball
talked about a little bit when if you have confidence
in your outside corners to match up man to man
one on one, you know, and and maybe playing single
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high coverage or whatever, like you have Jay r Alexander
now Nay Wiggins and year two that you're expecting to
take a big step, you got Marlon Humphrey, you know, cheeto,
like you're loaded at corner. If you feel really good
about your ability to play outside, which John Harwall referenced
like outside the hash marks, you know those boundary what
is he called red line the red line areas, Like
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if you feel strong about that, it gives you more
ability to do more blitzing and like kind of saw
Zach Gord Island it up today.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And also with guys that like are good blitzers from
the dB standpoint. Kyle Hamilton and Morton Humphrey are both
really good blitzers, yes, and they're they're willing to do
it sure, And so I think that like you have
players who you have the good corners like you're talking about,
but then you also have dbs who are really good
at getting after the quarterback when called upon in that situation.
So they kind of have the advantage on both ends.
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And I think we got a taste of that today
and I really thought like particularly they brought the heat
on Cooper rush Tom and Mike Green as we just
talked about, he was one of the guys in that
situation as well.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yep, it was a little bit of a tougher day
for Tyler Loop had his first misses of training camp today,
three misses, one of which went his first one went
off the left upright, whereas John Hoyland did not have
any misses today. So a good day for John Hoyland.
But you know, I think that Tyler Loop overall has
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had a really good camp. He had misses a forty
three to thirty eight and forty five yards. I think,
you know, as I said, these are his first of camp,
but uh yeah, I think that overall he's been good.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
He's been good. Today was not his best day. I
do like he bounced back, you know, it's all like
he kind of went went into a hole after missing kicks.
He bounced back and then was able to hit the
kicks after missing him. So you know, that's that's part
of what we're gonna see here, is how these two
young kickers. I think the first last week, Tyler Loop,
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we were really talking about him.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Later in the week.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
He had a sixty three yarder in full team and
he had a sixty eight yarder earlier in practice, not
during the full team portion, but he showed off the
leg and the accuracy, and so now you got to
keep it going.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You need to be consistent, and today wasn't as consistent.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
But I think that him being able to bounce back
and get back on track is going to be kind
of the story for him over the course of camp.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, and that'll be kind of a storyline tomorrow. Right,
you have a tougher day, you bounce back and go
perfect next day, right.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Like, obviously he's not going to go perfect throughout training camp.
That's just not realistic. But you want to be as
close to that as possible and you don't want to
see any kind of trend. So three misses in one
day is more than you'd like. And and then, like
you said, the story for the next day will be
how we respond to it.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yep, all right, let's take a break.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
When we come back, we'll talk about some injury updates
from practice as well as what we heard from Zay
Flowers today on podium.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
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is Yours. So we did have some injury updates today.
JayR Alexander did not practice today. John Harbaugh said after
practice that he had some swelling in his knee, and
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so did say that he expect him out there tomorrow.
But that's why he was not out there practice today.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Right, He missed that.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
The knee was why he missed time last year and
he's coming off of arthroscopic knee surgery, So like keep
that in mind, right, Like, this is a player who
had season ending surgery ultimately last year. So you know,
he said he feels great and all that, but I think, hey,
John said he expects him back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I wouldn't. I'm not raising the alarms here.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
The other thing too, is for guys who are he
wasn't on the team this entire offseason and so these
are his first practices. He hasn't practice, so he's been training,
but he hasn't practiced until this last week. So also
Razar Bateman did not practice, just sick, sent home sick.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, and then the last one, the rookie Blokne was
not I practice today.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
John Harwell said he landed on his shoulder. Expects him
to be back soon. Yep.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
So there's some injury updates off After practice today, we
also had a chance to hear from day Flowers and
some interesting notes and takeaways and hearing from Day one
of which is that he said that he's faster, Like
he said that he went to work this office. He's
already super fast. Okay, let's start there. So I don't
know how much faster he could get, but he said
he went to work this off season trying to improve
that speed running hills. Maybe he's taking lessons from Derrick
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Henry running hills.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
So we saw him with Lamar running away best.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, yeah, he's doing all of that, and so that
was part of his off season training. And he said
that since he's been out here on the field, he
feels faster, feels more explosive, and his teammates are saying
the same thing to him.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And Greg Lewis, the Ravens wide receivers coach, backed that
up with the analytics, said that, yeah, the analytics show
that he's faster. His day kind of was like, I
don't know, I don't pay attention much attention to that stuff,
but Greg Lewis did, and he said, yeah, it's it
says he's faster too, So you know, he also said
to your question that he expects hit more deep plays
this year than that's a focus of theirs. And certainly
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if you feel faster, you know, yeah, there you go
hit more plays over the top. And I mean it
was the first I think it was Lamar Jackson's first
throw a training camp was a cross or to Zay Flowers,
like a ten yard crosser or something. That he took
and just looked like got was shot out of a
cannon after he caught that ball and just ran through
the Ravens secondary in the route to a touchdown. So
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you looked he does, to the eye, look very very fast,
And I think that that is kind of a you know,
I would say, certainly as a rookie, and even last
year when I would talk about za Flowers, the thing
that stood out to me was his shiftiness, his ability
after the catch to break your ankles, the jukes, all
that stuff. Super shifty. Like I didn't say, like, oh,
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that's the fastest guy on the field. You know, like
when you watch Keaton Mitchell run, you're like that dude's
crazy fast. Will I will say, And again it's not
like he's like that much faster or whatever, but like
he does look fast.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
He looks faster.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It's kind of like a couple of years last year,
Lamar lost the weight and came back in training camp
and like we were like, wow, he looks faster compared
to what he was now. It's not like there's been
a body change with Zay, but sometimes you just watch
practice and you're like, man, that guy just seems faster.
And I get that sense with him, like he's been
awesome early in camp, He's made a lot of plays,
and honestly, sometimes I would say in training camp, star
(21:25):
players are often quiet in camp, Like that's because they're
not going crazy with the number of reps that they're
taking and they're not force feeding it. And star players
can often get the star treatment and they're not like,
you know, they're easing in a little bit and so like.
But that's not been the case with say, Like he
has been putting up big plays. He's getting a lot
(21:45):
of action. I just think he looks great and it's
really encouraging.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
He's he's a hungry dude too.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I mean you think about how his rookie season ended
in the AFC Championship Game and the pain of that,
and then last year he didn't even get a chance
to play in the playoffs because of his knee injury. Yeah,
and like this is a hungry, hungry young guy.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Coming off a career year top one thousand yards and
went to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, I do think he could take given another step
this year, and just seems like he seems like he's
going to be such a he's already like a focal point,
but just seems like he's going to be somebody that
when other teams are playing the Ravens, like starting the
conversation with how they stop Zay Flowers in the passing game,
I think is going to be a critical piece for that,
for opposing defensive coordinat.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I think it always starts with Lamar and then it
probably gives the Lamar.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Is obviously conversation point number one.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Derek Henry might be right behind him.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
There's a lot of weapons.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
There's a lot of guys to talk about a lot
of weapons, and honestly that helps say man, that opens
it up for everybody, including him and I I think
he's gonna top of the thousand again and he's gonna
be really good.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, I think he looks great, So I'm a curt
And John Harball even made the point too, like what
do you expect from him?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Like we expected to be one of the best.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And that's that's the view that the Ravens have Ham
and their outlook for what he could do.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So fun first practice and pads. You can email us
at the lounge at Ravens NFL dot net. We'll have
a lot more football this week, all leading up to
the Mt. Banks Stadium practice on Sunday. That'll be a
fun time. We've got a guest coming later this week,
so make sure you stay tuned for that. You subscribed us,
leave us a rating and review also. We need it
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all right. We're in the hot days of trend and
can we need.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
A little boost.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
We do it all for the radis of the reviews, So.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
We do it all for that. Thanks for listening. We'll
be back later this week.
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