WEBVTT 00:03.088 --> 00:04.929 [SPEAKER_00]: Hi folks, welcome to the episode of Film Study. 00:04.949 --> 00:11.393 [SPEAKER_00]: This is Ken McEusek and it's time for today's camp notes from Ravens Camp on August 5th the 7th day. 00:11.413 --> 00:18.237 [SPEAKER_00]: They were not in pads today, but the practice was in a plate of very hard rain fans were there. 00:18.277 --> 00:19.098 [SPEAKER_00]: They were undercover. 00:19.498 --> 00:21.259 [SPEAKER_00]: the media was drenched. 00:21.399 --> 00:23.821 [SPEAKER_00]: Notebooks were generally of no use and put away. 00:24.581 --> 00:37.269 [SPEAKER_00]: Mine looks like I just put it through the dishwasher in terms of what came out of it, but anyway, very hard to get anything written down today, which means my notes are going to be less extensive than normal in terms of individual plays and 11 on 11. 00:37.369 --> 00:45.094 [SPEAKER_00]: In terms of injury news, Cory Bullock, back off NFI, he was on the field, did positional drills that he went into the building in the middle of practice. 00:45.554 --> 00:48.775 [SPEAKER_00]: Namedy and John Jenkins also went in at that point. 00:48.815 --> 00:53.196 [SPEAKER_00]: Namedy, again in uniform, I did not see whether he was on the sled today. 00:53.276 --> 00:55.737 [SPEAKER_00]: John Jenkins has been on the sled previously. 00:56.057 --> 01:00.378 [SPEAKER_00]: He did some conditioning work also and did not do 11 on 11's. 01:00.738 --> 01:05.640 [SPEAKER_00]: Collears Campbell also, back working hard on the defensive line drills, but still no 11 on 11. 01:07.841 --> 01:12.105 [SPEAKER_00]: The defensive lines still got some question marks about when those guys are going to be ready. 01:12.485 --> 01:17.790 [SPEAKER_00]: But while Cone, big news today, back in uniform, made a big play on 11 on 11. 01:17.850 --> 01:21.473 [SPEAKER_00]: This was his first 11 on 11 play today that I have noticed. 01:21.833 --> 01:27.539 [SPEAKER_00]: It's possible he's in for a play or two the day before, but this was definitely his first big play back. 01:28.380 --> 01:30.582 [SPEAKER_00]: Absent still Travis Jones and Teddy Buchanan. 01:30.622 --> 01:34.867 [SPEAKER_00]: They are the only remaining PUP listers on the team of six. 01:34.907 --> 01:39.933 [SPEAKER_00]: They started camp with and Anis Peoples who's had an undisclosed injury for last couple of days. 01:39.973 --> 01:41.155 [SPEAKER_00]: Not sure when he's going to be back. 01:43.045 --> 01:47.826 [SPEAKER_00]: Raves out of 16 offensive linemen with the return of Bullock. 01:48.067 --> 01:56.629 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Kendall Lam, they signed, and that does mean they kind of have one extra from where you normally sit during training camp. 01:56.669 --> 01:59.210 [SPEAKER_00]: They like to have three full groups of five. 02:00.030 --> 02:19.421 [SPEAKER_00]: And right now they have an extra man and that will become a bigger issue when Bullock is able to get in there and play in an 11 on 11's in fact play in pads so that'll be something I'm sure when it occurs or at least I would I would project that somebody will be released and I'm not sure who that might be. 02:20.762 --> 02:33.858 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether it was the big story, I don't ever remember seeing a practice like this with there was so much rain and the tea did not move it inside. 02:34.239 --> 02:36.121 [SPEAKER_00]: And let me tell you, we hate inside practices. 02:36.141 --> 02:37.263 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't see a damn thing. 02:37.743 --> 03:02.048 [SPEAKER_00]: when you're in one middle corner of the facility and they have a really limited corner for the media and we're all jacking for space to see over each other and then see you know on flat ground or from flat ground onto other flat ground the addition all of the elements of practice are squeezed into smaller spaces there as opposed to being on two or three fields you know on a normal practice day. 03:02.128 --> 03:02.248 [SPEAKER_00]: So 03:03.248 --> 03:04.148 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not good. 03:04.188 --> 03:08.570 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the coaches did say, they were appreciative of getting a chance to work in the rain. 03:08.670 --> 03:19.552 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is an opportunity to get the team thinking about what is going to be like in November December in the AFC North when they have to be out there, Declan Doyle made mention of it. 03:19.972 --> 03:25.934 [SPEAKER_00]: Anthony Weaver had some comments about it, I'll get to later because I thought they were really interesting about what you have to do differently in the rain. 03:26.694 --> 03:32.577 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's extremely sloppy in terms of the play and there's a lot of difficulty holding on to the flip balls. 03:32.617 --> 03:39.740 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even going to mention all the drop balls from the day and it was as I said nearly impossible to take notes on a day like this. 03:41.471 --> 03:56.057 [SPEAKER_00]: Watch a little bit of offensive line drills as I always do some one man's sled drill head a fair amount of pass blocking work again today and it's a second straight day where the Ravens have been doing a fair amount of pass blocking drilling among what they're working on. 03:56.677 --> 04:05.000 [SPEAKER_00]: So we saw some offensive tackle, taking some true pass sets and trying to work out of that, work on that kickstep and trying to get set up for that first contact with the defender. 04:09.462 --> 04:37.752 [SPEAKER_00]: offensive line coach stood directly behind the tackle and gave a pass rush route or a pass rush type for the man opposite him to take so we saw you know he'd signal Carson Vincent you know to take a bull rush into Ronnie Stanley playing left tackle and he would be opposite him so a lot of that was was fairly interesting in terms of of trying to get a sense of where the you know how they react to the the initial move by the pseudo defender there. 04:38.940 --> 04:44.941 [SPEAKER_00]: One thing, I'm continually see with the offensive line group is that Stanley and Vincent have a lot of interaction. 04:45.181 --> 04:46.681 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's a very good thing. 04:46.781 --> 04:49.682 [SPEAKER_00]: They are talking to each other. 04:49.802 --> 04:52.342 [SPEAKER_00]: It looks like Stanley likes Vincent, which is good. 04:52.723 --> 04:56.843 [SPEAKER_00]: And Vincent is like an eager puppy dog trying to learn from him. 04:57.063 --> 05:05.605 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think he was trying to learn from Tray Hendrickson, as well, being opposite him, that relationship was something that Jesse Minter mentioned is being a positive. 05:06.525 --> 05:11.788 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, good thing, and Vincent seems to have a right personality for a developmental lineman, which is very good. 05:13.469 --> 05:19.933 [SPEAKER_00]: Lamar Jackson, a decent day, despite an interception early, he threw one of the Rhoquan Smith kind of hit him right in the gut. 05:20.273 --> 05:25.215 [SPEAKER_00]: It was similar to David Olegigas interception on Tuesday. 05:25.275 --> 05:26.916 [SPEAKER_00]: But the ball was thrown short middle. 05:26.996 --> 05:29.097 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even sure who he was throwing it for. 05:29.117 --> 05:31.599 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a kind of a lean pick, if you'll call it that. 05:32.099 --> 05:38.322 [SPEAKER_00]: And then, Rokuan, then on the return, lateral to Malachi starts and it's kind of a comical thing. 05:38.362 --> 05:42.985 [SPEAKER_00]: It's always like you're playing some kids smear the queer or whatever the game used to be called. 05:43.185 --> 05:52.649 [SPEAKER_00]: That is not a politically correct term, but a game of, you know, trying to knock down the ball career or kind of thing. 05:53.270 --> 06:00.273 [SPEAKER_00]: And he's lateral the ball in the rain and it just looks funny anyway. 06:01.992 --> 06:03.133 [SPEAKER_00]: What else to say about this? 06:03.293 --> 06:23.190 [SPEAKER_00]: Jackson did have three touchdown throws to Z-flowers one early in the middle of field 10 yards three circle with Hawkins closest and two more in red zone drills one is on a crossing route Where's the outran the whole defense the left side and in and another where he found space on an incudding route again about 10 yards right in the middle field, but in the end zone and the ball was you know 06:24.090 --> 06:27.452 [SPEAKER_00]: fit nicely into him, wasn't a particularly tough fit either. 06:27.872 --> 06:36.017 [SPEAKER_00]: On this field, zafelowers had an enormous advantage, you know, being a guy who is small, it doesn't take him too much to cut. 06:36.638 --> 06:45.543 [SPEAKER_00]: He's obviously prepared to do so, and the defense is just not prepared to keep up with him normally, and you add the wet field in there, and it just becomes that much more unfair. 06:46.243 --> 06:48.985 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll take a quick break, we'll go back to about this level 11 and 11 highlights. 06:50.589 --> 06:53.851 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, we're back, and 11 on 11. 06:53.871 --> 06:59.254 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have a lot of stuff from today, but I'm going to go through what I've got Lamar Jackson, intercepted it in the Bay Road Cross myth. 06:59.374 --> 07:12.822 [SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned that Jacobi Lane, again, skyed for a football in the end zone for the catch of the day, went up between Humphrey and Hamilton for a touchdown, and a lot of things about that that I like. 07:12.842 --> 07:14.043 [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, the fearless dust. 07:14.083 --> 07:16.845 [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's easy to be fearless when you know your teammates aren't going to hit you. 07:17.665 --> 07:30.532 [SPEAKER_00]: But he went up for the ball and has those big soft hands and hold it in fearless of contact and not at all afraid, very confident about his own ability to catch the football when he goes up. 07:31.233 --> 07:42.439 [SPEAKER_00]: We saw a TISA Isaac have a very nice bull rush that ended with Fanyano, who was in it quarterback that tells you about, you know, out seriously, they're taking these reps at quarterback here, or in the rain. 07:43.339 --> 07:45.941 [SPEAKER_00]: Fanyano dropped the ball to the ground and Isaac recovered it. 07:46.962 --> 07:56.935 [SPEAKER_00]: Skyler Thompson later in practice hit Mike Petsa behind the defense for a 20 yard play a long gain was up the side of the right The left side line. 07:56.955 --> 08:01.541 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure if it was, you know, rule of TD or not, but he was behind the defense. 08:01.581 --> 08:02.903 [SPEAKER_00]: It certainly looked like it would have been. 08:04.058 --> 08:07.579 [SPEAKER_00]: Evan Beardson had our parents in, sorry, Beardson had a tough day. 08:07.599 --> 08:11.360 [SPEAKER_00]: It was flagged for a false start on one play. 08:11.760 --> 08:15.141 [SPEAKER_00]: Matt Hibner was flagged for an offensive hold versus Ethan Burke. 08:15.902 --> 08:20.163 [SPEAKER_00]: Ration Benny had a very nice pressure versus Beardson. 08:21.904 --> 08:38.091 [SPEAKER_00]: And so that was another play that obviously was not in his column, and the reps by Feiniano, I have to comment on it because I believe those are his first 11 or 11 reps of the entire summer, and they came with a rain pelting hard down late in the practice. 08:38.392 --> 08:40.973 [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't have any of the regulars on the field at that point. 08:41.013 --> 08:43.094 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody else was a two or a three as well. 08:43.755 --> 08:55.408 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was pretty clear that Minter was making a conscious decision not to risk some of his veteran players or even his good young players on the field at that point in the game. 08:57.368 --> 08:58.229 [SPEAKER_00]: The stars are on offense. 08:58.249 --> 08:59.089 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got two for you. 08:59.109 --> 09:03.632 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got Jacobi Lane with the catch of the day again and Z-flowers with the three touchdowns. 09:03.652 --> 09:04.552 [SPEAKER_00]: I've talked about each of those. 09:04.592 --> 09:06.573 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I need to go deeper into that on defense. 09:06.954 --> 09:13.137 [SPEAKER_00]: A desi Isaac for his pool rush and force fumble slash bumble recovery, outstanding individual play. 09:13.157 --> 09:25.905 [SPEAKER_00]: It's great to see him back on the field and hopefully he can work himself up to a point where the Ravens actually have to make a difficult decision about whether they keep Isaac or go out and get a veteran passwatcher, which is right now what I would expect. 09:26.425 --> 09:29.146 [SPEAKER_00]: But Isaac is a guy with some Sam characteristics. 09:29.707 --> 09:38.851 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'd like to see them see if he can help the team in that way before they go outside and say a Kyle Van Noy who's still out there. 09:41.252 --> 09:43.973 [SPEAKER_00]: Ball Cone had a pass break up in the end zone. 09:43.993 --> 09:45.134 [SPEAKER_00]: I told you he made a big play. 09:45.154 --> 09:46.374 [SPEAKER_00]: It was towards the end of practice. 09:46.815 --> 09:54.238 [SPEAKER_00]: And he right around the goal line, he knocked the ball away and was very excited about it obviously. 09:56.139 --> 10:02.887 [SPEAKER_00]: A fair amount of it was a drop by Octavian Smith, but he definitely had his hand in there as well. 10:03.948 --> 10:09.955 [SPEAKER_00]: And other people there seemed to think it was probably a PD, but in any case, Balakone very happy about it. 10:10.015 --> 10:14.380 [SPEAKER_00]: He was encouraged by teammates after the play as well. 10:14.941 --> 10:16.801 [SPEAKER_00]: and Rokoi Smith had that early interception. 10:16.821 --> 10:18.602 [SPEAKER_00]: He'd be the third star on defense. 10:19.202 --> 10:20.942 [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of other players still play him way. 10:21.002 --> 10:25.023 [SPEAKER_00]: David Olegiga, he is a presence out there. 10:25.263 --> 10:40.986 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if the Ravens are going to have problems with their veterans making it back, but I really hate the notion of a bunch of veterans making the team ahead of Olegiga and the Ravens lost losing him when they caught him because he has looked fantastic so far in these 11 or 11 camp. 10:43.426 --> 10:54.290 [SPEAKER_00]: podium rate, a few different people will start with Declan Doyle, he said they're fortunate to get the rain in, team plays in the FC North, whether it could be a fact or anything, wanted to stress the players to deal with the rain. 10:54.550 --> 11:09.336 [SPEAKER_00]: So don't put them in easy pitching catch situations, don't dummy down the playbook because of what they're doing, put them in a position where they have to work to catch the ball in the rain and that a lot of camp is about that about showing people 11:12.738 --> 11:13.158 [SPEAKER_00]: challenging. 11:13.178 --> 11:23.021 [SPEAKER_00]: And definitely a lot of the preseason is made for testing players one-on-one in situations that they might have difficulty with to get a really good evaluation of them. 11:23.081 --> 11:26.622 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think it's a perfectly reasonable way to approach that. 11:26.982 --> 11:39.165 [SPEAKER_00]: He compared Jacobi Lane to Mike Thomas from his days with the Saints, had big hands at a very confident catcher and a guy that quarterback's generally trusted when they put them all out there. 11:39.185 --> 11:40.846 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas had some incredible record of 11:41.327 --> 11:49.130 [SPEAKER_00]: of catching a high percentage of true breezes passes one year, but the in general he had of extremely high catch rate through his career. 11:51.207 --> 11:57.888 [SPEAKER_00]: Said the wide receiver room is like a basketball team in terms of matching players and responsibilities. 11:57.908 --> 12:08.230 [SPEAKER_00]: You think about a basketball team, you've got a point guard, you've got a center and you've got a power forward and you're shooting forward and then you're shooting guard. 12:08.530 --> 12:14.632 [SPEAKER_00]: And they all have different kinds of different sizes that they are, different sizes and shapes and they have to have different responsibilities. 12:15.032 --> 12:17.452 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says that Zay is a player, Zay 12:21.673 --> 12:30.896 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's a lot of talk, of course, about Zay because he just signed his contract yesterday and we actually got a chance to talk to him at the, he was at the podium as well. 12:32.396 --> 12:34.157 [SPEAKER_00]: He's asked about spreading the football. 12:34.197 --> 12:39.199 [SPEAKER_00]: He says he wants to be sure that offenders have to respect everyone and cover all the eligible. 12:39.639 --> 12:44.440 [SPEAKER_00]: And he also mentioned it's important to get the people who have to eat, you know, enough targets. 12:44.500 --> 12:50.482 [SPEAKER_00]: And I guess he's, you know, everybody has to eat if you think about everybody professionally would want to have targets. 12:50.762 --> 13:04.302 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what weather seers kind of live off in the NFL, but the guys who are signed like Bateman and Flowers obviously are expecting to get more targets and we'll see how that works out with Declan Doyle. 13:05.605 --> 13:08.446 [SPEAKER_00]: Anthony Levine, not too much to talk from him. 13:08.946 --> 13:12.367 [SPEAKER_00]: Rain forces you to focus on technique was something he mentioned. 13:12.888 --> 13:15.628 [SPEAKER_00]: He had lots of more praise for Kiondry Jackson. 13:15.648 --> 13:21.530 [SPEAKER_00]: It does seem like one of the Ravens writers is doing a piece on Kiondry Jackson and had a lot of Kiondry Jackson questions. 13:22.251 --> 13:27.613 [SPEAKER_00]: He's been a regular guy on special teams that we certainly appreciated in that. 13:29.511 --> 13:32.213 [SPEAKER_00]: the similarity to Anthony Levine is not lost. 13:33.455 --> 13:47.047 [SPEAKER_00]: It was also asked about the coaching, Lardarius Webb's son, and he said, you used to coach little, so you used to see the little webbie when they were playing together in the NFL, you know, probably 10, 15 years ago, 13:47.807 --> 14:04.024 [SPEAKER_00]: I quite that long ago, but in that general era, and you know, he said little webbie was on the sidelines then, I don't think he's still calling him little webbie, but you know, just talked about how cool it was to, you know, his friends, one of his best friends sons, I think, is there and he has it. 14:04.927 --> 14:08.770 [SPEAKER_00]: Anthony Weaver always has interesting things to say, but he said a few things today. 14:09.570 --> 14:13.673 [SPEAKER_00]: He said how difficult it is to plan for Zayf flowers as a defensive coordinator. 14:15.254 --> 14:31.224 [SPEAKER_00]: He said that the hardest thing to do, and this is refers to a question I had about Isaac and Konai, the hardest thing to do is not playing football when you're supposed to be out there, and you know you're supposed to be out there, it's great to see those guys get back on the field. 14:34.626 --> 14:45.305 [SPEAKER_00]: And in this case, blame doesn't mean, you know, accusing somebody or shifting the blame to somebody, it means being lazy and making excuses, so I love that when I heard that acronym before. 14:46.367 --> 14:59.512 [SPEAKER_00]: talked about counter attacks and again, somebody's writing an article about counter attacks and is improving in terms of not only his play, but the other thing he praised going to year two was that he didn't seem to have the communication paralysis that's common with young players. 14:59.532 --> 15:08.375 [SPEAKER_00]: He thought that had been an area of growth for him and that's certainly something that mentor and others have pointed out about this defense is that they're very loud and obnoxious which is which is just great. 15:10.056 --> 15:28.415 [SPEAKER_00]: He said it was good to see players in pads again the last two days and really try and win the line of scrimmage as a defensive lineman, I could see how it would have earned him to not be able to get a good read on your guys because you're not playing in pads, you don't really have the same ability to win the line of scrimmage. 15:30.300 --> 15:38.606 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Jonah Schaefer talked about the coverage in the middle of field and he posited that the coverage in the middle field has been great up the spine of the defense. 15:39.026 --> 15:48.173 [SPEAKER_00]: We've already said, you know, thanks for saying that, but I only really see the cracks when I'm coaching it, but he thinks their processes sound and that they can be great. 15:48.233 --> 15:53.456 [SPEAKER_00]: So, interesting kind of kind of a question and reaction there that I thought was, uh, was kind of telling. 15:55.819 --> 15:59.683 [SPEAKER_00]: It's some, it's asked about what advice you give players for playing in the rain. 15:59.763 --> 16:00.684 [SPEAKER_00]: It gives three things. 16:00.804 --> 16:01.985 [SPEAKER_00]: One is where the right cleats. 16:02.686 --> 16:09.633 [SPEAKER_00]: The second is push off more on the front of your foot and the third is stay low and just some great advice there. 16:10.073 --> 16:14.257 [SPEAKER_00]: We have seen a number of times on that field, particularly at the vault. 16:14.898 --> 16:21.864 [SPEAKER_00]: where they've had a great difficulty, players, including on the Ravens, had a great difficulty maintaining their feet. 16:22.444 --> 16:25.887 [SPEAKER_00]: And one of the things that seems to be the case is that players 16:27.022 --> 16:34.265 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't always adapt as far as they should to wearing a longer cleat because it's less comfortable inside the shoe. 16:34.886 --> 16:46.772 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you basically have spikes that have to go down to distance, you also have to have metal on the inside at shoe and that presses up on the inside of your foot and that could be not as comfortable as it would otherwise be. 16:46.892 --> 16:51.894 [SPEAKER_00]: So you players are kind of lose to go to that longer cleat when they need to. 16:53.502 --> 16:58.123 [SPEAKER_00]: Zafarers of the podium, of course he thank God, the organization for the new contract. 16:58.143 --> 17:00.584 [SPEAKER_00]: He said he knew EDC would take care of him and he did. 17:01.564 --> 17:10.027 [SPEAKER_00]: And he also mentioned, this is very interesting, that Tacosta was the one who told him not to practice yesterday, that it wasn't mentor, but Tacosta told it, you know, 17:10.707 --> 17:24.714 [SPEAKER_00]: I guess wanting him to, you know, enjoy the moment and perhaps also not get himself into trouble and get hurt afterwards, you know, told him not to practice yesterday, so I thought that was interesting. 17:24.754 --> 17:28.556 [SPEAKER_00]: He, of course, said he hopes that Lamar will be his quarterback for all the for the rest of his career. 17:28.636 --> 17:33.899 [SPEAKER_00]: And he also said that he's up about eight pounds from last year, weighs about 180, six up from 178. 17:33.999 --> 17:35.580 [SPEAKER_00]: He joked about running over some 17:36.060 --> 17:41.262 [SPEAKER_00]: people now, but but he thought he needed to add some some pounds to to be a little more physical. 17:41.902 --> 17:43.263 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, that's going to do it for today. 17:43.883 --> 17:44.883 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks everyone for listening. 17:44.923 --> 17:49.385 [SPEAKER_00]: As always, please take a look at the website. 17:49.525 --> 17:55.667 [SPEAKER_00]: If you will and take a look at some of the other podcasts around there, some of the article format that will be coming up in the regular season, 17:56.007 --> 18:07.719 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to look at last year's content and the articles for the pre-season, it might give you a sense of what it is that I do during those pre-season games to look at kind of the fringe of the roster players. 18:08.379 --> 18:11.162 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, thanks again, and we'll talk to you next time on Filmed Study.