 then do some conditioning on the side as well. This was year six for you, I mean, what's your mindset like now compared to maybe some of your earlier years in the league? I'm getting old. But no, just focus on getting better each and every day, coming out here competing, leading, just doing all the things I can do to help this team be ready for the season. But it starts out here every day in the film room and meetings and then translating to the field and just trying to get better. Yeah, we continue to see you put in the hard work on the off season and then you come out here and you work hard. Six years, as you said, what is it that motivates you to keep going like this? Yeah, I think just wanting to get better. I think never being complacent, just staying hungry, love coming to work, love coming to compete, being with your teammates, being with the team and just coming out here, getting better every day. I think that's what it is for me. And it's just always been the mindset, just elevate my game anywhere I can each and every day I step on the field and being meetings. How much does having your daughter kind of reinforce that or shift your mindset so to speak? Yeah, it's just my motivation. My little tornado is what we call her. So definitely do it for her. And that's all the motivation I need is having my little one looking at her and coming out here just so I can come out here and work hard and get home to her. She's everything to me. Eric, do you allow yourself to think about being the first guy ever to rush back to back 2000 season? No, I don't get caught up in that. I just focus on me getting better. I don't know how to say it a lot, but yeah, that's all I focus on. This is being better every day. Working, working hard, putting in the work, competing, and that's all that's all you can do and then let everything else take care of itself. So does the 17th game in the regular season feel like it's going to be a lot of extra work? Do you think you'll notice it when it arrives? Have you thought about it much that way? No, not really. Just excited football is back and having to be back with my teammates, be back with my team and be out here competing. I never really thought about the 17th game. It's just another game that we got to go out there and try to win. Sorry, there's a segment of the population that evaluates quarterbacks that looks at Ryan and seems to hold you against him. Well, he's got this phenomenal running back. It makes his life easy. Imagine you don't find that very fair. I mean, no, Ryan plays for himself and the impact that he has on his team. I think we all know that. I don't think you guys know that. So I need to be said. I mean, people can have opinions and say anything, but his body of work speaks for itself. How much of the culture, the expectations change from when you first came in? You've obviously been through. You've seen a lot of coaches, players coming and go. What's it like in the interseason now? What's the mindset compared to maybe when you first got here? I just think that John Robison and Coach Raven had a vision on what they want this team to be like and what it wants to be built on and what kind of culture they want to have around here. They have guys around here that believe in it, our leaders and our players. And try to go out there and do that each and every day and practice in the meetings and on game day. And that's all we try to do is keep that same culture, work hard, and have effort and fitting each and every day that we come here on this practice field and play football. With everyone back and healthy in the addition of Julio, have you ever started a training camp more confident in the offense? It's always great to have everyone healthy. Make sure everybody is just taking care of their bodies each and every day after practice and make sure we're coming out here ready to get better. But when you have everybody healthy, that's always good. And you're able to compete every day, get better every day, and get prepared for the season. What are your expectations, though, for this group? To the end? What are your expectations for this group? No expectations. Just come ready to work each and every day on all three phases and offense, defense, compete, make each other better, and just get ready to go. But no expectations, just getting better. Started to limit you as much as he does in training camp, and you're used to it now. You come in expecting to spend time in the sand pit or on the elliptical or whatever it is a given day? Yeah, I'm just prepared for whatever. I appreciate coach taking care of me, but at the same time, whenever I'm out over that condition, just got to work. Just coach making sure my body is ready for the season. And whenever it's time to work, I'm ready to work. What have I got to do? Whatever team wants me to do, I got to do it. How much it's made of the workload and the number it carries into the take care of your body? I mean, do you feel confident that the work, the routine that you've developed is going to sustain again for another year and allow you to keep doing it with no other running back in? It ain't broke. Don't fix it. So keep doing what I've always done, telling me to get to where I am. How much do you keep the Ravens game kind of over in your head as far as motivation? Not just the fact that you guys didn't come through, but also the way that someone stopped you in that game? How much does that motivate you in this offseason? I always sort of quote, you're only as good as the last game. That's the last game I play. So I think that's pretty much. You don't think about a second 2000 season, but how much did people bring up 2,000 yards to you over the offseason? And did you enjoy that? Or did you get tired of it at a point? I mean, nobody really brought it up to me. Just saying they get motivated just by people I talk to that I know by me working, just staying hungry. We're not really worried about 2,000 yards again. Just focus on me getting better. That's always been my focus. I'll always be my focus. You guys have a lot of new faces on both sides of the ball and a new offensive play. Caller, what are you all doing to make sure that everyone gets on the same page and is working as one unit? Just coming out here, competing, having a growth mindset, playing fast, making each other better. That's all you can do right now is training camp, be working to put everything together and taking it day by day. Sarah, you mentioned that the name broke, don't fix it. And you continue to do the same thing you have, training camp or team. But how do you manage the expectations as they continue to grow more, as more and more is expected of you, especially coming off the last two years? Yeah, I don't think you worry about expectation. I think you just put it into work. Just work hard and continue to do what you do and go out there and try to make it pay off. But don't worry about your expectations. Just put the work in and everything will fall where it's supposed to. That being said, your coach was up here yesterday talking about that was his job. And the coach's job to raise expectations for this team. Why is that a good thing? That's just pushing us. Pushing us to be better every day, holding us to a standard. And us wanting to be better knowing that they're going to push us to our limits. And just them being coaches and us being players and coming out here, getting better, trying to live up to what coach preaches about. And that's all we can do. What have you seen out of Darrington? And how have you seen him grow in the past year? What kind of role do you think he'll have this year? Yeah, just focus on getting better every day and trying to work hard each and every day. Just training camp. We're just competing, trying to get better, trying to learn, trying to go as a player. And that's what he's been doing, and continue to do that every day. We're in training camp. What does Brian Hill, the guy you guys signed this off season, what does he bring to your room? And how could he maybe help alleviate some of your workload? Brian Hill. I mean, like I said, just training camp, I don't know about all the other stuff. But he's here to work, take advantage of his reps, make plays, and compete, and get better every day. So each and every day is what we're going to do as players. Do you expect all the attention that your workout, off season workout videos, have gotten? Yeah, I'm just working. It could get crazy at times. But I'm really just working out, man. And people always ask me to send them workouts. So I post them. So you ain't got no excuse not to work out. So it's right there on Instagram. So whatever you see me do, you get implemented into your workout and get better. Yeah, that's just what I believe in. I'm sure our team believes in it as well. We work hard. Everything will work out the way he's supposed to. But you just got to put the work in each and every day and want to get better. Have that mindset of getting better, putting in the work in. No, it's not going to be easy. No, it's going to be some adversity. But as long as you strive and continue to get better, then everything will work out the way you want to. Do you feel like the guys want that just as much as you do? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You see, where we compete every day, every day is not going to be what we want it to be. It's going to be good days, going to be bad days. But as long as you keep that mindset of working hard and getting better, then everything will work out. You talked about being old, six years in the league. Do you start to think about what's your legacy going to be? What's your chance to make history? What's your chance to make a permanent mark in this league? I'm just going to enjoy these days day by day. I try to get too ahead of myself. Try to go day by day, man, and enjoy it while it's here and keep working and take advantage of my opportunities. Those two are unique, whether it's the change, resistance, man, whatever. How do you come about arriving upon those things to do? It's really my training of Melvin, man. He come out with these different workouts. And he usually does them before I do. And I was like, man, I want to try to see if I can do it. And usually I'm able to do it. Sometimes I'm not. Sometimes there's bloopers that y'all don't see, but I don't want to put that up. But yeah, man, just trying to implement anything I can to help me get better. And that's all he wants to do for me. And that's all I want to do. Anything that can get better, working out on the field, running hills, anything possible. Can you describe one thing you couldn't do? I know I'm not going to do it. Is that again? I said, did he ever hit you with something that you were like, nah, man, I ain't doing that. Yes, doing that. Standing on his head and doing the flip, I'm not doing all that. I'm going to get ready for a karate or a ventures movie. I'm just trying to get better for football. But yeah, it's been crazy. Good? Thanks very much, Darren. Good shit.