 With the return of football, it's always a slow build because you have March for a free agency. You have April for the draft. You have May for mini camp and June for mini camp and stuff like that. Then there's a little break and then July. That's when it really gets official at the end of July because that's when training camp begins. And that's what's going on right now with the Baltimore Ravens and really the rest of the NFL as well. Training camp has started so football is officially back. But the way that you know Ravens football is back is when you start getting a bunch of presses. Like Ravens had the presser two days ago that they just came out of nowhere. I didn't even know what was happening with Mark Andrews and Roe Quonsmith. And then they had the presser yesterday that was actually announced with John Hardball, Marlon Humphrey and Lamar Jackson. Now we're getting ready to talk about that presser. But before we get into it during the presser, something that I was struggling to hear was the reporters questions. I just could not make out what a lot of them were saying because the fans, the kids were so loud. They were going crazy, but I loved it because that means they were enjoying themselves. They were having a good time over at Owens Mills and Ravens, they do do a very, very good job with the fan experience, especially the kid experience over at Owens Mills when you go to training camp. So shout out to anybody that was there yesterday. Shout out to anybody that will be there today or just coming up soon. Shout out to anybody that ended up getting passes to go to the training camp because if you've never been, go. If you get the opportunity to go, go take it because it's just, it's different, man. I know a lot of y'all going to the open practice in a couple of days and that's going to be cool, but the training camp experience is just so cool, man. It's that you right there up close and personal with all the players, why they go through the practice and whatnot, take the opportunity if you get it. So somebody who, if you were to ask me like four or five months ago, were they going to be at training camp? I probably would have said no, I don't think so, but it all depended on how the contract situation went, but I'm glad that all got worked out was Lamar Jackson. And Lamar Jackson, at his part of the press, he said that he feels young still because he was asked how he's feeling at training camp and whatnot. He said he feels young, even though he is young, but he said he feels more experienced and he's really glad to be back. Now, he also said that the atmosphere feels different and it even smells different around it. He said maybe it's the popcorn, but when he said the atmosphere feels different, I thought that was interesting just the way he said it because you hear this stuff all the time. You hear stuff about whether football players are fans, like football players will be like, oh man, this is the healthiest that I've been all my career. You hear that literally every single year from some players. As far as the atmosphere being different, the vibe being different, you hear that a lot from fans too. Like, oh man, tell me you ain't heard this before. Tell me right before Raven season starts. Oh man, this season feels different. I don't know what it is, but this season feels different. I know you've done heard that before plenty of times from people and you might have said it yourself. But anyway, with Lamar Jackson saying it, I think it actually means something because I think a big part of why the atmosphere is different, especially for him, is because he has more control now. He has more say so. He has more authority when it comes to this Baltimore Ravens offense because we've heard it mentioned plenty of times this offseason. Oh, Lamar's getting the keys to the offense. Oh, Lamar's going to be a more controller. But to hear from him about the vibe and the atmosphere being different, I think that's what that was all about. He said it feels like they've been diving right into the playbook. He said the guys came back ready and seemed like they learned a lot from the time that they went to minicamp and the breaks that they had. He said it feels like a lot of guys are being really studious and they learned a lot. He talked about how Zay Flowers, his new name, is the joystick. And somebody asked him, who's more dangerous in the open field? You or Zay Flowers? That's a question right there because we all heard about Zay shaking Roquan Smith out his cleats yesterday. And hey, shout out to Roquan Smith. Sometimes just life gets the best of us. And yesterday, that was one of them days for Roquan Smith. Life got the best of him. So we ain't mad at it, but shout out to Zay Flowers even more for shaking the veteran and just continuing to give Ravens fans and Ravens players so much to be excited about. But he said that between him and Zay Flowers, he said, we'll both have our moments. You see Lamar is very, he's a very humble guy. He's a very, very, very humble guy. And when you pit him up against his teammates, he won't ever shut them down. He won't ever like trash talk them like that. It was like funny games, stuff like that. But he won't never like, you know what I'm talking about. He won't ever big himself up like that, anything like that. But anyway, he also said that he just has to get his guys the ball and let them do them this year. And he specifically mentioned, I don't know if he mentioned this before. I don't remember Lamar ever mentioning this before when it comes to his receivers and playmakers and whatnot. But he said he's going to let them, he wants to see them get yack. You're going to let them get the ball, let them do them and get that yack. And that's important because yards after the catch make life easier for everybody. He said that he's going to be calling the offense without the wristband this year. So that'll be something right there. That'll be something right there. He said Todd Mocking is having it to where Lamar is not going to have that wristband because you all know you used to Lamar going like that, looking at the wristband sometime when he caught calling plays and whatnot. But he said, this year would be a lot different. So I said, okay, all right. And that's a big part of that responsibility. Like Lamar is getting big responsibility this year. And that can help his growth process so much. And that can help him take leaps and bounds. And now with growth, with growth, as we all know in life, with growth comes mistakes. So I'm not expecting Lamar Jackson to be perfect this year. I am expecting him to take a big leap this year based off of the offense, based off of the personnel, based off of just everything. But it's going to be some growing pains involved. And that's fine. Long as Ravensley winning. He said this offensive system, he said it's just different from G-Rose. And he said he wouldn't say if one was harder than the other. Because previously, Marlon Humphrey had mentioned how he feels like this offense is simpler than G-Rose. And I thought that was just kind of strange. But anyway, Lamar said OBJ gives him a lot of confidence. He said, OBJ said, if you throw it in my perimeter, it's not going to be an interception. He said, whether you're going to catch it, whether you're going to bat it down, whether you're going to tackle a defensive player or whatever it is, he said it ain't going to be no interception. So you throw it to me, I got your back. And that's important to have. And Lamar did say that he got confidence in him. OBJ gives him a lot of confidence. And that's important. Because if you have confidence in your receivers or your playmakers, oh, you're going to trust them. But if you don't, that could be scary. Because you could be looking at them. You could be staring them down. They might even be open. But if you don't trust them, then you know how that goes. And he also talked about the freedom of the offense. He said, if they see it, then they'll make the audible. And if they're right, or if they're wrong, they'll end up talking about it afterwards, going over it with Todd Monke. And that's what it's about, learning, learning. It's about making mistakes. Hopefully they make all the mistakes in practice. I know it's going to be something in real game, too, though. They're not perfect. But that's what it's about, man. But the learning process, man, you got to go through the good and you got to go through the bad as well. Marlon Humphrey, who spoke to the media right before, right before the Marjaxon did, he was asked about Odell Beckham Jr. He said Odell Beckham Jr. looked good. He even looked good back in many camps. And he said he tried to connect with him down in Miami and he's just excited for the OBJ era. And he said that he asked some offensive players about the differences between this offense and G-Rose. And again, like we mentioned earlier, Marlon Humphrey said that they said it's more simple. He talked about Zay flowers just being very polished. He said a lot of times when rookies come in, they're not very polished. But once they become veterans, they get polished. But he says Zay is already like that. And we've been hearing a lot of praise for Zay flowers, a whole lot of praise for Zay flowers from a lot of different people. So that's a good thing. That's a good thing because if we were here in bad stuff, it would worry us. But Zay, again, he's the first round pick for a reason. So Raven's counting on him to be a big impact. And when he talked about Zay flowers, see, this was probably my favorite part of the whole press yesterday. Because Marlon Humphrey said that with Zay flowers, he got that South Florida route running, that cutting and breaking ability. And then he brought up Amari Cooper, Calvin Ridley, Jerry Judy. And he said he has that X factor that a lot of South Florida guys have. All right, Marlon Humphrey. You were cool before, but you way cooler now just for that comment alone. And then this was the cherry on top for me. He even mentioned how they had one of those guys in Hollywood. I said, all right now, Marlon. I got a lot of love for you now. Like I already did before, but now I got way more. Just for you showing South Florida love, for you showing Hollywood love too. So shout out to Marlon Humphrey. He was also asked what he was trying to work on with his game during training camp. He said the good thing in this part was really good too. And this was like a little like, hey, EDC. Good job. He said the good thing about having really good wide receivers is a lot of different releases, speeds and tempos. And he said he wants to get back to winning in the first five yards like with jamming them off the line. So again, has Marlon Humphrey said this before? I don't think so. But regardless if he did or not, it's true. The better the receivers, the better it can make your defense. The better it can make your cornerbacks because they getting more work and they getting a more variety of work because of what they going up against. So really good points by Marlon Humphrey. He also brought up how Darius Slay should have been a raven. And he was straight up with him. He should have been a raven. He did talk about Rocky Cena and he complimented him but he talked about how Darius Slay should have been a raven. He said he was still a little upset about that. He said Lamar is going to be Lamar no matter what but he'll be able to be more flexible in this offense. He said when you, now this part too was significant. He said when you not necessarily take that away but when you give that green light to your quarterback nobody can see it better than the guy that's looking at it all. And this is a great situation for Lamar. See now with that part, it felt like Marlon Humphrey he was basically saying like hey, they took away Lamar's flexibility in the previous offense. He couldn't do as much. He didn't have as much freedom in the previous offense. He said it without saying it because he like caught himself. Again, Marlon Humphrey, he got the PR training down. He caught himself from saying that. He stopped himself from saying that and he kind of switched it up but he basically said like in the previous offense he ain't had that flexibility like that but so we looking forward to him having that flexibility now. Now, John Hubbaugh, John Hubbaugh was the first one to speak and we kind of went in reverse order but John Hubbaugh was the first person to speak. He was asked about JK Dobbins and Hubbaugh said I wish it was a simple answer. There's always a lot of things that go into football. We're working through it. JK is working through it. Looking forward to when he's out there. He's in all the meetings. He'll be happy when he's out there. He wants to be out there. We both want the same thing. So as far as his answer with JK Dobbins I wish I had a bunch of papers in my hands so I could just throw them up in the air because that's pretty much what his answer was to me. It seemed like who knows what's going on right now. He knows but the way he presented it was like it is what it is right now. So we'll see. JK of course is on the physically unable to perform this right now. So once he passes the physical then he could be back or we'll be back. We'll see. We'll see. Hopefully he is man because I'm looking forward to JK Dobbins this year. And just I think with JK Dobbins this year if he does remain a Baltimore Raven this year I think a big thing for him will be efficiency because I think his opportunities will be different. I think his opportunities will be I don't want to say limited but I don't think they're going to give him like alright JK you are RB1. Like it'll be a 1A1B type of thing with him and Gus but I do think that they would have been leaning more toward JK but with whatever's going on who knows we'll see. Because again Ravens they don't forget this type of stuff. The contract disputes and the hold up they don't forget that type of stuff. So we'll see. We'll see. Anyway he also talked about how usually in December in January Ravens have been great finishers as far as winning. He said but over the last four or five years that hasn't been the case. He said we didn't play winning football in certain ways and those plays they bite you. So we got to do everything we can to be healthy and that's it right there. That's it right there. Health is wealth and Ravens have not been very wealthy the past couple of years when it comes to health down the stretch. It's so important. It's so important to have Le Mans out there so important to have all the receivers out there so important to have the defensive players so important to have everybody out there man because that's how you're going to win and that's how you're going to advance that's how you're going to get far. A lot of times with football it is about who the best team is and a lot of times it's also about who the healthiest team is so if your team can remain healthy that gives you such a bigger shot at everything. He also talked about Bowser's Achilles he said Bowser's Achilles is fine he said Bateman's Liz Frank surgery is fine but he said sometimes there are other areas that get a little sore but both are on reasonable timelines that I don't want to share right now so that could mean anything. That could mean anything but he has been better he's been a lot better recently about when he does share a timeline that it does actually come to fruition and they do come back at that point in time but he didn't want to share anything about Bowser and Bateman right now so we just got to wait it out continue to wait it out and then he also talked about how the rookie Salah has earned some time with the ones so he's been having some time with the starters and that's significant but I think they'll go a veteran route they could still sign somebody you still got Ben Cleveland John Simpson I want to say John Simpson but you still got some guys out there but I think they may end up just signing somebody in heaven that person be the left card but we'll see we'll see we won't know till we know but anyway thank you for cleaning I love y'all I appreciate y'all make sure you subscribe to the channel turn your notifications on so you don't miss anything leave a like on the video and on that note we are out