This is year 16 that you're coming up on here
. How was just your entire outlook on team building
evolved in that time? It's definitely evolved. You
know, I, I, I would have to
give you some thought to like how I think it's
kind of like Pete Carroll said to me one time
. I said, how do you do it because
you're so unique in how you do it. He
goes, I don't know, I just do it
. I just do what I do and you kind
of what comes up, you kind of deal with
, you know, I think that's how you kind
of evolve. You just kind of probably grow inside
, you learn from your mistakes and then, you
know, you deal with situations as they come.
So when you evaluate, for instance, 2022 on
the whole, how do you feel about? I
feel great about the guys and I feel great about
the heart. You know, I just feel,
you feel like it's always, it's like coach Belichick
just said to me today, you know, it
always comes down to a couple of plays and it
always does, you know, so finding a way
to make those couple of plays go your way.
I mean, all the things that go into that
and you think you're doing the right thing trying to
get better. So you sit down this morning at
the breakfast and the first question is a reporter reading
you a tweet that you had not seen from Lamar
. I imagine you would have seen the tweet.
Now, I'm just curious what your thoughts are.
Yes. I mean, I feel like, hey
, it's part of it, you know, it's
part of the business of the whole thing. It's
nothing is really surprising about it. It's always challenging
. You know, it's, it's, uh,
it's big time pro sports man, you know,
it's, I feel like in some ways it's easier
than college, at least here we have contracts and
then they get signed in college, you know,
everybody's on a one year deal, I guess they're
all free agents and you've got N I L and
all that crazy stuff and I talked to Jim about
that and I'm like, I feel pretty good about
this pro football thing. This is all right.
Obviously he already can negotiate with the other teams.
He doesn't need to be traded and if you're going
to trade him, you need to have a deal
in place. Yeah. You know, I try
not to read too much into that. I think
that's for other people to read into, you know
, for me it's like, it's part of it
, you know, there's a lot of different audiences
and things like that. I'm sure, you know
, athletes nowadays, you know, talk to and
feel like they needed to talk to. Lamar has
got a good heart and I try not to read
too much into that. Did you reach out to
him at all? Uh, no, you know
, it's not that time right now. I think
it's kind of contract time and I don't, I
don't think it's kind of a time as a coach
, I need to or he wants me to,
you know, I think he just wants to focus
on this part of it and, um, if
he, I I've left it open, if he
needs me, you know, I'm here for him
. Last Lamar question. Um back right after the
season, you did the press conference and you said
something online. So it was 1000% chance, 200%
chance he's gonna be the quarterback. And you also
said we want Lamar to be a Raven. Lamar
wants to be a Raven, all of this kind
of negotiating stuff aside. Do you believe in your
heart of hearts? Number one that he still wants
to be a Raven and number two that he will
be starting for you week one. Yeah, I
mean, we said 100% 200%. I want him
to be a Raven and I believe it's going to
happen and you prepare that way, you know,
like but obviously what goes with that is you don't
know what the future holds. I mean, none
of us do. So, I know he's a
good guy. I know he loves to play.
I know one thing if he's lining up there in
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