Odell Beckham Jr. Introductory Press Conference | Baltimore Ravens

We'll take some pictures, get the family up on stage, investment situations like that. Oh my gosh, yeah, well first of all everyone, thank you for coming today, it's exciting for us and a great opportunity for us to announce Odell Beckham as our latest. In addition to the team, welcome to your family, this beautiful family, we had the opportunity to spend some time with them last night, and their son, who I already want to represent in about 20 years because he will be a great athlete, but it was really a whirlwind for We, this has been something that's really been percolating over the last year, we've had conversations with Odell's agent, Zeke, who's here today, and you know, this has been something we've focused on. really going back to last October, we had conversations to try and possibly get something working and it's great, it's a great feeling for us, you know, we had the opportunity to attend Odell's training, last month in Arizona.

I also had the opportunity to spend some time with him in Arizona during the owners meetings several weeks ago. It was a great meeting and you know, we went in knowing we were the underdogs and sometimes it's a great story, sometimes the underdog wins and we're delighted. Having him here today and we're excited about what this means for our football team. It was exciting the way he was trying to get on that table last night. It was really excellent. Quickness, you know, agility, short-area explosion, you know? He ran away a couple of times, yeah, he's ready.

Questions. You know, I talked to Lamar while he was there and I know it's a better discussion for these two as to how this can be handled, but the goal was for you to come here. and I have the chance to play with him and I'm excited about that opportunity, as far as the team I'm ready to bring leadership, I've been away for a long time, I had to sit there and watch everyone. If not, he plays, I'm excited to get back on the field, you know, and it's good to be where you wanted, and you know, like we said, we've had communication since last October and you guys showed me that you wanted me. to be here and he was going to be a very important piece to this organization, so I'm definitely excited about that, before you died, you didn't get any guarantee from Lamar that you would play together this year.

I have no guarantees of anything. You know that life is uncertain. I think you know we don't we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow the next day or you know we only know what happened in the past so for me I just. I was excited about the possibility of that, you know, my thought would be that he would be here. I know that you know that these two want them to be here and you know that at the end of the day, that will always be up to them. CentralFit. in a big city New York in Los Angeles, you're a star, the quality of the staff is Baltimore, you don't necessarily fit that profile, so why did you choose the rate?

Well, I was in Cleveland, so it's not the biggest city either, you know? It was great for me to be in New York at the beginning of my career and then I went to Cleveland. I didn't have much success and then I went to Los Angeles and had success, but at the end of the day, the common denied. The common denominator among all of us was that I cared about football I cared about being big I cared about you know I mean I worked my whole life since I was I don't want to say your age but since I was four years old I look my Mom and I said that I would practice for Sunday, like that that for me it was always about football.

You know, big cities are great, they gave me extra opportunities off the field, but at the end of the day I didn't care what was going on. As long as he was catching touchdowns and having that hard work pay off, yeah, we had a great relationship in Cleveland to be honest and it's like it just doesn't exist, you know, when certain situations just aren't for people, it's not their fault. nobody. or whatever happens, it's just life, life goes that way and things you know don't work out the way you want, so we had a great debrief, great communication.

I remember it and I tried to like, you know, really figure out what's going on. and uh, bring everyone together, so I have nothing but love for him. I got to see what he did at Georgia, see the success that he had, and you know, I'm excited for the opportunity that I have in front of me and you know, just watching that offense. and seeing what was done, I just know it should be a lot of fun, well, I haven't spoken to Lamar since the signing, there has been interaction along the way, you know, Lamar is in our plans, we love Lamar, our feelings towards Lamar don't .

He's changed a bit since the end of the season. We are still hoping to close a long-term deal. He is the right player for this team to take us to where we want to be. I think the locker room knows that the organization knows it, I think the fan base knows it, so this continues, but I can't think of a situation where we don't think our best team is with Lamar Jackson on the team. In September, the soccer team is in the decision on what soccer. it was all about decision and related how much the odds played with Lamar factors definitely, you know it's obviously a no-brainer, you know he's going to fit in the room, um, but I've been in the AFC North, I've been in Baltimore. and I was criticized by him many times.

I know what kind of team they are. One of my favorite things you talked about was that underdog story and you know I was an underdog my whole life. I wasn't the number one receiver in In my class I wasn't fourth, I was four stars. You know, I didn't have it easy until I got to New York and then had some success, so I've been the underdog my whole life. I'm still counted, I'm still counted and, um, that excites me, you know, this is a team, you know, there's great talent across the board, the offensive line, the running backs, the receiving room, the defense is great, It's just that it went down.

Just so you know, I'm at a place in my life where it means a lot more to be loved than you know. Someone would love to have you because a lot of places would love to have you, but where you really wanted to, then you could pour yourself. your heart in that even more you know what I mean is it's a lot easier from where I am the kind of person I am um and that was this situation you know it wasn't about so much money but it was It's not about nothing was that they showed that they wanted me to be here and that they saw me as a piece to come here and help them win and you know, I got a ring, you know, and it was bittersweet champagne and I remember that.

You know, having talked to God and he said, I know it wasn't exactly what you wanted. I know it was bittersweet. He says the next time you try that champagne, it will be the best thing you've ever had. For me, it's about getting these rings, it's about being great every day and winning championships and showing you how much they wanted you here, it's the conversations for one, you know, Steve came up and there was that conversation, you know, I remember texting my agent like I think I want to be a crow like he got me excited. uh just about the team opportunity and I don't know how else.

I don't know how to say it, but it was just for show. You, we want you here, that's the only way I can break it down. I can't give you a specific example of what it was, it was just the love that was shown. I am a person who loves to show the love you receive. love and they showed me a lot of love and now it's my duty to give it back, you know and that's something that's going to be very easy for me because I know they wanted me here, okay, you made a reference to the Super Bowl's Bittersweet, um. you're coming back from the second ACL I mean where are you with that processor?

Do you feel healthier than you have in a long time? How's that going? I feel great and I guess I don't know if it's the second ACL because the whole season I was playing, you know, without him, um and it was crazy. I signed with the LA Rams and um, I remember elecross comes there and he's like, I just have to let you know that you don't have an ACL. I know we could redo your surgery right now and this was week nine of the season and um I was. I just told him that he had been through too much to come here and sign, there was too much talk about my name, you know, last year I came here to help win the championship and I told him that I would die at The Sword and that was just, you know , the kind of reference I used, uh, you know, I cared a lot about playing. so I feel great now, you know, I'm still in my process of getting ready for September, you know, because we don't play tomorrow, we don't play in a week, in a month, like we play in September, so it's about getting ready for be in the best physical shape I can be in mentally, emotionally, spiritually, all in um and I got to sit back and watch everyone have fun last year and do backflips and finish and hit the sandy and everyone got to have fun and I was just, you know, looking at the chops, um, you know, wanting to be out there again, football is not who I am, but it's a big part of me because I could have played a lot of other sports and I sacrificed a lot to play this one. so you know the most important thing is that this year I'm focusing only on this year and that's the only thing on my mind, not looking at next year, not looking at past years, it's about this year and what I can. do and what he could bring to this team a lot was said about the gig Dale um we know he missed last year and did a lot in this league but a lot of people are confident that this can work for you you asked me.

I didn't, yeah, okay, yeah, no, listen, we evaluate players, this is a player we've played against many times and, you know, that's what we do for a living, we talk to people , we evaluate the player, we have a lot. of information and where we are as a team right now, this was the guy that we felt could help take us to the next level. We saw it in his last game that he played in, honestly, he was probably the best player on the field that we've ever had. A lot of players came back from these types of injuries and thrived over time and like I said, we played great games against this guy, remember the game, you know, it was a tough game for John and I. but in New York and I don't know how many yards you had, but it's probably around 200.

It was a lot of yards and our players have a lot of respect for this guy that our fans are going to have. I love watching Odell play football. He is one hundred percent involved. One thing that as a scout we're always looking for is if this guy is going to come in and be 100 percent invested in our program and what we believe in our culture and I have to tell you that after two minutes in Arizona sitting in front of M

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, I had no doubt that that this was the right guy for the team so far. um, you know, a quote that I've always lived by is: You know?

You're only as good as your last game and it could be up for debate, but you know, I think I was on track to be MVP in that game and it's the kind of mentality that I have, it's in my heart since I was a kid like I don't care. worry about coming back from this because I came back from this before and now I'm over the mental part of uh, I'm going to be fine in all of those, yeah, you. I know football is different when you go out there, you get hit, you're going to have to get used to that anyway, but as far as teammates you meet and they come up and can be that guy, I know it's a lot. of younger receivers in the room, but I remember when he was the young receiver he was still kind of the veteran in the room, even when he was the youngest guy, so now I'll be able to teach you a lot of things.

I have learned that I am also one of the people who can always learn from anyone. I can learn from someone much younger than me, much older than me and I think if you're not, you can also learn from them, so if you're not in a place where you can learn and pass on knowledge, then you know you're probably in the wrong place and I'm excited about what you went through to come back and what you said about having Opt Out last year was an emotional process for you when you verbally read this agreement and this has been an emotional couple of days for you.

I think I'm still trying to process the emotions, you know, like everything happened so fast. a very when, when the surgery first happened, two, you know, two or three months after that, it was very difficult for me, um, it was some dark days that I really had to get out of um, and now you know That being here I get the black and the purple or the all black over there and you know that part is behind me and I have a vision, I have a future, I have something that I'm looking forward to, I'm excited, you know?

I'm excited, but I'm also very determined and hungry so I don't know if you know through the smiles that there's still that eye that I really want so much like I'm ready to be great, ready to be great again um I'm ready for that opportunity over the years um including 2019 yeah let's go practice we'll be like with Marlon can you talk to him? um I talked to him I'm gonna have to give him some head butts and we're gonna have to have to have to have to have to hug him hug him and then you know we're on the same team and our goal.

I know that we will surely improve each other every day. I'm excited to be able to work with someone like that. Do you know one of the great Corners of the All Pro Provo Corner league? Butyou can definitely fight and you know they talk to each other a little bit and then you know that's it because we're on the same team. and I know I've already reached out to them to reach out and I think we're both excited about this opportunity. um, you know, at the end of the day, you've never, I haven't. problems with anyone, I don't have any, you know, Bad Blood, nothing like that, life's too short for that, I have, you know, things that happen in my life that are very important, so it's um, I think we're both excited. about that physically, like turning the corner and then secondly, how close are you to what you were? physically when I turned the corner.

I couldn't give you an exact day, but there was definitely a period of time where it was a lot. harder for me and now you know, after a year of removal, I think as you go through those 13 months, 14 months after your surgery, you really start to turn the corner and I look at it, it's the beginning of April, we get to May , June. July August five months until you know we're in the field and up and running and to me that's a long time. I'm very confident, it's time to get to work and I'm excited about it and now, as I say, it's very difficult for a man who has no vision and feels like he has no purpose so he has no direction there's really nowhere to go and that was like you knew the path I was on and this gave me that structure that gave me that excitement again uh You know, I've been waiting for a long time to get back on the field, so I couldn't give you an exact day, but I don't know how to answer exactly, but I guess we'll see in September, but.

I'm excited about that, um, yeah, we're like I said on my Twitter. I said we'll see each other. You know we've had a lot of players come in for free agent physics draft visits. Was there anything in particular? I know you. I know Dell came across before. It's like you don't know each other, but is there anything in particular that you were hoping to learn or knew about Odell when you met him in Phoenix? What was that whole kind of experience? Not just in Phoenix, the whole process probably goes back in time. Up until November of last year, December, we had some conversations throughout those types of conversations, especially where Odell was and we were struggling to try to, you know, make a season and he was struggling to get back on track.

I think he wanted to maybe think about playing at that point and we had some really honest conversations, that's what stood out to me the most, it was just his honesty, you know, he was an open book in terms of what he thought and what he wanted. . do where I was going uh not really trying to sell anything or talk about anything other than this is really where I am, this is what I'm thinking wondering where we were in those conversations and we kind of culminated in Phoenix when we had a chance to be face to face and , uh, just connecting that way, but it was really easy and normal and natural and I was surprised by the openness and the honesty.

Did you have any concerns in deciding to sign here given the uncertainty at the quarterback positions? I mean, if you look at the other situations that I was getting into, everything was uncertain, you know, and it's like I said life is uncertain, um, obviously, I would assume that it's going to work out, you know, I have that faith and that hope. , and uh. Lamar, I know if you're watching, you know, I would love to be able to work with all of you, I'll talk to these guys here and, you know, I hope that gets done, you know, I think when you think. on the Ravens you definitely think about Lamar and I know that's something you know, I was excited about that possibility and, um, life is not certain, you know, just to be brief, yeah, when I get on the field, yeah, um, you know that so it will be. a discussion with the coaches in the training room, like I say, I think I've been in this situation before where this becomes more important on this side of the room than knowing your teammates if you're at OTAs and you were a great guy and you go out on the field during the season and you don't perform.

I don't think your teammates are going to be as good as he was in the OTAs and he was, you know he was there, it's more about that guy. That's going to come up for you on Sundays and be able to produce and, you know, but there's also being in a new group and being able to bond with those guys. I get the balance, so it's something we'll sit down and figure out. but I always, deep down, I always thought that it became more important that way than it really is with the guys that you know, share blood, sweat and tears with and have more hours than your family, so um, yeah , John put together a team and I'm playing it now over the years.

It is more or less art than science. What is the art of incorporating an important personality from the story by integrating into a team where he is part of the team and not alone? the boys, the boys that others know, yeah, you know, it's probably simpler than that, it's just football, so you know, Adele, I don't care who you are in this league, you've been part of teams all your life, you've been In the locker room you've been around guys, it's just part of being part of a team, it's like the practice schedule, you know, everything has a rhythm in terms of what puts us in the best position when we need to play the games in September, you know? so being with the guys in the locker room will be easy, it will be normal, it will be meeting rooms, it will be football, just keep it above football, keep it above a group of guys trying to be the best they can. be and you know we're good, we have good kids, we have a very strong group of people and he's a good person so I'm excited to see him.

I can't wait to be in the middle, you know? getting on the turf and just watching these guys operate together, that's the fun thing for a coach signing, but morgue said he requested the trade in March, the second one, have you talked a little more since that time and what was the conversation like? ? I feel like Lamar wants a speaker, yeah, well, we've communicated since that date. It probably wouldn't be wise for me to talk about those details, because you know Lamar and I have decided together that we were going to argue. That's personally saying that, like I said, we only think of Lamar as the quarterback of this team and we're hoping to get a deal done.

As you all know, it's been a very long process, but many Sometimes the best things in life take a long time and I come back to this guy here, it took a long time to get him here, we started last year and we finally got it done, so you know, these things take time, they take a lot of work and it takes a lot of patience and you know we will continue to work to do what we can to feel like the best team possible in September, win a championship, which is our ultimate goal, it's time for us to you arrive just share the exuberance that we had with me right after that or some of the words and maybe just describe the nature of their relationship is absolutely um you know he seemed excited I think I don't know if he called I called him or whatever, but he was like, you know, obviously, confidence, but he was just excited about it, excited about the opportunity, the possibility and like I can sit here and tell you that I've been in the middle of it.

I have been in the contract negotiation. I've been on a side where you've worked your whole life to get to the NFL first and then the second most important thing is to take care of your family and get your contract, and it's a very important thing. thin line when you know it's your heart that's involved and you're a nice person and you feel like you've done a lot and you deserve this and then the business side gets in the way, it's just the nature of the business that we're like out very, it's very difficult, there's no written script for it or how to handle it or how to deal with it, um, but I could definitely tell that he was, you know, excited about the opportunity to be able to start working if that's the case. introduce yourself, you know, I think at the end of the day, that's, obviously, he's the one I'd love to play with.

Yes, I have seen them for years. He reminds me of one of my favorite players, a guy I grew up with in Atlanta. for a while playing at the Georgia Dome when I was seven eight years old and I remember how Mike Vick looked at me and looked me in the eyes and gave me love, how do you do it, young man, blah, blah, and me, and that made me who I am . I am today in the sense that I was always going to be like that for children. He was always going to be able to show them that love and that's why I think I love children so much is because of how he put that in me.

So I'm excited about this, uh, Lamar, I hope you know that. I hope everything works out for you and gets done. You know, it feels. I can deliver it to you. I'll give it to you, but that's not my problem. on my payroll, so I'm excited about that. I can't, I can't wait for the opportunity and for me, yeah, yeah, well, Todd's excited, I mean, Todd's excited, you know, I'm a little surprised that he's not sitting there. now he's probably drawing a place that you know for Odell and Lamar so yeah that's his coach and they know each other I know they've talked and um he's in the lab you know I've seen some of the drawings so we've got some good stuff, we'll be ready to go, yeah, he's coming up, I really feel like what put him, you know, over the edge, um and like I said, the conversation we had, we just split it in two. men talking, you know, it wasn't so much the business side and everything that was going on, he just made me feel loved, he made me feel like someone wanted me to be here, wanted me to be great, wanted me to be part of this team in this organization and at this point in my life that's all I need is to be loved and that's pretty much the story for me and again that allows me to come here and put my helmet on every day and know that these guys believed in me , you know, you shouldn't say what nobody else did, but they believed in me and that's what I'm going to come here and do my best every day, okay, everywhere you play, numerous teammates team have told me how much.

They love playing with you What a great teammate you are How important that is to you and why do you think they haven't perceived you that way sometimes. I'll be honest, you know I've made mistakes in my past, you know? Who hasn't done it when they were young? Who has the entire world focused on him? Um again. I always tell people you know when he was out there taking one-handed shots, he wasn't holding the camera pointing at her doing the shot saying look. For me, you know it was, you know, I'm not pointing fingers at any of you, but I think the stories came more from there and then the headlines came and the headlines came and D drew this whatever and the way our world works are those five.

The names they take and they run with them and they run with them everywhere they go and that's how it works, but everyone who has ever met me as far as teammates, um, not that I know anyone is going to saying something bad when I When I'm in a room with people it's a completely different, completely different feeling. I definitely think you know I could have done some things differently when I was young, but you know we all live and learn and go through our own experiences. mistakes and here I am now that I can recognize that you know some of the things that I did, but I know who I am as a person and I think that my perception of who I am will always enter the room before I do and that is the nature of where I am at life and I could deal with that, I could live with that deep down because I know who I am and that's just the reality of the situation, obviously your identity as a parent Very clear, can you talk about how your child has changed you as a person and As a player?

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what he does for me when when I look into his eyes or you know, I haven't seen him in a couple of hours and I come home and I could have had the worst and he's at the door, you know what I mean, like there's no words to um, describe that feeling. I remember my mom always used to joke with me, she would say, "Wait until you have a kid" and I thought I already knew and it's a different feeling when I have them in my arms or he's running and I'm running. look at the smile on his face, it has completely changed me, um, you know forever and you can't do it alone, you know his mom is a great mom, my mom is there to take care of him, his aunt is there, his dad It's there, you know everything.

Family is here and they help you know it takes a community to raise it uh and I'm lucky to have that kind of love around me that gives me that support and then I can do what I need to do um and it's You just know, it's What a great team I have. I couldn't do it without any of them. It's the Neptune boost in the off-season when you're building a team and signing Odell gives you that boost at all times, that's an internal feeling or external perception has a that's a deep question uh you know the boost, I think it's really how you attack every day, it's like we just try to accumulate a lot of positive days as best we can, sometimes you can't even, you might not realize it, but we might find some. good taped kids we like in the draft, it might just be signing someone to a minimum contract,You're just racking up good days, being positive, working together, and trying to do everything you can to build the best team you're not always. you're going to hit the home run, you can hit a bunch of singles, you can walk, you can steal a base, there's a lot of different ways to do it, in the end you want to hit some home runs, but certainly for us, you know, like us. approach every day leading up to the draft is like every day coming home, do we get better as a football team?

What did we do today to improve? maybe we saved some capital maybe we signed a veteran maybe we saw a player from Saginaw Valley State that we really like, but you know, that everyday mentality is to build the best team we can. I think if you do that over time you're going to win some games and that's how we approach the roster trying to build the receiver position through the draft in recent years is a priority this offseason to be better, yeah, Yeah. I mean, I think we still believe strongly in the draft and I'm very excited.

To look at our young guys this year, let me say, first and foremost, I'm a big believer in Rashad Devon, James and Tylan, all those guys we brought to Nelson. I mean, we really believe in that group, there are a lot of different ways to attack. the roster and one of the things we thought about it is: is there any way we can bring in a veteran, a proven veteran who has proven that he can win a game for you when you need to win the game? Is there that possibility and you? We know we've tried it in the past, this isn't the first time we've tried it, sometimes you're successful and sometimes you're not, and you know there are a lot of different factors, sometimes you know you might have the best deal and the guy feels very Well somewhere else sometimes you might not win that financial game huh, did I hurt you that much?

No, I'm saying it, but sometimes, but sometimes you might like that a guy doesn't want to play on the East Coast, right? A guy wants to be in Southeast, sometimes a guy you know wants to play for a specific coach or whatever, so there's a lot of different reasons why, but in this case we found the right person to come here. Odell wanted to be here. We wanted Odell a lot and think this will be a great acquisition in the short term and hopefully the long term receiving and three-time wide receivers don't want to come play or not play.

In this offense, did you think about that? It was a factor for you and I mean, do you think that's kind of a misperception? Uh, I mean, I really don't know if I ever thought about that, you know what? just look at number eight, I know he can throw the ball, you know, we always talk about perception and perception versus reality, and you know, there was a perception that Lamar wasn't a pastor and then there's the reality that he could throw the ball all . over the field um so I don't worry too much about perception anymore.

I just live in my reality and for me it was about being loved and you know, I know what Monkin did in Georgia. I know what this team has and what they're built around um again, like I said, I was in Cleveland, so I was in, I was in a running style, you know, I was in the same division, I went to LSU, where we ran the ball all the time, it still went for a thousand yards, you know, in order to have a great passing game, you have to be able to run the ball so it's always balanced.

I really don't think I thought about why there was no one who didn't get ahead. here, I don't know, I don't think I've thought about that, the most popular players in the league and you're one of the ones that unlocks those kinds of things that you can relate to and that helps in terms of locker room chemistry. at least with him in terms of being a popular player, I think once you know, like I say, once we leave here and we're all in the locker room, no, we don't think about that, I don't think about if it wasn't me and walked into the locker room, I wouldn't, maybe it's the kind of person I am, I wouldn't think about you know, oh, what's he like or something or does he have a big personality? you know we're all human you know at the end of the day we all have mothers brothers brothers sisters we all have emotions we all have things we have in common I think that's where the people in the locker room that's how we relate to each other Otherwise, I don't know. it's so much about the external stories or anything, it's more about you know how humans connect with each other, hope to get Lamar's step, you're a head coach dealing with uncertainty while trying to prepare a team which is the first.

While you've been in this position, how has that impacted you? You're out of season, uh no, I think you're in this position, you know it all the time, it's just a different type of circumstance, so you know what positions you need, uh, who. you're looking at who you look at in the draft. I just think it's ongoing. You're always trying to build your team. It's just that this move is a big move. You know, we talked about that. It's an exciting move for us. It's a great move for us. us, but it's a move that we had the opportunity to make and he wants to be here and we wanted him here and he fits perfectly so you know you hit and I think that's true for all the things that Eric was talking about, all the different .

He moves, whatever it is, he tries to build his team, so keep doing it. I'm sure all those things have a way of working themselves out in the end and everything ends up the way it's supposed to be because you do your and everyone's best. We're in a good place, so it hasn't been difficult at all. You know, we're just working hard and trying to make our team the best it can be. Today is a really good day. You know, today is a big day for the team. Ravens John, uh, what kind of changes can be made on offense now within add-ons like Odell, oh yeah, we talked?

I mean, you talk about kind of in philosophical terms or how you're going to try to build the offense. then with that comes the details of how to structure plays and stuff like that, it's not going to be anything like it's going to be, uh oh, we've got Odell, now we're going to run this play, you know, that's how you fit in. all the pieces together within the concept, so we have the concepts that are good for Lamar, good for our offensive line, good for our backs, good for our tight ends and good for this receiving room that we are building the best we can. so you know you put guys even day to day, week to week, in those spots, you know what route he's going to take today, how we're going to try to get them open, you know, against this defense or the coverage that we think they have.

Let's play, do you know what is the best matchup we can find? It's like everyday football. I think so. We have a player like this, he makes it more fun, he gives you more options, you know? and of course a quarterback like Lamar, that even makes him better, so it's fun for a right back coach. If you were there in private work, I wasn't there. We sent a coach, Keith Williams, who was a great evaluator and was excited to get out there. a couple of days, um, we've got the video, we've got the video, watch the video, play it four times with some of the pro staff, coaching scouting staff, some of the coaches, but we just want to see, you know, the number one, accommodation, movement, body control, all the things we look at.

Because in any player, really, how do you catch the ball? How does he adapt to the ball just mechanically? How is he able to drop his weight? Burst speed agility also conditioning and, you know, obviously, controlled environment, but we saw everything we needed to see to know. that he's just going to get better, you know, and that's what happens when a guy has a serious injury in general, he just gets better, it may take time, sometimes it takes longer, but he just gets better. What we saw was extremely encouraging, and you know, I can't wait to see the progression from March to April, from May to September, and that's probably what Jonas is most excited about is that we're getting someone who's ready to explode. new and that you are in the right environment with the right information. quarterback with the right team and the right city, he is the perfect player at the perfect time, thank you