Anquan Boldin Explains How He Handled Ravens' Practices

First of all, the defense that because I don't want to talk because you talked about in Arizona when you knew you had to outscore people. I was a completely different ball game when you got to Baltimore. Yeah. I want to talk about that transition when you got to Baltimore around 2012 and when you was in Baltimore, we talking about Ray Lewis, Ed Reed. So, I mean, did you have Chris McAllister? Was he there? No, Chris had left. Who was the cornerbacks? So, we had Webby, LaDarius Webb. LaDarius Webb. We had Samari was already gone too, right? Yeah, Samari was gone. We had, when I first got there, Dominique Foxworth was there. He had came over from Denver. Like you said, Sohoni Nata, the big dude in the middle. I love it. Man, man. Like talk about that. You know what I'm saying? And playing with those guys. So, I get to, I get to Baltimore. I get to Baltimore and like you said, like in Arizona, we ran the practice offensively. Like our offense dominated. But when I got to Baltimore, like it was just the opposite. Yeah. And I remember getting in training camp and the defense just was punking the offense. You ain't like that. I'm talking like hitting dudes late. Like, yeah, I'm talking like, I'm like, bro, what's going on? Like, what? So, I remember. Like they say, we don't need you anyways. Bro, I remember and but the head coach, he was a defensive coach. So, he loved it. Loved it. So, I remember, I remember we were in training camp. I'm in Westminster and I remember like it happened a couple times like defense was cheap shot and all. So, I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Say, bro, let me tell y'all. One of y'all hit me late. I'm going to stop practicing. Yeah. Like all together and I guarantee you, you're not walking off this field by yourself. Yeah. You do to me what you just did to buddy and bros going down. Like, like that. Because I wasn't, I wasn't used to like defense running to practice but like, I'm like, bro, you can't just cheap shot. And there was some savages over there on the other side too. Bro, they had some savages over there. I'm talking about like, bro, the defense was legit. Yeah, there was some savages over there. We going to fight though. You got to. You got to. You got to. Iron sharp as iron. Bro, I would mess up the whole team. Like, you're not going to walk off this field on your own power if you do that to me. As you should. As you should. But again, the defense, man, it was. But they respect that though. Yeah. They respect that though. But the defense, the defense was. I promise you. The defense, I used to make bets with the defense. I bet I have more, more knockdowns than you. Like, you know what I'm saying? More crackbacks. Yeah. Yeah. And we would, we would have, you know side bets. How many you had today? Yeah. Oh yeah, I had like eight. You know what I'm saying? Like, but when, when you had like, like when I came over, before I got there, they had Derrick Mason. And Mace was, you know what I'm saying? Derrick Mason. Mace was, Mace was good. Yes. Mace wasn't the, the, the physical type receiver. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Mace was a route runner. Mace will route you up. You know what I'm saying? But he wasn't like a physical presence on the field. You were physical. So like, when I got there, we had Ray Rice at running back. We had Willis McGahee. Willis. We had McClane. Yup. And then we ended up getting Ricky Williams. My second year there. But I would go to the coach and, hey coach, run the ball my way first play. Like to set the tone. Yeah. Set the tone. Love it. You got a safety coming down in the box. I'm cracking. And I'm like, man, them dudes love that. I thought we did. Defense love that. Like, so it got them hype. Like, oh man, we got a dog on offense. Like, let's go rock. You know what I'm saying? So, and we knew like, for us, I mean, we, if we score 14, 21 points, like. That was enough. Yeah. That was enough. They gonna hold it down. You know what I'm saying? So, and then we had Ed on the back end. And then we ended up getting BP Pollock. And he was a headhunter. Yeah. I'm talking about like. We already knew like, I mean, obviously, you know, Ed is a hall of famer. Ed gonna do what he do. But you bring a physical presence like BP to the back end. Like of what we already got up front. Yeah, it was lights out. So, when you won, when you won, obviously, you guys win the Super Bowl. You balled out that game. You did your thing. How did that feel? Obviously, being drafted second round and everything you went to, you finally get the opportunity to play in the championship and play well. Well, for me, it was, it was actually my second Super Bowl. Oh, second. Okay. Because in Arizona, we, it was my, my sixth year. It was the first time we made the playoffs. Yes. But that was the year that we made it to the Super Bowl. Yes. So, we made it to the Super Bowl and we ended up losing to Pittsburgh on the last play. That was a Santonio Holmes catch? Yeah. That was a Santonio Holmes catch. On the last play. He's a Florida guy too, is he? Yeah, barely. Okay, Santonio Holmes. Shout out Florida. So, we we lost that game and like only thing I remember saying to myself, I'm coming back but the next time I come back, we winning. And that was that was my goal from like that point on like I'm gonna win a championship. How many years it took you to get back? That was so my sixth year and I wanted my tenth year. So, yeah. So, the year we we got to the Super Bowl, we lost it to Pittsburgh. The following year, we made the playoffs and we lost to the Saints who ended up winning the Super Bowl and then we made the playoffs my first year in in Baltimore. The second year, we made it to the AFC Championship and we missed the field goal to tie it in New England and then we came back the same year, same exact game against New England and we smashed them. Tell you remember all the ones you lost. You can go. You can run through the ones you lost like it wasn't nothing. Yeah. You can run through the ones you lost but they they had you on the sideline saying we ain't losing this game. Yeah. Was that because you had lost before? You're like in the way of hell. Yeah. I ain't getting it done this time. Yeah. That's what's up. That's what's up. You remembered that. My dog. Cuz I I we cuz we went to the forty-niners. We you know what I'm saying? Uh my brother a forty-niners fan so I gotta ask you. I don't even know how to. You from Miami by the way. It's from Miami Liberty City. He's a forty-niners fan. I don't even understand it. So real quick. How was the run with the forty-niners? My brother gonna be mad. It was dope. Um my first year we actually made it to the NFC Championship and we should have won it. We played Seattle. Um and Seattle ended up going to Super Bowl and smashing Denver. There was a blowout. And we were hot because our teams were so similar. Like the team that I was on in in San Francisco and the team um in Seattle. That was pretty much like our our rivalry at that time. Um and we had Navarro who ended up recovering a fumble on the one yard line. And he tours ACL saying play but they didn't give us the fumble recovery. And that's what ended up costing us the game but my time in San Fran was dope. And it was crazy because I played against San Fran in the Super Bowl. Like when I was in Baltimore. Yes. The Harbo. Yeah. Yes. The Harbo. Yeah. Yeah. So we win the Super Bowl. You do know football coach. That's what I do. We win the Super Bowl um in Baltimore and I'm on a trip to to Africa doing some like humanitarian work. Mm hmm. And I get off the plane and I got like literally like 100 text messages. Like congratulations bro. Like like congratulations. What? Like Super Bowl. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. And I hit my agent up. I'm like bro what's going on? Like man they traded you to San Fran. Like they traded me to San Fran. Like what? So you ain't even know. I'm in the air bro. Yeah. Like on my way to be true. Like I'm on my way to Africa. Don't worry about athletes being loyal to the team. They'll trade your ass while you in the air. You don't even know. I got traded and I'm coming back. Um and I'm you know the whole time I'm thinking I'm like San Fran. Oh shoot if I got traded there ain't bad. They were actually in the Super Bowl. You know what I'm saying? So like we it's a legit team. And come back that year. We had a great year. Um ended up winning our our division. And like I said no we actually Seattle won a division. But we made the playoffs wild card. Then we beat Carolina at Carolina. And then we played Seattle in Seattle. Had a great year that year but that that team was man that team was loaded. Like when I tell you like defensively. So you went to another defense. I'm talking about. The hard balls all saying they run them up. Yeah. It was it was it was similar. Yeah. You had Pat Pat Willis Navarro Bowman. Yeah. At line. Yeah I remember them boys. You had Alden Alden Smith. Alden Smith. Oh. Bro when I tell you a freak of nature. When I two two dudes on defense. Yeah. People don't talk about. So when I got to Baltimore Halodinata. I ain't know who Halodinata Halodinata was when I when I came from Arizona. So bro when we were in training camp. They will let him sit out individual drills like offense and defense. I'm like bro. Why is he sitting out? Like who is this dude? So we go. We go team. They let him sit out. Bro. Who is this dude? Man we play the Jets the first game. When I tell you. He is literally taking the ball out of the quarterback's hand as he's handing it to the running back. I say yeah he legit. Yeah he can sit down. If you don't double team him. Damn. Bro he's gonna wreck your game. And then I get to San Francisco. And I'm with Alden. Alden will give you six sacks like it ain't nothing. And I'm not exaggerating. The dude will get a sack and just run to the sideline and go sit down. Like it wasn't no big deal bro. Like he he was actually on on pace to average a sack a game. Which is unreal in the NFL. Wow. Like those two dudes like I played with. I remember seeing him. Hall of Famers. You know what I'm saying? But. Yeah. Peloti and Alden. Man they were they were different bro. That's what's up. I knew Alden Smith cuz he bounced around a little bit. Stay. So he had he had his stint in in San Fran. He ended up getting in some trouble. Yeah get a little trouble. And then. He was talented. Oakland ended up picking him up. And then they released him and then he sat out a couple years and then ended up going to Dallas. Yeah. But man he bro he was a talent though. Here is a dirty little secret that insurance industry may want to keep under wraps. Insurance companies profit by holding on to your money for as long as possible. So after an accident they might do whatever they can to delay or deny your claim. This way they can keep those profits growing. Morgan & Morgan fights hard against these corporations to fight to make sure you get every dollar you deserve. When in court the insurance companies want juries to think that at fault driver is the one paying the verdict amount. Meanwhile, it's really the insurance companies who are covering the cost. When Morgan & Morgan takes on a case there are almost always going after the big insurance companies and not the individuals at fault. Morgan & Morgan fights hard for their clients and these corporations know that. 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