Speaker 1: The Ravens improved to two and zero on Sunday with
Speaker 1: a twenty seven to twenty four victory over the Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 1: hard fought division matchup and an excited locker room after
Speaker 1: that game. After the win, we had a chance to
Speaker 1: hear from head coach John Harbaugh about the victory.
Speaker 2: Team win, rough, tough, physical, smart win, and win with
Speaker 2: playmakers making plays when they had to make plays. Just
Speaker 2: couldn't be more proud of those guys in this environment
Speaker 2: opening day, the crowd was crazy and the team we're playing,
Speaker 2: the Bengals, are outstanding, So that's a that's an awesome
Speaker 2: team win. I'm just proud of every single guy on
Speaker 2: the team. Resiliency, tenacity, you know, long drives, plays made
Speaker 2: when had to be made, stopsmen had to be made.
Speaker 2: Just just an outstanding effort and a great way to
Speaker 2: come in here to open up the the AFC North
Speaker 2: Truck that we're about to go on.
Speaker 3: John.
Speaker 4: I know we talked about this before and you said,
Speaker 4: he you know, you don't talk about as a team,
Speaker 4: but we came in here without five starters, five interest starters,
Speaker 4: and you were still able to beat the two time
Speaker 4: depending to his camp.
Speaker 5: What does that What does that say about it?
Speaker 6: It says a lot. It says a lot about the
Speaker 6: guys that played.
Speaker 2: It says that those guys are starting caliber players that
Speaker 2: played winning football against a great football team in their house.
Speaker 2: You know, That's what it says, and they deserve it them.
Speaker 2: Geno Stone just got a game ball, you know, and
Speaker 2: he played great.
Speaker 6: Football, you know.
Speaker 2: And uh and uh and Pat McCarry had a great
Speaker 2: football And look at the way the offensive line played.
Speaker 2: Offensive line played a great football game. Pass protection was outstanding,
Speaker 2: run blocking was outstanding. Uh, just just all across the board.
Speaker 2: And Pat was a great part that Sam Mustaford stepped
Speaker 2: in and there was just played tremendously well. And then uh,
Speaker 2: of course the corners, I mean, you know, we pressed them.
Speaker 2: We got up there and we pressed them and we
Speaker 2: played well. You know, they weren't they weren't hitting any
Speaker 2: phages on us. You know, our guys played fantastic out
Speaker 2: there on the edges. And it's just it's just really
Speaker 2: just really proud of those guys, really proud of them.
Speaker 7: Lamire seemed like he got better as the game went.
Speaker 5: All us talk about his performance today, I thought, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Thought Lamar played great football. I mean, Lamar played winning football.
Speaker 2: He was you know, he got on rhythm early, hit
Speaker 2: some passes, made some huge plays throwing the ball down
Speaker 2: the field. I mean they played his zay and the
Speaker 2: start off the second half was as good as it gets,
Speaker 2: and they made a great catch. He gave his guy
Speaker 2: a chance and he made the play. Trusted his guy.
Speaker 2: Uh and then of course what he did with his legs.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, he was a difference maker in
Speaker 2: the game, and he does it. He just wants to win.
Speaker 2: Lamar wants to win, you know, That's what Lamar is
Speaker 2: all about. He wants to win, and he wants to
Speaker 2: he wants to help his teammates win. I just just
Speaker 2: so impressed with his competitiveness and how he played today.
Speaker 5: He wins offensively, rush sundry yards sat the field.
Speaker 8: Is fitting to end the game that way, and a
Speaker 8: third one with gust being able to pick up those yards.
Speaker 5: Right up to God.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very fitting. And that's that's kind of Ravens football
Speaker 2: right there. I would say that's I think Ravens fans
Speaker 2: appreciate that play, you know.
Speaker 6: And so SODA's.
Speaker 2: An old coach up in Anrebury Michigan, Jack Carboll, power
Speaker 2: to the right, you know, power to the left, power
Speaker 2: to the right, power to the left.
Speaker 6: That's that's Jack harball football.
Speaker 2: And that's why we we said in there, who's got
Speaker 2: it better than us?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did you hear it?
Speaker 6: What was the answer? What was the answer to who's
Speaker 6: got a better than us?
Speaker 5: Nobody?
Speaker 6: Nobody, nobody? And it was just it was awesome. It
Speaker 6: was a great We love the power play.
Speaker 9: For Lamar on that throw to Nelly, just to trust
Speaker 9: that he's gonna win. I mean, I think when he
Speaker 9: threw it the ball, he was still basically running cipher
Speaker 9: side with him.
Speaker 5: But to put a guy in space like that and
Speaker 5: trust him to go make that.
Speaker 2: Play, I think that's a great observation. I mean, to me,
Speaker 2: that's exactly what it is. And we've been practicing that.
Speaker 2: We've been hitting him in practice. Those guys run great routes.
Speaker 2: Lamar put that thing right where it had to be,
Speaker 2: and and and uh and and Nelly.
Speaker 6: Made a great catch.
Speaker 2: And that's what we're gonna That's not the end of that,
Speaker 2: you know, that's that's a big part of what we
Speaker 2: need to do. When they get up and get in
Speaker 2: your face and press you you have to make him
Speaker 2: pay for it, and Lamar and Nelson did that.
Speaker 5: You have any updates on the back him in the whole way?
Speaker 2: And see, yeah, I don't think it's serious injuries for
Speaker 2: either person. Well, we'll learn more tomorrow, but I don't
Speaker 2: believe either one of those are gonna be serious as
Speaker 2: it looks right now.
Speaker 1: That was head coach Sean Harball. You're listening to the
Speaker 1: Ravens Press Pass podcast after the Ravens beat the Bengals
Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty four on Sunday. We also had
Speaker 1: a chance to hear from quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 5: Beat the defending division champs. What did that say about
Speaker 5: this team?
Speaker 10: Uh, like I've been saying, you know, uh since camp.
Speaker 10: You know, the sky's the limit for this team. You know,
Speaker 10: all phases. I believe we we fought the day how
Speaker 10: were supposed to. You know, had a tough game, like
Speaker 10: you said at the former division champs, A great team
Speaker 10: by the way, all phases as well.
Speaker 6: We you know, we just did what we were supposed
Speaker 6: to do.
Speaker 5: Touchdown Ford and.
Speaker 10: Nelly, Yeah, I seen, I've seen it was man coverage. Uh,
Speaker 10: Nellie one did a great drought get did a great route,
Speaker 10: kept his head down Doug, you know, for a few
Speaker 10: more yards, and made a great catch.
Speaker 5: After last week's.
Speaker 4: Game, cause sort of feeling was the offense haven't quite
Speaker 4: gotten into the rhythm yet.
Speaker 5: Did you feel that coming during the week that you
Speaker 5: were obviously much more comfortable? Uh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, just from experience just playing that first game. Our
Speaker 10: first game was like a preseason game for us, especially
Speaker 10: the starters, cause we haven't played UH in a while together.
Speaker 10: But I feel like today we started up and more.
Speaker 5: Was the rewarding close that game out the way you did.
Speaker 5: I guess it was like three thirty eight and you
Speaker 5: guys took over.
Speaker 9: There to couple of finals just to be able to
Speaker 9: close that game without putting the UH defense back up
Speaker 9: the field.
Speaker 5: How rewarding was that for you guys? Yeah?
Speaker 10: I felt like it was great cause previous years, UH
Speaker 10: we've been finishing with our defense on the field, and
Speaker 10: we really haven't been doing a great job at finishing
Speaker 10: the the last drive for our defense and our special teams.
Speaker 5: And today we did more big pictures. What does this
Speaker 5: this early season win mean for you guys?
Speaker 1: And we know that these two teams have been battling
Speaker 1: in in recent games and you go, kme of here
Speaker 1: that all those players hurt.
Speaker 5: You know, what does this win mean for you guys
Speaker 5: in this division?
Speaker 6: To me, it don't mean nothing anything yet.
Speaker 10: We that's just two wins, you know in the seventeen
Speaker 10: game season. Uh, So we have to stay focused and
Speaker 10: get ready for our next opponents.
Speaker 3: We can't.
Speaker 10: We can deal well today on this victory, but other
Speaker 10: than that, we gotta stay locked down because it's not
Speaker 10: a championship game.
Speaker 9: Did did you bristol it all over the preseason hype
Speaker 9: over the thing was being the AFC my favorites.
Speaker 10: Nah, I was pretty much focused on us, you know,
Speaker 10: and getting focused with this offense, for this new offense,
Speaker 10: and just getting back with my guys and focusing on
Speaker 10: what we have to focus on for.
Speaker 7: You this week as compared to the last week. How
Speaker 7: much more comfortable did you feel?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Uh?
Speaker 10: Our officers line blocked, they tail off every bloud they
Speaker 10: tail off. Guds were getting open. So it made my
Speaker 10: decision making way faster.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 10: I just gotta put the ball away and need to
Speaker 10: be and let those guys do what they do.
Speaker 11: Tell them.
Speaker 1: Martha Jay Flowers said that big play he said, you
Speaker 1: earlier in the game and he felt like that would
Speaker 1: be there again h later. Did you feel like, what
Speaker 1: what does it say about a young player to kind
Speaker 1: of see that and it sees the moment when you
Speaker 1: give him a chance.
Speaker 6: We've seen it.
Speaker 3: We've seen it together.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: They they went cover zero when he was open on
Speaker 10: the post and I had to get the ball out
Speaker 10: my hand, you know, but the line did a great job.
Speaker 3: So and uh, you know, just watching.
Speaker 6: Film and knowing what they was gonna do.
Speaker 10: You know, we had a crossing road and I seen
Speaker 10: the safety driving on that cross road and say, you know,
Speaker 10: he gonna get away from you know, corners and stuff
Speaker 10: like I got explosive, god fast guy. I just had
Speaker 10: to give him a chance and he made a heck
Speaker 10: of a catch.
Speaker 8: This year, there's so much attention on the improved group
Speaker 8: of pass catchers.
Speaker 5: Does a game like this show you that you guys
Speaker 5: are gonna need everybody? I mean I think pretty much.
Speaker 8: You know, Eja went down, but it seems like everybody
Speaker 8: got involved at one point or another and made a
Speaker 8: big play.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, we gonna need everyone.
Speaker 3: We showed that today.
Speaker 10: You know, everyone touching the ball getting yards after the catch,
Speaker 10: keeping the chains moving. We're gonna need everyone, you know,
Speaker 10: praying everyone stay healthy and we just stay locked in.
Speaker 5: A knock there on that.
Speaker 6: I'm good.
Speaker 10: I'm good, like a little stinger in my in my
Speaker 10: in my hand, but I'm good good.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson. Tight End Mark Andrews also
Speaker 1: returned to the lineup and caught a touchdown, passing his
Speaker 1: first game of the season. Really big for this team,
Speaker 1: and he talked with reporters after the game.
Speaker 9: What do you think, click, I mean, I know you
Speaker 9: weren't on the field last week, but obviously you were
Speaker 9: watching close, so you're watching them.
Speaker 8: What did you feel like was a big difference between
Speaker 8: what you guys were able to do in the step
Speaker 8: you took offensively.
Speaker 12: I just think we were sharp, you know, I think
Speaker 12: we were efficient. You were we were doing our doing
Speaker 12: our job.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 12: I think at at the end of the day, we
Speaker 12: all just got to do our.
Speaker 5: Job and it will be the best that we can be.
Speaker 12: So I thought guys came out here focused, ready to go,
Speaker 12: and and a lot of big plays made from everybody.
Speaker 12: There's things we got to clean up, and that's the
Speaker 12: exciting part. Just keeping a level head, getting better each
Speaker 12: and every day. That's the main goal.
Speaker 5: How many friend kid Lamar looked to you today, I think,
Speaker 5: I mean he looked incredible. He looked incredible.
Speaker 12: I always think that though, But so you know some
Speaker 12: of the some of his ball placement, like like Tanelly
Speaker 12: z A Flowers, those are two big time, big time throws,
Speaker 12: big time catches, and you know, guys step up and
Speaker 12: make plays like that, we're going to win some games.
Speaker 7: What it means to you to be the guy that
Speaker 7: he leaned on in some critical situations and to score
Speaker 7: a touchdown your first game.
Speaker 12: Just trying to be there for him, you know, I mean,
Speaker 12: I mean he just he's on the money. Yeah, that's
Speaker 12: that's money Lamar. And I'm just thankful to be able
Speaker 12: to play with him. He makes my job easy. So
Speaker 12: just trying to make plays and there's things that I
Speaker 12: need to clean up and get better at. But that's
Speaker 12: the exciting thing moving forward. It's my first one and
Speaker 12: I'm excited to play the next couple of games.
Speaker 5: Were talking about.
Speaker 1: How hard you been working to get back on the field,
Speaker 1: But what did it mean to you to get back
Speaker 1: and come up?
Speaker 5: As they played and touchdown in your.
Speaker 12: First team A lot, a lot. You know, we've I've
Speaker 12: worked hard to trying to get back here. And this
Speaker 12: was actually the last game that I played was in
Speaker 12: the playoffs, So just kind of like riding a bike.
Speaker 12: But it's good to be back here, good to play
Speaker 12: here again. And I thought the team fought hard. I'm
Speaker 12: very proud of these guys and proud to call these
Speaker 12: guys my brothers.
Speaker 9: You guys are as good as you know you think are.
Speaker 9: The Bengals are as good as you think they are.
Speaker 5: I mean, what could this win mean long term?
Speaker 12: You know, I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 12: it's not getting too high or too low. It's being
Speaker 12: a team that keeps their head down, stays focused, moves
Speaker 12: in a straight line, and it just.
Speaker 5: Gets better each and every day.
Speaker 12: You know, we'll take our wins. They're hard to come
Speaker 12: by in the NFL, but we know that any given Sunday,
Speaker 12: anything could happen. So if we keep our head down,
Speaker 12: we keep working, keep trying to get better, keep working
Speaker 12: on the details, Uh, we're gonna be a good teams.
Speaker 5: So just encourage my.
Speaker 12: Guys to keep a level head and and uh, let's
Speaker 12: get this thing rolling was.
Speaker 5: The motivation, you know, losing three straight here?
Speaker 7: Was there a chip on your guys shot coming in here,
Speaker 7: like we gotta we gotta snap that.
Speaker 5: It's the division game, you know.
Speaker 12: Obviously we've had a you know, kind of a rough
Speaker 12: pass in history last year and the year before. But
Speaker 12: like I said, I'm probably the way the guys fought,
Speaker 12: there was definitely some energy and it's a good divisional win.
Speaker 9: Did you I know it's different seasons, different teams, but
Speaker 9: did you take any outside amount of conference from the
Speaker 9: fact that you kind of had them on the roops
Speaker 9: last year with a bunch of guys missing.
Speaker 5: I didn't really think about that. You know.
Speaker 12: Obviously, you go into a game and you've got to
Speaker 12: trust your guys, trust to trust your brothers, and just
Speaker 12: thankful that you guys came out here today and it
Speaker 12: made some big time play as we spread the ball
Speaker 12: around and uh I did their thing, running backs to
Speaker 12: their thing. It's an exciting thing to see.
Speaker 5: Do you think offensively, I know there's way you still
Speaker 5: have to go, but.
Speaker 13: You showed today when you need the big plays and
Speaker 13: when you have the long catch on like second twenty three, but.
Speaker 5: You also show you could run the clock out when
Speaker 5: you need it and get to yours and the ground.
Speaker 8: You think kind of today showed the breath of potential
Speaker 8: that you guys have offensive.
Speaker 5: Leads to, you know, get to face teams in different ways.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think, you know, great offenses are able to
Speaker 12: do a lot of different things and and maybe it's tempo,
Speaker 12: maybe it's four minutes, maybe it's you know, just just
Speaker 12: different things and that requires everybody to be on the
Speaker 12: same page and focusing on the details. And I think
Speaker 12: that was something that was good to see today. Obviously
Speaker 12: there was that one drive you kind of started off
Speaker 12: and got that five yard penalty, But you know, there's
Speaker 12: just little things to clean up like that. We're gonna
Speaker 12: We're continue to be a better team, just being efficient,
Speaker 12: not making mistakes. Those are hard teams to beat.
Speaker 9: Mark, I think you guys have every time you've gone
Speaker 9: up tempo and like Burd'm short this season, you've got it.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 9: Well, I guess you could just talk about kind of
Speaker 9: the advantages that Tom munkin it is giving this offense
Speaker 9: in ways that maybe you know previously.
Speaker 12: I just think situationally talk he talks about being a
Speaker 12: coordinator and what that means, and that's being coordinated. And
Speaker 12: and so I think that you know, when he uh,
Speaker 12: when he talks about that, it hits home because you know,
Speaker 12: that's what we need to be. We need to be coordinated.
Speaker 5: We need to be on the same page.
Speaker 12: And if that means go faster, if that means you know,
Speaker 12: to slow it down, whatever it means. We got to
Speaker 12: be on the same page, like I said before, and
Speaker 12: and just do our job. And I think guys did
Speaker 12: a good job of that today.
Speaker 1: In the Ravens locker room, it was clearly an excited
Speaker 1: atmosphere and we talked with a better on linebacker ro
Speaker 1: Quan Smith about setting the tone for this team. Uh,
Speaker 1: we'll work on. What does this win mean? I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys came in here shorthanded divisional game and we're
Speaker 1: able to come up with a very big victory.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 15: First, I don't I didn't see us being shorthanded. I
Speaker 15: got faith in every guy has h step out down
Speaker 15: to the field with us. So it was an amazing
Speaker 15: vigory coming in here, taking over their place, getting a dub.
Speaker 15: And you know, obviously the guys talk a lot, you know,
Speaker 15: don't have a lot respect for a lot of individuals, so.
Speaker 3: You know, you take you take that stuff personal.
Speaker 15: But it was a great win for the team, and
Speaker 15: I'm just excited to be able to head back to
Speaker 15: Baltimore on the plane relaxing feet kicked up with a
Speaker 15: nice dub.
Speaker 7: What does kind of exercising the demons from last year
Speaker 7: mean to the seed?
Speaker 3: Oh, it means a lot. Last year is a whole
Speaker 3: nother thing.
Speaker 15: But definitely for us that was here over ninety percent
Speaker 15: of the team, you know, we definitely knew exactly what
Speaker 15: it felt like, you know.
Speaker 3: So, but it's a new year.
Speaker 15: We're excited that we came in here to the jungle
Speaker 15: that I think they called his place, I'm not sure,
Speaker 15: h and we got the job done.
Speaker 9: What's it mean to see Geno make a huge play
Speaker 9: like that?
Speaker 15: So proud of Geno for the play he made. Man,
Speaker 15: I think Burrow thought he had me. I was hogh
Speaker 15: loow and me or something, But we had another trick.
Speaker 15: So that was an amazing play by Geno. I'm excited
Speaker 15: for him and the way he stepped up made the
Speaker 15: play and I thought, if he probably didn't run out
Speaker 15: of gas he cut it back across, maybe could have
Speaker 15: had six.
Speaker 1: We heard everyone kind of excited in here with the
Speaker 1: locker room. Can you describe what this atmosphere was like
Speaker 1: when you guys came here to celebrate this.
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, it was an excited in the atmosphere for sure.
Speaker 15: You know, back back to the when I'm not having
Speaker 15: a lot of respect, you know, saying a lot of
Speaker 15: things about this and you know, doing this stuff after
Speaker 15: they won last year in the playoffs, some things about nature.
Speaker 15: So revenge is best served as a cold dish. So
Speaker 15: it's great to come in here start their year off.
Speaker 15: Oh and two into a the division too, if I'm
Speaker 15: not mistaken. So it's it's great and you know we're
Speaker 15: happy about it, but we're on to next week.
Speaker 4: Great man.
Speaker 9: Yeah, John's talks appreciations about how impressed he is by this.
Speaker 9: Coaches gay you guys, you know, it seemed like they
Speaker 9: didn't really have any answers to what you guys had.
Speaker 5: Did you feel like extremely well prepared just coming to
Speaker 5: this game? They?
Speaker 15: Oh, absolutely, I feel well prepared weekend and week out
Speaker 15: with Mike at the hem and with it being echoed
Speaker 15: through Z my position coach and on the back end,
Speaker 15: D D Wilson and d will and Chris, those guys
Speaker 15: the way they prepare weekend and week out. Man, I
Speaker 15: got a lot of respect for those guys in the
Speaker 15: way they had those guys ready to step up today.
Speaker 15: You know, some say shorthanded, but like I said earlier,
Speaker 15: I got the most respect and faith and every guy
Speaker 15: that stepped onto the field with us.
Speaker 1: The man next to him. Patrick Queen also had a
Speaker 1: big role in limiting this Spangals defense that he talked
Speaker 1: about that today.
Speaker 16: A couple of different guys gave speeches pre game. Can
Speaker 16: you kind of talking about like what the message Russ
Speaker 16: from like ro Kwan and some of the guys in
Speaker 16: and how they helped you guys.
Speaker 3: For this one. Just come out and play our football.
Speaker 11: I think that's the biggest thing that we were all
Speaker 11: talking about, just being physical, Uh, not giving them anything, Uh,
Speaker 11: just coming out playing our type of game played to
Speaker 11: the best of our ability to play raven football.
Speaker 16: Did you guys have Obviously every divisional game has kind
Speaker 16: of an edge to it, but do you guys have
Speaker 16: a little bit more of an extra one of this
Speaker 16: one just given how the last few games have gone.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we definitely definitely had more motivation this one. You know,
Speaker 11: we had a couple of players out each time and
Speaker 11: not try to make it excuse well still laying those
Speaker 11: games still could have won, those games, still should have
Speaker 11: won those games. And uh, now you got everybody back,
Speaker 11: and you know, it still was a close game, you see,
Speaker 11: and that's how the Visios games be. And uh, we
Speaker 11: had chances to get off the field on those scores
Speaker 11: and we just didn't.
Speaker 5: So it's up.
Speaker 11: It's definitely something improving. But as a whole, we got
Speaker 11: everybody back, so we just gotta keep this rolling.
Speaker 7: What was your mentality given all the injuries? You know,
Speaker 7: I think a lot of people saw how banged up
Speaker 7: you were and said.
Speaker 11: You know, I mean we know, uh who we got
Speaker 11: any in in our uh on our team and stuff,
Speaker 11: and you know, we got all the confidence and everybody
Speaker 11: just step up and do their job.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 11: We got the coaches, we got the game plan, we
Speaker 11: got to player. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 11: as long as we got eleving on the field on
Speaker 11: both sides were good.
Speaker 5: Patrick.
Speaker 8: You were asked this week what difference kend of Lamar
Speaker 8: Jackson making uh Cincinnati?
Speaker 5: What was it like.
Speaker 11: Watching the healthy with Mark Jackson on the sideline run
Speaker 11: at all those unanimous MVP for a reason.
Speaker 7: H M.
Speaker 11: Lamar's gonna make plays. Lamar's gonna do what his do
Speaker 11: his job to the best of his ability every time.
Speaker 11: And you know, as a defense, we got his back,
Speaker 11: you know, the one turnover, We had his back if
Speaker 11: we had to go out.
Speaker 5: On the field and stuff.
Speaker 11: And at the end of the day, we have a
Speaker 11: out of the faith in him to go out there
Speaker 11: and make those plays that he made. And you see
Speaker 11: him at the end of the game he took over.
Speaker 8: Not that you wouldn't want him to go back out
Speaker 8: there and finish that game with defense on the field,
Speaker 8: but what was it like, you know, everyone knew they
Speaker 8: were gonna run that offense and they were still get
Speaker 8: the yard tools that like to see them close that out.
Speaker 11: There, We know they could do that. And that's what we were,
Speaker 11: me and him actually talking about that just now. It
Speaker 11: was just there's so many opportunities out there for us
Speaker 11: to make plays, and we just got to capitalize every time.
Speaker 11: We capitalize every time. It's really should be no team
Speaker 11: that can stay on the field with us. We just
Speaker 11: got to take it upon ourselves to make those plays.
Speaker 1: I just you and rowand kind of take it upon
Speaker 1: yourself to be the tones centers on this defense. It
Speaker 1: felt like that even more so today. I mean, how
Speaker 1: do you guys try to take take on that challenge,
Speaker 1: especially in a physical game like this.
Speaker 11: We want to be great man, you know the guy
Speaker 11: became before us.
Speaker 3: Trying to make them.
Speaker 11: Proud, try to make our families, probably try to make
Speaker 11: ourselves proud, and just try to play for one another.
Speaker 3: I think when you do that, you got a good.
Speaker 5: Recipe for success.
Speaker 1: Another player who talked with the media is safety Kyle Hamilton,
Speaker 1: and he discussed what this win meant for the Ravens.
Speaker 9: Gus said that Lamar and Rowan Roman, those who stood
Speaker 9: up before the game kind of delivered some words. What
Speaker 9: stuck out about their message?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean those are obviously two better players on
Speaker 14: our team and leaders on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 14: So I think when they talk, guys really listen and
Speaker 14: the gist of it, I think it's we used need
Speaker 14: to go out there and in our respect every single week.
Speaker 14: I think we took a big step towards that today,
Speaker 14: But it's only week two. We got a long way
Speaker 14: to go, and uh making our way there on a
Speaker 14: good path. But still gotta gotta grind it out every week.
Speaker 14: One to tell him this defense, Uh he's loud. You
Speaker 14: probably hear him if you're in the one hundreds around
Speaker 14: the stadium, but uh no, I mean he's he's His
Speaker 14: energy is infectious. You don't want to be the guy
Speaker 14: that isn't matching his energy when you're out there. So
Speaker 14: I think he kind of we go as he goes
Speaker 14: kind of thing. That's a credit to him and the
Speaker 14: way that he plays and the way that he's always plays.
Speaker 3: It's why he's so great.
Speaker 5: And I think.
Speaker 14: Without him out there, it's a completely different deference. He's
Speaker 14: just topped the bottom mentally physically, he gets his going how.
Speaker 7: To work with you and Gino playing side by side,
Speaker 7: And is that interception gonna be one year?
Speaker 1: You're talking about a lot when you're playing video games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 14: Shout out to my boy Gino on his first regular
Speaker 14: season picked today.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 14: We saw that play and practiced out the week and
Speaker 14: we're talking pre snap before it happened and lucky. I'm
Speaker 14: glad that he got the pick. He needs to cut
Speaker 14: that back though and take it to the crib. We
Speaker 14: had some blockers ready for I thought I was gonna
Speaker 14: hit the Bobby Bouchet down the sideline for him, But
Speaker 14: now he played great. I think he let us and
Speaker 14: tackles too, so I think he's just getting started as well.
Speaker 9: Kind of how much trusted the show agains and the
Speaker 9: guy like Brandon he's matched up. I think mar chanks
Speaker 9: one on one and you know, Gino has the court,
Speaker 9: has the half field, and he moves over the middlefield
Speaker 9: to pick that off.
Speaker 5: I mean, what was that saying that?
Speaker 9: Just him being the guy who knows where to be
Speaker 9: and trust on the rest.
Speaker 5: Of the defense.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's just no one to do. But playing in
Speaker 14: stinks you at the same time, you don't want to
Speaker 14: let your brain slow your feet down. But we know
Speaker 14: that they wanted him on the fade in the boundary
Speaker 14: red zone. I'm sure everybody the league knows that, and
Speaker 14: they've done it a lot in the past. They've had
Speaker 14: success with it. So shout out to b Steve for
Speaker 14: keeping his leverage and taking that away, and then Gino
Speaker 14: for holding the backside and then puts it to the
Speaker 14: fielding in the pig. It was really just a perfect
Speaker 14: play all around the back end. It's just fresh and
Speaker 14: coverage working together.
Speaker 9: Did you guys learn anything from beating Cincinnati early last year?
Speaker 9: You know, things happening down the stretch where you are looking.
Speaker 5: Up at them and they yes, you know work at
Speaker 5: the end. I mean, like, how much stock.
Speaker 9: Do you put into the win like this in Cincinnati
Speaker 9: considering just how long.
Speaker 5: The season is.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean these wines matter at the end of
Speaker 14: it all. Just because we're in week two doesn't mean
Speaker 14: that it's not gonna have any implications from week seventeen
Speaker 14: and sixteen. So and at the same time, we won
Speaker 14: all our division's games the first go around last year
Speaker 14: and then lost all of them in the second game.
Speaker 14: So we still got a long season ago. They're still
Speaker 14: a really good team. We're going to see him again
Speaker 14: and refocus.
Speaker 1: We also talked with running back and Gus Edwards, who
Speaker 1: sealed game with a big run to give the ray
Speaker 1: was a first down and put them in a position to
Speaker 1: deal out the game and get the win. He talked
Speaker 1: about that today.
Speaker 4: What does it mean come in here, guys not fully
Speaker 4: healthy and so it would come in and beat the
Speaker 4: Beagles on their home field.
Speaker 3: I mean they oldest one.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: I think it was a great team win.
Speaker 13: A lot of guys, different guys made it plays on
Speaker 13: both on offense and on defense.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: We started a game with a little bit of.
Speaker 13: With a little bit of adversity with that with that
Speaker 13: kick return, but God's bounced back and we kept on fighting.
Speaker 7: What you mean to finish the game with power running,
Speaker 7: just to move the chains like that and finish it
Speaker 7: out the game.
Speaker 13: On offense, credit to the old rune. I mean, everybody
Speaker 13: knew what Tom it was. It was pretty much for
Speaker 13: a minute offense and we needed to get first downs
Speaker 13: and everybody had that mindset that it was first down.
Speaker 1: So do you feel that the offense as a hole
Speaker 1: was coming into its own.
Speaker 13: Yes, Yes, I feel like we show a lot of
Speaker 13: a lot of just let's potential. Every every now and then,
Speaker 13: we show a lot of potential. Like I said, a
Speaker 13: lot of different guys touching the balls and making plays
Speaker 13: and we loaded. We just gotta we just gotta keep
Speaker 13: building off of that and just keep getting better.
Speaker 7: What was practice like this week? And what was Todd
Speaker 7: Monkin like after last week?
Speaker 3: Fired up? Fired up?
Speaker 13: I mean he's a real he's a real grinder, he he,
Speaker 13: he loves to to to win. He likes spreading the
Speaker 13: ball around, and he bring energy when we when we
Speaker 13: play good, and he keeps it real a hundred percent
Speaker 13: of the time.
Speaker 3: So yeah, gotsa.
Speaker 9: Did anyone you know step up three games to time
Speaker 9: and deliver that the fiery speech?
Speaker 5: I mean that, I like that.
Speaker 13: A lot of different guys roll quand said something that
Speaker 13: that got everybody going with Mark said song. A lot
Speaker 13: of different gods said a lot of things. I everybody
Speaker 13: knew what type of game it was, what Tom it was.
Speaker 13: So yeah, we kept on fighting and we we got it.
Speaker 3: Gun.
Speaker 7: What's it mean for you personally to step into a
Speaker 7: lead leading role along with Justice and kind of step
Speaker 7: in and play it.
Speaker 6: Well with jk out?
Speaker 13: It means a lot, And I mean, this is what
Speaker 13: you want. You want, you want the ball in your hands.
Speaker 13: You wanna make place and contribute to the team. So
Speaker 13: I'm grateful for the opportunity and I just gotta keep
Speaker 13: making the best of it.
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