WEBVTT - John Harbaugh & Coordinators: Ravens Practice 1/25 Press Conferences 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.400 You're listening to the Raves Press Past podcast. It is Thursday, 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.560 January twenty fifth. Today we had a chance to hear 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:09.000 from head coach John Harbaugh. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.560 Beautiful day, weather turned out good, the fog finally cleared. 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.800 Once the fog cleared, we were okay. We weren't sure. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.320 You know, it took a while, but guys were high 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.480 spirited and in focused. So we're happy with where we're 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:24.840 at and still got plenty of work to do before 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:26.439 before we play on Sunday. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:27.480 So what questions you have. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:29.280 John, I know you have a lot going on here, 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.920 but have you congratulated your brother and just thoughts of 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:32.720 him coming. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:33.320 Back to the NFL? 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.519 I have, I have, and my thoughts are we play 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.680 him next year. So we're looking forward to all of it. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:40.800 You know. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.560 I'm just very happy for him, proud of him, excited 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.200 for him, excited for his family. I heard my mom 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.479 and dad told me that he called back in the 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.920 evening and he found out that all of his kids, 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.640 starting with Addie and Katie, had their bags packed already. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.680 They're ready to go, so they're excited too. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:57.920 So it's gonna be great. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.200 He's well deserved. And I'll say this the Chargers just 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:02.360 got themselves one great coach. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.039 You don't you have a bit. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.360 Of an unorthodox practice and that you're rotating out players 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.840 and left and right tackle. You've been doing that for 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.640 a few weeks. And what makes that work with the 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.440 players that you have as a part of the system. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:17.119 Is the talent? 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.440 What is helping make that work? 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:20.160 The pig the page. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:21.040 Yeah, that's a good question. 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.360 Probably the biggest thing is we've got good players capable 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.240 of doing it. You know, Pat and Daniel step in 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.880 there and play very well and when you it's not normal. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.840 I understand that it's not something you see very often, but. 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:32.959 We're able to do it. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:34.960 And it was kind of started with you know, the 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.280 knicks that the guys had and tackle between Ronnie and Morgan, 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.959 and it just has really done. It's been good for us. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.679 It's something we found and we're happy with it. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.360 You a strategic advantage just due to the differences in 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:47.920 their size and their play style. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:49.360 Is that something it all considered? 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:50.120 It might be. 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:51.640 You know, we really haven't talked too much about it. 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:53.200 I mean, we just want to run the plays and 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:54.560 have the guys go in there and execute to the 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.760 best of their ability. Everybody plays their way, you know, 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.080 so get the job done your way. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.559 The coach for Darting grim real quickly. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.600 If he does come in to watch the game this weekend, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.080 you expect him to be wearing Ravens. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.280 That's such a great question because I actually thought about that, well, 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.200 Jimmy wearing Ravens gear if he comes in for the 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.520 game this weekend. I don't know the answer to that. 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.720 We may have to require it perhaps, I mean, you know, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.079 so that's a good questions. 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:21.320 New Division rivals. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:26.840 Oh yeah, that's right, that's right. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.760 Yeah, okay, I can't help. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.120 But no, see when I go back and look at 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.560 the twenty twenty one Chiefs game that you guys beat 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.760 him here, Lamar's emotions, especially in the fourth down call, 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.000 was that a. 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.120 Big hurdle for him to get past the team like 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.040 that and what they've done? 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.200 And when he approaches this game, do you see that 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.160 kind of mentality in him to get past one of 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:49.680 the top teams to get where he needs to go. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.200 Yeah, I think it's always part of all of us. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.560 We all want to, you know, accomplish the next thing. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.519 So that that particular game something well one that was 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.799 you know, a good memory Force and we're proud of it. 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.720 Seems like it was a long long time ago and 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.480 this game coming up is the immediate challenge right in 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.480 front of us. And really that's kind of really all 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.240 really thinking about all the other things are part of it, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.679 but not focused on those things right now. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.680 John with with Mark or Andrews. The continuing practice out there, 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:20.799 I mean, does it look like then he's gonna be 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:21.680 able to fight one. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:26.639 Sunday, Mark practice went through the whole practice, and we'll 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.120 just kind of see on all those things how they 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:29.120 go and if guys are ready to. 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.200 Go, Nona. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.480 You guys already started to you know what, the idea 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.440 that maybe he will be available. Mark did the idea 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.520 of you know, putting him finding ways to exploit the 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.040 defense with him and likely on the field. 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:43.600 Yeah. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.480 I mean that's just a great way to ask the 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:50.480 question and really very creative, and really it's just gonna 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.280 be you know, you gotta get through practices and you've 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.560 gotta you've got to come back the next day. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:55.160 Okay. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.280 You know, so if I stand up here and start 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:58.720 telling you guys are gonna play, then they no play. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.280 You're gonna be looking at me like, well, you know, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.280 I'm I'm steering you the wrong way either way. You know, So, 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:04.920 like I said, I made a Viob's just not going 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.480 to get into it. You know, not a doctor, don't 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.080 make predictions. But who's going to play? But all the 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.280 guys who are active and then the receiving corps, all 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:13.960 the guys will have a chance to get out there 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.480 and make some catches. And I'm rooting for all. I 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.520 promise you that one is. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.720 You see injury, something that could sign to Sunday. 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.680 I don't know yet to see John. 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.799 The league changes so much your year alone every ten years. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.479 Or so, it's the last time you were in this game, 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.120 Like do you do you can you use that experience 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.280 for this week or is it just like too much 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:38.400 time as fast a different food. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:39.960 But it's not that it's not as relevant as you 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.200 might think. It's come up like a championship game. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.440 like yeah, since you've done well. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.720 Yeah, I mean, I guess you can in the sense 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.080 of the perspective of of U the opportunity, you know, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.800 and how far you've come and the opportunity to go further, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.360 how valuable that want to know is right now? I 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.520 want to know is really valuable and you've you've you've 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.560 made it valuable because all the investments you've made going 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.000 into it. Right, So this this particular one to know, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.039 it's a it's a it's a bigger benefit than want 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.800 to know maybe second or third week of this season, 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:08.719 even though that was really an important one to know. 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.240 So our guys understand that. But that's just kind of intuitive. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:13.919 I don't think you have to necessarily play in one 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:14.719 of these to know that. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:16.160 But we're just. 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:21.080 Focused on the game itself, the opponent, our our our responsibilities, 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.320 our assignments, our techniques, and trying to be as ready 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:25.640 as we can to play a good football game. 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.239 John, who gives the better pre game speech? 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:29.320 Between you and Rokwon? 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.120 He's the best? 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.040 Well he's the best now, I mean him and Ray 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.920 would be probably the better comparison. You have to at 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.280 some point in time that would be really interesting, like 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:46.799 have a pregame speech off right between Ray and Roe Kwan. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:54.320 You could sell that length before you have got time 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:54.520 for it. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:59.320 That's right, that's a good question. All right, thanks everybody appreciate. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:03.640 It, I would say, coach John Harball. We also heard 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.960 from the coordinators that's kick things off a special teams 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:07.040 coordinator Chris Horton. 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:08.799 Good to see everyone. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:10.400 Uh, what questions you f. 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.480 Chris when you have vantaged point what happened on the. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.239 Pump return touchdown? 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.800 You know one of the things is, uh, you know, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.720 everything we do obviously always starts with you know, uh, 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.599 giving guys punt direction. And I think when the ball 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.040 when the ball didn't go where they expected it to go, 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.479 I mean pretty much all eleven guys at that point 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.920 there was there was a breakdown and that ball got 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.200 to uh Sims pretty quickly. Uh, and he was able 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:37.800 to just kind of hit us, split us right up 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.919 the middle. You know, It's just it's just a combination 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.240 of uh, everything going wrong at at the same time. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:45.040 Uh, you know, and. 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.520 Those when those things happen on those plays, Uh, you 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.440 kind of just kind of go back and you look 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.239 and you ask, and you say, hey, man, we gotta 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.440 we gotta defend this play better, regardless of word that 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.480 ball is, we need to make adjustments a lot quicker. 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.160 And that's really what happened on that play. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:06:59.520 Chris. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.479 Give the couple of games with some of the weather, 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.680 feel like they're pretty well prepared in case what they're 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:05.880 being rained in the forecast to. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.160 Get you know, I would think so, you know, we've had, 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.040 we've had an opportunity to play in in some of 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.400 these games with with weather, and you know, we just 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.600 gotta we gotta go out there no matter what the 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:17.760 what the conditions are. You know, we got to do 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.720 our best to execute at a high at a high level. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.440 Every team is going to be at that at the 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.160 same advantage point, right uh with the weather. But I 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:27.840 think we're pretty prepared for it, and I think our 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.680 guys will be ready to handle it. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.440 These games this time of year, they tend to usually 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.760 come down to the kicker at times. I mean, what 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:38.960 how does it feel to to have a guy like 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.080 Justin Tuckle on your sidelines knowing it could come down. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.160 To his leg? Yeah? 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.720 With Justin Man, the one thing you know about him 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.680 is he's always ready for the moment. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:49.400 These situations. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.720 This guy, this guy lives for he prepares for uh 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.200 daily and on Sundays, Man, when the lights are, when 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.240 the lights are at their biggest stage, Man, he shows 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.840 up and uh, you know, if his numbers and and 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.400 and that's what we need, I think he's gonna go 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.200 out there with all three of those guys, you know, 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.440 because it starts with the snap, then the hole didn't 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.680 the kick. But having him around, man, it's a it's 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.320 obviously a luxury. 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:12.200 Cool. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:13.000 All right, thank you coach. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:13.640 Thanks guys. 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.200 That was Chris Harden. We also heard from defensive coordinator 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:19.960 Mike McDonald. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:30.640 All Right, good to see everybody. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.920 Scaring enough to play. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:31.600 This weekend. 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.240 But have you talked about the fact that you may 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.840 be going against your own old Boston sometime next season? 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.360 And Uh no, I haven't. 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.000 I actually didn't even know what you're talking about, is 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:45.800 the question? 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.440 Like he just talks about road Fund's leadership and what 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.080 you feel like he's done to kind of lift up 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:57.280 the rest of the defense, the rest of the. 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:01.120 Players that uh tough to find a place to start. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.120 I mean, he's he's the guy we look to, you know, 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.560 when when we need something to be said, he knows 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.720 what to say. And when I think, I think, you know, 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.960 what's cheeky about him is what shows up on the 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.280 field has backed up all the talk. When you play 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.120 the style football that he plays, you know, it's contagious 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.640 and the guys see it and it pops off off 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.079 the screen. We talk about expectations and playing like a raven. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.040 You know that that's what it is, so you don't 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.880 need to explain it. You just show it and the 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.480 guys understand it so well. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.360 You prepare for the putum, like I presume you need 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.000 to start with the quarterback. You look at the list 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:37.640 of things he does well and try to take that 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.760 away as you prepare for a patrickball home where. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.880 He well, it's a long list of the stuff that 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.120 he does well. It's a great question. You know, if 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.719 if we had the answer, if people the answer was 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.559 out there, you know, he probably wouldn't be in this game, 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.199 you know, so or. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:55.920 Have the consistent success that he's had. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.680 So hats off to them, and and the type of 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.360 player is an ultimate comp editor. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:02.760 Uh so you know, we have our handsful. It's a 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:03.559 great challenge. 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.840 You know, there's things situationally obviously that you feel like 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.880 that we do well that you're gonna want to be 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.880 able to, you know, exploit, you know, given those certain situations. Uh, 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.080 but you're right, it's it's a it's a lengthy list 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:16.520 for sure, of all the of the things that he 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:17.200 does really well. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:21.520 Mike, talking to players yesterday, they did say that it 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.080 does benefit them when they face a guy like Mahomes 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.840 that they have to face like guy like Lamar every 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:27.800 day in practice. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.120 Is there anything to that? 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.600 I mean, in your eyes, does it help your defense 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.880 that they've seen Lamar every day since? You know OTAs 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:37.440 in minicamp? 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.000 You know probably you know, I mean just one just 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.280 when you're when you think about training camp and you 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.560 know you're great in your in your scoring practice, and 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.960 you know, practices get competitive, and you know that the 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.559 cadence of the play becomes a little longer when he's 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.360 able to hold the ball and sometimes we think it's 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.000 a sack, but it's really you know, Harp says it's 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:57.840 not and play it out. Yeah, of course, I mean 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.120 those are those are things that you have to you 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.679 have to be able to adjust to and and and 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:03.559 you know play kind of the extended plays. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.520 But I wouldn't put too much stock into that. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.720 I mean, were's so much time we're spending a part 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.200 and on book teams and things. I would say that, 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.280 you know, our backup quarterbacks do a great job every 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.600 week of studying you know the quarterbacks mechanisms and kind 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:16.920 of how they operate and where they like to go 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:17.320 with the ball. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:18.600 So shout out to those guys. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:23.440 Mike Rokwan called you a magic scientist yesterday, Say what's 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:23.760 just in the. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.440 Right spots and let's just kind of be who we are. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.079 I can see the look in your face as well. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:28.880 They all say, we know big things. 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.080 Are coming from him in the future. How do you 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.079 view that and what do you bring to a squat 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.560 if you have to be from the head coach? 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:39.360 Well, well, it's it's it's it's humblings flattering to hear that. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:43.360 You know, as a coach, you're you're just you're trying 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.640 to put your guys in spots where they can be successful. 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.680 And like that's that's the viewpoint. That's why we do 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.360 what we do. You know, when they have success, you 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.800 have success, and and that's that's what. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.040 We're trying to do here. That's why you know all 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:56.520 this is here. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.839 That is why you guys are here, you know, and 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.200 that's that's what rewarding to us. So when you feel, 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.199 when you hear things that your players feel like you're 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.480 helping them have success like that, that means a lot. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.840 But like I said, I mean, it's it's a it 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:09.720 is a team effort. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.080 Man there's a lot of information that has to be 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.400 kind of cultivated and broken down and then deciphered and 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.720 then give to them. At the same time, I'm in 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.839 charge of organizing it and making sure, you know, it 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.520 gets them the right way, and ultimately making the call 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.959 on Sundays. But to answer your question, yeah, it feels 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.280 great that we're helping our players have success for sure. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.040 The Chiefs Bills game was the a lot of the 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.600 Ex's and Nozon only seemed very excited by what they 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.000 saw from the Chiefs the way they would, I guess 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:40.839 make changes to the line of scrimmage to maybe target 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.920 individual defenders. I mean, do you kind of go into 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.600 your game expecting or preparing for them to do that again, 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.959 or do you assume you'll see something fairly different from them. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.400 Well, the great thing about their offense is they're able 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.440 to It looks like they carry a lot of volume, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.719 but it's similar concepts packaged differently, which I think any 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.240 good scheme is going to do. Because you can't run 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.200 every play known to mankind all the time. You have 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.520 to eventually you got to, you know, kind of keep 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.440 it in your wheelhouse. So they do a great job 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.840 of hiding what they're what their intents are, and obviously 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.000 you know they understand how to attack coverages and stuff 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:15.880 they got. They do a great job of scheming up 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.360 routes and things like that. So we'll see, we'll see 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.800 things that we haven't seen, you know, presented early in 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.199 the snap that you know you're just gonna have to 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.800 play your rules out and uh hopefully you know you're 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.960 in a position to make the play initially after it snapped, 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.480 and then if the ball is extended, you know, be 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.559 able to attach the guys and crawl the quarterback. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.080 Back to the world. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.760 Find you guys have invested more just as a franchiser 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.120 that in sideline back the spot, which what has that 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.920 done for the Whether they should. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.199 Just happen to election. 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:48.960 As a good that has like a tree, Well, I 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:50.720 am sure I have zero to do with how we 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.160 invest any any any penny that goes into the salary cap. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.960 Uh. Yeah, Like I said, we. 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.440 Love having great players that can you know, that play 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.120 great football, play the way we want to play. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:02.600 So it's our chart. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.720 It's you know, our responsibility as coaches to put them 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.200 in spots where they can go be successful and you know, 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.920 given the decisions that we made, like we'll go coach 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.200 them up and get them ready to roll. But yeah, absolutely, 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.040 I mean you look at the middle of our defense. 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:16.720 We got some I mean throughout the whole defense, but 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.280 the middle of our defense especially are great players, man, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.600 and they deserve a lot of credit for kind of 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.320 forcing the ball out on the perimeter, which is when 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:25.560 I was part of our philosophy. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.880 So uh yeah, I mean they're just fun guys to 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:29.560 work with. For sure. 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.120 What does that phrase, uh, play the rules out or 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.280 I forget exactly who to put up a week we 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.840 hear your players say that again and again too. I 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.040 mean I think Queen said it after after the last game. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:41.960 Does it kind of warm your heart to hear them 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:42.240 say that? 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:43.640 I mean does it? Does it sort of show that 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:44.360 it's gotten through? 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:44.680 Oh? 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.200 It tells me they know what to do, which is good, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:46.880 you know. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:49.560 Yeah, It's just you know, you know, what do you 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:50.760 you're gonna go out? Where do you go, where do 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.280 you go stand? Where do you look at? You know 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.200 when that guy does something? How do you know how 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.360 to react to it? It's just those are your rules, 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.200 you know, And to me, if if it's clear on 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.920 where your expectations are and how to do what we 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.200 expect you to do, then you can. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:03.480 Go play fast and you'll play the right way. 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.560 So yeah, if they if they know what their rules are, 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.119 then that's that's definitely the first step to be successful. 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.240 Kids seem lay with a lot of twelve for two 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:12.720 personnel defense. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.440 Buffalo, What kind of what do they need to put 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.520 stress on that those defensive I guess how well do 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.160 you get you guys to evolve the defense? 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.000 That's kind of that agency. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.200 Well, yeah, I mean, anytime people are changing. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:24.880 Personnels on you, you got to make the decision are we 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:26.280 how are we gonna match it with the people that 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.840 we're gonna put on the field. So without giving you 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.400 the answer of how we're gonna do it, those are 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:32.520 the decisions you have to make. 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.560 And then you know where the stresses of the calls 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:36.760 you're gonna make and things like that. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.440 So and a lot of times you know it's gonna 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.880 morph and evolve over the course of the game. After 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.360 you make a decision, you kind of see how they 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.520 make their decision. You're kind of playing off one another 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.920 as a game starts to unfold. So you know, we 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.640 have an initial plan and how we're gonna play it, 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.760 and then obviously it'll evolve is as the game starts 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:54.280 to declare itself, like you've. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.600 Got guys step on us and Place and Marl and 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:57.520 you think, missing. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.240