Speaker 1: Welcome into Ravens Press Pass. The Ravens beat the Charters twenty.
Speaker 2: To ten on Sunday Night Football to move the nine
Speaker 2: and three this season. Big win for the Ravens and
Speaker 2: let's hear tonight from John Harball.
Speaker 1: We're also gonna hear from Lamar Jackson and then safety
Speaker 1: Toy Hamilton. Let's start with Harps.
Speaker 3: All right, tough game, obviously, Chargers are very good football team.
Speaker 3: I thought they played really well, very well coached team,
Speaker 3: and that's just a big win for us. You can
Speaker 3: tell we're really really happy with this win. This is
Speaker 3: a challenging place to play. It's loud, This team we're
Speaker 3: playing is really good, and I thought our guys just
Speaker 3: played a great football game to come out here on
Speaker 3: Sunday Night Football win the game. Just proud of the players,
Speaker 3: the way they played. I thought the fourth quarter was
Speaker 3: a statement and putting next commation point in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 3: defense getting the stops and offense finishing it at the
Speaker 3: end there. So just proud of the guys. So many
Speaker 3: guys deserve credit. I'm sure we'll get to him as
Speaker 3: we as answer the questions and stuff like that, but defensively,
Speaker 3: I think deserves an.
Speaker 4: Extra extra shout. That's a really good offense. Uh.
Speaker 3: The pressure coverage and the turnovers were big, and then
Speaker 3: broader Q Washington getting a.
Speaker 4: Sack at Dan was really special. So okay, what questions
Speaker 4: you have John?
Speaker 5: After they scored that one touchdown one then you kept saying, oh,
Speaker 5: I can envision many more for these kind of the
Speaker 5: couples that you could have envisioned.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, right, didn't think about that. That's an interesting
Speaker 3: you know tie together there. But uh's electric uh he
Speaker 3: he ball in his hands.
Speaker 4: We have a lot of guys like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it starts with our quarterback Lamar Jackson, who
Speaker 3: just set the all time rushing record for a quarterback
Speaker 3: in the NFL history. That's a that's a that's a
Speaker 3: historic statement for him. But he's just playing the game
Speaker 3: out there and competing. I think Odell came out, especially
Speaker 3: in the first half, and I had a bunch of plays.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can name guy after guy who made
Speaker 3: plays when plays had to be made. Gusts running the
Speaker 3: ball down, He'll keep Mitchell uh with his speed on
Speaker 3: the outside and inside stuff.
Speaker 4: So a lot of players doing what they had to do.
Speaker 6: Sehan given some of the questions. You were asked about
Speaker 6: fourth quarters early in this year. How important is it
Speaker 6: to go into the buy, you know, by kind of
Speaker 6: changing that narrative a little bit by gift winning a game,
Speaker 6: a close.
Speaker 3: Game fourth quarter, right, Well, I mean a narrative is
Speaker 3: not something that we really care about.
Speaker 4: It's the fact that the guys stepped up and won
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 3: And you know, you have to we've won We've won
Speaker 3: nine games and and uh and all those games had
Speaker 3: to be closed out in the fourth quarter one one
Speaker 3: way or another. A couple of them were closed out
Speaker 3: in the third quarter, so three of them weren't, you know,
Speaker 3: and we want the three back, but we got the
Speaker 3: one tonight, you know. And I'm proud of the guys
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 4: John.
Speaker 7: I know you said you said last week that he'll
Speaker 7: take a lot of guys to fill Mark Andrews' shoes.
Speaker 7: But given what Zay has already showed you, does it
Speaker 7: feel like with his sort of ability, he needs to
Speaker 7: be one of those guys really taking a headlining role
Speaker 7: in this offense.
Speaker 3: Zay Flowers Isaiah likely, Well, yeah, Jay Flowers already, Yeah,
Speaker 3: sure he is.
Speaker 4: He is in a headlining role.
Speaker 3: He already was you know, and uh, I just think
Speaker 3: all those guys together, I stand by that all those
Speaker 3: guys together are headliners, every single one of those guys.
Speaker 3: I mean, you got to give Isaiah Likely a lot
Speaker 3: of credit. He made some really athletic plays out there.
Speaker 3: Lamar found him catch and run plays that were just
Speaker 3: really special.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you talk about the defense's ability not only to
Speaker 8: create turner, but getting counted some so many different ways.
Speaker 8: Seemed like you never know in this defense who might
Speaker 8: make a big play at anything.
Speaker 3: Just every single guy comes up and makes a play.
Speaker 3: You know, every single play. Somebody's got to put a
Speaker 3: period on the play. Somebody on defense has got to
Speaker 3: make a stop, make a tackle, You got to bat
Speaker 3: a ball down, You gotta do something to stop the
Speaker 3: play or it's gonna run into the end zone. And
Speaker 3: you know, the sooner the better obviously on any given play.
Speaker 3: But where there's a couple of plays that we'll learn
Speaker 3: from and we want back. But overall, the defensive effort
Speaker 3: was just just tremendous. I mean, guys were on point,
Speaker 3: locked in doing their job, playing as hard as they could,
Speaker 3: fundamentally sound, tackling people, keeping the quarterback in the pocket.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not all but one play really and
Speaker 3: and that's a big challenge with with Herbert, So feel
Speaker 3: good about that.
Speaker 9: When did you know that your defense is going to
Speaker 9: have be a special unit?
Speaker 4: Well, these guys will tell you.
Speaker 3: Obviously. I've been saying it's this last summer. You know,
Speaker 3: we had a chance to be to be this kind
Speaker 3: of a unit. And we've got five more regular season
Speaker 3: games and whatever comes after that to really to determine
Speaker 3: what the final you know, the final chapters are going
Speaker 3: to be in the story of our defense.
Speaker 4: But pretty proud of those guys.
Speaker 6: Did you consider challenging the spot on the Lamar run
Speaker 6: and that preceded the fourth and one that you didn't
Speaker 6: get and the one with Aguilar and the long play
Speaker 6: by Aguilar that preceded the fourth down, You did right.
Speaker 3: We had I'll say this, we had trouble with the
Speaker 3: down and distance and and what what the spots were
Speaker 3: pretty much the whole game, just understanding what it was
Speaker 3: going to be. The Lamar run, I'd say, no, we
Speaker 3: could see that one. It did look short to us.
Speaker 3: The Aguilar one we thought was a first down. In
Speaker 3: all honesty, we thought it was rule first down, and
Speaker 3: we thought it was a first down. It wasn't ntil
Speaker 3: if to the next play that we realized that it
Speaker 3: was short. So that was that was That was the
Speaker 3: challenge that we had pretty mu four or five times
Speaker 3: during the game.
Speaker 5: Just I mean heading into the buy nine to three
Speaker 5: and you're a top.
Speaker 3: The AFC right now, Well, it's it's it's you know,
Speaker 3: we were gonna go to this point till we had
Speaker 3: we had an opportunity to get a buy, and we
Speaker 3: wanted to be the very best team we could be.
Speaker 3: And I think we're becoming what we're capable of becoming.
Speaker 3: But uh, it's not over yet. We got a lot
Speaker 3: of work to do. The guys are going to get
Speaker 3: a little time, a little spirit, little mind, a little body,
Speaker 3: take care of their families, and then get back next
Speaker 3: Monday and we'll be ready to come out of the
Speaker 3: gates the final part of the season.
Speaker 7: John, the challenge that you did throw on their lateral play,
Speaker 7: was there something you saw.
Speaker 3: Or heard that, Well, anytime they have a play like
Speaker 3: that where you kind of got a forward pass lateral
Speaker 3: on the run, those are hard to execute and not
Speaker 3: be down downfield. So no, we didn't see it. We
Speaker 3: didn't get a good luck on TV. They certainly didn't
Speaker 3: show it on the board because around the road. But
Speaker 3: we thought it was a big enough play and there
Speaker 3: was a chance, a really good chance that it was
Speaker 3: going to be a forward pass.
Speaker 4: It turned out to be.
Speaker 3: Dead even you know, it's about as close as it
Speaker 3: could have been and still been legal. If we'd have
Speaker 3: seen that, we wouldn't have thrown the flag. But it
Speaker 3: was definitely worth the shot, John, what.
Speaker 5: Was the decision in the end of the first half,
Speaker 5: eight seconds left, fourth and whatever and you go for it,
Speaker 5: you know?
Speaker 6: Help?
Speaker 5: What was the thought process between putt and goal?
Speaker 3: For Yeah, I mean the chances of us converting the
Speaker 3: fourth and fifteen or whatever it was and having a
Speaker 3: chance to kick the field goal.
Speaker 4: We had a time out.
Speaker 3: We're better than them completing a hail Mary going back
Speaker 3: the other way, we felt like, so that's an analytic decision.
Speaker 3: We feel like our odds, it helps us to take
Speaker 3: a shot, especially with Lamar playing quarterback, we think we
Speaker 3: have a chance to possibly get that ball in there
Speaker 3: for a field goal.
Speaker 6: John, the second to last Chargers drive where you guys
Speaker 6: got off the field, I think it was Molette on
Speaker 6: the blitz. How much did you appreciate Mike Donald's aggressiveness.
Speaker 4: Name, I appreciate it. I did appreciate it, you know.
Speaker 3: And I appreciated Arthur Molett making the play and the
Speaker 3: timing of the thing. And I just think our guys,
Speaker 3: that's what I'm talking about, with the execution and the
Speaker 3: timing of those things. It's one thing to call him,
Speaker 3: it's another thing to execute him. But Mike was aggressive
Speaker 3: and he mixed it up. It wasn't just that. There
Speaker 3: were plenty were times. There were times when I wanted
Speaker 3: pressure in my mind, and uh, and he played coverage
Speaker 3: and it worked out. And there were times where I
Speaker 3: wanted coverage and he wanted pressure.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: And it's not like we're I'm not saying a word.
Speaker 3: I'm just in my mind thinking maybe I do the
Speaker 3: other thing. And I thought Mike was just tremendous in
Speaker 3: this game. I mean, he called a fabulous game, and uh,
Speaker 3: you can't call it bear a game that he did tonight.
Speaker 9: You appreciate any more of the bold decision to be
Speaker 9: exotic and have you know Mike Peers would be the
Speaker 9: ones dropping into the zone coverage.
Speaker 3: That hey, you know what I mean? Everybody more the
Speaker 3: more you can do, you know, that's what we say.
Speaker 4: John.
Speaker 6: They started to give him point.
Speaker 3: That was probably a turning point in the game, honestly.
Speaker 3: I mean the four turnovers, you know, for us to
Speaker 3: come up. We we talked about that this is not
Speaker 3: an easy team to turn over. They haven't turned it
Speaker 3: over much and that was going to be a key
Speaker 3: in the game. And then and then us not turning
Speaker 3: it over. I mean that was just as important. And
Speaker 3: our guy or we're about that all week in practice,
Speaker 3: starts with our quarterback right through the rest of the offense.
Speaker 4: And I thought that was the other part of the
Speaker 4: turnover equation. John.
Speaker 6: They started at matt a b Ga now the press box,
Speaker 6: and they never finished it.
Speaker 4: Do you have an updated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna be in the concussion protocol, so we'll
Speaker 3: see where that goes.
Speaker 4: I know there's a.
Speaker 9: Lot of variance with this kind of thing, but any
Speaker 9: explanation for why you guys were so good kind of
Speaker 9: in your own territory moving the ball, but then once
Speaker 9: you cross midfield things just started.
Speaker 4: Get down a little bit.
Speaker 3: We we'll look at all that, definitely. I mean it's
Speaker 3: just play by play. There's certain things I'm sure that
Speaker 3: we'll we can improve on for sure.
Speaker 1: You'reus quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 5: More, what'd you think of they's a couple of touchdowns tonight?
Speaker 10: It was awesome.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 10: We we need a lot more, if anything. You know,
Speaker 10: I've been waiting him to score multiple times in the game,
Speaker 10: you know, but having that last one with dryn that
Speaker 10: was that was a nice run.
Speaker 5: Did you see his touchdown celebrations at all?
Speaker 10: The first one was horrible. I told him I didn't
Speaker 10: know what the I I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 10: So I was just standing there like, alright, come along
Speaker 10: with it. Yeah, when I seen what happened, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 10: I was. I told him my fa my father. But
Speaker 10: I told him now, I'm like, that was the first
Speaker 10: center prison I ever seen. Like, but you know, he scored,
Speaker 10: so I'm good. I was still happy.
Speaker 9: Was that a uh was the end around touchdown to day?
Speaker 9: Was that an option for you?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was an option?
Speaker 10: But uh we we kind of ran a S two
Speaker 10: s well similar plays back to back. So my read was,
Speaker 10: uh uh Matt Khalil Mack and I seen him like
Speaker 10: squeeze on the uh on the rush. I was like,
Speaker 10: let us say, just do his thing, and he did.
Speaker 9: Mark, can you can you just describe the impact that
Speaker 9: today has had.
Speaker 4: I mean he's had a number of big plays.
Speaker 1: This season and obviously two big ones.
Speaker 7: To know, how would you describe the impact he's having
Speaker 7: you guys, yum?
Speaker 10: Uh, how I would describe the impact he's had is
Speaker 10: right on time. You know, It's every time he he
Speaker 10: did some it was right on time. You know, it
Speaker 10: was perfect situations when he scored, made the touchdown catch
Speaker 10: in that run, like I just said, And just need
Speaker 10: to keep doing it, you know, keep getting the ball
Speaker 10: in his hand. Uh, not just him, but all our receivers.
Speaker 10: You know, bait Bit is a great receiver. Ob Nelly,
Speaker 10: gotta get everybody involved, cause those guys catch the ball
Speaker 10: and they magic el What what does it.
Speaker 9: Mean for you guys in office to close.
Speaker 8: Out the game like.
Speaker 2: Got tight there in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 10: Uh, it meant a lot, you know, cause our defense
Speaker 10: was playing lights out all night and we wasn't you know,
Speaker 10: doing we usually do putting points on the board for
Speaker 10: those guys. But if I'm grateful we have a great defense,
Speaker 10: you know, cause without them, when the hottest game would
Speaker 10: have went.
Speaker 9: How does there go three right now that at the
Speaker 9: buy What does that.
Speaker 8: Mean to you?
Speaker 10: Let's take a breath, uh step away, regroup, cause you
Speaker 10: know it's still our season left, Lamar.
Speaker 7: I know it's not always this simple, but you know,
Speaker 7: four four and for thirteen on third down tonight? Does
Speaker 7: that feel like a city four for thirteen on third
Speaker 7: down conversion to.
Speaker 4: Night for your offense four for thirteen? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Does that feel like a some w an area where
Speaker 7: specifically you miss Mark in this offense?
Speaker 5: Missus Mark.
Speaker 10: We gonna miss Mark regardless. But I believe we can
Speaker 10: get it done still, you know, cause we got great
Speaker 10: guys who stepped up when our brother went down.
Speaker 4: Lamar, All effective word, what's your running game tonight?
Speaker 10: Very fact, the very fact if guns had great runs,
Speaker 10: Keaton had great runs, Justice, you know, and gods just
Speaker 10: gods just do a great job. You know they're doing
Speaker 10: their job. Is at that you know our offer line
Speaker 10: they had great push, So just keep that, you know,
Speaker 10: keep our offense balance and I feel like, you know,
Speaker 10: we'll put points on the board.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: We had uh injury designations for Obj going into the game.
Speaker 6: He played through it.
Speaker 7: They obviously played through it. An injury designation what does
Speaker 7: it mean to you to kind of see those guys
Speaker 7: step up and play play through some injuries, uh on
Speaker 7: a week where you just trying to get to the buy.
Speaker 10: We have tough guys, you know, and know we got
Speaker 10: guys who wanna win. You know, they gonna put their heart,
Speaker 10: heart on the line, you know, bluds, wedding tears, that's
Speaker 10: that's part of football. And you know, Raven's known for
Speaker 10: being a tough team, and those got showed it.
Speaker 9: You guys are number one, seeing areas a bye week,
Speaker 9: it's finishing number one in the AFC a goal of yours,
Speaker 9: or it's just getting into the playoffs.
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 10: Getting to the super Bowl as a goal, you know,
Speaker 10: but we gonna just take it a week at a time.
Speaker 4: That's all we can do.
Speaker 10: We can't worry about being a number one seed or
Speaker 10: anything like that. You know, it's the NFL. Anything can
Speaker 10: happen any given Sunday, Thursday, whenever you play Monday. You know,
Speaker 10: we just gotta keep focusing, keep trying to win these games,
Speaker 10: cause it's a tough lead.
Speaker 6: Lamar, does it feel good to go on to buy
Speaker 6: with the game where you guys close it out late?
Speaker 6: In the fourth quarter when things got closed. Things were tight,
Speaker 6: and you guys made the plays late, which hasn't always had,
Speaker 6: you know, in your couple losses. It didn't always happen.
Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, it's a it's a plus for us,
Speaker 10: but we try not to be in those situations, you know.
Speaker 10: But I believe tonight was like a playoff atmosphere game,
Speaker 10: you know, going back and forth, a short game, uh,
Speaker 10: you know, close game, having a success on the drive
Speaker 10: getting stopped. That was like playoff football.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 10: And I believe just not having a turnover it helped
Speaker 10: us out as well.
Speaker 2: Mark.
Speaker 9: There was the fourth and one where you guys didn't
Speaker 9: get it, but it looks like on the previous.
Speaker 4: Play you had scrambled for that.
Speaker 10: I thought I got the first down, and when when
Speaker 10: I almost feel well, when I did fall there for.
Speaker 9: Communication, like not from your side, but just from the
Speaker 9: officials to you about what was happening.
Speaker 10: I didn't say that you said that. Don't try to
Speaker 10: put that on me, nah, but you know it's part
Speaker 10: of the game. Things that happened fast, so sometimes you know,
Speaker 10: it is what it is. Hopefully we get the first
Speaker 10: down next time and make it easy on the rest
Speaker 10: of anything on.
Speaker 6: That agular throat. It looked like when you came to
Speaker 6: the sideline you said that was the first down. I
Speaker 6: thought that was the first down. Is that accurate?
Speaker 10: They trying to get me right now? Yeah, I did
Speaker 10: say that, you know, I thought it was the first down.
Speaker 10: But it is what it is. You know, they had
Speaker 10: to fight another.
Speaker 2: Day last, but not least a defensive surf in Lake
Speaker 2: Kyle Hamilton, So.
Speaker 5: So, Kyle ninety three yo. Right now you're a top
Speaker 5: the AFC and entering that by Does that mean anything
Speaker 5: you feel for these guys?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's a good showing where we're at
Speaker 11: as a team, how good we are. And also nine
Speaker 11: and three, you know, those three losses, we feel like
Speaker 11: we could have won easily, so gives us something to
Speaker 11: work on still after the bye week. I know goal
Speaker 11: is getting the playoffs, geting a super Bowl, but I
Speaker 11: think first seed is a bye and homefield advantage, right,
Speaker 11: I'm new, so I think that's the rules. But but yeah,
Speaker 11: that would be added plus. But I think it's cool.
Speaker 8: You're talking about the mindset defensively fourth quarter, you know,
Speaker 8: closing this game out and how satisfying feels to be
Speaker 8: able to do that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean we've been in that position and not
Speaker 11: came out on the winning side more times than we
Speaker 11: have won in the past two years. And God stepped
Speaker 11: up there.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 11: Arthur Malett came at the end. They didn't play a
Speaker 11: lot today, came in at the end of it.
Speaker 4: His job.
Speaker 11: Got a huge pressure cause a bad pass or I
Speaker 11: don't know if it was a sack or not. Broderick Washington.
Speaker 11: Shout out to the offense for getting it done as well.
Speaker 11: We were up three points, could have given the ball
Speaker 11: back again. But I mean shout out to zay Uh
Speaker 11: for scoring a touchdown. We were a little salty about
Speaker 11: the defense, but I'm glad he I'm glad he got.
Speaker 4: In the bots.
Speaker 11: Do you want to take the knee obviously, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 11: we were ready to unstrap the pass and stuff, but no,
Speaker 11: I'm glad he scored a touchdown.
Speaker 4: That's cool.
Speaker 6: Was anything the second to last drive where Molett made
Speaker 6: that play on fourth down to get you off the field,
Speaker 6: Was anything said in the huddle there at that point
Speaker 6: to you know, because as you said, there have been
Speaker 6: times where that situation hasn't always gotten your way.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, chips weren't falling our way at that point,
Speaker 11: and you know, we missed the field when we go
Speaker 11: out and I think we were up three at that point,
Speaker 11: and I think Rokwar somebody said it was just like
Speaker 11: the fun score, they don't win. So it's on us
Speaker 11: at the end of the day, no matter what happened
Speaker 11: in this moment right now in the fourth quarter, it's
Speaker 11: on us to get a stop, and we did so
Speaker 11: It's a big part of our dub. But I feel
Speaker 11: like individual efforts from a lot of guys around the
Speaker 11: field can really up.
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