Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Presspass Podcast. It is Thursday, September nineteenth.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are preparing for Sunday's game coming up against
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Today we had a chance to hear
Speaker 1: from the coordinators, so that's kick it off with special
Speaker 1: teams coordinator Chris Hord.
Speaker 2: Good to see everyone today. Hope everyone's doing well for us.
Speaker 2: You know, what a great opportunity for us to go
Speaker 2: out play another football game against against a team, a
Speaker 2: good team special teams wise, and uh, we're.
Speaker 3: Just looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: But you know, we gotta we gotta start focusing really
Speaker 2: focusing on us and taking care of the things that
Speaker 2: we need to take care of fundamentally so we can
Speaker 2: go out and play our best football questions.
Speaker 4: John brought attention to Jordan's pine in the in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter.
Speaker 5: I Geordans had some good punts this year, but what
Speaker 5: specifically about that one you think kind of win went sideways?
Speaker 2: You know, I just think you know that that that moment,
Speaker 2: that time, that situation, that that time in the game
Speaker 2: is really we gotta you know, we want to be
Speaker 2: perfect on everything that we do. And uh, for Jordan
Speaker 2: has just got to come out and he's just got
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 3: Through his fundamentals on that punt. You know.
Speaker 2: Uh, I think he might have felt he might have
Speaker 2: felt rushed a little bit, given given the given what
Speaker 2: what happened with the with the snap. But uh, just
Speaker 2: just like we always say, man, just just come out here.
Speaker 2: Uh go practice, go play like your practice. This guy's
Speaker 2: been having a heck of a practices and we've been
Speaker 2: we've been really fired up about what he's done in
Speaker 2: the practices. But we got to carry those things over
Speaker 2: to the game. And he's a good enough player where
Speaker 2: he should be able to do that.
Speaker 6: What happened with his snap is there's something that variety.
Speaker 7: All.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, so I thought, you know, looking at
Speaker 2: the tape this the snap was a little bit was
Speaker 2: a little bit high and then but but regardless of that,
Speaker 2: you know, we practice, we practice these situations and these things.
Speaker 2: Uh we like to call him ugly balls, you know,
Speaker 2: and just you go through the same footwork, you go
Speaker 2: through the same drop, you go through the same swing. Uh,
Speaker 2: those things shouldn't change. And I think if we if
Speaker 2: we do that, we have we have a lot better put.
Speaker 8: Chris to this past. We suggest Tucker's kicks Memember fifty yards.
Speaker 8: So what do you say in there? As far as him,
Speaker 8: he seems like he has a distance, just the angles
Speaker 8: a little bit different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know again it's uh, the the distance is there. Uh,
Speaker 2: I think the confidence is there, and I think it
Speaker 2: might be every now and then a little bit how
Speaker 2: he strikes the ball and foot placement on the ball
Speaker 2: and things like that.
Speaker 3: Other than that, that's all it. That's all it is.
Speaker 2: It's ah, there's no Those are things that that justin
Speaker 2: justin himself I know, will get will get fixed.
Speaker 3: Things that things that he's working on. I'm not worried
Speaker 3: about when we send him out there.
Speaker 2: Uh, from a confidence standpoint, whether he's gonna make the
Speaker 2: kick or not, Uh, that's a that's a done deal.
Speaker 2: We got full confidence in him making that kick. But
Speaker 2: from a just from a fundamental standpoint, I think he's
Speaker 2: just gotta he's just got to go through it.
Speaker 3: Like everything that we do.
Speaker 4: Idea of the dynamic kickoff, right, and then I think
Speaker 4: the first eight or nine kick.
Speaker 5: To you were touchbacks and it wasn't that dynamic.
Speaker 4: Does your do you go into a game telling your
Speaker 4: returners do not bring it out of the end zone.
Speaker 3: It's personal choice every single kick.
Speaker 5: What what's your what's your outlook on a kick.
Speaker 2: That goes into the end zone, you know, for us,
Speaker 2: we just try to figure out how can we maximize
Speaker 2: the play? Uh, And we feel like and we've always
Speaker 2: felt like this, even when the when the play was
Speaker 2: in the old system, if the ball was in the
Speaker 2: end zone, they didn't really benefit us as much. So
Speaker 2: if the ball is in the field to play, let's
Speaker 2: go ahead, let's return those things. So if the ball
Speaker 2: is in the end zone and we're going backwards, that
Speaker 2: messes up the timing of the play and we feel
Speaker 2: like we can't get maximize our opportunity on that play.
Speaker 2: So we pretty much tell our guys, hey, just keep
Speaker 2: it in the end zone. We'll get the next one.
Speaker 2: If they want to put the ball in play, the
Speaker 2: ball will be short of the end zone, you know.
Speaker 3: So that's how we that's how we operate.
Speaker 5: We saw it made the change if Tyler Wallace was
Speaker 5: next to Dr fel later.
Speaker 4: Is that kind of a moving target just trying different
Speaker 4: guys out or what kind of goes into your thinking
Speaker 4: there as to that role.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for us it's It's always about decision making. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, the the guys we want to put back there,
Speaker 2: we're going to make sure first, uh we're we're we
Speaker 2: are making the right decisions when we are back there.
Speaker 2: And and and that's everyone that's making sure that the
Speaker 2: players understand what would would we as coaches want and
Speaker 2: then uh, the other player, the off re turner understand
Speaker 2: kind of what we want from those uh, from those
Speaker 2: type of kicks. But there was there was really nothing
Speaker 2: that really goes into it. It's just a kind of
Speaker 2: a you know, how do we feel what we want?
Speaker 2: We want to see another guy back there, and that's
Speaker 2: kind of how we operate for.
Speaker 9: John late in the game.
Speaker 10: Is that just you know, young player, a little a
Speaker 10: little indecision and that then ends up at the twenty
Speaker 10: yard line the ball that could have maybe been caught
Speaker 10: in your state in the The answer is that just
Speaker 10: youth and the experience at that point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think I can't tell you off
Speaker 2: the top of my head how many how many returns
Speaker 2: JK has in this league, But just from a just
Speaker 2: from an idea and just consistency and things, that's just
Speaker 2: putting him in that situation. You know, having him float
Speaker 2: the ball traveling into the end zone.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 2: So I think a lot of that we could we
Speaker 2: could take care of when we're in practice, have him
Speaker 2: have to go backward for a ball. That way he
Speaker 2: understands where he is on the field as well.
Speaker 12: Chris watching the Cowboys and special teams unit.
Speaker 6: Talent snapper, punter picker in particular, what have you seen
Speaker 6: Aubrey and makes him kind of special for their unit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, Uh, this guy's got a he's got
Speaker 2: a good leg, you know that, and that that could
Speaker 2: be seen on the tape. Obviously, they'll they'll try field
Speaker 2: goals from from wherever with him, right, He's a he's
Speaker 2: a young he's a young guy. Uh, and he's been
Speaker 2: he's been consistent, and I think that's the most important
Speaker 2: thing when you talk about guys kicking and things like that.
Speaker 3: And he can do He's got a soccer background, so, uh,
Speaker 3: he can.
Speaker 2: Do a lot more with the football when you watch
Speaker 2: some of the some of the things that he's doing with.
Speaker 3: The kickoff play with that soccer background, you know.
Speaker 2: So he's got a he's got a little bit of
Speaker 2: advantage there. But other than that, man, I just think
Speaker 2: that the kids playing great have given the year and
Speaker 2: two games that he's played so far, do you.
Speaker 13: Given Justin's track record, and you know how good he's
Speaker 13: been over a long stretch of time. When he's going
Speaker 13: through a bit of a patch like this, as his coach,
Speaker 13: you say anything to him. I mean, he's so critical
Speaker 13: of himself and has such a high standard. Do you
Speaker 13: or Randy say anything to him? And you just gotta
Speaker 13: let him.
Speaker 3: Bill, we kind of just we kind of let him be.
Speaker 2: I think we'll each individually talk to him on the side,
Speaker 2: just kind of see where he is. But as it's
Speaker 2: Tucker Man like nothing in my in my opinion, just
Speaker 2: being around him for as long as I've been around him,
Speaker 2: I don't think anything really truly fazes this guy because
Speaker 2: he has a process and he has a way how
Speaker 2: he's gonna do things, and I think he knows how
Speaker 2: to get himself out of whatever situation he's in. But
Speaker 2: I think individually we don't We don't hit him at
Speaker 2: the same time, we just kind of pulled him to
Speaker 2: the side.
Speaker 3: I just want to know how he's doing. You know,
Speaker 3: it's it's okay, it happens.
Speaker 2: He's human, right, He's still I still believe he's still
Speaker 2: the best kicker in this game.
Speaker 3: So you just let him go out and let him
Speaker 3: be himself.
Speaker 1: Next up is defensive coordinator Zacharyor. This is going to
Speaker 1: be a bit of a homecoming for Or, who grew
Speaker 1: up in Texas. Now he's going back to be the
Speaker 1: Ravens defensive coordinator for this matchup at at and T
Speaker 1: Stadium in our Arlington. He talked about this game and
Speaker 1: what his defense needs to do.
Speaker 7: You expect to see, man, I know, shoot, my immediate family, mom, dad, brothers, nieces, nephews.
Speaker 7: I'll probably say about fifteen, fifteen to twenty that I
Speaker 7: that I know for sure. But I know it's people
Speaker 7: who said they were they were gonna be showing up.
Speaker 7: So you know, I'll be interested to see how many
Speaker 7: actually come to the game.
Speaker 6: That's time the Ravens o to you were homeless roster
Speaker 6: spect the teams just what do you remember kind of
Speaker 6: this mentality you had done that something to draw from,
Speaker 6: but also what the outcome of that season was.
Speaker 14: For this time, Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 7: You know, it's a long season and obviously it's not
Speaker 7: the start that nobody in this building, you know, wanted
Speaker 7: to get off to but.
Speaker 14: You know, we're here. We can't change the past.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the first two weeks of disappointing, but it's about
Speaker 7: what we what we do going forward, and we got
Speaker 7: fifteen more opportunities in the regular season to become the
Speaker 7: best football team we possibly can be, and that starts
Speaker 7: with this week right here. So I think the thing
Speaker 7: that you learn and you try to tell guys is that, uh.
Speaker 14: You know, nobody gonna feel sorry for you.
Speaker 7: You know, at the end of the day, whether you
Speaker 7: won the first two games or you lost the first
Speaker 7: two games, you can have to go out here and
Speaker 7: play in Week three, and you're gonna have to continue
Speaker 7: to get better as a football team because it's a
Speaker 7: week to week league, and uh, you know, you've been
Speaker 7: around long enough the season can change fast in one
Speaker 7: way or the other. So you just got to keep
Speaker 7: grinding and keep finding ways to get better and you know,
Speaker 7: continue to move forward.
Speaker 8: The best two weeks two games, our receivers catch word
Speaker 8: undred yards. What's been the challenging the secondary, the key playmakers.
Speaker 7: Down And I think that you know, I thought we
Speaker 7: took a step this past week, but it still wasn't
Speaker 7: good enough. From a sense of uh communication standpoint, and
Speaker 7: it's a very it's a various different things. A couple
Speaker 7: of times, you know, receivers make you know great plays.
Speaker 7: We played a couple of good receivers, obviously, DeVonta Adams,
Speaker 7: he been one of the better ones for for over
Speaker 7: a decade.
Speaker 14: But I feel like we're right there, We're real close.
Speaker 7: We just got to continue to tighten up the the
Speaker 7: screws just a little bit.
Speaker 14: And I think as coaches we.
Speaker 7: Could do a better job just making sure that guys
Speaker 7: are fully locked in, fully understand what's going on. So
Speaker 7: I think that we are on our way. I thought
Speaker 7: we took a step. The step wasn't good enough, you know, obviously,
Speaker 7: but I'm excited about what we're gonna look like this
Speaker 7: week exactly.
Speaker 15: It's a small sample size, but how would you evaluate
Speaker 15: the play of the sort of trio of leaders of
Speaker 15: Nom de Row and Kyle Man.
Speaker 14: I think they I think they're playing well right now.
Speaker 7: I mean, those guys, those all three of those guys
Speaker 7: are great players, are real valuable to us. But I
Speaker 7: think if you ask them, you know, they can go
Speaker 7: to another level. And that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 7: As a team, and I'm excited about those guys. That's
Speaker 7: what makes those guys such special players and special humans
Speaker 7: that they are, is they they're not They're never satisfied,
Speaker 7: and they all look at look at themselves in the mirror,
Speaker 7: just like I'm looking myself in the mirror, Like right now,
Speaker 7: we're not we're not the football team and we're not
Speaker 7: the defense that we want to be. And we were
Speaker 7: taking ca oh and ourselves accountable and those those three
Speaker 7: guys are doing that as well. So even though they're
Speaker 7: playing good football, they still great football players. You know,
Speaker 7: they want to continue to get better and show show more.
Speaker 15: The difference between where they're at and where they want
Speaker 15: to be. Do you feel like that's more communication execution
Speaker 15: or sort of just a mix of both.
Speaker 7: I think that is just uh honestly, I don't. I
Speaker 7: don't think it's like a right or wrong, you know,
Speaker 7: direct answer to that. You know, I think obviously you
Speaker 7: can look at those things and maybe say that because
Speaker 7: we are you know, oh and too. I feel like
Speaker 7: if we were too or no, you know, the conversation
Speaker 7: may be different, whether the whether the play was the same.
Speaker 7: So I don't I don't know if I have a
Speaker 7: real answer for that exactly.
Speaker 1: You have another really talented receiver this week and get
Speaker 1: to go up against Ceedee Lambs.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you take any lessons from you know, last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks and Delante Adams and how them you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of how you defend Lamb?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 7: He's been You've been very impressed watching him on film,
Speaker 7: just really studying obvious see you you you you know
Speaker 7: you know about him, hear about him. He's one of
Speaker 7: the premier, premier players in this league. But just really
Speaker 7: diving in and watching him on tape.
Speaker 14: Been really impressive with him. He's really good.
Speaker 7: And Uh, I think the lesson we take is that,
Speaker 7: you know, when you got these guys at receiver, uh,
Speaker 7: guy like Ceedee Lamb, they can change the.
Speaker 14: Game in an instant.
Speaker 7: So, uh, we're definitely gonna have to have a plan
Speaker 7: and we're gonna have to execute that plan to its
Speaker 7: highest level to uh try to contain a guy like that.
Speaker 10: Zat When you go back and look at the second
Speaker 10: half of the success that they started having throwing the ball,
Speaker 10: do you feel that you were were aggressive enough in
Speaker 10: calls and trying to get after a minshut when you
Speaker 10: back saying this was threakn and just they just executed.
Speaker 9: How do you how did you see that?
Speaker 7: I think the first thing I gotta give him, give
Speaker 7: him credit. Man, they executed you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: You know, he moved around and made some plays of
Speaker 7: things we didn't want to happen.
Speaker 14: And I'm always a person that's always gonna self evaluate myself.
Speaker 7: So looking back at it, I felt like I could
Speaker 7: have did some different things to to help help us team,
Speaker 7: help our team out and help us, you know, try
Speaker 7: to control that. So, uh, you know, hats off to
Speaker 7: miss You and the Raiders. You know, they they came
Speaker 7: in in the second half and uh, you know, they
Speaker 7: out executed us and they beat us.
Speaker 14: So but I'm a person like.
Speaker 7: You guys are gonna know, I'm always take accountability and
Speaker 7: looking myself in the mirror. So looking back at the film,
Speaker 7: it's definitely some spots in there where I feel like
Speaker 7: I could have did some things different.
Speaker 4: Have you gotten the accountability you were kind of searching
Speaker 4: for from maybe the guys in the field when motion
Speaker 4: kind of you know, message you guys up a little
Speaker 4: bit obviously kind of looking back to the table and
Speaker 4: some guys just kind of left alone after go up
Speaker 4: and down.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely, definitely, And you know, guys, that's that's one
Speaker 7: thing that I think nobody's hanging their head around now
Speaker 7: and why we're so excited and we still motivated the
Speaker 7: king continue to go out here and get better and
Speaker 7: try to get try to get some wins on the
Speaker 7: board because guys are holding themselves accountable. You know, I'm
Speaker 7: holding myself accountable. The players hold themselves accountable. Every coaching
Speaker 7: here is doing that. So when you got that and
Speaker 7: there's nobody blaming each other or playing to blame, I
Speaker 7: think that you can build and move forward and continue
Speaker 7: to get better.
Speaker 14: So that's what I'm excited about. We know what we
Speaker 14: gotta fix.
Speaker 7: Guys are owning up to it, and we're working hard
Speaker 7: to get those things corrected.
Speaker 4: Zach, we see Travis Jones. You know, it seems like
Speaker 4: every game now make the play where that strength is
Speaker 4: just so readily apparent. He came into the league as
Speaker 4: a pretty strong guy. I'm sure he's got a little
Speaker 4: bit stronger. But what's separating, like the rate at what
Speaker 4: he's doing at right now from when he came in
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 7: I think he's just you know, he's in his third
Speaker 7: year now, so now he's he's uh, he's adjusted to
Speaker 7: this the game speed. He's seen a lot of schemes
Speaker 7: now from offenses, different blocking schemes, different pass sets from
Speaker 7: offensive linemen.
Speaker 14: So nothing is really new for him.
Speaker 7: So he's seeing everything and he's playing fast and that
Speaker 7: guy work, He works hard.
Speaker 14: I mean he came in strong, and I know he's.
Speaker 7: Gotten stronger because every day he's in the weight room,
Speaker 7: even on the players off day, I see him in
Speaker 7: the weight room. So hats off the Travis man. We
Speaker 7: we're excited about him. What he's doing is no shock
Speaker 7: to no body in this building because we've been seeing it,
Speaker 7: you know, every day and practice, you know, this whole offseason,
Speaker 7: whole training camp, and I think he's just getting started.
Speaker 7: I think he still has another level that he's gonna
Speaker 7: show out here throughout the season.
Speaker 13: With trying and you know, employed sixty sin it's not
Speaker 13: just League one but last week, but one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: Is that kind of what you expect to see you going?
Speaker 7: Like It's like I think it's just it's a it's
Speaker 7: a it depends on you know, who we're playing and
Speaker 7: what we're trying to get accomplished, and what the offense
Speaker 7: is trying to offense we're facing trying to get accomplished. So, uh,
Speaker 7: like I said, Trent, he's gonna play a lot, He's
Speaker 7: gonna have a he's gonna have a big role for
Speaker 7: us this year. He's been having a big role for
Speaker 7: us and he's playing good football. But you know, depending
Speaker 7: on play time and everything like that, that's gonna be
Speaker 7: Taylor to the opponent that we're playing.
Speaker 1: Is that this secondary is pretty better in group, and
Speaker 1: we got a lot of talent. How much do you
Speaker 1: get a sense of you just the pride factor of
Speaker 1: kind of wanting to get back on track for that
Speaker 1: knowing just what they're capable of.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean those guys, like I said, the thing
Speaker 7: that's moxcited about it, guys are you know, they're they're
Speaker 7: prideful group. It's a talented group, and you know, we
Speaker 7: haven't lived up to the standard that we expect of ourselves.
Speaker 7: And that's not just on them. That's that's on you know,
Speaker 7: that's on me and that's on us as well. So
Speaker 7: we're working hard every single day to figure it out.
Speaker 7: Those guys are busting their busting their butts off in
Speaker 7: the meeting rooms and on the practice.
Speaker 14: Field to get to the level that we know we
Speaker 14: can get at.
Speaker 7: And you know, I'm proud of you know, how they're approaching,
Speaker 7: you know, this adversity and you know, like I said earlier,
Speaker 7: it's not it's not a spot that nobody envision specifically,
Speaker 7: especially that group, but you know what we're gonna do
Speaker 7: about it, how we're gonna respond, And that's the approach
Speaker 7: they've had, and I'm excited to see, you know, how
Speaker 7: they take on this challenge this week and going forward.
Speaker 11: Not specific, but how did how nicely the practice field?
Speaker 14: It was It was good to see Nate back out there. Man. Obviously,
Speaker 14: you know we we love Nate. Nate's Nate.
Speaker 7: We you know, we plan on having Nate and him
Speaker 7: doing great things for is It year. So I thought
Speaker 7: he looked good out there for a guy who hasn't
Speaker 7: practiced in a minute. And I thought he moved around
Speaker 7: real well and was in tune with what we were
Speaker 7: trying to do on defense. So you know, I'm excited
Speaker 7: about him, and you know, hopefully we can get him back.
Speaker 16: Next up is offensive coordinator Todd Monkett.
Speaker 3: When Derrick Henry I.
Speaker 10: Think had five yards in the first half, it's like
Speaker 10: seventy something in the second half.
Speaker 11: What was the big change, What was the big difference
Speaker 11: for him to be you know, helped so limited and
Speaker 11: then have a breakout.
Speaker 17: I thought our coach did a great job, you know,
Speaker 17: talking at halftime of how we could attack him.
Speaker 9: We just did it better. We just executed better.
Speaker 17: We had some opportunities the first half, and we just
Speaker 17: didn't take advantage of it. We had a couple of
Speaker 17: lost share of drums, but we just we just did
Speaker 17: it better in the second half.
Speaker 5: You guys have faced some pretty good pass pressures first
Speaker 5: couple of weeks, obviously another one this week. How does
Speaker 5: I guess does your approach change it all in terms
Speaker 5: of how you go out trying to scream against those
Speaker 5: guys and so forth, and they particularly.
Speaker 2: Would know.
Speaker 9: Those guys are hard to handle.
Speaker 17: I mean, they disrupt the game, I mean obviously, so
Speaker 17: it's the starting point of everything you do. And like
Speaker 17: it's been every week, you know, in terms of those
Speaker 17: guys and doing everything we can within our power, within
Speaker 17: our power, you know, within that to try and neutralize
Speaker 17: those guys, and at times we haven't.
Speaker 9: At times we.
Speaker 5: Haven't shift relative to to like their skill set or
Speaker 5: to what you guys maybe want to accomplish.
Speaker 17: I guess the all the above. Really, I mean it.
Speaker 17: It certainly challenges you. I mean, offensively, it all starts
Speaker 17: up front, and defensively, those guys make it hard. The
Speaker 17: elite defensive lineman make it hard on you. You know,
Speaker 17: they have a chance to disrupt the game. So it's
Speaker 17: our job to with those guys to do as best
Speaker 17: as we can to stay ahead of the chains, you know,
Speaker 17: not get behind the chains and allow those guys to
Speaker 17: tee off.
Speaker 5: How would you? You and John have both said that
Speaker 5: offensive line work, gonna play the.
Speaker 3: Best five guys, We're gonna work.
Speaker 9: We're gonna work and figure out who they are and
Speaker 9: what they are.
Speaker 15: There's a lot of talk about the offensive line so far.
Speaker 4: When you watch them play, what what does this group
Speaker 4: do well that you say, yeah, that's that's the best five.
Speaker 17: Well, I think they're getting better. I mean, I do
Speaker 17: think that nothing of what we've done so far has
Speaker 17: been perfect. That starts with me, and then every position.
Speaker 17: We have a long ways to go. We've taken a
Speaker 17: lot of steps this week to get there, you know,
Speaker 17: in terms of execution.
Speaker 9: But I've liked what I've seen, you know.
Speaker 17: Now, we just got to put it together consistently and
Speaker 17: everything that we do. And those guys as well, I've
Speaker 17: seen them come along, and we're gonna continue to play
Speaker 17: those guys and play the guys that are in the
Speaker 17: opportunity to play.
Speaker 4: Yet those these two really depressive second half, the touchdown
Speaker 4: drives and then take to final three drives of the
Speaker 4: game in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5: What was the biggest thing that you felt came up short.
Speaker 4: Was it getting behind the chains as you were sort
Speaker 4: of mentioning.
Speaker 9: Earlier, or it was more disappointed in the first half.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 17: The second half, we have the two drives we had
Speaker 17: to you know, turnover on the in between the two
Speaker 17: drives that we had, you know, and then the fourth
Speaker 17: drive that we had, uh you know, they jumped off sides,
Speaker 17: gave us an opportunity one inches and we didn't convert
Speaker 17: and we didn't get the third down, you know, and
Speaker 17: now obviously the sack on the opening you know, the
Speaker 17: opening play of the last drive.
Speaker 9: So but.
Speaker 17: You know, in order to be consistent, we got to
Speaker 17: prep and prepare and execute at the critical moments. I mean,
Speaker 17: that's just the way it is, you know, starting the
Speaker 17: game off and then.
Speaker 9: Finishing the game that that's really what it is.
Speaker 17: I mean, we've had moments we flashed, but the consistency
Speaker 17: is where we're where we're headed because we have it.
Speaker 17: We have the guys to be able to do that.
Speaker 17: We just got to put it all together and it's
Speaker 17: been it's been a great couple of days.
Speaker 10: Sorry, when it comes to play action, you guys had
Speaker 10: some of my success with that this past week. Haven't
Speaker 10: run a ton of it.
Speaker 9: How do you wait how often to use that?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 10: I mean it's easy to say we'll run all the
Speaker 10: time because it works, but then obviously you can't run
Speaker 10: all the time because it wouldn't you.
Speaker 3: But how do you balance?
Speaker 17: Well, the years started off kind of a little bit
Speaker 17: different than then we're anticipating. You know, we've had Last
Speaker 17: year we had one hundred and twenty six total STAPs
Speaker 17: of two minutes.
Speaker 9: This year we've had thirty three already.
Speaker 17: All right, So if the snaps we've had you're not
Speaker 17: in play action mode. We've gotten ourselves behind the chains,
Speaker 17: you know, So when you're in get back on track
Speaker 17: and then third downs there's not a lot of play
Speaker 17: action there. So in order for us to get back
Speaker 17: into that, like most teams, what are you gonna be
Speaker 17: able to run? Play action, move the pocket, do those things.
Speaker 17: That's that's good football. You got to stay ahead of
Speaker 17: the chains, got to stay in run downs, opportunistic down
Speaker 17: in distances for you and then when that happens and
Speaker 17: we'll see more of it.
Speaker 4: I know you guys are you know, committed to Daniel
Speaker 4: a eric guard, but last year you used been sometimes
Speaker 4: as a six levettive lineman. We've seen that, you know,
Speaker 4: around the league teams kind of leaning into those jumble looks.
Speaker 4: Do you think that's a look that could work for
Speaker 4: you guys, especially with you know, some of the injuries
Speaker 4: as Alyss it's dealing with it.
Speaker 6: Could?
Speaker 9: I mean it could?
Speaker 17: I mean those guys are good football players and you
Speaker 17: know we're just not able to get them all on
Speaker 17: the field at once.
Speaker 4: One of the outside criticism is offensive identity and what
Speaker 4: is your identity? Do you think that's a fair criticism
Speaker 4: and how would you answer that question about what is
Speaker 4: your offensive identity?
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, let's just say it like it is.
Speaker 17: I mean, it's when you execute at a high level
Speaker 17: and you move the football and score points, there isn't criticism.
Speaker 17: I mean when you don't, that's part of.
Speaker 9: What we do.
Speaker 17: If you if you don't want that, then you don't
Speaker 17: take this job. That's part of what we do. I mean,
Speaker 17: when we have success, then it's good. I mean I
Speaker 17: get that.
Speaker 9: Okay, what do we want our identity to be?
Speaker 17: A team that executes at a high level, doesn't shoot
Speaker 17: itself in the foot with penalties and execution. I mean,
Speaker 17: that's the way it is. Our guys will play physical,
Speaker 17: our guys come to play every week. We got to
Speaker 17: do a great job as coaches of putting our players
Speaker 17: in the best position to be successful and then going
Speaker 17: on the field and executing at a high level. That that's
Speaker 17: that has to do with us, nothing to do with
Speaker 17: the opponent of how do we do a better? Nay
Speaker 17: do it in terms of execution, right, penalties, getting behind
Speaker 17: the sticks, doing those things, and that that's what you
Speaker 17: want your identity to be, irrespective of what personnel's out there. Hey,
Speaker 17: we want to be able to run it when we
Speaker 17: need to run it, throw, we need to throw it okay,
Speaker 17: and we have the capability of doing that, but right
Speaker 17: now we.
Speaker 9: Shouldn't say that.
Speaker 17: Where we're headed is to find that and we've had
Speaker 17: a couple of great days. That's our job to do
Speaker 17: it and move forward, and we're certainly more than capable
Speaker 17: of it because we've seen it.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 17: We just got to put it all together because like
Speaker 17: I said, I mean, it's we're moving the football. I mean,
Speaker 17: we have opportunities out there, but we have to collectively
Speaker 17: execute a high level thought.
Speaker 6: The doesn't line You're already asked bee bit.
Speaker 12: Under fire and you had to approach them with a
Speaker 12: message or that talks about what's being said on the
Speaker 12: out side.
Speaker 9: Well not really.
Speaker 17: That's what That's what our players have to deal with
Speaker 17: now is social media that didn't exist when when I
Speaker 17: was a kid.
Speaker 9: You know, I mean, they have a day off on Monday.
Speaker 9: How do they not look at what's being said?
Speaker 15: Right?
Speaker 9: How do they? How do they not? It's very difficult
Speaker 9: for them not to see that, do they?
Speaker 17: And I prefer to look at it when it's going good,
Speaker 17: of course, Holy col you know you much prefer that,
Speaker 17: but you got to own it. That's the way it is.
Speaker 17: That's what they ask us to do, is to look
Speaker 17: in the mirror and say, how do we get it better?
Speaker 17: I don't feel sorry for yourself. How do we get
Speaker 17: it better? Like, how do we keep working? How do
Speaker 17: we help the guys out? It's not all them. I
Speaker 17: got home the things that I can get better at.
Speaker 17: What can they get better at?
Speaker 9: What can we do?
Speaker 17: Community schrammatically, we can help ourselves by staying ahead of
Speaker 17: the chains right now, putting ourselves in passing situations. But
Speaker 17: that's that's the nature of what we do. Right when
Speaker 17: you're not having success. Uh, that's the way it is.
Speaker 17: I mean, we're paid to have success. And uh, I
Speaker 17: think we're heading the right direction.
Speaker 9: I really do.
Speaker 17: I think we're close. I mean we really are. We're
Speaker 17: a couple of plays away from being two and zero.
Speaker 9: We're not.
Speaker 17: That's the nature of this league. How do we find
Speaker 17: those little percentage points to get better?
Speaker 9: That's our job.
Speaker 12: So just a red zone scoring Like I said last
Speaker 12: week that what points not just the yards at together
Speaker 12: howboys at lowest said the highest way of allowing touchdowns
Speaker 12: in the red.
Speaker 6: Zone to a been over similar location.
Speaker 11: Just see.
Speaker 6: Could be a opportunity to take advantage or capitalize and
Speaker 6: you know, a huge points put the struggle.
Speaker 9: Well, it's a short it's a small sample size. I
Speaker 9: mean it's two weeks. I mean, you know, I'd hate to.
Speaker 17: Think this is what we're going to be the whole year,
Speaker 17: and it's a small sample size for us and them.
Speaker 17: So obviously it's a big part of winning football games
Speaker 17: and scoring touchdowns on the red zone.
Speaker 9: We've been pretty good there.
Speaker 17: We've got a few times we've ended up in two
Speaker 17: minutes down on the clock a little bit, But obviously
Speaker 17: it's a huge emphasis for us. Obviously they understand that
Speaker 17: in terms of winning games. So, uh, when we get
Speaker 17: down there, we expect to score against It's it's not
Speaker 17: just themb it's anybody we play.
Speaker 16: We also heard from cornerback Brandon Stevens.
Speaker 1: Brandon, for you guys going into this game, is how
Speaker 1: do you view the challenge that the Cowboys percenting.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, we're definitely looking forward to it. Uh,
Speaker 11: it's gonna be, you know, a good challenge for us,
Speaker 11: you know. Uh, you know, our goal this week is
Speaker 11: you know, to be one to know and that's that's
Speaker 11: the goal every week. Now.
Speaker 1: I know that you guys are a prideful group in
Speaker 1: the secondary and you know, the first two games haven't
Speaker 1: gone your ways? How how I guess focused are you
Speaker 1: guys and kind of writing the ship in that regard?
Speaker 11: Yeah? Man, we we know, uh you know the numbers
Speaker 11: of the numbers. Uh, you know, we we just got
Speaker 11: to continue to you know, you know, lock in, you know,
Speaker 11: to the details, you know, finish our games, close games,
Speaker 11: and uh you know, and you know, just continue to
Speaker 11: you know, turn forward, you know, and you know, just
Speaker 11: just play our style of defense.
Speaker 1: How do you describe the mentality and the mindset and
Speaker 1: the room as you guys are going into this matchup?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think you know everybody, you know, the guys
Speaker 11: you know definitely you know, pissed off. You know the
Speaker 11: numbers of the numbers, Like I said, But you know,
Speaker 11: all we can do is just you know, focus on
Speaker 11: this game. That's the only game that matters right now.
Speaker 11: And you know, just you know, this game needs to
Speaker 11: be our you know, our best best ball yet, so
Speaker 11: you know, just to help this team. You want to
Speaker 11: know how.
Speaker 1: Important is communication and how much of a point of
Speaker 1: emphasis has that been in practice?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Communication, it's I mean, it's it's huge at all aspects.
Speaker 11: You know, all phases of the game, and you know
Speaker 11: that's something that we're trying to perfect each and every day.
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