WEBVTT - Stephens, Monken, Orr & Horton: Ravens Press Conferences 9/19/24 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.240 Welcome into the Ravens Presspass Podcast. It is Thursday, September nineteenth. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.600 The Ravens are preparing for Sunday's game coming up against 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:12.360 the Dallas Cowboys. Today we had a chance to hear 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.600 from the coordinators, so that's kick it off with special 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:16.120 teams coordinator Chris Hord. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:21.040 Good to see everyone today. Hope everyone's doing well for us. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.319 You know, what a great opportunity for us to go 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:27.400 out play another football game against against a team, a 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.280 good team special teams wise, and uh, we're. 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:30.920 Just looking forward to it. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.520 But you know, we gotta we gotta start focusing really 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.839 focusing on us and taking care of the things that 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.080 we need to take care of fundamentally so we can 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.640 go out and play our best football questions. 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.400 John brought attention to Jordan's pine in the in the 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:45.000 fourth quarter. 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.599 I Geordans had some good punts this year, but what 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.160 specifically about that one you think kind of win went sideways? 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.800 You know, I just think you know that that that moment, 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.560 that time, that situation, that that time in the game 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.360 is really we gotta you know, we want to be 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.920 perfect on everything that we do. And uh, for Jordan 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.399 has just got to come out and he's just got 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:05.640 to go. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.160 Through his fundamentals on that punt. You know. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.240 Uh, I think he might have felt he might have 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.400 felt rushed a little bit, given given the given what 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.440 what happened with the with the snap. But uh, just 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.480 just like we always say, man, just just come out here. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.560 Uh go practice, go play like your practice. This guy's 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.959 been having a heck of a practices and we've been 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:26.800 we've been really fired up about what he's done in 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.119 the practices. But we got to carry those things over 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.640 to the game. And he's a good enough player where 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:32.720 he should be able to do that. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.280 What happened with his snap is there's something that variety. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:39.119 All. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.880 Yeah, you know, so I thought, you know, looking at 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:43.600 the tape this the snap was a little bit was 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.039 a little bit high and then but but regardless of that, 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.279 you know, we practice, we practice these situations and these things. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.320 Uh we like to call him ugly balls, you know, 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.640 and just you go through the same footwork, you go 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.440 through the same drop, you go through the same swing. Uh, 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.760 those things shouldn't change. And I think if we if 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.400 we do that, we have we have a lot better put. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:06.840 Chris to this past. We suggest Tucker's kicks Memember fifty yards. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:08.760 So what do you say in there? As far as him, 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.079 he seems like he has a distance, just the angles 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:12.919 a little bit different. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.720 Yeah, you know again it's uh, the the distance is there. Uh, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.400 I think the confidence is there, and I think it 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.680 might be every now and then a little bit how 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.399 he strikes the ball and foot placement on the ball 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:25.080 and things like that. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.400 Other than that, that's all it. That's all it is. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.079 It's ah, there's no Those are things that that justin 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.880 justin himself I know, will get will get fixed. 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.440 Things that things that he's working on. I'm not worried 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:36.720 about when we send him out there. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.280 Uh, from a confidence standpoint, whether he's gonna make the 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.400 kick or not, Uh, that's a that's a done deal. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.600 We got full confidence in him making that kick. But 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.760 from a just from a fundamental standpoint, I think he's 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.320 just gotta he's just got to go through it. 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:49.240 Like everything that we do. 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.119 Idea of the dynamic kickoff, right, and then I think 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:54.840 the first eight or nine kick. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.160 To you were touchbacks and it wasn't that dynamic. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.200 Does your do you go into a game telling your 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.079 returners do not bring it out of the end zone. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:03.880 It's personal choice every single kick. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.400 What what's your what's your outlook on a kick. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.160 That goes into the end zone, you know, for us, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.040 we just try to figure out how can we maximize 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.840 the play? Uh, And we feel like and we've always 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:15.880 felt like this, even when the when the play was 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.080 in the old system, if the ball was in the 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.480 end zone, they didn't really benefit us as much. So 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.079 if the ball is in the field to play, let's 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.359 go ahead, let's return those things. So if the ball 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.160 is in the end zone and we're going backwards, that 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.600 messes up the timing of the play and we feel 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.080 like we can't get maximize our opportunity on that play. 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.400 So we pretty much tell our guys, hey, just keep 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.040 it in the end zone. We'll get the next one. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:37.600 If they want to put the ball in play, the 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.360 ball will be short of the end zone, you know. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.120 So that's how we that's how we operate. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.280 We saw it made the change if Tyler Wallace was 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.600 next to Dr fel later. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.120 Is that kind of a moving target just trying different 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.120 guys out or what kind of goes into your thinking 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:55.800 there as to that role. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.360 Yeah, I think for us it's It's always about decision making. Uh, 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.360 you know, the the guys we want to put back there, 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.480 we're going to make sure first, uh we're we're we 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.160 are making the right decisions when we are back there. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.480 And and and that's everyone that's making sure that the 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.480 players understand what would would we as coaches want and 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.119 then uh, the other player, the off re turner understand 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.880 kind of what we want from those uh, from those 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.239 type of kicks. But there was there was really nothing 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:21.960 that really goes into it. It's just a kind of 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:23.560 a you know, how do we feel what we want? 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.120 We want to see another guy back there, and that's 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:26.479 kind of how we operate for. 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:27.760 John late in the game. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.080 Is that just you know, young player, a little a 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.680 little indecision and that then ends up at the twenty 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.920 yard line the ball that could have maybe been caught 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.760 in your state in the The answer is that just 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:38.960 youth and the experience at that point. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.000 Yeah, you know, I think I can't tell you off 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.440 the top of my head how many how many returns 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.919 JK has in this league, But just from a just 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.800 from an idea and just consistency and things, that's just 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.000 putting him in that situation. You know, having him float 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.080 the ball traveling into the end zone. 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:53.279 You know. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.200 So I think a lot of that we could we 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.360 could take care of when we're in practice, have him 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.359 have to go backward for a ball. That way he 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.280 understands where he is on the field as well. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.599 Chris watching the Cowboys and special teams unit. 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:11.119 Talent snapper, punter picker in particular, what have you seen 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.920 Aubrey and makes him kind of special for their unit? 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.840 Yeah, I think, Uh, this guy's got a he's got 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.120 a good leg, you know that, and that that could 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.800 be seen on the tape. Obviously, they'll they'll try field 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.400 goals from from wherever with him, right, He's a he's 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.920 a young he's a young guy. Uh, and he's been 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.000 he's been consistent, and I think that's the most important 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.560 thing when you talk about guys kicking and things like that. 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.240 And he can do He's got a soccer background, so, uh, 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:36.640 he can. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.600 Do a lot more with the football when you watch 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.840 some of the some of the things that he's doing with. 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.839 The kickoff play with that soccer background, you know. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:45.360 So he's got a he's got a little bit of 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.600 advantage there. But other than that, man, I just think 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.919 that the kids playing great have given the year and 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.000 two games that he's played so far, do you. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.600 Given Justin's track record, and you know how good he's 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.680 been over a long stretch of time. When he's going 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.400 through a bit of a patch like this, as his coach, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.159 you say anything to him. I mean, he's so critical 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.200 of himself and has such a high standard. Do you 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:08.719 or Randy say anything to him? And you just gotta 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:09.200 let him. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.880 Bill, we kind of just we kind of let him be. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.480 I think we'll each individually talk to him on the side, 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.320 just kind of see where he is. But as it's 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.159 Tucker Man like nothing in my in my opinion, just 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.040 being around him for as long as I've been around him, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.799 I don't think anything really truly fazes this guy because 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.000 he has a process and he has a way how 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.840 he's gonna do things, and I think he knows how 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.480 to get himself out of whatever situation he's in. But 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.640 I think individually we don't We don't hit him at 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.200 the same time, we just kind of pulled him to 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:34.479 the side. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.159 I just want to know how he's doing. You know, 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:37.760 it's it's okay, it happens. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.760 He's human, right, He's still I still believe he's still 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:41.840 the best kicker in this game. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:43.800 So you just let him go out and let him 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:44.320 be himself. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.520 Next up is defensive coordinator Zacharyor. This is going to 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.680 be a bit of a homecoming for Or, who grew 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.360 up in Texas. Now he's going back to be the 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.640 Ravens defensive coordinator for this matchup at at and T 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.760 Stadium in our Arlington. He talked about this game and 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.160 what his defense needs to do. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:13.760 You expect to see, man, I know, shoot, my immediate family, mom, dad, brothers, nieces, nephews. 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.520 I'll probably say about fifteen, fifteen to twenty that I 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.200 that I know for sure. But I know it's people 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:21.920 who said they were they were gonna be showing up. 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.960 So you know, I'll be interested to see how many 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:25.960 actually come to the game. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.160 That's time the Ravens o to you were homeless roster 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.760 spect the teams just what do you remember kind of 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.560 this mentality you had done that something to draw from, 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.440 but also what the outcome of that season was. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.280 For this time, Yeah, I think that. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.760 You know, it's a long season and obviously it's not 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.160 the start that nobody in this building, you know, wanted 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.240 to get off to but. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.440 You know, we're here. We can't change the past. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.320 Yeah, the first two weeks of disappointing, but it's about 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.520 what we what we do going forward, and we got 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.720 fifteen more opportunities in the regular season to become the 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.920 best football team we possibly can be, and that starts 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.640 with this week right here. So I think the thing 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:12.000 that you learn and you try to tell guys is that, uh. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.080 You know, nobody gonna feel sorry for you. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:15.840 You know, at the end of the day, whether you 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:17.600 won the first two games or you lost the first 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:18.680 two games, you can have to go out here and 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.080 play in Week three, and you're gonna have to continue 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:22.840 to get better as a football team because it's a 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.040 week to week league, and uh, you know, you've been 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.160 around long enough the season can change fast in one 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:28.760 way or the other. So you just got to keep 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.920 grinding and keep finding ways to get better and you know, 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:32.839 continue to move forward. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:38.160 The best two weeks two games, our receivers catch word 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:43.560 undred yards. What's been the challenging the secondary, the key playmakers. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.640 Down And I think that you know, I thought we 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.960 took a step this past week, but it still wasn't 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.880 good enough. From a sense of uh communication standpoint, and 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.360 it's a very it's a various different things. A couple 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.800 of times, you know, receivers make you know great plays. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.200 We played a couple of good receivers, obviously, DeVonta Adams, 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.520 he been one of the better ones for for over 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:02.040 a decade. 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.600 But I feel like we're right there, We're real close. 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.680 We just got to continue to tighten up the the 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:08.920 screws just a little bit. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.600 And I think as coaches we. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.240 Could do a better job just making sure that guys 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.040 are fully locked in, fully understand what's going on. So 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.120 I think that we are on our way. I thought 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.800 we took a step. The step wasn't good enough, you know, obviously, 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.160 but I'm excited about what we're gonna look like this 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:23.960 week exactly. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.360 It's a small sample size, but how would you evaluate 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.400 the play of the sort of trio of leaders of 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.920 Nom de Row and Kyle Man. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.000 I think they I think they're playing well right now. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.560 I mean, those guys, those all three of those guys 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.959 are great players, are real valuable to us. But I 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:38.920 think if you ask them, you know, they can go 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.920 to another level. And that's what we're trying to do. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.079 As a team, and I'm excited about those guys. That's 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.600 what makes those guys such special players and special humans 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.120 that they are, is they they're not They're never satisfied, 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.079 and they all look at look at themselves in the mirror, 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.520 just like I'm looking myself in the mirror, Like right now, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.440 we're not we're not the football team and we're not 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.160 the defense that we want to be. And we were 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.800 taking ca oh and ourselves accountable and those those three 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.120 guys are doing that as well. So even though they're 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.520 playing good football, they still great football players. You know, 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.480 they want to continue to get better and show show more. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.360 The difference between where they're at and where they want 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.120 to be. Do you feel like that's more communication execution 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:16.640 or sort of just a mix of both. 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.800 I think that is just uh honestly, I don't. I 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.760 don't think it's like a right or wrong, you know, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.800 direct answer to that. You know, I think obviously you 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.280 can look at those things and maybe say that because 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:32.839 we are you know, oh and too. I feel like 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.439 if we were too or no, you know, the conversation 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.800 may be different, whether the whether the play was the same. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.520 So I don't I don't know if I have a 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.480 real answer for that exactly. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.880 You have another really talented receiver this week and get 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.520 to go up against Ceedee Lambs. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:46.719 Yeah. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.839 Do you take any lessons from you know, last couple 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.960 of weeks and Delante Adams and how them you know, 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:54.400 in terms of how you defend Lamb? 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:54.840 Uh? 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.000 Yeah, I mean Ceedee Lamb. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.480 He's been You've been very impressed watching him on film, 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.120 just really studying obvious see you you you you know 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:02.679 you know about him, hear about him. He's one of 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.520 the premier, premier players in this league. But just really 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.559 diving in and watching him on tape. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.840 Been really impressive with him. He's really good. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.840 And Uh, I think the lesson we take is that, 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.559 you know, when you got these guys at receiver, uh, 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.000 guy like Ceedee Lamb, they can change the. 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:21.280 Game in an instant. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.600 So, uh, we're definitely gonna have to have a plan 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.280 and we're gonna have to execute that plan to its 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.439 highest level to uh try to contain a guy like that. 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:30.800 Zat When you go back and look at the second 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.240 half of the success that they started having throwing the ball, 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.599 do you feel that you were were aggressive enough in 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.000 calls and trying to get after a minshut when you 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.640 back saying this was threakn and just they just executed. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:42.560 How do you how did you see that? 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.840 I think the first thing I gotta give him, give 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.520 him credit. Man, they executed you know what I mean. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.240 You know, he moved around and made some plays of 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:52.480 things we didn't want to happen. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.720 And I'm always a person that's always gonna self evaluate myself. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.600 So looking back at it, I felt like I could 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.960 have did some different things to to help help us team, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.640 help our team out and help us, you know, try 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.439 to control that. So, uh, you know, hats off to 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:07.640 miss You and the Raiders. You know, they they came 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.920 in in the second half and uh, you know, they 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.080 out executed us and they beat us. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:13.520 So but I'm a person like. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.160 You guys are gonna know, I'm always take accountability and 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.200 looking myself in the mirror. So looking back at the film, 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.079 it's definitely some spots in there where I feel like 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:21.240 I could have did some things different. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.040 Have you gotten the accountability you were kind of searching 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.200 for from maybe the guys in the field when motion 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.520 kind of you know, message you guys up a little 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.360 bit obviously kind of looking back to the table and 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.800 some guys just kind of left alone after go up 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:35.040 and down. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.080 Yeah, definitely, definitely, And you know, guys, that's that's one 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.960 thing that I think nobody's hanging their head around now 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.880 and why we're so excited and we still motivated the 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.240 king continue to go out here and get better and 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.760 try to get try to get some wins on the 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.840 board because guys are holding themselves accountable. You know, I'm 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.680 holding myself accountable. The players hold themselves accountable. Every coaching 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.480 here is doing that. So when you got that and 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.800 there's nobody blaming each other or playing to blame, I 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:02.840 think that you can build and move forward and continue 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:03.320 to get better. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.280 So that's what I'm excited about. We know what we 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:05.880 gotta fix. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.600 Guys are owning up to it, and we're working hard 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.240 to get those things corrected. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.800 Zach, we see Travis Jones. You know, it seems like 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.080 every game now make the play where that strength is 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.120 just so readily apparent. He came into the league as 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.120 a pretty strong guy. I'm sure he's got a little 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.040 bit stronger. But what's separating, like the rate at what 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:25.920 he's doing at right now from when he came in 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:26.680 a couple of years ago. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.760 I think he's just you know, he's in his third 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.679 year now, so now he's he's uh, he's adjusted to 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.080 this the game speed. He's seen a lot of schemes 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.439 now from offenses, different blocking schemes, different pass sets from 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:41.480 offensive linemen. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.160 So nothing is really new for him. 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.080 So he's seeing everything and he's playing fast and that 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:47.160 guy work, He works hard. 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.120 I mean he came in strong, and I know he's. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.560 Gotten stronger because every day he's in the weight room, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.240 even on the players off day, I see him in 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.360 the weight room. So hats off the Travis man. We 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.760 we're excited about him. What he's doing is no shock 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.880 to no body in this building because we've been seeing it, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.840 you know, every day and practice, you know, this whole offseason, 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.600 whole training camp, and I think he's just getting started. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.319 I think he still has another level that he's gonna 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.840 show out here throughout the season. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.280 With trying and you know, employed sixty sin it's not 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.520 just League one but last week, but one hundred percent. 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.200 Is that kind of what you expect to see you going? 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.240 Like It's like I think it's just it's a it's 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.320 a it depends on you know, who we're playing and 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.560 what we're trying to get accomplished, and what the offense 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.320 is trying to offense we're facing trying to get accomplished. So, uh, 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.120 like I said, Trent, he's gonna play a lot, He's 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:34.720 gonna have a he's gonna have a big role for 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.920 us this year. He's been having a big role for 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.600 us and he's playing good football. But you know, depending 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.800 on play time and everything like that, that's gonna be 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.160 Taylor to the opponent that we're playing. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.560 Is that this secondary is pretty better in group, and 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.920 we got a lot of talent. How much do you 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.120 get a sense of you just the pride factor of 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:53.760 kind of wanting to get back on track for that 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:56.360 knowing just what they're capable of. 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.960 Yeah, I mean those guys, like I said, the thing 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.880 that's moxcited about it, guys are you know, they're they're 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.680 prideful group. It's a talented group, and you know, we 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.920 haven't lived up to the standard that we expect of ourselves. 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.160 And that's not just on them. That's that's on you know, 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.040 that's on me and that's on us as well. So 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.440 we're working hard every single day to figure it out. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.280 Those guys are busting their busting their butts off in 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:19.920 the meeting rooms and on the practice. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.720 Field to get to the level that we know we 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:22.280 can get at. 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:26.320 And you know, I'm proud of you know, how they're approaching, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.560 you know, this adversity and you know, like I said earlier, 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.800 it's not it's not a spot that nobody envision specifically, 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.040 especially that group, but you know what we're gonna do 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:38.840 about it, how we're gonna respond, And that's the approach 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.320 they've had, and I'm excited to see, you know, how 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.080 they take on this challenge this week and going forward. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:50.760 Not specific, but how did how nicely the practice field? 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.320 It was It was good to see Nate back out there. Man. Obviously, 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.440 you know we we love Nate. Nate's Nate. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.000 We you know, we plan on having Nate and him 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.000 doing great things for is It year. So I thought 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:02.800 he looked good out there for a guy who hasn't 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.080 practiced in a minute. And I thought he moved around 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.680 real well and was in tune with what we were 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.880 trying to do on defense. So you know, I'm excited 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.440 about him, and you know, hopefully we can get him back. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.440 Next up is offensive coordinator Todd Monkett. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:22.400 When Derrick Henry I. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.240 Think had five yards in the first half, it's like 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:25.600 seventy something in the second half. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:27.880 What was the big change, What was the big difference 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.960 for him to be you know, helped so limited and 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:31.960 then have a breakout. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.280