Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens are
Speaker 1: gearing up for a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday
Speaker 1: at four point thirty at M and T Bank Stadium.
Speaker 1: As the Ravens prepared for that game, we had a
Speaker 1: chest hear from some of the key players, including quarterback
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: Just got a find way to get a dog, you
Speaker 2: know one. Well, it's gonna be at a home game,
Speaker 2: so we just got to execute at home, find a
Speaker 2: way to win.
Speaker 3: Have you meditated a lot on that game in Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: or do you kind of try to put it behind you?
Speaker 3: You have you looked back a lot at that game
Speaker 3: again in Pittsburgh or do you try to put that
Speaker 3: behind you? How do you prepared?
Speaker 4: Oh no, I really didn't go back to the game
Speaker 4: and watch it a lot.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Obviously after the game I watched it and seeing things
Speaker 2: on the on film, I didn't like some things I
Speaker 2: did like, you know, we did move the ball. We
Speaker 2: just wasn't finishing drives and Kennedy's turnover stuff like that.
Speaker 2: We got to clean up. But I gotta find a
Speaker 2: way to just put points on the board. You know,
Speaker 2: from when I did watch the game that's all.
Speaker 3: Against the Steelers of homes for four years.
Speaker 6: And you also haven't played in front of the home
Speaker 6: crowd as.
Speaker 3: A starting quarterback the Ravens because it was the last
Speaker 3: time was twenty twenty.
Speaker 7: That was when the fans weren't really covide doing it.
Speaker 8: Just what can that difference be for you and for
Speaker 8: this team?
Speaker 2: Uh, just been in front of the crowd, man, flocked Nacy,
Speaker 2: just been in the building knowing this arrival game, I'm
Speaker 2: knowing what's that state for us?
Speaker 4: I feel like the.
Speaker 2: Momentum, the momentum from our crowd is just give us
Speaker 2: what we need, you know, that extra boost.
Speaker 1: And while we've you know, talking over the years about
Speaker 1: being locked in and kind of that focus, that's always
Speaker 1: how you've been, but it seems like maybe even more
Speaker 1: so this year has that Has that been really a
Speaker 1: point of ovisist in a focus for you this year?
Speaker 4: Man? Just trying to stay on schedule.
Speaker 2: I'm one of the vets now, so obviously I gotta
Speaker 2: lead by example. So I'm trying to do it, you know,
Speaker 2: with play off the field everything. Just trying to be
Speaker 2: the leader that I can be best leader that last
Speaker 2: year you took a lot of shots to for Shan
Speaker 2: babmen down the field, didn't connect on a lot of them.
Speaker 9: Obviously, that's changed a lot this year.
Speaker 4: What do you think A big reason for that?
Speaker 2: That change has been us just trusting each other, us
Speaker 2: just trusting to.
Speaker 4: Play call and just connecting with our chemistry.
Speaker 2: Because years ago we was out in Cali and we
Speaker 2: were we was working and it was right after the season.
Speaker 4: Our chemistry was there, you know.
Speaker 2: Uh, we both of us had injuries you know, in
Speaker 2: the past, so our chemistry would die off at some
Speaker 2: point of the season. But this year we've been healthy
Speaker 2: and it's just been how it's been going, how it
Speaker 2: should be going, you know, just from going back to
Speaker 2: camp and just all season work.
Speaker 7: Well, Mark, coming back to that Steelers game from this year,
Speaker 7: I think you have to words you see said it
Speaker 7: was annoying all the you know, the self inflicted stuff,
Speaker 7: penalties and.
Speaker 4: Not finishing off drives.
Speaker 7: Aside from that stuff, what when you watched the film after,
Speaker 7: what did what didn't you like? From what from what
Speaker 7: you saw just in terms of either plays or execution
Speaker 7: or whatever it was in besides just the not finishing
Speaker 7: your eyes.
Speaker 2: That's that's Nah, you pretty much just called it all out.
Speaker 2: You know, us just self to flit the wounds, penalties, turnovers.
Speaker 2: Getting back on track is like second and long, third
Speaker 2: and long, Uh, first and long. Stuff like that is
Speaker 2: just like we we killing drives before they even get started,
Speaker 2: you know. And I watched film on that, and it's
Speaker 2: like last week we did a better job at that.
Speaker 2: You know, we wasn't first and long, second and long often.
Speaker 2: So us just being on schedule with those guys, I
Speaker 2: feel like we'll be where we need to be.
Speaker 10: I mean, it's easy for us to say this is
Speaker 10: the biggest game of the season. Do you do you
Speaker 10: think about things in those terms at all?
Speaker 11: Nah?
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Every game is a big game, you know, Like I said,
Speaker 2: like just last well, just the other day, we couldn't
Speaker 2: look at those guys record and just think we could
Speaker 2: just go in there and just blowing mout. You know,
Speaker 2: it's the NFL team. We gotta go into every game
Speaker 2: the same way, tryna wear regardless of the record, who
Speaker 2: it is in front of us. I feel like we
Speaker 2: can play with anybody, play against anybody.
Speaker 7: How do you feel about the stretch that you got
Speaker 7: it off?
Speaker 6: The three games for eleven days now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I gotta word about the Steelers. I can't
Speaker 2: really read about the scratch, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the success that he's having in terms of
Speaker 1: the chemistry that you guys with Bateman, you talked about
Speaker 1: the chemistry that you guys have had over the years.
Speaker 1: Have you always had this belief that you know, you
Speaker 1: could this could be? What with the way he played
Speaker 1: and produced and and and then also how does that
Speaker 1: just unlock kind of another element.
Speaker 6: Of his offense?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Like I said, you know, I was training with him
Speaker 2: and CALLI you know, a couple of years back of
Speaker 2: just grinding out here on the field just seeing what
Speaker 2: type of player he is. I just knew he gonna
Speaker 2: he gonna be one of those guys you know, it's
Speaker 2: just over time is gonna It's gonna happen eventually, And
Speaker 2: it's happening now, you know, perfect time.
Speaker 5: I believe with him as another weapon, I mean, is
Speaker 5: that what we saw last wet and how I'm puting
Speaker 5: the offense?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely, him, Him and all the other guys.
Speaker 2: You know, we've got a lot of great guys that
Speaker 2: receiver in tight ends and running backs in the backfield.
Speaker 10: You consider the division of me major prize or for years,
Speaker 10: it more about how you guys are playing going into
Speaker 10: the playoffs? Do you consider the division winning the division?
Speaker 10: Is that is that I'm still a major prize or
Speaker 10: is it more about how you guys are playing? Go
Speaker 10: get into the playoffs.
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to win regardless it it really don't matter.
Speaker 4: You know when each and every game we're we're in.
Speaker 2: You know, we're not going into games trying to lose
Speaker 2: and picking the tend and be like, Okay, this the game.
Speaker 2: Were trying to beat these guys cause they're you know,
Speaker 2: it's every game, any given game I'm trying to win.
Speaker 12: Well, did the Steelers kind of defend you guys the
Speaker 12: same ways over and over?
Speaker 4: Or have they do they change a lot in gaining
Speaker 4: the game where they try to do to stop uh?
Speaker 2: From UH personnel standpoint, those guys like to switch it
Speaker 2: up a little bit here and there.
Speaker 13: You feel like, you guys, with the weapons you have,
Speaker 13: should have more answers for whatever they try to do.
Speaker 4: I believe so, I believe we should have answers.
Speaker 2: But when the game come, I bet I'll have a
Speaker 2: answer for you after the game.
Speaker 3: Uh With with test scoring a touchdown this week. I
Speaker 3: know you were talking about after the game. Do you
Speaker 3: feel like there are opportunities ahead for him in the
Speaker 3: coman weeks to see more action and help this team.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know his number called. I feel like he'll
Speaker 2: be ready and to jump right in like he did.
Speaker 2: You know this this previous game go dark?
Speaker 12: Thank you all.
Speaker 1: Jack actually heard from cornerback Marlon Humphrey, who has five
Speaker 1: interceptions on the season. He's really having a resurgent year.
Speaker 1: He talked about the key to that resurgence in the
Speaker 1: mindset going into this game against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 12: A can't Steelers.
Speaker 9: You guys lost to aid it last night. There's been
Speaker 9: some games where the starters haven't you wrapped up in ags?
Speaker 9: He needed played the stars against them, but overall still
Speaker 9: ate it last time. How much do you think that
Speaker 9: bothers the players been side.
Speaker 11: I didn't know it was Aided last night until the
Speaker 11: last game, but it bothers me. When I found out
Speaker 11: it was, it was it was surprising, But no, it's
Speaker 11: it's ah. I know the guys in the locker room,
Speaker 11: you know we want to win this rivalry. MM and
Speaker 11: A I'll ast nine man. It's uh it's it's not
Speaker 11: a good number at all. So I think, uh, the
Speaker 11: focus has got to be at a premium this week
Speaker 11: and you try to It's gonna take a lot to
Speaker 11: get that back on our side. But uh, you wanna
Speaker 11: you wanna be able to beat your your rivalry.
Speaker 6: Have you been here a while?
Speaker 14: Have you expressed that to some of the newcomers maybe
Speaker 14: like this has been going on part too long.
Speaker 11: We just got in today. Hasn't been a lot of
Speaker 11: talk about it. But uh, I think it's all about
Speaker 11: peeking at the right time. Uh get the uh, get
Speaker 11: the juices flowing. But uh no, I I definitely I'm
Speaker 11: talking to the team at some point this week after practice.
Speaker 11: But that that's that's gotta be the message. You know.
Speaker 11: I feel like in the past there's been a lot
Speaker 11: more talk about it. Defensive meeting today was was a
Speaker 11: little fiery. Team meeting was a little fiery. But it's uh,
Speaker 11: it's just gonna be build this week and uh, it'll
Speaker 11: get talked about it. I think you know, some people
Speaker 11: got a taste of it. It's a couple of squirmishes
Speaker 11: in the last game, but uh no, this is big.
Speaker 11: This means a lot to a lot of people. It
Speaker 11: means a lot to me being here for a long time.
Speaker 11: And uh, if if you if you don't understand, the
Speaker 11: message will be will be very clear as the week
Speaker 11: goes on.
Speaker 10: You believe in the idea of having to get over
Speaker 10: the hump against certain teams, you know, whether it's Pittsburgh
Speaker 10: or Kansas City or whatever, or is that it's not
Speaker 10: something that we talk about that doesn't necessarily mean a lot.
Speaker 4: To you guys.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't know if we feel it's a it's
Speaker 11: a hump, but well maybe I would say maybe Kansas City.
Speaker 11: I feel like we that's been a difficult one O
Speaker 11: over the years. But Steelers, obviously you just want to
Speaker 11: win that one each you know, that's why they eight
Speaker 11: out of NOWE was so surprising. I think every every
Speaker 11: time we play and we're just trying to beat them
Speaker 11: the same as they're trying to beat us. But no,
Speaker 11: I wouldn't say this this week is feels like a
Speaker 11: but there's there's definitely I feel like I would say
Speaker 11: Casey is definite feel a little bit more like that
Speaker 11: we were We.
Speaker 4: Talked for maybe a month or so ago. You were
Speaker 4: very clear that though this isn't a Zach Woriosy.
Speaker 2: This is on us defensive players to kind of I right,
Speaker 2: what in your mind over the past month or so
Speaker 2: has really clicked in terms of this defense in the
Speaker 2: past defense specifically.
Speaker 11: I think with the past defense, the the biggest thing
Speaker 11: that's clicked is we we really tried to play more together. Honestly,
Speaker 11: if if I had to just pinpoint one thing, I
Speaker 11: would I would say it's putting com back their safety.
Speaker 11: I mean there's been he he's uh, he's just that
Speaker 11: guy's just uh different. It's play obviously, you guys see
Speaker 11: the play, but the communication getting guys right. I mean
Speaker 11: there's plays that I'm on the field, I I get
Speaker 11: the call, ask Scott what about doing this call? I
Speaker 11: hear some Kyle, give somebody else what are they doing
Speaker 11: this call?
Speaker 4: And so he he's just.
Speaker 11: As good as the football player as his smarts, how
Speaker 11: he keeps the guys calm. I there's a He's just
Speaker 11: a piece you can put in any position. But him
Speaker 11: going back to to safety. It seemed to really stabilize
Speaker 11: everybody else in all their spots, whether it's corners of
Speaker 11: the community of Nickel community, the backers. You know, Roe's
Speaker 11: doing so much given the front and everything, but I
Speaker 11: think Kyle's been able to just help us stabilize in
Speaker 11: the secondary, and to me, that's kind of been the
Speaker 11: the big thing on the back end and in the
Speaker 11: pass rush, those guys they've they've come alive as well
Speaker 11: a little bit more you know, kind of cage rush
Speaker 11: type type deals and letting guys win their one on one.
Speaker 11: So it's been a it's been really a a group
Speaker 11: effort to to get things right. So not not trying
Speaker 11: to I mean, not trying to give Kyle all the credit,
Speaker 11: but he he he deserves a uh a big amount
Speaker 11: for sure.
Speaker 1: Cool, you're playing at a really high level this year.
Speaker 1: You doubled the injuries last year, Like what what did
Speaker 1: what did it mean to you?
Speaker 3: What did this season mean to you?
Speaker 1: And what is me to be playing at at the
Speaker 1: level that you're playing at?
Speaker 11: Giving you of the camp last year, man, this year
Speaker 11: has been I came into it a little bit different
Speaker 11: than I would say I've ever approached a season. I
Speaker 11: just you know, last year with the injuries, it was
Speaker 11: a lot, you know, mentally, and I kind of just
Speaker 11: treated this year. I've really tried to treat each day
Speaker 11: like I think about training camp. I just came into
Speaker 11: the season thinking, you know this, you never really know
Speaker 11: what's gonna happen. And I think the situations we had
Speaker 11: throughout training camp with guys getting car RECs, our coach
Speaker 11: passing away. I really try to treat every day like
Speaker 11: it's my last, and I try to treat every practice.
Speaker 11: So many days in training camp wake up you're not
Speaker 11: really feeling it. And I journal a lot more and
Speaker 11: I basically just write whatever I'm writing, and I write
Speaker 11: usually just treat today, enjoy today, do what you can.
Speaker 11: And so I think that's really been able to help
Speaker 11: me really just enjoy the day to where you know,
Speaker 11: you know, obviously you want to stay healthy, you want
Speaker 11: to play for for a long time, but watching games
Speaker 11: is just is not very fun. And you think, man
Speaker 11: if I could do this, but I really try to.
Speaker 11: And then Zach or being a coach who you just
Speaker 11: really never know when your last play a football is
Speaker 11: going to be. And that's I think that's not a
Speaker 11: reality that a lot of us think as football players.
Speaker 11: I think it's not a lot of reality that people
Speaker 11: think in life. You know, It's just we had people
Speaker 11: and could have been tragic car accidents, a coach passed there'
Speaker 11: there's just so many things you can think about it.
Speaker 11: I'm just very grateful to just wake up today, wake
Speaker 11: up hopefully tomorrow the days I get and it's really
Speaker 11: helped me. It's helped me just be more calm as
Speaker 11: a player. Just go into it, just enjoy what I
Speaker 11: can enjoy, control what I can control, and I think
Speaker 11: I think that's been the biggest difference, I would say,
Speaker 11: And also trying to eliminate unknown stress. So I try
Speaker 11: to think about if I show up to the playing
Speaker 11: team playing ten minutes before we take off, or if
Speaker 11: I show up an hour, which one would be less stressful.
Speaker 11: So I actually got to the team train this past
Speaker 11: weekend before we could even get on the train, which
Speaker 11: was a first, but I was like, well, this is
Speaker 11: better than men almost late. So I try to think
Speaker 11: what is stressful. So I packed my bag the night before,
Speaker 11: so that packing it the day of and scrambling this
Speaker 11: past weekend, this past game, I had my wife packet,
Speaker 11: which was great. So you know, I just try to
Speaker 11: think about less stress. You know, getting get here early,
Speaker 11: even though you don't have anything to do, you will
Speaker 11: find something to do. So I tried that. That's something
Speaker 11: else I've changed, which is which has helped. But uh,
Speaker 11: just really enjoying life. That's been It's been the biggest thing.
Speaker 11: And it's just so easy here man, this organization, these coaches,
Speaker 11: it's I'm just grateful, but it's all those little things
Speaker 11: have really helped me just take stress off the body
Speaker 11: and help. You know, you put that in and then
Speaker 11: you can just be able to play more free. And
Speaker 11: I feel like it's showing up this year.
Speaker 9: We're in a stress for a year again.
Speaker 12: Three games in eleven days. What do you think is
Speaker 12: the key for you when you're going through such a
Speaker 12: condensed time frame, what's the key to be successful?
Speaker 11: I think the key to be successful and that is,
Speaker 11: you know, sleep, recovery, and you know, leaning on the coaches,
Speaker 11: leaning on leaning on the people that are in house
Speaker 11: to help you with the with the nutrition with Sarah,
Speaker 11: with the weight room, with Scott, with the coaches, doing
Speaker 11: the things as much as you can here to where
Speaker 11: when you get home, because it's it's I mean, it's
Speaker 11: it's turning around really really quick. And Uh, the biggest
Speaker 11: thing you just got to be on the same page,
Speaker 11: you know. I think there's another another team or two
Speaker 11: that's got some other type type stretches, so we're not
Speaker 11: the only team. But that's the biggest thing, is just
Speaker 11: putting the work, put in the work, put in the work,
Speaker 11: do it quick and try to stay ahead. But uh,
Speaker 11: bodies will be f on it. But it'll be the
Speaker 11: same on both sides. But I think whoever can do
Speaker 11: the little things the best will come out the most successful. Well.
Speaker 7: And speaking of stress, going back to the Pittsburgh in
Speaker 7: eight of nine and a lot of those it was
Speaker 7: you know, self inflicted stuff with you guys, penalties and
Speaker 7: finishing guys or whatever the case is just curious, like
Speaker 7: that team or any team, are are there things they're
Speaker 7: doing that stress.
Speaker 4: You guys in that way?
Speaker 7: Where is it a matter of more if you guys
Speaker 7: needing to lock in on every detail in games like that?
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know it's that's the probably the biggest surprise
Speaker 11: of the eight of the last nine. I feel like
Speaker 11: we've had more success over the past couple of years,
Speaker 11: I would say, like postseason stuff like that. So that's
Speaker 11: actually something I was thinking about earlier. Why why is
Speaker 11: that so? And I feel as though it's kind of
Speaker 11: been more of them having better, you know, success, and
Speaker 11: why does that come. I think it's been a little
Speaker 11: little bit of kind of, like you said, a little
Speaker 11: bit of self inflicted. I think we've we've sustained drives
Speaker 11: and they kind of died at the end. We've you know,
Speaker 11: gotten to stop or get a flag, gotten to stop,
Speaker 11: get a flag. There's just there's been a there's been
Speaker 11: a lot of different different things. It just seems like
Speaker 11: it hasn't went our way. But it's not like, oh
Speaker 11: we were just unlucky. It just was you know, you
Speaker 11: gotta play dissilin football. I think they Tomlin, you know
Speaker 11: kind of I feel like he wants to just keep
Speaker 11: the game close, keep the game close, and then win
Speaker 11: it at the end. And honestly that strategy works pretty
Speaker 11: well when they play us. But you know, I respect
Speaker 11: respect what he does as a coach. You know, his
Speaker 11: team is there. You know, there's a lot of teams
Speaker 11: out there that you can say or they weren't really tough,
Speaker 11: they didn't really bring it. But that's one thing that
Speaker 11: I love about the rivalry. You know, there's no there's
Speaker 11: not a lot of fair dodging. They they're gonna do
Speaker 11: what they're gonna do go, run the ball, take their shots.
Speaker 11: It's not really gonna be a secret. And they they
Speaker 11: feel that they can do that to be successful, and uh,
Speaker 11: we gotta feel that we can stop it, and uh
Speaker 11: do to the opposite.
Speaker 1: We all surfing wide receivers. Day Flowers, he's closing in
Speaker 1: on the thousand receiving yards this year. He talked about
Speaker 1: his season and his thoughts going into this game against
Speaker 1: the Steelers.
Speaker 12: Put your offensive player. Most of these teams. I mean,
Speaker 12: you're you're putting out twenty five to forty points the Steelers.
Speaker 12: It's kind of sending The past couple year has been
Speaker 12: a little bit of opposite. Why do you think the
Speaker 12: Steelers give your guys.
Speaker 4: Some trouble with bables from that?
Speaker 1: H Uh?
Speaker 13: I don't think there's no trouble. I think we always
Speaker 13: have I feel like turnovers, miss kids like stuff like
Speaker 13: that during the game. So if we just eliminate those
Speaker 13: because we moved the ball downfield, I know, you see that, right,
Speaker 13: we move the ball downfield, we get across the fifty,
Speaker 13: you know what I'm saying. So you know, we just
Speaker 13: gotta take care of the ball, make kicks and try
Speaker 13: to put the ball in the an zone talking about
Speaker 13: you know, especially.
Speaker 3: In this last game against Pittsburgh, a lot of times
Speaker 3: you're getting first and long because of penalties and things
Speaker 3: like that. How disruptive is that to the flow of
Speaker 3: this offense When you guys set back with the first
Speaker 3: down penalty.
Speaker 13: I mean, when you when it's first and fifteen or
Speaker 13: second and twenty, like, it's hard to get back on track.
Speaker 13: It's the NFL, so it's hard to get back on track.
Speaker 13: So we try to eat out the yards a little
Speaker 13: bit to try to cut it closer to get a
Speaker 13: better third down or a better second down. So he
Speaker 13: right about that that we be in long situations first
Speaker 13: and second down, so once we get out of those,
Speaker 13: we'll be alright.
Speaker 12: No, like you do being sip close, just how much
Speaker 12: he sends from him, how bad he wants to be.
Speaker 13: The Steelers, Uh, I mean he want to be everybody
Speaker 13: just m like, just about the same. So I get
Speaker 13: a sense of that every week every team we play,
Speaker 13: he's like that blow him out, man, Like we don't
Speaker 13: even want to play with him, Like, let's just go
Speaker 13: out and do what we gotta do and get out
Speaker 13: of here. So I feel like he got that same
Speaker 13: energy for every game. He locked in in the same way,
Speaker 13: no matter who we playing.
Speaker 1: Along those lines of what it stood out to you
Speaker 1: about Lamar's.
Speaker 13: The leadership this year, it ain't. It ain't been a
Speaker 13: l He been a little bit more vocal, but not
Speaker 13: a lot, you know what I mean. His action, he
Speaker 13: he he like to take the field and do what
Speaker 13: he do and then he'll tell you on the field.
Speaker 13: It's not so much like, oh, like you gotta do
Speaker 13: this or do that. He just like he's played the game.
Speaker 13: And then we just follow along cause we see how
Speaker 13: hard he playing. That's our quarterbacks, so we try to
Speaker 13: get the same amount of effort we just heard from
Speaker 13: uh Marlin.
Speaker 6: He I mean that was a defensive perspective.
Speaker 10: Maybe about talking about the Los into this year, Is
Speaker 10: that something you guys have talked about at this.
Speaker 12: Point right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I ain't even Yeah, I ain't even know that.
Speaker 13: But you know, we just gonna we gonna worry about
Speaker 13: this game, try to get this win this game, and
Speaker 13: move forward.
Speaker 6: Do you feel like this is the division on the
Speaker 6: line here?
Speaker 13: I mean, we just gonna go out and win. We
Speaker 13: just gonna go out and try to win. But if
Speaker 13: the division on the line. Probably, I don't. I really
Speaker 13: don't know. I ain't really paying attention to it. I'm
Speaker 13: just worrying about going out there playing my best, playing
Speaker 13: our best, and getting a win.
Speaker 7: What do they do that's you've obviously only played them
Speaker 7: twice and you had seven catches I think on seventeen
Speaker 7: targets people want to touch down there. What did they do?
Speaker 7: That's that stresses you? That's difficult for you or.
Speaker 13: For Revengers in general. No, don't really do nothing that
Speaker 13: really stresses me, if I'm being honest. It just you know,
Speaker 13: you have some games and it it ended up being
Speaker 13: that game. So we'll figure out when we get there.
Speaker 1: This week.
Speaker 13: We got them, so we'll gonna look forward to that.
Speaker 12: When you hate, Marland described uh, Marlon described the team
Speaker 12: meetings to say, it's fiery.
Speaker 10: It does it feel different the Steelers because it's the Steelers.
Speaker 13: Of course, because it's a rival.
Speaker 11: It's a rival.
Speaker 13: It's always gonna be like that, no matter what team
Speaker 13: gotta arrival with rivalry it is. If you got a
Speaker 13: rival in your division and you ain't gonna go out
Speaker 13: there and want to play soft, you gotta make sure
Speaker 13: everybody fight up and ready to go, make sure everybody
Speaker 13: got their minds on right, they head locked in. So
Speaker 13: it's always gonna be like that.
Speaker 10: Say, if you had to say the number one thing
Speaker 10: you want out of the next three weeks, it is
Speaker 10: it the division?
Speaker 12: Is it?
Speaker 10: You want to be playing at your best going into
Speaker 10: the playoffs? Like what what's the driving goal?
Speaker 11: Division?
Speaker 13: Playing at our best? Win all three everything that comes
Speaker 13: with it. We want everything. We want to end it
Speaker 13: the right way. So we want to go out with
Speaker 13: a bang these last three games, finish the right way,
Speaker 13: going to the playoffs with a little momental and do
Speaker 13: what we gotta do.
Speaker 3: Then, what you've seen from Tes the last you know,
Speaker 3: I mean really this season in practice, I mean we
Speaker 3: really only got to see him this week. But what's
Speaker 3: kind of been the work behind his performances, Well.
Speaker 13: Yeah, T T T has improved a lot. Tas come
Speaker 13: out every day in practice and give a hundred against
Speaker 13: our first team defense, and you see him get better
Speaker 13: each week, Like you see him improve on something, then
Speaker 13: the next week here improve on something else. And he
Speaker 13: always asksing questions no matter what it is. Whereas a play,
Speaker 13: whether it's how to run the route, he gonna always
Speaker 13: ask questions and he gonna do his best and everything,
Speaker 13: and I'm glad he finally getting a chance to play
Speaker 13: and show.
Speaker 6: Bats had a lot of long touchdowns this season. Action
Speaker 6: between he and Lawrence really good.
Speaker 1: What have you seen behind the scenes on the practice
Speaker 1: field or whatnot that you feel like has enabled him
Speaker 1: to hit his.
Speaker 13: Shot more practice, We've just been practicing him and talking
Speaker 13: about it. I feel like that's the biggest thing about it.
Speaker 13: Practicing on the field and taking it to the game
Speaker 13: and also watching film. Oh, this how we're gonna do it.
Speaker 13: This is how we're gonna do this. And that's what
Speaker 13: it's been.
Speaker 6: To go back to Test for a second.
Speaker 3: I know the situation with Deontay's outside of your guys' control,
Speaker 3: but do you feel like the guy like Test stepping
Speaker 3: up shows the ability of this wide receiving group to
Speaker 3: kind of succeed no matter who's available.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I feel like everybody in our receiver room could
Speaker 13: play like no matter what, no matter who it is,
Speaker 13: From Anthony Miller Test to Tylan Wallace, y'all seeing Tylan Wallace, anybody,
Speaker 13: I feel like anybody can step up and make plays
Speaker 13: and help get the team a win.
Speaker 1: In the locker room today. We also heard from safety
Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 9: Overall ravens of vast last nine to the Steelers. I
Speaker 9: know you're not involved in a lot of those, but
Speaker 9: how much do you think that maybe bother some of
Speaker 9: the these guys did this off.
Speaker 6: I think it.
Speaker 14: Obviously we want to win every game, especially when we
Speaker 14: play the Steelers, but I don't think people really think
Speaker 14: about it too much. You know, it's every game is
Speaker 14: mutually exclusive, and you know, just because we lost last game,
Speaker 14: it's nothing to do with this game. So that's not
Speaker 14: a good stat not a good side of the history
Speaker 14: to be on. So you know we're gonna come outsideay
Speaker 14: try to change.
Speaker 5: Do you feel a lot of it's good self inflicted?
Speaker 5: Would so while you're here. Penalties and maybe lack of
Speaker 5: communication or time critical time.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think that just goes with any time you
Speaker 14: lose a game, penalties, lack of communication, that's what loses
Speaker 14: your games. Coach Hargoll always tells us, we we have
Speaker 14: to learn how to not lose games before we can
Speaker 14: win games. So it's very true in the sport, and
Speaker 14: you know, it's stuff that we have to clean up,
Speaker 14: and we know we Willy.
Speaker 1: Kyle Marlin talked about the defense coming along well, and
Speaker 1: if you really pointed to you being playing that natural
Speaker 1: safety position is kind of a turning point. How has
Speaker 1: that helped, I guess you and then the defensive overall
Speaker 1: since you've been moved into that role.
Speaker 6: Kind of midway through the season.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean it's kind of funny. Y'all have asked
Speaker 14: me like about the year, like, do you still see
Speaker 14: yourself as safety? You know this is pretty much happening,
Speaker 14: And I was like, yeah, so so now I'm just
Speaker 14: playing safety now. I feel like it's not like we
Speaker 14: reinvented the wheel, Like we're just doing what we knew
Speaker 14: we had to do the whole time and not making
Speaker 14: dumb mistakes and you know, just keeping the ball in
Speaker 14: front of us, making tackles and stuff like that. And
Speaker 14: I feel like we'd be really good if we just
Speaker 14: polish up stuff like that penalties as well.
Speaker 1: What I would have been like communication with everybody else
Speaker 1: you really wanted to your communication and knowing what everybody
Speaker 1: does in front of you. How big of a factor
Speaker 1: is that in your game?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I think it's big.
Speaker 14: I think that's a big reason why I think I
Speaker 14: helped when I'm out there, you know, I feel like
Speaker 14: I'm out there obviously play well, but at the same time,
Speaker 14: make sure guys are playing well, playing fast. At the
Speaker 14: same time, I don't want people out there thinking whether
Speaker 14: it's Nata outside or Marlin or bro Kwan. You know,
Speaker 14: he has a lot on his place to try to
Speaker 14: take someone off his play and just communication wise. If
Speaker 14: I can have everybody on the same page, just starting
Speaker 14: with me, Sary Rokuan and going from there, I think
Speaker 14: we'd be playing fast and play really well.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you have a sense of just how well
Speaker 5: Steelers fans travel for for a game this big. I
Speaker 5: guess what is your kind of message to Ravens fans
Speaker 5: considered why it goes to this game?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 14: You know, I think Ravens fans traveled pretty well the
Speaker 14: Pittsburgh too as well. But uh, you know, it's kind
Speaker 14: of funny when we do the national anthem where we're
Speaker 14: at and they do the big oh chat, you kind
Speaker 14: of have a sense of how many Ravens fans are
Speaker 14: there at that time. But you know, it is our stadium,
Speaker 14: it's a home home game for us, and I think
Speaker 14: it's it's a big advantage, you know, playing any team,
Speaker 14: especially Pittsburgh. I don't think people really talk about it enough.
Speaker 14: I think Ravens fans done a great job just staying
Speaker 14: in it and you know, supporting us, criticizing us obviously too.
Speaker 14: But you know, we critics our ourself, hold us to
Speaker 14: a high standard, and I think that it's fair because
Speaker 14: of the just the franchise in itself and what it's
Speaker 14: become at this point. You know, one of the more
Speaker 14: winning is franchise in the league, and we're always in
Speaker 14: the mix every year, So expect them to be rowdy,
Speaker 14: expect them to be loud, and hopefully get to win.
Speaker 15: For him, Marlin described the team meeting as firing.
Speaker 11: Did you notice anything different about it?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: No, I really don't know what he's talking about. He
Speaker 6: might have been in his own little world.
Speaker 10: He said, he doesn't feel like you guys need to
Speaker 10: get over any kind of hope for whatever word you
Speaker 10: want to use, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 12: Would you would you agree with that?
Speaker 4: But it's not really that kind of situation.
Speaker 14: Yeah, No, I mean that's kind of what I was
Speaker 14: saying earlier, like it's it obviously we lost eight of
Speaker 14: the last nine, I think, but you know, don't think
Speaker 14: we're going in this game like we can't lose nine
Speaker 14: out of ten, Like we were just trying to win
Speaker 14: this one game and take a one week at a time.
Speaker 6: And I know y'all hear that a lot from us,
Speaker 6: but it's really true, like we you know, we have.
Speaker 14: One week lives kind of and you know, last week
Speaker 14: we're all about the Giants and got that win. Now
Speaker 14: we're all about the Steelers and whatever comes next to
Speaker 14: come next. But you know, obviously we're trying too to
Speaker 14: win this week. How you can mention that, you know,
Speaker 14: this can't be a team that beats itself.
Speaker 5: Is there a challenge mentally for you guys, for you
Speaker 5: feel like you kind of stop on third down and
Speaker 5: you see a flag you kind of have to reset.
Speaker 5: Is that a challenge for this team, this defense to
Speaker 5: kind of move on to the next play, not getting
Speaker 5: fixated on what might have happened.
Speaker 14: I don't think it's a challenge for us moving on
Speaker 14: in a sense. I think it's a challenge for us
Speaker 14: just to not have them in the first place.
Speaker 6: You know, I think we played pretty well.
Speaker 14: Zach told us this week that on one driver, they
Speaker 14: scored the first touchdown, they are thirty nine yards offense
Speaker 14: and forty one yards penalies, like, like, we're literally giving
Speaker 14: them points at that point. And you know, I feel
Speaker 14: like we have a good enough team where nobody should
Speaker 14: really just drive down the field and score on us
Speaker 14: just that will you know, we are the only way
Speaker 14: that would happen if we get penalties past and interference
Speaker 14: holding wherever it may be. And you know, we just
Speaker 14: gotta be a little more clean in that aspect. But
Speaker 14: I don't think guys need to change how they're playing
Speaker 14: in any way, just kind of fix little things to
Speaker 14: just keep playing fast.
Speaker 3: Oh, when you play the Steelers, do you feel.
Speaker 1: Like you have a pretty good idea of going into
Speaker 1: the game what they're going to do offensively? They're gonna
Speaker 1: run the ball.
Speaker 7: A lot, They're gonna take a few deep shots.
Speaker 1: Like and how does that make them different to defend
Speaker 1: their other teams?
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's not a lot of glitz and glam. You know,
Speaker 14: they're gonna a lot of us make you stop them,
Speaker 14: and we respect that. I think most of the league does.
Speaker 14: You know, They've been good at it for a long
Speaker 14: time and a lot of teams just kind of wilt
Speaker 14: away at that point, like when you get a third
Speaker 14: fourth quarter, tired of tackling nausea, you're tired of hitting whoever.
Speaker 14: And but I don't think we're built like that. I
Speaker 14: think we're built for these kinds of games and gonna
Speaker 14: come out Saturday im prove that.
Speaker 1: Next up, we heard from tight end Marc Andrews.
Speaker 8: They're a well coach team. They do things the right way,
Speaker 8: they manage the game well. So for us, it's just
Speaker 8: being efficient, doing our job and move.
Speaker 11: Forward with the game.
Speaker 14: Players talked about there being kind of an emotional team meeting,
Speaker 14: just a little fiery.
Speaker 6: Can you take us inside that meeting.
Speaker 11: At little bit? I mean, we just know what's at stake.
Speaker 8: It's this time of year. We gotta win games, and
Speaker 8: we put ourselves in a great position, and so everything
Speaker 8: looking ahead is is just being motivated and locked in
Speaker 8: and ready to take on this week and take it
Speaker 8: one at a time.
Speaker 1: How much did the Giants win act as a spring
Speaker 1: board going into this week.
Speaker 11: It was a great win.
Speaker 8: It was a great win for us, and especially coming
Speaker 8: off a bye, and so now just working to build
Speaker 8: off at momentum and continue this win.
Speaker 10: Streat, what do you care about the most from the
Speaker 10: remainder of the regular season, is it is it the division?
Speaker 10: Is it hitting your best form?
Speaker 15: Like?
Speaker 4: What do you what do you want?
Speaker 8: It's week by week, week by week, we're we're every
Speaker 8: week we're worried about our new opponent and that's this week.
Speaker 8: It's the Steelers obviously a big game, divisional game and
Speaker 8: two teams that are you know, at the top of
Speaker 8: our division. So you know, that's what we're worried about. It,
Speaker 8: that's what we're thinking about, and it's what we're ready for.
Speaker 15: You've going against the Steelers a lot, that defense a lot.
Speaker 15: What what do you think post is the biggest What
Speaker 15: what do they do so well there? Because that's maybe
Speaker 15: the biggest challenge.
Speaker 8: When they're physical, they're a athletic, they work hard, they
Speaker 8: got effort, they do a lot of things well. So
Speaker 8: for us, it's bringing it. You know, you know that
Speaker 8: they're going to be able to do that, and it's
Speaker 8: just being physical and doing our job.
Speaker 11: That's all that matters.
Speaker 1: And where we saw Batans come all the game where
Speaker 1: he had two touchdowns. How has his development emergencies year
Speaker 1: He'll help.
Speaker 4: The offense overall.
Speaker 6: He's a big time player.
Speaker 8: And he's making big time plays in big time moments
Speaker 8: that have helped U one big games and help change
Speaker 8: games for us. And it's been awesome to see him
Speaker 8: kind of flourish and and do his thing. He's playing
Speaker 8: incredible and he's just going to continue to step up,
Speaker 8: make big plays and help this team win.
Speaker 7: Mark obviously the person of Boston.
Speaker 3: Where Francis did.
Speaker 9: You get a lot of kudos from the people in
Speaker 9: the organizations?
Speaker 3: Did you hear from jama I was just gonna wonder
Speaker 3: what kind of flooded in after that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, everyone's been super you know, uh, you know,
Speaker 8: kind and cordial and uh, you know, give him my carats.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, you know, that's.
Speaker 8: So small right now, it's so small because we have
Speaker 8: so much ahead and so much to look forward to.
Speaker 4: I'm not worried about that.
Speaker 8: I'm worried about winning this next game.
Speaker 10: Not useful to build up one game it's sort of
Speaker 10: bigger than another. I mean, obviously we're what we do
Speaker 10: is hype up a game and say it's the biggest
Speaker 10: game of the year.
Speaker 11: Is that just not helpful to you or.
Speaker 4: How do you look at that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you try to you try to go week by
Speaker 8: week and just try to focus on each game and
Speaker 8: doing your job. And you know, obviously, you know some
Speaker 8: games are hyped up and some games aren't. But you know,
Speaker 8: for us, it's being consistent week in and week out.
Speaker 15: What's your what was your back when you saw when
Speaker 15: the schedule came out. I think it was mag t
Speaker 15: three games and eleven takes.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it's crazy, but at the end of
Speaker 8: the day, you know, everybody that's in that boat is
Speaker 8: in the boat, so we're all going through that same
Speaker 8: the same things. And uh, you know, Coach Monks said
Speaker 8: it today, it's you know, if you're in that type
Speaker 8: of position means you're a good team, and everybody in
Speaker 8: that category is, you know, playing well.
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