WEBVTT - Jackson, Flowers, Humphrey & More: Ravens Press Conferences 12/17/24 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.840 Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens are 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.680 gearing up for a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.920 at four point thirty at M and T Bank Stadium. 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.280 As the Ravens prepared for that game, we had a 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.000 chest hear from some of the key players, including quarterback 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:18.000 Lamar Jackson. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.200 Just got a find way to get a dog, you 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.640 know one. Well, it's gonna be at a home game, 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:28.880 so we just got to execute at home, find a 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:29.360 way to win. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.600 Have you meditated a lot on that game in Pittsburgh 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.760 or do you kind of try to put it behind you? 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:37.479 You have you looked back a lot at that game 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:39.360 again in Pittsburgh or do you try to put that 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:40.440 behind you? How do you prepared? 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.760 Oh no, I really didn't go back to the game 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:43.479 and watch it a lot. 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:43.680 You know. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.600 Obviously after the game I watched it and seeing things 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.320 on the on film, I didn't like some things I 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.120 did like, you know, we did move the ball. We 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.320 just wasn't finishing drives and Kennedy's turnover stuff like that. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.200 We got to clean up. But I gotta find a 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:58.760 way to just put points on the board. You know, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.000 from when I did watch the game that's all. 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.160 Against the Steelers of homes for four years. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.039 And you also haven't played in front of the home 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:08.160 crowd as. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.320 A starting quarterback the Ravens because it was the last 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:11.199 time was twenty twenty. 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.680 That was when the fans weren't really covide doing it. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.520 Just what can that difference be for you and for 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:18.560 this team? 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.760 Uh, just been in front of the crowd, man, flocked Nacy, 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.600 just been in the building knowing this arrival game, I'm 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:25.800 knowing what's that state for us? 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:28.319 I feel like the. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.840 Momentum, the momentum from our crowd is just give us 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:32.520 what we need, you know, that extra boost. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.920 And while we've you know, talking over the years about 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.080 being locked in and kind of that focus, that's always 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.200 how you've been, but it seems like maybe even more 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.240 so this year has that Has that been really a 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.480 point of ovisist in a focus for you this year? 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:49.600 Man? Just trying to stay on schedule. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.640 I'm one of the vets now, so obviously I gotta 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.000 lead by example. So I'm trying to do it, you know, 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.040 with play off the field everything. Just trying to be 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.440 the leader that I can be best leader that last 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.440 year you took a lot of shots to for Shan 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.720 babmen down the field, didn't connect on a lot of them. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.760 Obviously, that's changed a lot this year. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.040 What do you think A big reason for that? 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:15.240 That change has been us just trusting each other, us 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:16.440 just trusting to. 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.919 Play call and just connecting with our chemistry. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.360 Because years ago we was out in Cali and we 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.840 were we was working and it was right after the season. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:26.640 Our chemistry was there, you know. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.040 Uh, we both of us had injuries you know, in 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.320 the past, so our chemistry would die off at some 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.520 point of the season. But this year we've been healthy 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.960 and it's just been how it's been going, how it 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.480 should be going, you know, just from going back to 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:40.959 camp and just all season work. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.960 Well, Mark, coming back to that Steelers game from this year, 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.120 I think you have to words you see said it 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.079 was annoying all the you know, the self inflicted stuff, 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:49.919 penalties and. 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:51.200 Not finishing off drives. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.920 Aside from that stuff, what when you watched the film after, 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.960 what did what didn't you like? From what from what 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.639 you saw just in terms of either plays or execution 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.320 or whatever it was in besides just the not finishing 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:06.000 your eyes. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.840 That's that's Nah, you pretty much just called it all out. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.919 You know, us just self to flit the wounds, penalties, turnovers. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.880 Getting back on track is like second and long, third 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.440 and long, Uh, first and long. Stuff like that is 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.680 just like we we killing drives before they even get started, 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:23.560 you know. And I watched film on that, and it's 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.800 like last week we did a better job at that. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.320 You know, we wasn't first and long, second and long often. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.800 So us just being on schedule with those guys, I 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.160 feel like we'll be where we need to be. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.240 I mean, it's easy for us to say this is 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.240 the biggest game of the season. Do you do you 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.080 think about things in those terms at all? 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:41.120 Nah? 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:41.840 Uh. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.280 Every game is a big game, you know, Like I said, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.680 like just last well, just the other day, we couldn't 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.040 look at those guys record and just think we could 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.120 just go in there and just blowing mout. You know, 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.040 it's the NFL team. We gotta go into every game 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.720 the same way, tryna wear regardless of the record, who 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.240 it is in front of us. I feel like we 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.000 can play with anybody, play against anybody. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:01.960 How do you feel about the stretch that you got 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:02.240 it off? 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.960 The three games for eleven days now. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.280 Yeah, but I gotta word about the Steelers. I can't 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:08.760 really read about the scratch, you know. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.360 Yeah, in the success that he's having in terms of 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.960 the chemistry that you guys with Bateman, you talked about 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.240 the chemistry that you guys have had over the years. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.800 Have you always had this belief that you know, you 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.360 could this could be? What with the way he played 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.720 and produced and and and then also how does that 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:27.719 just unlock kind of another element. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:28.000 Of his offense? 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:28.960 Yeah? Absolutely. 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:30.760 Like I said, you know, I was training with him 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.839 and CALLI you know, a couple of years back of 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.640 just grinding out here on the field just seeing what 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.119 type of player he is. I just knew he gonna 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:40.680 he gonna be one of those guys you know, it's 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.520 just over time is gonna It's gonna happen eventually, And 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.120 it's happening now, you know, perfect time. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.200 I believe with him as another weapon, I mean, is 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.239 that what we saw last wet and how I'm puting 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:50.720 the offense? 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.880 Yeah? Absolutely, him, Him and all the other guys. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.080 You know, we've got a lot of great guys that 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.720 receiver in tight ends and running backs in the backfield. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.320 You consider the division of me major prize or for years, 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.400 it more about how you guys are playing going into 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.480 the playoffs? Do you consider the division winning the division? 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.640 Is that is that I'm still a major prize or 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.120 is it more about how you guys are playing? Go 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:12.919 get into the playoffs. 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.280 I'm just trying to win regardless it it really don't matter. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.200 You know when each and every game we're we're in. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.880 You know, we're not going into games trying to lose 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.120 and picking the tend and be like, Okay, this the game. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:25.880 Were trying to beat these guys cause they're you know, 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.280 it's every game, any given game I'm trying to win. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.719 Well, did the Steelers kind of defend you guys the 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.320 same ways over and over? 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.200 Or have they do they change a lot in gaining 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.360 the game where they try to do to stop uh? 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.320 From UH personnel standpoint, those guys like to switch it 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:41.760 up a little bit here and there. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.680 You feel like, you guys, with the weapons you have, 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.880 should have more answers for whatever they try to do. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.240 I believe so, I believe we should have answers. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.240 But when the game come, I bet I'll have a 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:54.280 answer for you after the game. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.880 Uh With with test scoring a touchdown this week. I 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:59.680 know you were talking about after the game. Do you 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.920 feel like there are opportunities ahead for him in the 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.000 coman weeks to see more action and help this team. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:05.400 Yeah? 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.680 Absolutely, you know his number called. I feel like he'll 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.560 be ready and to jump right in like he did. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.240 You know this this previous game go dark? 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:13.280 Thank you all. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:21.120 Jack actually heard from cornerback Marlon Humphrey, who has five 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.440 interceptions on the season. He's really having a resurgent year. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.200 He talked about the key to that resurgence in the 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.520 mindset going into this game against Pittsburgh. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:33.719 A can't Steelers. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.640 You guys lost to aid it last night. There's been 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.880 some games where the starters haven't you wrapped up in ags? 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.600 He needed played the stars against them, but overall still 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.120 ate it last time. How much do you think that 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:45.960 bothers the players been side. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:50.720 I didn't know it was Aided last night until the 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:57.000 last game, but it bothers me. When I found out 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.560 it was, it was it was surprising, But no, it's 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.400 it's ah. I know the guys in the locker room, 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.200 you know we want to win this rivalry. MM and 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.360 A I'll ast nine man. It's uh it's it's not 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.640 a good number at all. So I think, uh, the 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.280 focus has got to be at a premium this week 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.680 and you try to It's gonna take a lot to 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.920 get that back on our side. But uh, you wanna 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.040 you wanna be able to beat your your rivalry. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:23.280 Have you been here a while? 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.679 Have you expressed that to some of the newcomers maybe 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:27.600 like this has been going on part too long. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.880 We just got in today. Hasn't been a lot of 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:35.800 talk about it. But uh, I think it's all about 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.560 peeking at the right time. Uh get the uh, get 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.320 the juices flowing. But uh no, I I definitely I'm 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.640 talking to the team at some point this week after practice. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.000 But that that's that's gotta be the message. You know. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.040 I feel like in the past there's been a lot 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:57.360 more talk about it. Defensive meeting today was was a 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:01.280 little fiery. Team meeting was a little fiery. But it's uh, 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.320 it's just gonna be build this week and uh, it'll 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.360 get talked about it. I think you know, some people 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.400 got a taste of it. It's a couple of squirmishes 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.320 in the last game, but uh no, this is big. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:11.840 This means a lot to a lot of people. It 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.440 means a lot to me being here for a long time. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.640 And uh, if if you if you don't understand, the 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.480 message will be will be very clear as the week 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:18.760 goes on. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.880 You believe in the idea of having to get over 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.560 the hump against certain teams, you know, whether it's Pittsburgh 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.160 or Kansas City or whatever, or is that it's not 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.880 something that we talk about that doesn't necessarily mean a lot. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:29.280 To you guys. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.520 Yeah, I don't know if we feel it's a it's 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:38.079 a hump, but well maybe I would say maybe Kansas City. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.880 I feel like we that's been a difficult one O 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:46.240 over the years. But Steelers, obviously you just want to 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:50.360 win that one each you know, that's why they eight 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.160 out of NOWE was so surprising. I think every every 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.000 time we play and we're just trying to beat them 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.640 the same as they're trying to beat us. But no, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.160 I wouldn't say this this week is feels like a 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.559 but there's there's definitely I feel like I would say 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.439 Casey is definite feel a little bit more like that 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:06.880 we were We. 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.440 Talked for maybe a month or so ago. You were 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.400 very clear that though this isn't a Zach Woriosy. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.080 This is on us defensive players to kind of I right, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.160 what in your mind over the past month or so 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.640 has really clicked in terms of this defense in the 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:19.840 past defense specifically. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.280 I think with the past defense, the the biggest thing 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:27.280 that's clicked is we we really tried to play more together. Honestly, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.920 if if I had to just pinpoint one thing, I 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.640 would I would say it's putting com back their safety. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.720 I mean there's been he he's uh, he's just that 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.880 guy's just uh different. It's play obviously, you guys see 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.480 the play, but the communication getting guys right. I mean 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.520 there's plays that I'm on the field, I I get 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.280 the call, ask Scott what about doing this call? I 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.080 hear some Kyle, give somebody else what are they doing 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:52.440 this call? 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:53.920 And so he he's just. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.400 As good as the football player as his smarts, how 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:01.920 he keeps the guys calm. I there's a He's just 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.480 a piece you can put in any position. But him 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.160 going back to to safety. It seemed to really stabilize 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.360 everybody else in all their spots, whether it's corners of 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.400 the community of Nickel community, the backers. You know, Roe's 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.559 doing so much given the front and everything, but I 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.000 think Kyle's been able to just help us stabilize in 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.240 the secondary, and to me, that's kind of been the 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:22.199 the big thing on the back end and in the 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.480 pass rush, those guys they've they've come alive as well 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.760 a little bit more you know, kind of cage rush 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.800 type type deals and letting guys win their one on one. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.120 So it's been a it's been really a a group 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:39.000 effort to to get things right. So not not trying 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.280 to I mean, not trying to give Kyle all the credit, 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.760 but he he he deserves a uh a big amount 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:44.480 for sure. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.439 Cool, you're playing at a really high level this year. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:50.760 You doubled the injuries last year, Like what what did 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:51.640 what did it mean to you? 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.079 What did this season mean to you? 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.040 And what is me to be playing at at the 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:56.120 level that you're playing at? 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:01.000 Giving you of the camp last year, man, this year 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.880 has been I came into it a little bit different 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:09.040 than I would say I've ever approached a season. I 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.719 just you know, last year with the injuries, it was 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.920 a lot, you know, mentally, and I kind of just 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.640 treated this year. I've really tried to treat each day 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.160 like I think about training camp. I just came into 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.040 the season thinking, you know this, you never really know 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:32.480 what's gonna happen. And I think the situations we had 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.800 throughout training camp with guys getting car RECs, our coach 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.640 passing away. I really try to treat every day like 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.240 it's my last, and I try to treat every practice. 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.480 So many days in training camp wake up you're not 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.240 really feeling it. And I journal a lot more and 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.920 I basically just write whatever I'm writing, and I write 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.839 usually just treat today, enjoy today, do what you can. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.600 And so I think that's really been able to help 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.520 me really just enjoy the day to where you know, 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:02.920 you know, obviously you want to stay healthy, you want 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.920 to play for for a long time, but watching games 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.079 is just is not very fun. And you think, man 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.079 if I could do this, but I really try to. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.520 And then Zach or being a coach who you just 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.400 really never know when your last play a football is 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.599 going to be. And that's I think that's not a 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.160 reality that a lot of us think as football players. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.640 I think it's not a lot of reality that people 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.720 think in life. You know, It's just we had people 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:30.920 and could have been tragic car accidents, a coach passed there' 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.280 there's just so many things you can think about it. 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.880 I'm just very grateful to just wake up today, wake 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.160 up hopefully tomorrow the days I get and it's really 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.280 helped me. It's helped me just be more calm as 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.760 a player. Just go into it, just enjoy what I 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.959 can enjoy, control what I can control, and I think 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.680 I think that's been the biggest difference, I would say, 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:58.079 And also trying to eliminate unknown stress. So I try 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.400 to think about if I show up to the playing 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.920 team playing ten minutes before we take off, or if 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.680 I show up an hour, which one would be less stressful. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.080 So I actually got to the team train this past 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.080 weekend before we could even get on the train, which 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.520 was a first, but I was like, well, this is 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.439 better than men almost late. So I try to think 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.520 what is stressful. So I packed my bag the night before, 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.400 so that packing it the day of and scrambling this 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.000 past weekend, this past game, I had my wife packet, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.520 which was great. So you know, I just try to 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.280 think about less stress. You know, getting get here early, 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.000 even though you don't have anything to do, you will 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.679 find something to do. So I tried that. That's something 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.320 else I've changed, which is which has helped. But uh, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.120 just really enjoying life. That's been It's been the biggest thing. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.840 And it's just so easy here man, this organization, these coaches, 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:54.000 it's I'm just grateful, but it's all those little things 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:58.319 have really helped me just take stress off the body 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.960 and help. You know, you put that in and then 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:04.839 you can just be able to play more free. And 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:06.920 I feel like it's showing up this year. 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.679 We're in a stress for a year again. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.880 Three games in eleven days. What do you think is 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.559 the key for you when you're going through such a 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.720 condensed time frame, what's the key to be successful? 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.120 I think the key to be successful and that is, 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:29.320 you know, sleep, recovery, and you know, leaning on the coaches, 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.320 leaning on leaning on the people that are in house 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.600 to help you with the with the nutrition with Sarah, 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.840 with the weight room, with Scott, with the coaches, doing 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.200 the things as much as you can here to where 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.000 when you get home, because it's it's I mean, it's 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.520 it's turning around really really quick. And Uh, the biggest 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:46.720 thing you just got to be on the same page, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.080 you know. I think there's another another team or two 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.120 that's got some other type type stretches, so we're not 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:53.840 the only team. But that's the biggest thing, is just 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:55.800 putting the work, put in the work, put in the work, 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.680 do it quick and try to stay ahead. But uh, 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.120 bodies will be f on it. But it'll be the 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.360 same on both sides. But I think whoever can do 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.480 the little things the best will come out the most successful. Well. 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.320 And speaking of stress, going back to the Pittsburgh in 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.360 eight of nine and a lot of those it was 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.120 you know, self inflicted stuff with you guys, penalties and 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.080 finishing guys or whatever the case is just curious, like 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.240 that team or any team, are are there things they're 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.800 doing that stress. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:27.920 You guys in that way? 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.560 Where is it a matter of more if you guys 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:35.240 needing to lock in on every detail in games like that? 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.440 Yeah, you know it's that's the probably the biggest surprise 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:39.760 of the eight of the last nine. I feel like 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.840 we've had more success over the past couple of years, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.680 I would say, like postseason stuff like that. So that's 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:49.600 actually something I was thinking about earlier. Why why is 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.520 that so? And I feel as though it's kind of 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:58.120 been more of them having better, you know, success, and 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.000 why does that come. I think it's been a little 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.160 little bit of kind of, like you said, a little 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:06.560 bit of self inflicted. I think we've we've sustained drives 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.320 and they kind of died at the end. We've you know, 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.480 gotten to stop or get a flag, gotten to stop, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.880 get a flag. There's just there's been a there's been 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.200 a lot of different different things. It just seems like 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.400 it hasn't went our way. But it's not like, oh 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.280 we were just unlucky. It just was you know, you 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:26.640 gotta play dissilin football. I think they Tomlin, you know 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.320 kind of I feel like he wants to just keep 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:30.960 the game close, keep the game close, and then win 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.200 it at the end. And honestly that strategy works pretty 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:38.400 well when they play us. But you know, I respect 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.560 respect what he does as a coach. You know, his 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.640 team is there. You know, there's a lot of teams 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.600 out there that you can say or they weren't really tough, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.920 they didn't really bring it. But that's one thing that 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.000 I love about the rivalry. You know, there's no there's 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.240 not a lot of fair dodging. They they're gonna do 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.040 what they're gonna do go, run the ball, take their shots. 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.520 It's not really gonna be a secret. And they they 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.280 feel that they can do that to be successful, and uh, 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.320 we gotta feel that we can stop it, and uh 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.440 do to the opposite. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.000 We all surfing wide receivers. Day Flowers, he's closing in 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.920 on the thousand receiving yards this year. He talked about 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.000 his season and his thoughts going into this game against 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:17.520 the Steelers. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.919 Put your offensive player. Most of these teams. I mean, 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.880 you're you're putting out twenty five to forty points the Steelers. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:28.560 It's kind of sending The past couple year has been 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.480 a little bit of opposite. Why do you think the 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.240 Steelers give your guys. 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:33.040 Some trouble with bables from that? 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:36.600 H Uh? 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.720 I don't think there's no trouble. I think we always 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.119 have I feel like turnovers, miss kids like stuff like 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.000 that during the game. So if we just eliminate those 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.040 because we moved the ball downfield, I know, you see that, right, 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.399 we move the ball downfield, we get across the fifty, 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.840 you know what I'm saying. So you know, we just 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.440 gotta take care of the ball, make kicks and try 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.960 to put the ball in the an zone talking about 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:01.600 you know, especially. 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.960 In this last game against Pittsburgh, a lot of times 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.520