Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. Today is Thursday,
Speaker 1: November twenty first, and the Ravens are preparing to face
Speaker 1: off for the LA Chargers on Monday. Today we heard
Speaker 1: from head coach John Hardball.
Speaker 2: Good seeing everybody, appreciate everybody being here. What question do
Speaker 2: you have, John.
Speaker 3: As you know third time you're gonna be pacing your
Speaker 3: brother in an NFL game.
Speaker 4: How your thoughts from the matchup?
Speaker 5: Again, it's a tough matchup.
Speaker 2: It's a very good football team we're playing this week
Speaker 2: and highly ranked pretty much in every area. Winning football team,
Speaker 2: very physical, very tough, extremely well coached football team, no
Speaker 2: question about it. One of the best coaches of this generation,
Speaker 2: no question. I believe that even if it weren't my brother,
Speaker 2: I would say the same thing. So we've got our
Speaker 2: work cutout. Force, got to travel across the country and
Speaker 2: play on Monday night football.
Speaker 6: The guy that you're facing gets a lot of know
Speaker 6: riot the other coach, even though you're undefeated against him.
Speaker 3: Are you surprised that the amount of attention he continues
Speaker 3: to get.
Speaker 7: It's uh.
Speaker 2: Jim is a is a great great He's a fun guys.
Speaker 2: He's he's he's my brother. I've known him, you know,
Speaker 2: since he was born, and uh, I've got that on him,
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of months. But uh uh he's
Speaker 2: he's uh. He loves football man, he loves his players,
Speaker 2: he loves football. He's he's uh, he's always got some
Speaker 2: way of seeing things. I think that's really interesting and uh,
Speaker 2: you know that's why people are interested in hearing from him.
Speaker 7: The nature between you two guys.
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously you've based off in the biggest stage
Speaker 8: of them all in this sport. But just where does
Speaker 8: it get How hot does the competitive nature get between
Speaker 8: the Yeah.
Speaker 5: It used to get hot, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean back back when we were younger, it was
Speaker 2: it was every day it was one fight or another.
Speaker 2: He was reminding me a couple couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: months ago about this a little I was. I used
Speaker 2: to be bigger than him most of the time. Then
Speaker 2: he would he ended up bigger. Obviously, he's a he's
Speaker 2: a Pro Bowl quarterback. You know, he's seventeen year player
Speaker 2: in the National Football League. He's a great athlete, always was.
Speaker 2: But most of the time I had the edge on
Speaker 2: him in growth until we got to be you know,
Speaker 2: about eighteen nineteen and I'd hold him down on stuff,
Speaker 2: and he had this technique called the crab technique, he
Speaker 2: called it, and he would basically get out his back
Speaker 2: and he gets hands and his feet up there and
Speaker 2: he just fend me off, you know, his hands and
Speaker 2: his feet and I couldn't get to him.
Speaker 5: It's really athletic. So I came up with the technique.
Speaker 2: We had these big brown pillows in our basement that
Speaker 2: you land to watch TV, these old suede brown pillows,
Speaker 2: corduroy brown pillows, and I would be able to take
Speaker 2: the pillow and i'd you know, swipe his feet down
Speaker 2: and pin him and then get back on top of him,
Speaker 2: you know. And I had forgotten about it. I mean,
Speaker 2: I did not remember it. But when you're the younger brother,
Speaker 2: that's the kind of thing you remember, you know. So
Speaker 2: I take a little credit for his toughness. I guess,
Speaker 2: you know, he's probably one of the toughest people I know.
Speaker 9: He was on the he was on the rich Iscean
Speaker 9: Show the other day and he talked about when he
Speaker 9: looks at your team carefully, when he looks at you
Speaker 9: guys on tape, there is an element of kind of
Speaker 9: staring in the mirror. I guess in part because of
Speaker 9: all the people they have there who are from here.
Speaker 7: But I mean, do you do you see that?
Speaker 9: I mean, do you see a powerful connection between the teams,
Speaker 9: whether it's the people and solid or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all of it, all of it.
Speaker 2: The you know, the culture, the way things are done,
Speaker 2: but the how they play. Certainly, the schemes very similar.
Speaker 2: You know, the schemes are a lot of ways not
Speaker 2: exactly the same, but a lot of ways mirror images
Speaker 2: the people coaching, a lot of the guys playing. But
Speaker 2: you know, with that, it's two different football teams. You know,
Speaker 2: it's two teams squaring off in a really important game.
Speaker 2: You know, and that's really what it's gonna be about.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be about the guys out there playing the game.
Speaker 2: You know, it takes a lot of curds to play
Speaker 2: this game, man, It takes an incredible amount of toughness
Speaker 2: to play this game with these guys put into.
Speaker 5: It that kind of an effort week after week.
Speaker 2: And we're coming off one of those games, we're going
Speaker 2: into one of those games. There'll be one of those
Speaker 2: games the next week after that. That's what the National
Speaker 2: Football League is That's why I think these players deserve
Speaker 2: so much respect for what they do. It's a player's game,
Speaker 2: you know. It's an honor to be in this game coach.
Speaker 2: It's I told the players just this week in the
Speaker 2: opening meeting, you know, and it's a quote that they
Speaker 2: didn't probably get you'll get it.
Speaker 5: I told him.
Speaker 2: I feel like the luckiest man on the face of
Speaker 2: the earth, you know, and I do because you get
Speaker 2: a chance to coach these guys and be around them
Speaker 2: every day.
Speaker 10: What is it like just coaching against someone that you
Speaker 10: are so close with has been your sounding board both
Speaker 10: of you throughout your entire careers.
Speaker 9: Like, is there that element that you do know him
Speaker 9: really well and can anticipate.
Speaker 11: That on a game day.
Speaker 5: I don't know about anticipating stuff.
Speaker 2: I think it's more in the emotional world, you know,
Speaker 2: It's more in the in that in that in that place.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's very it's unique and it's never been
Speaker 2: done before, you know, and I don't know if it
Speaker 2: will happen again for a long time. You know, this
Speaker 2: this particular thing. So I think it's hard to describe
Speaker 2: it and say to people. If you have a sibling,
Speaker 2: you know, you're close to you probably understand it. You
Speaker 2: probably can put yourself in those shoes and just kind
Speaker 2: of imagine what it's like to be across the sidelines
Speaker 2: in an NFL game, coaching your teams.
Speaker 5: Everything else is the same.
Speaker 12: Your parents handling it this week, And what's the conversation been.
Speaker 5: Like, Uh, yeah, it's been. It's been. We've talked about
Speaker 5: a lot of different things besides football. You know, is
Speaker 5: that off limits?
Speaker 13: Now?
Speaker 5: The football?
Speaker 2: It's not off limits, but it's really just not it's
Speaker 2: just what have we gott to talk about? You know,
Speaker 2: I mean everybody kind of understands the situation. They're not
Speaker 2: going to the game. They're going to watch it down
Speaker 2: in Florida at my sister house or with Joni and
Speaker 2: Tom Crane, and that's their plan. I understand why they're
Speaker 2: doing that. You know, it's it's great, but it's hard.
Speaker 5: It's our anniversary in practic is their anniversary?
Speaker 2: Yep, it is their anniversary November twenty fifth. They got
Speaker 2: married in nineteen in nineteen sixty, nineteen sixty one, because
Speaker 2: I was nineteen sixty two, right, sure, yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 2: was over a year later, so yeah, that'll be their anniversary.
Speaker 10: Technically, told the team stories about your guys's previous meeting,
Speaker 10: or stories like you just told us about growing up
Speaker 10: with Jim. What was it you told your players stories
Speaker 10: about you guys growing up or just to not really,
Speaker 10: I mean.
Speaker 2: I told we've talked, we've told some stories over over
Speaker 2: in the past, but not this week, you know, really
Speaker 2: this week it's it's there's it's just too it's two
Speaker 2: for the players and the coaches. It's not about that
Speaker 2: because we have such a challenge. I mean, the challenge
Speaker 2: is playing the game. Getting in that game and playing
Speaker 2: that game against that team is the biggest challenge you
Speaker 2: could have, you know, and that's what everybody's focused on.
Speaker 14: To your point, Obviously you're focused on the game. Jim
Speaker 14: focused on the game. Will there be a moment where
Speaker 14: you are able to step back from it and appreciated
Speaker 14: or have a moment with him at some point? Is
Speaker 14: that and is that different than maybe it would have
Speaker 14: been earlier in your guys' career when you faced each other.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Sure, we'll talk before the game, you know, the chit
Speaker 2: chat before the game, and it'll be different because it's
Speaker 2: my brother, you know, than it is with other coaches
Speaker 2: and it'll be it'll be great. We had that kind
Speaker 2: of moment for the Thanksgiving game. We talked before the
Speaker 2: super Bowl same way, and they I don't think it's
Speaker 2: different in that sense. It's a it's really it's really cool.
Speaker 2: But you know, really, even when you're talking, there's your
Speaker 2: thoughts around the game.
Speaker 8: You know, the teams, John, this team, the Charges have
Speaker 8: already kind of turned the corner pretty quickly under jump.
Speaker 7: Can you when you watch the team, can you kind.
Speaker 8: Of see some of the elements that you can kind
Speaker 8: of pinpoint his fingerprint as to how this team has
Speaker 8: changed just within the last year.
Speaker 7: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I mean to me, it's it's it's a it's a
Speaker 2: it's a reflection of his coaching style, it's it's a
Speaker 2: reflection of his football personality. I think they've taken that on.
Speaker 2: They've gotten those kind of people, and you guys all
Speaker 2: pointed out with your questions. I mean they've they they've
Speaker 2: surrounded themselves with people that that see the game the
Speaker 2: same way, and their team reflects that players and coaches
Speaker 2: and uh, they're doing a great job.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I Jim, have you can you ever remember facing
Speaker 9: with you or both the offensive ringer and the if
Speaker 9: it's coordinator had worked through you in the basket.
Speaker 2: No, no, I have to I can't say that I
Speaker 2: can recall that along those lines.
Speaker 6: I mean, when you look at the connections between the
Speaker 6: two teams, it's a long sheet of guys that are interchanged,
Speaker 6: I don't want to say interchangeable.
Speaker 13: They've worked for both our balls, right, it's a it's
Speaker 13: an amazing number.
Speaker 4: Does that change the game in any way in terms.
Speaker 5: Of planning and what the knowledge.
Speaker 4: Some of these people may have on you.
Speaker 2: It's different than other games, sure, because you know, we
Speaker 2: we we we know the schemes pretty much. But they'll
Speaker 2: be wrinkles, you know, there'll be ideas. It's it's kind
Speaker 2: of the old you know, they know what we know,
Speaker 2: that we know that, they know that we know that
Speaker 2: they know what we know, you know, and with that
Speaker 2: they'll be uh, they'll be wrinkles, I'm sure. But it's
Speaker 2: going to come down in the end to the players.
Speaker 2: Just just to emphasize that, you know, all the scheme
Speaker 2: stuff is important, but most important is really how the
Speaker 2: game is played, you know, and who plays the best
Speaker 2: football game out there in terms of making the plays
Speaker 2: and and playing discipline football and playing physical football and
Speaker 2: blocking and tackling all those things. The players. It's a
Speaker 2: players game. The players will be determining the outcome of it.
Speaker 15: Smith and is it and is he one of those
Speaker 15: players that you'll have to battle if he The trainers
Speaker 15: are saying, I don't know.
Speaker 7: About this season.
Speaker 2: Uh, he's he's working hard to get healthy. He's not
Speaker 2: ruled out by any stretch.
Speaker 5: I can say that. And uh, and he's working toward
Speaker 5: the game at this point.
Speaker 7: D one week away, Thanks, give me one week away.
Speaker 7: What do you look like? Fall understand?
Speaker 13: Gee?
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that's a great question. You kind of forget
Speaker 2: to be thankful sometimes, But like I told the team,
Speaker 2: I'm grateful for the blessings of of family. First, I
Speaker 2: told the guys in the meeting, you know, you go
Speaker 2: through these these games and uh, you know, tough losses.
Speaker 2: You know we don't play as well as as we're
Speaker 2: capable of playing, and you know it it cuts you
Speaker 2: right to the bone. You know we all feel that way.
Speaker 2: And even in the winds, you know you still want
Speaker 2: to try to get better. It's all you think about.
Speaker 2: There's really not too many things I care about. You
Speaker 2: don't care about my relationship with my creator, you know,
Speaker 2: number one, and and my family. I really care about
Speaker 2: my family and the football team, you know. And I
Speaker 2: was joking with it.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like call your buddies up from college or something
Speaker 2: and want to know how they're doing, and you know,
Speaker 2: how's your family doing? You know. And the truth is,
Speaker 2: during the season, it's like I might ask. I'm sorry, guys,
Speaker 2: I might ask, but I really don't care. You know,
Speaker 2: I really don't care. I can't think about that because
Speaker 2: we have we have these these things that are so
Speaker 2: important to us going on right now, and I'm grateful
Speaker 2: to have those things in my life that are so meaningful. Faith, family,
Speaker 2: and for us football. You know, that's kind of what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 16: We also heard from quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 7: So more one of the big stray lines.
Speaker 3: Of course, it's going to be John Jim Harball coaching
Speaker 3: against each other as as players. Does that even does
Speaker 3: that even you guys even think about it? Does it
Speaker 3: impact the game at all from a player level?
Speaker 7: To be honest, I don't think about it. I don't.
Speaker 7: I can't speak for everyone else, you know. I remember
Speaker 7: watching them play, uh well, not them literally playing against
Speaker 7: each other. But coaching against each other for the Super
Speaker 7: Bowl game. I remember watching that. I thought that was dope,
Speaker 7: but I don't think about it right now.
Speaker 12: In fact, there are so many connections on that team
Speaker 12: though that you to look about JK and Gush and
Speaker 12: Bows all playing there, guys that have if you weren't back,
Speaker 12: and you probably wanted to be here but weren't allowed,
Speaker 12: you know, to get off to come back. Yeah, the
Speaker 12: extra motivation they may have against you, you feel that,
Speaker 12: how do you you know? I mean, you're you know,
Speaker 12: obviously defending them, but just team wise, you sense what
Speaker 12: that means.
Speaker 7: Yeah? Absolutely, man, I know guy's gonna try to get
Speaker 7: after it. Those guys going to get after it. But
Speaker 7: I don't have to try to stop those guys, So
Speaker 7: I'm not worried about it. You know, I'm gonna be
Speaker 7: worried about pump punts on the board, but it's gonna
Speaker 7: be great to see those guys. I just don't want
Speaker 7: to have a good game against.
Speaker 6: Us Lamar know how superstitious you are with numbers.
Speaker 3: Say, now, you've had tremendous success though on Onday night football.
Speaker 15: Is there something that you embraced about that or do
Speaker 15: you realize Are you aware of the success you've had.
Speaker 7: Nah, I'm not aware at all.
Speaker 16: You know.
Speaker 7: I'm just playing football. It's something I love. Just trying
Speaker 7: to win, that's all.
Speaker 9: Do you think it's any help to them that obviously
Speaker 9: Jiro was here until two years ago, Jesse Minter, their
Speaker 9: defensive coordinator, was here until twenty twenty? Does that give
Speaker 9: them any any leg up?
Speaker 7: And I don't know. I can't call it. You know,
Speaker 7: I'm not over there in those guys meeting rooms. I
Speaker 7: don't really know what they're gonna bring to the table
Speaker 7: for those guys. I don't know. I really don't know.
Speaker 15: Lamar, slow start for the first two and a half
Speaker 15: quarters against Cinc. And then I'd imagine you can play
Speaker 15: as well offensively as you've like throughout the Pittsburgh game.
Speaker 15: What do you think is holding you back now? Is
Speaker 15: it a penalty issue more than anything? Or are there
Speaker 15: certain you're seeing that have given you guys submissions?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 7: Just being consistent when we're doing things out there on
Speaker 7: that field. We gotta be consistent and that's that's what
Speaker 7: we chasing. And we're not doing a good job at
Speaker 7: being consistent. You know. We here, we having our moments
Speaker 7: where going to the game scoring first drive. Then it's
Speaker 7: been a couple of weeks we haven't been going for
Speaker 7: a drive, you know, and it's just been taking us
Speaker 7: a little while to get our groove and we gotta
Speaker 7: rik on that. That's that's the biggest thing for us
Speaker 7: right now, just being consistent, like I said earlier, just
Speaker 7: putting points on the board, cause that's our job.
Speaker 3: This tortures defensive down fourteen points five points to gain,
Speaker 3: that's the NFL.
Speaker 4: When you look at that film, what makes this tortuous
Speaker 4: defensive cult.
Speaker 7: When they're just flying around creating chaos, getting turnovers, stuff
Speaker 7: like that, and that that'll be a that's a huge, huge,
Speaker 7: uh job for the defense to do, you know, for
Speaker 7: those guys to keep the offense out the field, create turnovers.
Speaker 7: That's possibly holding teams to fourteen points of lower.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 7: That's all going back.
Speaker 14: To the consistency brought up. How do you have to
Speaker 14: go about either recapturing that or finding that just from
Speaker 14: you know, a practice standpoint and and kind of getting
Speaker 14: doctors out.
Speaker 7: I guess it starts in practice or just being locked
Speaker 7: in in practice at every little detail, you know, the
Speaker 7: smallest details things from the game that we probably made
Speaker 7: a mistake on cleaning that up. Small things like that,
Speaker 7: and I feel like we'll we'll be on our way
Speaker 7: to being consistent. Go back in the morning.
Speaker 12: That football team.
Speaker 2: You know, you your cliches.
Speaker 16: Everybody's watching and all.
Speaker 4: Wives are years What what do you like about by ice?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 7: We the only show everyone's watching. So that's a That's
Speaker 7: probably the biggest thing about it. And you just gotta
Speaker 7: get after it. And tomorrow real Thanksgiving, the one week away.
Speaker 7: One feet about us like foot four s, great health,
Speaker 7: my family being in the National Football League, Thank God
Speaker 7: God first, you know that's no brainer. But uh you guys, man,
Speaker 7: I appreciate y'all. Man, uh I just love life. I'm
Speaker 7: thankful for life.
Speaker 13: Oh my goodness. How do you kind of look back
Speaker 13: at your your time with Giro?
Speaker 7: It was good. I mean we had a lot of success.
Speaker 7: Uh no, won my first m v P g RO system.
Speaker 7: We had a lot of great seasons. I believe it
Speaker 7: was just short. It was just short. That's all all right,
Speaker 7: Thank you, appreciate y'all.
Speaker 16: Next to safety Kyle Hamilton, he ya, dude, So how's it.
Speaker 3: Gonna feel the You know you've tackled other running backs before.
Speaker 3: But when you see guys that we've actually played with,
Speaker 3: like JK and Gus Helsach, it could be feel any
Speaker 3: different when you're going against former guys.
Speaker 13: Uh No, I don't. I don't think so.
Speaker 6: I think before the game you maybe think about it
Speaker 6: once or twice, but while your plan is just nameless,
Speaker 6: faceless opponents. So you know, we're attacking this week like
Speaker 6: we would any other week. You look at the film
Speaker 6: that they played this year, just go back to the
Speaker 6: practice film.
Speaker 13: Had them as teammates.
Speaker 6: No, I mean it's week twelve now, so we got
Speaker 6: to get him out on tape that we can go off.
Speaker 6: But it's always good. I'm sure after the game will
Speaker 6: say what's up, and you know, it's always good to
Speaker 6: see those guys kindly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, interesting storyline of this game is of
Speaker 1: course with two brothers Coach Jallam, but like kind of
Speaker 1: cool aspects and thin going into this. What are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on playing in a game where you have two brothers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've I've actually talked to coach ours about it
Speaker 6: a little bit here and there, like having breakfast whatever,
Speaker 6: And I think he's from his perspective he's done a
Speaker 6: good job just kind of managing emotions and you know,
Speaker 6: we still have a game to play. But at the
Speaker 6: same time, I think everybody else just understands it's kind
Speaker 6: of historic and it's cool to be part of history us.
Speaker 6: Correct me if I'm wrong, But I don't think this
Speaker 6: has happened before other than them playing each other the
Speaker 6: previous time. So, uh, it's always cool to see, like
Speaker 6: their family, what they've done and what they've done for
Speaker 6: football and be a part of it. And by the
Speaker 6: end of the day, we still got a job to
Speaker 6: do to.
Speaker 7: Him, though.
Speaker 6: Do you think this could be some fragging rights with
Speaker 6: this play? Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. I mean
Speaker 6: I know that me and my brother would would be
Speaker 6: having this bragging rights. And you know, I'm sure coach
Speaker 6: Jim is ready to play us again after the last
Speaker 6: time they played, and uh, you know, coach Harvest, being
Speaker 6: the older brother, gotta put him in his place.
Speaker 13: So it's pretty cool to be part of it in botsway.
Speaker 9: Do you think it matters at all that their GM
Speaker 9: came from their defensive coordinator game, premire their offensive coordinator
Speaker 9: game from here?
Speaker 7: Like, does that?
Speaker 9: Do you do you think that makes any difference in
Speaker 9: playing for the game or.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 6: I think although we haven't played each other this year,
Speaker 6: obviously we're not in the same division or anything like that,
Speaker 6: I think we're fairly familiar with each other and how
Speaker 6: each other operates. And I think it would be a
Speaker 6: good game. I think it's too like minded teams and
Speaker 6: hard nos, hard working and people who just love good
Speaker 6: results and love the process, and I think it's it's
Speaker 6: gonna be a fun game.
Speaker 13: Who do you think that last week?
Speaker 11: Mar Darius Washington started last game, played every snap.
Speaker 9: What did you see when playing beside him running the Comcast?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think in my three years here, Ad has been
Speaker 6: one of the more resilient people on the team. He's
Speaker 6: had injuries, he's had times where he might have not
Speaker 6: been in rotation, He's had times when he's put it
Speaker 6: in the rotation, had another injury, and he's just been
Speaker 6: super consistent ever since I've been here. And to see
Speaker 6: him get the opportunity and excel with the opportunity, I
Speaker 6: think he's not just back there. I think he's back
Speaker 6: there making plays and doing his job at a high level.
Speaker 6: So super happy for him and just thankful I get
Speaker 6: to play beside somebody like that and have somebody who's
Speaker 6: as much of a professional as he is to maybe
Speaker 6: not be in the position that he wanted to be
Speaker 6: in start of the season. You know, we're getting down
Speaker 6: to the crunch time of the season and he's he's
Speaker 6: a big part of our defense. So I'm just happy
Speaker 6: for him, excited.
Speaker 5: I really think you can build.
Speaker 12: On last week, you know, keeping them out of the
Speaker 12: end zone for the entire game than really kind of
Speaker 12: one of your guys, certainly in the secondary best performances
Speaker 12: of this season.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's easier said than done, and you know,
Speaker 6: it's something that we kind of got caught up saying
Speaker 6: against Buffalo and then coming out the next week and
Speaker 6: not doing. And so I included as well as everybody
Speaker 6: else in the building, definitely doesn't want that result again.
Speaker 6: So you know, we're aware of it now and know
Speaker 6: that we had played a good game, but I think
Speaker 6: we can get a lot better.
Speaker 13: And I think that's kind of the mindset everybody on
Speaker 13: defense as right now.
Speaker 9: You've obviously played deep safety in the past, but this
Speaker 9: past Sunday was the most you'd played in a.
Speaker 16: Too high alignment in quite a while what's that adjustment
Speaker 16: like for you?
Speaker 5: I mean, ideally, do you like being closer to the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage?
Speaker 7: How did you think that went for you?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think in college, even starting in high school, college,
Speaker 6: and even in the league, I've always seen myself as
Speaker 6: a safety, a versatile a versatile one. But at the
Speaker 6: end of the day, I think I play safety. So
Speaker 6: if I'm asked to go play safety, I feel like
Speaker 6: that's not an issue for me to play safety if
Speaker 6: I'm a safety, So I just want to do whatever
Speaker 6: the defense and Zo needs for me on a week
Speaker 6: to week basis. If that's going to play safety for
Speaker 6: the whole game, then I'm one hundredcent final with doing
Speaker 6: that and we'll do the best.
Speaker 13: My abilities has been really down.
Speaker 7: I have couldn't play.
Speaker 14: But if you didn't, are you t people wearing a
Speaker 14: green dot or that's something you worked.
Speaker 13: On over from training camp?
Speaker 7: If you wear a how much green.
Speaker 13: Do have a practice field? And that's something I need
Speaker 13: a lot of spirit.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've had it in my helmet pretty much every
Speaker 6: day of practice for the past twelve weeks. So I
Speaker 6: remember if they never told me I didn't had the
Speaker 6: dot or had the mic and my helmet, so like
Speaker 6: they want to practice. I heard ze on my ear
Speaker 6: and it was a surprise, but gotten used to it now.
Speaker 6: And I remember rookie Mini camp I came out here
Speaker 6: and I had a dot and that was definitely a
Speaker 6: lot different than now. My head was spinning, so I
Speaker 6: didn't really have a chance to get the guys calls.
Speaker 6: Kind of feel bad for that, but I've grown since then.
Speaker 6: But yeah, if I'm asked to do so, then I will.
Speaker 12: Now justin harbor and he wait, he throws the ball
Speaker 12: miss in a way that almost nobody else does. Just
Speaker 12: preparing for him, watching on tape and having faced him
Speaker 12: two before, what do you what do you see and
Speaker 12: getting ready for the scame detent.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, like you said, he throws a pretty ball,
Speaker 6: and it's a super accurate ball. It's you can throw
Speaker 6: it deep and you can throw it short, accurately, carries
Speaker 6: out his fakes very well, and I think one thing
Speaker 6: that's underrated is his legs, especially last week just watching
Speaker 6: the film, I think on second and long third down
Speaker 6: he's able to pick up some first downs and kept
Speaker 6: since now he's defense on the field, and that's something
Speaker 6: we have to be very cognizant of just rush lanes
Speaker 6: and keeping him in the pocket because obviously we're worried
Speaker 6: about him throwing on the ball, but at the same time,
Speaker 6: we can't let him get easy yards. When you watch
Speaker 6: the Chargers film, does it remind you of the Ravens
Speaker 6: offenses that you were coordinated and what you.
Speaker 13: Face the practice to today? And then second, like, do
Speaker 13: you expect Giro to switch things up to try to
Speaker 13: give you some change ups for a lot?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with both of those points. I think
Speaker 6: it is somewhat similar. Obviously, don't have the same people
Speaker 6: you don't have them are but that's nothing taken away
Speaker 6: from Justin or anybody on that side the ball. You know,
Speaker 6: you gotta adapt. I think g Ro has done a
Speaker 6: good job of adapting his offense to his players and.
Speaker 13: Not the other way around.
Speaker 6: And you know, they're playing with the big fullbacks and
Speaker 6: big tight ends and it's hard to as football. You like,
Speaker 6: you know where the ball's going, you know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 6: It is just can you stop it or not? And
Speaker 6: I think there's some beauty in that. There's some ugliness
Speaker 6: in that too, just the way the games played but
Speaker 6: you know, we're all tough guys. But yeah, I think
Speaker 6: there are some similarities there that we're cognizant of. But
Speaker 6: you know, at the end of the day, I'm sure
Speaker 6: he's gonna have some wrinkles to keep us on our toes.
Speaker 15: Obviously, a couple of former Notre dan guys on that
Speaker 15: on that buzzing sidelines, which I know you're closed with
Speaker 15: cam Hart if he talked to with him at all
Speaker 15: about you know, the kind of fun.
Speaker 13: Being on the same guild together after playing after living
Speaker 13: a spos he head did.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I and camp came in class of nineteen
Speaker 6: Notre Dame. Uh lived together for a year my junior
Speaker 6: year and pretty much best friends and so cool to
Speaker 6: see what he's done. And he was a fifth rounder
Speaker 6: this past year, never complained, never did anything, put his
Speaker 6: head down and went to work. And I think if
Speaker 6: you guys have watched any cam Hart film, you know
Speaker 6: that he's been playing really well this year and I'm
Speaker 6: super happy for him, and I think he's just scratching
Speaker 6: the surface.
Speaker 13: You know. I'm sure just like Jim and John.
Speaker 6: Have bragging rights, we're gonna have bragging rights too on this,
Speaker 6: So that'd be an added w for us we get
Speaker 6: the win.
Speaker 13: Uh, yes, we're gonna do jersey swap.
Speaker 6: I don't want to put it out there, but if
Speaker 6: we did happen to lose, then I might have to
Speaker 6: just wait on that because I don't want to be
Speaker 6: out there swapping jerseys after we lose. But hopefully we
Speaker 6: win in and I'll be happy to go lucky to
Speaker 6: go swaping jersey there.
Speaker 13: How Dave if White, he has some key plays last week,
Speaker 13: what what have you?
Speaker 8: What's it been like working with him? I should say?
Speaker 4: And what do you think he's able to bring? Just
Speaker 4: fastuff that you're speaking.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was actually talking to Trey and I grew
Speaker 6: up a big ALSU fan, So I remember growing up
Speaker 6: watching him, Jamal Adams, all those guys play together. And
Speaker 6: uh so I was a Trade White fan before Trade
Speaker 6: even knew who I was or even though I existed.
Speaker 6: But I mean, he's been a great pro in this
Speaker 6: league for a while, and having somebody like that to
Speaker 6: add to our already room that I think is deep
Speaker 6: and just that added wisdom and I think he's super talented.
Speaker 6: It's such a big win for our team to get
Speaker 6: somebody like that. So Obviously he did a good job
Speaker 6: last week. I'm sure he's gonna build on it this week.
Speaker 6: Thank you, appreciate y'all.
Speaker 13: Thank you.
Speaker 16: In locker room today, we also heard from safety our
Speaker 16: Darius Washington.
Speaker 4: I mean it meant a lot of auto hard work
Speaker 4: that I put in, you know, the finally come to
Speaker 4: play for sure.
Speaker 11: Just how do you think you matched up well with
Speaker 11: Kyle Hamilton on the other side, and just going against
Speaker 11: the Steelers and what that meant to play against them.
Speaker 13: Too, and that cer certain sting.
Speaker 4: I mean it meant a lot, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: That's a rival team. You know, we stepped up, we
Speaker 4: had made a huge step, but we lost the game
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, you know, so we're
Speaker 4: trying to come out underside of that for sure.
Speaker 11: Kyle Hamilton talks about your resiliency and that was something
Speaker 11: that you appreciated, just knowing how hard it's been for
Speaker 11: you to battle through injuries, to get back and then
Speaker 11: to get bumped up and down the depth chart and
Speaker 11: to finally get back into that starting role. Just what's
Speaker 11: been that journey for you?
Speaker 4: I mean, just having faith in myself, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. Testing to God, having that faith, in that
Speaker 4: confidence and within myself knowing that, like once I give
Speaker 4: my opportunity that I was going to make some plays.
Speaker 1: For sure, as a defensive role, how do you try
Speaker 1: to build off you know, you can give up a
Speaker 1: touchdown last game?
Speaker 16: How do you try to build off of that?
Speaker 4: I mean, just keep stacking, paying attention to the details
Speaker 4: and the little things and things like that.
Speaker 7: For sure.
Speaker 1: Do you think that just as a secondary overall, that
Speaker 1: game is kind of a big step in the right
Speaker 1: direction to you that there are things that you need
Speaker 1: to take from what you guys were able to do
Speaker 1: last game.
Speaker 4: Of course, I mean we gave them no touchdown, So
Speaker 4: I definitely think it's a step in the right direction
Speaker 4: for sure. You know, saying we got it is a
Speaker 4: week by week. We gotta do that this weekend and
Speaker 4: next week, and we got to that.
Speaker 7: You know, just what was that process?
Speaker 16: Like, I mean, you're an undrafted rookie.
Speaker 1: You suffered to kind of basically season iving injuries to
Speaker 1: battle through that on O.
Speaker 16: The other side, how tough was that for us?
Speaker 4: I mean, that process is tough, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: But like I said, I just kept that confidence within myself,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Knowing that I was going
Speaker 4: to be back and come back and be the same
Speaker 4: exact player that I was when I got those injuries,
Speaker 4: you know, So all I knew was the opportunity. On
Speaker 4: the shows.
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