Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens
Speaker 1: are coming off a thirty one to twenty four win
Speaker 1: over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. The Ravens are now
Speaker 1: six and two on the season, which is good enough
Speaker 1: for first place, tied with three other teams in the AFC. Now,
Speaker 1: this was a game where the Ravens really relied on
Speaker 1: the running game. Gus Edwards had three touchdowns in this victory,
Speaker 1: and the Ravens talked after the game about the significance
Speaker 1: of this win and where they sit after the first
Speaker 1: eight games of the season. Here's what head coach Sean
Speaker 1: Harbor had to say.
Speaker 2: I just felt like it was a tough game. I mean,
Speaker 2: Cardinals are a good football team, and they're physical, the
Speaker 2: tough you understand what you're building. Their coaches coaches doing
Speaker 2: a great job with them. But our guys, you know,
Speaker 2: coming across country and all the things we've been dealing
Speaker 2: with as far as that not playing, you know, we
Speaker 2: we weren't great.
Speaker 3: We weren't really.
Speaker 2: As chrisp and sharp as we wanted to be by
Speaker 2: any stretch. And yep, we kept grinding, we kept fighting
Speaker 2: and found a way to get the things that get
Speaker 2: the job done.
Speaker 3: What questions you have, I gotta get like a diea
Speaker 3: home or something.
Speaker 4: Talking about Uh, Michael Pierce game he played, seeing image
Speaker 4: plays up front was really dominated.
Speaker 2: Mike was dominant, Like you had four or five tackles
Speaker 2: for laws, he had bull stops on the fourth down. Uh,
Speaker 2: and he had a sack. I mean, he he just
Speaker 2: took over the game inside.
Speaker 3: How much does that kind of.
Speaker 5: Helped set the tone?
Speaker 6: You know, you guys obviously move quickly down the field
Speaker 6: first drive and things kind of slowed from there.
Speaker 5: For how much did that help to set the tone
Speaker 5: when you, Yeah.
Speaker 2: When you're struggling a little bit, you know, really not hitting,
Speaker 2: and they had some good schemes and they were they
Speaker 2: were running some good plays, and someone's got to step up.
Speaker 2: You know, someone's gotta make place in this league. You
Speaker 2: have to make plays. I mean, somebody's gotta make place.
Speaker 2: You know, market's key. First down, first drive. You know,
Speaker 2: somebody's got to do something to make the plays and
Speaker 2: keep you going. I just felt like Michael was definitely
Speaker 2: that guy for us.
Speaker 7: John, how much are you encouraged that you could not
Speaker 7: play your best, not play great? You can still find
Speaker 7: a way to win the football game and the build
Speaker 7: on that.
Speaker 2: I think that's a really good point because in this
Speaker 2: league you have to be able to do that. You're
Speaker 2: just not going to be hitting on every cylinder every
Speaker 2: single week, you know, and you have to find a
Speaker 2: way to win those games. I think the best teams
Speaker 2: over time prove that they'll win games even when they're
Speaker 2: not their best. I'll find a way to win games late.
Speaker 2: They'll find a way to win a game when they
Speaker 2: can't run it, when they can't throw it, or when
Speaker 2: they can't stop something, They'll still find a way to
Speaker 2: win the game. And really that's players, that's character, that's
Speaker 2: also talent ability, confident guys who can make plays, you know,
Speaker 2: and I felt like our guys did a good job
Speaker 2: of that today.
Speaker 8: John, What do you think just the accumulative impact of
Speaker 8: Gus down that down the stretch was to wear down
Speaker 8: that defense.
Speaker 3: It was big.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, the second half, we got the
Speaker 2: run game going. We were throwing the ball quite a
Speaker 2: bit in the first half, you know, and and we
Speaker 2: had some success doing it.
Speaker 3: But but to.
Speaker 2: Get the run game going the second half and then
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter to be able to take the ball
Speaker 2: down there, take up all that time and score.
Speaker 3: That was a huge drive right there to two of them.
Speaker 3: Really you mentioned it.
Speaker 8: I think you guys are over seventy percent pass right
Speaker 8: on early downs in that first half. I guess was
Speaker 8: that just the game band along? Was that Lamar having
Speaker 8: control to pick and choose?
Speaker 2: No, I mean, I just felt like that's the way
Speaker 2: the game is called, you know, And we'll definitely look
Speaker 2: at it, you know. I mean we're going to be
Speaker 2: our own worst critics. Nobody's is their own worst critic
Speaker 2: more than our play call. I promise that, huh, Mark,
Speaker 2: I mean, he criticized himself pretty hard, and he'll look
Speaker 2: at all that.
Speaker 3: But you know, there's a reason for doing that, you know.
Speaker 2: I think we were attacking some things and we're trying
Speaker 2: to go right at him and attack them in certain
Speaker 2: ways with their coverage and stuff, and and we had
Speaker 2: some success doing it. But you know, to get the
Speaker 2: run game going to the second half was big. I mean,
Speaker 2: Gus had eighty yards three touchdowns. It's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 9: You mentioned the run game.
Speaker 5: How confident were you guys, and you're running buds today?
Speaker 3: You know confident?
Speaker 2: I mean We're confident in Gus, We're confident injustice, you know,
Speaker 2: and obviously we want to get you know, get our
Speaker 2: guy back keeling, you know, and get healthy with that.
Speaker 2: And Melvin Gordon, I mean, he's sitting there on a
Speaker 2: practice squad and we think the world of him too,
Speaker 2: so we're gonna try to find a way to get
Speaker 2: him involved.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, we like our running backs a lot.
Speaker 5: John West carried in the right tackle for a lot
Speaker 5: of couple of drives. Is that injury.
Speaker 10: Related or not?
Speaker 2: It was kind of just kind of give give Morgan
Speaker 2: a little a little chance to not have so many reps.
Speaker 2: You know, you got Pat, I mean, why not put
Speaker 2: him out there. He's a starting caliber player.
Speaker 11: John at six and two? Now, does it mean anything
Speaker 11: that right now you're tied with the best record in
Speaker 11: the AFC with the Chiefs, the Jags and the Dolphins.
Speaker 11: Does that mean anything to you guys?
Speaker 2: You know, my mom always says get the lead, keep
Speaker 2: the lead. So you know, we're tied for the lead.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: But it's a long season. As we say, nobody's crowned
Speaker 2: after eight games. There's a lot of football to be played.
Speaker 2: The season is long for a reason, you know, and
Speaker 2: it does weed out the best. And if we want
Speaker 2: to be the best or considered the best, we're gonna
Speaker 2: have to do it over the long haul.
Speaker 3: Very confident in our guys.
Speaker 2: I think our guys have what it takes character, toughness, resilience.
Speaker 2: I really love our guys. I'm proud of our guys.
Speaker 2: I think that they fight, man, they fight. And we
Speaker 2: have really good players who are really talented. We have
Speaker 2: really good coaches. So one week at a time, we
Speaker 2: got a very good team coming in Seattle. I think
Speaker 2: they won, right, they beat Cleveland, you know, so you know,
Speaker 2: we were already thinking about that.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Lamar Jackson threw a touchdown pass in the victory. Now,
Speaker 1: the offense was kind of up and down. The running
Speaker 1: game really is what drove the offense today. And here's
Speaker 1: what quarterback Lamar Jackson had to say.
Speaker 12: Obviously, third straight win, but just how the game went,
Speaker 12: how do you kind of take away, you know, is
Speaker 12: it still win a win or how do you feel
Speaker 12: the overall performance for the team.
Speaker 13: A win is a win, but I feel like we
Speaker 13: need to put more points on the board. We was
Speaker 13: punning the ball a lot in this game. You know
Speaker 13: we didn't do it last week, but the NFL sometimes
Speaker 13: they're not gonna things might not go our way.
Speaker 5: What was it giving you a problem mark the first
Speaker 5: half offensively?
Speaker 8: Well, what is it more you guys holding yourself back
Speaker 8: or was it something that were doing that.
Speaker 9: Was uh making a difficult they up?
Speaker 13: I believe the defense, the type of defense they were playing.
Speaker 13: Uh some of the cars look well some of the
Speaker 13: players we we had, you know, we shouldn't be holding
Speaker 13: the ball along. You know, they was able to get
Speaker 13: after us a little, rocked the backfield a little. That's
Speaker 13: all but hash hongs of they defense cause they fought.
Speaker 3: They fought well.
Speaker 8: Mar Uh, everyzon doesn't blits a whole lot, and don't
Speaker 8: I don't think they they blitz the ton today. I
Speaker 8: could be wrong, but what is I it's just the
Speaker 8: strategy on like a you know, first down, second down
Speaker 8: to kind of attack.
Speaker 5: The way that they dropped back of the coverage.
Speaker 3: Uh f W I G.
Speaker 13: When they were dropped back in coverage, we that we
Speaker 13: had longer development routes, and the uh defensive line was
Speaker 13: you know, cause of habit.
Speaker 4: And it's all My big discuss is uh running the
Speaker 4: second half kind of loosing things up and get you
Speaker 4: guys well offensively.
Speaker 13: I believe it's rung as it was huge. You know,
Speaker 13: he he made great, great cuts, great runs. Also, line
Speaker 13: did a great job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we need more more of the phone, Lamara.
Speaker 5: Uh Odell didn't.
Speaker 6: I don't know if he's ever had a line with this.
Speaker 6: He didn't have any catches to undrew. Three penalties, two
Speaker 6: of which were were big. It's for the pass affairs
Speaker 6: these games. You need to talk about the significance of
Speaker 6: with that. They obviously s you know, set you guys
Speaker 6: up pretty well.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's great, but trying to get him a touchdown,
Speaker 13: you know, Uh, it'll be great if it'd have been
Speaker 13: touched down instead of prs. But uh, we appreciate the call.
Speaker 13: But yeah, we just gotta keep getting after it cause
Speaker 13: we need him to score.
Speaker 3: He deserves it, Lamar.
Speaker 7: How do you draw that line with being encouraged that
Speaker 7: you could win different styles of football games yet striving
Speaker 7: for that consistency.
Speaker 3: Weekend and the weekend since that one more time?
Speaker 7: How do you draw the line of you know, being
Speaker 7: encouraged that you can win a different styles of football game,
Speaker 7: whether you play good or bad or whatever. But also
Speaker 7: searching for that consistent performance.
Speaker 13: I draw the line was just go out there and
Speaker 13: play hot tails off, you know, but try to get
Speaker 13: a win at the end of the day, but try
Speaker 13: to be consistent at the same time, try to balance it.
Speaker 10: If anything, one feth quarter, when you got in your
Speaker 10: last h last touchdown, drive was a ninth play drive,
Speaker 10: eight runs, one pass. Did you start that drive committed
Speaker 10: to the run or was it just something that you
Speaker 10: guys saw.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 13: I believe that was coach coach's decision, coach monk uh.
Speaker 13: But I I believe we got away from the runs.
Speaker 13: We was passing the ball a lot early in the game,
Speaker 13: and I believe we should have been running a little bit,
Speaker 13: just balance our offense out because last week when we
Speaker 13: was balancing our offense, we we showed strides of being
Speaker 13: great off all calibers across the board.
Speaker 5: Well, Mart, this is a stretch. You had played five games.
Speaker 8: Four of 'em on the road, two the AFS or
Speaker 8: one in London, one of another one out west.
Speaker 14: You take any solace of how you guys got through
Speaker 14: that stretch with uh, you know, four wins and and
Speaker 14: work put you for the second half.
Speaker 3: Uh sh uh.
Speaker 13: We got We got tough guys, you know, guys who
Speaker 13: was willing to win and.
Speaker 3: Adapt into s adversity.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 13: Different type of weather, long flights, uh s. I it's
Speaker 13: just crazy, But I believe our team, the Scott's a
Speaker 13: limit for us, you know, we just got to find
Speaker 13: a way to fight within all of that chaos.
Speaker 1: This game was very special for tight end Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1: He's a native of Scottsdale, Arizona, so this was a
Speaker 1: homecoming for him. He talked about playing back in Arizona
Speaker 1: and what the win meant for this team.
Speaker 5: The kind of looking part of you out here of
Speaker 5: just how many people Ron.
Speaker 3: Hamper for you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, just being back in Arizona. You know,
Speaker 9: for me it was awesome. First time playing back here
Speaker 9: since you know, high school, so that was cool. But
Speaker 9: really just having my family in there and having them
Speaker 9: all be there was was special. And I'm happy the
Speaker 9: way the guys played, how they fought. You know. I
Speaker 9: thought that, you know, we could have you know, taken
Speaker 9: control of this game and blown this, blown the game out,
Speaker 9: but and I think we did. At the end of
Speaker 9: the day, they held on. But yeah, I think for
Speaker 9: us it was a good game and a pivotal game
Speaker 9: and we're gonna work on this and get better.
Speaker 4: Like good. So you talked about what those two interceptions
Speaker 4: did for you guys offensively, and they did, so you
Speaker 4: kind of give.
Speaker 9: You a spark to set up those short fields huge.
Speaker 9: They were huge, you know. I think all year, you know,
Speaker 9: the defense you know that's been you know, getting timely
Speaker 9: turnovers and for us to be able to capitalize on
Speaker 9: that and get points off those as big.
Speaker 6: Mark, were there any looks defensively that they were doing
Speaker 6: early in the game that kind of prevented you from getting.
Speaker 9: A rhythm, you know, I think that you know, you
Speaker 9: look at the first drive, it was good, and then
Speaker 9: we started to find our groove. But there was too
Speaker 9: many drives where we weren't in a groove, you know,
Speaker 9: And you know that's the part where I still feel
Speaker 9: like we controlled the game. Obviously we have a great
Speaker 9: defense like that, you can control the game and and
Speaker 9: and have some stalls. But for us, if we're able
Speaker 9: to capitalize and score and drive the ball, and too
Speaker 9: many threw it outs. So we got to work on that.
Speaker 11: Mark. I think you might heard when I told John that,
Speaker 11: you know, the Chiefs losses right now, you know, the Ravens, Jags, Dolphins,
Speaker 11: and Chiefs all art six and two, best record in
Speaker 11: the AFC.
Speaker 12: Do you feel like you guys have have at least
Speaker 12: at this point, proven that you should be considered among
Speaker 12: the best.
Speaker 9: Do I think that, you know, we have incredible players? Yeah,
Speaker 9: I do. I think that this team is special. And
Speaker 9: you know, I think it's it's anybody that watches our games,
Speaker 9: I can see that, you know, the type of the
Speaker 9: caliber players from at every position that we have is
Speaker 9: special and and and that includes the coaching staff. So
Speaker 9: you know, we're not We're never satisfied. This is just
Speaker 9: the beginning.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 9: I think the last three weeks we could have been,
Speaker 9: you know, turning that leaf over and getting better and better.
Speaker 9: So for us, just continue to work, focus on ourself,
Speaker 9: you know, tone, you know tone, All the outside noise
Speaker 9: that's noise out, that doesn't matter to us. We're just working,
Speaker 9: worried about ourselves and getting better.
Speaker 7: Not being in a groove, but still got grinding through
Speaker 7: and getting away. How might that develop this team's mental toughness?
Speaker 9: That was good, you know, and they hung on for
Speaker 9: for a long time. You know, it really could have
Speaker 9: been over faster, but that's the way sometimes, you know,
Speaker 9: games go. This is the NFL any given Sunday, and
Speaker 9: for us, we're going, We're thankful to come out of
Speaker 9: this with a win and proud of the way we.
Speaker 5: Thought touchdowns significant to.
Speaker 3: You at all?
Speaker 9: Forty Yeah, it is one away for Todd heaves record.
Speaker 9: Let's go, man, we're close. I had to get my
Speaker 9: guy here to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: Someone who had a really strong game was defensive tackle
Speaker 1: Michael Pierce. He had a sack and was really just
Speaker 1: a force on this defense that he talked about this win.
Speaker 11: So you hear about a lot of offensive players being
Speaker 11: in the zone sometimes, and do you feel sometimes defensive
Speaker 11: players can we go out there?
Speaker 12: Do you sometimes can feel like you're in the zone
Speaker 12: a little bit?
Speaker 15: Yeah, so those going maybe it may look a little
Speaker 15: different today. It was a good day for me obviously,
Speaker 15: But no, man, you definitely be in the zone. Like
Speaker 15: I said, it could be a lot less eye popping
Speaker 15: or you know, highlight worthy plays, but definitely you definitely can.
Speaker 8: Like I know, you didn't have a sack until today,
Speaker 8: but you know all the metrics that you were having
Speaker 8: just a great, great season in terms of beating the guy,
Speaker 8: maybe just some bad luck.
Speaker 5: In terms of not finishing those plays off.
Speaker 8: I mean, how'd you feel kind of coming in today
Speaker 8: and what was the relief to actually get a sack
Speaker 8: and they get stripsack?
Speaker 3: Big, big relief.
Speaker 15: You always want to do your part, Like I said,
Speaker 15: I've like you said, I've been getting to the quarterback,
Speaker 15: just hadn't getting them down. I happened to get a
Speaker 15: fine from tackling them and not getting them down. So no, man,
Speaker 15: it's it's been an interesting year, but our defense has
Speaker 15: been doing great. We let a lot of stuff slide today,
Speaker 15: but it's good to be on the board and hopefully
Speaker 15: a lot more to come.
Speaker 5: Michael, how personal were you taking when they were running
Speaker 5: the ball? Just your defense as a whole when they
Speaker 5: were running the ball? Little bit on you guys early.
Speaker 15: Very very much so personally outside of the Colts. That
Speaker 15: was probably our worst performance. So anytime we pride ourselves,
Speaker 15: we haven't. I mean, we gave up a long run
Speaker 15: in Cleveland too. They pushed them like right over a hundred.
Speaker 15: But like I said, we pride ourselves on stopping to run. Uh,
Speaker 15: we got a lot of stuff to clean up in
Speaker 15: that area, especially the first half tape. So before Seattle comes,
Speaker 15: we have got some work to do. But uh, I'm
Speaker 15: glad we made some strides in the second half for sure.
Speaker 5: What kind of ut what does that do for your
Speaker 5: team in general?
Speaker 6: And you know, the offense and maybe Sharut Pitsball's game
Speaker 6: we are out there, but yeah, the defense is.
Speaker 2: Better in particulars to kind of keep that going.
Speaker 15: That's a momentum jump man, you know, as a defender,
Speaker 15: you know, especially for me, I never see those kind
Speaker 15: of players come my way, but uh, it's just a
Speaker 15: momentum jump for everybody. So two fourth down stops no
Speaker 15: matter who makes him. We've seen a lot of guys
Speaker 15: met A Beaks and playing out of his mind. Rose
Speaker 15: had amazing games. Uh, when you have a lot of
Speaker 15: defenders who are really good, it's a long season, so
Speaker 15: you need guys like myself, like Brody's gonna have a
Speaker 15: big game. I'm sure Irv's gonna have a lot different plays.
Speaker 15: So anytime any defender can lift up our team and uh,
Speaker 15: you know, make some big time plays, especially consecutively, its
Speaker 15: big no matter who it is, Like.
Speaker 5: What's the poling for an opposing defense or defenders.
Speaker 8: To see a guy like Gus Edwards just kind of
Speaker 8: getting the ball time after time, especially late that.
Speaker 3: Game, that's awesome.
Speaker 15: Man, that's a momentum killer. So especially when you can
Speaker 15: bleed the talk, bleed the clock. Excuse me, that's big time.
Speaker 15: So we love to see those drives go as long
Speaker 15: as they want to go. So now, man, like I said,
Speaker 15: for us getting those fourth down stops, just how we
Speaker 15: see our offense running the guys over and having Gus
Speaker 15: run for three touchdowns and run for eighty yards is huge, man.
Speaker 15: So that's a momentum, momentum booster for sure.
Speaker 11: You guys have done some traveling, I mean London to
Speaker 11: the desert. Now though at your final nine games you
Speaker 11: play six of them at home.
Speaker 15: How big of a you know thing could that be
Speaker 15: for you guys? Grateful, grateful for that. Just to be
Speaker 15: back on Eastern tombs zone to be great. So I
Speaker 15: woke up at four in the morning this morning. It
Speaker 15: was it was rough, man, but uh, I had a
Speaker 15: long way to go before the bus left. But no, man,
Speaker 15: it's it's good to be back on the Eastern time zone.
Speaker 15: Like I said, being at home, being comfortable, just getting
Speaker 15: in that routine. Again, I feel like we always played
Speaker 15: great or a whole lot better at home, So that's
Speaker 15: a that's a plus big time.
Speaker 1: In the locker room, we had a chance to talk
Speaker 1: with Gus the bus and he discussed his three touchdown day.
Speaker 3: So it was a good feeling.
Speaker 16: I man, I felt like I was definitely the goal
Speaker 16: is always to help my team win and definitely play
Speaker 16: a big part today.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like you guys were wearing them down,
Speaker 4: running in that part of why you were able to
Speaker 4: be effected more effectively the second average?
Speaker 16: Yeah, we started, we started to get going at some
Speaker 16: time there in the second half, and we was getting
Speaker 16: great push. Guys was holding onto their box and the
Speaker 16: may the holes is kind of huge.
Speaker 5: You know how much are.
Speaker 6: You kind of relishing that opportunity, particularly second half wearing
Speaker 6: a defense down like that and so forth? For you?
Speaker 15: Personally, I love it.
Speaker 16: I love it when whenever my number was called, I
Speaker 16: try to be relevant, try to make plays for the team.
Speaker 3: Figure out.
Speaker 9: So Lamar said he didn't think you guys were running
Speaker 9: the ball or nothing. Yeah, do you agree with that?
Speaker 8: And was there something said in the locker room, Hey,
Speaker 8: let's let's let's start running over more.
Speaker 16: I didn't even hear nobody say, but I feel like
Speaker 16: it was just like everybody knew that we got to
Speaker 16: get back to the running game before before the game
Speaker 16: has really started. Before just watching on the film, we
Speaker 16: definitely seen some stuff on there that we felt like
Speaker 16: we could run the ball. So I'm glad we was
Speaker 16: able to get back to to that before it was
Speaker 16: too late.
Speaker 8: Because a lot of speculation to win this game and
Speaker 8: got what you guys a trade deadline.
Speaker 5: I know you don't have a lot of say over
Speaker 5: that book.
Speaker 9: Did you use any of that from motivation in the
Speaker 9: game of today?
Speaker 3: I don't know nothing about that.
Speaker 1: We also heard from Betteran linebacker Rowan Smith, no work
Speaker 1: one always has high expectations for this defense. That he
Speaker 1: talked about the defensive performance and the win overall.
Speaker 14: So it was kind of crazy. I felt bad, I
Speaker 14: told earlier I shot him with texts this morning and
Speaker 14: I did didn't realize it. Like, so I got pictures.
Speaker 14: I can show you pictures on my outfit. I tried
Speaker 14: on at home everything. I got the hat and you
Speaker 14: know what I did. I forgot my boots and I said,
Speaker 14: I'm not wearing all black with DSE shoes, So I
Speaker 14: was like, well, like in this and I wasn't yes,
Speaker 14: but it probably would have been yeah. And then I
Speaker 14: let Patrick down though, you know, Patrick the cowboy.
Speaker 16: That's what.
Speaker 4: Are your takeaway to this win? Obviously wasn't easy what
Speaker 4: you guys did with it took just your thoughts about
Speaker 4: you know, how you guys played.
Speaker 14: Defensively, honestly, man, you know, hats off of those guys
Speaker 14: and personally speaking for myself and I think I can
Speaker 14: speak for the rest of the defense. Uh, we didn't
Speaker 14: play to our standard at the end of the day,
Speaker 14: but that just a credit to those guys for coming
Speaker 14: out ready to play. And honestly, we just got to
Speaker 14: look ourselves in the mirror, noring and there's gonna be
Speaker 14: a tough Seattle team coming into town next week, and
Speaker 14: we just can't let the same mistakes throughout this game.
Speaker 14: And it was just basic fundamentals that I feel like
Speaker 14: got to us. So we just gotta make sure we
Speaker 14: grow from that and get better and make sure we
Speaker 14: come out ready to play because if not, you know,
Speaker 14: in this league, the parody in this league, anybody can
Speaker 14: beat you on it any given Sunday.
Speaker 4: How big do you think those picks were by Gino
Speaker 4: and Brandon to kind of turn the momentum in your
Speaker 4: guy's favorite.
Speaker 14: Oh man, that was huge. You know, hats off to
Speaker 14: you know, Geno, b Steve and the secondary coaches in
Speaker 14: the defense, you know, as far as the guys up
Speaker 14: front too, forcing Aaron throws and whatnot, and those guys
Speaker 14: taking advantage of it. So I think those definitely cruise
Speaker 14: you throughout the game, and it was definitely some momentum.
Speaker 14: Like I think we scored on one of them. I
Speaker 14: can't really remember, but yeah, man, I'm just excited for
Speaker 14: those guys, and those guys keep making plays, and you know,
Speaker 14: it's a great team, so anytime any of those guys
Speaker 14: make plays, we're all excited for him.
Speaker 4: By the way, Peers was kind of wrecking things for
Speaker 4: you in front of you there today.
Speaker 14: Yeah, Juggernaut, that's what we call him, you know, big
Speaker 14: fellow up front. You know, love playing behind him, man,
Speaker 14: And like it takes two to block him. I don't
Speaker 14: really see too many times with one person like just
Speaker 14: single handling moving, let alone block him, you know, So
Speaker 14: it takes two to even attempt to move. And so
Speaker 14: that's how I look at it, and I love playing
Speaker 14: behind him. Got a great group of defensive linemen in
Speaker 14: front of me, and I think, you know, me and
Speaker 14: PQ got it pretty pretty sweet, like having those guys
Speaker 14: in front of us hunt and then we just you know,
Speaker 14: harvesting in a sense.
Speaker 3: Really, are you pleased with the win given?
Speaker 6: You know the offense maybe it wasn't clicking and then
Speaker 6: it's offensive things like you said or or you do
Speaker 6: you feel more like fortunate.
Speaker 3: Than you.
Speaker 14: What the offense do is what the offense do. I
Speaker 14: never concerned myself with anything those guys do. Got a
Speaker 14: lot of great a lot of faith in Lamar, Todd,
Speaker 14: Monk all those guys. And what I look at is defensively,
Speaker 14: how we played, and I just know we didn't play
Speaker 14: to our standard. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 14: a win is very hard to come by in this league.
Speaker 14: So very grateful to be on the winning side, being
Speaker 14: able to take a nice playe rode back. But obviously
Speaker 14: there was mistakes throughout the game that I know we
Speaker 14: need to get better and we can't allow those mistakes
Speaker 14: to beat us again, and we can't allow them to
Speaker 14: happen over and over throughout the season. I think every
Speaker 14: guy in here after the game on what not knowing
Speaker 14: exactly Like you know, we didn't play to our standard,
Speaker 14: but at the end of the day, it's a win
Speaker 14: and they're very tough to come by. So I'm just
Speaker 14: happy to be in a position that we're in six
Speaker 14: and two, right bro, Corn, you don't make these calls.
Speaker 9: Like full well understanding but prey deadline.
Speaker 6: So do you feel like this team needs anything or
Speaker 6: do you think you guys are good enough right now?
Speaker 14: Oh my god, yeah, man, I think we I'm kidding,
Speaker 14: but no, I leave that up to the you know,
Speaker 14: the GM scouting department and all those guys. Just like
Speaker 14: last year, I was in that position, so I definitely
Speaker 14: know how it is. It's definitely a tough positions for
Speaker 14: some individuals being able to just uproot it and Dan
Speaker 14: just having to go somewhere. So I'm sure, you know, GM, E,
Speaker 14: DC and the guys feel as if there are some
Speaker 14: pieces out there.
Speaker 9: That can help us.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they'll bring it in.
Speaker 14: But you know, I love this team. I think we
Speaker 14: got a lot of great players in every position throughout
Speaker 14: from top to bottom. So I'm just excited to be
Speaker 14: a part of it. And if anybody else come welcome them.
Speaker 14: If not, we're good as we are.
Speaker 6: I know you're you know, obviously it's just game your
Speaker 6: front or to the next one. But can you reflect
Speaker 6: on on the last year since you can hear that's
Speaker 6: been like.
Speaker 14: For yeah, man, Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Man, as I
Speaker 14: think about it, you know, like just actually, you know,
Speaker 14: at a walk through in Chicago and then you know,
Speaker 14: basically about to leave the building and go get a
Speaker 14: massage and whatnot, and then you know, I get a
Speaker 14: top on the shoulder like in a sense saying, you know,
Speaker 14: the GM will want to see you, so like it definitely,
Speaker 14: it's definitely it was Definitely it was emotional during the time,
Speaker 14: you know, because like just thinking, like you know, Chicago,
Speaker 14: Kner's right out of college, so I'm thinking that was
Speaker 14: my career and like thinking I'm gonna retire there and everything.
Speaker 14: But you know, God make no mistakes, and you know,
Speaker 14: I feel like life, how life happens, is the way
Speaker 14: it's supposed to happen. I feel like everything is predetermining,
Speaker 14: Like you know, just since I've gotten here, man, with
Speaker 14: the group of guys here support stuff and everyone how
Speaker 14: supportive they've been and help with my transition. Man, I'm
Speaker 14: just very grateful to be in a position that I'm in,
Speaker 14: and you know, being with a great group of guys.
Speaker 14: I couldn't have asked for anything better. And I always
Speaker 14: have love, always have love for this organization for coming
Speaker 14: to get me as well as taking care of me.
Speaker 14: So I'm very just grateful to be in a position
Speaker 14: that I'm in.
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