Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Presspass podcast. It is Wednesday, October
Speaker 1: twenty third. The Ravens are gearing up for their game
Speaker 1: this Sunday on the road in Cleveland against the division opponent,
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. Today we had a chance to hear
Speaker 1: from head coach Sean Harball and some of the players.
Speaker 1: Is the Ravens prepared for that divisional matchup? Let's kick
Speaker 1: it off with Coach Harpball, right.
Speaker 2: Great to see everybody here. We sure appreciate you being here.
Speaker 2: A short week turnaround after Monday night game. We finished
Speaker 2: the game less than forty eight hours ago and we're
Speaker 2: back at it and our guys were in today very tenant,
Speaker 2: very on point, with a mindset to get locked in
Speaker 2: and get ready for a big division game on Sunday
Speaker 2: at one o'clock in Cleveland. We've had many, many tough
Speaker 2: battles in Cleveland with Cleveland, very physical football team, very
Speaker 2: aggressive football team, a very hungry football team, and we
Speaker 2: understand that tough environment always, especially for the Ravens. So
Speaker 2: we're looking forward to it. We're excited about the opportunity.
Speaker 2: The other thing I mentioned is we had three former
Speaker 2: Ravens that were made the top fifty for Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame induction. So congratulations of those guys, SiZ Terrell, Suggs, Marshall,
Speaker 2: Yanda and Hillodi Na. Those guys are well deserving and
Speaker 2: in my mind they have my vote. I don't have one,
Speaker 2: but they have my vote for first ballot Hall of Famers.
Speaker 2: So what question do you have, John?
Speaker 3: We saw Keith.
Speaker 4: Mitchell out there that you know his twenty one day
Speaker 4: window is starting. Do you expect them to is our timetable?
Speaker 4: And when he would return? Do you think it's going
Speaker 4: to take the full twenty one days?
Speaker 3: Anything that you know?
Speaker 2: I think that's all good question. You really don't know anything.
Speaker 2: He don't expect him to be back this week in honesty,
Speaker 2: not that Hey you never know. We'll see how it
Speaker 2: looks tomorrow when we're out there full speed. But he's
Speaker 2: been away quite a while, so want to get him,
Speaker 2: get him going, get him moving, get him practicing football
Speaker 2: and get him ready, you know, hopefully within the three
Speaker 2: week window. That would be the goal. For sure.
Speaker 5: It's the kind of pinchmark and not just being out
Speaker 5: there today, but that that three week endo to kind
Speaker 5: of be out there for good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that that'd be the goal that we
Speaker 2: would want him back. Sure, we want him back at
Speaker 2: the three week window at the latest. That would be
Speaker 2: the benchmark. I would think, uh, something before that'd be great.
Speaker 3: You know, Uh, the litmus test.
Speaker 2: The Limus test. Oh that, Yeah, they practice as well.
Speaker 2: He can make all the change direction cuts, he can
Speaker 2: he's uh, he can be productive. But also he can
Speaker 2: protect himself. It's probably the most important thing that we
Speaker 2: feel like he's strong enough to protect himself. Uh, that'd
Speaker 2: be the number one thing.
Speaker 4: John the Cleveland announced that Jameis Winston will start quarterback.
Speaker 2: You've seen a little bit of him, but I'm sure
Speaker 2: you've seen a lot of.
Speaker 3: Them take concepts over the years. What what's your perception
Speaker 3: of you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, very talented guy. He's a he's a guy that
Speaker 2: you know, our coaches have a lot of our offensive
Speaker 2: coaches have a lot of connection with Danny Bryer and
Speaker 2: here best pals and that's that tells us much more
Speaker 2: than they're they're they're they're both great guys, but uh,
Speaker 2: he's a he's a great quarterback. Very talented quarterback. Over
Speaker 2: the year, is highly touted, highly decorated quarterback play.
Speaker 3: A lot of football.
Speaker 2: Can throw the thing all over the field for sure,
Speaker 2: push the ball downfield, does a great job with the Reids.
Speaker 2: Those are the things that it's a little different, you know,
Speaker 2: because it's it'll probably be a little different offense. And
Speaker 2: you know what Deshaun was doing. Because any offense, any
Speaker 2: quarterback brings his own flavor to the offense. They're gonna
Speaker 2: have a different play caller. How much that's gonna change
Speaker 2: with Ken doing it now instead of Kevin, we just
Speaker 2: don't know. So we've got to get prepared for the
Speaker 2: things that we think that they're capable of doing. But
Speaker 2: mainly we got to get prepared to play our best
Speaker 2: game on defense and do things right the way we
Speaker 2: do them.
Speaker 6: It's going to ask that in a short week. How
Speaker 6: much does that complicate when they change probably the quarterbacks
Speaker 6: one thing, but chase play callers.
Speaker 4: Does that force you to watch old Buffalo tape of
Speaker 4: Ken's offense.
Speaker 3: Or how do you go back that?
Speaker 2: Well, No, his influences are in the offense already. I
Speaker 2: think he's you know, he's been the offensive coordinator, so
Speaker 2: he's he's been putting the offense together. They're always you know,
Speaker 2: it's a collaboration so we understand the plays in there.
Speaker 2: How he calls him in the game could be different,
Speaker 2: could be the same. You just don't know. And really
Speaker 2: for us, we need we need to play our defense
Speaker 2: at called. Well, that's that's our goal. That's what it'll be.
Speaker 5: Give him a short weet. Any expectation for Marlin or
Speaker 5: any hope Marlin gets.
Speaker 2: Upper Yeah, I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful as all those guys
Speaker 2: are guys that have a chance to be back. So
Speaker 2: we just have to see how it plays out during
Speaker 2: the week and the guys that are ready, you know,
Speaker 2: they'll play. And the guy doesn't quite make it, then
Speaker 2: he won't be able to play. And right now we
Speaker 2: don't know who that's gonna be.
Speaker 7: Coach.
Speaker 2: After watching the table, what did you see from the
Speaker 2: second Gary against the Bay?
Speaker 8: You see any improvements there?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean I saw a lot of things
Speaker 2: in there, but I saw some big plays. I saw
Speaker 2: a lot of yards after seven minutes in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: I mean I think it was two hundred yards in
Speaker 2: the last seven minutes, So kind of changes the dynamic
Speaker 2: the way I look at it. Any any play we make,
Speaker 2: it doesn't get us in that place. You know, offense
Speaker 2: special teams and defense, and it never even goes down
Speaker 2: that road. You know, the game's over. So and that's
Speaker 2: the way we would have been played the last seven
Speaker 2: or eight minutes. So you know that's on us, though,
Speaker 2: you know, we got to you gotta close people out.
Speaker 2: We played a great football game after. I was really
Speaker 2: happy with the fact that the way we handle the momentum.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're going in Monday night football, hot football team, excited, crowd,
Speaker 2: place going crazy, and they jump out to a two
Speaker 2: score lead, just keeping them, keeping them from going fourteen
Speaker 2: to nothing with something.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Then you go back down the field again and Marlin
Speaker 2: puts a stop to it momentum wise with your favorite word,
Speaker 2: momentum puts a stop to it with the interception, right,
Speaker 2: and then our offense, you know, so we go down
Speaker 2: we score six straight times on offense, we come up
Speaker 2: with six straight stops on defense. So that's that's a
Speaker 2: that's a that's impressive.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: What we like to do is make the play or
Speaker 2: so at the end it finishes the game. You know,
Speaker 2: they did it. We did eventually, but anywhere along the
Speaker 2: way it could have changed that and that's really where
Speaker 2: most of those yards came from goshot.
Speaker 4: The numbers says you guys are thirty second.
Speaker 6: But along with what you just said, a lot of
Speaker 6: times you guys are.
Speaker 9: Up by so much teams have to throw in the
Speaker 9: fourth quarter, and maybe that hurts the numbers in terms
Speaker 9: of the ranking things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yes, I do think that. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's reality. You know, they're not running, they're not
Speaker 2: running the clock out, running the ball in for a
Speaker 2: minute at the end. That that has an impact on stats.
Speaker 2: But what we're looking at is the things that we
Speaker 2: need to do better, and we know there's a lot
Speaker 2: of things we need to do better. We need to
Speaker 2: detail things out better, all three levels of our defense
Speaker 2: so that we can be a complete defense and a
Speaker 2: consistent defense. We're capable of it. We're going to get there.
Speaker 2: I do like the upside of it, I really do.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel good about the upside because I
Speaker 2: think our guys. I believe in our players. I know
Speaker 2: they're very good players. I know our coaches are very
Speaker 2: good coaches, and we just got to get there. And
Speaker 2: when we get there, what does that look like? You know,
Speaker 2: I'm excited about that.
Speaker 10: In the moment.
Speaker 6: Most weeks and you're probably looking at the week improvement.
Speaker 6: But do you ever look at the table of performance
Speaker 6: like Lamar had on on Monday and think about how
Speaker 6: he's grown as a passer in his general masters of offense?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I probably do. I mean I think I think
Speaker 2: about that every day, honestly, you know, all the way back,
Speaker 2: you know, because really, what you're trying to do, you know,
Speaker 2: try to do your job as a coach. All of
Speaker 2: us try to do what's best for your players. You know,
Speaker 2: same thing with the secondary. We're trying to do what's
Speaker 2: best for our players, secondary linebackers, pass rush, no different
Speaker 2: for you know, our quarterback or any of our or
Speaker 2: Derek or any of our players. You try to try
Speaker 2: to build it and put it together in a way
Speaker 2: that you know brings out the best in your players
Speaker 2: around their skill set. So I think I feel like
Speaker 2: I think about it every day, but I don't really
Speaker 2: look back and think, oh man, it's really great. Probably
Speaker 2: will someday. I do think it's really great, and I'm
Speaker 2: really happy and excited. But I think Lamar, I think
Speaker 2: we think the same way as players and coaches. We're
Speaker 2: looking at the next game, you know, and you're You're
Speaker 2: really only as good as your next game. I know
Speaker 2: he looks at it that way, and that's how That's
Speaker 2: how I look at it too.
Speaker 5: Has been really good against the bulitz this season in particular,
Speaker 5: even much more so than in past years, and obviously
Speaker 5: the offense is consequently has been good against it.
Speaker 3: What's your why?
Speaker 2: What what explanation did in your Yeah, there's there's I
Speaker 2: wish there was one silver bullet to it. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I just think we've I think we've been intentional about it.
Speaker 2: That's probably the why. You know, we've been very intentional
Speaker 2: about not just that, but that has been a big one.
Speaker 2: You know, how we how we attack people. We're gonna
Speaker 2: blitz this in various ways, and played various coverages behind it,
Speaker 2: you know, and we've tried to build something and Lamar
Speaker 2: that's I mean, I would say Lamar has been the
Speaker 2: most intentional about it. He's been locked in on that
Speaker 2: from day one. So it's it is showing up and
Speaker 2: we have we have to keep it going. We're gonna
Speaker 2: get different blitzes. Cleveland is a big blitz team. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're one of the best blitzing teams in football. Jim
Speaker 2: Schwartz does a great job, and we're gonna have to
Speaker 2: be on point.
Speaker 8: Pass off SAT And you talked a lot about you,
Speaker 8: Lamar and Todd munkin kind of going back and putting
Speaker 8: this all continuing to build on this offense. When you
Speaker 8: think back to some of those conversations and you watch
Speaker 8: this offense now, do you see a lot of the
Speaker 8: key components the principles that you guys wanted to hone
Speaker 8: in on this season.
Speaker 3: Are you seeing that when you watch them right now? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I am seeing it, you know, And I'm excited about
Speaker 2: it because I think a lot of it is coming.
Speaker 2: It's being brought to bear by by Lamar and by
Speaker 2: the players, and that was the intentionality of it. But
Speaker 2: we have ten games regol season games left, one at
Speaker 2: a time, and we've got to keep building on it.
Speaker 6: Changes on the Hands team. I mean, with two kicks
Speaker 6: being covered this year, both against you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for reminding me of that. I am aware of that.
Speaker 2: It was one of the players I was referring to.
Speaker 2: You're gonna cover that kick? It's kind of over. Yes,
Speaker 2: we will, We'll look at it. You know, not everybody
Speaker 2: wants to be on the Hands team. I can I
Speaker 2: can tell you you really. I mean, it's it's it's
Speaker 2: it's tough, tough duty. But you know, yeah, the rest
Speaker 2: of the league is over and we're we're you know,
Speaker 2: we've given up two that's uh, that's not the that's
Speaker 2: not we're not. Nobody's very envious to that right now.
Speaker 2: So we'll flip some guys around, try to get some
Speaker 2: guys in spots that we think can make sure we
Speaker 2: come up with the next one.
Speaker 9: When you look at the level that Ronnie Stanley has
Speaker 9: mean team this year, do you think it's simply a
Speaker 9: matter if he's able to make kind of all the
Speaker 9: physical movements that were hard for him last year with
Speaker 9: the knee.
Speaker 4: Or why do you think he's playing at the level
Speaker 4: with he is?
Speaker 2: I think that's part of it. Yeah, that's probably a
Speaker 2: big part of it.
Speaker 3: He's uh.
Speaker 2: And and also because of the fact that he's been
Speaker 2: able to train the wh last season fully, so he's
Speaker 2: just stronger, you know, the ankle, the feet, they're stronger,
Speaker 2: you know, So this ol lower body strong because you've
Speaker 2: on to the train and it's definitely showing.
Speaker 4: Up with Derek he's on a pace or stork pace,
Speaker 4: rushing yards He also leads the league in carries as well.
Speaker 4: Are you happy with this work We talked about this before.
Speaker 4: Are you happy with this workload? It's like nineteen per
Speaker 4: game I think right now.
Speaker 2: But is that kind of Weir's thirty it is, I
Speaker 2: will thirty is kind of a high number.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: I've protected myself on that. I'm happy with it. I'm
Speaker 2: happy with it because, you know, it does mean that
Speaker 2: we've had a lot of carries in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: which means that we have the lead, and that's what
Speaker 2: you want. I also feel like over the course of
Speaker 2: the season, it's going to be okay. If it's not
Speaker 2: nineteen or twenty five. You know, when it's ten or twelve,
Speaker 2: that's okay too. Other guys be getting those carries as well,
Speaker 2: or hopefully we'll be throwing the ball for a bunch
Speaker 2: of yards. But that's one thing about Derek. You know,
Speaker 2: you'll never hear him concern himself with that. He wants it.
Speaker 2: There's no debt about it. But he wants He wants
Speaker 2: it because it helps us win, you know, and that's
Speaker 2: that's all he ever talks about.
Speaker 3: Thanks great, guys.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Next up is quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: More.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you were. Derrick Henry is on
Speaker 4: his page right now to set the old time or
Speaker 4: the single season rushing record. What do you think so far?
Speaker 3: I mean seven games in.
Speaker 4: What do you think his chances are?
Speaker 3: Is there? I feel like he is. He has a
Speaker 3: great chance of achieving that. I think he can do it.
Speaker 3: I believe he can do it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Lamark, do you feel any different when you're playing
Speaker 7: on Monday nights? All sorts of uh, you know, record
Speaker 7: boards that you now become a part of in terms
Speaker 7: of as he touched down to appoints. What about playing
Speaker 7: on Monday nights really as you are playing at that level?
Speaker 3: So, I don't know what it is about Monday night.
Speaker 3: I just love playing football, you know, trying to win.
Speaker 3: That's the biggest thing for me. So when I'm out there, uh,
Speaker 3: trying to do anything possible to get us a dog,
Speaker 3: that's all.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 10: There there's just tomes of media chattering exciting about this
Speaker 10: offense and keep saying it's unstopped and whatnot. When you
Speaker 10: hear that, because in your.
Speaker 3: Head, nothing just goes in one ear and out the other,
Speaker 3: you know, Uh, like I said before, you know it
Speaker 3: just early in the season, they were just saying we
Speaker 3: were the worst team and in in the league, and
Speaker 3: and each and ever we we just been read about
Speaker 3: proving ourselves right. And that's pretty much what we've been doing.
Speaker 3: Not right about the outside.
Speaker 8: I know, it's come on, Derek can release the league
Speaker 8: in rushing and carries. You're right now eleventh and rushing
Speaker 8: you l you're leading the league and passer rated. I mean,
Speaker 8: when you talk about this backfield, when what you the
Speaker 8: threat you guys suppose, I mean, how dangerous is this
Speaker 8: backfield with you guys and obviously with Justice Hill and
Speaker 8: those guys are the back there as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just uh definitely uh Justice Hill as well. Uh
Speaker 3: but like I said before, it's just a pick pick
Speaker 3: your poison offense. You know, we got guys out there
Speaker 3: on that receiver is just doing a great job getting
Speaker 3: open on catching the ball again yards after catch, got
Speaker 3: great tight ends off the line, praying playing great, and
Speaker 3: the running backs just doing what they're doing. And we
Speaker 3: just got to keep getting better each and every week
Speaker 3: because we still, I believe, we still make a little
Speaker 3: small hiccups and games where we stopping drives from you know,
Speaker 3: just putting teams away early. But we just gotta keep
Speaker 3: getting better each and every week.
Speaker 10: From keeping Mitchell's to turn and what he could add
Speaker 10: to this offense.
Speaker 3: I'm loving it, but just keep you just keep getting better,
Speaker 3: like I want you to be a thousand percent when
Speaker 3: you out there, And we're doing pretty good right now
Speaker 3: without him, but we can't wait to have him back.
Speaker 9: Definitely, when you watch Ronnie out there protecting you this year,
Speaker 9: does he does he remind you now of the guy
Speaker 9: back in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty before he had
Speaker 9: all those injuries.
Speaker 3: That make absolutely that's that that was the only thing
Speaker 3: with running, you know, just the injuries. He was just
Speaker 3: trying to get back to where he was and I
Speaker 3: feel like he's he's feeling pretty well, feeling pretty good now.
Speaker 3: He just the same running I've been new, you know,
Speaker 3: ever since I entered the league.
Speaker 10: How big a difference does that make for you when
Speaker 10: you have that kind of trust and faith that your
Speaker 10: left tackle is gonna hold up in past perception.
Speaker 3: I made my job a lot easier, you know. I
Speaker 3: get to go through progressives, get the ball out and
Speaker 3: just have successful uh plays.
Speaker 5: Now you try to push and you try to push. Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, praise aside and things like that. But you've
Speaker 5: been really good against the Blitz this season. Why do
Speaker 5: you think that's the case? And and is there any
Speaker 5: part of you that relishes?
Speaker 3: Is when the team splits you. Now that's pretty much
Speaker 3: what I study, like the blixes, that's the that's the
Speaker 3: main thing, you know, Uh, catching the defense in the
Speaker 3: blix or they just trying to catch us to just
Speaker 3: try to knock us back from having positive yards. The
Speaker 3: best thing for me is just go in the film
Speaker 3: room get of course, you get with y'alls, get with
Speaker 3: death and we just go in and uh, how can
Speaker 3: I forget?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 3: Who's enough room with us?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, pray for anyways, I don't even matter.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we just in a room just trying to
Speaker 3: get better.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: But blixes just one of the main things we go
Speaker 3: over the most. And knowing the protection, the pickups and
Speaker 3: stuff like that.
Speaker 6: So may bring a young quarterback having a big pass
Speaker 6: preussure coming in your face or facing the bullets coming in.
Speaker 6: I'm sure it makes you panic. Do you remember kind
Speaker 6: of when you started being able to maybe slow down
Speaker 6: the rain and not panic.
Speaker 3: You got to ask that question again. If you gotta
Speaker 3: ask that question, and Danny, who's been in the room
Speaker 3: with us. Danny's in the room with us too. I
Speaker 3: could not say Danny for some reason, but Danny. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but ask that question one more time.
Speaker 6: I'm just saying, how long did TIKEI to kind of
Speaker 6: adjust to just feeling panic from guys blitzing you or pressure.
Speaker 5: That you feel.
Speaker 6: How different is your mentality facing the bullets now than
Speaker 6: it used to be when you were young quarterback?
Speaker 3: Pretty when I was younger, I'll see the blis happening,
Speaker 3: and now pretty much just try to beat the blitz
Speaker 3: without flipping and protection. Sometimes I'm like, Okay, it's a guy.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be hot. This guy gonna be by itself,
Speaker 3: you know, untouched. I can just get the ball out
Speaker 3: and sometimes I had to pay for it. So my
Speaker 3: biggest thing, like over the last few years, was like
Speaker 3: just getting my line to where they should be going.
Speaker 3: And if a god's gonna be free, I'm gonna know
Speaker 3: how to navigate the ball and get away from them.
Speaker 3: Just to get us in a positive situation, that's all.
Speaker 3: It seems that.
Speaker 2: It seems that the widers the screen game, whether they're
Speaker 2: the wide receivers order, running backs are as good as
Speaker 2: it's been in years here.
Speaker 3: Why do you think that is just working hard? You know,
Speaker 3: all the all the mistakes we made, the things that
Speaker 3: was a problem for us, We just trying to make
Speaker 3: it like just taking second nature right now. And that's
Speaker 3: pretty much what we've been doing. The the things we
Speaker 3: mess up, we try to practice over and over till
Speaker 3: we get it right and just get on one accord.
Speaker 4: Or are your connection with Sean Damn that's kind to
Speaker 4: be growing over the past few weeks particular. What do
Speaker 4: you think to click you.
Speaker 6: Yield at anything, particularly plays that is allowing us.
Speaker 3: To be more successful, just just all the rent now
Speaker 3: just playing football. He doing a good job of getting open.
Speaker 3: He's been doing a good job of getting open, you know,
Speaker 3: just getting him involved with with what's going on. You know,
Speaker 3: we got a lot of dynamic guys on the offense.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's hard for him to get the ball, but
Speaker 3: he has been going each and every week defensive eyes
Speaker 3: on everybody. It's like who who who got a guard?
Speaker 3: Or who got a double and one on one matchups.
Speaker 3: I love our receivers.
Speaker 9: Do you feel like Justice Hill is kind of the
Speaker 9: on sung hero against the Bloods. I mean, whether he's picking.
Speaker 3: Up a block, catching the ball out of the backfield. Man,
Speaker 3: I'm glad we gave Justice that extension. I feel like
Speaker 3: that that helped us out a lot. But yeah, he's
Speaker 3: been he's been that guy, Justice, He'll been that guy.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: He's just he's just swung up when we need him to.
Speaker 10: The Browns got to their emergency quarterback last week, which
Speaker 10: is a pretty rare thing. If the Ravens are ever
Speaker 10: in an emergency emergency quarterbacks, I hope.
Speaker 3: We not ever in that. I don't even like the question,
Speaker 3: but I didn't even hit a question. You didn't even
Speaker 3: get to finish. But I hope we never in that situation.
Speaker 3: He would be the best one on the team, you think,
Speaker 3: any one of them. Hopefully we don't need it, dude,
Speaker 3: that's not even thought my mind.
Speaker 6: Derek's seen a little ticket. He got run down on
Speaker 6: that long run the other night. He called himself washed
Speaker 6: up a little bit.
Speaker 7: One.
Speaker 3: No, I just felt like he slowed down like he
Speaker 3: thought he was. He thought he was going, you know,
Speaker 3: but it's the NFL. You know, Guy's gonna keep Guy's
Speaker 3: gonna keep running after you know, especially a guy like that.
Speaker 3: They don't want him to have a ninety yard run
Speaker 3: on them. And you know, but now he definitely not slow.
Speaker 2: He's just talking, uh, you know, running after the people.
Speaker 7: You got up there on a big block one of
Speaker 7: Derek's ranzo. What's your mentality and your willingness to get
Speaker 7: upfield and block for your guys to back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just seen Derek cutting backcross the field. I
Speaker 3: was like, I don't want him to get stopped in
Speaker 3: the backfield or just cut back into his game two yards.
Speaker 3: It was like, I'm trying to help help him score,
Speaker 3: you know, from way out. And that's pretty much what
Speaker 3: was going through my mind, Like just help him score.
Speaker 3: That's all. Nothing more, nothing less.
Speaker 8: Is that the person had the kind of running space
Speaker 8: to keep up with him.
Speaker 3: I mean you had to kind of.
Speaker 8: Get in front of him to be his lead block
Speaker 8: or did you Did you realize how fast he was
Speaker 8: running next to him like that?
Speaker 3: I thought he was going already, Like when I was
Speaker 3: pushing on Winfield, I'm thinking he's running past me, but
Speaker 3: he was. He was just trying to like see like
Speaker 3: which direction he was going to have to run in
Speaker 3: and then when I looked at him and Field, I'm like, bro,
Speaker 3: you should have been run past me. Bro like, but
Speaker 3: you know it is.
Speaker 6: What was the reaction in the locker room to do
Speaker 6: you block and lead? There's some guys who were like, hey,
Speaker 6: don't put yourself at.
Speaker 5: Risk like that.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, nobody really said nothing. You know,
Speaker 3: there was like appreciate that, like you know, but nobody
Speaker 3: really said nothing. Man, We're trying to win, like we're
Speaker 3: trying to do whatever it taste to win. Thank you,
Speaker 3: I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Today. We also heard from running back Derrick Henry.
Speaker 11: Was my job getting on the South and uh, make
Speaker 11: the best out of the play, and they're been making
Speaker 11: it easiest. So I give the credit to all of
Speaker 11: them for the stats and everything else, but as far
Speaker 11: as such as I don't try to worry about that
Speaker 11: and like an opportunity to try to try to try
Speaker 11: to make the best of it.
Speaker 6: There d people are talking about just how you know,
Speaker 6: kind of defied the trends of of running backs in
Speaker 6: their thirties. Did did you feel like teams this offseason
Speaker 6: were looking at you, counted you out, or were underestimated what.
Speaker 10: You still can do? It don't matter.
Speaker 11: Uh went to the team I was supposed to go
Speaker 11: to and that I I wanted to go to. No,
Speaker 11: I can't worry about what people say or just that
Speaker 11: in the third I do what works with Derrick Henry
Speaker 11: and from a Baltimore Raven and I wanna do the
Speaker 11: best I can to help us win each and every
Speaker 11: week there.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you saw, but uh, Anthony Ewards
Speaker 8: just been joking about all the YO.
Speaker 10: Wants to see you and the whole.
Speaker 8: I mean, how do you feel like that.
Speaker 4: Could work out?
Speaker 11: I mean everybody got an imagination. Everybody imagination always goes
Speaker 11: in their head the way they wanted to. But yeah,
Speaker 11: I know I I I was talking uh on marks
Speaker 11: uh podcast this today. I was like, we gotta set
Speaker 11: up a a training camp. Well, basketball players come out
Speaker 11: here and put these pass on to see they really
Speaker 11: can k can get through it. But uh, he's a
Speaker 11: he's a tall guy, so I mean at least he
Speaker 11: he't gonna tackle me low, So we might as to
Speaker 11: try that out one day.
Speaker 2: Derek, how excited are you for Keith Mitchell to get
Speaker 2: back on the practice field?
Speaker 6: And I don't know how much you've been able to
Speaker 6: watch him, but you know, what are your impressions about
Speaker 6: him and and what he could do uh to help
Speaker 6: this running game and when he gets back on the field, I.
Speaker 11: Mean, it's kid is a a a speed gamon. I mean,
Speaker 11: I know we y'all saw that last year. You know,
Speaker 11: talk my mom, see she was.
Speaker 10: Out the roof.
Speaker 11: So that just add another dynamic into this to this offense.
Speaker 11: You know, I'm uh a bet guy, so I'm gonna
Speaker 11: try to help as much as i can, give him
Speaker 11: as much game as I can, you know, uh power teammates,
Speaker 11: and you know he's fought hard to get back. Don't
Speaker 11: to be able to play this season. Happy for him
Speaker 11: and can't wait to see if you on the field,
Speaker 11: dere got to Lamar.
Speaker 6: Have traded back and forth offensive Player of the Week
Speaker 6: awards the last four weeks. You went, you went to
Speaker 6: you an, has there been any banter, Has there been
Speaker 6: any smack talk or anything of that?
Speaker 11: Nah? All the same is just us, you know, practicing hard.
Speaker 11: You know, you know, playing a transition to the game,
Speaker 11: and you know, just focus on getting better. We got
Speaker 11: the wattle and I feel like once you put the
Speaker 11: team first and you know, focus on execution and and
Speaker 11: being determined on what we wanna what we wanna be
Speaker 11: as a team. Then the individual stuff just been addressing
Speaker 11: with that.
Speaker 6: Tic care of so Dereck, I see you have that
Speaker 6: him award back.
Speaker 9: There is that something that you got after the game
Speaker 9: from Moner Night Football or.
Speaker 11: That was last week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this week I went to him. So we'll see next.
Speaker 5: Year you think you could be him this week?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 3: We'll we'll we'll see, We'll see. But this is a
Speaker 3: great defense.
Speaker 11: I know that record doesn't show that, but this defense,
Speaker 11: they their physical, the goat to the ball. They are
Speaker 11: inexperienced defense. I feel like they're solid on all from
Speaker 11: the top of the bottom. No, I see it every week,
Speaker 11: but it's probably one of the best defense.
Speaker 7: We finite, Derek.
Speaker 10: This franchise said a history bringing betteran guys and they
Speaker 10: bring the joy back into the game of them.
Speaker 1: How much fun are you having and how much of
Speaker 1: that attributed to culture here?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's doing a lot of fun.
Speaker 11: I'm not smiling right now, but I'm happy inside. So yeah,
Speaker 11: I've been enjoying us and you know, thank God for
Speaker 11: for for argument, you know, just opportunity.
Speaker 6: Like the contigue, get the critique of the offensive line
Speaker 6: was a stounding at.
Speaker 3: The end of the season.
Speaker 7: Right now, you guys are record.
Speaker 6: Offensively with the rushing yards producing you know, significant pass yard.
Speaker 10: It's just what does they speak to their turnaround and
Speaker 10: just you know you're.
Speaker 6: Supporting this to him and the guys that you saw
Speaker 6: originally getting critiqued are now get out a lot.
Speaker 11: Yeah, like I said, they deserve all the credit anything
Speaker 11: I do.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, make sure you mentioned them first.
Speaker 3: Before you mentioned me.
Speaker 11: And those guys, you know, like you said, they took
Speaker 11: them all to eat and just like better work and
Speaker 11: what about here every single week, So don't give me
Speaker 11: credit out your.
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