WEBVTT - Jackson, Henry & Harbaugh: Ravens Press Conference 10/23/24 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.560 Welcome to the Ravens Presspass podcast. It is Wednesday, October 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:07.600 twenty third. The Ravens are gearing up for their game 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.200 this Sunday on the road in Cleveland against the division opponent, 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:13.800 the Cleveland Browns. Today we had a chance to hear 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:15.840 from head coach Sean Harball and some of the players. 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.200 Is the Ravens prepared for that divisional matchup? Let's kick 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:24.640 it off with Coach Harpball, right. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.080 Great to see everybody here. We sure appreciate you being here. 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.000 A short week turnaround after Monday night game. We finished 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.440 the game less than forty eight hours ago and we're 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.760 back at it and our guys were in today very tenant, 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:40.000 very on point, with a mindset to get locked in 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.600 and get ready for a big division game on Sunday 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.240 at one o'clock in Cleveland. We've had many, many tough 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:49.040 battles in Cleveland with Cleveland, very physical football team, very 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.519 aggressive football team, a very hungry football team, and we 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.720 understand that tough environment always, especially for the Ravens. So 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.120 we're looking forward to it. We're excited about the opportunity. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.560 The other thing I mentioned is we had three former 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.480 Ravens that were made the top fifty for Hall of 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:10.959 Fame induction. So congratulations of those guys, SiZ Terrell, Suggs, Marshall, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.440 Yanda and Hillodi Na. Those guys are well deserving and 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.800 in my mind they have my vote. I don't have one, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.600 but they have my vote for first ballot Hall of Famers. 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.479 So what question do you have, John? 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:25.640 We saw Keith. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.440 Mitchell out there that you know his twenty one day 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.880 window is starting. Do you expect them to is our timetable? 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.200 And when he would return? Do you think it's going 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:34.440 to take the full twenty one days? 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:35.680 Anything that you know? 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:37.800 I think that's all good question. You really don't know anything. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:41.000 He don't expect him to be back this week in honesty, 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.880 not that Hey you never know. We'll see how it 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.039 looks tomorrow when we're out there full speed. But he's 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.280 been away quite a while, so want to get him, 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.320 get him going, get him moving, get him practicing football 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.280 and get him ready, you know, hopefully within the three 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:55.920 week window. That would be the goal. For sure. 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.120 It's the kind of pinchmark and not just being out 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.920 there today, but that that three week endo to kind 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:03.520 of be out there for good. 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.160 Yeah, I mean that that'd be the goal that we 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.320 would want him back. Sure, we want him back at 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.919 the three week window at the latest. That would be 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.800 the benchmark. I would think, uh, something before that'd be great. 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:18.080 You know, Uh, the litmus test. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.960 The Limus test. Oh that, Yeah, they practice as well. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.600 He can make all the change direction cuts, he can 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.360 he's uh, he can be productive. But also he can 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.800 protect himself. It's probably the most important thing that we 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.720 feel like he's strong enough to protect himself. Uh, that'd 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:31.520 be the number one thing. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.320 John the Cleveland announced that Jameis Winston will start quarterback. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.280 You've seen a little bit of him, but I'm sure 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:37.840 you've seen a lot of. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.360 Them take concepts over the years. What what's your perception 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:40.639 of you? 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.239 Yeah, very talented guy. He's a he's a guy that 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.200 you know, our coaches have a lot of our offensive 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.919 coaches have a lot of connection with Danny Bryer and 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.079 here best pals and that's that tells us much more 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.000 than they're they're they're they're both great guys, but uh, 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.840 he's a he's a great quarterback. Very talented quarterback. Over 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.880 the year, is highly touted, highly decorated quarterback play. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:00.680 A lot of football. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.440 Can throw the thing all over the field for sure, 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.960 push the ball downfield, does a great job with the Reids. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.400 Those are the things that it's a little different, you know, 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.679 because it's it'll probably be a little different offense. And 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.560 you know what Deshaun was doing. Because any offense, any 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.320 quarterback brings his own flavor to the offense. They're gonna 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.360 have a different play caller. How much that's gonna change 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.000 with Ken doing it now instead of Kevin, we just 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.959 don't know. So we've got to get prepared for the 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.359 things that we think that they're capable of doing. But 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.079 mainly we got to get prepared to play our best 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.239 game on defense and do things right the way we 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:32.600 do them. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.360 It's going to ask that in a short week. How 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.640 much does that complicate when they change probably the quarterbacks 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.600 one thing, but chase play callers. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.840 Does that force you to watch old Buffalo tape of 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:44.440 Ken's offense. 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:45.000 Or how do you go back that? 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.240 Well, No, his influences are in the offense already. I 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.160 think he's you know, he's been the offensive coordinator, so 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.640 he's he's been putting the offense together. They're always you know, 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.800 it's a collaboration so we understand the plays in there. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:56.880 How he calls him in the game could be different, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.760 could be the same. You just don't know. And really 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.320 for us, we need we need to play our defense 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.680 at called. Well, that's that's our goal. That's what it'll be. 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.200 Give him a short weet. Any expectation for Marlin or 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:08.400 any hope Marlin gets. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.720 Upper Yeah, I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful as all those guys 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.760 are guys that have a chance to be back. So 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:14.680 we just have to see how it plays out during 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.040 the week and the guys that are ready, you know, 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:17.960 they'll play. And the guy doesn't quite make it, then 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.640 he won't be able to play. And right now we 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:20.880 don't know who that's gonna be. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:21.320 Coach. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:22.880 After watching the table, what did you see from the 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:23.960 second Gary against the Bay? 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:25.080 You see any improvements there? 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:27.600 Oh yeah, I mean I saw a lot of things 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.040 in there, but I saw some big plays. I saw 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.200 a lot of yards after seven minutes in the fourth quarter. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:32.760 I mean I think it was two hundred yards in 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.600 the last seven minutes, So kind of changes the dynamic 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.800 the way I look at it. Any any play we make, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.159 it doesn't get us in that place. You know, offense 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.000 special teams and defense, and it never even goes down 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.480 that road. You know, the game's over. So and that's 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:46.800 the way we would have been played the last seven 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.040 or eight minutes. So you know that's on us, though, 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.480 you know, we got to you gotta close people out. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.400 We played a great football game after. I was really 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.279 happy with the fact that the way we handle the momentum. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.640 I mean, you're going in Monday night football, hot football team, excited, crowd, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.200 place going crazy, and they jump out to a two 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.800 score lead, just keeping them, keeping them from going fourteen 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:05.679 to nothing with something. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:05.880 You know. 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.000 Then you go back down the field again and Marlin 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.640 puts a stop to it momentum wise with your favorite word, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:16.120 momentum puts a stop to it with the interception, right, 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.480 and then our offense, you know, so we go down 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.560 we score six straight times on offense, we come up 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.360 with six straight stops on defense. So that's that's a 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.120 that's a that's impressive. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:25.640 You know. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.760 What we like to do is make the play or 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.240 so at the end it finishes the game. You know, 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.080 they did it. We did eventually, but anywhere along the 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:34.719 way it could have changed that and that's really where 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.479 most of those yards came from goshot. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.960 The numbers says you guys are thirty second. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.280 But along with what you just said, a lot of 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:42.280 times you guys are. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.040 Up by so much teams have to throw in the 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.360 fourth quarter, and maybe that hurts the numbers in terms 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:47.440 of the ranking things. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.359 Yeah, I mean, yes, I do think that. I mean, 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.720 it's it's reality. You know, they're not running, they're not 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.960 running the clock out, running the ball in for a 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.520 minute at the end. That that has an impact on stats. 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.240 But what we're looking at is the things that we 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:00.720 need to do better, and we know there's a lot 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.560 of things we need to do better. We need to 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.839 detail things out better, all three levels of our defense 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.080 so that we can be a complete defense and a 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.240 consistent defense. We're capable of it. We're going to get there. 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.000 I do like the upside of it, I really do. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:14.760 I mean, I feel good about the upside because I 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.080 think our guys. I believe in our players. I know 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.200 they're very good players. I know our coaches are very 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.400 good coaches, and we just got to get there. And 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.320 when we get there, what does that look like? You know, 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:24.240 I'm excited about that. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:26.239 In the moment. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.480 Most weeks and you're probably looking at the week improvement. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.080 But do you ever look at the table of performance 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:36.640 like Lamar had on on Monday and think about how 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:41.719 he's grown as a passer in his general masters of offense? 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.160 Yeah, I probably do. I mean I think I think 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.920 about that every day, honestly, you know, all the way back, 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.480 you know, because really, what you're trying to do, you know, 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.280 try to do your job as a coach. All of 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.280 us try to do what's best for your players. You know, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.040 same thing with the secondary. We're trying to do what's 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.960 best for our players, secondary linebackers, pass rush, no different 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:02.880 for you know, our quarterback or any of our or 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.320 Derek or any of our players. You try to try 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:06.680 to build it and put it together in a way 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.960 that you know brings out the best in your players 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.000 around their skill set. So I think I feel like 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:14.960 I think about it every day, but I don't really 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.440 look back and think, oh man, it's really great. Probably 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.840 will someday. I do think it's really great, and I'm 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.440 really happy and excited. But I think Lamar, I think 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.480 we think the same way as players and coaches. We're 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.560 looking at the next game, you know, and you're You're 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.480 really only as good as your next game. I know 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.440 he looks at it that way, and that's how That's 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:33.240 how I look at it too. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.600 Has been really good against the bulitz this season in particular, 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.720 even much more so than in past years, and obviously 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.080 the offense is consequently has been good against it. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:45.360 What's your why? 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.640 What what explanation did in your Yeah, there's there's I 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.200 wish there was one silver bullet to it. Yeah, I mean, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.040 I just think we've I think we've been intentional about it. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.360 That's probably the why. You know, we've been very intentional 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.600 about not just that, but that has been a big one. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.000 You know, how we how we attack people. We're gonna 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.880 blitz this in various ways, and played various coverages behind it, 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.119 you know, and we've tried to build something and Lamar 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:07.720 that's I mean, I would say Lamar has been the 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.400 most intentional about it. He's been locked in on that 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.280 from day one. So it's it is showing up and 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:14.960 we have we have to keep it going. We're gonna 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.160 get different blitzes. Cleveland is a big blitz team. I mean, 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.440 they're one of the best blitzing teams in football. Jim 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.480 Schwartz does a great job, and we're gonna have to 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:22.240 be on point. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.320 Pass off SAT And you talked a lot about you, 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.360 Lamar and Todd munkin kind of going back and putting 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.319 this all continuing to build on this offense. When you 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.480 think back to some of those conversations and you watch 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.280 this offense now, do you see a lot of the 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.840 key components the principles that you guys wanted to hone 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:40.679 in on this season. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.440 Are you seeing that when you watch them right now? Yeah? 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.520 I am seeing it, you know, And I'm excited about 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.040 it because I think a lot of it is coming. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.520 It's being brought to bear by by Lamar and by 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.760 the players, and that was the intentionality of it. But 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.840 we have ten games regol season games left, one at 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:00.240 a time, and we've got to keep building on it. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:06.040 Changes on the Hands team. I mean, with two kicks 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:07.719 being covered this year, both against you. 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.280 Thanks for reminding me of that. I am aware of that. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:12.719 It was one of the players I was referring to. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.000 You're gonna cover that kick? It's kind of over. Yes, 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.960 we will, We'll look at it. You know, not everybody 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.079 wants to be on the Hands team. I can I 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.480 can tell you you really. I mean, it's it's it's 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.640 it's tough, tough duty. But you know, yeah, the rest 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.760 of the league is over and we're we're you know, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.760 we've given up two that's uh, that's not the that's 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.920 not we're not. Nobody's very envious to that right now. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.880 So we'll flip some guys around, try to get some 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.599 guys in spots that we think can make sure we 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:41.760 come up with the next one. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.600 When you look at the level that Ronnie Stanley has 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.760 mean team this year, do you think it's simply a 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.400 matter if he's able to make kind of all the 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.839 physical movements that were hard for him last year with 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:52.440 the knee. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.240 Or why do you think he's playing at the level 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:54.599 with he is? 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:56.480 I think that's part of it. Yeah, that's probably a 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:57.040 big part of it. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:57.440 He's uh. 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.360 And and also because of the fact that he's been 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.800 able to train the wh last season fully, so he's 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.360 just stronger, you know, the ankle, the feet, they're stronger, 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.600 you know, So this ol lower body strong because you've 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.719 on to the train and it's definitely showing. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.480 Up with Derek he's on a pace or stork pace, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.040 rushing yards He also leads the league in carries as well. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.640 Are you happy with this work We talked about this before. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.480 Are you happy with this workload? It's like nineteen per 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:22.440 game I think right now. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:27.079 But is that kind of Weir's thirty it is, I 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:28.640 will thirty is kind of a high number. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:29.079 You know. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.920 I've protected myself on that. I'm happy with it. I'm 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.199 happy with it because, you know, it does mean that 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.040 we've had a lot of carries in the fourth quarter, 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.800 which means that we have the lead, and that's what 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.439 you want. I also feel like over the course of 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:44.959 the season, it's going to be okay. If it's not 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.240 nineteen or twenty five. You know, when it's ten or twelve, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.560 that's okay too. Other guys be getting those carries as well, 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.280 or hopefully we'll be throwing the ball for a bunch 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.719 of yards. But that's one thing about Derek. You know, 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.360 you'll never hear him concern himself with that. He wants it. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.960 There's no debt about it. But he wants He wants 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:03.800 it because it helps us win, you know, and that's 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:05.400 that's all he ever talks about. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:07.120 Thanks great, guys. 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:07.400 Thanks. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.120 Next up is quarterback Lamar Jackson. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:16.400 More. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.679 I don't know if you were. Derrick Henry is on 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.319 his page right now to set the old time or 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.240 the single season rushing record. What do you think so far? 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:27.120 I mean seven games in. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:28.160 What do you think his chances are? 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.480 Is there? I feel like he is. He has a 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.520 great chance of achieving that. I think he can do it. 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:36.839 I believe he can do it. 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:42.240 Yeah, Lamark, do you feel any different when you're playing 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.680 on Monday nights? All sorts of uh, you know, record 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.520 boards that you now become a part of in terms 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.280 of as he touched down to appoints. What about playing 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.160 on Monday nights really as you are playing at that level? 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.559 So, I don't know what it is about Monday night. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.520 I just love playing football, you know, trying to win. 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.440 That's the biggest thing for me. So when I'm out there, uh, 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.240 trying to do anything possible to get us a dog, 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:07.120 that's all. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:08.360 Well. 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.360 There there's just tomes of media chattering exciting about this 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.280 offense and keep saying it's unstopped and whatnot. When you 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.040 hear that, because in your. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.000 Head, nothing just goes in one ear and out the other, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.160 you know, Uh, like I said before, you know it 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.120 just early in the season, they were just saying we 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.000 were the worst team and in in the league, and 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.680 and each and ever we we just been read about 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.160 proving ourselves right. And that's pretty much what we've been doing. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:32.360 Not right about the outside. 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.960 I know, it's come on, Derek can release the league 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.920 in rushing and carries. You're right now eleventh and rushing 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.400 you l you're leading the league and passer rated. I mean, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.880 when you talk about this backfield, when what you the 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.319 threat you guys suppose, I mean, how dangerous is this 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.280 backfield with you guys and obviously with Justice Hill and 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:52.600 those guys are the back there as well. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.840 Yeah, just uh definitely uh Justice Hill as well. Uh 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.439 but like I said before, it's just a pick pick 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.839 your poison offense. You know, we got guys out there 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.000 on that receiver is just doing a great job getting 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.280 open on catching the ball again yards after catch, got 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.040 great tight ends off the line, praying playing great, and 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.400 the running backs just doing what they're doing. And we 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.240 just got to keep getting better each and every week 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.480 because we still, I believe, we still make a little 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.920 small hiccups and games where we stopping drives from you know, 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.360 just putting teams away early. But we just gotta keep 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:23.520 getting better each and every week. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.560 From keeping Mitchell's to turn and what he could add 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:28.280 to this offense. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.439 I'm loving it, but just keep you just keep getting better, 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.920 like I want you to be a thousand percent when 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.440 you out there, And we're doing pretty good right now 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.640 without him, but we can't wait to have him back. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:44.080 Definitely, when you watch Ronnie out there protecting you this year, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.920 does he does he remind you now of the guy 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.160 back in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty before he had 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:49.880 all those injuries. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.560 That make absolutely that's that that was the only thing 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.120 with running, you know, just the injuries. He was just 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:55.719 trying to get back to where he was and I 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.319 feel like he's he's feeling pretty well, feeling pretty good now. 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:01.920 He just the same running I've been new, you know, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:03.120 ever since I entered the league. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.559 How big a difference does that make for you when 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.520 you have that kind of trust and faith that your 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.920 left tackle is gonna hold up in past perception. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.520 I made my job a lot easier, you know. I 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.599 get to go through progressives, get the ball out and 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.320 just have successful uh plays. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.480 Now you try to push and you try to push. Uh, 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.760 you know, praise aside and things like that. But you've 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.240 been really good against the Blitz this season. Why do 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.160 you think that's the case? And and is there any 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:29.280 part of you that relishes? 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.240 Is when the team splits you. Now that's pretty much 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.200 what I study, like the blixes, that's the that's the 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.680 main thing, you know, Uh, catching the defense in the 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.840 blix or they just trying to catch us to just 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.320 try to knock us back from having positive yards. The 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:43.880 best thing for me is just go in the film 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.080 room get of course, you get with y'alls, get with 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.720 death and we just go in and uh, how can 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:50.240 I forget? 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:50.560 Uh? 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:52.360 Who's enough room with us? 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:52.840 Oh? 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.440 Oh my god, pray for anyways, I don't even matter. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.400 But yeah, we just in a room just trying to 0:14:58.400 --> 0:14:58.800 get better. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:14:59.000 Uh. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.040 But blixes just one of the main things we go 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.520 over the most. And knowing the protection, the pickups and 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:04.040 stuff like that. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.920 So may bring a young quarterback having a big pass 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.480 preussure coming in your face or facing the bullets coming in. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.800 I'm sure it makes you panic. Do you remember kind 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.720 of when you started being able to maybe slow down 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.600 the rain and not panic. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.920 You got to ask that question again. If you gotta 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.480 ask that question, and Danny, who's been in the room 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.120 with us. Danny's in the room with us too. I 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.400 could not say Danny for some reason, but Danny. Yeah, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:28.480 but ask that question one more time. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.840 I'm just saying, how long did TIKEI to kind of 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:38.760 adjust to just feeling panic from guys blitzing you or pressure. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:39.040 That you feel. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.720 How different is your mentality facing the bullets now than 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.400 it used to be when you were young quarterback? 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.280 Pretty when I was younger, I'll see the blis happening, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.040 and now pretty much just try to beat the blitz 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.320 without flipping and protection. Sometimes I'm like, Okay, it's a guy. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:55.640 I'm gonna be hot. This guy gonna be by itself, 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.160 you know, untouched. I can just get the ball out 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.600 and sometimes I had to pay for it. So my 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.840 biggest thing, like over the last few years, was like 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.360 just getting my line to where they should be going. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.000 And if a god's gonna be free, I'm gonna know 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.680 how to navigate the ball and get away from them. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.000 Just to get us in a positive situation, that's all. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:15.560 It seems that. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.920 It seems that the widers the screen game, whether they're 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.760 the wide receivers order, running backs are as good as 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:23.880