WEBVTT - Ravens vs. Browns Week 18 Postgame Press Conferences 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.240 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens are 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.480 AFC North champs. They took down the Cleveland Browns thirty 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:13.040 five to ten Saturday at M and T Banks Stadium. 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:15.680 The Ravens have now won the division for two years 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:18.640 in a row and they will be hosting a playoff 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.560 matchup next weekend in Baltimore for the wild Card Weekend. 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.520 The Ravens had contributions from several guys on both sides 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.480 of the ball, and after the game we heard from 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.280 head coach John Harball. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:32.920 Everybody in here appreciate you guys. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:38.400 Very very exciting, very very big, very big deal to 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.680 win the AFC North, to win the AFC North against 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.120 the Browns, and Browns are a tough football team and 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.720 they're out there competing and fighting like they always do. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.280 Have much respect for those guys, So I'm proud of 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.280 our guys. I'm excited for our guys. It's a great accomplishment. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:56.080 We had said in the locker room after the Chiefs 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:00.360 game out in Kansas City, we were gonna we were 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.640 going to fight, and everything was going to be for 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.160 one another and for a greater glory. It was going 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.360 to be, you know, to God be the glory whatever 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.440 we accomplished this year, and I think now is a 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.360 good time to kind of talk about that. And that's 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:14.640 what the guys were talking about in the locker room, 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:15.680 and I'm proud of the guys for that, and I 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.600 think that's really important to mention. One other things I 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.520 got to mention here and we'll get started the questions 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.000 is we did a bunch of game balls. We closed 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.440 out with Michael Pierce obviously the most amazing play and 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.959 the most crazy amazing play in the NFL history. That's 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:30.320 what we said it was. So we got a game 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.240 ball for that. That'll be on the game ball. But 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:33.679 the game ball I didn't give out, and I want 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.800 to give out right now. First team in the NFL 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.840 with four thousand more than four thousand passing and three 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.560 thousand rushing yards in a season. So that's that's a 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.560 great accomplishment and it's a group of accomplishment. But Todd 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.000 Munkin is going to get a game ball for that. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.440 I think he did a great job this year. All 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.320 the coaches did, all the players did, and that's that's 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:53.920 a really incredible accomplishment. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.280 All right, what question do you have, John. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:57.800 How do you like, I think it was four weeks 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.320 ago you trailed the Steelers by like the beat, you know, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.760 how press is it to go from that point? 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:04.320 Now? 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.160 So a score champion? 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.200 Yeah, it's awesome, It's it's a it's an awesome thing. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.600 And you know, we you know, it's a week to 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.800 week league, you know, and you really just have to 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.079 take it one one week at a time, one day 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:15.560 at a time, one player at a time. 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.280 You know, our guys have done a really good job 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:18.320 of holding on to that. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.000 That one to O T shirt that we that we 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:24.640 all wear around is real. And uh so four wins later, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.480 you know, we're we're the a FC Nord champions. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:27.760 Now. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.560 That's that's gonna be exciting and we're gonna enjoy it 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.880 tonight and we're gonna watch games tomorrow and see who 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:37.520 we play. But we're moving into what we've been working 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.440 for because last year, when we were in the locker 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.280 room after after the AFC Championship game, we knew we 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.680 had a long road to go to get back to 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.200 this very point. You get back in the playoffs with 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.480 an opportunity to, uh to take the next step, and 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.720 we're not there yet, you know, we've still got we 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.320 got the next game. We've got a wildcard game to 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.400 get ready for, so that'll be our next challenge. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:02:59.760 I'm trying to have an update on Z eight Flowers. 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.760 I don't have an update. It's not it's not. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.720 It's something that he has a chance to be okay with. 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.760 But we'll probably have more details after an MRI tomorrow morning. 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.679 John off c. The expectations are very high when you 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:15.840 brought Derek Henriham to put them with Lamar. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.400 But the numbers they put up were pretty historic. Did 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.440 they meet your expectations, exceed them? 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:21.119 Where did that fall? 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:23.600 You know, it's a great question. The numbers really weren't 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.640 part of the conversation. I think we were just excited 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.760 about what we had a chance to build, because we 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.239 try to build all of our offense like our defense too. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.079 You got Kyle Van Noys sitting right here, said, how 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.200 what's the best way we can we can utilize this 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.480 great talent? You know, and I think when Derek became 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:38.680 a part of it and he was gonna be paired 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.280 with Lamar, not just Lamar, Mark and Jay and Isaiah 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.240 and all the guys, you know, how can we try 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:45.960 to create a vision for what we can accomplish with 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.360 those guys, and to see it come to fruition like 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.560 that is really an awesome deal. Now we want to 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.120 see it come to fruition in the playoffs. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.520 John, I mean, Nate Wiggins obviously had the huge play 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.400 to get you guys started. I mean, was that a 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.400 nice play to highlight how important he's really come to 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:01.120 you guys over the. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:01.920 Second half of the season. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.240 Probably, So yeah, he's really been a He's a big 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.040 part of what we're doing, and he's established himself as 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:06.400 a starter. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:07.640 I think he's playing great ball. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:09.480 He had a couple other ones in his hands, and 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.040 he was frustrated with earlier in the season. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:12.720 So we've been on him a little bit. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.640 Everybody you know, talking about getting that first pick and 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.200 did get it and take it back to the house. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:18.760 That's It's a nice way to start. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.240 Plan to rotate at guard or is it? Patrick was 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.320 just didn't practice luck he was sick and. 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.400 He I'm to Patrick, like wanted to go. He insistent 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.160 on going, but he just he just he did a 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.159 good job of fighting through that, but he was really sick. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.080 Justice Hill had the same kind of thing, and you know, 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.000 you see, he wasn't able to be up for the game, 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.560 but patri Ron wanted to go. I just just we 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.800 just felt like I felt like he just wasn't at 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:44.400 full strength. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.200 He tried and uh and uh. I basically just made the. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.760 Decision to let those other guys play who were full strength. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.880 So Pat pat Pat's he's all hard man, He's all hard, 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.240 He's tough as nails, and he'll be fine, ready to 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:56.840 go next week. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.360 John, does Michael Pierce have a green light to go 0:04:59.360 --> 0:04:59.880 to the HO? 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.839 I was I was saying, go, go go, but Mike 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.520 said that we had a meeting and we talked about, 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.160 you know, get down victory. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:08.960 You know, it's a situation that we talk about. So 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.640 he's a smart football player. Right there. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.960 I'm telling you, man, the most amazing play in the 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:14.120 NFL history right there. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:16.719 How would you describe this light? 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.359 Yeah, a little awkward. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:27.480 I mean I saw his like one leg flail out. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.320 Lamar cap season where you know, over four thousand yards 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.360 for player, over four hard down in the yards off passing, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.720 over nine hundred yards rushing and he's just helped out 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:35.159 the season. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:36.360 Lamar has had very. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.159 Concern right, I mean and seventy two yards passing forty 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:45.480 one touchdown passes. How many exceptions four? Okay, I mean 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.320 that's pretty unbelievable. Over nine hundred yards rushing twenty thousand 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.440 passing yards for his career right now, I mean, you know, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.039 it's almost like, you know, say less, you know what else? 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:56.000 What else needs to be said? 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.760 And not just that. Dude's a competitor. Man, he's a fighter, 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.160 he's our he's he's he's just he's just. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.600 One of a kind. It's nobody like Lamar Jackson. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:06.760 I mean, he's in the locker room and he's not 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.159 happy about the last drive and we didn't handle it 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.039 great and we had some personnel challenges and all that stuff, 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.520 and he wants everything to be perfect everything. That's that's 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.760 why these numbers are the way they are because of 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:18.240 who he is. 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:19.520 John. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.239 How valuable is it to be ending the regular season 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.440 on the floor yet winning street now going to. 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.920 The postseason knowing you're posting a first round game. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.640 I think it's valuable, and I think it's it's it's 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.440 a good thing. But we're I think if you talk 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:32.760 to our guys, they would tell you that we can 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.679 be so much better. We can play so much better. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.000 We weren't very clean in this game, with too many penalties. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.760 We uh we operationally we weren't probably as great as 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.279 we wanted to be. Mentioned that the two minute drive 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.960 that Lamar you know, was one wants to be perfect 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.200 on and uh so we can be so much better. 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:49.680 But but we're playing good football. 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.360 We just got to keep keep keep getting you to 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:53.280 getting better' getting worse. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:54.240 We need to keep getting better. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.400 Uh you got a first place schedule this year, you 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.320 have a very competitive asy nor how press is it 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.760 just for this team to have an opportunity to have 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:03.680 a hot T shirt game. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.040 I appreciate you mentioning that. You know, we don't talk 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:07.839 about that too much. But it was a tough schedule 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:09.480 and it was a It was a tough schedule. We 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.320 played teams when they were at their best quite often, 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.080 you know, and they're coming off they were, they were, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.280 they were on a role when we played them. And 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.400 I thought our guys hand letting you know, you get forged, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:18.960 you get tough, and you know when you come from iron, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.120 you know, then you become iron, and I think our 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:21.880 guys have done that. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.440 Let's see where it takes us two more. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.640 Job, how much of the league. You know, you can 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:29.920 only play the team that you face. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.920 But the level competition, especially for your defense, the offensive 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:35.800 that will wait in the AFC here to which you 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.040 guys have faced at the end of this year. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.400 I mean, just the kind of level of competition that 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.600 this defense is going to have to face it, you know, 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:42.640 once you get to the playoffs. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.640 Yeah, I mean the same level competition that we've been 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.680 playing against. And we played all the teams in the playoffs, 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:48.040 you know, when we played them all when they were 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.600 playing really well. But they've been getting better as well, 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.560 so we understand. I mean, it just it just gets better. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.120 It gets tougher, but so do we, you know, and 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:55.720 that's our job. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:56.200 Our job. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.600 The guys are saying it in the locker room, you know, 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.080 we need to get to work Monday, you know, and 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:02.320 let's uh, let's get ready to go. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:03.760 We gotta be at our best. 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:11.160 Oh good, thanks, Except he heard from quarterback Lamar Jackson. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:13.960 What's it feel with that? 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.920 HEFC more champions point to. Uh, it feels good. You know, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:19.440 had a T shirt game. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:19.920 Uh. 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:21.920 I always go back to my rookie, my rookie season. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.000 We have Matt Wiss as the coach. He used to 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:26.600 say that you have ta had a T shirt game, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.760 and that's pretty much always stick with me. So it's 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:29.680 great to have this again. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.000 M as kick in and. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.679 Coach Rouble, we're talking about just the journey to get 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.559 to this point. How proud are you of this? He 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.920 was able to win this division given just the challenges 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:41.640 of the year, get to get back to this point. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.520 I'm very proud of our team. Uh, pick it back 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.760 off what v said, you know, Uh, starting off on 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:51.160 to just looking at how how things was happening with us, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.960 you know, just battling the adversity people just doubting us, 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.640 and just this turnaround we had, you know, win the 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.000 games here and there and in the division, this division. 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:01.320 It's very tough. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:02.120 Uh. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.480 We got some of the best defensive players you know 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.160 in the league in our division. Then we wanna m 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.640 matching up against them twice a year. Really, so i'm'a 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.760 say six times, cause like I said, defense on all 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.400 the teams, we play good defenders on all the teams 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:14.760 we play. 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:16.720 But I'm I'm very proud of my team. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:16.920 Man. 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.160 We we battle and we got the job done. But 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.760 job is undone, you know what I mean? 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.160 Personal accomplishments that you've done this season mean to you 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.120 if it if anything, the four thousand yards, the forty touchdowns, 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.760 eight hundred yards rushing, what does that mean to you 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.199 in relation to the team itself too? 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.520 Uh, that's all my teammates, you know, included with that. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.720 That's just not me, you know, cause when we practicing, 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.040 you know what, I'm trying to get better. We got 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.840 the look team giving us great looks. Those guys helping 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.280 us out a lot, got my tight ends doing what 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.960 they doing running backs, offensive line, receivers. 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.199 That's all the way. That's all the way, a team effort. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:52.800 You know, that's just not me. I do what I 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:53.360 supposed to do. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.120 Mar how much did your part kind of sync when 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:58.840 you saw a Za down on the field and then 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:00.520 and then helps off. I mean it sounds like the 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.199 news isn't as bad as it as it could be. 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.439 But yeah, I I was hurt, you know I was hurt. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.079 But yeah, when when we gonna see what happened, you know, 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.199 come tomorrow, whenever we gotta do it, uh extra or whatever, amorra. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.520 I'm mark come back to beginning of the season zero 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.040 and two, and and even when you guys start winning games. 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.960 After that, there was some frustration and and so forth 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.120 that you talked about along the way. How do you 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:28.240 describe describe where you guys are at now versus back then, 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:32.360 just in terms of confidence, communication, all those sorts of things. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.360 We far ahead of We we far ahead than we 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.120 was back then or or to start. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.000 But just today, you know, I'm like I was, I 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.479 was getting ticked off out there because I'm I'm feeling. 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:44.640 Like it was drives. We didn't finish. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.599 We driving the ball, moving the ball, we getting a 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.480 great field position from special team and defense, and we 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.400 not completing completing the drive. But it happened sometime in 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.120 division games, but we not tryna let that happen go 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.840 into the playoffs. So it it's still room for improvement. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.000 But I feel like we st we take a steps 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:00.679 in the right We take a step in the right direction. 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.719 Mark Bamarty, I mean, obviously you have bigger goals to buy, 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.640 and so do you is this a day to to celebrate? 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.599 You can't. Can't You said jobs done, but it's a 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.719 kind of undone. So do you get to celebrate this 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.480 or do you sue you focused more on just to 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:15.079 pick a vision. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.240 Yeah, I'm a focused on a wild card game. I'm 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:18.560 not gonna lie to you. I'm c I'm cool. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.480 What's going on today? You know, I'm cool, don't get 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.200 me wrong, but like my mind on something else. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:26.679 Did you more or did you get a chance to 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.160 talk to Zay post came in? Just what has he 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.000 been to this offense? His presence in general? 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:31.520 Nah, I didn't get I really didn't get to talk 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:31.679 to me. 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.640 No coach at he was talking to uh all of us, 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.000 you know, and I might just say had some brief 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.240 to him, but then I had to come in here, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.920 so I didn't really get to sweet to him. I 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.800 would h ma, mart Baveman has been stepping up all year, 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.839 but said to see him step up today, would say 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:44.320 going down. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:45.240 I'm not surprised. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.520 I guess I'm not surprised. You know, I've been seeing 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.080 what Bait was capable of doing, and we just got 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.600 a glimpse of it, you know. But I'm not feeling 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.400 too this morning. You know, we we got we got 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.040 things to do, you know, we got things to do. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:57.920 I already know what type of player he was. We 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.360 all knew, you know, we see him every day. Uh, 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:02.720 you got something to do. We got we got things 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.079 to finish, all right, Thanks Mark, Yeah. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:05.840 Appreciate you guys. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.000 We also heard from veteran outside linebacker Kyle van Noy, 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.679 who notched another sack to finish with twelve and a 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.880 half on the season. He's a leader of this defense 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.360 that he talked about the play of this unit and 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.240 their success, especially over the course of the last six 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:24.679 weeks of the regular season. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.520 Well, what did the paint for the team to get? 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.280 Yeah, like the whole games ago, you're a femily with 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.760 sealer back up the games in your division now your 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:34.679 Soli ring beings. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.440 What did it take for the team to go from 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.520 that point for champions. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:40.520 Took a lot. 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.480 You know, I think back to even before everything we've 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.439 gone through so much as a team. I just want 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.160 to take the time of just to shout out Joe 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:57.160 d and his family. You know, yeah, I got chilled 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.800 saying that because Joe D's with us, did Tobie Jones 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.360 his family? We know they're they're with us, and we're 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.920 just so grateful to put on a proud display of 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.439 football for him and go through what we've gone through 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.160 as a group, whether it's you know, car accidents, injuries 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.240 with players, you know, the sicknesses that we've had. Just 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.719 I know all teams go through it, but you know, 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.480 just this specific group coaches included of you know, starting 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.439 zero in two, just the journey of the season to 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.439 be where we're at with the strength of schedule that 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.400 coach just talked about, to be where we're at at, 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.160 you know, division champs and arguably the best division. I know, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.520 you know everyone thinks NFC North, but still the AFC North. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.640 I think it's the toughest division. And to come out champs, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:55.640 it's it's awesome and we're grateful to celebrate that tonight. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.800 But we have bigger and better things to worry about, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.000 and which is the wild hard weekend. I was here 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.600 last year for the AFC Championship and this is all great, 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:11.760 but our mindset's changed to get this first game all 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.800 the focus. We're not guaranteed anything after next week, so 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.480 our main focus is to get to next week and 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.160 have that one to known mindset. You know, it starts 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.320 with coach. He set the tone right here with this 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.160 great interview he had. Hopefully I can piggyback off that 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.200 and then LJ and then we're gonna keep it moving 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.480 to you know, everybody's gonna be the best they can 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.280 hanging out tomorrow and then Monday show up, be ready 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:34.480 to go. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.040 Kyle, the trajectory of this defense this season, from the 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.480 start of the season to now, and how you performed, 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:42.960 especially since the bye week. 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.920 How of you as a leader of the unit seeing 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.760 the improvement slowly as we've been filling towards the postseason. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.680 No, you guys are with some good questions already. I 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.760 think honestly, we just had to take it upon ourselves 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.120 as players. We felt like coaches were doing enough, and 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.400 as players we needed to step up individually and take 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:09.200 ownership and really just battle it out. You know, you 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.120 had high expectations coming off of, you know, a season 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.760 like we did the year before, the expectations to do 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.840 that right again with kind of the changes that we 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.520 had with the same players. It was kind of like 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.760 our job to fix it, and I think we rallied 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.960 it together. We had some good times together of communication 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.000 and really locking in. And you know, the offense, We're 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.520 grateful for the offense carrying us for a while to 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.320 figure that out. And that's what good football teams do. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.400 They just find a way to win no matter what 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.160 they were. They allowed us to mature as a group 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.840 and be competitive and finally just turn the script and 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:47.840 finally played raven football on defense. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.920 What did you think of Michael Pierce's or ship Man? 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:57.280 I felt my knees hurt after watching. We got work 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.560 on that slide a little bit. But honestly, just I mean, 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.440 you see the team, the love that we got for 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.480 each other. The whole team cleared the bench to celebrate MP. 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.440 I mean his situation this year, battling an injury and 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.200 then to get back and to be ready and you know, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.560 just be MP the leader that he's been, the quiet, 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.400 un know, grab your lunch, pale type of guy. But 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.280 it's just, you know, he's that constant, you know, kind 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:24.880 of like you sit back in the back of the 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.320 room like Okay, we're good. MP's here. And just to 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:32.160 have him have a play like that, it's incredible. I mean, 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.720 kudos to him. He could play. You know, I think 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.240 he played running back back in the day. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.480 Now fulfilling was it for you from on top of 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.520 the season that you hit the financial incentior today? 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.440 Yeah, I mean it's always awesome. But for me, I'm 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:49.000 always worried about to win. I'm a winner. Our teams 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.200 were full of winners and that's all we're worried about 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.920 is winners or excuse me, winning the game. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:17:01.160 But it's nice to put it in my pocket. Definitely 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.920