Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Past podcast. The Ravens
Speaker 1: took down the Pittsburgh Steelers thirty four to seventeen on
Speaker 1: Saturday at M and T Banks Stadium. After the game,
Speaker 1: we had a chance to hear from head coach John Harball.
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate everybody being here.
Speaker 3: I just want to start with this because this is
Speaker 3: important to me and to a lot of people. Now
Speaker 3: this week, Christmas, Christmas is a couple what four days,
Speaker 3: which we happened to play in four days, right, so
Speaker 3: it's right around the corner and we'll be together on Christmas.
Speaker 3: So I read this to the team in our post
Speaker 3: post game prayer, and it's this.
Speaker 4: This is Mary.
Speaker 3: Mary the Mother of God said this when she was
Speaker 3: getting when she was with Elizabeth. She said, she said this,
Speaker 3: She said, my soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit
Speaker 3: rejoices in God, my Savior. So I just want to
Speaker 3: wish everybody to Merry Christmas, happy holiday season, and rejoice man, Rejoice,
Speaker 3: Rejoice in life, Rejoice in your circumstances. Rejoice in the
Speaker 3: tough games, rejoicing in the losses, Rejoice in the wins.
Speaker 3: Like we get, like we're blessed to do today as
Speaker 3: a football team. And uh and just rejoicing, you know,
Speaker 3: people that you love, the people that are close to.
Speaker 2: You, rejoice.
Speaker 3: We aren't here on this earth to worry about every
Speaker 3: little thing and uh and and and spar with one another.
Speaker 3: We're here to rejoice in one another and with one
Speaker 3: another and love one another. So let's try to remember
Speaker 3: that this week. It's a big football week, all right,
Speaker 3: it's also a big life week, you know, it's a
Speaker 3: big uh, it's a big spiritual week. Okay, all right,
Speaker 3: So what question do you.
Speaker 5: Have play off first with What do you think that
Speaker 5: that means for the team or is it kind of
Speaker 5: focused on one bigger goals?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's huge, it's huge. You never did. We rejoice.
Speaker 3: I rejoice in the fact that we made the playoffs
Speaker 3: because it's tough to do. It's really hard to do.
Speaker 3: Look around the league how hard it is to do.
Speaker 3: I'm so proud of these guys.
Speaker 4: And we have goals.
Speaker 3: The first goals to win the next game. We say,
Speaker 3: so everything we do all yours to win the next game.
Speaker 3: The second goal is to uh, to make the playoffs.
Speaker 3: The third goal is to win the division. The AFC North.
Speaker 3: Then the final goal is to win the championship, you know,
Speaker 3: the super Bowl World Championship. So that's that's we won.
Speaker 4: We won.
Speaker 2: We got two of them tonight.
Speaker 6: We won.
Speaker 3: We won the next game, and we made the playoffs.
Speaker 7: John, we know how crazy ring contilers can be with
Speaker 7: the swings, big plays after Lamarthur is the interception there
Speaker 7: for Marlon Upper to get the pick six there.
Speaker 4: I mean, just how massive was that?
Speaker 3: It was massive, you know, just the things that we
Speaker 3: had talked about, the things that the guys were talking about,
Speaker 3: the idea that you know, it's just good. It's good
Speaker 3: something something happens, a good circumstance, good, a tough circumstance.
Speaker 3: Good gives us an opportunity to come back and make
Speaker 3: the next play and take the next opportunity to turn
Speaker 3: things around. And for Marylin to do that, you know,
Speaker 3: we got pressure on that. All those kinds of things.
Speaker 3: It just means so much. And Marlon also had a
Speaker 3: baby this week, so we got the game ball. He
Speaker 3: didn't get the game ball. His son got the game ball.
Speaker 5: John, I'm not saying play goes David a job out
Speaker 5: of that moment about after all the ups and notes.
Speaker 4: That he's so good.
Speaker 3: He had a couple of big pressures and a couple
Speaker 3: of big plays there. You know, David's been he's been
Speaker 3: practicing really well, and they see him get his opportunity
Speaker 3: and step up like that.
Speaker 2: Really, the whole game was great to see. Proud of him.
Speaker 4: How physical this matchup can be. What does it mean
Speaker 4: to see you guys rush for too much from twenty.
Speaker 3: Yards on the ground of big big starts right there
Speaker 3: with number twenty two. That's what it starts with. But
Speaker 3: it also it also starts with the offensive line. So
Speaker 3: our offensive line played really great tonight. I thought our
Speaker 3: coaches did a great job scheming up the run game.
Speaker 3: Lamar had a lot of checks involved with that. So
Speaker 3: it's just really well executed run game and a hard runner,
Speaker 3: the best in the business right there, John.
Speaker 8: I don't know that this is a Steelers defense that
Speaker 8: was really really good against under center runs. You guys
Speaker 8: didn't seem to, you know, go away too much from
Speaker 8: that because we keep the confidence that you guys.
Speaker 9: Could do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we had a good plan. You know,
Speaker 3: we've got it. We've got we've got a great runner.
Speaker 3: So it starts with that and the ability to come
Speaker 3: downhill was important to us in this game, and our ability.
Speaker 3: We had a couple of scheme things that took some
Speaker 3: of their pursuit out of it. So I thought that
Speaker 3: was really clever of our coaches.
Speaker 8: I hope took you guys had any defensive holies today.
Speaker 3: I'm really happy about that. I'm really pleased with that.
Speaker 3: It was really good. You know, we covered better. They
Speaker 3: had a couple of downfield throws that we defended without grabbing,
Speaker 3: you know, so I thought we did a good job.
Speaker 7: John to that point. Kyle Hamilton, I think during the
Speaker 7: week said, you know, the message for you that you
Speaker 7: guys have to sort of learn to not lose before
Speaker 7: you could win. What what did you can you expelld
Speaker 7: on what you meant there in how much of an
Speaker 7: example that was tonight?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's something we talk about a lot.
Speaker 3: The guys don't understand. It wasn't telling them anything they
Speaker 3: don't know's it's always a topic. But sometimes you want
Speaker 3: to win so bad and you want to do well
Speaker 3: so bad that you try to win. Suddenly you try
Speaker 3: to win in one play. All right, the game is
Speaker 3: not going to be one in one play. It's going
Speaker 3: to be one, one play at a time. If you
Speaker 3: take that mindset and try to a good play one
Speaker 3: at a time, and if you have a tough play,
Speaker 3: you come back and try to have the next good play.
Speaker 3: And suddenly a big run is broken off, you know,
Speaker 3: or or there's a pick six, or there's a sack.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, you look up and the scores
Speaker 3: thirty four to seven, and when just a few minutes
Speaker 3: before that it was tight. So that kind of patience
Speaker 3: is really what it means, is be patient doing the
Speaker 3: ordinary things well over and over again.
Speaker 2: Lamar's plays, but there's some clutch throws, especially not the
Speaker 2: last crime.
Speaker 3: Clutch throws, especially against man tight coverage, guys running guys, him,
Speaker 3: him dotting people on the run in man covers. I thought,
Speaker 3: Lamar is fantastic, and that's no a little bit of pressure.
Speaker 3: I mean, our guys did a good job up front,
Speaker 3: but Lamar was. He's under pressure against this, this group
Speaker 3: of Russians. The passer always are going to give you pressure.
Speaker 3: He stood in there and made some throws. Man, he
Speaker 3: always does to.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 4: I don't know how much you pay attention to or not,
Speaker 4: but a lot of talk going in the week. I'm
Speaker 4: sure you're sick of it by now losing eight to nine,
Speaker 4: and a.
Speaker 2: Lot of the conversation was what's going to go wrong?
Speaker 5: How dosn't mean a lot to see you guys play
Speaker 5: as well you did, especially in the second half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really happy with the win.
Speaker 4: It's a great win.
Speaker 7: No, Darius Washington is a guy you made that switch
Speaker 7: a number of weeks ago. What what did I guess
Speaker 7: gave you that confidence send him to do that? And
Speaker 7: how well is he could play it?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: If you look at our Darius, he's always played well.
Speaker 3: You know, he had the injuries a couple of years,
Speaker 3: but he's always played when he's gotten his chances. He
Speaker 3: practiced as well. Again, I don't think anybody is surprised
Speaker 3: by it. You know, I'm happy to see it happen though.
Speaker 3: He's playing great football.
Speaker 2: Mitch Jordan and on telling the kick os, Jordan's got
Speaker 2: a massive leg.
Speaker 3: You may have noticed that, and uh uh, you know,
Speaker 3: mixing it up a little bit good, but also kicking
Speaker 3: into that win down there to that end, he gave
Speaker 3: us the best chance to bomb one out of the
Speaker 3: back of the end zone because he's so strong. He's
Speaker 3: young and uh, but then he got unto the other one.
Speaker 3: You know, like like a lot of young guys, there's
Speaker 3: some inconsistency there. But that was the idea, is justice.
Speaker 2: I know he's a.
Speaker 4: Concussion proculvid see Okay, overall you've seen some good.
Speaker 3: Sign Well, I don't know that's a that's a concussion
Speaker 3: with a game four days from now, so I love
Speaker 3: to see how that goes.
Speaker 10: Next.
Speaker 1: Up his quarterback Lamar Jackson, who threw three touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the win.
Speaker 11: Steelers deficial Uh, it means a lot, you know. I
Speaker 11: feel like we've been busting out behind all season long. Uh,
Speaker 11: pat ups and downs throughout this whole season. But the
Speaker 11: clincher playoff against a great team like that, that's that's great.
Speaker 2: I mean we move in the right direction.
Speaker 5: So much has been said about your own personal struggles
Speaker 5: against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4: How gratifying is it for you to play this way.
Speaker 2: Against this team?
Speaker 11: I feel like I could have played better, but interception
Speaker 11: it really got mad still though, you know that's we
Speaker 11: don't We don't turn the ball over almost any game.
Speaker 2: We win the game.
Speaker 11: You know that one turnover could have been the difference,
Speaker 11: you know, but shout out tomorrow in the defense, cause.
Speaker 2: Those guys played their lights out all game.
Speaker 9: Definitely better as a team against them this time in
Speaker 9: your sit again, what did you do better as a
Speaker 9: team against them this time?
Speaker 4: In your mind?
Speaker 2: I believe we just well stay with what we've been
Speaker 2: preaching all week.
Speaker 11: You know, it's just one player at a time, no
Speaker 11: matter what can what happened in the game, just you know,
Speaker 11: just move on to the next play.
Speaker 2: And things happened throughout the game.
Speaker 11: Where it was like we could start like having that
Speaker 11: little like shat back, but we didn't let anything bother
Speaker 11: us penalties, the look turn over here and there, and
Speaker 11: if we got stopped, you know, we kept our mind
Speaker 11: focused on when we get another opportunity.
Speaker 2: Interception, miscommunication, Yeah, yeah, that's all that was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what was kind of your reaction?
Speaker 5: Do you remember your reaction when Marlon you know, when
Speaker 5: you saw Marlon make that pick and return for a touchdown.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was still mad about the intercession. I thought
Speaker 11: of putting them back out there, you know that, That's
Speaker 11: what I was mad about, just putting them in that
Speaker 11: type of situation where momentum can swing and let that
Speaker 11: team get their advantage. I was just mad. I was
Speaker 11: mad into the game was over. I'm still mad. I'm lying,
Speaker 11: I'm still mad. Game over, I'm still hot.
Speaker 8: Kind Of on that note, I mean, you know, it
Speaker 8: seems like the last few years, so many things kind
Speaker 8: of go against you guys in these games with Pittsburgh
Speaker 8: and the luck is just never on your side. Is
Speaker 8: that the signal to you that just felt like the
Speaker 8: fortunes were changing. God to take away credit for me,
Speaker 8: they want to made.
Speaker 2: A big play, But I believe the thing is like,
Speaker 2: that's just God.
Speaker 11: You know, we've been preaching that a lot more throughout
Speaker 11: just the locker room and just to everyone. You know,
Speaker 11: God the reason we able to perform the way we perform,
Speaker 11: and just move on how we move them.
Speaker 2: That's God. God, get all the glory, Marvel.
Speaker 5: Did you have the sense of you because we're gonna
Speaker 5: come out and go to Derek aggressively in the first half.
Speaker 5: I mean, you guys ran as many times as the
Speaker 5: first half of this game as you did in the
Speaker 5: entire previous game with them, And did you kind of
Speaker 5: know that would be the tone of the game.
Speaker 11: No, because we don't know what those gods. You know
Speaker 11: that when we played the Stillers. They have this certain
Speaker 11: type of defense they play against us, you know, and
Speaker 11: we really didn't know what those guys were gonna do.
Speaker 2: It was it man's on what type of.
Speaker 11: Game it'll be, and our off salone just did a
Speaker 11: great job at keeping those guys off of and letting
Speaker 11: him just you know, go get out of the backfield on
Speaker 11: touched and he just did the rest.
Speaker 12: What does it mean to you to get sas for
Speaker 12: a thousand yards man?
Speaker 11: That's that's that means a lot, you know, just to
Speaker 11: have a thousand yard receiver. I believe we got that
Speaker 11: embatement too, know, you know, he just got to get
Speaker 11: more opportunities getting the ball thrown to him and that
Speaker 11: that catching made in the back of his own dope,
Speaker 11: like you know, and what shout out to Z two.
Speaker 2: You know, that's that's my boy, brother, that's my guy,
Speaker 2: my brother right now.
Speaker 13: Touchdown against Steelers detail tonight.
Speaker 2: Who Mark he did damn.
Speaker 12: Seven?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is first technogive.
Speaker 2: Damn. I'm glad he got it done, you know.
Speaker 11: With the victory, but damn, thanks apprecious for him.
Speaker 1: We also heard from running back Dereck Henry. He had
Speaker 1: a big day on the ground carried twenty four times
Speaker 1: for one hundred and sixty two yards.
Speaker 10: He talked about that performance and this win for the Raids.
Speaker 8: Derek, you know, I know you expressed disappointment after the
Speaker 8: last Pittsburgh game fumbling on the first drive.
Speaker 14: How much did that play.
Speaker 8: Into your motivation this week and your desire maybe show
Speaker 8: a different look tonight?
Speaker 15: You know what I mean? Uh, emphasis all, we would
Speaker 15: just finish. We know that if we didn't turn the
Speaker 15: ball over, have any self inflicted wounds, and you know,
Speaker 15: give ourselves, give ourselves a chance to win the game,
Speaker 15: you know, and I think we did that a lot
Speaker 15: last game. And like gods are locked in focusing on
Speaker 15: emphasis on from this week to be able to go
Speaker 15: out there and finish and play the way we did.
Speaker 10: And then this is your this is your second Gradelers game.
Speaker 10: What what have you learned about this rivalry and what
Speaker 10: it takes to win this game?
Speaker 4: You gotta bring it every.
Speaker 15: Time, you know, you you you play these guys, you know,
Speaker 15: but you know, we don't try to make it so
Speaker 15: much about like the Ribberry. Try to focus on us
Speaker 15: and what we need to do. We know we play
Speaker 15: the way we know how Then you know, we give
Speaker 15: ourselves a chance against against anybody. I know, they're they're
Speaker 15: a great team, got a great, great defense, great offense.
Speaker 15: But you know, we just had to focus on what
Speaker 15: we need to do give ourselves the best chance to win.
Speaker 5: Did just feel like a breakthrough win in a way?
Speaker 5: I mean not not because of the rivalry part of it,
Speaker 5: but just because, I mean, you guys face some real
Speaker 5: tough moments in the second half and you bounce back
Speaker 5: each time with huge players.
Speaker 15: I think it's just it feels good to you know,
Speaker 15: get away and knowing that, you know, we had emphasis
Speaker 15: on things that we need to do to win the game,
Speaker 15: and we didn't shoot ourselves in the foot, you know,
Speaker 15: at any point in the game to you know, let
Speaker 15: the momentum go up the other way. You know, we
Speaker 15: just stayed focused no matter what happened to East Drive.
Speaker 15: You know they stayed and encourage and just focused on
Speaker 15: finishing the fact we did that well today.
Speaker 14: What did you see from the resolve of the team
Speaker 14: after the interception. It looks like you're about to put
Speaker 14: the game away there, but to make.
Speaker 8: That, you know, to turn them all over there, but
Speaker 8: just to bounce back so quickly.
Speaker 4: What did that kind of.
Speaker 15: Show you Yeah, that was a big momentous wing when
Speaker 15: they got that turnover. But it's complementary football, you know,
Speaker 15: defense how that back in that Wan did a great job,
Speaker 15: made a huge play that we definitely needed. And you know,
Speaker 15: just hats off to those guys, man. They work hard
Speaker 15: throughout the week to be able to make big plays
Speaker 15: like that in the game.
Speaker 8: And there's a lot of important reasons to win this week.
Speaker 8: But given that Pittsburgh might be a team that you
Speaker 8: see again in the playoffs, I mean, did that add
Speaker 8: more importance that you guys can show up and earn
Speaker 8: a w against this team.
Speaker 15: I mean, we don't go in the game feel like
Speaker 15: we can't win any game. You know, we know some
Speaker 15: games gonna be tougher than others, but we know we
Speaker 15: got to make it about us and the way we
Speaker 15: execute and by the way we work. And you know,
Speaker 15: everybody's going out there taking taking the one player at
Speaker 15: a time. You're not gonna win each game by by
Speaker 15: one play is one player at a time. And you know,
Speaker 15: it's great to get this win in a big rivalry.
Speaker 15: Like you said, we might see those guys again, and
Speaker 15: but just happy to get this win on our belt
Speaker 15: and focus on this one and get ready for the
Speaker 15: next one.
Speaker 12: You do more there.
Speaker 8: I think you had close to fifty yards in that
Speaker 8: first quarter. Did you know that you would be a
Speaker 8: focused early on.
Speaker 4: In this game plan?
Speaker 15: No, I just focus on whenever the opportunity to get
Speaker 15: the ball, you know, make an impact and be efficient
Speaker 15: and be consistent in my.
Speaker 4: Play old line.
Speaker 15: Everybody did a great job blocking to day, so they
Speaker 15: made my job easy anytime have a game like this,
Speaker 15: I mean they did a.
Speaker 4: Great job blocking, so they did about a credit.
Speaker 8: Uh you know, John just said Justice, they're still trying
Speaker 8: to figure out what how he's doing. But how how
Speaker 8: tough was that moment to witness from the sideline, and
Speaker 8: how grateful were you that he was able to walk.
Speaker 14: Off the field.
Speaker 15: Yeah, we were all grateful to see him get up
Speaker 15: and get up and walk off on his own. It
Speaker 15: was worried at for a minute. It was just we're
Speaker 15: just laying there, you know, Justice, that's that's my brother man.
Speaker 15: And I'm glad to see that he was able to
Speaker 15: get off on the two feet and I'm glad he's
Speaker 15: he's doing well.
Speaker 2: That was a scary moment.
Speaker 1: Thanks in the locker room today we heard from a
Speaker 1: tight end, Mark Ands, who scored his first ever touchdown
Speaker 1: against the Steelers, would agree.
Speaker 4: That was your first touchdown against the Steelers in your career. Yeah.
Speaker 16: I didn't even know that, to be honest with you,
Speaker 16: but you know, glad to have it. Guys thought well today,
Speaker 16: happy about the fens and just happy, you know, great
Speaker 16: win here at emonteen Banks saying that the fans were
Speaker 16: great and it was really cool.
Speaker 2: How much of a.
Speaker 9: Focus of it this week was I kind of a
Speaker 9: cliche one play at a time, minimize your saves, those fundamental.
Speaker 4: Things of this game.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it was huge, I mean, and that's what these
Speaker 16: type of games boiled down to, was being efficient, you know,
Speaker 16: doing the right things, doing your job and taking care
Speaker 16: of the football. And I think the guys did great
Speaker 16: at that today. How much of a difference did it
Speaker 16: make for the offense to see the defense get some
Speaker 16: of those takeaways they've bawled out, They've bawled out all
Speaker 16: all game long. They were flying around, being physical and
Speaker 16: made big time plays. That was awesome for us when
Speaker 16: we're giving them.
Speaker 17: Marlon Humphreys interceptions specifically, do you feel like it came
Speaker 17: out a perfect.
Speaker 4: Time for momentum. It was a great time. There couldn't
Speaker 4: be a better time to get that one.
Speaker 12: Mark is you know, quarterbacks always take unnecessarily, unnecessarily too
Speaker 12: much heap for losses and a lot of court for wins.
Speaker 12: You know, there's a lot of talk about Lamar versus
Speaker 12: the Steelers coming into this game three touchdowns tonight, beating
Speaker 12: them the way he did?
Speaker 4: How much? How did? What did that mean to you?
Speaker 14: Just see him get that win.
Speaker 16: Just play after play, you know, just fighting, fighting for
Speaker 16: your ard, fighting for first downs. He did it time
Speaker 16: and time again. You know, he's Udini, he's Lamar's he's
Speaker 16: special and he did it again today.
Speaker 9: And when you get that wide open for a touchdown,
Speaker 9: let's go through your mind when that when that balls
Speaker 9: in the here.
Speaker 2: Just catch the ball.
Speaker 16: That's about it. It was, you know, popped wide open.
Speaker 16: Didn't really expect that, but you know, Lamar, you know,
Speaker 16: found me and it was great.
Speaker 4: His accuracy to you this year, I feel like has
Speaker 4: been everyone has been a strike. Have you seen his
Speaker 4: arm strength progress through this year and his accuracy, Well he's.
Speaker 16: Always had great arm strength, you know, but uh, he's
Speaker 16: just seeing the game so well, you know that. I
Speaker 16: think late in the fourth quarter he checked the play
Speaker 16: to Jay and and it was a huge game down
Speaker 16: the right sideline. Just different things like that, the game
Speaker 16: is so slow to him and he's just playing lights.
Speaker 9: Out games to win, you know, the way you did
Speaker 9: against the Giants and then to beat the Steelers in
Speaker 9: this game. What does that mean for you?
Speaker 16: Well, right, we want to be you know, we we
Speaker 16: put ourselves in a great position and have a great
Speaker 16: you know, opportunity ahead of us this this coming week
Speaker 16: to solidify ourselves. But this is right where we want
Speaker 16: to be. And it's all the work that we've done
Speaker 16: as for this moment and to start winning games and
Speaker 16: be who we want.
Speaker 4: To be starting to click right, It like just right
Speaker 4: on time. I think it's week by week.
Speaker 16: We got to continue to prove that, but today felt great.
Speaker 16: We're looking to build on that.
Speaker 6: He is.
Speaker 2: Can you feel the defense right now?
Speaker 4: What does it feel like from like the tight end perspective?
Speaker 4: He's just a beast.
Speaker 16: He's just the beast. And if we continue to block
Speaker 16: and get on guys and you know, move guys off
Speaker 16: the ball. He's such a playmaker and he's such a
Speaker 16: good player for us and overall that we're gonna be
Speaker 16: good to go.
Speaker 4: How much does it energy the rest of the offense
Speaker 4: when he is running like that and he's the beast.
Speaker 16: I mean, when you feed a guy like that and
Speaker 16: he's eating, Like, where else do you need to go to?
Speaker 2: Would you ask for sana A twenty fit?
Speaker 16: Just health, health and family and just good graces.
Speaker 1: Next up is kicker Justin Tucker, who delivered a fifty
Speaker 1: one yard field in this victory. It was big for
Speaker 1: him to deliver that kick in a big moment. He
Speaker 1: talked about that after the game.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So as a competitor, I want to be out there
Speaker 6: all the time. And I think everybody around around me
Speaker 6: knows that, you know, starting with Harves and and Randy
Speaker 6: and Chris and Sam and Jordan and Nick. But at
Speaker 6: the exact same time, Jordan's got a cannon for a legs.
Speaker 6: So you know, if there's a if there's a time
Speaker 6: where it's gonna be tougher to drive the ball and
Speaker 6: get the distance, you know, like for for example today,
Speaker 6: like the Jordan had the one kick off that sailed
Speaker 6: out of the back of the end zone going to
Speaker 6: the right of our bench uh into a pretty significant headwind,
Speaker 6: and do I feel like I could do that? Like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'll probably be able to connect on the ball like
Speaker 6: one out of every five to seven of them and
Speaker 6: get it to travel like that. But Jordan does have
Speaker 6: this ability to hammer the ball, So you know, if
Speaker 6: that gives us the best opportunity to spot the ball
Speaker 6: on the thirty yard line, then you know, I'm off
Speaker 6: for it. Like I want our Like I as much
Speaker 6: as I want to be out there for every single
Speaker 6: play I play quarterback if they let me. But I
Speaker 6: think that I think that job is pretty much taken.
Speaker 6: I think I was pretty much spoken for. But just
Speaker 6: as a competitor, I want to be out there for
Speaker 6: every single rep possible.
Speaker 4: But as a teammate, I want.
Speaker 6: To see us succeed as a as a raven I
Speaker 6: want to see the Ravens win.
Speaker 4: And that's what's important to me.
Speaker 8: It doesn't just given have the last couple of weeks
Speaker 8: to have gone just to have that fifty one yarder
Speaker 8: go through and you go two for two today, just
Speaker 8: kind of how much.
Speaker 4: Confidence does I give you, you know, going into the
Speaker 4: last couple of weeks of.
Speaker 2: The season, then going into the postseason.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for what it's worth, I still have the exact
Speaker 6: same amount of confidence that I did a week ago,
Speaker 6: or two weeks ago, or three weeks ago. Sometimes it just,
Speaker 6: you know, in the wise words of Treill Suggs, sometimes
Speaker 6: it just be like that and the ball comes off
Speaker 6: your foot and it does not go exactly where you
Speaker 6: want it every single time. Now, like I've said before,
Speaker 6: I take it really really personally, and you know, as
Speaker 6: much as I try to stay positive about it, it's
Speaker 6: very real that, you know, I kind of lean into
Speaker 6: the negative reinforcement sometimes, you know, I tell I tell myself, like,
Speaker 6: you have to make this kick if you are worth
Speaker 6: anything to this team, Like if you're worth anything to
Speaker 6: your teammates, all the work that you've put in, Like,
Speaker 6: you have to make this kick.
Speaker 4: Like you don't have a choice.
Speaker 6: So, you know, I'm kind of trying to, you know,
Speaker 6: toe that line and just remain sane, which is easier
Speaker 6: said than done, you know, given the nature of the
Speaker 6: pressures that come with playing in this league. But at
Speaker 6: the exact same time, I've got great teammates, I've got
Speaker 6: great coaches, we've got a great organization, you know, So
Speaker 6: just as far as our confidence goes, that's never waned.
Speaker 6: It's just a matter of you know, seeing the results,
Speaker 6: seeing our work come to fruition in a significant way,
Speaker 6: like it like it did tonight. That was that was meaningful.
Speaker 6: That was meaningful for us. So I'm glad to have
Speaker 6: gone out there and played well. Nick did a really
Speaker 6: good job snapping the ball. Jordan's been doing a really
Speaker 6: good job holding the ball. Both those guys have been
Speaker 6: doing an excellent job. So to see all of us
Speaker 6: come together and perform the way that we are accustomed
Speaker 6: to is it's a good feeling and it's meaningful to us.
Speaker 4: Was dying a lot going from left to right? What
Speaker 4: do you did? You make any.
Speaker 6: Adjustments as as far as adjustments go to get the
Speaker 6: ball to get more distance out of the ball, that's
Speaker 6: kind of a you know, case by case that that
Speaker 6: that adjustment would be made on a case by case basis.
Speaker 6: So if we're out there attempting a fifty five fifty
Speaker 6: six yarder, then you know, I might have to drive
Speaker 6: that ball just a little bit and you know, lower
Speaker 6: the trajectory just to to get the ball to cut
Speaker 6: through the wind, which was pretty significant tonight about Boswell's
Speaker 6: fifty one yard of going to the right of our
Speaker 6: bench was a very impressive kick and he nailed that one.
Speaker 6: But anytime we line up a kick from wherever we
Speaker 6: are on the field, the most important thing is making
Speaker 6: good foot the ball contact, and we were able to
Speaker 6: do that tonight.
Speaker 10: Next up is center Tyler Linderball.
Speaker 18: Just the past games that I've been a part of
Speaker 18: with these guys is they do a great job of
Speaker 18: causing turnovers, physical.
Speaker 4: Team getting to the ball.
Speaker 18: But we knew what we were capable of just you know,
Speaker 18: executing and executing.
Speaker 4: Our game plan.
Speaker 18: We have tremendous you know, skill players and players on
Speaker 18: this team that.
Speaker 4: Can get the job done.
Speaker 18: You know how we saw that tonight of you know
Speaker 18: what we're capable of doing when we play you know,
Speaker 18: good execution football.
Speaker 5: How essential did you think it was that you ran
Speaker 5: the ball as well as you did in the first half.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I think it's always an important in the first
Speaker 18: half to kind of set that, you know, tempo in
Speaker 18: the run game.
Speaker 4: Just being effective in the run game.
Speaker 18: You always want to do that. I think a lot
Speaker 18: offenses will tell you that's her that's their goal. So
Speaker 18: you know, it's just allows you to open up more things.
Speaker 18: You know, it's when the team has to stop the run,
Speaker 18: they got to bring more guys in the box.
Speaker 8: So how emotional was that swing of Lamar throw the
Speaker 8: interception to Marlon getting.
Speaker 4: To pick six.
Speaker 18: Yeah, that's crazy, you know obviously as a you know,
Speaker 18: I'm sure that will be the first one to tell
Speaker 18: you know, we can't do that down in the red zone.
Speaker 18: But you know that's just complementary and football. We turn
Speaker 18: the ball over defense two plays later to get a
Speaker 18: pick six. It's just, you know, something's happened for a reason,
Speaker 18: and just a great play for by Marlow.
Speaker 11: Obviously a very physical game when these two teams match up.
Speaker 11: I mean, as an offensive lineman, how proud are.
Speaker 4: You to see you guys run for over two hundred yards.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it's you know, it's a it's a good accomplishment.
Speaker 18: But you know, just we've got a quick turn around,
Speaker 18: you know, another tough team on Wednesday, and just got
Speaker 18: to enjoy this. But you know, there's still a lot
Speaker 18: of things that.
Speaker 2: We can get better at.
Speaker 18: But you know, if you had two hundred yards on
Speaker 18: the ground, especially against the defense like that, you know
Speaker 18: you're doing some good things.
Speaker 14: How much you like, how much you know much was
Speaker 14: made this week about mistakes and teams in the past
Speaker 14: against this team, mistakes, some kind of snowball, and how
Speaker 14: much you talk during the week about resilience and bouncing
Speaker 14: back if you.
Speaker 4: Do make some mistakes. Yeah, I think it.
Speaker 18: You know, just we're in the time of the year
Speaker 18: where you know it's it's gonna be tough to blow
Speaker 18: out teams. You know games are gonna be close, you
Speaker 18: turnovers are gonna happen. It's just how you respond. No,
Speaker 18: and emphasis this week was for sure, taking care of
Speaker 18: the football. Taking care of football was a number one priority.
Speaker 18: You know we didn't We didn't do that until a
Speaker 18: hundred percent of what we wanted to do. But you know,
Speaker 18: just just something to keep improving on.
Speaker 4: And our defense had our back.
Speaker 1: Lastly, we heard from cornerback Marlon Humphrey, who had the
Speaker 1: game ceiling pick six in this victory. It's a big
Speaker 1: week for Marlin and he talked about that after the winter.
Speaker 2: What did you see on the pick six?
Speaker 4: I was right there by the guy and rus Konda
Speaker 4: he kind of threw it to me and then I
Speaker 4: was running. I want to make this like pretty clear
Speaker 4: when I was running with the football, I saw David
Speaker 4: A Jobo a really great team at the mine, and
Speaker 4: I was I was trying to pitch him the football.
Speaker 4: So some people brought up to me that it looked
Speaker 4: like tawning or something. But I was trying to pitch
Speaker 4: in the football and there's no tonning there at all.
Speaker 4: I just want to make that very clear. And the
Speaker 4: job was a great guy. I want to pitch to him,
Speaker 4: so and then I got an end zone and it
Speaker 4: was good.
Speaker 17: So when you talk about not making mistakes in this rivalry,
Speaker 17: for you to get that pick six two plays after
Speaker 17: your guy's own interception, did you feel the momentum kind
Speaker 17: of swing back in your favorite at U.
Speaker 6: J like that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know. At ye, right before we went out,
Speaker 4: we were talking about let's get the ball back on defense.
Speaker 4: You know, that's kind of the what we were the
Speaker 4: conversation we were having on the field, and to be
Speaker 4: able to get the ball back to really die out
Speaker 4: that momentum it was. It was, Uh, it was a
Speaker 4: good time for somebody to make a play. Ron What
Speaker 4: did you see on our Darius's man? I I looked
Speaker 4: up and Russ was kind of running with a lot
Speaker 4: of green grass, and I hona, I was kind of
Speaker 4: come and thinking our dares didn't have the the best
Speaker 4: angle to to make that play, and then he he
Speaker 4: forced that and that I mean that was a huge play. Uh,
Speaker 4: that was a huge play to make my ad. I
Speaker 4: think it uh that that touchdown happening or that forced one,
Speaker 4: what happened really swing the game. I think that was
Speaker 4: probably the biggest player the game.
Speaker 13: Martin talk about the ups and downs to the other defense,
Speaker 13: but you know, public Shi sad since Mons the defense
Speaker 13: get more turnovers for you guess can have those two
Speaker 13: turnovers and the bear those game is kind of what's
Speaker 13: to say about what did you guys have?
Speaker 4: And resiliency of script shows. Yeah, you know, we were
Speaker 4: obviously we were not playing good football at the beginning
Speaker 4: of the year, but when you look across the league,
Speaker 4: the only difference that was really killing us. We had
Speaker 4: double digit drop picks, not not taking the ball away
Speaker 4: with Ford fumbles and strip sacks, So that was that
Speaker 4: was kind of a big thing. You know, sometimes, you know,
Speaker 4: defenses can be known for getting turnovers, but that doesn't
Speaker 4: always mean you're a good defense. But when you're not
Speaker 4: playing well and you're not getting turnovers. It's just a
Speaker 4: recipe for disaster. And I think playing more sound defense,
Speaker 4: getting turnovers here and there, you know you can get
Speaker 4: to a game you're gonna be really successful. And that's
Speaker 4: that's something Zach Gore has been preaching every day, every day,
Speaker 4: every day practice practice. I'm telling guys, it's visualize your stuff,
Speaker 4: punching battle, VISUALI you stuf picking the ball, even when
Speaker 4: we've gonn walk through and can still visualize these things.
Speaker 4: And I think it's been what we've been doing in practice,
Speaker 4: what we've been doing in the coaching. It seems like
Speaker 4: it's paying off.
Speaker 2: As good as you've been for as long as you
Speaker 2: have to get let's.
Speaker 5: Be your first pick six or your career.
Speaker 2: I mean, I imagine you thought that what it would
Speaker 2: feel like.
Speaker 4: I feel, yeah, it felt good. I actually, you know,
Speaker 4: I think I put my goals for this year a
Speaker 4: little too low.
Speaker 6: I have.
Speaker 4: I think I had on their six interceptions and one
Speaker 4: fig and some forest fumbles. I can't remember everything, but
Speaker 4: it it really feels good to be able to go
Speaker 4: get a pick, get an end zone, and coming into
Speaker 4: this game had zero interception yards. So I was like, man,
Speaker 4: I Hopefully I'm not the first guy to have five
Speaker 4: or six picked with zero yards. So it was good
Speaker 4: to try to get that uh average up.
Speaker 3: And in that moment when you had to have a
Speaker 3: play after you could turn over.
Speaker 2: The momentum just swung and seemed back to them to
Speaker 2: steal it back. What does that mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was good. It was big. Uh you know,
Speaker 4: that's what you want to be able to do, uh,
Speaker 4: to to put out that fire. You know, our offenses
Speaker 4: built us out so many times over the past. You know,
Speaker 4: we give up a touchdown, then they go score. It
Speaker 4: felt good to be able to return that favor complimentary football.
Speaker 4: Obviously the mar is gonna be pissed even through it,
Speaker 4: but you know, we we wanna have those guys back
Speaker 4: as much as they've had our backs.
Speaker 8: Quick time just kind of how do you what are
Speaker 8: these next couple of days look like for for you
Speaker 8: guys already trouble.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a super quick turnaround. I just everybody's got
Speaker 4: you kind of got to enjoy this one for a
Speaker 4: couple hours. Hopefully everybody does a little stretch to night.
Speaker 4: I just did mine. I might a swing about the
Speaker 4: facility tonight, but a super quick turnaround. You really gotta
Speaker 4: be a pro in order to have success when you
Speaker 4: got those quick turnarounds. That starts with recovery and mental work,
Speaker 4: a lot more iPad work and different things. So we
Speaker 4: we've handled a couple of thirds in night games, a
Speaker 4: couple tight stretches like pros, and I think we will
Speaker 4: continue to do that. You've been really candim this year
Speaker 4: about the defense and the status of it.
Speaker 10: How do you feel where the defense is going now
Speaker 10: after this performance?
Speaker 4: I just think we just got to continue to put
Speaker 4: in the work and practice, continue to be vocal, continue
Speaker 4: to just strive for greatness, cause you know, I think
Speaker 4: it's it's just different when you put on that Ravens jersey.
Speaker 4: The standard of defense, it's got to be it. The
Speaker 4: the bar set really high, and I feel like obviously
Speaker 4: it was we dropped it earlier, but now that we've
Speaker 4: been emphasizing it more and we really taking it upon
Speaker 4: the players, cause I felt like the calls, we just
Speaker 4: were not executing the calls that if you go through
Speaker 4: a lot of the plays, you look at each time
Speaker 4: there's a big play, somebody's not doing their job. So
Speaker 4: it's good. The adjustments really kind of been simple. Just
Speaker 4: eleven guys are now doing their job and success has
Speaker 4: been coming.
Speaker 2: I beg, was it for the coach again?
Speaker 4: The game ball to you?
Speaker 2: Your son?
Speaker 4: Your name born Suner. Oh yeah, man, it's always good
Speaker 4: to get a game ball. So super excited about that.
Speaker 4: I got my little speech that guys know me as
Speaker 4: long winded, so I tried to make it short.
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