Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens are
Speaker 1: coming off a twenty to ten victory over the La
Speaker 1: Chargers on prime time Sunday night Football.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: This is the bye week for the Ravens and head
Speaker 1: coach John Harball talked about that win and what he's
Speaker 1: going to be focused on during the spy Welcome back.
Speaker 3: You look great.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 4: That's what no sleep looks like.
Speaker 3: It really does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 4: It's right good to see everybody. This is what no
Speaker 4: sleep looks like. But a happy It's a very happy
Speaker 4: no sleep. Everybody's pleased with the outcome and really just
Speaker 4: got to work as soon as we got back in
Speaker 4: went to work on the game and then making our
Speaker 4: plans for the rest of the week. Is a staff players,
Speaker 4: some players are to check in other players we've given
Speaker 4: them the week off. So that's where we're at right now,
Speaker 4: and we're looking forward to preparing for the next five
Speaker 4: weeks of the regular season and if we do a
Speaker 4: good job beyond that. So what questions you have.
Speaker 2: Then I can't recall from much of the bat. Is
Speaker 2: it pretty standard we give this whole week.
Speaker 5: And what way it kind of for that decision.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of moved that way the last couple
Speaker 4: of years. You know, five weeks have gotten shorter, I
Speaker 4: think compared to what they used to be. Heck, you
Speaker 4: used to be there the whole week until like Friday,
Speaker 4: you know, and you have the opportunity to come back
Speaker 4: possibly Monday, Tuesday, even Wednesday if you wanted to. We
Speaker 4: haven't done that for a while, but it just seemed
Speaker 4: like the right thing. You know, we're twelve weeks into
Speaker 4: the season. I don't think we would have gained as
Speaker 4: much from practicing as we would from you know, resting basically.
Speaker 4: So let the guys get away and kind of regroup,
Speaker 4: you know, physically even spiritually a little bit, and just
Speaker 4: heal up and get ready for what's what's ahead.
Speaker 6: Last night, apologize because I was not. There was there
Speaker 6: an administrating issue with the spots or with those challenges
Speaker 6: that weren't made. When you go back and watch it,
Speaker 6: do you wish the challenges hadn't made or what happened there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, there were administrative issues even on the field goals.
Speaker 4: I mean, the field goals were running down on us
Speaker 4: every single time we had the one delay a game.
Speaker 4: That was odd. You know, the guys are pretty much
Speaker 4: in the same rhythm. So we were struggling with the
Speaker 4: administrators administrative aspect of the of the play's prematurehole game.
Speaker 4: But we would look back and look at the challenges,
Speaker 4: not really, I mean the one on the sideline with Lamar,
Speaker 4: we looked at that closely this morning. We didn't have
Speaker 4: the views that you had later on TV. We didn't
Speaker 4: have those before the next play, you know where they
Speaker 4: spliced together the angles, and it didn't look like on
Speaker 4: the angle we had during the game that we would
Speaker 4: win it, And going back and looking at the spliced angle,
Speaker 4: we wouldn't have won it. I mean, they're not going
Speaker 4: to overturn that with what the angles that they had,
Speaker 4: so that would have cost us the time out and
Speaker 4: we would have been out of challenges. The other one
Speaker 4: we thought was a first down. I mean everybody in
Speaker 4: the stadium thought that was a first down. It came
Speaker 4: on TV. In our press box is a first down,
Speaker 4: and we thought he pointed first down, so we called
Speaker 4: a we called him, we called a first down play there.
Speaker 4: So we wasted to play on that one administratively. So
Speaker 4: that was one you'd like to have back. We regret
Speaker 4: the fact that we didn't realize that they marked it
Speaker 4: short as we looked at it. It shouldn't have been
Speaker 4: marked short. They should have caught it upstairs anyway with
Speaker 4: the replay official, but they didn't, So we'll take responsibility
Speaker 4: for that. That's one that we thought was a first down.
Speaker 4: As far as the one, the one we did challenge.
Speaker 4: You think that was the right challenge. You know, you
Speaker 4: did the best you could. We didn't have the view
Speaker 4: of it stopped start and it ended up being straight across.
Speaker 4: Even so, you know, that's a seventeen yard play on
Speaker 4: third and long. That's a high leverage type opportunity. You've
Speaker 4: got to challenge that one in that situation. So I
Speaker 4: think looking back, we probably did the right thing. I
Speaker 4: know we did the right things given the information we had,
Speaker 4: and even looking back on were.
Speaker 7: There when you look back at it now, where there's
Speaker 7: some communication, maybe breakdowns. You're in a foreign stadium, you're
Speaker 7: not in your home stadium, So sometimes those things weren't
Speaker 7: in a weird way.
Speaker 5: I mean, was there situations where maybe you weren't able
Speaker 5: to get the answer you were looking for in terms
Speaker 5: of a first down or a certain call or situation.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I don't get the view, you know, even
Speaker 4: on TV, like we have a TV monitor up in
Speaker 4: the box, but you don't get you get what the
Speaker 4: TV gives you. So there's not there's nothing on the
Speaker 4: screens in the stadium that they're giving you like they
Speaker 4: would at home.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And those are all plays, you know, going to the
Speaker 4: line of scrimmage quickly.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you don't. You don't get all the information
Speaker 4: that you'd like to have for sure, But we had,
Speaker 4: we had the information looking back on it, really, I
Speaker 4: mean honestly, now, I'd tell you if I thought we
Speaker 4: should or shouldn't have challenged it, and we would not
Speaker 4: have won that challenge on the mar you know. And
Speaker 4: we can all look at it and say, I think
Speaker 4: he got the first down. I'd like to say, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think he got the ball over inside, But what
Speaker 4: are they going to turn over? And we study that
Speaker 4: and we look and see what they turn over? Why
Speaker 4: what they see And we're pretty good at knowing what
Speaker 4: they're going to turn over with they're not. And you
Speaker 4: couldn't we lose a timeout and a and a and
Speaker 4: a challenge there that would that could have hurt us
Speaker 4: at the end of the game. So hindsight even I
Speaker 4: really feel like that was the right decision not to challenge.
Speaker 4: I mean, I want to get the first down there,
Speaker 4: but you know that's just the way it went.
Speaker 7: John, How did Ronnie Stanley get out of the game,
Speaker 7: And just knowing he's dealt with that right in me
Speaker 7: a couple of different times this year. You know, how
Speaker 7: beneficial do you think this by week can be for
Speaker 7: him to try to get him as close to full
Speaker 7: strength of the rest of the way as you can.
Speaker 4: I do think that it's going to be beneficial for him,
Speaker 4: you know. I mean, it's it's something that's been you know,
Speaker 4: I mean it's it's it's not been great. You know,
Speaker 4: it's I think he'd probably be the first to tell
Speaker 4: you it's not been great. He needs just he needs
Speaker 4: to get stronger, and he's get his technique right, and
Speaker 4: he's got out practice and and to keep growing back
Speaker 4: into you know, his his he's a great player. You know,
Speaker 4: we want to get him back to playing at that
Speaker 4: high level.
Speaker 5: Talk about because the thirteen games into the season haven't
Speaker 5: had a break traveled internationally.
Speaker 2: You've gone to the West coast. Just how taxing dots
Speaker 2: the season in and helps the beneficial is this.
Speaker 3: By wee can be right?
Speaker 4: Well, yes, I told the guys last night in the
Speaker 4: locker room. I was really I'm really proud of him.
Speaker 4: I think we all are, because they played with a
Speaker 4: high level of energy and it took that kind of
Speaker 4: energy to win. I mean, that's a team that is
Speaker 4: actually a very good football team, very talented team. It
Speaker 4: was a desperate team had to have that win at home,
Speaker 4: and we just played at a high level.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 4: I mean, our guys were playing hard. It was a
Speaker 4: very physical game. And to do that, like you said,
Speaker 4: through the course of this season, with all the travel
Speaker 4: and all tough games you've had, I think it's pretty
Speaker 4: pretty remarkable. I'm really proud of the guys. So this
Speaker 4: is a beneficial time. We're going to try to make
Speaker 4: the most of it, you know, and then be ready
Speaker 4: to roll for what's gonna be the toughest schedule in
Speaker 4: football for the next five weeks.
Speaker 9: Talking about your defense, I they talked about it a
Speaker 9: little bit last night, but I know you guys have
Speaker 9: had better yardage games limiting the opponent. But the way
Speaker 9: you guys played last night, I mean, is that not
Speaker 9: arguably like your best defense at effort of the season.
Speaker 4: You think, yeah, you could say that probably, I mean
Speaker 4: we've had some pretty good ones, you know, but that
Speaker 4: that's a heck of an offense. They challenge in a
Speaker 4: lot of different ways, and you know, you take you
Speaker 4: take away the one quarterback scramble probably and they didn't
Speaker 4: have much, you know, so and then the one long
Speaker 4: drive they had also that and then Jadavian Clowney coming
Speaker 4: up with that. I'm gonna tell you what, I failed
Speaker 4: to mention that last night. Just didn't hit my mind
Speaker 4: that that was that might have been to play of
Speaker 4: the game. I mean, that brush, that sack, that recovery,
Speaker 4: the whole thing was just I mean, I mean just
Speaker 4: a Hall of Fame type play. So even when they
Speaker 4: did get the two longer drives, I think our guys
Speaker 4: stepp up pretty big. They did score on the one unfortunately,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I can make it a good point at.
Speaker 10: Forty four yarder that Tucker missed last night, I think
Speaker 10: this is first miss inside fifty. What do you make
Speaker 10: of the season that he's.
Speaker 3: Had so far.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm Tuck Tuck. That was one he was rushed on.
Speaker 4: I mean, he was rushed on all those field goals
Speaker 4: the whole game. So I'm not making excuses for him.
Speaker 4: You know, he would never accept that. He'll tell you
Speaker 4: he's got to make him under any circumstance. I mean,
Speaker 4: we can't afford to call time out there. I don't
Speaker 4: know why the clock was running so fast, why they
Speaker 4: didn't administer it the way they normally do, but we
Speaker 4: knew after the delayed game on the first one that
Speaker 4: we were going to have to just speed it all
Speaker 4: up and get it off. So it's just a miss.
Speaker 4: He's human, you know, and I'm sure glad we got him.
Speaker 4: Always will be in terms of a kind of this
Speaker 4: is kind of self scouting process.
Speaker 1: Is there a benefit of the vibing as late as
Speaker 1: it is like the identity you know, what's the identity.
Speaker 10: Of the team that's kind on those sides when you
Speaker 10: get to kind of make tweaks for the final stretch
Speaker 10: here from the.
Speaker 4: Regular season right right there, We're gonna make the most
Speaker 4: of it. You know, We've got an opportunity now to
Speaker 4: kind of get to work as a coaching staff this week.
Speaker 4: Look at ourselves, look at our opponents. Try to try
Speaker 4: to drum up some ideas, you know, going down the
Speaker 4: stretch for situational football, there's plenty of areas of all
Speaker 4: three phases that you know, we need to improve. You know,
Speaker 4: we need to get better. There's a lot of things
Speaker 4: we can get better at. You know, I could go
Speaker 4: through the list right now, but I probably don't want to.
Speaker 4: But we've gone through the list already today, and we're
Speaker 4: gonna try to find ways to improve as a as
Speaker 4: a coaching staff, to help our guys and give them
Speaker 4: some more tools going down the stretch, first game, stepping.
Speaker 2: In for Mark after injury. Would you think of Isaiah
Speaker 2: Likely in the job he did yesterday?
Speaker 4: He did great, He did a great job. I just
Speaker 4: you know, he's athletic, man. I mean to see him,
Speaker 4: those are things you guys have all seen in practice
Speaker 4: and training camp and all that in preseason. Uh, that's
Speaker 4: kind of kind of who you thought he was gonna
Speaker 4: be when he got his opportunity. So really proud of him,
Speaker 4: happy for him, and it's gonna he's gonna be able
Speaker 4: to build off that these.
Speaker 3: Guys in a while.
Speaker 5: But is there any updates on the status of David
Speaker 5: a job though and tights out there?
Speaker 4: Yes, David Ajobo had surgery last week late actually in
Speaker 4: LA to repair a partially torn a c L. He
Speaker 4: had to make a decision about it in terms of
Speaker 4: whether to risk it or not, and every every every
Speaker 4: medical expert said to get it fixed because it would
Speaker 4: have said he wanted to play. But even even I
Speaker 4: told him, I said, man, you gotta you gotta get
Speaker 4: that right for the rest of your career because it's
Speaker 4: a clean type of surgery. And he'll be rolling again, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, training camp at the latest, he'll be rolling.
Speaker 4: So that that's what he did. And then what was
Speaker 4: the other one? Tyas is just trying to get the
Speaker 4: knee where he can basically handle the loading, you know,
Speaker 4: swelling and stuff like that. It's just kind of an
Speaker 4: angry knee. I guess that really haven't been told exactly.
Speaker 4: I think it's kind of a little bit of a
Speaker 4: hard one to cipher. That's why we have been able
Speaker 4: to be very clear with it. But when it calms
Speaker 4: down enough, he's going to be back playing. So I
Speaker 4: know he's working toward that, and if and when we
Speaker 4: get him back, it'd be a huge bonus for us.
Speaker 7: Under the complication of that that you only have that
Speaker 7: twenty one day window to play with, so you know,
Speaker 7: you don't want to start his clock, and then you
Speaker 7: realize he's not ready, and then you're kind of in
Speaker 7: a roster bond.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not so much sad as this. He's just
Speaker 4: not ready to start his clock yet, you know, physically.
Speaker 4: So if he was ready to start his clock, I
Speaker 4: think we put him out there and get going with it,
Speaker 4: especially this point in time. But we're just not there
Speaker 4: with the knee.
Speaker 3: Did you come out with.
Speaker 11: Any other unsettled all stuff out of the game, anything
Speaker 11: you're word.
Speaker 2: About over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: Now, John, what do you know of Arthur Mulett six
Speaker 6: months ago versus? What have you learned from him?
Speaker 3: Since?
Speaker 4: Well? I knew he's a pain in the butt playing
Speaker 4: again him, you know, because we played against him quite
Speaker 4: a bit in New Orleans and then Pittsburgh. You know,
Speaker 4: I I I didn't like him at Pittsburgh because I
Speaker 4: thought they lost their nickel. Then all of a sudden
Speaker 4: he's out there playing and I wasn't sure how good
Speaker 4: he was gonna be. Then he turned out to be
Speaker 4: really good, so I was mad about it. And then uh,
Speaker 4: he came here, you know, and I was happy about
Speaker 4: it because he's a tough dude. Man. He's a hard
Speaker 4: playing guy. He brings a lot of sad, a lot
Speaker 4: of energy. He's never satisfied come up with that play
Speaker 4: he made. That sack was a huge play. And it
Speaker 4: wasn't only he had a number of plays. I mean,
Speaker 4: he was out there, he made the most of his time. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's done a great job for so that was a
Speaker 4: that was a great job by our our personnel department.
Speaker 4: On the broadcast last side.
Speaker 1: They talked about Kyle Hamilton and how he's.
Speaker 11: Having a noble caliber, old pro type season.
Speaker 7: What have you seen from his development from the Negos season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen just what you guys have seen. I
Speaker 4: think Gerty's he's been He's been something. You know, He's
Speaker 4: just he's all over the field and he and we
Speaker 4: give him we put more on his plate every single
Speaker 4: week and he and he makes the most of it.
Speaker 4: You know, he cleans his plate. So we'll keep putting
Speaker 4: more on there, you know. And uh, but he's I
Speaker 4: think he's he's kind of a reflection of the whole
Speaker 4: defense right now. They they they're hungry, they want to
Speaker 4: get better, they want more. Uh, they want, they want,
Speaker 4: they hate when they don't, you know, make a play,
Speaker 4: any any type of play, that's.
Speaker 3: What you love.
Speaker 4: Abottom. I think he's kind of him and all the guys,
Speaker 4: they're just kind of in the same mold that way.
Speaker 2: Nice topic wearing there.
Speaker 12: Can you remember a better weekend for the Harball brothers?
Speaker 4: And my dad says it's the best one ever. But
Speaker 4: he always says that, you know, every weekend he says, Oh,
Speaker 4: the thing is, you never had a better win, and
Speaker 4: he goes, but this time it's really true, you know, Uh,
Speaker 4: this time it might be. But uh, now I'm just
Speaker 4: proud of, proud of obviously Jim and and uh and
Speaker 4: that whole team. To see that team come together. I
Speaker 4: see a lot of similarities in the two teams, you know,
Speaker 4: how how bonded together they are, how they really are
Speaker 4: family and you know, through thick and thin. So yeah,
Speaker 4: happy for happy for everybody this weekend.
Speaker 2: What does bye week look for you?
Speaker 4: From now till day? Bye week? Bye week? It'll be
Speaker 4: from now till probably Friday. Yeah Friday for sure, will
Speaker 4: be working full week as coaches, So yeah, I'll be
Speaker 4: in all week doing that. Probably get the weekend you know,
Speaker 4: get away a little bit and probably watch a Big
Speaker 4: ten championship game. I'm not here. I'll watch it here though,
Speaker 4: I'm not going. Yeah, that's about it. It's gonna be simple.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harball. We also had a
Speaker 1: chance to talk with the coordinators today. Let's kick things
Speaker 1: off a specially teams coordinator Chris Horton.
Speaker 3: Good to see everyone today.
Speaker 13: Hope everyone's doing well, especially guys that travel back from
Speaker 13: from the West coast. Appreciate you guys being here. Just
Speaker 13: just looking forward to us throughout this bye week. You know,
Speaker 13: it's a great opportunity for us, for us as coaches
Speaker 13: to kind of dive deep into some of the things
Speaker 13: that you really wouldn't wouldn't have had time to because
Speaker 13: you're doing so much game planning.
Speaker 3: But now I got.
Speaker 13: A full week to kind of really just look at
Speaker 13: ourselves and figure out ways just to get better, really encouraged,
Speaker 13: like I said before, or by what our guys are doing.
Speaker 13: I think our guys are playing hard, our guys are executing,
Speaker 13: but we just gotta we gotta find that consistency. And
Speaker 13: that's the one thing that we're looking for out of
Speaker 13: the out of our units questions, Chris, I.
Speaker 2: Think, uh total now for field goal misses, I think
Speaker 2: it's five.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: Has there been a trend a theme to because you
Speaker 5: know at this point, we don't usually see that that
Speaker 5: many at this point in the season for you guys, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I know, I don't think it's a it's a
Speaker 3: trend or a theme.
Speaker 13: I think, like I said before, every kicks different, right,
Speaker 13: every situation is different, and I think when it comes
Speaker 13: down to what we had, the we had the blocks,
Speaker 13: you know, those things. Those things are fundamental things that
Speaker 13: you know, we as coaches, we can get fixed that,
Speaker 13: we get cleaned up, and then we kind of take
Speaker 13: those things away. As far as as far as the kick,
Speaker 13: you know, those come down to little detailed things. So
Speaker 13: there's a lot of there's a lot of differences in
Speaker 13: between the kicks. But I don't think it's a it's
Speaker 13: a problem. I still think we got the greatest kicker
Speaker 13: in the in football that I could tell you, and
Speaker 13: we'll put them out there. But whenever we need them
Speaker 13: or whenever we say so, so I think we're gonna
Speaker 13: be okay. We'll keep putting them out there and we'll
Speaker 13: keep working it just fine. Tune what we do.
Speaker 6: John said the last night that there was some rush,
Speaker 6: right administrative things, had you guys scrambling or rushing?
Speaker 2: What was that all about?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 3: I think? Well, I think one of the things.
Speaker 13: You know, when those guys get out there, there's a
Speaker 13: lot of there's a lot of nuance to it. Right,
Speaker 13: we score on offense, there's a big play, and there's
Speaker 13: some guys that are on the field goal on the
Speaker 13: field goal team, that are also on the offensive line.
Speaker 13: So if those guys are over there celebrating, then also
Speaker 13: when they spot the ball, all right, what's the play clock?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 13: And honestly, I think we got to just do a
Speaker 13: better job of kind of handling it as well ourselves
Speaker 13: managing the play clock, getting ourselves out there so we're
Speaker 13: not putting ourselves in those situations.
Speaker 3: We go out there, we take our time, we kick
Speaker 3: the ball, we make the kick, you know. So I
Speaker 3: think those are also some things we can take care of.
Speaker 5: Other than that, Do you think certain things operationally need
Speaker 5: to improve around the.
Speaker 2: Kick into I mean, is there too much pressure at
Speaker 2: times along the edges?
Speaker 5: Well, like did you feel that yesterday early in the
Speaker 5: game that a couple of those early kicks, so there's
Speaker 5: a little too much pressure on the edge or now
Speaker 5: are you okay with how the blocking stuff sold?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: I think the block the blockings, the blocking last night
Speaker 3: was great.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 13: I think from the out from the outside view looking
Speaker 13: in on the field that that edge player looks close.
Speaker 13: But when you watch the tape, that guy's that guy's
Speaker 13: nowhere around the ball. So that's he that's easy to
Speaker 13: spot on the tape. And when you sit back and
Speaker 13: you watch the tape, there's there's no pressure. There's no
Speaker 13: pressure there. Our operation has been smooth all year with
Speaker 13: our times and things like that, so those guys are
Speaker 13: getting a kickoff.
Speaker 3: To our to our standard so that that will remain
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 2: But did Justin's knows every little detailed every kick? Did
Speaker 2: he did you talk to him?
Speaker 5: You feel like he mishit the ball? Or do you
Speaker 5: think it was kind of a rush. Do you feel
Speaker 5: like you just a little rushed?
Speaker 3: I think on that last one, the one that he missed,
Speaker 3: he was he felt he felt rush.
Speaker 13: When we look at the play clock in the timing
Speaker 13: of the play with again with the operation, and it's
Speaker 13: one of those things we got to get out there
Speaker 13: and we have to see that play clock.
Speaker 3: You know, that's part of that's part of our jobs,
Speaker 3: part of what Jordan does, part of what he does,
Speaker 3: he sees that play clock. So we're not in those situations.
Speaker 5: Your protection coverage humans have performed starting throws. You know,
Speaker 5: we want to now, especially when it's going up to
Speaker 5: get us some charges from have the top five and
Speaker 5: stuch teams got.
Speaker 3: At next time.
Speaker 13: I thought, you know, I thought last night, outside of
Speaker 13: the outside of the part return we gave up, we
Speaker 13: cover the kick you attacking them inside the twenty right,
Speaker 13: we hadn't put many balls in play.
Speaker 3: We get down there, we cover that ball.
Speaker 13: You know, I think when you watch that, when you
Speaker 13: watch that part return play our guys, we've got guys
Speaker 13: in position.
Speaker 3: We just got to go make those plays. And uh,
Speaker 3: there's some things when those guys get back we'll talk
Speaker 3: about we'll watch. But I think, you know we're doing
Speaker 3: We're doing a good job.
Speaker 13: We've gotten better, we continue to get better, and we
Speaker 13: will get better throughout these next five weeks. There's a
Speaker 13: there's a lot more room for improvement between our guys
Speaker 13: and we'll start to play the kind of ball that
Speaker 13: we want to play.
Speaker 3: We just got to find some consistency. There's some good
Speaker 3: and then we might hit a bump in the rope.
Speaker 13: But we're not We're not like like discouraged by what's
Speaker 13: happening because, uh, these these men are really putting their
Speaker 13: foot forward and giving everything they can, uh with the effort,
Speaker 13: uh with execution, and then there might be a little breakdown.
Speaker 3: So those are things we can get fixed up.
Speaker 6: How frustrated do you get that you ventured this consistency
Speaker 6: two or three times here? How frustrated is that for
Speaker 6: you that it's not there?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: You know, I don't.
Speaker 13: I don't think I necessarily get I don't think I
Speaker 13: necessarily get frustrated. I think I just try to remind
Speaker 13: the guys and what the standard is right and what
Speaker 13: the standard has been. And I think when they understand
Speaker 13: that and we continue to show them.
Speaker 3: That, they'll they'll get to that, they'll get back to
Speaker 3: that level of where we want to get to. So
Speaker 3: I don't I don't think.
Speaker 13: I necessarily get frustrated because it's my job to coach
Speaker 13: them right and try to get them to that to
Speaker 13: that point, and as a as a coach, Uh, that's
Speaker 13: not that's just not that's just not what I do.
Speaker 3: It's just like, hey, we got to do this better,
Speaker 3: and I know we can do it, so why aren't
Speaker 3: we doing it?
Speaker 13: I kind of asked those kind of questions, like what
Speaker 13: did I say something in the media, and you know,
Speaker 13: I kind of bring it back to me and then
Speaker 13: put it on them when they go out there and play.
Speaker 3: So no, there's no frustration at all.
Speaker 2: Twelve weeks into the season. How would you evaluate Jordan
Speaker 2: scouted the second season?
Speaker 13: Well, you know, again, I think it's it's been it's
Speaker 13: been up and down, you know, and then we're just
Speaker 13: trying to find that. We're just trying to find that
Speaker 13: back put those games back to back. But I think
Speaker 13: Jordan's doing a great job. Last night he punted the ball.
Speaker 13: He punted the ball great. You know that ball was
Speaker 13: two yards from the sideline. You know that's a ball
Speaker 13: we don't want to get back to the field, So
Speaker 13: how can we make that better? I think Jordan's doing
Speaker 13: a great job from year one and year two, and
Speaker 13: I think Randy and Sam have really done a good
Speaker 13: job with him.
Speaker 1: I have a special teams coordinator Chris Horton. Next up
Speaker 1: is offensive coordinator Todd munket, So why would we look like.
Speaker 2: For you and the staff and gat of your self scouting.
Speaker 14: The process, it's been an ongoing thing our self scout.
Speaker 14: Every coach has an area of the game plan, so
Speaker 14: it's a weekly thing we do anyways, but certainly get
Speaker 14: to drill down with a little bit more time tomorrow
Speaker 14: the coaches are work in their areas that they're assigned
Speaker 14: for a game plan and really take a look at
Speaker 14: what we've been kind of who we are, where we
Speaker 14: want to go from here, you know, down the stretch
Speaker 14: five games left and then, uh, you know what we're missing?
Speaker 12: You know what?
Speaker 3: What else?
Speaker 14: What else is out there that we want to build
Speaker 14: off of maybe we've shown maybe that we haven't really
Speaker 14: gotten to so it'll be good. It'll be good for us.
Speaker 12: I know you like to find place everywhere, and you
Speaker 12: spend a lot of time on social kind of give you.
Speaker 14: A time you feel it's it's actually really crazy. You know,
Speaker 14: you feel like you're almost incompetent. You see all this
Speaker 14: good stuff on social media, like why aren't we doing that?
Speaker 14: You know, and all of you say, why aren't you
Speaker 14: doing that? Exactly so, but it's uh, it's fun. You know,
Speaker 14: it's I love watching film. I like watching what other
Speaker 14: people do and then seeing it fits in with what
Speaker 14: we do, you know, and and nobody has the market
Speaker 14: cornered on good football or what it looks like or
Speaker 14: how you can move it, because ultimately what really matters
Speaker 14: is how much the score each week, you know, and
Speaker 14: don't turn it over. So those are the things we're
Speaker 14: constantly working on. I'm joking kind of, but you know,
Speaker 14: it creates ideas, you know, looking what other people do
Speaker 14: and then looking back at what you do. You know
Speaker 14: as much as anything. And then obviously you have your
Speaker 14: strengths and your weaknesses and what you want to play to.
Speaker 6: What did you sense with your first game, I mean
Speaker 6: first game of the season too, but Postmark Andrews looking
Speaker 6: forward the rest of the season not having him, how
Speaker 6: do you think the team did and what's kind of
Speaker 6: the big picture picture there?
Speaker 14: Well, we didn't score enough, you know, we got bogged down.
Speaker 14: We moved it fine, ran the ball well, maybe not
Speaker 14: explosive in the past game as you'd like, left some
Speaker 14: things out there, But I don't think it was a
Speaker 14: matter of you know, not having Mark. I mean, Isaiah
Speaker 14: played fine, you know, and did some good things. I mean,
Speaker 14: that's hard to say when someone's not out there what
Speaker 14: it would have looked like had they been out there.
Speaker 14: I don't I don't know that. I just know that
Speaker 14: we're lucky to have Isaiah and he did a good
Speaker 14: job the other night. He's going to continue to grow
Speaker 14: as a player. We just got to continue to figure
Speaker 14: out how we're gonna use the other pieces that we
Speaker 14: do have. I mean, that's probably the biggest thing.
Speaker 3: How do you think Ryan's been dealing with some injuries?
Speaker 2: How do you think he's been dealing with that?
Speaker 11: And how compete are you that trying to get back
Speaker 11: to the level that you guys.
Speaker 9: Wanted to be at.
Speaker 3: I think that's more of a question for Ronnie, you know. Again,
Speaker 3: credit to him.
Speaker 14: He's he's tried to work through it and come back,
Speaker 14: and for the team, certainly, he would probably say it's
Speaker 14: not at where his need wants to be, you know,
Speaker 14: but he's continued to work through it, and like I said,
Speaker 14: each week it's getting stronger, you know, and he's been
Speaker 14: able to fight through it. So again, again it'll be
Speaker 14: more of a question for Ronnie than it would be
Speaker 14: for us, you know. I give him a lot of
Speaker 14: credit for getting out there and continue to play.
Speaker 7: We'll see him from Keaton Mitchell and you know, what's
Speaker 7: the next step for him in terms of you know, blitz,
Speaker 7: pick up past protection. I guess those parts of the
Speaker 7: of the game for a running back that don't involve
Speaker 7: him having the ball.
Speaker 14: That's a great question, you know. With each week, well
Speaker 14: I shouldn't say that. You know, this week we got
Speaker 14: him a little bit more involved. You know, he had
Speaker 14: more snaps. That was as he gets more and more comfortable,
Speaker 14: we get more and more comfortable with him and certain
Speaker 14: personnel groupings we get him in there. He's certainly going
Speaker 14: to only continue to get better with reps, especially like
Speaker 14: you said, in terms of the past protection, some of
Speaker 14: the detail things handing the ball off him is probably
Speaker 14: the least of that. You know, it's really in terms
Speaker 14: of past protection, route running, you know, and then assignment wise.
Speaker 14: But he's been fine with that, just a matter of
Speaker 14: reps out on that.
Speaker 10: Fourth down play call to Gus Edwards, the direct snap
Speaker 10: went into that play call and what do you think
Speaker 10: of the execution?
Speaker 14: Well, it didn't work so obviously it uh, you know,
Speaker 14: didn't go as planned. I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 14: things we could have done better. It was a speed
Speaker 14: break for us. Ronnie got hurt. We didn't get Za
Speaker 14: subbed off the field in time, so that started it
Speaker 14: off on the wrong foot. Okay, we we weren't able
Speaker 14: to break the huddle. We allowed them to get their
Speaker 14: cleats in the dirt, get aligned properly. That happened to
Speaker 14: us in London. We had an opportunity there one time
Speaker 14: when when when Ronnie got hurt, or not Ronnie but
Speaker 14: another player, Morgan, So that started it. You know, Gus
Speaker 14: was a little deep and we got to keep it
Speaker 14: up inside and uh you know again, but that's nothing.
Speaker 14: Didn't work. I mean we've been repping that for a
Speaker 14: couple of weeks and it didn't work. So it is
Speaker 14: what it is, you know what I mean. I mean
Speaker 14: anything that we call that doesn't work, I mean you don't.
Speaker 14: Got to do it better, got to coach it better,
Speaker 14: gotta got to execute better.
Speaker 11: How do you alluded to the deck with the explosive
Speaker 11: past players didn't connect a lot, maybe especially against pressure.
Speaker 11: Why why did you think that was the case when
Speaker 11: you went back and looked at it.
Speaker 14: Some of it might have been you know, We tried
Speaker 14: to get it out of his hands a little bit quicker,
Speaker 14: you know, even without you know, Bosa Kalito Max pretty
Speaker 14: good edge rusher. Sometimes it forced us to check it down.
Speaker 14: We had a couple other times we might have had
Speaker 14: opportunities for shots down the field. It just one and
Speaker 14: as the game progressed, we ran the ball a little
Speaker 14: bit more. I mean, it kind of goes hand in hand.
Speaker 14: I don't know what we end up run the ball.
Speaker 14: We ran the ball pretty well. And when you run
Speaker 14: the ball pretty well, it's gonna limit some of your
Speaker 14: opportunities to throw it down the field as much, just
Speaker 14: because you're not throwing it as often. But certainly it's
Speaker 14: got to be a big part of what we do.
Speaker 14: I mean, obviously being explosive and not turning it over.
Speaker 14: And that's what hurt us last night. We ran the
Speaker 14: ball well. We were explosive. Overall, we're explosive. We just
Speaker 14: didn't convert on third downs. So when you're not explosive
Speaker 14: and you're not converting on third downs, you're eventually gonna
Speaker 14: bog down. You're eventually gonna stop because you're not You're
Speaker 14: you're putting yourself in too many third down situations and
Speaker 14: then we weren't converting. So that's what hurt us. I
Speaker 14: mean it was it wasn't a matter of moving the ball.
Speaker 14: There was some execution, some calls that you wish you
Speaker 14: had back. But we certainly are capable of playing better.
Speaker 5: I don't know what is it gonna There's been some
Speaker 5: weeks where you've been as dynamic as anybody offensively, played
Speaker 5: a lot of good offensive games, and there's somewhat games
Speaker 5: like last night. What do you think it's going to
Speaker 5: take to be a little more consistent when you're you know,
Speaker 5: you're facing arguably the toughest remain schedule in football.
Speaker 14: Great question, you know, that's the nature of this league.
Speaker 14: You know, it's very difficult to sustain. That is your goal, obviously,
Speaker 14: to play at an elite level every week, execute at
Speaker 14: a high level in all the critical areas. Obviously, we
Speaker 14: got to coach at better, scheme it, better execute better.
Speaker 14: That's really what it is, you know, and keep continuing
Speaker 14: to build what we want to be or what do
Speaker 14: we want it to look like. So everybody's on the
Speaker 14: same page, you know, and you know just part of it.
Speaker 14: You know, at times, I like a lot of things
Speaker 14: that we're doing, and there's times we just need to
Speaker 14: be better at it, need to call it better, and
Speaker 14: you need to execute better.
Speaker 3: Man's surely what it is. I mean, there's no magic
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 14: We have good enough players, we have good enough coaches.
Speaker 14: Now we just got to consistently do it. And we've
Speaker 14: been pretty good, you know, really since about since Pittsburgh
Speaker 14: other in Tennessee. In the red zone, we've we've been
Speaker 14: pretty good. Certainly can be better. We've gotten better in
Speaker 14: the red zone. We just we've got to get better
Speaker 14: on third downs. We've got to continue to stress to
Speaker 14: be we can be explosive in the past game, but
Speaker 14: for sure we have we can certainly be a lot better.
Speaker 12: Obviously, he scored two touchdowns. With the separation that he's getting,
Speaker 12: do you see more opportunities down the stretch to get
Speaker 12: him more opportunities deep down, deeper down the field, and
Speaker 12: what does he need to do to kind of get
Speaker 12: those those chances.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So.
Speaker 14: We're always trying to look for opportunities for him and
Speaker 14: some of our other players to get the ball down
Speaker 14: the field. Sometimes it didn't present itself. The other night,
Speaker 14: he was certainly in some of those pockets you know,
Speaker 14: certain some of the plays we end up checking the
Speaker 14: ball down to. We were trying to get him down
Speaker 14: the field, and he's a guy you're trying to get
Speaker 14: the ball to in a number of ways. You know,
Speaker 14: where there's space that's good for him, certainly putting it
Speaker 14: down the field. To me, the biggest thing is how
Speaker 14: do you get him the ball in space? It's not
Speaker 14: even so much down the field as you know, where
Speaker 14: can you get him where he's hard to bring down.
Speaker 14: He can turn a short pass into an explosive and
Speaker 14: so those are the things that we're constantly trying to
Speaker 14: work through, as with all of our skilled players.
Speaker 6: John said last night that on the Agalar play that
Speaker 6: everyone in the stadium thought it was a first down.
Speaker 6: We called a play thinking it was a first down.
Speaker 6: What was the kind of chaos of that moment?
Speaker 15: Like for you realizing they didn't give us a first
Speaker 15: down on that?
Speaker 3: It was awful. I didn't know it.
Speaker 14: Well, I wouldn't have called the play that we called
Speaker 14: on third than a foot now, that's on me. That's
Speaker 14: got nothing to do with the official. He spotted it
Speaker 14: like that. He was beyond it the but he was
Speaker 14: pointing you know as to where that was. So that's
Speaker 14: not got nothing to do with them. It's got everything
Speaker 14: with me. You know, the way I saw it, he
Speaker 14: was beyond the first down marker, and by the film
Speaker 14: he was. But that doesn't matter. Officials make mistakes like
Speaker 14: I make mistakes. It's it's the way it is. I
Speaker 14: got to see it that it's third and a foot.
Speaker 14: You know, we went fast off of it, not that
Speaker 14: we couldn't go fast. We spit the ball in the
Speaker 14: perimeter for an RPO and the defender knocked it down
Speaker 14: and like fourth and a foot, you know, and uh,
Speaker 14: you know, like okay, what are we going to now?
Speaker 14: You know, And I'm just telling it like it is.
Speaker 14: You know, You're like, all right, well let's run this,
Speaker 14: all right, and uh you know, luckily gust did a
Speaker 14: great job of getting the foot.
Speaker 3: You know that that probably was that.
Speaker 14: But that's that's that's got nothing to do with the official.
Speaker 14: It's got everything to do with like, you know, how
Speaker 14: I saw it and now they saw it, doesn't matter.
Speaker 14: That's how they saw it, and that's where they spotted
Speaker 14: it came up on the other fourth and one. Lamar
Speaker 14: was close enough on the other one to get in
Speaker 14: the first down and he didn't, you know, So the
Speaker 14: difference was where the official was. That makes it hard
Speaker 14: is that the official where he was at. And I
Speaker 14: don't think this is cable me getting fined. They don't
Speaker 14: find assistant coaches, I don't think. But the reality is
Speaker 14: he was beyond the marker and he was pointing back. Well,
Speaker 14: I don't know what the hell that means, you know
Speaker 14: what I'm saying. He's here and he's pointing.
Speaker 6: Matter.
Speaker 14: Usually the officials well running to the spot and putting
Speaker 14: the foot down, right, he's back here like pointing.
Speaker 3: It's like, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 9: And it hurt.
Speaker 14: It made it even It made it even more. I know,
Speaker 14: I'm going to this whole big thing here. But what
Speaker 14: made it worse was we were going fast. Had we
Speaker 14: not been going fast, based on the play, you would
Speaker 14: have within a matter of five seconds someone said, holy cow,
Speaker 14: where is he spotting it? It just happened to time
Speaker 14: up with going fast and then the spot. You know,
Speaker 14: thank god that wasn't third down to fourth down, you
Speaker 14: know what I'm saying. So we actually got an opportunity
Speaker 14: in fourth down on the.
Speaker 2: Flowers the thirty seven yard touchdown. Before that play, when
Speaker 2: you're talking to Lamar and the head said, do you
Speaker 2: tell them this, remind guys in the huddle if you
Speaker 2: get the first down to get down or should.
Speaker 3: Have gone down.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's I mean, I was thinking about the play
Speaker 14: and when you're doing some of the uh, that's that's
Speaker 14: all on me. I mean, that's an easy one, dub.
Speaker 14: We were doing so much of the quarterback driven that
Speaker 14: you were in my mind like we were so far out.
Speaker 14: I wasn't even thinking about it at the time, you know, like, Okay, shoot,
Speaker 14: I'm trying. You're you're really trying to talk about ball
Speaker 14: security because there's an exchange that occurs. Really, like, the
Speaker 14: worst thing that can happen is we put the dang
Speaker 14: thing on the ground. Okay, that's on me. I gotta
Speaker 14: tell them, hey, this is this situation. We get a
Speaker 14: first down, go down, and that's it.
Speaker 5: Works. That would be something you tell a quarter tell everybody.
Speaker 14: We go down, first down, get down. Yeah, that that's
Speaker 14: that's normal. That would have ended the game right there.
Speaker 14: I mean, it's you know that we wouldn't have had
Speaker 14: to see another silly touchdown celebration by Zay, So that
Speaker 14: would have saved us all from that. But you know so,
Speaker 14: But the fact of the matter is you got to
Speaker 14: tell them to get down and the end the game.
Speaker 14: I mean, that's that's what you have to do.
Speaker 3: So that's on me.
Speaker 2: How much time and effort did they put in choreograph
Speaker 2: and the things.
Speaker 3: I guess when you're not it's really sad, isn't it.
Speaker 14: I mean you would think that, you know, and Odell's
Speaker 14: like the first guy in the end zone, like, I mean,
Speaker 14: I didn't know he had that much juice. He'd been
Speaker 14: out half the week, and of course he certainly found
Speaker 14: enough energy to choreograph the end zone celebrations. So but
Speaker 14: now I think, I think gets great. It's fun, guys
Speaker 14: having fun, shows their personalities. I'm certainly not involved. I mean,
Speaker 14: certain things we did weren't nearly as choreographed as those,
Speaker 14: So we have our work cutout for us trying to
Speaker 14: choreograph our offense a hell of a lot closer to
Speaker 14: how they've they've got their wedding I think one and
Speaker 14: then soccer one. You know, I mean, we're obviously behind
Speaker 14: the times in terms of execution, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Curious, obviously you want Mark Andrews out there. But with
Speaker 2: Isaiah likely does his run after catchability his.
Speaker 12: Loosiveness open up more possibilities for the offense to just
Speaker 12: go in a little bit of a different direction with
Speaker 12: that tight end.
Speaker 14: He's a little bit different than Mark. He's got probably
Speaker 14: a little more twitch, you know, he probably you know,
Speaker 14: he probably has a little bit as he develops a
Speaker 14: player to break tackle. He can get to an edge
Speaker 14: a little bit more than Mark. Mark's more of a
Speaker 14: powerful get the ball in his hands like a bull,
Speaker 14: you know what I'm saying, Like run over people and
Speaker 14: I'll muscle you. Whorreseay is a little bit more elusive,
Speaker 14: and as he keeps developing his craft and his depths
Speaker 14: and setting up defenders, he's he's going to be hard
Speaker 14: to handle. It's just a matter of time. It's not
Speaker 14: a matter of if, It's just a matter of when
Speaker 14: when we keep working through that and developing That.
Speaker 1: Was O Todd Mankin And now let's hear from defensive
Speaker 1: core Mike.
Speaker 8: Mcdonomy see every buddy. Shout out to those who made
Speaker 8: the trip back. Looking at a couple much respect. But
Speaker 8: we're in it, so let's bang this out.
Speaker 15: How are we doing.
Speaker 2: Do you have any strong views on touchdown celebrations.
Speaker 8: I was hoping there was just one of them yesterday,
Speaker 8: the second one. I don't know if it was necessary
Speaker 8: or not.
Speaker 1: I just you know, how pleased are you with the
Speaker 1: defense performos last night for four takeaways stem the talented offense?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Well, the most important thing is winning the game, and
Speaker 8: you know, we talked about how we wanted to play,
Speaker 8: and definitely the guys.
Speaker 15: The guys did that, you know, trying to get in
Speaker 15: the start start fast.
Speaker 8: Obviously, takeaways a a a paramount of points throughout the
Speaker 8: entire season, but to actually come to fruition, especially against
Speaker 8: that offense who hasn't really turned the ball over over
Speaker 8: the course of the year, it was great to see
Speaker 8: you us attacking the football, handling the situations.
Speaker 15: I thought.
Speaker 8: Really, the thing that goes I noticed is the poise
Speaker 8: that the guys had throughout the game given the situation.
Speaker 8: I was proud of and I just turned the tape on.
Speaker 8: You're really proud of the effort and the physicality, and
Speaker 8: you know, there's things we're gonna always be chasing execution wise,
Speaker 8: but we're right there, you know, so we're in a
Speaker 8: good spot.
Speaker 15: Going into the by Howilton playing. He's playing really really
Speaker 15: good football.
Speaker 8: He's a special player and he can do just about
Speaker 8: anything on a football field, and we ask a lot
Speaker 8: of them and we're just we're very excited to have him.
Speaker 15: But he's playing at a high level right now.
Speaker 5: Was there a time Obviously, players make jumps from yere
Speaker 5: one a year or two, so there's a natural progression there.
Speaker 2: But was there a time where you kind.
Speaker 5: Of start to see a click with him where you
Speaker 5: could tell he just looked like a different player and
Speaker 5: how he was moving and just the way he was
Speaker 5: playing with confidence.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's an interesting question. I don't know if I
Speaker 15: can pinpoint a time.
Speaker 8: I mean, he definitely had some comfort, you know, filling
Speaker 8: in the nickel spot last year, moving closer to the football,
Speaker 8: you know, the off season is probably the best best
Speaker 8: way I can pinpoint it. Uh being able to play
Speaker 8: both positions and we're really cooking them at safety and
Speaker 8: was able to make some plays on the ball throughout
Speaker 8: camp and just really felt them out there.
Speaker 15: So that's probably the answer.
Speaker 6: Kind of exposing too much of your strategy thought process.
Speaker 6: I'm that final fourth down molect comes in on untouched
Speaker 6: what's going through your mind prior to that play and trying.
Speaker 2: To attack them.
Speaker 8: Shoot, I mean, we're I think in that situation we
Speaker 8: were trying to throw our fastball, and you know, we
Speaker 8: talk about what we want to be going forward and
Speaker 8: staying aggressive. So that was that was a call we
Speaker 8: had and for that, you know, that particular situation, and
Speaker 8: you know, honestly, it's a shout out to the guys.
Speaker 8: You know, you get the call in fast. We talked
Speaker 8: about an early call is always a good call, so
Speaker 8: the guys can go play and all across the board,
Speaker 8: all eleven, like, the execution was just to a t
Speaker 8: on how we wanted it and just you know, proud
Speaker 8: to Arthur not jumping in that situation, naming for the
Speaker 8: high shoulder and mirrored the throwing hand, did all the
Speaker 8: things we coach him to do and really took advantage
Speaker 8: of the situation.
Speaker 15: So but you look, you can go through each each of.
Speaker 8: The eleven guys in that situation and they're they're doing
Speaker 8: it exactly how we want it to be done. And
Speaker 8: you do that in critical situations, you know, you got
Speaker 8: a great chance to close out games.
Speaker 12: I'm curious about the Patrick Kean play when we had
Speaker 12: an open lane at the quarterback and he veered off
Speaker 12: and still set the kind of the pick for the stunt.
Speaker 12: As a coach or you're like, wow, man wa had
Speaker 12: to execute the play.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's actually happened a couple of times over
Speaker 8: the last year or two, and you know, we say
Speaker 8: we don't want to dishonor to the organization by aboarding
Speaker 8: the pick, and he hasn't decided the organization yet. So
Speaker 8: shout out to p Q in those situations if when
Speaker 8: you understand the protection schemes that you're getting, you know,
Speaker 8: go ahead and make your layups. But he's doing we're
Speaker 8: asked to do when he's trying to set his teammate up.
Speaker 8: So shout out to Peak.
Speaker 1: You going back to the blet, how's Michael Pierce drop
Speaker 1: back on that one?
Speaker 10: It's kind of what's the thought?
Speaker 1: You know, how do you think through that when you
Speaker 1: have a defensive tackle drop back and coverage and you
Speaker 1: know when you tell Michael, hey, I'm this player and
Speaker 1: be dropping the coverage as you say, in those situations, oh.
Speaker 8: For that that particular technique, I think Pierce's probably the
Speaker 8: best guy we have at doing it.
Speaker 15: And mean he's a really underrated athlete. Uh.
Speaker 8: I think it goes back to our philosophy of we're
Speaker 8: trying to we want everybody to be able to blitz drop.
Speaker 8: I mean it's it's fluid, right, and having the threat
Speaker 8: of being able to bring pressure from both sides up
Speaker 8: the middle, you know, overload a side.
Speaker 15: That particular scheme asked him to drop.
Speaker 8: And uh, he's got he's got his rule and he
Speaker 8: and he executed his rule and he's stood right where
Speaker 8: he should be standing and shoot, almost picked the ball off.
Speaker 15: It's closer.
Speaker 8: I actually I didn't realize it in real time, but
Speaker 8: watching him back on the on the coaches copy, I
Speaker 8: realized it was pretty close to getting his hand on
Speaker 8: the football, which had been pretty pick But say the
Speaker 8: play worked out in our favor.
Speaker 6: Like I asked John this, but what did you know
Speaker 6: of Arthur will let say, six eight months ago, and
Speaker 6: now that he's been here, how have you identified like
Speaker 6: his skill set?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean I knew he played some really good
Speaker 8: football for Pittsburgh, and you know, you see that kind
Speaker 8: of stuff on crossover tape. And then when it became
Speaker 8: you know, known to us that we were interested in
Speaker 8: bringing him in. Uh, you know, just trust us, trust
Speaker 8: the scouts and the personnel guys and George and Eric,
Speaker 8: and they really liked him and we brought him in
Speaker 8: and he kind of just hit the ground running. But
Speaker 8: he's a competitive guy and he brings a lot of
Speaker 8: energy on on the edge of the defense. And like
Speaker 8: the way it shook out last last night with the reps,
Speaker 8: I didn't get a lot of reps early, but he
Speaker 8: stayed ready and when we called his number towards the
Speaker 8: end of the game, I mean, he he executed a
Speaker 8: high level.
Speaker 15: So that's all you can ask. So, you know, it
Speaker 15: just it speaks the whole defense.
Speaker 8: All eleven guys playing together, you're gonna have an opportunity
Speaker 8: to step up and make plays, you know, when their
Speaker 8: time comes, and just just comes from doing your job
Speaker 8: and executing one play at a time.
Speaker 15: And he's done that is.
Speaker 11: It amazing when you step back and think about it,
Speaker 11: how much you guys improved your defense with guys you
Speaker 11: added in leap July August, September. You know, I mean
Speaker 11: people probably traditionally think of teams as set going into
Speaker 11: training camp, but if you think about the contributors that
Speaker 11: you added.
Speaker 9: In those months.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think, you know, you think when you're listening
Speaker 8: to your question, I think Eric and Ozzie over the
Speaker 8: years talking about your roster's never really set throughout the
Speaker 8: course of the season, and I think that's his philosoph
Speaker 8: organization is just trying to always improve, I prove the team,
Speaker 8: and we've done a great job at targeting guys that
Speaker 8: can come in and be productive for us, and you know,
Speaker 8: and then we kind of take it from there. But
Speaker 8: obviously we're excited to always take on great players. We're
Speaker 8: never going to turn down great players.
Speaker 4: Mike.
Speaker 7: Along those lines, Clearly, you guys didn't draw it up
Speaker 7: to have Marlin miss as much time as he did,
Speaker 7: you know, leading up to the bye week. But how
Speaker 7: much of a credit is it to the guys that
Speaker 7: have filled in for him that you still played such
Speaker 7: high level pass defense And what does it say about
Speaker 7: maybe even even being able to hit a higher level
Speaker 7: get Marlin back healthy for the stretch run.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think those guys they deserve a lot of
Speaker 8: credit for I mean, it's been seamless, and it's just
Speaker 8: it's it's the attitude we have as a defense. We're
Speaker 8: not batting an eye We're not flinching. We got a
Speaker 8: lot of great players in that rooms. I've talked to
Speaker 8: you know, you know in prior meetings, but you know,
Speaker 8: this is whoever's ready for that week, let's roll. You know,
Speaker 8: they know their role, you know, understand the game plan.
Speaker 8: You know, there's a lot of guys that could have
Speaker 8: gone in the game last night. We had a lot
Speaker 8: of confidence in just didn't shake out that way. And
Speaker 8: then when Marlins comes back, then it shoot, I mean again,
Speaker 8: an elite corner in this league. He's done it for
Speaker 8: a long time at a high level, and I'm just
Speaker 8: excited for him to be healthy and doing this thing
Speaker 8: out there, like so many.
Speaker 12: Different defensive metrics to close a game out like you
Speaker 12: did last night, what do you feel like that does
Speaker 12: for the for the defense as a whole. Is that
Speaker 12: something that can you know, carry over and be kind
Speaker 12: of a building block to finishing more games?
Speaker 8: Well, Steff, your point emphasis you know, for the last
Speaker 8: couple of years, you know, and the more you're in
Speaker 8: those situations, the better it means you got the lead
Speaker 8: late in the game. So we want to be in
Speaker 8: those situations. And uh, it's something we've obviously talked about
Speaker 8: because of you know, the wave games of shucking shaken
Speaker 8: out of the last year or two. But yeah, once,
Speaker 8: you know, once you do it, and you do it
Speaker 8: a couple of times. You know, we had a couple
Speaker 8: of chances to close the Indianapolis game out, and you
Speaker 8: know we want more of them, you know, we want
Speaker 8: more of them so we can keep keep contributing to
Speaker 8: wins here just MEVK.
Speaker 2: I think we all kind of saw the poudential over
Speaker 2: the years, and I've seen him improve every year. Why
Speaker 2: do you think he made the big jump this year
Speaker 2: to what.
Speaker 3: He's doing right now.
Speaker 15: I attribute to a few things.
Speaker 8: One has just his overall work ethic, and I think
Speaker 8: when you start to stack those reps over the course
Speaker 8: of time, you start to really feel the dividends going
Speaker 8: into year four, you know. So I think that's probably
Speaker 8: the biggest thing. And I think we've done a tremendous
Speaker 8: job with them. I mean, just day to day basis,
Speaker 8: it means a lot to have a great coach and
Speaker 8: to keep putting you in a great situation. So shout
Speaker 8: out to Weave on that. And uh, I mean, shoot,
Speaker 8: I mean he's just he just brings it every day.
Speaker 15: Man.
Speaker 8: Like I mean, it sounds like coach coach coach cliche,
Speaker 8: but that really does mean something.
Speaker 15: You can't go in and out some days bring it,
Speaker 15: sometimes you don't. Just it doesn't work like that.
Speaker 8: You know, you got to keep building every day and
Speaker 8: Beaks his guy that's out here every day and he
Speaker 8: goes one hundred miles an hour every time he's out there.
Speaker 15: So spoken to this before, but definitely.
Speaker 8: Think of very highly adjustin and the way he plays
Speaker 8: the game, plays like a raven.
Speaker 12: Hearts said that David Jabo had surgery on his knee.
Speaker 2: Just your thoughts on the player. He can still come
Speaker 2: back and be you know next.
Speaker 8: Year if this bat, Yeah, David's gonna be a great
Speaker 8: player in this league. He's kind of a great career obviously.
Speaker 8: Feel for him the way that his first has, his
Speaker 8: way his career started, and he's dealing with adversary right now.
Speaker 8: So he needs our support and he had it, you know.
Speaker 8: But he's gonna have a great He's gonna have a
Speaker 8: great career and he's gonna he's gonna recover. He'll be
Speaker 8: back ready to roll next year. I have full confidence
Speaker 8: in that.
Speaker 2: For you during them bye week, go ahead, create a
Speaker 2: matic bk Uh.
Speaker 10: It seemed like he was getting double teams a lot
Speaker 10: last night. Have you seen him get more respect?
Speaker 4: Is the season's going wrong?
Speaker 15: That's a good question. I can't answer that with one
Speaker 15: hundred percent certainty.
Speaker 8: I mean we haven't really like charted, you know how
Speaker 8: many times he's getting double team and all that. But
Speaker 8: when he's getting double team means somebody else is getting
Speaker 8: the one on one and so those guys are expected
Speaker 8: to come through in that situation.
Speaker 2: Is there a focus for you during this bye week?
Speaker 4: Is it all self scout?
Speaker 5: And if you start looking ahead and teams on your schedule,
Speaker 5: how do you spend the week?
Speaker 15: H Yeah, we met this morning. It's really like threefold.
Speaker 8: So the first thing is the first big goal of
Speaker 8: the week is to kind of look at our guys
Speaker 8: and evaluate what they're doing well and what things that
Speaker 8: they can improve on an individual basis.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 8: Kind of the next fold would be looking at ourselves
Speaker 8: situationally schematically, what we're doing well we can build upon,
Speaker 8: what opportunities are there for us to grow. And then
Speaker 8: obviously we're trying to get ahead, you know, so working
Speaker 8: on the rams, working on Jacksonville, San Francisco, Miami kind
Speaker 8: of phase phase into that, and you know this last
Speaker 8: kind of quadron of the season.
Speaker 7: As a coach, what do you think of the late by.
Speaker 15: Whatever? Man, just go wherever they tell me.
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