Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast is Monday, October fourteenth.
Speaker 1: The Ravens approved to four and two on the season
Speaker 1: and got their fourth straight win by taking down the
Speaker 1: Commanders thirty to twenty three on Sunday. On Monday, we
Speaker 1: had a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh
Speaker 1: during his weekly Monday afternoon presser.
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate seeing you guys here and appreciate you making
Speaker 2: a change in the schedule to come over earlier than usual.
Speaker 2: The reason is ingrid I have a funeral to go
Speaker 2: to later today, and it's someone that made a big
Speaker 2: difference that we've known for a long time in our
Speaker 2: lives and someone that made a difference actually in the
Speaker 2: game this week. And her name is Rachel, and she's
Speaker 2: been a family friend for a long time, and she's
Speaker 2: been battling cancer for over ten years and she's been
Speaker 2: doing great against it and dominating it and outlived all
Speaker 2: predictions and had a great life with her family for
Speaker 2: the past number of years and just was an inspiration
Speaker 2: as far as who she was. And we talked to
Speaker 2: the team about her and the team center some uh
Speaker 2: some encouraging messages on video and to her family that
Speaker 2: they can cherish now and uh and uh and she
Speaker 2: passed on Friday, So uh, our guys took it to heart.
Speaker 2: It was something that was meaningful to him and I
Speaker 2: think it it kind of they carried it with him
Speaker 2: into the game, kind of the the perspective that something
Speaker 2: like this provides you with. So just God bless Rachel
Speaker 2: and her family and that may she rest in the
Speaker 2: arms of the Lord for all eternity. So with that,
Speaker 2: what questions you have.
Speaker 3: You know, is one in Tampa from your your perspective,
Speaker 3: is everything set for going to Tampa?
Speaker 2: Is that kind of how you were proceedings right now? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've heard nothing. Maybe Chad's got some information on that,
Speaker 2: but as far as we know, Chad says no. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So yeah, schedule.
Speaker 4: John, Can you just walk us through the emotions yesterday
Speaker 4: obviously when you Jim and what he was dealing with,
Speaker 4: and just obviously you reformed, you know, as the news
Speaker 4: conference was going on. Just yeah, what the emotions were in,
Speaker 4: what the conversation.
Speaker 2: Was with I appreciate that. First of all, talk to
Speaker 2: Jim this morning. He's doing well, doing great, feeling a
Speaker 2: lot better, said, he's feeling a little a little off
Speaker 2: that day in the day before, just a little bit.
Speaker 2: He's had that issue in the past, had a couple
Speaker 2: of procedures over the years for the various evement as
Speaker 2: a player he had at one time. And and but
Speaker 2: he's doing good now, he's gonna get some test on today. No,
Speaker 2: just the press conference. You guys are there for that.
Speaker 2: I think I appreciate Eric grabbing me on that because
Speaker 2: it just happened, and then you know, he I think
Speaker 2: he wanted me to find out the right way. And
Speaker 2: so we got on the phone right away with Joe Ortiz,
Speaker 2: who was down there with Jim in the locker room,
Speaker 2: and he gave us the update on and they were
Speaker 2: going through the tests and everything and trying to get
Speaker 2: his heart rate down and all that. So, but but
Speaker 2: we knew it wasn't like immediately in trouble at that point.
Speaker 2: I think they'd gotten out of the blue tent by
Speaker 2: that point and then later later calmed down enough. Right,
Speaker 2: I don't think the doctors really wanted necessarily to go
Speaker 2: out there, but they cleared him somehow, somehow he convinced
Speaker 2: him to clear him to go out there and get
Speaker 2: back on the field, and he was fine, so, but yeah,
Speaker 2: hell it further tests and of course appreciate everybody's prayers
Speaker 2: and everybody's thoughts. I got a lot of messages on that,
Speaker 2: and that's appreciated from everybody that reached out.
Speaker 4: Something you've ever had to deal with.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a reditary or anything like that. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I've never had that that it's an electrical issue in
Speaker 2: your heart, right, I've never had that before.
Speaker 5: So did you?
Speaker 2: Did you scold him for going out to coach a ball?
Speaker 2: That's just that's that's not surprising. No, not not at all.
Speaker 2: You know, he's never gonna let an opportunity like that
Speaker 2: be wasted.
Speaker 6: I'm just curious about thank Cleveland on the field goal block?
Speaker 4: What was it to put you?
Speaker 6: Why did you put him on that team?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take some credit like for Chris, Like I've
Speaker 2: been suggesting that for a while, just to be honest
Speaker 2: with you. And I mean, the guy's you know, he's
Speaker 2: a big man. But uh, he he came, he came
Speaker 2: to Chris. I think he was on there for two
Speaker 2: weeks now. He came to Chris and said, hey, I
Speaker 2: want to do it. And you know when a guy
Speaker 2: wants to do something like that and wants to take
Speaker 2: the time to do it and double down on what
Speaker 2: he's doing and help the team. Man, you you're fired
Speaker 2: up about that. So he got a game ball in
Speaker 2: the locker room yesterday for his first ever field goal
Speaker 2: block him. It's a three point difference in the game.
Speaker 2: That was that was big in that game. So you
Speaker 2: never know what plays are gonna make the difference, but
Speaker 2: that it was awesome to see. And you got Ben
Speaker 2: in their urb in there, Travis is in there. All
Speaker 2: those guys do a great job. So that's a that's
Speaker 2: a factor for us.
Speaker 5: What the line was made about the offensive line and
Speaker 5: you said, you know, we're at least thinking about going
Speaker 5: staying with the office, a line that you've had the
Speaker 5: last couple of weeks. How imperson were you with them
Speaker 5: yesterday and is that still kind of the case going forward?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, they're They're doing a really good job. And
Speaker 2: certainly the five guys that played yesterday played very well.
Speaker 2: And different guys have different things to fight through that
Speaker 2: they that they work through, which is true of all
Speaker 2: football players. But I thought they did a great job
Speaker 2: with that. Ronnie being a good example, played excellent and
Speaker 2: and so, but not just those five guys right the
Speaker 2: other the six, seven, eight, nine guys. Those guys are
Speaker 2: all playing well when they play, So we're kind of
Speaker 2: building some real depth in there. But I appreciate the
Speaker 2: high level they're playing that But just like we said
Speaker 2: four weeks ago, they can continue to get better. You know,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of room for improvement across the whole
Speaker 2: board of the whole team. And definitely the old line
Speaker 2: thinks that way too.
Speaker 5: Play a good game with the Commanders success going to
Speaker 5: ball in the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: What you see on the film there, Yeah, they hit
Speaker 2: the over routes. They hit they hit the four or
Speaker 2: five over routes. Those were kind of the chunk plays
Speaker 2: for him for the most part. Uh that those in
Speaker 2: the one pass interference late were there the plays that
Speaker 2: got them in the yards. Uh So we we we
Speaker 2: we saw what we need to do. Those were mostly
Speaker 2: they were zone coverage calls. Some some have have a zone.
Speaker 2: Uh Man's own match in ball with him that we
Speaker 2: just got to play them better. So I think we
Speaker 2: played well across the board, probably ninety ninety five percent
Speaker 2: of the time. But there's still you know, four plays
Speaker 2: five plays that we can play better and that we
Speaker 2: can you know, sometimes you can knock out you might
Speaker 2: not knock out all five in completions, but you might
Speaker 2: take two of them away or three of them away.
Speaker 2: That'll make the difference. Sometimes they'll make a play anyway.
Speaker 2: But we just got to keep chasing the details on
Speaker 2: those coverages.
Speaker 5: John two, that lots of them. About the secondary so
Speaker 5: far this year? What do you think about the pass rush?
Speaker 5: Do you feel like the pass rush what road I
Speaker 5: guess would you say the pass rush is playing in
Speaker 5: the way the secondary is played?
Speaker 2: Well, I think the pass rush played its best game
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways in this last game, because
Speaker 2: some of it was because of who we're going against,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean Jayden Daniels is a real threat
Speaker 2: to get out of the pocket. I think he really
Speaker 2: only got out twice. You know. He had one run
Speaker 2: for a first down, and he had another run for
Speaker 2: a long game right up the middle towards the end
Speaker 2: of the game there where he got out. Other than that,
Speaker 2: we kept him in. He goes to his right so
Speaker 2: many times and would throw on the run and make
Speaker 2: plays downfield. He didn't have any of those plays in
Speaker 2: the game. I thought, even when he date out the right,
Speaker 2: we chased him down, but we kept him in there.
Speaker 2: We sacked him, we batted balls. I think bren Urbans
Speaker 2: bat you know. So I think the pass rush had
Speaker 2: a really good discipline game, laying integrity, game, kept the
Speaker 2: quarterback in which was their best game of doing that.
Speaker 2: So that contributed a lot this week in a positive way.
Speaker 2: So we saw the.
Speaker 3: We saw the video of the game, Bowl video after
Speaker 3: the game with think god Way and I think you made.
Speaker 7: It clear he wanted to be here.
Speaker 2: Can you have been able to tell from being around him,
Speaker 2: given the fact that.
Speaker 3: You did get to know him a little bit a
Speaker 3: couple of years.
Speaker 2: Back, how meaningful this is and how kind of interested
Speaker 2: he was in this opportunity. Yeah, it's really cool. Maryland guy,
Speaker 2: you know, Raven's fan his whole life. Got to know
Speaker 2: him in the draft coming out a little bit, you know,
Speaker 2: and then kind of stayed you know, you kind of
Speaker 2: bumping the guys. And when he came last time, you know,
Speaker 2: really got to know each other and he and I
Speaker 2: we hit it off, you know, stayed in touch all
Speaker 2: the way through. But the biggest thing is he tells
Speaker 2: me every time I see him, you know, every time
Speaker 2: I see him, he tells me, you know, how how
Speaker 2: excited he is to be here and how he's got
Speaker 2: our backs and everything like that. And I see it
Speaker 2: in the way he's practicing, the way he's playing. Played
Speaker 2: for not he flaced played tremendously well, which was not
Speaker 2: a surprise because we saw him practice that way. So
Speaker 2: big addition, big addition to our team. Very excited, the
Speaker 2: way he's the way he's rolling.
Speaker 4: Don't know or Darius Washington will want the chance at
Speaker 4: the reception back, but maybe he played a little more.
Speaker 5: Tami of safety in the second half of it.
Speaker 2: I don't know anything behind that Jackson are just changing
Speaker 2: it up.
Speaker 4: But what do you see for him maybe in that
Speaker 4: spot and you know, him maybe getting more opportunities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a good question because you know,
Speaker 2: we've we've got a lot of good players back there,
Speaker 2: you know, and I think that's kind of what you know,
Speaker 2: we we know that we're very talented back I told
Speaker 2: the guys, you know, I mean last week we were
Speaker 2: the twenty ninth rank pacity defense by statistics and the
Speaker 2: leader you know, I mean, we're gonna play twenty ninth
Speaker 2: the rest of the year. I mean, that's that's that's
Speaker 2: an opportunity because we know we're far better than that,
Speaker 2: We're much more talented, but more talented than that, we
Speaker 2: can play so much better. And so to me, that's
Speaker 2: part of it. You got our Dariuses. Every time he
Speaker 2: goes out there, he plays well, and so you just
Speaker 2: want to find spots for guys to play. If you
Speaker 2: have good players, you want to get him out there.
Speaker 2: And it does take away from other guys, that's just
Speaker 2: the nature of it. But we want to give everybody
Speaker 2: an opportunity to go out there and do what they
Speaker 2: do well. The more you play well, the more you
Speaker 2: play basically.
Speaker 7: Kind of along those lines.
Speaker 6: Even Nate Wiggans, you'll play on seventy five on defense.
Speaker 1: Iss Haw's he come along getting more kind of ingrained
Speaker 1: in this defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's steadily. Nate steadily gets better and better and
Speaker 2: he make you saw make some really good plays out there,
Speaker 2: some big plays out there, and then there's other plays
Speaker 2: that you know he wants to do better at. And
Speaker 2: he's young. I mean, they go after him because he's young,
Speaker 2: like they would anybody you know, but he's he's held
Speaker 2: he's held his own really well. I think he's only
Speaker 2: going to continue to improve because he's got the right
Speaker 2: mindset for it. And I'm excited about the upside in
Speaker 2: a big way. And you saw him play a lot
Speaker 2: as a result.
Speaker 5: Joan, You've had really good rushing attacks in the past
Speaker 5: ten years. What's the difference now with Derek Henry?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, we've had good rushing attacks,
Speaker 2: you know, and we've had a lot of games where
Speaker 2: we rushed for a lot of yards. That's all great.
Speaker 2: But what the difference Derrick Henry has made, I guess
Speaker 2: is pretty clear. You know, you see it, so I
Speaker 2: I think I agree with what you're saying. It's it's
Speaker 2: a different kind of rushing attack with him, right, because
Speaker 2: of the way he runs the ball. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: just he's one of a kind. There's he's one of one.
Speaker 2: You know. He tried to make somebody ask me in
Speaker 2: the production meeting this week, you know, who do you
Speaker 2: compare him to? I'm like, man, who do you compare
Speaker 2: him to? You know? I mean I saw the Eric
Speaker 2: Dickerson article. Okay, I think there's some similarity. I remember
Speaker 2: remember Eric Dickerson coming up, But after that and even that,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Man, He's one of one.
Speaker 6: On the broadcast about how you wanted to draft him
Speaker 6: back in the day. Can you go back to two
Speaker 6: thousand and six.
Speaker 2: I mean, wow, that'd be a story and what.
Speaker 4: There's conversations like how much you kind of want to
Speaker 4: make that happen.
Speaker 2: Well, there wasn't much conversation about drafting him here when
Speaker 2: he came out because he was going to go to
Speaker 2: high I mean, everybody knew how high he was going
Speaker 2: to go. It wasn't gonna be. It just wasn't in
Speaker 2: our place at that point in time. But I mean,
Speaker 2: I just, you know, I just saw my It's like,
Speaker 2: he's what a perfect fit for the Ravens, you know
Speaker 2: he would be, That's the kind of back you wanted
Speaker 2: to have. It just seems so different. He just seemed
Speaker 2: like one of a kind. And h then, you know,
Speaker 2: playing against him, you know, you've a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of you know, envious eyes, you know, watching him
Speaker 2: play for the Titans all those years. But I do
Speaker 2: I just appreciate the way he's fitting here as a
Speaker 2: as a teammate, the way he's fitting to the offense,
Speaker 2: the way the offenses fit him in all the way
Speaker 2: across the board. It's really been it's been great, and
Speaker 2: we want to keep building on it.
Speaker 8: Related to that, there was a lot of question about
Speaker 8: what role.
Speaker 7: Patrick Ricard was going to have in his offense the
Speaker 7: last year or.
Speaker 6: So, once Derrick Henry was signed to you already envision
Speaker 6: that he was suddenly going to be back to a
Speaker 6: real prominent role because he's played a lot of snaps
Speaker 6: and whatever.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know, it's a great question, and that
Speaker 2: might be true. Bo I don't really remember, like specifically
Speaker 2: like that. I don't think we ever thought that Pat
Speaker 2: wasn't going to be a big part of the offense,
Speaker 2: will play a prominent role in arms. You know, we
Speaker 2: just knew that he's he's unique. It's another guy's one
Speaker 2: of one, and what he does he does so well.
Speaker 2: So it's not something you didn't want to have in
Speaker 2: your offense. Like how much it was going to be
Speaker 2: used game to game or what the game plans would be.
Speaker 2: You know, you just never know. But definitely when Derek
Speaker 2: came on it probably made it even a bigger part.
Speaker 2: Maybe I can see the point on that, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't how we were thinking so much. We just knew
Speaker 2: Pat was going to be a part of it. When
Speaker 2: you have a you have a great player like rope
Speaker 2: On wholes himself to a very high standard, and he
Speaker 2: has a game where he maybe has a few players
Speaker 2: in coverage that he'd like that back, how do you
Speaker 2: approach that? Do you do you talk to him about
Speaker 2: that or do you just sort of trust him to
Speaker 2: take care of it both. I mean, you know you
Speaker 2: have conversations because you're always talking football, for sure, Child's
Speaker 2: I mean we talked, talked to plays all the time
Speaker 2: with all the guys, so he wants to talk ball,
Speaker 2: and he's the kind of guy that's always gonna want
Speaker 2: to talk about the plays he could do better. He's
Speaker 2: never the guy that wants to He'll take he'll accept
Speaker 2: the compliment. I mean, everybody likes to be patted on
Speaker 2: the back, of course, but that he doesn't need that.
Speaker 2: You know, what he needs and wants is okay, this
Speaker 2: is what I got to look at here. Why was
Speaker 2: I thinking that what can I do better? That's how
Speaker 2: he approaches it.
Speaker 3: I know you said in the past, we're gonna monitor
Speaker 3: the DAIS carries and all that going forward.
Speaker 2: But when he's hot, the way he is, Is it
Speaker 2: hard to go away from them?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah. I think the point of the
Speaker 2: whole thing is it's like not gonna be. You just
Speaker 2: don't expect, you know, twenty five. I said thirty, and
Speaker 2: that was probably exaggeration, but I think you can you
Speaker 2: can say, you know, it's necessarily We're not planning and
Speaker 2: expecting and demanding twenty to twenty five carries a game
Speaker 2: out of any back. A we have multiple backs can
Speaker 2: do different things, and you just don't know if you're
Speaker 2: gonna get that many opportunities necessarily to run the ball
Speaker 2: when you have the lead. It definitely amp set up,
Speaker 2: especially in the second half, so the carries go up.
Speaker 2: But every game, you can't say every game is going
Speaker 2: to be a high number of carries for any or
Speaker 2: touches or throws or anything, which was my point. So
Speaker 2: we didn't come, We didn't bring Derek in to say, oh,
Speaker 2: we're gonna make sure we give the ball a certain
Speaker 2: number of times. We must want to give the ball
Speaker 2: enough times to win the game, you know, which is
Speaker 2: some games is a lot. Which how many you have
Speaker 2: yesterday twenty four and we weren't counting them, you know,
Speaker 2: but it sure felt comfortable giving them the ball at
Speaker 2: the end there, right, So that that's kind of how.
Speaker 7: It goes because four kickoff twenty six yards first time.
Speaker 6: Really happy with what you guys say all that.
Speaker 2: I'm okay happy with it. Chris is okay happy with
Speaker 2: I mean, it's nice to get some raps finally. You know,
Speaker 2: it's just the disappointing thing about to play and we're
Speaker 2: part of it too because we kick a lot of touchbacks.
Speaker 2: Is that the whole idea was to get more kickoff returns,
Speaker 2: and they really aren't. It's really not happening, and there's
Speaker 2: reasons for that. But I think we could be better.
Speaker 2: We can cover better, we can we can return better,
Speaker 2: and we just got to keep working. I mean, I
Speaker 2: appreciate the guys because I feel like, you know, we've
Speaker 2: got either six or seven guys five six or seven
Speaker 2: guys on our kickoff team at any one time who
Speaker 2: are rookies. That's a high number. So we're a very
Speaker 2: young team with our backup group, and so those guys
Speaker 2: are learning and they've done a great job with punt
Speaker 2: and punt return and they have to and they've done well.
Speaker 2: So we got to keep training those guys. I think
Speaker 2: if those guys keep getting better, our kick and kickoff
Speaker 2: return will keep getting better. Tom, would you support their
Speaker 2: spin talko? You know back mood maybe forty? Would you
Speaker 2: be supportive of that? I would? I would are gonna
Speaker 2: get in trouble for that? Do I care?
Speaker 6: Just the run defenses was really good against Commanders and
Speaker 6: has been outstanding all year. What are you seeing when
Speaker 6: you watch the take about why you guys are playing
Speaker 6: such good room?
Speaker 2: I think two things. Our front line I'm talking about
Speaker 2: our defensive line linebackers or defensive ends are playing really
Speaker 2: good technique. You know, eighty percent of the time, you know,
Speaker 2: then ten percent of time is okay, then ten percent
Speaker 2: time it needs to be better, and they'll tell you that.
Speaker 2: But it's really good and physical and tough and discipline.
Speaker 2: The other part of it is our dbs are showing up.
Speaker 2: Our dbs are showing up in the box and on
Speaker 2: the edge when they're supposed to crack replace showing up
Speaker 2: on screens, which we consider part of the run defense
Speaker 2: for the vast most part of DB's also are doing
Speaker 2: really good job. So to me, it's hand in hand.
Speaker 5: Ds.
Speaker 4: We saw Arthur letta come back and then with the
Speaker 4: hamstring is do you expect him back this week and
Speaker 4: how much does that a help?
Speaker 1: If he.
Speaker 2: Right? Very hopeful that he'll be back this week. I
Speaker 2: think there's a good chance he will be. I will
Speaker 2: see on Thursday Friday, but I think it's a really
Speaker 2: good chance to be practicing this week, and then we'll
Speaker 2: have to see from practice, you know, if he can
Speaker 2: play or not.
Speaker 3: John, is it your do you have to make a
Speaker 3: decisions this week or do you still get another week?
Speaker 2: I think we have another week, do we do you
Speaker 2: know what you had in that week's twenty one days?
Speaker 2: You have to do another week in second or something? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I promise you will make a decision by the time
Speaker 2: twenty one days is out.
Speaker 5: Do you feel the same that the key mentional is
Speaker 5: still progressing?
Speaker 8: Right? No?
Speaker 2: No changing status, Still very optimistic and positive.
Speaker 8: In terms of the past defense, it seems like there's
Speaker 8: been some big plays against brendon seasons. But you can
Speaker 8: really have to stop the good night covers u in
Speaker 8: the state of the People on you guys, teach him
Speaker 8: to make sure he's on the positive end and the ups.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean that's the thing about playing corner.
Speaker 2: You know, it's uh the island, you know, so you
Speaker 2: have to understand the nature of the position when you
Speaker 2: play single high, which wan Man, which we play a
Speaker 2: decent amount, you know, probably more than most teams. We
Speaker 2: don't just protect our corners at all costs. And Brandon
Speaker 2: as they you know, they've uh, they've put great receivers
Speaker 2: on him, and they've thrown fades against press Man, and
Speaker 2: I think he's held up really well. You know, there's
Speaker 2: been plays, obviously, they've been made. He had plays that
Speaker 2: you want to have back, but there's really not too
Speaker 2: many that are like you'd say that I would look
Speaker 2: at and say, hey, that's poor technique. Really none. They've
Speaker 2: made some plays on him, some things, you know, you
Speaker 2: you coach the details, you know, in terms of le
Speaker 2: Worris leverage on the receiver, and he's all yours and
Speaker 2: he's really detailed in that sense. So I feel good
Speaker 2: about the way Brandon's playing. I think it's a positive
Speaker 2: and a plus four US real, I mean a major
Speaker 2: positive and plus four us the coach.
Speaker 3: Obviously you're gonna be busy next Monday night, but the
Speaker 3: Mannings are part of that broadcast.
Speaker 2: I think next week have you.
Speaker 4: Ever been invited to beyond the manning cast attention to it?
Speaker 2: But then that during games it is it's on, Yes,
Speaker 2: during the football game. Obviously it's pretty busy most of
Speaker 2: the games.
Speaker 4: You're not playing.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't think I do any do any
Speaker 2: active coaches do that? Have they been asked to do
Speaker 2: that many cast while the season's gone? I remember the
Speaker 2: answer the short answers. No, I've never been asked to
Speaker 2: be on that. They all right every week he's not
Speaker 2: not to.
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 2: Okay, that was a great finish. Sorry seeing you guys
Speaker 2: say that's actually kind of funny.
Speaker 8: Did you just.
Speaker 7: Talk about the the kind of pushing full with over
Speaker 7: the season, maybe for Derrick Henry with those tosses that
Speaker 7: you guys have been really successful over over the season.
Speaker 7: I think you've been really really successful, you know.
Speaker 3: Pushing bulls or getting defenses to teams have been successful,
Speaker 3: just not really in.
Speaker 2: Just ask your question. He throw it out there.
Speaker 7: You've done well too, he does. Uh to be successful
Speaker 7: with Derrick Henry, you know, getting out of space in the.
Speaker 2: Do you mean the outside runs? Yeah, the toss stuff,
Speaker 2: the toss part of it. Uh yeah, I mean to
Speaker 2: your point that the toss plays have been really good
Speaker 2: in critical situations, and I just think it's part of
Speaker 2: the fact that the diversity of the offense has helped.
Speaker 2: So the idea that you have to defend the run
Speaker 2: game from the A gap all the way to the
Speaker 2: sideline on both sides, and then you have to defend
Speaker 2: the play action or the quick and the quick passing
Speaker 2: game off of the hard play actions in the middle
Speaker 2: of the field all the way out to the sideline.
Speaker 2: So we've pretty much been able to attack the width
Speaker 2: of the field and the depth of the field with
Speaker 2: the run game and the run play actions. So that
Speaker 2: just makes it tough. You spread them a little thin.
Speaker 2: So we've you know, they've stopped us too, they've stopped
Speaker 2: inside runs and they've stopped outside runs. But we've also
Speaker 2: hit our fair share because I just think it's harder
Speaker 2: to be every on defense, and that's probably the calculus
Speaker 2: for why we've hit some of those big runs. Maybe
Speaker 2: when you would think that people would be looking for them,
Speaker 2: because they're also thinking there's a possibility that we'll run
Speaker 2: inside plus a mark and show a play action and
Speaker 2: throw behind him too, And you kind of got to
Speaker 2: respect that too, had a good answer to that good question.
Speaker 2: All right, it's a good question, all right.
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