Speaker 1: Welcoming too. Ravens press pass. Today, we'll hear from quarterback
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, linebacker Roquan Smith, defensive tackle Michael Pierce, and
Speaker 1: head coach John Harball. Let's start with number Eight's like going.
Speaker 2: Against uh a guy like Miles here.
Speaker 3: He's a great, great pass rusher, great defender. I'm in
Speaker 3: san him around since college, since my freshmany of college,
Speaker 3: so I'm used to playing against him. I say, you're
Speaker 3: a great, go, great defender, all around defense and nonm
Speaker 3: You watched.
Speaker 4: The squad one defense when the table was hard to
Speaker 4: find a lot of weaknesses.
Speaker 3: Well, uh h, I mean, I I believe every defense
Speaker 3: gone have is his strength and weaknesses. But for right now,
Speaker 3: those guys are flying around all offenses of the defense,
Speaker 3: fly flying around to the ball, playing great defense.
Speaker 5: God yeah, no, Wan, how much you more difficult as
Speaker 5: the lady They moved Miles around the spots.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not the line, so I don't really
Speaker 3: think it'll be difficult for me. You know, I'm not
Speaker 3: the one blocking 'em. Uh be just having to, you know,
Speaker 3: read the defense and dish the ball out.
Speaker 6: Guess it, Mar when you have to the tape.
Speaker 7: And just pass the week when you're the biggest takeaway
Speaker 7: from it in terms of things you guys needed to
Speaker 7: clean up.
Speaker 2: I'm going into the credible.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: Like I said, we we had plenty of opportunities to
Speaker 3: win that game. F we was driving the ball down
Speaker 3: the field and we have hic uh mishaps.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: F got to just catch the ball, throw the ball
Speaker 3: and do what we do best, you know, and put
Speaker 3: points on the board.
Speaker 8: And going to Cleveland do the same thing but better.
Speaker 8: Mar It looked like.
Speaker 3: A couple of times someday there were times where you
Speaker 3: may have expected guys to do something different.
Speaker 8: Or vice versa. Are is are are y?
Speaker 3: Do you feel like you guys were still in that
Speaker 3: phase where you're still trying to get on the same page.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 8: Absolutely. You know it's September.
Speaker 3: You know, one of our guys just got the week,
Speaker 3: you know, not not even a month.
Speaker 8: He hasn't been around.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then we just tryna we just tryna figure each
Speaker 3: other out right now, you know, Uh, we didn't really
Speaker 3: play preseason, so we just tryna figure it out. You know,
Speaker 3: we just had one great game against Cincinnati piggyback, you know,
Speaker 3: go to Colt. Well, we played the coats and we
Speaker 3: just had a little missouts and that happens, you know
Speaker 3: every game. Not perfect, but hope we clean it up Cleveland.
Speaker 3: I feel like this guy's limit foods. Like I always say,
Speaker 3: well when.
Speaker 6: You get out all the practice field today and you
Speaker 6: got uh Ryce Dalley and how when we went back
Speaker 6: out there Marcus Williams, how does that you know, you
Speaker 6: get kind of arkie players like that and back up
Speaker 6: at least on the practice field, and how does that
Speaker 6: lift the spirits of team in the class?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Uh uh what is our raiser?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Uh, it's just our our guys back out there on
Speaker 3: the field, and we were looking forward to it.
Speaker 8: You know, McCary and Sam did a great job you
Speaker 8: know when those guys was out.
Speaker 3: But hopefully back up this week and we just hit
Speaker 3: the grand running like we always do.
Speaker 9: Well are you and.
Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson also go back to college.
Speaker 10: You had some battles back then.
Speaker 1: What have you seen from him this year and his offense?
Speaker 3: And to be honest, I haven't been watching those guys,
Speaker 3: but like you say, you know, we been going back
Speaker 3: and forth since twenty sixteen that shoot.
Speaker 8: Out in uh Death Valley.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I haven't been watching those guys this season,
Speaker 3: but they they playing pretty good at what I've heard.
Speaker 11: You know what, Martin, is there any is there any
Speaker 11: like characteristics of the Browns defense that makes them particularly formidable?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: I'll say there their corners and uh, well the all
Speaker 3: around defense, the corner safety and uh the defensive line.
Speaker 3: Like I said, those guys have been flying around on tape.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, good love Marno.
Speaker 2: You guys are focused on your own team.
Speaker 11: But at when a when the NFL team scores seventeen
Speaker 11: in the in the game, and what what comes to mind?
Speaker 11: And what do you think about? Does it think of
Speaker 11: make you think about where offenses are going? Does it
Speaker 11: make you think of a bar that you you kind
Speaker 11: of want this offense to get to?
Speaker 2: What do you what do you think about? Mon Uh?
Speaker 3: To be honest, no, I believe our offense can do
Speaker 3: the same thing. We just have to dial in, you know,
Speaker 3: stay locked in within the game and put points on
Speaker 3: the board. Because, like I said, I feel like we
Speaker 3: stopped ourselves against the Coats, turn us the mishaps.
Speaker 8: We wasn't putting points on the ball, but I believe
Speaker 8: we could.
Speaker 9: Said heard last Sunday, that.
Speaker 7: You know, the turnovers fumbles were not winning football, way
Speaker 7: up to play winning. Is there anything important to in
Speaker 7: common with the fumbles that had so far this year?
Speaker 8: Oh, they was in a pocket. Most of them been
Speaker 8: in the pocket.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 3: I had that one against Texas when I was making it,
Speaker 3: trying to make a god miss.
Speaker 8: But most of them been in the pocket. I'm trying
Speaker 8: to throw the ball.
Speaker 3: You know, the ball is loose like me throwing it,
Speaker 3: and it's been hit, you know, but you gotta do
Speaker 3: a better job at that.
Speaker 8: You know it it affects the game. It affects the game.
Speaker 12: Omark earlier this season, you guys will make trips in
Speaker 12: since of Cleveland Pittsburgh. At this point in your career,
Speaker 12: have you adopted sort of an attitude about going into
Speaker 12: these hostile places you already motivated by it.
Speaker 8: Is there anything that.
Speaker 12: You take that makes your game another level when you're
Speaker 12: on the.
Speaker 3: Throat of I go in to you know, those games
Speaker 3: playing like any other game, but it's different because they're
Speaker 3: in the division. So it's like, like you said, it's
Speaker 3: a little extra motivation. I say, you know, it's like
Speaker 3: a rival. It's like a rival, and it's it's physical games,
Speaker 3: very physical.
Speaker 12: So you hear the crowd, do you hear things they
Speaker 12: say anything?
Speaker 8: Fantastic crowd. I'm trying to win. Trying to win. I
Speaker 8: already don't care.
Speaker 1: Next up we'll hear from Roquan Smith.
Speaker 9: Uh, the Browns offense.
Speaker 2: What do you see?
Speaker 9: What it's gonna be the challenge this week?
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, you know, obviously they're down arguably like their
Speaker 13: best player and a lot of respect for him, God
Speaker 13: played with in college and whatnot, so definitely thinking about him.
Speaker 13: But despite that, knowing that they're gonna come out try
Speaker 13: to do they have to do to get the job done.
Speaker 13: And I think, you know, Watson at the Ham, they're
Speaker 13: still gonna try to run the ball. I think that's
Speaker 13: a you know, hats off to their head coach, and
Speaker 13: I think that's something that he wants to do.
Speaker 2: Run the ball.
Speaker 8: So that's our main priority, stopping the run.
Speaker 13: And and I think they're gonna try to get the
Speaker 13: ball to number two Cooper and then put eight in
Speaker 13: some a lot of situations as well, and then obviously
Speaker 13: our tight ends come alive. So I don't think it'll
Speaker 13: be anything different minus like Chubb. But I still think
Speaker 13: they're gonna try to run the ball.
Speaker 4: When you prepare for a guy like Watson who maybe
Speaker 4: struggled a little bit when he first took over the
Speaker 4: job in Cleveland, do you still go in assuming the
Speaker 4: guy that you saw back in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty,
Speaker 4: then he's fully capable of being that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Absolutely, Anything a man done once, I'm sure they can out.
Speaker 2: The likelihood that they can do it again is very possible.
Speaker 13: So got a lot of respect for the guy playing
Speaker 13: a position, one of the toughest position in the league
Speaker 13: to play, in my opinion. So I think it was
Speaker 13: just gonna We're gonna have to just come out, do
Speaker 13: we have to do and whatever it takes to get
Speaker 13: the job done, and if we do that, feel like
Speaker 13: we'll be in good standings.
Speaker 10: You're obviously if you're going up against their offense, and
Speaker 10: is there any part of you and you going up
Speaker 10: against the team that's really good defense like that we
Speaker 10: want Right now, it's kind of assessing pride there in
Speaker 10: the facing the team that you guys suppose.
Speaker 2: Have a really won't answer.
Speaker 13: I think what this is Week four. You're not defined
Speaker 13: off being the best defense in the league through week
Speaker 13: four period, I think, yeah, it's a seventeen game season,
Speaker 13: so it's what you're gonna do late in the season.
Speaker 13: But hats off of those guys. I haven't watched them,
Speaker 13: so not really sure. I know they got some good
Speaker 13: players over there and whatnot, but I haven't really watched them,
Speaker 13: so I really don't care too much. If I'm being
Speaker 13: perfectly on, it's just more focused on our defense and
Speaker 13: what we're gonna do to make sure we come out
Speaker 13: victorious in this game.
Speaker 4: Is that more broadly true for you that there's really
Speaker 4: not a lot of value to you and paying attention
Speaker 4: to what other defenses are doing.
Speaker 13: I'm trying to see, like what I can actually gain
Speaker 13: from watching them, Like, I don't think personally I can
Speaker 13: gain anything from watching their defense and from what I
Speaker 13: hear just based off in a team like they play
Speaker 13: a completely different style of defense, you know, But hats
Speaker 13: off of those guys for what they've done thus far
Speaker 13: in this season. I look forward to Sunday and I think,
Speaker 13: you know, we do what we have to do, play
Speaker 13: our style offensively and defensively, then we'll we'll come out victorious.
Speaker 2: Broke, you've been with the.
Speaker 12: Ravens long enough now to have ventured into each of
Speaker 12: these AFC North cities. How would you describe Cleveland in
Speaker 12: particular or the division in general when you go in
Speaker 12: there as the enemy, the intensity and whatnot.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you go in there as the enemy to go
Speaker 13: take over. And that's our plan to actually go take over.
Speaker 13: I think they call it the dog Pound. I consider
Speaker 13: myself a dog. So I'm right at home and I play,
Speaker 13: so I'm excited to get back in there. And I
Speaker 13: know they are physical football team, but so are we.
Speaker 13: And at the end of the day, it's going to
Speaker 13: be the most physical football team that come out of there,
Speaker 13: that comes out of there, and whoever is the most
Speaker 13: physical football team in that game that's gonna come out
Speaker 13: of Victoria's And your question about the division, Yeah, I
Speaker 13: think my opinion, I think is the best division in football,
Speaker 13: Like without a doubt, you look at it from top
Speaker 13: to bottom.
Speaker 14: Or quite along those lines. How much do you embrace
Speaker 14: this four week stretch where you have three road games
Speaker 14: in the division. It's a challenge, but also knowing if
Speaker 14: you fare the way you guys want to, you know
Speaker 14: what that could mean for you guys in the big
Speaker 14: picture of division and you know, everything down the road.
Speaker 13: Honestly, I love it, you know, I love a challenge,
Speaker 13: you know, at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 13: I love looking face and looking something square in the
Speaker 13: face and saying bringing it on, bring it on, whatever
Speaker 13: it is, you know, chin up, chest out. You know,
Speaker 13: I live by that sunce that's no regrets. So I'm
Speaker 13: looking forward to it and I can't wait.
Speaker 14: We're gonna go back to.
Speaker 10: Playing and trying to get the villain role.
Speaker 5: You know, on the road.
Speaker 14: It seems like that's something to eat you yell.
Speaker 10: Shane Chill subtles youre always ark Byer like he's a
Speaker 10: bad guy in for the stadis is that villain lay
Speaker 10: or something that that you kind of race on these
Speaker 10: road out of years?
Speaker 2: I definitely, uh, you know, think about that.
Speaker 13: But at the end of the day, you're considered the
Speaker 13: bad guy because you're going into essentially another man's house
Speaker 13: and you're trying to take over, like his wife, kids,
Speaker 13: everyone there to watch them. So you were going over
Speaker 13: to beat their tails in front of their wife and kids.
Speaker 13: So when you think about it from that perspective, like
Speaker 13: any man's gonna you know, fight to the death. Of
Speaker 13: that point, I know if that's me in that case,
Speaker 13: I know I would, So I think about it from
Speaker 13: that standpoint, and I'm just going in, you know, just
Speaker 13: like I prepar for any other game. Play to the whistle,
Speaker 13: play physical, and hit anything that moved.
Speaker 9: Is that how you approach playing connect?
Speaker 13: For I'm a competitor, fearce competitor, so I approach it
Speaker 13: trying to win each and every UH game. I'm sure
Speaker 13: you can ask UH some of your peers coworkers, how
Speaker 13: good I am?
Speaker 2: You know, real fun?
Speaker 14: How'd you like the front office been able to add
Speaker 14: Kyle van nuyd practice squad right now, but knowing how
Speaker 14: much he's played in the league and played at a
Speaker 14: high level.
Speaker 13: Yeah, man, I gotta have a lot of respect for
Speaker 13: uh kV uh and the way he even came in
Speaker 13: today and the way he UH been approaching things UH
Speaker 13: since I first met him, and UH just his leadership
Speaker 13: as well as just like how smart the guy is,
Speaker 13: Like how quickly he pick up on things like already
Speaker 13: out here today, you know, just calling out things. So
Speaker 13: when a guy come in like that, you know, a
Speaker 13: well seasoned veteran, UH been in a lot of different schemes,
Speaker 13: so he know exactly what we expect of him, and
Speaker 13: I'm just excited to uh welcome him uh to the team,
Speaker 13: and I think he's gonna be a great addition for us.
Speaker 10: How great is when you get guys back in practice
Speaker 10: field for the hurt Markus Williams trying standard tyle quantity.
Speaker 10: I'm just kind of produced and see these guys back
Speaker 10: out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always good.
Speaker 13: You know, see somebody that maybe went down with something
Speaker 13: and just back out on the practice feel you know,
Speaker 13: you always love to have your brothers back out there
Speaker 13: in the line of duty. And it don't get any
Speaker 13: better than that when you just have good players that return.
Speaker 13: But you know, whoever is out there, I know we're
Speaker 13: going to be prepared through and through and whoever's out
Speaker 13: there is going to give everything they got and uh
Speaker 13: to the whistle, to the whistle blows, We're going one
Speaker 13: hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 1: And now it's defensive tackle Michael Pierce.
Speaker 9: Like a few weeks into the season, how you're feeling,
Speaker 9: how's your body, how's everything going on?
Speaker 5: I feel good, man, Not the best since we lost
Speaker 5: last week, but uh feel pretty good. Like I said,
Speaker 5: we just got to keep guys healthy. And uh, just
Speaker 5: keep rolling.
Speaker 4: Michael, you said you gotta keep guys healthy. I mean,
Speaker 4: you've you've been through a lot of different kinds of season.
Speaker 4: I mean, when you have all these injuries in the
Speaker 4: first few weeks in the season, do you have to
Speaker 4: fight to sort of stay positive at all or I mean,
Speaker 4: guys just used to dealing without it.
Speaker 2: At this point. I think you get used to it.
Speaker 5: I think it kind of can be shocking for like
Speaker 5: younger guys, like rookies. But they said, once you've been
Speaker 5: you know, I would say probably two to three years
Speaker 5: in the league, you just kind of get used to it.
Speaker 5: But exp people's roles change, and that's kind of way
Speaker 5: you see guys step up and or fall off. So
Speaker 5: you know, t Robin has done an amazing job, especially
Speaker 5: on our d line, just stepping up when he's needed.
Speaker 5: So uh yeah, it's just kind of like a call
Speaker 5: to action. And like I said, the games don't change, but.
Speaker 2: The people do. So it's kind of how you deal
Speaker 2: with it taking ad injuries.
Speaker 14: I mean, obviously they just lost Nick Chubb recently, but
Speaker 14: you know, how challenging is it going up against that
Speaker 14: Cleveland running game that we know it's been really productive
Speaker 14: for a few years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Kareem hunt is a is a main
Speaker 5: state for them. He's been there with three or four years,
Speaker 5: so he's familiar. He played last week. Their offensive line
Speaker 5: is really really good on the tops in the league.
Speaker 5: So it's a it's a difficult game, but I think
Speaker 5: we had the men that's built for the job, me
Speaker 5: and myself, Travis herb Ardy Beaks obviously. So it's gonna
Speaker 5: be on us to establish a line of scrimmage and
Speaker 5: kind of make them at least stud of their feat
Speaker 5: and go backside to go where the runs on playing
Speaker 5: to go. So, like I said, I think we got
Speaker 5: the man for the job, along with Roquan and all
Speaker 5: those guys as well. But it's definitely been placed on
Speaker 5: us to set the tone for the game and move
Speaker 5: forward from there.
Speaker 2: Last week, Oh yeah, he was more accurate.
Speaker 5: I'm not the most uh, I probably would say I'm
Speaker 5: probably the least guy to pay attention to the quarterback
Speaker 5: as far as like throws down the field. But now
Speaker 5: he was definitely more accurate and uh more precise with
Speaker 5: the ball. They had some miscues, but now he I
Speaker 5: would say he's always been elusive. He did make a
Speaker 5: lot of guys miss a lot of sacks, which we've
Speaker 5: we struggled with a little bit last week. So they
Speaker 5: just kind of emphasized that that practice, just making sure
Speaker 5: we break down our feet and try to, you know,
Speaker 5: get our bodies in front of him.
Speaker 2: But now he does.
Speaker 5: He does a great job making guys miss and looking
Speaker 5: for those second plays and uh, getting the ball downfield
Speaker 5: at the initial Playbakers.
Speaker 2: Now, like when you're.
Speaker 9: Going up against the team that has the number one defense,
Speaker 9: does that kind of invigorate you and and your fellow
Speaker 9: defenders to try and outclass them, out inform them more
Speaker 9: so than just traditionally playing.
Speaker 2: Against another time.
Speaker 5: So I would say we strive to be the number
Speaker 5: one defense. Uh, we aren't there at at the moment,
Speaker 5: but definitely. But this is like Cleveland Browns with Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 5: It's always been a big hit, take a punch, throw
Speaker 5: a punch kind of game. So nah, we definitely are
Speaker 5: aware that they're number one, and like I said, they
Speaker 5: have an amazing front. Obviously we know z and all
Speaker 5: those guys, so play with Dalvin, So now we definitely
Speaker 5: want to outplay them. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: that number one spot is still up for grabs until
Speaker 5: the season's over, so we that's what we're striving for.
Speaker 12: Michael, you've been through these AFC North road games before.
Speaker 12: Is there anything about Cleveland that is different from going
Speaker 12: to Pittsburgh or Cincinnati? Is there anything you mentioned hard
Speaker 12: hitting games? Does anything stick out about when you play there?
Speaker 5: I would just say from the last year or so,
Speaker 5: we haven't had the best run defense when we went there. Well,
Speaker 5: they ran well when they were here, but I wouldn't
Speaker 5: say so.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: I mean Pittsburgh Cincinnati, they're kind of the same to me,
Speaker 5: especially in the trenches. Like I said, we've been playing
Speaker 5: against Nick Chubb there and you know how great he is.
Speaker 5: So I think it's just really like I said, just
Speaker 5: take a punch, store a punch. It's been laid away
Speaker 5: with Pittsburgh, especially when they had like Le'Veon Bell and
Speaker 5: all those guys and the Pounty guys.
Speaker 2: So I was related to that.
Speaker 5: Just another hard hitting, fun game to playing if you're
Speaker 5: in the trenches, Like, did defense.
Speaker 12: Take anything extra about going into an enemy territory and
Speaker 12: maybe being motivated by everyone being against you. Is there
Speaker 12: anything that that that fuels you about that everything.
Speaker 5: I say, it's satisfying when you take the life out
Speaker 5: of the crowd and uh it goes silent. I've been
Speaker 5: a part of some really good defenses here and we've
Speaker 5: done that on a few occasions.
Speaker 2: So that's what you strive for.
Speaker 5: And uh, if you can get to a point probably
Speaker 5: third or fourth quarter, where they don't have any momentum
Speaker 5: and that crowd is really silent, that uh, that really
Speaker 5: really feels really good.
Speaker 14: Yeah, like what how exciting is that to get Marcus
Speaker 14: Warings back on the practice field just you know, a
Speaker 14: few weeks ago, didn't know if you guys were even
Speaker 14: going to have them the rest of the year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, man, I mean he's one of our leaders.
Speaker 5: So anytime he can just be around, be out here,
Speaker 5: no matter the capacity, it always makes you feel good.
Speaker 2: Anytime you get any of the guys back.
Speaker 5: We'll get Marlin back at some point in those kind
Speaker 5: of those guys who are working to get healthy at
Speaker 5: highest as well. So anytime you can get a guy
Speaker 5: like Marcus back who changes the game and uh in
Speaker 5: the blink of and I, that's always good to just
Speaker 5: have the energy back and have those uh, those guys
Speaker 5: who you can.
Speaker 2: Really really rely on back. So no, it's awesome. Like
Speaker 2: I was pride, you guys stay stopping to run. Marls
Speaker 2: had a few runs last week. What did you see?
Speaker 2: And I guess how much more the terms I think
Speaker 2: you guys are down at.
Speaker 5: That we had a missign. I'm in on the first
Speaker 5: play of the game, and uh we had some misfits.
Speaker 5: So it's really hard to disseminate to the public how
Speaker 5: much one person being out of place or lining up
Speaker 5: wrong really makes a difference. But I can't stress toe
Speaker 5: y'all enough, like that's super super important. So when I say, like, oh,
Speaker 5: we didn't line right, that's like a big big deal
Speaker 5: And you can really really see if you watch film
Speaker 5: how that affects the defense. So obviously that's on us
Speaker 5: getting getting the calls and lining up right and then
Speaker 5: you know, executing the calls when we do have those missteps.
Speaker 5: But like I told uh Me and Broddy were talking
Speaker 5: about it earlier, just every place somebody may make a
Speaker 5: misstep or may miss an assignment, but it's about those
Speaker 5: other ten guys who can cover that up and then
Speaker 5: keep going.
Speaker 2: So one more from Michael.
Speaker 4: Michael more like the big picture of trends on offense
Speaker 4: across the Vegas, like shorter passes, the ball out for
Speaker 4: quarterbacks when you're out there on a passing down.
Speaker 3: Has that like fundamentally changed your technique or your approach.
Speaker 8: The way you you go like your job?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I would say also I wouldn't not
Speaker 5: a lot initially, but they called me on, called on
Speaker 5: me to do that this year. Yeah, you definitely see
Speaker 5: a lot of different short passes and then uh, just
Speaker 5: RPOs in general. So those are intended to slow guys
Speaker 5: like myself down, especially the bigger guys who have to
Speaker 5: get to sell moving play the run first and then
Speaker 5: go vice versa from the ends. So now it definitely
Speaker 5: changes my approach. It also changes the way you kind
Speaker 5: of attack things. So I think Mike McDonald does a
Speaker 5: great job but just mixing up different calls to get
Speaker 5: us moving, even though they might have a you know,
Speaker 5: different scenarios depending on the down and distance.
Speaker 1: Next, let's go into the Ravens locker room. Big divisional
Speaker 1: game kind of what's the vibe of the team going
Speaker 1: into this one.
Speaker 15: I mean, just bounce back obviously, big divisional game away,
Speaker 15: just being focused, you know, taking a week by week,
Speaker 15: learning from our mistakes of last week and growing as
Speaker 15: a team and just giving all effort. We know what
Speaker 15: type of game it's gonna be. Pop up, that's the
Speaker 15: way you fly around. Obviously, good good secondary, good safeties.
Speaker 15: Those those linebacker group, h you know, they're shifties. So
Speaker 15: we're gonna have to bring it. We're gonna have to
Speaker 15: be prepared, and just the vibe and the focus of
Speaker 15: this week has been focused and and ready to go.
Speaker 15: So I'm excited about the guys and our team for
Speaker 15: this week.
Speaker 8: What the challenges they pose up front?
Speaker 10: You know, obviously talented friend, but what challenges does that
Speaker 10: great for you guys?
Speaker 15: Physical man, you don't see a team like this very often,
Speaker 15: So for us, you know, as as a group, we're
Speaker 15: gonna have to be ready to go, have our mindset right,
Speaker 15: and which we will.
Speaker 1: You know, you guys have a great game against the things,
Speaker 1: and it's a tough one week following. You know, what's
Speaker 1: it like in that room is you kind of try
Speaker 1: to say, all right, we know what we're capable of doing.
Speaker 15: You know, it's just about doing just calming down. You know,
Speaker 15: I'm not going to listen to to too much of
Speaker 15: the outside noise and and know knowing who we are
Speaker 15: and that we have to grow. We have to grow
Speaker 15: from week to week and the teams that are able
Speaker 15: to do that. You know, this is a long season,
Speaker 15: so if we can continue to to go to where
Speaker 15: we need to be, and obviously last game we were close,
Speaker 15: wasn't where we needed to be to win the game.
Speaker 2: But we're excited about moving forward.
Speaker 12: Do you describe what you guys are endeavoring with a
Speaker 12: new core another as a work in progress? In other words,
Speaker 12: you don't know totally what it is yet, but it's
Speaker 12: still building.
Speaker 9: Is it? Is that fair?
Speaker 15: I think it's fair, you know, I think I think
Speaker 15: as an offense, we know what we can be and
Speaker 15: and should be, and so that's the exciting part. You know,
Speaker 15: we haven't you know, reached our full potential yet we're
Speaker 15: still working on that and it's going to be a
Speaker 15: dangerous group and we never lose sight of that. Garrett,
Speaker 15: you know, you always gonna bring it. He's such a
Speaker 15: special athlete and specimen and he's so.
Speaker 2: Good at what he does.
Speaker 15: So this is one of those weeks where you've gotta
Speaker 15: be ready to go or guys like him and and
Speaker 15: other guys on that on that defense are going to
Speaker 15: make you pay.
Speaker 10: We're getting back to back at AFC North games here
Speaker 10: on the road. Do you embrace when you have to
Speaker 10: go into a tough road environment and play one of
Speaker 10: these kind of physical rivalry style games.
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, this are the other games that you
Speaker 15: look forward to. Obviously being two and one, being able
Speaker 15: to stack another win against this UH divisional team would
Speaker 15: be huge for us.
Speaker 4: When you when you watched that last game on the table,
Speaker 4: what was your sense of why there weren't as many
Speaker 4: maybe downfield opportunities as you guys.
Speaker 2: Would have liked.
Speaker 15: Just happened sort of that way, you know, I think
Speaker 15: that you know, there's some you know, I think all
Speaker 15: eleven guys or everybody that was on the field touched
Speaker 15: the field. There's things that we could have done differently,
Speaker 15: and so it's taken advantage of those opportunities.
Speaker 1: And last but not least, head coach John Harball just.
Speaker 7: Want to make a I mentioned of Brooks Robinson express
Speaker 7: our condolences as a family and also as an organization, team,
Speaker 7: players and everybody else to the Robinson family for the
Speaker 7: passing of this great man. You know, I remember our
Speaker 7: very first year in Baltimore where we lived was a
Speaker 7: neighborhood over you know how the neighborhoods are. You get
Speaker 7: into the neighborhood with houses, you know, and you can
Speaker 7: get to more houses. Right soon was trick or treating.
Speaker 7: She was six years old. That just tells you how
Speaker 7: long ago it was.
Speaker 8: Right and we were going.
Speaker 7: House to house and we'd come up to a house
Speaker 7: and ring the doorbell and the door opens and it's
Speaker 7: Brooks Robinson. I mean, I'm a baseball fan. I know
Speaker 7: Brooks Robinson is. I was just like stunned, you know.
Speaker 7: I mean you talk about not being able to say anything,
Speaker 7: and just like and he had the biggest smile on
Speaker 7: his face and you know, welcomed us. And we talked
Speaker 7: for a few minutes. And that was how I got
Speaker 7: to meet Brooks Robinson. And since then, here and there
Speaker 7: and over time we'd run into each other. And the
Speaker 7: most gracious man I think I've ever met in my life.
Speaker 7: It's just just a prince of a person. So rest
Speaker 7: in peace, Brooks Robinson forever. As far as injuries, I'm
Speaker 7: good ahead of that. Really don't have any updates on
Speaker 7: that to add, No announcements, no comments on it. It
Speaker 7: just isn't really something that we have really too much
Speaker 7: to say that I can really help you with anyway,
Speaker 7: and anything that I would say might not be accurate
Speaker 7: or it might not be something I want to put
Speaker 7: out there.
Speaker 8: So that's where we're at with that.
Speaker 16: Okay question, Joe, So you wouldn't spatify as positive getting
Speaker 16: guys back from you know, there's four guys back out
Speaker 16: there that Guste, there's been three guys have been out.
Speaker 7: I mean that's a positive absolutely absolutely, yes, of course.
Speaker 7: I mean you know what I'm saying. You know, we're
Speaker 7: happy with the guys. As they get back, we're going
Speaker 7: to be We're going to be thrilled. I mean, these
Speaker 7: these guys are really good players. You know, these guys
Speaker 7: are these guys and they've been working really hard to
Speaker 7: get back. They want to be back, and as guys
Speaker 7: come back, we're going to be very excited for them
Speaker 7: to get back and play and and uh, you know
Speaker 7: some of that will happen this week and then going
Speaker 7: forward the next few weeks. I don't have a definition
Speaker 7: on that, No, I don't, I don't. He wouldn't been
Speaker 7: able to practice today if he was actually in your
Speaker 7: concussion protocol. So the fact that we haven't talked about that,
Speaker 7: I would say no, but just bear with me. The
Speaker 7: fact that I haven't had that specific conversation with the doctors.
Speaker 5: Time to sign noy.
Speaker 2: I know what's here the summer of where you play,
Speaker 2: But what what what do you like about?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I always you know, always like Calvin No, he's a player.
Speaker 7: You go back to the Patriot Ravens games and him
Speaker 7: being out there playing the way he plays and that
Speaker 7: in that style, in that manner. He is just a
Speaker 7: ferocious player, you know, and smart player, tough player. I
Speaker 7: know he's in shape and he's ready to go and
Speaker 7: and uh, if needed, he'll be out there helping us.
Speaker 8: John.
Speaker 4: When you watch the Cleveland defense on tape from the
Speaker 4: first three games this year, they've obviously always had a
Speaker 4: lot of talent, but it seems.
Speaker 2: They're even more formidable this year.
Speaker 4: Maybe, I mean, do you see in particular area where
Speaker 4: they've taken given another step up this year?
Speaker 7: I think the defense for Cleveland's playing great. I mean,
Speaker 7: the the number one ranked defense in the Leader. Give
Speaker 7: him one hundred and sixty four yards ten ten point
Speaker 7: three points a game, is it? I mean, that's about
Speaker 7: as good as you can get. So, uh, that's something
Speaker 7: that we've got to take into account. We've studied him,
Speaker 7: we know the players, we we understand the scheme as
Speaker 7: best we can from being outside and as an opponent,
Speaker 7: and we're just gonna have to go out there and
Speaker 7: play our best football and move the ball, score points
Speaker 7: and try to win the game.
Speaker 4: Are they doing something very different stylistic play with the
Speaker 4: schwartz Ers there?
Speaker 2: You know they're doing well.
Speaker 7: Coachwartz has it's a system. It's a kind of Greg
Speaker 7: Williams system. They've been in that system before with Greg
Speaker 7: Williams obviously, but uh uh, you know Jim does it
Speaker 7: how he does it. You know, he's he's a he's
Speaker 7: a decorated veteran defensive coordinator in this league. Does a
Speaker 7: great job, always has, and he's put a stamp on it.
Speaker 10: For sure.
Speaker 11: It looks like the run defense you know on early
Speaker 11: down stout and great there and except they're rushers up
Speaker 11: to a wide nine and.
Speaker 9: Still here to hit the rock.
Speaker 2: He's what's the.
Speaker 4: Executive about how they're going to be front and everything.
Speaker 7: It's more pressolas well that a posture is also built
Speaker 7: to stop the run. It's not just a posture. It's
Speaker 7: not built to stop the run. They have a way
Speaker 7: of playing the run and that's how they do it.
Speaker 7: You know, we played that way in Philadelphia with Jim
Speaker 7: Johnson over the years, and that's a it's a defensive
Speaker 7: type of style. It's been around for quite a long time.
Speaker 7: And uh, they're very good at and they got as
Speaker 7: you said, they got excellent players, and they're playing really
Speaker 7: hard and well and and we respect them.
Speaker 16: It has been going against male scare many many times.
Speaker 2: Play the challenge of going against him and trying to
Speaker 2: contain him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it hasn't changed. You know, it's the
Speaker 8: same challenge.
Speaker 7: And uh, and he's he's the same players certainly will
Speaker 7: drop off in his game, and uh, he's he's a
Speaker 7: guy that you got to account for every single play.
Speaker 9: As a recent it's been bangless. You there's tough. People
Speaker 9: seem to not pay attention to how significant these games
Speaker 9: against the Browns can be in terms of that rivalry
Speaker 9: and visually kind of contest.
Speaker 2: You too, just speak to the spirit of these games
Speaker 2: and you look.
Speaker 9: Make me a light.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, this is this these games. I mean the
Speaker 7: Browns Ravens rivalry has been in my mind, it's just
Speaker 7: been a very heated, tough, physical, hard fought rivalry. And uh,
Speaker 7: just go back and watch the games. I think that's
Speaker 7: all you gotta do. And I know our fans, our
Speaker 7: fans know that. You know, I probably don't agree with
Speaker 7: your premise that they don't understand that. I believe our
Speaker 7: fans do know that. And it's a tough it's a
Speaker 7: tough state him to play. Playing is very loud. Uh,
Speaker 7: they pipe music and off the sideline right behind you
Speaker 7: makes even tougher for you.
Speaker 2: And it's just the way it is.
Speaker 7: It's a tough place to play, and it's a it's
Speaker 7: a tough team and and we respect them very much
Speaker 7: all the changes.
Speaker 2: How does that affect your does expect you well?
Speaker 7: I mean, I think offensively, you always try to and
Speaker 7: Todd does a great job with the coaches of scheming
Speaker 7: towards guys' strengths Mike, you know, and trying to do
Speaker 7: the things that they do well put in a position
Speaker 7: to do things well. And but it's all within the
Speaker 7: structure of the offense, and the offense is built to
Speaker 7: what you do well against what they do well or
Speaker 7: don't do well and their scheme and that's the way
Speaker 7: they're work it out.
Speaker 9: Davis fit in into kind of how you want to clown.
Speaker 2: How he's fit in and kind of.
Speaker 11: The way you want to put the defense and when
Speaker 11: you've gotten.
Speaker 7: In so far, Yeah, Jadavian clown. He's played great. You know,
Speaker 7: I think it's a great point in question. Uh, he's
Speaker 7: done a great job. We've always thought the world of
Speaker 7: him as a player, playing against him and when you
Speaker 7: have to scheme against him, kind of the point you
Speaker 7: guys are all making. Uh, it's really tough. So uh,
Speaker 7: when you when you face guys like that and then
Speaker 7: you have a chance for them to play for you,
Speaker 7: you know, you're kind of excited about that. So he's
Speaker 7: played really well. He fits what we're doing well, plays hard,
Speaker 7: and you know, I'm glad he's here. You mentioned you
Speaker 7: really like say Flower's mentality and the way he comes
Speaker 7: like practice with such spirit.
Speaker 14: How have you seen him bounce back since the loss
Speaker 14: and maybe some of the mistakes and how is.
Speaker 8: He also making me some justice?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm out just as he's he's a very competitive guy.
Speaker 7: He's always in high spirits. He's always full of energy,
Speaker 7: and uh, and he had he had a great couple
Speaker 7: of days. He and I talked yesterday actually Monday, for
Speaker 7: quite a while and just one on one. It was
Speaker 7: a great conversation, and you know, we talked to a
Speaker 7: lot of guys. It wasn't anything out of the ordinary.
Speaker 7: But he's a great or role and he's gonna go
Speaker 7: try to play his best game on Sunday.
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