Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, October twenty fifth, and you're listening to
Speaker 1: the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens are gearing up
Speaker 1: for Sunday's game against the Arizona Cardinals, and head coach
Speaker 1: John Harball talk with the media today after practice.
Speaker 2: Okay, good seeing everybody. Appreciate everybody being here. Beautiful day.
Speaker 2: I guess we're getting ready for Arizona weather. How about that.
Speaker 3: But guys have been good, locked in and focused and
Speaker 3: we're trying to prepare for Sunday's game.
Speaker 2: What questions you have?
Speaker 4: No, we didn't see ro Corn out there or anything anything.
Speaker 3: No, he just wasn't out there. I'm not commenting on
Speaker 3: any of that really at this point in time. But
Speaker 3: the injury report will be coming out four o'clock. All right,
Speaker 3: I guess that's it.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 5: Do you spend any time this week with Eric dealing
Speaker 5: with the un even trade deadline or is that out
Speaker 5: of your.
Speaker 3: Michael, No, No, we'll we'll all we all have conversations about
Speaker 3: everything that can happen, and we'll talk about all those things.
Speaker 6: Done. The you know, the offense obviously had a big
Speaker 6: week or last week, just curious seven games in now
Speaker 6: your thoughts on todd and and scheme and what's impressed
Speaker 6: you and stood out as you said, you know.
Speaker 7: What you have the games on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's just like the overarching themes, the
Speaker 3: big picture. You know, I don't know evaluations, that's for
Speaker 3: another time. You know, we're just locked in trying to
Speaker 3: be the best team we can be this week against
Speaker 3: in this game. That's what you have to do. You
Speaker 3: can't be thinking that way. So I can answer the
Speaker 3: question and just tell you something that's just kind of
Speaker 3: off the top of my head, but it wouldn't have
Speaker 3: any meeting.
Speaker 2: You know, we had a good game last week.
Speaker 3: You gotta have the best game we can have this
Speaker 3: week against a completely different defense, completely different situation.
Speaker 2: We're on the road.
Speaker 3: All those things change, So you know, that'll be our goal,
Speaker 3: our mission. Just keep trying to have a good game
Speaker 3: from week to week and overarchingly continue to improve and
Speaker 3: get better at all the little things you do, because
Speaker 3: if you don't improve, then you get you you know,
Speaker 3: you got to keep improving. So that's really that's the
Speaker 3: one theme that I could probably share that that would
Speaker 3: be in our minds as coaches and players right now.
Speaker 6: Improvement or the steps are going into Oh there's about.
Speaker 2: A hundred of them.
Speaker 3: You know, we don't really have time to go through
Speaker 3: all of them right now, but I appreciate you asking.
Speaker 4: I know you're you talked about how you were involved
Speaker 4: in lamars, running and passing, how you're typically playing. You
Speaker 4: guys have gotten off to some really good starts, and
Speaker 4: how involved are you as far as the scripting of
Speaker 4: the players, I mean, you know, the input and uh,
Speaker 4: everything that goes into that.
Speaker 3: I think we've done a good job scripting plays, you know.
Speaker 3: And you know, we've done a good job with starting
Speaker 3: games obviously because we've executed well coming out. It's been
Speaker 3: a big plus for us. I mean, obviously, you don't
Speaker 3: want to start behind the eight ball. You want to
Speaker 3: start with the lead. You want to get the lead,
Speaker 3: you want to extend the lead as much as you can.
Speaker 3: You want you want to create a good field position.
Speaker 3: Early we had games where we haven't had that, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's, uh, that becomes a challenge for you. You know,
Speaker 3: It's it's hard to get jump started when you're backed up.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of factors that go into that
Speaker 3: and do the best you can with it.
Speaker 8: Every week, John, I know Arizona is a one win team,
Speaker 8: but they've had some hard, pull up games this year.
Speaker 8: When you watch them, what what do you see on field?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I see a really a really tough team.
Speaker 3: I mean, they got a lot of great players, and
Speaker 3: they're they're they're uh, they're building in their new offense
Speaker 3: and defensive systems.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: They play super hard. Both sides of the ball are
Speaker 2: very physical.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I just think it's a it's a young team. You've
Speaker 3: got guys that boot a Bake over there. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, that's one of the best players in the
Speaker 3: National Football League. Uh, they're they're they're uh, they're impressive
Speaker 3: with what you're trying to get done. They've been in
Speaker 3: a lot of close games. Uh, they've been in games,
Speaker 3: you know, in the fourth quarter they were one score
Speaker 3: or less games or they had to lead, you know,
Speaker 3: uh and then didn't finish.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 3: So I'm sure that's what they're talking about, is get
Speaker 3: the game, you know, you know, play play hard, get
Speaker 3: the game of the fourth court, and try to find
Speaker 3: a way to finish the game. You know, That's that's
Speaker 3: what any team will be talking about right now. And
Speaker 3: I'm sure that's what they're talking about.
Speaker 8: Honestly, you guys are comfortable with Hollyo market Marquis Brown,
Speaker 8: with him being out here. What have you seen from
Speaker 8: him since his time in Arizona? Anything different in his
Speaker 8: game from maybe when you guys had a meet or.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you kind of look at him more
Speaker 3: from a a standpoint of an opponent receiver at this point.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's he looks good, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean obviously we've always respected him as a player,
Speaker 3: we love him as a person.
Speaker 2: Uh, marquis a great guy. Uh, and he uh looks.
Speaker 3: Go out there, he's he's he's their number one target threat,
Speaker 3: uh for sure at crossing the routes, salo routes, go routes,
Speaker 3: over routes. I mean those are things that are just
Speaker 3: uh his in his wheelhouse, you know, catch and run
Speaker 3: on the run guy. So, uh, we'll have a hands
Speaker 3: full of definitely be a guy that we're gonna know
Speaker 3: his number out there.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Could you mentioned the other day going out for early,
Speaker 6: which I guess you guys would typically do from those
Speaker 6: Western Coast games, you know, day early, and he's is
Speaker 6: that something you know you figured out at some points
Speaker 6: you just terms of getting guys adjusted or what what's
Speaker 6: the thought process that it's gonna.
Speaker 2: Like try to just to the time a little bit.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: We've been doing that since, uh since nineteen ninety eight,
Speaker 3: So it's worked.
Speaker 6: That you could just opens done that and it's well.
Speaker 3: It's been good and you really don't see uh an
Speaker 3: argument to to go out the day before going west.
Speaker 2: But so that's cooing.
Speaker 11: Kyle van Noy. What does he meant to your defense?
Speaker 11: And have you noticed Kyle becoming more comfortable with the
Speaker 11: defensive scheme and just being out there on game day
Speaker 11: over the last couple of weeks because his his numbers showing.
Speaker 2: I think he's playing great, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean he came in, he wasn't in training camp anywhere,
Speaker 3: so it's probably an element of getting in football shape.
Speaker 3: I think he's definitely working in the football shape there.
Speaker 3: He's he was really strong at the end of the
Speaker 3: game this last week and playing great football John Rookie receivers.
Speaker 12: So often take a longer time to get activated, trying
Speaker 12: to find a way to get up out with day
Speaker 12: from day one, he really just seemed to be ready
Speaker 12: to go. He's very comfortable from the beginning why do
Speaker 12: you think he's been so good at being ready to immediate.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean he's probably just a really great player,
Speaker 3: you know, and that's why we drafted him where we did,
Speaker 3: you know. And but hey, listen, I mean it's it's
Speaker 3: almost the middle of the season. He's got a challenge
Speaker 3: in front of him. I don't think he's looking back,
Speaker 3: you know, to to say ask you that question. I
Speaker 3: think he's looking forward to try to have the best
Speaker 3: game that he can have on Sunday and help us
Speaker 3: win the game.
Speaker 13: John.
Speaker 14: I think Nick Say talks about his teams of winning
Speaker 14: rat poison.
Speaker 8: When they're doing really well.
Speaker 14: Nick Sady talks about his teams are winning rat poison
Speaker 14: when they're doing Yeah, if they're any kindatography for your guys.
Speaker 3: Like Sunday, we talked to him along those lines. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's something we talk about for sure. I don't really
Speaker 3: have a clever a clever rat poison comment. I'll try
Speaker 3: to think of one next time.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harbaugh. We also heard from
Speaker 1: quarterback Lamar and Jackson.
Speaker 15: That's what it's come down to, you know, as long
Speaker 15: as you're winning, that's when you're getting all the praise.
Speaker 13: And stuff like that.
Speaker 15: But once you lose or things don't look right, so
Speaker 15: that's when the praise and stuff turns into something else.
Speaker 2: So I'm just focusing on winning. We'll go from there.
Speaker 6: That winning Cincinnati followed by lost in Indianapolis, the win
Speaker 6: in Cleveland, followed by the struggles with Pittsburgh.
Speaker 14: What do you think so far as prevented his team
Speaker 14: from finding the week to week consistency where you guys
Speaker 14: are able to kind of put forth consistent effort every week.
Speaker 15: You didn't say we won in London and then we
Speaker 15: won again, and then we came back and won again.
Speaker 2: You didn't say that.
Speaker 15: So I believe we're going in the right direction right now.
Speaker 15: If anything, you need to keep going, like I said,
Speaker 15: keep being consistent.
Speaker 6: Do you believe in the idea of a trap game
Speaker 6: or a leftout game or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 6: After you've had a big win, you know, and then
Speaker 6: you play a team that you're expected to beat.
Speaker 2: I mean, do you have to fight that at all?
Speaker 15: Or I believe you have a trap game or something
Speaker 15: like that when you've been complecent or thinking the team
Speaker 15: is okay, yeah, we we just beat this team thirty
Speaker 15: something to six, So we're not rid about this team.
Speaker 15: I believe that's when that stuff pops into your brain.
Speaker 15: But I don't believe our guys like that. You know,
Speaker 15: we know it's any given Sunday, it's the NFL. You know,
Speaker 15: anybody can be beaten. So we're just gonna go in there,
Speaker 15: go out there to Arizona and fight our butt off.
Speaker 6: I said, a lot more success last game than the
Speaker 6: beating past. A game eight passes for twenty yards or more.
Speaker 6: One of the biggest skeed of that.
Speaker 16: And every how do you guys.
Speaker 15: Effect on preparation, everybody doing the assignments full speed?
Speaker 2: Uh F, I don't know.
Speaker 15: God's was everybody was alive, you know, all of us
Speaker 15: was alive, was on the same accord.
Speaker 2: And that's what it needs to be every game.
Speaker 6: Or what is it a a about, said Young?
Speaker 14: Is that classis and that's clear to everybody that you
Speaker 14: feel like he has allowed him to get off yourself
Speaker 14: a fast start.
Speaker 15: Sh Man, He's explosive, he wants to be great, you know,
Speaker 15: he he's willing to learn, and he doing everything full
Speaker 15: speed and that's what you need to do in the league,
Speaker 15: and everything full speed. Make everything look the same, and
Speaker 15: it'd be hard for God's to come.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 12: More, what do you.
Speaker 9: Make of being the AFC Offensive Player of the week
Speaker 9: as a quarterback?
Speaker 12: Is that something that you look at weekend and week out?
Speaker 15: Mm, I'm tryna win weekend week out. Uh if that happened,
Speaker 15: but oh nah, uh no, But I'm just trying to
Speaker 15: focus on winning. Like I said, weekend week out. Uh,
Speaker 15: when stuff like that happens, I feel like that's a
Speaker 15: team award.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 15: Without those guys, I won't be the FC Player of
Speaker 15: the week. So cats out to my teammates.
Speaker 17: Guys you said, if it's only one ball out there,
Speaker 17: or feel like you got a bunch of guys you
Speaker 17: can make plays. Do you talk to guys like Isaiah
Speaker 17: likely do Vernee that really haven't been involved with much
Speaker 17: offensively in terms of getting the ball and try, you know,
Speaker 17: assure them that, look, your time's coming, and uh, you
Speaker 17: know i'm'a get you the ball absolutely.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 15: Gotta keep my guys head in the game, you know,
Speaker 15: cause they used to making plays for us. So just
Speaker 15: letting them know, you know, it's your time, Like you said,
Speaker 15: your time's gonna come. Opportunities gonna gonna happen. Just make
Speaker 15: the most of it when the time come.
Speaker 10: That's all and hard When uh you mentioned you're happy
Speaker 10: for Marquis where he is, how he's doing. Hey, when
Speaker 10: you're close to a teammate. Did he make some business
Speaker 10: decision he wanted to be elsewhere? How do you how
Speaker 10: do you see that? How do you describe that to
Speaker 10: people who wonder how that happens?
Speaker 2: I mean that that's his decision.
Speaker 15: You know, he gotta feed his family at the end
Speaker 15: of the day, and he believes it's the right decision
Speaker 15: for him.
Speaker 2: That's that's on him. It's not on me.
Speaker 15: It's not my decision to make. You know, he would
Speaker 15: have still be been here if it was up to me.
Speaker 14: After I for a game like some of that, what
Speaker 14: is kind of a film study except the coach to
Speaker 14: you right, you played pretty well, didn't make a whole
Speaker 14: lot of asacks. I mean, w what is the kind
Speaker 14: of takeaways from after you?
Speaker 15: GOVI was dom did go pretty much critiquing me for
Speaker 15: the for the things I did wrong or stuff like that,
Speaker 15: W which I do to myself anyways, So I'm I'm
Speaker 15: pretty cool with that. You know, it's not really no
Speaker 15: praise or anything like that in the meeting rooms. Just
Speaker 15: how you can get better, you know, from the film
Speaker 15: and then from the past game and on to the
Speaker 15: next pretty much.
Speaker 8: Lamar uh on Monday, Harves gave you guys's a lot
Speaker 8: of qua being able to uh be successful when the
Speaker 8: first play doesn't work. Thing like that Nelson agular play
Speaker 8: where you're extending the play case that a is that
Speaker 8: something that you really focus on as well? Kind of uh,
Speaker 8: not just extending the play, but making something happen when
Speaker 8: the the original play breaks down.
Speaker 15: To be honest, cry now, I try to focus on everything.
Speaker 15: But yeah, like you said, you know, things don't don't
Speaker 15: work out, you know, just try to go to the
Speaker 15: next progression, you know, go scramber drill because we actually
Speaker 15: did work on scrimbing drill. But go scrimbing drill. Hope
Speaker 15: the guys get open, you know, and try to make
Speaker 15: a play because we always trying to score. We're always
Speaker 15: trying to keep the keep the ball rolling.
Speaker 8: So what do you know such a great command of
Speaker 8: the offense, you know, just one scrimmage and throughout you
Speaker 8: know the pass union and what has allowed back to.
Speaker 15: Be the case watching film, Uh, just being locked in Uh,
Speaker 15: when it starts in practice, practicing, trying to command the
Speaker 15: offense and practice and it make the transition for the
Speaker 15: game easy.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson. He is really focused on
Speaker 1: setting the tone this week as the Ravens know they
Speaker 1: cannot get complacent after a big win on Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Today, we also heard from veteran linebacker
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy. He joined the team earlier this year
Speaker 1: and he clearly is flourishing here in Baltimore.
Speaker 16: So what do you think has made is adjusted? It
Speaker 16: seems like there has been no transition. Are you into
Speaker 16: this defense? Why do you think that it's been such
Speaker 16: a great transition for you? I think it'll start from me. Uh,
Speaker 16: when I wasn't on a team. That started then when
Speaker 16: I was working out by myself in my backyard with
Speaker 16: my son watching and putting in the work when nobody
Speaker 16: was watching, and then just being ready for that opportunity
Speaker 16: when it came and the Ravens happened to be the team,
Speaker 16: and it's been a great marriage so far. And you know,
Speaker 16: just trying to be the best teammate and the best
Speaker 16: pro I can be, and my coaches have done a
Speaker 16: great job of putting me in places to succeed, and
Speaker 16: then that tied into with my work ethic in the
Speaker 16: off season and when no one was looking.
Speaker 9: Has set the tone.
Speaker 8: Culture and the lock rooms that makes the easiers come
Speaker 8: in for everybody w each other. So did you feel
Speaker 8: well this year?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: The culture has been set I think before any of
Speaker 9: the players that are here now, that's been set a
Speaker 9: long time ago, especially on defense with the standard. So
Speaker 9: me coming in and not only having a high standard
Speaker 9: for myself but a standard that's already been set, it's
Speaker 9: been pretty kind of easy to jump in because it's
Speaker 9: like they've done something well for multiple years along like
Speaker 9: decades now. So for me, it's just kind of being
Speaker 9: the best pro I can be, play hard and make
Speaker 9: place and I've done that my whole career and just
Speaker 9: trying to continue to do that for the Ravens and
Speaker 9: for my teammates.
Speaker 12: Imagine you must have thought that coming in, you would
Speaker 12: you would be knew what you were getting into. Like
Speaker 12: you said, you had that idea. This has been here
Speaker 12: for decades. Its defensively at standard, but it seems like
Speaker 12: it's been even better. Is it even better what you've thought?
Speaker 12: As hard being even your maybe what you thought it
Speaker 12: might be from when you got here.
Speaker 9: I think playing the NFL is never easy, But if
Speaker 9: we're making it look easy, I guess that's good. I
Speaker 9: mean it goes back to the work ethic that goes
Speaker 9: out on the practice facility and how guys take care
Speaker 9: of their bodies and how they approach the game, and
Speaker 9: the coaches and the game plan. So it's all tied
Speaker 9: in hand, and we've been doing a really good job
Speaker 9: and we only need to increase that urgency and continue
Speaker 9: to build on what we have. They played on the
Speaker 9: teams at Wow, that's impressive. Sorry, thank you for all
Speaker 9: the questions. Sorry crazy great quarterbacks.
Speaker 14: Just I know you haven't been here for long, But
Speaker 14: how would you describe at level that the Mars when.
Speaker 16: I have right now?
Speaker 9: You got to say he's playing at an MVP level.
Speaker 9: And you know, I think they take a lot of
Speaker 9: pride in protecting Lamar and just how Lamar approaches the game.
Speaker 9: It starts at practice for him and the way he
Speaker 9: holds himself to a high standard, and then everybody else
Speaker 9: wants to be at that standard as well. He makes
Speaker 9: practices competitive and it's really fun to be on the
Speaker 9: opposite side, talking trash against him and competing with them
Speaker 9: and just trying to make each other better. But it's
Speaker 9: been awesome to see what he's doing on Sundays right now,
Speaker 9: and it's a testament to who he is as a
Speaker 9: person and a player. He's really taken the quarterback into
Speaker 9: that next level that everybody wants to see. And I
Speaker 9: think he knows he can even bring another another level
Speaker 9: just the way he is as a person and as
Speaker 9: a player. You know he knows there's another level. And
Speaker 9: I'm excited to sit and watch that next level too
Speaker 9: and not have to go against it. Say that one
Speaker 9: more time. Sorry.
Speaker 6: Along those lines, You've seen a lot of great offenses,
Speaker 6: think you've been a part of than just in the league.
Speaker 6: What's it like going against this offense in particular? Has
Speaker 6: not to compare it to others, but how would you
Speaker 6: sort of describe what it's like to go against them
Speaker 6: in practice?
Speaker 9: I mean, I can't really compare it because every offense
Speaker 9: is different, and when you have a quarterback like that,
Speaker 9: it's he's one of one. I don't think there hasn't
Speaker 9: been many like him ever to play the game, So
Speaker 9: it's hard to compare it. It's just you know what
Speaker 9: he's doing and how he's progressed, and his passing game
Speaker 9: approach has been really really awesome to see and awesome
Speaker 9: for him to grow. He's always known he's had that,
Speaker 9: and I think it's awesome to see it on display.
Speaker 6: You were talking about the motivation, it's to kind of
Speaker 6: keep working out when.
Speaker 17: Nobody's watching your backyard or with your son, who as
Speaker 17: a great coach.
Speaker 14: What keeps that fire burning at that time when no
Speaker 14: one is calling and you're just working out.
Speaker 13: On your own.
Speaker 9: That's a good question. Honestly, I think it's just me
Speaker 9: as who I am. I haven't been satisfied all the way.
Speaker 9: There's been some seasons that have gone well, some seasons
Speaker 9: that have been not so well for me, and I
Speaker 9: just feel like I have a lot more in the tank.
Speaker 9: I feel like I'm in my prime. I know this
Speaker 9: is a what everyone says, a young man's league, but
Speaker 9: I believe it's also an experienced man league. I fall
Speaker 9: in line in that experienced and I hope to continue
Speaker 9: to develop as a player and help my teammates and
Speaker 9: then just win games. I mean that's one thing about me,
Speaker 9: is I win games I win more than I lose,
Speaker 9: and I hope to continue that streak. O.
Speaker 5: John will say you were very impressed with you as
Speaker 5: a player when you were on the other teams that
Speaker 5: put when they face What do you remember of him
Speaker 5: or what was your impression on him as a coach then?
Speaker 5: And who in this building maybe did you talk to
Speaker 5: leading up to your signing gear?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Thanks John, you guys can laugh, It's okay. I think
Speaker 9: what stood out to me the most was the power
Speaker 9: of the the sorry I'm thinking of the word just
Speaker 9: empowering his players. You know, one thing that goes back
Speaker 9: to me is a fourth down call. I don't remember
Speaker 9: what game, but Lamar is like, we're going for it,
Speaker 9: and he trusted Lamar and Lamar ended up picking up
Speaker 9: that up. And that's something that I've always admired, is
Speaker 9: he's trusted his players, he trusts the heartbeat of the team,
Speaker 9: and he really knows how to push guys exactly at
Speaker 9: the right moment. So I've always admired that, and just
Speaker 9: him and his personality. I mean, he gets excited every
Speaker 9: day about football, and I love football, and so if
Speaker 9: you love football, you love that attitude of somebody that
Speaker 9: wakes up and eats breeze, sleeps football. It's exciting and
Speaker 9: it's fun to be around.
Speaker 6: K You've played for a number of great defensive coaches
Speaker 6: over the course of your career. What stands out about
Speaker 6: Mike McDonald and maybe this defense that is a little
Speaker 6: more unique for more special.
Speaker 9: His attitude, just his attitude to never be satisfied, but
Speaker 9: at the same time giving credit when it's due. And
Speaker 9: I say that, like, you know, sometimes things happen right
Speaker 9: and he takes ownership if it's him and then he
Speaker 9: gives it like you need to take ownership in this
Speaker 9: So just his way of pushing players to be better.
Speaker 9: Just his attitude and approach to the game. He really
Speaker 9: loves his football and he really loves his players, man,
Speaker 9: that's something I've noticed. He may not show it with
Speaker 9: his stoic face on the sideline during a game, but
Speaker 9: really deep inside, he's really rooting for all the guys
Speaker 9: to play well. And I think he does a really
Speaker 9: good job with the staff too. He empowers this staff
Speaker 9: to really be themselves, really communicate well with the players
Speaker 9: and get on the same page.
Speaker 1: That was Kyle van Noy talking about joining this team. Also,
Speaker 1: if you want more from Kyle, check out his appearance
Speaker 1: on the Lounge podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts,
Speaker 1: also on YouTube. That episode is dropping Thursday morning. Today.
Speaker 1: We also had a chance to hear from wide receiver
Speaker 1: Zay Flowers today.
Speaker 4: I'm sure all this fleet people talking about how you
Speaker 4: routed the Lions and now you go face a one
Speaker 4: win team in Arizona. How do you go as a
Speaker 4: team not to overlook a team after you've done so
Speaker 4: well previous week?
Speaker 7: I mean, I feel like we got the same mentality
Speaker 7: every week, you go win the game, cause initially everybody
Speaker 7: could beat everybody. So we just got to prepare like
Speaker 7: we did that we like the weeks before, and try
Speaker 7: to go get a win.
Speaker 9: Well, what was wanna say?
Speaker 1: How does the long kind of set the tone.
Speaker 17: At regard.
Speaker 7: Just coming out and leading and having everybody ready for
Speaker 7: practice by telling us what he need during practice and
Speaker 7: what what he see and how to run around and
Speaker 7: how to do this. So just basically him doing what
Speaker 7: he do best, leading and taking over.
Speaker 6: See the the numbers you're putting up there, you're on
Speaker 6: the place from Jamorrow.
Speaker 14: Chase, you know, is the only other guy who put
Speaker 14: fifty scrimate yards up in the first seven years.
Speaker 6: Did you expect this kind of fast start? What what
Speaker 6: were your expect expectations?
Speaker 7: Can we in Honestly, it was just to go out
Speaker 7: do my job and get wins and just do my
Speaker 7: part when the ball come to me and try to
Speaker 7: do what I do best, and that's right after the catch,
Speaker 7: or get open and create separation and play from there
Speaker 7: and go for there going off of that.
Speaker 10: Does it feel like you're doing something crazy and it's
Speaker 10: start only that's like you reasy?
Speaker 7: Feel so much more now, I don't really feel like. Honestly,
Speaker 7: it feel like I got a lot more. Like I
Speaker 7: feel like I could do a lot more and try
Speaker 7: to get or either more yards or try to help
Speaker 7: it any way that I can. So it feel like
Speaker 7: I'm j I'm just playing right now and I'm out there.
Speaker 6: You're playing with someone like Lamar who was extending players,
Speaker 6: keeping the players going as long as he's able to
Speaker 6: help beneficial as that to receivers and have toposit.
Speaker 9: With you guys.
Speaker 7: So it made it made defensive backs have to cover
Speaker 7: you two times basically, and you got two chances to
Speaker 7: make you get separation and get the ball. So we
Speaker 7: had a we had a lot of scrambled drills this
Speaker 7: year that we was able to catch touchdowns or just
Speaker 7: get a deep ball going, and that helped it. That
Speaker 7: helped get the team going. So just having him do
Speaker 7: that is very important.
Speaker 6: How mu sure you uh inter your first touchdown state side?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 7: Nah, I would just let that one come to me.
Speaker 7: I ain't really interer for it. So whoever get it,
Speaker 7: I go celebrate with him, and I just wait for my.
Speaker 6: Curious what you you had a impression obviously with what
Speaker 6: Lamar was before you got here, and you had as
Speaker 6: a training camp all that Negatis seven games, and how
Speaker 6: has that changed and and and what just kind of
Speaker 6: stood out to in that process?
Speaker 9: I guess.
Speaker 7: I mean just what he do honestly, like just being
Speaker 7: out there seeing him play. It's different on television cause
Speaker 7: you see you just see stuff. But when you actually
Speaker 7: out there with him and you see the stuff that
Speaker 7: he do, like it's it's super impressive. And even in
Speaker 7: times you don't like seem like you don't have a
Speaker 7: chance to win with him on the field, you always
Speaker 7: got a chance to win and the game never get
Speaker 7: out of hand with him.
Speaker 6: I did you mention early in the season that the
Speaker 6: scheme was a lot you know, reminded you of a
Speaker 6: lot of college the a lot of spray donation stuff
Speaker 6: and things like that. How are you sort of, uh W,
Speaker 6: where do you feel like you're at in your learning
Speaker 6: process or knowing the scheme and and being.
Speaker 7: Able to have an impact and so, uh, I think
Speaker 7: I'm doing a pretty good job with learning the scheme
Speaker 7: and running around and know what I'm doing. It just
Speaker 7: we we add a lot of new stuff. So every
Speaker 7: week I just gotta be on top of it with
Speaker 7: detailed execution and just go out and do it.
Speaker 12: Did you see it come together like it did a
Speaker 12: week ago? Does it feel like that is a launching
Speaker 12: point or is it that kind of showed like a
Speaker 12: ceiling and how good you guys can be, you know,
Speaker 12: four straight touchdowns to start the gamer?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think necessarily, I think we could do more.
Speaker 7: I think that was just the start of what everybody
Speaker 7: that you get a little taste of it. That was
Speaker 7: just a little taste.
Speaker 16: I think another.
Speaker 14: Veteran guys like Nelson Aguilar, Ojan Menoring, you know, some
Speaker 14: ways there's something that they've taught you specifically that you
Speaker 14: feel like you can utilize the more of this season.
Speaker 7: I say, more off the field. It's more taking care
Speaker 7: of my body, like every Friday, like I go at
Speaker 7: Nelly and oh and take care of like get treatment
Speaker 7: and we do like little things for our body to
Speaker 7: get prepared for the game. So that's probably the biggest part,
Speaker 7: just staying healthy.
Speaker 1: That was rookie wide receiver Zay Flowers in the locker
Speaker 1: room after practice. We also heard from a veteran offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: Morgan Moses.
Speaker 12: Got feels like we saw a whole lot new last week,
Speaker 12: but almost like there's like there's just so much more
Speaker 12: than you had to come.
Speaker 2: How much of this offense has seen? How much more
Speaker 2: potential is there?
Speaker 13: I think you know, just you know, week after week, man,
Speaker 13: we're just correcting things, fixing things, fine tuning things.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 13: I mean I think you ask anybody around in the building.
Speaker 13: Last week, the last couple of weeks, man, we've put
Speaker 13: together some really good practices on Wednesday and Thursday, and
Speaker 13: you know that's when a lot of the meat and
Speaker 13: potatoes of the end star is coming in. So to
Speaker 13: be able to take what we learned from the classroom
Speaker 13: and go in and execute it.
Speaker 2: On the field, and obviously.
Speaker 13: Man, we go against the top defense every day in practice,
Speaker 13: so that always helps as well. So guys are flying around, man,
Speaker 13: guys are running full speed. Receivers look great, and it's
Speaker 13: just about taking those steps and moving forward.
Speaker 12: I feel like there's a lot more to give though,
Speaker 12: like we just the potential of the two offense, because
Speaker 12: I heard a lot of people say like, oh, well,
Speaker 12: we're seeing the ceiling from what this offense could be
Speaker 12: or is there a different level.
Speaker 13: I mean, I don't think it's a ceiling, man. I
Speaker 13: think you know, when you have the mindset, especially a
Speaker 13: growth mindset, to get better just at the little things
Speaker 13: every day, that just opened up opportunity, you know. I
Speaker 13: think you know, you ask a lot of guys on
Speaker 13: the office, man, I feel we feel like we left
Speaker 13: a lot of things out there, you know, on the field,
Speaker 13: and you know, obviously, you know, we want to be
Speaker 13: able to get that turnover back in the red zone,
Speaker 13: which is which is points, but there's things that we
Speaker 13: can always come back to and get better at. And
Speaker 13: I think to have a team that's willing to do
Speaker 13: that and come in correct those things. Even when you
Speaker 13: get a big win like that, you know, it's just
Speaker 13: it just shows the growth in the mindset that we
Speaker 13: have for alignment.
Speaker 12: Does you have to have the mindset the way LA
Speaker 12: Market extend plays like I gotta keep locking no matter
Speaker 12: what because this thing might just keep going and going
Speaker 12: and going.
Speaker 13: I mean, it's he's electrifying, right, So you know, nobody
Speaker 13: else in this league is doing what he's doing. Credit
Speaker 13: to him, man, but it's always uh, you know, whatever
Speaker 13: whatever it is considered a dead play is never dead
Speaker 13: with him back there, right. So you know, he's a playmaker.
Speaker 13: He's phenomenal with the ball and with the with the
Speaker 13: the amount of skill put players that we have. You know,
Speaker 13: you look across the board at the receivers, everybody's hitting
Speaker 13: and he's spreading the ball out to everybody. So when
Speaker 13: you get the opportunity to do that in the office, man,
Speaker 13: you see the offense start taking off.
Speaker 1: Along was lying, you know, Lamar said after the game,
Speaker 1: happy with the performance, But the key is to be
Speaker 1: consistent with that every single week. How does he kind
Speaker 1: of set the tone for avoid any kind of a
Speaker 1: place to see or any sort of celebration after year.
Speaker 13: I mean that's the thing, right, because like we've seen it, right,
Speaker 13: we've seen it where we look really good, and we've
Speaker 13: seen where we come back next week and we shoot
Speaker 13: our foot ourself in the foot in the red zone
Speaker 13: and just to be able to you know, compliment those
Speaker 13: things and go out through the week and you know,
Speaker 13: be able to go with I think it's five for
Speaker 13: six in the red zone this past week.
Speaker 2: It shows growth.
Speaker 13: But right, you don't want to have to step back either,
Speaker 13: So we gotta continue chasing those those imperfections to make
Speaker 13: them perfect. And you know, Lamar as a leader, as
Speaker 13: a guy that touched the ball every every play in
Speaker 13: our offense, he sets the tone for that. So we
Speaker 13: have to be great at all cylinders and we got
Speaker 13: to chase that.
Speaker 2: So you're the traffic, you know.
Speaker 13: You know, it's funny you say trap game because you know,
Speaker 13: if you play in the NFL this long, or anybody
Speaker 13: that's played in the NFL, you realize that that's why
Speaker 13: everybody watches games on Sunday, right, because it doesn't matter
Speaker 13: what the record is, it doesn't matter what the score,
Speaker 13: the score predictions are. At the end of the day,
Speaker 13: you gotta line up between the lines and play that game.
Speaker 4: And now you know, a couple of weeks ago, you're
Speaker 4: in London.
Speaker 6: Now you're in there.
Speaker 4: Any is there anything real to travel fatigue?
Speaker 13: You know, we just trying to put our head down
Speaker 13: and just you know, and just go. You know, these
Speaker 13: are the cards we're dealt with, and you know, for
Speaker 13: us to complain about it, what does it do for us?
Speaker 13: So we're just focused on the things that we can
Speaker 13: control and just move forward with that.
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