Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Presspass podcast. It is Monday, September
Speaker 1: twenty third, and the Ravens got the first win of
Speaker 1: the season on Sunday over the Dallas Cowboys. Today we
Speaker 1: had a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh
Speaker 1: during his weekly Monday afternoon presser.
Speaker 2: Shit, you guys being here. Got back last night pretty late,
Speaker 2: most a lot of coaches. We came in, worked, went
Speaker 2: to sleep, got up, worked again. So we're getting into
Speaker 2: the grind now for Buffalo they play tonight, so probably
Speaker 2: watch it game on TV like like you guys, like
Speaker 2: everybody else, But do all the work we can up
Speaker 2: until that point and be a big, big tough challenge
Speaker 2: for us Sunday night football.
Speaker 3: Our crowd looking forward.
Speaker 2: To that, So be a big AFC game, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna have to, you know, continue to improve a lot
Speaker 2: to be ready for that challenge.
Speaker 3: So what questions you have? First, happy birthday for you,
Speaker 3: Thank you Davison.
Speaker 4: With Justin Tucker, he's now missed the people in each
Speaker 4: of the first games, which is not like all wide left.
Speaker 4: What do you mean from from the missus? And it
Speaker 4: also I think the TV showed that you talked to
Speaker 4: Justin after the like as soon as the game ended.
Speaker 3: What was part of that conversation as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, from a conversation standpoint, just uh, and we're we're
Speaker 2: pretty close. You know, we've been together for a long
Speaker 2: time and we've had a lot of conversations and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we know each other. So that was just
Speaker 2: just two guys talking about you know, where we're at.
Speaker 2: And I just love the guy, respect him. Uh, he's uh,
Speaker 2: he's everything that you want and a player and a friend.
Speaker 2: So that was really the basis of that. But beyond that,
Speaker 2: you know, for Justin, it's just a technique issue right
Speaker 2: now that he's working through. I think he's he's got
Speaker 2: a technique thing going on, and uh, he'll work through it.
Speaker 2: He knows exactly what it is and just needs to smooth.
Speaker 3: It back out. And I'm very confident that he will coach.
Speaker 4: What do you say, philis fourt's the biggest challenge as
Speaker 4: far as it got scored in the fourth quarter in
Speaker 4: the past few games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the two things go to go to that,
Speaker 2: you know, pass rush and pass coverage tie together, you know,
Speaker 2: so we definitely were rushing the past her well, but
Speaker 2: we can be a little more consistent in terms of
Speaker 2: our rush lanes and some of our games and things
Speaker 2: like that, and then being on point with that, and
Speaker 2: then coverage is just getting a little loose in the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter for whatever reason. So that's something that we
Speaker 2: just have to just understand. Sometimes the call is going
Speaker 2: to go against you. It may may be right, it
Speaker 2: may not be right, but you can't let that change
Speaker 2: the way you play. You still got to play the
Speaker 2: coverage the way it's played. If it's an inside leverage,
Speaker 2: you play inside leverage. You know, if it's if it's
Speaker 2: supposed to be down on a route, it's supposed to
Speaker 2: be down on the route, get.
Speaker 3: Down on it.
Speaker 2: So don't don't don't be playing like not to give
Speaker 2: up the big play all the time.
Speaker 3: You just play the defense away. It's been played.
Speaker 2: And we've got really good players back there, and I'd
Speaker 2: like to see them play that way from a conference standpoint,
Speaker 2: the way they did the rest of the game. You know,
Speaker 2: we were we were forcing a lot of tight window
Speaker 2: throws in the first half. Play the same way in
Speaker 2: the third quarter, and then play even more that way
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter and make them earn it. And
Speaker 2: I do think sometimes we're just getting a little maybe
Speaker 2: it's on their brain, weighing in our brains a little
Speaker 2: bit about not letting that happen. Then there, then it happens.
Speaker 2: So uh we're capable of We just got to get
Speaker 2: it done. Could would you were you giving the explanation
Speaker 2: of the away tackle? Uh, they said that he lifted
Speaker 2: them up and dumped him into the ground.
Speaker 3: That's what they said that they saw.
Speaker 5: After the tape.
Speaker 6: Are there were a number of maybe calls that Joe
Speaker 6: said dyck in the league and gave clarification on anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm not allowed to comment
Speaker 2: on that, you know, But like I always say, you know,
Speaker 2: the best I can say is the things that we
Speaker 2: that we can see are wrong, that we'll uh that
Speaker 2: we'll coach our guys on.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: The things that we can say that we can't see
Speaker 2: that are wrong, we'll ask the league about and if
Speaker 2: they confirmed that they're that you know that that it
Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't a wrong played by the guy,
Speaker 2: we'll let them know.
Speaker 3: You know, It's all we can really do.
Speaker 2: But uh, you know, there there are some some head scratchers,
Speaker 2: but there's also someone that are And when you have
Speaker 2: the number that we have right now, it's too many.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, that's just something that's got cleaned up.
Speaker 2: So the ones that that maybe shouldn't be called and
Speaker 2: we can't do anything about those, but the ones that
Speaker 2: should be called, we got to clean those up. And
Speaker 2: that's on us. It's our responsibility to do it. It's
Speaker 2: hurting us. I mean, it's costing us points in the end. So, uh,
Speaker 2: that's a matter of playing football the right way and
Speaker 2: all those situations. And I guarantee you we're going to
Speaker 2: be on our guys that do it right. They want
Speaker 2: to do it the right way. It's our responsibility to
Speaker 2: make sure they do it the right way all the
Speaker 2: time as much as possible.
Speaker 3: And we got to get better at that.
Speaker 6: John, as you ever from a look like there's a
Speaker 6: long conversation with Tolbert on the.
Speaker 4: Sideline after the legal clutching penalty or on a near safety.
Speaker 7: Did you get an explanation for why that wasn't potential.
Speaker 5: Ground in the end zone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never heard of this before, and I guess
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's something that kind of came
Speaker 2: up there, if they've seen this before, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: but they said that it's not it's not intentional grounding
Speaker 2: because somebody caught it, even though it's an illegal receiver
Speaker 2: that caught it, which is a penalty. So basically they
Speaker 2: get rewarded for having a penalty there. You know, that's
Speaker 2: kind of probably not what they what they want by
Speaker 2: the rules.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a loophole in the rule. I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: something they'll probably look at. But but because he because
Speaker 2: because a receiver caught it, you can't call intentional grounding
Speaker 2: even though it's an illegal receiver and there's no eligible
Speaker 2: receiver in the area which would constitute grounding. So that's
Speaker 2: kind of how they That's what he explained to me.
Speaker 6: Going back to Justin Tucker, feels like maybe the first
Speaker 6: slum of his career. How have you approached coaching him,
Speaker 6: working with him, and just something that seems foreign for
Speaker 6: a guy that is the most accurate in.
Speaker 4: History, isn't that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean Justin knows that we support him. I've tried
Speaker 2: to make sure he knows that. You know, that's part
Speaker 2: of it, just relationship wise. I mean, the talent, the ability,
Speaker 2: all that stuff is there. You know that hasn't gone anywhere.
Speaker 2: We see it all the time. But it's a technique thing.
Speaker 2: I think we're approaching from a technical standpoint. Randy Brown
Speaker 2: does a great job coaching that part of it. That's
Speaker 2: that's Randy's Uh, Randy's the foremost guy in the business
Speaker 2: at that, So they work on that every single day.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: For me, I just try to encourage what I see
Speaker 2: and understand with the technique as well. But uh, Justin's
Speaker 2: a pro, you know, and I have a great belief
Speaker 2: that he'll he'll get the job done, He'll get.
Speaker 7: Related to what you were saying about the pass coverage earlier,
Speaker 7: to think you guys are second in giving the tight ends,
Speaker 7: second in your passengers given up between the hashes.
Speaker 6: Are you concerned?
Speaker 4: I mean, especially when you look at the spinal defense
Speaker 4: to some of your best players, you concern about what's
Speaker 4: going on in the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: Are going absolutely absolutely, it's uh it's the easiest place
Speaker 2: to complete passes in the middle of the field, you know,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, you got to get between the
Speaker 2: quarterback and the football and uh, we're not doing a
Speaker 2: good job with that.
Speaker 3: So it's got to stop. We've got to pus stop
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 4: You when you got to you're sort of closer. Second,
Speaker 4: look at the offensive line, did you come away? I mean,
Speaker 4: I guess what out your visions?
Speaker 3: Did you come away with them?
Speaker 4: Did that sort of redelli or confidence in that group
Speaker 4: going forward?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean I just think I think we took a step.
Speaker 2: You know, we took a step offensive line as a team.
Speaker 2: The good news is we came a long way and
Speaker 2: the good news is we have a long way to go.
Speaker 2: And that's good news because that gives us an opportunity
Speaker 2: to get a lot better. So I see great upside
Speaker 2: in our whole team. I also see upside and great
Speaker 2: upside in our offensive line. But by no means we're
Speaker 2: we perfect anywhere. You know, on the offensive line, they
Speaker 2: played well. We got a lot of rushing yards, but
Speaker 2: there's plenty of things to get better.
Speaker 3: At this line.
Speaker 5: A couple of the guys really made a point to
Speaker 5: shout out Daniel follow that yeah list for me. And
Speaker 5: you can get questions about coming into the possion in
Speaker 5: reviewing the tape. What did you like about how he played?
Speaker 5: And you know, you know, improvement and everything. What do
Speaker 5: you didn't make a difference?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, you know, he's a young player
Speaker 2: and he's growing. I think I think he just had
Speaker 2: a little more a sense of like understanding of what
Speaker 2: it was going to take. You know, he wasn't playing tentative.
Speaker 2: Maybe he played a little tentative maybe early on if
Speaker 2: you want to just get dig into psychology. But he
Speaker 2: played with more aggressiveness. You know, he came off the ball,
Speaker 2: he moved people, he knocked people off the ball, he
Speaker 2: got up on linebackers, he cut people off, he knocked
Speaker 2: down blocks down across you know, he knocked tackles across
Speaker 2: the center sometimes. You know, some things that made those
Speaker 2: runs really go. He was a big part of that,
Speaker 2: along with the other guys.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: So that was good, and yet there were other things
Speaker 2: that he didn't do as well, and he knows that
Speaker 2: he can keep getting better at so again, Daniel came
Speaker 2: a long way in that game. I think he's kind
Speaker 2: of indicative of that whole statement. And the good news
Speaker 2: is he's got a long way to go, and he's, uh,
Speaker 2: he's capable of so much more.
Speaker 4: Head sets for years and then had a card and
Speaker 4: part of that, you know, this weaking particular, is there
Speaker 4: something with those bigger sets that we all against the.
Speaker 3: Cowboys, and you feel like some of the.
Speaker 4: Packages are essential going forward in the coming week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we have, we have. We live in
Speaker 2: a lot of worlds football wise. With our versatility, it's
Speaker 2: it's uh, I think it's a strength. Sometimes it can
Speaker 2: be considered not you know, some teams come out and
Speaker 2: they play eleven personnel of the whole game and spread
Speaker 2: you out and don't motion anybody. Sometimes they use motion.
Speaker 2: Different teams have different approaches. I think one of our
Speaker 2: approaches is that we have a lot of multiple personnel
Speaker 2: groups that we use. That's kind of the way we go.
Speaker 2: So from one game to the next, you'll probably see
Speaker 2: different emphasis in different places probably, But to be able
Speaker 2: to you know, to be able to run the ball,
Speaker 2: we call it must run when you really want to
Speaker 2: run the ball and do it out of big groups
Speaker 2: that protect the edges and all that. That's that's something
Speaker 2: kind of in our in our DNA a little bit
Speaker 2: been that way a long time. So we want to
Speaker 2: We definitely want to live in that world if we can.
Speaker 5: That's only the topic.
Speaker 6: The tight ends in the versatility they share its perimeter blockers, right, Yes,
Speaker 6: how important is that especially is you know, Mark and
Speaker 6: Isaiah pass catching guys to show themselves as blockers. How
Speaker 6: important is that in the offense.
Speaker 2: That's such a great point, Ryan, I mean the perimeter
Speaker 2: blocking was okay the first two weeks. It was outstanding
Speaker 2: in this game. Those guys, I'm gonna tell you what.
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews might have had three four pancakes. Isaiah likely was.
Speaker 2: He was he's he was out there reaching guys. The
Speaker 2: wide receivers had our best blocking game in a long time.
Speaker 2: I mean, those guys were blocking. I can can think
Speaker 2: of Nelson Agular coming down and getting the free safety
Speaker 2: something well right over the ball one time, which is
Speaker 2: kind of you don't see that too often. Zay likely
Speaker 2: Crack blocking down on defensive end. Those kinds of things
Speaker 2: are really what make to me that kind of unselfish play,
Speaker 2: you know, being willing to you know, there's one ball
Speaker 2: carrier and there's ten blockers, so to speak. I mean
Speaker 2: even Lamars a blocker when he carries out a fake say,
Speaker 2: you know, you're all helping.
Speaker 3: The ball carrier one way or another.
Speaker 2: And our guys are really buying into that, you know,
Speaker 2: and that's something that we just got to keep building on.
Speaker 4: Andrews played in many fewer snaps then he wouldn't maybe
Speaker 4: to Was that purely a matter of the style that
Speaker 4: you guys ended up playing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you had a lot of big groups
Speaker 2: out there, kind of to your point about the personnel
Speaker 2: groups and stuff like that. I think guys will play
Speaker 2: different amounts different games, you know, with our different guys
Speaker 2: that we have.
Speaker 3: I think I did not bring this up a week
Speaker 3: or two ago.
Speaker 2: We'd go one way and then that someone wouldn't playing,
Speaker 2: and then that question would be why didn't that guy play?
Speaker 2: You know, I think that's probably gonna be something that
Speaker 2: would be every week. You know, they'll always be you know,
Speaker 2: somebody didn't get the ball thrown to him, or didn't
Speaker 2: get many touches, or it wasn't on the field as much.
Speaker 2: It's probably gonna be a part of the game plan
Speaker 2: each week, and a lot a lot of it's how
Speaker 2: the game goes too, you know. But Mark did what
Speaker 2: he was asked to do in the game, you know,
Speaker 2: and just to just turn out that way. It wasn't
Speaker 2: like he wasn't in the pass routes he couldn't have
Speaker 2: got He could have been thrown the ball just didn't
Speaker 2: come his way, but the blocks came his way. You know,
Speaker 2: he was out there blocking those guys and he did
Speaker 2: a great job.
Speaker 4: Nick Wagins got cleared and then he was essentially started.
Speaker 4: Did get hit with a couple of penalties.
Speaker 3: But what did you see from him? And where is
Speaker 3: he at now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think they competed real hard out there.
Speaker 2: I think Nate that was a learning game for Nate probably,
Speaker 2: you know, he he had some really good plays. He
Speaker 2: knocked that ball out down there going in. That was
Speaker 2: a massive play for us. So proud of him for that.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then other times I think he learned, you know
Speaker 2: NFL football sometimes. I mean, we got one passer inference
Speaker 2: penalty where he didn't even touch the guy. So but
Speaker 2: he got another one where we grabbed the guy, you know.
Speaker 2: So uh, you know, you gotta learn from that, and
Speaker 2: he will. Some of the leverages he'll learn from. But
Speaker 2: Nate's a competitor, He's tough, he wants to be good.
Speaker 2: Love everything about you know, who he is and where
Speaker 2: he's going as a player.
Speaker 4: Grab the you know the United session and film further
Speaker 4: warning they you know that context where you kind of
Speaker 4: seen from Zach for a real tough job coming game
Speaker 4: from what the defense was last year. And second hear
Speaker 4: he hasn't been with you know what he wants. What
Speaker 4: are you kind of seeing as he addresses those issues and.
Speaker 3: Really kind of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the challenge of coaching. You know, you want
Speaker 2: everything to go great, and you know we're coaching so
Speaker 2: many things. You know, the structure of the defense is
Speaker 2: the same. You know, there's things that have been added,
Speaker 2: but that's none of those things are causing any problems.
Speaker 2: It's just to base some basic execution. Really in the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter of games. That's really what the issue has been.
Speaker 2: And uh, and that's got to get cleaned up. And
Speaker 2: that's you know, guys knowing what to do and they
Speaker 2: do and just doing it. So I think zactually doing
Speaker 2: a good job of letting those guys. He's been very
Speaker 2: clear about what he expects. He's done a great job
Speaker 2: of making the corrections, uh, drilling the corrections, getting the
Speaker 2: corrections practiced, you know, and and then the guy's got
Speaker 2: to go out there and do it and they will.
Speaker 2: So nothing ever comes too easy. Sometimes it comes easy.
Speaker 2: And first three or four games and it's like, man,
Speaker 2: this is this is the best of something that there's
Speaker 2: ever been, and all of a sudden it's not so
Speaker 2: good anymore. You know, there's always this kind of process
Speaker 2: and evolution and nothing ever, nothing's ever is good, nothing's
Speaker 2: ever as bad sometimes as it seems. Is that way
Speaker 2: in football for sure. So I when I watch the
Speaker 2: details of the defense, you know, and we walked, we
Speaker 2: talked through all that stuff, we can see where the
Speaker 2: issues are and and you just fix them, you know,
Speaker 2: and then in steadily you play better. And it's not
Speaker 2: so much that we have to that we have like
Speaker 2: we're at this level and we're not good or we
Speaker 2: gotta It's just we gotta play more consistently. You know
Speaker 2: that we played the way we played in the first
Speaker 2: half should be the way we play the whole game.
Speaker 2: I mean, just play that way the whole game. We're
Speaker 2: capable of doing it, uh, and let's go do it.
Speaker 8: John with Derek Henry, how impressed were you watching the
Speaker 8: game back? I mean it's kind of vintage Derek that
Speaker 8: we saw yesterday and kind of his first breakout game.
Speaker 3: Did you see his suit and his hat? Huh? Was
Speaker 3: that impressive? That was?
Speaker 2: I was impressed with the suit and the hat. But
Speaker 2: that was a lot more impressed with the game. You know,
Speaker 2: as a football coach, man, I'd tell you that was
Speaker 2: that was that was that was fun. And you know
Speaker 2: it's like Derek's it's a team effort. Football is a
Speaker 2: team game. But we gave him some space or offensive line.
Speaker 3: The scheme.
Speaker 2: I thought the game plan was really good. Thought Lamar
Speaker 2: created some space for him as well. Like you said,
Speaker 2: you guys all said the perimeter blocking all that stuff
Speaker 2: created the space that he needed to go be who
Speaker 2: he is, and he was who he is. He made
Speaker 2: a couple of runs too with vision, you know, where
Speaker 2: he'd start inside and bounce outside there, you know, or
Speaker 2: he'd cut back. You know, he saw some things that
Speaker 2: you know that not every back seats all the time.
Speaker 2: So and then once he gets that momentum going, man,
Speaker 2: he's tough, he's he's he's he's different. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: was excited about that.
Speaker 6: He talked after the game that he challenged the offensive
Speaker 6: line to you know, improve and to push them to
Speaker 6: support that he was working out with them and just
Speaker 6: what can you say about that kind of leadership and
Speaker 6: how he approached it that resonates with your team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's highly respected and he's a really good person,
Speaker 2: and he really supportive of the guys. You know, he's
Speaker 2: that kind of a guy. So he challenges him in
Speaker 2: a way. I think that is, you know, you're capable
Speaker 2: of of of so much more. Let's let's go be that,
Speaker 2: you know, and then and then, like you said, dig
Speaker 2: in there and work with him on it. You know,
Speaker 2: that's I think what he talked about, right, So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean you see it. He's on there in pre practice.
Speaker 2: You guys saw him last week before practice working with
Speaker 2: the guys in the past protection stuff out there before
Speaker 2: when the special teams are going. So that's that's that's
Speaker 2: genuine leadership coach.
Speaker 7: With lamar Is tying to throw has kind of significantly
Speaker 7: decreased on over the past three weeks, almost half a
Speaker 7: second less from week one.
Speaker 6: Lamar's time to throw drop significantly, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, getting getting the ball out quicker. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Is that kind of something that's support of the game plan,
Speaker 7: especially going up against a guy like Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think on time rhythm passing is important.
Speaker 2: You know, that's something that we want to we want
Speaker 2: to be able to be good at because it takes
Speaker 2: pressure off of the protection, It takes pressure off the route,
Speaker 2: It takes pressure off Lamar. Uh, that should be a
Speaker 2: big part of what we do. I mean, even like the.
Speaker 3: Boot early to Charlie.
Speaker 2: You know that's that's a play action pass and misdirection
Speaker 2: pass we call movement pass. But the balls out pretty
Speaker 2: quick there, right, So those kind of things. The more
Speaker 2: we can do those things, keep the defense, you know,
Speaker 2: hit him quick, keep them moving, get him going one way,
Speaker 2: throw it the other way, or Lamar makes a read
Speaker 2: and brings it back over here with a quick throw.
Speaker 2: Those are those are yards at execution yards that really
Speaker 2: take a lot of pressure off the rest of the
Speaker 2: the rest of the format.
Speaker 7: Longer's Life talked about the mores play faking earlier and
Speaker 7: hit ball handling.
Speaker 3: It actually a little look. Exceptionally at times on TV
Speaker 3: you couldn't even tell who had the ball. How important
Speaker 3: is that? Now?
Speaker 8: Taking to the offense to another level and they don't
Speaker 8: press for you.
Speaker 2: What you watched, Yeah, I was impressed. I was looking
Speaker 2: the wrong way a couple of times. You know, that's
Speaker 2: what you want to tell them. If you fool me, man,
Speaker 2: that's that's uh, You're you're you're doing. You're definitely fooling
Speaker 2: the defense. But uh, that's been a big part of
Speaker 2: our offense for quite a few years now, right, and
Speaker 2: I think the fact that we've been able to maintain
Speaker 2: that through this transition style wise a little bit has
Speaker 2: been really important because it's just one of the things
Speaker 2: that makes Lamar unique.
Speaker 3: You know, he's got.
Speaker 2: Amazing ability, you know with his hands, you know, and
Speaker 2: to do that some of that stuff that he does
Speaker 2: just so naturally is pretty rare. So we've got to
Speaker 2: take advantage of it. I mean, you got to You
Speaker 2: got to use that. Someone has a gift like that,
Speaker 2: you have to use it. And uh, I think seeing
Speaker 2: it pay off, it's it's something the defense is. I
Speaker 2: hear every week about how who's playing Lamar at quarterback
Speaker 2: and how they're working out stuff. That's kind of what
Speaker 2: they're talking about. You know, that has to be respected.
Speaker 2: They have to spend time on that.
Speaker 5: On you said, every game is the must win situation,
Speaker 5: but just based on NFL history, oh and three seem
Speaker 5: like almost a test sentence as he got there.
Speaker 2: Well, no one wanted that. You know, that's not something
Speaker 2: that we wanted. So you know, that's what made the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter so interesting, you know. I mean, it was
Speaker 2: it was it was. It was tough, you know, it
Speaker 2: was challenging fourth quarter. I was proud of the guys
Speaker 2: in the sense that they finished.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I would have liked to have seen the job done
Speaker 2: a little sooner, you know, but but they've that. But
Speaker 2: we finished, you know, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: you have to you have to you have to find
Speaker 2: a way to finish and get the job done. And
Speaker 2: they did so with that, we just got to get better,
Speaker 2: you know, with all the little things that we do
Speaker 2: and and you know, get stops in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: get first downs in the fourth quarter, put points on
Speaker 2: the board, and we have a chance to do it
Speaker 2: all those things that guys know about.
Speaker 4: Some one's talked about what was shot and capable of
Speaker 4: when you get opportunities.
Speaker 5: What are your thoughts about what he was able to yesterday?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was really happy, you know for a shot.
Speaker 2: I just feel like I feel like he's open a lot,
Speaker 2: you know, because he runs such good routes and uh
Speaker 2: and Lamar finds him, you know, and it's starting to
Speaker 2: just really grow. So you know, we've got the two
Speaker 2: young wide receivers out there, and I talk to those
Speaker 2: guys all the time about they're the future and the present,
Speaker 2: you know, and we've got the tight ends and we've
Speaker 2: got the veteran Nelly you know, doing his thing in there,
Speaker 2: and you see Tayland will go out there and you know,
Speaker 2: he makes his plays and sometimes he does the dirty work,
Speaker 2: you know, and he does it so well Justice Hill,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, all all these guys are just
Speaker 2: critical elements of what we're trying to do. And but
Speaker 2: bait baits upside is phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Okay that they recovered was it?
Speaker 4: Is there any detail to coach beyond just pick the
Speaker 4: ball up?
Speaker 3: I mean, or like what what do you take them?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, there's there's there's kind of a technique to
Speaker 2: that, and I think sometimes you get a little over anxious
Speaker 2: sometimes maybe, but you know, that's that kick is. It's
Speaker 2: not a new kick. It's been around for about four years.
Speaker 2: That little slide roller that bows back. Uh, it's on turf.
Speaker 2: You know, we don't we don't play on turf a lot,
Speaker 2: so maybe that was a little bit different for us,
Speaker 2: But I think it's something that we just have to
Speaker 2: It's like everything else, you got to chase every detail,
Speaker 2: and you try to be in front of everything as
Speaker 2: much as you can. But I promise you that we're
Speaker 2: gonna spend some time this week for all those guys
Speaker 2: picking up all those kicks on turf.
Speaker 3: And on grass. You know, we'll do that, you know.
Speaker 2: And then sometimes you just got to go, okay, boy,
Speaker 2: let's let's got it's got to get your attention. And
Speaker 2: you can't can't overlook something like that when it comes up,
Speaker 2: because that would have sealed the game, game was over.
Speaker 3: I was happy when they went on side kick. I
Speaker 3: was happy. I was like, all right, well we'll get
Speaker 3: this on side kick.
Speaker 2: We'll go down there, we'll get points, more time will
Speaker 2: be off the clock, and the game is going to
Speaker 2: be ours, you know.
Speaker 3: And and we we.
Speaker 2: Cracked the door open. We we opened the door a
Speaker 2: little bit there. And that's that's what you got to
Speaker 2: learn as a team. Uh and our guys know that,
Speaker 2: and you just got to go do it. And once
Speaker 2: you start doing that, you start closing the door on people.
Speaker 2: You start kind of choking the life out of the
Speaker 2: out of the game a little bit. That's when you
Speaker 2: become a really good closing football team. And we're going
Speaker 2: to get there, all right.
Speaker 6: Job about the help kicking, I believe the Cowboys were
Speaker 6: able to kick a third onside kick because of the
Speaker 6: kick off rule. Is that something that.
Speaker 3: Strange to you?
Speaker 6: So the Cowboys could not kick a third on site
Speaker 6: kick as the new kickoff a little stick that you
Speaker 6: were only allowed to do two onside kicks in the
Speaker 6: fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to claim ignorance on that.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with you. I mean, I'm just
Speaker 2: being honest here. I didn't know that role, so uh yeah,
Speaker 2: is that right?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 6: Your opinion on that.
Speaker 3: I don't know why that.
Speaker 2: I don't I wouldn't know why they have that role,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, so I don't have an
Speaker 2: opinion on it. Just I guess I'm grateful for it.
Speaker 2: I don't know should I be. I'd rather have that
Speaker 2: than not come up again, if that's okay?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right? Thanks everybody.
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