Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is a
Speaker 1: good Sunday in Baltimore as the Ravens took down the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks thirty seven to three at M and T
Speaker 1: Banks Stadium. The Ravens are now seven to two on
Speaker 1: the season and they are tied for the best record
Speaker 1: in the AFC. It was a dominant victory from start
Speaker 1: to finish, and head coach John Harriball discussed the win
Speaker 1: after the game.
Speaker 2: All Right, first of all, like we said in the
Speaker 2: locker room, and I'll say it again, all glory to God.
Speaker 2: We are we are a humble group that works hard,
Speaker 2: and I'm really proud of those guys for the way
Speaker 2: they played. I mean it was It's been a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of things going on in terms of
Speaker 2: challenges to preparation, different travel, different things, injuries, and guys
Speaker 2: have just done a great job of fighting through that,
Speaker 2: keeping their eyes straight ahead, no turn into the left,
Speaker 2: no turning to the right, and just doing the best
Speaker 2: they can do. And they and it showed up today
Speaker 2: in a total team effort and that's what it was,
Speaker 2: total team effor against a very good football team.
Speaker 3: So proud of that.
Speaker 2: We'll we'll stand on that going forward and stack it
Speaker 2: and then we'll get ready for obviously a huge game
Speaker 2: next Sunday against our division rival, the Browns.
Speaker 3: So what question do you have.
Speaker 4: John, I know, no, nothing is won by week nine,
Speaker 4: But you know, when you're at the end of the
Speaker 4: game and you look up there and they're beating in
Speaker 4: another division leader by thirty four points, what's kind of going.
Speaker 5: Through your head?
Speaker 2: I mean I thought, I thought, Man, I like these
Speaker 2: a lot better. You know, that's okay, but you know
Speaker 2: it's great And because it's as a coach, it's fulfilling
Speaker 2: because all the things you work on, all the things
Speaker 2: the guys work on, you see, it's you see it
Speaker 2: transferred onto the field in a game.
Speaker 3: That's what you're.
Speaker 2: Excited about because they have success. The guys have success
Speaker 2: doing the things that you want. But you also understand
Speaker 2: that it's one win. You know, you don't get credit
Speaker 2: for more than one win, no matter what the score is.
Speaker 2: So our job is to stack wins and our attention
Speaker 2: turns to the next game. So but happy with the guys,
Speaker 2: they're going to enjoy it. And then on Tuesday afternoon
Speaker 2: they'll be working on the on.
Speaker 6: The Browns some very dominated defenses in your time with
Speaker 6: the Ravens.
Speaker 7: What makes this one valuability?
Speaker 8: Is that?
Speaker 5: What makes them special?
Speaker 2: That's a good question. I mean, I think there's I
Speaker 2: think that that's a great word for it. Really, I'm
Speaker 2: be honest with you, that's excellent. I wouldn't have thought
Speaker 2: of that, but it's it's there's a lot of truth
Speaker 2: in that. And I do think that ever, you know,
Speaker 2: I think we have the ability to you know, to
Speaker 2: morph the way we need to morph week to week
Speaker 2: series the series. But it's it's that's one thing. The
Speaker 2: other thing is the guys. The guys are have been
Speaker 2: on point. The guys are doing what they're supposed to
Speaker 2: do as hard as they can every play. Not as
Speaker 2: perfect all the time, but when you do as hard
Speaker 2: as you can, as well as you can every play,
Speaker 2: you know, you get you get pretty close, and you know,
Speaker 2: so I'm just I like it. But you know, it's
Speaker 2: never as good, never as bad as you think it's
Speaker 2: going to be. So we'll go to work, we'll get
Speaker 2: on the tape. I'm sure we'll find plenty of things
Speaker 2: to work on along those lines.
Speaker 7: The sudden change situation end of that, after the fumble.
Speaker 7: You know, they could make it a one score game.
Speaker 1: But not only do they make the stop, I'll put
Speaker 1: you guys in a position to get points.
Speaker 2: I think that's the turning point of the game. That'll
Speaker 2: probably be the lion spike. You know, we talk about that.
Speaker 2: I mean that situation that turned out the way it did.
Speaker 2: The defense to get to stop and then get the
Speaker 2: next stop again and then get the we get the
Speaker 2: field goal because of that stop and just flip the
Speaker 2: whole thing around was massive, you know, and that probably,
Speaker 2: you know, just flip the game in our direction. Momentum wise,
Speaker 2: go through this group of undrafted rookies that comes in
Speaker 2: right and what do you.
Speaker 7: Remember is Keith Mitchell's arrival and and what what when
Speaker 7: did you start? When did you see you had something
Speaker 7: with him?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, listen, he's right here, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. We're just trying to keep He's a humble guy,
Speaker 2: which we appreciate. He works really hard. We don't want
Speaker 2: to we don't want to ruin that right now, but no,
Speaker 2: he's been raised the right way. I mean, here's he's
Speaker 2: a football family kid. He's a he's a he's a
Speaker 2: player's son. You know and uh, and he's got a
Speaker 2: he's got an amazing family and they and he's been raised
Speaker 2: the right way. He's humble, he works hard, he knows
Speaker 2: how heart it is. Doesn't take anything for granted, and he.
Speaker 3: Doesn't get it.
Speaker 2: He doesn't get frustrated, too frustrated, you know, with the
Speaker 2: injuries and things like that. He just fights through it
Speaker 2: every single day and then see it payoff for him
Speaker 2: is great. And you know he knows the next challenge
Speaker 2: now they know who he is, so it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a new challenge next week, right, and he's looking forward
Speaker 2: to that. So yeah, he's proud of him. Offensive line
Speaker 2: played great. I thought Lamar had an outstanding game. I
Speaker 2: thought of receivers, how about a Sean Bateman, I mean
Speaker 2: two really tough catches coming up with those catches, keeping
Speaker 2: drives alive, Isaiah likely converting two big third downs for us,
Speaker 2: the one in four minute that kept it going by
Speaker 2: breaking two or three tackles. You kind of go on
Speaker 2: and on with those guys. I thought Mark had a
Speaker 2: big game. Couple big third downs and the one that
Speaker 2: got us to the fourth and one and we got.
Speaker 3: Him to jump off sides.
Speaker 2: You know those are the kind of things that get
Speaker 2: hiden in the game, that you forget about that lead
Speaker 2: to the kind of outcomes that we had today.
Speaker 3: So just a lot of guys to talk about.
Speaker 9: John Lamar looked like he got a little thinged up
Speaker 9: on that fourth and one run.
Speaker 7: How's he helped with?
Speaker 2: He's okay, yeah, I wish it wouldn't happened that way,
Speaker 2: you know, but he got It's not bad. Just I
Speaker 2: don't want to ever see anything like that. But he
Speaker 2: seems like he's okay, okay, Lamar.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 7: Know you had Mitchell? Did he get back there?
Speaker 5: In your decision not to make a trade? I mean,
Speaker 5: you know what you had to win a bench?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, uh, that's a good question. It's really
Speaker 3: was that really never.
Speaker 2: Came into the conversation, just being honest. I mean, I
Speaker 2: think we knew what we had with him, and you know,
Speaker 2: we've We've also got I'm gonna tell you Melvin Gordon's
Speaker 2: are really good back too.
Speaker 3: So we got four guys that we really like.
Speaker 2: But you know, you still think you look at value
Speaker 2: and what it costs and opportunity and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and it just didn't work out. But but uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's probably a pretty good point turned out.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, John.
Speaker 7: You just mentioned a lot of guys. Was also fun
Speaker 7: to get a big smile on Odell's face.
Speaker 5: You know, you've got the touchdown at.
Speaker 7: The end of the game. That's some that's some nice
Speaker 7: catch before.
Speaker 3: That, is that right, Odell?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Odell? Yeah, it was great. It was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, we had a word and
Speaker 2: uh and he's he's great. I mean he just see
Speaker 2: him come back and you know, that's that's what you
Speaker 2: expect of a player like that, a veteran player who's
Speaker 2: done it before. Lamar threw a great pass on that
Speaker 2: slant catch and run slant might have been manner of
Speaker 2: street lock one of the two and uh and then
Speaker 2: to get the touchdown pass another a great throw. I
Speaker 2: think snoop through that one right touchdown pass and it
Speaker 2: was a great call by Todd Lamar. Odell ran a
Speaker 2: great route, got kind of a double move back out
Speaker 2: to the corner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was good to see.
Speaker 6: This was a domination of Seattle runs defense before I
Speaker 6: got Lennon Williams for you guys to run, which you
Speaker 6: did a game like this, What was the same about script?
Speaker 2: It says a lot about the old line in the backs,
Speaker 2: you know, and Lamar. I mean Lamar had a number
Speaker 2: of those runs too, but also the threat of Lamar. Okay,
Speaker 2: the passing game was going, so they got it. They
Speaker 2: can't just gang up and run too much. Then the
Speaker 2: execution of the old line in the backs, I mean, gosh,
Speaker 2: and the tight ends.
Speaker 3: I mean, here's a guy Mark.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of guys blocking, but Mark, you know Mark,
Speaker 2: we see him as a receiver, yet he's a really
Speaker 2: good blocker.
Speaker 3: So all those things factor in more for coach.
Speaker 8: On your pass rush is hitting from the inside, the outside,
Speaker 8: the backers and the secondary as well. Just why do
Speaker 8: you think all of them are clicking consistently in these
Speaker 8: games so effectively.
Speaker 3: It's like, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: It's like a thousand things you work on and everybody
Speaker 2: is doing the bet. Everybody works on pass rush, everybody
Speaker 2: works on time in the blitz, you know, everybody works
Speaker 2: on the patterns, everybody works in the coverage behind it.
Speaker 2: A big, a big part of what you saw today
Speaker 2: with that was I think the uh, the complimentary football
Speaker 2: between the coverage and the rush. I mean, the coverage
Speaker 2: got the quarterback to hold the ball and then the
Speaker 2: rush got there a number of times. They're gonna be
Speaker 2: frustrating the ones they didn't get him down when he
Speaker 2: got when he moved out of there a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I thought our coverage was outstanding and our and
Speaker 2: our rush got there. They kind of works together.
Speaker 10: We saw you encouraging the fans to get louder because
Speaker 10: you saw that they were infer calling or yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I mean when our fans go, it's it makes a
Speaker 2: huge difference. And sometimes, you know, we had to lead
Speaker 2: there and I felt like they were, you know, we
Speaker 2: we needed we needed them to let's go, man, we
Speaker 2: want to get this stop too, you know. And then
Speaker 2: they did, they did, and they they just make such
Speaker 2: a big difference for us when when they're loud like
Speaker 2: that and they and they, I mean they are they
Speaker 2: always are. So yeah, I kind of got them, got them.
Speaker 2: Did they notice did get round up a little bit
Speaker 2: when that happened? Did you notice the difference?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 1: That was like coach John Harball. We also had a
Speaker 1: chance to talk with quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 11: How you feeling?
Speaker 5: I feel great?
Speaker 7: One?
Speaker 12: What do you think was the key to just the
Speaker 12: rushing attack, just plowing.
Speaker 5: Through all day defense.
Speaker 6: You said, no, your your offense is rushing attack.
Speaker 13: Oh, the running backs the office. We'll start with the
Speaker 13: office line making great blocks. But the running bass was
Speaker 13: doing what they do, you know, making explosives, Gus, you know,
Speaker 13: running running for two touchdowns, Justice doing this thing on
Speaker 13: the ground, dann Keys just flying flying past everyone. Great
Speaker 13: job by those guys in the office of line.
Speaker 4: Keep a couple of weeks ago here you crushed the
Speaker 4: Detroit Lion's team completing division.
Speaker 7: Today you meet another division leader by thirty four points.
Speaker 4: How how close do you think this team is to
Speaker 4: the hitting this, you know, hitting that peak.
Speaker 5: Hitting that stride.
Speaker 13: If we're playing like that, we don't even need to
Speaker 13: hit no peak or stride. Just keep staying locked in
Speaker 13: how we are are and just playing every point it
Speaker 13: the same way, you know, physicality, being smart, uh and
Speaker 13: defending what's ours, you know, our home turf.
Speaker 7: So you know how you fel feel like this team?
Speaker 5: Ask you, Gus in colors, reaching kind of.
Speaker 13: To speak right now, I wouldn't say we're far off
Speaker 13: over close, you know, we just need to keep doing
Speaker 13: what we're doing, keep stacking and keep getting better.
Speaker 5: Each and every week.
Speaker 10: You said after the last week's game that you thought
Speaker 10: you could have formed the ball. Did you sense this
Speaker 10: week with the game playing and that everything, that you're
Speaker 10: really gonna commit to that early and and and try
Speaker 10: to wear down and see y'all.
Speaker 13: Uh just thought, coach, you're gonna be a lot balancing.
Speaker 13: And I believe he was tonight today. Uh what play calling,
Speaker 13: you know, just run the ball here, play action there,
Speaker 13: throwing the ball quick, throwing it down the field.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 5: He hit every aspect of the game today and it
Speaker 5: showed why.
Speaker 1: Do you think why do you think this team was sponsored?
Speaker 9: Well right now?
Speaker 13: So we got guys who was hungry on our team. Uh,
Speaker 13: young guys, vets, guys just wanna win. And like I
Speaker 13: said earlier this season, we got something we chasing and
Speaker 13: it takes us playing raven football each and every week.
Speaker 5: And we've and trying to say that we have been
Speaker 5: la March.
Speaker 7: You see, really fire up for Rodell's first touchdown? How
Speaker 7: big was that moment for him?
Speaker 4: And what did you say him after?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know it's his birthday to day, so I
Speaker 13: was I would definitely fired up. And my brother threw
Speaker 13: the prew the touchdown and it was great. You know,
Speaker 13: made a great, great pass, he made a great catch.
Speaker 13: I don't know what the celebration was. I was just
Speaker 13: pumped up cause he got his touchdown.
Speaker 9: March back to back to Keaton's performance today. What if
Speaker 9: from your eyes, what did you see from him, how
Speaker 9: well he was playing, and kind of could you anticipate
Speaker 9: in something.
Speaker 15: Like this happen and see him in practice also, oh absolutely.
Speaker 13: We seen the preseason when he was playing against uh
Speaker 13: Finland Washington. We seen how explosive he was, and we
Speaker 13: seen him practice uh but today the office line just
Speaker 13: gave him a little room and he did the rest.
Speaker 13: You know, he was hitting the hole, just making crazy
Speaker 13: runs and great cuts. It was It was great to
Speaker 13: see sometime I wasn't carrying out my fate cause I
Speaker 13: wanted to see what he was gonna do with the ball.
Speaker 7: So ye against the Lions.
Speaker 8: After the end of the game, there was almost an
Speaker 8: energy of still like frustrated that you guys wanted more,
Speaker 8: you wanted.
Speaker 7: More successful, and more frustrated at the place you didn't get.
Speaker 8: It seems a little bit more happy after this game,
Speaker 8: not satisfied, But are you taking a moment just to
Speaker 8: kind of enjoy this one as compared to maybe the
Speaker 8: Lion's game.
Speaker 13: If anything is is for him having so much success
Speaker 13: today ob getting the first touchdown, but it is we
Speaker 13: still had two turnovers. You know, we're trying to finish
Speaker 13: games with our turnovers, with having a performance that we
Speaker 13: did and pump points on.
Speaker 5: The board as we did today.
Speaker 13: But like like you said, you know, it's their room
Speaker 13: for improvement and we still haven't hit our center.
Speaker 5: I don't believe.
Speaker 6: I didn't want to talk at earlier this week, but
Speaker 6: eighteen and one against.
Speaker 5: The I still don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson. Now, one of the breakout
Speaker 1: stars of this game was the undrafted rookie running back
Speaker 1: Keaton Mitchell, and his third NFL game ever, he scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown and topped one hundred rushing yards. Kind of
Speaker 1: caught everybody by surprise, and he talked with the media
Speaker 1: after the game about what this win meant for him
Speaker 1: and his mindset as a young player who gets this
Speaker 1: opportunity to play in a huge game and has this
Speaker 1: big moment.
Speaker 8: Some undrafted for you just never get the shot that
Speaker 8: you got, especially after injury, and just pulling the rug
Speaker 8: for you to have the game that you did.
Speaker 7: Just what's it mean to you?
Speaker 16: I mean a lot. My dad was undrafted. He can't here.
Speaker 16: He told me everything I need to know. Just stay humble,
Speaker 16: keep doing what you do, and keep thanking God, and
Speaker 16: your time will come. And today it came. So let's
Speaker 16: just keep going.
Speaker 7: Is he here today?
Speaker 17: Keep he missed this one, He missed it.
Speaker 16: He was deciding on Thanksgiving and Christmas games the next
Speaker 16: two games.
Speaker 17: But nah, it's many more games like this to come,
Speaker 17: so it'll be all right.
Speaker 4: When you come in after a few possessions, do you
Speaker 4: do you come in with the mentality that you can
Speaker 4: be kind of a change your page, that maybe they're
Speaker 4: not ready for the energy that.
Speaker 7: You're gonna bring.
Speaker 17: I mean, yeah, coming then.
Speaker 16: I just when I'm on the side, I'm just looking
Speaker 16: at everybody else seeing how they play, uh saying the
Speaker 16: old line was just giving us the hoes that we
Speaker 16: needed and the opportunities. And when I came in, I
Speaker 16: just took advantage of what the offensive line was giving me,
Speaker 16: and things happened.
Speaker 7: Do you think through size makes it tough for my
Speaker 7: back to find.
Speaker 12: You the line?
Speaker 17: Of course? Of course, what's going through your heads?
Speaker 6: You're during the ends, it looks like you're so excited
Speaker 6: to get in there, you're kind of tripping over yourselful
Speaker 6: of Yeah.
Speaker 16: Yeah, when I break, like and I know I'm finish school,
Speaker 16: I just like thinking my celebration. Uh, I know in
Speaker 16: the running back room, gussing just as hell. Like we
Speaker 16: told them next time they getting the in zone, they
Speaker 16: got to do a dance or something. Uh but naw,
Speaker 16: Me and Mel was just dancing that practice and just
Speaker 16: having fun with it.
Speaker 17: And you see I just did a little something. But no,
Speaker 17: it was it was great.
Speaker 9: It was what you bosted out for, like a couple
Speaker 9: of long runs or you kind of getting the game
Speaker 9: and starts flowing. Does it become easier like how I
Speaker 9: guess much more at ease? Do you find yourself as
Speaker 9: you get more carries and you're finding success.
Speaker 16: Today as the game was going on, the old line, man,
Speaker 16: like I said, the old line was just giving me
Speaker 16: opportunities like every time. Like so I was just staying patient,
Speaker 16: reading my reads and just doing what I had to
Speaker 16: do after the line, just do what they did.
Speaker 10: So what was your mentality as the draft comes and
Speaker 10: goes and your name is called? And then were there
Speaker 10: other teams in the mix with Baltimore and didn't come
Speaker 10: into Baltimore?
Speaker 7: Was your dad being here a factor coming here?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 16: Yeah, it was other teams, But I just did my research.
Speaker 16: It felt like this was the best fit. Of course
Speaker 16: my dad came here. I really wasn't thinking about it
Speaker 16: until like they called my name and called my phone
Speaker 16: and I was like, might as well, but uh yeah,
Speaker 16: I mean undrafted.
Speaker 17: Just got to stay humble and stay hungry.
Speaker 10: Did you get this game health, felie off.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 12: How was it for you to see the way your
Speaker 12: teammates reacted when you got your first touchdowns?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 17: Nah, it was a blessing.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 16: Them guys keep my head up every day. They believe
Speaker 16: in me, and it's like a family in that locker room.
Speaker 16: So I just appreciate everybody in there believing in me
Speaker 16: and trusting me and just being proud of the game
Speaker 16: I had. So I really appreciate that that.
Speaker 1: Was undrafted rookie running back Keaton Mitchell. We also talked
Speaker 1: with veteran outside linebacker Kyle van Noys.
Speaker 11: All right, I'm Kyle van On. If you didn't know,
Speaker 11: let's be short and sweet, because I want to hear
Speaker 11: from these two gentlemen just like you do.
Speaker 9: Well, what is a lot of your player this love as.
Speaker 11: That's a really good question. I think it's first it
Speaker 11: starts with the standard, and then secondly, as a group,
Speaker 11: all eleven of us and some that aren't starters, buying
Speaker 11: into that standard and trying to elevate each other, take
Speaker 11: the coaching and just produce that onto the football field.
Speaker 11: We have a lot of guys on this team that
Speaker 11: have chips on their shoulders, or come from different backgrounds,
Speaker 11: whatever you want to call it, that are buying into
Speaker 11: each other, that believe in each other, and it shows
Speaker 11: on the football field. And I just believe that offensively,
Speaker 11: defensively and special teams. This is a great group of
Speaker 11: guys that are really close. Like I think you guys
Speaker 11: come to the locker room every day. You guys see
Speaker 11: that we're a tight knit group. We hang out with
Speaker 11: each other and it's been fun.
Speaker 2: We saw a little moments in the second halfic Kyle
Speaker 2: Hamilton doing push ups on the sideline's being flying around and.
Speaker 5: You guys already have a big lead.
Speaker 1: I mean, is there a spirit that's sort of growing
Speaker 1: around your group.
Speaker 6: Doesn't as a defense that you want to just oon every.
Speaker 5: Minute of the game.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we talk about dominating and that's kind of something
Speaker 11: that we really uh lean on each other for and
Speaker 11: we mean it.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 11: We don't just go out there to win. We want
Speaker 11: to dominate and show where uh we try to be
Speaker 11: the best defense in in the country. Can't say the
Speaker 11: world because you know that that went crazy this summer.
Speaker 5: How did you guys take it a little personally? The
Speaker 5: arizon around on you guys a little bit.
Speaker 11: Hell yeah, last question.
Speaker 7: And Dean kind of.
Speaker 6: Starting not with this team but finding a home here.
Speaker 6: Is there a sort of pride that you guys are
Speaker 6: proven that you're still it would be productive players at
Speaker 6: the stage.
Speaker 5: Who needs training camp?
Speaker 1: That was veteran outside linebacker Kyle van Noy. In the
Speaker 1: locker room, we talked with a guy who scored his
Speaker 1: first touchdown as a Raven. It was also the birthday boy,
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior, on his birthday gets in the end
Speaker 1: zone for the first time. This was clearly something that
Speaker 1: had been driving him. He wanted to get back in
Speaker 1: that end zone. It's been a long time coming for
Speaker 1: him and he discussed the journey after the game.
Speaker 12: I just feel I say, when I was Super Bowl
Speaker 12: happy and I went down those contemplations of what I
Speaker 12: wanted to come back and do this all over again,
Speaker 12: and I just said to myself, you know, for any
Speaker 12: of the kid out there who was watching and was
Speaker 12: once inspired with message what I said, to give up.
Speaker 12: Even if I came out here and had one pitch
Speaker 12: in the NFL, I said.
Speaker 7: I would be happy.
Speaker 12: I knew I was pot playing myself like high expectation.
Speaker 12: So it feels good to farming, you know, get that
Speaker 12: one off you. We've been playing great ball.
Speaker 7: But just like we talked about earlier, from a personal.
Speaker 12: Stamp, Carl's got a sense of him and praid to
Speaker 12: come on the birthday coming.
Speaker 8: Okay, better good?
Speaker 7: Can you take me through the play a little bit?
Speaker 3: Pretty good?
Speaker 12: It was something that we you know, had seen on
Speaker 12: tape month that said it was gonna happen just like that.
Speaker 12: I've ran that route plenty of times and if it
Speaker 12: laid out perfectly, you know, just draw drew it up.
Speaker 12: We executed, uh, And like I said, it just feels
Speaker 12: it feels great to get that went off here. What's
Speaker 12: that the bark paints right the Yeah, I had a
Speaker 12: different celebration in mind, but then it was just like
Speaker 12: you know.
Speaker 7: I I there's so much that I want.
Speaker 12: To do for this team, organization and also of the
Speaker 12: city of Baltimore. I've really they've embraced me in the culture.
Speaker 12: That's all I want to do is be able to
Speaker 12: put off from you know, to make them proud.
Speaker 7: Uh. And you know, just see where we go from here.
Speaker 3: What's the media, how much your teammates, how much lay here?
Speaker 7: Did you have everything?
Speaker 12: It's the same as you know how I felt when
Speaker 12: when they flower school. I was way across the field
Speaker 12: and I'm running all the way over there or keep scores,
Speaker 12: you know, I'm I see everybody running down there like
Speaker 12: these you know, were with each other every day, you know,
Speaker 12: more than you are with your family, and it's a brotherhood,
Speaker 12: and you just you was so happy to see people
Speaker 12: succeed when you've seen.
Speaker 7: All of the hard work that they put it in.
Speaker 12: So uh, you know, we're we're our brother's keepers, and
Speaker 12: it's just it was great to you know, to feel
Speaker 12: that to see everybody on the sideline and everybody else's
Speaker 12: time and then.
Speaker 9: That one person on the sideways I really have put
Speaker 9: from the war.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you.
Speaker 9: Know you go back from the to the sideline and
Speaker 9: they kind of you know, share with him that touchdown
Speaker 9: and even came from Tyler.
Speaker 7: Uh what was that like? Yeah, it's you know, it
Speaker 7: was just a great moment.
Speaker 12: You know, he knows, you know, we've all put in
Speaker 12: hard work and just it's been a long journey for
Speaker 12: me since February twenty second of twenty twenty two, you know,
Speaker 12: all the way until now.
Speaker 7: It's been a very long and long journey. Tough days,
Speaker 7: dark days, hard days, you know, some good in.
Speaker 12: There, and uh, just to see him smiling like he
Speaker 12: was excited and just know he he's been saying it
Speaker 12: for weeks to me. You know, when it rains and ports,
Speaker 12: he's like, it's gonna happen, It's gonna happen.
Speaker 7: And work on are all dead rolling and you know,
Speaker 7: just another win is just another.
Speaker 6: Even before that, a bunch of the first downs you got,
Speaker 6: you're showing a lot of emotion.
Speaker 7: Was that just kind of building out there?
Speaker 6: That's the game when a long game for up plus
Speaker 6: down to get you.
Speaker 12: Yeah, there's a part of me that just you know
Speaker 12: comes so far to where I was like, oh, you know,
Speaker 12: just a catch, just a catch, Like, let's get back
Speaker 12: to the hold. And there's another part that I I'm
Speaker 12: trying to battle within myself of being grateful, you know,
Speaker 12: for those moments, cause they're not promised that it's you know,
Speaker 12: just like that, anything can happen.
Speaker 7: And I just think that when today was about having
Speaker 7: that Jordan, and you know, my.
Speaker 12: Favorite player of the game is when I see him
Speaker 12: keeping balancing, get loose and we all see how fast
Speaker 12: he is. That just to watch him score, it just
Speaker 12: was a lot of fun. It was special to be
Speaker 12: able to play on your birthdays in the National Football League.
Speaker 12: So I'm truly blessed.
Speaker 1: If we don't about the rams from the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: team that you were on Mars.
Speaker 7: Is this culture of his team approaching now, yes, winning
Speaker 7: the Super Bowl.
Speaker 12: I know what the atmosphere was like, and the energy
Speaker 12: in the locker room and the day to day and
Speaker 12: the team and the players, I mean the players. It
Speaker 12: is always gonna be that. So yeah, this is this
Speaker 12: is definitely that I won't you know, at the end
Speaker 12: of the day, that's the goal. You know, I have
Speaker 12: to speak about it all the time, but that's that's
Speaker 12: opposite the goal.
Speaker 18: Odell coming into this day, cause I know sometimes you
Speaker 18: have certain feelings about certain things that might happen. Did
Speaker 18: you have a kind of a feeling that a touch
Speaker 18: fam might happen today?
Speaker 7: I did.
Speaker 12: I you know, every every time I've gone out there recently,
Speaker 12: I'm just trying and reset the clock, no matter what
Speaker 12: kind of game I had and be.
Speaker 7: Like, today's the day, Today's day. And it was.
Speaker 12: It was definitely that today's the day, Today's day. Even
Speaker 12: after the phone move, Uh, today's day. Even though I
Speaker 12: was down my favorite line, my favorite line is bought online.
Speaker 12: And you know, God God had my back today. You know,
Speaker 12: as soon as that that happens three players in the row,
Speaker 12: he was like, listen, you know you were down, so
Speaker 12: we'll just more reverse this for your own term.
Speaker 7: So that felt good.
Speaker 12: It's it's tough when you're in it just finding ways to,
Speaker 12: you know, be with your mind. But just had to
Speaker 12: keep chugging away. He said, today is gonna be a day.
Speaker 12: God delivered a pretty nice word.
Speaker 1: Of a game for after keep scored.
Speaker 12: I see him, I see him dancing and everything, and
Speaker 12: I wanted to watch the dance, but I was like,
Speaker 12: you know, that's a special ball, like you gotta make
Speaker 12: sure you got it.
Speaker 7: I think he ended up seeing it, but I just
Speaker 7: wanted to make sure that he had that. It was
Speaker 7: a special moment for him.
Speaker 12: You know, he's worked Harady, dealt with you know, some
Speaker 12: nicks and bruises in camp.
Speaker 7: And just to see him score, like just to see
Speaker 7: him run actually all day. I actually owe him a touchdown.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: He ended up breaking away on a player that I
Speaker 7: never you know, it looked like.
Speaker 12: He was down, and it's just something that we're talking about,
Speaker 12: you know, where it's the hide effort in this championship effort,
Speaker 12: and that's a.
Speaker 7: Player that like me and my mom talked about and
Speaker 7: I owe him a touchdown. So I'll make sure that
Speaker 7: try and make sure I'm blocked for him in card
Speaker 7: next week.
Speaker 1: That was wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior. We also talked
Speaker 1: with defensive tackle Justin Mattabike, who's having a breakout season.
Speaker 1: Got another sack. That's six straight games for him, which
Speaker 1: is a franchise record, and he discussed the dominant play
Speaker 1: of this defense.
Speaker 6: Justin' six straight games with the least in a half
Speaker 6: a sack that's a Ravens franchise record. What does it
Speaker 6: mean to you to now a pretty the record books.
Speaker 7: Prove this franchise.
Speaker 15: Oh, it means a lot.
Speaker 5: It means a lot.
Speaker 19: You know.
Speaker 15: I've developed so much being a part of the Ravens
Speaker 15: and just growing as a man and as a player
Speaker 15: as a person. So to be able to keep working
Speaker 15: and see a payoff, it's definitely just you and above
Speaker 15: a drink co mature was just I don't know how,
Speaker 15: I don't know. I can't put any words, but that
Speaker 15: keep hunting.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 15: I mean, we have a rival opponent coming up next week,
Speaker 15: so we're gonna up for twenty four hours and then
Speaker 15: get back to work. That's just how it was.
Speaker 9: So justin what kind of level is this defense playing
Speaker 9: that collectively right now?
Speaker 7: A high level?
Speaker 15: Ya, I mean, y'all saw it. We just uh have
Speaker 15: a lot of guys on our team that really love
Speaker 15: each other and really wanna go out there and hunt
Speaker 15: for each other, and uh we just execuct the game
Speaker 15: playing and hight calls and just execute it to a team.
Speaker 15: Try to get the quarterback un comfortable. We try to
Speaker 15: shut down the run and that's usually how you uh
Speaker 15: change dynamics of the game.
Speaker 9: That's what we did the personally, do you f do
Speaker 9: you feel something different like a game day? Is it
Speaker 9: coming easier for you?
Speaker 7: How do you explain it?
Speaker 15: Think it's just a experience and just believing in myself
Speaker 15: and believing in my teammates and just having each other's back, uh,
Speaker 15: playing for the love you of teammates and just playing
Speaker 15: for the love the game, and just uh wanted to
Speaker 15: get a win, you know what I mean. You know,
Speaker 15: you definitely don't wanna lose in jo at the home stadium,
Speaker 15: you know what I mean? We had a bad tasee
Speaker 15: in our mouth playing against the Cardinals. We did even
Speaker 15: though we won the game, as a defense, we could
Speaker 15: have tackle that, we could them better.
Speaker 5: So we came into this place in the bank with it.
Speaker 15: Ooh, that tastes are not when we definitely wanted to
Speaker 15: show these She obviously who they both says today. So
Speaker 15: that's what it was.
Speaker 1: Branked up when the pastres was cranked up the way
Speaker 1: that you guys were today. Yeah, what kind of impact
Speaker 1: does that? Do you see that that has on an offense?
Speaker 15: Huge, huge, you know, it kind of disrupts her confidence,
Speaker 15: It disrupts their It disrupts their plan. It gets us
Speaker 15: juiced up, hyped up, and it gets Lamar in the
Speaker 15: offensive line to get cooking, you know what I mean,
Speaker 15: with some confidence. So it's it's huge, It's it's absolutely huge.
Speaker 15: It changes dynamics of the game.
Speaker 12: So yeah, justin We've.
Speaker 20: Ran a couple of times after some of these wins
Speaker 20: where the defensive guys have said that they weren't sad
Speaker 20: to spouted, they weren't happy with their performance. Did you
Speaker 20: get this INSI couds were happy with today's performance?
Speaker 15: Uh, I would say, so there are some guys that
Speaker 15: you said that weren't happy with their performance, he says.
Speaker 20: Not today, but just since some of the past, like
Speaker 20: you mentioned the Arizona one and maybe.
Speaker 5: Yeah that the lines late touchdown.
Speaker 15: Yeah, when you perform like that in those games, you
Speaker 15: know what I mean, it kind of uh propels you.
Speaker 15: I could say, for like you to have a dominant
Speaker 15: like edge or like a motivation for the next game.
Speaker 15: You know, I feel like that's what it was today.
Speaker 15: I fuck everybody played outstanding, g you know cow.
Speaker 5: PQ. I mean everybody, really, I can name everybody, y'all.
Speaker 5: I be here, y'all be here forever.
Speaker 15: But you know, I think we just played really good
Speaker 15: at a defense and then uh disrupted their conference on
Speaker 15: offense in Seattle.
Speaker 18: When we talk on Sunday, on Sunday, y you g
Speaker 18: you know, Brady's playing Browns. Browns obviously think they might
Speaker 18: have the best defense in the NFL. I think you
Speaker 18: guys probably feel the same way. Do you think Sunday's
Speaker 18: game could go a long way to determine any who
Speaker 18: who might.
Speaker 5: Have the best to go?
Speaker 15: You know, I I talk with my paths, you know
Speaker 15: what I mean, But I definitely have confidence on outside.
Speaker 5: Just just say that, you know, can.
Speaker 6: You describe the swagger of this defense right now?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 7: Confident?
Speaker 15: We talked that smack a little bit, you know. I mean, well,
Speaker 15: but we we talk after we hit you in the mouth,
Speaker 15: you know what I mean, And we just let you
Speaker 15: know that we're coming all day. I mean, we're bringing
Speaker 15: it all day. So I would just say, just what
Speaker 15: eving each other and just taking on one peray at
Speaker 15: a time.
Speaker 6: Just was just describing it as a bunch of a
Speaker 6: holes to paraphras is that kind.
Speaker 5: Of uh you said that?
Speaker 7: Not mean that?
Speaker 18: Okay?
Speaker 15: I went to you know, yeah, we went to what
Speaker 15: I'm saying, trying to just trying to play smash moun football.
Speaker 5: That's just what the Raven defense is about.
Speaker 15: That's what we're we're here for and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 15: So we're just taking one day at a time.
Speaker 1: So that was defensive tackle justin at ABK. We also
Speaker 1: talked with linebacker Patrick Queen, who really is a tone
Speaker 1: setter for this dominant defense. That's a good You know,
Speaker 1: you guys are up big and it's the third fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and you seem like you were playing with as
Speaker 1: much energy as you were right off of the bat.
Speaker 1: Why is that? You know, why is it important for
Speaker 1: you to kind of bring that throughout an entire game,
Speaker 1: even when you're winning the way you were today?
Speaker 19: Because we want to finish all That's the whole thing
Speaker 19: we've been talking about the whole season is finishing and
Speaker 19: we haven't been finishing. And we had opportunity to do
Speaker 19: that today and we wanted to take full advantage of
Speaker 19: the opportunity, and I think we did.
Speaker 1: When the pass rushes, you know, playing well like they
Speaker 1: did today, how does that help the rest of his defenses?
Speaker 19: Uh?
Speaker 5: It helps?
Speaker 19: Uh, And it really starts with the coverage, cause if
Speaker 19: we're not gonna run our guys, then they can't get
Speaker 19: they pass us. So, Uh, hats off to the guys.
Speaker 19: Coverment has off to the rush. We were really playing
Speaker 19: just on one accord and that's what led us a success.
Speaker 17: The Browns pitch to shut out today.
Speaker 19: On defense, just this upcoming game, how much you looking
Speaker 19: forward to that one?
Speaker 13: In a a matchup with two good defenses.
Speaker 19: You gotta say the right thing. Take a second. Uh,
Speaker 19: I mean they get they're they're a good team, honestly,
Speaker 19: grade on line, grade over line. Uh, quarterback situation, I
Speaker 19: have him to paying attention to. I don't know who's
Speaker 19: been that quarterback who hasn't, So we'll know all that
Speaker 19: stuff this weekend. We'll know uh the plan going into
Speaker 19: the weekend. Uh obviously you know, like you just said,
Speaker 19: they had to shut out and we we uh gave
Speaker 19: up three points a day, So we'll see who do
Speaker 19: has a better defense?
Speaker 8: Uh, Sunday, Atrick, when you watch this pass rush from
Speaker 8: U all your teammates, just do you feel like it's
Speaker 8: a pick your poison kind of situation?
Speaker 7: Just with all the talent you have m the.
Speaker 19: Front definitely is cause if he deserved the ball and
Speaker 19: they obviously like today, Uh, somebody gonna come down with
Speaker 19: it and if he holds onto it, our pastor us
Speaker 19: gonna get there. And that's what I was saying, both
Speaker 19: of us, uh, the secondary up front, working together, playing
Speaker 19: on won the cards, just getting our job done.
Speaker 12: How does an outcome like this propel you guys for
Speaker 12: the next.
Speaker 7: Two home games that you have there?
Speaker 19: We just can't get satispot Honestly, Uh, we know we
Speaker 19: played good. We know we played great and like I
Speaker 19: said that one fields old, we know we they shouldn't
Speaker 19: even have that, just something that we could uh eliminate.
Speaker 19: So we know, just coming in here to the season
Speaker 19: not over, but we got we gott keep gorying and
Speaker 19: keep uh improving.
Speaker 7: What can you puts the chalent and and effort so consistent?
Speaker 6: I mean, what what keeps you guys burning when you're
Speaker 6: already up big and a third.
Speaker 19: Quarter type of guys we got here. Uh, nobody sat
Speaker 19: to spy. Everybody wants to eat. We love right, tryna
Speaker 19: shot people out. We love just uh standing on opponent.
Speaker 19: That's and that then Uh we had the opportunity to
Speaker 19: do that to thing. That's what we did.
Speaker 5: So think of the motivation.
Speaker 1: Is it to be recognized and viewed or whatever the
Speaker 1: stats are as the best defensive league?
Speaker 7: Like how motivating get is that?
Speaker 9: To you?
Speaker 19: Definitely is m motivating?
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 19: At the beginning of the year, we used to always
Speaker 19: do like, well what do we see ourselves as a defense?
Speaker 19: And this shit? We just with the number one whatever
Speaker 19: charac category that is, whatever it is, we won't be
Speaker 19: the number one. So that's how focus the whole time
Speaker 19: is just being number one.
Speaker 6: What's the challenge of I guess kind of working through
Speaker 6: the garbage to to stop a guy like keep Mitchell
Speaker 6: when when he's as small as he is.
Speaker 7: I mean it's a little dip different than Gus.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 19: It's crazy cause right before it's touch down around we
Speaker 19: were sitting there, it was like this one guy keeps
Speaker 19: stopping him. If that one guy don't get there, he's
Speaker 19: gone and then the next place he was out of there.
Speaker 19: So yeah, especially with a guy like that, like tryna
Speaker 19: cover him in camp the whole time having trouble with that,
Speaker 19: Like just he got his different thing. He can run
Speaker 19: behind his paths even though he's small. You know, it's
Speaker 19: really hard to see him an this behind the line.
Speaker 19: So once he do break the that, you gotta be
Speaker 19: on your a game. Uh, he'll run rousey like he's
Speaker 19: fast as as he shows.
Speaker 17: So can you describe the swagger of this defense right now?
Speaker 5: Confident?
Speaker 19: Uh, just playing our game, playing to our standard, playing
Speaker 19: rapings football. That's all it is.
Speaker 6: Do you know saying that you guys to paraphrasing your
Speaker 6: bunch a holes who wanna do?
Speaker 7: Is that sum it up?
Speaker 19: Or? Yeah? That's what we definitely tryna be. I don't
Speaker 19: even think we're tryna be. I think that's just who
Speaker 19: we are. I think, uh we are nice guys, but
Speaker 19: by the end of the day, we're what you said.
Speaker 19: So that's what we just gotta keep playing like.
Speaker 6: The supportive elopment come into its cause it just seems
Speaker 6: like whoever makes the play like the defense is kind
Speaker 6: of communally happy.
Speaker 19: Rich. Uh that's what e DC did. He uh brought
Speaker 19: the certain guys here that we needed, and that's why nobody. Uh,
Speaker 19: we're all we're all happy for each other. Uh. I
Speaker 19: one person eat, we all eat if nobody else going
Speaker 19: on us, and we're all doing our job and we're
Speaker 19: all satisfied as long as we knowing what we're supposed
Speaker 19: to be doing. Nobody cares who make the place?
Speaker 7: Patrick?
Speaker 3: Can you speak to how good he edg you guys
Speaker 3: have them?
Speaker 5: I mean, uh, yup.
Speaker 2: People put so much focus on the trade deadline, but
Speaker 2: you guys have had already gotten Tonoi or a clowney.
Speaker 5: How how good of us we knew?
Speaker 19: We h who we had, We knew the experience that
Speaker 19: they got, how they still play to this day and age.
Speaker 19: And Uh, it's just it's everything that we practice, it's
Speaker 19: everything that we preach. We knew especially with uh Walker
Speaker 19: over there. See alls could hit the edge when he
Speaker 19: could go. So it was big emphasis on certain DAGs
Speaker 19: this week, and those guys did their job and pass
Speaker 19: us come alive.
Speaker 1: So and lastly, in the locker room, we had a
Speaker 1: chance to talk with Geno Stone, who leads the NFL
Speaker 1: with interceptions. He an interception in the fourth straight game.
Speaker 1: He now has six on the season. It's been a
Speaker 1: tremendous start for Gino and he discussed his play as
Speaker 1: well as the overall defensive performance.
Speaker 14: Lee, you know you don't you don't want Apparently anyone's downfoud,
Speaker 14: especially right now the team that we know what team
Speaker 14: we got where we could go, So you're gonna be
Speaker 14: happy for everyone's success. And uh, and you know when
Speaker 14: everyone plays good, everything happens good for everyone else. So
Speaker 14: I feel like we got the group right now to
Speaker 14: do what we got to do and we continue to
Speaker 14: do it.
Speaker 12: How would your characterizet Mike McDonald, right, because he's over
Speaker 12: a bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, how much of this is his influence? And how
Speaker 7: do your characterize him?
Speaker 14: It's it's a lot on like you know, it's his
Speaker 14: game plan he puts together each week. We just go
Speaker 14: out and show what we could do with it.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 14: He puts us in a rights boss and right positions
Speaker 14: and make plays and it's really all him.
Speaker 5: You know, he's got a great.
Speaker 14: Staff put together right now, and uh, you know, we
Speaker 14: got great players that go out there and make the plays.
Speaker 7: That he's put together.
Speaker 1: How would you discribe the confidence of the defense? I
Speaker 1: mean it just seems like you like even getting ten
Speaker 1: yards and you guys as a challenge, how would you
Speaker 1: describe confidence?
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, I mean we're a team that I mean,
Speaker 14: like you said, like, shoot, you give ten yards on
Speaker 14: this word, We're gonna be upset no matter what. It is,
Speaker 14: a big play we're gonna be upset, you know. You know,
Speaker 14: we're probably gonna have plays we look on film like dang,
Speaker 14: we could better, way better.
Speaker 5: That's that's to me.
Speaker 3: It's great though.
Speaker 14: You want a defense like that because you never want
Speaker 14: to be satisfied, you know, Like I said, I'm gonna satisfied.
Speaker 14: I dropped the pick today in whoever it is. But
Speaker 14: you know, I feel we're, like we said, we're a
Speaker 14: bunch of excuse my French, We're a bunch.
Speaker 5: Of assholes out there.
Speaker 14: I mean, it is what it is, and we want
Speaker 14: to be the best defense we could be.
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