Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Sunday,
Speaker 1: September twenty second, and the Ravens got their first win
Speaker 1: of the season at twenty eight to twenty five victory
Speaker 1: over the Dallas Cowboys in Texas. Massive win for this
Speaker 1: team early in the year. And afterwards we heard from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harbaugh, but.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of the guys got the victory and we
Speaker 2: started getting ready for Buffalo.
Speaker 3: What question do you had, John, How was kind of
Speaker 3: the atmosphere in the fourth quarter when things you had
Speaker 3: that big lead and then it started doinding a little bit.
Speaker 2: I thought everybody really got locked in on trying to
Speaker 2: get the job done. Everybody understood what needed to be done.
Speaker 2: You know, we're trying to get stops and we're focusing
Speaker 2: on that. And then when we got back out trying
Speaker 2: to end the game with the offense on the field,
Speaker 2: what did.
Speaker 4: You see from Lamar Jackson on that final drive? A
Speaker 4: big throw and then run.
Speaker 2: Obviously, Yeah, I thought Lamar was just phenomenal throughout the
Speaker 2: game and then took over the last drive, and I
Speaker 2: thought the big throw at the end, the big catches
Speaker 2: at the end. You know, Zay made that huge catch.
Speaker 2: Bait Bait had a big catch. We had some big
Speaker 2: runs at the end too. We ran the ball well
Speaker 2: at the end, and uh, to finish out that way
Speaker 2: was really important, you know, to win the game on
Speaker 2: offense at the end, and that's what they got done.
Speaker 2: So that's what you want to do that in that situation.
Speaker 2: Didn't really want it to get to that situation, but
Speaker 2: it did, and they came through a.
Speaker 5: Lot of the talk all week was about offensive line.
Speaker 5: You never said definitively there would be changes, but it
Speaker 5: was brought up a couple of times. What made you
Speaker 5: stick with that group and how are you How pleased
Speaker 5: were you with how they performed that.
Speaker 2: I was pleased. I mean what made me stick with
Speaker 2: it was they were doing so well, you know, run
Speaker 2: the ball, pass protection, everything was really was really they
Speaker 2: were doing really good job of blocking. They took care
Speaker 2: of their pass rushers, especially Micah did a great job there.
Speaker 2: So I just felt like it was not no reason
Speaker 2: to make a change there. We had we had the
Speaker 2: possibility of rotating some guys in, but those guys were
Speaker 2: playing too well, I think to do that.
Speaker 6: Because did you view this as a must win type
Speaker 6: of game?
Speaker 2: Well, we kind of look at every game. That's a
Speaker 2: good question. I'm sorry, yeah, I mean, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, well, no, I mean we consider every game
Speaker 2: we must win, you know. But if you don't win
Speaker 2: a game, your season is not over. It's a lot
Speaker 2: of football to be played. And this is a very
Speaker 2: good football team. You know, you saw it out there.
Speaker 2: They're very capable, they're very tough team. It's a tough
Speaker 2: environment to play in and I just prout of the
Speaker 2: way our guys handled it. You know, we're trying to
Speaker 2: get a win every week. We're trying to be one
Speaker 2: to know the last week doesn't matter, the next week
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. It's this week that we're focused on. Lamark
Speaker 2: preaches it to the guys all the time. Proud of
Speaker 2: those guys. But you get the running game going the
Speaker 2: way we did with Derrick Henry and Justice and the
Speaker 2: offensive line playing the well where they did have two
Speaker 2: hundred seventy four yards rushing, and have Lamar take over
Speaker 2: the game the way he did. To me, that's that's
Speaker 2: that's our identity, that's our personality, and we just got
Speaker 2: to keep building on that and then keep doing everything better,
Speaker 2: everything better. I mean the penalty is are a problem.
Speaker 2: Too many, too many penalties. Joe, you're gonna ask that question,
Speaker 2: go ahead, I was going to ask you said for week.
Speaker 1: To we get a little different as far as who
Speaker 1: steps up.
Speaker 7: I mean today Charlie Cole had place we did Nelson Agalar.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of what you.
Speaker 2: Credit?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Is that what you envisioned offensively for?
Speaker 8: It is?
Speaker 2: I mean you see Nelson made the play, you know,
Speaker 2: down the sideline. I ran all the way down to
Speaker 2: the one, one or two yard line. You see that
Speaker 2: Charlie made the play in the boot rather the gates
Speaker 2: that Lamar hit him on.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: That we want to use all of our guys. You know,
Speaker 2: we want to spread the ball around. We want to
Speaker 2: make it tough. We don't want any they we don't
Speaker 2: want to zero in on anybody. Uh, we want we
Speaker 2: want everybody to to h to take part.
Speaker 10: John, you mentioned the penalties. Why do you think that
Speaker 10: you've got.
Speaker 2: I think we need to eliminate the penalties. That's what
Speaker 2: we need to do. And they're hurting us. They're costly.
Speaker 2: Whether you think they should be called or not. I'm
Speaker 2: sure we'll look at the tape. I'm sure there's some
Speaker 2: questionable ones. You guys might know more than I do.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. We've just got to we've got to
Speaker 2: eliminate the penalties.
Speaker 6: Joan, what do you think.
Speaker 11: Click to set up Derek's game is break out?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what do you think.
Speaker 11: Click to help set up Derek's breakout game?
Speaker 2: I think we blocked well, and I think Derek ran
Speaker 2: really well. And I think Lamar caused a problem for
Speaker 2: him too, because they had to defend Lamar as well.
Speaker 2: And you saw Lamar getting out and then going the
Speaker 2: other way. He read all those plays really well. Some
Speaker 2: of those plays are read some of them Mark. So
Speaker 2: this combination right here that's sitting here in this room
Speaker 2: is a tough one to defend.
Speaker 6: John, do you think that I don't know the kind
Speaker 6: of men you've run places you called for him, but
Speaker 6: it seemed like he had some zone run the place
Speaker 6: where he could bounce it, bang it. I mean, do
Speaker 6: you feel like you wanted to give him more of
Speaker 6: those kind of runs?
Speaker 2: Well, we had, we had, We've we've been running those
Speaker 2: all year so far, but if we had an opportunity,
Speaker 2: I think to run more because we were having success
Speaker 2: and it was pretty We kept him off balance from
Speaker 2: a run defense standpoint for sure, and Lamar hit some
Speaker 2: timely passes, play action passes. Lamar kept him off balance.
Speaker 2: Derek broke tackles a couple of times. We had inside runs,
Speaker 2: it bounced outside because of his vision and speed. Those
Speaker 2: are the things that you know, that's what we want
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 5: Jean, There's gonna be a lot of tension on the
Speaker 5: fourth quarters, is there? Do you do you think about
Speaker 5: maybe sticking being more aggressive at times late in the
Speaker 5: fourth corps.
Speaker 2: We called Blitzer. We did call Blitzer in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: So I just we just to kind of define it.
Speaker 2: We call Blitzer in the fourth quarter. It wasn't that
Speaker 2: we were just playing coverage the whole fourth quarter. I
Speaker 2: don't know how many I bet we called four or
Speaker 2: five blitzes. You know, offensively, be more aggressive. Oh you
Speaker 2: know what you know, I think you can look at that.
Speaker 2: But we were running the ball pretty darn good. And
Speaker 2: we did throw some play action pass We had a
Speaker 2: boot in there. You know, you get away from something
Speaker 2: that's clicking, you know, then it's like why why are
Speaker 2: you getting away from something that's working for you too?
Speaker 2: So uh La, Mark and beach in all kinds of
Speaker 2: different ways, you know, and uh, he did that today
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter. I understand what you're saying, but
Speaker 2: I think you can always look back and say maybe
Speaker 2: a play call here or there you want to have
Speaker 2: back based on the outcome of the play.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: But I don't feel too bad about it. We probably
Speaker 2: got a little conservative. I agree with that. I think
Speaker 2: it was for a reason. With a big lead like
Speaker 2: that and we're burning the clock, you know, I didn't
Speaker 2: go for a fourth and one and a half. I
Speaker 2: could have gone for it. I know the MA wanted
Speaker 2: me to do it, but we punted him down in there.
Speaker 2: We stopped and they went back to us and went
Speaker 2: down score a touchdown.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: So we kicked a field goal. You know, we could
Speaker 2: have gone for the fourth and three, but we wanted
Speaker 2: to go up four scores and we missed it, you know,
Speaker 2: And that's that's not going to happen too often. So
Speaker 2: you know, sometimes you got to play that kind of
Speaker 2: game as well.
Speaker 10: To Don on the on the touchdown, I think it
Speaker 10: was the last one or second last one that looked
Speaker 10: like Ropewan and Marlin we're talking was was there is
Speaker 10: that like a coverage situation or what happened there.
Speaker 2: I'll see the tape. I have to have a better
Speaker 2: answer for you on Monday, John.
Speaker 6: Is it concerning for you that two straight weeks now
Speaker 6: you've basically forced the opposing offensive descripts where they only
Speaker 6: have to pass and you haven't had a had a
Speaker 6: lot of luck and actually stopping them third quarter or
Speaker 6: fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: We want to get those stops. We definitely want to
Speaker 2: get those stops, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Lamar Jackson, who came up with a stellar drive
Speaker 1: at the end of the game to seal the victory,
Speaker 1: also talked with reporters.
Speaker 3: Minds knowing, yeah, twenty two point lead has twinning down
Speaker 3: and you guys had a chance to finish.
Speaker 2: Uh, just we need to get a first down.
Speaker 12: Coach, they was making good plays on opposing team defense,
Speaker 12: you know, uh getting short games here and there, but
Speaker 12: we was getting positive yards, like I believe, like four
Speaker 12: yard first one one yard here, with two yards here,
Speaker 12: and it was like, we gotta gotta make something happen.
Speaker 7: And coach caught a good play.
Speaker 12: Thought the day they made a great catch because they
Speaker 12: was calling it wasting their times out and we the
Speaker 12: rest of the system.
Speaker 4: Report that you huddled out the guys at the ends
Speaker 4: of the first half and and really told them we
Speaker 4: need to we need to finish. Can you just talk
Speaker 4: about that? What's spread that on? And and then you know,
Speaker 4: obviously you guys finished.
Speaker 2: It there at the end and on offense, Yeah, we
Speaker 2: got a finish man.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 12: I didn't like how things were going like we were
Speaker 12: getting off the field. We I believe we shouldn't be
Speaker 12: putting tuck on the field around that time. We should
Speaker 12: have been punching the clock in right there. We up
Speaker 12: twenty eighty six.
Speaker 2: The game is not over.
Speaker 12: We hadn't been in those situations years in the past
Speaker 12: when we go up and have time come back and
Speaker 12: we lose and we up like thirty five fourteen, stuff
Speaker 12: like that.
Speaker 2: And I believe we just gotta keep doing we doing, you.
Speaker 12: Know first half, you know, just keep putting our guys
Speaker 12: on the petal, keep the defense guessing, and I believe
Speaker 12: we won't be in these situations.
Speaker 10: Well, Mark, did you take us through that final play
Speaker 10: your your run there and what you saw on that
Speaker 10: and think.
Speaker 2: It was a yeah it was a RPO. It was
Speaker 2: a RPO.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: Jay did what he was supposed to do.
Speaker 12: He carried out the fake well I believe, you know,
Speaker 12: to uh keep the defense on him, and I just
Speaker 12: had to make a good read in the whole office
Speaker 12: line at a tremendous job giving me a lane to
Speaker 12: get that first down.
Speaker 4: And you seal the game?
Speaker 3: Well you know you do because that you had a
Speaker 3: two minute warning. Did you know if you guys hit
Speaker 3: executed that play, the game was gonna be over on that.
Speaker 12: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. You know it was out
Speaker 12: of timeouts and we just had to get that first down.
Speaker 12: We we go through these situations and practice and for
Speaker 12: it to come up in a game, we know what
Speaker 12: we supposed to do.
Speaker 6: Mar Did you hear the cowboyst crowd erupts as I said,
Speaker 6: it was tackled like ten.
Speaker 8: Years behind you.
Speaker 12: Yeah, but I heard flowed nation in the building too,
Speaker 12: So I wasn't really worried about the Cowboys. Man base
Speaker 12: had all hats off to them though, cause they did
Speaker 12: a good job.
Speaker 4: A a after the two start, suw up how big
Speaker 4: this win is for you guys in that locker?
Speaker 12: So Beyonnest run every every every game is a big
Speaker 12: game for us, man, cause we tryna get somewhere. You know,
Speaker 12: we we gotta win these games to get to the playoffs. Man,
Speaker 12: win these playoff games to get to the super Bowl.
Speaker 12: But it start with the games that's in front of us.
Speaker 12: So the the O two start, we didn't want that
Speaker 12: to happen. You know, it's obviously as the football league
Speaker 12: everyone's good. We can't look at no point and they
Speaker 12: think we can go in there and just roll 'em over.
Speaker 7: Like this high school or.
Speaker 12: Something or college we planning on playing walk on guys.
Speaker 12: Everyone's a fire start believing in the NFL. So we
Speaker 12: just go into games noring. We just gotta give it
Speaker 12: all all cause every time a team play us, we
Speaker 12: might see something on field film and it might be
Speaker 12: different when we play. You know, they gonna play they
Speaker 12: hard out against us like it's a super Bowl. So
Speaker 12: we just gotta go out there and do what we
Speaker 12: supposed to do.
Speaker 5: Lamarro, You interjected Daniel five lay Let's game. Were you
Speaker 5: aware of some of the crisis and that he's been
Speaker 5: getting in the offensive line and how big was it
Speaker 5: with what that group was able to do both from
Speaker 5: past protection run.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course I've seen it.
Speaker 12: You know, I see a lot of things when they
Speaker 12: be tweeting and stuff, but you know it's that's just
Speaker 12: social media. But at the end of the day, he's
Speaker 12: getting paid to do he's supposed to do, and he
Speaker 12: busted his behind each and every time. It's not like
Speaker 12: he's trying to, you know, mess up. All of us
Speaker 12: made mistakes out there on that field, you know, but
Speaker 12: he he came in clutch for us today. And I
Speaker 12: want the same people who was giving him that doubt
Speaker 12: to get praise him, you know, give him that credit,
Speaker 12: you know for what he deserved.
Speaker 6: What was it like for you to watch Derek Henry
Speaker 6: to do his thing today? Oh?
Speaker 7: Man, I expect that from him.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 12: You just gotta give him lanes, just get him, just
Speaker 12: hold up and just let him do his thing. You know,
Speaker 12: he'd be buzzing behind each and never practice. That's a
Speaker 12: guy who don't like to make mistakes, you know, and
Speaker 12: it shows out there when he we made those runs.
Speaker 12: You know, he felt like he could have got more
Speaker 12: yards and he probably could have scored. And I'll be
Speaker 12: right with him, cause I'd be like, you probably could
Speaker 12: have scored right there, you know, But he he showed off.
Speaker 12: You know, he did he did what King Zoo Kings
Speaker 12: do you know they're here.
Speaker 1: We also heard from running back Derek Henrick, who put
Speaker 1: up one hundred and fifty one yards of rushing in
Speaker 1: this game as well as a pair of touchdowns. He
Speaker 1: had a monster day. It was his first one hundred
Speaker 1: yard game as Raven and he talked about it afterwards.
Speaker 3: His team and you know with this offensive one, did
Speaker 3: you feel out there that did you feel when you
Speaker 3: were doing things that you were finally getting into that
Speaker 3: comfort zone with this team?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I think the officer line allowed that to happen. Came
Speaker 9: out with a mindset of, you know, moving guys off
Speaker 9: the line of the trimmage, being physical and playing the
Speaker 9: Raven style of football. And I think they did a
Speaker 9: great job of that today. So for me to have success,
Speaker 9: you know, I told him before the game, I said,
Speaker 9: you know, when you all go, I'll go. So you know,
Speaker 9: we all tied it together. So hats off to the
Speaker 9: officer line, Ronnie, Andrew, Tyler, Daniel and Pat and you know,
Speaker 9: those guys did the great job. So hats off they
Speaker 9: didn't for them to do my job, even fullback, part
Speaker 9: riccard receivers, even tight ends man I appreciate all of them,
Speaker 9: so they made it made my job easier for sure.
Speaker 4: Now that it's done, was there any extra good good
Speaker 4: vibes for you? Good feeling doing this in Dallas? Have
Speaker 4: your first hundred yard games.
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, uh, you know, I hold myself
Speaker 9: to a high standard, and you know, I definitely wanted
Speaker 9: to come out here and be able to have an impact,
Speaker 9: to give us a chance to win by the way
Speaker 9: I played. And you know, I feel like the first
Speaker 9: you know, the first two weeks, you know, kind of
Speaker 9: got going a little slower. But like I said, we
Speaker 9: all tied end together. You know, we all just want
Speaker 9: to come out here and execute and be able to win.
Speaker 9: When we did that today. But being in Dallas, and
Speaker 9: you know, uh, this is what the off off season
Speaker 9: is while I spend you know, most of my time
Speaker 9: in the off season.
Speaker 7: You know, it felt a little good today. So yeah,
Speaker 7: for sure, Eric, we you.
Speaker 10: Know, Lamar just said that he was aware of the
Speaker 10: criticism of the old line. How much were you aware
Speaker 10: of it?
Speaker 4: How much?
Speaker 10: What was it talked about with you and or them
Speaker 10: during the week we saw you over there practice to
Speaker 10: think of one day, you know, doing warm ups and stuff.
Speaker 10: I mean, how much awareness was.
Speaker 13: There of it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I mean we all see it. I mean,
Speaker 7: you can't miss much of anything nowadays.
Speaker 4: You know it.
Speaker 9: It's gonna be right in your face whether you want
Speaker 9: to see it or not. But at the end of
Speaker 9: the day, you know, we all got to sit together,
Speaker 9: we all got to go out there and and and
Speaker 9: do a job. We all got to change the narrative
Speaker 9: what we want to. Have started off on the right foot,
Speaker 9: and you know, you know everything is just going to
Speaker 9: way we wanted to. But that's not how you know
Speaker 9: it started. But you know, you find out you know
Speaker 9: who you are in tough times. And I feel like
Speaker 9: you know, we you know, accepted a challenge knowing you
Speaker 9: know what was being said and everything that was going on.
Speaker 9: But as long as we sit together and believe one
Speaker 9: another and you know, we'll be right where we want
Speaker 9: to be.
Speaker 6: How do you feel you and Justice Hill are confident.
Speaker 9: In each other as if you have Well, I think
Speaker 9: it's a great man. Justice is a great guy. He's
Speaker 9: very smart. I think that's the underrated thing people don't
Speaker 9: know about Justice. He's really smart, really intelligent, and you
Speaker 9: know he got that extension which is much deserve because
Speaker 9: he's you know, one of the heart and souls of
Speaker 9: his team and you know, very happy for him. And
Speaker 9: I think we compliment each other well, you know, I
Speaker 9: think you know, as far as teammates know, he's a
Speaker 9: he's a great teammate, and we got great chemistry, you
Speaker 9: know when we when we're out there on the field
Speaker 9: and you know, uh, you know he's uh, he's dynamic
Speaker 9: and in his way and can't wait to get keeping back.
Speaker 9: Still got got rashine, So who got a good group
Speaker 9: of rbs that you know we have in that room?
Speaker 5: We haven't Building off Brian's question earlier, he asked, you've
Speaker 5: got going over with the offensive line early in practice
Speaker 5: and run stuff. So I don't know that I've ever
Speaker 5: seen a Ravens running back do that? Is that something
Speaker 5: you've done this year at all? And why did you
Speaker 5: feel like it was time to do that?
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, like you said, I mean, it's a
Speaker 9: lot of criticism, you know, and I just letting him know.
Speaker 9: I believe in y'all, you know, and you know, we
Speaker 9: gotta do this together. It's not an individual thing, you know,
Speaker 9: we all we're all tied in and together it's not
Speaker 9: gonna be perfect. You know, I'm gonna make a mistake
Speaker 9: and be wrong when they did their job right and
Speaker 9: vice versa. You know, it's a it's a long season,
Speaker 9: so it's gonna be adversity. But as long as we
Speaker 9: sit together and leave one another, then we'll be good.
Speaker 6: You had two games with tomorrow already. But to have
Speaker 6: a game like this where you guys roll up two
Speaker 6: rushing yards, how easy? You know, can he make your job?
Speaker 6: And how which how he can make his job when
Speaker 6: you guys are rolling.
Speaker 9: As you were today, Yeah, I mean we got rolling,
Speaker 9: but like Lamar said, we felt like we could have
Speaker 9: done more. And there's still more, you know, out there
Speaker 9: for us and still still one's more in store. We
Speaker 9: just gotta stay locked in, keep working, keep making each
Speaker 9: other each and every day.
Speaker 7: And yeah, we feel like it's it's still more out there.
Speaker 9: I mean, it's a great winning today, you know, glad
Speaker 9: to be able to get this win, but definitely ready
Speaker 9: to look forward to next week and get better next
Speaker 9: week and and and put it put it together again
Speaker 9: next week.
Speaker 3: Part oftown?
Speaker 7: Do you work out in city?
Speaker 2: Pown? Do you work out in Uh?
Speaker 9: It's kind of like near downtown on the south side,
Speaker 9: south side of Lamar.
Speaker 7: Yeah, sentence fit. We want to get work out in
Speaker 7: come a little bit.
Speaker 1: In the locker room. We heard from a number of players,
Speaker 1: including some on the offensive line. Let's go to left
Speaker 1: tackle Roddy Stanley.
Speaker 14: Yeah, a lad awake Lamar, who says, hey, Lisen, but
Speaker 14: he also takes it upon himself to actually help you
Speaker 14: guys finish.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I mean, it's very important to have a leader, especially
Speaker 15: at that position. And you know, there's no one I'd
Speaker 15: rather be led by than Lamar. So when when he,
Speaker 15: you know, decides he wants to do something, you know,
Speaker 15: well we are behind him on it.
Speaker 10: You gotta shart out the ball back for two and
Speaker 10: a half to go crowdest, you know, rackets at that point.
Speaker 7: It's the type of game.
Speaker 10: You obviously knew what we had to do, but it
Speaker 10: was a conversation in the huddle of those plays.
Speaker 15: Conversation was just to execute and make sure we're communicating properly.
Speaker 15: Everyone's on the same page. Uh No, stupid penalties aware
Speaker 15: for no different movements is just really disciplined football.
Speaker 11: At that moment in the game, you know, we really.
Speaker 15: Want to be on point you know, one one miscue here,
Speaker 15: can you know turn a big first down play into
Speaker 15: tow York game and we really need those first downs
Speaker 15: in that in that critical situation. So just making sure
Speaker 15: we were all together on the same page.
Speaker 7: Was that Lamar saying something in the middle saying that.
Speaker 15: No, no, that's just the whole line. We were just
Speaker 15: talking to each other and you know, reminding each other.
Speaker 4: There's a report that Lamar Uh at halftime kind of
Speaker 4: got everybody together and talked about finishing. Can you did
Speaker 4: Were you part of that?
Speaker 7: Can you talk about that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 15: I mean it was just pretty much everything you can
Speaker 15: kind of see on the sideline. You know, it's it's
Speaker 15: him just you know, reinforcing the fact that you know,
Speaker 15: our fate is in our hands, you know, especially in
Speaker 15: games like this when we really can you know, turn
Speaker 15: the ties and make the separation the gap even bigger.
Speaker 15: And you know, I think he just he wants it,
Speaker 15: wants us to want it just as much as him.
Speaker 15: And I think he just wants and everyone to make
Speaker 15: sure that we knew this game wasn't over and we
Speaker 15: had a lot of time on the clock and we
Speaker 15: need to keep getting yards, keeping on points. You know
Speaker 15: there's no time to you know, take it easy.
Speaker 5: Well click to get the one game?
Speaker 2: Guy, What do you think that does for this offense?
Speaker 15: Very before, I just thought we got in a good rhythm.
Speaker 15: You know, we started off fast, We didn't have a
Speaker 15: slow star, starting getting some yards you know, early on,
Speaker 15: and just kept building a rhythm and just kept you know,
Speaker 15: keeping that going, and I think that helped us.
Speaker 1: We also heard from right guard Daniel Pla. He came
Speaker 1: under heat and scrutiny this week based on how he
Speaker 1: played in the first two games, but he was back
Speaker 1: as a starter in this game and played well as
Speaker 1: the Ravens put up two hundred and seventy four yards
Speaker 1: of rushing in this game. Here's what he had to
Speaker 1: say during his tath reporters.
Speaker 16: Just not over setting stage square, trusting secondgue, trusting my length, and.
Speaker 11: Yeah, just understanding the blockingest game and what's happening. What
Speaker 11: doesn't it do for you, you know, first starter to
Speaker 11: walk away with such success against I like micro curses.
Speaker 16: Just a lot of more confidence in myself and and
Speaker 16: in my ability and knowing that I can and uh, yeah,
Speaker 16: just keep getting better from here.
Speaker 11: Big break out your game for Derrick Henry, but also
Speaker 11: everyone else.
Speaker 13: What do you feel like it's different for you guys
Speaker 13: this game that got it going.
Speaker 16: I feel like we were all just leaning on each
Speaker 16: other more, trusting each other, living each other, and.
Speaker 11: Yeah, just trusting ourselves.
Speaker 1: What's next to come?
Speaker 16: Just next week, just focused on being want to know
Speaker 16: and yeah, we just go from there and get better
Speaker 16: practice work and what we need.
Speaker 7: To work on.
Speaker 13: A big is it to have that dug under your
Speaker 13: bela now?
Speaker 16: Uh, it's a big relief first one as a starter, and.
Speaker 11: Yeah, just just happy.
Speaker 1: We also heard from center title.
Speaker 11: Talk this week about what's you're often but identity.
Speaker 5: Do you think that's what we saw today getting downhill
Speaker 5: with the wrong game and when you're you know, successful
Speaker 5: with your path?
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think it's you know, by any means, you know,
Speaker 17: whatever it takes to win a football game. You know
Speaker 17: today is just you know, being efficient in the run game.
Speaker 17: You know there'll be other weeks or you know, we've
Speaker 17: got to be able to throw throw the ball, drop
Speaker 17: back and throw the ball.
Speaker 11: But you know, certainly, you know you want to be
Speaker 11: able to run the ball efficiently.
Speaker 7: Because that you know, that opens up a lot of
Speaker 7: other things.
Speaker 11: So yeah, what what do you what do for you
Speaker 11: for a team?
Speaker 14: He kind of be the crunch time on that final drive,
Speaker 14: makes that third down pass to say and then makes
Speaker 14: that run. What what what does it mean for to
Speaker 14: have a leader that not only can say, hey, let's
Speaker 14: finish it off, but actually goes out.
Speaker 7: There and and can do that.
Speaker 17: Yeah, you know and crunch time you want to you know,
Speaker 17: a a ten. So you know, it was a big
Speaker 17: first down conversion on third down to and then you know,
Speaker 17: obviously him getting that first down to seal the game.
Speaker 17: So you know it's certainly not you know, the finish
Speaker 17: that we wanted, you know, obviously going to a half
Speaker 17: time and then going into the second hand, you want
Speaker 17: to score more points. But you know it's a situation
Speaker 17: that we found ourselves in and we gotta find ways
Speaker 17: to win those situations, you know, Proba of the team,
Speaker 17: proud of you know, continue to fight, continue to fight, continue,
Speaker 17: continue to do whatever it takes to try to win
Speaker 17: that football game.
Speaker 8: And you know we did that.
Speaker 7: Today.
Speaker 2: We were asked about people.
Speaker 17: Wouldn't think more so, well today, yeah, I think, you know,
Speaker 17: just just staying at it, you know, staying you know,
Speaker 17: knowing what we're capable of, you know. And it's you know,
Speaker 17: it's it's not easy to run the ball in the NFL,
Speaker 17: so you know it takes you know, you gotta have
Speaker 17: all five guys in the tight ends fullbacks working together.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 7: I think we did a good job today, you know.
Speaker 17: Just trying to sustain and finishing blocks. You know, you
Speaker 17: known't perfect, but you know certainly you know got the
Speaker 17: job done.
Speaker 4: Would you see from Daniel over of course, in the
Speaker 4: past couple of weeks and you know, there's been some
Speaker 4: tough place, there's been a lot of criticism on the outside.
Speaker 7: How have you seen him handle that and continue to grow?
Speaker 17: Yeah, like you just said, you know, continue to get better.
Speaker 17: That's the one thing. You know, every week someone's gonna
Speaker 17: have an opinion. But it's our jobs, you know, to
Speaker 17: come into practice and try to get better, work on
Speaker 17: the things that you know we need to work on.
Speaker 17: And you know it's it's no all five guys working together,
Speaker 17: you know, it's not just one guy, you know, And
Speaker 17: he's continuing to get better and better and better, you know,
Speaker 17: and he's not even scratching the surface on what he's
Speaker 17: capable of doing.
Speaker 11: So I'm excited for him.
Speaker 1: On the defensive side of the ball. We also heard
Speaker 1: from outside linebacker Ada fail Away, how we get.
Speaker 2: Between different momentum going into it.
Speaker 7: Oh, it was really big.
Speaker 8: We needed it. Like I said, he wasn't trying to
Speaker 8: little three. We weren't gonna we weren't gonna let that
Speaker 8: have it. And now we have some good momentum going
Speaker 8: into like another big Dogs and the Bills too at
Speaker 8: home Sunday night, so we'll be.
Speaker 11: Ready, you see.
Speaker 5: And Dafe a different team this week in practice and
Speaker 5: Kyla Hamilton said, you guy said extra meetings and people
Speaker 5: talked about the detail.
Speaker 11: Oriented practices and everyone be more focal.
Speaker 5: Could you sense that this week that are performance like
Speaker 5: this specifically for three plus scorers was building?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean we're usually are always like pretty detailed and
Speaker 8: laser focused, but this week in particular, just cause we
Speaker 8: knew it was a stick and then you know, just
Speaker 8: you know what the message was trying to clean up
Speaker 8: you know, the little details and self means that we had.
Speaker 8: So you know, I I I respect the leaders of
Speaker 8: the team and uh zeo, you know, advertising extra meetings
Speaker 8: and then you know, just paying attention to little details doffa.
Speaker 4: I I don't want you to get fined, but did
Speaker 4: did you get any explain any explanation?
Speaker 7: Uh from the RAF on the field about that quo?
Speaker 8: Nah, he was just smiling at me the whole game,
Speaker 8: to be honest, like whenever I would ask him for
Speaker 8: calls and you know, stuffing like that, we just smile
Speaker 8: at me, you know, and just I'd give me a
Speaker 8: little weird smirk that he knew what's going on. But
Speaker 8: you know, that's the nature of the game. Just gotta
Speaker 8: play through it. I find a way to, you know,
Speaker 8: put 'em down a little bit more generally. But yeah,
Speaker 8: we'll see how it goes, if they find me or not.
Speaker 4: Duh.
Speaker 6: It is it disappointing if you guys, you'll find yourself
Speaker 6: situations where the offense knows all they can do is pass,
Speaker 6: and yet you can't get the stops as.
Speaker 11: Easily and as we opinion you did. You know, I
Speaker 11: guess even a week one kind of late in that game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, it sucks, but obviously they're good. They're
Speaker 8: a good offense as well, so you know, you know,
Speaker 8: un it's the NFL, so there's gonna be sometimes we're rushing.
Speaker 8: We win, he gets the ball out fast. Uh we rush,
Speaker 8: we win, get the sack, or we don't win and
Speaker 8: he's holding it. So it's just gonna happen sometimes. So
Speaker 8: I think we just gotta do a better job of
Speaker 8: staying consistent and know I win. Back up.
Speaker 11: Thanks, thanks specially funny.
Speaker 1: We also heard from full back Patrick mccarr.
Speaker 11: The driveway in the second quarter. You kind of feel
Speaker 11: like this is that was your offense?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 11: You know, yeah, yeah, that's we have a big lead
Speaker 11: like that, Like we want to be able to run
Speaker 11: the ball and keep moving the ball, get first downs,
Speaker 11: kill the clock, and get points. Unfortunately, we didn't do
Speaker 11: that that the points part. That's where we got to
Speaker 11: keep stack and keep building on the run game, especially
Speaker 11: in that part. And that's something I pride myself because
Speaker 11: I feel like we have the guys that do that.
Speaker 11: We have the games. We just got to do it
Speaker 11: and that's something we can keep working on. What do
Speaker 11: you think is having you guys better?
Speaker 10: It's kind of been a consistent finishing, finishing, finishing, because
Speaker 10: some guys did it, you know, whatever it was.
Speaker 6: But what do you think is starting?
Speaker 11: I think we just don't play off of each other
Speaker 11: in terms of like defensive, offense, special teams. I think
Speaker 11: we can all do a better job like offense. You know,
Speaker 11: we had I think it's a three and out or
Speaker 11: something like that. So I take, I don't I don't
Speaker 11: care what the defense does, what team does. It's for
Speaker 11: me playing an offense is what we do. So we
Speaker 11: have to own that, and we have to move the
Speaker 11: ball and get points, especially at the end of the
Speaker 11: game to close it out.
Speaker 6: Just what does it do for this offense.
Speaker 4: Though in totality run the ball the way that you
Speaker 4: did today.
Speaker 11: I think it just builds confidence on players. You know,
Speaker 11: we have three offensive linemen who didn't really start a
Speaker 11: whole lot last year or in general, and you know,
Speaker 11: a new back and Derek, So I think it's it
Speaker 11: gives it gives guys confidence that we can move the
Speaker 11: ball and that we can run the ball. And yeah,
Speaker 11: I have a lot of pride in what we do
Speaker 11: and running the ball. And I think we had a
Speaker 11: lot of yards today. We just want to you know,
Speaker 11: when it's four minute, but it was you know, whole
Speaker 11: fourth quarter. We should move the ball consistently down the
Speaker 11: field like we were earlier in the game. Patrick, there's
Speaker 11: a lot.
Speaker 5: Of negativity around the team this week, but you guys
Speaker 5: also thought you had the most detailed vocal practices all year.
Speaker 5: You know, you were messing with horriball with the T
Speaker 5: shirts and Kyle Hamilton said you had extra meetings.
Speaker 11: What was the response for the team to, like, I mean,
Speaker 11: when did someone step up and suggest some of those
Speaker 11: things or how did that all that come about? I
Speaker 11: think in our walkthroughs especially, we were more focused. You know,
Speaker 11: we were less joking because you know, we want to
Speaker 11: have fun, we want to joke around with each other,
Speaker 11: but you know, when we're going too it's like, guys,
Speaker 11: so we didn't really lock in. That was the big
Speaker 11: phrase for us, locking in and making sure we're detailed,
Speaker 11: hearing the whole play, the whole call, in detail to
Speaker 11: what we're supposed to do, and I think guys are
Speaker 11: just the focus was just higher and it needs to
Speaker 11: stay there for the rest of the season.
Speaker 5: What was the part in that because some of the
Speaker 5: guys are saying that he was.
Speaker 11: Even I mean, he's been very vocal this year, but yeah,
Speaker 11: I mean he's the number one guy that wants to
Speaker 11: win the most for us, and we want to win
Speaker 11: for him. So when he's like getting on guys that
Speaker 11: I think it puts even more fire behind them of like, Okay,
Speaker 11: I really got to make sure that I'm focus on
Speaker 11: the play. I hear the play, I know what I'm doing,
Speaker 11: and I'm gonna go out there and execute it. I
Speaker 11: don't know. I gotta go see the doctor's right for
Speaker 11: this to see what it is. This is a little cut.
Speaker 11: I'm fine, though I thought I broke my nose almost
Speaker 11: my whole face. Max just crash in on me and
Speaker 11: I see Dark running the ball. I'm like, please score
Speaker 11: because I don't know what's going on with this, and
Speaker 11: he did, so I had some time to get it
Speaker 11: cleaned up and fix.
Speaker 7: What's it like?
Speaker 11: It's a dream like He's just he's such a beast
Speaker 11: like and it feels me to like really like make
Speaker 11: sure I hit my guy and I move him so
Speaker 11: he can get a little bit of space to hit
Speaker 11: the hole. Full speak is when he has a full
Speaker 11: steam my head, it's really hard to bring him down.
Speaker 11: And that I've played with so many great backs here
Speaker 11: and it's been a privilege and honor and to have
Speaker 11: someone like him, and I've admired his game over the
Speaker 11: years and to actually be with him and run the
Speaker 11: ball with him and be in the locker room in
Speaker 11: the huddle, it's like it's it's amazing.
Speaker 7: Do you notice it wearing down the defenses?
Speaker 6: Is the outside toss to Justice?
Speaker 7: I think?
Speaker 4: And you were pulling out in the front that Cowboys defender.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he like he was like on the sideline almost
Speaker 11: and he like completely avoided me and I just try
Speaker 11: to like get a little piece of him, and Justice
Speaker 11: just hit it. But yeah, I mean you can feel
Speaker 11: like late in the game when defenses start getting tired
Speaker 11: and it's time to really start steamrolling them. And you know,
Speaker 11: I thought we did that a little bit, but we
Speaker 11: could have been better.
Speaker 1: We also heard from running back Justice hill.
Speaker 11: Line and then Lamar just made sure to shout out
Speaker 11: floodlights performance and what did you see me in the
Speaker 11: progress he has made?
Speaker 18: I mean, honestly, all I know it wasn't nobody in
Speaker 18: the backfield. So I hadn't watched the film or anything.
Speaker 18: I know h individual one did. But I mean, as Oline,
Speaker 18: you gotta be together as unit, and so we was
Speaker 18: able to run the ball, pass the ball effectively, and
Speaker 18: so I mean they did a great job.
Speaker 2: Up front in general.
Speaker 16: You know, Lamari's speaking out in support of how much
Speaker 16: has you and that guy that's trying to keep your
Speaker 16: spirits up through these past two games and what's on.
Speaker 13: Yeah, m I mean you have ups and downs, but
Speaker 13: you know that's that's life and that's the game of football.
Speaker 13: I mean, you keep moving forward.
Speaker 18: You can come out, you have a good game, you
Speaker 18: build your confidence and you gonna keep moving forward.
Speaker 13: And that's what you gonna do.
Speaker 18: Man, he's a strong dude, a powerful guy, and you
Speaker 18: know exactly what he needs to do to keep doing nothing.
Speaker 13: So proud of the whole lot today and we go
Speaker 13: keep getting better.
Speaker 11: Offense is a whole had good performance.
Speaker 2: On the ground.
Speaker 13: What do you think for me that click to a.
Speaker 18: Just sticking with you and then just getting our feet wet,
Speaker 18: and I mean it the first week, you gonna have
Speaker 18: some make ups, you go have some some things that
Speaker 18: you gonna work through, and then we're here all week
Speaker 18: three and then you just gona continue to get better
Speaker 18: every single week. And that's all you can really ask
Speaker 18: for it just continue the progression. And so that's what
Speaker 18: we did today. Came out, he was able to run
Speaker 18: the ball of favor, league. We gonna build on that
Speaker 18: next week.
Speaker 11: I'm sure you've seen Derrick Henry and say, heyday, what
Speaker 11: was it like to see him do.
Speaker 13: His think to that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Man, it's crazy. Man, It's like see a superhero in
Speaker 13: real life.
Speaker 18: So, uh, it's it's dope to be in the backfield
Speaker 18: with him, see him do his thing and be able
Speaker 18: to come out there when he gets all those guys
Speaker 18: tired and make a little splash myself.
Speaker 13: So it's it's dope.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you guys gonna get all like going to have
Speaker 7: and going to Lamar, going.
Speaker 2: To your thing. Well, was that kind of what you
Speaker 2: imagined your book like when they signed him?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 18: I mean yeah, I know they for sure. I mean
Speaker 18: whatever they was gonna call up, I was gonna be
Speaker 18: ready to run. And uh you know it's it definitely
Speaker 18: been a U A a great trio duo or whatever
Speaker 18: you wanna look at it.
Speaker 13: So, uh yeah, it was a great game, funk game
Speaker 13: and we go get better.
Speaker 7: For next week.
Speaker 11: Where did it feel different to you from the first three.
Speaker 13: Orners of this mound? Not much anything. It's just we
Speaker 13: wanted to aks you as well, but uh, it's part
Speaker 13: of the game.
Speaker 18: Everything you can't go your way on song, but uh
Speaker 18: should we won the game and it's been it's great.
Speaker 5: How important is that to get finally at that win?
Speaker 18: Sure, you gotta stack wins and then in order to
Speaker 18: get to the number two win, you gotta get to
Speaker 18: the number for number one.
Speaker 13: So uh, that's what did they got?
Speaker 7: Number one?
Speaker 13: You know you'll close the number two.
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