Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens took
Speaker 1: down the Houston Texans thirty one to two in Houston.
Speaker 1: The Ravens now improved to eleven and five on the season,
Speaker 1: and they controlled their own destiny in the race for
Speaker 1: an AFC North championship. And after the game, we had
Speaker 1: a chance to hear from head coach John Harpain.
Speaker 2: Praise where the Lord is good, Merry Christmas, great win.
Speaker 2: Proud of our guys. These guys took this eleven this
Speaker 2: three games, eleven days and smashed it, obliterated and torn
Speaker 2: up and made it into a bunch of smithereens laying
Speaker 2: around everywhere. I'm proud of the guys. How they did it.
Speaker 2: They did a great job.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: What question do you have, picture John, just to come
Speaker 4: out of this stretch, you were two back in the
Speaker 4: AFC North and to come out of this now a
Speaker 4: game up with a chance to clinch it on your
Speaker 4: home field, and you know, to win all these games
Speaker 4: by double digits.
Speaker 3: What is that kind of say about the group as
Speaker 3: a whole.
Speaker 2: It says so much, you know, and it says we're
Speaker 2: not done yet, because it's been done and the next
Speaker 2: thing is gonna be the next game. We need to
Speaker 2: be one to zero to win the AFC North and
Speaker 2: that'll be our focus after we get some rest. We'll
Speaker 2: have rest until we'll get the guys out. We'll bring
Speaker 2: them back on Monday and we'll get started for the Browns,
Speaker 2: which is always a very tough team, tough opponent, division game.
Speaker 2: So but it will be for the AFC North crown
Speaker 2: and we're gonna need to need to be locked in
Speaker 2: for that. But the fact that they did it, they
Speaker 2: did it in this short stretch. I think our team
Speaker 2: probably handled it the best, arguably, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: guess the Chiefs did a good job too. So there
Speaker 2: you go. I got to give them credit, give credit
Speaker 2: with credit credits due. But I'm proud of our guys, man,
Speaker 2: I'm really proud of our guys for what they accomplished.
Speaker 2: Our coaches, our strength conditioning coaches, our nutritionist, our trainer,
Speaker 2: our performance coach.
Speaker 5: John, did you come into this game thinking you were
Speaker 5: going to be able to control the game by.
Speaker 3: Running the ball?
Speaker 2: We thought we had a chance. Yeah, we thought we
Speaker 2: had a chance to run the ball. It's a good
Speaker 2: it's a real tough defense they play super hard, their
Speaker 2: dB show up, they played downhill. You know, I didn't
Speaker 2: know for anticipate paid coming out of the gate so
Speaker 2: quickly round the ball. Well, but I was really happy
Speaker 2: we did. I was happy with the guys.
Speaker 5: You say about March's performance and what.
Speaker 2: Can what could what could you say that with maybe
Speaker 2: parallel what he did, right? I mean, it's just just
Speaker 2: another phenomenal performance. I think he set the all time
Speaker 2: NFL record for rushing yards the National Football League Pro football.
Speaker 2: That kind of speaks for itself. It's just kind of
Speaker 2: what he does every week. Made some plays on Iran.
Speaker 2: These guys we had some tight coverage. They covered as well,
Speaker 2: but he was able to extend those plays and make
Speaker 2: those big plays in the passing game, which is kind
Speaker 2: of what he does a lot of times. And it
Speaker 2: was great to see.
Speaker 6: John Nahan's like, you know, he always amazes you, but
Speaker 6: does he ever surprise you at this point?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes I just shake my head and say, that
Speaker 2: was really a great play.
Speaker 5: That was a great play. You know.
Speaker 2: It's you see a lot of great plays from Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 2: you know, And I'm I told him I was proud
Speaker 2: of him. I'm not just Proud of him just because
Speaker 2: he makes great plays. Proud of for all the things
Speaker 2: that go into making the great plays, and also for
Speaker 2: all the things he's overcome along the way. And to
Speaker 2: put his mom in the same category, I think what
Speaker 2: they've overcome together, and all the narratives and all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, it's quite a remarkable story. I think
Speaker 2: it's a stork. But you know, the story is still
Speaker 2: being written and there's a lot more to accomplish.
Speaker 4: All early in the season when people were I guess,
Speaker 4: slinging arrows at Zach Gore and criticizing the defense.
Speaker 3: How pleased are.
Speaker 4: You how that group has turned around the season.
Speaker 3: I'm very pleased.
Speaker 2: I mean, we just the guys went to work and
Speaker 2: we knew that it was all correctable, but you got
Speaker 2: to get to work and you got to do it.
Speaker 2: And I think I said numerous times, it's a week
Speaker 2: to week league, you know, and it's important to keep
Speaker 2: things in perspective. It's good. It's a good lesson I
Speaker 2: think for everything else besides football too. Keep thinking of perspective.
Speaker 2: You can't improve, you can't get better. Proud of those guys,
Speaker 2: Zach obviously spearheading it all deanps helping us all the course.
Speaker 2: But it's look at all the players and all the coaches.
Speaker 2: What a great job they've done. But you know what,
Speaker 2: we're just getting started, all right. Like we said, it's
Speaker 2: the January season. Now did Deceummer seasons behind us. It's
Speaker 2: the January season.
Speaker 5: Now we do three more.
Speaker 6: Where you asked about the mow breaking the fixed record.
Speaker 2: I mentioned it, I wasn't asked about it.
Speaker 4: I guess, Uh the goal line stop that you guys
Speaker 4: had fourth down our Dara's coming in.
Speaker 5: How that a massive play?
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know the ball got down there
Speaker 2: in that passing friends, I want to look at it,
Speaker 2: but uh, you know, to get that stop. We've been
Speaker 2: good on the goal line all year, and we've give
Speaker 2: him some extra chances sometimes when we've gotten them stop
Speaker 2: with some some grabbiness, and we didn't do that in
Speaker 2: the passing game today.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 2: And our Darius has made what two in a row,
Speaker 2: two weeks in a row probably what you're alluding to, right,
Speaker 2: Two huge stops in a row on the goal line
Speaker 2: for us. It's just big plays. That's who he is.
Speaker 6: Kind of characterized the significance of the turnaround in this
Speaker 6: defense to the point just question earlier, early on, there's
Speaker 6: all these questions and now you guys just keep seem
Speaker 6: to be a sender.
Speaker 2: I can't say that it surprising, you know, it's not.
Speaker 2: We're not surprised. But we we knew and believe that
Speaker 2: we were gonna start playing better, and we knew we
Speaker 2: were gonna play a lot better. I think I said it.
Speaker 2: I mean, the good news is that we can play
Speaker 2: so much better and we're good enough to do it.
Speaker 2: We were healthy, we had our players. We did have
Speaker 2: to move the pieces around, that was good. We moved
Speaker 2: some scheme pieces around, that was good. And the guys
Speaker 2: just kept working on fundamentals and trying to get better.
Speaker 2: But like I said, you know, yeah, we appreciate that,
Speaker 2: and we'll be thinking about, you know, the next game,
Speaker 2: trying to play great defense the next game.
Speaker 5: Last wonder. We're good, good, good, Thanks guys.
Speaker 1: We also heard from quarterback of mar Jackson, well.
Speaker 7: I know you're not in the records, but I know bigs,
Speaker 7: you know guy, to be able to get that record
Speaker 7: there didn't.
Speaker 8: Getting it away feeling umbal to be honest with you, meant,
Speaker 8: I just get all your great for macas that's the record,
Speaker 8: doesn't know that's a long time and one of my
Speaker 8: favorite fist.
Speaker 7: Just what you saw on at them all for the
Speaker 7: right market is aid creating.
Speaker 5: Of course, and months per hour?
Speaker 3: What's your fastest funny in the NFL? Feel that way?
Speaker 5: I was jogging. I didn't have to do anything. Well,
Speaker 5: I mean, what was it though?
Speaker 3: Twenty one point something? Mouse prayer?
Speaker 5: That's what they don't miss.
Speaker 3: I didn't cook it, but that's what they don't It's.
Speaker 9: Crazy, it's cool, lamar a sorry defense, and I mean
Speaker 9: to cut your sorry to the defense for that. We
Speaker 9: gonna take full responsibility.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, what did you did that work down south?
Speaker 3: And what did you see on the man?
Speaker 5: Our defense?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: You talking about our defense? Right? Alright? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 9: They just been playing lights out last few games. I
Speaker 9: I believe it's starting to practice with those guys just
Speaker 9: communicating and how they're preparing for the games. And like
Speaker 9: I said, I'm sorry for the two points that we
Speaker 9: sorry offense.
Speaker 7: Sorry, lord, you had two two touchdowns or two long
Speaker 7: past the day by in time on the mark with
Speaker 7: the touchdown to Isaiah m That aspect of your game
Speaker 7: I mean is that's something that you have worked on
Speaker 7: to take the nonhe levels it the instinct, cause it
Speaker 7: seems like you've never been better at doing that.
Speaker 5: Right now, I'm just playing football. I'm tryna win. I
Speaker 5: feel like the rud know what. I'm tryna win. So
Speaker 5: that's sure. It's not every manads Clod.
Speaker 7: Do you feel like other guys are reading you when
Speaker 7: you're you know, they seem like they keep themselves doing
Speaker 7: a good job keep themselves alive as well.
Speaker 9: Yeah, receiver's tight ends or running backs. Everyone, everyone's doing
Speaker 9: a great job at uh keeping their eyes on me,
Speaker 9: you know, making defenders missing when I'm gona scramming joy
Speaker 9: cause I'm not just a tucky run quarterback. You know,
Speaker 9: I'm just gonna keep my eyes out, I feel. But
Speaker 9: the defense do a gord job by covering and I
Speaker 9: just do what I do.
Speaker 3: How Mark, does the game feel easy?
Speaker 5: Though at times it was?
Speaker 3: Mom Flad?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, shit, you just having fun every Yeah, it's
Speaker 9: it's not easy, NFL.
Speaker 5: It's not easy. I don't care what nobody say, NFL.
Speaker 5: I'm not easy. Mark, It look easy, but it nothing.
Speaker 5: My father is more.
Speaker 4: How would you describe just you went through the Bible
Speaker 4: where you get it down two games to Pittsford, those questions,
Speaker 4: uh defast about hard.
Speaker 5: How would you describe your turnaround?
Speaker 8: And you guys just makes it, wasn't you spat?
Speaker 9: I believe how seasons HA has gone in the regular season,
Speaker 9: it just explains how the NFL is, you know it.
Speaker 9: It really really don't matter how you start office about
Speaker 9: how you finish it.
Speaker 5: I believe you finishing pretty well right now? Do you
Speaker 5: feel good about this team?
Speaker 7: You know, going through what you're going where you wanna go,
Speaker 7: finally peaking at the right time?
Speaker 5: Yeah, sh likely shit up? Yeah? Uh actually ga, yeah,
Speaker 5: do you feel like this team is is on the
Speaker 5: verge of having.
Speaker 7: The formula to take careacters of the playoffs and and
Speaker 7: peak at the right time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, But we we still got the Browns a lucky
Speaker 9: and you know we can't. We we clased the playoff birthday,
Speaker 9: but we just gotta stay locked in because we got
Speaker 9: the Browns coming up.
Speaker 5: And that's what I that's another division opponent.
Speaker 3: How tough was it?
Speaker 5: The just these three games in the other days. Now
Speaker 5: that you're you're finished with it, how.
Speaker 7: Do you ready to go home?
Speaker 5: You know? But it it was dope, man, we was
Speaker 5: on Netflix. Uh, I never been on Netflix. Has everyone
Speaker 5: on that f Netflix?
Speaker 3: But it was the by the way, did you yeah?
Speaker 5: Did you sneak you out and get nah? I was
Speaker 5: lot there. See that was just for y'all.
Speaker 3: See y'all.
Speaker 5: Uh see, No, I was in here in the locker
Speaker 5: room preparing for this.
Speaker 3: Are you sure doing?
Speaker 5: Campus caught you and running back.
Speaker 1: Next we heard from cornerback Marlon Humphrey.
Speaker 10: Please you know, he would saying when I was a
Speaker 10: looking maybe one or two shut outs and I was,
Speaker 10: I would telling y'all, man, it feels good to playing
Speaker 10: great good defense like we have some we have some
Speaker 10: things out there, but wells Marban, you can not have
Speaker 10: offense score man.
Speaker 3: You gotta say you take pretty well.
Speaker 5: And uh this is.
Speaker 3: A testament to you know, it all kind of coming together.
Speaker 10: I feel, you know, the coaching I thought was there
Speaker 10: and I just saw as players with what is the
Speaker 10: form that to continue to get high percentages of eleven
Speaker 10: guys doing eleven guys job? And obviously guys some mishaps.
Speaker 3: There here and there are a couple of things.
Speaker 10: That were guys with kind of wide open but man
Speaker 10: shut out even though not too it feels great.
Speaker 3: I mean, you are you love that that it doesn't
Speaker 3: technically count.
Speaker 10: And Will said, you know, I'm a little upset, but
Speaker 10: we're gonna let the garrets me next to the players.
Speaker 3: And we're gonna let them slide. I mean, he's what a
Speaker 3: lot of yards for us, so it'll it'll be seas him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you all good questions, you know, you know.
Speaker 6: Coming full shirt, just a fun guys did this seeing
Speaker 6: the team seem just bringing them in.
Speaker 3: For I'm not gonna lie. I think you know, when
Speaker 3: I have conversations with some of the guys going on
Speaker 3: one you want to it was something. It was some
Speaker 3: tough conversations. We were just like we still believed it.
Speaker 10: That it just it did seem far away, just because
Speaker 10: it seemed like every sale guy just having a mishappened
Speaker 10: just the wrong time. And like I said earlier in
Speaker 10: the season, if it seemed like our luck just was
Speaker 10: not on our side. You know, I think when you
Speaker 10: watch defensive across the league, there's guys running open all
Speaker 10: the time and things, but it seems like whenever somebodys
Speaker 10: the inside leverage made up outside level football went there.
Speaker 10: It just seemed like every time we were out of position,
Speaker 10: not called right, we were getting hit on the You know,
Speaker 10: I think football is a lot of skilled a lot
Speaker 10: sometimes it just straight up comes.
Speaker 3: Out love and uh we.
Speaker 10: We the luck has been outside and then we've as
Speaker 10: we spend like I said, just doing our job.
Speaker 3: So the good thing is earlier in the season you
Speaker 3: get like, what are we doing wrong? What we're doing wrong?
Speaker 3: And it was it was it was semparate. Just you
Speaker 3: just gotta get all that.
Speaker 10: The guys doing jobs and so like the coaching hasn't
Speaker 10: necessarily changed. A couple of pieces that have shifted, and
Speaker 10: uh that that's that's kind of been there, just getting
Speaker 10: up out and when we do that, we're really tough peoples.
Speaker 3: We look average. And today I felt stad.
Speaker 7: Music at the right time because you like this team
Speaker 7: people in the right time that we got to play.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we felt like, you know, it's it's playoff time,
Speaker 10: so you know we you're losing your out. So we
Speaker 10: will are planning now is to peak at the right time.
Speaker 10: And I feel like we're doing that and we want
Speaker 10: to continue that.
Speaker 7: Uh that every would be one went away from winning
Speaker 7: the pension.
Speaker 3: You have to beat the Browns.
Speaker 5: When we got the time.
Speaker 10: That feels good. I know the Ralds are probably just
Speaker 10: as excited as we are to try to try to,
Speaker 10: you know, not let that happen. So it's it's very
Speaker 10: exciting to be able to enjoy this Christmas, enjoy.
Speaker 3: The days off the man.
Speaker 10: I'm probably I'll be honest with you, I'm going home
Speaker 10: Jordan baby and joy the wife. But I'm ready to
Speaker 10: keep back to work and I want that answer north
Speaker 10: n It feels able to get that habit T shirt.
Speaker 10: Hopefully everybody can enjoy a day or so and they're
Speaker 10: locked back in.
Speaker 6: Marlon have be putting prepect you guys Game.
Speaker 3: Hundred thirty career did win you?
Speaker 5: And do you keep you guys?
Speaker 10: Previous day this man, I think I really liked the
Speaker 10: plan that we had, you know, I plan mentally to
Speaker 10: to get the work in, but then also physically the
Speaker 10: walk through as we do, you know, winning a little
Speaker 10: bit fast, you know, I know I talk with Sam Rose,
Speaker 10: kind of one of our guys that does all the
Speaker 10: DARI and all the data with speed.
Speaker 3: I fast, We're going in the catapult and everything again produced.
Speaker 10: I think the player we had, I think it it
Speaker 10: was unmatched to what other teams did in my friend
Speaker 10: that we came out fresh ready to go. That quick
Speaker 10: turn around is about who can become the best, who
Speaker 10: can have the best plan, And I thought that we
Speaker 10: had a better play than them, and I thought we
Speaker 10: were a little bit fresher than them. So I think
Speaker 10: hats off to the middle weight room and all the
Speaker 10: guys doing all the cataport different things, because I thought.
Speaker 4: Our players really well and Lamar fans that all the
Speaker 4: time to get to the quarterback, and you've ever.
Speaker 3: Seen any quarterback run the ball like Lamar?
Speaker 10: I need Lamar motivated, So I'm gonna say I think
Speaker 10: I have seen it. I think I've asked you even know, Lamara,
Speaker 10: that's a.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that's a. That's a great thing, big time
Speaker 3: to pass.
Speaker 10: Michael Vick. I know he's never satisfied, so I just
Speaker 10: I'll help with this non satisfaction. We need to do
Speaker 10: it again and keep doing it a little bit more so.
Speaker 3: But that's super cooler that everybody wants to play my
Speaker 3: Vicula video game, So that's really cool.
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