Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens took
Speaker 1: down the New York Giants thirty five to fourteen at
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium to improve to nine and five on the season.
Speaker 1: This was an important game for the Ravens who are
Speaker 1: in a four game sprint to the finish of the
Speaker 1: regular season, and this was a big day for quarterback
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, who had five touchdowns in the victory. Here's
Speaker 1: what Lamar had to say after the win.
Speaker 2: Was that something coming into this team that you thought
Speaker 2: might be there for you guys?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just watching film one of those guys a lot
Speaker 3: of man, a lot of z own.
Speaker 4: Here and there.
Speaker 3: It was doing a lot of three. It was running
Speaker 3: a lot of three versus us a lot of man sometimes. Now, guys,
Speaker 3: they did a great job and getting open and just
Speaker 3: running the rocks, catching the ball off the line, did
Speaker 3: a great job protecting. So he's just an all around
Speaker 3: team effort.
Speaker 5: Mark. You had four touchdown passes and incompletions today. How
Speaker 5: much in a rhythm did you feel like you were
Speaker 5: out there just from you know, off the bye week
Speaker 5: and and and having that kind of game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt I started off slow with that that turnover,
Speaker 3: so that I was hot about that, you know, with
Speaker 3: the return team doing a great job of getting us
Speaker 3: positive yards, you know, flipping the fields for us before
Speaker 3: we get out there and then for us to draw
Speaker 3: the ball and then just.
Speaker 4: A mishap like that. You know, I was, I was,
Speaker 4: I was ticked off.
Speaker 3: So UH just had to lock in and just played
Speaker 3: raven football and that's what we did, alright.
Speaker 6: So uh after Mark Andrews coffee touchdown, it looked like
Speaker 6: he came right up to you with him setting the
Speaker 6: all time record, to say, what does that mean to you?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 3: Like I say, I got a guy with me. Man,
Speaker 3: that's a guy right there, like one of the ghats.
Speaker 3: Uh to just play football. Ever, I I believe, you know,
Speaker 3: just entering the lead together and from from then to now,
Speaker 3: it's like each and every year we were just trying
Speaker 3: to get better and perfect our craft from years previous,
Speaker 3: and I believe we doing that. You know, he got
Speaker 3: injured last year, came back. You know, people was talking
Speaker 3: about this and that we need to trademark. This's not
Speaker 3: like I didn't forget that, you know, and I know
Speaker 3: he didn't forget that, and he just showing it each
Speaker 3: and every game.
Speaker 8: Well, Maria, another one to the contest walker, his first
Speaker 8: catch is a touchdown. Take us through that play and
Speaker 8: then what do you say to some guy like that
Speaker 8: that clearly isn't incatiently waiting to be productive with this offense?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Uh this week, we uh pretty much just had
Speaker 3: that play drawn up. Uh, just from what they've been
Speaker 3: doing showing on defense. We caught him in that look
Speaker 3: and Tesz just did the rest. You know, I just
Speaker 3: had to deliver him a strike and he did the
Speaker 3: toe drag at the end. So he just test to
Speaker 3: tap from our own Yeah.
Speaker 6: The office you know, allowed you to see the field
Speaker 6: and you know on to the second level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just hard work and uh, preparation dedication. Uh,
Speaker 3: our guys just you know that by week I feel
Speaker 3: like we we all needed that. And my guys just ready, man,
Speaker 3: they just bought their tail off. Probably had one misshat,
Speaker 3: but everyone not perfect. You know, everyone's not perfect. That's
Speaker 3: our goal to be perfect. But they did great today.
Speaker 4: H was they even's first time scoring two touchdowns in
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 1: Just how good does it feel for you seeing him
Speaker 1: get in there and score as many touchdowns as he
Speaker 1: has this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man Bait is that guy like Batman. We call
Speaker 3: him Batman for a reason, you know, and that's just amazing.
Speaker 3: It was long overdue, I believe, you know it. It's
Speaker 3: been plenty of y times. I felt he should have had,
Speaker 3: you know, multiple touchdown games, but things happened in the batfield.
Speaker 3: You know, can't get to him sometimes, but he he's
Speaker 3: just working. He grinding, no head down and just just
Speaker 3: trying to win already.
Speaker 9: Lamar, you sort of set the tone coming out of
Speaker 9: the buy with what you said after the Eagles game.
Speaker 9: How how much did you appreciate the team's response during
Speaker 9: the practice week and today and how does this set
Speaker 9: you up go forward?
Speaker 3: Pretty much didn't have to say anything. I believe like
Speaker 3: Brody really kicked it off, you know, earlier this year
Speaker 3: and our indoor practice when he said what he said,
Speaker 3: and I I felt like we all felt that way,
Speaker 3: you know, and we just gotta play raven football to
Speaker 3: the rest of the season.
Speaker 5: Mark you said you were, you know, anti to play
Speaker 5: this game after you know, being on the buy to
Speaker 5: get back on the field with Steelers. I know, this
Speaker 5: game just that day and you were focused on this.
Speaker 5: But with the Steelers coming up in six days? How
Speaker 5: were you here? Are you for that game? Given the
Speaker 5: importance of it the same? You know, uh h our.
Speaker 3: Record just been nine to five and those five losses
Speaker 3: just coming time. Like those those losses just like sitting
Speaker 3: in the back of our minds. I feel like, alright,
Speaker 3: everyone's mind is like we gotta go into every game
Speaker 3: with the same mentality from this day four you're two more.
Speaker 10: There was a scramble I think in the first half
Speaker 10: for it looked like you maybe.
Speaker 3: Having to hold up your pants, alright, So look, they
Speaker 3: was asking me that. So I'm like, I felt like
Speaker 3: wind was touching my butt, you know, So I was
Speaker 3: trying to keep my tights up.
Speaker 4: For real.
Speaker 3: I feel like the tights just like gotta lott looser
Speaker 3: some who knows, So I like just kind of keep
Speaker 3: my pants up.
Speaker 4: But that's all it was. It was too cold, like
Speaker 4: you might have ended on that.
Speaker 1: Three was an out fourteen and three after the bile
Speaker 1: week under head coach John Harbaugh. He talked with the
Speaker 1: media after the game and discussed the team's focus and
Speaker 1: mindset going into this game.
Speaker 7: All Right, appreciate you guys being here. A great win,
Speaker 7: a lot of faith. A lot of faith our guys
Speaker 7: have in each other and and uh powers, a lot
Speaker 7: of trust. So proud of our guys.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 7: What question, Jeff John.
Speaker 2: It was another game for Lamar where he finished with
Speaker 2: five touchdown passes and just four incompletions, more touchdown passes
Speaker 2: than incopletions. What do you think that you know, a
Speaker 2: performance like that again kind of says.
Speaker 7: About themar Yeah, I think are all around you know, Yeah,
Speaker 7: he just had a great game. He was He's been
Speaker 7: locked in. He's been locked in all season, he was
Speaker 7: locked in all week. He was he's on the guys meetings,
Speaker 7: walk throughs, everything, just just just keeping it, keeping about football,
Speaker 7: you know, and making getting the football right. I feel
Speaker 7: like I feel like all the guys are like that.
Speaker 7: The guys came back this last week Monday. They were
Speaker 7: ready to go there, full of energy. You could tell
Speaker 7: that they were They wanted to get back to it,
Speaker 7: and I think they felt like, man, you know, this
Speaker 7: is okay, We've got nothing else to do. Last week
Speaker 7: proved it. Let's go, let's go do some football. And
Speaker 7: they took they took the Giants, seriously, the Giants every
Speaker 7: series football team, and it's it's a really good win
Speaker 7: for us.
Speaker 9: John the play for Devonts Walker. He obviously want to
Speaker 9: win the game to get a young guy like that
Speaker 9: experience and a play like that. How meaningful was that
Speaker 9: to see?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, really meaningful, Jeff. I mean for Test to
Speaker 7: get that kind of talked about it all week. It
Speaker 7: was a play had a couple of plays in there
Speaker 7: like that, take take routes like that. He'd have a
Speaker 7: shot at and worked on them all week. But you know,
Speaker 7: he's been doing great. He's been, he's been. He gets
Speaker 7: down feel fast and he sat, he can track and
Speaker 7: he can catch. So to see him make that play
Speaker 7: was really awesome. Everybody's fired up for him.
Speaker 8: You had your longest kickoff return of the year, longest
Speaker 8: punt return of the year.
Speaker 10: Do you feel like special teams wise and then make
Speaker 10: new mechanics of that play, especially on a kickoff since
Speaker 10: kind of coming together now.
Speaker 7: I just think the guy's been working hard. Chris is
Speaker 7: doing a great job. Randy and Sam, but the guys man,
Speaker 7: they're working on all the details. It's just it's a
Speaker 7: detailed technique, uh fundamental type of of of a play.
Speaker 7: All the specialties plays are and they're they're doing a
Speaker 7: good job, and all of a sudden you start doing
Speaker 7: that well and guys in the right spots, you start
Speaker 7: making the plays like that. I thought, I thought Machine
Speaker 7: did a great job. Man hit that thing, and then
Speaker 7: Justice did a great job and hit that thing the
Speaker 7: one Machine had a call back, and then Dez on
Speaker 7: the punt return. You know, it just looks solid back
Speaker 7: there and got norse. So those are all really big
Speaker 7: plays for us. John Mark Anderson, it's the all time
Speaker 7: touchdown record today.
Speaker 5: From your point of view, what did what?
Speaker 7: What have you seen the relationship between Lamar Jackson and
Speaker 7: Mark Andrews.
Speaker 4: Over the over their career.
Speaker 7: Really, that's something I think that's gonna you know, it's historic. Really,
Speaker 7: I mean those guys that's proven now with the record, right,
Speaker 7: I guess it's it's a it's institutionalized now. They these
Speaker 7: guys got a feel for one another. I mean they
Speaker 7: make route adjustments that you know, they're not always in
Speaker 7: the playbook. You know, they make the kind of adjustments
Speaker 7: that you make because you've been playing to get it
Speaker 7: for so long and all these reps and they continue
Speaker 7: to do it. You know a lot of those touchdown
Speaker 7: passes of those two guys just having that chemistry.
Speaker 6: I know you can't, you don't take it for granted,
Speaker 6: but the opportunity to get the rookies in the game,
Speaker 6: the reserves in the game, just get some snaps for
Speaker 6: guys who have not been huge contributors but might be
Speaker 6: called upon.
Speaker 4: Just what is the value of a game like this?
Speaker 7: Great opportunity and it's a great point. I mean for
Speaker 7: Auley to get those those carries and you get hit
Speaker 7: and you feel what it's like, that's massive. You did
Speaker 7: a great job, you know. And the linemen to get
Speaker 7: in there and get those reps. I can't wait to
Speaker 7: see those guys on tape and see how they did.
Speaker 7: And I think they did well. Same thing on defense.
Speaker 7: It's you know, obviously you hope, you hope to be
Speaker 7: in a positioned to do that. You gotta earn it,
Speaker 7: and our guys earned it, and you don't.
Speaker 9: Punt too often on fourth and one in the opponent's
Speaker 9: territory for that to work out exactly as I imagine,
Speaker 9: as you plan to force some deep, get the park
Speaker 9: back and go to the point. How much did that
Speaker 9: kind of set the tone for the rest of the game.
Speaker 9: That's sequence.
Speaker 7: Take me through it again.
Speaker 9: When you punt it on fourth and one, you forced
Speaker 9: a punt right away, and then I think Desmond King
Speaker 9: had the big return.
Speaker 7: You threw me off with the don't punt off and
Speaker 7: I said, oh, what direction we're going here? Kind of
Speaker 7: I kind of forgot about that. But that's how we
Speaker 7: planned to play this one.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: We just decided that we were gonna play that field
Speaker 7: position game early in the game. And you're right, you know,
Speaker 7: there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: We do celebrate going for it a lot, you know,
Speaker 7: and all the analytics folks you want to talk about that,
Speaker 7: but sometimes you pin them back in there. You trust
Speaker 7: your defense, you force a punt. Pump returns a big play.
Speaker 7: It's hard to punt the ball off your own goal line,
Speaker 7: you know, it's a big challenge. Sometimes you get a
Speaker 7: very returnable pump and you get a big return and
Speaker 7: you're right back in business. We did it in the
Speaker 7: Super Bowl right all the way back in twenty twelve.
Speaker 7: We had a similar situation when we tried to fake
Speaker 7: field wasn't the pump, but we tried to fake field
Speaker 7: goal and got the return and got the touchdown. So yeah,
Speaker 7: it worked out just kind of how we'd how we'd
Speaker 7: thought we were gonna play it early in the game
Speaker 7: at least.
Speaker 2: John, how quickly I know this game is sent? But
Speaker 2: how quickly now with the short week the attention turns
Speaker 2: to the Steelers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I already has, We've already talked about it. We'll
Speaker 7: we'll be working game plan tonight tomorrow and into the
Speaker 7: short weekend and we'll see the Steelers on Sunday and
Speaker 7: and we're excited, excited looking forward to it.
Speaker 5: The penalties, sorry, on the on the you.
Speaker 7: Both couldn't wait to ask that question. Too many, too many,
Speaker 7: too many, too many?
Speaker 4: What is uh?
Speaker 5: What is the what do you need to see more of? Well?
Speaker 7: I think I think the biggest, the biggest thing of
Speaker 7: the passing interference calls. You know, I don't know about
Speaker 7: the one lad against Dez. I have to see that one.
Speaker 7: The other ones, you know, just get our head around, quicker,
Speaker 7: play the ball, play the ball sooner. One time we
Speaker 7: were playing the ball, but there was a grab. You
Speaker 7: know they're calling they called it tight. You know, they
Speaker 7: called those are tight, tight tight called plays there in
Speaker 7: terms of passing interference. So we've got to adjust roughing
Speaker 7: the passer. You know, you got to find a way
Speaker 7: to get off the side. You got to find a
Speaker 7: way to do it. So we'll be drilling it. We're
Speaker 7: working those those are those are kind of technique things
Speaker 7: that we've just got to do a good job of
Speaker 7: working on because that's that's really Their drives were penalty inspired.
Speaker 7: It wasn't for the penalties, those drives wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 7: So it's obviously something is very important. All right, thanks guys.
Speaker 1: Next, we heard from a veteran linebacker Rokwan Smith, who
Speaker 1: said that the bye week was a reset for this
Speaker 1: team and they looked at the final stretch here as
Speaker 1: a new season coming out of the boy. Here's what
Speaker 1: he said in his time with the media.
Speaker 4: Thirty six yards. I think I like the season low
Speaker 4: for you guys.
Speaker 2: Did that kind of show how seriously he kind of
Speaker 2: took the Giants this week.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you take every single oponent throughout the league very serious.
Speaker 11: At the end of the day, each of those guys
Speaker 11: on that side of the ball have a job, and
Speaker 11: at the end of the day, they're gonna do what
Speaker 11: they have to do to the best of their ability.
Speaker 11: Because it's their job and it's our job to do
Speaker 11: everything to the best of our ability. And we just
Speaker 11: got the mindset after the bye like this is a
Speaker 11: new season for us, so focus one game at a time.
Speaker 11: We checked this off, enjoyed this for a couple hours,
Speaker 11: move on to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4: So that's the focus.
Speaker 10: John usually talks about the twenty four hour rule after
Speaker 10: a game, but he just told us, you guys have
Speaker 10: already turned the page to the Steelers. So does it
Speaker 10: already look a different kind of week for you guys.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a short week for sure, so you know
Speaker 11: there's one less day. So I know myself personally, like
Speaker 11: I'm not gonna watch Pittsburgh to night, but tomorrow I'll
Speaker 11: definitely get on the Pittsburgh. I'm personally gonna enjoy this
Speaker 11: one on this bus ride and then at home tonight.
Speaker 11: Just relaxed a little bit. Maybe hang out with Dolphin.
Speaker 11: Is his birthday, so maybe kick it with him or
Speaker 11: do something like that. But yeah, I gotta shift the
Speaker 11: focus of pittsburden on that. It's gonna be a very
Speaker 11: important game, and we control what we control and that's
Speaker 11: our focus, and just got to go out and do
Speaker 11: what we do and be our sales and we know
Speaker 11: we be ourselves, everything will falling off favor.
Speaker 9: Bro Kwan, You've been asked about Lamar countless times since.
Speaker 4: You've been on the Ravens.
Speaker 9: What did he's probably have the best season of his
Speaker 9: career or what has it been like to watch him
Speaker 9: this year, you know, not just from a number standpoint,
Speaker 9: but how he's led the team offensively.
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely got a great deal of respect for Lamar
Speaker 11: knows that, and everyone one around the building does as well.
Speaker 11: And like I actually was chatting with him. I don't
Speaker 11: know when this was, but recently, and I just told
Speaker 11: him like, yeah, bro, you know you done have MVP
Speaker 11: years and different things like that, But I told him,
Speaker 11: you playing a different style of ball like right now,
Speaker 11: and it's not like just he wanna beat you from
Speaker 11: the pocket, and then you know, if that's not available,
Speaker 11: then he can take it down like running second. So
Speaker 11: it's kind of crazy. And then like how he can
Speaker 11: get through his week reads and create more more time,
Speaker 11: make his line better, like everything, man, Like what the
Speaker 11: guy's doing is truly special and you just have to
Speaker 11: actually be next to the guy and actually just watching
Speaker 11: him from a view to truly appreciate like some of
Speaker 11: the things that he's doing.
Speaker 4: So I've always said scremely happy that he's.
Speaker 11: On my team and I'm not playing against him because
Speaker 11: a lot of headaches for sure.
Speaker 4: Real Quid, I know, like you said, you're gonna take
Speaker 4: this and enjoy this game.
Speaker 2: But with the magnitude of that Steelers team coming home
Speaker 2: on Saturday, do you think it's gonna be more than justice?
Speaker 2: You know, you're your typical division game in that one.
Speaker 11: It's gonna be It's gonna be a hostile environment for sure,
Speaker 11: make no mistake about that. Like those guys gonna come
Speaker 11: in and we knowing what's on the line, it's the
Speaker 11: division title. Each and every team in the division want
Speaker 11: to win a division. So you're willing to put everything
Speaker 11: on the line for that. And I know myself personally,
Speaker 11: I'm ready to go out on my shield one way
Speaker 11: or another.
Speaker 4: And I know a lot of the guys.
Speaker 11: In the locker room feel the same exact way, And
Speaker 11: so that's what it's gonna be. Check your manhood, do
Speaker 11: your job. You do that will win the game. So
Speaker 11: that's all of what it's about. Every single person do
Speaker 11: their job, and if we do that will like the results.
Speaker 11: It's just that simple. Bro.
Speaker 6: What have you seen from Malik and Chris Borden.
Speaker 4: Playing next year?
Speaker 11: Yeah, those guys are great. Got a lot of respect
Speaker 11: for CB. Been a great teamer his entire career, and
Speaker 11: you know when he's asked to play linebacker, play linebacker pretty.
Speaker 4: Good as well.
Speaker 11: And Malik Man, I love that guy physicality, Like the
Speaker 11: guy will knock your face masks off like I would love. Yeah,
Speaker 11: it's pretty crazy, but I just enjoy being out there
Speaker 11: with those guys, veteran guys. Got a lot of respect
Speaker 11: for him, and just like when they see things, they
Speaker 11: don't let the same thing beat them twice. So it's
Speaker 11: awesome just being out there with those guys. Got a
Speaker 11: lot of respect for him, and they're just gonna continue
Speaker 11: to keep getting.
Speaker 4: Better as well as train.
Speaker 11: I got a lot of respect for him and who
Speaker 11: he is as a person as well as a player.
Speaker 11: Young player, do all the right things and like gonna
Speaker 11: have a bright future in this league. So I'm just
Speaker 11: excited of our room. Got a great deal of respect
Speaker 11: for every single person in there. They bust they tail
Speaker 11: day in and day out, so you can't argue with that.
Speaker 11: And that's just something that I truly look forward to
Speaker 11: every day spending time with those guys.
Speaker 10: It seems like you guys got out of this pretty
Speaker 10: good health buys coming off the buy, I mean just
Speaker 10: the overall injury like that you guys have this year.
Speaker 4: How good do you feel kind of going.
Speaker 10: Into a week sixteen, maybe compared to other Decembers in
Speaker 10: years past.
Speaker 4: Truth be told, I feel really really good.
Speaker 11: Like the bye week was awesome having that, even more
Speaker 11: so mentally for myself, like just having that bye week
Speaker 11: and then just getting back in like it was just
Speaker 11: almost like a breath of fresh air, like just being
Speaker 11: away from it because you're tied up and every single
Speaker 11: day regardless of what days you're coming into the facility
Speaker 11: or truly one day off, but that day is really
Speaker 11: not off because you're still doing things focused around work.
Speaker 11: So when you think about it, just being able to
Speaker 11: truly get away, it was a lot and it was
Speaker 11: very meaningful. So I'm grateful for that, and now it's
Speaker 11: just like get going. I feel really good. I can't
Speaker 11: speak for anyone else, so I feel really good. So
Speaker 11: I'm just excited about that and just to keep going.
Speaker 11: Then coming out of this game a little sooner, so
Speaker 11: I'll be on ten Saturday.
Speaker 5: It looks like you guys had a pretty big celebration
Speaker 5: for areas for kind of icing the game there at
Speaker 5: the end.
Speaker 10: Just how good to see a guy like that make
Speaker 10: that kind of fun.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I got a lot of respect for Ad the
Speaker 11: type of player is and the type of person that
Speaker 11: is on the daily buses. Tail never ask for any handouts.
Speaker 11: Go get everything out the mud. And when you're an
Speaker 11: individual like that, this can't oh too short, too small.
Speaker 11: Oh maybe not this and maybe not that. He got
Speaker 11: the mentality if everything you know, I'm gonna prove it
Speaker 11: play in and play out. And like when things like
Speaker 11: that happen to people who bust they tail day and
Speaker 11: the day, I just love to see it. The guy
Speaker 11: prepare just like no other than he just showed those
Speaker 11: bunnies on that play. I told him he got the
Speaker 11: best bunnies on the team and like he needed no
Speaker 11: for his hype, but he's.
Speaker 4: He's a damn good player. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In locker room today, we also heard from tight end
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews to set the Ravens franchise record with forty
Speaker 1: eight career touchdowns. He scored a touchdown in the first
Speaker 1: half of this game, and that put him alone at
Speaker 1: the top of the record books. He previously was tied
Speaker 1: with Jamal Lewis, but now Andrews sits alone at the top.
Speaker 1: He talked about that after the win.
Speaker 4: How big is how big is that game going to be? Though?
Speaker 12: Steegs it's a great game, great game, great big game
Speaker 12: for us and at home M and T Bank Stadium.
Speaker 12: We want to get this one. Obviously they did too,
Speaker 12: and two great teams going at it.
Speaker 4: Mark.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry if Peterdy said this, where's the ball going?
Speaker 12: Probably probably you know my house, get at you know,
Speaker 12: a ball game for that one. But yeah, there's a
Speaker 12: couple of cool balls that I have and this will
Speaker 12: be wonder them a lot.
Speaker 13: So yeah, I think it's more so just the guys
Speaker 13: that you play with. You if they contribute a lot
Speaker 13: of what you do.
Speaker 4: You can't.
Speaker 13: I can't do this alone, you know, and none of
Speaker 13: us can. And it's the guys that block. It's the
Speaker 13: guys that it's leaning and Lamar and then the guys
Speaker 13: that have you know, played with so and the guys
Speaker 13: that have done this before. You know, I've been able
Speaker 13: to pave the way. So I'm thankful for all that.
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