WEBVTT - John Harbaugh: Monday Press Conference (1/22) 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.439 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday, 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.160 January twenty second, and the Ravens are getting ready to 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:12.440 host the AFC Championship against the Kansas City Chiefs. As 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:14.440 the team prepares for that game, we had a chance 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:16.840 to hear from head coach John Harbaugh during his Monday 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:18.040 afternoon press conference. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.959 Okay, appreciate everybody being here. We are preparing for the 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:29.320 Chiefs first conference championship game since nineteen seventy one. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.519 I've been told and matter of fact, Jerry Sandusky told 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:34.800 me that right after the game, So it was pretty 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.880 cool to hear that from Jerry. I think he was 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.200 probably about ten years old when that happened. He said 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.400 his dad was the on line coach. But we're excited 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.560 about it. We're looking forward to it. It's a huge 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.400 challenge playing a great football team, very talented, very well coached, 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.400 know how to win. They've been in these situations many times. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.320 I think they've been in the championship game. Maybe this 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.680 is their sixth time in a row, so they've been 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.520 here before. It'll be a big challenge for us, our 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.399 first time with this team and these guys, but we're 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:06.760 up for the challenge and we're excited. What question do 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.560 you have, John. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.640 With Mark and Andrews, would do you feel he was 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:15.000 close to any point? 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.039 And is the expectation for him to play this week? 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.480 Yeah, we'll just see how he goes. We're looking forward 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:20.720 to it. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.479 He practiced last week and I'm sure he'll practice again 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.199 this week and if he's ready to play, he'll play. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.959 Mahomes four times are past five or six years, But 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.319 Howard is still a game plan for a quarterback. You 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:36.399 can make new spontaneous plays sort of, you know, with 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.200 his arm in his legs. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:38.679 No question. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:40.000 I mean you got to factor it in the fact 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.640 that he extends plays, he buys time, he buys time 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.720 to run, sometimes buys time to throw. He's just a 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.880 really lousive guy. You'll see me in space. Sometimes you'll 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.000 make guys miss and all that. So you know, it's 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.640 just Patrick Mahomes. He's unique, plays his own brand of 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.680 football been very successful. We'll just have to study him 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.240 and do our best to try to keep him under wraps. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.560 Hey, coach, how much have you been angled or how 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.400 much are you going to harken back on your AFC 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:05.840 Championship experience. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:10.080 You've obviously had a win after a loss in New England, 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.800 and you talk about the Chiefs and their straight here. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.320 But how much are you able to go back and 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.680 maybe use some of that as experience for. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.160 Current players to that? You know, I don't think it 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:26.000 really applies too much. I mean, it's it's a new time, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.280 you know, and this is this game. It just it's us. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.320 It's this team against that team at this time, and 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.160 that's focused on We've got to keep it simple. 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:34.360 Just get ready to play the game. 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.000 M's like going up against Andy in a game of 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.239 this magnitude through your relationship with him. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.440 Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously it's a big deal 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.520 in terms of the relationship that goes back a long, long, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.600 long way, and utmost respect for Andy, a most appreciation 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.320 for what he's accomplished as a coach. We were together 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.440 for ten years, you know, the first ten years there 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.880 in Philly, and uh uh, you know, we were in 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.640 a lot of championship games, you know, a lot of 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.919 playoff games, and it was it was I learned so much, 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:10.480 you know, I just learned so much as a coach 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:11.640 and as a person. 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:12.480 Uh. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.680 Then competing against him now all these years has been 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.320 really challenging. I mean, Andy's a great coach, He's got 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:22.600 a great staff. You name all the guys, Tom Melvin, Dave, Tobe, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.920 all the guys that have come through there that that 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.680 we knew from from the Eagles. Uh, it's just a 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.360 it's just a very talented group of people. And have 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.000 the utmost respect for him. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.800 John, do you remember the first time that he met 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:41.200 with Andy and what are maybe some of those lessons principles? 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.240 What happened that that you took with you? 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.880 I guess, yeah, well I was trying to I was 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.600 hoping to be retained. Yeah, I know that, and that 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.960 he was coming in. I was one year with Ray Rhodes. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.240 Ray Rhoades brought me into the National Football League. Couldn't 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.280 have been, couldn't have been. Can't be more grateful. I mean, 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.120 Ray Rose is great to be around for a year 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.560 or two and phrase out there listen, just thank you 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.640 very much. I'm always appreciative of what I learned from Ray. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.840 And then Andy came in and I was hoping to 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.680 stay and and he gave me an opportunity to do it. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.040 And I was really I was young and just figuring 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:15.600 things out. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:17.080 So that was good. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.880 Of him and hope he hope, he hope he's glad 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.080 he did, you know, looking back on it. But one 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.400 of the things I tell his story a lot. But 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.520 one of the things with Andy, he had this three 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.919 by five card behind his desk on his bolting board. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.680 Uh uh, and it just said, don't judge, don't judge. 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.560 And I got the nerve to ask him about it 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.240 one time and he just basically, you know, it's kind 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.960 of a biblical principle, you know, and take people where 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.800 they're at, assume the best, you know, try to communicate 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:47.720 with everybody on you know, equal terms. And I've never 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:48.159 forgot that. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.640 John. You're you're an adopted at Baltimore. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.440 And at this point, I mean, what was your sense 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:53.960 of kind of what it meant to the people in 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.320 the stadium to be there, for them to get on 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.039 Saturday and then literally means to you know, host the 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:59.880 game of this magnitude on Sunday. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.560 Yeah, it seemed like it meant a lot, I'll tell 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.480 you the fans it was meaningful. Even driving out of 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.960 the stadium, there's still people everywhere, lined around everywhere, and 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:08.839 of course I rolled my root window down, you know, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.240 and kind of you know, we yelled and yelled go 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.480 Ravens and stuff like that. It was it was really fun. Uh, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.920 it was loud, it was it was emotional. You could 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.279 just tell how much it meant. Now I would I 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.760 would say that this is uh, this is even bigger, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.000 you know, and it's like game day, you know, I 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.640 think everybody coming to the stadium, everybody watching on TV. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.560 You know, just like we tell our players, get a 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.440 good night's rest, you know, get a good meal before 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.880 the game night before the game, you know, get you 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.400 get your clock set, uh, get you get your game 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.719 time ready. So spiritually, mentally, physically, let's be ready to go. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.160 Let's be ready to be loud and be proud and 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:49.160 rock that stadium. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.080 What were you up to in nineteen seventy one? 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.080 Was I doing in nineteen seventy one? 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.440 Yeah, you know where we were. We were at Iowa. 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.200 My dad just took a job at the University of 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:00.560 Iowa to coaches secondary. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.120 Yeah. That's when we lived in that little house on 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.200 Taller in Court. And we didn't have a car. Half 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:07.600 the time. 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.039 Sometimes we got a car, sometimes we didn't, you know. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.120 So when we had a car, we got a ride 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:12.479 to school. 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.240 We didn't have a car. We were walking. You know. 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.320 That's when Dad would say, who's got it better than us? 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.000 We'd say everybody with a car. 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:22.400 You know, said, no, you don't understand the value of walking. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:28.240 Yeah, nobody's got it better than you. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.800 You weren't watching the ANC Championship game in Baltimore. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.440 No, no, no, I do remember the field goal to 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.359 the Super Bowl. Jim O'Brien. Right, I saw that. Remember 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.120 that kick. I can remember that kick nine. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:44.640 Years old, absolutely straight ahead, right boom, A. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:50.480 Short kick as that a car? Yeah? Sorry, go ahead. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:51.720 No, I was to say. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.400 This group of guys obviously seemed to keep it so 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.400 loose despite the high pressure situations. How much can you 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.480 put towards how much fun you've had being around this 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.320 particular group in the chemistry surround them. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.640 Yeah, No, it's been a lot of fun. I love 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:03.440 being around these guys. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.400 It's it's just every day, you know, you like coming 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.320 to work every day, you know, you like driving in 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.840 and be bopping. I'm usually here before most of them, 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:10.800 so I see him coming in. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:11.440 Most of the guys. 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.160 Uh, but uh, they're they're fun to be around. I 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.080 mean it's just they come in, they're full of energy. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.320 They're they're determined. They want to they want to prepare, 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.200 they want to practice, they want to lift weights, they 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.760 want to they want to get the game plan. They 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.160 like being around one another when we go to practice. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.840 The energy is high. Uh yeah, there's a lot of last. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.160 But there's also a lot of a lot of determination, 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:31.680 you know, and a lot of focus, a lot of 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:36.560 conversation around football. You know, when you're about football. It's 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.160 fun to talk about football, you know, and our guys 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.000 enjoy that part of it. So yeah, it's been it's 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.120 been fabulous. It's just a great group of guys and 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.680 very determined football team. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.800 Expect more Nunford to practices and how is he progressing? 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.800 And to go along with that, how please have you 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:54.800 been with the way Derby is set up? I mean 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.880 how to pass break about them in the second. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.680 Play the game really set no doubt. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.520 I mean, Ronald Darby's played outstanding, Brandon Stevens has put outstanding, 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.720 Arthur Marlette has played outstanding. Uh Rock has played outstanding. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:08.960 All those guys have stepped up and played very good. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.400 The coverage has been out This has been great. Uh 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.960 and and with Marlon, I promise you if Marlon can go, 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:15.720 he will. If he can practice, he will. I think 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.840 you'll see it as the week goes on. Based on 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.600 how much he practices, you probably get a pretty good 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.080 feel for it. Pretty I'm pretty sure if he can 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.280 be out there, you know for sure be out there. 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.960 So I'm very hopeful. We'll have to see what happens. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.600 Carries in the game. How much does he help your 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.800 coaches def see him in the game and the. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.439 Raves game plan moving for Yeah, I think it does. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.360 I mean he looked good, right, I mean I thought 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.719 he looked really good out there. Dalvin did and ran 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.480 hard and you know, showed showed his skill set off 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.439 and got us those yards the end of the game 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.800 along with Justice too, and to help us, you know. 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:49.640 Seal it away. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.320 So it's just it's one more really good player whose 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.800 hands we can put the ball into and and and 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:57.520 that's a good thing. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.960 And you talk back of the game very briefly about 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.080 Justice Hill and I know early year they were pumbling 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.640 on the mesh pointing problems between him and Lamar Jackson. 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.880 And hasn't happened for a long time. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.840 But in the last same month or so, how two months, 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.760 how have you seen Justice Hill kind of. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.640 Develop over the season, right, Well, I mean I've told him, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.800 I just think he's suit supremely talented player, but his 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.920 heart's even bigger, you know. And this guy he runs 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.480 so hard and his acceleration in his burst is just 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:27.520 is right up there at the top of the league. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:29.800 I mean, he gets the ball north, He's got really 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.520 good vision, catches the ball like pass protects well rounded back. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.240 I mean, I just I couldn't say enough about him. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.000 I think he's been a difference maker for us. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.000 Lamar's talked a lot about and you as well, about 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.200 him being locked in, locked in. You've heard a lot 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.840 this year. I'm just curious, like, from your perspective as coaching, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.720 what does that mean to you And is there a 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.920 particular example that maybe stands out. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:55.560 To what that meaning is. 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:57.960 Yeah, I don't think it's real complicated. I mean, you 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.880 come to work, and you and you come to work 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.520 to go to work, you know, and and uh and 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.319 get get locked in on what what your responsibilities are 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.960 and what your job is and and make sure you're prepared. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.720 And then even as a football player, on the specific 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.439 thing you know, when you line up, you lock in, 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.880 you lock in on your on your job, your responsibility, 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.080 your eyes, your feet, your hands, uh, the communication of 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.800 the whole thing. Just supremely focused, you know, not looking left, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.680 not looking right, looking straight ahead, looking forward, short term 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.280 and really long term too. You know, you can be 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.680 locked in for the long term too. Specific examples to 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.600 me is just every play. I mean I think it's 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.200 just every play. When you watch the guy's play, you 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.960 can see it, you know, and uh uh that's that's 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.600 probably the greatest example of it. So you can pull 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.200 up to me any play from this last game, you'll 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.120 see a bunch of guys who are locked in and focused. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.000 Probably the best examples I could give. 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.360 I made of Lamar's halftime speech. Have you seen that 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.120 side of him before, especially in years of previous. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.600 Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean yeah, I've seen it 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.360 plenty of times. He's uh, Lamar's determined. I I don't know, 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.280 I don't know, Like it wasn't like some crazy thing, 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.600 you know. I mean I saw the way it was described. 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:09.959 It wasn't like that. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:10.440 You know. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.560 He was he was just he was locked in. He 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.840 was determined, and he kind of said some things and 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.960 so let's go. You know, this is this is not 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.920 the way it needs to be played, and we're better 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.680 than that and let's go take care of business. Is 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:25.920 basically what he said. So I think someone said it 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.640 was profanity laced or something, you know. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:33.280 Uh, there was a lot of cursing. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.320 Here he said. He said some things I can't repeat. Yeah, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:36.760 but it wasn't. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.520 It was. I don't think it's like you're imagining it, honestly. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.360 I mean I remember it that way, and I would 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.520 have I think I would, you know, because he's not 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:44.559 He's just not that kind of guy. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:48.680 He doesn't really talk like that. But no, it was, 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.880 it was. It was. It was great. You know, it's good. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.440 It wasn't it was. It was. It was. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:55.960 I don't think it's a big story. I think the 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.960 way he plays a big story that's kind of I 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.680 think that's even big story. But Lamar is a leader. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.960 I mean Lamar is a leader from the beginning to 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:06.920 the end. And the way he plays what he says, 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.880 guys listening to him, the way he runs the offense, 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.200 I mean, he's just a he's an A plus plus leader. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.880 There will be a lot to talk about the Holmes 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.680 and Kelsey, and rightly so, but how difficult. Does the 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.280 checko now in their run game just to kind of 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.600 stop all kind of challenges do they present. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:24.960 On the ground. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:26.839 Yeah, they're run the ball really well. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:28.760 They'll come out with you know, three or four kind 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:33.120 of game plan runs certain ways. Nothing nothing that you 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.080 haven't seen before, but they dial in on something that 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.840 they try to exploit. And then number ten, Jecko man, 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.000 guy's coming downhill. You know, he's he's hitting it that 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.640 way all out. You know, he's two hundred and twenty 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.120 five pounds, his knees are a high. You know, he's 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.280 he's just he's rolling, you know, And it's gonna be 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.000 a big challenge for us to deal with him because 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.960 he's he's as physical a runner as there is in 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.600 the league. He's as determined as there is, and we're 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.000 gonna have to be a physical, determined defense to tackle him. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.920 And you know, I like our guys. I like our 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.120 guys chances. I think our guys will be up for it. 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.240 And we're gonna have to because he's a good runner. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:14.000 What makes Mahomes so tough to bring down in the pocket, 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.000 He's one of the best at, like, you know, avoiding 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.120 pressures that turn into sacks. And I guess related to 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.360 that house significant Kansas City in two D can't he 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.120 can't make it. I guess he left. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.360 He left the gain yesterday with the pack injury. Yeah, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:28.760 he just got a great pocket presence. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:28.960 You know. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:30.800 I think he sees the field and he sees he 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:32.800 feels the pocket. You know, he must have you know, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.560 antenna that he just kind of senses all that. Like 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.200 your car, you know, it's got all the centers, it 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.840 starts beeping when guys get close. It must be that 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.320 way for him because he kind of senses the pressure 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.200 and he's able to just move around and get away 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.000 but keep his eyes down field, slip out all those 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:47.520 kind of things. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:48.160 Just what he does. 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.920 Everybody that watches football knows it. That's just it's his. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.280 It's one of his gifts, you know. So we're gonna 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:54.839 have to really study it be good at defending it. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.800 I do like our guys chances. We've got a lot 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.640 of really good athletes. A lot of guys play hard. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.800 So we'll just try to make as hard on him 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.719 as we can. As far as who's playing for them 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.280 or not. That's just kind of is what it is. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.800 A second head coach in NFL history to make conference 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.360 championship appearances after a ten year gap. The only other 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.880 one was dick er Meal and that was because he 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:17.679 wasn't coaching. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:18.280 For fifteen years. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.200 Can you just talk about. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.560 The challenges that you faced and you know, reconstructing a 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.200 team and working with everybody here to. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:26.640 Get back here. 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.480 Yeah, not really thinking about that. It's like the last 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:30.520 thing on my mind right now. 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:31.720 CoA. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.880 John wanted to go back to your post game prestoda 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.320 the other day. You started it off with the scripture 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.480 and just thinking about how you've been talking throughout the season. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.320 You reference faith and spirituality here and there. We see 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.040 praying with the players, they talk openly about their faith. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:48.840 Why is it for you as a coach? 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.640 Why has it been so important to keep faith as 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.200 a bad break of this team's identity? 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:53.960 Right? 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.760 Well, one thing that it's important here is that we've 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:03.920 always been this way, is uh, is that everybody expresses 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.720 who they are and can be who they are, you know, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.640 freely and without apology, you know. And uh, we always 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.120 like to be our best self, you know. We kind 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.600 of encourage that to one another and sometimes we fall short, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:15.280 but we're always. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:15.640 Striving for that. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.560 We encourage each other to strive for that, you know, 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.880 and try to try to support each other as much 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.560 as we can. I need as much support as everybody 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.880 else does, you know. And so we're really in a 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.720 partnership here at players and coaches, uh and and and 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:29.960 scouts and everybody in the organization, you know, are in 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.720 a partnership. And uh and that's that's the basic part 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.600 of it. So if faith is a part of who 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.280 you are and part of your life, ah, then it's 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.200 it's welcomed, you know. And uh So I don't try 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.560 to hide that from my perspective of who I am. 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.400 It's it's sustained me, it's made it's improved me greatly 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:50.880 over the years. It's the only thing I think that 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.320 really does change your heart, in my opinion, is faith. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.040 You really can't do it yourself. It's impossible. It has 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.080 been for me. But the more I trust, the better 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.120 I get, And the more I trust God, the better 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.560 I get. So you know, I'm not a shamed of that. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.560 And I think our guys appreciate it, and everybody, whatever 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:11.480 their thoughts are on. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:12.520 It, you know, they're welcome. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.560 And you know, this is always some good dialogue that way, 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.480 because we've got some really smart guys and stuff. But 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.720 you know, that's that's the that's the way we're formulated. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.440 It's being smart guys and people expressing themselves. Your defense 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.240 has obviously been outstanding this year. When you think back 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.240 to the to Mike's early years and you sort of 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:37.080 tapping and what stood out to you most about him 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.880 that that kind of gave you that belief and confidence 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:41.680 in him. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.840 Yeah, Mike's Mike's just the I think, real genuine person. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.440 You know, a lot of great coaches on the staff, 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.480 they all kind of share this this particular trait. But 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.440 you know, he was here young. You know, he's just 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.520 out of college, and uh, he was very eager and 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.280 very smart, and very motivated and hard work king and 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.200 all those kinds of things, and you could just tell, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.600 you know, he had all those kind of traits. I 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.440 think he's been raised the right way. You know, his 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:09.960 parents are incredible people, and and so he just got 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.480 to it and worked hard at it and kind of 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.680 gave up through the system. And then with this particular 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.480 defensive system, you know, he's probably been blessed with the 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:23.159 opportunity to grow with the same system. And then the 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.119 evolution of the system over the course of the last 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.840 what nine ten years, He's he's. 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:28.840 Been right in the middle of all that. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:30.840 So it just is with a smart guy like that, 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:32.720