Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: September twentieth. Today we had a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harriball as the Ravens prepare for this
Speaker 1: week's game coming up against the Colts.
Speaker 2: Great day for football. Really really enjoyed being out there
Speaker 2: with the guys. Guys work super hard. It was good, good, good, tough,
Speaker 2: fundamental football practice. Getting ready for the Colts. We have
Speaker 2: great respect for how hard they play, how young they are,
Speaker 2: new staff, a lot to get ready for. So what
Speaker 2: questions you have?
Speaker 3: Something he's about our daias, Just update us on what
Speaker 3: the injury is, what the status and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the injury is upper body muscle. Deal Will he's
Speaker 2: being evaluated. I'd say this week just to see whether
Speaker 2: what the term.
Speaker 4: Of that might be.
Speaker 2: It'll be it'll be multiple weeks and we'll see where
Speaker 2: it goes.
Speaker 5: You probe have a.
Speaker 6: Lot of emotional big daies before after those games. Do
Speaker 6: you ever have a feeling where do you have you
Speaker 6: ever knew or playing from right now, Will addressed the
Speaker 6: team to maybe a void of that quote on post
Speaker 6: letdowel after all or win like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd never used that word. I'm not even sure
Speaker 2: how to applies really in that sense, but we uh
Speaker 2: we we I think we have a mutual understanding right now,
Speaker 2: kind of a vision for how we want to approach
Speaker 2: wins and losses and everything else in between. You know,
Speaker 2: we talk about that. It's not just all of a
Speaker 2: sudden we've got to come up and say, hey, we
Speaker 2: want a game now. Now what you know, this is
Speaker 2: something that we were here together every day, you know,
Speaker 2: and from the off seasons training camp. These are the
Speaker 2: kind of topics that you have when you when you're
Speaker 2: building it, when you're building together as a football team.
Speaker 2: And so you know, Patrick Queen be one of the
Speaker 2: captains this week, he spoke to the guys and he
Speaker 2: brought that up in the UH, in the UH, in
Speaker 2: the post practice a little talkie gave there and and
Speaker 2: did a great job of it. But it wasn't anything
Speaker 2: anybody wasn't thinking about. You know, we've it's one week
Speaker 2: at a time. You got to be want to know
Speaker 2: every week and that's what we're trying to do and
Speaker 2: really want to know every day, want to know every drill, period, play.
Speaker 2: That's what we shoot for.
Speaker 7: One thing, it's doing the project to pay the taxi Thompson,
Speaker 7: is there any.
Speaker 4: Planers what kind of.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, there's some familiarity, but it's really more about,
Speaker 2: uh how similar they are. Maybe the teams you've played
Speaker 2: in the past, they actually have some similarities to Houston defensively, Uh,
Speaker 2: the kind of the same family tree defensively, scheme wise.
Speaker 2: So uh, that's something that we you know, we we
Speaker 2: can we can use to our advantage in some respect.
Speaker 2: And there's it's kind of how it works around the league.
Speaker 2: I mean, certain it's kind of San Francisco Seattle Tree defensively,
Speaker 2: So you you certainly you learn to understand how those
Speaker 2: different kind of groups of coaches operate.
Speaker 3: Familiarity obviously Kennon drink back in the building, what was
Speaker 3: behind that decision? And secondly, is there any injury issue
Speaker 3: or concernative maybe justice up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just gonna leave all up to the injury report.
Speaker 2: It's not any to our advantage to talk about any
Speaker 2: of that stuff right now. So we're happy to have
Speaker 2: Kenyan back, excited about him right now and everything plays
Speaker 2: out the way he plays out.
Speaker 3: What is he praying for? They don't other familiarity?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean you know, he's talented. I mean
Speaker 2: you've seen him. He had he was he was in
Speaker 2: camp in pre season.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 2: Uh, he's fast. You know, he's an athletic guy, catches
Speaker 2: balls out of the backfield. Probably a real good fit
Speaker 2: in this offense. You know, it's funny. I was watching
Speaker 2: the Bengals tape last week again from last year as
Speaker 2: we were kind of preparing, and he was on the
Speaker 2: tape and he had had good games in those two
Speaker 2: games he played, and I was saying, man, can you
Speaker 2: drink really look good in those games? You know, It's
Speaker 2: kind of like that, And then next thing, you know,
Speaker 2: here he is. I mentioned that to him this morning
Speaker 2: when he came in.
Speaker 8: So you guys haven't allowed his first down in the
Speaker 8: first quarter yet.
Speaker 5: No encourage are you about the pepa starts?
Speaker 9: The defense has gotten out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very encouraged, Very encouraged by the fast starts. That's
Speaker 2: that's that's something we work on every day. We have
Speaker 2: a fast start period in practice every day. We want
Speaker 2: it to be good. I feel like the guys are
Speaker 2: just locked in. But you know, you know, every every
Speaker 2: every game is different. Sometimes you start, sometimes you finish.
Speaker 2: I think we're trying and you know, just to take
Speaker 2: it one series at a time and do the best
Speaker 2: we can.
Speaker 8: John, with guys like Ricari and you know Stone who
Speaker 8: for multiple years in a row don't come in as starters,
Speaker 8: but then when you have to call on them, they
Speaker 8: play like starters. Do you see a common trait between
Speaker 8: those guys who are able to do that or.
Speaker 2: That's a great question, childs. I mean, I guess you
Speaker 2: can talk in terms of, you know, professionalism and tension
Speaker 2: to detail and character and intelligence and toughness and all
Speaker 2: those kind of things probably are the traits for guys
Speaker 2: to be able to do that. Guys who are ready
Speaker 2: because they get ready every day. It's not like all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, all I gotta get ready to start now.
Speaker 2: You know they've been They've been considering themselves a starter
Speaker 2: every day in practice from day one and preparing as such.
Speaker 2: And then therefore when the time when the opportunity comes,
Speaker 2: you know, they're ready. What's the old saying, when when
Speaker 2: preparation meets opportunity, that's the formula for success, right. It's
Speaker 2: kind of a it's a truism, you know, and I
Speaker 2: think those guys have shown that.
Speaker 10: John, the entertainment sort of league question, and as a
Speaker 10: Thumber special teams coach, do you see that play for
Speaker 10: Patriots ram to block the kid with the sort of
Speaker 10: sideways going to see the shirt and and have you
Speaker 10: ever seen a play like that if you think that could.
Speaker 5: Be something that they take out.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen that.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a really great play, really really
Speaker 2: well executed.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: They were able to time up the uh the snap
Speaker 2: operation perfectly.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: Uh, it doesn't need to be ruled out because all
Speaker 2: you have to do is change the temple of your snapcount.
Speaker 2: So it's more of a surprise play. I think now
Speaker 2: people that you know for that to if that's something
Speaker 2: they think a team might do against them, then they'll
Speaker 2: just kind of change up the timing of the snap count.
Speaker 2: But what a good idea that was, nig got it.
Speaker 2: It was a great, great play, very I thought it
Speaker 2: was brilliant in their their run backers. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 2: number one issue for sure, Mike. I mean that front
Speaker 2: is outstanding. The two tackles are two of the best
Speaker 2: in the league. You know, uh, you know, Buckner obviously
Speaker 2: pedigree guy, slippery guy, long plays hard and all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff. Then Stewart we loved him in the draft.
Speaker 2: He's just a load in there, and he's and he's explosive,
Speaker 2: talented guy to defense events coming off the edge. One
Speaker 2: of the Michigan guy Quid he pay. You know, they
Speaker 2: play kind of classic to that style. And then inside backers,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you've got forty four is flying
Speaker 2: all over the field making plays left and right. And
Speaker 2: then Leonard, of course he's fifty three, he's he's we
Speaker 2: all know about him. You know, he's been good for
Speaker 2: a really long time. And and so yeah, that's the
Speaker 2: heart and soul of their defense right there.
Speaker 11: Jock's challenges are preparing it for two quarterbacks in the game.
Speaker 11: The Prince style was whether Gardner or Andrew or coach and.
Speaker 2: You right now it was, Yeah, it's definitely Pete. Something
Speaker 2: that we've got to take into account. I mean, there
Speaker 2: they run the same offense, but they run it differently,
Speaker 2: you know, and they there's you know, one might lean
Speaker 2: toward one area, another might lean toward another area more
Speaker 2: and you've got to play to the strengths to the quarterback.
Speaker 2: So you've got to defend to the strengths to the quarterback.
Speaker 2: And we've got to defend to the strengths of both
Speaker 2: of those guys right now at this point in time.
Speaker 2: But the offense is still kind of intact the way
Speaker 2: they run it. So that's what we'll be looking at.
Speaker 10: John Muster first stepped in and played a really good game,
Speaker 10: you worrily.
Speaker 5: You're relying on him.
Speaker 8: It's a kind of testament while these guys stepping up
Speaker 8: just how we you know, much emphasis you wrout on
Speaker 8: kind of the back roster building and finding different ways
Speaker 8: to acquire players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, it is. I mean obviously, our our I
Speaker 2: think our scouting department, personnel apartment is the best in
Speaker 2: the league. You know, from Eric and Ozzy and and
Speaker 2: all the guys over there, they're just tremendous. Joe, Vince, George,
Speaker 2: just a bunch of guys that do a great job
Speaker 2: all the way on through the Gold group. So that's
Speaker 2: one thing, and the other thing, you know, we you know,
Speaker 2: try to coach guys. I mean, there's the development aspect
Speaker 2: of everything. That's what I think everybody does, does their
Speaker 2: best at that. But to me, the credit belongs to
Speaker 2: the guys themselves, right, I mean, those are the guys
Speaker 2: that are out there preparing themselves for the opportunity then
Speaker 2: making the most of their opportunity. They certainly deserve the credit.
Speaker 5: You do it two more back when you had one.
Speaker 4: I think I can count of the eight guys.
Speaker 5: Time of being able to back.
Speaker 4: Does that when they there you have to change the
Speaker 4: practice at all. That's a good chunk. That's a great question.
Speaker 5: And uh no you really don't.
Speaker 2: Because they banded the practice squads, you know, so that's
Speaker 2: allowed us to maintain a good practice. So that was
Speaker 2: a good move the NFL made in.
Speaker 3: Terms of guys got a good meet Patrick. There's another
Speaker 3: one of those last week, so I would wind all
Speaker 3: over the field this year. He had a great season
Speaker 3: last year obviously. What do you think it's been the
Speaker 3: difference specifically from getting the last.
Speaker 10: Year to the season.
Speaker 5: Right? Good question.
Speaker 2: I just feel like he's just picked up where he
Speaker 2: left off and continue to grow. You know, he's he's
Speaker 2: got a growth mindset every day. He he doesn't he
Speaker 2: doesn't let anything slow him down. There's no drag in
Speaker 2: his in the way he operates ever, and uh it
Speaker 2: shows up in the way he plays.
Speaker 4: I'm just proud of him.
Speaker 2: I love I love everything about him, and you know
Speaker 2: he's he's I think he's established himself as one of
Speaker 2: the top one of the top linebackers in football for sure,
Speaker 2: you know, and that's kind of exciting.
Speaker 1: That was Heay coach John Harball quarterback Lamar Jackson also
Speaker 1: met with the media today.
Speaker 5: W Are you've seen the.
Speaker 6: Big out of all sports when sometimes when the team
Speaker 6: has a big emotions any against the divisional opponent, this,
Speaker 6: that and the other, sometimes the next game doesn't you know,
Speaker 6: goes look back, you know, kind of they cause quote.
Speaker 5: Unquote the letdown all over.
Speaker 6: Do you play to talk to the team How do you
Speaker 6: avoid having that kind of scenario play out?
Speaker 4: Uh? I, I believe it's just self explandatory. What you know.
Speaker 12: The guys in our locker room, Uh, they pretty much
Speaker 12: know it's it's a business. Any time we're out there
Speaker 12: on nfield and we don't take any appointed light. You know,
Speaker 12: this is the NFL and every team's good. It's any
Speaker 12: given Sunday.
Speaker 11: Last time you played the Colts, it was one of
Speaker 11: the big games your career in a really in franchise history.
Speaker 11: Do you think that as you're getting you look and
Speaker 11: see film of those guys, which does that bring you
Speaker 11: back to that night at all.
Speaker 12: Uh nah, that night pretty much was that night. You know,
Speaker 12: whatever happened at night is with that night. But you know,
Speaker 12: don't focus on what's gonna happen Sunday, you know, and
Speaker 12: just tryna come out with a victory.
Speaker 8: Mar There was so much exciting in the off season,
Speaker 8: the Dell signing and Ze being drafted, you you signing
Speaker 8: your extension. Do you feel like in all that, the
Speaker 8: the the Agawar signing maybe flew under the radar a
Speaker 8: little bit.
Speaker 12: Well, I'd like to keep it under the radar. You know,
Speaker 12: he had a pretty good game. I don't want any
Speaker 12: hype going you know, going his way. You know, just
Speaker 12: keep it under the radar, like you said, and keep
Speaker 12: doing what he's doing.
Speaker 8: But he's I mean, he's seems like he's just been
Speaker 8: terrific pretty much from the day he showed up right.
Speaker 12: Absolutely he has. You know, we been connecting here on
Speaker 12: the field in camp. Uh this, I I say, pretty
Speaker 12: much the whole all season and it showed you know
Speaker 12: this past Sunday.
Speaker 7: Why and he said, said called himself a accommodation of
Speaker 7: your one of you and camp on you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Well what's it?
Speaker 7: What's it like to hear guys from hearing themselves.
Speaker 3: To you And did you see him at all in college?
Speaker 4: Where your thoughts ad you want me to be honest? Right?
Speaker 12: That made me feel old and I'm only twenty six.
Speaker 12: Like comparing me himself at camp, it was like, I'm like, dang,
Speaker 12: compare yourself to me and I'm still you know, young,
Speaker 12: but you know I appreciate stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 12: And I I did see him a couple time of college.
Speaker 12: He played phenomenal and as his first two games he
Speaker 12: has to.
Speaker 3: MA, you s describe the connection you've had, you say
Speaker 3: so far? Like you he mentioned that deep ball that
Speaker 3: you guys had the other day that he came back
Speaker 3: to you told y, you know, I I got you.
Speaker 3: You can trust me that you know we got to
Speaker 3: play and you just maybe ex expand on what that
Speaker 3: relationship in terms of communication has been.
Speaker 4: Like with me too.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 12: I believe he's been building very well since he said,
Speaker 12: you know, our chemistry with like sixty percent uh something
Speaker 12: like that. Uh I, I wonder what it is right now?
Speaker 12: You know he's been catching the ball, phenomenal, making gods miss,
Speaker 12: running great routes and just doing what they do.
Speaker 4: No, we just need to keep it that way.
Speaker 3: No, not to compare in to to other worldies you've
Speaker 3: played with, and but what is he how does he
Speaker 3: stand out?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 12: In in that way for a walk and he's his
Speaker 12: own man. You know, he's going out there, he's willing
Speaker 12: to learn. He wanna be the best. You know, each
Speaker 12: and every player he's out there. You know, it's they's
Speaker 12: just a household name. He's building for himself right now.
Speaker 12: He just need to just keep staying away, keep staying
Speaker 12: locked down and focus.
Speaker 9: Lamar De offense look a lot more in rhythm this
Speaker 9: past Sunday, despite missing a lot of key guys on
Speaker 9: that side of the ball.
Speaker 5: What what did you notice?
Speaker 9: What's kind of the difference between Week one and two?
Speaker 4: Just being week two?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 12: You know our second game. I'm just playing with playing,
Speaker 12: you know, alongside each other. Uh, and just build a chemistry,
Speaker 12: you know within the game.
Speaker 4: That's all.
Speaker 13: Mary.
Speaker 7: You have the second highest sciation from sent into the
Speaker 7: NFL right now in the first two games. Just what
Speaker 7: things do you attribute that to you?
Speaker 10: Why do you feel like you're completing seventy classes?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Uh f just building chemistry. I guess that's that's the
Speaker 4: biggest thing.
Speaker 12: You know, just getting the ball out my hand, getting
Speaker 12: into my throwing into my guys, my god's catching the ball,
Speaker 12: getting yards and protecting me from you know, bad players
Speaker 12: or anything like that. And I'm tryna protect him as well.
Speaker 12: So we just doing what we should do. And that's
Speaker 12: why the percentage that are.
Speaker 11: I was like to have one pressure in the game
Speaker 11: to take you look back and Washington like to be
Speaker 11: to have that kind of a building in the pocket
Speaker 11: and be able to stand there and go ahead and
Speaker 11: make it reads making decision. How much easier was that
Speaker 11: for you to then operate the offenses?
Speaker 4: Uh? Terrific.
Speaker 12: That's any quarterback dream. Hopefully we just keep it going
Speaker 12: throughout the whole season.
Speaker 3: I think you got any uh go to building kind
Speaker 3: of street.
Speaker 8: Uh work with the News center and Stammus.
Speaker 10: For what's it been like working with him in the
Speaker 10: kind of extreme what's the impressive useful about the House
Speaker 10: of News games?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Sam played l lights out?
Speaker 12: Uh just d uh, I don't know, well the difference
Speaker 12: between him and Colledge the name, uh say, you know, Uh,
Speaker 12: but he's played great, you know, Uh just stepping in
Speaker 12: last second, you know, just a week prior.
Speaker 4: Uh, we just had our starting.
Speaker 12: Center and we really didn't have no chemistry throughout camp
Speaker 12: or anything like that. But for him to step in
Speaker 12: and no, uh, you know, protections, knowing when to flip
Speaker 12: certain things, f certain protections. It was wonderful.
Speaker 3: Why I think you're second half this s you know
Speaker 3: branded Telly two games or do you think you've completed
Speaker 3: ninety percent of your passes and in the second half
Speaker 3: of the two games so far? What what do you
Speaker 3: attribute that to? Is it adjustments and things you're seeing
Speaker 3: as the game progresses. Is it just a progression of
Speaker 3: the your comfort in the offense.
Speaker 12: Uh say, a little bit of everything, and just being
Speaker 12: comfortable being in the pocket. Uh Like I said earlier,
Speaker 12: just getting the ball, getting the ball out, just throwing
Speaker 12: it to my guys and let him do the rest.
Speaker 8: Or you were among the NFL players when when Nick
Speaker 8: cub went down, you you tweeted out your prayers for
Speaker 8: ends know where where you where you watching? What are
Speaker 8: you watching that?
Speaker 10: And what what kind of inspired you to to send
Speaker 10: out that to beople?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 12: No, actually I seen it on social media, like I've
Speaker 12: seen it on social media. I was just getting on Twitter.
Speaker 12: I guess, well it was Twitter and when I seen
Speaker 12: the hit, it was like a horrific hit, like no
Speaker 12: one like seeing, you know, that type of injury from
Speaker 12: any guy you know, And just prayers to him cause
Speaker 12: he's a wonderful player, you know on that field.
Speaker 8: When when McCarry steps in for Ronnie protecting your blindside,
Speaker 8: is it? Is it just total trust at this point?
Speaker 8: I after after all the Yr's team.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely.
Speaker 12: Uh Pat has been great at center, uh, you know,
Speaker 12: guard for us, and he just showed it this past
Speaker 12: Sunday that tackle as well.
Speaker 4: You know, he's a guy that can do it all.
Speaker 4: I'll say that one more was Lamar.
Speaker 10: You know, obviously everything this office hasn't worked out for
Speaker 10: for you with the Ravens, but there was a point
Speaker 10: a time where people were wondering if a team like
Speaker 10: the Colts might you know, aggressively make a move for you.
Speaker 10: Is there knowing the kind of quarterback that you are,
Speaker 10: have you ever surprised anything back on teams, you know,
Speaker 10: not seemingly going so hard after you? And then do
Speaker 10: you have a list in your mind with teams that
Speaker 10: you know you based on Sunday Like, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 10: show you what you're missing.
Speaker 4: I'm grateful for being here.
Speaker 12: You know, we got our we got our uh contract
Speaker 12: situations situated, and I'm focused on, you know, doing what's
Speaker 12: best for us tryna win.
Speaker 4: I don't really care about other teams.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson. You're listening to the Ravens
Speaker 1: Press Pass podcast. Well, I'm backer Patrick Quay and he's
Speaker 1: having a great start to the season. To talk with
Speaker 1: the media today about what he's seen and done to
Speaker 1: the first two games of this year.
Speaker 13: Patrick John mentioned that when we were talking to him
Speaker 13: about the idea of playing this week after a big
Speaker 13: minut on the road last week, and you think you
Speaker 13: were one of the people were talking to Shain exactly
Speaker 13: one said, what's the what's the tone of the team?
Speaker 13: They're trying to go away what we like to call
Speaker 13: let down.
Speaker 5: In your role in you doing that, I think, Uh,
Speaker 5: anytime you want to accomplish your goal as a team,
Speaker 5: you can't get complacent. And that was just really the message,
Speaker 5: just uh, be your biggest critic. UH, don't get complacent.
Speaker 5: Uh the things that you're good at, be great at
Speaker 5: the things that you need to work on and prove on,
Speaker 5: and just you know, strif excellence.
Speaker 7: That's deliberate, that kind of message to me that leader.
Speaker 10: Is that something that you done previously?
Speaker 8: Is that kind of knew this year?
Speaker 4: And how would you just got to your.
Speaker 5: Role if as something unt I think, uh, just being
Speaker 5: more vocal and just you know, living by what I preach.
Speaker 5: I think that's the biggest thing is is bringing it
Speaker 5: every day, doing my job to the best of my ability,
Speaker 5: and trying to bring my teammates with me.
Speaker 10: Wait, Mike has figured out ways as we as you
Speaker 10: and grow conics inside linebackers just more creatively or differently
Speaker 10: than other teams in the NFL. It's what you feel
Speaker 10: comparatively to other guys in the position, more empowered.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, Uh, Mike, you try to do a
Speaker 5: little bit of both. He tries to be creative but
Speaker 5: at the same time be a little traditional at the
Speaker 5: same time. And uh, I think that's the perfect mix
Speaker 5: for us. Uh, just letting us go out there and
Speaker 5: play ball. So whatever might call, we gonna roll with
Speaker 5: and got the two best linebackers in the league, so
Speaker 5: we gonna we gonna make plays and just make everybody
Speaker 5: look good, make ourselves look good.
Speaker 4: You feel like if you guys.
Speaker 11: Are changing the perception of what a premier position is
Speaker 11: why you and rokand are playing it inside.
Speaker 5: I think anytime you want a good defense, you gotta
Speaker 5: have good linebackers. Yeah, you know, that's what we got here,
Speaker 5: and that's where we uh tryna showcases us being the
Speaker 5: best linebackers and showing that a defense Rob was a
Speaker 5: l around the linebacker. And I think that's just come
Speaker 5: with being the type of person you wanna be in
Speaker 5: trying to be great. Like I said, l the message
Speaker 5: I said uh earlier, don't just don't be complacent, you know,
Speaker 5: stride for greatness and just keep improving.
Speaker 3: I think there you're obviously.
Speaker 7: A little bit biased, But why do you feel like
Speaker 7: that a great defense is built around with the signline that?
Speaker 5: Uh? I think if you can't stop the run, you
Speaker 5: can't stop the pass in the middle of the field. Uh.
Speaker 5: And you ain't got those guys that can fly around
Speaker 5: and just you know, strike a little fearing people heardest
Speaker 5: then it's you know, kind of rough to stop people.
Speaker 5: So I feel like that's what we bring to the defense.
Speaker 7: What does lines?
Speaker 3: What what strides have you made?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Particular unity it takes like the pass covering shop.
Speaker 5: I think Uh, the biggest thing is just understanding route
Speaker 5: concepts uh and being patient and just knowing my skill
Speaker 5: set and using my skill set, and uh, it's just
Speaker 5: all around improvement of everything. Honestly, Uh, I couldn't say
Speaker 5: one particular thing. Is just every single thing about my game,
Speaker 5: I think uh I improved on and trying to continue
Speaker 5: to improve on.
Speaker 3: Is it that more uh, recognition or communications?
Speaker 5: Both or definitely both? I think, uh, without communication, you
Speaker 5: can't recognize what's coming, So I think it's definitely both.
Speaker 8: So did you guys similarly responsibility?
Speaker 7: You shouldn't that extracuse hope, Really.
Speaker 4: That's a kid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was kind of the same, but kind of
Speaker 5: different at the same time. I think college you have
Speaker 5: uh less responsibilities, and what less responsibilities is less communication?
Speaker 5: So uh, I think it's just you know, you go
Speaker 5: to another level, a higher level, higher execution, higher communication,
Speaker 5: higher responsibilities that come with that.
Speaker 3: What do you think is the biggest key of the
Speaker 3: the fast starts you guys have had Defensively, they've given
Speaker 3: a lot of first down.
Speaker 7: Give them first of all.
Speaker 5: Uh, I think we're just starting fast, we're communicating, we're
Speaker 5: playing fast, trusting each other and just playing football. Uh.
Speaker 5: I think that's what we'd come out here and do
Speaker 5: everyday practice. We did it all throughout camp. Uh. All
Speaker 5: the guys that are on the same page, we're all
Speaker 5: uh got gret chemistry right now. Just everybody loves each other.
Speaker 5: Everybody playing for each other right now, Gotrick. Uh.
Speaker 8: Gino Stone is kind of one of your neighbors in
Speaker 8: the in the in the locker room. Imbies the way
Speaker 8: he's able to come in. You know, for Marcus the
Speaker 8: last few years, it just seemed totally prepared from the
Speaker 8: minute he has to take the job. Do you is
Speaker 8: that something you kind of admire?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Uh, Gino's aballer, you know, always been like that, Uh
Speaker 5: since the day he came in. And uh, let's see
Speaker 5: him get opportunity and taking full advantage of and making plays.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: Just it's heartwarming. Uh. I think Gino just works so
Speaker 5: hard and just he wants to be so great and
Speaker 5: you gets you can tell how he pre uh prepares
Speaker 5: special teams when it comes on defense. Uh, and just
Speaker 5: every day in practice.
Speaker 8: I think what uh, what do you see as the.
Speaker 6: Greatest challenges for this week?
Speaker 5: About this space? Uh think the greatest challenge is just
Speaker 5: being able to communicate fast. Uh. I know, they go
Speaker 5: up temple a little bit, and the focus point for
Speaker 5: us is just being able to communicate when things going fast.
Speaker 5: You uh tend to see us, you know, have a
Speaker 5: little trouble here and there with that, and uh, that's
Speaker 5: been all throughout camps. So we're just still polishing that
Speaker 5: stuff up, still getting better at there, and still trying
Speaker 5: to you know, execute those things.
Speaker 4: Try go through a.
Speaker 8: Stretch where there's a c some seals like injuries keep blowing.
Speaker 5: Out every week.
Speaker 10: As a player, do you kind of put blinders on
Speaker 10: or is it something that you do as as a
Speaker 10: team kind of recognize.
Speaker 5: That, you know, you have to have a lot of
Speaker 5: guys stepping out here.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 5: I think that's throughout life playing the sport. Uh.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: People always get hurting. It's unfortunate, but at the end
Speaker 5: of the day, you can't let the body. We got
Speaker 5: a job to do.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: We all got a job to do. We all got
Speaker 5: goals that we wanna reach, and if any of us
Speaker 5: flinch or anything, then uh, we can't reach those goals.
Speaker 5: So I think the best thing for us is just
Speaker 5: to stay focused on the tasking hand Patrick, I know.
Speaker 9: M a roquon, where's the dot? But there looks to
Speaker 9: be a lot of pre snap communication in the middle
Speaker 9: of the field. Is there sc shared pre snap duties?
Speaker 9: All those just regular communications you know that we would
Speaker 9: see on a play to play basis.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So uh, basically with Roe having a green die,
Speaker 5: he gets the call, he echoes the call, We all
Speaker 5: echo the call to each other, and then it's communications
Speaker 5: after that. What's the formation, what what are we expecting,
Speaker 5: what's our job responsibilities, what's the checks? Uh, It's just
Speaker 5: different stuff that goes into those communications. So frome ones
Speaker 5: get roll, get the call from Mike and might might
Speaker 5: give a hint here and there about uh be ready
Speaker 5: for this or that, But it's communication within the UH
Speaker 5: lines for us roads.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 5: Just being more vocal. Uh every day he comes in
Speaker 5: with a grayda too and always talking. And I think
Speaker 5: that's the biggest thing for me, just being a shot person,
Speaker 5: not talking as much and just letting people be. But
Speaker 5: I think, uh, you get to know people better uh
Speaker 5: and more, and you know, it brightes the mood, it
Speaker 5: braks in everybody moved when you talk a lot. So
Speaker 5: I think that's the biggest thing I learned from real.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Patrick Queen, and last, but not least,
Speaker 1: we also talked with rookie wide receivers Dave flowers Man.
Speaker 1: He's made an incredible impact through the first two games
Speaker 1: of his NFL career, and he talked about that today.
Speaker 11: Hey, it looks like you're having met as much fun
Speaker 11: as a mookie you can have after playing. Is it
Speaker 11: been what you thought really beat into a couple of
Speaker 11: weeks before you or half?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 14: I got vets on around me, I got Lamar, got Mark,
Speaker 14: I got everybody around.
Speaker 5: Me making me comfortable.
Speaker 14: So it's making my job easier to execute and be
Speaker 14: as detailed as possible.
Speaker 4: Zay.
Speaker 9: I know it's only been two games, but you how
Speaker 9: comfortable are you feeling when we're hearing that you know
Speaker 9: you're seeing things early and you're telling Lamar that that
Speaker 9: type of luck will be the later. How comfortable are
Speaker 9: you with the things you're seeing and also your assignments
Speaker 9: based off of what you're looking at?
Speaker 14: Uh, I'm super comfortable. Super comfortable because coach Lewis and
Speaker 14: coach Dog they do a great job of when we're
Speaker 14: in the me and room making sure everything detailed, and
Speaker 14: when we on the field me and Lamar see a look,
Speaker 14: or anybody at receiver see a look, we go back
Speaker 14: and tell him and he'll come back and hit you
Speaker 14: on it. If it's if you see the same look
Speaker 14: at that time in South Florida with Lamar, And do
Speaker 14: you think that's contributed to the early chemistry you.
Speaker 12: All are developing?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think it did it cause it was me,
Speaker 14: Oh and Nelly out there and we knew we was
Speaker 14: gonna be three receivers that was gonna be playing a lot,
Speaker 14: and we had to get out there get some work together,
Speaker 14: and we knew we had to do it fast cause
Speaker 14: if we wanted to have the season we want to have,
Speaker 14: we had to do it.
Speaker 8: Speaking to know you, you you probably have the best
Speaker 8: for you in the house, so don't have to touch
Speaker 8: on catch. And you seem to really enjoy that. What
Speaker 8: what what did you particularly enjoy about that plays?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 14: I just enjoy it like seeing our god school. I
Speaker 14: just enjoy anybody on the field making a play, even
Speaker 14: if it's defense. You'll probably see me jumping around on
Speaker 14: the side line Like after Gino play, I was jumping around,
Speaker 14: running around. So I'm just excited for all my gush quarterbackers.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 14: He he just said he locked me up, and I
Speaker 14: was like, look, touchdown. That's basically what I said. Yeah,
Speaker 14: say what what's the next labor communications with the mark?
Speaker 10: What's the main sense of badue? You maybe tell him
Speaker 10: about the the post.
Speaker 8: That you were a fourth earlier and then he came
Speaker 8: back to you for that that long play.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we both knew, like we seen Lamar seen it
Speaker 14: lay a little later and I got open and by
Speaker 14: the time I turned, he was already off it. But
Speaker 14: he seen me down the field and he was just like,
Speaker 14: calm down, come down, I'm gonna come.
Speaker 5: Back to you. Did you know that?
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, I had to feel like it was gonna
Speaker 14: be caught again.
Speaker 3: And I mean one he.
Speaker 7: Made a lot of plays in space short first to that.
Speaker 7: I mean you could have had three long balls you
Speaker 7: to kind of show your deep play potential. What do
Speaker 7: you think that opens up to the.
Speaker 10: Rest of years.
Speaker 14: I I just feel like it was just it opened
Speaker 14: everything up for me. Cause if you feel like I'm
Speaker 14: a run a long, I can stop. I can stop
Speaker 14: at any any route and come back. So it to
Speaker 14: make the defenders harder.
Speaker 15: The gardment to get to this point Obviously you gotta
Speaker 15: be supremely confident in your ability, but to translate that
Speaker 15: confidence into you know, the numbers you've put up through
Speaker 15: only two weeks, But do you feel some sort of
Speaker 15: like not validation, but you know comfort that, Okay, you
Speaker 15: got to this point and you're making it happen already.
Speaker 14: I'll say I get I feel more comfortable each week,
Speaker 14: just with the game plan and the speed of the game,
Speaker 14: and just getting smarter each week, and just being out
Speaker 14: there with vet guys. Like I said, they teaching me.
Speaker 14: Nellie Hall teach me something about like because he'll master
Speaker 14: I run there like option routes and over routes, so
Speaker 14: he'll teach me something about that. Odell teach me something
Speaker 14: about the deep ball. So I'm just taking it all
Speaker 14: in and just trying to use it.
Speaker 9: It's still early, But what do you make of some
Speaker 9: of the looks you've been given, especially compared to what
Speaker 9: you're saying maybe your last year of Boston College. Now
Speaker 9: you're here and there you know other guys that defense
Speaker 9: step the focus home.
Speaker 4: What what are you seeing and the way teams are
Speaker 4: trying to guard you right now?
Speaker 14: I would say you got a lot to worry about. Honestly,
Speaker 14: you gotta worry about Mark, you gotta worry about the
Speaker 14: run game. You all worry about Lamar and then all
Speaker 14: the other receivers. So I I won't. I don't even
Speaker 14: know how to tell you. I just I'm just going
Speaker 14: out there and playing my game. Honestly, you can just.
Speaker 7: Driving how much fun you're having played in the games.
Speaker 7: It just seems like you're laughing all the time and
Speaker 7: having fun.
Speaker 5: Nah.
Speaker 14: It's it's easy to have fun when you got guys
Speaker 14: like that around you, and everybody can make plays. So
Speaker 14: that just makes me make like make me enjoy the
Speaker 14: game a little bit more.
Speaker 10: What is it about the game that? But it's just
Speaker 10: certain fun for you.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 14: I just get excited to play, make plays, see somebody
Speaker 14: else making plays, and I just wanna win.
Speaker 1: sEH.
Speaker 3: You talked about your comfort in the offense with Lamar's curious.
Speaker 3: What what's it like catching passes for him?
Speaker 7: From just like a a pure.
Speaker 14: Technical standpoint, I said, Lamar got every throwing motion like
Speaker 14: he could give it to you side on, you give
Speaker 14: it to you straight down the field, and he could
Speaker 14: put it anywhere you need it, So just catch it
Speaker 14: from him. That's gonna be on you fast too, so
Speaker 14: it's gonna be right of your face, so you gotta
Speaker 14: be ready.
Speaker 3: I think he's got the second highest completion percentage right
Speaker 3: now in the NFL. You're recipient of a lot of
Speaker 3: those passes. How would you describe I guess the chemistry
Speaker 3: guys built in that regard in terms of route running
Speaker 3: and timing.
Speaker 5: And catching a lot.
Speaker 14: Like I said, like a lot of it was built
Speaker 14: over the summer. Were just running through the route tree,
Speaker 14: trying to get everything on time and just trying to
Speaker 14: build chemistry and trying to do what we're doing out
Speaker 14: on the field right now.
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