Speaker 1: Welcome in the Ravens press pass. Today, we heard from
Speaker 1: a number of key players and head coach John Harball
Speaker 1: before the Ravens face the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday at M
Speaker 1: and T Banks Stadium. First up, let's hear from head
Speaker 1: coach John Harballay.
Speaker 2: Good to see everybody out here. We appreciate you, Happy
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving tomorrow. Much to be grateful for. We're grateful for
Speaker 2: our media. We really are most of the time, so
Speaker 2: but now we do appreciate you and UH and UH
Speaker 2: what questions you have. I'm frank thank for all you
Speaker 2: amazing people gathered around here in this circle and do
Speaker 2: such a great job of bringing the uh the team
Speaker 2: to the fans.
Speaker 3: I really am.
Speaker 2: I'm grateful for my family and UH for this organization
Speaker 2: and for our players, and I'm grateful for UH for
Speaker 2: our creator, our God gives us an opportunity to breathe
Speaker 2: and live and a chance to uh enjoy a great existence.
Speaker 3: Connor's a report to Charlie pull broken.
Speaker 4: We just got some deep stuff right there.
Speaker 2: You know we're gonna go right into Charlie Kolar's arm.
Speaker 3: We are grateful for that question too.
Speaker 2: Turning over whole new leaf, here. Yes, he has a
Speaker 2: broken arm.
Speaker 5: And how will the offense compensate with that?
Speaker 3: Well happen? I mean, you know, we're gonna put another
Speaker 3: guy out there.
Speaker 2: You don't gonna play with eleven guys for sure, And
Speaker 2: whenever Charlie was gonna be in there, there'll be another
Speaker 2: player on the field, uh, doing football stuff and running
Speaker 2: plays and blocking and catching whatever else.
Speaker 3: Uh what happened for that position. So that's how we'll
Speaker 3: that's how we'll handle it.
Speaker 6: Go John going against the Eagles by kind of pressure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow. I mean where do you start with Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 2: It's just really hard got to tackle, you know.
Speaker 3: And I think his vision is really good.
Speaker 2: They run a lot different schemes, you know, inside zone
Speaker 2: kind of where they start, but inside zone, outside zone,
Speaker 2: they've got different gap schemes. Just his vision, I mean,
Speaker 2: his ability to see from edged edge and all across.
Speaker 2: Whenever there's a gap that's not defended, he can see it.
Speaker 2: Not only see, he can get to it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: All the other highlight stuff is there as well, but
Speaker 2: just his ability to make a defense pay for not
Speaker 2: being in the right spot is probably the thing that
Speaker 2: jumps out of me.
Speaker 7: The most tall hot is that team right now? Stember
Speaker 7: A quick run around for you guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, quick turnaround for us facing the Eagles team, it's
Speaker 2: as hot as anybody right now, like you said, Jerry,
Speaker 2: And we've had a lot of hot teams that we
Speaker 2: face this year too, so we've had some experience with
Speaker 2: that so far this year.
Speaker 8: All season, there was a lot of talk about the
Speaker 8: running back position as a whole, and we're looking at
Speaker 8: the top of the rushing numbers right now in the
Speaker 8: league and Derrick Henry and sat Kuon Barkley are top
Speaker 8: of that unless two guys who are free agents. Do
Speaker 8: you think that this kind of impacts the talk around
Speaker 8: the running back position and how it's being viewed right now?
Speaker 2: Well, we're just gonna have a tough time a challenge
Speaker 2: stopping this running back that we're playing, and we're hoping
Speaker 2: that they have a tough time stopping our running back.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of our focus right now.
Speaker 9: A lot of talk in the summer with.
Speaker 10: The offensive line and trying to figure out what would
Speaker 10: look play with and you know, Derek having so much
Speaker 10: success and giving so much credit to that line, Just
Speaker 10: how have you seen that group developed and Maturch is
Speaker 10: kind of throughout the season.
Speaker 2: To me, it's a really good point, you know. I'm
Speaker 2: glad you brought it up. I think our line's playing well.
Speaker 2: They have, they have established the line of scrimmage a
Speaker 2: lot of times. I think they've done a good job
Speaker 2: in pass protection, protecting Lamar and giving us a chance
Speaker 2: to get the ball down field, which is always a challenge.
Speaker 2: We've had some really good pass rushing teams that we
Speaker 2: played to, so really proud those guys, but they can
Speaker 2: be so much better. I mean, there's so much more,
Speaker 2: so much more growth than those guys, and I think
Speaker 2: we all just, you know, try to keep our nose
Speaker 2: to the grindstone and see if we can get better
Speaker 2: from one day to the next, one game to the next,
Speaker 2: and see how good we can get, you know. And
Speaker 2: along the way, we've had some really challenging games that
Speaker 2: we had to play, and we had some challenging fronts
Speaker 2: about the offensive line, but you know, they're doing a
Speaker 2: great job and looking forward to seeing how they do
Speaker 2: this week against a really good Eagles defense and a
Speaker 2: really good front.
Speaker 11: Anytime you guys play an NFC team, people cite the
Speaker 11: stuff guys are twenty three and one in games of
Speaker 11: Lamar has started against the NFC. Do you think there
Speaker 11: is something to the idea that it's harder for teams
Speaker 11: to prepare for a unique player like that when they
Speaker 11: don't see him very often.
Speaker 2: I think we got a really tough game against a
Speaker 2: really good team on Sunday. We're gonna try to be
Speaker 2: one to know on Sunday if we can be. These
Speaker 2: guys are well rounded football team, all three phases are
Speaker 2: really as good as anybody in the league. I think
Speaker 2: they're really good upfront on both sides and the trenches.
Speaker 2: That's a huge challenge for us. And not just that.
Speaker 2: I mean they can run the ball. Of course, the
Speaker 2: quarterback can run it, the bat can run it. But
Speaker 2: they got really good receivers, you know, push it downfield,
Speaker 2: they run all the RPOs. Just a lot of challenges
Speaker 2: for us this week about.
Speaker 4: The challenge of this game.
Speaker 8: And you guys are the best run stop in defense
Speaker 8: in the league right now. I mean you're going against
Speaker 8: the high power rushing attack over there. I mean, are
Speaker 8: you just excited to see your guys on that side
Speaker 8: of the ball compete and go up against you know,
Speaker 8: a team strength knowing that his short strength as well.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's always exciting to play in big games,
Speaker 2: you know, and we're playing it. This is another big
Speaker 2: game for us. We had a big game last week.
Speaker 2: We had a big game the week before that. We
Speaker 2: had a big game the week before that. And this
Speaker 2: is the next one, and this is this is a
Speaker 2: really big game.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 2: This is a really good team we're playing. I think
Speaker 2: some people think, you know, they're they might be the
Speaker 2: best team in the league, you know, and that's that's
Speaker 2: the way they're playing. So it's a challenge for us,
Speaker 2: a challenge for a run defense, yes, uh. And because
Speaker 2: they do it, they do it with their offensive line
Speaker 2: to do with their back they also do with their
Speaker 2: scheme which the quarterbacks are part of two and they
Speaker 2: can throw off.
Speaker 3: The runs, you know. So there's a lot going on.
Speaker 13: There, a lot of round bringing to their offensive It
Speaker 13: seems like it's very different for them when he's on
Speaker 13: the field of win, he's not. It's or you know,
Speaker 13: his availability and he'll be there.
Speaker 2: Something well he's uh, I mean, he starts probably to
Speaker 2: me with the inside breaking rounds in the RPOs, you know,
Speaker 2: and his his his body presence you know, it's to
Speaker 2: get inside of any kind of coverage and and just
Speaker 2: make a make a strong catch and then it goes
Speaker 2: to the catch and run stuff. You gotta get him
Speaker 2: on the ground after that. So that's kind of you
Speaker 2: can say it's part of the run game. But he
Speaker 2: catches the ball using an inside breaking routes or vertical
Speaker 2: routes and and he can.
Speaker 3: He's a tough tackle.
Speaker 14: So, uh, big challenge for you guys to play as
Speaker 14: many people as you guys did on defense on Monday,
Speaker 14: and with how often.
Speaker 7: That communication has been, you know, be doing for explosives.
Speaker 14: Would it say just like that you guys were as
Speaker 14: sound as your workers just play having so many guys
Speaker 14: kind of rotating spots.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought guys played well, you know, especially in
Speaker 2: the second half. Uh, you know, they were they were
Speaker 2: gonna throw a little bit more of the challenges with
Speaker 2: some routes and some motions and things like that. And
Speaker 2: it wasn't perfect. I mean there was a couple of
Speaker 2: times where guys got loose on some man covered stuff.
Speaker 2: We played a lot of man uh and they were
Speaker 2: running a lot of man beaters. Uh. But uh so
Speaker 2: that's something we definitely gotta work on because we'll see
Speaker 2: that from these guys as well.
Speaker 3: But I was happy with what of the guys played.
Speaker 7: Definitely to talk to you said, look at the film.
Speaker 7: Took the penalties, the siege stuff.
Speaker 2: That needs Yeah, yeah, I've got to keep working on
Speaker 2: the penalties. That's a we don't want to put ourselves
Speaker 2: in the in the hole on offense. That really hurt
Speaker 2: us on that second drive. You know you're first and
Speaker 2: twenty five. Uh so that that's hard to overcome of
Speaker 2: the run defenses. Michael Pierce's return to practice, is the
Speaker 2: hope he could be ready as soon as this week
Speaker 2: or are you kind of pointing toward after the vibe
Speaker 2: we're hoping. We've have our fingers crossed that he could
Speaker 2: be ready this week. We'll have to see more quarterback.
Speaker 13: Sneech player over any Eagles from on everything that a
Speaker 13: lot of successful kind of pins it that some of
Speaker 13: them get.
Speaker 15: You take it's a successful and is that something's been punning.
Speaker 3: Well, it's hard.
Speaker 2: It's hard to practice it, you know, I mean obviously
Speaker 2: because you know, what are you gonna do? You know,
Speaker 2: it's it's a it's a very unique play. I think
Speaker 2: they've they've mastered it obviously. Uh we ran one this
Speaker 2: last week. Uh, a similar type deal. But they've they've
Speaker 2: been doing it for a long time now and they
Speaker 2: just continue to do it well. I think maybe you
Speaker 2: thought that Kelse was not gonna be in there anymore,
Speaker 2: maybe it was gonna change, and it hadn't changed, you know,
Speaker 2: But Jalen.
Speaker 3: Does a great job.
Speaker 2: Their offense will line, big physical offensive line, comes off
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 3: The right guard, you know, you know who he's. He's
Speaker 3: a big, physical guy. Centered does a great job.
Speaker 2: We we work on that. Uh, we we've studied it.
Speaker 2: We've we have a plan. We'll do our best against it,
Speaker 2: and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5: And you know, play four carries not thirty?
Speaker 4: Did I?
Speaker 5: But anyway, when you get around this time the season,
Speaker 5: do you is Derek he carries? Is that ever a
Speaker 5: thought process of you?
Speaker 4: Should you produce him?
Speaker 7: We're doing anything like that in that regard.
Speaker 3: So you're saying, I'm good the front of me, we
Speaker 3: should run so we ran him too much?
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, I'm gonna say.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say just saying, and when you get this
Speaker 5: time season, do you does his total amount carries you
Speaker 5: does that Is that ever a concern for you guys ever?
Speaker 2: I mean, we're gonna try to run the ball as
Speaker 2: much as we can, and and and so much of
Speaker 2: running the ball has to do with how many plays
Speaker 2: you get and getting in a rhythm and getting an
Speaker 2: opportunity to call more plays. So you know, Derek is
Speaker 2: our is our is our lead back, no doubt obviously,
Speaker 2: and he's uh, he only get stronger as the game
Speaker 2: goes on. So we want to run the ball. Uh,
Speaker 2: if you have the lead, that helps you do that.
Speaker 2: If you get you can you know, establish some drives
Speaker 2: in the first half. You know, you get out there
Speaker 2: and get some carries in the first half. It's definitely
Speaker 2: something we want to do. I think if it doesn't
Speaker 2: get as many carries in some games, it's probably a
Speaker 2: reflection we didn't have as many plays, or we were behind,
Speaker 2: or we had more two minute situations. But that's that's
Speaker 2: my main priority for us.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, thanks coaching, Okay, thanks you.
Speaker 15: Next we heard from quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4: I mean, we just gotta lock in.
Speaker 16: That's all quick turnaround, try to prepare your body for
Speaker 16: the next game the best that you could fast as
Speaker 16: you could, uh, and just dial in for your next opponent.
Speaker 5: What do you think it's gonna take to go against
Speaker 5: the you know, to beat an Eagles team that some
Speaker 5: people think might be the best team in the NFL.
Speaker 16: Uh, Just worry about being who you are, Stay true
Speaker 16: to your yourself going in like any other game. You know,
Speaker 16: don't just put too much on your mind about the opponent.
Speaker 16: Then you gotta focus on what's in front of you.
Speaker 7: One thing about the quick turnaround?
Speaker 14: I mean, can you build off what you did on
Speaker 14: Monday night?
Speaker 4: Monday night?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I can?
Speaker 4: I believe so.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Mary, what do you see.
Speaker 1: From this Eagles defensive front?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 16: Man, Uh, Jane and Carter is amazing. You know, those
Speaker 16: guys up front is doing an amazing job. I'm getting
Speaker 16: after the quarterback, causing disruption in the backfield.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 16: Explosive defense, That's what I'm saying. Great corners, all around defense, safeties,
Speaker 16: pretty smooth.
Speaker 15: More Charlie Kohler going down with the arm broken arms?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 15: And how uh how does that impact the offense? And
Speaker 15: how big has he been this season?
Speaker 16: In big Chary has been huge, uh for the last
Speaker 16: few seasons, actually not just this season. He definitely gonna
Speaker 16: be missed uh through these uh last regular season games,
Speaker 16: but I I believe we gonna have guys step up
Speaker 16: and uh do what they supposed to. But he's definitely
Speaker 16: gonna be missed for the for the time he's out, definitely.
Speaker 7: Well, Mar, what does it mean to you? You know, uh,
Speaker 7: for three fourth down conversions?
Speaker 10: Just for John to have that faith in you guys.
Speaker 17: To to get the yard when you need this and
Speaker 17: kind of over the years, just kind of how is that?
Speaker 17: I guess the relationship evolved with you and John. I
Speaker 17: think it was the video in Seattle where he's like
Speaker 17: asking you if you wanna go for it? To now
Speaker 17: you guys, just it's almost like that's just how's that evolving?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I believe after twenty nineteen it was it was
Speaker 16: just there. You know, Coach got had all the faith
Speaker 16: in not just me, but the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 16: you know, just to go for fourth down conversions. He
Speaker 16: He's been doing that quite for quite some time now.
Speaker 16: You know, I'm just used to it.
Speaker 3: Mor Did we ask you on this at the sixteen
Speaker 3: yard line or were you surprised? What was your reaction
Speaker 3: when you were voting?
Speaker 16: Yeah, he did ask me because uh, I believe it
Speaker 16: was a time out of something. I went to the sideline,
Speaker 16: he was like, wanna go for it? And we were
Speaker 16: just talking about what play we want to run. He
Speaker 16: was like, it's only a half yard. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 16: we can do it, but I don't know what play
Speaker 16: we're gonna call, you.
Speaker 4: Know, but it was successful.
Speaker 5: What what what is you know with Derek Hendricks production,
Speaker 5: ha has that taking if you feel any pressure her
Speaker 5: off of you? Uh in what you have to do
Speaker 5: is or as uh uh you know, helping out the offense.
Speaker 16: Uh yeah, I believe so I don't gotta run the
Speaker 16: ball all the time, you know, uh not like uh
Speaker 16: years in the past. So definitely, Man, definitely definitely does lamar.
Speaker 14: You've seen conser I don't want to a concern, but
Speaker 14: you brought up the slow offensive star except for the
Speaker 14: game on Monday night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, is there's something you talk about doing differently maybe
Speaker 5: with Monkey.
Speaker 7: Where they're concerned or they're concerned.
Speaker 14: Play scrips, whether it's something in warm ups, how or
Speaker 14: what do you think the kids.
Speaker 7: Breaking in that front?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 16: Man, just stay on schedule, man, instead of having to
Speaker 16: get back on track, cause we the first pass was
Speaker 16: a like a fifteen yard game.
Speaker 4: It was like a first down.
Speaker 16: Then they called it back for a a penality they
Speaker 16: called on pat so things like that. Not necessarily it's
Speaker 16: always our fault, but you know, it be calls. You know,
Speaker 16: they got they rests, gotta do their job. You know,
Speaker 16: they make calls and stuff like that. So we just
Speaker 16: gotta stay on schedule. That's our biggest thing. And that's
Speaker 16: what I meant by that statement or uh.
Speaker 1: A lot of the build up for this game as
Speaker 1: up to two running backs, Dereck Henry versus say quality
Speaker 1: of that battle from your perspective, what do you think
Speaker 1: of kind of a running back battle?
Speaker 4: Again, I'm not thinking about that at all. I'm trying
Speaker 4: to win.
Speaker 16: I don't care about the uh where everybody else is saying.
Speaker 16: You know, I'm just trying to go in and focus
Speaker 16: on winning the game. But it's gonna be a It's
Speaker 16: gonna be a game. You know, that's two great running backs.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 16: I knew Quorn from high school. We was in an all
Speaker 16: star game together. He jumped over somebody head, so I
Speaker 16: pretty much see him, you know, before I even got
Speaker 16: to the league college anything. You know, I've been to
Speaker 16: about sa Quan. Uh, but Derrid Henry. You know King Henry.
Speaker 16: I'm with him every day and I'm seeing what he's
Speaker 16: capable of. So it's gonna be a great matchup. But
Speaker 16: I'm not right about it.
Speaker 7: Mark.
Speaker 11: I know you don't love the sad questions, but twenty
Speaker 11: three and one against the NFC is a remarkable number
Speaker 11: that gets brought up. I mean, do you know any
Speaker 11: reason why you think you guys have been so good
Speaker 11: in those matchups?
Speaker 16: Probably because we're not familiar with each other, you know.
Speaker 4: I say that.
Speaker 16: I'm just gonna give you that cause uh, I really
Speaker 16: something else of my mind, you know, really, but get up.
Speaker 7: But you're not familiar with that neither?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, your favorite?
Speaker 15: Thanks getting them?
Speaker 16: I don't know, man, Uh I less woot potato pie.
Speaker 16: It depends who cookie though, cause some people can't cook.
Speaker 4: My people can cook though, so my people cooking it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm going with that.
Speaker 9: Are the uh speaking of the Eagles, I don't know
Speaker 9: if you say they had a audible up the other
Speaker 9: day Ronnie Stanley audible Uh that they Yeah?
Speaker 7: That they called?
Speaker 9: Just curious, like what goes into thoughts on when when
Speaker 9: you have names for different checks and and so forth
Speaker 9: for you as a quarterback.
Speaker 16: Uh, just something that everyone can uh like everyone can
Speaker 16: sink in the same time, like, Okay, this is what
Speaker 16: the play going, or it might be a dummy here
Speaker 16: or something like that where everybody can be on the
Speaker 16: same page.
Speaker 4: Basically. Did you ever have.
Speaker 9: Something that was after another play or something interesting or it?
Speaker 4: Nah? Mmm nothing funny.
Speaker 14: Last games been kind of white on the scrambles for you.
Speaker 14: Has that just kind of how it's worked out or
Speaker 14: it's been a warm you know, big picture kind of
Speaker 14: the philosophical shit for you in terms of how you
Speaker 14: wanna attack teams when stuff worked down?
Speaker 7: How know you had great protection on Monday night.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm just playing football, That's all. None, nothing to think,
Speaker 16: uh think about, you know, just playing football.
Speaker 8: You know, you could think back to when you found
Speaker 8: out that you guys had signed Derrick Henry. Do you
Speaker 8: remember kind of what your thought was about what that
Speaker 8: could look like?
Speaker 19: Yah?
Speaker 4: It m mm oh. I don't even remember where I
Speaker 4: was when it happened.
Speaker 16: I was excited about the situation though, but I don't
Speaker 16: I don't remember what.
Speaker 7: I was thinking.
Speaker 8: Do you think how it's gone has kind of been
Speaker 8: what you expected? Maybe even surpassed that I expected.
Speaker 16: Oh d D nah, I knew. I knew what it
Speaker 16: was gonna be. I knew it was gonna be. That's
Speaker 16: why I was excited, you know. But uh, yeah, man,
Speaker 16: it's and it's going great like any other w W.
Speaker 16: I don't know any given week it's gonna be something special,
Speaker 16: you know. Uh, especially but that guy in the backfield
Speaker 16: manager that make my job a lot easier.
Speaker 4: I can't give him enough credit. I really can't. He's
Speaker 4: that guy.
Speaker 10: What what does it mean to you to see Richard
Speaker 10: bat and growing in his game, in the chemistry with
Speaker 10: you every game, the production, uh, the confidence in the player.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I expect that out of him. You know, I
Speaker 16: look at him as a receiver one. I don't care
Speaker 16: when nobody else think. You know, I know what I
Speaker 16: was leave in. You know what he believe in. So
Speaker 16: he know I'm always on him though. I'm gonna always
Speaker 16: be on him, all my receivers.
Speaker 4: On on all of 'em. Tight ends too. That's just
Speaker 4: what it is here.
Speaker 16: You know who tryna win? They hold me account of
Speaker 16: boy as well, So it all work together.
Speaker 15: You're just a outside linebacker or d I FAOA.
Speaker 6: So what's the uh challenge could be like when you
Speaker 6: do against you know, he's a great player, so you'll
Speaker 6: play it all this but also we're trying to take
Speaker 6: it to him as well, So it's gonna be fun obviously.
Speaker 20: Uh.
Speaker 18: He's dependent State UH alumni like myself and a few
Speaker 18: guys on this team, So it's gonna be fun. It's
Speaker 18: like it's gonna be like practice. Uh back in Beaver.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the offensive line, you know, came up up some
Speaker 10: big goals where that what do you see from that play?
Speaker 4: Yet? A line?
Speaker 18: You said, how they they're gonna keep.
Speaker 7: From like that offensive line that you know a lot.
Speaker 18: Of stuff good off good offensive line. How we played
Speaker 18: a lot of good uh offensive lines this year, But
Speaker 18: we have the same mentality, try to take it to them.
Speaker 18: We're gonna t you know, take it to them and
Speaker 18: try to dictate it as much as we can and
Speaker 18: you know, not let them do that.
Speaker 13: You certainly gotten quarterbacks to the ground more this year.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: Eight sacks.
Speaker 13: Now, let me look at trying to bring down a
Speaker 13: guy like Herts who has may be so strong lower body.
Speaker 13: Wouldn't you do you approach it any differently?
Speaker 4: Nah?
Speaker 18: I feel like you can't think about it like that.
Speaker 18: You gotta just try to, like I said, play it honest,
Speaker 18: but also shoot your best shot and uh let the
Speaker 18: let the the odds drop where they uh where they
Speaker 18: should uh.
Speaker 14: And it was a league league, But do you like
Speaker 14: this defense has turned a corner.
Speaker 4: Anyway where you guys were Yeah, I would say that.
Speaker 18: I feel like we're doing a real good job of communicating,
Speaker 18: doing the little things well, holding on the details, and
Speaker 18: just following the plan for that week.
Speaker 15: Michael Pears back in practice today.
Speaker 21: How big is a guy like that the defensive line
Speaker 21: coming back. It's such a potentially for this Sunday and
Speaker 21: against a big team, big matchup.
Speaker 7: That's big.
Speaker 18: Uh. We call him the juggernaut, you know, for a reason.
Speaker 20: Yuh.
Speaker 18: He's stout in there so tries to be doing a
Speaker 18: good job. Other guys like Josh uh Wearing, uh Washington
Speaker 18: Roddy have been doing good, but it's you know, it's
Speaker 18: always good to have Mike back out there. It's a
Speaker 18: a little bit more artillery for us.
Speaker 11: You guys have had a lot of skis success. When
Speaker 11: you've gone up against the best teams from the NFC.
Speaker 11: You think pick of a forty nine Ers game on
Speaker 11: Christmas last year? Do you find those matchups particularly fun?
Speaker 11: And also, I guess what are maybe some of the
Speaker 11: challenges that go into getting ready for a team that
Speaker 11: you only see every four years.
Speaker 18: Oh yeah, it's fun obviously. Then see they y like
Speaker 18: they play kind of differently in the AFC, so it's
Speaker 18: just fun to see, you know, how you stack up
Speaker 18: with how they play. But like I said, we we
Speaker 18: carry it like any other game. Just try to dominate
Speaker 18: the people in front of us. Whatever look they give us.
Speaker 18: You know, we'll we'll play our technique and then let
Speaker 18: the chips fall.
Speaker 19: How do they do you think this is the best
Speaker 19: pair of tackles you'll face all year? I mean they
Speaker 19: said that last week. But you know, so, like I said,
Speaker 19: we'll take it like how we do every week. Just
Speaker 19: try to compete and dominate every every week. They're a
Speaker 19: good group, they have a lot of good history. Uh
Speaker 19: I know, m m Malata he's pretty good as well.
Speaker 19: But like I said, you know, carrying it like every
Speaker 19: other week.
Speaker 6: But you've had at least six pressures in THO like
Speaker 6: the last three games.
Speaker 17: There's something you're doing differently, maybe approach mentally or is
Speaker 17: something culminating together in these.
Speaker 18: Last three games, you know, just just letting it come
Speaker 18: to you, like uh A good balance between that, like
Speaker 18: letting it come to you and then being aggressive. You know,
Speaker 18: I feel like that's help me all a lot of times.
Speaker 18: You know, if I miss, it's because I'm being a
Speaker 18: little bit more aggressive, or if I miss, I'm not
Speaker 18: being more aggressive. So you know, tryna find that blend
Speaker 18: helps and it's helped this week, uh this year?
Speaker 7: Okay, what specific challenges does the service uh create? City
Speaker 7: of perk che cha chaallhurs?
Speaker 2: What specific challenges as an edge rusher does he create
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 10: Uh? N?
Speaker 18: In't too crazy? I I I know that he uh
Speaker 18: does a lot of the read options. So just being
Speaker 18: disciplined which reads and then like he said, you know
Speaker 18: he has a stout basing and stuff like that. So
Speaker 18: like I said, just being planning a honest having an
Speaker 18: eye discipline and like I said, everything we do every week,
Speaker 18: just being more disciplined and what the coaches are telling
Speaker 18: us to do, and it would be good.
Speaker 7: We'll be straight.
Speaker 14: What what's like to see your brother played pret tyche
Speaker 14: Uh Nah?
Speaker 18: I feel it's good, uh s N Like he's worked
Speaker 18: so hard coming from Oklahoma, Uh Blair, you know he's
Speaker 18: been doubted, so just to see him have the opportunity
Speaker 18: to showcase, you know what he's who he really is
Speaker 18: and like what he can do. I it's crazy. I
Speaker 18: remember I was watching him against Duke and he's going
Speaker 18: against you know, Cooper Flag, big implications and stuff like that,
Speaker 18: and he's he's he's doing good, he's dominating, and you know,
Speaker 18: I got like a shet up, like a set of
Speaker 18: tear on my eyes just cause I I just know,
Speaker 18: you know, like how hard he works and you know
Speaker 18: he's he's doing well. So uh, I just hope he
Speaker 18: they they make it uh deep in you know, uh
Speaker 18: the tournament and uh he continues to impress and you
Speaker 18: know put on for the the last name. Yeah, alright, alrighty.
Speaker 1: Next up is running back Derrick Henry before he faces
Speaker 1: off against Saquon.
Speaker 5: Barkley pressed you the most about Saquon over the years.
Speaker 7: I'm just like, thanks the generational back break back in
Speaker 7: the police. See he came in and he's been playing
Speaker 7: well film this year, Derek, Like, I.
Speaker 8: Don't know if you had saw, but Khalil Mack and
Speaker 8: kind of have some things to say about wanted to.
Speaker 4: Meet up against you.
Speaker 7: We want.
Speaker 10: From the running back a lot of matches.
Speaker 7: There's at no different for a lot of to play against.
Speaker 7: Fimulate great ten and I been a hell of a challenge.
Speaker 7: You know, should be fun doing a great job in
Speaker 7: or the next type of game.
Speaker 8: See, they're both you and Saquon Boat free agents this
Speaker 8: year so much made about the running back position and
Speaker 8: the value of the position. What does it mean anything
Speaker 8: when you see what you two guys and even Josh
Speaker 8: Jacobs who was starting in the league in Russian also
Speaker 8: a free agent. Yeah, but you guys are doing right
Speaker 8: now and for that, for for.
Speaker 7: Your office, y'all, uh happy for those guys.
Speaker 22: You're doing a hell of a job uh playing a
Speaker 22: running back position, shorting their value. But we all just
Speaker 22: wanna give other uh running backs behind us opportunities. So
Speaker 22: the live in the great job shortcasing that talents and
Speaker 22: how you gonna keep doing that?
Speaker 13: Derek we get the week thirteen just had twenty four
Speaker 13: carries it the short week. What's the key to getting
Speaker 13: your your body ready for Sunday against another really good team?
Speaker 7: Number the team? Take care of my body? The same
Speaker 7: thing I always done.
Speaker 4: Just doing the same thing.
Speaker 21: Yes, Jerke, You've got plenty of the big runs, breakout
Speaker 21: rushing touchdowns this season. But you saw Justice get a
Speaker 21: big one on Monday night. How did it feel for
Speaker 21: seeing that for your teammate.
Speaker 7: Very happy for.
Speaker 22: Justice do a great job and got down the field.
Speaker 22: I'm hoping he didn't get caught.
Speaker 18: What he what he did.
Speaker 7: He did a great job, great run, And I'm always
Speaker 7: have to be judge. He always has a great job.
Speaker 6: At the game.
Speaker 20: How much is there running back for turning where you
Speaker 20: guys do watch each other, you see the highlights and
Speaker 20: you for your chart.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 22: Man, I never want somebody to do bad and I
Speaker 22: always have to see everybody have success and unless they're
Speaker 22: they're playing nuts. But yeah, I always wish away for
Speaker 22: any running back to have a great season, do do
Speaker 22: a great job.
Speaker 7: At the game. Like I said, that's against us.
Speaker 8: Just a day.
Speaker 7: They're great front.
Speaker 17: They just fout this.
Speaker 7: I think it really on their front heavily.
Speaker 22: We've got great linebackers who are very smarts, so we play.
Speaker 7: We played very well together. Get two two rookies on
Speaker 7: the debs, little cool playing out standing as well as
Speaker 7: fast explosives. And good in the back end as well.
Speaker 22: So overall overall great defense. I think one one one
Speaker 22: one defense in the league, so you know, show up
Speaker 22: on film.
Speaker 5: Is there any actual motivation when you're going against the
Speaker 5: way you you ain't take one of the top two
Speaker 5: backs in the NFL any actual motivation.
Speaker 7: It's going through my job. I don't really trying to
Speaker 7: focus on the outside.
Speaker 13: Notice what did you think when you saw Saquon's reverse hurdle?
Speaker 7: It sounds crazy like everybody else, like we've never seen
Speaker 7: it before, but he was a play.
Speaker 15: Your safety, Kyle Hilton.
Speaker 4: It's the challenge of going it back, going against the
Speaker 4: back like.
Speaker 7: Sae uh, there's a lot.
Speaker 23: I mean, it's obviously a great running back out the
Speaker 23: backfield to lose so fast, strong, and you know they
Speaker 23: gotta get a line to help him too.
Speaker 12: So it's gonna be a challenge.
Speaker 23: But I feel like, you know, we got pretty get
Speaker 23: run to yourself.
Speaker 8: How do you feel like the defense has played over
Speaker 8: these last couple of games, and how do you feel
Speaker 8: about them kind of carrying whatever momentum you guys.
Speaker 4: Have you all talking to all those games in this game?
Speaker 23: Yeah, I think you know, every week is different than
Speaker 23: the last. You know, you can't just assume the the
Speaker 23: week that we're in right now is gonna be the
Speaker 23: same as it was before. It's gonna be different. You know,
Speaker 23: every week you gotta face different challenges and come out
Speaker 23: and play the game. So but I think we're we're
Speaker 23: on the right trajectory right now, and I think guys
Speaker 23: are playing with confidence. I think we're picking at the
Speaker 23: right time.
Speaker 8: I think there's something you guys have been improved in
Speaker 8: over these over this last couple of structures defensively, or
Speaker 8: maybe you weren't doing so great in next first part.
Speaker 23: Yeah, I think it's just not making mental mistakes, you know,
Speaker 23: I think that stuff really puts us behind. You know,
Speaker 23: we'll be having good drives people if you good positions,
Speaker 23: just mental mistake here there and you end up in
Speaker 23: a touchdown. So I think less of those. And I'm
Speaker 23: not saying that we've completely gotten rid of him, but
Speaker 23: you know, less and less as we go on. It's
Speaker 23: good for us.
Speaker 8: Rebby.
Speaker 20: Would you think of the Saint Con reverse hurdle highlight
Speaker 20: when you saw it and you got somebody tried to
Speaker 20: hurdle you earlier this year it didn't work out.
Speaker 9: Well for them, how do you defend the hurdle?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 23: Well, first time I saw the clip, you know, it's
Speaker 23: a wild play. It just kind of goes to show
Speaker 23: who he is. You know, he's super talented. Uh, he's
Speaker 23: a talent at the position that we don't see often.
Speaker 23: So it's cool to go up against him. But at
Speaker 23: the same time, you know, stopping hurdles just I think
Speaker 23: a lot of people just assume you're gonna dive and
Speaker 23: you just got to stay up right, and it helps
Speaker 23: being sick forward to.
Speaker 13: A Brown such a physical receiver to go along.
Speaker 23: With the screed and everything else would Yeah, like you said,
Speaker 23: he's physical, he's fast, he's got good hands, great rack receiver.
Speaker 23: At the same time, and you know, I think what
Speaker 23: separates them from a lot of other people who just
Speaker 23: like their effort. I feel like you can see it
Speaker 23: on tape. You know, they may not be open at first,
Speaker 23: but you know, still working for the ball and quarterback.
Speaker 23: That's good to get it out of the pocket. And
Speaker 23: you know those plays as they get extended, he used
Speaker 23: to become big plays. So I think he, along with
Speaker 23: everybody else and never see rooms, works really hard.
Speaker 12: Blocking them all that stuff. What am I doing for
Speaker 12: Thanksgiving tomorrow? Football?
Speaker 11: Kyle is, there is there a fun factor to kind
Speaker 11: of measuring yourselves against one of the best teams from
Speaker 11: the other conference, as opposed to the feeling maybe the
Speaker 11: divisional matchups.
Speaker 23: Really, I mean, every game from week one counts obviously,
Speaker 23: but you know, you get this point in the season,
Speaker 23: every game kind of counts, you know, getting the home games,
Speaker 23: getting the someone's see in the playoffs, stuff like that.
Speaker 12: So uh, you know, as we go down the strets,
Speaker 12: they get more and more important.
Speaker 23: But I don't really think we're thinking too much about that.
Speaker 23: You know, big win last week against the AMC opponent
Speaker 23: will definitely help us in the playoff picture, but at
Speaker 23: the end of the day, we're still trying to win
Speaker 23: the game.
Speaker 20: It feels like there's been so many big games throughout
Speaker 20: this entire season for you all. How much does you
Speaker 20: think that helps, says you approach.
Speaker 23: Another one, Yeah, I think it helps definitely, just having
Speaker 23: that experience just from week one obviously, playing against CAC
Speaker 23: on Thursday, first game of the year, it just helps,
Speaker 23: Like younger guys grow up a lot quicker, and you
Speaker 23: know we're gonna be only playing big games from here
Speaker 23: on out, So I got to get used to it
Speaker 23: at some point, and I feel like we have done
Speaker 23: a good job of that, and you know, take that
Speaker 23: into the postseason and do it again.
Speaker 12: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Next up, outside linebacker Tavius Robinsons.
Speaker 13: Hard not to look ahead and think I can finally get.
Speaker 7: A little rest.
Speaker 12: No, I wouldn't say it's it's it's it's hard. I
Speaker 12: mean for me on the by the by, isn't really
Speaker 12: boy like. Yeah, it's good to rest, but it's still you.
Speaker 12: We still got to take car of your ball and
Speaker 12: all that stuff. So yeah, so the eyes towards the
Speaker 12: US for sure.
Speaker 13: What else just for you you think about that offense
Speaker 13: we're preparing for. I mean, obviously they got weapons all
Speaker 13: over the place.
Speaker 4: You got a great out line.
Speaker 13: I mean, so many different ways they can attack you.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, they do, got weapons all over the place.
Speaker 12: So I think it's just, you know, it's it's essential
Speaker 12: for us to do our jobs and make sure that
Speaker 12: you know, we're all on the same page communication wise
Speaker 12: and all that stuff, and just again really just focus
Speaker 12: on us and make sure we're doing the right things.
Speaker 13: Communication has been better the last several weeks through what
Speaker 13: we're seeing to for you guys as a whole defense,
Speaker 13: what change, what's what's happening?
Speaker 12: Yeah, just you know, really like double and triple checking
Speaker 12: with people, you know, making sure we're all on the
Speaker 12: same page when the start. Make sure you know, from
Speaker 12: the call to to whatever has his green dots, everyone
Speaker 12: else is echoing. And so I think we've been doing
Speaker 12: a good job with that for sure. What stands out
Speaker 12: to you about that offensive line, I mean everyone's talking
Speaker 12: about safe one of those holes that he's trying to
Speaker 12: do pretty good. Yeah, you know, they got a great
Speaker 12: offensive line and you know they're good blockers and all
Speaker 12: that stuff. So it's gonna be a goo good game
Speaker 12: for sure if you faste that bigger offensive line than
Speaker 12: these guys they're which is a big.
Speaker 3: Big unit.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think well, I mean, yeah, they're they're a
Speaker 12: good union. I think I think we've played similar offensive
Speaker 12: lines and yeah, but they got a great.
Speaker 7: Unit over there for sure.
Speaker 20: Well, when you saw I'm sure the highlight of the
Speaker 20: reverse hurdle that pulled off, Like, what does the defender
Speaker 20: think when he watches that highlight?
Speaker 12: Yeah, no, it definitely was was a crazy highlight, but
Speaker 12: definitely don't want that to happen against you, so yeah,
Speaker 12: I won't have it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, is it weird at all?
Speaker 20: I mean, obviously quarterbacks get a lot of shine in
Speaker 20: the NFL, but going into this game, the running backs
Speaker 20: are kind of taking center stage. Does it feels kind
Speaker 20: of like an old school battle running back versus running
Speaker 20: back kind of thing?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I could see that for sure. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 12: a lot of credit to him. I think Jalen Hurts
Speaker 12: is a great player as well.
Speaker 13: So, yeah, are exciting for a cold game the Canadian.
Speaker 3: Thirty?
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's Canadian summer for me, so it's it's good. Yeah,
Speaker 12: it's not too cold, but I like that weather, so
Speaker 12: it's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, James.
Speaker 15: And last but not least, you hear from tight End
Speaker 15: Isaiah Likely.
Speaker 20: You guys had a couple of short weeks.
Speaker 6: Now you have another one.
Speaker 2: How do you approach each one? What is the bodycare
Speaker 2: routine in between those?
Speaker 24: Really just you know, getting back, you know, getting a routine.
Speaker 24: I mean, always just trying to lean on the older guys,
Speaker 24: you you know, vet do it and really just going
Speaker 24: from there, I mean just always keeping one friend in
Speaker 24: front of the other where it's you know, getting in
Speaker 24: a playbook for the next team, getting your body right
Speaker 24: from recovery, getting a lifting and really just making sure
Speaker 24: your body and your mental is always prepare.
Speaker 15: For the next game.
Speaker 1: How much are you looking forward to this.
Speaker 12: Body coming up next?
Speaker 24: I mean, you know, I always looking forward to the vibe,
Speaker 24: always keeping in mind that you know, we got a
Speaker 24: game this week, and just keep me one friend in
Speaker 24: front the other and understand, we gotta get appointment.
Speaker 20: And I say likely since they're around right now. How
Speaker 20: is it gonna be with NFL films going through the
Speaker 20: rest of the season.
Speaker 24: Uh, I mean it get uh be fun. I mean
Speaker 24: you get to see, you know, a couple of different
Speaker 24: people's personalities from tuck Pan, pancake pat everybody around you know,
Speaker 24: smile and having fun. Obviously the coaches, but you know,
Speaker 24: obviously just keeping in mind that everybody's just gonna be
Speaker 24: them at the end of the day.
Speaker 20: Appreciate it always, Isaiah, do you do you feel like,
Speaker 20: you know it's it's a big game going up on Sunny,
Speaker 20: but you guys have played it feels like every single.
Speaker 15: Week has been a big team.
Speaker 20: Do you feel like your experience thus far this season
Speaker 20: kind of prepares you better for.
Speaker 7: This one for sure.
Speaker 24: I mean obviously you know, canting on I'm being in
Speaker 24: a short week, but you know, understand, just keep me
Speaker 24: one fund in front of the other, you know, preaching uh,
Speaker 24: the the fundamentals going in you know every day and
Speaker 24: understand that you know it's a great opponent, but you
Speaker 24: know they come into the bank where it's gonna be
Speaker 24: rocking and being a home game, and then understand that
Speaker 24: just keep him with from in front of the.
Speaker 20: Charlie Cohler going down with the broken arm, just how
Speaker 20: much does that impact the tight end group?
Speaker 7: And and as you guys try to.
Speaker 17: Fill his void?
Speaker 24: Uh, I mean obviously impacts us cause you know, Charlie's
Speaker 24: you know, one of the brothers in the room. Obviously
Speaker 24: you know he's having a great year coming off uh
Speaker 24: great year three.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 24: Really just you know, giving next next man up mentality
Speaker 24: to you know, s a a person like z uh
Speaker 24: Scotty that just got back, uh and then just different
Speaker 24: people from that aspect, from not only special teams, but
Speaker 24: from an offensive remind uh, remind everybody that you know,
Speaker 24: somebody has to pick up the the pieces of that
Speaker 24: uh until he comes back.
Speaker 3: It's it been hard to learn how to deal with
Speaker 3: me like some games are just not gonna get the target.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna be the guy.
Speaker 3: But also does it also help when they say, hey
Speaker 3: you get.
Speaker 13: A game bar cause offering you recovered, you know, the
Speaker 13: on side kick.
Speaker 3: They still see you. You know, but I w what
Speaker 3: was it hard to get used to that? Just like
Speaker 3: some days and he's gonna be that game.
Speaker 7: Uh, I mean really just you know preaching.
Speaker 24: I mean what I said in the offseason with you know,
Speaker 24: you never know when the explosive plays are gonna come
Speaker 24: from this offense, whether it's you know, the running backs
Speaker 24: and then playing run the ball from all the pass
Speaker 24: catches we have, so I understand that, you know, yeah,
Speaker 24: everybody might not get their day to sign, but you know,
Speaker 24: still going out there and catching a win when you
Speaker 24: don't have a target, you don't get a catch and
Speaker 24: understand that, you know, whether it's on sock kick where
Speaker 24: you have to recover it. I mean you always want
Speaker 24: to sell bear sift teams to just understand that the
Speaker 24: main goals, main goal which is to win the game
Speaker 24: and ultimately holding up to Lobardy and that's the ultimate
Speaker 24: goal that we got.
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