WEBVTT - John Harbaugh: Monday Press Conference (12/18) 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.200 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday, 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.360 December eighteenth. The Ravens are coming off a twenty three 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.680 the seventh victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday to 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.840 improve to eleven and three on the season and clinch 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.079 a playoff spot. It is certainly a good day here 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:18.840 in Baltimore. 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:19.080 Now. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:21.400 It doesn't get any easier for the Ravens as next 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.200 up they're heading on the road for a Christmas night 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.680 matchup against the San Francisco forty nine Ers. To recap 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.200 the win over Jacksonville and also look ahead to the 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.440 game coming up against the forty nine ers. We had 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.120 a chance to talk with head coach John Harbaugh on Monday. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:40.199 Hey, everybody, good seeing you guys. Appreciate those of you 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.760 guys who made it down there. It was good to 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.840 see you last night late and you made it back today, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:51.840 So congratulations through the wind right. So we're very pleased 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.280 with the victory. It was a big win. It was 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.280 a big win and important, an important win and a 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.400 real tough venue against a really good team, and our 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.840 guys played the kind of football they need to play 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.160 to win that game, you know, last night and I'm 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.680 very proud of them for that. We all are as 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:14.160 coaches and fans, I'm sure too, So we're excited about 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.800 where we're at, and then now we're getting pointed towards 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.959 the next one, which is going to be an even 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.480 better team, you know, and probably a tougher, even tougher 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.560 environment out there on Christmas night. So you talk about 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.000 advent this is the season, you know, for sure, and 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.400 proud of the guys in terms of how they've handled 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.840 the December football part of it and how they've carried themselves, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:42.039 how focus they've been, how humble they've been, and you know, 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.640 giving glory where it belongs. So we appreciate that, but 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.160 we're focused on the task at hand. What questions you have, 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:50.560 John in that second. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:51.840 We I think we talked a little bit last night 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:57.440 about the running game and just really you were dominant. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:03.440 But I feel coming on, yeah, when watching the film, 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.200 why why do you feel that you know that running 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.400 game was was really so dominant in that second Coffer, Well, 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.440 I mean it's kind of the nature of the running game, right, 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.320 you know, you know you have a chance to you know, 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.320 I guess you could say where a defense down, but 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:20.799 it's harder to stop the run a lot of times. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.360 As a game goes on, you start to pick up 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.040 first downs, you keep a defense on the field. That 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.240 was a defense that was known for getting people off 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.720 the field quickly. They were I think leading the league 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.679 in three and outs as a defense coming into the game. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.200 So one of our goals was to to not have 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:36.760 that happen, you know, to get to keep him on 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.720 the field as much as we could. And I think 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.320 when the time of possession started to add up, it 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.040 made it more difficult to stop the running. I thought, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.720 our guys really just got better and better blocking the 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.720 run and running the ball, and we popped some runs. Obviously, 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.480 Keating had some big runs for us, and that's a 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.000 that's obviously a very very heartbreaking loss for us, but 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.440 he was a big part of that as well. John. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.400 When you were this off season where you were looking 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.800 for a new offs the coordinated looking for a new offense, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:06.040 how important was it for you to still have the 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.200 ability to remain an elite rushing that elite rushing attack. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.280 It was important. It was important in the sense also 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.320 to have elements of the rushing attack that we built 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.040 worked so hard on the last, you know, four years. 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.520 We didn't want to run away from that run game, 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.720 you know, because we had a lot of reps under 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.560 our belt and a lot of institutional knowledge with that, 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.640 and our players understood it. A lot of the players 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.079 we've been running and they fit our guys really well. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.160 So that's one thing that was an important part of it. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.800 Coming back to the running game, I'm curious, you know, 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.560 your players talk about it picking sense whether they're wearing 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.480 guys down on the other side of the ball. Do 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.120 you sense that all those coaches as well. Can you 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.480 get a feel for that when you guys were able 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.440 to throw the ball where you were sure? 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.240 I mean, I think on the field, you know, you 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.920 can't see everything on the field, but you can't you 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.160 can't feel. You do feel that type of thing on 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.640 the field. You really close to the game. You're right 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.480 there and you can you can talk to the players, 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.880 you know, but you have a sense of everybody's doing 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:08.080 right there on the field in front of you. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:09.840 Just to follow. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.440 Obviously key tough, brutal injury and you're paying more information 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.159 or specifics I guess, and what kings injury. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.160 Yeah, it's just a it's a long term knee h 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:24.360 thing there was h there wasn't cartilage uh type damage 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.240 and things like that. So that helps quite a bit 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.479 and be a little cleaner, and uh, he'll go to work, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.400 you know. I'm sure he'll be here every single day, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.599 you know, with the team and and doing it hard 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:36.080 to get back. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:36.919 I know. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.080 Then you you trust the guys who are gonna have 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.000 to take on more carries with him with them gone 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.200 them and you talked about it, but I. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.080 Mean, did he bring you guys a spark that's going 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:49.680 to be not easy to relaze. I'm not in the 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.680 judgment business about ranking, you know all that. That's that's 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:54.560 what you guys can do. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.400 John, I know Ronn would be a value ad breaking cushions. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.680 And there's Morgan. It was much more of a slip with 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.040 him and Polly. Where was did Morgan through get through 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.600 the game okay? Or just kind of what went into 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.560 that after last week it was a little bit of 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:09.040 a lighter. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:09.800 Rotation for him. 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.800 Yeah, there's always gonna be those things right now, you know. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.719 I mean this is December, you know, and there's uh, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.080 there's guys like that who are fighting through things. And 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.960 you got he played really well and I thought Morgan 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.679 played well. I thought Ronnie played well. We're going against 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.280 two really good. I mean, obviously those are some power rushers. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.880 Those guys are probably the best in the league at 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.520 power rushing off the edge really good. And I thought 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.440 they had their moments, you know, But but our tackles 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.080 had their moments too, you know, And and Lamar had 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.120 his moments too. But Daniel played well, you know, that 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.080 was the thing. Daniel really took it to another level, 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:47.240 I thought. And since he was doing well, uh, you know, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.480 he got more reps and it was good for us. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.000 John After the. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.160 Game, Marlin talked about as far as laur and he said, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.440 you know, after Lamar signed his deal, he thought Moore 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.480 really kind of raised his game as far as the 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.160 leader and talking about being more vocal doing the. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.360 Have you seen that at all with them? Yeah. It's 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.600 kind of a comparison question that you've been asking over 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.680 the years that I've never been answering, you know, just 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.800 because when you answer that question that way, it basically 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.000 says it wasn't up to snuff or the or the 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.840 other person isn't isn't is less than the person you're 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.840 comparing to the same same question you just asked me, 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:22.520 And that's why I stay away from mess the fall time, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.960 because in the case of Lamar, it wouldn't be fair 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.839 to answer that question, you know, just and I appreciate 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.680 you know, you're shaking your head and saying you understand, 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.120 but Lamar's Mar has been a great leader in his 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:33.800 own way all the way through. And I think we all, 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.640 you know, we grow, we evolved with circumstances change, we 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.839 find ourselves in a different place. And I've always admired 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.760 Lamar for every part of what he's doing. And I 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.240 also understand like all of us, we're all we're all 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.200 dealing and we're going through things were and we're doing 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.400 our best. And he's always been that way. He's always 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.080 done his best, and he's doing his best right now. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.400 And I would say this right and he's an A 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:58.040 plus leader right now and he is doing you know, 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.440 I think he's I think he's taken the team in 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.920 that sense. You know, he's kind of he's just been. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.120 He's been. He's been he's been glue, you know, he's 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.120 been glue for the guys, and it's it's been great 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:09.640 to see. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.240 Speaking of Lamar, do you think Monday, not only with 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.200 the football game itself between two of the top teams, 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:17.600 but also Lamar and Party. 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.040 There's you know, the m v P talk has been done. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.320 Could be a referendum on everything is day, not only 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:24.280 with your team, but with. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.840 Him and Party. Yeah. I haven't thought about that at all. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.480 I've given that one moment's thought. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:35.360 John, as you give Charlie Kohler the opportunity on the 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.000 on the sneak of the players on your roster, and 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.040 there's a lot of talk about just the play in 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.040 general of the quarterback sneaks and like the Toush push. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.440 Just what is kind of your analysis on. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.600 Is that some pitch band or or any what are 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:50.200 your opinions. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.560 I don't really have an opinion on tush push right now. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.000 That's a that's a conversation for the off season. But 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.800 I was really happy with the way we executed it. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.880 I thought we did a great job. Charlie was awesome, 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.200 been practicing it for a few weeks now, and just 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.960 the execution of the snap, you know, and he's a 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.320 big dude, you know, he's an athlete. We had some 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.240 big dudes pushing him in there, which was nice to see. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.360 In our our table, our center and guards are really good. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.680 So we've kind of got the tools to run that, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.040 you know. And uh, it's the first time we did 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.640 it in the game, you know. So that's why you're asking, right, 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.080 And it was really it was great to see because 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:24.640 that was a big conversion for us. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:25.880 It was Mark. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.040 You did with Mark a few times as well. We 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.560 did Yep, yep, that's right, that's right, John. 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.439 Going back to Keaty for one second, there are a 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.240 couple of reports that it's a cl chair. He just 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.200 confirm that that's what it is. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.160 Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean say, there's there's like 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:41.680 ament Teriant, I don't I don't want to get I 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.600 don't really feel the need to get into all that. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:45.959 You know. If he wants to share that with you, 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.040 he can, you know, and maybe he will. Going back to. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.040 Lamar, do you feel it's legitimate he should be a 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:52.440 part of the MVP conversation. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:52.760 Yeah. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.880 Going back to my other answer, Jerry, it's like I 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:56.800 don't really care, you know what I mean, I could 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.480 care less about any of that, you know, And and 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.040 the beautiful thing is Lamark and that's either you know. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.520 What we care about is the game. On Sunday. That's 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.079 one thing is for sure. We're gonna be We're we're work. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.080 We're trying to try to be one to oh this week, 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:11.920 I mean, this is the most important week of the season, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.880 uh to us and uh just like all these last 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.440 weeks have been when they've come up, you know, and 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.760 that's really our it's a singular focus that our guys 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.360 have that I love, and you know that's the way 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.040 it's supposed to be. You mentioned to leave last night 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.320 that Melvin Gorton was likely to join the fifty three 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.760 and play some Keaton Mitchell, I know you he was 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.240 a couple of games during the year. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.440 At this point in career, What does he bring to 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:36.800 your team? 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.760 Where does where does he fit? Do you think? Well, 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.959 I mean, you know a great question. I mean, Melvin 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.640 Gordon is a I'm a high pedigree football player in 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.800 this league. I mean, it's it's almost kind of shocking 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.920 that that we're gonna have the opportunity to, you know, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.719 put him into the mix right now. And he's been 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.760 wanting to be into the mix. But you know, and 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.120 like you said, he was up for three games and 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.280 he's been practicing so hard and working so hard. Uh, 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.679 you know when it and like we'd say, hey, when 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.679 the opportunity comes, I'll be ready. I mean he had 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.640 smile and say that to me, you know, once a 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.560 week and uh, and you can know its true because 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.640 because he practiced that way yet I'm sure he was 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.160 chomping at the bit, you know, and wanting to get 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.880 out there and contribute. So his opportunity comes and he's 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:23.840 been there before. He's he's he's a high pedigree, great player, talented. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.000 You can't you can't hide talent, you know. I say 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:29.280 that to the guys a lot of times when I'm 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:30.960 you know, we're shooting playing horse out there, when I'm 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.880 shooting too, you know, you can't hide talent. You know. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:38.360 It's just and with it's a week comparison. You're right, 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.600 I apologize, John. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.640 You guys can move to Colleenston all around the field 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.160 this year and overs uh the Stucias and Sea Baltimore. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:52.880 He's done all very well. Is it always? Uh challenge 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.760 real and exciting for you and the staff to just 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.760 find new ways to use guys that they don't really 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:01.000 mean a lot of you. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:06.840 Know, yes, yes, that is really something that is really 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.560 kind of what it's all about you know, it's a 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.560 big part of it. When we're players centric, you know, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.240 we we build schemes for players, you know. We we 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.120 think we should be good enough to understand all the 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.120 options out there schematically and how to coach all that, 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.839 and then we try to make our choices accordingly based 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.560 on the players. So when you find another thing for 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.280 a player to do that he can do well, man, 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.800 that's like goal, that's a gold nugget, and we try 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:33.800 to do that for all our guys. 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.720 John, you always say the next game is the most 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.839 important one. That you got the knives this week stick 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:40.560 record wise? 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.520 Is that the two best records in the NFL right now? 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.360 How do you view this matchup and just what are 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.679 you looking to see out of your team. 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:49.800 Against the NS. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.760 Well? I view it as a really tough game, you know, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.400 against a really good team that plays a really a 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.440 really good brand ball. You know, they do it all 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.679 on both sides of the ball. They're tough, they're physical, 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.760 they're disciplined, they play hard, they play winning football, you know, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.679 and got a lot of respect for him, got a 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.080 lot of respect for the coaches and the players. There's 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.520 just nothing about how they how they're built that you 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.640 just you couldn't respect. So we understand that. What I'm 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.600 looking to see is how we respond to that challenge 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.920 because we're going to go in there big underdogs, you know, 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.400 and traveling all the way across the country, you know, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:33.880 on Christmas Day advent, So we'll be looking forward to it. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.520 There'll be a big challenge for us on your offense 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.040 has been top ten and converting on third downs the season. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.440 The last three games have been just tougher sledding. Is 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.880 that something that you've noticed on film? What might be 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.040 something that causes us to trying to get conversions something 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:52.440 and as successful as a late. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.760 Right, Yeah, it's a it's a big deal, you know. 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.040 I mean, third down is important and we've we talk 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:58.959 about it every week, and we've been talking about a 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:00.640 lot the last couple of weeks. Like you're saying, it 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.400 hasn't been quite as good. It's one of those areas 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.360 that we, uh, we we want to do a lot 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.400 better at, you know. And uh, it's been tough for 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:07.840 some of the defense that we've been playing have been 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.240 top third down defenses in the league last couple of weeks, 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:14.240 and uh, and that's That's that's part of it too. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:15.800 You know, you got to hand it to the people 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.800 you're going to get. Sometimes they make plays, but we 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.079 for us, you know, that's something that really is really 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:22.920 important to us and we need to improve in that area. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.520 Before we've talked to when he mentioned Isaiah likely a 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.400 while back, you said you can kind of read his 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.560 body language a little bit unhappy. 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.440 Since you know, Mark went down, he has been very productiveve. 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.800 Have you since by just like noticing him. 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.400 Has has you know, with the challenge has to his 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.480 bodiln Can you see how he's been responding. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.400 Yeah, I think his body language has been a little 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.320 bit better, you know a little more. He's he's a 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.400 great guy. I mean, he always just wants to do well. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.240 Nobody's more coachable. He always when you when you when 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.000 you have something for him, he responds, you know, in 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.960 a positive way, tries to do it right. I think 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.840 sometimes young guys they feel the weight of establish thinks themselves, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.319 improving themselves in this league. You know, you know, you 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.319 just they really are anxious because they want to show 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.920 what they can do so so much and as coaches, 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.880 you know you better want to give them the opportunity 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.600 to show what they can do. I mean, they're your players, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.480 are on your team, and they wanted they want a chance, 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.400 you know, and you don't always have a chance sometimes 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:22.760 for it to happen, or you want to give them 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.120 a chance, it just doesn't happen in the game. The 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.880 ball doesn't go their way maybe sometimes, but uh that yeah, 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.320 that's uh. I think he has responded like anybody would 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.360 because he's gotten some chances and he's done well, you know, 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:33.960 and that's what you want to see for your guys. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:36.680 I don't know how much time you. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:37.720 Got a chance that to look at. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.240 We're not your film, but from from whether you have 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.120 seen how much stress do they put on linebackers, those 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.840 second level offenders with everything that they do with you knows, 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.120 how excite are you see to see ropon you know, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.200 pH Kyle Be's that you know, and thought there be 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.360 able to kind of match with everything that they do. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.840 Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be very interesting. Me 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.640 think for football fans, you know, real, real, real football 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.200 fans are gonna look at this one and really be 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.520 intrigued by all that. It's a great point. They do 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.880 so many good things it's it's a system I think 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:15.400 that that Kyle has you know, built forth you know, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.320 through the the tradition. You know, it's his dad and 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.240 and uh he goes with coach Kubiak too, and and 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.440 he's taken it to another even place. You know, he 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.840 really has expanded it and and evolved it in a 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.840 great way. And he does it round his players too, 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.920 So it's that part of it. But it's built around 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.400 the players. I mean, he got five probably all Pro 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.680 skill guys on that offense, and not to mention a 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.120 really good offensive line and and and a Hall of 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.200 Fame tackle. So you know, he builds it around those guys, 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:45.360 and that's what makes it tough. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.640 It was more complete several passes on those Gramble situations yesterday, 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:51.880 And how important. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.000 Fills it for receivers to sort of the only play 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:55.920 an extent. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:00.520 Like that baseball that's really important. I mean, that's that's 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.040 kind of that's that's a really that's an X factor, 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.600 you know, And when you're on defense, it's a problem. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.600 You know, it's it's uh, you know, we we we 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.800 faced the challenge with with quarterbacks getting out and running 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.640 this year too, as we saw in this last game too. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.600 It's something that we're working on trying to corral. A 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.080 lot of the run yards that we've given up have 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.520 been that this year. So La mars is probably he's 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.760 the best in the business at it in my opinion, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.480 and uh yeah, that's a big part of who we are. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.160 Extended plays, what did you see I guess like the 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.200 instructure dropped back wise that ingle Mark said last night 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.800 that sometimes their pass us could kind of get in 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.040 this passing land and may disrupt the picture a little bit. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:40.840 But it seemed like most of the gamers that he 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.520 did was in, you know, trying to make stuff happen 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:44.120 after that. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:48.680 Perchere setting, wasn't there. Yeah, well, I mean you like 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.400 for everything to be you know, just how you draw 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.640 it up, for sure, but defenses really don't cooperate all 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.880 the time with you on that, you know, and especially 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.800 good defenses. But there were plenty of plays that were 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.120 on time in rhythm that we're great. There were times 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:02.840 when he was getting pushed in the pocket. Maybe I 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:04.560 remember the one back and backing up and hit a 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.320 dell over the middle. You know, that was that was 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.639 really that was extended, but it was you know, it 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.080 was drawn out a little bit, and that was a 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.879 great play by both those guys. Other times he just 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.280 he just got away, you know, and and and frustrated 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.439 the defense, you know, And that's that's good too. You know. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.920 I don't think you need to be a purist all 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.119 the time. You know, you need to recognize there's a 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:24.760 lot of ways to move the ball and make plays 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.879 in which we try to do. But but you know, 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.080 we've been we've been We've been really good at the times, 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.360 many times with with that part of the passing game, 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.920 and other times it's extended things like that. So it's 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:37.080 all part of it. 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.080 We started up by saying we played the kind of 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.359 football we needed to play to win that game. Do 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.800 you feel like this team has been particularly good at 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.240 that sort of adjusting to what's needed. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:47.680 In a given week. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:53.320 I do, Yes, That's that's right. That's the thing about 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.520 this team. It's a very mature team, you know, And 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.520