Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: October eighteenth. The Ravens are gearing up for Monday night's
Speaker 1: game coming up against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Today we
Speaker 1: had a chance to hear from the coordinators. Let's kick
Speaker 1: it off as Special teams coordinator Chris Warder.
Speaker 2: Good to see everyone today. I hope all you guys
Speaker 2: are doing well. Just just a quick little recap from
Speaker 2: last week. You know, very pleased with our guys and
Speaker 2: kind of and kind of how they're playing. Send a
Speaker 2: lot of growth, played a lot of young guys last week,
Speaker 2: and you know these guys are these guys are trying
Speaker 2: to really lock into the details, pay attention to the details,
Speaker 2: and really put it together. On Sundays again, I thought
Speaker 2: they played hard, they played physical. It was really exciting
Speaker 2: for what Ben Cleveland. Did you know that on that
Speaker 2: field goal block? I mean what just what an exciting
Speaker 2: moment for him, A guy that asked, a guy that
Speaker 2: wanted to be on there and then you know, found
Speaker 2: an opportunity to get him out there and see what
Speaker 2: he can do. Moving forward to this week, you know,
Speaker 2: we got a we got a great challenge Monday night, football,
Speaker 2: just just for our guys, man, I just want to
Speaker 2: see them go out play their hardest, continue to get
Speaker 2: better and uh and just take it one play at
Speaker 2: a time. Just kind of that's been our focus and
Speaker 2: that's what we're doing out here, uh, Tuesday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 2: just trying to get better so we can go play
Speaker 2: our best football questions.
Speaker 3: You may have just referenced it, but a lot of
Speaker 3: players are real happy to be Cleveland.
Speaker 4: But what goes into that decision to have because it's
Speaker 4: only been a week or two that he had done that,
Speaker 4: So what goes into the.
Speaker 5: Decision to have him out there?
Speaker 2: You know, honestly, when you when you think about it,
Speaker 2: when it when it first came up, those decisions are
Speaker 2: made through like, okay, who you have up, who's available
Speaker 2: on the defensive line, because those are usually the guys
Speaker 2: you want to put out there first. And then I
Speaker 2: think at one point Harps came over to me and goes, well,
Speaker 2: if you if you are running shore, we do have
Speaker 2: Ben Cleveland. We can think about that.
Speaker 5: And I was like, Ben Cleveland, he's big, you know,
Speaker 5: that's that's you need a big guy out there, right?
Speaker 5: You think about all the defensive linement, like okay, I
Speaker 5: got a big guy. This guy's a giant. He puts
Speaker 5: his arm up. Oh yeah, this is good. Okay.
Speaker 2: So then so then I gotta go back and I
Speaker 2: gotta figure out, Okay, who can I sub him in for?
Speaker 2: So the defensive line guys don't get mad at me,
Speaker 2: but like, hey, you're gonna take me out to put
Speaker 2: Ben in there.
Speaker 5: So you got to think about those things.
Speaker 2: And then when you go through and you're like, okay,
Speaker 2: this is a good week for him because we had
Speaker 2: we were missing the defensive lignement. So got him out there,
Speaker 2: let him rush man, and he got he got his hand.
Speaker 5: On the ball.
Speaker 2: But again, it goes back to a conversation that I
Speaker 2: had with Ben sitting on the bus and he was like, Coach,
Speaker 2: I did this in high school.
Speaker 5: I think I can help you. And here's me.
Speaker 2: It's like okay, all right, we're gonna try to figure
Speaker 2: this out. And we got him out there and he
Speaker 2: kind of changed that game for us. So really excited
Speaker 2: for him, man. And when a guy tells you he
Speaker 2: wants to do something, then you believe in him because
Speaker 2: he truly really wants to be out there. And give
Speaker 2: you his all to do whatever he's got to do
Speaker 2: to help the team.
Speaker 5: I think he's earned himself a full time role. You know.
Speaker 2: It's just it's an opportunity to kind of get him
Speaker 2: out there, let him play. And you know, if we
Speaker 2: are short here and there, I know I got a
Speaker 2: guy even if I even if I do take him
Speaker 2: off the field, I know I always have a guy
Speaker 2: in the back on the back end to put out there.
Speaker 5: And now he's gonna give you everything.
Speaker 4: He's got that other than just I mean, we obviously
Speaker 4: we see the stature, but like you.
Speaker 2: Know, I mean that's really that's really where it starts, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, you got it. You can't you can't put
Speaker 2: like little little little guys out there, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Guys that guys that don't have any reach.
Speaker 2: When these guys kick these long field goals and that
Speaker 2: and that ball is short.
Speaker 5: So you need a big guy, you need a giant.
Speaker 2: You need a guy that's got some reach, a guy
Speaker 2: that can get his hands up you can get somewhat
Speaker 2: off the ground.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's really what that's really what makes those guys.
Speaker 2: And then when you watch just those plays across the league.
Speaker 2: It's all want to right. It's just a guy that
Speaker 2: wants to go out there and realize that there there
Speaker 2: are points to be had, uh from the other team,
Speaker 2: and and how can we affect that?
Speaker 5: Right, So go out there and give your.
Speaker 2: All executed and sometimes you don't get it, but if
Speaker 2: you just keep applying pressure, those things happen that before. Actually,
Speaker 2: I have not used offensive line since I've been here
Speaker 2: in that role just because our defensive guys have been
Speaker 2: so have been so good. But I but pat Rick
Speaker 2: Card actually played out there for us when he was
Speaker 2: playing fullback and we line him up and he actually
Speaker 2: blocked a field goal against the Jets.
Speaker 5: So I mean, any look, we don't care who you are.
Speaker 2: It's just a matter of when we put you out there,
Speaker 2: are you going to give us everything you got on
Speaker 2: the play? And those guys were out there and it's
Speaker 2: paid off for him.
Speaker 6: I know, obviously you don't want to mess with a
Speaker 6: good thing. But you know, is the difference between from
Speaker 6: someone like Ben and there and someone like Dana filat
Speaker 6: Layers even bigger? Just a matter of experience?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's not it's not really so much
Speaker 2: about experience.
Speaker 5: I mean you just don't.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't put Daniel out there because he's playing a
Speaker 2: lot on offense, right, So you just think you think
Speaker 2: about the guys that are in those reserve roles on
Speaker 2: on who can help you and how can they help you.
Speaker 2: It's not to say, you know, if it came down
Speaker 2: to it, we couldn't say, okay, hey, this is a
Speaker 2: long field goal.
Speaker 5: Ay Dan, you you want to get this one.
Speaker 2: We could potentially do that if we felt like doing that,
Speaker 2: but that's not something I don't think that we would
Speaker 2: work towards.
Speaker 3: Chris. We've seen a dating back to the summer and
Speaker 3: ot as and obviously he had some personal stuff going
Speaker 3: on at different points, and he's been banged up. He's
Speaker 3: banged up again this week. How much has been tough
Speaker 3: to get into rhythm uh in the return game with
Speaker 3: Hardy kind of being on and off the practice field.
Speaker 2: You know, it's been it's been complicated, but you know
Speaker 2: for us, for us, it's just like, you know, Hardy's
Speaker 2: our guy, and and and and we believe in him,
Speaker 2: and when he's healthy and he's in the right place,
Speaker 2: we know he can be a difference maker for us.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of it's kind of like you said,
Speaker 2: he's been he's been going through a lot, he's been
Speaker 2: dealing with a lot. But it's not it's not so
Speaker 2: much of just just that one guy making the difference
Speaker 2: for us, because we believe like it takes eleven guys
Speaker 2: really to get the return going. And uh and you
Speaker 2: guys that you guys have seen that over the years
Speaker 2: from it doesn't really matter who we put back there
Speaker 2: if the ten other guys up front take care of
Speaker 2: their business and they and they block the play the
Speaker 2: way the plot should, the play should be eight any returner,
Speaker 2: I feel like we put back there, it's gonna get
Speaker 2: yards for us. It's gonna it's gonna have a great
Speaker 2: opportunity to score, to hit big returns.
Speaker 5: So but but as far as as far as that,
Speaker 5: I mean, we just.
Speaker 2: Work on Okay, who's who's available and who's not available,
Speaker 2: and we just run our plays and we work from there.
Speaker 1: Next up is offensive coordinator time.
Speaker 3: Monkey. The big kind of word for you is is
Speaker 3: drag and reducing the amount of drag. I mean, how
Speaker 3: good you think.
Speaker 6: This offense is in terms of getting rid of those
Speaker 6: things your way?
Speaker 7: We've been better, you know, in a lot of ways,
Speaker 7: but it is week to week. You know, can't carry
Speaker 7: over points and yards, just can't. I mean it's week
Speaker 7: to weekly. You try to tell that to your guys.
Speaker 7: I think they've handled it really well, you know. I
Speaker 7: get there's a week between games, so there's a lot
Speaker 7: to talk about, you know, about what it's looked like
Speaker 7: or what we've been But we got to do it
Speaker 7: this week obviously, you know, against a really good football team,
Speaker 7: really good defense. So our guys have had a good
Speaker 7: couple of days and you know they've been focused.
Speaker 8: You know, we really have.
Speaker 7: So you know, we've got to continue to put it
Speaker 7: all together and all the areas that matter, which we
Speaker 7: have been.
Speaker 3: What's impressed to you about Lamar finding you know, a
Speaker 3: workable answer, right answer, reporting staff.
Speaker 8: But it's been doing great. You know, it's second year
Speaker 8: in the system.
Speaker 7: We've streamlined some things, we're doing it better as a staff,
Speaker 7: we're doing it better in practice. I think we're detailing
Speaker 7: it out better. I think the guys are more and
Speaker 7: more comfortable. You know, Bait's been healthy, you know, really
Speaker 7: throughout the off season and now Zay Flowers second year
Speaker 7: in it, Mark and big Z being healthy, adding you know, Derek,
Speaker 7: So we've got a lot of pieces, you know, and
Speaker 7: it's just just our second year together. But again we
Speaker 7: got to do it this week.
Speaker 6: To that point, what Jamar we talked about that that
Speaker 6: level of kind of being much more comfortable the second year.
Speaker 6: I'm curious as as a coach, like, how did how
Speaker 6: did you how would you describe your comfort level in
Speaker 6: terms of where the execution is where you ultimately kind
Speaker 6: of want to get to.
Speaker 7: We're much further ahead. I mean, you know, you have
Speaker 7: an off season to look back at what you did,
Speaker 7: what you thought was the answers or the way you
Speaker 7: want to go about it, and uh, you know, we're
Speaker 7: just we're doing things better. Our guys are playing at
Speaker 7: a high level. I think we're just we're all doing
Speaker 7: it better. It's not just the players, you know, obviously
Speaker 7: us having a system that they can wrap their arms around,
Speaker 7: build confidence in that's detailed out, because the players make
Speaker 7: it come to life. But not if they don't understand,
Speaker 7: you know, what we're trying to accomplish or how we
Speaker 7: do it, or how we do it every day in
Speaker 7: the field, it doesn't come to life on the field.
Speaker 7: And so that's up to us to streamline things and
Speaker 7: to continue to do it better each week.
Speaker 8: And then the challenges.
Speaker 7: You're playing someone really good who sees what you do
Speaker 7: well and they're going to counter that, and then how
Speaker 7: do you continue to do it better and evolve.
Speaker 4: Good to you about this offensive line, because it seemed
Speaker 4: like the early part is time trying to feel his way,
Speaker 4: but it's progressively gotten better each week.
Speaker 8: Well, Roger's only going to get better. You know.
Speaker 7: We ended up moving pat to guards, so we've had
Speaker 7: a little continuity there. We've run the ball better, we've
Speaker 7: stayed ahead of the chains better. That's a formula for
Speaker 7: us to continue to get better. First two games we
Speaker 7: had a lot of two minutes get back on track
Speaker 7: third downs that are going to expose anybody. It's not
Speaker 7: just our old line, everybody. And I think they're going
Speaker 7: to continue to grow because even Daniel right guard's a
Speaker 7: young player in terms of play has it played a
Speaker 7: ton and we played him a lot of tackle. I mean,
Speaker 7: he's still learning the guard position. So I think they're
Speaker 7: just going to continue to grow. Ronnie's playing great football
Speaker 7: for us. Having Ronnie back at a high level. Obviously,
Speaker 7: Tyler always plays at a high level. So I think
Speaker 7: we're I think we're in a good spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys ranked number one and a third down percentage.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of reasons for that. But how important
Speaker 3: has Justice Hill been in blitz pick up and just
Speaker 3: how much have you grown to both appreciate and trust
Speaker 3: how he kind of sticks his nose in there.
Speaker 8: Yea, Justice does a great job.
Speaker 7: You know, he's a weapon out of the backfield, and
Speaker 7: he does a great job on passport, really understands, you know,
Speaker 7: what we're trying to do. And I'm afraid to stick
Speaker 7: his nose in there, and you know so. And with
Speaker 7: our depth at running back, you know it's being banged up.
Speaker 7: It's been everything for us on third downs and situational football.
Speaker 4: With you're talking about the offensive the line of Daniel,
Speaker 4: I mean, do you feel like he has made notable
Speaker 4: progress even from week one and two to now?
Speaker 8: Sure? Sure. I think there's.
Speaker 7: A difference between practice, preseason games, playing tackle, playing guard,
Speaker 7: communication with who's next to you, you know, when it's
Speaker 7: Daniel and it's Pat, or it's Daniel and Roger or
Speaker 7: and then just the calls and then just seeing it
Speaker 7: all the things that those guys have to see movement
Speaker 7: because it's the game's no longer standing still. You know,
Speaker 7: the D line moves and the linebackers plug and they pressure,
Speaker 7: and then you get calls late. Then every day you're
Speaker 7: going to continue to develop. If you're diligent in your approach,
Speaker 7: which Daniel has been.
Speaker 3: With fle first two weeks, will struggle.
Speaker 9: He's been a little far superior since then. Just in
Speaker 9: those two first games, did you see the makings of
Speaker 9: what you were anticipating and developing into and what he's
Speaker 9: kind of reformed into now.
Speaker 8: I think he's still developing as a player, I do.
Speaker 7: I think he's still a young player at guard, you know,
Speaker 7: learning how to like any player, not just a young player,
Speaker 7: but the stamina to do it for sixty plays, you know,
Speaker 7: and not flash. And there is a point where you
Speaker 7: get to all right, I'm comfortable in knowing what to do.
Speaker 8: What's now? Okay the looks that we see.
Speaker 7: It's one thing to have your assignment, but then when
Speaker 7: the bullets start flying against the best in the world,
Speaker 7: multi millionaires that are paid to not let you block them,
Speaker 7: not let them stop you from getting the quarterback, that's
Speaker 7: a lot of times easier said than done. So I
Speaker 7: think he's really come a long way. He's only going
Speaker 7: to continue to grow as a player. He's only still
Speaker 7: just scratching the surface of what he can be.
Speaker 8: Much has been made.
Speaker 4: Of opponents for putting that extra player up near the
Speaker 4: line of scrimmage, whether that's to account.
Speaker 3: For al Lamar or Derek.
Speaker 4: I mean, do you do you think you'll keep seeing
Speaker 4: that even though you guys have played very well against
Speaker 4: it the last.
Speaker 7: Few weeks ago, I don't know, you know, each team's
Speaker 7: gonna pose different issues for us.
Speaker 8: Tampa is built differently than Washington is.
Speaker 7: Washington was different than Cincinnati was, you know, So we'll see,
Speaker 7: you know, But most of the teams that you play,
Speaker 7: Joe Witt is a tremendous defensive coordinator, Todd Bowles is
Speaker 7: an elite defensive coordinator. Lou An Romo, they're really good coordinators.
Speaker 7: Like they're gonna do what they do. I mean, they
Speaker 7: haven't gotten to where they've got without really.
Speaker 8: Still sticking to their core principles.
Speaker 7: So with that being said, there's gonna be some nuances
Speaker 7: that we have to be able to adjust because we've
Speaker 7: changed a little bit, you know. So as we change
Speaker 7: and we put things on film. We have to be
Speaker 7: ready to adjust. I mean, that's just the way it is.
Speaker 10: I have to ask this finally, of why do you
Speaker 10: carry the call in front of your plants there?
Speaker 11: I'll always talk.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't get the big deal, Like, I mean, where
Speaker 7: else am I gonna put it?
Speaker 8: What else? I laminate it? And I don't know what
Speaker 8: else you want me to do it?
Speaker 5: Do you?
Speaker 7: I mean, I've always put it there. I don't know
Speaker 7: what the big deal. Some times maybe it's been covered
Speaker 7: up or being like this.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 8: I really don't get it.
Speaker 5: Huh, you don't.
Speaker 8: That's not true. That's absolutely not true.
Speaker 7: It's they enjoy it because we're moving to football and
Speaker 7: we're successful.
Speaker 8: It wouldn't mean a damn thing if we were. I
Speaker 8: don't get it, Like it makes sense.
Speaker 7: And if you're grabbing onto something because we've been playing good,
Speaker 7: that's fine, that's awesome, you know, hopefully hopefully that's the reason.
Speaker 8: I mean, if that was as simple as that, I'll
Speaker 8: make it even bigger. I mean, we can go bigger
Speaker 8: if that helps.
Speaker 1: Next is defensive coordinator Zach Worth.
Speaker 12: Yeah, doing alrighty man, that's good.
Speaker 11: What do you see what you know, going against pick
Speaker 11: me fields and all that.
Speaker 5: Have you seen any difference in him.
Speaker 8: Into this season.
Speaker 12: I mean from an ability standpoint, no, I haven't seen
Speaker 12: much difference.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 12: We always had a lot of respect for Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 12: He's a good, a very good quarterback. He's real competitive.
Speaker 12: I think that's the thing that sticks out about him.
Speaker 12: He has that never die mindset and play style where
Speaker 12: he's gonna try to stay alive every second of the
Speaker 12: play and try to make something happen for him for
Speaker 12: his offense, and he's done it. I think the thing
Speaker 12: that's been really impressive with him in Tampa this year
Speaker 12: is just kind.
Speaker 11: Of the freedom I see.
Speaker 12: I feel like I see at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 12: that he has the check in and out of plays
Speaker 12: to get him in the in the right look.
Speaker 11: So he's done a great job with that.
Speaker 12: I think that's gonna be a big challenge and a
Speaker 12: big chess match for us to kind of not give
Speaker 12: him the answers of what we're in and not let
Speaker 12: him try to check in a great play uh that
Speaker 12: they want to be in. So I think that's the
Speaker 12: biggest difference I see for this year is just you
Speaker 12: know them giving him more of the keys of the offense.
Speaker 11: Maybe in in previous.
Speaker 4: Years he's short a lot relying on yak What you know,
Speaker 4: what's sort of the checklist.
Speaker 12: For you guys in terms of countering that man, You
Speaker 12: gotta you gotta tackle, you gotta tackling, you gotta tackle
Speaker 12: in space man.
Speaker 11: And they one of the top rack teams in the league. Uh,
Speaker 11: they they'll do.
Speaker 12: The dudes get a good job of getting north and
Speaker 12: south when they catch the ball. Got all those guys
Speaker 12: got mean stiff farms. So we got to get more
Speaker 12: a lot of hats to the ball. We got to
Speaker 12: get them hats to the ball, corral them and then
Speaker 12: eliminate the yards have to catch because that's where they
Speaker 12: make a lot of their plays at.
Speaker 8: So I got a lot of those lines.
Speaker 6: Thinker's been really good too, in the middle of the field,
Speaker 6: past an area where times you guys have struggled. What
Speaker 6: do you think is held you back there? And if
Speaker 6: there's if there's one thing or what do you sort
Speaker 6: of look to improve against.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think it was just us improving just our
Speaker 12: fundamentals and just simplifying everything and just everybody doing their job.
Speaker 12: I don't think it's one particular person or one particular
Speaker 12: call or one particular coverage. It's kind of like everybody's
Speaker 12: doing their job and then somebody doesn't and then the
Speaker 12: offense is finding it.
Speaker 11: So we've been working hard at that. We know that's
Speaker 11: an issue.
Speaker 12: So we're trying to make sure we take care of
Speaker 12: the middle of the field because like, like, like I've
Speaker 12: got up here and talked about you want to make
Speaker 12: quarterbacks throw outside outside the numbers as much as possible.
Speaker 1: Stevens and Wiggins get some extra repchs after practice. What's
Speaker 1: been the focus there. What's the kind of saying about
Speaker 1: those two guys beginning to actually work after practice?
Speaker 11: Man, It's great.
Speaker 12: We always encourage people, man, to work on their craft,
Speaker 12: not just with us, but on their own, and I
Speaker 12: think that just shows the competitiveness and the willingness to
Speaker 12: continue to get better. And those guys have been playing
Speaker 12: good football for us, but they know they can go
Speaker 12: to another level. We know they can go to another level,
Speaker 12: and the focus is just on technique and fundamentals.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 12: Like the big message for us and our guys this week, man,
Speaker 12: it's about us, man, And you know, if we do
Speaker 12: what we're supposed to do fundamental wise, technique wise, communication wise,
Speaker 12: then you know, we'll go out there and feel like
Speaker 12: we'll play a really good game.
Speaker 9: A player that maybe hasn't played up to their standard
Speaker 9: or expectation, as Marcus Williams have, you had a conversation
Speaker 9: with him and just what's kind of a way that
Speaker 9: you can get him in better spots to you know,
Speaker 9: make bigger plays down the stretch.
Speaker 11: This yeah, man, I mean Marcus Williams.
Speaker 12: First thing, we still got the utmost you know, faith
Speaker 12: and belief in them.
Speaker 11: A lot of stuff. He's a safety, so on.
Speaker 12: Film and on TV and during the games, he's a
Speaker 12: last line of defense, so it always looks like he
Speaker 12: might be at fault, but that's far.
Speaker 11: From the truth.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 11: He's doing some good things.
Speaker 12: Obviously, just like a lot of a lot of our guys.
Speaker 12: He can he can play better and he knows that
Speaker 12: and he's working at that. And my biggest thing in
Speaker 12: him is like, man, you you back there for a reason,
Speaker 12: We brought you here for a reason. You've made many
Speaker 12: impact plays in this league, not just at your previous
Speaker 12: spot but for us, and he's made plays this year.
Speaker 12: So just had that confidence you want the top free
Speaker 12: safeties in the league.
Speaker 11: Go go beat that. And that's what our conversation has been.
Speaker 12: And I think he's looked honestly up to this point.
Speaker 12: I think this has been his best week of practice
Speaker 12: during the season so far. I mean, he's got his
Speaker 12: hands on the football. He's made some plays that we
Speaker 12: are customed to seeing. So I'm excited. I'm excited. I
Speaker 12: think that we're gonna see Marcus Williams really turn it
Speaker 12: up in these next couple of games.
Speaker 10: When you look at this Ben's kind of analytics, it
Speaker 10: should you guys are forcing a ton of really tight
Speaker 10: coverage throughs. You know, they're they're not a lot of
Speaker 10: open wide receivers open. You're well, I know you're always
Speaker 10: looking at what can you improve on, but you also
Speaker 10: look at that stuff and say, hey, I think we're
Speaker 10: covering better than this tests show.
Speaker 11: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 12: I mean we looked at our explosive passes. Obviously some
Speaker 12: stuff that we can clean up for sure, you know,
Speaker 12: scheme wise, and guys, you know communication technique wise, but
Speaker 12: a lot of the plays, I mean you got to
Speaker 12: give your hats off to the to the quarterback and
Speaker 12: the receiver. I mean they're making great throws and great
Speaker 12: catches on the sideline going to the ground, and we
Speaker 12: just continue to teach our guys man like, keep on
Speaker 12: competing at the catch point, keep on competing, make them,
Speaker 12: make them have to make the tough throws and catches
Speaker 12: in We honestly believe that we won't lose games.
Speaker 11: Because of that.
Speaker 12: And I think some of our shortcomings hasn't been because
Speaker 12: of the tight window catches that they've made. It's been
Speaker 12: the other plays when they haven't been contested. So, uh,
Speaker 12: we're fine with that, man, our guys we're gonna make
Speaker 12: more of those plays, uh than not.
Speaker 4: We've seen Arthur back out precticdent week I So you know,
Speaker 4: whether whether it comes to this week or next week
Speaker 4: or whenever, is that gonna make your job a little
Speaker 4: more complicated in terms of finding work for him and
Speaker 4: ar Darius and Eddie Jackson and et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 11: Yeah, definitely, man.
Speaker 12: I mean, it's it's a it's a deep talented group,
Speaker 12: Like we still believe that.
Speaker 11: You know, obviously it is what it is what we've.
Speaker 12: Done so far this season, but it's still a very
Speaker 12: talented group and it's gonna be tough to try to
Speaker 12: find different ways to get guys.
Speaker 11: On the field. But it's it's good though, you know
Speaker 11: what I mean. It means it.
Speaker 12: I think it brings kind of a good like mid
Speaker 12: season competition of you know, who can go out there
Speaker 12: and go do what? Who can go execute at the
Speaker 12: best and at the highest level. And you know the
Speaker 12: guys that can do that that'll probably be out there.
Speaker 6: What did on what have you seen from our Darius
Speaker 6: or so get you know more snaps and seety last
Speaker 6: week too in that role? What do you what do
Speaker 6: you see from that?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 12: I just see a guy that goes out there, and
Speaker 12: I mean when the ball comes away, makes plays.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 11: He's explosive, he flies around.
Speaker 12: He's a guy who offers offers us a lot of
Speaker 12: versatility because he can play safety, he can play nickel,
Speaker 12: he can play don, he can do a lot of
Speaker 12: different things. And then, like I said, ever since he's
Speaker 12: been in there throughout the whole season, a I know,
Speaker 12: the ball comes ad way so more times than now
Speaker 12: he's gonna make a play.
Speaker 11: So I'm excited about I didn't mean to rhyme.
Speaker 5: But but.
Speaker 11: He's just been a playmaker.
Speaker 12: So you know, the more plays you make, the more
Speaker 12: opportunities you're gonna get, and he's been taking advantage of that.
Speaker 4: I know you talked about their passing game, but Chris
Speaker 4: Godwin specifically, I mean, I think he's leading the league
Speaker 4: in catches, leading the NFC and receiving yards. You know
Speaker 4: what's really stood out about him. I mean, he's he's
Speaker 4: been a good player for a long time, but the
Speaker 4: numbers really pop a little more this year than recently.
Speaker 12: I mean, he's always been a great receiver. He's always
Speaker 12: been tough. He's always been you know, fast and strong,
Speaker 12: can can play all different spots, can play in the
Speaker 12: spot and can playing the slot, can play on the outside.
Speaker 11: I think, honestly, I think he's just healthy.
Speaker 12: I think he was banged up for the last you know,
Speaker 12: year or so, and I think he's finally healthy, got
Speaker 12: his legs back underneath them, and it's really showing. So
Speaker 12: we got to make sure we have to have a
Speaker 12: good awareness of where he's at and what he's doing.
Speaker 12: And then the main thing is tackling him. I've seen
Speaker 12: him stiff armed people and break tackles at a high rate,
Speaker 12: probably at the highest rate of a receiver i've seen
Speaker 12: so far, so that's gonna be a challenge for all
Speaker 12: of our guys to get them on the ground.
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