Speaker 1: Welcome in the Ravens press past. Today we heard from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harball and safety Kyle Hamilton following the
Speaker 1: Ravens big thirty four to seventeen win of the Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 1: so they get ready to now face the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. Let's start with Coach Harball.
Speaker 2: Okay, good seeing everybody here. Appreciate you being here. What
Speaker 2: questions you have.
Speaker 3: Such a big win like that, the bull turner in
Speaker 3: all of that, any quick turnaround, what's the what's the
Speaker 3: message to the team? And secondly, does it almost in
Speaker 3: some ways help the hack?
Speaker 4: Quick the turnaround a weird way.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's it's just our guys understood what
Speaker 2: was in front of us and they were in here
Speaker 2: today ready to go to work. Obviously, you know the
Speaker 2: win was a good win, you know, so it's a
Speaker 2: good feeling about that. We're happy with that. But there's
Speaker 2: really no time to well, not too much. We made
Speaker 2: the corrections from the game, which there were plenty to make,
Speaker 2: and all eyes are on Wednesday night.
Speaker 3: We got to play the highest they'll get the highstman
Speaker 3: from high to those we can go after Cinera're just multi.
Speaker 5: Stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, the guys, I mean, these guys are pro football players,
Speaker 2: you know, and they understand. Coaches, we understand you've got
Speaker 2: to come back in.
Speaker 4: You've got to get ready.
Speaker 2: We had to put a practice together, a game plan together,
Speaker 2: you know, in a short period of time, something that
Speaker 2: we had been preparing to do. So it was pretty
Speaker 2: much laid out. But you've got to organize it and
Speaker 2: there's tweaks you have to make, and we'll be doing
Speaker 2: that all week up until game time. Really, and the
Speaker 2: players the same because they know that, you know, four
Speaker 2: o'clock on Wednesday, on Christmas afternoon, we're gonna be lining
Speaker 2: up against a very good football team. And that's kind
Speaker 2: of the sobering part of it. You know what's in
Speaker 2: front of you and we've got to be ready for it.
Speaker 4: What is he from CJ.
Speaker 6: Straud's evolution from some of the rookie back in Week one,
Speaker 6: you know and now you been playoff last.
Speaker 2: Year to he's grown, well, he just continues to grow.
Speaker 2: He's just a super talented guy. I remember watching him,
Speaker 2: ohiose state. He make all those all those outside breaking
Speaker 2: routes on the dime on the sideline and just got
Speaker 2: a strong arm he's very accurate, quick, quick release, makes
Speaker 2: a lot of tight window throws to his receivers, ironically
Speaker 2: to a Michigan guy and Nico Collins. And he got
Speaker 2: a great back as a home run hitter. But he's
Speaker 2: he's surrounded with some good weapons and he gets the
Speaker 2: ball out, quick handles pressure well, he can move, he's athletic,
Speaker 2: scrambles and makes plays.
Speaker 4: All those things are things that he does.
Speaker 7: And pass rushers, specifically on the edge with Pars.
Speaker 2: He got the two top guys, of course, but then
Speaker 2: I look at the roster and it's not just them.
Speaker 4: They got a whole bunch.
Speaker 2: They got six guys, six guys that can get to
Speaker 2: the quarterback off the edge that we're gonna have to
Speaker 2: contend with.
Speaker 5: So when you went back and looked at what you
Speaker 5: guys did so well against them when they were when
Speaker 5: they had the ball on offense last year, what ippressed
Speaker 5: you did?
Speaker 7: Which is the execution from last year?
Speaker 2: Well, I really haven't looked at that game yet, so
Speaker 2: I'll probably get to that game at some point in
Speaker 2: time here, but I don't really remember it right now.
Speaker 2: Looked at their last couple of games this year, so
Speaker 2: I seemed more relevant.
Speaker 3: You know that you got to Carey yesterday.
Speaker 4: What have you seen from him?
Speaker 7: And I guess in practice if he needs to fill him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, great, great question about Rashida, He's I think
Speaker 2: he's ready. You know, we saw him the week before
Speaker 2: in the four minute made some good, tough runs and
Speaker 2: it was good to see that. It's probably good preparation
Speaker 2: for him because he got hit, had to protect the
Speaker 2: football and kind of feel for the speed of the game,
Speaker 2: and I think he'll be ready to go. You know,
Speaker 2: he's pretty good in past protection, so in practice he
Speaker 2: knows what he's doing. But until you get out there
Speaker 2: and play in a regular game and you challenge with
Speaker 2: all the things that go with it, you don't really know.
Speaker 2: He'll have an opportunity to kind of show what he's
Speaker 2: all about.
Speaker 1: Elvin May he can send in your career.
Speaker 7: High in sacks yesterday.
Speaker 1: What do you see about his game that's allowed him
Speaker 1: to have so much success at this point of his career.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about the comparison. I just know
Speaker 2: since he's been here, he's been a pro. He he's
Speaker 2: always I think he's always been able to rush the
Speaker 2: passer since he's been here, he has, you know, and
Speaker 2: he's really really finds a way. He's got a good
Speaker 2: knack for the game. You know, he's got his sense
Speaker 2: of where the quarterback is gonna go. He made some
Speaker 2: mistakes also in the game yesterday that he was frustrated with,
Speaker 2: but he also made some plays and even on the
Speaker 2: one the turnover play where he didn't do it well,
Speaker 2: but then he hustled and got the ball. So you know,
Speaker 2: he just kind of plays like that, and he's opportunistic
Speaker 2: and veteran guy.
Speaker 4: It's awesome to see him get all these sacks. It's
Speaker 4: really it's one that it's great to see.
Speaker 3: John speaking of Texans pass rushers, Roger rosenbron guy who
Speaker 3: we've got another good game yesterday for you guys, and
Speaker 3: a really hid Tja wat Chick had some nice front
Speaker 3: blocks as well. What did what's impressed you about his development?
Speaker 4: Steady improvement?
Speaker 2: I mean got Lee, you know, Roger, you remember the
Speaker 2: first game or two. You know, he was learning and
Speaker 2: got a couple of tough lessons there, especially in the
Speaker 2: first game, and nothing really phases him.
Speaker 4: You know, he's got he's a very confident guy.
Speaker 2: At the same time, he's a he's he understands that
Speaker 2: he's I don't think he thinks he's ever going to arrive.
Speaker 2: You know, he's the kind of guy. It's just a
Speaker 2: tough he's kind of a football got a football head.
Speaker 2: You know, he likes football and he likes to work
Speaker 2: at He's a competitive guy and he wants to do well.
Speaker 2: He's very tenacious and it's paying off.
Speaker 5: John, Do you think Keaton Mitchell is ready to go
Speaker 5: if you need him this kind of step in Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Keaton's been ready to go. It's just a
Speaker 2: matter of you know, there's levels of being ready to go.
Speaker 2: You know, he's coming off the injury. But I would
Speaker 2: say in practice we've seen steady progress with his you know,
Speaker 2: his explosiveness, his quickness and all that.
Speaker 4: And he's been looking good in practice.
Speaker 3: I know it's less than twenty four hours after the game,
Speaker 3: but I mean, do you do you have an affiliate
Speaker 3: for any of the guys who popped up on the
Speaker 3: injury work today there they might not be available on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: I think it was Balle and zach.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty optimistic about those guys, Johnathan.
Speaker 8: You see, you know Marlon Humphrey be kept the full
Speaker 8: healthy year basically, and them is taking advantage of that
Speaker 8: making the plays that earned him All Pro before, get
Speaker 8: back to being that guy because he's been on the
Speaker 8: field when you need those plays that have been early on,
Speaker 8: they weren't there.
Speaker 4: As often as you need it. But to see him
Speaker 4: do that, How important is that for this team now
Speaker 4: and going forward? Really important?
Speaker 2: You know, Marlin, and we say it sometimes, you know,
Speaker 2: you need your best players playing their best and they
Speaker 2: need to be the guys out there making a difference.
Speaker 2: And anybody can make a difference, but Marlin's a guy
Speaker 2: we count on. And Marlin comes through and he's made
Speaker 2: so many plays for us, and there's a lot of
Speaker 2: guys in that category on this team, and and he
Speaker 2: was the guy yesterday come up with a pick six.
Speaker 2: I was just a massive play for us. It's one
Speaker 2: of those plays that our difference maker plays and seasons,
Speaker 2: I think, and I was pretty fired up and he's
Speaker 2: running up that sideline, you know, I think everybody was.
Speaker 3: I mean, he said multiple times that he felt like
Speaker 3: he took a different approach coming into the season and
Speaker 3: that he thought it was a big season.
Speaker 7: In terms of the trajectory of his career.
Speaker 8: I mean, did you get that sense coming into the year.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He and I talked at the end of last year
Speaker 2: about that, you know, just from a training standpoint and
Speaker 2: kind of what he was going to do in terms
Speaker 2: of his conditioning, and I think he was going to
Speaker 2: get back to some things he had done, you know,
Speaker 2: over the years in terms of getting his body ready,
Speaker 2: and it definitely paid off.
Speaker 7: John.
Speaker 5: I think thought the last job that George Warhawk had
Speaker 5: before Baltimore with you was on that excuse me, twenty
Speaker 5: twenty two Texans team when you kind of were interviewing
Speaker 5: him for the position on the staff, did you guys
Speaker 5: talk at all about maybe what he'd learned from that.
Speaker 5: I know he's been around the block a bunch of times,
Speaker 5: but just you'd kind of take away from what he'd
Speaker 5: taken from that Texas spot and maybe what he would
Speaker 5: bring to Baltimore building on the experience.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I've known George since we were both twenty five, you know,
Speaker 2: and he was he was the assistant offensive line coach
Speaker 2: at Kansas with Mike Salari and Mike Salari is one
Speaker 2: of the legendary offensive line coaches, and he trained he
Speaker 2: trained hop you know, and then you know, we not
Speaker 2: like we were best buddies through the years, but we
Speaker 2: knew of each other and kind of you know, decid
Speaker 2: his career, and I know how highly respected he was,
Speaker 2: so there really was no interview. It wasn't like we
Speaker 2: need I need to find anything out about him. I
Speaker 2: knew what kind of a coach he was, and the
Speaker 2: circumstances as they were. Uh, he was available and he
Speaker 2: wanted to do it, and it was just a you know,
Speaker 2: it was a godsend. He really was a godsend for
Speaker 2: our team. And and I think I think George is
Speaker 2: happy and he's doing a great job.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, great, thanks.
Speaker 1: Next up here, safety, Kyle Hoilton.
Speaker 8: Did you turn around like this? I mean interesting to
Speaker 8: come into work.
Speaker 6: Today and have to believe it if it's a walk
Speaker 6: through practice, just take us some challenge of that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, obviously it's a physical challenge and mental trying to
Speaker 9: get your mind off the game.
Speaker 7: And luckily we want so a little easier to do that.
Speaker 9: But you know, it's every team that plays on what's
Speaker 9: a's do with it? So we're not gonna play it's
Speaker 9: it's part of the business.
Speaker 4: I'm back to the defense.
Speaker 6: Yesterday making so many key plays more times kind of
Speaker 6: wave those key plays this year from that group, and
Speaker 6: you feel like you've you've asked you for it. Is
Speaker 6: you turn a corner or is it just like, hey,
Speaker 6: what's your next minute?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I think it's it's a week's week thing. Obviously.
Speaker 9: You know, we gotta stack these kinds of performances. I
Speaker 9: think they're still ton of stuff we could have gotten
Speaker 9: better or done better during the game, but you see
Speaker 9: those big players what they can do in terms of
Speaker 9: making a difference on the outcome, and it would have
Speaker 9: been a completely different game if we had made those plays.
Speaker 9: So shout out to our Darius, Marlin, everybody that contributed.
Speaker 9: And you know, ultimately that does get the one.
Speaker 8: Do you believe in any kind of carryover effect from
Speaker 8: such a sad swing and maybe does it get your
Speaker 8: guys thinking there's there's orders that we can't win every game.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I feel like we think that before
Speaker 9: every game though. You know, even if we were zero
Speaker 9: and sixteen going a week eight.
Speaker 7: Teen, I'm sure that we would like we're about to
Speaker 7: go win this game by thirty point.
Speaker 9: So it's it's something that you can't just pick and
Speaker 9: choose your mindset of Hey, I think we can win
Speaker 9: this one. Hey it's gonna be a tough game, and
Speaker 9: you know every game this week's gonna be tough, but
Speaker 9: you to go with them said that you're gonna win.
Speaker 5: Do you think you were you aware with the areos?
Speaker 7: Do you think about it and people talk about it.
Speaker 9: Or you guys just look at it.
Speaker 7: So we just haven't been playing at nothing else matters.
Speaker 7: I have no clue how it works out. I mean,
Speaker 7: we were just trying to win all the games and
Speaker 7: that we can. And you know, if we.
Speaker 9: Get home games in the playoffs or not, you know,
Speaker 9: we're trying to win those games too.
Speaker 7: And I think at the end of the day.
Speaker 9: Whatever cards were dealt, whatever cards we end up playing
Speaker 9: ourselves into, doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: We're gonna do what we do.
Speaker 6: Saw CJ twice last year, and we could take away
Speaker 6: from those games.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 9: I think there's a little bit, you know, playing against them.
Speaker 9: Obviously he was a rookie last year. It's gonna be
Speaker 9: different going against it this year. He's seen whole full season.
Speaker 9: We played him first game of his career and then
Speaker 9: in the playoffs last year. But you know, unfortunately they
Speaker 9: had some injuries and stuff like that, so it's gonna
Speaker 9: be a little different at the team, and uh, praying
Speaker 9: for those guys that they have over there. I know
Speaker 9: that a few receivers. Obviously, Tank just got hurt. Hate
Speaker 9: to see that. And in this league, no matter who's
Speaker 9: who's playing, you know, it's it's part of the game.
Speaker 9: But it's tough to watch and praying for him and
Speaker 9: all those guys over there. But but yeah, I mean
Speaker 9: CJ's great quarterback and it's not gonna be easy to
Speaker 9: ask getting him off his game and hopefully making him
Speaker 9: have a bad game. So it's gonna start with the
Speaker 9: run game, knocking out the run game, and then from
Speaker 9: then on just getting out of the quarterback.
Speaker 3: Kyle Marlins had, you know, probably playing at the wall
Speaker 3: pro level again this year. What have you seen from
Speaker 3: him that's stood out to you? And and just how
Speaker 3: significant is it to have a guy like.
Speaker 9: That playing, you know, kind of back to that, But yeah,
Speaker 9: I don't think he changed really anything. You know, sometimes
Speaker 9: you know, he's struggling with injuries last year. Sometimes things
Speaker 9: go your way and sometimes they don't. You know, outsiders
Speaker 9: kind of have a quick life shelf with NFL or
Speaker 9: just athletes in general. You know, you got one bad
Speaker 9: outing and now you're terrible and come back and he's
Speaker 9: doing He's what everybod's accustomed to him doing.
Speaker 7: It's normal to us.
Speaker 9: But just happy to see him doing he's doing right now,
Speaker 9: and I know that he's gonna carry it on throughout
Speaker 9: the rest of the year.
Speaker 7: And I think him playing Nickel has really helped us.
Speaker 9: A lot, and his mobilities flexibility when we're not Nickel
Speaker 9: to go out to the wide.
Speaker 7: Corner as well. Opps is out of ton, So huge
Speaker 7: props to him just coming back this year and.
Speaker 1: Do what you need to do. Does this week feel
Speaker 1: any different from like a Sunday to Thursday kind of
Speaker 1: week or is it different?
Speaker 7: Feeling a little bit?
Speaker 9: It was kind of weird seeing the game it's being
Speaker 9: played today, but you know what, I assume they did
Speaker 9: that so we can end up playing on Christmas, and
Speaker 9: you know, I mean it's kind of kind of nice
Speaker 9: giving him out the way. It's just boom boom boom.
Speaker 9: Three games done and now we got Cleveland after this
Speaker 9: week and going to the playoffs. But yeah, like I said,
Speaker 9: it was just we're taking one. I would say one
Speaker 9: week at a time. But it's really just one game
Speaker 9: at a time. We're playing like four times a week.
Speaker 9: But I don't think it's on anybody's mind. We're just
Speaker 9: going out there to play the game.
Speaker 7: You had a big game on Christmas last year.
Speaker 1: Any any feelings about playing on Christmas two years straight on.
Speaker 7: The right, Uh, it's a blessing. Obviously.
Speaker 9: I wish we could be at home celebrating with family,
Speaker 9: but I mean it's not the job title. So uh,
Speaker 9: you know, we're we're excited to go out there and
Speaker 9: play in front of the world. Netflix numbers not be
Speaker 9: a little inflated like the Mike Tyson fight. But I'm
Speaker 9: sure it's to be posted everywhere, all the records and
Speaker 9: stuff like that. But uh, you know, it's a blessing
Speaker 9: to go out and do what we love on game day.
Speaker 9: I have all our families at home watching Dame.
Speaker 4: With a home playoff game. Ben atmosphere be like, man
Speaker 4: that would have been watching. What you do you think?
Speaker 9: Oh, it was awesome. You know everybody wants to trash
Speaker 9: on Notre Dame. It's just it's like they you hate us,
Speaker 9: if you're if you hate us, so everybody in here
Speaker 9: especially real quantum. Sure' gonna have some stuff to say
Speaker 9: about the next game and we'll see.
Speaker 7: Though. I think we're I think we're gonna genuinely win.
Speaker 7: That's championship with yourself. Quote me on that.
Speaker 9: If we win or lose, I don't really care, but
Speaker 9: you know we're we're headed that way.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listen. As you might imagine, it's an altered
Speaker 1: week from a media perspective. With Christmas Week. The Ravens
Speaker 1: will have one more day of a media availability tomorrow,
Speaker 1: where we'll hear from coach Harball again as well as
Speaker 1: quarterback Lamar Jackson and others. Thanks for listening.