Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: December eighteenth, and the Ravens are preparing for a weekend
Speaker 1: matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday afternoon, four thirty pm
Speaker 1: at M and T Banks Stadium. As they get ready
Speaker 1: for that game, we had a chest to hear from
Speaker 1: the coordinators today, so let's kick it off with offensive
Speaker 1: the coordinator, Todd Mulkin.
Speaker 2: So we saw at the beginning of practice if you
Speaker 2: wanted to emphasize a little ball security.
Speaker 3: I guess that's one of the big focuses that you
Speaker 3: feel like going against Steelers.
Speaker 4: It's every week. But I've been here for three games
Speaker 4: and we've turned it over eight times. We've funneled it
Speaker 4: seven times. That doesn't tell you that's not a priority.
Speaker 4: I don't know what is.
Speaker 2: Last time.
Speaker 5: You guys got out to slow start in the opening possessions,
Speaker 5: and penalties were a part of that against the Steelers.
Speaker 6: But you know what do you kind of see.
Speaker 5: Out of opening possessions this season, and you know, especially
Speaker 5: when you get to the last few performances, how that's improved.
Speaker 7: Start off really well.
Speaker 4: First five games we scored every time we had it
Speaker 4: and since then, it's been a number of things turnovers, penalties,
Speaker 4: missed opportunities that have stopped us from starting off fast.
Speaker 5: You mentioned obviously the turnovers, getting behind schedule with things
Speaker 5: like that obviously impractice of those skalers games.
Speaker 8: Aside from that, what.
Speaker 7: Challenges do they present step highs and thinks that they.
Speaker 4: Throw at your offense. Well, they got good players and
Speaker 4: starts up front, their physical inside, their edge guys are
Speaker 4: difficult run end pass, linebackers are downhill, very aggressive secondary,
Speaker 4: they got good cover guys. I mean, they got good players.
Speaker 4: They do a great job with their scheme. They obviously
Speaker 4: know us very well, and we got a player best.
Speaker 8: Tez gets in the end zone on Sunday.
Speaker 5: It just kind of what have you seen from tes
Speaker 5: I guess from the start of kand to getting an
Speaker 5: opportunity and they get the most.
Speaker 8: Of it on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, he got hurt, you know, early on,
Speaker 4: and that's going to stun any player's growth. And then
Speaker 4: you know, you get banged up a little bit, you
Speaker 4: lose time, and then you get into the season and
Speaker 4: you're playing games. I mean, it's onto the next game.
Speaker 4: On the next game, who's playing who's dressing. How do
Speaker 4: we get him involved, you know, and then so that
Speaker 4: that's been that's an issue for every player, not just him,
Speaker 4: But he is competed every day when he hasn't been
Speaker 4: running reps for us, but against the defense, and you
Speaker 4: could see him coming on.
Speaker 7: You could see his confidence building.
Speaker 4: I think some guys like him as well that when
Speaker 4: they play on special teams gives him a chance to
Speaker 4: get some confidence right they're playing in the game. That
Speaker 4: wasn't his first play in a game, per se. It
Speaker 4: was his first catch, first target, but he played so
Speaker 4: in the moment wasn't too big for him. But he's
Speaker 4: done a great job of continuing to grow, like all
Speaker 4: of our players are consistent, constantly growing, and again that's
Speaker 4: that's what you hope for with your young players.
Speaker 9: Are there any points of emphasis offensively that you guys
Speaker 9: had going into the first game that you may not
Speaker 9: have been able to kind of check that box in
Speaker 9: that one that you're hoping to do this time around.
Speaker 4: Well, not turn it over. I think that's a big thing.
Speaker 4: But you know, last game we had penalties and turnovers.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna win when you do that. I don't
Speaker 4: care who you're playing, So we got to be a
Speaker 4: lot better, a lot cleaner, you know than that. That
Speaker 4: doesn't matter who you're playing, let alone a really good
Speaker 4: football team like this, really good defense, So we got
Speaker 4: to play cleaner.
Speaker 10: How do you handle the situation when obviously Gully t J.
Speaker 10: Watten is as good as he is, you know, is
Speaker 10: deal with injury. You're not exactly sure what.
Speaker 4: A status Goanna did doesn't really change for us. We
Speaker 4: assume he's gonna play. It's much easier if he doesn't,
Speaker 4: so you you react when he doesn't as opposed to
Speaker 4: assuming he won't.
Speaker 7: So we'll expect him to play, and I'm sure he will.
Speaker 6: Obviously. Like one of the best things about Lamar is
Speaker 6: that opportunity to have the second play as you talked about,
Speaker 6: but with this kind of pass preussure. Where do you
Speaker 6: kind of see you know the value of quick game
Speaker 6: and taking some of this thing out of those guys
Speaker 6: who are rushing up field.
Speaker 4: I think that all plays into it. Screen game, quick game,
Speaker 4: ability to check the ball down, get through your progressions
Speaker 4: are a huge part of it. We got to continue
Speaker 4: that's that's every week of continuing to incorporate all of
Speaker 4: those aspects into our passing game that we're not big
Speaker 4: little right, either big player or hey, we're second and
Speaker 4: tent right, how do we get to where?
Speaker 7: And we've been good at that for most of the year.
Speaker 7: We just got to continue to do it this week.
Speaker 5: I know all your focuses on Pittsburgh, but with the
Speaker 5: short turnaround next week for another Tome opponent against Houston,
Speaker 5: how much of the game plan for this weekend is
Speaker 5: sort of layered over for next week so you can
Speaker 5: make that none around easy.
Speaker 7: I haven't even thought about Houston.
Speaker 5: Is there any prep that you've done during the bye week.
Speaker 7: To share get ahead of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did some prep in the bye week. We
Speaker 4: did some prep for Obviously on their anything, we would
Speaker 4: be up against it, but we were up against it
Speaker 4: against the Bengals. You know, we played Houston twice last year.
Speaker 4: Not that they may not have changed or you know,
Speaker 4: a few little tweaks here or there, but our focus
Speaker 4: is on the Steelers.
Speaker 10: Todd Lamar has struggled in his career against the Steelers.
Speaker 2: When you look back at the film.
Speaker 5: Is there anything specific the Steelers do that give them problems?
Speaker 7: Oh? I don't, I don't know. I mean.
Speaker 4: I don't know how many games he's played against him
Speaker 4: a man a sample size, and how many at home.
Speaker 4: You know, you play them on the road. That's a
Speaker 4: tough environment. We all can coach better, play better, and
Speaker 4: play better around him. That's what you do. That's what
Speaker 4: you do as a team. I mean, you just gotta
Speaker 4: again starts with us. Gotta design it better, Gotta be
Speaker 4: able to run the ball, Gotta be able to stay
Speaker 4: ahead of the chains. Guy's got to play well around him.
Speaker 4: Can't turn it over, can't have penalties that put you
Speaker 4: behind the sticks against good teams, or you're gonna struggle.
Speaker 9: So I couldn't see Justice Hill out there today. I
Speaker 9: know that's the developing situation throughout the week. But can
Speaker 9: you just speak to how how important he has been
Speaker 9: to this often to this point this year.
Speaker 7: Well, he's been a weapon for us.
Speaker 4: You know all he does come in the building and
Speaker 4: work hard and smile a lot and embrace his role.
Speaker 4: You know, he didn't blink last year when Keaton came on,
Speaker 4: didn't blink. You know, Keaton was getting you know, a
Speaker 4: bunch of opportunities. And I think about the Miami game
Speaker 4: last year, we had a kickoff return really to start
Speaker 4: the second half to kind of really then we scored
Speaker 4: the kind of sealed the game.
Speaker 7: He had a huge early in that game.
Speaker 4: Of screen that got us like fifteen yards on third
Speaker 4: and thirteen, caught a rail route for I think our
Speaker 4: first touchdown. That was after Keaton. That tells you exactly
Speaker 4: who he is. After Keaton was already getting a number
Speaker 4: of the reps. He'd kind of probably fallen too in
Speaker 4: terms of running the football. Maybe the third guy, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe I then Keaton was out. Maybe I got to reverse.
Speaker 4: Keaton got hurt, so screw that. He was two by then,
Speaker 4: but he was embracing it up until that point. I
Speaker 4: all fired up, but I left out when he got hurt.
Speaker 4: But he's been great, he really has been. He played
Speaker 4: special teams. He does everything we ask him to do.
Speaker 4: And that's why I signed an extension. You know, during
Speaker 4: the year, he's a valuable asset for us and running
Speaker 4: the ball, you know, catching the ball on the backfield.
Speaker 3: He's become such a reliable part of the offense. I mean,
Speaker 3: who who would be the third down and back likely
Speaker 3: if if you didn't have.
Speaker 4: Him per game, well, we'd end up using both of
Speaker 4: the guys, we would use whoever's up is the third back,
Speaker 4: and then it'd.
Speaker 6: Be Derek got I think they'd blitz pretty often. Plitt,
Speaker 6: you guys pretty often on early downs, I guess without
Speaker 6: kind of giving away your your game plan, Like, is
Speaker 6: there an easy answer for a team that brings pressure,
Speaker 6: especially when maybe it's you know, blitz to kind of
Speaker 6: stuff the run as well as get after Lamar.
Speaker 4: We've seen that from a number of teams, Uh not recently,
Speaker 4: you know, we saw it kind of middle of the year,
Speaker 4: a number of teams that pressured. You know, they're gonna
Speaker 4: bring pressure, They're going to force the issue. They've done
Speaker 4: that before, and when we've best executed, we've been fine.
Speaker 4: So obviously it's protecting being able to run the ball,
Speaker 4: get our IDs right and then be able to get
Speaker 4: the ball off on time.
Speaker 1: Next up is defensive coordinator Zach Warren.
Speaker 6: Zach, you guys kind of mixed a match at that
Speaker 6: safety spot, you know, until he settled on Kyle and
Speaker 6: our Darius. You know, four games, and why do you
Speaker 6: think this group has worked in ways that in previous
Speaker 6: you know, iterations, it did not.
Speaker 11: I think that part of it is Kevin Khan back there.
Speaker 11: You know, he stabilizes that unit, stabilizes defense in the
Speaker 11: back end, like those those guys look for him for answers,
Speaker 11: and he's a real smart player, so he get everybody
Speaker 11: lined up quickly. And then I just think the emergence
Speaker 11: of ar Darius Washington. I mean, he was our start
Speaker 11: nickel last year. He was having a heck of a
Speaker 11: start of season. Then he had the unfortunate injury and
Speaker 11: he just picked up where he left off at throughout
Speaker 11: camp and I think when we finally gave him his opportunity,
Speaker 11: he went out there and made the most of it.
Speaker 8: And I think he's.
Speaker 11: Really becoming a real good NFL starting caliber of safety.
Speaker 11: So I think the combination of those two things, those
Speaker 11: two guys work well together. They both can cover man coverage,
Speaker 11: play zone, and tackle really well. So I think the
Speaker 11: combination of that is really what you've seen, Zach.
Speaker 3: When you think back to when you were a player
Speaker 3: and then now as a coach, I mean, when you
Speaker 3: have a game like this that has obvious high stakes,
Speaker 3: do you like to play that up during the week
Speaker 3: or do you like to not have that be a
Speaker 3: big part of the message.
Speaker 11: I think that you you you speak about it and
Speaker 11: you understand it because you can't hide from it. You
Speaker 11: know everybody's gonna talk about it, and it's what you
Speaker 11: work for. It's moments that you work for. Any competitive
Speaker 11: want to play in these these type of games, especially
Speaker 11: this late in the season.
Speaker 8: But you don't.
Speaker 11: At the end of the day, you understand what's gonna
Speaker 11: take to win that game, and it's gonna take, you know,
Speaker 11: us doing our job playing discipline football forever long it takes.
Speaker 8: So you definitely are aware of the states the stakes, but.
Speaker 11: You know, we expect to be in these games, especially
Speaker 11: here in Baltimore, and our players do that. So, uh, yeah,
Speaker 11: it's a big game, but it's nothing that we're not
Speaker 11: accustomed to.
Speaker 2: We didn't see Trent Simpson until late game Sunday on
Speaker 2: defense at least, what would you hope he learns as
Speaker 2: he watches and maybe I mean John Harball kind of
Speaker 2: called it a breather. How do you look at it
Speaker 2: and what do you hope he learns from maybe not playing.
Speaker 11: The snaps He was, Yeah, I look at it just
Speaker 11: as you know, opportunity for for some other guys getting
Speaker 11: there and give us something that you know, we kind
Speaker 11: of been missing kind of helps stabilize position, and Trent
Speaker 11: still part of that.
Speaker 8: I think he's had a good year.
Speaker 11: He has ups and downs, but I think he just
Speaker 11: got to learn, you know, just just watch and just
Speaker 11: understand everything. I think he improve on everything just like
Speaker 11: anybody else. So I don't think it's a big a
Speaker 11: big deal in the sense of what he has.
Speaker 8: To learn going forward.
Speaker 11: I just think that he just got continued like everybody
Speaker 11: else to get better. And I told him, like, we're
Speaker 11: gonna need you, you know, before the year over, probably
Speaker 11: gonna maybe need him this game.
Speaker 8: So he's definitely not out of the picture.
Speaker 11: I think it's just a move that we made to
Speaker 11: feel like that's that's best for the team right now.
Speaker 11: And you know, we still got the most confidence in
Speaker 11: him in that whole room.
Speaker 1: What's what's impressed you the most about Mollie Carris and
Speaker 1: Chris Bard.
Speaker 5: He's the last a couple of weeks going from barely
Speaker 5: playing at all to playing real roles, and how they've
Speaker 5: handled that.
Speaker 11: I just appreciate them being ready. I appreciate them being ready.
Speaker 11: I've been with those guys for a long time, been
Speaker 11: with Chris since you know, twenty eighteen. I know we
Speaker 11: both left for a year, and he left for a
Speaker 11: couple of years, but we always had the utmost confidence
Speaker 11: in him. And then Malie Harrison, he started games for
Speaker 11: us before. He's played a lot of good football for
Speaker 11: us before. So I'm just proud of those guys. How
Speaker 11: you know, they stuck with it, they stay prepared, they've
Speaker 11: been professionals, and I think those guys are perfect examples
Speaker 11: of everybody man.
Speaker 8: Just like I'm doing what's best for the team, and.
Speaker 11: Then when my numbers called and I get my opportunity
Speaker 11: to go play more, to go out there and play
Speaker 11: good football. And both of those guys are playing good
Speaker 11: football for us. We're happy with them. But it's not
Speaker 11: nothing that we're surprised by by any means.
Speaker 2: I remember a.
Speaker 10: Young linebacker in this league, right, Yeah, And how valuable
Speaker 10: is experienced that position with understanding what's going on in
Speaker 10: front of you and there's a lot of moving parts.
Speaker 4: And all that stuff.
Speaker 10: Yeah, how valuable is that experience from the league, Chris?
Speaker 8: And yeah, it's real valuable. It's real valuable.
Speaker 11: I mean, shoot, my rookie year, I knew I wasn't
Speaker 11: playing on defense. They were gonna move people around before
Speaker 11: I got in there at linebacker.
Speaker 8: Which was fine.
Speaker 11: I honestly, I wasn't ready, you know, I wasn't ready.
Speaker 11: And you know, linebacker is a real tough position. I
Speaker 11: think that's underrated. That doesn't get talked about enough. I
Speaker 11: think people just think guys go out there and run
Speaker 11: and hit. But at the linebacker position, you're asked to
Speaker 11: do every single thing. First, you're the communicator on defense.
Speaker 11: You gotta get the front lined up, you got to
Speaker 11: know what's going on in the back end. You have
Speaker 11: to be able to take on blocks like a D line,
Speaker 11: and you have to be able to cover like a dB,
Speaker 11: and then you have to be able to read run
Speaker 11: schemes and everything like a linebacker. So it's a lot
Speaker 11: that goes into it, especially in our scheme and especially
Speaker 11: with what the offense are giving us nowadays and in
Speaker 11: the NFL today.
Speaker 8: So I think it's gonna be real valuable. The more
Speaker 8: you can just sit and watch.
Speaker 11: And you you learn from the things that people do well,
Speaker 11: learn from things that they might have struggled with, and
Speaker 11: then just when you get a chance to go back
Speaker 11: out there, you know, get it right exactly.
Speaker 5: In a game like this, a lot of emphasis on
Speaker 5: you know, mistakes and self imposed issues. I mean, after
Speaker 5: after all the penalties last week him there was one drive,
Speaker 5: where was that forty one yards? Giving up the penalties,
Speaker 5: what's the discussion like, and especially if this late in
Speaker 5: the season, do you hope to turn that around?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's frustrated. I mean we should.
Speaker 11: We showed, We show the penalties and we talk about it,
Speaker 11: and it's nothing that we're gonna hide from because obviously,
Speaker 11: you know, if we want to play winning football, that's
Speaker 11: not winning football when you have self inflicted wounds. Like
Speaker 11: we had eight penalties on defense, that's eight too many,
Speaker 11: and a lot of them are things that we definitely control,
Speaker 11: Like we can't be grabbing guys in the back end.
Speaker 8: When we're hitting quarterbacks, we can't land on them.
Speaker 11: We have to hit them to the we have to
Speaker 11: roll to the side, and something that we've always made
Speaker 11: emphasis and awareness of. But we we just have to
Speaker 11: keep hammering at home until we get til we get
Speaker 11: it right because when we get these these uh, these
Speaker 11: games like we were having Sunday, we can't we can't
Speaker 11: go out there and have eight penalties on defense and
Speaker 11: expect us to go out there and play well. So
Speaker 11: it's something that we we we had a real good
Speaker 11: meeting about. I think the players are taking ownership about it.
Speaker 11: Nobody's malicious about doing what they're doing, but we just
Speaker 11: got to practice and play better, play with better fundamentals
Speaker 11: and technique. So you know, you just continue to show
Speaker 11: show the example, show the good example, show the bad examples,
Speaker 11: and just continue to put emphasis on it, like we're
Speaker 11: not gonna be able to win football games by having
Speaker 11: all these penalties.
Speaker 7: Exactly.
Speaker 2: We look at the stakes of this game.
Speaker 6: You can argue it's the biggest Raven Steelers game since
Speaker 6: the Christmas Day game back in the sixteen.
Speaker 8: Which I believe was your last game.
Speaker 6: Do you use that at all as motivation with your players,
Speaker 6: just you know, to leave it all out there, knowing, yeah,
Speaker 6: the season's not over, but in terms of your division hopes,
Speaker 6: it is that important on.
Speaker 8: Something Noah Man.
Speaker 11: I mean, if I felt like I needed to, I
Speaker 11: might have. But right after the game in the locker room,
Speaker 11: after the Giants, guys were already talking about the Steelers.
Speaker 11: They're like, Okay, we handled the business here. Now it's
Speaker 11: on back home and get ready for Pittsburgh. So I
Speaker 11: like it our guys are gonna be ready to roll.
Speaker 11: They're ready. They came locked in. We've had two great
Speaker 11: days of practices, have great meetings, and great walkthrough. So
Speaker 11: I'm excited when the ball kicks off Saturday to see
Speaker 11: what our guys gonna go out there.
Speaker 8: And do because they're ready day to day.
Speaker 11: They ain't been too many you know, there's been some
Speaker 11: serious talks. It ain't been too many pep talks. Like,
Speaker 11: our guys are locked in and ready to roll. We
Speaker 11: know what's at stake, we know what we gotta do,
Speaker 11: and we said come out the bye week that regardless
Speaker 11: of who we're playing, what the stakes are, where we're
Speaker 11: playing at we got business.
Speaker 8: We got to take care of Zach.
Speaker 5: Just just with your decade of experience in this organization,
Speaker 5: I mean that number eight of nine Steelers of one
Speaker 5: over for this team, how does that hit you?
Speaker 2: I mean, how does that make you feel?
Speaker 7: It?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's frustrating. It's definitely frustrating.
Speaker 11: It's something it's something that honestly don't think about in
Speaker 11: the sense of now and the offseason.
Speaker 8: Is really kind of when it buys me when I
Speaker 8: kind of sit back and look at it. But right now.
Speaker 8: You can't worry about that.
Speaker 11: It just gotta worry about the next game, because no game,
Speaker 11: no previous game, has effect on the next game. So
Speaker 11: if you if you're worried about all the games, I
Speaker 11: mean eight of nine nine nine games, that's like three four.
Speaker 11: You know, years ago, a lot of these guys weren't
Speaker 11: even here. So you can't really focus on that because
Speaker 11: at the end of the day, what's happened has happened.
Speaker 11: All we can focus on is what's coming up on Saturday.
Speaker 11: So it hasn't been much talk about that from from
Speaker 11: our side, and we know it doesn't matter. All that
Speaker 11: matters is the one is all. The only game that
Speaker 11: matters the next one, and that's that's Saturday.
Speaker 10: Emotions from your playing days going against the Steelers to
Speaker 10: any of those bubble up this week when it's Ravens Steelers.
Speaker 11: Even shoot, man, my emotions always bubble up. I'm a
Speaker 11: shoot they like I you know, it's not just because
Speaker 11: it's the Steelers. It's just a competitor man.
Speaker 8: So and I love it.
Speaker 11: I'm around a lot of competitive guys, competitive coaches and
Speaker 11: competitive players, so it's hard for me to be in
Speaker 11: this organization specifically and not have my competitive uses flowing,
Speaker 11: because it's always competitive in this building.
Speaker 8: Trust me.
Speaker 6: I think a lot of fans, you know, see what
Speaker 6: the defense does in the secondary and kind of wonder
Speaker 6: why you guys don't have cornerbacks travel with receivers. Just
Speaker 6: I guess there's kind of a lema's explanation of why
Speaker 6: you guys do what you do with the left cornerback,
Speaker 6: right cornerback. Instead of maybe being a little bit less
Speaker 6: rigid in some respective I think.
Speaker 11: I think it's times where you can travel a guy
Speaker 11: and match a guy, but man, and it's like average
Speaker 11: what sixty something plays, And it's a lot that goes
Speaker 11: into it. When you traveling a guy and offenses, they
Speaker 11: move guys in the slot, they move guys at the X,
Speaker 11: the Z, guys in the backfield. So when you travel
Speaker 11: the guy, unless you just go sit here and say
Speaker 11: you're gonna play man, every snap that affects everybody else.
Speaker 11: Now this person has to learn everybody has to learn
Speaker 11: safety nickel corner and all the different coverages, all the
Speaker 11: different checks.
Speaker 8: So it's a lot more that goes into it.
Speaker 11: But there's definitely, you know, a time where you can
Speaker 11: definitely travel and put a guy on a specific guy
Speaker 11: and help guys out. But like I said, we got
Speaker 11: confidence in our guys. We feel like when it's critical
Speaker 11: situations and we need to take a guy away, we
Speaker 11: have enough in our repertoire to take guys away and
Speaker 11: make sure that they don't wreck the game.
Speaker 1: Next to his Special Teams coordinator Chris.
Speaker 7: Horton, good to see everyone today.
Speaker 12: What do you guys got for us?
Speaker 8: What did you kind of like in seeing him up
Speaker 8: returns and fins?
Speaker 12: You know, I just think when we got an opportunity
Speaker 12: to to get him on our to get him on
Speaker 12: our team, you kind of always knew, uh, what he
Speaker 12: could do. He has been a return in this league
Speaker 12: for a long time, so he had uh he had
Speaker 12: a lot, He's had a lot of returns and uh
Speaker 12: so when you watch him.
Speaker 8: You he catches the ball great.
Speaker 12: Uh, he's strong, Uh, he can he can break tackles,
Speaker 12: and he gets vertical. You know, those are the things
Speaker 12: we always want from our guys most importantly, you know,
Speaker 12: secure the ball first and then get vertical.
Speaker 9: Is that kind of on you guys's radar when you
Speaker 9: brought him here initially for him to potentially move into this.
Speaker 8: Type of role, I think.
Speaker 12: So, I think that's always one of the opportunities. Desmond
Speaker 12: is a versatile player, right, he's a he's a good
Speaker 12: nickel player.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 12: So he's got he's got a lot of he's got
Speaker 12: a lot of skill outside of his ability to return punts,
Speaker 12: He's got he's played a lot of defense too. So, Uh,
Speaker 12: he's a versatile guy. But uh, but for us, when
Speaker 12: I had an opportunity to look at him, you know,
Speaker 12: it's like, well, man, this is a this is a
Speaker 12: no brainer.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 12: This guy catches the ball cleanly, he gets vertical, he understands,
Speaker 12: and he scored touchdowns in this league as well.
Speaker 10: You guys have been working at it and working at
Speaker 10: it in the return game and to get the fifty
Speaker 10: nine yard kickoff return, to get the punt return and
Speaker 10: be able to go back to the guys and say, hey,
Speaker 10: that all paid off, right, hit we hit? How valuable
Speaker 10: is that beneficial is this year?
Speaker 4: Units?
Speaker 12: It's just a it's just a testament to the guys
Speaker 12: and the and the things that they've done and the
Speaker 12: things really that we've been coaching. You know, we've been
Speaker 12: we've been trying to hit big plays and we've been close.
Speaker 12: We've been very close weekly and Sunday was it. You know,
Speaker 12: I think I stood up here and I talked about it.
Speaker 12: I think our guys are working very hard to make
Speaker 12: the most of these plays and we only get one opportunity.
Speaker 12: And for Justice to come out there and go fifty
Speaker 12: nine yards right away really just set the tone for
Speaker 12: the for the game. And that's what we do as
Speaker 12: Special Teams players and as Special Teams units.
Speaker 8: We set the tone. We start the game.
Speaker 12: Were either on kickoff or kickoff return, and I mean,
Speaker 12: it's just exciting. Our guys were fired up, and after
Speaker 12: that it was okay, let's go make more plays.
Speaker 5: Open the conversation or conference level of justin in these
Speaker 5: past couple of weeks. Obviously it's just such a co
Speaker 5: it's the past week.
Speaker 7: But where would.
Speaker 10: You describe that?
Speaker 12: I think I think Tuck's in a great place when
Speaker 12: he came back from the bye week. He's been he's
Speaker 12: been happy, he's been outside, he's a smile and and uh,
Speaker 12: you know, he's focused, he's ready, he's ready to go.
Speaker 12: He's waiting for those opportunities. Anytime he goes out there
Speaker 12: and he gets an opportunity, to kick.
Speaker 2: They still go to the stadium on a Friday and
Speaker 2: work in the stadium when you have a weekend home game,
Speaker 2: or they do.
Speaker 7: Not do that anymore.
Speaker 12: Well, we've done we've done that during training camp. We
Speaker 12: would do those things there. We haven't.
Speaker 8: We haven't thought about that or doing anything like that.
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