Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. Today is Thursday,
Speaker 1: October seventeenth. Today we had a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harball as Ravens prepare to face the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers next week on Monday Night football.
Speaker 2: All right, good seeing everybody, appreciate everybody being here, a
Speaker 2: beautiful day, good practice. Are getting ready for a very
Speaker 2: tough opponent Monday night football in their place. I'm sure
Speaker 2: it'll be electric. And the Bucks you're playing at a
Speaker 2: high level. Coach Bowls does a great job with that team.
Speaker 2: The whole staff does. Baker Mayfield playing at a high level.
Speaker 2: Offense is ranked the top of the pack, and so
Speaker 2: many different categories defense flying around. So we're looking forward
Speaker 2: to it and we understand the challenge it's in front
Speaker 2: of us.
Speaker 3: What question do you have John with there?
Speaker 4: Henry?
Speaker 3: I know you always going again to me.
Speaker 5: You were familiar with me, But did you know the
Speaker 5: extent of kind of what he does to.
Speaker 4: Prepare for games and prepare for his body?
Speaker 3: Did you know that before you met kind of mat him?
Speaker 2: No, I didn't. I mean I hadn't been around him.
Speaker 2: You know, I always heard he was a good guy.
Speaker 2: And he worked hard. But to see it firsthand, the
Speaker 2: level of professionalism from Derrick Henry, it's, uh, it's it's
Speaker 2: been great, and it's been really good for our young guys.
Speaker 2: I think to see that because you know, sometimes the
Speaker 2: best leadership is by example, and he's certainly providing it
Speaker 2: for those guys.
Speaker 3: Chris Gowin and Mike Evans.
Speaker 6: This the guys are playing at a high level.
Speaker 3: What kind of matchup.
Speaker 2: Problems and these guys can hate, oh, tremendous matchup problems.
Speaker 2: You know they've got they've got two of the best.
Speaker 2: And uh, they put those guys in spots you know
Speaker 2: usually usually uh, you know, fourteens in the slot, usually
Speaker 2: thirteens out there at X. Uh you single it, you
Speaker 2: single them up, he's a problem. And then you got
Speaker 2: fourteen to slot. If you single him up, he's a problem.
Speaker 2: They're both catch and run players. They're both contested catch players.
Speaker 2: Tight ends are playing well, blocking well, making making the
Speaker 2: catches they need to make backs.
Speaker 3: Three backs playing well.
Speaker 2: They got a young guy just from Syracuse, is from
Speaker 2: right over here, Calvert Hawk. You know, he had a
Speaker 2: bunch of yards and played great. So it's a very
Speaker 2: deep offense.
Speaker 5: Have you seen Baker evolved in these year one as
Speaker 5: a rookie to now how the game changed?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know that it's really changed. I
Speaker 2: think he's still playing like he plays. He's playing Baker ball,
Speaker 2: you know, at a very high level, you know, and
Speaker 2: they've I think they've done a very good job of
Speaker 2: building the offense around what he does well with his
Speaker 2: his two star receivers. You know, offensive line is playing
Speaker 2: well too, so all those things that kind of kind
Speaker 2: of come together for him. It seems at this point.
Speaker 7: Luboarding is entering week seven hunboards where you to see
Speaker 7: the team not getting destroyed only a day, going mentally
Speaker 7: not only in their game, getting stronger, but multiply mentally
Speaker 7: mentally stronger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I hope, so you know that that's
Speaker 2: kind of the thing. It's uh, hopefully you can just
Speaker 2: continue to keep locked in, stay humble, work hard, maintain
Speaker 2: your faith every single day and understand that it's a
Speaker 2: long journey, you know, and it's a one week league.
Speaker 2: It's a one it's one day preparation, one day, one
Speaker 2: play at a time, and it's a one week league.
Speaker 2: All you can focus on is what's in front of you,
Speaker 2: you know, and I do believe our guys have done
Speaker 2: a very good job of that, and we need to
Speaker 2: continue to do that job.
Speaker 8: You guys have like a kind of hard and fast
Speaker 8: rule when you're playing someone like Mike Evans, and it's
Speaker 8: a fifty to fifty ball about the kind of when
Speaker 8: to turn your head, when to stay, you know, eyes
Speaker 8: on receiver, to try to play a.
Speaker 4: Cutch of wind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great that's a really great question.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I wish there was a hard and fast rule of when,
Speaker 2: because the problem is no two situations are ever exactly
Speaker 2: the same. You know, the timing, your leverage, your relationship,
Speaker 2: how far away you are, how close you are, where
Speaker 2: the ball is when the ball gets there, all those
Speaker 2: things are different. And it's probably more of a of
Speaker 2: a of a just a reaction type of a thing
Speaker 2: if you play through your fundamentals, you know. So we
Speaker 2: want to do a good job at the line. You're
Speaker 2: talking about one on one against Mike Evans. You gotta
Speaker 2: do a good job at the line. First of all,
Speaker 2: maintain position when he releases, because he's so strong on
Speaker 2: the release. I've been down the field. Be in position
Speaker 2: when the ball comes that way, so you have a
Speaker 2: chance to make a play on the ball. You know,
Speaker 2: can't play through the receiver, you can fear with the receiver,
Speaker 2: all those different things, but you can be in position
Speaker 2: in that catch area in front of the receiver, near
Speaker 2: the receiver to play the ball and then try to
Speaker 2: play it well. So there's kind of principles and fundamentals
Speaker 2: that go with that, and the fundamental technique football. Really
Speaker 2: it probably applies there, you know, maybe more than anywhere else.
Speaker 9: John went to an aspect of your team is getting
Speaker 9: a huge amount of praise, like the offenses right now
Speaker 9: across the country, as your instinct as a coach to
Speaker 9: sort of say, like, hold your horses, let's not get
Speaker 9: ahead of ourselves. There's still a lot of work to do,
Speaker 9: or like you just block it out.
Speaker 4: I mean, what's your.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just put in perspective. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: not hard for guys to remember what was being said
Speaker 2: four weeks ago, five weeks ago. So noise is noise.
Speaker 2: New noise is new noise. So it doesn't matter. It's
Speaker 2: just pretty much at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 2: it's what you do every day to be the best
Speaker 2: player that you can be. We seek improvement, you know,
Speaker 2: we want to be We say one percent better, we
Speaker 2: say better better today than yesterday, better tomorrow and today.
Speaker 2: All those things we say. We're really trying to do
Speaker 2: is is see if we can you know, improve on
Speaker 2: one thing all the time. You know, that's the thing.
Speaker 2: So we're always improving on something all the time. And
Speaker 2: if we can do that, then you know we're in
Speaker 2: a good place. Although all the rest of it is,
Speaker 2: you know, no, guys read it. It's okay to read
Speaker 2: good and bad. It's fine you read it, but it
Speaker 2: shouldn't really impact your process.
Speaker 10: John, you know, Lamar last Ture obviously having me a
Speaker 10: pe terrific year this season kind of you know, you
Speaker 10: look at the way he's played on the stats and
Speaker 10: just the way he's played a similar pace. What's the
Speaker 10: difference going from year one to year two forgot for him?
Speaker 10: And and is this maybe like the highest you've seen
Speaker 10: so many so much at it over the years, like
Speaker 10: it's this maybe the highest best version you've seen of him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well probably the answer honestly, answer is probably yes,
Speaker 2: just because you know, he's the most far long as
Speaker 2: he's been you know, uh, just as a player in
Speaker 2: development wise, and he's steady, steadily, steadily always He's that
Speaker 2: guy that kind of epitomizes what we're talking about there.
Speaker 2: He's always seeking to improve, very much a perfectionist. He
Speaker 2: wants to he wants every play to be perfect. He
Speaker 2: chases perfection in his football. So I'd say, yeah, and
Speaker 2: but I think his focus is on the next play,
Speaker 2: you know, the next game.
Speaker 5: John Hill was game one with DMPs and his senior advisable.
Speaker 4: It was good.
Speaker 2: It was really good. I think Dean kind of got
Speaker 2: settled in and and he and Zach and he's in
Speaker 2: there with the defensive coaches. Uh, just being a being
Speaker 2: a help and a sounding board and great input, great experience,
Speaker 2: good for all of us. You know, I have had a
Speaker 2: chance to talk to him about different things, and you know,
Speaker 2: you just, uh, it's always good to seek wise console.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a it's a it's a blessing to
Speaker 2: seek wise console. So and indeed is definitely wise console
Speaker 2: toper almost.
Speaker 1: We also heard from quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: We're talking about just like you're twenty two and one against.
Speaker 9: Why is that people want to know what from your perspective,
Speaker 9: why have you been so dominant against the NFC.
Speaker 11: Man just all around team effort, game planning. Probably just
Speaker 11: just because we send each other once a year, so
Speaker 11: it's like hard the game plan for us. So a
Speaker 11: little bit of everything, Lamar, How can.
Speaker 7: You describe this chemistry with Derry.
Speaker 4: Henry so far?
Speaker 7: What did you think you thought it was gonna be
Speaker 7: that dominate on the running game?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I thought so, just because of what he's
Speaker 11: able to do, you know, the type of running back
Speaker 11: he years, and like him just wanting to want to
Speaker 11: do everything right.
Speaker 3: You know, if it's just some type of mistake and
Speaker 3: be a mistake on.
Speaker 11: My on my my my part, he gonna it's all good.
Speaker 3: Like same thing with me. So it's like he just
Speaker 3: make everything easier for me.
Speaker 9: As when you have Derrick Henry to fake the ball
Speaker 9: to because he's such a threat to.
Speaker 11: Run, it very effective because guys like they trying to
Speaker 11: stop him before he gets started, so they trying to hit.
Speaker 3: ABC gap it really don't matter. They just trying to
Speaker 3: stop him.
Speaker 11: In the backfield before he's he get the rolling, you know,
Speaker 11: get to a second level or third level. So that
Speaker 11: play action definitely is effective.
Speaker 4: I know you like to say you don't play against
Speaker 4: the other quarterback.
Speaker 13: Yeah, play, But what's your relationship with Baker Mayfield?
Speaker 8: And do you have any extra kick when you play
Speaker 8: against another quarterback that was in your draft class?
Speaker 3: No, you know, I just I just want to win,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 11: I go out there and I just want to look
Speaker 11: at every game the same way.
Speaker 3: And he's a tremendous quarterback.
Speaker 11: You know, he has been since college, ever since I've
Speaker 11: on him, you know, even going back to Hosman, both
Speaker 11: of us one Housman the year, back to back from
Speaker 11: each other. Uh So, yeah, a little bit. You can
Speaker 11: say we've got a relationship a little bit from there.
Speaker 11: But outside of football, I really don't be around other quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: So I I don't know. Every time you ask me
Speaker 3: about another quarterback, it's like know what to say. You know,
Speaker 3: I love the game. I love his game.
Speaker 11: Man, he's still the same person from what I see,
Speaker 11: you know from Afar. He's still the same Baker, still
Speaker 11: making things happen for those guys.
Speaker 8: Coach just talked about how you would like to be
Speaker 8: a perfectionist.
Speaker 4: That being said, the way the offense is playing, Uh yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean things are things.
Speaker 10: Going the way you expect it a little bit better
Speaker 10: as a room for improvement being a perfection.
Speaker 11: Definitely room for improvement because, uh, sometimes things go the
Speaker 11: way I wanted to less sometimes they don't, and uh,
Speaker 11: sometimes I feel a way about it, you know, I
Speaker 11: get mad at myself. So yeah, but it's still like
Speaker 11: you said, it's room for improvement with our offense. You know,
Speaker 11: it's not a perfect offense. No offense is, but we're
Speaker 11: still working trying to get somewhere.
Speaker 1: So the more you seem to have a real mastery
Speaker 1: of the offense, the line of you're playing this is
Speaker 1: a high level. Do you feel like like right now
Speaker 1: this season that you're playing as well as as you
Speaker 1: ever have.
Speaker 11: I just think, my you know, my everything is like
Speaker 11: slow down even more, just from the years I've been
Speaker 11: in the league and seeing all type of defense, seeing
Speaker 11: all types of blixes. Uh, everything is just second nature
Speaker 11: right now. So I'm just trying to be a better
Speaker 11: player of myself, you know, each and every year.
Speaker 3: So I just say, everything's just slowing down. That's what's
Speaker 3: helping it.
Speaker 9: You hear more and more people around the country to say,
Speaker 9: Raven something or you or you just I don't wanna
Speaker 9: hear it.
Speaker 3: I mean, people gonna say whatever they want to say.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Uh, we were just on to and we were the
Speaker 3: worst offense in the league.
Speaker 11: So you know, just being foreign too right now, people
Speaker 11: gonna still say whatever they gonna say, you know, cause
Speaker 11: it can be a game we can come out with
Speaker 11: a with a win, but an ugly offensive game in there.
Speaker 11: So you know, it's the worst offense. So it's like
Speaker 11: each and every week it's gonna be something different. We
Speaker 11: just gotta focus on trying to be the best Raven
Speaker 11: offense that the Ravens ever had.
Speaker 14: Is there's something to the Florida connection? You know, you say,
Speaker 14: Derek Henry all Florida guys, that trio going back to
Speaker 14: Florida this weekend?
Speaker 5: Is there something.
Speaker 14: Than other guys? What's what's with the Florida connection? What's
Speaker 14: behind it?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 11: It's like that's what we breed down there, like just football.
Speaker 11: A lot of football players, don't get me wrong. We
Speaker 11: have some basketball players here and there are probably some
Speaker 11: doctors and lawyers, but.
Speaker 3: So we breed football players.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 11: We there's something we do down There's like a big
Speaker 11: family gathering on saturdays, you know, use football. There's always
Speaker 11: been that way from what I've known, you know, just
Speaker 11: somebody that's loving football down there.
Speaker 10: That's all alight when you you know, I know you're
Speaker 10: focused on the next game and the season so forth.
Speaker 4: But here we are.
Speaker 10: You know, when it's six weeks in your name comes
Speaker 10: up in m VP conversations again, do you.
Speaker 5: Do you hear?
Speaker 10: That stuff is sort of what do you think if
Speaker 10: it is an easy to block out, how do you
Speaker 10: how do you kind of manage when all that hype
Speaker 10: I guess starts building again.
Speaker 11: I know how I feel to be on too. I
Speaker 11: really don't care about the hype, you know, and not
Speaker 11: just being on too. I just know how the NFL works.
Speaker 11: You know, it's any given Sunday. So I'm not from
Speaker 11: the dwell on MVP trophy or anything like that. I
Speaker 11: never have, you know, even when I wanted, I never
Speaker 11: like dwelled on it. It was about me just trying to
Speaker 11: win each and every game. I'm man, and same thing
Speaker 11: from now, you know, I'm still trying to win these
Speaker 11: games to get the.
Speaker 3: February and win the February.
Speaker 8: I think people won't want to know what did you
Speaker 8: say on that dbreaker to side?
Speaker 3: There we go I don't know who says.
Speaker 11: Somebody probably recorded and said like it wasn't me, though
Speaker 11: I ain't say nothing, Lamar.
Speaker 5: It seems like this offense is really going to another level.
Speaker 5: And year two under top Monk and how much more
Speaker 5: comfortable are you in this unit as a whole year
Speaker 5: over years been near the halfway film of the regular season.
Speaker 11: A lot of comfortable or just same terminology just hearing
Speaker 11: it a year, being involved in it in the year
Speaker 11: and just talking with coach, you know about things I
Speaker 11: see what I see on the field, what I don't
Speaker 11: see is just hearing his take or what you know
Speaker 11: what he gets a lot of plays and and here
Speaker 11: and there. You know, it's just it's a it's a
Speaker 11: team effort. You know, it's not just me doing it myself.
Speaker 11: It's everybody involved and everyone just thinking talking about their
Speaker 11: their plans and what they seeing out there on the
Speaker 11: field or in the film.
Speaker 4: Room running backs.
Speaker 3: At the age of thirty, they they're declined a little bit.
Speaker 3: Derick Henry's leading the NFL and rushing at thirty. I
Speaker 3: mean what aging and everything else is like going up too?
Speaker 11: So yeah, why why do you think that is his preparation?
Speaker 11: You know, him just loving the game of football. They
Speaker 11: gotta play a part him just all around just being
Speaker 11: a great person. You know, all of that gotta play
Speaker 11: a part in him having that having this much secess
Speaker 11: he's having us.
Speaker 1: Next up is running back Derrick Henry.
Speaker 4: So leading the NFL and rushing. It's He's done it
Speaker 4: at so many points of your career. Does it ever
Speaker 4: get old when you're a top the leader board?
Speaker 12: I'm I'm I'm blanking it out. I ain't even thinking
Speaker 12: about it. Just focus on week by week how I
Speaker 12: can get better, how I can improve and you know,
Speaker 12: help this offense and you know that's really making each
Speaker 12: other better. And like I said on Sundays, focus on
Speaker 12: being one and oh gott to ignore the other stuff.
Speaker 10: Do you ever look at the stats? Do you ever
Speaker 10: look at numbers? Things like that?
Speaker 4: And just in general, I mean, I mean, I mean
Speaker 4: you you see them. You can't miss it.
Speaker 12: I mean, especially get on your phones, so much stuff
Speaker 12: on social media and stuff.
Speaker 4: But y'all just try to blank.
Speaker 12: All that stuff out and just focus on but right
Speaker 12: now and what we need to do and focus on
Speaker 12: the game plan, executing that their practice and then going
Speaker 12: out there trying to put together good point, put together
Speaker 12: good game plan so we can go win.
Speaker 1: The moment's post game locker room, like, it just seems
Speaker 1: like you were having so much fun on this team
Speaker 1: and love being here. Can you kind of put into context,
Speaker 1: I guess how much fun you are having you're having
Speaker 1: playing for this.
Speaker 8: Team this year.
Speaker 4: I mean, when you win everything, it's fun.
Speaker 12: I mean that makes everything ain't fun, And you know,
Speaker 12: it's it's just about me playing football. I fell in
Speaker 12: love with this game when I was five years old,
Speaker 12: and you know, I know it's a business side to it,
Speaker 12: but when you're out.
Speaker 4: There, you're just playing like you were a kid again.
Speaker 12: And just like everybody else on the team offensive defense, we.
Speaker 4: All went together to get a win.
Speaker 12: And when you accomplish that, it's just a great feeling,
Speaker 12: the great accomplishment that we did something together.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, it's been fun.
Speaker 14: A lot we saw of the sideline clip of Justice
Speaker 14: and Keaton kind of giving you a hard time about
Speaker 14: not dancing every day.
Speaker 4: Every day, every day.
Speaker 10: Why do you not dance? I'm curious.
Speaker 12: I I told him I should do when I was uh,
Speaker 12: in my my early like early stage of my career,
Speaker 12: I went my first but two or three years. Every
Speaker 12: year four I danced a little bit. I'm just oh,
Speaker 12: now I'm over it. Now I'll need a dancing to them.
Speaker 12: They'd be ready to dance anytime. I'd be like, maybe
Speaker 12: I'll have y'all dancing sideline so they can get glasse
Speaker 12: of y'all dancing, But I don't dance.
Speaker 4: I had the ball to the reserve. Let's go to
Speaker 4: the south.
Speaker 2: Line with the threat of Lamar running and with the
Speaker 2: passing game with they had now being where.
Speaker 9: It is, you know, at a really high level.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's the right way to phrase,
Speaker 2: but is it ever been easier for you as far
Speaker 2: as ken because of all the other possibilities the defense
Speaker 2: has to prepare for.
Speaker 12: I just think that, uh, they're doing a great job
Speaker 12: block in and give Lamar time guys getting open.
Speaker 4: Uh, execution has been good.
Speaker 12: Just you know, we we've been, you know, working hard
Speaker 12: and practice so I can come to life in the game.
Speaker 12: And that just goes to credit everybody doing their job,
Speaker 12: just so we can have big players on offense and
Speaker 12: you know, the messages well together to the past game
Speaker 12: and the run game. You need both to be able
Speaker 12: to create exposive plays and be able to get the
Speaker 12: ball down the field and create touchdowns. So just credit
Speaker 12: to everybody just is doing a great job and everybody
Speaker 12: doing their job individually and collectively.
Speaker 8: The last time the team played a prime time game,
Speaker 8: things worked out pretty well.
Speaker 7: What about the under the lights national audience brings out
Speaker 7: the best.
Speaker 12: In the Ravens room, which I mean, they've been playing
Speaker 12: the primestud games before I got here, And you know,
Speaker 12: I just think it's just the stage. You know, we
Speaker 12: just treated like a another game and you know, get
Speaker 12: prepared for it.
Speaker 4: But you know, we going to Tampa. It's a very
Speaker 4: good team.
Speaker 12: That's a a very good team, very good defense and
Speaker 12: who plays hard, who flies to the ball. I think
Speaker 12: they're solid all around, very solid. Probably one of the
Speaker 12: best defense we face this year. So it's gonna be
Speaker 12: au a good one, a tough match up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, play you played on some very good teams in Tennessee.
Speaker 9: Did you be though, go into this season thing, this
Speaker 9: could be the best offense I've ever played on.
Speaker 12: No, I don't make no expectations, and I think you
Speaker 12: got to put the work in to uh to to
Speaker 12: to have the opportunity to get to that point, and
Speaker 12: I thought we been doing a great job, but it's
Speaker 12: still much a lot lot of things that we can
Speaker 12: improve on and get better at. And I think that's
Speaker 12: what we focus on there.
Speaker 14: You Lamar's z Flowers and Nell, the other guys off
Speaker 14: off floor the guys. What good is into that order
Speaker 14: connection that does it build a special kind of bonding moment.
Speaker 12: I think it's just I don't know, it's for the boys.
Speaker 12: I think we just all messed together. Well, I don't know,
Speaker 12: it's just I can't you can't really explain it, but
Speaker 12: I feel like the Ravens they like for the boys.
Speaker 4: So there's been a thing around here. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: think it just.
Speaker 12: Comes natural that we're all from Florida, that we've been
Speaker 12: around the same things. I'm up north and down south,
Speaker 12: so it's it's a little different. But I think it's
Speaker 12: just natural to just Florida boys.
Speaker 4: Just natural. Sorry, U.
Speaker 10: Six games into playing with Lamar, I'm just curious, not
Speaker 10: that you had expectations of what it might be, but
Speaker 10: how much maybe what your what were your thoughts, you know,
Speaker 10: on what you've seen of him up close versus maybe
Speaker 10: what you thought it would be.
Speaker 12: I'm sure I answered this question before, Like what what
Speaker 12: you trying to say?
Speaker 10: But like your your impression if of him having played
Speaker 10: alongside him now six games versus maybe when you thought
Speaker 10: things could be, Like.
Speaker 12: Here my impression of him, what I thought when playing
Speaker 12: with him six games?
Speaker 4: But I I'm trying to understand. I'm not trying to
Speaker 4: like call you out in front of just you.
Speaker 10: Your impressions of Lamar this season? What you've seen from him?
Speaker 10: You know obviously you've you've seen him from Afar, You
Speaker 10: knew what kind of player he was. What what's your
Speaker 10: impression of him having now been alongside him? You guys
Speaker 10: have played six games, both played really well.
Speaker 12: I mean, I think he speaks for itself. I mean
Speaker 12: I don't think, uh I need to stay too much.
Speaker 12: I mean I think it's that speaks for himself. It's
Speaker 12: played speaks for himself, that respect he has around his league.
Speaker 12: I've always respected his game, A big fan of his.
Speaker 12: And yeah, he's in playing lights out, and you know,
Speaker 12: I think he helps his self to the high standard
Speaker 12: and his teammates to a high standard, and we just
Speaker 12: all try to make each other better and go out
Speaker 12: there and try to do our best on Sundays, and
Speaker 12: Lamar has been doing the hell of a job.
Speaker 5: Derek, Derek, we sold the offensive line get some extra
Speaker 5: work in after practice. How much of that had sech
Speaker 5: group really jelled in recent weeks?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I just think that's the chemistry they have of
Speaker 12: wanting to get better, wanting to make each other better,
Speaker 12: and you know, just finding any way to improve week
Speaker 12: at the week.
Speaker 4: And I I loved them a I loved that about them.
Speaker 12: And like I told y'all, uh Sunday in the locker room,
Speaker 12: I just told them, thank you cause the un selfishness
Speaker 12: putting their bodies online and you know they're doing to
Speaker 12: have a job blocking. It's much appreciated about me. See
Speaker 12: they coming off the field right now.
Speaker 4: The look at 'em, Derek.
Speaker 8: There was a clip from the r the Ravens about
Speaker 8: you and Lamar are having to talk before he had
Speaker 8: the uh bootlegs that to get you guys at first
Speaker 8: down at will? What is impressed to you about just
Speaker 8: what Lamar does to kind of get this offense into
Speaker 8: spots where the play can be successful before the snap,
Speaker 8: whereas Harkyo's audibles, play actions whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 12: You know his experience in the leagues has gotten better
Speaker 12: and better and you know, his his his leadership. You know,
Speaker 12: uh since he's since he's been here, everybody respects him.
Speaker 12: You know, he expects ex excellens out out of everybody.
Speaker 12: He demands that and that's what everybody tries to do
Speaker 12: out here. Just so you know, we're executing on Sundays
Speaker 12: and you know it takes all of us to be
Speaker 12: able to have big plays and officer line, everybody blocking,
Speaker 12: guys getting up in for Lamar to you know, see
Speaker 12: what Devis is doing, and guys getting up in the
Speaker 12: middle of the field. So you know, this offense credit
Speaker 12: to everybody's been being locked in. But like I said,
Speaker 12: there's so much more room that we can we can
Speaker 12: grow and get better at.
Speaker 1: In the locker room today we heard from a handful
Speaker 1: of players, including safety Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 2: Like Williams, probously's been an amazing recal physically, you see
Speaker 2: why it is what what are some of the special.
Speaker 3: Things you because you watched the day fans that that
Speaker 3: makes him so good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's been good for ever since I can remember,
Speaker 6: and you know I was young watching him and Johnny
Speaker 6: Menzel lighted up at a and m and you know
Speaker 6: he's been in the league I think ten plus years
Speaker 6: now and thousand yard seasons and all that stuff, and
Speaker 6: definitely want of better wide receivers of my generation, uh,
Speaker 6: just growing up. And you know, they got Chris Godwin
Speaker 6: who's been good there for a while as well, and
Speaker 6: Sterling Sheppard. A bunch of guys and tight ends playing well.
Speaker 6: So I think it's good for us to go against
Speaker 6: the Tyler's wave memory, sorry, go against the offense that's
Speaker 6: pretty much hitting on all cylinders right now. It's a
Speaker 6: good challenge for us.
Speaker 9: Kindle, what is your excitement level watching your offense? And
Speaker 9: if you were if you were on another team and
Speaker 9: you had to go against your offense.
Speaker 3: What would be what? What would closure the most worried.
Speaker 4: The most exciting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was actually just talking to Zach Orr about
Speaker 6: that today and just watching our offense, uh operate out there.
Speaker 6: I don't know why everybody's messing with me today. Me
Speaker 6: Steve's got something to say too, But I was like,
Speaker 6: how would you stop, say flowers, and and he's just
Speaker 6: gave me like a.
Speaker 4: I don't know the thing we don't have a worry about.
Speaker 6: But I think I said something to the defense just
Speaker 6: in the dv's on the sideline, like during the Bengals game,
Speaker 6: saying like the offense is doing all they can play,
Speaker 6: it's up to us to go out.
Speaker 4: There and win the game.
Speaker 6: So I think they keep performing out there performing, we
Speaker 6: keep getting better. I think they's gonna be hard to
Speaker 6: beat us.
Speaker 4: Well, and you have Brandon her parts.
Speaker 2: You're saying that he's been playing really technically, So he's
Speaker 2: just some.
Speaker 10: Really perfect passes, perfect.
Speaker 14: Catches against him.
Speaker 1: Oh, I guess what are a country tech guys know
Speaker 1: how to play the decent balls.
Speaker 3: What are you seeing kind of do this season?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, well, we need to start catching the ball,
Speaker 6: uh warning, to get more picks, more turnover and stuff
Speaker 6: like that. But uh yeah, I think it just he
Speaker 6: goes back to the technique and we're challenging so much
Speaker 6: practice that I feel like in the game it kind
Speaker 6: of just comes naturally. And me and s just speaking
Speaker 6: on BCS, get him his flowers. I think he's one
Speaker 6: of the most underrated players in this league, not just Corners.
Speaker 4: Does his job. We can week out, We ask him
Speaker 4: to do a ton and he doesn't.
Speaker 6: And me and Marlin were golfing the other day and
Speaker 6: we were just talking about b Steve and saying, like,
Speaker 6: he's really I think if you know football and watch
Speaker 6: it at a close level, like you can appreciate what
Speaker 6: he does. And he's really like one of the most
Speaker 6: technical corners like in the NFL that we have in
Speaker 6: our league. And it's impressive to see how patient or
Speaker 6: composed he is just on a play and play out basis.
Speaker 6: Technique never changes and you know he's a one play
Speaker 6: mentality kind of guy.
Speaker 4: And it's, uh, it's fun to play with him. Yeah,
Speaker 4: w what's the emotion?
Speaker 14: You know, you guys have forced a ton of tight
Speaker 14: window throws like it.
Speaker 10: They haven't been easy.
Speaker 5: Completions by any deans.
Speaker 14: Do you kind of you know, take that into account
Speaker 14: when you're evaluating how how you're playing.
Speaker 10: As a secondary.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think yes and no at the
Speaker 6: same time. You know, you don't wanna give up a touchdown, no,
Speaker 6: and no matter what manner it is, if they get lucky,
Speaker 6: if you get lucky, whatever. But I mean, I think
Speaker 6: a lot of a lot of football is not a lot,
Speaker 6: but sometimes it just comes down to luck.
Speaker 4: Sometimes things like go your way.
Speaker 6: And now I feel like last year we had some
Speaker 6: stuff going our way which like you know, helped us
Speaker 6: be first in points as whatever it may be. And
Speaker 6: you know, sometimes they don't, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't,
Speaker 6: And I feel like it's up to us to kind
Speaker 6: of eliminate the luck facker and just making us doing
Speaker 6: our job dropping locker and punishment, dropping interception. I don't
Speaker 6: know we need to come up with Maybe y'all can
Speaker 6: come up before. We usually do push ups, but I
Speaker 6: don't know. It might be need to be a monetary
Speaker 6: thing attached to that. It maybe been going on a
Speaker 6: dB trip after the year or something like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we also heard from wide receiver or Sean bag.
Speaker 3: You ever seen.
Speaker 1: Do you think he's playing the best.
Speaker 4: That you've ever seen him? Yeah?
Speaker 13: I think it's the best, you know, I've seen the
Speaker 13: more places I've been here, it seems like the game
Speaker 13: has sold down.
Speaker 4: A lot for him.
Speaker 1: How does that show itself on game day?
Speaker 4: Yet?
Speaker 1: Understanding the offensive and defenses are gonna.
Speaker 13: Do, I mean, just playing you know what, smarter, being
Speaker 13: more decisive for the football, understanding where he wants to
Speaker 13: go to football, getting a certain you know, checks or
Speaker 13: looks that he's seen he fits best for the team
Speaker 13: and really giving them the keys of the offense.
Speaker 4: And I think it's been working out in our.
Speaker 1: Favorite yeah, the the kind of the phrase with this
Speaker 1: offensive picture poison. How does it affect things when every
Speaker 1: week it could be different guy or a couple of guys.
Speaker 4: That that come up with a big plays.
Speaker 13: I mean, I think that's a question for the other team.
Speaker 13: For us, it really don't. It don't really matter or change,
Speaker 13: you know. I think for us it's just you know,
Speaker 13: everybody just needs to be ready and prepared for when
Speaker 13: they number it's called.
Speaker 9: And the the buy in that everyone seems to have offensively,
Speaker 9: but again, on any given day, your role could be
Speaker 9: wildly different, right when whatever, whatever it is, everyone's like, fine,
Speaker 9: that's my job.
Speaker 3: As they bang, I'm in. It's it's not always like that.
Speaker 3: Why why is that happening here?
Speaker 13: Just because the culture I feel like the Baltimore UH
Speaker 13: has here. You know, Coach Hars does a good job,
Speaker 13: you know, preaching team first, team first, and we got
Speaker 13: a lot of guys, you know, selfless gods to the
Speaker 13: ball end. And I think the only thing that anybody's
Speaker 13: concerned about right now is UH getting Lamar's Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: How have you failed.
Speaker 5: The game kind of slowed down as you've grown into
Speaker 5: where your role now and sometimes you out there, do
Speaker 5: you ever think like we're coming.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm a little bit open.
Speaker 13: I mean, I don't think I think that's that's the
Speaker 13: other perspective of what people have on me. I've never
Speaker 13: I never had that perspective. I'm always open and i'm'a
Speaker 13: continue to be so for Lamar, say Flowers is always
Speaker 13: open that he will continue to do so.
Speaker 4: For Lamar, we know what we able to do. We
Speaker 4: know what we're capable of do.
Speaker 13: Uh, what we're capable of doing, and you know, hopefully
Speaker 13: we continue to put that on show.
Speaker 4: Extraction.
Speaker 1: Thank your feeling is.
Speaker 12: For this offense, cause every week with Marsa's there's room
Speaker 12: for improvement.
Speaker 4: But you guys are still rolling, still winning.
Speaker 13: I mean, not to get too far in detail like
Speaker 13: football wise, but I agree with Lamar. Every week we
Speaker 13: leave a lot of points on the field and it's
Speaker 13: a small thing. We just gotta clean up the details
Speaker 13: and really, you know, go back to work to the
Speaker 13: drawing board and sharpen those details made too. We can
Speaker 13: go out every Sunday, you know, plays our best ability.
Speaker 13: You know a week by week be getting better, but
Speaker 13: you know, we human, that's only so much we can do,
Speaker 13: you know, right, so, but were trending in the right direction.
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