Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens approved
Speaker 1: a four and two on the season after a thirty
Speaker 1: to twenty three victory over the Washington Commanders. After the game,
Speaker 1: we heard from head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate everybody being here.
Speaker 3: Heck of a game, heck of an environment, playoff feel
Speaker 3: out there with the crowd and everything fans from both teams.
Speaker 3: A loud, very tough, physical game against a tough physical
Speaker 3: football team that was playing at the high has been
Speaker 3: and did play at the highest level. Very I guess
Speaker 3: the ultimate team win. You know, all three phases contributed
Speaker 3: to the win when they had to overcame adversity. Long
Speaker 3: drives on offense, big stops on defense, particularly on third down,
Speaker 3: would say, with the number one third down offense in
Speaker 3: the league going into this thing, and I thought our
Speaker 3: front did a great job of containing the quarterback. So
Speaker 3: we're just appreciative and grateful and humble and hungry for
Speaker 3: the for the next challenge. But that's a big win
Speaker 3: and proud of the guys and and we got prospered.
Speaker 3: We got prospered on that that victory.
Speaker 2: So what question do you have.
Speaker 4: John how Well, was the mare throwing the ball.
Speaker 3: These days, I thought them are a great game, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean it's uh he he was on point against
Speaker 3: man coverage.
Speaker 4: They were.
Speaker 3: They were loading the box up against the run and
Speaker 3: playing a lot of man coverage which had not done
Speaker 3: a lot of.
Speaker 2: Throughout the course.
Speaker 3: We had a lot of first and second down play
Speaker 3: action passes up guys like Zay running crossing routes and
Speaker 3: sale routes waiting those guys, and they were on our guys.
Speaker 3: But enough separation, lamar dot it. These guys made contested
Speaker 3: catches on the run and then made guys miss with
Speaker 3: the h after the.
Speaker 2: Catch as well.
Speaker 3: So I just proud of all those Guysay, Mark, Isaiah Bait,
Speaker 3: everybody did a good job.
Speaker 2: So yard receiving.
Speaker 5: It's kind of what kind of weapons he turned after you.
Speaker 2: Guys, Yeah, I mean exactly the weapon.
Speaker 3: We absolutely knew he was and would be and has been,
Speaker 3: to be honest with you, I mean, he's been there
Speaker 3: all along, and the opportunities came up today. You know,
Speaker 3: sometimes the defense doesn't allow it, sometimes the ball doesn't
Speaker 3: come your way for whatever reason. But today the opportunity
Speaker 3: showed up and we had to have those catches had
Speaker 3: to be made. I mean, those passing, those those plays
Speaker 3: had to be made in the pass game, and Zay
Speaker 3: made him. That was the difference probably in the game.
Speaker 3: We were moving the ball. I think we had we
Speaker 3: had six drives to end the game that scored and
Speaker 3: then the last one was the one that closed the
Speaker 3: game out, you know, with the big run by Derek
Speaker 3: and the block by Pat. So that was pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: We go down right down the field, we get to
Speaker 3: pick defense comes up with a stop, we go down
Speaker 3: and score a touchdown. I mean, it's guy's answer today
Speaker 3: in a lot of ways.
Speaker 4: How happy are you?
Speaker 6: You know teams are going to try to take away
Speaker 6: the run you lamar, Derek Kerry Steel ran the ball
Speaker 6: well today. But you mentioned Zay in the first half
Speaker 6: we had and then the second half it's a lot
Speaker 6: of Mark Andrews, a lot of her shot. Maybe just
Speaker 6: how impressed you to see you your offense be able
Speaker 6: to click and both to run the.
Speaker 4: Handle past game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely think that's the offensive story of the game.
Speaker 3: You know, absolutely, the fact that they did that. We
Speaker 3: expected that.
Speaker 2: We didn't know if they were gonna play a lot
Speaker 2: of man or not.
Speaker 3: But they did, and I understand why they did with
Speaker 3: all the quarterback and the run game stuff. They felt
Speaker 3: like they had to. They know how to stop that stuff.
Speaker 3: It's our if they run that those plays and for
Speaker 3: Lamar to put those passes where he did and for
Speaker 3: the guys to make those plays was the.
Speaker 1: Game that's up is quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 7: Lamar, you know a lot of expectations and talk about
Speaker 7: this game, a lot of hype coming into this game.
Speaker 4: Do you guys feel like you can prove that there the
Speaker 4: best offense in the NFL right now? Nah?
Speaker 8: We just proven we can win games just playing raven
Speaker 8: football right now. I don't think that really proved anything
Speaker 8: like we we the best offense. You know, Uh, there's
Speaker 8: always room for improvement. It's only like the what fifth,
Speaker 8: sixth game? Sixth game? There's always room for improvement though,
Speaker 8: cause it was still in means happening out there. You know,
Speaker 8: we still had tries, well, we we shoulda put points
Speaker 8: on the board, the interception stuff like that.
Speaker 9: Do you feel like this is the most balanced offense
Speaker 9: you've had here in Baltimore?
Speaker 8: Mm mmmm somewhat in a way you can say, yeah,
Speaker 8: Cause twenty nineteen we we was pretty balancing to gods,
Speaker 8: like you know, went down at the end of the season.
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, you can say.
Speaker 1: That, Well, why are you talk about like you can
Speaker 1: for all the gas in games and you guys said
Speaker 1: it scoring five straight posessions before closing their hoality?
Speaker 10: What did it need to be able to just consistently
Speaker 10: put up in what this rack?
Speaker 7: This game?
Speaker 8: I I really feel like we just proved ourselves right,
Speaker 8: you know, instead of just talking about it. We we
Speaker 8: was about it today, just putting points on the board.
Speaker 8: We started off slow. Even when we was sc scoring
Speaker 8: on those drives, I still felt like we was kind
Speaker 8: of off some way. But uh, like I said, it's
Speaker 8: a room for improvement. We just gotta keep stacking.
Speaker 11: H y, Well, there's so much, so much about Jane
Speaker 11: Daniels this week.
Speaker 2: I know you always say, I.
Speaker 12: Don't play against the other quarterback, I play against their defense.
Speaker 13: Are you motivated by.
Speaker 14: That by all the hype about Jane Daniels coming into
Speaker 14: this building?
Speaker 4: Nah?
Speaker 8: I I believe he deserved all the hype he's getting.
Speaker 8: You know, he played a tremendous game out there. They
Speaker 8: just came up short and he's been proving it. You know,
Speaker 8: uh his rookie season, first six games, he he's been
Speaker 8: playing amazing more.
Speaker 9: Two two ninety plus yard touchdown drives.
Speaker 5: It's not very common in the same game. What's the
Speaker 5: mentality when you take care of there in New York
Speaker 5: deep in your net.
Speaker 8: Well the get from my backs against the wall, or
Speaker 8: just get positive yards and try to finish with some
Speaker 8: points on the board.
Speaker 4: And that's pretty much what we did those two jobs
Speaker 4: the mall.
Speaker 2: We heard what they thought.
Speaker 6: You know, when he sees man coverage, he thinks, when
Speaker 6: what what is it in your mind when you see
Speaker 6: man coverage kind of across the ball with these weapons
Speaker 6: that you have.
Speaker 4: Who I'm gonna throw it to?
Speaker 8: Cause I know once uh, whoever get the ball on
Speaker 8: that uh play, somebody gonna come back and be like
Speaker 8: I was open.
Speaker 4: It's like bruthers on it. One football like.
Speaker 8: I I can't throw throw like this like you know,
Speaker 8: so like just pretty much is getting into our Uh
Speaker 8: one of my guys, one of my guys, let them.
Speaker 13: Do works in the spad uh double digit league center
Speaker 13: in the fourth quarter, win with one fourteen points that
Speaker 13: never gets relinquished cause it's like you were eventually previously
Speaker 13: that scoring and the fourth was important for.
Speaker 2: You guys, and we're able did that today.
Speaker 13: Just what's the satisfaction of there?
Speaker 8: Uh, not just scoring in the fourth, you know, Uh,
Speaker 8: just every opportunity we out there on that field. Uh,
Speaker 8: my offense, we just tryna put points on the board.
Speaker 8: We don't like coming up short. You know, we bust
Speaker 8: out behind and practice you know against our our scout team,
Speaker 8: first team, I don't really matter. Tryna put points on
Speaker 8: the board so we get in the game. It's like
Speaker 8: we're not seeing these guys every day. We should be
Speaker 8: able to move the ball and find little hiccups in
Speaker 8: their defense to put points on the board.
Speaker 4: And that's what we did.
Speaker 9: Mar, guy, is that d having Derek Henry increase your
Speaker 9: confidence of when you have to eat clock and and
Speaker 9: have those game ending drives?
Speaker 8: I always got confidence, but definitely, uh, definitely, Man, we
Speaker 8: just know he just need a lane. Uh he gonna
Speaker 8: do the rest, man, And every time it's like a
Speaker 8: little crease. He always just go forward for us and
Speaker 8: just get get many rs.
Speaker 14: Mar, How after the uh interception on the first drive
Speaker 14: and the un characteristics skap like Tyler on the second three,
Speaker 14: what do you sending to your guys on the sideline. Mo,
Speaker 14: what was it a frustrated sideline for for a minute
Speaker 14: there or.
Speaker 8: I mean, we know we just gonna have to deal
Speaker 8: with it. When we watching film, we gonna get on
Speaker 8: each other like that was some bs right there. But uh,
Speaker 8: we was good, you know. But we didn't blink at all.
Speaker 8: We was you know, we gonna get an opportunity. We
Speaker 8: just gotta put points on the board out defense stopped him.
Speaker 8: We went down and execute it. We just gotta keep
Speaker 8: doing that without the Uh it means to the mistakes
Speaker 8: Mark side, he.
Speaker 4: Wants to give Mark Andrew's involved in the office and that,
Speaker 4: oh it was dope.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 4: I told him, La, last week he's supposed to score.
Speaker 4: I threw a bad ball. I threw a bad ball.
Speaker 8: He was open on to the left side of Cincinnati,
Speaker 8: and I told him, I'm like, bruh, I gotta get
Speaker 8: you in the end zone next week. You know, I
Speaker 8: w I was ticked off of myself. He was mad
Speaker 8: at me too, but he didn't say nothing about it though,
Speaker 8: he like, he like we good. Like he told me,
Speaker 8: he was like, I'll mad at you at first, Like bruh,
Speaker 8: I was mad at my damnself like y he ain't
Speaker 8: gonna be mad than me, you know, but uh, it
Speaker 8: was dope to get.
Speaker 4: Him in the en zone.
Speaker 15: Man.
Speaker 4: He hasn't been there since what like week ten of
Speaker 4: last year something, But it was dope.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: It's many more, many more to come.
Speaker 9: Oh, Mar you know you're the now the second leading
Speaker 9: rusher Russian QB in NFL history. It's only Michael Vick
Speaker 9: ahead of you.
Speaker 4: I know you grew up.
Speaker 9: Really liking Mike. What does that mean to kind of
Speaker 9: it's it's just the two of you at the top
Speaker 9: of that particular leader board.
Speaker 4: I mean it's dope.
Speaker 8: Uh not just because you know it's Mike vic Uh,
Speaker 8: number one, but it's like all the great guys who
Speaker 8: I'm in great company with, you know, Cam Newton and
Speaker 8: stuff like that. Uh, Stephen McNair, like all those great
Speaker 8: guys and who was before me is it's just great
Speaker 8: to be in discussion with those guys.
Speaker 4: You do two more?
Speaker 1: But why did you come into today feel like it
Speaker 1: could be a big.
Speaker 14: Yet versus flowers?
Speaker 4: I come in feel like any god can have a
Speaker 4: big dayg I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 8: Uh, we just got that type of that type of
Speaker 8: mentality and the guys who's around.
Speaker 4: Us llabar what's to say about this offensive?
Speaker 12: Say you had what night for one thirty in the
Speaker 12: first dap, you're gonna catch a ball on the second half,
Speaker 12: But you guys didn't.
Speaker 4: Slow down at all. It's a picky poison offense.
Speaker 8: That's That's pretty much what I've been saying, uh since
Speaker 8: camp when we uh got there hearing and stuff like that.
Speaker 8: Then we got Mark Zay, I say, a likely Bateman,
Speaker 8: Uh Nelly Charlie, uh Patrick Carr, Like we got all
Speaker 8: these got Tylan Wallace, We got all these guys on
Speaker 8: our offense. Justice here, I can't forget about justice in
Speaker 8: our office line, you know, the whole unit. It's like,
Speaker 8: we got we got guys who who's who wanna work,
Speaker 8: who wanna win, and that they're just pretty much what
Speaker 8: is shown up.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: We also heard from wide receiver Zay Flowers, supposed to
Speaker 1: a career high one hundred and thirty two receiving yards
Speaker 1: on nine catches.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's what is the mentality when you
Speaker 9: see the commanders playing as.
Speaker 11: Much man and man as they were.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just win.
Speaker 16: I feel like that's that should be the mentality for
Speaker 16: all of us, and that was the mentality for all
Speaker 16: of us today to just go in because we've been
Speaker 16: doing so well running the ball that they gotta pack
Speaker 16: the box and we gotta go in. So I'm glad
Speaker 16: we'll be able to show that we can win.
Speaker 4: See how could It's this offense trick.
Speaker 16: Were real good, but I feel like we can we
Speaker 16: can get better. We could keep getting better as a
Speaker 16: year ago and just at everything we do. So I
Speaker 16: think we won the best We won the best office
Speaker 16: in the league.
Speaker 1: So you have one hundred and.
Speaker 17: Thirty two yards on the first half. Just what's that
Speaker 17: feel like after having, you know, a career high last
Speaker 17: game with one hundred eleven and we do all that
Speaker 17: more just the first half of this game.
Speaker 16: I mean, it's those guys, It's like it's l it's there,
Speaker 16: it's bait cause you gotta respect all of us.
Speaker 4: So they helping me get open.
Speaker 16: And Rashat Bay been doing a great job of making
Speaker 16: his players when they come in his way. Mark Andrews
Speaker 16: getting better and better every week. You everybody know Isaiah
Speaker 16: gonna do what he do. So it's just all the
Speaker 16: guys around me that help me get open and help
Speaker 16: me do what I do.
Speaker 2: Say, what's you.
Speaker 17: Guys have two drives ninety three yards ninety four yards?
Speaker 4: H help big?
Speaker 17: Where those just as an offense to kind of keep
Speaker 17: things moving and and kind of did you feel.
Speaker 2: Like that sort of I would say broke the will?
Speaker 4: But what the impact did that?
Speaker 7: I have?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 16: I feel like I feel like we needed those drives
Speaker 16: to set the tone or like that this offense gonna
Speaker 16: keep going all game and we just gonna keep scoring
Speaker 16: either running or passing. So I feel like those two
Speaker 16: drives right there was much needed and we should We
Speaker 16: needed that and we show what we needed to do it.
Speaker 5: I know it is it was last summer of this
Speaker 5: training camp and this is a game and all that,
Speaker 5: But the way that you practiced against the standards and
Speaker 5: the joint rags last year and you were just getting
Speaker 5: there all the time, yup mentally, did that at all roll.
Speaker 9: Into this game for you?
Speaker 18: Uh?
Speaker 16: Not really cause it was joint practice. But I knew,
Speaker 16: like I knew what they do, what they did, like
Speaker 16: what type of man they ran, what type of zones.
Speaker 16: So I was able to get a film for him
Speaker 16: for that from Joint practices and able to run my
Speaker 16: routes off that, so it helped a little.
Speaker 9: So what what is the connection like with Lamar right now?
Speaker 4: And then what do you think is gone into it?
Speaker 16: To advance what you guys, I just gotta keep earning
Speaker 16: his trust on catching the ball when it needed to
Speaker 16: be contested, catches no matter where it's at, and you know,
Speaker 16: just keep playing football the way I am.
Speaker 19: Za how much is Lamar hitting you and stride allowing
Speaker 19: you to do some of the things you can do.
Speaker 4: After you make it kipt?
Speaker 16: I mean every time, every ball, every ball today was
Speaker 16: in shot and I was able to pick up more
Speaker 16: after So we we been working on that a lot.
Speaker 13: Is it?
Speaker 14: Is it still an adjustment as a playmaker to say, well,
Speaker 14: maybe I won't see the ball for a quarter or
Speaker 14: a half, but that doesn't matter if the working Yeah.
Speaker 16: Yeah, that's absolutely because you know, Dereck Hearry, you gotta
Speaker 16: feed him the ball like, no matter what, no matter
Speaker 16: who you got at receivers, no matter who you got
Speaker 16: at tight end, like, you gotta get that man the ball.
Speaker 16: So I just I just wanted to wait, just wait,
Speaker 16: and I knew he was gonna open it up for us.
Speaker 16: Now we able to do both running in passy.
Speaker 11: The Ravens have seen so many different kind of defenses
Speaker 11: over the years to try to combat with you guys
Speaker 11: and lamar to the past. Do you feel like you
Speaker 11: guys are nearing the stage or you have an answer
Speaker 11: or pretty much whatever the uh opposing defense turns to.
Speaker 16: I mean, I just feel like we we good at
Speaker 16: we good at what we gotta do. Like, if we
Speaker 16: gotta run the ball, we gonna run the ball. If
Speaker 16: we gotta pass it, that's what we gonna do. And
Speaker 16: if we gotta do both like we did today, then
Speaker 16: that's what we gotta do.
Speaker 17: So if you hit the uh the spin move after
Speaker 17: the catch when the defender's trailing, you think twice you
Speaker 17: might have done even more than that. Just continue to
Speaker 17: get the gartage?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 13: S I what's your mentality?
Speaker 17: Would you keep using the same move to get open
Speaker 17: and to separate from somebody you're making the catch and
Speaker 17: trust that it's going to keep working instead of them
Speaker 17: kind of taking up on that.
Speaker 16: I mean, like, it's not not like I'm saying, oh,
Speaker 16: I'm about to spend right here. It's just a feel
Speaker 16: for it. It's just a feel for how fast they
Speaker 16: running in front of me or the type of angle
Speaker 16: they got on me. I'm just I'm just trying to
Speaker 16: go get some more yards and do what I.
Speaker 1: Do in the locker room. Today we also heard from
Speaker 1: running back Dereck Henry, who put up a pair of
Speaker 1: touchdowns and topped one hundred yards.
Speaker 10: Again.
Speaker 1: Just obviously a big win today. With what was working
Speaker 1: so well for you guys as an offense.
Speaker 18: As a whole, I felt like everything was working. It's
Speaker 18: kind of like pick your poison. Everybody did a great
Speaker 18: job being locked in and executing, you know, just hats
Speaker 18: off everybody on offense of you know, of putting plays
Speaker 18: together and be able to fill in the drives to
Speaker 18: put ourselves in a position to win.
Speaker 15: There there's been multiple times that you've iced the game
Speaker 15: with last drive runs. How does it feel to be
Speaker 15: able to put the team in position to finish at
Speaker 15: it strong after a big runs like today and a
Speaker 15: couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean probably about thirty twenty thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 18: I was just thanking the office of line. Mean, it's
Speaker 18: all those guys doing a great job of me blocking
Speaker 18: making my job easier.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 18: I just had to get the ball, make a read,
Speaker 18: getting north and south, and you know, finish runs. So
Speaker 18: credit goes to the old line tight ends, uh, fullback
Speaker 18: receivers blocking, doing a great job, being unselfish for me
Speaker 18: to be able to have success there.
Speaker 6: How much pride do you take and being the closer?
Speaker 6: I mean you've been that way your whole career to
Speaker 6: help ice games.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean yeah, definitely wanna be able to close
Speaker 18: the game so so we can win and everybody's happy
Speaker 18: and everybody's high five in the locker room. So y
Speaker 18: y you you know, you gotta take pride in that
Speaker 18: to be able to finish games and you know, uh,
Speaker 18: how the ball last.
Speaker 1: When you guys Gota talking about picking poison, that's kind
Speaker 1: of a common phrase amongst the offense. How does that
Speaker 1: affect things when you have so many different weapons you can.
Speaker 18: Get it, dug Well, I just think it's it's great.
Speaker 18: You got so many guys that can make plays. A
Speaker 18: lot of guys are getting chances to get the ball
Speaker 18: and be able to you know, showcase their talents. That's
Speaker 18: that's what you want those offenses, everybody being dynamic, having
Speaker 18: played makers who can make plays on any any side
Speaker 18: of the field and Mark they they had one hundred
Speaker 18: yards in the in the first half. I was like, Boa,
Speaker 18: he's going crazy and you know, l finding guys bait.
Speaker 18: I mean, Nelly, It's just it's just been fun and
Speaker 18: glad to see everybody reaping the benefits of the hard work.
Speaker 4: When you guys are closing those games out.
Speaker 15: You know, a lot of said about, you know, wearing
Speaker 15: teams down when you run the ball.
Speaker 4: Can you feel defenses kind of being worn down?
Speaker 18: No, I don't think we try to make about them
Speaker 18: and being worn down. I think it's us just being
Speaker 18: locked in and making sure we all focused. You know,
Speaker 18: it takes all eleven and just keeping rinding each other
Speaker 18: while we were in the huddle, you know, when we're
Speaker 18: on offense.
Speaker 5: The toss, you know, it's kind of the ice icing
Speaker 5: run there at the end of this game, it seems.
Speaker 1: Like it's having a lot of.
Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know
Speaker 4: what you're talking about.
Speaker 18: I think I think it was a handoff, wasn't How good?
Speaker 4: How good is this offense?
Speaker 5: R announce?
Speaker 18: I mean, we're not, like coach said at when we
Speaker 18: came in here, We're we're humble, being humble, take 'em
Speaker 18: one week at a time, and you know, approaching every
Speaker 18: week of focus on being wanted to know, keep pushing
Speaker 18: each other, keep working hard and let this trans to
Speaker 18: the game.
Speaker 4: But it's humble approach for sureship.
Speaker 20: Do you feel like this?
Speaker 18: How offense is huh?
Speaker 2: How versable?
Speaker 4: Do you feel like the r being humble? Guys?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 18: Making plays?
Speaker 4: Great?
Speaker 18: To see you guys being able to get up and
Speaker 18: catch the.
Speaker 4: Ball and officer lint.
Speaker 18: Everybody's doing a great job. And you know we're wanna
Speaker 18: contique continue to do that, and you know, and we
Speaker 18: know it starts, you know, early throughout the week to
Speaker 18: be able to have success on Sundays and then that's
Speaker 18: been the main focus here.
Speaker 4: Is this what you had in mind when you came
Speaker 4: here being humble?
Speaker 18: You know what I mean? I just wanna come in
Speaker 18: and be an adding piece and help this offense have success,
Speaker 18: cause they've always been dynamic and been one of the
Speaker 18: top offenses. So I'm glad I'm able to do that,
Speaker 18: and you know, hopefully keep it going and you change
Speaker 18: to work and chane to do my best to help
Speaker 18: this team.
Speaker 2: I know you've been one of the best of this
Speaker 2: job for a long time.
Speaker 9: But but how does playing with Lamar and backfield facts?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what you see from defenses in a fact, how
Speaker 2: easy it is to do what you did.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I think you gotta respect him. I mean there's
Speaker 18: it's no question. I mean, Lamar is Lamar, and every
Speaker 18: team knows that. I mean even playing against him, I
Speaker 18: mean we knew what the camp playing was. You gotta
Speaker 18: you gotta stop him to be able to give your
Speaker 18: supposition to win. And I think that's always approaches different teams.
Speaker 18: You know, he's two time MVP for a reason, and
Speaker 18: I'm glad I'm on his team now. And you know,
Speaker 18: it's been fun, Derek.
Speaker 2: When you're getting to the red zone, everybody in the
Speaker 2: stadium news.
Speaker 4: You're gonna get the ball?
Speaker 2: Stop?
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean what are you to score? Credit to
Speaker 18: everybody blocking? That make my job easily. I mean that's
Speaker 18: I mean, it's it's not just me. I can't get
Speaker 18: the ball run through eleven people. I mean everybody's been
Speaker 18: doing their job blocking and me getting.
Speaker 13: To his own.
Speaker 18: So I'll give a credit to everybody blocking.
Speaker 2: Man, for sure, How impress.
Speaker 4: Watch who say?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean there's no shock to me or nobody
Speaker 18: on this team and we see it all the time,
Speaker 18: so you know, we knew was coming. I told him,
Speaker 18: you know it's it's coming, and you know he's been.
Speaker 18: He's been getting off and doing a great job getting open.
Speaker 18: They can plays with the ball every time he catch it.
Speaker 18: I mean, I don't never think he's going down when
Speaker 18: he catches. He's here and there, there that that way.
Speaker 18: So that's just who that is. You know, Florida boy
Speaker 18: is different.
Speaker 1: So we also heard from better linebacker Roquan Smith, what
Speaker 1: was it like to.
Speaker 2: See Travis Shuns get that first sack.
Speaker 4: And how big has he been?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it was pretty sweet to see him get
Speaker 7: that sack.
Speaker 4: The guy's a animal, as we all know.
Speaker 7: Just sometimes you know, the sacks you may not see him,
Speaker 7: but his presence throughout the game and just the impact
Speaker 7: that he has throughout the game is not taken for granted.
Speaker 7: So I definitely appreciate him a lot and the way
Speaker 7: he busts his tail day in and day out and
Speaker 7: the type of person he is. But yeah, so I'm
Speaker 7: just I'm a big fan of Travis Dick Jones and yeah.
Speaker 13: What'd you think of Jayson Daniels.
Speaker 17: Look like he had a couple of welcome to the NFL.
Speaker 5: Hits on him.
Speaker 7: He no, I think man, uh Washington is in uh
Speaker 7: good hands with him. I think the guy's a he's
Speaker 7: the truth for sure. Like you know, he can run it,
Speaker 7: he can throw it, you know, whatever you want. And
Speaker 7: for him to come into a hostile environment and perform
Speaker 7: the way he did, I got much respect for him.
Speaker 7: And he took some licks to so like the co
Speaker 7: I heard he was tough as nails anyway, and even
Speaker 7: from watching him in college at a couple of games,
Speaker 7: like but he showed that. So like much respect and
Speaker 7: love for that guy. And yeah, Washington, good hands.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 4: How would you describe the game plan against him today?
Speaker 2: It seems like you guys didn't send a whole lot
Speaker 2: of extra rushers.
Speaker 14: I mean he kind of made him play target practice
Speaker 14: against the secondary.
Speaker 4: I mean, how would you describe it?
Speaker 2: How did you feel like it worked?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we we definitely had a good game plan versus
Speaker 7: those guys, and uh, you know, definitely they're pro, they're
Speaker 7: in the league, They're gonna make plays. There's definitely some
Speaker 7: plays that we would all want back, including myself, and
Speaker 7: like you know, there's definitely things throughout the game, but
Speaker 7: that's why you're in the lab and you try to
Speaker 7: get better day in and day out. But you know,
Speaker 7: it was a tough, tough, fought game and we knew
Speaker 7: it wouldn't be easy. So that's what it's all about.
Speaker 4: That Jaydens took a lot of guys have been hits
Speaker 4: for you guys in this game.
Speaker 19: How much with physicality is something that you guys talked about.
Speaker 19: I think you always want to be physical, but seemed
Speaker 19: like this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, absolutely.
Speaker 7: I think the Ravens in general, well before I got
Speaker 7: here and it'll be the way well after I'm gone.
Speaker 7: Like Breede itself on physicality, and that's just something that
Speaker 7: we pride ourselves on and just knowing that it's a
Speaker 7: rookie quarterback and like you gotta lay the hits on
Speaker 7: him and try to affect him because most of the
Speaker 7: time when you hit people in a nasty way, you
Speaker 7: definitely affect them. But the guy's toughest nails, he hopped
Speaker 7: right back up and kept it going. So much respect
Speaker 7: to him that south to him was the.
Speaker 1: Offense is rolling right now? You know Laura has the
Speaker 1: offense rolling. How much does that affect things for you
Speaker 1: guys as a defense though, with the offense, is there.
Speaker 7: Oh, that's awesome. That a lot of respect for the offense,
Speaker 7: every single person on that side of the ball and
Speaker 7: the head of the snake lamar. So you know, when
Speaker 7: those guys are rolling, is definitely great. But as a defense,
Speaker 7: we can't focus on that. We have to focus on
Speaker 7: ourselves and getting stops throughout the game and getting those
Speaker 7: guys the ball back as much as we can because
Speaker 7: we know if we do that, we're in good hands.
Speaker 7: So we just got to keep improving defense, offense, and
Speaker 7: like all together and like we just getting started.
Speaker 2: Did you feel like you guys took a step forward
Speaker 2: from last week?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I felt like we definitely all took the stuff forward.
Speaker 7: I felt like there's always plays throughout each and every
Speaker 7: game throughout the league, like we're chasing perfection, but we're
Speaker 7: humans at the end of the day. So that was definitely.
Speaker 7: Like in the first half, I remember, can't really recall
Speaker 7: the second half, there was like two or three plays
Speaker 7: that those guys got, but it was just like, you know,
Speaker 7: two really good scheme that plays and you know, heats
Speaker 7: off to the OC and Danie's for finding those holds
Speaker 7: and stuff. And yeah, so you just got to get
Speaker 7: back in the lab, get better, and that's all we
Speaker 7: can continue to do. And we're definitely gonna do.
Speaker 1: That talk with center title Liderbomb.
Speaker 12: I mean, isn't that special? I mean that's awesome, you know,
Speaker 12: just finding a role, you know, I mean, he's the
Speaker 12: biggest human being I've ever seen. So it's it's incredible that,
Speaker 12: you know, just going there. I as first or second game.
Speaker 4: At that noticed.
Speaker 12: Okay, he might have played last week.
Speaker 4: I can't remember, Okay, but it's crazy.
Speaker 12: I'm proud of him just to be able to you know,
Speaker 12: find find a role on the team. And that's a
Speaker 12: crucial block that he had, you know, kind of it
Speaker 12: set the tempo going into that second half.
Speaker 4: But yeah, just proud of him.
Speaker 2: Coffee, you guys can well you can attack teams to
Speaker 2: run the ball. They stacked the bucks and you throw
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 6: How much coffee did you guys playing when you could
Speaker 6: beat the first several ways?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean that's a that's the goal to be
Speaker 12: efficient like that, you know, if they stack the box,
Speaker 12: you know, being able to throw the ball easier said
Speaker 12: than done. But you know, I thought we'd get it,
Speaker 12: did a good job of that today. I was just
Speaker 12: trying to be efficient as possible. When the runs are there,
Speaker 12: take it, and when the throws are there, take it
Speaker 12: as well.
Speaker 1: How does defect the mentality in the fourth quarter when
Speaker 1: you know you have Derrick Henry that you can give
Speaker 1: it to, and that's what he seems.
Speaker 2: To be at his best.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's a special back. He's a Hall of Famer back.
Speaker 12: So it's our drop to block for him, and he's
Speaker 12: gonna make one or two guys miss. He's certainly, just
Speaker 12: his size and speed, he's gonna wear down people. So
Speaker 12: it's our our drib just the block as long as possible.
Speaker 1: Does it give you a different mentality that that you
Speaker 1: can close out games when you have him in the background.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think you know teams ppreciate all the time.
Speaker 12: But I mean, he's certainly a guy that absolutely does
Speaker 12: it just with his size and speed. You know, he's
Speaker 12: a fun player to play with. And then you know,
Speaker 12: just have an eight back there as well. You know,
Speaker 12: it's it's challenging for defenses. How much confidence so you
Speaker 12: guys playing with right now?
Speaker 2: It's an offense?
Speaker 12: Yeah, continue to improve. You know, it's it's it's better
Speaker 12: to be on the winning side and learn from things
Speaker 12: then to be on the losing side and learn from things.
Speaker 12: So just got to keep getting better, keep getting better,
Speaker 12: keep improving. Yeah, but just keep stacking wins is the
Speaker 12: main goal and then learn from it.
Speaker 1: That's heard from defensive lineman Travis Jones, who came up
Speaker 1: with a sack in this game.
Speaker 21: And now you guys have four straight wins. What have
Speaker 21: you guys shown in each of those wins now.
Speaker 19: I'm just saying shows that going through adversity the first
Speaker 19: two games and not being a bounce back from that,
Speaker 19: and we got just gotta keep going.
Speaker 21: The defense, the communication, Where do you feel like that
Speaker 21: level of communication is right now?
Speaker 8: After this win?
Speaker 19: I feel like the defense we are going through the
Speaker 19: six weeks, we're starting to jail together and play together
Speaker 19: and play for one one on each other.
Speaker 11: What have you seen from Nate Wiggins?
Speaker 8: It seems like he was everywhere.
Speaker 21: Him and Marlin Humphrey who was flying around.
Speaker 19: Yeah, Nate just a young fund guy. A lot of
Speaker 19: energies been bowling.
Speaker 21: Out inside too. Then you see Roquan Smith getting after guys,
Speaker 21: great rush defense, from you guys. How does it feel
Speaker 21: after a game like that where you keep them real
Speaker 21: locked in?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 19: I thought the whole week we was talking about keeping
Speaker 19: him in the pockets because most of the rushing girls
Speaker 19: coming from scrambling. So I feel like we went out
Speaker 19: there and executed at a high level.
Speaker 20: I'm sure it's another day where you guys shut down
Speaker 20: the ground, the tackle your opportunities in there. I said
Speaker 20: you were the candidate for the breakout year. How much
Speaker 20: do you put that on? You feel like that's on
Speaker 20: your shoulders.
Speaker 19: I don't pay I don't pay too much attention to
Speaker 19: like people saying breakout here and stuff. But that's why
Speaker 19: I've out there doing my job to the highest.
Speaker 20: Levaca, you were doing that as bed as well as
Speaker 20: any d tackle in the game. What is anything change?
Speaker 20: Like you just got a little slower for you or
Speaker 20: you should what's a little different this year?
Speaker 19: I'm starting to see things a little slower and going
Speaker 19: to my third year on my body and stronger.
Speaker 11: Game.
Speaker 19: Used to throwing guys around.
Speaker 21: Off against the quarterback. You've throwing Josh Allen down there
Speaker 21: and then you're getting on jam Ns are not like
Speaker 21: bigger guys than course but you're throwing them down. Yeah,
Speaker 21: you feel like you're putting a lot of pressure on them.
Speaker 19: I feel them getting when when I get to a quarback,
Speaker 19: I want to make sure you feel me for sure.
Speaker 1: And lastly, we heard from pass rusher Yannique and got Way,
Speaker 1: who came up with a sack, his first sack of
Speaker 1: the season for the Ravens, a big.
Speaker 2: Game like this, just second back to his team. Take
Speaker 2: us through that a little bit.
Speaker 10: I mean, I'm a big believer in God. I'll give
Speaker 10: him all the praise. Everything happens for a reason. I've
Speaker 10: been I wanted to be here, you know, week one,
Speaker 10: but you know, things had to happen for me to
Speaker 10: be able to ultimately join the roster. So you know,
Speaker 10: I'm just thankful for the opportunity, thankful to the organization, uh,
Speaker 10: the front office. So just blessed to be here.
Speaker 20: When you come into the situation where now it's a
Speaker 20: four game win Street, you guys are playing some exceptional football.
Speaker 20: Just feels like the title wave going forward.
Speaker 10: Huh absolutely, I mean we're just rolling with him, man.
Speaker 10: You know, like you said, four game win streak, everybody's
Speaker 10: having a more cohesiveness. We just I could just put
Speaker 10: the energy on all three phases special teams, defense and offense.
Speaker 4: We're just clicking the.
Speaker 20: Kid over there on the other side playing quarterback.
Speaker 4: He was for a hookie.
Speaker 20: He didn't sure even look like.
Speaker 4: It about him.
Speaker 10: He's going to be special, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10: He's still young. He has more time to grow, you
Speaker 10: know what I mean before somebody of his age and
Speaker 10: somebody of his youthfulness. You know, it's great to see
Speaker 10: him do those kinds of things. And this guy's a
Speaker 10: limit phone.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you that.
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