Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Past podcast. It's Tuesday, November fourteenth,
Speaker 1: and the Ravens are gearing up for eight Thursday night
Speaker 1: football game against the Cincinnati Bengals at M and T.
Speaker 1: Banks Stadium. As Ravens prepare for that game, today, we
Speaker 1: had a chance to hear from head coach John Harball.
Speaker 2: All right, good to see everybody, appreciate you coming out.
Speaker 2: Great day for football, heck of a work day for us,
Speaker 2: and we're really getting tuned in for Thursday night.
Speaker 3: We're looking forward to it. What questions you have.
Speaker 4: John again, you know anything else to add hither Ronnie,
Speaker 4: we're balling at all.
Speaker 3: No, I mean we're on a short week. You know,
Speaker 3: guys are working.
Speaker 2: It's just a different kind of a schedule, you know.
Speaker 2: So they'll be working and we'll see how the guys,
Speaker 2: all the different guys will see how they are.
Speaker 3: Thursday really is where we're at.
Speaker 2: So guys are doing their best and we'll probably have
Speaker 2: some some good news and maybe maybe not some other ones,
Speaker 2: but guys working hard to get back.
Speaker 5: We did anything.
Speaker 3: No, just kind of the same comment I just had,
Speaker 3: you know, definite, it's.
Speaker 6: A challenges facing it too long for the second time
Speaker 6: a season opposite all the time in divisions, it's difficulty
Speaker 6: as a challenge.
Speaker 7: With that form.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really think there is a difficulty. You know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of you're used to doing it in the
Speaker 2: national football and your division. It's just part of the
Speaker 2: process and you appreciate it.
Speaker 3: You know, the teams they know you.
Speaker 2: It's a high heated rivalry. Are very familiar games, you know, so,
Speaker 2: uh but they're always different still. With that being said,
Speaker 2: so we just got to be ready for whatever happens,
Speaker 2: play our best football and uh see what we can do.
Speaker 8: Physicality STI as opposed to special Well, it's different.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you've you've got you know how
Speaker 2: as many days we came out and did what we
Speaker 2: did today, we thought, we hope it will be effective.
Speaker 3: You know, you do your best.
Speaker 2: You can try to figure out all the kind of
Speaker 2: little scientific numbers and things that go with it, but
Speaker 2: bottom line is football. I'm trying to be as sharp
Speaker 2: as we can. Thursday night, John, on topic a little bit.
Speaker 9: That's the last time you spoke to your brother and
Speaker 9: how that conversation go and do you have any opinion
Speaker 9: of everything that he's dealing with.
Speaker 6: It, what's going on in Michiary.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've talked to him quite a bit. I have
Speaker 2: a lot of opinions on it. Obviously, I'm his brother,
Speaker 2: you know, and I'm proud as heck of him. I'm
Speaker 2: really impressed with the way he's handled himself through all this.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's been a long run and h but everything,
Speaker 2: you everything can be done to you know, his phones,
Speaker 2: his computers and all this stuff I have been looked at.
Speaker 2: And he's come through this thing with flying colors and
Speaker 2: they really have you know, I don't know what they
Speaker 2: trying to get, but they don't have anything of substance.
Speaker 3: And I just think I'm proud of them.
Speaker 2: I think it's a real compliment to our family and
Speaker 2: to him, something for us to be proud of because
Speaker 2: and as kids can see this, you know, you get
Speaker 2: kind of in this kind of a situation where you
Speaker 2: become you come under fire for whatever reasons, and you
Speaker 2: come out in really good place, doing the right thing
Speaker 2: all the time. And I'm really proud of that, and
Speaker 2: I think it's great for a family and kids, and
Speaker 2: it's just a great blessing in that sense.
Speaker 3: He's a great man.
Speaker 2: He's a great coach, His players love him, his coaches
Speaker 2: love him, and UH, and he stands tall through all this.
Speaker 9: I know you got to get through Thursday, but knowing
Speaker 9: the schedule and their schedule, will you see him Saturday?
Speaker 9: Do you have plans to go to the game if
Speaker 9: this goes the way?
Speaker 6: When last week?
Speaker 9: Would you watch it with them?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That's a lot of good questions. I don't know. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: Let's uh, let's get through Thursday night and see where
Speaker 2: we're at. But I'll be I'll definitely be pulling for
Speaker 2: him and UH and the whole team on Saturday for sure.
Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, we're thinking about Thursday night one hundred percent.
Speaker 10: John question on a family.
Speaker 2: Theme as well, keeping at Jeor is the latest of
Speaker 2: a number of players you've coached whose father's played in
Speaker 2: the NFL.
Speaker 6: Is there anything that you know about the guys who
Speaker 6: can come from that background that is an advantage of
Speaker 6: making him set apart?
Speaker 11: Anyway?
Speaker 2: I think there really is an advantage, you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's grew up with it, he's he's you know, his
Speaker 2: dad is a great dad. He comes from a great family.
Speaker 2: They just have been great parents. He's been raised so well,
Speaker 2: and then he's been raised in the kind of that
Speaker 2: football environment where he's watched his dad. He's been proud
Speaker 2: of his dad. He's seen the old clips from his
Speaker 2: dad with the Ravens. It's very meaningful for him, I think,
Speaker 2: to be in the National Football League, to be here,
Speaker 2: it's the same owner is when his dad was here,
Speaker 2: you know. And he's had conversations with Steve on a
Speaker 2: regular basis, you know, And I just think those kind
Speaker 2: of things make it even more about family, you know.
Speaker 2: And once a Raven, always a Raven, and certainly in
Speaker 2: that case, it's a family affair, so it helps, there's
Speaker 2: no doubt about it.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you saw this last time when
Speaker 8: they football that having him said, the Mt.
Speaker 12: Bank Stadium is one of the.
Speaker 6: Two loudest stadiums he's ever played in.
Speaker 12: Ye just wondering what you think was the other one.
Speaker 6: The other one was Seattle.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 6: Your thoughts on the environment, especially in these night primetime.
Speaker 3: Games, Well, yeah, I mean, I'm excited. It's great.
Speaker 2: You love our fan it's great, and it's great great
Speaker 2: in the day, and it's even better at night, you know.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a great night Thursday night. We're
Speaker 2: proud to have this game. Appreciate, you know, the opportunity
Speaker 2: to play a home primetime game like this, especially such
Speaker 2: an important game like this. Our players are excited, I know,
Speaker 2: I know our coaches are excited. I know our fans
Speaker 2: are excited. Can't wait to get out there and just
Speaker 2: try to do our best, you know, and and I
Speaker 2: know our fans will be behind us one thousand percent.
Speaker 13: All these tense, hyper Weil games against the Senny, you
Speaker 13: guys have defended them very well over the last few years.
Speaker 13: What do you think has been the common.
Speaker 3: Denominator of the We've tackled well, We've covered well.
Speaker 2: You know, I think we've just you got to be disciplined,
Speaker 2: you know, you got to play good solid football childs
Speaker 2: and and that's it. And then they're gonna make their completions,
Speaker 2: they're gonna make their runs whatever here and there. You
Speaker 2: just got to do the best every play you can
Speaker 2: to keep the ball in front and play good solid
Speaker 2: football against them. Because they're a good, solid football offense,
Speaker 2: and they've got a heck of a quarterback, they've got talent,
Speaker 2: they've got an offensive line, they've got a really one
Speaker 2: of the better backs in the league for sure, tough runner,
Speaker 2: all those things. You know, they're well coached, so you
Speaker 2: just got to play good, solid defense.
Speaker 6: That deal over block on Sunday, and it looked like
Speaker 6: an overload. The cooler kind of came over the last moment,
Speaker 6: kind of picked see things up a bit.
Speaker 12: Next one were kind of diagnosed them.
Speaker 2: Went on, yeah, yeah, we just got a little push
Speaker 2: in there in the A and B gap for sure,
Speaker 2: a longer kick. I forced Tuk to try to bring
Speaker 2: the tractory down just a little bit to get it
Speaker 2: there because it was a it was a long kick
Speaker 2: in that this time of year, you know, in that
Speaker 2: kind of field. Really didn't want to be back there
Speaker 2: that far to kick it. And uh and they did
Speaker 2: a great job of rushing it and it got blocked.
Speaker 2: You know, his hand was right there in the right spot.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of how it goes. It was unfortunate, disappointing, certainly.
Speaker 2: If I had to do it again, i'd i'd i'd
Speaker 2: punt it, pin them back down there. But then if
Speaker 2: I'd a punt it, you guys would have been telling
Speaker 2: me when I'd put Tucker out there to kick it,
Speaker 2: you know, so uh, you know, hey, it's the way
Speaker 2: it goes, but it's football.
Speaker 3: Give them credit. They did a great job.
Speaker 14: I know.
Speaker 15: You know, everybody would love to play better in the
Speaker 15: fourth quarter as we go into our fourth quarter things. Uh,
Speaker 15: specifically with Lamar, is there anything when you're watching Lamar
Speaker 15: in these these sometimes in the fourth quarter that you
Speaker 15: would like to for maybe for him to improve.
Speaker 2: Upon it or well, I don't know which games are
Speaker 2: you talking about. I mean, nobody's perfect in every game.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, Lamar competes, he fights, he plays hard.
Speaker 2: You're going against the best defense in football, the schemes
Speaker 2: and it's crazy situations and I just wouldn't rather have
Speaker 2: any quarterback in the league than Lamar Jackson in a
Speaker 2: tough situation. You know, we all try to do our
Speaker 2: best in every situation. We all try to build and improve,
Speaker 2: you know, through all these experiences that we have, and
Speaker 2: he's no different. I just love his competitiveness. I'm Lamar
Speaker 2: Jackson guy.
Speaker 3: You know, that's my guy.
Speaker 2: I believe in him and I'll take him in every
Speaker 2: fourth quarter situation from here until until the end of
Speaker 2: until I'm done coaching.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that. So proud of him, and we'll
Speaker 3: roll with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 16: John.
Speaker 17: Obviously, the Bengals aren't where they've been the last couple
Speaker 17: of years in in the last place in the division.
Speaker 17: Do you have to be cautious of a team like that,
Speaker 17: especially them coming off the mallst games overly desperate?
Speaker 6: Probably?
Speaker 2: No, No, I mean this division's tight. These are the
Speaker 2: defending champs. These are the Cincinnati Bengals coming in here.
Speaker 2: We know who they are, what they're about, how good
Speaker 2: they are.
Speaker 3: This division is every team is great.
Speaker 2: So uh, we got our We We're just gonna try
Speaker 2: to play our best football against a great football team
Speaker 2: on Thursday night.
Speaker 15: All black uniforms and it's a little bit silly, doesn't
Speaker 15: get the favorite combination.
Speaker 3: I like the all blacks, you know, but I like
Speaker 3: I like them all. No, I just like the ones.
Speaker 2: When I walk in the locker room, be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I walk in the locker room and I see the
Speaker 2: uniform combination in the locker, whatever one.
Speaker 3: It is, it just gets me psyched up, you know.
Speaker 2: It's like, that's that's what that's what we're going to
Speaker 2: battle with wearing tonight, and that's the one I like
Speaker 2: the best, the one.
Speaker 5: We'll wear it.
Speaker 3: And that's just the truth.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, Man, if we'd have won,
Speaker 2: if we'd have won, the gold Pants would be higher
Speaker 2: on the rankings right now.
Speaker 1: But we didn't, so you know, that would say coach
Speaker 1: John Harball. We also talked with quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 15: Lamar, when you go against the you know, a division
Speaker 15: team again, you you faced Cleveland, you know, a couple
Speaker 15: of times in it?
Speaker 5: I is it on a short week?
Speaker 15: Is it easier to go against a defense that you
Speaker 15: are familiar with that you you kind of you know
Speaker 15: have uh uh a a feeling about.
Speaker 10: Uh depends you know, if theyre running the same defenses
Speaker 10: and stuff like that. M it might be, you know,
Speaker 10: but if they try to change it up.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 10: We might have to get a feel for the game.
Speaker 10: You know, have the beginning of the game, might not
Speaker 10: know how it starts off, but you know, it's it's
Speaker 10: what it is. I'm I'm glad we gonna you know,
Speaker 10: have these games going back to back. You know, after
Speaker 10: what happens Sunday?
Speaker 15: What was you think this?
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 1: Ravens Bengals rivalry is kind of intensified in reaching recent years.
Speaker 6: We just played a lot of big games against each other.
Speaker 6: Do you see it that way? And then you know,
Speaker 6: wh why is this riberries kind of grow in the.
Speaker 18: Last few years.
Speaker 10: I didn't I I haven't seen it that way, but
Speaker 10: you can s you can see that garage because like
Speaker 10: you said, you know, the game's been going both ways
Speaker 10: last few years.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 10: But you know, Gods just God's just a lot hungrier.
Speaker 10: You know, on both teams. Gods wanna win. But I
Speaker 10: don't believe nobody wanna win more than we do.
Speaker 5: I'll say that more.
Speaker 12: It's a quarterback coop. So so if you can get
Speaker 12: out of trouble.
Speaker 15: How tough of balance is it between maybe holding the
Speaker 15: ball a little longer to try to make him play
Speaker 15: or just throwing it away to try to kind.
Speaker 12: Of just living to fight another day?
Speaker 11: Is that kind of a tough decision that you face
Speaker 11: every weight.
Speaker 10: To get It's only a tough decision if I have
Speaker 10: to wait for the routes to develop, you know, to
Speaker 10: see if something's gonna happen. But if it's short in
Speaker 10: the media routes and stuff like that, it won't be hard,
Speaker 10: you know, decision making it be easier.
Speaker 13: Lamar You've come up with various interesting descriptions to capture
Speaker 13: you guys, various guys' speed.
Speaker 12: Over there is Keith Mitchell.
Speaker 11: What's the description on his, uh his speed?
Speaker 5: I can't tell you. I can't call it.
Speaker 10: It's I mean, you gotta see it, like every time
Speaker 10: you touch the bar, it's like one carre he's he's
Speaker 10: right here in front of me. Next thing you know,
Speaker 10: he's in his zone. And I'm celebrating them. You know,
Speaker 10: I'm ecstatic, But I don't know, I don't know. I
Speaker 10: probably have something for you later on down the line.
Speaker 15: Hey, Lamar, three all three losses this year. You guys
Speaker 15: did have the lead in that fourth quarter when you
Speaker 15: watching and kind of its self analyze yourself, is there
Speaker 15: something that you would like to maybe improve.
Speaker 5: On in the in the fourth quarters, finishing the game.
Speaker 10: When we got the ball, have control of the time,
Speaker 10: have control of the ball, keep being first downs intil
Speaker 10: class Saint zero and we up with the win. Improve
Speaker 10: it that well, Lamar, what can you do to uh
Speaker 10: improve on these guys on the nine nine rounds?
Speaker 5: Hit 'em? See? I mean, it's raight down.
Speaker 10: I'm I'm pissed off about it, to be honest with you,
Speaker 10: I don't watch the game, and it's like like it
Speaker 10: might be a difference in the game, if you know,
Speaker 10: if we connect with that one. You know, but gotta
Speaker 10: gotta can't dwell on it, you know, hopefully this Thursday,
Speaker 10: we yeah, we catch 'em when we want 'em. You know,
Speaker 10: we have success with the deep ball. We connect, have
Speaker 10: chemistry there. But I I believe it's that you know,
Speaker 10: in practice, we we do it all the time. You know,
Speaker 10: those guys catch the ball down the field forty yards
Speaker 10: fifty yards down the field.
Speaker 5: We just gotta need to we needed to trans transition
Speaker 5: over to the games. That's all Labar.
Speaker 17: Obviously, you trust all your guys that are the offensive line.
Speaker 17: But when you're in a situation like you were so
Speaker 17: there where you've got multiple back up lineing out there,
Speaker 17: how how does that affect you and how you're approaching
Speaker 17: those plays at the at those in those.
Speaker 10: Goos, I mean bullets flying, so y, I'm I'm tryna,
Speaker 10: I'm tryna make somebody of whatever play we got caught.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm not really dwelling on what's going on
Speaker 10: with the line, you know, cause I believe and it
Speaker 10: got step in you know, they they ready to go.
Speaker 5: We we have the office alignment to do it. We
Speaker 5: just need to have success with it, that's all.
Speaker 12: Mark.
Speaker 15: Do you play potentially at all when you see you're
Speaker 15: opposed to all the jury or Flord to see some
Speaker 15: of messing start res ounts or is that is that
Speaker 15: back of.
Speaker 6: You a flat process at all?
Speaker 10: Not really because uh guds went down f for Cleveland,
Speaker 10: you know, and they still end up winning the game.
Speaker 10: So I r I really don't cap pay attention to
Speaker 10: the injury report cause they don't help us. They don't
Speaker 10: benefit us at all.
Speaker 6: Mart, do you like do you like playing at night?
Speaker 6: And did does that get you amped up at all
Speaker 6: any any.
Speaker 14: More than you gal?
Speaker 12: Uper?
Speaker 5: I like playing at night daytime.
Speaker 10: I played in the morning, I say in London, Uh
Speaker 10: didn't really count in London, but over here, did you know?
Speaker 5: So every and don't matter. You know, I love the game.
Speaker 5: I'll play withever.
Speaker 6: Is Is there any extra juice though for you being
Speaker 6: in the only game in the spotlight and and that
Speaker 6: sort of thing?
Speaker 5: Are you used better? Well?
Speaker 10: You a m atmate stadium at night time with with
Speaker 10: our crowds, it's electric flying So I'm definitely pumped to
Speaker 10: being that in the atmosphere.
Speaker 6: Where do you think it is the all black uniforms
Speaker 6: that you.
Speaker 12: Guys would go with?
Speaker 5: Sexy? It's a sexy color.
Speaker 12: I like the color.
Speaker 14: With the everybody's talking in Cincinnati about how there's a
Speaker 14: must win game for them, a row and two in
Speaker 14: the division prove and four?
Speaker 11: Do you you in a similar terms for you guys,
Speaker 11: giving what happened the last.
Speaker 10: Time, Jeff, every game for us a muss a must
Speaker 10: win for us, you know, not just because in it's
Speaker 10: in a the vision game, but we we definitely I
Speaker 10: I believe our team is definitely m a lot hungrier
Speaker 10: just from what happened Sunday and the division lost in
Speaker 10: the close game. We definitely hungry as well.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson. Wind back of Roquan Smith
Speaker 1: also talked about what he expects from this game, and
Speaker 1: it is clear that Roquan is looking forward not backwards
Speaker 1: as the Ravens prepare for the game against Cincinnati.
Speaker 12: What were you bought on the game?
Speaker 5: You go find to go down to.
Speaker 17: The fourth quarter?
Speaker 7: Honestly, today's Tuesday. We have a Sunday night. I'm in
Speaker 7: a Thursday night. Game, So I'll shift my focus to that,
Speaker 7: like you know, learn from the mistakes and just move on.
Speaker 7: And that's where my mind is, and that's what the
Speaker 7: guys are. Got a good Bengals team coming into town.
Speaker 17: Are you any more you know, extra pump to get
Speaker 17: to that, to that Bengals game to kind of wipe
Speaker 17: away whatever.
Speaker 6: Happened in the last game.
Speaker 12: I'm excited.
Speaker 7: You know, it's a short week, you know, get the
Speaker 7: nasty taste out your mouth, being able to just get
Speaker 7: back out and play the game that we all love.
Speaker 12: So I'm excited to get back out there.
Speaker 7: It's a home game, so know the bank's gonna be rocking,
Speaker 7: So ready to get out there and do what we
Speaker 7: have to do.
Speaker 9: Personally, what other challenges of having a short league?
Speaker 7: As your insistent lean other day, I think it's different
Speaker 7: for each and every individual. For me, I don't see
Speaker 7: any line it up. It could have been a game today.
Speaker 7: I'm ready like so, and I'll definitely be ready on
Speaker 7: Thursday for Requine.
Speaker 15: Requine, I know you wanted before, but in all the
Speaker 15: losses this year and you guys have had the lead
Speaker 15: in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 12: W why why do you what do you think.
Speaker 15: It's gonna take for you guys to in end those situations,
Speaker 15: to maybe reverse it and finish out those those close
Speaker 15: games that you you know in the end this year that.
Speaker 7: You have lost the game Thursday. That's what I'm focused on,
Speaker 7: the game Thursday. You know, what's behind us is the past.
Speaker 7: I'm looking forward to the future at the end of
Speaker 7: the day. Yeah, some things throughout the game that uh,
Speaker 7: we don't like, but hey, that's the past, like I said,
Speaker 7: and I'm focused on, uh, Thursday Night at the Bank.
Speaker 6: On Joe Burrow, the.
Speaker 17: Singers to be healthier right now than he was the
Speaker 17: first time. What what do you see him do differently
Speaker 17: lately than he was able to do back when you
Speaker 17: guys played him earlier.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, definitely, Uh last couple of games. Been able
Speaker 7: to move around, definitely a bit more. But hey, you know,
Speaker 7: we've seen him healthy, we've seen him not healthy, So
Speaker 7: it don't really matter. They're gonna come ready, so we're
Speaker 7: gonna come. So it'll be whoever's the best at night.
Speaker 12: And I like us Brokln one.
Speaker 13: Of the US defensive players. Kind of perspective on Keaton
Speaker 13: Mitchell and when you get a smaller, faster, fact like
Speaker 13: that sort of suddenly coming in the game. Can I
Speaker 13: put a lot of stress on a defense? Is a
Speaker 13: change of pace?
Speaker 7: Well, I think it just depends on what you're looking
Speaker 7: at as a defense. But when the guy touches the balls,
Speaker 7: we all see that he's very electric and do a
Speaker 7: lot of great things with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 7: I've seen it throughout camp. Uh and Ota is going
Speaker 7: up on like wheel rocks and things like that. So
Speaker 7: I definitely know the guy has a lot of potential.
Speaker 7: So I'm just excited for his future and I'm sure
Speaker 7: they'll make good use of him.
Speaker 6: We'll go what is made this right?
Speaker 8: Raven's things live Lord as intense.
Speaker 6: As it is his last couple of years.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 7: One, I think you know, uh switching switching ties Whereas
Speaker 7: like you know, both teams are winning, and I think
Speaker 7: when you're winning, that's what makes rivor more intense. So
Speaker 7: because when two teams losing, the one team is losing,
Speaker 7: it's not.
Speaker 12: Really a rivaly.
Speaker 7: Some they say it based off history, but far as
Speaker 7: just like within the last couple of years, I think
Speaker 7: it's just the winning, the winning, both sides winning.
Speaker 19: Bro.
Speaker 8: You guys have done a good job against fingals and
Speaker 8: cut down on big plays and get.
Speaker 6: Them on the ground pretty quickly. And how much is
Speaker 6: tackling a point of emphasis this week?
Speaker 12: It's gonna definitely be huge.
Speaker 7: Knowing tackling is back to the fundamentals and that's what
Speaker 7: we're getting back to and that's gonna be crucial this week.
Speaker 7: So I'm excited to get out there and showcase that
Speaker 7: ability that I can do as well as the rest
Speaker 7: of the defense. So we're definitely excited about the opportunity.
Speaker 6: And then you're looking forward. But twenty one tackles this
Speaker 6: past week was a career or high for you? Just
Speaker 6: what did that feel like?
Speaker 16: For a year?
Speaker 7: Man, I don't really care, if I'm being honest, Like
Speaker 7: I was more so concerned about the w like I'll
Speaker 7: tell you before, Like I can have like Seattle five
Speaker 7: tackles and like we win, I'm happy, And that's what
Speaker 7: I truly care more about. It's not about statistics for me,
Speaker 7: Like if I was into that, like you would know,
Speaker 7: trust me, they were up.
Speaker 6: One of Fat Holmes was.
Speaker 1: On one of that Football Man casts last night, said
Speaker 1: that in Baltimore and Seattle relenty places he's never had
Speaker 1: to use a silent.
Speaker 6: Bounce because of how loud it is.
Speaker 1: How do you see that that Drod goes the impact things?
Speaker 7: You know, I was expecting a lot out of here
Speaker 7: first say night, Oh yeah, it's definitely gonna be a
Speaker 7: hostile environment. Credit that to the fans honestly, And yeah, man,
Speaker 7: even for me personally, like echoing the call out to
Speaker 7: the defense sometimes where it's just like guys would be
Speaker 7: like what what you know, like multiple times, like with
Speaker 7: the noise being so loud. But it's just a credit
Speaker 7: to the home crowd, man. And it's a hostile environment
Speaker 7: to play in, and that's the way we love it
Speaker 7: so enjoy playing here.
Speaker 6: You mentioned the environment. Just curious is there a difference
Speaker 6: when you playing you know you you know, standing in
Speaker 6: a game that sort of thing.
Speaker 7: Honestly, man, No, like I always said, and like it
Speaker 7: said sometimes like joking, but like I truly can play
Speaker 7: this game seven am, twelve o'clock at night, out of
Speaker 7: the bar, two three in the morning.
Speaker 12: Whatever you need, I'm here, trusting about talk.
Speaker 6: The all the all black uniforms. Mark Lamar called him sexy.
Speaker 12: I don't know, yeah, he called him sexy.
Speaker 7: Wow you meet you MEIQ way to explain him, describe
Speaker 7: him in a sense. But no, I would say I
Speaker 7: think of when I think of like black, like all black,
Speaker 7: pretty much what I'm wearing right now. I think of
Speaker 7: just like you know, like physical death row type defense.
Speaker 7: Like that's what I That's what I think of when
Speaker 7: I see like black. It's like more of like, okay,
Speaker 7: show me what you're about, because like, if not, we're
Speaker 7: gonna show you.
Speaker 12: So that's how I associate black in my head. Honestly,
Speaker 12: proud of you.
Speaker 6: Georgia Root's Big Boys performing on Theresa the other favorite.
Speaker 12: Outcast song.
Speaker 7: One more Time your favorite outcast on favorite Outcast song? No,
Speaker 7: like that was a little bit before my time.
Speaker 12: Yeah, sorry, that.
Speaker 1: Was linebacker Kwan Smith and as into the locker room.
Speaker 1: We also had a chance to talk with his teammate,
Speaker 1: fellow linebacker Patrick Queen.
Speaker 19: The States were made. We all know what in the
Speaker 19: stakes are, but there's riden no time to like just
Speaker 19: dwell on and try to capitalize on that moment we got,
Speaker 19: just capitalize on the moment that we got coming up.
Speaker 19: So all our our eyes is just on Cincinnata. Just
Speaker 19: go out there and perform at our best.
Speaker 9: When are the things that you're that you're seeing.
Speaker 19: Or what did you see in the Sunday just ain't finished.
Speaker 19: Everybody as a as a whole, just ain't do our
Speaker 19: job to the forest that we needed to and that
Speaker 19: show on the field. So just now it's all focus
Speaker 19: on Thursday and just playing our best games.
Speaker 9: What is the turnaround like to Thursday? Not only that,
Speaker 9: but two games in the AC one.
Speaker 19: Yeah, it's tough, but I mean at the end of
Speaker 19: the day, nobody care. Uh So we just gotta go
Speaker 19: out there, perform our best and try to get this win.
Speaker 8: Well, the Bengals kind of the perfect team to kind
Speaker 8: of get that taste out of your mouth.
Speaker 19: If you won't put it that way, you can, But
Speaker 19: I mean it's just at in of the day, it's
Speaker 19: another football game. It's a division game, a game that
Speaker 19: we need to win. It's just another another team and way, so,
Speaker 19: uh we gotta go out there and play our best game.
Speaker 19: Try to get these guys out the way here. Just
Speaker 19: try to get to this long little.
Speaker 6: Burt Patrick, you bottled the uh all black uniforms. What
Speaker 6: are your what's your take on the all black look?
Speaker 19: I loved all black. I think we should wear more
Speaker 19: of honestly, Uh, probably that's probably the best combo to me.
Speaker 6: Does it get the guys like?
Speaker 11: Does that look kind of add another level of energy to.
Speaker 12: The guys, Like?
Speaker 19: Is it Nah? I think I think that the energy
Speaker 19: just comes from the stadium itself. I think, Uh, no
Speaker 19: matter what we wear or whatever color combination we got,
Speaker 19: I think we're gonna play as best as we can
Speaker 19: with as much drive and passion as we can. I
Speaker 19: think just having the black uniform against the state up
Speaker 19: state in rocking a little bit more in terms.
Speaker 3: Of that energy a state.
Speaker 6: Is there anything else you'll just did that when you
Speaker 6: play a Nike and Prime Time that sort of thing.
Speaker 19: Exactly. It's just it's a playoff atmosphere. Uh, especially with
Speaker 19: that team what they've been doing lately. Uh, It's just it's,
Speaker 19: like I said, a playoff atmosphere. So we just gotta
Speaker 19: go out there, like I said, play our best game,
Speaker 19: not try to put too much press our show. Just
Speaker 19: go out there and have fun.
Speaker 5: Honestly, does you uh have a home.
Speaker 1: Say yesterday that Baltimore's wall two stags where he's ever
Speaker 1: had to use a silent gallons?
Speaker 6: Also, I'm curious when you're on the field that and
Speaker 6: it's it's that loud. How does that impact thank the
Speaker 6: offense to any of that defense.
Speaker 19: Yeah, Uh, with the offense, they gotta use more signals,
Speaker 19: they gotta take their time on stuff. They can't really
Speaker 19: just like quick quick snap everything. And they got to
Speaker 19: make sure everybody on the same phase. So that's a
Speaker 19: favorite for us. But for as a defense, it's hard
Speaker 19: to hear each other. It's hard to communicate. But that's
Speaker 19: when you really gotta like hone in on each other,
Speaker 19: h just to communicates, just as cannag just understand the
Speaker 19: game plans so that way everybody can be on.
Speaker 5: The same page.
Speaker 6: Jack Burrow's healthier than he was the first summer around.
Speaker 8: What do you see from their offense in recent weeks
Speaker 8: and what's kind of the key to stopping up.
Speaker 19: Their offense goes that he goes Uh Yeah, obviously when
Speaker 19: he was hurt, they weren't doing as good. Now that
Speaker 19: he's back, can move around and make every throw outside
Speaker 19: the pocket inside of the pocket. Uh, you could just
Speaker 19: you definitely could tell that he's back to him. So
Speaker 19: that's a good that's a great test for us that
Speaker 19: we gotta go out there and uh perform and just
Speaker 19: being able to stock them and control him.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Patrick Queen. We also talked with rookie
Speaker 1: wide receiver Zay Flowers, who's preparing for his first prime
Speaker 1: time NFL game.
Speaker 8: They just what are the emotions going into a primetime
Speaker 8: game for you?
Speaker 18: I'm excited. I'm ready to play like it's my first one,
Speaker 18: so I want to see how they I want to
Speaker 18: see how I go. We got a all black too,
Speaker 18: so it should be fun.
Speaker 8: You have memories of being a kid and staying up
Speaker 8: late watching watching prime tames.
Speaker 12: Uh No, not as a kid.
Speaker 18: I ain't really watching a lot of football as a kid,
Speaker 18: but I say more in high school. I remember watching
Speaker 18: them man like and joint, watching them and wanting to
Speaker 18: play on and playing them.
Speaker 12: What are your thoughts on the Ravens All black art? Nasty,
Speaker 12: ain't nice. I couldn't wait to wear those I can
Speaker 12: we go wear black? When we go wear black? Now
Speaker 12: we finally wear black, so I'm ready.
Speaker 11: There's too much talk in Cincinnati, but have to see
Speaker 11: some busts swim the game for them.
Speaker 12: They're rolling to the division. How do you do you
Speaker 12: almost approach it? We approach it. You guys have to
Speaker 12: be desperate now.
Speaker 18: I mean it's a muscle win for us too if
Speaker 18: you want to stay ahead of the division. So we're
Speaker 18: going there and were probably desperate as them, even though
Speaker 18: we are heading a division.
Speaker 1: What's you're taking on Thursday night, you know, and how
Speaker 1: you're getting ready to play?
Speaker 18: The Vets told me just take care of your body
Speaker 18: and just make sure you're ready on Thursday, because it
Speaker 18: happened five to play Sunday.
Speaker 5: Then we got Monday when we did a little walkthrough.
Speaker 18: And come on, and now we're just getting ready. So
Speaker 18: I'm just trying to take care of my body and
Speaker 18: make sure I'm ready on Thursday.
Speaker 8: Look like the Browns had a lot of trouble keeping
Speaker 8: up with you and man to man coverage. When you
Speaker 8: see man coverage, does that kind of excite you a
Speaker 8: little bit more?
Speaker 18: Yeah, a little bit, because I probe myself on winning
Speaker 18: one on one matchup. So to get it and to
Speaker 18: win and to do what I do after with the
Speaker 18: ball is just something I probe myself, you.
Speaker 11: Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 12: How about the field mast, you know, get so much
Speaker 12: separational man, no man coverage, man, what are you doing?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 18: What what's your technique, the secret just be quicker than
Speaker 18: everybody else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was rookie wide receiver Zay Flowers. We also
Speaker 1: talked with wide receiver or shot Babeman.
Speaker 9: Well Nor was asked about the deep connection not being there.
Speaker 6: You guys.
Speaker 9: Can help dating for assist offense can be when you
Speaker 9: can take a top off.
Speaker 20: I mean it's a work in progress for sure, but
Speaker 20: I mean, you know that's what practice for will connected.
Speaker 20: It's time to connect and you know, uh Lamar holding
Speaker 20: himself to a house candary.
Speaker 11: You know, I think it's well, so we'll get it,
Speaker 11: you know, but in due time, given nature and I have.
Speaker 9: Seen North how tight it is, how different Cincinnatis since
Speaker 9: we two when you guys saw him in Sunday's results
Speaker 9: just have a bigger feel. And it's primetime.
Speaker 12: It's just really another game, you know.
Speaker 20: I just think right now, we just got to take
Speaker 20: care of our bodies, you know, both teams and my
Speaker 20: strong you know, do what we need to do.
Speaker 5: It take care of business.
Speaker 9: You've heard so much about not finishing and defense. But
Speaker 9: from your perspective, what can it take? Is it that
Speaker 9: simple to figure out just kind of the three games
Speaker 9: this season of having the League League and not being
Speaker 9: able to I.
Speaker 20: Think it's very simple. You know, we've definitely beat ourselves
Speaker 20: and all of our losses. So I think that we
Speaker 20: just need to ascute at a higher level or you know,
Speaker 20: finished games.
Speaker 12: You know, we all know that, and so I think
Speaker 12: that's what.
Speaker 6: We're gonna work on going sure.
Speaker 8: La Mar talked about his frustration with himself about not
Speaker 8: hitting more of the deep balls, because what does it take?
Speaker 19: How do you?
Speaker 11: How do you do that in season?
Speaker 12: With improve on that and hitting more practice?
Speaker 5: You do that practice.
Speaker 20: So h that's what we do every day and we'll
Speaker 20: continue to work on it. But PACs is key, and
Speaker 20: you know we'll hit it when we hit it.
Speaker 12: You know, you take your fashion to yourself. Get a
Speaker 12: favorite uniform combinations this one that we're wearing Thursday for sure?
Speaker 12: All black.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 20: I like all purple too, but all black definitely rings
Speaker 20: a bellt me, what do you what.
Speaker 11: Kind of stevens the Blacks say it again?
Speaker 12: What kind of stevens?
Speaker 8: Do you think?
Speaker 6: The old black unions.
Speaker 12: Don't really make a statement?
Speaker 11: Is that's an uniform?
Speaker 12: Still gotta go play football. So we'll see.
Speaker 3: Is there is there a part of that.
Speaker 6: Sort of.
Speaker 11: It's definitely cool.
Speaker 20: You know, growing up, you know want to play in
Speaker 20: the NFL, watching time time games. There's definitely something that
Speaker 20: I've jurmed by playing that. So I'm definitely looking forward
Speaker 20: to it. Monday night, Sunday night, Thursday night, or whatever
Speaker 20: you do.
Speaker 11: Is so there's definitely awesome feeling.
Speaker 9: We're the NFL. You had injuries this offense. We see
Speaker 9: what happens when when you get the ball. Have you
Speaker 9: considered yourself a patient person before entering the NFL.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I've always had to wait my turn, and it
Speaker 20: comes to me when it comes to me. But the
Speaker 20: one thing I learned about the NFL is, you know,
Speaker 20: it's not a one man's game, but this offense has
Speaker 20: a lot of weapons.
Speaker 11: So honestly, just got to be pation do a special
Speaker 11: for the team.
Speaker 12: Just wait until that time. Gun, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: That was wide receiver Vershan Bateman. We also had a
Speaker 1: chance to talk with veteran offensive tackle Morgan Moses. Now
Speaker 1: he's been dealing with a shoulder injury for the last
Speaker 1: few games to not play on Sunday, but he indicated
Speaker 1: that he's going to be ready to play this week.
Speaker 1: And here's what he had to say, get.
Speaker 11: Prepared myself to get ready for this. You know, I'm excited.
Speaker 21: You know, it's been a while, so you know, I
Speaker 21: haven't missed a lot of games in my career, so
Speaker 21: just being able to get out there, you know, be
Speaker 21: in the huddle, get back used to Lamar calling the plays,
Speaker 21: being with the guys, all those little things that you
Speaker 21: take for granted. But you know, the time off, you know,
Speaker 21: it makes you look yourself in the mirror and realize,
Speaker 21: you know, what you've been missing out on and the
Speaker 21: things that you you know, you you truly appreciate.
Speaker 11: So I'm happy to be out there.
Speaker 12: With the guys.
Speaker 9: You're prepared to be there Thursday.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm prepared.
Speaker 11: I'm prepared yet else you.
Speaker 9: Kind of smoke to it, but you're guy has a
Speaker 9: lot of Brian that does not miss much time.
Speaker 12: Yep.
Speaker 1: And I guess how challenging hasn't been for you knowing
Speaker 1: that of course of the season, having.
Speaker 11: The time, but you have not, it's been very challenging.
Speaker 21: But you know, like I said, we got a great
Speaker 21: group of guys in his locker room, very uplifting and
Speaker 21: just finding, you know, different ways that I can be
Speaker 21: there for the guys you know, Patrick, Pat McCary obviously,
Speaker 21: Ronnie Daniel, you know, watching film and with them and
Speaker 21: and kind of seeing telling them what I see from
Speaker 21: a veteran's perspective and things like that, and that kind
Speaker 21: of helps you, you know, sharpen your your your tools
Speaker 21: as well. So just continue pressing forward and just getting
Speaker 21: ready for miss those games.
Speaker 14: I know you don't watch some obviously, but he kind
Speaker 14: of help having Patrick McCarry on hind and what he.
Speaker 21: Brings to the team one hundred percent. You know, he's
Speaker 21: not a backup and we consider him as a starter man.
Speaker 21: What he brings into the table every day being I mean,
Speaker 21: I don't think it's another guy in this league that
Speaker 21: can go in there and play for off our positions
Speaker 21: and doing that at a great level level.
Speaker 11: So you know, we've always respected him.
Speaker 21: And you know, the thing about us, especially the tackles man,
Speaker 21: we all sit down together and we we you know,
Speaker 21: we we look at the film, we talk about football
Speaker 21: at and how we can help one another.
Speaker 11: And that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 21: You know, when you got a lot of teammates in
Speaker 21: the locker room like that that you can feed off
Speaker 21: of one another you know, it's just a great feeling.
Speaker 22: Norgan What do you see out of the Cincinnati front
Speaker 22: and what do you see about from their defensive brow?
Speaker 21: You know, obviously it's it's the division. You know, everybody
Speaker 21: plays hard, everybody plays well. You know that they have
Speaker 21: a great defense. You know, they got a lot of
Speaker 21: skills setting and they play a lot of things. You
Speaker 21: know they got you know, they got guys on every
Speaker 21: different level of the defense. And you know, as for
Speaker 21: us to go out there and we gotta execute and
Speaker 21: play our top game. You know, everybody's gonna be watching
Speaker 21: this Thursday night.
Speaker 12: It's a big game.
Speaker 11: It's a big game in the division. So you know,
Speaker 11: we gotta make sure we do the things that we
Speaker 11: need to do to take care of it, take care
Speaker 11: of the job.
Speaker 22: You're talking about that big game. You know, you've you've
Speaker 22: played a lot of big games in this league. And
Speaker 22: when you look at you know what, you guys know
Speaker 22: what happened on Sunday too to both of you guys,
Speaker 22: instancy and where you guys hoop to be at the
Speaker 22: end of the year, given the stand ups at this point,
Speaker 22: how big does it make it on Thursday?
Speaker 19: Though?
Speaker 11: You know, obviously man, it's the road through success, you know.
Speaker 21: And you know, obviously we gotta do the things and
Speaker 21: that we need to take care of to execute those things.
Speaker 11: And you know, for us, it's just to put one
Speaker 11: foot at the time, you know. You know, it's a
Speaker 11: short week, you know, you.
Speaker 21: Know, guys are doing everything they can to have to
Speaker 21: prepare themselves with their bodies ready.
Speaker 11: But when those lights turn on on Thursday, man, I
Speaker 11: think guys will be ready to go.
Speaker 2: We're gonna to the AFC North And here you are
Speaker 2: playing two division games in five days.
Speaker 5: How do you describe what you've.
Speaker 6: Warned this division to be when your teams go ahead
Speaker 6: to head like Neston.
Speaker 21: Oh, man, you know, you gotta get the ice tubs ready,
Speaker 21: you gotta get the sound and ready, all the all
Speaker 21: the the recovery equipment, cause you know it's gonna be
Speaker 21: a battle. You know, anything that's held up over the
Speaker 21: last three days, it's it's probably gonna the scab is
Speaker 21: probably gonna pill off anyway. So you know, you just
Speaker 21: have to go in there with that mindset, that boxing mentality,
Speaker 21: and then be ready to play.
Speaker 8: From an offensive lineman's perspective, how do you like the
Speaker 8: all black uniforms.
Speaker 12: Oh sick man.
Speaker 21: Anytime you get to wear all black, you know, Uh,
Speaker 21: I told you somebody this earlier. I said, you can
Speaker 21: match the cleets up with pretty much anything.
Speaker 11: So it'll be fun.
Speaker 21: Though obviously, uh, you know, the stadium is gonna be
Speaker 21: all blacked out. It's an eight o'clock games, so it'll
Speaker 21: be nice.
Speaker 11: One or you canna talked about the physical challenges of
Speaker 11: a short week.
Speaker 14: But with the beat division rival team that you're very
Speaker 14: familiar with, is it a little bit easier for from
Speaker 14: prepare for that game against a division opponent as it
Speaker 14: moves to if you're playing an NFC team.
Speaker 21: No, I wouldn't say that. You know, every game is
Speaker 21: a challenging you know everything. You know, everybody brings their
Speaker 21: best on Sunday. Everybody has a change up, you know,
Speaker 21: So whatever we saw, you know weeks ago when we
Speaker 21: played them, it'll.
Speaker 11: Be something different.
Speaker 21: You know, they're excited, we're excited, so you know, we'll
Speaker 21: see what we strap up on Thursday.
Speaker 1: That was right tackle Morgan Moses and last wee we
Speaker 1: also talked with center Tyler Linderbaum.
Speaker 16: Like I said earlier, you know a lot of good players.
Speaker 16: You know, players a unit play as a team. I
Speaker 16: think they lead the U League and interceptions, so they
Speaker 16: look for takeaways and you know that's where they're gonna
Speaker 16: try to be doing. You know, it's it's our job
Speaker 16: to play our kind of football execution and then just
Speaker 16: be ready to go on Thursday.
Speaker 22: He'll STEPI elizard playing in the atmosphere like a prime
Speaker 22: time game.
Speaker 12: You're at home and you're the only game on. Yeah.
Speaker 16: Uh, you know, all eyes are on US Baltimore VERUS Cincinnati,
Speaker 16: So you know it's gonna be it's gonna be good.
Speaker 16: You're gonna have to get our bodies ready for Thursday.
Speaker 16: They're gonna have to do the same thing and come
Speaker 16: out there ready to perform.
Speaker 8: How important do you think, you know, running the ball?
Speaker 8: You guys are still tops to the league. You know,
Speaker 8: establishing the run against the Bengals defense, how important do
Speaker 8: you feel like that's gonna be.
Speaker 16: I think anytime you can get the run game going,
Speaker 16: it's gonna, you know, benefit you as an offense, especially
Speaker 16: as old lineman.
Speaker 12: You know, that's our that's our that's our model. That's
Speaker 12: what we want to do. Get the run game going,
Speaker 12: and then that leads to other things.
Speaker 16: But you know, at the end of the day, we
Speaker 16: run whatever it is called, and we do our best,
Speaker 16: you know, to protect Lamar and he finds the open
Speaker 16: receivers and then yeah, it all works out in itself.
Speaker 8: We've been asking everybody their thoughts on the black uniforms
Speaker 8: as as an offensive lineman is is all black?
Speaker 12: Is it slimming?
Speaker 11: What's your what's your feeling on all black?
Speaker 12: Definitely, I think it's better than all white, So so
Speaker 12: we're definitely happy with the uniforms.
Speaker 1: That was center Tyler Linderbaum. You're listening for the Ravens
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Speaker 1: That's it for us here today, but stay tuned. We're
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