Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. Today is Thursday,
Speaker 1: October tenth. The Ravens werepairing for a Sunday's game against
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders, and today we heard from the coordinators.
Speaker 1: So let's kick it off with offensive coordinator at Todd Munkett.
Speaker 2: For two hundred and some yards against the Bills. This
Speaker 2: past week, you're throwing for three hundred and forty some
Speaker 2: yards against the Bengals. What do you think that says
Speaker 2: about this offense?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean we talked about it last.
Speaker 4: Week, you know, and everybody kind of said identity, what
Speaker 4: is that? I think in order to be elite, you
Speaker 4: have to be versatile enough to win games in a
Speaker 4: variety of modes, methods, whatever it takes. And I thought
Speaker 4: our guys did a really good job last week of
Speaker 4: accepting that. I mean, certainly there was at some point
Speaker 4: going to be a defense that made the decision that
Speaker 4: they were going to load the box, they were going
Speaker 4: to pressure us, they'd had a certain plan, and I
Speaker 4: thought our guys adjusted on the fly and did a
Speaker 4: great job speaking with of.
Speaker 5: The pressure that you guys, again, the success against the
Speaker 5: blitz that you have really was out standing last week,
Speaker 5: and it's kind of the evolution from what we've seen
Speaker 5: the last couple of years ago. If Lamar understand it,
Speaker 5: can talk about the sort of that evolution, and everyone
Speaker 5: also a fun understanding how best to handle them, how
Speaker 5: to attack it.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. It just worked the other day.
Speaker 4: You know, We've been working hard at a lot of
Speaker 4: things offensively, and I thought our guys prepared great last week.
Speaker 4: I thought they had a great understanding of what we
Speaker 4: could see. But you still have to go do it.
Speaker 4: And it helps helps having Lamar, you know, he has
Speaker 4: a way of buying time, you know.
Speaker 3: You know the touchdown debate was a perfect example.
Speaker 4: They went zero. We blocked by the protection we had.
Speaker 4: We blocked who we could worked out Lamar was able
Speaker 4: to slide to the right. I have patience and still
Speaker 4: be able to hit bait who came open on the
Speaker 4: other side. So but I thought our guys bought into
Speaker 4: what we thought we could see and then protection wise
Speaker 4: and then executed. The guys had to run the right
Speaker 4: routes and make plays down the field.
Speaker 6: How pleased is it for you as an office coordinator
Speaker 6: to see the ball spread around as much as it
Speaker 6: was some day I think the guys had nine different
Speaker 6: guys catch a past. Charlie Kohler has a couple of
Speaker 6: big plays. Don't really see him involved too often in
Speaker 6: the in the past game. That is, were you pleased
Speaker 6: to see everybody kind of get involved?
Speaker 4: Not as happy as they were? I really don't care.
Speaker 4: I mean, I love that our guys touch the ball.
Speaker 4: I mean what really matters is that we score points.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't always control that, but I did
Speaker 4: tell the players. I mean, you know, I do truly
Speaker 4: understand skilled players and their value of being able to
Speaker 4: touch the ball, being able to contribute in that way.
Speaker 3: Is it great for us moving forward?
Speaker 4: Morale practice a opportunities, of course, But ultimately, sometimes the
Speaker 4: ball finds them. Sometimes situations find them. Sometimes personnel groupings
Speaker 4: find them. That gets them in a certain look, that
Speaker 4: finds a player, If that makes sense. I think sometimes
Speaker 4: people are like, well, why did you throw it here?
Speaker 4: That guy will Sometimes that's by game plan, that's by
Speaker 4: what we're going to see. Some of it's by what
Speaker 4: they do, some of it's by what we do, so
Speaker 4: that that's part of it.
Speaker 3: So but.
Speaker 4: I did a roundabout way of your question. But no,
Speaker 4: it's it's it's great to see those guys to all contribute.
Speaker 4: The game kind of went that way, and so you know,
Speaker 4: it adds to okay the next week, you know, you know,
Speaker 4: our guys feeling good about just where we're headed. But again,
Speaker 4: it's it's it's one week. I mean, it's you know,
Speaker 4: it's still weak to week. I mean, what we do
Speaker 4: this week is is uh, you know, what we've done
Speaker 4: in the last five weeks doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: It's what we do this week. You know, we've gotten
Speaker 3: pretty much.
Speaker 7: Everyone else's reaction a little.
Speaker 8: More touchdown after the stiff arm as you're watching.
Speaker 9: That, what it kind of your media reaction in the
Speaker 9: oppress box.
Speaker 4: Well, first it was open, like all right, you know,
Speaker 4: that's the first reaction, you know, because I thought initially
Speaker 4: we're gonna have a touch I say, we're gonna get
Speaker 4: a good touchdown here, and then didn't realize we're gonna
Speaker 4: take another fifteen seconds for that to develop. But I mean,
Speaker 4: I mean, what do you say? I mean, what do
Speaker 4: you say? I mean, what a tremendous play you know
Speaker 4: by by announcetanding football player, I mean what else?
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 4: I can't say anything different than what everybody else's has said.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, what a great.
Speaker 8: Play, stiff arms did you draw up on that one?
Speaker 3: I mean, I dropped one, stiff arm. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: just what he does.
Speaker 4: You know, probably more impressive was right before the half
Speaker 4: the sack he got up that he threw away. That
Speaker 4: was even more impressive than the one he threw the
Speaker 4: touchdown on that he got away from ninety one and
Speaker 4: saved us there. It happens more often than than that.
Speaker 4: It's just that that's the one that showed up because
Speaker 4: the result with him the touchdown.
Speaker 3: But what a great play by him and and by Isaiah.
Speaker 10: And I wanted over time but he had too fumble.
Speaker 11: What do you make of why they happen?
Speaker 9: And what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Oh, it's never been a problem. It just happened to be.
Speaker 4: You know, you'll have to ask Lamar like it. I
Speaker 4: don't see it being a problem. You know, hasn't been
Speaker 4: balls rarely on the ground with him. I don't know,
Speaker 4: you'll have to ask him like it's we're not doing
Speaker 4: extra shotgun snaps because of it's it's never been a problem,
Speaker 4: you know, So I'm just happened to come up twice
Speaker 4: Obviously Lamar has played at.
Speaker 8: A high level for a long time as us you
Speaker 8: at the piece, but.
Speaker 4: How well he played in that game.
Speaker 2: Specifically in relations with Pize's questions of blitz.
Speaker 6: Pick up the pre snap stuff that you guys have
Speaker 6: worked on so much this offseason.
Speaker 11: Do you see this?
Speaker 8: Is this a springboard game? Could this be a springboard
Speaker 8: game for him?
Speaker 1: That it's at another level now for him?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't I mean a spremeboard game. I mean,
Speaker 4: am I happy by the way it turned out and
Speaker 4: how we played in that particular game. Yes, did he
Speaker 4: get the ball out on time?
Speaker 3: Yes? Did you do a good job moverund the pocket?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 3: Did he go to do a great job of escaping? Yes?
Speaker 3: Did your guys do a great job in protection for
Speaker 3: the most part. Yes.
Speaker 4: Now, it's just a matter of the consistency part of it.
Speaker 4: You know, we've had moments where that's been that way,
Speaker 4: and there's been others when it hasn't. So each week
Speaker 4: is a new challenge, and what the commanders will do.
Speaker 4: We'll throw us another wrench, you know, because they see
Speaker 4: what we did and how we protected and and they'll
Speaker 4: work to combat that and then we've got to continue
Speaker 4: to work ourselves.
Speaker 3: It's just a constant chess match.
Speaker 8: Turnover that you had on the offensive line, you know,
Speaker 8: talking point summer, talking point in the first two weeks
Speaker 8: after a game like the whole line just had What
Speaker 8: do you kind of feel like is the greatest strikes
Speaker 8: received from that group and really short amount.
Speaker 4: Oh, I justs reps and confidence, you know, I think that's.
Speaker 3: What's going to help an offensive line.
Speaker 4: Your ability to run the football, that's really what's gonna
Speaker 4: help overall, just as a general ability to run play
Speaker 4: action right, not being in passing situations. That's not our
Speaker 4: old line. That's everybody you know, our ability to do that,
Speaker 4: and we've been able to do that for the most part.
Speaker 4: But I did think they held up great because that
Speaker 4: wasn't the case in the second half the other day.
Speaker 3: That's that's what was impressive. That was exciting. But also
Speaker 3: confidence reps.
Speaker 4: I think the more and more of a player plays
Speaker 4: and gets comfortable with the guy next to them, I
Speaker 4: think it's a you know, we're only going to continue
Speaker 4: to get better moving forward because we still have a
Speaker 4: lot of young players, whether it's still our center, our
Speaker 4: right guard and obviously Pat is and our left side
Speaker 4: isn't so much with where we're at now, but the
Speaker 4: other guys are.
Speaker 8: But the ability of your receivers a tight ends that
Speaker 8: to separate and being coverage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got guys that can win.
Speaker 4: I think they've done a great job of working, you know,
Speaker 4: since we've come back and even in the off season,
Speaker 4: and I think we've streamlined things a little bit, you know,
Speaker 4: so that that part of it is everything. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's a matter of all, right, are we going to
Speaker 4: be able to win versus man? I mean when a
Speaker 4: team has to get the ball back third downs, certain situations,
Speaker 4: you know, one of them that came up, probably the
Speaker 4: most important one was you know, when we had the
Speaker 4: ball seven or eight yard line the second half, maybe
Speaker 4: that first drive that we hit Mark on the crosser
Speaker 4: that got us out of our own end was a
Speaker 4: big part of that. Not that there were others, but
Speaker 4: that's the one I think about, you know, that gave
Speaker 4: us a chance when they go man. So it's been impressive.
Speaker 4: We have guys that can separate. We like our guys
Speaker 4: and you know, again it's I don't know if we'll
Speaker 4: see how much man this week is on I don't know,
Speaker 4: you guys just have to do a great job versus both.
Speaker 11: What's kind of been the.
Speaker 2: Impact with cold Kohler, I mean with Troy Cooler, I
Speaker 2: mean he's kind of a guy that you don't you know,
Speaker 2: maybe his role was in defined by the numbers that
Speaker 2: you know, but how much of an impact do you
Speaker 2: think he has made on this offer?
Speaker 3: How much of an impact?
Speaker 4: Well, oh, well, he's We've had a couple explosive plays
Speaker 4: from him which has been you know huge. The one
Speaker 4: in Dallas got us going and this one got us back.
Speaker 4: You know, really, I mean, let's be honest about the
Speaker 4: two plays. One got us, you know, down there, and
Speaker 4: we score on the very next play in Dallas, and
Speaker 4: this one here gets us down there in two pays later,
Speaker 4: I think it was we score.
Speaker 3: So I just think he's a guy that comes to work.
Speaker 4: Every day and and you know, his role will expand
Speaker 4: as he continues to develop as a player, you know.
Speaker 3: And I was happy for him.
Speaker 4: You know, we didn't get the ideal look on his touchdown,
Speaker 4: but he did a great job of posting up and
Speaker 4: Lamar found him and put it the right spot from
Speaker 4: the neck down at the front of the end zone,
Speaker 4: and so I was happy for him on that.
Speaker 11: I think Roger.
Speaker 3: Rose Garden is settling in Wells as a starter, as
Speaker 3: a rookie playing well.
Speaker 11: What stood out to you about his play?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean Roger, it's an intelligent football player. He's tough,
Speaker 4: and he'll battle and strain, you know, so those things
Speaker 4: are always a good, you know, starting point, you know,
Speaker 4: a good starting block of any player. You know when
Speaker 4: they've got those things, you know, gives.
Speaker 3: You a chance.
Speaker 4: Like any player, they're not going to be perfect. But
Speaker 4: that's what you like about Roger. But most important to me,
Speaker 4: he likes to play. It's frustrated when it isn't you know,
Speaker 4: the way you want it to look. But that's that's
Speaker 4: what you want out of a player.
Speaker 9: I'll the ports of scoring or blast three games, score
Speaker 9: touchdowns on ninety two percent of your red zone trips.
Speaker 9: Just what is allowing you to be so effective as
Speaker 9: a your personnel of what is good players?
Speaker 4: Good players helps you score down there. You have a
Speaker 4: running back that can score when it's not perfect. You
Speaker 4: got a quarterback that can score when it's not perfect.
Speaker 4: You got tight ends that you like in the red zone.
Speaker 4: You've got wide out stick and up rate. You've got
Speaker 4: no line that continues to develop, so that gives you
Speaker 4: the best chance. I think our staff does a great
Speaker 4: job of being creative. You know, since London, where we
Speaker 4: basically tried to win a game by kicking as many
Speaker 4: field goals as we could, we've made it an emphasis
Speaker 4: to you know, change who we were, what we're going
Speaker 4: to be moving forward.
Speaker 3: And how we do it.
Speaker 4: And and it's it's always evolving, you know. It's you know,
Speaker 4: we're always sitting there going, okay, what's next to me?
Speaker 4: What can we do now? You know, to because we
Speaker 4: understand how important that is to winning. It's one of
Speaker 4: the top five reasons why you win a scoring touchdowns
Speaker 4: in the red zone. I think our staff's done a
Speaker 4: great job, and we got really good players.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: To me, that's that's the biggest thing. Really good players
Speaker 4: and a staff that does a great job of, you know,
Speaker 4: game planning, game frick game planning and developing you know,
Speaker 4: how we attack somebody.
Speaker 8: Up.
Speaker 1: His defensive coordinator is Zach Orr.
Speaker 11: How y'all do so you bring in Dean this week?
Speaker 8: It sounds like you guys have been I guess just
Speaker 8: for it that you guys have been talking for a while.
Speaker 8: What have those conversations been like, and what do you
Speaker 8: think was the impetus.
Speaker 6: To really happen.
Speaker 12: I mean, I think most most of the conversation was
Speaker 12: just about you know, you know, family, seeing how guys
Speaker 12: are doing, see how I'm doing, see how he's doing.
Speaker 12: And then obviously, you know, some ball comes up in that,
Speaker 12: and you could tell what Dean like throughout the conversation.
Speaker 12: He still had that you know, firing him. I know
Speaker 12: he was retired to had that firing him, and you
Speaker 12: know you could tell they wanted to still be around ball.
Speaker 11: He started a passion for us to have a passion
Speaker 11: for coaching.
Speaker 12: And like he's been here, he knows me, knows a
Speaker 12: lot of people in the building, and he's a great
Speaker 12: football mind.
Speaker 11: I mean he's been he's been a defensive coordinator, been a.
Speaker 12: Position coach, a head coach, and at the college uh level,
Speaker 12: So he's been really successful as a football coach. So
Speaker 12: I think person who who knows the culture, uh knows organization,
Speaker 12: that's you know, willing to that's still willing to you know,
Speaker 12: teach and learn. I think it couldn't do nothing to
Speaker 12: help us bring him in.
Speaker 9: Hope John and Kyle Hambler from yesterday and describe him
Speaker 9: another set of lines. Yeah, what what are you what
Speaker 9: are you hoping he sees?
Speaker 2: What are you looking for?
Speaker 11: Just just his point of view, just his point of view.
Speaker 11: I think you see his point of view.
Speaker 12: Like I said, he has a lot of experience around
Speaker 12: just big picture wise and whatever he sees I mean,
Speaker 12: could be a big picture, could be with position, it
Speaker 12: could be anything.
Speaker 11: I think this his knowledge and wisdom.
Speaker 12: His experience would be great, you know for us, great
Speaker 12: for me personally, just to hear his perspective on certain
Speaker 12: things and you know see how we can you.
Speaker 11: Know, jail and mess those things together.
Speaker 10: Do you expect to have us well if you have
Speaker 10: a game day role, well like will he be.
Speaker 11: Up in the booth or how old that? Yeah?
Speaker 12: I mean we still were still trying to figure that out.
Speaker 12: I think we'll know more about the end of the week,
Speaker 12: but we're still trying to figure out. But I definitely
Speaker 12: see him having a role in some type of capacity
Speaker 12: on game dare.
Speaker 9: Zach Kyle was saying something yesterday, that's WoT you're talking
Speaker 9: about this for five weeks. We have to tackle we
Speaker 9: have to play the right coverage is if you've been accounting,
Speaker 9: are you pleased with how the players have reacted in
Speaker 9: lieu of kind of some of the plays they gave
Speaker 9: up Sunday.
Speaker 12: Man, I'm proud of them, honestly, Like I told those guys,
Speaker 12: I got to commend them because obviously it was a
Speaker 12: stretch there from the end of the end of the
Speaker 12: first half throughout really all the way through most of
Speaker 12: that fourth quarter where things weren't looking good at all.
Speaker 12: And the thing that I saw on that sideline was
Speaker 12: guys weren't, you know, pointing the finger. They weren't blaming anybody,
Speaker 12: Guys weren't pouting, and they said, look, man, we gotta
Speaker 12: figure this out, and we got to get a stop.
Speaker 12: And those guys came up with three big stops that
Speaker 12: helped us win the game. So a lot, it's a
Speaker 12: lot of stuff we got to correct and get better at.
Speaker 12: But that's a That's the thing I'm encouraged about is
Speaker 12: that the group of men we have in that room,
Speaker 12: and I think they showed that Sunday, uh and those
Speaker 12: last three possessions and then just they they worked throughout
Speaker 12: the week like all of us are are mad and
Speaker 12: and disappointed and pissed off with the way that h
Speaker 12: with some of the performances we put out there on
Speaker 12: the field.
Speaker 11: But we all hold each other accountable.
Speaker 12: I hold myself accountable, They hold themselves accountable, and we
Speaker 12: know we got the right men to go do the job.
Speaker 12: So now it's it's it's like k Ham said, you know,
Speaker 12: enough for the talking. It's time to go, you know,
Speaker 12: put it on film. So but I'm I'm very pleased
Speaker 12: with the guys. Man, nobody's bad in the eye, nobody's wavering.
Speaker 11: Uh. We talk about all the time, adversity's.
Speaker 12: Gonna face you, you know, in life, just even even as
Speaker 12: a man, forget football, and it's gonna be about how
Speaker 12: you respond, how you keep getting up. And you know,
Speaker 12: we've probably faced more versity than we've liked, cause we
Speaker 12: feel like a lot of it's been self inflicted. But
Speaker 12: you know, the guys that keep responding the right way.
Speaker 12: So I'm I'm I'm fired up. That's what keeps me going. Honestly,
Speaker 12: this We got the right people to go out here
Speaker 12: and go do the jobs.
Speaker 8: Are gardening against explosives, are concerned every week. But I mean,
Speaker 8: is it a little more amplified when you look at
Speaker 8: the way Jayden has has shown touch on his deep
Speaker 8: passes and and you know gotten tarried a down the
Speaker 8: field a lot of times.
Speaker 11: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 12: I mean that's the thing about it is they live
Speaker 12: off explosives, and you know, obviously we haven't done a
Speaker 12: good enough job of limited explosives. So it definitely something
Speaker 12: that we're keying in and honing honding in on like
Speaker 12: every week. But you know, when you play, when you're
Speaker 12: facing the probably the hottest, one of the hottest teams
Speaker 12: in the league, one of the best quarterbacks, one of
Speaker 12: the best offenses in the league, you have to you
Speaker 12: have to limit the explosives. You can't you can't give them,
Speaker 12: you know, the easy way out. You have to make
Speaker 12: them earn it, man. And so we're that's what we're
Speaker 12: focusing on. That's what we're preaching. You know, keep the
Speaker 12: ball in front, let's tackle, let's communicate, let's play together.
Speaker 11: Make them earn.
Speaker 12: Everything they get because they're too good to to give them,
Speaker 12: you know, give them plays.
Speaker 5: As you prepare this week. Can you believe you're watching
Speaker 5: a rookie US five starts.
Speaker 12: That you see, Nah, I can't honestly, man, he does
Speaker 12: a great job of having his poise. He looks real
Speaker 12: comfortable out there. He's continued to get better, you know,
Speaker 12: every weekend. I think the thing that that's impressed me
Speaker 12: the most is they do a lot at the line.
Speaker 11: They really don't huddle up a lot.
Speaker 12: They do a lot of different tempos, a lot of
Speaker 12: different cadences, and he just seemed like he handled it
Speaker 12: really well. So, you know, hats off to him. We know,
Speaker 12: we don't look at him as a rookie. We look
Speaker 12: at what we see at on what we look we
Speaker 12: look at what we see on film, and what we
Speaker 12: see on film is one of the top quarterbacks in
Speaker 12: the league. So we know that we have a big
Speaker 12: challenge in front of us, and we've been preparing that way.
Speaker 11: Muddle kind of limit.
Speaker 9: Your guys' ability to be creative defensively on a play
Speaker 9: to play basis because of how they're kind of regulating
Speaker 9: stuff at their type.
Speaker 11: Of now I don't think so.
Speaker 12: I think we got to the point of the season
Speaker 12: where guys are comfortable and spots and different things that
Speaker 12: we're asking him to do, and then we get good
Speaker 12: work out of here and practice, and I think we're
Speaker 12: all adjusted, myself included to the game.
Speaker 11: Speed have a great plan for it.
Speaker 12: So I fully anticipate us being able to get to
Speaker 12: everything we need.
Speaker 11: To get to, UH to do what we gotta do.
Speaker 8: You've filt him for a while.
Speaker 5: I'm curious if you have any early memories that come
Speaker 5: to mind, anything that's maybe influenced your coaching cludele.
Speaker 12: I would just say how he got a chance to
Speaker 12: relate to all his players and got a chance to
Speaker 12: know him. Like when I got here, Dean was the
Speaker 12: defensive coordinator, so we weren't necessarily in our position room,
Speaker 12: but I got a chance to meet, you know, his wife,
Speaker 12: Ms Mel and his family, got a chance to meet
Speaker 12: my family, and we got He built a relationship with players,
Speaker 12: So I think that for me as a coach, showed that,
Speaker 12: you know, it's bigger than just you know what the
Speaker 12: football player can do for you on the football field.
Speaker 12: It's more about you know, getting a chance to know
Speaker 12: them as as a human being, getting on them as
Speaker 12: a man, and getting know.
Speaker 11: Their family as well. That that's how you can impact
Speaker 11: them more.
Speaker 8: I know you guys are not happy with where you
Speaker 8: are at in terms of past differge, food, is there
Speaker 8: any sort of relief from being behind the stretch of
Speaker 8: mahomes Allen Burrow. I mean, some of the best quarterbacks
Speaker 8: in the NFL, and you guys sort of have seen
Speaker 8: where you're at the nah.
Speaker 11: There's no relief. It feel like every week we get
Speaker 11: up here and we play.
Speaker 12: In one of the top offenses, one of the top quarterbacks,
Speaker 12: and that's no different this week.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 12: But you know, I think that we're confident group still.
Speaker 12: That's what That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: Inspire me.
Speaker 12: We know what we've done in in real good ways,
Speaker 12: and we know what we've done that hasn't lived up
Speaker 12: to the standard. We just got to eliminate the things
Speaker 12: that are not up to our standard because we know
Speaker 12: that we all want the top.
Speaker 11: Defenses in the league. It's just it's just a matter.
Speaker 11: It's just it's just time.
Speaker 12: To put it together for four quarters every week and
Speaker 12: on a consistent basis. You know, if you cut on
Speaker 12: the film, I highly doubt that you'll see that we
Speaker 12: don't have, you know, good players, we don't have good schemes,
Speaker 12: we don't have good coaches. We just got to be consistent, man,
Speaker 12: and that's what we're chasing.
Speaker 10: After the after the game, I mean, Roadpoint kind of
Speaker 10: said to his mind, it came down to guys handling
Speaker 10: their mashups. I mean, but when you look back at it,
Speaker 10: did you kind of feel like the the ideas were
Speaker 10: right and it was more detailed stuff that broke.
Speaker 3: I mean, what what was kind of your patrick?
Speaker 12: I'm always look at it from my standpoint. When I
Speaker 12: look at it, what could I have done better?
Speaker 11: So I'm always gonna feel like I.
Speaker 12: Could have helped put guys in better positions.
Speaker 11: Now, with that being said, you got to give respect
Speaker 11: with respect due.
Speaker 12: Sometimes we were in the call, we were in the
Speaker 12: look that we wanted to and I mean the quarterback
Speaker 12: he put the ball on the money.
Speaker 11: And those receivers, you.
Speaker 12: Know, they made some plays and if they do that,
Speaker 12: hats off to them. But I think the problem was
Speaker 12: with us throughout that game is we didn't make them.
Speaker 11: Do that consistently enough.
Speaker 12: If you if you catch a ball over somebody and
Speaker 12: they got great coverage on you and the quarterback doesn't
Speaker 12: have a good thrown lane and they complete the pass,
Speaker 12: then hey man, good play. And if you could do
Speaker 12: that enough times throughout the game where we don't give
Speaker 12: up explosives.
Speaker 11: Then hey, I had to talk to you.
Speaker 12: But we gave up too many players that they have
Speaker 12: to earn and they're too good. Offenses and quarterbacks in
Speaker 12: this league in general are too good to not make
Speaker 12: them earn it. So you know, I think, like I said,
Speaker 12: I think I'm always gonna look at what could I
Speaker 12: have done better. I think the players look at that
Speaker 12: as well, which I think makes our group really good
Speaker 12: and real special. But I do got the it was
Speaker 12: some players on there where we had what we wanted
Speaker 12: and they.
Speaker 11: Made some plays. So that's that's the National Football League.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 12: We always talk about it all the time. They coaches
Speaker 12: and players they get paid too.
Speaker 11: Feel any different going through a tough time as if
Speaker 11: there be a player.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it does, because you as a coordinator, you know,
Speaker 12: I really can't physically go out there and go hit somebody.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 12: As a player, you can go out there and take
Speaker 12: you you know, take your frustrations out physically.
Speaker 11: So I would say that's the biggest difference.
Speaker 12: But besides that, no, man, I mean I've always been competitive.
Speaker 12: I remember being a sense of kid. You know, my
Speaker 12: dad my mom told me that I have to, you know,
Speaker 12: not take you know, losing so hard, But that's something
Speaker 12: that's I think that's what makes me who I am.
Speaker 12: Like if I feel like we're not if I'm not
Speaker 12: up to my standard or we're not up to our standard,
Speaker 12: then you know it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough,
Speaker 12: tough times, tough days.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 12: So I as a player and as a coordinator, you
Speaker 12: know I handle adversity. I think the right way cause
Speaker 12: I'm gonna keep showing up and putting in the work.
Speaker 11: But you know, the frustrations are the same.
Speaker 10: If you were there as a linebacker and Daniel's was
Speaker 10: a quarterback, what would you be most worried about?
Speaker 3: Like what would be your mental checklist?
Speaker 10: If you're going against a guy with.
Speaker 12: Those skills him him running away from you, you gotta
Speaker 12: get that dude to stop his feet.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 12: You know, if he gets a straight line, he can go,
Speaker 12: he can pull away. He got some real burners. I
Speaker 12: don't know exactly what he ran on in the forty,
Speaker 12: but I know it was real fast and I see
Speaker 12: what I see on film, so you gotta I would
Speaker 12: just try to run and shoot my shot and make
Speaker 12: him have to stop his feet.
Speaker 1: Next to his Special teams coordinator Chris Horton.
Speaker 13: Good to see everyone today. I hope you guys are
Speaker 13: doing well for us. What a what an exciting game
Speaker 13: it was on last Sunday, and I couldn't couldn't be
Speaker 13: more fired up for my guy JT.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 13: He came out. There wasn't an easy kick, you know,
Speaker 13: he had that he had that win. It was blowing.
Speaker 13: But he went out there, he approached it. This is
Speaker 13: the next kick, and he did a great job. As
Speaker 13: far as all the other the other things that happened
Speaker 13: in the game, I'll start with the with the part
Speaker 13: return with Thailand in that situation, that's a situation where
Speaker 13: you know he's back there. I expect him to fill
Speaker 13: that ball. That's a ball that came off It came
Speaker 13: off low. That's one I think he could he could
Speaker 13: have filled it. Now with that being said, the returner
Speaker 13: you know making that decision, Uh, you don't want that
Speaker 13: ball on the ground either, So maybe there was something
Speaker 13: that he thought, you know, I couldn't go get this one.
Speaker 13: But going moving forward, we'd like to see our returners
Speaker 13: catch that ball. The other thing that I think that
Speaker 13: that showed up that really kind of affected us. Was
Speaker 13: the was the kickoff return with with with Chris Collier,
Speaker 13: you know, just just just having a young guy back
Speaker 13: there and uh, the way that ball came off the foot.
Speaker 13: He's going, he's trying to he's trying to fill that
Speaker 13: ball and he doesn't.
Speaker 11: He doesn't have a.
Speaker 13: Good feel for should I should I let that ball
Speaker 13: hit the ground, catch it off the bounce, or should
Speaker 13: I just try to run up there and get it
Speaker 13: in that situation. I think, you know, I just got
Speaker 13: to do a better job probably putting him in that
Speaker 13: situation a little bit more of giving him a short
Speaker 13: kick so so he can fill that ball or let
Speaker 13: it hit the ground. Other than that, I thought our
Speaker 13: guys played hard. I thought we played physical. I thought
Speaker 13: the other part return Tie had for eleven yards he
Speaker 13: did a great job catching that ball, getting vertical and
Speaker 13: giving our offense the ball on the side the fifty.
Speaker 11: This week.
Speaker 13: Really just looking forward to seeing our guys just continue
Speaker 13: to keep improving. We know it's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 13: be a physical game. Uh we turn on that tape,
Speaker 13: the way the commander of Special Teams is playing, It's
Speaker 13: gonna be fun, it's gonna be it's gonna be exciting
Speaker 13: for us to go out there and just continue to
Speaker 13: improve on the things that we're doing and uh try
Speaker 13: to get ourselves as best we can be when we
Speaker 13: get out of that game.
Speaker 11: Questions Chris related to.
Speaker 8: Those two issues you talked about in the return game.
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously you were missing Deionte. When did you
Speaker 8: kind of finally learn that Deontay wouldn't be available? And
Speaker 8: how disruptive with that the preparation for last week?
Speaker 11: You know it was it was a game time decision.
Speaker 13: Uh, it came all the way down to the wire,
Speaker 13: and uh, you know when you go into that and
Speaker 13: those things happen. You got a You got an experienced
Speaker 13: guy that's called a lot of punts in his career.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 13: Thailand has experience, uh, but hasn't had a lot of returns.
Speaker 13: He's benefited a lot from the returns that he's had, right,
Speaker 13: He's made plays for us. So we do trust him
Speaker 13: and he was the next guy up. We got a
Speaker 13: lot of faith in him. I got a lot of
Speaker 13: faith in him.
Speaker 11: The guy.
Speaker 13: The guy can create plays. He's got a great average
Speaker 13: when he does get the ball. But that was we
Speaker 13: learned that really leading up to that game.
Speaker 11: Do you think.
Speaker 10: The the I guess the less familiar rules with the
Speaker 10: landing zone and such could contribute to the indecision maybe
Speaker 10: on a play like the Colier play or is that
Speaker 10: not really the issue?
Speaker 13: No, that particular play, I don't think that was that
Speaker 13: was an issue. I think that ball was fair enough
Speaker 13: past the twenty yard line where he thought, you know what,
Speaker 13: maybe I need to get up there. I can fill
Speaker 13: this one. In his mind, he thought, I can run
Speaker 13: up there and I can fill this When the ball
Speaker 13: fell short on him, right, that's that's an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 13: It's a great it's a great learning experience for us.
Speaker 11: All.
Speaker 13: You know, had that ball been you know a little
Speaker 13: bit closer to the sideline, maybe hey you let that
Speaker 13: one hit and it goes out of bounce. But that
Speaker 13: wasn't the case. Seeing it from the sideline, I thought
Speaker 13: that was the case. And then you don't you don't overreact.
Speaker 13: You know, you go talk to the kid because you
Speaker 13: need him, right he's back there.
Speaker 11: You need the returner. And then just watching it on
Speaker 11: the watching it.
Speaker 13: After the game, you realize, okay, you you see the
Speaker 13: decision that he tried to make. That ball could have
Speaker 13: hit the ground and went the other way right, and
Speaker 13: then everyone would have been saying, like, why didn't he
Speaker 13: catch that ball? You know, So there's just there's a
Speaker 13: lot of learning, uh experiences from that play, and I
Speaker 13: think moving forward will be fine.
Speaker 5: There he's been saying all year, You're not worry in
Speaker 5: the least about Justin Tucker and and long field goals,
Speaker 5: because it's satisfying now to see that in that moment
Speaker 5: to make the kick in that wind and everything that
Speaker 5: went with that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was, oh, a hundred percent. You know, it's
Speaker 11: a one.
Speaker 13: It's it's just it's very exciting for our for our team,
Speaker 13: you know, to to to to go out there kick
Speaker 13: that field goal with that with with that wind blowing
Speaker 13: and the way it was blowing.
Speaker 11: I mean, I've again, I've said it all year.
Speaker 13: We have all the faith in the world and Justin
Speaker 13: and this dude is still a heck of a player.
Speaker 11: He's still a heck of a kicker.
Speaker 13: He still has the lecstre and to get the ball
Speaker 13: there and and what was going on with that win.
Speaker 13: I mean, he smashed that ball and and that's the
Speaker 13: guy that we know, right and that's the that's the
Speaker 13: justin that every time he goes out there, that's who
Speaker 13: he wants to be, and sometimes it doesn't happen. Right,
Speaker 13: there's there's there's no need to get down on the guy.
Speaker 13: There's no need to say, well, can he still do it?
Speaker 13: Can he still do this? Hell yeah he can still
Speaker 13: do it right And he proved that the other day.
Speaker 8: During your time playing with Redskins, do you remember there
Speaker 8: being a rivalry at all with the Ravens and and
Speaker 8: how would you describe that dynamic?
Speaker 11: Not at all, I do.
Speaker 13: I do not remember it being a rivalry, but I
Speaker 13: do remember when when I got here there was There
Speaker 13: was one time I was talking to Jerry and he
Speaker 13: said he was showing some tape and I was like, man,
Speaker 13: you guys ran a fake on us in the preseason.
Speaker 11: I was like, I didn't think that was that was
Speaker 11: acceptable and he was like, yeah, we had to.
Speaker 13: And I was just like, that's the one thing I
Speaker 13: remember about about the game of just playing those guys, man,
Speaker 13: it was it was exciting, but I mean it's again,
Speaker 13: it's uh, we're we're looking forward to it. Those guys
Speaker 13: are those guys are playing well, Kudos to what they've done.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 13: The first five weeks, and uh, it's gonna be a
Speaker 13: good challenge for for our unit.
Speaker 1: In the locker room. We also heard from a tight
Speaker 1: end of Mark Andrews at just.
Speaker 9: Three tight Ends obviously in there.
Speaker 11: Just what it's it been like to to see that group.
Speaker 9: Kind of take center stage the Lamas Day having.
Speaker 7: Here, I mean, just dud making plays and that's that's
Speaker 7: always good to see. Uh, we got a lot of
Speaker 7: guys that can step up and make plays big times.
Speaker 7: And it doesn't matter who it is, but guys are
Speaker 7: stepping up and doing their job, and that's what it's about.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the offense? Is a groover
Speaker 1: right now? You guys are coming up with you the
Speaker 1: short ends.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's an.
Speaker 7: Agrovement in that carrio a week to week, Yeah it is,
Speaker 7: and it's always, you know, kind of what have you
Speaker 7: done for me lately? And what can you what can
Speaker 7: you prove week by week? And you know, we're not satisfied.
Speaker 7: We've got to keep going, got to keep you know,
Speaker 7: proving ourselves. And this week's another great opportunity for us
Speaker 7: to to go out there and show who he can be.
Speaker 8: How happy are you to see Charlie Cole or make
Speaker 8: those plays in the receiving game. Obviously he's had to
Speaker 8: do a lot as a blocker to make those plays.
Speaker 7: They're the big fat white guy man. No, it's good though.
Speaker 7: He works extremely hard. He's a hard worker and he
Speaker 7: deserves all that. And he's just gonn continue to continue
Speaker 7: to get better and better, and I'm happy for him.
Speaker 9: Marking a lot of talks this week about the potential
Speaker 9: for a rivalry with the Commanders, you personally could.
Speaker 11: Give any bad feelings to word then after.
Speaker 9: What happened in Freddy Camp last year.
Speaker 7: No, No, that's not in my mind.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 7: My mind is going out there and do my job
Speaker 7: to best of my ability and competing with my brothers,
Speaker 7: my teammates, and you know, getting to win.
Speaker 5: The hyper around this game is around both offices and
Speaker 5: quarterback play.
Speaker 7: With all due respect of Jade Daniels, it's still kind
Speaker 7: of early to put him in the same sentence with Lamar,
Speaker 7: Jacks and Parasol. It's different. You know, Lamar's my guy
Speaker 7: and forever will be so, and to me, he's He's
Speaker 7: a goat in my eyes. You know, I don't look
Speaker 7: at any of anybody else you know.
Speaker 1: So we also heard from a fellow tight end, Charlie Koller.
Speaker 6: When you see how good you guys have been in
Speaker 6: the run game last week, we saw you guys have
Speaker 6: to do it through the past the game. What does
Speaker 6: that do for you guys as an offense to know
Speaker 6: you can win in a variety of ways.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's a big conference builder, you know. Like you said,
Speaker 14: we've been running the ball so effectively against Dallas and Buffalo,
Speaker 14: so I have the pass game going as well as
Speaker 14: big you know, get the receivers involved, all tight ends.
Speaker 14: It's awesome. So hopefully we just keep building on that and
Speaker 14: obviously want to get as balanced as possible as some
Speaker 14: games to call from more one way or the other.
Speaker 10: So every week, did it feel like you're unlocking a
Speaker 10: new level of this offense with the way you're.
Speaker 11: Able to win?
Speaker 14: I mean kind of yeah. I mean it's like, even
Speaker 14: on the stats are great, but we don't start the
Speaker 14: game with the number one like off were still start
Speaker 14: with zero points. So it's like, I think a large
Speaker 14: part of it is kind of reminding ourselves that we
Speaker 14: have to do it again and then again and then again, and.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter at all.
Speaker 14: What the last week was. There's no carryover port points.
Speaker 14: But to your question is like, I do think there's
Speaker 14: As the offense continues to evolve, like you said, there'll
Speaker 14: be more levels plays, off plays, off plays, and then
Speaker 14: it would be cool to see it evolve.
Speaker 6: We got two of the top scoring offenses in the
Speaker 6: league on you and Washington this week. As a guy
Speaker 6: on the offense, do you get excited about the idea
Speaker 6: of this potentially being a game where a lot of points.
Speaker 3: Are put up.
Speaker 14: No, I would like to blowout I think. I think
Speaker 14: I just saw him a little bit on crossover film
Speaker 14: versus the Bengals. Obviously, they're very explosive, you know, the
Speaker 14: quarterbacks that have a want of success. They got players
Speaker 14: at all all the levels, all different spots. But I
Speaker 14: believe in our defense a lot. I think Zo and
Speaker 14: the defensive staff is fantastic and they're gonna keep getting better.
Speaker 14: And I think that's a heck of a staff, heck
Speaker 14: of a talented defense, and I think they're gonna be
Speaker 14: an elite defense by the end of the year. And
Speaker 14: like Harves and them talk about like just little things
Speaker 14: finding corrections, but I see that group is so talented
Speaker 14: and so passionate that I'm fully confident that they're not
Speaker 14: out there and playing incredible football. It's like you said,
Speaker 14: one of the best offenses is a hard at.
Speaker 5: Times when you look around and you said, you know
Speaker 5: when you look at that tight end room and you
Speaker 5: know it's such such great talent there and you're young
Speaker 5: player trying.
Speaker 3: To come in and find a way, but no one
Speaker 3: those guys are there.
Speaker 5: And he's like, is it a part of Bang?
Speaker 3: Your help against Watson? I feel like, how do I
Speaker 3: get past it?
Speaker 11: But to now he's gotten there, make plays.
Speaker 3: Enjoy some of them, set him be a part of
Speaker 3: that too. What's that journey?
Speaker 14: Even like I don't think you ever get there in football,
Speaker 14: you know, it's just like you want to keep getting better.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 14: I mean obviously you know every player wants to play
Speaker 14: it wants the ball. But I'm I like, I like,
Speaker 14: I love football, like I love my team. Like whatever
Speaker 14: the role is, I'm going to do it. And it's
Speaker 14: easy to play alongside guys like Pat Mark and Isaiah
Speaker 14: when everyone is like genuinely happy for each other and
Speaker 14: like works together and works hard, and so it's a
Speaker 14: great room to be a part of. So obviously, you
Speaker 14: know everyone wants to play it more and wants the ball,
Speaker 14: but I'm incredibly blessed.
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