WEBVTT - John Harbaugh & Players: Ravens Practice 11/22 Press Conferences 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.520 Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens are 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:07.800 gearing up for a Sunday night football game against the 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:10.680 LA Chargers this week on the road, and today we 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:12.600 had a chance to talk with hey coach John Harball 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.280 as the Ravens prepared for this prime time matchup. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:20.120 Okay, appreciate, appreciate you guys being here, good practice, getting 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.800 ready to go, big challenge in front of us, So 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:24.239 we're looking forward to that. But we've got a lot 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.520 of work to do this week still. Before we get started, 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.040 I just want to express, uh, you know, gratitude on 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:32.960 Thanksgiving week. I know you guys are going to be 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:37.320 here tomorrow, so we're grateful for you guys, actually we are, 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.479 and for what you do in terms of connecting the 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.320 team and the players and everybody with the fans. Fans 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.480 get a chance to have a lens into the into 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.680 the into the organization and the team through through the media, 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.519 and you guys do a great job with that and 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.600 we appreciate it. Great group to work with every single day, 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.319 So I say that genuinely, thank you, okay. And then 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.400 for our fans and also for our families, I'm very 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.720 grateful for my family, and very grateful for the grace 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.199 of God chance to get up every day and breathe 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.480 and and uh and do what we get a chance 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.759 to do. So with that, what questions you have. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:13.640 Let's start the interests. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:24.880 Yea, Marlon, Marlon and Ronnie. We're back out there, so 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.560 I'm guessing that's possibly trending in the right direction. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:28.080 Yeah. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.080 I think everybody's doing a really good job of trying 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:31.959 to get back and and uh, you know, I think 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:33.840 this time of year, you're gonna have those things that 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.560 guys are gonna be fighting through. You're never going to 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:40.720 be certain about every single guy every single week. But 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.039 we're we're generally a healthy football team. So we'll just 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:45.959 see where we're at on Sunday when we get there. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.000 We were out there when Bason went down. Is is 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.480 that just precautionary or. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.520 We'll just have to see it doesn't look like a 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:54.640 you know, real serious injury or anything like that. But 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.640 he should he should be fine, But we'll see how 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:58.360 it feels tomorrow. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.000 Speaking of players coming back, Damarian or Peppe Williams is 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.320 back just outside or you see a young kid like 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:05.280 that to be back up the field. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:06.400 Yeah, very excited for him. 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:07.040 He's aroun here. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:08.480 He've been run here for the last month, telling me, 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:09.840 you know, he wants to go, he wants to go, 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.200 and finally the trainers cleared him and and to see 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:16.000 him out there with his enthusiasm. Peppy's always high energy guy. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.680 He's out there talking already. So yeah, it was fun 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:19.919 to have out there, and I think you'll have a 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.399 chance to really contribute as we go forward here. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.440 I heard the report that Andrews had surgery, But was 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.200 that kind of the outcome you we're expecting with doctor Anderson? 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.160 And is it still kind of what you were saying 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.360 might have a chance to be able to return wait. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:33.120 And see them right? 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.000 It was, it was, it was all positive. I had 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.440 a chance to review the MRI and the pictures on it. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.080 I gave it my thumbs up after he was explaining 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.240 to me what the heck was going on. But no, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.320 the bar reports, Doctor Anderson told our doctors and our 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.400 trainers that everything went really well and we'll just see 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:52.120 where it goes from here. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.840 John with the vibe right around the corner. Obviously, like 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.359 you said, you guys are mostly healthy, but are you 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.000 for the guys that are nurse and injury. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.639 Are you contemplating extra. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.919 Rest, considering the buy around the corner, or how are 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.960 you approaching this game any differently when it comes to 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:08.440 playing status with a certain guy. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.160 Uh, We're we're playing. We're we're approaching with the idea 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.240 that it's a very important game. Obviously, it's a huge 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.200 game for us, and uh, and we need to go 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.200 out there and win the game. So it's all hands 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.799 on deck. We're gonna try to get everybody to the 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.360 game that we can and we'll see how that goes. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:23.280 At that point. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:27.280 It's you know, up with one game thinking at the 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.920 twenty two or three games. Spankings speak to the value 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.760 of that kind of thing at this point of the season, 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.480 I guess, particularly you know, guys comes back from the increasing. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.440 Right, Yeah, Broan, I mean I think we'll have a 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.080 good feel for that when we get back, you know 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.080 what it means to us. But uh, this is just 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.000 the way the schedule went this year. You know, these 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.880 games got spaced right here, which is you know, is 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.560 what it is. You know, we packed We had eleven 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.480 games I think under our belt and there nobody else 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.280 had more than nine, I think basically. And and so 0:03:58.360 --> 0:03:59.840 I was I'm proud of the way the guys handled 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:01.960 all that. You know, Now, our focus is on this 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.120 one game. Put the best game together we can on Sunday, 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:06.840 to be as prepared as we can play as well 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.880 and hard as we can on Sunday out there in 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.880 Los Angeles, and that's really what we're focused on. 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.480 You know, it's another prime time game obviously, what you 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:16.360 guys just had. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.240 The curious team like those? 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:21.279 You know, can you get up for those? 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.520 Like players do? What's you know you do? 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:27.000 I mean, yeah, you do, you get up for every game, 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.400 but I mean Sunday night football. You know, it's like 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.279 Thursday night football in the sense that it's everybody's watching. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.520 You're the only game, you know, and it'll be the 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.320 game that every football fan will have turned on. And 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.360 our guys appreciate that because that's part of it. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:40.720 You know. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.960 Players love to be on that stage and they love 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.960 to have an opportunity to compete in that kind of environment. Obviously. Uh, 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.000 you know, it's against a really good football team, it's 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.160 an AFC rival, it's just an important game. So our 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:54.960 guys will be ready to go. John. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.240 You look at the Chargers, they throw the ball a 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.000 lot to Keenan Allen, I mean, have you seen this tight. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.640 Didn't notice that? You have you noticed? I mean have 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:04.599 you seen that before? 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.560 This type of Obviously everybody has a go to receiver, 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.240 but to this degree, how is a game planning for 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:11.760 a team where you know where they want to go 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:12.200 with the ball? 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.600 Well, they do, and they do they you know they 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.000 do with Keenan, and they also do you know, with 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:19.720 with Eckler. I mean he gets the ball a lot too, 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.520 in various different types of ways. But that's not their 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.040 only weapons. I mean, obviously the quarterback, he can get 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:27.520 out and run, he can throw, he does a lot 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.680 of things. He's dangerous. But they have a lot of 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.680 good skill players. You know, every one of their guys 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.479 is dangerous in their own right. And they spread the 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.760 ball around. You say, okay, they throw it to the 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.960 number thirteen a lot, Well they do, but then you 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.280 see the ball going to everybody else. And they scheme 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.680 different guys different ways in different games, and different guys 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:48.080 are very talented. They built a very talented offensive skill set. Guys. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.360 All all the tight ends are receiving tight ends. Every 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:51.839 single one of them is a good receiving tight end. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.200 They got five of them. Four of them play all 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.760 the time, so it's a really they're they're really good 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.720 on offense for a reason. They do a great job 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.560 with SI and it's gonna be a challenge for us. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.440 I'm with you, guys, being the one seed in the AFC. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.400 Is is it something that you care about right now? 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.120 Or is a kind of meetingless with so much football 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:08.839 left to be played? 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:14.800 You know, it's than it's good before you want to 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.159 be at this point, but it doesn't mean anything until 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.680 the last after the last game in terms of playoff seeding. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:23.880 So you know, you get the lead, keep the lead, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.279 I guess it means something in that sense. So we 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.320 controlled a certain amount of our destiny. I don't know 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.760 what the tie breakers would say, but to some degree 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:33.840 we do, I guess. And but really we just got 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:35.160 to keep winning. We got to take it one game 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.120 at a time. We want to know this week and 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.800 that's that's really all our guys are talking about, and 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:39.760 that's all they're thinking about. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.160 That was that coach John Harball. We also had a 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.920 chance to talk with tight end Isaiah Likely, who's going 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.279 to be a really important player for this team. As 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.880 Mark Andrews underwent surgery to repair it injury in his 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.000 foot and ankle. So Isaiah likely is next man up 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.400 with these tight ends, and he talked about the expectations 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.240 he has from and also talking with Mark to help 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.800 provide some guidance and advice as he goes through this process. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:07.760 I think I. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.280 Remember you showing up in old Mark Jackson TikTok last year. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.560 How quickly you did that friendship kind of you know 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:14.680 lost in twenty tents. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.280 It was kind of fast. I mean, you know coming 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.080 in to the league. I love at Lamar like a superhero. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:20.960 So like the fact that he went out his way, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.440 spoke to me first, you know, introduced himself, and like 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.160 we just been clicking ever since. So he's been a 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.480 blessing for real, Hasaiah? 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.480 How would those games where you feel down for Mark? 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.440 How how would those be live into How would those 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:33.880 help him now where you're. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:34.800 Feeling in for him again? 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:35.720 Uh? 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.400 Really just being on my feet are I mean A's 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.760 coach always says like next man up mentality. I mean, 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.960 I love Mark. I mean it hurt when he went down, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.840 Like Mark told me, you know, just say it, stay 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.680 the course and stay ready all the time. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.600 Mark cluck yesterday about it. Hell, he has that connection 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.680 where when things break down, he still sort of has 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.160 the sense of the word look for Mark. Do you 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.320 feel like you could have that with Lamar barely quickly? 0:07:59.200 --> 0:07:59.760 Ah. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.240 I'm not gonna say it's as create as Mark, cause 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:03.880 as you said, like they came in together, they brothers, 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:05.760 So yeah, like that's just pean and brother and Jelly. 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.960 But you know, it's filling in the role and then 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.040 trying to incorporate what I do the same way as 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.120 Mark does and try to be on the same time 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.360 and they have with the chemistry they me and m 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:18.040 Lamar have, is really gonna click to how the offense goes. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.160 You talk about the advice that Mark gave you, Is 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.960 that the night of or if you spoken to him since? 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.000 So the night that happened. I told Mar you know, 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.360 I called Martin. He answer, But it's obviously like I 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.040 texted him saying like when you ready to talk. I 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.959 know everybody's blowing your phone up. I know that's you 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.360 gonna through a lot right now. Just hit me up, 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:36.760 and he hit me up. Yesterday we talked for a 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.720 little bit. I'm not gonna say what we talked about, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.280 but we d he's definitely in good spirits. 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:43.200 D does that mean something to you? 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.760 You know, like him that's giving me your advice and 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.800 encouraging you and knowing that this is kind of big 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.120 outre with you for sure. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.080 I mean I I tell everybody like Mark's like that 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.520 big brother role in aspect, and he's done a fantastic 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.800 job helping me day in and day out on r 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.439 uh run blocking pas past route, running past block and 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.640 everything and just giving me everything, voice of wisdom everything 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.600 I do. So you know, having him still be able 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.640 to talk to me even after his injury definitely was heartwarming. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.560 Let's practice been like this week not having him here 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.880 and stepping into probably more of a prominent role. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.280 Uh really, I've been just you know, trying to majoring 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.440 on the little details. I mean, just you know, still 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.920 understanding that I have a role and then just understand 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.240 that well O what uh Lamar needs M mean more 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.200 to do in in terms of if uh you know, 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:34.560 if I got to speed up this route, if if 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.440 he wants me to block differently on the ads for him, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.080 cause I I'm not gonna lie me. Me and Mark 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.480 do things different in our own ways that's what makes 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.960 us human. But like just still trying to incorporate and 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:45.439 blame with the with the offense. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:47.079 I see how much. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.199 Has unselfishness and patience has been important for you that 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:51.080 you're given. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.080 You guys made a bunch of wide receiver editions. There's 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:55.400 only one ball to go around. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.360 How much that you have to kind of remind yourself 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:58.720 that your chance will come. 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:00.600 I mean, I feel like it's it's a blessing we 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.920 have so many weapons on the offense because it makes 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.720 people like my job easier, cause now you either have 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.920 to respect everybody or you double somebody, and now you 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.280 leave somebody that you don't want guarding somebody else. So 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.320 I felt like, you know, just staying the course and 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.520 just waiting for you know, the body come my way, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:18.560 and just making the most out of it. 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:20.839 He came into the league with Charlie. I mean, if 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:22.920 if he also gets a bigger opporney over the most years, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.120 what do you feel like he'll bring to the table. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.480 I feel like charge is an amazing tight end. I 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.360 mean just having us both on the field, you guys 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:32.040 finally getting seeing in him and his uh first NFL 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.120 season fully after him playing the last game in Cincinnati. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.640 I feel like he's coming along with I. 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.960 Know you're disappointed, of course about Mark going down, but 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:44.000 what's your confidence level internally and your excitement to having 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.400 an increase roll some more opportunity there. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.520 I I'd be just excited to play football day in 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.679 and day out. So I mean just bringing a smile 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.800 every day to work and to the team, and then 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.040 showing the offense that you got my one hundred percent 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:56.080 day in the day out. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.280 God stuff all the time about year two being easier 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.719 than realkiear in, what ways is it different for you? 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:02.680 Or what ways do you think? 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.520 You know you're a better player than your world when 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:05.199 you shield. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:10.079 Up, you know last year ways, I say differently, Uh, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.040 I felt like this year we have a lot more weapons, 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:14.840 So like as you guys said, like there's only one 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:16.320 ball to go around, So just making the most out 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.760 of your opportunities, I say differently. And then what's easier 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.400 is being able to talk to everybody. I mean, as 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.600 a rookie, you don't really know nobody, you don't know 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.439 how the system works, you don't really know who you 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.240 could talk to, who you can lean on. But by 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:32.120 a year or two you've already made those chemistries, the decisions, 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.280 and really those relationships around where if you don't understand something, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.040 not only can you ask a coach, you can also 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.840 ask that teammate and like just lean on them. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.920 You weld hear like a line in the off season like, well, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.320 what were you working on? It seemed like you know, 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.600 you really came, you know, cutting in shape. What were 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:48.760 you thinking about all season? 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:49.880 Uh? Really just. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.600 Everything. I mean, just watching watching more film, seeing if 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.640 I can decipher defenses a lot faster than what I 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.959 was used to rookie year, cause you know, the one 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.440 thing that Michaelases priests going into the rookie year was 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.600 it's a lot a lot faster in the NFL. So 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.520 really just trying to speed that process down and going 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.079 into here two and then trying to make the most 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:09.920 of my opportunities. 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.640 How do you handle Thanksgiving? What are your what are 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:13.839 your plans? Uh? 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.120 Probably gonna see the family for a little bit because 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.640 they came down here. Need some mama cooking, you know, 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:23.679 I always gotta get that. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.240 That was tied end Isaiah Likely. We also talk with 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.920 cornerback Brandon Stevens. He is having an excellent year and 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.960 there's gonna be a lot of responsibility on him. Is 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.400 the Ravens face justin Herbert and Keenan Allen and the 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.960 Dynamic Chargers offense. Here's what Brandon had to say. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.520 What's what sticks after you at all? Sorry to get 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:42.959 what sticks out to you that Keenan Allen. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.120 Yeah, you know, he's he's a big part of you know, 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:51.000 their their offense. Uh, you know the offense runs through here. Uh. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.800 But now he's you know, he's a he's a skilled player. Uh, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.680 got a you know, finesse to his game. But I'm 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:58.840 you know, I'm excited for the metro. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.920 How much better prepared do you think he winds up 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.760 in a slot a lot? You used to see Kyle 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.280 lining up there a lot. How much better prepared is 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.080 Kyle for responsibility like that this year compared to you know, 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:10.800 I guess very one. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:11.600 Is kind of coming into this. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.440 Team last year with Yeah, I think, uh, you know, 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.240 you know, Kyle's he's he's definitely grown. You know, I 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:18.760 I can say that about you know a lot of 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.600 guys on defense. Uh uh but yeah, he's you know, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.120 he's prepared each game. You know, he uh puts the 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.440 work in, you know, weekend week out, uh, you know, 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.840 on the practice field, in the meeting room. So uh yeah, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.560 he'll he'll be he'll be prepared for the uh for 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.040 the matchup for brand. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.840 You guys are uh in the mist of playing four 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.679 out of five games in prime time in the top 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:39.240 ten A and C. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.000 There's just a lot of attention on this team. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.280 But now how do you how do you handle that. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:44.720 From you know you and you know that kind of 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:45.480 everybody who's. 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:46.079 Whole eyes are on you. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.360 Yeah, we uh you know, My model honestly personally is 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.520 you know, just to stay even kell you know, like 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.160 you said, there's a lot of odds on us, but 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.600 you know, we just gotta stay uh, you know, just 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.960 stay focused on what's at hand and uh you know 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.320 uh and that's the charges and you know, and not 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.000 letting the outside noise, you know, affect us and you know, 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.360 get in our heads, cause at the end of the day, 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.920 it doesn't matter, you know, Uh, what matters is what 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:10.600 we do on Sunday. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.840 There was the point of the off season. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.280 I forgot exactly road walks with John Harparts that the 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:16.120 plan was to play. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:16.959 With safety this year. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.640 When in your mind did that change and and when 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.400 did you know you were gonna be playing corner. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:27.720 Uh yeah, uh yeah, training camp, you know, spend a 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.200 lot of time at safety and nickel. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:31.000 Uh. 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.080 I I would say, you know, the the the change 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.120 really came towards the the middle of the end of 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:41.400 training camp, and uh you know, I I honestly knew 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.880 that that was where I was gonna stick, you know, 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.240 uh in training camp. But uh I I would say that, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.120 uh that when Marlon went down. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.080 When Marlon went down in training camp, is that sort 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.360 of when he felt. Nah, honestly, they. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.960 I was kind of just a like a bubble guy, 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:02.960 like you know, corner wasn't out of the question l 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.000 as you know, as everybody knows. I I was all 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.960 around you know, on the uh defense, safety, nickel, corner. 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.960 But yeah, you know obviously you know, guys go down, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.960 you gotta fill fill some spots. Uh, But corner was 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:16.800 never out of the out of the mix. 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.680 Burn in early last year, the the big plays, especially 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.160 in the past game, we're a little bit of a 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.040 problem that's gone away. Really, you guys don't give up 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.640 many big plays at all now defensively. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.720 Why why do what? What has been the reason behind that? 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:36.720 Do you feel like just just execution, you know, uh 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.440 you know, and and y you know, just just being prepared. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:40.920 You know, the week starts, you. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.920 Know, uh you know here on on on Monday, on Tuesday, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.000 and so we just gotta take what we do uh 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.040 to the field. And I think that's that's helped uh 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:48.560 a lot. 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:49.000 Uh. 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:50.960 You know, we honestly haven't given up you know, too 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.760 many big plays this year, and you know the ones 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.160 that we do is just lack of communication. But uh, 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.600 you know communication, you know, breede understandings. So that's what 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.680 we're in for, guys. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:06.640 Growing. You know, this season's curious what what are the 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.120 biggest dribe you've made in particularly to corner back? 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.840 And and is that specific for cornerback? 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.479 Is that something you were kind of relishing even though safety. 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.240 Is was in the Mini sta Yeah. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.160 Uh, you know, I play you know corner my uh 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.080 uh uh uh in college you know, so that was 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.800 that was my main position. But you know, I I 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.400 you know, I I I love I just love love 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.160 being on the field, you know, no matter where it is. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:32.800 Uh. 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.280 But you know, uh, you know, corners, the you know, 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.160 definitely my type of game. I you know, I love 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.280