Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens are
Speaker 1: gearing up for a Sunday night football game against the
Speaker 1: LA Chargers this week on the road, and today we
Speaker 1: had a chance to talk with hey coach John Harball
Speaker 1: as the Ravens prepared for this prime time matchup.
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate, appreciate you guys being here, good practice, getting
Speaker 2: ready to go, big challenge in front of us, So
Speaker 2: we're looking forward to that. But we've got a lot
Speaker 2: of work to do this week still. Before we get started,
Speaker 2: I just want to express, uh, you know, gratitude on
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving week. I know you guys are going to be
Speaker 2: here tomorrow, so we're grateful for you guys, actually we are,
Speaker 2: and for what you do in terms of connecting the
Speaker 2: team and the players and everybody with the fans. Fans
Speaker 2: get a chance to have a lens into the into
Speaker 2: the into the organization and the team through through the media,
Speaker 2: and you guys do a great job with that and
Speaker 2: we appreciate it. Great group to work with every single day,
Speaker 2: So I say that genuinely, thank you, okay. And then
Speaker 2: for our fans and also for our families, I'm very
Speaker 2: grateful for my family, and very grateful for the grace
Speaker 2: of God chance to get up every day and breathe
Speaker 2: and and uh and do what we get a chance
Speaker 2: to do. So with that, what questions you have.
Speaker 3: Let's start the interests.
Speaker 4: Yea, Marlon, Marlon and Ronnie. We're back out there, so
Speaker 4: I'm guessing that's possibly trending in the right direction.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think everybody's doing a really good job of trying
Speaker 2: to get back and and uh, you know, I think
Speaker 2: this time of year, you're gonna have those things that
Speaker 2: guys are gonna be fighting through. You're never going to
Speaker 2: be certain about every single guy every single week. But
Speaker 2: we're we're generally a healthy football team. So we'll just
Speaker 2: see where we're at on Sunday when we get there.
Speaker 3: We were out there when Bason went down. Is is
Speaker 3: that just precautionary or.
Speaker 2: We'll just have to see it doesn't look like a
Speaker 2: you know, real serious injury or anything like that. But
Speaker 2: he should he should be fine, But we'll see how
Speaker 2: it feels tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Speaking of players coming back, Damarian or Peppe Williams is
Speaker 6: back just outside or you see a young kid like
Speaker 6: that to be back up the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very excited for him.
Speaker 3: He's aroun here.
Speaker 2: He've been run here for the last month, telling me,
Speaker 2: you know, he wants to go, he wants to go,
Speaker 2: and finally the trainers cleared him and and to see
Speaker 2: him out there with his enthusiasm. Peppy's always high energy guy.
Speaker 2: He's out there talking already. So yeah, it was fun
Speaker 2: to have out there, and I think you'll have a
Speaker 2: chance to really contribute as we go forward here.
Speaker 7: I heard the report that Andrews had surgery, But was
Speaker 7: that kind of the outcome you we're expecting with doctor Anderson?
Speaker 6: And is it still kind of what you were saying
Speaker 6: might have a chance to be able to return wait.
Speaker 3: And see them right?
Speaker 2: It was, it was, it was all positive. I had
Speaker 2: a chance to review the MRI and the pictures on it.
Speaker 2: I gave it my thumbs up after he was explaining
Speaker 2: to me what the heck was going on. But no,
Speaker 2: the bar reports, Doctor Anderson told our doctors and our
Speaker 2: trainers that everything went really well and we'll just see
Speaker 2: where it goes from here.
Speaker 8: John with the vibe right around the corner. Obviously, like
Speaker 8: you said, you guys are mostly healthy, but are you
Speaker 8: for the guys that are nurse and injury.
Speaker 9: Are you contemplating extra.
Speaker 8: Rest, considering the buy around the corner, or how are
Speaker 8: you approaching this game any differently when it comes to
Speaker 8: playing status with a certain guy.
Speaker 2: Uh, We're we're playing. We're we're approaching with the idea
Speaker 2: that it's a very important game. Obviously, it's a huge
Speaker 2: game for us, and uh, and we need to go
Speaker 2: out there and win the game. So it's all hands
Speaker 2: on deck. We're gonna try to get everybody to the
Speaker 2: game that we can and we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 6: At that point.
Speaker 9: It's you know, up with one game thinking at the
Speaker 9: twenty two or three games. Spankings speak to the value
Speaker 9: of that kind of thing at this point of the season,
Speaker 9: I guess, particularly you know, guys comes back from the increasing.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Broan, I mean I think we'll have a
Speaker 2: good feel for that when we get back, you know
Speaker 2: what it means to us. But uh, this is just
Speaker 2: the way the schedule went this year. You know, these
Speaker 2: games got spaced right here, which is you know, is
Speaker 2: what it is. You know, we packed We had eleven
Speaker 2: games I think under our belt and there nobody else
Speaker 2: had more than nine, I think basically. And and so
Speaker 2: I was I'm proud of the way the guys handled
Speaker 2: all that. You know, Now, our focus is on this
Speaker 2: one game. Put the best game together we can on Sunday,
Speaker 2: to be as prepared as we can play as well
Speaker 2: and hard as we can on Sunday out there in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, and that's really what we're focused on.
Speaker 4: You know, it's another prime time game obviously, what you
Speaker 4: guys just had.
Speaker 3: The curious team like those?
Speaker 9: You know, can you get up for those?
Speaker 3: Like players do? What's you know you do?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you do, you get up for every game,
Speaker 2: but I mean Sunday night football. You know, it's like
Speaker 2: Thursday night football in the sense that it's everybody's watching.
Speaker 2: You're the only game, you know, and it'll be the
Speaker 2: game that every football fan will have turned on. And
Speaker 2: our guys appreciate that because that's part of it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Players love to be on that stage and they love
Speaker 2: to have an opportunity to compete in that kind of environment. Obviously. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, it's against a really good football team, it's
Speaker 2: an AFC rival, it's just an important game. So our
Speaker 2: guys will be ready to go. John.
Speaker 8: You look at the Chargers, they throw the ball a
Speaker 8: lot to Keenan Allen, I mean, have you seen this tight.
Speaker 3: Didn't notice that? You have you noticed? I mean have
Speaker 3: you seen that before?
Speaker 8: This type of Obviously everybody has a go to receiver,
Speaker 8: but to this degree, how is a game planning for
Speaker 8: a team where you know where they want to go
Speaker 8: with the ball?
Speaker 2: Well, they do, and they do they you know they
Speaker 2: do with Keenan, and they also do you know, with
Speaker 2: with Eckler. I mean he gets the ball a lot too,
Speaker 2: in various different types of ways. But that's not their
Speaker 2: only weapons. I mean, obviously the quarterback, he can get
Speaker 2: out and run, he can throw, he does a lot
Speaker 2: of things. He's dangerous. But they have a lot of
Speaker 2: good skill players. You know, every one of their guys
Speaker 2: is dangerous in their own right. And they spread the
Speaker 2: ball around. You say, okay, they throw it to the
Speaker 2: number thirteen a lot, Well they do, but then you
Speaker 2: see the ball going to everybody else. And they scheme
Speaker 2: different guys different ways in different games, and different guys
Speaker 2: are very talented. They built a very talented offensive skill set. Guys.
Speaker 2: All all the tight ends are receiving tight ends. Every
Speaker 2: single one of them is a good receiving tight end.
Speaker 2: They got five of them. Four of them play all
Speaker 2: the time, so it's a really they're they're really good
Speaker 2: on offense for a reason. They do a great job
Speaker 2: with SI and it's gonna be a challenge for us.
Speaker 4: I'm with you, guys, being the one seed in the AFC.
Speaker 6: Is is it something that you care about right now?
Speaker 4: Or is a kind of meetingless with so much football
Speaker 4: left to be played?
Speaker 2: You know, it's than it's good before you want to
Speaker 2: be at this point, but it doesn't mean anything until
Speaker 2: the last after the last game in terms of playoff seeding.
Speaker 2: So you know, you get the lead, keep the lead,
Speaker 2: I guess it means something in that sense. So we
Speaker 2: controlled a certain amount of our destiny. I don't know
Speaker 2: what the tie breakers would say, but to some degree
Speaker 2: we do, I guess. And but really we just got
Speaker 2: to keep winning. We got to take it one game
Speaker 2: at a time. We want to know this week and
Speaker 2: that's that's really all our guys are talking about, and
Speaker 2: that's all they're thinking about.
Speaker 1: That was that coach John Harball. We also had a
Speaker 1: chance to talk with tight end Isaiah Likely, who's going
Speaker 1: to be a really important player for this team. As
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews underwent surgery to repair it injury in his
Speaker 1: foot and ankle. So Isaiah likely is next man up
Speaker 1: with these tight ends, and he talked about the expectations
Speaker 1: he has from and also talking with Mark to help
Speaker 1: provide some guidance and advice as he goes through this process.
Speaker 3: I think I.
Speaker 6: Remember you showing up in old Mark Jackson TikTok last year.
Speaker 6: How quickly you did that friendship kind of you know
Speaker 6: lost in twenty tents.
Speaker 3: It was kind of fast. I mean, you know coming
Speaker 3: in to the league. I love at Lamar like a superhero.
Speaker 10: So like the fact that he went out his way,
Speaker 10: spoke to me first, you know, introduced himself, and like
Speaker 10: we just been clicking ever since. So he's been a
Speaker 10: blessing for real, Hasaiah?
Speaker 8: How would those games where you feel down for Mark?
Speaker 8: How how would those be live into How would those
Speaker 8: help him now where you're.
Speaker 9: Feeling in for him again?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 10: Really just being on my feet are I mean A's
Speaker 10: coach always says like next man up mentality. I mean,
Speaker 10: I love Mark. I mean it hurt when he went down,
Speaker 10: Like Mark told me, you know, just say it, stay
Speaker 10: the course and stay ready all the time.
Speaker 4: Mark cluck yesterday about it. Hell, he has that connection
Speaker 4: where when things break down, he still sort of has
Speaker 4: the sense of the word look for Mark. Do you
Speaker 4: feel like you could have that with Lamar barely quickly?
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 10: I'm not gonna say it's as create as Mark, cause
Speaker 10: as you said, like they came in together, they brothers,
Speaker 10: So yeah, like that's just pean and brother and Jelly.
Speaker 10: But you know, it's filling in the role and then
Speaker 10: trying to incorporate what I do the same way as
Speaker 10: Mark does and try to be on the same time
Speaker 10: and they have with the chemistry they me and m
Speaker 10: Lamar have, is really gonna click to how the offense goes.
Speaker 1: You talk about the advice that Mark gave you, Is
Speaker 1: that the night of or if you spoken to him since?
Speaker 10: So the night that happened. I told Mar you know,
Speaker 10: I called Martin. He answer, But it's obviously like I
Speaker 10: texted him saying like when you ready to talk. I
Speaker 10: know everybody's blowing your phone up. I know that's you
Speaker 10: gonna through a lot right now. Just hit me up,
Speaker 10: and he hit me up. Yesterday we talked for a
Speaker 10: little bit. I'm not gonna say what we talked about,
Speaker 10: but we d he's definitely in good spirits.
Speaker 1: D does that mean something to you?
Speaker 3: You know, like him that's giving me your advice and
Speaker 3: encouraging you and knowing that this is kind of big
Speaker 3: outre with you for sure.
Speaker 10: I mean I I tell everybody like Mark's like that
Speaker 10: big brother role in aspect, and he's done a fantastic
Speaker 10: job helping me day in and day out on r
Speaker 10: uh run blocking pas past route, running past block and
Speaker 10: everything and just giving me everything, voice of wisdom everything
Speaker 10: I do. So you know, having him still be able
Speaker 10: to talk to me even after his injury definitely was heartwarming.
Speaker 6: Let's practice been like this week not having him here
Speaker 6: and stepping into probably more of a prominent role.
Speaker 10: Uh really, I've been just you know, trying to majoring
Speaker 10: on the little details. I mean, just you know, still
Speaker 10: understanding that I have a role and then just understand
Speaker 10: that well O what uh Lamar needs M mean more
Speaker 10: to do in in terms of if uh you know,
Speaker 10: if I got to speed up this route, if if
Speaker 10: he wants me to block differently on the ads for him,
Speaker 10: cause I I'm not gonna lie me. Me and Mark
Speaker 10: do things different in our own ways that's what makes
Speaker 10: us human. But like just still trying to incorporate and
Speaker 10: blame with the with the offense.
Speaker 3: I see how much.
Speaker 6: Has unselfishness and patience has been important for you that
Speaker 6: you're given.
Speaker 3: You guys made a bunch of wide receiver editions. There's
Speaker 3: only one ball to go around.
Speaker 6: How much that you have to kind of remind yourself
Speaker 6: that your chance will come.
Speaker 10: I mean, I feel like it's it's a blessing we
Speaker 10: have so many weapons on the offense because it makes
Speaker 10: people like my job easier, cause now you either have
Speaker 10: to respect everybody or you double somebody, and now you
Speaker 10: leave somebody that you don't want guarding somebody else. So
Speaker 10: I felt like, you know, just staying the course and
Speaker 10: just waiting for you know, the body come my way,
Speaker 10: and just making the most out of it.
Speaker 4: He came into the league with Charlie. I mean, if
Speaker 4: if he also gets a bigger opporney over the most years,
Speaker 4: what do you feel like he'll bring to the table.
Speaker 10: I feel like charge is an amazing tight end. I
Speaker 10: mean just having us both on the field, you guys
Speaker 10: finally getting seeing in him and his uh first NFL
Speaker 10: season fully after him playing the last game in Cincinnati.
Speaker 10: I feel like he's coming along with I.
Speaker 9: Know you're disappointed, of course about Mark going down, but
Speaker 9: what's your confidence level internally and your excitement to having
Speaker 9: an increase roll some more opportunity there.
Speaker 10: I I'd be just excited to play football day in
Speaker 10: and day out. So I mean just bringing a smile
Speaker 10: every day to work and to the team, and then
Speaker 10: showing the offense that you got my one hundred percent
Speaker 10: day in the day out.
Speaker 5: God stuff all the time about year two being easier
Speaker 5: than realkiear in, what ways is it different for you?
Speaker 3: Or what ways do you think?
Speaker 5: You know you're a better player than your world when
Speaker 5: you shield.
Speaker 10: Up, you know last year ways, I say differently, Uh,
Speaker 10: I felt like this year we have a lot more weapons,
Speaker 10: So like as you guys said, like there's only one
Speaker 10: ball to go around, So just making the most out
Speaker 10: of your opportunities, I say differently. And then what's easier
Speaker 10: is being able to talk to everybody. I mean, as
Speaker 10: a rookie, you don't really know nobody, you don't know
Speaker 10: how the system works, you don't really know who you
Speaker 10: could talk to, who you can lean on. But by
Speaker 10: a year or two you've already made those chemistries, the decisions,
Speaker 10: and really those relationships around where if you don't understand something,
Speaker 10: not only can you ask a coach, you can also
Speaker 10: ask that teammate and like just lean on them.
Speaker 5: You weld hear like a line in the off season like, well,
Speaker 5: what were you working on? It seemed like you know,
Speaker 5: you really came, you know, cutting in shape. What were
Speaker 5: you thinking about all season?
Speaker 3: Uh? Really just.
Speaker 10: Everything. I mean, just watching watching more film, seeing if
Speaker 10: I can decipher defenses a lot faster than what I
Speaker 10: was used to rookie year, cause you know, the one
Speaker 10: thing that Michaelases priests going into the rookie year was
Speaker 10: it's a lot a lot faster in the NFL. So
Speaker 10: really just trying to speed that process down and going
Speaker 10: into here two and then trying to make the most
Speaker 10: of my opportunities.
Speaker 3: How do you handle Thanksgiving? What are your what are
Speaker 3: your plans? Uh?
Speaker 10: Probably gonna see the family for a little bit because
Speaker 10: they came down here. Need some mama cooking, you know,
Speaker 10: I always gotta get that.
Speaker 1: That was tied end Isaiah Likely. We also talk with
Speaker 1: cornerback Brandon Stevens. He is having an excellent year and
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of responsibility on him. Is
Speaker 1: the Ravens face justin Herbert and Keenan Allen and the
Speaker 1: Dynamic Chargers offense. Here's what Brandon had to say.
Speaker 3: What's what sticks after you at all? Sorry to get
Speaker 3: what sticks out to you that Keenan Allen.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, he's he's a big part of you know,
Speaker 11: their their offense. Uh, you know the offense runs through here. Uh.
Speaker 11: But now he's you know, he's a he's a skilled player. Uh,
Speaker 11: got a you know, finesse to his game. But I'm
Speaker 11: you know, I'm excited for the metro.
Speaker 6: How much better prepared do you think he winds up
Speaker 6: in a slot a lot? You used to see Kyle
Speaker 6: lining up there a lot. How much better prepared is
Speaker 6: Kyle for responsibility like that this year compared to you know,
Speaker 6: I guess very one.
Speaker 3: Is kind of coming into this.
Speaker 11: Team last year with Yeah, I think, uh, you know,
Speaker 11: you know, Kyle's he's he's definitely grown. You know, I
Speaker 11: I can say that about you know a lot of
Speaker 11: guys on defense. Uh uh but yeah, he's you know,
Speaker 11: he's prepared each game. You know, he uh puts the
Speaker 11: work in, you know, weekend week out, uh, you know,
Speaker 11: on the practice field, in the meeting room. So uh yeah,
Speaker 11: he'll he'll be he'll be prepared for the uh for
Speaker 11: the matchup for brand.
Speaker 1: You guys are uh in the mist of playing four
Speaker 1: out of five games in prime time in the top
Speaker 1: ten A and C.
Speaker 4: There's just a lot of attention on this team.
Speaker 9: But now how do you how do you handle that.
Speaker 6: From you know you and you know that kind of
Speaker 6: everybody who's.
Speaker 2: Whole eyes are on you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we uh you know, My model honestly personally is
Speaker 11: you know, just to stay even kell you know, like
Speaker 11: you said, there's a lot of odds on us, but
Speaker 11: you know, we just gotta stay uh, you know, just
Speaker 11: stay focused on what's at hand and uh you know
Speaker 11: uh and that's the charges and you know, and not
Speaker 11: letting the outside noise, you know, affect us and you know,
Speaker 11: get in our heads, cause at the end of the day,
Speaker 11: it doesn't matter, you know, Uh, what matters is what
Speaker 11: we do on Sunday.
Speaker 3: There was the point of the off season.
Speaker 6: I forgot exactly road walks with John Harparts that the
Speaker 6: plan was to play.
Speaker 3: With safety this year.
Speaker 6: When in your mind did that change and and when
Speaker 6: did you know you were gonna be playing corner.
Speaker 11: Uh yeah, uh yeah, training camp, you know, spend a
Speaker 11: lot of time at safety and nickel.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 11: I I would say, you know, the the the change
Speaker 11: really came towards the the middle of the end of
Speaker 11: training camp, and uh you know, I I honestly knew
Speaker 11: that that was where I was gonna stick, you know,
Speaker 11: uh in training camp. But uh I I would say that,
Speaker 11: uh that when Marlon went down.
Speaker 3: When Marlon went down in training camp, is that sort
Speaker 3: of when he felt. Nah, honestly, they.
Speaker 11: I was kind of just a like a bubble guy,
Speaker 11: like you know, corner wasn't out of the question l
Speaker 11: as you know, as everybody knows. I I was all
Speaker 11: around you know, on the uh defense, safety, nickel, corner.
Speaker 11: But yeah, you know obviously you know, guys go down,
Speaker 11: you gotta fill fill some spots. Uh, But corner was
Speaker 11: never out of the out of the mix.
Speaker 8: Burn in early last year, the the big plays, especially
Speaker 8: in the past game, we're a little bit of a
Speaker 8: problem that's gone away. Really, you guys don't give up
Speaker 8: many big plays at all now defensively.
Speaker 3: Why why do what? What has been the reason behind that?
Speaker 11: Do you feel like just just execution, you know, uh
Speaker 11: you know, and and y you know, just just being prepared.
Speaker 3: You know, the week starts, you.
Speaker 11: Know, uh you know here on on on Monday, on Tuesday,
Speaker 11: and so we just gotta take what we do uh
Speaker 11: to the field. And I think that's that's helped uh
Speaker 11: a lot.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 11: You know, we honestly haven't given up you know, too
Speaker 11: many big plays this year, and you know the ones
Speaker 11: that we do is just lack of communication. But uh,
Speaker 11: you know communication, you know, breede understandings. So that's what
Speaker 11: we're in for, guys.
Speaker 9: Growing. You know, this season's curious what what are the
Speaker 9: biggest dribe you've made in particularly to corner back?
Speaker 3: And and is that specific for cornerback?
Speaker 9: Is that something you were kind of relishing even though safety.
Speaker 3: Is was in the Mini sta Yeah.
Speaker 11: Uh, you know, I play you know corner my uh
Speaker 11: uh uh uh in college you know, so that was
Speaker 11: that was my main position. But you know, I I
Speaker 11: you know, I I I love I just love love
Speaker 11: being on the field, you know, no matter where it is.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 11: But you know, uh, you know, corners, the you know,
Speaker 11: definitely my type of game. I you know, I love
Speaker 11: the island, Uh, and you know that's that's that's where
Speaker 11: I had fund at rand.
Speaker 3: Where do you think he made the biggest stride?
Speaker 11: But uh, man, just uh, I would say n numerous areas,
Speaker 11: you know, just just you know, zone matchups, you know, uh,
Speaker 11: you know, covering one on ones, you know, taking away
Speaker 11: number one receivers. Uh yeah, I think I think I've
Speaker 11: made strides in those areas.
Speaker 4: Brandon, You're in the same draft classes all way. You know,
Speaker 4: your kind of neighbors in the locker room, house sizes thing.
Speaker 4: Is it good to see him kind of break out
Speaker 4: the same year that you're breaking out.
Speaker 11: Man, It's it's good to see. It's good to see. Uh,
Speaker 11: you know, he's he's put the work in. You know,
Speaker 11: we're we're part of the same agency, and so uh
Speaker 11: you know, I you know, I see him putting work in,
Speaker 11: uh you know, up in Austin in the off season.
Speaker 11: But no, I'm I'm I'm happy for him. You know,
Speaker 11: I always tell him and like, just just stay focused,
Speaker 11: Like you know, nobody nobody cares about what you did
Speaker 11: last week.
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do this week?
Speaker 11: And so, uh, you know, we just try to, you know,
Speaker 11: keep each other focused, keep uh and whatnot.
Speaker 3: Brendan, you said you.
Speaker 7: Like being on that island. That sounds as much attitude
Speaker 7: as it is ability. Can you describe the mindset of wanting.
Speaker 3: To be on that island? Yeah?
Speaker 11: Man, uh shoot, the island is not for everybody. Uh
Speaker 11: uh you do y you know, it's it's mainly just confidence,
Speaker 11: you know, confidence in your technique. You know, just you know,
Speaker 11: being fearless out there and you know, knowing that you
Speaker 11: know who whoever's in front of you. Uh you know
Speaker 11: that's you know that you're in front of them, you
Speaker 11: know what I mean. And so, uh, it's it's definitely
Speaker 11: a mindset. Like you said, did you.
Speaker 7: Always want that or is that something you developed in
Speaker 7: terms of It's not for everybody, but it became something
Speaker 7: for you.
Speaker 11: Uh yeah, I g I guess I did, especially with
Speaker 11: my moved from a running back. Uh uh yeah, man,
Speaker 11: I I enjoyed it though. Uh but yeah, it's uh y,
Speaker 11: you just gotta relic in it, you know, and you know,
Speaker 11: take advantage of every every rep out there, uh cause
Speaker 11: you never know when that that one ball is gonna
Speaker 11: come your way. Uh.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you're ready.
Speaker 1: Uh justin Herbert's one of the top you know quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the game.
Speaker 11: You know, we we talked about being on an island.
Speaker 1: They Ah, how how do you expect him to kind
Speaker 1: of uh test you guys as a secondary and.
Speaker 8: And challenge you know, you knowing that he's he's a
Speaker 8: guy that they don't hurt the ball all the way
Speaker 8: to kield.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now he's he's a special quarterback.
Speaker 11: Uh and we know that he's a smart guy, able
Speaker 11: to recoverage just uh you know, can fit can fit
Speaker 11: balls and the tight and tight uh covers. Uh So yeah,
Speaker 11: I mean it's it's it's on us to you know,
Speaker 11: make it as hard as possible on it. Uh you know,
Speaker 11: with our covers, with with the game plan and you
Speaker 11: know things like that.
Speaker 3: So uh uh it it.
Speaker 11: It'll definitely be a good matchup, you know, going against
Speaker 11: him and you know, you know that their receivers.
Speaker 3: Uh so we're looking forward to that.
Speaker 9: Curious if you if you ever reflect back and was
Speaker 9: pausing you transfer, you know from use your lay to
Speaker 9: play some you and make that sphere you mentioned confidence.
Speaker 9: It just what gave you the confidence that you could do,
Speaker 9: you know, play cornerback and then uh obviously play cornerback.
Speaker 12: At this letter.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think, Uh, I think the the confidence just
Speaker 11: just came from, you know, putting the work.
Speaker 3: Uh W.
Speaker 11: Once I decided to transfer, I you know, I I
Speaker 11: knew I could always play the position, and you know
Speaker 11: it was just a matter of you know, refining my
Speaker 11: my foot, my technique and whatnot. And you know obviously
Speaker 11: I was going to smu you know, kind of raw
Speaker 11: at that position. Uh uh So you know that that's
Speaker 11: where the confidence come from.
Speaker 3: Brandon drivers try.
Speaker 6: To convince uh coach push back any running back roots
Speaker 6: on the running back drills.
Speaker 11: Man, I'm I'm I've been crossing my fingers since since
Speaker 11: my rookie year to get a carry.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know when.
Speaker 11: It's gonna come, if it's gonna come, but man, hopefully,
Speaker 11: hopefully I can break on.
Speaker 1: That was cornerback Brandon Stevens in the locker room today.
Speaker 1: We also talked with safety Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's done this league a long time. Uh
Speaker 3: like Moore, I've been here, still doing it today at
Speaker 3: a high level.
Speaker 13: He's a super quick, very good route runners.
Speaker 3: Chris Fisher, He's a tough cover. But I think we've
Speaker 3: got a good point, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Justin herber is one of the top quarterback of
Speaker 1: the game and kind a little stress.
Speaker 2: Do you think that he will put on this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 13: He I think he rushed for like seventy some yards
Speaker 13: last week against the Packers, And no, he's he's a
Speaker 13: super elusive guy that I mean, he's got such good
Speaker 13: art time that his life don't really get a lot
Speaker 13: of credit, but I mean he gains a lot of
Speaker 13: yards with his legs, keeps plays alive, and he just
Speaker 13: challenges teams across all levels. You know, he's super smart,
Speaker 13: got a great arm and can run around and make plays.
Speaker 13: So it's goning a tough challenge, you know, on the
Speaker 13: road going to LA, But I think we got the
Speaker 13: guys on our side that we can do it.
Speaker 1: How do you handle all the attention on you guys
Speaker 1: AVFC and you know we're playing in prime time games,
Speaker 1: a whole bunch down.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's I feel like I don't know, I'm speaking
Speaker 13: for myself, but uh, like somebody said we were one
Speaker 13: number on the AFC. I'm like kind of thinking, like
Speaker 13: I feel like we haven't even played our best football yet,
Speaker 13: Like like we haven't even hit our stride yet.
Speaker 3: Because I feel like there's so much as a.
Speaker 13: Team that we can be more consistent with and more
Speaker 13: Chris more like concisely the defense being more consistent on
Speaker 13: a weekly basis. So I think it's kind of a
Speaker 13: good thing my perspective looking at it, like we're not
Speaker 13: even the best that we can get right now.
Speaker 3: Carol, we just quot with.
Speaker 7: Brandon Stevens have been moving from safety to corner. We
Speaker 7: just kind of a lot and Uh, as a teammate,
Speaker 7: what have you seen from him in the terms of
Speaker 7: his becom uncomfortable and profisient at that position?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 13: He I feel like he's kind of interesting for the
Speaker 13: corner position because he's so big, but he runs just
Speaker 13: as well as anybody, and he's uh super.
Speaker 3: Fast, who's physical, come up and tackle.
Speaker 13: You know, he played running back back in the day,
Speaker 13: so I guess he says he's physical from that, but whatever.
Speaker 13: But now he's got really good feet for his size
Speaker 13: and he's uh been making plays back there all year. So, uh,
Speaker 13: he proved himself early in the year, and I know
Speaker 13: there's some question marks coming in, but I feel like
Speaker 13: everybody can agree that he's at about his spot.
Speaker 3: What is that in your agency?
Speaker 9: You know, he's steel stepped it up this year articulation.
Speaker 3: What does that do for you guys?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think around the whole defense, not including including
Speaker 13: b Steve, seems like guys have really just stepped up
Speaker 13: this year and everybody's coming to their own.
Speaker 3: You know, we had road p q uh uh.
Speaker 13: But I feel like those two, let me think those
Speaker 13: are kind of the only two guys coming back from
Speaker 13: last year. I was just like solidified, you know what,
Speaker 13: they're gonna do this and that. Even guys up front
Speaker 13: like Matta is having a great year, Kyle van Noyd
Speaker 13: coming over from the Chargers, He's having a great year.
Speaker 13: Dope came back from injury, having a great year. Missing
Speaker 13: about you guys, like even guys in the back end
Speaker 13: like Gino obviously Marcus coming getting hurt, coming back playing well,
Speaker 13: myself included. I feel like it's been a kind of
Speaker 13: a turn the page kind of year for our defense
Speaker 13: and hopefully continue to be exactly a lot of career.
Speaker 3: Back injuries and so forth.
Speaker 9: What does it say, like you he gets your step
Speaker 9: right into.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys get yeah.
Speaker 13: I mean it's a credit to the players, to guys
Speaker 13: being prepared, like Rock Darb Jalen credit to the coaches
Speaker 13: as well, getting ready, keeping them ready, you know, even
Speaker 13: though they're not getting a lot of reps throughout the week,
Speaker 13: being able to come in and play at a high level.
Speaker 3: For I think it's the best defense in the league.
Speaker 13: It's not easy being cold, especially at that position at
Speaker 13: corner and just being called on take go in and perform.
Speaker 13: So shout out to those guys. They'd be doing a
Speaker 13: great job of it, and I'm excited to see what
Speaker 13: they're gonna do.
Speaker 3: I'm curious about that.
Speaker 13: Derwin Jamis is the guy when when you were in college,
Speaker 13: did you look at him and think, oh, maybe that's
Speaker 13: kind of similar to the way I play like here, Yeah,
Speaker 13: I mean, he's definitely a guy who I've watched a
Speaker 13: lot of tape on, you know, coming out in college.
Speaker 13: I don't know exactly what year he was drafted, but
Speaker 13: he was definitely himself in the league by the time
Speaker 13: I was in college and watching guys like him, Justin Simmons, Tyron, Matthew,
Speaker 13: Kevin Bayer, like just getting bits and pieces from all
Speaker 13: their games and trying to apply it to mind while
Speaker 13: also saying true to myself what I can do, But Yeah,
Speaker 13: he's definitely one of the guys that I see is
Speaker 13: one of the better safeties in our league. And somebody
Speaker 13: that I've looked at is uh kind of an exactly
Speaker 13: of how to play a position?
Speaker 9: Is he somebody you know he's a two time All Pro,
Speaker 9: three time Pro bowler.
Speaker 3: Is he kind of like, you know, you've established yourself
Speaker 3: now in the league. I think people know you. Is
Speaker 3: it kind of like, all right, that's the next level
Speaker 3: for me, Like I.
Speaker 13: Can become that kind of funny you know, Yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 13: that's definitely one of the goals to get those accolades, recognition.
Speaker 13: The same time, everybody goes to their own pace, and
Speaker 13: I'm not comparing myself to anybody.
Speaker 3: Uh, just do what I do and when I do
Speaker 3: how I do it. I feel like I'm confident in that.
Speaker 13: But at the same time, I can still give homage
Speaker 13: and respect to those who have doun gets up before me.
Speaker 1: That was safety Kyle Hamilton. We also talked with wide
Speaker 1: receiver Versaw Bateman. Bateman went down during the open media
Speaker 1: portion of practice, which caused a little bit of a
Speaker 1: scare as reporters were watching that time during practice, but
Speaker 1: Bateman assured everybody afterwards that everything is all okay, Like
Speaker 1: you said, is that the guys deal with.
Speaker 12: Is this the first time that this is kind of
Speaker 12: player that where you like like that, Yeah it is.
Speaker 12: I've been doing a good job. My foot is actually
Speaker 12: really healthy. It's been hanging it up pretty well. Uh,
Speaker 12: training staff as we're doing a good job with me,
Speaker 12: uh the team as well.
Speaker 11: So all is well.
Speaker 12: My phone is blown up already, but all is well
Speaker 12: my phone, my foot is fine, So I'll be out
Speaker 12: there on the field something for sure.
Speaker 13: How much do you guys look at it as it
Speaker 13: has to be a group effort to make up for
Speaker 13: Mark's absence.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know it, it's always a group effort.
Speaker 12: I think this world kind of get caught up in
Speaker 12: the wide receiver one kind of thing. But for the
Speaker 12: Balta Ravens this year, I think we could we have
Speaker 12: proved that, you know, anybody can have a big game,
Speaker 12: whether it's Mark Objj, myself, uh, anybody, the running backs.
Speaker 12: You know, we play as a unit that we play
Speaker 12: on selfish and I think that's why we've been able
Speaker 12: to have success so far.
Speaker 3: Among the U in Subarache.
Speaker 7: On one beaus, you just get they just put on
Speaker 7: your I mean.
Speaker 12: I I don know how good I am, but you know,
Speaker 12: the media has kind.
Speaker 3: Of put that perspective on me.
Speaker 12: So I'm gonna continue to let them do their thing,
Speaker 12: and I will just continue to do my thing.
Speaker 3: So it is what it is.
Speaker 9: For Sean, how did I did?
Speaker 10: I didn't feel to to get an in the song
Speaker 10: Oh Day.
Speaker 8: We talked to him after the game and they just
Speaker 8: talked about how he was for you.
Speaker 11: How how atten for you to.
Speaker 3: To get that stuff? It felt amazing.
Speaker 12: Uh felt better than my first one, cause uh, it's
Speaker 12: a lot where that came from, so you know, uh,
Speaker 12: hopefully many more to come.
Speaker 3: You actually tided a lot.
Speaker 1: Of picture to get to the point.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 3: From a timing perspective, and having it happened on prime time?
Speaker 8: Does that make you feel like it was worth the wait?
Speaker 3: It definitely was.
Speaker 12: I kind of liked it because we were all black.
Speaker 12: They're all black my favorite Jersey, so Uh to be
Speaker 12: able to have to come back to touch down and
Speaker 12: all black was definitely ming 'e fool for me.
Speaker 6: So for sure that every week it seems like zay
Speaker 6: Man it's a big play. How tough is that transition
Speaker 6: from college to rookie year. You made a successful transition yourself.
Speaker 12: I honestly don't think it's that hard depending on who
Speaker 12: you are. Sometimes I feel like it's easier depending on
Speaker 12: who you are. But for Jay, it's probably easy.
Speaker 3: He did that.
Speaker 12: Dude's open percent of the time, so yeah, that's a
Speaker 12: question for him, honestly, and he's gona continue to get
Speaker 12: open for the rest of the year. So I'm excited
Speaker 12: to see what he do.
Speaker 1: That was wide receiver ver Shan Bateman. And lastly, we
Speaker 1: also is off with center Tyler Linderbaum going into this
Speaker 1: game Ship Award.
Speaker 3: Now I'm an age. What makes him such a good sport?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 14: Well, I mean, if you meet the guy, he's awesome,
Speaker 14: just the way he works, the way he treats other people.
Speaker 14: I didn't know he was up for that ward, but
Speaker 14: it makes perfect sense, So congrat.
Speaker 7: Now on the old line, you guys want to be ornery,
Speaker 7: but at the same time, you've got to be a
Speaker 7: good sportsman.
Speaker 3: Where's the line there?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 14: I think that it's a perfect example of that, you know,
Speaker 14: the fine line. Once he sets on the field playing
Speaker 14: the game the right way, but then once he's off
Speaker 14: of it, you know, he's a good guy, so there's
Speaker 14: definitely a fine line.
Speaker 7: You guys have done your share of travel from London
Speaker 7: to Arizona now going out to LA What is the
Speaker 7: key to success when traveling? I mean, it's always good
Speaker 7: to have a good team, but beyond that mindset preparation.
Speaker 14: I think, you know, we've been traveling for away games
Speaker 14: our whole career, and obviously we'll go all there a
Speaker 14: day earlier, but it's all about you know, still doing
Speaker 14: your preparation, what you do in a normal game week,
Speaker 14: and then you'll just come ready.
Speaker 3: To play on Sunday. You know, I don't think there's
Speaker 3: much much of a change if you make it a change.
Speaker 1: So some of the analytics say that the Ravens run
Speaker 1: game this year is like one of the best ever.
Speaker 3: Uh, what do I feel like is clicking so well
Speaker 3: for you guys? Why is the Run Game League so successful?
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 14: I think I still think there's a lot of improvement
Speaker 14: that you know, I think everyone thinks that. But you know,
Speaker 14: obviously we're do and some good things and then obviously
Speaker 14: things that we need to improve on. But it's just
Speaker 14: you know, trying to be as consistent as possible, you know,
Speaker 14: just working together as a union.
Speaker 3: And then the backs. You know, we have great backs
Speaker 3: here finding great holes, so they help.
Speaker 13: They help a lot, certainly here Kevin Zeitler's hosting Thanksgiving
Speaker 13: for the Lineman.
Speaker 3: What's an o Lineman Thanksgiving? Look like?
Speaker 14: Oh gosh, you know, if you want your belly full,
Speaker 14: then you probably need to go to the Zeitler Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine what he's gonna have there.
Speaker 14: I went there last year and there's everything there, So
Speaker 14: it's gonna be another exciting Thursday.
Speaker 9: So Tyler being the one season in the AFC, is
Speaker 9: that is.
Speaker 3: That something that you guys care about right now?
Speaker 4: Or did you care less with so much of late?
Speaker 3: I think I think we care less.
Speaker 14: You know, it's what we're twelve games in, you know,
Speaker 14: we got five more to go, five six more to go.
Speaker 14: Knowing we have a lot of games in front of us,
Speaker 14: so none of that means anything. We gotta go out
Speaker 14: there and take it one game at a time. And
Speaker 14: you know, we got a big game coming up and
Speaker 14: a great opponent and the Chargers on Sunday, so that's
Speaker 14: what we're looking forward to.
Speaker 5: There's one of those.
Speaker 1: Lines playing time games.
Speaker 5: On how do you.
Speaker 7: The attention that's going to be the rest of the way.
Speaker 14: I mean, this is what you want as a competitor,
Speaker 14: you know, you want games like this, moments like these,
Speaker 14: So you know, I think a lot of guys here
Speaker 14: embrace that, you know, and then it's all about how
Speaker 14: you go out there and perform on Sunday, you know,
Speaker 14: against against teams that are you're going to get their
Speaker 14: best shots. So we're gonna have to be ready for it.
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