WEBVTT - John Harbaugh: Ravens Press Conference 9/30/24 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.320 Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday, 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.200 September thirtieth. The Ravens approved it two and two on 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.160 Sunday after taking down the Buffalo Bills thirty five to ten. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.200 It was a complete victory for the Ravens. The offense 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.599 really relied on running back Derek Candergan on the ground game. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:21.840 Henry had one hundred and ninety nine rushing yards at 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.320 a pair of touchdowns, and the Ravens Finch with two 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.680 hundred and seventy one total rushing yards in the game. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:30.880 The Ravens showed everyone that they are one of the 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:35.120 very best teams in football by taking down Buffalo, who 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.640 was undefeated coming into this game. Today, we had a 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.440 chance to hear from head coach John Harbball. Here's what 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.600 he had to say during his weekly press conference with 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:45.160 the media. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.440 All Right, good to see everybody, appreciate you being here. 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:54.760 Let's go, Ohs, Let's go. Can't wait for that game 0:00:54.800 --> 0:01:01.160 tomorrow afternoon at Camden Yards. Got to be honest with 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:05.039 probably won't be watching it, but be monitoring it very closely, 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.559 so sport those guys. We're excited for him and can't 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.839 wait to see him go get after it in the playoffs. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.000 Excited about our win last night. As you look at it, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:20.160 we did many good things and things that we improved on. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.280 We're building. I think we're grown as a football team. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.000 We're kind of in that building phase, still trying to 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:28.200 stack practices and good plays every day and improvement. But 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:29.880 yet we have so many things that we can get 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:31.480 better at that we need to get better at. So 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.840 many things that you'd like to have back from the 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.319 game and do better that we'll try our best to 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.240 learn from and we will learn from them, just like 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.520 we have in the past, you know, games before this. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.000 So that's what we'll work on right now, trying to 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.560 put all this stuff together so we can get our 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.840 guys in here and have a great week of practice 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:48.880 to get ready for the Bengals. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:50.320 What question do you. 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.840 Have, John, You know, Derrick Henry you get had another 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.960 massive game. There was a lot of questions with him 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.360 being three years old and you know the track record 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.000 for running backs. Why do you think he is still 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:04.880 being so productive at this age when a lot of 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:06.320 running backs just are. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:07.440 Yeah, that's a good question. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.280 I mean, I'm sure it's different for every single person, 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.560 but I mean There's a lot of things about Derek 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.560 that make him unique. Talent is one of them, for sure, 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.200 and work ethic is another one for sure. He's a very, 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.080 very you know, just tough human being, for sure. But 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.560 he really the proof is in the results, and you 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.200 kind of go by what you see. So we're evaluating 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.519 the possibility of bringing him in here. I think we 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.280 just looked at how he's been playing, you know, and 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.560 to see that continue on obviously is great. But we 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.680 did expect him to play this way and we're excited 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:40.160 about it. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.160 It's not a season with two losses, two wins, you're 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:44.840 talking about Stint even Keeld. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.400 You know, it's a marathon a season. How do you 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.400 get your players players may be little more. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.320 Emotional like coaches, how do you get them to buy 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.200 into that sort of philosophy. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:53.040 And that stay. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.480 Yeah, you know, the players are pros too, you know, 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.239 and I think at this level, I think the there's 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.720 a real collaboration between coaches and players, especially nowadays. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:05.760 Uh and in the NFL. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:07.960 You know, these these are these are grown men, you know, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:09.639 these are guys that are professionals. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.799 They they take their careers very seriously. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.440 It means a lot to them and they understand how 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.360 the season works, and we'll let the players. We do 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.200 wise words and the players talk to the team. We 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.480 have different captains every week. They talk to the guys. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.799 They say brilliant things, they say things that are spot on, 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.079 you know, and we have that kind of a kind 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.480 of leadership, that kind of a culture where where it's 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:34.839 kind of grown from within, nurtured from within. Uh, those 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.040 are the guys that set the tone. Uh, that's what 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:38.640 you want. 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.600 For these obviously, because that you're what two things? What 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.080 what went in the decision to get Patrick to start there? 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.680 And why do you think that works so well with 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.120 with him? I'm sorry with him and left guard and 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.119 Rogers starting a right guard, both the first start right. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.640 Well, that move made a lot of sense. I think 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.680 we all definitely agreed on it. Not not that the 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.040 other guys couldn't have played in there. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:03.520 They could have. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.320 And I'll say this about like Ben for instance, he's 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.560 been practicing very well, so when Ben gets his chance, 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.320 he's gonna play very well. But Pat Patrick's such an 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:18.479 experienced guy and he's played all the positions. Although left 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.560 guard I think I read was ten snaps in the past, 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.120 so that was a good stat you guys pulled up. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.400 He's practiced a lot at all the positions over the years, and. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:26.880 He's just a guy. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.560 Just that's his kind of superpower, you know, that's his 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.520 that's his trait that he can do so many different 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.719 things so well. And you know, as we go forward, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.080 you know, we'll see how how Andrew's ankle is and 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.360 all that, and but Pat can continue to do it 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:41.640 and he's only going to get better if he gets 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.040 more reps there. And obviously Roger the guy has been 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.200 coming on. He's a high draft pick, he's a guy 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:51.320 we have a lot of expectations for and he didn't 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.280 do anything in that game to dampen that down at all. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.640 So I think he's kind of taken as it comes 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.200 every single week and try to put the best group 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.640 out there you can with the best next guys playing, 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:06.960 and whoever have everybody ready. Soon need arises that you 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.680 can put a player and that that's ready to help 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:08.960 you win. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.359 That whole back to back timeout scenario that heart in 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.039 the second half, Now that you're calling back and looked 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.760 at it, any thoughts on how that went down maybe 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.520 back or was that just something that was a game 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.560 operation thing that was. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.560 That was not good. I mean, that was one I 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:25.680 want back, you know. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.400 It just there's a lot of reason stuff happens in 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.040 a game, and there's a lot of things that happened, 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.680 but now I want that one back that was bad. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.720 Felt bad about it at the time, Still feel bad 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.880 about it, Gonna feel bad about it next year, and 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.000 ten years from now, I'm gonna hate it still. So 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.320 it's just a bad, bad sequence for us, for me, especially. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.960 John Wiggans had some tough moments in the game the 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.000 week the week before, but you had him out there 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:55.239 almost every Wiggins had some tough moments a week before, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.000 but you had him out there for almost every defensive snap. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:58.720 Right away yesterday. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.159 And what game the fifth that he would handle that 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:01.840 as well as he did. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.159 Yeah, I me that's growth, you know, just a growth guy, 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.640 growth mindset, and we trust our guys to learn and 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.839 grow and gave him an opportunity to go out there 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.080 and do it again. And he's been practicing really well. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.440 And you know, I mean, he and I had numerous conversations. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.640 He and Chris had numerous conversations, just natural part of football, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.760 you know, and he listens and practiced well last week 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:21.880 and went out and played well. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.280 If you look at a lot of the big Henry 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.040 runs or any of your big offensive players over the 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.000 last couple of weeks usually find a tight end to 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.080 full back or a wide receiver blocking in the perimeter 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.239 or making a play down field. 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.640 What about how selfless. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.919 Kind of some of those guys have been that. You know, 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.159 Mark Andrews hasn't had a catch in two weeks, and 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.839 Flowers didn't have his normal you know numbers yesterday. But 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.520 just how kind of people are buying into that? 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.560 I mean, that's football is a team sport, you know, 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.359 it's the ultimate team sport. And when you've got a 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:58.279 bunch of players who are team players, team guys, I 0:06:58.279 --> 0:06:59.719 think you have a chance to be a good team. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.560 And that's what we have. So as we've said before, 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:04.239 you know, it's. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.240 You know, if Derek or the running game doesn't quite 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.440 get going from a stat wise, the questions are always 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.560 gonna be what about the running game? The running game 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.600 gets going, and the questions are always going to be 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.120 what about this player? That player is not getting targeted, 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:19.920 or you're not throwing the ball that much, or the 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.320 passing yards aren't up or whatever. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.520 I mean, it's just it's just it's part and parcel. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:24.440 We understand that. 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.280 And the answer is always that, you know, the hole 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.600 is greater than the parts, and the parts make the hole. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.200 And those guys get it. I mean, they're contributing in 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.520 a big way. Mark Andrews is gonna definitely have big 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.240 games here catching the ball. Isaiah is gonna have big 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.040 games catching the ball. All those guys are, We're gonna have, 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.000 We're gonna have. We're gonna have a big passing game 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.560 coming up here at some point in time soon. It's 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.800 hard to predict what it's gonna be because if the 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.600 games go where they go, and the ball goes where 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:50.200 it goes. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.800 And it's just a competitive deal. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.200 But you know, my point is is that the reason 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.400 we ran the ball so well is because everybody was 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.400 bought into the play that was being run in that 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.920 moment and executed it so well. Mark had some phenomenal 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.120 blocks out there, I mean some dominant blocks. 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.320 So did Isaiah, So did Bait. You know, so did Zay. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.080 You know, Zay's in their crack blocking, you know, and 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.040 he's you know, him and him and in Thailand are 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.920 crack blocking defensive ends in there. That's that's what makes you, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.600 you know, gives you a chance to be successful. And 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.480 when those guys are running outs and catching the ball, 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:24.960 people will be blocking for them as well. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:27.880 John, And I know you kind of explained that they're 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.960 but with specifically Mark, because there's a level production that 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.080 everyone kind of expecting them go back to back games 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:38.080 without a catch. Is that something that you will talk 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.719 to the player to make sure everything's okay or you know, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:41.080 how do you. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:41.760 Kind of handle that? 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.080 You know, I could probably try to talk to Mark 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:45.760 to make sure everything's okay, but he would just look 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:47.040 at me like, what are you talking to me about? 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.760 You know, everything's fine, everything's good. You know, guys are competitive. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.160 I mean, everybody, everybody wants to be the difference because 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.560 they know they're they're great players. Mark Andrews is a 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:01.480 great player. All those guys are special in their own way, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:02.720 but Mark is a star. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:03.199 You know. 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:04.199 I'm there's no doubt about it. 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.160 And the fact that the fact that we were doing 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.000 well on offense as a team and that part hasn't 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.520 been expressing itself in the last two weeks gets me 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.200 kind of excited because that's another weapon that we have 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.719 that's going to happen. So it's just part of the 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.920 versatility of the offense, which is really important. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.239 Remember last year when you signed Kyle. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:23.840 Fannoy and you can said, you know, you. 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.200 Played against and William with the Patriots a lot of time. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.000 There are a lot of new things to say about 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.800 I'm kind of like the Henry question as a coach 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:32.920 when you watch him, now, why. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.079 Do you think he is excelling so. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:36.600 Well at the age that he is? 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.240 Well, he'll tell you that he's young. I mean, every 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:40.760 time you talk to him, he'll tell you, guys, don't 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.280 He'll tell you I'm young. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:42.840 I'm young. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.280 And you know, he's certainly playing young, but he's also 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.280 playing crafty. He's playing like a very smart He's in 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.000 the right place. The thing that I'm impressed with and 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:55.920 this is not just him, this is the whole defense, 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.760 and I think the coaches and led by Zach have 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.200 done a great job of emphasiz this. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.559 But he's playing so hard. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.720 I mean, you see him, you know you're chasing Josh 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.160 Allen out to the defensive left side and forcing him 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.400 to make a decision as quick as possible. All those 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.800 guys doing that him turning and running down the screen 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:16.679 passes pretty impressive. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.920 Last time, nond you ahead just great things to say 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.240 about the way that Zach Orr called the game. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.200 I guess a month in, what have you seen from 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.360 his development. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:27.520 In that world? 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.679 Yeah, absolutely, that's a great point. I thought both coordinators 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.120 were really on point, have been on point, but he 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.400 really showed up in this game and defense, it really 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.440 showed up. You know, Zach has been in the coaches, 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.200 I mean not all the coaches together have a great collaboration, 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.120 but I think they put together a great game plan. 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.680 I think Zach really called the game really well. He 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.760 kept him off balance. There was a nice mix of 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.560 coverage of different various kinds of pressures. I mean, there's 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.840 a lot of pressures, but there are various types of pressures. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:58.520 You know, there were four man blitzers, there were five 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.360 man type of pressures. There were different coverages and different 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.760 coverage rotations behind the blitzes, and you kind of kind 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:05.760 of call them at the right time. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.920 And I don't think you don't want to have. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.240 An offense have a bead necessarily and where you're going next. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.200 And he did a really good job of that. And 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.200 I would say the same thing about Todd and the 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.640 offensive coaches. They were moving around different places. It helps 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.880 to have some success, you know, when you can kind 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.600 of get some plays and get some reps and get 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.880 some first downs, you know, then you have a chance 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.079 to call more stuff. So and I thought they did 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.280 a great job of it, both both Todd and Zach. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:35.640 Go back to what you're saying about Kyle annoying giving 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.080 the age. Is that something you'll you think you'll have 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.840 to sort of manage as you get deeper into the seasons, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.000 or to snap founts and workloading that sort of thing. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.720 I think we'll keep an eye on up for sure, 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.360 you know, and probably as much as anything you look 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.800 at practice, you know, I mean, Kyle's not going to 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:52.360 be a guy that's gonna need as many reps of 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:53.000 practice as a. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:54.199 Younger guy might. 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.240 Or will, so definitely manage that and then we'll see 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.400 in the game, you know, it's not I mean, I 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.760 think any player, you know, there's kind of an ideal 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.160 number of reps. You know, you get gassed out there, 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.920 so you definitely want to keep your guys as fresh 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.000 as possible. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.480 Even in game. But yeah, we'll definitely be. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.400 Looking at that, which conventional thought is running backs are 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.480 usually best on their first contract, right, Justice Hills now 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.080 playing really good football and when it's third contract? Now, 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.040 how have you seen him progress as a player? What 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:24.840 Justice Hills? 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.440 Oh? Justin third contract? 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.200 But I mean you know it's not I mean he 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:29.839 got a couple of pretty quick ones. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.079 I mean, how old is he He's what year is 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.079 he in the league? Six? Six? 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.360 I mean it's not like, okay, right, he's not thirty 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.120 years old, but that's still young. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.640 Though. If you ask Kyle to be clear, you see 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:43.440 him like grow. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.720 I mean it seems like he's playing his best football. Now, 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.959 how is he improved as a player? 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.000 He has improved as a player. I mean you're exactly 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.559 right about that. He's he was a good player coming in. 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.400 He was a kind of a speed kind of a back, 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:56.960 you know, and you saw him as a third down back. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.320 But he's just a guy. I mean we said it 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:00.520 before about him. He kissed. 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.600 Nothing gets this guy down. I mean there's nothing that 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.520 can can break him. He just keeps coming in and 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.240 he's got a smile on his face and he works hard. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:13.000 He really smart person, understands the game, understands. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:13.319 The entire offense. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.080 He could probably line him up at every position and 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.199 he could, he'd know what to do for sure, and 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.480 every skill position at least he probably knows the blocking 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.040 schemes too. I just think he's that kind of a guy. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.680 And then just to see him, like even through special teams, 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.160 here's a guy that if we put him out there 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.640 on special teams right now, and we probably will at 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.000 some point when we need him, he'll play great on 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:35.920 special teams too. He just does everything he asked him 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:36.080 to do. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:36.600 He does well. 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.320 But well, I been just lights out against the man 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.920 man coverage coming into this game. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.280 You guys, really we're. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.719 Able to be pre effective. I guess what does it 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.680 say that your guy's ability to hold up man man. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.120 I think you had a higher rate than just sort 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.040 of like how often you kind of call it coverage, 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.000 and especially development guys at Wiggins, you know, Kyle moved 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:57.800 forward of the season. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:58.960 That's a good point. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.679 I've alway felt I really felt like we were going 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.680 to be a really good man cover team going into 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.800 the season, and to see it come to fruition here 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.480 as we go, and especially in this game because they 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.679 had done really well against man and the crossing routes. 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.800 They were really hurting people with the cross routs. Josh 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.760 is so accurate throwing those things in there. Our guys 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.160 were on them, you know. And there was a couple 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.720 of contested catches. I mean everything was contested really except 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.920 the scramble play late. We were contesting everything and we 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.920 were close, you know. And even some of the plays 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.920 they made, some of the back shoulder throws, those are contested, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.640 just really great plays on their part. You got to 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.080 give them credit for making those plays to Coleman over 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.520 there on the left side. So I thought Brandon was 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.920 really good. I thought Nate really made the things that 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:43.640 he needed to do better from one week to the next. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.600 He did them, he fixed them. Marlon was all over 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:51.680 people out there. Our safeties covered. Well, yeah, it's good 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:53.840 to feel like you can have confidence in playing man 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:58.240 coverage related to that from Alta is eligible to come 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:02.040 back this week, uniticipating I do, I do, he should 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.720 practice this week and then we'll see, you know, where 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.000 he's at physically and roster wise. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:07.640 And all these kinds of things. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.560 What's the teaching point at any on the scramble play 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.920 that Alan completed. I mean, obviously a tremendous athletic player 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:15.920 that he makes on the sideline. 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:17.880 But what would you teach coming. 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:18.120 Out of that one? 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:19.600 Yeah, you know there are that. We had that very 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.360 discussion this morning. And the thing about scrambled plays are 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.880 are we have what we call plaster rules that we 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:26.920 teach and I think we're great at him. To be 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:28.440 honest with you, if you look at us over the 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.160 last ten twelve years, it's been something that we've we've 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.080 really kind of gotten good at because we've had to. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.600 You know, you look back to Ben Roethlisberger. Okay, that's 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.040 where they That's where it started for us. I mean, 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:41.560 if you didn't if you didn't try to keep you 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.320 couldn't keep Ben in the pocket. You tried to and 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.200 then you better plaster those guys because that's how they 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:49.080 won games. And we developed our plaster rules then. So 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:50.840 I think we have a good handle on it. But 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.360 they're not hard fast because no two scrambles are the same. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:55.400 I think that. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.680 I think the Bills were twenty percent of their plays 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.000 were scrambled plays. So that's their most called play, the 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:02.960 most run play. It's not the most call play, it's 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.800 the most run play. Right, twenty percent. That's one out 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.880 of five plays or plays that that comes up in 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.080 so you have to be on point, and every one 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:11.880 of them is different because you can't predict what receiver 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:13.880 is going to do. They have their rules. We know 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:15.600 what their rules are because we study them on tape 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.080 and break them down, and one of their rules is 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.960 to go deep, you know, so you have to the 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.840 situation is it is the person going deep plastered or 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.640 is he a guy that's going to be taken up 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.680 by the deepest the deepest player. So the rules are 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.240 if you're a deep player, you know, you stay as 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.400 deep as the deepest receiver. If you're a zone player, 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.400 you have somebody in your zone, you turn it in 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.600 demand and you plaster them and then you stick tight 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.080 and have your eyes on your luggage. So that kind 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.040 of fell between the cracks there, I think in terms 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:49.560 of just the way the play played out. So we'll 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.320 look at it on tape, we'll talk to the guys, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.240 and I'm confident that we'll be we'll do a good 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.040