Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: November twenty second. The Ravens are preparing to face off
Speaker 1: with the LA Chargers this week, and today we heard
Speaker 1: from the coordinators. So let's kick it off with offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Tom Muckett.
Speaker 2: Got I think this Chargers defense, you know, leads the
Speaker 2: league and hit the amount of light boxes if they've
Speaker 2: played it. I guess what do they do that maybe
Speaker 2: could be advantageous for you guys in your running.
Speaker 3: Well, first off, they do a great job, like I said,
Speaker 3: with light boxes. Their interior guys do a great job
Speaker 3: of anchoring. You know, you don't see a ton of movement.
Speaker 3: They're outside backers do a great job of setting the
Speaker 3: edge so there's not a lot of space there, and
Speaker 3: the linebackers do an excellent job of fitting off of that.
Speaker 3: You know, when backs are hesitant and they don't press
Speaker 3: the hole, you know, then all of a sudden they
Speaker 3: kind of they whatever, however you want the term of,
Speaker 3: you know, play off the block and play back into
Speaker 3: the back.
Speaker 4: So we got to do a great job.
Speaker 3: They're forcing trying to force their hand, you know, and
Speaker 3: trying to force them to get an extra defender down there.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's like any game plan.
Speaker 5: They've been They've been really good in the reds and
Speaker 5: what do you see you from their defense in the
Speaker 5: reds And then of course they're just doing a good
Speaker 5: job not giving up any points.
Speaker 3: So if it carries over from that, like when you
Speaker 3: can play a light box and still stop the run,
Speaker 3: because if you're really we're really good in the red
Speaker 3: zone because we're able to run the football, and then
Speaker 3: when we're not, we have the equalizer and lamar. I
Speaker 3: mean that's you know, for us, we're lucky that way,
Speaker 3: and for them it's like, okay, why A, you're good
Speaker 3: in the red zone because you stop people from running
Speaker 3: the ball in it just becomes more and more difficult
Speaker 3: to throw it.
Speaker 4: So we got to work it out. For us, are
Speaker 4: really good.
Speaker 6: When you went back in with the Pittsburgh game, other
Speaker 6: than the penalties on the turnovers, did you see any
Speaker 6: other reasons why you guys didn't get in the offensive
Speaker 6: flow as much as usual?
Speaker 4: Well, they're good.
Speaker 3: They're good on defense, that's part of it. I mean,
Speaker 3: when you play good people or well coached, they got
Speaker 3: good players. Obviously, turning the ball over is gonna put
Speaker 3: a damn for on that. The penalties that set you
Speaker 3: back to put you, you know, off track. We had
Speaker 3: some other opportunities for some big plays which we didn't
Speaker 3: end up capitalizing on. To the naked eye might not
Speaker 3: have seen it, but either a protection issue here or
Speaker 3: just progressing or the rail route to justice that you
Speaker 3: know most of the time we come down with it.
Speaker 4: We didn't. That's still plays you got to make.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, we just we
Speaker 3: didn't play clean enough on the road, didn't start fast enough,
Speaker 3: and that's what happens. We did give ourselves a chance,
Speaker 3: but didn't play didn't play good enough.
Speaker 7: I had to kind of follow up on that, and
Speaker 7: like Lamar talked about, and see, you know, needing to
Speaker 7: be more consistent on offense for alas before that sort
Speaker 7: of thing again, aside from the handles laws and kind
Speaker 7: of playing behind the sticks, just curiously, what would that
Speaker 7: look like to you and understanding it's different in meek,
Speaker 7: but what would that consistency look like to you in terms.
Speaker 4: Of it, Well, like most teams, it looks pretty simple.
Speaker 3: You're pretty good on first and you're in front of
Speaker 3: the chains and you're so you can dictate run pass.
Speaker 3: You know, when you're having penalties inefficient on first down
Speaker 3: run or pass. We were inefficient throwing it. We weren't
Speaker 3: as bad running it. We were just inefficient throwing it,
Speaker 3: you know. And that hasn't been us. I mean, we're
Speaker 3: pretty good, you know, we just uh, it happened a
Speaker 3: little bit in the Cincinnati game. Penalties. You know, some
Speaker 3: inefficiency in what you're doing that set you back. And
Speaker 3: that's gonna happen from time to time. But it's it's
Speaker 3: all of us. It's from coaching to play. We got
Speaker 3: to coach better, got to play better, uh, to be
Speaker 3: as consistent as we're capable of, and we are teth
Speaker 3: What have.
Speaker 8: You made of the ineligible downfield penalties that have seemed
Speaker 8: to pop up a little more frequently the last couple weeks.
Speaker 8: I mean, is it as simple as the ball not
Speaker 8: coming out on time?
Speaker 7: Like, what do you make of that?
Speaker 3: Well, some of it's RPOs where if we end up
Speaker 3: keeping it and then throwing it later, you're gonna be
Speaker 3: called for it, you know, the screen if it gets delayed.
Speaker 4: We gotta stay flatter, We got to dust it.
Speaker 3: We had one against the Bengals where they sent it
Speaker 3: back and said we had maintained contact and shouldn't have been,
Speaker 3: but we got to do a better job. Usually it
Speaker 3: shows up in the screen game in your RPOs. Some
Speaker 3: of that is the price of doing business. But we
Speaker 3: gotta gotta be a little more lateral, little flatter, all right.
Speaker 9: How you to explain the seemed like, like Len Aguilar,
Speaker 9: we're a little confused on that two point play with
Speaker 9: where they were lying up. Can you talk a little
Speaker 9: bit of that play and just the confusion maybe pre snap.
Speaker 9: Did you see that confusion or.
Speaker 3: I just think they were communicating. I didn't see it
Speaker 3: as much as confusion. It looks like that. Obviously we
Speaker 3: didn't execute it at a high level and obviously got
Speaker 3: to call it better. That goes along with every call
Speaker 3: that I make in the game. We got to execute better,
Speaker 3: gotta call it better. That's we've got to plan it better. Disappointing,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm just like the two point play we
Speaker 3: got against the Bengals was not disappointing.
Speaker 4: I mean it was, you know it just when.
Speaker 3: It looks like that, I thought Lamar did a great
Speaker 3: job of trying to at least make a play. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just just disappointing at a critical point of that.
Speaker 3: What you're paid to do is execute at high level,
Speaker 3: starting with me and then our players.
Speaker 10: Todd, this is you know, when fancy this game, they
Speaker 10: see number one offense versus number one defense, Just what
Speaker 10: would you more describe this game as rather than just
Speaker 10: the number one first? Number one is looking at it?
Speaker 4: Well, every team's different, you know, and I say this
Speaker 4: every week.
Speaker 3: You can't carry over points and you can't carry over
Speaker 3: yards like an execution, Like you know, what's that got
Speaker 3: to do with this week? They're really good. We're really good.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: That's why we're where we're at. You know, so we
Speaker 3: got to execute at a better clip. You know, we
Speaker 3: kind of saved ourselves at Cincinnati, you know, we really did.
Speaker 3: We really weren't playing very good. We got a turnover,
Speaker 3: and we're certainly cable better. A lot of self inflicted
Speaker 3: starting with coaching. How do we get our guys really
Speaker 3: dialed in? Okay, that's every team talk around the league.
Speaker 3: It's how do they get their guys really dialed in
Speaker 3: to what we're looking for to get them to let
Speaker 3: their talent shine. And we're certainly capable that we're not
Speaker 3: where we're at this year without having done that. But
Speaker 3: to me, that's the biggest thing is who's going to execute,
Speaker 3: you know, play in and play out and have it
Speaker 3: looked the way you want wanted to look because they're
Speaker 3: trying to get us behind the chains and we're trying
Speaker 3: to stay on track.
Speaker 4: That's really the nature of the game.
Speaker 1: Next up, as defensive coordinator, Zach Or.
Speaker 2: Last week you.
Speaker 10: Talked about feeling crushed after a win because of defensive performance.
Speaker 10: It's almost the inverse here where the defense appear to
Speaker 10: be strong, didn't allow a touchdown for the final score,
Speaker 10: wasn't what you wanted it to be. Just as full
Speaker 10: as your reaction after such a turn of.
Speaker 11: Events, Man, it was honestly with the saying Phil, just
Speaker 11: because I'll honestly take a win over anything else, like
Speaker 11: obviously selfishly, and what I'm responsible for is the defense.
Speaker 11: And you know we have to play well, and we
Speaker 11: know we have to play well to get to where
Speaker 11: we want to go.
Speaker 12: But I want to win the game. Ultimately. If we
Speaker 12: win the game, you know, that's all that matters.
Speaker 11: You know, the numbers, they matter in a sense, I'm
Speaker 11: not gonna act like they don't, but The most important
Speaker 11: is a w now from our standpoint, from defensive standpoint,
Speaker 11: did see improvement, did see things that we wanted to
Speaker 11: see out there that we talked about during the week.
Speaker 11: So I'm proud of the guys in that sense. But
Speaker 11: it wasn't good enough to win. We talked about it.
Speaker 11: We like, you know, we have to help put our
Speaker 11: offense in better positions to win the game. And obviously
Speaker 11: we did some good things, but for this particular game,
Speaker 11: it wasn't good enough. So you know, we just keep
Speaker 11: on coaching, keep on looking at things we got to
Speaker 11: get better at and correct and got to keep on improving.
Speaker 13: Coach.
Speaker 14: After watching JAK and Gus here for so many years
Speaker 14: and then you see the season that JK is having
Speaker 14: now in particular, do you know anything different about what's
Speaker 14: anything they're doing out there right now?
Speaker 12: Nah? Man.
Speaker 11: I mean both of those guys they real talented. JK
Speaker 11: and Gus got a chance to know those guys really well,
Speaker 11: watch them grow up here in Baltimore, and anything that
Speaker 11: they're doing right now is no surprise at all. I
Speaker 11: mean JK he's been a top back, Gus has been
Speaker 11: a top back. They've helped us win many games here,
Speaker 11: so we knew once they signed there that they were
Speaker 11: gonna help those guys out. And what we're seeing on
Speaker 11: film are two explosive physical backs and I'm happy that
Speaker 11: those guys are finally healthy.
Speaker 7: Hearts mentioned the other day, you know, Kyle and Darius
Speaker 7: kind of being the plan going forward back there.
Speaker 8: What do you like from.
Speaker 7: What you saw, you know, particularly from more Darius last week?
Speaker 7: What do you like about that?
Speaker 12: YEA, man, I like the communication.
Speaker 11: I like I like you know him, him and KM
Speaker 11: taking charge back there, leading, directing, making quick calls, getting
Speaker 11: everybody on the same page. And then the competitiveness man,
Speaker 11: the effort to the football, the toughness tackling, and I mean,
Speaker 11: AD's what five seven five eight, but he throws his
Speaker 11: stuff in there, and that's what you want, that's what
Speaker 11: you appreciate.
Speaker 12: And he played like a raven, so I thought.
Speaker 11: I thought his first start was real good and got
Speaker 11: some stuff he could clean up, and I'm looking forward
Speaker 11: to see what he's gonna do Monday night.
Speaker 12: H bros. The practice all week and you know his
Speaker 12: goo a building. You guys have had to that's the case.
Speaker 15: You talk about the challenges not having it and how
Speaker 15: you guys feel.
Speaker 11: Like definitely, definitely it'll be It would be challenge if
Speaker 11: Rokwan can't go, like said, you know, we're holding out,
Speaker 11: we're holding out hope and everything like that. But I
Speaker 11: think he'll just be by committee. You know, you know,
Speaker 11: not one person is gonna place replace Rokwan. Every down linebacker,
Speaker 11: top linebacker in this league, all pro h for a reason,
Speaker 11: so not one guy is gonna replace him. But we
Speaker 11: like our guys that we have in the room, they're
Speaker 11: here for a reason, and somebody gotta step up. You know,
Speaker 11: they got to step up, and we got to step
Speaker 11: up collectively as a as a defense, and that linebacker
Speaker 11: room got to step up collectively as a group.
Speaker 8: Yeah, obviously, what do you see from Elik?
Speaker 12: You know in that situation, you know, being thrown at
Speaker 12: God thrown it. If I know, he played something that
Speaker 12: was a good situation.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it was a different situation than Malik's a PROB man,
Speaker 11: he's been around, and we tell these guys, man, you
Speaker 11: won play away man that going in there you never know,
Speaker 11: so you got to stay ready.
Speaker 12: And Malik he was ready.
Speaker 11: I thought he went in there and did a good job,
Speaker 11: especially after the first series he settled down, and that's
Speaker 11: what we expect from him. He's in that room. He
Speaker 11: knows what to do, he knows how to play. He's
Speaker 11: played a lot of ball for so you know, I
Speaker 11: was pleased with what he did. And that's just showing
Speaker 11: the young guys that you never know when your number
Speaker 11: is gonna be called, so you better be ready because
Speaker 11: it can happen at any time.
Speaker 8: Obviously, Kyle Hamilton, we've seen him move around a lot,
Speaker 8: We've seen him play deep safety in the past, but
Speaker 8: this past Sunday was the most we've seen him back
Speaker 8: there this year. Understanding you've had a need to clean
Speaker 8: up the back end of the defense. Is there still
Speaker 8: a balance also with wanting to still have opportunities for
Speaker 8: him to play closer to the line of scrimpers so
Speaker 8: you'll almost like get you know, Rob Peter to pay
Speaker 8: Paul scenario that you at least seem to be mindful
Speaker 8: of it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and that's definitely something I mean, you always look
Speaker 11: at your best players and try to figure out how
Speaker 11: do you get him shots? And for defensive players, it's
Speaker 11: like how do you get them close? For college in particular,
Speaker 11: how you're getting close to line scrimmage, how you how
Speaker 11: can you send him on the blitz and how can
Speaker 11: you just utilize his whole skill set? So it's definitely
Speaker 11: trying to find balance in that. But you know the
Speaker 11: good thing about Kyle Halilton he a great player, So
Speaker 11: wherever you put him, he can make it happen and
Speaker 11: be great there. And I thought he played a great
Speaker 11: game last Sunday.
Speaker 9: Zamy know, Zach, would you do you anticipate him calling
Speaker 9: being the green doc guy if if he has.
Speaker 11: To be, Yeah, if he has to be, if he
Speaker 11: has to be, like we did this last game when
Speaker 11: when Rowe was out, I fully expect Kyle Hamilton to
Speaker 11: do that.
Speaker 12: He's great at it.
Speaker 11: Uh, we got reps at it throughout training camp and
Speaker 11: really throughout the season, so he'll be ready.
Speaker 5: Zack.
Speaker 10: Can you anticipate if if ro Punk can't go and
Speaker 10: Simpson more slides to the micro position and fills in
Speaker 10: for ro punt and you've had the league maybe on
Speaker 10: the opposing side, or just what kind of goes into
Speaker 10: making those determinations.
Speaker 11: Honestly, it really just depends on what what the charges
Speaker 11: give us, you know what I mean? So, like I said,
Speaker 11: it's gonna be Uh, if ro can't go, it'll be
Speaker 11: it'll be linedbacker by committee, depending on what we want
Speaker 11: to run and and what they want to run as well,
Speaker 11: So it's a mixture of both. So you'll see, you know,
Speaker 11: ro kwon k go. You'll see a mixture of guys
Speaker 11: in there.
Speaker 6: Did you feel like Travis why I'd earned more snaps
Speaker 6: with the way and he played.
Speaker 2: In this VERU?
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, definitely definitely.
Speaker 11: When you can make plays on the football and compete
Speaker 11: at that type of level, you definitely earned your ways
Speaker 11: for some more snaps. And I'm real pleased with Trey
Speaker 11: how he's came in, how he's worked so hard to
Speaker 11: learn to play book, and he's been vocal in the meetings,
Speaker 11: which I appreciate.
Speaker 12: So he's a pro pro.
Speaker 11: I see why everybody we talk to about him likes
Speaker 11: him and say that you guys will you guys would
Speaker 11: like him in y'all building. So I'm pleased and I'm
Speaker 11: eager to see, you know where he's gonna take this.
Speaker 7: Brandon Stevens.
Speaker 10: So Brandon Stevens is still you know, part of the
Speaker 10: defense and plays a lot of snaps, but been balancing
Speaker 10: with him and Tradavious maybe on that outside spot and
Speaker 10: you just maybe he could be more near the box
Speaker 10: or playing in the slots because his versatility has been
Speaker 10: you know, from safety, playing outside corner, just with everything
Speaker 10: that he can.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think now Adam tra Davis that as tar
Speaker 11: room to ast our secondary depth, and that allows us
Speaker 11: to do more things. I think you've seen a couple
Speaker 11: of times throughout the game that we had both of
Speaker 11: those guys in there at the same time. It allows
Speaker 11: us to do a lot because those guys, they can
Speaker 11: do a lot of different things.
Speaker 12: And specifically be Steve, he's.
Speaker 11: Been at corner, but he can move all around. We
Speaker 11: haven't had to, but you know, if we have to,
Speaker 11: he's gonna be perfect.
Speaker 12: Fine.
Speaker 11: He could blitz, he could play zone coverage, and then
Speaker 11: he can still play man.
Speaker 12: So, you know, the more guys who can go out
Speaker 12: there and make plays for us in.
Speaker 11: The back end, I'm loving it because we'll put you
Speaker 11: out there.
Speaker 2: With as often as they run play action and just
Speaker 2: as often as they have dropped like the pass. Especially
Speaker 2: since Justin Herbert has gotten more healthy. What kind of
Speaker 2: stresses have put on you guys, especially in the spine
Speaker 2: of that defense.
Speaker 11: Yeah, definitely, man, they're rolling right now. The offense, Herbert's
Speaker 11: playing a high level. You could definitely see from early
Speaker 11: on in the season to now that he's feeling better,
Speaker 11: he's feeling healthy, he's feeling more comfortable in the system.
Speaker 12: So it's definitely a challenge.
Speaker 11: With the run game, then you got to play action
Speaker 11: and then they just got to drop back. I was
Speaker 11: I was laughing. I was like breaking them down. I said, man,
Speaker 11: they run everything over there in LA. So it's definitely
Speaker 11: a challenge. We have to be on our p's and q's.
Speaker 11: But I really honestly feel this way, like if we
Speaker 11: do our job and we read our keys and we
Speaker 11: play fundamentally sound, that will be okay.
Speaker 6: You look at this version of Giro's offense, how much
Speaker 6: is familiar and how much is maybe different with Herbert
Speaker 6: in place of Lamar a quarterback.
Speaker 11: So it's real, it's real familiar. It's real familiar. A
Speaker 11: lot of different things. Now you could tell that he's
Speaker 11: added a couple of wrinkles here and there, but for
Speaker 11: the most part, the offense real familiar to what we've
Speaker 11: seen since g Ro's been here.
Speaker 1: Next is special teams coordinator Chris.
Speaker 4: Horby, good to see everyone today.
Speaker 12: I hope you guys are all doing well.
Speaker 15: What a good challenge for us this week to go out,
Speaker 15: go out to La Monday night football and just get
Speaker 15: ready to try to go play our best football. You know,
Speaker 15: it's something that we've been focusing on since we really
Speaker 15: started the season. We have our moments, it's been up
Speaker 15: and down, but I do believe our guys are going
Speaker 15: out there, They're they're competing at a high level, and
Speaker 15: they're doing everything we asked of them, although not perfect
Speaker 15: all the time. Those are the things that we're going
Speaker 15: to continue to chase questions.
Speaker 13: Chris nick Moore was talking on the podcast this weekend
Speaker 13: talk about how Senousie came is just embracing being the
Speaker 13: special teams guy when there's been a history of them
Speaker 13: throughout the course of this organization. Just what have you
Speaker 13: seen from Sanousie in year one and take off the role?
Speaker 15: You know, I just think so far after after eleven
Speaker 15: weeks of football, the preseason, of training camp, just just
Speaker 15: seeing him come in the way he approached the game,
Speaker 15: he's since he got here, he's been all in, he's
Speaker 15: been fully invested. And then when he got out on
Speaker 15: the field, the physicality, the effort that he plays with,
Speaker 15: and then his attention to details. I think for a
Speaker 15: young guy, what he's done as far as you know,
Speaker 15: getting guys, rallying guys, he's kind of like he's kind
Speaker 15: of like the energizer buddy for our group. And and
Speaker 15: he's just a rookie, you know, and our guys are
Speaker 15: pleased with him. I've been very pleased with him. And
Speaker 15: he's out there. I mean, he's doing a heck of
Speaker 15: a job for us.
Speaker 7: Chris so justin the other day he's seen probably not
Speaker 7: as irritated, you know, for help as as he just
Speaker 7: you know, when he has a day like Pittsburgh, what
Speaker 7: you say anything or what's the conversation with what's been
Speaker 7: play kind of throughout all these helps of bats.
Speaker 15: I think throughout the whole I think throughout the whole process. Uh,
Speaker 15: you know, and I've said this before, I really game day,
Speaker 15: I really don't. I don't spend much time talking to Justin,
Speaker 15: But did you know I did after the Pittsburgh game.
Speaker 15: I go, I went up to him, and you know,
Speaker 15: and I just talked and you know, just told her,
Speaker 15: hey man, you have to just find a way to
Speaker 15: continue to be you and being great at the things
Speaker 15: that you're great at, and and kicking the ball is
Speaker 15: what he's really great at, you know. And uh, and
Speaker 15: it hasn't been going his way as much as we
Speaker 15: like this this year. But you know, we got I
Speaker 15: got full confidence in him. He's got a lot of
Speaker 15: confidence in them, in himself, and and he'll he'll get
Speaker 15: back to where he needs to get to with just
Speaker 15: a couple uh, technique things, a couple of little things
Speaker 15: like that. And I do believe we're on the we're
Speaker 15: on the right track.
Speaker 8: There's how much of a challenge can that be mentally,
Speaker 8: not just for a kicker, but any professional athlete who's
Speaker 8: accustomed to success and suddenly isn't having that same level
Speaker 8: of success. Just how much of the mental side of
Speaker 8: that is is tough.
Speaker 15: You could see it, You could see it probably being
Speaker 15: being a lot for a guy. But I think when
Speaker 15: you when you have a bunch of guys and a
Speaker 15: bunch of people that love you, a bunch of people
Speaker 15: that that have your back, that that you're surrounded around,
Speaker 15: they can lift you up. They can they can give you,
Speaker 15: you know, the things that you need to really kind
Speaker 15: of clear your mind and and and just try to
Speaker 15: help you understand. You are a hell of a football player,
Speaker 15: you are a hell of a kicker, and you have
Speaker 15: done it. You have done a great job. And I
Speaker 15: think he's built him such such a long resume of
Speaker 15: of making kicks and winning games, uh through making kicks.
Speaker 12: That it's just it's just not there anymore. It's not
Speaker 12: to say he's lost it.
Speaker 15: He's just we just got to help him find that, uh,
Speaker 15: find that momentum and those and those swings to get
Speaker 15: him back to where he is.
Speaker 6: You kind of have to avoid overreacting in the situation
Speaker 6: like this and maybe trying to tick her too much.
Speaker 12: I don't think.
Speaker 15: I don't think you uh, there's ever an overreaction, you know.
Speaker 15: I think there's there's things that that we have to
Speaker 15: get done. You know, we send him out there, and uh,
Speaker 15: I think it just came up. I mean, there's no
Speaker 15: one that puts more pressure on himself than Justin Tucker.
Speaker 15: So no matter what we say, uh, no matter you know,
Speaker 15: the encouragement we're giving him, he's he's he's saying to himself, Man,
Speaker 15: I gotta go out there and I gotta make these kicks.
Speaker 15: So I don't think there's any overreaction. I think we
Speaker 15: look at every kick and we just trying to analyze
Speaker 15: it from each individual kick and say, hey, what can
Speaker 15: we have done here?
Speaker 2: Chris along those line, I think you know Boswell on
Speaker 2: on Pittsburgh's side, you know, said that somewhat recently that
Speaker 2: you know he's stopped kicking two days before games. I mean,
Speaker 2: is there any kind of thing where you think, maybe,
Speaker 2: because these guys are creatures of habit, changing some part
Speaker 2: of how they approach the games could be beneficial in
Speaker 2: the long rum or is it just this thing where
Speaker 2: you defer a job to do it to Justin because
Speaker 2: he has been doing.
Speaker 16: It for so long?
Speaker 15: I think I think what with the plan that Randy
Speaker 15: and Sam have built for Justin over time throughout the years, Uh,
Speaker 15: I think we've we've kind of tweaked kind of what
Speaker 15: we've done with Justin over the years. And I think
Speaker 15: we also rely on Justin and say, hey, do you
Speaker 15: feel like you've kicked enough? Do you feel like you
Speaker 15: need more kicks? He's done it for so long. I
Speaker 15: think he knows his body better than Randy and I
Speaker 15: and so we just kind of look at him and
Speaker 15: we kind of say hey, do we need to kick more?
Speaker 12: And if we don't need to kick more, we don't
Speaker 12: kick more. If we need more kicks, we kick more.
Speaker 4: So we just kind of rely on him.
Speaker 1: Next we heard from running back Derrick Henry.
Speaker 12: Heard about that.
Speaker 16: I know, I know, I'm pressed to be looking for
Speaker 16: my work ethic and you want the playoff.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 16: When the season came around, I defeated the opportunity, And
Speaker 16: like other guys feel the same way. You know, the
Speaker 16: g I know guys wanna get their words, but we're
Speaker 16: just focused on as a forman since you know by
Speaker 16: the way you work in the first work.
Speaker 14: Every day you talk about the other guys wanting to
Speaker 14: get that work. And you see a guy like Safewan
Speaker 14: having a really nice year with in Philly. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 14: Josh Jacobs in Green Bay. For those free agents to
Speaker 14: having strong seasons in that first season, what do you
Speaker 14: think that will do coming forward for the position?
Speaker 16: Oh, it does a lot. Even know they're they're franchise players,
Speaker 16: They're they're showing that they're proving that week at the week.
Speaker 16: Those guys work hard to uh let it showcase during
Speaker 16: the season, and I'm glad that they're uh able to
Speaker 16: you know, showcase their talents and been h having a
Speaker 16: great year and hopefully the open doors for the future
Speaker 16: and the other running backs that's coming up to free
Speaker 16: agency and get opportunity to get paid as well.
Speaker 14: I know you guys have kind of talked a little
Speaker 14: bit during the past off seasons together, but with the
Speaker 14: conversation like during the season when you guys are all
Speaker 14: playing different teams and.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean we all focused.
Speaker 16: I mean we just tell each other great jobs, that
Speaker 16: we have a great game and just happing each other up.
Speaker 12: You know, when the back.
Speaker 16: Simple, you gotta see together and I'm glad to see
Speaker 16: everybody doing well.
Speaker 12: Do you ever have.
Speaker 5: Games like that where there's a running back on the
Speaker 5: other side where you're excited to face or guys around
Speaker 5: the league that obviously you're not the same on the
Speaker 5: field the same time, but guys you're kind of excited
Speaker 5: to go up against like that.
Speaker 16: I mean, I don't say I'm excited to go up
Speaker 16: against anybody, but just uh, it's good to go up
Speaker 16: against other great players, and you know, especially our opposition
Speaker 16: guys who are uh franchise players making a big impact,
Speaker 16: you know, to see them doing well and go up
Speaker 16: against them and you know, just uh, you know, group
Speaker 16: for them to do well as well. So, I mean
Speaker 16: that's the cool thing about it, man, just going to
Speaker 16: get against guys that you wanna see.
Speaker 5: Do well and you hate 'em to mind over and
Speaker 5: you wanna come to mind over the course of your career. Uh,
Speaker 5: just guys you'd like kind of like going against or
Speaker 5: think about going against.
Speaker 12: Nah, not at all.
Speaker 16: Nah. I love every moment and think any any player
Speaker 16: that gets a chance to play in this league and
Speaker 16: start and have a big impact, it's uh, it's always specially.
Speaker 7: Just on that note, are you familiar with Jk's backstory
Speaker 7: and what he's going through to get to this point?
Speaker 7: Are you kind of happy for him?
Speaker 1: You know, even though he's playing for the Chargers this week,
Speaker 1: that he's had the season he's had after the injuries.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm alas gonna be happy for for any running
Speaker 16: back on you know, Jason JK had you know, a
Speaker 16: little short time of injuries, but he's bounced back and
Speaker 16: shore his hard work and his heart to get back
Speaker 16: into it and he's having a great year.
Speaker 12: He's doing a great job for him.
Speaker 16: Hats off to him and any year he's happen and
Speaker 16: glad to see him back out making plays and.
Speaker 4: Do a big things for his team.
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