WEBVTT - Henry, Washington & Others: Ravens Press Conferences 1/16/25 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.600 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Thursday, 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.920 January sixteenth, and the Ravens preparing for a Divisional round 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.040 matchup against the Buffalo Bills. As they got ready for 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.440 that matchup, today we heard for the coordinators. So let's 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.759 kick it off with offensive coordinator Todd Monkey. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.479 How important do you think you people will tell about 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.480 the when the weather gets cold, it's little. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.880 Wind year, the Ryant's wing your running game? 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:29.400 You know, how important do you. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.120 Think having a strong running game? 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.519 You know, you can impact the game when weather it's 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:33.920 a factor. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.720 We're it's huge, It's huge. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.159 I mean you're first of all, you can't control the 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.440 game if you can't run it anyway. So so having 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:43.720 a strong running game, especially when the conditions go a 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.800 certain way, especially with wind, certainly gives you a leg up. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:53.680 Other reports that you're taking head coach interviews today and tomorrow, when. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.320 Ravens fans see that, they panic about and as he 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.520 focused on another job or is he focused here? Just 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.920 what your response to those worries or concerns that fans 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:05.199 have when they see these things. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.720 Well, first of all, I'll just say this, as I 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.400 said last week, it's a compliment to this organization or 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:16.520 players and our coaches that other organizations have an interest 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.280 in myself, for any of our coaches. I mean, that's 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.800 just a fact. I mean, that's that's how it goes. 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.480 Any of the work that I needed to do for 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.160 any of yous that we're gonna come up during the season, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.880 I did in the off season. So all of my 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.880 focus last week was on the Steelers, and all my 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.400 focus this week is on the Bills. I love the 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.640 job I have, I mean, I really do, and I've 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:43.400 got a great job here, and you know, so everything everything, 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.360 the way the system is set up is unfortunate, but 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.480 it is what it is, and so but I'm excited 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.280 to uh to. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.080 Play the Bills. That's where my mind's at. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.559 Speaking which you said that the systems what is? Would 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.480 you prefer that the NFL, the change occurred, or a 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.800 rule change occurred, that these interviews for offensive coordinators and 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.440 head coaches would occur in the off season or after 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.280 the Super Bowl rather than in the midst of the playoffs. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:14.919 I don't think there's an easy way, or they'd already 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.280 be doing it. I mean, it is what it is. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:22.400 It's like trying to figure out things that they've been 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.480 trying to figure it out. There's no easy way, there's 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:25.280 no easy solution. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.080 So it is what it is. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.959 Of the success that you had against them week for 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.959 how much applicability is there whatever might have them uncoming 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:37.359 with the year. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.520 I mean it's week to week. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.320 I mean we're gonna have to play well Sunday night, 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:51.480 and I anticipate we will. What we did or how 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.160 we did it, whatever that was thirteen weeks ago, fourteen 0:02:55.200 --> 0:03:00.280 weeks ago, we're all looking at the same tape. We're 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.120 looking at that same tape, what we did well, what 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:06.160 we didn't do well, anticipating how they react to what 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.080 we've been doing lately, because we're a different team now 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.720 than we were then in terms of how we attack people, 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.600 our personnel, who we have, who will have Sunday night. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:18.680 So ultimately, for both teams, it's going to come down 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.000 to what they do well, irrespective of what that game 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.000 was thirteen fourteen weeks ago, what we do well, what 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.560 they do well. Because when you're really good, you have 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:31.000 tendencies you just do you just do. You got to 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:32.360 do what you do well and do it better than 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:32.799 they do it. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.640 Oh, how much if any will the weather play the 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:39.480 factor of their offensive team would maybe if the benefit doing. 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.400 That, I don't know if it's a benefit or not. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:48.240 I don't our game planning has gone in knowing that 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.320 it's going to be cold, knowing that there's a chance 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:51.440 for snow or wind. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.880 Ultimately, it doesn't change a lot. 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.240 Senior wrong games theory around the season. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.960 They do guys that utilize the six out as alignment 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:02.480 a lot in grecent weeks. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.040 What's going into that and what have you thought of 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:06.640 the success? 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.600 Some of it started, you know, when Charlie was out, 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.560 so that was the initial part of it. We've used 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.000 it on the goal line, We've used it down there. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.600 It evolved a little bit with Charlie out, and then 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.599 you know, as you get further into the season and 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.600 you want to be able to run it. The ability 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.920 ability to use an extra linement is facilitated by being 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:30.640 able to run the football, be ahead of the chains, 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:31.200 and be winning. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:32.839 That's a fact. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.719 It's it's any part of your run game is a 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.599 byproduct of continuing to be able to play with physicality, 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.160 be able to run it, and that's going to give 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.000 the other opportunities. But I think Josh done a great 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:45.040 job when he's been in. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.839 You know, and the read option plays that you guys 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.520 ran this past week, and it seemed like one of 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.560 things the Steelers really struggled with was just reading Lamar's 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.280 or the late bulls or late in handoffs. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.320 How hard is it for the running backs? Developed the 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.200 chemistry with Lamar on those measure points to kind of 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.080 create that deceptiveness and make it cool. 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:07.960 To do done a great job. 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:09.960 Coaches have done a great job with that has not 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.280 been an issue as we know it can be, you know, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.160 and they changed up what their decision was. You know, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.760 in the past we've played them, they've taken the ball 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.040 out of Lamar's hands. I mean they've done that, you know, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.679 not all the time, but that's been a major focus 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.600 of them. And then this this game was a little 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.799 more of like, okay, how are we going to play 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:28.760 squeeze scrape. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.120 We're gonna utilize of safety. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.839 As you know, it was the extra tackler on Lamar 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.080 and he did a great job, and the guys in 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:37.279 the backfield did a great job. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.920 I believe we say to the number one using tech, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.520 I think pretty much for most of the year after 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:47.080 the buy it seemed like, especially their production even ratchet up. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.240 Even more than Was there something coming out of the 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:50.080 buy that you guys. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.960 Said, hey, let's have an increasing folks. Was that or 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.760 was that just did that not really happen in. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.159 A few things, I wouldn't say that the focus. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:03.640 Of you know, getting the ball to Derek was that way. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.200 There's a few things we're doing differently. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.240 There's a few concepts same in the past game that 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.800 you get to look at over the bye week, which 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:11.800 we did like most teams do, and take a look 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:16.320 at yourself, look at others. Okay, what can we incorporate 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.520 as we go down the stretch here. It's a nice 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.040 thing about having the late by, but we've also been winning. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.000 And when you're winning and you're ahead, that's what's this 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.360 byproduct that's a byproduct of buying more opportunities. Your physicality 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:35.160 really good on early downs, and winning allows from us 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:35.599 to run. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.280 The football along those lines. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.480 We've seen this run game evolve where you can like 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.240 pair gap and zone concepts with read options, so you 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.839 have that extra layer of disception. How much of that, 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.320 I guess was kind of premeditated over how you wanted 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.679 to develop this run game over the course of the season. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.240 How much of that is just kind of natural response 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.120 to what you see defensive and how they want to 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:55.839 defect you. 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:56.880 Guys all the above. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.040 I mean, we've always had it in there, but as 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.839 you kind of evolve through the year, you know, with 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.640 each game you're looking at what you're doing well, what 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.160 you're not doing well, what tendencies you've created, the personnel 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:09.760 that you have to be able to utilize it, because 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.840 that's that's the key part of it. How do you 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.120 utilize all the personnel that you have, whether it's your 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:15.480 tight ends, your backs or receivers. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:16.480 How do you get them in the game. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.400 They all have an elite trade somewhere, they wouldn't be 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.760 in the NFL. How can we utilize that and give 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.640 us an opportunity to move the ball and score points? 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:25.360 When you and you go. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.160 Into a game knowing you're not going to have a 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.160 guy as in your role as a focus is I'm 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:29.680 not saying that's. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:30.760 Going to be guess this week, but it was the 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.960 case last week. What's the thought process is it? 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:33.880 Is it more. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.320 This is how our palet of players might change, or 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.680 is it more these are the guys that might piece 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.760 me will be able to replace the things that he does. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:43.400 I think the latter. 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:45.840 You know, how are we going to move our pieces 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.800 around to give us best chance to score? I mean, 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.560 that's what we're paid to do. Irrespective who takes the field, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.880 hopefully they will be able to go. But if not, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:56.920 we've got a lot of really good players. We really do. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:58.800 That's we're fortunate. We have a lot of really good 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.000 players and we anticipating and playing well. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.000 But you mentioned all these guys with elite abilities. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.560 I asked you a similar question last year. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:07.720 But having that. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.120 All those guys with elite abilities plus Derrick Henry, now 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:11.800 this year, is this fun for you to. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.520 Drop these players and to. 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.480 Do all this to play for this I don't know 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:19.120 if I'd call it fun. When you're in the middle 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:25.160 of it in the season, it's a grind. You know, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.920 give it three or four weeks. Hopefully then you can 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.400 say that it was fun. You know, you're always working 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.080 to win the last one. I mean, that's just the 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.319 way it is. You know, all the stats, all the compliments, 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.200 where you're at, running the ball, throwing it, all the 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.680 all the matters of Sunday night and what we put 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:45.520 out there Sunday night. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:51.480 How much do Milano, Johnson Bernard matter for Buffalo and 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:52.800 the way that they want to play defense? 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.720 No other good football players, I mean. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.120 Not the guys that they had playing or professional players 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.560 as well, you know, and that's part of being in 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.320 the NFL. Everybody goes through injuries and other guys have 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:06.520 to step up, and you've got to do a great 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.720 job as a staff to utilize the pieces that you have. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.400 There's a reason they're starters, and I'm sure they're excited 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.920 to have those guys back, But again, that doesn't have 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:18.719 anything to do with us. I mean, their structure is 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.160 gonna stay the same of how they're gonna play it, 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:24.679 and we're excited to get after it Sunday night. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.719 Next up is defensive coordinator Zach Or. 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:38.520 That Josh Allen is can be creative. He's one of 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:42.000 the most dynamic quarterbacks in the NFL. To layman's eye, 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.160 how have you approached the possibility of him being able 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.960 to make big plays happen at integral. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:50.400 Times in the game. 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.880 Yeah, man, you just obviously he's a great player. You've 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.400 been a great player for a long time. We've gone 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.200 we've gone against them, so we kind of a little 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.680 familiar with his game. But I mean he's big, strong, 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.160 he's fast, and he can throw the ball anywhere from 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.880 anywhere on the field. So I think that you just 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.680 see that in critical situations, you understand that he is 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.160 gonna have the ball, he is gonna put the ball 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.480 in his hands, and he's gonna try to make something happen. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.720 And we're just aware of what he likes to do 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.440 in those situations, and we've just been practicing, preparing our 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.920 butts off to make sure that when that situation comes, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.640 we know exactly what he's gonna do, and we know 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.120 exactly what we're gonna do exactly. 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.560 There was that in week before. You know, you guys 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.200 did really well. There was that one completion that Josh 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:30.600 made all the way from the sideline. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.040 How how many times have you looked at that clip 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.959 this weekend and reminded, guys, how long you can extend 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:36.240 the play? 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:37.080 Yeah, we've shown it. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:38.559 We've shown it a lot, man, We've shown it a 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.640 lot because that's the one big play and that's how 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.320 it can happen. You can do a lot of stuff right, 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.760 and you have one little mental laps or one late 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.360 reaction in boom, it's a fifty yard play or it's 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.040 a touchdown. And he did that to us in Week four, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:51.959 and he's continued to do that to teams throughout the season. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.319 You've seen that last week in their game. So it's 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:56.920 a big point of emphasis for us that the play 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:57.600 is never over. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.160 That no matter where you're at on the field, to 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.720 who you're covering, even though you could be a dB 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.720 on a on a running back, everybody is live until 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.280 the whistles to the whistle's dead, and so we have 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.040 to make sure that we're aware of that. We have 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:10.480 to make sure that we try to keep him in 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.040 the pocket as much as possible, and then we have 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.520 to plaster in the back end until the whistle blows. 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.079 Do you have a specific set of rules on the 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.720 sort of mental checklists for the guys when he does 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.440 get out of the pocket when he's extending a play, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:21.400 like you gotta think about. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.160 Whistless and that, Yeah, we got we got some we 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.680 got some things that we talk about that we must 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.880 do specifically for him. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:28.280 For sure. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.600 Exact a lot of the players have downplayed because it 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.080 was three and a half months ago. As week four, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.800 your defense has undergone a lot of change since then. 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.560 What do you take away from how well you played 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.240 that game that can apply for this one, even though 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.080 both teams are a lot different than late septimes. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.760 I just take away I like to I felt like 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.960 earlier on the season that was one of the games 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.040 that we actually played with the physicality and the effort 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:50.880 that I like to see. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.120 So I think you could take away from that. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.040 Now we've changed quite a bit scheme wise, and they've 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.600 actually changed a lot too since our game. So yeah, 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.360 I agree with the guys that you can't put too 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.480 much stock in it from the standpoint from x's and o's, 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.400 but from the standpoint of a physicality mindset, you could 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.000 take a lot from it. And I think that we 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.520 showed that if we come out and we play physical, 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.679 we play with the right effort, and we communicate that 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.000 we put ourselves in a great position have a great day. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.840 Thatak how much is depending with martin accident. 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.680 Proud of Us is learly something will help with defending 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.280 Josh Allen the terms them, but the extent lost. 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:25.960 It honestly helps out a lot because that even though 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.000 there are two different type of players, the end result 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.559 is similar in the sense of the play. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:32.000 Is never over. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.719 They you think you got them, they can get out 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.440 of a lot of different situations that most quarterbacks can't 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.880 get out of. So we understand that plastering is at 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.959 a premium from day one of OTA's all the way 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:45.920 throughout the season, even when we go good on good. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.559 So that definitely has prepared us in a lot of 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.120 ways of how long we have to defend the play, 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.319 how disciplined we have to be with our rush lanes, 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.080 and how discipline we have to be with our eyes. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:56.719 Wants to play extends. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.000 Situation back in the days when we were playing with pigback. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.600 Yeah, definitely same, same, same type of situation. I think 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.640 Josh might extend to play even longer. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.920 But it's very similar to big Ben. Big Ben shoot 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:10.640 the heck of a player. 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.640 He extended plays non stop and then you know he 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.400 had a strong garm as well, could fire the ball 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.120 to anybody at any point in time. 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.640 Zack defense did such a free job of eliminating big 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.280 plays from N to eleven on putting back and kind that. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:27.120 The bitchy got us in the third quarter, particularly on third. 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.760 Downs that went wrong in this situation, it was it 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.240 was our own it was our own wrongdoing, and we 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.680 had great conversations about that. The thing I appreciate about 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.720 it is, you know, we came to the sideline after 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.719 those two straight possessions, specifically on third down, third long, 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.120 when you're really at the advantage as a defense, and 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.160 we said, look, they're not doing anything we didn't expect 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:46.439 them to do. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:47.959 They're not doing anything different. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.920 Everything they've gotten, we had mistakes, so let's go ahead 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.959 and flush it. And the thing that I think the 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.679 difference between that moment and early in the season is 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:57.840 early in the season it was a snowball. It would 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.920 have just kept on happening, going, going, going, But now 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.840 you know, guys were able to put the fire out, 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:03.199 and I was. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:04.040 I was happy to see that. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.240 So I think it was a good lesson to learn 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.640 that this, especially this time of year when you're going 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.920 against playoff teams, is like I said, you lack, you lack, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.160 you lack, or you lack on your job, or you 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.640 have one mishap, it's gonna be big plays. So I'm 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:21.480 glad that it happened. Looking back hindsight twenty twenty in 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.400 a sense of we understand now that we can't have 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.400 those moments, and the games never over and the plays 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:26.800 never over. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:27.960 A couple of other toun. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.640 Success stacking four playmakers on the one side of the 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.400 field and then isolded on the other side. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.360 What's the key to defending that? 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.120 Yeah, man, just switching up the looks, giving them different coverages, 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.000 giving them different pressures, and just being on point. They 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.840 do a lot of different stuff pre snap, a lot 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:46.400 of a lot of eye candy to try to get 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.240 you out of whack. But the good thing about it 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.000 is at the end of the day, they all gonna 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:50.960 end up in the same spot. 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:52.960 So you know, we've seen it before. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.800 You played in a lot of very cold games against 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.400 the teams that are a lot of teams that are 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.080 very committed or running the ball, seems like in Buffalo maybe, 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.400 despite popular misconception, once established the run, how important is 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.800 you know, getting into second and long, third, long, going 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.960 apeal for this defense, especially on a day or maybe 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.400 things can snowball the winning tennis. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:11.880 Yeah like that. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.320 No, it's definitely important, man, I mean just as a 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.200 as a if you talk to any defense of player coach, 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.200 the number one thing they gonna say they have to 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.080 do is to stop the run. Why you want to 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.400 stop the run because you want to get the offense 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.680 behind behind the change. Like, if offense has to consistently 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.080 play in second, seven plus, third and long, it's gonna 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:31.880 be a good day for the defense more times than not. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.920 So we always striving to get teams in those situations. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.120 Now we can unleash our pass rush. Now we can 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.240 lease certain pressures and certain coverages and certain looks, and 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.480 you get a chance to make the offense predictable when 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.800 they're in second and three, second and four. Now you 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.080 got to play a run to pass, so you're not 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.600 necessarily getting a good get off if they passed the ball, 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.280 you know what I mean. So I think, is it 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.240 gonna be key, and it's gonna be vital. I think 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.280 you made a good point, Buffalo. You know everybody thinks 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.520 they just it's Josh Allen and they just want to 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:01.000 throw the ball. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.200 They want the top rushing teams in the league. And 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:04.680 you saw what they did to Denver. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.280 I think last week they won the game because they 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.280 established a run and they just pounded those guys. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.240 So that's the number one thing we could not let 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:12.560 happen on that point. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.200 You know, in recent weeks, Buffalo has been using six linemen. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.160 They have a full back that they like. You know, 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.520 Ran was asking about sort of getting matched up with 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.200 Lamar and sort of feeling. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:26.440 A scapable quarterback that way. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.040 And he's also beneficial to face an offense that uses 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.880 some similar personnel groups that you know obviously you guys 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.240 on offensive like six linemen and have pad yep is 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:37.560 that How does that help you prepare? 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:37.800 Oh? 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.840 That helps him prepare. I mean, honestly, you know, people 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.040 call me bias. I feel like we have the most 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.120 physical team in the league. It's you know, it's offense 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.240 and defense. So when we go, when you see big 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.360 Pat come out there and our big offensive line, especially 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.880 in training camp, it was some physical, physical battles, so 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.720 you got no choice but to be physical and be 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:57.240 ready here. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:01.720 So my guys welcome that challenge. You know, we love it. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:02.320 I love it. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.520 They bring out X personnel, hey, basically saying they're trying 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:06.360