Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens are
Speaker 1: coming off a thrilling victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on
Speaker 1: Sunday to improve to three and two. It was an
Speaker 1: instant classic of a game, probably the best in the
Speaker 1: NFL this year, and it moves the Ravens to the
Speaker 1: top spot in the AFC North. The Ravens have now
Speaker 1: won three straight games and they are leading the way
Speaker 1: in the division. Today, we had a chance to hear
Speaker 1: from head coach John Harball, who talked with the media
Speaker 1: during his weekly Monday press conference.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you all being here, hard at work, putting this
Speaker 2: game in perspective and trying to learn everything we can
Speaker 2: from it. We have so much to learn from it
Speaker 2: to get better. It's good to win and improve. That's
Speaker 2: a real big part of it. You learn a lot
Speaker 2: about yourself in situations like that. I feel like we
Speaker 2: learned a lot of things that we suspected about our
Speaker 2: team in terms of a character and our competitiveness, toughness,
Speaker 2: uh and also things that we just have to get
Speaker 2: better at, just flat out things that we're not doing
Speaker 2: nearly well enough. But that's an opportunity, right, that's an
Speaker 2: opportunity to really improve. So there's a lot of room
Speaker 2: for growth on this football team and that excites me
Speaker 2: as well. So we'll get to the work of that
Speaker 2: this week and get ready for a very very good
Speaker 2: Washington Commander's team that is playing at a very high level,
Speaker 2: maybe the highest level in the league right now. So
Speaker 2: what question do you have, John?
Speaker 3: On the Lamar play with to York past to likely
Speaker 3: where he drops the snaps that's arms of the guy
Speaker 3: for the you know, where does that play kind of
Speaker 3: rank for you?
Speaker 4: I mean everyone's pretty vase by it, But for you,
Speaker 4: I mean where, where's the kind of rank for you.
Speaker 2: On the on the on the rankings of extended scramble?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Plays? I I don't know. Like my dad always says,
Speaker 2: you've never had a better win. There's probably never been
Speaker 2: a better play today. You know, it's it's an amazing play.
Speaker 2: And uh, you know Lamar, the thing I preached about
Speaker 2: Lamar's he's not even happy with it. He's mad about it,
Speaker 2: you know, because it's because it's not the way. It's
Speaker 2: definitely not in the playbook that way. But that goes
Speaker 2: back to what we kind of talked about a lot
Speaker 2: of times, you got to find ways to win, you know,
Speaker 2: and you have to overcome sometimes you have to overcome
Speaker 2: your own things, and certainly the opponent throws so many
Speaker 2: things at you that are challenging. I just thought it
Speaker 2: was an incredible, fabulous play that will go down in history.
Speaker 2: I mean, we'll be watching that play for years to
Speaker 2: come on NFL films.
Speaker 6: The adjustments Lamar made, the way they were striking the box,
Speaker 6: they were out, they're going to beat them, the way
Speaker 6: you started to throw the ball, they went to cover zero.
Speaker 6: They threw everything at him. Here's making plays now. The
Speaker 6: adjustments team made the deal with that defense, Todd.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's one of the great points of the
Speaker 2: game right there. You know, they attacked us how we
Speaker 2: expect them to. They they've used those same defenses in
Speaker 2: the past against us to great effect. They're an aggressive
Speaker 2: team U lous a heck of a defensive coordinator, uh
Speaker 2: and they're they're they're come and get you type of
Speaker 2: a mindset. And they that's what they went to and
Speaker 2: and we handle it for the most part. You know,
Speaker 2: the zero blitzes, the zero shows and bluff outs and
Speaker 2: play over three, we handled those for the most part.
Speaker 2: And they got us and we got them, And I
Speaker 2: was really proud of the way Lamar handled it. Certainly
Speaker 2: he got us into plays, got us into protections, made throws,
Speaker 2: made throws under duress, on target, on point, Guys made catches,
Speaker 2: guys got open you know, both Z's, Mark Andrews, Rashad Bateman,
Speaker 2: Tylan Wallace. I mean, guys made plays like crazy, uh
Speaker 2: in those situations. And that's what you have to do.
Speaker 2: You have to come up and make those plays and
Speaker 2: get into a play that you know is effective against
Speaker 2: that stuff. So that's a tremendous point. You're making.
Speaker 7: The ass between Tyler and Morris and all the Isaiah
Speaker 7: like the touchdown and didn't send over, didn't get those
Speaker 7: snack being lads, And obviously all over time was that
Speaker 7: you trucked it up to crowd noise. You trucked it
Speaker 7: up to some other communication issues between Tyler and Marbon.
Speaker 7: What do you want to see that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the Bob. I mean, that's that's like one
Speaker 2: of the open ended opportunities I think to really improve.
Speaker 2: And that's the challenge, Like your face and the defense
Speaker 2: is going to give you a lot of different things
Speaker 2: that are that are going to be aggressive, and so
Speaker 2: you can't go to the line with just one option
Speaker 2: because you can be wrong probably the higher percentage of
Speaker 2: the time. So you go to the line with multiple options.
Speaker 2: Our ability to get in those get in the right
Speaker 2: option and execute it so you can hurt them as
Speaker 2: what you're trying to do. Crowd noise absolutely part of it.
Speaker 2: Communication because of the even in the huddle is part
Speaker 2: of it. Getting it right, making sure everybody's on the
Speaker 2: same page as that iding it and seeing it. You know,
Speaker 2: what you have to do to move the you know,
Speaker 2: motion or shift wise to actually uncover it is part
Speaker 2: of the challenge. And then to say it under time
Speaker 2: and then you get that play clock running down on you.
Speaker 2: So you've got us a couple of times. I think
Speaker 2: that's something that we're going to continue to work on
Speaker 2: and practice. But also in our you know, our verbiage
Speaker 2: or terminology, just try to continue to get to the
Speaker 2: point where we can make things a little cleaner, tighter.
Speaker 2: But that means that you have to use less words
Speaker 2: in the huddle, which means guys have to memorize more
Speaker 2: as they learn, you know, have a better understanding of
Speaker 2: the offense. So that's the best way I can describe
Speaker 2: it is a lot to it. But it's certainly something
Speaker 2: that you work on every.
Speaker 8: Day, recognizing how talented that Bettel's receiving group is. When
Speaker 8: you watch this game again, why why were they able
Speaker 8: to do what they did?
Speaker 7: Like what didn't quite work for your secondary?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, first of all, I mean I think they
Speaker 2: had just an A plus game in terms of their execution,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean he had pressure in his face
Speaker 2: numerous times, the pocket was getting pushed, guys were coming
Speaker 2: at him. He stood in and made some really great throws.
Speaker 2: I mean, like on the money throws off his back foot.
Speaker 2: He had receivers that were tightly covered. I had, I
Speaker 2: call him, you know, tightly contested catches. You know, we
Speaker 2: had numerous tightly tight, tight coverage where they made the catches.
Speaker 2: You know, So in that case, that kind of a
Speaker 2: throw under pressure, that kind of a catch, that's football.
Speaker 2: You know, you have to understand that. But I also
Speaker 2: believe that we compounded the yardage because we didn't play
Speaker 2: things as well as we need to play them. You know,
Speaker 2: there's so many, so much opportunity in there to play
Speaker 2: certain things better. Probably five or six plays in the
Speaker 2: passing game from a coverage standpoint, that that we're just
Speaker 2: way better than that. You know, we're way better than
Speaker 2: to play some of those things the way we played them.
Speaker 2: Our guys are gonna watch them on tape. I'm sure
Speaker 2: they already have, and they're going to say the same
Speaker 2: thing he got. You know, that's something we got to
Speaker 2: do better. So that's that we're still striving for consistency.
Speaker 2: You know, we're still fighting for consistency. And you're going
Speaker 2: against a really efficient, talented offense. But it's still up
Speaker 2: to us to play our defense consistently the way we
Speaker 2: want to play it on those lines.
Speaker 9: Is it the consistency aspect?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 9: You want to see more communication, you want to see
Speaker 9: more plays on the ball, you know, guys not being
Speaker 9: open an occasion, I don't know his handful play with
Speaker 9: what specifically, or you're moving from.
Speaker 2: It's really all those things, Brian, I mean, it's actually
Speaker 2: all those things. You know, that's where consistency comes in.
Speaker 2: You know, it's never one thing. It's it's all those
Speaker 2: things that you have to do all the time. Like
Speaker 2: we had tight coverage, we were in the right spots,
Speaker 2: we were matching routes, so many times so well, but
Speaker 2: you know, four or five times, I guess a quarterback
Speaker 2: that can really see the field and get the ball
Speaker 2: where it needs too late when it pops open, that's
Speaker 2: where you get exposed, you know. So to win our
Speaker 2: to win our conference, to go, you know, to win
Speaker 2: our division, to win a game against the teams we're
Speaker 2: gonna play, We're gonna play quarterbacks that are capable of that.
Speaker 2: You know, We've got another one coming up this week.
Speaker 2: Different style, but same kind of you know, in different ways,
Speaker 2: creates the same level of problems. And so we've just
Speaker 2: got to be on point every single play with what
Speaker 2: we're doing.
Speaker 9: I guess ranked level of concerned one we can.
Speaker 2: I don't do that. You know, I don't do that.
Speaker 2: It's never never done that. There's no rankings, John.
Speaker 10: We know the as you'd like to call them, the
Speaker 10: pundits that times have claimed that you guys, when you're
Speaker 10: down by double ditchits like you were yesterday, you tend
Speaker 10: to quote unquote pantic, but obviously wasn't the case yesterday.
Speaker 11: You come back and win.
Speaker 10: What does win in a game like that do for you?
Speaker 10: If you're put in that situation again late in the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know about the pundits saying that,
Speaker 2: I really haven't seen that. I'm seeing his stats on that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how many times we've been
Speaker 2: down by double digits in the fourth quarter. It's probably
Speaker 2: I should probably have our an lens people look it up,
Speaker 2: you know, to make sure that that, I know, huh,
Speaker 2: not too often. So I'm not sure where like a
Speaker 2: storyline where that would come from, but I that haven't
Speaker 2: been said. I mean, I'd rather be I'd rather be
Speaker 2: up by double digits and hold the lead, you know.
Speaker 2: But it's good to know you can do it, you know.
Speaker 2: I think back to the Indianapolis game. This is really
Speaker 2: the last one I remember, and that we came back
Speaker 2: and got that done and really driven by Lamar, you know, honestly,
Speaker 2: and all the guys around him. I thought the protection
Speaker 2: was so good and tough. You know, they were bringing blitzer,
Speaker 2: his heavy blitzers, and there were times where he had
Speaker 2: to he had to get away. He got away a
Speaker 2: couple of times, crazy, he moved in the pocket a
Speaker 2: couple of times, and may throw sometimes he was untouched.
Speaker 2: Guys getting open. Just all the things that go into
Speaker 2: the type of game you're in when you're down by
Speaker 2: double digits three different times, right, I think we were
Speaker 2: down by ten three different times in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: So you know that's that's good. You know, I don't
Speaker 2: want to be the guy that dwells on the negative
Speaker 2: and just says, oh, but you know, we weren't good here,
Speaker 2: we weren't good there. We're going to dwell on that
Speaker 2: because we're coaches and you know we need to. It's us.
Speaker 2: We look at ourselves and where can we get better?
Speaker 2: What's our opportunity. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe we should get credit for coming back three different times,
Speaker 2: you know, on the on the number of times we
Speaker 2: came back from double digit deficits sort of.
Speaker 3: A microcosm of the way things have gone this season.
Speaker 8: Where you start out on to ninety one three straight,
Speaker 8: you're right there in the first place.
Speaker 11: I mean, a sense of where the team's at after
Speaker 11: the rough.
Speaker 2: Beginning, Well, I mean I like where we're at. I
Speaker 2: think it's just it's part of it kind of goes together.
Speaker 2: You know, we we were, we were in a good place,
Speaker 2: and we're in better place now because we're continuing to improve.
Speaker 2: But we have a lot of improvement to do and
Speaker 2: a lot of opportunity to get better. So I'm excited
Speaker 2: about that opportunity.
Speaker 7: And a lot of people in this rand talked about
Speaker 7: Derrick Henry professionalism and you know, not a lot of
Speaker 7: touches in the fourth quarter because.
Speaker 3: Of the game situation.
Speaker 8: Then you know, over time through.
Speaker 7: A workforce where what goes into Derek's ability to kind
Speaker 7: of stay ready to break off they played even if
Speaker 7: he's not seen a lot of game actions.
Speaker 2: Were Ty said, Yeah, that's a great, great question. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'd say the first thing Derek would tell you is
Speaker 2: really good blocking. I mean, you had that play happen,
Speaker 2: and the play before that too on the right side
Speaker 2: before the fumble was a really well blocked, cracked toss play.
Speaker 2: This was a zone crack play to the left that man.
Speaker 2: I mean, just the fact that it was a point
Speaker 2: in time in the game where fatigue was a big
Speaker 2: part of everything that was going on. And to see
Speaker 2: our guys pull around the way they did, Tylan Wallace block,
Speaker 2: pat Riccard's block, Ronnie's block, I mean, those guys had
Speaker 2: some great blocks. And then you have, like you said,
Speaker 2: Derek his time on that it was over twenty one miles.
Speaker 2: I think it was twenty one point four maybe, which
Speaker 2: matches the fastest time that he's ever had, uh that
Speaker 2: I'm aware of that according to our people, in a
Speaker 2: game in overtime on a hot day like that, towards
Speaker 2: the end of the game, you know, and after he's
Speaker 2: been tackled numbers number of times. You know, it kind
Speaker 2: of the kind of speaks for himself.
Speaker 11: I'm hunt the rolled out of the two yard line
Speaker 11: in the second quarter, How do you coach off that?
Speaker 11: What should have happened on that play?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's gotta be caught. You know, he
Speaker 2: knows that he's he's gonna he's gonna want that one,
Speaker 2: you know, caught, you know, And that's that's definitely you
Speaker 2: just gotta get over there. You gotta get over and
Speaker 2: get squared up on it. Fair catch it if you
Speaker 2: have to, just catch it. But what I what I'm
Speaker 2: impressed with talking about Thailand is how he bounces back
Speaker 2: two huge catches in the fourth quarter that we don't
Speaker 2: win the game without, and the block to spring the
Speaker 2: game winning run. Right. So sometimes you have a bad play,
Speaker 2: he knows that it put it put us in a
Speaker 2: bad spot. He's on our offense. You know, he stands that.
Speaker 2: But he didn't get he didn't get down about it.
Speaker 2: He didn't sit on the bench and so, you know,
Speaker 2: pout about it at all. He just just he looks
Speaker 2: you're right in the eye and says, Okay, you know
Speaker 2: I'm still here. You know, I'm gonna find a way
Speaker 2: to make it up, you know. And and he did.
Speaker 4: He talked about when we talk about Justin talker, we
Speaker 4: don't often talk about lack of confidence or his confidence
Speaker 4: meter for Justin Tucker with his confidence right there. But
Speaker 4: how big do you think hitting that fifty six order
Speaker 4: in that situation was for him?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean it was big for our team, you know.
Speaker 2: And that's what he'll tell you too. It's like, you know,
Speaker 2: our team needed it, you know. And and he did
Speaker 2: come over afterwards after he made that kick, which was
Speaker 2: a very difficult kick. He came over afterwards after making
Speaker 2: that kick, and he was he was pumped up, and
Speaker 2: he was actually after the kickoff, I think he kicked
Speaker 2: the touchback comes the sideline, he gets right in my face,
Speaker 2: you know, just a little uncomfortably close. You know. He
Speaker 2: broke he broke into my personal space, and he said,
Speaker 2: he goes.
Speaker 9: Let's go win the game.
Speaker 2: Let's win the game. You know, I'm for it. I'm
Speaker 2: for that. I am for winning the game. I am
Speaker 2: on board with that. And I think he I think
Speaker 2: for him to get the opportunity then to finish it
Speaker 2: with a game winner, that's what you know, it means
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 8: We saw, you know in preseason, looks like Marcus Leaves
Speaker 8: is back to his old you know starr And so
Speaker 8: what do you guys have to do? What does he
Speaker 8: have to do to get him back for that way
Speaker 8: he can eat more of an entact player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Marcus is is working hard. He's doing a good job.
Speaker 2: He's he's making a lot of good tackles, a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of physical play in there. And uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I think he's I think he's on the
Speaker 2: verge of really breaking out. Some balls are gonna come
Speaker 2: his way. You know, he's he's moving really well. I
Speaker 2: fully expect him to come up with some big plays
Speaker 2: for us very soon.
Speaker 7: Just an adjustment.
Speaker 12: I mean, obviously you're not doing things necessarily exactly the
Speaker 12: same as you did cover twice with McDonald's going exact words.
Speaker 12: Some of that just playing with new players, trying to
Speaker 12: everyone getting comfortable playing together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, it could be anyway,
Speaker 2: any or all of those things. It's just there's no
Speaker 2: way to know for sure. I just I feel like
Speaker 2: it's just like every season is kind of different. Every
Speaker 2: season stands on its own. Nothing it's not nothing's really
Speaker 2: there's some there's some continuity for sure, but there's also
Speaker 2: a lot of things that just stand on their own.
Speaker 2: And and like you know, for instance, in this league,
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's we say it's a one week
Speaker 2: it's one it's it's it's it's it's a one week league,
Speaker 2: and it's a it's a one and oh league, it's
Speaker 2: a one game in a time league. It's one play
Speaker 2: at a time league. And you just got to take
Speaker 2: every play, every game every week and stand on its
Speaker 2: own and do your best in that game, and then
Speaker 2: you assess kind of where you're at and what you
Speaker 2: need to work on after that.
Speaker 5: About the contesting catches that the Bengals receivers made, Your
Speaker 5: receivers made a number of them in this game too,
Speaker 5: especially after two games.
Speaker 7: That were really run heavy.
Speaker 5: For them to come up and make those plays for
Speaker 5: Lamar for this offense. Just what's that meaning for these
Speaker 5: these pass catchers.
Speaker 2: That's a great point. I mean, those guys, you know,
Speaker 2: and hey, you run the ball for a bunch of
Speaker 2: yards in your head and all that, and then it's like, well,
Speaker 2: you know, well guys aren't making plays. You guys are't
Speaker 2: getting a chance and all that. And then but they
Speaker 2: they didn't. I mean, they want to make plays, you know,
Speaker 2: they got their chances game, you know, and they made them.
Speaker 2: I mean in the fourth quarter, all through the game,
Speaker 2: but the fourth quarter. These catches that were made by
Speaker 2: these guys and these throws that were made by Lamar,
Speaker 2: we were just at the highest possible level and they
Speaker 2: and every one of them was required for us to
Speaker 2: have a chance to win the game the way the
Speaker 2: game went. So I'm just proud of those guys for that.
Speaker 12: Leaking back to training camp when Ronnie and Stanley was saying,
Speaker 12: he feels the best he has since his probole season. Now,
Speaker 12: I guess, do you see that in him and besides
Speaker 12: Jessica's health, what is he doing differently this year?
Speaker 2: Justin yourself. Yeah, it's a good question. I mean, I
Speaker 2: think Ronnie, it helps the main thing you know, he
Speaker 2: he had he had a really bad you know, the
Speaker 2: whole thing. You know, he guys know the story on
Speaker 2: Ronnie and and and he's tough. He fought through it.
Speaker 2: But he I think he had an off season where
Speaker 2: he could train, and he went to work and train
Speaker 2: because he was healthy enough to do it, and got strong,
Speaker 2: got his strength back. He's always been a good athlete,
Speaker 2: but to get that power, that strength and anchor back
Speaker 2: was really important.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: He's been able to practice every day, you know, right
Speaker 2: on through He's practiced every day through training camp. He's
Speaker 2: been out there, and that's it's a practice sport, you know,
Speaker 2: for anybody. So for him regaining his form, I'd say
Speaker 2: those are the two things that made the difference.
Speaker 12: You guys get pretty healthy.
Speaker 2: Any major issues, Uh yeah, I think we're good. We'll see,
Speaker 2: but I think we're I think we're okay.
Speaker 11: John, you mentioned how good the past protection was yesterday.
Speaker 11: I mean this, this configuration of the offensive line has
Speaker 11: played two really good games.
Speaker 2: Now, I mean will it be?
Speaker 11: I mean, is is the tendency to want to sort
Speaker 11: of go with this line will that's playing so well,
Speaker 11: even though Voris probably will be ready to play him too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm asking a question. You know, Andrew will come back,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe this week, you know, three weeks with
Speaker 2: the high ankles about right, and he's a he guys,
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't believe that hard he's working at it,
Speaker 2: you know, just it's amazing how tough he is. So
Speaker 2: it's good. It'll be good to have him back. But
Speaker 2: you know, an object in motion tends to stay in motion, right,
Speaker 2: So if we're doing well, we're probably going to try
Speaker 2: to keep that momentum going. With the addition and the
Speaker 2: opportunity to put guys in you know, when where when
Speaker 2: where we might be able to and we're probably a
Speaker 2: little more open to that than a lot of teams
Speaker 2: even still, but I think the offensive line is doing
Speaker 2: a good job. We'll just have to see where we're
Speaker 2: at through the week.
Speaker 12: I think God didn't played a whole lot, But how
Speaker 12: did you think he looked it?
Speaker 4: And how did he fit as appertained?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he looked good, you know, and he
Speaker 2: had eleven snaps. I was hoping for more. I'm sure
Speaker 2: he was too, But you know, those guys were playing
Speaker 2: so well also, and the way he played out, they
Speaker 2: were pretty fresh. For whatever reason. But uh, we're going
Speaker 2: to be intentional about you know, getting all of our
Speaker 2: pass rushers in the game, you know who are up
Speaker 2: because you know they're fresher. So that's something I think
Speaker 2: we have to do a good job of going forward.
Speaker 2: I think he looked good. He looked really good. A
Speaker 2: job of David A. Joba looked really good. And so
Speaker 2: o O Tavious.
Speaker 5: Charlie Kohler.
Speaker 12: He's been getting more and more involved in the offense.
Speaker 10: What did you think from him? And we think about
Speaker 10: the overall development, would stand that TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Charlie making big strides, don't you think. I mean
Speaker 2: we talked about him ecology was he was a pass catcher,
Speaker 2: you know, didn't do any blocking. I don't even think
Speaker 2: he lined up. Been lying very much. He's made himself
Speaker 2: into a fine blocker. He's doing a really good job blocking,
Speaker 2: very physical. And then now he's now you say, okay,
Speaker 2: he's a run blocking tight end. But he's always had
Speaker 2: the pass catching ability. So to see him get out
Speaker 2: there in the seam route to get that big play,
Speaker 2: then to catch the you know, the the goal line route,
Speaker 2: you know, the low route. The perfect throw that Lamar
Speaker 2: made I'm just jacked up for him and I'm really
Speaker 2: excited for us because now it gives you another dual
Speaker 2: threat tight end.
Speaker 7: There's kind of a touch on that, you know, Mark,
Speaker 7: I think in the last few games he has been
Speaker 7: really good as a blocker, and you know he was
Speaker 7: able to get of this game.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I think at each time time work, each of
Speaker 7: those three tight ends that have been the leader in
Speaker 7: receiving yards has the goal of that group to just
Speaker 7: get more versatile period. I mean it as the goal
Speaker 7: of the player goalment. There have been like able to
Speaker 7: make sure these guys whos.
Speaker 8: Blockers not as part It's you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's a great question. I would say, I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's the goal per se. We didn't say
Speaker 2: that was the thing, because I think it's kind of
Speaker 2: an understood goal. I mean, any player wants to be
Speaker 2: as versatile as they can be. Any tight end wants
Speaker 2: to be a dual threat tight end because if you're
Speaker 2: out there in the run game, it opens up the
Speaker 2: pass game. If you're out there in the past game,
Speaker 2: it opens up the run game. So you want to
Speaker 2: be as versatile and dual threat as you can possibly be.
Speaker 2: There are some more one dimensional guys for sure, But
Speaker 2: I think our guys are dual threat guys and I
Speaker 2: think they've proven that. You have to establish that. I
Speaker 2: think I believe we always believed it that they were that,
Speaker 2: you know, but to see him go out there and
Speaker 2: do it in the games, and that's why they were
Speaker 2: putting those situations, you know, that's that's really it's powerful
Speaker 2: for us This week.
Speaker 4: With Jayden Daniels, there's gonna be a lot of focus
Speaker 4: on the playmaking quarterbacks, Jading and Lamar. When you're looking
Speaker 4: at Jayden, do you see elements of Lamar or do
Speaker 4: you think there is more differences than similarities to the
Speaker 4: play I.
Speaker 2: Just you know, I see a really good quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, it's every week you look at the quarterback.
Speaker 2: That's where the offense starts, you know. And Joe Burrow
Speaker 2: is a top quarterback in the league. He is one
Speaker 2: of the best guys, and he's one of the best
Speaker 2: guys in his own unique way, and we saw it
Speaker 2: on Sunday. The challenges that his his game presents. Jayden
Speaker 2: Daniels is you know, heck, he's played what five games now,
Speaker 2: and he's been one of the best in the league
Speaker 2: for five games so far as a rookie. He plays
Speaker 2: different than Joe Burrow. Every quarterback plays their own unique way. Similarities, differences,
Speaker 2: you know, it is always that part of it. But
Speaker 2: we just have to look at him and how he
Speaker 2: fits into their offense and prepare for their offense as
Speaker 2: run by him. And that's a big challenge and we
Speaker 2: got our hands full of that. So that's how we
Speaker 2: look at it as a defense.
Speaker 8: John, do you expect Dandy Hardy back this week? Kind
Speaker 8: of grew surprised to see inaccuration?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was that was kind of I just
Speaker 2: kind of snuck up on us there. But that stuff
Speaker 2: happens in this league, so I think yes. But again,
Speaker 2: well hope for the best.
Speaker 3: John, gonna be so warl with the walking boots, just
Speaker 3: precautionary and you still feel good about this that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think just in these games, man,
Speaker 2: these are physical, tough games. You're on the turf and
Speaker 2: all that. So I just don't want to make any promises,
Speaker 2: but I think we're in good shape.
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