Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Prespass Podcast. It is Wednesday, December tenth.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are gearing up to face the New York
Speaker 1: Giants on Sunday, coming off the Ravens Week fourteen bye week.
Speaker 1: As Ravens prepare for that game, we heard from head
Speaker 1: coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: All right, good scene. Everybody appreciate everybody being here. What questions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're one to come to Fedway in December and January,
Speaker 3: acon leave you think.
Speaker 4: We're pidly, We're.
Speaker 2: Just trying to play our best football.
Speaker 5: That's probably in the past, you know, but everything is
Speaker 5: geared toward and should be geared toward this.
Speaker 2: Time of year.
Speaker 5: You've got to get yourself in position to play meaningful
Speaker 5: games in December. I mean, that's that's the goal. Who's
Speaker 5: gonna win in December. Who's gonna win in January? Who's
Speaker 5: gonna have an opportunity in February? That remains to be seen.
Speaker 5: You know, you can be teams. It can be teams
Speaker 5: that you can have the best season and then you know,
Speaker 5: not not not get all the way to the end,
Speaker 5: but you still have a great seat. You can have
Speaker 5: an okay season, make your way into the playoffs and
Speaker 5: you can finish it out because you get hot and
Speaker 5: you play well.
Speaker 2: So it's a.
Speaker 5: Long season in this league for a reason, and we're
Speaker 5: gonna try to play our best football, you know here
Speaker 5: at the end of the season in December and January,
Speaker 5: they coach. What is the most positive thing being on
Speaker 5: the practice field coming after by week? Well, it's just
Speaker 5: great to be back out here with everybody. Guys are
Speaker 5: guys are full of energy, they're locked in.
Speaker 2: I think there.
Speaker 5: I think the recovery was real good, you know, I
Speaker 5: think it was. It was It was perfectly right on
Speaker 5: time as it turns out right now, and we had
Speaker 5: a good practice.
Speaker 6: Sunday is the start of a three game and eleven
Speaker 6: day stretch. Just what is the kind of big picture
Speaker 6: of perspective that you guys want to take on that.
Speaker 5: Well, really, the big picture is Sunday. I mean, that's
Speaker 5: the big picture. The big picture is all hands on deck.
Speaker 5: We're focused toward playing our best game so far on Sunday.
Speaker 5: We're going to need to do that, and that's what
Speaker 5: we're training and preparing to do. We have a plan,
Speaker 5: you know, for the for the three game stretch, and
Speaker 5: that plan starts with Sunday.
Speaker 1: You've dealt with short weeks, But did that plan take
Speaker 1: a little bit more from your side during the buy
Speaker 1: of how you want to do those You're.
Speaker 2: Back to back short weeks? Sure, Yeah, three games in
Speaker 2: ten days. Yeah, that that definitely was unique.
Speaker 5: Uh So we've been thinking about that for quite a
Speaker 5: while and Sam Rose Garden is a big part of that.
Speaker 5: But we'll be ready for it. We'll take it one
Speaker 5: week at a time. Right now, it's it's Sunday, John,
Speaker 5: going back to.
Speaker 6: The energy, I don't know if you're talking about practice, how
Speaker 6: much is Lamart the source of that and directly that
Speaker 6: with practice today?
Speaker 5: Lamar is always like that, I mean, Lamar's Lamar. Lamar
Speaker 5: likes to practice. He loves football.
Speaker 2: Lamar is.
Speaker 5: I think he's a phenomenal leader, you know, in his way.
Speaker 5: It starts with I think all guys realize, you know,
Speaker 5: leadership starts with with competence. I mean, you've got to
Speaker 5: be good and great at what you do to really
Speaker 5: be genuinely respected as a leader, probably in any field.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 5: So, Lamar is a great player, and he's he's a
Speaker 5: he's a he's a great teammate, and he demands perfection
Speaker 5: and excellence out of himself. That's what it starts with.
Speaker 5: Then you know, carries over to the rest of the guys.
Speaker 5: I mean, the guys respect them and and I wouldn't
Speaker 5: just stop at Lamar.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know you can name the guys.
Speaker 5: You can start with Mark Andrews and Tyler Linderbaum just
Speaker 5: off the top of my head. Guys on offense, Derrick Henry,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of guys that do a great job
Speaker 5: with that.
Speaker 8: Tomorrow.
Speaker 9: That was probably just animating the closet anime to be
Speaker 9: seen after that Philly game.
Speaker 3: That's he gets back to.
Speaker 2: But what the kind.
Speaker 9: Of things message is, the way he's led getting these guys.
Speaker 5: Back to the where you want to go now, Lamar,
Speaker 5: he understands that it's about it's about, you know, chasing
Speaker 5: perfection in the details of everything that you do. So
Speaker 5: it's it's the same, you know, it doesn't change in
Speaker 5: that sense. You know you're not riding the roller coaster
Speaker 5: of outcomes. You know, you you try to be the
Speaker 5: best you can be every single week, put your best
Speaker 5: performance out there and whether you whether you get the
Speaker 5: outcome you want or you don't get the outcome you want,
Speaker 5: you shouldn't change your approach, you know. So our approach
Speaker 5: is really pedal to the metal, man, I mean, kick
Speaker 5: this thing in gear, put your foot on the gas,
Speaker 5: put the gas pedal to the floor, and let's get
Speaker 5: locked in on everything that matters and see if we
Speaker 5: can drive as fast as we can, as straight as
Speaker 5: we can, to be as good as we can in
Speaker 5: this next game.
Speaker 10: John, I know is the NFL and if you want
Speaker 10: to give every team your you know, your full attention.
Speaker 10: And what are kind of the challenges of going on
Speaker 10: the road to play a team that's having the type
Speaker 10: of year that the Giants are have.
Speaker 5: The challenge is playing the team that we're playing. And
Speaker 5: this team has got really good players, and this team
Speaker 5: has got a lot of motivation to play well.
Speaker 2: You know. Uh, they're gonna be motivated to win the game. Uh.
Speaker 5: That's the way it is a National Football League. It's
Speaker 5: not there's no there's no difficulty in getting ready for
Speaker 5: a team. We understand how good every single team is.
Speaker 5: The New York Giants is very talented, very tough, very
Speaker 5: well coached football team. They're very capable, and we're gonna
Speaker 5: have to play our best football to win the game.
Speaker 2: That's what we're focused on a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: Particular is gonna plays.
Speaker 5: It's a great, great question. Uh, Mark Andrews is just
Speaker 5: one of economy. He's got the nickname Andrews, as you
Speaker 5: guys all know for a reason, I think, because, uh,
Speaker 5: because that's what he brings.
Speaker 2: Man, He's just he's all ball. You know, he's all
Speaker 2: ball all the time.
Speaker 5: Everything he does is uh you just tell he thinks
Speaker 5: about driving home, driving into work, probably while he's sleeping,
Speaker 5: and he probably dreams about it, eats football, sleeps football,
Speaker 5: you know, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Speaker 2: That's that's really who he is. And as a coach
Speaker 2: you kind of like that.
Speaker 5: You kind of like players that that breathe it and
Speaker 5: live it and need heatn't want to be part of
Speaker 5: it and can't wait to get back out in.
Speaker 2: The practice field. Just that's what it takes.
Speaker 5: If you want to be at the top of any profession,
Speaker 5: you want to be at the top of football, you
Speaker 5: better be thinking about football and working at football all
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 7: Okay, good.
Speaker 2: Another days dead and Nie, Actually, yeah, we'll reflection there.
Speaker 5: Huh, that's pretty cool. I didn't know that, you know,
Speaker 5: there'll be one hundredth game. It's been ninety nine. Awesome, awesome,
Speaker 5: It's been an awesome ride, you know, ninety nine in county.
Speaker 5: Let's uh, let's make it. Let's make it at least
Speaker 5: one hundred more, you know, but but one at a time.
Speaker 5: So focused on Sunday.
Speaker 7: No, the defense has talked about, you know, turning a
Speaker 7: corner and all that play. Well, one of those guys,
Speaker 7: he's progressed a nice late TV's Robinson. What do you
Speaker 7: see him from the you know, the biggest jump from
Speaker 7: him each for this.
Speaker 5: Year for you, well, I think it's steady improvement. Like
Speaker 5: I would kind of put him in the same kind
Speaker 5: of category as we talked about with Mark. He has
Speaker 5: the same mindset. You know, it's always about him coming
Speaker 5: in here and and just doing whatever he can do
Speaker 5: to get better. I mean, you see him in the
Speaker 5: weight room, you see him, you see the way he trained,
Speaker 5: you see him in the in the meeting room, you know,
Speaker 5: you you see him in the film room on his own,
Speaker 5: you see him at practice. Takes every bit of coaching
Speaker 5: and tries to do it exactly the way his coaches
Speaker 5: do it and the most physical manner he can he can,
Speaker 5: you know, and then where he's come as a football
Speaker 5: players just it's been remarkable, man. I mean it's been
Speaker 5: really fun to watch. But I think he's just scratching
Speaker 5: the surface. I really think he's going to be even better,
Speaker 5: but he's been so far.
Speaker 9: Old Tucker outside kicking the field goals.
Speaker 4: Today while you got while you guys were.
Speaker 10: Practicing, and say kind of planned and he kind of
Speaker 10: just go out there about now.
Speaker 2: They have a plan. You know, they have a planning.
Speaker 5: You know it's not gonna be Uh, the field was
Speaker 5: really muddy today and it was raining, as you know,
Speaker 5: so we didn't want to get out there and get
Speaker 5: on that bad field in terms of practice. It's not
Speaker 5: good for our health potentially, it's definitely not good for
Speaker 5: our timing and all that. So we came in here.
Speaker 5: Players don't like being inside. They want to be out
Speaker 5: there on the grass. But had force men here, so
Speaker 5: talking Randy and Chris, they just you know, they went
Speaker 5: out there probably I guess, you know, maybe to get
Speaker 5: in the rain because it might rain on Sunday, right,
Speaker 5: but the footing will be fine, uh even if it
Speaker 5: is raining there because it'll be terf h with.
Speaker 7: The giants lock is really mean.
Speaker 2: People said Vido is gonna start from that? Does that?
Speaker 3: How much does that change.
Speaker 2: Things for you?
Speaker 5: It really doesn't change anything. And we kind of knew
Speaker 5: that was possible. You can kind of tell on Monday
Speaker 5: that maybe it was going that way. But we we've
Speaker 5: we've talked about both quarterbacks. Uh, we understand, you know,
Speaker 5: the nuance between the two and their offense. I believe,
Speaker 5: but you just gotta we gotta play our defense. Well,
Speaker 5: that's really what we gotta do. And if we do that,
Speaker 5: well then you know that gives us our best chance.
Speaker 10: Playing at the Metaland is that a little bit different.
Speaker 2: In terms of the wint.
Speaker 5: It's not like it's not like the old days, Jerry,
Speaker 5: you know, and they when they opened up the garage
Speaker 5: door and close the garage door, you know, now, Landetta
Speaker 5: would tell you it's Sean Landetta, a Baltimore guy.
Speaker 2: He would tell you that's all a myth, that there's
Speaker 2: nothing to it.
Speaker 5: It was always like kind of a kind of a
Speaker 5: mind game that Bill Parcels used.
Speaker 2: To play with everybody. But but uh, I think he knew.
Speaker 2: I think he knew how to play.
Speaker 5: The wins in there. It's not like that at the
Speaker 5: New Metal Lands. But it's still windy, but it's a
Speaker 5: little more consistent.
Speaker 2: Right, all right, good? Thanks.
Speaker 1: We also heard from quarterback Lamar Jackson is one.
Speaker 9: When he gets the Giants, you know, everybody is gonna
Speaker 9: talk about how the Ravens should beat the Giants troop
Speaker 9: one of the big favorite of the season.
Speaker 4: How do you combat everyone?
Speaker 3: You're trying to block out the fact that everyone expects
Speaker 3: you guys get to win and.
Speaker 11: Win there, Well, just focus on a sign. You know,
Speaker 11: we can't worry about the outside noise. We never can
Speaker 11: carry about the outside noise because, like like I always say,
Speaker 11: you know, it's another NFL team were playing.
Speaker 4: I'm out of the record.
Speaker 6: I think people remember the last time we heard from
Speaker 6: the well you were fired up after that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4: Not to change.
Speaker 6: How about how about running of the football on Sunday after
Speaker 6: the talk to Bob and the week off?
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, if I get the opportunity, no doubt, you
Speaker 11: know I'm still gonna play football though, Yes, sir, how
Speaker 11: did you.
Speaker 2: Directord some of that energy and let try to rest.
Speaker 11: Uh It's like a brush of fresh uh fresh air.
Speaker 11: You know, we been going s well Thursday game, Sunday, Monday. Like,
Speaker 11: games just been going crazy for us, and we took
Speaker 11: a little deep breath, you know it, took a step back, relaxed,
Speaker 11: got our mind back lock locked in. I feel like
Speaker 11: we gonna don't do what we need to do.
Speaker 3: How you looking at this.
Speaker 12: Four game scripcher? You trying to get back to when
Speaker 12: this south out?
Speaker 2: You feel to run or or have.
Speaker 5: You had a puff start the season so far gains itself?
Speaker 2: How you're ok?
Speaker 11: And I'm I'm not worried about all the games. I
Speaker 11: gotta worry about the Giants first, you know. So I'm
Speaker 11: just worried about beating the Giants. That's my only focus.
Speaker 9: I'm right, go ahead to Brunn's kids.
Speaker 2: Like how do you wait? When to run? How how
Speaker 2: much you longing to go through your progression?
Speaker 3: That last stuff?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It depends.
Speaker 11: It depends how the game's going, what's going on on
Speaker 11: the field, if I get a lane, if I see
Speaker 11: it all the th all of that play apart.
Speaker 4: So I don't know.
Speaker 9: M Mr mar Marks tied that Jamal lewis for the
Speaker 9: Nursers receiving touchdowns and franchise sisters.
Speaker 4: Jamal Lewis.
Speaker 3: Mark is tied with Jamal.
Speaker 1: Know, I'm saying, what makes Mark some good?
Speaker 12: Getting rag zamm and then the.
Speaker 11: Ends a man cause he can go up and get
Speaker 11: the ball, track the ball well, you know, like a receiver.
Speaker 11: He's a big body receiver.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I feel like anybody guard him.
Speaker 11: I got a shot at uh having successful catch you know,
Speaker 11: with Mark, so him just being who he is man
Speaker 11: since we first stepped for in.
Speaker 4: The league, He's just made my job a lot easier.
Speaker 4: I always say.
Speaker 2: That so hard the big ball is grown in mar
Speaker 2: uh paw. Yeah, you know how long do the teacher
Speaker 2: get Ben to develop that those studs?
Speaker 3: If you you canna put up there, you're gonna get
Speaker 3: the concuss that you can.
Speaker 4: Well probably rookies rookie season, you know.
Speaker 11: Uh, going back to i'm'a say chargers thy I threw
Speaker 11: him like a lime route between the safety and the
Speaker 11: back of Mark caught it and just a hotel after that,
Speaker 11: it was like, yeah, that's my guy, right, you know,
Speaker 11: that's my guy.
Speaker 4: After that?
Speaker 12: Sorry to that point, do you have a favorite Mark
Speaker 12: Gangers men? Right?
Speaker 11: Uh, it's a lot, damn, it's a lot rookie year
Speaker 11: it's i'm'a go back. I'm'a say lat year in rookie year. Okay,
Speaker 11: we played Raiders rookie season. I threw 'em like, uh,
Speaker 11: I think they trot him in coverage or I just
Speaker 11: threw him like a seam conda to the right side
Speaker 11: on our side line, caught the ball, start running and
Speaker 11: after he got caught, he was like he was mad.
Speaker 11: He like they ain't happening no more so. Then we
Speaker 11: paid the Chargers, laid on in the season, caught it.
Speaker 11: Nobody called him on. I don't think nobody was bond
Speaker 11: for After that, I was like, that was dope. Then
Speaker 11: last year we played the Browns over there in Cleveland,
Speaker 11: and that that catching the back of his own that
Speaker 11: was dope to me. But it's a lot, dude. I'm
Speaker 11: just throwing y'all little glimpses. And but it's a lot, bro, Mark,
Speaker 11: is that guys to be part of the ninety nine club?
Speaker 12: Matt, now you and THEREK.
Speaker 11: I feel like that's overdue, Bro, I feel like that's overdue.
Speaker 11: But I'm grateful for it, you know. I feel like
Speaker 11: we we need more items. Though I don't seen everybody
Speaker 11: else get changed and all types of stuff. We only
Speaker 11: got a little cleased, but I'm.
Speaker 2: Grateful for it.
Speaker 4: Though grateful, I'm grateful appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 10: I know you don't typically talk a lot about your
Speaker 10: your game and how it's mature throughout your career. But
Speaker 10: you're now getting questions about you maybe needing to run more.
Speaker 10: There was a time where you were getting questions about,
Speaker 10: you know, maybe you've running a little too much.
Speaker 12: To you?
Speaker 4: Is that kind of a testima.
Speaker 10: To maybe just the development and your game over the years.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's a.
Speaker 11: I don't know, pick your poison, like, okay, man, you
Speaker 11: need to run more than like I'm running a little more.
Speaker 11: Oh he was open or something like that. You know
Speaker 11: you're gonna get that, So I just play football. I
Speaker 11: really don't care like what's been said, but it's good.
Speaker 11: I feel like that's good, you know, because it's it's
Speaker 11: like I'm balanced in a way, you know, So that's cool.
Speaker 5: Or you guys are get up raise pick your poison
Speaker 5: all season?
Speaker 4: Who came up with that?
Speaker 12: Where that start?
Speaker 11: That's an old things like who's like to start describing
Speaker 11: your offense?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I me or Derek one of us?
Speaker 11: Because I believe that's when the questions start being you know,
Speaker 11: act one of us.
Speaker 9: You know, if you see you're obviously an animated feel again,
Speaker 9: you're pretty energetic right now. How I guess sort of
Speaker 9: anti argue to get back to playing giving away when
Speaker 9: you know a couple.
Speaker 11: Of weeks ago and see me anty right now, I'm what.
Speaker 9: Did you kind of take away from that to kind
Speaker 9: of move forward in terms of, you know, what you
Speaker 9: guys wanted to accomplish.
Speaker 11: Well, obviously we took that l you know, the sat
Speaker 11: back Watch film. Look at things we could have cleaned
Speaker 11: up on the field. Uh, little mishaps here and there,
Speaker 11: and those type of games. We can't have those. You know,
Speaker 11: you gotta be like like, it won't be a perfect game,
Speaker 11: but you gotta try to make it, you know, especially
Speaker 11: with a high roll offense like that. Defense gotta put
Speaker 11: points on the board. And I feel like any game
Speaker 11: like that, we gotta do that. You know, it's gonna
Speaker 11: be a slow game. It won't be one of those
Speaker 11: high scoring games. Sometimes it might wells, but nine times
Speaker 11: out of ten, there's gonna be one of those low
Speaker 11: scoring games. But you gotta find a way to win.
Speaker 2: Are your game on something you're.
Speaker 12: Under the gaming in the NFL. What uh, I.
Speaker 3: Know, your focus to head. But thinking back just a
Speaker 3: little bit upon reflections, hundred games played in the NFL,
Speaker 3: mede you.
Speaker 12: It's wondering your multiple about that.
Speaker 4: I I mean, I'm getting old, that's what that means.
Speaker 11: A hundred games, they bro but uh, you know, for
Speaker 11: for me just being a door threat quarterback.
Speaker 4: You know, they say, uh, we don't.
Speaker 11: Really last that long in the league, and for me
Speaker 11: to make it to a hundred game that's just dope.
Speaker 4: Man, That's just God. God get all the glory for that.
Speaker 6: Thankful you watching Hard Knocks at all?
Speaker 12: Or how don't feel about the camera's phone on you around?
Speaker 11: It's cool, I guess you know, but uh no, I'm
Speaker 11: not watching it, not right nine they where, you know,
Speaker 11: I'm out there and during the season, so I'm pretty
Speaker 11: much seeing everything that's going on. But it's dope. I
Speaker 11: get to see it later on and stuff like that.
Speaker 11: When I get older, I probably watch it so I
Speaker 11: can be like, yeah, I was on Hard Nos, you know,
Speaker 11: like ray Lewis and he read those guys, So it's dope.
Speaker 3: Are you curious about the other team?
Speaker 11: So nope, I gotta read about us, and I gotta
Speaker 11: focus on us. I can't read about another team.
Speaker 1: Hey, or just in terms of this team, w what
Speaker 1: is it that gives you confidence that this team's best
Speaker 1: football is still in front of it?
Speaker 11: S my guys, you know, just me being around my guys,
Speaker 11: no one around the locker room, moping around and stuff
Speaker 11: like that, Like we down, it's still that that energy
Speaker 11: is like everyone know it's it's we got faith, we
Speaker 11: got hope, and we know we're capable of you know, we.
Speaker 2: Talk about it.
Speaker 11: Uh brought it probably just talked about it over there
Speaker 11: after he brought the team. Uh brought the team down,
Speaker 11: just saying he feel like no one's beating us. You know,
Speaker 11: we beat ourselves and I can I can vise for that.
Speaker 11: I feel the same way, you know. So me just
Speaker 11: having those guys around me, that just give me all
Speaker 11: the energy I need.
Speaker 12: You wanna do?
Speaker 4: Your focus is overs on just that next game.
Speaker 3: But you do have a stretch works like three games
Speaker 3: and whatever, ten or eleven days?
Speaker 12: What what do you what?
Speaker 3: How do you think is the key to be successful
Speaker 3: in playing so many you know, did he have that
Speaker 3: in so many games?
Speaker 2: In too many games? Well?
Speaker 4: Try to win the first one.
Speaker 11: Uh, rest should to you know, get your body back
Speaker 11: how it should be if they if it's not one hundred,
Speaker 11: try to get it close as possible.
Speaker 4: Just getting ready to play football.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 6: Along those lines, you said the bye week was like
Speaker 6: a breath of fresh air. Yeah, I mean you had
Speaker 6: to miss a couple of practices, you know, for weeks
Speaker 6: one to thirteen for minors stuff. Do you feel like
Speaker 6: your body is a better place now than it was
Speaker 6: a couple of weeks ago?
Speaker 4: Absolutely? Like I said, like a brother, fresh air.
Speaker 11: Feel refreshed that week off, just relaxing that on my body,
Speaker 11: like rest.
Speaker 4: It's it's done, us good, It's done.
Speaker 12: Us good?
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 12: I know you say you don't care about it.
Speaker 3: He's but you know this four game fresh you think
Speaker 3: about how to five weeks and blay up and that
Speaker 3: a few other to a big kind of successful the
Speaker 3: position for close to the way you want.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna try to play MVP level every game or man,
Speaker 11: it really don't matter.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think about anything like that.
Speaker 11: Don't get me wrong, because I feel like the rush
Speaker 11: should know what my goal is, you know, But so
Speaker 11: I just gotta focus on the game at a time
Speaker 11: and just me being.
Speaker 4: Who I am.
Speaker 11: I don't really care about me being m v P Lamar.
Speaker 11: I feel like I'm doing that regardless.
Speaker 2: Appreciate your.
Speaker 1: Next up is safety. Kyle Hamilton, this is a game
Speaker 1: where I think you know pretty much everyone's saying now,
Speaker 1: it's shit.
Speaker 4: You beat the Giants, but you you know he a
Speaker 4: close one.
Speaker 3: You see the black kind of chatter.
Speaker 12: How do you guys go about.
Speaker 3: They're still trying to focus while still knowing what every
Speaker 3: what the expectations go.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I think our expect our expectations don't
Speaker 8: change week to week. I think that's more of a
Speaker 8: outside looking in view on the game. You know, their
Speaker 8: record versus our record. You're just assuming something. But you
Speaker 8: know those guys playing the NFL too, and they got
Speaker 8: a lot of talent over there. And I mean we
Speaker 8: lost to the Raiders, who are two and ten right now,
Speaker 8: So you can't really go into a game thinking that
Speaker 8: you got to go play every single game. So I
Speaker 8: think we have that mindset and we we're locked in
Speaker 8: on the Giants.
Speaker 3: Do you think that because you've had disappointing games against
Speaker 3: kind of like the Raiders and the Browns. Do you
Speaker 3: think that helps you in games like this?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think so. I think it helps us just
Speaker 8: not let our guard down. You know, you gotta win
Speaker 8: every game this league, doesn't matter the situation, what week
Speaker 8: it is, who's on the other side, who's not on
Speaker 8: the other side. You know, they got eleven guys out
Speaker 8: there and there's a football, and then you gotta win
Speaker 8: the game. So I think we're kind of in the
Speaker 8: business just taking a week out of time right now
Speaker 8: and doing we need to do.
Speaker 2: Kyle, do you.
Speaker 1: Feel like the defense has turned a corner a little bit?
Speaker 1: You put together some back to back games and you know,
Speaker 1: playing pretty well. Do you feel like after some really
Speaker 1: season struggles, defense has turned a corner.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think so. I mean a corner in terms
Speaker 8: of not litting up as many points. That's a good
Speaker 8: corner of the term. But I feel like we still
Speaker 8: got a long way to go just playing together as
Speaker 8: a whole. I think we've gotten better. I think, you know,
Speaker 8: we can get a lot better in certain areas, and
Speaker 8: I think we're trending up. Was a good thing going
Speaker 8: into the playoffs, So, you know, I was just talking
Speaker 8: to Dbs it's about who gets hot at the right time.
Speaker 8: And I feel like in all professional sports, especially in football,
Speaker 8: you know, it's a grueling season, but if you have
Speaker 8: confidence going to the playoffs, going to that stretch, then
Speaker 8: I feel like anything happens. So yes, to answer your question,
Speaker 8: I feel like we have turned to cornerbacks, still feel
Speaker 8: like there's a lot we can do.
Speaker 5: What do you feel like that next step would be
Speaker 5: as far as what else you can do as a
Speaker 5: defense to continue that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I feel like, you know, for a few weeks
Speaker 8: in the season, we're kind of just trying to play
Speaker 8: defense and not give up big plays and stuff like
Speaker 8: that because it was attached to our names, attached to
Speaker 8: our defense as a whole, and everybody involved, and you know,
Speaker 8: I feel like we kind of had a tendency to
Speaker 8: just try to soften up a little bit just to
Speaker 8: keep everything in front of us. But I feel like
Speaker 8: now that we have that pretty well put together, I
Speaker 8: feel like we can get a little more aggressive now.
Speaker 8: So you know, that's all eleven, especially me included, coaches,
Speaker 8: everybody just be that more much more aggressive and just
Speaker 8: go out to attack people.
Speaker 9: Protos.
Speaker 8: Going through some of those struggles early in the the
Speaker 8: middle of the season on defense changed to your ownership of.
Speaker 12: The leadership role in this defense.
Speaker 3: I mean, do you feel sort of different level accountability
Speaker 3: at this point than maybe.
Speaker 12: You did last year? Yeah, I feel like yes.
Speaker 8: And you know, this comes with being in the league
Speaker 8: more and getting more plays, more reps, and you know, accolades,
Speaker 8: people start looking to you for advice or just just
Speaker 8: kind of energy, and I feel like that's something I
Speaker 8: can get better at. And in terms of responsibility, you know,
Speaker 8: I think everybody takes responsibility for our ups and our downs,
Speaker 8: but I feel like me personally, I feel like I
Speaker 8: do feel like I do take a lot of that.
Speaker 8: And you know, because we're the back end of the defense,
Speaker 8: we're supposed to keep everything in front of us and
Speaker 8: if all less fails, just tackle ball, get it down,
Speaker 8: play another snap. And I feel like we do a
Speaker 8: good job of that. But then you know, we feel
Speaker 8: good as a whole. And me and myself, I kind
Speaker 8: of critique myself hard on anybody I feel like compared
Speaker 8: to me, you know, I have the highest standing for myself.
Speaker 8: And if I don't play a perfect game, which I
Speaker 8: never have, then I've always feel like there's something that
Speaker 8: I'm looking for. So as much as you guys, or
Speaker 8: my mom or coaches whoever get on me, I know
Speaker 8: I can be ten times better than that. So I
Speaker 8: feel like indirectly and directly I'm taking responsibility just internally
Speaker 8: and externally.
Speaker 3: Talk about you know, still can get better, but what's
Speaker 3: maybe a change they've already made this season to your leadership.
Speaker 12: That you kind of feel like, hey, if I do
Speaker 12: this different than to pluck the defense one through?
Speaker 8: Yeah, just talking, uh, it goes. So it's so undervalue
Speaker 8: and just sports in general, just talking to each other,
Speaker 8: being comfortable with one another, because the more comfortable you
Speaker 8: are in the locker room, more comfortable you'll be out
Speaker 8: here on the practice field, and more comfortable you'll be
Speaker 8: on Sundays. So I feel like just talking to everybody,
Speaker 8: I've done a good job of that. You know I
Speaker 8: had to dot for a game. I feel like that
Speaker 8: even helped it progress a little more and just appreciative
Speaker 8: everybody in the room trusted me with that opportunity and coaches, coach,
Speaker 8: hardball players, everybody involved, and I feel like they gave
Speaker 8: me a little more confidence go out here and be
Speaker 8: more vocals.
Speaker 11: That you've been in before, maybe at r game or even.
Speaker 12: In high school.
Speaker 11: Know, just like being like a leader and kind of
Speaker 11: taking ownership and really speaking out.
Speaker 8: I feel like it's kind of been the same thing
Speaker 8: since every for every level football that I've been at
Speaker 8: high school. Came in was a little scrowny sophomore and
Speaker 8: I didn't even play varsity freshman year. So but yeah,
Speaker 8: I came in sophomore year, I was good, but I
Speaker 8: was still fifteen. And then get the next year a
Speaker 8: little better at football, a little more confident, a little
Speaker 8: more vocal, and then senior year, I felt like everybody
Speaker 8: was kind of looking at me for leadership stuff like
Speaker 8: that same thing with college. You know, I came in
Speaker 8: even though it was highly recruited. Nobody really cares about
Speaker 8: that at the end of the day. And I had
Speaker 8: to earn my stripes there too, and you know it's
Speaker 8: gonna be ups and downs, but you're further and further
Speaker 8: and you have a good freshman year and sophomoreyear, all
Speaker 8: of a sudden people are looking at you for that
Speaker 8: same kind of thing. And I feel like it's kind
Speaker 8: of happened that way in the NFL too, you know,
Speaker 8: came in rookie year, I felt like I had an
Speaker 8: okay year, decent year, getting a little respect, but you know,
Speaker 8: going to a sophomoere, I feel like there were expectations
Speaker 8: and then once you meet those, then for there's no
Speaker 8: junior senior year. Now you know, it's the rest of
Speaker 8: my career. So hopefully it's sustained for a long time,
Speaker 8: and just appreciate it to be where I'm at.
Speaker 3: What reaction when you look at the you know, in
Speaker 3: the off season, you get in that, you get the schedule,
Speaker 3: you look in December and you see three games.
Speaker 12: And whatever ten or eleventh DAEs, what's kind of reaction
Speaker 12: to that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I just kind of put myself in
Speaker 8: a basketball perspective. Those guys play back to back, so
Speaker 8: I mean, I guess it's a little there's a little
Speaker 8: merit behind us quote unquote complaining about it, but you know,
Speaker 8: they're playing eighty two games. MLB players are playing one
Speaker 8: hundred and sixty two games, and you know, we got
Speaker 8: seventeen then we're trying to fight them to go to
Speaker 8: eighteen right now. So I think it's it's good in
Speaker 8: the sense that we'll see who is prepared down the stretch,
Speaker 8: and you know, it's really challenging for teams everybody that's involved.
Speaker 8: I know there's a few more teams that doing the
Speaker 8: same thing as us, And I think it all comes
Speaker 8: down to culture and kind of putting everything in boxes,
Speaker 8: putting the giants in one box and you know, winning
Speaker 8: that game and then moving on whatever. Maybe we could
Speaker 8: play the next day. We don't really care. It's just
Speaker 8: we're gonna show up and do well.
Speaker 3: So it doesn't seem like it's more Do you think
Speaker 3: it's most people will think it's more of a physical challenge.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's just as much of a mental
Speaker 2: challenge as well? Right?
Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure, if not more. I mean, uh, just
Speaker 8: like we're so accustomed to the week just Sunday to Sunday,
Speaker 8: you know, come in, we have a schedule, and when
Speaker 8: that's thrown off a little bit, like even if you
Speaker 8: have a Monday night game, it just feels a little different,
Speaker 8: and it's obviously on a Thursday night game, and then
Speaker 8: you put both of those together on a short week,
Speaker 8: then you know, you kind of got your got to
Speaker 8: get yourself back in your routine and mentally just reset
Speaker 8: and refocus and just take time for yourself honestly, because
Speaker 8: I feel like that'll be a big thing in the
Speaker 8: upcoming weeks. Just a lot of football going on, a
Speaker 8: lot of games, and you know, you're maybe going through
Speaker 8: something and your mental and you're getting to the end
Speaker 8: of the season and we still got a long way
Speaker 8: to go out for that. So I feel like, how
Speaker 8: well you deal with that is how well you're going
Speaker 8: to do with the rest of the year.
Speaker 12: Family them quite a bit through throughout the year.
Speaker 3: How the timing of the buy, how did that?
Speaker 12: How do you feel right now compared to you know.
Speaker 3: Where you work before it?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I feel like everybody the same answer as me,
Speaker 12: just better.
Speaker 8: You know, we reported a camp earlier and everybody else
Speaker 8: for that. There's the night game, and I think Casey
Speaker 8: had there buy a little while ago, and we were
Speaker 8: the last team that was. I guess we had the
Speaker 8: longest stretch continuous of anybody else. And now it's just
Speaker 8: gonna be that much better at the end of it all,
Speaker 8: when we do we need to do and we can
Speaker 8: look back on that and say, you know, we did
Speaker 8: that and we came out and you won these three games.
Speaker 8: So I think we'll be better for it. I feel
Speaker 8: like it was good timing for us, and you know,
Speaker 8: we come out re energized and just juiced up.
Speaker 12: We have a different points, but.
Speaker 3: More game throws, we get some practice, getting bringing you see,
Speaker 3: if you can, I'll probably be out there as competitive
Speaker 3: from gos to level where he's uh, you know, its intensity,
Speaker 3: gets practice and.
Speaker 11: He just through rock the league.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, he's kind of the pinnacle of that.
Speaker 8: I would say there's a few guys on the team,
Speaker 8: Mark being one of them for sure, that he comes in,
Speaker 8: takes care of his business, and from the moment he
Speaker 8: steps in the building to the moment he leaves, there's
Speaker 8: a purpose of everything that he does. And I think
Speaker 8: as a younger guy just coming in especially now, I
Speaker 8: mean I still feel like I'm young, just like taking
Speaker 8: a little tidbits, whether he may notice it or not.
Speaker 8: Just talking to him today, just talking about body work
Speaker 8: and like the little bumps and bruises that I've had
Speaker 8: and he's just giving me some advice with that, and
Speaker 8: you know, sitting next to him in the team meeting,
Speaker 8: and he's just super intentional about everything he does. And
Speaker 8: I don't know, he's like year seven eight for him,
Speaker 8: seven eight, But yeah, you can tell that it didn't
Speaker 8: just happen overnight. So he's built like that, and I
Speaker 8: feel like he kind of wrapped off on everybody more.
Speaker 5: Going back with you, the postgame evaluations from mom.
Speaker 7: Is she tough.
Speaker 12: Mom is tough. Mom is very tough. Not a lot
Speaker 12: of atta boys, but uh, just in life.
Speaker 8: But she h, It's all from a good place, you know, me,
Speaker 8: my brother, and I've I feel like benefited from it
Speaker 8: for sure, just having thick skin. And I feel like
Speaker 8: that's why I'm so critical of myself because I don't
Speaker 8: want to let her down, and I don't want to
Speaker 8: let everybody who's gotten me to this point down. And
Speaker 8: I feel like whatever I do out here that y'all
Speaker 8: see is representation of them. So I try to make
Speaker 8: them proud. And yeah, you know I've heard the last game.
Speaker 6: Lamar also talked about some some coaching points given to
Speaker 6: him by his mom.
Speaker 12: You know, you rise through the ranks, you work with
Speaker 12: some of the best coaches in the world. Why do
Speaker 12: you think you know hearing from parents are maybe hearing.
Speaker 9: Specifically year from your mom holds such such weight for
Speaker 9: you when you kind of see when you hear what
Speaker 9: she has to say.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I feel like, you know, we have respect for
Speaker 8: these coaches obviously, but there's a different level of respect
Speaker 8: when it comes with your mom, dad, to grandparents, whatever.
Speaker 8: But like something, something's different there with your mom, and
Speaker 8: you know, you grow up and you see everything that
Speaker 8: she's done for you to get to get you where
Speaker 8: you're at now, and we're gonna listen to her more
Speaker 8: than anybody else. Although I won't listen to her more
Speaker 8: than anybody else too, you know, that's just how much
Speaker 8: we butt heads on stuff. But she's always got something
Speaker 8: to say. Most of the time. It's it's constructive. May
Speaker 8: not be nice, but you know, it's better for me
Speaker 8: in the long run. And uh, you know, I feel
Speaker 8: like she's always the one person I can go back
Speaker 8: to the shoot to me straight and no matter what
Speaker 8: I'm doing and where I'm at, she can tell me.
Speaker 8: You know, you're doing well, She'll tell me then you're
Speaker 8: doing terrible. So I feel like everybody needs that and
Speaker 8: she keeps me humble. Appreciate y'all.
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