Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Presspass Podcast. It is Wednesday, November first,
Speaker 1: and the Ravens are gearing up for a game coming
Speaker 1: up against the Seattle Seahawks at mc bak Stadium on Sunday.
Speaker 1: As we get ready for that game, the Ravens talked
Speaker 1: about what to expect this matchup and head coach John
Speaker 1: Harball talk with the media Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Well, that'd been the case.
Speaker 3: It was a great day for football today. As Tom
Speaker 3: Reid always said.
Speaker 2: Every day is a great day for football. So what
Speaker 2: question do you have John? Obviously yesterday trade deadline passed,
Speaker 2: no moves made. Is there anything you can tell us
Speaker 2: about it?
Speaker 4: I mean, do you feel like there was anything possible.
Speaker 5: Or anything like that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there there were possibilities. I thought Eric and the
Speaker 3: guys did a great job. They were working on different
Speaker 3: things that maybe could come up. You know, there's probably
Speaker 3: I don't know how many deals get made, or three
Speaker 3: or four or five deals I saw, I think, but
Speaker 3: I'm sure there were hundreds of things talked about across
Speaker 3: the league. We were involved in different kind of conversations,
Speaker 3: but nothing came your fruition.
Speaker 6: What do you think that tells the team that no
Speaker 6: moves are made.
Speaker 2: This is the team.
Speaker 6: You're sticking with them and going down the stretch, you're
Speaker 6: the rest of the season.
Speaker 4: What do you think that tests your players?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, that's a great question. I hadn't thought
Speaker 3: of it so much like that. I think our guys
Speaker 3: know how we feel about them, you know. But we're
Speaker 3: certainly not you know, we're not in desperate mode. You know,
Speaker 3: we're not gonna do something out of desperation by any stretch.
Speaker 3: We have a really good roster, like we talked about Monday,
Speaker 3: and I love our guys. We have everything we need
Speaker 3: and our guys had a great practice today and we're
Speaker 3: looking forward to Sunday.
Speaker 2: That's really what we're thinking about.
Speaker 5: Johnny of the London travel questions, the short week, the
Speaker 5: out west, I know it's one at a time, But
Speaker 5: when you look at the next three and that window
Speaker 5: in eleven days home, is that a huge stretch that
Speaker 5: you look at as an opportunity for your team?
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 3: I mean it's something that we've you know, long term,
Speaker 3: our long term is probably three weeks. You know, our
Speaker 3: short term is Sunday, even Thursday, you know it. Uh,
Speaker 3: that's that's the kind of the bucket right in front
Speaker 3: of us right now, do as well as we can
Speaker 3: over that stretch.
Speaker 2: And we're thinking a lot about that.
Speaker 7: Coach Brandon Stevens has really emerged. What have you seen
Speaker 7: from him this season that's really abled him to play
Speaker 7: at such a high level.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, he's just diligent guy. I mean, Brandon
Speaker 3: is talented. He was new to the game kind of
Speaker 3: a defensive back. He hadn't played it much in college.
Speaker 3: He was a running back at U c. L A.
Speaker 3: Transferred and went to dB, so he's learned a lot.
Speaker 3: But he's just he's a good He's a talented guy,
Speaker 3: but he's really just diligent about technique. Tries to do
Speaker 3: all the details and the little things right. And it's
Speaker 3: really showing up in the way he's playing.
Speaker 8: Most the sense that they're too many, but you're at
Speaker 8: safety you have now it looked almost a surf class
Speaker 8: to get Warley back and Marcus Williams there.
Speaker 2: The way Gino is playing, is that a problem?
Speaker 8: Is it a good problem that many guys are trying?
Speaker 8: He wants many playmakers on the field, right, but there's
Speaker 8: only so manying beyond there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, I mean you want that's what I
Speaker 2: think you need. You need.
Speaker 3: We believe in depth. We do believe in building a
Speaker 3: deep roster. It's something that has been pretty evident probably
Speaker 3: you know, over the last many, many years, and so
Speaker 3: we've been able to weather different challenges have happened, even
Speaker 3: in the last few years when we got hit really
Speaker 3: hard with some challenges, and we we still put guys
Speaker 3: out there that play hard and play well. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: getting healthier is a big thing. It's still day to day,
Speaker 3: week to week, you know. But those guys coming back,
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm excited to see how ready they are
Speaker 3: to go. You know, they practice today, so we'll see
Speaker 3: where we're at.
Speaker 9: From Seattle, I went to a lot of people.
Speaker 2: That anticipated in all.
Speaker 4: The Yeah, you know Seattle.
Speaker 3: I think they just the way they operate out there,
Speaker 3: a coach carroll you pretty much kind of I don't
Speaker 3: care what it is, They're going to be their personality, right,
Speaker 3: and that's how they are again, it's it's a Seattle
Speaker 3: Seahawk personality. It's what I think he's established there over
Speaker 3: the last number of years. They play hard, they play
Speaker 3: with a ton of energy, a ton of confidence.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: They they're disciplined, they're tough, you know, all those things,
Speaker 3: and and they're gonna come in here, uh bringing, you know,
Speaker 3: like they always do. That's how they kind of what
Speaker 3: you'd expect from a Seahawks team.
Speaker 10: Talking about Smith, I mean it seems like he's kind
Speaker 10: of not that second lafe out there in Seattle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gino, gosh yah.
Speaker 3: He's he's playing great, had a great year last year,
Speaker 3: and they've settled in with him and make a lot
Speaker 3: of throws, play action boots, drop back pass. He's scrambling
Speaker 3: every now and they'll come up with a drawer or
Speaker 3: quarterback run in a critical situation.
Speaker 2: So playing really good football.
Speaker 4: Really. That whole receiver group when you watch them, what
Speaker 4: impressed you about them?
Speaker 3: Right, very very wide receiver driven, you know, that's kind
Speaker 3: of and they've got really good tight ends and backs too,
Speaker 3: and the backs are carrying the ball. But from the
Speaker 3: passing game standpoint, man, those tight ends get the targets
Speaker 3: and they all are the wide receivers get the targets,
Speaker 3: and they all do certain things really well. You know,
Speaker 3: got the the young Ohio State Buck guy in there,
Speaker 3: and he's he's screens and underneath routes and take off
Speaker 3: on a double move. Uh, you know, I mean Metcalf,
Speaker 3: Guys look at him, he's he's a He's just a
Speaker 3: kind of a beast out there doing different things. And
Speaker 3: Lockett just continues no change. I mean, as long as
Speaker 3: he's played, he's still the same player he was his
Speaker 3: first couple of years.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: So those are all people that we have to contend with.
Speaker 8: No, obviously, you want to get everybody as involved as you.
Speaker 11: Can offensively, But do you feel like you guys, do
Speaker 11: you want to get Rashad Bateman Moore involved?
Speaker 4: You only have the two targets on Sunday. Yes, we do.
Speaker 2: We want to get everybody more involved.
Speaker 3: You know. I think that's kind of the is the answer,
Speaker 3: like like you frame the question. And Rashad definitely, Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, if he starts, he starts popping and making
Speaker 3: plays and catching run types of things that he does,
Speaker 3: that's gonna be something that's just gonna be a real
Speaker 3: problem for defenses. And you probably can go right down
Speaker 3: the line with every guy, and the more we can
Speaker 3: get those guys involved.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna be every player every.
Speaker 3: Game, but the more we can get him showing up
Speaker 3: different games, I think it's gonna it's just gonna make
Speaker 3: everybody better.
Speaker 12: Telling you guys have sort of gotten back on track
Speaker 12: in terms of the red zone offense the last couple
Speaker 12: of weeks. How important is Gus Edwards said in a
Speaker 12: running game in general.
Speaker 1: Been to that?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, you know, well, the best we said.
Speaker 3: I think we said it a couple weeks ago when
Speaker 3: when we had the bad the bad game or two
Speaker 3: that you'd like to run it in, you know, and
Speaker 3: being able to run it in down there is the
Speaker 3: best way to do it. It's it's just the most
Speaker 3: straightforward way to do it. It's a smaller area to throw,
Speaker 3: and then off of that you get play action stuff
Speaker 3: and then just six straight drop back if they start
Speaker 3: packing it in there against the run. So it kind
Speaker 3: of starts with that John.
Speaker 4: And then the speaking to guys.
Speaker 9: You can see him out there today, I know injury
Speaker 9: reported twins.
Speaker 2: Later, handful of guys that were there anything concerning.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, nothing really to report that's concerning that way,
Speaker 3: what we uh, I think as it goes along in
Speaker 3: the week, we'll kind of see it unfold that way.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harball. We also had a
Speaker 1: chance to hear from quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4: Lamar of the video shows on not touched on you
Speaker 4: through the Mark Andrews.
Speaker 2: You're basically threw it on one foot and Ronnie Stanley's
Speaker 2: foot kind.
Speaker 13: Of backed in.
Speaker 2: Did you feel that at the time?
Speaker 1: Did did?
Speaker 2: Did your leg it bothered at all on that point?
Speaker 2: Like you threw that ball one? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 14: Mark's open. I just tried to do my best to
Speaker 14: get it to him. Made the Cats who scored.
Speaker 13: Yeah, but I knew no no bother to your leg.
Speaker 13: With Stanley hitting you like that, I mean my leg
Speaker 13: just flew in the air. Other than that, we was good.
Speaker 13: Oh the one planted, Noah, it was.
Speaker 4: I mean it was good.
Speaker 2: I'm healthy.
Speaker 4: I'm good. Mar the player that shot made on the
Speaker 4: first drive where he took Yeah, yeah?
Speaker 1: Does that?
Speaker 4: Does that show what a talent he is and sort
Speaker 4: of the potential that he really does have?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 14: Man, I believe what it was two seasons ago he
Speaker 14: had a catching like that against Cleveland when I snoop
Speaker 14: thro him a go ball. He made another catch like that,
Speaker 14: so we know it being capable of you know, he
Speaker 14: just need more opportunities, I believe.
Speaker 4: Lamar We spoke to you about Adell after the game.
Speaker 4: Now close, I mean, you're getting the penalty flags, you're
Speaker 4: you're getting some positive things out of.
Speaker 2: Throwing to Adele.
Speaker 4: But what's it gonna get to?
Speaker 10: Do you think you're getting close to the point where
Speaker 10: you're gonna be connecting on more passes together?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, So they just holding 'em. They hold 'em.
Speaker 14: But I believe they they got to you know, it's
Speaker 14: it's obj. You know, he you gonna catch the ball,
Speaker 14: so they gotta do their best to keep him away
Speaker 14: from the ball. And they doing a good job better
Speaker 14: right now. But you gonna get on the scoreboard. I
Speaker 14: I believe it's happening fast, it's going, it's gonna come,
Speaker 14: and it's gonna happen smart.
Speaker 4: You talked about him.
Speaker 11: Look, Risharp, baby needs more opportunities. How how tough is
Speaker 11: are you cognitant of that in the game of who's
Speaker 11: you know, who's getting those opportunities?
Speaker 4: Who may need to get a ball thrown to.
Speaker 6: Them at that time?
Speaker 10: No, not really.
Speaker 14: I'm just trying to do my best to put points
Speaker 14: on the board. You know, we got guys flying open
Speaker 14: here and there, so it's hard to pinpoint you know exactly,
Speaker 14: They like, yeah, he need to get the ball here.
Speaker 14: You know, it's within the play. You know, if I'm
Speaker 14: going through progression and the guy open, you gonna get
Speaker 14: the ball. But other than that, I'm not trying to
Speaker 14: force anything.
Speaker 1: Would you describe your up sitely for three straight home.
Speaker 14: I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to it. Uh, we're
Speaker 14: not traveling, stay home, crowneded. Uh, i'm'a join it. I'm'a
Speaker 14: join it.
Speaker 9: Mark's a a very tough stretch, did you guys that's
Speaker 9: coming up, not just the next three weeks, but the
Speaker 9: second half of the schedule. I guess you know, where
Speaker 9: do you kind of feel this team is prepared think
Speaker 9: they are for the what's the comb.
Speaker 2: I believe f t Early on in the season, it
Speaker 2: was a stretch.
Speaker 14: You know, we had three division games back to back,
Speaker 14: you know, and we we got the Seattle who else
Speaker 14: the Browns? You know, we got tough uh what it
Speaker 14: Cincinnati after that. So it's it's gonna be tough regardless.
Speaker 14: You know, any league, any team in the league you
Speaker 14: gonna play against, it's gonna be a tough game. You know,
Speaker 14: it's all of us NFL players superstars. Uh, but I
Speaker 14: believe we we prepared.
Speaker 12: We prepared.
Speaker 2: We been jowing it getting better each and every week.
Speaker 4: We been watching that film to see Hawks of defense.
Speaker 2: What kind of jumps out that train.
Speaker 14: S Those guys just flying around, you know, they making plays,
Speaker 14: you know, s making things happen.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 14: Defense line good, lineback is good. Got waged a vet,
Speaker 14: you know, got Jamal Adams back. Uh they have uh
Speaker 14: six that that guy he's from in the safety as well,
Speaker 14: second year of corner.
Speaker 2: He's pretty good. Those guys are stat right now.
Speaker 4: Is there anything they do that you can take from
Speaker 4: Cardinals game?
Speaker 12: For example, the Celerities defensively that they think you can
Speaker 12: take them back?
Speaker 2: You too to Seattle, you know.
Speaker 4: Seat drops a lot doesn't play to that.
Speaker 14: So uh yeah, well that's two different defenses on Arizona
Speaker 14: did a lot of job eight versus us. We wasn't
Speaker 14: looking forward to that, but they did a good job
Speaker 14: at that. But Seattle's pretty much a three D team,
Speaker 14: you know, z own team. Uh, you just gotta go
Speaker 14: in and prepare it.
Speaker 2: That's all alright.
Speaker 12: I think you're up to now seventeen and one against
Speaker 12: NFC teams.
Speaker 4: They're ready.
Speaker 14: By playing football it is not about NFC or LC.
Speaker 14: I'm tryna win regardless. I don't even wanna put that
Speaker 14: in my head or let you finish that question.
Speaker 4: Were good?
Speaker 2: Were good?
Speaker 4: I think it was more about the fact that maybe, no,
Speaker 4: don't try to be don't try to take his question.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 4: You feel like you have an advantage on teams that
Speaker 4: have not.
Speaker 14: Seen you before, And no, no, I'm gonna go in
Speaker 14: there prepared just like any other team, ALC team as well.
Speaker 14: You know, hopefully it keep keep the score, keep going up.
Speaker 14: You know, seventeen to one. Hope it was eighteen to
Speaker 14: one after this one. I'll see that.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson. On the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, linebacker Rokwan Smith talked about this game and
Speaker 1: his thoughts going into this Week nine matchup.
Speaker 10: Every practice you run out onto that practice steel coming
Speaker 10: out there, we all want to know where does that
Speaker 10: come from and what's kind of the intent behind back. Honestly,
Speaker 10: it's just my approach to today just going out there,
Speaker 10: live alive, you know, just happy to be out there,
Speaker 10: excited and you know, just like let the guys know
Speaker 10: every single day I'm ready to attack the day by
Speaker 10: any means necessary in a sense.
Speaker 16: You made it clear after the Arizonian game you didn't
Speaker 16: feel like you guys played up to your standard.
Speaker 4: Was that was that mostly about the drives in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter or what did you mean by that one?
Speaker 10: When you look at it overall, and that's you know,
Speaker 10: we're past that now we moved on Seattle. But when
Speaker 10: you look at it overall, it's four quarters of play
Speaker 10: and that's how you judge a game. So I feel
Speaker 10: like we just had placed throughout the game that wasn't
Speaker 10: to our standard, and you know you're gonna make mistakes.
Speaker 10: We're human at the end of the day, but we
Speaker 10: just hold ourselves to higher standards and we know what
Speaker 10: we're capable of when we're playing our best.
Speaker 7: Well, it seems like you've talked a lot recently about
Speaker 7: protecting your house and that's really important with a three
Speaker 7: game homestand coming up. You know, just how much do
Speaker 7: you talk to the guys about that. It seems like
Speaker 7: it's something you kind of take personally.
Speaker 10: Honestly, I don't have to say too much to the
Speaker 10: guys about it. Everyone everyone's very aware of what's that,
Speaker 10: what's at state, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 10: Like I always say, you know, it's your turf and
Speaker 10: you know our fans and our family there, so you
Speaker 10: know we have to defend that by any means necessary.
Speaker 10: And we're just you know, taking it one game at
Speaker 10: a time and that's our focus. Can't can't jump ahead.
Speaker 10: So one day, one game at a time, and I
Speaker 10: feel like if we do that, everything will go over well.
Speaker 8: As a team, there are an awful lot of statistics,
Speaker 8: So you guys are right at the top or near it.
Speaker 8: Is there anyone particularly you take great or frighten. So
Speaker 8: as a team defensive, whether the points beginning yard directs,
Speaker 8: been playing them, that kind.
Speaker 4: Of think you look at.
Speaker 8: I said, that's the one I want to I want
Speaker 8: to leave.
Speaker 2: In eager league.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I take the W in the L. So
Speaker 10: the W means so much more. We can be the
Speaker 10: worst defense in the league, and you know, as long
Speaker 10: as we're winning, I'm all for that. But I wouldn't
Speaker 10: want to be on the worst defense in the league
Speaker 10: by any means. But you know, as long as we're winning,
Speaker 10: and you know, we're playing good ball, and I'm out
Speaker 10: there with my guys, the guys out there with each other,
Speaker 10: so we're happy with that real quad.
Speaker 6: Last year at the trade deadline, they obviously brought you in.
Speaker 6: They felt they needed to add you. This year, no moves, right,
Speaker 6: What do you think that says that that they're comfortable
Speaker 6: going forward with this collection of talent? What do you
Speaker 6: think that says as far as like a voter of
Speaker 6: confidence for you guys, or what the staff is telling
Speaker 6: the locker room making no moves to the deadline.
Speaker 10: Honestly, man, I'm a player and upstairs handle with stairs handle.
Speaker 10: I don't really focus on that. You know, last year,
Speaker 10: well like a year now. Very grateful to be here,
Speaker 10: and I just look at it as like, you know,
Speaker 10: if they saw something that they really needed out there,
Speaker 10: they would have winnen got it. But you know, I
Speaker 10: feel I'm very comforting in this team and position from
Speaker 10: top to bottom. And I think, if you know, we
Speaker 10: all play to the best of our abilities disguise the
Speaker 10: limit for us.
Speaker 11: Wasn't like watching Michael Pearson justin Mattabka Champion game.
Speaker 10: If they had us this, man, I love playing with
Speaker 10: those guys, Big Mike, Juggernaut and Beaks. Just having those
Speaker 10: two guys in front of you, man, it makes life
Speaker 10: a lot easier for me p Q and secondary as well.
Speaker 10: So I love when those guys get recognized and have
Speaker 10: the type of games that they have because you know,
Speaker 10: I think they're two of the best at what they do.
Speaker 10: So just very proud of those guys, and you know,
Speaker 10: just got to keep it going and those guys know
Speaker 10: that as well. So that's our focus, just doing it
Speaker 10: weekend and week out and not just one game. And
Speaker 10: those guys been doing it all year long.
Speaker 1: What kind of challenge is jun.
Speaker 10: For a defensive Yeah, so seeatt I think they are
Speaker 10: a great team. You know, Pete Carroll has been doing
Speaker 10: it for a while, much success in college as well
Speaker 10: as in the league. And you know, I think the
Speaker 10: offense has a lot of good players on it, you know,
Speaker 10: with the running back number nine, Gino, guys outside as well,
Speaker 10: So I think he does a lot of great things. Well,
Speaker 10: you know, can get out, get out in the space,
Speaker 10: get out of the pocket, make those throws, whether that's boots,
Speaker 10: whether that's in the gun, getting quick throws out, quick
Speaker 10: game and things of that nature.
Speaker 4: So quick release.
Speaker 10: So you know, I'm excited for the opportunity. The defense
Speaker 10: excited for the opportunity, and I think if we come
Speaker 10: out and do we have to do things being our
Speaker 10: favorite but we just got to take it one day
Speaker 10: at a time.
Speaker 4: Rook one is Bobby Wagner or a guy that you've
Speaker 4: looked at for a while and just kind of not
Speaker 4: only the way he played the game, but what he's
Speaker 4: been able to do at the position.
Speaker 10: Yeah, for sure, be Wags. I remember when I actually
Speaker 10: first came into the league. I remember I ended up
Speaker 10: connecting with him, asking him questions and things and things
Speaker 10: of that nature. So yeah, I always had a great
Speaker 10: deal of respect for Bobby. God been doing it for
Speaker 10: a very long time, Pro Bowls, all Pro, you name it,
Speaker 10: so you know, got a lot of respect him in
Speaker 10: the way he played a position and still you know
Speaker 10: playing and what year I can't, I don't know what
Speaker 10: year this is for him, but he's been doing it
Speaker 10: for a while, So definitely have a great deal of
Speaker 10: respect for him and the way he played the game.
Speaker 16: You'll be in the last voice in the whole you know,
Speaker 16: when you guys come off after warm ups, you know
Speaker 16: sometimes in the locker room after the game, is that
Speaker 16: something you've done your whole life? Like were you that
Speaker 16: guy in high school? Were you that guy at Georgia, Like,
Speaker 16: how did you how do you kind of take on
Speaker 16: that role?
Speaker 10: Honestly, as I think about it, like in high school,
Speaker 10: like not like my freshman year or anything like that,
Speaker 10: or sophomore year, but like my junior senior year, Yeah,
Speaker 10: I was that guy that Actually we didn't do it
Speaker 10: as a team to head coach more so in high school,
Speaker 10: but my position group. Yeah, in college as well, and
Speaker 10: then you know, in the league it came along like
Speaker 10: I can't remember what year, probably third year or so,
Speaker 10: and so it's just been something that I'm comfortable.
Speaker 13: With the guys.
Speaker 10: I love when I get up there and I just
Speaker 10: be myself and that's all I know how to do
Speaker 10: at the end of the day, and just like speak
Speaker 10: from the heart, speak real, and you know, guys respect
Speaker 10: that at the end of the day. It's not like,
Speaker 10: you know, trying to create a picture that I don't
Speaker 10: live by. So I just go out give the real
Speaker 10: and you either respect it or you don't. But most
Speaker 10: people respect real. Not a lot of it in this world.
Speaker 7: You know what stands out to you about Brandon Stevens
Speaker 7: in the way he approaches.
Speaker 10: Kame, Oh yeah, b Steve or Timothy you know that's
Speaker 10: actually his name. But man, I like b Steve a
Speaker 10: lot man just the way he come to work every day,
Speaker 10: put his head down. Never heard this guy complain about anything,
Speaker 10: like whether that's you know, Ota is having him playing
Speaker 10: safety in the game, you know, hav him go to
Speaker 10: safety with injuries and things like that. Never see the
Speaker 10: guy Waiver complain of anything. And I just respect the
Speaker 10: way he come out each and every day and just
Speaker 10: want to get better, and like that's all he focused on,
Speaker 10: Like attention to details are so crucial to him, and
Speaker 10: like I got a lot of respect and love playing
Speaker 10: with him, and I think the best is still yet
Speaker 10: to come for him. So I'm very excited for his
Speaker 10: future and everything that he's gonna do.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Roquan Smith. And someone who's having a
Speaker 1: huge season this year for the Ravens is defensive tackle
Speaker 1: Justin Matabik. He has been a dominant force in the
Speaker 1: middle of this defense. He talked about his breakout season.
Speaker 17: Does it a last week uh coach with Donalds talking
Speaker 17: about the work you put it in an off season
Speaker 17: and kind of set me up for this year. I'm
Speaker 17: just curious, do you feel that way and did you
Speaker 17: do anything different with your approach in the off season.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I feel that way. Just you know, in the
Speaker 15: off season, I just wanna make sure I get better
Speaker 15: than the year prior. And the thing that the different
Speaker 15: was just really tune in with just like pastor us
Speaker 15: moves and just for fine ways to get better with
Speaker 15: conditioning and stuff like that. So those are things I
Speaker 15: felt like LA last year I lacked and I wanted
Speaker 15: to definitely get better this year.
Speaker 17: So are you using are you more confident in using
Speaker 17: certain moves in games than you have been before? Cause
Speaker 17: I mean you're showing a a variety of different things.
Speaker 15: Uh yeah, I feel like, uh like as I practicing
Speaker 15: h A get confident doing it against my teammates, I
Speaker 15: feel I can get more confident in the game. I
Speaker 15: just pull it out and usually work. So try to
Speaker 15: time it up good too.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Just to talk about confidence, I mean, like overall confidence,
Speaker 6: is that something you can quantify, like, you know, having
Speaker 6: a career a year like you are right now? You do?
Speaker 6: I mean the amount of confidence you're playing with and
Speaker 6: what that kind of translates to when you get on
Speaker 6: the field. How do you quantify that?
Speaker 15: Quantify what was that. I mean, it's a big word,
Speaker 15: smart guy, not really right.
Speaker 6: Just I mean, like, how how much confidence you're playing
Speaker 6: with right now? Can you kind of describe that and
Speaker 6: and kind of how much that helps you on the field.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'll just say just listening to coach like Chuck
Speaker 15: Weave and just in terms of like run, play, action,
Speaker 15: pass and stuff like that. Just just the little things
Speaker 15: that they tell us to do. I just like try
Speaker 15: to practice it and on film and watch out the
Speaker 15: practice over and I'm like that, do looks good. I'm
Speaker 15: gonna play it like that in the game. So just
Speaker 15: like taking it one day at a time and just
Speaker 15: executing those moves over and over there and just not
Speaker 15: get tired of doing it. I feel like it translates
Speaker 15: to the to the game.
Speaker 1: Just and you've talked about your coaches Weave and up
Speaker 1: and how they taught you. After your sack, you kind
Speaker 1: of pointed over with the sidelines, I'm curious. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll get behind.
Speaker 15: That and uh, every record asking me that, but I'm
Speaker 15: gonna just say, like I point I point to like
Speaker 15: this stuff fans and stuff like that, and just to
Speaker 15: be like, hey, like I'm here, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 15: so that basically that's just my little thing on I
Speaker 15: might switch it up, but this is kind of what
Speaker 15: I do.
Speaker 9: So do you do you ever keep track of stuff
Speaker 9: going on at the trade deadline and to have a
Speaker 9: trade deadline pass?
Speaker 4: Whereas you know, you're talking to John the other day
Speaker 4: and said.
Speaker 2: You really like our guys, really like our roster.
Speaker 9: Does that feel like the en busment you guys with
Speaker 9: Ben here getting this team with sixty two records.
Speaker 15: I don't really pay attention to the trade deadlines and
Speaker 15: stuff like that, you know, when you hear like a
Speaker 15: blockbuster trade or something like that, like the commanders got
Speaker 15: chased and sweat out of there, like stuff like that.
Speaker 15: I hear about, but I don't really pay too much
Speaker 15: attention to it. It's just when it's like a breaking
Speaker 15: news or something, or a shocking trade, that's when I
Speaker 15: hear about it. To be honest with you, So do
Speaker 15: you feel like there's any.
Speaker 4: Sense of that in the locker room, like something that's
Speaker 4: talked about?
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 15: Is it just when it happens to that is when
Speaker 15: it happens, it happens, So I don't I don't talk
Speaker 15: about it.
Speaker 4: So when you look at the season you're having.
Speaker 15: Do you see how that has helped Michael Purris and
Speaker 15: vice versa, when he's having a game he's having that
Speaker 15: helps you as well.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I feel we help each other, you know, just being
Speaker 15: in terms on the same page. I'm pastoral as games,
Speaker 15: who's the middle, push guy away from the back and
Speaker 15: stuff like that. Just communicating, Just keep talking, keep practicing
Speaker 15: in practice, believe in each other. Just having confidence in
Speaker 15: each other and you know, loving on each other, like
Speaker 15: we go out to go eat together. Just keeping that,
Speaker 15: just building that chemistry strong so we can like trust
Speaker 15: each other when it comes to game day.
Speaker 4: So are you guys doing more stuts that you've done
Speaker 4: in the past. Are you doing more stuts than you've
Speaker 4: done in the past?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like Travis Stones is having a little
Speaker 4: bit of an under the radar breakout as well?
Speaker 1: This year?
Speaker 15: He's been balling, you know, Is that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 15: And I told him, I was like, when you balling, bro,
Speaker 15: like everybody's gonna ball everybod's gonna because you're just a
Speaker 15: young guy that just super strong, super fast, super quick,
Speaker 15: and like when you bring that out every day, become
Speaker 15: your best self. Every game, Like you just help this
Speaker 15: defense so much more. Bro, Like you don't know how
Speaker 15: much power you have.
Speaker 12: That's why I tell justin what's been made about your
Speaker 12: draft class and especially the guys on defense, how much
Speaker 12: to come into our own this year as far as
Speaker 12: that goes. How important is experience? I mean it's kind
Speaker 12: of a simple question, but how much has that mattered
Speaker 12: for you going from year one to year two, year.
Speaker 2: Three where you are now?
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's very important. Just having a I would say,
Speaker 15: like knowing kind of what to expect, you know what
Speaker 15: I'm saying, and just growing as a player as a person,
Speaker 15: just the league and just seeing guys before you and
Speaker 15: how they did asking them questions. You know, you develop
Speaker 15: yourself and you develop young guys that want to learn,
Speaker 15: are willing to earn and willing to apply it. So
Speaker 15: that's just what I say from that.
Speaker 1: Just along those lines, is there anything that you think
Speaker 1: the Ravens do to help foster that development those your time?
Speaker 15: I think they bring in vets that know what they're doing.
Speaker 15: There are good guys and it kind of brings like
Speaker 15: the younger guys to understanding with them and just wanted
Speaker 15: to learn from them and get better.
Speaker 8: I'll say, well, defenses, I mean, there's some of the
Speaker 8: numbers you guys are putting up for the halfway point,
Speaker 8: you're historically good. Is there any particular you take fide
Speaker 8: in and whether it's a points per game, yards per game,
Speaker 8: yards for play that kind of you guys are.
Speaker 13: At the top.
Speaker 15: That's a good question. I think all of it really
Speaker 15: all that matters. So I would say we take pride
Speaker 15: in all of it. You know, obviously stopping the run
Speaker 15: so we can make a one dimension and then getting
Speaker 15: after in the pass ruts game, but all of it,
Speaker 15: all of the important.
Speaker 9: Definitely if they're like a humility required or your guys
Speaker 9: pass up free for you to just be a guy
Speaker 9: willing to drop on burden long or whatever. You kind
Speaker 9: of be that middle hook guy you know that are
Speaker 9: kind of get someone like all that or quin free.
Speaker 9: I mean, what type of approaches do guy require?
Speaker 4: But do you think of pasture?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 15: The approach is just execute the game plan, Just execute
Speaker 15: the play. You know, don't be selfish, you know what
Speaker 15: I'm saying, be selfless, you know what I mean. Be
Speaker 15: able to put your teammates musician to make plays. That's
Speaker 15: what we do so. I mean, I'm just gonna puts
Speaker 15: in position to like rush past or too, So you
Speaker 15: have to put that into perspective as well. So you
Speaker 15: just have to execute the game plan and just stretch
Speaker 15: your teammates.
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