WEBVTT - John Harbaugh & Players: Ravens Practice 1/26 Press Conferences 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.400 You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Friday, 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.560 January twenty sixth, and the Ravens were getting ready to 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:12.600 play the AFC Championship game on Sunday against the Kansas 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:14.560 City Chiefs. As they get ready for that game, we 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:16.600 had a chance to hear from head coach John Hartwall. 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:19.680 Okay, great seeing everybody. Appreciate everybody being here. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:24.200 Good practice, beautiful day, great day for football today and 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.360 for a lot of other things. Some days are good 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:30.520 for football and skiing. We're dancing in the rain, but 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:32.000 today was good for a lot of stuff. So we 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:33.920 had a great practice. Guys are into it, locked in, 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.640 understand the challenge in front of us against a great 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:42.279 football team, very well coach, very talented, very tough. So 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:43.959 we're looking forward to it. We can't wait to get 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.000 to it. But we have still some preparation to do 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.000 up until that time. So what questions you have, John, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:50.560 there's some reports. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.440 That Titan Martages would be activated off of anger reserve. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:54.480 What can you tell us about that? 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.800 He is going to be activated off injury reserve today? 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:01.520 Indication think he's going to play as well? 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.080 Yeah, I mean that's the idea for sure. 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.160 That has to be done on Sunday to make sure 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:07.720 he's good to. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.600 Go or you know, I don't think so, we'll see. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:12.520 I mean, unless there's some kind of a problem, he 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:13.800 should he'll be playing. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:19.840 The priority should guys they like to store twelve part time. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.119 Yeah, I mean our offense is what it is at 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.039 this point in time. So to add a player like 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.640 Mark is a great a great, great ad for us. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.600 I mean it's a great advantage. We're excited about it. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.040 Mark's been looking good the last couple of weeks. Uh, 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:32.840 he's merged into the game plan as we built it 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.440 this week, and that's what we'll be running with on Sunday. 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.640 John, what do you think the Philip? The team is right? 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:37.800 Man? 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.640 Is you guy just finished your last practice before before 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:41.000 the game? 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.399 I mean they're excited, you know, they're they're there. It 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.360 takes a lot to get to this point, you know, Uh, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.919 to still be playing in a game of this magnitude, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.240 It's it's a hard thing to do, you know. So 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.560 they're excited to be playing the game. They want to 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.200 put their best foot forward. They want to play their 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.560 best Uh, they want to play their hardest, you know, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.680 they want to do well, So that's how they're thinking. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:01.360 I know you've talked about it this week. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.360 Could you talk about your relationship again with Andy Reid? 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:05.400 And do you guys talk. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:05.960 Throughout the year. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.440 We talked here and there. You know, it's not like 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.840 we're talking regularly throughout the year. But the relationship is great. Uh, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:13.880 he's a he's a guy I look up to always 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.440 have admire him very much. We do a lot in 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.320 the off season, also just friendship wise, but also talk 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.520 about kids a lot and tell you that, but also 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.560 with the rules and stuff like that. But we haven't 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:29.359 had too many conversations lately. Mentioned hospital because you have 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.480 all edwards at your father one time. You remember that 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.079 visits and how that talked about. Well, I wasn't there 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.320 for the visit that was they were at an All 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.120 Star game, I think, and they spent a couple of 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.760 days together visiting hospitals and I think Andy told me 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.120 one time they were the only three coaches there, so 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.520 we thought that was pretty cool. But uh uh, they 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.160 hit it off and he told me that story the 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.840 first time I met him, And he's pretty meaningful for 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.720 a kid to hear that about his dad, and you know, 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.680 and he's and he's a great guy. I love Andy, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.160 I love Tammy, I love all their all their kids. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.320 You know, we was there when the kids were all 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:05.280 growing up, you know, and and uh running around and 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.280 it's just it's just a coaching relationship that you have 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.880 with your colleagues and it becomes like a family. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:13.799 Media day. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.600 All players wish to will bring a high school be 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:17.360 at the game with something. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.919 What's look at that synergy with the team two teams ago. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.560 If it's a successful this year, Uh. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.480 Well, I mean I big Oils fan obviously love watching 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.160 what they did this year, and they're amazing. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:27.000 I love those players. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.280 We have that little golf tournament, you know, so highly 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.280 competitive golf tournament. The Oarls usually win it. Baseball players 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:33.840 are always great golfers. Football players. 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.920 Football players squeeze the club too hard, you know. It's like, 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.080 loosen up, you know it'll be fine. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.120 I gotta hit it harder, further, you know. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.000 So, But we love the Oils and Brandon's a really 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:44.880 good friend. I really have so much respect for him, 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.440 and it's good he's going to be there. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:47.800 On two thousand and eight. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.160 What have you learned about getting ready for a big game? 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.640 Like this, Well, I mean it's a game, that's the 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.720 bottom Line's a football game. It's against a very good team. Yeah, 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.200 the opportunity, the reward to win one game is uh 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.080 is great. You know everybody understands that. You put in perspective, 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.040 you got to play your best football against the best teams. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.160 But it's a football game, you know, so all the 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.600 things that that matter in a football game matter in 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.040 this game, and those are the things that we're going 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:13.800 to try to do well. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:14.240 John. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.280 Kind of toughness did it take for Mark Andrews to 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.160 get from that, you know you and you know, against society, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.159 to get to a point where he's being activated. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.160 That's a great, great point, Jamis, and I would say, 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.240 an amazing amount of toughness, you know, physical toughness in 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:28.760 terms of the work he had to put in and 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.279 the pain, I mean the physical pain he went through 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.040 and I saw him in the training room, I mean 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.960 very painful injury, very painful rehab, and then just the 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.200 mental toughness to I mean, you know, Mark, the crazy 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.520 thing is, as you talk to him, it's how's it going. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:40.960 It's going great, It's amazing. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.040 I've been doing so well. Everybody's amazing with me. I 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:44.320 love these guys, I love everything. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.400 It's just how he stays, uh, you know, his positive, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.279 A plus positive every single day. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:50.320 I just love that about him. 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.080 On Sunday, of course, a lot of legends, even Michael Fels, 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.360 will be in the house. It's certainly even worth you 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.080 for in AAFC find out where your thoughts on that. 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.280 Yeah, it's cool, it's cool. Well, it's nice, and. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.160 But we'll be focused on I know the Chiefs are 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:06.840 going to be in the house, so I think that's 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.040 going to be our focus for sure. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.160 Ring already into twenty twelve, You've been back a. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.720 Couple times in the playoffs. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.640 But tough to get back at this point. What does 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.240 it say about the league that you coach in, how 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:19.880 difficult it is to get to this point? 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.039 Well, yeah, I mean we say it many times. It's 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:23.680 a it's tough to win a football game in the 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.080 National Football League. You know, it's it's the most competitive 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.200 thing that I can imagine. I'm in the middle of it. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:29.560 But I'm sure there are other things that are really 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.440 competitive in life. I'm just not aware of them. You know, 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.680 this is this is the toughest thing in the world 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.160 to me to win a football game, and that's what 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:37.320 we're gonna try to do on Sunday. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:38.880 Funny way the. 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.000 Guys work this week, was it as normal as you 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.080 try to keep it, knowing what's at stake? 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.680 Do you feel like everything when you know the way 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.640 it usually goes like in three? 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:47.960 Oh? 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.560 Yeah, I mean it's the same routine. We're a routine group. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.480 It's a practice sport, it's a meeting sport. Our guys 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.680 are doing what they always do, trying to do it 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:56.400 the best we can. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:56.960 We did. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.280 We try to have our best week this week, you know, 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.640 and and that's what we tried to do. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.400 Did you do any preparations for rain or if he 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.760 played so often in it this year that you didn't 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:07.920 really have to do anything different. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.760 Yeah, we didn't really do anything different. You know, you 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.800 get the balls wet here and there. But we've been 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.839 it's been we've we've been rained down a lot this year. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:18.960 John mentioned at the beginning of the week. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.120 You know, it's been fifty three years since an AFC 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:22.040 Championship game. 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.400 US post post a year shout out Jerry and his 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:26.640 connection to that last geame. 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.000 Have you heard more stories or purchased around town, just 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:31.080 what this game needs to. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.600 People in Gary, Baltimore. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.599 I gotta be honest with you, I've kind of been 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.760 a cocoon, you know. I've kind of been kind of 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:42.160 you know, so if I think people are probably excited 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.520 my guests, you know, but we've been focusing on the game. 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.719 I'm excited for the town. I think as someone like 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.760 Tom Maddy and his wife you know who went They 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.520 went to high school with my mom, you know, so 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.480 when we came to town here, they were the first ones 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.600 to reach out. Tom and Judy Maddie and we went 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:01.680 to dinner with him, and I think what this would 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.240 have meant to him, you know, to have this game 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:05.160 back here in Baltimore. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.760 So things like that they're meaningful. 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.080 John, how did more of them look distanly and things 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.280 that still point of just a game time things? 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.840 Uh, he looked good, you know. I'm I'm I'm confident. 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.680 I'm confident, but you know, I can't say for sure. 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.400 You don't want to get too far ahead, I know, 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.320 but you have a game next year against. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:24.200 Your brother again. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.960 What was the reception like hearing about him? He's ruining 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:28.320 the charge? 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.760 Ah, fired up? You know, Yeah, I didn't not thinking 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.960 about the game. No, that's that's the game way off 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.760 in the future. But uh, very excited for Jim, happy 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.800 for his family. Like I told you guys before. Uh 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.440 he called that night back home and the kids that 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.120 already had their backpack, they were ready. They thought they 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.920 were going the next day to LA. They're actually coming here. 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.480 So that's cool. But they didn't waste the bag packing 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.120 I guess. But uh, he's It's like I said, the 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.720 Chargers just got themselves a great, great football coach. Players 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.480 are gonna love him, City's. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:07:58.760 Gonna love him. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:03.280 Uh, and you know they're gonna they're gonna be very formidable. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:08.920 All right, thanks, that would say coach John Harbaugh. We 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.680 also heard from quarterback Lamar. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.680 Jackson, excessive media attention this week for your second time 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:15.240 joining us. 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.920 Is that impactful on anyway? 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:20.440 Is it impactful? Does it bother? Is it? 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.200 Is it just distraction or is it just whatever? 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.120 I mean, you guys want to know what's going on, 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:25.360 how we think and how we're feeling. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:26.800 So it's cool. I'm cool with it. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.280 John just told us that Mark Andrews could be activated 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.720 offen de reserve and he's gonna play, Like what what 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:35.480 does that mean to you? 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:36.840 And what does that mean to the team? 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.600 It means a lot to all of us. What it 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.200 means to me is I got another security blanket. You know, 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.000 I'm going to feel him likely and the rest of 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.480 the guys. Uh, just ready to get after it right now. 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.320 I talked to Nelson age little last week and talk 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.880 about you. He said, there's something in you this year, 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:54.000 being all year, and. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.120 He's with it. What has been the key for you 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.679 to maintain lugged in the whole season? Just knowing what 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:00.560 set state? 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.719 You know, just being around for some years now and 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.720 uh seeing different different teams we we've we've had here, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.719 and I I feel like something like back go back 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.760 to twenty nineteen. Uh we had we had a chance 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.840 to be and where we are right now, Uh and 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.000 we fall short, you know. So like I said, me 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.280 just being around different teams, knowing we got a g 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.960 a great defense, great offense, great special teams. Uh, opportunities 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.320 right in front of us. So you know, I gotta 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.640 just stay locked in. All of us should should be 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.120 thinking the same way more. 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:30.520 Uh. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.800 You wanna know how you're feeling? So what are your 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:33.440 nerves like? 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:33.840 Uh? 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.840 Before the biggest games an outs, the same as it 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:41.920 was last week. Mark Patrick said, Uh, he watched you 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:42.520 in college. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.760 He knew this was gonna take place and there was 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.400 gonna be these battles between you and. 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.040 Him going down for for years to come. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.360 Uh your respect level for him? And when do you 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:52.480 feel the same wacks? 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.160 Oh, definitely, But I didn't really catch they games. I 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.000 didn't really catch those guys games, but definitely when out 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.599 when I did, Uh, actually watched Patrick play when we 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:02.760 got to the league and stuff like that. 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:04.040 It was a no brainer. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:05.640 You know, he's one of those guys he wanted the 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.880 goats in the making, you know, but definitely definitely looking 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:09.480 forward to it. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.400 No, if I'm not. Patrick mentioned uh that he'd seen 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.040 you from AFAR, giving you a lot of praise obviously, 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.240 but going against the quarterback that has had the most 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.280 success going three to one and those had to head matchups, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.559 how much sweeter would it be to get the win 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.600 against a quarterback that has led his team to six 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.800 straight championship uh games? 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.000 As well? Yeah, I'm not. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.480 I'm not really worried about what he's done with his team. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.160 You know, it didn't matter who he was playing, you know, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.720 I was gonna feel the same way. But it'd definitely 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.319 be great, you know, cause they they've been going to 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.720 the fc E each and every year super Bowl seems 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.040 like has been every year since I've been in the 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.800 league at least. But yeah, it'd definitely be a be 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.600 a good feeling. No, just to win with this the 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.719 the last playoff game, you know, it definitely be great 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:49.000 to win. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.040 Like you said, your. 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.120 Nerves are kind of where they were last week, and 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.200 he's kind of lived in the moment all year. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:56.840 How do were you personally? 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:57.559 How do you go. 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.160 About not making this game, you know, bigger than all 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:01.880 the other games you. 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:02.600 Played this year? 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:03.400 Uh? 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.040 See, that's just my mindset, you know. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.839 I've I've been in games where uh you know, it's 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.360 a what what what it's it's one of the games 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.680 of the week or something like that, and I'm hype. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.439 I'm hype with the with everyone else hype, And when 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.000 I get on the field, it's like I'm tired now, 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.160 you know, So I pretty much just be cool and 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.120 c cool, come and collect, you know, into the game. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.200 The ball, the ball snapped, the whistle's blown, you know, 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:26.000 stuff like that. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:26.640 Do you have a. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.160 Relationship with Chris Jal's at all as it's been a 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.040 normal week for you as far as something I was 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.720 asking to coach the same thing. It's a bigger game, 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.719 obviously a lot of but if you guys treat it, 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.080 it's pretty much more. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.000 Yeah, we pretty pretty much treated it the same same. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.400 Do you have a relationship with Chris Jalge if you 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:44.559 played against U? 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.600 Like obviously what head the head of the boys? Yeah? 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.280 I I I played against some a few times, you know, 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:51.840 but I don't really have a relationship with 'em. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:52.720 I don't. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.440 Last time we spoke, you were securing a playoff spot. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.040 Now you're hosting a championship game. That day you told 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.640 me how important your faith has been throughout the journey. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.760 So now I want to ask you what has been 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:04.719 the toughest part of your journey and how you were 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:05.720 able to manage it. 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.600 The toughest part of my journey, I really don't know, 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.080 you know, because of because of my faith just knowing 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.520 God with me through whatever I'm going through. You know, 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.559 I just put my trust to Him and just pretty 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.480 much go with the flow. So I really don't have 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.559 pressure or I'll be overthinking anything. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.400 Now was mark out at practice every afew weeks. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.200 He's been looking good. He's looking sharp. You know, he's 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.000 been speeding up the process. He's been looking great. He's 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.080 been looking great as normal. 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:33.960 As practice was a swift. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.360 It's not normal around town or out in the state park. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.560 But have you felt any of that excitement? 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:39.960 I know you don't go out. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.480 Too much, yeah, and corrouse around, but are you feeling 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:43.800 excitement around town? 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.079 I mean, I'm excited. Uh, I see it on social media, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.080 you know, all the fans. I'm getting tacked every day 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.800 all day, So I'm definitely I'm definitely seeing it, and 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.560 I'm I'm knowing what's going on. I understand what's at 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.920 State for the city and how everyone feel about the team. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.720 So definitely, speaking of. 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.439 Social media, are you aware ballb ah the buzz and 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:02.640 es of got you tweeting? 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:03.720 Johnny? 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:09.120 Yeah, I've seen, Yeah I did. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:09.680 Yeah. 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.040 I know you O for saying this game was curious though, 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.920 mike Vic, like, what do you remember about in watching 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.680 him and growing up and then when was that like 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.960 having been but as a mentor really on your. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.280 Tread Yeah, I definitely watched Mike Vic. Uh, definitely highlights 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.000 you know I always called highlights, Uh, when I was 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:28.920 a kid growing up when he was playing, I really 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.520 didn't I really didn't like football at the time, you know, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.400 watching it at least, But uh, once he went to 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.040 the Eagles and stuff like that. You know, I'm pretty 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.520 much older, and I remember all the the I remember 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.480 the game from uh when they played against the Giants, 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.560 the comeback game. That was a that was a crazy game. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:42.840 You know. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.960 He was to me, he was still in his prime, 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.240 you know, but he wasn't running as much. You know, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:48.680 he was just throwing the ball all over the field 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.120 of Shawn. He had those guys mccoyd. They was just 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:51.760 going crazy. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.040 But I I remember, I remember a lot. I remember 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.120 a lot definitely. 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.440 Called shit when he used to call you and stuff early. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.560 On in your I mean, it's cool, it's cool. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:07.480 I guess back to fight raging might say. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:13.360 Like, we gonna, I believe, we just gonna keep doing 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.080 what weve been doing. You know, just this not the 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.560 ball to all our guys, you know, not just one person. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.400 You know, Uh, Marcus is definitely gonna help us through 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.760 this process. You know, he's he's one of the ones. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.560 But we gonna keep dishing the ball out that we've been. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.800 Doing, and he putting to address the team and sort 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.400 of what message would that be for Sunday. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.040 Uh, we we should already know what's going on. You know, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.560 it's not need to be said. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.680 Y everyone know what's at state for us. Just stay 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.440 locked in, alright, Mark, appreciate y'all. 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.960 That was quarterback Lamar Jackson in the locker room today. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.240 We also talk with tight end Mark Andrews, who the 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:52.240 Ravens activated today from injured reserve and he's expected to 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.920 return to action on Sunday. He talked about all that today. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.560 Mark, that you could get back here at this point. 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.440 N Yeah, I think that, you know, mentally, you got 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:03.720 to stay on top of it. You got to be 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.360 able to you know, you know, get healthy in your head, 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.440 get healthy with your body. It's it's all in one. 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.000 So for me pushing myself every day, you know, believing 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:14.520 that is it gonna be able to come back, And 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.120 it's easy to do when you have great teammates that 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.040 every day you come in, it's just just say that 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:20.840 we're gonna keep winning for you, and we're gonna keep 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.280 winning and by the time you're back, it's it's gonna 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:23.680 be go time. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.840 Mark how much time each day was devoted to your rehab, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:27.600 would you say if you. 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:28.600 Were estimating. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.840 It just depends. I probably spend out four to six 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.640 hours here every day and work out rehab, and then 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.320 you're not home and there's different things like the hyperbaric 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.440