Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Thursday,
Speaker 1: December fourteenth. The Ravens are gearing up for a matchup
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars on the road on
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football. As the Ravens got ready for that game,
Speaker 1: today we heard from the coordinators, So let's kick things
Speaker 1: off of Special teams coordinator Chris Hornon.
Speaker 2: Good to see everyone.
Speaker 3: Hope everyone's doing well right now. Our attention right now
Speaker 3: is just strictly on Jacksonville Sunday Night Football. We understand
Speaker 3: what's in front of us. We understand that Jacksonville has
Speaker 3: a pretty good special teams unit. We faced these guys
Speaker 3: last year, which is looking to go out and really
Speaker 3: just play our can continue to try to play our
Speaker 3: best football. Questions, how can.
Speaker 4: You make it so if you have seventy six yards
Speaker 4: returns for touchdowns every time?
Speaker 3: You know, that's a good question.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: One of the things, man, I think a lot of
Speaker 3: things have to happen, A lot of things have to
Speaker 3: go right in order for those things to happen, right,
Speaker 3: won you got to get the ball, you gotta get
Speaker 3: the right the right punt, and then you gotta you
Speaker 3: gotta take care of the gunners, right, You take care
Speaker 3: of the gunners, and then you take care of the
Speaker 3: guys covering down the field, uh legally with good blocks,
Speaker 3: good attention to details. And then you gotta have the
Speaker 3: returner back there. Uh one make a guy missing, go
Speaker 3: to distance. That's really how it's done. If those things
Speaker 3: could happen all the time, Shoot, i'd I'd be happy.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: Obviously a lot happened for Tayland in that game with
Speaker 4: the off sides, and then you know has to come
Speaker 4: in for Devin. You know, both were your conversations like
Speaker 4: and you said he was really hard on himself.
Speaker 2: Did you were you sensing that?
Speaker 3: And you can try to bring him out of that,
Speaker 3: you know, uh, on that all sides play, it's just
Speaker 3: one of those things. After the game you kind of
Speaker 3: talk to him.
Speaker 2: You don't really understand because that's the same.
Speaker 3: Play that Duve actually got hurt on on that play.
Speaker 3: So shoot, as his coach, I was, I was frustrated.
Speaker 3: You know, that's a that's a change of possession. And
Speaker 3: then you know, I kind of go over I have
Speaker 3: a conversation with and then at some point throughout the game,
Speaker 3: you know, they say, hey, dudes down all right, and
Speaker 3: then you go back to Thailand and you say, hey,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be the punt returner. There's gonna be some
Speaker 3: opportunities there. And the first things versus a possession of
Speaker 3: the football, that's one of the things we talk about
Speaker 3: all the time. He did that, and then from there
Speaker 3: it's just let his natural football ability take over. I
Speaker 3: mean he's got that right. He's a good receiver. H
Speaker 3: Once he once he gets the ball in his hands,
Speaker 3: all those guys have capability of making those kind of plays.
Speaker 7: Tilant's town's resilience because he's a guy.
Speaker 5: Remember we talked a great trading camp, but he said
Speaker 5: he was sitting in his car waiting for the clock
Speaker 5: to turn four o'clock to.
Speaker 6: Make sure that he was gonna make the team.
Speaker 8: To go from that point to what he did this
Speaker 8: past weekend, can you talk a little bit about his resilience.
Speaker 3: You know, it just just speaks to kind of who
Speaker 3: he is and and and what he's done. H there's
Speaker 3: a guy that goes out there every day and he
Speaker 3: just puts it, puts the work in, and uh, he
Speaker 3: just waits for the opportunity when his numbers called, and
Speaker 3: I think that's that that speaks a lot to kind
Speaker 3: of who he is as a person. I mean, when
Speaker 3: he first got here as a as a rookie, I
Speaker 3: didn't I didn't really know who he was and what
Speaker 3: he was. And she knew he was the receiver. We
Speaker 3: put him out there, you know, as a young guy,
Speaker 3: and he played gunner and he made plays, you know,
Speaker 3: so you just speak back to all those all those
Speaker 3: plays he's made. I mean, this is just the one
Speaker 3: that got in the end zone, this big return, right,
Speaker 3: But Thailand's been making plays for us really since he's
Speaker 3: got here as a special teamer.
Speaker 4: Forbo said, that was a long run all the way
Speaker 4: down there to the end zone, and we saw you
Speaker 4: in the camera running.
Speaker 5: Right along there with him.
Speaker 3: Did you feel that too, I definitely, I definitely felt that.
Speaker 3: You know, my adrenaline was it was it was gone.
Speaker 3: I got all the way down to that hot too.
Speaker 3: I started to cramp up a little bit, and then
Speaker 3: you know, I realized, you know what I got to
Speaker 3: give back Chases on the other side. Chase was one
Speaker 3: of my teammates in New York, so had to go
Speaker 3: down there, you know, shake his hand. But you know,
Speaker 3: it's all love. Those are the those are really the
Speaker 3: plays that that we look for, the plays that we
Speaker 3: aim for. I talk about, you know, it's it's easy
Speaker 3: to go out there and have good plays. We've had
Speaker 3: good plays this year, but those are the great place,
Speaker 3: you know, the I always talk about in the return game.
Speaker 3: The plays that score are the great plays. But we've
Speaker 3: had a lot of good ones, and we finally got
Speaker 3: us a great one on Sunday. We're just looking forward
Speaker 3: to going back out there and man continue to trying
Speaker 3: to build on that.
Speaker 6: For you, is that the most exhilarating moment of your
Speaker 6: coaching career? And how does that compare it to your
Speaker 6: playing careers? Is set the the best moment.
Speaker 9: Of your careers?
Speaker 3: That is the best moment of my coaching career by far,
Speaker 3: to to win the game in that fashion. As a coach,
Speaker 3: you know, you're just you're so excited for the for
Speaker 3: the guys first, you know, and then and then as
Speaker 3: a coach, you sit back and you think about how
Speaker 3: much time you know, uh, Randy, TJ and Sam and
Speaker 3: I and Harves when he's in there, how much time
Speaker 3: we put in there just working and trying to come
Speaker 3: up with ways to score for a great plays to happen,
Speaker 3: and the attention to details in that situation. But that
Speaker 3: was definitely the best one as a coach for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, that was Special teams cordinator Chris Horton. We
Speaker 1: also heard from offensive coordinator Todd Munkett.
Speaker 5: Coach Todell Beckham. You know previously, what do you think
Speaker 5: has been the biggest difference in him over the last
Speaker 5: month where the production has gone way up and it's
Speaker 5: not as though he's playing one.
Speaker 10: Of the staffs.
Speaker 7: I think health. I think he's played a big part
Speaker 7: of it. He's relatively healthy, He's able to practice. So
Speaker 7: the confidence that he has to play at a certain
Speaker 7: level of the confidence we have to play him put
Speaker 7: him in certain situations.
Speaker 9: And did you feel like Ronnie really raised his level
Speaker 9: from steeks earlier? And how critical is his performance to
Speaker 9: you getting where you need to go on offense?
Speaker 10: He certainly fought through, you know.
Speaker 7: I mean I think that it's uh, the knee is
Speaker 7: going to continue to strengthen, you know, And I thought
Speaker 7: he worked awfully hard last week to get to get
Speaker 7: to that point and it's only going to continue to
Speaker 7: get stronger. As I just said, so certainly we need that.
Speaker 7: Certainly it's you know with all these teams that you
Speaker 7: play and then you get in the playoffs and we've
Speaker 7: gone gone a bunch of them, you know, from the
Speaker 7: Bengals to the Steelers to the Browns to the Charge
Speaker 7: to where you're like, who's lighting up at left end?
Speaker 7: You know, our left side. So it's a real challenge
Speaker 7: for anybody's left tackle. And it's real credit to Ronnie
Speaker 7: in terms of how hard he worked up to keep
Speaker 7: strengthening that and how hard he's working this week.
Speaker 9: That would you kind of describe against the continuity and
Speaker 9: Lamar and say like versus some of the other guys
Speaker 9: in now versus.
Speaker 7: You know, the first couple of years to see.
Speaker 10: Well, like anything, it's just practice reps, that's all it is.
Speaker 10: The more you're around.
Speaker 7: The guys that you have to have that rapport with,
Speaker 7: the connection is going to grow, the anticipation of where
Speaker 7: they're going to be, the communication how we call it,
Speaker 7: you know, in terms of targets, sometimes you're trying to
Speaker 7: design things where you want the ball that's there, and
Speaker 7: sometimes the ball just finds them, you know, just by progression.
Speaker 7: Sometimes it's it's not always by design, especially with a
Speaker 7: guy like Lamar, you know, some of the plays that
Speaker 7: he ends up making, it's not by design, it's where
Speaker 7: he ends up.
Speaker 10: So everybody be alive.
Speaker 8: Ty. There was a lot of talk this all season
Speaker 8: about you know, more saying that you're handed him the
Speaker 8: keys to the offense, talking about how he feels more
Speaker 8: empowered for what he can do with this offense. And
Speaker 8: how often do you kind of see him doing changing
Speaker 8: the plays there at the line, and how do you
Speaker 8: think that that has gone so far?
Speaker 10: It's been fine.
Speaker 7: It doesn't come up as as often as you would think,
Speaker 7: but when it does come up, he has the authority
Speaker 7: to do that, you know, in terms of within the
Speaker 7: scheme of what we're doing or the concept itself. Certain
Speaker 7: concepts lend the more flexibility to that I don't even
Speaker 7: know if that's the right word, but lends itself to
Speaker 7: where he has the better change things. But most of
Speaker 7: the time we work through that during the week in
Speaker 7: terms of what he likes.
Speaker 10: And doesn't like.
Speaker 7: And there's not one constant up that if Lamart doesn't like,
Speaker 7: we don't run it. I mean, I ask him as
Speaker 7: the week goes on, like you know, depending on it
Speaker 7: could be a shot, could be a quick game, could
Speaker 7: be anything that's in there, like, let's go through them.
Speaker 7: Do you not feel comfortable with this? And if you don't,
Speaker 7: then we take it out. We don't need more plays.
Speaker 7: We need to execute better.
Speaker 6: Be some deep shots against the rams. How much of
Speaker 6: that was by virtue of the opponent you were facing
Speaker 6: into seeing opportunities for that, versus coming out of the
Speaker 6: buy and seeing your offense in a better position to
Speaker 6: take more.
Speaker 2: Of those shots.
Speaker 10: Sometimes it just presents itself.
Speaker 7: Sometimes you have those called in other games and the
Speaker 7: ball doesn't find that spot, ends up a check down
Speaker 7: or ends up you have a breakdown in protection. So
Speaker 7: to the naked eye may feel like we took more shots,
Speaker 7: and I'd have to go back and look at it,
Speaker 7: but we certainly have the same amount within reasons each
Speaker 7: game when you're looking at screens, get the ball out,
Speaker 7: rhythm throws, movements, play actions and drop backs. Try to
Speaker 7: stay within a certain window the best we can. Certain
Speaker 7: games go another way than others. You know, like I said,
Speaker 7: sometimes the ball finds and you know, I mean, did
Speaker 7: we go into the game anticipating that many throws? No?
Speaker 7: Did we anticipate two lengthy two minute drives that are
Speaker 7: gonna skew that, that are gonna make it look a
Speaker 7: little bit more like you know that we were throwing
Speaker 7: it more of and we were a little bit, but
Speaker 7: not to that extent. How we had eighteen plays till
Speaker 7: we had that twelve play before halftime. So sometimes by
Speaker 7: design and sometimes by protection coverage you know, allows itself,
Speaker 7: you know, for the ball to find that some of
Speaker 7: the other plays, when Lamar moves around, it lends itself
Speaker 7: to that.
Speaker 11: By a drive like the one lay regulation or needed
Speaker 11: a score and kind of get up to get the
Speaker 11: two after that seem from.
Speaker 2: The confidence state board st to do that to keep spot.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 7: First of all, I think Lamar is First of all,
Speaker 7: he's already very confident in his ability. And I don't
Speaker 7: mean that over confident. He loves playing football. I mean
Speaker 7: he's one of the rare guys I've been around. There's
Speaker 7: guys that like football. He loves football, he loves to play,
Speaker 7: so those moments never get too big for him. Ever,
Speaker 7: from what I've seen, I should never say that. Hell
Speaker 7: of what have I been here thirteen games? I mean,
Speaker 7: so hell it should never. It's a pretty short stay
Speaker 7: but it doesn't feel that way. I do think that
Speaker 7: the more often you're able to have success, certainly it
Speaker 7: builds confidence with your ability to feel like you know
Speaker 7: you're never out of it, I guess would be the
Speaker 7: way to say that. So, I mean, obviously the way
Speaker 7: it turned out was I mean, I don't know, I've
Speaker 7: been doing this thirty something years and you can count
Speaker 7: on one, maybe two hands a number of times you
Speaker 7: have a game like that. I mean pretty cool. I mean,
Speaker 7: you don't what the night didend because the next day
Speaker 7: you're on to the next team and you're like, well,
Speaker 7: it's over.
Speaker 10: You gotta be kidding me. Can I enjoy this?
Speaker 7: Can we get a week now? That would have been
Speaker 7: really cool going on the bye week right now. You
Speaker 7: could have enjoyed it a lot longer than that. But
Speaker 7: it's like, okay, it is over. Great, But that was
Speaker 7: that was unbelievable. Credit to our players and their execution
Speaker 7: down the stretch. Obviously didn't feel like that in first
Speaker 7: and second down. Didn't feel like that execution was at
Speaker 7: high level, but we certainly came back on that third down.
Speaker 7: So I wrote it to your time with Odell before
Speaker 7: compared to what you see with him now, just physically
Speaker 7: and his abilities to receivers, he looked.
Speaker 10: Like the same guy that you knew before. Is it different?
Speaker 10: What do you see? Well, I think I said this
Speaker 10: early on when he came. You know, he's up.
Speaker 7: He's always been a highly intelligent football player, understands the game,
Speaker 7: outstanding balance and body control tracking the football, which you
Speaker 7: still see. You still see that, like with any player,
Speaker 7: you know, over time, you know, your body gets older
Speaker 7: and it's the way it is, I mean, but he
Speaker 7: still has it and you see it every day when
Speaker 7: he's out there practicing the way he moves explosiveness. But
Speaker 7: you can certainly see, like I said, guys that are crafty,
Speaker 7: guys that are great at tracking the ball, balance and
Speaker 7: body control, they never lose that. They never lose that
Speaker 7: part of like their game. And he still has that.
Speaker 6: Savoring the Rams game a little bit longer, the two
Speaker 6: point conversion to play that Lamar made on that Your
Speaker 6: thoughts when you look back on that play on.
Speaker 10: Film, Well, what's interesting is you know you don't.
Speaker 7: Give it due justice when it's at full speed because
Speaker 7: you don't always see. And it's the same thing with
Speaker 7: the throws when you're under duress. You might not see
Speaker 7: to the naked eye that there was a d lineman
Speaker 7: in your face. You might not see what exactly like
Speaker 7: to me, it worked just like we designed it. We
Speaker 7: blocked that thing perfect, got out there a shark ronrock,
Speaker 7: but didn't like that went there and let you.
Speaker 10: On, how did that look like?
Speaker 2: Crap?
Speaker 7: And he made a hell of a play him and
Speaker 7: Jay like, I'm serious with naked eye, you're all all
Speaker 7: fired up. Hey we ran this and you look back.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, guyus could run anything. He's ran around me
Speaker 7: to play. I mean, and I'm joking, but there's some
Speaker 7: of that, you know, was really good route by Jay,
Speaker 7: and you know, we got a little loose with the
Speaker 7: protection that he had to step up there, and you
Speaker 7: know what I mean. And I've been on the other
Speaker 7: side of that where you don't get the two point
Speaker 7: conversion and they go down and kick a field goal,
Speaker 7: and that was the difference that margin right there. I mean, Wow,
Speaker 7: what a tremendous play by both those guys. And you know,
Speaker 7: obviously was a big part of us winning the game.
Speaker 7: It's just the way it.
Speaker 8: Is, Todd, I know you with pat Riccard, He's he's
Speaker 8: listened to a full back pick kind of extended as
Speaker 8: as a tight end. But you've heard over the years
Speaker 8: about the fullback position. I mean, do you think that
Speaker 8: will always be a part of a football or do
Speaker 8: you think that is still one position that could ultimately
Speaker 8: kind of down.
Speaker 7: Well, I think you said he's not really a full
Speaker 7: back because we don't line him up there very much
Speaker 7: for a number of reasons. Why he lined up a
Speaker 7: little bit more there last year when when Oliver was here.
Speaker 10: A little bit.
Speaker 7: Different when you have you know, you know, when you
Speaker 7: end up with like maybe a blocking tight end a
Speaker 7: little bit more in terms of a sea gap area.
Speaker 7: But so he's more of a tight end. But you know,
Speaker 7: you know, teams that are using full backs. I think
Speaker 7: that's where our guys have done a great job in
Speaker 7: the run game in terms of utilizing his strengths because
Speaker 7: now you're seeing teams that are using full backs, they're
Speaker 7: using them more. As you know, they're they're not as
Speaker 7: big as Pat. I mean, let's let's be real, honestly,
Speaker 7: they're more athletic guys you can do more with and
Speaker 7: that that hold on scratch that cut off every camera,
Speaker 7: all right, Pat is very capable. I'm just saying that
Speaker 7: there's just different skill sets. I'll just put it that way,
Speaker 7: all right. So and we're fire up the pats here. Goddamn,
Speaker 7: I gotta go back, you know. Gee, So we're fired
Speaker 7: up Pats here. It just the days of that part
Speaker 7: of it. The game is changing, and it's changing from
Speaker 7: the levels below. Same with your tight ends. You know,
Speaker 7: guys that are more blocking tight ends are playing tackle
Speaker 7: or defense. You see more air raid wise playing tight end,
Speaker 7: more route running, ball catch, and that's also you you
Speaker 7: don't have fullbacks. That's what Pat wasn't like he was
Speaker 7: a dealer there. You're you're having makeshift guys in those positions.
Speaker 10: So it's just but fired up. We had him. He's
Speaker 10: done a great job and we've used him a lot more.
Speaker 1: Like I said in line, that was OC Todd Mulkin.
Speaker 1: Next up is defensive coordinator Mike McDonald.
Speaker 12: Good to see everybody, What do you got? I can't
Speaker 12: be this easy obviously. Jacksonville last year was a tough
Speaker 12: way to the end that game. We didn't get a
Speaker 12: chance to ask you after the Cleveland game and how
Speaker 12: that kind of ended in the forty quarter.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you guys are usually good. You know, quarter one
Speaker 11: through quarter four, But when there have been those falloffs
Speaker 11: in the fourth quarter, has it been easy to pinpoint
Speaker 11: what has kind of contributed to those those sudden collapses.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, so talking about the Cleveland game, Uh, we're
Speaker 13: in a two minute situation and then at some point
Speaker 13: it really becomes a four minute situation, you know, when
Speaker 13: time kind of goes back on their side and they're
Speaker 13: trying to kick a field goal. So are our mind
Speaker 13: kind of shifts in that in that particular situation. The
Speaker 13: Jacksonville game last year was a straight up, Hey, they
Speaker 13: got four downs, they got plenty of time to go
Speaker 13: down and score. We got to stop them and that
Speaker 13: you know, with that game, we had a we got
Speaker 13: them to a third and long, you know, had two
Speaker 13: downs to try to get them to fourth down, and
Speaker 13: you know we didn't didn't make those plays to make it.
Speaker 13: I think when you when you're looking at you know,
Speaker 13: fourth quarter drives to win the game, you're not really
Speaker 13: thinking in terms of the calls and plays. You're thinking
Speaker 13: in players of players and matchups. And my guys understand,
Speaker 13: you know, it's hard to stop a team before down.
Speaker 13: So a lot of times it's a takeaway or a
Speaker 13: sack that you know, it leads to victories of the situation.
Speaker 13: So our mindset is to go out and play our
Speaker 13: technique and be aggressive, and you know, obviously there's a
Speaker 13: strategy involved and what the things that the offenses are
Speaker 13: doing and the things that we're you know, kind of
Speaker 13: countering with on defense. And that changed from game to game,
Speaker 13: but the philosopy is always the same. We want to
Speaker 13: be we want to be in a tack boat and
Speaker 13: stay aggressive and ultimately, you know, it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 13: take a play, you know, to win those types of games.
Speaker 5: Impressed for you with Kyle Hamilton's toughness me tweaks Ane
Speaker 5: comes back in tweaked it again. He said he wanted
Speaker 5: to come back in until you guys set him down.
Speaker 5: And he's already practicing this week. I mean, just beyond
Speaker 5: his talents, with which are a given. I mean, what
Speaker 5: does that say about someone just wanting to be out.
Speaker 10: There like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you said, I mean it's he's a tough guy.
Speaker 13: And uh, you know, just I think, you know, talking
Speaker 13: to him about what he was thinking through the situation,
Speaker 13: and it was, you know, he's a It was a
Speaker 13: funny story to hear about it, you know, because it
Speaker 13: was the there was a play before where he hit
Speaker 13: you know, he tackled the crosser and then come back,
Speaker 13: didn't really realize it was banged up until later. Probably
Speaker 13: had some adrenaline going in that situation. But yeah, he's
Speaker 13: a he's a tough dude.
Speaker 6: With Trevor Lawrence, obviously, his ability to run is something
Speaker 6: to monitor. He was coming off the ankle injury before.
Speaker 6: When when you look back at the film, did you
Speaker 6: see see a quarterback that can still very much hurt
Speaker 6: you with his legs and and that's something you have
Speaker 6: to focus on this week.
Speaker 13: Uh, yeah, definitely, he wouldn't have guessed that he heard
Speaker 13: his ankle, you know, the week prior.
Speaker 2: So just like we're talking about with Kyle, you.
Speaker 13: Know, obviously a tough player and uh we're willing to
Speaker 13: stand in there and and take hits and make throws
Speaker 13: and try to extend plays and even you know, doesn't
Speaker 13: slide much down the field either, but very competitive player,
Speaker 13: very tough.
Speaker 2: Definitely speaks to, you know, type of guy.
Speaker 13: He has come back so quick and not really shown
Speaker 13: any signs of weakness like.
Speaker 5: During the five week John Harball City's not at all
Speaker 5: concern but unch defense on Sunday.
Speaker 11: Obviously the second half you shut down there in the game.
Speaker 8: The first half you probably give it one like where
Speaker 8: where is that R defense at?
Speaker 9: Do you have any concerns?
Speaker 11: And how you know?
Speaker 2: Do you see needferent improvements there? You know down the
Speaker 2: sum scrap, I don't.
Speaker 13: I'm not gonna call it a concern, but absolutely absolutely
Speaker 13: area for improvement. It goes with every aspect of the defense,
Speaker 13: right you're always evaluating it. Shoot, we're doing it in
Speaker 13: game making adjustments of front tructures, want to play personnel groups.
Speaker 13: The rams are a little unique in how they in
Speaker 13: terms of what we've seen throughout the year. So making
Speaker 13: sure we're playing the plays that we need to be
Speaker 13: able to play, and then he turned the tape onto
Speaker 13: a lot of it is we're not calling different things
Speaker 13: throughout the game, but how we're playing the plays then
Speaker 13: guys getting used to it.
Speaker 2: There's something to be said about that.
Speaker 13: And obviously schematically you gotta be able to adapt as
Speaker 13: games go on as well.
Speaker 2: So we're not I'm not We're never concerned about anything.
Speaker 13: You're always thinking about Okay, through the lens of where
Speaker 13: are we where do we want to be?
Speaker 2: How do we get there? And that's that's how we're
Speaker 2: approaching it.
Speaker 9: Like with you know, Kyle does so much and he's
Speaker 9: so versatile. If he's not on the field, Like, what
Speaker 9: does that affect you at all? Schematically? I mean, but
Speaker 9: I guess you know, what's the difference between having a
Speaker 9: guy like that on the field.
Speaker 11: And it's not.
Speaker 13: Well, he's like you said, I mean, he's such a
Speaker 13: unique player, so you can use him uniquely and if
Speaker 13: he's not out there, not just not one guy is
Speaker 13: going to be able to do the things that he
Speaker 13: can do. Now, we have people that can go in
Speaker 13: and perform at high level what you've seen, but you know,
Speaker 13: it probably won't be just one person filling you know,
Speaker 13: the roles that we'd have him to play. So you
Speaker 13: can get there through personnels and different calls and things,
Speaker 13: you know, to uh, kind of alleviate the stress of
Speaker 13: not having him out there.
Speaker 4: How involved do.
Speaker 6: You get during the week knowing how he's feeling and
Speaker 6: responding so you can prepare for you know, X Y
Speaker 6: or z if depending on his health.
Speaker 13: Yeah, anytime someone's kind of up in the air, you
Speaker 13: you kind of have to have a contingency plan, and
Speaker 13: I think that goes the same for really every position. Hey,
Speaker 13: what happens if so and so breaks a you know,
Speaker 13: a chin strap. You know who's going in, what's your
Speaker 13: backup plan? How does the game plan adjust? I mean
Speaker 13: it's it's impossible to cover all those bases, but you
Speaker 13: try as much as you can and try to think
Speaker 13: through some of those things. So when it does happen,
Speaker 13: it's kind of like you've been practicing it all week.
Speaker 13: You kind of know what direction you need to go,
Speaker 13: and coaches do a great job of input on who's
Speaker 13: ready for what, and you know, in this situation, we have,
Speaker 13: you know, the whole week to kind of work our
Speaker 13: contingency plans on how everything shakes out. So it's a
Speaker 13: little different when it happens in real time, but yeah,
Speaker 13: you're definitely always thinking about those things.
Speaker 11: All right, Thanks Mike, Okay, all.
Speaker 2: Right, thank you.
Speaker 1: That was defensive coordinator Mike McDonald. We also heard from
Speaker 1: Todd Monkin and Chris Horton. Now the Ravens will play
Speaker 1: Sunday on NBC and that game kicks off at eight
Speaker 1: twenty pm against Jacksonville