Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Presspass podcast. The Ravens brought the
Speaker 1: new year in in style with a fifty six to
Speaker 1: nineteen win over the Miami Dolphins to clinch the number
Speaker 1: one overall seed in the AFC and an AFC North Championship.
Speaker 1: It was quite the scene inside Mt. Bay Stadium as
Speaker 1: the Ravens just delivered a commanding, dominant performance to take
Speaker 1: down one of the other best teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1: After the game, we had a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harvill, who discussed what this win means
Speaker 1: to the scene.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for being here. I hope it was entertaining
Speaker 2: and fun. Couldn't be more proud of his football team,
Speaker 2: could be more proud.
Speaker 3: Of the fans. Man.
Speaker 4: Our fans were there, They were into it.
Speaker 3: It was loud.
Speaker 2: It was loud from the opening bell. Even with the
Speaker 2: adversity early in the game. Our fans didn't didn't blink. Okay,
Speaker 2: they did a great job. I'm proud of them, Proud
Speaker 2: of the team. I feel like, I feel like I
Speaker 2: don't know if I've seen a more impressive performance in
Speaker 2: a game. I'm not sure I've seen a more impressive
Speaker 2: performance in a season to date, and obviously we have
Speaker 2: a lot more to do.
Speaker 4: We got a lot of work to do in front
Speaker 4: of us.
Speaker 2: But it's a mature football team and they understand that,
Speaker 2: they understand the week the week that it's a one
Speaker 2: week challenge. And I just think the way they've approached
Speaker 2: every single game this year, from the beginning on through versity, travel,
Speaker 2: quality of opponents we've had to play, to step up
Speaker 2: and play the way they had and to put an
Speaker 2: exclamation point on it, triple exclamation points on it with
Speaker 2: a performance like this pretty much a well rounded, perfect
Speaker 2: performance like that after the opening bell even that, to
Speaker 2: bounce back from the beginning of the game, the way
Speaker 2: they did it just it says about who they are.
Speaker 2: And I just have so much respect for him. So
Speaker 2: what question do you have?
Speaker 5: Last week you called in Lamar Jackson's performance in the
Speaker 5: MVP performance, what would you say of this performance in
Speaker 5: this season?
Speaker 4: By yeah, I'd say it's even better.
Speaker 2: I mean, this performance was even better than last week,
Speaker 2: you know, And he played he played really a great
Speaker 2: football game. I mean he played a football game. In
Speaker 2: terms of the passing game. He says on point the
Speaker 2: pass protection was fantastic, I mean, that's a really good
Speaker 2: pass rush. Hope Chubb is Okay, be praying for him.
Speaker 2: He's he's one of the best players in the National
Speaker 2: Football League. He was a major contention for us. But
Speaker 2: our offensive line just played outstanding. The thing I want
Speaker 2: to mention too while I'm thinking about it, depth, The
Speaker 2: depth we showed. We had a lot of guys out
Speaker 2: in this game, coming off that physical game last week,
Speaker 2: guys that couldn't end up going couldn't make it for
Speaker 2: our corners. Where our corners stepped up the way they did.
Speaker 2: Receivers like Bateman to come out and play the way
Speaker 2: he did. It was just a very impressive performance. Ben
Speaker 2: Cleveland came out and played great. And there's a spiritual
Speaker 2: depth to this team as well. Okay, that under underlines
Speaker 2: all that you know, and I think that kind of
Speaker 2: where the real power comes from.
Speaker 6: John, John, were you starting to consider continuency plays that
Speaker 6: corner there, especially when.
Speaker 4: The worthy went over, Well, yes, you play the guys
Speaker 4: you got.
Speaker 2: I mean, Darryl was was back up for an emergency,
Speaker 2: so they told us if we had an emergency, he
Speaker 2: could go back in.
Speaker 7: So John Big playing.
Speaker 8: The big play in the game that fourth and said
Speaker 8: in the two minut dal for out time that you
Speaker 8: went for What went into the decision to.
Speaker 3: Go for it at that point?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean I feel good about our offense
Speaker 2: first of all. I mean I felt like we were
Speaker 2: really doing some good things. And then the kick was tough,
Speaker 2: the win was coming out of that end, and it
Speaker 2: was just gonna be a real challenging kick. I thought
Speaker 2: we had at least as good a chance of making
Speaker 2: the fourth down as we probably. I mean, Tuck's the
Speaker 2: best in the business. Tuck was already out there, you know,
Speaker 2: did that surprise anybody? But he probably would have made it.
Speaker 2: But we had a great chance, I thought, to get
Speaker 2: it and turn out to be.
Speaker 9: The right call down so many bodies in your running backs,
Speaker 9: I mean, with JK and Keaton being lost with the year,
Speaker 9: what do you make of especially Justice today kind of
Speaker 9: stepping out of his utility role and rising above in
Speaker 9: a couple of different roles for you.
Speaker 2: To Yeah, like we said, I mean Justice is a
Speaker 2: starting running back too, you know.
Speaker 4: And he played that way.
Speaker 2: I mean he was just he was romping and stomping, man,
Speaker 2: I mean, just big play after big play, so impressive.
Speaker 4: He's he's that kind of back I think.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, those guys kind of not took
Speaker 2: it personally so much as but you know, they they're
Speaker 2: great backscus a great back How about mel goes in
Speaker 2: at the end of the game and runs the ball
Speaker 2: the way does you know?
Speaker 4: And sometimes guys just just they work. They work so hard.
Speaker 2: So many players in this league work so hard, and
Speaker 2: then you know, an opportunity doesn't come.
Speaker 4: But when an opportunity comes.
Speaker 2: To see guys step up the way they have, like
Speaker 2: Justice did and other guys have, it's just, as the
Speaker 2: coach man, it just that's everything.
Speaker 4: Massively good.
Speaker 2: I mean to me, that was kind of a part
Speaker 2: of it that we kept saying, if we can start
Speaker 2: hitting the deep ball, you know, we can make those
Speaker 2: big plays, that's gonna that's gonna be a backbreaker, you know,
Speaker 2: And it turned out to be a backbreaker today.
Speaker 4: It was great to see.
Speaker 3: This team.
Speaker 7: You know, you play next week, you've wrapped up the title.
Speaker 10: Have you given any thoughts with them? Lamar Jackson will
Speaker 10: play next week.
Speaker 2: I've given a lot of thought to it, uh, And
Speaker 2: it was all kind of hypothetical until just now. And
Speaker 2: I'm sure I'll talk to Lamar and I'm sure he's
Speaker 2: gonna want to play, but you know we're gonna have
Speaker 2: to talk about that and decide what we want to do.
Speaker 2: You know, you can only you can only take six
Speaker 2: players out of the equation. You know there's gonna be
Speaker 2: injuries anyway, So you know, it's not like the preseason.
Speaker 2: This is your you got your playing your team, except
Speaker 2: for whoever you end up taking out. Uh, so we
Speaker 2: just gram up to have the conversation. We have not
Speaker 2: made any decision there yet.
Speaker 3: You mentioned the way you've played against good teams.
Speaker 7: I mean, for the most part, you've not just won those.
Speaker 5: Games, dominated those games.
Speaker 11: That's trying to say about rising to the moment or
Speaker 11: whatever quality there.
Speaker 2: Is in this team for that Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 2: think I'm not sure exactly how to define it, but
Speaker 2: I think you know it when you see it, right,
Speaker 2: And uh, that's pretty remarkable with these I don't think
Speaker 2: it's ever been done in the history of the National
Speaker 2: Football League what these guys have done in that sense.
Speaker 2: So it is it's it's it's amazing. It's something that
Speaker 2: they'll have for the rest of their careers.
Speaker 4: We all will.
Speaker 2: But uh, there's a lot of work to be done still,
Speaker 2: and we're looking forward to the challenge.
Speaker 8: How does the field to have them field fans down
Speaker 8: secure through through the ABC playoffs?
Speaker 2: It feels great, you know. But you know we're good
Speaker 2: on the road too, you know, But no, we won't.
Speaker 2: We like being here. I mean, our fans are incredible,
Speaker 2: you know, and it's a great place to be and
Speaker 2: it's loud, and it's fun and and all that, but
Speaker 2: you know, you gotta go play well. So between now
Speaker 2: and then, our focus is going to be on preparation
Speaker 2: and playing a great football game next Sunday against Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: coming in here, and then preparing for the first playoff
Speaker 2: game that we play in the Divisional round and playing
Speaker 2: our best football in that game. That's everything we do
Speaker 2: is gonna be locked in and focused towards that, and
Speaker 2: I know our guys are gonna be looking at it
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 7: Hold on a fight, Well, we'll do two more.
Speaker 12: Childs goes first, Childs and go ahead, child.
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true, And you look at I'm old enough, John.
Speaker 3: You just talked about whole field.
Speaker 8: How crucial was it to earn that extra maybe a
Speaker 8: couple of weeks, so rest of repreparation for the guys
Speaker 8: that do need it.
Speaker 4: It's going to be valuable, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, our guys are going to keep working hard
Speaker 2: and preparing to be ready to play. They'll practice, they'll lift,
Speaker 2: they'll do all the things they gotta do. But that
Speaker 2: extra week is going to be very valuable.
Speaker 4: You have a mission this speed.
Speaker 10: So what did you learn from twenty nineteen when you
Speaker 10: had this?
Speaker 13: And do you call other coaches and talk to them
Speaker 13: and ask any advice or suggestions for you?
Speaker 14: I do?
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's I mean, and he's my guy.
Speaker 2: It's kind of hard to call him though, because he's
Speaker 2: you know, he's also in the playoffs, so he probably
Speaker 2: don't won't give me any good answers. I'll probably talk
Speaker 2: to coach Belichick, you know, But really, I think you
Speaker 2: just got to look at to talk to you guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, talk to guys like Rowe, talk to guys
Speaker 2: like Lamar and and come up with a plan. And
Speaker 2: the biggest thing is gonna be preparation, you know, just
Speaker 2: the way they prepare for that first game.
Speaker 4: That's it. We remember nineteen.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not something we're gonna forget and it's
Speaker 2: gonna be something that's gonna we're not gonna take it
Speaker 2: for granted, not that we ever would, but it's it's
Speaker 2: it's one more thing that that kind of makes you
Speaker 2: who you are at this point in time. So we
Speaker 2: haven't forgotten that.
Speaker 1: That's that was that coach John Harbaugh. We also talked
Speaker 1: with quarterback Lamar Jackson. Lamar threw five touchdowns in this
Speaker 1: victory and kind of put an explanation point on his
Speaker 1: season and likely wrapped up his second MVP. Lamar talked
Speaker 1: about this game and his focus going into the postseason.
Speaker 4: Why you seem.
Speaker 8: To you even more excited for stupid than you work
Speaker 8: with the five you you had?
Speaker 4: Are you just locked in?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 12: What is it emotions that you were more emotional and
Speaker 12: more suits touchdown?
Speaker 7: I'm yeah, that's my brother.
Speaker 15: So every anytime he on the field, i'm'a be excited
Speaker 15: for anything he do.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm a big static regardless any of my teammates.
Speaker 15: You know, I'm that type of player no matter what's
Speaker 15: going on, what's the situation, you do something nice on
Speaker 15: the field, I'm gonna I'm gonna be happy for him.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 16: That's all, Laura, what's going through your mind when you're
Speaker 16: hearing the MVP chants from the crowd throughout the game?
Speaker 15: Uh, you need to finish this game. Like I'm I'm
Speaker 15: not really paying attention to the the to the chance.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 7: Uh, last year we was.
Speaker 15: The score was looking like that, you know, halftime and
Speaker 15: stuff like that in third quarter. Then those gods started
Speaker 15: making plays and we didn't do anything, you know, but
Speaker 15: all the only thing was on my mind was to
Speaker 15: finish the game.
Speaker 7: Man, today we did, mar.
Speaker 8: How do you balance the excitement over what you guys
Speaker 8: have accomplished with you knowing that you still have a
Speaker 8: lot that you want to get.
Speaker 15: Out, knowing that we still have a lot to get
Speaker 15: going on. You know, we uh got to finish the
Speaker 15: season the right way.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 15: We had one obstacle. We finished that obstacle. We got
Speaker 15: still as next week, you know. So that's how I'm
Speaker 15: that's how I'm staying focused this season. Just take it
Speaker 15: in one game at a time, Like I've been preaching
Speaker 15: you guys all season.
Speaker 16: Why wasn't too how important wasn't to you know, win
Speaker 16: this game, get the top seed? You know, the the
Speaker 16: road of the Super Bowl runs through you know, Baltimore
Speaker 16: obviously how important one could get it today?
Speaker 7: Uh, it was very important. You know.
Speaker 15: We had uh a lot of guys you know, banged up,
Speaker 15: you know, nipped up with injuries, guys who couldn't play.
Speaker 15: We had guys who stepped up or knew the situation
Speaker 15: and they played lights out, you.
Speaker 7: Know all phases.
Speaker 15: Uh, we all know it's important for us to get
Speaker 15: this win, and and we did just that.
Speaker 3: You are it's very tough when uh Mark Andrews went down.
Speaker 14: Yeah, can you.
Speaker 16: Describe them Bornsville having played like Charitie Caller and they
Speaker 16: say likely to step up the way they did.
Speaker 15: Yeah, man, we we need guys, well, I I believe
Speaker 15: are at the cost a door. Great job at you know,
Speaker 15: going after guys who who gonna have that raven in
Speaker 15: 'em already, you know, establishing 'em since college and probably
Speaker 15: use football stuff like that. Uh hatch off of those
Speaker 15: guys for bringing players like Charlie and Likely and you know,
Speaker 15: and those guys just football players and they short you know,
Speaker 15: day in and day out.
Speaker 10: Mark, does that.
Speaker 8: Field you f you know, you clinch the number one
Speaker 8: T five in two thousand nineteen.
Speaker 10: Yeah, does it feel any different.
Speaker 8: Today clinching in this you know, how do you do
Speaker 8: that compared to to when you clinches this in two thousand.
Speaker 10: Nineteen at all?
Speaker 15: Uh, the only difference is I'm older. That's the only
Speaker 15: difference in different guys. Who's a part of this team now?
Speaker 15: So that's the only difference.
Speaker 8: Oh right, but you, uh, how do you you know
Speaker 8: you talk a lot about being the underdog.
Speaker 12: Well, how do you keep the underdog mentality after you
Speaker 12: struggle comes to fail?
Speaker 15: Because we know the the favorites on the favorite because
Speaker 15: of what they've been doing. Uh, we been the underdog
Speaker 15: all season, even all season, you know, we like to
Speaker 15: keep it that way and just keep that on our mindset.
Speaker 15: We don't fall into the the narratives of things changing.
Speaker 15: You know, just last week we were about to get
Speaker 15: toe up. Uh you know however they said it. But
Speaker 15: our team, you know, we we take that to heart
Speaker 15: and we go out there and play football, and that's
Speaker 15: what we know we did, That's what we supposed to do.
Speaker 15: You know, we can't go out there thinking since we
Speaker 15: the favorites, teams just gonna buy down and just play.
Speaker 7: How we want them to play. You gotta go take
Speaker 7: it and that that's what we do.
Speaker 12: Well Mark for you personally, how important has it been
Speaker 12: to finish this regular season strong, especially after missing the
Speaker 12: last two decembers.
Speaker 7: Uh F, I just thank God for that, you know.
Speaker 15: Uh I should have started to press off by thanking God,
Speaker 15: you know from what you say. You know, the last
Speaker 15: two season, I wasn't able to, you know, fight with
Speaker 15: my team. You know, I had to do it from
Speaker 15: sidelines and just cheer God's on. But I'm grateful for
Speaker 15: the opportunity, you know, and we numb I want to
Speaker 15: see now, you know, we just gotta finish the season
Speaker 15: how we supposed to.
Speaker 9: Oh Wright, you mentioned to the beginning of the season, get
Speaker 9: the end and he's the offense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you pre few people were all cool things like that.
Speaker 7: I hope you just started to comfort.
Speaker 10: Lee on the confidence at this point in the season.
Speaker 7: I'm very confident.
Speaker 15: I I I feel like sometimes I try to let plays,
Speaker 15: certain plays on the field play out, but sometimes I gotta,
Speaker 15: you know, make a check here and there. And uh
Speaker 15: that Pastor Odell was one of the prime examples. You
Speaker 15: know that that wonderfu catch he did, you know, but
Speaker 15: me just checking just saying it was man coverage and
Speaker 15: stuff like that. Uh, just having the freedom to do
Speaker 15: without you know, what I see or do whatever I
Speaker 15: want to when I see things out there on the field.
Speaker 7: That's great for me.
Speaker 10: Morl kind of rhythm.
Speaker 17: Will we start talking bunking on the field late in
Speaker 17: the game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's crazy. I ain't nothing.
Speaker 15: I wasn't expecting to see him til we got in
Speaker 15: the locker room. But for him to be on the field,
Speaker 15: I'm like, this, man is funny.
Speaker 12: What kind of rhythm was he in as a play?
Speaker 15: Called man that? That's the type of game I like.
Speaker 15: You know, he was dialing it up, you know, being aggressive. Uh,
Speaker 15: but he was letting me be the decision maker. You know,
Speaker 15: I can be aggressive or just take what the defense
Speaker 15: give us. And you know it was hand to hand
Speaker 15: with that. And that's pretty much how I liked the
Speaker 15: game to go. And he did a great job today.
Speaker 17: La marn Fine touched down passes perfect Casher rating.
Speaker 3: Did you feel like you were in a in a
Speaker 3: zone out there?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 15: I feel like I feel like if if you could
Speaker 15: tell you in his zone, you're not in his zone,
Speaker 15: you know. So I was just trying to focus on
Speaker 15: a play, you know, whatever play he called, just focus
Speaker 15: on that play. You know, I got a ball in
Speaker 15: my hand, made something happen, you know, just take advantage
Speaker 15: of what the defense gave me.
Speaker 7: And that's pretty much what it was. So yeah, I
Speaker 7: was just locked in.
Speaker 1: I was quarterback Lamar Jackson. We also heard from linebacker
Speaker 1: Rookwan Smith, who came up with a one handed interception
Speaker 1: in the win. Brokamo was the the locker room seemed
Speaker 1: like after excused be a a big win like this.
Speaker 18: Honestly, I got the tail end of it because I
Speaker 18: was out trying to make sure, like some of the
Speaker 18: fans that get out here don't have many chances and stuff,
Speaker 18: trying to sign things and just take pictures along the edges.
Speaker 17: So I was more so doing that.
Speaker 18: So I missed it, but you know I heard about it,
Speaker 18: and then the after mask, you know a lot of
Speaker 18: really good pictures with the guys and just you know,
Speaker 18: celebrating the hard work, but knowing we obviously got a
Speaker 18: long ways to go.
Speaker 12: Real qull what you're saying about this team over the
Speaker 12: last six days, you got the traction with prestments in
Speaker 12: New Year's played Serrancesco Miami and I have scored them
Speaker 12: eighty nine to thirty eight.
Speaker 17: Honestly, man, I just think, uh, it's just adversity.
Speaker 18: Look at versity in the face and like I always
Speaker 18: tell the guys, chin up, chest out.
Speaker 17: Like we don't bow down for anything. All you can do.
Speaker 18: People make excuses with adversity and we just produce. I'm
Speaker 18: in the result making business and the guys in the
Speaker 18: locker room is in the same type of business. So
Speaker 18: regardless getting back at nine on what Tuesday, and then
Speaker 18: you know, having to role. But at the end of
Speaker 18: the day, life is not about excuses. It's about what
Speaker 18: you're gonna do and play the cards at You're a
Speaker 18: delt Man. That's how I lived my life and that's
Speaker 18: how the guys in the locker room role.
Speaker 8: But what adjustments did you make did the defense? I
Speaker 8: guess as the game went on, because I mean they
Speaker 8: were gauging you pretty good on first couple drives, but
Speaker 8: then you guys kind of locked in.
Speaker 7: What did you do to change that?
Speaker 17: Doing what we do?
Speaker 18: And I think that's just getting back to the fundamentals,
Speaker 18: And you know, hats off to those guys. They actually
Speaker 18: had a lot of you know, some good plays died
Speaker 18: up and you know that's credit them. Their coaches they
Speaker 18: get paid as well, and the players they get paid
Speaker 18: as well. So when you think about it from that perspective,
Speaker 18: we just had to settle down and do what we
Speaker 18: had to do. And you know, obviously turnovers help any game,
Speaker 18: So we just got to do we gotta do focus
Speaker 18: on all the little things and then we do that.
Speaker 17: Man with heard defense to move the ball on consistently broken.
Speaker 1: You think us three d into one head pick and
Speaker 1: just what you saw in that plight to get to it.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it was kind of funny because the one I
Speaker 18: think it was on the first or second drive when
Speaker 18: Ten caught it to our right on the on the
Speaker 18: Marlow one. I seen it then and I was like,
Speaker 18: I didn't get that fast enough. So I was like crap,
Speaker 18: like thinking about it, and I was like, if I
Speaker 18: get that again with the backfast and then I knew
Speaker 18: it had to be an inbreaking route, so I said,
Speaker 18: I'm just run and then if I ran, and I
Speaker 18: couldn't believe it, and then I seen it, I was like, crap,
Speaker 18: let me stick this arm.
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's what happened.
Speaker 6: You said last week in an interview that you have
Speaker 6: no doubt that Lamar's the most valuable player in this league.
Speaker 17: What was it Lake watching perform today year? Uh?
Speaker 18: Yeah, man, I was like a little kid at the
Speaker 18: movie theaters, except I didn't have popcorn, you know, but
Speaker 18: it was it was pretty sweet, man. And like you know,
Speaker 18: the guys of Warrior, you know, busses tail day in
Speaker 18: and day out, and you know, come out here, we
Speaker 18: at the bank.
Speaker 17: He know we have to protect the bank by any
Speaker 17: means necessary, and he did just that.
Speaker 18: And look what we are and we we go through him.
Speaker 18: So I'm just proud to be on this team and
Speaker 18: not going against him. I'll say that Rover Jump said.
Speaker 16: About this team that from top to body, you know,
Speaker 16: every week you come out, you're not only beating teams,
Speaker 16: you're dominating teams and the best teams in the NFL.
Speaker 16: That what allows this team to do that?
Speaker 17: I think it's just each and every person.
Speaker 18: And I try to tell the guys, look yourself in
Speaker 18: the mirror, know exactly who you are. And each and
Speaker 18: every person in our locker room know exactly who they
Speaker 18: are day in and day out, and we know what's
Speaker 18: on the line. Cause at the end of the day,
Speaker 18: I try to shift the mindset and knowing that guys
Speaker 18: were trying to take your livelihood away from you. When
Speaker 18: you truly think about it, what you're trying to do
Speaker 18: for your family, and when you think about that, man,
Speaker 18: and you play to the last whistle and give everything
Speaker 18: you got, and how talently we are, I think it
Speaker 18: just starts at the top as well and building the team.
Speaker 17: So I'm just grateful to be a part of it.
Speaker 18: And I just know at the end of the day,
Speaker 18: we'll go to war for each other and if we
Speaker 18: get knocked down, we getting right back up, and you're
Speaker 18: gonna have to do it over and over because that's
Speaker 18: the way we're built.
Speaker 10: What does Hope deil advantage mean? You know?
Speaker 17: For pretty bad the bank?
Speaker 18: Man, I never played here prior to coming here, never
Speaker 18: got a chance to play in Baltimore. But like hearing
Speaker 18: the fans here, man, this is an amazing atmosphere. I'm
Speaker 18: grateful to be here and it gets rocking, so I'm
Speaker 18: excited for whoever it is. Just know we're doing a
Speaker 18: chin up, chest out. The gotta come through the bank
Speaker 18: and we're gonna be ready by you what means necessary?
Speaker 10: I see what was it with the injuries? Pouling up
Speaker 10: on defense team.
Speaker 12: Like you guys, were these guys right for a while,
Speaker 12: but me king of a really good performance out there.
Speaker 17: I think that just goes back to adversity.
Speaker 18: You look adversity in the face and are you gonna
Speaker 18: fold or are you gonna stand up to it? And
Speaker 18: like I always say said that earlier, chin up, chest out,
Speaker 18: we have that mindset, so we look it right in
Speaker 18: the face and hey, it's not gonna make us.
Speaker 17: Fold at all. We're gonna go right through it.
Speaker 18: And if it knock us down, we're coming right back
Speaker 18: for it all because at the end of the day,
Speaker 18: that's how we're built and that's what we want.
Speaker 17: We want all the smoke by any means.
Speaker 16: Well, you talk about the toughness of Patrick Green, I
Speaker 16: mean you were helping him off.
Speaker 17: The field of one point on the turnover on downs.
Speaker 3: Just talk about his toughness.
Speaker 18: Yeah, man, Patrick Packlck's funny sometimes, but yeah, he's definitely
Speaker 18: a he's a tough guy. You know, we're all going
Speaker 18: through different things and what not. Him as well as
Speaker 18: you know guys throughout the defense. You know that's part
Speaker 18: of the season and that's what you know separates the
Speaker 18: frauds from the pretenders and all that, all of those things,
Speaker 18: and I thank him man, you know, he knowing what's
Speaker 18: at stake for himself, and he knowing how important he
Speaker 18: is to this defense of being able to just fight,
Speaker 18: play in and play out, because that truly determines who
Speaker 18: you are as a person, because hey, everything's not gonna
Speaker 18: be all flowers and cake every day. It's about when
Speaker 18: things get tough, how you stand up, how you look
Speaker 18: yourself in the mirror. And I know how I think,
Speaker 18: and I know how he thinks as well. No one
Speaker 18: that Hey, regardless, I'm gonna be here for each other
Speaker 18: because at the end of the day, that's what we have.
Speaker 12: Yeah, along those lines, to get a wild card round
Speaker 12: by maybe produced snapload next week.
Speaker 10: How important it.
Speaker 19: Is that for you for this team at this point
Speaker 19: in the season, eighteen game season perpective.
Speaker 18: Team season, Yeah, for sure, it's definitely gonna be important
Speaker 18: being able to uh get some get some rest with
Speaker 18: the wildcard win. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 18: we're gonna enjoy us tonight and regardless, like we're not
Speaker 18: an excuse making business. If it was Thursday, Hey, roll
Speaker 18: the ball out there. We're gonna be ready, concrete playground,
Speaker 18: wherever you want it. We're gonna be here, promise you.
Speaker 1: In the locker room, we heard from outside linebacker Dafe Oway,
Speaker 1: who had a sack in this game and talked about
Speaker 1: why this defense is the best.
Speaker 3: In the league.
Speaker 14: Would to say about this this defense, I mean, Miami,
Speaker 14: you know, came in with all these actlades, put up
Speaker 14: big numbers for this defensive because of this.
Speaker 13: Kind of reform, we number one now, like I feel like,
Speaker 13: you know, we had guys that were out, We had
Speaker 13: guys had to step up and play like crucial roles
Speaker 13: that didn't always get like the most represent it and
Speaker 13: they were still you know, we had stresses where you know,
Speaker 13: we had to bounce back. But we have such a
Speaker 13: resilient team, resilient guys, really resilient you know teammates. So
Speaker 13: you know, I, like I said, with number one defense,
Speaker 13: and I feel like, you know, we just proved it
Speaker 13: the past few weeks.
Speaker 11: You described with feeling on the on the sideline in
Speaker 11: the locker room. You guys seal you know, seal the gig,
Speaker 11: get the number one seed. We saw a little bit
Speaker 11: so far on social media about what the reaction was.
Speaker 4: Like in the locker room.
Speaker 7: But can you describe that for us?
Speaker 11: Just how satisfying it is knowing there's work to accomplish,
Speaker 11: but to accomplish what.
Speaker 10: You have so far.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's kind of like like I said, it's a
Speaker 13: brief signe.
Speaker 10: You know, damn, we just did it.
Speaker 13: You know, you gotta be able to sit back and
Speaker 13: you know, enjoy and you know, celebrate and thank give
Speaker 13: thanks to God for what we accomplished, because it's not easy.
Speaker 13: You gotta see it in seventeen weeks. No one is
Speaker 13: like us, No one has the record that we have,
Speaker 13: and there's one you champion, So it feels good. You
Speaker 13: gotta enjoy everything. Thank God for HER's giving us some
Speaker 13: days off, so after that we'll be ready for Steelers
Speaker 13: and ready to take him.
Speaker 10: I'm sorry.
Speaker 19: What was it like watching Lamar Jackson's play to day.
Speaker 13: The past few years? You know, it's not even just
Speaker 13: today or this season, you know, I just I see
Speaker 13: it every day. He's magical. I feel like he he
Speaker 13: sealed the MVP. Lamar has been to him, always been him,
Speaker 13: you know, when people didn't believe it and then when
Speaker 13: people believe it. So you know, I'm very proud of him. Right,
Speaker 13: he told us the beginning of this year that he
Speaker 13: got us, and you know there was no one that
Speaker 13: you know didn't believe him.
Speaker 10: So, you know, I'm proud of him.
Speaker 14: Along those lines, Lamor's talk all year about being locked
Speaker 14: in and kind of take keeping a singular mindset on
Speaker 14: what you guys wanna accomplish. How does he set the
Speaker 14: tone in that regard.
Speaker 1: No, and now you got the first round by and
Speaker 1: all that stuff.
Speaker 10: Yah, it's Lamar. Like once Lamar is locked in, everyone
Speaker 10: falls suits.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 10: It's like he's our QB.
Speaker 13: You know, he has such influence and like once, like
Speaker 13: once he really really understands.
Speaker 10: He knows that, like we all just gonna follow the lead.
Speaker 13: And if you could see it this here, like he's
Speaker 13: locked in, like he's throwing the ball, he's running like
Speaker 13: he's just trolling the whole offense. So you know, I'm
Speaker 13: very proud of him. I'm very proud of offense.
Speaker 3: Defense. This defense able to withstand.
Speaker 12: You know, it maintained a great performance out there, even
Speaker 12: though the injuries keep coming and get coming and.
Speaker 13: Coming, like next man up mentality, we got dogs on
Speaker 13: this team in every position. That's like first, second, first string,
Speaker 13: second string, third team. We got dogs. So one guy
Speaker 13: goes down, one guy gets hurt, we got next dog
Speaker 13: coming in. So real the number one defense for a reason.
Speaker 13: It's not just the start, it's just it's the second, third, fourth,
Speaker 13: Even guys ain't playing.
Speaker 10: Your hasn't even paid you, we have dogs. So I
Speaker 10: feel like it's that simple.
Speaker 7: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was linebacker away. We also heard from full
Speaker 1: back Patrick Racard, who came up with a touchdown in
Speaker 1: this win.
Speaker 6: Skating's kind of a test then, to the roster that
Speaker 6: you have, because guys of defense were dropping the flies.
Speaker 6: And yeah, they have a couple of key players coming in.
Speaker 6: Ben Cleveland wasn't really played much this year. Yeah he played.
Speaker 7: Well, it's kind of a testament to you know what,
Speaker 7: the kind of depth they've built.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think it's been since week one.
Speaker 5: I mean, we lost Shaking Gobbins right away. We just
Speaker 5: lost we lost Mark Andrews a month ago, we lost
Speaker 5: Keying last week or two weeks ago now, and you know,
Speaker 5: just been guys on defense and beginning banged up, but
Speaker 5: they've been coming back.
Speaker 3: I think, like you said, the depth is just there.
Speaker 5: Guys are just when the opportunity comes, they make the
Speaker 5: most of it. I think it's just a credit to
Speaker 5: the scouting department of getting them right guys here, the
Speaker 5: coaches preparing the guys the right way, guys you know,
Speaker 5: believing in the process and just really just being locked
Speaker 5: in during the week and just getting ready to play
Speaker 5: whenever they're you know, the numbers called. And I think
Speaker 5: we've been seeing it all year. I think we don't
Speaker 5: skip a beat or lose you know, a step when
Speaker 5: guys go down. You now now hopefully you know, guys
Speaker 5: can come back healthy. We can you know, on to
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Comparison, the nineteen are going to be inevitable.
Speaker 17: Do you see the similarities that year.
Speaker 5: It's it's like almost the same last games against Pittsburgh
Speaker 5: regular season got a first round by I think, you know,
Speaker 5: we didn't we didn't have the starters play in that
Speaker 5: last Pittsburgh game, and I think hopefully we do now.
Speaker 3: That's always off the coach Harbaugh and the players.
Speaker 5: That's just me saying that because I think, you know,
Speaker 5: we had two or three weeks of guys on playing.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's kind of funny how it's like that.
Speaker 5: You know, it's almost the same record for the most part.
Speaker 5: But yeah, we're all just really excited just how the
Speaker 5: season has been going, and you know, you still have
Speaker 5: a lot money to go.
Speaker 14: You're going because the grunt work mostly, but what does
Speaker 14: it mean to you when you get to the end zone.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm not I'm not here to be, you know,
Speaker 5: catching balls and scoring touchdowns, but when it happens, it's
Speaker 5: super cool. We've been practicing that play for a number
Speaker 5: of weeks, so as soon as it was called, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I was like, all right, spit in my glass.
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 5: Make sure I do it right. And I was just
Speaker 5: excited to be open and have the ball in there.
Speaker 5: And I'm just just thankful that the ball stuck to
Speaker 5: my hand and I was able to catch it, and
Speaker 5: I thought it was it was just perfect.
Speaker 3: It was after we score and talk about the extra point.
Speaker 5: It was we had forty two points, number forty two,
Speaker 5: so I think it was just meant to be.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was just just awesome.
Speaker 5: That Monk made that call and believed in me and
Speaker 5: Lamar to to make it happen.
Speaker 1: How much the game did a monkey call today.
Speaker 3: I think it was awesome.
Speaker 5: I mean, so many guys scored touchdowns, so many guys
Speaker 5: making great plays. I felt like we were just having
Speaker 5: great drives. There's a couple drives you kind of done
Speaker 5: better on, but overall, I mean they're a great team,
Speaker 5: great defense, and I you put up almost sixty points.
Speaker 8: Lamar obviously have you seen his shame may in particular
Speaker 8: with Tom Munkins.
Speaker 18: Off the course of this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Lamar just hit his reads and his
Speaker 5: progressions are so much quicker and faster, are in decisive,
Speaker 5: like he knows what he wants to put the ball,
Speaker 5: and I think we have the weapons to make it happen.
Speaker 5: Guys are getting open, guys are making the plays when
Speaker 5: it's needed, and guys are stepping up in crucial moments
Speaker 5: and they're making the plays.
Speaker 3: And I'm just really proud of everybody.
Speaker 16: If you could take a step back and look at
Speaker 16: what you guys.
Speaker 11: Have accomplished to this point thus far, how impressive do
Speaker 11: you think it really is? When you guys are coming
Speaker 11: out and beating teams every week, not only you know,
Speaker 11: any NFL team, the best in the league here, I.
Speaker 5: Think it just shows the kind of guys we have
Speaker 5: in this locker room, the character that we have, it's
Speaker 5: just it's.
Speaker 3: Really weak to week.
Speaker 5: Like last week we're the underdogs. This week, we're not
Speaker 5: the underdogs. It's just like we don't really care about
Speaker 5: all that stuff. We just want to just play ball
Speaker 5: and just get to work and prepare each week and
Speaker 5: just play as hard as we can.
Speaker 3: And I think that's what we've been doing.
Speaker 10: I know.
Speaker 17: You can kind of engage with the Ravens Twitter from
Speaker 17: time to time.
Speaker 2: This week they kind of went to war for Lamar
Speaker 2: after someone said that he's not quarterbacky enough.
Speaker 3: Did that make your radar at Yeah? I think I
Speaker 3: saw that.
Speaker 5: I think it was like some GM or DC or
Speaker 5: something like anonymously said.
Speaker 3: It or something. Really No, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 3: even know what that means.
Speaker 5: Like he's clearly a quarterback, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Like he makes he makes the players in the throws
Speaker 5: and okay, because he can he can run the ball
Speaker 5: pretty well, so he's not as quarterback.
Speaker 3: Hey, I don't get it. You know, he's a great player.
Speaker 1: That was full back Patrick Ricarr. We also heard from
Speaker 1: tight end Isaiah Likely he had a one handed touchdown
Speaker 1: grab of z Own and he also came up with
Speaker 1: another score. It was an excellent game from Likely, and
Speaker 1: he discussed his role in this offense and the growth
Speaker 1: that he's seen over the past couple of months.
Speaker 19: The skill players that we have that's around Lamar. I mean,
Speaker 19: anybody can have any given day. I mean they had
Speaker 19: his first two catches for one hundred yards something, yeah, something,
Speaker 19: five yard touchdown bait being killed. Oh Dell had a
Speaker 19: crazy catch. Every tight end scored. So it just shows you,
Speaker 19: I mean, and then you gotta deal with Lamar.
Speaker 3: So that just shows your kind offense.
Speaker 10: We really have.
Speaker 19: Take us to that money in Agatchuh. You know, just
Speaker 19: seeing that was man coverage trying to fly and all
Speaker 19: trying to make the throw easier for Lamar, trying to
Speaker 19: be friendly, Lamar trusting me, just really throw out the
Speaker 19: defender's way and trust me and go up and get it.
Speaker 19: And I got it, and I said, yeah, I got
Speaker 19: to score this Monghen.
Speaker 1: When that fourth down play was called, did you know
Speaker 1: that was high likelihood that it was coming to you
Speaker 1: on that play?
Speaker 19: No, So I really thought, you know, when we went
Speaker 19: in to the huddle, we called it actual play. So
Speaker 19: I was like, okay, and then when I seen that,
Speaker 19: you know, most of their guys are up on the line,
Speaker 19: I said, okay, man coverage And I mean technically I
Speaker 19: am the you know first and progression, so you know,
Speaker 19: trying to be as you know, win my routes that's.
Speaker 3: Possible to help him.
Speaker 10: Out and it was what it was.
Speaker 4: So you guys have been practicing since the spring.
Speaker 14: Manich what to it mean to a team when you
Speaker 14: flinch a division title and the top senior?
Speaker 10: I mean it means the world.
Speaker 19: I mean it just shows you guys, you know, the preparation,
Speaker 19: you know, all the hard work we put in the
Speaker 19: off seasons out but that's just one more step in
Speaker 19: our road to where we really want to get to.
Speaker 5: What you make of Justice is David and obviously a
Speaker 5: big game as a receiver, big gamers returner.
Speaker 3: How is he kind of hung in there.
Speaker 19: And to have a performance like this, I mean he
Speaker 19: showed you who kind of Becky is. I mean, all
Speaker 19: our backs are electric, they all do there what they do,
Speaker 19: especially I mean he had a great game. Gus had
Speaker 19: a great game, and then even Melvin came in and
Speaker 19: showed you guys that he's keptable of So I feel
Speaker 19: like you know every skill position, you know it does
Speaker 19: their craft. There's a reason everybody's here on the Ravens,
Speaker 19: so showing what they perfect and showing how you know
Speaker 19: what happens when the ball's in the hand, the sky's will move.
Speaker 14: It was a year as obviously growing since since Mark
Speaker 14: went down, and you've made most of it.
Speaker 1: And how would you describe your confidence kind of grown
Speaker 1: over the past couple of months as you set.
Speaker 4: Into his finger up.
Speaker 19: I mean, I feel like my confidence grows more in practice.
Speaker 19: I mean trying and understanding. You know that tight end
Speaker 19: road means a lot. I mean just understanding that you
Speaker 19: know I'm gonna have I'm gonna mess up here and there.
Speaker 19: I mean that's what comes with, you know, going against
Speaker 19: the best in the league day in the day out,
Speaker 19: but under saying that, you know, as long as me
Speaker 19: and Lamar and me and Monkey on the same page,
Speaker 19: and coach GOTSI trust me and put me in the game,
Speaker 19: you know, just showcase my talent.
Speaker 3: Would you think you saw Monkey on the sidelines.
Speaker 19: The d I mean I heard that he was trying
Speaker 19: to come down with four minutes left, so you know,
Speaker 19: trying to see him come down early. That's always a
Speaker 19: good thing because that means you know, the game set
Speaker 19: and stuff.
Speaker 9: Was monking more in his bag when he's calling players.
Speaker 19: And when he was dancing on the side, probably dancing
Speaker 19: on the sideline coordinator.
Speaker 7: D like that.
Speaker 10: No, I.
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