Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Presspast Podcast. It is Wednesday, October second,
Speaker 1: the Ravens preparing for Sunday's game coming up against the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, and today we had a chance to hear
Speaker 1: from head coach John Harball.
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate everybody being here. Good practice, Nice day, guys.
Speaker 2: We're into it, very focused on the upcoming challenge, which
Speaker 2: is a rivalry game against the Bengals, with a lot
Speaker 2: of stake early in the season, like they all are
Speaker 2: when you play in this division, and we know what
Speaker 2: kind of game to expect. It's always that way, and
Speaker 2: we're looking forward to the challenge. What question do you have?
Speaker 3: God, you know Joe Burrow mister last season them with Andrey,
Speaker 3: he's back four games with you kind of see from
Speaker 3: having your thrown Yeah.
Speaker 2: Really, we've seen the same thing that we've always seen
Speaker 2: from him. He's playing very well, plays the game in
Speaker 2: a very unique way, very very precise way in terms
Speaker 2: of his reads, his accuracy, timing, he's strong in the pocket,
Speaker 2: all those things that he's leading, leading that team, leading
Speaker 2: that offense like he always does on a He's completing.
Speaker 4: Se percent pass this year.
Speaker 5: Jamar Chase t Higgins.
Speaker 4: What kind of magic prums.
Speaker 5: They create, no question.
Speaker 2: I mean they've got really great skill, they always have.
Speaker 2: They have a great a great scheme. Uh, They've got
Speaker 2: great receivers and it doesn't even stop with those two guys.
Speaker 2: Those two guys obviously are you know, top shelf type
Speaker 2: wide receivers, but I think a great depth in the
Speaker 2: receiving corps. Tight ends are really good receivers. They brought
Speaker 2: in Micasiki, They've They've got a good group of tight ends.
Speaker 2: They all do different things really well. So it's just
Speaker 2: a very and the running backs are playing really well.
Speaker 2: I mean both running backs are playing. Moss and Brown
Speaker 2: are both playing excellent, running hard, very productive when they
Speaker 2: get the ball. So it's a well rounded offense.
Speaker 6: The coach seeing a divisional team, you know most of
Speaker 6: the players very well.
Speaker 2: How do you feel to have Genos Stole and someone
Speaker 2: have made a big impact with the Ravens now on
Speaker 2: the other side.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't feel great about it.
Speaker 2: You know, I like him when he was on our side,
Speaker 2: but he's done a great job. There's nothing but respect
Speaker 2: for Gino. He's playing very well.
Speaker 5: All for him.
Speaker 2: You can see that he's doing a great job of
Speaker 2: communicating back there as well as how he's just playing
Speaker 2: play to play making plays. So happy for him, but
Speaker 2: you know, we love him, but he's the enemy this week.
Speaker 1: Coach back out today obviously kind of went down at
Speaker 1: devising fashion during training camp.
Speaker 3: How good was it to see him back and also
Speaker 3: what you need characteristics.
Speaker 1: Does he brings this next year?
Speaker 5: Well, he's a great leader.
Speaker 2: I mean, Arthur is one of those guys that you know,
Speaker 2: you just feel his energy even when he's not playing
Speaker 2: on the sideline, he was into it. I mean, he
Speaker 2: was flying around, he knew all the calls, he was
Speaker 2: coaching guys up, and he he was looking forward to
Speaker 2: coming back. And to see him back. It's a little
Speaker 2: bit of a process. You know, you've been on, you've
Speaker 2: been down for four or five weeks. He's gonna have
Speaker 2: to kind of ramp his way back in. We'll see
Speaker 2: day to day here how he does with that. But
Speaker 2: but it's great to have out there.
Speaker 4: Coach week five and almost harpers participation in practice. That's
Speaker 4: gonna be pretty good at its short of being healthy, yea.
Speaker 2: All go all glory to God. You know, we we
Speaker 2: understand and how how valuable that is you know, and
Speaker 2: how rare that is, and uh, you know, we just
Speaker 2: got to I just think the guys are working really
Speaker 2: hard to you know, they just the guys that work
Speaker 2: super hard. They practice hard, they work hard in the
Speaker 2: weight room. I think the wait staff, the training staff
Speaker 2: has all done a great job with that. But you
Speaker 2: know what day to day process, try to try to
Speaker 2: do the best we can today and and be ready
Speaker 2: for tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Let's talk with Todd Hook.
Speaker 5: Is it spreading this offense?
Speaker 7: There was a question where Patrick burn Hard's role might
Speaker 7: even want and then the last two weeks it's just
Speaker 7: been like a pattering ram out there. Uh when you've
Speaker 7: watched him in this year, what stood.
Speaker 5: Out about him?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, Pat, Uh, he kind of understands his role.
Speaker 2: You mentioned not maybe knowing what the role was going
Speaker 2: to be, but it was probably more about whether that
Speaker 2: role was going to be there because you knew what
Speaker 2: his role was going to be if he was here, right,
Speaker 2: And that's the one that you see doing it at
Speaker 2: a very high level. Last two weeks especially have been
Speaker 2: ramped up I think for Pat, and he just creates
Speaker 2: another dimension out there that defenses have to deal with.
Speaker 7: Where you were asked about him after Sunday night's game,
Speaker 7: or where have you seen Travis Jones sort of take
Speaker 7: the next stride? I mean we've always seen it in
Speaker 7: practice and the flashes of training camp, and now he's
Speaker 7: playing a lot more snams. But what it stood out
Speaker 7: to you.
Speaker 2: Did, Well, it really is kind of what you just said.
Speaker 2: He is Travis has been doing it in practice. You know,
Speaker 2: we've seen it in practice. We've talked about it in
Speaker 2: this group right here about how well he's been practicing
Speaker 2: and when he played in games last year. It might
Speaker 2: might be the fact that he's a little more mature
Speaker 2: in terms of his physical body but technique wise, but
Speaker 2: it might be just af facts get more reps, you know,
Speaker 2: and he's having a chance to showcase his skills even
Speaker 2: that much more so. He's he's he's becoming a dominant
Speaker 2: defensive tackle, no doubt.
Speaker 5: John.
Speaker 8: Obviously the Ponte Adams news comes out, you guys are
Speaker 8: inevitably linked. I just have to ask the obligatory question,
Speaker 8: but how could you feel about this offense, this fib
Speaker 8: receiving core for all that time.
Speaker 2: Well, you know how we feel about our guys, and
Speaker 2: really can't comment on anybody else's play. So we talked
Speaker 2: about Devontae Ams a couple weeks ago, and I didn't
Speaker 2: want to talk to him anymore after about him anymore
Speaker 2: after the game. We've seen enough of him at that point.
Speaker 5: But we do. We love our guys, John, So I'm
Speaker 5: all let out here.
Speaker 7: I know the expectation was never to keep I know
Speaker 7: Keith Mitchell was eligible this week with the expectation was
Speaker 7: never to happen this early. But do you have a
Speaker 7: better sense of how he's coming along and how long
Speaker 7: it's going to take him gaing back?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 2: It's impossible to put a timetable on exactly right now.
Speaker 2: I think I would say this, he is right on schedule.
Speaker 5: He was.
Speaker 2: He was on the schedule was to be back, you know,
Speaker 2: this season. Exactly when that would be. We're probably closer
Speaker 2: to understanding that now, just because it's you know, we're
Speaker 2: closer toward towards the end of that. But you couldn't
Speaker 2: really pin it down yet. He's not close enough yet
Speaker 2: to really talk about it. But but he's doing really well.
Speaker 1: We also heard from quarterback Lamar Jackson's provision game.
Speaker 3: Uh, how much does that familiarity kind of help you
Speaker 3: in as far as your preparation.
Speaker 5: This week, uh s M.
Speaker 10: Not just prepare like any other game, you know, Uh
Speaker 10: to tryna everything have everything right, you know, uh from
Speaker 10: practice and film out on the practice field. It just
Speaker 10: take take everything I uh I learned from the practice
Speaker 10: fild what I see taking into the game.
Speaker 11: Is it man in any any more different?
Speaker 5: Poll?
Speaker 11: When there is that familiarity from now another. You know,
Speaker 11: obviously they see you twice a year, so they're they're
Speaker 11: used to used to tell you right.
Speaker 5: Now, Uh somewhat.
Speaker 10: But you know, each and ever year team gonna try
Speaker 10: to get better and try to change up on what
Speaker 10: they did the previous year.
Speaker 1: Or with the success you guys are having on the grounds,
Speaker 1: you know, putting up all these charts on the ground,
Speaker 1: do you think their defenses will start playing you any
Speaker 1: differently to try to sell.
Speaker 12: Out to stop the run?
Speaker 5: I believe so.
Speaker 10: But then they gotta get prepared for those guys who
Speaker 10: running those routes. Uh, our receivers in our tight ends,
Speaker 10: sometimes our backs.
Speaker 7: Tomorrow. Yeah, we know how close you are to mark In.
Speaker 7: He's embraced blocking and he's been an important part of
Speaker 7: what you've done on a couple of weeks, but him
Speaker 7: going without a catch two straight weeks, is that something
Speaker 7: you would dress with him? Do you feel the need
Speaker 7: to address with him to make sure he stays up
Speaker 7: and is in concerned brother.
Speaker 5: Role on their offense?
Speaker 10: Uh, I believe his role is he he's doing He's
Speaker 10: doing his role, you know. Uh sometimes you might not
Speaker 10: get the ball, you know, but we got all these
Speaker 10: great guys on our offense that's helping us win games,
Speaker 10: including Mark.
Speaker 5: Mark is playing a uh huge role right now for us.
Speaker 10: So just doing what he's doing, you know, blocking, running routes,
Speaker 10: running guys out, uh and find the other guys to
Speaker 10: be open.
Speaker 5: He's just been a team player right now.
Speaker 4: Oh h we talked to John how about that, Derrick
Speaker 4: Harry if just selbe kroll a one to two point.
Speaker 5: What kind of what's your sur sack?
Speaker 10: And you guys, specially the mass game man, he's explosive, man,
Speaker 10: He's just I I believe he showed it last year,
Speaker 10: you know, he he was one of the glimpses of
Speaker 10: it last year. But this year he's just taking up
Speaker 10: to a whole other level. On if it's if it's
Speaker 10: because he got paid uh something, but he's just doing
Speaker 10: this thing, right, But I'm loving it, you know, I'm
Speaker 10: loving it.
Speaker 8: MR.
Speaker 11: Speaking of team and you know, so you can get
Speaker 11: back on social media. Yet some of the some of
Speaker 11: the critics, if you will, people some bs parlays and stuff.
Speaker 11: What what what prompt you need to do that?
Speaker 10: Because like you gotta understand, we're human too, you know.
Speaker 10: We we're seeing that, Like we going in there, we're
Speaker 10: trying to win games. You know, all our life we
Speaker 10: played football. We got to this the highest level of
Speaker 10: the professional level to win games and not to help
Speaker 10: people's parlay.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 10: Uh, we're not betting on the games, you know, we
Speaker 10: we can't even bet on games and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: So we're not rid about that. And I don't believe
Speaker 10: we're going into games rid about stats either. You know,
Speaker 10: we rid about the w call them, you know, the
Speaker 10: win loss, call them. We're not trying to lose. So
Speaker 10: we go out there and just try to do what
Speaker 10: teammates do, you know, try to help each other out. Uh,
Speaker 10: this guy might run someone else on the route to
Speaker 10: get this guy open, just being team players. And we
Speaker 10: don't we don't, we don't dwell on parlays. But I
Speaker 10: see a lot of people like to make comments in
Speaker 10: our on our uh, in our comments section or in
Speaker 10: our d ms, but then when we addressed them in
Speaker 10: our they wanna make it public. So it's like it
Speaker 10: is what it is, we trying to win, We trying
Speaker 10: to win?
Speaker 6: Or are you seeing a greater frequency of fans or
Speaker 6: any individuals commenting and messaging you at over the years or.
Speaker 10: I believe it it it's become a thing like ever
Speaker 10: since I believe that the betting just started. Uh, A
Speaker 10: lot of bets have started, like fandor stuff like that.
Speaker 10: I believe that's when that's just started happening. But I
Speaker 10: don't care. I just don't like when my teammates get
Speaker 10: hit with oh you you missed it by two yards,
Speaker 10: Like bro, we don't give 'em.
Speaker 5: We don't care about your two yards. But like, yeah,
Speaker 5: y you.
Speaker 9: You guys have had a lot of really good rushing
Speaker 9: attacks here over the years. Obviously the addition Derek has
Speaker 9: changed things. But is there anything else you can point
Speaker 9: to about what's different with this rushing attack and White's
Speaker 9: written swell.
Speaker 10: Uh, just a a different unit. You know, we got
Speaker 10: different guys that added to the office line. Obviously, and
Speaker 10: then Derek in the backfield. Uh, it's just guys. Gods
Speaker 10: are different.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: Years in the past we had a great rushing attack
Speaker 10: as well, but it's just different guys doing it this time.
Speaker 9: Does it feel like this year is you know, rushing attack.
Speaker 9: It's the hardest one to stop that you've had since.
Speaker 5: Been the sport.
Speaker 10: I wouldn't say that, because just two weeks ago it was, oh,
Speaker 10: they need to run the ball more and where's the
Speaker 10: run game? So and then now you know, we just
Speaker 10: want two games with uh our office line doing a
Speaker 10: great job and our running backs doing a great job.
Speaker 10: Nine's like, this is the best running rushing attack.
Speaker 5: They are the Raves ever had.
Speaker 10: So it's like it's just pick your poison with our offense.
Speaker 10: That's what I believe, not just a run game, passing
Speaker 10: game too, more playing.
Speaker 3: Off of that a little bit. I mean, this is
Speaker 3: the offense where you can do RPOs. You could be
Speaker 3: staying in the pocket all game, you can line up
Speaker 3: under center. Now, how much do you think that versatility
Speaker 3: gives you that an added advantage in what defenses can't
Speaker 3: really protect what you're gonna do.
Speaker 10: Uh Man, just playing chess and not checkers out there
Speaker 10: on that field. And that's basically what it is with
Speaker 10: our offense. Cause any given game, you know, depending on
Speaker 10: what the defense giving us. Okay, they stopping the run,
Speaker 10: so now we just aired out. You know, they stopping
Speaker 10: the pass and go on cover two, cover four quarters
Speaker 10: and stuff like that. We running the ball, so it's
Speaker 10: like it's it's hard to defend us. That's what I believe.
Speaker 3: You know, we've talked about how you've been getting the
Speaker 3: keys to the offense. How much have you I mean,
Speaker 3: we see you talking and we're not hearing exactly what
Speaker 3: you're saying, But how much are you changing things up?
Speaker 3: Is it what you say it's frequent or you know
Speaker 3: not its frequents. Maybe people accept that. How much How
Speaker 3: often do you think you're doing things?
Speaker 10: It depends on what the defense given me. You know,
Speaker 10: I might check out or something. I might just change
Speaker 10: the protection one way put it here, you know, it depends.
Speaker 5: It's really on the defense. I'm going off the defense, Lamar.
Speaker 12: You talked about Chelseae's explosiveness earlier and obviously the physicality
Speaker 12: of Derek as a runner. Just those different skill sets.
Speaker 12: How does that help you as a quarterback and what
Speaker 12: kind of luxury is it for you to.
Speaker 1: Have that man?
Speaker 10: Just put the put the ball in those guys hand
Speaker 10: and let those guys work, you know, and then when
Speaker 10: I have to throw the ball, I work, you know,
Speaker 10: and those guys help out with blocking as well, you know,
Speaker 10: not just running the ball. And Justice just had to
Speaker 10: touch down catch. Uh, Derek Hearing just had to touch
Speaker 10: down catch. So you're helping the past game as well.
Speaker 10: So they just doing it all right.
Speaker 13: Now, are you?
Speaker 1: Uh, you're pretty even keeled throughout the year, you know,
Speaker 1: without getting too high or too low. And after reins
Speaker 1: for losses, you know, two weeks ago, it's a different conversation.
Speaker 1: Now you win two games and it's I you know,
Speaker 1: there's a.
Speaker 5: Lot of excitement.
Speaker 1: How do you you know, keep yourself with the team
Speaker 1: as a leader from you you know, kind of buying
Speaker 1: into either way. Uh, all the conversation you know, around this.
Speaker 10: Team or pretty much cause we seen what it was
Speaker 10: the first two games, you know how it was just
Speaker 10: like what are the Ravens doing? You know, the Ravens
Speaker 10: are the worst team in the NFL. We were seeing
Speaker 10: all type of crap. And then we just win these
Speaker 10: games and it's like, oh, they did a team to beat.
Speaker 10: It's like, bro, we just played football whenever we have to, Thursday, Monday, Sunday,
Speaker 10: it don't really matter. We just go out there or
Speaker 10: the m the win, the mentality.
Speaker 1: Next up as defensive lineman Travis Jones, who's really come
Speaker 1: on strong this year. He talked about the physical style
Speaker 1: of play that he's bringing, any impact that he's making
Speaker 1: on this defense.
Speaker 6: Michael on Sunday, Just how did your role change, uh,
Speaker 6: either in increased snaps or just positionally what kind of
Speaker 6: allowed you to have a what what occurred on Sunday?
Speaker 14: Hold On? Uh, Yeah, missing missing Mike p for that
Speaker 14: s UH game last week was a big thing. But
Speaker 14: I just felt like I just had to step up,
Speaker 14: play some extra snaps and just go out there and dominant.
Speaker 5: Have you ever heard the.
Speaker 1: Quarterback as hard as you did Josh All on that side?
Speaker 5: Nah?
Speaker 14: I didn't. That was fun.
Speaker 1: What What did you think when you went back and
Speaker 1: saw the the highlight of that play?
Speaker 14: It was over Twitter like I wish I couldn't, I said,
Speaker 14: I wish I could have hit him a little harder. Yeah,
Speaker 14: I did a little bit.
Speaker 1: Well, what's allowing you to play as well as you.
Speaker 3: Are right now.
Speaker 14: Uh, going in my third year, seeing things plays developed
Speaker 14: a little slower for me. And go out there playing
Speaker 14: next to man A Baka, you know he getting most
Speaker 14: of the attention. So when I get a chance to
Speaker 14: have my one on ones, I gotta windows.
Speaker 9: How much do you really just relish the physicality in
Speaker 9: that line and then the trenches? It looks like you
Speaker 9: know you're just kind of club is really working for you? Well,
Speaker 9: how much do you relish that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Playing playing for the Ravens, you gotta be a physical player,
Speaker 14: gotta play physical, gotta play hard, run to the boy,
Speaker 14: due the little things.
Speaker 15: Right, You've already you know, been pretty dominant about this year,
Speaker 15: but the sack rush and I guess you know, I
Speaker 15: haven't been able to close out on those plays. How
Speaker 15: kind of big is that for you to do that?
Speaker 15: Are you kind of aware that you know everyone knows.
Speaker 14: The fact that you're making Yeah, I know the SAS's
Speaker 14: won't come. I feel like I've been getting back there.
Speaker 14: I've just been missing them. They're gonna come.
Speaker 5: You can try to for you.
Speaker 12: Did you mentioned how you're playing more snaps when you're
Speaker 12: just heading into your third year? You said things are
Speaker 12: kind of slowing down. But where do you feel like
Speaker 12: you've improved as a player.
Speaker 5: Over that time.
Speaker 14: I feel like, going to my third year, I'm improving
Speaker 14: being more consistent and being more dominant on a down
Speaker 14: and down basis, And that's why I've been That's why
Speaker 14: I've been working on this whole off season, just being consistent.
Speaker 9: And then you got stronger this season, and Harve's just
Speaker 9: talked about your physical maturation kind of does it feel
Speaker 9: like different from previous seasons. Do you feel more physically
Speaker 9: dominant out there?
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 14: I feel like I'm will get my hands on guys.
Speaker 14: They're not They're not able to move me.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Going back to what you said about battle b K
Speaker 1: getting a lot of tension, is that how are you
Speaker 1: seeing that and what kind of how does that impact
Speaker 1: things within the game.
Speaker 14: Yeah, Matt, Yeah, Matt bigger drum most of the double teams.
Speaker 14: So I just got go out there and just dominate.
Speaker 14: And where my one of ones this office.
Speaker 15: When we asked people with their breakout players were a
Speaker 15: lot yeah, and they were saying it was a lot
Speaker 15: of the kind of mental side of the game and.
Speaker 5: Just understand anything better.
Speaker 15: I know you said things are slowing down. Was there
Speaker 15: anything that kind of film wise that you did a
Speaker 15: little differently this offseason?
Speaker 14: No, nothing differently, but does it going out of here
Speaker 14: practicing against like Tylerlernabond, one of the best centers league,
Speaker 14: helping me improve my game a lot.
Speaker 1: We also heard from running back Justice Hill.
Speaker 11: So their receiver room after leaving the team, receiving.
Speaker 13: That was just one week man, that was fun ing though.
Speaker 15: It gonna be like just feeling up against your brothers
Speaker 15: as well.
Speaker 13: I mean we've gone off each the other it seemed
Speaker 13: like ten times now. But it's always a fun game
Speaker 13: when you know your brother's on the on the field
Speaker 13: with you, so we go see what is what he's doing.
Speaker 9: Is the feeling you and Derek in the one two
Speaker 9: combo that you are about, Hey, we want to be improved,
Speaker 9: that we can be.
Speaker 8: The best one two punch in the league.
Speaker 9: Have you guys talked about that.
Speaker 13: We haven't really talked about it, but we always wanted
Speaker 13: to be like we always want to be the best,
Speaker 13: and so we got a good start to the year
Speaker 13: and we're just gonna keep improving.
Speaker 16: There.
Speaker 1: How do you use just how do you kind of
Speaker 1: keep from a mental standpoint, ride the highs and lows
Speaker 1: of the season. You know, you're coming off two big wins.
Speaker 1: You know earlier you're coming off Waston. How do you
Speaker 1: kind of ride the roller coaster of the season to
Speaker 1: try to say even.
Speaker 13: Kill Yeah, good question. I mean you just try to
Speaker 13: keep the main things, main things, controls you could control.
Speaker 13: Just prepare right, you know, just go about the week
Speaker 13: as if it's a normal week, and then just let
Speaker 13: it fly on Friday or on Sunday.
Speaker 6: Just as Derek said after the game that you and
Speaker 6: teammates were kind of hyping him up all week about
Speaker 6: first play if the defense lined up in the specific alignment,
Speaker 6: and that's kind of always been a big play. Just
Speaker 6: what were you sharing to him and the excitement about that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, we probably ran about three three or four times
Speaker 13: in the past, and every time it was like ten
Speaker 13: fifteen to twenty plus. And I was like, yo, bro,
Speaker 13: if we call this, it's gonna go for real, because
Speaker 13: I hadn't seen it not work. And so we lined
Speaker 13: up in at the first play and they was in
Speaker 13: that same defense, and I was like, Yo, let's see
Speaker 13: what he do because you know, you see Derek here
Speaker 13: on a long ninety nine yardis ninety yardists and we
Speaker 13: was backed up a little bit. I'm like, oh, this
Speaker 13: might be it. So it wound up being notice.
Speaker 6: One of the faster, you know, running backs on this team.
Speaker 6: And to see him go that quick, you know, over
Speaker 6: twenty one miles an hour. What do you think of
Speaker 6: when you see you guy that big go that fast.
Speaker 13: I'm a knowing he could grow. He was here in
Speaker 13: the spring working out. He was hitting twenty two's and
Speaker 13: I was like, thirty yards. I'm like, hey, bro, I'm
Speaker 13: over here trying to keep up with you, and so
Speaker 13: I already know you got wheels, man, So it was
Speaker 13: good to really see that. And then you already know
Speaker 13: when he gets an overfield's good luck catching him.
Speaker 5: Justice.
Speaker 8: What do you think makes his his stiff arm so effective?
Speaker 13: I mean you see it. I mean he's six three
Speaker 13: sixty four man long, arms strong, so it's hard for
Speaker 13: people to even get within the reach of them, and
Speaker 13: because his arms so long, but that and then he
Speaker 13: just give his all because I was asking him how
Speaker 13: you get them stiff arms off, and he's like, bro,
Speaker 13: I just get my all in it, put it all
Speaker 13: in there. And so yeah, man, he just He's just
Speaker 13: a freaking nature.
Speaker 12: Justice for you now and your fifty year. Just over
Speaker 12: the past few years, where do you feel like.
Speaker 1: You've grown like a few.
Speaker 13: I feel like in every aspect, because I want to
Speaker 13: grow in every aspect, not just one or two areas.
Speaker 13: So overall, just got better at running the ball, processing
Speaker 13: a little faster, slowing things down of my mind, uh,
Speaker 13: plast blocking and catching it. So pretty much everything justin.
Speaker 4: John Horball stay yesterday is impressed for your football at
Speaker 4: getting How much time do you do you spend you
Speaker 4: watch a film whatever?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it's hard to play a game for
Speaker 13: twenty years and not be somewhat of an expert. So
Speaker 13: I've been playing since I was five, so I mean
Speaker 13: it started then it just kind of progress and the
Speaker 13: more you do stuff and you just start learning more.
Speaker 13: And then you've been in a position your entire life,
Speaker 13: you try to start learning other things.
Speaker 5: Mate.
Speaker 13: Just so if your opportunity it's called to go, do
Speaker 13: something they need you to fill in here, do something
Speaker 13: there us just ready to go. And so yeah, it
Speaker 13: just came from a long time. I'm playing again, that's
Speaker 13: coming back from your achilles injury.
Speaker 9: How much did have a kid, getting buried. You know,
Speaker 9: all those things kind of help frame your mindset and
Speaker 9: help you mature just as a person.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it's definitely motivation going from just a
Speaker 13: single bachelor to having a family and being able to
Speaker 13: provide for your family. Man, that's the number one thing
Speaker 13: you want to do is off of your family, make
Speaker 13: sure they live in a good life. And so yeah,
Speaker 13: that just shifted my mom set and motivate made me
Speaker 13: even more than what I already was to just continue
Speaker 13: to go out and be great and do things justice.
Speaker 12: What was the reaction in the room after watching the
Speaker 12: film of your touchdown? It's like you left Doory millions
Speaker 12: angles in the dust.
Speaker 5: But what was there a.
Speaker 12: Reaction when you watched that on the film?
Speaker 13: I mean, obviously it was it was fun, man, it
Speaker 13: was it was a good it was a good play.
Speaker 13: But they I mean, they've seen me do that practice
Speaker 13: and so it wasn't nothing new to to the guys.
Speaker 13: But uh, yeah, it was just fun that it fund
Speaker 13: happened again.
Speaker 9: You talk about speed, he's faster between you and Dax.
Speaker 13: I mean Dax, Uh, I mean I'm always fastest one,
Speaker 13: But I mean I I don't know, I said I
Speaker 13: don't know, you gotta race again, cause I ain't really
Speaker 13: seen much from him lately.
Speaker 8: All right, Yes, uh, what kind of stands out on
Speaker 8: tape from the Bengals run defensive? I think statistically they
Speaker 8: aren't that great, but then you look at you know,
Speaker 8: how they did against the Commanders with that kind of
Speaker 8: you know, speed of quarterback. I guess what to sit
Speaker 8: down to their run defense.
Speaker 13: I mean, they're solid team. You got good players across
Speaker 13: the board. And for us, I mean, we're just gonna
Speaker 13: go out next to qut our plan. I feel like
Speaker 13: if we go out and execute the way we've been
Speaker 13: doing and continue to just get better on the things
Speaker 13: that we didn't, we'll have a good game.
Speaker 1: And last we heard from a cornerback Marlon Humphrey, what
Speaker 1: is what is the win on Sunday meet in the
Speaker 1: in the fashion that you guys want? What does that
Speaker 1: show and say about the team?
Speaker 16: It's good And you know, Bills are h We're a
Speaker 16: really good team. So to be able to come out
Speaker 16: and kind of click on all cylinders, it it's good that,
Speaker 16: you know. I think Kyle Hamilton said a really really
Speaker 16: interesting quote last week. You know, let's win, but let's
Speaker 16: get better while we're doing it. And you know, obviously,
Speaker 16: you know we got the Dallas win. It wasn't the
Speaker 16: end wasn't the prettiest, and you know that's the thing,
Speaker 16: you know, you wanna it's always better to win a
Speaker 16: game and continue to get better and fix the mistakes
Speaker 16: than the loser game and and uh fix those mistakes.
Speaker 16: So it was it was good to kind of put
Speaker 16: some of those pieces together and uh kind of have
Speaker 16: a statement win.
Speaker 9: Lrlon.
Speaker 15: You've seen plenty of Joe Burrow, You've seen plenty of
Speaker 15: these receivers.
Speaker 10: What does it take?
Speaker 5: What does it take to beat them?
Speaker 16: The biggest thing is you know, it's it's Joe Burrow
Speaker 16: and the receivers. If you can, you know, you gotta
Speaker 16: win those matchups. I think, you know, the biggest you
Speaker 16: know task this week defensively will be you know r
Speaker 16: dbs for zar wide receivers.
Speaker 5: I think that's it's it's a it's a tough task,
Speaker 5: but that's that's the biggest thing. You know.
Speaker 16: Joe Burrow is, you know, a top quarterback in this league. Obviously,
Speaker 16: you know it when he gets going, you know, as
Speaker 16: uh we said in the defense, you know he's kind
Speaker 16: of surgical when he gets going. So if you can,
Speaker 16: you can whatever you can with different looks, with tight coverage,
Speaker 16: whatever way. But the biggest thing is you got to
Speaker 16: win those matchups.
Speaker 5: On the outside.
Speaker 1: Conversation around town two weeks ago, you know many days
Speaker 1: now coming off too straight wins, how do you handle
Speaker 1: the ups and downs of a season and avoid, you know,
Speaker 1: as a veteran play on this team, get too high
Speaker 1: or too well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for us, it was it was interesting.
Speaker 16: Usually, you know, you you win, you lose two around here,
Speaker 16: it usually gets a little funky. But I think the
Speaker 16: biggest thing that I noticed that I thought was was
Speaker 16: unique as you as you try to dig into you know,
Speaker 16: you've lost two straight, you know kind of what's going
Speaker 16: on when you looked at things, it was very simple
Speaker 16: things that were kind of being the problem. So it
Speaker 16: was I liked that we didn't really freak out. We
Speaker 16: kind of were like, we're doing some good things in practice,
Speaker 16: we're doing some really good things in games. We just
Speaker 16: got to get these select fuel plays better. So we
Speaker 16: kind of just stayed to save the same course. We
Speaker 16: didn't like hit the panic button. Now we'd have lost
Speaker 16: three straight. I don't know how that would have been,
Speaker 16: but but luckily we were good.
Speaker 5: So we kind of just kept doing what we were doing.
Speaker 16: I think we all felt that we were doing we're
Speaker 16: at least working towards doing the right things. Just there
Speaker 16: was just some small kinks that kind of needed to
Speaker 16: get fixed.
Speaker 9: What does it mean to get Arthur m Let back
Speaker 9: on the field and what do you feel like it
Speaker 9: could mean for you? You've been playing a fair amount
Speaker 9: of nickel.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think Art obviously he had a I mean
Speaker 16: before injury, I think he was having one of the
Speaker 16: best camps on the team.
Speaker 5: He was looking really really good.
Speaker 16: And Nickel obviously what he can do at the inside
Speaker 16: nickel position, super scrappy goblets and all the different things.
Speaker 16: So I think it just it just adds to what
Speaker 16: we're doing as far as who's playing nickel, who can
Speaker 16: play nickel? We can, you know, it just adds another package,
Speaker 16: and that's adding a guy like Art, So that was
Speaker 16: a good thing.
Speaker 7: What about your own play, I mean, there was much
Speaker 7: major last year.
Speaker 5: You weren't healthy for most if not all, the year.
Speaker 5: Grated out well this year by all accounts.
Speaker 7: How do you think you're playing and you kind.
Speaker 5: Of feel like you're back to being yourself.
Speaker 14: A little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel good.
Speaker 16: I think, you know, it's it's a lot more fun,
Speaker 16: you know, just being able to just go out there
Speaker 16: and just play ball, not really worry about anything else
Speaker 16: you got going on. So it's I feel like I've
Speaker 16: been I've been doing well on the field. I'm just
Speaker 16: trying to just keep you know, control what I can control.
Speaker 16: As far as in the secondary not I'm not I'm
Speaker 16: not a huge fan of you know how we we
Speaker 16: kind of graded out as far as in passing yards,
Speaker 16: so that I feel like that kind of falls on
Speaker 16: me as a leader of the of the other team
Speaker 16: and of the secondary. So that's, uh, you know, there's
Speaker 16: there's definitely more to do, but you know, I think
Speaker 16: we I think we were on a good path this
Speaker 16: past Sunday, so I hope we can just continue on
Speaker 16: that on that path.
Speaker 1: Was there very an added emphasis on physicality going into
Speaker 1: that game?
Speaker 16: I uh, we we started off the meeting last week
Speaker 16: talking about one of our coaches. I'm not gonna say who,
Speaker 16: but basically he was he was saying, you know, there's
Speaker 16: we're not He wasn't saying we're not physical enough, but
Speaker 16: he wasn't talking necessarily directly to me, but I was like,
Speaker 16: you know what, I'm gonna play like Row this game.
Speaker 5: So that's that's kind of what I took from it.
Speaker 5: You know, not everyone can play like Row.
Speaker 16: It's it's basically I would, I want to say, almost impossible,
Speaker 16: but I attempted to play a little more like Row
Speaker 16: getting in there with some stuff. So I felt everybody
Speaker 16: kind of we definitely took his message which was on
Speaker 16: like Tuesday, and it seemed like we we kind of
Speaker 16: took it to Sunday. So he needs that message again
Speaker 16: and we need to play like that again.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Marling, after this game that you have got
Speaker 3: a couple of NFC teams coming up, and with Lamar
Speaker 3: and his style of play, if you don't see him
Speaker 3: very often, health diff cluse. Do you think as a
Speaker 3: defensive player would it be to face him if you
Speaker 3: if you're not very familiar with kind of his.
Speaker 16: Style of play, Yeah, it looks rough to face him,
Speaker 16: I think, you know, Honestly, as I went to go
Speaker 16: sack Josh Allen and I had a wide open lane
Speaker 16: and I could not sack him, I realized Lamar is
Speaker 16: probably that hard to tackle or harder.
Speaker 5: And then I thought to myself, like.
Speaker 16: If I was a dB and I saw a pass
Speaker 16: rusher about to sack the quarterback and then he didn't,
Speaker 16: and then I had to cover more, I'd be really upset.
Speaker 16: So basically answer that question, I would be very upset
Speaker 16: with the pass rushers on my team if I was
Speaker 16: playing against Lamar. But it's it's very difficult. I know
Speaker 16: it's got to be very difficult. But how you face him,
Speaker 16: I mean, how you stop him? I think that's still
Speaker 16: trying to be figured out. So I couldn't give a
Speaker 16: valid answer, but I know there's a lot of frustration.
Speaker 8: Along those lines. You face Derrick Henry when he was
Speaker 8: in Tennessee at the end of the season. He's usually
Speaker 8: a lot better at the end of the season than
Speaker 8: he is the start. To see him have this kind
Speaker 8: of start right now, I mean, I guess it's kind
Speaker 8: of more philosophy. Why is it so much tougher to
Speaker 8: start there at the end of the season at the start,
Speaker 8: and what to say about where he is right now?
Speaker 8: He's off his great performance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he he just.
Speaker 16: I've I've a since he's been back, I've been I've
Speaker 16: been at his at his house, around his family quite
Speaker 16: a bit. And this dude is like his his detail
Speaker 16: to to what he's eating, his detailed to what he's
Speaker 16: putting into his body, detailed to what he's doing is
Speaker 16: it's it's almost i would say it's almost obsessive. But
Speaker 16: it's very normal to him. His family isn't in tune
Speaker 16: with it. It's it's you know, it's I mean, not
Speaker 16: to put his business out there, but he makes his
Speaker 16: dad do some of the recovery stuff with him, so
Speaker 16: it's like it's, uh, I'm at his house and we're
Speaker 16: doing different things, and so it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 16: I mean, I feel like as much attention to detail
Speaker 16: he puts into his body, he's able to be just
Speaker 16: as fresh at the beginning of the season as he
Speaker 16: is at the end, while most guys it's it's that's
Speaker 16: just that's just a hard test to do. So obviously
Speaker 16: in the game, he's stronger in the in the third
Speaker 16: and fourth quarter than he is the first in the
Speaker 16: second quarter, and I think, you know, it's just a
Speaker 16: testament to just true, true discipline. I mean, it's one
Speaker 16: thing to hear about it in the you know, the
Speaker 16: statements you see with some stuff. But it's one thing
Speaker 16: for him to tell you about it. But then you
Speaker 16: go to his house and you're just like, this dude
Speaker 16: is like he means what he says. He's he's just
Speaker 16: an all time pro. I mean, there's there's no other
Speaker 16: there's there's there's no there's a kind of second to
Speaker 16: none in the aspect. So that's that's what I would say,
Speaker 16: is just a testament to hard work and the discipline.
Speaker 9: In his house. Do you follow the same diet or.
Speaker 15: Are you on that plane?
Speaker 5: I will?
Speaker 16: I will say he I gotta put a little stuff
Speaker 16: on my food, Like I gotta get a little you know,
Speaker 16: I'm a sauce guy. You know, he's just bland. He
Speaker 16: don't need none of that. He just does what he does.
Speaker 16: I gotta put a little, you know, some ketch up.
Speaker 16: Here's barbecue, there's ranch, and you know he's he is,
Speaker 16: he's disciplined.
Speaker 5: He's discipline.
Speaker 6: Defensively, Hemu said, two wins past rush has been successful.
Speaker 6: Just seems like the past defense and allowing yardage is
Speaker 6: not where you would want it to be, as you mentioned,
Speaker 6: and just what's kind of the thought process and discussions
Speaker 6: in the secondary room right now.
Speaker 5: You know, we kind of going into last week.
Speaker 16: The message I told the guys before we went out
Speaker 16: on the field was just to play fast. I think
Speaker 16: sometimes you know, thinking even when you're thinking right, you
Speaker 16: just when you get out there, you think during the week,
Speaker 16: and then Sunday you play.
Speaker 5: So that's the.
Speaker 16: Biggest thing there wasn't It kind of goes back to
Speaker 16: just tiny little beaty things, you know. I think with
Speaker 16: the defense, if you watch offensively very rarely or all
Speaker 16: eleven guys doing exactly what they're supposed to do, exactly
Speaker 16: in the right spot, and the bad part is when
Speaker 16: you get exploited, it's the one person that's doing the
Speaker 16: wrong thing. It's the one person that's doing the wrong thing.
Speaker 16: And even if you're not necessarily wrong, just a little
Speaker 16: bit off. So you just got to be on one
Speaker 16: accord and the way you move, especially in the secondary
Speaker 16: from the communication everything. So Edred left a message on
Speaker 16: our whiteboard. I noticed it first, but just just so
Speaker 16: I know.
Speaker 5: But he just wrote a wrote something on the white board.
Speaker 16: I and uh, it was just talking about communication and
Speaker 16: he just wrote twenty. So I was like, that's kind
Speaker 16: of cool, you know, you you know, that's it read,
Speaker 16: you know, But you know, I wonder if I wrote
Speaker 16: forty four what people know? But so it was, uh,
Speaker 16: he left the message. Just communication. That's the biggest thing
Speaker 16: for secondary communication. Communication, communication, and that's it's not that
Speaker 16: we were doing a bad job of it, but it
Speaker 16: wasn't perfect, and then the secondary of the communication's gotta
Speaker 16: be perfect in order for the play to be good.
Speaker 9: Did he leave that message?
Speaker 16: Honestly, I don't know, Like, honestly, we might have missed that.
Speaker 16: I mean, he kind of put it. It wasn't like
Speaker 16: just right there in the open. It was kind of
Speaker 16: it was kind of I'm not gonna say it was
Speaker 16: it was kind of I'm not gonna say it was hidden.
Speaker 16: But you wouldn't really wouldn't have noticed it if you
Speaker 16: weren't really looking. And so I don't have no idea
Speaker 16: when he came here and put it up there. But
Speaker 16: we we we we saw it, and uh, it's it's
Speaker 16: definitely gonna stay on that board for the rest of
Speaker 16: the year.
Speaker 6: What did you see it?
Speaker 5: I think I saw it just this.
Speaker 16: I don't know when I saw it. Actually it was
Speaker 16: this it was this past week or this week. I
Speaker 16: have no idea when I saw it, but I feel
Speaker 16: like when I said something, people still didn't see it.
Speaker 16: And then we re pointed to it again today and
Speaker 16: then I think people actually saw it, So maybe I
Speaker 16: didn't even it was and the sharp it was red,
Speaker 16: it was, it blended in it was. We see it,
Speaker 16: we got it, we got it, we got the message.
Speaker 16: So the hidden messages is there, and uh, that's kind
Speaker 16: of what we're trying to work on.
Speaker 12: Well, and you obviously go against them in practice every day,
Speaker 12: but having a backfield that has the explosiveness and the
Speaker 12: speed between Justice and Derek just as a defense, how
Speaker 12: challenging is that to go up against? And how does
Speaker 12: that challenge you guys?
Speaker 16: You know, it's the camp days are over, so there's
Speaker 16: not a lot of hitting Derek in Justice as much.
Speaker 16: So we're we we don't we don't like the those
Speaker 16: days were tough hitting them in camp, so it's it's
Speaker 16: still tough, but obbs that were not banging as much
Speaker 16: as we were in camp, so but it's still it's
Speaker 16: still difficult. Man, when it's a scary feeling when you
Speaker 16: see Pat and then a little.
Speaker 5: Bit taller over is Derek.
Speaker 16: So that's that's not the best look when I'm getting
Speaker 16: that and it's coming towards me. I'm hoping rows coming soon.
Speaker 16: So it's but uh, it's it's it's tough. It's really
Speaker 16: good work. I see the nightmares that kind of teams
Speaker 16: face and because we see it a lot in practice.
Speaker 5: How much have you.
Speaker 6: Seen zach Orr or maybe not seen, but felt zach
Speaker 6: Orr kind of settle into his role as defensive coordinator
Speaker 6: over the past four weeks.
Speaker 16: It seemed like the Dallas game, aside from the the
Speaker 16: Apocalypse at the end, seemed like he was he really
Speaker 16: got pretty comfortable with his play called, with the really
Speaker 16: the confidence in the in the plays he was calling,
Speaker 16: knowing things were gonna work. Just today he almost he
Speaker 16: said he almost misspractice because he.
Speaker 5: Was watching too much film.
Speaker 16: He said, he took off running out of the hallway.
Speaker 16: The janitors thought he might have been crazy because he's
Speaker 16: running so fast to get out here. But he's, uh,
Speaker 16: you know, he's a he's a film junkie. Obviously, what
Speaker 16: you what you want your DC to be. So but
Speaker 16: I felt Dallas game in that third quarter, I've seen
Speaker 16: the confidence in his voice, make it, making sure we
Speaker 16: understood things seemed like things kind of clicked in that
Speaker 16: in that uh during that game.
Speaker 17: Well, taking any motivation in summer we're going in the
Speaker 17: season about anything said or written about you, you know,
Speaker 17: the injuries that there, not playing through standards, people maybe
Speaker 17: not thinking that you were still you know that guy
Speaker 17: at that level or just kind of above all that.
Speaker 16: I I'm not a huge uh, I'm not a huge
Speaker 16: motivational guy based off others, but I but I did
Speaker 16: my My my biggest thing is it's hard, it's really
Speaker 16: just hard for me to get too complacent, just because
Speaker 16: I've always I've always wanted to hold it. That's like
Speaker 16: been my biggest my biggest thing, man, I've I've always
Speaker 16: wanted to do that. I don't I don't want to
Speaker 16: finish this game and never never hold one of those.
Speaker 16: So that's it's hard for me to really ever get
Speaker 16: too complacent, get too settled when I when I haven't
Speaker 16: done that. So that's that's kind of been my my motivation.
Speaker 16: I feel like, if you can have you know, the
Speaker 16: best one of the best secondary is one of the
Speaker 16: best corners, I feel like that's that's a really good
Speaker 16: stable piece to to have to in order to do that.
Speaker 16: So that that's kind of been I guess my motivation
Speaker 16: two to to try to be at my best. So
Speaker 16: when the team needs me where we're going on that
Speaker 16: streak and we're going to that run, you know I can,
Speaker 16: I can kind of be that for the team.
Speaker 3: Do you think it's the deepest secondary government part.
Speaker 16: Yeah, we're pretty deep. I'm not gonna lie. We're We're
Speaker 16: we're pretty good. Our numbers do not show that though,
Speaker 16: so that is a problem.
Speaker 5: But we we we've got we've got some skill. I think.
Speaker 16: You know what Kyle's able to do when Mark is
Speaker 16: able to do be Steve Nay. You know, he's I mean,
Speaker 16: if he catches the ball, I mean he's he's I mean,
Speaker 16: he's doing big things regardless. But you know, he I
Speaker 16: don't even think people have really he has. He's really
Speaker 16: even scratched the surface of what we've already seen him
Speaker 16: do in camp and everything. So I'm super excited for
Speaker 16: just for all of us to just go out here
Speaker 16: and just keep making plays, communicating and hopefully we can,
Speaker 16: you know, be get that number down from thirty two,
Speaker 16: cause we're ranked last. I think to to to some
Speaker 16: of the top ten. So that'd be great.
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