Speaker 1: Welcome into press Pass. Today we'll hear from head coach
Speaker 1: John Harball, quarterback Lamar Jackson, safety Ginostone, and outside linebacker
Speaker 1: Jadave Young Clowney. Let's start with Harps.
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate everybody being out here, Thanks for coming. Beautiful
Speaker 2: day for football. Every day is a beautiful day for football.
Speaker 2: I want to congratulate Terrell Suggs on his induction this
Speaker 2: week in the Ring of Honor. Nobody more deserving obviously
Speaker 2: Ring of Honor Raven his pictures right there with all
Speaker 2: the greats. So one of the all time great players
Speaker 2: to ever play here, one of the all time great guys, leaders, characters,
Speaker 2: the whole thing. I'm sure there'll be a lot of
Speaker 2: Trell sugg stories being written this week and there'll be
Speaker 2: a lot of laughs to go with it, because that's
Speaker 2: who he is. So really just proud of him and
Speaker 2: happy for him. What question do you have, so, what
Speaker 2: is your favorite sug story? When he comes in, ask
Speaker 2: him about the first year when he didn't have the
Speaker 2: right shoes to get on the bus to travel down
Speaker 2: to Miami. Ask him about that one, how that went.
Speaker 3: How did that turn out?
Speaker 2: He was there, he played I think he had a
Speaker 2: few sacks. It turned out great, turned out great, John.
Speaker 4: Obviously they're good players, but it's something unique about the
Speaker 4: Lions up at the steam, Like what makes them so
Speaker 4: be injurious offensive line?
Speaker 2: Well, they're executing at a high level, you know, and
Speaker 2: it starts with the quarterback. You know, Jared's doing a
Speaker 2: great job with It's it's a system that he's basically
Speaker 2: grown up in. That system is is the system he
Speaker 2: learned right when from the first year when he started
Speaker 2: off with McVeigh coach Sean McVay, and he's he just
Speaker 2: knows how to run those plays really well. I think
Speaker 2: the timing is really good. The receivers are on the
Speaker 2: same page, the backs and everything. They've been in it
Speaker 2: for a few years now, and they're just executing at
Speaker 2: a high level.
Speaker 5: Execution.
Speaker 6: Where do you kind of look at things in terms
Speaker 6: of your offense at this point six weeks in, You know,
Speaker 6: it seems like in the first half things are clicking
Speaker 6: pretty well really the game, and then it's like, you know,
Speaker 6: maybe if you look back in the second half of
Speaker 6: the two yards for play, the second half just scurious.
Speaker 2: Your kind of assessment and there, Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 2: would think it's a product of a work in progress.
Speaker 2: You know, we're in the process of trying to build
Speaker 2: this thing out, chasing all the details of all different
Speaker 2: things to get the execution we want consistently. I don't
Speaker 2: think it's a product of first half, second half, any
Speaker 2: particular quarter anything like that. It's more process of us
Speaker 2: being consistently good at what we do, executing at a
Speaker 2: real crisp level. That's why we practice so hard. The
Speaker 2: guys are all chasing, chasing that kind of perfection every
Speaker 2: every single rep in practice, and you just chase that improvement.
Speaker 2: And that's what we're working on.
Speaker 7: Why has you daven been able to fit in so well,
Speaker 7: come in the middle of the camp and then plug
Speaker 7: and play, literally just going NonStop, some incredible production that
Speaker 7: just like he's been there for ten years.
Speaker 2: That's a great question. I think, first of all, he's
Speaker 2: a really good player. You know, he's very talented, so
Speaker 2: talent talent travels well, you know. And also I would
Speaker 2: say his attitude and work ethic are just our top nine.
Speaker 2: You know, he's got a great mindset. He comes out
Speaker 2: here every day, gives you everything he's got. He's he's
Speaker 2: a joy to be around. The meeting rooms, weight room,
Speaker 2: everywhere he's he's into it and uh, just kind of
Speaker 2: guy you like to have around. He's he's the first
Speaker 2: first rate NFL football player.
Speaker 8: John Kyle Van.
Speaker 9: Noyd called the line is potentially the you guys's toughest challenge,
Speaker 9: at least on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 5: Do you share that when you look at this all the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not really rating the challenges. I mean they're
Speaker 2: all they're all the ones that that you face. They
Speaker 2: seem like the one that comes up is the toughest one,
Speaker 2: you know, that's how you feel about it. But I
Speaker 2: think they're obviously they're very good. They've got one loss,
Speaker 2: they're leading their division. They've won the recent games by
Speaker 2: large margins. I mean, they haven't even been in a
Speaker 2: close game, I don't think since since early in the season.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: They're you know, tough, they're physical, Uh, they're they're uh,
Speaker 2: they're legit. So we're looking forward to the game. Can't
Speaker 2: wait to get out there and play.
Speaker 10: John.
Speaker 11: We saw obviously it's all the way back. As you
Speaker 11: kind of foreshadowed the other day, how big he deals that,
Speaker 11: not just because of how good he is, but having
Speaker 11: him there kind of allow you to apportion workloads way
Speaker 11: you you might want them to with that.
Speaker 2: Group or well, yeah, I mean he'll he'll, he'll, he'll
Speaker 2: take a lot of reps, I'm sure as much as
Speaker 2: he can. You know where he's at healthwise. We have
Speaker 2: a bunch of guys rotating in now, you know. I
Speaker 2: mean you got to give Jeremiah Moon a lot of credit,
Speaker 2: right He's taking a full full workload, share.
Speaker 8: A portion.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to work that in somehow, but I can't
Speaker 2: figure out how. It's a nice word you use right there.
Speaker 2: But now it's a good group and it's great to
Speaker 2: have a dafe back.
Speaker 12: John.
Speaker 13: You're joking about how much the Lions fans travel, but
Speaker 13: with just like the increase of research going into other stadiums,
Speaker 13: have you lost a difference over the years and how
Speaker 13: much on field actually gives you an advantaged shot.
Speaker 2: Well, I know we've done well at home, you know,
Speaker 2: as far as over the league, I think it's a
Speaker 2: little over fifty percent, so you know, three points. So
Speaker 2: Vegas says, right, that's generally what they say. I'd probably
Speaker 2: go with that. They seem like they know what they're
Speaker 2: doing out there.
Speaker 12: What I tell you down to one and a half.
Speaker 8: It's one and a half.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not talking about this game. I'm telling generally,
Speaker 2: Oh that's what it is now. So to your point, well,
Speaker 2: then you know your I think your question is it's
Speaker 2: not as much as you used to be that kind
Speaker 2: of what you're saying.
Speaker 12: Yeah, just like, why do you think that is?
Speaker 13: Is it because research?
Speaker 8: I have no idea why.
Speaker 2: I'll go with Vegas, the odds makers, they know China.
Speaker 8: Marlin when his podcast talked about there was a fight
Speaker 8: between Odell and Jeffrey Simmons after the game, do you
Speaker 8: know that's the first I heard?
Speaker 14: But yeah, OK, so you don't know any of the
Speaker 14: details along those lines. Did you guys raise anything to
Speaker 14: the NFL about Simmons? Maybe kind of spearing.
Speaker 10: Day on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we sent our plays in. You know, we
Speaker 2: sent our plays in. I think I probably just leave
Speaker 2: it at that. So you send all the plays in
Speaker 2: that you really.
Speaker 14: Notice you guys like Lake Harris and Brandon Stevens. You know,
Speaker 14: Malie's playing on the outside. Brandon, I know you guys
Speaker 14: plan initially was for him to play safety, but for
Speaker 14: them to come in and play at such a high
Speaker 14: levels like spots that maybe a year ago he didn't next,
Speaker 14: I guess, just what does it kind of speak to
Speaker 14: the evantage of being in the system for as long
Speaker 14: as they have, just being kind of willing to embrace that.
Speaker 2: It's exactly that. I mean, the fact that you got
Speaker 2: guys that work hard, that have been able to stack
Speaker 2: reps in the system, as you said, and try to
Speaker 2: pay attention to detail in terms of technique and are talented,
Speaker 2: you know, hard workers to see the results out there
Speaker 2: is really rewarding.
Speaker 1: You also think that, you know, Blake's second year with
Speaker 1: his players are just more comfortable in that system because
Speaker 1: you guys are getting so many contributions across the board
Speaker 1: from so many players. Is that in part due to
Speaker 1: your bike being in the second year?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, continuity is a big deal, you know,
Speaker 2: and the guys, the guys learn, and then that way
Speaker 2: there's not there not starting over consistently starting over. And
Speaker 2: I think our coaches do a great job. Mike does
Speaker 2: a great job, you know, Chris Hewitt back there you
Speaker 2: talking about this. Defensive backs do a great job. Denard
Speaker 2: has done a fantastic job. I mean, all the defensive
Speaker 2: coaches have done really well. All the coaches have done great.
Speaker 2: I think we have a great staff.
Speaker 15: And I think Detroit started oh to nine a couple
Speaker 15: of years whether you guys had your hands full and
Speaker 15: you play and then I guess could you sort of
Speaker 15: see even then that the sort of the culture there
Speaker 15: was living in the right direction that they were gonna.
Speaker 2: Be Well, we had a tough game against them, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: go ahead and finish.
Speaker 15: Could you sort of see that they were gonna, you know,
Speaker 15: eventually get it turned around there? And pretty clearly we
Speaker 15: last time that space.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you could see that they were really
Speaker 2: talented and really tough. You know, you could see that
Speaker 2: at the time. And they've done a great job, all right.
Speaker 5: You obviously addressed the ties bound situation.
Speaker 10: Every day.
Speaker 6: Just curious how difficult it is to sort of play
Speaker 6: and you know, without him with a challenge that goes
Speaker 6: into that, and then if there's if there's any frustrating, right,
Speaker 6: I guess.
Speaker 2: I just really want what's best for Tis, you know,
Speaker 2: I want I want this to kind of get resolved,
Speaker 2: because he's worked hard to get physically where he can
Speaker 2: come back and play. You know, he's worked really hard
Speaker 2: to do it, and I think there's some doctors meeting
Speaker 2: going on this week. Uh so I'm really looking forward
Speaker 2: to seeing with the resolutions. I mean, I'm hopeful that
Speaker 2: he gets back and plays you know that what you'd want.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be in his court. I think, you know,
Speaker 2: it's my understanding of it, and we'll just see what happens.
Speaker 2: But those are those are serious, real decisions that guys
Speaker 2: have to make. So we'll see next up.
Speaker 1: Here's Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: You adjust it back to East Coast time.
Speaker 8: Yet I believe I have. I believe I have.
Speaker 16: Yeah, No, probably the first two days it's pretty tough.
Speaker 16: You know, you're waking up early, trying to go back
Speaker 16: to sleep. But it's back.
Speaker 8: I say it's back now.
Speaker 17: There are a lot of discussion these last two weeks
Speaker 17: about not finding the end zone, and you get deep
Speaker 17: in the red zone when you watch those plays over
Speaker 17: again with what's breaking down White, what's happening.
Speaker 16: Watching film, I say, we have miscommunication here and there
Speaker 16: that I believe we're gonna fix, and hopefully this week
Speaker 16: we start showing we can put points on the board
Speaker 16: in the red zone or just.
Speaker 1: Just looking at the phone that I see you just
Speaker 1: really orchestrating a lot, you know, really communicating through teammates
Speaker 1: and whether it's audibling or whatever it is, the protection
Speaker 1: of whatever it is. How much more comfortable do you
Speaker 1: feel in this offense doing all that as compared to
Speaker 1: when the season started.
Speaker 8: Very comfortable?
Speaker 16: Uh, because earlier, I, you know, I end up uh
Speaker 16: coming out at the inn, the OTA's and stuff like that.
Speaker 16: So uh, the team was ahead of me a little bit.
Speaker 16: So I had to watch the extra film, talk to
Speaker 16: monks sometimes, you know, after practice and go over things.
Speaker 8: Well, I feel like I'm pretty good right now.
Speaker 11: Well, mar I, you guys have been moving the ball
Speaker 11: almost every drive in the first half, and then you
Speaker 11: come out with out of time and things have been
Speaker 11: a little slower.
Speaker 5: Why why do you think that's been?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 16: Teams do a great job of of adjusting. I'll say,
Speaker 16: you know, ch changing up their defense on our second half,
Speaker 16: and then I I'll I'll say, it take us a
Speaker 16: little bit, you know, uh, a little bit of time
Speaker 16: to catch up to them. So I I believe we
Speaker 16: sure it, Just you know, work faster, try to catch
Speaker 16: on to them, make make adjustments at halftime, and feel
Speaker 16: like we'll be good.
Speaker 8: We'll be you know, dropping the ball, how it was
Speaker 8: first half?
Speaker 9: Mar looks like you and uh Rashad Bateman haven't been
Speaker 9: on the same page necessarily so far this year.
Speaker 8: Do you do you feel that way?
Speaker 9: And how how how important is it to you guys
Speaker 9: to try to get him involved?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 8: Uh, I I believe we good.
Speaker 16: You know, we always have chemistry and practice and stuff
Speaker 16: like that. We just have to transition over to the
Speaker 16: game and show, you know, show we doing it practice
Speaker 16: and stuff like that. And you know it's a lot
Speaker 16: of guys out there who getting open and stuff like that.
Speaker 16: So just tryna spread the ball around. But we gonna
Speaker 16: be good as the season go home.
Speaker 3: Lamar, Was that interception on Sunday? Was that a discommunication?
Speaker 3: Was that a wrong route?
Speaker 10: What kind how they kind of what happened?
Speaker 18: Uh?
Speaker 16: You know he was getting poor, He was getting poor,
Speaker 16: you know, breaking out of his route. And when I
Speaker 16: threw the ball, you know he he didn't have you know,
Speaker 16: his eyes was you know, just coming up in the balls.
Speaker 16: How say, you know, just miscommunica miscommunication now, but we'll
Speaker 16: be good.
Speaker 12: Hey, Lamar, Uh, do you know how Stone's gonna be up?
Speaker 12: You're talking later. He played a lot of positions in
Speaker 12: high school, including quarterback. Has he ever told you about
Speaker 12: how good he was at quarterback? And what do you
Speaker 12: think of this moves on the field after interceptions.
Speaker 16: No, he didn't tell me about his quarterback history, but
Speaker 16: his moves it was pretty good. But I told him
Speaker 16: he didn't have no vision. He should have kept running
Speaker 16: towards our side line. It was I believe Jadavion Clowney
Speaker 16: was there for lead block and I don't want to
Speaker 16: say Benroy, but he didn't follow the block end up
Speaker 16: getting tackled.
Speaker 8: He need to work on that, but I'm glad he
Speaker 8: caught the pick.
Speaker 13: Lord.
Speaker 1: What's the feeling going against a really good lines team?
Speaker 1: There's six and one? You know, this is a game
Speaker 1: between two really good teams. What's kind of the emotions
Speaker 1: the six and one five or five one?
Speaker 10: Sorry? Going into.
Speaker 1: Going into a big time game like that?
Speaker 3: Like, does that get the juices flowing out?
Speaker 8: Absolutely?
Speaker 13: What?
Speaker 16: Two years ago we played them, he was pretty good
Speaker 16: as well on defense. They helped us to I believe
Speaker 16: seventeen points. It was a good team there. You know,
Speaker 16: they got a couple of new guys and stuff like that,
Speaker 16: but you know, we gotta going to M and T
Speaker 16: Banks stayed and ready. You know it's gonna be a
Speaker 16: great game, I believe, you know, great defense, great offense
Speaker 16: they have over there as well. We just gotta be
Speaker 16: prepared to be ready.
Speaker 7: Or how good does it field that had that three
Speaker 7: game road trip? Of course, the last one overseas behind
Speaker 7: your night, you get home for four to the next
Speaker 7: five just kind of a breathe, a little bit easier,
Speaker 7: like a little bit easier.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Absolutely.
Speaker 16: We love planning front of our fan base, not everyone
Speaker 16: else's fan base. You know, I believe they be having
Speaker 16: fun home field advantage. But uh, as I said when
Speaker 16: I was in London, I believe we had it in London,
Speaker 16: you know, I I heard a lot of every time
Speaker 16: we did something. It was a lot of fans going
Speaker 16: crazy whenever we did something. But it's great to be
Speaker 16: back home.
Speaker 5: A larger you're six weeks in now or six games
Speaker 5: into this season. What's your overall assessment of the offense,
Speaker 5: just in terms of where you think it is and
Speaker 5: and where you can be expected or.
Speaker 10: A lot of to do.
Speaker 16: I believe we've been inconsistent, Uh up and downs. Uh,
Speaker 16: we've been showing glimpses of what we could be and
Speaker 16: we've been showing where it's like what we've been doing,
Speaker 16: you know, like where the offense went. We just gotta
Speaker 16: be more consistent when we're doing good and you know,
Speaker 16: driving the ball down the field.
Speaker 8: And scoring points. And we'll go from there.
Speaker 12: And Mark, did you have a favorite for real slug store.
Speaker 8: And favorite to a sluck story?
Speaker 16: I don't really, I really don't. Well, he used to
Speaker 16: mess around me and practice all the time, you know. Uh,
Speaker 16: you know, I was a rookie, you know, going to
Speaker 16: g going up against those guys, and he's just be
Speaker 16: saying crazy stuff all the time.
Speaker 8: But that was about it.
Speaker 2: Wow. What do you remember about the uh the uh
Speaker 2: Tucker uh game winning uh kick against the Lions?
Speaker 8: I remember we had to kick that first down.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 8: Sammy made a great catch.
Speaker 16: Uh he could have went out of bounce, got more
Speaker 16: yards and got out of bounce for tough to make
Speaker 16: it easier for Tuck.
Speaker 10: But he did it.
Speaker 16: But he did a great, great thing by catching the ball,
Speaker 16: you know, getting us in field goal range. And I
Speaker 16: just kN I I believe I knew Tout was gonna
Speaker 16: make it like it was a no brainer, and he
Speaker 16: kicked that that kick and it bounced off the upright
Speaker 16: wing now and we were just going crazy after that,
Speaker 16: like a record record.
Speaker 8: Was it a record kit?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: It was crazy. It was crazy. It was unreal though.
Speaker 8: It was like something on Matt and Mark.
Speaker 12: There's been a lot of conversation on the player's side
Speaker 12: about playing surfaces, whether artificial or real. What has been
Speaker 12: your experience at M ANDT that grass Do you like it?
Speaker 12: Is there anything you don't like it? How does it
Speaker 12: compare to other grass field you might play on?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 16: I love our grass field. Everyone loves grass field. You know,
Speaker 16: turf is pretty pretty hard on your knees and stuff
Speaker 16: like that. You know, you're getting tackled like you're getting
Speaker 16: tackled on concrete.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 16: I believe a lot of guys got hurt on turf,
Speaker 16: then you know, being on where whether it's been on grass.
Speaker 8: So I believe grass is better and ours is the best.
Speaker 1: Next the NFL's leader tied in interceptions? Does this game
Speaker 1: going against a really good lines team kind of feel
Speaker 1: like a measuring sick game for you?
Speaker 10: Guys?
Speaker 1: What's the mental going up against a good team like that?
Speaker 19: You just you just know you're gonna get your best
Speaker 19: shot from them. Uh this, I mean this, it's a
Speaker 19: team that's been rolling since the end of last year.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 19: The record speaks for a for herself, like over the
Speaker 19: last like ten thirteen games. So you know, I feel like,
Speaker 19: I mean, they got a head coach, as a fiery
Speaker 19: head coach. It's gonna get their guys going. So we
Speaker 19: know we're gonna get the best out of all of
Speaker 19: them guys. So just get ready for this week, prepare
Speaker 19: the best we can and get ready to go have
Speaker 19: a great game.
Speaker 10: And go away.
Speaker 8: And going against to receiving like Saint Brown, what's what's
Speaker 8: kind of the challenges of trying to defend him.
Speaker 3: I know you're not going to.
Speaker 19: No, No, he's a really talented guy. And I remember
Speaker 19: my last my last ever coalle footballame was against him,
Speaker 19: actually him, Michael Pittman when I played USC, So I've
Speaker 19: been familiar to him since since then. Uh, just seeing
Speaker 19: his growth throughout the league. He's the guy that's really
Speaker 19: good in the slot, tough guy, good guy after after
Speaker 19: the catch. So you know, he's probably their best player,
Speaker 19: I would say, on the offensive side of the balls.
Speaker 19: And uh, you know they're gonna try to get him going.
Speaker 19: So we try to limit as much we can on
Speaker 19: the defense side of for him because they.
Speaker 11: Just have so many guys who have to account Clay
Speaker 11: and the word wide receivers are playing well if rookies, Iam,
Speaker 11: I mean, is there just just a lot of.
Speaker 3: Guys to Yeah.
Speaker 19: I just feel like they get all their guys involved,
Speaker 19: you know, you know, and I feel like Golf is
Speaker 19: the guy that's gonna control that offense very well. Uh
Speaker 19: you know, he's a very talented guy. Uh you know,
Speaker 19: he's gonna make sure everyone's in the right spots to
Speaker 19: get de Troy checks. And you know they got good
Speaker 19: they got good backs too, that's gonna run the ball.
Speaker 19: Solid offensive line. So you know, them guys that are
Speaker 19: playing well all together right now, you know, on the streak,
Speaker 19: so uh you know you're gonna get the best album.
Speaker 3: You asked John about this on Monday.
Speaker 20: But I mean, if you go back to December twenty twenty,
Speaker 20: this team, let you go, and what's your mentality when
Speaker 20: you think back to that time then, and how have
Speaker 20: you changed as a player from then to now?
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a wow.
Speaker 19: But uh yeah, I would just say just my mindset
Speaker 19: the way I approached the game. Uh, you know, back
Speaker 19: that back then, I feel like I always tell everyone
Speaker 19: I had like the whole rookie experience, the whole NFL experience,
Speaker 19: my rookie year, you know, making that fifty three man roster, uh,
Speaker 19: then getting released during the season, going to practice squad,
Speaker 19: getting elevated, getting back on the roster, cut one to
Speaker 19: another team in Houston, and then finally coming back here.
Speaker 19: You know, it was just it was a lot for
Speaker 19: my rookie year. You know, at that time, I had
Speaker 19: to learn to control I like only I could control
Speaker 19: at the moment. And then uh, you know, I had
Speaker 19: a lot of I had Anthony Levine here, a vet
Speaker 19: that was got in a similar situation to him when
Speaker 19: he told me his rookie for a few years in
Speaker 19: the league, you know, being a guy I had to
Speaker 19: make the roster, fighting for a spot, uh, being a
Speaker 19: special team guy. And then whenever he got all these
Speaker 19: opportunities and on defense, he made the most of it.
Speaker 19: And I feel like I've been trying to do the
Speaker 19: same things. Uh, every time I get my situation, they're
Speaker 19: going to the field, you know, uh, you know, it's
Speaker 19: not a good situation because guys go down. But at
Speaker 19: the end of the day, you know, it's a X
Speaker 19: man up mentality and I always try to take that
Speaker 19: with me. I've been like that since college, since high school,
Speaker 19: whatever it was, whatever off squad have in front of me.
Speaker 19: I want to make sure I get the best of
Speaker 19: my opportunity.
Speaker 14: I mean recently, when they didn't tendure you as a
Speaker 14: descripted free agent, you were a free agent.
Speaker 3: You were doing with the market for a couple of days.
Speaker 3: I guess, is it playing all along or you signed here?
Speaker 3: Did you talk to other keys or were coming into.
Speaker 19: That Yeah, yeah, I mean there was there was there
Speaker 19: was other situations out there, But at the end of
Speaker 19: the day, I sat down with my agent. You know,
Speaker 19: this was the best situation for me. I feel like
Speaker 19: I have something here. UH dealt with the guys, UH,
Speaker 19: built with the coaching staff someroce last year. Uh, you know,
Speaker 19: just the way Mike's defense was, I felt like it's
Speaker 19: the best situation for me to show my abilities uh
Speaker 19: on the field. So you know, going through free agency,
Speaker 19: I felt like it was really like almost a no
Speaker 19: brainer for me to come back here.
Speaker 10: And you know, uh it really didn't matter. But whatever
Speaker 10: the whoever that was.
Speaker 19: But uh, you know, I just wanted to make sure
Speaker 19: I was in a great situation around guys that's gonna
Speaker 19: make sure I'll be. I was able to show my
Speaker 19: abilities what I could do in the fields.
Speaker 7: I mean, you do have mean the most of drop
Speaker 7: optunities in shure when you're sitting here at the vodium
Speaker 7: here end of the week sixth tied for the NFL
Speaker 7: LEA and the interceptions. Again, as I said, trying is
Speaker 7: going through this journey to get here.
Speaker 19: What's it eth Uh, it means a lot. You know,
Speaker 19: I actually wrote goals down back and I I looked
Speaker 19: at my notes. I wrote goals back in April twenty fifth,
Speaker 19: and like ten forty eight. Am, Uh, I had a
Speaker 19: lot of goals. I had like five goals on there
Speaker 19: and three interceptions was three plus interceptions.
Speaker 3: With one of them.
Speaker 10: Uh, you know, I feel.
Speaker 19: Like I got a lot more goals I want to
Speaker 19: hit this year and and more and most of more
Speaker 19: team goals at this point.
Speaker 10: So you know, uh, it's.
Speaker 19: Gonna take it one step at a time, one week
Speaker 19: at a time. You know, it's really early season, so
Speaker 19: you know, I don't wanna get complacenents of whatever it was. So,
Speaker 19: I mean, the success is good, but at the same time,
Speaker 19: you know you early good is your next next opportunity.
Speaker 10: I get so.
Speaker 19: I I never want to get complacent, just wanna be
Speaker 19: able to uh caplize my next opportunity.
Speaker 3: I get it any more special for you.
Speaker 14: To ask as good as a few cast into the
Speaker 14: thistory from this.
Speaker 10: That's big.
Speaker 19: It's yeah, no, it's crazy. I mean we uh we
Speaker 19: actually talked about it the past few weeks. You know, me,
Speaker 19: the league, PQ Medebike. You know, we're all guys that
Speaker 19: came in together since twenty twenty in the COVID year,
Speaker 19: and now we're all key contributors to a defense, making
Speaker 19: making play as much as we can, especially on special teams.
Speaker 10: To me and Moleak.
Speaker 19: So, I feel like our class uh been playing really
Speaker 19: well together since we game, since we got here, got
Speaker 19: our opportunities as much as we can and made the
Speaker 19: most of them.
Speaker 17: Mark Jackson just said a minute ago that you need
Speaker 17: to work on your vision on your interception.
Speaker 3: Church.
Speaker 10: What do you say to that?
Speaker 19: That's all right, I mean, I I I'll listen to him.
Speaker 19: You know, Lamar's got probably one of the best vision
Speaker 19: in the league. But you know, I say time, I'll
Speaker 19: try to tell them guys how to run the ball.
Speaker 19: So uh so I'm I just I just try to
Speaker 19: get the ball back to him. That's my that's my goals.
Speaker 19: Get the ball back to him. You know, hopefully one
Speaker 19: of these days I score. I want to. It's not
Speaker 19: like I'm not trying to. I cut back last game,
Speaker 19: so uh you know, now I look on film and
Speaker 19: needless opportunities for me to do it. But at the
Speaker 19: same time, you know, I just I see what I
Speaker 19: see and I try to make most of it.
Speaker 12: So Lamar says she, you haven't told him that you
Speaker 12: need to play quarterbacks in high school? Sure how you
Speaker 12: were at fast uh because you played a lot of
Speaker 12: positions in high school.
Speaker 10: Yeah, no, no, I never.
Speaker 19: I really don't tell people that much I played quarterback
Speaker 19: because you know, everyone has their own comments. So I
Speaker 19: allowed to be. I allowed to be at that. But
Speaker 19: you know, I mean I was, I was decent. I
Speaker 19: would say I was decent. I counted for forty touchdowns
Speaker 19: with whatever that means. But at the same time, I
Speaker 19: was the first team off state dB. So I always
Speaker 19: think of myself as a defensive player in high school,
Speaker 19: not really offensive player, but I did the most. I
Speaker 19: did most as much as I came with the offense though.
Speaker 12: But also you can turn bunch for touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a wide receiver.
Speaker 12: Does any of that come into play just because instinct
Speaker 12: when you went accept the fast you're coming after the years?
Speaker 19: No, yeah, I mean all all them things. Like because baseball,
Speaker 19: my growing up was my favorite sport. So I think
Speaker 19: in me playing the post or whatever it is, uh,
Speaker 19: I think I'm playing like centerfield because that's what I played.
Speaker 19: So every time I'm tracking the ball, I think I'm
Speaker 19: like playing center field, just gonna get the ball high
Speaker 19: point at whatever it is. And then just like like
Speaker 19: you said, I play returners, so I try to use
Speaker 19: them skills a little bit.
Speaker 10: I tried to sneak in there.
Speaker 19: Talking about, Hey, if you ever want to go too
Speaker 19: returners on punt return, I'll go back there too. But
Speaker 19: you know, I try to do as much as I
Speaker 19: can whenever get the ball in my hands.
Speaker 2: Alright, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Last, but not least, here's the outside linebacker, Jadeveon Clowney.
Speaker 7: It so well here came showed up late in camp
Speaker 7: or New camp, but it was like you've been here forever.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 21: I think it's the guys in the locker room. Uh,
Speaker 21: it's just a good group. I mean it kind of
Speaker 21: I don't know, man's just a I just feel like
Speaker 21: the guys in the locker room we kind of fill
Speaker 21: off each other and they've been through some of the stuff.
Speaker 21: I've been through some of the guys and uh, just
Speaker 21: enjoying myself here.
Speaker 3: Excuse me?
Speaker 12: Is there anyone who.
Speaker 3: Has the first or lock them us here? Uh?
Speaker 21: Probably Roquaorn say what's up and uh something the coaches
Speaker 21: Chuck Smith now and Uh, it's been going smooth ever since.
Speaker 17: Related to what Peter asked, John Harmon Sunday said something
Speaker 17: like Jendevin Cloudy has.
Speaker 3: Always been a raven.
Speaker 8: He just didn't know it till here.
Speaker 3: What do you think you meant by that?
Speaker 21: Like I said, when I got here, I was like, man,
Speaker 21: this team is like I I be excited to pull
Speaker 21: up for work, you know, I'd be excited to be
Speaker 21: out here to practice. Just just being here with these
Speaker 21: guys and it's starting to show, you know what I mean,
Speaker 21: Like you'll play and show off how you practice and stuff.
Speaker 21: And I love going to practicing with this group. Everybody
Speaker 21: bring their energy every day and it's it's rub off
Speaker 21: on you. It's contagious, and uh it's it's paying off.
Speaker 8: For me kind of too.
Speaker 9: That hasn't been rejuvenating for you, Not that you've been
Speaker 9: in the dumps or anything like that. But do you
Speaker 9: feel like, like you said, you can show up happy
Speaker 9: to work. Do you feel that extra motivation just from
Speaker 9: the new environment.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 21: Man, I wanna I wanna show these guys I still
Speaker 21: got uh talent left and uh a lot of game
Speaker 21: left and uh me coming here being a part of
Speaker 21: this group. Man, they just bringing the best out of me.
Speaker 21: Like like I say, the work it's come easy when
Speaker 21: you enjoying it. And uh it's like you can tell
Speaker 21: everybody out here enjoyed it coming to work every day,
Speaker 21: like I said, and it's rubbing off on me. Yeah,
Speaker 21: I'll just keep keep having fun.
Speaker 1: What you say about the job Mike McDonald is doing
Speaker 1: and what does he do to kind of empower as pass.
Speaker 21: Rushers like Mike, Hey them dogs on the inside. I
Speaker 21: thank them. I told them today. Man, that's the best
Speaker 21: Detacer group I played with. And to make my life
Speaker 21: a lot easier when you got three three guys that
Speaker 21: can go in there and just push the pocket and
Speaker 21: knock everybody back and shut the run down and make
Speaker 21: our lives easier on the edge, so you can do anything.
Speaker 21: It's it's a lot of you can run past the
Speaker 21: quarterback running who come back. Some teams I've been on
Speaker 21: where it's been hard for you to run past the
Speaker 21: quarterback because you have that middle push and with them
Speaker 21: guys on the inside, it's just like that's that bread
Speaker 21: and butter.
Speaker 5: I met Mike McDonald.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, Mike is like that.
Speaker 21: Mike might be the smartest defensive quarter. He put everybody
Speaker 21: in position to make plays and the stuff you drop,
Speaker 21: I'd be like Mike, keep dowaling it up, keep dialing
Speaker 21: it up.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 21: I enjoyed playing for him, Like I said, man, the
Speaker 21: he he makes sure he put the game playing together.
Speaker 10: And we try to go out there and execute.
Speaker 21: And I respect him the way he prepare us and
Speaker 21: have us ready to go into the games.
Speaker 3: And I just love playing for Mike. Why do you
Speaker 3: watch you fet lions a way back? That's right?
Speaker 5: Well, what are your life get better.
Speaker 3: With all the way back? Oh?
Speaker 21: For sure, man, for sure. I'm tired of getting chip blocked.
Speaker 21: Uh oh. Having him out there is like another dog
Speaker 21: out there we missing, and uh, it's gonna keep getting
Speaker 21: better getting the guys back. We getting a week out
Speaker 21: and Mike, I mean, uh yeah, oh it is a
Speaker 21: good pass rusher and we need him and a good
Speaker 21: run stopper. And uh, I think he's just waiting on
Speaker 21: his time for him to peek in his lead too
Speaker 21: as well. He kind of reminding myself a guy to
Speaker 21: just come to practice and work extremely hard and bring
Speaker 21: it every day and beat guys and it just hain't
Speaker 21: rolled over to the games quite yet. And I feel
Speaker 21: like his time coming. And uh, I tell him every day, man,
Speaker 21: I think you like a sleeper man. People be sleep
Speaker 21: on you like you got the talent, you got everything.
Speaker 21: You just gotta come out here and keep proving people wrong.
Speaker 10: The Lions offense right now, they they're really clicking. And
Speaker 10: and what about Jared Golf.
Speaker 3: Where he's going off.
Speaker 21: I think Jared Goss makes some of the smartest passes
Speaker 21: the smartest players, and he he out there calling the shots.
Speaker 21: And uh, the offensive line, that's a good group. They
Speaker 21: put it together. A lot of first round draft picks up.
Speaker 21: There a lot of guys that can move to a
Speaker 21: defensive line. Uh, it's gonna come down to that in
Speaker 21: this game. Uh, they front versus our front, and we
Speaker 21: know that going to this game and who gonna dominate
Speaker 21: the line of scrimmage? And Uh, I think that's what
Speaker 21: we have to do.
Speaker 3: What do you think about?
Speaker 15: I mean, it's been three weeks on the road, including London,
Speaker 15: and now you're coming back to face a pretty good
Speaker 15: Lions team.
Speaker 3: Are y? Are you good with the noboy?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 8: Coming back after uh London?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm cool.
Speaker 21: H man, it's next t next, next team up. Man.
Speaker 21: I think uh as a raven playing here. I think
Speaker 21: we prepared for it.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 21: Like I said, it might put us in position be
Speaker 21: prepared for them games. And he doing a good job
Speaker 21: as of right now. Uh, we're gonna be ready to go.
Speaker 21: We better be you guys.
Speaker 3: It's the best offers to play all year.
Speaker 21: Yeah by far. Yeah, Jeff Goff make them go. Think
Speaker 21: you're a smart, smart quarterback. And they running back game.
Speaker 21: They run game. It's been very very dominating so far,
Speaker 21: and and they getting a lot of turnos really making
Speaker 21: they they playing with the lead and it's it's easy
Speaker 21: for you to play with the lead. It's gonna come
Speaker 21: down to us up front like I said, and playing
Speaker 21: dominating the line of scrimmage and getting after the quarterback.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's your fatalities an address or change of all
Speaker 14: wins Blacks a team playing under centers or tells versus
Speaker 14: shotgun just.
Speaker 3: A lot of time for sure.
Speaker 21: Uh gotta play a little little different cause they have
Speaker 21: a lot of play action team converting on pass rush
Speaker 21: is gonna be very big for us this week. Uh,
Speaker 21: setting edge and really converting in the pass rush game.
Speaker 21: Like I said, Uh, it's gonna be good. I think
Speaker 21: we Like I said, we just try to make the
Speaker 21: one dimensional start to run and uh make 'em have
Speaker 21: to get a shotgun. Make it third and long. So
Speaker 21: they just can't play action up on the center and
Speaker 21: do do what they wanna do. But they have been
Speaker 21: playing a game planning. I just feel like we come
Speaker 21: to do that. We we can come over with the win.
Speaker 1: Now let's head into the locker room.
Speaker 22: But I feel like early in my career, the cameras
Speaker 22: was always on me, even when I didn't know they
Speaker 22: might have been on me, and it led me to
Speaker 22: trying to play this like calm me and all this
Speaker 22: because the camera's gonna get foot on me and make
Speaker 22: me seem like I'm a bad guy, which is just
Speaker 22: you know, part of the way that it goes. And
Speaker 22: now it's just like I just gotta play high. I
Speaker 22: just gotta be high in And that's fire, that's passion,
Speaker 22: that's you know. Uh you watched Tom Brady play like
Speaker 22: he's he was fired up.
Speaker 2: You know, like that's I care that much.
Speaker 22: He's out there sliding giving somebody a little extra like
Speaker 22: it's just it's.
Speaker 3: All you know, football.
Speaker 10: He's competitive.
Speaker 3: I'm competitive.
Speaker 10: I know we're all competitive.
Speaker 22: But it's just about bringing the competitive juices back.
Speaker 9: Oh there, Obviously you would, I know you wanna be
Speaker 9: more involved than you have been to this point Sunday,
Speaker 9: Like you mentioned, you had that big play, but how
Speaker 9: how have you dealt with it? You know, the game,
Speaker 9: the game situations. You may have more opportunities than some
Speaker 9: things you may not.
Speaker 10: You just gotta continue being a leader that people look
Speaker 10: this way.
Speaker 3: Just know, it's early in the season.
Speaker 22: I think a lot of teams around the league are
Speaker 22: still trying to figure out exactly what they plays are,
Speaker 22: what it is that works. Like we're at week going
Speaker 22: on week seven. You know, I remember when I w
Speaker 22: went to the Rams and it was week nine.
Speaker 3: Or whatever it was.
Speaker 10: They already were established as a team.
Speaker 22: You know, teams don't develop exactly who they are too
Speaker 22: late in the season.
Speaker 3: You know exactly what players are gonna work for them.
Speaker 22: So uh, I think it's just stay patience, keeping your
Speaker 22: head down, working, staying positive, all of those things, and
Speaker 22: then you know, y'all gonna take.
Speaker 10: Care of russy hodella.
Speaker 11: You talked about being on the Detroit I mean, uh,
Speaker 11: the numbers say they're one of the great.
Speaker 3: Best seams in the league.
Speaker 10: Do you do you think this game is gonna have
Speaker 10: that kind of big game? Get absolutely?
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 22: I love the stories when the teams who've just been
Speaker 22: down for long and they're like no more, you know,
Speaker 22: like enough is enough.
Speaker 5: And I think the coach over there is that a
Speaker 5: great job.
Speaker 22: I think the players that they have surround them, they
Speaker 22: they've created a great atmosphere energy.
Speaker 5: You know, in team or a great team.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 22: You know, like Roemarn always says, you got a team
Speaker 22: coming to our house, you always gotta be catch your home,
Speaker 22: but knowing that this is one of the top teams
Speaker 22: in the league and it's gonna be a great game.
Speaker 3: You know, it's another but.
Speaker 5: You know respect and we all just wanna go out.
Speaker 4: There and battle.
Speaker 6: So get you guys have gotten off to to pretty
Speaker 6: quick starts generally this season, and it's sort of slowed
Speaker 6: in the second half.
Speaker 5: Is there any anything you can put your finger on
Speaker 5: in terms of that.
Speaker 22: I think it's just don't let off the gas. You know,
Speaker 22: I've been around long enough to know that. You know,
Speaker 22: games are really there there four quarters that are actually
Speaker 22: four quarters, but too feel like you let out the
Speaker 22: gas and you know it any this is the National
Speaker 22: Football League. You know, every team is capable of winning
Speaker 22: and this other that, So just finding ways to to
Speaker 22: close those games off. You know, there's a team in
Speaker 22: here that's four and two and feels like they should
Speaker 22: be six and over and maybe those two losses are
Speaker 22: the best things that haven't you know, for us to
Speaker 22: allow us not to take any moment for granted, the
Speaker 22: opportunity and just being able to capitalize.
Speaker 12: Uh when we do have that that time or they
Speaker 12: feel like you's playing.
Speaker 3: In that price up he's ever played out.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the guy's playing good ball right now. You know,
Speaker 4: the pitcher's clear for him. He he makes a lot
Speaker 4: of uh good throws in a intermediate UH game as
Speaker 4: well as he take his shots when he need him.
Speaker 4: And so you know they got the team playing to
Speaker 4: miss uh spreend. So you know, hats off to him.
Speaker 10: Yeah, do you ever talk about this being a measuring
Speaker 10: sick game?
Speaker 12: You know, they're a good offense.
Speaker 5: You're a good defense.
Speaker 1: What's it feel like were the emotions going into this one?
Speaker 3: Hey, I just think about it Sunday.
Speaker 4: You know, Sunday, we'll be we'll be we'll be ready,
Speaker 4: so we'll be ready to welcome those guys here.
Speaker 3: They playing good ball.
Speaker 4: But have you know I'm from that showed me business,
Speaker 4: so gotta show me.
Speaker 1: You guys have eleven different players that have at least
Speaker 1: one sack. I mean, that's that's based in the NFL.
Speaker 10: Everybody's kind of getting in on the act.
Speaker 1: What is it that Mike does to kind of help
Speaker 1: facilitate that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's pretty sweet and clever. Man. I'm a
Speaker 3: huge fan of uh Mike's system.
Speaker 4: What he does things uh being able to just you
Speaker 4: know you're g guaranteed to get your one shot.
Speaker 3: A game, are you gonna take advantage of it?
Speaker 4: So it's basically like that, and you know, giving you
Speaker 4: some same pictures, giving you different pictures with some same things,
Speaker 4: some different things.
Speaker 3: So it's pretty unique within itself and I'm just a
Speaker 3: huge fan of it.
Speaker 5: Brook knowing what this matchup looks like, papers or some
Speaker 5: extra excitement to come home. Consider you guys haven't played
Speaker 5: at home and out money guys.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but you know you always know where home is,
Speaker 4: so we gotta defend on home turf, and that's how
Speaker 4: we look at it. That's a great challenge for us.
Speaker 4: We'll welcome those guys with open arms. And like I
Speaker 4: said earlier, I'm from the show New Building, so you
Speaker 4: know I'm ready to get out there and keep going
Speaker 4: with my guys.
Speaker 10: Rook On is your body?
Speaker 18: I don't find out what they feel any different than
Speaker 18: it normally would based on the travel stuff, or do
Speaker 18: you feel like you're fully recovered and it's business as usual?
Speaker 3: Business is used.
Speaker 10: I'm reading the Rock and Roll.
Speaker 4: I'm not a guy make excuses about anything, so hey,
Speaker 4: when the ball roll out on Sunday, I'll be feeling
Speaker 4: even better than today, but I feel them good today.
Speaker 2: Run of guys said, share your opinions, ri Gina about
Speaker 2: his routes on interception returns they've been Do.
Speaker 12: You have any input, advice, thoughts.
Speaker 4: It's hard for me to give any inputs and thoughts
Speaker 4: on that because he's catching them and I'm not catching him.
Speaker 3: So hats off to him for that.
Speaker 4: I wish I was catching him then I can, like
Speaker 4: more so give some advice, but I can, so hats
Speaker 4: off to the guy for making the plays that he's
Speaker 4: been making.
Speaker 12: Can you talk about winnifast is intercepted? I mean from
Speaker 12: the outside of body's like, it looks like every man
Speaker 12: for himself, but there is protocol. What happens when the
Speaker 12: ball is picked off and you're out there on the
Speaker 12: field on defense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. The first thing you want to do is
Speaker 4: block the intendant receiver. Then you want to get up
Speaker 4: the near sideline, you know, get up the near sideline,
Speaker 4: and once you do that, you can create a chance
Speaker 4: for yourself. So that's basically like just interception.
Speaker 3: Turn over one on one.
Speaker 18: In my opinion, we play some tough guys already, you
Speaker 18: know what I mean.
Speaker 10: All they the toughest that we'll face. We'll see on Sunday.
Speaker 18: You know, I don't want to do too much prayers
Speaker 18: before we play him already, but but you know, we
Speaker 18: respect those guys.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it should be a good game though with Saint Brown.
Speaker 12: What's kinds of the challenges in depending m.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's uh, I don't know year this is. I
Speaker 10: think this year three for him.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 18: So he's an experienced guy, you know, he's he's you know,
Speaker 18: they're go to guys. So you know, we gotta be
Speaker 18: ready to come, uh, you know, play him.
Speaker 12: How did you get up for a game like that?
Speaker 1: You're one of the best defenses in the league, one
Speaker 1: of the versus one of the best offenses in the leagues?
Speaker 10: Off our?
Speaker 1: You know what does that do for kind of the
Speaker 1: anticipation emotions going into the Nags?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 18: Uh, you know, like I said, we know this is
Speaker 18: a big game for for both of us. You know,
Speaker 18: we we know we're gonna get every team's best when
Speaker 18: they come to you know, uh, into our you know,
Speaker 18: our stadium. Yeah, we just gotta play our game. You know,
Speaker 18: we don't, we don't, we don't need to change anything
Speaker 18: of what we're doing. We don't make it. We don't
Speaker 18: need to make it, you know, bigger than what it
Speaker 18: is at the end of the day. We just need
Speaker 18: to you know, be wanting to know at the end.
Speaker 14: Of this week, brand, how do you think your experiences
Speaker 14: year in twenty twenties fondas you to the guys that draft,
Speaker 14: as so many of them are now having break break
Speaker 14: great seasons.
Speaker 10: Yeah, said up one more on, how do you.
Speaker 14: Think your experiences in COVID here twenty twenty kind of
Speaker 14: coming into the league? Dad, you guys like the league
Speaker 14: t G How do you think that kind of monet
Speaker 14: you guys, that's.
Speaker 10: A great Yeah.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean we've been together since, you know, since
Speaker 18: I came into the league, so we we you know,
Speaker 18: we're familiar. You know, we have a couple of new
Speaker 18: guys you know on this defense, but for the most point,
Speaker 18: we've all been together for you know, a couple of
Speaker 18: years now.
Speaker 10: So you know, I mentioned the granted I missed like
Speaker 10: the persont question as to.
Speaker 14: Repeating, can you put any stock into the send of the
Speaker 14: maturance shake the tight game to find out how good
Speaker 14: you are in defensive league?
Speaker 10: Now, I wouldn't say this is a measuring stick.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 18: We just gotta go prove it. We've been proved, been
Speaker 18: proven all year, you know what I mean. We just
Speaker 18: got to go out there and play, execute our game,
Speaker 18: fly around, make big plays, and you know, help to
Speaker 18: see a win.
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