Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Presspass podcast.
Speaker 2: The Ravens fields the Philadelphia Eagles twenty four to nineteen
Speaker 2: on Sunday to drop them to eight and five on
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 1: After the game, we heard from head coach John.
Speaker 3: Hart Okay, appreciate everybody being here. Hard fought game. Congrats
Speaker 3: to the Eagles. They played very well, made the plays
Speaker 3: they needed to make best in the second half to
Speaker 3: find a way to win the game. Guys played hard, fought, competed.
Speaker 3: We didn't play well enough, didn't coach well enough in
Speaker 3: the end to to score enough points or to get
Speaker 3: the stop we needed at the end. So we lost.
Speaker 3: But I'm excited about the opportunity going forward. We've got
Speaker 3: four games left. We played thirteen, and we've been fighting
Speaker 3: and competing and playing a lot of good football against
Speaker 3: a lot of good football teams. I like where we're
Speaker 3: at big picture. I'm looking forward to getting back and
Speaker 3: getting started after next week.
Speaker 4: What questions, jee, John, justin miss from forty seven and fifty,
Speaker 4: I believe what did you see out of those missus?
Speaker 5: Where was it just him sitting at or are there
Speaker 5: are some operational things? What did you say?
Speaker 3: I just saw the missus. I mean, we'll go back
Speaker 3: and look at all that stuff and just do the
Speaker 3: best we can to try to figure it out. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's definitely capable of making every kick. Uh And and
Speaker 3: you know we need him to make We need him
Speaker 3: to make those kicks, and nobody wants to make them
Speaker 3: more than Justin does. I promise you that you.
Speaker 4: And Vision continuing the same approach with Justin, giving him
Speaker 4: space to.
Speaker 6: Try to work through this.
Speaker 5: Well, we've been working through it.
Speaker 3: I mean, you work through with every single player, every
Speaker 3: single thing you fight to try to help guys to
Speaker 3: be successful, you know so, Uh and we can we'll
Speaker 3: do that. I mean, if you're asking me if we're
Speaker 3: going to move on from Justin Tucker, I'm not really
Speaker 3: planning on doing that right now. I don't think that'd
Speaker 3: be wise. But you know, he'll tell you. He'll be
Speaker 3: the first to tell you he's got to make he
Speaker 3: needs to make main kicks as he can and uh
Speaker 3: and uh and I had to think if you look
Speaker 3: at Justin Tucker's history, you'd have to say he's capable
Speaker 3: of doing that, you know, so, but that's uh, that's
Speaker 3: something he's gonna want to do.
Speaker 5: And I know we're all gonna want them to do it.
Speaker 7: John, Your offense started pretty fast as we scored in
Speaker 7: their first two positions. What what about their defense? What
Speaker 7: adjustments did you see that maybe you guys trouble after that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no adjustments. It just we just didn't really get
Speaker 3: couldn't get a rhythm going. We had a couple, a
Speaker 3: couple of mishaps, you know, a couple couple got behind
Speaker 3: the chains once or twice and and really couldn't get
Speaker 3: a rythm the in the second half. Then the end
Speaker 3: of the first half and the second half we really
Speaker 3: couldn't finish, you know, with points. That was the biggest issue.
Speaker 8: Trying to shop abent wound of the knee injury.
Speaker 5: Is Deontay Johnson available?
Speaker 9: I know he didn't look like he played.
Speaker 3: With Yeah, there's a there's I'm not really ready to
Speaker 3: comment on that right now. I will be Uh just
Speaker 3: don't have enough information right now to talk about that.
Speaker 6: Do you have an update over shot abement?
Speaker 3: His knee was sore, I can tell you you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: too sore for him to go back out there at
Speaker 3: the end.
Speaker 7: Tom, what did you like out of your defense's performance.
Speaker 1: In this game?
Speaker 3: Uh. I thought the defense played well. We I don't
Speaker 3: like the one drive, you know, we we we let
Speaker 3: him running on us a little too much there in
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter. That was disappointing. But other than that,
Speaker 3: I thought they step up and played played very well.
Speaker 3: Past defense, no big plays. Run defense was was a stout.
Speaker 3: I thought we did a good job. They had one
Speaker 3: drive where they got some of the r P O
Speaker 3: read option stuff going a little bit and we we
Speaker 3: we adjusted there at halftime and got that cleaned up.
Speaker 3: So I thought they played well.
Speaker 7: I was it disappointing not to be cleaner across the
Speaker 7: board special teams wise, and in that kind of the
Speaker 7: game where you know you're going up against the clean
Speaker 7: not to be cleaner across the board special teams wise,
Speaker 7: you know, tiling with pun return decisions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you want this up to be clean. I mean
Speaker 3: you always want that to be clean for sure.
Speaker 10: And did you approach Tyler Wallace after h his first
Speaker 10: kind of mishappened with the returns And was there a
Speaker 10: discussion on whether or not you should be fielding them
Speaker 10: or not fielding them?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean those are tough balls.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you'd love do you run up during
Speaker 3: fair catch him and catch him and keep him from rolling.
Speaker 3: That's definitely what you want. But he didn't feel like
Speaker 3: he could and he didn't want to. He didn't want
Speaker 3: to risk muff them. I'm sure you know. The one
Speaker 3: he did muff and the other one he probably should
Speaker 3: have fair caught. That one a guy barn down on him.
Speaker 3: But that's you know, you can second guess those decisions
Speaker 3: all you want, but when the ball's there and you're
Speaker 3: standing under him, you know the guys you've done that before.
Speaker 3: Now hard that is to due. But it did cost
Speaker 3: us some yards, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 6: John.
Speaker 11: I know you never want to make the excuses, but
Speaker 11: how difficult is it to go from a Monday night
Speaker 11: game on the road West Coast and come back for
Speaker 11: a what you know, maybe people though it's the biggest
Speaker 11: game of the week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough. I mean, you know, when you play
Speaker 3: Monday night across the country, it's tough. But teams have
Speaker 3: to do it. You know, everybody does it here and there,
Speaker 3: so you just got to be able to handle it.
Speaker 12: John, how do you approach this bye week with the players?
Speaker 12: Do they get the full week off for how are
Speaker 12: you proceeding and does it being such a late by
Speaker 12: impact the decision.
Speaker 6: Making on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna talk tomorrow with the guys. Guys will
Speaker 3: come in and watch the tape, do a different rehab,
Speaker 3: make sure everybody's healthy, you know, or not healthier wherever
Speaker 3: we're at, kind of assessed we're at medically. We'll have
Speaker 3: a team meeting, We'll watch the tape and kind of
Speaker 3: go back through it, make our corrections tomorrow and then
Speaker 3: I'll meet with the leaders and we'll kind of decide
Speaker 3: what to do from there. But they'll get most of
Speaker 3: the week off. You know, they won't get tomorrow off,
Speaker 3: but they'll get most of the week off. And I
Speaker 3: think they did you know, they need it, They've earned it.
Speaker 3: And we'll come back on Monday, ready to go, ready
Speaker 3: to go to work.
Speaker 13: Their quarterbacks and they touchdown per saf What did you
Speaker 13: observe that Did it look to you like they had
Speaker 13: moved on the left side of their life.
Speaker 3: There was some talk about that some people in the
Speaker 3: press box out they had I really don't know. I
Speaker 3: couldn't tell from where I was staying.
Speaker 12: John Marcus Williams just a numbers game or him being
Speaker 12: a healthy scratch.
Speaker 3: A healthy scratch this point, right, Okay?
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 1: We also heard from quarterback Lamar Jackson he.
Speaker 12: Didn't see from every point, didn't seem like the offense
Speaker 12: really got into a rhythm out there.
Speaker 6: Did you feel that way? And why do you think
Speaker 6: that was?
Speaker 5: I believe we did.
Speaker 14: Man at the beginning of the game, you know, Uh,
Speaker 14: when we first got out there, I believe every we
Speaker 14: was hitting on all cylinders and uh the drive, uh
Speaker 14: the fumblesnod mishap, that kind of I felt like we
Speaker 14: we start messing up.
Speaker 5: Right then and there.
Speaker 14: You know, we gotta just stay on task and just
Speaker 14: play our ball, you know, you just play.
Speaker 5: How we play.
Speaker 14: That was a pretty good team, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 14: you know, but I felt like we left stuff out there.
Speaker 14: Shouldn't put more points on the board, shouldn't even put
Speaker 14: tuck in those type of situations.
Speaker 5: You know, but it's football. Everything not gonna go right.
Speaker 5: I'm mark, Mr.
Speaker 7: You You mentioned how you guys started fast. First couple drives,
Speaker 7: you got points when that first player of the third drive,
Speaker 7: uh likely was wide open. What happened on that player?
Speaker 7: Was that a miscommunication or cause it seemed like, you know,
Speaker 7: it was a chance to get another.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they was in they was in quarter. They was
Speaker 14: in quarters, and uh he he was coming out the route.
Speaker 5: I s probably try to.
Speaker 6: I try to.
Speaker 5: I shoulda.
Speaker 14: I was trying to get it up and down so
Speaker 14: the uh say, the corner wasn't be able to fall off,
Speaker 14: but he stayed with the receiver. I shoulda just dotted him.
Speaker 14: But Mishap l mart mentioned.
Speaker 8: Talk obviously, what do you what do you say to God?
Speaker 5: Do you say anything to a guy who's excelled for so.
Speaker 14: Long he'll go still, like, you know, just get back
Speaker 14: to who he is, that's all, you know, whatever's going on,
Speaker 14: just block it out, cause I believe he's still to go.
Speaker 8: So so you just to be clear, you're saying you're
Speaker 8: confidence and you can get.
Speaker 5: Back to that, like, yeah, yeah, I got confidence.
Speaker 14: And you know, uh, he just made his kicks last week.
Speaker 14: You know, he he made made a couple of this game,
Speaker 14: you know, just when we needed it. It just ain't happening,
Speaker 14: you know. But that can go for everybody on the team.
Speaker 14: It's always it's gonna be it's gonna always be something
Speaker 14: within a football game. No game is played perfect, even
Speaker 14: the games when we going teams out. It was something
Speaker 14: that happened in that game that we wanted back, you know,
Speaker 14: So it is what it is.
Speaker 5: We we don't want stuff like that to happen, but
Speaker 5: it do a.
Speaker 2: More just big picture going into the body here with
Speaker 2: four games left, t what do you make of where
Speaker 2: the team is st at this point season?
Speaker 14: Well, just take a deep breath, you know, just sit
Speaker 14: back and just get ready for this ride.
Speaker 5: That's what I take from it.
Speaker 9: A long You guys have s, you know, moments of
Speaker 9: brilliance on all phases at at t points, but it
Speaker 9: just seems like it isn't able to fully come together
Speaker 9: at least not on a consistent basis.
Speaker 5: Is that what you guys see.
Speaker 9: In the NFL?
Speaker 5: How do you think you can go about basing it?
Speaker 14: Yeah, definitely, we need to be more consistent just to
Speaker 14: play out of time, you know. If something happen in
Speaker 14: uh another pa, we don't it. It's been s situations
Speaker 14: in games where we'll have our first play is good,
Speaker 14: you know, but it's a penalty.
Speaker 5: It's first and twenty.
Speaker 14: We still get back on track and start making positive
Speaker 14: things happen. We need to just get to that situation
Speaker 14: and don't try to blame things on one play. You know,
Speaker 14: every a game is not one off one play early
Speaker 14: in the game. Probably later in the game probably is,
Speaker 14: but early.
Speaker 5: In the game. We just fix that and just move on.
Speaker 5: That's what we need to do.
Speaker 12: Want How frustrating was it in the third quarter to
Speaker 12: seem like you guys were doing exactly what you wanted
Speaker 12: to do, extending drives, keeping them off the field. Yeah,
Speaker 12: you have the ball into the whole third quarter ends
Speaker 12: and it's the same score.
Speaker 5: Sys. It's Jeff, that's t I trying to find the
Speaker 5: right red to say about that. But man, we can't.
Speaker 5: We gotta finish, bro.
Speaker 14: We just gotta finish those drives, man, especially in the
Speaker 14: game like this. It's a great team, great offense and defense. Uh,
Speaker 14: we gotta put points on the board, and we just
Speaker 14: didn't do that until later on in the game when
Speaker 14: it's when it's over.
Speaker 15: Mmar, this offense has.
Speaker 10: Been rather strong in red zone situations.
Speaker 12: Just wasn't performance forces night?
Speaker 10: What maybe was s struggling about them?
Speaker 15: What did duels do?
Speaker 12: What did you guys do that was effective? What kind
Speaker 12: of went down.
Speaker 5: And play zone?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 14: Uh, I'll just say they defensive line was just was
Speaker 14: just doing a great job at you know, just tryna
Speaker 14: keep everything in front of them. Uh, just hauling tail
Speaker 14: to you know, backside runs and stuff like that. But
Speaker 14: like I said, we just gotta do a better job
Speaker 14: at point points on the board.
Speaker 5: That's our job. We gotta do that.
Speaker 14: Block 'em, throw passes, catch passes, do it all. That's
Speaker 14: that's why we the offensive players.
Speaker 3: Why your connection with Mark Andrews too, it was really
Speaker 3: maybe as good as it's been all season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, did you take me through that a little bit?
Speaker 5: Why do you think it was extra special to that?
Speaker 14: Uh, he's just a dog oh Mark m man Jos
Speaker 14: is a dog man and he always he always.
Speaker 5: Wanna win, you know.
Speaker 14: Uh, we need guys like that, you know, we have
Speaker 14: guys like that. We just gotta do it, you know,
Speaker 14: man Jos is who he is. Like I said earlier
Speaker 14: in the year when they was talking about the trading
Speaker 14: 'em that, you know.
Speaker 4: Did you have said to what he was gonna do
Speaker 4: on a touchdown catch like he? I mean he made
Speaker 4: that little kind of hooked throat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw I'm sorry to cut you off. I
Speaker 5: saw him.
Speaker 14: I saw him trying to make something happen you know,
Speaker 14: going like scramble drill, even though I wasn't scrambling, but
Speaker 14: all like they dropped everyone in the.
Speaker 5: In the end zone and he just made he just
Speaker 5: did a good job a getting open.
Speaker 14: I just had to put some put some speed behind
Speaker 14: the ball, philocity behind the ball for him to be
Speaker 14: able to make a play on it.
Speaker 12: Or looking back, you feel like there were some opportunities
Speaker 12: to run today for you they may have passed up.
Speaker 14: Yeah, my mama just told me that. She just she
Speaker 14: just custs me out. So like I'm I'm I'm mad.
Speaker 14: So like we gonna get after it. Br I ain't
Speaker 14: gonna lie to we gonna get after it. I can't
Speaker 14: wait til this boy get get on like we got
Speaker 14: the giants coming up.
Speaker 5: I'm ready to go. Like I'm just ready to go.
Speaker 5: So what did you cut you out about?
Speaker 14: She said it was lanes. I shoulda took uh rants.
Speaker 14: But you know, I was just tryna let guys develop routes.
Speaker 14: We had developing routes. I was just tryna go through
Speaker 14: my progression. But yees, she right, I'm gonna do my beard.
Speaker 14: I'm sorry, I I'm sorry for this. I'm just mad
Speaker 14: cause we I feel like we should win these.
Speaker 5: Games and we we not get 'em done.
Speaker 6: Not just to like the blast jec. Have you been
Speaker 6: making a concerted effort to run less and seems like
Speaker 6: they were happening.
Speaker 5: Nah, that's r That's not on my mind. No, that's
Speaker 5: not on my mind.
Speaker 14: I'm just tryna let things happen and tryna get my
Speaker 14: guys opportunities to get in the ball.
Speaker 5: That's all they're going through my progressive.
Speaker 8: So you're talking, you're talking about being frustrated right here,
Speaker 8: Uh about not closing these games. How much that frustration
Speaker 8: is reserved for your own performance?
Speaker 6: Sh Uh.
Speaker 14: I'm always gonna put myself at the at the front line,
Speaker 14: no matter if I played good or not. You know
Speaker 14: I I played alright, But yeah, I'm just ticked off
Speaker 14: cause I I we left things out there on that field.
Speaker 14: Meet everyone. You know, it's a team sport. They're not
Speaker 14: no I in team.
Speaker 8: I don't think we sells yet out there.
Speaker 12: John was asked about it and didn't give.
Speaker 8: The reasons that he needs more information for you though,
Speaker 8: I mean, do you have a conversation with Deonte to
Speaker 8: make sure.
Speaker 11: That he stays locked in and those that there's a
Speaker 11: role for.
Speaker 12: Him moving forward.
Speaker 14: Yeah, absolutely, we want to out there. You know, he's
Speaker 14: a great receiver. We didn't get him from the Panther
Speaker 14: for nine. I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Themar big picture heading into the by eight and five,
Speaker 4: your game and a half behind the Steelers, what do
Speaker 4: you where do you think that the the full team is.
Speaker 14: We don't need to worry about the Steelers. We need
Speaker 14: to worry about us. That's the first thing to wear about.
Speaker 6: Whatever.
Speaker 14: We need to clean up on this side, cleanup, like
Speaker 14: forget every other team. We need be beating ourselves out there.
Speaker 14: Little opportunities were not making them happen. You know, we
Speaker 14: need to make those critical situations happen, and we're not
Speaker 14: doing it.
Speaker 1: Next, we heard from Justin Tucker.
Speaker 8: We never missed a field goal and I next for
Speaker 8: pointing the same game and obviously missed two tonight.
Speaker 6: What was going on out there for you? Uh?
Speaker 13: As simply as I can put it, I miss the
Speaker 13: kicks and you know, I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 6: I just left the points out there.
Speaker 13: I feel like I cost us this one, but it
Speaker 13: doesn't really do anybody any good to dwell on it.
Speaker 13: The only thing that we can do that I can
Speaker 13: do is just continue to work, move forward, take one.
Speaker 6: Kick at a time. You know, I I hate that.
Speaker 13: I I've had to have this same conversation over the
Speaker 13: the course of this season, but uh, you know, that's
Speaker 13: that's something that comes with the territory in this job
Speaker 13: description that kicks a out, are good.
Speaker 6: It or not? And uh, today.
Speaker 13: I did not do a good enough job to help
Speaker 13: our team win the football game.
Speaker 9: Well, thats just You've obviously never gone through a stretch
Speaker 9: like this to this part of your career. I mean,
Speaker 9: how are you dealing with this right now? I'm I
Speaker 9: are you how how are you mentally dealing with what's
Speaker 9: happening right now?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean obviously right now, just immediately after the game.
Speaker 13: It's it's pretty raw emotionally for me. I mean, you know,
Speaker 13: anytime anytime we win, we come into locker room and
Speaker 13: we all feel great, and then you know, anytime we
Speaker 13: we lose, uh, you know, especially you know, for for me,
Speaker 13: given my performance today, it was just not up to
Speaker 13: our standard.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 13: It's it's crushing, you know, but at the end of
Speaker 13: the day, my feelings don't really matter. What matters is
Speaker 13: getting back to work and doing everything that I can
Speaker 13: to help this football team win games down the stretch.
Speaker 16: Just where do you go on that that we're out
Speaker 16: there for a kick now anything feel different physically when
Speaker 16: you're getting ads lining up to go ahead and take
Speaker 16: a kick and what it did in the past when
Speaker 16: it was all and you know, when.
Speaker 13: We're just sure, I wouldn't, I wouldn't say so. I
Speaker 13: think it's just a matter of you know, and I've
Speaker 13: said this before that each kick kind of lives in
Speaker 13: its own world. You know, whether it's a pat or
Speaker 13: you know, a field goal from this hash going in
Speaker 13: this direction or vice versa. You know, each kick, uh
Speaker 13: kind of has to live on its own. And yeah,
Speaker 13: leave it at that.
Speaker 8: You know, we've we've asked you about, you know, missing
Speaker 8: left and then think the second one you missed the
Speaker 8: night was right? Were you trying to change the target
Speaker 8: point where you're trying to compensate for some of the
Speaker 8: drift you've had left.
Speaker 13: I wasn't really trying to compensate for any other kicks
Speaker 13: that had gotten away from me previously, because, like I said,
Speaker 13: each kick is its own, It lives in its own world,
Speaker 13: and it's its own it's its own challenge. So the
Speaker 13: the fact that a number of kicks have gone left
Speaker 13: on me, uh didn't have anything to do with why
Speaker 13: the fifty three yard or.
Speaker 6: Uh why I pushed it right.
Speaker 13: It was just a matter of I didn't strike the ball, uh,
Speaker 13: you know on the target line or on the exact
Speaker 13: target line that I wanted to on that.
Speaker 6: Give and kick.
Speaker 8: Has these recent games influenced your thinking and.
Speaker 6: Going to the bye week?
Speaker 8: How do you use this week to to prepare?
Speaker 13: I think we're gonna treat this week just like any
Speaker 13: other break that we we've had before.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 13: You know, we're gonna turn over every stone, and you
Speaker 13: know I I will do that individually for sure, you know,
Speaker 13: to and just to address any and all issues I
Speaker 13: may have with my technique, anything tangible, anything concrete that
Speaker 13: I can you know, make it a point to remedy,
Speaker 13: you know. And that's what I mean when I say
Speaker 13: the only thing that I can do is just get
Speaker 13: back to work. The only thing that we can do
Speaker 13: is just get back to work and you know, do
Speaker 13: the things that we know will help our team win
Speaker 13: football games.
Speaker 6: All right, I guess.
Speaker 1: We also heard from Defense Alignment Nondi Metabek.
Speaker 17: Just be there for him. You know, he's we we
Speaker 17: all know he's one of the greatest kickings of the
Speaker 17: laite history and you know, just having a tough time
Speaker 17: right now. He's human, so be there for him and
Speaker 17: don't switch on him.
Speaker 6: And now you guys up to buy.
Speaker 5: So what's the mindset now in terms of getting back
Speaker 5: at it.
Speaker 17: Just refresh, you know, get your bodies right. You know,
Speaker 17: we started earlier than a lot of teams in the league,
Speaker 17: and we had a really late by week, probably the
Speaker 17: latest of one of the teams in the league. So
Speaker 17: everybody's a little banged up. You know, if you're not,
Speaker 17: you're not playing football. So everybody needs to just get ready,
Speaker 17: get get right, get their mind right, see their family,
Speaker 17: do what you gotta do, cause we have a four
Speaker 17: game stretch that we wanna try to win every game.
Speaker 16: So, yeah, you guys did a great job bodling up
Speaker 16: there run game for until in the mid mid fourth
Speaker 16: quarter or so.
Speaker 5: What was the key to keeping that in check?
Speaker 6: To that point?
Speaker 17: Is that the question one more time.
Speaker 3: You guys did a great job bowling up their run
Speaker 3: game for three and a half quarters.
Speaker 6: Basically, what was the key.
Speaker 5: To keeping that in check?
Speaker 17: Just doing our job, you know what I mean, just
Speaker 17: building a wall, u ustle in the d line, you
Speaker 17: know what I'm saying, looking at your keys, looking at
Speaker 17: your points of attack in the in the in the dbs,
Speaker 17: and that's what we wanna do, and that's what we
Speaker 17: were doing. We kind of let us slip the third
Speaker 17: quarter and then you know, I think they uh just
Speaker 17: played atter ball on the fourth That's just how it
Speaker 17: went about. So everybody just needs to just go in
Speaker 17: the field fix those things.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 17: We're gonna go back tomorrow and watch some film things
Speaker 17: that we can correct them. Then everybody just get help,
Speaker 17: get back out.
Speaker 16: You've gotta be real disappointing, you guys get all built
Speaker 16: up for this big game of the week, you know
Speaker 16: with the Eagles right now, just kind of wear the emotions.
Speaker 17: Uh, you know, we're not exciting. You know, we lost,
Speaker 17: and I mean, if you lose, you're not gonna be excited.
Speaker 17: So the emotions is just we usually find ways to
Speaker 17: get better and look at the things that we did
Speaker 17: wrong and correct them.
Speaker 5: That's what we got.
Speaker 16: The touchdown drive that they have where sake one ends
Speaker 16: up with a run, there's.
Speaker 3: Like three or four runs in a row there what
Speaker 3: what happened in that stretch.
Speaker 17: He just found ways to get in those creases and
Speaker 17: take advantage of his momentum going forward and you know,
Speaker 17: gain yardage. That's what happened. Appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Next we heard from linebacker roqu Wand Smith.
Speaker 11: You know, take this about a week to recharge and
Speaker 11: we got a New York team that we have na
Speaker 11: uh in two weeks, so just preparing for that. But
Speaker 11: hatch off of those guys for getting a job done.
Speaker 8: Okame, what do you think you did well in those
Speaker 8: first few drives against this offense that that maybe.
Speaker 6: Got away from you guys.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 11: I think we just played our style of UH football,
Speaker 11: and I think that was uh simple. And you know,
Speaker 11: it's a long game. It's not about what you do,
Speaker 11: uh a couple drives out of the game. It's about
Speaker 11: what you do throughout the duration of the game. And uh,
Speaker 11: we didn't do it long enough. At the end of
Speaker 11: the day, they scored more points than us. And when
Speaker 11: you look at it like that, this team that scores
Speaker 11: the most points, that's the team that win.
Speaker 8: Just you, the last couple of weeks, it seemed there's
Speaker 8: been some close games in you know, Pittsburgh and in
Speaker 8: this game.
Speaker 5: Don't go your way?
Speaker 8: How how frustrating is that the kind of feel like
Speaker 8: the games right there and and not quite measure up.
Speaker 11: Oh, it's always frustrating when you're h we're in the NFL.
Speaker 11: You wanna win each and every game that you go
Speaker 11: out there and play. You prepare each and every week
Speaker 11: to win each and every game. So that's that's the
Speaker 11: mindset going in and at the end of the day,
Speaker 11: just looking at it and how the game ended, we
Speaker 11: didn't do enough, uh, in order to win. And as
Speaker 11: a defense, you know, team don't score, they don't win.
Speaker 11: And now that's the mindset that I'll always have, and
Speaker 11: that's the mindset that will have regardless of how the
Speaker 11: game win.
Speaker 6: They're coming off an injury.
Speaker 5: How'd you feel out there? Cause it did I feel fun?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 5: I felt fine.
Speaker 11: If I'm out there, i'm'a give it everything I got
Speaker 11: And that's what it's all about.
Speaker 5: Uh, No sappy story for me.
Speaker 11: I'll be ready whenever.
Speaker 16: Well for three and a half quarters to really bottle
Speaker 16: up sae quon until that last driver he's gotten at
Speaker 16: the end zone.
Speaker 3: What did you guys do so well?
Speaker 16: And was it and at the end it was just
Speaker 16: you finally it's frustration when they got worked through.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 11: Yeah, no, I think we just stuck to our rules
Speaker 11: at the end of the day and then it was
Speaker 11: basically goes back to assignment, like, uh, all eleven guys
Speaker 11: didn't do their assignment on that and that's what it
Speaker 11: boils down to. Uh, at the end of the day,
Speaker 11: nine ten people can do the right thing. And I
Speaker 11: coulda did better on that play as well, you know. So, Uh,
Speaker 11: it's just about each and every guy doing their job
Speaker 11: and that was the main focus through the week and
Speaker 11: on that play, you know.
Speaker 6: Everybody didn't do their job. And but it starts with
Speaker 6: it starts with me.
Speaker 8: How do you think this result affects your approach going
Speaker 8: into the bye week?
Speaker 11: Just give me more few, honestly, more few going into
Speaker 11: the bay week. Just knowing that, hey, you know, this
Speaker 11: game got away from us, but you can't let this
Speaker 11: game beat us twice. Uh have to recharge, and just
Speaker 11: knowing that, you know, four game stretch at the end,
Speaker 11: and if we do what we have to do to
Speaker 11: four game stretch at the end, can win the division.
Speaker 11: And just have to have that mindset. But just have
Speaker 11: to do it one game at a time.
Speaker 5: Oh, kay's that by right now?
Speaker 16: It's been a long season at this point, you really
Speaker 16: do have to wait this long to get to it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, I think that by is crucial, uh at
Speaker 11: this point in the season. Just knowing where we are
Speaker 11: as a team, uh, and the mindset that we have
Speaker 11: for knowing that we wanna make a push and we
Speaker 11: will make a push, and like having that reset button.
Speaker 11: Obviously won't have a first round by as we did
Speaker 11: last year, but just having this buy right now and
Speaker 11: just knowing it's gonna be down the scretch and that
Speaker 11: these four games are gonna be uh very important and
Speaker 11: gotta get better from this game, and just knowing that
Speaker 11: we uh on New York team guys are gonna be hungry,
Speaker 11: regardless of their record and whatnot. And just knowing guys
Speaker 11: are fighting.
Speaker 12: For their livelihood.
Speaker 11: So at the end of the day, they have families defeat,
Speaker 11: so do we, So it's not gonna be a walk over.
Speaker 11: So we gotta go in p take this week off mentally, physically,
Speaker 11: give our bodies a reset, and then get ready uh
Speaker 11: for New York, And just knowing it's gonna be a
Speaker 11: nice little stretch.
Speaker 1: Next up is cornerback.
Speaker 6: What moments?
Speaker 2: How do you kind of process this game and what
Speaker 2: do you guys do to to shake this off in
Speaker 2: the game?
Speaker 6: Uh, hard to say. Obviously wanted to get the win.
Speaker 18: I I I thought, you know, I thought we had
Speaker 18: some self inflicting wounds on offense and defense. But you're
Speaker 18: we gotta come in tomorrow watch the film. But you know,
Speaker 18: obviously wanted to get this one before the buye came
Speaker 18: up short, So y you kind of we'll see tomorrow,
Speaker 18: look at the film and then kind of go from there.
Speaker 18: But ya, it's a obviously not a great time to lose.
Speaker 18: But being that you got to buy, I guess, uh,
Speaker 18: it's it's got time to you got time to flush.
Speaker 4: Probably when you have a guy like ya, I mean
Speaker 4: you you've been with Justin Tucker a long time. I
Speaker 4: mean you guys probably almost have taken his greatness for granted.
Speaker 6: I mean a as a teammate.
Speaker 4: Do you do you say anything to him when he's
Speaker 4: going through these struggles or do you sort of just
Speaker 4: trust him to get through it?
Speaker 6: How do you how do you look at it? Yeah?
Speaker 18: I think uh I s I said on the sideline,
Speaker 18: I think Tucker is I said this to some of
Speaker 18: the guys, or I said, I think this is normal
Speaker 18: for kickers. But we we've just had been so blessed
Speaker 18: by by Tucker's you know eliteness that you know, we
Speaker 18: kind of take it for granted. You know, used to
Speaker 18: sit down there on the on the when he goes
Speaker 18: out there and you know what's going in. But you know,
Speaker 18: I think great players they get out of those slumps,
Speaker 18: are great at at the right moment, and I think
Speaker 18: Tucker's Tuckers is one of those guys. But there's not
Speaker 18: much I know about kicking, but I do know Tucker's
Speaker 18: have gotta get things turned around well.
Speaker 5: And a half back in the Steelers before do you
Speaker 5: guys have full games left?
Speaker 13: What do you what?
Speaker 5: Do you think you had a chance of the still
Speaker 5: winning this decision?
Speaker 18: I know we'll obviously we'll we'll need some I actually
Speaker 18: I think being there we play them, I think that
Speaker 18: gives us a pretty good chance there if they lose one,
Speaker 18: and then we if we when we went out, So
Speaker 18: I think we uh, I think we're in a good position,
Speaker 18: a great position. Watch his tape, clean some things up,
Speaker 18: enjoy this buy and then uh, come back where in
Speaker 18: a row?
Speaker 4: Big picture, do you feel like the defense has turned
Speaker 4: a bit of a corner over the last month. I
Speaker 4: mean you you had some difficult things to say about
Speaker 4: the defense m month six weeks ago.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it's been you know it, it's been fun to
Speaker 18: actually get through and ounce.
Speaker 6: We we we had a a plethora of those I
Speaker 6: felt today.
Speaker 18: Okay, I think the biggest thing after whatever game that was, man,
Speaker 18: it was it was time to play, you know, Ravens defense.
Speaker 18: And I think you know at A's at some defense
Speaker 18: and Ravens defense, there's a big gap between that and
Speaker 18: the it wa It was the message kind of became
Speaker 18: a little bit clear, or if you wanna play ball,
Speaker 18: then we'll get you out there, but if you don't,
Speaker 18: you gonna have to sit on the sideline. And I
Speaker 18: think guys responded really well to to what was being
Speaker 18: preached amongst the coaches, amongst the players, and uh, we're
Speaker 18: holding guys more accountable now.
Speaker 6: And we were just the brand we were playing.
Speaker 18: It's you know, it's disrespectful to be in in this
Speaker 18: Raven's uniform and play like that.
Speaker 6: And I think.
Speaker 18: I I I feel like we we've turned that corner.
Speaker 18: It's not perfect, but I still think there's a little
Speaker 18: more corn corners to turn. But the mindset has really changed.
Speaker 18: The mindset has has really really changed, And that's kind
Speaker 18: of where it starts.
Speaker 6: Parlam.
Speaker 15: Is there some I guess, I don't know, unhappiness or
Speaker 15: just what pessimism about how when you guys have had
Speaker 15: really good games on defense, it hasn't always aligned with
Speaker 15: the days when you have really good days on offense,
Speaker 15: and just you haven't.
Speaker 7: Really be able to kind of match, you know, develop
Speaker 7: that kind.
Speaker 6: Of whole complete game.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it hasn't really I I know, the defenders, we
Speaker 18: haven't really looked at it as far as that aspect.
Speaker 6: We're just kind of do what we can.
Speaker 18: But you know, if you you take it back early
Speaker 18: to the season, you know, if if that I'm I'm happy,
Speaker 18: you know where we're We're just trying to move as
Speaker 18: as one unit.
Speaker 6: Worry about the defense.
Speaker 18: But earlier in the year, I mean, if we didn't
Speaker 18: have offense going crazy there, I don't know what our
Speaker 18: recor would be. So we haven't really th This isn't
Speaker 18: really uh much of a point your finger team. That's
Speaker 18: been the the best thing about this team it's let's
Speaker 18: do our job, do your job, and let's come together.
Speaker 18: But yeah, you definitely wanna get clicking on all cylinders offense, defense,
Speaker 18: special teams, and so uh, that's what we're chasing going forward.
Speaker 12: MM more, when do you feel like when you're playing
Speaker 12: these top teams like the.
Speaker 4: Chiefs and Pittsburgh and Philly that you're just lacking a
Speaker 4: kind of a complete effort in all three phases? Do
Speaker 4: you think that's sort of pulling your back against these teams?
Speaker 18: I really, I really can't say. Oh, I really yeah,
Speaker 18: I really, I really can't really say. I I gotta
Speaker 18: I'd have to look a little more at the tape,
Speaker 18: but I do know there were some some self inflicted
Speaker 18: wounds there, But I really can't say.
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