Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: January seventeenth, and the Ravens are getting ready to host
Speaker 1: the Division Round playoff matchup against the Houston Texans. Today,
Speaker 1: we had a chance to hear from the coordinators. That's
Speaker 1: kick things off with Special Teams coordinator Chris Horton.
Speaker 2: Good to see everyone today. Hope you guys all doing well.
Speaker 3: So you guys out there braving that first fifteen minutes
Speaker 3: of outside and that Colt so that was that was
Speaker 3: good to see for us. You know, we're just looking
Speaker 3: forward to this opportunity. You know, we get to go
Speaker 3: up against face a good Houston Special teams unit.
Speaker 2: Those guys have been great all year. You know, it's
Speaker 2: just good.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a good challenge for us and our
Speaker 3: guys to just go out there and really just take
Speaker 3: care of our business and do what we do.
Speaker 4: Questions, Chris, how do you feel Devin Duverney has been
Speaker 4: progressing back from injury and what you've seen him from him.
Speaker 3: So far, He's been great since he's gotten back out there.
Speaker 3: Just you know, he's just fit right back into where
Speaker 3: to where he left off. You know, he came back
Speaker 3: and started to get those opportunities. We put him back there,
Speaker 3: let him, let him feel some of those punts, feel
Speaker 3: some of those kickoffs.
Speaker 2: And he looks good. He looks like he's ready to go.
Speaker 5: But is the idea that if if he is out there,
Speaker 5: that he would resume those responsibilities.
Speaker 3: Of course, I mean, you know, it's it's uh it's
Speaker 3: it's his it's his job before he got hurt. Right,
Speaker 3: It's one of those things we've had, Like I said, man,
Speaker 3: we got guys that.
Speaker 2: We could that we could throw back there.
Speaker 3: If the weather's back, you know, there's an opportunity possibly
Speaker 3: could see two guys back there, you know. Uh So,
Speaker 3: just just giving those responsibilities and given those options that
Speaker 3: we do have, you know, I think it's it's good
Speaker 3: for us to to, you know, put our put our
Speaker 3: pro our Pro Bowl player back there.
Speaker 6: I didn't.
Speaker 7: I believe Texans scare scored very highly in those recent
Speaker 7: special teams Ryan gigs that people cite.
Speaker 8: What what is it especially that makes them so good?
Speaker 3: And in that face of the game, you know, Frankie's
Speaker 3: done a good job. You know, he's done a good
Speaker 3: job with the guys that he's got. They got a
Speaker 3: good they got a good core group. They got some
Speaker 3: veteran guys, some guys that have really made their mark
Speaker 3: through special teams, and then they got some young guys
Speaker 3: that have that have played well for him just throughout
Speaker 3: the entire year, you know, and then and they do it.
Speaker 2: They just do a really good job.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: They play fast, they play physical pretty much. I think
Speaker 3: what you'll see from the rest of their team right
Speaker 3: just kind of what the head coach is instilled in
Speaker 3: those guys. And that's what you're getting on special teams.
Speaker 3: But uh, you know, for us, it's just go out
Speaker 3: and just really go play our game and let's go
Speaker 3: do what we do.
Speaker 9: Chris. We've certainly asked you a lot about weather Overdeus,
Speaker 9: but usually wind and rain. I mean, you you reference
Speaker 9: to the player, what.
Speaker 6: What effect does cold have, especially on the kicking game,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 3: Obviously, uh, ball flight, you know, obviously it affects the
Speaker 3: ball flight and things like that.
Speaker 2: But as far as any anything else.
Speaker 3: You know, those guys, those specialists, they go out, they
Speaker 3: take care of the fundamentals and you should be able
Speaker 3: to get, you know, what you need out of it.
Speaker 3: For us, we practice on field three, you know, and
Speaker 3: it's windy, it's cold out there all the time, so
Speaker 3: I don't think this should affect us too much.
Speaker 1: That was specially teams coordinator. We also heard from offensive
Speaker 1: coordinators Todd.
Speaker 10: Munkett, what do you what do you see from Lamar
Speaker 10: this week? Game players?
Speaker 11: In this big game?
Speaker 8: He looks loose out there?
Speaker 9: Just what do you see from that? Yeah, that's good
Speaker 9: because you locked in.
Speaker 10: You know, it's what you spend off season, you know,
Speaker 10: training camp, then you know, all the work you put
Speaker 10: in during the year put yourself in this position. That's
Speaker 10: what you do. So now it's it's a one game season.
Speaker 10: Somebody said it's not a three game season. It's a
Speaker 10: one game season. I mean, we've got to win this week.
Speaker 12: We've seen seems like the Buffalo you know, lead into
Speaker 12: the kind of quarterback run game in the playoffs when
Speaker 12: when they get there, are are there certain buttons that
Speaker 12: you are maybe more comfortable booking at now?
Speaker 8: Do you think that you wouldn't houses in the season?
Speaker 10: I don't know if i'd say from the regular season.
Speaker 10: Do I think we've improved over the course of the season, Yes,
Speaker 10: gotten more comfortable with you know, our personnel where we're at.
Speaker 9: How do you utilize them?
Speaker 10: Yes, but I don't know if anything from the regular
Speaker 10: season to now changes because we are who we are.
Speaker 10: Seeing how the Texan gotten better over the course of
Speaker 10: the season, especially with their right defense, well I just
Speaker 10: think they're getting more and more comfortable with the scheme.
Speaker 10: I mean, it's you know, they're a different team now,
Speaker 10: and we are just like every team in the NFL,
Speaker 10: for better and for worse, You're you're not going to
Speaker 10: be the same.
Speaker 9: Team you were Week one. Hopefully it's for the better.
Speaker 10: I believe we are, especially offensively, and they are, I mean,
Speaker 10: you know, defensively, new staff, offensively, new staff, everything else
Speaker 10: was offensively new no preseason, So you're going to see
Speaker 10: them doing it better, you know, just consistently doing it better,
Speaker 10: feeling more and more comfortable.
Speaker 9: You know, That's what you see.
Speaker 10: That's a lot of the same players, it's the same coaches,
Speaker 10: just the same scheme.
Speaker 9: They just seem seem to be doing it better. And
Speaker 9: they're aggressive.
Speaker 10: I mean they're they're aggressive and they're very active upfront.
Speaker 10: Their safeties are good players in the box, good tacklers.
Speaker 10: So we have a work cut out for us.
Speaker 9: How Mark Andrews kind of looked at practice for good.
Speaker 13: If he's able to play, how does that with Isia luckily,
Speaker 13: with what he's been able to do?
Speaker 2: Uh, how does that? Maybe?
Speaker 10: You know, we'll just have to see. It's kind of
Speaker 10: hard right now to say that. You know, it's day
Speaker 10: to day and it's not only that, it's not only
Speaker 10: the practice. That's the how Mark feels afterwards. You know
Speaker 10: how his body feels, you know what it tells him.
Speaker 10: And then you know, should he be able to go,
Speaker 10: how we can implement him in the game plan? You know,
Speaker 10: And that's kind of what you asked me, But I
Speaker 10: really don't have the answer right now. You know, we're
Speaker 10: excited that he's back out there practice and I can
Speaker 10: tell you that Nicole would.
Speaker 14: Win like you're going to see Saturday. How important is
Speaker 14: just mindset versus Is that the biggest part of fighting
Speaker 14: through that and dealing with it?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 10: I think mindset's a big part of it, you know,
Speaker 10: being mentally tough, anticipating that what to expect. We got
Speaker 10: out there today, which was good, tied in drain camp.
Speaker 13: He said that quarterback empowerment for the stack can bring
Speaker 13: authentive here to hear, how would you track that progress
Speaker 13: with the art. Of course, you can use your hand
Speaker 13: if you don't mean.
Speaker 9: You got the old Ricky Bobby thing working. Don't know
Speaker 9: what to do with my hands.
Speaker 10: You know, it's always a work in progress. I don't
Speaker 10: care who it is. You know, we've come a long way.
Speaker 10: I will say that, from off season to training camp,
Speaker 10: to the start of the year to trying to eliminate
Speaker 10: a lot of the drag that we had early in
Speaker 10: the year, starting with me, how I did it, and
Speaker 10: then the communication what he likes, who we have personnel wise,
Speaker 10: how we build it each week, who were playing him,
Speaker 10: being comfortable to be able to say what's on his mind.
Speaker 10: It's just not empowerment in terms of on the field.
Speaker 10: It's off the field. It's everything. It's leadership. It's being
Speaker 10: able to communicate his thoughts, likes, dislikes, how he sees it,
Speaker 10: what he heard of what I said, because it doesn't
Speaker 10: matter what I say if he didn't understand that part
Speaker 10: of what I was trying to get across, or we
Speaker 10: were it's not me, our staff, Okay, that's what we're
Speaker 10: trying to get across, and that's not any We just
Speaker 10: haven't been together a long long time. You know, so
Speaker 10: the longer you're together, the more you understand like each
Speaker 10: other and likes and dislikes.
Speaker 5: All security obviously that's a big point of emphasis every week.
Speaker 5: But you know, when you're going up against a defense
Speaker 5: like this, then that really depends heavily on their takeaways.
Speaker 5: Is it stressed anymore this time?
Speaker 6: I am.
Speaker 10: I wouldn't say it's stressed any more than it has been,
Speaker 10: because we know it's the number one indicator winning and losing,
Speaker 10: taking the ball away or giving the ball away, and
Speaker 10: it's it's even more important the NFL, just because that
Speaker 10: you know you're going up against really good teams every week,
Speaker 10: so it's every possession super important as we know, and
Speaker 10: giving the ballway eliminates any opportunity to score, to get
Speaker 10: points on the board.
Speaker 9: So I wouldn't say it's stressed anymore other.
Speaker 10: Than you understand that when you're playing against really good teams,
Speaker 10: which they are. The teams that are left are really good,
Speaker 10: you can't waste opportunities and give them opportunities to put
Speaker 10: points on the board and take away and take away
Speaker 10: momentum or add momentum. You saw it in some of
Speaker 10: the games this weekend when you watch it that the
Speaker 10: momentum is a powerful thing.
Speaker 6: Game.
Speaker 5: What did that game against the Texas also show you
Speaker 5: about him? And where have you seen him make his
Speaker 5: biggest improvements over the.
Speaker 10: Course of his orvices. Well, the things he did in
Speaker 10: the first game you still see today is athleticism. You see,
Speaker 10: you saw that making people miss, trying to get him
Speaker 10: in space. Where he's improved dramatically is just playing the
Speaker 10: position strong. That's that's too strong. It's really in terms
Speaker 10: of what we're asking him to do in terms of
Speaker 10: just conceptually the routes, spacing and when we move him around,
Speaker 10: which is hard for a rookie, you know, just being
Speaker 10: dialed in.
Speaker 8: That was O. S.
Speaker 1: Todd munkin next up is defensive coordinator at Mike McDonald.
Speaker 4: All right, good to see every buddy before we get going. Uh,
Speaker 4: just great to be able to practice outside. So shout
Speaker 4: out to our ground screw man to clear that field
Speaker 4: out and make it unfrozen. Was pretty impressive. It was
Speaker 4: cool to hear how they did it, but that was
Speaker 4: pretty neat. So any questions of my ears, how you.
Speaker 11: Know you sold CJ in that first game in watching
Speaker 11: him now and you know what's the biggest difference to
Speaker 11: you see in his.
Speaker 4: Game now, Well, we were really impressed in the first
Speaker 4: game too. We knew going into the game that you know,
Speaker 4: if you if you remember me talking about it back then,
Speaker 4: was we didn't feel like you were going against a
Speaker 4: rookie at that point.
Speaker 8: So I think you're just seeing the natural progression of
Speaker 8: of of over the course.
Speaker 4: Of the season, just being more comfortable with than the system.
Speaker 4: And you can tell the systems growing around him, and
Speaker 4: you know they've evolved as we have as well, you know,
Speaker 4: So I think that's what you're saying, But definitely a
Speaker 4: lot of respect for what they're doing and how he operates.
Speaker 12: I got I think it's gonna be your take, your
Speaker 12: third time going against CJ. Going back to your days
Speaker 12: at Michigan. Obviously, you know there's not a lot of
Speaker 12: there's not too much dissimilarity between like what defenses run.
Speaker 12: But do you go as far back that as far
Speaker 12: back as you know, twenty twenty one to see maybe
Speaker 12: how he kind of reacts with the stuff that you'd
Speaker 12: like to run, or was that you focused more so
Speaker 12: on this season?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'd focus more on this season.
Speaker 4: The system that he's running is pretty drastically different than
Speaker 4: what he was doing in college. And yeah, we haven't
Speaker 4: thought about that game at all.
Speaker 9: Really, mich are you.
Speaker 5: Saying and is from this offense? Are you saying anything
Speaker 5: that some of the same principles maybe especially as some
Speaker 5: of the down the bail pass and that maybe you
Speaker 5: did see in your time in college.
Speaker 4: Well, there's going to be carryover on routes because there's
Speaker 4: only so many things you can do with eleven guys.
Speaker 8: But uh, it really is different.
Speaker 4: I mean the system, how they're operating and marroring the
Speaker 4: run in the past and things like that, I'd say it,
Speaker 4: you know, and they've evolved over the course of the.
Speaker 8: Season, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean obviously he's comfortable with certain things that they're
Speaker 4: you know, emphasizing, and like any good offense is gonna do,
Speaker 4: you're gonna tail it around, you know, the people that
Speaker 4: you have, especially the quarterback.
Speaker 8: Like what's really stood out to you by the way
Speaker 8: Ronald Darby and has played this year Wow consistent. I mean,
Speaker 8: he's always right at me.
Speaker 4: His role has kind of evolved from week to week,
Speaker 4: so you know, he started out this season play I mean,
Speaker 4: he's just played great football for us. So that's probably
Speaker 4: the best compliment I can give you. But he's always
Speaker 4: ready to go, even if he's not in the starting lineup,
Speaker 4: So whatever his role is, and he's been right there,
Speaker 4: ready to rock.
Speaker 8: But we expect from everybody and.
Speaker 9: Patrick Riccard, you have.
Speaker 13: A player who can kind of blurred line between a
Speaker 13: tight end and a full back the technics kind of
Speaker 13: and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: And you guys have.
Speaker 13: Played the forty nine Ers and Dolphins recently, they also
Speaker 13: do that kind of challenges is that put on you?
Speaker 13: You have the personnel in the field and then how
Speaker 13: they can line up in any formation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all those teams do a great job of manipulating
Speaker 4: their personnel. It just like you don't know who's going
Speaker 4: to be in the you know, traditional spots so to speak.
Speaker 4: But you know, it does test rules a little bit
Speaker 4: in some of the coverages you want to play without
Speaker 4: getting the kind of into the weeds about it, but yeah,
Speaker 4: you just just you have to understand where they're lining
Speaker 4: up and what they do from those different spots. A
Speaker 4: lot of times it's really just to put the guy
Speaker 4: that they want to get the ball in a certain
Speaker 4: position a certain matchup too, So it's more like a
Speaker 4: chess piece more on the.
Speaker 13: Players before this and app to kind of like make checks.
Speaker 4: I mean, call the call based on where they're at. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but it's not any different than any other offense.
Speaker 8: You know, you're just.
Speaker 4: Gonna you know, there's you can't be doing all sorts
Speaker 4: of things where you're playing matchup ball all the time
Speaker 4: because they just you know, they could end up anywhere
Speaker 4: on the field. Mike, the Texans lost the big pieks
Speaker 4: and can't bill over a little over a month ago.
Speaker 13: But the offense has still been common and putting up
Speaker 13: for how they've been able.
Speaker 8: To with fan that ball.
Speaker 4: Uh well, I mean a testament to who they have
Speaker 4: and how they're operating and tailing her to the guys
Speaker 4: that are available. I mean, they have not been a
Speaker 4: you know not they haven't had everybody available over the
Speaker 4: last I don't know, ten weeks. You know, every every
Speaker 4: game it seems like they're missing at least one piece.
Speaker 4: That's kind of part of the you know, evolution or
Speaker 4: part of their system. So and they happen to your point,
Speaker 4: they really haven't had a drop off. So just like
Speaker 4: our defense, if guys go down, man, it's like, I mean,
Speaker 4: there's storylines behind it and all that. But like the
Speaker 4: guys in the room, like it's we're ready to go.
Speaker 4: The next guy's he's preparing just like everybody else. So
Speaker 4: they're ready to step up and just you know, speaks
Speaker 4: with what they got gone going on over there, Like just.
Speaker 14: Like for you getting ready for your first playoff game?
Speaker 14: Is it the second playoff games? A coordinator when you
Speaker 14: know that you're the one seed, all the expectation of
Speaker 14: possibility of what this group could come together, what is it?
Speaker 9: Does it feel like?
Speaker 4: I feel it's it feels like another game. You know,
Speaker 4: you guys that know how.
Speaker 8: We operate here.
Speaker 4: We want to emphasize play to play, you know, down
Speaker 4: to down, drill the drill day to day. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's really our focus right now. Today is a
Speaker 4: football Thursday. So I'm talking to you folks. You know,
Speaker 4: I don't know how to do a football Thursday. When
Speaker 4: I go back up to my office and we'll and
Speaker 4: we'll operate accordingly and kick that thing off on Saturday.
Speaker 11: Like Jadevian got to that, you know, nine and a
Speaker 11: half sachomore a couple of weeks ago. Curious what you
Speaker 11: know if you look at him the totality of the
Speaker 11: SEASONR do you think he's performed so well for you guys?
Speaker 8: We have been great to get him to ten, So
Speaker 8: that was a bit.
Speaker 4: But uh, you know, it's an interesting question because I
Speaker 4: only know JD from our experience in this year, so
Speaker 4: I can't speak to how he's operating in the past
Speaker 4: things like that. Talk to like, you know, Wee's relationship
Speaker 4: with him, you know, over the course of the years.
Speaker 8: So obviously that's a plus. Uh.
Speaker 4: But the guy that I see is a guy that
Speaker 4: loves playing football, he loves being around his teammates. He's
Speaker 4: a gregarious guy, got a lot of thoughts on a
Speaker 4: lot of things, which is cool to hear, and he
Speaker 4: plays the game the right way. So those are the
Speaker 4: type of guys we love having here. And I think
Speaker 4: you know, you find not just at that position, but
Speaker 4: you know, all across the team. Those those guys played
Speaker 4: great football for us when when we're able to find him.
Speaker 6: You know, obviously, you guys.
Speaker 8: Finish number one in the league in takeaways.
Speaker 12: Is there ever, does there ever become a point of
Speaker 12: concern where you feel like a defense might be coming
Speaker 12: to rely on takeaways on turnovers to get stops or
Speaker 12: is the mentality of this group you feel like, you know,
Speaker 12: impervious to that kind of thinking.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we're not relying on takeaways.
Speaker 4: I mean that we're trying to create takeaways at all times,
Speaker 4: but that's that's how you attack the football and how
Speaker 4: you play through your rules and then plays will be
Speaker 4: made that way.
Speaker 8: But we're not.
Speaker 4: We're not just chasing takeaways, you know, at the expense
Speaker 4: of you know, giving up yards or points. Is there
Speaker 4: an emphasis this sweep on even louder communication given how
Speaker 4: loud it will probably be on Saturday for a home
Speaker 4: playoff game.
Speaker 12: And the defense is that loud communication is even harder.
Speaker 8: For that is the loud was the bank we can
Speaker 8: make the better for us.
Speaker 4: So we'd love to have our communication challenges on Saturday
Speaker 4: night for sure.
Speaker 12: Like on a lighter note, I know you're focused on
Speaker 12: the game this week, but have you been made aware
Speaker 12: of Raven's Twitter fans' efforts to kind of keep you
Speaker 12: here in Baltimore.
Speaker 8: My wife sent me a couple a couple of good ones.
Speaker 4: There's some good ones out there, not many, but yeah.
Speaker 1: That was offensive coordinator Mike McDonald today. We also heard
Speaker 1: from tight end Mark andrews Now. This was the first
Speaker 1: time that Mark has talked since he went down with
Speaker 1: that foot ankle injury back in November in a game
Speaker 1: against the Bengals. Mark has been working really hard behind
Speaker 1: the scenes to get himself back to this point. He
Speaker 1: talked with the media about some of the work that
Speaker 1: he's been putting in to try to get back on
Speaker 1: the field. It's also worth noting that Mark was a
Speaker 1: full participant in practice on Wednesday. Here's what Mark had
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 7: You're clicking on all cylinders. You're just carrying that into
Speaker 7: the playoffs. We got a lot of playmakers that are
Speaker 7: playing really good ball right now, and and.
Speaker 6: In coaching staff that supports them. And that's what it's about.
Speaker 7: It's about it's a team game, team effort, and and
Speaker 7: that's what We've got a great team.
Speaker 6: Along those lines.
Speaker 14: I mean, the day that you've got hurt of Isaiah
Speaker 14: likely has said to us that I haven't you know,
Speaker 14: I'm I'm ready for this, and you know I'm gonna
Speaker 14: do it an honor of him, but I'm.
Speaker 6: Ready to to step in. Well, how proud have you
Speaker 6: been him? Well, he sure was, you know, ain't sure
Speaker 6: it is?
Speaker 7: You know you see it, you know, game by game
Speaker 7: him getting better and better and making big time plays
Speaker 7: and that's a credit to how hard he's worked. And uh,
Speaker 7: it's been awesome to see him do that, and I'm
Speaker 7: we're thankful to have him.
Speaker 5: How how was the communication between you and Isaiah doing
Speaker 5: the course of this season, more than we're constantly talking
Speaker 5: to him, especially maybe things you saw in.
Speaker 9: And out of the game.
Speaker 7: Well, he's got a natural feel for the game, you know,
Speaker 7: by himself, but just being there supporting him, being a
Speaker 7: good teammate, that's all I can do and and let
Speaker 7: him shine do his thing, and you know, it's been
Speaker 7: awesome to see. Obviously everybody in the tight end room
Speaker 7: supports you know, everybody and coach Gossie does a good
Speaker 7: job of coaching him up.
Speaker 6: But he's just the ballplayer.
Speaker 13: Mark.
Speaker 12: Can you tell us what this rehab has been like
Speaker 12: for you?
Speaker 11: And when the jury first happened, did you think right
Speaker 11: away I'm gonna I'm gonna be back, like what went
Speaker 11: through your mind?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I was telling Jeff a second ago that, uh, you know,
Speaker 7: there was a there was a clear cut plan, you know,
Speaker 7: in process, and I'm very thankful for the people that
Speaker 7: are around here from mister Bashati making my life either easier
Speaker 7: through the travel and everything else. And coach Harball, the
Speaker 7: training staff in the weight room Scott Elliott, Adrian Dixon,
Speaker 7: and training staff Mike Thomas. These guys had a plan
Speaker 7: together for me, and like I said, all I had
Speaker 7: to do was coming here and every day and work
Speaker 7: and and get better and better. So yeah, it's gotten
Speaker 7: it's gotten a lot better week by week, and we've
Speaker 7: made all our progress, not.
Speaker 8: Just like practicing, but how you're feeling happy?
Speaker 7: So how have you been feeling this week and feeling
Speaker 7: that it's been good. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 7: different things I'm doing to to get better. I know, uh,
Speaker 7: the torrell owens. You know you kind of the same injury,
Speaker 7: and you know, the hyperbaric auction, auction chamber, all that
Speaker 7: good stuff. And I'm doing everything I can to get
Speaker 7: back get ready. And you know, after I work hard,
Speaker 7: like a day like this is it's recovery, gets.
Speaker 6: Swelling down and feel good for the next day, which
Speaker 6: I usually do.
Speaker 8: What's gonna come down a Saturday's decision?
Speaker 9: What is going to kind of be an exciting factor?
Speaker 7: I think, you know, it's it's how I feel, you know,
Speaker 7: at the end of the day. But you know, just
Speaker 7: knowing how good this team is, how good our players are,
Speaker 7: how good our tight ends are. You know, if I
Speaker 7: feel like I'm gonna be you know, helpful with the team,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go if I'm you know, I feel like
Speaker 7: I'm I'm close, but not there.
Speaker 6: Let these guys go and hopefully get that next weekend.
Speaker 7: What's the hardest thing to get back with an injury
Speaker 7: like this isn't explosiveness.
Speaker 9: Is a range of motion?
Speaker 6: I mean, what what is it?
Speaker 7: There's a lot of different factors, and I think each
Speaker 7: day there's a there's a new challenge to be attacked,
Speaker 7: you know. But I'm starting to feel really good and
Speaker 7: being able to get after it, to get it in
Speaker 7: out of routes, feeling better natural with all that stuff.
Speaker 6: Did you no? I did? Pardon me?
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 7: It's been a test, that's that's for sure. And this
Speaker 7: is the first time I've ever been through anything like this.
Speaker 7: You know, it's tough, but you you you get around
Speaker 7: this team and you get around the guys, and every
Speaker 7: everybody in this building has been extremely supportive. And I
Speaker 7: can't tell you how much that means to me, how
Speaker 7: much it matters, and just want to makes me want
Speaker 7: to come in here work every day, come back to
Speaker 7: this team and help this team win a super Bowl.
Speaker 7: That's what matters.
Speaker 12: The first couple of weeks they were saying, we're gonna
Speaker 12: do this for morek, We're playing for Hark.
Speaker 1: What impression did that.
Speaker 6: Leave on you? You know?
Speaker 7: I just you know, just the fact that how much
Speaker 7: they care, you know, and just being out here for
Speaker 7: practices and seeing the energy and guys coming up to
Speaker 7: you NonStop. It's a it's a loving group. It's a
Speaker 7: group that cares. It's a group that plays for one another.
Speaker 7: And that's what's special about this team is to bond
Speaker 7: the chemistry and the type of players.
Speaker 6: That we have there.
Speaker 12: It's a lot of controversy over the kind of tackle
Speaker 12: that led to your je Did.
Speaker 6: You ever talk to Wilson and do you have any
Speaker 6: thoughts on one of the tackles should be outlawing at
Speaker 6: all the game?
Speaker 7: I don't really have any you know, thoughts, you know,
Speaker 7: on that. It's a it was kind of just an
Speaker 7: unfortunate event.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: It's I'm gonna let you know, everybody else do their
Speaker 7: thing if they want to ban the tackle find but
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go out there play hard no matter what.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't blame the guy. He's just playing ball.
Speaker 9: Mark.
Speaker 13: You mentioned it being a test and you also mentioned
Speaker 13: the support here.
Speaker 11: But what were some things that you did to get
Speaker 11: yourself through the rehabit and in that time?
Speaker 6: Well play?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think uh, I think you know.
Speaker 7: The big thing is just coming in here every day
Speaker 7: and work and you're gonna be able to push yourself
Speaker 7: but not push yourself too hard. And it's hearing that
Speaker 7: line of of getting better but not hurting yourself is
Speaker 7: something I've done. I talked about the hyperbaric aucyen chamber.
Speaker 7: I think that's been big for me, you know, help
Speaker 7: speed up that process and and everything in the training room.
Speaker 7: These guys have had an incredible plan and process in
Speaker 7: place and since day one, and we followed that and
Speaker 7: it's been really good.
Speaker 12: Tamer in your house, where do you bought one?
Speaker 6: Or how's that work?
Speaker 7: Yeah, my girlfriend's family has had it, so he put
Speaker 7: it bringing into the house and started using it.
Speaker 1: That was tight end. Mark andrews now he is currently
Speaker 1: not on the fifty three man roster. So if the
Speaker 1: Ravens were going to activate him by Saturday, they would
Speaker 1: need to make a roster move to move him back
Speaker 1: to the fifty three. We'll keep you posting on that. Also,
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