Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: November fourth. The Ravens took down the Denver Broncos forty
Speaker 1: one to ten on Sunday, but they have to quickly
Speaker 1: turn the page because on Thursday night, the Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 1: are coming to town for a prime time matchup. It's
Speaker 1: the Ravens Purple Rising game. We're going to break out
Speaker 1: our new Purple Rising helmets for the first time, as
Speaker 1: well as the uniforms to go with them. So we're
Speaker 1: excited about that, and the Ravens quickly turned the page
Speaker 1: to this game on Thursday night. They held a simulated
Speaker 1: practice today and afterwards we had a chance to hear
Speaker 1: from some of the guys and head coach John Hardball.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to see you guys. Appreciate everybody being here.
Speaker 2: Played well about twenty four hours ago, and I just
Speaker 2: went through a walk through practice for Thursday night night.
Speaker 2: So I told the guys we are hurtling towards Thursday
Speaker 2: night football against the Bengals at the Bank, So we're
Speaker 2: looking for to that we understand what a big game
Speaker 2: it is. Obviously they see it the same way, so
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to be at a very best, very
Speaker 2: important game. But we're locked in and preparing for that
Speaker 2: right now. That's what we're doing. The questions John everybody else,
Speaker 2: I've not changed or done anything as far as your
Speaker 2: Thursday week operation. Well, yeah, I mean we're always tweaking things,
Speaker 2: you know. It's today's practice was different than other ones
Speaker 2: that we've had in terms of the reps and how
Speaker 2: I went about it. You always kind of adjust for
Speaker 2: you know, what you learn and where your team is
Speaker 2: at and everything we use. We do use a lot
Speaker 2: of information that performance information numbers and things like that,
Speaker 2: and loads and things like that. We use that to
Speaker 2: set these practices up. But the main thing is we're
Speaker 2: working on the plays and the defensive calls and the
Speaker 2: special teams calls that we're gonna we're gonna need and
Speaker 2: run Thursday night, and that's where that's what we're working on.
Speaker 3: Do you find these.
Speaker 4: Division games are not easy to prepare Fornesday night, but
Speaker 4: a little bit easier from a staring point being almost short.
Speaker 2: Week because there's so yeah, well, in that sense, you
Speaker 2: don't have to learn your opponent as much. You know
Speaker 2: you already you already know that you know the players,
Speaker 2: and you know the history. You know you've lived it.
Speaker 2: You go back and you studied again really hard. We
Speaker 2: were in here early, guys were in here last night. Coaches, Uh,
Speaker 2: coaches were in here this morning very early, and players
Speaker 2: got in early.
Speaker 5: And and you just have to go to work.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's a challenge, but uh, it's worthwhile and
Speaker 2: we're looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: But omar playing so well after just one practice, might
Speaker 4: might you continue that trend going forward?
Speaker 2: Well, we only have one practice at speed this week,
Speaker 2: so I guess we've got that going for us this week. Anyway,
Speaker 2: for the whole team. We'll see how it works for everybody. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: you know, whatever, you got to do, whatever it takes.
Speaker 2: It's a long season. A lot of things happen. Guys
Speaker 2: prepare different ways.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Sometimes guys have things that they're dealing with. Other time
Speaker 2: other times guys need rest. You know, you just you
Speaker 2: take it as it as it presents itself.
Speaker 3: Travis Jones held out yet, it will not held out.
Speaker 4: But with the kind of emergency bases where if you
Speaker 4: need it, we could go to work, like just give
Speaker 4: me a couple.
Speaker 2: More days, right, we had we'd kind of hope for
Speaker 2: a certain number of reps if we needed them, and uh,
Speaker 2: you know they were. They're a good running team, so
Speaker 2: we went with the extra D line in that sense.
Speaker 2: But you know, he didn't have to go, and I
Speaker 2: thought those guys, kudos to the guys that that went
Speaker 2: and they did a great job be so likely.
Speaker 6: On the injury report, was that something that happened during
Speaker 6: the game yesterday.
Speaker 3: Is it any longer term.
Speaker 2: Concern, Yeah, something he's dealing with. It's just with the
Speaker 2: short week. We'll just have to see how it works
Speaker 2: out here the next couple of days.
Speaker 4: Lamark has been really good. I think leads the NFL
Speaker 4: and and passes a fifteen yards and more. Given the
Speaker 4: offense and all the sort of words you happened and
Speaker 4: how in bold and I guess do you guys feel
Speaker 4: in terms of that that's truely aggressive?
Speaker 5: Well, I feel no different than we've felt all year
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's those plays are the plays. Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: a result of the play design. Sometimes it's you know,
Speaker 2: Lamar extending to play making stuff happen too. You've seen
Speaker 2: that as well, So it just kind of as you
Speaker 2: go it unfolds before you. Your personality is and offense,
Speaker 2: the things that you do well, the things you need
Speaker 2: to get better at, just kind of unfolds as you
Speaker 2: go and try to try to just keep improving. And
Speaker 2: I think our offense, all our whole team has done
Speaker 2: a great job of that.
Speaker 4: Marcus Williams was put back and they'll starting lineup after
Speaker 4: not playing Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Just what was your assessment that doesn't play in this performance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Marcus played really well. Thought the whole defense did.
Speaker 2: The coverage was really good. But yeah, Marcus had an
Speaker 2: excellent game. I started off the game, I mean, came
Speaker 2: right out of there the dp HAF and had that
Speaker 2: hit right to the line of scrimmage and great play,
Speaker 2: great tackle play, and numerous other really good plays throughout
Speaker 2: the game. Was in great position, discouraged a lot of
Speaker 2: throws downfield because of where he was at numerous times.
Speaker 2: I thought he played really well trying it.
Speaker 3: Toward the end of the second quarter they had just scored.
Speaker 2: You get the ball back with something like I don't know,
Speaker 2: forty five to fifty seconds and one time out you
Speaker 2: end up scoring on the Flowers touchdown.
Speaker 7: But what goes into you're getting the ball coming out
Speaker 7: at halftime as well.
Speaker 3: It was into your decision at that point whether it
Speaker 3: be aggressive in.
Speaker 5: That moment or on it. Well, it's a good question.
Speaker 2: It really starts when you're on defense and you're trying
Speaker 2: to manage the time in a way that you know
Speaker 2: you don't you don't call timeouts for for the offense,
Speaker 2: for their offense to give them time to go score.
Speaker 2: Or they had timeouts, we knew they would use them,
Speaker 2: but when it got to it got down towards where
Speaker 2: we thought we could get them stopped and you have
Speaker 2: a chance to get the ball back, you'd like to
Speaker 2: have it back, like with a minute or so as
Speaker 2: much time as you can give yourself a chance to
Speaker 2: at least get a field. Well, that's the thinking. So
Speaker 2: we called those timeouts to try to get that back.
Speaker 2: I think we still had one left if I remember right,
Speaker 2: for our drive, which worked out really well for us.
Speaker 2: And yeah, we're trying to be aggressive. We want to
Speaker 2: go get points. You need points. You know, it's another possession,
Speaker 2: so you kind of have an opportunity to steal possession
Speaker 2: at the end of the half, especially when you're getting
Speaker 2: the ball to start the second half. You get possessions
Speaker 2: on both sides of that thing, and it just couldn't
Speaker 2: have worked out any better for us.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's the ideal when you.
Speaker 2: Can put a touchdown and a touchdown and bracket halftime
Speaker 2: with touchdowns, that's that's the goal.
Speaker 4: Which almost there any satisfact winning the challenge.
Speaker 2: There was always winning a challenge other than just getting
Speaker 2: the ball on offense because of the turnover. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know what I tell you what with our guys in
Speaker 2: the box, Daniel Stern and the people in the box
Speaker 2: did a great job of really taking a good look
Speaker 2: at that monitor we had that we had the pylon
Speaker 2: camera when when they saw the pilon when he saw
Speaker 2: the pilon camera shot upstairs, you know, he he he
Speaker 2: saw right away that it had a real good chance
Speaker 2: to win. So that was awesome. I mean that was
Speaker 2: big for us. That was a huge, huge play in
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 7: John Eddie Jackson just a numbers game and we would
Speaker 7: get more wind to be with hiss back, you had
Speaker 7: to leave the DG or that.
Speaker 3: Decision to go down.
Speaker 5: That's what it was.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was nothing about the way the way
Speaker 2: he played. He played well and he was in good position.
Speaker 2: He made tackles. He's been playing well all year. It's
Speaker 2: just kind of the way the numbers are working out
Speaker 2: right now. Then you've got the versatility of different guys
Speaker 2: in spots on you know, he and I had a
Speaker 2: great conversation. He's he's a class act pro in every way.
Speaker 2: He wants to play, wants to contribute, and he will
Speaker 2: I see it the same way as Marcus.
Speaker 5: He will.
Speaker 2: He'll be out there and he'll be making a difference
Speaker 2: for us this year, and we'll just let the circumstances
Speaker 2: kind of unfold on that.
Speaker 7: John, I think you guys are on like a per
Speaker 7: play places per play basis just about as efficient with
Speaker 7: motion as without. I think he cranked it up a
Speaker 7: little bit against Denver. But I guess what kind of
Speaker 7: goes into just the game planning approach each week to
Speaker 7: decide we want to be more static, we want to
Speaker 7: be more dynamic.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think you know, and obviously todder
Speaker 2: Be you know, give you he probably won't tell you anything,
Speaker 2: you know, so but there's two things is how it
Speaker 2: affects the defense, you know, and how they adjust to it,
Speaker 2: and so much you want to find out how they're
Speaker 2: going to adjust to it, and Denver is a good
Speaker 2: example of that.
Speaker 5: What Seawan does.
Speaker 2: I mean the first fifteen plays, they put a lot
Speaker 2: of motions out there, in formations and put the formation
Speaker 2: into the boundary just to see see what they can
Speaker 2: build for the rest of the game. But if you
Speaker 2: can create some kind of advantage, whether it's a numbers
Speaker 2: advantage of blocking advantage, sometimes it shows you if it's
Speaker 2: manners own. Sometimes you can create a problem with their
Speaker 2: coverage and get somebody open. I mean, all those things
Speaker 2: are part of it. Sometimes it's just to put them
Speaker 2: on your heels a little bit, just to create a
Speaker 2: different picture. So you can hide a formation and run
Speaker 2: the same macy rod that you would run. But maybe
Speaker 2: they have a more difficult time identifying what's coming because
Speaker 2: they have to because there's moving parts in front of it.
Speaker 2: I think all those things are part of it. Sometimes
Speaker 2: it's could just come out, line up and play ball.
Speaker 2: So and I think Todd does a great job too
Speaker 2: of building off of what you've been doing. Well, they've
Speaker 2: seen that they have to defend one thing. Now let's
Speaker 2: give them something off of that. That's the next step.
Speaker 3: John, do you.
Speaker 4: Expect anything in Prince's crazy at the deadline, know about
Speaker 4: twenty hours away or so, or you can conversation with
Speaker 4: Eric regularly or not.
Speaker 2: He oh yeah, I mean he always brings stuff to
Speaker 2: me if it's if it's something that's real and legitimate.
Speaker 2: He communicates really really well with that, and we'll just
Speaker 2: see where it goes. I mean, it's about twenty four
Speaker 2: hours now, tell that, So now's the time and we'll
Speaker 2: see if something unfolds.
Speaker 5: But right now, from my perspective.
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking about the game, the game plan against
Speaker 2: Cincinnati and focusing on that.
Speaker 4: On your about halfway through the season is how would
Speaker 4: you evaluate your rookies like Nick Wiggins, Roger Rose.
Speaker 3: And Gardener guys that have been active in these games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say growing, you know those guys growing.
Speaker 2: Other guys too. You know, some guys have been hampered
Speaker 2: by some injuries or things like that. Some guys are
Speaker 2: waiting for their chance. You have other guys like Sanousi
Speaker 2: Kane doing it on special teams, Bo Braid Maryland player
Speaker 2: stepping up last few games on special teams, playing really well.
Speaker 2: The two players you mentioned, I think they're all doing
Speaker 2: really well, and I think there's a lot of room
Speaker 2: for growth.
Speaker 5: Even this year.
Speaker 2: During the season, you know, you probably make a lot
Speaker 2: of progress from the beginning to the end if you're
Speaker 2: playing your rookie year, and we expect those guys to
Speaker 2: keep doing that.
Speaker 4: Keithan Mitchell, I know he's working his way back if
Speaker 4: still had some time in that window. How much is
Speaker 4: there a balance of you know, juggling roster spots and
Speaker 4: so forth, in wanting to get him out there.
Speaker 5: Those things are all part of it.
Speaker 2: But with Keaton it's going to be more about him
Speaker 2: being ready that we'll make the roster spot. You'll work
Speaker 2: for Keaton and when he's ready to go and compete
Speaker 2: and protect himself and all those different things, I promise
Speaker 2: you he'll definitely be out there.
Speaker 3: Is there any chance of just thay, there's a chance.
Speaker 5: There's always a chance, So you're saying there's a chance
Speaker 5: one more.
Speaker 6: John Justin made all his kicks yesterday. But he had
Speaker 6: the one he had the extra point golf, the go
Speaker 6: off the uperade, and the other one kind of just
Speaker 6: inside the up right.
Speaker 5: Is there anything that's a little bit off in that
Speaker 5: operation right now?
Speaker 3: Or right? I know?
Speaker 5: Nothing nothing wrong with the operation at all.
Speaker 2: Did he make all those kicks he did. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1: Next up, his quarterback, Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: Personally, you've done a lot of Thursday night games.
Speaker 6: Now, what's a big challenge for you being with the shortage?
Speaker 8: Just having to come in right out the game and practice.
Speaker 8: That's probably it.
Speaker 5: Though. You got bard with practicing.
Speaker 4: You know, eat practice once last week, practice once this way.
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like that's a routine you can
Speaker 4: get used to and and come out and perform the
Speaker 4: way you did last week.
Speaker 3: Nah.
Speaker 8: You know, my guy's out there working, so you know,
Speaker 8: I don't got no problem with working. Uh, but you
Speaker 8: know, if that's gonna help me recover faster, yeah, I'll be
Speaker 8: cool with it. H you were tomorrow. You still have
Speaker 8: that friendship person on you got from the fan.
Speaker 9: What does it mean to you to get those type
Speaker 9: of gifts?
Speaker 1: Cause I think you got a blanket rise season, you
Speaker 1: get some gifts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a blanket in a carpet. Oh yeah, yeah, carpet.
Speaker 8: But yeah, it's I just l I just like to
Speaker 8: basically be honest with you. So I just took it off,
Speaker 8: you know, showered and stuff before I left, before I
Speaker 8: came in to day, I put it back on s
Speaker 8: dope yet appreciate you little more.
Speaker 4: You had a couple of carries, but it seemed mostly
Speaker 4: I don't want to see you with a waiting you
Speaker 4: were on, you were focusing and getting you balld to
Speaker 4: down field.
Speaker 9: Was there any part of yesterday where you didn't wanna
Speaker 9: run at different.
Speaker 6: Times or you didn't wanna take any chances with.
Speaker 3: Bets because of you know, wouldn't mispractice for during the week.
Speaker 8: Nah, y uh, I, I just didn't feel like I
Speaker 8: had to, you know. Uh, things was working in our
Speaker 8: favorite guys were getting open, guys were catching the ball,
Speaker 8: lone protecting running backs of catching the ball, tight ends
Speaker 8: were Everything was just going our way and I I
Speaker 8: really didn't have to run only I think one scramble.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that that's I had to though nobody was open.
Speaker 3: So that's all Lamar.
Speaker 4: Is there anything in the say Flowers game that you've
Speaker 4: seen him take steps forward or change.
Speaker 3: From last year to this year.
Speaker 8: It's hard to pinpoint to to speak on like what
Speaker 8: he's changed to to make him even better. He's he's
Speaker 8: just he's one of a con I'd say he's just
Speaker 8: that type of player, you know, getting open, making guys
Speaker 8: miss after he catch the ball, scoring from anywhere on
Speaker 8: the field.
Speaker 5: That's just him.
Speaker 3: He's like Jay, He's not the biggest wide seek in
Speaker 3: the world. It seems like he has no hesitation about
Speaker 3: running any kind of route or anywhere the field exactly.
Speaker 5: One of the things.
Speaker 3: It makes him specter than you.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, you know, you you want a dog at receiver.
Speaker 8: You know, my guy's just gonna run across that mettle.
Speaker 8: You don't wanna protec him, don't get me wrong, But
Speaker 8: a guy who knows what's gonna happen if he, you know,
Speaker 8: get hit the wrong way something like that.
Speaker 3: A guy who's fearless.
Speaker 10: Definitely, I see a lot of the subgection that you
Speaker 10: have to say reminds me of from them with Mark
Speaker 10: and things like down and they can change the.
Speaker 3: Route and it always turns into a kind of aversion
Speaker 3: backyard football.
Speaker 4: Do you do you really feel that connection with Day
Speaker 4: in that way.
Speaker 8: I feel that connection with all my guys, to be honest,
Speaker 8: not just Zay. You know, Mark's still the same, you know,
Speaker 8: It's just it's not just him now, it's a lot
Speaker 8: of guys who are doing the same things. So it's
Speaker 8: just making our job a lot easier and it's just
Speaker 8: shine away from him.
Speaker 5: But it's like nothing's changed.
Speaker 8: Those guys still getting open, just like years in the past.
Speaker 4: Mark, you talk about the game slowing down for you,
Speaker 4: and it's curious like how that manifests in a game
Speaker 4: in terms of going downfield more, whether it's to say, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, other receivers on the outside, those sorts of things.
Speaker 4: Do you do you feel sort of about, you know, just.
Speaker 6: Poorer, empowered or bolden by by all.
Speaker 5: The weapons you have, if you and because the game
Speaker 5: is slowing down.
Speaker 8: For you, Oh yeah, absolutely, those guys that, Yeah, the
Speaker 8: game just slowing down. Me just watching film of seeing
Speaker 8: a lot of blixes and seeing different schemes of hot
Speaker 8: team holding blixes and trying to discus stuff for me,
Speaker 8: so me just studying my and studying a bad place
Speaker 8: you know as well, Me just studying and just memorizing everything.
Speaker 8: What I'm seeing is helping, is helping the process of
Speaker 8: the game for me.
Speaker 5: Just everything just slowing down.
Speaker 3: One of the the last thing against things is a shootout.
Speaker 3: You know they just score through to one point. Ysisfay too,
Speaker 3: what's your.
Speaker 4: Mindset as you approach uh a game like that, going
Speaker 4: against the high scoring offense on.
Speaker 8: The other side, Uh, the same any other game. You know,
Speaker 8: just be prepared to just going there and gonna be
Speaker 8: a Dollphight. It's a divisional game as well, and we
Speaker 8: already know. We just gotta score point. That's our job.
Speaker 8: And that's been the conversation all season long.
Speaker 5: We have to score points.
Speaker 3: That's all more.
Speaker 6: When you do get a new receiver in midseason, like Deonte,
Speaker 6: how how long do you think it takes for the
Speaker 6: offense to feel like second nature to him? And how
Speaker 6: long does it take for you to get a real
Speaker 6: feel for maybe the little things that he likes to do.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 8: I really don't know how I feel for for a
Speaker 8: receiver or someone to come to another team and how
Speaker 8: fast it'll be, you know, how fast it'll be suitable
Speaker 8: for them in that new system. I don't know, but
Speaker 8: I feel like me just been a chemistry with him
Speaker 8: would be second to nine, you know. I feel like
Speaker 8: in the guy who comes to the team or whoever
Speaker 8: I'm working with, is gonna be second to nine, just
Speaker 8: cause I gotta feel for the game and I believe
Speaker 8: it So with those guys, because they're in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Three more place one her places a bangles twice a year,
Speaker 4: how often.
Speaker 5: Or how much they usually change in one game and
Speaker 5: next how they try and.
Speaker 8: Do you and you were anticipating them showing you quite
Speaker 8: a few different looking the last game or not. Uh,
Speaker 8: the first game we played them this season, they were
Speaker 8: showing me all type of looks. So there's no telling
Speaker 8: what they're gonna be doing this game. Hopefully it'll be
Speaker 8: probably the same, you know, because we put up a
Speaker 8: lot of points.
Speaker 7: I'll see uh on that. You know, the wheel route
Speaker 7: to justice yesterday board the snap kind of set them motion,
Speaker 7: brought them back, ends up working down the west sideline.
Speaker 7: I mean, did you know kind of before even snapped
Speaker 7: the ball that you had Denver's defense kind of worked
Speaker 7: right where you needed to.
Speaker 8: I'll just say I knew I was going with the
Speaker 8: ball pre snap. Yeah, just from just looking at the
Speaker 8: defense and how they played out pre snap.
Speaker 1: Next is cornerback Marlon Humphrey.
Speaker 3: How's how's than you doing?
Speaker 5: How to do that?
Speaker 3: It's great?
Speaker 9: Well, and you played in quite a few Thursday games.
Speaker 9: What's what's the biggest challenge? What do you do differently
Speaker 9: to try to be ready for Thursday game knowing that
Speaker 9: you're not gonna get as much preparation time.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's hard, l uh, a lot of mental work,
Speaker 10: but really big on the body. It's it's always seems
Speaker 10: like whoever can recover the fastest is usually the team
Speaker 10: that you know that looks the freshest. And uh it
Speaker 10: it's tough. It's just tough turn around, but you know
Speaker 10: it's uh the r the reward after is cool, you
Speaker 10: know if you went when when you win, uh to
Speaker 10: get the extra days off, but uh, you know thursdays
Speaker 10: about you know, recovery, mental work. So a little different
Speaker 10: twist than just a typical Sunday game.
Speaker 3: What's the biggest challenge of going against the Joe Burrow
Speaker 3: heard the biggest challenges. Uh.
Speaker 10: I mean he he trusts his guy. He likes his
Speaker 10: guys more than than he likes me. So that's that's
Speaker 10: the biggest challenge challenge. You know, most quarterbacks when they
Speaker 10: see it got kind of covered, they usually don't throw it.
Speaker 10: But Joe, he's like, even if this guy's covered, I
Speaker 10: think my guy can make a play. And you know, tho,
Speaker 10: those guys make a ton of plays. I think last game,
Speaker 10: there's a lot of contested catches and it seemed like
Speaker 10: they came down with you know a lot of those.
Speaker 10: So you know it's gonna be a lot of uh,
Speaker 10: a lot of passing, great receivers and obviously, uh a
Speaker 10: guy like Joe.
Speaker 3: You know, he.
Speaker 10: Puts it on the money, he doesn't you know there y,
Speaker 10: you know what you're gonna get with Joe. I mean,
Speaker 10: ELI elite quarterback. So it's always a touch challenge.
Speaker 5: Well maybe a.
Speaker 2: Simple question, but how good it feel to get those
Speaker 2: two picks against.
Speaker 3: Hamp for that? Shoot? Man, we were like so far
Speaker 3: away from that.
Speaker 10: I don't even it's uh it's Cincinnati week, so I'm
Speaker 10: I'm ready to to to get some work in for Cincy.
Speaker 6: How much motivation is the defense taking from the last
Speaker 6: since the game it was a high scoring event, you
Speaker 6: know you all taken taking motivation from that one.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we felt like we should have lost, you know,
Speaker 10: I think that's what kind of what we talked about today.
Speaker 10: You know it's, uh, we won the game, but we
Speaker 10: we did not play well, I think especially the secondary alone.
Speaker 10: You know, it was like I said, it was a
Speaker 10: lot of contested catches, but you know, big plays, too
Speaker 10: many big plays. So we're we're we're hoping to tryna
Speaker 10: limit the passing attack and and get going. You know,
Speaker 10: we we wanna that's the biggest thing. You know, we've
Speaker 10: been we've been searching. I think it's it's been a
Speaker 10: really good response in our room of you know, as
Speaker 10: Covin and Nowis said, you know, he didn't finished last
Speaker 10: and nothing. So with with that number being thirty two
Speaker 10: that that's not something we like, that's not something we
Speaker 10: wanna be.
Speaker 3: And it's always a a tough challenge.
Speaker 10: But you know, I think we got the guys for
Speaker 10: the job, and we're gonna keep working at it, keep
Speaker 10: working at it all the.
Speaker 3: Way up until game time, and then let it loose
Speaker 3: Thursday night.
Speaker 4: You feel like the Denver game was a step forward
Speaker 4: for the defense.
Speaker 3: In the secondary.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I thought it was. You know, I thought we
Speaker 10: I thought we played well. I wanted to keep uh
Speaker 10: them under two hundred. I know, right there at the end,
Speaker 10: I think they got it. But you know, we just
Speaker 10: gotta keep chasing the details.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 10: I think it's it's bad when you know what you're
Speaker 10: being coached. If you're not don't have it to the t.
Speaker 10: That's what's kind of hurting us. So we we've you know,
Speaker 10: in our room, we've we've realized as players, you know,
Speaker 10: we gotta do it exactly how we're coached, exactly how
Speaker 10: we're doing it in practice to get it to go
Speaker 10: in the game.
Speaker 3: We can't practice it all.
Speaker 10: We this way, we can just coach this way, and
Speaker 10: then we get in the game is and it's not
Speaker 10: exactly how you just practiced it. So that's been the
Speaker 10: biggest thing. We've been talking about doing your one of
Speaker 10: eleven so many times this year. Just one guy's just
Speaker 10: not exactly where he's supposed to be, and that's where
Speaker 10: it's been hit. It's it's been hitting like ninety percent.
Speaker 10: When you watch other teams, you see people wide open here,
Speaker 10: wide open here, doesn't get hit. But for us, it's
Speaker 10: been really making us get so detailed because it seemed
Speaker 10: like every time one guy's just supposed to be two
Speaker 10: yards outside of the hash, you're not two yards of hash,
Speaker 10: the ball goes there, you're not INSI leverage.
Speaker 3: It's it's been so little, tiny, detailed.
Speaker 10: It's made everybody tighten up their approach, tighten up their
Speaker 10: mindset and really just focus to just do only your job,
Speaker 10: your job only. And so it's it's been, uh, it's
Speaker 10: been very unique from that aspect. But it makes you focus.
Speaker 10: It makes you focusing and that's what we need.
Speaker 6: Has it has it bothered you some of the criticism
Speaker 6: that Zach has taken after some of the more difficult
Speaker 6: keeping some performances.
Speaker 10: I uh, I don't exactly know what's going on besides
Speaker 10: what kind of I get what I get told I
Speaker 10: I my only my only social media is Instagram Live
Speaker 10: after victory, So I haven't seen a lot, but I
Speaker 10: do know there feel like there's been some chatter and
Speaker 10: for me as a as a player, as no knowing
Speaker 10: what's going on. I hate I hate seeing coaches get
Speaker 10: under scrutiny when it's the player's fault, you know, And
Speaker 10: I felt that there was you know, this ain't being
Speaker 10: coached this way, right, This ain't being this this and
Speaker 10: being this it's a little different, but it really sucks
Speaker 10: when what we're putting, the product we're putting out there
Speaker 10: isn't what we're being coached, isn't what we're practicing. And
Speaker 10: that's that's kind of what what hurts me you know
Speaker 10: some of the players I've given up? Is that the
Speaker 10: coaches fault or did we practice it this week and
Speaker 10: then I got in the game and I didn't play
Speaker 10: it exactly how it was supposed to be and the
Speaker 10: results of a big play. And I hate I hate
Speaker 10: how you know, coaches get you know, I hate how
Speaker 10: that goes.
Speaker 3: But that that that is the NFL.
Speaker 10: You know, it's you know, the the person over it
Speaker 10: kind of gets whatever.
Speaker 3: But it it is kind of what it is.
Speaker 10: But I hate that just because you know, when it's
Speaker 10: when it's your when it's your fault. Sometimes while somebody's
Speaker 10: getting scrutinized it, Uh, that's never It's never a good thing.
Speaker 5: Marlon.
Speaker 9: I don't think we had a chance to ask you
Speaker 9: when Dean Pas joined the staff. You were one of
Speaker 9: the few guys who played for him. I know it
Speaker 9: was your rookie year. But him being here now a
Speaker 9: few weeks, what do you think he's maybe brought that
Speaker 9: has helped the defense or do you think will help
Speaker 9: the defense moving forward.
Speaker 10: He's just brought an extra set of eyes, extra set
Speaker 10: of ears. He he's pulled guys to the side. It's
Speaker 10: a it's a real surreal moment for me. I remember
Speaker 10: when I was a rookie, Pease pulled me up to
Speaker 10: the office. It was like, look at every everybody else
Speaker 10: on the defense and then look at you, and it
Speaker 10: wasn't too good. So it's been a surreal moment for me,
Speaker 10: just kind of how far I've kind of become, how
Speaker 10: I've kind of been doing this job for a long time.
Speaker 3: But I think uh Pie's coming in has been a
Speaker 3: really good, good help for us.
Speaker 10: I think, you know, the knowledge he has there, and
Speaker 10: then being that Zach was already you know, communicating with
Speaker 10: them throughout the season, it's been really good. I think,
Speaker 10: just give it a freshet of oz on some of
Speaker 10: the things he said, and you know, he's he's doing
Speaker 10: this for the love of the game.
Speaker 3: You know he was, and so that's what I really like.
Speaker 10: So I think I think it's only helped us, But
Speaker 10: I've really felt like, you know, the past the past
Speaker 10: week or so.
Speaker 3: It's he's really kind of started to help out a
Speaker 3: little bit more.
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