Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: December eighth, and the Ravens were repairing to play the
Speaker 1: La Rams on Sunday at M and T Banks Stadium.
Speaker 1: Head coach Sean Horriball I met with the media today
Speaker 1: and talked about that game coming up this weekend.
Speaker 2: It was a great day for the guys practicing, which
Speaker 2: I appreciate as a coach. They were high energy and sharp,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna need to be because we're playing a
Speaker 2: very good team in some tough conditions on Sunday. But
Speaker 2: we're looking forward to it and looking forward to our
Speaker 2: fans being out there and being raucous. It's a good word, right,
Speaker 2: you know how to spell that one?
Speaker 3: Jamison?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, what questions you have?
Speaker 3: How is Lamar feeling today?
Speaker 2: He was feeling good, full life, full life. He looked
Speaker 2: good out there and he was back and he's recovered.
Speaker 4: So Odell was not out there here just at that
Speaker 4: day or.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that was my day.
Speaker 2: Given the day to day, he had two two really
Speaker 2: good days of practice.
Speaker 1: More of miss five games each and the past your
Speaker 1: season down to stretch the poor Ruxuries that having back
Speaker 1: this year for that stretch run they.
Speaker 4: Get keeps run the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, December football is so important. It's a
Speaker 2: it's advent, you know, the advent we are. We are
Speaker 2: seeking something, an advent and we're definitely seeking something from
Speaker 2: a football perspective in December. So that's what we're after
Speaker 2: right now. I know you like that one. We just
Speaker 2: kind of say, yeah, that works, that works. But uh,
Speaker 2: but we want to be at our best, you know,
Speaker 2: and obviously having Lamar and and all the guys where
Speaker 2: they're at right now ready to go is something that
Speaker 2: we're excited about. But we've got something, some things to accomplish,
Speaker 2: and it starts, uh, but just playing our best football
Speaker 2: from day to day and from game to game.
Speaker 3: Marcus Williams, feeling better more on hum Free, said he's
Speaker 3: ready to go. How difficult are kind of.
Speaker 2: The decisions that come even on game day just with
Speaker 2: having all those guys.
Speaker 3: Ready to play.
Speaker 4: All the guys have contributed at this point, but now
Speaker 4: you you know, you have to make a secrets in
Speaker 4: the secretary.
Speaker 2: No question. I mean, there's gonna be healthy scratches. You know,
Speaker 2: we haven't had too many healthy scratches this year, so
Speaker 2: there'll be some healthy scratches. And that's not an indication
Speaker 2: obviously of how well guys can contribute for us, because
Speaker 2: they've contributed already so well. So it's just gonna be
Speaker 2: kind of strategic based on what we're faced with, and
Speaker 2: you know what gives us the best chance to deal
Speaker 2: with whatever we have to deal with during the game
Speaker 2: personnel wise.
Speaker 5: This is sort of an Hubball Friday question brought what's
Speaker 5: the sort of other science behind how do you pair
Speaker 5: guys up in the locker room? How do you how
Speaker 5: do you do the neighbor of the.
Speaker 3: Science of it.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of science that goes into that,
Speaker 2: however you want to describe it.
Speaker 3: I'm a big science guy.
Speaker 2: You know, remember the Saturday Night Live skit when they
Speaker 2: were busting Tom Brady for not being a science computer. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that that line right there. Yeah, like a science computer would. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's it's just it's just a field thing. I work
Speaker 2: with Megan mcgloughlin on it because she's in charge of
Speaker 2: the locker room, uh lockers and who gets them and stuff.
Speaker 2: So we just kind of work together on it and
Speaker 2: just just move guys around as we go. It's really
Speaker 2: it's really you could put anybody next to anybody in
Speaker 2: this team. I mean, that's really what it blows down to.
Speaker 2: And we do like to mix it up. We don't
Speaker 2: put them by position, we don't put them by jersey number.
Speaker 2: We put them by uh, you know, life, just move
Speaker 2: them around. And I think it helps. I think it
Speaker 2: helps guys get to know different guys, which is a
Speaker 2: good thing. Do you have like a little chart that
Speaker 2: you have everybody we have we're organized yeh, science computer stuff, Yeah, exactly, charts, charts,
Speaker 2: things like.
Speaker 5: That, giving you a chuckle inside, just the idea of
Speaker 5: these two guys together.
Speaker 3: You don't have to specify with Lots are the ones.
Speaker 2: That nobody has ever said. I've never had a complaint,
Speaker 2: nobody's ever chuckled, nobody's ever said anything to me about it.
Speaker 2: Everybody just just goes and grabs their stuff. Wherever the
Speaker 2: name is over their locker, that's where they go. That's
Speaker 2: how that's And we appreciate.
Speaker 4: That players have any say or like based on senuity
Speaker 4: or anything.
Speaker 1: Case you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, usually the guys who've been here
Speaker 2: the longest get the best spots. You know, I am
Speaker 2: conscious of that. I know which I know what the
Speaker 2: you know, the good spots are you know the good lots. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they get the bigger lots.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's done.
Speaker 2: You and Joey having Jerry back on the field, and
Speaker 2: great to have Jerry back. It's he's good to see
Speaker 2: him out there. It's always fun when Jerry rolls into town,
Speaker 2: you know. So, uh and actually you're picking his brain
Speaker 2: a little bit. He watches us, you know, and uh, Jack,
Speaker 2: Well he was out there in the middle of things.
Speaker 3: I saw that. So it looks like coaching.
Speaker 2: No, I think that's it's part of It's definitely his
Speaker 2: who he is.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: He gave me some good, good, good philosophy this morning,
Speaker 2: so I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Did you check out the trophies on your way in
Speaker 1: and and have any thoughts on your way back the
Speaker 1: soccer trophies.
Speaker 2: Well, the soccer trophies, Uh I did. They're really big trophies,
Speaker 2: got bigger than ours. Our Lombardi Trophy is not that big.
Speaker 3: You know that, But I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know that the value is necessarily in size
Speaker 2: of the trophy. Although what they accomplished was pretty incredible, right,
Speaker 2: and you know, to to to win across the board
Speaker 2: like that like a Grand Slam kind of soccer. Right,
Speaker 2: So I'm kind of getting more into soccer now. We've
Speaker 2: we've had a chance to meet some people in the
Speaker 2: in the business the other football and uh, it's it's
Speaker 2: really cool. It's a cool sport. So uh, Plus I'm
Speaker 2: a big fan of the show, you know, Ted Lasso.
Speaker 4: So John, we're gonna hear from Josh Bines in a
Speaker 4: moment for to have a player like that, I mean,
Speaker 4: he came in as an undrafted rookie, was here, helped
Speaker 4: you win a Super Bowl, left and then came back.
Speaker 4: But what's it like to to kind of, you know,
Speaker 4: see his career and follow up from Afar and then
Speaker 4: him to come back and retire as a Raven?
Speaker 2: Right, Well, you know, Josh Bienes is announcing his retirement
Speaker 2: as a Raven today. His whole family's here, His beautiful
Speaker 2: family's here with his with his amazing wife and kids,
Speaker 2: and they'll be walking around here right now. Look at
Speaker 2: look at this family, and and he's got a couple
Speaker 2: of sons of probably be looking at Michigan here. In
Speaker 2: a couple of years, Ozzie was trying to recruit for
Speaker 2: Alabama already Josh said, absolutely not because where did Josh
Speaker 2: go to school? Auburn, Right War Eagle. So, but to
Speaker 2: me it's kind of jo is a person, player, man
Speaker 2: who epitomizes the opportunity that football represents. Okay, the true
Speaker 2: meritocracy that we like to talk about in football, that
Speaker 2: no matter where you come from, no matter where you've been,
Speaker 2: your background, whatever it is, how heralded you are or
Speaker 2: you are not, how much you've talked about, whatever it
Speaker 2: might be, the content of your character, your talent, your
Speaker 2: work effort, effort, your ability just to find a way
Speaker 2: to get the job done and produce and whatever the
Speaker 2: job may be. To me, that's what Josh Bines represents.
Speaker 2: As you said, undrafted free agent. Probably people probably weren't
Speaker 2: betting on him to make the team even way back then.
Speaker 2: Twelve seasons later twelve as starter almost every game for
Speaker 2: twelve seasons, productive starter, making tackles, setting records for tackles,
Speaker 2: all the things he did. And then not just that
Speaker 2: past the football stuff which you have to do, you
Speaker 2: have to produce, but the locker room, the leadership, the mentorship,
Speaker 2: the example that he's such for the guys by the
Speaker 2: type of a family man he's a father, husband that
Speaker 2: he is. I think guys look at that and it
Speaker 2: makes a difference.
Speaker 3: And I know that.
Speaker 2: I know he's been there for guys just to talk
Speaker 2: to and make a difference in their lives. So that's
Speaker 2: what a hall of famer is to me, you know,
Speaker 2: A hall of famer, Yeah, he's he's that kind of
Speaker 2: a player that deserves that kind of recognition in terms
Speaker 2: of being all the accolades that hes accomplish as a
Speaker 2: football player, but a hall of famer in life, you know,
Speaker 2: and relationships. So the beauty of football to me is
Speaker 2: someone like that. And uh So, without any further ado,
Speaker 2: Josh Mines.
Speaker 6: I hang on, thats y all. I'm kind of it's
Speaker 6: kind of surreal. It hits you kind of kind of quick.
Speaker 6: I'm not an emotional person, but like I just like
Speaker 6: har say, I just really appreciate every single thing in
Speaker 6: this league has done for me. I'm just gonna start
Speaker 6: by just saying I appreciate, uh my parents first and
Speaker 6: foremost my wife. Parents were to support throughout this whole
Speaker 6: entire process of being playing football from since I was
Speaker 6: seven years old to now, and it's just it's just
Speaker 6: been it's been a journey, and while I had something
Speaker 6: written down and all this other stuff, but it just
Speaker 6: kind of went out the window and you get up
Speaker 6: here and I'm not even emotional, so I'm like, I'm
Speaker 6: about to cry, but but I'd just like to, you know,
Speaker 6: just think, you know, my Arbumn University first War Eagle.
Speaker 6: I know we came up shruggers out down, but we'll
Speaker 6: come back to her about it. Just forgive me opportunity,
Speaker 6: a kid out of for ladder deal, just trying to
Speaker 6: figure out, you know, what I wanted to do with
Speaker 6: my life then, and to take up opportunity for me
Speaker 6: to give me opportunity obviously to meet my wife, who
Speaker 6: also went to Auburn as well.
Speaker 3: So that's been a huge thing.
Speaker 6: And U and I appreciate Auburn for that, and I
Speaker 6: appreciate Harps and Ozzy and Eric, you know, forgive me
Speaker 6: opportunity twenty eleven, give me opportunity to come here as
Speaker 6: a Raven. It wasn't easy at all, you know, as
Speaker 6: Harbor said, it just you know, gave me some.
Speaker 3: Gave me gave me a little a little welcome to
Speaker 3: the league moment for my rookie year.
Speaker 6: But it also propelled me to go every everywhere else
Speaker 6: and take that same knowledge and ability and take that
Speaker 6: to Detroit. And obviously I thank Detroit forgive me opportunity.
Speaker 6: I know, way in Baltimore I was sorry, but they
Speaker 6: can give me opportunities. I don't know if I'd have
Speaker 6: been here. Thank you for Arizona forgive me opportunity as well.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say this very small thank you such and
Speaker 6: for just one time, just you know, because if they
Speaker 6: wouldn't get an opportunity, wouldn't have came back here in
Speaker 6: twenty one as well. So you know, just thank you
Speaker 6: for every single person get opportunity. And I just like
Speaker 6: to thank definitely my wife, like to for twelve years.
Speaker 6: I don't know how she did. And being home with
Speaker 6: the kids is fall and seeing how they run around
Speaker 6: and being able to coach my oldest son come here.
Speaker 6: Yeah I know you don't like the camera and they
Speaker 6: shot like me sometimes, but being able to you know,
Speaker 6: coach his team, my other my other son team as well,
Speaker 6: and just that part has been really good this fall.
Speaker 6: And I I appreciate every single thing this game has
Speaker 6: taught me and brought me, and I just I can't
Speaker 6: be more grateful, but also, like I said, the Ravens
Speaker 6: like this is a class one organization. They it's just
Speaker 6: it's just, it's just I appreciate every single thing this
Speaker 6: organization brings and teaches me.
Speaker 3: And and uh MNA, get this little one right here.
Speaker 3: Come you're mad, feel left out.
Speaker 6: And be able to welcome like you still see it
Speaker 6: family like family first organization, and that's what this organization about.
Speaker 6: And I appreciate every single thing this game is done
Speaker 6: for me and my family. And like I said, I
Speaker 6: don't really have too much to say, but I love
Speaker 6: this game love and I'm I'm glad. Twelve years has been.
Speaker 6: It's been a ride, ups and downs and all. And
Speaker 6: I appreciate everybody's morning. Okay, they taught me moments I
Speaker 6: can teach my boys to grow up and be one day.
Speaker 6: And and just like I said, this Ravens is what
Speaker 6: it epitomizes. Every single day, God's just gonna come out
Speaker 6: of nowhere. They gonna do what they need to do
Speaker 6: and be successful. Every single person that's come from the
Speaker 6: Ravens hath always been successful somewhere.
Speaker 3: Every it happens all the time.
Speaker 6: Why and it starts with the head man over there,
Speaker 6: and that's just where it starts at. It starts from
Speaker 6: an organization from top down, from every every single person,
Speaker 6: from Ozzy Eric, I mean, from the whole entire staff,
Speaker 6: and I appreciate every single thing they've done for me
Speaker 6: and my family and to be here and thank you
Speaker 6: for twelve years and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Talk to John before about said you make a great coach.
Speaker 1: Do you anticipate coaching?
Speaker 3: Is that what you want to do in your next
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna see a lot to you.
Speaker 6: I feel like I've been doing some more of that
Speaker 6: even last season, helping out just like even when I
Speaker 6: wasn't playing with Rocann and PQ and just like trying
Speaker 6: to get the guys just to you know, ready for
Speaker 6: like games and stuff like that. Because I'm really I'm
Speaker 6: a selfless person. I feel like one of us win,
Speaker 6: we all win, and that's been That's just that's just
Speaker 6: my mindset. And I've also coached my son's eighth grade
Speaker 6: football team this year, helping with the defense and had
Speaker 6: them doing some things this year. So I feel like
Speaker 6: that has been something I've been wanting to do for
Speaker 6: a while. I know a lot of guys get to
Speaker 6: my age probably get a little scared of that, but
Speaker 6: I'm I'm fine with that. Played twelve years, but I'm
Speaker 6: looking forward to the opportunity to get into coaching and
Speaker 6: being able to hopefully pour their knowledge to other guys
Speaker 6: and hopefully they have successful careers as well.
Speaker 3: God you got here there. You know, what do you
Speaker 3: remember thinking about.
Speaker 4: Your roster dances and about how difficult it was going
Speaker 4: to be the stick when you look at ray Lewis
Speaker 4: being on the field.
Speaker 3: And just this team's tradition and at that position. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: it was definitely. I knew it was. It was definitely
Speaker 3: gonna be hard to make the team.
Speaker 6: But I think I think I have to think guys
Speaker 6: like down All LB Jamille McLain, Album McClellan, Brianbadejo for
Speaker 6: those guys I wouldn't brandan Oh my lord, I must say,
Speaker 6: Brian Brandon, I Ambidejo, those guys for just like taking me
Speaker 6: under the wing and teaching me how to play the game,
Speaker 6: and they all undrafted linebackers and how to make it
Speaker 6: and how to you know, pretty much a vibe.
Speaker 3: And it was hard.
Speaker 6: It was rough, you know, rookie year coming into organization
Speaker 6: like this and where the expectation is at at its
Speaker 6: highest and you appreciate that because it makes again the
Speaker 6: best out of you every single time.
Speaker 3: And so that was tough.
Speaker 6: Obviously I didn't make the roster, obviously, but uh do
Speaker 6: but uh when I did get a chance to get
Speaker 6: a call back, I got a call Because this is crazy.
Speaker 3: I don't think I anybody told this story.
Speaker 6: So when I got I had just interviewed for a
Speaker 6: job down and for a lot of deal as an
Speaker 6: academic visor, and I still had on my suit and everything,
Speaker 6: and Izzy called me, literally just I walked in the door,
Speaker 6: called me and I was like hello, Hello. He's like,
Speaker 6: it's Izzy with Ravens. I was like, okay, it's like
Speaker 6: you want to come back to be.
Speaker 3: With the Ravens.
Speaker 6: I was like, like, I said you sure if I
Speaker 6: think I said first, and I was like yeah.
Speaker 3: He was like yeah. So I was like, well, I
Speaker 3: just got there with a job interview. It's like, you
Speaker 3: ain't gonta do the work out and nothing. Just come on,
Speaker 3: you bring you back now. Kids.
Speaker 6: You know, I started crying because and then you know,
Speaker 6: all the time, I was just twenty whatever was twenty one,
Speaker 6: twenty two at the time.
Speaker 3: Trying to figure out, Okay, what's my next face?
Speaker 6: Football is over at the time, and to go from
Speaker 6: that to you know, obviously playing twelve years is just
Speaker 6: is insane. And I gotta give thank you for Ozzie
Speaker 6: for that phone call.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you, Josh.
Speaker 4: You played twelve years, but so many people will remember
Speaker 4: you from making the final tackle in the Super Bowl
Speaker 4: and just reflect little on that moment. And at that point,
Speaker 4: could you have ever thought that you play another ten.
Speaker 1: Years after that?
Speaker 4: Just you knowing you were still trying to establish yourself.
Speaker 3: At that point, Yeah, I agree with that. And so
Speaker 3: that year started off.
Speaker 6: Most of you guys know, I broke my back in
Speaker 6: training camp that year and when the second day, I
Speaker 6: believe a pads or something like that, freak accident practice
Speaker 6: and and that year was just like I was uncertain.
Speaker 6: My wife I call her, she was crying because I
Speaker 6: was in the hospital. Didn't know what was going on
Speaker 6: and everything. And now I give you now, I was
Speaker 6: kind of like skeptical, like I don't I don't know
Speaker 6: if this might be my season, year, career might be
Speaker 6: over with this back issue, and I'm young, still trying
Speaker 6: to you know, establish myself.
Speaker 3: In this league. But I got to give guys like
Speaker 3: Jerry Rosberg.
Speaker 6: And coach harbl like I said, and just you know,
Speaker 6: giving me opportunity and knowing that, okay, he's gonna come
Speaker 6: back and contribute in some form of fashion for this team.
Speaker 6: And uh and obviously I ended up coming back and
Speaker 6: playing games and end up starting games. We got a
Speaker 6: lot of guys hurt and given opportunities. And I think
Speaker 6: just about those opportunities I've had, I've always you know,
Speaker 6: make success of them. It never matter whenever they came.
Speaker 6: I didn't I don't know when they was gonna come.
Speaker 6: But when those opportunities did come, I was like, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna be ready. And when my name is Carl was
Speaker 6: always ready to go. And knowing that I was able
Speaker 6: to handle it. And uh And obviously that year, what
Speaker 6: better way to seal from the start of the year
Speaker 6: to you know, uncertainty, to you know, win the Super
Speaker 6: Bowl and making the last Tacosa.
Speaker 3: I think it's it's crazy, what's up? So we.
Speaker 5: Jerry said, we could run all the time off, but
Speaker 5: we almost did. Ye taking the safe you see, you
Speaker 5: was gonna be kicked off after that. You know, what
Speaker 5: was your thoughts, what was said in the huddle? What
Speaker 5: was your thoughts minding up and going down on that place.
Speaker 6: We always just like, look, we're gonna make sure we
Speaker 6: keep this ball all in front of us. I think
Speaker 6: we all only know if we was all like sprinting
Speaker 6: all in that, because we just wanted to make sure
Speaker 6: like we gonna get him down no matter what. And
Speaker 6: I think if I'm not stick out, Remember I went
Speaker 6: inside a little bit, then I came back outside and
Speaker 6: he was just you know right there. I forout who
Speaker 6: missed the tackle was a Jimmy. It was somebody. It
Speaker 6: was Jimmy, my guy, al Rodnie All, Ronnie, my god,
Speaker 6: Jimmy Smith missed the tackle, right. Appreciate you just missing
Speaker 6: the tackle, you know, and then I know being right
Speaker 6: there to.
Speaker 3: See that, to make that tackle.
Speaker 6: So you know, it's just it's surreal, crazy moment and
Speaker 6: we need another one, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Anybody else, now, thank you all for having me. I
Speaker 3: appreciate y'all. Thank you se me.
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