Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens are
Speaker 1: going to face the Buffalo Bills on Sunday at six
Speaker 1: point thirty pm on CBS in a Divisional Round matchup.
Speaker 1: As the Ravens prepare for this game, today, we had
Speaker 1: a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Okay, I appreciate everybody being here. Good to see you
Speaker 2: getting ready for a big game like the Visional game
Speaker 2: against a very tough opponent who we know. Well. We're
Speaker 2: looking forward to it. We're very deep into the preparations
Speaker 2: for that and we're looking forward to the weekend, looking
Speaker 2: forward to the game. What questions you have in John.
Speaker 3: Obviously you're familiar with this team after playing on the
Speaker 3: earlier ear but what I mean, just in watching Frollove
Speaker 3: just you know recently, what kind of just stands out
Speaker 3: to you is just as for the.
Speaker 2: Bills in general, Well, yeah, I mean it's a big
Speaker 2: question because so many things stand out there. They're such
Speaker 2: a good team, all three phases are playing at a
Speaker 2: very high level. I think the biggest thing that stands
Speaker 2: out is well coached they are, how well tied together
Speaker 2: they are. They play complimentary football. All three phases playoff
Speaker 2: of each other. They have a defined personality in every phase.
Speaker 2: And as a team, they're very physical, they play very hard.
Speaker 2: They're they're cohesive. Uh, they're on the same page. I think. Offensively,
Speaker 2: they're very coordinated in terms of blocking schemes and timing
Speaker 2: of routes and and the pass protections and how it's
Speaker 2: all put together. You know, the quarterback obviously is playing
Speaker 2: at high level. Josh Allen is a great player, and
Speaker 2: he's they're they're they're well built around him. You know,
Speaker 2: he did a good job of building the offense around him.
Speaker 2: And they have a lot of complimentary pieces. I mean
Speaker 2: all their receivers, wide receivers and tight ends and backs,
Speaker 2: and the backs also serve as receivers. But they're all
Speaker 2: they're all very talented, skilled catchers. They all understand the
Speaker 2: passing game really well. They run hard, they protect the football.
Speaker 2: They're all good ball carriers, whether it's handed to them
Speaker 2: or after the catch.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: So, big physical offensive line. Defensively, very active, very very
Speaker 2: tied together defense back then to the second level to
Speaker 2: the front pass rush, run defense, defensive backs showing up
Speaker 2: in the run game. Linebacker's playing downhill in the gaps
Speaker 2: in the run game, but pop punching out in zone
Speaker 2: coverage as well, getting their depth, breaking on the ball, tackling,
Speaker 2: just all the things that you would expect from a
Speaker 2: well coached team like they are. So that's the type
Speaker 2: of challenge that we're facing.
Speaker 3: No sense, when you play a team back in the
Speaker 3: week before we played three and a half months ago,
Speaker 3: how much weak do you put in that in terms
Speaker 3: of reviewing that and prep compared to what they've done
Speaker 3: and say, like their last.
Speaker 5: Five or six game.
Speaker 2: Well, you do both. I mean it's both. I'd say
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's some. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: percentage of it is, but you're involved. That's definitely in
Speaker 2: your breakdown. You kind of go back and you pick
Speaker 2: the games. You watch all the games, and you even
Speaker 2: go back the past years. You know, that's part of
Speaker 2: your breakdown as well. Uh, and then you choose the
Speaker 2: games that you want to put in there and that
Speaker 2: you want to kind of emphasize and that you think
Speaker 2: apply to the game coming up. So these games we
Speaker 2: throw out too, just based on what we see, and
Speaker 2: it might be some recent games that we don't use
Speaker 2: just because we don't think they apply the last their
Speaker 2: last game of this regular season. We're not using we
Speaker 2: don't we've seen it, we know what's in it, but
Speaker 2: it's not applying to our necessarily to our to our
Speaker 2: game plan. So we use all of that.
Speaker 6: A little bit more. I'm sure you'll have a better
Speaker 6: sense later in the week. But are you confident that
Speaker 6: day Flowers would be able to play or is that
Speaker 6: still very much open the air.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's in we'll see mode. He's working hard to
Speaker 2: get back, and we'll see towards the end of the
Speaker 2: week if he's practicing and he could play without practicing
Speaker 2: for sure, if he's if he feels healthy enough, and
Speaker 2: if it's safe for him.
Speaker 7: John kind of piggybacking on Jameson's questions. I mean, the
Speaker 7: excitement to see this matchup seemed immediate. I mean, you
Speaker 7: have Tony Romo kind of almost salivating on are talking
Speaker 7: about it. Is there a part of you that can
Speaker 7: step outside of it for a second and just say,
Speaker 7: as someone who goes football, this is a this is
Speaker 7: a matchup that everybody should want to see.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, absolutely, child. I mean it's you. You kind
Speaker 2: of feel, you feel grateful to be a part of it.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a privilege. You know, it's a privilege
Speaker 2: to be a part of a game like this. You know,
Speaker 2: this is a this is a big game. It's a
Speaker 2: divisional game. I mean, these divisional games are really hard
Speaker 2: to win. You know, if you look, uh you look,
Speaker 2: you look back over the years, I mean, because you're
Speaker 2: playing the best teams. I mean there's the four best
Speaker 2: teams in the AFC, the four best teams in the
Speaker 2: NFC are still alive. And you know, to get to
Speaker 2: the super Bowl, if you want to take a step out,
Speaker 2: you've got to win two games. Now, whoever gets to
Speaker 2: the Super bowls got to win two games against the
Speaker 2: best in their in their conference. That's tough, really tough.
Speaker 2: And so to be a part of that, just just
Speaker 2: in that, in that sense is really amazing. And then
Speaker 2: you get you get a chance to play a team
Speaker 2: like the Bills, who've been perennially in that group. Uh
Speaker 2: just super talented, well coached type of a team on
Speaker 2: that stage, you know, in their place. You know it's
Speaker 2: going to be cold, it's gonna be blustery all that,
Speaker 2: you know. I just like I can picture John Facenda
Speaker 2: coming down, you know from the heavens and and narrating
Speaker 2: the preview to the game. So it's it's great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're we're excited about it.
Speaker 4: And you mentioned do you look at a week four
Speaker 4: game and at more recent games.
Speaker 5: You guys won that Week four game, big what what
Speaker 5: worked well for you in that game? As you go
Speaker 5: back and.
Speaker 2: Look at it, well, I mean you saw the game,
Speaker 2: you were there, bo, you know, you know what worked well?
Speaker 2: We uh, first play was a good play, you know
Speaker 2: that was that was a good play for us. But
Speaker 2: you know, there's it's a it's just a football game,
Speaker 2: you know, And and I'm sure that you just look
Speaker 2: at it from it just a kind of it. We
Speaker 2: look at it kind of more of a scientific kind
Speaker 2: of a football perspective in terms of what did they see,
Speaker 2: What are they going to try to stop? What are
Speaker 2: they going to play against us? What are they gonna
Speaker 2: run against us? You know, we're the matchups now that
Speaker 2: weren't there then, or that are different or the same,
Speaker 2: you know, all those kind of little things because just
Speaker 2: you know, watching the game gets you some insight into
Speaker 2: what they were, what they were accomplishing. And they had
Speaker 2: a lot of good plays against us too, you know,
Speaker 2: so it's more that as opposed to the outcome. I mean,
Speaker 2: you don't really look at the outcome. The outcome is
Speaker 2: kind of irrelevant. It's more just the just the predictive
Speaker 2: aspect of in terms of what you think you might
Speaker 2: get going forward.
Speaker 8: Was trying to stop you guys' offense.
Speaker 9: A lot of it is trying to stop the second
Speaker 9: and third play with Lamar is similar with Buffalo's offense.
Speaker 9: How important will it be to kind of stop some
Speaker 9: of those you know, long winded players and.
Speaker 2: Long winded plays. I like that the long winded play.
Speaker 2: That's a good way to say it, you know, the
Speaker 2: two play, the two play quarterback. I might add is Todd.
Speaker 2: Todd needs to acknowledge the fact that he got that
Speaker 2: from me, just for the record, you know, I know,
Speaker 2: I know he likes to take credit for that, but
Speaker 2: you know that that just just so you know where
Speaker 2: that came from. Just well ask him, he'll tell you.
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody knows. Everybody's in the inside knows. So
Speaker 2: I just want I got an opportunity to get that
Speaker 2: out there finally, because I don't think he's acknowledged that yet.
Speaker 2: I've noticed, you see, he liked it.
Speaker 5: So much.
Speaker 2: He kind of took credit for my brother has that
Speaker 2: same you know thing about him. So, uh, where were
Speaker 2: we the long winded quarterback, the long winded plays. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's it's critically important. I mean, that's uh, that's that's
Speaker 2: that's the challenge because the first play they run is
Speaker 2: really good too, you know, the on time in rhythm
Speaker 2: play runner passes is really challenging. Then the second play,
Speaker 2: or the third play in the case of Josh or
Speaker 2: Lamar becomes the becomes the next challenge. And so everybody's
Speaker 2: got their part in the first part of the play,
Speaker 2: in the pursuit or the plaster or the or the
Speaker 2: keep the ball in front of the tack or the
Speaker 2: angle part of the play, whatever it might be. Continue
Speaker 2: the rush, make a smart rush in terms of how
Speaker 2: you tackle, how you push a guy out of bounds,
Speaker 2: all those things are a big part of it.
Speaker 3: John, the drum incident out Saturday was the exciting time
Speaker 3: that that's happened here.
Speaker 5: You walk through when you learn that when you throw
Speaker 5: and what's that due to.
Speaker 7: You as a company, When you learn gave stops and cotron.
Speaker 2: It, well, you know, they we're I think we're at
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage, and all of a sudden, the
Speaker 2: referees you could tell you got buzz in their ear
Speaker 2: and they stepped up and they stopped to play. Then
Speaker 2: we have one of the referees that's not doing the
Speaker 2: game is with the coaches, so you get a little
Speaker 2: quicker information. Normally would be the side judge you come
Speaker 2: over and tell you, but now he's right there to
Speaker 2: tell you, Hey, uh, they're going to stop players a drone.
Speaker 2: He just told me that they're looking at a drone.
Speaker 2: And so I just told our play callers that, you know,
Speaker 2: that's what we're doing. And really, at that point you
Speaker 2: just wait. I mean, it's not really anything you can
Speaker 2: do about it. It becomes like a commercial time out just
Speaker 2: a little bit, and you continue to kind of talk
Speaker 2: about your strategy. Really is what you do. It's just
Speaker 2: an opportunity to kind of make sure that we're we're
Speaker 2: thinking the same way within the game. That's about it.
Speaker 2: We don't think too much about it as a drone situation,
Speaker 2: per se.
Speaker 7: The more inside quarter war got need in the back
Speaker 7: pretty hard. Do you anticipated him that limiting his participation
Speaker 7: at all.
Speaker 5: Throughout the week is for the practice time.
Speaker 2: Doesn't look that way from what I've been told, which
Speaker 2: will say.
Speaker 4: These two teams have evolved since the earlier match up
Speaker 4: this year. I mean, is there anything that you can
Speaker 4: discern between the difference from the first time you met
Speaker 4: if they're coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I say, across the board, both teams
Speaker 2: are better, you know, in every in every way. Really,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think either teams taking a step
Speaker 2: back in any way. Both teams are better across the board.
Speaker 2: I think both teams are kind of, you know, defining
Speaker 2: their personalities a little bit more over the course of
Speaker 2: the seasons and kind of what you'd expect at this point.
Speaker 10: John, although now you doesn't have another thirteen stats season,
Speaker 10: what are some of the ways you think that he's
Speaker 10: improved outside of the sets and hoping that the game
Speaker 10: can see just from him the other as her wigneman
Speaker 10: with such a big offense as in their.
Speaker 2: Match, well, Kyle h is uh, you know, obviously the
Speaker 2: sacks are kind of speak for themselves, and uh, but
Speaker 2: it's not just that, you know, there's there's so many
Speaker 2: situations where there's kind of the unsung aspects of a
Speaker 2: play that you know, a lot of our guys have done,
Speaker 2: and uh, he's been the same guy. Sometimes he'll he'll
Speaker 2: be in a position where a quarterback can't escape and
Speaker 2: someone else will wrap around and get the sack, or
Speaker 2: or or squeezing on a run and forcing a run
Speaker 2: back to a linebacker or bouncing out to a dB
Speaker 2: like he's supposed to. I just think he's playing good football,
Speaker 2: you know. And I do think it's kind of reflective
Speaker 2: of the whole defense really. I mean, everybody's just really
Speaker 2: focusing on doing their job in a real physical way
Speaker 2: and a real discipline way. That's what everybody's really trying
Speaker 2: to do. So and col is a great leader that
Speaker 2: way too. He leads, you know, he talks to the
Speaker 2: guys about that and a lot of experience that way,
Speaker 2: like in the playoffs, so he's been talking to the
Speaker 2: guys about playing good discipline higher for football.
Speaker 6: An offensive line. He's obviously been pretty critical to the success.
Speaker 6: And if you just you know, think back to like
Speaker 6: any season to now, obviously you guys have found that
Speaker 6: they've found their footing. What just stood out to you
Speaker 6: about you know, a guy like Daniel Filele playing you know,
Speaker 6: a new position, and you know Patrick McCarry McCarry doing
Speaker 6: what he's he's been able to do throughout of course,
Speaker 6: as you're out missing a missing any top.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, I think the offensive line just like every position,
Speaker 2: but it's kind of it's kind of there's just there's
Speaker 2: a lot of individual stories in there, the five individual starters,
Speaker 2: and there's others too that in the depth part of it,
Speaker 2: and if you get into that room, you kind of
Speaker 2: see that each each guy's got his own story, but
Speaker 2: probably as a whole, it's probably just steady improvement. You know. Uh,
Speaker 2: they've been through a lot. You know, you look back
Speaker 2: at the Joe d situation and then you know the
Speaker 2: fact that it was three new guys and all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, and you know some of the some
Speaker 2: of the doubts and all that kind of stuff that
Speaker 2: they dealt with. I really feel good and proud of them.
Speaker 2: But really we don't think about too much right now, Brian.
Speaker 2: It's just more about preparing for this game and and
Speaker 2: and the challenge that this defense presents our line, just
Speaker 2: like every position.
Speaker 10: A lot of people when you.
Speaker 7: Talk about Josh Allen and more, they'll talk about that
Speaker 7: two thousand and eighteen draft.
Speaker 5: Do you think when these two high proofile players.
Speaker 7: Do you think because of that, they'll kind of always
Speaker 7: be linked in that regard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably, you know, it came out in the same draft.
Speaker 2: Highly successful, They'll probably always be linked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, John Lamar a touchdown of justice for at the
Speaker 3: end of that. It was such a highlight play. But
Speaker 3: right before that, Isaiah likely had I think it was
Speaker 3: a nineteen yard catch, had a big sipar him, didn't
Speaker 3: get out of the bounds, and he takes the ball
Speaker 3: and sprints all the way to the HASH and you
Speaker 3: guys are able to clock it really quickly.
Speaker 5: I mean, how impressive undertanding.
Speaker 3: The playoff game, that situation will awareness, you know, and
Speaker 3: knowing how important the time was then on that past.
Speaker 2: Plus so impressive. I mean, there were so many situational
Speaker 2: aspects of that game that our guys really did a
Speaker 2: good job of that you may notice and you may not,
Speaker 2: and you notice, and that's a great point. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's one of the things that we work on really hard.
Speaker 2: We work on it all the time. But he takes
Speaker 2: that ball right back to the hash, gets on the
Speaker 2: ground that everybody sprints up. Lamar, make sure everybody set first.
Speaker 2: Everybody's legal ball is snapped. Now we have you know,
Speaker 2: is eleven seconds the difference or is eleven seconds left?
Speaker 2: I think with the play as opposed to nine or
Speaker 2: eight or something like that, that's the difference, right. So
Speaker 2: to your point, then you think about just the fact
Speaker 2: that we were able to be in that situation. I
Speaker 2: think Thailand didn't Tiland have the conversion on the was
Speaker 2: that that drive? Was it that drive? I think it
Speaker 2: was where we hit. He had to cut the ball
Speaker 2: on the sideline, right. If you don't, we're a third
Speaker 2: or second forever on that, you know, so Lamar and
Speaker 2: you know with a clock run down, there's only about
Speaker 2: twenty eight seconds left at that point, and he pushes
Speaker 2: forward for the first down. I mean, all those things
Speaker 2: give you a chance, you know, at the end, to
Speaker 2: have a great play like that happened.
Speaker 7: And you talk about those two quarterbacks. Did you feel
Speaker 7: like those guys existed when you first started coaching in
Speaker 7: the league or is that something that you guys to
Speaker 7: account for more and.
Speaker 2: More over the years they existed. Yes, but you have
Speaker 2: to account for him more and more, exactly right. It
Speaker 2: seems like most guys now are kind of like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, like a guy like bow Knicks comes into
Speaker 2: the league this year, and he's that kind of a guy.
Speaker 2: And Justin Herbert's that kind of a guy. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're just they're kind of everywhere. Now it seems like
Speaker 2: that becomes that's more the mold. Now used to be
Speaker 2: breaking the mold, that seems like it's becoming the molds.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, we're.
Speaker 5: Used to it.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 2: We've been talking about we've been talking about plaster and
Speaker 2: extended plays in Baltimore for a long time. You're right
Speaker 2: with Big Ben.
Speaker 5: You guys missed Toron Johnson and Matt Milano in that
Speaker 5: Week four matchup at how important are they to how
Speaker 5: Buffalo wants to defend the ball with you know later personnel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's they They play that nickel pretty much
Speaker 2: against everything except when you put the real big people
Speaker 2: out there. And uh, and those guys play so well together.
Speaker 2: And there are three experienced players. Uh and you know
Speaker 2: Toront Johnson's he's he's a dB, but he plays like
Speaker 2: a linebacker in there. Mean he gets in the box
Speaker 2: and he plays the Sam or the Will nickel, you
Speaker 2: know backer based on your formations, just like a linebacker would.
Speaker 2: He's one hundred and ninety pounds, or he shows up,
Speaker 2: he's out there in the apex and you know, boom,
Speaker 2: he's in the He's in the B gap before you
Speaker 2: blink an eye, you know, playing the run. So it
Speaker 2: does a great job and those are great players.
Speaker 5: Trying you opted against bringing the take hardy back on.
Speaker 4: You anticipated he'll be available this week or that's still
Speaker 4: you don't share.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure yet. Uh you know, he'd been
Speaker 2: gone for quite a while and there he had the
Speaker 2: physical situation, had some personal things he was dealing with.
Speaker 2: But he's working hard in practice last week and he's
Speaker 2: got to make sure you guy's ready, you know, is
Speaker 2: in shape and mentally ready. I mean, he tells me
Speaker 2: in his mind he's ready. I can tell you that
Speaker 2: he wants to play, and we'll just have to see.
Speaker 2: But Steven is a guy that we also have confidence
Speaker 2: in and uh, you know, I know he had you know,
Speaker 2: a couple of balls got on the ground last week,
Speaker 2: this windy lefty. He was bombing the ball for sure,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know with the one on the very
Speaker 2: first one, you know, he just I don't know if
Speaker 2: he lost track of where he was at. But we
Speaker 2: don't want to be backing up inside the eight yard
Speaker 2: line and catching those kind of punts. It's just let
Speaker 2: that give it a chance to go in the end zone, right,
Speaker 2: And so he'd like to have that one back. And
Speaker 2: then he decided to not feel the cut two of
Speaker 2: the other ones and turn out okay, force the way
Speaker 2: they bounce. So but he's done well. He's an experienced
Speaker 2: guy and and he'll do well back there too. So
Speaker 2: we're confident, or if Thailand was back there, we'd be
Speaker 2: confident with Thailand too. Those guys all do a good job.
Speaker 8: One of those things, like defensively, offenses are I don't
Speaker 8: know whether it's whether it's the schematic things you guys
Speaker 8: are doing, whether they're just making a concerted effort, but
Speaker 8: it seems like they're trying to attack Brandon Stevens. How
Speaker 8: do you feel like he's handled it?
Speaker 9: And why does it seem like the ballki seems to
Speaker 9: go that way?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean some people they decide to do what
Speaker 2: they do, you know, for whatever reason they do. And uh,
Speaker 2: and it's definitely been been challenging. I mean, he's he's
Speaker 2: getting a lot of targets and you know, you get
Speaker 2: a lot of targets. You can have more completions, for sure,
Speaker 2: that's just the way it goes. But you also make
Speaker 2: more plays. He's made a real good number of plays
Speaker 2: as well. And also, you know, there's an opportunity there
Speaker 2: too for us a little bit, because if we get
Speaker 2: the sense that that offense is targeting, you know, a
Speaker 2: particular part of the field or a particular player you
Speaker 2: know in this sense, you know, he plays right corner,
Speaker 2: so that's that's where they go. And Nickel now he's
Speaker 2: playing dimebacker. It's a little different when we put dime
Speaker 2: out there and third down. But okay, now we got
Speaker 2: an idea where you're going to kind of target, we
Speaker 2: can we can roll our coverage that way. We can
Speaker 2: put the strength of our coverage over there too, So
Speaker 2: it's kind of a two way street that way.
Speaker 4: Coach, there was a moment the other night we had
Speaker 4: to five the fans down that we got a little
Speaker 4: too loud. I don't know if you'll have that luxury
Speaker 4: in Buffalo, But what about going up and dealing with
Speaker 4: the Bills mafia and their fan base and a lot
Speaker 4: of Ravens fans may make the.
Speaker 2: Sure yeah, well, yeah, no doubt. I doubt the Bill's
Speaker 2: the Bill's crowd is going to listen to me. I
Speaker 2: I might do is try to try to quiet him
Speaker 2: down with our offense is out there. I think they would.
Speaker 2: I think they'd respond if I went like this, they
Speaker 2: start screaming. Go the other way. You know, Can I
Speaker 2: play the opposite game you think you work?
Speaker 5: Why not scoring a few touchdowns?
Speaker 2: Oh, a few touchdowns and quiet them down? That would
Speaker 2: be Yeah, that'd be ideal. That'd be idea. I thought
Speaker 2: you meant by me walking out there like I did
Speaker 2: and quieting him down. Now he doesn't like anybody. They
Speaker 2: don't like you, Jerry. You got a feud with the
Speaker 2: Bill's mafia.
Speaker 4: They didn't like what I've said about a few years ago.
Speaker 2: Do you want to share that.
Speaker 4: I think it's out there viral, but called the city
Speaker 4: of Losers.
Speaker 5: Like I mean, I was just staying in the facts.
Speaker 2: I think we should move on. He was definitely, you
Speaker 2: asked me. I know, and I apologize to the world.
Speaker 5: Going down that road. What are you kind of think
Speaker 5: about I guess your guys defensive line seems like a
Speaker 5: lot of guys would just love to work out and
Speaker 5: be physically strong and impose their will on game. Damn.
Speaker 5: I know, as a guy who you know works out
Speaker 5: as vigorously as you do, maybe we kind of responded that.
Speaker 5: But how do you kind of think about just the
Speaker 5: way this is constructed and how they kind of put
Speaker 5: themselves in some positions to succeed.
Speaker 2: What do I think about the defensive line? How hard
Speaker 2: they trained to be strong and physically strong. I'm really
Speaker 2: I'm I'm all for it. I'm all about it. I
Speaker 2: love it. We do have a bunch of guys that
Speaker 2: work hard, and I think our guys, I think you
Speaker 2: see it. You see it in December and January especially,
Speaker 2: but we do, we do believe in uh, you know,
Speaker 2: training and and uh and being and being being ready
Speaker 2: to It's it's a physical sport. I mean, the game
Speaker 2: is it's not just one of lost in the trenches,
Speaker 2: but it's one and lost with trench warfare. You know,
Speaker 2: a corner's got to shed a wide receiver and make
Speaker 2: a tack on a sweep. You got to be strong
Speaker 2: to do that. You know. It's a it's a strong
Speaker 2: it's a strong it's a strong person's game, and it's
Speaker 2: a strong person's game physically, and it's a strong person's
Speaker 2: game physically, emotionally, spiritually. You got to be strong to
Speaker 2: play to play football. And that's why I have so
Speaker 2: much respect. I think you guys cover the sport because
Speaker 2: you have so much respect for the game and for
Speaker 2: the and for the people who play it. It's just
Speaker 2: a great sport and it's so tough in demanding, and
Speaker 2: it's just a test of wills, and uh I do.
Speaker 2: I love our guys. Our guys are strong minded. They're
Speaker 2: physically strong, they're spiritually strong. You care about one another.
Speaker 2: That's why they're in position to play a game like
Speaker 2: this at this time, this time of year, up in
Speaker 2: Buffalo against a great a great team, a great city,
Speaker 2: city of winners up there in Buffalo, and they are
Speaker 2: you know, they got a great coach, they've got a
Speaker 2: great organization, and they got a bunch of tough players too.
Speaker 2: So I think what probably everybody's so excited about this game.
Speaker 7: Do you factor in officiating crews, in tendencies with their once.
Speaker 3: It calls or anything in your game plan or in
Speaker 3: technique coaching throughout the week?
Speaker 5: Is that at all the factor?
Speaker 2: We try to coach just technique to be a winning technique,
Speaker 2: which means clean technique. You know, we don't. We're not
Speaker 2: trying to.
Speaker 5: We don't.
Speaker 2: People do coach push the envelope sometimes. I mean, I
Speaker 2: think that's the strategy that people might use. I've heard
Speaker 2: and I've tried in the past to understand the officiating
Speaker 2: cruise and how they might call a game and all that,
Speaker 2: and I've found it just to be just to be
Speaker 2: a red herring, you know, I just think it's a
Speaker 2: waste of time. In the end, you need to focus
Speaker 2: on just doing things well the right way. And I
Speaker 2: think the officials do a great job. Carl Cheffer is
Speaker 2: going to be doing the game. He's got a great crew.
Speaker 2: I don't expect them to call a great game. They
Speaker 2: do's a it's a really great crew. Carl's common sense
Speaker 2: guy always calls a good game, and you know, if
Speaker 2: he calls something is a really high chance it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's true, you committed the penalty and you
Speaker 2: just got to go on and play the next play
Speaker 2: and try to do it the right way.
Speaker 5: Than Thanks everybody.
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