WEBVTT - John Harbaugh: Ravens Press Conference 1/13/25 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.200 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens are 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.000 going to face the Buffalo Bills on Sunday at six 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:12.400 point thirty pm on CBS in a Divisional Round matchup. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:14.600 As the Ravens prepare for this game, today, we had 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.160 a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh. 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.239 Okay, I appreciate everybody being here. Good to see you 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.639 getting ready for a big game like the Visional game 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.920 against a very tough opponent who we know. Well. We're 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:35.000 looking forward to it. We're very deep into the preparations 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.800 for that and we're looking forward to the weekend, looking 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.879 forward to the game. What questions you have in John. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:42.760 Obviously you're familiar with this team after playing on the 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:44.840 earlier ear but what I mean, just in watching Frollove 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.760 just you know recently, what kind of just stands out 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:49.199 to you is just as for the. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.040 Bills in general, Well, yeah, I mean it's a big 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.360 question because so many things stand out there. They're such 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:56.800 a good team, all three phases are playing at a 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.720 very high level. I think the biggest thing that stands 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.440 out is well coached they are, how well tied together 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.920 they are. They play complimentary football. All three phases playoff 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.360 of each other. They have a defined personality in every phase. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.600 And as a team, they're very physical, they play very hard. 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:16.880 They're they're cohesive. Uh, they're on the same page. I think. Offensively, 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.160 they're very coordinated in terms of blocking schemes and timing 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.080 of routes and and the pass protections and how it's 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.280 all put together. You know, the quarterback obviously is playing 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.600 at high level. Josh Allen is a great player, and 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.480 he's they're they're they're well built around him. You know, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.360 he did a good job of building the offense around him. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:36.960 And they have a lot of complimentary pieces. I mean 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.080 all their receivers, wide receivers and tight ends and backs, 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.960 and the backs also serve as receivers. But they're all 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:47.080 they're all very talented, skilled catchers. They all understand the 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.600 passing game really well. They run hard, they protect the football. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.480 They're all good ball carriers, whether it's handed to them 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:53.200 or after the catch. 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:54.320 Uh. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:02:00.360 So, big physical offensive line. Defensively, very active, very very 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.120 tied together defense back then to the second level to 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:09.440 the front pass rush, run defense, defensive backs showing up 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.720 in the run game. Linebacker's playing downhill in the gaps 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.040 in the run game, but pop punching out in zone 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.320 coverage as well, getting their depth, breaking on the ball, tackling, 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.440 just all the things that you would expect from a 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.839 well coached team like they are. So that's the type 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:24.959 of challenge that we're facing. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.200 No sense, when you play a team back in the 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:29.960 week before we played three and a half months ago, 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.040 how much weak do you put in that in terms 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.880 of reviewing that and prep compared to what they've done 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:35.959 and say, like their last. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:36.519 Five or six game. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.600 Well, you do both. I mean it's both. I'd say 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.120 it's you know, it's some. I don't know what the 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.840 percentage of it is, but you're involved. That's definitely in 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.919 your breakdown. You kind of go back and you pick 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.079 the games. You watch all the games, and you even 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.440 go back the past years. You know, that's part of 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.280 your breakdown as well. Uh, and then you choose the 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:53.520 games that you want to put in there and that 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.320 you want to kind of emphasize and that you think 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.760 apply to the game coming up. So these games we 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.400 throw out too, just based on what we see, and 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.239 it might be some recent games that we don't use 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.280 just because we don't think they apply the last their 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.200 last game of this regular season. We're not using we 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.040 don't we've seen it, we know what's in it, but 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.040 it's not applying to our necessarily to our to our 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.640 game plan. So we use all of that. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.000 A little bit more. I'm sure you'll have a better 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.400 sense later in the week. But are you confident that 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.720 day Flowers would be able to play or is that 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:24.919 still very much open the air. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.840 Yeah, that's in we'll see mode. He's working hard to 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.320 get back, and we'll see towards the end of the 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.640 week if he's practicing and he could play without practicing 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.960 for sure, if he's if he feels healthy enough, and 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.360 if it's safe for him. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.880 John kind of piggybacking on Jameson's questions. I mean, the 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.320 excitement to see this matchup seemed immediate. I mean, you 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.960 have Tony Romo kind of almost salivating on are talking 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.400 about it. Is there a part of you that can 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.080 step outside of it for a second and just say, 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.560 as someone who goes football, this is a this is 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.119 a matchup that everybody should want to see. 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.680 Oh, absolutely, absolutely, child. I mean it's you. You kind 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.400 of feel, you feel grateful to be a part of it. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.400 I mean it's a privilege. You know, it's a privilege 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.000 to be a part of a game like this. You know, 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.000 this is a this is a big game. It's a 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.280 divisional game. I mean, these divisional games are really hard 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.600 to win. You know, if you look, uh you look, 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:18.960 you look back over the years, I mean, because you're 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.279 playing the best teams. I mean there's the four best 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:22.960 teams in the AFC, the four best teams in the 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.400 NFC are still alive. And you know, to get to 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.440 the super Bowl, if you want to take a step out, 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.040 you've got to win two games. Now, whoever gets to 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:31.560 the Super bowls got to win two games against the 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.119 best in their in their conference. That's tough, really tough. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.880 And so to be a part of that, just just 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.560 in that, in that sense is really amazing. And then 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.240 you get you get a chance to play a team 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.919 like the Bills, who've been perennially in that group. Uh 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.760 just super talented, well coached type of a team on 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.200 that stage, you know, in their place. You know it's 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.760 going to be cold, it's gonna be blustery all that, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.400 you know. I just like I can picture John Facenda 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.600 coming down, you know from the heavens and and narrating 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.599 the preview to the game. So it's it's great. Yeah, 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:05.680 we're we're excited about it. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.960 And you mentioned do you look at a week four 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.560 game and at more recent games. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.039 You guys won that Week four game, big what what 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:15.839 worked well for you in that game? As you go 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:16.200 back and. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.720 Look at it, well, I mean you saw the game, 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.599 you were there, bo, you know, you know what worked well? 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.039 We uh, first play was a good play, you know 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:24.680 that was that was a good play for us. But 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.360 you know, there's it's a it's just a football game, 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.120 you know, And and I'm sure that you just look 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.200 at it from it just a kind of it. We 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.960 look at it kind of more of a scientific kind 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:40.080 of a football perspective in terms of what did they see, 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.560 What are they going to try to stop? What are 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.159 they going to play against us? What are they gonna 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.400 run against us? You know, we're the matchups now that 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.520 weren't there then, or that are different or the same, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:51.800 you know, all those kind of little things because just 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.640 you know, watching the game gets you some insight into 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.680 what they were, what they were accomplishing. And they had 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.400 a lot of good plays against us too, you know, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.560 so it's more that as opposed to the outcome. I mean, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.200 you don't really look at the outcome. The outcome is 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:07.080 kind of irrelevant. It's more just the just the predictive 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.200 aspect of in terms of what you think you might 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:10.960 get going forward. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:13.720 Was trying to stop you guys' offense. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.680 A lot of it is trying to stop the second 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.480 and third play with Lamar is similar with Buffalo's offense. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.960 How important will it be to kind of stop some 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.640 of those you know, long winded players and. 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.880 Long winded plays. I like that the long winded play. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.800 That's a good way to say it, you know, the 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.919 two play, the two play quarterback. I might add is Todd. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.200 Todd needs to acknowledge the fact that he got that 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.240 from me, just for the record, you know, I know, 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.480 I know he likes to take credit for that, but 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.640 you know that that just just so you know where 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:46.360 that came from. Just well ask him, he'll tell you. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.280 I mean, everybody knows. Everybody's in the inside knows. So 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:50.760 I just want I got an opportunity to get that 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.240 out there finally, because I don't think he's acknowledged that yet. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.080 I've noticed, you see, he liked it. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:55.400 So much. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.599 He kind of took credit for my brother has that 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.360 same you know thing about him. So, uh, where were 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.760 we the long winded quarterback, the long winded plays. Uh, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:10.800 it's it's critically important. I mean, that's uh, that's that's 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.360 that's the challenge because the first play they run is 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.679 really good too, you know, the on time in rhythm 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.280 play runner passes is really challenging. Then the second play, 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:21.960 or the third play in the case of Josh or 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.800 Lamar becomes the becomes the next challenge. And so everybody's 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.600 got their part in the first part of the play, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.600 in the pursuit or the plaster or the or the 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.240 keep the ball in front of the tack or the 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.960 angle part of the play, whatever it might be. Continue 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.080 the rush, make a smart rush in terms of how 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.640 you tackle, how you push a guy out of bounds, 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.720 all those things are a big part of it. 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.000 John, the drum incident out Saturday was the exciting time 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:46.920 that that's happened here. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.440 You walk through when you learn that when you throw 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:50.440 and what's that due to. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:54.760 You as a company, When you learn gave stops and cotron. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.840 It, well, you know, they we're I think we're at 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.760 the line of scrimmage, and all of a sudden, the 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.760 referees you could tell you got buzz in their ear 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.520 and they stepped up and they stopped to play. Then 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.600 we have one of the referees that's not doing the 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.400 game is with the coaches, so you get a little 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.720 quicker information. Normally would be the side judge you come 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.200 over and tell you, but now he's right there to 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.679 tell you, Hey, uh, they're going to stop players a drone. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.960 He just told me that they're looking at a drone. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.280 And so I just told our play callers that, you know, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.440 that's what we're doing. And really, at that point you 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.960 just wait. I mean, it's not really anything you can 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.720 do about it. It becomes like a commercial time out just 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.319 a little bit, and you continue to kind of talk 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.120 about your strategy. Really is what you do. It's just 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.440 an opportunity to kind of make sure that we're we're 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.000 thinking the same way within the game. That's about it. 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.760 We don't think too much about it as a drone situation, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:47.360 per se. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.600 The more inside quarter war got need in the back 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.280 pretty hard. Do you anticipated him that limiting his participation 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:56.160 at all. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:57.800 Throughout the week is for the practice time. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.920 Doesn't look that way from what I've been told, which 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:01.760 will say. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.040 These two teams have evolved since the earlier match up 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:05.959 this year. I mean, is there anything that you can 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.040 discern between the difference from the first time you met 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:09.960 if they're coming up. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.240 Yeah, I mean I say, across the board, both teams 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.320 are better, you know, in every in every way. Really, 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.400 I mean, I don't think either teams taking a step 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.560 back in any way. Both teams are better across the board. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.680 I think both teams are kind of, you know, defining 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.080 their personalities a little bit more over the course of 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.960 the seasons and kind of what you'd expect at this point. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.360 John, although now you doesn't have another thirteen stats season, 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.040 what are some of the ways you think that he's 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.360 improved outside of the sets and hoping that the game 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.280 can see just from him the other as her wigneman 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.520 with such a big offense as in their. 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.960 Match, well, Kyle h is uh, you know, obviously the 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.360 sacks are kind of speak for themselves, and uh, but 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.240 it's not just that, you know, there's there's so many 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.600 situations where there's kind of the unsung aspects of a 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.080 play that you know, a lot of our guys have done, 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.280 and uh, he's been the same guy. Sometimes he'll he'll 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.560 be in a position where a quarterback can't escape and 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.520 someone else will wrap around and get the sack, or 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.959 or or squeezing on a run and forcing a run 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.280 back to a linebacker or bouncing out to a dB 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.920 like he's supposed to. I just think he's playing good football, 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.360 you know. And I do think it's kind of reflective 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.800 of the whole defense really. I mean, everybody's just really 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.000 focusing on doing their job in a real physical way 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.200 and a real discipline way. That's what everybody's really trying 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:22.960 to do. So and col is a great leader that 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.439 way too. He leads, you know, he talks to the 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.040 guys about that and a lot of experience that way, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.400 like in the playoffs, so he's been talking to the 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.480 guys about playing good discipline higher for football. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.400 An offensive line. He's obviously been pretty critical to the success. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.440 And if you just you know, think back to like 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:46.160 any season to now, obviously you guys have found that 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.160 they've found their footing. What just stood out to you 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.920 about you know, a guy like Daniel Filele playing you know, 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.720 a new position, and you know Patrick McCarry McCarry doing 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.960 what he's he's been able to do throughout of course, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.000 as you're out missing a missing any top. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.520 Right, Well, I think the offensive line just like every position, 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.320 but it's kind of it's kind of there's just there's 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.199 a lot of individual stories in there, the five individual starters, 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.400 and there's others too that in the depth part of it, 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.840 and if you get into that room, you kind of 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.679 see that each each guy's got his own story, but 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.800 probably as a whole, it's probably just steady improvement. You know. Uh, 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.520 they've been through a lot. You know, you look back 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:27.000 at the Joe d situation and then you know the 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.880 fact that it was three new guys and all that 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.880 kind of stuff, and you know some of the some 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:34.360 of the doubts and all that kind of stuff that 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.679 they dealt with. I really feel good and proud of them. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.400 But really we don't think about too much right now, Brian. 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.760 It's just more about preparing for this game and and 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.240 and the challenge that this defense presents our line, just 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:46.000 like every position. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:48.160 A lot of people when you. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.400 Talk about Josh Allen and more, they'll talk about that 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:51.880 two thousand and eighteen draft. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.120 Do you think when these two high proofile players. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.120 Do you think because of that, they'll kind of always 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.600 be linked in that regard. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.920 Yeah, probably, you know, it came out in the same draft. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.240 Highly successful, They'll probably always be linked. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:08.319 Yeah, John Lamar a touchdown of justice for at the 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.080 end of that. It was such a highlight play. But 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.760 right before that, Isaiah likely had I think it was 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.720 a nineteen yard catch, had a big sipar him, didn't 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.600 get out of the bounds, and he takes the ball 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.439 and sprints all the way to the HASH and you 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.480 guys are able to clock it really quickly. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.040 I mean, how impressive undertanding. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:29.360 The playoff game, that situation will awareness, you know, and 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.800 knowing how important the time was then on that past. 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.960 Plus so impressive. I mean, there were so many situational 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.439 aspects of that game that our guys really did a 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.600 good job of that you may notice and you may not, 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.240 and you notice, and that's a great point. I mean, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.200 that's one of the things that we work on really hard. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.440 We work on it all the time. But he takes 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:46.959 that ball right back to the hash, gets on the 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.200 ground that everybody sprints up. Lamar, make sure everybody set first. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.280 Everybody's legal ball is snapped. Now we have you know, 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.800 is eleven seconds the difference or is eleven seconds left? 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.360 I think with the play as opposed to nine or 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.080 eight or something like that, that's the difference, right. So 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.120 to your point, then you think about just the fact 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.280 that we were able to be in that situation. I 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.720 think Thailand didn't Tiland have the conversion on the was 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.040 that that drive? Was it that drive? I think it 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:11.400 was where we hit. He had to cut the ball 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.920 on the sideline, right. If you don't, we're a third 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.679 or second forever on that, you know, so Lamar and 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:20.520 you know with a clock run down, there's only about 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.679 twenty eight seconds left at that point, and he pushes 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.560 forward for the first down. I mean, all those things 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.160 give you a chance, you know, at the end, to 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.360 have a great play like that happened. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.760 And you talk about those two quarterbacks. Did you feel 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.360 like those guys existed when you first started coaching in 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.600 the league or is that something that you guys to 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.199 account for more and. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.680 More over the years they existed. Yes, but you have 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.319 to account for him more and more, exactly right. It 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.640 seems like most guys now are kind of like that. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.360 I mean, like a guy like bow Knicks comes into 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.720 the league this year, and he's that kind of a guy. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.920 And Justin Herbert's that kind of a guy. I mean, 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.040 they're just they're kind of everywhere. Now it seems like 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.320 that becomes that's more the mold. Now used to be 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:05.000 breaking the mold, that seems like it's becoming the molds. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:06.200 Well, yeah, we're. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:06.480 Used to it. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:06.640 Man. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.840 We've been talking about we've been talking about plaster and 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.600 extended plays in Baltimore for a long time. You're right 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:12.760 with Big Ben. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.839 You guys missed Toron Johnson and Matt Milano in that 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.440 Week four matchup at how important are they to how 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.320 Buffalo wants to defend the ball with you know later personnel. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.720 Yeah, well that's they They play that nickel pretty much 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.640 against everything except when you put the real big people 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.920 out there. And uh, and those guys play so well together. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.600 And there are three experienced players. Uh and you know 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.880 Toront Johnson's he's he's a dB, but he plays like 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:38.560 a linebacker in there. Mean he gets in the box 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.360 and he plays the Sam or the Will nickel, you 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:45.280 know backer based on your formations, just like a linebacker would. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.960 He's one hundred and ninety pounds, or he shows up, 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.400 he's out there in the apex and you know, boom, 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:51.880 he's in the He's in the B gap before you 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.240 blink an eye, you know, playing the run. So it 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.920 does a great job and those are great players. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.880 Trying you opted against bringing the take hardy back on. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.440 You anticipated he'll be available this week or that's still 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:05.520 you don't share. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.960 Well, I'm not sure yet. Uh you know, he'd been 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.840 gone for quite a while and there he had the 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.600 physical situation, had some personal things he was dealing with. 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.560 But he's working hard in practice last week and he's 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.440 got to make sure you guy's ready, you know, is 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.240 in shape and mentally ready. I mean, he tells me 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.320 in his mind he's ready. I can tell you that 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.320 he wants to play, and we'll just have to see. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.640 But Steven is a guy that we also have confidence 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.720 in and uh, you know, I know he had you know, 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.960 a couple of balls got on the ground last week, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.520 this windy lefty. He was bombing the ball for sure, 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.080 and uh, you know with the one on the very 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.200 first one, you know, he just I don't know if 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:43.520 he lost track of where he was at. But we 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.200 don't want to be backing up inside the eight yard 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.800 line and catching those kind of punts. It's just let 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.360 that give it a chance to go in the end zone, right, 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.200 And so he'd like to have that one back. And 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.720 then he decided to not feel the cut two of 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.800 the other ones and turn out okay, force the way 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.600 they bounce. So but he's done well. He's an experienced 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.040 guy and and he'll do well back there too. So 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.680 we're confident, or if Thailand was back there, we'd be 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.800 confident with Thailand too. Those guys all do a good job. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.680 One of those things, like defensively, offenses are I don't 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.960 know whether it's whether it's the schematic things you guys 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.040 are doing, whether they're just making a concerted effort, but 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.520 it seems like they're trying to attack Brandon Stevens. How 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:20.960 do you feel like he's handled it? 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.320 And why does it seem like the ballki seems to 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:25.000 go that way? 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.760 Yeah, I mean some people they decide to do what 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.760 they do, you know, for whatever reason they do. And uh, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.040 and it's definitely been been challenging. I mean, he's he's 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.160 getting a lot of targets and you know, you get 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:35.960 a lot of targets. You can have more completions, for sure, 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:37.560 that's just the way it goes. But you also make 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.120 more plays. He's made a real good number of plays 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.760 as well. And also, you know, there's an opportunity there 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.160 too for us a little bit, because if we get 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.960 the sense that that offense is targeting, you know, a 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.000 particular part of the field or a particular player you 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:53.760 know in this sense, you know, he plays right corner, 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.160 so that's that's where they go. And Nickel now he's 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.800 playing dimebacker. It's a little different when we put dime 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.520 out there and third down. But okay, now we got 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.159 an idea where you're going to kind of target, we 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.800 can we can roll our coverage that way. We can 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.720 put the strength of our coverage over there too, So 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:10.640 it's kind of a two way street that way. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.320 Coach, there was a moment the other night we had 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.879 to five the fans down that we got a little 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.479 too loud. I don't know if you'll have that luxury 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.560 in Buffalo, But what about going up and dealing with 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.080