WEBVTT - Johnson, Smith, Hamilton & Harbaugh: Ravens Press Conferences 10/30/24 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:05.880 Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. Today is Wednesday, 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.440 October thirtieth, and the Ravens are back on the practice 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.920 field gearing up for Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.320 After practice, we heard from head coach John Harball. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:19.160 Okay, appreciate everybody being here. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:23.840 Beautiful day, beautiful day for football. Every day is a 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:25.680 great day for football, and our guys had a great 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.920 day for football. Appreciate the way we practiced, getting on 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.360 point for a very tough game Sunday against the Broncos 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.120 at our place. We're looking forward to the challenge and 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.360 we're excited to play the game. I would like to 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.680 say that our prayers and thoughts and man, look at 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.239 my fingers crossed my toest cross for Art Modell and 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.839 for Art and Pat Modell made the final nine finalists 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.040 for the Hall of Fame. Richly deserved in my opinion. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.199 Love that guy, love their family, what he's done to 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.920 make this organization what it is, so art model for 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:56.480 the Hall of Fame. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.200 What question do you have a part up? 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:01.000 Why would he not? 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:05.319 Yeah, Rest, you know, he's he's been playing great and 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:06.920 we got a lot of football in front of us. 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:07.119 Here. 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.720 You know, we've got game quick game, another big game 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:17.399 coming up, so that was warranted today. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:18.880 John said the same question you were going to. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:23.080 Ask looking at Tells about Deanty, Johns said, is he 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.320 gonna have the same role as a maybe returned the 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:26.760 pat return or something like that? 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.800 Right, Well, Deontay this guy, obviously we we know a 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.039 little bit about, you know, playing against him all those 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.600 years with the Steelers, was in Carolina studying him on tape. 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.839 Look good out here today in practice, look good. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.319 And uh he's in the process of trying to pick 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.280 up the offense and and be ready to contribute as 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:44.959 soon as you can. I know he hasn't done in. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:45.560 A few seasons. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:46.679 But would you look at him in. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:47.720 The return game at all here? 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.360 We sure would. Yeah, he talked about it. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.280 He was out there today with the pump returners, and uh, 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:54.800 just kind of get getting to get the rust knocked 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.600 off probably and and help us in that area as well. 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.280 John was it kind of something Is that a that 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.920 you wanted to address or is it a situation where what's. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.960 Up the wide receiver? What Johnson? 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.520 Was it but Roomly wanted to address or was it 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.920 just a situation where it just made a lot of 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:10.000 sense to to bring that in. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.880 Yeah, great question to me. It's what we've talked about 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.840 all along. You know, we're always looking for an opportunity 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.959 to make our team better, and that opportunity came along. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.720 Eric found it along with the staff, the personnel staff 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.120 and all the work they put in and and made 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.400 it happen. So we're excited. Our team is better because 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.239 of it. The lip raises everybody up, makes us better 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.480 and we're moving forward and more excited about it. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.120 Like he fits in some of the current state of 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.520 the offense and what element about his game could he 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.560 could he bring to the offense to maybe give you 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:42.600 guys a different ring. 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.480 With Yeah, he's he brings. He brings himself. He brings 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.480 all the talents that he has. He's quick, he's fast, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:53.239 he's got great hands, explosive player, strong, big, strong, tough player, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.240 all the things that you've seen over the years. That's 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.280 what he brings. So you take those talents and you 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.720 fit them into what you're doing. You know, and and 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:00.959 in this role. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.840 Marl in Nate Backett practice today, what kind of energy 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.320 do they bring to the feel of wood for a 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.440 unit that's obviously looking to regroup here. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.240 I thought Marlon and Nate had really good practices today, 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:14.680 you know, so we go day by day. They look 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.120 good today and looking forward to hopefully seeing them out 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:17.640 there Sunday. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:19.320 How do you feel it? Do you feel you have 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.680 what you need right now as far as interior defensive lineman? 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.880 Obviously Michael going on to ir is that's. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:25.480 Certainly a blow. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.200 But do you get like the guys you've got practice 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.720 spout ready to come up, and yeah, we love. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.799 Our guys, We love our guys. Those guys would be 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.720 ready to go. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:35.960 What are you sitting against the temper's defense? You shout 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:36.920 against the running pass? 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:37.360 What do you see you? 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:37.560 Guys? 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.040 Guys look though, very sound defense, playing together really well. 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.800 I mean, you know, eight fourth ranked defense, eight and 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.240 four in two categories, really really looking good statistically, been 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:48.880 playing good ball. 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:50.480 Job office line. 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.800 I know, a couple of weeks back you said it's 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.800 something you're going to continue to look at the roster 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:55.400 as a whole. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:56.960 But in soil office. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.800 Line, it's been the same starting line up here for 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:00.520 the last couple of weeks. Is that a group that 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.400 you kind of felt like it's still a week the 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.040 week thing? In terms of what that unit may look like, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:06.440 or are you content with what you have? 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:06.720 Then? 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.280 I think that those guys are working hard and great 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:10.920 and getting better, and I just want to keep seeing 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.120 them take this one step at a time and keep 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.400 improving play better football every week. You know, whoever that 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.080 group has been in there, it's it's good. You know, 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.120 that's that's a blessing for us. And but everybody, anybody 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.760 that has to go in there, I'm confident those guys 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:23.240 will do well. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:28.920 John, the guys catching extra passes defense back out there, did. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:29.400 You bring that up? 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.719 Did you talk to them about that? I mean, or 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.279 is that something that you just leave kind of for 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:33.679 the position? 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:34.760 Could well? I mean both. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.719 I mean you talk about everything and and everything many 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.120 most everything is understood, so we try to turn over 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.480 every stone. I think I said that to get better, 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.720 and that's certainly one of them. You know, don't take 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.880 anything for granted. They're out there catching passes right now 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.000 as we speak, and that's something that we need to 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.880 get better at. I mean, if you if you if 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.000 you if you catch all eight of those, then the 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:00.920 whole statistical story is moot. If you catch six of them, 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.080 it's moved you catch for him, it's pretty much mitigated. So, uh, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.560 that's that's how fine a line it is in the 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.120 National Football League. So I'm confident in our guys. I 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.720 believe that we're uh, we're gonna play great football on defense. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.560 So but you gotta work at it. You gotta work 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:14.200 at every part of it. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.960 John, what in one of those lines, what's been just 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.000 an up the gift you're telling of the conversation with 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.960 Marcus Williams and what have you seen? 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.800 Marcus was out there practicing today. I thought he had 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.080 a heck of a practice. He looked good and uh 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:31.000 excited for Uh, I'm excited for Marcus Williams. I always 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.560 have been, always will be. He's a he's a He's 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.640 one of the top safeties in the league in my opinion, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:37.839 and I'm looking forward to him playing great football. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:42.119 John Jennis really through that's in the last few weeks. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:43.120 What are you gonna see out of the. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:44.159 Tape from him? 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.640 Well, I've seen, uh, I've seen a talented guy who 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.680 who's uh is a competitor, man. I mean, you know 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.800 he'll he's got he's got all the throws, he can 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.040 make all the throws. You know he's certainly young, he's 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.400 learning as he goes as far as the region all that, 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.359 but moves around, makes play, gets away from the rush. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.520 I think he's probably made more scramble tacklers missing the 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.480 backfield probably than any quarterback in the league, and made 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.560 a lot of plays that way too. So yeah, a 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.520 talented guy. We're gonna have to be at our very 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:12.719 best job. 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.560 I know he's done, ir, but it's not a scene 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.320 ening Michael. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.479 Piers Michael Pierce, No, not season ending. 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.359 And I know Eric makes the moves, but do you 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.760 feel like you guys have maybe a few more booths 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:26.880 left in you as far as trade. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.920 You know you are exactly right. Eric makes the moves. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:36.200 That is well said. I'm excited for whatever comes across 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.599 the board. But our job is to make our team 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.159 better any way we can, and from our end of it, 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.640 it's with our guys. We have the guys that we're coaching, 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.400 and I love our players. I'm confident in them, and 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.599 I enjoyed working with them today and I have no 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.279 doubt in my mind that they're going to play great football. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:07:00.920 Next we spoke with safety Kyle Hamilton, obviously. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.200 The one play at the end of the game. How 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.200 long does that that stick with you? 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.560 Yeah, I mean I was obviously I was pissed about it. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.280 After the game. I was probably the most mad out 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:17.200 of anybody, you know. I feel like I feel like 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:18.800 it's probably being a good football player. You gotta let 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.080 the good stuff go, let the best stuff go. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:20.480 Move on. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.560 I feel like I've done that and I'm ready to 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:23.240 play Broncos. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.040 When you go through. 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.800 Some good drills, you guys we saw in practice, you know, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.000 getting your hands on balls more. Is that just a 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.760 matter of kind of just seeing how it feels. You 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.240 guys know how to do it. It's just sort of 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.120 getting in the habit of coming down with those catches. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.280 Yeah, it's just a repetition thing. And you know, I 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:42.920 can't blame the coaches for one of us to get 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.680 out there on the drugs and catch us the passes. 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.840 And I feel like something we should do and whether 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.760 we're dropping picks or not dropping picks, just make a 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:50.280 habit of it. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.960 Do you think people wouldn't feel differently about those pass 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.040 defensive you just I mean, you guys leave in the 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.440 league and drop intersection intersects. Do you think people would 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.440 feel differently about the past of the defensive you just. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.760 Had a few more, I don't think so. I don't 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.960 think we would feel any different. You know it. Picks 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.720 are cool, but picks don't tell the whole story of 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.640 the game. And you know, we're I think, close to 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.360 the bottom of the league right now in past yearage 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.840 per game as a defense, and that's something that picks 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.240 aren't just going to solve. If you're not gonna go 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.200 out need to pick every possession. It's something schematically and 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.320 execution wise. I feel like we can get better at 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.320 and I feel like we're striving towards that. 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.000 So if you did have to kind of boil it 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.600 down to your checklist of things that need to improve 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.080 for the past deafens to be better, what what are 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.000 what are the key things in your mind, I'd. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:43.800 Say just execution win in one on ones. It really 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.080 comes down to that at the end of the day. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.160 And God's just gone out there being confident in what 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.319 they do, and I haven't believed that we're going to 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.680 get it done, no matter whether it's a and a 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.800 half two minute and a game two minute, first drive 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.199 of the game, just going out there. Haven't believe that 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.480 we're gonna domin it on that first touchdown pass. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.120 It's like to them in the one where it looks 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.600 like you guys are shipping around, this staff goes off. 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.080 What in your mind kind of happened on that play? 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:08.920 That just communication? 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.560 And do you feel like it's getting a little late 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.800 the season for stuff like that to be happening. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.760 Yeah, definitely, And I don't think there's a time for 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.200 it at any point in the season. Obviously, you get 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.480 deeper in the season, you want to cut down in 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.199 those errors like that. But I don't think it was 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:28.040 one person particularly's fall. It is just, you know, I 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.560 think ball was in the middle of the field and 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.600 you guys are having trouble getting lined up stuff like that, 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.760 and offense went quick and we weren't lined and obviously 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.520 bat stuff happens when that happens. But you know, we 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.360 can learn from that and we can say it won't 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:42.599 happen again, but we got to prove it at the 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:43.080 same time. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.360 What does kind of a dumb question, what does quick 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.000 communications west you guys look like out there? 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.199 Yeah, I feel like it's loud. I feel like we 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:56.120 do a good job in practice simulating it. You know, 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:57.880 we try to be on one accord, especially with the 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.920 split safety stuff you kind of have or it's covered 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.079 stake since cloud the boundary or quarters. You know, you're 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:05.640 kind of split in half in the defense, but by 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.080 at the same time, you need to be talking to 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.400 each other because if I can help this safety, if 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.080 I don't have anything any work on my side and 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:16.200 talking about that pre snap, post snap, just alignment, anticipating checks, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.280 it's you know, safety's linebackers. We have to be really vocal, 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:21.880 so we try to do that as much as possible. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:22.520 Call. 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.720 Do do you feel like the loss of defensive coaching 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.160 talent was maybe a bigger deal than me realizing not 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.200 talking about Zach or what kind of coach he's gonna be, 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.120 but you just had I mean, you had three really good, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.440 experienced coaches that leave to become head coaches and coordinators elsewhere. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:36.760 I mean, did that have an impact? 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:42.040 I don't think so. I don't think that necessarily there 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:43.559 was a loss of talent. I mean, I feel like 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.800 we've been pretty you know, I feel like we've kept 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.280 a good amount of people in our room, players and coaches, 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.360 and I don't feel like the room feels super different 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.320 from last year. It's just executing, and last year we 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.720 were executing. And I can't pinpoint give you an exact 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.880 answer here on why that isn't happening right now. But 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.760 you know, it's still something that we're trying to figure out, 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.160 we're trying to perfect, and we'll never get to that point. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.719 Nobody will. And I think it's a beauty football. You know, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.720 you're always chasing something and then we're in the process 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:13.960 of working out the kings right now. 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.680 So you don't feel like you guys are trying to 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.920 do too much and it needs to be simplified in 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:22.199 terms of disguise and. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:22.840 Things like that. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.760 Nah, No, I don't think so. I think in the 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.880 simplest form, were you just got to run and hit better? 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.240 Well, what kind of doccause you know the talent you 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.480 have in that room. But when you see that the 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.240 pass defense is trank thirty second past, what's kind of 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.120 your reaction to that? 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.680 Yeah, I'm pissed to see it because I feel like 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.240 I feel like I'm one of the leaders in that room, 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.880 and you know, I feel like I kind of take 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.280 a big part of the blame for that, just guys 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.120 not being on the same page and not executing and obviously, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:54.960 especially if we had guys in the room that couldn't 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.480 do it, you know, it'd be a bit different story. 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.960 But we got everything we could ever want in that room, 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.160 so we know we have all the answers in the room. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:02.959 We've got to find him. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.600 How much you have to look at Bonix as far 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:06.400 what he's been doing. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.440 But if you have, what do you see from him? 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.560 And on certainly of late, he looks less like a 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.480 rookie than maybe you might expect at this point. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.640 Yeah, I think he's done a great job so far. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:18.040 He's I don't think people accounted for his mobility as 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.920 much as they should have coming out of college. And 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.440 he put that on tape for I think six years 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.080 he was in college. And he was a great quarterback 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.960 in college, and it's translated to the NFL obviously, and 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.880 he does a good job of keeping plays alive and 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.440 taking what he can get, checks the ball down and 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.120 lets his guys go make plays and stuff like that. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.560 And you know, he adds a different aspect to the offense, 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.560 just grittiness, toughness and extending plays and I think it 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.920 gives their offense a lot of hope, hope and just 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.079 confidence going into games and they've been physical. So that 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.959 whole Broncos unit offense as a whole is just done 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.839 a good job so far this year. So it's on 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.400 us to have a good game plan going and execute 0:12:58.400 --> 0:12:58.880 it this week. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.320 Then we headed inside to the locker room to talk 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.480 to newly acquired wide receiver Deontay Johnson. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.560 One thing at a time, you know, just trying to 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.320 get in my playbook and to study why what I 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.280 can what they want me to learn, you know, just 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:18.920 like I said, take it one day at a time, 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.040 and I'm excited to be where do you. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.400 See yourself fitting in this wide receiver group in this offense? 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.240 You know, just out of respect for everybody else, you know, 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.520 just wherever they need me to be at right now 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.280 until I learned everything, you know, until they feel comfortable 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.720 with me playing something else, and that would be my focus. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.160 But right now I'm just trying to get acimated or 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:38.920 just you know what I'm saying, work with what they 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:39.280 giving me. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.959 Like no, so you take us through yesterday the trade 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:42.920 and just finding out. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:43.679 Where you're going. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:44.480 Uh. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.439 You know, I was just at the Crab. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.400 Move my agent called me and uh uh. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:49.560 But once I got found. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.440 Out where I was going. I was excited a lot 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:51.840 of stuff. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:52.800 I get the light on this. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.480 Sorryly so I don't like to so I'm ready to work. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.839 About the stuff I would say to you. Playing with 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.240 Bar and be part of just you know, offense high 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:03.959 school offensive. 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.480 I I know, if lamart, but it's at the table, 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.200 so you know, just to be able to you know, contribute. 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.400 To the office that he's a part of the a 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:11.640 lea's lead or of you know. 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:12.040 What I'm saying. 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:13.120 It's it's a blessing. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.040 So you know, i'm'a do whatever I can you or 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.360 to help this offense, you know, continue to get better. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:18.439 What is it like. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.920 Overnight to flip over to a real intender and the 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:23.240 best offensive the league? 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:24.320 Uh? 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.960 Wow, it's I'm still I don't it still don't seem. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:28.800 Real to me. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.160 But you know, like I say, uh, it's it's a 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.840 blessing for me just to you know, get another opportunity 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.120 to come back to the amc uh north. Uh. So 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.640 that's that's why one thing, that's what I got to me, 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.560 you now, you know, just to be a part in 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.800 this very organization. You know, I know this organization is 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.960 about that I play against some you know cook a 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.160 few years. So, like I said, just to be on 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.240 this side. Uh you know, like I said, it's a 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:51.800 blessing to me. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.800 Mm two games against Pittsburgh and the rest you know 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:55.800 stillna come here. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:15:01.520 Uh yeah, uh uh you know, I'm I'm looking forward 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.760 to that game and really say like say. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.120 Uh, I'm focused on right now. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.200 Uh whatever game you know comes first before we get 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:09.760 to that point, and you know, I'm i'm'a do my 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.960 job and just keep appearing. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.560 Wou do you remember about those games against the Ravens 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.480 when you heard with the Steelers just just. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.040 Just how hard uh we competed at each other, you know, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.960 you know, uh getting football out, you know, just making 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.400 plays and everybody tackling. You know, it's a big rival regame. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:30.080 So just be on this side now. Uh, it's it's 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:30.720 it's different. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.680 So I'm I'm excited. What week you get added to 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.440 this offense? Uh, you know, just getting open and moving 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:37.920 the sticks. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.280 Just tryna be uh that guy. I know, I said, 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.640 the young guys gonna come to like just for you 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.240 know what I'm saying route stuff. You know, it's less 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:48.800 stuff that I know I can help them out with. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:53.040 Just uh my play making us good, you know, get 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.240 the ball or just you know, just make play bring 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:56.360 the ERG into the office. 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:58.680 Why were you gonna get up to speed for this 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:00.520 week with the new play Boy? Cause this playbook in 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.480 particular has it feel really foreigners and all similar enough. 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:08.840 That you can uh, it's really just turn the terminology 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.240 out the play book. It's just and it's lining up 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.120 and once you line up, you know, get them the 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.800 splits and stuff like that. Every the route uh concepts 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.520 have come to you naturally, So it just it's really 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.320 just tryna you know, compare to like what you already 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.160 been going, like playbooks a ready meant to just little 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.360 stuff like that. So it's not that not too tough 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.440