Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. Today is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: October thirtieth, and the Ravens are back on the practice
Speaker 1: field gearing up for Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1: After practice, we heard from head coach John Harball.
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate everybody being here.
Speaker 3: Beautiful day, beautiful day for football. Every day is a
Speaker 3: great day for football, and our guys had a great
Speaker 3: day for football. Appreciate the way we practiced, getting on
Speaker 3: point for a very tough game Sunday against the Broncos
Speaker 3: at our place. We're looking forward to the challenge and
Speaker 3: we're excited to play the game. I would like to
Speaker 3: say that our prayers and thoughts and man, look at
Speaker 3: my fingers crossed my toest cross for Art Modell and
Speaker 3: for Art and Pat Modell made the final nine finalists
Speaker 3: for the Hall of Fame. Richly deserved in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Love that guy, love their family, what he's done to
Speaker 3: make this organization what it is, so art model for
Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: What question do you have a part up?
Speaker 4: Why would he not?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Rest, you know, he's he's been playing great and
Speaker 3: we got a lot of football in front of us.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 3: You know, we've got game quick game, another big game
Speaker 3: coming up, so that was warranted today.
Speaker 6: John said the same question you were going to.
Speaker 7: Ask looking at Tells about Deanty, Johns said, is he
Speaker 7: gonna have the same role as a maybe returned the
Speaker 7: pat return or something like that?
Speaker 3: Right, Well, Deontay this guy, obviously we we know a
Speaker 3: little bit about, you know, playing against him all those
Speaker 3: years with the Steelers, was in Carolina studying him on tape.
Speaker 2: Look good out here today in practice, look good.
Speaker 3: And uh he's in the process of trying to pick
Speaker 3: up the offense and and be ready to contribute as
Speaker 3: soon as you can. I know he hasn't done in.
Speaker 5: A few seasons.
Speaker 4: But would you look at him in.
Speaker 3: The return game at all here?
Speaker 2: We sure would. Yeah, he talked about it.
Speaker 3: He was out there today with the pump returners, and uh,
Speaker 3: just kind of get getting to get the rust knocked
Speaker 3: off probably and and help us in that area as well.
Speaker 4: John was it kind of something Is that a that
Speaker 4: you wanted to address or is it a situation where what's.
Speaker 6: Up the wide receiver? What Johnson?
Speaker 5: Was it but Roomly wanted to address or was it
Speaker 5: just a situation where it just made a lot of
Speaker 5: sense to to bring that in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great question to me. It's what we've talked about
Speaker 3: all along. You know, we're always looking for an opportunity
Speaker 3: to make our team better, and that opportunity came along.
Speaker 3: Eric found it along with the staff, the personnel staff
Speaker 3: and all the work they put in and and made
Speaker 3: it happen. So we're excited. Our team is better because
Speaker 3: of it. The lip raises everybody up, makes us better
Speaker 3: and we're moving forward and more excited about it.
Speaker 8: Like he fits in some of the current state of
Speaker 8: the offense and what element about his game could he
Speaker 8: could he bring to the offense to maybe give you
Speaker 8: guys a different ring.
Speaker 3: With Yeah, he's he brings. He brings himself. He brings
Speaker 3: all the talents that he has. He's quick, he's fast,
Speaker 3: he's got great hands, explosive player, strong, big, strong, tough player,
Speaker 3: all the things that you've seen over the years. That's
Speaker 3: what he brings. So you take those talents and you
Speaker 3: fit them into what you're doing. You know, and and
Speaker 3: in this role.
Speaker 5: Marl in Nate Backett practice today, what kind of energy
Speaker 5: do they bring to the feel of wood for a
Speaker 5: unit that's obviously looking to regroup here.
Speaker 3: I thought Marlon and Nate had really good practices today,
Speaker 3: you know, so we go day by day. They look
Speaker 3: good today and looking forward to hopefully seeing them out
Speaker 3: there Sunday.
Speaker 9: How do you feel it? Do you feel you have
Speaker 9: what you need right now as far as interior defensive lineman?
Speaker 9: Obviously Michael going on to ir is that's.
Speaker 6: Certainly a blow.
Speaker 9: But do you get like the guys you've got practice
Speaker 9: spout ready to come up, and yeah, we love.
Speaker 3: Our guys, We love our guys. Those guys would be
Speaker 3: ready to go.
Speaker 2: What are you sitting against the temper's defense? You shout
Speaker 2: against the running pass?
Speaker 7: What do you see you?
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 3: Guys look though, very sound defense, playing together really well.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, eight fourth ranked defense, eight and
Speaker 3: four in two categories, really really looking good statistically, been
Speaker 3: playing good ball.
Speaker 6: Job office line.
Speaker 8: I know, a couple of weeks back you said it's
Speaker 8: something you're going to continue to look at the roster
Speaker 8: as a whole.
Speaker 6: But in soil office.
Speaker 8: Line, it's been the same starting line up here for
Speaker 8: the last couple of weeks. Is that a group that
Speaker 8: you kind of felt like it's still a week the
Speaker 8: week thing? In terms of what that unit may look like,
Speaker 8: or are you content with what you have?
Speaker 7: Then?
Speaker 3: I think that those guys are working hard and great
Speaker 3: and getting better, and I just want to keep seeing
Speaker 3: them take this one step at a time and keep
Speaker 3: improving play better football every week. You know, whoever that
Speaker 3: group has been in there, it's it's good. You know,
Speaker 3: that's that's a blessing for us. And but everybody, anybody
Speaker 3: that has to go in there, I'm confident those guys
Speaker 3: will do well.
Speaker 4: John, the guys catching extra passes defense back out there, did.
Speaker 5: You bring that up?
Speaker 6: Did you talk to them about that? I mean, or
Speaker 6: is that something that you just leave kind of for
Speaker 6: the position?
Speaker 2: Could well? I mean both.
Speaker 3: I mean you talk about everything and and everything many
Speaker 3: most everything is understood, so we try to turn over
Speaker 3: every stone. I think I said that to get better,
Speaker 3: and that's certainly one of them. You know, don't take
Speaker 3: anything for granted. They're out there catching passes right now
Speaker 3: as we speak, and that's something that we need to
Speaker 3: get better at. I mean, if you if you if
Speaker 3: you if you catch all eight of those, then the
Speaker 3: whole statistical story is moot. If you catch six of them,
Speaker 3: it's moved you catch for him, it's pretty much mitigated. So, uh,
Speaker 3: that's that's how fine a line it is in the
Speaker 3: National Football League. So I'm confident in our guys. I
Speaker 3: believe that we're uh, we're gonna play great football on defense.
Speaker 3: So but you gotta work at it. You gotta work
Speaker 3: at every part of it.
Speaker 4: John, what in one of those lines, what's been just
Speaker 4: an up the gift you're telling of the conversation with
Speaker 4: Marcus Williams and what have you seen?
Speaker 3: Marcus was out there practicing today. I thought he had
Speaker 3: a heck of a practice. He looked good and uh
Speaker 3: excited for Uh, I'm excited for Marcus Williams. I always
Speaker 3: have been, always will be. He's a he's a He's
Speaker 3: one of the top safeties in the league in my opinion,
Speaker 3: and I'm looking forward to him playing great football.
Speaker 5: John Jennis really through that's in the last few weeks.
Speaker 5: What are you gonna see out of the.
Speaker 1: Tape from him?
Speaker 3: Well, I've seen, uh, I've seen a talented guy who
Speaker 3: who's uh is a competitor, man. I mean, you know
Speaker 3: he'll he's got he's got all the throws, he can
Speaker 3: make all the throws. You know he's certainly young, he's
Speaker 3: learning as he goes as far as the region all that,
Speaker 3: but moves around, makes play, gets away from the rush.
Speaker 3: I think he's probably made more scramble tacklers missing the
Speaker 3: backfield probably than any quarterback in the league, and made
Speaker 3: a lot of plays that way too. So yeah, a
Speaker 3: talented guy. We're gonna have to be at our very
Speaker 3: best job.
Speaker 6: I know he's done, ir, but it's not a scene
Speaker 6: ening Michael.
Speaker 2: Piers Michael Pierce, No, not season ending.
Speaker 6: And I know Eric makes the moves, but do you
Speaker 6: feel like you guys have maybe a few more booths
Speaker 6: left in you as far as trade.
Speaker 2: You know you are exactly right. Eric makes the moves.
Speaker 3: That is well said. I'm excited for whatever comes across
Speaker 3: the board. But our job is to make our team
Speaker 3: better any way we can, and from our end of it,
Speaker 3: it's with our guys. We have the guys that we're coaching,
Speaker 3: and I love our players. I'm confident in them, and
Speaker 3: I enjoyed working with them today and I have no
Speaker 3: doubt in my mind that they're going to play great football.
Speaker 1: Next we spoke with safety Kyle Hamilton, obviously.
Speaker 6: The one play at the end of the game. How
Speaker 6: long does that that stick with you?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I was obviously I was pissed about it.
Speaker 10: After the game. I was probably the most mad out
Speaker 10: of anybody, you know. I feel like I feel like
Speaker 10: it's probably being a good football player. You gotta let
Speaker 10: the good stuff go, let the best stuff go.
Speaker 6: Move on.
Speaker 10: I feel like I've done that and I'm ready to
Speaker 10: play Broncos.
Speaker 6: When you go through.
Speaker 5: Some good drills, you guys we saw in practice, you know,
Speaker 5: getting your hands on balls more. Is that just a
Speaker 5: matter of kind of just seeing how it feels. You
Speaker 5: guys know how to do it. It's just sort of
Speaker 5: getting in the habit of coming down with those catches.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's just a repetition thing. And you know, I
Speaker 10: can't blame the coaches for one of us to get
Speaker 10: out there on the drugs and catch us the passes.
Speaker 10: And I feel like something we should do and whether
Speaker 10: we're dropping picks or not dropping picks, just make a
Speaker 10: habit of it.
Speaker 5: Do you think people wouldn't feel differently about those pass
Speaker 5: defensive you just I mean, you guys leave in the
Speaker 5: league and drop intersection intersects. Do you think people would
Speaker 5: feel differently about the past of the defensive you just.
Speaker 10: Had a few more, I don't think so. I don't
Speaker 10: think we would feel any different. You know it. Picks
Speaker 10: are cool, but picks don't tell the whole story of
Speaker 10: the game. And you know, we're I think, close to
Speaker 10: the bottom of the league right now in past yearage
Speaker 10: per game as a defense, and that's something that picks
Speaker 10: aren't just going to solve. If you're not gonna go
Speaker 10: out need to pick every possession. It's something schematically and
Speaker 10: execution wise. I feel like we can get better at
Speaker 10: and I feel like we're striving towards that.
Speaker 4: So if you did have to kind of boil it
Speaker 4: down to your checklist of things that need to improve
Speaker 4: for the past deafens to be better, what what are
Speaker 4: what are the key things in your mind, I'd.
Speaker 10: Say just execution win in one on ones. It really
Speaker 10: comes down to that at the end of the day.
Speaker 10: And God's just gone out there being confident in what
Speaker 10: they do, and I haven't believed that we're going to
Speaker 10: get it done, no matter whether it's a and a
Speaker 10: half two minute and a game two minute, first drive
Speaker 10: of the game, just going out there. Haven't believe that
Speaker 10: we're gonna domin it on that first touchdown pass.
Speaker 5: It's like to them in the one where it looks
Speaker 5: like you guys are shipping around, this staff goes off.
Speaker 5: What in your mind kind of happened on that play?
Speaker 6: That just communication?
Speaker 5: And do you feel like it's getting a little late
Speaker 5: the season for stuff like that to be happening.
Speaker 10: Yeah, definitely, And I don't think there's a time for
Speaker 10: it at any point in the season. Obviously, you get
Speaker 10: deeper in the season, you want to cut down in
Speaker 10: those errors like that. But I don't think it was
Speaker 10: one person particularly's fall. It is just, you know, I
Speaker 10: think ball was in the middle of the field and
Speaker 10: you guys are having trouble getting lined up stuff like that,
Speaker 10: and offense went quick and we weren't lined and obviously
Speaker 10: bat stuff happens when that happens. But you know, we
Speaker 10: can learn from that and we can say it won't
Speaker 10: happen again, but we got to prove it at the
Speaker 10: same time.
Speaker 5: What does kind of a dumb question, what does quick
Speaker 5: communications west you guys look like out there?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I feel like it's loud. I feel like we
Speaker 10: do a good job in practice simulating it. You know,
Speaker 10: we try to be on one accord, especially with the
Speaker 10: split safety stuff you kind of have or it's covered
Speaker 10: stake since cloud the boundary or quarters. You know, you're
Speaker 10: kind of split in half in the defense, but by
Speaker 10: at the same time, you need to be talking to
Speaker 10: each other because if I can help this safety, if
Speaker 10: I don't have anything any work on my side and
Speaker 10: talking about that pre snap, post snap, just alignment, anticipating checks,
Speaker 10: it's you know, safety's linebackers. We have to be really vocal,
Speaker 10: so we try to do that as much as possible.
Speaker 6: Call.
Speaker 4: Do do you feel like the loss of defensive coaching
Speaker 4: talent was maybe a bigger deal than me realizing not
Speaker 4: talking about Zach or what kind of coach he's gonna be,
Speaker 4: but you just had I mean, you had three really good,
Speaker 4: experienced coaches that leave to become head coaches and coordinators elsewhere.
Speaker 2: I mean, did that have an impact?
Speaker 10: I don't think so. I don't think that necessarily there
Speaker 10: was a loss of talent. I mean, I feel like
Speaker 10: we've been pretty you know, I feel like we've kept
Speaker 10: a good amount of people in our room, players and coaches,
Speaker 10: and I don't feel like the room feels super different
Speaker 10: from last year. It's just executing, and last year we
Speaker 10: were executing. And I can't pinpoint give you an exact
Speaker 10: answer here on why that isn't happening right now. But
Speaker 10: you know, it's still something that we're trying to figure out,
Speaker 10: we're trying to perfect, and we'll never get to that point.
Speaker 10: Nobody will. And I think it's a beauty football. You know,
Speaker 10: you're always chasing something and then we're in the process
Speaker 10: of working out the kings right now.
Speaker 5: So you don't feel like you guys are trying to
Speaker 5: do too much and it needs to be simplified in
Speaker 5: terms of disguise and.
Speaker 6: Things like that.
Speaker 10: Nah, No, I don't think so. I think in the
Speaker 10: simplest form, were you just got to run and hit better?
Speaker 6: Well, what kind of doccause you know the talent you
Speaker 6: have in that room. But when you see that the
Speaker 6: pass defense is trank thirty second past, what's kind of
Speaker 6: your reaction to that?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm pissed to see it because I feel like
Speaker 10: I feel like I'm one of the leaders in that room,
Speaker 10: and you know, I feel like I kind of take
Speaker 10: a big part of the blame for that, just guys
Speaker 10: not being on the same page and not executing and obviously,
Speaker 10: especially if we had guys in the room that couldn't
Speaker 10: do it, you know, it'd be a bit different story.
Speaker 10: But we got everything we could ever want in that room,
Speaker 10: so we know we have all the answers in the room.
Speaker 10: We've got to find him.
Speaker 9: How much you have to look at Bonix as far
Speaker 9: what he's been doing.
Speaker 2: But if you have, what do you see from him?
Speaker 9: And on certainly of late, he looks less like a
Speaker 9: rookie than maybe you might expect at this point.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think he's done a great job so far.
Speaker 10: He's I don't think people accounted for his mobility as
Speaker 10: much as they should have coming out of college. And
Speaker 10: he put that on tape for I think six years
Speaker 10: he was in college. And he was a great quarterback
Speaker 10: in college, and it's translated to the NFL obviously, and
Speaker 10: he does a good job of keeping plays alive and
Speaker 10: taking what he can get, checks the ball down and
Speaker 10: lets his guys go make plays and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: And you know, he adds a different aspect to the offense,
Speaker 10: just grittiness, toughness and extending plays and I think it
Speaker 10: gives their offense a lot of hope, hope and just
Speaker 10: confidence going into games and they've been physical. So that
Speaker 10: whole Broncos unit offense as a whole is just done
Speaker 10: a good job so far this year. So it's on
Speaker 10: us to have a good game plan going and execute
Speaker 10: it this week.
Speaker 1: Then we headed inside to the locker room to talk
Speaker 1: to newly acquired wide receiver Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 7: One thing at a time, you know, just trying to
Speaker 7: get in my playbook and to study why what I
Speaker 7: can what they want me to learn, you know, just
Speaker 7: like I said, take it one day at a time,
Speaker 7: and I'm excited to be where do you.
Speaker 5: See yourself fitting in this wide receiver group in this offense?
Speaker 7: You know, just out of respect for everybody else, you know,
Speaker 7: just wherever they need me to be at right now
Speaker 7: until I learned everything, you know, until they feel comfortable
Speaker 7: with me playing something else, and that would be my focus.
Speaker 7: But right now I'm just trying to get acimated or
Speaker 7: just you know what I'm saying, work with what they
Speaker 7: giving me.
Speaker 5: Like no, so you take us through yesterday the trade
Speaker 5: and just finding out.
Speaker 11: Where you're going.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: You know, I was just at the Crab.
Speaker 7: Move my agent called me and uh uh.
Speaker 6: But once I got found.
Speaker 7: Out where I was going. I was excited a lot
Speaker 7: of stuff.
Speaker 5: I get the light on this.
Speaker 7: Sorryly so I don't like to so I'm ready to work.
Speaker 6: About the stuff I would say to you. Playing with
Speaker 6: Bar and be part of just you know, offense high
Speaker 6: school offensive.
Speaker 7: I I know, if lamart, but it's at the table,
Speaker 7: so you know, just to be able to you know, contribute.
Speaker 9: To the office that he's a part of the a
Speaker 9: lea's lead or of you know.
Speaker 7: What I'm saying.
Speaker 6: It's it's a blessing.
Speaker 7: So you know, i'm'a do whatever I can you or
Speaker 7: to help this offense, you know, continue to get better.
Speaker 5: What is it like.
Speaker 11: Overnight to flip over to a real intender and the
Speaker 11: best offensive the league?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 6: Wow, it's I'm still I don't it still don't seem.
Speaker 5: Real to me.
Speaker 7: But you know, like I say, uh, it's it's a
Speaker 7: blessing for me just to you know, get another opportunity
Speaker 7: to come back to the amc uh north. Uh. So
Speaker 7: that's that's why one thing, that's what I got to me,
Speaker 7: you now, you know, just to be a part in
Speaker 7: this very organization. You know, I know this organization is
Speaker 7: about that I play against some you know cook a
Speaker 7: few years. So, like I said, just to be on
Speaker 7: this side. Uh you know, like I said, it's a
Speaker 7: blessing to me.
Speaker 9: Mm two games against Pittsburgh and the rest you know
Speaker 9: stillna come here.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, uh uh you know, I'm I'm looking forward
Speaker 7: to that game and really say like say.
Speaker 6: Uh, I'm focused on right now.
Speaker 7: Uh whatever game you know comes first before we get
Speaker 7: to that point, and you know, I'm i'm'a do my
Speaker 7: job and just keep appearing.
Speaker 10: Wou do you remember about those games against the Ravens
Speaker 10: when you heard with the Steelers just just.
Speaker 7: Just how hard uh we competed at each other, you know,
Speaker 7: you know, uh getting football out, you know, just making
Speaker 7: plays and everybody tackling. You know, it's a big rival regame.
Speaker 7: So just be on this side now. Uh, it's it's
Speaker 7: it's different.
Speaker 6: So I'm I'm excited. What week you get added to
Speaker 6: this offense? Uh, you know, just getting open and moving
Speaker 6: the sticks.
Speaker 7: Just tryna be uh that guy. I know, I said,
Speaker 7: the young guys gonna come to like just for you
Speaker 7: know what I'm saying route stuff. You know, it's less
Speaker 7: stuff that I know I can help them out with.
Speaker 7: Just uh my play making us good, you know, get
Speaker 7: the ball or just you know, just make play bring
Speaker 7: the ERG into the office.
Speaker 9: Why were you gonna get up to speed for this
Speaker 9: week with the new play Boy? Cause this playbook in
Speaker 9: particular has it feel really foreigners and all similar enough.
Speaker 7: That you can uh, it's really just turn the terminology
Speaker 7: out the play book. It's just and it's lining up
Speaker 7: and once you line up, you know, get them the
Speaker 7: splits and stuff like that. Every the route uh concepts
Speaker 7: have come to you naturally, So it just it's really
Speaker 7: just tryna you know, compare to like what you already
Speaker 7: been going, like playbooks a ready meant to just little
Speaker 7: stuff like that. So it's not that not too tough
Speaker 7: for me, but you know, just staying lighting in and
Speaker 7: dial into it, you know, just being prepared and ever
Speaker 7: my number cars.
Speaker 2: Can you go comfortable with more to see things wide.
Speaker 6: Or uh wherever?
Speaker 7: They need me to play and I'm to play so
Speaker 7: right now they got me learning uh uh Z and
Speaker 7: the F.
Speaker 6: So I'm just trying to learn a Z right now.
Speaker 7: Then I you learn the F but nothing nothing I
Speaker 7: can't play.
Speaker 4: Still, one more person, do you participate in getting specialties?
Speaker 8: For a returning John said, you were working.
Speaker 6: Yeah I was.
Speaker 7: It's been a minute since I've been back to fuck
Speaker 7: return or sorry, like I say, whatever they need to dude,
Speaker 7: to help the team win, hang back and pet tre
Speaker 7: Vie right now.
Speaker 6: That's Monday focus.
Speaker 1: Then we heard from inside linebacker Roquan Smith.
Speaker 6: As you go through this, you know, how much do
Speaker 6: you ever?
Speaker 9: How quickly are you able to get asked?
Speaker 4: With Cleveland?
Speaker 9: The drive's late, putting that one behind getting ready for
Speaker 9: this week?
Speaker 2: How hard is that?
Speaker 9: How quick is that?
Speaker 6: Oh? That's a next week league?
Speaker 11: You know it sucked for sure, but flush that uh
Speaker 11: Monday and part of Tuesday, So that's behind us.
Speaker 6: You can't let one game beat you twice.
Speaker 11: So it's about moving on and preparedness week for a
Speaker 11: good Denver team that's coming to town.
Speaker 9: Drop the interceptions is a pretty random thing, right, It's
Speaker 9: kind of that's you know that it's anything you say,
Speaker 9: all right, everyone who's they can catch the ball. But
Speaker 9: when you're seeing it happen this much.
Speaker 2: What do you does it feel like?
Speaker 7: Just?
Speaker 6: Is it fluky?
Speaker 2: Is it weird?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 9: Does it drive you crazy?
Speaker 2: What do you see from that?
Speaker 6: Yeah? No, it's definitely.
Speaker 11: It's definitely an interesting thing for sure, but each and
Speaker 11: every just have to look themselves in the mirror and
Speaker 11: just say, hey, I'm gonna make it my best and
Speaker 11: making my business not to uh drop anymore.
Speaker 6: And uh, each and every guy that's been definitely a focus.
Speaker 11: So knowing how much focus we're putting into that, because
Speaker 11: there's been countless opportunities uh that we've dropped throughout the season,
Speaker 11: But it's about capitalizing on those mistakes and make continues
Speaker 11: pay for him as opposed to.
Speaker 7: Giving them a fly by brook on when you watch
Speaker 7: the tape, just kind of what's the big thing that
Speaker 7: sends out to you who comes to.
Speaker 5: Boat exent be improvement he's made for the first couple
Speaker 5: of weeks to where they're at now.
Speaker 7: The's then roments.
Speaker 11: Yeah, no, absolutely, I think uh first and foremost those
Speaker 11: guys they want to run the ball, h make no
Speaker 11: mistake about it. Got two really good backs and a
Speaker 11: pretty good uh offensive line as well. But uh yeah,
Speaker 11: Nick's uh really good quarterback. Teas is not there downfill
Speaker 11: Uh he don't mind pulling it down and running, so, uh,
Speaker 11: the guy doesn't have any fear out there. But we're
Speaker 11: excited about the match up. And again it's a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 11: so you know we'll give him some things I haven't seen.
Speaker 6: No, no, big Mic don't know about it.
Speaker 9: He or that's considering how well they haven't running the
Speaker 9: ball to How great is that challenge then or greater
Speaker 9: is that challenge than comes Sunday.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm not talking about injuries. I don't know whoever's
Speaker 11: out there is out there. At the end of the day,
Speaker 11: my job is to show up and show out and
Speaker 11: get the call to the guys that are out there.
Speaker 11: So whoever's out there does MIC orb, But whoever the
Speaker 11: case may be, I know those guys will be prepared
Speaker 11: uh throughout the week and they'll be ready to rock
Speaker 11: and roll come Sunday. And that's why we pride ourselves
Speaker 11: on so stopping and run, making teams one dimensional.
Speaker 1: Real call with kind of what the diventures can go
Speaker 1: and do, communication, wises and struggles in the secondary. Has
Speaker 1: there been a different way that you're kind of approaching
Speaker 1: it as the leader of this union.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like I We're we're gonna be We're gonna be fine.
Speaker 11: You know, there's a lot of uh outside noise and
Speaker 11: there's a lot of adversity UH as well, but you
Speaker 11: can't get rid up. We keep receipts at the end
Speaker 11: of the day, just gotta make cats pay for it.
Speaker 11: When the time comes, We're gonna be perfectly fine. We'll
Speaker 11: look back at this interview pretty soon and you'll be like,
Speaker 11: you're right. So just trust the process, and I'm trusting that.
Speaker 11: And I have the utmost faith in each and every
Speaker 11: guy that's UH in the back seven, including myself, that
Speaker 11: we're gonna get UH things the way things need to
Speaker 11: be done.
Speaker 6: So just tune in Sunday.
Speaker 9: Adding Deontay Johnson. Uh, you're another weapon for short of
Speaker 9: the offense. I don't know how much you've had it
Speaker 9: gone up against him before. Just what does it mean
Speaker 9: to you to have a guy like that come in.
Speaker 6: Hey, that's another weapon on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 11: Uh, And yeah, I'm excited about him, so from seeing
Speaker 11: him in Pittsburgh and then heard he was playing some
Speaker 11: really good ball down in Carolina this year, So got
Speaker 11: a lot of respect for him going up against him.
Speaker 11: So I know he's a great addition for this team
Speaker 11: and gonna help us UH down the scratch. So I'm
Speaker 11: excited about that, and I know Lamar is as well.
Speaker 6: I prob wh when you.
Speaker 9: Have some situations like you guys that are pass people, did.
Speaker 6: You find is there pressure for guys to do too much?
Speaker 5: Kind of solve it all as one is it is
Speaker 5: it real and him where guys are kind of driving
Speaker 5: a little bit ahead of their seam.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 11: I think pressure us two things to see the burst
Speaker 11: pipes of make diamonds and like I said last year
Speaker 11: in the diamond making business, and if you don't enjoy
Speaker 11: pressure as a defender and on this defense, uh what
Speaker 11: are you doing it for?
Speaker 6: So that's what we're all about.
Speaker 11: And at the end of the day, sweating a little
Speaker 11: bit came out of a hot shower, But uh yeah,
Speaker 11: we just gotta make make ends meet and do uh
Speaker 11: what we have to do.
Speaker 6: And if we do that, we're in the right position.
Speaker 6: A lot of time it's just bame bain things.
Speaker 11: So just gotta capitalize, hone in on the details even more,
Speaker 11: and then each and every guy gotta just look themselves
Speaker 11: in the mirror before going out there and just knowing
Speaker 11: you're gonna put your best foot forward starting out throughout
Speaker 11: the week and definitely on Sunday.
Speaker 6: But like I said, just be there Sunday one o'clock.
Speaker 6: Last one police the difference between you last year and
Speaker 6: this year. So if you put your finger to put
Speaker 6: your finger on you, why you guys have yet to
Speaker 6: be able to expe the love when yours or with
Speaker 6: for a lot of.
Speaker 11: The same group, h every year is different. Nothing is
Speaker 11: the same. Just like yesterday, it's different for all of us.
Speaker 11: None of you guys are the same as.
Speaker 6: You were last year.
Speaker 11: So regardless of it, if it's the same players of what,
Speaker 11: every year is different. But I'm excited about this group
Speaker 11: and I know this group. We're at the midpoint of
Speaker 11: the season, and I know we got.
Speaker 6: A lot in store. So like I said, we keep
Speaker 6: receipts and just tune in Sunday.
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