Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Sunday,
Speaker 1: September tenth, and the Ravens kicked off the season with
Speaker 1: a twenty five to nine victory over the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: The Ravens were able to get the win thanks to
Speaker 1: some strong performances by the running game. Justice Hill had
Speaker 1: a para touchdowns with JK Dobbins also had a touchdown. Now,
Speaker 1: the bad news for the Ravens is that Dobbins was
Speaker 1: lost for the season with a torn achilles. Really tough
Speaker 1: news for the running back who is at store for
Speaker 1: a big season. He played well early in this game,
Speaker 1: looked really strong, but really disappointing news to lose JK
Speaker 1: Dobbins for the season with that torn achilles. After the game,
Speaker 1: that was certainly a big talking point, and head coach
Speaker 1: Sean Harbaugh provided perspective on Jk's injury as well as
Speaker 1: some of the other injuries that the Ravens had over
Speaker 1: the course of this week. One victory.
Speaker 2: Okay, hey, appreciate everybody being here. That's the beginning start
Speaker 2: of the season. Now we're off and running, you know,
Speaker 2: we have opportuntunity to kind of see where we're at
Speaker 2: and we get an opportunity also to do with a win,
Speaker 2: so we're very happy about that. That's the way you
Speaker 2: want to open the season with that. We know there's
Speaker 2: so many things that we need to work on to
Speaker 2: get better at, and that's what we'll do starting on
Speaker 2: on Monday. So we're excited with the win and proud
Speaker 2: of the way the guys played. All the guys, say
Speaker 2: David Ajabo, I mean, how about the pass rus bringing it?
Speaker 2: You know, there was so much concern, you know, right,
Speaker 2: and he'd been working hard and a critical moment came
Speaker 2: up and made that play. I'm just proud of him.
Speaker 2: So I thought the whole team played as hard as
Speaker 2: they could, play as fast as they could, play as
Speaker 2: well as they could, and now our goals just keep
Speaker 2: getting better. So what questions you have?
Speaker 3: How challenging was it to kind of finish off that game,
Speaker 3: But it seemed like the injuries.
Speaker 2: Started pulling up with you guys that think the whole Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean would have been good to put it away.
Speaker 2: That's something we need to work on, try to put
Speaker 2: the game away a little sooner in terms of you know,
Speaker 2: getting those first downs and things like that. So, uh,
Speaker 2: with the injuries, just to kind of brief you on that. Uh,
Speaker 2: JK has a torn achilles unfortunately, so that's going to
Speaker 2: end his season. Just feel bad for him. It's not
Speaker 2: the way we expected this to go, and he's worked
Speaker 2: really hard. But jk' is a strong minded individual. He's
Speaker 2: got a big heart, very large spirit, and he's going
Speaker 2: to bounce back from this as well. The other injuries
Speaker 2: are really MRI type injuries. Will take a look at
Speaker 2: Ronnie and Marcus and Tyler. We'll look at those three
Speaker 2: things tonight and tomorrow on the m R and see
Speaker 2: where they're at. So we just don't know about those yet.
Speaker 3: From a personal standpoint, how how.
Speaker 4: Much do you feel for JK just for everything he's
Speaker 4: been through and to start with this.
Speaker 2: Injury today, Yeah, just just kind of crestfalling for him.
Speaker 2: You know. So it's so many guys, you know, there's
Speaker 2: so many guys you feel excited for so many guys
Speaker 2: you look at and say, okay, we got to work
Speaker 2: on this, and then JK, who has this just unfortunate
Speaker 2: thing happened to him, you know, and he was playing well,
Speaker 2: so but really we'll put our arms around him. You know,
Speaker 2: he'll get into rehab and and he will be back.
Speaker 2: He's a young guy, so that's where it But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's kind of it's really hard for him.
Speaker 3: That opens the door for Justice Hill.
Speaker 5: Now it's his production today.
Speaker 2: What if I have Justice Hill? Yeah, Justice stepped up.
Speaker 2: He played well, he's been playing, He's had a heck
Speaker 2: of a camp, you know, and I think Justice has
Speaker 2: done a great job. He's ready to go. Uh you know,
Speaker 2: of course, you know, Gus really played well, so that
Speaker 2: was good to see. And then we've got Melvin opportunity
Speaker 2: to come up, and we have our young guy keating
Speaker 2: on the on the IR coming back after four weeks.
Speaker 2: So uh, those guys I'm sure will step up. Well,
Speaker 2: I know injuries are.
Speaker 3: A part of the game, and you guys have done
Speaker 3: a lot in the all season of preseason.
Speaker 2: They try to minimize it as much as possible.
Speaker 6: But how frustrated it is it to see some major
Speaker 6: injuries still happen We've wanted despite everything we're trying.
Speaker 7: To do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's football, It just is. It's just
Speaker 2: the football. And as you know, I think I think
Speaker 2: everybody just does the best they can, and we certainly did,
Speaker 2: and we certainly will continue to I'm sure there's injuries
Speaker 2: around the league, you know, and then you know, the
Speaker 2: league and the and the and the players Association, I'm
Speaker 2: sure will continue to go to work and do the
Speaker 2: science and trying to figure out, you know, whatever they
Speaker 2: can do off season program wise and things like that
Speaker 2: to keep improving in that area big picture wise, first
Speaker 2: offensive drive that after.
Speaker 8: After halftime seemed kind of stabilizing. Where do you think
Speaker 8: went well there and set?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. I just think we operated well.
Speaker 2: You know, we we we we hit our assignments, we
Speaker 2: lined up, We had a little rhythm. Of course, Lamar,
Speaker 2: you know, Lamar made some great throws. The play action
Speaker 2: stuff is really working. I thought the guys ran some
Speaker 2: great routes, you know, the deep out routes.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then you know, Lamar made it happen in that drive,
Speaker 2: and that was the drive that stabilizes, kind of got
Speaker 2: our feet set just a little bit there to start
Speaker 2: the second half and and got in position to start
Speaker 2: to take the game over. So you anticipate this week today.
Speaker 2: Flowers were such a big role in this offense. We
Speaker 2: wanted a ripe. Yeah, I saw the plays, you know,
Speaker 2: he was he was out there, he was gonna play
Speaker 2: a lot. But you know it's I'm proud of him.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm proud of him, and he's gonna tell
Speaker 2: you he's gonna get to tell you his only so
Speaker 2: many things. He expects to even do better, right say
Speaker 2: you know so? Yeah so, but uh you know, Zay Lamar,
Speaker 2: I uh obj, I mean, you know, Bait played so well.
Speaker 2: The whole receiving court did a good job. Nelson did
Speaker 2: a great job. So I'm proud of all those guys.
Speaker 2: I don't wanna forget my other two guys. So you know,
Speaker 2: the the guys that you know, Thailand got after it
Speaker 2: in special teams just a little bit. And uh so
Speaker 2: we're good. John.
Speaker 3: It seems like their blitzes were very effective against you
Speaker 3: guys in the first stop. Did was there a specific
Speaker 3: adjustments that allowed you guys to be a little better
Speaker 3: against them?
Speaker 2: And second half, Peru, I think we s we just
Speaker 2: think we got a sense that they were gonna run
Speaker 2: the zero blitzes, you know, and h and Lamar did
Speaker 2: a great job with uh Todd and with t and
Speaker 2: with the guys and just kind of got lined up
Speaker 2: and got a plan for it. And we did a
Speaker 2: good job against it.
Speaker 3: So have you had a lot of guys who didn't
Speaker 3: play on offense during the preseason.
Speaker 2: Ivn't too assess how they played.
Speaker 3: The new office is steep.
Speaker 6: Say you had a lot of guys who didn't play
Speaker 6: during preseason or offensive side, I would just asked to
Speaker 6: play of them.
Speaker 2: Uh, play for the first time in the scenes. That's
Speaker 2: a big thing. I'm even I was talking to some
Speaker 2: of the guys. I mean, it's just different getting out
Speaker 2: there in the game, the game, speed, operating, the crowd, noise,
Speaker 2: all of it. It's something you get sent for. Not
Speaker 2: that kind of goes with not playing in the preseason
Speaker 2: a little bit. But they handle it and now we're
Speaker 2: off and running. How did you think the offense. I
Speaker 2: thought the offense could a winning football game. I'm proud
Speaker 2: of it. I'm really happy with what we did. I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to where we can go from here.
Speaker 9: They looked at times like there's i don't know, like
Speaker 9: some cluckiness or you know, guys are getting comfortable. You said,
Speaker 9: did you ever think about, you know, conversations about you know,
Speaker 9: pre playing guys in the preseason.
Speaker 10: You know, the new offensive system.
Speaker 9: Does that come to mind.
Speaker 2: It off. We'll have those conversations probably every year. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: that comes to mind. And that's something that you really
Speaker 2: got to take into consideration and just decide what you
Speaker 2: want to do.
Speaker 4: John, What did you think about your cowner guy you
Speaker 4: have seen, I think got in their way, but Stevens
Speaker 4: and Darby went the whole way.
Speaker 2: How do you think they held up? I thought they
Speaker 2: held up well. They you know, no big plays. You know,
Speaker 2: he had a couple of stop routes, which of course
Speaker 2: CJ throws us so well, you know, and they got
Speaker 2: good guys running those outside routes. I thought our guys
Speaker 2: were right there on them. They made a couple, We
Speaker 2: made a couple, We made all the tackles. I was
Speaker 2: happy with those guys.
Speaker 4: Seen still working his way back and just giving everyone
Speaker 4: different guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he just can't start practicing by a
Speaker 2: week ago, you know, so he'll be ready to go.
Speaker 2: He's he's in a good kind of good uh curve
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 9: Do you hop Dabas was on contact or was that
Speaker 9: or you know, was he what was it on contact
Speaker 9: on the tackle or I.
Speaker 2: Haven't seen him? Yeah, I'm not sure. Thanks, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harboff. We also had a
Speaker 1: chance to hear from quarterback Lamar Jackson, who talked about
Speaker 1: this new look offense under Todd Bunkin.
Speaker 3: Obviously, I know you're excited about your name, but try
Speaker 3: trying to towards about JK.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your charents and twice here, what's kind of your
Speaker 2: thoughts to night.
Speaker 11: That's that's very unfortunate, you know, like I feel like
Speaker 11: jkman bust is behind, you know, to get back on
Speaker 11: that feeling, you know, just show the world where he's
Speaker 11: capable of and to help us out along the way,
Speaker 11: like like I spent I spoke lot of 'em, you
Speaker 11: know this all seasons.
Speaker 2: Just letting to everybody know, like we really need him,
Speaker 2: and for him to go down.
Speaker 11: With a season and injury, that's just very unfortunate for us,
Speaker 11: not just him, for all of us, cause that's our brother, Lamar.
Speaker 4: I mean not till later on this too long, but
Speaker 4: you know it's been so rare since that two thousand
Speaker 4: nineteen season for everybody on that team, or twenty twenty
Speaker 4: to everybody on that team, at least help.
Speaker 8: You on the field together, Kay out for all twenty
Speaker 8: point one, you'll missing the end of last year mark
Speaker 8: out today? What what what do you what does that
Speaker 8: make you feel when to.
Speaker 10: Think about maybe some opportunity missus of injuries.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, you know, that's part of the game.
Speaker 11: You know, it's it's just unfortunately it happens, and you
Speaker 11: know in certain situations, we don't need it to happen,
Speaker 11: you know, but you know, not just we have angwis
Speaker 11: like all across the league, people have angels, you know,
Speaker 11: and it could happen in a given moment, in a
Speaker 11: given day.
Speaker 2: You know why you're on that field.
Speaker 3: Last time we more there was a couple of pre
Speaker 3: snap stuff for more interception.
Speaker 2: I know you have a highest the highest expectations for.
Speaker 10: Yourself, but knowing that none of you guys really played other.
Speaker 4: John Simpson in the in the preseason and this is
Speaker 4: a new offense, did.
Speaker 12: You expect that you were gonna have to work through
Speaker 12: some stuff from a ross uh standpoint thera in this game.
Speaker 11: To be honest, Jeff, I didn't think that, uh uh
Speaker 11: just having a little past the fumble like uh, the
Speaker 11: the bs in this session, I wasn't. I wasn't expecting
Speaker 11: that at all. But you know, like you said, we
Speaker 11: haven't been playing, you know, I haven't played since like November,
Speaker 11: didn't play preseason. But I feel like it's the first game,
Speaker 11: and you know, things like that may you know, may
Speaker 11: come up not just with us, you know throughout the league.
Speaker 11: And you know, but we got a dub. Just move
Speaker 11: forward and just focusing practice a little hard on the
Speaker 11: things were messed up on.
Speaker 2: Mar first time in this new offense with all the guys.
Speaker 10: You guys didn't play in the preseason.
Speaker 13: How'd you think it looked?
Speaker 2: How do you feel like you playing too? I feel
Speaker 2: like we was.
Speaker 11: We had our ups and down moments like you know,
Speaker 11: you can see you can see where uh my ceiling
Speaker 11: would be, you know, and then some moments is like
Speaker 11: what we was doing, you know, like what we're doing
Speaker 11: questioning on ourselves out there.
Speaker 2: But like I said, you know, it's the first game.
Speaker 11: Little hiccups, first time with each other, you know, on
Speaker 11: that field, I feel like the scuy's limba though, la.
Speaker 1: Ma, how well place for you with to get Zay involved?
Speaker 10: And you know, see something plays a email right off
Speaker 10: the back.
Speaker 11: Uh, Like I said, I already knew it was was
Speaker 11: it was capable of you know, and he showed it himself,
Speaker 11: you know, making guys missing and running great roads catching
Speaker 11: the ball and you know, getting up the field getting
Speaker 11: yards after the catch.
Speaker 2: But we wanted to get everybody involved.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 11: We got a lot of great guys on that field,
Speaker 11: you know, in our receiving room, and I feel like
Speaker 11: we we were on something special here.
Speaker 13: Sure in the off season training camp about having more
Speaker 13: uh opportunities for checks and calls at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 13: more autonomy. What was it like first game in action
Speaker 13: to have more of that than the Linus scrimmage.
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 11: Yeah, we actually uh made some checks and made some
Speaker 11: calls out there on the field. Sometimes it went outways,
Speaker 11: sometimes it didn't, you know, but that's what practice, com
Speaker 11: man U.
Speaker 2: You know, we gonna break on that.
Speaker 11: Tuesday, Wednesday, you know, all the way up to Friday.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lebar Jackson. Now, one of the stars
Speaker 1: of the game was rookie first round picked Za Flowers.
Speaker 1: The Ravens leaned on him in a big way. He
Speaker 1: had nine catches for seventy eight yards in his NFL debut,
Speaker 1: and he talked about what his impressions were of his
Speaker 1: first NFL game say what you think of the NFL action.
Speaker 6: I remember I was up here last time. I told
Speaker 6: y'all that I get used to it. Uh, I said
Speaker 6: something like, I'd get used to the speed of it,
Speaker 6: And today I slow it slowed down for me and
Speaker 6: it was better.
Speaker 12: It is.
Speaker 1: How pleased were you to come out and you know,
Speaker 1: make the way as heavily involved in the offense?
Speaker 6: Well understly, I was just pleased to get some catchers.
Speaker 6: I was gonna take you what?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 2: In my head, I was like two catches.
Speaker 6: I'll be good with that first.
Speaker 2: Game, get to win long as we win.
Speaker 10: I was alright.
Speaker 2: Did it ever dawn on you with uh?
Speaker 11: With Andrews not playing today that you could be a
Speaker 11: lot more involved than maybe you thought initially?
Speaker 6: Honestly, I ain't even know he wasn't playing. I I
Speaker 6: I seen him practicing the whole Weekdan he just like
Speaker 6: he ain't he ain't practice today, so I mean he
Speaker 6: ain't warm up today. And I was just like, I
Speaker 6: don't know, Honestly, I just gonna go out there and play.
Speaker 8: Say, does it feel like the Ravens are committed to
Speaker 8: using you in as many ways as as you were
Speaker 8: being kind of used? You know, running the ball or
Speaker 8: off the screens as a deep threat at at Boston College.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like they use us in every way.
Speaker 6: That's a for all receivers. We Uh, we all played
Speaker 6: different positions. We all can play every position, we all
Speaker 6: can run every route, so there's no limit to our
Speaker 6: receiver room.
Speaker 2: How much do you think the the loss you know
Speaker 2: JP is thumbing the season get the big chills us.
Speaker 6: Uh, It's gonna be a big loss cause everybody know
Speaker 6: JK can really run the ball and he was a
Speaker 6: big part of the offense in our run game, so
Speaker 6: losing him can be a big part. But I feel like,
Speaker 6: just as in gusts are gonna step up saying, was.
Speaker 4: There any you guys came out and and really moved
Speaker 4: the ball a third quarter?
Speaker 10: Was there anything said at half time?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 3: Cause it seemed like parts of the first stelf were
Speaker 3: struggle offensively.
Speaker 6: We knew we had to move the ball if we
Speaker 6: wanted to win. We we knew it was capable of
Speaker 6: moving the ball. It was just we had to get
Speaker 6: everything together as a f our first game, first time
Speaker 6: running the offense in the game, so we just had
Speaker 6: to get used to just being playing on the field
Speaker 6: with each other and just going.
Speaker 3: Do you expect the offense to get smoother in a
Speaker 3: hurry now that you guys are out there all together.
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: I feel like next game it'll be way better. Operation
Speaker 6: to be smoother. Everybody will be way more comfortable with
Speaker 6: each other.
Speaker 8: Said, you know, I don't know what those play calls
Speaker 8: were early.
Speaker 10: The gutsh just touches down on the outside.
Speaker 8: But with the defenses focusing on stopping you guys run,
Speaker 8: do you feel like he'll have plenty of opportunities if
Speaker 8: y Lamar as the RPO tacks to just throw throw that.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, absolutely, because I feel like we got one
Speaker 6: of the best run games in the NFL. So you
Speaker 6: got to you always got to her about stopping that
Speaker 6: first ind you got to her about stopping Lamar. So
Speaker 6: that's just gonna get us open even more. And when
Speaker 6: Mark come back, it's gonna get even scarier.
Speaker 1: That was rookie wide receiver Zay Flowers. We also talked
Speaker 1: with Patrick Queen. He had a strong showing as well
Speaker 1: as the Ravens defense only allowed nine points. He didn't
Speaker 1: give up a touchdown all game. Pete Q had a
Speaker 1: sack and was flying all over the field in this victory,
Speaker 1: but he still thinks to Ravens could be even better
Speaker 1: defensively than what they showed today.
Speaker 2: Patrick, A couple of couple of good plays for you. Today.
Speaker 2: We hear a lot about the past rush. Do you
Speaker 2: take any type of uh, how do you feel when
Speaker 2: you hear people question in the past? First, do you
Speaker 2: see yourself as a guy. It's a big vocal part
Speaker 2: of another party.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Uh, you know the four guys that we got up
Speaker 12: front when we rotating them in, each guys get the
Speaker 12: job done. And uh, whenever they call my number, I'm
Speaker 12: just a another piece of that that four man rush.
Speaker 12: So uh, anytime they call my numbers, just happy to
Speaker 12: go in there, you know, help my team out.
Speaker 3: You feel you playing going to have this team was
Speaker 3: anyway different just because it was a an an experienced.
Speaker 2: Quarterback that you guys.
Speaker 12: Uh, Nah, our game plan is mostly you know, the
Speaker 12: same every week. We just we got so much different
Speaker 12: stuff that we run. You know, it's just whatever we
Speaker 12: feeling comfortable at the time. And uh, you know that guy,
Speaker 12: he's gonna be a great quarterback coming up. It's just
Speaker 12: you know, it's tough coming in here. Week one against
Speaker 12: US as a rookie, so you know, uh, you know
Speaker 12: that's what we do.
Speaker 3: Patrick, you would talked about this off season about your
Speaker 3: situation compared to Jk's.
Speaker 2: How difficult is it to see if temate like.
Speaker 1: That go down?
Speaker 12: Yeah? Uh, obviously, you know the news came out by
Speaker 12: him and I text him. Uh that guy, you know,
Speaker 12: a good brother of mine.
Speaker 10: Uh, it just.
Speaker 12: It hurts to see that type of stuff happened to
Speaker 12: somebody's so good. So that's a good person, good good athlete. Uh,
Speaker 12: obviously you got all the stuff going on, and.
Speaker 10: It's just tough.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: I just aks everybody.
Speaker 12: Just pray for him, Pray for his mental pray for
Speaker 12: Marcus and mentors, pray pray for those guys. Uh, just
Speaker 12: stuff like that. That's why he win the situation that
Speaker 12: he went and you know, Uh, it's just tough. It's
Speaker 12: just it hurts, Honestly, it hurts.
Speaker 10: A lot, Sorry, Patrick, especially with the way the first happened.
Speaker 3: Don't you guys giving up the field goals in the
Speaker 3: last two guys, how pleased were you with the way.
Speaker 10: The defense came out the second half?
Speaker 3: We gave up three points? If it's only a shame situation.
Speaker 2: We not please, were not please.
Speaker 12: A lot of that stuff they we gave up. Uh,
Speaker 12: we wasn't communicating how we needed to be wearing the
Speaker 12: spots that we bought. We weren't lined up fast enough.
Speaker 10: We weren't our spots.
Speaker 12: Honestly, we should have dominated them, uh even more than
Speaker 12: what we did. And uh that just starts at practice.
Speaker 12: We just gotta get better. We just gotta communicate better,
Speaker 12: line up faster, communicate fast, communicate better. Everybody gotta go
Speaker 12: on the same page. So, uh, whatever we gotta do
Speaker 12: to make that happen, that's what we want to do.
Speaker 4: Patrick John came out specifically citing David's performance. And obviously,
Speaker 4: you know you and Rope want in the middle. People
Speaker 4: seem to know what that is. But the guys in
Speaker 4: the edge, and how do you think.
Speaker 10: They responded to a lot of the questions about how
Speaker 10: they mean to come out season.
Speaker 12: The guys know what they could do. We know what
Speaker 12: they could do, They know what we could do, and
Speaker 12: that's all that matter. Were confident with the people that
Speaker 12: we got. That's why we just let them go. Let
Speaker 12: them pass us for Man and Usk, well, get out
Speaker 12: the quarterback. We know what those guys could do. They
Speaker 12: know what they could do, and that's all that matters.
Speaker 10: Patrick.
Speaker 3: Sometimes people talk about inside linebacker like it's not one
Speaker 3: of the most important positions in the game anymore. But
Speaker 3: you and Rope want clearly sort of set a tone
Speaker 3: for the defense right right away. I mean, is that
Speaker 3: is that something that you took in meeting something to you?
Speaker 2: Definitely?
Speaker 12: I think when you look big picture of the organization,
Speaker 12: who was here, what they did in the center of
Speaker 12: the standard that they set, and then you gotta look
Speaker 12: at how do you want to be as an individual?
Speaker 12: Do you want to be great? Do you just want
Speaker 12: to be average? And I know Row want to be
Speaker 12: great and he's already headed there, and I know I
Speaker 12: want to be great and I'm already hitded there. So
Speaker 12: at the end of the day, when we come in
Speaker 12: with stuff foot in the facility, are on this field
Speaker 12: is all focused on getting better and being trying to
Speaker 12: be great.
Speaker 1: That was Patrick Queen. Now, another player who I know
Speaker 1: a lot of Ravens fans wanted to see an action
Speaker 1: was Odell Beckham Junior. He played his first game in
Speaker 1: a Raven's uniform relatively quiet, but still came up with
Speaker 1: a pair of catches, and he talked about the emotion
Speaker 1: of getting back on the field and what he thought
Speaker 1: about his first game as a Raven.
Speaker 7: It's truly a blessing, you know what he's in the
Speaker 7: coming to the game and say, no matter what happens,
Speaker 7: as long as you stay healthy and we win, grab
Speaker 7: a smile on my face. And obviously I do have
Speaker 7: a smile on my face. But the competitor of me,
Speaker 7: the you know, the stride for greatness, you know, all
Speaker 7: of those things, is not necessarily happy with uh my
Speaker 7: performance so much today.
Speaker 10: But it's so not about me.
Speaker 7: You know, it's been a it's been a long journey.
Speaker 7: I always just said I was I was working that
Speaker 7: hard just to get back on the field and and
Speaker 7: even if it was to catch one football again, I
Speaker 7: just feel like I couldn't go out that way in
Speaker 7: my career. But you know, to see uh Sean Babman,
Speaker 7: who came back from injuries, to see Za for his
Speaker 7: first game, you know, just do the things that we
Speaker 7: know he's capable of doing. It's hard to come out
Speaker 7: wins in the NFL, so I it's all smiles.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: It's back to the drawing board. You know, we gotta
Speaker 7: start thinking about the next one, uh right now? And yeah, man,
Speaker 7: I just I feel blessed to be able to go
Speaker 7: back out there again.
Speaker 2: The emotional when you got that of Station Maker, it
Speaker 2: just is.
Speaker 7: It's just what I was waiting for, you know, not
Speaker 7: necessarily I have to say I did, didn't expected, but
Speaker 7: it felt it felt like busy.
Speaker 10: I felt in love.
Speaker 2: And that's what I wanna give back to this place.
Speaker 2: I wanna give on everything.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know that's why when I came up the quote
Speaker 2: come out, oh this.
Speaker 7: Is my last No, I mean, I'm gonna play like
Speaker 7: this my last like this is my last last route
Speaker 7: I could run, my last past I could catch. I
Speaker 7: wanna give that effort to this place, this organization. So
Speaker 7: it's truly special to be able to go out there again.
Speaker 7: And I just I mean, I'm I'm I'm happy.
Speaker 10: What about having to go aboard to you for the
Speaker 10: first time.
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny how God works.
Speaker 7: Uh got injured last year and if I woulda came
Speaker 7: back from someone on have been five, six, seven months,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, Like he's not really able
Speaker 7: to watch a football game, and now he's you know,
Speaker 7: going on close to two.
Speaker 2: Years keep keep.
Speaker 10: He was going on close to two years, so he
Speaker 10: really knows what's going on.
Speaker 7: You know, he sees football out there.
Speaker 10: He's like that that.
Speaker 7: So it was truly special to be able to see
Speaker 7: him before the game. You know, get I love and
Speaker 7: he's the reason that I keep going.
Speaker 2: He's the reason that.
Speaker 10: I'm still doing it. You know.
Speaker 7: He Pampers cost a lot, you know, toys costs a lot.
Speaker 7: So I gotta keep I gotta keep hustling, man. So
Speaker 7: it's just truly a dream. It's truly a blessing to
Speaker 7: be able to still play out my dream and play
Speaker 7: the game that I sacrificed any other sport.
Speaker 10: On my entire life for watch.
Speaker 2: Thing could be a little bit of a clumps today
Speaker 2: of what this offensive would be.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was, yeah, and and and you know the
Speaker 7: funny thing about it is it's we're gonna go watch
Speaker 7: the film, and I don't think too many people are
Speaker 7: gonna be happy. You know, a lot of little mistakes,
Speaker 7: a lot of things that in a bigger game, uh,
Speaker 7: you know s another team might take.
Speaker 2: Advantage of that.
Speaker 7: So there's a lot of things we need to do.
Speaker 7: Get back to the drawing board, you know, but it's
Speaker 7: it's still cool to be able to see a w
Speaker 7: in the ugly one. You know, so a lot of
Speaker 7: things we canna prove on.
Speaker 2: I'm excited about that.
Speaker 9: I don't like Sorr.
Speaker 10: I apologize.
Speaker 3: I just got into here say I'm sure if you're Atwally,
Speaker 3: are ready the the loss of j K.
Speaker 2: Dobbins to be honest and sees that again.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he just made my stomach head again. It's it's
Speaker 7: the ugly part of this game. And you know the
Speaker 7: these people are your brothers. You you blood swin and
Speaker 7: tears with 'em. Uh let me see. And it just
Speaker 7: it's a sick feeling that I have over me just
Speaker 7: to know that that's what happened. Okay, so my parents,
Speaker 7: brother in this family. I text with h'm'na say wherever
Speaker 7: you need me, whatever you need for me, like I'm
Speaker 7: there at the drop of the dime.
Speaker 10: It's just you just that question has.
Speaker 7: Made me very It doesn't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't feel good losing Jake. Care How does this offense,
Speaker 2: especially in the running and go forward without.
Speaker 10: Your gam It's it's the same, you know, across the boarder.
Speaker 7: You know, it's always been that next man up mentality,
Speaker 7: and it it sucks to say because it's you know,
Speaker 7: truly and brotherly, but we have no choice but to
Speaker 7: play for him. Those those running backs have no choice
Speaker 7: but to play for him, to run for him an
Speaker 7: and and just find a way to make him proud.
Speaker 7: So uh, my parents go out to him and his
Speaker 7: family and JK, you know.
Speaker 2: We love you.
Speaker 9: Uh yeah, well that was a certain as sorry you
Speaker 9: won't what y'all't you first came back or the the
Speaker 9: wide receiver or you know you with you two you know,
Speaker 9: catch your parents' cause you had that long catch out
Speaker 9: sideline you say, you know, big day and I'm trying
Speaker 9: to catch a click. Do you feel like this was
Speaker 9: kind of like a you know, an appetizer for what's
Speaker 9: coming you know who the word or like really.
Speaker 7: But it was undercooked appetizer, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7: It wasn't It wasn't necessarily what you know, none of
Speaker 7: us want that. But f you know, for Zay to
Speaker 7: come out and this is his first game, like I
Speaker 7: said earlier, was to see him.
Speaker 10: Do the things that we know he's capable of doing.
Speaker 7: Bait and who came back from fighting injuries and and
Speaker 7: a surgery and just to be able to see him
Speaker 7: out there playing with confidence. All of our guys, like
Speaker 7: we all played hard in our room. You know, there
Speaker 7: was mistakes, there was things that we can get better
Speaker 7: at and correct and you know, do this and that,
Speaker 7: and it's sir, like I said, it was a it was.
Speaker 12: A ugly win.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 7: But it's hard to talk about in this in this league.
Speaker 7: And you know, for me personally, it's not the day
Speaker 7: that I was expecting to have. But I feel like
Speaker 7: that's how God works. So you just gotta you just
Speaker 7: gotta know that trusting is playing this process. And uh
Speaker 7: came out the game healthy. H So that's a very
Speaker 7: good feeling. Get to go home, see myself, my family, uh,
Speaker 7: and and and get ready for next week.
Speaker 9: It's like, I don't know how many times when I
Speaker 9: look back around, many times you played and then the.
Speaker 10: First love I'll see you live this like the first year.
Speaker 9: If it's important, right playing in the system, just in general,
Speaker 9: is it is it generally like this one like a
Speaker 9: first game, cause it looked kind of cooky out there
Speaker 9: at times.
Speaker 7: It like you'll get comfortable or yeah, it just it
Speaker 7: was a ugly day. You know, a lot of a
Speaker 7: lot of mistakes across the board. I made mistakes, yeah,
Speaker 7: you know, but we got great coaches in that room,
Speaker 7: Coach dub and g Lou, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: And these guys are gonna coaches up hard and we're
Speaker 7: gonna watch the film and everybody's a man in that room.
Speaker 7: We can take the criticism. That's the only way to
Speaker 7: get better. So I know, I messed up on a.
Speaker 10: Lot of things.
Speaker 7: And uh, it's the first game, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10: It's a long season.
Speaker 7: I don't think anybody want a super Bowl on week one,
Speaker 7: So got a lot of work ahead of us.
Speaker 2: Which just true that you're checking that to happen, those
Speaker 2: mistakes and things like that.
Speaker 3: But is there a sense of like needing to building
Speaker 3: into it because you guys hadn't played together any game.
Speaker 7: I mean, I guess you just related to life. You know,
Speaker 7: you never know how thing's gonna go. And at the
Speaker 7: end of the day, we can control, you know, certain things,
Speaker 7: and today we didn't do that, but we were fortunate
Speaker 7: to get to win. And you just gotta get better.
Speaker 7: You just gotta lock in, just correct your mistakes. You know,
Speaker 7: happy that it didn't cross us today. And just get
Speaker 7: it rolling. You know, Like I said, I don't think
Speaker 7: anybody's ever won a Super Bowl on Week one, So
Speaker 7: got a lot of room for improvement.
Speaker 1: And lastly, defensive lineman Justin Matabik was a big part
Speaker 1: of the Ravens strong showing on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. He had a sack and he talked about
Speaker 1: that sack and also how tough it is to lose JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins for the season.
Speaker 5: We're unna fight for him. We're gonna fight for him.
Speaker 5: We're gonna do our job doing my one eleventh. I
Speaker 5: didn't know that. That's crazy, that's yeah. That gets me
Speaker 5: in a sad place right now. But you know'na be
Speaker 5: praying for him. I'm'a'm i'm'a hit him up. That's so tough,
Speaker 5: and so I did not know that.
Speaker 7: So the Ravens have dealt with injuries before. But moving
Speaker 7: forward into twenty pray three the first game of the
Speaker 7: season for him to go down the step ups with
Speaker 7: Justice Hill. We saw that in two touchdowns today. How
Speaker 7: proud of you are of him?
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, he stepped up and got two touchdowns. I
Speaker 10: think right it was two. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's bowling. He's always been like that. He's always
Speaker 5: always been like this, and I've been a Ravens, so
Speaker 5: there's no surprise to me. You know, if anybody else
Speaker 5: is surprised, you just haven't been paying attention or even
Speaker 5: pop some popcorn while the game's been going on.
Speaker 10: But he's a baller, He's a dog. I love him.
Speaker 10: He's my dog. So you know, back to work.
Speaker 5: We're gonna heal up. Pray for my brother JK and
Speaker 5: all these guys. A lot of guys got hurt today.
Speaker 5: This kind of sucks, but you know, I'm hopefully they
Speaker 5: can get back and uh a healthy soon and then talk.
Speaker 7: About a job on the end of the games.
Speaker 3: The strips sack, I mean, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's my brother, that's my dog. I love him.
Speaker 5: He a lot of them, they says, a lot of
Speaker 5: he says, she said, a lot of people talking crazy
Speaker 5: on Twitter.
Speaker 10: I said, man, put your head down to work. Man,
Speaker 10: you're a dog here for a reason. You belong here.
Speaker 10: And uh, he showed it today week one and I'm
Speaker 10: excited for his future. Appreciate it.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 14: Talk about people equate the pass rush with the edge, right, Yeah,
Speaker 14: but all your guys have said, are we gonna get
Speaker 14: the pass rush from a lot of different places like
Speaker 14: inside linebackers where you had one or there's.
Speaker 2: Washington had one.
Speaker 10: Yeah, what's the key to that for you?
Speaker 2: Specifically coming in and generating pass rush?
Speaker 5: Just winning you're one on ones, doing your job, pushing
Speaker 5: that pocket, making the quarterback uncomfortable when it comes to
Speaker 5: the outside guys inside guys like me, roke On in
Speaker 5: the back of even On Darius on the on the
Speaker 5: edge edge. So you know, everybody just doing the job
Speaker 5: and playing hard for each other.
Speaker 2: That's the key, how fully said, for you personally get
Speaker 2: a sack.
Speaker 5: It's fun, but it's not fu It's funny if you lose,
Speaker 5: but we gotta win. So I'm a celebrated Thursday and
Speaker 5: it will be the wrong and get back to work
Speaker 5: cause we have a big one next week.
Speaker 8: So just ti to to too, as well as you
Speaker 8: guys did about Marlin.
Speaker 9: With Marcus missing more than half the game, if some
Speaker 9: guys coming back to the strength, obviously it's work a
Speaker 9: quarterback office a little the thang up, But what would
Speaker 9: you say at this overall DEFENSI performance.
Speaker 5: We have each other back, We we love each other
Speaker 5: and and we play like that and you can see it.
Speaker 5: You know, we all know that we didn't play it
Speaker 5: to the level that we wanted to play. Gootar Ball
Speaker 5: said that we all know it, and we're all gonna
Speaker 5: go back and look at the tape and just clean
Speaker 5: up things that.
Speaker 10: You know, we're not really proud of and just get
Speaker 10: back to work.
Speaker 1: So see, you could ask you before about you know,
Speaker 1: the pass rush and all that. Did you feel like
Speaker 1: you're coming into your own to another.
Speaker 10: Level this year? I believe? So, I believe.
Speaker 5: So I worked really hard this off season in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, I'm just tryna get better,
Speaker 5: better in all aspects. But definitely in the past rush
Speaker 5: definitely was an emphasis on just not just me, just
Speaker 5: the whole the lineman and job O'dafe, Brody, Mike Herb.
Speaker 5: So you know, those are things that we worked on
Speaker 5: and you know, when you put in the work hardway
Speaker 5: pays off. So this week one, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna talk too much. I'm just gonna keep
Speaker 5: getting back to work cause we got a big one
Speaker 5: next week.
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