Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens
Speaker 1: closed out the regular season at M and T Banks Stadium.
Speaker 1: They fell to the Pittsburgh Steelers seventeen to ten. It
Speaker 1: was a wet, rainy, sloppy day, cold day in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: and the Steelers were able to take down the Ravens
Speaker 1: to close out the regular season. The Ravens had a
Speaker 1: number of players who did not suit up and play
Speaker 1: in this game, including quarterback Lamar Jackson. Now, this game
Speaker 1: was disappointing to lose, but the Ravens also know the
Speaker 1: playoffs are right around the corner and that's where their
Speaker 1: focus is. The Ravens had already clinched the AFC's number
Speaker 1: one overall seed, the AFC North Championship, and home field
Speaker 1: advantage throughout the postseason, so today's game had no bearing
Speaker 1: on the playoff implications. After the game, we had a
Speaker 1: chance to hear from head coach John Hartball.
Speaker 2: All right, appreciate you guys being here. First, just want
Speaker 2: to say that I appreciate as this closes the regular season,
Speaker 2: kind of the final chapter has been written on a
Speaker 2: story of the regular season, and now we have an
Speaker 2: opportunity to write the next chapters. At least we'll get
Speaker 2: a chance to write two next two weeks and then
Speaker 2: we'll go from there. So hopefully we'll earn the opportunity
Speaker 2: right more than that, but I'm proud of the team, coaches, players,
Speaker 2: everybody in the organization for what's been accomplished up until
Speaker 2: this point in the in the regular season. And now
Speaker 2: we have an opportunity and challenge to take it into
Speaker 2: the postseason and uh and play the best football that
Speaker 2: we possibly can. And I'm I'm excited for our guys
Speaker 2: to do that, and I know they're gonna work hard
Speaker 2: to prepare to do that. I also want to mention
Speaker 2: the fans, man, I mean the fans that showed up
Speaker 2: for this game out there, and that was that a Nor'easter?
Speaker 2: It sure felt like it's standing out there. I think
Speaker 2: the fans were great, man. They were really loud and
Speaker 2: they were into it and really just appreciate our fans.
Speaker 2: So with that, what question do you.
Speaker 3: Have, John, how'd you get how'd you get through this game?
Speaker 3: Helpwise with Gino and del Sean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it looks like we got through Okay.
Speaker 2: Some of them looked a little tough but right now
Speaker 2: it looks like we would have all those guys back
Speaker 2: for the playoff a week for the divisional game.
Speaker 4: Je So forwar So just didn't wake get hurt early
Speaker 4: on because we didn't see him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had an ankle early on. So but again
Speaker 2: same same outcome the season.
Speaker 5: There's like mandady days off for the bye for for
Speaker 5: the bye week.
Speaker 2: Now you have a bye week, what what's your plan
Speaker 2: in terms of the team this week? For our plans
Speaker 2: to practice Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. We'll we'll organize those
Speaker 2: practices in the next few days. Uh, it'll be uh preparation,
Speaker 2: you know, preparation for the postseason. And that'll be what
Speaker 2: we'll do. We'll try to push it back a little
Speaker 2: bit to have sort of sort of a rhythm as
Speaker 2: if we were playing a game, say on Saturday, kind
Speaker 2: of that idea. Uh, and then we'll un we'll have
Speaker 2: a normal game. We're going into the divisional game. How'd
Speaker 2: your practice before we're talking about you had lost my three,
Speaker 2: but you tease death. We want to play it Steers
Speaker 2: team that was you had to beat for the playoffs.
Speaker 3: How well he played.
Speaker 6: Against him tonight? Right?
Speaker 2: And me I thought we played really hard, you know.
Speaker 2: I thought we played tough. You know, we didn't play
Speaker 2: great by any stretch. We can we can certainly stop
Speaker 2: to run better. We give up the big pass play.
Speaker 2: I thought the pass prush was really good, you know,
Speaker 2: and the coverage was good for the most part except
Speaker 2: for one play. Offensively, I thought we fought thought stoop
Speaker 2: out there and fought and played hard. And the circumstances
Speaker 2: and you know, the rain and stuff like that, and
Speaker 2: the win. I thought he made some really good throws.
Speaker 2: We ran the ball okay, but you know when you
Speaker 2: turn the ball over, and that's basically what it was.
Speaker 2: We turned the ball over a couple of times and
Speaker 2: just gave them opportunities to score points.
Speaker 6: That was it. You know.
Speaker 2: I think we take that into the playoffs. We already
Speaker 2: know that we understand how to win, but it's a
Speaker 2: nice little reminder that, you know, you got to protect
Speaker 2: the football to win games.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: Jamn And and Kyle both had sex today, and you
Speaker 5: know they've kind of been, you know, pulling.
Speaker 3: Some rope for your defensive line all the year.
Speaker 5: What is their influence, man, just from a season long perspective, Oh.
Speaker 2: No question. I mean, we wouldn't be where we're at
Speaker 2: without those two guys. I mean, those two guys have
Speaker 2: have you know, we knew where they were great play.
Speaker 2: You don't know exactly how it's gonna go for sure,
Speaker 2: but talking to both those guys when we signed him,
Speaker 2: they were you know, they said the right things, and
Speaker 2: I would say that they followed through and everything they
Speaker 2: would They said they wanted to do it more.
Speaker 3: What do you think the way Trent and Simpson played
Speaker 3: out there today?
Speaker 2: He played really well, flew around, made tackles, played played
Speaker 2: a really good football game. Very excited for the way
Speaker 2: he played. Yeah, Trenton absolutely John. Shortly before this game,
Speaker 2: a couple of days ago, rather, the team signed Alvin
Speaker 2: Coach to the practice squad.
Speaker 3: What can you say about him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's kind of gives just kind of
Speaker 2: an opportunity. I think that Eric was uh once he
Speaker 2: once he was released, Eric was in contact with the
Speaker 2: agent and UH and Dalvin wanted to come here, you know,
Speaker 2: he wanted to be here. So we'll figure that one out,
Speaker 2: you know, I think we'll be in the process of
Speaker 2: figuring out hell that fits. But you sure, you know,
Speaker 2: appreciate having another really good player on your football team.
Speaker 4: That was Hey, coach John Harball.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, quarterback Lamar Jackson did not suit up
Speaker 1: in this game, so Tyler Huntley got the.
Speaker 4: Start for the Ravens and here's what he had to
Speaker 4: say afterwards.
Speaker 5: I feel like when you talk about just how challenging
Speaker 5: the elements of this game work, you know, I.
Speaker 7: That elements uh you know, as everybody can see, it
Speaker 7: was ranging from start to finish. Uh and it was cold,
Speaker 7: so you know, we just try to batter it through
Speaker 7: and it that's how it went.
Speaker 3: How hard does it get?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 3: I try to ask the offense throw ball particularly.
Speaker 7: Uh their just uh y you know, start with feeting
Speaker 7: feeting slippery out there. Uh just uh throw to catching
Speaker 7: uh the ball that's wet and uh it just you know,
Speaker 7: it just you got a lot of elements to work through,
Speaker 7: just the uh you know, complete passes out there.
Speaker 8: Tyler, Will it be easy for you guys to turn
Speaker 8: the page from this loss, given given.
Speaker 3: What's ahead of you?
Speaker 6: Uh definitely, Uh we on we on the right path.
Speaker 7: Uh we got a lot of uh starters that uh
Speaker 7: set out this game and uh just getting ready for
Speaker 7: for the postseason.
Speaker 6: And yeah, we on the right path.
Speaker 7: He talked about the the touchdown past the likely and
Speaker 7: he kind of just the plays he's been making.
Speaker 3: You go to last for five weeks.
Speaker 7: Man, he's a he's a great player, and you just
Speaker 7: try to get the ball to him and uh see
Speaker 7: what he could do. He he made a couple of
Speaker 7: guys miss get off me and he scored. So it's
Speaker 7: nice to have a element like that on the team.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Tyler Huntley. We also talked with linebacker
Speaker 1: Patrick Queen.
Speaker 5: Patrick, what are your emotions after the scheme and the
Speaker 5: loss is not pleasant?
Speaker 3: But also knowing that you have to focus on something's.
Speaker 9: Apartment or yeah, uh, I mean can't dwell on it. Uh,
Speaker 9: even though you wanted to go out there send him home.
Speaker 9: Now they got a chance to be in the playoffs,
Speaker 9: so you know, it definitely sings a little bit. But
Speaker 9: by at the end of the day, you know, we
Speaker 9: we written a lot of pages in our book right
Speaker 9: now that set u up. Set us up pretty good
Speaker 9: right now. So you know, we got a week to prepare,
Speaker 9: didn't find out who we gotta play. Then we go
Speaker 9: into that, so, uh, you know, nobody's hanging their head
Speaker 9: or anything, and if we see those guys, yeah, we'll
Speaker 9: be ready.
Speaker 5: Patrick w like, you know, you weren't in the game
Speaker 5: to start the third quarter. Then when Delle show Me
Speaker 5: goes down. Is there a kind of whip last year
Speaker 5: to deal with going back in?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm cool with it.
Speaker 9: Just football at the end of the day, going out
Speaker 9: there having fun against Pittsburgh. So uh, you know, I'm
Speaker 9: I'm ready anytime, whatever it may be. Whenever they need me,
Speaker 9: I'm I'm ready.
Speaker 3: So co coach.
Speaker 6: Said that you guys got out of a good health lives.
Speaker 3: How big is that, you know, knowing that's at the
Speaker 3: playoff for two weeks?
Speaker 2: Alack?
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's huge, Uh cause you really want to be
Speaker 9: swinging full throttle when you get into the playoffs. So
Speaker 9: you know, with that extra week of preparation that we
Speaker 9: get to get everybody healthy and seltian as we can
Speaker 9: and go in there full swinging.
Speaker 8: Did you feel like this was another example of how
Speaker 8: this defense never seems to let up. I mean, you know,
Speaker 8: they had that good early drive, but then you usually
Speaker 8: did help help, you know, help older the jack until
Speaker 8: the the one big player and fourth forth.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Uh, even even with all that good stuff, man, it
Speaker 9: was still players out there to be made that we
Speaker 9: ain't making.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 9: Man the end of the day, us just got to
Speaker 9: tip your head off to them, uh on the execution
Speaker 9: that they had on they part, and from a standpoint
Speaker 9: of us on the fence, you know, w we was
Speaker 9: making players, but we didn't make enough plays.
Speaker 6: And that's what happened today.
Speaker 3: I've been kind of impacted and when they have think, I.
Speaker 9: Think I had a good impact. By the end of
Speaker 9: the day, I mean, they they playing in the same condition.
Speaker 9: So while we couldn't do what they did, you know,
Speaker 9: so uh you could play outside. Uh both it could
Speaker 9: have went that way or this way, but they had
Speaker 9: the same opportunities. We had the same oportunities they had.
Speaker 6: You what what's stood out to you about the Lake
Speaker 6: trip and Simpson playing today?
Speaker 5: And what have you seen from the rookie over the
Speaker 5: course of the CCS.
Speaker 9: He's road incredible. Uh, proud of him. Couldn't be happier
Speaker 9: from a great dude.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 9: He had me nervous when uh we were going over
Speaker 9: all the calls and stuff. He's just aksing hell of
Speaker 9: questions trying to figure out everything. But that's why you
Speaker 9: see he playing the way he played. He just on
Speaker 9: top of all this stuff, dynamic might be faster than me,
Speaker 9: and uh just a love of guy, man, great player.
Speaker 5: Uh just watching him kind of take you back to
Speaker 5: maybe some of your early stages and and what it's
Speaker 5: like to kind of fight for your way early in
Speaker 5: your career.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Uh, I think my situation is just a little bit
Speaker 9: different cause I was thrown him to the fire immediately,
Speaker 9: but uh with him bruh, Like, uh I didn't even
Speaker 9: ask questions how he asks him questions right now? So
Speaker 9: I mean, uh, you know, I just gotta give him
Speaker 9: all the praise right now. Like he's a terrific player
Speaker 9: right now.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 9: Uh we finally got to see that. Everybody finally got
Speaker 9: to see that. So uh, his name is definitely gonna
Speaker 9: be hot for the rest of his time.
Speaker 6: Patrick. How much uh impact has uh a guy like
Speaker 6: jad clown?
Speaker 3: Yea, I kN I know you probably knew a value
Speaker 3: and forget him. How much of an impact way he makes.
Speaker 9: Today and throughout the season all the time, every play? Uh,
Speaker 9: he he's d he a different beasts.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: I don't even could find words. It is just ascribe him. Bro.
Speaker 9: It's like every player is just a training wreck and
Speaker 9: he making a play. Even if he don't make the play,
Speaker 9: he made the play. So it's just I love having
Speaker 9: him on our team. I love having him most most
Speaker 9: of the time on my side especially, so you know,
Speaker 9: I'm I can't wait to see what he do the
Speaker 9: rest of the season on the field.
Speaker 3: When he got the sack and hit that the.
Speaker 9: Center finally, finally, I mean, that's that's the stuff you
Speaker 9: wanna see, you know. Uh, all the opportunities that he
Speaker 9: had previously missed, and I was getting on him, like, bro,
Speaker 9: just finish it, just finish it.
Speaker 6: Just finish it. You're there, just finish it. You know.
Speaker 9: He was getting down on the sell, but he still
Speaker 9: knew that he had a chance. And I'm just happy
Speaker 9: for the guy.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I had huge shoes to fill today with Roquan
Speaker 5: giving him the pregame speech.
Speaker 6: How he do He did? All right? He did all right?
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 9: He's kind of like on the more calm side. He
Speaker 9: doesn't occurs, he doesn't, you know, get extremely hyped. He
Speaker 9: tried to do the little bouncing around stuff like we
Speaker 9: were in high school. But h out of ten, I
Speaker 9: was probably say, like a three out of ten.
Speaker 5: I'm scared to ask to follow up that season long.
Speaker 5: I mean Jamison was mentioning JD and Kyle. What has
Speaker 5: their experience given to this group?
Speaker 10: Do you think?
Speaker 6: Uh, that's a great question.
Speaker 9: Honestly, I think just a lot of like calmness and
Speaker 9: situations of knowing what your opponent is about to do
Speaker 9: and just going capitalize. Like you know, when you playing
Speaker 9: a defense like ours, everybody to do their job. And
Speaker 9: when you got guys like that to know the game
Speaker 9: so well that been in the game, uh for a
Speaker 9: long time, they kind of get find ways to like
Speaker 9: still do your job, but you know, try to weave
Speaker 9: your way through and do something else on your own.
Speaker 9: So you know, those guys help every single person in
Speaker 9: our l in our room. So you know, just has
Speaker 9: off of those guys for being the guys that that
Speaker 9: they are, cause they didn't have to come in trying
Speaker 9: to help nobody, you know, uh, but they did.
Speaker 6: Uh here, cool?
Speaker 5: What do you want to the next two weeks are
Speaker 5: gonna be like mentally three you guys? I mean, I
Speaker 5: think if you guys aren't your vote favorites for a
Speaker 5: lot of people, you're at least talk two.
Speaker 3: So what what is the the next two.
Speaker 9: Weeks, kind of keep you focus, going to be uh
Speaker 9: next two weeks, This next week, rest up, practice, get sharp,
Speaker 9: do what we gotta do to get healthy, find out
Speaker 9: who we play, and then go up there and kick
Speaker 9: that A's as simple as that.
Speaker 5: That's uh, green out and looks like and focused like
Speaker 5: navigating that responsibility.
Speaker 3: And then also for the elements of the foot part
Speaker 3: that factor.
Speaker 9: It's are you just hearing the coach state of playing
Speaker 9: just giving them play the rest of the defense. I mean,
Speaker 9: you know, I always wanted to wear the green dye, and
Speaker 9: I never had the opportunity. But when I do have
Speaker 9: opportunities like today, I just take advantage of it and
Speaker 9: just be able to make those players and get those calls.
Speaker 9: You know, win, rain, noise, whatever it is, you can't
Speaker 9: let that defect you when you got the mic.
Speaker 6: So trying my best to get those guys a call.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Patrick Queen. In the locker room, we
Speaker 1: heard from veteran outside linebacker Daveon Clowney, who came up
Speaker 1: with a sack in this game, which earned him a
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars contract incentive. He was
Speaker 1: clearly excited about that, as well as finishing out the
Speaker 1: regular season with a career high nine and a half sacks.
Speaker 10: Had the playoffs and could put your fights for the group,
Speaker 10: the group of man in the black room and you
Speaker 10: having fun.
Speaker 5: There's an impressive number of guys on this team that
Speaker 5: had season high careener hiding.
Speaker 6: Sacks concluding himself.
Speaker 10: You think the difference, like you said, Lockwood, the guys
Speaker 10: believing in each other, believing in the game, playing and
Speaker 10: coming out to executing on We got a bunch of
Speaker 10: playmakers out there and frightful each other executing at a
Speaker 10: high level. You know it's coming together well and U
Speaker 10: y'all continue to do that throughout this playoffs.
Speaker 4: What was the moment like for you when you had
Speaker 4: that sacking.
Speaker 6: I didn't even know it was the sack. I looked bad.
Speaker 6: It was like, I think you got it. I was
Speaker 6: like what I needed it. I was excited about it.
Speaker 6: That was my goal coming to this game, try to get.
Speaker 10: On the board, and people's text me about it, sending
Speaker 10: me dms about the the centers and stuff.
Speaker 6: I was like, just gonna.
Speaker 10: Play my game and have fun and be able to
Speaker 10: rain and all that going on.
Speaker 6: It was it was crazy.
Speaker 3: You tell me about that celebration.
Speaker 11: I mean that was kind of wild.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, the whole half.
Speaker 10: Right, Yeah, it was funny all right cause I didn't
Speaker 10: know I had a sack and then they told me.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh yeah, we just start tunging right now.
Speaker 6: You know, I feel I had a good time out
Speaker 6: that it was fun. Man, what are you gonna do
Speaker 6: with the fiends? I put it with the rest of my.
Speaker 10: Say, continia under the mattress, under the matter in the bank.
Speaker 10: You know where a man just you know, I got
Speaker 10: three kids. I gotta continue to take the guy. Whatever
Speaker 10: football gonna be go.
Speaker 6: One day you had, you know you you most shocks.
Speaker 6: You've had some fuss two years and now I last
Speaker 6: completely two years ago. Why do you think you've.
Speaker 3: Had the success that you've been you know, disrupted as well?
Speaker 6: You have the success you had the work out put
Speaker 6: in an office. That's when I.
Speaker 10: Started at uh uh shot at the bend. Fair Child
Speaker 10: and Toko and Marvin and all the guys for working
Speaker 10: with me all off season. Man, we could up playing
Speaker 10: together and executed all off seat.
Speaker 6: And when missing daves, you.
Speaker 10: Stay consistent, stay going to work out, even when I
Speaker 10: ain't want to even going to the club after the
Speaker 10: clubs wake up next morning, go in, work hard, play
Speaker 10: hard by and uh, they just stayed doing that all
Speaker 10: off season. And I said when I got when I
Speaker 10: was going.
Speaker 6: This year, I felt better, my body was feeling better.
Speaker 6: I was gonna ball out. But uh, that's a job
Speaker 6: not done yet.
Speaker 10: I got continued to be with about these playoffs and
Speaker 10: I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 8: It was also three, how much your teammates sort of
Speaker 8: got to kick out and you're getting this extent you
Speaker 8: feel appreciated.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, man, I love this being guys. Man.
Speaker 10: We hang out to hang out with each oil outside
Speaker 10: of football over their house, chillingwood to summer guys. And
Speaker 10: it's just like I've been here for a while. Man,
Speaker 10: That's what it felt like since I've been got here
Speaker 10: and I'm having fun here.
Speaker 1: That was your Dave on Clowney. Someone else who had
Speaker 1: a really strong game was the rookie Trenton Simpson. The
Speaker 1: linebacker was flying all over the field and he talked
Speaker 1: about that afterwards.
Speaker 12: It was a blessing.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 12: I give all the glory to God.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 12: I'm just so excited to get out get out there
Speaker 12: and get an opportunity and then go out there and
Speaker 12: make a couple of plays.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 12: The excitement that my teammates had for me met the
Speaker 12: most from me, from like Rokwan and Peak. You like
Speaker 12: them guys just hyping me up and give me the
Speaker 12: confidence all week to just go out there and just
Speaker 12: playball was just the best thing I could have. And
Speaker 12: then just to go out there and have the performance
Speaker 12: I'd give all cared to God and them boys in
Speaker 12: my linebacker room, they say you.
Speaker 6: Always remember your first with that first sack, feel like.
Speaker 12: Who I never forget that, The feeling when I seen
Speaker 12: it open and I was like, Okay, I gotta make
Speaker 12: a play. And then just the excitement on the celebration
Speaker 12: was just all the trusting the process throughout the season
Speaker 12: and keeping my confidence. It was a bless feeling in
Speaker 12: the world.
Speaker 4: Going into this game. What were the emotions? Were Nervous, anxious?
Speaker 1: How would you describe kind of if I going into
Speaker 1: this game.
Speaker 12: I would say I was super prepared, just standing up,
Speaker 12: studying and just knowing my opportunity was coming this week
Speaker 12: and I knew for sure that I was gonna get
Speaker 12: a chance to go out there and play. I say
Speaker 12: I was super prepared all week. I was asking rocoan peak, you,
Speaker 12: everybody in the linebacker room, just questions just to you know,
Speaker 12: pick up Tennessees on what they've seen playing the stillest
Speaker 12: from their time in the league and just getting a
Speaker 12: chance to go out there. And I felt like I
Speaker 12: was very prepared in this show today.
Speaker 3: Then how hard has.
Speaker 5: It been to be patient and wait for these kind
Speaker 5: of opportunities knowing just what the linebackers ahead of you
Speaker 5: are on the roster.
Speaker 12: I see, I'm very strong in my face. So I
Speaker 12: just always knew God had a plan for me, and
Speaker 12: just trusting the process and knowing that when whenever God
Speaker 12: wanted me to go out there and my opportunity was
Speaker 12: to come, that I know that I would be ready.
Speaker 12: And I feel like today God gave me a chance
Speaker 12: and I went out there and I just made the
Speaker 12: most of them my opportunity.
Speaker 6: Today, you were.
Speaker 1: Flying all over the place for you know, a ton
Speaker 1: of speed.
Speaker 4: What allows you to play that fast?
Speaker 12: To that, I say, film study and then just uh,
Speaker 12: just being myself like Rocorn say, just go out there
Speaker 12: and let it rip, man play uh and whatever you do,
Speaker 12: just make be a one hundred miles spour and if
Speaker 12: you make mistakes, just continue to play hard. And I
Speaker 12: feel like today, uh my film study and uh just
Speaker 12: trusting the calls I was getting and just playing as
Speaker 12: fast as I can, just being me.
Speaker 3: Playing behind broke. I mean, obviously we're talking about questions, Pek.
Speaker 5: You were talking about how many questions you ask for
Speaker 5: What are you kinda pick up on from their habits.
Speaker 3: And their behaviors?
Speaker 12: I say their mentality. They have that alpha dog mentality.
Speaker 12: And one thing I can say about both of those guys, man,
Speaker 12: they put in the extra.
Speaker 6: F the film work.
Speaker 12: Their film study is amazing, picking up tendencies on what
Speaker 12: the offenses just do. And I say this mentality and
Speaker 12: just the film study, and then also just being prepared
Speaker 12: and uh, just trusting your skills. You know, God gave
Speaker 12: us the talent. We're all here for a reason, and
Speaker 12: uh just putting on display.
Speaker 3: What do they say to you about your future? Are
Speaker 3: obviously free agent?
Speaker 5: You know, does he say anything to you?
Speaker 12: Just keep going, man, just this is just a stepping stone,
Speaker 12: stepping in the right direction. Just keep going, continue to
Speaker 12: get ready to go to practice Wednesday and get better,
Speaker 12: you know.
Speaker 6: And this is just the beginning.
Speaker 12: Just continue to keep going, growing, every day, trusting the process,
Speaker 12: and every day just asking keep asking questions. You know,
Speaker 12: every time I ask a questions, I learned something new.
Speaker 12: So you know that's good for me as a rookie.
Speaker 12: And I'm blessed to just be in the linebacker room
Speaker 12: like this.
Speaker 4: That was linebacker Trent and Simpson.
Speaker 1: We also talked with tight end Isaiah Likely, who scored
Speaker 1: loan touchdown for the Ravens in this game.
Speaker 10: A lot of people are going to talk about the
Speaker 10: Russ factor.
Speaker 6: Can this team get rid of that going forward into
Speaker 6: the first round?
Speaker 4: What do you have to say to that?
Speaker 6: How positioned does this team to deal with that going forward?
Speaker 13: I really just say, you know, just turn on Sunday
Speaker 13: and you tell us how rested we be.
Speaker 6: Can you talk about I'm try to keep here, talk
Speaker 6: about that. That twenty seven.
Speaker 8: Yard touchdown a rule, I mean, pretty pressive individual after
Speaker 8: the catch.
Speaker 13: Really just you know, trying to help us soon the
Speaker 13: best as possible. I mean, what's making a making a
Speaker 13: catch in the in the win and just finished out
Speaker 13: give them a touchdown.
Speaker 4: How challenging were the uh conditions out there today?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 13: I mean it was raining it was windy, it was cold,
Speaker 13: so you know, just trying to you know, focus on
Speaker 13: winning as as best as possible in those conditions. I
Speaker 13: mean it was hard out there, but we we did
Speaker 13: child best to win.
Speaker 11: Isaiah, can you collectively just kind of encompass, you know,
Speaker 11: what this team did this year and I guess you're
Speaker 11: feeling going forward the next two weeks off and what's
Speaker 11: a what's at stake and what's on tap?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 13: We I mean we stay connected. I mean through all
Speaker 13: adversites that we face. Uh, throughout the area where it
Speaker 13: was you know, losses, injuries, anything. Uh, we all stay connected.
Speaker 13: We all you know, kept the main thing, the main
Speaker 13: thing and kept you know, the focus on winning the Vision,
Speaker 13: win AFC and then giving us a shot in the playoffs.
Speaker 13: So you know, now now it's just win that everything.
Speaker 10: Concert last five weeks and going to the playoffs.
Speaker 6: How you know feel about.
Speaker 10: There such a big part of saying it's going going
Speaker 10: to such a big games?
Speaker 13: Uh, really just keeping my chemistry with the offense, you know,
Speaker 13: keeping the trust that Lamar hasn't you know, making the
Speaker 13: play that I'm capable of, and really just you know,
Speaker 13: instilling that that focal points off.
Speaker 2: Is it You've talked about your confidence growing and stuff.
Speaker 5: How how would you describe it now versus a few
Speaker 5: months ago, you know, giving a role.
Speaker 13: On two families to Uh, I'd say, you know, just
Speaker 13: the confidence bills you know every day in practice. So
Speaker 13: really just you know, trying new things to practice, asking
Speaker 13: you know, Lamar, because you got to see because Monk
Speaker 13: and if if if it works, if it's taking too long,
Speaker 13: if it's too quick, and then going from there and
Speaker 13: then trying to put it out on Sunday?
Speaker 6: Do you feel like things slowing down? The joys off
Speaker 6: a games slowing down? It is it feeling like that
Speaker 6: to us?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 6: Both them? For sure, he's definitely slowing though.
Speaker 1: I mean how healthy was it to get out of
Speaker 1: this game healthy collectively? And coach Arbal said that you
Speaker 1: guys are you know, avoiding anything major and knowing the playoffs.
Speaker 10: Right around the core?
Speaker 6: How big is that? That's real big?
Speaker 13: I mean it gives us, you know, the opportunity to
Speaker 13: play you know, fully healthy against it a great opponent
Speaker 13: whoever we play, and you know you.
Speaker 10: Had the one big step for him, you know a
Speaker 10: little while ago today you actually has that always been
Speaker 10: kind of in your repertoire of the.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it's just really me just trying to
Speaker 13: fight for actually y'ars as fast as possible.
Speaker 1: That was tight end Isaiah likely and last but not least,
Speaker 1: we also heard from veteran defensive lineman Michael Pierce, who
Speaker 1: agreed to a contract extension going into this game. He
Speaker 1: signed a two year contract extension. He talked about that,
Speaker 1: confirmed that report, and he was clearly excited about the
Speaker 1: news to get the extension and continue his career here
Speaker 1: in Boltimore.
Speaker 3: There was a group work for this game that he
Speaker 3: agreed to a few year contracting. Stasi, What's what made
Speaker 3: it important here and how are you feeling about that?
Speaker 10: It was very important for me to stay here. I
Speaker 10: didn't know that was a possibility at the beginning of
Speaker 10: the year. Just kind of prayed and just let God
Speaker 10: leave me and thanks for having healthy and I'm super
Speaker 10: super grateful they wanted me back. So just working and
Speaker 10: try to putting myself in the best position and be
Speaker 10: able to play.
Speaker 8: Do you feel like do you feel like it's part
Speaker 8: there is in this organization is to a success or
Speaker 8: was it.
Speaker 6: Even you know you're in the middle of it.
Speaker 2: It's very important, you know, pushing the posts, but they're
Speaker 2: always started thinking about it.
Speaker 3: This is ahead of two?
Speaker 6: What was that?
Speaker 10: Yeah, definitely, I've been a part of just a lot
Speaker 10: of teams were great vets. So obviously you know Marshall
Speaker 10: Yon at every Wedell, but they had guys like Albam
Speaker 10: McClelland Anthony Levine, those kind of guys, those blue guys
Speaker 10: who do dirty work. And those were guys who took
Speaker 10: a liking to me when I was undrafted and kind
Speaker 10: of showed me the way and so honored at them
Speaker 10: that I'm still playing and I kind of know what's
Speaker 10: going on, so I just kind of try to.
Speaker 6: Follow in that kind of moment. I'm not.
Speaker 10: That was awesome, Like I said, I n I didn't
Speaker 10: expect it, but I'm super super grateful that, uh if
Speaker 10: they want me back, and I'm just happy to be here.
Speaker 3: It's pret like weig like didn't wasn't a prolonged situation.
Speaker 6: You got this gun knocked there?
Speaker 10: No, no, no, uh, Like I said, this is I
Speaker 10: played for two organizations. I played at the longest.
Speaker 12: This is like home to me.
Speaker 10: So for me to be able to wrap my career
Speaker 10: up here it's a dream cometry.
Speaker 8: Like how just say, the circumstances are different today with
Speaker 8: you guys having finished, Yeah, what do you take away
Speaker 8: from this performance?
Speaker 3: And you know, how do you apply it? Maybe to
Speaker 3: help you guys as you.
Speaker 10: Rap off for the next Yeah, we got a lot
Speaker 10: of young guys that got that was able to play today.
Speaker 10: Like I said, if you made any technical errors and
Speaker 10: then m as any kind of little things, uh, you
Speaker 10: gotta clean that up. But like I said, for us,
Speaker 10: it was just wanted to win obviously, but we got
Speaker 10: a lot of guys who don't normally get those reps,
Speaker 10: a lot of game experience, so that'll play.
Speaker 6: Obviously a big road going forward.
Speaker 10: The injuries happened anything like that, but said we we
Speaker 10: came on short today, but uh we got we got
Speaker 10: some messas we don't.
Speaker 3: Like for that. Mike, Mike, Mike, you were here in
Speaker 3: the Friday night season. How how do you guys make.
Speaker 6: The best use of the next two weeks.
Speaker 10: So from what I understand, we'll be doing the stadium
Speaker 10: practice and uh just being more mindful of uh not
Speaker 10: coming out slow. I remember we came out really really
Speaker 10: slow in that tight game. Dare Henry ran for if
Speaker 10: Jesus knows, I mean in yards but uh no, we
Speaker 10: got a good plan and uh coach Hall just on
Speaker 10: top of it. So we'll be working mostly through the
Speaker 10: break and obviously a getting guys healthy, but we'll be
Speaker 10: working and definitely mind for what happened let.
Speaker 3: Defensive here.
Speaker 14: The m yeah, and was aware that there might be
Speaker 14: in Yeah, certainly, certainly he's been all right, So he's
Speaker 14: been talking about that for like the past two weeks,
Speaker 14: so this is.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So that was a very long celebration that might have
Speaker 10: been a record for like the longest celebrations. So now
Speaker 10: we're happy for JD Man. He's having a career year
Speaker 10: kind of like me. He's uh but thirty thirty one,
Speaker 10: So for him to be able to prove that he
Speaker 10: can stay healthy obviously and h play the whole season
Speaker 10: and still dominates Big KB as.
Speaker 6: Well, he's having a career as well in sex. So
Speaker 6: we're super happy for both of them.
Speaker 5: Asking asking pe Q, what's the other guys on this
Speaker 5: defensive line in the front do for, he said, this
Speaker 5: is such a promises everybody comes those rules, I.
Speaker 3: Mean including yourself. Came in and JD, what do you
Speaker 3: think guys who provided.
Speaker 10: Overall, we just got a whole bunch of guys. Obviously
Speaker 10: kV is a two times Super Bowl champion. Uh, myself,
Speaker 10: I've been in a lot of different situations as well
Speaker 10: as JD. So I don't think between any of us
Speaker 10: HERB as well, then probably any situation that we can
Speaker 10: be in, somebody's been in it.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 10: Obviously the higher stakes games the kV has been in
Speaker 10: and he's been giving like a lot a lot of
Speaker 10: good advice just you know, keeping guys mentally focused throughout
Speaker 10: the whole season. Obviously today as well, then we came
Speaker 10: up short again, but now he's doing He's served us
Speaker 10: really really well.
Speaker 6: So now we got a good group man.
Speaker 10: And like I told everybody before the year, we don't
Speaker 10: have the super super big names. Beats is turning into that,
Speaker 10: but we do it by committee and that's something we're
Speaker 10: proud of. And they said it's it's really truly a group,
Speaker 10: you know, happy to be a part of.
Speaker 6: Speaking of health, how much did your health this season
Speaker 6: impact your your two year extension.
Speaker 10: I don't doubt it at all. If I don't if
Speaker 10: I'm not healthy, I don't think I'll be playing. So no,
Speaker 10: I've certainly will not be plan to retire. So nah man,
Speaker 10: thanks for the God first and foremost, thanks for the
Speaker 10: training staff helping me get back my bicep. Thanks for
Speaker 10: the weight room just busting but every day throughout the summer.
Speaker 10: So no, man, if I if I wasn't healthy, I
Speaker 10: would not be standing here talking to you about anything
Speaker 10: past this year.
Speaker 3: Like how big has this year been to you? In
Speaker 3: that regard?
Speaker 1: I mean kind of a challenging a couple of years
Speaker 1: and to play at the level that you are and
Speaker 1: then to get the succession.
Speaker 10: I just walk out there with a different level of
Speaker 10: great gratefulness. You don't take any snap for granted when
Speaker 10: you had two years with injuries. So, nah man, this
Speaker 10: has been, like I said, the dream come true. Obviously
Speaker 10: we still got more to play for, but for me
Speaker 10: just to make it through seventeen healthy, being able to
Speaker 10: play well, have a.
Speaker 6: Career in myself, it's uh, it's fine.
Speaker 10: It's a blessing and uh, like I said, I'm just
Speaker 10: focused on the next round.
Speaker 6: But no, it's been.
Speaker 3: It's been a very great blessing.
Speaker 4: That was defensive lineman Michael Pierce.
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