Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens are
Speaker 1: getting ready for a divisional matchup coming up on Sunday
Speaker 1: against the Cleveland Browns, and today we had a chance
Speaker 1: to talk with head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you being here in this beautiful day. Another great
Speaker 2: day for football. Every day is a great day for football.
Speaker 2: Very excited about the upcoming challenge. Division rival, very very
Speaker 2: good football team. We know what kind of games these
Speaker 2: are in our division. And then we're excited to be
Speaker 2: at home. You know, we've got we got a chance
Speaker 2: to play in front of our fans and in a
Speaker 2: real big game. I know they're going to be really
Speaker 2: into it. I know they're going to be loud. I
Speaker 2: know they're going to disrupt the huddle and the communication
Speaker 2: for the Browns by being just as loud as they
Speaker 2: can be. Not just when the ball gets snapped, but
Speaker 2: you know, between plays. I want to encourage that to
Speaker 2: our fans. So we're looking forward to it, we all are,
Speaker 2: and but we understand the challenge that is in front
Speaker 2: of us.
Speaker 3: Okay, what question do you have if you think the crowd.
Speaker 4: Was responsive for that?
Speaker 3: Genoebeck Excuse me, I mean the crowd was responsible for
Speaker 3: that Gene Hopeck communication here.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you know what, that's probably probably had
Speaker 2: a lot to do with it. Actually, you know, they
Speaker 2: had a miscommunication. They might have been checking a play
Speaker 2: there or a route and they didn't They certainly didn't
Speaker 2: get it. So that's a very good chance of that happened.
Speaker 3: Thank you. That's right. Appreciate that. Good shout, John.
Speaker 5: Obviously, the Browns defense, I think the huge arts loud
Speaker 5: right now this year when you're watching film though, what
Speaker 5: kind of impressures you the most about that defense?
Speaker 2: Very very very aggressive, I mean very attack orient They're
Speaker 2: kind of they're kind of a mindset of a puncher,
Speaker 2: you know. They come out swinging downhill in every at
Speaker 2: every level of tight coverage all the way up to
Speaker 2: the linebackers downhill versus run defensive line upfield. That's kind
Speaker 2: of their their way.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: They understand who they are and they played very well,
Speaker 2: very hard.
Speaker 3: On the ground.
Speaker 7: Step one of the lowest third down seases.
Speaker 3: Them out on the defense. What do you think, what.
Speaker 7: Do you say, would you watch the tape on there?
Speaker 7: Just that makes it so hard to get first down.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, I don't think it's any secret. You know,
Speaker 2: they're just really good. You know, they can rush the
Speaker 2: passer and they can cover. That's that's kind of the
Speaker 2: combination on third down. Plus you'll find out you'll see
Speaker 2: that during third they have third and long a lot.
Speaker 2: You know, they get into they get people into third
Speaker 2: and long a ton because they're so successful on first
Speaker 2: and second down as well. So it kind of all
Speaker 2: goes together.
Speaker 3: Trying.
Speaker 8: I know you expected to see Deshaun Watson last time
Speaker 8: and then he didn't play, But you've studied him, your
Speaker 8: prayer for him. What impresses you about him at this
Speaker 8: point in his career.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, I mean, just Sean's a playmaker. You know,
Speaker 2: that's the thing he's gonna He's gonna do it on
Speaker 2: time with the rhythm passing quick game he can do
Speaker 2: with the play action the boots and the and the
Speaker 2: and the drop and the play action stuff off of
Speaker 2: their own run game. And then he can do it
Speaker 2: start as far as extending the play, uh, both as
Speaker 2: far as running and then also I think he does
Speaker 2: a really good job on the run to find receivers
Speaker 2: when he's moving out of the pockets. So, uh, playmaking quarterback.
Speaker 9: You're playing Division teams, especially for the second time. How
Speaker 9: much do you take from what work the first time
Speaker 9: you play those teams?
Speaker 2: Well, you do, You do take a lot of that,
Speaker 2: and you try to you kind of try to extrapolate
Speaker 2: a little bit about what their answer might be and
Speaker 2: what you're gonna need to do to counter that. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's kind of a guessing game there. But you don't
Speaker 2: want to, you know, stop the play for them. You know,
Speaker 2: you want to make sure that you test them a
Speaker 2: little bit, and I'm sure they'll test us and make
Speaker 2: sure that we can defend only the plays that were
Speaker 2: successful against us the last time, but the ones that
Speaker 2: have been successful by other teams too.
Speaker 10: They have opinion great to make your time last a week,
Speaker 10: I believe che and fair. Now, you know, it's kind
Speaker 10: of paying the media chatter that oh, he's gonna give
Speaker 10: them secrets and that.
Speaker 5: How much did you think about that and talk about that?
Speaker 10: Is that a factor when it comes to players that
Speaker 10: recently win beIN with.
Speaker 2: You guys, No, I mean it's it's you're changing from
Speaker 2: week to week so much in terms of the plays
Speaker 2: that you actually run and the way you run them.
Speaker 2: And then anytime any kind of like code words or
Speaker 2: signals or anything like that, that you're always protecting those,
Speaker 2: you're always changing them so that I don't think that's
Speaker 2: gonna be an issue one way or the other.
Speaker 4: Job you made your value at organizationally just being unpredictable
Speaker 4: for moments that you consulate involving aspect how meet to
Speaker 4: this point of the season, how do you think Todd
Speaker 4: has gone out of the all kinds to keep an
Speaker 4: Opponents of bounce us to play calls me? You know,
Speaker 4: for example, this last week you saw him called for
Speaker 4: runs and a lot more at early downs. Is that's
Speaker 4: something that you've seen and maybe police with everybody?
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean there's there's a there's a lot of
Speaker 2: layers to that, you know, and I think sometimes we
Speaker 2: look at it and you can it's easy to look
Speaker 2: at like pick out one one factor or another, whether
Speaker 2: it's like you say, early down, how many times you run,
Speaker 2: how many times you're passing? But there are so many
Speaker 2: layers into that that people are studying so much information
Speaker 2: that we get who's on the field, where they're lined up,
Speaker 2: what the motions look like, Uh you know, what what
Speaker 2: call was made before that? In terms of sequencing of calls.
Speaker 2: We really do study coaches at this level study all
Speaker 2: those things. So it's very nuanced in terms of keeping
Speaker 2: people off balance. Do you think Todd's done a good
Speaker 2: job of that? And Uh, but the bottom line really
Speaker 2: is execution. It's all said, all this stuff really is important,
Speaker 2: but really the most important thing is that you execute
Speaker 2: the play as well.
Speaker 5: John, We've seen Lamar be very efficient so far.
Speaker 3: Two plays, a two paths.
Speaker 5: I think you want to have back or maybe to
Speaker 5: rashat the deep ones a couple of deep ones.
Speaker 3: Do you think maybe the.
Speaker 5: Consistency of the deep throws its guys, that may be
Speaker 5: the kind of the next step that you guys are
Speaker 5: trying to achieve.
Speaker 2: That Yeah, I mean you know it's uh those when
Speaker 2: we hit those plays and games, it's gonna be it's
Speaker 2: gonna be great. I mean that's a big it's a
Speaker 2: difference maker, I'm sure, and we chase that all the time,
Speaker 2: but we were hit them in practice. Uh regularly, Sometimes
Speaker 2: things come up. I think sometimes you make a decision
Speaker 2: maybe just to throw it away. Other times, Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: it might be a step or two further than you
Speaker 2: want or shorter than you want it. But all in all,
Speaker 2: I'm very confident in our deep passing game, and I'm
Speaker 2: very I'm very certain that we're gonna make those plays
Speaker 2: in the coming weeks.
Speaker 7: Leader Mob in particular open the pretty big hole of
Speaker 7: Mitchell and is a touchdown run is that?
Speaker 3: You know what have you seen them handing the year two?
Speaker 7: How much is he adding in terms of rud block
Speaker 7: into the line?
Speaker 2: No question, Well, he adds a lot. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: a he's a great run blocker. I think he's a
Speaker 2: I think he's an excellent pass blocker as well. But
Speaker 2: he's he's a guy that can really sustain a block.
Speaker 2: I mean, when it really comes right down to it,
Speaker 2: he can. He can get into a fit very quickly.
Speaker 2: He's just an explosive athlete, and then he can sustain. Really,
Speaker 2: that's the bottom line with blocking. He does it really well.
Speaker 8: John Lamar's done so so much so well this year.
Speaker 8: But there have been a couple of mesh points problems
Speaker 8: with Justice Hill. What's happening there and how do you
Speaker 8: fix it?
Speaker 2: Well, you fix it by just consistency in terms of
Speaker 2: the angles and the mesh you know.
Speaker 3: Fit.
Speaker 2: So something came up in that last game that that
Speaker 2: kind of altered the spacing between the quarterback and the
Speaker 2: running back there that you know just kind of happened,
Speaker 2: and you got to judge keep working through it. So
Speaker 2: we're not happy about that at all. I think that's
Speaker 2: probably the main thing, you know, for us right now,
Speaker 2: to make sure we clean up all those things and
Speaker 2: keep the ball off the ground.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John harry Ball. We also talked
Speaker 1: with center Tyler Linderbob, he's having a great season. Here's
Speaker 1: what he had to say.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean when you get to get that running
Speaker 5: game going in a game, I know you're not counting
Speaker 5: the yards it's happening, but I mean as an offensive line,
Speaker 5: do you kind of feel kind of the taking over
Speaker 5: in a game like that when these rushing yards keep
Speaker 5: falling up?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think as an alignment, that's your dream to
Speaker 11: get the run game going. You know, certainly every game
Speaker 11: we're trying to, you know, be effective in the run
Speaker 11: game because that opens up a lot of other things.
Speaker 3: But you know, especially talking.
Speaker 11: About last game, you know, it was, you know, it's
Speaker 11: kind of slow early, just stay with it, stay at it,
Speaker 11: and running back started hitting those holes and you know,
Speaker 11: so saw saw things start to get moving, we're.
Speaker 12: Teler reach, you're seeing different elements. How much where did
Speaker 12: you think this offense still has to run?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: A lot.
Speaker 11: You know, there's still a lot of things each and
Speaker 11: every game on tape that you know we can improve on,
Speaker 11: you know, and certainly just being that almost to the
Speaker 11: halfway point, you know, we're doing a lot of good things,
Speaker 11: but also things that when you get better at.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 11: And you know, I think we've got a good group
Speaker 11: of guys that know that and want to improve, you know,
Speaker 11: aren't aren't content with what what where we're at right now.
Speaker 11: So that's always good when we have a good group
Speaker 11: of guys like that.
Speaker 7: Tell her, Uh, the left guard position was a competition
Speaker 7: at the beginning of the season. John Simpson won it.
Speaker 7: And if you played next to him for the next
Speaker 7: nine weeks. Just what's been like working next to him
Speaker 7: and and how have you seen him perform just over
Speaker 7: the course of the season.
Speaker 11: Yeah, John's been awesome. You know, He's definitely deserved the
Speaker 11: starting job. Just coming in here every day, working his
Speaker 11: tail off. I'm gonna just thing with him, just gaining
Speaker 11: confidence each and every week. Uh, you know, he practices hard,
Speaker 11: goes out there and performs on game day. So you
Speaker 11: know we're looking at teammates. That's what that's what you
Speaker 11: want to have your teammate.
Speaker 8: You got for that play on the sixty yard run
Speaker 8: by Keith Mitchell, take out one guy, run down field,
Speaker 8: take out two more guys twenty five yards downfield. What's
Speaker 8: your mentality on that play where you look ahead of you,
Speaker 8: the run still going and you you're trying to get
Speaker 8: downfield in that play.
Speaker 11: Just trying to be explosive, trying to make those explosive
Speaker 11: plays happening. You know, if you look on the on
Speaker 11: the tape and on the film, you know, all everyone's
Speaker 11: doing their job. Everyone's you know, finding someone to block.
Speaker 11: I'm just trying to do my part, and so are
Speaker 11: other ten guys on the team.
Speaker 7: Tyler, when you talk about being explosive, a lot of
Speaker 7: the time when Nets mentioned it's about positions, you know,
Speaker 7: skill players, wide receivers, running backs. Does that also go
Speaker 7: to the offensive line that you guys also want to
Speaker 7: be explosive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 11: You know, we got to block the guys in front
Speaker 11: of us, you know, and then block guys in front
Speaker 11: of us were to next level and then you know
Speaker 11: we have you know, awesome skill position guys here that
Speaker 11: can make a lot of things happen. So we do
Speaker 11: our job, they do their jobs, a lot of good
Speaker 11: things can happen.
Speaker 1: So you're in little three games home stretch here. How
Speaker 1: beneficial is to be playing at home in front of
Speaker 1: your crowd.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been awesome.
Speaker 11: You know, our fans especially, you know, this past last
Speaker 11: game was awesome. You know, the more fans we can
Speaker 11: get out there are, the better. You know, we really
Speaker 11: lean on them, and they've been tremendous and you know
Speaker 11: this this whole you know, this next two game stretch,
Speaker 11: you know we can get more fans out there as well,
Speaker 11: because you know, when they're rolling, we're rolling.
Speaker 3: So it's good to have him out there.
Speaker 14: Brown goes without saying how special player Miles Garrett is,
Speaker 14: but knowing that he can move arounds and I mean
Speaker 14: just how much discussion is there among the offensive line,
Speaker 14: but just knowing where.
Speaker 3: He is, I'll never see the plane. Yeah, he's definitely
Speaker 3: a guy that you got to know where he's at.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, one of the best d ends in the league,
Speaker 3: one of the best defenders in the league.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 11: And the tape speech speaks for itself. You know, he's
Speaker 11: he's a guy that has all the tools. You know,
Speaker 11: just his size, strength and speed. You know, it definitely
Speaker 11: makes it makes it challenging. So you know it's someone
Speaker 11: you you definitely know have to know who who and
Speaker 11: where he's at. But you know that starts with the
Speaker 11: game plan, starts with this week and just trusting our
Speaker 11: fundamentals and technique and to get the job done.
Speaker 14: The miner's passion ten story down, he was saying, he
Speaker 14: is there's in the offensive plays.
Speaker 2: From your standpoint, you feel like differences are defending differently
Speaker 2: since he's working most where they're still restarting.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, you know you got to defend his legs, right,
Speaker 11: he's one of the most electrifying players in the league.
Speaker 11: But also he can throw the hell hell out of
Speaker 11: the ball. So you know, he's done a tremendous job.
Speaker 11: And you know, like Lamar said, you know, we got
Speaker 11: a lot of good weapons that can get the ball.
Speaker 11: So but when the times that he had to run,
Speaker 11: he can run. When he needs a throw, he can throw.
Speaker 3: When you get a new coordinator, I.
Speaker 15: Mean, people obviously focus on what that means for the
Speaker 15: quarterback through.
Speaker 3: The wide receivers, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 12: But much lardy, Kurt, would you say there's.
Speaker 3: Been for the offensive line with the function you know
Speaker 3: of course of this. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 11: I still think you know, starting having ot as with
Speaker 11: Coach Monk was huge, you know, just getting familiar with,
Speaker 11: you know, maybe our philosophy and in how we want
Speaker 11: to be as a unit, understanding the communication, and I
Speaker 11: think he's been tremendous just trying to get everyone on
Speaker 11: the same page. And he always preaches over communicate. He'd
Speaker 11: rather over communicate than under communicate. So, you know, just
Speaker 11: creating our identity OTAs into fall camp, you know, finding
Speaker 11: ourselves has been huge. And then you know we're still
Speaker 11: creating that identity as the season goes, you know, still
Speaker 11: finding stuff to improve on. But I still think we're
Speaker 11: doing a lot of good things.
Speaker 12: Does your jump feel much different under him than it
Speaker 12: did under greg Or?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I think, you know, it's it's it's about the same
Speaker 3: also too.
Speaker 11: You know, it's just at the end of the day,
Speaker 11: wherever you go, you know, communication has to be important
Speaker 11: for the limp position, So as long as everyone's on
Speaker 11: the same page, you know, five guys doing the same thing,
Speaker 11: you know, including tight ends and quarterback knows what's going on.
Speaker 11: You put yourself in a successful situation.
Speaker 2: Justin Mettapeak is having a great year on the d line.
Speaker 3: How what have you seen from him in practice? And
Speaker 3: have you guys ever gone at it full speed?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean shop Beeks was a problem in camp OTAs.
Speaker 11: He's been a problem for us all lying for a
Speaker 11: while now. So we've all seen the issues that he's caused,
Speaker 11: the havoc havoc that he's caused in games, and we've
Speaker 11: gone against that in practice. So what he's doing right now,
Speaker 11: it's not a surprise to any of us because that's
Speaker 11: just the type of player he is. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 11: you watch him in practice that he's going the same speed,
Speaker 11: so you no credit to him, and that's why he's
Speaker 11: so successful.
Speaker 3: On Sundays. You see the.
Speaker 10: Defensive pressure packages and practice every day. How different are
Speaker 10: they from what you see from a typical defense the NFL.
Speaker 11: Yeah, they certainly, cause, uh you know, there's a lot
Speaker 11: of different fronts that you can see for them, and
Speaker 11: they come at you in a lot of different ways,
Speaker 11: and it can it can be challenging, you know, They
Speaker 11: and that's it, and it helps us, you know, when
Speaker 11: we can see that in No TAC, that in fall camp.
Speaker 11: So and I'm not sure if there's other defense around
Speaker 11: the league that shows multiple looks like they do, so
Speaker 11: it definitely helps us get ready for the season and
Speaker 11: it can be challenging for offenses to prepare for.
Speaker 1: That was center Tyler Lennarbaum. If you want to hear
Speaker 1: more from Lindy, check out his appearance on the Lounge
Speaker 1: podcast that's dropping Thursday morning. Some really interesting insight from him,
Speaker 1: the improvements that he made this offseason and also the
Speaker 1: player in the NFL that he watches film of every
Speaker 1: single week. I think you would really enjoy that conversation,
Speaker 1: So check that out on the Lounge podcast feed. And
Speaker 1: also in addition to Tyler Linnterbaum, of course, quarterback Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson talked with the media today and here's what he
Speaker 1: had to say.
Speaker 13: Number One in completion percentage as far as you know,
Speaker 13: accuracy thing, what do you think has been the difference
Speaker 13: for you? I mean you've always been in the sixty percent,
Speaker 13: but now over sevens pric what do you think has
Speaker 13: been the big difference this.
Speaker 3: Year for you to get that up there.
Speaker 16: What if I'll have an answer? Oh no, it just
Speaker 16: Harvard dedication. Going out there and just compete my tail off.
Speaker 16: That's all, not even really to change, just a percentage
Speaker 16: of anything.
Speaker 6: I don't know that's.
Speaker 15: Something you ever look at it? Like do you ever
Speaker 15: look at those staffs or that kind of stuff where
Speaker 15: you are and that kind of thing.
Speaker 16: Nah, to be honest with you know, probably after the
Speaker 16: game if they tell me about it. But I'm not
Speaker 16: just gonna go and look and see what I did.
Speaker 16: I'm tryna win. I don't really care about the stats.
Speaker 1: Who are Uh?
Speaker 8: This year first year with t Martin at your quarterbacks coach?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Did can you talk about how he has helped you
Speaker 1: develop and what he is like kind of behind the
Speaker 1: scenes and meeting rooms and things like that.
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 16: Just he want us to be perfect, me, Josh snoop.
Speaker 16: He want us to be perfect. And every morning he
Speaker 16: got something like a championship quarterback and what you you
Speaker 16: being a championship quarterback? And he always tell me like,
Speaker 16: i'm'a grade you harder than you know probably anybody else will.
Speaker 16: And I'm cool with that, you know, cause I'm hard
Speaker 16: on myself and I I know, I wanna be great
Speaker 16: and so is he. So so does he you know,
Speaker 16: as our coach, he want all of us to be great.
Speaker 16: And that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: Obviously he played the game and he's kind of troubles
Speaker 1: or in his own right. See, somebody that you admired
Speaker 1: with is a if a player, the person the way
Speaker 1: that we you know, the way he can have to
Speaker 1: do based up his experience as a player as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Absolutely, Like you said, his experience being able to play
Speaker 16: at this level, being a UH national champion in college.
Speaker 16: That's that's crazy, Labar.
Speaker 3: You've been talking about consistency.
Speaker 11: You guys have won four in a row.
Speaker 16: From your perspective, what's been working so well? I g
Speaker 16: I believe our whole teams just locked in every phase,
Speaker 16: especially teams, defense, offense. Each and every week, I believe
Speaker 16: we gotten better. It's certain things in the game wh
Speaker 16: when we finished with games like we we we hard
Speaker 16: on ourselves about but at the end of the day,
Speaker 16: were trying to get wins. And I believe us just
Speaker 16: knowing each and ever we gets a championship game. To us,
Speaker 16: that's pretty much what it is. We treating every game
Speaker 16: like a championship game until we finally there.
Speaker 9: Lamark, Cleveland's always had good defenses, Noles Garrett's been there
Speaker 9: for a while. What what have you seen when you
Speaker 9: watch them on field as to why they are one
Speaker 9: of the better defenses in the league this year.
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 16: Like you said, and numb one Miles Garrett the leader
Speaker 16: of that defense, I believe, And those guys just fly around,
Speaker 16: you know. I believe those guys are hair hunters, secondary linebackers,
Speaker 16: and like you said, defensive line. That's they just flying
Speaker 16: around and trying to attack with aggression. And that's pretty
Speaker 16: much what stands out to me.
Speaker 12: You were a better version of them this this time,
Speaker 12: and then you guys jumped on them in the first
Speaker 12: half and play one to do to you to go
Speaker 12: be a better roll round team this summer.
Speaker 16: Uh I, I can't call it, you know, I'm just
Speaker 16: going to we just going in there and just tryna
Speaker 16: focus on getting dub I don't know how they gonna
Speaker 16: come out of play us, you know, but I believe
Speaker 16: every team's gonna try their.
Speaker 3: Best to beat you.
Speaker 16: That that's part of our job.
Speaker 3: That's part of the game. Well, or how does the.
Speaker 14: Preparation change when you are facing a team for the
Speaker 14: second time in the same season, and you know the
Speaker 14: first meeting wasn't that own there.
Speaker 16: Uh, just go back and watch the things that they
Speaker 16: did well against us, you know, when they started best
Speaker 16: from completing drives. Because they might try to piggyback off
Speaker 16: that and try to watch ourselves against other teams. They
Speaker 16: might try to do things that they did to stop
Speaker 16: us certain things.
Speaker 3: But that's it, Lamar.
Speaker 9: With your rushing, the tempts going down at least to
Speaker 9: this point in the year. If you notice defenses defending
Speaker 9: you differently, are they still guarding you kind of run
Speaker 9: first a little bit still?
Speaker 7: Ah?
Speaker 16: I believe they are, you know, but we we have
Speaker 16: so many weapons on offense, they don't really know what
Speaker 16: to do, you know, cause we got guys running out
Speaker 16: the batfield, Justice, Gus Keaton, you know, we got obj
Speaker 16: Bait Mark you say, you know, both of the Day's dude,
Speaker 16: we got all these guys, you know, So that it's
Speaker 16: it's really hard to define with the ball gonna go
Speaker 16: and uh, that's pretty much hur hurting the defenses. So
Speaker 16: we just need to keep staying locked in and focus
Speaker 16: and keep that going.
Speaker 1: For for a long time, we've asked guys on defense
Speaker 1: and helped playing against you in practice makes them better.
Speaker 6: How does this defense make you better?
Speaker 12: And particularly this year's defense, which appears to be.
Speaker 3: One of the best in the league.
Speaker 16: Just by I I believe I'm not trying toot that
Speaker 16: own horn, but I believe our defense has no weakness. Uh,
Speaker 16: just from the defensive line, the linebackers, the secondary, how
Speaker 16: they flying around and disguising defenses to make it look
Speaker 16: like one coverage but it's something else. And and how
Speaker 16: they how they time up they blixes. It helps us
Speaker 16: out a lot, you know, cause were playing other teams,
Speaker 16: they find around and give them us their best shot.
Speaker 16: It's like we said, one of the best defenses every day.
Speaker 1: In some defensive snaps to them.
Speaker 16: Yet now yet try to get get me a second
Speaker 16: like Art and car hopefully why you.
Speaker 15: Mentioned, you know, T Martin Just curious, like when you
Speaker 15: think back to nothing, you think back to this, But
Speaker 15: when you do think back to earlier your career and
Speaker 15: have you maybe led the quarterback or in their work
Speaker 15: or just how you were in the quarterback room versus
Speaker 15: how you are now, how do you think.
Speaker 3: You've evolved in that room?
Speaker 15: Just from a leadership standpoint and in what you're seeing
Speaker 15: and vocalizing and things like that or what you.
Speaker 16: Just said, Like I'm more vocal than I was before.
Speaker 16: Early on, I was just wanting to learn, you know,
Speaker 16: the ins and outs and the defenses in the NFL.
Speaker 16: But now like me just seeing 'em s each and
Speaker 16: every week, dif different defenses every week. I got a
Speaker 16: l a lot more questions. I see certain things and
Speaker 16: then I wanna just tell coach, like yoship, try to
Speaker 16: put this in, put this in the game plan, stuff
Speaker 16: like that.
Speaker 3: What dynamic like in that room?
Speaker 15: Just what's the vibe kind of liking there?
Speaker 3: Uh, it's to be honest, we be locked in.
Speaker 16: Like we might laugh around, but it's pretty much we
Speaker 16: locked in. We tryna, were trying to be great. You know,
Speaker 16: we're trying to be a tempionship team and that's what
Speaker 16: we chasing right now.
Speaker 10: More right off, you take it as a sign of
Speaker 10: respect for defenses, like do you drop ad and C.
Speaker 3: I don't think something that that happen a lot more.
Speaker 16: Fast and Nah, I guess I guess John, but I don't.
Speaker 16: I I can't call it, you know, I'm just tryna.
Speaker 16: I'm tryna win.
Speaker 1: I don't care what they do.
Speaker 16: I'm tryna win, tryna wanna play the drive the game.
Speaker 8: Alright, And among all the good things that have happened,
Speaker 8: there have been a couple of issues with the mesh
Speaker 8: point and fumbles with Justice hill on exchanges.
Speaker 3: Why do you think that's happening? And how does it
Speaker 3: get fixed?
Speaker 16: We tryna win, just getting t we were trying to
Speaker 16: be too We tryna move too fast. I believe on
Speaker 16: all the all the fumble exchanges, it's been us just
Speaker 16: being too fast too. I don't know, too antsy, but
Speaker 16: you know what, I believe we gonna come down, come
Speaker 16: down with that. It w it won't be any more. Uh,
Speaker 16: fumbles unbelief.
Speaker 12: Mark wins and losses are calculated mostly the same.
Speaker 3: Just uh when you play the Division, though, doesn't feel
Speaker 3: like more.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 16: I mean the it's the division game. We we I
Speaker 16: won't we we know our opponents. But at the same time,
Speaker 16: all of us trying to make it to the playoffs.
Speaker 16: All the game's gonna be aggressive. Uh, Stiller's Cincinnati Browns.
Speaker 16: It's just we just gotta go in lockdown, you know,
Speaker 16: by our treat every game the same.
Speaker 8: Sty're talking in the locker room about how crazy good
Speaker 8: the AFC North has been in this year, specifically everyone
Speaker 8: not at all.
Speaker 16: No, alright, we're focusing on us.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson, and then over on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the wall, we had a chance to
Speaker 1: hear from linebacker Patrick Quet.
Speaker 7: For the London game that you felt like this defense
Speaker 7: wasn't as respected I as you should be.
Speaker 12: Do you feel differently about that now?
Speaker 6: Uh, a little bit. I feel like it's al a
Speaker 6: long season. We still got a lot of games ahead.
Speaker 6: I feel like we are getting more respect, but I
Speaker 6: feel there's still not the respect that we want and
Speaker 6: I I honestly we just we having to accomplished the
Speaker 6: things that we wanna accomplish yet, so I feel like
Speaker 6: there's a lot of respect out there to still be taking.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like.
Speaker 12: Cleveland with Watson movie a different it's the tea than
Speaker 12: they weren't with the rookie.
Speaker 3: When when you playing.
Speaker 6: Uh, yeah, obviously it's the sion Watson. They give him
Speaker 6: all that money for a reason. So he's a great player.
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, he's coming to
Speaker 6: the hard stadium with our team, with our defense, uh,
Speaker 6: with our fans. So Uh, that player's gonna be rocking.
Speaker 6: We gonna have it rocking. We're gonna do what we
Speaker 6: need to on defense to get him jumping and just
Speaker 6: you know, try to shut him down.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 1: How much do you feed off that as a defense
Speaker 1: when the crowd is kind of going crazy in.
Speaker 6: That last year, crowd definitely makes a difference. They just
Speaker 6: give you, like that extra motivation just to go even harder.
Speaker 6: Like I don't know, Like it's just when you second
Speaker 6: and stop 'em on second and eight or make whatever,
Speaker 6: and it's thirty and eight, thirty seven or whatever and
Speaker 6: the crowd starts jumping. It's just like the extra motivation.
Speaker 6: It could be a long drive and you just just
Speaker 6: when the crowd gets up and you got the extra
Speaker 6: motivation and just feel like you're unstoppable at fork.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: Marbles just asked about the Ravens defense and he said
Speaker 5: he doesn't think there's any weakness that is a player
Speaker 5: who plays one of the defense.
Speaker 3: Do you do you kind of agree with that assessment?
Speaker 3: I definitely agree.
Speaker 6: Uh, if we all lock in, just do what we're
Speaker 6: capable of. Just each play, just lock in, communicate, play
Speaker 6: as hard as we can and have the best technique
Speaker 6: we can. Uh, it shouldn't be nobody will be able
Speaker 6: to stop with us. The only person, only people that
Speaker 6: can stop us is us. So as long as we
Speaker 6: go out there and focus in and just take one
Speaker 6: play at the time and just dominate, it will be fine.
Speaker 12: You feel it that way in past years here or
Speaker 12: is it? Is it more so a this point in
Speaker 12: the season when it happened in your your careers, or.
Speaker 6: You always feel like that, you always feel like you
Speaker 6: got confidence in your defense saying it's just small players
Speaker 6: here and there that could actually just change, like those
Speaker 6: pass defenses. So uh obviously, Uh, I feel like those
Speaker 6: defenses still were pretty damn good. And it's just like
Speaker 6: I said, a few plays here and there that stop
Speaker 6: us from being that number one, number two, number three defense.
Speaker 7: How much of a monivating factor is it for you
Speaker 7: to be going up against another against them but on
Speaker 7: the same field as another great defense to kind of
Speaker 7: show you the better defense is.
Speaker 6: Uh, there's a lot of motivation. It's a it's a
Speaker 6: lot of talk right now, and we just wanna talk
Speaker 6: with our past. Honestly, we just wanna go out there, dominate,
Speaker 6: wanna play at the time, have fun, with it, talk
Speaker 6: a little trash on the field and go at it again.
Speaker 15: Patrick Anse, You guys are focused on Sunday.
Speaker 3: But when you look at Stanley's NS North.
Speaker 15: And the five days of the Rounds and the Bengals, how.
Speaker 11: Big for this season where you guys wanna be at
Speaker 11: the end, How big are those five days coming up?
Speaker 6: It's huge cause obviously you know you get a few
Speaker 6: days off after that. So uh, I think the big
Speaker 6: kids just locking in, uh on the task at hand,
Speaker 6: just not looking forward, just taking each day at at
Speaker 6: one at a time. Uh, when no game presents itself,
Speaker 6: go out there, dominate after that game, just whatever you
Speaker 6: gotta do to recover, recover, come into that next game
Speaker 6: on that short week, and just get ready to dominate
Speaker 6: a game. But uh, overall, just take one day at
Speaker 6: a time.
Speaker 12: Is there a comparison three these games and the old
Speaker 12: as you see it is? I mean, you know, you
Speaker 12: guys are playing so well, but it's hard to get
Speaker 12: away from these other teams that seem said does they
Speaker 12: ever winning through it?
Speaker 3: Just does it?
Speaker 6: Is it a someone with fielding or it definitely is. Uh,
Speaker 6: it's just everybody always wins. And this is a tough
Speaker 6: division probably the toughest division in uh the NFL. So
Speaker 6: when you see how the division is stacked up right now,
Speaker 6: it's just like no room to breathe. So you just
Speaker 6: gotta keep on foot on o on everybody else's neck
Speaker 6: and just keep doing what we're doing right now, just
Speaker 6: trying to keep winning. Those are good.
Speaker 3: You got Child's brought up tell us as he said.
Speaker 10: That you guys flew out a lot of teams right
Speaker 10: that National Champions of season.
Speaker 3: You going out a lot of teams now.
Speaker 10: But I wanna ask you that some of the games
Speaker 10: you guys had it earlier and you see earlier, and
Speaker 10: that's tell us U season, Like before a game, you
Speaker 10: guys had to come back in the third quarter. But
Speaker 10: for what do you think that game and that resilience
Speaker 10: you guys showed meant for you guys along way you
Speaker 10: get to you know, champion game, gainst Pipe says down
Speaker 10: you can think you still how to figure that out
Speaker 10: to come back?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Oh it was just uh just a a huge confidence
Speaker 6: boost for our defense. Uh, just knowing that we could
Speaker 6: actually stop people. Uh. I think in the beginning of
Speaker 6: the year that we were letting up scores and stuff
Speaker 6: and They all came from communication. And that's the biggest
Speaker 6: thing that I preach, cause I seen in the first
Speaker 6: hand just how communication could change everything out for the
Speaker 6: tennis score that second half, and then we went on
Speaker 6: a r little run like shutting teams down and whatnot.
Speaker 6: And Uh, it's just anytime you just get on a
Speaker 6: roll like that, you got the confidence rolling and everybody's communicating,
Speaker 6: everybody's flowing one page. It's just something special to see.
Speaker 6: And obviously that was just so oh uh different from
Speaker 6: the last time you played Cleveland.
Speaker 7: Deshaun Watson probably.
Speaker 3: Will be their quarterback.
Speaker 1: What does he bring and how different are.
Speaker 5: They with him?
Speaker 6: Uh, it just brings with who he is. Uh, he
Speaker 6: could put the ball anywhere on the field. He can run,
Speaker 6: he does not wanna slide. So uh, anytime you got
Speaker 6: a quarterback that's willing to lower they shoulder, that's a
Speaker 6: huge threat to your defense. And we just gotta go
Speaker 6: out there and play our game, honestly. Uh, it could
Speaker 6: be in the quarterback in the league that goes out there. Uh,
Speaker 6: it's just it's up to us what we wanna do. Uh,
Speaker 6: how we wanna be remember, how do we wanna play,
Speaker 6: how do we want our defensive look when we played
Speaker 6: at the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 3: All right, if you had players.
Speaker 10: You need president tweet today about how there's a frustration
Speaker 10: among the players in terms of how fines or decided
Speaker 10: on levy.
Speaker 3: I know you got fined, we're happy about it. And
Speaker 3: basically what reaction. What is the frustration for you personally
Speaker 3: about how to secure a side it? Uh?
Speaker 6: I think they fine first stuff that they think rightfully,
Speaker 6: so should be a fine. I think there's certain angles
Speaker 6: that you could check and actually get a clear of you.
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, they have a
Speaker 6: job to do. I have a job to do, and
Speaker 6: we do have the option to appeal. So I think
Speaker 6: you have if you obviously not playing dirty or doing
Speaker 6: anything dirty or not knowing your head or whatever it
Speaker 6: may be. Ware with the case is if you're fine,
Speaker 6: if you're not doing it, then with the uphill, just
Speaker 6: get different angles than you should be fine.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Patrick Queen. The Ravens are gearing up
Speaker 1: for a matchup coming up on Sunday at M and
Speaker 1: T Bank Stadium against the Cleveland Browns. This game kicks
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