Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens felts
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders twenty nine to twenty eight on Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football. The loss brought an end to the Ravens
Speaker 1: twenty four game winning streak that they had throughout the preseason,
Speaker 1: and after the game, head coach John Harball talked about
Speaker 1: the game and the end of that streak.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't be like the hov streat that game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just I'm excited thing about something like that.
Speaker 3: And I just told our guys, you know you're proud
Speaker 3: of it. Of course, you know you appreciate it. But
Speaker 3: the thing that you're proud of is all those games
Speaker 3: are mostly just like that, you know, preseason games that
Speaker 3: people want to write about. Some of you in here
Speaker 3: want to write about and say they don't mean anything
Speaker 3: because you never played the game. You never were out
Speaker 3: there in a preseason game, you never were fighting for
Speaker 3: a spot on the team. And yet you have the
Speaker 3: audacity to say that the effort that somebody puts into
Speaker 3: that to win and fight and win a game like
Speaker 3: that is meaningless.
Speaker 4: Tell me that was meaningless out there. What you just saw.
Speaker 4: If you like football, is that a meaningless football game.
Speaker 3: You know, I can't respect anybody that says that because
Speaker 3: of the effort these guys put into it.
Speaker 4: That's what's such. You're proud of me.
Speaker 3: That's that's why I'm so proud of these guys for
Speaker 3: the way they fought. It doesn't matter win or loss,
Speaker 3: it matters. It matters the way they the way they
Speaker 3: went about their business tonight, and I'm proud of them
Speaker 3: for that always will be.
Speaker 2: John.
Speaker 5: Got to see the flowers getting the end zone early
Speaker 5: and listen, like to beg to see some of them
Speaker 5: expose them you're explosm as you're saying, as practice translated
Speaker 5: to game.
Speaker 4: It was great to see it.
Speaker 3: I mean, just to see that and he the way
Speaker 3: he played and uh uh just you know, the offense
Speaker 3: and the uh you know, just creating plays like that,
Speaker 3: you know, great, and we did in the run game
Speaker 3: as well. And then how about a guy like Vocal
Speaker 3: like you know, going out there and catching those passes
Speaker 3: and scoring to touchdown. Charlie Kohlar stepping up and making
Speaker 3: the catches. Both quarterbacks played outstanding.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Just really happy with all of.
Speaker 6: That, John, just to kind of go up your answer
Speaker 6: and Champs there I mean, you think about all the
Speaker 6: players who involved over the last.
Speaker 7: Seven years in this organization and it's a hoow fighting
Speaker 7: away to the win. What does that beaching be good
Speaker 7: this organization and somehow fighting commonuity even though the rough
Speaker 7: appreciation old record.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, I just think it's something
Speaker 3: that it's just it's one of these things you look
Speaker 3: at and you just you go, wow, how did that happen?
Speaker 3: You know, how did something like that take place? It's
Speaker 3: pretty it's pretty remarkable. It's you know, what are the odds?
Speaker 3: You know, and to say to say, there's no one
Speaker 3: reason it happens, but it says a lot about a
Speaker 3: lot of people, a lot of people's effort, a lot
Speaker 3: a lot of good practice, a lot of good meeting time,
Speaker 3: a lot of young players working hard to be as
Speaker 3: good as they can be, a lot of coaches developing
Speaker 3: those players, scouts fighting those players. All those things kind
Speaker 3: of come into play. But in the end, it's about
Speaker 3: It's about a bunch. It's about football and the and
Speaker 3: the and the men and women now who play who
Speaker 3: play the game, And it shows you what this what
Speaker 3: makes this game so great, why it does matter so much?
Speaker 4: Because it takes those kind of efforts that that's what
Speaker 4: you have to do. It's it's it's a courageous game.
Speaker 3: It's it's a game for courageous people, and it's a
Speaker 3: game for people that willing to go out there and
Speaker 3: throw themselves around in really tough, awkward situations physicality.
Speaker 4: You know, it takes.
Speaker 3: It takes that kind of grit to play this game
Speaker 3: and to fight like that. And that's I think most
Speaker 3: people that love football love it for that reason right there.
Speaker 3: They respect what it takes to play the game. So
Speaker 3: that's what I feel. That's how I feel about our players,
Speaker 3: feel about every player in the national football but I
Speaker 3: especially feel that way about the Ravens and then the
Speaker 3: and the and the men who played for the Ravens
Speaker 3: Now and the men who played for the Ravens all
Speaker 3: those other years. I'm really very proud of that part
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 6: Perfectively, it seemed like commanders were very motivated to the
Speaker 6: end of the streak.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to get into all that. I mean,
Speaker 3: you hear people say what they say. Guys say what
Speaker 3: they say, and obviously it was meaningful to them. I
Speaker 3: saw them celebrating over there and put more power to
Speaker 3: them and gratulations. They want to They want a hard
Speaker 3: fought football game, you know, and they deserved it in
Speaker 3: the end to to celebrate, so they should celebrate.
Speaker 2: The last whole chat, John, you have a.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not so not too. You had no serious injuries
Speaker 4: in the game, so we're happy with that.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harbaugh. We also heard from
Speaker 1: the quarterback Josh Johnson, who had a strong performance as
Speaker 1: he makes the case to be the Ravens number two quarterback.
Speaker 2: A few other preseason game year.
Speaker 8: Nah, just like coach said, like, uh, for us players,
Speaker 8: we know, we know what this means like to get
Speaker 8: the opportunity to go out there and play in the
Speaker 8: NFL game. And then you know, especially for the young guys,
Speaker 8: you know this is once you know, living out your dream.
Speaker 8: I was once in the situations before, so you know,
Speaker 8: the atmosphere was great. Guys was you know, doing a
Speaker 8: little like really getting it out of the mud. Honestly,
Speaker 8: saw guys playing kickoff, turning right back around, playing defense.
Speaker 9: You know, we were down and run running back at
Speaker 9: one point in time.
Speaker 8: So you know, like coach shit, I mean, it's just
Speaker 8: the grind of you know, guys are pursuing the opportunity,
Speaker 8: and you know, for me, I was just you know,
Speaker 8: happy to be able to go out there and share
Speaker 8: the field with those guys and then you know, see them.
Speaker 9: Uh all of us try to collectively pull out a win.
Speaker 9: But unfortunately we didn't do that.
Speaker 2: John, you were there when the Street started.
Speaker 3: In fact, the club two guys like d Does it
Speaker 3: mean anything for it for the end, doesn't the you know,
Speaker 3: is there any emotion from the Street game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we don't like to lose. I mean, no, no
Speaker 8: player wants to be on the losing side of a
Speaker 8: football game. It's hard to win in this league. And
Speaker 8: uh so you know, as a team, we don't like
Speaker 8: to lose. But you know, uh it's it's a part
Speaker 8: of the process.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 8: They they did what they had to do at the
Speaker 8: end of the game. But we wasn't going out there
Speaker 8: with like talking about the Street. We just went out
Speaker 8: there to play great football, you know, and they they
Speaker 8: they just came out on the winning side.
Speaker 4: Today.
Speaker 6: Should seemed like the I mean, Conn talked about how
Speaker 6: the quarterbacks play well and also seem like your office,
Speaker 6: the land gave you guys are miss clean Hawkers to
Speaker 6: work with.
Speaker 8: Overall, how would you assess how they're how they're doing
Speaker 8: if you were Caroline is doing awesome.
Speaker 2: Man. They come out there every day and work.
Speaker 8: They tell off guys, rotating guys, playing different positions, versatile group.
Speaker 2: Uh, we run the ball really well. You know. I'm
Speaker 2: just I just have to be playing quarterback behind those guys.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: I see it every day in practice, and it translates
Speaker 8: to the game and it just gives you confidence to
Speaker 8: go out there and you know and play, you know,
Speaker 8: play a game when you behind those guys.
Speaker 4: Jeff, when Zay was on that first drive, you know,
Speaker 4: obviously the.
Speaker 10: Touchdown players, it's those those two catches he made.
Speaker 2: What kind of shadow life was that to the offense?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 8: I mean, Jay is different, man. So just to see him,
Speaker 8: you know, do what y'all see every day. You know,
Speaker 8: we able to get the ball in his hands early. Uh,
Speaker 8: He's gonna be a very exciting player. And obviously whenever
Speaker 8: his moves are wilds. It's just like that every day.
Speaker 8: So it automatically injects life into the whole team. Just
Speaker 8: to see him go out there and just untleast your
Speaker 8: special talent. I'm excited for the young fella.
Speaker 11: I is there something different about this organization that allowed
Speaker 11: this streak to happen that the way it did relative
Speaker 11: to how other players approach these games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we j we just grind for it, man.
Speaker 8: Like uh, like I was joking the other day that
Speaker 8: you know, I's aid by that coach Harbwald training camp,
Speaker 8: you know at my age, and uh, but you know,
Speaker 8: we work.
Speaker 2: We we work every day. Every day we work.
Speaker 9: And I think that's why the from the top to
Speaker 9: the roster to the bottom of the roster, you see
Speaker 9: guys go.
Speaker 2: Out there and play good football.
Speaker 8: And h you know, that's a credit to this organization
Speaker 8: and credit to the coaching staff, you know, credit to
Speaker 8: the players because we we show up every day with
Speaker 8: the where the work, where the work mentality, and uh,
Speaker 8: you know it it shows up on the field when
Speaker 8: we go out there and play good football.
Speaker 12: Just what do you what have you seen from kadof
Speaker 12: malls to the.
Speaker 2: Borders of this great family.
Speaker 8: Just a consistent player can do everything, play anywhere coaches
Speaker 8: need him to do, whatever the coaches need.
Speaker 2: She continue to show up and make plays. Uh.
Speaker 9: Last time I was here in twenty one, I got
Speaker 9: to play with him a little bit and he was
Speaker 9: the same.
Speaker 8: Guy, and he just keeps evolving. So you know, sky's
Speaker 8: a limit for tie U. We all trust him and
Speaker 8: we all believe that he can make continue to make plays.
Speaker 8: That's why he can continue to get opportunities.
Speaker 1: In addition to Josh Johnston, we also heard from safety
Speaker 1: and defensive back or Darius Washington. He had a strong
Speaker 1: show as the Ravens are shorthanded in the secondary right now,
Speaker 1: but Ardarius had a really nice game and he talked
Speaker 1: about that afterwards.
Speaker 6: Her Darius, you came back in that game in that
Speaker 6: last right, Was that just where you could run out
Speaker 6: of their corners at that.
Speaker 13: Point, Yes, sir, Uh, someone had got hurt and so
Speaker 13: I had to come in take a place.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 5: Was that just get the win knocked out of you?
Speaker 13: Yeah? I just got the wind knocked out of I
Speaker 13: mean nothing major.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think you lived in balance, you know, since
Speaker 12: you get up changed if you're talking about how you
Speaker 12: think you're doing, because you obviously you made a lot
Speaker 12: of players, both in practice and doing the games.
Speaker 13: I mean, the main thing is just staying consistent, you
Speaker 13: know what I'm saying, doing it, doing the right things
Speaker 13: and stuff like that. Being in the right situation, white
Speaker 13: places and everything like that, but really just staying consistent
Speaker 13: for me, understanding the car and everything and what we're
Speaker 13: doing around And that's the main thing for me.
Speaker 5: Darius, seen you moved all around outside inside safety. Has
Speaker 5: it been to kind of where a bunch of different
Speaker 5: hats on the details.
Speaker 13: I mean, man, I mean it's just that so that
Speaker 13: I can learn, I can do it all.
Speaker 10: You feel me?
Speaker 13: So that's the main thing that it showed to me. Shit,
Speaker 13: I mean, I I know you were hurting at d
Speaker 13: n cow you was like he was a little lady.
Speaker 2: I mean, how tough was it? That's that defensive back
Speaker 2: group out there towards the end.
Speaker 13: I mean it was tough, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 13: We was out there grinding, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 13: So we tryna win. We tryna go out there and compete,
Speaker 13: you know what I'm saying. So we didn't really think
Speaker 13: about all we hurt right now, but we try to
Speaker 13: dig deep in finish the game.
Speaker 2: Alright.
Speaker 4: Oh, is it as a player when you.
Speaker 5: Hear people say that these games was going back? We
Speaker 5: heard what ours that to say?
Speaker 13: Well, how does it fell as a player? That is
Speaker 13: I mean means a lot. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 13: We going to get a different opponent, so we wanna win,
Speaker 13: you know what I mean. Then some guys like me
Speaker 13: and other guys on the team, we fight for spots,
Speaker 13: so it means everything to us. Whereas what we talk
Speaker 13: about the atmosphere was fine.
Speaker 2: A few minutes we fel I mean, it was amazing. Man.
Speaker 13: L wish we woulda came out with uh win, but
Speaker 13: it was a good feeling.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 13: You always wanna close it as a defense, I wanna
Speaker 13: close it out. So it's amazing feelings for sure.
Speaker 11: Did the joint practices with the commanders kind of building
Speaker 11: anything else, were as you say.
Speaker 13: Their competition's way, Ah, I don't think so.
Speaker 11: The comments from the commander's lineman called him the street
Speaker 11: stupid and if you guys a lot coward.
Speaker 2: Did you give in comment on that?
Speaker 13: I mean, no, said they gonna feel how they're gonna feel,
Speaker 13: you know what I mean. So, hey, they came out there,
Speaker 13: they want tonight and hey, I took my hats off
Speaker 13: to him.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 11: It's uh you know, take a place from day all
Speaker 11: training camp to see someone another rookie like Travis Bofalo
Speaker 11: come out and make a couple of nice plays two touchdowns.
Speaker 11: What does it just say about, you know, what you
Speaker 11: can kind of do as a first year in this offense.
Speaker 11: I haven't been against them every day in training camp.
Speaker 13: I mean it shows that he's out there being grinding,
Speaker 13: he's been working. You know what I'm saying. I actually
Speaker 13: had forgot and so he reminded me when he put
Speaker 13: up that too. You know what I'm saying, like letting
Speaker 13: everybody know that he got too. So he he's been grinding.
Speaker 13: He's been working hard for sure.
Speaker 1: And one of the stars of the show was undrafted
Speaker 1: rookie tight end Travis Bokla. He had a pair of
Speaker 1: touchdowns in this victory. He talked about that afterwards.
Speaker 14: You know, I give a lot of credit to my teammates.
Speaker 14: You know, they they've really helped me, you know, learn
Speaker 14: plays and you know, executing practice. And I've got great
Speaker 14: guys in the tight end room that I can learn
Speaker 14: from and just continue to do that. And you know,
Speaker 14: like I said, it's awesome, but still a long way
Speaker 14: to go.
Speaker 10: Just a tight end group ousers really deep. Have you
Speaker 10: kind of approached coming into a group that's this deep
Speaker 10: and you're kind of holding your own.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's you know, there's a lot of experienced guys
Speaker 14: in the room, a lot of great guys to learn from,
Speaker 14: you know, with Mark and Charlie and Jay and Pat
Speaker 14: and Ben, you know, all those guys that they've helped
Speaker 14: out a lot. And you know, I've kind of embraced
Speaker 14: coming in and just learning from the experienced guys. You know,
Speaker 14: I'm an older rookie. I'm twenty five, so it's that's different,
Speaker 14: but you know those guys have helped out a lot,
Speaker 14: and just just taking it day by day and continue
Speaker 14: and learn from mistakes and just keep getting better.
Speaker 10: You had a good college career, but you weren't drafted.
Speaker 10: Was that disappointing? And did that kind of give you
Speaker 10: kind of a chip coming in?
Speaker 14: You know, it didn't really bother me. You know, I
Speaker 14: wanted to be drafted, of course, but you know, just
Speaker 14: an opportunity is all I could ask for. So I
Speaker 14: feel like, you know, I'm taking advantage of it. Just
Speaker 14: kind of keep working every day and keep learning, and
Speaker 14: you know the guys in tid end room is really
Speaker 14: helping with that.
Speaker 12: Did you dream of catching passes like this, It'll be Monday.
Speaker 14: Night game last year kind of yeah, you know it,
Speaker 14: it's kind of funny. I I watched a lot of
Speaker 14: football and last year, you know, I I kind of
Speaker 14: pictured myself and in a game, I knew there was
Speaker 14: gonna be an opportunity and you know, just I, it
Speaker 14: was awesome, but just just a lot, a lot to
Speaker 14: learn from and continue to grow.
Speaker 10: You think a lot of friends and family gonna be
Speaker 10: hitting you up tonight that.
Speaker 14: I'm I'm sure you know, I'm I'm tired, ready to
Speaker 14: get on the bus and go home and go to bed.
Speaker 14: But yeah, just I, it was awesome, but you know,
Speaker 14: just just gotta keep getting better and you know, keep
Speaker 14: grinding every day.
Speaker 7: Have you proved anything like to yourself throughout camping?
Speaker 2: I mean tonight.
Speaker 14: Especially, Yeah, you know I I I think so. I
Speaker 14: I never really have had doubt in myself or anything.
Speaker 14: I'm I wouldn't say I'm a cocky guy, but I'm
Speaker 14: confident in myself and my ability. But you know, it's
Speaker 14: been awesome to be surrounded by guys who have really helped.
Speaker 14: You know, being being a first year guy, you know,
Speaker 14: you make working mistakes and stuff like that and just
Speaker 14: having Mark and all those other guys continue to help
Speaker 14: me and grind every day with those guys and that
Speaker 14: they've really helped out a lot.
Speaker 13: So I know you're in the tight end, But what
Speaker 13: do you think about says.
Speaker 14: Really Yeah, uh, you know, Isay is a freak. I
Speaker 14: always joke around with him. You know, I wish I
Speaker 14: had his speed, you know, I I trade my size
Speaker 14: for his speed. But you know, he he he's a
Speaker 14: great dude. You know, right after that first touchdown, I
Speaker 14: went over to him. I was like, I want to
Speaker 14: be like you, so that's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 14: But yeah, great great athlete. You know, I'm happy he's
Speaker 14: on our team. And he plays really well and really hard.
Speaker 13: I mean, I mean just like the two v out tonight,
Speaker 13: you were kind of both like the stars of the game,
Speaker 13: and you guys.
Speaker 10: Are so different.
Speaker 9: You just speaks to that terms, I mean.
Speaker 14: Speed, Yeah, you know, you know, I he's a great player.
Speaker 14: He runs his route, really routes really well. It's really
Speaker 14: fast and great great human being too, So you know it,
Speaker 14: you can say we're the stars, but ultimately comes out
Speaker 14: of our teammates, you know, Abe, you know he came
Speaker 14: up to me after the game. He's like, dude, you
Speaker 14: just had a great game, and I said, I can't
Speaker 14: do it without you. So it's it's it's a team game.
Speaker 14: And give give a lot of credit to my teammates
Speaker 14: and everything.
Speaker 1: So that was undrafted rookie tight end Travis and Ocalat
Speaker 1: who had a pair of touchdowns in the game. So
Speaker 1: and I else had a touchdown was wide receiver Tylan Wallace.
Speaker 1: He's had touchdowns and back to back games and he
Speaker 1: talked about that as well.
Speaker 10: Second test down two games. Tell me what happened on
Speaker 10: that play?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know it's out out to monk, you know again,
Speaker 15: you know, setting up me, setting me up again in
Speaker 15: the red zone. You know, he called the play and
Speaker 15: I knew, you know what I had to do, you know,
Speaker 15: like I said, uh, he put it right, Could you
Speaker 15: put it r where it's supposed to be?
Speaker 2: Got to make a play.
Speaker 15: So I know we needed that touchdown. So shout out
Speaker 15: to everybody for believing to me and making that play.
Speaker 10: Before that, you drew a PI can talk about that flack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 15: So obviously he was trying to take another shot down
Speaker 15: the field, you know, like I said, when you hear
Speaker 15: those opportunities, you got to lock in, especially at the
Speaker 15: receiver position. You know, with Monk being oc, he loves
Speaker 15: throwing the ball down the field, so you gotta take
Speaker 15: advantage of those opportunities. So seeing the balls, obviously trying
Speaker 15: to make a play on it and got.
Speaker 2: The PI on it.
Speaker 10: No secret, there's a lot of competition for that last
Speaker 10: you know, wide receiver sponse. You're making a lot of
Speaker 10: plays and stuffing out. What do you think is making
Speaker 10: a difference for you this year because it seems like,
Speaker 10: you know, you really rising to DC.
Speaker 15: Yeah, definitely, you know, I think just me just trying
Speaker 15: to actually just locking in and you know, going through
Speaker 15: the past two years and realizing how the game is
Speaker 15: played and how it needs to be played. I feel
Speaker 15: like I'm really you know, trying to lock into paying
Speaker 15: attention to how it's being played and how fast you
Speaker 15: need to play, and just you know, obviously this is
Speaker 15: a big year for me. So I really took that
Speaker 15: the heart this offseason, and I feel like I prepared
Speaker 15: really well and I just coming in and I knew
Speaker 15: I had to make plays, So I'm just trying to
Speaker 15: do what I can do.
Speaker 4: You feel like you've put yours for the summer. I
Speaker 4: mean obviously a lot of competition of that position set.
Speaker 15: Yeah, definitely, Like I said, I mean, uh, I feel
Speaker 15: like I can always get better, you know, no matter
Speaker 15: what it is. But I definitely knew going into this
Speaker 15: off season this year, I need to have a great
Speaker 15: year and uh just go out there and do what
Speaker 15: I know I'm capable of. So I'm trying to do
Speaker 15: the best I can with that.
Speaker 4: What is the performance like you know tonight last weekend or.
Speaker 2: Oh b y.
Speaker 15: Obviously it was a lot of confidence, you know, you know,
Speaker 15: just being out there and uh, you know the career
Speaker 15: I had in college and being able to trans now
Speaker 15: finally being up. But I feel like I'm starting to
Speaker 15: translate that over into the NFL now, so.
Speaker 2: You know it.
Speaker 15: It it helps a lot, you know, going out there
Speaker 15: making these plays and just doing what I n I
Speaker 15: know I'm able to do.
Speaker 2: What p What a Justine did you make.
Speaker 9: Preparing for the season to get you, like you said,
Speaker 9: ready to showcase.
Speaker 2: More of what you need to show up? Yeah?
Speaker 15: Boy, Uh, I think I really attacked the off season
Speaker 15: uh differently than uh than what I'm used to doing.
Speaker 15: I feel like I went I got a new trainer,
Speaker 15: I really took it a lot more seriously and new
Speaker 15: going into it, just the year I needed to have
Speaker 15: and what I knew I could do. So I think
Speaker 15: that was the biggest thing for me. And just always,
Speaker 15: you know, just taking advantage of the opportunities when they're
Speaker 15: given to me.
Speaker 11: A lot of players talk about you just want to
Speaker 11: get the opportunity so you can make the most.
Speaker 10: You feel you've made the most of them.
Speaker 15: Yeah, definitely mean I feel like I've I've taken advantage
Speaker 15: of the few opportunities that I've that I've gotten so far. Obviously,
Speaker 15: I think there were more that I could have you know,
Speaker 15: capitalized on. But you know, I'm trying to do the
Speaker 15: best what I can with the opportunities that are given
Speaker 15: to me. Like I was saying, so, I feel like
Speaker 15: I'm trying to do the best I can.
Speaker 11: I would alief not having an answer question.
Speaker 15: Yeah, no, for sure, for surely that's over. But uh,
Speaker 15: you know, shout out. Then they played a great game.
Speaker 15: I feel like we were out there, we fought, but
Speaker 15: you know it was gonna happen in bestly for sure.
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