Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: September thirteenth. The Ravens are preparing for a Week two
Speaker 1: divisional matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals. A Head coach John
Speaker 1: Harball met with the media after practice to look ahead
Speaker 1: to that game.
Speaker 2: We don't have JK. That's disappointing.
Speaker 3: You know, he's a great player, he's a great guy,
Speaker 3: and you know, obviously anytime you have a player like
Speaker 3: that in your roster, that's a big deal. You know,
Speaker 3: he's an explosive, explosive athlete, ball carrier, receiver. But I'm
Speaker 3: very confident the guys we have stepping in there as well.
Speaker 3: We have very good players stepping in and they're excited
Speaker 3: for their opportunity.
Speaker 4: I think with the switch of coordinators there was some
Speaker 4: question as to Patrick Riccard what his role would be
Speaker 4: in their offense. You guys used him.
Speaker 2: I think on twenty year snaps.
Speaker 4: What does he represent for this team? And why do
Speaker 4: you think you able to find fits? You know, it's
Speaker 4: obviously moving in a different direction than the season past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's a good football player and you
Speaker 2: have a good football player on your team. Them want
Speaker 2: to use him.
Speaker 3: You know, so how many plays it is from week
Speaker 3: to week, I think that'll be it won't be like
Speaker 3: the same, It'll be whatever it is that week, based
Speaker 3: on whatever's that going on. But he's a good football player.
Speaker 3: He brings what he brings. You know what he brings.
Speaker 3: I mean you see it every day when you watch
Speaker 3: him play, right, and it's it's it's effective, it's it's
Speaker 3: it's a meaningful, meaningful reps when he's out there doing
Speaker 3: what he does well. So I'm very happy we have
Speaker 3: my our team John.
Speaker 5: I think in training cap he was noticeable that now
Speaker 5: how many think he's a little more vote He said
Speaker 5: he was more comfortable communicating.
Speaker 4: How much do you have to lean on him now
Speaker 4: with Marcus.
Speaker 5: Potentially missing some time and just how much does it
Speaker 5: help that he's kind of taken more of that communications.
Speaker 2: Leadership roles, right. I mean, he's had a great camp.
Speaker 3: He's done everything that he's been asked to do in
Speaker 3: different roles, you know, position wise, moving around. He's still
Speaker 3: capable of doing that. We still have all those options
Speaker 3: at our disposal with the guys are putting out there,
Speaker 3: and yeah, I'm sure he'll be very vocal, but he
Speaker 3: was before, you know. Uh so that's what that's the
Speaker 3: way we're roll.
Speaker 6: He coached him as eight flowers, and he looked like
Speaker 6: he was being the leaf for a long time.
Speaker 7: He's always his vision of being always hunger and hungered.
Speaker 4: For the game. How good is it this for he's
Speaker 4: developed as a as a play well.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, he's chomping at the bit to
Speaker 3: get out there and the show what he can do.
Speaker 3: He made the big catch over the middle into the
Speaker 3: red zone. I had, you know, a lot of really
Speaker 3: good blocks. He was He's running routes fast. I was
Speaker 3: happy for him, you know. So he's just gonna build
Speaker 3: off of that, and he's gonna have a lot of
Speaker 3: great days in front of him.
Speaker 7: A challenge against the biggest offense that I mean a
Speaker 7: lot of students didn't yeah.
Speaker 2: Cheese, Yeah.
Speaker 3: And we're very familiar with their their talent. I mean,
Speaker 3: they've had it. They've a very talented offense. Obviously got
Speaker 3: a great back, got a great quarterback. Uh you know,
Speaker 3: so we played him a lot, they played us a lot.
Speaker 3: We're very familiar with one another.
Speaker 6: I mean, they obviously did not play up to their
Speaker 6: standards in their opener against Cleveland.
Speaker 8: I mean, do you just I mean, do you.
Speaker 6: Throw that out to some agree and assume that they'll
Speaker 6: be the team that US did in the past years,
Speaker 6: or how do you treat that first getting Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just we're playing, We're playing. We know how good they are.
Speaker 3: You know, we're getting ready to play the game. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be played this week, not the one that was
Speaker 3: played last week by either team. Same thing goes for us.
Speaker 3: I mean, you never stay the same, So we're getting
Speaker 3: ready for next week. I'm sure they're doing the same.
Speaker 9: Tell you mentioned after the game about the pass rush
Speaker 9: that you know, it was a lot to talk about
Speaker 9: before seeing, but I I'm assuming you would please with what
Speaker 9: you saw Sunday. Can you talk about I guess what
Speaker 9: you saw and you know, moving forward?
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I mean I saw exactly what I told
Speaker 3: you we would see, you know, and then those guys
Speaker 3: were bringing it. So it was exciting and fun and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, we've got we got a new challenge in
Speaker 3: front of us this week, and and uh you know,
Speaker 3: we got to get better. Those guys are determined to
Speaker 3: keep getting better. And uh, you know, obviously pass rush pressure, sacks, hurries,
Speaker 3: batted balls, those are very important, you know, aspects of
Speaker 3: pass defense to the National Football League.
Speaker 2: So I like the way they played. We got to
Speaker 2: get better, keep getting better.
Speaker 10: Respect from the bank, and so to challenge respective u.
Speaker 11: S teach just start jobs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the challenge is the guys.
Speaker 3: You know, that's that is football, and uh that's why
Speaker 3: guys as we as we spoke about last week are
Speaker 3: on the roster. You know, they're they're starting caliber players
Speaker 3: or they wouldn't be, you know, in the league the
Speaker 3: way I look at it, especially on this team. So
Speaker 3: those guys are, uh, those guys are ready to roll, man,
Speaker 3: and they're gonna go out there and play. And we
Speaker 3: respect their pass rush, we respect their run defense. Uh,
Speaker 3: we respect everything. Uh uh we it's our it's our
Speaker 3: job to go out there and do our job, you know,
Speaker 3: and our guys are looking forward to the opportunity to
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 7: Right last one or John Fans have a very sec
Speaker 7: team the last year where they got.
Speaker 10: Some story in the safety game. Seven year players.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, they're playing the same defense
Speaker 3: they filled. They're filling the roles that that have been
Speaker 3: built into the defense. They did a nice job doing that.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: Obviously.
Speaker 3: Uh, the Hill kid, we got a little a little
Speaker 3: knowledge of he's kind of kind of we're familiar with
Speaker 3: the family there. You know, it's a good family. So
Speaker 3: uh but uh that's uh that they're good players and
Speaker 3: they're they're in that defense, they're doing what the defense
Speaker 3: has been doing. I thought they had a good start.
Speaker 1: That was that coach Sean Harball. We also heard from
Speaker 1: quarterback Lamar Jackson. He talked about the Week one performance
Speaker 1: and also discussed his mindset going into this game against
Speaker 1: the Bengals.
Speaker 6: You mentioned that you were a little rusty last game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, since you didn't play a pre preseason and now
Speaker 5: you complete the first you know, week one, how do
Speaker 5: you feel as we now looking towards uh Cincinnatis.
Speaker 12: I feel I felt pretty good. I feel pretty good.
Speaker 12: Just the three mishaps during the game, that's what I
Speaker 12: felt I was arrested at.
Speaker 8: But other than I.
Speaker 12: Felt I was a pretty good A couple of years
Speaker 12: since you've been able to go with like in Cincinnati.
Speaker 11: Yeah, how any how, Cup was it watching your players
Speaker 11: can play WITHOUE And how excited were you about being
Speaker 11: there for.
Speaker 8: The you know, you were in this game, so uh,
Speaker 8: very tough. One, I was injured.
Speaker 12: Two I wasn't able to travel with my guys and
Speaker 12: you know, support 'em, and you know, just being out
Speaker 12: of the game, it was That's not something I wanna
Speaker 12: do ever again. But just going back to Cincinnati, you know,
Speaker 12: great atmosphere, great crowd. You know, I got some of
Speaker 12: the Louisville guys in the area and stuff like that.
Speaker 12: So it's great support from you know, the Raven fan
Speaker 12: base and in Louisville.
Speaker 8: So it's great to be there.
Speaker 6: Mark, and you you create what it was like in
Speaker 6: your house last year when you're watching that last game.
Speaker 6: Your guys are on the goalie and then all of
Speaker 6: a sudden you see Sam Hubbard going.
Speaker 11: The other way.
Speaker 8: I'd rather not because we lost that game, but yeah,
Speaker 8: I was watching the game.
Speaker 12: You know, we was doing pretty good, and uh, I
Speaker 12: feel like it was my fault a little bit because
Speaker 12: I had to go use the restroom get up, and
Speaker 12: by the time I wa walking to the after I'm
Speaker 12: hearing cheers.
Speaker 8: I'm like, like, what happened? What happened? I look in
Speaker 8: ninety four running the other way, so I almost hit
Speaker 8: my screen. But you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 4: Lamar you know, obviously you guys are shifting the offense
Speaker 4: this year, but.
Speaker 2: Have a car still has a role here and played.
Speaker 4: Almost half the snaps on Sunday. What do you think
Speaker 4: he represents with this offense and and how do you
Speaker 4: feel when he kind of lines up behind you on
Speaker 4: the field.
Speaker 12: Uh, Pancake pat Man. You know that that name just
Speaker 12: fits him. You know, he the guy laying people out,
Speaker 12: doing pancakes and stuff like that. Uh, catching the ball
Speaker 12: sometimes out the batfield, running route sometimes.
Speaker 8: You know, p Pat must to do it all, you know,
Speaker 8: and he helps our offense out a lot.
Speaker 9: Lamar, do you.
Speaker 5: Feel like almost like you haven't been able to give
Speaker 5: your your the team? I mean not just you, but
Speaker 5: the team hasn't been able to give the Bangles your
Speaker 5: best shot these last couple of years down the stretch
Speaker 5: because of the various injury situations.
Speaker 13: And all that.
Speaker 12: Uh, yeah, I believe so. But you know that that
Speaker 12: just happens in football. You know, It's just happened to
Speaker 12: happen every time we play them. You know we have
Speaker 12: we have a lot of injuries or key guys go
Speaker 12: down versus them. But you know it's no excuses, you know,
Speaker 12: we we all got guys in the NFL, you know
Speaker 12: who who's getting paid the bus there behind.
Speaker 8: So it is what it is more now tough is
Speaker 8: it gonna be how to do this week? And you
Speaker 8: know you you know, you don't have JKB.
Speaker 7: Okay, you know Ronnie isn't practice in uh little ball
Speaker 7: and tout practice other talks.
Speaker 2: It when you don't have those calas.
Speaker 8: Uh, it's tough, you know, just because they are key players.
Speaker 12: But you know, we got guys who who gonna step up,
Speaker 12: you know and lead us, you know, out there on
Speaker 12: that field and do what they supposed to do.
Speaker 10: You talking about them JK.
Speaker 7: You know obviously it's.
Speaker 10: As Chelsea or in that type.
Speaker 8: It's different.
Speaker 12: Uh, just with that, but you know they have bust
Speaker 12: classes to try, all three of those guys just different
Speaker 12: you know period, you know. But well those guys also
Speaker 12: as explosive as well, just like JK, you know, and
Speaker 12: they gonna go out there and do what they supposed
Speaker 12: to do to help us win games.
Speaker 14: Ever more, when it comes to the center in particular,
Speaker 14: that's pretty important exchange from him to you, how is
Speaker 14: that is it gonna take some time to get used
Speaker 14: to that and with someone who's not tied.
Speaker 12: We we we're starting practice, you know, just practicing, getting
Speaker 12: extra repts, getting extra snaps.
Speaker 8: Uh, just because he's not Tyler.
Speaker 12: You know, Tyler's usually a guy who gets all the
Speaker 12: sn who me and him always exchange the snaps together.
Speaker 12: But uh, you know it's we were gonna work, we go,
Speaker 12: we gonna find a way to make it happen.
Speaker 8: No, that's a job to to do it or not.
Speaker 7: Many times since you FI with rass and have you
Speaker 7: guys been kind of considered underdogs? You know with coming
Speaker 7: you're playing, you're considered favorites this week because the agreies
Speaker 7: you know about the us about it, do you kind
Speaker 7: of relish the the times playing more are kind of
Speaker 7: considered underdog.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 8: I love being the underdog.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 12: I really don't care to be hyped up or you
Speaker 12: know they uh people just saying displaying like we on
Speaker 12: top of the league or anything like that. You know,
Speaker 12: I'd rather be the underdog because we always got something
Speaker 12: to prove and we always got a chip on our
Speaker 12: shoulder to go out there and win the game.
Speaker 5: What more is there a sense of they have what
Speaker 5: you guys want with the division titles and kind of
Speaker 5: the they're the hunted team at this point and in
Speaker 5: terms of your guys eyes.
Speaker 12: To be honest, we just got to go and focusing
Speaker 12: on the game at a time. Don't really care about
Speaker 12: you know, where we're ranked right now. You know, we
Speaker 12: just tryna go in there and win. You know, it's
Speaker 12: a division opponent more or last week.
Speaker 10: And have y'all set up markets communities you got there
Speaker 10: an ever options they have to up the tall get
Speaker 10: I think it's.
Speaker 5: All to be get one.
Speaker 4: So we wanted.
Speaker 10: H for y'all that option you can.
Speaker 8: You you have taken. Uh, just making a great decision
Speaker 8: not to play.
Speaker 12: You know, if if the defense gives gives me the
Speaker 12: ability to you know, run, give me the look to run,
Speaker 12: I'll run it, you know. But other than that, I'm
Speaker 12: just trying to put my team in the best position,
Speaker 12: not coold.
Speaker 7: Did you see that, your buddy that you gave your too.
Speaker 8: You didn't run as much?
Speaker 2: Did you see that comments?
Speaker 12: I think I've seen that yesterday. But I mean they
Speaker 12: didn't give me the chance to run, so it was cool.
Speaker 12: You know, we got the dub. I really don't care
Speaker 12: about running.
Speaker 2: We won.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson. You could tell that he's
Speaker 1: excited about this divisional matchup.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 1: Another big player for the Ravens is going to be
Speaker 1: running back Gus Edwards. JK Dobbins towards Achilles in the
Speaker 1: season opener and he has lost for the season, So
Speaker 1: that means that Edwards is going to be in line
Speaker 1: for an even bigger role than expected, and he talked
Speaker 1: about that today when he met with the media.
Speaker 13: Guys.
Speaker 4: Considering you know the timeline that both you and JK
Speaker 4: had with your injuries a couple of years ago, I mean,
Speaker 4: how tough is it to see him have to go.
Speaker 2: Through this again and know what he's facing, you know,
Speaker 2: with another rehab like that. It's tough.
Speaker 14: Man.
Speaker 13: The game could be unfair sometimes or the timing was
Speaker 13: just terrible for him. I know how hard he been
Speaker 13: working in the off season and how emotional he was
Speaker 13: before the game to be finally back, all three of
Speaker 13: us healthy and ready to go. Uh. I feel for him,
Speaker 13: you know, I checked up on him after the game.
Speaker 13: He's in good spirits. He's a tough guy and I
Speaker 13: know he gonna grind it out and he trust God's playing.
Speaker 8: So how do you feel? You know, you with the
Speaker 8: loss of of Jak how p how does this run game?
Speaker 13: How does it go for it? That's what we we
Speaker 13: get paid to do. Next guy, Uh mentality. Everybody got
Speaker 13: a family to feed, so we gotta step up and
Speaker 13: do that.
Speaker 15: Well what kuh?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 10: What do you feel like you would want the Justice brain?
Speaker 10: That's maybe different JJ Berners. Honestly play You're a different
Speaker 10: in the two year old year.
Speaker 13: Uh we could make we make plays. I I guess
Speaker 13: I bring a physical aspect. Justice is more more Uh
Speaker 13: speed a j agility guy. You know, I'm I'm excited
Speaker 13: for him too because I know he he's been he's
Speaker 13: primed to to have a good year. He's been working
Speaker 13: his tail off too, So I'm I'm excited for him
Speaker 13: to see what he does.
Speaker 9: Cause is a barberary of the Bangles. Uh do you
Speaker 9: feel like it's kicked up or now the last few
Speaker 9: years cause of just you know how they good good
Speaker 9: you guys have been, how good they become and like
Speaker 9: how important the game games have been to twenty guys.
Speaker 13: It's important we they w they on our schedule every
Speaker 13: every year more than once, feel like we always playing them. Uh,
Speaker 13: were ready for it? It's gonna be a physical game.
Speaker 13: Everybody's down then and we kN we know how big
Speaker 13: this is. It's early in the year, but it's it's
Speaker 13: a big game for us.
Speaker 16: Ya.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 7: He had this you know, raally sport for the last
Speaker 7: three times at Cincinnati, but didn't.
Speaker 11: Have for more in any of those games.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 7: How big is going up since at this game?
Speaker 13: Yeah, we we lost a couple of times, but I
Speaker 13: feel like we played strong games. You know, we was
Speaker 13: in those games til of every end. And with Lamar back,
Speaker 13: we got our leader back, and it's gonna be a
Speaker 13: lot of more big plays, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Cause MS while Yeah, in uh training camp kind of
Speaker 5: on the schedule, Like how fresh you feel at this
Speaker 5: point a week?
Speaker 8: Do and see soon? I feel great? I feel great.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 13: Practice has been good going well for me. Uh, haven't
Speaker 13: really been feeling having no setbacks. I'm ready, honestly, first
Speaker 13: game with the you know, new offense. Do you feel
Speaker 13: like having that game or about out work out some
Speaker 13: of the kings in this game? Yeah, we we definitely
Speaker 13: seen a lot of things that we had to work on.
Speaker 13: We hit those right on, didn't didn't dodge anything, didn't
Speaker 13: try to be secretive of buy anything. And we hit
Speaker 13: it right on and we we we got to work right,
Speaker 13: uh right back to work on it and making sure
Speaker 13: that we fixed fixed everything that we we messed up.
Speaker 7: Uh you would today ro Ronnie wasn't out there, Piler
Speaker 7: and Center wasn't out there. If those guys can't go,
Speaker 7: how big of a challenge, how big of a a
Speaker 7: test does it go into since at.
Speaker 13: Not having two of your your story homes. Oh, just
Speaker 13: just like the running back room is next guy up mentality?
Speaker 13: I f I feel like the old line, No, that too,
Speaker 13: they gotta step up. These are the players are stepping in.
Speaker 13: I believe all they They've gotten some playing time with
Speaker 13: us too, they get a lot of practice reps. They'll
Speaker 13: be ready and I'll have faith in them.
Speaker 10: What's got up?
Speaker 15: I know you know you said the next day and
Speaker 15: up a couple of times, and with JK going down
Speaker 15: for you personally, knowing you know the workloads about to
Speaker 15: increase and your important team this offense, how much do
Speaker 15: you take it upon yourself to kind of think, look,
Speaker 15: I gotta step up.
Speaker 13: That now's my time to do I'm I'm I I
Speaker 13: always been preparing like like like I was gonna get
Speaker 13: a lot of carries, so it's not really m too
Speaker 13: much of a difference for me, uh, making sure, just
Speaker 13: making sure that I'm conditioning and feeling good during practice,
Speaker 13: wearing myself out in practice so that way the game
Speaker 13: is easier for me. And I already been doing that,
Speaker 13: so I should be straight.
Speaker 10: What's the challenge that they that defensively? And is there
Speaker 10: any actu other day that you did a way that last.
Speaker 13: Times with that? Just that they they are team that
Speaker 13: know us and we know them. They're a team that
Speaker 13: that that I would say they they they they kind
Speaker 13: of like get guys to to on a team to
Speaker 13: try to like defend us, and we do the same.
Speaker 13: So we're very aware of with each other. I know
Speaker 13: it's gonna be, like I said, it's gonna be a
Speaker 13: physical game. The crowd is gonna be in there, everybody's
Speaker 13: gonna be in it. It's early on this season, but
Speaker 13: it's a big game and we're gonna treat.
Speaker 9: It like that.
Speaker 1: That was running back Gus Edwards. Another key player who
Speaker 1: is gonna have to step up is safety Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 1: Next to him, Marcus Williams went down with a peck
Speaker 1: injury in the season opener. He's gonna be out for
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future, So that means that there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on the second year safety Kyle
Speaker 1: Hamilton looked good during the season opener. He talked about
Speaker 1: offsetting the loss of Marcus Williams and his expectations moving forward.
Speaker 7: What's kind of the challenge for the secondary where you
Speaker 7: don't have.
Speaker 4: Marlin and.
Speaker 7: Trying to say something like that, and what's kind of
Speaker 7: the challenging with that secondary and.
Speaker 15: Not having true to your parents.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean those are two guys who was hard
Speaker 16: to make up for, or two of the best in
Speaker 16: our league. And you don't just come across guys like
Speaker 16: that very often. But I think we challenge ourselves every
Speaker 16: day and our coaches harp on it in practice that
Speaker 16: everybody has to be ready to play. They preach if
Speaker 16: you're in there, you're a starter. So I think guys
Speaker 16: like Gino and Ronald Darby, we brought in Rock. You're
Speaker 16: seeing Lamar salty because I took a spot in the podium.
Speaker 16: Uh but uh, yeah, I mean everybody's ready to play
Speaker 16: at any point.
Speaker 11: So guys, here's something included.
Speaker 16: I mentioned how good the communication was had, how much
Speaker 16: it improved since the last year, announcing it in game
Speaker 16: action and seeing what you guys did on the field.
Speaker 15: How much do you feel like that was important?
Speaker 4: How much further do you guys?
Speaker 16: Yeah, to your latter part, I think we can get
Speaker 16: a lot better with it. Myself included. Uh, I feel
Speaker 16: like that was the first time the starters got live bullets,
Speaker 16: and like we didn't play in PREZ and stuff like that,
Speaker 16: and uh, hitting people taking hits in the game, you
Speaker 16: get a little more tired, and it's a little harder communicate,
Speaker 16: and there's still stressful times and games where maybe we
Speaker 16: get a call late or there's a communication there and
Speaker 16: safeties have to relay it to DB's who are coming
Speaker 16: back from covering a go rounte stuff like that. It's
Speaker 16: just little nuances of the game that we'll get ironed out.
Speaker 16: But I think we did a good job overall. Not
Speaker 16: really any busted players or anything like that, and no
Speaker 16: balls over our head last week, So just try to
Speaker 16: do more the same.
Speaker 6: With eight months of perspective, What did you take away
Speaker 6: from that last game in Cincinnati last year? Obviously with
Speaker 6: disappointing ending, but especially on defense you guys.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, and in the last year that was
Speaker 16: it was low key mid obviously won to win a
Speaker 16: Super Bowl every year and pretty mid result last year.
Speaker 16: But this year, trying to make in a w and uh,
Speaker 16: you know, we've played these guys to our last three games,
Speaker 16: gonna be three out of last four, so getting familiar
Speaker 16: with them, and you know they're they're a good team,
Speaker 16: and we're going in there with a good game plan
Speaker 16: and just got to execute. We'll come out on top.
Speaker 11: Last year against you already big game when you go
Speaker 11: against your brow up, this kind of like hit when they.
Speaker 16: Yeah, he's super disciplined and the way he plays, he
Speaker 16: he takes what he can get and the great ones
Speaker 16: do that.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 16: He's very good at knowing what you're in and what
Speaker 16: you're uh. If you're not holding your looks very well,
Speaker 16: he's gonna uh dice you up. So we gotta be
Speaker 16: disciplined in our looks and try to make it a
Speaker 16: little cloudy for him, not making a clear picture.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 16: But yeah, like you said, he's a great quarterback and
Speaker 16: it's a big challenge for us, and they have weapons
Speaker 16: all over the field. So uh but like I said, earlier.
Speaker 16: I think we have the guys to to do it
Speaker 16: and contain it and hopefully go out there and get it.
Speaker 2: Ub you brought.
Speaker 4: The game your mind.
Speaker 16: Yeah, uh, playoff game was let's say it's September, so
Speaker 16: what eight months ago and obviously nothing we you can
Speaker 16: do about that now. And we got another opportunity, thankfully
Speaker 16: coming up to right that wrong. And I think it's
Speaker 16: more for myself be where your feed or kind of
Speaker 16: deal and get better from what you messed up in
Speaker 16: the past. But there's you always have opportunity in front
Speaker 16: of him, take advantage of it.
Speaker 5: You've only been you know, your second year. But did
Speaker 5: you sense maybe those Bengals games last year was a
Speaker 5: little chippier than your average NFL game you play on Sunday.
Speaker 5: Do you feel like there's lingering kind of rivalry bad
Speaker 5: beloved there at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 16: I mean, and like I was saying earlier, be with
Speaker 16: your feeder. But at the same time, we got to
Speaker 16: appreciate the past, and I understand the rivalry that goes
Speaker 16: into playing at Cincinnati and playing in the AFC North.
Speaker 16: In general, all four teens are what I would say rivals,
Speaker 16: and there's a pretty gritty understanding within the whole division,
Speaker 16: and you gotta be a certain kind of player to
Speaker 16: play on all four of these teams. So I think
Speaker 16: we take that mentality in every Division game and every
Speaker 16: other game as well, but especially Division games as they
Speaker 16: feel a little a little more like you got a
Speaker 16: little edge on your shoulder, chip on your shoulder going
Speaker 16: in the into there. And last year there are a
Speaker 16: couple of games who were that were pretty important. You know,
Speaker 16: the first game we played them last year was a
Speaker 16: week after the whole Tomorrow Hamlin thing happened, and that
Speaker 16: was a little heavy going in there and just understand
Speaker 16: what we're playing for and uh sacrifices that go into
Speaker 16: and how hard we play. And then second game going
Speaker 16: to the playoff game, obviously big implications on that. So
Speaker 16: this game game two in the season, it's hard to
Speaker 16: look down the line and see the impact of it,
Speaker 16: but this is a pretty big game for us early
Speaker 16: in the year.
Speaker 2: It's a good test.
Speaker 4: I don't know how much time you've got a chance
Speaker 4: to look at their week one film on all offense,
Speaker 4: but it seems like it was a lot of you know,
Speaker 4: dis guys coverages, changing up the picture, free stamped co snap.
Speaker 4: Did it feel like there were certain things that they
Speaker 4: took from how you guys played Joker for the last
Speaker 4: year Cleveland seen.
Speaker 16: I mean, every defense varies person in person, team to team.
Speaker 16: I know there's also some egos involved with DC taking
Speaker 16: taking other DC's play stuff like that, kind of believing
Speaker 16: their own stuff. But at the same time, I feel
Speaker 16: like we execute what we go out there and do
Speaker 16: differently than a lot of people, and it's hard to replicate.
Speaker 16: I mean, last week the Browns did a good job.
Speaker 16: They're physical and stuff like that, but that's not much
Speaker 16: about what the Browns do. It's not gonna have an
Speaker 16: impact on Sunday. You know, they're gonna be motivated to
Speaker 16: come in and home opener and play division rival, and
Speaker 16: they want to get a win too, so we have
Speaker 16: to go in play our bus football and get a win.
Speaker 14: You mentioned Gino as a guy who can step up,
Speaker 14: and he played a lot last year with Marcus. How
Speaker 14: important is chemistry on the back end and oh, well,
Speaker 14: do you feel you guys will.
Speaker 2: Kind of get each other back.
Speaker 16: Yeah, they're all worldly included. We all play probably too
Speaker 16: much video games together, a lot of Call of duty,
Speaker 16: So we go through some some arguments on the game,
Speaker 16: so we can definitely handle each other out here, but
Speaker 16: I mean in the locker room, in the lunch room,
Speaker 16: during lunch everything, it kind of feels like we're all brothers.
Speaker 16: All come from different backgrounds. I'm probably twelve years younger
Speaker 16: than and some guys in the locker room, but we
Speaker 16: all feel like we're kind of same. And that also
Speaker 16: stems with the dB room, a bunch of different guys.
Speaker 16: But like I said, Geno d World, everybody else in
Speaker 16: the room included. It's a kind of a one family,
Speaker 16: one unit kind of thing. And one guy goes down,
Speaker 16: it sucks for him, praying for him, but at the
Speaker 16: same time, it's another opportunity for another got to prove
Speaker 16: what he can do. So I'm excited for everybody, and
Speaker 16: Lamar's kicking me off the stand, so I appreciate it.
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