Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. Today's Wednesday, January fifteenth,
Speaker 1: and the Ravens like the practice field as it prepare
Speaker 1: for their Sunday AFC Divisional matchup against the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: After practice, we heard from head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: It'll be colder in here tomorrow when I get all
Speaker 2: the water shut off in here so the pipes don't freeze,
Speaker 2: so we even be colder, so we'll have a cold.
Speaker 2: Love to be outside, but we just can't. The fields
Speaker 2: are too hard and they're too frozen. But we'll get
Speaker 2: to work in We've had a lot of work in
Speaker 2: the cold. We've got a lot of work in the wind,
Speaker 2: and the elements are part of it, you know. And
Speaker 2: the other thing's going to be the footing on their field.
Speaker 2: We're thinking about that too. We want to make sure
Speaker 2: we've got good footing on the field. It's a turf
Speaker 2: field and it'll be hard and kind of frozen, so
Speaker 2: we're trying to think about all that. But really what
Speaker 2: we're thinking about is just executing our plays at the
Speaker 2: highest level we possibly can.
Speaker 3: I have you a share of big cold wins since
Speaker 3: you lead here.
Speaker 4: What is the the other things to sign whether.
Speaker 2: You have besides going on, well, just kind of what
Speaker 2: we're talking about in terms of operating and executing is
Speaker 2: the main thing. I mean, you've got you operate under duress.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the address of the of the opponent.
Speaker 2: It's also the address of the environment. And it's really
Speaker 2: the noise as much as anything, especially for the offense.
Speaker 2: But that's a two way street. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: we we have it at our stadium. Our defense has
Speaker 2: to operate that way too, and you know, both groups
Speaker 2: have to deal with communication, with with noise, you know,
Speaker 2: so being being on the same page, but also being
Speaker 2: on the same page as the snap count things like that,
Speaker 2: trying not to you know, put ourselves in first and
Speaker 2: fifteen those kind of things is very important.
Speaker 5: Looking seems to group preparing different mentally comparing with the
Speaker 5: regular seas.
Speaker 6: I don't see any different.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've been preparing at a really high level
Speaker 2: and maybe notched up a little bit. I mean you
Speaker 2: I think it's natural to kind of turn it up
Speaker 2: a notch, tighten it down a notch at the same time,
Speaker 2: and really get locked in for the task at hand.
Speaker 2: Every step along way, but every step along the way,
Speaker 2: we're trying to do it to the highest level we
Speaker 2: possibly can anyway, So our guys have done a great
Speaker 2: job of that. They continue to do a great job
Speaker 2: of that. That's why they're in the position they're in
Speaker 2: right now to have a chance to play a game
Speaker 2: like this.
Speaker 7: John even a part of so many big playoff games,
Speaker 7: and you know, everything goes into it, whether it's on
Speaker 7: the field, off the field, the hype, the tightness, the
Speaker 7: intensity when you're in those moments coaching. Does that leave
Speaker 7: and it gets back to football or is that constantly
Speaker 7: kind of in your mind of any big play, any
Speaker 7: big mistake and it's winner go home.
Speaker 2: No, it really did. You don't think that way during
Speaker 2: the game. You think about the game itself. I think
Speaker 2: one thing I've found is the margin for air in
Speaker 2: these games is tighter because you're playing really good teams.
Speaker 2: It's not so much that it's the opportunity to advance
Speaker 2: or or or the downside of not advancing. It's more
Speaker 2: the fact that you're playing, you know, one of the
Speaker 2: best teams in the National Football League. So you feel
Speaker 2: that way in those type games, like every position is
Speaker 2: really going to make the difference, and you want to
Speaker 2: make the most of every play, every possession.
Speaker 3: Point turnovers or you know, obviously a big deal, especially
Speaker 3: this time of year. I think they've had the fewest.
Speaker 3: You guys who are like third, Why have you been
Speaker 3: so successful in that area and how much of a
Speaker 3: player of emphasis has been particularly in.
Speaker 6: This time of the year.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a point of emphasis always and it's a
Speaker 2: point of emphasis right now big time because you know,
Speaker 2: for our offense, this defense takes the ball away a lot.
Speaker 2: We're going to try to take the ball away from
Speaker 2: them as much as we can and try to get
Speaker 2: them as uncomfortable as we can, of course, but also
Speaker 2: on on on on offense understanding that's how they play.
Speaker 2: You know, they try to put you in position where
Speaker 2: they create turnovers. So yeah, protecting the football is job one.
Speaker 2: You know, that was in our meeting today. It's pretty
Speaker 2: much in our meeting every week, but it was definitely
Speaker 2: in our meeting today. Might have been the number one
Speaker 2: point job one, number one, Uh, protect the football.
Speaker 8: Put you about Josh, Now you've seen dot R times
Speaker 8: every years, but what I presures you worry about him?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean an ultimate type competitor. You know, obviously
Speaker 2: he's got he's a fiery personality. He saw that a
Speaker 2: rookie year. I remember he came over the sideline and
Speaker 2: him and Suggs or something. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2: He got hit on the sideline or something.
Speaker 9: He came up.
Speaker 6: He came up.
Speaker 2: Swinging, man, and I respected that, you know. And I
Speaker 2: did tell him, I said, who whoa? You know, calm down?
Speaker 2: And I saw him at the Masters like that next
Speaker 2: year that spring and had a chance to hang out
Speaker 2: with him. He was there with Sam Darnold and had
Speaker 2: a few laughs about that whole deal. But a lot
Speaker 2: of respect for him. Competitive guy.
Speaker 10: I mean, you guys expect to be in this kind
Speaker 10: of round the playoffs every year, Like what didn't you
Speaker 10: kind of preached the scene whether it's an off season
Speaker 10: during the season. Pushing would have been a few years
Speaker 10: expresspect the quartificationis and and kind of knowing that if
Speaker 10: you do everything right, kind of put yourself in a
Speaker 10: position to have a win special seasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been. It's been a big point of emphasis
Speaker 2: for US patients in this sense. You can't win a
Speaker 2: game in one play. You can't win a game in
Speaker 2: one series or one drive or one quarter or even
Speaker 2: one half. You have to do it one play at
Speaker 2: a time for a whole game, and you've got to
Speaker 2: be patient and understand that there's gonna be there's gonna
Speaker 2: be momentum swings, there's gonna be good plays, there's gonna
Speaker 2: be they're gonna make plays. It's how you respond and
Speaker 2: and what you make of the next opportunity, really and
Speaker 2: understanding that so you don't lose yourself in the emotion.
Speaker 2: The momentum of the game is really important, and that's
Speaker 2: been a big emphasis and I think our guys, I
Speaker 2: believe our guys. I believe our guys have done a
Speaker 2: really good job of that and are very much aware
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 10: Right now, John, do you ask a veteran like Kyle
Speaker 10: van Noyd, He's been a lot of these battles, has
Speaker 10: been through Super Bowls.
Speaker 6: I know you have a couple justin.
Speaker 10: Tucker hazards well, but do you lean on him to
Speaker 10: talk to younger players at.
Speaker 6: All of this at this time.
Speaker 2: Sure, they do a great he does a great job
Speaker 2: of that, Tuck. Our veteran guys who have been in
Speaker 2: these games, they do a good job of that, Sure,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate that and our guys ask him.
Speaker 11: An you think that made the bag yourself to a
Speaker 11: reliable tight.
Speaker 12: Zone that thought?
Speaker 2: Well, I think he runs great routes, you know, and
Speaker 2: it's tight area. Things happen fast in the red zone
Speaker 2: and the good route runner is a big deal. I mean,
Speaker 2: people assume it's just size and you know, fifty to
Speaker 2: fifty and go get a ball type thing. But I
Speaker 2: think route running, that value of rout running the red
Speaker 2: zone really goes up.
Speaker 1: Next up is quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 8: You're not going specifically against Josh Allen in this game,
Speaker 8: but what you know as a fellow quarterback, what has
Speaker 8: always touched you about Josh Allen?
Speaker 12: His uniqueness of just making things happen when please break
Speaker 12: down strong on you make any throw in a field?
Speaker 2: Definitely youmar How can you describe by excitement going down
Speaker 2: in too, you know against Bills?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 6: The same as last week? Uh? I.
Speaker 12: I feel like our guys just locked in playoff atmospheres
Speaker 12: pretty much serious around the building. Our guys haven't been
Speaker 12: We been joking, but like not that much. You know,
Speaker 12: God's just locked in. Cause, like I said, a lot
Speaker 12: of us was here last year and we know, like,
Speaker 12: what's that state for us.
Speaker 14: Marsh Mart's supposed to be even colder in Buffalo than
Speaker 14: it was last weekend here.
Speaker 6: What what will you do to manage level?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 6: Hopefully we have some heaters on the salone.
Speaker 12: Uh bigger jacket, Yeah, probably, I gotta talk to a
Speaker 12: kaniko to see what he got going on equipment. Guys,
Speaker 12: they pretty much do a great job though, so we
Speaker 12: should be good.
Speaker 14: But you gor, you don't do gloves under any circumshance.
Speaker 6: Nah, I tried it in practice. I was horrible. Lead
Speaker 6: that up to Teddy. T to gloves Teddy Bridgewater try.
Speaker 3: Out of ten deside it it seems like you do
Speaker 3: handle the cold water pretty well.
Speaker 6: I mean, being a Florida guy.
Speaker 12: You know, everythink, Yeah, man, I'm tryna win, so it
Speaker 12: it really don't matter. I can't go into a game
Speaker 12: and be like missed too cold. I can't make things happen,
Speaker 12: you know, coaching them probably send me home. Every the'm'a
Speaker 12: be probably tryna come, you know, have me go up
Speaker 12: there upstairs and talk to him and stuff. So I
Speaker 12: gotta lock in in the cole well looking, you think it's.
Speaker 3: Made just thought They make such as a liabils of.
Speaker 4: Practice and stuff.
Speaker 12: Man him just being him, like we we seeing we
Speaker 12: we planting film on w Bateman just getting open on guys,
Speaker 12: you know. But the ball wasn't going his way, you know,
Speaker 12: cause it was always out of my hands or uh
Speaker 12: it's pressure or something back size, so he he wasn't
Speaker 12: able to get the ball. But us just watching film
Speaker 12: and just building chemistry over and over, you know, day
Speaker 12: and day out, and him just being the best feel
Speaker 12: he can be. He just lighting things up, making my
Speaker 12: job a lot easier, getting open even more, you know. Uh,
Speaker 12: And we got a lot of guys on our on
Speaker 12: our offense, Man tight ends a lot more. See, he
Speaker 12: was running back, so it's it's hard to keep a
Speaker 12: eye on one guy.
Speaker 14: Do you kind of get the sensitive This game is
Speaker 14: the main event this weekend and this this is a
Speaker 14: sort of the matchup that everybody wants to see.
Speaker 6: Then excuse me for everyone watching him, But I really
Speaker 6: don't care. Who's why you're in life?
Speaker 12: No, it it to me Like the players, us players,
Speaker 12: we just tryna win. We really don't care like how
Speaker 12: people feel about it. We tryna go in there and
Speaker 12: just win.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 12: That's a tough environment, tough, tough team, offense, defense, special team.
Speaker 6: We just tryna go down and win. So you don't
Speaker 6: feel any different as far as the build up to
Speaker 6: this match up.
Speaker 12: So we ah, I believe we already built up. You know,
Speaker 12: it's it's playoffs. It's like, it's not like we can
Speaker 12: go out there, lose a game and then get prepare
Speaker 12: for another game. You know, it's win to go home.
Speaker 12: So we we already like, let.
Speaker 4: Lamar, we know what your goal has been since you've
Speaker 4: gotten drafted here and you get to this time of
Speaker 4: year in the playoffs, obviously you're getting closer. But when
Speaker 4: you win a playoff game, what does that build? Does
Speaker 4: it make you think about the end goal anymore?
Speaker 6: How how do you handle playoff win? S lock in
Speaker 6: for the next week?
Speaker 12: You know, probably that night, you know, you cool talking
Speaker 12: about things that happen within the game. But after that,
Speaker 12: it's like, alright, we got another game. You know, it's
Speaker 12: no get high, get low, just stay focused.
Speaker 13: Oh, you guys have a.
Speaker 4: Lot of different polidations of receivers and tight ends in
Speaker 4: your game, various.
Speaker 1: Time class But how did that go operational?
Speaker 13: Interesting trands of everyone being on the same page.
Speaker 6: It was pretty smooth.
Speaker 12: D you, Like you said, everyone being on the same page.
Speaker 12: It just had everything flow smooth for us on the
Speaker 12: off the side of the ball.
Speaker 3: Lamar we saw art knots.
Speaker 10: In another instance, are you ha any catch your pants
Speaker 10: were falling.
Speaker 6: Down and that after? Nah, they put my pants down,
Speaker 6: one of 'em.
Speaker 12: Like, I guess they were just trying to tackle me,
Speaker 12: not literally pants a man, No, nothing like that, not
Speaker 12: nothing like that.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I was, you know, they just.
Speaker 12: Tacking me, got me, I guess, to aggress it, just
Speaker 12: making sure I was down. My pants slipped so hard.
Speaker 12: Knot stop putting that up.
Speaker 2: A new quarterbacks from the two thousand eighteen rap class, right,
Speaker 2: you're kind of this group, you're viewed as this group.
Speaker 3: What's your relationship with Josh Allen?
Speaker 2: Do you ever see him off season and any at
Speaker 2: any of these charity events or anything like that.
Speaker 6: Do you see Josh had it? I don't know.
Speaker 12: I probably seen Josh like early on in our career,
Speaker 12: like going to certain events like Super Bowl ro Super
Speaker 12: Bowl time and stuff like that, But off season, I
Speaker 12: really I don't really chill with people off season, like
Speaker 12: especially not other quarterbacks, like nothing like like, don't get
Speaker 12: me wrong, there's no problem or nothing like that. But
Speaker 12: it's like we compete against each other, like I'm trying
Speaker 12: to beat you. I'm not trying to be your friend.
Speaker 5: Do you think though, that because you guys were from
Speaker 5: the sting PFT past, that you'll kind of always be
Speaker 5: winked together? Yeah?
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. When we're older,
Speaker 12: we'll probably laugh about it. But right now it's serious.
Speaker 12: I ain't laughing with you.
Speaker 3: Right been probably two months I think, since you've thrown
Speaker 3: an interception. This is a team that well, but this
Speaker 3: is a team that I think is up there second
Speaker 3: or third in most takeaways. What if you and we
Speaker 3: saw it even last week at that end a half drive,
Speaker 3: you know, being intentional about you know, steal your are
Speaker 3: gonna be swiping get the ball and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: What what have you done this season to to really tighten.
Speaker 6: That part of of your game?
Speaker 12: Like, uh, just overly focused on that that part of
Speaker 12: the game. Uh, just protecting the ball. Cause just going back,
Speaker 12: like I said, just watching film. Uh, a lot of
Speaker 12: our games came down to us what turned over us
Speaker 12: getting back on track stuff like that. So coach over
Speaker 12: emphasizing that on us, like making sure you know, ball
Speaker 12: security this and that and that plays a part with
Speaker 12: me not just fumbling, but keeping the ball out of
Speaker 12: the receiv uh defender's hands as well, you know, put
Speaker 12: the ball with my own of my receiver can catch
Speaker 12: the ball and make moves. So that's pretty much just
Speaker 12: been a uh all around over emphasis focus for us.
Speaker 5: The more you p were able to put up twenty
Speaker 5: points without s having say out there, uh, it's say
Speaker 5: is still unable to play? How big of a challenge
Speaker 5: does that put on this offense when you don't have
Speaker 5: a say out there?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 6: Y I it's a huge challenge.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 12: That's God been been with us all season long, been
Speaker 12: making things happen for us, and just him being him
Speaker 12: what he brings to the game. Uh, it's like we
Speaker 12: gonna miss that. But you know we got guys who
Speaker 12: locked in and and ready to step up to the
Speaker 12: plate for us.
Speaker 3: Come on, this this a you're seven for you?
Speaker 10: I mean, do you think you have as a greater
Speaker 10: appreciation of understand what it takes foot wave in the
Speaker 10: play less than in say clean fifteen twenty twenty.
Speaker 12: Uh I always had the appreciation, we just didn't come
Speaker 12: out with successful. But yeah, it's just it's just different
Speaker 12: from like you, like you said, like they experienced part
Speaker 12: of it, like certain things you had to clean up
Speaker 12: in those playoff games that the ones we won, we
Speaker 12: didn't really have those problems th the with the ones
Speaker 12: we lost. You know, So just me watching like I said,
Speaker 12: watching film and learning from my mistakes should make things
Speaker 12: a lot easier, make things a lot easier for me.
Speaker 6: T more two more you.
Speaker 13: Uh's a team you're coming off again when you put
Speaker 13: up almost three hundred yards on the ground and get success,
Speaker 13: runs ball that this guys the first time around? How
Speaker 13: important did you take especially kind of full light of
Speaker 13: the one games w G this game?
Speaker 6: Uh uh, I feel like that.
Speaker 12: Just play a football, especially in the playing up north,
Speaker 12: you gotta be a run football, especially with the.
Speaker 6: Cold to win the cold, really, the cold really don't
Speaker 6: play that part.
Speaker 12: It would be the win really, you know. So sometimes
Speaker 12: you got to run that ball. You know, it'll be
Speaker 12: a huge part.
Speaker 4: Lam you played obviously beat these guys earlier this year,
Speaker 4: but and it's been a few years since you played
Speaker 4: them in the playoffs.
Speaker 6: But does that last playoff game matter to you?
Speaker 1: Do you?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I just saw like I just you know, I
Speaker 12: just hear the clip they always like to post like
Speaker 12: they like to throw that out, the little interception return.
Speaker 12: Yeah we yeah, yeah, Yeah, That's all I'm gonna say
Speaker 12: about that.
Speaker 13: Though.
Speaker 1: Then we heard from tight end Mark Andrews.
Speaker 3: What stood up for here from that last playoff?
Speaker 13: You remember, now?
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, of course you know, and I think
Speaker 11: you know Lamar talked about it's just being able to
Speaker 11: learn from your mistakes and you know, growing throughout the years.
Speaker 11: And I think that this team is is different than
Speaker 11: you know, all the teams in.
Speaker 6: The past, and uh, we're be ready to go.
Speaker 10: Sorry, we've seen you play a physical brand of football. Obviously,
Speaker 10: Derek Carry is piece himself.
Speaker 6: Is there if you think you appreciate.
Speaker 10: The difference for defenders and trying to tackle someone or
Speaker 10: your degree whether as opposed to get especially after football kind.
Speaker 11: Of season, the guys involving a part of yeah, I
Speaker 11: think there is. But at the same time, it's both
Speaker 11: teams going through it. It's both teams, you know, just
Speaker 11: being out to be physical and have a guy like
Speaker 11: that and you know, he's a he's a tough tackle
Speaker 11: to begin with. But you know, these are two teams
Speaker 11: that are are used to you know, cold type weather.
Speaker 11: It's it's all business for for us, and we're not
Speaker 11: gonna be thinking about that.
Speaker 14: Do you have really good mental process that you go
Speaker 14: through when you know the conditions are going to be rough?
Speaker 14: I mean you seem like a no sleeves guy pretty
Speaker 14: much any any any type of year. But like, how
Speaker 14: do you get in that space?
Speaker 11: You know, it's just it's like it's war time. You know,
Speaker 11: it's time to go to war. It's accepting anything and everything.
Speaker 3: Do you have any tricks for how you try to
Speaker 3: stay war?
Speaker 6: Just keep moving, That's all it is.
Speaker 11: Just keep moving.
Speaker 13: Or you talk about just kind of the experience of
Speaker 13: past playoff games, how do you think that like those
Speaker 13: experiences when we went to even Buffalo, other playoff games,
Speaker 13: how have those shape that you as a team and
Speaker 13: to help you be in a good position to summer?
Speaker 11: Well, I think you know, this team right now is
Speaker 11: playing really good football, you know, offensively, uh and moving
Speaker 11: the ball, being efficient, you know, not making mistakes. And
Speaker 11: I think that we've grown throughout the year and then uh,
Speaker 11: we're we're not hurting ourselves as much and just being
Speaker 11: able to to play efficient in football. Take care of
Speaker 11: the football is the main thing, especially in the playoffs,
Speaker 11: when you have you know, our type of team.
Speaker 6: Mark mark Mark.
Speaker 5: When you go into a game where you know everyone's
Speaker 5: talking about, hey, this is the game of the week.
Speaker 5: Some people are going, hey, this could be the one
Speaker 5: of the best playoff games. And in recent memory, with
Speaker 5: all this build up, you're you're gonna be playing this game.
Speaker 5: Do you feel that build up or is this just
Speaker 5: a regular playoff game?
Speaker 11: It's it's the you know, for us, it's it's week
Speaker 11: by week. We're focused on this individual week against a
Speaker 11: great opponent, but focused on ourselves and uh and doing
Speaker 11: our job to the best of our ability. If we
Speaker 11: if we do that and we're militant and we do
Speaker 11: the right things, you know, there's gonna be great things.
Speaker 13: I had along those lines. You know, outside everyone's talking
Speaker 13: about Lamar versus Josh Allen, and Lamar always says a
Speaker 13: lot playing against you always, he reported that planning against
Speaker 13: How do you think that that mentality that he has
Speaker 13: on that front helps the team of the offense not
Speaker 13: get caught off the hapa an area.
Speaker 11: Well, I think that it's just you know, not trying
Speaker 11: to do too much just being himself, and he does
Speaker 11: that weekend and week out, you know, fighting fighting for
Speaker 11: the win. And it's no different this game. You know,
Speaker 11: it's just gonna be him competing his butt off.
Speaker 10: Like the worry he is.
Speaker 7: Markin is not so much about what Labar is able
Speaker 7: to do. On the theme, it's almost every week they
Speaker 7: talk about the next thing he's done. Is there anything
Speaker 7: this season or even this playoff run that is different
Speaker 7: about him off the field with his preparations or even
Speaker 7: just from your personality.
Speaker 4: Stay play the stays out to him.
Speaker 11: I just think the knowledge and and everything of seeing things,
Speaker 11: it's like, uh, you know when he's in the game
Speaker 11: and seeing different looks, seeing you know, you know, maybe
Speaker 11: what to check to, what to go to, and and
Speaker 11: making incredible reason decisions. And that's what it boils down to.
Speaker 11: And you know he's always been great at that, but
Speaker 11: he's he's able to you know, kind of you reach
Speaker 11: another level.
Speaker 3: Mark Anthony Miller catches something last weekend Tyle the wall
Speaker 3: inside of Big Wan encouraging is it to be able
Speaker 3: to be spreading.
Speaker 11: The ball around through the pool re seat in that
Speaker 11: way and then say is it's awesome it's awesome. We
Speaker 11: have we have a bunch of depth and guys that
Speaker 11: can step up and make plays and and that are
Speaker 11: playing really good football. And for us to be able
Speaker 11: to do that and spread the ball around and be
Speaker 11: dangerous at all the positions is is tough on a defense.
Speaker 11: So you know, we're we're counting on those guys to
Speaker 11: continue to make plays, step up and and fit in
Speaker 11: different roles to help this offense.
Speaker 10: Go markod pry Johnson the step first catch up against
Speaker 10: you guys, and he's what's the guy can playing at
Speaker 10: a high level.
Speaker 6: Holmpart to see.
Speaker 11: But look at them, TOSSI, yeah, I got so much
Speaker 11: respect for those guys. And you know they got they
Speaker 11: got a couple of guys coming back, and so we
Speaker 11: know the tope of players that they are and how
Speaker 11: are they play, and the type of defense they're very
Speaker 11: sound and everything like that. So for us, it's about
Speaker 11: doing our job and playing as hard as we can.
Speaker 5: You see when Derek Hery goes out there and he's
Speaker 5: stepping on the guys to the ground like fans go
Speaker 5: crazy as an outfit. How much does that kind of
Speaker 5: does that have an effect one on the offense as well,
Speaker 5: when you see Derrick Henry and his physicalness out there.
Speaker 11: Yeah, personally, I just I feel like every time you know,
Speaker 11: you know, the balls he's gonna get, you get a touch,
Speaker 11: it's you know, you just want to fight for him.
Speaker 11: You want to fight for him because he's so good
Speaker 11: at you know, finding space and and and and hitting
Speaker 11: it downhill and and and rolling rolling fast. And so
Speaker 11: when you have a guy like that, just being able
Speaker 11: to get on a guy and he's going to make
Speaker 11: you right. So it's it's playing as hard as you
Speaker 11: can and find out a block because he's dangerous.
Speaker 13: Mark on hard knocks.
Speaker 14: We heard, uh, we heard Derek and Lamar say, you know,
Speaker 14: first of four after you after you won the Pittsburgh game.
Speaker 14: I've heard you many times over the year say it's
Speaker 14: really one week at a time, But do you also
Speaker 14: sort of keep the super Bowl? Is that is that
Speaker 14: somewhere in the corner of your mind kind of that
Speaker 14: bigger picture of the mission or not?
Speaker 9: Really?
Speaker 11: I think the focus of this team is, like you said,
Speaker 11: it's week by week, but you know this is you know,
Speaker 11: three four weeks, you know, for the rest of our lives,
Speaker 11: you know, why not give it everything? You got to
Speaker 11: be the best that we can. And I think that
Speaker 11: just the focus and the energy and the the camaraderie
Speaker 11: of this group is buying in and they're all in.
Speaker 1: Finally we heard from cornerback Marlin Humphrey.
Speaker 5: Well, and then you're going against the Josha Allen you've
Speaker 5: faith in a few times in the past.
Speaker 14: What have you kind of learned from those matchups.
Speaker 15: He's definite a competitor, I would say, I mean, it's ah,
Speaker 15: I guess it's the some of the guys were talking.
Speaker 15: It's we were talking about quarterbacks you hate playing the
Speaker 15: most based off who would be like closest to Lamar?
Speaker 15: How is it able to just keep a play going?
Speaker 15: You know, it's the play is really never over. And
Speaker 15: then you know when he runs he is a big dude,
Speaker 15: you know he he he can joke you, but he
Speaker 15: can run you over and keep running very easily. So
Speaker 15: just a super tough quarterback to go against. But that's
Speaker 15: the biggest thing, if I had to put on one thing,
Speaker 15: it is just the places never over.
Speaker 9: Marlin.
Speaker 14: It seems like a lot of commentators around the NFL
Speaker 14: world are sort of treating this as the main event
Speaker 14: of the weekend, everybody is excited to watch this, or
Speaker 14: do you do you enjoy being a part of that
Speaker 14: or do you sort of have to keep it narrower
Speaker 14: than that.
Speaker 9: I I don't know. I can't really speak on the
Speaker 9: behalf of you know, knowing that the or the main
Speaker 9: event thing.
Speaker 15: Something I've realized is as the playoffs go, our locker
Speaker 15: room TV usually says on ESPN, but as the playoffs
Speaker 15: get smaller, there's only a couple team to talk about.
Speaker 15: So we've gone that to change some channels in the
Speaker 15: locker room. So we're we're we're missing.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 15: I guess I'm not knowing as much of the main event,
Speaker 15: the media stuff as much, but no, I think I
Speaker 15: would definitely be lying if I didn't. I feel like
Speaker 15: this is a chance for you know, who's gonna win
Speaker 15: the m v P type thing, and uh, I feel
Speaker 15: like on our side on defense, you know, we want
Speaker 15: to play well. So our quarterback can you know, get
Speaker 15: that praise, get that glory. We want him to go
Speaker 15: out and shine. But it's uh, it's it's gonna be
Speaker 15: a iconic event. I think I just saw Richard clip
Speaker 15: from Richard Sherman and he was like, not.
Speaker 9: That it's all about the quarterback. But it is essentially
Speaker 9: about the quarterback.
Speaker 15: But he was saying, you know, whoever comes out of
Speaker 15: this game will kind of be that next quarterback up
Speaker 15: and whoever goes down. So it's a I definitely think
Speaker 15: it'll be a huge game for the NFL, huge game
Speaker 15: for the fans.
Speaker 9: I think, uh it'll be uh, it'll be a very
Speaker 9: very good, uh good day.
Speaker 13: Like you've you've watched Derek Henry for a while, you're
Speaker 13: going against him, you know, having him on your side
Speaker 13: for a game where it's being be really cold. How
Speaker 13: big of an asset is that, you know for a
Speaker 13: team that to know that he's he's in the backfield
Speaker 13: on a cold night where running the Balkans unimportant.
Speaker 9: Yeah, having having him is huge.
Speaker 15: You know he's you know, he's upset us in our
Speaker 15: in our stadium, and uh he also just put on
Speaker 15: a great performance with us, so I know it's it's
Speaker 15: no fun taking those hits because he usually brings the
Speaker 15: hit to you, to the defender. So it's great having
Speaker 15: him on the team. I think something that I've really
Speaker 15: been impressed with with with him, you know, being with
Speaker 15: him in college, but seeing him the you know, he's
Speaker 15: always a pretty locked in guy, but seeing the urgency
Speaker 15: he takes the approach, just the locked inness that I've
Speaker 15: seen him over these these past couple of weeks end
Speaker 15: of the season. I mean, he's it seems like he's
Speaker 15: locked in on a different level, and I think, uh
Speaker 15: that that's really helping keep the poise, keep the team.
Speaker 15: So I've really been impressed with just just how he
Speaker 15: how he operates. I mean, he's he's a he's a pro,
Speaker 15: he's been all year. But you know, seems like as
Speaker 15: we got closer to the postseason, finishing up some of
Speaker 15: those games and in this past game, and it seems
Speaker 15: like his his poise is locked in.
Speaker 9: This is kind of went to another level.
Speaker 5: What's it like though, when you you know, you go
Speaker 5: ahead to have at times had to be on the
Speaker 5: other side of Derrick Henry.
Speaker 9: What's it like to try to tackle him? He's moving
Speaker 9: a lot faster than what he looks.
Speaker 15: That's probably what really messes up the corners when he
Speaker 15: hits the edge head messed up the linebacks. And then
Speaker 15: he's his arms are he is a specimen of a
Speaker 15: of a build, of a of a it. You know,
Speaker 15: you kind of think you can tackle him and sometimes
Speaker 15: it works, but if he stiff arms you, it's it's
Speaker 15: just different, and it's uh, it's he's definitely one of one.
Speaker 15: But I think the the visual and what's actually happening
Speaker 15: doesn't really match up. He's like, oh, I have a
Speaker 15: perfect angle, then he gets around you, or is like,
Speaker 15: oh I can tackle him right here, and then you
Speaker 15: know not to get on my Gymenca Mincas was right there.
Speaker 15: It was looking all good and then just out of nowhere,
Speaker 15: just a stiff arms to the face and it's it's
Speaker 15: a strong it's more of a punch.
Speaker 9: Honestly, probably should be Mike.
Speaker 15: She could be illegal, honestly because it's really a punch almost,
Speaker 15: But you know, if he's on my team, it's good.
Speaker 15: If it's against me, I want it to be illegal,
Speaker 15: but it uh, he's just different. So I know, uh,
Speaker 15: the the Bills will have there and uh they it'll
Speaker 15: be tough.
Speaker 14: Well, obviously you guys are viewing week four when when
Speaker 14: you played the Bills, what really stood out that you
Speaker 14: guys did well as.
Speaker 6: A defense and as a veteran player.
Speaker 3: When you have a rematch three months later, how do
Speaker 3: you try to approach that and even.
Speaker 14: Maybe vocalized talking with younger players to not be over
Speaker 14: confident or assume that it's going to go the same way.
Speaker 6: To pretend to before.
Speaker 15: Yeah, for for us and them, it seems like all
Speaker 15: their best numbers came, you know, after that game, as
Speaker 15: far as them offensively, and then for us, you know,
Speaker 15: we've moved around a lot of pieces as well on defense.
Speaker 15: So I feel like it's you know, and that seems
Speaker 15: so long ago. I mean, I had to, we had
Speaker 15: to really look back and and see even what we did,
Speaker 15: what they did, but it's it's definitely a different different
Speaker 15: on both sides. So it really we haven't really watched
Speaker 15: too much as a team tape of of that game
Speaker 15: just because they've done so many things different. Added Coop
Speaker 15: got some guys back on the defensive side, so it's
Speaker 15: just such a different That was actually a game on
Speaker 15: defense we actually were able to play decently well. But
Speaker 15: some of the changes and that we made since then,
Speaker 15: it's kind of some of the calls that we've changed.
Speaker 15: We kind of feel like we have a different identity ourselves,
Speaker 15: So it kind of seems like pretty fresh being there.
Speaker 15: It was just so long ago, so there really isn't much,
Speaker 15: you know, comparison really to that that Week four game.
Speaker 1: How you handle cold weather games like what you're gonna
Speaker 1: get in Buffalo.
Speaker 15: I thinking of the last time we were in Buffalo,
Speaker 15: or maybe the playoffs in Buffalo. I don't really handle
Speaker 15: it too different. I remember Marcus Peters on the team
Speaker 15: at that time, and you know, we have the heaters
Speaker 15: on the sideline, and you know, you can look up
Speaker 15: and see the timeout clock. It usually starts in like
Speaker 15: two minutes, then it goes all the way down in
Speaker 15: the ref will give the you know, ten seconds mark,
Speaker 15: and Marcus Peters will still be on the sideliness about
Speaker 15: the heater. So that is not how I will handle it.
Speaker 15: But I will stay on the I might stay on
Speaker 15: the sideline a little longer with the heater, but I
Speaker 15: will I will cut it a lot closer than the
Speaker 15: ten second mark. I will I am more of a
Speaker 15: thirty second guy. But really really no different. I've always
Speaker 15: wanted to play in like three feet of snow to
Speaker 15: where all they can do is run the ball. It
Speaker 15: will not be that snowy, but really no different. I
Speaker 15: know they're very used to the cold, but I mean
Speaker 15: it gets cold enough in Baltimore, so, uh, I don't
Speaker 15: I don't think it'll be much different.
Speaker 14: I think the coldest home game in team history.
Speaker 9: You warmed up without a shirt.
Speaker 15: Yeah, well, you know there's a possibility, there's a possibility
Speaker 15: if my mom doesn't, you know, get too mad at
Speaker 15: me and tell them, tell me I'm gonna get sick
Speaker 15: and getting my.
Speaker 6: Yah and everything. But yeah, so that that was.
Speaker 9: That was a cold game.
Speaker 15: I do remember that one. But now I'm excited. I'm
Speaker 15: glad to go to Buffalo. I know they're fans, It'll
Speaker 15: it'll be crazy in there. So it's it's kind of
Speaker 15: a football player's dream to to be in a tough environment,
Speaker 15: you know, really crazy profful fans. And I'm sure the
Speaker 15: flock we'll we'll bring whoever can make the trip, and
Speaker 15: we'll appreciate uh all that can come.
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