WEBVTT - John Harbaugh: Ravens Press Conference 10/28/24 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.520 Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday, 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.240 October twenty eighth. The Ravens fell to the Cleveland Browns 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.119 twenty nine to twenty four on Sunday, and the Ravens 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:14.440 are now five and three on the season. Today we 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.080 heard from head coach John Harbaught during his standard Monday 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:19.040 afternoon presser. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.920 Okay, appreciate everybody being here, getting ready for Denver, looking 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.240 hard at that team. A team has been playing really well, 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.879 been hot, and we're gonna have a hands full, but 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:34.879 we're looking forward to the challenge. You can't wait to 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.839 get back at it this week. So what question do you. 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.880 Have, John, You have made changes for a long defense, 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.519 adding Dean and Thelman personnel with Marcus. Do you foresee 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.520 making any other kind of changes to help the defense alone? 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:52.720 Well, I mean it depends what kind of changes are 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.520 available to us. We're going to continue to turn over 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.240 every stone with our defense and with every other part 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.920 of our team too, you know, to to get as 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:03.480 good as we can get it during the course of 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:08.720 a long season, ups and downs, challenges, you know, good 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.000 plays and not good plays. So it's a lot of 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.480 things we can improve on. We'll do whatever we can do. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.920 You press confidence after the game, marks players and would 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.320 go on to player in football in years. Do you 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.680 anticipate when happen necessarily being a one game thing, and 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.319 do you expect him to play against enders? 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:26.880 Yeah? I mean, I'm not going to probably try to 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:28.400 get in too much about who's going to play, who's 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.080 not going to play in the game. But I'll just 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.120 reiterate what I said before. Marcus is a heck of 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.600 a player. I have the utmost confidence in him as 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.959 a player, as a person, as a pro. He's a 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.920 great person. He's a hard worker, plays hard, practice is hard, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.520 does everything at the highest level. And I anticipate in 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.800 playing great football for us, you know, all season and 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:50.440 very soon. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.840 Is there any any thogal him not being active yesterday? 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.920 Yeah, I think we don't ever really probably getting too 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:00.920 much of the thought process and that kind of stuff. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.400 It just it goes the way it goes. We make 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.440 the decisions that we make based on the best judgment 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.560 we can make, try to do our best to try 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.400 to do what we can go. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.400 You gotta spend a lot of time with defensive facts, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:15.200 catch the balls or practice one. 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.080 Why isn't this sort of was it translating the games 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:19.200 and what else can you possibly do? 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.200 That's a great question, you know, that's a really great question, Todd. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:22.560 Uh. 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.720 There's probably a lot of factors that are pretty hard 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.040 to measure on that, but yeah, there's no doubt. I mean, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.040 you know, we lead the league in those drops. They 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.919 are interception wise, that's it's no secret. And those are 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.440 those are huge plays. Man, there's a huge opportunity plays 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.720 I'm gonna choose to look at like those players are 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.640 going to get made, you know, and that's the upside 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.240 for us. Man, That's that's low hanging fruit way I 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.920 see it going forward. That's where you can make a 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.760 huge difference in your play. I mean, how many fewer 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.760 plays you have to play, how many fewer scoring opportunities 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.640 they have? The difference in points, it's massive, you know, 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.280 making those plays. So we'll make those plays. We'll work 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.239 hard at it, and we'll continue to work even harder 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.200 at it, you know, because because it's something that we 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:02.679 want our guys to have confidence. And you know, we 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.880 get guys with good hands, you know, they can catch 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.440 the ball. So I'm pretty I'm very confident that we're 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:09.600 going to do it. Going forward, but I'd like to 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:10.600 see it happen real soon. 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:13.760 On that slant. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.160 Touchdown, Ropemont Smith is screaming the whole way to come 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:18.320 back across a lot of screwed. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.280 He's still in motion getting with the ball a snap. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.200 And are not ready. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:23.120 Yeah, no, they weren't. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.919 What's happening there. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.120 Yeah, it just that's what happened. It's every one of 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.160 those are different, and uh, you know, we've had a 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:30.760 few of those this year. I mean, if I watch 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.600 defenses around the league, I can tell you it happens 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.280 a lot. It's not unusual with all the no huddle 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.280 and all the different things you get. But we didn't 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:38.720 do a good job with that. You know, We've got 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.920 to do a much better job with that. That's not good. 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.800 Especially don't want to happen in the red zone, you know, 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.760 because that's when you have it in the red zone, 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.440 that's going to be a score a lot of times. 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.160 So it's it's it's what defenses face nowadays in the NFL. 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.600 There's a lot of moving parts to the offenses, and 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.680 when you're trying to match personnel and match formations, you 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.400 got to be on point, you know, And we're not 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.280 on point with that play. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.200 John, I mean, I know that's something you're continuously trying 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.600 to improve it. But is it frustrated that it seems 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:12.040 that it seems like communication issues blar up pretty often, 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:13.200 it seems like to this point. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:14.760 Yeah, I mean, you know, like I said, I watch 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:16.360 a lot of tape and I see it all around 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.279 the league, and so I'm not gonna single out our guys, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.120 but I'm gonna we're gonna coach our guys. You know, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.680 our guys are our concerned. So yeah, we're concerned with 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.360 our guys and our guys being the very best they 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.960 can be. So we'll chase that. We're gonna get it 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.480 better and better and better. And uh, I don't know 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.960 if we'll get it perfect, but we're gonna try, and 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:35.840 we're gonna. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:41.159 Any Reds. Looking back at the fourth down decision, or 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:42.920 wasn't the lack of execution when. 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.440 You looked at the top, Uh, Well, I think if 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.800 you look that, that's a pretty clear cut go you know, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.359 most of the time around the league, especially at the 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.960 plus ten yard line, and I have confidence in our 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.720 guys to get that, plus the ability to to keep 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.679 them backed up, you know, is probably a real plus 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.240 there at the ten. That's why, That's why it's a 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.840 clear cut go. I think most of the time we're 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.640 going to get that. Look at last week, we got one. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.640 It was more than that. It scored a touchdown on it. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.840 So my only regret, if you want to call it 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.400 a regret, is that we didn't make it. You know, 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.800 I'm not in love with the fact that we didn't 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.719 get it. I hate the fact that we didn't get it. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:20.039 So that's the disappointment there, John can I I just 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:21.920 want to clarify something on Marcus Williams. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.720 You said yesterday it was a personnel decision, but you 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.039 also said it was an internal type of situation. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.200 I want to make sure I don't I. 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.040 Think I have anything else to say about that. You know, 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.480 it's what we do. It's what there's a lot of 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.239 there's a lot of things going on all the time, 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.800 you know, and a lot of it's kind of our business, 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.400 you know, it kind of belongs in house. It's between us, 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.200 and it's not something that we need to tell everybody 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.040 everything about. I don't think you're telling everybody about your 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.400 family business. I don't think everybody's asking about everybody's kind 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.200 of things. There's some things that we can just choose 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.440 to kind of keep to ourselves, and that's going to 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.400 be one of them. And you know, you know, I 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.960 never get up here and talk about why we put 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.960 guys up or put guys down. You know, I never had, 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.440 so probably not gonna start doing that. Now. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.560 You're fishing depth concern on the defensive line this coming 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.000 weekend with peerside the injury yesterea Travis is hurting or 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:10.839 Benson PROTOCOLO. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:12.840 I mean, is a tough, tough situation right. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.039 Now, Yeah, tough situation we have to be. You know, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.520 we've got guys I would like to have those guys 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.360 out there, but we also have guys that can step 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.560 up and play, and got guys on a practice squad, 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.920 and we're gonna have guys that are gonna be ready 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.000 to go and stopping the run. This this game is 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.680 gonna be really important, Chiles. It's gonna be huge. This 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.400 is the running team, you know, and they run it 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.080 really well and they run it a lot, so it's 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.760 gonna be a big, big part of the game plan. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.480 Here's here's possibly a longer term thing. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.360 Or do you yeah, just like I don't know it's Monday, 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.480 we'll see. 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.360 That was your question along those lines, just in terms 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.360 of the personnel, and I know you can't get into 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.159 specific players and so with other players, but that's something 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.679 you and Eric will will look out to trade deadline 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.440 approaching that you guys will look hard at whether it's 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.200 an drusher or another position and things like that. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.480 Yeah, I don't. I think that we definitely will because 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.360 that's what Eric does, you know, Eric, and as guys 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.640 do that, I'm not, you know, I like, I love 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.440 our guys. I love our roster. I feel like our 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.840 roster is really good, and I think every one of 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.920 our guys is going to play really well down the 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.400 stretch to the best of their ability. You know. I mean, 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.840 I know we lost the game. It's disappointing, it's tough, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.880 and uh and we hate it, you know, we all 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.520 hate it. And we didn't play well enough to win. 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:33.920 We didn't make the plays we needed to make, we 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.440 didn't make the calls we needed to make to win 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.280 the game. But that doesn't mean I don't love our players. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.760 I mean our players and our coaches. Uh, they're they're 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.720 they're great. They're great players, and we're gonna play great football. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.520 John here, Yesterday was kind of a unique circumstance with 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.840 your numbers on the he doesn't live with the injuries. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.480 What the pass u In the second half, you guys 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.560 did blitz a little more than you typically have blitzed 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:57.080 this year. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.960 Do you think that it's more mornings we got from. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.239 The scheme standpoint as the guys with the World One matchups. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.080 I know it's never just one thing, but. 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.560 What are you Yeah, I'm happy with it a lot 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.120 of times. I think if you look at the stats 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.000 and all that kind of what you're referring to, it's 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.880 it's not as consistently there as you're gonna want it 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.800 to be. And I think some of that is the 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.040 fact that we played some really mobile quarterbacks. We've had 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.680 the kind of cage rush a little bit. That wasn't 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.960 the case yesterday. You know, that's one I would have liked. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.400 You've gotten him off the spot a little more, a 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:30.440 little quicker. So we did blitz, and they were getting 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.000 the ball out fast most of the time when we did. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.400 But there's also times on play action, especially on first down, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.760 where he held it, and that's because you're stopping the 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.240 run first and we weren't stopping the run as well 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.000 as we have, you know, so we're playing run defense 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:43.679 and you've got a transition and you've got the bigger 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.720 guys on the field, and I think that's when the 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.600 time really kind of stacked up in terms of him 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:48.839 being able to throw the ball in some of those 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.520 deep windows, some of those chunk throws. So you know, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.320 maybe that's somewhere we've got to do more blitzing, you know. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.160 And first and second down we did something you know, 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.080 is that called a couple edge blitzeres that got there. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.440 So we'll be looking real hard at. 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:06.000 That giving the decision on Marcus would what's your takeaways? 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.920 Are theirs Washington's task to do a lot? And what 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.480 was your assessmental Key in Eddie Jackson. 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:12.920 I thought they played solid football. You know, they were 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.280 in the right spot doing the right things, uh the 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.800 vast majority of time. UH. And I thought they played hard, Uh, 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.000 made some good tackles and and made you know, we're 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.400 in solid position at the times, and I think for 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:26.679 all of us, I mean, we all want to just 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.520 make a few more plays, you know, get a few 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.680 more get a few more pressures, get a few more sacks, 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.920 Get a few more batted balls, Get a few more 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.640 PBUs you know that'd be good. Get get in a 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.600 couple of catch the ball in their receptions. You know 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.280 those are that's the big one from this game. You 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.440 know they you know, everybody wants to make plays. So 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.040 I just think we got to keep chasing that. 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.480 How was Kyle doing after the game, you got a 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.480 chance to talk, Come on now, he was obviously frustrated 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.640 to not being able to make that play. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.679 Before the touchdown as far as what. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.160 His mood, his mood, and he. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.559 Was really disappointed out the loss, you know, really disappointed, 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.360 Like that's we all were. We were not we were 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.640 not real happy about it. As you can imagine that 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.319 no team would be. So no team is. And this 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.360 is a tough league, man, I mean, you put so 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.680 much into these games. You fight so hard out there, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.520 you stay on that sideline. Uh, you go to a game, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.640 you watch in person, you see what gets put into 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.719 trying to win these games. So it's tough. It's disappointing. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.400 And then what you have to do is you can't 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.679 live in it. You know, you gotta you gotta bounce back, 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.160 and you gotta get going for the next week. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.520 Defense has been in the right spots majority of the time, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.640 were just failed to execute on plays. They've been credited 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.920 with eight dropped interception, so they've had opportunities. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:38.920 But do you feel that. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.080 They are I do. 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:44.000 I mean, you know, it's we're we're we're contesting. You know, 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:48.200 we we have one of the highest coverage tight coverage 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.320 rates in the league right now. You know it's uh, 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.240 we're in the right place the vast majority of time. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:54.680 When you compare it to the league, I mean there's 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.559 a lot of there's a lot of tough things. There's 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.600 a lot of good passing games in this league, and 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.520 they give you a lot of tough stuff. I think 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.719 we're the fourth ranked team in that sense in the 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.440 league right now coverage wise, yet completion wise, they're completing. 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.560 I think we might be around nineteen or twenty in 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.360 terms of contested completions against us. So that's where it's happening, 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.600 and we've we're getting thrown on a lot. You know, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.280 it's because the run defense has been good and people 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.520 have been behind you get a lot of two minute 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.840 passes and all those kind of things. So all that 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.880 kind of stuff is adds up to the ranking overall. 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.240 But you know, we we were there, and I think 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.199 we can make more plays. I know we can think 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:32.600 and I believe our guys are gonna do it. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.520 Yeah, along those lines, on third downs, you know haven't 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.680 been probably successful as you would have liked. And Yestery 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.640 Cleveland was pretty successful there. And to that point about 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.679 coverage and so forth, is it. What do you guys 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.720 need to do better to close teams out on third downs? 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.600 Yeah, and defense, we one thing we need to do 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.680 better is keep them get them in longer situations because 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.640 it's a little tougher to really bring the heat when 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.520 it's third and three, third and four, third and five, 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.360 because you're overload, and then you leave run gaps and 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:05.880 scramble gaps available, screens become more more more evident. So 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.880 we just gotta I think, start off with you know, 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.160 let's keep him from running it down the third one, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.200 third and two, third and three, even third and four. 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.240 Let's get him in third and third and eight, thirty nine, 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.160 third and ten plus more often. You know, that'd probably 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.120 be the first thing that we can get after people 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.280 a little more with the pass rush, and I think 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:24.920 that'll help our third down quite a bit. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.320 John during the second quarter, I think you wanted to 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.440 use the challenge flag for a first down when you 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.840 hear from your guys that the Cleveland Broughs did did 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.040 make the first down or does it look like it 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.560 was pretty close like they were, you know from television 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.320 like he was, shoot, yeah, he was. 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.120 About I think I went back and watch the tape today. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:50.640 He's about six inches short, and we we talked about it. 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.400 But I'll tell you that they're looking at those upstairs now. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.439 So they look at that replay pretty close. And I 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:58.920 walked down and I said, are you looking at it? 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.000 You're looking at it, and they said they were looking 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.360 at it. So when they don't weigh in, that's a 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.920 sign to me that they're not going to overturn it. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.280 So I don't want to ruin. I don't want to 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.080 throw that challenge flag and waste that time out when 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.280 I got a pretty good indication because I know the 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.720 replay officials looking at it upstairs already, that they're probably 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.480 not going to overturn it, especially for like six inches 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.560 on a fourth down and plus territory when they're probably 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.120 gonna sneak it. And that's a real tough stop, So 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.920 it seemed to me the better the more the prudent 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.480 move is not to challenge that right there? 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.480 Or does the team have an apprehension to use Lamar 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:40.000 Jackson and sneak situations. You've seen that you use trying 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.720 to Cohler over the last couple of years, and there's 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:47.080 been different variations of using quarterback sneaks with Jackson when 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.839 it was doing so yet running in certain gaps and 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:51.839 situations just. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.160 What's yeah, that's probably it. I mean, we're not we 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:59.080 run the markets gets nobody, nobody gives up more than 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.280 Lamar and terms of doing everything he can to win 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.000 the game. And we feel like if we're going to 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.400 run a sneak, we can do it with somebody else. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.079 You know, you've got a bigger body and they're doing 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:09.520 it a little bit, and we'll take that off of Lamar. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.440 That's really our thinking on it. We can still we 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.240 can still turn around and hand off a jet sweep. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.880 Those are things that we work on. Let our opponents 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.640 know that we work on those in those situations and 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.520 we might be using them coming up here real soon, 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:22.920 which is probably pretty good in case that we won't. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:27.440 You know, if I'm saying it. But yeah, that's basically 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:28.000 our thinking. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.920 On it limits your abilities on the third down to 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.520 not have Jackson in there to. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.280 Like six inches or foot you know, I think if 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.000 we want to sneak it, if that's what we've decided 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:40.840 we want to do, look at the Eagles and the 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.520 sneak teams. You know they're not really doing too much 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.040 on those plays. So when you sneak it, you're basically 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.800 telegraphing what you're going to do. Anyway. Now, when if 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.560 we want to tap sneak in some of those where 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.720 we're coming to the line and like some teams do 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.320 you see the Bengals and teams do that, We can 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.560 do that with Lamar. Lamar has that ability to do 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.840 that head and come up this year, but he can 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.960 you know, tap sneak in an open gap if you want. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.600 I think you guys are still you know, near the 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.240 top of the league and like disguising coverage shells before 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:12.120 the snat the use of parimularly pressures for past pressure, 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.920 has there been a learning curve at all, either with 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.520 the players or with the coaches and getting. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.760 All that executed well, And has any of that I think. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.920 Led to some of the coverage busts and some of 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.200 the other plays we've seen. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.600 Yeah, I mean sure, I mean it's absolutely, I mean 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.160 it's it's part of it. You know, when you do 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.480 more and we've played you know, we've played how many 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.840 top quarterbacks have we played? You know, in top passing 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.440 games have we played? So I think we played a 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.040 lot of the better quarterbacks so far. So you really 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:44.000 want to have the ability to change the picture. You know, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.600 you can't just really line up against these guys too often, 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.480 just show them what you're in. You know, you do 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.880 that with the Burrows and those guys. It's tough. So 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:53.720 that's always been what we've done. We've been a big 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.040 disguise team. We've been a big sim team. We've we've 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.960 blitzed from both sides. We've we've shown blitzeres one way 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:00.680 and blitz the other way. Run out of it. We've 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.280 shown one way and come that way. You know, we've 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.080 shown shown edge and come come to the middle. We 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.160 try to keep it moving, we try to keep people guessing. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.240 It's a big part of our defense. And you know, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.520 the execution part of it, for the most part, has 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.520 been good. But there's been plenty of times where it 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:14.880 hasn't been good now. I think it's part of the 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.560 learning curve. Yes, I do think it's part of the 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.120 learning curve, and I do believe the curve is going 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.800 to keep it, you know, getting better as we go forward. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:28.280 It seem seemed frustrated by the kick return penalties. 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.240 Yes, say they set you back in long situations. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.600 Do you do those returners have a green light to 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:34.560 bring it out of the end zone? 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.480 Do you get the sense they lose tracking where they 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:37.080 are on the field. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.360 Yes, I think that's right. Think you nailed, but it's 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.640 they do not have it. You know, we we we 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:44.080 not that we can't have a green light, but we 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:45.800 haven't had a green light yet this year. It doesn't 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.240 make sense to us if they're gonna give us a 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.280 ball at the thirty yard line, and the way the 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.840 angles work, it's really tough to block that. You know 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:56.480 that this new, this new style. When the balls kicked 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.120 in the end zone, sou and I do think they 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:00.960 lose a sense of where they're at sometimes, especially a 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.160 young guy. You know, it's part of it for sure. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.399 And I also think that we didn't we didn't. We 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.520 made some we made some bad blocking decisions on that, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.760 and I was really unhappy with that too. So those 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.960 penalties we were were not not okay. And uh and 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.440