Speaker 1: Welcome into the Lounge Podcast. It is Tuesday, December third.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are in the midst of their bye week
Speaker 1: and the coaching staff is taking a look at everything
Speaker 1: right now and finding ways for this team to improve
Speaker 1: for the final stretch of the season. Today, we had
Speaker 1: a chance to hear from the coordinators of some of
Speaker 1: the assistant coaches, So let's kick it off with offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Todd Munkett.
Speaker 2: When you look at Lamar in your kind of times
Speaker 2: with him, has there been anything this year that has
Speaker 2: kind of impressed you with what he has kind of
Speaker 2: grown or really improved upon.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's a lot of things he's improved upon. He
Speaker 3: was already a great player, you know, And I think
Speaker 3: some of that just comes through experience and playing and
Speaker 3: the same system, same terminology, a lot of the same players,
Speaker 3: a lot of the same guys he's throwing to, same center,
Speaker 3: you know, a lot of things from a communications standpoint.
Speaker 3: But I think he's always been able to see the
Speaker 3: field great. I think he's doing a better job of
Speaker 3: working through his progressions. He's he does a great job
Speaker 3: of seeing receivers down the field when he gets outside
Speaker 3: the pockets. So I just think he's doing a great job.
Speaker 3: I don't know where before I got here where he was.
Speaker 3: I know he was a great player. I don't I
Speaker 3: don't mean to say that. It just I just see
Speaker 3: a lot of things. He protects the football. He doesn't
Speaker 3: want to put us at risk. He wants to win
Speaker 3: in the worst way. So, you know, like I said,
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly where where it started, but he's
Speaker 3: an elite player.
Speaker 4: Cions the progressions, you know, how do you weigh you know,
Speaker 4: going through those progressions and the balance of whether he
Speaker 4: runs continues to go through those progressions, like he talked
Speaker 4: about that obviously Sunday A little Well.
Speaker 3: That's that's hard because he's such a weapon, you know,
Speaker 3: when he's got the ball in his hands and when
Speaker 3: he gets outside the pocket and finding guys down the field,
Speaker 3: and you know, so he's got such a great.
Speaker 5: Feel for the rush. It's unique.
Speaker 3: It's rare, you know, to see defenders and escape and
Speaker 3: make those plays. Gets us out of a lot of
Speaker 3: you know, tough plays, you know, tough situations. So that balance,
Speaker 3: I don't know where to start and where to finish
Speaker 3: with it, because it's yeah, there's times I think maybe
Speaker 3: he could check it down, but then he gets outside
Speaker 3: of it and he makes a play. So it's just's unique,
Speaker 3: you know, in terms of his ability to to do that.
Speaker 6: Did you know he was one.
Speaker 7: Main thing the fact that he didn't run more, as
Speaker 7: Mom said that he should have run.
Speaker 3: I don't know where that comes from. I did not
Speaker 3: see that in the game. But mom knows best, you know,
Speaker 3: so I mean, I guess that's I did not see
Speaker 3: that in the game, that he should have taken off
Speaker 3: more and that there were those opportunities. I did not
Speaker 3: see that. But I'm not criticizing Mom. I mean, she
Speaker 3: says he should have run more than he should have
Speaker 3: run more, but I didn't see that. I don't want
Speaker 3: to be critical in that matter. I thought he did
Speaker 3: an outstanding job the other night, Todd.
Speaker 8: Obviously, the Eagles have a heck of a defensive line.
Speaker 9: But when when you're.
Speaker 8: Having some struggles blocking any team's interior, as a play caller,
Speaker 8: how do you really try to account for that? I mean,
Speaker 8: edge players, you chip guys, you can, you know you
Speaker 8: have a blocking tight end, but when it's that inside,
Speaker 8: you know, inside problems like that, how do you account.
Speaker 2: For that.
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: From a protection standpoint, there's things you can do, there's
Speaker 3: ways you can slide the protection. Being able to run
Speaker 3: the ball helps at. Staying out of the chains helps at.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean that that doesn't occur even on play
Speaker 3: actions and other things. But and you're not expecting it. Again,
Speaker 3: guys are gonna get beat, Guys are gonna get covered,
Speaker 3: Guys are gonna drop a pass, We're gonna make a
Speaker 3: poor throw and we haven't you know, hasn't shown up
Speaker 3: to where it's been multiple you know, issues.
Speaker 5: With it, so we don't ever expect that.
Speaker 3: But they're really good upfront, and we got to do
Speaker 3: a better job myself coaching, protecting, being able to run
Speaker 3: the ball, move the pocket, be able to screen some
Speaker 3: take the pressure of those guys as part of it.
Speaker 6: Time.
Speaker 4: You heard Zach on the defensive side talk about, you know,
Speaker 4: early on he felt like he was maybe trying to
Speaker 4: disguise too much or do too much.
Speaker 9: Just curious.
Speaker 4: On the offensive side, are there is that you know,
Speaker 4: you've so many weapons and the offense is obviously played
Speaker 4: really well in the most parts, but is there a
Speaker 4: challenge of or what is the challenge of when you
Speaker 4: have all of that at your disposal and maybe trying
Speaker 4: to do too much or trying to find that tw
Speaker 4: we'd spot against.
Speaker 5: It's a great question. Doesn't bother me at all.
Speaker 3: I mean, as much as I'd love for every skilled players,
Speaker 3: I've said this before, I'd love for all of them
Speaker 3: to be a huge part of when we when we
Speaker 3: move the ball and we score, but I don't always
Speaker 3: control that. Some of that I do, and some of
Speaker 3: that I don't. The defense controls it where Lamar ends
Speaker 3: up with it or we don't get a protection, you know,
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, we're paid to
Speaker 3: score or not. I can't always control who touches it,
Speaker 3: and so we don't ever try to do too much.
Speaker 3: I don't believe. I don't think we're trying to do
Speaker 3: too many things, do I think, you know, we're all
Speaker 3: cognizant of using our weapons and having those guys be
Speaker 3: a part of it. But you know, we didn't get
Speaker 3: Bigsa the ball, you know, early in the game, but
Speaker 3: we tried to. You know, we had a banana route
Speaker 3: that we didn't end up hitting for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 3: And you know, across again, it just it just shows up.
Speaker 3: It's not not a problem for me. I'm glad we
Speaker 3: have all those guys. It's a good problem to have.
Speaker 3: When you don't have those guys, you're pissed. You know
Speaker 3: that that's tougher than having a lot of weapons.
Speaker 10: You've talked about the best protection in the philadelph game
Speaker 10: in particular. Bit when you look at the offensive line
Speaker 10: overall and kind of take stock, is it, is it
Speaker 10: where you wanted to be at this point of the season.
Speaker 5: Sure, I mean, and it's.
Speaker 6: Overall.
Speaker 3: Offensively, we forget the offensive We did not play as
Speaker 3: well as we're capable of, so irrespective of that, we
Speaker 3: could certainly coach better and play better.
Speaker 5: That's that's what we have to do.
Speaker 3: You know, in the games that we we've lost the
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks. A few weeks ago, it was
Speaker 3: turnovers and penalties. This week it was touchdowns in the
Speaker 3: red zone. The penalties you know, we didn't have this week.
Speaker 3: We really hadn't been turning it over and we've been
Speaker 3: really good in the red zone. We just didn't take
Speaker 3: advantage of the opportunities we had. That's us offensively scoring touchdowns.
Speaker 3: So those are the ways you win, you know, the
Speaker 3: ways you win is don't turn it over, be explosive,
Speaker 3: don't have lost sharage plays, you know, touchdowns in the
Speaker 3: red zone, third down conversions, off schedule plays, bear quarterback.
Speaker 3: All of those are the reasons you win and you
Speaker 3: score and you move the football. And in those two games,
Speaker 3: weren't we weren't as efficient as we had been.
Speaker 8: Considering how many questions there were about the one coming
Speaker 8: into the season.
Speaker 11: I guess, how have they compared to what you thought
Speaker 11: they might be.
Speaker 5: Or what the price will?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 5: I think they played great, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, everybody has their moments or they
Speaker 3: don't play as well as they'd like to. There's calls
Speaker 3: i'd like back, you know, every game may you can
Speaker 3: only imagine. And if you have sixty play calls in
Speaker 3: a game and twenty of them go for nothing or
Speaker 3: lost yard, It's like, well, it's a third of my calls.
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, I wasn't worth the damn, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, So that goes with players. They're gonna make mistakes,
Speaker 3: they're gonna lose, They're not who's going to win, and
Speaker 3: we got to help them out at every position.
Speaker 5: You know, sometimes receivers need help getting off the line
Speaker 5: of scrimmage. You need a motion.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you're alignment against certain matchups, need us to help
Speaker 3: them in pass pro. You know that that's just the
Speaker 3: way it is that every team goes through that. We're
Speaker 3: not the only team that deals with certain matchup issues.
Speaker 5: It's the NFL.
Speaker 3: There's great players on the other side, and so we
Speaker 3: just got to do a better gut job coaching them,
Speaker 3: preparing them, and uh and then playing on Sunday.
Speaker 13: Got get the first episode of Hard Knocks tonight. I
Speaker 13: know you've been that all access thing at Oklahoma State.
Speaker 13: In your position as off a supporting I mean, you
Speaker 13: can have the time of day to kind of wonder
Speaker 13: what makes the final cut or is it just completely.
Speaker 14: Help your radar.
Speaker 3: I even forgot about it till you brought it up,
Speaker 3: So that sucks you brought that up. I think it's
Speaker 3: a major distraction. So I don't deal with it. So
Speaker 3: I know it's not that what they want to hear.
Speaker 3: But it's hard enough to focus and get ready and
Speaker 3: then worry about I just have to worry about this
Speaker 3: once a week, you know, I don't want to worry
Speaker 3: about it every day of what I say, how I
Speaker 3: say it, how it's perceived. Whatever it is, it's it's
Speaker 3: hard enough to win in the NFL than to stay focused.
Speaker 3: And what we got to do this week is a
Speaker 3: coaching staff, let our guys get rest, get ready to
Speaker 3: go for this four game stretch, analyze who we are,
Speaker 3: where we want to continue to go, how we've got
Speaker 3: to continue to get better, who we're going to be
Speaker 3: playing to give us the best chance to win every week.
Speaker 6: Tn't that one of all?
Speaker 15: Good? Hut?
Speaker 10: I mean kind of, I guess, kind of along similar lines.
Speaker 10: This is the time of year when people start to
Speaker 10: speculate about the job openings and the tussing names around
Speaker 10: all the rumor columns. I mean, your name is in
Speaker 10: some of those. How do you deal with that?
Speaker 3: No, I don't deal with it. I don't deal with
Speaker 3: it because it's got nothing to do with the here
Speaker 3: and the now, and nobody really knows anyways.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 3: I don't control that. All I control is the job
Speaker 3: I have here. That's the most important thing, is us
Speaker 3: winning here and scoring points. Because you don't worry about that,
Speaker 3: then you don't have the job here, and then the
Speaker 3: other stuff doesn't happen. So the idea is, right, now,
Speaker 3: are players, how we get better this week and again
Speaker 3: playing winning football. That's what we're paid to do here.
Speaker 3: The rest of it takes care of itself. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's just the way it is. And I again, I
Speaker 3: don't control what's being said one side of the other.
Speaker 3: I've been on both sides of it. You know, when
Speaker 3: you're not very good, or you're good, or you're not whatever,
Speaker 3: And I don't. I really don't pay attention to it,
Speaker 3: to be real honest.
Speaker 4: Just going back to some lamar and just what have
Speaker 4: you seen in a leadership since or hidden from you know?
Speaker 4: A step forward? Even from last year to this year.
Speaker 4: It seems like he's been more vocal. Maybe he's full
Speaker 4: of last year, but maybe taking another step forward if
Speaker 4: you've seen that.
Speaker 5: And if so, in some ways, I think the more.
Speaker 3: Success you have, which he's had success, but he's also
Speaker 3: been healthy, the same players you're around every day, it
Speaker 3: becomes easier to to say things to guys, same system,
Speaker 3: you know. I just think he's more comfortable being able
Speaker 3: to say things to the players. He's done a great
Speaker 3: job with him in terms of promoting that, you know,
Speaker 3: which is part of that, like it's okay, you know,
Speaker 3: the players love to play with Lamar because he's highly
Speaker 3: competitive and he's such a good dude. He's such a
Speaker 3: good person.
Speaker 5: They love him. It's hard not to love Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: But with that, when you become the quarterback, is okay,
Speaker 3: how do you want it to look? You're an extension
Speaker 3: of us. I mean, you're the closest thing tied to
Speaker 3: winning that we are. The quarterback is I mean, that's
Speaker 3: a fact. I mean, no one critiques a skilled player
Speaker 3: for not winning the Super Bowl. I've ever one person
Speaker 3: critique one of our players for not winning Super Bowl. Well,
Speaker 3: they're all over his ass. You know, that's just the
Speaker 3: way it comes with So he's an extension of us.
Speaker 3: So okay, how do you evolve to you know, hey, okay,
Speaker 3: you're an extension of us. You're an extension of our team.
Speaker 3: How do you want it to look? And that's not easy.
Speaker 3: It's not easy for us, not easy for him to
Speaker 3: be that. But winning is important to him. Being a
Speaker 3: great teammates important to him, Being coachable is important to him.
Speaker 3: All the things that you want in a quarterback. And
Speaker 3: he's just starting to grow and he's bringing that out
Speaker 3: in him, you know, to be able to do that again,
Speaker 3: that's not easy for any player to do that with
Speaker 3: their teammates.
Speaker 13: How you developed in the film room.
Speaker 11: I know some of the guys said, he's pointing out
Speaker 11: more things than not, just.
Speaker 5: Like all of you guys are meetings.
Speaker 3: The outside the facility as well.
Speaker 5: No, I think and T can speak to that. You know,
Speaker 5: it's I just think he's dialed in. I really do.
Speaker 3: I think he's always been dialed in. But you know,
Speaker 3: in terms of what he's seeing, you know, and what
Speaker 3: he likes, what he dislikes. I just think he's from
Speaker 3: what I've seen, and again he can speak to that
Speaker 3: is I think they've got a great rapport and I
Speaker 3: think they've got a way of communicating, Hey, what they're seeing,
Speaker 3: why we're doing what we're doing. It gives us the
Speaker 3: best chance to win. That's really It doesn't matter what
Speaker 3: I see. It's always through the eyes of the quarterback.
Speaker 3: Always does not matter. That's how this works. You know,
Speaker 3: everything's got to be through the eyes of your players,
Speaker 3: especially the quarterback, how he sees it, how he sees
Speaker 3: the game, and that's our job to make sure that
Speaker 3: we do the best job we can possible to fit
Speaker 3: around his skill set and that he sees it.
Speaker 5: The way we see it.
Speaker 1: Up is quarterbacks coach t Martin.
Speaker 6: The second year system.
Speaker 7: Just where have you seen mars developments with Todd Monkeys?
Speaker 14: Where is he I improved?
Speaker 6: Right? Development wise? Physically? I think as a passer, you know,
Speaker 6: he's taken leaps and bounds from where we started off
Speaker 6: season last year, spring training camp last season and then
Speaker 6: picking up where we left off. He made some goals
Speaker 6: to be quicker, you know, on his feet. We saw
Speaker 6: how he looks now when he reported the training camp
Speaker 6: and past technique wise, being more accurate at all of
Speaker 6: the throws and all field zones. We made a key
Speaker 6: point to work on throws outside the numbers, in the
Speaker 6: deeper field zones, outside the numbers, post route go routes,
Speaker 6: things of that nature. On the run, scrambled throws. Those
Speaker 6: are things that we intentionally wanted to come into the
Speaker 6: season to be improved at and better at. So as
Speaker 6: you look at his numbers, you look at statistically where
Speaker 6: he's at, he's improved in all of those areas. As
Speaker 6: far as the system, he's just another year advanced in
Speaker 6: it from protections, from progressions, from knowing what to expect,
Speaker 6: so that he can anticipate and get the ball out.
Speaker 6: He's not being sacked as much, he's not being flushed
Speaker 6: as much. That helps out the whole line and so
Speaker 6: on and so forth. But the addition of Derrick Henry
Speaker 6: having another complimentary back, another explosive weapon with him and
Speaker 6: being able to make it all work together and still
Speaker 6: have the type of performance that he's having at quarterback.
Speaker 6: You know it's complimentary to him and the work that
Speaker 6: he's been putting in. But you know, coaching every day,
Speaker 6: listening to him, working with him, you know his mind
Speaker 6: is on another level. What he sees, what he thinks about,
Speaker 6: what he anticipates, and how he acts on it is
Speaker 6: another year advanced and really proud of where he's come
Speaker 6: from and where he's at right now, how he's playing.
Speaker 4: And the physical improvement talk about with him from a
Speaker 4: technical standpoint, is it is it fullwork elements, arm angle
Speaker 4: stuff and is your where what's sort of evolved in.
Speaker 6: That sense right? Just being consistently accurate all the time
Speaker 6: when he does all those things. And what I did
Speaker 6: when I first started coaching was I went back and
Speaker 6: watched over seven hundred passes throughout his career and what
Speaker 6: he naturally did and created an environment around his natural
Speaker 6: movements and started coaching from there because he's already talented.
Speaker 6: He was Lamar Jackson before I ever met him, you know, Heisman,
Speaker 6: first round pick, MVP, all of this stuff, And what
Speaker 6: you look at is how do you make those things
Speaker 6: better by creating an environment so that he does it
Speaker 6: all the time to where he doesn't think about it
Speaker 6: when those things happen. And so with that being said,
Speaker 6: something that would have caused anxiety early in his career
Speaker 6: is now not causing anxiety and it's just like an
Speaker 6: everyday play for him. So that's what we try to
Speaker 6: create in our individual drills, sometimes within the play scheme,
Speaker 6: but allowing him to be who he is, which is
Speaker 6: one of the best in the world at doing what
Speaker 6: he does.
Speaker 1: You said, his mind's on another level. Just can you
Speaker 1: talk about that aspect of his game and where you've
Speaker 1: seen those strikes?
Speaker 6: Yeah, last year was a year for me. It's like
Speaker 6: when we first started dating somebody, like, I can't believe
Speaker 6: what they're saying, you know, is that right? I don't
Speaker 6: see it that way, you know, But we're gonna work
Speaker 6: it out. We're gonna work it out. And then the
Speaker 6: second year you're like, yeah, he really sees that, he
Speaker 6: really knows exactly what he's thinking, exactly what he's doing,
Speaker 6: and he's acting on it. And so just the second
Speaker 6: year of our relationship, second year of him trusting me
Speaker 6: and just that relationship, he's more vocal about how he
Speaker 6: feels and what he sees and he stands on it.
Speaker 6: And so he's very defining to who he is and
Speaker 6: what he wants to do. And with his footage now
Speaker 6: his footage down as we all know, and uh, but
Speaker 6: he's just being more within himself and the things that
Speaker 6: we're asking him to do and the feedback. You know,
Speaker 6: last year he wasn't so comfortable with saying this is
Speaker 6: what I want, you know, this year is like, now
Speaker 6: I want it this way, this is how I want
Speaker 6: to do it. And so that's just growth and development.
Speaker 6: Really proud of that from him.
Speaker 1: I guess along those lines, when you have that clarity
Speaker 1: and of what he wants, how does that affect the
Speaker 1: offense as a whole.
Speaker 6: I think what it does for the players that play
Speaker 6: with him, what it does for Todd calling the players,
Speaker 6: what it does for me having to coach and navigate
Speaker 6: all the things. It's just clear. It's clear cut. It's
Speaker 6: black and white, it's no gray, and you rather be
Speaker 6: that way than greatness. And sometimes when you're going from
Speaker 6: a system to a different system, it's all trusted. It's
Speaker 6: all I've never done this before. What is he asking
Speaker 6: me to do? And now you have it on tape.
Speaker 6: You have it on tape against opponents from last season,
Speaker 6: off season, against our defense, preseason, so on and so forth.
Speaker 6: And so there's a body of work that builds trust,
Speaker 6: and you know what does work, and you know what
Speaker 6: doesn't work, and so and you combine that with his
Speaker 6: career and totality and his experience. He knows what he's
Speaker 6: talking about, and we trust him.
Speaker 10: He seemed mad and kind of an energized way after
Speaker 10: Sunday's game. Having gone through that game with him at
Speaker 10: this point, what do you think was kind of at the.
Speaker 6: Root of that. I'll tell you what. That last drive.
Speaker 6: You know, you're down two scores, and anybody could have
Speaker 6: chosen to put the backup in and gott of the game,
Speaker 6: or put the starters in and ran the ball and
Speaker 6: got out the game. But for him to continue to
Speaker 6: play get completions the Scramble says, it all about who
Speaker 6: he is and how much he wants to win and
Speaker 6: not quit, because anybody could have just got out the pocket,
Speaker 6: slid or whatever he was trying to score and get
Speaker 6: in the game on side kick, get the ball back,
Speaker 6: win the game. He never quit, and so he cared
Speaker 6: that energy into the locker room. We spoke after the
Speaker 6: game and he spoke to his mom, shout out Miss Felicia.
Speaker 6: Got out of him a little bit, but by the
Speaker 6: time he got to the podium, it was that energy
Speaker 6: that you guys felt, but it never stopped. It was
Speaker 6: that way the whole game. He was He was ready
Speaker 6: to play that game. He wanted to win it for everybody.
Speaker 6: And but it really started, you know during the game,
Speaker 6: late in the game, that last drive, you know, our
Speaker 6: conversations on the sideline, and that energy led to he
Speaker 6: kind of had the feeling of I hate that we
Speaker 6: have about week because I want to play next week,
Speaker 6: you know, to get this off my chest type of feeling.
Speaker 6: And so he was that way yesterday too. So hopefully,
Speaker 6: you know, get away a little bit for the body,
Speaker 6: for the mind and comes back refreshed with that same
Speaker 6: energy head into Giants week.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a digprecating around the part of the
Speaker 2: season where you know the narrative will be will will
Speaker 2: Mark Jackson leave the Ravens to a super Bowl? It's
Speaker 2: been that way for the past couple of years. How
Speaker 2: much do you think that those way on Lamar? And
Speaker 2: do you is that a concern of yours and trying
Speaker 2: to help him not feed too much win?
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I don't think it's a concern because that's
Speaker 6: what we're here to do. You know. We see it
Speaker 6: as eight games left, you know, and that's the way
Speaker 6: we talk. And so it's not like this, you know,
Speaker 6: everyday conversation talking about the super Bowl. As you guys know,
Speaker 6: it's about the next practice. It is about the next game.
Speaker 6: You can't get there before you win the next one.
Speaker 6: And we know what we have to do now to
Speaker 6: get to those points. So it's not like a stress
Speaker 6: anxiety type thing. I think in his career in total,
Speaker 6: is something that he wants to do right now. Yes,
Speaker 6: is get to the super Bowl and win the super Bowl.
Speaker 6: But we know we have to do weekend and week
Speaker 6: out to get to that point. The conversations that we
Speaker 6: do have are about what do championship teams do to
Speaker 6: win tough games, whether it's in our division Steelers, Browns, Bengals,
Speaker 6: whether it's against a super Bowl caliber team that we
Speaker 6: saw Sunday night. How do you win those games? All right?
Speaker 6: Taking care of the football execution on first and second down,
Speaker 6: scoring touchdowns in the red zone, and learning to win
Speaker 6: ugly And sometimes it's boring that quarterback. Sometimes they force
Speaker 6: you to check it down because they're afraid they're supposed
Speaker 6: to play. Sometimes you lean on the run game. Sometimes
Speaker 6: it's a play that happens in the fourth quarter that
Speaker 6: changes the game. Who knows, But those are the conversations
Speaker 6: that we have in terms of what is the difference
Speaker 6: in a talented team that doesn't win championships and talented
Speaker 6: teams that do win championships. And those are the things
Speaker 6: that we're trying to capture in the conversations that we're
Speaker 6: having Sunday.
Speaker 4: Waitful, sorry, just going back to Sunday. After the game,
Speaker 4: What did Lamar say to the guys.
Speaker 6: It was the same energy as you guys saw. He
Speaker 6: was just really agitated that we lost the game in
Speaker 6: the fashion that we lost the game. And it's always
Speaker 6: the frustration of leaving plays out there, you know, when
Speaker 6: you something devel or you got pressure, when guys were open,
Speaker 6: or the guys were open, you didn't see him. You know,
Speaker 6: all of those things happened, and when you look at
Speaker 6: the you know, the surface on the sideline, you see
Speaker 6: the picture, you're like, oh, you know it. There's a frustration.
Speaker 6: But it's only one football. It's only you know, if
Speaker 6: you're looking this way, someone's open that way, sometimes you
Speaker 6: don't see them, and so uh it's always wait til
Speaker 6: the next time. But sometimes you don't have the next time,
Speaker 6: and so that's where the frustration lies. And so it's
Speaker 6: really just trying to get them back centered, you know,
Speaker 6: to like, that's what just happened, what's the reality at all,
Speaker 6: and what's our plan moving forward to to be better?
Speaker 6: You know in those moments.
Speaker 5: Mark w one of vine H Jonas and them one
Speaker 5: ing of Ryne.
Speaker 16: Okay, right, sure, yeah, we we've always seen this burning
Speaker 16: desire from Lamardo Wynn.
Speaker 13: I think just always had that.
Speaker 16: But have you seen it even ratchet up a little
Speaker 16: bit higher from last.
Speaker 15: Year to this year?
Speaker 6: I think it's about the same. I think what's happening
Speaker 6: this year is with the talent we have. It's like expected,
Speaker 6: you know. I think last year was new system. It
Speaker 6: was playing with different people a different way, and so
Speaker 6: I think last year was more about my job and
Speaker 6: I'm learning my job. I'm trying to do the best
Speaker 6: I can at my job with all these other moving parts.
Speaker 6: I think this year coming in, you got a lot
Speaker 6: of the receivers of return, the tight ends return, the
Speaker 6: addition of Derrick Henry, you know, things that opening up
Speaker 6: with Kansas City on the road. I think the way
Speaker 6: this season started, it started off with a fight, you know,
Speaker 6: And I think that that's the only difference I think.
Speaker 6: I think, you know, Obvitually we just talked about his
Speaker 6: desire to get to a super Bowl, But I think
Speaker 6: this year it's more of walking on the field expecting
Speaker 6: us to win, but doing the things that it takes
Speaker 6: to win to get to that point.
Speaker 13: Ye see, I think Mark is one of the best
Speaker 13: in the NFL right now at sitting sacrate and you
Speaker 13: just like to start a great job and not letting
Speaker 13: pressors get turned in sacks. But I'm is is that
Speaker 13: just his experience in pocket? Is that him dropping the
Speaker 13: weight to be a little bit more mobile? I mean,
Speaker 13: what do you printed together to explain the way that
Speaker 13: he's coming into the part.
Speaker 6: Well, first, it's DNA. I mean, he's just better than
Speaker 6: most people, UH, quite honestly, faster, smarter processes, mentally faster,
Speaker 6: better uh with the addition of experience and what people
Speaker 6: are doing throughout his career to try to keep him
Speaker 6: in the pocket and say you can't beat us from
Speaker 6: the pocket. So then he sets records doing that, and
Speaker 6: then everyone says we're gonna pressure you, and then he's
Speaker 6: best quarter regularly versus pressure, so he can't do that.
Speaker 6: So long story short, I just think that he's seen
Speaker 6: it all to where he has this body of work
Speaker 6: at Okay, what is it gonna be this night? How
Speaker 6: are you guys gonna choose to do it? Okay, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna go to this mode and he can he can
Speaker 6: do it all. You know. We talked about r mangles,
Speaker 6: we talked about uh elusiveness. There's times where he is
Speaker 6: moving to allow raps to develop. There are times where
Speaker 6: he's moving to extend and play. There's time where he's
Speaker 6: truly scrambling, and there's times I don't think he even
Speaker 6: knows that he becomes Lamar Jackson and we are all
Speaker 6: surprised with the outcome and so. But or for me,
Speaker 6: it's just be yourself, go out and play. Being Lamar
Speaker 6: Jackson is enough and so but with all those things
Speaker 6: being said, he's the best in the world at doing
Speaker 6: it throughout the history of the game. My job is
Speaker 6: to not screw him up and let him go out
Speaker 6: there and be the best that he could be doing
Speaker 6: it the way that he wants to do it.
Speaker 1: Next, we heard from running backs coach Willie Tiger.
Speaker 16: What what do you see it from Derek? I mean,
Speaker 16: I know before the season we talked to you, you
Speaker 16: were just so impressed with his work, actin and things
Speaker 16: like that. As the season is going on, what's kind
Speaker 16: of stood out to you about the way he's going
Speaker 16: about his business?
Speaker 17: I mean, just pretty much it's the same. You know,
Speaker 17: you get the same from Derek every single day. You know,
Speaker 17: he he wakes up wanting to be great at what
Speaker 17: he does. Like I told you guys earlier year, he
Speaker 17: hate making mistakes. You know, I don't care what mistake
Speaker 17: it is.
Speaker 6: He hated.
Speaker 17: It can be the smallest thing. He he just he
Speaker 17: hated so much. I got a call last I'm not
Speaker 17: a call, but a text last night. He said, Coach,
Speaker 17: I'm still ticked about this game. You know, It's just
Speaker 17: a lot of those things when it don't go right
Speaker 17: for him. It it it bothered him, but it it
Speaker 17: it also motivated him to come back to work the
Speaker 17: next day and try to do everything he can to
Speaker 17: make sure it doesn't happen again. And for me, you
Speaker 17: love that out of him being a veteran with so
Speaker 17: much experience and so much success and still wake up
Speaker 17: every day this in this career and still want to
Speaker 17: be the best. And and he's set an example for
Speaker 17: the younger guys that's in the room as well, and
Speaker 17: that's been very beneficial for us.
Speaker 6: Coach.
Speaker 13: Uh, When when Derek was in Tennessee, you know, his
Speaker 13: production in in December and January was typically a lot
Speaker 13: better than it was in September. I mean, is there
Speaker 13: anything from what you've seen from him here in Baltimore
Speaker 13: that leads to believe that's not just a Tennessee types phenomenon,
Speaker 13: but that he could have that same kind of you know,
Speaker 13: you know, kind of accumulative approach.
Speaker 17: Heated, Yeah, I think if you just look at it,
Speaker 17: there hadn't had a lot of cares, a lot of
Speaker 17: wear and tear on him this year, you know, So
Speaker 17: I think it's set up perfectly for him to finish
Speaker 17: the year like he's he's capable of and and and
Speaker 17: what we expect out of him. You know, Derek's fresh
Speaker 17: right now and it's great. And I think this bye
Speaker 17: week is is perfect timing for us. And again he's homeer.
Speaker 17: He wanted to get back, he's he wished we were
Speaker 17: playing this week, you know. But I think the way
Speaker 17: he trains himself, the way he practiced, the way he prepares,
Speaker 17: He's gonna be ready to finish the year like we
Speaker 17: need him to.
Speaker 10: I was, uh, I was Keaton during is he is?
Speaker 10: He kind of chomping at the bit to get more opportunity.
Speaker 9: Like where where is he going?
Speaker 17: Of course, Keaton is just like any other player on
Speaker 17: our team, you know, they want to get out there
Speaker 17: and play and help our football team. And Keaton is
Speaker 17: into every meeting, studying, asking questions. He's out of practice,
Speaker 17: continued to get better.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 17: He had a tough injury, you know, and and for
Speaker 17: him to to work and get back so fast, it's
Speaker 17: impressive by hisself, but it also speaks value for him
Speaker 17: and just wanting to be back out there with his
Speaker 17: teammates and play. And I think with Keaton, he understand
Speaker 17: that he got continued to get himself back in the
Speaker 17: football shape like he was when he played last year
Speaker 17: for us and did some extraordinary things for us. And
Speaker 17: I think Keaton, as he continued practicing, come along, we're
Speaker 17: starting to get the keyting that we all know.
Speaker 4: Speaking of a key. And you know, I think there's
Speaker 4: probably a lot of expectation when he came back from
Speaker 4: fans that like think Derek and Keaton, like here we go.
Speaker 4: Can you articulate the underappreciation maybe of what Justice Hills
Speaker 4: broad this season.
Speaker 17: Justice is I called Justice the junkyard dog. He does
Speaker 17: everything for us, you know, and uh, and he does
Speaker 17: it with a smile. He don't he don't complain, he
Speaker 17: don't want. I mean every single day that guy come
Speaker 17: into office, he is smiling, ready to go. And then
Speaker 17: you see it on the football field when we when
Speaker 17: we need the first down, Uh call Justine, you know,
Speaker 17: Justice to go out and and and get it for us.
Speaker 17: I mean, he just he's a workhorse. Uh, He's a
Speaker 17: phenomenal pro. He just he studied the game, and again
Speaker 17: just want to do his part to help this football
Speaker 17: team and he takes pride in that. And again he
Speaker 17: understands Derek's the lead back and he understands his role
Speaker 17: and he tries best to do his role to the
Speaker 17: best of his ability. And I think we all appreciate
Speaker 17: what he does for us every single day. And I
Speaker 17: think he's he's done a great job, uh integrating just
Speaker 17: Derek into our into our organization and and those guys
Speaker 17: have hit it off really well and created a ice
Speaker 17: bond that's really helped the running back.
Speaker 4: Room follow what what have you seen just from a
Speaker 4: growth standpoint from him from last year to this year?
Speaker 6: Is he faster?
Speaker 4: Is he physical?
Speaker 6: Does he like?
Speaker 17: I think from a physical standpoint, Justice is pretty much
Speaker 17: the same as he was last year. I just think
Speaker 17: he have better knowledge of what we're doing, a better
Speaker 17: understanding of what we're doing. And he's getting more opportunities now,
Speaker 17: you know. So I think with anything, with more opportunities,
Speaker 17: you get to see more a player can do, and
Speaker 17: he's getting them and the beauty of he's taking advantage
Speaker 17: of those opportunities that come his way. So I think
Speaker 17: just a matter of year or two in the offense
Speaker 17: and opportunities that he's getting and he's taken advantage of him.
Speaker 18: He was just saying that Lamar sees the game so
Speaker 18: differently than any other player.
Speaker 11: How would you compare that to how Derek sees the game?
Speaker 5: And do they kind of share.
Speaker 11: Notes about what they're seeing with the consilias.
Speaker 17: And defensive Uh, of course Derek does. He see it
Speaker 17: all the time, and he'd come back. He gonna let
Speaker 17: you know, whether it's in the game or practice, you're
Speaker 17: gonna get I get a text of a picture, a
Speaker 17: frame from a game saying coach, I should have hit
Speaker 17: this hole, you know, or we should we should do this.
Speaker 17: And then there's time where he'll see some things on
Speaker 17: the film and whether it's in practice or in the game,
Speaker 17: he'll go over to Lamar and those guys will talk
Speaker 17: some things out, which is is cool, you know, seeing
Speaker 17: those guys, you know, talk football and how they can
Speaker 17: help each other out on plays. And I think that's
Speaker 17: just again him being the vet and the player that
Speaker 17: he is, and the same with Lamar, and those guys
Speaker 17: are locked arm and armor and and and want the
Speaker 17: same thing, you know, So being able to share things
Speaker 17: with each other throughout the game, throughout practices, is really helping.
Speaker 2: They get you know, Tom one can Special early on
Speaker 2: the spring talked about Derek being kind of the closer,
Speaker 2: you know, especially in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 15: How much do you think Derek.
Speaker 2: Kind of relishes that role of kind of being the
Speaker 2: guy that at the end of the games getting in
Speaker 2: wearing down.
Speaker 17: The guy and he wants the ball, you know, Derek
Speaker 17: wants the ball whenever, whether it's the beginning of the game,
Speaker 17: at the end of the game, at halftime, after the game,
Speaker 17: he wants the ball, you know. And uh, but whenever
Speaker 17: there's a time to again to close out a game
Speaker 17: and help his his teammates and help the team win again,
Speaker 17: Derrick wants the ball in his hands so he can
Speaker 17: do those things, you know. But he again, he whenever
Speaker 17: he can get the ball in his hand, he he's
Speaker 17: gonna he's gonna take it, you know, and do his
Speaker 17: part when it when he gets it.
Speaker 7: Really, going back to Keaton, just along with recoveries from
Speaker 7: the injury, just do you think that he's a bit
Speaker 7: of a it's a victim of circumstance that he's behind
Speaker 7: Derrick Henry And then he said a Junkyard dog Get
Speaker 7: in Justice Hill that it's just tough for him to
Speaker 7: see the the field as much just because that he
Speaker 7: has in front of him.
Speaker 17: No, I wouldn't necessarily say say that part of it.
Speaker 17: I just think it's just again him coming back and
Speaker 17: getting himself back to to where we all know Keaton
Speaker 17: can play and and play at that level. And and
Speaker 17: then again, just like I said with with Justice, when
Speaker 17: those opportunities come, being able to take advantage of him,
Speaker 17: you know, and I think ask Keaton continue to to
Speaker 17: get healthy. Any I think those opportunities are gonna continue
Speaker 17: to come, and I know Keaton don't take advantage of
Speaker 17: him when they do come. And he's bit, he's biting
Speaker 17: at the bit that the photos opportunity and.
Speaker 6: The beauty of you.
Speaker 17: He comes to work every day, he's training, he's practicing
Speaker 17: to get himself back to where.
Speaker 14: He needs to be.
Speaker 1: X up his offensive line.
Speaker 19: Coach George Warhop, all right, boys, boys and girls, what
Speaker 19: you got for me today? There can't be much left
Speaker 19: after you've gone through everybody else where?
Speaker 2: Do you think the line that's really kind of taking
Speaker 2: you know, the strides, uh, you know, from the from
Speaker 2: beginning season to at this.
Speaker 19: Point, I think they've done a nice job of every
Speaker 19: week trying to gain where we need to gain and
Speaker 19: staying focused somewhat important. So it's not always perfect, but
Speaker 19: they're striving for that, and I think for the most part,
Speaker 19: between the schemes we use schematically to help them and
Speaker 19: how they go about their business has been pretty good
Speaker 19: to this point.
Speaker 10: The struggles super interior pressure on Sunday against Philly, Is
Speaker 10: that as simple as them just having really good players
Speaker 10: or was there more to it.
Speaker 19: Them that That's an interesting question because I never viewed
Speaker 19: the opponent as the problem. We play a lot of
Speaker 19: good defenses. I don't think we handled it as well
Speaker 19: as we have U so I always put it on us.
Speaker 19: So Philly's got good players, the Chargers has good have
Speaker 19: good players, Denver has good players, Pittsburgh has good players.
Speaker 19: We just didn't handle it as well this past Sundays.
Speaker 19: We have handy with so uh, it's hard for me
Speaker 19: to give them credit. And when we handle most of
Speaker 19: our s our stuff either good or bad.
Speaker 16: All right, how have you seen Daniel fa progress? And
Speaker 16: obviously is tackling moving the guards. There is a little
Speaker 16: bit of a learning for there. How have you seen
Speaker 16: the progressively?
Speaker 19: Of course this season, I think Daniel's doing a great job.
Speaker 19: I mean, I am excited about him. Every week he
Speaker 19: gets a little bit better. He's a big, physical dou
Speaker 19: What's really impressive is his pass row. What's really impressive
Speaker 19: to watch him change the direction in short area and
Speaker 19: get his hands on guys. That's still work in progress,
Speaker 19: his hands, But the way he moves laterally and the
Speaker 19: things he can do in pastro I think is pretty impressive.
Speaker 19: So I'm excited about him in this future.
Speaker 8: You guys mentioned his past protection, but him as a
Speaker 8: run blocker. You look at his size and intuitively you
Speaker 8: would think he would use his physicality maybe a little
Speaker 8: bit more than he does on tape. Is that something
Speaker 8: You're still trying to get more and more out of.
Speaker 19: Him every week, all of them, It's not just Daniel,
Speaker 19: all of them, Right, He's a big man. Sometimes it's
Speaker 19: hard to uncoil your hips when guys are right on
Speaker 19: top of you. Right, It's a matter of also adjusting
Speaker 19: where you are at the line of scrimmage. We tend
Speaker 19: to crowd the ball sometimes, what negates our power at
Speaker 19: the point of attack in the run game, right, So really,
Speaker 19: if you want to get technical about it, all your
Speaker 19: power is generated on your second and third step, right.
Speaker 19: If you're crowding the ball and you don't get your
Speaker 19: second step in the dirt, you're not generating enough power.
Speaker 19: So that's part of his issue, is getting his feet
Speaker 19: in the dirt to go forward.
Speaker 1: So Ronnie Stanley's had a your searching years. Just playing
Speaker 1: in the isle of you put in perspective just how
Speaker 1: well he has played this year.
Speaker 15: We just let him play over there.
Speaker 19: We don't do much for him, so that says a lot.
Speaker 19: I think Ronnie approaches each week with fresh eyes. I
Speaker 19: think he has a plan going into the game. I
Speaker 19: think he practices his plan. I think on the sidelines
Speaker 19: he's very intuitive, great communication, talks about what's going on,
Speaker 19: talks to the other guys. I'm just excited to have
Speaker 19: him here and have him doing what he's doing physically
Speaker 19: right and the other thing with him. I think he's
Speaker 19: in his ninth yeary we don't give him veteran days.
Speaker 19: He practices all the time. I think that's huge and
Speaker 19: part of how he's playing.
Speaker 10: On the sideline after practice, working with a lot of
Speaker 10: young guys.
Speaker 5: How have you seen him and just elevate the very on.
Speaker 19: That line, I just think anytime you can have a
Speaker 19: veteran guy pouring in to young players, it doesn't matter
Speaker 19: whether you're in the NFL or if you're in college.
Speaker 19: The better your room is that that the more progress
Speaker 19: you're gonna make within the room. We have several guys
Speaker 19: that do that. We got Tyler that does it, Pat
Speaker 19: does it, Ronnie does it. They all communicate with the
Speaker 19: young guys and just build on what we're trying to
Speaker 19: do in there. So when you have that going on,
Speaker 19: the foundation only gets stronger throughout. And so he's done
Speaker 19: that since I've been here, and I'm sure he's been
Speaker 19: doing that since before I got here.
Speaker 10: So yeah, headalleeves are a huge talking point obviously coming
Speaker 10: out of the Pittsburgh game. Have been a few different
Speaker 10: times throughout the year. How do you coach that, especially
Speaker 10: when you're talking to a really experienced player like a
Speaker 10: Ronnie or McCarey, Just get.
Speaker 19: Your hands inside. I mean when most of them are
Speaker 19: holding penalty. So we've had a few down the field
Speaker 19: penalties on RPOs and screens. That's just being conscious of
Speaker 19: not being too far down the field. You know, we
Speaker 19: got I always say we have about a two yard margin.
Speaker 19: I think in the NFL now it's less than that.
Speaker 19: Just really they're really watching the line of scrimmage, so
Speaker 19: we have to be really intent on the screens the RPOs.
Speaker 19: Sometimes we get caught right we're running a run and
Speaker 19: if the ball doesn't come out on time, we're going
Speaker 19: to be downfielding the rest of it. We just got
Speaker 19: to get our hands inside and we got to be
Speaker 19: smart about letting guys go. I mean holding in the
Speaker 19: NFL is one hundred percent. Everybody holds. The guys that
Speaker 19: get caught when you get your hands outside the frame,
Speaker 19: and that's what we do. Or the guy's getting away
Speaker 19: from you, you tug in instead of letting them go. So
Speaker 19: we got to be smart about it.
Speaker 13: Georgia, I think we see on Friday when we go
Speaker 13: into the locker room, guys kind of be up as
Speaker 13: a linement doing some homeworker looks like, you know, fool,
Speaker 13: what is that something you've always kind of done? Has
Speaker 13: that been a legacy.
Speaker 15: Of job I've done that?
Speaker 19: I learned that from Jim Hannathan probably in like nineteen
Speaker 19: ninety seven. I used to write the tip sheet one
Speaker 19: hundred percent myself for him, and then I started making
Speaker 19: them rite up players, probably ninety nine, just so the
Speaker 19: young guys learn how to look at tape evaluate players,
Speaker 19: and then I want them to write it up for
Speaker 19: each other so if I miss something, they might see
Speaker 19: something subtly that will help them during the game. And
Speaker 19: then I got tired of writing the whole game plan,
Speaker 19: so I make them right of place. So that's just
Speaker 19: taking something off of me, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: We also heard from defensive coordinator Zach or the defense
Speaker 1: with the others and those song performances recently. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like kind of have to go on through some
Speaker 1: struggles early on to figure some things out personnel, scheme
Speaker 1: of everything, this approach to turn the corner a little bit.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I think so. I think we definitely improved. I
Speaker 20: think we definitely got better. It's good to see it
Speaker 20: start showing up in games.
Speaker 14: Guys have always worked hard.
Speaker 20: Obviously we tweaked some tweaks, some stuff with personnel, with
Speaker 20: scheme and communication, but I still think there's a whole
Speaker 20: another level we can get to. Man Like, we're just
Speaker 20: getting started where we need to be at, and we
Speaker 20: got four weeks left. We're gonna be continued to work
Speaker 20: hard throughout this week as coaches, players get some time off,
Speaker 20: and the expectation we come back is, Man, we got
Speaker 20: to be dominant on defense. So we took a step
Speaker 20: in the right direction definitely from earlier in the season,
Speaker 20: but there's still a whole lot we can get better at.
Speaker 8: What's the next step in your mind as far as
Speaker 8: getting there, I mean, you guys have cut out given
Speaker 8: up the big plays the past. Defense is stabilized in
Speaker 8: the back end.
Speaker 20: What's next in number one thing is getting some take
Speaker 20: Getting takeaways. Man, we not turned the ball over enough
Speaker 20: and we got to get the football like we have to.
Speaker 14: That changes games.
Speaker 20: That now help us out tremendously from a defense standpoint
Speaker 20: and for our team. So takeaways and then just even
Speaker 20: you know, being more dominant in the in the red zone,
Speaker 20: like if teams the teams are going to get down
Speaker 20: there is National Football League, but let's hold them to
Speaker 20: maximum three points or field goal attempt. So I think
Speaker 20: takeaways and then just limited eliminating some of the touchdowns
Speaker 20: when they get into the red zone, Zach.
Speaker 10: Merlin said after the game. But he feels like there's
Speaker 10: been a real mentality flip over the last month to
Speaker 10: six weeks and then like, no matter what your name is,
Speaker 10: if you're not meeting this under you're you're not gonna
Speaker 10: be out there.
Speaker 5: Like do you have you.
Speaker 9: Seen that as well?
Speaker 14: Definitely? Definitely.
Speaker 20: Man, it's like, you know, holding guys accountable if it's
Speaker 20: not looking the way we wanna look at from an
Speaker 20: effort standpoint, from an execution standpoint, you know, obviously give
Speaker 20: guys a chance to correct it, and you coach things
Speaker 20: up some you know, guys are gonna make mistakes, but
Speaker 20: you know, the tolerance isn't isn't high for guys who
Speaker 20: who don't play hard or guys who continue to make
Speaker 20: the same mistakes over and over again. So we have
Speaker 20: to find guys who were gonna go out there and
Speaker 20: play hard and g and do things the right way
Speaker 20: and do things we wanted to be done. So I
Speaker 20: think guys have started have started to see that, and
Speaker 20: the players, you know, they take ownership in that.
Speaker 14: Like as a player who you know, you don't want.
Speaker 20: People out there with you who are not doing their
Speaker 20: job or not executing their job. So I think I
Speaker 20: think Marlon was right on with what he said exactly, but.
Speaker 4: You know the Marlin say some the point of things.
Speaker 4: He said, on a couple of occasions, what do you
Speaker 4: think of that as a as a coach? And and
Speaker 4: how does that do you think impact you guys?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 14: And what particular?
Speaker 15: What particularly?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 15: He said term?
Speaker 4: So what w when you have one of your defensive
Speaker 4: leaders kind of coming out and saying those things, what
Speaker 4: sort of impact does that carry?
Speaker 14: I think it's good.
Speaker 20: I think carry is a big impact because you know,
Speaker 20: first thing, to be a leader, you know, you got
Speaker 20: to lead by example.
Speaker 14: And I think Marlin Humphreys has led by example.
Speaker 20: I mean you see it in his play, you see
Speaker 20: it in his work at their care on the practice field.
Speaker 20: He plays hard, he's the heck of a player, tries
Speaker 20: to do everything right.
Speaker 14: So he's leading by example.
Speaker 20: So when you have a guy who leads by example,
Speaker 20: they they got they got credibility to say say that,
Speaker 20: and guy's gonna listen and guy's gonna follow that. So
Speaker 20: I think it's good. Man Like, we encourage our guys
Speaker 20: to you know, leading their own way. But if you
Speaker 20: have something to say, if you feel strongly about it,
Speaker 20: you know, speak on it. And I think Marlin has
Speaker 20: done that, and I think a lot of guys have
Speaker 20: followed his lead, which which is good for us.
Speaker 11: Zach, you said a couple of weeks ago there was
Speaker 11: a meeting where guys were holding each other more accountable.
Speaker 11: Maybe feels like in retrospect, that's where things started to
Speaker 11: get better. Is it reading too much into it to
Speaker 11: say maybe that was the turning point for you whatever
Speaker 11: having that meeting.
Speaker 20: I wouldn't say it's reading too much into I think
Speaker 20: the meeting definitely had an impact, just because we had
Speaker 20: to do a lot of some deep soul searching and
Speaker 20: it was it was a long meeting, and I think
Speaker 20: it was good from a player and coach standpoint that
Speaker 20: you know, we expressed what we wanted to get done,
Speaker 20: they expressed how they felt, and we know we was
Speaker 20: able to come together and figure out solutions because that's
Speaker 20: how we were about. Man, it's a partnership between players
Speaker 20: and coaches, and our job as player and coaches go
Speaker 20: out there and go play dominant, winning football, you know,
Speaker 20: from a defensive standpoint, So everything that we do is
Speaker 20: trying to come to that solution. So I definitely think
Speaker 20: that meeting definitely had a part in it. So I
Speaker 20: wouldn't say that's out of reach coming from.
Speaker 7: Multiple players in the term has been more accountability.
Speaker 6: What does holding themselves accountable look like?
Speaker 7: What does it mean to hold their teammates accountable? But
Speaker 7: it's like for you to hold your players accountable?
Speaker 9: What is that looking?
Speaker 20: I think that is just first thing. First is holding
Speaker 20: yourself accountable. So guys got to look themselves in the
Speaker 20: mirror and be like, am I doing everything possible to
Speaker 20: go out there and be the best football player I
Speaker 20: can be for this team and for this defense. And
Speaker 20: once once you do that, once you hold yourself accountable,
Speaker 20: now you can hold with others accountable and holding each
Speaker 20: other accountable. I see the guys if somebody you know,
Speaker 20: makes a mistake or anything that's not necessarily they're just
Speaker 20: lashing out at a guy, anything that they're pulling the
Speaker 20: guy to the side, asking them what they saw and
Speaker 20: how they can get better, how they can help them out,
Speaker 20: or just teaching them.
Speaker 14: And I think when you get.
Speaker 20: The players holding each other accountable, that's when you really
Speaker 20: getting some done, you know. And as coaches, that's our
Speaker 20: job to hold the players accountable. And I think, but
Speaker 20: when players hold each other accountable and they hold themselves accountable.
Speaker 20: I think that's that's where you really start to build
Speaker 20: something special. And I think we've seen that, you know,
Speaker 20: rise to a whole nother level over the last couple
Speaker 20: of weeks. And I think that they're they're you know,
Speaker 20: they're meeting even more together. They was already meeting together
Speaker 20: as players, but they're meeting even more together and just
Speaker 20: trying to get things figured out. So I'm proud of
Speaker 20: how they taken accountability and how they you know, put
Speaker 20: it amongst themselves, like, man, we're gonna figure this thing
Speaker 20: out together.
Speaker 16: Robinson has place more snaps in the past three weeks.
Speaker 16: I know part of that's personnel Steelers, Chargers, Eagles on
Speaker 16: heavy teams.
Speaker 14: Is it more that or you see means something.
Speaker 16: From trevious to says, hey, we just want this guy.
Speaker 14: Boring the field. It's both.
Speaker 20: Man, I'm real happy with Tavious man t rob He's
Speaker 20: a heck of a Player's growing to a heck of
Speaker 20: a player for us. He does a lot of multiple things.
Speaker 20: Obviously it has a lot to do with some of
Speaker 20: the opponents we're playing. But he's earned snaps too. He's
Speaker 20: earned snaps, I mean everything. He every time he goes
Speaker 20: out there, he's in the right position, he does the
Speaker 20: right thing, He's physical, he plays hard, plays the run well,
Speaker 20: gets after the quarterback from the edge point, and you
Speaker 20: can reduce him inside as a three technique and rush
Speaker 20: him in there.
Speaker 14: So you know, we're in the.
Speaker 20: Business if you if you're productive and you do things
Speaker 20: the right way and you're going hard, you're gonna be
Speaker 20: out there. So t Rob's done that and he's earned
Speaker 20: more snaps, and I think you'll continue to see that
Speaker 20: as well.
Speaker 10: I mean you're seeing a lot more variety at linebacker
Speaker 10: this year. I mean last year, I mean both were
Speaker 10: up on the peak basically three down backers. Why does
Speaker 10: that feel like the right thing at the moment.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I think just because all the different guys next
Speaker 20: to Row offer different abilities and different strengths. And I
Speaker 20: think the best thing for us right now is we
Speaker 20: just need production out of that production out of that
Speaker 20: position overall his linebacker and specifically the will and dying position.
Speaker 20: And I think the best way for us to get
Speaker 20: that production is to, you know, rope take those guys
Speaker 20: in there.
Speaker 8: We've seen Travis Stones play through an ankle injury for
Speaker 8: six seven weeks, now he's been on the injury report
Speaker 8: sometimes he's played a lot of other times not so much.
Speaker 9: How do you think he's handled that?
Speaker 8: And how helpful do you think this bye week is
Speaker 8: going to be for him for the stretch run knowing
Speaker 8: how important he is to your defensive line from a
Speaker 8: run stopping standpoint, but also with.
Speaker 9: The past round.
Speaker 20: He's a warrior man, He's a warrior. I mean he's
Speaker 20: been He does everything he can to go out there
Speaker 20: and go play for us, and we know he's not
Speaker 20: a one hundred percent nowhere near it. And I've actually talked
Speaker 20: about with the staff today. I said, this is gonna
Speaker 20: help him. The Bible's gonna help him the most. You know,
Speaker 20: on our team from a defensive standpoints, a lot of
Speaker 20: people's gonna help, but it's gonna help him because you know,
Speaker 20: when he's when he's healthy, when he's feeling good, I mean,
Speaker 20: he's gonna be dominant. And I can't wait, you know,
Speaker 20: for him to get some rest and come back out
Speaker 20: of his bye week feeling real good and and get
Speaker 20: him back playing to how he was playing.
Speaker 14: And he's been playing good.
Speaker 20: But you know he's he's he's ain't he's out there
Speaker 20: basically on you know, on one leg essentially, so it's
Speaker 20: not as it's not it's not as dominant as it's been.
Speaker 20: But the bowie he's gonna do great for him. I'm
Speaker 20: excited about Big Traft. I'm really excited about it. I'm
Speaker 20: glad to buy a week. It came at a good
Speaker 20: time for him, and he's gonna be ready to roll.
Speaker 12: Zach is going for being you know, since training camp
Speaker 12: to being a guy who wasn't getting on the field
Speaker 12: down Now he's like an integral part of the secondary.
Speaker 12: You just talk about what he's bringing to the table
Speaker 12: and I guess the.
Speaker 5: Persistence he's had to kind of grow into that role.
Speaker 14: He's being good man.
Speaker 20: I mean he's bringing great communication, great aggressiveness, physicality.
Speaker 14: And then range in the back end, which what we
Speaker 14: value man.
Speaker 20: So we've been real happy with a D and I
Speaker 20: think the more he plays, the bet he's gonna get.
Speaker 20: He's continued to get better every single game that he's
Speaker 20: he's been starting, and I think it just comes with
Speaker 20: the reps and like, I'm.
Speaker 14: Real happy with him. We're real happy with him.
Speaker 20: But I think, you know, it's a credit to him
Speaker 20: every single day in practice, even when he's on the
Speaker 20: look team going out here making play, He's always staying
Speaker 20: ready and being ready for his opportunity. And he got
Speaker 20: his opportunity and he's took it and ran with it.
Speaker 20: So you know, I'm happy for him and I respect
Speaker 20: him to get even better.
Speaker 4: Organ tech what what do you what would you like
Speaker 4: to see more of from Marcus Williams to kind of
Speaker 4: for him to get back on the field more.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean, just continue to continue to grind, continue
Speaker 20: to get better, and continue to you know, play hard, physicality,
Speaker 20: make plays. I just think right now, just you know,
Speaker 20: essentially the two guys that we've been rolling with A
Speaker 20: D and k Ham, they just they just been you know,
Speaker 20: playing a little bit better. So it's nothing, it's no
Speaker 20: indictment to Marcus, you know, It's just it's a it's
Speaker 20: a production business, and those guys been you know, more productive.
Speaker 14: I truly believe that Marcus is still a.
Speaker 20: Good, real good football player, and I feel like if
Speaker 20: he has to step in for us, that he will
Speaker 20: be able to go in there and do a heck
Speaker 20: of a job for us.
Speaker 1: Next, we heard from Raven's assistant head coach and pass
Speaker 1: game coordinator Chris Hewitt.
Speaker 6: We've seen as far as Marlin.
Speaker 2: I think Marlon before the season talking about you wanted
Speaker 2: to kind of stay healthy. That was a big problem
Speaker 2: with one last year. What have you seen kind of
Speaker 2: his season this year?
Speaker 9: Well, you already stated it. It's health. He's been healthy.
Speaker 18: And when Marlin's healthy and playing at the level that
Speaker 18: he's playing at, he makes us a better defense. He
Speaker 18: brings that grit, he brings the energy, and that's that's
Speaker 18: what this defense is made up of. He embodies everything
Speaker 18: that we talk about as far as being a raven.
Speaker 18: So when he's playing that way, we played better.
Speaker 16: It's obviously the big places he has put down on
Speaker 16: it is the past several weeks.
Speaker 9: Right, What do you attribute that to.
Speaker 18: I think it's a little bit more of continuity with
Speaker 18: the guys that we're playing with, not so much more
Speaker 18: mix and match. Putting Kyle back in a deeper position,
Speaker 18: all those things that has helped, and then Marlin solidifying
Speaker 18: himself down as the U as the nickel UH him
Speaker 18: being in going there and and and fit on a
Speaker 18: run as well playing in the past, all the things
Speaker 18: that UH that Kyle has excelled at. But he can
Speaker 18: he can do the other thing. So all those things
Speaker 18: uh in compassed together has uh made us cut down
Speaker 18: on all of those explosive plays, which we're not gonna
Speaker 18: talk about right.
Speaker 6: What about the communication?
Speaker 2: How is that?
Speaker 6: How much has that been an interact?
Speaker 18: Just like I said, it's just it's really about the continuity.
Speaker 18: And we probably have uh simplified a lot of things
Speaker 18: in our defense too. We're not doing as much. So
Speaker 18: when you don't do as much, try to do too
Speaker 18: much out there on defense. Cause you when when you
Speaker 18: got new guys and you got all these toys, you
Speaker 18: want to try to put them in positions to try
Speaker 18: to you know, confuse the offense and in turn sometimes
Speaker 18: to confuse as the defense. So I think all those
Speaker 18: things have have has helped us moving forward.
Speaker 6: I Handlin type of display.
Speaker 9: He just talked about his contents. I mean he's been
Speaker 9: the thing up a few times in games.
Speaker 7: Yep, he's bought back the jury to getting back on
Speaker 7: the field, and he looks upset any time he has
Speaker 7: to leave it through that, and he just talked about
Speaker 7: his toughness and desire.
Speaker 18: Well, I mean he's a that's that's that's pretty much
Speaker 18: like a lot of our guys, the guys that we
Speaker 18: have playing out there, they they don't want to miss
Speaker 18: playing time and they will fight them, fight them way
Speaker 18: back on the field whenever they were hurt. And he's
Speaker 18: just he's just kind of fitting in what the culture
Speaker 18: is that these guys they want to play and they
Speaker 18: they're they want to be out there with their brothers
Speaker 18: and they want to go to battle with those guys,
Speaker 18: and he never wants to not be a part of
Speaker 18: a battle.
Speaker 1: What what's stood out to you about your names.
Speaker 11: Whites since he's road here.
Speaker 18: He's a pro guy that has a lot of experience
Speaker 18: brings uh play making ability. Uh, he just got to
Speaker 18: get real comfortable with what we're doing is on the defense.
Speaker 18: But all those attributes as far as his play making
Speaker 18: and you know, being being a pro, a former pro bowler, Uh,
Speaker 18: he sees things on on on on on.
Speaker 9: Game tape that we talk about.
Speaker 18: So he he's one of those guys kind of stays
Speaker 18: ahead of the Uh, stays ahead of the game and
Speaker 18: looking forward to see him makes more plays for us.
Speaker 19: Teams.
Speaker 11: We're targeting Brandon Stevens of it.
Speaker 5: There are some of those big plays against him.
Speaker 1: What did you see from him.
Speaker 13: That made me keep him out there.
Speaker 5: And what do you think the putt?
Speaker 18: Well, you you if you look at all the like
Speaker 18: the plays that people have made on Brandon, it's it's
Speaker 18: about him locating the football or whatever. But he's always
Speaker 18: been a guy that's he He's sticky, he competes, he's
Speaker 18: always right there at the catchpoint. And you know it's
Speaker 18: a quarterback throwing a perfect ball. I mean, you playing dB,
Speaker 18: you know things like that are gonna happen and you're
Speaker 18: gonna give up some plays. Has he given up more
Speaker 18: than he'd liked to. Absolutely, But there's a lot of
Speaker 18: factors that go and go involved with that. But Brandon
Speaker 18: has been he always plays hard. He knows what to do,
Speaker 18: but he's got to make those plays on the ball.
Speaker 18: So that's really that's all it is.
Speaker 10: Because when we when we just asked the act about
Speaker 10: Marcus Williams, he said, look, it's it's a production bus.
Speaker 10: But I mean you have a player like that who's
Speaker 10: used to being out there for every snap, right, he's.
Speaker 6: A healthy scratch.
Speaker 5: How big a jolt is that?
Speaker 10: And how can he sort of come back to guy?
Speaker 18: Well, for one thing, Marcus is a he's a professional. Okay,
Speaker 18: he still approaches the game the same way. He's gonna
Speaker 18: come into the meeting rooms and take the game plan
Speaker 18: and you know, continue to try to contribute as much
Speaker 18: as he possibly can.
Speaker 9: Is it a jult to a system? Absolutely?
Speaker 18: He wants to be out there, and you know, moving forward,
Speaker 18: you know we'll find out where we stand in health
Speaker 18: wise or whatever. But he's always going to be the
Speaker 18: guy that's gonna be ready to go out there and
Speaker 18: go play.
Speaker 9: And we have the utmost.
Speaker 18: Confidence in that Marcus. To ever come to it, he'd
Speaker 18: been back out there and making plays for us.
Speaker 16: Mark Darius as he's stepped in the deposition.
Speaker 9: What I've seen is a guy that.
Speaker 18: Basically he just triggers and he just goes seaball, go getball,
Speaker 18: and he's made plays and every game that he's been
Speaker 18: in and that's why he's earned the right to be
Speaker 18: out there.
Speaker 9: He just makes plays.
Speaker 18: He's a guy that's been hurt in his first three years,
Speaker 18: and I've always felt this way about him.
Speaker 9: He's just he's just a dog.
Speaker 18: He's a guy that's just go out there and compete,
Speaker 18: plays with passion, plays with with with fire, and that's
Speaker 18: why he's out there.
Speaker 8: What I don't think we've asked you about Nate Wiggins.
Speaker 8: What have you seen from him, you know, more than
Speaker 8: halfway through his rookie season, and kind of what's the
Speaker 8: next step for him as far as he continues to
Speaker 8: play more and more for you, right.
Speaker 18: I mean his he's been inconsistent, inconsistent, inconsistent, inconsistent. So
Speaker 18: that's something that you do. What you do, you take
Speaker 18: to take the good with the bad with the rookie.
Speaker 18: But you he has he has a lot of ability,
Speaker 18: so you see the upside with that. And he's made
Speaker 18: those strides from early in the season going late into
Speaker 18: the season, and I continue to see him continue to
Speaker 18: keep on getting better, like to see him get his
Speaker 18: hands on the ball a little bit more, at least
Speaker 18: complete the catches instead of just breaking it up. But yeah,
Speaker 18: I love where Nate is at right now.
Speaker 13: How do you think the kind of platoon you guys
Speaker 13: have a linebackers help you guys shore up the middle
Speaker 13: of the field defense, especially on those kind of intermediate stuff.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry say that one.
Speaker 6: Time, Tune.
Speaker 13: You guys have a linebacker you know more Chris bord
Speaker 13: more Malik has it helped kind of show up in
Speaker 13: the middle of the field.
Speaker 18: Well, I mean that's just been an emphasis on you know,
Speaker 18: the last six or seven weeks, we've been really really
Speaker 18: been working on shoring up the middle of the field
Speaker 18: as well as you call it. And that's really just
Speaker 18: about guys getting back to their spots in our zone coverage,
Speaker 18: vision on the quarterback and breaking on the ball. And
Speaker 18: you know, that's just been an emphasis going forward. It
Speaker 18: really doesn't have anything to do with the platoon or
Speaker 18: whatever we're doing. It's just really about the emphasis for
Speaker 18: all the line back, the second there everybody. So that's
Speaker 18: just really been an emphasis that we had been going
Speaker 18: with the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: And lastly we heard from a special teams coordinator at Chris.
Speaker 15: Hort, how are we doing guys? Good to see everyone.
Speaker 15: What do you got for me today? UK?
Speaker 2: With Justin and the his struggles lately, have you noticed
Speaker 2: any kind of and dealing with Justin, any any kind
Speaker 2: of difference in just you know, his attitude or anything
Speaker 2: like that, you know, you know or you know, just
Speaker 2: in going through the struggle, any kind of difference in.
Speaker 15: Your dealings with them as far as uh, noticing anything
Speaker 15: different with him. I think Justin approaches his job every day.
Speaker 15: He's the same.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 15: He's full of energy when he goes out on the
Speaker 15: practice field. He works hard and he's doing the right thing.
Speaker 15: So there hasn't been anything unusual about him as far
Speaker 15: as you know, outside of his ability. He hasn't been
Speaker 15: making kicks. But other than that, I mean, he's he's
Speaker 15: been the same guy. Every day. He's working diligently to
Speaker 15: get himself going.
Speaker 8: Chris, is there something to be said for getting away
Speaker 8: from this for a week for him for the operation
Speaker 8: when when it hasn't been going well? And you know,
Speaker 8: sometimes I guess the expression try easier and having a
Speaker 8: bye week maybe allows you guys.
Speaker 6: To do that a little bit.
Speaker 15: I think that I think that that is a good point.
Speaker 15: You know, he's been he's been going through it right,
Speaker 15: So for him to just kind of clear his mind, uh,
Speaker 15: ease himself out of football for a little bit, I
Speaker 15: think I think that's gonna be good for him. But
Speaker 15: me knowing Justin, Justin is probably gonna be somewhere kicking
Speaker 15: uh and just trying to trying to figure this thing out.
Speaker 15: So I think it's it's good on both sides of it.
Speaker 15: But if if you know Justin he's a he's a
Speaker 15: he's a true pro, right, and then he wants to
Speaker 15: continue to be great. So he's probably somewhere take some
Speaker 15: time off, and then he's gonna go out there. He's
Speaker 15: probably gonna go kick him.
Speaker 19: Yes, John said that it's something that needs to be
Speaker 19: fixed and that Justin is the guy to fix it.
Speaker 15: He also said Justin knows what's wrong and he just
Speaker 15: seems to do it.
Speaker 18: Is it pretty much a Justin thing at this point,
Speaker 18: Like it's something that he has to find within himself
Speaker 18: or is there something.
Speaker 15: That you guys can do as a staff. I mean,
Speaker 15: that's that's that's totally it. Obviously we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 15: get out there, we're gonna work because when when you
Speaker 15: see physically, you see him go out there and you
Speaker 15: see him kick during the week, it's so true. Man,
Speaker 15: he's he's smashing the ball. When you see him in pregame,
Speaker 15: he's smashing the ball. You know, he's just got to
Speaker 15: continue to those things and bring him excellent into the game.
Speaker 15: So it's something that he has to get himself out of,
Speaker 15: and we as coaches, we're gonna We're gonna stay on him,
Speaker 15: We're gonna keep working, and we're gonna help him get
Speaker 15: out of that.
Speaker 13: Chris. I remember talking with Justin a couple of years
Speaker 13: ago for a story like and his recall for kicks
Speaker 13: five ten years ago, just where he put the ball,
Speaker 13: where the ball was was incredible. Do you think that
Speaker 13: kind of becomes a double edged sword in moments where
Speaker 13: he is struggling to kind of put it all together,
Speaker 13: just that that that kind of memory banks that he has.
Speaker 15: H I'm not I'm not quite sure. I think I
Speaker 15: think with Justin it's it's kind of his thing, right,
Speaker 15: every kick, every kick lives on its own, and I
Speaker 15: think when he goes out there, he approaches it that way.
Speaker 15: So no matter what the elements are, where he places
Speaker 15: the ball with target line, he picks his job is
Speaker 15: and I got to make this kick and I want
Speaker 15: to smash the ball.
Speaker 4: Going back to what you're saying about him, you know,
Speaker 4: smashing in practice and we see in warm ups. Is
Speaker 4: it is he not having the kind of contact at times?
Speaker 4: I know, I know each kick is different, but is
Speaker 4: he not having the kind of cope he would like
Speaker 4: at times at the ball during games.
Speaker 15: I think it's a combination of I think it's a
Speaker 15: combination of a few things. It could be it could
Speaker 15: be contact, it could be uh just line angle towards
Speaker 15: the balls. So it's a it's a combination of a
Speaker 15: few things. And and it was it's kind of like
Speaker 15: it would say, like right, only only Justin can truly
Speaker 15: get himself out of that because he knows he knows
Speaker 15: how to fix those things.
Speaker 4: It is in terms of other special teams, you know,
Speaker 4: Thailand talked about some of the fielding ponds and things
Speaker 4: so fourth on this past Sunday, and he's had a
Speaker 4: couple of other hiccups with that. How do you go
Speaker 4: about sort of finding that consistency that you guys want
Speaker 4: and cleaning up those those things.
Speaker 15: I think from the from the from the part return standpoint,
Speaker 15: Thyland Tyland is back there because he has been he
Speaker 15: has been a good catcher for us right and I
Speaker 15: think when when he gets in certain situations and we
Speaker 15: had kind of a windy game and the balls moving
Speaker 15: on him a little bit, he's just got to be
Speaker 15: more decisive and making those decisions again. And Thailand's still
Speaker 15: fairly still fairly young and fielding and having returns. I
Speaker 15: probably guarantee doesn't have twenty returns in his career right,
Speaker 15: So for him, it's just a matter of when you
Speaker 15: are back there, man, make a split decision, make it quick,
Speaker 15: and you understand that at the end of the day,
Speaker 15: just give the ball back to the offense because that's
Speaker 15: our model.
Speaker 16: Obviously, there's a really high slayer here for special teams.
Speaker 16: He all have been one of the best units for
Speaker 16: a long long time across the board, just as you
Speaker 16: guys would buy. How do you kind of assess the
Speaker 16: overall play of special teams, all the all the different units,
Speaker 16: and that's kind of the focus where you really want
Speaker 16: to see improvement.
Speaker 15: You know, first off, this is a this is a
Speaker 15: good week for us, just kind of you know, we're
Speaker 15: thirteen games in, we got four games left, and you
Speaker 15: really take a look at all your young guys. We're
Speaker 15: playing a lot of young guys, and so it's funny
Speaker 15: you asked that ron I just finished watching all of
Speaker 15: our kickoff returns. We got twenty six on the on
Speaker 15: the season, and when you go back through there and
Speaker 15: you watch him, there's four penalties on there and they
Speaker 15: kind of hurt us on on on some longer return,
Speaker 15: so you kind of you kind of figure out, Okay,
Speaker 15: well those tech technique things, how do we get ourselves
Speaker 15: out of that? And then and then working from there,
Speaker 15: we're on the up. I'm starting to see our guys
Speaker 15: are starting to truly get a feel for for this
Speaker 15: kickoff return system. It's just a lot different than what
Speaker 15: we've than what we've been used to. We thought early
Speaker 15: we'd come out we'd have an advantage, but we've rotated
Speaker 15: some guys. We had some guys that were that were playing,
Speaker 15: they were fairly young. They were in their third, second,
Speaker 15: second game right of the season. So throughout that process, man,
Speaker 15: I'm just looking to see our young guys continue to
Speaker 15: grow and our veteran guys continue to lead. And I
Speaker 15: do believe that we're going to continue to make progress
Speaker 15: on all the phases. You think about our punt coverage, uh,
Speaker 15: something that we harped on a lot this offseason of
Speaker 15: covering punts and just being down there and being in
Speaker 15: the right spot and making tackles. Man, our guys have
Speaker 15: done a great job protecting the punt covering thought. Jordan's
Speaker 15: doing a great job, you know, and just continue to
Speaker 15: find that consistency, uh, across the board, and we'll we'll
Speaker 15: be fine, and we'll continue to develop and our guys
Speaker 15: will continue to get better and we'll and we'll move forward.
Speaker 10: Just going back to the kicking for a second, is
Speaker 10: the is the snapping and holding part of the operation
Speaker 10: where you want it to be from a consistency standpoint.
Speaker 15: I think that's been that's been fairly that's been fairly consistent.
Speaker 15: I mean, you know, I was thinking about this the
Speaker 15: other day. You know, there's been kicks made where there's
Speaker 15: been a good snap, not not a good hole and
Speaker 15: the kick was made. There's been there, and there's been
Speaker 15: vice versa. Right, So I think for the most part,
Speaker 15: Nick is snapping the ball, great, Jordan's putting the ball
Speaker 15: on the spot again. Just remember it's a grain of rice, right,
Speaker 15: You're trying to put that ball down there. And for
Speaker 15: the most part it has been consistent, right, And then
Speaker 15: we just got to go out there. It takes all
Speaker 15: of us men to go out there. Starts with the snap,
Speaker 15: the hold and the kick.
Speaker 13: Is it how one thing in this field goals?
Speaker 6: But missing the extra point?
Speaker 4: I mean it's come automatic for for most people who adjusted.
Speaker 6: Is that something that maybe fleeds over.
Speaker 7: I mean, if there's something like that occurs early in
Speaker 7: a game where this is I the last Sunday, that
Speaker 7: carries over in his mind, maybe towards.
Speaker 6: The field goal.
Speaker 15: You know, I can't I can't speak for Justin because
Speaker 15: I'm not I'm not in his I'm not in his
Speaker 15: mind right, but you know, uh it it could have
Speaker 15: an effect. But if you if you talk to Justin again,
Speaker 15: every kick is different, right, every situation is different. So
Speaker 15: I can't speak for Justin mentally on what he's thinking
Speaker 15: after he misses that Pat.
Speaker 4: Is there any.
Speaker 16: Consideration to having Jordan do kickoffs or anything just to
Speaker 16: take something off of justice plate and especially as it
Speaker 16: gets older.
Speaker 15: We've we've thought about that. We talk about it all
Speaker 15: the time. We practiced Jordan on kickoffs. If that becomes
Speaker 15: something that we want to do, we could that is
Speaker 15: a that is a consideration, but as of right now,
Speaker 15: we haven't. That hasn't been one of the things we
Speaker 15: thought about.
Speaker 11: It's for the kickoff changes.
Speaker 19: Do you feel like they're doing.
Speaker 1: What they were intended to do the game?
Speaker 15: I think so. They wanted to cut down on the injuries.
Speaker 15: I think the injuries have been cut down, and then
Speaker 15: there's teams that are putting the ball in play a lot,
Speaker 15: and then there's teams that put the ball in play strategically.
Speaker 15: And I think you're seeing more returns and I think
Speaker 15: that benefits all the guys that only truly play special teams,
Speaker 15: and it gives us, It gives us an opportunity to
Speaker 15: coach some plays.
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