Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens took
Speaker 1: down the Los Angeles Rams thirty seven to thirty one
Speaker 1: in thrilling fashion on Sunday. Tyland Wallace delivered the game
Speaker 1: winning punt return. This is something that Ravens fans are
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about for a long time. It was
Speaker 1: an unforgettable game and finish, and now the Ravens improved
Speaker 1: a ten and three on the season. After the game,
Speaker 1: we had a chance to talk with the hero of
Speaker 1: the day, wide receiver and kick returner and punt returner
Speaker 1: Tylan Wallace.
Speaker 2: Doing Kyl and take us through your emotions as you
Speaker 2: catch a varney if you want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, going into it.
Speaker 4: Obviously with a duke going down, me having to step
Speaker 4: up into that role, I hadn't, like y'all were saying,
Speaker 4: I haven't really had too many in game punt returns,
Speaker 4: So main main thing for me, I'm like, especially with
Speaker 4: the weather.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I just need to catch it first for anything.
Speaker 4: But on that play, you know, we had the return
Speaker 4: set up and I was like, this is you know,
Speaker 4: a perfect opportunity to put the game away, you know,
Speaker 4: and shout out to the guys blocking for me. Man,
Speaker 4: they it was wide open, so I appreciate them helping
Speaker 4: me out.
Speaker 5: And I just saw the crease and I just took it.
Speaker 3: I saided.
Speaker 4: You know, it just feels great to be able to
Speaker 4: make a difference in the game and help the team win.
Speaker 2: The time afterwards, just saw you sitting on the bench
Speaker 2: for a little while, just kind of sitting here all end.
Speaker 6: Can you take us inside your mind what you're thinking
Speaker 6: at that point?
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. Well, for one, I was out of breath,
Speaker 5: for sure.
Speaker 4: I was trying to I was like, let me catch
Speaker 4: my breath, trying to celebrate talking to everybody, So that's
Speaker 4: one thing I was trying to do. But just and
Speaker 4: then I wanted to sit down and you know, just
Speaker 4: just taking the moment. You know, moments like this, don't
Speaker 4: you know, you could say, once in a lifetime moment,
Speaker 4: So you know, to be able to sit.
Speaker 5: Down and just soak that all in while catch my breath.
Speaker 3: At the same time, you.
Speaker 7: Grew up, lamar say that guys were saying you got time.
Speaker 8: Is it silent for you or can you actually hear
Speaker 8: guys on the side.
Speaker 7: I don't hear none of that.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie to you if I don't hear
Speaker 4: nothing on the sideline. But I kind of saw in
Speaker 4: my perfect the guys were doing a great job blocking
Speaker 4: for me, so I saw I had some time. And
Speaker 4: then once I took off, I saw the crease guys
Speaker 4: just had a lane for me, and I just said,
Speaker 4: I just gotta go run as fast as I came
Speaker 4: through it, and you know, try and the guy.
Speaker 2: When the guy clipped your foot of your leg along
Speaker 2: the sideline and you kind of kept your balance, did
Speaker 2: you feel close to going down at at some point.
Speaker 7: Or for sure?
Speaker 5: For sure, I was like that I was about to
Speaker 5: go down. I'm like, I can't go down right here.
Speaker 5: I made it this far.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I keep going. I gotta stay up, you know.
Speaker 5: So, uh, that's kind of what was going through my
Speaker 5: mind in that moment.
Speaker 3: Starting to bring up at a low point. But it
Speaker 3: feels like such a part of the story. I mean,
Speaker 3: that penalty that you had in the middle of the game.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you would beat yourself up for where you
Speaker 2: kind of looking to maybe make a difference and have
Speaker 2: a play where you can make a difference.
Speaker 4: Oh, most definitely, you know, like I said, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm more than the coaches are.
Speaker 5: You could say I'm harder on myself than they are.
Speaker 4: You know, going in, I knew I was having their
Speaker 4: kind of a rough game on special teams going early on,
Speaker 4: so you know, to be able to come back and
Speaker 4: you know, just wipe that all the way and come
Speaker 4: back and make a play like that on special teams
Speaker 4: at that Uh, just it it means the world to
Speaker 4: me be able to do something like that.
Speaker 7: How did that fly to grooms?
Speaker 9: Talking pictures for a while and then obviously they've put
Speaker 9: you out there for return.
Speaker 3: What was that talk like? What was it like getting
Speaker 3: that responsibility after this? For sure?
Speaker 4: They were telling me, you know, just you know, it's
Speaker 4: you know, what happens. You know, the penalties happen. Obviously,
Speaker 4: don't want to happen too often, but you know, just
Speaker 4: to wipe that away, you know, dou went down to,
Speaker 4: all right, you know, we trust you back there, so
Speaker 4: we're gonna put you back there, and just you know,
Speaker 4: I appreciate them for believing in me to be back
Speaker 4: there and to make plays for the team. So that
Speaker 4: was kind of the talk.
Speaker 2: You're talking about the fall security concerned you had, I mean,
Speaker 2: the Rams return, he hobbled it twice and dropped it twice.
Speaker 2: I mean that add to sort of the tension your
Speaker 2: feeling is you're waiting for the bunk for the kid
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean, you go back there and you see the
Speaker 4: other team dropping it, you know, you're kind of like,
Speaker 4: oh man, you know, but you know, I believe in
Speaker 4: I believed in myself. I believe what I can do,
Speaker 4: and I knew, you know, what I'm capable of. So
Speaker 4: I just knew I had to go back there, and
Speaker 4: I knew I had the the ball was really the team,
Speaker 4: you know, so I had to make sure I took
Speaker 4: care of the ball and take care of the team
Speaker 4: and the rest take care of yourself.
Speaker 3: How tough was it to staying I mean the team
Speaker 3: like it was pretty.
Speaker 7: How tough is it to stay in bounce when when
Speaker 7: you don't have that.
Speaker 4: Much of the space that Yeah, it was tough. Like
Speaker 4: I said, they did a great job blocking, so there
Speaker 4: was enough space for me just to squeeze through. But
Speaker 4: I just knew I wanted to. I had to stay
Speaker 4: in bounds to get as many yards as I could. Originally,
Speaker 4: and then as soon as uh we was starting to
Speaker 4: stumble and realize like, oh, you know I could I
Speaker 4: can stay up.
Speaker 3: I can go score.
Speaker 5: So I was like I tried to stay up and
Speaker 5: do that the one more fare.
Speaker 10: Time on the off side called time. Did you line
Speaker 10: up the team differently? I think? Was there anything different
Speaker 10: about how you lined up on there?
Speaker 2: Did you check anything?
Speaker 4: Or was there I mean, I mean I probably should
Speaker 4: have checked with the ref before I got there, kind
Speaker 4: of looked at it. If it was it was maybe
Speaker 4: very slight. But like I said, that's on me. I
Speaker 4: gotta check with the rev.
Speaker 5: Make sure I'm good before I just line up real quick.
Speaker 11: You guys, we know how many how much focus you
Speaker 11: on special themes.
Speaker 3: To practice of the people watch you all the time,
Speaker 3: But can you estimate how many reps you get as
Speaker 3: a pumper returner a week? Like how often do you
Speaker 3: do it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: I get a a decent amount.
Speaker 4: I'd probably say if I had to throw a number
Speaker 4: on it, I'll probably say about maybe five, five or
Speaker 4: six maybe, But you know, just I just I, like
Speaker 4: I said, I know what what I'm capable of. I
Speaker 4: know what I can do, you know, so getting the
Speaker 4: reps that I need and practice, you know, I make
Speaker 4: sure I get those that I need and know when
Speaker 4: of my numbers called, I just gotta go there and
Speaker 4: execute under.
Speaker 7: One hundred year, over a thousand days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, plust make something like that, and so I've been
Speaker 4: doing it for a while.
Speaker 5: And not in the game.
Speaker 1: That was Tyler Wallace who delivered the big play in
Speaker 1: this game. We also talked with head coach John Harmon.
Speaker 12: Just a treminous, amazing victory and congratulations to our players
Speaker 12: from making the playsmen. It had to be made, and
Speaker 12: also to the Rams. That's a really good football team.
Speaker 12: Sean had those guys ready to play. They played great football,
Speaker 12: Stafford Donald, the defense, every one of their players played
Speaker 12: great football.
Speaker 7: The whole game is your hard fought win.
Speaker 12: What thing I want to share with you is kind
Speaker 12: of what we shared with the team this week, and
Speaker 12: the guys talked about the time of year, all right,
Speaker 12: and the fact that there are moments in life and
Speaker 12: this is your time, all right. Five hundred years from now,
Speaker 12: none of us going to be around five hundred years
Speaker 12: from now, none of us were here. So we're giving
Speaker 12: this time with these people in this place for a purpose.
Speaker 12: And there's December, and the time is December. December football
Speaker 12: has a meaning to it, right, and it's preparation for
Speaker 12: great events to come, and you got to put yourself
Speaker 12: in pas with December football for what's to come. It's
Speaker 12: also the advent season. Advent comes from the Latin adventos,
Speaker 12: which means anticipation, in preparation for an amazing event, which
Speaker 12: is the coming of our Savior and celebrating the Christ,
Speaker 12: all right, the good news that changes the world and
Speaker 12: changes it for all eternity. And so I think our
Speaker 12: guys showed an amazing display of December football, and it
Speaker 12: was pretty darn exciting, wasn't it. So I was talking
Speaker 12: to the phones to myself, shut the deal off so
Speaker 12: nobody could hear me, and I just kind of said,
Speaker 12: I said, well, it's nothing you can do right now,
Speaker 12: you know. I guess I was talking to God, and
Speaker 12: I said, you know, some overtime the end of game,
Speaker 12: and overtime football the player's game. It's a player's game,
Speaker 12: and the game belongs to the players, and players will
Speaker 12: find a way to step up and make plays and
Speaker 12: that's how these games are won. And that's what our
Speaker 12: guys did. And that's the amazing event I'm talking about
Speaker 12: this December in this game in this stadium today, December football.
Speaker 12: It just couldn't be more proud of those guys because
Speaker 12: it was mountains and valleys, there was peaks and there
Speaker 12: was lows in that game. It's a national football toge
Speaker 12: in December, I guess, a very worthy opponent, and our
Speaker 12: guys just weathered all those storms figuratively and literally out
Speaker 12: there and found a way to make those plays to
Speaker 12: win the game at the end. As a coach, there's
Speaker 12: nothing better than that. What questions you have, who reminded.
Speaker 7: You that you had to go shake the hands of
Speaker 7: the pools? Get?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well here's what happened. I ran all
Speaker 12: the way down there, and I tried to get involved,
Speaker 12: you know, I was diving over the top of the
Speaker 12: pile and everything, and it was and it was fast,
Speaker 12: and I went really fast in my own mind, right,
Speaker 12: I jumped around, jumped around that I lost my headset
Speaker 12: and everything. And then I got I think God probably
Speaker 12: reminded me, I got the Holy Spirit maybe something. It
Speaker 12: was a small still voice in my head said you
Speaker 12: got to go shake hands with you with Sean, who
Speaker 12: was my friend. And so I ran back and like
Speaker 12: all my my legs I lacked. The acid had built
Speaker 12: up and I had nothing left all right, So I
Speaker 12: cramped up on the way back, But he was gracious
Speaker 12: enough to wait for me, which I appreciate.
Speaker 8: You mentioned about it's a it's a player's game in overtime, right,
Speaker 8: But what does it mean to a team when a
Speaker 8: guy like Thailand Wallace makes the play to win it?
Speaker 8: I mean, you take it anyway, you know, Lamar the offense,
Speaker 8: zay O'Dell. But it's but it's Thailand who does What
Speaker 8: does it mean in a broader sense to the team?
Speaker 12: That, to me is a really great point because you're
Speaker 12: talking about amazing events, right, and that's the beauty of football.
Speaker 12: That's the amazing thing about football. It is the ultimate
Speaker 12: team game, right, And the guys were so happy for
Speaker 12: Thailand in the locker room. You'll see the celebration in
Speaker 12: the locker room after the game with all the water
Speaker 12: and everything, and the guy's going crazy.
Speaker 7: When you see it, you're.
Speaker 12: Gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 12: That celebration right there is what it means.
Speaker 11: Which normally will have three or four or five guys
Speaker 11: practice punk returning in any given week during practice, right, whose.
Speaker 3: Decision is it to Stuberna's down Wallace? Why why Wallace?
Speaker 12: Well, he was our guy that was already set, so
Speaker 12: he was here. That was the pecking order, so to speak.
Speaker 12: And then the other person in there is a Flowers,
Speaker 12: which we did talk about and consider putting Zay out
Speaker 12: there too.
Speaker 7: But Thailand really, you.
Speaker 12: Know, he's here's a here's a veteran player, fourth year
Speaker 12: guy who's kind of been through it, you know, and
Speaker 12: he just kind of felt like it was It wasn't
Speaker 12: a conscious thing. It's like he just felt like, Oh,
Speaker 12: he deserves it, He's.
Speaker 7: Ready for that moment.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 12: Did you think he's gonna take it back to the house. No,
Speaker 12: but I thought he'd catch it, you know, maybe make
Speaker 12: a guy miss. And and you know, you could see
Speaker 12: how tough it was to catch those punts out there.
Speaker 12: So another amazing event advent John, you.
Speaker 2: Were describing obviously you're run to be more of celebration.
Speaker 2: When we saw you on camera screaming right into the camera.
Speaker 2: Can you forgot when that you got caught up emotionally?
Speaker 2: Look that didn't involve playoffs like this one.
Speaker 12: I can't, I can't I don't know. I'm this was
Speaker 12: this is really special. I don't know why it was
Speaker 12: so emotional this one. I don't have any idea why.
Speaker 12: I don't know if it's probably no logic to it.
Speaker 7: It just was.
Speaker 12: It just was give him what you all think this
Speaker 12: team can do.
Speaker 7: Do you like having a.
Speaker 2: Moment like this, like this new fork moment where you
Speaker 2: kind of or something to the fire, not just another
Speaker 2: routine win.
Speaker 3: Is there something to be.
Speaker 7: Said for this and sort of the story of your season?
Speaker 12: These things, well, it's a chapter written in the story,
Speaker 12: and we'll see, you know. I mean, that's the thing.
Speaker 12: It's like, we'll we'll be looking back at this moment
Speaker 12: saying it was a galvanizing moment. The team has been galvanized,
Speaker 12: so maybe the galvanization is reflected, you know in a
Speaker 12: moment like this, you know, and for everybody to see.
Speaker 12: I think the guys all know that already. But hey,
Speaker 12: you know what, we got a we got a really
Speaker 12: tough game in Jacksonville coming up on Sunday night, right,
Speaker 12: So that's what we'll be thinking about after we get
Speaker 12: back to work. For now, we're all gonna go have nice,
Speaker 12: a nice evening.
Speaker 9: Lamar's play to last drive in regulation and then.
Speaker 3: You know, have this type of game to those type
Speaker 3: of positions.
Speaker 12: Yeah, La Martyrs are so much craz you forget Lamar
Speaker 12: sometimes all these other things are happening, and we're not
Speaker 12: gonna talk about Lamar Jackson, who drove the offense, okay,
Speaker 12: and then guys stepped up and made plays. But his
Speaker 12: poison the pocket. How about the offensive line? There were
Speaker 12: times when he had a lot of time back there
Speaker 12: in the pocket and could could kind of search things out.
Speaker 12: And I give their coverage a lot of credit too,
Speaker 12: But our guys runs around, scrambles, finds guys downfield. He's
Speaker 12: a very unique player, you know, and most of the
Speaker 12: time it works out really great, just like any player,
Speaker 12: but he's he's one of a kind. You know, there's
Speaker 12: nobody like Lamar Jackson. Update Kyle Hansen both are being evaluated.
Speaker 12: Kyle and Devin are both being evaluated right now, so
Speaker 12: we'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 13: On Thailand is a guy going back to training camp,
Speaker 13: talked about trying to make the team and so forth,
Speaker 13: and then here we are and we you know, fourteen,
Speaker 13: and it makes that sort of play doesn't go down,
Speaker 13: you know.
Speaker 7: On the sideline.
Speaker 13: What does that say I guess about him as a
Speaker 13: player where he's come from from there.
Speaker 12: Now, yeah, I think that's a great point to me,
Speaker 12: Like words couldn't express what it says. It says what
Speaker 12: you see and you see it. That's says it all,
Speaker 12: you know. And I think that point right there that
Speaker 12: you just made, is it. That's the beauty of this
Speaker 12: whole thing. That's why we're riveted by the game, by
Speaker 12: the players who play the game.
Speaker 3: In their stories.
Speaker 12: It's just I just love it. I just love it.
Speaker 12: To me again, advent Man, amazing events.
Speaker 6: Think us through just the significance of that drive by
Speaker 6: Lamar at the end to tie to get her to
Speaker 6: put you guys up, because you also, if you recalled,
Speaker 6: was the first option two point conversion out of that
Speaker 6: The first option was the.
Speaker 12: Flat Isaiah the first and then Lamar held it. I mean,
Speaker 12: you know, it looked like you might have got it
Speaker 12: in there for the two point of now one, but Lamar,
Speaker 12: you know, I guess he wanted to make sure, you know,
Speaker 12: and he's got so much poise, you know, the drive,
Speaker 12: the long yardage, I mean the touchdown pass on the
Speaker 12: third and long, that was incredible.
Speaker 3: Throw incredible catch.
Speaker 12: I means they making that grab like that on the
Speaker 12: run and then the two point play odds Like you said, Lamar, what.
Speaker 14: Did you see on the de Marcus Rompson touchdown? And
Speaker 14: tried the challenge it, but they did a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 14: I was kind of looking.
Speaker 12: There's more about getting the time out. You know, I
Speaker 12: thought maybe maybe he stepped out of bounds, but I
Speaker 12: know they look at that. But really what it was
Speaker 12: was just getting organized for the for the two point
Speaker 12: play call. You know, they don't they go fast in
Speaker 12: those now. They don't give you time really, and you know,
Speaker 12: I think I did, We all did, but I really
Speaker 12: wanted to make sure we had the right call. So
Speaker 12: that's a way to get a time out right there
Speaker 12: from twenty yards away, John, what.
Speaker 3: Was the explanation on the Lamar? They called it a sack,
Speaker 3: but it looked pretty clear.
Speaker 2: That he had got a complete and they.
Speaker 12: Didn't explain it and they said he was down by contact.
Speaker 12: They said, we're gonna wind it right away. All right, Thanks,
Speaker 12: all right, thanks, he manure.
Speaker 1: I said coach John Harbaugh. We also heard from quarterback
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, who threw three touchdowns in this victory.
Speaker 7: What are the emotions coming?
Speaker 2: What'd you right now after.
Speaker 4: A game like that?
Speaker 7: I still swearing that was crazy. That was a wild game, man,
Speaker 7: Shout out the top.
Speaker 14: The emotion is right now. It's a lecturer right now.
Speaker 14: You know it's not a championship, but it was almost cursed.
Speaker 14: But it was like playoffs, playoff atmosphere. You know, it
Speaker 14: was a team game, team win. But shout out the
Speaker 14: on the return team, cause that was a heck of
Speaker 14: a return.
Speaker 7: That was crazy.
Speaker 1: Mark any can he talk about the touchdown to day
Speaker 1: and in the regulation?
Speaker 10: What what you were looking for on that play and
Speaker 10: what you saw?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Well spoken, that was what I play.
Speaker 14: Called Nelly well, of course called the player and I
Speaker 14: gave uh, I gave him a preview on the huddle. Uh,
Speaker 14: Nelly was telling me, you know, if if we do
Speaker 14: that play, he don't run to the safety and run
Speaker 14: him out of the you know the window, they say
Speaker 14: he should be wide open. And that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 14: You know, we read the courage. Safety jumped Nelly and
Speaker 14: they did the rest.
Speaker 6: L Martin said, uh so, Helston Agular said.
Speaker 14: That in the huddle, yup, cause usually the play he
Speaker 14: just he usually run his shorter and the safety woulda
Speaker 14: been you know, just it would have been single high,
Speaker 14: you know.
Speaker 7: But Nellie knew he was gonna run with him.
Speaker 14: If he ran and got on his toes and ran
Speaker 14: past him, he.
Speaker 7: Would thought he would have been open.
Speaker 14: But if Nelly didn't do that, if Nelly would have
Speaker 14: did that, he would have been open and the safe
Speaker 14: would have stayed.
Speaker 7: But that was just a heck of a play.
Speaker 3: You can said, you and Aaron Donald did your face like,
Speaker 3: how tough.
Speaker 14: Of throwers that it was Aaron Donald. That's that's a
Speaker 14: tough pro, you know. But I trust my guys and
Speaker 14: I believe my li m. I believe my old line.
Speaker 14: You know, they did a heck of a job all day,
Speaker 14: you know to probably two SATs gave up. But where
Speaker 14: Aaron Donna and at that front forward, that's that's great.
Speaker 7: You know your mar what the well other they was there?
Speaker 3: Uh if you trouble holding.
Speaker 7: The ball for sometimes, you know, but no excuses. It's football.
Speaker 14: You gotta learn how to find those conditions and sh
Speaker 14: on this East coast, I would rather be by polar
Speaker 14: So we gotta just be prepared no matter what mar like,
Speaker 14: the deep.
Speaker 10: Ball was quite enough, sistere and you threw like played
Speaker 10: a few, attempted a few more.
Speaker 3: Just what's that? What that song?
Speaker 7: I wish i'd had no mean to cut you off.
Speaker 7: I wish I'd have had those other few.
Speaker 14: I was felt like I got too excited cause I
Speaker 14: seen them just flying, you know, but I shoulda just
Speaker 14: kept my porson delivering 'em like I did.
Speaker 7: Early on in the game.
Speaker 14: And it probably with the game, probably would have been
Speaker 14: fast and over time, but sh we got.
Speaker 3: To do it up. That was part. How does a
Speaker 3: game like this, when yups and downs or.
Speaker 7: Went like this, prepared you guys for what if I say,
Speaker 7: had set again?
Speaker 2: How does a game like this but y'all sit down
Speaker 2: to the win like this prepare you guys.
Speaker 7: For what to happen? I mean, we got what it is.
Speaker 14: Four more teams, tough teams, tough opponents, playoff teams.
Speaker 7: Rams. It's definitely a playoff team. We just saw that
Speaker 7: to day.
Speaker 14: You know, we just gotta be prepared, stay locked in
Speaker 14: each and every drive cause these type of games we
Speaker 14: gotta score points well or or you.
Speaker 2: You've had games this year where haven't been able to
Speaker 2: to have drives like you did in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: What did it feel like to kind of turn that
Speaker 3: around today and have of that.
Speaker 14: Draw that got drive at the end of regulation, just
Speaker 14: proven we can make it happen, you know when we
Speaker 14: really needed Uh, we down tryna win the game. We
Speaker 14: don't wanna put 'em back out down the field, but
Speaker 14: you know that's we just gotta score.
Speaker 7: We gotta score and we deliver our off whole offense office.
Speaker 14: Line did great r running backs, receivers, they're awesome tight ends.
Speaker 7: It's whole team effort. Total team effort high today.
Speaker 2: But also on the snapped by Tyler uh where it
Speaker 2: didn't seem like the the offense was ready.
Speaker 14: What happened on that play just miscommunication, you know, gave
Speaker 14: him free to Uh that's probably why we was in overtime,
Speaker 14: but got the dove. So you gonna hit the drawing
Speaker 14: boards and we're gonna talk about it and shouldn't happen again.
Speaker 3: Marre was your LR?
Speaker 2: What's your advantage point on Pilot's pupflica where you watching
Speaker 2: on the video?
Speaker 7: How? How how were you?
Speaker 3: How do you watch it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 14: I was I was prepared to go back on the field.
Speaker 14: I thought that was gonna be like a fair catch
Speaker 14: or something. But you know, people on the side, like
Speaker 14: you have time telling her time.
Speaker 7: He got time. I guess he heard it. And man,
Speaker 7: he just he went crazy.
Speaker 14: Just now, that look like a movie Like I was
Speaker 14: sitting in the locker room like he just showed his
Speaker 14: but he just showed his tail. You know, he just
Speaker 14: showed off. And man, that was just a spectacular return.
Speaker 7: That was crazy.
Speaker 11: M Well, Mark, how good do you feel for a
Speaker 11: guy like him who hasn't got a ton of opportunities
Speaker 11: offensive leave, He's never returned to punt and his NFL
Speaker 11: rail or she's in career to kind of come through
Speaker 11: like that in that spot and to be ready to
Speaker 11: come through.
Speaker 14: I feel like I just returned to you know, I'm
Speaker 14: more excited than the tie, you know. Uh, man, he
Speaker 14: just she just showed his tale. Like I said, Man,
Speaker 14: I'm very excited for you know, cause you know know
Speaker 14: what the future may hold and he just he just
Speaker 14: showed out, just show it out.
Speaker 13: What you mentioned a few times in recent weeks, you know,
Speaker 13: it's felt like a playoff atmosphere. Why has that been
Speaker 13: the case and and what do you take out of
Speaker 13: that drop?
Speaker 7: Just you know, every team is out to win. They
Speaker 7: tryna win.
Speaker 14: You know, some teams not in the playoff pitch or
Speaker 14: some aren't a hunt and stuff like that. And I
Speaker 14: I believe, just us being in Baltimore Ravens, every team
Speaker 14: wanna beat us.
Speaker 7: They gonna give us their bet shot.
Speaker 14: So that's why I say it's a playoff game, cause
Speaker 14: every time we go out there, that's what it's gonna be.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: Sometimes it's gonna be ups and down.
Speaker 14: Sometimes we might have a smooth selling game, but I
Speaker 14: believe every game is a playoff game cause we're in
Speaker 14: the NFL.
Speaker 10: More, was there anything being said on the sideline as
Speaker 10: you've seen your defense get the three and out stop
Speaker 10: and over time and it all's about to come back
Speaker 10: before Thailand takes it all the way, where you gonna
Speaker 10: say anything with that?
Speaker 14: I mean, we pretty much know, you know, we go
Speaker 14: over situational situations and practice every day, you know, so
Speaker 14: we we know feel goal would win the game. But
Speaker 14: I guess Tasa he wanted to score, So that's what
Speaker 14: it was. Put the icing on the Kate saved leg.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson. We also had a chance
Speaker 1: to hear from defensive tackle Justin Mattabik, who delivered another
Speaker 1: sack in this game. Mattabik has now at least a
Speaker 1: half sack and ten straight games. It's been a pretty
Speaker 1: stellar season for him. And he talked about this defensive
Speaker 1: performance of what this win means for the team.
Speaker 11: On the sideline, talk about what you were thinking on
Speaker 11: the sideline and I and you guys have just gotten
Speaker 11: off the field up for three.
Speaker 9: Now for the tom Walls, just win the game. We
Speaker 9: just want to win the game. That game was just
Speaker 9: hills and valleys, ups and downs. We were down, we
Speaker 9: were up, we were rusty, but then we got hot.
Speaker 9: It was just a crazy game, but on gud we
Speaker 9: got the win in dramatic fashion, ten and three.
Speaker 3: God's good.
Speaker 14: The game first start, they actually march down field running
Speaker 14: the ball.
Speaker 7: What was the adju justice you guys made to uh
Speaker 7: shut them down into that.
Speaker 3: Just getting off a box quicker.
Speaker 9: Uh, Mike came to us on the sideline, was like,
Speaker 9: you know they want you to hold onto the box,
Speaker 9: and uh, what you need to do is just shut
Speaker 9: them quick, you know what I mean. They were just
Speaker 9: doing a lot of duos and the interior Tryna Conjo
Speaker 9: linebackers like Peq and Row. So he was telling us, Uh,
Speaker 9: making emphasis and just shitting blocks and making tackles quick
Speaker 9: a line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: So that's what we try to do. That's what we did.
Speaker 3: As you said, hills and valleys.
Speaker 2: I mean you had that give the three points that
Speaker 2: led over time, how did the defense in your line
Speaker 2: to kind of reconvene and and and to get that stop.
Speaker 3: Uh, we just keep plowing, just j just keep.
Speaker 9: Going hard, just keep trusting the game plan and just
Speaker 9: never giving up, just never giving up. That was just
Speaker 9: w We knew it's gonna come to the wire. The
Speaker 9: score where was tight, both teams were firing, So just
Speaker 9: keep fighting.
Speaker 3: That's what we did.
Speaker 2: I believe it's a ten straat game for you at least.
Speaker 7: Hat set continue today.
Speaker 3: What I what is that streets me into you?
Speaker 9: It's it's funny everybody's telling me like wisdom and wisdom
Speaker 9: me and it's just just a lot of hard work,
Speaker 9: you know. And obviously I told myself I need to
Speaker 9: I need to step up and be the best defense
Speaker 9: attack in the league. And it's you know, there's a
Speaker 9: lot of guys in the league that's really great, but
Speaker 9: I believe in myself and I just uh put in
Speaker 9: the work and just trusting the guys around me, Dafay,
Speaker 9: van Nuyt, County Piers, everybody, Broughty and just trying to
Speaker 9: coordinate rushes and just you know, everybody's eating you know,
Speaker 9: we're leading the whole league as a defensive sack. So
Speaker 9: it's not just me. It's not just me at all.
Speaker 9: It's everybody on the on the team. So I'm just
Speaker 9: I'm just happy to be here, just to play these guys.
Speaker 7: Man, It's it's a privilege.
Speaker 2: Trust you hit Stafford a couple of times, but it's
Speaker 2: is he one of the harder quarterbacks to get to
Speaker 2: because he gets hurt of the ball as quickly as
Speaker 2: he does.
Speaker 9: I I can't say that. I I I I think
Speaker 9: they're all quarterbacks just trying to get it away quickly.
Speaker 9: He's a great quarterback. But I I will I wouldn't
Speaker 9: make a uh emphasis on how quick hard it was
Speaker 9: to get to him. I just tryna win my rush
Speaker 9: and just get you know, just get to him and
Speaker 9: get us our deepens off the field.
Speaker 6: Really justin I I know you got the history from
Speaker 6: with Aaron Donald, from training him a couple.
Speaker 7: Of years ago.
Speaker 3: Uh, did you get a chance to catch up with
Speaker 3: before the game? After game?
Speaker 9: No, everybody was huh uh hug and Tower that the game.
Speaker 9: So when I went to go drive to see him,
Speaker 9: it was gone.
Speaker 3: Uh. I saw one of my boys, bro uh Bobby Brown,
Speaker 3: Uh do linem In on the rams.
Speaker 9: I played with him in college. Chop it up with him.
Speaker 9: He's doing well and you know, you just say he's
Speaker 9: proud of me and stuff like that. But you know,
Speaker 9: I'm just trying to get better every way I can.
Speaker 10: So that's an easier, harder to battle in this weather.
Speaker 3: Was that an advantage or disadvantage.
Speaker 7: To you at all?
Speaker 3: I love the rain. I love the rain. I love
Speaker 3: uh honestly anywhether for me, it don't matter.
Speaker 9: As long as I thought my boys will uh uh
Speaker 9: with me some food in my m in my belly
Speaker 9: and some Gatoray, I'm good.
Speaker 3: So it's all about the mindset, you know what I mean.
Speaker 9: No matter what's go going on the outside, it's all
Speaker 9: about your y, your mindset and your focus.
Speaker 3: So that just might take on it.
Speaker 1: That was just about a BK. And in the locker
Speaker 1: room we also heard from a veteran wide receiver Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham junior. Now, this was a big day for Odell.
Speaker 1: He was going up against his old team. Saw has
Speaker 1: a lot of friends over there on the Rams sideline.
Speaker 1: Of course, won a Super Bowl within two years ago,
Speaker 1: but now he's on the Ravens side. He had a
Speaker 1: big game, including a long touchdown pass. He talked about
Speaker 1: this win and what it meant for this team.
Speaker 8: Ever been part of a finish, You've been part of
Speaker 8: bigger games, but a finish.
Speaker 15: Like that, I oh know that one goes up I
Speaker 15: lost my voice and them there, that one goes up there, Man,
Speaker 15: just to see Tyre running down, all the hard work
Speaker 15: that he puts into, just a mental resiliency that he
Speaker 15: had to have to overcome some things that happened to
Speaker 15: him earlier in the game. And our brother Duve went
Speaker 15: down and he had to step up and make a play.
Speaker 15: So that's just you know what the mentality is is always.
Speaker 3: The next guy.
Speaker 2: Ember.
Speaker 15: That was one of those ones, man, that goes in
Speaker 15: there as you know one and you'll you'll remember forever.
Speaker 2: I mean, you seem like Gary kay up.
Speaker 1: And playing some of your basketball.
Speaker 2: How good do you feel?
Speaker 6: That was?
Speaker 15: Why you have a success right now, Just making the
Speaker 15: most of the opportunities, you know, just starting to feel better.
Speaker 15: You know, early in the season, I felt really good
Speaker 15: coming in the season, and then some things happened I
Speaker 15: didn't feel so good. And now you know, I'm starting
Speaker 15: to feel a little bit better. Just got a firing
Speaker 15: ways to do whatever I can to help his team win.
Speaker 13: What did you see on your your touchgown? Look like
Speaker 13: you've gotten pretty good with that little fake inside.
Speaker 15: And then well, the good news is I scored. The
Speaker 15: bad news as I ran the wrong route the the
Speaker 15: double move was to the other side. But you know
Speaker 15: it just god, I got a plan, so it happened
Speaker 15: to work out.
Speaker 3: What do you think about Lamar?
Speaker 7: It seems like special past past couple of games.
Speaker 3: It's really trying to stretch the field out there, yep.
Speaker 15: And it just you know, comes with games, game reps.
Speaker 15: You know, you could practice at all you want, but
Speaker 15: until you see it in the game, you don't know
Speaker 15: how it's gonna work out. But this is this is
Speaker 15: why they gave him, you know, paid him the big bucks.
Speaker 15: He's he's very special and just starting to find and
Speaker 15: figure him out. We'll be a dangerous team. Just gotta
Speaker 15: take care of all these little things.
Speaker 1: Can you describe the mentality in the huddle? End of
Speaker 1: regulation and you guys need to go down there and
Speaker 1: and and score, And the more orchestrat's that drive, obviously
Speaker 1: say caps it off.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Same with a just a mental resiliency early in the game.
Speaker 15: You know there might have been a player too that
Speaker 15: he could have back or want back, and was just
Speaker 15: letting him know, like, bruh, it's gonna come down to
Speaker 15: you in the biggest moment in the game, and you're
Speaker 15: gonna be ready for it, so just let it go.
Speaker 15: So this is just a mentally resilient team. Uh, we
Speaker 15: just found a way to win against a very good
Speaker 15: team on the other side.
Speaker 3: You did you have a talent? You turn and did
Speaker 3: you see John running to the end zone? I've seen everybody.
Speaker 15: I j I was a little tired, so I already
Speaker 15: knew he was gonna score. I just had to let him.
Speaker 3: We'll catch him down that way.
Speaker 15: But you know, he he broke a tackle two, three, four,
Speaker 15: I don't know how many. He just it was a
Speaker 15: plate that he wanted it bad. So I'm just happy
Speaker 15: for him. Uh, happy we found a way to get
Speaker 15: to win.
Speaker 3: When you win a game like this, do you do
Speaker 3: you does it? Do you allow yourself to think something
Speaker 3: special is going on?
Speaker 7: Can you?
Speaker 1: Can you look at it that way?
Speaker 15: Now? I mean, I guess I feel like, you know,
Speaker 15: the guys over here, we've thought of something special since
Speaker 15: training camp, you know, and then it's it's a week
Speaker 15: by week process to to make it all work.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 15: Before signing over here, I thought that there was something
Speaker 15: special going on. It it's just you know, certain things
Speaker 15: God has for you know, man could take. You know,
Speaker 15: you look at it and all the stars are aligned. S.
Speaker 15: Same when I went to the LA Rams and I
Speaker 15: was like, before the season started, I was like, ooh,
Speaker 15: it's the Super Bowls and so far I was like,
Speaker 15: I wanna be playing there.
Speaker 3: And then you signed with LA and and it's home.
Speaker 3: You know, you're in your home stadium.
Speaker 15: Same over here two thousand, two thousand twelve, Well, the
Speaker 15: Super Bowls gonna be in two thousand twenty four. So
Speaker 15: it's just things that you look at that that just happened.
Speaker 3: To a line.
Speaker 15: But it starts with us doing the the day to
Speaker 15: day process, the the winning you know, one and oh
Speaker 15: each week, all the things that Harbs talks about.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's just where it starts. What was the reaction
Speaker 3: to your friend of mees what you're from the ram Ah?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 15: It just it's all love, you know what I mean.
Speaker 15: I couldn't just have a hoodie with them on it.
Speaker 15: I had to you know, let 'em know that I'm
Speaker 15: on this team.
Speaker 7: But it's still it's still love.
Speaker 15: These are guys that I shared moments with that you know,
Speaker 15: every player in their career wishes for. So it's nothing
Speaker 15: but love on my side. You know, I was at
Speaker 15: mcveigh's wedding. You know, I still have a a little
Speaker 15: thread with Coop and stuff for Like, these are people
Speaker 15: that y you know, you keep up with and you
Speaker 15: always root for.
Speaker 13: What from that experience do you think you brought here?
Speaker 3: If anything?
Speaker 15: Uh, just the understanding to to win, to know the
Speaker 15: big moments like you It's hard to explain it, uh,
Speaker 15: I guess in short experience, I I is always the
Speaker 15: greatest teacher and being able to be over there see
Speaker 15: how it got done to know what kind of team
Speaker 15: and caliber team that they had to know what kind
Speaker 15: of caliber team we have if not you know, a
Speaker 15: more talented team, it now it's just about putting it
Speaker 15: all together and and uh, finding ways.
Speaker 2: To win well.
Speaker 4: Thell you talked about mentals who have time.
Speaker 7: How people that be like down the streets.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna always be key.
Speaker 15: You know, you gotta one player at the time, on
Speaker 15: drive at a time, you know, one game at a time.
Speaker 15: Some things you just gotta let go and and that'll
Speaker 15: be you know, other moments that come up or you
Speaker 15: have to overcome things.
Speaker 3: It's just how football is.
Speaker 15: So it's gonna happen later down the line, and we'll
Speaker 15: just continue to be this team that we're we're we're
Speaker 15: building right now.
Speaker 7: Ordelle, how's warm place? Huh, Lamar, I'm sure start up.
Speaker 3: The more is your the touchdowns? To say something that
Speaker 3: Agilar kind.
Speaker 7: Of told him he could change his route that you
Speaker 7: get a lot more often?
Speaker 15: Does that happen?
Speaker 3: And and how key is that for you guys to
Speaker 3: kind of put.
Speaker 2: Your flock round.
Speaker 15: It wasn't so much a change of route. It's more
Speaker 15: of the unselfishness by the guys in our room. Nelson,
Speaker 15: you know, he said, I'm gonna run as hard as
Speaker 15: I can. Probably I'm gonna clear it's gonna be wide
Speaker 15: open for his say and that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 15: It's just a mentality we have in our room, Like
Speaker 15: you wanna see your brothers, you know, if theay scores,
Speaker 15: I scored, if I scored, Nelly scored, if Nelly scored,
Speaker 15: t I scored, Like.
Speaker 3: It's just the mentality that we have.
Speaker 15: We're a close group and we're all rooting for each
Speaker 15: other's success and we're all doing exactly what we need
Speaker 15: to have each other be successful.
Speaker 1: That was Odell Beckham Junior. And you're listening to the
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