Speaker 1: Welcome to Press Pass.
Speaker 2: It's Thursday, September twenty sixth, and today we heard from
Speaker 2: the Ravens coordinators. First up with special teams coordinator Chris Horton.
Speaker 3: Good to see everyone today. Just a little quick recap
Speaker 3: of last week. You know, I think the one thing
Speaker 3: I am pretty pleased about is like when you turn
Speaker 3: on the tape and we watch our guys play. Our
Speaker 3: guys are playing physical, our guys are playing hard, and
Speaker 3: we are we are having some success out on the field.
Speaker 3: I think the thing that the thing that we're continuing
Speaker 3: to strive for and the thing that we are continuing
Speaker 3: to chase is really like perfect execution. Because when the
Speaker 3: execution is not right in our phase of the game,
Speaker 3: you know, it's somewhat is it's noticeable, right, So so
Speaker 3: our thing, man, we come out here like every day,
Speaker 3: every Wednesday, every Thursday, every Friday, and then when we
Speaker 3: get to Sunday, Man, we want to we want to
Speaker 3: go out there and really play our best football. And
Speaker 3: that starts with our physicality and our effort, giving us
Speaker 3: an opportunity to have us usful play and then maximizing
Speaker 3: our execution when we're out on the field.
Speaker 1: Questions Chris from.
Speaker 4: The the one one side kick or with say is
Speaker 4: it just a matter of just catching the ball or
Speaker 4: is there something else when you talk about execution that
Speaker 4: could have helped them?
Speaker 3: You know, I think when you when you look at
Speaker 3: that play, we did a We did a great job
Speaker 3: of getting ourselves one, getting lined up, understanding that the
Speaker 3: type of kick that we that we were going to see,
Speaker 3: and then it's really just uh, you know, I explained
Speaker 3: with and I talked to him about this, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit more with understanding how that ball
Speaker 3: is going to come in, a little bit more with
Speaker 3: you would probably put yourself in front of the ball.
Speaker 1: Other than that, that's it.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's got to you know, we got to
Speaker 3: get ourselves out there and then we guys got to
Speaker 3: fill that ball. It wasn't anything that they did where
Speaker 3: I thought affected us on the play.
Speaker 1: It's just, uh, you know, we.
Speaker 3: Gotta we gotta fill that ball.
Speaker 5: Guess what if you're going out towards how you do want.
Speaker 1: It's in this game.
Speaker 6: Week prior with the.
Speaker 7: Raiders and Ers, how you go?
Speaker 1: No, I thought it was. I thought it was a
Speaker 1: lot better.
Speaker 3: Obviously, a ball ball location is something that we preach
Speaker 3: on a lot of you know, where the ball is
Speaker 3: and things like that. But but for us to go
Speaker 3: out there and limit Cavante Turp into zero yards return.
Speaker 1: That is a that is a great That is a great.
Speaker 3: Day for our for our punt coverage unit because we
Speaker 3: also because we know how dangerous of a returner he is.
Speaker 3: And again it starts, it starts with us one protecting
Speaker 3: the punt because Dalla has been a great rush team,
Speaker 3: us protecting the punt, and then everybody just selling out
Speaker 3: on the coverage and not allowing them to get any
Speaker 3: return yard. So from that standpoint, I thought Jordan did
Speaker 3: a great job. Even the ball that got hit in
Speaker 3: the middle of the field, you know, he puts enough
Speaker 3: hangtime on it's a five point three ball that gives
Speaker 3: our gunners an opportunity to get down the field and
Speaker 3: it allows the net to get down.
Speaker 1: There and coverage and force fair catch.
Speaker 3: So all in all, you know, I think he's he's
Speaker 3: getting better, but we still we're still chasing again, perfect
Speaker 3: execution every time we out there, and and and proper
Speaker 3: ball placements.
Speaker 8: In made clear with us if the missed kicks they
Speaker 8: are solely on him that he's just missing them and
Speaker 8: he's you know, they're all why everything else is executting
Speaker 8: exactly as you would hope?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 5: Do you concur with that?
Speaker 9: I do you know?
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, no one knows better than than
Speaker 3: than Justin, right, Uh so with what Justin says and
Speaker 3: and and what Justin believes, that's probably one hundred percent accurate.
Speaker 3: And it's our job to just to keep encouraging him.
Speaker 3: Uh again, we trust him. We believe in him all right,
Speaker 3: because we know he's gonna get this thing figured out
Speaker 3: and then the ball will be going right where we
Speaker 3: want it to go. So we'll just keep sending him
Speaker 3: out there and that thing, uh, it'll get itself fixed.
Speaker 10: When you have a guy like Tuckle's been so good
Speaker 10: throughout his career and he's having the struggles he's having, now,
Speaker 10: do you know when to jump in and say something
Speaker 10: on No, when to jump in and coach him to
Speaker 10: you just trust that he'll figure.
Speaker 5: It out on his own.
Speaker 3: It's not that he's got to he's got to so
Speaker 3: much figure it out on his own because he is
Speaker 3: He has Randy and he has Sam here with him, right, So,
Speaker 3: so when there is something that they might see Uh,
Speaker 3: he has another set of eyes on the kicks and
Speaker 3: things like that, so they kind of get him advice
Speaker 3: to kind of, you know, on some things that they're seeing.
Speaker 3: But but but ultimately, because he has been so successful
Speaker 3: and people aren't accustomed to this, like it's we we
Speaker 3: think that these things shouldn't happen, right, but but he
Speaker 3: is human and and and these things do happen. So
Speaker 3: just like he said, he's got to find himself. He's
Speaker 3: got to get himself back in his rhythm, and we
Speaker 3: all believe and have faith and know that that will
Speaker 3: get done.
Speaker 1: Next up is offensive coordinator Todd Monkin.
Speaker 5: Die as far as the obviously up against Dallas, what
Speaker 5: did you see in the execution from the offensive line
Speaker 5: this week? Then maybe the Creeds companies.
Speaker 11: Well, I thought we were just cleaner overalls and offense.
Speaker 11: We were cleaner. Not perfect by any means, but we
Speaker 11: were cleaner. And I thought we raised the floor on
Speaker 11: our perimeter blocking. I thought that made a big difference,
Speaker 11: you know, in terms of guys on the perimeter.
Speaker 7: Didn't matter what it was.
Speaker 11: It didn't matter if it was QB driven or if
Speaker 11: it was Derek, you know, breaking through the line of
Speaker 11: scrimmage and Nelson downfield. I just thought we took a
Speaker 11: real step in terms of, you know, where our guys
Speaker 11: were and where they got to this past week.
Speaker 8: To buy in from those guys, from your receivers and
Speaker 8: tell you us to block the way that they do,
Speaker 8: especially in the game where they're not getting you know,
Speaker 8: throw the ball fifteen times, and how you think you
Speaker 8: must take a lot of pride in that knowing everyone's
Speaker 8: going to buy in and say either it's fine today
Speaker 8: is maybe I'm not going to catch a bunch of ballerm.
Speaker 11: Gonna do with no that's been coaching skill guys my
Speaker 11: whole life. That's that's a hard deal. That's a hard
Speaker 11: that's a hard sell when you know a lot of
Speaker 11: their pride and and what they get paid to do
Speaker 11: is showcase their skill set.
Speaker 7: I don't care what position you play, you want to
Speaker 7: you want to touch the football.
Speaker 11: But it said a lot about those guys that in
Speaker 11: that moment, however long the game is for three hours,
Speaker 11: that it's about team. It's about what I can do
Speaker 11: right now to help the Ravens win. And that's been
Speaker 11: a staple this organization for years is then we can
Speaker 11: figure out afterwards, Hey, how can we get other guys involved?
Speaker 11: But at that moment, that's what that's what I control
Speaker 11: as an individual player, what's called to execute at the
Speaker 11: highest level, and that thinking it says a lot about
Speaker 11: those guys.
Speaker 12: Tody, this as challenge.
Speaker 13: Of build defensive ways that the three previous teams that
Speaker 13: they've competed against were. The other teams tend to throw
Speaker 13: the ball as the numbers more and they have a
Speaker 13: higher depth target airy yards.
Speaker 12: So this is an depopic so that it's different.
Speaker 3: In those reports.
Speaker 11: Well, again, our sample sizes three games and their sample
Speaker 11: size is one game eat, So I'm not saying that
Speaker 11: who we are now and who they are then each
Speaker 11: game presents different challenges of how we're going to attack them.
Speaker 11: There's certain aspects of Arizona that you take from. There's
Speaker 11: certain aspects of Miami you know that you like, and
Speaker 11: there's certain things that you know of what went on
Speaker 11: last week and then last year. So there's there's a
Speaker 11: number of things we'll take from that, but we certainly
Speaker 11: have to continue to build on what we've done so
Speaker 11: far and continue to play clean football.
Speaker 7: That that's what's when you turn on the tape, you
Speaker 7: want it to look like you want it to look like.
Speaker 11: And that's that's an easy statement, but when you're going
Speaker 11: against the best in the world, a little harder than
Speaker 11: it seems. But for our guys, we've had a great
Speaker 11: week of practice last week and we've already started this
Speaker 11: week with two great days.
Speaker 7: So I look forward to playing Sunday night, living.
Speaker 12: Those lines of records and such. Why did Mark Andrews play,
Speaker 12: you know, fewer snaps than stall.
Speaker 7: Oh, I don't know. I didn't even know he did.
Speaker 11: I mean, I you know, game plan wise, some of
Speaker 11: that comes into play. We were in a little bit
Speaker 11: more you personnel, I guess twenty two personnel, And when
Speaker 11: Charlie's in and Pat's in, that's only one of the
Speaker 11: other tight ends, so that that's gonna shrink that in
Speaker 11: the other games, we're in a lot of two minutes,
Speaker 11: we're in a lot of no huddle, there's a lot
Speaker 11: more throws, which is gonna you know, and we didn't.
Speaker 7: Have as many snaps. I mean all that's part of it.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: We we think a lot of Mark.
Speaker 11: We anticipated Mark having opportunities that just didn't Like all
Speaker 11: of our guys, they didn't get the opportunities they were
Speaker 11: open for other than maybe Charlie.
Speaker 12: And then John has talked about penalties and obviously they
Speaker 12: need to cut them out. Curious as a coach, for example,
Speaker 12: you guys had seven or eight offensive holding calls. Some
Speaker 12: of those are probably gonna be questionable. But as a coach,
Speaker 12: what do you do to try to eliminate all these
Speaker 12: things when.
Speaker 9: There's the pressure?
Speaker 12: How do you how do you try to some cut
Speaker 12: those things out?
Speaker 11: Well, the first thing you do is obviously they're not intentional,
Speaker 11: but you show them the tape, show them what they're calling,
Speaker 11: where their hands, where their body placement is, because that's
Speaker 11: a part of it.
Speaker 7: Did we get out of position? Right? Was it a
Speaker 7: call that put them out of position? You know?
Speaker 11: All those things are part of it, you know. And
Speaker 11: then just making sure that those things, like like anything
Speaker 11: that we do technique wise or schematically, as you try
Speaker 11: to get it corrected, as you've show them the film,
Speaker 11: what is body position, hand placement?
Speaker 7: What is it schematically? And how can we get it fixed?
Speaker 11: Because playing clean football, eliminating the penalties will allow us
Speaker 11: to not waste yards, if that makes sense.
Speaker 7: We've got a lot of yards.
Speaker 11: Okay, Now, how do we how do we turn that
Speaker 11: into functional directed yards and tournamented points, because that's really
Speaker 11: what it's about, you know, it's about scoring points.
Speaker 10: Are tough after the game Sunday and even when we
Speaker 10: spoke on yesterday about just continuing to score points even
Speaker 10: when you guys have the lead that you had on Sunday.
Speaker 10: When you're calling the game, especially this past Sunday, late
Speaker 10: in that game, how do you do you feel like
Speaker 10: you're calling it to kind of just keep the cloud going?
Speaker 10: Are you and do you feel like you're you were
Speaker 10: aggressive with the play calls in the back.
Speaker 5: End of the game.
Speaker 11: The only one that that that I would say wasn't
Speaker 11: nearly as aggressive as I wanted would have been the
Speaker 11: third down call before the field goal attempt. That one
Speaker 11: there was really okay, if we get it, if not,
Speaker 11: you know, it gets us to a four score game.
Speaker 11: Really is what what we were thinking. Sure, there's out
Speaker 11: of sixty calls, there's a number of calls I always
Speaker 11: wish like, Okay, would have done that different, would have
Speaker 11: done that different. That's just human. That's never going to change. Never,
Speaker 11: It's not the first or the last time. The next
Speaker 11: drive that we got it you know, we just didn't
Speaker 11: convert on third down. The next drive that we got
Speaker 11: it on third down, we did throw it. And then
Speaker 11: you know, to me, the other thing is trusting the
Speaker 11: players because like I told the guys, like the last
Speaker 11: play of the of the game, that sealed it. To me,
Speaker 11: that's not conservative in that call, because you're going to
Speaker 11: trust your players for ball, ball handling and security because
Speaker 11: you're not just handing the ball off, You're you're reading it,
Speaker 11: You're you're putting it in, and you gotta trust the
Speaker 11: players because you can't put the ball on the ground right.
Speaker 11: So to me, those are plays that do take that.
Speaker 11: And sure I don't disagree with Lamar. We want to
Speaker 11: keep the pedal down because you don't want to leave
Speaker 11: even the door open. So I'm not disagreeing there. And
Speaker 11: there are certain calls I wish we could have been
Speaker 11: a little bit more aggressive.
Speaker 5: You know, as you touch upon it, the Lamar's ball handling,
Speaker 5: how much do you think that is an advantage because
Speaker 5: other teams don't see it that all time.
Speaker 11: Well, I think it's an advantage and he embraces that.
Speaker 11: He does a great job with it. We had last
Speaker 11: year early in the season we weren't as clean, you know.
Speaker 11: I remember Detroit, We're up twenty eight, nothing going in
Speaker 11: to make it thirty five. We had exchange issue. Have
Speaker 11: forgotten that one, you know, even at that moment, you know,
Speaker 11: so you got to trust the guys, and Lamar is
Speaker 11: a big part of that. Our backs are a big
Speaker 11: part of that. Zay is a big part of that.
Speaker 11: Little Zay because he's a part of that. So those
Speaker 11: guys embracing ball security, and that's that's a big weapon,
Speaker 11: you know, for us to be able to utilize, and
Speaker 11: Lamar embraces that.
Speaker 14: The ability of your tight ends to block out on
Speaker 14: the form and we saw a number of those kind
Speaker 14: of blocks of Dallas. How big a difference is that
Speaker 14: made for what you're able to call as the coordinator.
Speaker 11: Oh, it makes a huge difference. It shrinks the number
Speaker 11: of plays you have to call. I mean the reality
Speaker 11: is is space down here creates space at the line
Speaker 11: of scrimmage.
Speaker 7: I mean, all you have to do is look at
Speaker 7: the very first drive, the very first drive.
Speaker 11: Nelson Aguilar gets pressed, he runs the corner off twenty
Speaker 11: five yards, he's off the screen. That's selfless. I mean,
Speaker 11: that's a credit to him. You can only say it
Speaker 11: so much, but that shows it. And then we got
Speaker 11: on the perimeter and Zay made a block and then
Speaker 11: the touchdown was Mark Anzay.
Speaker 7: So all of that is a big part of it.
Speaker 11: Derek's ron to start the second half, Nelson gets a
Speaker 11: block down field because you don't ever know, I mean,
Speaker 11: you don't want to waste opportunities to have to call
Speaker 11: more plays. Right, it happened to them, right, I mean
Speaker 11: you never know. I mean you never know. You might
Speaker 11: have am kicking a field goal, might get a turnover.
Speaker 11: So all of that plays into team football in terms
Speaker 11: of gaining the optimal amount.
Speaker 7: Of yards that they're willing to give you.
Speaker 11: And when you don't do that, you're not getting the
Speaker 11: optimal amount of yards that you're looking for. And again
Speaker 11: that's a credit to those guys. And it made a
Speaker 11: bit a huge difference, not a big different, a huge difference.
Speaker 6: I think, just one downfield completion for for the Lamar
Speaker 6: so far of the season. Do you feel like defenses
Speaker 6: are defending you guys any differently because we haven't shown
Speaker 6: yet that you know, big playability or is it's still
Speaker 6: the same kind of thing.
Speaker 15: From week to wei.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't. I mean, I don't.
Speaker 11: Sometimes it's situationally, sometimes it's defense, sometimes it's we didn't
Speaker 11: complete it, you know all the above. Are we looking
Speaker 11: to throw the ball down the field like every team, Yes,
Speaker 11: of course so, but efficiency is big too. And again,
Speaker 11: the first two games we had thirty three snaps of
Speaker 11: two minutes. You're not really going to be that's not
Speaker 11: going to come up. Even though it did debate we
Speaker 11: did have a play of Kansas City that way. But
Speaker 11: we're certainly looking to do that and push it down
Speaker 11: the field, and when the opportunity rises, will do that
Speaker 11: a little bit.
Speaker 5: Front seven, it seems like they're a team that just
Speaker 5: they play those two safeties back and kind of trust
Speaker 5: these guys up front.
Speaker 11: They do a great job mixing up the front with
Speaker 11: it and subtle little things that make it difficult. You
Speaker 11: think you're gonna get I don't want to say it
Speaker 11: like a big run and it just like a vacuum
Speaker 11: kind of sucks.
Speaker 7: And it also it's a four yard game. It's a
Speaker 7: five yard game.
Speaker 11: You thought, Well, they do a good job of triggering
Speaker 11: their nickel, They do a good job of triggering their safeties.
Speaker 7: They do a good job with.
Speaker 11: Their run fits, so it feels like, oh wow, and Nelson,
Speaker 11: you look at it's a second and five and it
Speaker 11: wasn't second and two. I think they do a great,
Speaker 11: great job playing off each other. They've been doing that
Speaker 11: ever since coach has been there. I mean I was
Speaker 11: in Cleveland and twenty, you know, nineteen, and they did that.
Speaker 11: We played them then. So they do a great job.
Speaker 11: They do a great job playing off each other. They
Speaker 11: play hard, they're hard to attack.
Speaker 1: Now we're here from defensive coordinator Zach Orr.
Speaker 6: Uh Khalil secure catches pretty much everything Josh Allen throws.
Speaker 6: And what what makes their connections so uh so good?
Speaker 16: I think, uh, he just he's just where he's supposed
Speaker 16: to be at in the in the route concepts, and
Speaker 16: he makes plays for him. I mean, I remember a
Speaker 16: couple of years ago he made a big I wanna
Speaker 16: say it might have been a third down conversion against
Speaker 16: us here at home, and that's when we first found
Speaker 16: out about him, and you it's it's crazy to see
Speaker 16: how much his game has grown. Uh But I think
Speaker 16: that you could say that about the whole receiving corps.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 16: They they they they tough guys. They are where they
Speaker 16: supposed to be at in the route concepts. They make
Speaker 16: the plays when Josh gives him the opportunity and then
Speaker 16: they they're good rat guys. So, uh, we respect those
Speaker 16: guys obviously. We know, uh, Secure is the the lead
Speaker 16: and receiver and you know they're gonna try to find
Speaker 16: ways to give him the football, so we have to
Speaker 16: make sure that we're ready for that.
Speaker 1: Zach.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, he completely passioned ten different guys last week.
Speaker 2: He's always been, you know, a heck of a quarterback.
Speaker 2: But do you see a kind of difference with him
Speaker 2: like this year maybe a different approach and than and
Speaker 2: so and what.
Speaker 1: Way I think?
Speaker 16: I mean, I think, yeah, he's he's a heck of
Speaker 16: a player. I just think that he's spreading the ball
Speaker 16: out more. You really don't understand. You really don't know
Speaker 16: where the ball is gonna go.
Speaker 1: Like all his.
Speaker 16: Receivers are you know, are liable to get the ball
Speaker 16: at any situation at any point in time, including the
Speaker 16: running backs, including the tight ends. So you know that's
Speaker 16: what makes them a tough offensive defend. Besides what he does,
Speaker 16: uh with his arm and his legs. So I think
Speaker 16: that you know, in in years past, you know, he
Speaker 16: actually had a Pro Bowl All Pro receiver who you
Speaker 16: kind of sometimes in certain situations lock in and key
Speaker 16: in on. Now these guys, you know, he's spreading the
Speaker 16: ballground I think even more.
Speaker 2: Zach.
Speaker 17: Obviously, the defense played very well for for three quarters
Speaker 17: in Dallas.
Speaker 5: What did you make of the fourth quarter?
Speaker 17: Why was it such a start contrast that you guys
Speaker 17: played so well and then had such difficulty lay.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think it just comes down to execution, man,
Speaker 16: and we we just got to get better. And I
Speaker 16: think I gotta, you know, help those guys out even more.
Speaker 16: Just have a clear understanding of the situation and what
Speaker 16: we're trying to get accomplished in those situations. It's not
Speaker 16: a lack of guys wanting to or trying to, you know,
Speaker 16: we just we just come up short in in that area.
Speaker 16: And it's something that we're looking at hard, something that
Speaker 16: we're focusing on with the communication, with the with the tackling,
Speaker 16: you know, with the calls with me as well. So, uh,
Speaker 16: we all in this together. Uh we grinding to try
Speaker 16: to make it right. We know, we know we're capable
Speaker 16: of doing, but we have to do it for four
Speaker 16: quarters and we haven't done at the last two games.
Speaker 16: And you know, that's that's that's that's where we're at
Speaker 16: right now, and that's what that's what we're so motivated
Speaker 16: to to to get better at and to show that
Speaker 16: we can put a complete game together.
Speaker 8: In particular, in the middle of the field of fifteen
Speaker 8: to twenty yards they're with they're consistent hit.
Speaker 1: What was there was that?
Speaker 8: What would what would you describe out with that specific part.
Speaker 1: Cho is it?
Speaker 16: Yeah, man, I mean you know some of it. Some
Speaker 16: of it I would say, is you know, good good
Speaker 16: call on offense versus what what we're in as a defense.
Speaker 16: So sometimes that happens. You know, you make a call
Speaker 16: and they're in the okay, they're in a good play
Speaker 16: for that that coverage or that pressure. And then sometimes
Speaker 16: we just gotta play some we gotta play some techniques better,
Speaker 16: and we gotta coach some techniques better.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 1: Obviously we talk about it.
Speaker 16: The middle of the field is the easiest part for
Speaker 16: the quarterbacks to complete the pass. So we want to
Speaker 16: pack the paint and we haven't done a good enough
Speaker 16: job of doing that this year. So like, uh, it
Speaker 16: goes in the same deal as filling finishing games. I
Speaker 16: think that goes hand in hand.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 16: We have to protect the middle of the field, make
Speaker 16: the quarterbacks throw the ball outside and you know, take
Speaker 16: our chances with.
Speaker 12: That good linebackers getting deep up.
Speaker 1: Uh, I think, I think so.
Speaker 16: I think it's a combination. Sometimes it's like that's and
Speaker 16: that's what we're trying to It's like right now we're
Speaker 16: lighting the match and it's it's stand lidded, it's getting
Speaker 16: a spark, but then it's blowing out. So sometimes you know,
Speaker 16: the backers we're getting we're getting deep enough and we're
Speaker 16: too deep in the back end, or we're not getting
Speaker 16: deep enough, you know, as as backers. So like I said, man,
Speaker 16: it's something it's a collective effort. It's not just you know,
Speaker 16: it's not just a linebackers. It's not just the DB's
Speaker 16: a lot of times it's it's the you know, the
Speaker 16: call as well. So we're all trying to collaborate and
Speaker 16: work together to make this thing right.
Speaker 9: Is it a.
Speaker 17: Challenge to not overcorrect because so many things are going
Speaker 17: well through three quarters to not dwell too much on that,
Speaker 17: but also you want to recognize you need to finish him.
Speaker 16: Yeah, definitely, you don't wanna, you don't want to overcorrect
Speaker 16: because most teams, they change, they make a little small
Speaker 16: adjustments here and there throughout the game, and you notice,
Speaker 16: you notice that, you know, we knew the adjustments that
Speaker 16: they were making, so you know, obviously we could have
Speaker 16: we could have done some things better. But as soon
Speaker 16: as you start overreacting, that's what you know, teams kind
Speaker 16: of want you to do.
Speaker 1: You start overacting that, and now you leave.
Speaker 16: Yourself vulnerable in another situation and you give up an explosive.
Speaker 16: So it's trying to find a happy medium of you
Speaker 16: know what, what's the problem, what's the issue, how they're
Speaker 16: trying to attack, and how we how we're gonna counter
Speaker 16: react to it.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 6: Believe we look at the at the PFF stuff for
Speaker 6: certain guys, and I think one of the interesting it's
Speaker 6: like splits, I guess you want to call it, is
Speaker 6: Marcus Williams playing more in the box than than he
Speaker 6: ever has. Is that just you guys trying to figure
Speaker 6: out where he's best, where he's most unpredictable, and how
Speaker 6: would you kind of assess how he's done in.
Speaker 9: All these different sponsors.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think that the one thing you you don't
Speaker 16: want to do as a defense is where they can
Speaker 16: just peg where the offense can peg where guys are at.
Speaker 16: If they know where guy's going to be at every
Speaker 16: single time, now they can scheme you up a whole
Speaker 16: bunch of different ways. So, uh, Marcus is a talented guy.
Speaker 16: He's been on the heck of a job for us
Speaker 16: this year. And uh, you know, all our guys in
Speaker 16: the back end can play in the box, they can
Speaker 16: play deep, So we let those guys do that.
Speaker 7: You played a lot of time against the Cowboys?
Speaker 5: Was that more reaction to what you anticipated from them?
Speaker 13: Was it more you wanted to get a guy like
Speaker 13: ourd Areas on the field.
Speaker 17: He obviously played well, and then what was the kind
Speaker 17: of the infidence for that?
Speaker 16: Yes, it's a it's a combination of it's a combination
Speaker 16: of both. You know, we had to die package ready
Speaker 16: because you know the Cowboys they did They've shown you know,
Speaker 16: a lot of four wives on film. They spread the
Speaker 16: ball out and throw the ball.
Speaker 7: And it's a.
Speaker 16: Combination of of what they do and what we want
Speaker 16: to do on defense and getting different guys out there
Speaker 16: on the field like eighty Eddie Jackson. These guys are
Speaker 16: real good football players, so it'll be kind of you know,
Speaker 16: criminal to keep those guys on the sideline the whole time.
Speaker 1: But it it's a mixture of both.
Speaker 4: The second the last touchdown, you know, I think Rokon
Speaker 4: was maybe expecting Marlin to trail the guy over the
Speaker 4: middle and he was wide open. Do you think communication
Speaker 4: is an issue or do you think a couple of
Speaker 4: times where the communication wasn't perfect that the good quarterbacks capitalize.
Speaker 1: No, I don't.
Speaker 16: I don't think communication. I mean it's it's it's something
Speaker 16: we're striving for all the time. That's like one of
Speaker 16: our main things we talk about great communication because that's
Speaker 16: half the battle. Make sure everybody on the same page.
Speaker 16: And you know if you if you're not on the
Speaker 16: same page, you're not gonna really have a chance. But
Speaker 16: obviously when you have a misstep, shoot any quarterback in
Speaker 16: the league, specifically you know, the real good ones, they're
Speaker 16: gonna capitalize on that. You know, on that on that
Speaker 16: play right there, I'll take that one. I wouldn't put
Speaker 16: that on row Or or Marlin.
Speaker 13: Soach defenses have been, you know, trying to disguise more
Speaker 13: and more, especially with the last seasons. Do you think
Speaker 13: that there's a challenge of having too much of a
Speaker 13: disguise or trying to be to give off a facade
Speaker 13: of different defenses to it. Can it Can it be
Speaker 13: punishing for you or a negative?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 16: Sometimes if if you got, if you have, if you have,
Speaker 16: if you're doing way too much of it. You know,
Speaker 16: we always talk about never let your disguise, you know,
Speaker 16: take you away from your responsibility. So I think we
Speaker 16: do a heck of a job here mayoring our looks
Speaker 16: up so offenses don't know exactly what we're in, you know.
Speaker 16: The tough the challenge of that is these offenses and
Speaker 16: these quarterbacks, if they know what you're in, they're just
Speaker 16: gonna check the play and check to the beater of it.
Speaker 16: So you got you can't just give them the answer
Speaker 16: all the time pre snap. But there is some you know,
Speaker 16: there is some merit to getting where you got to
Speaker 16: get to and just and just playing ball and just
Speaker 16: out executing. Uh, the person across from.
Speaker 8: You, James Cook is really elevated their run game before
Speaker 8: you in the run game is Josh Allen, And then
Speaker 8: they would throw. But how it's that dynamic can affected
Speaker 8: your game planning for them.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean it's it's a lot more running runs
Speaker 16: with the running backs. I think James Cook has has
Speaker 16: elevated himself to one of the top backs in the league.
Speaker 16: He's explosive player. We knew about him a couple of
Speaker 16: years ago coming out of Georgia, and I think he's
Speaker 16: just matured in his you know, in his play with experience,
Speaker 16: his confidence is through the roof, and the talent has
Speaker 16: always been there. So he's definitely put it all together
Speaker 16: and he's somebody that we're gonna have to make sure
Speaker 16: that we have a handle on, not only in the
Speaker 16: run game, but in the past game as well, because
Speaker 16: I've seen a lot of explosive plays with him come
Speaker 16: out of the backfield, running forty yards down the field
Speaker 16: tracking the ball, which is which is very impressive. So
Speaker 16: you know, we got a lot of respect for what
Speaker 16: he's done so far this year. So it's something that
Speaker 16: we're gonna have to be ready for.
Speaker 13: Zach the Bill's offense is one of the best NFL
Speaker 13: in the red zone. Just how challenging he is to
Speaker 13: account for because as you mentioned, Josh Allen's spreading it
Speaker 13: out there work and then he's also somebody you have
Speaker 13: to account for the red zone loves to watch himself
Speaker 13: in there. What are the challenges of trying to solve
Speaker 13: that alsible?
Speaker 16: It's real challenging because whenever the whenever you got a
Speaker 16: quarterback who can throw the ball like he can, but
Speaker 16: also they have designed QB runs, that's an extra hat,
Speaker 16: so you have to account for that most times, just
Speaker 16: if you just call a regular defense, you don't have
Speaker 16: an extra hat for the quarterback on designed runs. We're
Speaker 16: not just talking about regular zone read runs. We're talking
Speaker 16: about like QB counter QB power, like real deal, you know,
Speaker 16: downhill runs. So that's what makes it challenging. So as
Speaker 16: soon as you put everybody in there stop to run, Well,
Speaker 16: he's still a quarterback, he can still throw the ball.
Speaker 16: So I think it comes down to us executing, us
Speaker 16: making us understanding, you know, where we got to be
Speaker 16: at and what plays they're trying to do in these
Speaker 16: certain situations, to make sure that we have everybody accounted
Speaker 16: for as well as him accounted for in the run game.
Speaker 16: So they definitely stretch you as a defense. But you know,
Speaker 16: I think we got guys that are up for the
Speaker 16: challenge and that that can handle it.
Speaker 2: In the locker room, we heard from rookie cornerback Nate Wiggins.
Speaker 5: You see you've got me right.
Speaker 12: So it's a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 7: Just start to see that happened.
Speaker 5: Uh, Yeah, I was driving and uh.
Speaker 18: At eighteen would have cut me out of the world.
Speaker 2: Be part of it.
Speaker 6: That was scary?
Speaker 18: Uh is that situation that was scary and it was
Speaker 18: always scared to get them carson A sixteen?
Speaker 12: Where did where did it happened? Was at six eighty five? Yeah,
Speaker 12: I really don't remember.
Speaker 18: It's right. I was close to my partner, like two
Speaker 18: insay from my apartment.
Speaker 8: Be able to get back from that another on the
Speaker 8: field as quickly as you were. I mean, it's gotta
Speaker 8: be satisfying, easier to put that behind you the right
Speaker 8: when you get back on the field.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Once I h once I knew I can get back
Speaker 18: on the side, I knew I was one hundred percent.
Speaker 18: That was Uh, everybody was happy, and that was everybody.
Speaker 8: Said last week, A lot of you, a lot of potentials.
Speaker 7: How you forced to fumble a big play and make
Speaker 7: a few plays on you? What are your big takeaways
Speaker 7: from that stress?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 18: I just gotta keep working. Keep Uh that my first
Speaker 18: first role uh professional game, Like just like playing plays,
Speaker 18: so I just gotta keep uh keep working. I think
Speaker 18: it was a London experience, so like I just get
Speaker 18: better from better from.
Speaker 10: Nothing from not from that for they ever weeks of challenge.
Speaker 7: What are you see from Josh Allen and getting him
Speaker 7: the way he's.
Speaker 18: Been playing, especially since you Yeah, h uh he a
Speaker 18: great quarterback. Uh, a great quarterback.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 18: He loved to run.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 18: I mean he gonna throw a deep so I mean
Speaker 18: we gotta cover uh and we just gotta uh pursue him.
Speaker 18: And you know he uh he l loves get out
Speaker 18: of the pocket and he loved to run, So we
Speaker 18: just gotta pursue him.
Speaker 14: If you got a lot of wide receivers to learn
Speaker 14: from better than ceedee lamb, what is going through your
Speaker 14: head when you line up op opposite of him?
Speaker 18: Uh, it's just my mindset. Uh, it's going to the
Speaker 18: game every week. I just gotta shut or to receive
Speaker 18: it down. Uh, no matter who it is. Uh Uh
Speaker 18: I think I can guard anybody in this league.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 18: I don't think nobody can run pass me. And that's
Speaker 18: what I take. I'm comfort is and that's where I'll
Speaker 18: go into the game.
Speaker 14: You're obviously known for your speed. You can keep up
Speaker 14: with anybody in press coverage. You know, they were kind
Speaker 14: of getting those slants. Was it kind of a lesson
Speaker 14: with you that, Hey, I'm really fast, I can run
Speaker 14: with them, but I gotta be physical at the line.
Speaker 18: Yeah, that's my That was the listen for Nigga and
Speaker 18: just a bit Fish goes on screen.
Speaker 12: We're freeing solid to what career?
Speaker 7: What's your what are your most please website far consternas of.
Speaker 18: Just being able just to go out there and repeat,
Speaker 18: all right, I always do it, man I The uh
Speaker 18: my comforting level just just mines. I think that that
Speaker 18: man I do.
Speaker 1: We also talked to offensive guard Daniel.
Speaker 8: Yeah, when you look at what the challenges this week,
Speaker 8: bos front seven is really impressive and they're gonna sit back.
Speaker 1: In two deep and so you can you know, kind
Speaker 1: of had to handle that.
Speaker 7: How do you feel about it?
Speaker 15: For me, I'm just gonna trust my technique, trust my coaching,
Speaker 15: and trust each other and work and get the job done.
Speaker 14: Like what do you see ahead Oliver their defensive lineman.
Speaker 15: He's really explosive, really good player, and uh yeah, it's
Speaker 15: a really good player, gonna be a good challenge and
Speaker 15: for me is trust my technique, trust one being coached,
Speaker 15: and get the job done.
Speaker 14: Does this feel this week feel differently for you mentally
Speaker 14: than last week? Did?
Speaker 17: Uh?
Speaker 15: Definitely just want to keep getting better and just having
Speaker 15: a lot more confidence in myself and just keep going,
Speaker 15: keep stacking.
Speaker 1: We also heard from cornerback Brandon Stevens, h.
Speaker 16: What do you see out of Josh Allen and just
Speaker 16: kind of that offense rolling in.
Speaker 9: Here for something that Yeah, man, they you know, good
Speaker 9: good offense obviously you know good quarterback as well.
Speaker 1: But you know it's.
Speaker 9: Honestly it's not about to inSpot us uh, and you
Speaker 9: know how we go out there execute.
Speaker 6: What's the biggest thing with with Josh?
Speaker 12: You know, kind of like Lamar, I mean the plays
Speaker 12: never really over. Yeah, what what's the biggest thing about
Speaker 12: defending a guy who can get outside the pockets still
Speaker 12: have the ability to throw the field.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I mean he's got the got the arms right,
Speaker 9: know how to knows how to you know, extend plays,
Speaker 9: you know, one place break down and they they've done
Speaker 9: a good time with that, you know, creating big plays.
Speaker 9: You know when things break down.
Speaker 14: I know a lot of people were talking about the
Speaker 14: fourth quarter, but for three quarters, you for stack into
Speaker 14: a lot of really difficult throwers, had really take coverage
Speaker 14: on them. Even though you know, I'm sure you didn't
Speaker 14: feel great coming out of the game how it finished.
Speaker 14: Did you feel like it was a step forward for
Speaker 14: the secondary in Dallas?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Kind of.
Speaker 9: You know, we we were showing there, you know, three quarters,
Speaker 9: and then the fourth quarter we kind of, you know,
Speaker 9: almost let it get away from us. But you know,
Speaker 9: we just got to get the player style of the ball,
Speaker 9: you know, all the way you know through fourth quarters, right,
Speaker 9: I knew every game is different, but when you look
Speaker 9: at the the ones you have played and the way
Speaker 9: the offense is attacking the middle of the field with
Speaker 9: kind of that short success.
Speaker 11: In between the numbers, how you how can you defend that.
Speaker 8: Or or shore that up a little bit that offenses
Speaker 8: can't make those.
Speaker 7: Plays in the middle.
Speaker 9: Just playing out style of the ball. I I'm not
Speaker 9: quite sure what plays you you know you're talking about,
Speaker 9: but uh to simple answer, we just gotta play our
Speaker 9: soil of the ball and eliminate you know, uh, exposive
Speaker 9: plays and you know, l you know, eliminating the short throws,
Speaker 9: turning into exposive plays.
Speaker 3: When you watch the Bills and see what they're they're doing,
Speaker 3: the drash out like no interceptions, just kind of what
Speaker 3: stands out and said something that they're doing, it allows
Speaker 3: it to have that type of success.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Uh, you know, like I said, they they know how
Speaker 9: to extend plays and you know when plays break down,
Speaker 9: you know lad and late in the play. You know,
Speaker 9: they did a good job of you know, getting open,
Speaker 9: getting into his vision and you know, making that throw downfield.
Speaker 10: The Brandy Black has been a big part of their offense.
Speaker 10: Is open field tackling.
Speaker 11: Been in emphasis at all.
Speaker 9: So nah, I mean, we we know what we have
Speaker 9: to do. We know that, you know, we got we
Speaker 9: gotta stable tackle, We gotta you know, make tight covers,
Speaker 9: you know, on their receivers and just make it hard
Speaker 9: for the receivers and the quarterback.
Speaker 14: It's the first few games, you know, you knew they
Speaker 14: were gonna go to DeVante Adams.
Speaker 12: You knew they're gonna throw the ceedee lamb.
Speaker 14: You know, the Bills suddenly have one guy over a
Speaker 14: hundred receiving yards so far with so many weapons and
Speaker 14: the way they spread the ball around. Is Is that
Speaker 14: a harder just different challenge?
Speaker 12: What does it feel different from the earlier game?
Speaker 15: Nah?
Speaker 9: Not really, you know it's I we we try not
Speaker 9: to focus on you know, players, We try to focus
Speaker 9: on ourselves, man.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 9: And that's that's what I try to do. It doesn't
Speaker 9: matter who I'm going against. You know, I'm trying to,
Speaker 9: you know, make make it as tight as possible to
Speaker 9: you know, c you know, complete the pass and so
Speaker 9: you know that that's my goal, that's our goal, and
Speaker 9: that's how we approach every week.
Speaker 12: Last one of the UK Rade Require episode.
Speaker 16: You as a kid walking up.
Speaker 14: When you see that, what goes.
Speaker 13: Through your mind?
Speaker 4: You like your life from you out?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's crazy. It's Uh. It was actually my dad
Speaker 9: that said that in that video.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 9: I think I was about eight years old, and you know,
Speaker 9: as a kid when he's saying that, he's just like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 9: you know what I mean. But it's it's it's crazy
Speaker 9: cause he's been he's been holding onto that video for
Speaker 9: for that long however many years it's been. I think
Speaker 9: it was eighteen years and he he sent it to me, uh,
Speaker 9: a couple of days before the game. That was my
Speaker 9: first time like seeing it ever and so, uh, you know,
Speaker 9: it gave me goosebumps, uh to you know, to finally
Speaker 9: be you know, to be able to play you you know,
Speaker 9: in my hometown against the Cowboys. So it was it
Speaker 9: was definitely surreal for me.
Speaker 1: Was you Dad there? Yeah?
Speaker 9: Absolutely absolutely.
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