Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. Today is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: January twenty fourth, and the Ravens are preparing for the
Speaker 1: AFC Championship coming up on Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of attention on this game and these
Speaker 1: two teams during this week, and there was a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of media in the house. Here today is the
Speaker 1: Ravens had practice and also held some press conferences. Let's
Speaker 1: kick things off a head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Okay, great seeing everybody. Appreciate everybody being here. I started
Speaker 2: on the week. We our first practice day. We're good meetings,
Speaker 2: We're off to a good start. We're excited about having
Speaker 2: a great day today.
Speaker 3: What question do you have.
Speaker 4: When you're going against you know, Pat homes and kind
Speaker 4: of stands out as far as like your biggest challenge
Speaker 4: when you know when you addressing kind of concerns more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty hard to pick one one of the
Speaker 2: biggest challenges versus Patrick Mahomes. I think it's the whole package.
Speaker 2: Everything he does, he's he's a playmaker, he runs that offense.
Speaker 2: He is the center of the offense in every way,
Speaker 2: makes all the calls organizes, him, creates, obviously plays, he's
Speaker 2: he's he's a big challenge.
Speaker 5: Coach.
Speaker 3: I know you and coach you have a long relationship.
Speaker 6: When it comes to this week and you're playing each
Speaker 6: other and so much on the line, you just cut
Speaker 6: things off ahead of time or what's it like when
Speaker 6: you're not playing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're both like all coaches, you're kind
Speaker 2: of wrapped up in your own team, right you're I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not like we're talking every week or anything like that.
Speaker 2: So surely not that it's no different in that sense.
Speaker 2: Just we're playing each other at this point in time
Speaker 2: with so much on the line.
Speaker 3: I mean, I bet it's I.
Speaker 7: Don't know if it's a dream, but is this something
Speaker 7: that you're looking forward to? Is it like sort of
Speaker 7: the mentor Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think it's pretty cool, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean I look back to the those years and
Speaker 2: you think about all the all the great coaches that
Speaker 2: run that staff. The staff and Andy assembled and and mentored,
Speaker 2: as you said, and taught us all so much. We
Speaker 2: were a close group of guys, and I'm kind of
Speaker 2: a staff that loved each other, you know. I see
Speaker 2: a lot of that in this staff too. You know,
Speaker 2: and you know, idn't give you all the names. I mean,
Speaker 2: Steve Spagnola is on their staff. Now, he was a
Speaker 2: big part of that. We became close friends, and Dave
Speaker 2: Tobe and Tom Melvin, but also all the other guys
Speaker 2: you know, Ron Rivera and Brad Childress and Leslie Frazier
Speaker 2: and Pat Shermer. You know, you go down the line
Speaker 2: so many amazing coaches's.
Speaker 8: Played six straight answer championship games. Has that experience be
Speaker 8: anything as far going to this name whereasus a new year,
Speaker 8: new teams, et cetera.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's very valuable for them.
Speaker 2: I mean they've been in this situation, you know, many
Speaker 2: times and uh uh they played in this game. So
Speaker 2: I think they're a very experienced team. You know, they're
Speaker 2: a hardened team. They've been through a lot and uh
Speaker 2: and uh, I'm sure that's uh. That experience always is helpful.
Speaker 9: John, do you think the one that you guys have
Speaker 9: had to go through the number of teams that the
Speaker 9: winning teams, the playoff teams, do you think that has
Speaker 9: given you the experience your gee goal in a game
Speaker 9: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think all those things forward you as a
Speaker 2: team and you get to this point, teams are forged.
Speaker 2: You know, they've been through a lot. You know our story,
Speaker 2: our journey is our journey, right, and it's unique. It's
Speaker 2: it's no different than human beings or individuals. You know,
Speaker 2: everybody's on their own unique path and our path is
Speaker 2: our path. And we've had you know, a lot of
Speaker 2: short weeks, a lot of quick turnarounds, a lot of
Speaker 2: tough teams. We've played a lot of physical ballgames, teams
Speaker 2: that were playing for a lot. That's been our journey
Speaker 2: this year. So that's how we've been forged for this
Speaker 2: for this moment, I'd like to the creation of the
Speaker 2: internship program back in twenty fourteen that end up bringing
Speaker 2: them Mike McDonald here and how did that come to be?
Speaker 7: What was the inspiration for that and work out as
Speaker 7: I guess as well as your hope.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's worked out.
Speaker 2: I mean it's worked out just with those guys obviously
Speaker 2: that are here on the staff now, but also a
Speaker 2: number of other guys that in gals that are here
Speaker 2: on that are still here coaching or that have gone
Speaker 2: out of places. And coach was a hugely successful idea
Speaker 2: that we had way back when we kind of came
Speaker 2: up with it together.
Speaker 3: I would say a.
Speaker 2: Lot of guys like Dan Parsons were involved and I
Speaker 2: think back to Matt Weiss was involved in that. Other
Speaker 2: coaches and then Assie and Eric were a big part
Speaker 2: of that. Scott Cohen's been a big part of that
Speaker 2: from the beginning and ah to the opportunity to give
Speaker 2: young people an opportunity, you know, and go out and
Speaker 2: try to find the very best people, the most deserving.
Speaker 3: Candidates that you could find.
Speaker 2: You know that we could uh that are working in
Speaker 2: football somewhere, so try to keep it going. We got
Speaker 2: some great young people right now in that program.
Speaker 10: With with you know, the goal of getting the Super
Speaker 10: Bowl just one game away. You know you've been in
Speaker 10: this spot before with teams, But what do you think,
Speaker 10: what would you say the biggest I guess the thing
Speaker 10: is this week to keep the mindset and the mentality
Speaker 10: like it has been all season and not you know,
Speaker 10: get too high.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the biggest thing is always the biggest thing.
Speaker 2: It's you want to go play well, you know it's
Speaker 2: it's one game. It's like the Hoosiers movie, right, I
Speaker 2: mean you have you seen that movie, Sean?
Speaker 5: You know, you know like, I.
Speaker 2: Gotta say it to our team because most of I'll
Speaker 2: bet our players haven't seen it. You know, if I
Speaker 2: gave him that reference, I mean, you know, ten feet high,
Speaker 2: you know, the free throw line is it's ten feet
Speaker 2: you know, so it's you know, one hundred yards long
Speaker 2: and fifty three and the third yards wide. The field
Speaker 2: doesn't change. The hassmarks are on the same spot. So really,
Speaker 2: our guys understand that. You know, they've understood that all year.
Speaker 2: Your focus is always going to be on just playing
Speaker 2: your best football game and all the details of going
Speaker 2: to that one play at a time. That's what my
Speaker 2: mom always says.
Speaker 3: So I'll go with that advice.
Speaker 11: Smith has to not only be like a great player himself,
Speaker 11: but kind of raise the level of teammates around him.
Speaker 11: Is that is that a quality that you all saw
Speaker 11: in him when before he made a trader?
Speaker 3: And what was that quality?
Speaker 5: Part of it?
Speaker 3: What you wanted and what reason why you Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean our scouts do a great job. I think
Speaker 2: that Joe Hortiz going back and scouting ro Quand back
Speaker 2: at Georgia. You know those are all in the you know,
Speaker 2: so you kind of you knew what kind.
Speaker 3: Of a guy you were getting for sure.
Speaker 2: Then you saw him at Chicago and how he conducted
Speaker 2: himself and how he played. But you never know until
Speaker 2: guys here exactly how it's gonna fit you, you know,
Speaker 2: in your chemistry. And it's definitely been right. You know,
Speaker 2: it's definitely been perfect fit, perfect match. He's just been
Speaker 2: himself and uh, you know he was he was always
Speaker 2: a raven. He just didn't know until he got here.
Speaker 2: I guess to quote the great Steve Smith, you know,
Speaker 2: so it's been a great fit. I think he does
Speaker 2: make everybody around them better. To your point, the greatest
Speaker 2: players tend to do that.
Speaker 12: Right when Isaiah or when Mark got hurt, you know,
Speaker 12: there were folks questioning, I've never hurt you guys a
Speaker 12: lot offensive league in the building.
Speaker 13: What were you guys expecting out of Isaiah in terms
Speaker 13: of replacing what Mark.
Speaker 12: Does for you guys?
Speaker 14: And has he met those expectations as he exceeded them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we said it. Then if you go
Speaker 2: back and look, I think you asked me this question
Speaker 2: back then, you know, and that's the same answer as
Speaker 2: I gave you that. You know, we expect Isaiah to
Speaker 2: step right in and play at a high level. You know,
Speaker 2: we see him in practice, we knew what he was
Speaker 2: capable of doing. And then everybody else picks up, you know,
Speaker 2: and picks up a little more right along the way.
Speaker 2: But I don't don't believe anybody's surprised by how well
Speaker 2: Isaiah's played. H And but you're happy when you see it.
Speaker 2: You know, you want to see it happen and actualize.
Speaker 2: So to see that happen has been great.
Speaker 15: When you guys drafted Lamar, you have this incredible speed,
Speaker 15: you know, still does as his body has changed, as
Speaker 15: his rolling, his offense has changed. What are the other
Speaker 15: kinds of skills that he has as a runner that
Speaker 15: have made him still, you know, among the best guys
Speaker 15: and break guys.
Speaker 13: Better fuel.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think anybody could probably answer that
Speaker 2: question is watch watch him play? You know, so, uh,
Speaker 2: he's hard to tackle. I mean to me, I guess
Speaker 2: the greatest compliment would be being hard to tackle. I
Speaker 2: can think back when I was a kid, I read
Speaker 2: the Woody Hayes book, and Woody Hayes talked about you
Speaker 2: could tell what a great running back look like carrying
Speaker 2: the ball, say, by how many tackles people miss trying
Speaker 2: to tackle him. I think that's true for wide receivers
Speaker 2: run after the catch. It's true for you know, quarterbacks
Speaker 2: on scrambles. I mean, Patrick Mahomes is one of the
Speaker 2: best that making tacklers missed. So Lamar's unique that way.
Speaker 2: He's one of the best I've ever seen. Obviously anybody's
Speaker 2: ever seen. So he's a tough tackle.
Speaker 3: That's your queen.
Speaker 13: And said a couple weeks ago, like some of these
Speaker 13: teams want to play basketball on grass, We're gonna.
Speaker 4: Hit who you want to hit.
Speaker 5: The emersis being on physical.
Speaker 3: Hamilton's really developed.
Speaker 15: Of a physical player when he was strap out him
Speaker 15: to talk about his length and to some extent, his
Speaker 15: physical what's impressed you about the way he plays.
Speaker 2: Physically, Well, I would say just what you're saying, But
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a physical player. You know, he's a
Speaker 2: very good tackler. That that tackle on the screen on
Speaker 2: the left side last week, where he came up and
Speaker 2: fronted up the ball carrier just squared him right up,
Speaker 2: kind of chest the chest on most and then drove
Speaker 2: him back probably epitomizes that he's just he's he's he's
Speaker 2: he's a hitter. He shows up where he where it's
Speaker 2: required to show up to make the play, and he
Speaker 2: does it. You know, he does it, you know, kind
Speaker 2: of a bad attitude, so to speak. So that's how
Speaker 2: you want to see guys play. And you know, I
Speaker 2: think we were hoping to get that. You know, you
Speaker 2: always hope to get that from all your players. And
Speaker 2: we got a lot of guys to play like that.
Speaker 2: Kyle's one of them.
Speaker 8: What's on the second half, you guys started to lean
Speaker 8: on Lamar and his legs a lot more. He's so
Speaker 8: efficient in those quarterback design one place. Is it a
Speaker 8: challenge to to kind of not call those plays maybe
Speaker 8: more often, to try to, you know, keep him up
Speaker 8: right and allow him to be more balanced.
Speaker 2: As for that, I think right now everybody's focuses and
Speaker 2: just putting the best team out there we can, the
Speaker 2: most explosive offense we can, the best plays we can
Speaker 2: really by whatever means necessary.
Speaker 3: That's what our thought is on that.
Speaker 5: Flowers was coming out.
Speaker 12: You know, if there was questions about his size, why
Speaker 12: was that not an issue for.
Speaker 5: You guys when you were a scout.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean everything is an issue. You look at everything,
Speaker 2: for sure, Jet, But with Zay, you just look at
Speaker 2: the tape. I mean we always we always believe that
Speaker 2: tape is the king. You know, if you want to,
Speaker 2: if you want to evaluate a football player, start with
Speaker 2: watching him play football. And so you watched a play football.
Speaker 2: He played. He played really good. You know, he made catches,
Speaker 2: he made people miss. And then you want to say, okay,
Speaker 2: is this going to translate? Well, how do you think
Speaker 2: this is going to translate to the NFL. That's a
Speaker 2: little more that's a little more of a you know,
Speaker 2: uh educated kind of a guess that you have to make,
Speaker 2: so to speak. But we just felt like he had
Speaker 2: all the other intangibles in terms of mindset and attitude
Speaker 2: and smart and competitive and hard worker, love football, all
Speaker 2: those kinds of things that made you feel like that
Speaker 2: amazing skill set was going to transfer. And that really
Speaker 2: was what it did.
Speaker 3: It for us.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harbaugh. Next up is quarterback
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 9: So, Lamar, you played a lot of football games your
Speaker 9: whole life.
Speaker 4: This year AFC Championship game, is there a different feeling
Speaker 4: for you, intreaus.
Speaker 16: Uh nah, not really, no different feeling. You know, it's
Speaker 16: a it's another game, a higher level atmosphere. Game that's
Speaker 16: about it. You know, the uh atmosphere, it's gonna be different.
Speaker 8: I know there's obviously more you wanna do, but just
Speaker 8: with so much craziness to especially this all season, to
Speaker 8: to get to this point right now where you're a
Speaker 8: game away from the super Bowl meant just what does
Speaker 8: it mean to go from maybe the uncertainty in the
Speaker 8: off season to now, you know, playing for an opportunity
Speaker 8: to go play for.
Speaker 5: It off Uh.
Speaker 16: To be honest, card that it doesn't mean anything right now.
Speaker 16: You know we still have still out there on you know, uh,
Speaker 16: the prize, you know that what we're chasing right now,
Speaker 16: So it really doesn't change nothing until til we complete
Speaker 16: the mission.
Speaker 17: May you talked about that atmosphere just just a second
Speaker 17: to me? Is that that more is you're gonna hear
Speaker 17: when you run out on?
Speaker 7: So there is that kind of or what you have
Speaker 7: in mind?
Speaker 17: And I you were drafted when you talked about reading
Speaker 17: your super Bowl to this city.
Speaker 16: Mom, because the mission isn't complete you know on once
Speaker 16: that once that mission is complete, then I'm go'a have
Speaker 16: an answer for you or right.
Speaker 7: That the young mission that's in complete, did you have
Speaker 7: to sort of balance yourself now put too much pressure
Speaker 7: on yourself in this situation, or that's the team effort,
Speaker 7: not just fund your gown.
Speaker 16: Not at all, you know, just for us to be
Speaker 16: in this situation. I I wasn't putting pressure on myself.
Speaker 16: You know, I'm going into every game the same way,
Speaker 16: same mindset. Uh, just going one player at the time,
Speaker 16: you know, you know, you know the saying one player
Speaker 16: at the time, one game at a time, and that's
Speaker 16: pretty much been that.
Speaker 3: I I don't put pressure on myself at all. Or
Speaker 3: you gonn transferred for rek On?
Speaker 11: What did he break through this team in this franchise?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 16: He run uh the Ray Ray Lewis juice back, you know,
Speaker 16: for for our generation, the grit, you know, the the everything,
Speaker 16: you know, the leadership, his poors, his aggression. You know,
Speaker 16: we we needed that from out from my linebacker, from
Speaker 16: both of 'em. You know him and Patrick be doing
Speaker 16: a wonderful job. But but Row, He's just unbelievable. You know,
Speaker 16: we we needed that, and I'm glad we got him
Speaker 16: every day. The great job.
Speaker 10: Why in either first playoff matchup fifteen quarterbacks.
Speaker 7: Under th years older or before we're at a vast.
Speaker 12: I know you're playing.
Speaker 18: Against the Chiefs defense, but everybody's gonna talk about you
Speaker 18: and pat the house.
Speaker 3: What is it.
Speaker 7: About that kind of matchup that you really like?
Speaker 10: What is it about competing.
Speaker 3: Against him that you really like?
Speaker 16: I don't like competing against him at all? Yeah, uh
Speaker 16: but yeah, I mean he's a great quarterback. Definitely hall
Speaker 16: of famer. Uh it's not even a it's a new brander.
Speaker 16: He's definitely a Hall of Famer. But I it's just
Speaker 16: I believe it's just two to two greats up and
Speaker 16: coming grades, just going toe to toe, you know, like
Speaker 16: a heavyweight fight, heavyweight matchup.
Speaker 3: That's that's just what I see a few years since
Speaker 3: you played the Chiefs.
Speaker 13: But that that last game, obviously big comeback in fourth quarter.
Speaker 13: What was the feeling like in betwe like when you
Speaker 13: were on the field. Does it add more pressure when
Speaker 13: you know that offense is gonna get the ball back
Speaker 13: and you know you gotta keep the ball away, so
Speaker 13: to speak, and keep him.
Speaker 3: From getting a chance.
Speaker 16: No, like I like I told like I told him,
Speaker 16: you know, there's no pressure at all on my shoulders
Speaker 16: or on my mind. The defense just gotta do what
Speaker 16: they've been doing all season, and we gotta do what
Speaker 16: we supposed to do. You know, put points on the
Speaker 16: board and we would have nothing to word about. You know,
Speaker 16: just everyone do their job. It's a great team, no
Speaker 16: doubt about it. You know all phases special teams, offense, defense.
Speaker 16: But if you score on points and you you stop
Speaker 16: an opposing team, we'll have a fair chance to win.
Speaker 3: And that's just what we need to do.
Speaker 8: You see this defense every day they they given every
Speaker 8: offense fits to this point.
Speaker 16: What what makes them so great is your open I
Speaker 16: believe every each and every got on our defense just hungry.
Speaker 16: You know, they got they own chip on their shoulder
Speaker 16: from whatever they've been through.
Speaker 3: You know, we don't know everyone's.
Speaker 16: Story, but I I believe our defense just we got
Speaker 16: different guys with different mindsets, but the same goal and
Speaker 16: and and that's showing out there on the field.
Speaker 3: You know how they're.
Speaker 16: Just just running over people and hitting people, you know,
Speaker 16: making creating turnos and stuff like that. Uh man, I
Speaker 16: defense just unique in their own ways.
Speaker 15: Talks about how you know a lot about the South
Speaker 15: Florida guy, he's coming out.
Speaker 4: And you trust you you kind of talked about all
Speaker 4: of those guys, when did you first hear about Jay Flowers?
Speaker 4: And why did you think he would beat such a
Speaker 4: good fit.
Speaker 16: For this off that you're I heard about Jay Flowers
Speaker 16: and youth football growing up.
Speaker 3: You know, they was always talking about the little kid
Speaker 3: number four U uh.
Speaker 5: You know, No.
Speaker 3: Seven or something like that.
Speaker 16: I always heard about Jay and you know, high school college,
Speaker 16: he was still that same guy. And when, uh, when
Speaker 16: I was like watching you know, watching him on tape
Speaker 16: and stuff like that, I'm like, man, he even though
Speaker 16: his team wasn't you know, they did they wasn't all that.
Speaker 3: I don't wanna say it like that, but it wasn't.
Speaker 16: But uh, but they made the most of it, you know,
Speaker 16: and most was his opportunities and he just showed it.
Speaker 16: You He was the same guy from you football all
Speaker 16: the way up frontil now.
Speaker 3: So I just put a bug in every was like, man,
Speaker 3: we need to go get him, you know, and he
Speaker 3: just did the rest.
Speaker 10: Mark how Mark Andrews could go on Sunday? What would
Speaker 10: it mean to you?
Speaker 3: And you mean a lot?
Speaker 16: You know, that's my like I said, bread and butter,
Speaker 16: you know, big bro, but and it it'll definitely mean
Speaker 16: a lot.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 16: We already got guys who stepped up, like likely you know,
Speaker 16: bait O, b Nelly, got Charlie, got all these guys
Speaker 16: that stepped up.
Speaker 3: But what what with.
Speaker 16: Mark and the type of guy he is, the type
Speaker 16: of you know, uh, kind of a player he is,
Speaker 16: and what he brings to the table for us, It'll
Speaker 16: definitely mean a lot for us.
Speaker 5: You know which one you know?
Speaker 3: You didn't Mark? Do you feel like he's one.
Speaker 5: To play between?
Speaker 16: That's up the Mark and coach Harball. Hopefully he will
Speaker 16: be up though, hopefully.
Speaker 10: If Andrews can go Pards likely what kind of men
Speaker 10: does that give you guys, to those guys.
Speaker 16: I don't know what dimension it brings us, you know what,
Speaker 16: what would it give us? But what those guys on
Speaker 16: the field, we'll see, h we'll see what all the
Speaker 16: time that we have around those guys as well, we'll
Speaker 16: definitely see.
Speaker 3: You know, you talk, you talk a lot this year
Speaker 3: about being locked in. Yeah, what what specify?
Speaker 12: When?
Speaker 3: What the ways have you been? Is how I think
Speaker 3: you catting.
Speaker 13: Into this season's specify that.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 16: I'll just say like small details, uh, things that I
Speaker 16: probably probably would like overshadow back, you know, years in
Speaker 16: the past, but now I'm tryna, I'm tryna think about
Speaker 16: all the small details what would help us in in
Speaker 16: every situation.
Speaker 3: That's pretty much what I mean by staying locked in
Speaker 3: and focused.
Speaker 19: Us about playing a one game where as locked as
Speaker 19: you are and.
Speaker 14: You're allowed you thought to say about that's right.
Speaker 16: Yeah, that's that's why I have to folk focused on
Speaker 16: the LC Championship and not the super Bowl, cause I
Speaker 16: did think about it, but we can't overshadow what's in
Speaker 16: front of us right now, not at all. You know,
Speaker 16: those guys are the former former super Bowl champions, and
Speaker 16: to be a champion, you gotta go through a champion.
Speaker 3: You know, so that that's pretty much the mindset.
Speaker 13: Who sort of game a lot of people before.
Speaker 14: To see you like private leagues last week on uh
Speaker 14: real flow you game or so maysic go what does
Speaker 14: it mean for you guys in the group closest support
Speaker 14: all over the world?
Speaker 3: Wand that's crazy, that's crazy, man, That's that's great to see.
Speaker 16: You know, our game is, you know, just spreading across
Speaker 16: the world like that, you know, and f have fans
Speaker 16: from the UK and that's tremendous.
Speaker 5: Hit.
Speaker 16: I would never think we'll have fans you know, uh
Speaker 16: from UK traveling and see see this game that's great.
Speaker 19: As oh NFL, cause you've ever played for Yeah, someone
Speaker 19: else who got played with man ask you what's it
Speaker 19: like playing rond What would you say if you have
Speaker 19: any theories on why he's play able to be so successful.
Speaker 16: So just donna come here, but you not tryna win
Speaker 16: if you don't wanna work. You know, that's the coach
Speaker 16: with like a military mindset. You know, he's he wants
Speaker 16: the best out of us.
Speaker 3: He wants to win. I like to win, so you
Speaker 3: know I'm gonna do whatever it's haste to win. That's
Speaker 3: what you getting out your coach.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 15: A couple of years ago, you can't train, can have
Speaker 15: have gone some muscle. Uh why is that important to you?
Speaker 15: And how do you think that has kind off? That's
Speaker 15: just the way that you can't play this game.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 16: I I just felt, uh, well, you know the years
Speaker 16: in the past, our guys, our officer line went down
Speaker 16: and stuff like that. So I I felt like I
Speaker 16: was gonna take uh more hits. I just thought at
Speaker 16: the time. So I just thought it was best for
Speaker 16: me to just put on some more weight. But Oline
Speaker 16: is doing so good. I didn't need all the weight.
Speaker 15: Either want more for if you all to be lost
Speaker 15: in the meaning you feel like you lost any speed
Speaker 15: when you can put on that that muscle.
Speaker 16: Nah, I I don't think I lost any speed. I
Speaker 16: I'll probably say I got tired a little faster.
Speaker 3: That's about it.
Speaker 12: Wow.
Speaker 13: What about your relationship with Likely has enabled to trust
Speaker 13: to build so quickly? W was it when he just
Speaker 13: came in last year's a rookie or or what's it
Speaker 13: allowed that relationship to build.
Speaker 3: Just just from seeing him working practice?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: It it started last year.
Speaker 16: But seeing him borking practice and seeing what he's doing
Speaker 16: versus our guys on defense. You know, we got great
Speaker 16: guys on defense all across the board. But when he
Speaker 16: making plays against guys like Kyle, like competing against Kyle
Speaker 16: Iron Schoppins Iron.
Speaker 3: You know Kyle's a great, great safety, but Iron Shoppins.
Speaker 16: Iron, and I'm saying I'm competing, you know, going back
Speaker 16: and forth, he'll win one, He'll win one. Like he's
Speaker 16: just he's just playing great football. I'm like, we got
Speaker 16: a dog Unlikely and he's showing up on film, it's
Speaker 16: showing up game day.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson. Now let's hear from a
Speaker 1: linebacker rookwand Smith rookwan.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 4: This season, you guys have played the best against the best.
Speaker 5: Why the record, right?
Speaker 4: Why do you feel this team has done this?
Speaker 20: I think we just do we're signed up to do,
Speaker 20: and that's play for each other at the end of
Speaker 20: the day, give everything we got and try to send
Speaker 20: a message play in and play out, and hey, no
Speaker 20: bigger station do that than the game coming up this week.
Speaker 14: This will be the first time you've played against Patrick
Speaker 14: for Holmes.
Speaker 3: We know how good he is, but what is studying him?
Speaker 4: What is what makes him that good?
Speaker 7: What makes him that difficult to be as the rest
Speaker 7: of the NFL's experience of last five years.
Speaker 20: Yeah, absolutely, we all know he's an elite quarterback. Does
Speaker 20: everything well I think personally, just as his ability to
Speaker 20: be able to read coverages as well as it stim plays,
Speaker 20: it stim plays with his legs and then you know,
Speaker 20: if you're not plastering being able to throw it down
Speaker 20: the fielding can hurt you that way. So he's a
Speaker 20: great quarterback.
Speaker 5: We all know that.
Speaker 3: But so are we on defense. So let's see how
Speaker 3: much how much.
Speaker 4: We're difficult with that name or gott.
Speaker 3: I think it just goes back to doing your job.
Speaker 20: And I have the aulmost respect for each and every
Speaker 20: guy to go to war Worth on the field, and
Speaker 20: I know, play in and play out, we want to
Speaker 20: dictate the game our way at the end of the day.
Speaker 20: So you know, hats off of him for everything that
Speaker 20: he does, But at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 20: about us, always and forever.
Speaker 6: Can we self scout a little bit what makes this
Speaker 6: defense so great throughout this whole season.
Speaker 20: And then playing the high I think it just goes
Speaker 20: back to excuse me, guys not being complacent, guys being
Speaker 20: consistent day in and day out, and I think it
Speaker 20: starts with the preparation throughout the week. Each and every
Speaker 20: guy look themselves in the mirror, like I try to
Speaker 20: tell each and every guy every day, and if you
Speaker 20: give everything that you got, it's not many people that
Speaker 20: can do what we can do. And I know this
Speaker 20: defense is really good and we're gonna, you know, do
Speaker 20: everything in our power to make sure we show that
Speaker 20: to the world all those lines.
Speaker 12: You know, your lads defense in the guys wins championships.
Speaker 1: The you guys is who that plays for such a
Speaker 1: high level d hey prime trying through that in today's game,
Speaker 1: that just watching an offense.
Speaker 3: Aways a passing game.
Speaker 20: Yeah, you definitely hear a lot of things about the
Speaker 20: offense and defense wins championships.
Speaker 3: And you know, each and every guy we know. You know,
Speaker 3: it's a team game at the end of the day.
Speaker 20: But if we dictate things on all terms and keep
Speaker 20: getting the ball back to lamar Hey, it's gonna be
Speaker 20: a long day for whichever other defense is out there
Speaker 20: in the field. But I have the utmost faith in
Speaker 20: every single guy, and we're gonna do everything it takes
Speaker 20: to make sure we get the job done by any
Speaker 20: means necessary.
Speaker 5: You know, you guys have.
Speaker 13: Really been known this year for really taking a part
Speaker 13: quarterbacks and the other two quarterbacks still in the playoffs
Speaker 13: beating him already does it playing against Mahomes. You also
Speaker 13: elect the graduate level course.
Speaker 20: And what you guys have done all year. No, I
Speaker 20: don't think it's a graduate level course. I think it's
Speaker 20: a It's a course that has to be done, and
Speaker 20: we're gonna get it done. That's that's the message. It's
Speaker 20: not about of this. He puts his pants on just
Speaker 20: like any any other quarterback. Yes, he's an elite quarterback,
Speaker 20: but at the end of they were an elite defense.
Speaker 20: And that's that's our job to stop the up posting offense.
Speaker 20: And that's what that's our job playing and play out
Speaker 20: and that's what we gotta.
Speaker 3: Do us and just sort of picking up his game drops.
Speaker 20: Yeah, utmost respect for Ray and you know, everything he's
Speaker 20: done for this organization and for the linebacker in general
Speaker 20: in his game and so I think the greatest ever
Speaker 20: to do it.
Speaker 3: And just being able to pick his mind mindset.
Speaker 20: And I just remember even as as a kid, well
Speaker 20: before I knew I was gonna ever play for the Ravens,
Speaker 20: being able to just watch his hype videos, watch his
Speaker 20: speeches and things like that, and it always inspired me
Speaker 20: since a little one. And you know, to be able
Speaker 20: to just have those personal conversation that takes me back
Speaker 20: in a sense. But you know, we all have a
Speaker 20: job and all the knowledge he's given me, definitely try
Speaker 20: to share it amongst the guys.
Speaker 11: When you're your teams coach, we're talking about how you're
Speaker 11: kind of me everyone around you play a little bit better.
Speaker 5: Is that for.
Speaker 3: It's natural than you.
Speaker 11: It's a leader conscious of it. What is your approach
Speaker 11: to that part of it?
Speaker 20: Honestly, I just go out and give everything that I got,
Speaker 20: lead first and foremost by example and knowing that each
Speaker 20: and every guy that wants to be great at the
Speaker 20: end of the day is not It's a resume that
Speaker 20: you have at the end of the day. And I
Speaker 20: constantly remind guys, whatever you put out there on film
Speaker 20: is gonna live forever. So if you want your kids
Speaker 20: to see you doing something years from now, hey hats
Speaker 20: off to you. But I know one day when I
Speaker 20: have kids, I want them to know that I was
Speaker 20: that guy that you know, knock your face off, and
Speaker 20: you know, do everything that it takes, play in and
Speaker 20: play out and make sure my guy's in the best
Speaker 20: place as well as I'm in the best place.
Speaker 3: And I feel like if you do that, everything else
Speaker 3: will work out for itself. I'm talking about history here.
Speaker 5: I mean in this building, you know you're talking.
Speaker 13: About red is now give the pictures of the great
Speaker 13: defensive players who were here and the big playoff games
Speaker 13: they played in. There a special buzz or feeling that
Speaker 13: you get in a week like this, again, in a
Speaker 13: big playoff game, when you just kind of consider the
Speaker 13: legacy that this team is a part of.
Speaker 20: Yeah, no, there's definitely a lot of history here for
Speaker 20: the short years that the Ravens been a part of
Speaker 20: the league since ninety six, a lot of history. But
Speaker 20: just being able to bring a championship game back to Baltimore,
Speaker 20: that's definitely huge.
Speaker 3: Don't take that lightly. Definitely with the fans.
Speaker 20: Man, the fans come in live, especially last week, so
Speaker 20: it's going to be definitely huge for those guys this week.
Speaker 20: And at the end of the day, it just goes
Speaker 20: back to each and every guy doing what we do,
Speaker 20: and that's just playing our style of ball, punishing every
Speaker 20: cat and let letting everyone know after they, you know,
Speaker 20: get hit by us, like you got hit by the
Speaker 20: Ravens and you know, send a message to hey, I
Speaker 20: don't want to play that team again.
Speaker 5: That's how we are.
Speaker 3: That's how we are, and we just want to pose
Speaker 3: our will play in and play out.
Speaker 5: We'll just drive.
Speaker 4: Check out the way he runs and the idea you post.
Speaker 9: You to have a ferocity to get together a couple
Speaker 9: of times this week.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I'm excited for the I'm excited for the matchup.
Speaker 20: Hats off to you know, I took my hat off
Speaker 20: to anybody that runs the ball hard and you bring
Speaker 20: it every single game, every single play. I love that
Speaker 20: because at the end of the day, one is gonna
Speaker 20: have to break, and I don't plan to be on
Speaker 20: the breaking in your lockers.
Speaker 4: Pretty close to Lamar, how would you use him characterized
Speaker 4: kind of his his demeanor, his attitudes since the playoffs began.
Speaker 20: Yeah, man, talking with Jack day in and day out,
Speaker 20: I just know his mindset, how excited he is about
Speaker 20: to show the world exactly who he is playing and
Speaker 20: play out, and just the way he's leading the offense
Speaker 20: and the things he's able to do with the football.
Speaker 20: And like I've always said since I've been here, I'm
Speaker 20: just grateful that I'm playing with him and not against him,
Speaker 20: because it's definitely a handful and he can beat you
Speaker 20: in so many different ways. So I'm just happy to
Speaker 20: be a part of it and happy that he's on
Speaker 20: my team.
Speaker 14: Is there a different edge you're going against.
Speaker 20: I don't think there's a different edge. I think it's
Speaker 20: an edge of defending your turf. Any any man that
Speaker 20: has a chance, you know someone's trying to come in
Speaker 20: and take something for you that you've worked your entire
Speaker 20: life for and if you need any more added substance
Speaker 20: to that, than what are you playing the game for?
Speaker 20: In my opinion, So it's about I know, mon, know
Speaker 20: this man across from me, what are you going to
Speaker 20: do to make sure we advance? And that's what I
Speaker 20: think it boils down to at the end of the day.
Speaker 20: And if you need any more hype or anything like that,
Speaker 20: like I said, you're planning for the wrong reason. Hey,
Speaker 20: I know I'm planning for the right reason. I'm trying
Speaker 20: to punish your cat every chance I get allowed. You guys,
Speaker 20: I think Mike McDonald allows us to just be ourselves
Speaker 20: at the end of the day, gives us such a
Speaker 20: unique plan, dissect offenses like it's no other like he's
Speaker 20: a mad scientist in a sense, and then you know,
Speaker 20: give it to us in a way that we understand it.
Speaker 20: And that's hats off to the entire defensive stuff from
Speaker 20: top to bottom, everybody that's on the defensive side of
Speaker 20: the ball. And I love it and being able to
Speaker 20: just hit you from any different angle. And when you
Speaker 20: have it like that, man, it's hard to complain. And
Speaker 20: everybody get there one on one. So it's about winning
Speaker 20: your one on one once you get it. That's what
Speaker 20: I think it is in a nutshell fun, when.
Speaker 10: You're one step away from the goal that you've been
Speaker 10: working your whole average, you getting superhole.
Speaker 12: How different is this from the.
Speaker 10: Keeping the element?
Speaker 3: I mean, I know one look ahead, but how different
Speaker 3: is Yeah?
Speaker 20: I think it just goes back to something is in
Speaker 20: your way, trying to before trying to stop you from
Speaker 20: getting where you want to go, and what are you
Speaker 20: gonna do about it?
Speaker 3: As a human being?
Speaker 20: Like, if something is in your way and you've been
Speaker 20: dreaming for something your entire life, busting your tail day
Speaker 20: in and day out for something, and are you gonna
Speaker 20: allow something to stop you? You're gonna give everything and
Speaker 20: your human power to make sure that that's not the case.
Speaker 20: And that's how we look at it, and I know
Speaker 20: we're gonna play that way every given place. So tune
Speaker 20: in Sunday, get your popcorn ready.
Speaker 10: For getting these animated speeches in prekat for games?
Speaker 12: Do you plan that ahead of time?
Speaker 8: What's your message to be?
Speaker 20: Honestly, I've gotten I questioned a couple of times, and
Speaker 20: I never really plan any speeches. I just go from
Speaker 20: what's on the heart, what's on the mind and what
Speaker 20: I feel like, you know, my going out through pregame,
Speaker 20: coming to the stadium, and like whatever I'm feeling mentally,
Speaker 20: and I just like express that. I don't try to
Speaker 20: make things up to like make guys feel the this way.
Speaker 20: I feel that way because at the end of the day,
Speaker 20: it's fake. I'm myself. All I know is to be
Speaker 20: myself and deliver what's on my heart instead of trying
Speaker 20: to create things that are nonsense in a sense. So
Speaker 20: I think that's why a lot of people go wrong
Speaker 20: get in this world trying to be something they're not.
Speaker 3: And I just expressed what's on my heart at the
Speaker 3: end of the day.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker rookwand Smith and next up is All
Speaker 1: Pro safety Kyle Hamilton, which.
Speaker 4: You know, you know the atmosphere it was for the
Speaker 4: division game. This is the first time the raiding is
Speaker 4: supposed to the Amcon champiship team. What do you expect
Speaker 4: the atmosphere to be like the long one side.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I think I've said it before, but at this
Speaker 18: level you can take for granted sometimes the fans and
Speaker 18: the atmosphere. You know, it's not the same around the
Speaker 18: league and come from the South, come from the SEC atmosphere,
Speaker 18: you kind of get used to that. But the Ravens
Speaker 18: atmosphere is no different from that, I'd say, And I
Speaker 18: feel like it's been turned up the whole season, but
Speaker 18: it's going to be even more loud, even more chaotic
Speaker 18: on Sunday, and I'm excited to see it.
Speaker 14: You've taken the most snaps this season in the slot.
Speaker 14: Travis Kelce has maken the most snaps this season in
Speaker 14: the slot as well. What can you say about that
Speaker 14: potential matchup between you two and and what do you
Speaker 14: see as the challenges of his game to contain?
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean, he's a great player in our league,
Speaker 18: and he's been a great player for as long as
Speaker 18: I can remember, as long as I've been watching him
Speaker 18: at this level, and he's ere in every ounce of
Speaker 18: respect that he's gone to this point, and it's gonna
Speaker 18: be a challenge. I'm part of the plan to hopefully
Speaker 18: take him away, but it's a team effort at the
Speaker 18: same time. You know, we got to guys up front
Speaker 18: rushing the quarterback, make it unclear on my homes and
Speaker 18: then in the back end, you know it's not gonna
Speaker 18: be man.
Speaker 5: Man the whole game.
Speaker 18: We gotta have guys in the right spots, guys attached
Speaker 18: to him, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 13: I just want to go off of what Lamar was
Speaker 13: just saying, work off of Isaiah, you guys going ahead
Speaker 13: and practice what makes Isaiah likely such a tough effort?
Speaker 18: Yeah, First, his hands are just different than a lot
Speaker 18: of other guys. You know, he catches everything that's thrown
Speaker 18: to him, and he runs his route so precisely. He's
Speaker 18: very fast, honestly once he gets to where he needs
Speaker 18: to go, and he's deceptive and playing with your leverage
Speaker 18: and stuff like that. He's super smart. Obviously, we got
Speaker 18: great coaches. We got Mark in there telling him certain
Speaker 18: kind of nuances stuff like that. So I think it's
Speaker 18: only scratch the surface of what he can be in
Speaker 18: this league. And it's kind of funny. He's technically a backup,
Speaker 18: but I feel like he's top whatever you want to say,
Speaker 18: tight end our league.
Speaker 8: You guys obviously go against Lamar every day. How to go,
Speaker 8: you know, seeing him on a daily basis prepare you
Speaker 8: for the challenge of seeing the guy like Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 18: I think in terms of those two it's just about
Speaker 18: creativity and keeping a play alive at the end of
Speaker 18: the day. You know, there's guys up front who are
Speaker 18: going to do their job and do it so well
Speaker 18: that they get to you. It's just about who you
Speaker 18: have back there to keep the player alive. And you know,
Speaker 18: we got eight who's the best at in the world.
Speaker 18: And obviously Mahomes has been doing it for a long
Speaker 18: time as one brings off of it. So I think
Speaker 18: seeing that look in practice, you know, getting the plaster
Speaker 18: of our dbs when the quarterback gets out the pocket,
Speaker 18: stuff like that is really helpful for us and going
Speaker 18: to be able to apply it this week.
Speaker 7: People, last year, we're in this tuision.
Speaker 3: Chantons go through with you, champion.
Speaker 13: Is this a challenge you guys.
Speaker 5: Team situation, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 18: I mean this is the the position we wanted to
Speaker 18: be in, and everything that we've wanted up to date
Speaker 18: is all at our control. You know, we're a game
Speaker 18: away from being where we want to be, two games
Speaker 18: away from completing the mission. But at the same time,
Speaker 18: we have to be focused on Wednesday practice, going out
Speaker 18: there having a good practice and following that up with
Speaker 18: a week of good practice. But you know, going against
Speaker 18: team like the Chiefs who's been a juggering out in
Speaker 18: the league for a while. It's it's a privilege and
Speaker 18: it's added pressure. But you know, pressure either makes diamonds
Speaker 18: or pressure bus pipes. So we're hopefully going to make
Speaker 18: diamonds out of it, right, What about.
Speaker 12: Really residently for why do you think you a kind
Speaker 12: of flying.
Speaker 18: It's a challenging scheme one, and it takes a little
Speaker 18: while to get all the kinks out of it, you know,
Speaker 18: going through OTAs, going through camp, all that stuff. There's
Speaker 18: going to be certain times where we may mess something up.
Speaker 18: But going into the season, I feel like we got
Speaker 18: all that ironed out and now we're kind of clicking
Speaker 18: on all cylinders we have so for the whole year,
Speaker 18: I think, and at the end of the day as well.
Speaker 18: It's I was just joking with one of the coaches
Speaker 18: the other day, I said, it's about Jimmy's and Joe's,
Speaker 18: not X's and O's. So obviously the plan helps us
Speaker 18: a lot going out there, but at the same time,
Speaker 18: we have a bunch of guys on our side of
Speaker 18: the ball who can go out there and make plays,
Speaker 18: and if a play breaks down, just going out there
Speaker 18: making a football player, not being.
Speaker 5: A robot at your way. I like the different just
Speaker 5: the duality of it.
Speaker 18: You know, there's, first off, we have guys up front
Speaker 18: who allows to do a bunch of stuff on the
Speaker 18: back end in terms of doing their job career. But
Speaker 18: I think the moving around everybody's doing different things. It's
Speaker 18: it doesn't make us one dimensional.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 18: We have a bunch of guys who can do a
Speaker 18: lot of different stuff and makes it hard on the
Speaker 18: offense not to know who's gonna be doing one on
Speaker 18: each snap. And I feel like everybody's doing a good
Speaker 18: job buying into.
Speaker 5: That y you talked.
Speaker 17: You talked about growing up in set country, you played
Speaker 17: at nor Dam, you know, where you get a lot
Speaker 17: of attention. But this kind of game where you know,
Speaker 17: for you, fifty million people are going to be watching,
Speaker 17: where the whole city is locked into it all week,
Speaker 17: is this sort of the kind of being the kind
Speaker 17: of skins you have in mind as a young player
Speaker 17: when you're growing up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 18: And uh it's if in anything that you do, you
Speaker 18: want to do at the highest level, and this is
Speaker 18: the highest level, and you know there's only four teams left,
Speaker 18: so it's the best of the best, and it's about
Speaker 18: what you're gonna do when the popcorns popping. So I
Speaker 18: feel like I've grown up my whole life with that Monstra.
Speaker 18: Just in the biggest moments, you gotta be your best self.
Speaker 18: And you know, big time players, big time plays, big
Speaker 18: time games, and this is the opportunity to do so.
Speaker 13: A queen had said a couple of weeks ago that
Speaker 13: you know, other keep want to play basketball on arractions.
Speaker 3: We just want to hit you. How has the kind
Speaker 3: of emphasis on being physical?
Speaker 6: How does that manifest himself from Harball might in the
Speaker 6: meeting rooms?
Speaker 4: How does that interest something physical manifest yourself tame day.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it's one thing to talk about it, and it's
Speaker 18: another thing to actually do it. And you can't just
Speaker 18: turn that switch on and off. It's got to be
Speaker 18: something that you've done throughout the whole year, throughout the
Speaker 18: whole organization. You know, it starts at the top. Like
Speaker 18: you said, we coach Harball just everything that he preaches,
Speaker 18: just physicality on both sides of the ball, special teams.
Speaker 5: It's just the way that we operate.
Speaker 18: And you know, it's like I said, it's one thing
Speaker 18: to say it, but I feel like we go out
Speaker 18: there and prove it every day and practice where it
Speaker 18: starts at, and then transitions to the game. It just
Speaker 18: gets that more intense when you know we're not going
Speaker 18: against each other and going against people who we don't
Speaker 18: see all the time and people who can actually hit.
Speaker 18: So it's I feel like they do a good job
Speaker 18: here of just drafting people who have that mindset, signing
Speaker 18: people who have that mindset, and even if you may
Speaker 18: not coming in, you kind of adapt it once you
Speaker 18: get here.
Speaker 5: There's really no choice.
Speaker 4: You see, you see Lamar in that locker room every day.
Speaker 4: How much you describe kind of his his demeanor, his mindset.
Speaker 18: Since the playoffs, I think just in the the whole
Speaker 18: year as a whole, he's I mean, I've only been
Speaker 18: here two years, but you know, I feel like there's
Speaker 18: a little something different there this year. You know, he's
Speaker 18: a big leader for us, where everybody on this team
Speaker 18: looks to him for just energy and just good vibes,
Speaker 18: and he brings out every single day and you know,
Speaker 18: no matter what's going on in the building, no matter
Speaker 18: what's going on in the game, he's gonna be the
Speaker 18: same Lamar. And I feel like He's just carried that
Speaker 18: even further into the playoffs. You know, it's it's not
Speaker 18: necessarily about being a a butthole for while you're in
Speaker 18: the playoffs and just being more mean once you get
Speaker 18: the playoffs. It's just more consistent with what you've been doing.
Speaker 18: I feel like guys respect that a lot more than
Speaker 18: I feel like that's something that he's done.
Speaker 3: Alamar. You know, players talking about when they made the
Speaker 3: jump from college.
Speaker 5: To the NFL.
Speaker 3: Just the speed of the game changes.
Speaker 15: If you kind of remember any any memories of you,
Speaker 15: you know, slot and see if you're just trying to
Speaker 15: square up the mar field on like a scramble or
Speaker 15: a design and run.
Speaker 18: Just kind of how different as Yeah, without giving him
Speaker 18: too much credit, I feel like, uh, you know, he's different.
Speaker 18: You guys see it every single game, and I see
Speaker 18: it every day in practice. And that goes back to
Speaker 18: somebody else's questions. Just getting prepared for the game. You know,
Speaker 18: we're not gonna see a lot of guys who are
Speaker 18: running out us downhill who are as shifty as him.
Speaker 18: So setting up our angles and stuff like that is
Speaker 18: helping us a lot going against the more. But there's
Speaker 18: definitely a growing growing period there coming into camp and
Speaker 18: Ota is all that stuff going against some more in
Speaker 18: the open field, but kind of get to learn his
Speaker 18: tendencies this and that. It's easier for me to say
Speaker 18: because I see it every day. It's and I see
Speaker 18: why it's hard for other guys taggling on other teams.
Speaker 17: Last You've come a long way in a short period
Speaker 17: of time from your rookie year too, being in a
Speaker 17: Pro Bowl, all pro guy.
Speaker 3: What is that quicker progression done.
Speaker 17: For your confidence in your sense of belonging among the
Speaker 17: best in the NFL.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I don't think it's really changed my confidence per se.
Speaker 18: I think it's just more reassurance, you know, because I
Speaker 18: always felt that I've had the ability to succeed at
Speaker 18: a high level no matter what level I'm at, and
Speaker 18: I try to stay the same person every single day,
Speaker 18: no matter what's going on around me. And I feel
Speaker 18: like just all these accolades and stuff are cool and
Speaker 18: going to be cool to tell the grandkids one day.
Speaker 18: But at the same time, you know, we have a
Speaker 18: bigger goal in mine and for me, like I said,
Speaker 18: it's just more reassurance and at the same time, it's
Speaker 18: just more respect for my peers, and I think that's
Speaker 18: very important as well. You know, no offense, but I
Speaker 18: could really care less what media has to say about me,
Speaker 18: what other people have to say about me outside of
Speaker 18: my family and the ones who are close to me
Speaker 18: in the building. And I feel like all that stuff,
Speaker 18: you know, it comes with a certain level of respect
Speaker 18: that the guys have for me, So I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: In the locker room today, we also heard from several players,
Speaker 1: So let's go to wide receiver or shot Bateman went
Speaker 1: into the APS Championship.
Speaker 21: Uh, you know, same as every week, just you know,
Speaker 21: continue to stay locked in and locked in on our
Speaker 21: details and you know, treated like every other week. But
Speaker 21: you know, obviously there's you know, more at stake at
Speaker 21: this game, so we just gotta go out and play
Speaker 21: a little more.
Speaker 1: Talk about how to how to beat the champions. You guys,
Speaker 1: you got to beat the champions obviously, this is a
Speaker 1: situation where the Chiefs have been previously. How does that
Speaker 1: mindset kind of drive you guys at all during this week?
Speaker 21: I mean, we all know what they're capable of, but
Speaker 21: I think at this point we know what we're capable
Speaker 21: of as well.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's more so you know about what
Speaker 5: we do, not much about what they do.
Speaker 21: We just go out and play our game like we
Speaker 21: have been and you know, hopefully we see what's the
Speaker 21: end resort after that.
Speaker 1: Does the performance the second half last week kind of
Speaker 1: give confidence a second carry over from week to week?
Speaker 21: Yeah, I think we started out slow, but you know,
Speaker 21: I think we uh picked up our pace. Uh, I
Speaker 21: mean the second half. Uh, that's how we capable. Love
Speaker 21: Lamar did a a good job of leading us in
Speaker 21: the right direction a half time. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 21: we just gotta come out and play fast, you know,
Speaker 21: accelllraating the middle in Phenishrouns.
Speaker 13: A couple of challenges Kansas City's defense present for your
Speaker 13: for your particular tiss Uh.
Speaker 21: I mean I got a good secondary. I think it's
Speaker 21: probably one of the best, uh that we face.
Speaker 5: All all season.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 21: You know it's a real, a real challenge. You know,
Speaker 21: they played physical type coverage, so you know, we gotta
Speaker 21: go out and make plays.
Speaker 10: From an offensive standpoint the way that Kansas City can
Speaker 10: put up points and you know they're always uh dangerous
Speaker 10: and you know dropped with dime mahomes.
Speaker 5: Can you know that offense can.
Speaker 3: Turn it around from an offensive standpoint from you.
Speaker 10: For you guys, I mean, how critical is it to
Speaker 10: to be on your a game and and be able
Speaker 10: to to produce like you did in that second half
Speaker 10: gainst Texas.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think we can put up points as well.
Speaker 21: They're not the only power for offense that's going to
Speaker 21: work Sunday, So I guess we'll.
Speaker 5: See what could you describe this whole environment, the story game?
Speaker 5: What do you expect from the fans this Sunday?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 21: It's my it's my first time experience and something like
Speaker 21: this as long as I don't play this year or
Speaker 21: you know, in general, so I know the bank will
Speaker 21: be rocking like it always is, So you know, I'm
Speaker 21: excited to play in it.
Speaker 1: That was wide receiver Rashad Bateman. We also heard from
Speaker 1: cornerback Brandon Stevens.
Speaker 5: No, I mean it feels good man.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 22: You know a lot of teams which they could be
Speaker 22: in this position right now, so we definitely aren't taking
Speaker 22: it for granted. But yeah, we're just focused on this game,
Speaker 22: focused on one day at a time, you know, preparing
Speaker 22: for this game.
Speaker 10: How hard is it to stay in the present mentally.
Speaker 10: You know, even Lamar said he's thought about the super Bowl,
Speaker 10: but he's got us stay locked in on the championship game, right.
Speaker 10: I mean it's human nature to look ahead a little bit,
Speaker 10: and it's the super Bowl. How tough is it to
Speaker 10: stay in the president?
Speaker 22: Yeah obviously, Uh, you know it's hard not to to
Speaker 22: look ahead and see like, you know, what we're striving for,
Speaker 22: you know what I mean. But you just gotta you know,
Speaker 22: bring it back t you know, to reality and you
Speaker 22: know and understand that you know, this is the most
Speaker 22: important game right now, and and you know, just preparing
Speaker 22: for this game, you know, and taking taking it like
Speaker 22: I said, one day at a time, you know, f
Speaker 22: focusing up in the meetings, practice. But yeah, just just
Speaker 22: coming back to reality.
Speaker 13: We're gonna challenge you play it against Patrick Mahomes or
Speaker 13: what's what's the match up?
Speaker 3: Like, what's what feels different about kind.
Speaker 5: Of going hip, going under center and and being prepared
Speaker 5: for what he could?
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 22: I mean he's a great quarterback, you know, uh, regardless
Speaker 22: if he's under center and in the gun. But you know,
Speaker 22: we like like I like I said, we just you know,
Speaker 22: come stick to the game plan. Continue to you know,
Speaker 22: watch film, prepare for these guys and you know, just
Speaker 22: just go out there on some Sunday and play our
Speaker 22: you know, play our defense when.
Speaker 5: You watch 'em on film?
Speaker 9: Though?
Speaker 5: What makes him so different than the other quarterbacks? Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, shoot, he he seen it all.
Speaker 22: He's in He's gonna seen every you know this guys,
Speaker 22: there is every covers, there is uh you know, can
Speaker 22: I and I think he's just he you know, you
Speaker 22: know the guys around him, you know, they they know
Speaker 22: you know what to do, uh, you know, to get
Speaker 22: open And yeah, I think I think they just uh
Speaker 22: play on one.
Speaker 15: Acort Brendon, What about like McDonald's defense to resonates with you,
Speaker 15: you can do like your concert?
Speaker 22: Yeah, I think I mean, uh couse, Mike, he you know,
Speaker 22: he puts us in the graated position every week. You know,
Speaker 22: his his game plan is you know, second to none.
Speaker 5: And uh.
Speaker 22: But yeah, we we trust him, man. Uh, you know
Speaker 22: he's gotten us this far. You know, he puts all
Speaker 22: his trust in us, and we put our uh you know,
Speaker 22: our trust in him and uh allows us to go
Speaker 22: go play on uh on Sundays.
Speaker 1: Got to touch challenge and up Kennedy. Is it going
Speaker 1: up against this Chiefs offense.
Speaker 22: Yeah, I mean, they, like I said, they they're they're
Speaker 22: a great offense. You know, they got you know, guys
Speaker 22: that can make plays on their offense. But you know,
Speaker 22: at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter
Speaker 22: what they do. It's all on you know, what we do.
Speaker 22: We you know, we just got to stick to our
Speaker 22: game plan, stick to what you know, uh, what we
Speaker 22: have to do going into the game, and you know,
Speaker 22: really just just play Ravens Ravens defense.
Speaker 10: What's it mean to get Marlon Humphrey back on the
Speaker 10: practice field?
Speaker 5: Yeah, shoo.
Speaker 22: Yeah, I mean anytime you get you know, a star player,
Speaker 22: you know, it's always a plus, you know, you know,
Speaker 22: it just adds more depth. But yeah, he's been working
Speaker 22: real hard to get back from his injury. Uh and shoot,
Speaker 22: if you know, hopefully he can go out there and
Speaker 22: you know, help us, help us on Sunday.
Speaker 10: But yeah, to be able to practice all year against
Speaker 10: the mobile quarterback like Lamar, how does that help this
Speaker 10: week against a guy like Mahomes Right, Yeah.
Speaker 22: Uh, you know, my homes he's you know, he makes
Speaker 22: his hay off of you know, uh, making a play
Speaker 22: out of no play you know and so uh, you know,
Speaker 22: just going against you know Lamar or uh or snoop.
Speaker 22: You know, it's uh, you know, just just plaster and receivers,
Speaker 22: you know what I mean, not not giving a a
Speaker 22: quarterback an easy throw with a guy just wide open.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 22: So you know, going against you know, our quarterbacks in practice,
Speaker 22: you know, through our training camp, uh mini camp.
Speaker 5: You know, it's uh, we're we're we're really just used
Speaker 5: to it.
Speaker 10: You know, were any when you figure guys losses this season,
Speaker 10: you've been vocal about it and kind of self inflected.
Speaker 3: Wounds in those games you can have.
Speaker 1: Is it in that a confidence whouster up?
Speaker 22: Really?
Speaker 19: No team has truly just come out and guys kind
Speaker 19: of an a combination with things happening the feed girlses.
Speaker 22: Like you pay Yeah, Uh, I mean honestly, we those
Speaker 22: losses don't mean anything right now, you know. Uh yeah,
Speaker 22: we're not even thinking about that, you know, but we know,
Speaker 22: you know, we know where we've given up big plays
Speaker 22: or whatnot. And I I mean the key to every
Speaker 22: every week, uh, every week every victory is you know,
Speaker 22: limit explosive and big plays. So U yeah, we eliminate that,
Speaker 22: you know, we'll be in good shape.
Speaker 3: John was very complimentary of big coverage last game.
Speaker 13: Obviously didn't let Houston inside twenty five.
Speaker 3: What the confidences that get you going into a week
Speaker 3: like this?
Speaker 5: You know, I think honestly, we're we're a confident group.
Speaker 22: Uh, you know, no matter what we did the previous week,
Speaker 22: you know, it was it was good to get back
Speaker 22: from you know, an off week, a bye week, and uh,
Speaker 22: you know, just see that we're still on the same page,
Speaker 22: still playing you know, the ball that we know how
Speaker 22: to play, and so we just need to carry down
Speaker 22: into this week, you know.
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, nothing changes, you know, we just gotta,
Speaker 5: you know, do what we do.
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