Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Past podcast is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: January third. Today we had a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harball as Ravens repair the upcoming game
Speaker 1: against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2: All Right, great to see everybody, appreciate everybody coming out,
Speaker 2: good practice, great work, great spirits. Excited about the challenge
Speaker 2: in front of us, which is playing the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 2: at our stadium. Always a great challenge. A couple of announcements.
Speaker 2: Quarterback for this game.
Speaker 3: Will be Tyler, the backup will be Josh. That's the
Speaker 3: way we'll be going with it.
Speaker 2: Beyond that, it's really not too much to talk about
Speaker 2: knowing real injury announcement that I know it for sure
Speaker 2: as Daryl Worley will be out of the game with
Speaker 2: his injuries. After that, it's going to be day to
Speaker 2: day with guys. Closer to the game, we'll know who
Speaker 2: can play, really out ruling anybody else out of the
Speaker 2: game until we see what our injury situations.
Speaker 3: Okay, what questions of Lamari is an active he will
Speaker 3: be there. Macon Rudolph sort of gave their offensive a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 4: It's been a couple of years that.
Speaker 5: You've seen him.
Speaker 3: What are you seeing it for him? Now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that. I mean he has given
Speaker 2: him a jolt. You know, he's playing really well. He's
Speaker 2: standing in there, he's making throws, he's delivering the ball
Speaker 2: down the field. Uh, you know outside inside, Uh, moving
Speaker 2: around the pocket. Well obviously there numbers are way up
Speaker 2: in the game since he's been in there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's made a difference for him.
Speaker 6: You waited till today to make the final announcement on Lamar.
Speaker 6: I mean what sort of nailed it.
Speaker 4: Down for you?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: I just think you just kind of consider all things.
Speaker 2: There's really not any one thing that goes into it.
Speaker 2: Just all things considered, it seemed to be the right
Speaker 2: thing to do, and we have conversations with Lamar and
Speaker 2: others and make the decision.
Speaker 8: Lamar improved particularly in any one area this year.
Speaker 3: Like you know that is this over?
Speaker 9: Like what wasend out about the way he performed this
Speaker 9: year most year?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: You know that's that's a question that we get asked
Speaker 2: a lot to try to pick one thing out, and
Speaker 2: it's really hard to do that, you know, because I
Speaker 2: just feel like there wasn't any one thing, you know
Speaker 2: that kind of needed to be better. It's like really
Speaker 2: most players at that level you're talking about the best
Speaker 2: of the best. It's really the ability to improve across
Speaker 2: the board, you know, and the collective difference it makes
Speaker 2: from when y're to the next and to me, with Lamar,
Speaker 2: it's just kind of a natural progression. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: he's he's always been a great player since he got here.
Speaker 2: But his ability to improve across the board, I think
Speaker 2: is abil ability over the course of the season to
Speaker 2: assimilate the offense that we're in now. A lot of
Speaker 2: things that are very similar to what we've done in
Speaker 2: the past, but a lot of things aren't, you know,
Speaker 2: and operating at the line of scrimmage and making certain
Speaker 2: decisions that showed up even in this last game or
Speaker 2: a big part of it.
Speaker 3: Two, he's throwing the ball.
Speaker 2: Well, he's he's he's moving in the pocket, he's seeing
Speaker 2: the field, he's protecting the ball, all the run game
Speaker 2: checks that he makes.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just there's a lot of things.
Speaker 5: Kay is good.
Speaker 2: Doesn't too much to see when you towards that the
Speaker 2: other season, Well, that's probably one thing I would say
Speaker 2: is probably uh, I mean, he's always kind of had
Speaker 2: a single minded focus. But I I don't think I've
Speaker 2: ever seen it quite like this. Uh, he's been that
Speaker 2: way since the off season when we talked, since he
Speaker 2: came to Ota, since training camp, one.
Speaker 3: Day at a time, locked in.
Speaker 2: That's kind of how he's approaching, and I think it's
Speaker 2: it's been reflected and how he's practiced and how he's played.
Speaker 7: Job.
Speaker 4: Where did you think of the Will's ball and exciting?
Speaker 8: It's a big for your candid, just the success your team.
Speaker 5: And James people both had him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been amazing. I mean, I just couldn't be happier.
Speaker 2: I it was a nail bier, you know, obviously playing
Speaker 2: Alabama and Nick Saban and then the and uh the
Speaker 2: players that they have. Uh, it was really it was
Speaker 2: really amazing when that that stop got made at the
Speaker 2: end of the five yard line. So I was just
Speaker 2: thrilled for the Michigan team. Throw for Jim, throw for Jesse, Uh,
Speaker 2: thrilled for Sharon, throw for everybody there, you know, JJ, Blake,
Speaker 2: Corn St. Francis Guy, Saint Francis Guy made the play
Speaker 2: at the end there to stop the quarterback from scoring.
Speaker 2: So we got a lot of Saint Francis Academy. Guys,
Speaker 2: there just couldn't have been more more more pleased. I
Speaker 2: was really happy for my mom and dad. You know
Speaker 2: that interview that they had, they were talking about switching seats,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean that is so classic of them,
Speaker 2: you know, actually thinking it probably did make the difference. Uh,
Speaker 2: and my mom, I mean, the guy doing the announcement,
Speaker 2: you guys will appreciate this. But my dad, you know,
Speaker 2: well he's kind of he's a little bit He's fun,
Speaker 2: but he's a little bit polished, you know, he's he's
Speaker 2: been an interviewed before.
Speaker 4: My mom.
Speaker 2: You put a microphone in front of her face, so
Speaker 2: you hang out with her for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't even have to ask her what
Speaker 2: she thinks. She's got to tell you what she thinks.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 2: I think he figured that out pretty quick. So it
Speaker 2: was fun to watch. I'm gonna go to the game.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to the game. Take Angered and uh yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna enjoy that.
Speaker 11: Thanks reaction to a game like yours in the past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they uh, they've they're they're pretty excited.
Speaker 2: My dad always he's either here he always says, who's
Speaker 2: got better than us? I mean that's like that's a given.
Speaker 2: You know, we say that to the team a lot.
Speaker 2: Our guys know the answer. We even have the T shirt.
Speaker 3: But uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad always says every time we win, he
Speaker 2: always basically says, that's that's your best win.
Speaker 3: Yet, you know, so they keep coming.
Speaker 8: We saw Malik Cunningham out there warming up with wide receivers.
Speaker 8: I know he's a quarterback here, but what are some
Speaker 8: of the skills he brings.
Speaker 7: In that sort of role.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah, I mean, you know we're gonna you know,
Speaker 2: he'll be up for the game. He'll be active, and
Speaker 2: he'll be also he'll be up, you know, a quarterback
Speaker 2: in the rotation. He'll be our third quarterback. But he'll
Speaker 2: also be able to play some other positions for us.
Speaker 2: He'll be able to play a little bit on special teams,
Speaker 2: whatever we decide he can do. I mean he's a
Speaker 2: little new to that. Uh he'll be playing wide receiver,
Speaker 2: which he's been practicing uh here and there, and uh
Speaker 2: so he'll be he'll be a factor.
Speaker 12: Going back to Lamar for a second, I know you
Speaker 12: guys have a lot more than you want to do,
Speaker 12: so does he. But just think it back to the offseason,
Speaker 12: just all the un shorty surrounding him and maybe a
Speaker 12: speuture with the team, and you think back to that
Speaker 12: point and where you are now and to see the
Speaker 12: regular season he's been able to have just what comes
Speaker 12: to your mind about how happy you are from the
Speaker 12: transition from Saint March to now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, happy, very happy.
Speaker 2: Couldn't be any happier, you know, I mean, this is
Speaker 2: this is this is the this is the outcome that
Speaker 2: that that that that honestly that I hoped for and
Speaker 2: prayed for, you know, and and to see it come
Speaker 2: about this way not surprising, you know, I think you
Speaker 2: never know, But I think our thought, My thought was
Speaker 2: that it was gonna it was gonna happen, that he
Speaker 2: was gonna be a Raven, just because I felt like
Speaker 2: he wanted to be a Raven, but also because I
Speaker 2: was on the outside of it, kind of watching a
Speaker 2: little bit, not being directly involved. I just felt my
Speaker 2: feeling was Lamar wanted to be here, and and Eric
Speaker 2: and Steve wanted Lamar here, you know, and that being
Speaker 2: the case, it was gonna work out one way or
Speaker 2: another somehow, And so I just was patient. You know
Speaker 2: in my mind that when we start practicing, there will
Speaker 2: be out there. But beyond that, I think what I'm
Speaker 2: really excited about through all of that is just la
Speaker 2: Mar's character, his competitiveness, his desire to be great. To
Speaker 2: your point, uh, to be the best. You know, that
Speaker 2: has never been in question, but I think it's shown
Speaker 2: very true throughout the whole process.
Speaker 6: John, you talked on you talked on Monday about how
Speaker 6: you're it's a two stage process at this point. You're
Speaker 6: preparing for the Steelers, but you're preparing for the playoffs too.
Speaker 6: Do you have it all mapped out at this point?
Speaker 7: I mean do you do? You do?
Speaker 4: You sort of know every day between now in the
Speaker 4: on the playoff team.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, the only question is what day we're gonna play.
Speaker 2: You know, it was a little bit, I'm be honest
Speaker 2: with you, a little surprise that we played on Saturday
Speaker 2: on this one.
Speaker 3: But you know, it's fine. You just adapt.
Speaker 2: So it's mapped out and then we'll see which day
Speaker 2: we play. So there's a couple of maps.
Speaker 4: In this finale.
Speaker 13: Pittsburgh obviously, I mean it's a rival. Do you like
Speaker 13: it in the fact that I mean, obviously, you guys
Speaker 13: are number one seeded seasons gapped up, but they're playing
Speaker 13: for something, and you guys have a I don't know
Speaker 13: you can keep them out of the playoffs, I guess.
Speaker 9: I mean, do you like that scenario in this final?
Speaker 7: Boy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't think you have to be.
Speaker 2: There's no lack of motivation for sure, just because it's,
Speaker 2: first of all, it's an NFL game, you know, and
Speaker 2: the guys playing in the game are gonna be given
Speaker 2: it all they've got. You have to and the guys
Speaker 2: playing the game want to win each play and they
Speaker 2: want to win the game. They're gonna play their very best.
Speaker 2: They're gonna play as hard as they possibly can. The
Speaker 2: other part of it, you know, it's we're playing a
Speaker 2: division rival, so you know what that goes what goes
Speaker 2: with that, you know, they know us, we know them,
Speaker 2: and we know what's gonna take to win a game
Speaker 2: like this, you know.
Speaker 3: So and then that's Pittsburgh, So all those things factor in.
Speaker 9: How creative. Maybe this is more Eric's department, but I'm
Speaker 9: sure you have the impact on it. You almost have
Speaker 9: to get Saturday to make sure you have coverage at
Speaker 9: certain spots to make sure you can get the guys
Speaker 9: off that you don't want really to see. Is that
Speaker 9: kind of been something you're gonna have to juggle right
Speaker 9: up until inactives or do nine even is.
Speaker 4: For the game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's uh, it's like a It's like
Speaker 2: a puzzle, except the p the puzzle pieces are constantly
Speaker 2: morphing into different shapes, you know, day by day, so
Speaker 2: by Saturday, I'm sure it'll all fit together.
Speaker 12: The plus movie say, as a practice doesn't kind of
Speaker 12: threat the entertenances or has it been an ast an.
Speaker 7: Age of the week as you more, and it's just
Speaker 7: like maybe a chechny.
Speaker 3: Dismas says right, big challenge, I mean big challenge.
Speaker 2: You know Zay's been been dealing with that issue and
Speaker 2: uh and hadn't been able to practice but still played well.
Speaker 3: But that's not something that you want to have to
Speaker 3: happen too much.
Speaker 2: I mean, he needs practice, So hopefully he'll be able
Speaker 2: to get out there and practice tomorrow, you know, uh
Speaker 2: and Friday.
Speaker 3: That's our hope.
Speaker 9: Joh And you've talked a little bout twenty nineteen, but
Speaker 9: when you're planning out these next couple of weeks. I
Speaker 9: is there anything you've planned to do differently maybe to
Speaker 9: kind of ha against the rust factor and guy's not
Speaker 9: getting my props.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't know. We put
Speaker 2: up five hundred yards in that game. You know, we
Speaker 2: just didn't score touchdowns. I mean that's really the bottom line.
Speaker 2: And by the end of the game, our defense, you know,
Speaker 2: got a little get a little worn out against a
Speaker 2: really good running team. So you know, it's it's kind
Speaker 2: of a it's a narrative. We didn't we didn't. We
Speaker 2: didn't win the game. We didn't score enough points. But
Speaker 2: when like we weren't moving the ball, we just didn't
Speaker 2: execute in the red zone very well. So you know,
Speaker 2: that was just a football game. I think we had
Speaker 2: really good practices and went back and kind of looked
Speaker 2: through that and notes and things like that. We practiced great, guys,
Speaker 2: had good spirits. I think I think we had a
Speaker 2: good game plan. We just didn't get the job done
Speaker 2: in certain plays, you know, So that's how football goes.
Speaker 2: So not really I think more it's I guess my
Speaker 2: long the long winded point here is that you just
Speaker 2: look at where you're at with your team at this time.
Speaker 2: And make the decisions that are best as you see it.
Speaker 1: That was hey, coach John Harwall. We also talked with
Speaker 1: quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 9: Or what's your your reaction drawn John told us that, Uh,
Speaker 9: if you're not gonna be playing in this stuff and Alle,
Speaker 9: what's kind of your reaction to that?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm cool with it. Me and coach talked
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: I felt like it was best suitable to that's you know,
Speaker 5: sitting and stuff like that to finish around.
Speaker 14: No one, no one, you know, you could keep Pittsburgh
Speaker 14: out of the playoffs arrival, All that as is make
Speaker 14: it harder.
Speaker 5: I I believe Snoop can get the job done, you know,
Speaker 5: and we we got guys who gonna go out there
Speaker 5: and play ball out. You know, I got all the
Speaker 5: faith of my team.
Speaker 7: Omar.
Speaker 4: What's key for you these next couple weeks?
Speaker 6: I mean in two thousand nineteen, you had a similar
Speaker 6: stretch between your last game and the regular season to
Speaker 6: the playoff game. Oh, how do you approach these next
Speaker 6: couple of weeks individually as far as getting.
Speaker 3: Ready for the divisional round?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 5: Just keep my body, uh, you know, moving around, just
Speaker 5: keep being locked in like we've been all season. Uh,
Speaker 5: just treated as a about week, you know, that's all.
Speaker 1: Or how is this stretch of games Miami, San Francisco.
Speaker 1: You you've played basically all the playoff teams since the buy.
Speaker 1: How has that stretch helped prepare you for the postseason?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 5: Just get rid of for a physical game, you know,
Speaker 5: knowing how to how physical the playoffs are, uh, and
Speaker 5: how every play counts, at every drive counts. It's pretty
Speaker 5: much just helped me out to just get me prepared
Speaker 5: for it.
Speaker 4: Do you evolution this offense been for you watching? I
Speaker 4: mean it looks like the last Yon last couple weeks.
Speaker 14: You guys are you know if your peak maybe go higher,
Speaker 14: but you're playing at such a high level.
Speaker 3: Just feel like just kind of a ramp up all
Speaker 3: the way through.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just believe we've been j you know, just
Speaker 5: jetting together and getting better each and every day, starting
Speaker 5: in practice.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: I feel like towards the end of the season, our
Speaker 5: practice has been a lot crisp, a lot sharper, and
Speaker 5: it's it's showing on Sundays.
Speaker 4: You're been playing in the playoff came since twenty twenty. Now,
Speaker 4: does it does it feel like a long a long time.
Speaker 5: Dude, not that you said, yeah it does, you know,
Speaker 5: but I'm I'm I'm ready, you know, I'm locked in
Speaker 5: and unprepared.
Speaker 8: Do you plan to handle this next two weeks any
Speaker 8: differently than you did in twenty nineteen?
Speaker 5: And if so, the house, Uh just you know twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5: Oh well, you know, we always talking about it. I
Speaker 5: always find myself myself, you know, talking about it and
Speaker 5: stuff like that. But it's different, you know, that was
Speaker 5: just my my first full season in the NFL, you know,
Speaker 5: in my second year in the league at that.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 5: But but it's a lot different, you know, mindset, Uh,
Speaker 5: different guys, different group of guys. I just feel like
Speaker 5: all around with different What do you think it comes
Speaker 5: up so much us or you out of twenty nineteen
Speaker 5: just because of you know, how how well we was.
Speaker 5: We were fourteen and two, looked like we was gonna
Speaker 5: be unbeaten, you know, just I felt like all phasibles
Speaker 5: just playing at the at the top of our game
Speaker 5: at the time.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: But I don't know where where it was where we
Speaker 5: just hit a hump when we just couldn't get it done,
Speaker 5: you know, uh that January. But I feel like I
Speaker 5: strongly feel like this year it'll be different.
Speaker 8: Curious about you mentioned about being on you know, like
Speaker 8: that you're about being unbeaten of it?
Speaker 4: Do you always feel like this year because of how
Speaker 4: dominant you've been that, you know, you always feel like
Speaker 4: that you guys were so close to being unbeaten this year.
Speaker 5: No, that's not of my minus this season, you know. Uh,
Speaker 5: like I said, I'm uh my mindset, it's a lot different. Uh,
Speaker 5: just knowing how the NFL is. We we said, it's like,
Speaker 5: you know, a few weeks ago, like it's any given Sundays,
Speaker 5: any given you know, whatever day you gotta play on.
Speaker 5: But hopefully, you know, we we just try to be
Speaker 5: on the right side of any given days.
Speaker 3: You know, Mr.
Speaker 8: You mentioned you know twenty nineteen, you even yourself sort
Speaker 8: of haven't thought about that. I'm curious if you've ever
Speaker 8: gone back and and watched that game or or uh
Speaker 8: anything like that, and and.
Speaker 4: Did it it took you a while to get over it?
Speaker 5: That would have man, Nah, I G I got over it.
Speaker 5: Uh the next year if we got our revengs, we
Speaker 5: got our revenge. We we didn't go far, you know,
Speaker 5: we went to the same round. So Uh, if anything,
Speaker 5: just getting out that round, you know, AFC Championship and
Speaker 5: getting to the super Bowl, that'll be the the best
Speaker 5: outcome for us. But yeah, I pretty much just let
Speaker 5: that that go when it happened, you know, just dwell
Speaker 5: on it for the time being in twenty nineteen because
Speaker 5: of well it was twenty twenty actually we was in
Speaker 5: the playoff. But you know, we just let that junk go.
Speaker 5: We gotta let that go.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Uh, different guys, like I said, different guys, different team
Speaker 5: all around, just a different atmosphere.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: I feel like we just on a whole nother level
Speaker 5: from from then, you know, cause all we talk about
Speaker 5: is just the next team, not you know, the where
Speaker 5: the future may hold in a few weeks.
Speaker 6: And you talk you talked on you talked on Sunday
Speaker 6: about how at this point you're not even looking past
Speaker 6: the next play much less uh than you know the
Speaker 6: next opponent.
Speaker 4: Is that mindset still there right now?
Speaker 6: Isn't like you can't you can't think about three weeks
Speaker 6: from now today you gotta think about to that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's still that's still the same mindset, you know. Uh,
Speaker 5: That's been our mindset every week, you know, since the
Speaker 5: first game is September. Uh, and now we we here
Speaker 5: in January. You know where we wanted to get where
Speaker 5: we wanted to be. And nah, our guys got stillers.
Speaker 5: Even though I'm not playing, our guys got stillers. So
Speaker 5: we gonna focus on the stillers and then we're gonna
Speaker 5: focus on you know the following week.
Speaker 13: That even though you've always had a lot of drive,
Speaker 13: a lot of focus that you know, you see, you've
Speaker 13: seen you going back the off season being even more
Speaker 13: like locked.
Speaker 7: In this year. Yeah, it is. Is that something that
Speaker 7: you agree with? And if so, like, where does that
Speaker 7: come from?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Man, just cause I I believe your preparation for the
Speaker 5: season start during the off season.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: Uh, you can't just chill and expect you to be
Speaker 5: playing however you did. Probably if you had a good
Speaker 5: year the following year, you to be on you be
Speaker 5: still on that same level or just just find around
Speaker 5: like you just this guy. You know, you gotta you
Speaker 5: gotta have your body in shape. You know, you gotta
Speaker 5: have your mind and shape how your mind's sharp, because
Speaker 5: each and every year I feel like the game gets better.
Speaker 8: You know a lot physical Why you mentioned you know
Speaker 8: that being locked in all years, trying to said it
Speaker 8: all year, going back to it's the pre season. Do
Speaker 8: you feel like there's been you've had more attention to
Speaker 8: detail or or more focus on like this opportunity is
Speaker 8: there for us giving what's around you and so forth,
Speaker 8: and obviously as the season's going off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've I've seen it, you know, I see and
Speaker 5: started a camp just shining the type of guys we
Speaker 5: have on defense, shining the type of guys we have
Speaker 5: on offense and special teams. Uh, just knowing, you know,
Speaker 5: we can't get complacent or just think of ahead, think ahead,
Speaker 5: you know if when we got right in front of us,
Speaker 5: so each and every game, and you know, every day
Speaker 5: in practice or anytime I had to speak, you know,
Speaker 5: when coach have us speak and captain speak, I let
Speaker 5: him know, you know, just focus on the guys ahead
Speaker 5: of us. You know, focus on the team we got
Speaker 5: in front of us. Cause you overlook a team in
Speaker 5: front of you, you didn't get raned over. You know,
Speaker 5: you get ranked over by those type of guys. So
Speaker 5: we don't take it light on any opponent. You know,
Speaker 5: we were trying to wear in regardless rain, sleet of snow.
Speaker 4: One more the more of that touchdown past the save flowers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, where I mean you own's like a left handed
Speaker 7: throw like you roll.
Speaker 5: In practice earlier. Uh, last week I took well coach
Speaker 5: had to play drawn up and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna roll to my left like i'm'a
Speaker 5: instead of me just doing a play actioning and just
Speaker 5: regular drop back, I'm gonna at like I'm gonna roll
Speaker 5: to my left like you know, we gotta play action
Speaker 5: pass or whatever. And I knew that. I know the
Speaker 5: defense is gonna always have their eyes on me, you know,
Speaker 5: cause they scared if I'm gonna run the ball or
Speaker 5: something like that. So I just did that and say
Speaker 5: he kept running, you know, like he was supposed to do.
Speaker 5: I just had to deliver a strike and he just
Speaker 5: did the rest.
Speaker 7: She just a quick follow.
Speaker 16: Did did you see Javon Holland talking about that. There's
Speaker 16: a video going on about him talking about that play
Speaker 16: and how he was kind of confused, sort of exactly
Speaker 16: what you're describing. He's like, w Lamar's gonna throw it
Speaker 16: left handed, and then you switch.
Speaker 7: Your think he was.
Speaker 5: He was like to my left though, So I don't
Speaker 5: know n I ain't see that video, though I believe
Speaker 5: Javon he was to my left and the show was
Speaker 5: single how man it was like man Curry, But I
Speaker 5: guess they just dropped it.
Speaker 1: So that was quarterback Lamar Jackson. We also heard from
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Justin Madebek group telling.
Speaker 4: As a team gotten OULDI goals from keeping out leg season.
Speaker 4: I won't see they as ask you how you approach
Speaker 4: this is hot.
Speaker 15: It's just like any other week. We just playing for
Speaker 15: the opponent. Uh, go out there and practice. It's just
Speaker 15: like any other game. We w we lost to this
Speaker 15: team before, so we're definitely looking forward to getting a
Speaker 15: dub and just finishing the season strong.
Speaker 7: Just John told us Lamar will not be playing Saturday.
Speaker 9: Do you feel like there will be guys on defense
Speaker 9: who campaign to play to kind of wanna come? You know,
Speaker 9: some people whether it's for contract reasons, some people whether
Speaker 9: it's just to keep the momentum going.
Speaker 7: Some people just don't like taking time off. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 7: not really sure on that.
Speaker 15: Whoever coach tells or feels like you shouldn't play, was
Speaker 15: gonna play, and uh, whatever the case is, everybody will
Speaker 15: be ready to go.
Speaker 7: And that that's just where it is like that.
Speaker 4: So for you, I mean for you personally, would you
Speaker 4: would you like to play kind of your normal.
Speaker 6: Workload to sort of stay sharper w what's kind of
Speaker 6: which review of that whole subject I.
Speaker 15: Mean people, Yeah, I mean at the end of the day,
Speaker 15: I mean, I'm here to play football, so it depending
Speaker 15: on what coach wants to do. If he wants me
Speaker 15: to play, then I'll play for share. I be ready
Speaker 15: to go. If he doesn't, then I'll be out. You know,
Speaker 15: That's just basically how I see it.
Speaker 8: Jaffin, you have making uh several weeks ago goodteing sack
Speaker 8: then or is that still to go?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 7: What does that?
Speaker 1: Games?
Speaker 7: Got it out? Yeah, I said, And so yeah for sure,
Speaker 7: But you know I don't.
Speaker 15: I don't put my whole focus on I'll just go
Speaker 15: out there and just play ball, try to get the quarterback,
Speaker 15: do my job, and uh the rest will take care
Speaker 15: of itself.
Speaker 7: That's how I see it.
Speaker 3: Justinn.
Speaker 8: I know you guys are you know you focus sort
Speaker 8: of week the week, individual's game so forth. I'm just
Speaker 8: wondering if you there's ever a feeling where where it
Speaker 8: feels like, uh, where you take a moment to sort
Speaker 8: of feels like, yes, this is we're set up to
Speaker 8: to to make a deep run and to go you
Speaker 8: know all the way. Does that ever enter your mind
Speaker 8: or does that feeling ever?
Speaker 7: Oh? For sure. I mean the end the day we're
Speaker 7: here to we have one goal is to win that
Speaker 7: they wanted. You know.
Speaker 15: Uh, I don't really get too far into it, but
Speaker 15: I just take it one day at a time and
Speaker 15: want and want and want a pony out of a time. So, uh,
Speaker 15: that's an ultimate goal. But obviously we can just jump
Speaker 15: into that. We have to take a step by step.
Speaker 1: So just here's the regular season finalely knowing that some
Speaker 1: guys may not you know, some guys aren't gonna play,
Speaker 1: and you got to know want to see locked up
Speaker 1: in the playoffs around the court. How do you kind
Speaker 1: of just approach this game, but also wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that you are mentally at a physically at your
Speaker 1: pass come playoff time.
Speaker 15: I just see it as any other game too, to
Speaker 15: be honest. Some guys are gonna be up, some guys
Speaker 15: are gonna be down. But then of the day the
Speaker 15: guys are up, are gonna be ready to go take
Speaker 15: out your bodies, keep your routine going, and just uh
Speaker 15: do you want to love them to win the game?
Speaker 6: You guys, you obviously, I mean you weren't here in
Speaker 6: twenty nineteen, you came the year after. Well what is
Speaker 6: your sense of what that two weeks leading.
Speaker 4: Up to the playoff game are going to be?
Speaker 10: Like?
Speaker 4: What? Like what do you feel like you need to
Speaker 4: do with those two weeks?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 15: Just say, just get rest, maybe uh take some more
Speaker 15: time with your families and this, that and the third
Speaker 15: but office and keep football uh number one, Get rest,
Speaker 15: take care of your body and get and get ready
Speaker 15: to go, cause uh it's it's coming. It's it's coming fast.
Speaker 15: So the games are coming fast. So you just have
Speaker 15: to take care of your body and mixture available.
Speaker 11: Justin from when you first got here, when did you
Speaker 11: I mean you knew of Lamar Jackson what ye was
Speaker 11: like before you got here, but then to see him, well,
Speaker 11: was there some of a moment in camp? Was there
Speaker 11: a moment in a game or somewhere you were like,
Speaker 11: oh my god, that really is he is that different?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I think it was like the first the first
Speaker 7: day in practice. You know, you just quick throw on
Speaker 7: a dime. It just does it all?
Speaker 15: So uh see him in real life is uh, he's
Speaker 15: one of the best, not only players but people as well.
Speaker 7: That that that's my guy. So yeah, it was like that,
Speaker 7: that's crazy to say that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In the locker room today, we also heard from linebacker
Speaker 1: Patrick Queen.
Speaker 10: Anytime you're playing a r A rival, you wanna get
Speaker 10: a sweeping the season. But since they already got win,
Speaker 10: something for us to get one, and uh, howe way
Speaker 10: we gotta do that. Uh, that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 13: Patrick howl to that is that you could keep them
Speaker 13: the playoffs. So I mean, you know, we wo how
Speaker 13: much I guess does that motivat little smile smirk there.
Speaker 13: I mean you already said it. It's Pittsburgh. You know,
Speaker 13: you don't need any more motivation. But the fact that
Speaker 13: you can keep them out of the playoffs, what is
Speaker 13: there any guys?
Speaker 17: Yuh?
Speaker 10: I mean, anytime you can send somebody home, that's that's
Speaker 10: that's one thing. That's one reason why you play the game.
Speaker 10: But it's just like I said, and then there's a
Speaker 10: Robbert game, so you gotta treat that game like you
Speaker 10: will treat any other robbery game. Man. Uh, but those guys,
Speaker 10: Like I said, they come out, you're gonna try to
Speaker 10: punch you in the mouth. And that's just the type
Speaker 10: of game I like. So when you got a team
Speaker 10: like that, man, it's just it's it's a fun football game.
Speaker 10: It's a great football game against uh, two teams who
Speaker 10: have got a ton of respect for each other but
Speaker 10: still wanna get down and Brona.
Speaker 1: Oh Patrick, how would you describe the mindset of the
Speaker 1: team though, And you've already you've wrapped up the number
Speaker 1: one seed and put the playoffs yourself two experiences a
Speaker 1: game in between, just kind of how do you describe
Speaker 1: the mindset.
Speaker 6: Of the folks of this team right now?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 10: You just you got opportunity to go out there and
Speaker 10: showcase your talents and uh show what you're about. Uh
Speaker 10: to go play a physical football team and show them
Speaker 10: that you're a physical football team as well. And uh
Speaker 10: just to be out there, go build a resume for
Speaker 10: yourself or go out there. Whoever plan whatever they're doing,
Speaker 10: just go out there and have fun. Just do what
Speaker 10: do what you do, do what you mean, coach you do,
Speaker 10: Just do what you best at and uh, everything will
Speaker 10: take care of yourself.
Speaker 4: Said Lamar's not playing in this game. Some other starters
Speaker 4: might get arrest as well.
Speaker 9: Any concern of if possible, you know, cause it'll be like.
Speaker 7: A nineteen day layoff.
Speaker 5: Any concern about maybe an overall Russ.
Speaker 9: Factor for the team.
Speaker 10: Uh, the way we practice ain't no end or be
Speaker 10: no arrest.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 10: So I know the stories about nineteen and what happened
Speaker 10: then and stuff, But at the end of the day,
Speaker 10: you know, I think we got guys in this locker
Speaker 10: room right now that actually care and that's actually really
Speaker 10: want to prepare and try to go on this run.
Speaker 10: So Uh, the rest thing, I think that's totally just
Speaker 10: a mindset. Honestly, you came the year after.
Speaker 6: I mean, when we talk to some of the guy
Speaker 6: who were here in twenty teen nineteen, they they say
Speaker 6: that does stick with them, that it's part of the
Speaker 6: sort of how they think about all this.
Speaker 4: What's your sense what they mean by that? I don't
Speaker 4: know if it's something that's been discussed explicitly. H What's
Speaker 4: what's your senseman?
Speaker 10: I think when you when they were so close to something,
Speaker 10: to achieving something so great that only a f select
Speaker 10: few people in this world get to do. Uh, it
Speaker 10: kind of east at you knowing that you was right
Speaker 10: there and you had it, and you know, I think
Speaker 10: they don't wanna repeat that. And obviously, me being in
Speaker 10: my position not being here, I don't want them to
Speaker 10: repeat that, and I don't wanna be in that situation myself.
Speaker 10: So you you know, we gonna do everything that we
Speaker 10: possibly can to just you know, be ready for when
Speaker 10: the time comes.
Speaker 14: Is that for you waiting a month that same year
Speaker 14: before you win more national championship, had that time off
Speaker 14: to had succeeded during your in in this, I guess
Speaker 14: a similar kind of ban is that how much does
Speaker 14: that help you?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 10: Uh, it's just it's like I said, as a mindset, honestly,
Speaker 10: it's just, uh, if you truly want something, you gonna
Speaker 10: go be at it and you won't let them stop you.
Speaker 10: So uh, you know, everybody in here is gonna stay
Speaker 10: tuned up on what they need to, uh work out
Speaker 10: whatever it may be, workout, run, uh, practice, uh, whatever
Speaker 10: it may be. Uh, that's what we're gonna do. I
Speaker 10: don't think anybody's taking what we got any uh lightly
Speaker 10: at all. Think everybody's well known on the fact that
Speaker 10: what happened in nineteen and don't want that to happen
Speaker 10: with nineteen for.
Speaker 4: You whinning and winning an LSU. I mean, having how
Speaker 4: much is that out?
Speaker 10: He was a monest Honestly. We had the time off
Speaker 10: and everything, but we still practice a little bit a
Speaker 10: little time off, so I think, like I said, it's
Speaker 10: just the misset like some people come out there a
Speaker 10: little slow. But like I said, for me, it's myself.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Patrick Queen at last, but not least.
Speaker 1: We also talked with center Tyler Landerbaum.
Speaker 2: And you went to Iowa, so you know, Marshall Yonder, Well,
Speaker 2: did you kind of prep you on this.
Speaker 11: Type of environment that you were going to get here
Speaker 11: in the Ravens organization?
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean we've we've talked a few times. I
Speaker 17: remember when I first got here. You know, we got
Speaker 17: on a zoom call just talking it up about the organization,
Speaker 17: the people here, and what makes us place so special.
Speaker 17: You know, just to hear from a guy like that
Speaker 17: who's been around a while, played at a high level,
Speaker 17: and was in this organization for so long, it's good
Speaker 17: to hear his input.
Speaker 7: And what about Tom Mounkin coming out on the side
Speaker 7: after that game.
Speaker 17: It's rare to see him out there, you know what,
Speaker 17: you know, I hope that happens more often. You know,
Speaker 17: we get if we get these big leads and he
Speaker 17: can come down on the sideline. I hope we see
Speaker 17: more of that. So, but you know, he has a
Speaker 17: lot of passion for us players. You know, he's a
Speaker 17: he's an exciting coach, loves the game, loves us players,
Speaker 17: and you know, just to see him down there and
Speaker 17: happy and enjoying it with us, it's fun to see.
Speaker 12: And I don't even want to ask, but looking forward
Speaker 12: because we're manifesting this right, So what does this team?
Speaker 4: What is it going to take for this team to
Speaker 4: get to the Super Bowl and win it?
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's going to take all every single round in
Speaker 17: this roster.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be easy.
Speaker 17: So you know, we got to just take one game
Speaker 17: at time, work together, you know. But there's a lot
Speaker 17: of good a lot of good men in this locker room,
Speaker 17: and I know we'll stay focused on the next game
Speaker 17: ahead of us and not look ahead.
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