Speaker 1: All right, the injuries for today.
Speaker 2: Eric Armstead foot knee won't practice, Dwelly ankle won't practice,
Speaker 2: Hardgrave hamstring won't practice. Orren Burke's knee won't practice, Elijah
Speaker 2: Mitchell knee won't practice, Juwan Jennings concussion, won't practice. Cleveland
Speaker 2: Ferrell ankle will be limited.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: You have any sense of maybe the game status.
Speaker 1: For Nope, I don't.
Speaker 4: How did.
Speaker 1: He's in the protocol.
Speaker 5: What's the thing that stood out to you when you
Speaker 5: start looking at the Ravens defense and what they do
Speaker 5: to kind of put you guys in situations. I mean
Speaker 5: you look at the numbers, so usually the first thing
Speaker 5: you see and you see how great their numbers are.
Speaker 5: Then you turn on the tape and it looks just
Speaker 5: like their numbers. I mean, they're really good against the run,
Speaker 5: really good against the past, extremely sound coverages, they know
Speaker 5: how to get after it with pressures, they know how
Speaker 5: to get after it front four.
Speaker 1: So really good defense from Kyle Hamilton's specifically, versatility, the
Speaker 1: way they can use the different spots.
Speaker 5: I mean, just knowing the talent coming out of college
Speaker 5: and now watching him in their scheme and just seeing
Speaker 5: how give him a football players and any time me
Speaker 5: that long and you can run gives you a bunch
Speaker 5: of advantages. But he also fits into their mentality without
Speaker 5: physical he plays and has the size to do a
Speaker 5: lot of things, but also has the feet and length
Speaker 5: to cover.
Speaker 1: Been a while since.
Speaker 3: You've seen Lamar, but maybe a different scheme.
Speaker 1: It seems like they're using more different ways.
Speaker 3: How was he maybe evolved in what they're trying to
Speaker 3: do with him now?
Speaker 5: I mean it was a while since we played against him,
Speaker 5: but seeing him over the years, I mean, it's still
Speaker 5: the same run scheme looks very similar. I think they
Speaker 5: just mix in a few more more passes, more drop
Speaker 5: back plays and things. And I think he's always been
Speaker 5: good at that stuff. So he's really is good at
Speaker 5: whatever they decide to do. It's he's a problem whatever.
Speaker 1: So would prepare for Lamar and practice who plays him.
Speaker 1: We'll have both of our quarterbacks, so they'll try their best.
Speaker 3: Anything Remember anything that out to you about what Divo's
Speaker 3: been able to do last month or or since he's
Speaker 3: come back from the shoulder.
Speaker 1: That kind of just explained.
Speaker 5: Just that he's come back and gotten healthy. When Diebo's
Speaker 5: out there and constrained together practices in weeks, it's not
Speaker 5: our time for the ball comes this way. I mean
Speaker 5: nothing in particular that's been different than usual. I just
Speaker 5: think he's strung together a few more healthy weeks and
Speaker 5: sometimes I think, I said earlier in the year, I
Speaker 5: thought he had some of the best games the first
Speaker 5: couple of weeks, even at Pittsburgh, and the ball didn't
Speaker 5: just go that way. And then he has some setbacks
Speaker 5: with his injuries. But he's been good here for a
Speaker 5: while and.
Speaker 1: This came his way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, their receivers, they have four pretty good receivers. What
Speaker 3: stands out about their receivers and is there any pattern
Speaker 3: to the usage? Is there one guy that you would
Speaker 3: consider their number one?
Speaker 5: I mean, you always got respect for Odell and what
Speaker 5: he's done, and but the young guy's real good too.
Speaker 5: So I mean they got a number of guys. See,
Speaker 5: you know, they're not going to force it to anyone.
Speaker 5: Lamar makes the right decisions. They've got guys who are
Speaker 5: real good amand a man. They're really good after the catch.
Speaker 5: So I'd say they just have a solid group overall.
Speaker 4: In case Chris Conley has to play on Monday, I
Speaker 4: think he ran a four three five back in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5: Is he still does he still have that level of speed.
Speaker 4: At this point in his career.
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: I think it's like a four to three six now,
Speaker 5: you know depends. Yeah, I know he's got it and
Speaker 5: we see it out there all the time.
Speaker 1: Chris Is. It's not just the speed though.
Speaker 5: Chris has been a real good football player for us
Speaker 5: and he's been ready to go anytime we've had him up.
Speaker 1: And we'll see how it is this week. There's speeding athleticism.
Speaker 3: Do they ask the same things of rocn Smith and
Speaker 3: Patrick Queen as you guys do form Warner and Greenlaw?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Similar?
Speaker 5: I think there that's Those are the two guys who
Speaker 5: jump off the tape, and I think they're the most
Speaker 5: comparable to our guys that I've seen this year in
Speaker 5: a couple of years. To me, those two guys make
Speaker 5: the defense go. They're they're big, they can run, and
Speaker 5: they can hit, and not just because they're big, because
Speaker 5: they their intentions are that way. You until they like
Speaker 5: playing football. They're very smart players too. They're good in coverage.
Speaker 5: They're two of the better zone droppers in the league
Speaker 5: and two of the better man and man guys also,
Speaker 5: so as good as it gets.
Speaker 1: Difficult about facing a defense.
Speaker 5: That has two of them, just how much room they
Speaker 5: can cover. That's what allows them to be so good
Speaker 5: in zone. Just how good those guys are on the inside,
Speaker 5: how much field they can take between the numbers. Takes
Speaker 5: the pressure off their corners who can stay on top
Speaker 5: and take away the explosives. To me, that's one of
Speaker 5: the reasons they lead the league in sacks because of
Speaker 5: how good they're coverages with a bunch of good guys
Speaker 5: up front just allows them to do what they want.
Speaker 1: How much of their sacks.
Speaker 3: Are generated individually as opposed to scheme and just confusion.
Speaker 5: I think more is individually and just sound good coverages.
Speaker 5: It's you know they they got. They usually have four
Speaker 5: guys who can rush it. They'll blitz and do that
Speaker 5: stuff too. The mixed up throughout the game, so the
Speaker 5: challenges all your protections. But the hardest thing is how
Speaker 5: it is to get people open there when they have
Speaker 5: seven and coverage. They're very sound, they don't mess up
Speaker 5: much and make you go to two, make you go
Speaker 5: to number three, and they have all the rushers who
Speaker 5: can get there by that time.
Speaker 1: Kind of a big game for Rock as far as
Speaker 1: being challenged.
Speaker 5: I think it's a big game for everybody because there's
Speaker 5: not just one way in particular. I mean, you think,
Speaker 5: you know they lead the league in sacks. You right
Speaker 5: away you think about our line, and that is true
Speaker 5: because they have good pass rushers, But also that has
Speaker 5: a lot to do with how good our receivers do
Speaker 5: get into their spots and getting open Brock to get
Speaker 5: in the right spots, guys not getting rerouted so they
Speaker 5: can't get there in time. So when you play a sound,
Speaker 5: good defense with good players all over, it's a little
Speaker 5: bit of everything, not real familiar. We just worked out
Speaker 5: a bunch of guys yesterday. I know our guys really
Speaker 5: liked him from what they've seen on him earlier, and
Speaker 5: definitely loved him in the workout.
Speaker 1: So we're low on numbers, so we had to get
Speaker 1: him part of this practice squad and we'll see how
Speaker 1: he looks this week.
Speaker 4: Defensive line did in the game.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was a huge challenge for him. I thought,
Speaker 5: you know that we struggled obviously in stats. I don't
Speaker 5: think it was at all all on them. Losing Kalia
Speaker 5: during the game really hurt because we just tired out
Speaker 5: a lot.
Speaker 1: But I think we'll be better this week.
Speaker 3: Blocking.
Speaker 4: I realized your dad's not like coaching in high school
Speaker 4: or whatever, but that.
Speaker 1: Something like you say he's coach in high school.
Speaker 3: No, I said, I realized he's not like your high
Speaker 3: school coach.
Speaker 1: Oh gotcha? I was like, I don't think he.
Speaker 3: Is growing biography?
Speaker 5: Would he like?
Speaker 4: Was that something you would talk you would talk about
Speaker 4: with him.
Speaker 3: Like it seems like it's just as important to him
Speaker 3: as it is to you, Like the importance of being
Speaker 3: all around receiver and blocking.
Speaker 1: Definitely? Could?
Speaker 5: I mean, I also understand how import and it is
Speaker 5: to football, and how important it is to running the ball,
Speaker 5: and how important it is to plays off the run.
Speaker 5: But no, that's why I could never play for myself,
Speaker 5: or I would never play for him, because even if
Speaker 5: I tried to block, I wasn't very good at it.
Speaker 5: So you can recognize that fast when you couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: Line doesn't get a lot of accolades, but what have
Speaker 4: What can you say about their performance this year and
Speaker 4: what they helped you obviously do all.
Speaker 3: The things you need to do.
Speaker 1: I think they've been great. I mean when you look
Speaker 1: at our whole offense.
Speaker 5: Just as far as running the ball and throwing the ball,
Speaker 5: you can't do that stuff without a good old line.
Speaker 5: You can't do that stuff without a good quarterback. You
Speaker 5: can't do that stuff without good players that he's throwing to.
Speaker 5: So the success of us throughout the year so far,
Speaker 5: there's no one group that is to me, isn't playing
Speaker 5: at a high level.
Speaker 3: Okay, we young guys who all got time at the
Speaker 3: end of the Arizona games and they all were flying around.
Speaker 3: What is your guy's evaluation of how come on this
Speaker 3: year as rookies.
Speaker 1: I mean that stuff's huge.
Speaker 5: When you can get those guys playing time, you know,
Speaker 5: it's those guys have come on strong because they've been
Speaker 5: ready to go, they've been working. I'm very similar to
Speaker 5: how I talked about Jay year. But you never know
Speaker 5: when they're gonna get thrown in the heat of the battle.
Speaker 5: And sometimes when you go out there, you got to
Speaker 5: learn by failing. And so when those guys can get
Speaker 5: into these games, especially at the end of games, and
Speaker 5: it's happened a couple of times throughout the year, Looter later.
Speaker 5: But guys like d and stuff, they get a lot
Speaker 5: of experience. Each time they do it, they seem better,
Speaker 5: and you know, hopefully they'll have to do it too
Speaker 5: much till the future. But if that comes up, which
Speaker 5: it could come up any day, those guys got a
Speaker 5: little bit more experience now and they're getting better each week.
Speaker 4: There's a funny clip of Christian McCaffrey on Monday Night
Speaker 4: Football with the Mannings about how he flopped and I
Speaker 4: don't know if you've seen it, but the fact that
Speaker 4: he was willing to go to the extra mile to
Speaker 4: kind of try and get a penalty called for them.
Speaker 4: Do you see that often?
Speaker 5: And I mean I didn't see the Manning cast, but
Speaker 5: every time I when you flopped first, Philly, I saw that,
Speaker 5: I thought, that's like the only thing you didn't do
Speaker 5: very well this year. It wasn't the best flop. You
Speaker 5: got to be a little it can't be so obvious.
Speaker 5: So no, not really, but yeah, you want guys to
Speaker 5: do that. You know a lot of touch guys after
Speaker 5: the play. So sometimes guys can't see it because it
Speaker 5: happens so fast, but they can see a reaction. But
Speaker 5: I don't want it to turn into the NBA too fast,
Speaker 5: or McCaffrey should be the MVP as a former D
Speaker 5: one wide receiver yourself that a whiteout hasn't I mean
Speaker 5: not because of my lame history as a player.
Speaker 1: It's I don't think.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't even want to talk about the
Speaker 5: ward because there's to lose, lose and whatever the ward is.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't bother me.
Speaker 5: Just you start to adjust to it and you look
Speaker 5: at it, and it does seem like it's more quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: Doesn't mean that a wide receiver can't, doesn't mean a
Speaker 5: running back can't, doesn't mean a D lineman can't. If
Speaker 5: one person voted on it, then they might do it
Speaker 5: that way, but collectively, I don't know. I don't even
Speaker 5: know votes, so you hope they get it right. But
Speaker 5: you know, it doesn't matter that much to some people.
Speaker 3: Written about how we had to do this play time,
Speaker 3: how much of that was tied.
Speaker 1: To run, not much, and it was just tied to
Speaker 1: just consistency of the game.
Speaker 5: I can't believe how long that's stuck, because every three
Speaker 5: weeks I got to talk about far he's come since then,
Speaker 5: which I think is kind of an insult to him.
Speaker 5: So that's why I don't like always getting repeated. I
Speaker 5: got to play in the COVID year. He had no
Speaker 5: offseason when we lost like three receivers that year, and
Speaker 5: he really never came off the field. Didn't get an
Speaker 5: off season the next year, and he was a little
Speaker 5: behind in training camp and Trent Sherfield was here that
Speaker 5: year and he was a veteran who was ready for
Speaker 5: training camp, and so we went into the first game
Speaker 5: and that was how training camp went.
Speaker 1: And the other guy was just more consistent at that time.
Speaker 1: But I mean Ba wasn't doing it. It didn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he had to do some things to get more
Speaker 5: consistent to be ahead of trend at the time. But
Speaker 5: that wasn't like he was in the doghouse or had
Speaker 5: to have this whole epiphany. He just that's what football is.
Speaker 5: You don't always you're not always ready to go as
Speaker 5: a as a rookie, sometimes you get thrown in there anyways.
Speaker 5: That can be good and it can be bad. But
Speaker 5: that's why a lot of people have rookie slump. Sometimes
Speaker 5: they you learn from filing and sometimes they don't realize. Man,
Speaker 5: I played my whole time as a rookie. That was
Speaker 5: pretty good. Yeah it was, but you got to be
Speaker 5: better than the guy behind you at all times, not
Speaker 5: just potential wise, and I think came to camp a
Speaker 5: little off and that's what happened. And I think he
Speaker 5: corrected that about halfway through the second game. So it's
Speaker 5: been really good since then.
Speaker 3: Guys like that on a curve because.
Speaker 5: They're like, yeah, but it's it's all about Taylor was
Speaker 5: also of the pound for pounds strongest guy on the team.
Speaker 5: He's the only guy who would weighed one hundred and
Speaker 5: sixty pounds who could bench three hundred.
Speaker 1: I think he was wired, but yeah, there's STIs factors always.
Speaker 5: That's why you got to learn the type of track
Speaker 5: by the back, how to stay square and have no
Speaker 5: one just goes out there and just manhandles a guy.
Speaker 5: You got to be tied to the guy behind you,
Speaker 5: and how to set people up and stuff. And also
Speaker 5: back then, when people were running at you straight over
Speaker 5: just to kill you, you were allowed to cut so
Speaker 5: they couldn't just tee off on you.
Speaker 1: Now you just got to stand up and take it,
Speaker 1: which isn't a problem me there.
Speaker 5: As long as you fall down and he falls down
Speaker 5: with you, he's kicking your butt.
Speaker 1: He's not making the play. So you got to do
Speaker 1: one or the other? All right, guys,