Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: January tenth. It's playoff mode here in Baltimore, but the
Speaker 1: Ravens are playing the waiting game right now. They won't
Speaker 1: find out their Divisional Round opponent until the weekends, So
Speaker 1: right now the team is going through a normal week
Speaker 1: of practice, practicing on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, focusing
Speaker 1: on themselves and the fundamentals before learning their opponent and
Speaker 1: getting ready to play that game in the Divisional round.
Speaker 1: Today we had a chance to hear from head coach
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to see everybody here. Appreciate you coming out.
Speaker 3: It's a great day for football, weddingry plus three frigid
Speaker 3: conditions out there, and we had a really good practice.
Speaker 3: Appreciate the guy's energy, the effort, very focused practice and
Speaker 3: that's what we were looking for today and that's what
Speaker 3: we'll be looking for the rest of this week through Saturday.
Speaker 3: So we're off and running and we're going to work well. Questions, Jeh,
Speaker 3: how did you enjoy your Monday night?
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed it. Yeah, I especially enjoyed it when they
Speaker 3: hit those and when they got the scrambled play JJ
Speaker 3: got to scrambled play out and hit Colston on the
Speaker 3: crossing route.
Speaker 2: Then they scored.
Speaker 3: I was really happy about that, but I was really
Speaker 3: just proud of Jim. I think you know, that team,
Speaker 3: their faith, the connection they have with one another.
Speaker 2: They truly are a family.
Speaker 3: I think Jim talked about his football family and his
Speaker 3: family at home. Those two things are something we talk
Speaker 3: about here. Being one hundred percent committed to both of
Speaker 3: those two things will take you far. And that team
Speaker 3: is kind of epitomizes that. So congratulations to Michigan. Congratulations
Speaker 3: with my brother John.
Speaker 4: You don't get to like kind of take in a
Speaker 4: game of that magnitude like that as a fan too often.
Speaker 4: I don't know when the last time was, but like,
Speaker 4: how different was that experience?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 6: Fun was it for you?
Speaker 2: It was different and fun?
Speaker 3: I mean I tell you it was really taken with
Speaker 3: the crowd. I mean, you know, it was on the
Speaker 3: sideline for a little while, gad you have a little
Speaker 3: hugged there, then got up into the stands, was with
Speaker 3: our family and the stadium was just rock and it
Speaker 3: was stuffed with people, you know, half and half and
Speaker 3: really so when Michigan's defense was on the field, their
Speaker 3: fans were just screaming at the top of their lungs.
Speaker 2: It was deafening.
Speaker 3: Then when Washington's defense was on the field, their fans
Speaker 3: were screaming at the top of their lungs and it
Speaker 3: was deafening. So it was definiting the whole time. There
Speaker 3: was no break, you know, and they were they were
Speaker 3: you know, half a stadium was as loud as really
Speaker 3: any stadium I've been in. It was enclosed, the bands,
Speaker 3: the students, you know, the whole college thing was was
Speaker 3: really electric. It was really powerful.
Speaker 7: Watch that game. Do you watch it as a fan
Speaker 7: or does any other them that do you watch as.
Speaker 3: A I mean I watch it as as a fan mostly,
Speaker 3: you know, I can I know what coverages are in,
Speaker 3: I know it fronts are and I can. I'm looking
Speaker 3: at that a little bit, you know, and with with
Speaker 3: some some interest, but more than that, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: probably you know, just a little nervous, you know, and hoping.
Speaker 2: For good outcomes, you know, as a fan. It just
Speaker 2: like a fan with.
Speaker 8: Topped him on the sideline. It looked like he was
Speaker 8: really locked in and maybe didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 5: With whatever.
Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, I think, well, it's funny because I've
Speaker 3: been asked that, you know, and I forget what we
Speaker 3: talked about, to be honest with you, but but he
Speaker 3: did kind of he kind of looked up and he went, oh, John, Hey,
Speaker 3: they might have said you made it.
Speaker 5: You know. Uh so, but it was just great. It
Speaker 5: was well.
Speaker 3: What happened was I'd been down there for about five
Speaker 3: or ten minutes of the game and they were going,
Speaker 3: he was working, and then the ball came that way
Speaker 3: and there was a time out, and he was just
Speaker 3: like ten feet away from me, you know. So I'm like,
Speaker 3: that's my opportunity, you know, so I rushed it at
Speaker 3: that point when you see.
Speaker 9: Your brother hoisting up the trophy and you see the
Speaker 9: confetti down and your parents on the field, and you
Speaker 9: start to kind of envision maybe yourself maybe being there
Speaker 9: in that same type of spot a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: Of course, like like like any brother or sibling, you know,
Speaker 3: you you know, your brother gets something you wanted to write,
Speaker 3: you know, uh and I you do though, I think
Speaker 3: just from a and Eric had mentioned that too afterwards
Speaker 3: when we were walking off the field. You're down there,
Speaker 3: you see the team, hugging give you become a part
Speaker 3: of the celebration and the confetti and the jubilation and
Speaker 3: the years, and he just kind of sinks in and
Speaker 3: it's like, man, you know, I really want to experience
Speaker 3: this for our team. I want our team to experience this,
Speaker 3: you know. And that's that's the big picture. That's the
Speaker 3: ultimate goal for the season. And then with that back
Speaker 3: to one day at a time, when play at a time.
Speaker 10: Get a tattoo to on our team or at season.
Speaker 3: You know, I kind of like I told my wife
Speaker 3: and daughter, they get first DIBs on the tattoos, probably choices,
Speaker 3: but a Super Bowl championship would be pretty tempting this team.
Speaker 11: Just as soon as the season ended, You've had at
Speaker 11: least three assistants had had this permission requested from other teams.
Speaker 6: Uh, what can you say about that?
Speaker 12: And how do you balanced that.
Speaker 5: Versus what you're also working on now? Right?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's I say.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 3: I say I'm really proud of our guys. I think
Speaker 3: I've said many times I think we have the best
Speaker 3: coaching staff in the world U And I love our coaches.
Speaker 3: I love the jobs they do. I think we have
Speaker 3: a bunch of coaches. They are gonna be coordinators and
Speaker 3: they're gonna be head coaches. On the staff are gonna
Speaker 3: be very successful. Uh for a long time. It's just
Speaker 3: a great staff. So I think any opportunities that they get,
Speaker 3: you know, I support and I'm excited for them to
Speaker 3: have those opportunities. It really doesn't there's really no balance
Speaker 3: with it at all, though, because everything they do with
Speaker 3: the interview is set up outside of the work here.
Speaker 3: So they do their full obligation here throughout the course
Speaker 3: of the week, and then there's one two. Some guys
Speaker 3: have three interviews, but that's all done either late at night,
Speaker 3: later in the evening, or possibly on the weekend if
Speaker 3: they have some time.
Speaker 13: Coach people talk about rest firus rush on rushed. You
Speaker 13: played seventeen regular season games and practices July. How much
Speaker 13: RUSS can possibly keep it playing every teens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's it's it's more, it's not really about that.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't.
Speaker 3: I think we're just gonna we're gonna have a great
Speaker 3: week of practice and try to get better.
Speaker 2: In every single area.
Speaker 5: Gets sharper.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 3: One of the things we talked about was you know,
Speaker 3: you know, be your own biggest critic, you know, And
Speaker 3: in terms of being your own biggest critic, and this
Speaker 3: week and trying to improve in every area you can,
Speaker 3: you're also your own biggest advocate. So advocate for yourself
Speaker 3: by being critical of yourself and try to do the
Speaker 3: best you can to become as good as you can
Speaker 3: or better this week in terms of making improvement, and
Speaker 3: then we'll be ready and prepared for what's ahead of us.
Speaker 8: Your first impressions with Dalvin Cook and when you got him,
Speaker 8: you view him as an insurance policy or hey, come
Speaker 8: on and let start competings.
Speaker 3: Let's see, we view him as a very valuable or
Speaker 3: potential potentially very valuable weapon on our offense. So obviously,
Speaker 3: I mean Dalvin Cook is is a high pedigree player,
Speaker 3: highly decorated player, and he's still got talent and ability,
Speaker 3: and he's smart, he's in great shape, he's in football shape,
Speaker 3: he's been playing football. Look very good in practice out
Speaker 3: here today. So I think he's gonna be a you know,
Speaker 3: valuable part of our team in the playoffs.
Speaker 15: Here, do you start to look this week at all
Speaker 15: as potentially who's your postchase.
Speaker 6: Or is that too much coming at you.
Speaker 15: And also on that if you do, is it helpful
Speaker 15: to ones that in you blood where.
Speaker 3: You senor Yeah, yes to both questions. I mean, we
Speaker 3: definitely know that there's the four teams that we could play,
Speaker 3: and we're all looking at them. You know, we're going
Speaker 3: back and look at him the people that we played
Speaker 3: most recently. You know, we have that we've seen more
Speaker 3: on people we haven't played, like Houston, we haven't played
Speaker 3: for a while. We've got to obviously get to work on.
Speaker 3: But that's kind of what the coaches are doing. We're
Speaker 3: we're looking at every single possible team we could play
Speaker 3: and you know, building ideas for those games.
Speaker 2: John.
Speaker 5: On that note, Joe Placco being the Browns.
Speaker 10: This weekend, how do you approach that?
Speaker 12: I mean, are you sort of cheering for the man?
Speaker 16: Are you?
Speaker 17: You know you can separate basic performents from living off
Speaker 17: for the brown How does that work?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, well, I mean I love Joe, you know,
Speaker 3: and we've we've texted back and forth a number of
Speaker 3: times since then. It's been it's been fun. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm really I'm happy for him and for his family.
Speaker 3: I'm excited for him, and you know, It really doesn't
Speaker 3: matter what team, you know, you got someone playing for.
Speaker 2: I always say I never never been.
Speaker 3: My dad was always a coach, So we we never
Speaker 3: really were too much fans of teams. We were, especially
Speaker 3: in football, we were fans of friends and family. You know,
Speaker 3: That's what we root it for. So Joe's a friend
Speaker 3: and family to me, So heck, yeah I root for
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco, But you know, I don't root for the
Speaker 3: you know, any opponent that we're playing. So it doesn't
Speaker 3: really matter this week. We'll play whoever, whoever wins. You know,
Speaker 3: we're taking on all all comers, so to speak. And
Speaker 3: then if it comes to that we're playing Joe or
Speaker 3: and we know a lot of people on other teams too.
Speaker 3: Whoever you're playing, they become the opponent, you know, and
Speaker 3: you're trying to defeat the opponent by any means necessary.
Speaker 8: Michael Pierce, thatid alluded to you're planning to do a
Speaker 8: stadium walk through?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 8: Is that still the plan for Saturday? And I can't
Speaker 8: remember for the was something you did the last time
Speaker 8: you had to buy but kind of what went into maybe.
Speaker 5: Maybe doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna have a practice on Saturday at the
Speaker 3: stadium one o'clock.
Speaker 2: It's just it's a practice.
Speaker 3: It be the normal practice we would do here. We
Speaker 3: just actually kind of sat down and talked about and
Speaker 3: it came up in the conversation, Hey how about we
Speaker 3: take it to the stadium just to keep a rhythm.
Speaker 3: We didn't I don't think we practiced on Saturday last time.
Speaker 3: That was a long time ago, but we didn't really
Speaker 3: practice on Saturday. But we thought that would kind of
Speaker 3: put us in more of a rhythm, you know, in
Speaker 3: terms of the pace of possibly type, you know, as
Speaker 3: if you were playing a game this weekend.
Speaker 10: So some weeks un practice would improve it and take
Speaker 10: us out. Just what's the practice mentality of this movie?
Speaker 10: Because you don't have the Ustaria upomu to the COVID.
Speaker 3: Team, right, the mentality is to is to have the
Speaker 3: to do our best, to have our best practice today
Speaker 3: so that were can be best prepared for when the
Speaker 3: time comes when our best is going to be required,
Speaker 3: which is a week from this weekend. So it's really
Speaker 3: focused on one play and one day at a time.
Speaker 3: This week, stack up some good days and be the
Speaker 3: best football team we can be coming out of these
Speaker 3: four practices going into the preparation that we can.
Speaker 9: It's good to know that the four teams that you
Speaker 9: could potentially play, you played all those teams at some
Speaker 9: point this season.
Speaker 6: Two of them you played twice to this point, right.
Speaker 2: Well, it is helpful.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it just most teams are familiar
Speaker 3: with each other to some degree. You know, like if
Speaker 3: you haven't played somebody, it's a little tougher. But the
Speaker 3: fact that we played all four teams, Uh, everybody knows
Speaker 3: each other.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be about going out there and putting a
Speaker 3: great game. Playing together, of course, but uh, just playing
Speaker 3: your best football.
Speaker 14: Knowing you're gonna be at home for this first game.
Speaker 12: You haven't had that in a while in the postseason.
Speaker 3: That agenda, Well, it's gonna be great. I mean, being
Speaker 3: at home any game is great. We love being at
Speaker 3: home here and uh, I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1: It, say coach John Harball. We also talk with quarterback
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, who is named by the local media here
Speaker 1: in Baltimore as the team's MVP for the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three season.
Speaker 18: Going on, everybody, I'm Luke Jones and just wanted to
Speaker 18: take a brief moment here on behalf of the local
Speaker 18: media and the Baltimore chapter of the PFWA to announce
Speaker 18: the Ravens team MVP for the twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 18: As you might expect, the vote was unanimous. But I know,
Speaker 18: as much as this individual will say he didn't do
Speaker 18: it alone, I think it's pretty clear the Ravens wouldn't
Speaker 18: be in the spot they're in right now as the
Speaker 18: number one seed heading into the postseason without his spectacular
Speaker 18: play over the course of the season. So I have
Speaker 18: a hunch he might get a few more honors over
Speaker 18: the course of the next few weeks. But the twenty
Speaker 18: twenty three Ravens MVP, as voted by the local media
Speaker 18: is Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: I gotcha appreciation of that. Thank you' all, honor.
Speaker 19: I appreciate you all so much, man, I mean a
Speaker 19: lot to us, you know, in the community.
Speaker 2: So I just want to thank.
Speaker 18: Y'all, and I said unanimously, although ask which one of
Speaker 18: us didn't.
Speaker 19: Go for I appreciate that. That's a lot. I mean,
Speaker 19: it means a lot, man, that's love. I appreciate that.
Speaker 16: We'll watch your focus this week.
Speaker 2: Just getting better.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 19: We had a couple of days off, but you know,
Speaker 19: just getting back in the swing of things, just staying loose,
Speaker 19: you know, staying prepared for the game, you know next week,
Speaker 19: that's all, you know, just staying focused on that small things,
Speaker 19: clean up details and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: How you celebrated your birthday, I I just hung out
Speaker 2: with my family, That's all I did, and I enjoyed it. Yeah, yours.
Speaker 8: You've talked about not looking you had, staying zeroed in
Speaker 8: on the moment. Do you think you're better at that
Speaker 8: today than you were when you're twenty two twenty three
Speaker 8: years old?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Just just from experience.
Speaker 19: Though, that that's why I say I'm better at it now,
Speaker 19: you know probably. Uh, when I was twenty two, it
Speaker 19: was like you know what, I'm just go stay locked in.
Speaker 19: But you twenty two years old, you still got so
Speaker 19: much to see, you know, even at twenty seven. But
Speaker 19: just just uh, how how things went before and I'm
Speaker 19: me seeing different things.
Speaker 2: That's what's got me so lazy.
Speaker 4: Lockdown about your impressions of Dalvin Cook now teammate awesome?
Speaker 19: Uh nine five, four, three or five combination going on,
Speaker 19: you know, Miami broad conn of Uh, I'm I'm really excited.
Speaker 19: You know, I was happy about the situation. I was
Speaker 19: tr I reached out to him, uh before the season,
Speaker 19: you know, with the little Jets and you know he
Speaker 19: was signing with Jets or whatever before then. But you know,
Speaker 19: g God rake some mysterious ways and you know he's
Speaker 19: head now. So that's that's dope.
Speaker 12: Has four playoff comes since you have in the day before.
Speaker 6: You started even scouting ahead or is it sort of.
Speaker 8: Like, hey, when things shake out and learning that coming
Speaker 8: just didn't start at the beginning.
Speaker 5: Of that problem. Yeah.
Speaker 19: Absolutely want things, you know, kick off and we we
Speaker 19: f see who gonna play. Then I'll just be locking
Speaker 19: in from now. And I don't wanna just be watching teams,
Speaker 19: watching film on teams and we're not gonna be playing 'em.
Speaker 19: I don't want my mom racing and stuff like that,
Speaker 19: you know, trying to stay locked in on what's going
Speaker 19: on now.
Speaker 11: For more, Michael, after the game, those of us that
Speaker 11: were here in two thousand nineteen, we remember what happened
Speaker 11: at we what what can you learn or what can
Speaker 11: you take away from thinking back to.
Speaker 15: That time.
Speaker 2: We lost You know, we lost that game.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 19: We were so young too, you know, we got Ricky
Speaker 19: receiver a second year first like first full time starting quarterback.
Speaker 19: We had a couple of vets, but running back with
Speaker 19: Jong got gus. You know, we had Mark mart was
Speaker 19: like her, you know, uh uh all pro tight end.
Speaker 19: Mark Andrews was you know, nipped up like we here.
Speaker 19: We had guys that was down, but guys was fighting
Speaker 19: and we was young at the same time.
Speaker 5: We wasn't.
Speaker 19: We was just starting to get into that situational playoff
Speaker 19: atmosphere and stuff like that. But I believe we gonna
Speaker 19: be better now this year, this time around.
Speaker 9: Chored since twenty nineteen as a quarterback, what would you
Speaker 9: say that.
Speaker 6: Maturity has looked like for you? How are you different
Speaker 6: as a quarterback from then?
Speaker 5: Besides just.
Speaker 2: How am I different now?
Speaker 19: Experience, i'm'a say, just just knowing more, you know, just
Speaker 19: from seeing so much in my my six years, just
Speaker 19: seeing a lot. I'll see That's where I've grown grown
Speaker 19: the most.
Speaker 20: With Calvin Cook, how m how much impact you think
Speaker 20: I mean, we'll have two weeks of practice before that
Speaker 20: pre pre geting playoff game.
Speaker 12: How much impact do you think.
Speaker 5: You can make it? Uh?
Speaker 19: Man, ain't no telling, ain't no, TI ain't no telling,
Speaker 19: you know with our offense, Uh, the guys who have
Speaker 19: on offense the officer line we have and him just
Speaker 19: been a dynamic player.
Speaker 9: He is.
Speaker 2: This guy's a limit, you know it. It's no limit
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 19: I I don't know, you know, I believe he gonna
Speaker 19: when he gets his opportunity as numbers called, he gonna
Speaker 19: do what he do, you know, cook up while you're girlfriends.
Speaker 7: The line is is getting you know a lot of
Speaker 7: time to go. Yeah, a number of times just your
Speaker 7: especially when powerful. How important has that been in in
Speaker 7: how has that how would you describe it?
Speaker 6: Just the relationship and.
Speaker 19: That you've had with that you can for that's Uh,
Speaker 19: it's very important for our guys to do their job.
Speaker 2: You know, they sppost to block.
Speaker 19: You know, it's not my job to block, drop back,
Speaker 19: recoveragea and block at the same time, you know. But
Speaker 19: them just giving me a lot of time to uh
Speaker 19: read out concepts and read the defenses and get the
Speaker 19: ball to my guys.
Speaker 2: It's it's tremendous, you know.
Speaker 19: I feel like that's any quarterbacks dream to just sit
Speaker 19: back in the pocket and just let things happen develop
Speaker 19: and just throw strikes. But they I believe they got
Speaker 19: better throughout the season. You know, guy's going down, you know,
Speaker 19: just getting healthy at the right time. It's just blocking
Speaker 19: the tail off. We just need to keep it going.
Speaker 3: Maris Sacro Team and VA first Team All Pro by
Speaker 3: the nfl PA voted by players.
Speaker 5: What does that mean to you?
Speaker 2: That's uh, a lot.
Speaker 5: It means a lot.
Speaker 2: You know, respect from my peers.
Speaker 19: You know, guys who who I'm who's trying to beat
Speaker 19: you know, guys trying to beat us, who who were
Speaker 19: facing you know, weekend week out.
Speaker 2: Uh, it means a lot. It's honor.
Speaker 6: We saw some of your interview with Tom Brady.
Speaker 9: You've been open about, you know, kind of how impressed
Speaker 9: you've been with him and how you look up to him.
Speaker 6: Is there another player.
Speaker 9: That you could think of that kind of gets you
Speaker 9: kind of in that same mode that you get in
Speaker 9: when you talking to Tom Brady.
Speaker 19: MM, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 19: You know, that's a seventh time Super Bowl when the
Speaker 19: quarterback right there. You know, nobody beat that, So you
Speaker 19: know it's like you're gonna be excited talking to Tom Man,
Speaker 19: you know, try to pick his brain or something like that.
Speaker 19: So I'm just always excited to speak to him.
Speaker 16: You know, he said to you on the podcast that
Speaker 16: you know, you're one of the reasons that people like
Speaker 16: watching the NFL, you know, in the way that you play.
Speaker 16: What does it mean to you when you have you know,
Speaker 16: the goat saying to you that, you know, showing his
Speaker 16: respect for you and that he really admires your game.
Speaker 19: Yeah, it was an honor. You know, I taught him mac.
Speaker 19: He was telling me about a clip from high school
Speaker 19: that went viral. I was like, I wasn't expecting him
Speaker 19: to say that, you know, so that that let me
Speaker 19: know you and he's been watching a long time, you know.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's just that's just cool.
Speaker 19: You know, for Brady to you know, feel that way
Speaker 19: about me as a player, that that means a lot.
Speaker 10: There's a record number of black quarterbacks in the playoffs
Speaker 10: this year. I'm wondering he sat encouraging to see and
Speaker 10: to sort of take pride watching a guy maybe like c. J.
Speaker 14: Stroud who is a rookie and made it in his
Speaker 14: first year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great to see.
Speaker 19: You know, life's you know, life just what just different now,
Speaker 19: you know, stuff is evolving, Guys are just being great.
Speaker 19: You know, it's just showing off their true talent. And
Speaker 19: cz Strode tremendous quarterback. I told him when we played
Speaker 19: against him earlier this season, the first game of the season,
Speaker 19: I'm like, bro, you.
Speaker 2: You amazing out there.
Speaker 19: You know, college not even nothing compared to how he
Speaker 19: is right now. You know, just from me watching from Afar,
Speaker 19: he's a great quarterback. And for other quarter black quarterbacks
Speaker 19: to be playing the playoffs, that's tremendous. You know, hopefully
Speaker 19: more guys be included. Uh as years gone, I've.
Speaker 5: Seen you know, this is your most accurate year in
Speaker 5: terms of completion percentage.
Speaker 21: How much of that do you think is attributable to
Speaker 21: the footwork development you bet you've kind of put in
Speaker 21: over the years.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 19: I believe everything you know plays his part, you know,
Speaker 19: just maturity, footwork, studying everything, you know, just trying to
Speaker 19: be a better player, trying to be a great player
Speaker 19: at this at this uh high.
Speaker 2: Level game you know we're playing. We're just trying to
Speaker 2: get better at everything.
Speaker 19: So I believe that's what's helping me out, you know,
Speaker 19: with the accuracy and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Uh, Joe Black or are you Finna Tomates?
Speaker 3: From playing the playoffs or are you really watching like
Speaker 3: games and things to get like them club and watch
Speaker 3: the door.
Speaker 2: Oh don't no, if i'm'a watch the game, but I
Speaker 2: don't watch the film, so.
Speaker 19: Yeah, uh, but you know, it's it's it's great to
Speaker 19: see Joe back playing, you know, back playing, you know,
Speaker 19: cause I always felt he was elite, you know, just
Speaker 19: from my rookie y'ar watching him practice, seeing him throw
Speaker 19: the ball across the field from you know, just flat
Speaker 19: footed and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, this guy, he's all mechanic, you know.
Speaker 19: But you know, if we if we playing, you know,
Speaker 19: just hopefully he'll be you know, just showing off the
Speaker 19: Joe elite then, you know.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it'd be great to play against him though.
Speaker 6: Ama, how's it this week for you?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 19: Are you antsy at all to get to the game
Speaker 19: or you know, but uh, I gotta you know, I
Speaker 19: gotta stay locked in on what's you know, what's ahead.
Speaker 19: And we have nothing to hit right now, you know,
Speaker 19: we just practicing, trying to get better, you know, for
Speaker 19: whoever our opponent is next week.
Speaker 2: But I'm I'm definitely assy though.
Speaker 6: Practicing without an opponent not know him. You know where
Speaker 6: you are now?
Speaker 2: Not if you're.
Speaker 4: Mentioned how we kind of sort of said for them
Speaker 4: this year, how much more like freedom you had at
Speaker 4: the last Gramma, especially.
Speaker 5: In the system.
Speaker 13: I wonder like, how did you approach that?
Speaker 9: And just like in in the bigger picture, how did
Speaker 9: you develop the way you see if the way you
Speaker 9: read a game in word?
Speaker 2: Uh, well, it's start of course.
Speaker 12: Mark.
Speaker 19: You know he already he told me when when he
Speaker 19: first got here. You know, he texted me actually because
Speaker 19: I was down to the Florida he was up here.
Speaker 19: I guess he was telling me, No, know, I'm'm gonna
Speaker 19: get the kids to the offense. You know it's up,
Speaker 19: but you have made certain decisions at the line. If
Speaker 19: you don't like it, you know, put us in a better,
Speaker 19: better situation. But if you mess up, it's gonna be
Speaker 19: on you, you know so. And I'm cool with that,
Speaker 19: you know, cause I'm I'm seeing the field. I'm I'm
Speaker 19: seeing the field and I'm out there on the one,
Speaker 19: you know, gotta make things happen with my teammates and
Speaker 19: I and I can't give you.
Speaker 2: A secret on how I see the game.
Speaker 5: You know that, I just give you that.
Speaker 21: How did you kind of develop the skills to do
Speaker 21: you know, some of the jump passes and sidearn throws
Speaker 21: that the senior make this this year.
Speaker 2: Just delivering the baby, you know. I'm just trying to
Speaker 2: deliver the baby to my guys, you know, that's all.
Speaker 19: That's all I'm trying to do. Just get the ball
Speaker 19: to the to to the playmakers. That's my job.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not tryna.
Speaker 19: I can't run a hand it to him, you know,
Speaker 19: so I gotta try my best to you know, my
Speaker 19: ability to get the ball to those guys and let
Speaker 19: them do the rest, you know, just like you know,
Speaker 19: probably weak to.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins game.
Speaker 19: I gotta get the ball to those guys and we see,
Speaker 19: we all seeing what they can do with the ball
Speaker 19: in their hands. So I just gotta do my job
Speaker 19: to keep trying to distribute the ball.
Speaker 12: At this point, six years into your career.
Speaker 14: You you talked to OBJ before he signed, You talked
Speaker 14: to Dalvin Cook. Yeah, how important is that role for
Speaker 14: you at this point in your career to be able
Speaker 14: to recruit guys?
Speaker 12: And what is your pitch?
Speaker 5: Are you a good Yeah?
Speaker 14: Obviously a pretty good recruit.
Speaker 19: I don't know because they all right, ob he got Harry,
Speaker 19: you know, he signed right away, but Dow went to
Speaker 19: the Jets first. We ended up getting late in the season,
Speaker 19: so I don't really know how my recruiting game is.
Speaker 19: Gotta talk to it, gotta talk.
Speaker 5: To the.
Speaker 1: Local media also votes on the Media Good Guy Award. Now,
Speaker 1: this award goes to a player who goes above and
Speaker 1: beyond and his media obligations, provides great quotes and is
Speaker 1: always available to the local press. And the voters voted
Speaker 1: for Kyle Hamilton to win that award this year. He
Speaker 1: talked about the significance of that and also his mindset
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs.
Speaker 18: This vote was way closer, but the Media Good Guy
Speaker 18: goes to a Ravens player who has gone above and
Speaker 18: beyond normal media obligations to make himself available all for
Speaker 18: insight that we can then as media members pass along
Speaker 18: to fans.
Speaker 12: It was a very close vote.
Speaker 18: There are a number of players who received votes, which
Speaker 18: is a reflection of the locker room, but this individual
Speaker 18: really stood out. It's not always easy to talk to
Speaker 18: media after a loss of things don't go well during
Speaker 18: the game, whatever it is, but he made himself available
Speaker 18: and we very much.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it.
Speaker 18: The twenty twenty three Ravens Media good guy is Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 21: Thank you, appreciate it, Thank you, Hey, you guys, I
Speaker 21: appreciate that. It was a surprise to me. I really
Speaker 21: respect everything that you guys do on daily break basis.
Speaker 21: It's a grind and people around the world are relying
Speaker 21: on your information. So you guys have the job to
Speaker 21: do just like I do. And appreciate you guys.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Yeah, think about the what all pro?
Speaker 21: It was a it was cool to see for sure.
Speaker 21: It's something I've dreamed of since I can remember what
Speaker 21: all being all pro is and you know it's it's
Speaker 21: it's a dream until it happens. And it's pretty cool
Speaker 21: to be voted on by my peers, which is my opinion,
Speaker 21: the most important opinion, and just to be voted by
Speaker 21: guys who I've looked up to still look up to
Speaker 21: to this day, and be honored in a group of
Speaker 21: people who are the best around the league. It's a
Speaker 21: it's an honor.
Speaker 8: How do you feel you feel like you're all the
Speaker 8: way back now and you wise are still working toward that.
Speaker 21: Yeah, I mean I was out there today pretty much
Speaker 21: full participant, so it was got through, it did well.
Speaker 9: Feeling good you approaching these weekend of games or I
Speaker 9: don't know how regularly you get to.
Speaker 6: Watch these football games in general because you're out there.
Speaker 9: But how are you going to watch these games if
Speaker 9: you do at all understand that you can play one
Speaker 9: of these potential for teams?
Speaker 21: Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna go out of my
Speaker 21: way to watch the games because I'm sure we'll be
Speaker 21: watching plenty of them next week. But whoever we end
Speaker 21: up playing, I mean, it's out of the field. It's
Speaker 21: I feel like we played a lot of the people
Speaker 21: still in the playoffs right now, and you know, it's
Speaker 21: a at the end of the day, nameless faces opponents.
Speaker 21: We're going to approach every game like we do in
Speaker 21: the past and how every opponent we approach, so it
Speaker 21: doesn't really matter who we play. In my opinion, I
Speaker 21: think we're just going to prepare for them same way.
Speaker 16: God, how do you feel like the veteran players like Lamar,
Speaker 16: you know, other vets on the team who have been
Speaker 16: in this situation before, how are they kind of setting
Speaker 16: the tone about how to approach the playoffs with the
Speaker 16: bye week?
Speaker 14: You know, just how to go about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we've done this.
Speaker 21: We've done such a good job of credit to the vets,
Speaker 21: like you said, of creating somewhat of a playoff atmosphere
Speaker 21: every week throughout the year, and I feel like it's
Speaker 21: been somewhat of a seamless transition the past week and
Speaker 21: not even the past weeks past a couple of days
Speaker 21: getting to the actual playoffs. And it's a blessing to
Speaker 21: have this bye week and allow us to be where
Speaker 21: our feet are and just get our minds right for
Speaker 21: the road ahead. But like you said, lamar rokwand everybody
Speaker 21: who's the leader on this team has done a good
Speaker 21: job of just intensity ramps up a little more. And
Speaker 21: it's winter go home at this point, and I know
Speaker 21: we all don't want to go home right now. We
Speaker 21: know we have a championship to win.
Speaker 9: Is a guy that wasn't on that twenty nineteen team
Speaker 9: do you feel like a lot of that talk of
Speaker 9: what happened that year is kind of like overblown because
Speaker 9: you guys are different to You've been a guy that
Speaker 9: is here now that wasn't there. Now, how do you
Speaker 9: feel about the talk of comparing the.
Speaker 21: Two years yeah, I mean, it's I can't blame people
Speaker 21: for talking about it. I wasn't here, so I don't
Speaker 21: know too much of what happened. But I mean, we
Speaker 21: were first in the AFC and loss, and that's why
Speaker 21: all people have to go off right now, besides the
Speaker 21: ray Lewis every day, so we got to prove ourselves
Speaker 21: in the moment that we're capable of going on the championship.
Speaker 20: What's it likely to see Dalvin Cook? I'm sure it's
Speaker 20: a guy that you've watched throughout your career. What's like
Speaker 20: seeing him in practice?
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 21: I mean, it's it never gets old seeing guys who
Speaker 21: I've looked up to, like j Davin Clowney, you know,
Speaker 21: he's a real cool guy, and being able to chop
Speaker 21: it up with him, Kyle van Noyd, like Odell I mean,
Speaker 21: and then Dalvin Cook. I mean, I've been watching them
Speaker 21: dominate since for the State and h It's cool to
Speaker 21: be on a team where we have a bunch of
Speaker 21: guys like that who have made their name for themselves
Speaker 21: around the league, and I can take bits and pieces
Speaker 21: from them.
Speaker 1: In the locker room. Today, we also heard from several players,
Speaker 1: including defensive lineman Justin Mattabek.
Speaker 15: Are you m gonna be included into every single game
Speaker 15: to see the possibility for yourself?
Speaker 22: Are you just gonna love it?
Speaker 23: Come to always want to come to me? You know,
Speaker 23: the games are gonna be everywhere. You know, everybody's gonna
Speaker 23: be excited for the ball card games and stuff like that.
Speaker 23: But I'm just gonna I'm gonna let it come to
Speaker 23: be and just enjoy football. Take uh, carry my body
Speaker 23: and just you know, just do my thing on the weekend.
Speaker 15: So is it helpful that of the four teams that
Speaker 15: you could see obviously not gonna see two or three
Speaker 15: just the way it works that you've played them before,
Speaker 15: you're familiar, especially within your own division. Is that at
Speaker 15: all helpful or do you think it's just truly kind
Speaker 15: of new one game season and can can happen.
Speaker 23: It's helpful because we played that team before, so we
Speaker 23: can see things that we've done well in and we
Speaker 23: can keep adding on to those things and then things
Speaker 23: we didn't do well uh as well on so we
Speaker 23: could just go clean up those things in practice. So
Speaker 23: you know, we've seen him in practice already and in
Speaker 23: the game, so you know, going on the iPad and
Speaker 23: just find things out to get better at and we're
Speaker 23: going to execute out the game.
Speaker 15: So we are locked in focused so much around this team.
Speaker 15: John Harball's even talking about just the tunnel vision and
Speaker 15: how good you guys are at that that can't be taught.
Speaker 15: So where does that kind of come from? Just the
Speaker 15: philosophy of this team and what you've been able to
Speaker 15: do so far and what you want to do still.
Speaker 22: Uh.
Speaker 23: I think it's just a good mix with uh young
Speaker 23: players and like vets and stuff that've been there and
Speaker 23: done that. Colvin or a guy who's been in the
Speaker 23: UH the dance three times and one two of them.
Speaker 23: T Rober is a guy that's very just young and
Speaker 23: hungry to r and ready to learn. We have guys
Speaker 23: in the mid like.
Speaker 5: Peek, you and I.
Speaker 23: You know, we everybody just loves each other.
Speaker 5: Everybody is here for.
Speaker 23: That one goal and UH, everybody just locked in on
Speaker 23: the same page, taking one day at a time and
Speaker 23: joining each other while we're still here. Cause it's a
Speaker 23: blessing to be in the playoffs. So now we have
Speaker 23: to take one day at a time and execute and
Speaker 23: just take it just one game at a time.
Speaker 19: As well, thanks, Justine.
Speaker 23: Yeah, it was line Justine.
Speaker 24: It seems like you really feel like, you know, the
Speaker 24: opportunities there for the CEA A special group.
Speaker 16: What is it that that kind of gives you that feeling?
Speaker 23: Uh, just the guys that we have, Uh, you know,
Speaker 23: obviously starting with Lamar, you know what I'm saying, how
Speaker 23: the offense has just been playing well, lights out us
Speaker 23: on defense r uh, starting with Uh, Roquan Kyle's playing
Speaker 23: is his tail off. Everybody's just playing at a high level.
Speaker 23: But we just got to take one day at time.
Speaker 23: Everybody take care of their body. Everybody just enjoy this
Speaker 23: time while we have it together in the bye week
Speaker 23: and get and get ready for next week.
Speaker 24: Listen, what did you what was practiced like today?
Speaker 1: Obviously you're not game planning for a p opponent, but
Speaker 1: what was practice like today?
Speaker 22: Uh?
Speaker 23: It was just uh a look of things that we've
Speaker 23: already seen on the defensive side. I can always speak
Speaker 23: for at least, you know, like a whole lot like
Speaker 23: trap schemes, uh, stuff that we've seen versus Steelers even
Speaker 23: Miami as well. Uh, running to the ball and stuff
Speaker 23: like that. A getting our conditioning up. So those are
Speaker 23: things that we really saw today practice.
Speaker 16: How beneficially do you think this time is for this team?
Speaker 5: I think it's huge.
Speaker 23: I think it's huge special guys who are banged up
Speaker 23: a little bit. Uh, they can get their feet under him,
Speaker 23: make sure they're taking care of their body. It's good
Speaker 23: for us as well, just uh cleaning things up. Uh,
Speaker 23: not having the stress of like worrying about opponent of
Speaker 23: the weekend instead of just take care of your body
Speaker 23: and just cleaning things up that we know that we
Speaker 23: could be better at.
Speaker 5: Justin, does it feels strange old to keep a body
Speaker 5: in January? Or is it just welcome? Just just nice
Speaker 5: to have a few days office. I'll say more on
Speaker 5: the welcome side, just nice to have.
Speaker 23: You know, Uh, guys were banged up, so it's another
Speaker 23: great opportunity for them to get better. Just taking a
Speaker 23: one day at a time and just seeing how your
Speaker 23: body feels. Because next week we're we're gonna have some
Speaker 23: other that play and that's when you know everybody's gonna
Speaker 23: get more locked in. But this week is more relaxed
Speaker 23: and just where we're just basically just letting it come to.
Speaker 1: That was defensive lineman Justin Mattabiue Next up is linebacker
Speaker 1: Patrick Queen.
Speaker 2: How do you what's your approach?
Speaker 22: Just come out of practice, get better. Shopping you fundamental,
Speaker 22: shopping your tools, keep your mind sharp, keep you one up,
Speaker 22: just you know, staying bann.
Speaker 2: I know physically, it's just it's been a long, long year.
Speaker 1: How do you feel right now?
Speaker 2: And how you know, having a couple of days off
Speaker 2: and then you know where are you?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 22: Just at the point everybody else is around the league
Speaker 22: right now we all think all hurt, but uh, I didn't,
Speaker 22: didn't nobody care. So you know I'm doing my best,
Speaker 22: thinking my body back to a hundred percent. Uh to
Speaker 22: be ready for the first game.
Speaker 16: Do you find the wait the unknown difficult?
Speaker 5: Not at all.
Speaker 22: I think at the end of the day, whoever come
Speaker 22: out in the field, they gonna get every piece of me.
Speaker 22: I'm gonna be out there ten toes down, Uh, ready
Speaker 22: to go, Ready to go to war. So uh, whenever
Speaker 22: whoever the opponent may be, Uh, I'll be ready.
Speaker 2: Can you watch this weekend or were you just like
Speaker 2: I al wait til film next week?
Speaker 22: Yeah, I'm a choice to watch this weekend, So uh,
Speaker 22: I'll be sitting there single place. Those two teams are
Speaker 22: running and tryna figure out how how we can stop it?
Speaker 5: H what was it?
Speaker 24: What was the focus in practice this week? Obviously you're
Speaker 24: not game plans, so what was the pro folks out
Speaker 24: of practice?
Speaker 22: Out fundamentals? Uh, getting back uh to what made us us.
Speaker 22: You know, few things been happening at the end of
Speaker 22: the season that we don't like, so uh, we were
Speaker 22: just cleaning up everything that we needed to clean up,
Speaker 22: uh fundamentally. Uh So that way, the end of the
Speaker 22: season is ready to come down to the fundamental. Can
Speaker 22: you still tackle? Can you still get all blocks? Can
Speaker 22: you still do the small things?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 4: Trick, is there really kind of a sense of pride
Speaker 4: like this week, like you guys earned this week off,
Speaker 4: Like you guys earned the rest of it.
Speaker 2: Do you kind of take advantage of it that way?
Speaker 6: Just say, you know, when you k hit the field
Speaker 6: this week, Hey we earned this.
Speaker 22: Yeah, define, you definitely earned it. But uh, I was
Speaker 22: just talking to somebody earlier about it, like what's the
Speaker 22: point of you earning?
Speaker 5: Their view? Let it go to waste?
Speaker 22: So uh, that's that's the biggest thing is while we
Speaker 22: stay in sharp right now, is just uh staying out
Speaker 22: on the top of our game. That way, we don't
Speaker 22: go in next week being slove is being uh rusted
Speaker 22: or whatever uh people might say about that twenty nineteen run.
Speaker 22: Uh So, Uh we doing our best to be fuldamention
Speaker 22: short fundament and sound and everything is to come in
Speaker 22: and swinging so.
Speaker 8: They can hearing him at twenty nineteen what part of
Speaker 8: that team or uh defense first defense to leave the
Speaker 8: league and us points most takeaways.
Speaker 5: Both sucks and it's a lot honestly.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 22: It just shows a lot of hard working dedication that
Speaker 22: went into all the sacrifices that everybody made and every
Speaker 22: and it.
Speaker 5: Shows that every play counts.
Speaker 23: Uh.
Speaker 22: So, you know, hats off to every single guy in
Speaker 22: our room. Hands up to the guys on the offense
Speaker 22: at the ball for uh being able to put us
Speaker 22: in a position that we was getting better in.
Speaker 5: So you know, just team metform thirteen.
Speaker 14: Sorry, the old adage is defense wins championships.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 24: Along the lines to James's question, do you feel like
Speaker 24: as you go into the this playoffs that you guys
Speaker 24: feel that that burden at that responsibility is that.
Speaker 22: Because the group definitely, uh cause if you look at
Speaker 22: the games lately, it's been all uh, last few minutes
Speaker 22: again scores on people and stuff. So definitely in that situation,
Speaker 22: your defense got it back against the wall. They gotta
Speaker 22: get a stop. So you can't put down the offense.
Speaker 22: You can't put down nobody but yourself that you're on
Speaker 22: the field.
Speaker 5: Uh. You had the opportunities to make those stops, so
Speaker 5: usually got madeo stops.
Speaker 10: Patrick, you made you made reference and passes to two
Speaker 10: thousand nineteen.
Speaker 5: You got here right after that.
Speaker 2: And obviously there are on a ton of.
Speaker 6: Guys left, but there are plenty of How much does
Speaker 6: that come up over.
Speaker 18: The last few years, not so much dwelling on it,
Speaker 18: but maybe using that as a learning experience and and
Speaker 18: and is that coming up now among the guys that.
Speaker 1: We're here four years ago?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 22: I h I haven't heard it since it happened that
Speaker 22: time and then now. So we honestly don't even care,
Speaker 22: honestly about it. Honestly, it's the last thing we thinking about.
Speaker 22: We don't care about the rest. We won't be sharp
Speaker 22: this and that you got a rest. We are in
Speaker 22: the press for reason. But at the same time we
Speaker 22: understand that we still wanna get fund them in this time.
Speaker 22: We still know their staying there, we could co recton
Speaker 22: get better at so the whole focus is just us
Speaker 22: getting better honestly, gess.
Speaker 14: And what is the mentality when you close the door
Speaker 14: on the regular season, that's the playoff.
Speaker 4: Season when you were more intense.
Speaker 5: Does it feel different? Most definitely.
Speaker 22: Uh.
Speaker 5: I'd be lying if I said it didn't. Uh.
Speaker 22: It's it's a lot at stake, so you only get
Speaker 22: one shot. Uh So, that's the biggest thing is that
Speaker 22: each play matter, each yard matter, each praying of each
Speaker 22: lay the grass matter. So usually gotta come out for
Speaker 22: full swinging, full till and just be on top of everything.
Speaker 24: Can you take anything from your experience in winning a
Speaker 24: national championship?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 24: Uh? In terms of what it takes to to.
Speaker 22: Win a championship, Uh, I think the biggest, biggest thing
Speaker 22: is just having your teammates back. Uh. So could go
Speaker 22: southways quick and uh you know, they could be point fingers,
Speaker 22: or it could be uh coaches not seeing out our
Speaker 22: own thing or players not seeing out their own thing,
Speaker 22: or whatever it may be. But by the end of
Speaker 22: the day, as long as everybody stay together, everybody just
Speaker 22: stay in the moment and stay true to ourselves. Just
Speaker 22: rely on what got us there in the first place.
Speaker 22: I think we all be fine.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Patrick Queen. And last but not least,
Speaker 1: we also heard from fellow Linebackerquan Smith.
Speaker 12: Quand voted for All Pro by the players that f
Speaker 12: p A.
Speaker 17: What does that mean to It's a tremendous honor to
Speaker 17: be acknowledged amongst your peers as one of the best
Speaker 17: in the game. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 17: it don't matter as much. It's a matter about what
Speaker 17: we do as a team. And I'm just I got
Speaker 17: a lot of really good teammates around me that make
Speaker 17: me look a lot better than I am. So just
Speaker 17: grateful for these guys at the end of the day.
Speaker 17: But love the game, man, And it's not really why
Speaker 17: I'm playing the game. I'm really chasing that big thing,
Speaker 17: and that's that's what it's all about at this point.
Speaker 17: All the personal accolades that stuff come and go.
Speaker 6: What's your mentality and approach for this week?
Speaker 17: Take the take advantage of this week, Get everything you
Speaker 17: can out of this week. Hone in on the fundamentals,
Speaker 17: make sure your cardio is good, and just make sure
Speaker 17: keep mind yourself, be ready to rock and roll next
Speaker 17: week whatevery day that is.
Speaker 6: Are you anxious and large that he was kind of antsy?
Speaker 17: Nah, I'm not anxious. I'm always about preparation. So I'm
Speaker 17: just preparing, preparing, preparing, and when my opportunity come, just
Speaker 17: like anything else in life, i'm'a be there to.
Speaker 12: Take it full and take off with it.
Speaker 24: Well, you're a focusing uh a practice, you know, you're
Speaker 24: not game planning for somebody.
Speaker 5: So what was practiced like today?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 17: Fundamentals and then just doing what we do playing football.
Speaker 17: Cause at the end of the day's football. That's all
Speaker 17: you can practice. And uh, let's run a pass and
Speaker 17: you know, just working on plays and just working on ourselves.
Speaker 17: And I think that that was huge and that uh
Speaker 17: goes a long way.
Speaker 5: Bro.
Speaker 14: You're always intense. Is there another level of intensity when
Speaker 14: it's playoff football?
Speaker 5: Wait and see?
Speaker 9: What does it mean to you with this defense to
Speaker 9: be given kind of the eyeste on you can get
Speaker 9: triple crown?
Speaker 2: What is you guys right now?
Speaker 6: First defense to do that? As many great defenses this
Speaker 6: franchise and seen you guys being the first to do that.
Speaker 12: Yeah, No, that's big time. Uh, to be acknowledged in
Speaker 12: that way.
Speaker 17: But at the end of the day, that was in
Speaker 17: the regular season and our plans have shifted to the postseason.
Speaker 12: So that's great.
Speaker 17: You know, we did this and we did that, but
Speaker 17: none of that matters in this season of ball because
Speaker 17: what matters is getting that dubbed one week at a time,
Speaker 17: and we know what we're chasing, So that's our biggest thing,
Speaker 17: and it's gonna start one week at a time.
Speaker 12: What's it like to face.
Speaker 5: All your arms rounds?
Speaker 12: Are you going back just waiting until to see who
Speaker 12: that is?
Speaker 22: Uh?
Speaker 17: You have to just wait and see who that opponent is.
Speaker 17: And you obviously know who's gonna be. What one of
Speaker 17: four teams, I'm not quite sure. Uh, So it's gonna
Speaker 17: be something like that. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 17: the playoffs teams are a bit different. They like, you know,
Speaker 17: everybody's gonna give you everything they got because it's win
Speaker 17: or go home. It's your life of their life, and
Speaker 17: most cats are gonna choose their own. So when you
Speaker 17: look at it from that perspective, it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 17: be intense regardless of who the battle is against.
Speaker 12: But just know we'll be ready, locked and loaded.
Speaker 24: How much of a empisides do you put on kind
Speaker 24: of set the tone for this team and for having
Speaker 24: the right mindset going into the playoffs.
Speaker 5: It means a lot.
Speaker 17: It's about uh starting fast and I know, uh a
Speaker 17: couple of games, uh these a couple of games in
Speaker 17: the past, these past, but that's the regular season didn't.
Speaker 12: Start quite the way we wanted to.
Speaker 17: So it's just about emphasizing that throughout practice, throughout this
Speaker 17: week as well into uh into next week, and just knowing, hey,
Speaker 17: you know, we have to start fast. We start fast,
Speaker 17: attention to detail. You know, on our crap play in
Speaker 17: and play out, no one can touch us. But when
Speaker 17: we get complacent in things, not doing things to our standard,
Speaker 17: that's when you know slips are coming the crack. But
Speaker 17: we just know that and we just have to attack
Speaker 17: each and every detail. And I feel as if we
Speaker 17: do that, everything else will take care of yourself.
Speaker 14: Hamilton, that's her name, don't bro you lock her next
Speaker 14: to him? You've seen him grow up? What if you
Speaker 14: what has been your uh, how would you describe.
Speaker 5: This grow up? Right?
Speaker 14: Yes, in the time you've been knowing him and seen
Speaker 14: him philosopher.
Speaker 17: Yeah, honestly, man, Uh I t I. I joke with
Speaker 17: him sometimes. Funny story. I don't know if I've ever
Speaker 17: said it, but uh, I used to tell him I
Speaker 17: was questionable about him, uh when I first got here.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 12: And what now, I don't know if he ever said that.
Speaker 17: It wasn't wasn't really sure, you know, not there Dame
Speaker 17: guy would no disrespect anything like that. He from Georgia
Speaker 17: though in a sense, and like, you know, but this
Speaker 17: year man, like day in and day out, like I
Speaker 17: seen him doing a lot of really good things and
Speaker 17: a lot of part of OTA's when he gotten as
Speaker 17: well as in camp, and I'm like, hey man, this
Speaker 17: guy's so versatile, can do so many things, and like
Speaker 17: he's just proving it to the league, like I've seen
Speaker 17: it all throughout camp. So I think the guy seiling
Speaker 17: is still so high and he's he's just scratching the
Speaker 17: surface of what he truly can be. And I'm grateful
Speaker 17: that he's on our defense and like can create so
Speaker 17: many different pictures when he's.
Speaker 12: Out a nickel giving me edges like the best.
Speaker 17: I think he's the best perimeter ed setter in the
Speaker 17: league far as DB's and things that our nature and
Speaker 17: the guy come through in the alley and he'll serve
Speaker 17: you up a cold dish as well if you come
Speaker 17: through slipping. So he's got he's definitely got some of
Speaker 17: my mentality in him. So I gotta you know, he's
Speaker 17: getting out of his shell more and more. So I'm
Speaker 17: just excited for him, and I think there's just so
Speaker 17: much great things in store for him.
Speaker 4: Real you certainly know about Dalvin Cooke.
Speaker 6: What do you think about the Ravens all like that?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 17: I think you know, obviously, he's a tremendous player. I've
Speaker 17: done a lot of eight things in this league, Pro Bowls, multiple,
Speaker 17: multiple a thousand yard seasons. So when you have a
Speaker 17: back like that going against theim twice a year up
Speaker 17: in Minnesota when I was in Chicago, you have a
Speaker 17: great deal of respect for the way the god plays
Speaker 17: the game. So I'm glad that he's here. I think
Speaker 17: he's definitely gonna be able to help us in whatever
Speaker 17: capacity that is. I'll leave that up to the coaches,
Speaker 17: but I'm grateful that he's here, and I think it's
Speaker 17: gonna be a great asset for our team.
Speaker 6: What a moment? Is there a moment this season where
Speaker 6: you thought like we really.
Speaker 12: Got this like, we can take this on the way
Speaker 12: I thought.
Speaker 17: I think that every time I line it up, every
Speaker 17: time I scrap it up, I tell the guys I
Speaker 17: have the utmost respect, upmost faith in everything that we do,
Speaker 17: and if we play to our best of our ability
Speaker 17: to look ourselves in the mirror day in and day out,
Speaker 17: everything we want will be right there in front of us.
Speaker 17: But it just starts with one game at a time.
Speaker 17: And we know the type of potential that we have
Speaker 17: on this team, but it's about showing that play in
Speaker 17: and play out and game in and game out, and
Speaker 17: if you do that, everything else will take care of yourself.
Speaker 24: With the type of guys we have here, mind, you
Speaker 24: said at the start of the season that you're incredibly
Speaker 24: confident in this group.
Speaker 1: We want all the smoke. You gotta set that tone
Speaker 1: coming into the year. How has this team embraced that attitude?
Speaker 17: Embrace it every single day the way we go out
Speaker 17: to work far as practice and as well when we
Speaker 17: go out to games. We want Catt to know, Hey,
Speaker 17: you just played the twenty twenty three Baltimore Ravens, and
Speaker 17: those guys will you know, knock you off, you know
Speaker 17: or whatever the case may be, you can fill that
Speaker 17: in wherever you feel fit. But that's that's kind of
Speaker 17: the mentality we want. And just a bunch of hungry dogs,
Speaker 17: Like if you've ever been on a safari, ever been
Speaker 17: in the wild and just seeing cast that's trying to
Speaker 17: survive and like trying to make their next meal, and like,
Speaker 17: I feel like we have that mentality and we know
Speaker 17: if one get a kill, we all gonna share it
Speaker 17: at the end of the day.
Speaker 12: And when you have that mentality, man, it's like it's
Speaker 12: pretty sweet.
Speaker 17: And when there's guys that's so selfless, don't care who
Speaker 17: gets the recognition, that's the best type of team you want.
Speaker 17: I know many guys or died to be in a
Speaker 17: position that we're in far as like a type of
Speaker 17: team because there's so many just like genuine good dudes.
Speaker 17: But when you get on that field, cats that want
Speaker 17: to rip your face off and maybe cut your hair too.
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