WEBVTT - John Harbaugh & Players: Ravens Practice 1/10 Press Conferences 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.320 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Wednesday, 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 January tenth. It's playoff mode here in Baltimore, but the 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:11.879 Ravens are playing the waiting game right now. They won't 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.960 find out their Divisional Round opponent until the weekends, So 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:16.880 right now the team is going through a normal week 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.160 of practice, practicing on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, focusing 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:24.280 on themselves and the fundamentals before learning their opponent and 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.200 getting ready to play that game in the Divisional round. 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.120 Today we had a chance to hear from head coach 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:30.000 John Harbaugh. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.880 Okay, good to see everybody here. Appreciate you coming out. 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.520 It's a great day for football, weddingry plus three frigid 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.519 conditions out there, and we had a really good practice. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.360 Appreciate the guy's energy, the effort, very focused practice and 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:47.640 that's what we were looking for today and that's what 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.600 we'll be looking for the rest of this week through Saturday. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:55.520 So we're off and running and we're going to work well. Questions, Jeh, 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.040 how did you enjoy your Monday night? 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:58.240 I enjoyed it. 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.200 I enjoyed it. Yeah, I especially enjoyed it when they 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.000 hit those and when they got the scrambled play JJ 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.039 got to scrambled play out and hit Colston on the 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:08.959 crossing route. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:10.080 Then they scored. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.039 I was really happy about that, but I was really 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.520 just proud of Jim. I think you know, that team, 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.480 their faith, the connection they have with one another. 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:19.800 They truly are a family. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.960 I think Jim talked about his football family and his 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.800 family at home. Those two things are something we talk 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.760 about here. Being one hundred percent committed to both of 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:32.040 those two things will take you far. And that team 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:37.560 is kind of epitomizes that. So congratulations to Michigan. Congratulations 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:38.840 with my brother John. 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.160 You don't get to like kind of take in a 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.880 game of that magnitude like that as a fan too often. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:46.959 I don't know when the last time was, but like, 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.240 how different was that experience? 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:49.440 Now? 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:50.160 Fun was it for you? 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:51.320 It was different and fun? 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.320 I mean I tell you it was really taken with 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.800 the crowd. I mean, you know, it was on the 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.280 sideline for a little while, gad you have a little 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.600 hugged there, then got up into the stands, was with 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.680 our family and the stadium was just rock and it 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.040 was stuffed with people, you know, half and half and 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.920 really so when Michigan's defense was on the field, their 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:12.800 fans were just screaming at the top of their lungs. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:13.400 It was deafening. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.000 Then when Washington's defense was on the field, their fans 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:17.560 were screaming at the top of their lungs and it 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.960 was deafening. So it was definiting the whole time. There 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.280 was no break, you know, and they were they were 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.400 you know, half a stadium was as loud as really 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.720 any stadium I've been in. It was enclosed, the bands, 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.480 the students, you know, the whole college thing was was 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.320 really electric. It was really powerful. 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.280 Watch that game. Do you watch it as a fan 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.680 or does any other them that do you watch as. 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.840 A I mean I watch it as as a fan mostly, 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:41.640 you know, I can I know what coverages are in, 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.120 I know it fronts are and I can. I'm looking 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:44.799 at that a little bit, you know, and with with 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.720 some some interest, but more than that, you know, I'm 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.919 probably you know, just a little nervous, you know, and hoping. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.280 For good outcomes, you know, as a fan. It just 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:53.840 like a fan with. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.000 Topped him on the sideline. It looked like he was 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:58.840 really locked in and maybe didn't know what was going on. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:02:59.320 With whatever. 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.560 I think, Yeah, I think, well, it's funny because I've 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.160 been asked that, you know, and I forget what we 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.080 talked about, to be honest with you, but but he 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:09.040 did kind of he kind of looked up and he went, oh, John, Hey, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:10.480 they might have said you made it. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.640 You know. Uh so, but it was just great. It 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.119 was well. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.800 What happened was I'd been down there for about five 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.919 or ten minutes of the game and they were going, 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.240 he was working, and then the ball came that way 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:23.400 and there was a time out, and he was just 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.040 like ten feet away from me, you know. So I'm like, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.520 that's my opportunity, you know, so I rushed it at 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.000 that point when you see. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.919 Your brother hoisting up the trophy and you see the 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.519 confetti down and your parents on the field, and you 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.720 start to kind of envision maybe yourself maybe being there 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.240 in that same type of spot a couple of weeks. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.880 Of course, like like like any brother or sibling, you know, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.280 you you know, your brother gets something you wanted to write, 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.600 you know, uh and I you do though, I think 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.000 just from a and Eric had mentioned that too afterwards 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.440 when we were walking off the field. You're down there, 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.800 you see the team, hugging give you become a part 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:59.720 of the celebration and the confetti and the jubilation and 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.840 the years, and he just kind of sinks in and 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.320 it's like, man, you know, I really want to experience 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.480 this for our team. I want our team to experience this, 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.640 you know. And that's that's the big picture. That's the 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.320 ultimate goal for the season. And then with that back 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.239 to one day at a time, when play at a time. 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.560 Get a tattoo to on our team or at season. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.280 You know, I kind of like I told my wife 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.240 and daughter, they get first DIBs on the tattoos, probably choices, 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:36.800 but a Super Bowl championship would be pretty tempting this team. 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.200 Just as soon as the season ended, You've had at 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:44.000 least three assistants had had this permission requested from other teams. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.160 Uh, what can you say about that? 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.359 And how do you balanced that. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.479 Versus what you're also working on now? Right? 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.159 Well, yeah, that's I say. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:53.640 It's great. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.840 I say I'm really proud of our guys. I think 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.440 I've said many times I think we have the best 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:02.800 coaching staff in the world U And I love our coaches. 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:04.760 I love the jobs they do. I think we have 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.719 a bunch of coaches. They are gonna be coordinators and 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.720 they're gonna be head coaches. On the staff are gonna 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.880 be very successful. Uh for a long time. It's just 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.360 a great staff. So I think any opportunities that they get, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.039 you know, I support and I'm excited for them to 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.880 have those opportunities. It really doesn't there's really no balance 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.159 with it at all, though, because everything they do with 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.080 the interview is set up outside of the work here. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.039 So they do their full obligation here throughout the course 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.800 of the week, and then there's one two. Some guys 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.360 have three interviews, but that's all done either late at night, 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.920 later in the evening, or possibly on the weekend if 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:38.480 they have some time. 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:44.039 Coach people talk about rest firus rush on rushed. You 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.120 played seventeen regular season games and practices July. How much 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.479 RUSS can possibly keep it playing every teens. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.080 Yeah, Yeah, it's it's it's more, it's not really about that. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:53.839 I don't think. I don't. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.680 I think we're just gonna we're gonna have a great 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.560 week of practice and try to get better. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:58.120 In every single area. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:58.760 Gets sharper. 0:05:59.400 --> 0:05:59.479 Uh. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:01.920 One of the things we talked about was you know, 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.039 you know, be your own biggest critic, you know, And 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:07.960 in terms of being your own biggest critic, and this 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.120 week and trying to improve in every area you can, 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.440 you're also your own biggest advocate. So advocate for yourself 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.440 by being critical of yourself and try to do the 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.800 best you can to become as good as you can 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.120 or better this week in terms of making improvement, and 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.400 then we'll be ready and prepared for what's ahead of us. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:29.320 Your first impressions with Dalvin Cook and when you got him, 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.880 you view him as an insurance policy or hey, come 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.120 on and let start competings. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.400 Let's see, we view him as a very valuable or 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:44.000 potential potentially very valuable weapon on our offense. So obviously, 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.760 I mean Dalvin Cook is is a high pedigree player, 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.360 highly decorated player, and he's still got talent and ability, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.400 and he's smart, he's in great shape, he's in football shape, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.240 he's been playing football. Look very good in practice out 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.080 here today. So I think he's gonna be a you know, 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.719 valuable part of our team in the playoffs. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.920 Here, do you start to look this week at all 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.600 as potentially who's your postchase. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.720 Or is that too much coming at you. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.000 And also on that if you do, is it helpful 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:14.400 to ones that in you blood where. 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.080 You senor Yeah, yes to both questions. I mean, we 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.320 definitely know that there's the four teams that we could play, 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.280 and we're all looking at them. You know, we're going 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:22.960 back and look at him the people that we played 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:24.960 most recently. You know, we have that we've seen more 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.000 on people we haven't played, like Houston, we haven't played 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.840 for a while. We've got to obviously get to work on. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:32.960 But that's kind of what the coaches are doing. We're 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.400 we're looking at every single possible team we could play 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.720 and you know, building ideas for those games. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:39.200 John. 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.640 On that note, Joe Placco being the Browns. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.640 This weekend, how do you approach that? 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.760 I mean, are you sort of cheering for the man? 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.840 Are you? 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.920 You know you can separate basic performents from living off 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.160 for the brown How does that work? 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:56.880 Yeah? 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.840 I mean, well, I mean I love Joe, you know, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.000 and we've we've texted back and forth a number of 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.040 times since then. It's been it's been fun. You know, 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.080 I'm really I'm happy for him and for his family. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.400 I'm excited for him, and you know, It really doesn't 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.360 matter what team, you know, you got someone playing for. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:12.920 I always say I never never been. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.280 My dad was always a coach, So we we never 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.480 really were too much fans of teams. We were, especially 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.640 in football, we were fans of friends and family. You know, 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.160 That's what we root it for. So Joe's a friend 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.880 and family to me, So heck, yeah I root for 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.760 Joe Flacco, But you know, I don't root for the 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.600 you know, any opponent that we're playing. So it doesn't 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.960 really matter this week. We'll play whoever, whoever wins. You know, 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.280 we're taking on all all comers, so to speak. And 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.679 then if it comes to that we're playing Joe or 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.320 and we know a lot of people on other teams too. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.800 Whoever you're playing, they become the opponent, you know, and 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.520 you're trying to defeat the opponent by any means necessary. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.800 Michael Pierce, thatid alluded to you're planning to do a 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:56.680 stadium walk through? 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:57.160 Is that? 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.600 Is that still the plan for Saturday? And I can't 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.000 remember for the was something you did the last time 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.720 you had to buy but kind of what went into maybe. 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:04.040 Maybe doing that. 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.160 Yeah, we're gonna have a practice on Saturday at the 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:07.200 stadium one o'clock. 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.520 It's just it's a practice. 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.240 It be the normal practice we would do here. We 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:13.960 just actually kind of sat down and talked about and 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.600 it came up in the conversation, Hey how about we 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.280 take it to the stadium just to keep a rhythm. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.600 We didn't I don't think we practiced on Saturday last time. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.800 That was a long time ago, but we didn't really 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.480 practice on Saturday. But we thought that would kind of 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:27.800 put us in more of a rhythm, you know, in 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.400 terms of the pace of possibly type, you know, as 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:32.760 if you were playing a game this weekend. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:37.120 So some weeks un practice would improve it and take 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:42.000 us out. Just what's the practice mentality of this movie? 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.760 Because you don't have the Ustaria upomu to the COVID. 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.760 Team, right, the mentality is to is to have the 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.000 to do our best, to have our best practice today 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.520 so that were can be best prepared for when the 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.480 time comes when our best is going to be required, 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.240 which is a week from this weekend. So it's really 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.040 focused on one play and one day at a time. 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.120 This week, stack up some good days and be the 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.319 best football team we can be coming out of these 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.080 four practices going into the preparation that we can. 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.200 It's good to know that the four teams that you 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.480 could potentially play, you played all those teams at some 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:20.480 point this season. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.959 Two of them you played twice to this point, right. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:23.880 Well, it is helpful. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.840 I mean, I think it just most teams are familiar 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.559 with each other to some degree. You know, like if 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.560 you haven't played somebody, it's a little tougher. But the 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.400 fact that we played all four teams, Uh, everybody knows 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:33.840 each other. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:34.200 You know. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.559 It's gonna be about going out there and putting a 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.880 great game. Playing together, of course, but uh, just playing 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:41.080 your best football. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.600 Knowing you're gonna be at home for this first game. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.079 You haven't had that in a while in the postseason. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.360 That agenda, Well, it's gonna be great. I mean, being 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.560 at home any game is great. We love being at 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.360 home here and uh, I'm looking forward to. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:02.240 It, say coach John Harball. We also talk with quarterback 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.920 Lamar Jackson, who is named by the local media here 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.080 in Baltimore as the team's MVP for the twenty twenty 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:09.640 three season. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.719 Going on, everybody, I'm Luke Jones and just wanted to 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.319 take a brief moment here on behalf of the local 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.319 media and the Baltimore chapter of the PFWA to announce 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.200 the Ravens team MVP for the twenty twenty three season. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.080 As you might expect, the vote was unanimous. But I know, 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.160 as much as this individual will say he didn't do 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.480 it alone, I think it's pretty clear the Ravens wouldn't 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:30.839 be in the spot they're in right now as the 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.480 number one seed heading into the postseason without his spectacular 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.240 play over the course of the season. So I have 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.559 a hunch he might get a few more honors over 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.760 the course of the next few weeks. But the twenty 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.440 twenty three Ravens MVP, as voted by the local media 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:45.679 is Lamar Jackson. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:52.480 I gotcha appreciation of that. Thank you' all, honor. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.679 I appreciate you all so much, man, I mean a 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.040 lot to us, you know, in the community. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:58.240 So I just want to thank. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:02.520 Y'all, and I said unanimously, although ask which one of 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:03.200 us didn't. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.640 Go for I appreciate that. That's a lot. I mean, 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.079 it means a lot, man, that's love. I appreciate that. 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:11.840 We'll watch your focus this week. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:13.320 Just getting better. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:14.240 You know. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:15.760 We had a couple of days off, but you know, 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.720 just getting back in the swing of things, just staying loose, 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.960 you know, staying prepared for the game, you know next week, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.199 that's all, you know, just staying focused on that small things, 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:25.800 clean up details and stuff like that. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.360 How you celebrated your birthday, I I just hung out 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:34.840 with my family, That's all I did, and I enjoyed it. Yeah, yours. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.760 You've talked about not looking you had, staying zeroed in 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.600 on the moment. Do you think you're better at that 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.880 today than you were when you're twenty two twenty three 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:42.320 years old? 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.200 Yeah? Just just from experience. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.720 Though, that that's why I say I'm better at it now, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.040 you know probably. Uh, when I was twenty two, it 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:50.600 was like you know what, I'm just go stay locked in. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.600 But you twenty two years old, you still got so 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.080 much to see, you know, even at twenty seven. But 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.320 just just uh, how how things went before and I'm 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:01.240 me seeing different things. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:02.560 That's what's got me so lazy. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:07.640 Lockdown about your impressions of Dalvin Cook now teammate awesome? 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.520 Uh nine five, four, three or five combination going on, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.120 you know, Miami broad conn of Uh, I'm I'm really excited. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.920 You know, I was happy about the situation. I was 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.880 tr I reached out to him, uh before the season, 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:22.960 you know, with the little Jets and you know he 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.840 was signing with Jets or whatever before then. But you know, 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.480 g God rake some mysterious ways and you know he's 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:29.880 head now. So that's that's dope. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.040 Has four playoff comes since you have in the day before. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.480 You started even scouting ahead or is it sort of. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.080 Like, hey, when things shake out and learning that coming 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:42.760 just didn't start at the beginning. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:43.520 Of that problem. Yeah. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.840 Absolutely want things, you know, kick off and we we 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.360 f see who gonna play. Then I'll just be locking 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.760 in from now. And I don't wanna just be watching teams, 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.280 watching film on teams and we're not gonna be playing 'em. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.360 I don't want my mom racing and stuff like that, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.320 you know, trying to stay locked in on what's going 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:58.920 on now. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.800 For more, Michael, after the game, those of us that 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.920 were here in two thousand nineteen, we remember what happened 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.559 at we what what can you learn or what can 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.680 you take away from thinking back to. 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:11.400 That time. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.240 We lost You know, we lost that game. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:15.480 Man. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.720 We were so young too, you know, we got Ricky 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.840 receiver a second year first like first full time starting quarterback. 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.760 We had a couple of vets, but running back with 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.840 Jong got gus. You know, we had Mark mart was 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.120 like her, you know, uh uh all pro tight end. 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.280 Mark Andrews was you know, nipped up like we here. 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.240 We had guys that was down, but guys was fighting 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:36.920 and we was young at the same time. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:37.480 We wasn't. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.680 We was just starting to get into that situational playoff 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.800 atmosphere and stuff like that. But I believe we gonna 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.840 be better now this year, this time around. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:50.040 Chored since twenty nineteen as a quarterback, what would you 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:50.680 say that. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.120 Maturity has looked like for you? How are you different 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:54.440 as a quarterback from then? 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:55.280 Besides just. 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:58.120 How am I different now? 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:04.360 Experience, i'm'a say, just just knowing more, you know, just 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.080 from seeing so much in my my six years, just 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.880 seeing a lot. I'll see That's where I've grown grown 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:11.600 the most. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.280 With Calvin Cook, how m how much impact you think 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.680 I mean, we'll have two weeks of practice before that 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.040 pre pre geting playoff game. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:19.440 How much impact do you think. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:20.520 You can make it? Uh? 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.920 Man, ain't no telling, ain't no, TI ain't no telling, 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:25.680 you know with our offense, Uh, the guys who have 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.080 on offense the officer line we have and him just 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.040 been a dynamic player. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:29.320 He is. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.480 This guy's a limit, you know it. It's no limit 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:32.680 for that. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.840 I I don't know, you know, I believe he gonna 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.360 when he gets his opportunity as numbers called, he gonna 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.760 do what he do, you know, cook up while you're girlfriends. 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.920 The line is is getting you know a lot of 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.240 time to go. Yeah, a number of times just your 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.760 especially when powerful. How important has that been in in 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.360 how has that how would you describe it? 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.440 Just the relationship and. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.160 That you've had with that you can for that's Uh, 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.680 it's very important for our guys to do their job. 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.160 You know, they sppost to block. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.080 You know, it's not my job to block, drop back, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.600 recoveragea and block at the same time, you know. But 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.320 them just giving me a lot of time to uh 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.520 read out concepts and read the defenses and get the 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:11.240 ball to my guys. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.920 It's it's tremendous, you know. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.200 I feel like that's any quarterbacks dream to just sit 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.440 back in the pocket and just let things happen develop 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.560 and just throw strikes. But they I believe they got 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.920 better throughout the season. You know, guy's going down, you know, 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.160 just getting healthy at the right time. It's just blocking 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.520 the tail off. We just need to keep it going. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.920 Maris Sacro Team and VA first Team All Pro by 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.600 the nfl PA voted by players. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:34.800 What does that mean to you? 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.440 That's uh, a lot. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:38.040 It means a lot. 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:39.200 You know, respect from my peers. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.680 You know, guys who who I'm who's trying to beat 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:43.280 you know, guys trying to beat us, who who were 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.120 facing you know, weekend week out. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.040 Uh, it means a lot. It's honor. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.120 We saw some of your interview with Tom Brady. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.280 You've been open about, you know, kind of how impressed 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.280 you've been with him and how you look up to him. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:56.520 Is there another player. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.240 That you could think of that kind of gets you 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:00.560 kind of in that same mode that you get in 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:01.960 when you talking to Tom Brady. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:08.080 MM, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.159 You know, that's a seventh time Super Bowl when the 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.119 quarterback right there. You know, nobody beat that, So you 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.080 know it's like you're gonna be excited talking to Tom Man, 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:18.919 you know, try to pick his brain or something like that. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.480 So I'm just always excited to speak to him. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.560 You know, he said to you on the podcast that 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.199 you know, you're one of the reasons that people like 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.520 watching the NFL, you know, in the way that you play. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.560 What does it mean to you when you have you know, 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.199 the goat saying to you that, you know, showing his 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.600 respect for you and that he really admires your game. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.280 Yeah, it was an honor. You know, I taught him mac. 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:44.520 He was telling me about a clip from high school 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.160 that went viral. I was like, I wasn't expecting him 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.240 to say that, you know, so that that let me 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.199 know you and he's been watching a long time, you know. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.400 Uh, that's just that's just cool. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.160 You know, for Brady to you know, feel that way 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.240 about me as a player, that that means a lot. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.440 There's a record number of black quarterbacks in the playoffs 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.280 this year. I'm wondering he sat encouraging to see and 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.199 to sort of take pride watching a guy maybe like c. J. 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.639 Stroud who is a rookie and made it in his 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:10.160 first year. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:11.120 Yeah, that's great to see. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.960 You know, life's you know, life just what just different now, 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:20.200 you know, stuff is evolving, Guys are just being great. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:21.760 You know, it's just showing off their true talent. And 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.160 cz Strode tremendous quarterback. I told him when we played 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.240 against him earlier this season, the first game of the season, 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.320 I'm like, bro, you. 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:29.960 You amazing out there. 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.800 You know, college not even nothing compared to how he 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.359 is right now. You know, just from me watching from Afar, 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.680 he's a great quarterback. And for other quarter black quarterbacks 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.159 to be playing the playoffs, that's tremendous. You know, hopefully 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:46.880 more guys be included. Uh as years gone, I've. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.080 Seen you know, this is your most accurate year in 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:50.480 terms of completion percentage. 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.679 How much of that do you think is attributable to 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.359 the footwork development you bet you've kind of put in 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:56.600 over the years. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:57.520 Uh. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.359 I believe everything you know plays his part, you know, 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:05.280 just maturity, footwork, studying everything, you know, just trying to 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.040 be a better player, trying to be a great player 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.280 at this at this uh high. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.240 Level game you know we're playing. We're just trying to 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:13.000 get better at everything. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:14.720 So I believe that's what's helping me out, you know, 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:15.920 with the accuracy and stuff like that. 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:18.679 Uh, Joe Black or are you Finna Tomates? 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.119 From playing the playoffs or are you really watching like 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.200 games and things to get like them club and watch 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:24.639 the door. 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.119 Oh don't no, if i'm'a watch the game, but I 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:28.399 don't watch the film, so. 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:32.760 Yeah, uh, but you know, it's it's it's great to 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.840 see Joe back playing, you know, back playing, you know, 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:36.960 cause I always felt he was elite, you know, just 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.560 from my rookie y'ar watching him practice, seeing him throw 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.120 the ball across the field from you know, just flat 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:42.920 footed and stuff like that. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.760 I'm like, damn, this guy, he's all mechanic, you know. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:48.159 But you know, if we if we playing, you know, 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.520 just hopefully he'll be you know, just showing off the 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:51.560 Joe elite then, you know. 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:54.400 But yeah, it'd be great to play against him though. 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:56.119 Ama, how's it this week for you? 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:56.399 Are you? 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.240 Are you antsy at all to get to the game 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.720 or you know, but uh, I gotta you know, I 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.680 gotta stay locked in on what's you know, what's ahead. 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:08.720 And we have nothing to hit right now, you know, 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:10.840 we just practicing, trying to get better, you know, for 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:12.360 whoever our opponent is next week. 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.400 But I'm I'm definitely assy though. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.080 Practicing without an opponent not know him. You know where 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:18.600 you are now? 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:19.679 Not if you're. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:24.919 Mentioned how we kind of sort of said for them 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.359 this year, how much more like freedom you had at 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:28.920 the last Gramma, especially. 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:29.359 In the system. 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:31.399 I wonder like, how did you approach that? 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:33.919 And just like in in the bigger picture, how did 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.320 you develop the way you see if the way you 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:37.720 read a game in word? 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:39.480 Uh, well, it's start of course. 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:39.720 Mark. 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:41.280 You know he already he told me when when he 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:42.880 first got here. You know, he texted me actually because 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:44.320 I was down to the Florida he was up here. 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:46.160 I guess he was telling me, No, know, I'm'm gonna 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:47.520 get the kids to the offense. You know it's up, 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:49.840 but you have made certain decisions at the line. If 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:51.360 you don't like it, you know, put us in a better, 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.600 better situation. But if you mess up, it's gonna be 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:56.600 on you, you know so. And I'm cool with that, 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:58.560 you know, cause I'm I'm seeing the field. I'm I'm 0:20:58.560 --> 0:20:59.959 seeing the field and I'm out there on the one, 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:01.960 you know, gotta make things happen with my teammates and 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.159 I and I can't give you. 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:05.400 A secret on how I see the game. 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:07.840 You know that, I just give you that. 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:11.800 How did you kind of develop the skills to do 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.600 you know, some of the jump passes and sidearn throws 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:16.119 that the senior make this this year. 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:19.159 Just delivering the baby, you know. I'm just trying to 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.199 deliver the baby to my guys, you know, that's all. 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.920 That's all I'm trying to do. Just get the ball 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:26.400 to the to to the playmakers. That's my job. 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:27.480 You know, I'm not tryna. 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:29.200 I can't run a hand it to him, you know, 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:31.639 so I gotta try my best to you know, my 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:33.439 ability to get the ball to those guys and let 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:34.920 them do the rest, you know, just like you know, 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:35.600 probably weak to. 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:36.360 The Dolphins game. 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.520 I gotta get the ball to those guys and we see, 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:40.840 we all seeing what they can do with the ball 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:42.680 in their hands. So I just gotta do my job 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:43.960 to keep trying to distribute the ball. 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:46.520 At this point, six years into your career. 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.360 You you talked to OBJ before he signed, You talked 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.480 to Dalvin Cook. Yeah, how important is that role for 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:54.440 you at this point in your career to be able 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:55.359 to recruit guys? 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:57.080 And what is your pitch? 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:58.240 Are you a good Yeah? 0:21:58.240 --> 0:21:59.399 Obviously a pretty good recruit. 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.399 I don't know because they all right, ob he got Harry, 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:06.200 you know, he signed right away, but Dow went to 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:08.960 the Jets first. We ended up getting late in the season, 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:12.200 so I don't really know how my recruiting game is. 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:14.680 Gotta talk to it, gotta talk. 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:14.720 To the. 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.760 Local media also votes on the Media Good Guy Award. Now, 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:23.359 this award goes to a player who goes above and 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:27.159 beyond and his media obligations, provides great quotes and is 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:30.639 always available to the local press. And the voters voted 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:33.879 for Kyle Hamilton to win that award this year. He 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:37.040 talked about the significance of that and also his mindset 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:38.040 going into the playoffs. 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:41.480 This vote was way closer, but the Media Good Guy 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:44.040 goes to a Ravens player who has gone above and 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:48.399 beyond normal media obligations to make himself available all for 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:50.760 insight that we can then as media members pass along 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:51.280 to fans. 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:52.760 It was a very close vote. 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:54.600 There are a number of players who received votes, which 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:58.240 is a reflection of the locker room, but this individual 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:00.639 really stood out. It's not always easy to talk to 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:03.920 media after a loss of things don't go well during 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:06.720 the game, whatever it is, but he made himself available 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:07.919 and we very much. 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:08.520 Appreciate it. 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:11.840 The twenty twenty three Ravens Media good guy is Kyle Hamilton. 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:16.200 Thank you, appreciate it, Thank you, Hey, you guys, I 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:20.880 appreciate that. It was a surprise to me. I really 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:23.080 respect everything that you guys do on daily break basis. 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:26.080 It's a grind and people around the world are relying 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:28.480 on your information. So you guys have the job to 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:30.680 do just like I do. And appreciate you guys. 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:39.479 Thank you. Yeah, think about the what all pro? 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:44.400 It was a it was cool to see for sure. 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:48.359 It's something I've dreamed of since I can remember what 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:52.000 all being all pro is and you know it's it's 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:55.040 it's a dream until it happens. And it's pretty cool 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:58.560 to be voted on by my peers, which is my opinion, 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:03.159 the most important opinion, and just to be voted by 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:04.920 guys who I've looked up to still look up to 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:08.320 to this day, and be honored in a group of 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:10.359 people who are the best around the league. It's a 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:11.040 it's an honor. 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:15.639 How do you feel you feel like you're all the 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:18.200 way back now and you wise are still working toward that. 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:21.040 Yeah, I mean I was out there today pretty much 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:24.360 full participant, so it was got through, it did well. 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:28.920 Feeling good you approaching these weekend of games or I 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:30.520 don't know how regularly you get to. 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:33.199 Watch these football games in general because you're out there. 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:35.119 But how are you going to watch these games if 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:38.040 you do at all understand that you can play one 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:39.840 of these potential for teams? 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:42.840 Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna go out of my 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:44.960 way to watch the games because I'm sure we'll be 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:48.240 watching plenty of them next week. But whoever we end 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:52.040 up playing, I mean, it's out of the field. It's 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:53.720 I feel like we played a lot of the people 0:24:53.800 --> 0:24:56.560 still in the playoffs right now, and you know, it's 0:24:56.600 --> 0:24:59.080 a at the end of the day, nameless faces opponents. 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:01.280 We're going to approach every game like we do in 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:04.280 the past and how every opponent we approach, so it 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:06.200 doesn't really matter who we play. In my opinion, I 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:07.760 think we're just going to prepare for them same way. 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:11.240 God, how do you feel like the veteran players like Lamar, 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:14.200 you know, other vets on the team who have been 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:16.200 in this situation before, how are they kind of setting 0:25:16.240 --> 0:25:18.520 the tone about how to approach the playoffs with the 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:19.040 bye week? 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:20.680 You know, just how to go about that. 0:25:21.280 --> 0:25:22.200 Yeah, I think we've done this. 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:25.600 We've done such a good job of credit to the vets, 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:28.520 like you said, of creating somewhat of a playoff atmosphere 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:30.840 every week throughout the year, and I feel like it's 0:25:30.880 --> 0:25:34.240 been somewhat of a seamless transition the past week and 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:36.560 not even the past weeks past a couple of days 0:25:36.600 --> 0:25:39.280 getting to the actual playoffs. And it's a blessing to 0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:41.720 have this bye week and allow us to be where 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:43.720 our feet are and just get our minds right for 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:47.560 the road ahead. But like you said, lamar rokwand everybody 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:49.119 who's the leader on this team has done a good 0:25:49.200 --> 0:25:52.240 job of just intensity ramps up a little more. And 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:54.440 it's winter go home at this point, and I know 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:56.520 we all don't want to go home right now. We 0:25:56.640 --> 0:25:58.719 know we have a championship to win. 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:02.080 Is a guy that wasn't on that twenty nineteen team 0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:04.760 do you feel like a lot of that talk of 0:26:04.880 --> 0:26:07.480 what happened that year is kind of like overblown because 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:09.520 you guys are different to You've been a guy that 0:26:09.920 --> 0:26:11.800 is here now that wasn't there. Now, how do you 0:26:11.840 --> 0:26:14.520 feel about the talk of comparing the. 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:17.560 Two years yeah, I mean, it's I can't blame people 0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:21.160 for talking about it. I wasn't here, so I don't 0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:22.960 know too much of what happened. But I mean, we 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:27.639 were first in the AFC and loss, and that's why 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:29.920 all people have to go off right now, besides the 0:26:30.280 --> 0:26:33.400 ray Lewis every day, so we got to prove ourselves 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:36.440 in the moment that we're capable of going on the championship. 0:26:37.000 --> 0:26:39.640 What's it likely to see Dalvin Cook? I'm sure it's 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:41.760 a guy that you've watched throughout your career. What's like 0:26:41.800 --> 0:26:42.760 seeing him in practice? 0:26:43.080 --> 0:26:44.880 Yeah, it's pretty cool. 0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:47.840 I mean, it's it never gets old seeing guys who 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:52.040 I've looked up to, like j Davin Clowney, you know, 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:54.479 he's a real cool guy, and being able to chop 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:59.919 it up with him, Kyle van Noyd, like Odell I mean, 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:01.719 and then Dalvin Cook. I mean, I've been watching them 0:27:01.760 --> 0:27:04.600 dominate since for the State and h It's cool to 0:27:04.680 --> 0:27:07.280 be on a team where we have a bunch of 0:27:07.359 --> 0:27:10.280 guys like that who have made their name for themselves 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:12.240 around the league, and I can take bits and pieces 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:12.760 from them. 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:17.919 In the locker room. Today, we also heard from several players, 0:27:18.040 --> 0:27:20.520 including defensive lineman Justin Mattabek. 0:27:21.280 --> 0:27:23.640 Are you m gonna be included into every single game 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:24.960 to see the possibility for yourself? 0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:25.680 Are you just gonna love it? 0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:27.920 Come to always want to come to me? You know, 0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:30.200 the games are gonna be everywhere. You know, everybody's gonna 0:27:30.200 --> 0:27:31.960 be excited for the ball card games and stuff like that. 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:33.520 But I'm just gonna I'm gonna let it come to 0:27:33.560 --> 0:27:37.000 be and just enjoy football. Take uh, carry my body 0:27:37.040 --> 0:27:39.200 and just you know, just do my thing on the weekend. 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:41.960 So is it helpful that of the four teams that 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:43.840 you could see obviously not gonna see two or three 0:27:44.040 --> 0:27:45.800 just the way it works that you've played them before, 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:48.280 you're familiar, especially within your own division. Is that at 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:50.920 all helpful or do you think it's just truly kind 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:52.960 of new one game season and can can happen. 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:55.879 It's helpful because we played that team before, so we 0:27:55.960 --> 0:27:57.840 can see things that we've done well in and we 0:27:57.880 --> 0:27:59.880 can keep adding on to those things and then things 0:28:00.200 --> 0:28:02.000 we didn't do well uh as well on so we 0:28:02.080 --> 0:28:04.520 could just go clean up those things in practice. So 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:08.000 you know, we've seen him in practice already and in 0:28:08.119 --> 0:28:10.359 the game, so you know, going on the iPad and 0:28:10.400 --> 0:28:11.680 just find things out to get better at and we're 0:28:11.680 --> 0:28:12.640 going to execute out the game. 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:15.920 So we are locked in focused so much around this team. 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:18.159 John Harball's even talking about just the tunnel vision and 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:20.600 how good you guys are at that that can't be taught. 0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:23.240 So where does that kind of come from? Just the 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:25.399 philosophy of this team and what you've been able to 0:28:25.440 --> 0:28:27.120 do so far and what you want to do still. 0:28:27.480 --> 0:28:27.640 Uh. 0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:29.840 I think it's just a good mix with uh young 0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:31.720 players and like vets and stuff that've been there and 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:33.560 done that. Colvin or a guy who's been in the 0:28:33.720 --> 0:28:35.600 UH the dance three times and one two of them. 0:28:35.880 --> 0:28:37.600 T Rober is a guy that's very just young and 0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:39.920 hungry to r and ready to learn. We have guys 0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:40.520 in the mid like. 0:28:40.560 --> 0:28:41.120 Peek, you and I. 0:28:41.280 --> 0:28:42.760 You know, we everybody just loves each other. 0:28:42.800 --> 0:28:43.720 Everybody is here for. 0:28:43.760 --> 0:28:45.560 That one goal and UH, everybody just locked in on 0:28:45.640 --> 0:28:47.640 the same page, taking one day at a time and 0:28:47.760 --> 0:28:49.480 joining each other while we're still here. Cause it's a 0:28:49.520 --> 0:28:50.920 blessing to be in the playoffs. So now we have 0:28:51.000 --> 0:28:52.720 to take one day at a time and execute and 0:28:52.760 --> 0:28:53.880 just take it just one game at a time. 0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:54.920 As well, thanks, Justine. 0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:56.080 Yeah, it was line Justine. 0:28:56.080 --> 0:28:58.200 It seems like you really feel like, you know, the 0:28:58.240 --> 0:29:00.720 opportunities there for the CEA A special group. 0:29:01.280 --> 0:29:03.000 What is it that that kind of gives you that feeling? 0:29:03.720 --> 0:29:05.160 Uh, just the guys that we have, Uh, you know, 0:29:05.440 --> 0:29:07.600 obviously starting with Lamar, you know what I'm saying, how 0:29:07.640 --> 0:29:09.880 the offense has just been playing well, lights out us 0:29:09.920 --> 0:29:12.920 on defense r uh, starting with Uh, Roquan Kyle's playing 0:29:13.000 --> 0:29:15.880 is his tail off. Everybody's just playing at a high level. 0:29:15.920 --> 0:29:17.040 But we just got to take one day at time. 0:29:17.080 --> 0:29:19.880 Everybody take care of their body. Everybody just enjoy this 0:29:19.960 --> 0:29:21.600 time while we have it together in the bye week 0:29:22.560 --> 0:29:24.000 and get and get ready for next week. 0:29:24.280 --> 0:29:26.240 Listen, what did you what was practiced like today? 0:29:26.240 --> 0:29:28.520 Obviously you're not game planning for a p opponent, but 0:29:29.280 --> 0:29:30.440 what was practice like today? 0:29:30.880 --> 0:29:30.960 Uh? 0:29:31.040 --> 0:29:32.960 It was just uh a look of things that we've 0:29:32.960 --> 0:29:36.040 already seen on the defensive side. I can always speak 0:29:36.040 --> 0:29:37.480 for at least, you know, like a whole lot like 0:29:37.560 --> 0:29:40.479 trap schemes, uh, stuff that we've seen versus Steelers even 0:29:40.520 --> 0:29:42.680 Miami as well. Uh, running to the ball and stuff 0:29:42.680 --> 0:29:44.560 like that. A getting our conditioning up. So those are 0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:46.480 things that we really saw today practice. 0:29:46.880 --> 0:29:48.960 How beneficially do you think this time is for this team? 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:49.880 I think it's huge. 0:29:50.080 --> 0:29:51.640 I think it's huge special guys who are banged up 0:29:51.640 --> 0:29:53.520 a little bit. Uh, they can get their feet under him, 0:29:53.640 --> 0:29:55.960 make sure they're taking care of their body. It's good 0:29:56.000 --> 0:29:58.680 for us as well, just uh cleaning things up. Uh, 0:29:58.760 --> 0:30:01.280 not having the stress of like worrying about opponent of 0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:02.840 the weekend instead of just take care of your body 0:30:02.840 --> 0:30:04.440 and just cleaning things up that we know that we 0:30:04.480 --> 0:30:05.120 could be better at. 0:30:07.720 --> 0:30:09.480 Justin, does it feels strange old to keep a body 0:30:09.560 --> 0:30:11.600 in January? Or is it just welcome? Just just nice 0:30:11.640 --> 0:30:13.640 to have a few days office. I'll say more on 0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:14.840 the welcome side, just nice to have. 0:30:15.400 --> 0:30:17.720 You know, Uh, guys were banged up, so it's another 0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:20.240 great opportunity for them to get better. Just taking a 0:30:20.320 --> 0:30:22.000 one day at a time and just seeing how your 0:30:22.000 --> 0:30:23.920 body feels. Because next week we're we're gonna have some 0:30:24.000 --> 0:30:26.840 other that play and that's when you know everybody's gonna 0:30:26.840 --> 0:30:29.040 get more locked in. But this week is more relaxed 0:30:29.080 --> 0:30:31.640 and just where we're just basically just letting it come to. 0:30:34.800 --> 0:30:38.040 That was defensive lineman Justin Mattabiue Next up is linebacker 0:30:38.120 --> 0:30:38.720 Patrick Queen. 0:30:39.520 --> 0:30:40.600 How do you what's your approach? 0:30:41.320 --> 0:30:44.120 Just come out of practice, get better. Shopping you fundamental, 0:30:44.160 --> 0:30:46.840 shopping your tools, keep your mind sharp, keep you one up, 0:30:47.640 --> 0:30:48.840 just you know, staying bann. 0:30:48.960 --> 0:30:52.080 I know physically, it's just it's been a long, long year. 0:30:52.280 --> 0:30:53.239 How do you feel right now? 0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:54.880 And how you know, having a couple of days off 0:30:54.960 --> 0:30:56.000 and then you know where are you? 0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:56.719 Uh? 0:30:57.040 --> 0:30:59.120 Just at the point everybody else is around the league 0:30:59.200 --> 0:31:01.680 right now we all think all hurt, but uh, I didn't, 0:31:01.720 --> 0:31:04.320 didn't nobody care. So you know I'm doing my best, 0:31:04.360 --> 0:31:06.280 thinking my body back to a hundred percent. Uh to 0:31:06.320 --> 0:31:07.240 be ready for the first game. 0:31:08.080 --> 0:31:10.200 Do you find the wait the unknown difficult? 0:31:10.800 --> 0:31:11.280 Not at all. 0:31:11.480 --> 0:31:12.880 I think at the end of the day, whoever come 0:31:12.880 --> 0:31:14.880 out in the field, they gonna get every piece of me. 0:31:15.800 --> 0:31:18.520 I'm gonna be out there ten toes down, Uh, ready 0:31:18.560 --> 0:31:20.480 to go, Ready to go to war. So uh, whenever 0:31:20.560 --> 0:31:22.600 whoever the opponent may be, Uh, I'll be ready. 0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:24.880 Can you watch this weekend or were you just like 0:31:24.960 --> 0:31:26.080 I al wait til film next week? 0:31:26.160 --> 0:31:28.360 Yeah, I'm a choice to watch this weekend, So uh, 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:31.520 I'll be sitting there single place. Those two teams are 0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:34.160 running and tryna figure out how how we can stop it? 0:31:35.160 --> 0:31:35.520 H what was it? 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:37.360 What was the focus in practice this week? Obviously you're 0:31:37.360 --> 0:31:38.959 not game plans, so what was the pro folks out 0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:39.360 of practice? 0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:42.720 Out fundamentals? Uh, getting back uh to what made us us. 0:31:43.600 --> 0:31:45.640 You know, few things been happening at the end of 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:47.920 the season that we don't like, so uh, we were 0:31:47.960 --> 0:31:49.680 just cleaning up everything that we needed to clean up, 0:31:49.800 --> 0:31:52.600 uh fundamentally. Uh So that way, the end of the 0:31:52.600 --> 0:31:54.040 season is ready to come down to the fundamental. Can 0:31:54.080 --> 0:31:55.640 you still tackle? Can you still get all blocks? Can 0:31:55.680 --> 0:31:56.560 you still do the small things? 0:31:56.640 --> 0:31:57.200 Right now? 0:31:57.280 --> 0:31:59.800 Trick, is there really kind of a sense of pride 0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:03.200 like this week, like you guys earned this week off, 0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:04.760 Like you guys earned the rest of it. 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:07.040 Do you kind of take advantage of it that way? 0:32:07.200 --> 0:32:08.440 Just say, you know, when you k hit the field 0:32:08.520 --> 0:32:09.880 this week, Hey we earned this. 0:32:10.080 --> 0:32:12.840 Yeah, define, you definitely earned it. But uh, I was 0:32:12.880 --> 0:32:14.840 just talking to somebody earlier about it, like what's the 0:32:14.880 --> 0:32:15.600 point of you earning? 0:32:15.640 --> 0:32:16.760 Their view? Let it go to waste? 0:32:16.920 --> 0:32:19.160 So uh, that's that's the biggest thing is while we 0:32:19.200 --> 0:32:20.959 stay in sharp right now, is just uh staying out 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:22.400 on the top of our game. That way, we don't 0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:24.920 go in next week being slove is being uh rusted 0:32:25.040 --> 0:32:27.640 or whatever uh people might say about that twenty nineteen run. 0:32:27.840 --> 0:32:30.880 Uh So, Uh we doing our best to be fuldamention 0:32:30.920 --> 0:32:32.760 short fundament and sound and everything is to come in 0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:33.400 and swinging so. 0:32:33.440 --> 0:32:35.120 They can hearing him at twenty nineteen what part of 0:32:35.200 --> 0:32:37.920 that team or uh defense first defense to leave the 0:32:37.960 --> 0:32:39.960 league and us points most takeaways. 0:32:40.000 --> 0:32:41.520 Both sucks and it's a lot honestly. 0:32:41.680 --> 0:32:41.800 Uh. 0:32:41.800 --> 0:32:43.520 It just shows a lot of hard working dedication that 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:46.000 went into all the sacrifices that everybody made and every 0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:46.480 and it. 0:32:46.480 --> 0:32:48.280 Shows that every play counts. 0:32:48.480 --> 0:32:48.600 Uh. 0:32:48.760 --> 0:32:51.040 So, you know, hats off to every single guy in 0:32:51.120 --> 0:32:53.120 our room. Hands up to the guys on the offense 0:32:53.200 --> 0:32:54.800 at the ball for uh being able to put us 0:32:54.800 --> 0:32:56.040 in a position that we was getting better in. 0:32:56.160 --> 0:32:59.719 So you know, just team metform thirteen. 0:33:00.240 --> 0:33:02.719 Sorry, the old adage is defense wins championships. 0:33:02.840 --> 0:33:02.960 You know. 0:33:03.000 --> 0:33:05.160 Along the lines to James's question, do you feel like 0:33:05.200 --> 0:33:07.560 as you go into the this playoffs that you guys 0:33:07.640 --> 0:33:10.400 feel that that burden at that responsibility is that. 0:33:10.440 --> 0:33:13.040 Because the group definitely, uh cause if you look at 0:33:13.040 --> 0:33:16.280 the games lately, it's been all uh, last few minutes 0:33:16.360 --> 0:33:19.680 again scores on people and stuff. So definitely in that situation, 0:33:19.840 --> 0:33:21.640 your defense got it back against the wall. They gotta 0:33:21.640 --> 0:33:24.000 get a stop. So you can't put down the offense. 0:33:24.040 --> 0:33:25.600 You can't put down nobody but yourself that you're on 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:25.960 the field. 0:33:26.320 --> 0:33:27.840 Uh. You had the opportunities to make those stops, so 0:33:27.920 --> 0:33:28.840 usually got madeo stops. 0:33:29.280 --> 0:33:31.479 Patrick, you made you made reference and passes to two 0:33:31.480 --> 0:33:32.080 thousand nineteen. 0:33:32.080 --> 0:33:33.040 You got here right after that. 0:33:33.160 --> 0:33:34.520 And obviously there are on a ton of. 0:33:34.560 --> 0:33:37.239 Guys left, but there are plenty of How much does 0:33:37.280 --> 0:33:38.200 that come up over. 0:33:38.080 --> 0:33:40.600 The last few years, not so much dwelling on it, 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:43.640 but maybe using that as a learning experience and and 0:33:43.800 --> 0:33:45.440 and is that coming up now among the guys that. 0:33:45.480 --> 0:33:46.479 We're here four years ago? 0:33:46.680 --> 0:33:46.800 Uh? 0:33:46.840 --> 0:33:49.200 I h I haven't heard it since it happened that 0:33:49.280 --> 0:33:52.360 time and then now. So we honestly don't even care, 0:33:52.440 --> 0:33:54.960 honestly about it. Honestly, it's the last thing we thinking about. 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:58.080 We don't care about the rest. We won't be sharp 0:33:58.160 --> 0:33:59.480 this and that you got a rest. We are in 0:33:59.560 --> 0:34:01.920 the press for reason. But at the same time we 0:34:02.080 --> 0:34:04.040 understand that we still wanna get fund them in this time. 0:34:04.080 --> 0:34:05.640 We still know their staying there, we could co recton 0:34:05.720 --> 0:34:08.319 get better at so the whole focus is just us 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:10.320 getting better honestly, gess. 0:34:10.200 --> 0:34:12.879 And what is the mentality when you close the door 0:34:12.960 --> 0:34:15.640 on the regular season, that's the playoff. 0:34:15.280 --> 0:34:16.800 Season when you were more intense. 0:34:17.000 --> 0:34:18.840 Does it feel different? Most definitely. 0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:19.120 Uh. 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:21.239 I'd be lying if I said it didn't. Uh. 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:23.440 It's it's a lot at stake, so you only get 0:34:23.480 --> 0:34:25.680 one shot. Uh So, that's the biggest thing is that 0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:29.040 each play matter, each yard matter, each praying of each 0:34:29.160 --> 0:34:31.800 lay the grass matter. So usually gotta come out for 0:34:31.840 --> 0:34:34.160 full swinging, full till and just be on top of everything. 0:34:34.560 --> 0:34:36.560 Can you take anything from your experience in winning a 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:37.400 national championship? 0:34:37.800 --> 0:34:37.960 You know? 0:34:38.200 --> 0:34:39.719 Uh? In terms of what it takes to to. 0:34:39.760 --> 0:34:43.440 Win a championship, Uh, I think the biggest, biggest thing 0:34:43.560 --> 0:34:46.600 is just having your teammates back. Uh. So could go 0:34:46.680 --> 0:34:50.400 southways quick and uh you know, they could be point fingers, 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:53.080 or it could be uh coaches not seeing out our 0:34:53.080 --> 0:34:54.560 own thing or players not seeing out their own thing, 0:34:54.640 --> 0:34:55.640 or whatever it may be. But by the end of 0:34:55.680 --> 0:34:57.880 the day, as long as everybody stay together, everybody just 0:34:57.920 --> 0:35:00.920 stay in the moment and stay true to ourselves. Just 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:02.640 rely on what got us there in the first place. 0:35:02.680 --> 0:35:03.480 I think we all be fine. 0:35:06.520 --> 0:35:09.000 That was linebacker Patrick Queen. And last but not least, 0:35:09.040 --> 0:35:12.440 we also heard from fellow Linebackerquan Smith. 0:35:13.400 --> 0:35:16.800 Quand voted for All Pro by the players that f 0:35:16.960 --> 0:35:17.160 p A. 0:35:17.320 --> 0:35:21.040 What does that mean to It's a tremendous honor to 0:35:21.160 --> 0:35:25.600 be acknowledged amongst your peers as one of the best 0:35:25.680 --> 0:35:27.359 in the game. But at the end of the day, 0:35:28.239 --> 0:35:30.080 it don't matter as much. It's a matter about what 0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:31.680 we do as a team. And I'm just I got 0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:33.520 a lot of really good teammates around me that make 0:35:33.600 --> 0:35:35.960 me look a lot better than I am. So just 0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:37.839 grateful for these guys at the end of the day. 0:35:37.920 --> 0:35:40.920 But love the game, man, And it's not really why 0:35:40.920 --> 0:35:43.319 I'm playing the game. I'm really chasing that big thing, 0:35:43.360 --> 0:35:45.080 and that's that's what it's all about at this point. 0:35:45.160 --> 0:35:47.680 All the personal accolades that stuff come and go. 0:35:48.239 --> 0:35:50.080 What's your mentality and approach for this week? 0:35:51.520 --> 0:35:53.640 Take the take advantage of this week, Get everything you 0:35:53.719 --> 0:35:56.160 can out of this week. Hone in on the fundamentals, 0:35:56.480 --> 0:35:59.200 make sure your cardio is good, and just make sure 0:35:59.719 --> 0:36:01.799 keep mind yourself, be ready to rock and roll next 0:36:01.840 --> 0:36:03.160 week whatevery day that is. 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:05.400 Are you anxious and large that he was kind of antsy? 0:36:05.840 --> 0:36:08.440 Nah, I'm not anxious. I'm always about preparation. So I'm 0:36:08.520 --> 0:36:12.239 just preparing, preparing, preparing, and when my opportunity come, just 0:36:12.360 --> 0:36:14.799 like anything else in life, i'm'a be there to. 0:36:14.920 --> 0:36:16.560 Take it full and take off with it. 0:36:16.880 --> 0:36:19.279 Well, you're a focusing uh a practice, you know, you're 0:36:19.280 --> 0:36:20.200 not game planning for somebody. 0:36:20.280 --> 0:36:21.319 So what was practiced like today? 0:36:21.719 --> 0:36:21.839 Uh? 0:36:22.400 --> 0:36:24.640 Fundamentals and then just doing what we do playing football. 0:36:24.680 --> 0:36:26.759 Cause at the end of the day's football. That's all 0:36:26.800 --> 0:36:29.680 you can practice. And uh, let's run a pass and 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:32.920 you know, just working on plays and just working on ourselves. 0:36:32.960 --> 0:36:34.560 And I think that that was huge and that uh 0:36:34.719 --> 0:36:35.399 goes a long way. 0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:35.759 Bro. 0:36:35.880 --> 0:36:39.440 You're always intense. Is there another level of intensity when 0:36:39.480 --> 0:36:40.640 it's playoff football? 0:36:41.200 --> 0:36:41.759 Wait and see? 0:36:44.360 --> 0:36:46.320 What does it mean to you with this defense to 0:36:46.400 --> 0:36:48.880 be given kind of the eyeste on you can get 0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:49.560 triple crown? 0:36:49.680 --> 0:36:50.960 What is you guys right now? 0:36:51.080 --> 0:36:53.440 First defense to do that? As many great defenses this 0:36:53.560 --> 0:36:56.080 franchise and seen you guys being the first to do that. 0:36:56.440 --> 0:36:58.640 Yeah, No, that's big time. Uh, to be acknowledged in 0:36:58.719 --> 0:36:59.080 that way. 0:36:59.239 --> 0:37:01.200 But at the end of the day, that was in 0:37:01.239 --> 0:37:04.000 the regular season and our plans have shifted to the postseason. 0:37:04.080 --> 0:37:04.799 So that's great. 0:37:05.120 --> 0:37:06.719 You know, we did this and we did that, but 0:37:06.840 --> 0:37:09.040 none of that matters in this season of ball because 0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:11.799 what matters is getting that dubbed one week at a time, 0:37:11.840 --> 0:37:14.359 and we know what we're chasing, So that's our biggest thing, 0:37:14.400 --> 0:37:16.359 and it's gonna start one week at a time. 0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:18.120 What's it like to face. 0:37:18.200 --> 0:37:20.720 All your arms rounds? 0:37:21.080 --> 0:37:24.279 Are you going back just waiting until to see who 0:37:24.360 --> 0:37:25.040 that is? 0:37:25.440 --> 0:37:25.560 Uh? 0:37:25.640 --> 0:37:27.480 You have to just wait and see who that opponent is. 0:37:27.600 --> 0:37:30.040 And you obviously know who's gonna be. What one of 0:37:30.120 --> 0:37:33.040 four teams, I'm not quite sure. Uh, So it's gonna 0:37:33.040 --> 0:37:34.640 be something like that. But at the end of the day, 0:37:35.080 --> 0:37:37.920 the playoffs teams are a bit different. They like, you know, 0:37:38.000 --> 0:37:40.640 everybody's gonna give you everything they got because it's win 0:37:40.800 --> 0:37:42.600 or go home. It's your life of their life, and 0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:44.640 most cats are gonna choose their own. So when you 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:48.000 look at it from that perspective, it's gonna it's gonna 0:37:48.000 --> 0:37:49.880 be intense regardless of who the battle is against. 0:37:49.960 --> 0:37:52.000 But just know we'll be ready, locked and loaded. 0:37:52.320 --> 0:37:54.640 How much of a empisides do you put on kind 0:37:54.680 --> 0:37:57.279 of set the tone for this team and for having 0:37:57.280 --> 0:37:58.920 the right mindset going into the playoffs. 0:37:59.280 --> 0:37:59.799 It means a lot. 0:37:59.840 --> 0:38:02.000 It's about uh starting fast and I know, uh a 0:38:02.040 --> 0:38:04.080 couple of games, uh these a couple of games in 0:38:04.120 --> 0:38:06.800 the past, these past, but that's the regular season didn't. 0:38:06.560 --> 0:38:08.000 Start quite the way we wanted to. 0:38:08.160 --> 0:38:10.880 So it's just about emphasizing that throughout practice, throughout this 0:38:11.040 --> 0:38:14.440 week as well into uh into next week, and just knowing, hey, 0:38:15.000 --> 0:38:16.800 you know, we have to start fast. We start fast, 0:38:16.880 --> 0:38:20.040 attention to detail. You know, on our crap play in 0:38:20.120 --> 0:38:22.000 and play out, no one can touch us. But when 0:38:22.040 --> 0:38:25.200 we get complacent in things, not doing things to our standard, 0:38:25.320 --> 0:38:27.800 that's when you know slips are coming the crack. But 0:38:28.200 --> 0:38:30.080 we just know that and we just have to attack 0:38:30.320 --> 0:38:32.080 each and every detail. And I feel as if we 0:38:32.160 --> 0:38:34.160 do that, everything else will take care of yourself. 0:38:35.520 --> 0:38:38.080 Hamilton, that's her name, don't bro you lock her next 0:38:38.160 --> 0:38:40.040 to him? You've seen him grow up? What if you 0:38:40.719 --> 0:38:43.040 what has been your uh, how would you describe. 0:38:42.719 --> 0:38:43.279 This grow up? Right? 0:38:43.360 --> 0:38:44.960 Yes, in the time you've been knowing him and seen 0:38:45.000 --> 0:38:45.640 him philosopher. 0:38:45.880 --> 0:38:48.400 Yeah, honestly, man, Uh I t I. I joke with 0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:50.440 him sometimes. Funny story. I don't know if I've ever 0:38:50.520 --> 0:38:52.880 said it, but uh, I used to tell him I 0:38:52.960 --> 0:38:55.200 was questionable about him, uh when I first got here. 0:38:55.400 --> 0:38:55.520 Uh. 0:38:56.000 --> 0:38:57.440 And what now, I don't know if he ever said that. 0:38:57.520 --> 0:38:59.560 It wasn't wasn't really sure, you know, not there Dame 0:38:59.600 --> 0:39:02.440 guy would no disrespect anything like that. He from Georgia 0:39:02.520 --> 0:39:04.600 though in a sense, and like, you know, but this 0:39:04.800 --> 0:39:06.800 year man, like day in and day out, like I 0:39:06.880 --> 0:39:08.960 seen him doing a lot of really good things and 0:39:09.000 --> 0:39:10.799 a lot of part of OTA's when he gotten as 0:39:10.840 --> 0:39:12.360 well as in camp, and I'm like, hey man, this 0:39:12.480 --> 0:39:14.680 guy's so versatile, can do so many things, and like 0:39:15.080 --> 0:39:17.000 he's just proving it to the league, like I've seen 0:39:17.040 --> 0:39:19.680 it all throughout camp. So I think the guy seiling 0:39:19.840 --> 0:39:21.880 is still so high and he's he's just scratching the 0:39:21.920 --> 0:39:24.640 surface of what he truly can be. And I'm grateful 0:39:24.719 --> 0:39:26.880 that he's on our defense and like can create so 0:39:26.960 --> 0:39:28.680 many different pictures when he's. 0:39:28.560 --> 0:39:31.200 Out a nickel giving me edges like the best. 0:39:31.360 --> 0:39:33.840 I think he's the best perimeter ed setter in the 0:39:33.920 --> 0:39:36.360 league far as DB's and things that our nature and 0:39:36.360 --> 0:39:38.680 the guy come through in the alley and he'll serve 0:39:38.760 --> 0:39:40.520 you up a cold dish as well if you come 0:39:40.600 --> 0:39:43.279 through slipping. So he's got he's definitely got some of 0:39:43.360 --> 0:39:45.640 my mentality in him. So I gotta you know, he's 0:39:45.640 --> 0:39:47.719 getting out of his shell more and more. So I'm 0:39:47.840 --> 0:39:49.440 just excited for him, and I think there's just so 0:39:49.560 --> 0:39:50.880 much great things in store for him. 0:39:51.000 --> 0:39:53.040 Real you certainly know about Dalvin Cooke. 0:39:54.120 --> 0:39:56.320 What do you think about the Ravens all like that? 0:39:56.800 --> 0:39:56.960 Oh? 0:39:57.000 --> 0:39:59.359 I think you know, obviously, he's a tremendous player. I've 0:39:59.440 --> 0:40:01.840 done a lot of eight things in this league, Pro Bowls, multiple, 0:40:02.040 --> 0:40:05.239 multiple a thousand yard seasons. So when you have a 0:40:05.320 --> 0:40:07.200 back like that going against theim twice a year up 0:40:07.239 --> 0:40:09.560 in Minnesota when I was in Chicago, you have a 0:40:09.640 --> 0:40:11.399 great deal of respect for the way the god plays 0:40:11.440 --> 0:40:14.080 the game. So I'm glad that he's here. I think 0:40:14.120 --> 0:40:16.360 he's definitely gonna be able to help us in whatever 0:40:16.440 --> 0:40:18.640 capacity that is. I'll leave that up to the coaches, 0:40:18.680 --> 0:40:20.920 but I'm grateful that he's here, and I think it's 0:40:20.920 --> 0:40:22.600 gonna be a great asset for our team. 0:40:23.040 --> 0:40:26.040 What a moment? Is there a moment this season where 0:40:26.040 --> 0:40:27.760 you thought like we really. 0:40:27.600 --> 0:40:29.279 Got this like, we can take this on the way 0:40:30.239 --> 0:40:30.560 I thought. 0:40:30.680 --> 0:40:32.879 I think that every time I line it up, every 0:40:32.920 --> 0:40:34.520 time I scrap it up, I tell the guys I 0:40:34.600 --> 0:40:37.040 have the utmost respect, upmost faith in everything that we do, 0:40:37.360 --> 0:40:39.160 and if we play to our best of our ability 0:40:39.160 --> 0:40:41.520 to look ourselves in the mirror day in and day out, 0:40:41.800 --> 0:40:43.799 everything we want will be right there in front of us. 0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:45.480 But it just starts with one game at a time. 0:40:45.520 --> 0:40:47.400 And we know the type of potential that we have 0:40:47.560 --> 0:40:49.880 on this team, but it's about showing that play in 0:40:50.000 --> 0:40:51.800 and play out and game in and game out, and 0:40:51.880 --> 0:40:54.000 if you do that, everything else will take care of yourself. 0:40:54.040 --> 0:40:56.560 With the type of guys we have here, mind, you 0:40:56.600 --> 0:40:58.880 said at the start of the season that you're incredibly 0:40:58.920 --> 0:40:59.759 confident in this group. 0:41:00.120 --> 0:41:02.480 We want all the smoke. You gotta set that tone 0:41:02.560 --> 0:41:06.880 coming into the year. How has this team embraced that attitude? 0:41:07.640 --> 0:41:10.160 Embrace it every single day the way we go out 0:41:10.200 --> 0:41:12.560 to work far as practice and as well when we 0:41:12.640 --> 0:41:14.919 go out to games. We want Catt to know, Hey, 0:41:15.239 --> 0:41:18.000 you just played the twenty twenty three Baltimore Ravens, and 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:21.080 those guys will you know, knock you off, you know 0:41:21.320 --> 0:41:22.880 or whatever the case may be, you can fill that 0:41:22.960 --> 0:41:25.759 in wherever you feel fit. But that's that's kind of 0:41:25.760 --> 0:41:28.320 the mentality we want. And just a bunch of hungry dogs, 0:41:28.440 --> 0:41:30.319 Like if you've ever been on a safari, ever been 0:41:30.360 --> 0:41:32.360 in the wild and just seeing cast that's trying to 0:41:32.440 --> 0:41:35.480 survive and like trying to make their next meal, and like, 0:41:35.680 --> 0:41:37.759 I feel like we have that mentality and we know 0:41:38.120 --> 0:41:40.200 if one get a kill, we all gonna share it 0:41:40.239 --> 0:41:41.080 at the end of the day. 0:41:41.320 --> 0:41:43.520 And when you have that mentality, man, it's like it's 0:41:43.560 --> 0:41:44.120 pretty sweet. 0:41:44.120 --> 0:41:46.480 And when there's guys that's so selfless, don't care who 0:41:46.560 --> 0:41:49.200 gets the recognition, that's the best type of team you want. 0:41:49.320 --> 0:41:51.000 I know many guys or died to be in a 0:41:51.080 --> 0:41:53.440 position that we're in far as like a type of 0:41:53.520 --> 0:41:55.959 team because there's so many just like genuine good dudes. 0:41:56.040 --> 0:41:57.600 But when you get on that field, cats that want 0:41:57.600 --> 0:41:59.759 to rip your face off and maybe cut your hair too. 0:42:04.239 --> 0:42:06.360 If you're listening to The Raves Press Past podcast, make 0:42:06.400 --> 0:42:08.600 sure you leave a rating and a review and hit 0:42:08.640 --> 0:42:12.080 that subscribe button as well. 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