WEBVTT - Jackson, Stanley & Harbaugh Ravens Press Conference 12/23/24 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.680 Welcome into the Ravens pres Pass podcast. It is Monday, 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:07.720 December twenty third, and the Ravens are gearing up for 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:12.520 a Christmas Day game against the Houston Texans. As they 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:14.080 get ready for that game, we had a chance to 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.160 hear from head coach with John Harbaugh. 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.440 All right, good seeing everybody appreciate you being here. What 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:23.159 questions did you have? 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:25.439 Jo taking it. 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.440 Takes of one game at a time, but now that 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.080 you're getting towards that three game eleven day stretch, I mean. 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:33.320 Has it felt like a blower? Has it felt like 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.320 it's going by quicker than usual? Or is it have 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:36.560 you not noticed that thing? 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.559 You know, I do think you really kind of adapt 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.879 and adjust. So this is a schedule that we're on 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.280 the pace. Guys have adapted to it. They speed it 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.599 up and got right into it. Yesterday and today they 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.200 were moving around really well. You know, we were moving fast, 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.480 so you just kind of point forward. We're forty nine 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.040 hours away from kickoff, so it's coming. So the guys 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:57.760 are thinking that way. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.200 What's kind of like, Yeah, and you're just scheduled. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.520 You just workloads sort of stuff all in both. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:12.160 Yeah, the schedule obviously has to change, workloads changed. I 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.520 think the mental stuff is packed in more than it 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.959 would be. Everything just gets packed in more. There's not 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.480 as much physical, it's not as much fast moving. There's some, 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.600 but most of it is just condensed. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.360 Right now. You're kind of locked in on this one game. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.760 But when the schedule came out and you kind of 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.520 look at the stretch, were concerned at all? Just I mean, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.320 they're the premier teams in the NFL playing on this day. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.160 I mean we're concerned about the well being of players 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:42.319 kind of leading up. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.160 To Yeah, not really. I mean I am, but I'm 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.640 not because it doesn't matter. We have to think about 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.160 focusing on putting our best effort out there and playing well. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.880 That's what our guys will be thinking about, and they'll 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.280 be ready to go. So we'll be ready to play. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.960 And one thing about our team is we are in 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.080 really good shape. Our team is in great condition. Our 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:06.400 team recovers very quickly, and that's documented by measure by 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:10.880 you know, measurable factors. We would, We recover quickly, So 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:12.359 I think they'll be ready to go. 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.120 I believe fully they'll be ready to go. Wednesday night. 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.840 Coach last the week, both Marlin and that Court used 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:24.040 the word stabilized to describe what Kyle Hamilton's impact the 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.880 Pins and think they've moved because how beneficial is it 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.920 to have a guy like that which could just be 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:30.040 moved anywhere. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.040 And habit kind of ad that so beneficial, it's a 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.200 great word for it. I mean, he's he's the premiere, 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.720 you know, the great. The great players probably can do 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:39.840 two things. They can they can they can do pretty 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.920 much everything in football or you know, in their area, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.000 and they make everybody around them better, you know, And 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.240 I really do think Kyle's growing in one of those 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.680 kind of players. You know, it kind of it's suspressed 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.720 itself for the last two years, but really in this 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.080 year and then in the last month it's really expressed 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.440 itself because you know, you might think in terms, well, 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.200 he's a box guy, he's he's close to the line 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.320 scrimman type of player, which he is, and maybe that 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.239 he was even viewed that way coming out in the draft. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.000 But yet he felt like he could play off, he 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.840 felt like he he played deep well Notre Dame and 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:10.560 we always thought he could do it. But you say, okay, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.079 well this is our best player in the back end. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.079 Maybe and certainly one of the best players in the 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.799 league at safety, and our issues are deep, so let's 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.160 put him back there, and he goes back there and seamlessly, 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.320 you know, makes a big difference. So that's probably a 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:23.840 good measuring stick for a great player. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:28.000 John Wood good done with such a condensed schedule, do 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.080 you have to simplify the game plan intensibly confessed with 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.919 anything of that nature just due to the time restriction. 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.560 You have, Well, you're probably not putting in You're gonna 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.120 have a few new things because you try to get 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.440 in front of that and have those things practiced already. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.320 We're not practicing anything brand new this week. Things that 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.520 that might be new that we haven't done in games 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.200 before us, things that have been practiced before. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:50.320 So you try to do it that way. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.160 John Lamar, you talked about how, you know, really excellent 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.440 he's been you've seen with taken into or was manuculation 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:58.640 of defenders? 0:03:58.640 --> 0:03:59.400 Would slay forward? 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.560 Would you kind of describe against the subtleties of the 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:08.280 strides he's taken yet again in this season. I really 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.000 think you know, he's he's really a young players still 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.880 in the sense at seven years now. Quarterbacks, you know, 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.840 they play. Everybody plays a long you know, quarterbacks play 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:18.360 a long time now, and so it's what you would 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:22.919 expect from a diligent, talented player who works at it, 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.320 you know, so kind of in every area you you 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.400 hope that a player would continue to grow, and I 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:28.839 think he just kind of grows in every. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.080 Area as we go. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.360 You know, the the whole tree line is getting higher, 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.320 you know, across the board, and you see it in 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:36.760 all those things you talk about. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.160 So potential that the play the Texans again in the postseason, 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.920 does that come into the calculus of what you want 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.200 to show on film against them at all? 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:46.560 Or is that not a priority? 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:48.720 Not a priority you try to win the game. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.640 You know, there's there's plenty of things that we can 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.159 come up with for the next game that would be 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.240 the next iterations of whatever we're doing. So now we're 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:57.960 just everything we can think of that's good, We're gonna 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.680 try to do it. I guess along the same ones 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.520 on your work, Dads, they're asking us about all the 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.080 playoff scenarios, and there was a lot. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:04.599 Of chatter about that. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:05.000 Right now. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.560 Do you have to be aware of those at all? 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.520 Or does it really not helpe you going into these games. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:11.520 You have to be aware of it. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.960 I mean I pretty much know the scenarios to a degree, 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.360 the ones that matter, and then I think you need 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.039 to know it as a head coach going into a 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.960 game regarding ties, like you know, what do you want 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:23.080 to play for if it comes to that? 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:23.520 Do I do? 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.120 We want to how does a tie versus a loss 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.320 versus a win benefit as if it would ever come 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:28.520 to that. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.760 Desmond King, obviously since he's been your returner, has had 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.719 some dynamic plays but also ball security issues last game, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.479 what's the thinking on returner going into this team? 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.560 Right, he'll be our returner going into the game. We 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.560 also have Thiland though, you know, and you know des 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.120 has been a secure guy's whole career. It had been 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:48.560 with us, you know, the first few games, I really 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.600 anticipate he'll be he'll do well, but obviously it's got 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:52.279 to be better than that. 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:52.960 You know, he knows that. 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.120 He's the first guy that Shoot, he was talking to 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.280 me during the game about it, so he knows that. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.360 And that's that's probaby. One learned that from many way 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.279 back when I was a special teams coach. You know, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.560 you want to get that game breaker but he said, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.520 the first thing is always going to be a punt catcher. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:08.640 You know, we got to get a catcher first, and 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.200 that's you gotta you gotta catch the ball. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.000 So that's priorby one Saturday. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.159 After the game, you mentioned how special it is this 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:16.960 time of the year, so I know that the gold 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:18.960 is still gonn want to know, but how special is 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:20.960 it for you to be playing a game on Christmas Day? 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.760 Yeah, it's just as special as it was last year. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.839 You know, maybe more so because it's twice. But it 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.480 is meaningful. I mean it's meaningful because you know, if 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.159 I'm gonna talk about in those kind of terms and 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.119 spiritual terms, it's a chance to to to bring glory 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.080 on a glorious day, I would say, you know, an 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.080 opportunity to uh to kind of shine in that way 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.920 you know before men and uh a lot of people 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.360 are going to be watching. So we want to put 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.760 our best foot forward and do it the right way. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.680 You guys celebrate Christmas at all as a team, like 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.159 like before or after the game when you have anything planning. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.400 We actually had a team dinner last night here which 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:58.359 was really neat and our our our chefs were incredible 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.720 what they put out there. So that was fun, and 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.760 we're gonna have the ability for family members from that 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.080 Houston area to come over for the team snack after 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.120 we do a walkthrough tomorrow night. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.480 Coach during the well after the bye week, he said, 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.679 you all started to look ahead and be game during 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.239 that time off. Have you found that to be helpful 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.440 now that you're in the midst of this condensed schedule. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.680 Absolutely, because we were able to come off a game 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.000 where we were all completely one hundred percent focused on 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.720 Pittsburgh and then the next morning we have to we 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.320 have to have practice schedules and game plan plays ready 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.640 because we're gonna practice them that afternoon. So much of 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.680 that was already lined up for us with our the 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.400 pre work that we did during the bye week on 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.880 the Texans. So yeah, I feel good about that. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.920 Johnny had a pretty big concert at halftime at your game. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:50.520 Was a locker room sound proof? 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:51.520 Yeah? 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.440 I wasn't There Wasn't there a time when somebody was 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.160 out like peeking outside the locker room door to Super 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:57.960 Bowl or something like that? 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:03.520 Was there is there some story on that? Who was it? 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:04.920 Was it the Bengals kicker. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:07.520 He got in trouble for it. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:09.360 There will be trouble. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:10.240 That will be big trouble. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.640 I like Beyonce, though I can't say I'm a huge 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.520 Beyonce fan, but I think I like her. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:17.840 Is she doing country? 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:18.040 Now? 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:19.239 She do a little country? 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:19.400 Now? 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:21.680 They ch some of those country songs will be in 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.080 there probably, Oh check it out. You'll you'll have to 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.560 report to me on that time you win the Super Bowl? 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:28.880 Did she? 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:31.360 It's good to know. 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:40.680 Really, I do remember that. Now, focus, focus, Thanks. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.440 Next up, we also heard from quarterback Lamar Jackson. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.079 What's your favorite favorite to the left. 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.319 We'll disappointing that she's Canna per forming at a halftime 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:03.199 show that you can't. 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:07.480 Watch, Nah, cause i'm'a go out there and watch. Yeah, 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.040 go out there and watch. Man, my first time sitting 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.720 Beyonce perform, and it's at our game. That's dope. I'm'a 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.840 go out and watch. Sorry, how well, sorry, sorry fellas. 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:18.520 If you guys have one. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:20.600 Nah man, I'm not even thinking about the lead. I 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:22.440 was just thinking about just saying Beyonce for the first time, 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.640 not saying that like that. No disrespecting, uh cause I 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.080 know how people can take things. Pause good. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.439 Next question, Lamar, there is a lot of talk about 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.400 MVP contest stuff. I know that's not your focus, but 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.280 what does the MVP mean to you? Would that mean 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.040 anything to you? I know so much focus is elsewhere 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.640 for you with this team, but you're included in that conversation. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.840 Uh. Man, if it do happen, it happens, that'll be 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.680 that'd be dope three times. But like you said it, 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.080 you know, I'm not really focused on that. That's never 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.559 been my goal though, like uh you in the first 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.720 the second one, and it's never been my goal. I 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.800 always wanted to finish with the championship, but I've been 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:10.080 falling short but got that accolade. But I still feel 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.240 like the MVP is a team a team thing though, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.439 cause my teammates helping me get that award because I 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.280 always say that I'm not the one catching them passes, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.839 uh blocking, you know, to help me get these passes off. 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.480 Stuff like that that's off of line tight ends ree 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.640 who was running basket. It's everybody, all of us included. 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.160 But I'm trying to win the championship. Man, that's my 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.800 biggest goal. That's been my goal ever since the little kid. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.880 But the MVP in the National Football League. That's dope. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:38.880 That's dope. Is there everyone's talking without huge josh yeah, 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:40.960 going back up? Do you do you you're that? I 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.520 know you try to kind of I got another trust 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.000 but they hear it know me to cut you off, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.040 but like they tagged me in it, like like you 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:49.800 don't gotta tag me. You can talk about all you want, 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.600 but you wanna tag me to get like clip bait 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.560 because you know sometimes i'm'a I'm gonna say something back 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.719 like that was stupid. You know what, there's what it is. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:56.960 Man. 0:10:58.280 --> 0:10:59.880 I don't care them. I really don't care about it. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.400 Uh the combos tryna win. 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.240 Lamarin a similar band. You have hit a lot of 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.000 career milestones this season. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.640 What are some of the biggest. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:12.080 Strides you feel like you made this year as a player? 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.600 Uh, I don't know. I I really don't get caught 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:17.280 up in it during the season, you know. Uh, I 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.880 probably try to piggyback around the end of the season, 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.400 you know, off season and see like what I did 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.240 better than I did the previous years, cause I could 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:25.679 teaut myself then the most. 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.120 As a follow up earlier this year with Marlin Hungry, 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.839 you called him out on his life and not coming 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:31.880 down with the interceptions. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.520 I think perfect since then catching. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.480 So what have you seen from him just bout the 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:37.920 back from the injury last year? 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:39.840 Uh, him just being a dog. You know. When I 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.240 first entered the league, Marlow had a different jersey number. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.040 I think he didn't have forty four. He had twenty nine, 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.880 and mar not saying it's a jersey number anything like that. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.480 But going back to twenty nineteen when I my first 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.960 season starting, he had the Marlow punts going on. He 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.720 was just a a different type of defensive player, you know, 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.000 and he was younger than and now he's a Vet 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.560 and I'm a vet as well, and I'm just seeing 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.680 like how we are, how we just growing and getting old, 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.960 and it's like there's no time to play, you know. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.760 That's just how I took everything, like I was just 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.240 looking at everything and for our record to start off 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.679 on too. I was just ticked off, and we just 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.080 wanted we was one or two at the time, and 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:17.880 it was like so much going on. It's like I'm 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.360 not trying to see no cameras, Like it's go time. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.240 We need to tighten up. That's what we did and 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.880 Marlow's been doing a tremendous job, not saying it was me. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.040 That was just him, you know, him doing what he 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.040 what he what I've been knew he was capable of doing. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.400 He's just catching the interceptions now, that's all. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.000 You've known all along that this you know, three three 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.440 games in eleven days stretch was coming up. How you 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.679 adjusted your physical maintenance. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.760 Routine, trying to sleep, like, just trying to sleep every 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.520 anytime I get some rest our, rest, you know, just 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.600 rest in my body just so I can go back 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.600 out there and compete. That's that's what it comes down to, 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.120 just getting your body right. And you should be good. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.360 Do you find it? You have to be smarter about 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.839 that now than you did. And you know when you 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.880 and you were twenty one, absolutely absolutely you start getting 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.960 a little weird and tear when you're getting older. You know, 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.640 not saying I'm having that, you know, cause I'm good, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.360 but uh, it started happening. You know, you start being 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.520 like a little fatigue. You might be sore in areas 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.840 like I was sore here, like my sore like after 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.360 games and especially you know a quick turnaround game like 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:19.080 that's different. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.160 I don't want to jinx anything. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:22.720 But you know, at this point, don't jink it. Don't 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.400 sit it. Don't see don't you don't want to jink it, 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.280 don't sit I don't know what you're gonna say, but 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.040 you said you don't want to jine anything, so don't 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.760 say it. Go ahead. Damn. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:36.920 I'm wait, what do you make of just how healthy this, this, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:37.480 this team is. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.360 I mean, you know, Mark Andrews at this point last 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.480 year was looking back, Marlin was still coming back. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:41.800 You know. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.600 I know you were going through some some minor stuff. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.760 But to look around and have so many. 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:49.040 Important for the guys and reserves contributing to you, what 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:50.240 does it mean to to this team? 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:54.160 And how remarkable was it? Man? This like it it finally. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.960 I don't want to jinx it either, you know, like 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.200 it's finally happening. Things starting to at the right time 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.400 for us, you know, like you said, guys, just you know, 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.719 being injury free at the end of the season, that's 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.559 great for us entering. You know, we just clinched the 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.200 playoff last well just a couple of days ago. That's good. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.679 We just gotta stay healthy, man, to keep doing what we're doing. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.560 Injuries aside, do you do you kind of buy into 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.360 the notion of getting hot at the right time and 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.600 playing your best football late in the seasoning? 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.440 No, I feel like that went out mot That went 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.720 out the window last year because we got hot last 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.320 year and we went on a wednes Street and then 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.360 we lost in the NFC Championship, So that went out 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:33.080 the window after that. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.320 But for me, you know, a lot of talk about 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.560 after this last game about winning at the line of scrimmage. 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.280 I think you credit the offensive line for how what 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.520 they played, and that's the last game with another game 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.760 against Houston coming up, and they got a lot of 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:45.560 good guys. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:46.000 Along the front. 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.960 In what ways do you think your offensive line has 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.600 really adjusted to from that week one Week two where 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.720 they were kind of struggling, especially in past protection. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.400 They're just doing their job. That's just how I see it. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.280 You know, those guys just doing their job. They took 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.080 heat at what people were saying cause they're grown men. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.800 They getting paid the player as well, and people talking. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.400 It's a lot of noise they saying whatever they saying, 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.680 like these guys not grown men and they can pee 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.680 for their jobs and stuff like that. They just dialed 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.040 then got locked in and practiced harder. Uh, just focused 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.560 on the assignment and just went there moving people off 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.160 the ball. And that's why I feel I feel like 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:22.359 they having that much susist. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:23.320 Why are you MORTI? 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.880 You talked about how you know the game. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.160 Is slowed down from you, like every year. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:32.000 I guess exact came how was that or or why 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:33.000 has that been the case? 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.760 In in second late when you go from. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.440 Year to year, you driving in from and incrementally on 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.760 everything is in an area of focus, like you specifically 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:44.560 what happened? 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:45.160 Uh? 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:45.320 Uh? 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.160 I feel like I'm improving because each year, like I 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.240 said earlier with the f the one of those question 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.480 type of questions like I'm I'm cr critiquing myself. So 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.320 I'm saying what teams doing to me? And I'm seeing 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.640 all the type of defenses they tryna throw at me, 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:03.480 and I'm just studying old and after that it's like, alright, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.680 so when I'm eating going into games, I'm getting a 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:07.760 favor like I'm getting a feel for what they're doing 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.480 to me, you know, and that's just making my job 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:10.080 a lot easy. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:12.840 Is that is that just come with age and time 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.040 and experience, or is that a different approach like to 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:15.600 the film OUTA. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.120 Yeah, that's yeah, that's definitely just age because early on 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.840 in my crew, I I wasn't critiquing myself like that. 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.520 I'll probably go see what I did, cause I'm I 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.360 just got in the league, Like I just did this 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.440 in the league, you know. But now it's just totally different, 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:29.320 totally different. 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.440 I know that the goal each week is to go 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.040 one and oh, but you're playing on Christmas for the 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.440 second straight year, and that doesn't mean anything specially playing 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:36.840 on that on that day at all. 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.760 I mean, it is you know, it is that mean 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.560 we're good. That mean we're good. But at the same time, 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.520 I do want to celebrate at home sometimes with my 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.000 family now, so don't get it all the time. I 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.720 don't want to be playing on Christmas all the time 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.480 now all the time. But now it's great. All your 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:58.200 side is great. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:16:59.480 Uh. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:00.920 It's a present for everyone, you know. They get to 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.800