Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens pres Pass podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: December twenty third, and the Ravens are gearing up for
Speaker 1: a Christmas Day game against the Houston Texans. As they
Speaker 1: get ready for that game, we had a chance to
Speaker 1: hear from head coach with John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: All right, good seeing everybody appreciate you being here. What
Speaker 2: questions did you have?
Speaker 3: Jo taking it.
Speaker 4: Takes of one game at a time, but now that
Speaker 4: you're getting towards that three game eleven day stretch, I mean.
Speaker 5: Has it felt like a blower? Has it felt like
Speaker 5: it's going by quicker than usual? Or is it have
Speaker 5: you not noticed that thing?
Speaker 2: You know, I do think you really kind of adapt
Speaker 2: and adjust. So this is a schedule that we're on
Speaker 2: the pace. Guys have adapted to it. They speed it
Speaker 2: up and got right into it. Yesterday and today they
Speaker 2: were moving around really well. You know, we were moving fast,
Speaker 2: so you just kind of point forward. We're forty nine
Speaker 2: hours away from kickoff, so it's coming. So the guys
Speaker 2: are thinking that way.
Speaker 6: What's kind of like, Yeah, and you're just scheduled.
Speaker 5: You just workloads sort of stuff all in both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the schedule obviously has to change, workloads changed. I
Speaker 2: think the mental stuff is packed in more than it
Speaker 2: would be. Everything just gets packed in more. There's not
Speaker 2: as much physical, it's not as much fast moving. There's some,
Speaker 2: but most of it is just condensed.
Speaker 4: Right now. You're kind of locked in on this one game.
Speaker 4: But when the schedule came out and you kind of
Speaker 4: look at the stretch, were concerned at all? Just I mean,
Speaker 4: they're the premier teams in the NFL playing on this day.
Speaker 4: I mean we're concerned about the well being of players
Speaker 4: kind of leading up.
Speaker 2: To Yeah, not really. I mean I am, but I'm
Speaker 2: not because it doesn't matter. We have to think about
Speaker 2: focusing on putting our best effort out there and playing well.
Speaker 2: That's what our guys will be thinking about, and they'll
Speaker 2: be ready to go. So we'll be ready to play.
Speaker 2: And one thing about our team is we are in
Speaker 2: really good shape. Our team is in great condition. Our
Speaker 2: team recovers very quickly, and that's documented by measure by
Speaker 2: you know, measurable factors. We would, We recover quickly, So
Speaker 2: I think they'll be ready to go.
Speaker 5: I believe fully they'll be ready to go. Wednesday night.
Speaker 7: Coach last the week, both Marlin and that Court used
Speaker 7: the word stabilized to describe what Kyle Hamilton's impact the
Speaker 7: Pins and think they've moved because how beneficial is it
Speaker 7: to have a guy like that which could just be
Speaker 7: moved anywhere.
Speaker 2: And habit kind of ad that so beneficial, it's a
Speaker 2: great word for it. I mean, he's he's the premiere,
Speaker 2: you know, the great. The great players probably can do
Speaker 2: two things. They can they can they can do pretty
Speaker 2: much everything in football or you know, in their area,
Speaker 2: and they make everybody around them better, you know, And
Speaker 2: I really do think Kyle's growing in one of those
Speaker 2: kind of players. You know, it kind of it's suspressed
Speaker 2: itself for the last two years, but really in this
Speaker 2: year and then in the last month it's really expressed
Speaker 2: itself because you know, you might think in terms, well,
Speaker 2: he's a box guy, he's he's close to the line
Speaker 2: scrimman type of player, which he is, and maybe that
Speaker 2: he was even viewed that way coming out in the draft.
Speaker 2: But yet he felt like he could play off, he
Speaker 2: felt like he he played deep well Notre Dame and
Speaker 2: we always thought he could do it. But you say, okay,
Speaker 2: well this is our best player in the back end.
Speaker 2: Maybe and certainly one of the best players in the
Speaker 2: league at safety, and our issues are deep, so let's
Speaker 2: put him back there, and he goes back there and seamlessly,
Speaker 2: you know, makes a big difference. So that's probably a
Speaker 2: good measuring stick for a great player.
Speaker 4: John Wood good done with such a condensed schedule, do
Speaker 4: you have to simplify the game plan intensibly confessed with
Speaker 4: anything of that nature just due to the time restriction.
Speaker 2: You have, Well, you're probably not putting in You're gonna
Speaker 2: have a few new things because you try to get
Speaker 2: in front of that and have those things practiced already.
Speaker 2: We're not practicing anything brand new this week. Things that
Speaker 2: that might be new that we haven't done in games
Speaker 2: before us, things that have been practiced before.
Speaker 5: So you try to do it that way.
Speaker 4: John Lamar, you talked about how, you know, really excellent
Speaker 4: he's been you've seen with taken into or was manuculation
Speaker 4: of defenders?
Speaker 5: Would slay forward?
Speaker 2: Would you kind of describe against the subtleties of the
Speaker 2: strides he's taken yet again in this season. I really
Speaker 2: think you know, he's he's really a young players still
Speaker 2: in the sense at seven years now. Quarterbacks, you know,
Speaker 2: they play. Everybody plays a long you know, quarterbacks play
Speaker 2: a long time now, and so it's what you would
Speaker 2: expect from a diligent, talented player who works at it,
Speaker 2: you know, so kind of in every area you you
Speaker 2: hope that a player would continue to grow, and I
Speaker 2: think he just kind of grows in every.
Speaker 5: Area as we go.
Speaker 2: You know, the the whole tree line is getting higher,
Speaker 2: you know, across the board, and you see it in
Speaker 2: all those things you talk about.
Speaker 8: So potential that the play the Texans again in the postseason,
Speaker 8: does that come into the calculus of what you want
Speaker 8: to show on film against them at all?
Speaker 6: Or is that not a priority?
Speaker 5: Not a priority you try to win the game.
Speaker 2: You know, there's there's plenty of things that we can
Speaker 2: come up with for the next game that would be
Speaker 2: the next iterations of whatever we're doing. So now we're
Speaker 2: just everything we can think of that's good, We're gonna
Speaker 2: try to do it. I guess along the same ones
Speaker 2: on your work, Dads, they're asking us about all the
Speaker 2: playoff scenarios, and there was a lot.
Speaker 5: Of chatter about that.
Speaker 6: Right now.
Speaker 5: Do you have to be aware of those at all?
Speaker 5: Or does it really not helpe you going into these games.
Speaker 5: You have to be aware of it.
Speaker 2: I mean I pretty much know the scenarios to a degree,
Speaker 2: the ones that matter, and then I think you need
Speaker 2: to know it as a head coach going into a
Speaker 2: game regarding ties, like you know, what do you want
Speaker 2: to play for if it comes to that?
Speaker 6: Do I do?
Speaker 2: We want to how does a tie versus a loss
Speaker 2: versus a win benefit as if it would ever come
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 4: Desmond King, obviously since he's been your returner, has had
Speaker 4: some dynamic plays but also ball security issues last game,
Speaker 4: what's the thinking on returner going into this team?
Speaker 2: Right, he'll be our returner going into the game. We
Speaker 2: also have Thiland though, you know, and you know des
Speaker 2: has been a secure guy's whole career. It had been
Speaker 2: with us, you know, the first few games, I really
Speaker 2: anticipate he'll be he'll do well, but obviously it's got
Speaker 2: to be better than that.
Speaker 5: You know, he knows that.
Speaker 2: He's the first guy that Shoot, he was talking to
Speaker 2: me during the game about it, so he knows that.
Speaker 2: And that's that's probaby. One learned that from many way
Speaker 2: back when I was a special teams coach. You know,
Speaker 2: you want to get that game breaker but he said,
Speaker 2: the first thing is always going to be a punt catcher.
Speaker 2: You know, we got to get a catcher first, and
Speaker 2: that's you gotta you gotta catch the ball.
Speaker 5: So that's priorby one Saturday.
Speaker 3: After the game, you mentioned how special it is this
Speaker 3: time of the year, so I know that the gold
Speaker 3: is still gonn want to know, but how special is
Speaker 3: it for you to be playing a game on Christmas Day?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just as special as it was last year.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe more so because it's twice. But it
Speaker 2: is meaningful. I mean it's meaningful because you know, if
Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk about in those kind of terms and
Speaker 2: spiritual terms, it's a chance to to to bring glory
Speaker 2: on a glorious day, I would say, you know, an
Speaker 2: opportunity to uh to kind of shine in that way
Speaker 2: you know before men and uh a lot of people
Speaker 2: are going to be watching. So we want to put
Speaker 2: our best foot forward and do it the right way.
Speaker 6: You guys celebrate Christmas at all as a team, like
Speaker 6: like before or after the game when you have anything planning.
Speaker 2: We actually had a team dinner last night here which
Speaker 2: was really neat and our our our chefs were incredible
Speaker 2: what they put out there. So that was fun, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna have the ability for family members from that
Speaker 2: Houston area to come over for the team snack after
Speaker 2: we do a walkthrough tomorrow night.
Speaker 7: Coach during the well after the bye week, he said,
Speaker 7: you all started to look ahead and be game during
Speaker 7: that time off. Have you found that to be helpful
Speaker 7: now that you're in the midst of this condensed schedule.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, because we were able to come off a game
Speaker 2: where we were all completely one hundred percent focused on
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and then the next morning we have to we
Speaker 2: have to have practice schedules and game plan plays ready
Speaker 2: because we're gonna practice them that afternoon. So much of
Speaker 2: that was already lined up for us with our the
Speaker 2: pre work that we did during the bye week on
Speaker 2: the Texans. So yeah, I feel good about that.
Speaker 4: Johnny had a pretty big concert at halftime at your game.
Speaker 6: Was a locker room sound proof?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I wasn't There Wasn't there a time when somebody was
Speaker 2: out like peeking outside the locker room door to Super
Speaker 2: Bowl or something like that?
Speaker 6: Was there is there some story on that? Who was it?
Speaker 2: Was it the Bengals kicker.
Speaker 5: He got in trouble for it.
Speaker 2: There will be trouble.
Speaker 6: That will be big trouble.
Speaker 2: I like Beyonce, though I can't say I'm a huge
Speaker 2: Beyonce fan, but I think I like her.
Speaker 5: Is she doing country?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: She do a little country?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: They ch some of those country songs will be in
Speaker 2: there probably, Oh check it out. You'll you'll have to
Speaker 2: report to me on that time you win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4: Did she?
Speaker 5: It's good to know.
Speaker 2: Really, I do remember that. Now, focus, focus, Thanks.
Speaker 1: Next up, we also heard from quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 5: What's your favorite favorite to the left.
Speaker 4: We'll disappointing that she's Canna per forming at a halftime
Speaker 4: show that you can't.
Speaker 5: Watch, Nah, cause i'm'a go out there and watch. Yeah,
Speaker 5: go out there and watch. Man, my first time sitting
Speaker 5: Beyonce perform, and it's at our game. That's dope. I'm'a
Speaker 5: go out and watch. Sorry, how well, sorry, sorry fellas.
Speaker 6: If you guys have one.
Speaker 5: Nah man, I'm not even thinking about the lead. I
Speaker 5: was just thinking about just saying Beyonce for the first time,
Speaker 5: not saying that like that. No disrespecting, uh cause I
Speaker 5: know how people can take things. Pause good.
Speaker 6: Next question, Lamar, there is a lot of talk about
Speaker 6: MVP contest stuff. I know that's not your focus, but
Speaker 6: what does the MVP mean to you? Would that mean
Speaker 6: anything to you? I know so much focus is elsewhere
Speaker 6: for you with this team, but you're included in that conversation.
Speaker 5: Uh. Man, if it do happen, it happens, that'll be
Speaker 5: that'd be dope three times. But like you said it,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm not really focused on that. That's never
Speaker 5: been my goal though, like uh you in the first
Speaker 5: the second one, and it's never been my goal. I
Speaker 5: always wanted to finish with the championship, but I've been
Speaker 5: falling short but got that accolade. But I still feel
Speaker 5: like the MVP is a team a team thing though,
Speaker 5: cause my teammates helping me get that award because I
Speaker 5: always say that I'm not the one catching them passes,
Speaker 5: uh blocking, you know, to help me get these passes off.
Speaker 5: Stuff like that that's off of line tight ends ree
Speaker 5: who was running basket. It's everybody, all of us included.
Speaker 5: But I'm trying to win the championship. Man, that's my
Speaker 5: biggest goal. That's been my goal ever since the little kid.
Speaker 5: But the MVP in the National Football League. That's dope.
Speaker 5: That's dope. Is there everyone's talking without huge josh yeah,
Speaker 5: going back up? Do you do you you're that? I
Speaker 5: know you try to kind of I got another trust
Speaker 5: but they hear it know me to cut you off,
Speaker 5: but like they tagged me in it, like like you
Speaker 5: don't gotta tag me. You can talk about all you want,
Speaker 5: but you wanna tag me to get like clip bait
Speaker 5: because you know sometimes i'm'a I'm gonna say something back
Speaker 5: like that was stupid. You know what, there's what it is.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I don't care them. I really don't care about it.
Speaker 5: Uh the combos tryna win.
Speaker 7: Lamarin a similar band. You have hit a lot of
Speaker 7: career milestones this season.
Speaker 6: What are some of the biggest.
Speaker 7: Strides you feel like you made this year as a player?
Speaker 5: Uh, I don't know. I I really don't get caught
Speaker 5: up in it during the season, you know. Uh, I
Speaker 5: probably try to piggyback around the end of the season,
Speaker 5: you know, off season and see like what I did
Speaker 5: better than I did the previous years, cause I could
Speaker 5: teaut myself then the most.
Speaker 7: As a follow up earlier this year with Marlin Hungry,
Speaker 7: you called him out on his life and not coming
Speaker 7: down with the interceptions.
Speaker 6: I think perfect since then catching.
Speaker 7: So what have you seen from him just bout the
Speaker 7: back from the injury last year?
Speaker 5: Uh, him just being a dog. You know. When I
Speaker 5: first entered the league, Marlow had a different jersey number.
Speaker 5: I think he didn't have forty four. He had twenty nine,
Speaker 5: and mar not saying it's a jersey number anything like that.
Speaker 5: But going back to twenty nineteen when I my first
Speaker 5: season starting, he had the Marlow punts going on. He
Speaker 5: was just a a different type of defensive player, you know,
Speaker 5: and he was younger than and now he's a Vet
Speaker 5: and I'm a vet as well, and I'm just seeing
Speaker 5: like how we are, how we just growing and getting old,
Speaker 5: and it's like there's no time to play, you know.
Speaker 5: That's just how I took everything, like I was just
Speaker 5: looking at everything and for our record to start off
Speaker 5: on too. I was just ticked off, and we just
Speaker 5: wanted we was one or two at the time, and
Speaker 5: it was like so much going on. It's like I'm
Speaker 5: not trying to see no cameras, Like it's go time.
Speaker 5: We need to tighten up. That's what we did and
Speaker 5: Marlow's been doing a tremendous job, not saying it was me.
Speaker 5: That was just him, you know, him doing what he
Speaker 5: what he what I've been knew he was capable of doing.
Speaker 5: He's just catching the interceptions now, that's all.
Speaker 4: You've known all along that this you know, three three
Speaker 4: games in eleven days stretch was coming up. How you
Speaker 4: adjusted your physical maintenance.
Speaker 5: Routine, trying to sleep, like, just trying to sleep every
Speaker 5: anytime I get some rest our, rest, you know, just
Speaker 5: rest in my body just so I can go back
Speaker 5: out there and compete. That's that's what it comes down to,
Speaker 5: just getting your body right. And you should be good.
Speaker 5: Do you find it? You have to be smarter about
Speaker 5: that now than you did. And you know when you
Speaker 5: and you were twenty one, absolutely absolutely you start getting
Speaker 5: a little weird and tear when you're getting older. You know,
Speaker 5: not saying I'm having that, you know, cause I'm good,
Speaker 5: but uh, it started happening. You know, you start being
Speaker 5: like a little fatigue. You might be sore in areas
Speaker 5: like I was sore here, like my sore like after
Speaker 5: games and especially you know a quick turnaround game like
Speaker 5: that's different.
Speaker 6: I don't want to jinx anything.
Speaker 5: But you know, at this point, don't jink it. Don't
Speaker 5: sit it. Don't see don't you don't want to jink it,
Speaker 5: don't sit I don't know what you're gonna say, but
Speaker 5: you said you don't want to jine anything, so don't
Speaker 5: say it. Go ahead. Damn.
Speaker 6: I'm wait, what do you make of just how healthy this, this,
Speaker 6: this team is.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, Mark Andrews at this point last
Speaker 8: year was looking back, Marlin was still coming back.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I know you were going through some some minor stuff.
Speaker 6: But to look around and have so many.
Speaker 4: Important for the guys and reserves contributing to you, what
Speaker 4: does it mean to to this team?
Speaker 5: And how remarkable was it? Man? This like it it finally.
Speaker 5: I don't want to jinx it either, you know, like
Speaker 5: it's finally happening. Things starting to at the right time
Speaker 5: for us, you know, like you said, guys, just you know,
Speaker 5: being injury free at the end of the season, that's
Speaker 5: great for us entering. You know, we just clinched the
Speaker 5: playoff last well just a couple of days ago. That's good.
Speaker 5: We just gotta stay healthy, man, to keep doing what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Injuries aside, do you do you kind of buy into
Speaker 1: the notion of getting hot at the right time and
Speaker 1: playing your best football late in the seasoning?
Speaker 5: No, I feel like that went out mot That went
Speaker 5: out the window last year because we got hot last
Speaker 5: year and we went on a wednes Street and then
Speaker 5: we lost in the NFC Championship, So that went out
Speaker 5: the window after that.
Speaker 4: But for me, you know, a lot of talk about
Speaker 4: after this last game about winning at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4: I think you credit the offensive line for how what
Speaker 4: they played, and that's the last game with another game
Speaker 4: against Houston coming up, and they got a lot of
Speaker 4: good guys.
Speaker 6: Along the front.
Speaker 4: In what ways do you think your offensive line has
Speaker 4: really adjusted to from that week one Week two where
Speaker 4: they were kind of struggling, especially in past protection.
Speaker 5: They're just doing their job. That's just how I see it.
Speaker 5: You know, those guys just doing their job. They took
Speaker 5: heat at what people were saying cause they're grown men.
Speaker 5: They getting paid the player as well, and people talking.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of noise they saying whatever they saying,
Speaker 5: like these guys not grown men and they can pee
Speaker 5: for their jobs and stuff like that. They just dialed
Speaker 5: then got locked in and practiced harder. Uh, just focused
Speaker 5: on the assignment and just went there moving people off
Speaker 5: the ball. And that's why I feel I feel like
Speaker 5: they having that much susist.
Speaker 6: Why are you MORTI?
Speaker 5: You talked about how you know the game.
Speaker 4: Is slowed down from you, like every year.
Speaker 5: I guess exact came how was that or or why
Speaker 5: has that been the case?
Speaker 6: In in second late when you go from.
Speaker 5: Year to year, you driving in from and incrementally on
Speaker 5: everything is in an area of focus, like you specifically
Speaker 5: what happened?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm improving because each year, like I
Speaker 5: said earlier with the f the one of those question
Speaker 5: type of questions like I'm I'm cr critiquing myself. So
Speaker 5: I'm saying what teams doing to me? And I'm seeing
Speaker 5: all the type of defenses they tryna throw at me,
Speaker 5: and I'm just studying old and after that it's like, alright,
Speaker 5: so when I'm eating going into games, I'm getting a
Speaker 5: favor like I'm getting a feel for what they're doing
Speaker 5: to me, you know, and that's just making my job
Speaker 5: a lot easy.
Speaker 1: Is that is that just come with age and time
Speaker 1: and experience, or is that a different approach like to
Speaker 1: the film OUTA.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's yeah, that's definitely just age because early on
Speaker 5: in my crew, I I wasn't critiquing myself like that.
Speaker 5: I'll probably go see what I did, cause I'm I
Speaker 5: just got in the league, Like I just did this
Speaker 5: in the league, you know. But now it's just totally different,
Speaker 5: totally different.
Speaker 3: I know that the goal each week is to go
Speaker 3: one and oh, but you're playing on Christmas for the
Speaker 3: second straight year, and that doesn't mean anything specially playing
Speaker 3: on that on that day at all.
Speaker 5: I mean, it is you know, it is that mean
Speaker 5: we're good. That mean we're good. But at the same time,
Speaker 5: I do want to celebrate at home sometimes with my
Speaker 5: family now, so don't get it all the time. I
Speaker 5: don't want to be playing on Christmas all the time
Speaker 5: now all the time. But now it's great. All your
Speaker 5: side is great.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: It's a present for everyone, you know. They get to
Speaker 5: see us playing a lot of odds on us uh.
Speaker 5: And I believe a lot of people a gonna be
Speaker 5: watching U at the right time, right family twenty sixth
Speaker 5: of December.
Speaker 2: Do you know, like I mean, I think there's some
Speaker 2: up there nows for you guys to win.
Speaker 5: The AFT or do you know any of the or
Speaker 5: do you just not put chick in the different scenarios
Speaker 5: for you guys to win the ANFT North, Yeah, like
Speaker 5: if you have to win or like the Pittsburgh loose?
Speaker 5: Is this game? You win this game? Do you do
Speaker 5: worry about it that we're trying to win regardless? I
Speaker 5: really don't care what another team got going on. I
Speaker 5: don't I'm trying to win.
Speaker 1: We also heard from offensive tackle Ronnie Stanley. Ronnie, just
Speaker 1: what's the mindset going into this game on a short week,
Speaker 1: playing on Christmas Day?
Speaker 6: Just go and play physical, play our ball player, Brandon
Speaker 6: ball and come out with a dove.
Speaker 1: Ronn.
Speaker 6: You guys came off this big win against the Steelers.
Speaker 1: What does that kind of game like that do for
Speaker 1: this team and how can they benefit you moving forward?
Speaker 8: First off, you know, clinches us playoff birth, which we're
Speaker 8: all excited about, but we still have business to handle.
Speaker 8: You know, we saw have our end goal in our
Speaker 8: sites and that's what we're working towards.
Speaker 1: This offense has been playing well all season long and
Speaker 1: seems to be playing well currently. What do you think
Speaker 1: is the key for this unit as a whole going
Speaker 1: into this final stretch.
Speaker 8: I think it's just discipline and execution and focusing on
Speaker 8: the details. I think we're doing a lot of good
Speaker 8: things and good things to build on, but there's a
Speaker 8: little details that we can fix and become even better.
Speaker 6: You know Lamar Jackson as well, you know, as anybody
Speaker 6: you play with him throughout his career.
Speaker 1: Just what is it that in your mind has allowed
Speaker 1: him to take his game to even another level this year?
Speaker 8: I think it's just him not thinking too much about,
Speaker 8: you know, everything going on around him and just focused
Speaker 8: on where he is in the moment at hand, and
Speaker 8: whether it be practice, whether it be you know, his
Speaker 8: recovery day, where there be game day. He's he's great
Speaker 8: at just keeping his feet where he is and focused
Speaker 8: on that.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 8: How are you handling the physical like rehab and in
Speaker 8: your body right unto your short turn round?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, everything's gotta be sped up, you know
Speaker 8: a little bit. You know, the schedule, we still have
Speaker 8: meetings and stuff, so we really get you know, a
Speaker 8: true off day, so all the body work and things
Speaker 8: of that nature has to be kind of fitting.
Speaker 6: So everything's just kind of you know, put together much
Speaker 6: together for you what's.
Speaker 4: Kind of the non negotiable piece of your recovery that
Speaker 4: you got to squeeze in no matter.
Speaker 6: What, how short do we get on them. I think
Speaker 6: it's for me. One is sleep.
Speaker 8: I think the second one is the sauna ice tub.
Speaker 8: Those are two things that you know, I definitely need
Speaker 8: and definitely gonna get body work this week as well.
Speaker 4: So how important has it been for this offensive line
Speaker 4: to be as healthy as it's been healthy.
Speaker 6: As a long?
Speaker 8: I think it's very important. I mean for any offense.
Speaker 8: I think you're gonna need those guys. I mean, we
Speaker 8: make up half our offense, you know, so for us
Speaker 8: to stay healthy and be working together and keep building
Speaker 8: on chemist shoots out the season.
Speaker 6: And I think it's very important.
Speaker 5: Saw this stretches schedule.
Speaker 4: I mean that the three games and eleven days, were.
Speaker 6: You concerned or were you.
Speaker 4: Worried about your guys' ability to turn that around so tight?
Speaker 8: I mean yeah, I think you know, when you first
Speaker 8: see you really don't know. This is the first time
Speaker 8: I had this type of schedule in my career, so
Speaker 8: you really just don't know what to expect. But you know,
Speaker 8: we're right here in the middle of it, and we're ready.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: So I do you like playing on Christmas Day?
Speaker 8: I mean, sure, yeah, I don't. I don't dislike it.
Speaker 8: I mean I think it's an honor to play on
Speaker 8: Christmas Day because you know, you know, first of all,
Speaker 8: it's important day, it's Christmas, and there's not that many
Speaker 8: games on, and you know, it's a it's a very
Speaker 8: big stage to play on.
Speaker 6: So it's definitely an honor.
Speaker 3: I know he plays on all this side, but please, Roger,
Speaker 3: where you put it off this year?
Speaker 5: Would?
Speaker 6: I'm super proud of Roger's super happy with his development.
Speaker 8: I think he's done a great job and he's proved
Speaker 8: that he can be at starting tap on this league.
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