Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: December thirty first, and the Ravens are gearing up for
Speaker 1: their huge game on Sunday. It's an AFC North showdown
Speaker 1: between the Ravens and the Browns with the AFC North
Speaker 1: title on the line. Today, after practice, we had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to hear from quarterback Lamar Jackson, so.
Speaker 2: There was for this MVP voting. There was no really
Speaker 2: debate over he's forty five yards passing away from his
Speaker 2: first career four thousand passing season he has thrown. He
Speaker 2: broke his own franchise record with thirty nine touchdown passes
Speaker 2: only four interceptions, by the way, and even though his
Speaker 2: mother wanted him to run the ball more against the Eagles,
Speaker 2: he still has run for over eight hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: yards for a fourth time, which is a Ravens record.
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson was voted by the local media. It's the
Speaker 2: Ravens team MVP m job.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys. That means a lot.
Speaker 4: Uh my home team, well, this is my second home
Speaker 4: right here, so home team media, uh man. I owe
Speaker 4: it to my teammates and you guys. I appreciate you
Speaker 4: all a lot definitely.
Speaker 5: Morel that a touchdown pasted Isaiah. Likely seemed like the
Speaker 5: Texans defenders worked sure if they should go after you
Speaker 5: or stay back and coverage. You were just kind of
Speaker 5: twaying with them like a cat mouse. Uh do you
Speaker 5: see like in their eyes, like you can read off
Speaker 5: the eyes or is it just complete feel of the
Speaker 5: entire field of.
Speaker 3: Pr pretty much a pretty much a feel for the game.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Fifty five. I believe Hughes. I don't wanna get his
Speaker 3: name on.
Speaker 4: I believe Hughes, but he was, like I believe he
Speaker 4: was doing the job, just trying to cut me off
Speaker 4: and stuff like that from turning up.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: I remember Mark going out of bounce, Zay say Files
Speaker 4: going out of bounce, and likely was just doing what
Speaker 4: we wrik all the time, you know, scrambler drill. He
Speaker 4: was two defenders on him, a corner in the linebacker,
Speaker 4: I believe. And I'm just tryna get space away from
Speaker 4: fifty five cause he was like a tall guy, and
Speaker 4: I believe if you'd just pulled me, he probably would
Speaker 4: have sacked me or something like that. So I was
Speaker 4: just trying to stay far away, f f far away
Speaker 4: from him. As I could but try to keep enough
Speaker 4: balance to get to throw off. And that's just all
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 3: You know, Mark doesn't feel like it's uh lots of
Speaker 3: Europe twenty thirty four, or.
Speaker 4: You don't really don't we feel like the season just
Speaker 4: getting started. Yeah, but yeah, Uh, New Year's Eve, New Year's.
Speaker 6: Eve, man, I mean that stand outs uh to you
Speaker 6: the most about twenty thirty four in your memory.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of memory from twenty twenty four. I
Speaker 4: don't think I have a standout. I don't. I don't
Speaker 4: have a standout, man. There's been a lot of blessings.
Speaker 4: I can't complain great Year's trap relation. Yeah, but i'm'a
Speaker 4: tryn to keep it to myself. Yeah, mor over the
Speaker 4: year the last couple of years, do you study.
Speaker 7: The film and other teams more or less about the
Speaker 7: same as you did earlier in your computer?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: The same?
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: It's like, you know, I'm I'm y, I'm seeing the
Speaker 4: same things a lot, you know, Uh, different ways, Uh,
Speaker 4: different teams, different opponents, different guys. You know, some guys
Speaker 4: leave retired, some guys you know, enter the lead from college,
Speaker 4: some guys on different teams, But it's pretty much the
Speaker 4: same way, And it's not really like me just trying
Speaker 4: to pinpoint them. It's me critiquing myself too, you know,
Speaker 4: from how they played me and how I can get
Speaker 4: better for next time I play.
Speaker 7: But do you s get more out of study than
Speaker 7: you used to?
Speaker 3: I mean, can you yup?
Speaker 5: Yup?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Definitely. Uh.
Speaker 4: When I was younger, you know, it was like a
Speaker 4: terminology thing, like just entering the league and tryna get
Speaker 4: a feel for the terminology, the different terminology from college
Speaker 4: and me being in my seventh year, a lot of
Speaker 4: things slowed down and I'm I'm saying things that I
Speaker 4: didn't see before.
Speaker 8: Why.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 9: I know you don't care about stats, but would it
Speaker 9: be meaningful for you to finish with the best single
Speaker 9: season quarterback creating ever?
Speaker 4: If I'm if I'm on my childhood in my childhood
Speaker 4: mindset and breaking the record. Yeah, but I'm trying to
Speaker 4: win the games, so it really don't matter. If it happens,
Speaker 4: it happens, if it don't, probably would happen sometime down
Speaker 4: a line.
Speaker 3: Almar.
Speaker 8: Since the byeweek, we've seen a big up taking the
Speaker 8: pistol runs. H Before the BIE week, it was a
Speaker 8: lot of under center runs and do.
Speaker 3: You notice that?
Speaker 8: And uh, what what is k Have you noticed the
Speaker 8: benefit that you guys have had out of running more
Speaker 8: out of pistol?
Speaker 4: I I believe it's just the scheme versus teams that
Speaker 4: make us like change it up a bit.
Speaker 3: You know, we gotta keep it balance.
Speaker 4: We can't just go into a game, a NFL game
Speaker 4: with that and just do the same thing from probably weed.
Speaker 4: You know, like teams are probably pinpoint, Oh they doing
Speaker 4: this when they do this, when they line up like this,
Speaker 4: they doing this. It's only a couple of outside of
Speaker 4: this stuff like that, So we gotta change it up
Speaker 4: a bit.
Speaker 5: Or obviously say Flowers had a great rookie year this year,
Speaker 5: he's taking it to even another level in your opinion,
Speaker 5: you know what's it been that's made the.
Speaker 3: Difference for him us?
Speaker 4: I can't call it like when he entered the league
Speaker 4: last year, you know, he was the same, like he
Speaker 4: just got that that the get him, like he he
Speaker 4: just wanna be the best he can be, be the
Speaker 4: best receiver he could be in the lead and that's
Speaker 4: the football league and just try to help his team win.
Speaker 4: And him being a young player and what he bring
Speaker 4: it to the table is like, that's what you need
Speaker 4: out of young guys.
Speaker 3: You need a lot of young guys to be the
Speaker 3: same way. He had the same mindset. That's just wanna win,
Speaker 3: Famar does it? Als?
Speaker 9: Is it like you guys seem to have him poor
Speaker 9: with each other and when you spend time off the
Speaker 9: field and so forth, like how how would import him?
Speaker 9: Cause is that for on the field success? You know,
Speaker 9: and that sort of thing to you guys?
Speaker 4: Uh, I believe it's it's part of the chemistry. You know,
Speaker 4: you guys probably start s knowing, no knowing each other
Speaker 4: thoughts sometimes with certain things you know from field play,
Speaker 4: you know, and just watching highlights or something like that.
Speaker 4: Just the bunding bunding off the outside of the field
Speaker 4: and running on the f on the field.
Speaker 3: It it helps your team out a lot. I believe
Speaker 3: that's just me more.
Speaker 7: And you know, an entry group, you know, the teams
Speaker 7: like kind of go when he the first season in
Speaker 7: the NFL. But when you come in the NFL, you
Speaker 7: heard a lot of criticism, people skeptical or now you're
Speaker 7: having your best season year seven. This still the the
Speaker 7: whatever the you wanna call him. The doubters, the haters whatever,
Speaker 7: d D. Does that still motivate you in.
Speaker 4: In your seven Yeah, because like it's really nothing to
Speaker 4: talk about for real life.
Speaker 3: Just let us play football. But it is what it is.
Speaker 4: It's gonna always be that, you know, once you, once you,
Speaker 4: when you playing sports, it's gonna always be talk.
Speaker 3: Of how good the players, how bad are players?
Speaker 4: He should be this, he should be that. It's gonna
Speaker 4: always be that type of talk. So it is what
Speaker 4: it is. But just keep it up.
Speaker 3: For me, it helps or less less. You got to
Speaker 3: know the early game and you can just go Saturday.
Speaker 7: So how many times is there a part of you
Speaker 7: that likes the fact that you get the first game
Speaker 7: of the weekend and you could just kind of focus
Speaker 7: on what you guys and you can focused on pick
Speaker 7: your business and that immediately playing at.
Speaker 3: Times to the playoff. Yeah, I'm cool with it. I'm
Speaker 3: cool with it.
Speaker 4: Uh I I believe uh from that Christmas game we
Speaker 4: had like a little mini by So I'm cool with
Speaker 4: just getting after it.
Speaker 7: I'm uh your useul past that you know he had
Speaker 7: to you know that brought you, you know, the title
Speaker 7: for about thirteen years.
Speaker 2: You know, there's some younger players in this league.
Speaker 10: How long do you.
Speaker 2: Get do you think your your record, you'll you'll still
Speaker 2: be adding to that Russian Joe. Do you think your
Speaker 2: record would ever be broken up?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe so if you do. The hats off
Speaker 4: to whoever do it. You know, because the records are
Speaker 4: meant to be broken. Is noting to be mad about,
Speaker 4: you know, just another guy or another one of one
Speaker 4: type of generation of tenants aga, I believe.
Speaker 3: If it happens.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to Lamar Jackson, the Ravens Local Media MVP. Next up,
Speaker 1: let's hear from Tyler Linderbaum and find out what the
Speaker 1: local media voted him for.
Speaker 2: In addition to Team MVP, we also give out a
Speaker 2: yearly award for the media Good Guy for the player
Speaker 2: who goes above and beyond to accommodate the media. UH
Speaker 2: as far as accessibility and as far as insight as well.
Speaker 3: UH.
Speaker 2: This year's winner and uh we think there was some
Speaker 2: out stuffing from Jeff's rebeck, but this year's This year's
Speaker 2: winner is Pro Bowl center Tyler Linderbaum.
Speaker 10: Thank you, thank you. Yeah, I appreciate for the nomination.
Speaker 10: Thanks for all the work you guys do. Except for you, Jeff,
Speaker 10: I'm kidding. I appreciate it. All the coverage you guys
Speaker 10: do for the team. Uh, we appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Any questions about winning this Award's.
Speaker 10: Probably gonna like it, so we'll have to have a
Speaker 10: discussion with him about it, but we'll be good. Probably
Speaker 10: a little bit of jealousy. It wouldn't be my guest,
Speaker 10: but you never know with him.
Speaker 5: Tyler, where have you seen this offensive line really kind
Speaker 5: of grow over the course of the season. You guys
Speaker 5: are going into the playoffs playing really good ball.
Speaker 10: Yeah, just I think each and every week just seeing
Speaker 10: the improvements. No one, it has to do with just
Speaker 10: guys playing new positions each and every game, learned something new,
Speaker 10: getting better. And then you know, just credit to the
Speaker 10: guys working on their craft each and every day, you know,
Speaker 10: whether it's a walk through his practice, trying to make
Speaker 10: each other better, pushing each other to be at our best.
Speaker 10: And of course once you once we you know, get
Speaker 10: to that postseason, you won't be hitting on all cylinders.
Speaker 5: How personally, just proud are you of that? I mean,
Speaker 5: obviously entering the year, there's a lot of talking about
Speaker 5: the airline and all the new guys in starting positions
Speaker 5: and how proud of you. Are you of the work
Speaker 5: that's been done collectively to get to this point.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, very proud. I think, you know, it's
Speaker 10: a good group, a fun group, you know, and then
Speaker 10: just you know, all the things that you know, we
Speaker 10: went through in the preseason. You know, losing Joe d
Speaker 10: surely hasn't been easy, you know, but I think, you know,
Speaker 10: he'd be very proud of us, you know, the way
Speaker 10: we play, the way we play the game, the way
Speaker 10: we approach the game.
Speaker 3: You know, I think something would be proud of the.
Speaker 5: Chance to win the AFC North two years in a row.
Speaker 5: What does that mean to you?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a it's a great opportunity. It's that it's
Speaker 10: hard to come by, you know, and just we get
Speaker 10: an opportunity to you know, put our names up in
Speaker 10: these banners. So you just got to take advantage of
Speaker 10: every opportunity we're given, and you know we're positioned to
Speaker 10: to make something special happen.
Speaker 1: Lamar won our local team MVP award on a large scale,
Speaker 1: Do you think he should win MVP of the league?
Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely No, Just I getta see him every day,
Speaker 10: the things he's able to do. Then carrying it over
Speaker 10: to the games. Just a special player. No, it's he's
Speaker 10: you know, extremely fun to play with, just the things
Speaker 10: he's able to do. No, I just I think there's
Speaker 10: no one more deserving than award than Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: So and last, but certainly not least, let's hear from
Speaker 1: safety our Darius Washington.
Speaker 7: When you hear about people talk about the defense turnaround
Speaker 7: with this team and they point to you and your play?
Speaker 7: How does that? How does that kind of make you
Speaker 7: feel that you're You're a lot of people are recognizing
Speaker 7: what you're doing on with You're a helpful you turn
Speaker 7: around with demise?
Speaker 6: I mean, I feel good, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: It makes it feel good showing that I'm playing a
Speaker 6: party and that the big turnaround that we had this season.
Speaker 3: For sure? Why do you think you.
Speaker 2: And Kyle have been such a seamless partnership back then?
Speaker 6: Because of the communication we have. That's why I feel like,
Speaker 6: you know, it's been such a big deal cause the
Speaker 6: communication we have out there on the field in aus
Speaker 6: the field, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: So did you know that before you were in there?
Speaker 5: Forever?
Speaker 3: Did did you? Did you sort of assume that would
Speaker 3: be there?
Speaker 7: Or has that been even a pleasant surprise to you,
Speaker 7: how smooth it's working out.
Speaker 6: Uh No, I kind of always knew it was gonna
Speaker 6: be there, you know, me and Kyle wants to win.
Speaker 6: We wanna go out there and compete and make plays
Speaker 6: and everything like that, and they'll get guys lined up
Speaker 6: and help those guys out like around us in each other.
Speaker 6: So like it wasn't surprised at all for there.
Speaker 11: Bartol Humphrey last week said you might have had the
Speaker 11: hardest job of all because every summer it seems you're
Speaker 11: fighting for a job on the team. If we could
Speaker 11: go back to the draft process, do you remember of
Speaker 11: that of not being drafted up joining this team?
Speaker 6: I mean, oh man, not being drafted It kind of
Speaker 6: just seemed in a dark place, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So then like when I got here, like all I
Speaker 6: wanted to do is prove myself and go out there
Speaker 6: and play football. So like I was kind of down
Speaker 6: for like about two months or so, I'll say, But
Speaker 6: then when I got here, I just wanted to play
Speaker 6: play ball, improve myself and go out there and you know,
Speaker 6: ultimately come and started as I am now. But some
Speaker 6: injuries had came along that way and kind of like
Speaker 6: stumbled that, but now I'm here.
Speaker 5: After your fourth down stop on Jill mixing, Zach Orr
Speaker 5: seemed flying over top of you to the ground in celebration.
Speaker 9: Did you even notice stuff was happening?
Speaker 6: Nah, I know, sir, I didn't. I didn't even know
Speaker 6: he did that. Like we both kind of blacked out.
Speaker 6: Like when I talked to him about it, he blacked out.
Speaker 6: I blacked out, so like I got to my phone.
Speaker 6: Like a reporter asked me after the game, you know,
Speaker 6: did you see Zach or anything. I was like, nah,
Speaker 6: I didn't even see him. So I got back to
Speaker 6: my phone and I checked. I said, oh, this is
Speaker 6: what she was talking about. Well at first, no, I
Speaker 6: didn't know. I didn't even see it.
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