Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Prespass Podcast. It is Thursday, October
Speaker 1: twenty fourth. The Ravens are gearing up for an AFC
Speaker 1: North game this weekend in Cleveland against the Browns. As
Speaker 1: they prepare for that game, today, we had a chance
Speaker 1: to hear from the coordinators, so let's kick it off
Speaker 1: with special teams coordinator Chris Horden.
Speaker 2: Good to see everyone. I hope you guys are all
Speaker 2: doing well. Just a quick a little recap from the game.
Speaker 2: Very very pleased with our guys and kind of really
Speaker 2: just taking taking advantage of the opportunities that we are getting.
Speaker 3: Was it Is it always perfect?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of things to work on
Speaker 2: because we still aren't playing our best football. But we
Speaker 2: do believe and we do understand that that's our track
Speaker 2: and that's the trajectory that we are on. Our guys
Speaker 2: are playing hard, they're playing physical, we are blocking people,
Speaker 2: and we're just waiting to get more opportunities in more
Speaker 2: place this Looking forward to this week, you know, we
Speaker 2: gotta we got a Cleveland Browns team division game team
Speaker 2: that's uh, that's that's has that has a pretty good
Speaker 2: special teams unit from a personnel standpoint, and we just
Speaker 2: again we've got to go out there. We got to
Speaker 2: really focus on us and executing our game plan so
Speaker 2: we can go out there and play our try to
Speaker 2: have again our our best game.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Moving forward questions.
Speaker 4: There's only been one team that's allowed on side kick
Speaker 4: and you've done it twice.
Speaker 3: What what's happened and what.
Speaker 6: Can you do about it?
Speaker 2: I think obviously the one of the things is, you know,
Speaker 2: we just try to we just try to shake up
Speaker 2: our personnel a little bit. Obviously, it's not a it's
Speaker 2: not a situation where you know, it has happened twice,
Speaker 2: but we get it right the second time. Right, we
Speaker 2: got to get it right the first time. So I
Speaker 2: think we know what to do. We just got to
Speaker 2: execute in that situation. We under we understand, you know,
Speaker 2: those are high level situations, and I think just maybe
Speaker 2: moving some pieces around, putting guys in different spots will
Speaker 2: really give us that ability to take care of that.
Speaker 3: Other than that, that's that's really it.
Speaker 7: It's not a I don't think.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a it's a problem where there's like
Speaker 2: this big old fire, uh, you know, and it's happened twice.
Speaker 7: Against us.
Speaker 2: But there's ways that I truly believe that if we
Speaker 2: just execute the play like we've done the second time
Speaker 2: on both of these on side kicks.
Speaker 7: We'd be fine.
Speaker 2: We gotta get it done the first time, John said.
Speaker 8: The other day part and got that.
Speaker 4: And you know, not everybody wants to be out hands.
Speaker 4: So what do you look for other than obviously good hands?
Speaker 4: What does that sort of need.
Speaker 2: To you that that you know what, It's probably just
Speaker 2: one of those situations, right again, I said, it's a
Speaker 2: it's a high leverage situation, right And I think you
Speaker 2: want you gotta just understand the guys that you are
Speaker 2: putting out there.
Speaker 7: One, you gotta have.
Speaker 3: You gotta have guys that can catch the ball.
Speaker 2: But part of the other part is you gotta you
Speaker 2: gotta have guys that are that are willing to you know,
Speaker 2: that want to go get the football as well. If
Speaker 2: if the play isn't blocked and for the most part,
Speaker 2: guys are out there, they got to block guys. They
Speaker 2: gotta throw their body in front of guys to give
Speaker 2: their teammates an opportunity to fill that ball. Other than that,
Speaker 2: it's not it's not too much to it, you know,
Speaker 2: when you look across the leaguet, the kicks are the kicks.
Speaker 2: Whoever's out there, all ten guys, eleven guys the jobs
Speaker 2: to fill the ball and it doesn't really matter who
Speaker 2: gets it.
Speaker 7: Just at the end of the play, we have to
Speaker 7: have the ball.
Speaker 9: The tough ross's waves played by the seas, he's assistance.
Speaker 7: Just gonna pay.
Speaker 8: What's that kind of loss?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: I just think just you know, As for josh Man,
Speaker 2: you're excited for him, you know, because he's gonna he's
Speaker 2: gonna get the goal and he's gonna be on the
Speaker 2: active roster. And what he's done for us really over
Speaker 2: the last three years. Man, he's been a phenomenal player. Uh,
Speaker 2: he's a guy. He's a versatile guy. Guy you can
Speaker 2: move around and just plug and play, and he can
Speaker 2: play multiple positions across the board on every face. But
Speaker 2: but it like looking forward to like what we have,
Speaker 2: you know, we s we still have players I believe
Speaker 2: that on our team that could could fill his role
Speaker 2: and do the things that he's done. So I don't
Speaker 2: think we're we're in a situation where we're in panic. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Joshua was a good player for us, but we still
Speaker 2: believe we have good players on our team that can
Speaker 2: fill that role.
Speaker 1: The Ravens' offense has been humming. It's been playing like
Speaker 1: the best unit in the n of L this season.
Speaker 1: It's been four straight weeks the Ravens have had either
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson or Derrick Henry went AFC Offensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Week and we heard from offensive coordinator Todd Munkin today.
Speaker 3: Been successful putting up points in the first quarter.
Speaker 7: I think last week was a real the first time
Speaker 7: we didn't.
Speaker 3: As we're scripting, I mean, how many plays do you
Speaker 3: kind of script?
Speaker 6: And has it changed over the years since you've been
Speaker 6: office for here?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 11: Maybe, oh skip the first script the first twelve that's
Speaker 11: normal downs, you know, get back on track and third
Speaker 11: downs is going to be a little bit different. Situationally,
Speaker 11: red zone would be different. You know what came up
Speaker 11: with the commanders that would have been different.
Speaker 7: We got down there.
Speaker 9: So with Lamar's kind of command over the pre snap this.
Speaker 8: Year, some of you guys have talked about that and
Speaker 8: and did positive about it.
Speaker 9: What have you seen even since the start for the
Speaker 9: year from him in terms of, you know, getting getting.
Speaker 5: Better at that ability and making the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: It's you guys have gotten in a option looks.
Speaker 11: I've said to a lot of people, I thought we
Speaker 11: did a great job in the off season of kind
Speaker 11: of streamlining who we wanted to be. Second year in
Speaker 11: the system, I think he's more comfortable with the verbiage.
Speaker 11: I think we're doing a better job of presenting things
Speaker 11: to him systematically. So it's it's a lot of everything.
Speaker 11: I mean, he's always had the keys to what we do.
Speaker 11: It's just a matter of us doing it better as
Speaker 11: a staff, doing it better as a team, and then
Speaker 11: him feeling comfortable with whatever he's getting us into a play,
Speaker 11: a call, a protection, whatever that might be. That's that's
Speaker 11: just to me, that's just an evolution of playing being
Speaker 11: together and a comfort level of just doing it more consistently.
Speaker 12: Has it always been like this for you and all
Speaker 12: your stops as a coordinator, to where you know the
Speaker 12: quarterback has as much rain or power on the field
Speaker 12: as Lamar does.
Speaker 7: Right now, you'd like it to be. I mean, you'd
Speaker 7: like the.
Speaker 11: Center and the quarterback or the epicenter of everything that
Speaker 11: you do to have freedom to center in terms of
Speaker 11: IDs and protection checks, and then the quarterback, you know,
Speaker 11: to get us in the right play and protect himself.
Speaker 11: And I think whenever you empower people, you empower coaches.
Speaker 11: That's what a coordinator does. Empower our staff, you know,
Speaker 11: everybody's involved in what we do. And then you empower
Speaker 11: the players and you empower the quarterback and I think
Speaker 11: you just get more out of people.
Speaker 7: But they not everybody wants that. Not everybody wants that,
Speaker 7: because then you got to own it. You know, when
Speaker 7: you change something and it doesn't work.
Speaker 11: Now, like I've said, now you're me, now you're now
Speaker 11: you're upset when it doesn't work, you know, so you
Speaker 11: just got to be ready to do that.
Speaker 7: You have to you have to own it, you know.
Speaker 11: And when you become involved in anything in life and
Speaker 11: you become more involved, there's a lot more on the
Speaker 11: good and the bad of it.
Speaker 7: So you know, I mean, that's where we want to go.
Speaker 11: That's where I think every uh, every player wants to be,
Speaker 11: especially every quarterback.
Speaker 5: When you were transitioning to a more like twelve personnel
Speaker 5: and twenty one personnel type offense this offseason early season,
Speaker 5: did you expect.
Speaker 7: It to be this exposive?
Speaker 11: Well, I mean, I don't Well, first off, I don't
Speaker 11: it's still weak to week. I mean, we can't carry
Speaker 11: over points and yards. I say that every week. I
Speaker 11: mean we got to do it this week. You know,
Speaker 11: we've even evolved during the season I think from the
Speaker 11: beginning of the year till now, you know, you know,
Speaker 11: without a preseason, you know, to really with Derek and Lamar.
Speaker 7: Some of that's part of it.
Speaker 11: Maybe that's a little bit of an excuse, but as
Speaker 11: you get going, you're like, Okay, who who is it
Speaker 11: we want to be?
Speaker 7: Who do we need to be?
Speaker 11: How do we utilize our personnel? And that's ever evolving.
Speaker 11: I mean, I don't know in three or four weeks
Speaker 11: where we'll be at that point. But we do have
Speaker 11: good players. We have really good coaches that do a
Speaker 11: great job each week, you know, with our game plans
Speaker 11: and areas, so that gives us a chance, you know,
Speaker 11: and trying to take advantage of without being too predictable
Speaker 11: the skill sets that they have, because all of them
Speaker 11: have some sort of an elite skill set that you
Speaker 11: can utilize here and there different parts of your offense.
Speaker 13: Lamark, I've just got a lot of attention for being
Speaker 13: a lead blocker on Derek's cutback run there. But also
Speaker 13: the thing you know, on Batman's fifty nine yard catch,
Speaker 13: he's the first guy there to actually help them up,
Speaker 13: you know, sixty years down the field, ever throw it,
Speaker 13: He's the first guy there.
Speaker 3: When you see that resoname, what does that mean to
Speaker 3: the adrest of the team, the.
Speaker 13: Players to see their star quarterback and willingness.
Speaker 7: To be like that. He just likes to play foot.
Speaker 7: He's like a big kid, you know, it's fun to
Speaker 7: be around.
Speaker 11: I mean, it's it's rare that he had that. From
Speaker 11: my perspective that he has a bad day, I'm sure
Speaker 11: he does, but you gotta love his personality and how
Speaker 11: much he loves to play football, you know, loves to compete,
Speaker 11: loves to win.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 11: That's a great start, you know, and that's, uh, that's
Speaker 11: what shows up.
Speaker 7: You know, at that moment.
Speaker 11: He's not afraid of getting hurt, he's not afraid of
Speaker 11: pulling a hamstring. He's happy for his teammates, he's happy
Speaker 11: for us, he's happy that we're having success.
Speaker 7: And uh, I think that's an unbelievable attribute.
Speaker 9: The last three games, there's been some snap issues between
Speaker 9: Tyler and Lamar out of out of shotgun, and I
Speaker 9: think they've all been kind of different.
Speaker 13: This week.
Speaker 9: It seemed like a timing issue with Zay going in emotion.
Speaker 9: Is there a common thread between some of those issues
Speaker 9: getting snapped to Lamar or are you just asking Tyler
Speaker 9: or anyone else in the offense to do more to
Speaker 9: kind of deal with more issues.
Speaker 11: You know, the ones at Cincinnati where he dropped it.
Speaker 11: You know, I'm not trying to put it on him,
Speaker 11: so I don't want it to sound like that. But
Speaker 11: snap was fine. The one in the game the other
Speaker 11: day is Lamar signaled for the motion and unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 11: Tyler then lifted his head to look to make a change,
Speaker 11: and then Lamar was trying to get the ball. And
Speaker 11: but it really doesn't matter. We can't have it right.
Speaker 11: You can't have the ball on the ground. I don't
Speaker 11: care who it is. It's tailback, wide out, quarterbacks. You know,
Speaker 11: it puts you in a tough spot, really.
Speaker 12: Does you know.
Speaker 11: And we added to that the anxiety at the end
Speaker 11: of the game. We added to you know, with the penalties.
Speaker 11: The ball on the ground, you know, a lot to
Speaker 11: clean up, you know, really, I mean there's a lot
Speaker 11: of good, but there's a lot there to clean up.
Speaker 11: That put us really in some really long third downs
Speaker 11: and got us out a red zone and just like,
Speaker 11: I mean, like, what what the heck?
Speaker 14: You know?
Speaker 7: I mean, and but it is what it is.
Speaker 11: We got good players that helped us survive that and
Speaker 11: get us out of that. But that's not a recipe
Speaker 11: for success, as.
Speaker 14: We all know.
Speaker 11: So it hasn't been an issue in the totality of
Speaker 11: the couple of years that I've been here, but it
Speaker 11: has been the last few games, and we got obviously
Speaker 11: got to get it cleaned up.
Speaker 8: The second guess some places that don't work. It's the
Speaker 8: lateral something you like to have back in the game,
Speaker 8: or I mean, what was it about that play? It
Speaker 8: was just not execute other than the obvious end results.
Speaker 11: It's bad football. Maybe put them back in the game.
Speaker 11: I mean, it's there's no other way to put it.
Speaker 11: I mean, it can't happen, not with me who's running it,
Speaker 11: or us doing it, or just bad football. You know,
Speaker 11: that's what That's what gave them life. They may say
Speaker 11: differently on that side, but if we just took a
Speaker 11: knee three times punted, we're better off than that. And Uh,
Speaker 11: so that that's an obvious you know, it can't happen,
Speaker 11: can't be a lateral, can't it up with the ball
Speaker 11: on the ground, And we got to get him on
Speaker 11: the ground, and yeah we touched his knee, but for
Speaker 11: God's sake, the guy was carried us for twenty yards.
Speaker 7: I mean we're tougher than that.
Speaker 3: That wasn't design, It was them.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, you worked with James Winston.
Speaker 6: Do you get any time this week to talk to
Speaker 6: Zach about him his friends and tells or is it
Speaker 6: just not anything there because it's a different offense.
Speaker 7: From now, it's different.
Speaker 11: It's been six years, you know since we worked with
Speaker 11: Jamis and I was there three years with Jamis, and
Speaker 11: I love Jamis.
Speaker 7: I mean he loves football. You gotta love guys that
Speaker 7: love football. Man. He loves football like you people say
Speaker 7: they love football. Man.
Speaker 11: That dude loves football. He loves his teammates. He owns it,
Speaker 11: like when we're Tampa. Never threw us under the bus,
Speaker 11: the coaches, he owned it. He works awfully hard. There's
Speaker 11: a lot to love about Jameis Winston.
Speaker 6: I guess the list specifically had allowed success against it.
Speaker 6: What are some of the things that you guys have
Speaker 6: done to make that happen. And does Lamar have in
Speaker 6: any ways more tools or more counters or deal with
Speaker 6: it than he.
Speaker 11: Has an advanced all the above, I mean, I think
Speaker 11: we're doing a better job schematically, doing a better job protection.
Speaker 11: Lamar is doing a better job of understanding, you know,
Speaker 11: where to go with the ball, how to.
Speaker 7: Get it out.
Speaker 11: It's all of that, and he has more to disposals.
Speaker 11: It's not usually just one thing. You know, there's a
Speaker 11: lot of factors that goes into being successful and anyone
Speaker 11: play that comes up, but especially against pressure, is us
Speaker 11: consistently doing the same things over and over and over.
Speaker 11: There was one where you know they overloaded the back.
Speaker 11: I might have been in the two minute where he
Speaker 11: got it out like very quickly with someone in his face.
Speaker 11: He's he's getting better at the anticipation of things. So
Speaker 11: there's a lot of things that the guys are doing
Speaker 11: better and we'll be challenged again this week. That's so
Speaker 11: what we've been getting every week is pressure, different forms
Speaker 11: of it, different variations of it.
Speaker 7: But now the answer we're going to continue to see
Speaker 7: is the goal.
Speaker 6: To be almost like welcome teams jueling that and Gazi
Speaker 6: they're taking the risk when they do it might be
Speaker 6: better question for him, But is it almost now like
Speaker 6: kind of religion? An opportunity to go against the brig there?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean.
Speaker 11: Gives you confidence, you know, moving forward, to be able
Speaker 11: to execute when teams are bringing different forms of pressure.
Speaker 11: To say that, I relished that. I'd rather everybody best
Speaker 11: play four down quarters and just line up. That'd be
Speaker 11: a lot more fun. We could go home at eight
Speaker 11: o'clock at night and not you know, be up all
Speaker 11: night worrying about every single day pressure you can see
Speaker 11: and the players you go against at are elite. You know,
Speaker 11: it's you know so, But that is what that makes
Speaker 11: you earn your money is how you protect, how you
Speaker 11: handle you know, looks, and then adjusting to how you
Speaker 11: see it. And our players and our coaches have done
Speaker 11: a great job of that. Like I said, I'm I'm
Speaker 11: just the guy that calls it. You know, the guys
Speaker 11: are the ones that have to get it executed, and
Speaker 11: the coaches or really the guys that get it done.
Speaker 1: Next up is defensive coordinator Zach Orr.
Speaker 7: What's going on? How I do.
Speaker 11: Difficulty being the first team to go up against someone
Speaker 11: who's starting a quarterback and.
Speaker 8: Calling their list.
Speaker 10: I mean we're kind of looking at it as a
Speaker 10: blessing in disguise because what become well we've been trying
Speaker 10: to preach the last couple of weeks is you know,
Speaker 10: we obviously got to know our opponent, know the person
Speaker 10: knel to have the best plan to defeat them. But
Speaker 10: it's really about us and our rules and our fundamentals
Speaker 10: and playing it. So obviously they got a quarterback who
Speaker 10: you don't have much film on this year with these
Speaker 10: type of players in this system. Then you got a
Speaker 10: new play call who hasn't play, who hasn't called plays
Speaker 10: uh with this personnel, So it's definitely gonna be a
Speaker 10: little bit of unknown, but.
Speaker 3: That that just makes us focus on our job even more.
Speaker 7: The fourth quarter of test games, did you guys Shore
Speaker 7: think it forth the gas? Whatever they last seven man's
Speaker 7: the score points?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 10: I don't think we took the uh took our foot
Speaker 10: off the gas From a from a physical standpoint, I
Speaker 10: think we did have a couple of you know, mental
Speaker 10: lapses in that fourth quarter, man, and that was that
Speaker 10: was frustrating.
Speaker 3: That was that was frustrating. Disappointing.
Speaker 10: You know, we was happy we won the game, but
Speaker 10: we kind of, you know, we felt we felt real bad.
Speaker 10: And the thing that we've been talking about the last
Speaker 10: couple of days is, Man, it's it's how you finish.
Speaker 10: We were just talking about just in life in general,
Speaker 10: it's not how you starts, how you finish. And our
Speaker 10: our players did a hell of a job from really
Speaker 10: the second quarter all the way through that fourth quarter,
Speaker 10: and then you know, the fourth quarter was terrible, and
Speaker 10: that's what everybody's gonna talk about, you know, rightfully. So
Speaker 10: so you know, we definitely got to finish better. Something
Speaker 10: that we have to do if we wanna be the
Speaker 10: team that we wanna be. We have to finish and
Speaker 10: close out games on defense. But it, uh, we're looking
Speaker 10: at it now. This is what week eight and just
Speaker 10: kind of like I said, it's now how he starts,
Speaker 10: how you finish. We looking finishing strong the rest of
Speaker 10: the season, especially in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Zach, I have you seen Marlin progress from camp to
Speaker 1: start of the season to now.
Speaker 10: Man, I just see, man, he he been working hard. Man,
Speaker 10: Like I we knew in camp was like, Man, Marlow's back.
Speaker 10: He's back to that All Pro, Pro Bowl level and uh.
Speaker 3: Crad to him.
Speaker 10: He's been in his playbook, he's been out here working
Speaker 10: and weve been able to move him from different spots.
Speaker 10: Played nickel, play the corner, and he's made plays. Man,
Speaker 10: He's made plays. He's been a big part of our defense.
Speaker 10: I think he already got with four interceptions. He's been
Speaker 10: locked down and coverage, been great in the run, great
Speaker 10: as a blitzer. So I'm really proud of Marlin man,
Speaker 10: just like how he's approach and attack every single day.
Speaker 3: And Uh, I think it's I think he sees that
Speaker 3: and we see that his play uh got back to
Speaker 3: a high level.
Speaker 10: I think he's probably playing highest level football he's probably
Speaker 10: ever played his career with.
Speaker 5: The secondary having those struggles.
Speaker 1: What can the two interception able him to do for
Speaker 1: that entire gream.
Speaker 3: Well, it changed, It changed the game, and we talk
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 10: It's like, at the end of the day, if you
Speaker 10: want to if you want to play good defense, yeah
Speaker 10: you can. You can stop people, get people out the field.
Speaker 10: But the best way to play good defense is get
Speaker 10: the ball. The most important thing in football is the football,
Speaker 10: and our job is to take the ball away and
Speaker 10: give our ball, give the ball back to the offense.
Speaker 10: And so two takeaways like that just shows our guys
Speaker 10: that you can you take the ball away, you can
Speaker 10: change the game. And what we was most proud about
Speaker 10: is the two takeaways Marlon got it was it was
Speaker 10: simple coverage, him just doing his fundamentals, him doing his technique,
Speaker 10: and then when the play presented itself to.
Speaker 3: Make it, he made it. So you know who was
Speaker 3: happy about that?
Speaker 8: Three seven weeks, we've seen running backs come out of
Speaker 8: the backfield and you guys either be late picking them
Speaker 8: up or not pick him up at all.
Speaker 3: Why is that happening?
Speaker 10: And how what do you have to do to County Tea. Yeah,
Speaker 10: we gotta get we got definitely got to get that
Speaker 10: fixed because that's been happening too often. It's been a
Speaker 10: couple miscommunication and there's been a couple.
Speaker 3: Of things that I can help those guys out with.
Speaker 3: Trying to get to some anxietic looks.
Speaker 10: Teams are not letting us trying to get into that,
Speaker 10: trying to speed break and get back out faster the flat.
Speaker 10: So that's an easy fix, and we anticipate team's gonna
Speaker 10: stinue to do that.
Speaker 15: So you know, great with Marlin status being up in
Speaker 15: the air a little bit this week, how encouraging was
Speaker 15: it to see Nate Wiggins. I mean, he played a
Speaker 15: career high number of snaps, made plays on the ball,
Speaker 15: and then I don't think he gave up a reception.
Speaker 4: Just what are you seeing from him?
Speaker 10: As far as his progression now, It's great to see
Speaker 10: Nate back out here in practice.
Speaker 3: Man, he needs it. It's like anybody, any player, especially
Speaker 3: a young player.
Speaker 10: Man, the more they can practice, the more to get
Speaker 10: these games, The more experience they get, the better they're
Speaker 10: gonna be, especially with Nate's talent.
Speaker 3: So I think you've been seeing them get better game.
Speaker 10: By game, practice by practice, and like we like we said, man,
Speaker 10: he's real talent. He's one of the most talented guys,
Speaker 10: one of the most talented guys, especially coming out of
Speaker 10: the draft.
Speaker 3: And he's right on part with what we expect him
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 10: So him being out here practice, him continue to playing
Speaker 10: these games, you can continue to see his level of
Speaker 10: play rise.
Speaker 4: Is he a good challenge to coach in the sense
Speaker 4: that I mean he's been credited with quite a few
Speaker 4: passes defense, but also he's had some of the penalties
Speaker 4: with getting a little two hands evening. Is that like
Speaker 4: a fine balance with wanting to coach the proper technique
Speaker 4: but not wanting to take that aggressiveness.
Speaker 10: Away from Oh yeah, definitely, definitely. Like we we we
Speaker 10: like our guys playing aggressive, you know, and we we
Speaker 10: always coach him up. We always show him what's gonna
Speaker 10: be called and what's not gonna be called. And especially
Speaker 10: at the in the in the defensive backfield, after five yards,
Speaker 10: you can't test the guy. And then any little tug,
Speaker 10: any little grab, they're gonna call it, you know, and
Speaker 10: you gotta spect them, calle. So we try to teach
Speaker 10: our guys to play aggressive.
Speaker 3: But play with you know, play with our feet, and
Speaker 3: play play within the rules.
Speaker 13: Not a ton from Dick Chubb last week's fart on table.
Speaker 13: When you did see man, what did did he look
Speaker 13: like the Nick Chubb you remember?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, he's he still he's still Nick Chubb.
Speaker 3: I mean I saw him.
Speaker 10: He had a run just in a in a in
Speaker 10: a low red zone, probably about the five yard line.
Speaker 10: They hit him at the five yard line and he
Speaker 10: ended up getting tackled at the one. So the strength
Speaker 10: is still there, we know, the first game back, they
Speaker 10: was kind of easing them back into that.
Speaker 3: We expect the Nick Chubb of old, which is top.
Speaker 10: Running back in the league, and we expect them to
Speaker 10: give him the ball a lot more than they did
Speaker 10: last week.
Speaker 7: I think our first is off of the last.
Speaker 4: Can you come back at that secondary?
Speaker 3: It's definitely a boost.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Art's a vet.
Speaker 10: Art knows the system. He played a lot of good
Speaker 10: football for us last year. He had he was having
Speaker 10: a heck of a camp, you know, before he had
Speaker 10: his little injury. So I mean just adds adds more
Speaker 10: depth to our secondary, adds another playmaker, adds another chess
Speaker 10: piece that we could use to help us out last week.
Speaker 14: Last week you were talking about when you need to
Speaker 14: get eleven.
Speaker 1: Hats to the ball? When you were you pleased with
Speaker 1: that part of the effort and not.
Speaker 9: Kind of what you talked about And how do you
Speaker 9: kind of epize.
Speaker 16: That out of here?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean guys were getting hats to the ball,
Speaker 10: and credit to them a lot of it. A lot
Speaker 10: of what's happening is is, you know, we got screened
Speaker 10: a lot last game, and that's what teams are gonna
Speaker 10: do when team see you, you know, pursuing.
Speaker 7: To the ball.
Speaker 10: They're gonna run misdirection plays and screens to try to
Speaker 10: slow you down. So I think that you know, levin
Speaker 10: hats to the ball was good. The effort's been fine.
Speaker 10: We challenged our guys today, let's take it to the
Speaker 10: whole other level. Let's take it to another level. It's
Speaker 10: another level we can get to.
Speaker 3: So I definitely we've been pleased with the effort, but
Speaker 3: we know it can go up some more.
Speaker 10: And out here you just always coaching and preaching it.
Speaker 10: You know, get to the ball, get to the ball,
Speaker 10: Get to the ball, and then when you get into
Speaker 10: the meeting room showing it and showing the good examples
Speaker 10: and showing examples, that got to get better.
Speaker 9: So exactly third down from Burton raid verb was allowing
Speaker 9: him because it's a bit higher than you wanted to
Speaker 9: be guests, what's the challenge of stopping team of third down?
Speaker 11: Was supposed to the first two?
Speaker 9: Just what goes into that that isn't unique.
Speaker 6: That you have pruson Lamn.
Speaker 10: I think the first thing a lot of the getting
Speaker 10: them into more third and longer situations. I think this
Speaker 10: last game, in particular, it was a lot of third
Speaker 10: and one third and two third and threes, and obviously
Speaker 10: we had to deal with the with the speed breaks
Speaker 10: in the back to the flat. So you know, we
Speaker 10: gotta do a better job of starting stopping teams on
Speaker 10: third downs. When we stop teams on third down, I mean, shoot,
Speaker 10: we're gonna, we're gonna. We know we're gonna pretty.
Speaker 3: Much win the game.
Speaker 10: But I think we help ourselves out by getting them
Speaker 10: into third and longer situations where you can really like
Speaker 10: tee off and attack quarterbacks and protections exact.
Speaker 5: But we didn't ask you after after last week, but
Speaker 5: I guess two weeks into D and D back and
Speaker 5: having a game day roll, what has he kind of
Speaker 5: contributed to you and what is that hondoing dialogue with
Speaker 5: you guys?
Speaker 10: Like, Man, it's been great, it's been wonderful. I literally
Speaker 10: just told him that. I said, Man, I appreciate you
Speaker 10: being here. You've helped us out in tremendous ways and
Speaker 10: glad that you came aboard. And I think you can
Speaker 10: ask anybody in our staff about that, and I think
Speaker 10: you can ask our players. So he's been a great
Speaker 10: just personally for me, just a great sounding board for
Speaker 10: me as far as like game planning, you know, how
Speaker 10: to different ways attack offenses that fit within what you
Speaker 10: know we do here and what he's done here, what
Speaker 10: he's done in the past and other places, and then
Speaker 10: just you know, offering his advice just for for uh,
Speaker 10: you know, all the positions, Like Dean been a coordinator
Speaker 10: for what forty forty seven plus years he has at
Speaker 10: I mean, he's probably forgotten more football than all of
Speaker 10: us here, no, combined.
Speaker 3: So he's been great. He's been wonderful. On game day,
Speaker 3: he's been great.
Speaker 10: You know, offering you know, suggestions, just keeping update of
Speaker 10: what the offense is doing. So we're very pleased with
Speaker 10: what he's doing here and it's just as we continue
Speaker 10: to build that connection, I think the results are just
Speaker 10: gonna continue to get better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been in the booth.
Speaker 1: We also heard from safety Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 16: It's a physical style of play, physical brand and play.
Speaker 16: We're all pretty much the.
Speaker 3: Cold areas you're saying Decepber January, and.
Speaker 16: It's rugged football games. I think everybody who plays it
Speaker 16: just had to be a part of it and add
Speaker 16: to that culture.
Speaker 12: How close do you feel like you guys are to
Speaker 12: playing you know, four quarters of consistent quality football on
Speaker 12: the defensive side.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean I I think I don't think we're close.
Speaker 16: I think we've done it, and it's just a matter
Speaker 16: of being consistent with that. It's something that I know
Speaker 16: we can achieve, and it's frustrating to have these thirty
Speaker 16: point leads at our offense, uh and and defense to
Speaker 16: that point in the game. I think somebody said we
Speaker 16: got like six straight stops and six straight scores, and
Speaker 16: that should have been eight strade stops and eight trade scores.
Speaker 16: You know, so you may have looked at the score
Speaker 16: at the end of the day, I think the game
Speaker 16: was closer than it was, and I think that's something
Speaker 16: we pride ourselves on as a defense, and you know,
Speaker 16: I feel like we we have full confidence in ourselves
Speaker 16: and we want to go out there and be able
Speaker 16: to put that on display. I think guys are working
Speaker 16: too hard on our side of the ball to be
Speaker 16: going out there and giving up twenty points for no reason.
Speaker 1: Next, we heard from linebacker Brookwan Smith.
Speaker 5: Set the topic for tackle on Chris.
Speaker 9: I think we saw the NFL's reviewing that for a
Speaker 9: hip drop in the met right.
Speaker 3: Look at what you did think about that tackle?
Speaker 14: But do you think that needs a definition of what
Speaker 14: he to drop this first and foremost, Well, like, you know,
Speaker 14: just send prayers and speedy recovery out there Chris and whatnot. Like,
Speaker 14: got a lot of respect for him as a player,
Speaker 14: what he's accomplished throughout this league, and a little I've
Speaker 14: seen of him seems like a really good dude and
Speaker 14: what i've heard, good family man. So you know, you
Speaker 14: never want to see anybody go down with any type
Speaker 14: of injury. But we play a very physical game and
Speaker 14: it demands a lot and bullists are flying pretty fast
Speaker 14: and you know, but I never go into any game
Speaker 14: meaning to injure any player. I want every player to
Speaker 14: go back home safe and sound to that family. Maybe
Speaker 14: a little sore, but other than that, I definitely want
Speaker 14: you to go back home to the family all safe
Speaker 14: and sound. That's not really something to discuss in this moment.
Speaker 9: So, yeah, how do you kind of take this game
Speaker 9: where you guys obviously had to stretches defensive really dominant,
Speaker 9: you know, cause turnovers could have had a few more.
Speaker 9: But then obviously the fourth quarter when haywired. How do
Speaker 9: you kind of take those two things?
Speaker 14: Yeah, absolutely, you just have to take the positives from it,
Speaker 14: and just knowing how many of those mbps big opportunities
Speaker 14: that we did miss out on in the game, and
Speaker 14: just knowing if those things would have happened, how like
Speaker 14: how much it would change the outcome of the game.
Speaker 14: So when you think about it from that perspective, and
Speaker 14: then the little things that did come to bite us,
Speaker 14: just honing in on the small details want to get
Speaker 14: laid in the game, and just having that ball constrictive mindset,
Speaker 14: like just squeezing the life out of each and every
Speaker 14: team and individual when they out there on the field
Speaker 14: against us. We're quiting a.
Speaker 4: Few approach preparation for a game like this where you've
Speaker 4: got a starting quarterback who hasn't started for this team,
Speaker 4: has it started very much over the last few years.
Speaker 4: And you'll also have a new play caller. I mean,
Speaker 4: I mean, how much more challenging.
Speaker 15: Does that make preparation?
Speaker 3: Just maybe dealing with a.
Speaker 4: Little bit more unknown than usual.
Speaker 14: Honestly, I don't think it makes anything tougher. I think
Speaker 14: it just allows let's just go out and be ourselves,
Speaker 14: play our defense, you know, and you know, humans are
Speaker 14: creatures of tendencies and habits and things like that so
Speaker 14: new play call of things may have been been a
Speaker 14: little different U in down and business and things like that,
Speaker 14: but it's more of just coming out playing our brand
Speaker 14: of UH football. But got a lot of respect for
Speaker 14: UH Winston and uh you know the career he's had,
Speaker 14: UH Hosman Winner, you know, done a lot of great things,
Speaker 14: and as well as with Chubb coming back, expecting his
Speaker 14: stuffload to come a little more and obviously got utmost
Speaker 14: expect for a guy like Chubb because I know how
Speaker 14: you work and the.
Speaker 6: Type of guy that he is.
Speaker 12: Bro Horn, you talk about the physicality of the game,
Speaker 12: look at these division matchups in the AFC North, I mean,
Speaker 12: how physical do do you feel like these games the
Speaker 12: physicality gets ratchet a.
Speaker 3: Little bit more than you tube, Oh, no doubt about it.
Speaker 14: I think, like truth be told, I think like going
Speaker 14: against Cleveland and Pittsburgh, those like like two of the
Speaker 14: most physical games of the year, regardless of who you
Speaker 14: play it. And I think that's just what the AFC
Speaker 14: North UH football is all about. So I pride myself
Speaker 14: on fit and I'm sure a lot of those guys
Speaker 14: do the same. And I know for a fact the
Speaker 14: guys in his locker room propping themselves on physicality. So
Speaker 14: it's about who's gonna be more physical uh Sunday and
Speaker 14: that's who will win the game?
Speaker 9: Brochuble together with your opsit pretty well just kind of
Speaker 9: what have you you know, seem like come back and
Speaker 9: then how are you guys preparing to to face obviously team.
Speaker 6: That he very well?
Speaker 14: Yeah, no, absolutely, Like I said, a lot of respect
Speaker 14: for Chubb and everything he's accomplished throughout his career, uh
Speaker 14: and what he will accomplish and yeah, just knowing last
Speaker 14: week with his first game back and then expecting his
Speaker 14: workload to uh to go up a little bit more
Speaker 14: this week. And with that being said, you know, stopping
Speaker 14: and run that's our goal each and every week, making
Speaker 14: a team one dimensional and if I feel if we
Speaker 14: do that, take the run away, then we can have
Speaker 14: some fun.
Speaker 8: Bro.
Speaker 1: What do you see from maryl and his two packs?
Speaker 5: And how do you feel like he's progressed the season
Speaker 5: or since camping?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Man, they used to say he had uh hands like
Speaker 14: a snake, but uh uh now man, I got the
Speaker 14: guy got on the jug, so he's he's he's been
Speaker 14: catching him, but I'm guy's been busting his tail. Uh,
Speaker 14: the way he's been throughout Camp OTA's and throughout the season. Man,
Speaker 14: the guys just honed in, focused on the details and
Speaker 14: just trying to, you know, take the team to that
Speaker 14: next level. And I think the way he's been playing
Speaker 14: has been huge for our defense and we're definitely are
Speaker 14: gonna need him along the stretch.
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