WEBVTT - Smith, Hamilton & More: Ravens Press Conferences 10/24/24 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:05.640 Welcome to the Ravens Prespass Podcast. It is Thursday, October 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:07.920 twenty fourth. The Ravens are gearing up for an AFC 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:12.400 North game this weekend in Cleveland against the Browns. As 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:14.240 they prepare for that game, today, we had a chance 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:16.480 to hear from the coordinators, so let's kick it off 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:18.440 with special teams coordinator Chris Horden. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.080 Good to see everyone. I hope you guys are all 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.520 doing well. Just a quick a little recap from the game. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.840 Very very pleased with our guys and kind of really 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.760 just taking taking advantage of the opportunities that we are getting. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:35.879 Was it Is it always perfect? 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:36.000 No? 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.120 I think there's a lot of things to work on 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.640 because we still aren't playing our best football. But we 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:46.080 do believe and we do understand that that's our track 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:48.800 and that's the trajectory that we are on. Our guys 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.000 are playing hard, they're playing physical, we are blocking people, 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.640 and we're just waiting to get more opportunities in more 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.440 place this Looking forward to this week, you know, we 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:03.440 gotta we got a Cleveland Browns team division game team 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.720 that's uh, that's that's has that has a pretty good 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.280 special teams unit from a personnel standpoint, and we just 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:10.720 again we've got to go out there. We got to 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.560 really focus on us and executing our game plan so 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.160 we can go out there and play our try to 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.040 have again our our best game. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:17.360 Uh. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:23.760 Moving forward questions. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.959 There's only been one team that's allowed on side kick 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:25.360 and you've done it twice. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.240 What what's happened and what. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:28.080 Can you do about it? 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.440 I think obviously the one of the things is, you know, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.360 we just try to we just try to shake up 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.640 our personnel a little bit. Obviously, it's not a it's 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.360 not a situation where you know, it has happened twice, 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.080 but we get it right the second time. Right, we 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.080 got to get it right the first time. So I 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.640 think we know what to do. We just got to 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.080 execute in that situation. We under we understand, you know, 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.000 those are high level situations, and I think just maybe 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.360 moving some pieces around, putting guys in different spots will 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.480 really give us that ability to take care of that. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.880 Other than that, that's that's really it. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.160 It's not a I don't think. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.720 It's a it's a it's a problem where there's like 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.680 this big old fire, uh, you know, and it's happened twice. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:07.280 Against us. 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.800 But there's ways that I truly believe that if we 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.639 just execute the play like we've done the second time 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.359 on both of these on side kicks. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:14.800 We'd be fine. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.680 We gotta get it done the first time, John said. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:18.679 The other day part and got that. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:20.880 And you know, not everybody wants to be out hands. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:25.440 So what do you look for other than obviously good hands? 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.000 What does that sort of need. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.280 To you that that you know what, It's probably just 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.560 one of those situations, right again, I said, it's a 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.480 it's a high leverage situation, right And I think you 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.160 want you gotta just understand the guys that you are 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:38.799 putting out there. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:39.720 One, you gotta have. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:41.280 You gotta have guys that can catch the ball. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.560 But part of the other part is you gotta you 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.680 gotta have guys that are that are willing to you know, 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.440 that want to go get the football as well. If 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.200 if the play isn't blocked and for the most part, 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.280 guys are out there, they got to block guys. They 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.359 gotta throw their body in front of guys to give 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.520 their teammates an opportunity to fill that ball. Other than that, 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.520 it's not it's not too much to it, you know, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.160 when you look across the leaguet, the kicks are the kicks. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:07.239 Whoever's out there, all ten guys, eleven guys the jobs 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.560 to fill the ball and it doesn't really matter who 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:10.040 gets it. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:11.760 Just at the end of the play, we have to 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:12.280 have the ball. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:19.440 The tough ross's waves played by the seas, he's assistance. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:21.120 Just gonna pay. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:22.120 What's that kind of loss? 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:24.239 You know? 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.160 I just think just you know, As for josh Man, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.799 you're excited for him, you know, because he's gonna he's 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.440 gonna get the goal and he's gonna be on the 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.880 active roster. And what he's done for us really over 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.720 the last three years. Man, he's been a phenomenal player. Uh, 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.720 he's a guy. He's a versatile guy. Guy you can 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:41.960 move around and just plug and play, and he can 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.840 play multiple positions across the board on every face. But 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.560 but it like looking forward to like what we have, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.960 you know, we s we still have players I believe 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.000 that on our team that could could fill his role 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.000 and do the things that he's done. So I don't 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.520 think we're we're in a situation where we're in panic. Yeah, 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.600 Joshua was a good player for us, but we still 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.680 believe we have good players on our team that can 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:06.320 fill that role. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.160 The Ravens' offense has been humming. It's been playing like 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.280 the best unit in the n of L this season. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.640 It's been four straight weeks the Ravens have had either 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.280 Lamar Jackson or Derrick Henry went AFC Offensive Player of 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.279 the Week and we heard from offensive coordinator Todd Munkin today. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.680 Been successful putting up points in the first quarter. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.120 I think last week was a real the first time 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:33.520 we didn't. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.120 As we're scripting, I mean, how many plays do you 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:37.800 kind of script? 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.440 And has it changed over the years since you've been 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:41.160 office for here? 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:41.800 No? 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:47.479 Maybe, oh skip the first script the first twelve that's 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.760 normal downs, you know, get back on track and third 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.960 downs is going to be a little bit different. Situationally, 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.000 red zone would be different. You know what came up 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.359 with the commanders that would have been different. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:00.800 We got down there. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:10.800 So with Lamar's kind of command over the pre snap this. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.920 Year, some of you guys have talked about that and 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:14.920 and did positive about it. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:16.960 What have you seen even since the start for the 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.000 year from him in terms of, you know, getting getting. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.800 Better at that ability and making the last couple of weeks. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.760 It's you guys have gotten in a option looks. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.560 I've said to a lot of people, I thought we 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.000 did a great job in the off season of kind 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:38.360 of streamlining who we wanted to be. Second year in 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.799 the system, I think he's more comfortable with the verbiage. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.960 I think we're doing a better job of presenting things 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.320 to him systematically. So it's it's a lot of everything. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:52.360 I mean, he's always had the keys to what we do. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.480 It's just a matter of us doing it better as 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.160 a staff, doing it better as a team, and then 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.960 him feeling comfortable with whatever he's getting us into a play, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.039 a call, a protection, whatever that might be. That's that's 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.520 just to me, that's just an evolution of playing being 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.800 together and a comfort level of just doing it more consistently. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.520 Has it always been like this for you and all 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.920 your stops as a coordinator, to where you know the 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.760 quarterback has as much rain or power on the field 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:23.480 as Lamar does. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.480 Right now, you'd like it to be. I mean, you'd 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:25.839 like the. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.960 Center and the quarterback or the epicenter of everything that 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.920 you do to have freedom to center in terms of 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.760 IDs and protection checks, and then the quarterback, you know, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.240 to get us in the right play and protect himself. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.560 And I think whenever you empower people, you empower coaches. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.840 That's what a coordinator does. Empower our staff, you know, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.400 everybody's involved in what we do. And then you empower 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.280 the players and you empower the quarterback and I think 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:54.559 you just get more out of people. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.760 But they not everybody wants that. Not everybody wants that, 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.600 because then you got to own it. You know, when 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.160 you change something and it doesn't work. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.960 Now, like I've said, now you're me, now you're now 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.560 you're upset when it doesn't work, you know, so you 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:08.800 just got to be ready to do that. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.320 You have to you have to own it, you know. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.080 And when you become involved in anything in life and 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.200 you become more involved, there's a lot more on the 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:17.360 good and the bad of it. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.640 So you know, I mean, that's where we want to go. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.360 That's where I think every uh, every player wants to be, 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:24.640 especially every quarterback. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.520 When you were transitioning to a more like twelve personnel 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.480 and twenty one personnel type offense this offseason early season, 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:32.720 did you expect. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.120 It to be this exposive? 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.040 Well, I mean, I don't Well, first off, I don't 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.640 it's still weak to week. I mean, we can't carry 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.400 over points and yards. I say that every week. I 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:43.840 mean we got to do it this week. You know, 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.120 we've even evolved during the season I think from the 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:52.400 beginning of the year till now, you know, you know, 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.360 without a preseason, you know, to really with Derek and Lamar. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:57.400 Some of that's part of it. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.120 Maybe that's a little bit of an excuse, but as 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.560 you get going, you're like, Okay, who who is it 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:03.080 we want to be? 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:03.960 Who do we need to be? 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.120 How do we utilize our personnel? And that's ever evolving. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.200 I mean, I don't know in three or four weeks 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.400 where we'll be at that point. But we do have 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.200 good players. We have really good coaches that do a 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.320 great job each week, you know, with our game plans 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.720 and areas, so that gives us a chance, you know, 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:27.720 and trying to take advantage of without being too predictable 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.680 the skill sets that they have, because all of them 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.559 have some sort of an elite skill set that you 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.640 can utilize here and there different parts of your offense. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.080 Lamark, I've just got a lot of attention for being 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.360 a lead blocker on Derek's cutback run there. But also 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.400 the thing you know, on Batman's fifty nine yard catch, 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.440 he's the first guy there to actually help them up, 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:50.360 you know, sixty years down the field, ever throw it, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:51.319 He's the first guy there. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.880 When you see that resoname, what does that mean to 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:54.920 the adrest of the team, the. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.719 Players to see their star quarterback and willingness. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.920 To be like that. He just likes to play foot. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.280 He's like a big kid, you know, it's fun to 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:03.800 be around. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.520 I mean, it's it's rare that he had that. From 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.480 my perspective that he has a bad day, I'm sure 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:16.320 he does, but you gotta love his personality and how 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.600 much he loves to play football, you know, loves to compete, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:21.480 loves to win. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:22.120 You know. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:27.160 That's a great start, you know, and that's, uh, that's 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:27.840 what shows up. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:29.800 You know, at that moment. 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.000 He's not afraid of getting hurt, he's not afraid of 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.360 pulling a hamstring. He's happy for his teammates, he's happy 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.440 for us, he's happy that we're having success. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.520 And uh, I think that's an unbelievable attribute. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:48.200 The last three games, there's been some snap issues between 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.959 Tyler and Lamar out of out of shotgun, and I 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.120 think they've all been kind of different. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:52.480 This week. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.360 It seemed like a timing issue with Zay going in emotion. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.600 Is there a common thread between some of those issues 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.600 getting snapped to Lamar or are you just asking Tyler 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.880 or anyone else in the offense to do more to 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.719 kind of deal with more issues. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.400 You know, the ones at Cincinnati where he dropped it. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:13.800 You know, I'm not trying to put it on him, 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.280 so I don't want it to sound like that. But 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.959 snap was fine. The one in the game the other 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:23.599 day is Lamar signaled for the motion and unfortunately, you know, 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.400 Tyler then lifted his head to look to make a change, 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:28.920 and then Lamar was trying to get the ball. And 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.320 but it really doesn't matter. We can't have it right. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:33.520 You can't have the ball on the ground. I don't 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.480 care who it is. It's tailback, wide out, quarterbacks. You know, 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.679 it puts you in a tough spot, really. 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:41.120 Does you know. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.640 And we added to that the anxiety at the end 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.000 of the game. We added to you know, with the penalties. 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.040 The ball on the ground, you know, a lot to 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.360 clean up, you know, really, I mean there's a lot 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.640 of good, but there's a lot there to clean up. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.520 That put us really in some really long third downs 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.480 and got us out a red zone and just like, 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.640 I mean, like, what what the heck? 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:03.920 You know? 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:05.640 I mean, and but it is what it is. 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.240 We got good players that helped us survive that and 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.920 get us out of that. But that's not a recipe 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:13.080 for success, as. 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:13.360 We all know. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.199 So it hasn't been an issue in the totality of 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:18.839 the couple of years that I've been here, but it 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.400 has been the last few games, and we got obviously 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:22.280 got to get it cleaned up. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.839 The second guess some places that don't work. It's the 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.600 lateral something you like to have back in the game, 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.520 or I mean, what was it about that play? It 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.559 was just not execute other than the obvious end results. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.800 It's bad football. Maybe put them back in the game. 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.400 I mean, it's there's no other way to put it. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.839 I mean, it can't happen, not with me who's running it, 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:52.199 or us doing it, or just bad football. You know, 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.559 that's what That's what gave them life. They may say 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.199 differently on that side, but if we just took a 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.520 knee three times punted, we're better off than that. And Uh, 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.720 so that that's an obvious you know, it can't happen, 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.400 can't be a lateral, can't it up with the ball 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.719 on the ground, And we got to get him on 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.040 the ground, and yeah we touched his knee, but for 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.440 God's sake, the guy was carried us for twenty yards. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:16.599 I mean we're tougher than that. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.520 That wasn't design, It was them. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:28.840 No, no, no, you worked with James Winston. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.640 Do you get any time this week to talk to 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.679 Zach about him his friends and tells or is it 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.520 just not anything there because it's a different offense. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:40.600 From now, it's different. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.640 It's been six years, you know since we worked with 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:45.719 Jamis and I was there three years with Jamis, and 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:47.400 I love Jamis. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.360 I mean he loves football. You gotta love guys that 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.439 love football. Man. He loves football like you people say 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.360 they love football. Man. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:59.199 That dude loves football. He loves his teammates. He owns it, 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.600 like when we're Tampa. Never threw us under the bus, 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:07.600 the coaches, he owned it. He works awfully hard. There's 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.160 a lot to love about Jameis Winston. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.360 I guess the list specifically had allowed success against it. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.160 What are some of the things that you guys have 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.880 done to make that happen. And does Lamar have in 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.520 any ways more tools or more counters or deal with 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:23.880 it than he. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.000 Has an advanced all the above, I mean, I think 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.960 we're doing a better job schematically, doing a better job protection. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.199 Lamar is doing a better job of understanding, you know, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:36.360 where to go with the ball, how to. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:36.839 Get it out. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.319 It's all of that, and he has more to disposals. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.959 It's not usually just one thing. You know, there's a 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.600 lot of factors that goes into being successful and anyone 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.040 play that comes up, but especially against pressure, is us 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.640 consistently doing the same things over and over and over. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.240 There was one where you know they overloaded the back. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:59.400 I might have been in the two minute where he 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.080 got it out like very quickly with someone in his face. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.280 He's he's getting better at the anticipation of things. So 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.600 there's a lot of things that the guys are doing 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.520 better and we'll be challenged again this week. That's so 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:13.000 what we've been getting every week is pressure, different forms 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.360 of it, different variations of it. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.520 But now the answer we're going to continue to see 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:19.320 is the goal. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:23.560 To be almost like welcome teams jueling that and Gazi 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.480 they're taking the risk when they do it might be 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.840 better question for him, But is it almost now like 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.360 kind of religion? An opportunity to go against the brig there? 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:35.000 Well, I mean. 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:42.040 Gives you confidence, you know, moving forward, to be able 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:46.840 to execute when teams are bringing different forms of pressure. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.960 To say that, I relished that. I'd rather everybody best 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.240 play four down quarters and just line up. That'd be 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.320 a lot more fun. We could go home at eight 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.960 o'clock at night and not you know, be up all 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.240 night worrying about every single day pressure you can see 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.480 and the players you go against at are elite. You know, 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:08.600 it's you know so, But that is what that makes 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.640 you earn your money is how you protect, how you 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.960 handle you know, looks, and then adjusting to how you 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:18.920 see it. And our players and our coaches have done 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.160 a great job of that. Like I said, I'm I'm 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:22.800 just the guy that calls it. You know, the guys 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.880 are the ones that have to get it executed, and 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.040 the coaches or really the guys that get it done. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.680 Next up is defensive coordinator Zach Orr. 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:37.160 What's going on? How I do. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.320 Difficulty being the first team to go up against someone 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:43.680 who's starting a quarterback and. 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:44.600 Calling their list. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:47.000 I mean we're kind of looking at it as a 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.160 blessing in disguise because what become well we've been trying 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.880 to preach the last couple of weeks is you know, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.680 we obviously got to know our opponent, know the person 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.280 knel to have the best plan to defeat them. But 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.040 it's really about us and our rules and our fundamentals 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.440 and playing it. So obviously they got a quarterback who 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.240 you don't have much film on this year with these 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.520 type of players in this system. Then you got a 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.760 new play call who hasn't play, who hasn't called plays 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.440 uh with this personnel, So it's definitely gonna be a 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:13.640 little bit of unknown, but. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.560 That that just makes us focus on our job even more. 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.880 The fourth quarter of test games, did you guys Shore 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.320 think it forth the gas? Whatever they last seven man's 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:24.240 the score points? 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:24.680 I don't. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:26.680 I don't think we took the uh took our foot 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.560 off the gas From a from a physical standpoint, I 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.160 think we did have a couple of you know, mental 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.080 lapses in that fourth quarter, man, and that was that 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:34.840 was frustrating. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:36.280 That was that was frustrating. Disappointing. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.560 You know, we was happy we won the game, but 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:40.960 we kind of, you know, we felt we felt real bad. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.720 And the thing that we've been talking about the last 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.400 couple of days is, Man, it's it's how you finish. 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.200 We were just talking about just in life in general, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.600 it's not how you starts, how you finish. And our 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.080 our players did a hell of a job from really 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.240 the second quarter all the way through that fourth quarter, 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.200 and then you know, the fourth quarter was terrible, and 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.800 that's what everybody's gonna talk about, you know, rightfully. So 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.040 so you know, we definitely got to finish better. Something 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:04.720 that we have to do if we wanna be the 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.320 team that we wanna be. We have to finish and 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.400 close out games on defense. But it, uh, we're looking 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.440 at it now. This is what week eight and just 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:12.879 kind of like I said, it's now how he starts, 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.159 how you finish. We looking finishing strong the rest of 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:16.600 the season, especially in the fourth quarter. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.600 Zach, I have you seen Marlin progress from camp to 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:20.760 start of the season to now. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.560 Man, I just see, man, he he been working hard. Man, 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.440 Like I we knew in camp was like, Man, Marlow's back. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:30.520 He's back to that All Pro, Pro Bowl level and uh. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:31.160 Crad to him. 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.119 He's been in his playbook, he's been out here working 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.399 and weve been able to move him from different spots. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.000 Played nickel, play the corner, and he's made plays. Man, 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.520 He's made plays. He's been a big part of our defense. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.959 I think he already got with four interceptions. He's been 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.680 locked down and coverage, been great in the run, great 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.320 as a blitzer. So I'm really proud of Marlin man, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.280 just like how he's approach and attack every single day. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.119 And Uh, I think it's I think he sees that 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.440 and we see that his play uh got back to 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:57.000 a high level. 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.520 I think he's probably playing highest level football he's probably 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:00.679 ever played his career with. 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.600 The secondary having those struggles. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.960