Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: January twenty ninth. The Ravens fell to the Chiefs in
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship on Sunday, and today the team had
Speaker 1: a team meeting and then they cleaned out their lockers.
Speaker 2: To head into the offseason.
Speaker 1: There's lots of questions for the Ravens as they head
Speaker 1: into this offseason. Today we heard from some of the
Speaker 1: key players, including safety Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 3: Kyle looked like you were kind of biting through speakers.
Speaker 4: I guess everyone does all year, but what specifically are
Speaker 4: you feeling for their physically and how'd.
Speaker 5: You come out of the game.
Speaker 6: You know, just typical AFC Championship injuries. You know everybody's
Speaker 6: heard at this point of the years. Everybody's got something.
Speaker 6: So just bumps a bruces up, all right, though.
Speaker 7: Kyle's sae like this the reality of the moment that
Speaker 7: you know the season's over despite having a year that.
Speaker 4: You guys have had.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's abrupt.
Speaker 6: You know you never planned on, especially in our case,
Speaker 6: we weren't planning on you know, having locked clean out today.
Speaker 6: But uh, things that go our way, and you know,
Speaker 6: we gotta learn from it become better for it.
Speaker 4: Uh, how do you view the future?
Speaker 9: I mean, you can stabish yourself.
Speaker 4: It's obviously one of the best players.
Speaker 3: On this team.
Speaker 10: How do you view the the future of this team?
Speaker 1: And and your role would be even a piece of that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's just gonna be about consistency for me.
Speaker 6: You know, I feel like I said a good foundation
Speaker 6: this year, but uh, it's what have you done for
Speaker 6: me lately in this league? So gonna try to build
Speaker 6: on it next year and going forward. But some i'a
Speaker 6: look back on and be proud of and just hope
Speaker 6: for better next year.
Speaker 8: We start building off that question. What do you think
Speaker 8: you how do you think it change?
Speaker 11: Does maybe a leader of this team, obviously a leading
Speaker 11: play make for this team? Do you feel different this year?
Speaker 8: I I would just say with my play.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I think I try to go out there and
Speaker 6: be a energy guy and just allow guys to build
Speaker 6: off what I'm doing on the field, whether it's making
Speaker 6: him play, you know, communicating, getting guys confidence, stuff like that.
Speaker 6: And I feel like that's something that I've grown into
Speaker 6: this year terms vocally, I feel like I could build
Speaker 6: on that a little more going into you know, I'm
Speaker 6: still twenty two and trying to uh find away in
Speaker 6: that sense, but you know you got.
Speaker 8: Time for that.
Speaker 1: What's your top part?
Speaker 11: Where's going to.
Speaker 8: Golf?
Speaker 12: Probably right now?
Speaker 13: How does the the feeling that you know a lot's
Speaker 13: gonna change or the least the players of free agency,
Speaker 13: you know, just about coaching staff? Does that make today?
Speaker 2: That that reality kind of sinking yids?
Speaker 11: That make the day?
Speaker 8: You can tumber?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's it's part of this, uh, this league.
Speaker 6: You know, no, no team's the same, uh year and
Speaker 6: year out. And uh, Luckily for us we got a
Speaker 6: group of core guys. You're gonna still be here, but
Speaker 6: you know, we're losing a lot at the same time,
Speaker 6: and it's that's happening everybody around the league. So it's
Speaker 6: up to us to just lock back in no matter
Speaker 6: who's coaching, doesn't matter who's playing with us, you know,
Speaker 6: the the mission stays the same. And uh, I think
Speaker 6: we're all about it on that.
Speaker 14: Oh when you see some of the stuff that just
Speaker 14: set it on the morder in the redg of this game,
Speaker 14: and Stephen, you see stuff like that, what's your reppen?
Speaker 6: I don't really have any reaction to Honestly, it's you know,
Speaker 6: it's just talking heads at this point. You know, they
Speaker 6: got a job to do, I guess, and they gotta
Speaker 6: get views and stuff like that. But I don't think
Speaker 6: Lamark Harris, no, I, nor do ODD care what other
Speaker 6: people have to say outside of this building. So you know,
Speaker 6: they can say he's the best quarterback every one week
Speaker 6: and then next week say whatever they want to say.
Speaker 6: But I mean that just comes with the territory, you know,
Speaker 6: heavy as the head that wears the ground. So there's
Speaker 6: a lot of people out there hoping for people like
Speaker 6: with Martin Phield, but we all know that he's the
Speaker 6: best player in this league and I'm glad to have
Speaker 6: mine team.
Speaker 2: That was safety Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 1: We also heard from linebacker Patrick Queen, who is heading
Speaker 1: into free agency this offseason.
Speaker 15: Come to realize what happened and how close you were
Speaker 15: in just misunfortunate. You know, stuff happens, and we wanted
Speaker 15: to be on the other side and we just wasn't.
Speaker 15: So there's nothing to do. We all long, you know,
Speaker 15: now it's just a time to learn from and improved
Speaker 15: from it, and you know, just get better.
Speaker 9: Patrick, You've been a part of a few of these
Speaker 9: clean outs. Now, how does this day feel different than
Speaker 9: the ones previous?
Speaker 15: Feels the same. Honestly, anytime you lose, alright, you gotta
Speaker 15: go home and feel the same.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 15: Never good. Uh, it's just tough, honestly. You know, all
Speaker 15: the guys that you work around, you know all that
Speaker 15: common goal that y'all share, you know, you just didn't
Speaker 15: reach it.
Speaker 8: So it it definitely sucks.
Speaker 9: I was in the locker room yesterday. I noticed you
Speaker 9: were one of the last ones out of there last night.
Speaker 8: You talking with Lamar for a while.
Speaker 9: Any any reason to that? I mean, were you kind
Speaker 9: of taking it all in y you know, you don't
Speaker 9: obviously know what the future holes with you and the
Speaker 9: organization you you did, you know, hang around a little
Speaker 9: bit longer last night. Any reason for that?
Speaker 15: Yeah, we were just talking about like just not letting
Speaker 15: his moment get us twice. You know, my future uncertain, uh,
Speaker 15: and you know if I am playing with him again,
Speaker 15: then we just don't want let that happen to us again.
Speaker 15: I definitely wouldn't wanted it to happen if I'd do
Speaker 15: go somewhere else. So it was just basically I was
Speaker 15: just uh keeping each other his in it. Uh, just
Speaker 15: knowing that it's off season, just to get better.
Speaker 7: Patrick Gobs, like you said that you don't know what's
Speaker 7: gonna happen in the future, but do you do you
Speaker 7: wanna be here?
Speaker 15: Uh? I mean yeah, of course, you know just where
Speaker 15: I started it at, so it definitely be nice to
Speaker 15: come back. But at the same time, you know, I
Speaker 15: just I just gotta do it best for me, do
Speaker 15: it best for my family, and then they gotta do
Speaker 15: its best for them on the other side too as well.
Speaker 15: So you know wherever that leads to. I I th
Speaker 15: it's it's up to God.
Speaker 1: How how do you plan to approach that process?
Speaker 15: Just pray on it, uh, I think try to do
Speaker 15: too much myself, too much thinking myself or with other people.
Speaker 15: I think, Uh, it's it's a lot of words, starts
Speaker 15: happening and stuff. So I'm just pray on it, leave
Speaker 15: it to God, and whatever happen happens it.
Speaker 1: How pleased were you with I mean, you had a
Speaker 1: great season, you know, uh, played at such a high level.
Speaker 1: How how pleased were you to deliver that kind of season?
Speaker 1: You know obviously in a contract here?
Speaker 15: Yeah, Uh, I wish I had to did a little
Speaker 15: bit better, uh with like a turner or something yesterday.
Speaker 15: I think that's my only r only regret is not
Speaker 15: being able to get the ball at least once uh
Speaker 15: to give our office has done a chance. So you know,
Speaker 15: I feel, you know, great about the whole season up
Speaker 15: to until that point yesterday end. It's unfortunately what happened,
Speaker 15: but definitely feel great.
Speaker 11: And how yo you at you with the brooke want
Speaker 11: because it so gynastic as one Packer's the last season
Speaker 11: and a half. And what what about patting.
Speaker 12: Browonta's team changed your career?
Speaker 11: And and is it kind of hard to kind of
Speaker 11: think of out here in a certain team when he
Speaker 11: feels like you.
Speaker 8: Took down something.
Speaker 15: He definitely taught me a lot. He taught me how
Speaker 15: to lead, taught me how to you know, be who's
Speaker 15: supposed to be on the field. Uh, and the off
Speaker 15: the field as well. It's just it's so much stuff
Speaker 15: he taught me, man I it could go on for days.
Speaker 8: Bruh.
Speaker 15: The just a great dude, great guy, a great teammate,
Speaker 15: everything that you want the leader. And you know, there's
Speaker 15: definitely stuff that I'll take with me for the rest
Speaker 15: of my life, even if I'm not here, then he
Speaker 15: taught me. Cause the dude, here's a reason why he
Speaker 15: got what he got and why he's here. So just
Speaker 15: just all the respect to him.
Speaker 14: How tri had you ever one of the many free
Speaker 14: agents or have you guys talked about how this do
Speaker 14: you pick up a lot different next year?
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's w that was the whole talk. That's the
Speaker 15: why we wanted to get to where we wanted to
Speaker 15: get to. So we definitely talked about it already and
Speaker 15: everybody already knew. So that's why definitely s s things
Speaker 15: a lot.
Speaker 14: Patrick, given that, though, how long was it take for
Speaker 14: you to get over?
Speaker 12: Especially give it him a certain to you these opportunities
Speaker 12: speaks or.
Speaker 8: Is there.
Speaker 15: Takes probably the whole off season, honestly, just you don't
Speaker 15: wanna lose like that. Honestly, it's just too close to
Speaker 15: two of us grabs. Just too many opportunities that we
Speaker 15: had to be able to capitalize that we didn't. So, uh,
Speaker 15: that's what stings the most, and that's why it just
Speaker 15: takes so long to get over, cause you don't get
Speaker 15: another chance until the next sicon start, and then you
Speaker 15: gotta make your way there again. Can you you even
Speaker 15: get a chance.
Speaker 8: So that's why it hurts kW W do you guys
Speaker 8: need this? So you had a team today and what
Speaker 8: was the message? Just learn from it?
Speaker 15: You know, God doesn't make mistakes, and you know whenever
Speaker 15: you're called on by him, that's when your time will come.
Speaker 15: So there's nothing to do all long. You just gotta
Speaker 15: live with it, learn from him.
Speaker 8: Were you able to talk to your family after the game? Yeah?
Speaker 7: What did they have to stay for 'em?
Speaker 8: Yeah? They was happy, happy this could be just proud
Speaker 8: of me.
Speaker 15: Uh, definitely slung, definitely slung a definitely crowd a little
Speaker 15: be in the car or at my card Lan embracement
Speaker 15: and stuff, but uh, it was definitely Uh good moments
Speaker 15: with him.
Speaker 3: Gotch's paving like mcviolens in the bigs for like aliant
Speaker 3: coaching positions, work with He's been there for you as.
Speaker 16: You kind of start.
Speaker 8: I never hope at Baltimore's he stays. But what something
Speaker 8: to you to get against? Uh?
Speaker 15: I think he is the best candidate out there right now.
Speaker 15: I don't think nobody doesn't like him, Nobody cares like him. Uh,
Speaker 15: nobody will do what he does. He will not rest
Speaker 15: until he has everything right. So whoever gets him if
Speaker 15: he leaves, uh, he probably is getting like the best
Speaker 15: candidate out there. I mean the guys all around. Just
Speaker 15: the best person I've been around, coach wise, person wise,
Speaker 15: and just you know, he really cares. He truly cares
Speaker 15: about the players, the people around the organization, and the fans.
Speaker 2: That was linebacker Patrick Queen.
Speaker 1: Another free agent who sets to hit the market this
Speaker 1: year is safety Gino Stone. Year.
Speaker 8: Work it out. It may not be that I mean,
Speaker 8: but it's a he's kind of a special situation. Yeah.
Speaker 12: Nah, you know, like I said, I'm just gonna wait
Speaker 12: and see.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 17: You know, sometime I was talking to my agent and
Speaker 17: you know, talk with teams about but you know, I'm
Speaker 17: not gonna try to think about it right now at
Speaker 17: the end of the day. Uh you know, I I know,
Speaker 17: I I wanna know what my what my value is
Speaker 17: and stuff like that. But uh, it is what it is.
Speaker 18: You know.
Speaker 12: I appreciate, I appreciate this organization.
Speaker 17: No I I I know my role is my role
Speaker 17: here and uh, you know, whatever the opportunity I get next,
Speaker 17: whatever it is, if I'm here, b back here or
Speaker 17: somewhere else, you know, at the.
Speaker 12: End of the day, I'm just would still be me.
Speaker 13: Would you like to.
Speaker 8: Stay your Is it or is it against something You're
Speaker 8: just have to kind of wig?
Speaker 12: No, it's probably something just got away, you know.
Speaker 17: I I love this organization a lot, but at the
Speaker 17: end of the day, it's you know, I gotta wait
Speaker 17: my options, you know.
Speaker 12: Uh, you know, you just a business. You gotta do
Speaker 12: is best for you.
Speaker 8: Ha.
Speaker 2: How do you just you know, how do you look
Speaker 2: at this season?
Speaker 1: You obviously establish stuff as a playmaker kimber of his picks,
Speaker 1: How do you view the season.
Speaker 4: As a hole for you?
Speaker 12: No, I'm just, like I said, I'm appreciative of of it.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 17: I never I mean, I didn't think I was gonna
Speaker 17: have this type of season, but you know, the be uh,
Speaker 17: the breakout like this and have the type of year
Speaker 17: I had and impact I had on this team and
Speaker 17: this defense. You know, I'm always grateful for uh, you know,
Speaker 17: I'm I'm I'm blessed honestly, but you know, just I'm
Speaker 17: just happy for the year we that we had as
Speaker 17: a as a team. You know, but like I said,
Speaker 17: we felt one one game short, so you know, it
Speaker 17: kind of sucks.
Speaker 8: Did y.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like with the the type of year
Speaker 1: you had, he production you had, you kind of show
Speaker 1: the entire league of what you're capable of and that
Speaker 1: you could be a you can be a starter and
Speaker 1: a play maker.
Speaker 8: In this league.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean I j I mean I always felt
Speaker 17: like that. I mean, nah, I just kind of showed
Speaker 17: it this year. So you know, no matter how the
Speaker 17: teams view me or whoever reviews me, that it is
Speaker 17: what it is and that's how that's all being free
Speaker 17: agency or whatever it or if I make it there.
Speaker 6: So what was it like playing for Mike McDonald this
Speaker 6: year and as he is interviewing for head pushing jobs.
Speaker 12: What's kind of your pitch for about that?
Speaker 8: No, Mike's a great guy.
Speaker 17: I feel like, I mean kind of show the type
Speaker 17: of guy he is and uh, the schemes he has
Speaker 17: set up and everything like that. You know, he's a
Speaker 17: guy that's always on the things, guys that must to
Speaker 17: be ahead of the offenses and stuff like that. So
Speaker 17: Mike showed what he could really be this year, and
Speaker 17: he put a bunch of guys in great positions. You know,
Speaker 17: we went out there and the executed his plan.
Speaker 1: That was safety Gino Stone veteran Kyle van Noyt, who's
Speaker 1: also scheduled to become a free agent, also talk with
Speaker 1: the media.
Speaker 10: We really like put an effort in that a lot
Speaker 10: of people could see, you know, wish we could have
Speaker 10: made the plays to change that circumstance of the game,
Speaker 10: but honestly proud of the way this team's fought and
Speaker 10: just battled every single game we were in every single game.
Speaker 9: Well, what was the kind of message as you guys
Speaker 9: all got together, presumably for one last time, one last
Speaker 9: team meeting, What was kind of the message going around
Speaker 9: from coach or you know, from the other guys, if anybody.
Speaker 10: Spoke, that's just how proud of being able to be
Speaker 10: together as this group, and obviously disappointed that's to be
Speaker 10: expected when you don't win the whole thing, but just
Speaker 10: proud to be around a group of men like this,
Speaker 10: the way they've worked all season, the way that we've
Speaker 10: bonded together as friends doesn't happen everywhere, and just grateful
Speaker 10: to be around a great group of guys like we have.
Speaker 9: You're the only person in here with two rings.
Speaker 5: I mean, how close.
Speaker 9: Is this team to a Super Bowl championship?
Speaker 10: I mean very close. You just saw yesterday you have
Speaker 10: three turnovers and offensive battle defensive battle and you're still
Speaker 10: in the game. It just kind of shows the grit
Speaker 10: and determination this team has, and you know, I think
Speaker 10: they'll learn a lot from it. And you know, I
Speaker 10: think when anytime you have number eight at quarterback, you
Speaker 10: got a shot hole.
Speaker 14: You were so invested in narrating those videos for not
Speaker 14: only the team but also the city.
Speaker 12: What was that experience like for you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a good question. I think the just being
Speaker 10: present is a big thing for me. I think a
Speaker 10: lot of people look at the future and the past,
Speaker 10: and for me, I like to be where my feed
Speaker 10: are and really buy into being present. And I was
Speaker 10: present for this team. I tried to give everything I
Speaker 10: had to the team, and honestly, it was a great,
Speaker 10: great time to come to work, to come into an
Speaker 10: environment with guys that are hungry and ready to work
Speaker 10: and coaches that are willing to do extra and you know,
Speaker 10: it's unfortunate we came up short, and I think they'll
Speaker 10: go back to the drawing board. But they have a really,
Speaker 10: really good core here and I'm excited for those young guys' futures.
Speaker 10: They have really bright futures.
Speaker 9: Even though you were just here for a year.
Speaker 1: Do you think that you've left a mark on this
Speaker 1: entire omnivation?
Speaker 8: I hope. So we'll see.
Speaker 1: You've talked as you're about coming off the couch and
Speaker 1: falling off the couch and all that. You know, what
Speaker 1: did this this year mean to you?
Speaker 2: And how do you view the future?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll have to talk to my people, you know, Uh,
Speaker 10: getting a little more experienced and having a family, just
Speaker 10: things might be a little different.
Speaker 8: So we'll see. Yeah, God, that's all.
Speaker 7: Veterans like you and JADAVII and join this team and
Speaker 7: kind of fit like a glove instantly. W What was
Speaker 7: it about this defense that made it so easy to
Speaker 7: kind of jump in and contribute right away?
Speaker 10: I I I'll first say, I think it's a testament
Speaker 10: to us being good football players. I think that sometimes
Speaker 10: gets overshadowed. He's been a really good football player in
Speaker 10: his career. I've been a very good football player in
Speaker 10: my career. When you team up with a good system
Speaker 10: like they have, I feel like it fits like a glove.
Speaker 8: Glove.
Speaker 10: Anytime you have an opportunity to to step on the
Speaker 10: football field like we have, we try to do our
Speaker 10: best to put it all out there, and I think
Speaker 10: we both did a really good job, and this team
Speaker 10: collectively did a good job. We just didn't do it
Speaker 10: enough yesterday.
Speaker 8: You know you're one of many.
Speaker 12: For you, Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 8: I know it's a breaking news for you.
Speaker 12: How different you know how this league is?
Speaker 8: How different?
Speaker 12: Could this team possibly?
Speaker 8: I mean it's gonna be different. Every year is different.
Speaker 10: Contracts you got contracts, people getting promotions, you know, players
Speaker 10: getting paid. It's gonna be very, very different. But I
Speaker 10: think anytime you have the core that they have here,
Speaker 10: with the young studs that they have and a quarterback,
Speaker 10: they always got a chance.
Speaker 2: That was Kyle Vanoy. We also talked with rookie wide
Speaker 2: receiver Zay Flowers.
Speaker 7: Was the emotions like now you guys all here cleaning
Speaker 7: out your lockers today, Just the realization of knowing that.
Speaker 5: The season is over.
Speaker 19: I mean, we more care about each other or this
Speaker 19: group probably won't be together again. So you know, we
Speaker 19: just talking to each other and just showing each other
Speaker 19: love and appreciating each other for everything we did this year.
Speaker 5: Say, where are you gonna take away from.
Speaker 2: Your rookie season?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 19: I had a great time. I had a great rookie season.
Speaker 19: So i'm'a just remember all the memories.
Speaker 10: Say when do you perfect play and start, you know,
Speaker 10: focusing on next season for pursu I already did.
Speaker 4: O'Dell wasn't telling us yesterday about it or.
Speaker 12: Something special to you when your head off.
Speaker 8: I know, it's just everything you got this year. Have
Speaker 8: you heard from other.
Speaker 3: People in the theame?
Speaker 8: I got other teams, but as.
Speaker 19: Gone, I mean, everybody text me, everybody text me that
Speaker 19: I know it's you know you gonna have it s
Speaker 19: just a moment. You know it's gonna make make a
Speaker 19: break you and I don't plan on letting in breaking.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean you did make You made a ton
Speaker 13: of plays this season. You made a ton of plays
Speaker 13: in the playoffs, like yesterday, you made it. How how
Speaker 13: does this rookie season you feel like, catapult you into
Speaker 13: your sophomore season and how well the finished motivate you
Speaker 13: going forward?
Speaker 5: It just teach you up and downs, Like you get
Speaker 5: high a.
Speaker 19: You can have a lot of ups and then at
Speaker 19: all of a sudden, then you have a down. So
Speaker 19: it's just how you go about it. You gotta go
Speaker 19: about it. And I feel like the way i'm'a go
Speaker 19: about it is, i'm'a come back better.
Speaker 8: Like that.
Speaker 4: I mean, you came in and confident ever, but I
Speaker 4: think the first three season game or first freular season games, then.
Speaker 2: If you had to play this level long like that.
Speaker 4: For about another double over, you feel like you've seen
Speaker 4: and what that what it takes to kind of go
Speaker 4: on the top like that, then you're just that next
Speaker 4: level of a good rookie season too, and some of
Speaker 4: the top receivers in the league.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I feel like I got a another step. I
Speaker 19: feel like I could be one of the best receivers
Speaker 19: in this league. And I'm not gonna let it one
Speaker 19: moment define me. So i'm'a just use that and use
Speaker 19: it as a slang shot.
Speaker 14: How should hear you what they that they moved It
Speaker 14: looks like you were very shocked when they moved out
Speaker 14: a whole How shocked were you?
Speaker 8: What you heard? That's?
Speaker 19: Uh, you know, I don't even I can't even okay,
Speaker 19: that's what they ruled it though, they like, would you
Speaker 19: do after you help state?
Speaker 8: Or you see what we was shot?
Speaker 5: If they were next year with the healthy houses? Uh,
Speaker 5: I can't hear you I'm sorry.
Speaker 12: Houp site.
Speaker 8: There you see what we're shot.
Speaker 5: They see something in the healthy house on bait. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: I already know.
Speaker 19: If Bay he stay healthy, he got a chance to
Speaker 19: be one of the best ex receivers in his league.
Speaker 19: His speed, his rod running, he could do everything every
Speaker 19: receiver could do.
Speaker 5: As long as he stay healthy, he'll be good.
Speaker 8: And then it wasn't New York Tim you wanted to
Speaker 8: now would you describe him? Then you're playing with footmore.
Speaker 19: Probably the best year I have playing football in my life.
Speaker 19: So I should tell.
Speaker 18: You with w with when you know obviously there's always
Speaker 18: a lot focused with Lamar, what would you like to
Speaker 18: you know, for him to know how the team kind
Speaker 18: of used him.
Speaker 19: Coming off that Delphos He know we wouldn't be here
Speaker 19: without him, so he know he know like the love
Speaker 19: for him in here and everything like we are got
Speaker 19: his back, and you know we're gonna be right back
Speaker 19: at it next year, cause he ain't going nowhere. I
Speaker 19: ain't going nowhere, so let's get it.
Speaker 2: That was why receivers flowers.
Speaker 1: We also heard from veteran pass rusher Davion Clowney, who
Speaker 1: was also scheduled to become a free agent.
Speaker 15: That special group, you know, the group. You won't get
Speaker 15: it back again next year. But uh, I felt like
Speaker 15: we had a squad to win it, and uh I
Speaker 15: really did. And uh it kind of hurt more than
Speaker 15: anything that didn't happened to me all my career to
Speaker 15: lose that game yesterday. And but you know, we're back
Speaker 15: to the drawing board though life continues to keep grinding,
Speaker 15: keep playing and you know move forward.
Speaker 1: Is that part of why this one stings so much?
Speaker 8: Because it felt like we had a team.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's why it hurts so the worse because you're
Speaker 15: getting this locker and you build a bomb with this
Speaker 15: group of man all yet loan that you know that's
Speaker 15: giving it an all and we're gonna go to war
Speaker 15: with you, and when you fall short like that, it
Speaker 15: kind of hurt the worst.
Speaker 11: We know how you played on this team obviously, how
Speaker 11: to had a great season for yourself, But how did
Speaker 11: how did this team kind of pull you back into
Speaker 11: football a little bit? Did do you feel like by
Speaker 11: being miser you felt maybe a a new desire in
Speaker 11: the game.
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 15: Nah, I always loved a game football man. I always
Speaker 15: gave all, no matter where I played at and just
Speaker 15: I fell in the right situation with a group of
Speaker 15: man that was out there competing with me the exact
Speaker 15: same way. I was giving be all, not just in
Speaker 15: the games, but throughout the week. Uh, even in the
Speaker 15: locker room. It's like, uh a special group you uh,
Speaker 15: we all got along.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 15: It was a fun environment to come into the locker room.
Speaker 15: I was looking for it to come to work every day.
Speaker 15: It was like no pressure. It was just have fun
Speaker 15: and play out there with a group of man that's
Speaker 15: gonna give you they' all and uh, I made my
Speaker 15: life a lot easier when you go out there knowing
Speaker 15: that got beside you giving it awesome. I was out
Speaker 15: there doing the same.
Speaker 5: We was that be home in your like for dings
Speaker 5: very well.
Speaker 8: That's how you can keep your head up.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 15: You know that's our only one team that went at
Speaker 15: the end of the year. But you know we uh
Speaker 15: we follow all your loans. The bed season had a
Speaker 15: good run, but we fall short. You know, continue go
Speaker 15: move forward and our on our journeys in and our
Speaker 15: life because we got a lot of other things to do.
Speaker 8: You got people, got families and stuff.
Speaker 15: So can't hold your head down for long, but uh,
Speaker 15: it's part of the game, sh D.
Speaker 14: And you're you're, you're probably one of the few guys
Speaker 14: in here we can really understand the spotlight that's on
Speaker 14: the mar You know what it's like to be under
Speaker 14: that much scrutiny. You know, given that understanding, what would
Speaker 14: you tell him about how to sort of come out
Speaker 14: of all this stuff that's kind of swirling about him
Speaker 14: after last night?
Speaker 15: Or well, let me just tell him keep God first
Speaker 15: and continue to do what he do and uh beat him.
Speaker 15: You're a different guy, but he practice all here. He
Speaker 15: a leader regards with anybody. Think he have fun, good personality.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 15: I love to be around him, man about in the
Speaker 15: locker room professional that we love to be around the guy. Man,
Speaker 15: he's just fun. Man.
Speaker 8: You know it ain't all all this at all the time. Man.
Speaker 15: People h are regular people at the end of the day.
Speaker 15: And Lamar great dude to hang out with.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 15: I I love him regardless of how they game shook out. Man,
Speaker 15: it's just like my brother forever. I'm glad I got
Speaker 15: to play with him, I Jordan, Uh, Uh enjoy him
Speaker 15: like I enjoy everybody else in the locker room. But
Speaker 15: keep your head on me, and I dealt with that
Speaker 15: scrutiny throughout my career and uh just kept my head
Speaker 15: or keep the people around me that loved me more,
Speaker 15: keep them closer and uh you know, build from there
Speaker 15: and just ki continue to move forward.
Speaker 10: What's next?
Speaker 12: Ye, what's next for you?
Speaker 8: Under standing? But what if you want listen to me,
Speaker 8: what's next for me?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Uh I don't know. Man, I'm going home and kick
Speaker 15: with the kids for a while. House full of kids.
Speaker 15: Uh they uh already on me now when uh yesterday
Speaker 15: and it was like you get to come back home?
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 15: I'm like, I didn't wanna come home. It's earlier, but
Speaker 15: uh yeah, I'll be back home. And I just don't
Speaker 15: back to back to the ground. Uh, I can't start
Speaker 15: working out. I still feel good, feel still feel I
Speaker 15: can play this game at a high level, and uh.
Speaker 8: Like I still got a lot of proved of myself.
Speaker 15: And uh I don't wanna win the Super Bowl, So
Speaker 15: I'm just gonna continue to push towards that through my career.
Speaker 11: You said the right situation for for here is Baltimore,
Speaker 11: place where if things shake out right, you would consider
Speaker 11: coming back.
Speaker 8: Sure, I hope So ma'am. Like I said, man, I
Speaker 8: enjoyed coming to work.
Speaker 15: Man. It made my life a lot easier this year.
Speaker 15: Probably why I played at a high level because I
Speaker 15: wouldn't had no pressure. It was just coming and have
Speaker 15: fun and be yourself and uh just play ball. It
Speaker 15: was never no person throughout the week on anybody. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 15: I would love to come back here.
Speaker 14: But do you think you'll take your time deciding again
Speaker 14: this time or do you not have a feel for
Speaker 14: that yet?
Speaker 8: Yeah, because I don't know what's gonna happen, I might
Speaker 8: not play. Who knows.
Speaker 15: I'm gonna go home and talk to the family and
Speaker 15: put it together and see what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5: Great, thank you today, I thank you.
Speaker 1: That was Jadevion Klanna. We also heard from veteran offensive
Speaker 1: lineman Kevin Zeitler.
Speaker 18: Feels unfinished, feels like we should be practicing this week,
Speaker 18: keeping her going with this group, and obviously that's not
Speaker 18: the case. So a little numb to everything. And you
Speaker 18: know it'll fait eventually and we'll get back to work.
Speaker 18: But hurts right now.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of veteran players who had career
Speaker 1: years just seems like a lot of things are coming together.
Speaker 8: For this team.
Speaker 1: Is that part of why there's this unfinished feeling that
Speaker 1: you guys have felt like you had a special group?
Speaker 18: Oh yeah, a special group everyone playing well. You know,
Speaker 18: things regained done and you know, just a spider like
Speaker 18: that just it hurts, you know, when you have the
Speaker 18: opportunity you could have, would have, should have? You know,
Speaker 18: stee telly you a bit.
Speaker 1: What do you think was the as you look back
Speaker 1: on the game, What was the the reason that you know,
Speaker 1: you guys had so many big offensive showings this year?
Speaker 1: Why not yesterday?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 18: You know, we're just playing a great team and there
Speaker 18: are a top five defense for a reason. There's a
Speaker 18: reason they're always in the championship like they are. And
Speaker 18: they came out with a great game plan, and we
Speaker 18: also missed our opportunities a couple of times. And when
Speaker 18: that all adds up this land in the season, you can't.
Speaker 18: It's hard to get a victory.
Speaker 5: Okay, then what what what comes next for you?
Speaker 8: Next months? Next six months? Oh? I mean I'm right
Speaker 8: to roll. You know.
Speaker 18: Obviously I want to be back as a Baltimore Raven.
Speaker 18: There's no doubt about that. I loved my time here,
Speaker 18: I love the people here, love my teammates here, and
Speaker 18: I wanna keep playing with them. And you know, hopefully
Speaker 18: that business side football can get figured out nice and
Speaker 18: quick and we can get that I ain't care of.
Speaker 8: But you know, what ever happens, I'm right to roll.
Speaker 8: Is is that kind of the top course?
Speaker 16: The part of this is that you know, this this group,
Speaker 16: oh you know, as in tact it will there will
Speaker 16: be changed next year?
Speaker 8: Is that time?
Speaker 18: Oh yeah, I think it was kind of o. You know,
Speaker 18: it's within many of that, you know, contracts and people
Speaker 18: and things that need to get done, and it's definitely
Speaker 18: gonna be a change. But you know, as great as
Speaker 18: the team was, change can be good no matter how
Speaker 18: it happens, and you know, good things are happening here.
Speaker 9: Kevin kind of building off that. Is it a little
Speaker 9: tougher as well? Knowing not only the change is coming, probably,
Speaker 9: but how complete this team was this year? I mean,
Speaker 9: was this the best team, best shot that you've had?
Speaker 8: And does that make it that much tougher? Oh?
Speaker 18: Yeah, you know, as me, you know, being up in years,
Speaker 18: you know you only have so many more shots to
Speaker 18: do this, and this was a great team executing a
Speaker 18: high level and it was really fun to be a
Speaker 18: part of and like I said, feels really unfinished.
Speaker 1: That was Kevin Zeitler. Here's what Morgan Moses, veteran right tackle,
Speaker 1: had to.
Speaker 16: Say, continue this thing, you know, continue this assess continued
Speaker 16: coming back and having that iron chop and iro is
Speaker 16: mentality because at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 16: we go out there every day and practice and play
Speaker 16: a great defense, play against our our defense every day,
Speaker 16: and that gets us better. They play against our office,
Speaker 16: that gets them better, and that's the opportunity that.
Speaker 12: You you look for.
Speaker 16: So I'm excited about what comes in the future. Obviously
Speaker 16: we gotta take care of some things and I look
Speaker 16: forward to it.
Speaker 18: It's great good less than twenty four hours a How
Speaker 18: have you digested this lost last night this morning?
Speaker 8: Ha, how however you have you taken this loss?
Speaker 16: I I don't know if I really digested it yet.
Speaker 16: I didn't really have it in my mind to come
Speaker 16: clean my locker out the day.
Speaker 8: But obviously things happen.
Speaker 16: But you just you know, you you look at it
Speaker 16: and and and you don't you don't look back.
Speaker 8: You know, you don't look back and.
Speaker 16: Say I wish I woulda did this, and wish I
Speaker 16: woulda did that. You know, you left everything you had
Speaker 16: on the field, and that's all you can ask for
Speaker 16: from anybody, from coaches, athletes, training staff, from anything. You know,
Speaker 16: as long as you give your all, you know, sometimes
Speaker 16: you fall short and it's a lesson into that of
Speaker 16: falling short. So I think we'll we'll do great job
Speaker 16: of learning from those mistakes and right and getting back
Speaker 16: to where we need to.
Speaker 8: Be about how it could be.
Speaker 2: There's like twenty some years, see how different cuase people there.
Speaker 16: You know, Thank god, I don't have to worry about
Speaker 16: those situations.
Speaker 8: Those are my situations that.
Speaker 16: I right that I need to figure out. That's where
Speaker 16: upstairs will lead that up to them. But you know,
Speaker 16: like just like they did this year, you know, bringing
Speaker 16: in guys like Clowny and Fanoy and in guys to
Speaker 16: contribute Darby, you know, guys midway through training camp and
Speaker 16: and going out there and like the Colunty has one
Speaker 16: of his anvie No Panoid have one of their best seasons,
Speaker 16: you know, and they're in your ten. So that just
Speaker 16: shows you that they still have the the the grit
Speaker 16: and the you know, the to play this game. So
Speaker 16: I'm pretty sure whatever may happen, you know, we'll figure
Speaker 16: it out.
Speaker 8: A Morgan.
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, a lot of guys talk about happens.
Speaker 9: It was a special team in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: How to check point, there are better players coming late
Speaker 1: and have to is that part of what makes you
Speaker 1: know yesterday at the end of this season kind of
Speaker 1: staying beating a little bit more?
Speaker 15: Man?
Speaker 16: I think the hard said it said it the best
Speaker 16: of they it meetings, and it's you know.
Speaker 8: Whether you losed yesterday, whether you lose in.
Speaker 16: The super Bowl, it's all the same feeling, right, Only
Speaker 16: one per only one team can take the title home.
Speaker 16: And uh, you know we fell short yesterday, and so
Speaker 16: obviously we got a lot of betteran guys. We got
Speaker 16: a lot of guys, key guys that are in you know,
Speaker 16: in free agents and stuff like that, and that's for
Speaker 16: them to to figure it out upstairs. But I know
Speaker 16: it's something special here. You know, it's something special that's
Speaker 16: that's in the making. And any time you have a
Speaker 16: quarterback like Lamar, you have that opportunity to play in
Speaker 16: games like this, and I think guys know that. I
Speaker 16: think guys feel that, you know what we did in
Speaker 16: year one with you know, new office coordinator and things
Speaker 16: like that. On the offensive side, it can only go up.
Speaker 16: So I think gods looked themselves in the mirror and
Speaker 16: getting into the off season and say, what can I
Speaker 16: do better? Tompare myself for this next run, this long run,
Speaker 16: Cause a lot of these guys haven't played, meaning from
Speaker 16: football into January, you know myself. So having that opportunity
Speaker 16: only makes you want more, uh more of it. So
Speaker 16: I'm pretty sure the guys are I'll be be you know,
Speaker 16: ready to get back into it and in the swing
Speaker 16: of things.
Speaker 2: That was Morgan Moses. We also heard from running back
Speaker 2: Justice Hill.
Speaker 12: There was I think there was only eleven design runs
Speaker 12: in the game yesterday? Was that flow of the game
Speaker 12: was there?
Speaker 8: Do you feel like maybe it was not enough? I mean,
Speaker 8: what are you feeling about that? Uh?
Speaker 12: That's the players that were called.
Speaker 8: Did you get a chance to talk to your family
Speaker 8: after the game last night?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we hung out and didn't keep it better? Oh yeah, Alifly, Alifly, Just.
Speaker 1: How do you you know, kind of process the disappointment
Speaker 1: of the abruptness of a season coming.
Speaker 13: To an end.
Speaker 7: It happens, you know, uh, I mean, it ain't really
Speaker 7: at me yet, but it was a good year.
Speaker 12: It was a funny year, and we'll come back better.
Speaker 2: Well what was it yesterday that.
Speaker 1: Made a difficult kind of tough sledding, you know, the
Speaker 1: office to put up so many big games?
Speaker 2: Why was that not the case yesterday?
Speaker 12: Oh, we just didn't play our best game, you know.
Speaker 8: That was that?
Speaker 1: That was running back Justice Hill. And last but not least,
Speaker 1: we also talked with kicker.
Speaker 3: Justin Tucker thought it was all just some gamesmanship, you know,
Speaker 3: all in good fun, but they seem to be taking
Speaker 3: a little bit more seriously.
Speaker 8: And I'm I'm.
Speaker 12: Totally willing to let it all go.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I just wanted to explain that that's just
Speaker 3: you know, what I've done for twelve years, and it's
Speaker 3: it's not like I'm out there trying to be problematic.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to get ready.
Speaker 8: For the football game just like they are.
Speaker 3: Say that's and that's that's all I really got to
Speaker 3: say about it.
Speaker 9: But just to be clear, have you ever had it
Speaker 9: like either's twelve years off doing that.
Speaker 8: Have you ever had an issue like that before?
Speaker 3: No, Like I just said, never, never had an issue
Speaker 3: with anybody. You know, we're all at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, we're all professionals, just trying to get ready
Speaker 3: for the football game.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 3: Those are two of the best players that have ever
Speaker 3: played the game at their respective positions. They're just trying
Speaker 3: to get ready for the football game. Obviously it's an
Speaker 3: intense environment. So it's it's really whatever to me. Man,
Speaker 3: I'm just you.
Speaker 8: I'm just trying to get ready for the football game.
Speaker 12: You said nothing, You just let it go right, Yeah, Well.
Speaker 14: I was just getting ready for the football again, justin
Speaker 14: You've had a close view of Lamar's entire career. What
Speaker 14: would you want him to know about sort of how
Speaker 14: you guys think of him coming out of that game
Speaker 14: when he's getting a lot of, you know, scrutiny from
Speaker 14: from the outside world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for asking about stuff that I actually
Speaker 3: wanna talk about. And I wanna talk about the Baltimore
Speaker 3: Ravens and our bright future. Uh behind our elite quarterback.
Speaker 3: You know, you're asking about Lamar and I I can't
Speaker 3: speak highly enough about him as a football player, as
Speaker 3: a person, his character, his leadership, he is He has
Speaker 3: a raven through and through, and I I couldn't be
Speaker 3: more proud to.
Speaker 8: Be his teammate and to.
Speaker 3: To help him along the way in his journey to
Speaker 3: bring the Lombardy Trophy back to Baltimore again.
Speaker 8: Justin you know, obviously, you know.
Speaker 14: There's a lot of change every here's to a year.
Speaker 14: I mean, how how different do you think this team
Speaker 14: could look next year?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: Oh, I think you set right there. Each and every
Speaker 3: off season presents its whole, uh, a whole new set
Speaker 3: of challenges, and one of those could be you know,
Speaker 3: roster turnover. And that's that that's something pretty much every
Speaker 3: team in the league deals with year in and year out,
Speaker 3: you know, And that's not necessarily for me to speculate
Speaker 3: on or to weigh in on.
Speaker 8: But what I what I.
Speaker 3: Can say confidently is uh, our front office, our coaching staff,
Speaker 3: you know, the the core of the team that will
Speaker 3: will continue to to just stick around. We tend to
Speaker 3: do a really good job around here of establishing culture early, uh,
Speaker 3: getting guys on the same page, getting guys that are
Speaker 3: meant to be Baltimore Ravens, and then just go into work.
Speaker 3: And that's something I expect to see from you know,
Speaker 3: everybody around here this offseason.
Speaker 11: Justin what was it like working with Tyler off this year.
Speaker 8: It was great.
Speaker 3: Tyler came in uh and didn't skip a beat. It
Speaker 3: was uh, you know for for all of us that
Speaker 3: are involved in that operation, uh, you know, from Chris, Randy, TJ.
Speaker 3: You know, and then uh, you know, Tyler Ebsley coming in,
Speaker 3: you know, plugging and playing and the way that he did,
Speaker 3: he did a He did an excellent job of you know,
Speaker 3: making whatever minor adjustments we were asking him to make,
Speaker 3: probably more selfishly.
Speaker 12: Than anything that I was asking him to make.
Speaker 3: He did a great job of, uh coming in and
Speaker 3: really being a technician on the field, and then uh,
Speaker 3: just you know, fitting in with everything that we do
Speaker 3: on and off the field. I can't speak highly enough
Speaker 3: of Tyler, and you know, I know his future is
Speaker 3: is bright.
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