Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: October ninth. The Ravens are gearing up for Sunday's game
Speaker 1: coming up against the Washington Commanders. It's a one o'clock
Speaker 1: at M and T Bank Stadium. These are two of
Speaker 1: the top teams in the league gearing up for this
Speaker 1: Battle of the beltwigh and today we had a chance
Speaker 1: to hear from head coach John Harball as well as
Speaker 1: several key players. Let's kick things off with Coach Harball.
Speaker 2: Oh good, seeing everybody appreciate you being here. Good practice.
Speaker 2: Guys are locked in for a very big football game
Speaker 2: this Sunday at M ANDT. I do want to mention
Speaker 2: the Tampa area and Florida with the hurricane coming in,
Speaker 2: just because it kind of hits close to home because
Speaker 2: we have family down there. My sister Jony Crean, Tom
Speaker 2: Crane and her family live down there in that area,
Speaker 2: and my daughter, you know, is at USF and we
Speaker 2: actually brought her up Sunday night, so after the game,
Speaker 2: I had an airport run to go make and my
Speaker 2: wife brought back up. So we know how how challenging
Speaker 2: that's gonna be. And just for all the people down there.
Speaker 2: Our prayers are with you stay safe. And then for
Speaker 2: all the first responders and the people are gonna be
Speaker 2: dealing with that, the National Guard, we thank them for that.
Speaker 2: It affects all of us. So with that, what question
Speaker 2: do you have?
Speaker 3: John adding Dean to as an advisor world he just
Speaker 3: helped out the thinking and what went behind kidding here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really excited about it. I mean, it's uh,
Speaker 2: it's great. You know, Zach and I talked about that,
Speaker 2: and Zach has been in touch with Dean quite you know,
Speaker 2: really all the time. It's a kind of a good
Speaker 2: sounding board and a mentor for Zach. An they're very close.
Speaker 2: And Dean and I go back, as you guys know,
Speaker 2: a long long way. And uh, his football knowledge and
Speaker 2: and his ability to uh, you know, just put an
Speaker 2: eye on things that'd be a great great, a great
Speaker 2: sounding board and the backup for everybody is super good.
Speaker 2: I'm glad he's here. Good to see his face out here,
Speaker 2: and and uh it can make us better. So I'm
Speaker 2: happy about that.
Speaker 4: Coach, What are your run defense is played so well
Speaker 4: them when the lead team he's throwing the ball more
Speaker 4: against you guys, you still have to put more pressure
Speaker 4: in the secondary.
Speaker 5: As far as that goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't it's probably part of it, you know,
Speaker 2: It's just everything's part of it, probably for sure, Todd.
Speaker 2: You know, type of games that we've been in, the
Speaker 2: type of quarterbacks we played against, the passing games, the
Speaker 2: receivers that we've faced, all that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 2: we just got to focus on us, not so much why,
Speaker 2: it's just what you know, and playing playing things really well,
Speaker 2: really consistently. That's our goal. Had a really good practice today,
Speaker 2: So just keep fighting for that and keep improving.
Speaker 5: John, You guys.
Speaker 6: Historically have always had success against rookie quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: Got another one coming in today. They're all different. What
Speaker 5: what do you see in Jaden?
Speaker 6: It makes him, I guess, different from maybe some of
Speaker 6: the other rookie words.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's hard to compare, you know, rookie quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: but I can tell you that Jaden is playing at
Speaker 2: a highigh level. He's got his team. They built it
Speaker 2: around him. I think A Click Clff's done a great
Speaker 2: job there in terms of building the offense around around Jayden.
Speaker 2: They have skill players, they have a really great running back,
Speaker 2: veteran offensive line. I think they're doing a great job.
Speaker 2: You see it on tape. They've got a lot of
Speaker 2: a lot of you know, plays that are just you know,
Speaker 2: there's all kinds of space out there that they've created
Speaker 2: with with all of that mix a chemistry together that
Speaker 2: they have. So we have a hands full, you know,
Speaker 2: and definitely starts with Jayden, but it's the whole offense,
Speaker 2: and we've got to be on point.
Speaker 7: What specific things does he do that are you know
Speaker 7: problematic for teams?
Speaker 2: Well, he creates problems in different kind of ways. And
Speaker 2: he can throw it. You know, he's throwing the ball
Speaker 2: downfield at a very efficient rate. He's he's he's hitting
Speaker 2: all the quick outthrows, the RPO throws and the quick
Speaker 2: game throws very effectively. Gets the ball out fast to
Speaker 2: those throws and then if it's not there, he's creating
Speaker 2: plays you know, on the run with his legs. But
Speaker 2: he's not just running, which he is running, but he's
Speaker 2: also throwing on the run and making plays that way.
Speaker 2: So he's doing he's doing it in all those different ways.
Speaker 8: John The trajectory of the Commanders I think has had
Speaker 8: people in this region pretty excited about this game for
Speaker 8: a couple weeks.
Speaker 9: So I know it's not a division game, but you know,
Speaker 9: with two buzzy teams on the reaching the hole that,
Speaker 9: how do you kind of sense that or hurt you
Speaker 9: for me and doesn't feel different to you or or
Speaker 9: anyone on the team with both.
Speaker 2: That's a good question, and I appreciate. I think it's
Speaker 2: it's it's obviously I can. I can kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: be excited about it for the fans and for what
Speaker 2: it means for the region and appreciate that because you know,
Speaker 2: especially when you get older, you start appreciating those things,
Speaker 2: probably more and more as a coach, you know, And
Speaker 2: so I think it's really neat in that sense. But
Speaker 2: really for us kind of in our cocoon, it's a
Speaker 2: football cocoon. We are. We are locked in on their
Speaker 2: football team and just trying to go out there and
Speaker 2: play our best football. Guesst a very very good football team,
Speaker 2: So that's what our focus is on.
Speaker 10: Aside from Jade.
Speaker 11: What other challenges do you see that in their offense
Speaker 11: presenting us?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's I think it's the versatility of
Speaker 2: the offense. You know, they can do so many things.
Speaker 2: Well pretty much everybody's catching balls I mean zach Ertz.
Speaker 2: You know, he's healthy, he's back to being who he's
Speaker 2: always been. They got two really good running backs. I mean,
Speaker 2: both those guys different, completely different guys, creating problems in
Speaker 2: their own way running the ball. They're both downhill runners
Speaker 2: in different ways, but man, they get the ball vertical
Speaker 2: and obviously they have speed outside. So it's all those
Speaker 2: things combined, and.
Speaker 10: There's Nobs taking victory of last twenty five.
Speaker 12: But you have been asked a ton about the offensive
Speaker 12: line and young guys and all the change moules that
Speaker 12: you repeatedly.
Speaker 10: Expressed confidence in that group. How pleased are you with
Speaker 10: how especially the last three games have gone with that
Speaker 10: kind of molded together and playing well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I think we're making steady prior. So I'm
Speaker 2: very proud of all the guys. You know. I told
Speaker 2: the guys that yesterday and I told them again today
Speaker 2: how proud I am of them because of the way
Speaker 2: they've handled things. Sometimes, you know, momentum is a tough thing.
Speaker 2: It's an important thing. Sometimes you kind of ride momentum.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you got to create momentum. Sometimes you've got to
Speaker 2: create momentum out of nothing, you know, and I think
Speaker 2: in that game it was it was expression of that,
Speaker 2: you know, you're down to the point where you're ynum.
Speaker 2: The momentum is going so hard against you and it
Speaker 2: seems overwhelming, but you still can create your own momentum.
Speaker 2: You can do it. Uh, you can do it, and
Speaker 2: you can do it football, and you can do it in life.
Speaker 2: You gotta just you gotta decide to do it. And
Speaker 2: our our guys did that. I think the game is
Speaker 2: a great example of that. True for the offensive line probably,
Speaker 2: but we're still a work in progress, our offensive line,
Speaker 2: our whole team. It's a work in progress, and we, uh,
Speaker 2: we have an opportunity with that to get so much
Speaker 2: better and that's what we're trying to focus on going to.
Speaker 6: Then you tell about momentum coming off of the tough
Speaker 6: division game on the road, winning and over time only.
Speaker 6: I know it's you guys are big on kind of
Speaker 6: moving on from the past game on to the next one.
Speaker 5: But do you feel like that type of game you
Speaker 5: already on the.
Speaker 6: Winter Street, But that type of game really does build
Speaker 6: a lot of confidence.
Speaker 2: What you're seeing, well, it definitely builds confidence in a
Speaker 2: lot of different ways and things that you're capable of
Speaker 2: doing you know. I mean it's hard to have true
Speaker 2: confidence until you've actually done something, you know, and uh
Speaker 2: so that you know in different areas in that game,
Speaker 2: it certainly builds that confidence. Uh, but you know you're
Speaker 2: not looking.
Speaker 11: Back at it.
Speaker 2: We can't afford to. It's a tough game. It was
Speaker 2: a physical game, was on turf, Uh, it was it
Speaker 2: was hot. Uh, you know, it was just tough division games.
Speaker 2: So now we've got to bounce back from that to
Speaker 2: get ready for another tough out of division game, but
Speaker 2: a tough physical team as well. And it's been a
Speaker 2: tough schedule. So but our guys are up for it.
Speaker 2: We're in good shape and we'll be ready to go.
Speaker 10: So Deeve, obviously he's average and is he gonna be
Speaker 10: at games the press boxer, in the coaching boxer, off
Speaker 10: the sideline exactly?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, John, I know we asked you.
Speaker 10: We asked your Merlin. On on Monday we started Shot
Speaker 10: Baby wasn't out there.
Speaker 5: Is he dealing with this for shot Babeman. Is he
Speaker 5: dealing with anything that could keep him out.
Speaker 1: Of the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got I would say all the things that
Speaker 2: we categorize as being just normal game after game type
Speaker 2: of things that you deal with, you know at this
Speaker 2: point time of the season.
Speaker 1: Next up is quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: Yards offensive But second, employees, where do you feel this
Speaker 3: offensive right now?
Speaker 13: Well, just taking a step in the right direction right now?
Speaker 14: Uh started off slow, well, started the season off slow,
Speaker 14: but taking strides in the right direction.
Speaker 13: Why and then you're lost.
Speaker 5: You on your job every week.
Speaker 15: But as you've been able to see what Daniels, Jamie
Speaker 15: Daniels has been doing here and.
Speaker 5: What your thoughts off is.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I've been I've been catching uh glimpses of him,
Speaker 14: his play, his play on uh social media and stuff
Speaker 14: like that, and he's he's going off. You doing what
Speaker 14: we've seen the college we got him to the hosban
Speaker 14: with doubt yil Mar.
Speaker 11: We see the UH ward has given a lot of
Speaker 11: success to the offense.
Speaker 16: How can you describe these collective work, U, and all
Speaker 16: these lines and uh.
Speaker 5: The offense has given a lot of team work.
Speaker 16: If you've seen general a lot of the team work,
Speaker 16: how can you describe all these collective work?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 14: Everybody just doing there one eleven, you know, contributing to
Speaker 14: the team and UH doing what's best for us. That's
Speaker 14: that's what's getting a job done.
Speaker 8: Why you said after the game, you're you're frustrated the
Speaker 8: past that fumble or the or I guess not country snap. Yeah,
Speaker 8: how how's the is that communication with Tyler or some
Speaker 8: of those players for at the end of the game
Speaker 8: most like the noise and in the environment in Cincinnati,
Speaker 8: or is there something else that you feel like you
Speaker 8: guys are aggressing right now?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 13: No, it was just a mishap, that's all.
Speaker 11: So it was.
Speaker 13: It wasn't nothing to be rid about.
Speaker 1: Why you you don't see the commanders a lot often
Speaker 1: like just giving you know, the proximity being a close team.
Speaker 1: You know, you're you're a it right now is through
Speaker 1: the best Sam movie, But you're kind of you on this.
Speaker 1: You reach out a lot of the leat between the
Speaker 1: two teas.
Speaker 14: Oh man, just trying to come out with a w Uh.
Speaker 14: That's that's what it's been. Uh ever since I've been here,
Speaker 14: you know it. It's and every time with pee of
Speaker 14: those guys, was trying to win rather this preseason and
Speaker 14: regular season whatever else.
Speaker 15: Lord j Jaden said, you do. He doesn't want to
Speaker 15: be compared to you. That's whar day, but he wants
Speaker 15: to be his own guy. It's right revolicent of I
Speaker 15: think the approach you've always taken. H how do you
Speaker 15: look at that, that version and.
Speaker 5: You agree with kind of how a CE six?
Speaker 13: I agree?
Speaker 14: You know, he's his own player, He's his own man
Speaker 14: at the end of the day. Uh, we trying to
Speaker 14: make our making them by ourself, not anyone else.
Speaker 13: So I agree with that definitely.
Speaker 5: Cool is is it?
Speaker 6: We all remember come when you were coming into the league,
Speaker 6: you were trying to change your position, and now guys
Speaker 6: like chaining the other guys that have similar skill sets
Speaker 6: to you or what do you think about the evolution
Speaker 6: of the quarterback position from where.
Speaker 13: It was to where it is to thee I'm just
Speaker 13: glad you know that.
Speaker 14: Uh teams are just like, uh accepting that now, you know, uh,
Speaker 14: instead of just God's going through hassle and just getting
Speaker 14: trying to get marked marked or whatever. But uh, gods
Speaker 14: have proven it just stepping in the league and doing
Speaker 14: what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 13: So that's helping it out even more.
Speaker 5: How much do you feel like you're what you've done here?
Speaker 8: Cause put a play the anti battin force teams, teams
Speaker 8: to kind of evolve the way they think about players with.
Speaker 11: With your talent s.
Speaker 13: I don't know. I'm not the one picking the players,
Speaker 13: you know.
Speaker 14: I'm just tryna be be the player I can be
Speaker 14: for my team.
Speaker 4: A lot of different players. Guy like Charlie Coleman. How
Speaker 4: much have put a p a bush to the offense?
Speaker 13: Guy's the game? Make it plays for you?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 14: Man, we we been new what Charlie can do? You
Speaker 14: know it was I said it was just up to him.
Speaker 14: It just made the catches and made the runs after
Speaker 14: the catch, hopefully scoring next time and not just getting
Speaker 14: caught all the time. But he he's doing We all
Speaker 14: we all seen the camping and practice and stuff like that.
Speaker 17: Since you with your have you have you ever gotten
Speaker 17: the sense that there's any dislike between Baltimore and Washington
Speaker 17: and were I mean d and do you feel like
Speaker 17: you actually have.
Speaker 5: A lot of fans down there?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 14: I don't be out much to nose, so I I
Speaker 14: really can't call it. Uh hopefully I got fans down there,
Speaker 14: but I got him here in Baltimore, so it it
Speaker 14: really doesn't matter more.
Speaker 17: It seems like a here we see after win after winn,
Speaker 17: you haven't been really wanting to celebrate those. Is it
Speaker 17: gonna take just getting to a super Bowl winning that
Speaker 17: before we see europe full league in embracet celebration.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Probably.
Speaker 14: But we gotta just win these games right now, you
Speaker 14: know that's all that matters, just winning these games.
Speaker 6: AFC Offensive Player of the Week again for you. I
Speaker 6: mean you you've always been big on kind of just
Speaker 6: missing some of these weekly accolades, but you take time
Speaker 6: to kind of live in the moment and you know,
Speaker 6: kind of just be happy about what you're doing.
Speaker 5: Production wise.
Speaker 14: I'm happy with to win, yeah, uh, but I I I'm.
Speaker 13: Grateful for it. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 14: I'm grateful for each and every time it do happen.
Speaker 14: But I'm tryna win. That's that's when things like that happen,
Speaker 14: just trying to win.
Speaker 7: Mark, Just going back to Jayden, how much did you
Speaker 7: like watch him in college.
Speaker 8: And and what did kind of what were your guys
Speaker 8: like earlier.
Speaker 14: Impressions in Uh, I really I I wasn't really able
Speaker 14: to catch games. I really don't catch a lot of
Speaker 14: college games. But when I did watch him play, he
Speaker 14: was just doing an amazing job. That's why he had
Speaker 14: my hosband vote.
Speaker 1: So yeah, do you get a sense that the offense
Speaker 1: is a group right now? And can that carry out
Speaker 1: over from week to week?
Speaker 13: Yeah? I believe we I I believe we were.
Speaker 14: We're in a groove right now, just like I said before,
Speaker 14: just taking strides in the right places. Oh, we just
Speaker 14: gotta keep going, keep our head down and just focus
Speaker 14: on tasking hand, just keep trying to win.
Speaker 6: I'm I know you're focused on wins. You're at like
Speaker 6: the height of your career.
Speaker 5: But going back to the question about.
Speaker 6: The evolution of a quarterback position, do you ever think
Speaker 6: about how other quarterbacks look at you, like the Jamie
Speaker 6: Daniels as an inspiration because you're now in this position
Speaker 6: where you're paying away for others. Uh.
Speaker 14: I really don't sit back and think about it, to
Speaker 14: be honest, I believe just cause I'm still playing and
Speaker 14: it's still I believe early in my career. So I
Speaker 14: really don't sit back and dwell on it. So I
Speaker 14: I really I don't know.
Speaker 5: Do you realize you're an.
Speaker 13: I guess, I guess.
Speaker 2: So every time there's a conceiver becomes available, like what
Speaker 2: you're saying, Devonte Adams.
Speaker 10: Raven fans say, we need to get them, we need
Speaker 10: to get them. Let's give Lamar another weapon? How much?
Speaker 10: How good you feel about the weapons you do have?
Speaker 10: I mean, two weeks ago we saw Justice sail in
Speaker 10: the past. The game this week it was colder, Like,
Speaker 10: how satisfied are you with kind of your options? Uh?
Speaker 10: In terms of pass sketching.
Speaker 14: Oh, my guys are doing a great job, you know. Uh, receivers,
Speaker 14: tight ends, running backs, fullbacks. You know, our guys just
Speaker 14: doing it all right now. And we win a game.
Speaker 14: So that's that's all that matter.
Speaker 3: Well, in a game where I mean, I think Washington
Speaker 3: taveraging thirty one points for game, you got averaging twenty
Speaker 3: nine teams for game. Did your mindset change when you
Speaker 3: know that there's two teams that are pretty high scoring?
Speaker 13: You know, No, I didn't even know the average?
Speaker 15: Yeah, right, last week, you know, we asked you several
Speaker 15: questions about whether the offense is gotta to pick us
Speaker 15: more of a passing heavy attack after two rushing heavy games.
Speaker 15: To do that, to to do it so efficiently at
Speaker 15: a high level this past game in Cincinnati, what does
Speaker 15: that do for the confidence of this offense that hey,
Speaker 15: we know we can do that.
Speaker 13: I mean we've been to what we can do.
Speaker 14: Uh just back in camp, you know when you guys
Speaker 14: will ask question ask questions about uh Derrick Henry joining
Speaker 14: the team, it was like it's it's a pick your
Speaker 14: pick your poison type of offense, and it's it's on
Speaker 14: you know, just like you said weeks before, it was
Speaker 14: heavy run. Sometimes he didn't get the ball as much.
Speaker 14: You know, we felt like he should be getting the
Speaker 14: ball more.
Speaker 2: He did.
Speaker 14: Uh still came out with a lo, with a loss,
Speaker 14: you know, but when the team is just playing, when
Speaker 14: he's running the ball great and off office lines just
Speaker 14: protecting well and receivers just running routes, catching touchdown tight
Speaker 14: ends doing the same. We all just went in together
Speaker 14: and it's helping us win. So we just gotta keep
Speaker 14: doing things like that.
Speaker 18: Is the second touchdowns ass a life week, just stip
Speaker 18: farm Sam Hobard and then I don't know if you
Speaker 18: ever saw his reaction to it, but just utter deflation
Speaker 18: from Sam that saying.
Speaker 5: I cannot believe he just did that to me.
Speaker 18: You get to take a moment and have any sentence
Speaker 18: satisfaction and doing that on an NFL fields and the
Speaker 18: other best athletes.
Speaker 13: So well, not at all trying to win. Tryin Mark.
Speaker 16: This Sunday, we're celebrating this Spanding Heritage Month, the game
Speaker 16: against the Commanders. What what it means to you to have
Speaker 16: all these fans from all over the world warning your
Speaker 16: number in supporting you guys.
Speaker 13: That's a lot of love.
Speaker 14: Uh appreciate that because to me I'm just Lamar, you know,
Speaker 14: But to other people, I'm much more.
Speaker 11: So.
Speaker 13: That's that's dope. That's dope to be a part of.
Speaker 7: Can you take us behind the scenes of that photo
Speaker 7: that the video that they shared from a lady.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we were just sitting down what it was supposed
Speaker 14: to be private for us.
Speaker 13: It was me Eddie Jackson Day.
Speaker 14: Were just eating and the guy who owned the restaurant
Speaker 14: just kept like letting people, oh yeah this person like
Speaker 14: I don't even almost curse, but like I don't know,
Speaker 14: I don't know this lady, you know.
Speaker 13: But it was a black lady walked down.
Speaker 14: She was just yeah, I'm a little ol fan, and
Speaker 14: but I'm as Cincinnati fan. She was nice, she was cool,
Speaker 14: and the other lady come in and she you gotta
Speaker 14: kick your ass. I'm like, I got mad, So I'm like,
Speaker 14: you know, she gonna be the reason, like you know,
Speaker 14: we end up winning. I wonder how she felt after that, dude,
Speaker 14: like because she probably seen it, like one of her
Speaker 14: grandsons or something probably showed it to her.
Speaker 13: But yeah, just be a fan of time. Just let
Speaker 13: us please, like, let the guys do the talking, y'all.
Speaker 13: Just be the fans. No, I wasn't for her.
Speaker 16: Not.
Speaker 1: We also heard from safety Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 5: Of the challenges you're showing the secondary or some day
Speaker 5: were someone to righting hows.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I think it's most of our problems is nothing structural,
Speaker 19: is just fundamental stuff. I mean, we gotta tackle, we
Speaker 19: gotta get off blocks, we gotta communicate. And you know,
Speaker 19: we've been saying this for five weeks now, so it's
Speaker 19: time to start actually doing it. And you know, just
Speaker 19: not coming up here and just saying it.
Speaker 8: How much how important is it to kind of get
Speaker 8: one of those explosives contained when you have a guy
Speaker 8: like Jaydon Daniel who's throwing some really nice sill balls
Speaker 8: this space.
Speaker 19: Yeah, no, especially against somebody like him and the team
Speaker 19: and what they've been able to do up until up
Speaker 19: until now. But I mean I feel like we've had
Speaker 19: plays like that in every game, and it's just matter
Speaker 19: of us decreasing those plays happening, because I feel like
Speaker 19: other than that, you know, we're having pretty good games
Speaker 19: and it's up to us on the back end to
Speaker 19: get that fixed and go out there and play a
Speaker 19: complete game.
Speaker 5: There are many quarterbacks which really have a similar skill
Speaker 5: sets on Lamar. You know, obviously he's much younger and
Speaker 5: not as polished as Lamars.
Speaker 18: What does that help you having to see and to
Speaker 18: see it a lot in practice and know really what
Speaker 18: it looks like on the field versus guys like we're
Speaker 18: more twenty one to one at the NFC, they don't
Speaker 18: see m as much.
Speaker 5: I think that's real healthy.
Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, I think so. Going against somebody like that.
Speaker 19: We don't go against him as much during the season, obviously,
Speaker 19: but during campus, stuff like that prepares us for the
Speaker 19: mobile quarterbacks in the league. And you know, Jaden's done
Speaker 19: super well so far, and not even just with his legs.
Speaker 19: He's done great with his arm and completes the ball
Speaker 19: at a high rate, throws it downfield really well, and
Speaker 19: receivers are playing well, backs are running hard, and you know,
Speaker 19: it's another challenge for us to come in as a
Speaker 19: defense and get our job done.
Speaker 8: The way you guys closed up this past week and
Speaker 8: made some very critical stops down the stretch. Does that
Speaker 8: sort of show you guys like, Hey, we've got it
Speaker 8: in us to make these kinds of plays.
Speaker 11: It's just got to make it more consistent. What's the
Speaker 11: dynamic there?
Speaker 19: Yeah, definitely just consistency. You know, we have thirty eight points,
Speaker 19: and you know, the offense did everything in their power
Speaker 19: power to get us to win that game. Obviously Marlin
Speaker 19: had a big pick at the end, but other than that,
Speaker 19: I don't really know how much the defense did for
Speaker 19: us to win that game. So it's up to us
Speaker 19: go back to drawing board two. We did wrong and
Speaker 19: it's only week six right now, so we still got
Speaker 19: a long way to go be able to fix this
Speaker 19: thing and hopefully at the end of the year it
Speaker 19: all comes together. But yeah, I think there are some
Speaker 19: bride spots that's just got to be doing that more often.
Speaker 5: Kind of And I guess I'm.
Speaker 1: Really honest, like inside your expectations of what you want
Speaker 1: this defensive lead in the secondary, is that so.
Speaker 19: Kind of a docking point if we Yeah, I feel
Speaker 19: like it always is. There's always a standard that we
Speaker 19: believe we need to meet and then exceed eating. You know,
Speaker 19: we always talk about seasons a bunch of highs and loves,
Speaker 19: but steadily progressing. And I feel like we've at least
Speaker 19: as the secondary, you know, just being as as blun
Speaker 19: as possible kind of plateaued and our uh getting better
Speaker 19: throughout the season. And I feel like we've had good
Speaker 19: weeks with like Buffalo, and you know, we have a
Speaker 19: bad week like last week, and it's up to us
Speaker 19: to fix that and go into this week and you know,
Speaker 19: try to write that wrong.
Speaker 11: It's a good offense.
Speaker 5: You're watching that second touch up after idea like late
Speaker 5: that Lamar had. What's your guys reaction on the sideline
Speaker 5: and what do you guys take to each other?
Speaker 19: I was actually thinking about this the other day, but
Speaker 19: I feel like it's kind of we're almost numb to
Speaker 19: it at this point, like we were just on the sideline,
Speaker 19: like our sweet like we got a touchdown. At least
Speaker 19: that's how I felt, because I feel like I've seen
Speaker 19: it so many times now, but you know, I think
Speaker 19: I won't really be able to appreciate it, so like
Speaker 19: I don't know, Lamar retires or something, and they make
Speaker 19: like a big highlight of his whole career, and I'm like, damn,
Speaker 19: this dude's doing stuff like literally no one has ever
Speaker 19: done before and as demoralizing as a defense to go
Speaker 19: against that, I'm sure, I'm glad he's on my team.
Speaker 19: I don't know how to do it deal with it,
Speaker 19: but you know, I mean, it's just stuff like that,
Speaker 19: like he's making spectacular plays to win us the game
Speaker 19: and keep us in the game, and it's awesome to
Speaker 19: see from a perspective being on his team. But at
Speaker 19: the same time, I feel like almost like he shouldn't
Speaker 19: even be the position to where he has to do
Speaker 19: that to where we need to win the game. Like
Speaker 19: I felt like defense should have gave him a coaching
Speaker 19: especially with how well the offense is playing. You know,
Speaker 19: it's up to us to make that game not as
Speaker 19: close as it was. And but yeah, he's incredible player
Speaker 19: and glads on our team.
Speaker 8: I know you just said you don't have to worry
Speaker 8: about it, but if you would entertain the hypothetical one
Speaker 8: on one, who would you rather tackle Lamar or Derek?
Speaker 19: I don't have a problem tackling either room, to be honest,
Speaker 19: probably Lamar. Well, which would I rather.
Speaker 10: Want to tackle?
Speaker 11: Who would you rather be?
Speaker 19: I never get to touch it, so I just want to, like,
Speaker 19: I just want to hit Lamar like one time. But
Speaker 19: that probably won't happen, or if it does, I probably
Speaker 19: won't be here anymore.
Speaker 11: But uh yeah, probably.
Speaker 10: I know we just got here.
Speaker 7: But for the organization to bring in Dean P's uh
Speaker 7: you know, he was Zach Orr's defensive coordinator.
Speaker 10: What's that say about? You know, I guess you guys
Speaker 10: leaving nose.
Speaker 2: To an unturned to try to get better and more
Speaker 2: consistent as a defense.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I know, we're we're kind of confronting everything right now,
Speaker 19: you know, And I think that's a great part of
Speaker 19: our organization and our defense.
Speaker 11: Just there's no egos.
Speaker 19: And you know, Zeo could have easily just been like, no,
Speaker 19: we're I'm gonna fix it, or we're gonna fix it
Speaker 19: in house. But I think to be humble enough and
Speaker 19: be willing to bring somebody in who knows what they're doing.
Speaker 19: And I when Dean was with the Falcons on my
Speaker 19: Top thirty visit, I was talking to him for a
Speaker 19: good bit and just gotta you gotta pick my brain,
Speaker 19: gotta pick his brain, and was just talking for a
Speaker 19: good while. He's a great guy, knows ball, so it's
Speaker 19: good to have him here. And you know, it's just
Speaker 19: another set of Eyes's not like he's gonna come into
Speaker 19: our calling the defense, but somebody who's seen a lot
Speaker 19: of ball and just helps helps us out a little bit.
Speaker 7: I know he hasn't been here for long, but has
Speaker 7: he introduced himself to you know, other guys who might
Speaker 7: not know Temps as TPS? I mean, has he's kind
Speaker 7: of been in with with you guys today, talk talks
Speaker 7: about all during meetings or practice or anything like that.
Speaker 19: Yeah, in the defensive room today, introduced himself and a
Speaker 19: lot of guys like Marlin. I think he was Marlin's
Speaker 19: DC for a little bit. I'm not sure, but one
Speaker 19: year older guys in the room know he is and
Speaker 19: been around him. But yeah, introduced and stuff today. I'm
Speaker 19: sure he's gonna have a good impact on what we're
Speaker 19: doing here.
Speaker 1: Yeahs are not of TV see that often outside of
Speaker 1: the three season, but achieving the local you know team.
Speaker 5: So there's kind of a regional lives over there. What's
Speaker 5: your take home to the aspect of this game.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I think it's pretty cool for the fans. And
Speaker 19: obviously we play AFC North games and it's like we
Speaker 19: play these guys every year or twice a year, so
Speaker 19: that kind of takes up all our energy when it
Speaker 19: comes to rivalry stuff. But I guess there's kind of
Speaker 19: a what's it called, like the Beltway or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 19: the Beltway Robbery. I don't know if there's a trophy
Speaker 19: or something like that. Battle of Beltway. Yeah, well that
Speaker 19: will happen on Sunday, and it'd be cool to you know.
Speaker 19: I guess I know some people that are DC fans
Speaker 19: and have some brag and rats against them, but yeah,
Speaker 19: I guess that's kind of the brotherly robbery. I don't know,
Speaker 19: maybe Philly a little bit, but I feel like this
Speaker 19: it's gonna be pretty cool to have whole region kind
Speaker 19: of focused on one game where they.
Speaker 18: Talked about back when he was here as a Raven,
Speaker 18: they would go out like in DC and the ANUE
Speaker 18: then Washington players there and they would be the same
Speaker 18: cloth hanging out and he's like, you couldn't.
Speaker 5: Lose that game because of that. Is there any of
Speaker 5: you that mixing it all anymore?
Speaker 11: Do you a little bit?
Speaker 19: Yeah, I've pumped into a few guys down there. I
Speaker 19: don't think there's too much. I mean, I guess we
Speaker 19: haven't played so but we played in preseason. They broke
Speaker 19: our streak, so I guess we might be a little
Speaker 19: mad about that. But other than that, no, not really.
Speaker 1: Next to his defensive tackle, Nomdi Madabik, talk about.
Speaker 16: That, Uh, the sack you had late in the game
Speaker 16: of Sunday, I mean, obviously as a key mood of
Speaker 16: the game kind of line up.
Speaker 10: So I just take me through that that play if
Speaker 10: you could.
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, it was winding down the fourth quarter
Speaker 16: and you know, we definitely need to, you know, make
Speaker 16: like a huge stop to win the game. And you know,
Speaker 16: me and Job we ran a little text game and
Speaker 16: I got I got through there and brung him down,
Speaker 16: you know, stopped throwing them at um or kind of
Speaker 16: stop what they got going on, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 16: trying to discombobulate them, and they worked out.
Speaker 11: And yeah, it's kind of.
Speaker 12: What Navie, what do you see out of James Daniels
Speaker 12: And to that point, how similar is he to what
Speaker 12: you see every day?
Speaker 10: In practice in the part.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, he's he's a great player, you know, has
Speaker 16: a lot of hardware from college. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 16: great athlete, you know, playing really good. So you know
Speaker 16: it's gonna be a great, great challenge for us for sure.
Speaker 7: About uh, how similar he is, not not saying it
Speaker 7: is Lamar, but like you know, the similarities when they're
Speaker 7: on the field.
Speaker 11: I mean what you can do. They're both really really fast.
Speaker 16: They both can run the uh the ball, they can
Speaker 16: they can throw the ball really well, so you know
Speaker 16: those things too. They're both on Heisman, so I mean
Speaker 16: those things are similar. But you know, at the end
Speaker 16: of the day, it's the next opponent. That's how I
Speaker 16: see it. And as the days are going on, we're
Speaker 16: getting more doubt into what really, uh he does best
Speaker 16: and try to see if we can make him one dimensional.
Speaker 10: There's a defensive line and what's kind.
Speaker 2: Of your first when you play a quarterback like that,
Speaker 2: and can you'll really get at escaping pressure and get
Speaker 2: him out of his pocket?
Speaker 16: You like that, you know, just just hit him, just
Speaker 16: just just get in his place and hit him.
Speaker 11: You know, that's the approach.
Speaker 16: Every week really depends if you're a pocket pass, if
Speaker 16: your a dual threat, whatever it is, just hit him,
Speaker 16: you know what I mean, stop his uh confidence or
Speaker 16: just stop whatever he feels like it's gonna work, and
Speaker 16: just try to make it one dimensional. And that's when
Speaker 16: we can really get you know.
Speaker 15: I r R.
Speaker 16: That's when you can really have fun, you know what
Speaker 16: I mean. In the past game and all that stuff,
Speaker 16: you get to be.
Speaker 5: Able to make team one dimension.
Speaker 18: They've had to throw, but yet they continued half flight
Speaker 18: of success growing after that.
Speaker 5: It which seems screen what what what do you know
Speaker 5: of that?
Speaker 13: To just us?
Speaker 16: Uh? Just I guess, uh, just working out in practice
Speaker 16: and just trying to get better, you know, and we're
Speaker 16: not perfect, but you know we're working our way to
Speaker 16: get to where we know we can get to. But
Speaker 16: it just takes us just one day at a time
Speaker 16: and just trying to really just sold the offensive down
Speaker 16: on our opponents.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 16: The uh, the.
Speaker 1: Commanders are not a team that you see very often,
Speaker 1: especially in the greater season.
Speaker 5: We've seen them in the preseason a few times.
Speaker 1: But what's your take on on this matchup From the rivalry,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a localized rivalry.
Speaker 16: Standpoint, My take is really. You know, it's it's gonna
Speaker 16: be loud. You know, there's gonna be a bunch of
Speaker 16: their fans here. Obviously, it's gonna be rocking. It's gonna
Speaker 16: be a great game. You know, it's gonna be high excitement.
Speaker 16: But you know, I feel like all of us the
Speaker 16: locker room are not really dialed into all that. We're
Speaker 16: downed in just you know, executing the plays and just
Speaker 16: making it about us at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: In the locker room today, we also heard from running
Speaker 1: back Derrick Henry.
Speaker 5: Congratulations on the uh the milestones.
Speaker 2: First of all, do you reflect on that at all now?
Speaker 18: Ten K, one hundred touchdowns or is that a after
Speaker 18: season kind of go back and reflect a little?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 11: No, next week, focus on what's going on now. Thankful.
Speaker 11: I'm grateful for that milestone, talked about it a lot.
Speaker 11: It's time to move on.
Speaker 1: Going into this matchup. You know, how do you how
Speaker 1: do you see the opportunities here for the running games
Speaker 1: you guys have You're kind of rolling here as of late,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean.
Speaker 11: No expectations.
Speaker 12: Work this week, prepare, uh, probably the execution then let
Speaker 12: it translation to the game.
Speaker 11: But they're a good team.
Speaker 12: We've been playing well together and they've got a good defense,
Speaker 12: and uh, you got to execute during the week just
Speaker 12: so we get out there and we uh playing on
Speaker 12: law Sounders on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Do you think that the offense success can roll over
Speaker 1: from week to leave.
Speaker 12: I don't really try to focus on the the last
Speaker 12: week's success. It's a new week, a new opportunity. What
Speaker 12: happened last week, but it doesn't matter. You gotta approve
Speaker 12: it again. And I think momentum is a is a
Speaker 12: is a big part. You know, and you're in rhythm
Speaker 12: and you know you're actually keeping players very well, then
Speaker 12: you just a lot a lot of stuff you can
Speaker 12: build off of.
Speaker 1: Some of the freeze frames of your runs are kind
Speaker 1: of getting attention on social media.
Speaker 11: Are you smiling when run?
Speaker 12: I've been doing that as I was a kid, Yeah,
Speaker 12: so you know, people get a kick out of that,
Speaker 12: But that's as a r always ran.
Speaker 18: Last two weeks in particular, Washington has been better defensively
Speaker 18: than they were early on.
Speaker 5: What what are you seeing from them?
Speaker 18: Spec specifics or like what do they do well and
Speaker 18: take away?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 12: I think they have a disruptive front, experienced linebackers who
Speaker 12: were playing well.
Speaker 11: Who who do a great job?
Speaker 12: Uh, you know, they're playing well in the back and
Speaker 12: then too, so I think they got a solid around,
Speaker 12: all around group. You know, you got momentum on the
Speaker 12: team and you're playing comprehend in football, you know, it's
Speaker 12: kind of hard to stop. And I felt like they've
Speaker 12: been doing that very well. Hoping is playing well defense,
Speaker 12: you know, picking up from them and back and forth.
Speaker 12: So they've been doing a great job. They're a great team.
Speaker 20: You're a good they think a lot of the sports
Speaker 20: talk shows, the social media people are just blowing away
Speaker 20: by the fact that of what you're doing at this
Speaker 20: point in your career, that you're still running as fast
Speaker 20: as ever, all those things. You resent that at all,
Speaker 20: that people are surprised that you're playing as well as
Speaker 20: you are.
Speaker 11: No, I don't really focus on what people say. Just
Speaker 11: worry about what I do.
Speaker 12: We at the week, prepare myself, get ready, try to
Speaker 12: work as hard as I can that so I'm playing
Speaker 12: at a high level on Sunday.
Speaker 11: Is this what you expected when you came here?
Speaker 10: Did you expect me to look like this?
Speaker 11: I expect myself to do well this, you know, leading
Speaker 11: the league and rusting all I mean.
Speaker 12: About about didn't I mean, I want to be playing this,
Speaker 12: so I always expect it, always have a high standing
Speaker 12: for myself when I'm came out.
Speaker 10: Of doing what would it mean to give a shout
Speaker 10: out from them spent?
Speaker 11: I mean and sist the legend. He's like the go Alflorido.
Speaker 12: You know, all the kids who play running back look
Speaker 12: up to Emmit, you know, you know, he's like Michael
Speaker 12: Jordan to us.
Speaker 11: So that that was very cool and appreciate him taking
Speaker 11: out his time to make that video.
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