Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens season
Speaker 1: has come to a close as they lost to the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs seventeen to ten in Sunday's AFC Championship
Speaker 1: at M and T Banks Stadium. It was a disappointing
Speaker 1: and in many ways surprising loss to Kansas City for
Speaker 1: the Ravens, and it's a tough way to end the
Speaker 1: season for a team who was the number one overall
Speaker 1: seed in the AFC and had so many things go
Speaker 1: right for them over the course of this year. Putting
Speaker 1: into words the emotions the difficulties of losing a game
Speaker 1: is tough after that. But the Ravens talked to the
Speaker 1: media after the game, so let's kick things all Head
Speaker 1: coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: All right, appreciate everybody being here.
Speaker 3: Just something I want to start with say this, This
Speaker 3: is a well I'm hanging my hat at this point.
Speaker 3: But for I know the plans I have for you,
Speaker 3: declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and then not harm.
Speaker 3: Plans to give you a hope in the future. Wait
Speaker 3: for the Lord and be strong. And that's for me.
Speaker 2: What question do you have.
Speaker 4: After a loss like this? One was kind of message
Speaker 4: to the players.
Speaker 2: I was proud of them. I'm proud of the season
Speaker 2: that they had.
Speaker 3: I think I feel like like it was a It
Speaker 3: was a team that had a lot of challenges. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't think it was a team that was too
Speaker 3: highly touted coming into the season by by the pundits
Speaker 3: and the prognosticators and all that. And I think they
Speaker 3: proved a lot of people wrong all year. Quarterback made
Speaker 3: a statement all year.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: So many players, so many players that had so much
Speaker 3: to prove. I think of a guy like John Simpson,
Speaker 3: you know, just off the top of my head, who
Speaker 3: had so much to prove and coming.
Speaker 2: And play the way he did.
Speaker 3: You know, Gidevian Clowney and Kyle Kyle van Nola was
Speaker 3: just two guys that came in late. You know that
Speaker 3: that you know, it didn't see if anybody else wanted
Speaker 3: right and they came in and played the way they did.
Speaker 3: So there's so many stories on this team, so many
Speaker 3: individual stories. The messages to you know is you know,
Speaker 3: eyes straight ahead, you know, you chin up your chest
Speaker 3: out and uh and understand what you what you did accomplish.
Speaker 2: And I'm proud of them.
Speaker 6: It was your immediate thought as to why the offense
Speaker 6: wasn't able to kind of put its best wint forward.
Speaker 2: Uh, we just weren't able to.
Speaker 3: You know, we had a couple opportunities to score down there,
Speaker 3: we didn't get the touchdowns. I mean it was really
Speaker 3: a defensive struggle if you step back and look at
Speaker 3: the whole game, and they were able to score the
Speaker 3: points and we weren't much.
Speaker 4: Of how tough was it obviously come back from today's
Speaker 4: day's turn up. I know there were a couple other
Speaker 4: Pibow moments there, but it seemed.
Speaker 3: Like the moment winner got we were fighting like crazy
Speaker 3: to get back in and I think, you know, strategically
Speaker 3: we moved the ball back down the field. We were
Speaker 3: fighting to get the ball back at the end, you know,
Speaker 3: with the clock and everything, and they hit the one pass.
Speaker 3: We were close to getting the ball back and then
Speaker 3: to have a chance to score. So that's what we
Speaker 3: were trying to do, I mean, against the clock. There
Speaker 3: a lot of different strategic strategic moves to try to
Speaker 3: get that done, and then they hit the one pass.
Speaker 4: Sixteen resting attempts is definitely not what you guys.
Speaker 5: Want to do.
Speaker 3: It was kind of that kind of a game, I'd say,
Speaker 3: you know, that's the way it worked out, the game,
Speaker 3: kind of the way the game went.
Speaker 4: How disappointed were some of the penalties?
Speaker 3: Were it seemed like maybe losing composure at a couple
Speaker 3: of points in the Yeah, I really don't have anything
Speaker 3: say about those until you get a better look at him, John.
Speaker 1: When you say that, Lamar, when he's had the season
Speaker 1: he's had, and I know he's not gonna like that
Speaker 1: performance today.
Speaker 3: I told him to stand up tall. You know, he's
Speaker 3: had a great season. He his performance today was all heart,
Speaker 3: He fought, He went out there and gave it everything
Speaker 3: he had. So I don't think that's anything that I'd
Speaker 3: be disappointed in.
Speaker 4: What was the message in the locker room afterwards? I
Speaker 4: know you told him you were proud and all that.
Speaker 4: That was a message despite what happened in the regular season.
Speaker 4: I mean what was their reaction afterwards? I mean, did
Speaker 4: anyone stand up and say anything after you did?
Speaker 5: Coach?
Speaker 3: No, I mean, guys are talking to one another. We
Speaker 3: said the art, we said that the Lord's Prayer, We said.
Speaker 7: That John was Martlon not a would go in the
Speaker 7: second half, and we saw didn't really see him out
Speaker 7: there after him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just this way we went.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure exactly where he was at physically, but
Speaker 3: he play as much as he could.
Speaker 2: I can tell you that. And that's that's Marlin works.
Speaker 4: She just lost the fumble out of the end zone last.
Speaker 5: Week, obviously saw that.
Speaker 8: So you screeching for the doing something that you coach.
Speaker 4: Or a coach to avoid.
Speaker 3: We coach two hands when you reach for the end zone. Uh,
Speaker 3: he had two hands on the ball.
Speaker 6: Was there anything in particular about their defensive playing that
Speaker 6: you felt like it was when they get especially hard
Speaker 6: on your offense.
Speaker 2: No, they did what they always do. They're very well coached.
Speaker 3: They play hard bag Nola Steve's Bagnola's bags, my good
Speaker 3: friend's bags.
Speaker 5: He is a great coach.
Speaker 1: That was head coach on hardball. Next up is quarterback
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 9: How disappointed obviously this outcome? You know, you guys supposed
Speaker 9: so hard to get to this point. I know you
Speaker 9: wanted to football, but question also, Uh.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 10: Uh, I mean we had some opportunities out there, you know,
Speaker 10: does that got to take advantage of him? Can't turn
Speaker 10: the ball over you No, Farmway interception stuff like that.
Speaker 10: They gave him the opportunity to, you know, put points
Speaker 10: on the bar and win the game. Were we getting
Speaker 10: that red zone? It's been our it's been our touchdown
Speaker 10: all season.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: We just gotta finish, and we didn't do a good
Speaker 10: job on finishing. Defense did a wonderful job, it held
Speaker 10: up great, a great offensive.
Speaker 8: Seventeen points. We gotta execute.
Speaker 10: We scored one touchdown and that's not like us. You know,
Speaker 10: that was early on in the year. No excuses though.
Speaker 10: We gotta take advantage.
Speaker 4: Mar what'd you what'd you see on that end zone?
Speaker 11: Bro?
Speaker 4: Just look like I said, was just.
Speaker 8: U uh Temple two.
Speaker 10: I see Temple two and I see both of 'em.
Speaker 10: I see both of 'em. Uh te trailing him, and
Speaker 10: I didn't wanna throw it all out the end zone.
Speaker 10: I just tried to like let him turn around and
Speaker 10: make a play. I thought it was gonna be p
Speaker 10: I but you know, it is what it is. That's
Speaker 10: safety made a great play and made an interception.
Speaker 9: Get them up front of view of you guys, with
Speaker 9: the whole group the whole season.
Speaker 5: They did that that week. Job on.
Speaker 10: They're proud of my team, you know, new system offensive coordinator. Uh,
Speaker 10: different things, you know, different things. We seen motion and
Speaker 10: stuff like that. Uh adversity. At the beginning of the season,
Speaker 10: you know, we wasn't playing well. People don't know what
Speaker 10: the Ravens offense or defense don't look like. And we
Speaker 10: made it all the way to this point. You know,
Speaker 10: uh a goal short. We made it here, but we
Speaker 10: just gotta finish next time. But I'm very proud of
Speaker 10: my team all phases.
Speaker 5: Laar.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like at times maybe you were trying
Speaker 4: to do too much or it was just no team
Speaker 4: just trying to try.
Speaker 8: I don't think you doing too much when you tryna
Speaker 8: win out there?
Speaker 5: You thought so.
Speaker 7: For sure, they think what you gotta think of almost
Speaker 7: fifty percent your drawbacks? What was the Uh was that
Speaker 7: surprising to you going into.
Speaker 5: How difficult was that for the feelers?
Speaker 10: I mean, uh, not not really, cause we we seen
Speaker 10: them uh film, you know, blinks here and there, you know,
Speaker 10: but fifth percent, that's different.
Speaker 8: You know, we wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 10: But sometimes you know, they have lanes, we got uh,
Speaker 10: intermediate routes and they jumping, can't just throw the ball
Speaker 10: and get to try to make them.
Speaker 8: Took the passes, So I'm tryna make something happen.
Speaker 10: But they did a great job AFEC Championship game, and
Speaker 10: obviously Kansas City has been in this position many times.
Speaker 6: I'm sure if some quality pays that you can kind
Speaker 6: of observe in this game and you don't wanna emulate.
Speaker 4: Bring when you go back and live next year.
Speaker 10: I mean, no turnovers, you know, they they played the
Speaker 10: game basically perfect. Uh, they put points on the board.
Speaker 10: I felt like if we wouldn't turned the ball over,
Speaker 10: we definitely would have had a shot. We definitely woulda
Speaker 10: came out with a win. But they did a great job.
Speaker 8: And I turned the ball over and pulling points on
Speaker 8: the board are right?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 12: Are you?
Speaker 6: Are you more frustrated or more hopefull the th you
Speaker 6: you guys have a lot to gold on North Forward.
Speaker 10: Oh I'm not frustrated at all. I'm I'm angry about,
Speaker 10: you know, losing. Uh we're gating away from the super Bowl.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 10: We been waiting all this time, all these moments for
Speaker 10: a opportunity like this, and we fell short. But but
Speaker 10: I feel like our team gonna we gonna we gonna
Speaker 10: build you know this all seam. We gonna get get right,
Speaker 10: get better, grind and try to be in this position
Speaker 10: the game. But on the other side a victory or do.
Speaker 4: You think there was opportunities to run the ball more?
Speaker 5: Uh doing something?
Speaker 8: I mean we coulda ran the ball.
Speaker 10: You know, we were just we was down and we
Speaker 10: just try to, you know, put points on the ball,
Speaker 10: try to get the ball down the field and we
Speaker 10: just gotta make something happen.
Speaker 11: In your mind, what makes the chief defensive they for
Speaker 11: the score, cause you guys didn't really have much success
Speaker 11: in the second half. We did.
Speaker 10: We turned the ball over, we was driving the ball.
Speaker 10: We just you know, they they made great plays farm
Speaker 10: ball intercepts and stuff like that. We keep the ball
Speaker 10: in our possession. We put points on the board.
Speaker 5: What do you say that?
Speaker 9: Ja Flyers after the SEQ said we had funks from
Speaker 9: the goal line and tall table.
Speaker 8: See we gonna we gonna, we gonna get it back
Speaker 8: next time. We not rried about that. You know, we
Speaker 8: all make mistakes.
Speaker 10: This his first season, it's my first time in this situation,
Speaker 10: it's his first time in the situation.
Speaker 8: We gonna bounce back. You know, nobody played the game perfect.
Speaker 9: Disappointed, but what what do you feel like it's the
Speaker 9: vibe of the locker room after hard city.
Speaker 8: We ever, yeah, I mean we mad, like I understand,
Speaker 8: you know, coach gonna give a speech.
Speaker 5: You know that's a job.
Speaker 8: But we mad.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: We we got the dis position one game away from
Speaker 10: the super Bowl that we all well what I've been
Speaker 10: talking about, my team been talking about all season when
Speaker 10: we fell short and like I said, offense, we didn't
Speaker 10: put nothing on the board.
Speaker 8: We scored once. That's not like us.
Speaker 10: You know, we drove the ball down the field. That's cool,
Speaker 10: but we gotta put points on the board. But I
Speaker 10: feel like my team just angry, you know, not frustrated.
Speaker 10: We just angry cause we know how hard we worked
Speaker 10: to get here.
Speaker 6: The matter of like something different that was going on
Speaker 6: for you guys, I said, was not being finishers drives?
Speaker 5: What can usually do?
Speaker 4: Was that a matter of poise? Or can you put
Speaker 4: your finger on why it was?
Speaker 5: Driving?
Speaker 8: Were ended how you usually?
Speaker 10: Like I said, earlier turnovers, they was bating the ball down,
Speaker 10: you know, but I still gotta navigate to throw the
Speaker 10: best way I could. Well, you gotta put points on
Speaker 10: the board. That's our job, you know, we get paid
Speaker 10: to do that. And we scored once today they scored
Speaker 10: twice on offense.
Speaker 4: We gotta do better for Lamar.
Speaker 10: Lamar coming into this playoffs, your teammates and you said
Speaker 10: you've been more locked.
Speaker 2: In than you ever did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what more can you.
Speaker 8: Do beyond being locked in?
Speaker 5: I guess for next season?
Speaker 4: So this outcome just an athlete, it was.
Speaker 10: I mean, we just gotta put points on the board.
Speaker 10: That's the That's the thing right now. It's not nothing
Speaker 10: we could have did better or to prepare for the game.
Speaker 10: We put points on the board, and we'll be talking
Speaker 10: about something mess right now.
Speaker 4: Mostly gonna take it from the seasons.
Speaker 8: That's how hard we fought.
Speaker 5: You know, we was.
Speaker 10: We was facing adversity all season. Nobody thought we was
Speaker 10: gonna be in this position. New system, Uh, new guys,
Speaker 10: whole new team. We got some vets that you know
Speaker 10: came along with the team. People didn't think we were
Speaker 10: gonna be in this position, but we was, you know,
Speaker 10: but next time, we just gotta finish.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: That was quarterback Lamar Jackson. Now let's hear from linebacker
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith.
Speaker 4: What was the difference after it?
Speaker 5: Really?
Speaker 4: After that first color drives, Prett gonna shut down what
Speaker 4: was the kind of the difference after the first two drives.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I just think we s we settled down.
Speaker 13: That's what it just goes back to, and I think
Speaker 13: we just started playing more about brand of football, but
Speaker 13: at the end of the day, still wasn't enough to
Speaker 13: get the job.
Speaker 5: So that's what it is.
Speaker 14: We're going to can see you know on motion as
Speaker 14: you're sitting there and right now, what are you feeling
Speaker 14: after that was a way?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Man, you know, first and foremost hats off of those guys. Uh,
Speaker 13: they got the job done. But I just think, uh,
Speaker 13: it's not not getting the job done, and just knowing
Speaker 13: the potential and the guys that you have in the
Speaker 13: locker room, and you know, we all put so much
Speaker 13: on the line, uh, just like anyone else. Uh and
Speaker 13: just to uh let ourselves down in that position, Uh,
Speaker 13: it sucks, and just knowing how close we were to
Speaker 13: what we really wanted. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 13: it is what it is, and it just gotta add
Speaker 13: more few to the uh few, add more few to
Speaker 13: you at the.
Speaker 5: End of the day.
Speaker 13: And that's how I'm taking it. So that's what it's
Speaker 13: gonna be. But it definitely Uh, it definitely sucks.
Speaker 5: It hurts.
Speaker 4: It real really, I guess what was the plan to
Speaker 4: to stop Kelsea and what went fong? You can diamos.
Speaker 13: It's yeah, I thought we uh, we did a great
Speaker 13: job in the second half of just like being us.
Speaker 13: And you know, the plan is to stop the Chiefs,
Speaker 13: you know, and he's definitely a big corporate he's he's
Speaker 13: a big part of that.
Speaker 5: Him in my home.
Speaker 13: So that's that's part of the plan. It was first
Speaker 13: foremost stopping the run game and then going on with that.
Speaker 13: But he made some plays throughout the game, and we
Speaker 13: just didn't make enough plays on defense. It's never about
Speaker 13: the other side. It's more about us, and that's how
Speaker 13: I look at it, and that's how I take it personally.
Speaker 3: Early on, when they've scored a couple of times they
Speaker 3: converted a boat load to certain downs, mean, how frustrating
Speaker 3: is it to put them in those positions and just
Speaker 3: not being able to quite get off the field.
Speaker 13: By no, it's definitely very frustrating, like, you know, having
Speaker 13: them in a position that you want someone in and
Speaker 13: not being able to capitalize on that as a defense,
Speaker 13: and that's something that you prepare for week in and
Speaker 13: week out, day in and day out, and you know,
Speaker 13: hats off of those guys, so being able to capitalize
Speaker 13: and getting the job done. And it's just we we
Speaker 13: didn't get the job done. So that's what it is
Speaker 13: in a nutshell. So just gotta grind and do whatever
Speaker 13: it is. Like I always say, chin up, just out,
Speaker 13: like just can't drop your head, you know, because that's
Speaker 13: not gonna do anything at the end of the day.
Speaker 13: So just gotta hang your hat on, you know, everything
Speaker 13: that you have done in his life. Uh and see
Speaker 13: see see what comes from it in a sense.
Speaker 6: Or do you do you kind of live with the
Speaker 6: pandavis for a little while and then start to think
Speaker 6: about how.
Speaker 5: You go about it.
Speaker 13: Well, I don't think there's a proper way, proper way
Speaker 13: to like deal with whatever emotions you're dealing with, because
Speaker 13: every human being is different, Like you're different from me
Speaker 13: and everyone else. We're wanting I don't know, trillion or
Speaker 13: something like that the chances of being a human. So
Speaker 13: when you think about it from that perspective, everyone's mindset
Speaker 13: is different. I know, personally, it definitely sucks, you know,
Speaker 13: sucks coming in here too, you know, definitely wishing the
Speaker 13: results was a lot different. But at the end of
Speaker 13: the day, it is what it is, and it's not
Speaker 13: about you know, what happens to you in life. It's
Speaker 13: about more so how you respond. So I think that's
Speaker 13: just what each and every individual has to ask themselves
Speaker 13: and tell themselves. I'mlike, and what answer to themselves?
Speaker 7: You know you saw it in the second half obviously,
Speaker 7: but what do you think really made this this year's
Speaker 7: defense special and doesn't add to kind of what you're
Speaker 7: feeling when you think.
Speaker 4: About the window that you guys had with this historic defense?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Absolutely, Uh then I have an immense amount of respect
Speaker 13: for you know, every single guy that stepped on the
Speaker 13: field with me this year on the defensive side of
Speaker 13: the ball, just knowing all that we've been through. Guys
Speaker 13: that was injured, got injured, our guys injured came back,
Speaker 13: and I just know, I just know what it means
Speaker 13: to like actually have in my short like six years
Speaker 13: in the game, like just having like a group of
Speaker 13: like truly unselfish dudes, dudes don't really care who gets
Speaker 13: the credit, all celebrate one another, and like it's hard
Speaker 13: to find that and like football, let alone in life
Speaker 13: because you know, most human beings, you're selfish in your
Speaker 13: own way, even though you may not may not know it.
Speaker 13: And just like seeing how many selfless guys and willing
Speaker 13: to put it all on the line for one another,
Speaker 13: it just it inspires you.
Speaker 5: And it definitely that's part of part of what sucks
Speaker 5: for me, just knowing each.
Speaker 13: And every guy, like how we all you know, roll
Speaker 13: together do whatever for each other, and to like just
Speaker 13: let ourselves down like that, it sucks. So that's definitely
Speaker 13: part of the emotions that you know, you feel in
Speaker 13: a sense. But at the end of the day, it's life,
Speaker 13: And how are you going to respond when you get
Speaker 13: you know, hitting the mouth in a sense, get hitting
Speaker 13: the mouth? How are you going to respond? You know,
Speaker 13: everyone has a plan, but the plan didn't go uh
Speaker 13: as it should have for us. But hats off of
Speaker 13: those guys for getting a job done. At the end
Speaker 13: of the day, obviously, Lamar is you know NFL and
Speaker 13: the p season left will be named it.
Speaker 6: But you know there would be some questions and comments
Speaker 6: when the offense want to say those work ten points?
Speaker 4: What do you what do you say you know about
Speaker 4: Lamar and kind of the the season.
Speaker 8: They have either the to to that.
Speaker 13: There's always gonna be questions, comments, opinions. You know, that's
Speaker 13: just with humans that can speak and have a mouth.
Speaker 13: That's most people are gonna do that day in and
Speaker 13: day out.
Speaker 5: So you know who cares.
Speaker 13: Honestly, that's how I think about it. I really don't
Speaker 13: really care about the opinions of him nor the team.
Speaker 13: At the end of the day, he's the leader of
Speaker 13: this team, lead the offense, let the offense all year long.
Speaker 13: So it's nothing, you know, dropping our head about like
Speaker 13: we didn't get the job done at the end of
Speaker 13: the day. So that's truly what it is. It's not
Speaker 13: pointed fingers. At the end of the day, we didn't
Speaker 13: get the job done.
Speaker 5: As a team.
Speaker 13: Defense you have the mindset, don't score, don't win, you know.
Speaker 13: Offense have the mindset put points on the board.
Speaker 5: So that's what it is.
Speaker 13: So it's like all point fingers that each eleven of
Speaker 13: us on the offensive side of the ball as well
Speaker 13: on the defensive side of the ball. It's no one
Speaker 13: man one man sure by any means, it's a team thing.
Speaker 13: It's a team that gets the job done.
Speaker 7: Then where you just set it up the guys to
Speaker 7: get to this point in the emotion that you're showing
Speaker 7: now how hard it.
Speaker 5: Was for you to get over. It's definitely. It's definitely tough, man.
Speaker 13: Like, you know, I talked with so many guys across
Speaker 13: the league as well as guys inside of the locker room,
Speaker 13: and you know guys that's been you know, like talking
Speaker 13: with Clowney, been in the game ten years, like and
Speaker 13: never really been in this position, like me first time,
Speaker 13: like in six years in the game. And when you
Speaker 13: just think about how hard it is to like excuse me,
Speaker 13: to make it back to this position, knowing all the adversity,
Speaker 13: the obstacles that you have to go through to get
Speaker 13: to this point, it sucks. And like you just really
Speaker 13: think about it, like it's tough because there's a lot
Speaker 13: of things that has to go your way in order
Speaker 13: for you to get here, and for us like busting
Speaker 13: our tails day in and day out, since OTA's with
Speaker 13: the coaches, you know, with each other, like having the
Speaker 13: attendance we had and like just knowing how each and
Speaker 13: every person cared about one another.
Speaker 5: Man, it sucks.
Speaker 13: And like, you know, it's definitely gonna add few in
Speaker 13: the offseason as well as in the season coming up
Speaker 13: next year, but like you know, it sucks and it's
Speaker 13: just gonna, you know, make you go harder because at
Speaker 13: the end of the day, didn't have enough to get
Speaker 13: the job done. And that's that's truly what it boils
Speaker 13: down to. So I think each and every guy gonna
Speaker 13: look themselves in the mirror like always and like what
Speaker 13: can what could I have done better? And like myself personally,
Speaker 13: like what could I have done better? Because there's plays
Speaker 13: out there I wish I could have done better on
Speaker 13: in a sense, So it's just all about looking at
Speaker 13: yourself and saying, how are you gonna respond? And I
Speaker 13: think that's the ultimate, like, that's the ultimate decision every
Speaker 13: human has to make in tough situation. It's not about
Speaker 13: dropping your head, it's about raising it high and whatever
Speaker 13: it is you got to go through, chin up, chest out, sunsets,
Speaker 13: no regrets, like at the end of the day and
Speaker 13: you know we'll be back, but it's gonna be a
Speaker 13: process and we're gonna bust our ass. I know personally,
Speaker 13: I'm gonna bust my ass and taking this personal.
Speaker 5: To like get to where we need to go. And
Speaker 5: that's all it is that need to be said, but
Speaker 5: has off to those guys again.
Speaker 1: In the locker room today, we also heard from fellow
Speaker 1: linebacker Patrick Queen.
Speaker 10: Untally getting in your head on the deep into side,
Speaker 10: especially Kelsey in some other places.
Speaker 11: I live for talking, So you can talk about you
Speaker 11: gonna that's my game. So if you want to do that,
Speaker 11: we can rumble, we can tell what we do. All
Speaker 11: that stuff another game. You still won't get an older
Speaker 11: to get it up. I don't care that. That's my
Speaker 11: type of game. So that's our type of game nationally.
Speaker 11: That's what we feed off of. And sorry, started settling
Speaker 11: down a little bit in the second half. We're just
Speaker 11: doing what we do.
Speaker 4: How hard is it going against Mahomes and these big games.
Speaker 5: It's tough.
Speaker 11: You know, one of the greatest top two quarterback in
Speaker 11: the league between him and Lamar whoever whoever they want
Speaker 11: to take.
Speaker 8: But you know, it's just it's tough.
Speaker 11: He can make plays, he can make it any throw,
Speaker 11: He could buy time, do what they gotta do, and
Speaker 11: that's what we're trying to limit him from doing. And
Speaker 11: you know it's times where he escape and did what he.
Speaker 5: Needed to do.
Speaker 11: And that's why I said, we didn't capitalize on opportunities
Speaker 11: that we had, you know, the games defended.
Speaker 8: Is it your desire to be back here?
Speaker 5: It could be a father this yeah great, deep Prince,
Speaker 5: that for you guys are so much.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, i'm'a just take my time. I'm think
Speaker 11: everything through, take my time thinking about this loss and
Speaker 11: rest the loss, must feel it, let it be, and.
Speaker 5: You know, just to see where he goes was honestly.
Speaker 4: Cause your last one, Lamar always has his following him.
Speaker 8: You know, that's a kind of player, is Is it
Speaker 8: like disappointing that he's not gonna get a chance to
Speaker 8: show his ability after sees we had.
Speaker 11: In this ry.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Oh that honestly what hurts me the most because I
Speaker 11: wanted to get that guy the recognition that he deserves, honestly,
Speaker 11: you know, as a team sport, as a team that's
Speaker 11: ever going to play for each title.
Speaker 5: But that was what I mean, don't explaining for it. Honestly,
Speaker 5: It's just so.
Speaker 11: Much stuff he gets that he doesn't deserve for you know,
Speaker 11: this was his opportunity, you know, yeable m rite some
Speaker 11: of that stuff off and go to the next the
Speaker 11: next thing. So you know, that's why it hurts the
Speaker 11: way it hurts. It's cause you want to see people
Speaker 11: like that, the teammates that you love and care about
Speaker 11: get what they supposed to be good and you know
Speaker 11: that that's what we're living all day.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Patrick Queen. We also talked with wide
Speaker 1: receiver Odell Beckham Junior.
Speaker 4: Saying, what's the what's the toughest part of just knowing
Speaker 4: all you had in this room? Just seeing it and
Speaker 4: until suddenly I guess.
Speaker 5: It's kind of how life goes.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 5: Toughest part is it ending? Uh?
Speaker 14: And now having an opportunity to see, you know, the
Speaker 14: men that you worked so hard with in this room,
Speaker 14: to have the opportunity to play in the game.
Speaker 5: That we all dream of as kids.
Speaker 14: And growing up against an incredible team, incredible champions.
Speaker 5: It was championship football today and they came out on top.
Speaker 14: And I know it's a tough ending, but what has
Speaker 14: this team meant to you throughout the season.
Speaker 5: I mean it's been everything for me.
Speaker 14: Sitting out a whole year, coming here, you know, seeing
Speaker 14: these guys seeing way to prepare it, see in a
Speaker 14: way that they fought like it's been It's been so
Speaker 14: much to my life.
Speaker 5: Uh, Apart from my son and and family.
Speaker 14: Like you know, football is something that I've dedicated my
Speaker 14: entire life to. So it sucks to come up short.
Speaker 14: You know, not everything goes the way that you want
Speaker 14: in life. You know, you're gonna have adversity, You're gonna
Speaker 14: have moments of let down, but it's gonna keep your head,
Speaker 14: you know, and and continue to fight.
Speaker 6: Oldell, it looked like you were offering some words to
Speaker 6: Lamar Nz in particular at at the end.
Speaker 5: What what what was the message there?
Speaker 14: Just you know, through experience, you know the things that
Speaker 14: I've learned, and these are these are special guys. They
Speaker 14: have you know, long healthy careers, God willing ahead of them.
Speaker 14: Just letting him know, you know, letting say know he's
Speaker 14: gonna be a special player and this is a moment
Speaker 14: uh in your career that's it's never gonna break you.
Speaker 5: It's always gonna you know, make you.
Speaker 14: And and just being able to you know, be there
Speaker 14: for her if her however I can, you know, I
Speaker 14: feel the same way that they do.
Speaker 5: You know, I wanted to win. I wanted to be
Speaker 5: playing in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 14: You know, I came here and was gonna give everything
Speaker 14: I had, you know, regardless of the situation, regardless of
Speaker 14: anything for that matter. I I was just kind of
Speaker 14: sharing that, you know, it's gonna be alright. It's just
Speaker 14: unfortunate the way it ended with.
Speaker 7: Theell long you guys seem to struggle in with football
Speaker 7: at times against their defense.
Speaker 5: What what did they What did they do that was
Speaker 5: difficult to overcome? You know, you just sometimes you just
Speaker 5: got tip your hat, tip your hat to 'em.
Speaker 14: That's a championship team and they came out and they
Speaker 14: played a better ball. Like That's the only thing I
Speaker 14: could think of, was they played a better ball. Uh,
Speaker 14: we didn't execute, didn't make the players when we needed
Speaker 14: to make 'em. That's just that's the only thing I
Speaker 14: could think of.
Speaker 13: And h know, you know with with Lamar, I mean,
Speaker 13: he's been wanting to get past the stage, and I mean,
Speaker 13: how did this point is perhap knowing how much you
Speaker 13: know he was been to vote in and locked in
Speaker 13: on that.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's disappointed for everybody.
Speaker 14: You know, when you have a player like Lamar who
Speaker 14: thirty years from now will speak l Lamar Jackson's name
Speaker 14: and everyone is gonna know and remember, there are certain
Speaker 14: moments that define you, you know, defying moments in your
Speaker 14: career and this is just one, you know, one that'll
Speaker 14: be in his career. You know, the the greats have
Speaker 14: all been through tough times. And I don't think, uh,
Speaker 14: I don't think this is gonna stop him from wanting
Speaker 14: to get to, you know, his ultimate goal.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 14: I think if anything, he's gonna work even harder. You know,
Speaker 14: he wants it bad. I I I had never seen
Speaker 14: somebody so locked in and just you know, in the
Speaker 14: flow and in that era. And I just felt like
Speaker 14: it was his time. And you know, like I say,
Speaker 14: sometimes things happen in life and it doesn't go the
Speaker 14: way that we plan.
Speaker 5: It's just about what do you do from here?
Speaker 6: Oh doll, I think you had said this is the
Speaker 6: best team that you've that you've played on. I mean,
Speaker 6: do you is it kind of a mixing the sense
Speaker 6: that you believe these guys will bounce back, but at
Speaker 6: the same time, you know with your experience that these
Speaker 6: opportunities don't come along that often.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 14: We were in the meeting and one of the coaches
Speaker 14: was talking about how he's been to this you know,
Speaker 14: champion AFC or NFC Championship game ten times, and he's
Speaker 14: only won two Super Bowls, you know, So these moments
Speaker 14: don't come by. It takes a lot of hard work
Speaker 14: to be able to get here. That's why the stakes
Speaker 14: are so hard. That's why these players feel the way
Speaker 14: that they feel, because they've dedicated time away from their families,
Speaker 14: you know, the the hard work that you have to
Speaker 14: put in.
Speaker 5: I don't think people, you know, really see that.
Speaker 14: They see the results, and they see what happens for
Speaker 14: their fantasy teams, and they see what happens, you know,
Speaker 14: for for things that you know, to us, it doesn't
Speaker 14: really matter like this. There's a game within the game
Speaker 14: that lies here in this locker room, and you spend
Speaker 14: more time with with the brothers in here than you
Speaker 14: do with your actual family. So it's tough to have
Speaker 14: these moments. I don't think anybody in here wanted this
Speaker 14: to be the outcome, uh, but it's just the way
Speaker 14: it went today.
Speaker 1: Oh Dog, Just to go back to the the advice
Speaker 1: for Zay and the moment you shared with Zay, how
Speaker 1: is your relationship evolved and developed over this year?
Speaker 5: You know, for me, it was about whatever role uh
Speaker 5: they wanted me to play.
Speaker 14: Uh, I was gonna be there and and Zaya is
Speaker 14: forever you know, little bro to me and all of
Speaker 14: these guys in that room, can I'm gonna call away
Speaker 14: any single time, you know, they just being able to
Speaker 14: share that moment with them, Like, bru, you gonna be straight.
Speaker 5: You know it's tough.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you may hear something about this. You know, it's
Speaker 14: just the way the world is. You know that that's
Speaker 14: just the it's it's that's how they're gonna be. So
Speaker 14: just keep his head just like everybody else in here.
Speaker 14: It's no there's no one play that defines a game.
Speaker 14: You know, there's still a lot of football that was left.
Speaker 5: In the game.
Speaker 14: But these moments you'll be able to learn from and
Speaker 14: and uh become a better man, a better player, all
Speaker 14: of those things.
Speaker 5: Like you then what you went through physically to get
Speaker 5: back to this point, how tough wards be go for
Speaker 5: a Yeah, it sucks. Uh, there's nowhere around it. You know.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 14: It's funny cause I worked from February twenty second, twenty
Speaker 14: twenty two, you know until this point, and I hadn't
Speaker 14: haven't stopped since, and there been some bumps in the road,
Speaker 14: and there's been some hard times, you know, your body.
Speaker 14: It's it's a lot of demand on your body. It's
Speaker 14: a lot of hours that people don't see where you're
Speaker 14: at home, you're doing rehab, you're doing all of these things.
Speaker 14: And I was just feeling, you know, starting to feel
Speaker 14: even better, you know, as this game approached, and just
Speaker 14: just wanted to be able to leave my mark. Uh uh,
Speaker 14: Like like everybody in here, you know, these are the
Speaker 14: games I was telling some of the younger guys like,
Speaker 14: this is where your legacy is made, you know, this
Speaker 14: is where it's it started at at least.
Speaker 5: So there's no real words. Bruh. It sucks, you know.
Speaker 5: I wanted to be playing in the big game. Uh.
Speaker 5: We just didn't take care of business at lea. Have
Speaker 5: you thought about your future at all? Yeah?
Speaker 14: To me, if there's anything I felt about myself, regardless
Speaker 14: of anybody's opinion or anything like that, is that I
Speaker 14: know that I could still play football, and I know
Speaker 14: that I still have chitt in the tank, you know
Speaker 14: what I mean. Just it's just unfortunate the way that
Speaker 14: it went today because to me, it was it's so
Speaker 14: much bigger than one person in this room. It was
Speaker 14: just being able to have that moment with these guys
Speaker 14: you worked so hard with so for me as far
Speaker 14: as my future, you know, just take a step back,
Speaker 14: breathe for a second, pick a chin up. Just know
Speaker 14: that life goes on and we'll figure out what's next
Speaker 14: after that.
Speaker 4: But you guys just couldn't really get it going early
Speaker 4: in this game.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 14: I mean last week it was only it was ten
Speaker 14: ten and a half times, so you know, it's some
Speaker 14: days are slower than others. It's just about it was
Speaker 14: just about finishing today and we just we just didn't
Speaker 14: get to finish.
Speaker 5: So I don't really think it.
Speaker 14: I don't know how important it is how you start.
Speaker 14: You know, it's all about how you finish, and we
Speaker 14: just didn't do that today.
Speaker 4: Soub. Just to be clear, if you had your property,
Speaker 4: you would like to.
Speaker 5: Come back, right, you would like to Uh. I mean,
Speaker 5: I absolutely love this place.
Speaker 14: I don't know the political answer to that question, but
Speaker 14: I've I've enjoyed every single moment I always talk about
Speaker 14: when I went to the Rams like it made me
Speaker 14: fall in love.
Speaker 5: For football again.
Speaker 14: And being here Qutar's Steve DC like this this felt
Speaker 14: like a home.
Speaker 5: It felt amazing for me.
Speaker 14: The city of Baltimore wanted it for the city of
Speaker 14: Baltimore more than anything, wanted them to be able to
Speaker 14: have that moment. We're all standing on the field and
Speaker 14: and the bank's rocking, but just came up short. So,
Speaker 14: like I said, I'll take a step back, you know,
Speaker 14: evaluate the future and just go from there.
Speaker 12: The uh the assuming you know in an instance that
Speaker 12: you do come back next year, do you believe this
Speaker 12: team can get right back to here and then win
Speaker 12: it next time and and reach that ultimate goal?
Speaker 14: I meant how to answer that. You know, the players
Speaker 14: that we have here, you see, we made it here.
Speaker 14: It's never n it's never a shoeing. But at the
Speaker 14: end of the day, I believe in the guys in
Speaker 14: this room. And if they're the same guys they were
Speaker 14: this shared then I don't see why you know, they
Speaker 14: wouldn't be right back here the same as the Chiefs
Speaker 14: for their last year and they're right back here.
Speaker 5: You know, some some team just have it.
Speaker 14: Some teams always have to go and find pieces to
Speaker 14: make it like this team has, uh every single piece
Speaker 14: that they need.
Speaker 5: So uh, I don't see why not.
Speaker 12: I remember the day you first spoke, when you when
Speaker 12: you got here to Baltimore. You talked about how special
Speaker 12: it was, how excited you were to be part of this.
Speaker 12: When you look back at this season, just t how
Speaker 12: special the memories this whole year are gonna be for you.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'll never forget anything uh about it.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 14: I remember the phone calls before even sign and like,
Speaker 14: do you think you'd be cool in Baltimore?
Speaker 5: It's not.
Speaker 14: You know, it's not the most fun in the world.
Speaker 14: And it's like I I actually had Uh. This year
Speaker 14: to me was uh a year that I'll never forget
Speaker 14: in my entire life. So again, like I said, it's
Speaker 14: just unfortunate the way that it ended. But when you
Speaker 14: y you're going against you know, one of the best
Speaker 14: teams in the world, and they've shown it year in
Speaker 14: and year out, sometimes you just gotta tip your hat
Speaker 14: and and they they played better than we did today, Cause.
Speaker 6: That make it more painful, going from a year that
Speaker 6: you'll never forget and the love and the passion that
Speaker 6: you had on this team.
Speaker 4: And falling short.
Speaker 14: Uh nah, I I mean the pain, Sh'S pain't gonna
Speaker 14: be there, you know. You you put so much into
Speaker 14: it and when it doesn't go the way that you
Speaker 14: want like it doesn't matter. You know, yeah, nothing matters
Speaker 14: this moment. You feel this moment, how you feel it?
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: It was Odell Beckham Junior. We also heard from rookie
Speaker 1: wide receiver Zay Flowers.
Speaker 8: You know your teammates support and everything that happened to
Speaker 8: be the good and the band.
Speaker 5: In this game.
Speaker 8: Honey, describe it.
Speaker 5: I mean, oh, my brothers, so they gonna ride with me,
Speaker 5: right or wrong, no matter what.
Speaker 8: So it's all and just the emotions I guess of
Speaker 8: the season and just getting to this point.
Speaker 5: Can you describe what that has been like?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, it's fun winning then you know,
Speaker 10: you get to the playoffs. You wanna win, but sometimes
Speaker 10: the t on the best team to always win.
Speaker 8: So that's all.
Speaker 4: Did you think you broke a plane at the goal line?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I thought I did funest, but you know
Speaker 5: I learned from my mistakes. Say you say, what are
Speaker 5: you feeling in your heart in your head right now?
Speaker 5: Want to win? That's it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Say you was sorry?
Speaker 5: There was some speculation about you maybe cut your finger
Speaker 5: after the the fumble.
Speaker 4: Just what happened there on the sideline?
Speaker 8: Nah, I had a I had a cut already just
Speaker 8: opened up again.
Speaker 4: Say, you were one of the younger stars of this team.
Speaker 5: You guys have a lot of talent here. You did
Speaker 5: some special things this year.
Speaker 12: I I know it's tough to think this way right now,
Speaker 12: but how much you think about the potential of what
Speaker 12: you guys can do in years.
Speaker 4: To come right now?
Speaker 10: M you know, just try to come back that year
Speaker 10: and get it done, you know, come back together as
Speaker 10: a team.
Speaker 5: Just a tough one. So just you gotta work towards
Speaker 5: that year.
Speaker 6: How hard is it when the penalty seem like they're
Speaker 6: kind of going one way more often?
Speaker 10: Uh, honestly, that's something we anticipated. You said we was
Speaker 10: gonna play through it, but you know, can't you can't,
Speaker 10: you can't.
Speaker 8: May it cost rest offensive?
Speaker 11: Did it feel like this game is quite different for
Speaker 11: you guys just to play the production wise, Yeah.
Speaker 5: We didn't do what we wanted to, but we still
Speaker 5: had a chance to get it done. Justice just said
Speaker 5: he doesn't want you to feel like you're defined by
Speaker 5: one play. What does that mean to you that your
Speaker 5: teammates are talking like that right now?
Speaker 10: You know, like I said, those my brothers, I ain't
Speaker 10: expect nothing different from them, So you know, we all
Speaker 10: got each other backs.
Speaker 1: That was wide receivers A Flowers. You're listening to the
Speaker 1: Ravens Press Pass podcast. We have a full breakdown of
Speaker 1: the game over at the Lounge podcast fees, so you
Speaker 1: can go ahead check that out. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for listening, for sticking with us over the course of
Speaker 1: the entire season. The Ravens will be back. It's a
Speaker 1: disappointing end of the season, but we appreciate your support
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