Speaker 1: Welcome into the Raves Press Pass podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: October fourth, and the Raves are getting ready to play
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers this week in Pittsburgh. As they prepare
Speaker 1: for that matchup, here's what head coach John Harball how
Speaker 1: to say after practice today.
Speaker 2: All right, good seeing everybody. Appreciate you all being here.
Speaker 2: Good practice, warm day. Guys worked hard through it and
Speaker 2: we're focusing on the challenge that's right in front of us.
Speaker 2: And it's a tough challenge, but we're excited for it. Obviously.
Speaker 2: It's a game that we look forward to every year.
Speaker 2: What questions you have, don I know you don't like to.
Speaker 3: Talk much back interview, but what is it like when
Speaker 3: you go on the field and you see Marlon Odell,
Speaker 3: you know, even Ronnie and Bateman, all those guys coming
Speaker 3: back good?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's good.
Speaker 2: It's good to see guys out there practicing. Different guys
Speaker 2: are in different stages, you know, as the week goes
Speaker 2: on in terms of all the different guys, we'll see
Speaker 2: where they're at for Sunday. But it is good seeing
Speaker 2: guys get back out.
Speaker 5: Ny from Marlin Turns, I know you're probably not going to.
Speaker 3: Get fit, get specific.
Speaker 5: But what have you seen in terms of the Kenny
Speaker 5: products there?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean he's been working super hard. It's one
Speaker 2: of those things where it's really just a matter of
Speaker 2: the healing process in there taking place in the bone
Speaker 2: or whatever. And so it looks good, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: It's just got to see how response to the work low.
Speaker 2: That's the main thing right now.
Speaker 6: He coach, you had a few players this week, in
Speaker 6: particular Eric Thomains and having a veteran like him and
Speaker 6: after just Oliver's departure, is his main assignment to be
Speaker 6: like one of those blocking tight ends.
Speaker 2: Well, there's no doubt Eric's known for that. You know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of his things. He can run routes, catch
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 4: Certainly.
Speaker 2: He said, he's a veteran player, highly decorated tight end
Speaker 2: in this league who's kind of known as a really
Speaker 2: good blocking tight end. So he was available, he was
Speaker 2: excited to come back, and you know, we can put
Speaker 2: him into that mix and see where we go.
Speaker 5: On Kenny pictons since Paser, I mean that he's expected
Speaker 5: to play on Sunday. He was what you've seen for
Speaker 5: the mont you know what you expect the problem on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, we've got a lot of tape on on
Speaker 2: kennybviously played them seeing him on tape all the time.
Speaker 2: Obviously excellent quarterback. You know, in the system he's they
Speaker 2: fitted the system to him. It seems like like always. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean we're looking forward to the challenge, you know,
Speaker 2: and that's what it's going to be, and we expect
Speaker 2: him to be out there. He says he's going to
Speaker 2: be out there. We're expecting to be out there. You know,
Speaker 2: it is what it is. You know, you find out
Speaker 2: we had the same situation last week and it didn't
Speaker 2: go that way.
Speaker 4: So you know, we'll just see where we're at.
Speaker 2: But uh, you know, obviously Mitch Trubisky's a heck of
Speaker 2: a player too, and we'll be preparing for the Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: Steeler offense.
Speaker 7: John had a usual stretch of the schedule three straight
Speaker 7: road games for a division game, then international game. Do
Speaker 7: you have to shift things like players, sleep, cycle, nutrition,
Speaker 7: vocals on any differently or do you just stay day
Speaker 7: to day.
Speaker 2: We have a plan, but I think we can talk
Speaker 2: about that next week. It'll be better, Yeah.
Speaker 5: John, A lot of great linebackers have similar traits.
Speaker 8: But when it comes from Roquan, especially the way you
Speaker 8: kind of just splashed in your defense last year, right,
Speaker 8: is there's something unique that makes him kind of stay
Speaker 8: out amongst the even amongst the crowd of the great
Speaker 8: linebackers that you can cook.
Speaker 4: It's a great question, I'd say, yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think you're you could possibly stand
Speaker 2: out in this different this craft as a football player
Speaker 2: unless there's things about you that are very unique, you know,
Speaker 2: and sometimes it's the simplest things and just being great
Speaker 2: at those things that is unique, because the simplest thing,
Speaker 2: sometimes the hardest thing, is to be consistently great at
Speaker 2: and that's one of the things he does. I Mean,
Speaker 2: he's relentlessly chasing every detail of his craft, and he
Speaker 2: does it with an enthusiasm and a demeanor and a
Speaker 2: confidence that you pretty much, uh, you respect when you
Speaker 2: see it, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: Is there any aspect that when he arrived change you
Speaker 5: felt like it was affecting the culture of either the
Speaker 5: defense or even just the linebacker room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly adding to it. I mean, you know, a
Speaker 2: great leader brings brings it to the culture. I think
Speaker 2: the culture is a lot of things and one of
Speaker 2: the things it's uh, it becomes kind of a mix
Speaker 2: for all the all the parts, you know, all all
Speaker 2: the pieces in there, and sometimes sometimes you know, there
Speaker 2: can be a cat list. And I think he was
Speaker 2: a little bit of a catalyst for us that way
Speaker 2: and just the way he operates, and and that's good.
Speaker 4: That's what leadership is.
Speaker 5: If he jumping right away or Steve Smith talking about it,
Speaker 5: I got to wait a year.
Speaker 4: But you know, Steve Smith didn't read wait a year.
Speaker 2: He might have said that. I recall him jumping right
Speaker 2: in and yeah, and Roe was the same way. He
Speaker 2: jumped right in, and he just was Row, just like
Speaker 2: Steve was Steve. And and one of the great quotes
Speaker 2: that Steve Smith has is uh he says uh, he
Speaker 2: says I was born or raven.
Speaker 4: I just didn't know it until I got here. You know,
Speaker 4: it's pretty good.
Speaker 9: We appreciate that John.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 11: He saw obviously Marcus Williams get full participation in the
Speaker 11: last week, but it's a different kind of situation for him.
Speaker 11: Are you looking for something specific this week to kind
Speaker 11: of get him the green mind?
Speaker 4: Just looking for him to be ready.
Speaker 2: You know, I think it's a lot of factors that
Speaker 2: are involved with that, and uh, and we'll see as
Speaker 2: we get along in the week how he looks, how
Speaker 2: he feels, and whether or not he's ready and he
Speaker 2: feels he can perform and he's gonna be safe.
Speaker 5: Do you feel like, you know the orders give you
Speaker 5: guys are over the cost or is he sort of
Speaker 5: didn't go and forward?
Speaker 2: He certainly has. Uh, he's played very well. I mean
Speaker 2: obviously that catch is the run. Uh, he's he's he's
Speaker 2: a he's he's something. You know, I really appreciate it
Speaker 2: with what we thought he was gonna be when he
Speaker 2: came in, he's been. He's been all that and more.
Speaker 2: And now we have to figure out the roster gymnastics
Speaker 2: of all that right now. Also that combines with the
Speaker 2: injuries and things like that. So uh, Eric be working
Speaker 2: on that and trying to do the math on that.
Speaker 11: I think you guys have been one of the best
Speaker 11: stepends of the journey. Yeah, not giving up those intermediates.
Speaker 11: I know say that you guys have been on that
Speaker 11: at those best teams, not giving up and pass like
Speaker 11: intermediate and he throws.
Speaker 12: I know.
Speaker 11: The emphasis with Mike has been like a Noxio soccer
Speaker 11: communication in the back end. Have you seen that kind
Speaker 11: of playoffs? I'm obviously film is one thing.
Speaker 12: Which to kind of be on it.
Speaker 11: The part just field, I'm on our game dangers hearing
Speaker 11: guys talking.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean, that's that's something that is a staple.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a staple, uh, principle in football and
Speaker 2: in life. You know, maybe not obnoxious in life, but
Speaker 2: certainly of noxes on a football field when you've got
Speaker 2: seventy five thousand fans screaming their lungs out to try
Speaker 2: to impede your communication. And that's what we've got to
Speaker 2: be able to do. And I think the guys have
Speaker 2: done a really good job of it, but we can
Speaker 2: get a lot better. It's week four, so you know,
Speaker 2: week five is another chapter and you've got to be
Speaker 2: better than you were the week before, for sure.
Speaker 4: So that's what we keep chasing.
Speaker 3: Odell and.
Speaker 5: Were shot back being back out there.
Speaker 13: How does that change the dynamic of things for you guys?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's two more really good players, you know,
Speaker 2: and in terms of what you can do, what they're
Speaker 2: capable of doing, the fact that you've got some more
Speaker 2: guys out there with who are fast and talented than
Speaker 2: you had previously.
Speaker 4: I think it kind of speaks for itself.
Speaker 2: Specifically, you find out when you get there, you know
Speaker 2: that's that's kind of how it goes. You have to
Speaker 2: play the games on Sunday to really know the answer
Speaker 2: to a question like that.
Speaker 4: A great thanks.
Speaker 1: That was that coach John Harbaugh. We also talked with
Speaker 1: inside linebacker Patrick Quayens having a terrific season this year.
Speaker 1: He talked about his mindset going into this game in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: Someone that has said.
Speaker 3: Before that you relished playing an enemy territory. There's something
Speaker 3: a little after this sets you still try to ring. Uh.
Speaker 12: Yeah, uh.
Speaker 10: Anytime you know, you join this organization and they talk
Speaker 10: about this game, it's the game that defines you and
Speaker 10: makes you a raven. And uh when I was on
Speaker 10: my SI on their sideline my rookie year, Mike Tomlin
Speaker 10: was looking at me, s yelling at me, You're not
Speaker 10: a raven, You're not a raven y R. You're not
Speaker 10: supposed to be there, You're not You're not one of them.
Speaker 10: So every time I play them in something personal that
Speaker 10: with you, Yeah, definitely did, definitely did. I don't care
Speaker 10: if he was joking. I don't care if he was serious.
Speaker 10: At the end of the day, I don't on your
Speaker 10: sideline you're telling me I'm not a raven. It's kind
Speaker 10: of disrespectful.
Speaker 8: So do you think it's not that not everything playing
Speaker 8: you go in any.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I just cause at that point it's like, I like,
Speaker 10: I never even told you anything, like you just coming
Speaker 10: at me. So I mean, at from that point on,
Speaker 10: it was just it is what it is.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 14: That's kind of like, Uh, you know, if you played them,
Speaker 14: you were talking about how you know you feel you
Speaker 14: weren't a.
Speaker 3: Ray of it until you get the Steelers rightly did so?
Speaker 12: Uh are you ready to just even the numbers?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Uh your matchups against them definitely. Uh, sitting at one
Speaker 10: and five versus them, Uh, it's not a good record
Speaker 10: at all, and uh we're looking to change that.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 10: So you know that's been a talking trying of you know,
Speaker 10: catch back up on the on that record and obviously
Speaker 10: all those games were decided by very few points, and
Speaker 10: uh we know where we went wrong in those games,
Speaker 10: and you know that's what we're leaning on now, is
Speaker 10: just correcting our m power pass mistakes.
Speaker 15: Does does Rooklund go into a different headspace on game
Speaker 15: days then the other guys that you've.
Speaker 12: Played with there we your career. Uh it's hard to
Speaker 12: tell a roquind Rock crusts like that every day.
Speaker 10: Uh he really doesn't change, but uh, game day definitely
Speaker 10: get a little bit more intensity. I you s you
Speaker 10: gonna get the same talk that you get every day,
Speaker 10: but it's different, different intensity that grew.
Speaker 12: Yeah, salatary number.
Speaker 10: It was mine. He was Uh ro Quad was looking
Speaker 10: at me. He was like, uh, Martle gonna come on
Speaker 10: his lobe, which you think we should do? And I
Speaker 10: was like, let's not just talk to him. Pissed him
Speaker 10: off a little bit. So he was just sitting there
Speaker 10: stead they trying to talk. Stead they trying to talk.
Speaker 10: And it was so hard after laugh but as soon
Speaker 10: as he walked away, we busted out laughing. It was
Speaker 10: so funny. You think, yeah, definitely, it definitely pissed him off.
Speaker 12: It definitely did.
Speaker 16: You're uh here a quarterway to the season or we
Speaker 16: battled through a lot of development, Uh.
Speaker 3: Pressure throughout It just where you feeling right now.
Speaker 12: On in this season, still trying to improve.
Speaker 10: Uh, I feel like my game there's another level to
Speaker 10: a lot I feel like we're just getting started, and
Speaker 10: you know, I I'm just trying to be great. I'm
Speaker 10: trying to come in every day focus getting better one
Speaker 10: day at a time. I'm not tryna look too much
Speaker 10: into the future. Uh, even though there's goals that I
Speaker 10: wanna reach, I'm just really just focused on being one
Speaker 10: percent better each day.
Speaker 3: I Thrick you mentioned, you.
Speaker 13: Know, rose influence on here and so far since you
Speaker 13: got here, A curious could you see your Davy in it?
Speaker 3: And Uh, probably way in the way I do. I
Speaker 3: know he's got here.
Speaker 7: What do you see.
Speaker 12: From those guys that stands down to you? Uh? What
Speaker 12: uh clowney?
Speaker 10: You really see like the intensity that he plays with
Speaker 10: every play, the aggression that he plays with, how physical
Speaker 10: he is, uh, how fast he closes in on the
Speaker 10: attack point and with k what kV is, Just how
Speaker 10: smart he is, Uh coming in the first day knowing
Speaker 10: is that exactly what to do on all his jobs,
Speaker 10: talking about certain players that he's about to see. Uh,
Speaker 10: just you know how well he communicated the first time
Speaker 10: he was out there. So Uh, it's two different things
Speaker 10: that you get from both of them, but you still
Speaker 10: get a concept of things that they do well, and uh,
Speaker 10: just seeing those two guys, two guys that you look
Speaker 10: up I looked up to, playing playing the sport, just
Speaker 10: watching them do what they do and be great and just.
Speaker 12: Trying to really fall in they path.
Speaker 17: Patrick Hill with Marylin going down early and Marcus doing
Speaker 17: down early. But what do you think the perception was
Speaker 17: of this secondary and what do you think Pats show
Speaker 17: in the past three or fourth weeks?
Speaker 12: Now we knew our guys catball.
Speaker 10: Uh, I think when you look at the outside world,
Speaker 10: the outside world look at obviously it's Marlin and Marcus,
Speaker 10: you know, going down, But uh, we got faith in
Speaker 10: the guys that we got and they wouldn't be here
Speaker 10: if we knew they couldn't play. So any time we
Speaker 10: stepped on the field with our eleven, we know we
Speaker 10: got faking in each other.
Speaker 3: And you guy think, uh, you know, I talked to
Speaker 3: you and there was all these injuries happening, and you
Speaker 3: had really how's it down? Kind of the opposite. How's
Speaker 3: it feel when you know you're getting back Marlin Odell Baiting,
Speaker 3: How how's it do when you get these.
Speaker 12: Guys coming back?
Speaker 10: It's definitely confidence boost But at the same time, you know, uh,
Speaker 10: we going out there with the same game plan, doing
Speaker 10: the same thing we've been doing, and just trying to
Speaker 10: up at the notch, and uh, you know, getting those
Speaker 10: guys back is a huge plus. But like I said,
Speaker 10: the guys that we had in there, I felt like
Speaker 10: we did good with them, and I feel like they
Speaker 10: you know, they stepped up to the plate and there
Speaker 10: was there's not gonna be no drop off at all.
Speaker 12: Did better.
Speaker 17: If there's a a lot of talk the fourth year
Speaker 17: of guys just kind of how competitive this a snooda
Speaker 17: for quarterbacks. Joe Burrow maar, you know they could sending
Speaker 17: wants going back. Ex What do you kind of make
Speaker 17: of things right now? It's seems like the Mars at
Speaker 17: the top of the rest is kind of in transition almost.
Speaker 10: Uh, it's just a tough division as a whole. I
Speaker 10: think you look at every position, every position got great players,
Speaker 10: and I think that's just what makes each ain't so tough. Uh,
Speaker 10: minus the rivalry is just each position is loaded with talent.
Speaker 10: And when you look at each player that's in the division,
Speaker 10: you look at the quarterbacks and the talent that's around
Speaker 10: those quarterbacks that make them better. So think, uh, all
Speaker 10: the t quarterbacks in our division are great quarterbacks. They're
Speaker 10: obviously on the teams for a reason, starting on those
Speaker 10: teams for a reason, and they got the guys around
Speaker 10: 'em that we gotta go play against every day. And
Speaker 10: I honestly think it's the toughest division in football. I
Speaker 10: honestly if you aks me, but yeah, that's how I feel.
Speaker 3: Patrick d It's it's one game of the time.
Speaker 16: But do you feel like the the locker room kind
Speaker 16: of is the natitude of if you beat at the port,
Speaker 16: you you sweep all your AFC uprop games.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 10: I mean, honestly, we just trying to be one to notice.
Speaker 10: We were not looking too much in the future. Like
Speaker 10: I said, we were focused on get being one percent better.
Speaker 10: L Like I said, it's tough. It's tough to go
Speaker 10: in there. I'm you look at my record. That's why
Speaker 10: I'm focused on this week. Just getting better as a player,
Speaker 10: getting better on the defense, looking back at the past
Speaker 10: things that we did wrong, and just getting better from
Speaker 10: those things so that way we could go in there
Speaker 10: and get this one and then you know, start talking
Speaker 10: about the future.
Speaker 12: At that point.
Speaker 15: It is a calitary that's Najie Harris runs with does
Speaker 15: that kind of add to the rivalry and the physicality
Speaker 15: of this game overall?
Speaker 10: I think anytime you playing a great player like him, uh,
Speaker 10: you want to try to get out there him. And
Speaker 10: obviously when he goes, their team goals man and when
Speaker 10: you show him down, their team shuts down. So the
Speaker 10: big focus is definitely stopping twenty two.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Patrick Queen. We also talked with tight
Speaker 1: end Mark Andrews Is coming off a two touchdown game
Speaker 1: last week in Cleveland.
Speaker 3: When you when you're getting guys back, like you know,
Speaker 3: Oto Marlon Days, how's it feeling you.
Speaker 12: Get it feels great?
Speaker 14: You know obviously you know some of these guys that
Speaker 14: are coming back are special players and can help this offense.
Speaker 12: And you know it's exciting to.
Speaker 14: Be able to have all those guys back and be
Speaker 14: full throttle and you know, watch these guys make plays.
Speaker 14: You know, we talked about Lamar and the type of
Speaker 14: player that he is, and you're surrounded with you know,
Speaker 14: the other guys outside like that that's special.
Speaker 5: Chal have have.
Speaker 14: H those guys are you know, ballplayers are dogs. They
Speaker 14: know how to go up and get it, make big,
Speaker 14: big time plays when it matters and when you have
Speaker 14: you know, guys like that in a game like this,
Speaker 14: you're able to rely on.
Speaker 6: That divisional game, This one has a little more spots
Speaker 6: to it being the big or Steelers. How you see
Speaker 6: the group keeping them momentum against the Steelers this time.
Speaker 14: I just think elite focus, you know, being able to
Speaker 14: you know, we talk about being lasered in week by
Speaker 14: week and you know, obviously the the Ravens Steelers game
Speaker 14: is uh, you know, one of the best rivalries in
Speaker 14: the world. And you know, if you're not ready for
Speaker 14: a game like this, you know, what are you doing?
Speaker 14: But for us being able to focus out here on practice,
Speaker 14: knowing what to do, visualize, visualize the moment and and
Speaker 14: make the plays when they come. Because it's a week
Speaker 14: by week basis, we just got to keep on stacking,
Speaker 14: keep on going, and if we do that will be
Speaker 14: the team we want to be.
Speaker 5: Obviously, defense has changed every year.
Speaker 3: They've given you guys some trouble in the past.
Speaker 5: Characteristics on the Steeler.
Speaker 14: Defense what makes them and year out, I mean you
Speaker 14: talk about, you know, the type of team that they are,
Speaker 14: that the defensive front and obviously physical, tough, you know,
Speaker 14: all those things you expect from a from a Pittsburgh defense,
Speaker 14: you know, and at the end of the day, when
Speaker 14: you when you have two teams like this and you
Speaker 14: have that rivalry, it's it's something you always got to
Speaker 14: bring your launch man, because it's a tough game. You know,
Speaker 14: no matter if if the team's doing real well one
Speaker 14: year or not, it's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 5: A lot of passes from.
Speaker 1: Uh from over the years. The one he threw in
Speaker 1: then on Sundays was that one of the best rows.
Speaker 14: And it was incredible.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 14: I I felt like it was slow mo. You know,
Speaker 14: wasn't when it was in the air, you know, just
Speaker 14: the placement of it, the height of it, the spiral
Speaker 14: it was. It was an incredible ball. And you know,
Speaker 14: but he's making you know, throws like that over and
Speaker 14: over and over and over.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 14: It's it's just so nice that people are seeing it
Speaker 14: and you know, for us just being there for him
Speaker 14: and and make them plays when they matters.
Speaker 5: Focused, being locked in you've appeared that first training.
Speaker 3: Is this just what you in that competitive mindset and
Speaker 3: just having such.
Speaker 14: A Yeah, you know, I think it's it's about getting better,
Speaker 14: you know, as a team.
Speaker 12: You.
Speaker 14: You want to be able to progress and peak at
Speaker 14: the right moments. But this league is so tough because
Speaker 14: there's so many good players, so many good teams, and
Speaker 14: you take just one little step off, you know, that's
Speaker 14: a chance for someone to take your spot, or someone
Speaker 14: to beat you, or no matter what it is. So
Speaker 14: you know, taking onus on yourself to to be a
Speaker 14: pro and you know, take it week by week and focus.
Speaker 14: The Leaf focuses everything in this.
Speaker 15: League on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 3: And what stands out to you about him.
Speaker 14: He's such a special player. You know, you don't see
Speaker 14: guys like that. You know many times he's just the
Speaker 14: way he sees the game. He's very smart. He studies
Speaker 14: a lot of film and he looks at information. He
Speaker 14: knows exactly what's coming. And you know, to talk about
Speaker 14: like a Louke Keikley type of deal. Guys that are
Speaker 14: super vocal, able to lead. And he's got that fire
Speaker 14: that I haven't seen for many, very many people. Man,
Speaker 14: he's got that lead focus. He's able to do it
Speaker 14: at such a high level. He's been a blessing for
Speaker 14: this team, for this defense and a catalyst for what
Speaker 14: we can be.
Speaker 3: What's the difference won there.
Speaker 13: Do you feel too, what is the difference from.
Speaker 9: You when when you get to that.
Speaker 14: I feel I feel ready to fly around, and I
Speaker 14: think you you kind of see it week by week
Speaker 14: being able to move around and just feel good to
Speaker 14: be back, be.
Speaker 12: Healthy and you know, get back to myself. All right,
Speaker 12: Thank you, Mark.
Speaker 1: That was tight end, Mark Andrews. And last, but certainly
Speaker 1: not least, is quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 6: I would like to have OBJ andshot to your offense.
Speaker 12: Also can be a chilled.
Speaker 15: In the back Tom.
Speaker 18: Uh, it's wonderful lot more speed on the field. Uh,
Speaker 18: got a vet out there looking forward to it.
Speaker 13: Kind of change the dynamic and that, you know, place
Speaker 13: to give you more weapons, having you know, Bathings and
Speaker 13: uh and Obja out there. And how does that just
Speaker 13: change maybe your confidence level or or just the options
Speaker 13: or things like that.
Speaker 18: Uh, Like you said, the option, the option part, more
Speaker 18: guys on the field getting open a harder job for
Speaker 18: me because those guys want the ball as well.
Speaker 9: Is onunder one football on the field.
Speaker 18: So that's pretty much the the problem for me.
Speaker 9: But it's a good problem to have, right.
Speaker 15: When I think air yards per attempts are down league wide.
Speaker 15: They just not as many teams completed the deep balls.
Speaker 15: Are you seeing defenses change in in in their approach
Speaker 15: and trying to take that away from offensive.
Speaker 18: I believe in this day and there's just a lot
Speaker 18: more speed on the field with a lot of offenses
Speaker 18: in the NFL, and uh, it's making defenses play off
Speaker 18: a lot more and just making sure no guys beat
Speaker 18: 'em over the top. And that's pretty much whyse that
Speaker 18: that situations happening right now. Not a lot of deep passes,
Speaker 18: a lot of air passes down the field right now?
Speaker 3: What uh, Raven Steelers? I mean, it's always been a
Speaker 3: tough battle for you. Yea when you guys put teams
Speaker 3: to people, what what is really stands out overall? Just
Speaker 3: when you whenever you.
Speaker 18: Have to play against the Steelers, you un Uh, it's
Speaker 18: it's a different one, uh, out of all the out
Speaker 18: of the Browns and uh in the Cincinnati Bengals, this
Speaker 18: one's like it's uh, the atmosphere is different, Like it's
Speaker 18: more intense, more aggressive even in practice.
Speaker 9: You know, guys just getting pumped for for this game.
Speaker 9: That's about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you look at.
Speaker 5: The red zone success you guys have had how.
Speaker 16: Much of it do you attribute to or some new
Speaker 16: schemes and new new formations and offense, and how much
Speaker 16: do you think like the bends are of finding a
Speaker 16: comfort So I.
Speaker 5: Mean like you and Mark for example, that guy's been
Speaker 5: teammates for years.
Speaker 16: Is our ages developed or word that has made you
Speaker 16: more successful in scoring test jings?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 18: I believe, uh just taking our time moving in the
Speaker 18: red zone, not trying to rush anything. That's just that's
Speaker 18: giving us so much success right now this season. We
Speaker 18: just need to keep it going. I don't wanna stay
Speaker 18: you know, he's just stay talking about that for too long,
Speaker 18: but we just need to stay where we at right
Speaker 18: now and stay focused, locked there and when we touch
Speaker 18: the black zone e or or Mark talked about.
Speaker 1: That, How is important to have a laite focus when
Speaker 1: you go up against a team like the Steelers. How
Speaker 1: does his kind of he seems like he's always intense
Speaker 1: and focused at all times.
Speaker 3: How does that sort of affect.
Speaker 5: You guys as an offensive?
Speaker 3: Well, it's y have kind of have a leader like that.
Speaker 5: It's that's always kind of locked in.
Speaker 12: Uh F.
Speaker 18: That's great to have. I I love him Mark locked
Speaker 18: there and he gets on other guys. You know, yeah,
Speaker 18: let's stay locked in. Even myself included, you know, not
Speaker 18: not him getting on me staying lockt there cause I'm
Speaker 18: locked in, but let him getting on other guys. Just
Speaker 18: keep keeping them focused, you know, because it's in they
Speaker 18: giving play.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 18: We we tryna score on our offense. We just trying
Speaker 18: to draw the ball down the field and put points
Speaker 18: on the board. So us staying focus it helps us
Speaker 18: out a lot.
Speaker 16: Or if you look at your numbers career, you know,
Speaker 16: a far more success to get Cincinnati Cleveland than you
Speaker 16: have up against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: Who what's the challenge they representing?
Speaker 3: Is there anything that you could point to.
Speaker 16: For why offensively you guys may not have put up
Speaker 16: the numbers you have against the other AGEC Northeast.
Speaker 9: Uh, I don't know. I I just said that too.
Speaker 18: It us like it's different when we played the Steelers,
Speaker 18: but hopefully it's a different outcome this season.
Speaker 9: I don't know what it is, but hopefully it's different.
Speaker 9: Right now, what's it like to.
Speaker 3: Go against rokwand and practice?
Speaker 16: What was he like kind of looking at across the line.
Speaker 18: Uh, well, I had to go against ro rocann Well,
Speaker 18: I call him Rohan Hardest called him Rohan, and I
Speaker 18: just kept the name. But uh, going against Rohan and
Speaker 18: practice is it's like in the game, but I'm not
Speaker 18: getting tackled. You know, he's communicating to the guys you know,
Speaker 18: oh this might be coming up.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 9: He he's a I'll say he's a great study.
Speaker 18: Because he called out players not ours, but he be
Speaker 18: calling him out when I'm watching, you know, the the
Speaker 18: the scouts team go up. He's a great linebacker. And
Speaker 18: then it helps us out a lot.
Speaker 5: Though, how do he affect the culture now?
Speaker 18: He affect on sure when he got here last year,
Speaker 18: I think our defense like allowed uh certain amount of
Speaker 18: points to be scored, probably like thirteen points or something
Speaker 18: like that. That's the effect he had, you know, just
Speaker 18: no point, barely points being scored on us. Uh, everyone
Speaker 18: playing like fundamental sound speed to the ball, and he's
Speaker 18: like a Raylewise for us.
Speaker 3: What what's it?
Speaker 13: What's it been like going against the Steelers? It you
Speaker 13: because you've mentioned you know, they're obviously streames, always close,
Speaker 13: they're tough. Does it feel more physical in some ways
Speaker 13: than than something that game to.
Speaker 5: You have or you know, knocked you around?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 9: N Uh I believe every game physical. Every game is physical.
Speaker 18: But I don't even I probably played Stillers like three
Speaker 18: four times. I haven't been playing three times. I only
Speaker 18: played against some three times, so I really haven't. I
Speaker 18: don't think I played my best against him yet.
Speaker 9: But uh, I don't know. We're gonna see Sunday.
Speaker 15: How would do you like when you get your number
Speaker 15: calls as a runner in the Reds A. I mean,
Speaker 15: you've been so stressful down there obviously the past two weeks.
Speaker 15: You know, just you feel like it opens up a
Speaker 15: lot of things defensively because you're running.
Speaker 18: Ability the defense give us a look for me to
Speaker 18: run or my numbers call and whatever is gonna take
Speaker 18: it for us to get into his own I'm gonna
Speaker 18: do it. I'm gonna try to do it at least
Speaker 18: one hundred miles for hour, and.
Speaker 9: If the defense give us that look, that's what it'll be.
Speaker 12: All right?
Speaker 9: Thank you, Lamark, I appreciate you.
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