WEBVTT - Henry, Jackson & Others: Ravens Press Conferences 1/7/25 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.840 Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Tuesday, 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.000 January seventh, and the Ravens are gearing up for their 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.119 wild card game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's going to 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:14.240 be Saturday night, eight pm at M and T Banks State. 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:16.759 As they prepare for that game. Today, we had a 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.520 chance to hear from quarterback Lamar Jackson. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:27.000 Any forever? Uh, not that I know of. I'm just 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.880 surprised or something. I don't know. I'm chilling. 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.320 Did you already have any any birthday celebrations? 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:37.279 Nah? 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:42.639 Not really. Ill just be thankful, grateful, that's all. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:44.479 You seemed like you were dialed in a soon as 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:45.720 the game ended last week. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.760 Could you talk about the preparation and focus going into 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:49.120 this week? 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.440 Oh? Yeah, you know, we know it's at State. You 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.400 know it's when to go home. Man, it's a team 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:59.000 we've been very familiar with, great team at that when 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.920 you go home, you just lock, then doubt then well more. 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:02.800 The results aside. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.400 You've played in quite a few playoff games at this 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:05.639 point count of career. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.560 What have you taken away from those experiences that has 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.520 it impacts or maybe has changed your preparation now compared 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.679 to you know maybe the first couple of playoff games 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:15.200 you got. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.760 Right before, Uh, the game would be to me, playoff 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.080 game is a lot slower. You gotta be try to 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:22.959 be mistake free. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:23.240 Uh. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.880 The games won would turn over battle and keeping the 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:28.800 ball in your control, you know, moving the ball down 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.080 the field, getting first downs, putting points on the ball. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.200 Obviously that's how you win those games. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:34.559 Lamar, what do you mean by slow? 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.920 Like usually people say it speeds up in the playoffs. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.440 What do you mean by like it's it's like it's 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.120 gonna be quick turnarounds. I believe know that this team 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.600 is it's offense ball, you know, and the disappon the 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.360 offense ball like it's it's go back and forth. It's 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:48.480 a lot of back and forth. That's what I mean 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:49.960 by slow, Like a lot of back and forth. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.320 A or Uh marciall Yan is a finalist for the 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.720 for the Hall of Fame. You know, just uh going 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:58.560 back to early in your career when he was here, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:02.040 I'm curious how impact he was for you as a 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.600 player and uh kind of helping you and as you 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:05.360 got started. 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:10.040 Uh, very impactful. Just how he used to adjust the line. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.639 You know, I really didn't have to say too much. 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:14.440 I really didn't really have nothing to say at all. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.679 You know. It was like my first full year taking over, 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.680 and he pretty much would let me like lead in 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.799 a way, but like lead by example, cause I really 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.440 didn't have the voice. It'll be marshaling, like like getting 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.960 things done, and just how he went by himself, how 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.919 he conducted business. I feel like he should have been there, 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:31.920 been in the Hall of Fame. Man. He's just a 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:36.799 great all around guard player person and a great football player, 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.080 like just a football head like man. He he's just 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.960 a different guy, got a demeanor about him, the way 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.760 he care himself. He he a great guy. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:45.040 Man. 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:46.399 He's well deserved. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.359 La mar lot come with playing in a playoff game 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.560 in general, But is there anything actually knowing the opponent 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.440 that you're playing, playing Pittsford or the third hime? 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.160 Uh nah Na, Really it's gonna be uh it's it's 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.680 gonna be a very good game. I said, uh uh, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.519 that's what I believe it'll be. Before the last seam, 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.360 you were asking me a lot like about. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.200 Your record against the Steelers, and you said had as 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:10.679 well as you wanted to in the games that you 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:12.119 played them. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.880 But having that win under belt in this most recent matchup. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.239 Does that change. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.400 Mentality or is there a sense of a competent to 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.520 coming from it that you were able to put together 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:22.040 ahead the. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:27.799 Game against the Steelers. I was always comforting, No, always confident. Uh, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.360 but that game doesn't even matter no more. You know, 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.200 it's wanting to go home right now. So I'm locked 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.239 in with the same mindset I had before that last game. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.480 Or you mentioned turnout those before. 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.440 How do you help point those without it? 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.480 But I guess lessening your aggressiveness. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.560 Uh, keeping the ball in our hands, Uh, keeping them 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.520 away from those guys those scripts. Uh, don't throw the 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.080 ball into traffic, stuff like that. What we should be knowing, 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:49.800 we should not do. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.360 What what stays about you about the knight and the 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.600 night atmosphere at Mty Bay stating what stands out to 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.680 you about the night atmosphere for a prime time game 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:58.320 in Baltimore? 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.600 Just to know it's the fans, whole flocked nation, just 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.480 in the building, feeling like they on the field with us, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.880 the lights, how they do the lights? You know, certain 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.200 more parts of the game, just everything about it, and 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.480 plus were at home. How good is the field to 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:14.920 go into it? 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.880 He called brother playoff game with Carrick Kenner. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.520 I'd rather not be cold. But but you say we 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.280 got Darren Henry, so that's a bonus. It's great, man, 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.279 It's great, man. I don't believe nobody like hitting in 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:34.440 the cove like no one's likes, not even the defenders 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.320 like hitting in the core. I believe, especially with it 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.400 like a two hundred and fifty pounds almost running back 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.080 running downhill. Let you. I wouldn't want to do it, 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:43.080 but it is great for us. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.760 Are you ready for a game? Possibly on top of it. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.200 Dont matter. I'm ready for any game, Lamar. I know 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:49.000 we don't hope. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.360 Sorry, I know we don't know about the status and 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.240 say Flowers, but how does this offense pop? 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.159 And say if he's not aut available. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.160 Uh man, that's god up, you know. But we're hoping 0:04:58.200 --> 0:04:59.880 he can come back, you know, hoping he got a chance. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.039 We don't know what's going on. I don't know what's 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.080 going on, but hopefully we have him. But if not, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.240 another guy step up and we're gonna be ready to row. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.040 No, mar you have lost him earlier in the game 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.400 last week, and then you know pushad Baiten really stepped 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.600 up in the connect you with him nine touchdowns this year, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.719 his progression, how much of it do you attribute the 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.000 fact that the symptom is healthy all year? You guys 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:19.400 at that time didn't really work it out. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.800 Yeah, Like like you said, him just being healthy and 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.240 he'd been had that in him though, like Baitman always 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.520 been that type of guy. I felt like we left more. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.920 It's still things left out. You know that he didn't 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.280 get you know, on the field during regular season, but 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.200 hopefully you know this playoff run, we make things happen. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.599 You are heading into six games and you have you 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.760 played the sixty playoff teams. You ever, even during this week, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.000 do you ever think about those past games to either 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.159 as motivation or is your your. 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.960 Mind just going forward? The arline going for I don't 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.599 really think I was young in the beginning, like and 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.640 it happened fast, Like it don't happen fast. But you know, 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:58.320 the only one I do, be honest with you, the 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.240 only one I do think about is the SC Champions Shure, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.599 That's probably the only playoff game I do think about, 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.840 Like who was wrapped up? But my mom, I'm I'm 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.360 focused now though, Like it is what it is at 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:13.000 this point, everybody stands that game we lost, that's it. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.520 Has it been a motivational trip for you for this 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:16.880 team in this whole season? 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.960 Yeah, I believe I said that throughout the season, like 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.400 I thought about that. Yeah, definitely. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.640 I mean, but now we're here for the second season, 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:26.120 so better. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:26.760 Real body, it still is not. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.400 Though my Uncleol was couldn have uh back Andrews, you 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.160 know a hundred percent last year, you know at this time 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:33.640 was playing in the year. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:34.919 I think you can stop you do that. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.600 But it's huge, man. So I always say this market 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.919 is like a security blanket, like we peanut butter and jelly, 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.800 you know, like he's that guy man, And for him 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.240 starting slow this year and people with doubting him, I 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.040 don't know where a doubt came from with Mark, I 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.960 just don't know. It's still amazing me. But for him to, 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:52.920 you know, be a team player and help other guys 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.040 get open and do this and that and still have 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.480 a magnificent season that he's had, that just shows what 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.040 that shows what type of player is and what he's 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.280 gonna bring to the table come this playoff run. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:03.920 Lamarro, is it? 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.360 Do you have to remind yourself not to be too 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.880 amped up for games of the stakes. Is that something 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.000 that in your career you've sort of I don't wanna 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.360 say battled, but is that something you still have to 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.920 remind yourself, uh to settle down in these games? 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.160 Yeah. I just be too excited, that's all, you know, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.840 too assy, Like I'm seeing things before it happened, Like, oh, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.320 I gotta calm myself down. But just being more experienced, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.920 I've I've found a way to about balance it out. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.400 Laura talking about your voice, and you've mentioned more and 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.520 you grow as a leader. I guess who are some 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:32.920 of the people that you've tried. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.200 To learn leadership come and what characters to have you 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:36.360 cry to yourself. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.280 On as a leader of seven. 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:43.160 I never really try to mimic uh my leadership after anyone, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.120 Uh try to piggy like get things from them, you know. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.840 I'm I pretty much just lead by like how I 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.880 care myself, you know, lead by example like that. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:51.120 Uh. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.400 I never looked at anyone else and tried to learn 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.920 anything from them. What leadership, Lamar, what have you seen 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:57.520 from the defense? 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.840 They've really turned it around since I think week eleven, 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:01.520 So just kind of what do you say from that. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:05.360 Side of the ball. Just the chemistry. I felt like 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.160 guys just had to get build chemistry with one another, 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.200 and they just playing like they've been playing since last year. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.400 There's a couple of new guys, but the same defense. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:15.560 Mark. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.000 Looking back at some of your previous very cold games, 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:20.160 seems like you don't. 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:20.800 Like wearing sleeves. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:22.880 Is that something that you kind of stuck with or 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.280 is it depending on how cold it is or what. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.440 It Probably depends on how cold it is. I feel 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.840 like I've been just doing pretty good with how I've 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.000 been playing without them, so I've been cool. 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:41.280 We also heard from running back Derrick Henry. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.480 Yeah, you mentioned that it's been a few years since 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.559 being in the the playoffs. What do you think it's 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.280 going to be like, you know, get back in there 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.480 and getting periods in the postseason again. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:51.240 I'm excited. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:57.080 Uh there's a different atmosphere during the postseason, you know, 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.559 because everybody knows what's at stake. So just uh excited 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.400 about be back in the atmosphere. Like I said on Saturday, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:03.960 it's been a while. 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.080 So do you notice the folkus or intensity goes up 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.360 a little bit a notch as opposed to the way 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:10.120 it was a week ago. 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.720 I mean that's what you know, you expect from yourself 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.720 and and everybody expect out of out of each other. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.960 You know, just be a lot down the uh more 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.480 than you know you were before, and just pay attention 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.680 to the more details and just go out there and 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.800 play the best game you can, but not try to 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.520 get too overwhel I'm gonna make it more than what 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:31.840 it is. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.080 There is there anything different from playing a you know, 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.679 a playoff game versus playing a playoff game versus a 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:38.559 division opponent. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.440 I mean when we're playing you know, Distiller, so we 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.240 know it's always tough. I mean during the season, those 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.360 FC North matchups, the fourth quarter battle, so that's where 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.240 we anticipate. You know, we don't take an a point 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.520 a lot there, but we know, you know with AFC 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.280 North Division, the point of the rivaly, we know it's 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:57.480 alway gonna be a four quarter battle. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.760 Marl was just saying, like, I'm I wouldn't want to 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.480 have to try to tackle Derek on a on a 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.400 cold night in January. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.320 Me, do you do you think about it that way? 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:07.920 Do you do you want to sort of make it 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.720 uncomfortable unpleasant for the defender to come up on you 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:12.280 in these games. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.120 Focus on doing my job the best way that I 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.559 can every single play, to be effective on offense and 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.959 help us get an end zone, put ourselves in the 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.840 best position, best position to win, not really focus on 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:24.800 what somebody else thinking of. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.600 Good there are in terms of you know, talking about 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.320 being effective on the offense, you just speak on like 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.480 what impact playing alongside Lamar has had on. 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:38.600 You in terms of your job. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:44.040 I'll answer this a lot during the season, But you know, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.480 Lamar as Lamar the best player in this league, and 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.400 I feel like if anybody played against some you know, 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.000 he's a benefit to in any. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:54.360 Player and. 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.480 Happy and uh glad to be able to play beside him. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.480 A few tar All of famer and he makes everything 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.200 different from different for everybody. He's a dynamic pair player. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.120 You gotta respect his arm and his legs. So you 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.680 know with with eight you always got a chance there. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.120 I saw it after Haracard got named to the Pro Bowl. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.400 You shouted him out on your Instagram store. What what 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.040 is the kind of fond of you guys and how 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.199 much respect do you have for him and what he. 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:22.800 Does at Yeah? 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:28.880 Uh, Juggernaut oungsong hero to go out there and mass 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.160 treet pull out the way for me every single game, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.480 especially in the cold, which is not easy. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:33.920 You know. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.120 I know he played the main but you know, it's 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.280 a little different in the NFL. Got a ton of 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.360 respect for Pat, you know, being his teammate and when 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.280 I wasn't so, and I'm happy that, uh, you know, 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.800 I finally being his teammate. He's blocking for me and 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.800 he's doing the hell of a job this season. He 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.079 deserves all the recognition, Derek. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.840 Even on on both sides of it. I'm curious what 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.199 stands out to you about the atmosphere at the Mtbay 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.280 Stadium for a night primetime game and and all that 0:11:58.400 --> 0:11:58.960 goes into that. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.679 Yeah, that's just as lockdown as we are. And we're 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.880 definitely gonna need that on Saturday. You know, bring your coat, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.400 your blankets, your hot chocolate, your cough whatever you need 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.559 to to be loud, and we would need allowed in 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.360 that stadium. We would need that energy. We need to 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.160 fans intense for sure on Saturday. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.920 What like, what's it like when new your team's up 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.880 by you know a little bit, and they're in the 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.680 second half, fourth quarter and They're like in new the 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:26.280 ball going. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.760 Yeah, let's close this out. How How does that? How 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.280 does that make you feel? What's kind of the feeling 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:31.800 that you get with it that happens? 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:37.000 Yeah, just close the game out, the security win. That's 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.400 all I'm focused on is it's finishing. It's it's what 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.640 we're preached and that's what we say to each other 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.320 in the huddle. Just finish, finish the game and just 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:46.720 got out here with the victory. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.960 The argument that or productive and value on this offense 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:55.640 has an argument against Lamar Jackson as an empty candidate. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:56.400 It's learning it. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.640 Do you have any of the thoughts about that city, give. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:05.040 Your impact on the offense as a negative or Jackson's 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.760 mvv bid or the campaign, you have any thoughts on 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.480 what your impact is for his case. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:14.280 Y. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.000 I mean, you could put anybody by Lamar and they 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:18.679 gonna have a hell of a year. 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:19.600 A just type of player. 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:25.839 He is My success shouldn't shouldn't knock his or you know, 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:32.040 vice vice versa. Lamar is one the main reason why 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.839 I came here, you know, to play with a Hall 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:38.960 of Fame quarterback, MV caliber quarterback. And you know I've 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.280 been seeing all the chatter. I think, uh, I forgot 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.760 who said it? You know, selling Breaking two with him 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:49.000 and josh Al Lipop had hell of the year's I 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.960 mean hell of you this year. So you know, I 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.120 feel like Lamar h his case. I felt his stats 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.280 can be even even better. You know, I feel like 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.920 he's the best player in the league, and you know 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.520 it's only gonna get better from here. But I don't 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.720 feel like my what what I've done, shouldn't hurt him. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.280 You know, I feel like he's helped me even more. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.319 I'm just curious personally, how does your mentality in the 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.040 playoffs differ as but as the regular. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.679 Season it doesn't at all. But I still got a 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.880 job to do or a it's the regular season in 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.480 the playoffs. But I think it's just you know, we 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.440 know it's at stake, and we know we gotta do to. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.000 Get We want to go two more. 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:28.640 Please cold games. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.760 Again, cold weather games. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:31.200 I don't care. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:35.600 We gotta play whether it's cold, raining hot, Like, go 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:36.920 out there and get the job. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:37.960 Now that I'm mad at me. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.960 As you were deciding to come here, did you think 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.000 maybe I could be the difference between them being really 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:45.680 good and then taking one more step. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.440 I'm not gonna get into to all that. I just 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.160 want to come here and make an impact and be 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.080 adding peace to his offense, to this team to help 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.520 them get get where they want to go. And you know, 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.680 just week as the first step and got to work 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.280 hard this week and prior to execution to guard there 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.119 doing on Saturday. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.640 Next up is Pro Bowl defensive lineman Namdi Madam k. 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.320 So, I know you guys felt like, especially at the 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.080 beginning of the year, that there was a lot better. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.440 You guys can probably a lot better. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.680 When did you kind of get a sense that this 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:25.920 defense was kind of turning that cool? 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.280 I've always had that sense, but you know, in every season, 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.360 you're going to go through your hills and your valleys 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.400 and stuff like that. It's about just catching your momentum 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.480 and keep going. And the guys in the locker room 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.920 navigate up and we're starting to catch our rhythm and 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:41.400 playing good football right now. 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.440 You know this arrivalry very well at this point. I mean, 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.840 do you do you like the Pittsburgh is part of 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:48.360 what you have to go through to get where you 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:48.720 want to go. 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.600 Yeah, I mean they're just another person in our way. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.040 You know, the team in our way to get to 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:56.880 we know where we want to get to, and you 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.160 know that's why our thur't practicing and working hard and 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.560 doing it than we can to be a best self 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:02.920 on some on on Saturday. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.840 So that how did How does the UH the experiences 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.280 of of UH last year and being in the playoffs, like, 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.000 how does that shape this team in the mindset going 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.320 into this for season? 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.520 You know that feeling in playoffs, you know, last year 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.000 is not a good feeling because you know where where 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.360 we could have been. And it's definitely a different focus 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.240 now with the guys in the locker room God just 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.520 out and doing everything we can, you know, to make 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.960 sure that we're putting our best football out there now, 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.880 especially playoff time turning up another notch. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.480 So I can feel that everybody's locked in. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.600 So it's a good feeling. 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.120 How does it feel to have both we had you 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.520 guys get double digit sacks and the and the world 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:40.400 does he play in that too? 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:41.160 To help lot? 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:42.960 Sometimes there's there's play in there in the path. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.280 Yeah, it's it's great, it's great. You know everybody's boring 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.320 on the d line. You know, Docinson having a career year, 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.960 Kyle Vin or as well. You know, it's it's a 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.880 gret feeling. Everybody's going after, everybody's hungry, everybody's hunting. So 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.200 you know we're gonna you take that momentum from the 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:58.960 regular season and bring it to the playoffs. You know, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:16:59.920 that's the only way to do it. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.600 I'll be curious from a defensive perspective, how tough would 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.760 Derick Henry be in January when it's cold and and 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.960 him running downhill if you had to go against him? 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.280 Huh, super tough, Cause super strong, guys, We're big, super fast, 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.320