Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: January seventh, and the Ravens are gearing up for their
Speaker 1: wild card game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's going to
Speaker 1: be Saturday night, eight pm at M and T Banks State.
Speaker 1: As they prepare for that game. Today, we had a
Speaker 1: chance to hear from quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: Any forever? Uh, not that I know of. I'm just
Speaker 2: surprised or something. I don't know. I'm chilling.
Speaker 3: Did you already have any any birthday celebrations?
Speaker 4: Nah?
Speaker 2: Not really. Ill just be thankful, grateful, that's all.
Speaker 5: You seemed like you were dialed in a soon as
Speaker 5: the game ended last week.
Speaker 4: Could you talk about the preparation and focus going into
Speaker 4: this week?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, you know, we know it's at State. You
Speaker 2: know it's when to go home. Man, it's a team
Speaker 2: we've been very familiar with, great team at that when
Speaker 2: you go home, you just lock, then doubt then well more.
Speaker 4: The results aside.
Speaker 6: You've played in quite a few playoff games at this
Speaker 6: point count of career.
Speaker 7: What have you taken away from those experiences that has
Speaker 7: it impacts or maybe has changed your preparation now compared
Speaker 7: to you know maybe the first couple of playoff games
Speaker 7: you got.
Speaker 2: Right before, Uh, the game would be to me, playoff
Speaker 2: game is a lot slower. You gotta be try to
Speaker 2: be mistake free.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: The games won would turn over battle and keeping the
Speaker 2: ball in your control, you know, moving the ball down
Speaker 2: the field, getting first downs, putting points on the ball.
Speaker 2: Obviously that's how you win those games.
Speaker 8: Lamar, what do you mean by slow?
Speaker 4: Like usually people say it speeds up in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: What do you mean by like it's it's like it's
Speaker 2: gonna be quick turnarounds. I believe know that this team
Speaker 2: is it's offense ball, you know, and the disappon the
Speaker 2: offense ball like it's it's go back and forth. It's
Speaker 2: a lot of back and forth. That's what I mean
Speaker 2: by slow, Like a lot of back and forth.
Speaker 1: A or Uh marciall Yan is a finalist for the
Speaker 1: for the Hall of Fame. You know, just uh going
Speaker 1: back to early in your career when he was here,
Speaker 1: I'm curious how impact he was for you as a
Speaker 1: player and uh kind of helping you and as you
Speaker 1: got started.
Speaker 2: Uh, very impactful. Just how he used to adjust the line.
Speaker 2: You know, I really didn't have to say too much.
Speaker 2: I really didn't really have nothing to say at all.
Speaker 2: You know. It was like my first full year taking over,
Speaker 2: and he pretty much would let me like lead in
Speaker 2: a way, but like lead by example, cause I really
Speaker 2: didn't have the voice. It'll be marshaling, like like getting
Speaker 2: things done, and just how he went by himself, how
Speaker 2: he conducted business. I feel like he should have been there,
Speaker 2: been in the Hall of Fame. Man. He's just a
Speaker 2: great all around guard player person and a great football player,
Speaker 2: like just a football head like man. He he's just
Speaker 2: a different guy, got a demeanor about him, the way
Speaker 2: he care himself. He he a great guy.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 2: He's well deserved.
Speaker 10: La mar lot come with playing in a playoff game
Speaker 10: in general, But is there anything actually knowing the opponent
Speaker 10: that you're playing, playing Pittsford or the third hime?
Speaker 2: Uh nah Na, Really it's gonna be uh it's it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a very good game. I said, uh uh,
Speaker 2: that's what I believe it'll be. Before the last seam,
Speaker 2: you were asking me a lot like about.
Speaker 8: Your record against the Steelers, and you said had as
Speaker 8: well as you wanted to in the games that you
Speaker 8: played them.
Speaker 4: But having that win under belt in this most recent matchup.
Speaker 2: Does that change.
Speaker 7: Mentality or is there a sense of a competent to
Speaker 7: coming from it that you were able to put together
Speaker 7: ahead the.
Speaker 2: Game against the Steelers. I was always comforting, No, always confident. Uh,
Speaker 2: but that game doesn't even matter no more. You know,
Speaker 2: it's wanting to go home right now. So I'm locked
Speaker 2: in with the same mindset I had before that last game.
Speaker 6: Or you mentioned turnout those before.
Speaker 2: How do you help point those without it?
Speaker 11: But I guess lessening your aggressiveness.
Speaker 2: Uh, keeping the ball in our hands, Uh, keeping them
Speaker 2: away from those guys those scripts. Uh, don't throw the
Speaker 2: ball into traffic, stuff like that. What we should be knowing,
Speaker 2: we should not do.
Speaker 1: What what stays about you about the knight and the
Speaker 1: night atmosphere at Mty Bay stating what stands out to
Speaker 1: you about the night atmosphere for a prime time game
Speaker 1: in Baltimore?
Speaker 2: Just to know it's the fans, whole flocked nation, just
Speaker 2: in the building, feeling like they on the field with us,
Speaker 2: the lights, how they do the lights? You know, certain
Speaker 2: more parts of the game, just everything about it, and
Speaker 2: plus were at home. How good is the field to
Speaker 2: go into it?
Speaker 7: He called brother playoff game with Carrick Kenner.
Speaker 2: I'd rather not be cold. But but you say we
Speaker 2: got Darren Henry, so that's a bonus. It's great, man,
Speaker 2: It's great, man. I don't believe nobody like hitting in
Speaker 2: the cove like no one's likes, not even the defenders
Speaker 2: like hitting in the core. I believe, especially with it
Speaker 2: like a two hundred and fifty pounds almost running back
Speaker 2: running downhill. Let you. I wouldn't want to do it,
Speaker 2: but it is great for us.
Speaker 4: Are you ready for a game? Possibly on top of it.
Speaker 2: Dont matter. I'm ready for any game, Lamar. I know
Speaker 2: we don't hope.
Speaker 12: Sorry, I know we don't know about the status and
Speaker 12: say Flowers, but how does this offense pop?
Speaker 4: And say if he's not aut available.
Speaker 2: Uh man, that's god up, you know. But we're hoping
Speaker 2: he can come back, you know, hoping he got a chance.
Speaker 2: We don't know what's going on. I don't know what's
Speaker 2: going on, but hopefully we have him. But if not,
Speaker 2: another guy step up and we're gonna be ready to row.
Speaker 13: No, mar you have lost him earlier in the game
Speaker 13: last week, and then you know pushad Baiten really stepped
Speaker 13: up in the connect you with him nine touchdowns this year,
Speaker 13: his progression, how much of it do you attribute the
Speaker 13: fact that the symptom is healthy all year? You guys
Speaker 13: at that time didn't really work it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like like you said, him just being healthy and
Speaker 2: he'd been had that in him though, like Baitman always
Speaker 2: been that type of guy. I felt like we left more.
Speaker 2: It's still things left out. You know that he didn't
Speaker 2: get you know, on the field during regular season, but
Speaker 2: hopefully you know this playoff run, we make things happen.
Speaker 14: You are heading into six games and you have you
Speaker 14: played the sixty playoff teams. You ever, even during this week,
Speaker 14: do you ever think about those past games to either
Speaker 14: as motivation or is your your.
Speaker 2: Mind just going forward? The arline going for I don't
Speaker 2: really think I was young in the beginning, like and
Speaker 2: it happened fast, Like it don't happen fast. But you know,
Speaker 2: the only one I do, be honest with you, the
Speaker 2: only one I do think about is the SC Champions Shure,
Speaker 2: That's probably the only playoff game I do think about,
Speaker 2: Like who was wrapped up? But my mom, I'm I'm
Speaker 2: focused now though, Like it is what it is at
Speaker 2: this point, everybody stands that game we lost, that's it.
Speaker 4: Has it been a motivational trip for you for this
Speaker 4: team in this whole season?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe I said that throughout the season, like
Speaker 2: I thought about that. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4: I mean, but now we're here for the second season,
Speaker 4: so better.
Speaker 2: Real body, it still is not.
Speaker 15: Though my Uncleol was couldn have uh back Andrews, you
Speaker 15: know a hundred percent last year, you know at this time
Speaker 15: was playing in the year.
Speaker 8: I think you can stop you do that.
Speaker 2: But it's huge, man. So I always say this market
Speaker 2: is like a security blanket, like we peanut butter and jelly,
Speaker 2: you know, like he's that guy man, And for him
Speaker 2: starting slow this year and people with doubting him, I
Speaker 2: don't know where a doubt came from with Mark, I
Speaker 2: just don't know. It's still amazing me. But for him to,
Speaker 2: you know, be a team player and help other guys
Speaker 2: get open and do this and that and still have
Speaker 2: a magnificent season that he's had, that just shows what
Speaker 2: that shows what type of player is and what he's
Speaker 2: gonna bring to the table come this playoff run.
Speaker 4: Lamarro, is it?
Speaker 8: Do you have to remind yourself not to be too
Speaker 8: amped up for games of the stakes. Is that something
Speaker 8: that in your career you've sort of I don't wanna
Speaker 8: say battled, but is that something you still have to
Speaker 8: remind yourself, uh to settle down in these games?
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just be too excited, that's all, you know,
Speaker 2: too assy, Like I'm seeing things before it happened, Like, oh,
Speaker 2: I gotta calm myself down. But just being more experienced,
Speaker 2: I've I've found a way to about balance it out.
Speaker 13: Laura talking about your voice, and you've mentioned more and
Speaker 13: you grow as a leader. I guess who are some
Speaker 13: of the people that you've tried.
Speaker 14: To learn leadership come and what characters to have you
Speaker 14: cry to yourself.
Speaker 10: On as a leader of seven.
Speaker 2: I never really try to mimic uh my leadership after anyone,
Speaker 2: Uh try to piggy like get things from them, you know.
Speaker 2: I'm I pretty much just lead by like how I
Speaker 2: care myself, you know, lead by example like that.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: I never looked at anyone else and tried to learn
Speaker 2: anything from them. What leadership, Lamar, what have you seen
Speaker 2: from the defense?
Speaker 9: They've really turned it around since I think week eleven,
Speaker 9: So just kind of what do you say from that.
Speaker 2: Side of the ball. Just the chemistry. I felt like
Speaker 2: guys just had to get build chemistry with one another,
Speaker 2: and they just playing like they've been playing since last year.
Speaker 2: There's a couple of new guys, but the same defense.
Speaker 4: Mark.
Speaker 6: Looking back at some of your previous very cold games,
Speaker 6: seems like you don't.
Speaker 4: Like wearing sleeves.
Speaker 6: Is that something that you kind of stuck with or
Speaker 6: is it depending on how cold it is or what.
Speaker 2: It Probably depends on how cold it is. I feel
Speaker 2: like I've been just doing pretty good with how I've
Speaker 2: been playing without them, so I've been cool.
Speaker 1: We also heard from running back Derrick Henry.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you mentioned that it's been a few years since
Speaker 14: being in the the playoffs. What do you think it's
Speaker 14: going to be like, you know, get back in there
Speaker 14: and getting periods in the postseason again.
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
Speaker 11: Uh there's a different atmosphere during the postseason, you know,
Speaker 11: because everybody knows what's at stake. So just uh excited
Speaker 11: about be back in the atmosphere. Like I said on Saturday,
Speaker 11: it's been a while.
Speaker 6: So do you notice the folkus or intensity goes up
Speaker 6: a little bit a notch as opposed to the way
Speaker 6: it was a week ago.
Speaker 11: I mean that's what you know, you expect from yourself
Speaker 11: and and everybody expect out of out of each other.
Speaker 11: You know, just be a lot down the uh more
Speaker 11: than you know you were before, and just pay attention
Speaker 11: to the more details and just go out there and
Speaker 11: play the best game you can, but not try to
Speaker 11: get too overwhel I'm gonna make it more than what
Speaker 11: it is.
Speaker 10: There is there anything different from playing a you know,
Speaker 10: a playoff game versus playing a playoff game versus a
Speaker 10: division opponent.
Speaker 11: I mean when we're playing you know, Distiller, so we
Speaker 11: know it's always tough. I mean during the season, those
Speaker 11: FC North matchups, the fourth quarter battle, so that's where
Speaker 11: we anticipate. You know, we don't take an a point
Speaker 11: a lot there, but we know, you know with AFC
Speaker 11: North Division, the point of the rivaly, we know it's
Speaker 11: alway gonna be a four quarter battle.
Speaker 7: Marl was just saying, like, I'm I wouldn't want to
Speaker 7: have to try to tackle Derek on a on a
Speaker 7: cold night in January.
Speaker 2: Me, do you do you think about it that way?
Speaker 7: Do you do you want to sort of make it
Speaker 7: uncomfortable unpleasant for the defender to come up on you
Speaker 7: in these games.
Speaker 11: Focus on doing my job the best way that I
Speaker 11: can every single play, to be effective on offense and
Speaker 11: help us get an end zone, put ourselves in the
Speaker 11: best position, best position to win, not really focus on
Speaker 11: what somebody else thinking of.
Speaker 3: Good there are in terms of you know, talking about
Speaker 3: being effective on the offense, you just speak on like
Speaker 3: what impact playing alongside Lamar has had on.
Speaker 2: You in terms of your job.
Speaker 11: I'll answer this a lot during the season, But you know,
Speaker 11: Lamar as Lamar the best player in this league, and
Speaker 11: I feel like if anybody played against some you know,
Speaker 11: he's a benefit to in any.
Speaker 2: Player and.
Speaker 11: Happy and uh glad to be able to play beside him.
Speaker 11: A few tar All of famer and he makes everything
Speaker 11: different from different for everybody. He's a dynamic pair player.
Speaker 11: You gotta respect his arm and his legs. So you
Speaker 11: know with with eight you always got a chance there.
Speaker 6: I saw it after Haracard got named to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 6: You shouted him out on your Instagram store. What what
Speaker 6: is the kind of fond of you guys and how
Speaker 6: much respect do you have for him and what he.
Speaker 2: Does at Yeah?
Speaker 11: Uh, Juggernaut oungsong hero to go out there and mass
Speaker 11: treet pull out the way for me every single game,
Speaker 11: especially in the cold, which is not easy.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 11: I know he played the main but you know, it's
Speaker 11: a little different in the NFL. Got a ton of
Speaker 11: respect for Pat, you know, being his teammate and when
Speaker 11: I wasn't so, and I'm happy that, uh, you know,
Speaker 11: I finally being his teammate. He's blocking for me and
Speaker 11: he's doing the hell of a job this season. He
Speaker 11: deserves all the recognition, Derek.
Speaker 1: Even on on both sides of it. I'm curious what
Speaker 1: stands out to you about the atmosphere at the Mtbay
Speaker 1: Stadium for a night primetime game and and all that
Speaker 1: goes into that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's just as lockdown as we are. And we're
Speaker 11: definitely gonna need that on Saturday. You know, bring your coat,
Speaker 11: your blankets, your hot chocolate, your cough whatever you need
Speaker 11: to to be loud, and we would need allowed in
Speaker 11: that stadium. We would need that energy. We need to
Speaker 11: fans intense for sure on Saturday.
Speaker 14: What like, what's it like when new your team's up
Speaker 14: by you know a little bit, and they're in the
Speaker 14: second half, fourth quarter and They're like in new the
Speaker 14: ball going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's close this out. How How does that? How
Speaker 2: does that make you feel? What's kind of the feeling
Speaker 2: that you get with it that happens?
Speaker 11: Yeah, just close the game out, the security win. That's
Speaker 11: all I'm focused on is it's finishing. It's it's what
Speaker 11: we're preached and that's what we say to each other
Speaker 11: in the huddle. Just finish, finish the game and just
Speaker 11: got out here with the victory.
Speaker 5: The argument that or productive and value on this offense
Speaker 5: has an argument against Lamar Jackson as an empty candidate.
Speaker 15: It's learning it.
Speaker 2: Do you have any of the thoughts about that city, give.
Speaker 5: Your impact on the offense as a negative or Jackson's
Speaker 5: mvv bid or the campaign, you have any thoughts on
Speaker 5: what your impact is for his case.
Speaker 16: Y.
Speaker 11: I mean, you could put anybody by Lamar and they
Speaker 11: gonna have a hell of a year.
Speaker 4: A just type of player.
Speaker 11: He is My success shouldn't shouldn't knock his or you know,
Speaker 11: vice vice versa. Lamar is one the main reason why
Speaker 11: I came here, you know, to play with a Hall
Speaker 11: of Fame quarterback, MV caliber quarterback. And you know I've
Speaker 11: been seeing all the chatter. I think, uh, I forgot
Speaker 11: who said it? You know, selling Breaking two with him
Speaker 11: and josh Al Lipop had hell of the year's I
Speaker 11: mean hell of you this year. So you know, I
Speaker 11: feel like Lamar h his case. I felt his stats
Speaker 11: can be even even better. You know, I feel like
Speaker 11: he's the best player in the league, and you know
Speaker 11: it's only gonna get better from here. But I don't
Speaker 11: feel like my what what I've done, shouldn't hurt him.
Speaker 11: You know, I feel like he's helped me even more.
Speaker 16: I'm just curious personally, how does your mentality in the
Speaker 16: playoffs differ as but as the regular.
Speaker 11: Season it doesn't at all. But I still got a
Speaker 11: job to do or a it's the regular season in
Speaker 11: the playoffs. But I think it's just you know, we
Speaker 11: know it's at stake, and we know we gotta do to.
Speaker 2: Get We want to go two more.
Speaker 5: Please cold games.
Speaker 4: Again, cold weather games.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 11: We gotta play whether it's cold, raining hot, Like, go
Speaker 11: out there and get the job.
Speaker 2: Now that I'm mad at me.
Speaker 7: As you were deciding to come here, did you think
Speaker 7: maybe I could be the difference between them being really
Speaker 7: good and then taking one more step.
Speaker 11: I'm not gonna get into to all that. I just
Speaker 11: want to come here and make an impact and be
Speaker 11: adding peace to his offense, to this team to help
Speaker 11: them get get where they want to go. And you know,
Speaker 11: just week as the first step and got to work
Speaker 11: hard this week and prior to execution to guard there
Speaker 11: doing on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Next up is Pro Bowl defensive lineman Namdi Madam k.
Speaker 14: So, I know you guys felt like, especially at the
Speaker 14: beginning of the year, that there was a lot better.
Speaker 2: You guys can probably a lot better.
Speaker 14: When did you kind of get a sense that this
Speaker 14: defense was kind of turning that cool?
Speaker 15: I've always had that sense, but you know, in every season,
Speaker 15: you're going to go through your hills and your valleys
Speaker 15: and stuff like that. It's about just catching your momentum
Speaker 15: and keep going. And the guys in the locker room
Speaker 15: navigate up and we're starting to catch our rhythm and
Speaker 15: playing good football right now.
Speaker 7: You know this arrivalry very well at this point. I mean,
Speaker 7: do you do you like the Pittsburgh is part of
Speaker 7: what you have to go through to get where you
Speaker 7: want to go.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean they're just another person in our way.
Speaker 15: You know, the team in our way to get to
Speaker 15: we know where we want to get to, and you
Speaker 15: know that's why our thur't practicing and working hard and
Speaker 15: doing it than we can to be a best self
Speaker 15: on some on on Saturday.
Speaker 1: So that how did How does the UH the experiences
Speaker 1: of of UH last year and being in the playoffs, like,
Speaker 1: how does that shape this team in the mindset going
Speaker 1: into this for season?
Speaker 15: You know that feeling in playoffs, you know, last year
Speaker 15: is not a good feeling because you know where where
Speaker 15: we could have been. And it's definitely a different focus
Speaker 15: now with the guys in the locker room God just
Speaker 15: out and doing everything we can, you know, to make
Speaker 15: sure that we're putting our best football out there now,
Speaker 15: especially playoff time turning up another notch.
Speaker 2: So I can feel that everybody's locked in.
Speaker 15: So it's a good feeling.
Speaker 13: How does it feel to have both we had you
Speaker 13: guys get double digit sacks and the and the world
Speaker 13: does he play in that too?
Speaker 2: To help lot?
Speaker 13: Sometimes there's there's play in there in the path.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's it's great, it's great. You know everybody's boring
Speaker 15: on the d line. You know, Docinson having a career year,
Speaker 15: Kyle Vin or as well. You know, it's it's a
Speaker 15: gret feeling. Everybody's going after, everybody's hungry, everybody's hunting. So
Speaker 15: you know we're gonna you take that momentum from the
Speaker 15: regular season and bring it to the playoffs. You know,
Speaker 15: that's the only way to do it.
Speaker 16: I'll be curious from a defensive perspective, how tough would
Speaker 16: Derick Henry be in January when it's cold and and
Speaker 16: him running downhill if you had to go against him?
Speaker 15: Huh, super tough, Cause super strong, guys, We're big, super fast,
Speaker 15: and you know it's getting cold now, so you know
Speaker 15: things are are gonna hurt a little bit more. So
Speaker 15: you know, thank I'm not on the other side of
Speaker 15: the sea. But you know he's gonna do his thing,
Speaker 15: and you know the guys may be ready.
Speaker 2: So that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean's as a defensive player, how do you feed
Speaker 1: off the energy in the stadium for these night games.
Speaker 15: It's it's gonna be a different environment just the person time.
Speaker 15: We're hosting the h uh Pittsburgh and in Baltimore in
Speaker 15: the playoff game, so you know it's gonna be high energy.
Speaker 15: Everybody needs to come out and bring whatever you gotta
Speaker 15: bring to be rowdy as possible, cause energy is gonna
Speaker 15: be electric and we're gonna feed on that and we're
Speaker 15: gonna play, you know, to to that standard that we
Speaker 15: can and we know we can, so it's gonna be exciting.
Speaker 2: We've seen you.
Speaker 7: Take on more and more of the pregame or speeches,
Speaker 7: and we've always known you to be a salt spoken
Speaker 7: guy when you when you talk to us. How how
Speaker 7: did you sort of step into that role?
Speaker 4: And and have you have you been enjoying it?
Speaker 2: And you know what?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think I guess around you, I'm more soft spoken,
Speaker 15: but out there I'm I'm cool. I'm a little wild,
Speaker 15: you know, I'm wild. I do my thing, you know,
Speaker 15: roll And I've been talking. It's like man, you you
Speaker 15: I feed off you too, man, you you you get
Speaker 15: everybody going, you know, and I've been starting to At
Speaker 15: first it's kind of, you know, different, but now I'm
Speaker 15: starting to get a roll of it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 15: It's definitely somebody that uh like, uh roke on I
Speaker 15: respect and he's like, man if I feed off Fiel'm like, yeah,
Speaker 15: like I definitely need to talk more. So I've been
Speaker 15: doing that and now it's kind of being my little
Speaker 15: thing and me and me and Rocann's a little thing.
Speaker 15: But you know, overall, if he feels it before the game,
Speaker 15: he does it. If I feel before the game, I
Speaker 15: do it. Whatever we gotta do to everybody going to
Speaker 15: play our basketball.
Speaker 3: Sorry, that is prepared versus just off the cuff.
Speaker 15: Always really off the cuff. Really, you know, it's not
Speaker 15: something that we talk about like Friday or Saturday. It's
Speaker 15: really like game game day and just however you're feeling,
Speaker 15: just whatever is in your heart saying and just play
Speaker 15: your heart out there.
Speaker 5: You ever, like in the car on the way to
Speaker 5: the stadium, think about like if something comes to mind,
Speaker 5: maybe I'll.
Speaker 2: No, I just let it flow.
Speaker 15: Yeah I think it. I think too much. It doesn't
Speaker 15: combat something, and I just let it flow and just
Speaker 15: say what I'm my hard and everybody feels and ibody's
Speaker 15: ready to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yeah, channeling any movies or TV shows or anything.
Speaker 15: No, No, don't you know.
Speaker 16: I mean.
Speaker 12: Lamar Jackson said a minute ago that he doesn't think
Speaker 12: about a lot of the playoff losses, but in the
Speaker 12: AFC Championship, give me last year still sticks with him.
Speaker 12: Does that come up in the defensive room at all
Speaker 12: this whole season, that championship game lost as a motivator
Speaker 12: or how does that played out?
Speaker 2: It does?
Speaker 15: It does as a motivator. It doesn't br bring it
Speaker 15: off so much. But when it does come up, you know,
Speaker 15: Zeo just talks about how that feels and how you
Speaker 15: know when the end of that game was everybody was
Speaker 15: thinking of my man, what I could have done better
Speaker 15: or what I should have done to make us win
Speaker 15: that game? But now is the time to do it?
Speaker 15: Now is that time to capitalizing the things that you
Speaker 15: believe that he should have done. So we do it
Speaker 15: the right way at this time.
Speaker 2: So no motivation, but you brought up.
Speaker 16: The fact that this would be the first game against
Speaker 16: Pittsburgh playoff game in Baltimore. Is there a feeling of
Speaker 16: one to represent of alright, this is their turn to
Speaker 16: come here.
Speaker 4: We're gonna show 'em what it's like.
Speaker 15: Absolutely, the energy, the focus, it's all there. It's play
Speaker 15: out football. You know it's a winner. You go home
Speaker 15: and everybody knows what's at stake, and uh, everybody's locked
Speaker 15: in the locker room. You can feel it. And it's
Speaker 15: just one day at a time. At this point.
Speaker 13: Last game against Pittsburgh, Jalen warm and really critical in
Speaker 13: their checkdowns.
Speaker 2: Then the whereas really effected in that regard?
Speaker 13: Do you get how much of a focus is he's
Speaker 13: been getting here and make sure that doesn't happen against.
Speaker 15: All the all the running backs have been a focused
Speaker 15: you know, he hasn't been like the main focus based
Speaker 15: somebody that we're accounting for obviously twenty two. You know,
Speaker 15: all all the backs are good, they're downhill back, strong back.
Speaker 15: So we know what's ahead of us, and we're preparing for.
Speaker 15: You know, we're doing everything we can to uh make
Speaker 15: sure that we eliminate those things from you know, slipping
Speaker 15: away in our hands, and you know we have the
Speaker 15: right man for the job to do it.
Speaker 14: Not.
Speaker 6: I know it's early and you know game prep, but
Speaker 6: it looks like their starting right guard has a broken
Speaker 6: hand and might try to play Saturday. Is that something
Speaker 6: that's already already made its way to it's got our
Speaker 6: How does that maybe that how you guys kind of
Speaker 6: prepare for something like that?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 15: I didn't, I didn't know that, but you know, whoever's
Speaker 15: out there, you know, murd Marider to play, you know
Speaker 15: it doesn't, then it's spars to play out football.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's winner go home. So yeah, it's not.
Speaker 15: It's that's my take on it. Samdi, What is it.
Speaker 1: About Kyle Vinoy who's full play NFL and athlete SAMs
Speaker 1: at thirty three that's having a career year.
Speaker 15: What have you seen them that's impressed you the most?
Speaker 15: And Kyle he's he's like a football giru. He knows
Speaker 15: so much about the game. He knows so much about
Speaker 15: like secondary and all these stuff that like me and
Speaker 15: doctre like, huh, how'd you know that? Like how'd you
Speaker 15: pick up on that?
Speaker 2: Like, he's just so.
Speaker 15: Knowledgeable about about the game of football. He takes care
Speaker 15: of his body, He just he just he knows what
Speaker 15: it's like to win a championship. He knows what it's
Speaker 15: like to to win a Super Bowl. So he know,
Speaker 15: he knows a lot of stuff about football that a
Speaker 15: lot of us players that haven't got to that point
Speaker 15: yet don't know. So he kind of gives us insight
Speaker 15: of things that we can do, little things that we
Speaker 15: can polish up to it just be the best self
Speaker 15: on uh on game day. And he helps us a lot,
Speaker 15: a lot.
Speaker 1: In the locker room today we heard from Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: inside linebacker ropewand Smith.
Speaker 9: I'll see the Steelers again every teams kind of what's
Speaker 9: the mentality is now playoffs side?
Speaker 4: Oh, the mentality is real simple. We win to go home.
Speaker 9: We had the bank, gotta protect it by any means necessary,
Speaker 9: so we find for our lives and everybody know that.
Speaker 4: And hey, get your popcorn ready to be ready. What
Speaker 4: are some of the challenges. We're facing a team that
Speaker 4: you know so well for a third time.
Speaker 2: They know what you're gonna do.
Speaker 11: You know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, we know what they're gonna do. They know what
Speaker 9: we're gonna do. So it's gonna be about the best
Speaker 9: man win. Got a lot of respect for the guys.
Speaker 9: Russ's been doing it for a long time. Running backs
Speaker 9: run very hard, tight ends make plays obviously, pickings on
Speaker 9: the outside and O line play well together, so you know,
Speaker 9: excited about the matchup.
Speaker 4: They know us, we know them, So it's gonna be
Speaker 4: about the best man At the end of the day.
Speaker 10: Rookwond does how you guys finish the season going for
Speaker 10: and O after the by?
Speaker 2: Does that do anything for you?
Speaker 10: Confidence momentumise would under it is going into this game.
Speaker 9: Uh, the game is all about momentum at the end
Speaker 9: of the day. But the game is played for a reason.
Speaker 9: So we have to go out do our jobs, uh
Speaker 9: to the best of our building, and we do things
Speaker 9: to the best all ability will like the results. And
Speaker 9: I think it's just that simple, just going out and
Speaker 9: posing your will, doing your one to eleven myself including
Speaker 9: and we do that like the chances up on New
Speaker 9: Year to chasing that first win.
Speaker 6: On the Steelers.
Speaker 2: That's a raven in a long time.
Speaker 3: How much is it sort of east that hitch in
Speaker 3: a sense that you have on one of.
Speaker 2: The Steelers game and you know how that feels like?
Speaker 4: Count of this team? Yeah, I I beat them prior
Speaker 4: to this game. I'm not sure. Uh, I mean as
Speaker 4: a raven, I I.
Speaker 9: Beat them prior to uh this game. So not sure
Speaker 9: where that came from. But uh no, we can beat
Speaker 9: any any team that's out there in the field. We
Speaker 9: know that I have the utmost respecting confidence in each
Speaker 9: and every guy go out there on the field with
Speaker 9: and it's about going out there and doing our job
Speaker 9: to the best of our ability, regardless of who the
Speaker 9: opponent and it's a division rival, Pittsburgh, so we're excited
Speaker 9: for it.
Speaker 5: Only the fourth time the Ravens have had two guys
Speaker 5: with double David Sacks what if?
Speaker 4: What a fail? Away? And Calvin or What's upression? The
Speaker 4: most about those guys is here.
Speaker 9: Yeah, how those guys just remain consistent, Chuck Dennis, all
Speaker 9: those guys, prepairing those guys day in and day out,
Speaker 9: kV the Ageless Wonder and then dopph Man. Got a
Speaker 9: lot of respect for him, just putting his head down
Speaker 9: his work. Despite what the credits and they say say,
Speaker 9: He's always a guy just put put in the work,
Speaker 9: come in, bus is till day in and day out,
Speaker 9: and he's reaping some of his rewards. But I think
Speaker 9: he's just getting started. And as well as kV. I
Speaker 9: think kV is just showing what he can do and
Speaker 9: like whatever age he's at, he's not slowing down. So
Speaker 9: I'm excited about those guys and I'm excited what they're
Speaker 9: gonna do on this playoff run.
Speaker 4: I haven't been around here for a little bit.
Speaker 1: How much this last year's playoffs situation.
Speaker 5: Sure here you have guys this year.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like every time you go to the playoffs, You
Speaker 9: go in the playoffs wanting to win the big game,
Speaker 9: and at the end of the day, you just have
Speaker 9: to take it one game at a time, knowing that
Speaker 9: last year didn't end the way we wanted, so just
Speaker 9: using that as fuel. But you can't jump right back
Speaker 9: to the AFC Championship game because it's a damn good
Speaker 9: Pittsburgh team that's coming in here and we have to
Speaker 9: take care of business at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: Guy on at his star cloud, especially in this last game,
Speaker 2: yourself included.
Speaker 13: But everyone's I've talked is like, yeah, that's great, but
Speaker 13: we have a bigger ball in line.
Speaker 4: Is that something that's talked about in this locker about.
Speaker 9: Mentality here, it's understood, Like they say, what's understood doesn't
Speaker 9: need to be explaining.
Speaker 4: Each and every guy understands what the goal is.
Speaker 9: Each and every day we go out down the field
Speaker 9: and it's the horse to Lombardi. But at the end
Speaker 9: of the day, it starts one game at a time,
Speaker 9: and it starts at the Bank Sunday, Saturday versus Pittsburgh,
Speaker 9: and so that's what it is. But it started, you know,
Speaker 9: today with practice and preparation. So We're excited and we
Speaker 9: know what this team have at stake, and we know
Speaker 9: what we can do as a team as well.
Speaker 7: We know you're a new man, but are you happy
Speaker 7: with Disgusa On the other side, we have to tackle
Speaker 7: Derek I not you.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I'm very excited that there's on my team
Speaker 9: and he's bruising other guys throughout the AFC right now.
Speaker 9: So yeah, he's a big man and once he gets going, man,
Speaker 9: it can be a long night for a lot of people.
Speaker 9: So yeah, I'm definitely excited he's on my team and
Speaker 9: I'm not going up against him because definitely can create
Speaker 9: a lot of problems for any defense.
Speaker 1: Bro, the all the guys are talking about is alwayser.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like you're saying it too. Where do
Speaker 2: you think that grounds from.
Speaker 9: I think that comes from just each and every guy
Speaker 9: just knowing how close we were, but also just knowing
Speaker 9: how good we are as well, and just knowing that
Speaker 9: opportunities don't come like this so often. So it's about
Speaker 9: taking advantage of each and every opportunity you get. As
Speaker 9: far as on the field, taking advantage of each and
Speaker 9: every play, doing your job. And I feel as if
Speaker 9: each and every guy and win. Each and every guy
Speaker 9: do their job to the best of their ability, each
Speaker 9: and every play. Will like the results and will like
Speaker 9: where this team can go. But it's going to take
Speaker 9: each and every guy doing their job consistently, play in
Speaker 9: and play out, and hey, team's gonna make plays.
Speaker 4: Sure, it's a national football.
Speaker 9: League, it's the playoffs, but we have to make more
Speaker 9: plays and we have to impose our will at.
Speaker 5: The end of the day, one more place you and
Speaker 5: Nomini of Shardan splits his pregame speech duties.
Speaker 4: What makes him good at it? What's a good nominee
Speaker 4: matter behave? Pre games?
Speaker 1: Reach ound like.
Speaker 4: He got some good self. He's firing, Man, I got
Speaker 4: like his oys.
Speaker 9: You look like man, I do not want to run
Speaker 9: up on that guy.
Speaker 4: Look like he'll send me to I CU or something.
Speaker 9: But like, no, man, he definitely get the guys going,
Speaker 9: and he knows exactly what to say when to say it,
Speaker 9: so he after the guys ready to go. He's been
Speaker 9: doing a long time with the d line and now
Speaker 9: when he gets it with the group, it's just it's
Speaker 9: pretty special. I got a lot of respect for beats.
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