Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Presspass Podcast. It is Wednesday, September
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, the Ravens preparing for Sunday's game coming up
Speaker 1: against the Buffalo Bills. After practice today, we heard from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Okay, good seeing everybody out here in is beautiful Wednesday
Speaker 2: afternoon in Owings Mills, Maryland. Huh so, with perfect conditions
Speaker 2: for football, perfect conditions to work on the things that
Speaker 2: we can work on in terms of the wet balls
Speaker 2: and all those kind of things, the slippery field, the footing.
Speaker 2: Really really grateful for that opportunity to do that. I
Speaker 2: thought the guy's handle it really well. We had a
Speaker 2: good practice and we're moving towards our Buffalo game on
Speaker 2: Sunday night. We're very excited about it. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 2: probably right now the top football team in national football
Speaker 2: Gu's what everybody says, and you sure see it on tape.
Speaker 2: Very well coached, very tough, all three phases, very very
Speaker 2: efficient so far this season. Everything they've been doing, that's
Speaker 2: why they've been having the results they've had.
Speaker 3: So we're looking forward to the challenge and the opportunity.
Speaker 3: What question do you have, John, going against the couch
Speaker 3: of getting a lot of people.
Speaker 4: First name of cops that mind mind is Josh Allen.
Speaker 4: What's kind of the challenge in facing Josh Allen?
Speaker 2: I mean, Josh Allen pretty much everybody that watches football
Speaker 2: in this league understands those challenges that he poses. And
Speaker 2: he's he's just one of the one of the very
Speaker 2: best in the business at what he does.
Speaker 4: He's unique.
Speaker 2: You know, he plays his style and uh he does
Speaker 2: it his way, you know. And they build the offense
Speaker 2: certainly around him. All the attributes that he has throwing, running,
Speaker 2: running the offense, the read stuff, reading things out in
Speaker 2: terms of the passing game, he throws it to every level.
Speaker 2: So and he's got a really good cast around him.
Speaker 2: So big challenge, coach, Can you tell us about Becker week?
Speaker 4: Are in the asset he has been on?
Speaker 5: There is Henry success at first.
Speaker 2: Be well, yeah, Patrick Ricard probably just doing what he
Speaker 2: always does, you know, and I think he stepped it
Speaker 2: up another notch in terms of how he played in
Speaker 2: this game. He's he's been playing well, but but he
Speaker 2: he did rise.
Speaker 3: Up even more.
Speaker 2: Are thinking continue to improve this week and showed up
Speaker 2: in terms of the lead blocks those things in front
Speaker 2: of Deeric.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a big part what we do, coach.
Speaker 6: You had fraid Justice, Jil Harry a good won two punch.
Speaker 6: What are you seeing with Justine how he's been contribute?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Justin is a guy that people like forget about sometimes, right,
Speaker 2: you know, and Eric didn't forget about I mean signed
Speaker 2: to a new contract last week, right, So that was
Speaker 2: good and you can see why. I mean, they are
Speaker 2: kind of a good one two punch and they play
Speaker 2: off each other really well. Uh, they run the same
Speaker 2: plays too, but they also run different plays at times,
Speaker 2: and I just think it's a good change of pace
Speaker 2: for the defense.
Speaker 6: You guys have been so good at stopping to run
Speaker 6: so far.
Speaker 7: This ship a bluffle of likes to run the ball
Speaker 7: and James click really well right now, those type of
Speaker 7: challenge did you see them present any psider?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're they're one of the top rushing
Speaker 2: teams in football right now, and they've kind of committed
Speaker 2: to the run game and they've committed to all the things.
Speaker 3: That go with that.
Speaker 2: You know, they've got all the RPOs, they've got to
Speaker 2: read options, they've got the play action passes that go
Speaker 2: off of it, the quick play actions they get behind
Speaker 2: the back because when they start bringing the linebackers in
Speaker 2: the safeties down with the run game, I think he
Speaker 2: reads it out really well with the r pos. So
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a big challenge. You know, we're gonna
Speaker 2: have to defend the whole defense. He's gonna have to
Speaker 2: defend the entire offense full width of the field. It's
Speaker 2: not just the run game. I mean they'll throw it
Speaker 2: deep on you, they'll throw it to the sideline on
Speaker 2: the screens. Uh, they're pretty complete in what they don't want.
Speaker 6: You can got way back ever your once before what what.
Speaker 4: When to that moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of exciting.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a it's a situation where the I
Speaker 2: think opportunity he kind of met there and he uh,
Speaker 2: he was in a situation where he's ready.
Speaker 3: To get back.
Speaker 2: He's healthy and he wants to start playing. Uh, he
Speaker 2: was available and uh he was here close and he
Speaker 2: and he was here at one time uh recently and
Speaker 2: liked it here and wanted to be back. So I
Speaker 2: think his agent and Eric worked it out, come back
Speaker 2: on the practice squad and uh and and work. He
Speaker 2: says he's in great shape, but work his way into
Speaker 2: football shape again and uh and be another piece. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's good to have another legitimate pass pressure on campus.
Speaker 2: That's that's a valuable thing with Derek.
Speaker 8: You know, he's one of the older running backs in
Speaker 8: the league, but he's also just an incredible shape and
Speaker 8: a physical outlier. You probably want to like exploit how
Speaker 8: we can wear a defense veels ring to stay for
Speaker 8: the year. How how do you kind of manage or
Speaker 8: approach managing his workload for a guy with so many
Speaker 8: kind of unique elements.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question. It's one that we have
Speaker 2: talked a lot about in the circle over the course
Speaker 2: of the last few months, and and really I think
Speaker 2: it's something that is part of the big picture of
Speaker 2: all the guys that we have.
Speaker 3: So, you know, Derek's workload.
Speaker 2: So to speak, is managed by the fact that we
Speaker 2: have Lamar playing away, you know, and the offense is
Speaker 2: built around Lamar. You have guys like Justice, you have
Speaker 2: guys like Mark, you have Isaiah, you have Zay, you
Speaker 2: have Bait. You know, you've got Nelson. All those guys
Speaker 2: kind of spread the workload out naturally.
Speaker 3: You know, and that's kind of the way where we
Speaker 3: built the offense.
Speaker 9: He just trying to clamp down things in the court quarters.
Speaker 9: That's something mental aspect something you guys.
Speaker 3: It's a great question.
Speaker 2: I mean it's both, you know, definite is a mental
Speaker 2: thing in terms of I think in terms of just
Speaker 2: play the defense the same way you played it for
Speaker 2: the first three quarters. The calls really aren't any different.
Speaker 2: So we were fully capable of doing that. So you
Speaker 2: can want to be in the right mental space to
Speaker 2: do that and also being intentional about it to practice
Speaker 2: as you're saying, I mean, put yourself in that kind
Speaker 2: of situation in terms of the plays that we run
Speaker 2: and the things you have to stop and then making
Speaker 2: the plays. You know, it's it's a playmaking business, you know,
Speaker 2: and these guys are the best in the world at it.
Speaker 2: I love our guys, with so many playmakers. I'm confident
Speaker 2: that we'll be able to do that.
Speaker 5: I'm just good thinks. I know you want to stop
Speaker 5: and you mentioned your head up to the other day
Speaker 5: beyond just you know, the message of hey, we can't
Speaker 5: commit these how do you how do you go about
Speaker 5: getting to that? As a technique thing, I know, various
Speaker 5: penalties is technique because what's the message.
Speaker 3: There, No, it is.
Speaker 2: It is really technique. I mean, honestly, it's ninety five
Speaker 2: percent technique. There is part of it that is awareness
Speaker 2: and those kind of things and mindset. There's cadence issues,
Speaker 2: there's formation things that are more the mental things. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you work on those two. But the technique is really
Speaker 2: what it blows down to. We do try to chase
Speaker 2: good tech. We don't coach. We don't coach holding on
Speaker 2: to the edge. We don't coach anything to the edge.
Speaker 2: We coach within the you know, the the proper technique.
Speaker 2: We're not trying to ever, We're never trying to get
Speaker 2: an advantage on the rule. We don't think it's good
Speaker 2: technique to do that. We want to have our hands inside.
Speaker 2: We want to be driving people off the ball. That's
Speaker 2: how we We want to be covering with our feet,
Speaker 2: you know, those kind of things. So so in that sense,
Speaker 2: we are able to just kind of keep coaching our technique,
Speaker 2: the good technique, because that's what we that's what we
Speaker 2: start with.
Speaker 3: You just gotta do a bad job with it.
Speaker 6: That's a really over the years, obviously, we just had
Speaker 6: a good team here for a long time. That's one
Speaker 6: a lot of games here games, but in these fimetime.
Speaker 5: Games, you see something different from your teams. Do you
Speaker 5: feel like, why have they've been some good in that situation.
Speaker 2: I think we've had good teams, and I think we
Speaker 2: have a great stadium at night, especially you know there
Speaker 2: outs into it. Uh you know, yeah, I thought you
Speaker 2: were gonna go with the fact that we don't get
Speaker 2: as many primetime home games as everybody else. Uh, you're
Speaker 2: not going, Oh yeah, is that part of the question.
Speaker 3: No, No, it could be. Yeah, I'm gonna leave it alone.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave it alone today. We're looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Our guys, our guys love to play, you know, and
Speaker 2: you know you I tell you the bench, the only
Speaker 2: way I can answer that question is go to the
Speaker 2: stadium and experience it, because there's nothing like it. You know,
Speaker 2: there's nothing like you know, a primetime game in M
Speaker 2: and T Bank Stadium. That's really what it's all about.
Speaker 2: And I know the fans who've been there, they know
Speaker 2: it because they make it that way. So anybody that
Speaker 2: hasn't been there, I strongly encourage you to get ticket
Speaker 2: and show up.
Speaker 4: John.
Speaker 10: I know that you know Lamar's and Josh Allen aren't
Speaker 10: to be on the field at the same time. But
Speaker 10: you know, there's a lot of discourse about those two quarterbacks,
Speaker 10: how they're both kind of elite guys.
Speaker 11: And great playmakers.
Speaker 10: I know, you know, we're probably gonna Lamar is probably
Speaker 10: gonna come out and say, you know, I'm not competing
Speaker 10: against Josh Allen. Was there any thing that you learn
Speaker 10: about him or or reflect on about him in matchups
Speaker 10: like this where it's you know, the two with the
Speaker 10: great quarterbacks in the league going into head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you'll, you'll you will have to ask
Speaker 2: Lamar that question because you know, I'm not an elite quarterback,
Speaker 2: you know, not not an elite player in any sense
Speaker 2: of the words. So I don't know what it's like
Speaker 2: to be that in that matchup, so to speak. I
Speaker 2: just am grateful to be a part of it and
Speaker 2: to be around it, because you know, these are the
Speaker 2: things that you're going to look back on and you're
Speaker 2: gonna say, Wow, wasn't that cool to be there for that?
Speaker 3: You know, That's that's why we do all this.
Speaker 2: It's why all of us in this circle right here
Speaker 2: do this is why the fans watch, you know, in
Speaker 2: a part love football because you get to be you
Speaker 2: get to join in with that for two guys like
Speaker 2: Lamar and Josh, to to kind of have that, you know,
Speaker 2: to be those guys, I think is a pretty amazing
Speaker 2: cool thing and I'm just glad to be next to it.
Speaker 12: I'm talking about any guys, but being able to add
Speaker 12: veterans to practice squads, and that's the way have to mention,
Speaker 12: how is it fruitful for you or how is that
Speaker 12: fruitful for the NFL.
Speaker 2: I think it's really good for the teams and it's
Speaker 2: really good. It's really good for the NFL. It's good
Speaker 2: for the fans, and it's good for the players on
Speaker 2: the teams because you have more players out here at practice.
Speaker 2: One thing, so the players are going to stay healthier
Speaker 2: because the workload gets.
Speaker 3: Gets split up a little bit.
Speaker 2: You could actually with the new rules, you can split
Speaker 2: the workload during the longer the longer season now more,
Speaker 2: which helps keep guys healthy over the long season. Some
Speaker 2: guys that might have been forced to play ten years ago,
Speaker 2: even five years ago through some things, you can back down,
Speaker 2: get him really healthy, get them healthy, and then place
Speaker 2: play another guy up off the practice squad.
Speaker 3: And I think it's.
Speaker 2: Prolonged careers, you know, because you wouldn't have a spot
Speaker 2: for maybe on your team before because of how much
Speaker 2: it costs, or or just wouldn't head room because those
Speaker 2: guys need to actually practice. Now you've got more practice
Speaker 2: squad guys. You can bring a guy in like that
Speaker 2: and he can practice and get ready for the opportunity
Speaker 2: when it has come up to fill the role that
Speaker 2: we just talked about.
Speaker 3: So I think it's a.
Speaker 4: Win win win for everybody.
Speaker 11: Phil's obviously have a good it's very concerned about not
Speaker 11: having free starting off with the woman out here today,
Speaker 11: or you don't get anything.
Speaker 2: I think what happens in the course of the season
Speaker 2: is this it's a very physical sport, Jeff, and you
Speaker 2: got guys that are gonna be working through things, you know,
Speaker 2: pretty much every week. I think if you look around
Speaker 2: the league, you'll see that pretty much with every team.
Speaker 2: So you know, we've got to deal with those things
Speaker 2: just like everybody else.
Speaker 9: John in Buffalo's obviously without Milano Bernard, I guess they
Speaker 9: they will with out Toron Johnson. What's what's made still
Speaker 9: that second level of their defense still so good without
Speaker 9: those big time guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that they're they're chemistry defense. You know,
Speaker 2: they play, they play together really well.
Speaker 3: They haven't.
Speaker 2: First of all, they got a really good team and
Speaker 2: they got a lot of depth they got they they've done.
Speaker 3: A great job.
Speaker 2: I think, Uh, Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott have done
Speaker 2: a great job of building that team. Uh, they drafted
Speaker 2: well and so they got a lot of good young players,
Speaker 2: you know, and they so they can they can bring
Speaker 2: guys in they play at a high level. Then they're
Speaker 2: put together really well. They've been running the system, so
Speaker 2: you know, guys know the system.
Speaker 3: They step in. They've had a lot of reps and
Speaker 3: they play well together as a result.
Speaker 9: Upong those lines, because it's a game where you kind
Speaker 9: of just don't expect them at all to come out
Speaker 9: of that nickel. You know, do you expect to get
Speaker 9: them into base at all? Considering how about you guys ran?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 2: I really wish someone would ask that question of their
Speaker 2: of Sean and then find out whether that's a possibility
Speaker 2: or not. You know, expect them to get in dime
Speaker 2: a little bit. They've done that recently, but whether they're
Speaker 2: getting based or not.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 8: With there more thing that him. So you don't see
Speaker 8: a lot of running backs like even make it to
Speaker 8: age thirty or year.
Speaker 2: Nine in the NFL.
Speaker 8: Are there ways that you've seen that experience like show
Speaker 8: itself on the field. You know that that's any unique
Speaker 8: way all the football he's played.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean yeah that listen. I mean I've
Speaker 2: seen I've seen this guy do it because we've been
Speaker 2: his opponents so many times. I was just I would
Speaker 2: just appreciate it being on the other sideline the last
Speaker 2: few games. But example would be the play where we
Speaker 2: ran a drill play, which is a kind of a
Speaker 2: downhill gap skim gap scheme, a gap play that can bounds.
Speaker 2: He took it and then right away took it to
Speaker 2: the edge and got around the corner, got the first down.
Speaker 3: I think gained about eleven yards to the left side
Speaker 3: of that play.
Speaker 2: I don't think too many backs were seeing that develop
Speaker 2: as quickly as he did. He's run that play a
Speaker 2: lot in his career, and for him to take the
Speaker 2: hand off, take about a step, and then take it
Speaker 2: right outside and know he was going to get it
Speaker 2: probably an example what you're talking about right there.
Speaker 1: Next up is quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 12: Do you think victory in three was the boost that
Speaker 12: then the whole team needed as a confidence for the
Speaker 12: next appointings?
Speaker 4: Uh? I believe we just did what we were supposed
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 13: You know, we're always trying to get a win, especially
Speaker 13: in this league any given Sunday. But you could say that,
Speaker 13: I believe you could say that, you know, gave us
Speaker 13: a boost or to to get the ball rolling.
Speaker 4: Well, was it.
Speaker 7: Frustrating having Dallas come back like that and then for
Speaker 7: a second week real giving.
Speaker 6: All the sports and fought forth.
Speaker 13: I I believe when when another team's scoring and we
Speaker 13: really we just getting off the field and not helping
Speaker 13: our defense out, that's the frustrating part.
Speaker 4: You know, It's like, man, we gotta do something too.
Speaker 13: We can't just let another team but like they just
Speaker 13: steam rolling and make a comeback, cause it's been happening
Speaker 13: in the past, and we wasn't trying to let that
Speaker 13: happen again.
Speaker 6: How do you flap down and stop that from.
Speaker 13: Happening or continue to put points on the board, you know,
Speaker 13: continue to move the ball. I don't really try to
Speaker 13: look at it like just keep the clock rolling, you know,
Speaker 13: But if anything, try to make that happen too, but
Speaker 13: tryna put points on the board.
Speaker 1: Wal What do you like the most about, uh, these
Speaker 1: primetime games at at at home.
Speaker 5: You know you wear the black George.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of kind of dactual selling along with it.
Speaker 1: But what do you like the most about?
Speaker 13: It was just the crowd atmosphere, you know, just hitting
Speaker 13: the flock, you know, just seeing all black throughout the crowd.
Speaker 13: And then it's like you can't ask, you can't escape,
Speaker 13: like it's hard that scape. It's I it's something, it's
Speaker 13: I'm about it, man, I can't really describe it.
Speaker 4: Like the dark side winning in.
Speaker 13: Baltimore, all of them, I love winning, go back to
Speaker 13: just saying playing me down on things and so forth.
Speaker 5: Ref the you know, examples of you beating both leader
Speaker 5: and so forth.
Speaker 3: Kind of more and more.
Speaker 4: Curious with this.
Speaker 3: Why when Marlow did.
Speaker 5: His Instagram story, he told him obviously, look, we gotta
Speaker 5: get right and you you seem to want to shut
Speaker 5: that conversation down pretty quickly.
Speaker 4: What was why?
Speaker 5: Why did you react in that way?
Speaker 4: You know, Marlow gonna be Marlowe.
Speaker 13: I just didn't want the camera on me at the time,
Speaker 13: you know, because he noticed.
Speaker 4: You know, you know, I'm all about winning and I
Speaker 4: like to.
Speaker 13: I don't want to say winning style, but I just
Speaker 13: want to when we're up, I just want.
Speaker 4: To punish people. I just want to.
Speaker 13: I just want to get out of there with a dub,
Speaker 13: you know, clear minded, you know, just we got things
Speaker 13: to Rico on. It's always gonna be Thans to rincone,
Speaker 13: no matter if you beat a team Ford it or nothing,
Speaker 13: twenty two to twenty six over twenty eight to twenty six.
Speaker 13: But it's like, I ain't want to kill him, Like
Speaker 13: that's my brother, you know. I know he gonna do
Speaker 13: what he do. But it's like, man, not right now.
Speaker 13: I'm you know, I'm gonna little ticked off. Like how
Speaker 13: the game went, that's all.
Speaker 5: So would you say, you guys gotta get right? What
Speaker 5: does that look like to you?
Speaker 13: Just playing raven football, pointing points on the board. Those
Speaker 13: guys on the other side of the our defense, you know,
Speaker 13: just stopping people, and it's like, man, the the the
Speaker 13: Raiders didn't take their foot off their next That's pretty
Speaker 13: much how I look at look at games with.
Speaker 6: Us lamar Uh.
Speaker 7: Tom Brady get nicknamed you the eraser on Sunday or
Speaker 7: your ability to kind of make it was on a
Speaker 7: busted play and look like and you able to pick
Speaker 7: up some of y'alls and just your ability, I guess
Speaker 7: to to.
Speaker 6: Fix things even when they're going wrong. I'm wonder you
Speaker 6: like the nickname. And we know how you feel about
Speaker 6: Tom Brady and his career.
Speaker 7: What does it fit mean to you to continuously hear
Speaker 7: him applaud your game?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 13: Like I said, that's the goat man, that's the only
Speaker 13: guy in the league with seven Super bowl well not
Speaker 13: in the league, but like former player, one of the
Speaker 13: greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game with seven Super Bowls.
Speaker 4: And for him to give me a nickname that you racing?
Speaker 4: How he?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 4: What judge my game? It's it's just dope. It's dope
Speaker 4: for me to hear.
Speaker 8: Why is there a part of you that relishes You know,
Speaker 8: you're not playing against Josh Allen, but what playing in
Speaker 8: these kind of games where it's two elite quarterbacks squaring
Speaker 8: off on the same field.
Speaker 6: Is there a part of you that religious matchups?
Speaker 15: And if so, what is it?
Speaker 13: I really to be honest, I really don't care you
Speaker 13: know who out there playing.
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to I'm just trying to get a win.
Speaker 13: That's all I'm doing, just doing what I can do,
Speaker 13: uh with my ability to help my team getting a win,
Speaker 13: call them. So I approached those games just like any
Speaker 13: other games, like I always see.
Speaker 14: Watching the game Monday night and and you see what
Speaker 14: the Bills are are doing in real time.
Speaker 6: Just kind of how were you reacting to processing?
Speaker 13: I didn't watch that game, so I don't really have
Speaker 13: an answer for you, but uh, watching film, see you
Speaker 13: said real time. I I don't know, cause I wasn't
Speaker 13: watching the game, but from film, those guys are what
Speaker 13: I've always seen, you know, flying around, create secondary, great
Speaker 13: f front, great backers. You know, they just they played
Speaker 13: smash my football. That's what I do see on film.
Speaker 1: And sure you saw the Donlinitchell talking about you guys
Speaker 1: in college together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw.
Speaker 1: What do you remember about these dunk contests that used
Speaker 1: to have with the basketball?
Speaker 13: I used to know how to dunk like I used
Speaker 13: to be. I used to be all right, I'm not
Speaker 13: gonna say I was done even metal with the dunk.
Speaker 13: So I wasn't winning no contests or anything like that.
Speaker 13: Because freshman year I seen him. I seen him like
Speaker 13: throwing ally to himself. You know, I'm just going off momentum.
Speaker 13: It's like I'm I'm just hype just seeing it, you know,
Speaker 13: my first time like meeting him and stuff, the basketball
Speaker 13: players and I just threw.
Speaker 4: One off the wall and I caught it. I was
Speaker 4: just pump. I'm like, okay, I got a little bounce
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. But just just uh, she and
Speaker 4: brow all the success he's had.
Speaker 13: Man, It's it's dope to see from us just being
Speaker 13: freshman and not just him.
Speaker 4: It was like asia we had. It was a lot
Speaker 4: of a lot of guys in.
Speaker 13: Girls, you know, just coming together and we were just
Speaker 13: made something out of little well little Ben had a name,
Speaker 13: but we just made our place in Louisver. So It's
Speaker 13: is dope and it was dope for him to experience.
Speaker 13: Tell that story too. Last time, I don't I don't know,
Speaker 13: probably a couple of years ago. Uh Anthony training when
Speaker 13: I train is he'd be telling me like going there
Speaker 13: dunk he remember I used to be.
Speaker 4: Slamming, but I haven't done it in a while. I
Speaker 4: might try.
Speaker 13: Last time I tried, I got yeah, I might try.
Speaker 13: Last time of that, I got like real stuff, probably.
Speaker 4: Because of weight umber one hand dunkle or left or
Speaker 4: right handed. Kind of go back to Bryan's question.
Speaker 10: I know you're you're really not focused on playing against
Speaker 10: Josh Allen, but it's kind of a an opportunity for
Speaker 10: people to kind of look at you guys and and
Speaker 10: see what quarterbacks stack up. Does that conversation become annoying
Speaker 10: or you sort of like checked out of it?
Speaker 13: How do you react to It's gonna always be that way,
Speaker 13: I believe long as we're in the league. So I
Speaker 13: really don't know how people judge it, what people may say.
Speaker 13: I'm just going out there trying to get a dog.
Speaker 4: That's all a la.
Speaker 8: Don't lot of running backs make the year nine like
Speaker 8: Garrickson right now? Yeah, are there ways that you've seen
Speaker 8: that experience that he has. It's it's pretty unique to
Speaker 8: show itself on the field.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 13: I believe they got something going around with like how
Speaker 13: he eat and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So I believe they that's.
Speaker 13: Playing a part and how that God works man in practice,
Speaker 13: I believe I said it before, like he don't like
Speaker 13: to mess up. You know, it could be something like
Speaker 13: it could be like it was my fault I wanna
Speaker 13: say it was my fault.
Speaker 4: He could be No, I'm not gonna do this.
Speaker 13: Better, like all right, you know, but that's great to
Speaker 13: see from a guy like him, and all if he's
Speaker 13: established in the league.
Speaker 4: You know, that's a guy who wanted to be great
Speaker 4: and he's proven that. So that's dope.
Speaker 9: The TV cameras and Sundays Game cast you being a.
Speaker 4: Little and right over there, and.
Speaker 9: The TV cameras got you venting a little bit of
Speaker 9: frustration with the rest. What was it one call, a
Speaker 9: series of calls that kind of got you miffed a
Speaker 9: little a little bit.
Speaker 4: No, I wasn't.
Speaker 13: I wasn't mad at the rest. You know, the rest
Speaker 13: gonna do their job. They're doing their job. Whatever they see, man,
Speaker 13: they're gonna they gonna call it if they're not. They
Speaker 13: only got two eyes, man, they can't see everything. You know,
Speaker 13: it's probably holding, it is probably all type of things
Speaker 13: happening to every play.
Speaker 4: But you know, I'm like, man, just stop cheating us.
Speaker 4: But I wasn't talking to him.
Speaker 13: I'm just talking like just out in the world, you know,
Speaker 13: playing football, trying to winning.
Speaker 4: That's all.
Speaker 15: We always saw you being featured at the GQ Sport.
Speaker 12: How was for you that experience to be a model
Speaker 12: in the magazine.
Speaker 4: I never thought I'd be on GQ modeling at all day,
Speaker 4: but it was. It was dope, man.
Speaker 13: It was a dope experience, and I appreciate GQ for
Speaker 13: just having me a part of dope.
Speaker 1: We also heard from outside linebacker Kyle van Noyt, who
Speaker 1: has four sacks in his last two games.
Speaker 6: What's kind of the challenging going against Josh Allen and.
Speaker 4: Kind of his kind of unique skill set.
Speaker 16: I mean, we could be here all day talking about it.
Speaker 16: Just an incredible player that's playing at such an extremely
Speaker 16: high level. I think him and Brady the oc calling
Speaker 16: the plays. They're in sync right now, and they have
Speaker 16: a great pulse of their offense with their identity, and
Speaker 16: they're doing an extremely good job of just getting everybody involved.
Speaker 16: That's kind of the biggest difference that I've seen is
Speaker 16: there's not one person you can be like, Oh, you
Speaker 16: gotta stop this person or that person. It's oh, you
Speaker 16: gotta have all eleven guys be locked in every single
Speaker 16: play because the quarterback's playing really, really well, and the
Speaker 16: guys that he has empowered around him are playing really
Speaker 16: really good football. They're just a really good football team.
Speaker 16: Their O line is extremely discipline and play as a unit,
Speaker 16: one of the best in the League's coach McDermott does
Speaker 16: a really good job as a head coach, and you know,
Speaker 16: they're just playing really good and that's why they're three
Speaker 16: and zero.
Speaker 12: Is there added pressure on the outside linebackers knowing that
Speaker 12: Josh is statisically the best quarterback of the season against
Speaker 12: the Blitz, so I.
Speaker 6: Knowing that you guys have to get home before as
Speaker 6: this time home.
Speaker 16: Yeah, that's a good question. I think whatever the call is,
Speaker 16: you got to do your job at the end of
Speaker 16: the day, you know. I obviously I can't sit up
Speaker 16: here and say the game plan, you know, but if
Speaker 16: your number is called, when it's a Blitz, you got
Speaker 16: to get home. And if it's to be rush for
Speaker 16: or rush three or whatever it is, you got to
Speaker 16: do your job to be able to get back there
Speaker 16: and affect the quarterback. And guys just got to be
Speaker 16: sticky on their coverage and rush and cover together and
Speaker 16: hopefully find some success with that.
Speaker 2: Now you talk here before about your role and how
Speaker 2: it sits you.
Speaker 1: Well, Ar's getting up to the passer, and so this year,
Speaker 1: actually you've been out of role. What is it that's working?
Speaker 16: Honestly, I I'm going to go back to what I
Speaker 16: always say. I take it very personal that I wasn't
Speaker 16: on a football team last year. I'm always trying to
Speaker 16: prove that I can play each and every year at
Speaker 16: a high level. I've goals and dreams that I'm always chasing.
Speaker 16: And you know, I feel like I've been underrated my
Speaker 16: whole career, and I'm just going to continue to work.
Speaker 16: And I feel like I've done that in the off season.
Speaker 16: I've done that while I'm here. Harbaugh has done a
Speaker 16: great job of and Zo of helping me, you know,
Speaker 16: continue to develop as a leader and empowering me to
Speaker 16: be more of a leader. So I just appreciate everything
Speaker 16: they've done to me since I've been here and just
Speaker 16: continue to help the team win. But I just have
Speaker 16: this chip on my shoulder that's probably never going to
Speaker 16: go away.
Speaker 10: What have the conversation has been like when you can
Speaker 10: have these like great starts the past two weeks and
Speaker 10: been so good against the run, but then obviously in
Speaker 10: the fourth quarter just giving up more than I'm sure
Speaker 10: you guys want when you come out of a win
Speaker 10: like that and guys still won the game, have the
Speaker 10: conversations been more positive? Are you guys still kind of
Speaker 10: looking at what isn't happening for this defense and trying
Speaker 10: to work on that.
Speaker 16: Yeah, that's a good question. I think when we talked
Speaker 16: about it earlier in the week, you want to go
Speaker 16: through those things. But we're already on Wednesday and we're
Speaker 16: focused on Buffalo, so you know that chapter is closing it.
Speaker 16: We're on to another chapter of Buffalo Bills, who is
Speaker 16: extremely good team, and you know, we prepare all week
Speaker 16: to correct correct those mistakes to make sure they don't
Speaker 16: happen again. And we're going to continue to look at it,
Speaker 16: grind grind it out on the football field, in the
Speaker 16: film room, and continue to try to put the best
Speaker 16: version of our team out on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, whatever
Speaker 16: day we play.
Speaker 11: Like Stinkly Recall last year, I think you came in
Speaker 11: before week four, correct, I.
Speaker 16: Think that this would have been the first game. Yeah,
Speaker 16: first game I would have played. Yeah, way, he's trying
Speaker 16: to do the same thing.
Speaker 11: What are the challenges of sort of picking up the
Speaker 11: defense and balancing that and making.
Speaker 16: Sure you're in game shape and yeah, you guys are
Speaker 16: asking good questions today. Another good question. I think for him,
Speaker 16: he's probably has a little more uh. He he has
Speaker 16: a little advantage because he's been here, right, he knows
Speaker 16: the building, the people. Obviously, some people change and you know,
Speaker 16: players change, and defensively not positive, but I feel like
Speaker 16: there's a little bit of a positivity that he's been
Speaker 16: in this he's been here before, so I think that
Speaker 16: knowing that helps out a lot. And I think just
Speaker 16: him focused and being ready to go, and seems like
Speaker 16: he is hat way already. He's looking good out there,
Speaker 16: and you know, I think he's just going to continue
Speaker 16: to put his head down and work and if he
Speaker 16: gets that opportunity, I think he's going to make the
Speaker 16: most of it.
Speaker 6: God, what's the.
Speaker 17: Big challenge of getting Josh Allen to the ground When
Speaker 17: you do get that opportunity? Arm chapelis clearly you're not
Speaker 17: gonna cut it with him. But when you're preparing during
Speaker 17: the week and then even during the game, what do
Speaker 17: you focus on to make sure that you can Did
Speaker 17: you get that opportunity get him on the ground?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think it's similar to Dereck Henry right, that
Speaker 16: you've kind of heard around the league that is very difficult,
Speaker 16: and I think it's kind of similar to that. You
Speaker 16: got to do scratch, crawl, fight, do anything you can
Speaker 16: to get him on the ground. He's tough to do.
Speaker 16: I think they're one of the best teams at past
Speaker 16: probably believe they're top one or top two, and you
Speaker 16: just got to do everything you can to get him
Speaker 16: on the ground. And it just takes a team effort,
Speaker 16: like I said earlier about the Russian coverage to be
Speaker 16: able to you know, hold disguises and all that goes
Speaker 16: into play of getting them down. So it takes all eleven.
Speaker 5: Back to back games with two sex.
Speaker 10: Have you ever been on the heater like.
Speaker 5: This in your career?
Speaker 16: I mean, I always feel like I'm on a heater, Honestly,
Speaker 16: I I'm not even worried about that that that's all
Speaker 16: gonna come. I mean, I feel like I'm just wanting
Speaker 16: to be disruptive, be a game wrecker, and like I
Speaker 16: said earlier, like coach Harps, Zeo, Chuck Smith, Matt All
Speaker 16: just empower me to continue to play my game. And
Speaker 16: I really appreciate Harps doing that. And you know I do,
Speaker 16: just because everywhere it's different, and he's done a great
Speaker 16: job with continue to empower me to play my game,
Speaker 16: and Chuck Smith and Matt and z O just kind
Speaker 16: of just letting me loose and you know, doing my job,
Speaker 16: but just continue to make plays. So it's been it's
Speaker 16: been fun, and I appreciate having coaches doing that for me.
Speaker 10: Was talking to us earlier just about how special can
Speaker 10: feel when you have two.
Speaker 9: Quarterbacks as as great as.
Speaker 15: Lamar and And and Josh Allen up against each other
Speaker 15: all those years with Tom as your quarterback, did you
Speaker 15: ever feel like a special energy leading up to.
Speaker 9: You know, a game where you knew it was going
Speaker 9: to be sort of.
Speaker 10: Two of the best going head to head or is
Speaker 10: that more of an after the game thing?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean I always respect matchups, right, I've I've
Speaker 16: been very fortunate. I think I'm five games off of
Speaker 16: one hundred and fifty games played, and I'm very excited
Speaker 16: hopefully that happens. Yeah, No, I'm I'm not at all.
Speaker 16: I'm just looking at it where I've been able to
Speaker 16: see a lot of these cool matchups and you know,
Speaker 16: I got to be on the field with Tom as
Speaker 16: my quarterback and Aaron going against Aaron Rodgers like that,
Speaker 16: that was a special one. So yeah, it does. I
Speaker 16: love football. I'm kind of like you guys in a way,
Speaker 16: like media as well as fans, right, so I enjoy
Speaker 16: that kind of nostalgia. I hope that's the right word.
Speaker 16: And you know, I think it's an awesome opportunity and
Speaker 16: I think the young guys will look back on it
Speaker 16: when they're done playing kind of like I will and
Speaker 16: be like, man, I got to play with those two
Speaker 16: young guys because they're still young Josh and Lamar is
Speaker 16: still young. And see where they're at ten years from
Speaker 16: now or five years from now, and see what they're doing.
Speaker 16: I think it's it's awesome and it's going to be
Speaker 16: special to be their Sunday Night at the Bank.
Speaker 1: In the locker room today, we heard from safety Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 15: Oh, I know the season, especially for you guys in
Speaker 15: the secondary, hasn't gone as well as you.
Speaker 6: Would like to early one.
Speaker 13: They guys kind of feel that going against the Josh
Speaker 13: Allen for prime time maybe this you know, the second
Speaker 13: King show kind of.
Speaker 6: What you guys really are making up back there.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think this week is a great week for
Speaker 14: us to prove ourselves. It's also every week in this league.
Speaker 14: You know, everybody's good, and everybody can throw for three
Speaker 14: ordred plus yards on you if you allow them to.
Speaker 14: So I think it's less just more so being consistent
Speaker 14: and being consistent out here in practice and the carrying
Speaker 14: over to the field, communication, execution, all that stuff, which
Speaker 14: I know we're more than capable of.
Speaker 6: What what's kind of.
Speaker 11: Question you most about?
Speaker 4: You know you get Josh, you all them? What kind
Speaker 4: of pushups about?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 14: Probably just his belief in himself just not even throwing
Speaker 14: the ball that included obviously, but just his belief that
Speaker 14: he's gonna make a play out of nothing. And say
Speaker 14: somebody misses the block, he can escape out of a sack,
Speaker 14: doesn't matter who's rushing him. He can escape a dB
Speaker 14: or do arman and then roll to his left and
Speaker 14: fire the ball sixty yards downfield on a rope. So
Speaker 14: that's obviously impressive. And I think in addition to that
Speaker 14: confidence he plays with and confidence kind of it's contagious
Speaker 14: for that team and he's pressed to watch and then
Speaker 14: he's a good player.
Speaker 4: He's really irruscating all the word like that. When he
Speaker 4: used to put it out it was his break twig windows.
Speaker 16: I mean it wasn't like you know, guys like it's
Speaker 16: frustrating when you kind of feel like you're you're.
Speaker 6: Playing to play very well and it's still doesn't have success.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean it happens. You know, we're in a
Speaker 14: league where when guys on the other side get paid
Speaker 14: millions of dollars too, So I mean they're they're good.
Speaker 14: We're good, and you're gonna have big man plays like that.
Speaker 14: Sometimes sometimes they go your way, sometimes they don't, and
Speaker 14: it's just part.
Speaker 4: Of the league.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: What what do you like the most about this?
Speaker 1: This atmosphere night game, Black Jersey's all the kind of
Speaker 1: theatrics to go along with that.
Speaker 14: Uh sleep in, it's nice, Uh sleep in. It just
Speaker 14: kind of just chill during the day and have plenty
Speaker 14: of time get your mind focused for the game. But
Speaker 14: I think it is a little cool, a lot cool
Speaker 14: when we run out of the tunnel, and honestly, when
Speaker 14: Lamar runs out of the tunnel and it's a night game,
Speaker 14: he's got the tower and everything, it's pretty cool to
Speaker 14: see the crowd get hyped and you know, on their
Speaker 14: lights and Black Jersey kind of feels a little different,
Speaker 14: so I'm excited to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: We also heard film wide receiver or shot baitman.
Speaker 4: Getting you're getting the end zone for the first time
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 14: Just kind of take me through just what happened on
Speaker 14: the play and just kind of how you how you're
Speaker 14: feeling when you're coming out the balls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dove down.
Speaker 18: You know, I was one on one with the safety,
Speaker 18: made a move on him. Lamar found me and you
Speaker 18: know there was your.
Speaker 3: Guy that you comprise yourself on the route running.
Speaker 18: You go back and watch the film and you see
Speaker 18: kind of what you were able to do at dB
Speaker 18: right there.
Speaker 4: Just kind of a no, no, no.
Speaker 12: You take pride in you know your route running, so
Speaker 12: when you see you go back and watch.
Speaker 4: The film, definitely a lot. You know, I'm proud of
Speaker 4: the route.
Speaker 18: You know, it's a lot of work that you know
Speaker 18: that goes in, you know, to make that the splash
Speaker 18: of a play.
Speaker 4: But you know, I man shout out to Lamar.
Speaker 18: For trusting me. The trust is there, so hopefully we
Speaker 18: keep building off.
Speaker 1: That off kind of rolling like that in the first half.
Speaker 18: Just how good did that feel compared to kind of
Speaker 18: what having the first couple of games to be rolling
Speaker 18: the way you were in the first definitely feel good
Speaker 18: to get some you know, get a drive going and
Speaker 18: you know put a couple of drives together. As a offense,
Speaker 18: we definitely needed that, you know, you know, to uh
Speaker 18: build out of confidence. You know in these next couple
Speaker 18: you know games coming up, so hopefully we can continue
Speaker 18: to build off that is it.
Speaker 17: Tough as a receiver though, in a game where you're
Speaker 17: doing where they run the ball so much, and that
Speaker 17: the past opportunities or as few as they are, just
Speaker 17: then you gotta go out there just block your ass
Speaker 17: off and then when your time come to be ready.
Speaker 6: For you sound like y.
Speaker 4: You definitely gotta be a team player.
Speaker 18: You know, everybody know a receiver wants to have the
Speaker 18: ball and you know wanna help the team win. But
Speaker 18: you know sometimes you know, when you got Keen here
Speaker 18: and running the ball, you gotta block for him. So
Speaker 18: we definitely are selfish in that way to block for him.
Speaker 4: What do you mean to.
Speaker 1: Get the post game recognition for coach Hardball?
Speaker 18: You know, I mean a lot.
Speaker 4: You know I've been here four years.
Speaker 18: I think that's you know, my second game Ball so
Speaker 18: hopefully many more to come, but you know, definitely mean
Speaker 18: uh meant a lot, you know, to hear the team
Speaker 18: say that, Coach Harp said that, and yeah, it definitely
Speaker 18: feel good to have a a win.
Speaker 1: But what do you think is the key for this offense?
Speaker 1: You know, you guys are kind of rolling, especially early
Speaker 1: in this game. To to build off of that and
Speaker 1: continue that move forward.
Speaker 18: I just think we gotta continue, you know, to come
Speaker 18: in here every day, you know, show assistancy and everything
Speaker 18: that we do. You know that definitely translate, you know
Speaker 18: on the field. I think last week we had our
Speaker 18: our best week of practice, you know, uh when stay
Speaker 18: all the way up into the game.
Speaker 4: So and we had to know one today. So we
Speaker 4: gotta k uh continue to build off that.
Speaker 1: What does it mean when you you have you you're
Speaker 1: playing on a primetime game, You're going to get against
Speaker 1: one of the best teams in the league.
Speaker 6: Ha.
Speaker 1: How does all that kind of affect them? The mentality,
Speaker 1: the mindset going into a game.
Speaker 18: It don't really affect you know, our mentality. But you know,
Speaker 18: we just shared those moments, you know, playing you know,
Speaker 18: primetime games at nighttime, wearing all black for me, you know,
Speaker 18: that's my favorite you know, you know uniform that work,
Speaker 18: so definitely looking forward to take us to them.
Speaker 17: But when you run through the tunnel at that point
Speaker 17: and we're it's just going insane and we're in your
Speaker 17: favorite uni, just put.
Speaker 6: Take us to that moment.
Speaker 18: I mean, it's definitely, you know, a surreal feeling, you know,
Speaker 18: playing in the NFL. You know, hear in the crowd,
Speaker 18: all those motions that runing through your body. You know,
Speaker 18: I definitely shared those moments. You know, I dreamed of
Speaker 18: it since I was a kid.
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