Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast.
Speaker 2: The Ravens were gearing up for a Week eighteen game
Speaker 2: against the Pittsburgh Steelers to close out the regular season.
Speaker 2: Today we had a chance to hear from head coach
Speaker 2: John Hartball.
Speaker 3: Good seeing everybody, appreciate you guys being here. Chad just
Speaker 3: informed that is a massive hole in the sun. You
Speaker 3: guys hear about that sixty ears spitting out gamma rays.
Speaker 3: Does that mean we're all going to be like Bruce
Speaker 3: Banner Hawks? That'd be amazing, weren't they? Okay, on that note,
Speaker 3: what questions you have?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 3: What kind of weather are you preparing for? N I
Speaker 3: guess it'd be a little colder with a hole in
Speaker 3: the sun. Probably we're preparing for cold weather and rain
Speaker 3: and sleep and a you know, grass field is going
Speaker 3: to be probably a little bit, a little bit loose,
Speaker 3: so getting ready for that, especially.
Speaker 5: This rivalry with Pittsburgh. How do you think that has
Speaker 5: influenced the locker room and especially kind of the bitter
Speaker 5: taste of the left game.
Speaker 6: You guys play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't think no matter who you
Speaker 3: play in this particular game, in this situation, there would
Speaker 3: be no lack of motivation. I mean, our guys love
Speaker 3: to play. The pro football players. They want to go
Speaker 3: out there and they want to play, and they want
Speaker 3: to play while they want to win and they want
Speaker 3: to put their best foot forward. The fact that it's
Speaker 3: division rival, the Steelers, that certainly doesn't lessen it. You know,
Speaker 3: that's it's always a very important game for us. It's
Speaker 3: a team that we respect very much. We also understand
Speaker 3: the type of game that we're always playing against those guys,
Speaker 3: so our guys are looking forward to it.
Speaker 7: He's been kind of the guy the last couple of
Speaker 7: weeks now that they've been winning a couple of games.
Speaker 3: How has he kind of impacted that offense? Well, I mean,
Speaker 3: obviously they've been very success with him in there. I
Speaker 3: think he's uh, he's he's making I think he's reading
Speaker 3: the offense out. They've got, you know, kind of they've adjusted,
Speaker 3: they've kind of written certain directions and away from certain
Speaker 3: directions in terms of what they're running, what they're calling. Uh,
Speaker 3: he's operating the offense really well, putting the ball where
Speaker 3: it's supposed to go based on the coverage, and they're
Speaker 3: running the ball really well. And he's done really well so, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, just kind of looked at him and how
Speaker 3: he's it's there's still their offense, but his version of
Speaker 3: it is what we're studying. The video you guys pusted
Speaker 3: the pro bow announcements obviously, and particularly striking.
Speaker 4: I think it was maybe.
Speaker 3: Patrick Queen's reaction how much how much it meant to him.
Speaker 3: I mean, was that kind of any thing for you
Speaker 3: to see? I mean, you know how much he took
Speaker 3: them to heart back when he was a twenty one
Speaker 3: year old rookie, and was cool to see that. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was great to see it. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: it's very deserving. I thought he played great last year too,
Speaker 3: and to see it recognized by the peers and the
Speaker 3: fans and everybody. To see that video with Eric, it
Speaker 3: was really cool to see. I mean, I thought that
Speaker 3: was great with all the guys and yeah, just you know,
Speaker 3: it means a lot of the guys to be recognized
Speaker 3: like that. It's a pro football player. When you're a
Speaker 3: pro football player, it always it's always strikes me, is
Speaker 3: how much it means to the guys Every year when
Speaker 3: you make those announcements.
Speaker 8: What's it like for you when you're revealing one by
Speaker 8: one in front of the whole team, and what's that like?
Speaker 3: It's it's fun, man Like we of course we've got technology,
Speaker 3: so you know, we'll get the screen, we get some drama.
Speaker 3: Did the lights a little bit? All of a sudden
Speaker 3: the picture pops up for the player and uh goes crazy.
Speaker 3: So it's it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 9: I guess how much of the I don't say like press,
Speaker 9: but the kind of gap scheme that it's placed to run, they.
Speaker 6: Have been effective using it. You guys have been helping
Speaker 6: down like that kind of stuff this year.
Speaker 9: How important are how much are you kind of looking
Speaker 9: towards to how you guys defend that did this week
Speaker 9: as a repair?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's uh, it's uh. They run. They
Speaker 3: run a couple of versions. They run of gaps games,
Speaker 3: they run you know, we're called duo with no fuller.
Speaker 3: You know they've been running that for years. They usually
Speaker 3: do it with the tight ends side with extra tight
Speaker 3: ends over there. Sometimes they'll bring the wide receivers down
Speaker 3: there and insert them or or sift the backside and
Speaker 3: then they run the puller gap skins. You know, the
Speaker 3: power more than anything else with power. Oh and they've
Speaker 3: been great at that, and I think the biggest thing
Speaker 3: is it's a downhill run, but it can also bounce.
Speaker 3: You know, if you stop it up inside and you
Speaker 3: don't control your redges, those two backs will take it
Speaker 3: outside of the second and they're both hard to tackle.
Speaker 3: So it'll be a big challenge for us every week
Speaker 3: stands on its own and stopping the run will be,
Speaker 3: you know, job one force in this game.
Speaker 4: John. Opportunity do you think with Tyler?
Speaker 10: I mean, we really haven't seen much this year because
Speaker 10: Lamar has been there for all.
Speaker 4: What comportunity do you think this presents.
Speaker 6: For him as well?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a big opportunity. I mean, you know, go
Speaker 3: out there and then play against the defense like this,
Speaker 3: you know, one of the top defenses.
Speaker 4: In the league.
Speaker 3: It's it's a great opportunity for him. But he's ready
Speaker 3: for it. You know, I'm looking forward to seeing him play.
Speaker 9: The focus is on just execution at that quarterback spot.
Speaker 9: But is there any part of you can see how
Speaker 9: you know differently Tyler kind of it's from Lamar and
Speaker 9: you know, obviously the same kind of team, same play caller,
Speaker 9: but so far there up the business.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's that's true for for any quarterbacks
Speaker 3: or any players. You know, everybody brings their own stamp
Speaker 3: to it, you know. And then as a coach, I
Speaker 3: think you recognize that. And when you play guys like
Speaker 3: you're talking about Mason Rudolph, it's the same exact thing.
Speaker 3: They have their different style. You kind of recognize that.
Speaker 3: It is fun to watch.
Speaker 9: And again, a man which will not have a record
Speaker 9: below five hundred, it's pretty a standing market over the years.
Speaker 3: What's your what do you pregame conversations? Have they evolved
Speaker 3: over the time, Like from the beginnings, we're both young coaches,
Speaker 3: and now that some of the guys have been around,
Speaker 3: I appreciate that both young coaches. Yeah that's good. You
Speaker 3: mean yeah, well you said we were young coaches. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're right, Okay, I guess I'll take it. It's uh,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's like any relationship. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 3: certainly grown involved over the years. I have great respect
Speaker 3: for Mike for what he's done, for their organization, for
Speaker 3: what they've done. I think his stamp is on the
Speaker 3: football team without question. You know, they're a team that
Speaker 3: plays winning football. They don't beat themselves, They don't have
Speaker 3: a lot of penalties, they don't turn the ball over.
Speaker 3: And then his style is kind of ever since he
Speaker 3: got there, they've been about playing good, solid football and
Speaker 3: then being physical and then creating big plays, you know,
Speaker 3: on both sides of the ball. So I think that's
Speaker 3: there again now like it always is, and just come
Speaker 3: to understand that. I think they probably have a pretty
Speaker 3: good understanding and how we like to play, and probably
Speaker 3: Mike and I probably have a pretty good understanding how
Speaker 3: each other coaches his team, you know, So there won't
Speaker 3: be too many surprises probably that way. But it's an
Speaker 3: honor and I am I'm grateful for it and definitely
Speaker 3: don't take that part of it lightly. It's a good
Speaker 3: competitive relationship and it's been amazing.
Speaker 1: That was head coach Jehan Harball.
Speaker 2: We also got the news this week of the Ravens
Speaker 2: having seven players selected to the Pro Bowl. One of
Speaker 2: those guys is the first time Pro bowler is linebacker.
Speaker 1: Had your queen. We talked with him today.
Speaker 3: Gotcha you so much been to you when you got
Speaker 3: the news. Yes, I guess you probably got the news
Speaker 3: there before video there, Yes, really what was kind of
Speaker 3: going through your mind? That's like emotion.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Before they called me up and was like the
Speaker 4: don't want to talk to you upstairs.
Speaker 11: I was like, oh my god, what did I do?
Speaker 11: You don't sitting there nervous and man, uh he's just
Speaker 11: sitting there. He's like what the blank? Stories like you
Speaker 11: made it? And I'm like, may what And it was
Speaker 11: like bro a, yeah, okay. It was exciting though. I
Speaker 11: mean it's just so much working, dedication, and just so
Speaker 11: many sacrifices going to then for people like around the
Speaker 11: league just to you know, respect my game and get
Speaker 11: a nod to me.
Speaker 4: It's just it's incredible.
Speaker 7: You're very you know, hard on yourself at times and
Speaker 7: about about your plane even over the years of your career.
Speaker 7: Just you know how proud of you just kind of
Speaker 7: love yourself up being able to converse.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm real proud. It's just I had tol Hi
Speaker 11: mom like, oh we can have a go uh. I
Speaker 11: was like if I don't, if I don't make it,
Speaker 11: I don't even care no more. I was like, I
Speaker 11: N I think I did everything I needed to on film,
Speaker 11: like to show my talents and show what u uh
Speaker 11: the work that I put in.
Speaker 4: So it was just l at a point. I was
Speaker 4: at peace with everything, uh s beforehand.
Speaker 11: So it's just I am proud of myself thoughing just
Speaker 11: knowing that I still haven't hit my ceiling yet and
Speaker 11: there's still a lot of games like to be played
Speaker 11: for us right now. It's just just everything's building up
Speaker 11: at the perfect time.
Speaker 1: Okay, Patrick, who was it?
Speaker 3: Who's the first call you made? Coffee?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 11: My mom, mom and dad? Uh, I really ain't called.
Speaker 11: Just sent a text out cause I was coming into
Speaker 11: the facility and stuff and I a whole bunch of
Speaker 11: stuff in moving fast and all that such uh happened
Speaker 11: and stuff. So I had shot them a text and
Speaker 11: just uh let them know it it.
Speaker 1: I what's kind of the emotion of of telling them
Speaker 1: I'm sure that neither their big your biggest cheerlead or
Speaker 1: just what was the I don't know, yo, just you made.
Speaker 11: Sark for them Since then, but a whole lot of
Speaker 11: capital letters in the text messages that deal was senter.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 11: Just everybody's was just so excited, so proud. Just I mean,
Speaker 11: the feelings can't even explain the feelings that just go
Speaker 11: through your body. Uh, just knowing that you made them proud. Uh,
Speaker 11: just knowing everything that we prayed for and everything that
Speaker 11: I worked for, that we all worked for.
Speaker 4: Uh, just being able to come out and showcase.
Speaker 10: Were you were you thinking about the whole four years,
Speaker 10: cause I mean you've been You've been very.
Speaker 3: Honest about the fact that Lee Lee know it's easier
Speaker 3: in probably years one to two. Yeah, all that hit you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it just the first the first two years were
Speaker 11: definitely uh rough, uh for me and the fan base
Speaker 11: and everybody uh that's involved. But uh, I knew myself.
Speaker 11: I knew uh the type of person I am. I
Speaker 11: don't run from a fight, and uh, it was just
Speaker 11: some mu's worked out. Like I said, I had to
Speaker 11: put in and understanding that I came in uh to
Speaker 11: the lead raw uh young uh, but not that much
Speaker 11: experience under my belt. So I knew it was gonna
Speaker 11: be a building process, but I didn't expect it to
Speaker 11: be that hard. And honestly, you know, it's just it.
Speaker 11: I wouldn't trade it for the world. I wouldn't y
Speaker 11: you know, uh redo anything that I I've been through,
Speaker 11: I would still face everything like I did.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 11: I think that's what Bill's character and I think that
Speaker 11: put me in a position that I am right now
Speaker 11: just to uh, you know, be so confident in myself
Speaker 11: and just u uh being able to cherish every moment.
Speaker 7: Patrick all year you and pro Corne and Adam and that
Speaker 7: you're the best linebacker do in the in the league.
Speaker 7: How happier are you to see that you are the
Speaker 7: two guys representing the inside line back the crew in the.
Speaker 4: End or so It's pretty dope. It's pretty dope.
Speaker 11: Uh, anytime you get to share share that man, uh,
Speaker 11: being a teammate with him and the type of person
Speaker 11: he is and uh how he plays the game and
Speaker 11: just be able to share that kind of accolate with somebody.
Speaker 11: I mean, it just means a lot, uh, just like
Speaker 11: I respect this game or respect him as a person, uh,
Speaker 11: just everything about him, and you know, uh being able
Speaker 11: to share that is huge.
Speaker 1: How you're basically emotional obviously in that video of the
Speaker 1: day post. Did you remember a time before in your
Speaker 1: football player that something brought out this much emotion?
Speaker 11: And yet not not even cause I don't any think
Speaker 11: we don't want to not out that happy honestly. Uh,
Speaker 11: It's just it's I think it's just on a different scale,
Speaker 11: like the whole world is like you know, basically saying
Speaker 11: Congress like, uh, you played, you had a hell of
Speaker 11: a season, and it's just it's it's not a feeling.
Speaker 11: I think that could relate to that. Honestly, you at
Speaker 11: you say, dope.
Speaker 3: You just really know what's gonna happen after the season
Speaker 3: in terms of where you are. Is that is that
Speaker 3: in your mind at all? Is that freeing how you're
Speaker 3: thinking about this run?
Speaker 11: Or is that just you know, just shoved out of
Speaker 11: it comes up every now and then by the end
Speaker 11: of the day. Man, I'm happy where I'm at right now, honestly,
Speaker 11: And you know, we still out, Like I said, we
Speaker 11: got a lot of games out to play with that
Speaker 11: one goal that we all want. So if we achieved that,
Speaker 11: I think everything else to take care of itself.
Speaker 4: Patrick.
Speaker 5: We can see the the KT tape on your shoulder
Speaker 5: and I've seen some things from games.
Speaker 10: What's the discussion like this week is you know, you know.
Speaker 5: You could probably maybe be one of the guys who
Speaker 5: gets some rested versus playing against the Steelers.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna suit up. I'm soon up, so I'm excited
Speaker 11: to get out there. I'm excited to play.
Speaker 1: That was linebacker Patrick Queen.
Speaker 2: Another Pro bowler on this team is center Tyler linderbob
Speaker 2: first round pick, was selected in his second NFL season.
Speaker 2: He's really established himself as one of the best centers
Speaker 2: in all of football, and he reacted to that recognition
Speaker 2: today on the podium.
Speaker 8: We told a little bit of video when Eric was
Speaker 8: kind of breaking it to you.
Speaker 4: How's a feel when you kind of.
Speaker 8: Get that honor of knowing that you're among the best,
Speaker 8: that you're at your position in the NFL.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, it feels good. I mean, especially you
Speaker 10: know year two. You know, it's not really an accolade
Speaker 10: I try to play for. Accolades aren't something I try
Speaker 10: to play for. But I think it's it happens when
Speaker 10: the team's playing well. You know, you're gonna get more
Speaker 10: guys that, you know, get recognized. You know, I said
Speaker 10: an interview yesterday. You know, I think a lot of
Speaker 10: credit goes to my teammates as well too, you know,
Speaker 10: the guys they play next to making my job a
Speaker 10: little bit easier, you know, and then you know, the
Speaker 10: coaching staff and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: But you know, it was a good feeling.
Speaker 10: No, I mean, it wasn't a good feeling Initially when I
Speaker 10: got I said, someone said I had to go up
Speaker 10: and talk to EDC but because you know, you never know.
Speaker 10: But no, it was good when he told me. You know,
Speaker 10: the cameras we're in there and it's a pretty cool experience.
Speaker 10: I don't know, I don't know what we're going to
Speaker 10: talk about, but you never know.
Speaker 3: Your first round picks a year.
Speaker 4: Ago, both in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 3: You share that with Kyle? What does that mean to him? Yeah,
Speaker 3: just you know, we continue to work, continue to each other.
Speaker 10: You know, guys on the Steam, there's like a good
Speaker 10: men that are deserving of being Pro Bowlers.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 10: I think there's a lot of talented guys on this team.
Speaker 3: Especially Kyle.
Speaker 10: Kyle can do a lot of different things.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 10: You guys see it on the field, you know, and
Speaker 10: just in the locker room. He's a great guy too.
Speaker 10: So happy for him and proud of him, you know.
Speaker 10: But you know, I think a lot of guys can agree.
Speaker 10: You know, we still got another goal that we're chasing.
Speaker 5: So not to minimize your talent and your work ethic
Speaker 5: to get to this position, but is there anything that
Speaker 5: the Ravens did. We're about the way things work here
Speaker 5: that you think has kind of helped maximize your ability
Speaker 5: in your first two years year career.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Like I said, you know, we got a lot
Speaker 10: of good players on this team. You know a lot
Speaker 10: of guys around me that are really good and really
Speaker 10: talented players. So anytime you're surrounding yourself by elite talent,
Speaker 10: you know it's going to make you better.
Speaker 4: And I think it's definitely done that. You know, the
Speaker 4: first two years.
Speaker 10: Just continue to get better, learn from each other, I
Speaker 10: think is the biggest.
Speaker 8: Thing has been working offensive line has been different guys
Speaker 8: than me. Oh, I think it's you know, I think
Speaker 8: it's been good for us, you know, keeping guys fresh.
Speaker 10: Uh you know, you know we that deal with some
Speaker 10: injuries and we won't guys be fresh in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 10: And I think you know we've we've shown that and
Speaker 10: guys are continuing to get healthier and stronger, and we
Speaker 10: got a lot of guys on the line that can
Speaker 10: play good football.
Speaker 4: So whoever's in there, you.
Speaker 10: Know, we got one hundred trust and confidence and then
Speaker 10: they'll get the job done.
Speaker 3: It's finely.
Speaker 8: Coming out of college, you had your critics who talk
Speaker 8: about how small you were, and now you're pro bowlder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're always gonna have critics. You know, I still
Speaker 4: there's still critics. You know, our what even if you.
Speaker 10: Make the Pro Bowl. You know, at the end of
Speaker 10: the day, at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 10: the Pittsburgh Stars are gonna care on Saturday if I'm
Speaker 10: a pro bowler and now I'm still gonna have to
Speaker 10: go out there and play.
Speaker 4: So you know, just.
Speaker 10: Enjoy it for whenever they said, you know, I made
Speaker 10: the problem, but I got to move ahead and you know,
Speaker 10: focus on this upcoming game and then into the playoff
Speaker 10: push because we're all chasing a goal. You know that
Speaker 10: that is bigger than Pro Bowls.
Speaker 4: You know, the guys.
Speaker 6: Around you contributed to to.
Speaker 3: That, to to your abilities. You can you accomplished.
Speaker 6: I'm just curious as a as a unit. What has
Speaker 6: made you guys so good?
Speaker 3: You know, we said in San Francisco.
Speaker 6: Game, we've seen other games. Is he continuity? Obviously the
Speaker 6: talents there, but it is a communication recognition. What stood
Speaker 6: out A.
Speaker 10: Yeah, uh, you know, I think one whenever you got
Speaker 10: a bunch of talented guys, you got to play together,
Speaker 10: and I think you know, we've can t to get
Speaker 10: better and better no matter who's in there, just you know,
Speaker 10: all five playing together. You know, it doesn't do any
Speaker 10: good if if four guys are playing playing well together
Speaker 10: and then one guy isn't. You know, you gotta that's
Speaker 10: the unique thing about the position is is the continuity,
Speaker 10: like you said, that needs to happen in order to
Speaker 10: be successful as a unit and just continue to make
Speaker 10: strides and strives to be better, and you know you
Speaker 10: want to be playing your best football towards you know,
Speaker 10: December and January, you know, I think, and then we're
Speaker 10: trying our hardest to get to that Point's.
Speaker 9: Sort of how to make best use of that extra
Speaker 9: week that you guys did dider.
Speaker 10: No, I haven't thought about it once. You know, we're
Speaker 10: you know, Steelers got our got our number the last game,
Speaker 10: and I think you know our goal is to go
Speaker 10: out here and win Saturday. So that's all our focus
Speaker 10: is right now. Obviously, you know, really kind of bitter
Speaker 10: finish to that game. It is that I know you
Speaker 10: want to win every game every week, But does that
Speaker 10: add some spice your motivation for you guys in the
Speaker 10: law firm this week?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean for sure, you know this is the
Speaker 4: AFC North.
Speaker 10: You know it's a it's a tough conference, competitive conference,
Speaker 10: and anytime you're playing AFC and or team you want
Speaker 10: to win.
Speaker 3: Your little brother, now, we're proud of your I don't
Speaker 3: know where are you.
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