Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. Cassie Cherigo here
Speaker 1: as the Ravens have defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by
Speaker 1: a score of forty one to thirty one on Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football. We heard from head coach John Harball, quarterback
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, and tight end Mark Andrews. First, we'll hear
Speaker 1: from head coach John Harball as he breaks down the win.
Speaker 2: You're a very exciting game, two really good football teams
Speaker 2: going at it. A lot a lot of football man,
Speaker 2: a lot of back and forth, a lot of offense,
Speaker 2: a lot of plays made. But I'm proud of the
Speaker 2: guys and I feel like you look at it and
Speaker 2: there's a lot of things we can get better at
Speaker 2: and we can improve upon certainly, and we will keep
Speaker 2: striving for that for sure. But I think all three phases,
Speaker 2: even though all three phases could have done some things better, certainly,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk about those, all three phases came through
Speaker 2: and they had to in a big way. And our
Speaker 2: defense had six straight stops. You know, when our offense
Speaker 2: scored six straight touchdowns at one point in the game,
Speaker 2: that's six straight scoring drives. That's pretty darn impressive. So
Speaker 2: right there, I think kind tells us story. But we're
Speaker 2: happy we Uh we give glory on it where it's
Speaker 2: where it's where it's given uh to God, and uh
Speaker 2: we humbly try to go forward and see if we
Speaker 2: can see if we can get better. We got a
Speaker 2: big game next week against Cleveland Division game at their place,
Speaker 2: and we gotta start getting ready for that on.
Speaker 3: A short week. En update on Marvel, Uh No, I don't.
Speaker 3: We'll know more tomorrow.
Speaker 2: It doesn't. Uh, he's walking around in there, I can
Speaker 2: tell you that. So he's in good spirits. So but
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, if it's too serious.
Speaker 4: How would you describe the way Lamora is playing right now?
Speaker 2: Ah? You know, I think we'll just keep it like
Speaker 2: we're just gonna keep approaching every week, one week at
Speaker 2: a time, one game at a time, one play at
Speaker 2: a time, because that's what he's doing, you know, and
Speaker 2: he's doing it at a high, high, high level, you know,
Speaker 2: And I'm I'm proud of him. I'm I'm happy for him.
Speaker 2: He's a great leader and he's a great player, great player.
Speaker 2: But we got a game next week against the Browns,
Speaker 2: and we got to bring our best, and that's what
Speaker 2: he's thinking about.
Speaker 5: That's the confidence whole. You see anything right now, I
Speaker 5: know what you describe at offensive level, No, the confidence level,
Speaker 5: confidence level.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think we we had a CONFI I
Speaker 2: think we've had a confident team. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 2: good to go out there talking about offensively and scoring points.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's certainly the real confidence is is gained
Speaker 2: by doing it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: So I think it's good, you know, we but our
Speaker 2: guys don't really think that way. I think our guys
Speaker 2: think about the things that they didn't do well. I
Speaker 2: can tell you Derek, he's on the side. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to congratulate him on the on the long run up
Speaker 2: the left sideline that they got him at the eleven,
Speaker 2: and he's mad that they got him at the eleven,
Speaker 2: you know, And I appreciate that. To me, that's what
Speaker 2: kind of what greatness looks like. So, uh, we just
Speaker 2: gotta get locked in for next week.
Speaker 6: John, just kind of growing up, how much did you
Speaker 6: kind of look forward to watching Sunday the footboard and
Speaker 6: coaching at really you know, Monday and football games. Because
Speaker 6: Lamar I think has an incredible record when it comes
Speaker 6: to against prime time games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible, and he'll go down in the history
Speaker 2: of Monday night football for sure. You know, he's got
Speaker 2: a lot more to go, So I'm saying he can
Speaker 2: be thinking about the next one, the next one. What
Speaker 2: we have one coming up here in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: another one on the road, so against a pretty good coach.
Speaker 2: So but that's that's later. Yeah. For me, it was Dandy,
Speaker 2: Don Drysdale, Howard Cosell, you know, it was uh, it
Speaker 2: was uh uh uh Gifford, Frank Gifford, Right, I mean
Speaker 2: it was those guys. It was just is incredible to
Speaker 2: that was that was it?
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, when we got to stay up, we
Speaker 2: got a little older, when we finally got a chances
Speaker 2: we could stay up late enough to watch it. Uh
Speaker 2: you know, then the highlights, man, I go back to
Speaker 2: to to Chris Berman, right to Swami, who's still doing
Speaker 2: it at the highest level. But you know, you didn't
Speaker 2: see all those highlights like you do now. So those
Speaker 2: highlights would come on. That was when you've got a
Speaker 2: chance to see what the games looked like. And he'd
Speaker 2: go through there and be making all the noises that
Speaker 2: he makes, you know, and the only he can make.
Speaker 2: So it's it's it's cool to be in these games.
Speaker 2: It's it's a it's an honor, it's a it's a blood.
Speaker 2: You're grateful. I told the guys man, I was gonna
Speaker 2: be it was gonna be an honor to take the
Speaker 2: field on Monday night football, you know, in Tampa Bay
Speaker 2: against the great Tampa Bay Buck football team on Monday night.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be an honor to do. That's chair set man,
Speaker 2: and let's try to do our best, you know, see
Speaker 2: if we can put our best foot forward.
Speaker 8: Feel like Lamar even takes it to another level on
Speaker 8: this kind of monda night at full stage.
Speaker 5: That's his level.
Speaker 2: So you know, how do you measure levels. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of levels going on here, but I think are
Speaker 2: I think we can take it to another level as
Speaker 2: a football team. You know, across the board, there's so
Speaker 2: many things we can improve upon. That's what we're gonna
Speaker 2: be focusing on.
Speaker 5: They were very aggressive early getting up field.
Speaker 7: Looks some log early. What do you feel like you
Speaker 7: guys did offensively to sort of turn the tide there
Speaker 7: when you got into that stretch where you scored on
Speaker 7: pretty much all this.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think we just made some plays
Speaker 2: on like on long yards, I get back on track
Speaker 2: and second down some of the screenplays, some of the
Speaker 2: runs that pop Lamar made plays, a couple throws here
Speaker 2: and there. But we overcame penalties, We overcame things that
Speaker 2: you know, set us behind. We overcame the score, uh
Speaker 2: to to. We just made plays. We made a lot
Speaker 2: of plays, you know, and I want to work on
Speaker 2: all the other things that are setting us back and
Speaker 2: see if we can keep building on the things that
Speaker 2: are moving us forward. But I thought they over came
Speaker 2: throughout the course of the game. That's probably the story
Speaker 2: of the game.
Speaker 6: You've seen that were shot make plays on you know,
Speaker 6: on short rows and I meeting grows tonight. He gets
Speaker 6: like a fifty yard bomb. You know, just what does
Speaker 6: it mean for I guess is a villain? How much
Speaker 6: more typical he becomes? When is he able to get
Speaker 6: over your levels?
Speaker 2: It's been It's huge, I mean for him to you know,
Speaker 2: you knew it was coming and we we've all been
Speaker 2: talking about it. You could see it coming in practice
Speaker 2: and even in games and with the route running and everything.
Speaker 2: But you wanted to see it happen, you know, and
Speaker 2: it's been, it's been, he's even even getting more production
Speaker 2: every week. But to see that kind of a game,
Speaker 2: you know, and to see that long bomb, you know
Speaker 2: and lamar, how far did he throw it? You know
Speaker 2: on a rope but uh and then bait to make
Speaker 2: the play and run a route to get open like that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's very gratifying as.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: He told me that, he told me, and I probably
Speaker 2: you know, we do something called the brown shirt, right
Speaker 2: and the brown shirt we say every time we give
Speaker 2: it out after a win. It's our most prestigious award.
Speaker 2: And the brown shirt award is a is a nod
Speaker 2: to the Navy Seals because when you when you get
Speaker 2: through bud straining and you become sille, you get a
Speaker 2: brown shirt.
Speaker 3: That's my understanding.
Speaker 2: And Steve Claggett is is a is a former Navy
Speaker 2: seal who's on our staff, and he he took me
Speaker 2: through the history of that just a little bit. But
Speaker 2: we've been doing the browns here for about twelve for
Speaker 2: long time, twelve four thirteen, fourteen years a long time.
Speaker 2: And and it goes to the guy that does the
Speaker 2: dirty work. It goes the guy does the hard stuff.
Speaker 2: So based on that block right there, I think Lamar
Speaker 2: might get his first brown shirt this week.
Speaker 5: Joh, thanks that you want to work on. Seen a
Speaker 5: couple of times where teams have you know, went down
Speaker 5: and they come back and look, it's obviously exposed offense
Speaker 5: and so forth.
Speaker 7: What are what are.
Speaker 5: Those areas you think that we've.
Speaker 6: Liked the sort of so you played down.
Speaker 2: I mean it's just a big pass plays, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean there's too many big pass plays. It hit
Speaker 2: screens on us more than they should have. We didn't
Speaker 2: play the screen as well. And it's a very good
Speaker 2: screen team and just too many big pass plays. They've
Speaker 2: been making them all year. But you know those those
Speaker 2: are you know the the Tampa the route we ran
Speaker 2: they ran against cover two was a really well designed
Speaker 2: route and they caught us in the covers they wanted
Speaker 2: us in. It was a beater for that coverage and
Speaker 2: they execute it perfectly. It's it's a new route that
Speaker 2: we'll be working on. I give him credit on that one.
Speaker 2: Later they had a seam route against us where we
Speaker 2: we didn't We didn't we didn't get into coverage we
Speaker 2: wanted to get in, you know, and that's just that's tough,
Speaker 2: and we gotta do better with that. But we can
Speaker 2: do better. We will do better. Gotta keep chasing it.
Speaker 2: We got too many good players, too many good coaches
Speaker 2: to and you know, we catch the ball. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know we got guys that can catch. You know,
Speaker 2: we had what two or three interceptions? Marlon got two?
Speaker 2: How many could we have had right in our hands?
Speaker 2: You know? So you catch those things, you don't have
Speaker 2: to worry about three more plays that you have to defend,
Speaker 2: you know. So just we can do it, and they'll
Speaker 2: do it. And once we start doing it, it's gonna
Speaker 2: make a big it's gonna be another turbo boost for
Speaker 2: our team.
Speaker 5: Going back to that lead block by Lamar, what's that
Speaker 5: say about his competitiveness. It's fourth quarter up sixteen at
Speaker 5: the time. Other guys would just you know.
Speaker 2: Another Yeah, I think he speaks for itself. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's the kind of stuff that he does, and
Speaker 2: he is he is. How about the way he runs,
Speaker 2: you know, he just he's an ultimate competitor. There's no
Speaker 2: question about it. He's I don't know if I've seen
Speaker 2: a better competitor than Lamar. Jackson, and I've seen I've
Speaker 2: seen some competitors, you know, a lot of some great competitors.
Speaker 2: But he is, he is, he is in that level
Speaker 2: with the greatest competitors that I've ever seen, maybe maybe
Speaker 2: maybe the greatest we'll see, you know, just amazing.
Speaker 1: Next up, quarterback Lamar Jackson broke down the offense's mindset.
Speaker 4: That was out there.
Speaker 8: Man, I'm goad. It wasn't still tonight. Those guys were
Speaker 8: flying around. He was getting after us a little bit,
Speaker 8: got a couple of SATs, a few sacks, disrupted us
Speaker 8: a few times. Uh, but but we we came out victoria,
Speaker 8: So that's all that mattered.
Speaker 5: They go with ten opping obviously, what's the conversation, granted
Speaker 5: the store early first quarter, what's the conversation with you
Speaker 5: in the offense.
Speaker 3: At that point?
Speaker 8: Let's go right, you know, we gotta score points to us,
Speaker 8: like see a team just moving the ball and pulling
Speaker 8: points on the bail without us going, uh, we didn't.
Speaker 8: We didn't do anything our drive the first drive. It's like, man,
Speaker 8: we gotta have some urgency with ourselves. And that's what
Speaker 8: it was, and that I believe that's what we did.
Speaker 8: The next couple drives, we start pulling points on the board.
Speaker 8: Those guys were still getting after us a little bit,
Speaker 8: but you know, we was came out and talk.
Speaker 5: Is there a feeling that it's all plata and now
Speaker 5: how well you were playing that Hey it's gonna click
Speaker 5: and we're we're gonna score a lot of points adventurely.
Speaker 3: Uh nah, that don't uh, that don't really be on
Speaker 3: our mind.
Speaker 8: Our mind is just focus on the drive, focus on
Speaker 8: the play, and just go from there.
Speaker 3: Try to put points on the board.
Speaker 8: But we don't really look at it like we or
Speaker 8: we clicking and we got 'em like it's like we
Speaker 8: gotta score it each and every time we out there more.
Speaker 6: Some of your best games or your most memorable games
Speaker 6: have happened on Monday night. And I know a while
Speaker 6: back you said that it doesn't really matter when do
Speaker 6: you play, but that doesn't matter to to kind of
Speaker 6: do the things you.
Speaker 3: Doing on stage like this, m M. I'm I'm chasing
Speaker 3: something right now.
Speaker 8: So each and every game is gonna be the same
Speaker 8: thing for me, like gonna be the same person every
Speaker 8: game I'm tryna win.
Speaker 7: Or could you imagine at the beginning of the year
Speaker 7: that Dorkia time where you'd beat Derreck Henry's lead blocker,
Speaker 7: uh per.
Speaker 3: White like or was nah? Not really?
Speaker 8: Uh, but you know he made a move cut back
Speaker 8: r cut back cross field.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to give him an in zone.
Speaker 8: So it's like I got you, Like I'm see this
Speaker 8: guy twenty s twenty four see thirty one. I thought
Speaker 8: he was passing me with thirty one, I would I
Speaker 8: woulda kept blocking him, but he got a lot of yards.
Speaker 5: Can you take us to the long touchdown passes the
Speaker 5: leaving uh.
Speaker 8: Ah, I believe it was s It looked like it
Speaker 8: was gonna be uh two man, but uh, thirty one
Speaker 8: win winfield. He dropped like kind of buzz i poached
Speaker 8: and bait just did the rest. I just had to
Speaker 8: give him a good ball, didn't warn.
Speaker 2: Uh Marcas down the uh the the team leader of
Speaker 2: the franchise history and the touchdown passes screen uh uh
Speaker 2: A couple from you.
Speaker 9: Uh just just what does that mean that at that accomplishment?
Speaker 8: That's crazy man. Uh we've been at it for a
Speaker 8: few years now.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 8: That's great for Mark to have. I feel like he
Speaker 8: should have been had that like last year. But you
Speaker 8: know we made it happen, you know, and it's only
Speaker 8: more touch down from here, no doubt you.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Obviously great stretches in your career. Does the this five
Speaker 4: games you know stretch right now? D Does it feel
Speaker 4: any different than the other years where it seems like
Speaker 4: everything's been clicking for you.
Speaker 8: I don't even worry about the old year like years probably,
Speaker 8: you know, I'm focused on right now and us just
Speaker 8: being five and two don't really matter. We just trying
Speaker 8: to be one to know each and every week we
Speaker 8: out there on that field.
Speaker 6: Do you feel especially locked in? Like just can you
Speaker 6: take us inside your mind?
Speaker 8: It like when you're well playing football, tryna win. That's
Speaker 8: all that's in my mind, trying to win, sir?
Speaker 3: Well, is there.
Speaker 5: Something about playing under the lights at night that the
Speaker 5: Jets you going.
Speaker 3: At at all?
Speaker 7: Like different?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 5: Is it different for you as a player?
Speaker 3: M No, not really.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 8: It was great weather, great atmosphere, humidity was my let's
Speaker 8: play football.
Speaker 1: And that's all finally. Mark Andrews on breaking the organizations
Speaker 1: franchise touchdown records, you know.
Speaker 9: Obviously, Uh, incredibly grateful and you know you're just thinking back.
Speaker 9: You got to think about you know, you know, get
Speaker 9: getting drafted this incredible organization with A. I've been blessed
Speaker 9: with A with incredible teammates obviously number eight and having
Speaker 9: that connection, but I'm fortunate to have you know, incredible teammates,
Speaker 9: unselfish guys, you know, and just just keep chiev on going.
Speaker 9: I'm you know, coaches, players, everybody, and uh, and you
Speaker 9: got to look back at the guys like Todd Heap
Speaker 9: and the guys that have done him before you and uh,
Speaker 9: just be grateful that I'm in this situation and and
Speaker 9: blessed and like you said, just taking a week by week.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm not satisfying that you grew up watching
Speaker 9: it anyway, you know a little bit, you know, he's
Speaker 9: an Arizona guy a little bit, but uh, yeah, he's
Speaker 9: he's an awesome dude and uh, an incredible player and
Speaker 9: obviously raven for life.
Speaker 1: Mark.
Speaker 6: What strikes you out the way that the Mark and
Speaker 6: elevate his game in any game. But I guess you know,
Speaker 6: especially Pride time has been alongside for some of these
Speaker 6: games where he's just super goop.
Speaker 9: But it doesn't matter you know, when, where or what.
Speaker 9: You know, he's always He's the ultimate competitor. You see
Speaker 9: it out there, you know, him making that that Derrick
Speaker 9: Henry block. It's just play after play after play of
Speaker 9: him making big time plays and helping this team win games.
Speaker 9: He does it better than anybody in the league. And uh,
Speaker 9: we're so fortunate to be to be, you know, with
Speaker 9: him and just try to help him out. And you know,
Speaker 9: he lays it out in the line every game and
Speaker 9: just just really awesome. And he's the best.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: He's MVP.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 9: He's playing really really good. He's playing really really good.
Speaker 9: But like you said, it's it's a week by week.
Speaker 9: We're gonna continue to descrive to be better, focused on
Speaker 9: the things that maybe we didn't do right, and get better.
Speaker 9: We're not satisfied. We're just gonna take a week by
Speaker 9: week and game by game. And but yeah, man, he's
Speaker 9: he's in credit.
Speaker 7: Down ten or early. It seems like there's penalties an
Speaker 7: almost every every play. How did you feel like you
Speaker 7: guys kind of showed your maturity in terms of on
Speaker 7: offense just getting the ball going right down the field
Speaker 7: and turning that game around.
Speaker 9: Well, you really got to salute the defense, you know,
Speaker 9: having a turnover. You know, I think some I forget
Speaker 9: where it was, you know what the score was, but
Speaker 9: that turnover from Marlin was huge and allowed us to
Speaker 9: to kind of get up on them. And you know,
Speaker 9: so I think it was it was complimentary football, you know,
Speaker 9: all three phases. Offense, defense, special teams, and guys making plays.
Speaker 9: And that's the thing about this team is we have
Speaker 9: guys that are gonna step up and make plays and and
Speaker 9: are so unselfish, which is beautiful.
Speaker 6: One of those guys, obviously, every game it seems like
Speaker 6: he builds up what he did the last time. Now,
Speaker 6: what have you seen from his development? And what does
Speaker 6: it mean to him to you to see.
Speaker 9: Him pop off at this Well, he's just hitting his stride.
Speaker 9: You know, he's he's he's incredibly focused and you know
Speaker 9: he's doing this thing. It's awesome to see him have
Speaker 9: the big time play that may have been the biggest
Speaker 9: play of the game, you know, that big time you know,
Speaker 9: long touchdown. He's just making plays doing what he does.
Speaker 9: Incredible acting, incredible receiver. And yeah, I'm very happy for.
Speaker 5: You know, really on about you're not getting has been
Speaker 5: catches and so forth, and the way the offense is
Speaker 5: going kind of falling into the rhythm here to touchdowns, catches,
Speaker 5: et cetera. What is that pory difficult at all for
Speaker 5: you to be patient into? How much more dangerous as
Speaker 5: it so often to become as you know, got more
Speaker 5: guys are gonna eat ball.
Speaker 9: You know, for me, like you said, just just staying
Speaker 9: patient and you know, knowing that I'm gonna hit my stride.
Speaker 9: But you know, you kind of look at our stats
Speaker 9: and you know, everybody's able to touch the ball, everybody's
Speaker 9: able to do something. And that's what you know, I
Speaker 9: think makes makes us so dangerous is that we're spending
Speaker 9: the ball around, the have athletes and playmakers.
Speaker 3: All over the board, the yat guys.
Speaker 9: Every everything. So you know, for us, it's just about
Speaker 9: being unselfish and we have that team, we have that offense,
Speaker 9: and you know, don't get up, don't get too high
Speaker 9: or too low. And that's that's kind of my that's.
Speaker 4: It for a team, you know, after you start owing
Speaker 4: to you know, disappointing going to start and then we
Speaker 4: all five wins and being some of the better teams
Speaker 4: in the league doing star resiliency.
Speaker 9: That's a big word for us, is you know, we
Speaker 9: we you know, after those two losses, you know, just
Speaker 9: going to work and focusing on, you know, how we
Speaker 9: can be better because we knew we're on the cusp
Speaker 9: of you know, you know, kind of turning things over
Speaker 9: and being efficient and playing good ball. And it's just
Speaker 9: a little things of football, you know, not making the mistakes,
Speaker 9: you know, little things of you know, making big blocks,
Speaker 9: making you know, just lining up right, you know everything.
Speaker 9: So we we're the coaches, players, everybody, We're all on
Speaker 9: the same page. And that's what it is.
Speaker 6: Market Like in the third quarter, you guys are up
Speaker 6: seventeen support and three. I think most people would probably
Speaker 6: keep the field goal and take the easy points. What
Speaker 6: did it say to you that, you know, John cos
Speaker 6: for you guys getting that.
Speaker 9: Touched ONWN, it was great. It was a great, great call,
Speaker 9: great ball, and yeah, I thought it was awesome, you know,
Speaker 9: big time playing and that moment and just putting points on.
Speaker 3: The board was great.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with you again on Wednesday as coach
Speaker 1: harbal Lamar Jackson and mar Ravens will adjust the media
Speaker 1: after practice. Thanks for listening.