Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past Podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: November twentieth. The Ravens are gearing up to face the
Speaker 1: LA Chargers coming up on Monday Night football. Today, we
Speaker 1: heard from a couple of players in the locker room.
Speaker 1: So that's kick it off with kicker Justin Tucker.
Speaker 2: I'm really good and again I appreciate you you checking in,
Speaker 2: you know, but it's also kind of unimportant how I feel.
Speaker 2: What is important is how I perform, and I really
Speaker 2: do feel that way, you know, coming into coming into
Speaker 2: practice day, going out there tomorrow, get some.
Speaker 3: Kicks in, you know.
Speaker 2: That's that's really all I've been looking forward to since
Speaker 2: the game on Sunday, and again, taking it one kick
Speaker 2: at a time is has always been a part of
Speaker 2: why we have sustained success over a long period of time.
Speaker 2: And you know, we're not gonna change anything about that now.
Speaker 2: We're gonna continue to take it one kick at a
Speaker 2: time and just keep getting to work.
Speaker 4: And a common thread this kicks of late or something.
Speaker 4: It's okay, that's if is there any consistem with it
Speaker 4: or is it just each kick has its own individual
Speaker 4: little thing that didn't go.
Speaker 3: Quite right well?
Speaker 2: If you just take a ten thousand foot view and
Speaker 2: you look at you know, where all the kicks have gone.
Speaker 3: They've gone just wide left.
Speaker 2: So you know, I and you just mentioned it at
Speaker 2: the exact same time. Each kick, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: lives in.
Speaker 3: Its own in its own world.
Speaker 2: But you know, the uh, the adjustment is you know
Speaker 2: pretty clear, I just need to make it a point
Speaker 2: not to let the ball carry to the left. So
Speaker 2: you know that's something that we're gonna continue working in practice.
Speaker 4: Justin you talked about uh after the game, and then
Speaker 4: when you did like that before yard and you made
Speaker 4: an adjustment going into that can you feel like that
Speaker 4: kind of repeating that adjustment is kind of the fix
Speaker 4: you need.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: I mean again, each kick kind of lives in its
Speaker 2: own world. You know, you have to take it for
Speaker 2: what it's worth in that moment. So you know, on
Speaker 2: that fifty four yarder, we made it a point to
Speaker 2: you know, like I described after the game, we made
Speaker 2: it a point to uh change our aiming point, and
Speaker 2: that one worked out for us. You know, just just
Speaker 2: giving the conditions on that particular kick that was you know,
Speaker 2: that was the the strike that we needed in that moment.
Speaker 2: But Uh, yeah, moving forward, it's you know, the principles
Speaker 2: remain the same. It's foot the ball contact, uh, finishing
Speaker 2: downfield with my swing, seeing the ball and striking the ball,
Speaker 2: picking the ball clean off the ground. And uh, we can.
Speaker 2: We will do those things. We we just need to
Speaker 2: carry them over. I need to carry them over from
Speaker 2: pac from practice to the game.
Speaker 4: When you've had as much success as you've had throughout
Speaker 4: your career, you're in this spot now where you're having
Speaker 4: more business than you're accustomed to. I mean, how have
Speaker 4: you dealt with the reality of the situation that is
Speaker 4: right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I I do take it very personally.
Speaker 2: Anytime I leave a kick out there, it it bothers me.
Speaker 2: You know, for all the all the the fans, supporters, coaches, players,
Speaker 2: anybody that cares about Ravens football. Believe me when I say,
Speaker 2: nobody takes it more personally than I do. Nobody is
Speaker 2: more affected than me when I missed a kick. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I take it really personally.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: At the exact same time, my particular line of work requires,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, that I compartmentalize my feelings and I
Speaker 2: leave them to the side, and I fol focus on
Speaker 2: the action of kicking the ball in, not the consequence.
Speaker 3: So as difficult as that.
Speaker 2: May be at times, you know, that is the challenge
Speaker 2: that I'm facing right now. That's my only option is
Speaker 2: to just continue to work and focus on the action,
Speaker 2: focus on the process, and uh, you know, let the
Speaker 2: results take care of themselves.
Speaker 3: After just putting in, putting in the works, we're going
Speaker 3: snap the hole. You know, it's just something we don't
Speaker 3: see normally.
Speaker 2: Is there any particular attention to that paid after Sunday
Speaker 2: or is that just something we don't normally say. I
Speaker 2: think they'd just fall under the category of except that
Speaker 2: you guys might not normally be privy to. We tend to,
Speaker 2: you know, work on all the aspects of our operation
Speaker 2: anytime where like today was the day we were not
Speaker 2: kicking or punting or snapping live during team periods. But
Speaker 2: even on those days where we're not having you know,
Speaker 2: quote unquote heavy workload, we still make it a point
Speaker 2: to just get together and kind of talk through our
Speaker 2: process and stay dialed in.
Speaker 4: How you feel throughout this snap whole.
Speaker 3: Just consistency, I guess throughout them throughout this season. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Nick and Jordan are are doing a good job. They're
Speaker 3: doing a good job.
Speaker 2: And uh, whenever I miss a kick, it's because I
Speaker 2: let one get away when and I've said this before,
Speaker 2: and whenever we make kicks, it's because all of us are.
Speaker 3: Doing exactly what we need to do to make kicks.
Speaker 1: It's the media to have John have your back the
Speaker 1: way he does.
Speaker 4: Look around the league, other other coaches bring in kickers,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've obviously earned a long.
Speaker 4: Runway with incredible success that you have in a track record,
Speaker 4: but still at the league it can be ugly at
Speaker 4: times and guys will be fine.
Speaker 5: I got to move on, but there for him have
Speaker 5: your back the way you did this week.
Speaker 2: That yeah, I do appreciate that, you know, And it's
Speaker 2: it's something that I will be making it a point
Speaker 2: to reward.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: That's that's something that all of us make it a
Speaker 2: point to do. Is we reward the confidence that our
Speaker 2: coaches and our teammates place in each one of us
Speaker 2: as individuals.
Speaker 3: And you know, again that's that's part of being a
Speaker 3: team is.
Speaker 2: Having each other's back the way that you know Harves
Speaker 2: has all of our backs, that I know my teammates do,
Speaker 2: and that you know that I will also be doing
Speaker 2: for them whenever, you know, whenever things are going really
Speaker 2: well and whenever things are not going so well. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's part of being a team, and especially this
Speaker 2: team specifically. We've we've always made it a point to
Speaker 2: maintain you know, our our our culture, our our standards.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 1: We also heard from rookie cornerback Nate.
Speaker 6: Wakens, just as your thoughts kind of saw increase in
Speaker 6: playing time last week, and they'll played, well, how do
Speaker 6: you feel like things are.
Speaker 2: Coming along for you?
Speaker 5: I feel like everything's going I'm going at playing. I mean, uh,
Speaker 5: I'm playing the steps I want. I mean playing. I mean,
Speaker 5: I mean I'm getting a couple of flats, but I
Speaker 5: mean I'm still playing. I feel like I'm playing at
Speaker 5: my highest, So I feel like i still got more
Speaker 5: to go. So, uh, I feel like it's on the
Speaker 5: skies to them.
Speaker 1: What have you learned what it takes to be a
Speaker 1: corner in this league?
Speaker 5: Oh, you just gotta have the next play mentality? Uh
Speaker 5: Like they the receivers get played high to so I
Speaker 5: mean they're gonna make plays. They gonna make. It's a
Speaker 5: great play, so you just gotta have the next next
Speaker 5: playing mentality for.
Speaker 1: You as you get into this final stretch here, how
Speaker 1: important do you think it is for the secondary you're
Speaker 1: playing at its best, playing at a high leveling the
Speaker 1: stretch for this season.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's important. I mean it's a uh.
Speaker 5: I feel like, uh we the a probably that in
Speaker 5: the uh af see in the ball and the ball
Speaker 5: going deep. So I mean we're playing a big part
Speaker 5: uh and winning the game. So I feel like we
Speaker 5: gotta come every every week with uh with I.
Speaker 1: Bess, do you feel like, b you're the young guy,
Speaker 1: you know, the in the Seconday.
Speaker 6: I think that at times they test you know and
Speaker 6: then you're the young guys.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I feel like, uh yeah, I feel like
Speaker 5: every game that uh, they test me just cause I'm
Speaker 5: a rigging.
Speaker 1: Oh it's just for you kind of What do you
Speaker 1: think is your biggest snow causing point of emphysis downonstrutch.
Speaker 5: Your uh really just uh getting my head around and
Speaker 5: uh suh. I feel like, uh, I'm playing I'm playing physical,
Speaker 5: so I really I don't feel like the physical physicality
Speaker 5: point is a big thing. Just get my head around. Uh,
Speaker 5: just stop holding I stop grabbing. Uh, I feel like
Speaker 5: I can guard. You see in the lead, so I
Speaker 5: s I only need to hold. So that's what I
Speaker 5: gotta improve.
Speaker 6: So how do you feel like that's going on?
Speaker 3: Period?
Speaker 5: I feel like it going good.
Speaker 3: I working out every day. So you know, you said
Speaker 3: like they testing you back. Do you feel like you
Speaker 3: aren't testing you?
Speaker 6: That's why should say word get the season?
Speaker 5: Uh No, I feel like uh teams like nope, I
Speaker 5: can cover us. I don't feel like they're trying to
Speaker 5: text me like I was from the beginning of this season.
Speaker 5: I feel like they still test me once and two
Speaker 5: times in the game just to see if I'm ready.
Speaker 3: So how much would you say the game is very
Speaker 3: I'm ready?
Speaker 5: I just played the game.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't answer it.
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