WEBVTT - Coordinators: Ravens Practice 10/19 Press Conferences 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:04.400 Welcome into Ravens Press Pass. 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.160 Today we'll hear from the Ravens coordinators, offensive coordinator Todd Mounkin, 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.040 defensive coordinator Mike McDonald, and special teams coordinator Chris Horton. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.720 Let's start with Monk overall. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:21.600 A few weeks red Zone, you guys clicking past couple 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:23.520 of weeks not so much. What have you seen as 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.320 far as the difference of not having that consistency yet? 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.240 Well, as I always say, you would much rather be. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:39.360 I think overall stats are a way of I don't 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.400 want to say this rationalizing that everything's okay. I think 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.520 you'd rather be sixty percent to seventy percent touchdown every 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.239 game than one hundred percent in some games and not 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.080 as good as others. I think everybody would say that. 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.360 The consistency of that. So it starts with how we 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.480 gain planet right, how we call it, and then how 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.280 we execute It's really that. So we did an elite 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.880 level early on in executing down there being able to 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.039 run it in. We've just got to do a better job, 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.200 like I said, of scheming it, do a better job 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.399 of executing when we have those opportunities. I mean, it's 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.760 it's pretty obvious I mean we've done a good job 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.920 the last couple of weeks of moving the football. That 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.479 has not been the issue. We've solved some of those 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.480 things in terms of being more explosive, creating on identity, 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:28.760 having a better rhythm, but turnovers and execution at the 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.640 wrong times have heard us. I mean, there's no way 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.440 around it. You guys, you've seen it, and we got 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.679 to be better, and we're capable of better. That's that's 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.520 the way it is. We are capable of it. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:38.360 Over All. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.000 The lines run defense has been really stabbed this year. 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.080 What are you seeing looking at them? They specifically do 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:43.679 well stop the. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.880 Run well, they do a good job. They do a 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:50.640 good job schematically if their linebackers play downhill, their physical upfront. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.120 I mean, I know everybody says it they're stop the 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.720 run mentality, but they for sure they play hard and 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.760 they check the ball. I mean that's they've got good, 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.520 good players, really good scheme. They play hard and they 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:06.160 play downhill. 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:08.680 Being Week said, I don't want say do you expect 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.760 the offensity where they are? But are you pleased with 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:11.600 knowing as a. 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.400 New system, how it's all putting together up until this point. 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.400 I wouldn't say, pleased is the word I mean, because 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:22.360 the expectation is to be efficient and score every week 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:27.120 right and take advantage of your opportunities. In some ways 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.720 we did that last week and others we did not, 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:33.480 you know, same with the week before. And ultimately that's uh, 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.160 that's what we're in charge of, is to score points 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.600 and not turn it over. And when you don't do that, 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.440 you're you're not you're not where you want to be. 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.919 I mean, that's that's obvious, you know, But we are 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.600 certainly capable of that. I think getting our group back 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:51.000 together healthy at a number of spots and then continue 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.160 to do it better consistently obviously, then we'll see that 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.880 we'll see that result more consistently, you know, then we're 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:57.799 than we're seeing it now. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.679 Touchdowns scoring in the red zone across the league is 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.360 at its lowest rate since twenty eleven. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.480 It's around the cool idly. 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.160 Over the film that you watched over the first you know, 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.600 six seven weeks. Have you recognized any patterns that could 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.000 account for a reason why that is or why is 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:16.240 it becoming so difficult to score? 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.680 Not particularly, I haven't really studied anybody else other than 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.880 you know, you know, early on, we did a good 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:27.600 job of being able to run it in and when 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.720 we had some third downs, we hit it. You know, 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.359 I think about the Bengals, they did two as well. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.960 I mean we hit Nelson for a touchdown on third down, 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.240 We hit Mark on a touchdown on third down. You know, 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.280 those opportunities presented itself and we capitalize on them. Some 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.640 other times we haven't done that. It hasn't come to fruition. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.320 So obviously starts with me. We got to scheme it better, 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.600 got to coach it better, got to give ourselves more 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.920 tools when we have opportunities down there. It's hard to 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.120 run the ball down there and score. So I haven't 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.200 really seen that. I just know we certainly need to 0:03:58.240 --> 0:03:58.640 do it better. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.480 Lamara mentioned, you know second half sort of scoring and 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.800 so forth, not that it hasn't been in a second 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:08.640 week of me. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:10.240 Well, I know what you're getting that you don't have 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.840 to ask a questions like halftime adjustments. I get it. 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:14.840 I'll score in the second half. I mean, I'll finish 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.760 it for you. I mean, if that's what you're getting 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.960 at okay, I mean what. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.320 Some of those adjustments teams that have made that have been. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:27.280 Well again, I appreciate what Lamore says. Again, we have 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.039 to do a better job coming out in the second half. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.880 You know, the bottom line is, you know, a couple 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.400 of weeks ago at Pittsburgh, the first drive coming out, 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.800 we had an explosive, we stalled the midfield. We hit 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.839 another explosive on the second drive, had an opper opportunity 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.640 down the field and didn't hit it. You know, so 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.599 that I don't look at there. Then you know certain 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.000 things the way the game goes. We can certainly do 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:48.440 a better job at half time and certainly do a 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:52.920 better job in second half. I didn't see significant change 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.200 in the second half other than we just got to 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.920 do it better. I gotta coach it better, gotta call 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.480 it better, got to execute better. You know, one as 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.960 if we were consistently running the same things. We just 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.599 got to do it better. I don't mean he's not wrong. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.680 I mean, I'm not critiquing Lamar like I mean. The 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.000 bottom line is, we've done a good job in the 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.440 first half of executing and we've got to do a 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.440 better john the second half. Some in the early in 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.119 the year we weren't that so much. We were actually 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.440 better at Houston the second half. We were better, you know, 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.720 against the Bengals in the second half. So again, it's 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.200 a long year. We got to do it better coming 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.400 out in the second half, that's for sure. Sometimes it 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.080 turns out you get the ball to start the game 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.440 and you get one less possession, you know the way 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.240 it turns out. But that hasn't been the case. We 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.440 just got to do it better. There is no magic 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.720 for me. Let's you got to scheme it better, coach 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.360 it better, execute better, and let your talent shine not 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:42.240 have so much drag. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.600 I thought Odell kind of suggested that it feels late 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.120 us helping to keep your foot on the gas, not 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.680 you personally, just a team in general, and keep your foot. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:50.839 On the gas. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.440 Are there times where you look back where you felt 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.080 like there could have been opportunities to be a little 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.320 more aggressive in the second half. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.920 Sure, you know, but I look back at the Steelers, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:01.280 like if you go back and look at those first 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.039 two drives, like might've been the first play, the second play, 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.040 we hit Zay Flowers on a banana out right and 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.800 for our twenty yards got to midfield. Okay, Then we 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.720 had the next drive. We hit Nelson Aguilar on a fade, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.080 they challenged it right on the sideline, and then we 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.800 had another fade later, So we were still aggressive there. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.720 What takes you away from being aggressive lost shortage plays, 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.640 You get behind the sticks a little bit. We started 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.839 last week, open up the second half of the screen. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:27.920 We lost three yards, right, try to get the ball 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:28.400 on the perimeter. 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:28.760 Didn't. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.720 Then we had a third down right, next drive we 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.360 throw a pick. Right, So all that is true, you 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.200 certainly do want to keep your foot on the pedal 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.279 and keep whatever that's keep your foot on the gas 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.320 and keep driving. Of course, not turning it over. Being explosive, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.040 converting on third downs, scoring touchdowns in the red zone 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.599 are all a big part of what makes an offense 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.560 successful and all the ways why a defense is successful. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.720 Right they create turnovers, they don't all those things courtly, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:56.240 and we're close. 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:57.160 We just got toe. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.320 We got to do it better, you know, and I'm 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.800 in charge of But we got to continue to strive 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.680 and I think getting some guys back, getting guys healthy, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.120 I think we'll add to that that consistency and the 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.000 trust of all of a sudden, the quarterback as. 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.760 Far as lamar as a just as purely running when 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.400 he runs the ball, let's have pressed you the most 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.520 because I'm sure you've watched him far before this of 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.920 him run the ball, but now actually game planning and 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.400 using let's have pressed to you much the most about him. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.280 When he gets the ball in sands, it takes. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.440 Off his vision. I think he's got vision of a tailback. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.640 You know what he sees and when he decides to 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.240 take off and run. That's what's been impressive. You know 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.320 when you ask him to run the ball up inside, 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.160 he's got toughness and vision. I think that's probably the 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.600 biggest thing. Toughness and vision, oh that some guys don't have. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.360 They may be athletic, but they don't have a great 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.440 feel for rush or running lanes, and he does have that. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:48.600 It's unique. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:50.760 You guys have been great in the first quarter. I 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.880 think forty one to six, out scoring opponents likewise Detroy 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.560 thirty eight to ten. So I feel like a race 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.040 to get out first is this week that you both 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.480 have broke really Obviously you don't worry about their offense, 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.360 but they're both teams are really good at that just 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.880 mentality of knowing got a trinking space early. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.920 Yeah, crazy enough, I mean we've we've started fast. I 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.840 mean we've we've given ourselves opportunities and wasted some, you know, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:19.360 So obviously that's obviously your ability to start fast and 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.160 then finish right. I mean that's that's we all know that, right, 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.760 Our ability to start fast, but then your ability to 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.880 finish right, your ability to consistently do things at a 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:33.319 high level. Again, coaching calling it playing all of the 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.600 above that leads to how you want it to look, right, 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.160 I mean, that's that's that's what that's what you're striving for. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.520 Do you feel like it is just kind of a 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.800 matter of time in terms of like getting big scores. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.040 You guys have have mainly scored touchdowns. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:50.040 It's not the right. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:51.439 Yeah, they've all been in the red zone. You know, 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.280 we've had some other opportunities, whether it was didn't turn 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.040 out to be the look, or we had it and 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.240 win it with a sack, right, or we had you 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.559 know Nelson you know at Steelers like it just like 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.600 I said, and I'm just pointing out one or two right, 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.760 whether it's just and we got to call it better. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.679 It's all of us, right, all all of it's a 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.960 part of it, starting with me. Players execution, giving our 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.679 guys opportunities down the field, right, so we don't have 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.959 to work so hard once we get down there, and 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.000 it's hard in the NFL to get those, but we 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:20.559 certainly have to do a better job of that. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:21.520 You know, we just do. 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:25.240 Next up. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:30.640 Defensive coordinator Mike McDonald Mike Jod's offense. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:39.800 That's is this your first question, Mike Man, it's a lot, 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.000 you know. They the first thing that pops off. I 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.840 guess the first word that I would say is multiple 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:49.760 and balanced. You know, able to get to a lot 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.400 of things easily with their personnel, being able to move 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:57.520 guys around using all their pieces. I think their run 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.480 game uh mixes all the you know, the zone in 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.560 the in the gap world, uh mixed with under center. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.839 You know, they're very explosive with the under center play 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.800 action pass and uh. You know, then you couple that 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.679 with the drop back game and being able to get 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.800 guys in space and find matchups and things like that. 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.400 Those are the things you know, definitely have to account for. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.079 And then they do a great job of obviously running 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.040 the ball and then protecting the quarterback you know, where 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.079 he can any can operate back there and obviously he 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.520 knows where to go with the ball. So overall just 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.520 to you know, and I think the numbers obviously support it, 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.080 but a very good offense, Mike. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.720 Obviously you want to try to stop the run every week, 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:33.720 but you mentioned it how good of a play action 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.559 team they are. Is that even more of an emplasist 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.840 to take that run game away, to try to limit 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.880 try to best eliminate that part of the passing game. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:45.040 Uh, I don't. 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.679 I don't. I see them as two kind of independent 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.120 type plays. So whatever kind of world we're living in, 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.719 front structure with coverage concepts we're playing, you know, you 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.800 want to best marry your chance to win the play 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.600 if it's a run with with the set they're creating. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.439 And then also you know the play action concepts that 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:04.120 they're building off of it, so to play by pay, 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.400 you know, type of idea, and on on how we're 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:07.120 trying to defend it. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.000 Like you guys have eleven different players with at least 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.160 one sack. You're just getting direction across the board that 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.959 we're watching your defense. You know, you have stunts and 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.679 games for just about everybody. It seems like Mike Pierce, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.640 you know you're opening up lanes for Michael Pierce to 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.200 get sacks. What's your theory on kind of getting everybody 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.680 involved into the pass rush. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:25.120 And how you see that. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:30.839 I don't know if I have a theory about it, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.719 you know. I I think as a staff that the 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.120 first lens you're looking at is what puts us in 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.679 the best position to win the down and ultimately get 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.760 them stopped, you know, to win the game. And I think, 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.600 as you're you're building a system and a game plan, 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.680 like I had mentioned a question a few weeks ago, 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.000 you're trying to have the ability, you know, to bring 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.839 it from any side at any given point in time. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:56.319 And I think then when we were able to do that, 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:58.240 it's kind of like an offense. It says like, hey, 0:11:58.280 --> 0:11:59.960 you got to defend the width of the entire field, 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.280 you know, well defensively, it's like, well you have to 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.400 be able to account for everyone in the in the 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.320 blitz game, and then you know, in the pressure game. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.240 So I think that's the idea. And then obviously, you know, 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.600 you're trying to attack things that perceive weaknesses and exploit 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.920 strengths on our end. So I think that I think 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.160 those are the lenses that you're that you go into 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:18.880 a week and making a game plan. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:20.840 Mike. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.520 We saw last year when Brokwon joined at the deadline, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.000 he kind of picked up this defense really fast. Saw 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.960 it again with Clowney and fat Noi and letting those guys. 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.200 What about this game do. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.960 You feel like makes it so player friendly for guys 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:36.880 to kind of just jump in and get going. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.120 Well, this is the only system that I've coached in, 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.560 so it's hard for me to compare to other systems. 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.560 But you know, listen to your question. I think first 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.240 the credit goes to the types of guys that we're 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.680 bringing in here, and the and the players obviously smart players, 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.360 and they love football, and they've done a lot of 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.480 different things, so maybe a lot of those concepts will 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.360 kind of coincide. Next thing is, you know it's not 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.600 me sitting with those guys running through the details every week. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.480 You know, I'm doing other things, and the coaches just 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.120 do a great job of getting them up to speed 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.640 so they can go play fast and be comfortable out there. 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.960 And I think just as a general philosophy, I mean, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.599 we have rules and we have different things that you know, 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.600 we emphasize on how we want to play, but it's 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.079 not a rigid system and how you have to do 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:18.920 this all the time. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:19.679 You have to do that. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.400 Now, we want your eyes right and your technique and 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.040 all that, but we want guys to you know, feel 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:25.480 like they can go play football at the end of 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.000 the day. And that's that's ultimately how you have to play, 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.720 you know, in order to be effective in this league. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.080 It's what we believe, Mike. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.199 What what makes an inside linebacker a really good pass rusper. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:35.720 I mean, it's obviously not the first thing that people 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.440 probably pick up with that position, but we see Queen 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:38.440 do it week after week. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.400 Well, something we saw when he was coming out of college. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:43.880 I think with a peak. I mean, everyone has a 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.000 different traits, like like a blie. Harrison is a great 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.559 off the ball blitzer a little bit different with his 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.360 foot freeze. He's got more power and you know, speed 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.160 to power game is different than PQ. But I think, 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.040 you know, Patrick's side to side movement and his explosiveness 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.480 is probably what makes him, you know, an elite blitzer. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.080 But I think I think the answer to your question 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.200 is you probably go, you know, just like any other rusher, 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:05.880 you're looking at what they do best and their and 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.600 their skills and how we develop those types of things. 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.199 But uh, you know, Peak's right up there with the 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:10.679 best of them. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.960 Mike, the way the play that Ropeline made tracking down 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.199 that running back screen all the way down the field, 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.800 because your thoughts on that play and what that kind 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.720 of play says to other guys on these. 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.440 Yeah, that's a great question. Uh, that was something that 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.360 was a point of emphasis for us as as our 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.920 defense is finishing games out and closing games out on 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.080 our terms. And uh, you know, we were in that 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.040 situation where the offense, their offense is up against the 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.040 clock a little bit. You know, if we had stopped 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:40.520 them at a certain time, they were going to be 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.280 on site kicking it. And I think at that point 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:44.960 they would have had to on side kick it anyways, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.600 but you know, you obviously want to get the stop. 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.800 So when the ball spit and it hit, you know, 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.600 I'm just like, hey, get it down. And I had 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.920 seen Roe go down or excuse me, I did not 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.200 see him go down. We're trying to get him, and 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.560 then I see him get tackled and I saw that 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.600 it was I thought it was Row ended up being 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.120 Row in Marlin, and upon watching the review, I had 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.360 seen that ro get knocked down, so I'm like, Okay, 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.200 he got knocked down and he made the play, So 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.440 now is this just an all time great play? And uh, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.800 you know again, when guys like Marlon and Row your 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.200 best players play with the highest effort day in and 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.240 day out, I mean, that's just tell you what type 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.360 of guys they are and what type of football players 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.720 there are, speaks to their character. So definitely shout out to. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:24.960 Those guys for Clownie. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:26.280 He obviously we see the stats. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.000 Who've seen your praises yesterday? What is he bringing to 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.080 the meetings, like his energies, personalities, experience of what are 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:32.880 we not seeing that? 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:33.280 Crownie? 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.600 You think it's his biggest attribute and assets. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.440 To his team. I'd spoken to this sooner, but just 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.320 getting to know him, his enthusiasm is love for the game. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.400 I think that's what makes him fit in here so well. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.360 And uh, just his overall energy, you know to what 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.520 you said, it's just uh, it's you know, it's contagious. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.120 And you got a bunch of guys in that room 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.720 that love football and it's their fun to coach. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.400 Mighta bekase he was like, he gets better every year, 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.440 what step have you seen him make? 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.720 Yes, Well, I think he's gotten a lot more opportunities 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.160 this year. I think he ended up with like six 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.120 and something last year, and you know, with not as 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.560 many opportunities. So we knew, or we didn't know, we 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.280 had a great feeling that it was that was there. 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.760 So I'm just excited that he's got the opportunity to 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.920 go out there and he's taking advantage of his opportunities. 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.200 But you think about a guy like Justin he's extremely explosive, 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.520 he plays incredibly hard, he's incredibly physical. Uh, he's a 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.920 violent tackler and uh, he's just got a relentless motor. 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:28.880 So if he's not gonna win right now in his 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.080 one on one, there's a good chance he's gonna win 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:32.640 on a second and third effort. And I think that's 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:33.680 what makes him a great player. 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.240 I think, you know, we in the media look at 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.960 sometimes at matchups like, you know, who's gonna stop him 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.680 on Rosney Brown, Who's gonna stop or to Does it 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.720 does it matter as much like who's matching up with 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.920 them at the last nammage or is it more important 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.160 just you know, in the past, defense in general, just 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:52.200 kind of how you guys. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.000 Excuse uh, yeah, I think that's that's very situational base, 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:57.640 you know, like the first intend's gonna be a lot 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.960 different than third and three. Uh, and then where you're 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.280 in the field is going to matter as well. So 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.840 they do a good job of moving both those guys around. 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.719 So whatever world room, we definitely have to account for them. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.200 Some of the calls you know, could or could not 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.680 be forwarded towards those guys in mind, but again it's 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.359 gonna be situation based, and obviously our personnel and how 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.800 we deploy them, you know, well, you know is at 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:21.560 our disposal. You know, those are options that we can 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:22.840 we can do on any given down. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.040 You're golf doing so well, it really turned around his career. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.560 Yeah, I don't remember when he turned around. He's always 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.920