Speaker 1: Welcome into Ravens Press Pass.
Speaker 2: Today we'll hear from the Ravens coordinators, offensive coordinator Todd Mounkin,
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator Mike McDonald, and special teams coordinator Chris Horton.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Monk overall.
Speaker 3: A few weeks red Zone, you guys clicking past couple
Speaker 3: of weeks not so much. What have you seen as
Speaker 3: far as the difference of not having that consistency yet?
Speaker 4: Well, as I always say, you would much rather be.
Speaker 4: I think overall stats are a way of I don't
Speaker 4: want to say this rationalizing that everything's okay. I think
Speaker 4: you'd rather be sixty percent to seventy percent touchdown every
Speaker 4: game than one hundred percent in some games and not
Speaker 4: as good as others. I think everybody would say that.
Speaker 4: The consistency of that. So it starts with how we
Speaker 4: gain planet right, how we call it, and then how
Speaker 4: we execute It's really that. So we did an elite
Speaker 4: level early on in executing down there being able to
Speaker 4: run it in. We've just got to do a better job,
Speaker 4: like I said, of scheming it, do a better job
Speaker 4: of executing when we have those opportunities. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: it's pretty obvious I mean we've done a good job
Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks of moving the football. That
Speaker 4: has not been the issue. We've solved some of those
Speaker 4: things in terms of being more explosive, creating on identity,
Speaker 4: having a better rhythm, but turnovers and execution at the
Speaker 4: wrong times have heard us. I mean, there's no way
Speaker 4: around it. You guys, you've seen it, and we got
Speaker 4: to be better, and we're capable of better. That's that's
Speaker 4: the way it is. We are capable of it.
Speaker 5: Over All.
Speaker 6: The lines run defense has been really stabbed this year.
Speaker 6: What are you seeing looking at them? They specifically do
Speaker 6: well stop the.
Speaker 4: Run well, they do a good job. They do a
Speaker 4: good job schematically if their linebackers play downhill, their physical upfront.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know everybody says it they're stop the
Speaker 4: run mentality, but they for sure they play hard and
Speaker 4: they check the ball. I mean that's they've got good,
Speaker 4: good players, really good scheme. They play hard and they
Speaker 4: play downhill.
Speaker 7: Being Week said, I don't want say do you expect
Speaker 7: the offensity where they are? But are you pleased with
Speaker 7: knowing as a.
Speaker 6: New system, how it's all putting together up until this point.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say, pleased is the word I mean, because
Speaker 4: the expectation is to be efficient and score every week
Speaker 4: right and take advantage of your opportunities. In some ways
Speaker 4: we did that last week and others we did not,
Speaker 4: you know, same with the week before. And ultimately that's uh,
Speaker 4: that's what we're in charge of, is to score points
Speaker 4: and not turn it over. And when you don't do that,
Speaker 4: you're you're not you're not where you want to be.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's obvious, you know, But we are
Speaker 4: certainly capable of that. I think getting our group back
Speaker 4: together healthy at a number of spots and then continue
Speaker 4: to do it better consistently obviously, then we'll see that
Speaker 4: we'll see that result more consistently, you know, then we're
Speaker 4: than we're seeing it now.
Speaker 8: Touchdowns scoring in the red zone across the league is
Speaker 8: at its lowest rate since twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: It's around the cool idly.
Speaker 8: Over the film that you watched over the first you know,
Speaker 8: six seven weeks. Have you recognized any patterns that could
Speaker 8: account for a reason why that is or why is
Speaker 8: it becoming so difficult to score?
Speaker 4: Not particularly, I haven't really studied anybody else other than
Speaker 4: you know, you know, early on, we did a good
Speaker 4: job of being able to run it in and when
Speaker 4: we had some third downs, we hit it. You know,
Speaker 4: I think about the Bengals, they did two as well.
Speaker 4: I mean we hit Nelson for a touchdown on third down,
Speaker 4: We hit Mark on a touchdown on third down. You know,
Speaker 4: those opportunities presented itself and we capitalize on them. Some
Speaker 4: other times we haven't done that. It hasn't come to fruition.
Speaker 4: So obviously starts with me. We got to scheme it better,
Speaker 4: got to coach it better, got to give ourselves more
Speaker 4: tools when we have opportunities down there. It's hard to
Speaker 4: run the ball down there and score. So I haven't
Speaker 4: really seen that. I just know we certainly need to
Speaker 4: do it better.
Speaker 9: Lamara mentioned, you know second half sort of scoring and
Speaker 9: so forth, not that it hasn't been in a second
Speaker 9: week of me.
Speaker 4: Well, I know what you're getting that you don't have
Speaker 4: to ask a questions like halftime adjustments. I get it.
Speaker 4: I'll score in the second half. I mean, I'll finish
Speaker 4: it for you. I mean, if that's what you're getting
Speaker 4: at okay, I mean what.
Speaker 9: Some of those adjustments teams that have made that have been.
Speaker 4: Well again, I appreciate what Lamore says. Again, we have
Speaker 4: to do a better job coming out in the second half.
Speaker 4: You know, the bottom line is, you know, a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks ago at Pittsburgh, the first drive coming out,
Speaker 4: we had an explosive, we stalled the midfield. We hit
Speaker 4: another explosive on the second drive, had an opper opportunity
Speaker 4: down the field and didn't hit it. You know, so
Speaker 4: that I don't look at there. Then you know certain
Speaker 4: things the way the game goes. We can certainly do
Speaker 4: a better job at half time and certainly do a
Speaker 4: better job in second half. I didn't see significant change
Speaker 4: in the second half other than we just got to
Speaker 4: do it better. I gotta coach it better, gotta call
Speaker 4: it better, got to execute better. You know, one as
Speaker 4: if we were consistently running the same things. We just
Speaker 4: got to do it better. I don't mean he's not wrong.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not critiquing Lamar like I mean. The
Speaker 4: bottom line is, we've done a good job in the
Speaker 4: first half of executing and we've got to do a
Speaker 4: better john the second half. Some in the early in
Speaker 4: the year we weren't that so much. We were actually
Speaker 4: better at Houston the second half. We were better, you know,
Speaker 4: against the Bengals in the second half. So again, it's
Speaker 4: a long year. We got to do it better coming
Speaker 4: out in the second half, that's for sure. Sometimes it
Speaker 4: turns out you get the ball to start the game
Speaker 4: and you get one less possession, you know the way
Speaker 4: it turns out. But that hasn't been the case. We
Speaker 4: just got to do it better. There is no magic
Speaker 4: for me. Let's you got to scheme it better, coach
Speaker 4: it better, execute better, and let your talent shine not
Speaker 4: have so much drag.
Speaker 9: I thought Odell kind of suggested that it feels late
Speaker 9: us helping to keep your foot on the gas, not
Speaker 9: you personally, just a team in general, and keep your foot.
Speaker 10: On the gas.
Speaker 11: Are there times where you look back where you felt
Speaker 11: like there could have been opportunities to be a little
Speaker 11: more aggressive in the second half.
Speaker 4: Sure, you know, but I look back at the Steelers,
Speaker 4: like if you go back and look at those first
Speaker 4: two drives, like might've been the first play, the second play,
Speaker 4: we hit Zay Flowers on a banana out right and
Speaker 4: for our twenty yards got to midfield. Okay, Then we
Speaker 4: had the next drive. We hit Nelson Aguilar on a fade,
Speaker 4: they challenged it right on the sideline, and then we
Speaker 4: had another fade later, So we were still aggressive there.
Speaker 4: What takes you away from being aggressive lost shortage plays,
Speaker 4: You get behind the sticks a little bit. We started
Speaker 4: last week, open up the second half of the screen.
Speaker 4: We lost three yards, right, try to get the ball
Speaker 4: on the perimeter.
Speaker 10: Didn't.
Speaker 4: Then we had a third down right, next drive we
Speaker 4: throw a pick. Right, So all that is true, you
Speaker 4: certainly do want to keep your foot on the pedal
Speaker 4: and keep whatever that's keep your foot on the gas
Speaker 4: and keep driving. Of course, not turning it over. Being explosive,
Speaker 4: converting on third downs, scoring touchdowns in the red zone
Speaker 4: are all a big part of what makes an offense
Speaker 4: successful and all the ways why a defense is successful.
Speaker 4: Right they create turnovers, they don't all those things courtly,
Speaker 4: and we're close.
Speaker 12: We just got toe.
Speaker 4: We got to do it better, you know, and I'm
Speaker 4: in charge of But we got to continue to strive
Speaker 4: and I think getting some guys back, getting guys healthy,
Speaker 4: I think we'll add to that that consistency and the
Speaker 4: trust of all of a sudden, the quarterback as.
Speaker 3: Far as lamar as a just as purely running when
Speaker 3: he runs the ball, let's have pressed you the most
Speaker 3: because I'm sure you've watched him far before this of
Speaker 3: him run the ball, but now actually game planning and
Speaker 3: using let's have pressed to you much the most about him.
Speaker 12: When he gets the ball in sands, it takes.
Speaker 4: Off his vision. I think he's got vision of a tailback.
Speaker 4: You know what he sees and when he decides to
Speaker 4: take off and run. That's what's been impressive. You know
Speaker 4: when you ask him to run the ball up inside,
Speaker 4: he's got toughness and vision. I think that's probably the
Speaker 4: biggest thing. Toughness and vision, oh that some guys don't have.
Speaker 4: They may be athletic, but they don't have a great
Speaker 4: feel for rush or running lanes, and he does have that.
Speaker 4: It's unique.
Speaker 6: You guys have been great in the first quarter. I
Speaker 6: think forty one to six, out scoring opponents likewise Detroy
Speaker 6: thirty eight to ten. So I feel like a race
Speaker 6: to get out first is this week that you both
Speaker 6: have broke really Obviously you don't worry about their offense,
Speaker 6: but they're both teams are really good at that just
Speaker 6: mentality of knowing got a trinking space early.
Speaker 4: Yeah, crazy enough, I mean we've we've started fast. I
Speaker 4: mean we've we've given ourselves opportunities and wasted some, you know,
Speaker 4: So obviously that's obviously your ability to start fast and
Speaker 4: then finish right. I mean that's that's we all know that, right,
Speaker 4: Our ability to start fast, but then your ability to
Speaker 4: finish right, your ability to consistently do things at a
Speaker 4: high level. Again, coaching calling it playing all of the
Speaker 4: above that leads to how you want it to look, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's that's what that's what you're striving for.
Speaker 9: Do you feel like it is just kind of a
Speaker 9: matter of time in terms of like getting big scores.
Speaker 9: You guys have have mainly scored touchdowns.
Speaker 10: It's not the right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've all been in the red zone. You know,
Speaker 4: we've had some other opportunities, whether it was didn't turn
Speaker 4: out to be the look, or we had it and
Speaker 4: win it with a sack, right, or we had you
Speaker 4: know Nelson you know at Steelers like it just like
Speaker 4: I said, and I'm just pointing out one or two right,
Speaker 4: whether it's just and we got to call it better.
Speaker 4: It's all of us, right, all all of it's a
Speaker 4: part of it, starting with me. Players execution, giving our
Speaker 4: guys opportunities down the field, right, so we don't have
Speaker 4: to work so hard once we get down there, and
Speaker 4: it's hard in the NFL to get those, but we
Speaker 4: certainly have to do a better job of that.
Speaker 10: You know, we just do.
Speaker 1: Next up.
Speaker 2: Defensive coordinator Mike McDonald Mike Jod's offense.
Speaker 10: That's is this your first question, Mike Man, it's a lot,
Speaker 10: you know. They the first thing that pops off. I
Speaker 10: guess the first word that I would say is multiple
Speaker 10: and balanced. You know, able to get to a lot
Speaker 10: of things easily with their personnel, being able to move
Speaker 10: guys around using all their pieces. I think their run
Speaker 10: game uh mixes all the you know, the zone in
Speaker 10: the in the gap world, uh mixed with under center.
Speaker 10: You know, they're very explosive with the under center play
Speaker 10: action pass and uh. You know, then you couple that
Speaker 10: with the drop back game and being able to get
Speaker 10: guys in space and find matchups and things like that.
Speaker 10: Those are the things you know, definitely have to account for.
Speaker 10: And then they do a great job of obviously running
Speaker 10: the ball and then protecting the quarterback you know, where
Speaker 10: he can any can operate back there and obviously he
Speaker 10: knows where to go with the ball. So overall just
Speaker 10: to you know, and I think the numbers obviously support it,
Speaker 10: but a very good offense, Mike.
Speaker 7: Obviously you want to try to stop the run every week,
Speaker 7: but you mentioned it how good of a play action
Speaker 7: team they are. Is that even more of an emplasist
Speaker 7: to take that run game away, to try to limit
Speaker 7: try to best eliminate that part of the passing game.
Speaker 12: Uh, I don't.
Speaker 10: I don't. I see them as two kind of independent
Speaker 10: type plays. So whatever kind of world we're living in,
Speaker 10: front structure with coverage concepts we're playing, you know, you
Speaker 10: want to best marry your chance to win the play
Speaker 10: if it's a run with with the set they're creating.
Speaker 10: And then also you know the play action concepts that
Speaker 10: they're building off of it, so to play by pay,
Speaker 10: you know, type of idea, and on on how we're
Speaker 10: trying to defend it.
Speaker 2: Like you guys have eleven different players with at least
Speaker 2: one sack. You're just getting direction across the board that
Speaker 2: we're watching your defense. You know, you have stunts and
Speaker 2: games for just about everybody. It seems like Mike Pierce,
Speaker 2: you know you're opening up lanes for Michael Pierce to
Speaker 2: get sacks. What's your theory on kind of getting everybody
Speaker 2: involved into the pass rush.
Speaker 1: And how you see that.
Speaker 10: I don't know if I have a theory about it,
Speaker 10: you know. I I think as a staff that the
Speaker 10: first lens you're looking at is what puts us in
Speaker 10: the best position to win the down and ultimately get
Speaker 10: them stopped, you know, to win the game. And I think,
Speaker 10: as you're you're building a system and a game plan,
Speaker 10: like I had mentioned a question a few weeks ago,
Speaker 10: you're trying to have the ability, you know, to bring
Speaker 10: it from any side at any given point in time.
Speaker 10: And I think then when we were able to do that,
Speaker 10: it's kind of like an offense. It says like, hey,
Speaker 10: you got to defend the width of the entire field,
Speaker 10: you know, well defensively, it's like, well you have to
Speaker 10: be able to account for everyone in the in the
Speaker 10: blitz game, and then you know, in the pressure game.
Speaker 10: So I think that's the idea. And then obviously, you know,
Speaker 10: you're trying to attack things that perceive weaknesses and exploit
Speaker 10: strengths on our end. So I think that I think
Speaker 10: those are the lenses that you're that you go into
Speaker 10: a week and making a game plan.
Speaker 4: Mike.
Speaker 7: We saw last year when Brokwon joined at the deadline,
Speaker 7: he kind of picked up this defense really fast. Saw
Speaker 7: it again with Clowney and fat Noi and letting those guys.
Speaker 3: What about this game do.
Speaker 7: You feel like makes it so player friendly for guys
Speaker 7: to kind of just jump in and get going.
Speaker 10: Well, this is the only system that I've coached in,
Speaker 10: so it's hard for me to compare to other systems.
Speaker 10: But you know, listen to your question. I think first
Speaker 10: the credit goes to the types of guys that we're
Speaker 10: bringing in here, and the and the players obviously smart players,
Speaker 10: and they love football, and they've done a lot of
Speaker 10: different things, so maybe a lot of those concepts will
Speaker 10: kind of coincide. Next thing is, you know it's not
Speaker 10: me sitting with those guys running through the details every week.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm doing other things, and the coaches just
Speaker 10: do a great job of getting them up to speed
Speaker 10: so they can go play fast and be comfortable out there.
Speaker 10: And I think just as a general philosophy, I mean,
Speaker 10: we have rules and we have different things that you know,
Speaker 10: we emphasize on how we want to play, but it's
Speaker 10: not a rigid system and how you have to do
Speaker 10: this all the time.
Speaker 1: You have to do that.
Speaker 10: Now, we want your eyes right and your technique and
Speaker 10: all that, but we want guys to you know, feel
Speaker 10: like they can go play football at the end of
Speaker 10: the day. And that's that's ultimately how you have to play,
Speaker 10: you know, in order to be effective in this league.
Speaker 10: It's what we believe, Mike.
Speaker 6: What what makes an inside linebacker a really good pass rusper.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's obviously not the first thing that people
Speaker 6: probably pick up with that position, but we see Queen
Speaker 6: do it week after week.
Speaker 10: Well, something we saw when he was coming out of college.
Speaker 10: I think with a peak. I mean, everyone has a
Speaker 10: different traits, like like a blie. Harrison is a great
Speaker 10: off the ball blitzer a little bit different with his
Speaker 10: foot freeze. He's got more power and you know, speed
Speaker 10: to power game is different than PQ. But I think,
Speaker 10: you know, Patrick's side to side movement and his explosiveness
Speaker 10: is probably what makes him, you know, an elite blitzer.
Speaker 10: But I think I think the answer to your question
Speaker 10: is you probably go, you know, just like any other rusher,
Speaker 10: you're looking at what they do best and their and
Speaker 10: their skills and how we develop those types of things.
Speaker 10: But uh, you know, Peak's right up there with the
Speaker 10: best of them.
Speaker 2: Mike, the way the play that Ropeline made tracking down
Speaker 2: that running back screen all the way down the field,
Speaker 2: because your thoughts on that play and what that kind
Speaker 2: of play says to other guys on these.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a great question. Uh, that was something that
Speaker 10: was a point of emphasis for us as as our
Speaker 10: defense is finishing games out and closing games out on
Speaker 10: our terms. And uh, you know, we were in that
Speaker 10: situation where the offense, their offense is up against the
Speaker 10: clock a little bit. You know, if we had stopped
Speaker 10: them at a certain time, they were going to be
Speaker 10: on site kicking it. And I think at that point
Speaker 10: they would have had to on side kick it anyways,
Speaker 10: but you know, you obviously want to get the stop.
Speaker 10: So when the ball spit and it hit, you know,
Speaker 10: I'm just like, hey, get it down. And I had
Speaker 10: seen Roe go down or excuse me, I did not
Speaker 10: see him go down. We're trying to get him, and
Speaker 10: then I see him get tackled and I saw that
Speaker 10: it was I thought it was Row ended up being
Speaker 10: Row in Marlin, and upon watching the review, I had
Speaker 10: seen that ro get knocked down, so I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 10: he got knocked down and he made the play, So
Speaker 10: now is this just an all time great play? And uh,
Speaker 10: you know again, when guys like Marlon and Row your
Speaker 10: best players play with the highest effort day in and
Speaker 10: day out, I mean, that's just tell you what type
Speaker 10: of guys they are and what type of football players
Speaker 10: there are, speaks to their character. So definitely shout out to.
Speaker 12: Those guys for Clownie.
Speaker 3: He obviously we see the stats.
Speaker 7: Who've seen your praises yesterday? What is he bringing to
Speaker 7: the meetings, like his energies, personalities, experience of what are
Speaker 7: we not seeing that?
Speaker 10: Crownie?
Speaker 7: You think it's his biggest attribute and assets.
Speaker 10: To his team. I'd spoken to this sooner, but just
Speaker 10: getting to know him, his enthusiasm is love for the game.
Speaker 10: I think that's what makes him fit in here so well.
Speaker 10: And uh, just his overall energy, you know to what
Speaker 10: you said, it's just uh, it's you know, it's contagious.
Speaker 10: And you got a bunch of guys in that room
Speaker 10: that love football and it's their fun to coach.
Speaker 13: Mighta bekase he was like, he gets better every year,
Speaker 13: what step have you seen him make?
Speaker 10: Yes, Well, I think he's gotten a lot more opportunities
Speaker 10: this year. I think he ended up with like six
Speaker 10: and something last year, and you know, with not as
Speaker 10: many opportunities. So we knew, or we didn't know, we
Speaker 10: had a great feeling that it was that was there.
Speaker 10: So I'm just excited that he's got the opportunity to
Speaker 10: go out there and he's taking advantage of his opportunities.
Speaker 10: But you think about a guy like Justin he's extremely explosive,
Speaker 10: he plays incredibly hard, he's incredibly physical. Uh, he's a
Speaker 10: violent tackler and uh, he's just got a relentless motor.
Speaker 10: So if he's not gonna win right now in his
Speaker 10: one on one, there's a good chance he's gonna win
Speaker 10: on a second and third effort. And I think that's
Speaker 10: what makes him a great player.
Speaker 9: I think, you know, we in the media look at
Speaker 9: sometimes at matchups like, you know, who's gonna stop him
Speaker 9: on Rosney Brown, Who's gonna stop or to Does it
Speaker 9: does it matter as much like who's matching up with
Speaker 9: them at the last nammage or is it more important
Speaker 9: just you know, in the past, defense in general, just
Speaker 9: kind of how you guys.
Speaker 10: Excuse uh, yeah, I think that's that's very situational base,
Speaker 10: you know, like the first intend's gonna be a lot
Speaker 10: different than third and three. Uh, and then where you're
Speaker 10: in the field is going to matter as well. So
Speaker 10: they do a good job of moving both those guys around.
Speaker 10: So whatever world room, we definitely have to account for them.
Speaker 10: Some of the calls you know, could or could not
Speaker 10: be forwarded towards those guys in mind, but again it's
Speaker 10: gonna be situation based, and obviously our personnel and how
Speaker 10: we deploy them, you know, well, you know is at
Speaker 10: our disposal. You know, those are options that we can
Speaker 10: we can do on any given down.
Speaker 6: You're golf doing so well, it really turned around his career.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't remember when he turned around. He's always
Speaker 10: been really good. I mean I remember when those guys
Speaker 10: came out here, I think it was an eighteen and
Speaker 10: we practiced against them and it was an impressive operation.
Speaker 10: And uh, what spook what I remember was was is
Speaker 10: he's extremely accurate. And so you watch him now and
Speaker 10: and that definitely is consistent, but uh, total control of
Speaker 10: their offense, and it seems like his eyes are always right,
Speaker 10: always knows where he wants to go with the football.
Speaker 10: So it's going to be a point of emphasis to
Speaker 10: try to, you know, make him not as comfortable as
Speaker 10: he's been last few weeks.
Speaker 1: Now you hear from special teams coordinator Chris Horton.
Speaker 14: I'll tell you this about Devin. You know, we stressed
Speaker 14: to him really about decision making and uh, you know,
Speaker 14: just across the league, we watch a lot of plays.
Speaker 14: Uh there's not there's not a lot of guys making
Speaker 14: a lot of good decisions. And he's still a young
Speaker 14: returner to us. He hasn't returned a lot of balls,
Speaker 14: and we just try to put him in positions to
Speaker 14: where he could have success. Not only him that you know,
Speaker 14: the guys in front are blocking their tails off of
Speaker 14: giving them space and giving them lanes that he can
Speaker 14: run through.
Speaker 12: And he's doing a great job of it.
Speaker 1: I think that Justin Tucker's Lyons dominance.
Speaker 14: That transfer the games also, you know, I think I
Speaker 14: think anytime you put Justin out there, man, he's he's
Speaker 14: gonna try to dominate the football game. Right if you
Speaker 14: let him line up and say, hey, you go out there,
Speaker 14: you know, field goal time, he's fired up, he's gonna
Speaker 14: be ready. Hopefully that will stay you know, at our
Speaker 14: house as wellform.
Speaker 6: Though, and anyway, he's got sixty one and sixty six
Speaker 6: game yard people, the game winners.
Speaker 14: I mean, that's I just think you know that you're
Speaker 14: gonna have You're gonna have to ask him if he
Speaker 14: fills a certain type of way. I just think for him,
Speaker 14: he'll tell you it's the next kick. Uh, he goes
Speaker 14: out there, I'm just gonna make the next kick. Doesn't
Speaker 14: matter who the opponent is.
Speaker 2: It's is there was there something about Jordan's punt that
Speaker 2: has made it especially difficult to catch in that instance,
Speaker 2: or or what was it?
Speaker 14: Uh, you know, I don't know that Jordan did hit
Speaker 14: a great ball. Though the punt was great. It was
Speaker 14: a high ball and we had the gunners. We had
Speaker 14: guys in this in his face, right, any little distraction
Speaker 14: in that in that situation, Uh, if the returner is
Speaker 14: not fully locked in, that ball could be on the ground.
Speaker 8: And it was.
Speaker 12: It was a huge, huge, huge turnover for our for
Speaker 12: our team, for our guys.
Speaker 9: But the fast and fastest pointer of the scene, that.
Speaker 14: Is definitely the fastest punter I've seen. That was that
Speaker 14: I tell I told du that was not in the
Speaker 14: scout of report because you know, I joke with him
Speaker 14: all the time, and there are no once you get
Speaker 14: past the first wave, there's no one catching you. That
Speaker 14: kid was rolling credit to him. What happened on the
Speaker 14: blocked extra point, you know, it just came. It just
Speaker 14: comes back to us executing fundamentally. Uh, you know we
Speaker 14: got a little high in that a gap. That's that's
Speaker 14: really what it came down to. And you when things
Speaker 14: like that happen, it's a it's probably a direct result
Speaker 14: of us not executing fundamentally.
Speaker 12: Once we take care of that, we'll be we'll be fine.
Speaker 10: Back to back. It makes where you had a block
Speaker 10: fund or block whatever the A gap.
Speaker 8: Specifically, is there something spacendicuts causing turmoil and what gives
Speaker 8: you confidence that it can be fixed and read?
Speaker 12: Oh, it's a it's an easy fix when you when
Speaker 12: you watch the play.
Speaker 14: Uh, going back to the Pittsburgh play, Uh, you know
Speaker 14: we had a guy we step in step up in
Speaker 14: that a gap.
Speaker 12: We just got to finish the block.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 14: You know, we made contact and we just didn't finish
Speaker 14: the block. And it was a really good rush. Credit
Speaker 14: to kill aber on that. But we we got to
Speaker 14: do our jobs and we have to finish those blocks.
Speaker 14: And the same thing really applied to the Tennessee game
Speaker 14: this week. We got a little bit high, we had
Speaker 14: a guy in the a gap.
Speaker 12: We do our job, we take care of our responsibility.
Speaker 12: Those things won't happen. I don't.
Speaker 14: I don't think those are big issues that we can't
Speaker 14: get fixed. That's that should be fixed right away. Shouldn't happen. Honestly, I.
Speaker 1: Send people look to be a return, And you ever
Speaker 1: thought about taking that seriously?
Speaker 12: I have not thought about taking that seriously. He told
Speaker 12: you that. I don't know. That's probably why he didn't
Speaker 12: come tell me that.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 12: So, But now that he said that, I'm gonna ask
Speaker 12: him next time I see him.
Speaker 1: That was send it into the Ravens locker room.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've been on the road for three games straight,
Speaker 5: so it'll be good to get back tore fans.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 5: I know the guys are excited and looking forward to
Speaker 5: another opportunity to play a really great Detroit Lions team.
Speaker 10: So it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 13: Just uh, you know, this team is maybe the best
Speaker 13: team in the NFC.
Speaker 10: What kind of challenge.
Speaker 13: Uh, you guys are relish the challenge to go up
Speaker 13: against one of the one of the league's best.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think, I mean, you're we're in
Speaker 5: the NFL, so every team is gonna be good. These
Speaker 5: guys certainly, you know, have the pieces, you know, play
Speaker 5: well as a team and definitely bring some challenges. So
Speaker 5: you know, we're looking for the for the opportunity, you know,
Speaker 5: to you know, to play Baltimore Raven football, and I
Speaker 5: know the are gonna want to come into our place
Speaker 5: and do that. So it's gonna be a good challenge.
Speaker 5: But I know guys are looking forward to it, and
Speaker 5: you know, you can't wait to get to Sunday.
Speaker 13: How have you seen the transition coming back from London
Speaker 13: to sleep all that stuff, just getting back acclimated to
Speaker 13: the East Coast time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's not fine.
Speaker 1: I think it was harder.
Speaker 5: It was harder going there and transitioning, But now that
Speaker 5: we're kind of back, you know, it hasn't been too bad.
Speaker 5: I know, guys definitely got some sleep when we got
Speaker 5: back here on Monday. But you know everyone should be
Speaker 5: good now to uh to put it out.
Speaker 15: What is like the mindset we're making corrections and we're
Speaker 15: gonna get it fixed, though I am.
Speaker 6: I am so concerned and looking at this Lion's defense
Speaker 6: at how good they are.
Speaker 15: How do you guys make sure that you're still be
Speaker 15: able to be two dimensional trunk pass in run game
Speaker 15: against the front like things. So's preparation film room were
Speaker 15: watching their looks, uh, getting familiar with a lot of
Speaker 15: things that.
Speaker 11: They do know will be prepared this week.
Speaker 13: It's week seven.
Speaker 7: Do you feel like this is almost where you expect
Speaker 7: the offense to be with the new offense? Does it
Speaker 7: feel like you're sort of where you thought you be.
Speaker 15: No matter what week it is, we always, uh, there's
Speaker 15: always some things that we could improve on. Right now,
Speaker 15: it's just like that was kind of on display for
Speaker 15: a lot of people to see it, I mean in
Speaker 15: a big game. And we're gonna fix it though. Like
Speaker 15: I said, I I have great tremendous confidence that we're
Speaker 15: gonna get.
Speaker 11: It fixed because in the run game as a whole,
Speaker 11: not you in general, but do you feel like there's
Speaker 11: yards that we had just kind of leaving some yards
Speaker 11: on the field where you're just missing on plays and
Speaker 11: you're closed to breaking more big runs.
Speaker 15: I feel like just being here, Like with Wa Wa,
Speaker 15: we were used to there being a lot of a
Speaker 15: lot of big plays, bigger plays in the run game.
Speaker 15: We kind of being spoiled a lot. But but at
Speaker 15: the same time, that's what that's that's what, that's what
Speaker 15: the expecial expectation is. You know, we gotta live up
Speaker 15: to that standard and we're gonna get it fixed.
Speaker 10: Like I keep saying, just a big picture is it?
Speaker 13: You know, a couple weeks ago we were talking about
Speaker 13: how this is one of the best Rosente teams in
Speaker 13: the league, and now a couple of weeks where you
Speaker 13: haven't been as good. You know, the the tie turns,
Speaker 13: But d do you feel like it's it's a communication
Speaker 13: like if you're are you able to pinpoint where you
Speaker 13: feel like would be the reasons for a lot couple
Speaker 13: of games hasn't been as successful as you were earlier
Speaker 13: in the season.
Speaker 15: That's exactly the thing is is like now we're just
Speaker 15: like way down here and everybody's like, oh, what's going on?
Speaker 15: But we were just not the best, you know what
Speaker 15: I mean. So it's not like we can't we can't
Speaker 15: get back to where we was were familiar with it.
Speaker 15: We know what it takes to be the best, know
Speaker 15: I mean, So we're gonna fix some things and we're
Speaker 15: gonna get right back. That's that's all it is.
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