Speaker 1: We went to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens
Speaker 1: are gearing up for a Sunday's game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Today,
Speaker 1: we had a chance to hear from the coordinators, so
Speaker 1: let's kick it off. The special teams coordinator Chris.
Speaker 2: Horton, Good to see you guys today. It's been a
Speaker 2: good week.
Speaker 3: I think our guys came out, you know, the last
Speaker 3: two days really put in some good work and really
Speaker 3: that's what we're focusing on. We know we got a
Speaker 3: division game. We know it's gonna be it's gonna be
Speaker 3: a physical one. Every time we get a chance to
Speaker 3: play Cincinnati and Darren and that special teams group, we
Speaker 3: know that we got to come out and we got
Speaker 3: to play our best game. We got to make sure
Speaker 3: that that we try to be as perfect as we
Speaker 3: possibly can because we understand what type of special teams
Speaker 3: this unit, this uh that we're gonna face questions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he touched on like Darren Simon has been there
Speaker 4: it seems like forever now.
Speaker 5: Is there a familiarity though when when you're playing kind
Speaker 5: of his special teams group?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Really is? You know?
Speaker 3: I think this season makes Darren's a twenty twenty second season,
Speaker 3: so he has, He's played the Ravens a lot, and
Speaker 3: I think when when when two teams play each other
Speaker 3: twice a year, you know, you kind of get familiar with, uh,
Speaker 3: with each other, and and and and really what it
Speaker 3: comes down to it it's gonna come down to execution.
Speaker 3: It's gonna come down which group's gonna execute the best.
Speaker 3: Because I don't think there's gonna be something that that
Speaker 3: that they're gonna do that we haven't seen, you know,
Speaker 3: So I think for our guys, just come out there,
Speaker 3: let's work, let's get better, and let's really just focus
Speaker 3: on us and really executing our place.
Speaker 7: Uh Rashid tis needed to return today. Obviously he was
Speaker 7: pretty involved with you guys on the special teams in
Speaker 7: the preseason. Just when he is activated, you know this season,
Speaker 7: do you feel like he is kind of close to
Speaker 7: being able to contribute to to your guys units.
Speaker 3: You know, I do think when that time, when that
Speaker 3: time comes, uh, you know, we'll we'll definitely have a
Speaker 3: role for him.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: I thought what he did in the preseason for us
Speaker 3: was was really good. He was going, he was trending
Speaker 3: in the in the right direction and it's our job,
Speaker 3: uh when it's when his time comes to get him
Speaker 3: out there and uh and get him ready to go,
Speaker 3: get him ready, get him ready playing raven special teams football.
Speaker 3: And I think, uh, he's got that kind of mindset.
Speaker 3: And I think when he again, when he's ready, he'll
Speaker 3: he'll be out there.
Speaker 9: Chris, realize it's always an evolving process in terms.
Speaker 4: Of consistency just as.
Speaker 10: A whole unit.
Speaker 9: How close for you, guys, or how close are you
Speaker 9: to where you want to get to? If that makes sense,
Speaker 9: particularly with these division games coming out of it generally
Speaker 9: close to come down.
Speaker 3: You know, I think we're I think we're trending in
Speaker 3: the right direction. I think we're trying. We're doing a
Speaker 3: lot of good Well, actually, I know we're doing a
Speaker 3: lot of good things.
Speaker 2: Uh. Sometimes we don't. We don't leave a game with
Speaker 2: an impact and having a lot of plays.
Speaker 3: But the plays that we do get as long as
Speaker 3: we're as long as we're plus on the plays, Uh,
Speaker 3: we feel pretty good about it, right. And I think
Speaker 3: the more plays we get, I think the more our
Speaker 3: identity will show. It will show what type of special
Speaker 3: teams unit we're we're we're chasing. We got a standard,
Speaker 3: and we're going to continue.
Speaker 2: To chase that. But I do believe we're close.
Speaker 3: We understand that every game is going to be different
Speaker 3: because every personnel grouping is not going to be the same,
Speaker 3: you know, So so our job is just really focused
Speaker 3: on us and really execute our our assignments.
Speaker 8: Understand it.
Speaker 2: Hiccup.
Speaker 11: I guess the fighters are gonna shut pun But he's
Speaker 11: a pretty good everstance with Justice as he made an adjustments.
Speaker 11: What's what's sort of his.
Speaker 2: Turnaround with with Jordan?
Speaker 3: You know, I just think I just think of consistency
Speaker 3: from that standpoint, kind of kind of what we just
Speaker 3: talked about. It's really with Jordan's just focusing on one
Speaker 3: punt at a time, right, and just going out there
Speaker 3: doing the same doing the same full work, same drop walking,
Speaker 3: the same lines and those things.
Speaker 2: And I think you will.
Speaker 3: Get the type of punts that he wants to to
Speaker 3: to put out there. And now he's doing he's doing
Speaker 3: a great job. And the more he's out there, uh,
Speaker 3: the the more you're gonna see him. But the less
Speaker 3: he's out there, I've said this before, that's a good thing, right,
Speaker 3: It's a it's a really good thing. So We're not
Speaker 3: We're not concerned with that. What we expect from Jordan
Speaker 3: is you got one shot, and it could be one shot.
Speaker 3: And that goes for everybody on our Special Teams unit.
Speaker 3: Take advantage of the one shot because that might be it.
Speaker 2: Chris.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 8: Two guys that brought in for different reasons, Snoosie Kane
Speaker 8: and Deontay Hardy for Special Teams.
Speaker 13: That was kind of what their foals were expected to be.
Speaker 8: How would you evaluated them in their respectives four weeks?
Speaker 3: You know, I'll start with Hardy just because he's the
Speaker 3: he's the veteran guy, and I think I think you
Speaker 3: what you see is when he get the balls in
Speaker 3: it with the ball in his hands, Uh, he's he
Speaker 3: can be dynamic, and he's got he's got special traits
Speaker 3: as a punt returner and uh and as a kickoff returner.
Speaker 3: But we haven't gotten a lot of opportunities. So as
Speaker 3: a punt returner, we're trying to maximize everything we can
Speaker 3: for him. And he's done a great job. He's picking
Speaker 3: up the yards that he needs to pick up. And
Speaker 3: then you love to see is his physical running style
Speaker 3: for a guy that some will say he's he's a
Speaker 3: little guy, right, but he's he's running through tackles, he's
Speaker 3: making guys miss and that's all we're looking forward to.
Speaker 2: Just keep getting positive yards.
Speaker 3: Uh First, Andoosie, you know this is his this is
Speaker 3: his four the regular season game.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: The things he saw in preseason are a lot different
Speaker 3: now because the personnel is a lot different. And what
Speaker 3: he's done as a as a young guy so far, Man,
Speaker 3: he's communicated well, his effort has been outstanding.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, I just.
Speaker 3: Remind him of Okay, you haven't made the tackles that
Speaker 3: the flash tackles that you made in the preseason. Just
Speaker 3: don't chase those Those plays will happen. You just keep
Speaker 3: being great at the things that you do. Bring out
Speaker 3: your effort, bring out your physicality, keep communicating, and the
Speaker 3: plays will happen for you. So he's doing outstanding.
Speaker 1: Next up is offensive coordinator Todd Munkett.
Speaker 14: You know what Ronnie Stanley's been through the last few years.
Speaker 13: You were here last year with.
Speaker 14: Him, and by his own admission, he didn't wasn't happy
Speaker 14: with his season last year. For him to be healthy
Speaker 14: and playing at the level he is right now, what
Speaker 14: does that do for your offense. What does that do
Speaker 14: for you as a play caller, knowing how important that
Speaker 14: position is.
Speaker 11: Well, Ronnie, Ronnie felt you know base he played through
Speaker 11: injury all of last year. He's been banged up, and
Speaker 11: I thought he had a great off season. He was
Speaker 11: here in the summer and worked awfully hard. And uh,
Speaker 11: it's great to see him playing at a really high level.
Speaker 11: It really is for him and us, for both of us.
Speaker 9: What's his u How you described his leadership among me?
Speaker 9: You know, there's obviously there's some turnover among the group
Speaker 9: and then some young guys in there. Just from what
Speaker 9: you've seen, you know, it's your part about the summer.
Speaker 11: And Ronnie just kind of goes about his business. You know,
Speaker 11: he's not a real I would say he's more cerebral
Speaker 11: than he is vocal. You know what I'm saying. He
Speaker 11: just really understands what we're trying to do, what he's
Speaker 11: trying to do, and what he's trying to accomplish. So
Speaker 11: those things he really gets it, you know, and it's
Speaker 11: it's great to see him healthy, and but he really
Speaker 11: doesn't say much around the guys. You'd have to ask
Speaker 11: the old lineman like I don't. I don't hear him
Speaker 11: say things you know, out of character or you know,
Speaker 11: to the guys. It's just he just goes about his
Speaker 11: business the right way.
Speaker 2: With that group.
Speaker 5: I mean, the offensive lines actually played pretty well the
Speaker 5: last couple of weeks. If you know, when you lose
Speaker 5: a guy like Jody and you know, and use a
Speaker 5: coach rate before the season, are how much of an
Speaker 5: emotional toll is there one?
Speaker 4: You know, for a group.
Speaker 5: That's trying to get a season and has something like
Speaker 5: some of that devastating happening.
Speaker 11: I think you'd have to ask the old lineman the
Speaker 11: emotional part of it. For us, it's it's been fine, uh,
Speaker 11: because George was able to come in and pick up
Speaker 11: the slack at what areas. You know, Joe was responsible
Speaker 11: in the game plan and I've worked with Hot before
Speaker 11: so that that was an easy transition. The transition is
Speaker 11: really the emotional you'd have to ask the old lineman.
Speaker 11: And then also a different voice. There's just even if
Speaker 11: you're saying the exact same thing, you're saying it differently.
Speaker 11: It's a different tone, it's a different way of going
Speaker 11: about it. Everybody gets used to who they're being coached,
Speaker 11: by their teammates that comfort level. So I think that'd
Speaker 11: be a better question for the old line and those guys,
Speaker 11: just as you'll six targets, six catches.
Speaker 6: Why at the back yard?
Speaker 11: How has he had the elementary offense as his versatility?
Speaker 11: He's been doing that since last year. Sometimes games just
Speaker 11: present itself that way. Check downs. Few of the Neighbor's
Speaker 11: days found him, others were schemed other screen wise. But
Speaker 11: you know, he's been doing that since last year. It's
Speaker 11: just a matter how many targets were able to get him.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 11: It's we have a lot of guys that are capable
Speaker 11: that way. It's the same as say Flowers, It's like,
Speaker 11: is he capable that yet bal didn't have to find him,
Speaker 11: you know, in the game, and so but no, I
Speaker 11: think it's a great one two punch.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 11: I thought Justice has always always played well, but I
Speaker 11: thought he played particularly well last last week.
Speaker 10: When you're running the ball so well and so much,
Speaker 10: do you go into a game expecting the opponent to
Speaker 10: really adjust and try to clamp down on that as
Speaker 10: as kind of priority number one for them?
Speaker 11: I think eventually, you know, you know, you're always expecting
Speaker 11: you know, a little bit something different depending on what
Speaker 11: you've done the week before. It's not even per se,
Speaker 11: maybe just run game in itself, but formationally personnel wise,
Speaker 11: what they see as you're doing something, well, there's no
Speaker 11: way you're not developing some form of tendencies. Your tendency
Speaker 11: is to run it. Okay, Okay, well it's a tendency,
Speaker 11: you know. So what are they going to do schematically
Speaker 11: personnel wise to combat that? And then we just have
Speaker 11: to have enough to be able to for us to
Speaker 11: be able to attack it.
Speaker 10: Is that a point of focus this week when you
Speaker 10: talk to players like, eventually, look, they're gonna share they're
Speaker 10: doing and we need to be able to counter punch.
Speaker 2: Through the air.
Speaker 11: And then sure, I think the best teams are able
Speaker 11: to win in variety of ways and modes.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 11: I think that's you need to be able to run
Speaker 11: it when you need to run it. You need to
Speaker 11: be able to throw it when you have to throw it.
Speaker 11: And we've been pretty good that way. When we've been clean,
Speaker 11: penalty freeh doing things the right way we've been, we've
Speaker 11: been pretty successful when we've had to throw it, when
Speaker 11: we've had to be in two minutes, you know, we
Speaker 11: just got to continue to work to be cleaner in
Speaker 11: everything that we do because it still wasn't perfect. It
Speaker 11: wasn't you know, we still have a lot of work
Speaker 11: to do to be the offense we want to be.
Speaker 7: Along those lines, I think especially in those weeks in
Speaker 7: the season, you know, you guys had a lot of
Speaker 7: chip help with tight ends fullbacks. I guess what is
Speaker 7: the kind of push pull as you get more comfortable with,
Speaker 7: you know, your offensive lines, ability to have to stand
Speaker 7: pressure with just the five man unit, having more guys
Speaker 7: going out the routes.
Speaker 4: Just what is that kind of tension?
Speaker 11: Well, I'll piggyback off what Ryan said, which is really
Speaker 11: the more you're able to run it, stay out of
Speaker 11: the chains, not be in second long, get back on track,
Speaker 11: and then third and long. You avoid those issues you
Speaker 11: just do in the first two games, we weren't in
Speaker 11: that situation. We weren't as effective on first down. We
Speaker 11: put ourselves in some long yarded situations. We are in
Speaker 11: more third down two minutes than you are in the
Speaker 11: world of chipping, and we're still doing that. But you
Speaker 11: definitely it's going to get to that. I mean, it's
Speaker 11: a long season and certainly Our guys are gonna continue
Speaker 11: to get better. I mean, Roger's going to continue to
Speaker 11: get better. Pat did a great job at left guard,
Speaker 11: you know, wherever we've needed him, So that's gonna continue
Speaker 11: to be, you know, something we're gonna have to continue
Speaker 11: to do. And matchups create that certain matchups when you
Speaker 11: play teams. You know, Von Miller was a player that
Speaker 11: played on third downs. You know, Max Crosby is the
Speaker 11: guy that plays every down. That's a little bit different animal,
Speaker 11: you know, And we're gonna get into those guys as
Speaker 11: we get further into the season.
Speaker 10: I'm curious. You know, when you turn on the sports
Speaker 10: talk shows, all talking heads are saying, oh, the Ravens,
Speaker 10: they found their identity, right, They're gonna run the ball,
Speaker 10: They're gonna pound you that way and work off that
Speaker 10: they found this. Do you agree with that notion or what?
Speaker 11: They'll drive you crazy if you listen to that. I mean,
Speaker 11: you know, two weeks ago we were the worst team
Speaker 11: and terrible, and you know, and they don't do this,
Speaker 11: and maybe some of it's true, maybe some of it's legit.
Speaker 11: You know, it's the way it goes, you know, but
Speaker 11: the reality is is, you know, they have a job
Speaker 11: to do. We have a job to do, you know,
Speaker 11: And have we been cleaner, yes? Have we run the
Speaker 11: ball better? Yes? Does every team want to have an
Speaker 11: identity where you can stay out of the chains and
Speaker 11: run the football, of course that is, and I think
Speaker 11: our guys have embraced that and done a great job
Speaker 11: with it. And you know, I love listening to those guys.
Speaker 11: I mean, I think everybody that's on TV that that
Speaker 11: I love football, So anybody that's dedicated their lives to football,
Speaker 11: I think it's awesome. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 11: you know, we have to stay true with what we
Speaker 11: believe in and then continue to do it the right way,
Speaker 11: whether we're throwing it or whether we're running it. To me,
Speaker 11: the best thing we can do is continue to strive
Speaker 11: to be as consistent as we can be in all
Speaker 11: facets of our offense, running it, throwing it, two minute,
Speaker 11: critical situations, being elited when when it comes up. And
Speaker 11: we've been having great practices which has led to us
Speaker 11: being you know where we've been the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 16: Really how unique is pat Ricars and what he's been
Speaker 16: able to.
Speaker 7: Do these last weeks.
Speaker 11: You know, Pat's a valuable piece for what we're able
Speaker 11: to do. You know, he gives us He's part of
Speaker 11: that when you say identity, he's kind of a part
Speaker 11: of an identity, you know, of what he is. You know,
Speaker 11: gives us the ability to run the ball downhill, ability
Speaker 11: to you know, run the sea gap, and you know
Speaker 11: we wouldn't be the same offense without him, you know,
Speaker 11: I mean, he's you know, when I came here ago,
Speaker 11: it was hell he was thinking about moving to guard
Speaker 11: for God's sakes, didn't think we're going to use him.
Speaker 11: And it's like, no, I'm still going to use him.
Speaker 11: I mean there's still four minute coming out. You got
Speaker 11: to run the football. You gotta score touchdowns in the
Speaker 11: red zone. I mean, the best team score touchdowns in
Speaker 11: the red zone. And we've been really good at that
Speaker 11: and he's been a big part of that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 11: So I'm fired up. He's been here as long as
Speaker 11: I've been here.
Speaker 14: So that's odd.
Speaker 8: The past couple of weeks, players kind of coach darn Harba.
Speaker 8: If you're just now said you've been having a great
Speaker 8: couple of weeks of practice. What constitutes a great practice
Speaker 8: versus one that hasn't been as positive.
Speaker 11: I guess not playing very well, man, I think anything
Speaker 11: in life, that's what changes. Right, When you don't like
Speaker 11: what you see, right, you have a choice either keep
Speaker 11: doing it the same way you've been doing it and
Speaker 11: get the same results, or you can change right, whether
Speaker 11: it's me or players, like I mean, is that what
Speaker 11: we want it to look like? If not, what are
Speaker 11: we going to do to change it? And they understand that,
Speaker 11: you know, that's they got to embrace that. You can
Speaker 11: only say it and then say, he all right, let's
Speaker 11: talk about how we want this to look. That at
Speaker 11: least gives you a chance. It doesn't guarantee anything, but
Speaker 11: doing it the other way does guarantees you will be sloppy.
Speaker 11: It guarantees you won't won't look like you want it
Speaker 11: to look like. So the players embrace that. That's and
Speaker 11: we've got to always look at there and say, what
Speaker 11: are we doing from everything we do, from the meetings
Speaker 11: to our walkthrough to our practice to how we detail
Speaker 11: out the plan for their understanding of where we want
Speaker 11: to go and what we want it to look like.
Speaker 11: Paint that picture and then for them to see that
Speaker 11: picture and then take it to the field, which they've
Speaker 11: done a great job. Doesn't mean that the first two
Speaker 11: weeks we weren't giving effort. That doesn't mean it. But
Speaker 11: at the end of the day, whenever things aren't going well,
Speaker 11: I don't it's not just football. Try to solve it.
Speaker 2: That's what we do.
Speaker 11: We fix it right. It doesn't matter relationships, job, right,
Speaker 11: whatever it is in our life that's important to us.
Speaker 11: When it's not going well, if I like, hell to
Speaker 11: fix it, and that's what our guys have done a
Speaker 11: great job of.
Speaker 6: Tada.
Speaker 7: What stood out to you about Lamar's development as a
Speaker 7: coorbat who can mitigate pressures, avoid sex. It seems like
Speaker 7: he's taking a step forwards and it's even last year.
Speaker 11: Oh, I don't know. It just feels like I see
Speaker 11: it every week.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 11: He you know, it just to compete. I think that's
Speaker 11: the best way to say it. He just he loves
Speaker 11: to play the game of football and he wants you
Speaker 11: to help him to be the best he can be.
Speaker 11: And he's embraced Tea as his position coach. He's embraced
Speaker 11: me as the coordinator, you know, and we've embraced what
Speaker 11: his skill set is and what he brings to the table.
Speaker 11: And it's always a work in progress with him, just
Speaker 11: like it is with us in our offense. You know,
Speaker 11: you're never you can never be stagnant and just keep
Speaker 11: doing the same things. And he's continued to grow and understand,
Speaker 11: you know, where we want this to go. And he's
Speaker 11: he's the conductor, man, he makes this thing go. And
Speaker 11: so that's been fun. It's been fun, you know, and
Speaker 11: we're only going to continue, hopefully to get better and
Speaker 11: bring everybody with Lamar and our guys have done a
Speaker 11: great job, you know, really have embracing that. We got
Speaker 11: a great group.
Speaker 2: We really do.
Speaker 1: Next from defensive coordinator Zach war.
Speaker 5: When you talk to Marlin, he said, from his viewpoint,
Speaker 5: you have to win the matchup between the dvs and
Speaker 5: their wide receivers. How do you kind of see that
Speaker 5: notch up between your grouping and theirs?
Speaker 17: Yeah, man, I think it's a it's a team defense effort.
Speaker 15: I mean obviously, you know they got they got star receivers,
Speaker 15: their passing games real good.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 17: The quarterback is is just as much as part of
Speaker 17: that as as anybody. So yeah, that that's a that's
Speaker 17: a matchup within the matchup.
Speaker 15: But his team defense, man, it's it's it's our whole
Speaker 15: defense versus their whole offense.
Speaker 17: Like just spocus on the past game.
Speaker 15: I mean, our our d line and linebackers have something
Speaker 15: to do with that as well as far as disrupting
Speaker 15: time and and everything like that. So yeah, that's a
Speaker 15: that's a massive matchup that I know he's focused on
Speaker 15: because he's a defensive back, so he has to understand
Speaker 15: those guys inside and out.
Speaker 17: But it's it's team defense.
Speaker 15: But but that matchup between the receivers and dbs are
Speaker 15: is gonna be huge in the matchup Sunday. And you know,
Speaker 15: our guys been working their butts off this whole week.
Speaker 17: And been preparing the right way. So I'm excited to
Speaker 17: see him Sunday.
Speaker 11: Church Kappannoya, how do you how do you putting in
Speaker 11: the position to hit their SATs?
Speaker 18: You?
Speaker 19: Where have you done?
Speaker 13: Successful man?
Speaker 17: First and foremost, congrats to to kV man. He's earned that.
Speaker 15: All he does is come here to work and uh,
Speaker 15: you know every single day in the classroom and on
Speaker 15: the field, and I think that, uh it's a it's
Speaker 15: a testament to kV all different spots and all different
Speaker 15: things he can do because he's a real versatile player,
Speaker 15: and he's a real smart player. He's one of the
Speaker 15: smartest players I've personally been around. He knows a lot
Speaker 15: of football, and he understands UH situations and understands offenses.
Speaker 15: So it's a credit all to him that we can
Speaker 15: we can do different things with him because he can
Speaker 15: handle it and execute at a high level. I just
Speaker 15: think he's getting more comfortable with his role and with
Speaker 15: the system. Being in the second year here in that
Speaker 15: same vein.
Speaker 16: I talked to him Yester and he said one of
Speaker 16: the reasons why was he was able to focus more
Speaker 16: just rushing the pastor the pastor this year is supposed
Speaker 16: to off the ball stuff. Do you think that's a
Speaker 16: big part to do with it?
Speaker 15: Definitely, definitely. I know, you know early in this we're
Speaker 15: in the previous places. You know, he's played off the
Speaker 15: ball a lot as well as on the ball. But
Speaker 15: here for us, he's he's truly an edge guy. But uh,
Speaker 15: you know, we we we like his versatil were able
Speaker 15: to use the versatility, but he's in the outside back
Speaker 15: of the room and he's focusing on stopping and run
Speaker 15: and rushing the passer.
Speaker 9: You talked about how smart a player he is.
Speaker 10: How often does he come to you with ideas about,
Speaker 10: you know, what the defense.
Speaker 2: Should be doing?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 15: He definitely comes with ideas, man, And that's what you
Speaker 15: appreciate about kV. We encourage that with our players, man,
Speaker 15: like it's a partnership. We want to make it work,
Speaker 15: and we say, you have a good idea, you know,
Speaker 15: bring it to us. And kV is one of the guys.
Speaker 15: He's definitely gonna bring some ideas to the table and
Speaker 15: they're pretty good ideas, so you know, it's it's great conversations.
Speaker 15: We love those conversations with our players because we ultimately, uh,
Speaker 15: we just want to find the best best thing to
Speaker 15: do to help us win and that's what we do
Speaker 15: as coaches and that's how they feel as players.
Speaker 17: So it makes it easy obviously.
Speaker 10: Zacktling is always, uh, you know, something that you talk
Speaker 10: about and stress this week, go against the thing and
Speaker 10: Chase especially really known for breaking tackles, getting Lucy did
Speaker 10: it against the handlers last week. Has that been a
Speaker 10: priority this week?
Speaker 15: Definitely, It's definitely a priority. Like you said, it's priority
Speaker 15: every week. But we know who we're going again. So
Speaker 15: we saw the play from last week, We've seen the
Speaker 15: plays over the years. We know we know their skill
Speaker 15: guys very well, and just like previous years, this year
Speaker 15: they're like.
Speaker 17: Top five and yards after catch.
Speaker 15: So that's something we have to be able to eliminate
Speaker 15: if we want to be successful on Sunday.
Speaker 7: Maybe no defense defended Joe Burrow over the past two
Speaker 7: years and in this Ravens one. I guess what did
Speaker 7: you kind of learn from working with Mike about how
Speaker 7: to you know, kind of diffuse someone as intelligent as
Speaker 7: Joe Burrow? And I guess how much of a movie
Speaker 7: targeted is with just the off season evolution that every
Speaker 7: team makes.
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's tough, man.
Speaker 15: Every year is different, every game is different, and you know,
Speaker 15: I think part of the success has been just everybody
Speaker 15: being on the same page, playing team defense and going
Speaker 15: out there playing as hard.
Speaker 17: As we can and not giving up, you know, big plays.
Speaker 15: So that's a big focus for us going into this week,
Speaker 15: as everybody be on the same page, us playing team
Speaker 15: defense and limited eliminating explosive plays because we know they're
Speaker 15: a real explosive offense.
Speaker 17: And you know, I think if we do that, we
Speaker 17: give ourselves a good chance.
Speaker 16: Marlin said yesterday he entered last week. I guess wanted
Speaker 16: to play with a little more physicality because I guess
Speaker 16: he got some unknown mess from one of the badges
Speaker 16: that were ranting on names. But he said he went
Speaker 16: into saying I'm gonna play like bro. What does that
Speaker 16: mean to you?
Speaker 15: Being someone who's been around Roe on, it means a
Speaker 15: lot man, And that's what we always talk about with
Speaker 15: a guy like Rokwan smith Man.
Speaker 17: He's a special player. He's a special player, special human.
Speaker 17: He's a guy.
Speaker 15: His personality, his energy, his play is infectious on the
Speaker 15: on the field and off the field, and he inspires people.
Speaker 15: And I think if you if you're if you're a
Speaker 15: great player, you're a great person, You're gonna inspire people
Speaker 15: in different ways. And Rowe has multiple ways of doing that.
Speaker 15: One is by just cutting on the film. And when
Speaker 15: guys cut on the film, you might think you're playing
Speaker 15: as hard as possible, and you might think that you're
Speaker 15: giving everything you got, But then you see a guy
Speaker 15: like Rokwan, it's like, oh, it's different. So I think
Speaker 15: it's great that guys are trying to strive to play
Speaker 15: like him every single snap.
Speaker 17: And I think if we do that We're gonna be fine.
Speaker 8: As I mentioned that, they see you calling players more
Speaker 8: comfortably or may sound more confident. Is that something through
Speaker 8: these four weeks that have kind of settled in for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 15: I think that, you know, every every every game is different,
Speaker 15: but I think that obviously, you know, with more time,
Speaker 15: more experience, you know, more comfort come. So I definitely
Speaker 15: feel like you can you can say that for sure.
Speaker 18: Kyle gives a lot of credit to Travis Jones and
Speaker 18: then David Davo. How is those those guys kind of
Speaker 18: stepping in and playing their role kind of brought the
Speaker 18: une together to the point where Kyle is playing.
Speaker 4: As well as he is.
Speaker 15: Yeah, man, they're doing real good. I mean, those are
Speaker 15: two young guys we've been excited about. Travis Jones has
Speaker 15: been getting better every single year. I think this year
Speaker 15: is gonna continue to be a breakout year for him.
Speaker 15: Like he pops on the film and he's a he's
Speaker 15: a rock and neror on the interior and edge. Guys
Speaker 15: know that that helps those guys out. And then David Ajabo,
Speaker 15: we've been on his talent man and his work ethic.
Speaker 15: All he had to do is just you know, stay healthy.
Speaker 15: So he's been healthy, he's made he made a big
Speaker 15: play on that third down. He's been good this whole
Speaker 15: season for us, and we're excited about where he's going
Speaker 15: to continue to go as well. So you know, Travis
Speaker 15: Jones and David Ajabo, those guys are are getting better
Speaker 15: every single weekend. I think that they continue to work
Speaker 15: the way that they know how the way we know
Speaker 15: they will, We're gonna continue to see good things from
Speaker 15: those guys.
Speaker 17: With Drew Burrow.
Speaker 5: Obviously one of the top quarterbacking in the league, what
Speaker 5: do you see when you're trying to break down film
Speaker 5: and things like that, what do you see is kind
Speaker 5: of the biggest challenging going against Joe.
Speaker 15: I think the biggest challenge is, you know, not not
Speaker 15: letting him know you know where to go with the football,
Speaker 15: I mean, and then really just trying to switch stuff
Speaker 15: up on him. Man, He's a real good football players,
Speaker 15: real smart. He understands coverages, he understands pressures. It's tough
Speaker 15: to confuse him. It's tough to trick him. And even
Speaker 15: when you do, he has the ability to still beat
Speaker 15: you with his arm and move around the pocket and
Speaker 15: still beat you with his feet as well. So you know,
Speaker 15: we have a lot of respect for him. We know
Speaker 15: what we know what he's done, we know what he's
Speaker 15: capable of, and we have to be on our a
Speaker 15: game if we want to come away with a victory.
Speaker 1: We also heard from some of the players today, including
Speaker 1: veteran linebacker world Quand Smith.
Speaker 4: So, first division game, I know every game it can
Speaker 4: be a you know, you go into it with a
Speaker 4: high intensity. Is there a different level when you're going
Speaker 4: against the division rival kind of like this in the
Speaker 4: same angles. Yeah, it's a very it's a highly anticipated game.
Speaker 18: You know, it's a division game at the end of
Speaker 18: the day, and we know how much these games mean,
Speaker 18: uh in a sense. And truth be told, you know,
Speaker 18: they don't like us and we don't like them. So
Speaker 18: it's one of those type things. And uh, we're just
Speaker 18: gonna go out and play our game and it's gonna
Speaker 18: be a good game. So I'm excited for the matchup.
Speaker 18: Why why do why do you feel that there's there's
Speaker 18: the feelings between you guys?
Speaker 4: Just watch the tape.
Speaker 18: You watch the tape, and you know, I think across
Speaker 18: the board since I've been here, it's been no But
Speaker 18: at the end of the day. It's a game that
Speaker 18: has to be played, and we're excited about it, and
Speaker 18: I'm sure they're excited about it as well, So it'll
Speaker 18: be a great game.
Speaker 12: Okay, how long as I.
Speaker 1: How have you seen this rivalry throw since om here?
Speaker 4: Yeah? No, absolutely.
Speaker 18: Those guys obviously has been good for a while with
Speaker 18: uh borrough and the offensive weapons that they have, and
Speaker 18: then f even from the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 18: they got some uh, really good players over there and
Speaker 18: former player and Gino and whatnot. Uh so got mad
Speaker 18: respect for those guys. But you know, at the end
Speaker 18: of the day, it's a game that has to be played.
Speaker 18: And I played for the Baltimore Ravens and we gotta
Speaker 18: play Ravens style of football.
Speaker 2: Hoping.
Speaker 6: H h.
Speaker 13: What do you think about the strides of defense made
Speaker 13: Sunday night against the Bills?
Speaker 4: Where were you obvious that you guys could a step forward? Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's it's all about taking a step forward.
Speaker 18: And uh, I think, like ka Ham said, UH last week,
Speaker 18: while taking a step forward win, uh, while getting while
Speaker 18: getting better and uh, at the end of the day,
Speaker 18: I think we did take a huge step, but I
Speaker 18: think that's just a small step into the journey on
Speaker 18: like where we see ourselves at the end of the day.
Speaker 4: So it's just about continuing to prove exactly who we are.
Speaker 18: You know, you have naysay er say this and say that,
Speaker 18: But what matters is about like each and every guy
Speaker 18: in his locker room and eleven guys that's out there
Speaker 18: on the field on the defensive side of the ball
Speaker 18: at the time.
Speaker 4: And I have a mins amount of respect for each and.
Speaker 1: Every guy go to war with more less so that
Speaker 1: he tried to match your intensity and physicality in this game.
Speaker 1: How did how did you see that the focus on
Speaker 1: physicality kind of play out in that game against both players?
Speaker 4: I think the tape speaks for itself.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 18: But that's last week and we're uh, we're moved on
Speaker 18: the uh Cincinnati. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 18: we have to raise it up another notch, you know,
Speaker 18: and it's a division game and knowing how much this
Speaker 18: game means, so just be on the lookout for the
Speaker 18: physicality and you gotta show it every play. And I
Speaker 18: think when you show that, I think it's it's just
Speaker 18: your manhood as a man. That's how I look at it. So, Uh,
Speaker 18: I'm excited about it. And I'm excited to show my
Speaker 18: physicality as well as my football smart So it'll be
Speaker 18: an exciting match up and I'm excited for How do
Speaker 18: you feel.
Speaker 14: Like Trenton Simpson's coming along down a quarter of the
Speaker 14: way through the season.
Speaker 13: Now you know which starts under his belt?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, very excited for Trent.
Speaker 18: In the way he works day in and day out,
Speaker 18: I would I would say he's the hardest worker one
Speaker 18: of the guys I know, but I like to put
Speaker 18: myself up there as well, But yeah, Trent Man. An
Speaker 18: immense amount of respect for him and just the way
Speaker 18: he approached each and every day, his obsession for the
Speaker 18: game of football and just want to get better at
Speaker 18: each and everything he do. And when you have a
Speaker 18: guy like that, with that type of mindset, you can't
Speaker 18: do anything but respect him. And you know the projector
Speaker 18: that he's on his steady going here, and so I'm
Speaker 18: just happy to be a part of him with him,
Speaker 18: and one day when I'm retired, he'll still be lighting
Speaker 18: cats up.
Speaker 19: And bro Zach just talked about the effort with which
Speaker 19: you play and said, if everybody plays with the way
Speaker 19: bro plays the game, we're gonna we're gonna be pretty
Speaker 19: darn good. I know that that's just how you play football,
Speaker 19: but how much of it is also you want that
Speaker 19: to rub off on your teammates, that you want them
Speaker 19: to see how hard you're a party?
Speaker 18: Yeah, I think absolutely, And I think it starts with
Speaker 18: you know when they say a leader, you know, leads
Speaker 18: by example, he show shows the way in a sense,
Speaker 18: And I feel like, that's honestly just my well showing
Speaker 18: the game of football. How much I appreciate it for
Speaker 18: giving me everything that I've gotten and uh for me
Speaker 18: sh for me showing me a lot of things that
Speaker 18: meaning a lot of people, even you guys in here
Speaker 18: wanna metch you guys without the game of football. And
Speaker 18: I feel like that's just my payback for it. And
Speaker 18: I just say, whenever I hang up the clease, I
Speaker 18: don't wanna have any regrets. So every cat that I
Speaker 18: see until that time gotta pay for it at the
Speaker 18: end of the day.
Speaker 7: Real, Carl, you are pretty open after the Chiefs game
Speaker 7: growing season that you need to raise your level.
Speaker 4: Do you do you feel like that's come along.
Speaker 13: In your where you need to be right now?
Speaker 18: I can continue to raise my level week in and
Speaker 18: week out. There's always no human is perfect at the
Speaker 18: end of the day. So there's plays in every game
Speaker 18: that I will want back, even a Buffalo game, there's
Speaker 18: some things that I would want back. But that's just
Speaker 18: a part of chasing perfection at the end of the day.
Speaker 18: So I think that goes for each and every guy
Speaker 18: in his locker room, being able to just chase perfection
Speaker 18: on every given play and just knowing if we do
Speaker 18: that and just play the game to the best of
Speaker 18: our ability, that will be a hard defense to move,
Speaker 18: move the ball on and play against.
Speaker 7: This season is you know, just what did you say that, Derek?
Speaker 7: But his style of play is already seemed to wear
Speaker 7: it down. He has a summer and you're a set
Speaker 7: Urbs February.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Man, it's the reason that guy's been doing what he's
Speaker 18: been doing for eight nine plus years, you know. And
Speaker 18: I have a great deal of respect for him, and
Speaker 18: I just see the way he works take care of himself.
Speaker 18: It inspires me honestly on the daily. But just knowing
Speaker 18: the type of work he put in throughout the week
Speaker 18: and just knowing his demeanor when he gets the ball
Speaker 18: in his hand, and truth be told, you, I think
Speaker 18: a lot of defenders don't like to see him coming,
Speaker 18: you know, when he's pulling up on the block. A
Speaker 18: lot of guys make business decisions, So it's kind of
Speaker 18: funny when I'm seeing looking at it from the other side.
Speaker 4: But I'm just happy he's on our team now.
Speaker 1: We also heard from left tackle Ronnie Stanley against the
Speaker 1: Vision opponent. How do things change when you're you know,
Speaker 1: going into kind of a rivalry game like this.
Speaker 12: Uh, we know the stakes are a little bit higher,
Speaker 12: you know, based on the schematics of you know, divisions
Speaker 12: in the season, but our approach is the same. I
Speaker 12: think the process we have going into the leak is
Speaker 12: the same.
Speaker 5: Any field, like over the past couple of weeks where
Speaker 5: it seems like it is quick for this offense line,
Speaker 5: what do you think has happened over.
Speaker 2: The past couple of weeks.
Speaker 13: I don't think it's you know, any magic pill. I
Speaker 13: just think it's hard work.
Speaker 12: I think it's just accumulation of consistency and guys coming
Speaker 12: in every day and working hard. And you know, when
Speaker 12: you do that a lot, it's going to get better.
Speaker 12: And you know, guys just been putting their head down
Speaker 12: and going to work.
Speaker 1: Do you think defenses will change how they defende given
Speaker 1: the success that you've had on the grounds last few weeks. U.
Speaker 12: You know, if they do, I'm not sure exactly what
Speaker 12: they would do, you know, because I feel like we
Speaker 12: kind of attack people in multiple different ways.
Speaker 13: So you know, we'll see. I'm sure people are gonna
Speaker 13: change up something.
Speaker 11: Ron you said, I think it's back.
Speaker 9: In June, you talked about how like last year was
Speaker 9: killing you just in terms of your performance. Obviously you're
Speaker 9: dealing with health with injuries as well, obviously you're motivated.
Speaker 9: But how I guess that spur you this year just
Speaker 9: in terms of getting back to that level of what
Speaker 9: you expect.
Speaker 12: I thought it was, you know, very motivating for me
Speaker 12: just to to, like you said, get back to what
Speaker 12: I expect myself to be. And you know, the performance
Speaker 12: I had in the past. You know, we're always something that, uh,
Speaker 12: you know, gave me something to kind of work work
Speaker 12: more harder, work harder, and uh make sure that I
Speaker 12: never go back to that place I.
Speaker 6: Was with Derek Henry starting to click in this running
Speaker 6: game after sending a football. But obviously that has to
Speaker 6: do a lot with your hard work on the offensive line.
Speaker 6: What were the conversations like leading into that game and
Speaker 6: since then leading up in the Bengals that.
Speaker 12: Just we wanted to be a physical game. We want
Speaker 12: we want defenses to have to deal with us and
Speaker 12: you know us not deal with them. So we really
Speaker 12: want to, you know, impose our physical will on palm
Speaker 12: people and you know, make sure we give lanes for
Speaker 12: Derek to hit. And you know, and he's he's a
Speaker 12: he's a hard person to tackle, so we know, uh
Speaker 12: many secondaries. I don't really like to deal with him.
Speaker 4: He has a four fifteen.
Speaker 7: Looking across the line on Sunday, did you get the
Speaker 7: sense that Derek was kind of wearing on Buffalo?
Speaker 13: I mean after the first play, I got that sense.
Speaker 12: Yeah, definitely, Ronny, I think you got the chance to
Speaker 12: have to play since that last year.
Speaker 7: Obviously, Hendrickson is a guy who's probably you're going to
Speaker 7: see a lot of just.
Speaker 11: What do you kind of make up that matchup?
Speaker 7: And how good do you feel about going back against
Speaker 7: the guy who's you know, perennial home whole selection.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's a good player, he's a leader for that
Speaker 12: whole defense, and you know, I expected to be a battle,
Speaker 12: you know, for the whole game.
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