Head Coach John Harbaugh, cornerback Keyon Martin, outside linebacker Mike Green, inside linebacker Jay Higgins IV, and kicker Tyler Loop speak with the media after the Ravens' 30-3 preseason win over the Washington Commanders.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass. The Ravens beat the
Commanders thirty to three in their preseason finale, and afterwards
we heard from head coach John Harball, Kean Martin, the
undrafted cornerback, outside linebacker Mike Green, inside linebacker Jay Higgins,
and kicker Tyler Lever.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Let's start with head coach.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
John Harball, proud of the young guys away. They played.
The guys who played, they brought it. They held the
standard in a real strong way. Ran the ball well,
protected the ball well, got the turnovers through. Our defense
gave up some yards early and we got a run
defense tightened up a little bit, which is good to see.
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Our special teams was really outstanding. So it's a good
way to finish. Got a lot of tough decisions to
make for sure over the next couple of days, and
we'll see how it shakes out. What questions you have,
Like you said, I know, the official decisions coming back tuesday.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
But a guy like Martin, how much did he help
this case?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Again?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, I mean he played well. You know, he keeps
making big plays, you know, and that's something that is
accounted for for sure. And I think he played sound
as well. Uh, did things the right way. So he's
played just like that the whole camp.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
I think I might like the vice block even better.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You know, you see that that was impressive. Whole sideline
was fired up on that. Yeah, we work hard at that.
That was impressive Johnson.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Where they just throughout the.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Guys right, It's been intentional. I mean, it's been something
that we've been thinking about, talking about, drilling, uh, practicing,
trying to make sure we try to make it happen.
Try to challenge our offense as much as we can,
because it's good for your offense to to protect the ball,
work against each other that way. And I thought it
showed up today just like you expect wanted to, just
like you would hope it would. And now we gotta
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continue down that road. Make it show up during the
regular season.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Is so important.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
So you guys the first to see you mean, your
death guys carry that out.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, I mean, it's just important to be able to
control the line of scrimmage, you know, run running the
ball obviously is something that has been important here for
a long time. And I think it's established that we're
going to play that way. So to see it happen
in the preseason is a good thing. We didn't do
as well last year in the preseason. With that, we
still were able to turn it around during the season.
But we have a good foundation right now. But you know,
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we're gonna see some really good fronts. We're gonna see
some run defenses that are loaded up against us, and
we want to try to find a way to run
the ball anyway. That'll be important to us.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
John follow to the turnovers, turning Simpson helped force the
two of those. How do you think he's handled his
responsibilities and everything that's been asked?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I think Trend has really made a big step this
year just I just feel like the way he's processing
the game, you know, it's been a big step. He's
a guy was All American running back in high school,
went to Clemson and you know, was learning to play
defense all along and came here and I think, you know,
you could see that the talent was evident. But this
year he's really taking a big step in terms of
just you know, keeping it simple. Maybe it's slowed down,
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maybe his brain process is faster, so his game has
slowed down just a little bit, and he seems like
he's uh, seems like he's very comfortable. Yeah, well we
want to get him a long field goal, so uh,
you know, we're gonna try back there at sixty three
I think it was before we hit the screen pass
and then we got the screen pass, then went backwards
(03:20):
again to get him over sixty yards. So see how
well that worked out for us. But it was a
great kick. It was nice to see some of those decisions.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That are going to have to be made.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Is it whether it's marts of the other guys all laid,
is that does it make it that.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Much more difficult to try to narrow it down?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Well? I mean, you know, the good problem is when
guys play well. You know, that's what you want. You
want to see guys play well, and that's what we
try to do. You know, it's that's the goal. As
a coach. You want to do everything you can to
help your guys be successful. That's why we coach, so
to see the guys be successful. That's that's what you want.
So that's the problem we want to have, and like
I say, it's a good problem to have.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Job.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
You know, you specifically want to tell her to get
a long kick? Was that is that a confidence thing
is that you you want to get a sense of
his range?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Is what what what's the reason?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
No, we I say we have a sense of his range,
but confidence thing just to get out there in the
game and you know, being that circumstance and having done
it one time like that more than maybe it would
have is valuable.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
What is that? Well, what was it today?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I mean I was now you're talking about headlow, little
spreeze at his back. It's it's it's hot summertime, so
that's that's gonna be the ideal circumstances. There's been a
bunch of kicks. You guys probably noticed a bunch of
long kicks have been made so far this year, so
you're seeing it around the league.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
How do you think? I thought he played well?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I mean I thought he was on point, made a
few throws, handled to flipped the protection a couple of
times that were good. They were they were pressuring us
and they were calling a lot of different defenses to
try to get stop. So, uh, you know, I think
he's played well the whole camp. I think he's a
very good backup quarterback, you know. And I thought Devin
played well, you know, to see Devin's progress for the
first game to today pretty remarkable, you know, the way
(05:03):
the way he played as well. So it seems like
both those guys played well. Yes, absolutely, yeah, John, unless
he doesn't want to.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
He is Lamar.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
You see enough moving lowerry, if you had seven tackles
that have fun, if you've seen enough on the names
that really feel good about his.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Chances both, Yeah, I mean I do.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I I think you know, you got you could probably
put in You're probably gonna put more guys in that
category that you were talking about then can make the
team though, you know, and I I think he's definitely
in that category and that that'll be one of those
decisions that we'll have to make. But I did it again.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Today played really well.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
John Alongo is like you did talk as being a
summer about like identifying the.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Number three safety job that we're seeing. Uh, Canaan, how do.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You feel about your safety death and obviously from sarksand.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
There cause he's the rookie fun.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, you know, I feel really good about those guys. Uh.
I think Alan Malchi is gonna play really well.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
He's a rookie.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You know, we all have to understand that, you know,
he's gonna he's gonna be rookie, but I think he's
a very advanced rookie of course, Kyle, and then then
you've got Sanousie and and and uh Bo and Ruben.
Uh those guys are going to be a part of
that too. So uh it's uh we we thought we
had our darreas you know, and it didn't turn out
that way. But I'm happy with the way those guys
have played. And I think he had to play to
their strengths. You know, you look at what sanous he
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can do if he's out there, and play to his strengths,
or or you know, Ruben or Bow if they're out there,
you play to their strengths if they're on the field.
John talked in Dallas about Ali being a part of
your running back plans. At how much of that I
guess you're desired to be more exposed to with.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
The dynamic kickoffs and everything.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, I mean, you know, he would be a he'd
be a depth running back part of it, obviously, you know. Uh,
but he's proven he can. I think he's proven himself
to be a good back, you know, in preseason. And
then he's a big part of special teams right now.
Like he's starting on every special teams right now. So uh,
something would have to change that not to be the case.
So yes, dynamic kickoff return. He's on the punt team,
he's on return team, he's on the kickoff team. So
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he's a big part of that right now.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
All right, up next, here's cornerback Kean Martin who had
a pick six in the game.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Here's him talking about his chances of making a fifty
three man roster.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's just what's going through your mind during that pick six?
Speaker 9 (07:24):
How special is that?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
For real?
Speaker 9 (07:26):
I mean it was a special moment.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Like I said, it was my first one, so but
I mean just doing it in the last preseason game,
to had off my last.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
Preseason as a rookie.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Man, it was just a special moment.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
And just celebrating with the team like that just made
it even better.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Like the rookies here, man, we got such a great
bond and how happy we for each other and they like,
I'm just I can't be more happy.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You know, how do you look at your your fifty
three man roster chances? You know, un drafted rookie kind
of geting the rookie can just make the kind of
position you feel like it's uh, I.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Mean the ball, the ball.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Wherever the ball fall is.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
That's where it's gonna fall. I'm not really looking, uh.
I mean, I just focus on me. I know, if
I do what I gotta do, and things gonna.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Play out in my favor.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
But I'm not really I mean, if I make the
fifty three, I make the fifty three.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
But I'm it's not some of 'em that's on my mind.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
These next couple of days. So that you know, you
talking about your teammates celebrates me. It seems like everybody
really starting to rally behind you.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Where is that's for the where that's on the sack?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Fo your interesting from the days?
Speaker 8 (08:30):
So I can you talk about how you feel to
have your guys really get behind you and celebrate you
or a different flood?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Yeah, uh, I mean it's a good feeling, like especially
like they love they love the Florida boys. Yeah, I
got like back in home, they say, the Brian County Ravens.
So y'all know they got Lamar Jackson as they flowers.
So they brought me in and this wow, it's they
brought me in and they been treating me like family
ever since.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
So I've been I've been enjoying it. So yeah, I've
been enjoint.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
On the interception.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Looks like you're kind of bringing you the quarterbacks size.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
The whole boy, I mean, did you know that that
footed happened? Uh?
Speaker 9 (09:02):
I mean yeah, it's a play that we've been going
through all week.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
I kind of figured, but uh yeah, I mainly just
reading the quarterback oys.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
The quarterback told me everything I.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Need to know.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Okay, since we was in his own defense and I
just executed a play and he threw it right to me.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
So I was grateful for that.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
What's kind of going through your mind.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
And not go bent?
Speaker 9 (09:19):
Uh catch the ball?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
That's it.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Don't be one of dv's.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
That'd be like, ah, you dropped it, and then everybody
be like, oh.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
You Hulda called it. Just catch the ball.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Once you catch the ball, everything else, Uh, we'll go
go smoothly after that.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
He So you've been able to show throughout the camp
have passed the hope.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I feel like I've just been able to show that
the player that I've been in my opinion since high school,
I've been the same player since high school, since college,
but just my savviness, my competitive edge.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
Uh, chip on my shoulders.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
So I've been the same player ever since high school then,
not just it's starting to be seen on a bigger light.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
So that's that's.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
That's been for all that that I that I've been
showing since since I started counting.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
How long had you dreamed about getting your first pick
sex in your career?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (10:13):
I mean I think I he's driven about it a lot.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Shoot high school, middle school, NFL touchdown. But I think
I did visualize it, like I always talk to my dad,
always say, visualized you making players, And I visualized that
last night.
Speaker 9 (10:27):
I ain't visualized the TfL, but I did visualize that.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I ain't know how it was gonna come. It kind
of came in a different way in my mind, but at.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
The end of the day, it still came with a
big six.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So how much did your dad influence you being important player?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Man?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
My dad here, he influenced me a lot.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
I ain't got number twenty one right now, but that's
not that's nothing about what my whole life.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
That's number he had.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
So uh, just him like I talked to him before
every game, talked to him after every game. So like
he been a He been a huge influence for me.
Just he been in my corner, my number one supporter.
N I can't asks for a better a better father.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I tell you're having fun on social media with the
NFL account.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
Say you could have gotten me.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
More followers if you tagged me and all this suff
You know, people are gonna know your name.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You're a little bit more now.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
I'm pretty sure. But I'll just be I like the troll.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
I like to have fun.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
You know, Marlin a better troller than me on social media.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
But uh but uh yeah, I just like to troll,
have fun on social media, and you know, entertain the fans.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Uh, football is and entertainment, So I want to entertain
on and off the field.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, I apologize a few. John Harball said he think
he'd likes your block on the punt better than.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Than even your interception. Oh yeah, talk to us a
little bit about.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
How important special teams are when you are trying to
make the fifty three men roster, beyond what you've shown.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
On you Oh yeah, especially seen, I mean most definitely,
because uh you got to find a way to impact
the team and somehow and you know, going into camp,
you know a lot of teams they got they know
who's gonna be out there, So you got to find
a way to impact the team somehow. And I've been
playing a special team since, like I said, high school
in college. I never even when I was starting in college,
(12:05):
I never took on the role of just playing defense.
I always I embrace special team. So coming here to
play spasal team then nothing new to me.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yet.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
I mean I just go out there and embrace every
opportunity I got. I mean that's not really in my
call to see if I've done enough. But I mean
if I did, I did. If I didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Up next to is undrafted linebacker Jay Higgins, who was
also made a push to make the fifty three men roster,
it just says, you know, the fifty three man roster
gets set, you know, where does your mind go over
the next few days.
Speaker 11 (12:47):
Yeah, you know, I feel like I went out there
and I played the best I possibly could play.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I'm proud that I played.
Speaker 11 (12:56):
Like myself, I feel like I did what I would
do out there, you know, And it's really not up
to me anymore.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
I I left I left nothing in the tank.
Speaker 11 (13:06):
You know what I mean, I have no regrets and
so I can I can live with the results, and
that's that's what I'm most proud of.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It looks like you were pretty close to a sack,
and yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I needed that one that would have that would have
helped me, that would have helped me.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Just I mean, you've made a lot of plays in
these preseason games. The interception and bad balls, the sack
strip just you know, how much do you feel like
like you're saying you've done what you could do, and
especially in these preseason games.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yeah, it's you know, at the end of the day,
it's football.
Speaker 11 (13:33):
And I knew throughout this entire process that this would
be my my strongest push in making the team. It
wasn't gonna be the combine, it wasn't gonna be the
broad jump that that really got me on the roster.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
It was gonna be me playing football.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
And so I felt like I showed that I could
play at this level, you know, and I felt like
I learned a lot of things. Uh, you know, so
I'm excited to see what the future holds.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
You know.
Speaker 11 (13:56):
I'm just just ready to work hard, ready to get going,
you know, put my down to work.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Next is kicker Tyler Loop, who hit a sixty one
yard field goal as well as two other field goals
to have a perfect day.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
And you, so when you get there, when you get
to the first game this season, do you feel like
it'll it'll feel like everything so far? Like, do you
do you think it'll feel any different or are you
covenant up in that process that that will sort of
block out whatever the outside.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Yeah, that's confident in the process. Like that's that's the
reason why we harp on it so much because you know,
we talk about it from a perspective like hey, come
come November December, like came to Baltimore. It's it's a
hard place to play, like when it gets down into
the you know, teams in temperature and you've got win.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Like you have to be.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
Able to trust your process. You have to be able
to trust the ball that you can hit. And so
that's what we've built. And I feel really confident about it.
And like you mentioned earlier, like from snap to hold
the kick, Like, I feel really good about it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What does the sixty one yarder do for you? Making
that kick in a game?
Speaker 10 (15:07):
It's just you know, just keeps building the confidence that
we're talking about, Like you know, the snap's gonna be there,
the hole is going to be there, and if we
hit our three objectives, like I went and pulled it
up on the iPad and you know, good plant, good
foot position, good swing, and kick went in, so it
was good.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Has your range gotten longer since you've joined the ravens.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Uh No, I think it's sayed.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
It stayed about the same, like for probably four or
five years ago. You know, there's they're like you get
to a point where it's like I just don't I
don't need to work on range much anymore. Now it's
just consistency and accuracy and repeatability and all those things.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
But it's part of it, like getting a kick like that,
also giving the coaches faith that, all right, we might
be in sixty plus yards, like maybe there's a little
bit more of a win, but we still have faith
that he'll go out there and can make it.
Speaker 10 (16:03):
You know, yeah, I think it just helps build the
confidence for our group and the coaches, like, hey, we
can go out at any distance, any kick and control.
We can control right those objectives and if we can
do that from sixty one, we can do it from
thirty if we can do it from thirty, we can
do it from sixty five.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Like just yeah, last up is rookie second round pick
Mike Green.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
The attack players can attack. I mean, that's all you
can really acts for.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
And I feel like schematically the way that this defense
is built, it's a lot of history behind it, and
they've done a lot of you know, like research and
been able to dig up the the oldest of files
and try to play everything get together and once and
and I feel like Zach did a great job of
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just combining what been here also with what he's brought here.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
So I think this.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Season throughout August, the coversation whether or not you wouldn't
play in the third preseason game, was that something you
wanted to do or.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Didn't really hear?
Speaker 8 (17:18):
I mean there there was no conversation about it. I
I just knew that. I mean, if I had the
opportunity to, of course you want you want to go
out there and and capitalize what I can do. And
but as the other stick of it, it's like if
I if I came out here and and uh they
told me that I wasn't, then I was just gonna try.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
To prepare for for for the Bills.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
But uh so I did play today, which which I
think was great for me.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Just just to build up my my football.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Endurance and just get a better feel for the defense
for another game. So I think being able to dress
up and and play this this last preseason game has
been grateful.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Thanks for listening to the Ravens Pressfest. We will be
back with you this week as the Ravens cut down
their roster to fifty three man.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Thanks for listening.
Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass. The Ravens beat the
Commanders thirty to three in their preseason finale, and afterwards
we heard from head coach John Harball, Kean Martin, the
undrafted cornerback, outside linebacker Mike Green, inside linebacker Jay Higgins,
and kicker Tyler Lever.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Let's start with head coach.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
John Harball, proud of the young guys away. They played.
The guys who played, they brought it. They held the
standard in a real strong way. Ran the ball well,
protected the ball well, got the turnovers through. Our defense
gave up some yards early and we got a run
defense tightened up a little bit, which is good to see.
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Our special teams was really outstanding. So it's a good
way to finish. Got a lot of tough decisions to
make for sure over the next couple of days, and
we'll see how it shakes out. What questions you have,
Like you said, I know, the official decisions coming back tuesday.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
But a guy like Martin, how much did he help
this case?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Again?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, I mean he played well. You know, he keeps
making big plays, you know, and that's something that is
accounted for for sure. And I think he played sound
as well. Uh, did things the right way. So he's
played just like that the whole camp.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
I think I might like the vice block even better.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You know, you see that that was impressive. Whole sideline
was fired up on that. Yeah, we work hard at that.
That was impressive Johnson.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Where they just throughout the.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Guys right, It's been intentional. I mean, it's been something
that we've been thinking about, talking about, drilling, uh, practicing,
trying to make sure we try to make it happen.
Try to challenge our offense as much as we can,
because it's good for your offense to to protect the ball,
work against each other that way. And I thought it
showed up today just like you expect wanted to, just
like you would hope it would. And now we gotta
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continue down that road. Make it show up during the
regular season.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Is so important.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
So you guys the first to see you mean, your
death guys carry that out.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, I mean, it's just important to be able to
control the line of scrimmage, you know, run running the
ball obviously is something that has been important here for
a long time. And I think it's established that we're
going to play that way. So to see it happen
in the preseason is a good thing. We didn't do
as well last year in the preseason. With that, we
still were able to turn it around during the season.
But we have a good foundation right now. But you know,
(02:23):
we're gonna see some really good fronts. We're gonna see
some run defenses that are loaded up against us, and
we want to try to find a way to run
the ball anyway. That'll be important to us.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
John follow to the turnovers, turning Simpson helped force the
two of those. How do you think he's handled his
responsibilities and everything that's been asked?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I think Trend has really made a big step this
year just I just feel like the way he's processing
the game, you know, it's been a big step. He's
a guy was All American running back in high school,
went to Clemson and you know, was learning to play
defense all along and came here and I think, you know,
you could see that the talent was evident. But this
year he's really taking a big step in terms of
just you know, keeping it simple. Maybe it's slowed down,
(03:00):
maybe his brain process is faster, so his game has
slowed down just a little bit, and he seems like
he's uh, seems like he's very comfortable. Yeah, well we
want to get him a long field goal, so uh,
you know, we're gonna try back there at sixty three
I think it was before we hit the screen pass
and then we got the screen pass, then went backwards
(03:20):
again to get him over sixty yards. So see how
well that worked out for us. But it was a
great kick. It was nice to see some of those decisions.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That are going to have to be made.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Is it whether it's marts of the other guys all laid,
is that does it make it that.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Much more difficult to try to narrow it down?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Well? I mean, you know, the good problem is when
guys play well. You know, that's what you want. You
want to see guys play well, and that's what we
try to do. You know, it's that's the goal. As
a coach. You want to do everything you can to
help your guys be successful. That's why we coach, so
to see the guys be successful. That's that's what you want.
So that's the problem we want to have, and like
I say, it's a good problem to have.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Job.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
You know, you specifically want to tell her to get
a long kick? Was that is that a confidence thing
is that you you want to get a sense of
his range?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Is what what what's the reason?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
No, we I say we have a sense of his range,
but confidence thing just to get out there in the
game and you know, being that circumstance and having done
it one time like that more than maybe it would
have is valuable.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
What is that? Well, what was it today?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I mean I was now you're talking about headlow, little
spreeze at his back. It's it's it's hot summertime, so
that's that's gonna be the ideal circumstances. There's been a
bunch of kicks. You guys probably noticed a bunch of
long kicks have been made so far this year, so
you're seeing it around the league.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
How do you think? I thought he played well?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I mean I thought he was on point, made a
few throws, handled to flipped the protection a couple of
times that were good. They were they were pressuring us
and they were calling a lot of different defenses to
try to get stop. So, uh, you know, I think
he's played well the whole camp. I think he's a
very good backup quarterback, you know. And I thought Devin
played well, you know, to see Devin's progress for the
first game to today pretty remarkable, you know, the way
(05:03):
the way he played as well. So it seems like
both those guys played well. Yes, absolutely, yeah, John, unless
he doesn't want to.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
He is Lamar.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
You see enough moving lowerry, if you had seven tackles
that have fun, if you've seen enough on the names
that really feel good about his.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Chances both, Yeah, I mean I do.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I I think you know, you got you could probably
put in You're probably gonna put more guys in that
category that you were talking about then can make the
team though, you know, and I I think he's definitely
in that category and that that'll be one of those
decisions that we'll have to make. But I did it again.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Today played really well.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
John Alongo is like you did talk as being a
summer about like identifying the.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Number three safety job that we're seeing. Uh, Canaan, how do.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You feel about your safety death and obviously from sarksand.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
There cause he's the rookie fun.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, you know, I feel really good about those guys. Uh.
I think Alan Malchi is gonna play really well.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
He's a rookie.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You know, we all have to understand that, you know,
he's gonna he's gonna be rookie, but I think he's
a very advanced rookie of course, Kyle, and then then
you've got Sanousie and and and uh Bo and Ruben.
Uh those guys are going to be a part of
that too. So uh it's uh we we thought we
had our darreas you know, and it didn't turn out
that way. But I'm happy with the way those guys
have played. And I think he had to play to
their strengths. You know, you look at what sanous he
(06:25):
can do if he's out there, and play to his strengths,
or or you know, Ruben or Bow if they're out there,
you play to their strengths if they're on the field.
John talked in Dallas about Ali being a part of
your running back plans. At how much of that I
guess you're desired to be more exposed to with.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
The dynamic kickoffs and everything.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, I mean, you know, he would be a he'd
be a depth running back part of it, obviously, you know. Uh,
but he's proven he can. I think he's proven himself
to be a good back, you know, in preseason. And
then he's a big part of special teams right now.
Like he's starting on every special teams right now. So uh,
something would have to change that not to be the case.
So yes, dynamic kickoff return. He's on the punt team,
he's on return team, he's on the kickoff team. So
(07:03):
he's a big part of that right now.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
All right, up next, here's cornerback Kean Martin who had
a pick six in the game.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Here's him talking about his chances of making a fifty
three man roster.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's just what's going through your mind during that pick six?
Speaker 9 (07:24):
How special is that?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
For real?
Speaker 9 (07:26):
I mean it was a special moment.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Like I said, it was my first one, so but
I mean just doing it in the last preseason game,
to had off my last.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
Preseason as a rookie.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Man, it was just a special moment.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
And just celebrating with the team like that just made
it even better.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Like the rookies here, man, we got such a great
bond and how happy we for each other and they like,
I'm just I can't be more happy.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You know, how do you look at your your fifty
three man roster chances? You know, un drafted rookie kind
of geting the rookie can just make the kind of
position you feel like it's uh, I.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Mean the ball, the ball.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Wherever the ball fall is.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
That's where it's gonna fall. I'm not really looking, uh.
I mean, I just focus on me. I know, if
I do what I gotta do, and things gonna.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Play out in my favor.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
But I'm not really I mean, if I make the
fifty three, I make the fifty three.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
But I'm it's not some of 'em that's on my mind.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
These next couple of days. So that you know, you
talking about your teammates celebrates me. It seems like everybody
really starting to rally behind you.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Where is that's for the where that's on the sack?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Fo your interesting from the days?
Speaker 8 (08:30):
So I can you talk about how you feel to
have your guys really get behind you and celebrate you
or a different flood?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Yeah, uh, I mean it's a good feeling, like especially
like they love they love the Florida boys. Yeah, I
got like back in home, they say, the Brian County Ravens.
So y'all know they got Lamar Jackson as they flowers.
So they brought me in and this wow, it's they
brought me in and they been treating me like family
ever since.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
So I've been I've been enjoying it. So yeah, I've
been enjoint.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
On the interception.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Looks like you're kind of bringing you the quarterbacks size.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
The whole boy, I mean, did you know that that
footed happened? Uh?
Speaker 9 (09:02):
I mean yeah, it's a play that we've been going
through all week.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
I kind of figured, but uh yeah, I mainly just
reading the quarterback oys.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
The quarterback told me everything I.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Need to know.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Okay, since we was in his own defense and I
just executed a play and he threw it right to me.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
So I was grateful for that.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
What's kind of going through your mind.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
And not go bent?
Speaker 9 (09:19):
Uh catch the ball?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
That's it.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Don't be one of dv's.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
That'd be like, ah, you dropped it, and then everybody
be like, oh.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
You Hulda called it. Just catch the ball.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Once you catch the ball, everything else, Uh, we'll go
go smoothly after that.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
He So you've been able to show throughout the camp
have passed the hope.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I feel like I've just been able to show that
the player that I've been in my opinion since high school,
I've been the same player since high school, since college,
but just my savviness, my competitive edge.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
Uh, chip on my shoulders.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
So I've been the same player ever since high school then,
not just it's starting to be seen on a bigger light.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
So that's that's.
Speaker 9 (10:01):
That's been for all that that I that I've been
showing since since I started counting.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
How long had you dreamed about getting your first pick
sex in your career?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (10:13):
I mean I think I he's driven about it a lot.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Shoot high school, middle school, NFL touchdown. But I think
I did visualize it, like I always talk to my dad,
always say, visualized you making players, And I visualized that
last night.
Speaker 9 (10:27):
I ain't visualized the TfL, but I did visualize that.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I ain't know how it was gonna come. It kind
of came in a different way in my mind, but at.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
The end of the day, it still came with a
big six.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So how much did your dad influence you being important player?
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Man?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
My dad here, he influenced me a lot.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
I ain't got number twenty one right now, but that's
not that's nothing about what my whole life.
Speaker 9 (10:47):
That's number he had.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
So uh, just him like I talked to him before
every game, talked to him after every game. So like
he been a He been a huge influence for me.
Just he been in my corner, my number one supporter.
N I can't asks for a better a better father.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I tell you're having fun on social media with the
NFL account.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
Say you could have gotten me.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
More followers if you tagged me and all this suff
You know, people are gonna know your name.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You're a little bit more now.
Speaker 9 (11:12):
I'm pretty sure. But I'll just be I like the troll.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
I like to have fun.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
You know, Marlin a better troller than me on social media.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
But uh but uh yeah, I just like to troll,
have fun on social media, and you know, entertain the fans.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Uh, football is and entertainment, So I want to entertain
on and off the field.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, I apologize a few. John Harball said he think
he'd likes your block on the punt better than.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Than even your interception. Oh yeah, talk to us a
little bit about.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
How important special teams are when you are trying to
make the fifty three men roster, beyond what you've shown.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
On you Oh yeah, especially seen, I mean most definitely,
because uh you got to find a way to impact
the team and somehow and you know, going into camp,
you know a lot of teams they got they know
who's gonna be out there, So you got to find
a way to impact the team somehow. And I've been
playing a special team since, like I said, high school
in college. I never even when I was starting in college,
(12:05):
I never took on the role of just playing defense.
I always I embrace special team. So coming here to
play spasal team then nothing new to me.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yet.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
I mean I just go out there and embrace every
opportunity I got. I mean that's not really in my
call to see if I've done enough. But I mean
if I did, I did. If I didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Up next to is undrafted linebacker Jay Higgins, who was
also made a push to make the fifty three men roster,
it just says, you know, the fifty three man roster
gets set, you know, where does your mind go over
the next few days.
Speaker 11 (12:47):
Yeah, you know, I feel like I went out there
and I played the best I possibly could play.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I'm proud that I played.
Speaker 11 (12:56):
Like myself, I feel like I did what I would
do out there, you know, And it's really not up
to me anymore.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
I I left I left nothing in the tank.
Speaker 11 (13:06):
You know what I mean, I have no regrets and
so I can I can live with the results, and
that's that's what I'm most proud of.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It looks like you were pretty close to a sack,
and yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I needed that one that would have that would have
helped me, that would have helped me.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Just I mean, you've made a lot of plays in
these preseason games. The interception and bad balls, the sack
strip just you know, how much do you feel like
like you're saying you've done what you could do, and
especially in these preseason games.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yeah, it's you know, at the end of the day,
it's football.
Speaker 11 (13:33):
And I knew throughout this entire process that this would
be my my strongest push in making the team. It
wasn't gonna be the combine, it wasn't gonna be the
broad jump that that really got me on the roster.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
It was gonna be me playing football.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
And so I felt like I showed that I could
play at this level, you know, and I felt like
I learned a lot of things. Uh, you know, so
I'm excited to see what the future holds.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
You know.
Speaker 11 (13:56):
I'm just just ready to work hard, ready to get going,
you know, put my down to work.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Next is kicker Tyler Loop, who hit a sixty one
yard field goal as well as two other field goals
to have a perfect day.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
And you, so when you get there, when you get
to the first game this season, do you feel like
it'll it'll feel like everything so far? Like, do you
do you think it'll feel any different or are you
covenant up in that process that that will sort of
block out whatever the outside.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Yeah, that's confident in the process. Like that's that's the
reason why we harp on it so much because you know,
we talk about it from a perspective like hey, come
come November December, like came to Baltimore. It's it's a
hard place to play, like when it gets down into
the you know, teams in temperature and you've got win.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Like you have to be.
Speaker 10 (14:47):
Able to trust your process. You have to be able
to trust the ball that you can hit. And so
that's what we've built. And I feel really confident about it.
And like you mentioned earlier, like from snap to hold
the kick, Like, I feel really good about it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What does the sixty one yarder do for you? Making
that kick in a game?
Speaker 10 (15:07):
It's just you know, just keeps building the confidence that
we're talking about, Like you know, the snap's gonna be there,
the hole is going to be there, and if we
hit our three objectives, like I went and pulled it
up on the iPad and you know, good plant, good
foot position, good swing, and kick went in, so it
was good.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Has your range gotten longer since you've joined the ravens.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Uh No, I think it's sayed.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
It stayed about the same, like for probably four or
five years ago. You know, there's they're like you get
to a point where it's like I just don't I
don't need to work on range much anymore. Now it's
just consistency and accuracy and repeatability and all those things.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
But it's part of it, like getting a kick like that,
also giving the coaches faith that, all right, we might
be in sixty plus yards, like maybe there's a little
bit more of a win, but we still have faith
that he'll go out there and can make it.
Speaker 10 (16:03):
You know, yeah, I think it just helps build the
confidence for our group and the coaches, like, hey, we
can go out at any distance, any kick and control.
We can control right those objectives and if we can
do that from sixty one, we can do it from
thirty if we can do it from thirty, we can
do it from sixty five.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Like just yeah, last up is rookie second round pick
Mike Green.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
The attack players can attack. I mean, that's all you
can really acts for.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
And I feel like schematically the way that this defense
is built, it's a lot of history behind it, and
they've done a lot of you know, like research and
been able to dig up the the oldest of files
and try to play everything get together and once and
and I feel like Zach did a great job of
(17:01):
just combining what been here also with what he's brought here.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
So I think this.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Season throughout August, the coversation whether or not you wouldn't
play in the third preseason game, was that something you
wanted to do or.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Didn't really hear?
Speaker 8 (17:18):
I mean there there was no conversation about it. I
I just knew that. I mean, if I had the
opportunity to, of course you want you want to go
out there and and capitalize what I can do. And
but as the other stick of it, it's like if
I if I came out here and and uh they
told me that I wasn't, then I was just gonna try.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
To prepare for for for the Bills.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
But uh so I did play today, which which I
think was great for me.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Just just to build up my my football.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Endurance and just get a better feel for the defense
for another game. So I think being able to dress
up and and play this this last preseason game has
been grateful.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Thanks for listening to the Ravens Pressfest. We will be
back with you this week as the Ravens cut down
their roster to fifty three man.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Thanks for listening.
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