November 17, 2025 • 19 mins
Head Coach John Harbaugh speaks with the media on Monday following the Ravens' Week 11 win over the Cleveland Browns.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome into the Ravens Presspass Podcast. It is Monday, November seventeenth.
The Ravens won their fourth straight game by taking down
the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. Next up they have the
New York Jets coming to M and T Bay Stadium. Today,
we had a chance to hear from head coach John Harpball.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Okay, good to see everybody here. Appreciate you guys being here.
A good win, and we're focusing on the next challenge,
which will be the Jets on Sunday. Very important game
again and opportunity to get above five hundred and and
keep in the hunt for the division title. More a
(00:41):
game behind there, that's the big picture, but the focus
is on preparing for the next game. Well, questions you
have as.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Far as entry wise, did you guys come out of
this scheme?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay, we look pretty good. We had an issue after
the game. Keon Martin had to stay in Cleveland with
a They were looking at a chest injury. It looks
like he's okay. I had a bunch of testing there
in the hospital last night. All came out negative, you know,
in a good way. And he's back now. So we'll
(01:14):
see how that kind of progresses the next twenty four.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Hours, Johnny, is your sense that Marlon Humphrey is available
as we possibly you said a week two based on
the TV do that, Serge?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, optimistic about that right now.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Bo Yep, that's something where you could play with that.
We saw that rap on.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm not sure right now. I'm sure they have some
protection for it, probably though, john when you went back
and looked at the red zone possessions that for you.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Ended up having to take fuelbles. What were the combination
of things that you saw that that didn't work as
well as they should have?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Right Well, just you know a lot of different things.
I mean, you know, each play is a little bit different.
Some players could have been executed better. Some plays they
did a great job of defending. You know, try to
run it a couple of times, maybe you didn't get
it in, but bigger pictures, you know, that's that's an
important part of the field for us. We we uh,
we want to score touchdowns down there, you know, and
you know you at least want to you want to
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protect the three as well. You know, we didn't do
that one time with the kind of a fluky play,
but but we need to score touchdowns down there. It's
it's gonna definitely continue to be a point of emphasis.
It has been, and we want to be more successful
down in the red zone for sure.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
What are some of the things that you've appointed that you.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Can do to try to help you in that area?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
What was that?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
What are some of the things that you pinpointed already
that you guys can do.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Try some of the things we can what do in
that area? We can ext do better, We can call
better plays. You know, we can make plays.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Coach, when you go.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Back and look at for it all Miles paract that
you knew that he was going to come in and
try and right the game was served different things that
you guys could have done maybe as the game went
on to try and limit you know, the.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Way we did about everything you can do. You know,
we tried about everything you can do, and uh we
blocked him a number of times.
Speaker 9 (03:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That's the kind of defense really that you you want
to try to hit big plays on. You know, that's
really the way they're they're organized. We hit some big plays. Uh.
You know, the red zone is probably the biggest thing.
You know, if we could have got the job done
down there, a little better. You were put. We had
a big, big scoring game. But it's always going to
be that way when you play that that defense, because
that's that's they do a good job of creating chaos.
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And then especially him, you know so, uh, that's kind
of how it goes with him. Yoh, Chris.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Chris Horton last week was talking to us about the
idea of decision making on returns in the one western
return kind of backing upfield and I think.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The two and then on the wind blow them up.
What do you what do you say him? Did you
tell him later in the game, Hey, let's be careful,
you know, let's let those dropping the wind like this.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
What do you say, Well, everyone's different, you know, so, Uh,
the one that's tailing away from him, that's you know,
you're on the run there. He definitely knows he doesn't
want to catch that one. That's that's hopefully a learning experience.
You know, it's been probably his first game playing in
those kind of conditions with that kind of wind, and
you know, AFC North type of a stadium to experience
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that with that kind of a cutter ball. You know,
it's a left footed punter. The ball is cutting away
from him. That's that's probably one of the most challenging,
especially that end of of that stadium, really challenging ball.
That's one you definitely want to get away from. And
uh so he'll learn from that, I'm sure, and he
did as the game when I let another one get
on the ground, which was good. Backing up like that,
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you know, I think he lost track of where he
was that probably would have rather had him just let
that go in the end zone. But there are times
and we don't we don't we don't always make a
hard and fast you know, the ten the old ten
yard line rule, those days have changed a little bit
because heck, you can the ball come out to the
eight and roll on to the one that's not that's
not good, or sometimes you know, they just there's nobody
near you, you know, and you've seen some long returns
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happen because it's a line drive and there's a lot
of space, and you don't mind him backing up and
returning some of those if we've had those over the years,
all these years that we've been doing it. You don't
want to harden fast too much, but you do want
to have principles built around the rule, and you know
he's learning. You know, he's a rookie, and I think
he's really accountable, and nobody works harder. I tell you
he works hard in practice every single day at it.
(05:26):
He's very coachable. So I think he's going to continue
to grow that way. John.
Speaker 10 (05:34):
You know, for ever since the law has been here,
his wrunging ability has been a big part of this offense.
This year, I think his rushing yards per game is
probably the lowest he's been. There is there a reason why,
as have you guys made a conscious decision not to
close many correct?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Why do you think he hasn't been running as much
as he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I was happy with some of the runs yesterday. He
got out of the pocket a few times when he
when he really really needed him to, and got us
some yards and saved us a couple of times. I thought.
I thought he also, I give a lot of credit
because he was under dress a few times, were you know,
in that kind of a game. He made some decisions
too to protect the football, which was which was big.
So I thought he played a really smart game that way.
They we had some quarterback runs called they took away
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the quarterback, you know, a number of times, you know,
always gonna let him run either, So just week the week,
have an answer for that, you know, it's it's it's
not required. You know tomorrow, next thing, you know, lamorrow
breakout and run for one hundred yards. You know, so
that that's always in the sure defenses, I've got to
consider that as a possibility. And that's that's a good
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thing for us.
Speaker 11 (06:37):
John, how much has kind of you guys have been
banged up on and off in the secondary? How much
does a wuz really his ability to kind of step
in and keep things going and just play sound football.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
How important has that been for that group? I think
very important, Jeff. I mean that's I told Eric on
the plane last night. I think that might be his
most underrated signing. You know, it's just a really big,
really been a big signing for us. And he's done
great and we knew he was a good player. We've
seen him over the years. I'd say even better than advertised.
You know, he's played really good football, had a heck
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of a game.
Speaker 11 (07:11):
People used to express a teaching tape all the time,
but how he kept working through the ball in the
end zone there and say that is that kind of
an example of what you try to preach.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It was a great player. Yeah, the ability to just
to not panic, you know, when you're playing the ball
downfield like that, especially with your back to the ball
chasing a fade route. That's probably the toughest thing in
corner has to do. And to uh to play it
in a way that you get into the catch cylinder
we call it. In front of the receiver and and
affect the affect the hands, affect the ball, find the ball,
play the ball, not not hinder the receiver in too
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much of a way where you call for for interference
or anything like that. You know, he's really done well
with it. I think a lot of our guys have.
I think our coaches do a great job of teaching that.
And he's yeah, he's had some training tape to your
point with that kind of technique.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
John, I know we spoke spoke about Kean Martin at
the beginning. I mean, how important just at one his
one field play. How how has that been, especially when
he's been able to step up and playing at one
as well.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, he did great. I mean he did great, as
sach you know, he had a couple of good coverages
had a bad ball. I thought he played really well,
played well on special teams. Hasn't been playing well on
special teams. Uh, it's done really really good job.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
You know, Mark Andrews play, Sam and Blaye talked to
some guys last night that that you know, kind of
came up just during the week. I know you talked
about it last night. A couple of things. Was that
born kind of out of that toss to Lamar at
all that you guys have run the previous week, and
and and sort of I guess I'm trying to get
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to the kind of the root of of how you
guys should have came up at that play.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We're gonna do a a historical biography on the on
the game planning process of a play, you know, and uh,
you know, on how did it happen? It happened like
all plays happened, you know, and it was I think
that's you know, you look at the you look at
the quarterback sneak and the people going to great lengths
to get that stop. We've run a number of of
(09:12):
the tush pushes over the last three or four years.
The sneaks with Mark and uh, you know, at some
point in time it gets to the extent where they
just take the play away and you've got to have
an answer. You gotta have a counter punch. And those
two plays have been in the hopper for a few weeks,
maybe a month, maybe more, maybe a little more, and uh,
just kind of been design and stuff like that, trying
to figure it out. And yes, part of it's just
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not one thing, it's all the different plays that everybody
talks about. So we started working on that one like
two weeks ago. We started working on it a little bit,
and then this week we got a bunch of reps
in practice on it, and that was it a chance
to call it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
How much did with Lamar? And they're going that, how
much does that obviously drive the hell?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, I mean, yeah, you saw the hickman, you know,
went that way with it. You know, he was probably
responsible for for Lamar there and then the corner on
the back side that pulled, that held him. So that
kept your pursuit away a little bit, you know, and
then you look at what happened with rich Questioninger. You
know he's here. Heck for a player, man, this guy, Wow,
(10:14):
this guy's all over the field. You know, what a
what a great pick those guys made there. We loved
him too, you know, and uh, he probably would have
made the play except Charlie got pinned his guy in
and got up and got a piece of him there too,
which was really heads heads up played by Charlie. Excellent
play by Charlie. Get to get that block. That's probably
made the difference. That Mark obviously ran really fast. So
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that was it, and you know it was it was
a big play. I mean, it's gonna be in historic
It's gonna be one of those iconic plays, I think.
You know, you look at one thing about it. It's
kind of interesting. You know, you guys have covered the
ravens and stuff, and you look at look at all
these games in Cleveland over the years, you know, and
you know, down twenty to nothing in the first quarter,
you know, or or a block of field going overtime
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four time now, you know, or or Milamar you know,
coming back on the field after after we go for
fourth and one to fourth and five and throwing a
touchdown pass. You know. I mean, there's so many crazy
games in that stadium over the last twenty years. So
this goes into analyst for sure. With all those.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Games gave it a name, and you guys gave it
a name Hurricane and not been pushing Bush on.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
But the trifecta having Derrick, Henry, Mark Andrews and of
course Patrick card Back. How instrumental was having power card
back in a situation like that and making Lamar kind
of the depot?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Uh, well, I mean just Pat probably, I would think
of it more in the big big picture, you know.
I mean he's he's instrumental and everything as far as
the run game, you know, and he also play action protection.
And he's got passes too, you know, It's not like
you can't catch passes. So yeah, he's part that's that
plays the part of it. So yes, it's been a
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big deal having Pat back. I guess I'm.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Saying having those three, those three massive bodies right there
and Lamar as the decoy, I mean going forward, that's
something more you can work with, I would presume and
be more creative.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well, I mean, yeah, they're they're all out there, and
they're all out there together, you know, in certain plays.
So it's definitely definitely something that defenses have to contend with.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
John last week, Zach Gor said he fought in Minnesota
was Travis Jones' best game.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
In his career as a pass rusher. What what have
you seen from Jones over the last month or so?
It really elevated his game.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, I mean he's he's, he's kind of notching it up.
I think it's almost a little bit of it's kind
of like confidence, you know. I think with Travis, he's
such a humble, hardworking guy and sometimes you just want
to stay at home. It'say, like, hey man, I did
have him, Like last year, I had him in the
weight room. I just kind of ran in him and
we were trying to talk, and I was I said,
come over here. We looked at in the mirror and
I'm standing there. You know, he's standing there and I'm
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standing there and we're looking at each other in the mirror.
You know, I go, look at yourself. Look at yourself?
How great you look? You know? You know, guys, you're
gonna you gonna kill people, You're gonna dominate, you know,
And you know, sometimes he takes he's. He he knows that,
you know, he's he's. He works so hard, but a
little bit of a belief in your yourself goes a
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long way. And I think he's starting to really feel it.
You know that he can he can take over games
a little bit.
Speaker 12 (13:24):
Obviously it's a small Sampa size, but two straight teams
in a row from Lamar under sixty percent percentage. Obviously,
two good defenses that he's gone against. But any just
common ninitors for some of these misses, mas off rank
these past two weeks.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
No winning games, you know, find a way to win
the game. That's that's what counts. Uh, That's that's what matters.
And I think Lamar did a great job in both
those games of playing playing that kind of winning football.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It looks like Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Tyrod Taylor's gonna be a quarterback for the dead. What
do you remember from.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
His his time here?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I remember his great guy. You know it's been a
while now, how long has it been.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Probably have been like ten to eleven three years, so.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Run into him a couple of times since then, you know,
get a big hug, and uh, the much respect, I mean,
what a career is a great pick for us. You know,
he did a great job here, really good guy and
and and much respect for what he's accomplished. I mean,
he's been in the league a long time. He's always
played well when he's played, and it'll be it'll be
a dimension for us to have to deal with for sure,
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because he's a really good player.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
John Colla, Hamilton had a big impact in your pass
rush yesterday and just even when they had a guy
accounting for him as you.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Can made a professional quarterback.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
How rare is that kind of skill set himself of
his size and any defensive back.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, pretty rare, Pretty rare. I mean he he he
made it really hard on the running backs, you know,
just to block him, and then his length to you know,
bat and ball back, ding balls down, those kinds of things.
It's just it was really he was just impactful. He
was he always is, but he was super impactful the
whole game pretty much in every way you can be impactful. Yeah,
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he only had one one bad play and it was
really after the play, you know, so we'll have to
talk about that, you know, just to uh.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
To piggyback on that. He was you know, kind of
all over the field in his style and bears that out.
How much is moving him down as much as you
guys have and stuff changed or impacted influenced what you
want to do defensively.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, it's been big it's been great. It's been great,
and you see it. I mean it's been as much
as you see you see it when you watch the
game for sure. And also we've run him back out too.
You know, he's gone deep, you know, and they don't
really know where he's going to show up. I think
Zach and the guys on defensive done a great job
with all of our players of moving around and having
guys show up where they're not really expected to be
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a lot of times.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
John DeAndre Hopkins, that's not the first time that he's
set you guys up for early to the offense for
a game changing play this season. How much do you
wish that he was able to get more involved earlier
in the game.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Or is that just really hard because.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You've got to spread the ball around up to more.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, I definitely want to get him involved. I mean,
you want to get him involved. You want to get
all the guys involved. So it's not really like one guy.
I mean, as soon as you talk about one guy,
that the next game you're talking about the next guy.
And it's the same question, but it's just a different name,
you know. So that's part of it, you know. But
hop is definitely a guy that you want to try
to isolate and get him the ball. You know, he's
just because he's going to catch it. You know, he's
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going to come up with it. That that slant was
was a heck of a catch and huge, like you said,
huge huge playing the game. I told him that, you know,
he wants more and more and more. He wants to
because it's got who he is. And and I just
told him, I said, dude, I said, you won the game,
you know, Keith Mitchell. You know the screen pass that
won the game. I mean, those are all game winning
plays that kind of that kind of go into the
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series of events, you know. So I absolutely agree with that.
Definitely want to want to get hot as many many
touches as we possibly can. You know, that's that's important. John.
Speaker 11 (17:06):
I think just in general nowadays, people will focus our
one or two clips of a certain all offensive line
or in particular like a group of offensive line. You
guys obviously evaluate everything. Are you seeing the necessary progress
that you want to see from that group as a
whole going forward?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean there's more of the question or
is it just a general question like that question.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
About you know, you've been asked almost every week about
maybe potential changes there and why not? And I'm asking
you know, are you seeing the progress where you don't
think changes are necessary?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You put the best five players out there. The best
five players are the guys, the best of the guys,
five guys who are playing the best. That's what you do.
I mean, that's that's that's not it's not even hard answer,
you know. So the question is pretty much much, Yeah,
we're putting the best five players out there and they're
playing pretty darn good. Can they play better? Sure? And
you evaluate it play by play, every single position. You
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evaluate it play for play for play for play, and
some players are great, some players are good. Some players
need to be better and you want them to be
better and you try to improve on them. So that's
how it goes with every position. So and there's always
going to be areas where you know that from one
game to the next, can play better or whatever. So
that that's how it works. You put your team out
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there and you compete. That's what that's what we've been doing.
So all all of our guys, including our offensive line,
you fight and compete and and and uh and get
after it, you know, and that's that's what those guys
are doing too. So none of our positions are perfect.
And uh and they're not perfect either, so but they're
trying to be. They're trying to be. So we put
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our best group out there and we fight. That's what
we do.
Speaker 12 (18:53):
John, do you think that there are continuity you know,
and just how relatively healthy.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
The group is fan like has a high compound effects
this time of.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Years with how much time on past they able to have.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Sorry five, Yeah, that's important, especially for that position. You
know that it's a valuable thing. Great, great, thanks.
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Welcome into the Ravens Presspass Podcast. It is Monday, November seventeenth.
The Ravens won their fourth straight game by taking down
the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. Next up they have the
New York Jets coming to M and T Bay Stadium. Today,
we had a chance to hear from head coach John Harpball.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Okay, good to see everybody here. Appreciate you guys being here.
A good win, and we're focusing on the next challenge,
which will be the Jets on Sunday. Very important game
again and opportunity to get above five hundred and and
keep in the hunt for the division title. More a
(00:41):
game behind there, that's the big picture, but the focus
is on preparing for the next game. Well, questions you
have as.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Far as entry wise, did you guys come out of
this scheme?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay, we look pretty good. We had an issue after
the game. Keon Martin had to stay in Cleveland with
a They were looking at a chest injury. It looks
like he's okay. I had a bunch of testing there
in the hospital last night. All came out negative, you know,
in a good way. And he's back now. So we'll
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see how that kind of progresses the next twenty four.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Hours, Johnny, is your sense that Marlon Humphrey is available
as we possibly you said a week two based on
the TV do that, Serge?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, optimistic about that right now.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Bo Yep, that's something where you could play with that.
We saw that rap on.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm not sure right now. I'm sure they have some
protection for it, probably though, john when you went back
and looked at the red zone possessions that for you.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Ended up having to take fuelbles. What were the combination
of things that you saw that that didn't work as
well as they should have?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Right Well, just you know a lot of different things.
I mean, you know, each play is a little bit different.
Some players could have been executed better. Some plays they
did a great job of defending. You know, try to
run it a couple of times, maybe you didn't get
it in, but bigger pictures, you know, that's that's an
important part of the field for us. We we uh,
we want to score touchdowns down there, you know, and
you know you at least want to you want to
(02:18):
protect the three as well. You know, we didn't do
that one time with the kind of a fluky play,
but but we need to score touchdowns down there. It's
it's gonna definitely continue to be a point of emphasis.
It has been, and we want to be more successful
down in the red zone for sure.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
What are some of the things that you've appointed that you.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Can do to try to help you in that area?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
What was that?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
What are some of the things that you pinpointed already
that you guys can do.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Try some of the things we can what do in
that area? We can ext do better, We can call
better plays. You know, we can make plays.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Coach, when you go.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Back and look at for it all Miles paract that
you knew that he was going to come in and
try and right the game was served different things that
you guys could have done maybe as the game went
on to try and limit you know, the.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Way we did about everything you can do. You know,
we tried about everything you can do, and uh we
blocked him a number of times.
Speaker 9 (03:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That's the kind of defense really that you you want
to try to hit big plays on. You know, that's
really the way they're they're organized. We hit some big plays. Uh.
You know, the red zone is probably the biggest thing.
You know, if we could have got the job done
down there, a little better. You were put. We had
a big, big scoring game. But it's always going to
be that way when you play that that defense, because
that's that's they do a good job of creating chaos.
(03:36):
And then especially him, you know so, uh, that's kind
of how it goes with him. Yoh, Chris.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Chris Horton last week was talking to us about the
idea of decision making on returns in the one western
return kind of backing upfield and I think.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The two and then on the wind blow them up.
What do you what do you say him? Did you
tell him later in the game, Hey, let's be careful,
you know, let's let those dropping the wind like this.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
What do you say, Well, everyone's different, you know, so, Uh,
the one that's tailing away from him, that's you know,
you're on the run there. He definitely knows he doesn't
want to catch that one. That's that's hopefully a learning experience.
You know, it's been probably his first game playing in
those kind of conditions with that kind of wind, and
you know, AFC North type of a stadium to experience
(04:22):
that with that kind of a cutter ball. You know,
it's a left footed punter. The ball is cutting away
from him. That's that's probably one of the most challenging,
especially that end of of that stadium, really challenging ball.
That's one you definitely want to get away from. And
uh so he'll learn from that, I'm sure, and he
did as the game when I let another one get
on the ground, which was good. Backing up like that,
(04:43):
you know, I think he lost track of where he
was that probably would have rather had him just let
that go in the end zone. But there are times
and we don't we don't we don't always make a
hard and fast you know, the ten the old ten
yard line rule, those days have changed a little bit
because heck, you can the ball come out to the
eight and roll on to the one that's not that's
not good, or sometimes you know, they just there's nobody
near you, you know, and you've seen some long returns
(05:05):
happen because it's a line drive and there's a lot
of space, and you don't mind him backing up and
returning some of those if we've had those over the years,
all these years that we've been doing it. You don't
want to harden fast too much, but you do want
to have principles built around the rule, and you know
he's learning. You know, he's a rookie, and I think
he's really accountable, and nobody works harder. I tell you
he works hard in practice every single day at it.
(05:26):
He's very coachable. So I think he's going to continue
to grow that way. John.
Speaker 10 (05:34):
You know, for ever since the law has been here,
his wrunging ability has been a big part of this offense.
This year, I think his rushing yards per game is
probably the lowest he's been. There is there a reason why,
as have you guys made a conscious decision not to
close many correct?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Why do you think he hasn't been running as much
as he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I was happy with some of the runs yesterday. He
got out of the pocket a few times when he
when he really really needed him to, and got us
some yards and saved us a couple of times. I thought.
I thought he also, I give a lot of credit
because he was under dress a few times, were you know,
in that kind of a game. He made some decisions
too to protect the football, which was which was big.
So I thought he played a really smart game that way.
They we had some quarterback runs called they took away
(06:13):
the quarterback, you know, a number of times, you know,
always gonna let him run either, So just week the week,
have an answer for that, you know, it's it's it's
not required. You know tomorrow, next thing, you know, lamorrow
breakout and run for one hundred yards. You know, so
that that's always in the sure defenses, I've got to
consider that as a possibility. And that's that's a good
(06:35):
thing for us.
Speaker 11 (06:37):
John, how much has kind of you guys have been
banged up on and off in the secondary? How much
does a wuz really his ability to kind of step
in and keep things going and just play sound football.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
How important has that been for that group? I think
very important, Jeff. I mean that's I told Eric on
the plane last night. I think that might be his
most underrated signing. You know, it's just a really big,
really been a big signing for us. And he's done
great and we knew he was a good player. We've
seen him over the years. I'd say even better than advertised.
You know, he's played really good football, had a heck
(07:10):
of a game.
Speaker 11 (07:11):
People used to express a teaching tape all the time,
but how he kept working through the ball in the
end zone there and say that is that kind of
an example of what you try to preach.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It was a great player. Yeah, the ability to just
to not panic, you know, when you're playing the ball
downfield like that, especially with your back to the ball
chasing a fade route. That's probably the toughest thing in
corner has to do. And to uh to play it
in a way that you get into the catch cylinder
we call it. In front of the receiver and and
affect the affect the hands, affect the ball, find the ball,
play the ball, not not hinder the receiver in too
(07:46):
much of a way where you call for for interference
or anything like that. You know, he's really done well
with it. I think a lot of our guys have.
I think our coaches do a great job of teaching that.
And he's yeah, he's had some training tape to your
point with that kind of technique.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
John, I know we spoke spoke about Kean Martin at
the beginning. I mean, how important just at one his
one field play. How how has that been, especially when
he's been able to step up and playing at one
as well.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, he did great. I mean he did great, as
sach you know, he had a couple of good coverages
had a bad ball. I thought he played really well,
played well on special teams. Hasn't been playing well on
special teams. Uh, it's done really really good job.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
You know, Mark Andrews play, Sam and Blaye talked to
some guys last night that that you know, kind of
came up just during the week. I know you talked
about it last night. A couple of things. Was that
born kind of out of that toss to Lamar at
all that you guys have run the previous week, and
and and sort of I guess I'm trying to get
(08:45):
to the kind of the root of of how you
guys should have came up at that play.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We're gonna do a a historical biography on the on
the game planning process of a play, you know, and uh,
you know, on how did it happen? It happened like
all plays happened, you know, and it was I think
that's you know, you look at the you look at
the quarterback sneak and the people going to great lengths
to get that stop. We've run a number of of
(09:12):
the tush pushes over the last three or four years.
The sneaks with Mark and uh, you know, at some
point in time it gets to the extent where they
just take the play away and you've got to have
an answer. You gotta have a counter punch. And those
two plays have been in the hopper for a few weeks,
maybe a month, maybe more, maybe a little more, and uh,
just kind of been design and stuff like that, trying
to figure it out. And yes, part of it's just
(09:33):
not one thing, it's all the different plays that everybody
talks about. So we started working on that one like
two weeks ago. We started working on it a little bit,
and then this week we got a bunch of reps
in practice on it, and that was it a chance
to call it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
How much did with Lamar? And they're going that, how
much does that obviously drive the hell?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, I mean, yeah, you saw the hickman, you know,
went that way with it. You know, he was probably
responsible for for Lamar there and then the corner on
the back side that pulled, that held him. So that
kept your pursuit away a little bit, you know, and
then you look at what happened with rich Questioninger. You
know he's here. Heck for a player, man, this guy, Wow,
(10:14):
this guy's all over the field. You know, what a
what a great pick those guys made there. We loved
him too, you know, and uh, he probably would have
made the play except Charlie got pinned his guy in
and got up and got a piece of him there too,
which was really heads heads up played by Charlie. Excellent
play by Charlie. Get to get that block. That's probably
made the difference. That Mark obviously ran really fast. So
(10:36):
that was it, and you know it was it was
a big play. I mean, it's gonna be in historic
It's gonna be one of those iconic plays, I think.
You know, you look at one thing about it. It's
kind of interesting. You know, you guys have covered the
ravens and stuff, and you look at look at all
these games in Cleveland over the years, you know, and
you know, down twenty to nothing in the first quarter,
you know, or or a block of field going overtime
(10:59):
four time now, you know, or or Milamar you know,
coming back on the field after after we go for
fourth and one to fourth and five and throwing a
touchdown pass. You know. I mean, there's so many crazy
games in that stadium over the last twenty years. So
this goes into analyst for sure. With all those.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Games gave it a name, and you guys gave it
a name Hurricane and not been pushing Bush on.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
But the trifecta having Derrick, Henry, Mark Andrews and of
course Patrick card Back. How instrumental was having power card
back in a situation like that and making Lamar kind
of the depot?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Uh, well, I mean just Pat probably, I would think
of it more in the big big picture, you know.
I mean he's he's instrumental and everything as far as
the run game, you know, and he also play action protection.
And he's got passes too, you know, It's not like
you can't catch passes. So yeah, he's part that's that
plays the part of it. So yes, it's been a
(12:00):
big deal having Pat back. I guess I'm.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Saying having those three, those three massive bodies right there
and Lamar as the decoy, I mean going forward, that's
something more you can work with, I would presume and
be more creative.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well, I mean, yeah, they're they're all out there, and
they're all out there together, you know, in certain plays.
So it's definitely definitely something that defenses have to contend with.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
John last week, Zach Gor said he fought in Minnesota
was Travis Jones' best game.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
In his career as a pass rusher. What what have
you seen from Jones over the last month or so?
It really elevated his game.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, I mean he's he's, he's kind of notching it up.
I think it's almost a little bit of it's kind
of like confidence, you know. I think with Travis, he's
such a humble, hardworking guy and sometimes you just want
to stay at home. It'say, like, hey man, I did
have him, Like last year, I had him in the
weight room. I just kind of ran in him and
we were trying to talk, and I was I said,
come over here. We looked at in the mirror and
I'm standing there. You know, he's standing there and I'm
(12:57):
standing there and we're looking at each other in the mirror.
You know, I go, look at yourself. Look at yourself?
How great you look? You know? You know, guys, you're
gonna you gonna kill people, You're gonna dominate, you know,
And you know, sometimes he takes he's. He he knows that,
you know, he's he's. He works so hard, but a
little bit of a belief in your yourself goes a
(13:18):
long way. And I think he's starting to really feel it.
You know that he can he can take over games
a little bit.
Speaker 12 (13:24):
Obviously it's a small Sampa size, but two straight teams
in a row from Lamar under sixty percent percentage. Obviously,
two good defenses that he's gone against. But any just
common ninitors for some of these misses, mas off rank
these past two weeks.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
No winning games, you know, find a way to win
the game. That's that's what counts. Uh, That's that's what matters.
And I think Lamar did a great job in both
those games of playing playing that kind of winning football.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It looks like Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Tyrod Taylor's gonna be a quarterback for the dead. What
do you remember from.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
His his time here?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I remember his great guy. You know it's been a
while now, how long has it been.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Probably have been like ten to eleven three years, so.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Run into him a couple of times since then, you know,
get a big hug, and uh, the much respect, I mean,
what a career is a great pick for us. You know,
he did a great job here, really good guy and
and and much respect for what he's accomplished. I mean,
he's been in the league a long time. He's always
played well when he's played, and it'll be it'll be
a dimension for us to have to deal with for sure,
(14:34):
because he's a really good player.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
John Colla, Hamilton had a big impact in your pass
rush yesterday and just even when they had a guy
accounting for him as you.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Can made a professional quarterback.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
How rare is that kind of skill set himself of
his size and any defensive back.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, pretty rare, Pretty rare. I mean he he he
made it really hard on the running backs, you know,
just to block him, and then his length to you know,
bat and ball back, ding balls down, those kinds of things.
It's just it was really he was just impactful. He
was he always is, but he was super impactful the
whole game pretty much in every way you can be impactful. Yeah,
(15:14):
he only had one one bad play and it was
really after the play, you know, so we'll have to
talk about that, you know, just to uh.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
To piggyback on that. He was you know, kind of
all over the field in his style and bears that out.
How much is moving him down as much as you
guys have and stuff changed or impacted influenced what you
want to do defensively.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, it's been big it's been great. It's been great,
and you see it. I mean it's been as much
as you see you see it when you watch the
game for sure. And also we've run him back out too.
You know, he's gone deep, you know, and they don't
really know where he's going to show up. I think
Zach and the guys on defensive done a great job
with all of our players of moving around and having
guys show up where they're not really expected to be
(16:00):
a lot of times.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
John DeAndre Hopkins, that's not the first time that he's
set you guys up for early to the offense for
a game changing play this season. How much do you
wish that he was able to get more involved earlier
in the game.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Or is that just really hard because.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You've got to spread the ball around up to more.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, I definitely want to get him involved. I mean,
you want to get him involved. You want to get
all the guys involved. So it's not really like one guy.
I mean, as soon as you talk about one guy,
that the next game you're talking about the next guy.
And it's the same question, but it's just a different name,
you know. So that's part of it, you know. But
hop is definitely a guy that you want to try
to isolate and get him the ball. You know, he's
just because he's going to catch it. You know, he's
(16:36):
going to come up with it. That that slant was
was a heck of a catch and huge, like you said,
huge huge playing the game. I told him that, you know,
he wants more and more and more. He wants to
because it's got who he is. And and I just
told him, I said, dude, I said, you won the game,
you know, Keith Mitchell. You know the screen pass that
won the game. I mean, those are all game winning
plays that kind of that kind of go into the
(16:56):
series of events, you know. So I absolutely agree with that.
Definitely want to want to get hot as many many
touches as we possibly can. You know, that's that's important. John.
Speaker 11 (17:06):
I think just in general nowadays, people will focus our
one or two clips of a certain all offensive line
or in particular like a group of offensive line. You
guys obviously evaluate everything. Are you seeing the necessary progress
that you want to see from that group as a
whole going forward?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean there's more of the question or
is it just a general question like that question.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
About you know, you've been asked almost every week about
maybe potential changes there and why not? And I'm asking
you know, are you seeing the progress where you don't
think changes are necessary?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You put the best five players out there. The best
five players are the guys, the best of the guys,
five guys who are playing the best. That's what you do.
I mean, that's that's that's not it's not even hard answer,
you know. So the question is pretty much much, Yeah,
we're putting the best five players out there and they're
playing pretty darn good. Can they play better? Sure? And
you evaluate it play by play, every single position. You
(18:08):
evaluate it play for play for play for play, and
some players are great, some players are good. Some players
need to be better and you want them to be
better and you try to improve on them. So that's
how it goes with every position. So and there's always
going to be areas where you know that from one
game to the next, can play better or whatever. So
that that's how it works. You put your team out
(18:29):
there and you compete. That's what that's what we've been doing.
So all all of our guys, including our offensive line,
you fight and compete and and and uh and get
after it, you know, and that's that's what those guys
are doing too. So none of our positions are perfect.
And uh and they're not perfect either, so but they're
trying to be. They're trying to be. So we put
(18:50):
our best group out there and we fight. That's what
we do.
Speaker 12 (18:53):
John, do you think that there are continuity you know,
and just how relatively healthy.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
The group is fan like has a high compound effects
this time of.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Years with how much time on past they able to have.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Sorry five, Yeah, that's important, especially for that position. You
know that it's a valuable thing. Great, great, thanks.
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