Baltimores Ravens - QB Joe Flacco - Ingles

September 14, 2011

On being on the cover of Sports Illustrated:
“I don’t know if it goes in New Jersey. I don’t think it does, to tell you the truth, because my mom called me up. I didn’t know about it. She told us to pick up a couple of copies.”

On if there is pride on being on the cover of Sports Illustrated:
“Yeah, I’m sure there is. It’s kind of cool, but it’s crazy. It really is crazy how week-to-week this league is, how hot and cold everybody is. You just have to sit back and laugh about it.”

On if his mother asked why Jets QB Mark Sanchez was on the cover instead of him:
“No, she was just happy that me and Ray [Rice] were on the one, whatever it is.”

On the ever-changing nature of the NFL:
“Each game is so tight. I don’t know if I like the fact that everybody makes it out to be either you are great or you are terrible. It is true that, in NFL football, it is really one play. People don’t realize, even in the game on Sunday, one play here or one play there, that is a completely different game. We were fortunate to come out and get a turnover in the beginning of the second half and score right away. If it doesn’t go that way, you don’t know how that game is going to turn out. It’s like that every week – one play can decide the outcome.”

On the offense’s chemistry and knowing where everyone is:
“I hope I know where everybody is at all times. It’s my job as a quarterback. The biggest thing is just us being on the same page and kind of having that timing and knowing when he has a good matchup and when he is going to win.”

On facing an unfamiliar team:
“You have to trust what you see on film. It may not be a lot, but you have to go with it. If you get out there and things change or they run some new things, you have to adjust on the fly. I think for us, it’s really just trusting what we saw and going out there and being confident.”

On what problems the Titans’ secondary poses:
“They’ll come up and they’ll bring their free safety off one of the corners a couple of times. They rotate around a little bit, but I have confidence in our guys that they will be able to get open. If we create that time, like we did last week, I have all the confidence in the world.”

On if he feels there could be a letdown after last week’s win vs. Pittsburgh: “No. I feel like we have a great locker room – we always have. We move on pretty quickly from losses and wins. That’s our job, and that’s what we’ll be ready to do this week.”

On the development of TE Ed Dickson and TE Dennis Pitta:
“You could just see how much confidence they had out there on Sunday. They have a lot of confidence out there, and it obviously translates into the way they play. They play fast, they are sure of what they are doing, and it obviously allows everything to declare itself for me, and I can see them. They are going to be a big part of why we win football games this year. They both get up on the defense fast and catch the football.”

On if he has the same confidence in Dickson and Pitta as he did with departed TE Todd Heap:
“Yeah, obviously when you hear that Todd is not going to be here, you get a little bit disappointed, but as training camp went on, and we started practicing and everything… I have all the confidence in the world in these guys, and you have to when you go out there and play quarterback and you step out there on Sunday. If you don’t have all the confidence in your guys, than you are not going to operate the way you want to.”

On what makes RB Ray Rice so hard to play against:
“Ray is a running back, and obviously, they have to put their best cover guys on our wide receivers and even tight ends. With Ray’s ability to work in that space and understand some of our route concepts, it gives us a chance to get him on guys that aren’t used to covering. He has that quickness. He has that explosiveness that he can run those routes and separate from guys at the point of break, and that can really help us out.”