Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: September ninth. The Ravens were back on the practice field
Speaker 1: today preparing for their home opener coming up against the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders. After practice today, we had a chance
Speaker 1: to hear from head coach John Harpall.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to see everybody. Appreciate you guys being here.
Speaker 2: That's a fumble. Those are bad, very bad fumble. That's right.
Speaker 2: That's a great point. That's right. You get on the ground,
Speaker 2: you crill up around it. Yes, that's a shot. That's
Speaker 2: a shot he's taking out of me. I appreciate everybody
Speaker 2: being here. We're looking forward to the next challenge in
Speaker 2: front of us. Got a good practice today and we're
Speaker 2: getting ready for the Raiders. What questions you have We
Speaker 2: didn't see them more out there in the practice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we had a number of guys that weren't out there,
Speaker 2: some personal, uh, some some you know, physical. So you know,
Speaker 2: injury report comes out Wednesday afternoon, so you'll be better
Speaker 2: advised on that day regarding all those guys. Coach, two sacks,
Speaker 2: seven quarterback hits against the Chiefs. What do you think
Speaker 2: of the past rushing team? I thought the pass rush
Speaker 2: was good. You know, you're you're you're rushing Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: I'm a little disappointed a couple of times he got out,
Speaker 2: but I really haven't seen a game where he hasn't
Speaker 2: gotten out to some degree to extend plays. I thought
Speaker 2: we got him a number of times, kept him in
Speaker 2: the pocket pretty darn well all in all, pressured him.
Speaker 2: I felt good about it can be better. Absolutely, it
Speaker 2: can be better, and in some cases with Patrick, just
Speaker 2: like it's gonna be with Gardner Minshew, because they're mobile
Speaker 2: guys who move around knowing better than Patrick Mahomes. But
Speaker 2: just a matter of just just be impatient enough to
Speaker 2: go ahead and wrap him up. You know, those are
Speaker 2: the things I think that that we couldn't do better.
Speaker 2: And we talked about that today. When did you When
Speaker 2: were you notified about this point of bamphasis about the
Speaker 2: formations and are you satisfied that.
Speaker 3: Point made it's not going to be an issue going
Speaker 3: forward or how do you approach it there?
Speaker 2: Well, Yeah, we had the officials here in the preseason
Speaker 2: and uh and we uh, we talked to him about it.
Speaker 2: Lined up, Ronnie lined up probably closer than he did
Speaker 2: in the preseason practices in all those times. Uh, and
Speaker 2: then they called him, you know, so Uh, we hate.
Speaker 2: We do have data on that, and we have tracking data.
Speaker 2: They get the chips in the shoulder pads, so we
Speaker 2: know exactly where Ronnie was lined up relative to where
Speaker 2: their guys were lined up. Uh. And Uh, I'm not
Speaker 2: worried about it going forward. I thought Ronnie was in
Speaker 2: reasonable position there most all the time. I do think
Speaker 2: the adjustment needs to be made. Is is like during
Speaker 2: the course of the drive. If they basically if it's
Speaker 2: something that you didn't expect and it's totally different than
Speaker 2: they're calling the games, he's got to make the You
Speaker 2: got to make the drastic adjustment right away and then
Speaker 2: we'll talk about it later, you know. And Ronnie was
Speaker 2: Ronnie actually thought he was doing that. So when you
Speaker 2: watch the tape, I think what he said bears out. John,
Speaker 2: I have to the game. I think some of the
Speaker 2: players we're talking about them edunication the defense, or can
Speaker 2: be more so specific when it comes to the cloud
Speaker 2: and communication on defense. Our issues on defense were, Uh,
Speaker 2: we had a missed assignment, you know that hurt us.
Speaker 2: That's something that was really not so much a communication issue,
Speaker 2: just just a volume issue probably as much as anything.
Speaker 2: You know, we're looking at that really hard first game
Speaker 2: of the season in that kind of an environment. The
Speaker 2: other issues were more just the way we played the play.
Speaker 2: So I don't think maybe communication was used in kind
Speaker 2: of a general term. I think the substitution issues were
Speaker 2: legit if you want to call those communications. Certainly, probably
Speaker 2: we had too many substitution groups up to be honest,
Speaker 2: you know, I think we were trying to play a
Speaker 2: lot of different guys and get them in their situationally,
Speaker 2: I guess the no huddle team, and we didn't do
Speaker 2: a great job. They were selling guys in like at
Speaker 2: eighteen seconds on the play clock and calling their play
Speaker 2: real quick. So that creates an issue where we put
Speaker 2: our group in there, then you gotta call the play
Speaker 2: before the fifteen second clock goes off. I think that
Speaker 2: might have been it. Maybe that was what they were
Speaker 2: talking about, that was a communication issue, But really more
Speaker 2: it's a it's kind of a substitution issue. We changed it.
Speaker 2: We fixed it in the third quarter when we when
Speaker 2: we kept our groups on the field, and we didn't
Speaker 2: have an issue to that, So that's probably what they're
Speaker 2: talking about Blacker Room the week one breach here when
Speaker 2: you make the oldest progress that you read that, I've
Speaker 2: been saying that for seventeen years here, you know, and
Speaker 2: I would say that, you know, and and that's what
Speaker 2: you know, I appreciated about. I think what our guys
Speaker 2: were saying after the game, you know, taking that kind
Speaker 2: of positive approach. Not in any way too. I mean
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, they're a great football team. I mean they
Speaker 2: won the game because they played the winning is football.
Speaker 2: You know, they made the fewest mistakes and that's why
Speaker 2: they won the game. And those are things that you know,
Speaker 2: those those that get your floor in your ceiling, right,
Speaker 2: the floor, the ceiling, how highs the ceiling, how highs
Speaker 2: the floor, how lows the ceiling, How how lows the floor?
Speaker 2: You want to always raise the floor, you know. That's
Speaker 2: what winning football does. It raises the floor as high
Speaker 2: as it can be. And we've been that kind of
Speaker 2: team over the years. That's why we won so many games.
Speaker 2: And I think that the Chiefs floor was higher in
Speaker 2: that game than our game was and and ultimately that
Speaker 2: was probably the difference in the game. So those are
Speaker 2: the things I think we can do this week. We
Speaker 2: can raise that flo lower up quite high. I'm not
Speaker 2: too worried about our ceiling. I know we've got tremendous
Speaker 2: players and we'll make plays, but I want to see
Speaker 2: that floor come up a little bit and play a
Speaker 2: little more that way between week one and week two.
Speaker 2: The follow up on.
Speaker 3: That, in terms of some of the things you just highlighted,
Speaker 3: was that attributable to some of their success in the
Speaker 3: middle of the field. It seemed like that, you know,
Speaker 3: they were particularly successful there if you will.
Speaker 2: They had some crossing routes back if you want to
Speaker 2: know the details of it. I mean, we got quarters
Speaker 2: covers in the backside. They were on speed from bunch
Speaker 2: splitz back to the quarter side, and they were leveraging
Speaker 2: the underneath the underneath defense. A couple of times, especially
Speaker 2: early in the game, we cleaned it up. We changed
Speaker 2: which side we were rolling the coverage too, and it
Speaker 2: cleaned it up. So you do make those adjustments during
Speaker 2: the course of the game. I mean, you know, you're
Speaker 2: playing a team that game plans really well, and that
Speaker 2: had whole off season to game plan us, you know,
Speaker 2: so they came up with a couple probably three good
Speaker 2: ideas that were that were good that. It's the nice
Speaker 2: thing about it is you play that team in the
Speaker 2: first week, you see the stuff that other people might
Speaker 2: see too, probably not, because they're probably the best in
Speaker 2: the business at that. So I feel kind of good
Speaker 2: about that. I thought we adjusted during the game on
Speaker 2: those things pretty well, things we hadn't seen before.
Speaker 3: People talk about the formation stuff about consistency, and I've
Speaker 3: read some stuff over the weekend that the concern would
Speaker 3: be different.
Speaker 2: Officiating crews may call it different.
Speaker 4: I don't know your what your plans were Sunday, But
Speaker 4: did you watch the game looking.
Speaker 2: For that in particular where guys were lined up on
Speaker 2: other teams? Is that something you guys have paid attention to? Well,
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't watch the games looking for that,
Speaker 2: but we have we have tracking data, so our analytics
Speaker 2: people will have the tracking data. We have the tracking
Speaker 2: data from that game. We know exactly where the chief
Speaker 2: tackles were lined up and exactly where ours were lined up,
Speaker 2: so we know and if someone wants to do that,
Speaker 2: maybe our guys will do. That's probably good idea. I
Speaker 2: haven't sent it to you, you know, for the league,
Speaker 2: and you'll have it. That's not I mean it's public
Speaker 2: information as far as I know. If it's not, I'm
Speaker 2: sure we'll get a memo from the league on that.
Speaker 2: But so that it's not even that's one of those
Speaker 2: ones that's black and white. You know, you can look
Speaker 2: at that and know exactly where they're lined up, so
Speaker 2: you can know exactly whether it's being called consistently or not. Coach,
Speaker 2: But was the reaction to Kyle van Noyd's diagnosis and
Speaker 2: what's the game plan going forward the next couple weeks
Speaker 2: about the veteran like that on the outside, Uh, my
Speaker 2: reaction is that their injury report will come out Wednesday
Speaker 2: after practice and we'll know more then.
Speaker 1: So we know.
Speaker 3: The run game is a big part of what you
Speaker 3: guys want to do, especially with Henry here now not
Speaker 3: a lot of success Thursday night.
Speaker 4: What did you see when you watched.
Speaker 3: The run game.
Speaker 2: I think it's a great quick point and I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna be kind of Every game is gonna be
Speaker 2: kind of interesting and different. I like the way the
Speaker 2: run game looked for the most part, with just the
Speaker 2: running back run game. There were some plays that I'd
Speaker 2: like to see be blocked a little better, but other
Speaker 2: plays that were blocked really well, and and then we
Speaker 2: rushed for one hundred and eighty five yards overall, and
Speaker 2: a lot of that to them. A but that's the formula.
Speaker 2: The formula is all the guys together. It's not just
Speaker 2: the one guy. I think we didn't bring Derek in
Speaker 2: here to be, you know, the guy that gets the
Speaker 2: ball thirty times a game. He's done that before. That's
Speaker 2: really not the plan. The plan is is Derek Lamar, Mark,
Speaker 2: Isaiah Zay, Bait Nelly. You know, that's kind of the
Speaker 2: plan in this offense going forward. So I think that
Speaker 2: evaluation will be best made, you know, over the course
Speaker 2: of the season. And I'm very confident there's gonna be
Speaker 2: games where where where Derek's gonna go for one hundred
Speaker 2: plus or more and you're gonna be asking me, why
Speaker 2: ISAA only got two catches? You know, that's probably gonna
Speaker 2: happen during the course of the season, and that's gonna
Speaker 2: be good for us. That's that's what we want to be.
Speaker 2: We want to be unpredictable that way, and where what
Speaker 2: does the game take us? You know as we get
Speaker 2: into the game.
Speaker 4: I guess along those lines, one of the things you
Speaker 4: were hearing from Putnit's on Friday, was are the Ravens
Speaker 4: kind of searching for I appreciate the pundit, thank you.
Speaker 4: Are they searching for an offensive identity?
Speaker 2: And I mean you were sort of just touching on that.
Speaker 4: I mean, do you feel like you're maybe gonna have
Speaker 4: a different offensive identity week to week to.
Speaker 2: Some well, I mean you're gonna use your different weapons
Speaker 2: week the week, you know. I feel like an offensive
Speaker 2: idea entity is definitely something that you you develop over
Speaker 2: the course of time. We've had We've had a lot
Speaker 2: of iterations of offensive identities over the years, especially since
Speaker 2: Lamar's been here. But they do start with your quarterback.
Speaker 2: You know, if you watch you look at the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: it definitely starts as Patrick. They're probably more established with
Speaker 2: that right now with our guys that they have. But
Speaker 2: you know, Pacheco gets the ball, where was where was?
Speaker 2: Kels didn't get the balls many times in this game,
Speaker 2: you know, So it's just going to be game to
Speaker 2: a game like that in any good offense.
Speaker 3: Obviously a lot of kudos for Justice Phill on those
Speaker 3: those last two plays blocking Chris Jones won one. I
Speaker 3: guess first of all, was that what was supposed to
Speaker 3: happen execution isn't. And second one, just what did.
Speaker 2: You kind of see? Yeah, well, I give I give well,
Speaker 2: I showed the guys that those two plays I get.
Speaker 2: I thought Justice was amazing. You know, I give him
Speaker 2: all the cred in the world. That was one of
Speaker 2: those ones with the crowd noise. We wanted to bake.
Speaker 2: We wanted to go to a base six man protection
Speaker 2: and fan our tackles, but we didn't get to it
Speaker 2: with the crowd noise. Maybe that's a communication thing on offense,
Speaker 2: uh that we would have liked to have had. And
Speaker 2: I think in that protection, Justice made the adjustment he
Speaker 2: was expecting to tackle to probably, but then he tackled
Speaker 2: in fan and there he was with number ninety five
Speaker 2: right in front of him, and I thought he did
Speaker 2: a pretty darn good job given the circumstances. So that's
Speaker 2: part of the communication. When you're up there and you're
Speaker 2: looking for blitz or no blitz, those kind of things,
Speaker 2: and you check your protections to that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: You've got to work through those things. Roger Rose Garden
Speaker 2: in for a couple series in the first half. Are
Speaker 2: you guys pretty committed to giving him more game action,
Speaker 2: finding opportunities for him to play a little right tackle. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I think just it would be smart. He's
Speaker 2: a talented player. It would be smart to develop him,
Speaker 2: you know as we go. You know, you got the
Speaker 2: veteran guy, Pat McCarry's. I think it's about a solid
Speaker 2: of a players you're ever going to see. Knows what
Speaker 2: he's doing, Trustworthy been there before that environment, you know,
Speaker 2: Pat was Pat was, Pat was what we thought was
Speaker 2: the best best there and I think going forward, but
Speaker 2: also Roger is an up and coming player, and we
Speaker 2: want to make sure that we keep keep giving him
Speaker 2: opportunities to grow those lines. You know, earlier we were
Speaker 2: talking about progress week one, week two. It happens for
Speaker 2: all players. How much of that progress do you want
Speaker 2: to see on that offensive line? You know, among everybody?
Speaker 2: And I guess from a chemistry how much I'd like
Speaker 2: to see it be ten million times better. That's what
Speaker 2: I want. But you think it'll be ten many times better,
Speaker 2: It's gonna be twice as good. Dependine you're gonna get,
Speaker 2: You're gonna get. The baseline is not He's pretty darn good.
Speaker 2: Baseline is pretty darn good in that environment against that
Speaker 2: against that defense. You know, I'm not I'm not as
Speaker 2: like fair klempt is that is that the right word
Speaker 2: for clempt? Okay, thanks, I appreciate that. It doesn't bother
Speaker 2: me as much as it bothers you, obviously or some others.
Speaker 2: I'm not too worried about the offensive line because I
Speaker 2: know how hard day work, and I know how talented
Speaker 2: they are. And I watch all the other offensive lines
Speaker 2: in the National Football League, and I think if you
Speaker 2: applied some of the same standard to the other offensive
Speaker 2: lines out there, you'd be like, boy, it's a tough
Speaker 2: position to play against these guys. So our offensive line
Speaker 2: is gonna be really good this year. I believe that
Speaker 2: we're working hard towards that. So I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 2: here and doubt those guys. I'm gonna coach those guys,
Speaker 2: and those guys are gonna get out there and play,
Speaker 2: and I think by the end of the season, you're
Speaker 2: gonna feel real good about our offensive line chemistry working,
Speaker 2: you know, working together. The more time they have on
Speaker 2: the field together help that massively, massively, no doubt. I mean,
Speaker 2: when that when that offensive line goes out there again
Speaker 2: in that in that stadium with that crowd noise against
Speaker 2: that defense. Uh, and that kind of a game that
Speaker 2: that's that's it. Man. It's not gonna get tougher than that.
Speaker 2: So I appreciate that. Now, we got another challenge coming
Speaker 2: in here this week because we've got another great defensive
Speaker 2: line that will be lining up again. So let's get
Speaker 2: locked in on that challenge. Keep it simple, and we'll
Speaker 2: be in good shape for fronts for one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty two yards. I mean, at this point, seven years
Speaker 2: into this.
Speaker 4: Whole thing, do you does that still impressure or as
Speaker 4: you kind of go like, oh, that's that's Lamar.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, well it still impresses me. I mean
Speaker 2: I think it should. Doesn't impress you presses Lamar always
Speaker 2: impresses me. I just I feel like he never he
Speaker 2: doesn't really surprise me because I guess we've seen it
Speaker 2: so much and it's just been a gift to Baltimore
Speaker 2: and to to to the Ravens and to all of
Speaker 2: our fans and all of us. But you know, being
Speaker 2: there and there with him every day, I recognize how
Speaker 2: how how much it means to him, how competitive he is,
Speaker 2: what kind of a fighter he is, and this guy
Speaker 2: wants to win, you know. He wants to he wants
Speaker 2: to make plays, he wants to lead his team. You know.
Speaker 2: That's what I saw on Thursday night. And all the
Speaker 2: football stuff. We just keep coaching, you know, and he's
Speaker 2: the leader in that. So but I'm proud of him.
Speaker 2: I had nothing but admiration for Lamar Jackson.
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