Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: December twenty ninth, and the Raves are getting ready to
Speaker 1: play the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. As they got ready
Speaker 1: for the matchup, we had a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: head coach John Harbaugh today.
Speaker 2: Okay, good seeing everybody, appreciate you being here. Good practice.
Speaker 2: We're getting ready for a big challenge, pedal to the
Speaker 2: metal in terms of preparation. So what questions you have John, We.
Speaker 3: Still say he was back out there at pactice.
Speaker 1: You know, this is his first year with him played.
Speaker 4: Have you been impressed kind of the level of pumpany.
Speaker 3: Since Saturday because seems like the typing things and he's
Speaker 3: still battle people.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I think Zay Flowers is great. He's
Speaker 2: done a great job. He works hard. He uh, he
Speaker 2: comes to work every day. He got a great attitude.
Speaker 2: Just couldn't a plus in every way really.
Speaker 3: John, Howard, Hamilton, and Brandon Stevens progressing this, especially Stevens
Speaker 3: because we didnt see him on the injury report. I
Speaker 3: guess Wednesday for the wall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody's doing you know, it's the time of year,
Speaker 2: this time of year, it is so everybody they can
Speaker 2: go will be out there.
Speaker 3: John, the last time he's played against a big fangio,
Speaker 3: there's a little bit of a public spat. Did you
Speaker 3: end up talking with him in the off season? It's
Speaker 3: really anything over And do you think there's any emotional
Speaker 3: carryover from something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I think everybody's got their
Speaker 2: own opinions on whatever they want to have their opinions on.
Speaker 2: You know, we know what we're about, what we stand
Speaker 2: for as an organization, as a coaching staff. I know
Speaker 2: what I'm about and what I believe in, and that's
Speaker 2: how I feel about it.
Speaker 4: How different is this Miami defense with big FANGI yell
Speaker 4: over there.
Speaker 2: It's a different scheme, different system. They run different coverages,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, just a different setup, different coordinator,
Speaker 2: different scheme.
Speaker 3: John Zack Steeler is a guy who's really emerged from
Speaker 3: Miami for a couple of years. Obviously, you guys drafted him.
Speaker 3: You know what's really stood out about his development to
Speaker 3: become the player. I mean, he has eight and a
Speaker 3: half sacks. I havn't a great year.
Speaker 2: I mean he's I'm gonna tell you straight up, he's
Speaker 2: exactly the player that I thought he was gonna be.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was a damn good player when he
Speaker 2: was here. Physical, tough, he's playing that way, but better
Speaker 2: because he's, you know that further along in his career.
Speaker 2: He's strong, he's twitchy, he gets off blocks, presses the pocket.
Speaker 2: He's a he's a very good football player. He's everything
Speaker 2: you want in a football player. He's tough and he's uh,
Speaker 2: he shows up every day. Coach, you face a very
Speaker 2: tough running game last week.
Speaker 3: How much that preparation helped to face now Rahee Munster,
Speaker 3: which had a good year carrying the.
Speaker 2: Ball, Well, it's gonna be a big challenge. I mean,
Speaker 2: their offense is very diverse and the running game is
Speaker 2: a big part of it. So uh, you know, they
Speaker 2: can run the ball outside, they run the ball in
Speaker 2: the alley, they run the ball in the sea gap,
Speaker 2: and they run the ball straight downhill. So uh, and
Speaker 2: Raheem is a big he's the main guy. I mean
Speaker 2: he's there, he's their guy. Uh, but not only the
Speaker 2: only guy. They have two other very good backs. Hit
Speaker 2: he saw the game against the Cowboys kind of kind
Speaker 2: of showed that off. So yeah, it's just a it's
Speaker 2: a very diverse offense.
Speaker 4: John Lamar said in the past that he feels like
Speaker 4: a lot of these games this time of year are
Speaker 4: essentially like playoff games. When you look at the opponents
Speaker 4: you faced over the last month or so, especially now
Speaker 4: the Dolphins coming up. How how does this start to
Speaker 4: prepare you for January these types of matchups.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, yeah, that's I think it's exactly right.
Speaker 2: It's a very good point. You know, we played we
Speaker 2: played playoff teams I don't know, for about eight weeks
Speaker 2: in a row now, so and these are the kind
Speaker 2: of teams that you got to beat in the playoffs
Speaker 2: if you want to advance in the playoffs. So it's
Speaker 2: great preparation for us. And but yet the challenge is still,
Speaker 2: you know, you got to win those games to put
Speaker 2: yourself in the position that you want to be in
Speaker 2: as best you can. We've done that up until this point.
Speaker 2: But this is a whole nother, whole other can of
Speaker 2: worms that we're opening up here on Sunday. So we're
Speaker 2: not afraid of that. We're gonna get after it and
Speaker 2: play the best we can and try to put our
Speaker 2: best foot forward.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harball. You're listening to the
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