Speaker 1: Welcome to the Raves Prespass Podcast. It is Thursday, October thirty. First,
Speaker 1: the Ravens are gearing up for Sunday's game against the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. Today, we had a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: the coordinator, so let's kick it off with offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: at Todd Munkett.
Speaker 2: Can you talk about the difficulty of going through the.
Speaker 3: Practice week when you don't have your starting quarterback out
Speaker 3: there for a couple of first couple of days.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is what it is, you know, Josh,
Speaker 4: can you use the work? I mean, that's what you do.
Speaker 4: You get prepared for it, and like any other position,
Speaker 4: you go to work and you know, guys have to
Speaker 4: still function around him. That what the calls are. The
Speaker 4: calls are upfront and our skill guys, and we've got
Speaker 4: to have, you know, high level of execution no matter
Speaker 4: who's at what position.
Speaker 5: Obviously, you guys are able to bring in.
Speaker 3: Deontae Johnson done a lot of things well across the
Speaker 3: board offensively.
Speaker 2: What do you think he can.
Speaker 6: Maybe at an element he can add to your offense
Speaker 6: that you'd like to see get better even what you've
Speaker 6: already accomplished.
Speaker 4: Well, I think, first of all just seen him the
Speaker 4: first couple of days. I like what I see. I
Speaker 4: think he adds tremendous depth to us at receiver. I
Speaker 4: think he gives us another guy that can separate. I
Speaker 4: think that's really what you're you know. I think our
Speaker 4: tight ends can separate. I think our receivers can separate.
Speaker 4: I think we've got other guys that you know, can win,
Speaker 4: and I just think it allows us to. You know, again,
Speaker 4: you're just always trying to add talent, and I think
Speaker 4: we've added a talented player.
Speaker 7: Thought was a you know, if he had a one
Speaker 7: hundred and fifteen yards last game and it's kind of
Speaker 7: had a couple.
Speaker 8: Of really big games and season where you've seen his
Speaker 8: growth from last year into this year.
Speaker 4: Well, I think a couple of weeks ago I kind
Speaker 4: of mentioned. I just think there's a lot of things
Speaker 4: that go into that. I think our first year for
Speaker 4: a rookie, everything's different where he lives, different, food's different,
Speaker 4: coaching is different systems different, the stage you're on is different.
Speaker 4: Lot of players, some not as much, but for others,
Speaker 4: it is having to deal with everything that comes with
Speaker 4: being a professional player. Social media. How do you handle
Speaker 4: that part of it. How do you handle the length
Speaker 4: of a season? I mean, holy cow, how long our
Speaker 4: season is. I think it's just the comfort of already
Speaker 4: going through it, Like all of us, when you go
Speaker 4: through something, I think it's easier second time around if
Speaker 4: you advantage point.
Speaker 9: What was kind of the reason in the game Sunday
Speaker 9: why the offense may not have looked the way that
Speaker 9: they have coming into that game.
Speaker 4: Well, they're good. I mean, let's start with that. I
Speaker 4: mean they're good on defense. I mean that's a fact,
Speaker 4: and you have to give them some credit. Okay, that
Speaker 4: part of it. With that being said, you know, eight
Speaker 4: times we got inside the fifty, we got in their territory,
Speaker 4: we scored four. That's really in a nutshell. I mean,
Speaker 4: between lost shortage plays, missfort down opportunity, some penalties, that's
Speaker 4: what you're gonna end up with. We didn't play as
Speaker 4: clean as we'd been playing, and that showed, and that
Speaker 4: got us to where, Okay, you know, twenty four wasn't
Speaker 4: good enough. You know, it just wasn't. And we're certainly
Speaker 4: capable of better, and our guys know it. We got
Speaker 4: behind the sticks a little more than you want to.
Speaker 4: We we bailed ourselves out the week before, we had
Speaker 4: a number of get back on tracks we got out
Speaker 4: of with the penalties. We didn't do that as well
Speaker 4: this week, and that stung us. You know, we had
Speaker 4: some other opportunities that we just didn't you know, take
Speaker 4: advantage of. We're close and we made a number of
Speaker 4: really good plays. But and there's some calls you wish
Speaker 4: you had back on part of that too, So it's
Speaker 4: all of us, right, that's part of it.
Speaker 6: See, Derrick Henry's had a ton of success on the
Speaker 6: direct snap kind of stuff over his career. How hard
Speaker 6: is it for you to make a decision to take
Speaker 6: the ball out of the marsh hands given how good
Speaker 6: he is?
Speaker 4: Well, when it doesn't work, for sure, I mean it's
Speaker 4: you know, like any play, when it doesn't work, it's disappointing.
Speaker 4: It just happens when it's fourth down, whether you're in
Speaker 4: your own end and you decide to go forward, or
Speaker 4: in midfield and you decide to go forward, or when
Speaker 4: you have a chance to get points and you don't
Speaker 4: get it. You look at a number of things. How
Speaker 4: do we scheme it, you know, the thought that went
Speaker 4: into it, how we blocked it, Like any any given play,
Speaker 4: it's just those plays are the ones that you know
Speaker 4: that really sting. As we know, if it's a third down,
Speaker 4: all right, find we get another shot at it. Hey
Speaker 4: we kicked the field goal when it's a fourth down, mean,
Speaker 4: it's it. We've got to be on We got to
Speaker 4: be on point with how we design it and to
Speaker 4: give ourselves the best chance, because we had a chance
Speaker 4: right there to you know, but even before that play,
Speaker 4: I mean we get back to back penalties. I mean
Speaker 4: that that's what did it. We would have been on
Speaker 4: the two and a half yard line, so the penalties
Speaker 4: backed us up. Then we get to that and then
Speaker 4: I make that call and you know, it stops all
Speaker 4: the momentum scoring on the first drive. That's happened too
Speaker 4: in the last three weeks. We've moved it down there
Speaker 4: and we've turned it over either on downs or a
Speaker 4: turnover like we did against Commanders, And it's unacceptable.
Speaker 6: The team trading for Deontay Johnson Keith Mitchell now trending.
Speaker 5: Towards the return.
Speaker 6: How much of a bonus is that.
Speaker 10: To offense it's already been per forming at a really high level.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean again, having really talented players is and
Speaker 4: having a really talented staff and a game plan that
Speaker 4: they understand allows you to really function at a high level.
Speaker 4: But it starts with having a really talented player. So
Speaker 4: it's exciting to get those guys back. And it also
Speaker 4: provides depth. If you lose somebody, I mean, that's really
Speaker 4: you're that's the nature of what we do. You're gonna
Speaker 4: lose players. So having quality depth guys that can come
Speaker 4: in and function a really high level and when your
Speaker 4: expectations are really high. If your expectations aren't really high,
Speaker 4: then well that's different. We're the Baltimore Ravens, so we're
Speaker 4: expected to win. So whoever that is, we gotta have
Speaker 4: enough depth to do that. Go ahead, Are you stuck
Speaker 4: to keeping back this week? That's not up to me.
Speaker 9: The edition of deonce, do you feel like it allows
Speaker 9: you guys to do anything differently or in terms of looks,
Speaker 9: formations or even some of the things you guys do
Speaker 9: within all of it.
Speaker 4: We'll see see he gets acclimated, you know. First week's
Speaker 4: always tough, you know, getting him involved, and you know,
Speaker 4: but I'm excited what I've seen the first two days,
Speaker 4: you know, and we'll see where it goes, you know,
Speaker 4: some of that's game planning, how we want to tax somebody,
Speaker 4: how many receivers we want in the game, where we
Speaker 4: go from here. Same with the tight ends in terms
Speaker 4: of where are the backs we have on the field.
Speaker 5: To talk about just the kind of pressure that Denver
Speaker 5: can put on offense with their blitz packages, and also
Speaker 5: just the talents of cornerbacks and safeties that they had.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're playing at a really high level, very confidence,
Speaker 4: very confident. Their guys are really active. I mean they
Speaker 4: play hard, and that's one thing you see on film.
Speaker 4: You know, they've done a great job of building the
Speaker 4: core personalities of the players they've got playing on the field.
Speaker 4: I think that's impressive, how hard they play and schematically,
Speaker 4: how they challenge you with their pressure package. So we're
Speaker 4: up for it. You know, our guys are excited. We've
Speaker 4: seen that for the last four weeks. We've seen teams
Speaker 4: that have decided to pressure us. That's to me where
Speaker 4: the league is going. Otherwise we wouldn't be seeing it
Speaker 4: as much. So we've got to be on point with
Speaker 4: all of our IDs and where we go with the ball.
Speaker 3: When you look at the kind of the philosophy behind
Speaker 3: those short yardage calls. It is part of it that
Speaker 3: Lamar just can't draw quite as much attention in those
Speaker 3: situations as he as he normally does. I mean that
Speaker 3: is that why maybe it's not as much of a
Speaker 3: factor to have the ball in his hands or not
Speaker 3: in his hands.
Speaker 4: I don't know. We love it to be in his
Speaker 4: hands and we love for it to be in Derek's hands,
Speaker 4: and unfortunately it didn't work. You know, early in the
Speaker 4: year and the goal line. We did it and we scored,
Speaker 4: and you know, it's a different situation. It was on
Speaker 4: fourth down. You know, this one happened to be in
Speaker 4: fourth down, So it stings a lot more as I mean,
Speaker 4: we're not gonna do it again, but we're going to
Speaker 4: do whatever we think is necessary to convert and score points.
Speaker 4: Just didn't didn't work out that time, and we got
Speaker 4: we gotta we got to do it better. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's just the way it is with every every call
Speaker 4: that's it's on me.
Speaker 10: The offense obviously has played really well for the most
Speaker 10: part this year, have been efficient and so forth. It's
Speaker 10: curious keep talking about being clean and those sorts of
Speaker 10: things that going back to Cleveland, what was the conversation
Speaker 10: with Lamar in terms of that stuff post post game,
Speaker 10: in terms of the offense and to get back to
Speaker 10: where you guys want to.
Speaker 2: Get back to.
Speaker 4: Oh, you know, it's I think every week that we
Speaker 4: look at the tape. It's not really Lamar per se,
Speaker 4: as it is with everybody. It's pretty easy to look
Speaker 4: at the tape and you know, look and say, hey,
Speaker 4: where can we get better here? Starting with me, staff,
Speaker 4: getting in front of the mistakes, which is what coaching is.
Speaker 4: It's getting in front of it before it shows up
Speaker 4: on game day. That's what we're paid to do, and
Speaker 4: letting our players shine, and then they got to do
Speaker 4: their part. How do we how do we do it
Speaker 4: better in practice? How do we get it to where
Speaker 4: you know, the gifts we haven't been turning it over
Speaker 4: from a gift standpoint, but from a discipline of route running, assignment, communication,
Speaker 4: penalties that really put you behind the eight ball in
Speaker 4: terms of consistency. And because we're plenty capable, we have
Speaker 4: plenty of good players. So that's really the biggest part,
Speaker 4: starting with me, our staff players, eliminating the things that
Speaker 4: that stops you from being as efficient as you want
Speaker 4: to be. I mean that's a lot of talk, but
Speaker 4: the reality is is it's pretty obvious on tape when
Speaker 4: we do things the right way. Okay, starting with me
Speaker 4: and everybody else, we're pretty difficult to handle. But we
Speaker 4: just got to continue down that road to again eliminate
Speaker 4: the things that let stop you from you know, scorings,
Speaker 4: made points you don't need to win.
Speaker 1: Next up is defensive coordinator Zach Orr.
Speaker 5: Zach, you know that that last Cleveland possession and obviously
Speaker 5: the big pass by Jamis, But but your pressures sending
Speaker 5: a lot of guys. M was with the pressure up
Speaker 5: to that point, you know, adequate and and did you
Speaker 5: feel like you had to send more guys to the.
Speaker 2: Comments in Yeah, I think in that situation, they're right there.
Speaker 11: They ended up getting doing a good job and getting
Speaker 11: right down that line of the edge of field goal range.
Speaker 11: So trying to knock them out, knock them out of
Speaker 11: field goal range and then you know, make it as
Speaker 11: far as field goal as possible, and then worst case scenario,
Speaker 11: at least if they are going to score, they score
Speaker 11: fast to give our offense a chance to you know,
Speaker 11: go down there and and give them a chance to
Speaker 11: score and win the game. So that was kind of
Speaker 11: thinking that was going in and behind how we called
Speaker 11: the game, how gress we were at that point in time.
Speaker 1: The mass rushing and coverage obviously go hand in hand.
Speaker 1: You know, what's your view of the pass rush and
Speaker 1: how you kind of balance call on blitzes and getting
Speaker 1: out of the quarterback, But just the view of the
Speaker 1: pass rush over roll.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think you just said it perfectly, like Russian
Speaker 11: Russian coverage works perfectly.
Speaker 2: It has to work perfectly together for it to work.
Speaker 11: I mean, you can have great coverage, but now the
Speaker 11: quarterback holds on to the ball, and just the nature
Speaker 11: of the National Football League corporate has a lot of time.
Speaker 11: No matter how good your coverage is, he's gonna be
Speaker 11: able to find and guys are gonna be able to
Speaker 11: get open. And on the flip side, if your coverage
Speaker 11: gets there, you have If your rush gets there, your
Speaker 11: coverage has to be able to you know, sustain at
Speaker 11: least early on so the rush has a chance. So
Speaker 11: we've had good examples, great examples of the Russian coverage
Speaker 11: working together. And when it works together, I mean it's beautiful.
Speaker 11: When not right now, it's not clicking as much as
Speaker 11: we need it.
Speaker 2: To be.
Speaker 11: So we got different ways that we're trying to look
Speaker 11: at and find ways where we can generate you know,
Speaker 11: pressure obviously with blitzes, but just with the four men
Speaker 11: rush and just marrying the coverage and the rush together.
Speaker 11: So we're on the same page, and I think that
Speaker 11: will help lead for more big plays for us and
Speaker 11: eliminate big plays with offense.
Speaker 2: On the tilman slant touchdowner.
Speaker 10: It's not the first time.
Speaker 12: Why is it happening that the other team is snapping
Speaker 12: the ball and the regulars defense isn't ready.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I mean it's it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 11: Obviously we want to make sure that we get lined up.
Speaker 11: I got to make sure I get the call in
Speaker 11: fast enough for those guys. So it's a combination of
Speaker 11: those things. But I think that we got a good
Speaker 11: resolution to those problems getting the call in fast, keep
Speaker 11: a thing simple, and going out there executing. But obviously
Speaker 11: it's costing us at critical points of the game. So
Speaker 11: I got to do a better job, and we got
Speaker 11: to do a better job of executing and with the communication,
Speaker 11: and I think that we got a great plan going
Speaker 11: forward to make sure that we take care of that
Speaker 11: because you definitely don't want you want to be able
Speaker 11: to be lined up to give yourself a chance. If
Speaker 11: you're not lined up, I mean that's you know, you're
Speaker 11: given offense an easy way off the hook.
Speaker 13: If you sure guys hold on to some interceptions, the
Speaker 13: entire story about the defense is probably very different. How
Speaker 13: frustrating is that and has it affected then the way
Speaker 13: you make calls knowing the guys are not made some
Speaker 13: of those.
Speaker 11: Players, Yeah, it's frustrating obviously, you know we expect to
Speaker 11: make those plays.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's National Football League.
Speaker 11: We look at interceptions when they writ in our hands
Speaker 11: like a free throw in basketball.
Speaker 2: You gotta make those. So we look at it.
Speaker 11: Our guys are working hard at it, and it doesn't
Speaker 11: change the way that I'm calling it, or we're looking
Speaker 11: at as a defensive staff or coaches, because our guys are.
Speaker 2: In position to make plays.
Speaker 11: Our job as coaches to help those guys put them
Speaker 11: in the best possible position as possible.
Speaker 2: So we always striving for that.
Speaker 11: And guys they've been in position a lot of times
Speaker 11: and I'm confident that they're gonna come down with those plays.
Speaker 11: So we just keep coaching it, keep keep coaching, tracking
Speaker 11: the ball, catching the ball, work extra on catching and
Speaker 11: tracking the ball, and then when those opportunities come, we
Speaker 11: got to capitalize on them. So nobody's more frustrated than
Speaker 11: the guys who've had those opportunities. So, you know, we
Speaker 11: appreciate the attention of detail that they've they've taken to
Speaker 11: make sure that we come up with those opportunities next
Speaker 11: time they present themselves.
Speaker 2: I'm open those opportunities.
Speaker 5: Do you think that's sort of men to Is you
Speaker 5: a confidence issue?
Speaker 14: And is that more sort of kind of putting pressure
Speaker 14: on yourself when you see the ball coming forward you.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I don't think.
Speaker 11: I think the crazy enough is it could be a
Speaker 11: mental issue or confident issue.
Speaker 2: But with our guys, I don't.
Speaker 11: See it as a as a confident mental issue because
Speaker 11: they're very confident group.
Speaker 2: They're still mentally strong.
Speaker 11: You know, they're catching, they're catching some interceptions in practice,
Speaker 11: which is which is good. Now we got to take
Speaker 11: it over to the game. So just they I you know,
Speaker 11: I expect them to keep on attacking the football, and
Speaker 11: I know for a fact I'm confident that we're gonna
Speaker 11: start coming away with those, so it's it's gonna be
Speaker 11: good for us.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 3: Like a fan came up to you in the grocery
Speaker 3: store or something, and maybe maybe it's somebody who's not
Speaker 3: locked into all the details of the team and they
Speaker 3: just said to you, why is this thing not working
Speaker 3: as well now as it was at this time? Rusher,
Speaker 3: what will be your answers?
Speaker 2: That's good, that's a good question. My answer.
Speaker 11: My answer would be, like, you know, everything doesn't. You know,
Speaker 11: even though you're putting into work, everything doesn't come together
Speaker 11: as fast as you may want it to.
Speaker 2: All you can do is continue to grind.
Speaker 11: Continue to chase perfection, and continue.
Speaker 2: To work at And that's what we're doing.
Speaker 11: And we know that the work that we're putting in,
Speaker 11: we know that attention of detail that we're doing is
Speaker 11: gonna pay off. And you know, obviously it sounds like
Speaker 11: a broken record, been saying that for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 11: but I honestly truly believe that with the coaches and
Speaker 11: the players that we have, it's gonna come together, and
Speaker 11: it's gonna come together at the right time, and it's
Speaker 11: gonna be big for us down this last half of
Speaker 11: the season.
Speaker 2: A big picture.
Speaker 6: When things aren't doing as well as you want them
Speaker 6: to be, how much do you say yourself, well, you
Speaker 6: have to change some of what we're doing to get
Speaker 6: different results. Versus, hey, I believe in what we've built here.
Speaker 6: We need to be patient for it to come together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, you look at all of it.
Speaker 11: I think you'll be crazy if you look at some
Speaker 11: things and be like, you don't have to change some
Speaker 11: stuff up. So we've been looking at that hard look
Speaker 11: and see what our guys can go out there and
Speaker 11: absolutely execute to the highest level and feel confident and
Speaker 11: and we're gonna do that. And also you look at
Speaker 11: some of the things that you may not have executed
Speaker 11: like you wanted to, but you're looking at the rules,
Speaker 11: the fundamentals and the principles of everything is sound and
Speaker 11: we've got examples of doing that well. So you just
Speaker 11: continue to try to coach up. So it's a good
Speaker 11: balance you have to you have to find. But here
Speaker 11: we're we're always about what can our players do, uh,
Speaker 11: and what can they execute at a high level and
Speaker 11: go out there and play confident fast.
Speaker 2: So we're always looking at that.
Speaker 11: And me me personally, I'm I don't care what what
Speaker 11: we run, what covers you run. If we got a blitz,
Speaker 11: a whole bunch, if we don't have the blitz at all, whatever,
Speaker 11: these guys can go do whatever's gonna help us play
Speaker 11: at a high level of defense. That's that's what we're
Speaker 11: gonna do.
Speaker 9: How concerned are you about the health status of your
Speaker 9: interior of your defensive line right now? And how does
Speaker 9: that impact the way you may call the game?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Man, I mean, obviously we got some guys that are
Speaker 11: banged up. You know, we'll see if they if they
Speaker 11: you know, make it to the game Sunday, obviously, Uh,
Speaker 11: those guys are very important players for us. But I
Speaker 11: mean the guys we got behind them, I'm excited about.
Speaker 11: They've been getting some good work in practice. So uh,
Speaker 11: here in Baltimore, the interior d line is something we
Speaker 11: take serious and we always have a contingency plan for that.
Speaker 11: And I don't think that's gonna really change, you know,
Speaker 11: the way the way we call it. You know, if
Speaker 11: we have to adapt in game, we will, but I
Speaker 11: don't think that's gonna change the way. We got big
Speaker 11: guys from the starters, from the depth pieces, big strong,
Speaker 11: physical guys who know how to play square and get
Speaker 11: after it.
Speaker 3: When you have a guy like Marcus Williams who used
Speaker 3: to playing every snap every week doesn't play at all,
Speaker 3: do you do you feel a need to explain the
Speaker 3: reasoning mind that not just to him, but to the
Speaker 3: entire secondary or the entire defense, so they sort of
Speaker 3: understand the big picture of.
Speaker 4: What's going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've had those.
Speaker 11: We had those conversations together with Marcus obviously, and then
Speaker 11: with the defense on a personal level. So you know,
Speaker 11: we kept those in the house. We had those conversations.
Speaker 11: And one thing I say about Marcus is the way
Speaker 11: he the way he handled what went down is great man.
Speaker 11: And he's just a great teammate. He's been a pro
Speaker 11: since he's been here. He handled last week like a pro.
Speaker 11: So I'm excited to see how we move and how
Speaker 11: he moves going forward. So, like I said, like I
Speaker 11: got up here and said last we got all the
Speaker 11: confidence in Marcus Williams. So, like I said, he had
Speaker 11: a great day of practice today, great day of practice yesterday,
Speaker 11: and you know, I think that the best is to
Speaker 11: come for him.
Speaker 13: So that consimilated pressures that were really effective a lot
Speaker 13: last year and pretty good bills this year. Really well,
Speaker 13: things don't seem to be as effective currently. Do you
Speaker 13: are going back and look, do you think or is
Speaker 13: there a tipping at all going on of letting them
Speaker 13: know which as you study it? Why do you think
Speaker 13: it's not.
Speaker 2: Been as effective?
Speaker 11: I think it's just a you know a combination of
Speaker 11: things of the or we're getting there, but the coverage
Speaker 11: is just a tick off, or we're making a misstep.
Speaker 11: So I think it's been effective for us, has been
Speaker 11: good for us, but at certain times it hasn't been
Speaker 11: And then like like I've been saying, offense has been
Speaker 11: capitalizing our those you know, those.
Speaker 2: Mistakes we've been making.
Speaker 11: So you know, I think I think the pressures, assimilated
Speaker 11: pressures specifically are good. I mean, I think you see
Speaker 11: guys in the backfield, guys causing havoc at a high rate.
Speaker 11: But now we just got to continue to put together
Speaker 11: the rush and the and the coverage together.
Speaker 7: Do you feel that the scheme and the plays that
Speaker 7: you're calling have been successful because plays have been there
Speaker 7: to be made. Both they have been made and they've
Speaker 7: been you know, well within reach of making them, and
Speaker 7: it's just execution and building off of those.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's that, you know, every we come
Speaker 11: up with a game plan, we've been confident in the
Speaker 11: game plan, feel like the game plans being good. And
Speaker 11: the players are the are the ones who give us
Speaker 11: confident in the game plan. So you know, if they
Speaker 11: have if we come up short on some plays, yes,
Speaker 11: can I do a better job? Yes, you ask the
Speaker 11: players they can do a better job. Yes, So it's
Speaker 11: we all in this together. So you know, obviously it
Speaker 11: could I could not. I could be I could call
Speaker 11: you know, quote unquote would be a bad play, but
Speaker 11: we go out there and get a sack, fumble or
Speaker 11: interception now, you know said everybody else looks like a
Speaker 11: good play. So you know, the players make it happen,
Speaker 11: you know. And like I said, I think we're gonna
Speaker 11: be We're gonna be fine, man. Like the confidence isn't
Speaker 11: wavering on our side, on their side. You know, the
Speaker 11: play call is the play call. Uh, we think like
Speaker 11: every we think every play call is a good play call.
Speaker 11: It's on the sheet, you know for a reason, you know,
Speaker 11: going into the week. So we'll come down with those opportunities,
Speaker 11: like we're talking about, we've got to execute that a
Speaker 11: bet at a better level, and us as coach has
Speaker 11: got to make sure that we do a better job
Speaker 11: of just making sure everybody understands exactly what to do,
Speaker 11: when to do it, and how to do it exactly.
Speaker 5: A lot, I know, a lot goes in the game
Speaker 5: day and active decisions. But David Jaba was inactive for
Speaker 5: the first time this past Sunday. What are you seeing
Speaker 5: from him and what do you want to see from
Speaker 5: him moving forward to maybe become more of a factor
Speaker 5: for a passion pass rush that you guys.
Speaker 2: Want to improve.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean a lot of stuff goes into the
Speaker 11: game day actives and stuff and just a Jobo. He's
Speaker 11: been doing a good job for us. He's been physical,
Speaker 11: he's been been a hammer in there. Nothing him being
Speaker 11: active had nothing to do with his with his UH,
Speaker 11: with his play. So I'm excited for him. He's been
Speaker 11: out here working and grinding, and like I said, you
Speaker 11: know that you know it's a lot that goes into
Speaker 11: active It could be something that's not going on even
Speaker 11: with your position or your side of the.
Speaker 2: Ball, so you know that that is what it is.
Speaker 11: And UH, but the Jobo is doing a great job
Speaker 11: for us with Nomie.
Speaker 6: I know he's seeing a lot of detention.
Speaker 9: A lot of double teams.
Speaker 6: You know, it can be frustrated when the production isn't
Speaker 6: what it was previous year. How are you kind of
Speaker 6: coaching him and gutting him do that? What are you
Speaker 6: seeing from Nami?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I see, I see the same player.
Speaker 11: I mean, obviously teams are starting to pay a little
Speaker 11: bit more attention to him, so we're trying to find
Speaker 11: different ways to move him around, keep the offense off
Speaker 11: off balance, single him up.
Speaker 2: But he's not discouraged.
Speaker 11: I told him, keep playing how you playing, keep studying
Speaker 11: how you're studying, and then the numbers are gonna come.
Speaker 11: So you know, it's just like uh, somebody who's going
Speaker 11: on a streak or whatever, like shooting like a great
Speaker 11: a great three point shooter. Okay, you know you're a
Speaker 11: great shooter, right you're shooting, You're shooting. You might not
Speaker 11: be getting all those opportunities to make shots, but you know,
Speaker 11: when it when it, when it all hits, you know,
Speaker 11: you go on the streak. So I think we'll see
Speaker 11: that from Beaks here soon. Man, he's been playing great
Speaker 11: football for us. He's gonna continue to play great football
Speaker 11: for us and the numbers are gonna come soon.
Speaker 1: Next is special teams coordinator Chris Forton.
Speaker 8: Good to see everyone as always. Man, I hope everyone
Speaker 8: out here is doing well. What do you got for me.
Speaker 2: Today, Chris?
Speaker 14: You know, John on Monday was talking to us about
Speaker 14: you know, just felt like, especially it seems like in
Speaker 14: the return game with not a lot of prayer times
Speaker 14: this week and maybe something, you know, judgment things. I
Speaker 14: know you didn't have your top returner, but how do
Speaker 14: you guys kind of take that internally and what's it
Speaker 14: like trying to fix that this week.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things I believe we take.
Speaker 8: We take it as a challenge because every time we
Speaker 8: go out there, we want it. We want to be perfect,
Speaker 8: and every situation is different. Every kickoff, every kickoff team
Speaker 8: we face is going to be a little bit different.
Speaker 8: Some teams will probably present a little bit more challenges
Speaker 8: than we then what we've seen the week before. But
Speaker 8: for us, it's an opportunity for us to go in
Speaker 8: there after the game, watch the tape, get it fixed,
Speaker 8: and then come back out next week and say, if
Speaker 8: we get our opportunities, let's make the most of them.
Speaker 8: Other than that, you know, outside of the outside of
Speaker 8: the penalties, things like that. Those are things that I
Speaker 8: think from a technique standpoint, when we're out here just
Speaker 8: just putting ourselves in the right spot, uh, making the blocks,
Speaker 8: we could eliminate all those things. So these are these
Speaker 8: are in my eyes, these are easy fixes for us
Speaker 8: to fix these things, and so we can get ourselves going.
Speaker 8: But we haven't been perfect, right and so those are
Speaker 8: the things that we're chasing every week.
Speaker 5: John also had said, Chris cally are kind of lost
Speaker 5: sight of where he was.
Speaker 14: Maybe he ended up bringing two puns out or kickoffs
Speaker 14: out of the end zone, which is not the preference.
Speaker 5: How do you teach that.
Speaker 2: Field awareness.
Speaker 8: One of one of the ways for Chris Well, let
Speaker 8: me let me just say this. I think the kids,
Speaker 8: I think the kid's done done a great job for
Speaker 8: us situations where you get when he finds himselves in
Speaker 8: situations where you know he's strattling, he's straddling the goal line,
Speaker 8: whether he brings it in or he brings it out, Well,
Speaker 8: if the ball's clearly in, we can help him. We
Speaker 8: have ways in which we can help him with our
Speaker 8: off returner. It's just like putting his hands out. Hey,
Speaker 8: let's let's keep this one in. If he doesn't know,
Speaker 8: you know, and and he's straddling that that line, then
Speaker 8: he's got to make a decision of whether, you know,
Speaker 8: he takes a knee, where is his body posis?
Speaker 2: Should he run? Should he not run?
Speaker 8: If it's clearly an end zone, we want to keep
Speaker 8: those in the end zone. But sometimes being a young guy,
Speaker 8: you know, you find yourself a situation. So what do
Speaker 8: we do. We come out here, we drill it, we
Speaker 8: work it. We put him in those situations so we
Speaker 8: can help him moving forward.
Speaker 14: John talk about the possibility of Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 12: Factoring into the return game.
Speaker 10: I guess maybe there's been some reps.
Speaker 14: Is it possible for this Sunday or future Sundays.
Speaker 8: I don't really know, you know, how that situation is
Speaker 8: gonna work out. But what I do know is we
Speaker 8: got Deontay back there. We're gonna get him, We're gonna
Speaker 8: get him worked in. We're gonna see how he catches
Speaker 8: the ball. It's been a while for him, right, he
Speaker 8: hadn't caught a ball since twenty twenty, I believe. So
Speaker 8: we get him out there, we get him worked in
Speaker 8: and then however it shakes out, it's kind of how
Speaker 8: it's going to shake out.
Speaker 2: But as of right now, you know, we're gon we're
Speaker 2: gonna roll with Thailand.
Speaker 8: I'll put him back there, and then as we as
Speaker 8: we continue to move forward, and because Deontay does offer
Speaker 8: something a little bit different. He has a lot of
Speaker 8: his skill with the ball in his hands. I mean,
Speaker 8: it's tremendous. We all know what he can do. So
Speaker 8: for us, it's just let's get him caught up to
Speaker 8: speed because it is a little bit different if you
Speaker 8: haven't done it in a long time.
Speaker 10: Chris is his key guy that you might look at
Speaker 10: at some point in that one too.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, Keaton's special, right, Uh, He's a he's
Speaker 8: a special player. We all we all seen what he
Speaker 8: did last year whenever he got the ball in his hands.
Speaker 8: For us, it's it's whatever player we have available that
Speaker 8: we feel is best for us and we can put
Speaker 8: back there. We're gonna give him an opportunity and we're
Speaker 8: gonna let him roll.
Speaker 3: Chris, was there anything off with Justin physically on the
Speaker 3: kick that he missed? I mean I looked like he
Speaker 3: had he slipped a little bit on the previous one
Speaker 3: and then he obviously didn't hit that ball the way
Speaker 3: that he wanted to.
Speaker 2: Well, I really, I.
Speaker 8: Really don't know that much. I don't think anything was
Speaker 8: off with him. I mean, I think that's more. That's
Speaker 8: more if he felt something that was off or or whatnot.
Speaker 8: But you know, for us, man, we just like again
Speaker 8: with Justin, it's it's it's his mindset him going out
Speaker 8: there and all he wants to do is, man, he
Speaker 8: wants to make kicks. So when it doesn't go right,
Speaker 8: I know, he does a deep dive analyzing the things
Speaker 8: that maybe he could have done, he could have done differently,
Speaker 8: and we just kind of leave that to We just
Speaker 8: leave that up to him, and we talked to him
Speaker 8: and we get it coached up and we were ready
Speaker 8: for our next opportunity.
Speaker 2: Chris, do you.
Speaker 7: Feel that your unit has had a complete performance in
Speaker 7: any of the you know, we're at the midway point
Speaker 7: of the season. Do you feel that they've had a
Speaker 7: complete performance in any of these games?
Speaker 2: Not at all? Not at all.
Speaker 8: I mean, I mean when you talk about our standard, Uh,
Speaker 8: there's no way. If if anyone's out there watching that tape,
Speaker 8: you can't say we've we've played our a complete game
Speaker 8: all six phases.
Speaker 2: Now, We've done a lot of good things.
Speaker 8: Last last week we covered more kicks than we've covered
Speaker 8: in a game, and I thought our kickoff team played
Speaker 8: pretty darn good, right.
Speaker 2: So I think as we continue to go on and
Speaker 2: we continue.
Speaker 8: To develop our young guys, we're gonna get to do
Speaker 8: a lot more. And I and we believe that as
Speaker 8: long as we come out here and we work hard
Speaker 8: and we continue to get better, we'll start to see
Speaker 8: what we do in practice come to life on game day,
Speaker 8: because that's really where it counts, and that's the most important.
Speaker 7: It's frustration the fact that you know new issues are
Speaker 7: cropping up. Issues that you've had, you know at the
Speaker 7: beginning of the season are so kind of cropping out.
Speaker 7: I know it's different in the game, but it seems
Speaker 7: that things seem to be recurring that are not to
Speaker 7: the standard for you in the state.
Speaker 8: There's never any frustration with me because these players man there,
Speaker 8: they're high profile players. When they go out there, I
Speaker 8: know for a fact that they want to do things
Speaker 8: right and they're trying to do things right, and sometimes
Speaker 8: things don't go to plan. There's a defense on the
Speaker 8: other side. And I'm mainly talking about from this game
Speaker 8: because it seems like that's where.
Speaker 2: This is going.
Speaker 8: I'm talking about the about the penalties because we did
Speaker 8: we did hit a big return there, right, We got
Speaker 8: the ball out past the forty and then we had
Speaker 8: a penalty that brought us back, and that really came
Speaker 8: to a technique issue. Those are things we can get
Speaker 8: rid of. Those are things that we know we can
Speaker 8: get rid of. So we just got to take care
Speaker 8: of that. But as far as being frustrated, not at all.
Speaker 8: I mean, I mean, we're chasing greatness. We're trying to
Speaker 8: chase greatness, and that's not easy, right, but we got
Speaker 8: to continue to just come out here every day, line
Speaker 8: up and let's get better. Let's get better so we
Speaker 8: can put our put the standard on tape on Sundays.
Speaker 1: Next up is tight end Mark Andrews.
Speaker 13: Tough as it preparing for, you know, a team like
Speaker 13: this when you're not having your starting quarterback out there
Speaker 13: too to get ready.
Speaker 12: You know, I think for us right now, it's uh,
Speaker 12: you know, we've had a great week of practice. You know,
Speaker 12: guys are flying around running incredible routes. You know, a
Speaker 12: Lineman doing anything. So it's it's everything that we do
Speaker 12: and and we're fortunate to have a guy like josh
Speaker 12: and to be in there in practicing. But uh, we're
Speaker 12: confident in everybody.
Speaker 2: That we have.
Speaker 13: How much of the offense can you still run or
Speaker 13: how much of the offense can you go on? If
Speaker 13: it was josh versus Lamar, we got everything.
Speaker 12: We got everything. And that's the beautiful thing is as
Speaker 12: we're out here working and getting better and there's no falloff.
Speaker 12: But uh, we're blessed by two incredible quarterbacks. Obviously Lamar
Speaker 12: is one on one, but you know Joshua was doing
Speaker 12: this thing out there too.
Speaker 1: And Mark, you've been here a long time. What is
Speaker 1: the key in bouncing back, you know from the tough
Speaker 1: game and getting back on track.
Speaker 12: I think that we've done good job this year of
Speaker 12: you know, kind of looking at ourselves in the mirror
Speaker 12: and and figuring out, you know, we need to execute better,
Speaker 12: we need to do some things better and just dial
Speaker 12: it down, and you know, I think that we will.
Speaker 12: And this is a good opportunity this week and it's
Speaker 12: a really good team and I know the guys are
Speaker 12: excited about that. So so just fly around and have fun.
Speaker 4: Should we have more National tight End Days?
Speaker 12: That seemed to work out pretty well for Yeah, a
Speaker 12: lot of tight ends making some big time plays, you know.
Speaker 12: But again I'm just for the most part, I'm just
Speaker 12: proud of our guys. You know, our guys in the
Speaker 12: tight end room and have been fighting all year long
Speaker 12: and it's been a really fun group.
Speaker 13: What kind of point you think of that position for
Speaker 13: a long time was not getting a lot of love
Speaker 13: that even have that uh kind of you know from
Speaker 13: your tight end you that you guys have had the
Speaker 13: growth of the position and the getting attention.
Speaker 12: For word, well, it's been huge, and I think that
Speaker 12: that the love is deserved. You know, there's been so
Speaker 12: many great tight ends throughout the throughout the years that
Speaker 12: paid the way, you know, for us to be where
Speaker 12: we are right now. And it's such a virstatile and
Speaker 12: integral part of an offense that you got a great
Speaker 12: tight end or great tight ends, it makes a big difference.
Speaker 12: So it's been awesome.
Speaker 1: Next up is running back Derrick Henry.
Speaker 4: Getting ready for this week.
Speaker 13: What's the challenge in not having Lamar out there for practice?
Speaker 13: Obviously we don't know what it's at it for Sunday.
Speaker 2: But is it?
Speaker 13: How hard is to get ready for a team without
Speaker 13: your starting quarterback during the practice.
Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta still gotta go to work.
Speaker 15: I'm gonna pair the same, nothing change, you know, wait
Speaker 15: till you gets out there. I'm always practice hard to
Speaker 15: try to do my job.
Speaker 1: Then, how would you describe approach this week as you
Speaker 1: get ready for another AFC Matchow.
Speaker 2: My approachious week?
Speaker 12: The team's approach, I mean approach is the same.
Speaker 15: Go out there and try to win a game, work
Speaker 15: hard throughout the week, make each other better, and go
Speaker 15: execute on Sunday. I don't think nothing's changed as far
Speaker 15: as our approach. Better win the game, got it, come
Speaker 15: to work and do our job, and while there, execute
Speaker 15: on Sunday to get in the W column.
Speaker 9: How how do you think the addition of Deontate john
Speaker 9: say deont Johnson helps you. Guys's office that's already kind
Speaker 9: of been clicked into this bold.
Speaker 2: I mean we don't know yet.
Speaker 15: He hasn't been out there, but I'm excited to, you know,
Speaker 15: have him a part of the sphy. He's a great player.
Speaker 15: Run roulse great UH played against him. He was in
Speaker 15: Pittsburgh and I always thought he was a great player,
Speaker 15: so be a great addition. You know, you gotta put
Speaker 15: it together on the field. So we'll see once it
Speaker 15: gets in there, and each.
Speaker 13: Opportunity you see Denver's front seven and prepping for them,
Speaker 13: you know, Sean Payton's d's have always been that's he's
Speaker 13: known for.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, I mean not not match space on film.
Speaker 15: They try to uh clog it up and well wall
Speaker 15: it off, and I think they do a great job,
Speaker 15: have uh great uh penetrating front and you know, great
Speaker 15: depth as well, so when they're they're great groups. So
Speaker 15: it's gonna be tough Sunday.
Speaker 8: How important are.
Speaker 7: Those early downs?
Speaker 1: You know, so you can get in third and manageable situations,
Speaker 1: But how how important is it to have success in
Speaker 1: those early downs?
Speaker 15: I mean, you know that creates momentum and within the offense,
Speaker 15: uh to get us into a drive and get that
Speaker 15: first first down and hope with lead to more supposed
Speaker 15: to plays and then get into the red zone and
Speaker 15: get points. But yeah, you wanna you know, make uh
Speaker 15: big place on early down so you're not in thirty
Speaker 15: loans and let the defense be able to just unraveled
Speaker 15: on you. But Yeah, that's that's that's definitely important.
Speaker 1: If you're listening to the Ravens Press Past podcast, make
Speaker 1: sure you subscribe. Also, go over to the Lounge podcast
Speaker 1: feed and subscribe there as well. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for listening. We'll be back with you again tomorrow