Speaker 1: Welcome into Ravens Press Pass. Today you'll hear from head
Speaker 1: coach John Harball following the Ravens twenty four to sixteen
Speaker 1: win over the Tennessee Titans in London. Here's Coach Harball.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to see everybody here. Appreciate that. I not
Speaker 2: some journalists aren't here. They're probably traveling back from London.
Speaker 2: So we appreciate those that were there and appreciate you
Speaker 2: guys back here for being here. First of all, just
Speaker 2: congrats to our players and our coaches for a great win.
Speaker 2: It's a tough win over there against a very good
Speaker 2: football team, but our guys got the job done. I'm
Speaker 2: proud of them for that. To the fans that were there,
Speaker 2: there was a lot of great fans in London, Ravens
Speaker 2: fans from really all over the world, and a lot
Speaker 2: from Baltimore too. I can't tell you how many fans
Speaker 2: after the game we saw and they're like from Baltimore,
Speaker 2: coaching from Baltimore, you know, and they were excited so
Speaker 2: and also fans from different places. It's really cool to
Speaker 2: see how many Ravens fans are all over the world.
Speaker 2: It was exciting. And then a salute to our staff,
Speaker 2: Simon Keith, people that you don't even know that just
Speaker 2: did such a great job, Joan Megan, all the different
Speaker 2: people that did such an amazing job to make the
Speaker 2: trip out there as best as it could be for
Speaker 2: the players and the coaches to focus on football and
Speaker 2: getting ready to play the game. So I'm just really
Speaker 2: happy about that, and for Steve Bashatti Steven Renee both
Speaker 2: for what they do for us in terms of doing
Speaker 2: everything first class so we can do things in a
Speaker 2: way that just gives us the best chance to be
Speaker 2: as good as we can possibly be. So it really
Speaker 2: shows up on a trip like that with that, what
Speaker 2: questions you have.
Speaker 3: John, You just acknowledged all the work that goes into
Speaker 3: that trip, and there's so much discussion about going earlier,
Speaker 3: going later in the week.
Speaker 2: But the other side of that, you know, for the most.
Speaker 3: Part, over the years, teams have generally had their buy
Speaker 3: with some exceptions including you six years ago. What do
Speaker 3: you do different only this week, if anything, to try
Speaker 3: to get guys reactivated to be back in the Eastern time.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, that's a great question. I don't really
Speaker 2: know that we have any definitive like science on that,
Speaker 2: but we're going to just get back to business as usual.
Speaker 2: We're going to try to get back on our schedule.
Speaker 2: I think coming this way is kind of a good thing.
Speaker 2: You're used to getting up, you know, because you're ahead
Speaker 2: of time there. So we'll be back at it tomorrow
Speaker 2: afternoon with our guys doing what we do. They're going
Speaker 2: to get a chance to sleep all day to day.
Speaker 2: If they want, they'll go to good Night's Rest tonight.
Speaker 2: They don't have to come until till twelve fifteen on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: and then we'll be pointed towards the Lions.
Speaker 3: There's been a lot of interest among your fans about
Speaker 3: the adjection call on Kyle, you know, kind of wondering
Speaker 3: what the standard is. I guess is that something that
Speaker 3: you've given more thought to, or is this something you
Speaker 3: canna lost the league about? Kind of where are you
Speaker 3: going to?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean she certainly will ask the league
Speaker 2: about it, because you just want to understand what the
Speaker 2: parameters are I think really based you generally, it was
Speaker 2: definitely a flaggable penalty, no doubt about that. It was
Speaker 2: helmet the helmet. The one thing I do know is
Speaker 2: that Kyle certainly didn't intend to do that. He was
Speaker 2: coming over trying to play the ball and their helmets hit,
Speaker 2: you know, so and it was forcible, so it should
Speaker 2: have been flagged. Beyond that, it's really a judgment call,
Speaker 2: whether the officials on the field make it or whether
Speaker 2: it goes back to New York, which is my understanding
Speaker 2: it did in that particular case. It's a judgment call
Speaker 2: on their part and they make it and you just
Speaker 2: you just live with it. That's what it is. So
Speaker 2: they'll explain it to us, I'm sure, and they had
Speaker 2: their reasons for doing it, and that's the way it went,
Speaker 2: and we accept that.
Speaker 3: I don't think to go back to December of twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: you guys fast.
Speaker 4: Basically cut too snow and now it's become a huge
Speaker 4: part of this defense.
Speaker 3: How has he changed from that player to this point.
Speaker 2: Well, it was kind of a numbers game at the time.
Speaker 2: We still liked him at the time, and then we
Speaker 2: brought him back right away, you know, and he came
Speaker 2: available again. So I don't think it was ever a
Speaker 2: thing that we didn't like Gino. But he's definitely a
Speaker 2: developed into a heck of a player. You know, he's
Speaker 2: grown so much bo since those days and he was
Speaker 2: he was a good player then, but man, he's just
Speaker 2: getting his opportunity. I think it's a good example of
Speaker 2: someone that you know, takes care of the details on
Speaker 2: a day to day basis, comes to work every day,
Speaker 2: does his best, you know, doesn't doesn't complain, doesn't get
Speaker 2: all caught up in things. Why is this not happening
Speaker 2: for me? Or that's not happening for me. Then when
Speaker 2: his opportunity comes, he's prepared and he make the most
Speaker 2: of it, you know, And that's something that you just
Speaker 2: it's just great to see and it's a good lesson
Speaker 2: I think for young people, you know, if they're going
Speaker 2: to watch it. I want to be great at something.
Speaker 2: I want to be a pro football player. Watch Geno
Speaker 2: Stone and what he's been doing with Gino.
Speaker 3: Is it just about him having a patient and patients
Speaker 3: and now his opportunity as them or does he does
Speaker 3: something differently recently that's who you not step into the role.
Speaker 2: But it's a great question more than just patience. Patience, Yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: it's part of it because understanding that you don't determine
Speaker 2: when the opportunity comes, but the fact that you do
Speaker 2: determine what you do to be prepared for the opportunity
Speaker 2: when it comes. And what he's done every single day,
Speaker 2: which is work as hard as he can, be coachable
Speaker 2: and be his best one day at a time. Then
Speaker 2: when the chance came, he was ready for it.
Speaker 5: Have you got to send?
Speaker 3: So Marcus Williams with a hamstring, if it's gonna be
Speaker 3: something that's gonna keep him out a little while. And
Speaker 3: and I guess just for him, I'm disappointing, you know,
Speaker 3: because he's already deal with the peg to work his
Speaker 3: way back to.
Speaker 2: That and dealing with this. Yeah, it's for Marcus, you know,
Speaker 2: it's challenging. It's kind of like it's how it goes sometimes.
Speaker 2: And it was he was trying to block on the
Speaker 2: return the Gino's interception return and got kind of hit
Speaker 2: sort of from behind it on the side, and that's
Speaker 2: kind of made the hamstring string not a long term hamstring,
Speaker 2: But hamstrings are finicky. So it's not gonna be a
Speaker 2: couple of days. It might be. It's gonna be week
Speaker 2: to week probably. I think he's gonna be real iffy
Speaker 2: for this week and then after that we'll see where
Speaker 2: it goes.
Speaker 5: Regarding not of you talked about getting back to business usual.
Speaker 5: What went into that decision originally to do not have
Speaker 5: the byway after this.
Speaker 2: Intercon Yeah, well it's not our choice. I legal. The
Speaker 2: way it works is they'll call every team and say, hey,
Speaker 2: these are the options that you guys might be looking at.
Speaker 2: You know, what would you prefer? Not we can't get
Speaker 2: guarantee anything, but what would you kind of rather prefer?
Speaker 2: Would you want in this case early buy or late by?
Speaker 2: And so it's not really decision that we make so much.
Speaker 2: It's like, would you rather I'm not we didn't really
Speaker 2: want to have a buye too early, but they gave
Speaker 2: us the late bye. It was in an early game
Speaker 2: in London, So it's just the way work. We liked
Speaker 2: the later by the early game in London is what
Speaker 2: it is. We're playing the lines. It just turns out,
Speaker 2: you know, arguably the best team in the NFC right
Speaker 2: now playing great football, and so that's where we're at.
Speaker 3: You talked yesterday about how to be more efficient in
Speaker 3: the red zone. Probably the quickest path to that is
Speaker 3: to be more efficient in the running game.
Speaker 2: Especially on the power runs.
Speaker 3: When you looked at the tip of the game, did
Speaker 3: you see a pattern to why I think it didn't
Speaker 3: work as well in the situations or I don't know, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I don't know if there's any one theme. It's
Speaker 2: always little things here and there. But you know, we
Speaker 2: were running into some big fronts there, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, We try to spread them out. They didn't
Speaker 2: cooperate quite as much in terms of spreading out, and
Speaker 2: then we didn't. You know, they did a good job.
Speaker 2: They're a very good front. I mean, they've got some
Speaker 2: very physical players. The whole game was like that. They
Speaker 2: are a physical, tough run defense. We're going to see
Speaker 2: as or more this week against Alliance. So we're gonna
Speaker 2: have to do a great job of game planning all
Speaker 2: across the field, red zone, outside the red zone, run pass, run,
Speaker 2: pass options, play action, all that stuff is gonna have
Speaker 2: to be really well organized, and we're gonna have to
Speaker 2: be prepared because we're going against just as good a defense,
Speaker 2: are better, So it's part of that. We've got to
Speaker 2: do a great job of game planning down there and
Speaker 2: setting up the plays in a way that we can
Speaker 2: try to find some advantage just for ourselves.
Speaker 6: John the as much has been really consistent really all
Speaker 6: here's one I think you seek too. Why you think
Speaker 6: that is as an hand spot of fact, they got
Speaker 6: to getting it from a lot of different people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably, Cliff, It is probably because it's a lot
Speaker 2: of different people. You know, we are we're getting a
Speaker 2: pass rush production from everybody. It was a lot of
Speaker 2: times it was it was pressures early, which I think
Speaker 2: you'd mentioned a couple of times. Now it's pressures and sacks.
Speaker 2: We're starting. The sacks are starting to fall in place,
Speaker 2: and I think we've spent spoken about that in terms
Speaker 2: of they come in bunches sometimes, so we want to
Speaker 2: keep the sacks coming. They did a great job yesterday
Speaker 2: morning in terms of finishing off those sacks. You know,
Speaker 2: getting the quarterback on the ground is kind of the
Speaker 2: last straw. And even when the quarterback broke out a
Speaker 2: couple times, whichever quarterback it was, Tannehill or Willis, our
Speaker 2: guys were able to chase him down. So that's what
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 3: Have you been able to get any other updates on that,
Speaker 3: any of the guys if you left the game, like.
Speaker 2: Urban or Samoa, Yeah, Urban is uh had some stinger issues,
Speaker 2: so they'll be looking at those today. Who else Seymour
Speaker 2: and her like Seymour don't know too much more about. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be overly serious. I don't think Harrison
Speaker 2: Malik concussion protocol. He's clearing very quickly on.
Speaker 3: That related to the age rushings and if you rest
Speaker 3: over when to apologize.
Speaker 2: But is there an update on Tyer Kaser?
Speaker 4: Is his availability in or away?
Speaker 2: Always looking close a job will give you, gave you
Speaker 2: some information, so I feel more free to kind of
Speaker 2: comment on that. But he's decided on that he's going
Speaker 2: to get himself back from the high ankle sprain and
Speaker 2: he had like a sprain knee, I would say, so
Speaker 2: he's he's going to be in the neighborhood here in
Speaker 2: the next few weeks, Uh, Tias. I'm gonna let Tias
Speaker 2: comment on that, you know. So that's that's gotten a
Speaker 2: little more complicated over the last couple of weeks and
Speaker 2: really not really liberty to talk about it right now.
Speaker 2: But at some point in time, I'm sure we'll have
Speaker 2: an announcement on that one way or another. He's got
Speaker 2: to make some choices and decisions.
Speaker 3: Let's you talk a lot about guys, would maybe the
Speaker 3: most of the opportunities.
Speaker 1: Lately, just In that day one of those guys, Well,
Speaker 1: what do you see from him that it has allowed
Speaker 1: to live now?
Speaker 2: Kind of like Gino, you know, I just think Justin
Speaker 2: is just very determined guy. And all he does is
Speaker 2: come to work every day and work as hard as
Speaker 2: he possibly can go along with this amazing amount of
Speaker 2: talent that he has. His motor runs runs hot all
Speaker 2: the time. He just plays so hard, he's so physical
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, then all of a sudden boom,
Speaker 2: a few plays happened. You start to notice some more.
Speaker 2: But he's been playing like that all season. Is there
Speaker 2: anything about the US he missed.
Speaker 3: During your week?
Speaker 2: You, Jerry, I missed you? Where were you? You weren't there?
Speaker 2: The King was asking about you. The food The food
Speaker 2: was good, I tell you. Sarah Snyder and our people
Speaker 2: did a great job with their people and they were
Speaker 2: they were It was great.
Speaker 3: Challenge you like, I know, Keith Mitchell played special teams,
Speaker 3: which what does it work him into the rotation with
Speaker 3: Gus and Justice Hill over.
Speaker 2: The next couple of weeks. Understandings and Muni still yeah,
Speaker 2: absolutely absolutely, and he's he's going to be active now.
Speaker 2: Possibly he's got to earn it every week, sure, but
Speaker 2: he played well on special teams and he's done a
Speaker 2: good job in practice on offense the last two weeks.
Speaker 2: So uh, I'm sure that Todd will be looking for
Speaker 2: opportunities to get him involved.
Speaker 7: Don't even been able to watch over the last all
Speaker 7: your travels, but did you see anything particular in the
Speaker 7: red zone situations that maybe the Titans did to uh there?
Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, watched it all obviously, some of it last
Speaker 2: night on the plane we had a long flight, and
Speaker 2: then and then some of it this morning. There are
Speaker 2: no they didn't do anything different, if that's what you're asking.
Speaker 2: They ran their defense and uh, and it's a good
Speaker 2: it's a good red zone defense. Uh. We just didn't
Speaker 2: get it done, you know. And I would I say,
Speaker 2: coaches and players together. Uh, we've got to do a
Speaker 2: better job of game planning, a better job of executing,
Speaker 2: you know, and we can do it. I mean we've
Speaker 2: you know, we've had great success in the red zone
Speaker 2: and then we have had now we've kind of had
Speaker 2: a drought here. So it's a long season. We're capable
Speaker 2: of being great in the red zone, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: we're gonna have a lot of success going forward, but
Speaker 2: we've got to find it, we've got to make it happen.
Speaker 3: Now you're done in the whole experience, do you feel
Speaker 3: like get paid off to take a completely different approach
Speaker 3: to going to London?
Speaker 2: The semi did produce the.
Speaker 3: Result that you want to produce.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, wisdom is in the results, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's part of it. But I also feel like, to
Speaker 2: really answer your question is yeah, I think it helped us.
Speaker 2: I think it helped to be out there, to get acclimated,
Speaker 2: to get the bodies right. I mean, he's I think
Speaker 2: people go to the Olympics, right, and the Olympics are
Speaker 2: somewhere on the other side of the world. They don't
Speaker 2: go out there two days before the game. So I think,
Speaker 2: just looking back on it hindsight, it was the right
Speaker 2: thing to do. The next time we go, I think
Speaker 2: we'll probably do the same thing.
Speaker 4: John, you haven't played at home game, I mean in
Speaker 4: four weeks, and I mean it doesn't that longs to
Speaker 4: be longer, and how much you're looking forward to not
Speaker 4: getting on a plane.
Speaker 2: For a game of the year. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 2: really feel anything as far as like it's a great
Speaker 2: question because you just you just kind of take it
Speaker 2: as it comes there. I know our guys are gonna
Speaker 2: be excited to be at home, that's for sure. Our fans,
Speaker 2: uh will be excited. I think for us to be
Speaker 2: at home, they'll be in the stadium going crazy. I
Speaker 2: know the Lions have been traveling really well. I think
Speaker 2: they've been filling up stadiums, so hopefully they don't fill
Speaker 2: up our stadium, you know, but it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: I mean, our our our fans are going to be loud,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna be into it. They're gonna be enthusiastic,
Speaker 2: and uh, our guys are gonna be excited to play
Speaker 2: in front of our fans. I can tell you that
Speaker 2: you want to do a lot.
Speaker 4: Of teams that Walsh second teams in due to last
Speaker 4: Mini cakes missing.
Speaker 2: How great is he to have.
Speaker 3: A Justin Tucker to full back on?
Speaker 2: Well, there's nothing better in the kicking world than having
Speaker 2: Justin Tucker as your kicker in American football. I can
Speaker 2: tell you that it's the best thing. And he's the
Speaker 2: best kicker, so yeah, we uh we do take him
Speaker 2: for granted sometimes, uh, and he's not. You know, he'll
Speaker 2: be the first to tell you he's not perfect, but
Speaker 2: he's close to it. So he had he had a
Speaker 2: great game.
Speaker 4: At the end of the half, you're up it against
Speaker 4: the long field goal, and then of course they fall
Speaker 4: hold in delhis com But what are the decisions to say,
Speaker 4: We're not.
Speaker 2: Going to talk around that one. Well, as far as
Speaker 2: the field goal, part of it was that it was
Speaker 2: kind of a three prong decision. The field goal part
Speaker 2: of it was it was too far. It was just
Speaker 2: too the turf wasn't that it was a little bit
Speaker 2: looser turf footing. Chances of making that were really really nil,
Speaker 2: I mean honestly. So the next thought would have been
Speaker 2: run the clock down to a certain number, which is
Speaker 2: where about where it was, and go for it on
Speaker 2: fourth down. The idea being we can complete a pass,
Speaker 2: but we gotta we got to get you know, we
Speaker 2: got to get out of bounds, get the time. I
Speaker 2: don't think we do. We have a timeout, I can't remember.
Speaker 2: I don't think we did. So you're basically going for
Speaker 2: like a free play. You get a pass interference, you
Speaker 2: catch the ball and run out of bounds.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: We talked about that. That would have been the aggressive play.
Speaker 2: I decided against that just because I felt like, okay,
Speaker 2: but if it doesn't work and you don't convert, now
Speaker 2: they have the same opportunity going the other way. They
Speaker 2: get a pass, you get a pass in afferance, or
Speaker 2: they complete went out of bounds, and now they kicked
Speaker 2: the field goal. And I just wasn't willing to risk that,
Speaker 2: you know the fact that as well as we'd played,
Speaker 2: we hadn't put as many points up as we were
Speaker 2: capable of putting up. And I didn't want to give
Speaker 2: them a free opportunity at three points. So I made
Speaker 2: a conservative decision to do it. And then it worked out,
Speaker 2: you know, agressively for us, because our punt team did
Speaker 2: such a great job. I mean great punt, a great punt,
Speaker 2: and a great coverage and then del Sean getting his
Speaker 2: first ever Fumbel recovery. It's set up three points.
Speaker 5: John talked a lot about this week two week league.
Speaker 5: Here he saw that this specifically undefeated forty nine ers
Speaker 5: lose to the rounds the back of the quarterback and
Speaker 5: see the Eagles lose him against a quote unquote inferior pumpy.
Speaker 5: Can you just talk about how hard it is to
Speaker 5: win in this league and how on you have to
Speaker 5: be as a staff and as players.
Speaker 2: Well, you just said it. I mean, I think what
Speaker 2: you said is exactly right, because the margin is not
Speaker 2: as great as it appears, or as great as it
Speaker 2: kind of the media naturally, we all portray it because
Speaker 2: of outcomes. The margin is very thin in this league.
Speaker 2: It's razor thin. Everybody is right around five hundred or
Speaker 2: just above five hundred, just below five hundred in terms
Speaker 2: of talent ability and coaching and all that other kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff. So the difference is week to week. It's
Speaker 2: your ability to you know, persist overcome, come up with
Speaker 2: a good game plan, execute the game plan, and then
Speaker 2: really make plays, make plays that win games and critical situations.
Speaker 2: And that's who ends up ends up winning the game.
Speaker 2: So you know, great players make great plays. So you
Speaker 2: see quarterbacks and things like that, Guys like Lamar and
Speaker 2: Holmes and those guys can make the difference in games.
Speaker 2: But you know, I to look at Houston. We talked
Speaker 2: about them. I think everybody's saying, well, they didn't think
Speaker 2: Houston was a great team after we beat them in
Speaker 2: the opener, and I think I said, wats They're gonna
Speaker 2: win a bunch of games this year. Right because you
Speaker 2: watched them and you knew they were going to be
Speaker 2: a good team. So that's the greatness of the NFL,
Speaker 2: I think.
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