Speaker 1: Welcome into Ravens Press Past podcast. It is Friday, September
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, and after practice we heard from head coach
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate everybody being here. Thank you, good week of practice,
Speaker 2: big challenge in front of us, many many things that
Speaker 2: make this game great game make a challenge and opportunity,
Speaker 2: and we're looking forward to it. And we've got, you know,
Speaker 2: a little over forty eight hours to keep preparing. We'll
Speaker 2: try to keep preparing for this great team we're about
Speaker 2: to play. What questions you have.
Speaker 3: I don't know it was a wall back, but.
Speaker 4: In Philly, weren't you and McDermott.
Speaker 5: Weren't you like running buddies or drinking buddies or anything
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we worked out together a lot. You know, he's
Speaker 2: I was a little younger then, so you know, but
Speaker 2: he's a he's a he's a great guy wrestler and
Speaker 2: a defensive back. William and Merry guy. I reminded him
Speaker 2: that Miami we played him a couple of times that
Speaker 2: we never lost to William and Mary not. But you know,
Speaker 2: we were in the same era obviously. But Sean's a
Speaker 2: heck of a guy, great coach, great family, talk about
Speaker 2: our kids all the time. His daughter is a softball player.
Speaker 2: She's getting recruited D one for softball, so all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. And yeah, it's a he's done a
Speaker 2: great job of the team. I mean, it's a it's
Speaker 2: a team that I think reflects his personality both sides
Speaker 2: of the ball, all three phases and kind of see
Speaker 2: how they're built. That's kind of who he's always been
Speaker 2: as a coach, you know, and you could see early
Speaker 2: on he was going to be a great coach. Certainly
Speaker 2: fulfilled that coach.
Speaker 3: You think your defense seeing Lamar Jackson sort of the
Speaker 3: defense parents are short of Josh Allen as far as
Speaker 3: that through Frank quarterback or is that don't really translate?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, hey, I think every every every player right
Speaker 2: is his own any you know, their own style. Nobody
Speaker 2: can play like Lamar, Nobody can play like Josh. They're unique,
Speaker 2: and yet the problems they pose the defense are similar
Speaker 2: to your point. You know, they can they can hurt
Speaker 2: a defense in so many different ways. We're just focusing
Speaker 2: on Josh and the different ways that he that he
Speaker 2: that he moves the ball, the way that he gets
Speaker 2: to change the move. You know, the plays that he makes,
Speaker 2: the way they build the offense around and we're trying
Speaker 2: real hard to be ready for that.
Speaker 4: How is the unique Looft?
Speaker 2: In his three practices, He's looked good. He's looked good,
Speaker 2: looks like he's in shape, looks like he's he's in
Speaker 2: a great place. Uh, you know, spiritually, mentally it was
Speaker 2: it was fun to have him out there and he
Speaker 2: and Ronnie had some battles this week for sure.
Speaker 4: What is the difference? Would you be football shape and
Speaker 4: fresh Office is still in good shape, but not the football?
Speaker 5: What's the difference.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's like anything else. There's like there's
Speaker 2: just some movements that that you can only really replicate
Speaker 2: by playing the game. You know, the combination football is
Speaker 2: probably really unique because the acceleration, the deceleration, the change
Speaker 2: the direction, the loads that you take, the unexpected loads,
Speaker 2: whether it's a load where someone's pushing on and you
Speaker 2: set your feet in the ground, maybe throw somebody by
Speaker 2: in all the different range of muscle reactions, maybe that
Speaker 2: have to take place that you could never replicate in
Speaker 2: a workout, and you can only replicate by doing football.
Speaker 2: So getting out there and playing the game and doing
Speaker 2: it helps and most guys that just come right in
Speaker 2: and play, they'll usually get some strains and things like that,
Speaker 2: you know, So that's why practice is so important.
Speaker 4: We didn't see where he's all week in practice.
Speaker 3: What do you think his availability.
Speaker 5: Is going to go.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be right until game time, That's
Speaker 2: what I was told, So we'll see.
Speaker 4: I know he's not eligible this week, but how we
Speaker 4: haven't asked you about Arthur Malette since the summer. We
Speaker 4: saw him out there I think was last week running
Speaker 4: a good bit is I know he can't play this week,
Speaker 4: but is it possible that he could be ready when
Speaker 4: he's eligible.
Speaker 2: It's possible. Yeah, he's looked good. It seems like he's
Speaker 2: in good shape, and we'll see how he looks when
Speaker 2: he can get out there. He can't go out there
Speaker 2: and practice yet till next week, but we'll see what
Speaker 2: it looks like next week.
Speaker 3: Coach with Deontay Hardy. You know, he's playing his former team,
Speaker 3: had a pretty difficult summer, but you guys really stuck
Speaker 3: with him and do all that. What have you kind
Speaker 3: of seen him from him so far?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been great to be around, you know, Deontay's
Speaker 2: had so many things in his life that have just
Speaker 2: kind of snuck up and been a part of his
Speaker 2: life family wise, in the last four or five months,
Speaker 2: and he's he's dealt with so well, you know, and
Speaker 2: been a rock for his family. So that part of
Speaker 2: the personal part of it's kind of been been, you know,
Speaker 2: interesting and good to go through it with him to
Speaker 2: some degree, and then to see how he's handled as
Speaker 2: a pro. You know, he's handled it great. I think
Speaker 2: he's looked really good as a player. He's been very secure,
Speaker 2: he's he's every time he gets the bonus hands, I
Speaker 2: can hear the whole crowd kind of hold their breath
Speaker 2: a little bit. So he's he's that kind of a
Speaker 2: player as a return guy. Uh So I'm excited to
Speaker 2: see him maybe break him loose here pretty soon. Onway,
Speaker 2: do you you feel like you have a good grip
Speaker 2: already on how long the lamp up would be till
Speaker 2: he might be an option? Yeah, I think so. I
Speaker 2: mean there's a lot of factors that go into that.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of good players, young players rushing
Speaker 2: the passer too, uh you know, so I think it's
Speaker 2: just going to be him being ready, which I'm very
Speaker 2: confident he will be very soon. And then the opportunity
Speaker 2: expressing itself when it does, he'll be out there and
Speaker 2: I think he'll help us.
Speaker 1: Then we headed into the locker room and heard from
Speaker 1: linebacker Roque One with challenges as he present.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, no, so it'll be a great challenge for
Speaker 5: our defense. But we love challenges. So yeah, I've got
Speaker 5: to first stop to run like any other week, eliminate
Speaker 5: the run with Cook and the rest of the backs,
Speaker 5: and uh yeah, make the guys one dimensional. And then
Speaker 5: I feel like if we do that, we'll like to
Speaker 5: like things in our favor.
Speaker 3: With with with James Cook, you know, he's somebody that
Speaker 3: can also catch the ball out of the backfield. How
Speaker 3: does that kind of challenge you guys, especially being in
Speaker 3: the middle of the field.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, absolutely, Yeah, I think he's a really good
Speaker 5: back out the backfield. Uh And it'll be a great
Speaker 5: challenge for us as linebackers, safeties and whoever's covering them, corners,
Speaker 5: whatever the situation may be. You know. So just having that,
Speaker 5: we're looking forward to it and I think it'll just
Speaker 5: revealed on just exactly how good we are. But have
Speaker 5: a lot of respect for him former dog as well,
Speaker 5: but very excited about the matchup.
Speaker 3: You guys look really good personally quarters and down trying
Speaker 3: to finish the game.
Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: What needs to happen for you guys defensively to play
Speaker 3: for a quarter?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Man, as cliche as it's as it is, just
Speaker 5: gotta gotta communicate and have to be on the same page.
Speaker 5: And that's what it is. And that's something that we're
Speaker 5: honing in on and just making sure uh at the
Speaker 5: end of like before each play and then preachingapp and
Speaker 5: then supposed to play, like actually knowing what we're doing,
Speaker 5: if they're doing something, if they're motioning or doing this,
Speaker 5: what we're going to in our checks. And I think
Speaker 5: if we do that, man, we'll eliminate a lot of
Speaker 5: the mistakes that's been happening out there because they're self inflicted.
Speaker 5: Like there hasn't been many people that just actually like
Speaker 5: drive it eighty yards consistently. If you can do that
Speaker 5: on our defense without us giving you gift rap presence,
Speaker 5: hats off to you, but don't see that very often.
Speaker 5: And we just have to stick true to who we
Speaker 5: are as a defense and communicate throughout each and every
Speaker 5: play con.
Speaker 4: When teams have had success, it seems like they've had
Speaker 4: some success the middle against you guys.
Speaker 2: Defensively, like what do you what are you guys doing?
Speaker 4: To God?
Speaker 3: That is that more the communication things, more the scheme things,
Speaker 3: some slight adjustment timpositions just like that.
Speaker 5: What's the I guess it. Yeah, I think it's a combination,
Speaker 5: uh of a couple of things. I think, like you
Speaker 5: know that this is the NFL, so teams definitely do
Speaker 5: uh make adjustments in a sense. But I think it's
Speaker 5: us going going back to communication and like being on
Speaker 5: the same page, whether like you know, if a guy's
Speaker 5: doing this and you expect us to wanna be here
Speaker 5: doing that. So I think it just comes back to
Speaker 5: everybody being on the same page and not ten guys
Speaker 5: doing their job, but all eleven, because ten guys can
Speaker 5: do their job on a play, and if one don't
Speaker 5: do their job, then it can make everybody on the
Speaker 5: defense look uh crazy. So that's what I think. It is,
Speaker 5: just all of us getting on the same page at
Speaker 5: the end of the day, and that's something that we
Speaker 5: definitely will do. When you're going up against the premier
Speaker 5: quarterback like Josh shaving, especially on prime time at home.
Speaker 2: Dal, I know you get up with.
Speaker 3: Every game, but is there something different for these types
Speaker 3: of games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm very excited about the game, just because you
Speaker 5: know it's at the bank. We have to protect the bank.
Speaker 5: Obviously the last time we was in here, we didn't
Speaker 5: do that, so you know, we have definitely have a
Speaker 5: sour taste in our mouths, even after the way we
Speaker 5: finished last week, and like just to show the world
Speaker 5: exactly who we are as a defense. So we're excited
Speaker 5: about the matchup and we know exactly what we bring
Speaker 5: to the table, and it's about playing four complete quarters
Speaker 5: and if we do that, we'll like our chances. I
Speaker 5: can promise you that.
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