Speaker 1: Today on the Ravens Press Pass podcast, we had a
Speaker 1: chance to hear from the coordinators on the squad. So
Speaker 1: let's kick things off with Special teams coordinator Chris Horton.
Speaker 2: Good to see everyone.
Speaker 3: Hope everyone's doing well. We're heading to week three and
Speaker 3: for us, you know, we're just looking out to go
Speaker 3: out there and just really just play our best football.
Speaker 3: We still haven't as a unit, we still haven't done
Speaker 3: that yet. And uh, I know one thing, I know,
Speaker 3: our guys, our guys are working hard, and uh, pretty
Speaker 3: soon we're gonna we're gonna take off. You know, these guys,
Speaker 3: these guys want to be good, they want to be great.
Speaker 3: We got to make sure we just continue to take
Speaker 3: care of the little smallest little details. Questions, Chris.
Speaker 4: I know it's always a surprise when when Justin Tucker
Speaker 4: Bess is a field goal and and that will not
Speaker 4: think them nefty nine yards? But is there? I know
Speaker 4: with him, you have so much confidence in him. What
Speaker 4: is the range where you guys are kind of like,
Speaker 4: all right, let's let's probably not say talk around there.
Speaker 3: You know, I think on the on the daylight on
Speaker 3: a day like that, it's a it's a fair question.
Speaker 3: We we do go back and forth of you know,
Speaker 3: uh with with Randy and and Harve's you know, and
Speaker 3: those situations of saying, hey, is this one we we
Speaker 3: want to go for. We want to go ahead and
Speaker 3: go out there and kick and if if we feel
Speaker 3: good about it, we put Tuck out there, because he
Speaker 3: does he does have that capability to go out there
Speaker 3: and make that kick, and we've seen that done numerous times.
Speaker 3: So I think it just just depends on the situation
Speaker 3: in the games. There's times last year, you know where
Speaker 3: where we we had to win the game and we
Speaker 3: put him out there and we make those kicks. So
Speaker 3: it's just kind of a what do we feel what
Speaker 3: do we feel like in that in that situation?
Speaker 5: Juris going on right here.
Speaker 6: Have you had guys for job buck returned and access
Speaker 6: and making decisions on maybe not putting it on got
Speaker 6: like Kyle Hamilton or because you're wanting to him more
Speaker 6: on defense or the injuries and stuff.
Speaker 7: Is that something guy goes into your process?
Speaker 3: You know, it is something that goes into our process.
Speaker 3: I think it's one of those things though, you know
Speaker 3: where when you start you guys start going down, then
Speaker 3: you know, all all hands on deck, right, and I
Speaker 3: think I think it comes to that point of Okay,
Speaker 3: well what can this guy do for us? Uh, he
Speaker 3: is a valuable player, and he is playing maybe more
Speaker 3: on office and defense. You know, how can he still
Speaker 3: help us? And those guys they want to do it
Speaker 3: because because it's all about it's all about the team, right,
Speaker 3: it's all about it's all about winning. What can they
Speaker 3: do to help us win and help us be successful.
Speaker 3: We look into we we take that into account. We
Speaker 3: make sure that we take care of those guys that
Speaker 3: are playing a little bit more on office and defense,
Speaker 3: and then it's an opportunity for the for some new
Speaker 3: guys to step in there and and really just play
Speaker 3: to our standard and play the kind of football we
Speaker 3: want to play.
Speaker 7: That's what happened on the.
Speaker 3: You know, Jeff, it's just like, uh, it's just one
Speaker 3: of those things.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: You You'll go back, you sit back, you're sitting on
Speaker 3: the sideline and you're asking yourself, man, how could that happen?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 3: Right, these are things we we we prepare for and
Speaker 3: then when you watch the tape, you see how those
Speaker 3: things happen. Right, we don't fully execute the punt coverage.
Speaker 3: It's just not one guy, you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 3: all eleven and including myself. Right I'm watching the tape like, hey,
Speaker 3: could I have told this guy maybe something a little
Speaker 3: bit different?
Speaker 2: So it was all of us. We watched it.
Speaker 3: Uh, we got it correct it We you know, we
Speaker 3: feel we feel pretty good about, you know, putting those
Speaker 3: guys out there and making place from here on.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 1: That was special teams coordinator Chris Horton. You're listening to
Speaker 1: the Ravens Press Pass podcast. We also heard from offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Todd Munken.
Speaker 4: Todd, how pleased were you with the way the offense
Speaker 4: looked in Cincinnati compared to the week before?
Speaker 2: Well, it was a hell of a lot better.
Speaker 5: Just in terms of operation communication myself, lamar huddle breaking
Speaker 5: the huddle not perfect, still left some things out there,
Speaker 5: just in terms of operation. To me, that's the start
Speaker 5: of it. Otherwise you have a lot of drag. You know,
Speaker 5: it doesn't look like you wanted to look like. So
Speaker 5: we were. I was pleased with that part of it.
Speaker 5: Obviously the guys did are a great job of executing,
Speaker 5: but it started with the operation.
Speaker 4: So not as much dragged as we don't want to go.
Speaker 5: There this past week, No, not as much, not as
Speaker 5: much wasted plays like not as many just not giving
Speaker 5: yourself a chance to be successful. And talked about that
Speaker 5: last week. So that's it's still an ongoing process. What
Speaker 5: we do each week, what we do, well, what they do,
Speaker 5: what we put on the plane, and then carrying that
Speaker 5: over to Sunday.
Speaker 6: Tied for the fewest amount of three announcers in offense.
Speaker 6: Just can you talk about the importance of getting that
Speaker 6: first first down and.
Speaker 9: How you practice and you know, work to get that
Speaker 9: first watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's crazy is that first game?
Speaker 5: You know it we had the same you know we
Speaker 5: you know, like said half the battles getting that first
Speaker 5: first down and then we just stalled and we just
Speaker 5: just a lot of drag.
Speaker 2: But as I always say, like.
Speaker 5: Overall statistics, just make you feel good because it really
Speaker 5: doesn't make for this week. Like our job is to
Speaker 5: do the same thing this week, if that makes sense.
Speaker 5: I'm not trying to be mean or but it's really
Speaker 5: weak to week. It's you can't carry that over and say, well, hey,
Speaker 5: wait a minute, you know, no, we got to do
Speaker 5: it each week. That's that's the that's what we're paid
Speaker 5: to do, and that is to try to find a
Speaker 5: way each week to do that and then continue drives.
Speaker 5: But it is it is important to get that first
Speaker 5: first down and get yourself going. And I've been happy
Speaker 5: with that part of it.
Speaker 1: Yes, Lamarns Blowers entrepreneur is very evident how much fun
Speaker 1: they were having in that game?
Speaker 5: How much fun did you have?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's never fun. Game day is not fun.
Speaker 5: Oh no, everybody says that. I mean, it's stressful as hell.
Speaker 5: But I enjoy watching our guys play. I enjoy coaching
Speaker 5: our players. I think we've got a great group of
Speaker 5: young guys. You know, it's fun to come out every
Speaker 5: day and come to the meeting rooms with those guys.
Speaker 2: That that I enjoy. But I mean it's a job,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 5: Everything builds up to basically game day, you know, And
Speaker 5: I don't take that lightly, you know, So it's it
Speaker 5: is what it is. I mean, you fight like heck
Speaker 5: during the week to get the looks you want and
Speaker 5: try to carry that over on Sunday and put the
Speaker 5: guys in the best position to be successful.
Speaker 7: Speaking quick the week and thats Z has been pretty
Speaker 7: think to those first two weeks, how much of that
Speaker 7: is situational?
Speaker 2: How much is it?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 7: Obviously he's you know, he's a guy who who's got
Speaker 7: a lot of talent.
Speaker 5: Well, the above, I mean, you're gonna put any player
Speaker 5: in a position that gives them the best chance to
Speaker 5: be successful, wherever that might be. You know, you're not
Speaker 5: gonna put a tight end out there to run a
Speaker 5: take route normally, you're gonna put them where they can
Speaker 5: be successful. You put za where you think you can
Speaker 5: be successful. We dictate some of that. The defense dictates
Speaker 5: some of that. Number of reps dictate some of that.
Speaker 5: Uh style of game. It is like this week we
Speaker 5: got into two minutes. Well, the wideouts are happy as hell, right,
Speaker 5: get in a four minute, the running backs are happy
Speaker 5: as hell.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: That's just the way it works, right, And so you
Speaker 5: get more opportunities to showcase your ability, which is what
Speaker 5: this like every skill player is looking to do. So
Speaker 5: we do try to find ways to get all of
Speaker 5: our players involved as best we can.
Speaker 7: And you about him in respect that he may be
Speaker 7: surprised us and stood out for Guidan as it.
Speaker 5: Looked, Well, I'm just gonna go beyond his skill set,
Speaker 5: because that's that's easy to see.
Speaker 2: I think you can being around him.
Speaker 5: You just feel his contagious spirit, his youthfulness, his smile, his.
Speaker 2: Approach every day.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I've ever come to work, which
Speaker 5: hopefully I've tried to do the exact same thing. But
Speaker 5: he's got a smile on his face. He loves playing football,
Speaker 5: which are all of our guys do. But again, it's just, uh,
Speaker 5: it's fun to be around. He's got a little bit
Speaker 5: of an absence of fear. You know, he doesn't there.
Speaker 5: I think he's expected to have success, and that's half
Speaker 5: the battle when you're a young player is to expect
Speaker 5: to have success, and he expects to have success.
Speaker 8: That's someone you've been in a number of places. How
Speaker 8: rare and how valuable is it to have someone like
Speaker 8: Patrick McCarey who can play all five offensive line spots.
Speaker 8: He started at multiple spots over the course of his career,
Speaker 8: knowing that you know injuries are going to happen over
Speaker 8: the course of the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it feels like you're trying to get him a
Speaker 5: contract extension here by my comments here, First of all,
Speaker 5: it's extremely valuable anybody that makes I said it way
Speaker 5: back when whoever makes our fifty three men roster and
Speaker 5: or as part of our practice squad is elite.
Speaker 2: They're elite. I mean, they're here for a.
Speaker 5: Reason because you feel good that if something were to
Speaker 5: happen at any given position, the expectation is that those
Speaker 5: players will go in and play at a high level.
Speaker 5: And we should expect that. And he did that, you know,
Speaker 5: and he has done that. That wasn't new. We were
Speaker 5: not surprised that he played at a very high level.
Speaker 2: Todd.
Speaker 4: You guys just brought back King and Drake who was
Speaker 4: here last year. I know, he just got here. But
Speaker 4: is there any familiarities in the offense that he can
Speaker 4: kind of grasp from what he was doing last year.
Speaker 7: With the Ravens.
Speaker 5: I think so there's some carryover, you know. Some of
Speaker 5: the verbiage is the same, some of it's different, you know.
Speaker 5: So but again it's it's getting up to speed with
Speaker 5: what the little different nuances are. But inside zones, inside zone,
Speaker 5: outside zone, gap schemes, a flat route, a wheel route,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, it's all the same. We just
Speaker 5: got to get him up to speed, and if he
Speaker 5: ends up being up at some point, then you know,
Speaker 5: you start with a certain base of plays that that
Speaker 5: he feels like he can handle. You know that, we
Speaker 5: know he can go on the field, and it's not
Speaker 5: a matter of execution, it's a matter of the operation
Speaker 5: of it, right, It's that he can run a flat route,
Speaker 5: but not if he runs an angle and we're expecting
Speaker 5: a flat If that makes sense, you know that then
Speaker 5: it's not.
Speaker 8: Along those lines, is it anywhere difficult for he's lining
Speaker 8: to line up where they physically are. You know, on
Speaker 8: that final drive.
Speaker 7: You're kind basically the message certain guys along that the
Speaker 7: line they're having to dues a lot of on the
Speaker 7: left side of where you see on the right side.
Speaker 7: Is that just an expectation for the DALs.
Speaker 5: Well, it's a credit to those guys, you know, it's
Speaker 5: a credit to those guys being able to move around
Speaker 5: and be able to play both sides.
Speaker 7: I know you've been asked about being reunited with Totell.
Speaker 6: Bet in junior, But now that you've been around it
Speaker 6: for a few months, what's maybe the biggest difference you
Speaker 6: see out of him just as a person from twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5: Oh, He's always from a person standpoint, Odell's always been
Speaker 5: a fantastic person.
Speaker 2: You know, people gravitate to him. He's got a great
Speaker 2: towards him.
Speaker 5: He's got a great personality, he's got great charisma, and
Speaker 5: he loves playing football. He loves being around the locker room.
Speaker 5: He loves the guys. You know, you see I've said
Speaker 5: this before. I think you see, like any of us,
Speaker 5: as you, as you age, you mature, he may think differently.
Speaker 5: I'm giving you my opinion, but you know, I mean
Speaker 5: it's to the point, like I said, Rams, when a
Speaker 5: Super Bowl get hurt, come and back, I think there's
Speaker 5: a there's a certain wanting to be able to prove
Speaker 5: that I can still that he can still play at
Speaker 5: a high level, which it's fun to be.
Speaker 2: And or he's done a great job with our younger guys.
Speaker 5: I think he's probably he's always been good at that,
Speaker 5: but I think he feels more sense of being a
Speaker 5: little bit older how important that is for the younger players.
Speaker 1: That was Todd Munkin And last but not least, we
Speaker 1: heard from defensive coordinator Mike McDonald.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know it's I wasn't not surprised. I mean
Speaker 9: said we had one hundred percent confidence in him, and
Speaker 9: he played a great game and obviously with the huge play,
Speaker 9: the huge pick there in the red zone. So uh,
Speaker 9: you know, changed a bunch of expected points in the game,
Speaker 9: and just obviously excited about how he played. But we're
Speaker 9: expecting to keep keep moving just like the rest of
Speaker 9: the defense. We got a long way to go. So
Speaker 9: another challenge this week, but definitely definitely played a great games.
Speaker 2: Run the change and bridges.
Speaker 9: Uh, well, you know that the base runs are are
Speaker 9: the same, you know, probably it's more of the quarterback
Speaker 9: designed runs where you know they wanted to ultimately end
Speaker 9: up in the quarterbacks hands. I would imagine go down
Speaker 9: a little bit, but uh uh, and those are different
Speaker 9: types of situations that pop up in the game. But
Speaker 9: it's it's uh, it's more similar than you than you'd anticipate.
Speaker 8: Mike be a.
Speaker 7: PK's got four penalties in two weeks, the fifteen year
Speaker 7: od variety. Is that a fine line to walk between
Speaker 7: telling him to be a little smarter and not want
Speaker 7: to kind of fail.
Speaker 4: Some of this aggressive, specific simple views that you play.
Speaker 2: I think you, I think you hit it spot on.
Speaker 9: That's exactly That's exactly the message with him, and he knows,
Speaker 9: you know, we're we've talked about it, and he's, uh,
Speaker 9: he's well aware of the penalties. But uh, I don't,
Speaker 9: I don't. I don't foresee it being an issue moving forward.
Speaker 9: I think it's more of a uh thing of chance,
Speaker 9: you know, based on how he's played in things. But
Speaker 9: he's got to make some better decisions than some of
Speaker 9: those moments, and he will.
Speaker 2: U Coach Harp thought about how active clown he was.
Speaker 3: He's a guy who's been in the league a long time,
Speaker 3: but you haven't had him that long. Are you still
Speaker 3: kind of learning things you can do with him or
Speaker 3: you have a pretty good handle.
Speaker 4: I'm just going about that process.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's an interesting question. I think you're always looking
Speaker 9: to find ways for guys to do things they do well.
Speaker 9: So I think that how how how he can be
Speaker 9: disruptive in the run game and how you can move
Speaker 9: them around in the past game. I think, you know,
Speaker 9: we'll continue to find ways to build on just like
Speaker 9: everybody else. But yeah, so he's doing the things that
Speaker 9: we imagined to do, so hopefully hopefully keep it rolling.
Speaker 7: Like Girl Commen and Patrick and gotten off the Shrunks,
Speaker 7: they're kind of doing what they do. It's curious what
Speaker 7: you think their influence has been on each other from
Speaker 7: the communication recognition standpoint terms of what you guys, you know,
Speaker 7: want a two week two weeks.
Speaker 9: I just I just think, I think you're talking about
Speaker 9: two great players that have a passion for the game
Speaker 9: and work extremely hard and care about their teammates and
Speaker 9: care about our defense and how well we perform and
Speaker 9: want to lead both through their actions and both through
Speaker 9: how they handled themselves on a daily basis. And uh
Speaker 9: as a coaching staff, you know, give a great shout
Speaker 9: out to Zach. I mean, he's done a tremendous job
Speaker 9: of building that camaraderie throughout the whole room. I wouldn't
Speaker 9: make any more of it than that. And it's just
Speaker 9: I think, you know, just credit to our Eric and
Speaker 9: our personal the party for getting him in the same
Speaker 9: room together, and the rest, you know, kind of comes
Speaker 9: to life.
Speaker 8: So with our Darius Washington going down, what have you
Speaker 8: seen from Arthur Mallett? I mean, I know he missed
Speaker 8: most of training camp with the hamstring, but since he's
Speaker 8: gotten back on the field the last few weeks and
Speaker 8: him potentially obviously haven't experienced at the Naples.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I haven't seen anything different than what we saw
Speaker 9: when we wanted to sign him versus when he first
Speaker 9: got here. Obviously had the setback during camp, but he's
Speaker 9: right there so you know, if and when his opportunity
Speaker 9: comes along, just like Gino last week, you know, let's roll.
Speaker 9: You know, it's very confident in him coming in and
Speaker 9: doing a great job, when after.
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