Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: October second, and the Ravens are coming off a big
Speaker 1: win on Sunday over the Cleveland Browns. The Ravens won
Speaker 1: that game twenty eight to three, really dominated in all
Speaker 1: phases of that game to improve the three and one
Speaker 1: on the season in first place in the AFC North. Today,
Speaker 1: head coach John Harbaugh talk with the media about that
Speaker 1: game and also what's ahead for this team.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to see everybody, appreciate everybody being here. Very
Speaker 2: happy with the outcome of the game, certainly having studied
Speaker 2: the tape, spoken with the coaches and a lot of
Speaker 2: the players. We played a really good game on the
Speaker 2: road in the division against a team that is playing
Speaker 2: well and is going to have a heck of a season.
Speaker 2: In their stadium, their crowd very loud, just one of
Speaker 2: those environments, you know. It was really an AFC North
Speaker 2: kind of a game early in the season, and our
Speaker 2: guys responded very well. They answered the bell. I thought
Speaker 2: it was complimentary football. All three phases played well together,
Speaker 2: played off of each other as of course of the game,
Speaker 2: went on and did everything necessary in order to win
Speaker 2: the game. So happy with that, Yet we look at
Speaker 2: it and even the guys you're talking about it this
Speaker 2: morning in the weight room and stuff, and so many
Speaker 2: things we can get better at and improve at. And
Speaker 2: that's what we're going to have to do to go
Speaker 2: into Pittsburgh and play our best football and win the game.
Speaker 2: We'll have to play a better game than we did
Speaker 2: last week. So what questions you have?
Speaker 3: John looked like again, Moore had a very higher percent
Speaker 3: of passing, another efficient day.
Speaker 4: How actually think it helps?
Speaker 3: It seems like one of the changes is the offense
Speaker 3: is getting out of the huddle sooner, getting up on
Speaker 3: the line, and maybe what youre tecond about, how did
Speaker 3: you think that has helped him? Maybe just look through
Speaker 3: to the defense and that has kind of led into
Speaker 3: more and more completions.
Speaker 2: Things like well, I think having completions like that against
Speaker 2: this defense is a heck of a thing, you know,
Speaker 2: because they're not a defense that's going to give up
Speaker 2: a high completion percentage generally at all. They're more of
Speaker 2: a defense that you've got to try to make the
Speaker 2: completions count against, which which Lamar also did. Along with
Speaker 2: the receivers, I mean, Mark and Zay and the different
Speaker 2: plays that were made were some chunk plays out there
Speaker 2: that you really have to get against the style of
Speaker 2: defense and the talent that the Browns have and the
Speaker 2: way that coach Schwartz does it, which is great. Our
Speaker 2: guys made plays, man, and that's what really counts. All
Speaker 2: the other stuff, the operation stuff that you're talking about,
Speaker 2: very important, very important. We're trying hard to do a
Speaker 2: good job of that and shave as much time as
Speaker 2: we can through every part of the process and yet
Speaker 2: get everything communicated really well. So I think our guys
Speaker 2: are doing a good job of that, and we continue
Speaker 2: to try to keep improving that and be the best
Speaker 2: we can at it.
Speaker 4: John.
Speaker 5: And one of the things that people have said about
Speaker 5: Lamar questions I should say, is about his accuracy at times,
Speaker 5: and when you look at the poor game example, when
Speaker 5: you look and see he does have a seventy four
Speaker 5: completely percent, what do.
Speaker 4: You say about it.
Speaker 2: I'll say what I've always said, Lamar's an accurate quarterback.
Speaker 2: I mean, he always has been into my eyes and
Speaker 2: I'll I'll just take the one throw to Mark for
Speaker 2: the touchdown in the corner of the end zone. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's as good as throw as you're ever going to
Speaker 2: see in a football game from a quarterback. So yeah,
Speaker 2: his completion percentage speaks for itself. It speaks to all
Speaker 2: the guys, receivers, offensive line, everybody. But we've always believed,
Speaker 2: you know, we've always believed in his ability to throw
Speaker 2: the ball, for sure, and I do think that he's
Speaker 2: very determined to be the best he can be.
Speaker 6: He guys have been really good in the red zone,
Speaker 6: and obviously a lot goes in set. What are some
Speaker 6: of the factors that you're seeing when you watch the
Speaker 6: take that made you so efficient red center?
Speaker 2: Well, we're executing really well down there, you know. I
Speaker 2: think our coaches do a really good job of scheming
Speaker 2: at Craig versteg is a big part of that, Todd
Speaker 2: all the coaches do a great job of scheming, and
Speaker 2: then you know, it comes down to guys again making plays.
Speaker 2: I mean, the players deserve the credit. And Lamar is
Speaker 2: a very good red zone quarterback. Goes back to the
Speaker 2: complete that you talk about, the accuracy part of it,
Speaker 2: but also the fact that he can extend to play.
Speaker 2: He can also make the running game. There's not as
Speaker 2: much space down there, so when you can spread the
Speaker 2: defense out a little more of the running game, which
Speaker 2: Lamart helps you do with his skill set.
Speaker 4: All those things are part of it.
Speaker 2: But you know, I mean, we've done well and we've
Speaker 2: got to keep getting better. Red zone defenses are going
Speaker 2: to are going to look at what we're doing and
Speaker 2: they're going to make it their business to try to
Speaker 2: stop us. And we've got to keep it moving and
Speaker 2: keep ahead of keep one keep one step ahead of
Speaker 2: the competition.
Speaker 7: Many yesterday and how quickly he picked things up, of
Speaker 7: how he was.
Speaker 2: Able to play he played, it was pretty pretty amazing
Speaker 2: what he did, really, Jeff, I mean came in there,
Speaker 2: he showed up, you know, Tuesday on the Red Eye
Speaker 2: and it was out there taking a bunch of snaps
Speaker 2: on Sunday in a huge AFC North game and just
Speaker 2: shows you what kind of a player he is. It's
Speaker 2: a credit to what kind of shape he was in. Also,
Speaker 2: is just an understanding the game to pick it up
Speaker 2: like he did so quickly. So it's just very happy
Speaker 2: that he was able to do that. I know he's
Speaker 2: he's he's fired up about it too, So just keep
Speaker 2: going forwar from there.
Speaker 8: I mentioned he's going to get an MRI and in
Speaker 8: his place. How do you think follow a Lee held out?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Daniel did pretty well. You know, Daniel
Speaker 2: talked him on the plane last night. He's pretty pretty
Speaker 2: not happy with two plays, you know, which, which is
Speaker 2: kind of you appreciate that, you know, as a coach,
Speaker 2: you want to see the guys not happy with the
Speaker 2: plays that they can do better. And yet you go
Speaker 2: back and you watch the tape and I thought he
Speaker 2: played played well, you know, so he'll keep chasing the perfection.
Speaker 2: The more he plays, the better he's going to get.
Speaker 2: But I thought he did a nice job. And uh
Speaker 2: to the injuries there really there really is nothing right
Speaker 2: now that looks like it's going to be a long,
Speaker 2: long term type thing coming out of the game. Some
Speaker 2: of those MRIs are still getting evaluated as his Morgan's.
Speaker 2: So we'll know more Wednesday, probably in terms of what
Speaker 2: guys you're able to do with practice, But nothing that's
Speaker 2: going to impact us for the whole length of this season.
Speaker 4: It doesn't look like right now.
Speaker 7: Last week he said, well, well that next week, and
Speaker 7: so here we are next week.
Speaker 3: Do you just say Tyas Palfer, Keith Mitchell abibles now.
Speaker 4: In there over they have a chance to be.
Speaker 2: So we'll we'll see, uh, we'll see how they look
Speaker 2: if they you know, if Eric decides to put them
Speaker 2: on the practice field and uh, you know, base on
Speaker 2: his conversations with the trainers. Uh, they're in the realm,
Speaker 2: I think of possibly practicing, and if that turns out
Speaker 2: to be the case, we'll have a good feel for
Speaker 2: that as we're watching practice.
Speaker 7: Going back to for a second, two different questions. One,
Speaker 7: there haven't been you know, a ton of throws down
Speaker 7: for a lot of stuff he's underneath.
Speaker 8: How much is that a product.
Speaker 7: Designed the defenses showing you what, uh, you know, kind
Speaker 7: of missing pieces and so forth.
Speaker 4: I think it's all the above.
Speaker 2: Not only is missing pieces, you know, I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: right right, I knew, yeah, No, it's not because guys
Speaker 2: are out in terms of whether we're throwing short or
Speaker 2: deep or whatever. I think we're running the same routes
Speaker 2: we would have anyway. Those guys that are out run
Speaker 2: all the routes, I guess is what I'm saying. But
Speaker 2: it's probably you know, just it. It's a function of
Speaker 2: the offense and where we want to go with it
Speaker 2: and what the defense has given us. So both of
Speaker 2: those two things. You know, it's we want to throw
Speaker 2: the ball downfield. We've had some success doing it. It's
Speaker 2: really a big part of what.
Speaker 4: We want to do.
Speaker 2: I mean, if we can, if we can beat people downfield,
Speaker 2: double moves, straight up, deep routes, play action, you know shots,
Speaker 2: those are those are massive, massive plays that showed up
Speaker 2: in the game, even even even extended plays like you
Speaker 2: saw when the Mars scramble out to the right hits
Speaker 2: a coming across the field. I mean, that's that's part
Speaker 2: of your deep passing game. But we also want to
Speaker 2: get the ball out quick, so we didn't have as
Speaker 2: many of those this game. You know, quick passes are
Speaker 2: pos those are things that keep a defense honest when
Speaker 2: they want to pack in on your run game too.
Speaker 2: So I have to say it's all part of it,
Speaker 2: and I think we'll just kind of see as it goes.
Speaker 4: Game to game. Every week is different.
Speaker 2: It really is not a function of many grand plan
Speaker 2: other than we want to be able to do all
Speaker 2: those things well.
Speaker 8: And then you dress this a little bit too afterwards.
Speaker 7: Of course, the two funnels yesterday, also sacks.
Speaker 8: Are going to happen.
Speaker 7: But the ball security issue every game this season.
Speaker 8: Do you think it is the issue.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think Lamar is all over you know,
Speaker 2: it's he's he's talking about it, you know, and that's
Speaker 2: something that he's very determined to do. The issues are
Speaker 2: each each one of those issues is a different issue,
Speaker 2: so they really they're not connected in the sense of
Speaker 2: you can say there's one theme to what's causing fumbles,
Speaker 2: but the fact that their fumbles is a theme, you know,
Speaker 2: and and they're not good. You know, we just can't
Speaker 2: put the ball on the ground. It's not something that
Speaker 2: we want to do. It's something we're very hard, very
Speaker 2: very hard not to do. It's like a main priority
Speaker 2: for us. It has to be. But Lamar's talking about that,
Speaker 2: the backs you're talking about that, wide receivers are talking
Speaker 2: about that. The defense is talking about putting the ball
Speaker 2: on the ground, you know, in terms of our offense,
Speaker 2: I mean, practice and challenge them and do that to
Speaker 2: help us be better. But that but also us getting
Speaker 2: better as a defense causing fumbles. So that's a big
Speaker 2: part of the game. And everybody knows it.
Speaker 1: His first career pick yesterday, and he just played well
Speaker 1: over the first four games.
Speaker 8: But what's the press, you know, when he set them
Speaker 8: starry one up and play at a high level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I see Brandon, he's played at a high level.
Speaker 2: You know, he's kind of established himself that way and
Speaker 2: doing great and he's gotten better every week.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 2: I think he's getting even better and better every week.
Speaker 2: At the top of the route, you know, Chris Feut's
Speaker 2: done a great job.
Speaker 4: But working with him on that and.
Speaker 2: Uh and playing the ball to the top of the
Speaker 2: route and getting balls off receivers.
Speaker 4: See him get the pick was big, you know. So yeah,
Speaker 4: he's he's doing a great job.
Speaker 8: I know we ask you about him every three months.
Speaker 7: But when Marlin comes back, he expects brand to stay
Speaker 7: at corner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then we'll see corner. You expect him to stay
Speaker 2: at corner. I think it's nice to have the flexibility.
Speaker 2: But he's doing such a great job there. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: keep him.
Speaker 5: There with with Marl, did something happen that calls him
Speaker 5: to come back with your gas.
Speaker 8: With man, give you a timetable on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's within the range. I mean, you just
Speaker 2: you just there's no like golden. Like I've tried to
Speaker 2: said many times, you can't say a date, you know,
Speaker 2: it's he's in the range, you know, so I'm hopeful
Speaker 2: he'll get back this week. I was hopefully get back
Speaker 2: last week. And if it's not this.
Speaker 4: Week, it may probably be next week. He's in the.
Speaker 2: Range right now, right in this area right now, So
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens.
Speaker 9: You know, Tom, can you talk about what the staff
Speaker 9: had a pretty big day yesterday? Is just developments drafted
Speaker 9: him last year, Just overall the developments since drafting last year.
Speaker 2: Or yeah, all right, Jordan, his developments and drafting him
Speaker 2: last year. I think he's been immense, you know, in
Speaker 2: all honesty, Uh, he's done a great job.
Speaker 4: He's a really hard worker.
Speaker 2: He's got Sam Cook out there with him every day,
Speaker 2: talks on him every day. Randy coaches him every day.
Speaker 2: Chris does a great job too. But Jeorge's own biggest
Speaker 2: credit for sure. Very tough on himself and yet got
Speaker 2: a bounds and confidence, which is kind of a nice combination,
Speaker 2: you know, if you if you have a growth mindset. Right,
Speaker 2: So he's uh, he's done it and it showed up
Speaker 2: in the game. He's got I think one punt he
Speaker 2: probably wants back, you know, so that's the one he
Speaker 2: can't be bopping in. But he talked about that punt,
Speaker 2: but yet he felt pretty good about himself. So I
Speaker 2: think he's on track. And you know, you go into
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and uh, you know, field position is going to
Speaker 2: be a big part of that game.
Speaker 4: So he's going to be very important for us.
Speaker 8: I mentioned the impact of Annoyed similarly impact.
Speaker 7: Since he's got here the guys in the history of Adam,
Speaker 7: these veteran guys sort of late and early seasons, certainly,
Speaker 7: what is the value in that, particularly when you don't
Speaker 7: have a guy who's a you know, ten twelve.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a great question. We have had a
Speaker 2: lot of a lot of success with that. You know,
Speaker 2: you look back on it and it wasn't something that
Speaker 2: we really planned, you know, it just was born of necessity.
Speaker 2: And got to give Eric and Vince and George and
Speaker 2: the guys a lot of credit for that. But guys
Speaker 2: that wanted to come here, you know, guys like JD
Speaker 2: you know, wanted to come here, Kyle wanted to come here.
Speaker 2: You go back last year, you know, Jason wanted to
Speaker 2: come here, Justin wanted to come here. And I know
Speaker 2: those guys are still guys that can play I mean,
Speaker 2: these guys are high, highly talented guys, high draft picks
Speaker 2: that still have a lot left in the tank. And
Speaker 2: so I think that's really the function. Though they still
Speaker 2: want to play, they're still motivated to play. They wanted
Speaker 2: to be here, they believe, they believe in kind of
Speaker 2: the defense. They fit in really well with the guys,
Speaker 2: and they've had success, you know. And those two guys
Speaker 2: played really great in the game. I thought they both
Speaker 2: played excellent. I mean, Jadavian is just really he's bringing it, man,
Speaker 2: He's bringing it, and you see him getting better every
Speaker 2: single week. So I'm just excited and happy for him
Speaker 2: and excited and have you for us when.
Speaker 8: You look at the big picture of the division and
Speaker 8: the other teams, well all the other teams to love
Speaker 8: wins the Troll in recent weeks, Does that become.
Speaker 7: Part of your messaging to the team at all in
Speaker 7: terms of we have a real opportunity now maybe to
Speaker 7: build a league.
Speaker 2: No, the message is it's a week to week league,
Speaker 2: you know, and what you think you see last week
Speaker 2: doesn't really mean anything for this week. And I think
Speaker 2: when you look at the games, child, you'd have to
Speaker 2: agree with that, right, I mean, look, at last week
Speaker 2: compared to the week before, So to draw any real
Speaker 2: conclusions right now other than you know, records of records
Speaker 2: are what they are right now. But there's only four
Speaker 2: weeks in, there's only four chapters been written, and we've
Speaker 2: got to write chapter five. It's all we have to
Speaker 2: think about right now is writing chapter five for us,
Speaker 2: And whatever anybody else does doesn't do is really no
Speaker 2: concern of ours. We just have to focus on chapter five,
Speaker 2: which is which is a division game in Pittsburgh, playing
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers, and we understand what they're about, what
Speaker 2: they stand for, kind of football team.
Speaker 4: They are, and and.
Speaker 2: We know what it takes, you know, to go play
Speaker 2: that team, and we respect them and we're going to
Speaker 2: be at it. We're gonna have to be at our best.
Speaker 2: So all we got to be thinking about is going
Speaker 2: in there and being our best. All we have to
Speaker 2: think about. You mentioned that you don't think very long
Speaker 2: term injury concern that I don't know it was David
Speaker 2: johnno part.
Speaker 4: Of that group. He's still being evaluated. He's got this.
Speaker 2: There's some decisions that have to be made that he
Speaker 2: has to make in terms of how he wants to approach. Uh,
Speaker 2: the injury issues that has that just kind of got
Speaker 2: still private on his concern.
Speaker 4: So I would just say that is up in the air,
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm talking about I've met from the game yesterday.
Speaker 8: Correct, Jo did Justice. He'll get through the game, okay.
Speaker 7: And I know we didn't play a whole lot, but
Speaker 7: here in the second quarter.
Speaker 2: With Yeah, I liked a lot. I mean, just Justice.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a shame he got the screen call back.
Speaker 2: You know what a great play that was.
Speaker 4: But he came in. She showed a burst. You know.
Speaker 2: I think for him getting out there speaks a lot
Speaker 2: to his kind.
Speaker 4: Of courage and character, you know.
Speaker 2: And and we did pull him back at the end,
Speaker 2: you know, just to kind of you know, be careful
Speaker 2: with him. But it was great to see he's he's
Speaker 2: just played great. I mean, just nothing but love for
Speaker 2: Justice Hill. He's doing a great job.
Speaker 6: What'd you see from Arthur Molette on the table? Look
Speaker 6: like he had a good game. And then once Marlin
Speaker 6: does returns of the field, you feel like you have
Speaker 6: a lot of really good cornerbacks and safety do you
Speaker 6: feel like it gives you a lot of versatilities to
Speaker 6: kind of make the match.
Speaker 2: Guys, that's exactly right, Ryan. I mean, Arthur played very well.
Speaker 2: And you think when you talk to Arthur, you'll ask
Speaker 2: him and he'll just tell you about the four plays
Speaker 2: five plays that he didn't do well on or didn't
Speaker 2: think he did well on.
Speaker 4: He is a he is a.
Speaker 2: Perfectionist, you know, and again you appreciate that. But he
Speaker 2: played hard, he made tackles, he covered people.
Speaker 4: He's on special.
Speaker 2: Teams, and we kind of were running out of guys,
Speaker 2: you know, and then the guys were going out there
Speaker 2: and playing playing they were they were pulling extra shifts
Speaker 2: out there for sure, and he was one of the
Speaker 2: guys doing that. So just really happy with how he played.
Speaker 2: And again he's only going to get better and more
Speaker 2: comfortable in the system as he goes and as we
Speaker 2: get guys back. Yes, it will give us even more
Speaker 2: flexibility and more depth.
Speaker 5: You see guys like van Noy this year and even
Speaker 5: last year with JPP signed him, but he has a
Speaker 5: heavy workload that week. Is this something to be said
Speaker 5: about the fact that a lot of these guys are
Speaker 5: jumping into this defense and are able to pick up
Speaker 5: at least enough to go play a game, you know,
Speaker 5: just that that pretty quickly. Roll picked it up pretty fast.
Speaker 4: What you know, it says a lot.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of glad you brought that up because I
Speaker 2: think it's it's it's it.
Speaker 4: Does say a lot. You know.
Speaker 2: It says a lot for the guys that do it,
Speaker 2: and it says a lot for the coaches that teach
Speaker 2: it going into the week, and it says a lot for.
Speaker 4: The system that's been built. You know.
Speaker 2: So, uh, those guys have done a great job with
Speaker 2: that we have. You know, that's kind of you look back,
Speaker 2: that's kind of a track record right now. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we're real happy with that.
Speaker 7: This looks like the third weekend of road that you
Speaker 7: maybe going up against the own that own quarterback may
Speaker 7: or may not be playing.
Speaker 2: Does that if your preparation at all, Well yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean you always want to know, you know, as best
Speaker 2: you can, who the quarterback is gonna be.
Speaker 4: We didn't know who was gonna be this week. For sure.
Speaker 2: We looked at both quarterbacks, but you still prepare for
Speaker 2: the offense. And Pittsburgh's offense is gonna be similar with
Speaker 2: Mitch Trubisky out there. If he's a guy out there,
Speaker 2: we've played against Mitch before. Obviously he's he's a heck
Speaker 2: of a player and he can make all the plays
Speaker 2: and all the throws that that that that their offense requires.
Speaker 2: So yeah, a very dangerous player and uh, we'll have
Speaker 2: our hands full and we'll be ready.
Speaker 3: You know, we talk about day, but it seems like
Speaker 3: he's an intense hit. Is that something that you kind
Speaker 3: of knew when you were signing him bring him along
Speaker 3: or is that something that you can pick up you
Speaker 3: being on the sideline is a little different.
Speaker 8: Uh watching him.
Speaker 4: Play, Well, yeah, we knew it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, that's that's part of the evaluation.
Speaker 2: I mean, Roquan is is that kind of player, you know,
Speaker 2: and we we did play against him, you know, so
Speaker 2: we had a first hand view from the sideline of
Speaker 2: his hitting ability. To your point, and that that's kind
Speaker 2: of a big part of defense, you know, That's what
Speaker 2: football kind of is in a lot of ways. And
Speaker 2: I think he sets a tone for sure. We talked
Speaker 2: about that. Love the way ro Quorn players, love the
Speaker 2: way leads, love the way communicates, and another guy chases
Speaker 2: perfection every day, never never satisfied, never happy with where
Speaker 2: he's at, just wants to keep getting better. And yeah,
Speaker 2: that's he's definitely a physical player.
Speaker 4: Though to your point, guys.
Speaker 8: It's gonna let you live down.
Speaker 4: Rone.
Speaker 2: No, I'll never never did never.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 2: They round me in the locker room about it this
Speaker 2: after the game right there again, I was fine, I
Speaker 2: got it.
Speaker 4: I got it.
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