Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past Podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: August fourteenth. The Ravens were back on the practice field
Speaker 1: this afternoon after pre season opener of victory over the
Speaker 1: Eagles on Saturday. After practice, which is a light practice,
Speaker 1: head coach John Harball address the media.
Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, before we get started, I want
Speaker 2: to I want to welcome to the family of Eli A.
Speaker 2: Gonzalez who are here today. Had a chance to talk
Speaker 2: with them, Elia's mom, amazing kids, what a great family
Speaker 2: it is, and what a tragedy it was. And I
Speaker 2: just want to say, and I know we say this,
Speaker 2: but we're determined to do the things that we can do,
Speaker 2: partner with their family, our foundation and others to make
Speaker 2: a difference in these areas that are experience in this
Speaker 2: trauma and this violence, which has to end. There's no
Speaker 2: reason for it. And just thank them for being here,
Speaker 2: for the love that they have for each other, for
Speaker 2: the great family that they are and continue to be like.
Speaker 3: We all strive to be just like them.
Speaker 2: So I just want to welcome them here and thank
Speaker 2: them for coming out.
Speaker 3: Okay, we got all the.
Speaker 2: Kids out here today again and we appreciate that and
Speaker 2: we had a good, good practice. We're excited about the
Speaker 2: Commanders coming in tomorrow and Wednesday to practice.
Speaker 3: Were looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Ron and I have talked extensively about the practices and
Speaker 2: the practice schedule and the format and the tempos and
Speaker 2: all those things, and we're on the same page. You're
Speaker 2: actually going to meet with them tonight. Some of their
Speaker 2: players are coming up tonight. We'll meet with some of
Speaker 2: our players and get on the same page with the
Speaker 2: drills and things like that. That's always helpful. We've done
Speaker 2: that over the years, and we're excited about that part
Speaker 2: of it too. So we just can't wait to have
Speaker 2: two productive days against a very good football team, a
Speaker 2: very well coached team. We're looking forward to that. So
Speaker 2: what questions you have to meet with Godler, Well, we
Speaker 2: made it normal to meet with them. Sometimes we do
Speaker 2: it the day of we're practicing in the morning. So
Speaker 2: we decided to do it, you know, tonight when they
Speaker 2: come up, they're gonna they're gonna branch off for that
Speaker 2: group and come over here, and I think they wanted
Speaker 2: to see the set up too, so but I think
Speaker 2: it is normal to just try to get together beforehand
Speaker 2: and build a plan kind of everybody communicate and try
Speaker 2: to get the most out of it we can.
Speaker 3: General. We kept asking the past few weeks about take
Speaker 3: Dobbinson's out there on the field. How's it feeling to
Speaker 3: have him back on the field.
Speaker 2: It feels good to have him back there on the field.
Speaker 2: He's excited. We're all excited. We'll probably ramp him up
Speaker 2: a little bit this week and kind of work him
Speaker 2: in there and try to be smart in how we
Speaker 2: do it. But uh, but he'll he'll be fine. He's
Speaker 2: he's he's one hundred percent healthy.
Speaker 3: It looks good. He's been training hard, so he's ready
Speaker 3: to go. John, why didn't today work work out to
Speaker 3: be the day?
Speaker 2: I you know, I don't know. I think it just
Speaker 2: worked out for whatever reasons it worked out. I'm just
Speaker 2: try not to look at it too deeply and be
Speaker 2: grateful John.
Speaker 3: Hell's Hell's tias bells are progressing. It does it get
Speaker 3: to a point where they're concerned about him being ready.
Speaker 2: For a record. It hasn't gotten to that point. They
Speaker 2: feel good about it. I mean, you know, it's just
Speaker 2: a it's a it's an agitated knee. I guess there's
Speaker 2: not really anything other to say about that, and I
Speaker 2: think they are being cautious.
Speaker 3: I will say, uh, and they.
Speaker 2: Feel like today they did say his hee look the best.
Speaker 2: It's luck, you know, swelling things like that. So you know,
Speaker 2: I know he'll be back for the season. But I
Speaker 2: know as well as you can know. You know there's
Speaker 2: not a serious problem in there. It's just him getting
Speaker 2: right for him to play to his highest level.
Speaker 3: John, we didn't see James crochet out. There is everything
Speaker 3: going right with him after Saturday's game.
Speaker 2: Sure, James had a contusion kind of a hip back,
Speaker 2: kind of buttocks thing type thing, so he could have
Speaker 2: practice tomorrow maybe, but I don't know if he will
Speaker 2: just we may. We may just hold him out another
Speaker 2: day or not. We had a couple of other things.
Speaker 2: Tyler has a hamstring tweak, so we'll be conscious with
Speaker 2: that for a little while here. We're not going to
Speaker 2: be in a hurry on that one either. I think
Speaker 2: about the hamstrings. You just don't want to redo it,
Speaker 2: you know, you want to you don't want to re
Speaker 2: injure it. We want We really have been very cautious
Speaker 2: with the ham strings of late, so we'll probably continue
Speaker 2: that trend.
Speaker 3: I'm toad you guys didn't have very many offensive steps
Speaker 3: in the years to have in these games that impact
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: How you allocated playing.
Speaker 3: Time for the next year.
Speaker 2: Well, not for the practices because they're just set up already.
Speaker 2: It's kind of even offensive defense. It may have some
Speaker 2: you know, I think the starters are going to get
Speaker 2: a lot of reps these next two practices, so they
Speaker 2: didn't play in the game, so it probably won't pact
Speaker 2: as much as all that. But the other guys want
Speaker 2: to practice too, so they'll be out there and it'll
Speaker 2: be just kind of what it is.
Speaker 3: John, going back and looking at it with the own
Speaker 3: tas Saturn Night, wouldn't the biggest struck for you is
Speaker 3: like that their kings went nation all like, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean that's how you always feel, Pete, no doubt.
Speaker 2: I think I really appreciated was the aspect of what
Speaker 2: we would call winning football, which is why I wore
Speaker 2: the T shirt today. I thought our guys understood that
Speaker 2: we played situational football very well. The high leverage situations
Speaker 2: we did very well in you know, the sudden changed situations,
Speaker 2: the turnovers we created, some of the short yarded situations.
Speaker 2: I thought we did really well with it. You know,
Speaker 2: a two minutes and both ends, both the end of
Speaker 2: the half. Then we came out and scored with the
Speaker 2: first drive, which is a big deal around halftime, and
Speaker 2: then two minut and at the end of the game
Speaker 2: and four minute to finish. Those are all things that
Speaker 2: have been emphasises for us, and that was really why
Speaker 2: the game was won in the end.
Speaker 3: It wasn't that we outplayed anybody. We probably didn't.
Speaker 2: They probably did, you know, because they played very well,
Speaker 2: But we won the game because of those things.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's Saturday.
Speaker 1: You guys had four sacks, look out a lot of pressure,
Speaker 1: but it seemed like there was a place that just
Speaker 1: over ninety percent of the way in there and not
Speaker 1: getting home. Are there any specific adjustments that joll counting
Speaker 1: for sacks, gfl as ways that you.
Speaker 3: Look kept up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean four sacks pretty good, you know, so
Speaker 2: we're we're not complaining about that, but you know there
Speaker 2: were more that were close and sometimes you don't get there.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a big, physical, good offensive line. The
Speaker 2: ball comes out quick with that offense. You know, they
Speaker 2: got the ball at quick on some seams and some fades.
Speaker 2: I thought that they made some good throws and catches
Speaker 2: on that was really the bulk of their offense and
Speaker 2: quarterbacks scrambles. They did run the ball a little bit
Speaker 2: more with the inside zone stuff for their temple than
Speaker 2: we would want to see, so we want to firm
Speaker 2: that up. But mostly it's the seams and the fades
Speaker 2: and the quarterback scrambles is where they got most of
Speaker 2: their yards.
Speaker 3: We know when the center squad practices, they can get
Speaker 3: pretty intense. Where you expected the intensity level to be
Speaker 3: at what instant.
Speaker 2: Teas, Oh, I mean, as it's gonna be an intense practice,
Speaker 2: there's no doubt because that's that's how these guys are.
Speaker 3: You know, they're they're they're they always are.
Speaker 2: You know, the NFL teams always practice very well and
Speaker 2: very hard, and especially when you go against each other,
Speaker 2: you want to put your best foot forward, and we
Speaker 2: want to put our best foot forward in every way.
Speaker 2: We're gonna put our best foot forward in terms of
Speaker 2: how we how we execute our effort, our attention to detail,
Speaker 2: and we're here for football. We won't get the work done.
Speaker 2: That's what we'll be focusing on and that's what we're
Speaker 2: gonna try to do.
Speaker 3: It as some bodies that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jalen, Jalen is real close. Rock Is is not
Speaker 2: quite as close as Jalen, but still close. So you
Speaker 2: know pretty soon, you know, like maybe to the game.
Speaker 2: Arthur Mallett again, real close, same category. Uh, Damarian's different.
Speaker 2: Damarian's gonna get surgery again on his ankle. Unfortunately it's
Speaker 2: gonna be It's not gonna be a season ender. It'll
Speaker 2: be early season, October maybe something like that.
Speaker 3: He'll be back. But what happens is the screw in there.
Speaker 2: It caused it bone to crack a little bit, the
Speaker 2: screw that was in the surgery, and that's something that
Speaker 2: does happen sometimes, we were told. So that's where he's at.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately for him and for us in that sense, we
Speaker 2: did bring in Tay. He saw that, so we're excited
Speaker 2: to get get a look at him. He's out here
Speaker 2: today and uh, he'll be He'll be thrown right into
Speaker 2: the fire.
Speaker 3: You can add any other com least good. And you
Speaker 3: think that'll help you out for the new season, Well,
Speaker 3: it'll help us out for now.
Speaker 2: And the door is still open corner in safety. We'll
Speaker 2: still be looking at guys, uh to see if we
Speaker 2: could add some help.
Speaker 3: Is the greatest concern is not having the f guys
Speaker 3: to practice some player? Is it more not getting the
Speaker 3: chance to evaluate.
Speaker 2: It if you wanted to get it with these reason
Speaker 2: both know I mean you want you want guys to
Speaker 2: get the reps and a value. We kind of know
Speaker 2: our guys. There is some evaluation, but also just development.
Speaker 2: That's really important for guys who miss. But also you
Speaker 2: don't want more reps going on when you have one
Speaker 2: position get light than those The guys who are practicing
Speaker 2: take a little more rep more reps than you want
Speaker 2: to take in the day, or more at risk.
Speaker 3: So we're really conscious to that that's very important.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Horrible discussing Monday's practice and
Speaker 1: providing injury updates on several players ahead of this week's
Speaker 1: joint practices with the Washington Commanders. Now, those practices will
Speaker 1: take place here at the Under Armed Performance Center on
Speaker 1: Tuesday and on Wednesday. We're gonna stream those practices for
Speaker 1: you so you can get a look at everything that's
Speaker 1: happening during those joint sessions. The practices begin tomorrow morning,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna stream those starting at ten am. Both
Speaker 1: on Tuesday and on Wednesday. You can watch that on
Speaker 1: the Ravens website, mobile app, and on our YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: We're also going to do full breakdowns of everything that
Speaker 1: we see out there at practice with recap podcasts over
Speaker 1: at the Lounge podcast Feed, so check that out as well.
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