Speaker 1: Welcome to the Raves Press Pass podcast. The Ravens fell
Speaker 1: to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, losing eighteen to sixteen
Speaker 1: to drop them to seven and four on the season.
Speaker 1: On Monday, we had a chance to hear from head
Speaker 1: coach John Harbaugh during his standard weekly press.
Speaker 2: No updates right now. We're just monitoring it as we
Speaker 2: go here and he'll be working to get ready for
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 3: After looking at.
Speaker 4: The film from the three point version out there, seemed
Speaker 4: like the Steelers were saying afterwards that they the players.
Speaker 2: Going in the direction, Well, it didn't work. You know,
Speaker 2: I think anytime you got to play it didn't work,
Speaker 2: you kind of look at it very critically. I mean,
Speaker 2: we're we're disappointing that play. You want to have a
Speaker 2: better play up there, better play call, the better executed play,
Speaker 2: everything along those lines. So I think you know, in
Speaker 2: every game whether you win or lose, but especially when
Speaker 2: you lose, and especially when it's an opportunity to tie
Speaker 2: the game at the end after a hard fought game
Speaker 2: like that, you got to look at those plays really hard.
Speaker 2: And that's when we'd like to have back just across board.
Speaker 3: Maybe not per se along those lines. Not having Derek
Speaker 3: on the field for that play.
Speaker 2: To do things, I guess, yeah, I don't know, really,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure about the question. I just think there's play.
Speaker 2: There are plays where guys are on the field. The
Speaker 2: guys are on the field for specific types of plays,
Speaker 2: you know, and depends on the type of play, whether
Speaker 2: Mark's out there or Isaiah's out there, Orse's out there,
Speaker 2: or baits out there or whoever. Dereck Henry is a
Speaker 2: great football player and you want him out there situationally,
Speaker 2: but he's not out there for every play. So, like
Speaker 2: I said after the game, that's the play that was called.
Speaker 2: You know, that's the personnel group that it was set
Speaker 2: up in through a lot of a lot of game planning.
Speaker 2: I mean, coaches are they're in early, they're home late,
Speaker 2: and they try to put the best We all try
Speaker 2: to put the best play we can together and come
Speaker 2: up with the best plays, and when it doesn't work out,
Speaker 2: you know, it hurts, it's bad and you really feel
Speaker 2: you feel disappointed about it because it's it's it's your job,
Speaker 2: it's what you want to get done well. So all
Speaker 2: the little nuances within that are all things that disappoint you,
Speaker 2: but every player is not on the field for every play.
Speaker 2: I'd like to have had a better play there, you know,
Speaker 2: and I like to have had a successful play. So
Speaker 2: you look back on it and that's how you feel
Speaker 2: about it. You feel bad.
Speaker 3: About its successful in it.
Speaker 5: Was there any thoughts of maybe seeing a key and
Speaker 5: that he wasn't very involved offensively?
Speaker 2: Yes, he was.
Speaker 5: There a thought just to see what a different look
Speaker 5: with him and there I know he's run such a
Speaker 5: different dynamic.
Speaker 2: Well, the way the way you're asking it is it
Speaker 2: just to be like experimental. No, there's no thought to
Speaker 2: experiment in that game right there. Keaton's a guy we
Speaker 2: want to get involved, for sure. He's only been back
Speaker 2: for two weeks, you know, coming back from a knee injury. Uh,
Speaker 2: the way the game went, we only got Derek twelve
Speaker 2: carries as it was, thirteen carries as it was, so
Speaker 2: you want to get him more. You know. We only
Speaker 2: had like fifty two or fifty three offensive plays. We
Speaker 2: didn't have as many throws or runs or anything else
Speaker 2: that we wanted. So now to try to get a
Speaker 2: specific player in the game, you could say the same
Speaker 2: thing about any other player. You want to get a
Speaker 2: more rep more reps, more opportunities, you probably need more plays,
Speaker 2: and to get more plays, you need more successful plays,
Speaker 2: more first downs, more yards. We were off the field
Speaker 2: a couple of times real quick two I think two
Speaker 2: of our series were off the field in two or
Speaker 2: three plays. So it just cuts down the opportunities for everybody.
Speaker 1: John made a.
Speaker 6: Change in safety with Ardarius Washington in places. Mor what
Speaker 6: do you mean have you seen Kamar Darius up until
Speaker 6: this point for him to earn this opportunity, and then
Speaker 6: how do you think he played or he played every
Speaker 6: snap because the only guy.
Speaker 7: Who did that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a plan going in. Those two guys
Speaker 2: we tried, we had you know, we were trying to
Speaker 2: attack some issues that we had in the back end,
Speaker 2: as everybody knows. And I thought I thought they played
Speaker 2: well back there. Those guys did a good job. Where
Speaker 2: Darius had earned that opportunity, earned that chance by by
Speaker 2: by the way he practiced, and then also by the
Speaker 2: way he played when he was in there during the
Speaker 2: during the course of the season. We put Kyle back
Speaker 2: there as well. I thought he played very well back there.
Speaker 2: He did a great job communicating. But they both did
Speaker 2: and they played well so that would definitely be a
Speaker 2: formula going forward. And then you know, still the guys
Speaker 2: that are here with us are still going to be
Speaker 2: working to do whatever they can to help us win.
Speaker 6: It seems almost an inconceivable question over the last decade.
Speaker 3: But he's already thought to.
Speaker 7: Bring a competition for Justin Tucker as a tryout candidates.
Speaker 2: Or anything at this point. No, no, there's no thought
Speaker 2: to that. I mean, you have to find that competition first.
Speaker 2: Just if you're going to be blunt about it, you know,
Speaker 2: where is that competition? That would be one thing. And
Speaker 2: the best option right now is to get Justin you know,
Speaker 2: back on point where where he's because he's fully capable
Speaker 2: of doing it. Certainly haven't lost any confidence in Justin Tucker.
Speaker 2: You know, you saw that on the fifty four yarder
Speaker 2: and we sent him out for and he drilled it.
Speaker 2: So that's the Justin Tuk that he wants to see,
Speaker 2: that we all want to see on every kick. And uh,
Speaker 2: he's definitely our best option and he's going to make
Speaker 2: a lot of kicks. I really believe that going forward.
Speaker 2: But it's up to him, you know, it's up to
Speaker 2: him and the guys he works with every day to
Speaker 2: make those balls go straight. So that's not competition right
Speaker 2: now at this time. Now, that's not something we want
Speaker 2: to for Justin. We just got to compete to get
Speaker 2: better and make those kicks, those field goals.
Speaker 5: Are you seeing it as is it on the kicking side?
Speaker 8: That is there?
Speaker 5: Is there anything going on in part of the other
Speaker 5: mechanics that go into it, whether it's the hold or anything.
Speaker 2: Else, not specifically, it's just a it's just a matter
Speaker 2: of that. It's their team, they work together. I think
Speaker 2: when things go well, Justin credits those guys really well,
Speaker 2: and I think they all take responsibility, you know, for
Speaker 2: every good thing or for and for everything it doesn't
Speaker 2: go well.
Speaker 7: Is there any way to look at the number of
Speaker 7: kind of hees the offensive mine, especially in this last game,
Speaker 7: which is throughout the year, you know, holds the goal field. Obviously,
Speaker 7: one of the strengths of this office is the marketability
Speaker 7: to improvise the hole of them all with give us
Speaker 7: these time, but with some of those plays kicking the
Speaker 7: ball off faster, we help addressing of those.
Speaker 9: Kind of ties.
Speaker 2: Well. The holding penalties run runs, and those are penalties
Speaker 2: that hurt us. I mean it's just to start with
Speaker 2: what type of penalties we're talking about. First of all,
Speaker 2: too many penalties, way too many penalties. The penalties on
Speaker 2: offense are the one thing that is holding us back.
Speaker 2: That's the biggest issue. It shows up in different ways.
Speaker 2: So holding penalties on run plays, Yeah, color separation, it's happening,
Speaker 2: and we're grabbing those guys and it's getting called. It's
Speaker 2: putting us to you know, it's putting us to first
Speaker 2: and twenty, it's putting us to second and nineteen. And
Speaker 2: we're probably the best get back on track offense in
Speaker 2: the league right now overcoming those things. But we shouldn't
Speaker 2: have to overcome them. When you play defense like we played,
Speaker 2: or you're play in a game like we were playing
Speaker 2: in sometimes it becomes too high amount in the scale.
Speaker 2: And that's why we didn't score as many points. That's
Speaker 2: really the number one reason, because we were behind the
Speaker 2: sticks too much because of the penalties. So holding penalties
Speaker 2: run game, no holding penalties in the past game. We've
Speaker 2: been pretty good in pass protection. We haven't had too
Speaker 2: many holding penalties in pass protection. I give our line
Speaker 2: a lot of credit for that, especially the way Lamar
Speaker 2: moves around I think they do a great job of
Speaker 2: blocking for Lamar that way. The linemen downfield penalties in
Speaker 2: this game, there was one that happened on a run
Speaker 2: play that got taken out kind of like we took
Speaker 2: it outside to the right. I think we could have
Speaker 2: held our water on the lne of scrimm is there
Speaker 2: a little better. The other the other ones were screens,
Speaker 2: you know, where the screens get held up and the
Speaker 2: timing gets messed up. So that's tough. But we still
Speaker 2: got to try to find a way to be intentional
Speaker 2: about that and not get downfield. But I will say,
Speaker 2: on the screens, when they cover the screen and it
Speaker 2: gets delayed, that's a tougher deal. Other types of penalties
Speaker 2: help me out, that's yeah, I'm trying to be like
Speaker 2: really specific about us. You get, oh, the special yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean the special teams penalties aren't acceptable. I mean
Speaker 2: they back you up and put you put you behind,
Speaker 2: and those those are both unnecessary penalties, and they're both
Speaker 2: technique penalties, you know. Uh one of them was a
Speaker 2: leverage penalty and the kickoff return and in terms of
Speaker 2: not setting up the right way and the right spot,
Speaker 2: get beat across your face grab the guy, okay. Not okay,
Speaker 2: We work hard on that. The other one was the
Speaker 2: punt return downfield. You don't you don't put your hands
Speaker 2: on you don't try to you don't try to block
Speaker 2: somebody on the tip of the shoulder pad because it
Speaker 2: inevitably it becomes the back, you know, on the punt return.
Speaker 2: Coach that all the time. Not okay, there's techniques involved
Speaker 2: with that. Special teams is all about fundamentals and techniques,
Speaker 2: you know, and understanding the spacing and the geometry of
Speaker 2: those plays, and that's we've got to be better at that.
Speaker 4: Penalties and see that as like discipline and like of
Speaker 4: discipline gets put on the shoulders of coaching. What can
Speaker 4: be done to eliminate these issues moving forward down the stretch.
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, it's across the board. It's everything. I mean,
Speaker 2: the buck stops here, Harry Truman right stops with me.
Speaker 2: So it's my job to make sure that we're doing
Speaker 2: the things that we got to do. And we've from
Speaker 2: a coaching standpoint, from drill standpoint, from emphasis standpoint, technique standpoint,
Speaker 2: and making sure you guys understand that you know, it's
Speaker 2: not okay, it's not acceptable. We've all got to be
Speaker 2: intentional about getting it stopped, and my job to make
Speaker 2: sure that everybody's focused.
Speaker 4: On Justin for a second.
Speaker 10: Is there any way to change up the problem solving
Speaker 10: the process for him having to talk to somebody else,
Speaker 10: different voice in there, or do you just sort of
Speaker 10: have to trust the process that has worked so well
Speaker 10: for so many.
Speaker 2: Years, try to attack everything to the utmost that we
Speaker 2: can across the board. And you know, Justin is one
Speaker 2: of the aspects that we're looking at. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: going to get it figured out. We have coaches, we
Speaker 2: have technique, we look at the tape he's practicing, well,
Speaker 2: he's got to kick it straight.
Speaker 8: Don't be more than Eddie Jackson staying home.
Speaker 2: And also another question that safety is Sneeze Kinge's updated.
Speaker 2: Really no injury updates right now. There's MRIs today and
Speaker 2: things like that, So we'll see where we're at after
Speaker 2: all information comes in. I really don't have anything to
Speaker 2: say about any of those personnel decisions that get made
Speaker 2: or why they get made. Some of those things are
Speaker 2: are just in house conversations that we have and and
Speaker 2: it stops there, and other things are just weak to
Speaker 2: weak decisions that you make I mean, you make decisions
Speaker 2: week to week. It's a week to week lead. And
Speaker 2: that's pretty clear, you know. I say that a lot
Speaker 2: up here, and I think we all know that. You know.
Speaker 2: It's it's you can't get too high, you can't get
Speaker 2: too low. You're not as good as you it's not
Speaker 2: as good as you think when things are going well,
Speaker 2: and you're not as you're not as bad as you
Speaker 2: think when things are going well. It's a long season
Speaker 2: and we've got a big game next week, So what
Speaker 2: what worked last week or what the plan was last week,
Speaker 2: whether it's play calls or who's on the field or
Speaker 2: who plays. It evolves to the next week, and you've
Speaker 2: got to look at your circumstances and meet them where
Speaker 2: they're at, you know, just decide what's our best avenue strategy.
Speaker 2: What can we do to try to win this next
Speaker 2: game against an opponent that's doing the same thing against you,
Speaker 2: trying to find a way to exploit anything they can
Speaker 2: to win the game. That's just the nature of this
Speaker 2: competitive business, you know. So it's it's always going to
Speaker 2: be like that, man. It's conflict, it's clashing, it's too
Speaker 2: high level, you know, operations going against each other in battle,
Speaker 2: you know, football battle. That's the beauty of it, that's
Speaker 2: the challenge of it. You can't get all down on
Speaker 2: yourself and start saying, oh, you know, we didn't do
Speaker 2: this right, we didn't do that right. We're gonna beat
Speaker 2: ourselves up. You feel bad about it, but then you
Speaker 2: put yourself off the mat and you go to work
Speaker 2: because we've got a big game coming up. If we
Speaker 2: win this game, we're gonna in great shape. If we
Speaker 2: don't win this game, it's not gonna be the end
Speaker 2: of the world. You know, that's just the fact, and
Speaker 2: we'll go to the next game. So we got a
Speaker 2: bunch of fighters, we got a bunch of competitors, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna make the best decisions we can that are
Speaker 2: best for our team to play the best football that
Speaker 2: they can the very next week coming up.
Speaker 6: You started outings in grenavious way in the dime Hadge
Speaker 6: obviously you guys used four corners, but it seems like
Speaker 6: he played more and more, even you know, when you were.
Speaker 4: In nickel with in the fourth quarter, how did he look?
Speaker 6: And you know, do you feel like he's going to
Speaker 6: be in the mix more and warming the poor beating
Speaker 6: off that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought Trey had a real good game. It's
Speaker 2: worked really hard to pick up the defense, and still
Speaker 2: a few things he learned, like we you know, all
Speaker 2: of our guys are still learning things. We all are.
Speaker 2: But I thought he played well and I think he's
Speaker 2: a He's a nice piece for us back there, great addition.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to his continuing role and his expanding role.
Speaker 5: Jo.
Speaker 10: When you when you went back and looked at it,
Speaker 10: what did the Steelers do well defensively to make it
Speaker 10: life difficult for you?
Speaker 2: They played really good Childs. I mean they're aggressive, they're physical,
Speaker 2: they made tackles. We didn't exploit some of the things.
Speaker 2: And there are guys running open sometimes we didn't have
Speaker 2: time to get to or whatever. We just didn't capitalize
Speaker 2: when we could. We had the penalties that set us
Speaker 2: behind schedule. So you know, it's a combination of all
Speaker 2: those things. Can't really narrow it down to one.
Speaker 5: Thing, John, Obviously, a game like that is a little
Speaker 5: small as details matter. Was how frustrating was it just
Speaker 5: thinking back to the interception of justice He'll get the
Speaker 5: ball ticket from just to see them making the plays
Speaker 5: that you feel like, you know the winning plays in
Speaker 5: that game and your side not being able to make
Speaker 5: as many as you like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's disappointing. Those the things that you want to do.
Speaker 2: You want to find ways to win the game. John
Speaker 2: One thing.
Speaker 9: Lamars said, the approachate the skates like you thought maybe
Speaker 9: at one point they were becoming any game the teams.
Speaker 7: To heights And you don't want to.
Speaker 9: Say that that applies to everyone and it's our opinion,
Speaker 9: but is there anything to they take from maybe that
Speaker 9: stay from one of your leaders. Did you see maybe
Speaker 9: a mental approach that was sort of butterflies or anything
Speaker 9: like that can win that game?
Speaker 2: No, I didn't see that.
Speaker 8: Personal question. But David Ajava was a healthy scratch at
Speaker 8: the third time this season yet at easta Isaac playing
Speaker 8: this game, and you can gotway him a couple of
Speaker 8: times differently. What does he need to do to see
Speaker 8: the field or what do you need to see from
Speaker 8: him in practice?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I have those conversations with the guys personally
Speaker 2: every single day, and so you make those decisions based
Speaker 2: on who gives and what and who and when and
Speaker 2: how gives you the best chance. You think that in
Speaker 2: that game that week, and there's a lot of things
Speaker 2: that go in each of those decisions.
Speaker 10: A lot of defensive players said communication is still the
Speaker 10: reason for a.
Speaker 8: Lot of their mistakes.
Speaker 2: That guy can repeat that, Can you repeat that?
Speaker 5: Yeah? A lot of defensive players said communication is still
Speaker 5: reason for a lot of their mistates, but that it
Speaker 5: took a really big step forward this game.
Speaker 2: How do you have communication issues?
Speaker 5: And why do you think did start to clip for that?
Speaker 2: I thought we came out and played good in this game,
Speaker 2: but you know we can play better. You know there's
Speaker 2: things that we can do better on defense. For sure.
Speaker 2: We'll look at all those things just like we did
Speaker 2: last week.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Next just cause you played a little better this week
Speaker 2: doesn't mean you're gonna pay better next week. We were
Speaker 2: trying to chase perfection, uh, in every aspect of what
Speaker 2: we do. But it's a it's a challenging deal because
Speaker 2: you got an opponent over there that's coming after you
Speaker 2: an attack and you it's it's back and forth, you know, uh,
Speaker 2: And hopefully you can make those stops and make those plays.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of the guys. I thought the effort, the intensity,
Speaker 2: the lock the guys were locked in and focused communication.
Speaker 2: I thought was good on defense, really good, and we'll
Speaker 2: just keep trying to improve and get better and try
Speaker 2: to win the next game.
Speaker 9: John isn't a recent injury.
Speaker 2: But are we've met about Michael Peers.
Speaker 9: Is he getting closer to being an optioners?
Speaker 2: That's still well, he was an IR so when he
Speaker 2: comes off I R you know, then you'll know. But
Speaker 2: he's working hard every day. He's working hard every data
Speaker 2: to get healthy and get back out there and he
Speaker 2: will be back this season.
Speaker 3: Similar not a recent injury from this game. Arthur Malatt
Speaker 3: at the calf last week that something it could be
Speaker 3: longer term potential injury reserve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll anticipate that one being an injury injured reserve
Speaker 2: at this point, so just have to see how it heals.
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