Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: September twenty second, and the Ravens are getting ready to
Speaker 1: play the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday at M and T
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium. Now, a big question for the Ravens right
Speaker 1: now are all the injuries they have going into this game.
Speaker 1: They have several players who mispracticed the entire week and
Speaker 1: will likely be unavailable for Sunday's matchup. Hey, Coachean Harball
Speaker 1: didn't provide too much insight into the status of players
Speaker 1: when he met with the media today, but he did
Speaker 1: say this will be a good opportunity for some young
Speaker 1: players to get playing time, and he talked about that
Speaker 1: during his press conference on Friday.
Speaker 2: Good seeing everybody, appreciate everybody being here.
Speaker 3: Good practice, Guys are focused, and we're all pointed towards Sunday.
Speaker 2: What questions you have, John?
Speaker 4: Uh? With Gus?
Speaker 2: How is he looked down? I mean it's a couple
Speaker 2: of years now removed from that. How does he looked Okay,
Speaker 2: I think he looks the same or better than he
Speaker 2: did before.
Speaker 3: You know, just to my eye, he looks really good
Speaker 3: and he's Uh, I'm sure glad he's on our team.
Speaker 2: Thought he ran well last week.
Speaker 4: John, he talked.
Speaker 5: About the challenges in two quarterbacks and now it's been
Speaker 5: that candy interestin's when we went out, So explaining a
Speaker 5: little bit more about getting the sea for Gardermnshee and
Speaker 5: sand the.
Speaker 3: Task exact Well, you know, Garder Minshew is obviously proven
Speaker 3: he can he can win in this league. You know,
Speaker 3: he's he's played very well many times we played him
Speaker 3: here when he's with Jacksonville here or there wherever it was,
Speaker 3: and uh and uh, you know he's a challenging quarterback
Speaker 3: and he also in that system. I think he's really
Speaker 3: established himself with coach Stike in there in Philly in
Speaker 3: terms of running that system. Well, he did it for
Speaker 3: a long stretch last year. So we've watched a lot
Speaker 3: of them. We understand his game and you know, we'll
Speaker 3: have our hands full. We'll have to be at our
Speaker 3: best to defend him.
Speaker 5: You know, there was a rep during Special Teams stills
Speaker 5: today where the guy's spun around before they've covered the pickup.
Speaker 4: Final question.
Speaker 3: I think that's a I think that's basically a Friday rep.
Speaker 3: It's more of a Friday round. Call it a Friday round.
Speaker 2: Now if we see it on Sunday, they better cover
Speaker 2: the kick.
Speaker 4: Did you do anything you prepare the conventional wet weather,
Speaker 4: I know, the pass you don't go dip balls and
Speaker 4: water buffets or anything. And do you have to do
Speaker 4: any of that this week?
Speaker 2: We did?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I talked to the quarterbacks and they had a plan
Speaker 3: for that. Un tea, they had a plan for that.
Speaker 3: So they feel like we're ready to go with the
Speaker 3: ball handling, and that's probably going to be the case.
Speaker 3: Kind of takes you back to the San Francisco game
Speaker 3: a few years ago, very similar type circumstances.
Speaker 4: I've seen a lot of the data guys say that
Speaker 4: it's actually not really the win that makes.
Speaker 3: A huge statistical difference, but it's I mean, it's it's
Speaker 3: the win more than the rand.
Speaker 2: Has that been your sort of heracle experience or that's
Speaker 2: a great question.
Speaker 3: I would say the wind has a big factor in
Speaker 3: it because it just blows the ball around you try
Speaker 3: to throw the ball. You know, it's a passing league,
Speaker 3: So I guess I would say, yeah, it makes sense
Speaker 3: to me. It depends how hard it's raining. Now you
Speaker 3: go back to the New England game, at New England.
Speaker 3: That game, remember that game?
Speaker 2: Who was there? Raise your hand? Okay, that was the
Speaker 2: Nick Boyle?
Speaker 3: Was it the Nick Boyle game? That was a torrential monsoon? Right,
Speaker 3: So I would say in that game it was the rain. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I saw the ball on the ground a lot.
Speaker 2: I remember that seeing that. That was not good.
Speaker 4: Do you guys have had obviously you shared an interviewing
Speaker 4: more than any other team in the league. It doesn't last,
Speaker 4: I remembers, correct, so far of the season. At what
Speaker 4: point does that become a concern.
Speaker 3: Well, it becomes a concern if they're if they're going
Speaker 3: to be season ending injuries. You know, I think those
Speaker 3: are the ones that you really, you really, you know,
Speaker 3: hope to avoid and you.
Speaker 2: Pray to avoid.
Speaker 3: And we we've had two of those, you know, we've
Speaker 3: had JK and possibly our Darius. Now that's not set
Speaker 3: in stone yet. The rest of the guys are are
Speaker 3: a few weeks a week, two weeks.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: We we thought we might have a couple of guys
Speaker 3: back this week. They'll be working for next week, you know.
Speaker 3: So they're right in that range. So that's the good news.
Speaker 3: So I feel good about and I feel good about
Speaker 3: the guys who are going to get an opportunity to
Speaker 3: play this week. They're they're excited. Jeremiah Moon comes to mind,
Speaker 3: you know, and there's a guy that that uh is
Speaker 3: gonna get out there and play some football, you know,
Speaker 3: and I can't wait to see it.
Speaker 2: You didn't ask you about Merlin for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Did his recovery end up being trickier than expected?
Speaker 2: Or has it basically been on the time whine you
Speaker 2: plough or you know basically yes, basically yes, it's been.
Speaker 3: It's been within the range. So those things are you know,
Speaker 3: you can't say exactly to the day. He's in the
Speaker 3: he's in the neighborhood.
Speaker 5: Good Sunday Raven celebrating Hispanic heat this month, there a
Speaker 5: lot of people coming from Mexico, Costa Rica.
Speaker 4: Is there a message that you have with the international
Speaker 4: in the defense?
Speaker 2: That's great, that's exciting.
Speaker 3: Uh coincides with my birthday coming up, you know, just
Speaker 3: a little little side note. I don't know why I
Speaker 3: brought that up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's good. So we're working together.
Speaker 3: Uh, the the international part of it, and I would
Speaker 3: say specifically, uh, the Hispanic part of it. I mean
Speaker 3: I think that that that fan base group, if you want.
Speaker 2: To call it that, to me is football fans. I
Speaker 2: think to me the group is football fans, you know.
Speaker 3: And to uh, to see the passion that people have
Speaker 3: for football, not just in the in the in the States,
Speaker 3: but you know, all over the world is really just
Speaker 3: really something that as a foot as a football coach,
Speaker 3: a long time football guy, just really kind of just
Speaker 3: makes your heart swell because because it's a great game,
Speaker 3: you know, and to see people who are Ravens fans especially,
Speaker 3: and you care about the Ravens and talk about the
Speaker 3: Ravens and have their families get together and just like
Speaker 3: just like all football fans do and have that kind
Speaker 3: of transcend the borders a little bit more and more
Speaker 3: every single year.
Speaker 2: To see all the fans coming up for this game,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's gonna.
Speaker 3: Be exciting for us and and we're really it just
Speaker 3: makes you, like I said, it makes your heart swell.
Speaker 5: It looks like the Colts defense of a lot of
Speaker 5: different ways of the pressure and quarterback you with interior
Speaker 5: line man and out just even on the poor their
Speaker 5: quarterbacks that get Taymore has a lot of crutchers or
Speaker 5: actual years just thing to talk about the challenges of uh,
Speaker 5: protecting are I guess.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it starts and you're right, it starts inside out.
Speaker 3: It starts with the two tackles, okay, so you've got
Speaker 3: to block them, and then they work their way out
Speaker 3: to the two ends. They'll bring their linebackers, you know,
Speaker 3: both those guys they bring, you know, bring the nickel
Speaker 3: kennymore or if he's playing corner, they'll bring them. So
Speaker 3: the safety will come, the free safety will come plenty
Speaker 3: of times. So, uh, it's inside out, and everyone of
Speaker 3: those guys is a really good rusher. So yes, that
Speaker 3: is a challenge. I think that's the strength, one of
Speaker 3: the great strengths of their defense right now, personnel wise.
Speaker 2: And if we don't do it, you know, we've got
Speaker 2: to do a good job with that, and we will.
Speaker 4: We will.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harbaugh. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough test for the Ravens as the Colts come
Speaker 1: to town. And like you mentioned, the Ravens are dealing
Speaker 1: with a handful of injuries, so they've got their work
Speaker 1: cut out for them in this game. Now, the game
Speaker 1: kicks off at one pm on a Sunday, Also Ravens
Speaker 1: Pregame Live begins at noon, so make sure you check
Speaker 1: that out on a YouTube channel as well as our
Speaker 1: app and our website will bring you up close and
Speaker 1: personal with pregame warm ups and Ravens legend Paranelle McFee
Speaker 1: is also going to stop by the set and have
Speaker 1: a conversation with us leading into that game. That's it
Speaker 1: for us on the Ravens Press Pass podcast today, but
Speaker 1: make sure you head over to the Lounge podcast feed
Speaker 1: as well. We've got an extensive interview with John Simpson
Speaker 1: that we did earlier this week, and we'll also have
Speaker 1: a full recap of a Sunday's game coming up for
Speaker 1: you as well once that's over. So that's it for us,
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend and enjoy the game on Sunday
Speaker 1: against the Colts.