Speaker 1: Welcome into Ravens Press Pass. Today you'll hear from head
Speaker 1: coach John Harball, tight end Mark Andrews, and running back
Speaker 1: Keith Mitchell. Let's start out with Harps.
Speaker 2: All right, good seeing everybody appreciates you guys being here.
Speaker 3: Obviously short week, right back at it Cincinnati in front
Speaker 3: of us, very important divisional game. I guess a very
Speaker 3: good team, so we're looking forward to it. But we
Speaker 3: have a lot of work to do and that's what
Speaker 3: we're on to today. So what questions you have, Johnny.
Speaker 2: We saw that Ronnie and Marlin did not practice today.
Speaker 4: Anything significant, anything up agantry injuries would.
Speaker 3: Either one not long term, not long term, I'd say
Speaker 3: day to day. Hopefully we'll get him to Thursday. There's
Speaker 3: a chance, and we'll see where we're at.
Speaker 5: John, recognizing he's tough, we wanted to be out there.
Speaker 5: It looks like Marcus Williams was having a hard time,
Speaker 5: you know, wrapping up with left arm, especially. Are you
Speaker 5: concerned about a liability there or just he's going to
Speaker 5: fight through and play well.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna keep getting better as he gets
Speaker 3: more comfortable. You know, he's got some limitation there with
Speaker 3: kind of the protection he's got on it right now,
Speaker 3: but as it gets stronger, it's getting stronger, he'll need
Speaker 3: less of that and give them a little more range
Speaker 3: of motion. So I think he's gonna be just fine
Speaker 3: moving around good. So he's a big part of what
Speaker 3: we're doing.
Speaker 6: You guys, have you know, started fast pretty much every
Speaker 6: game this year, you.
Speaker 2: Know, the fullest quarter.
Speaker 6: I think it's kind of been with the first Is
Speaker 6: there anything there? It probably doesn't seem like there's any
Speaker 6: one trend or whatever what you're called the dude you
Speaker 6: identified anything there in terms of that.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think it's a national football it's
Speaker 3: it's tough, it's a long season. And yeah, probably the
Speaker 3: story is we've started fast really every game. That's pretty unusual.
Speaker 3: If we had finished strong in every game, we'd be undefeated,
Speaker 3: which is what we'd like to be right now, but
Speaker 3: we're not. So those three games where we didn't finish
Speaker 3: where we needed to, we lost. Uh So that's kind
Speaker 3: of what we're working on right now. Certainly looking at
Speaker 3: the details, you know, like you said, within it this
Speaker 3: that whatever the detail might be, that's part of the process.
Speaker 3: I mean, this thing is a journey, you know, it's
Speaker 3: never you never set. I think we like to look
Speaker 3: at and say, Okay, this is what they are, this
Speaker 3: is what they are, and this is what they're gonna
Speaker 3: be all year. It's like no, every team is forging
Speaker 3: kind of the season as they go and things happen.
Speaker 3: You get game plan, you don't play things great, You
Speaker 3: play things great, plays come up, plays get made, plays
Speaker 3: don't get made. It's the it's to me, it's the
Speaker 3: it's the Uh, it's the it's the miracle of the
Speaker 3: National Football League. You know, that's why everybody watches it.
Speaker 3: It's so exciting. So we just know what we got
Speaker 3: to work on right now to get better, and that's
Speaker 3: what we're working on.
Speaker 7: What's what's the biggest challenge to turn around and other things?
Speaker 2: Getting ready to pardon them after probably two things.
Speaker 3: I mean, the one thing is the physical part of it,
Speaker 3: right for the guys, I mean that's just a big, big,
Speaker 3: big challenge. But uh, after it once a year, so
Speaker 3: they're they're up for doing it. They know it's coming.
Speaker 3: So our guys are ready to face that challenge and
Speaker 3: try to be their best Thursday. And then the mental
Speaker 3: part of it, uh, being ready with the game plan
Speaker 3: and putting the game plan together. Because we were right
Speaker 3: on the game plan today right after the game. That's quick.
Speaker 3: But we felt like we were prepared as a coaching
Speaker 3: staff and UH, and and having a division obviously division
Speaker 3: opponents helpful with that. Probably appreciate question jumping off that,
Speaker 3: But do you do you find that players will like
Speaker 3: to get right back to work after a disappointing day.
Speaker 3: I think they do when they have a Thursday night game.
Speaker 3: You know a lot of guys come in on a
Speaker 3: normal week though they'll come in and lyft on Monday. Uh,
Speaker 3: they'll watch the tape a lot of times even though
Speaker 3: it's their off day. So different guys do it differently.
Speaker 6: Is there any long those lines? Is there any different
Speaker 6: about a Thursday Night came from from your guys in
Speaker 6: the standpoint, like you know, prime time on the lights,
Speaker 6: that sort of thing, a little introjuice to their Fursday.
Speaker 2: It's just hits that. No.
Speaker 3: I think there is. I mean I think there is.
Speaker 3: I think they're excited about Thursday Night. Thursday Night's a
Speaker 3: it's a it's a primetime game. You know, it's the
Speaker 3: only game on uh, it's a national TV game, you know,
Speaker 3: on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 3: Huh, So there they'll be excited to play. It's a
Speaker 3: big deal.
Speaker 2: John.
Speaker 8: I know you're asked yesterday that Mitchell you not playing
Speaker 8: as much in the second half. Ste anything you can
Speaker 8: add to that, and just when you see how productive
Speaker 8: he is, I mean, that's kind of an understandable question
Speaker 8: to that he wasn't on the field a.
Speaker 2: Whole lot in a second. It's a very good question.
Speaker 3: I think it's you know, something that's probably you know,
Speaker 3: as you look back on it, part of the process
Speaker 3: of getting a young guy in there, you know, kind
Speaker 3: of working him into the game plan as part of
Speaker 3: the process as we go. You know, I don't think
Speaker 3: we felt probably as an offensive coaching staff, we're going
Speaker 3: to throw the whole game plan on him. And then
Speaker 3: those are kind of the plays he got called from
Speaker 3: the groupings get called in second half. Looking back on it,
Speaker 3: would we wanted him out there more? Yeah, And I
Speaker 3: think that'll factor into this this game plan. The way
Speaker 3: he got called those plays weren't the ones that he
Speaker 3: was kind of scheduled for, you know. So uh you
Speaker 3: look at look all ad Mark, you know, I mean
Speaker 3: you got two passes in the game.
Speaker 2: Is that what we want absolutely not.
Speaker 3: You know, you want to the ball goes where it
Speaker 3: goes sometimes, but we want the ball to go to Mark.
Speaker 3: So I think that's also part of the kind of
Speaker 3: the dynamic as the season goes along, trying to work
Speaker 3: through those things.
Speaker 7: You mentioned yesterday to Shawn kind of getting elusive and
Speaker 7: getting out of the pocket. Was was a disappointment when
Speaker 7: you had a chance to kind of digest the game.
Speaker 7: What'd you kind of see was that because it seemed
Speaker 7: like you guys were getting pressure.
Speaker 9: Was it over pursuit?
Speaker 2: Was it just what happened?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great question. Almost Sometimes it was basically
Speaker 3: we pressed the pocket too too close to him, you know,
Speaker 3: and he was able to get away. We got a
Speaker 3: few holding calls trying when he tried to get out
Speaker 3: of the two, but you know, then it's a little
Speaker 3: tough to tear off. So there's definitely a you know,
Speaker 3: it's a it's a it's a fine line, you know,
Speaker 3: with a quarterback that strong and that good broke a
Speaker 3: tackler too.
Speaker 2: Uh, We've got to do a better job of that.
Speaker 3: We have another one this week coming in who does
Speaker 3: the same type of thing, just a different way. But
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow is just as good as getting out of
Speaker 3: the pocket and making play. So it's gonna be a
Speaker 3: big point of emphasis.
Speaker 10: How different do you think the Bengals are gonna be
Speaker 10: Thursday compared to the first time you played them? Just
Speaker 10: I mean, you mentioned Burrow his mobility, you know, healthier,
Speaker 10: But what what do you what do you see from them?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, yeah, they're they're there are ten games
Speaker 3: in eleven games in whatever, and they're they're a different team.
Speaker 3: I mean, just like just like we are, just like
Speaker 3: every team in the league is. They've got you know,
Speaker 3: he's healthier, other guys aren't. It's a different time, John.
Speaker 4: From a coaching perspective, it's tough not with some of
Speaker 4: the late games stuff to kind of question everything and
Speaker 4: your guys trying too hard. Is there certain calls that
Speaker 4: we could do to try to change this? Like how
Speaker 4: much do you put on yourself to try to kind
Speaker 4: of figure out the root of some of these late
Speaker 4: game issues.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we look at the football. You know, you all
Speaker 3: have time to dig into the psychology. If that's what
Speaker 3: you're asking me for the root causes. Maybe there's some
Speaker 3: historical reasons for it. I'm not exactly sure, but we're
Speaker 3: just looking at the football, you know. So we fixed
Speaker 3: the football. That's what we're doing, and our guys are
Speaker 3: good about that. We've got a very honest culture, very
Speaker 3: straightforward culture. You know, we don't gloss anything over. We
Speaker 3: all look at ourselves. We were in a partners we
Speaker 3: look at how we look ats pro football, you know,
Speaker 3: so the players and the coaches are in a partnership
Speaker 3: together to try to play the best we can, you know,
Speaker 3: coach the best we can put the best performers out
Speaker 3: there that we can together.
Speaker 2: That's really how we do it. And I think that's
Speaker 2: part of the whole the process of the whole season.
Speaker 2: You know. So you can't panic, you don't.
Speaker 3: You don't get all upset about one game, you know,
Speaker 3: just like you don't get over happy about one game,
Speaker 3: and you kind of try to keep an even keel
Speaker 3: and keep moving, you know, straight ahead through the water.
Speaker 6: Did you get an explanation on the delay the game call?
Speaker 10: That is it?
Speaker 4: Some of you guys thought that clock was reset on
Speaker 4: their year Lives offensive drive.
Speaker 3: You know, they explained it. You know that those are
Speaker 3: hard Why they pumped the clock? Why they don't we
Speaker 3: thought we were going to get a pump clock later
Speaker 3: when we took the delay a game they had a
Speaker 3: guy on the field injured. They didn't pump the clock
Speaker 3: on that one, so, uh, not sure, not sure.
Speaker 7: Did you get an explanation of the crack back would
Speaker 7: look to be a crackback block?
Speaker 2: Yet?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we set it in. Hopefully we will. You know,
Speaker 3: I saw it on tape.
Speaker 2: I felt like trying to save me, trying to save me.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 8: I felt like the game kind of slowed to a
Speaker 8: crawl at times yesterday, just given the number of injuries
Speaker 8: and penalties and so forth.
Speaker 6: Is it can it be hard for an offense to
Speaker 6: stay in rhythm when that's happening.
Speaker 2: With Well, that's a good question. I don't.
Speaker 3: I just think you have to deal with it. Just
Speaker 3: you have to deal with it. And there's a lot
Speaker 3: of delays part of football.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: All right, great, thanks, here's tight end Mark Andrews.
Speaker 8: Does it kind of.
Speaker 4: Help having a short meet coming off a lot that
Speaker 4: you mean we just turn your focus to what's next
Speaker 4: on a Thursday?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, right now, it's all about just focusing
Speaker 9: on the next game, focusing on football, you know, like
Speaker 9: I said after that game, we're just gonna you know,
Speaker 9: take you know, our mistakes and what we did in
Speaker 9: the good things, bad things, learn from it, grow as
Speaker 9: a team and become better, and luckily we get to
Speaker 9: play Thursday.
Speaker 2: Like you said, you might.
Speaker 10: Start so strong, how are you able to you know,
Speaker 10: this time around, carry.
Speaker 9: That into the second had to keep them moment, just finish,
Speaker 9: you know. I think we've uh, we've seen it, you know,
Speaker 9: both ways this year, us finishing strong and and us not.
Speaker 9: So for us, it's we gotta be dominant. We gotta
Speaker 9: be dominant all four quarters. And I'm looking forward to
Speaker 9: to to be able to take the field to the
Speaker 9: guys this Thursday.
Speaker 1: What is it about finishing Mark? I mean, obviously there's
Speaker 1: just the execution of the plays, right, but is there
Speaker 1: a mindset to finishing fourth quarter play?
Speaker 9: It's just football, man. So that's why this game is
Speaker 9: so beautiful as anything. It happens any given Sunday. The
Speaker 9: guys that were playing against are are you know, incredibly talented,
Speaker 9: and they're there for a reason. So we gotta be
Speaker 9: on our p's and q's. We gotta do our job
Speaker 9: and just play together and good things will happen.
Speaker 2: We do that.
Speaker 9: We got a special team.
Speaker 10: Mark, This game on Thursday was gonna be big either way.
Speaker 10: But you know, given what happened yesterday and the result,
Speaker 10: just how much bigger does this game on Thursday? You know,
Speaker 10: between you guys and the Bengals. You know, given the
Speaker 10: standings and what's at stake, how much bigger to make it?
Speaker 2: You gotta look forward to it.
Speaker 9: You know, it's a it's a primetime Thursday night game. Uh,
Speaker 9: the world's watching, so we'll we'll we'll all be up
Speaker 9: for that. But you know, I think every you know,
Speaker 9: every game that we've had, we've been you know, hyped up,
Speaker 9: peeked up for, and uh, there's no difference for this game.
Speaker 9: But you know, obviously it's a special games Thursday night,
Speaker 9: all lies on us.
Speaker 7: Mark.
Speaker 5: Would you talk a little bit about the competitiveness and
Speaker 5: just this division white's.
Speaker 1: So tough playing in it.
Speaker 9: It's physical, man, it's a it's a physical division. You know,
Speaker 9: there's there's no team that's you know, that's easy. It's
Speaker 9: a cake walking. Even if a team's way better one
Speaker 9: year and and not another year, it's a it's always
Speaker 9: gonna be a dogfight. So I've got a lot of
Speaker 9: pride in this division and and and uh obviously bride
Speaker 9: in the Ravens. So yeah, it stuff.
Speaker 1: It's frustrating as yesterday was. I mean the offense. You've
Speaker 1: scored thirty more than thirty points at past four weeks.
Speaker 1: Do you what do you feel like is coming together
Speaker 1: for this offense?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I think had times. And you know, there's been a
Speaker 9: couple of games we've been really efficient, but you know
Speaker 9: there's certain dry as we're just moving the ball, you know,
Speaker 9: being efficient and moving the ball, doing our job. And
Speaker 9: you know, I think that we've we've grown as an offense.
Speaker 9: If you look from first game to to this game,
Speaker 9: this last game, we've gotten a lot better. We've kind
Speaker 9: of gotten our identity and it's only going to get
Speaker 9: better and better.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys.
Speaker 1: Next up, running back Keaton Mitchell.
Speaker 2: The experience playing on.
Speaker 10: The short arrest before.
Speaker 11: No, I ain't never been I ain't never had a
Speaker 11: game like this, clothes.
Speaker 10: So see, how what are people's you know, teammates, coaches,
Speaker 10: you know, what are they saying? The biggest kind of
Speaker 10: focus to get your your body right, your right preparing
Speaker 10: for Thursday?
Speaker 11: Yeah, you just said, it just getting our body right,
Speaker 11: leaving his game behind this and just focus on says and.
Speaker 6: He first up game for you late it's your What
Speaker 6: kind of juice does that give you?
Speaker 11: I guess it's not really no jews. I mean it's
Speaker 11: just another game and me I ain't never really experience
Speaker 11: nothing like this. I don't know how big it's supposed
Speaker 11: to be, but I know it's a divisional opponent. Uh So, yeah,
Speaker 11: that that aspect, yes, I know is big, but I
Speaker 11: mean Monday or Thursday just another game.
Speaker 4: I didn't kind of handle this ride, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, just a lot of buzz around you for
Speaker 1: obvious reasons, making big plays. How do you kind of
Speaker 1: take that all in?
Speaker 11: I mean, it is what it is. I mean I
Speaker 11: don't really get two stuff on that. I just try
Speaker 11: to focus on the next game and focus on myself
Speaker 11: and just give all the glory to my teammates cause
Speaker 11: I couldn't do it without the old line or anybody
Speaker 11: on this team.
Speaker 3: How would you describe the mood of the locker room
Speaker 3: over the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 11: I mean, we coming in today, we j we all
Speaker 11: just put it behind it, like we just got Cincinnati.
Speaker 11: We gotta take care of those, so we're not really
Speaker 11: we're not gonna let.
Speaker 2: This game favorus.
Speaker 5: Is this sort of silver lining of having such a
Speaker 5: quick turnaround that you have to sort of flush Sunday
Speaker 5: so quickly.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we don't have a cho We just gonna flush
Speaker 11: his leaders by this.
Speaker 6: He sounds like you, you know, might see more down
Speaker 6: shit than he plays.
Speaker 2: And so forth. Moving forward?
Speaker 6: Is it is that something that you respecting it kind
Speaker 6: of looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yeah, Uh, hopefully I I can get in the game
Speaker 11: a little bit more. Uh, whatever happens happens. I mean, well,
Speaker 11: if it come my way, i'm'a just make the best
Speaker 11: of it. So we just gonna have to see it.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 3: Oh, before the game you were a little nick How
Speaker 3: are you feeling right now?
Speaker 2: I feel good?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Can you describe what it's like when you get that
Speaker 9: the handoff and you just see the whole like you
Speaker 9: see the grass in front of you?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 9: What is that?
Speaker 2: I feel?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 10: What do you see? Like?
Speaker 1: Can you describe it?
Speaker 2: I can't really describe it.
Speaker 11: I mean, if I get some space like that, obviously
Speaker 11: I'm hoping for a touchdown, but I I hope I
Speaker 11: don't get caught. That's the only thing I know. My
Speaker 11: friends just gonna be on me, so I just can't
Speaker 11: get caught.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like the adrenaline rush of it though, Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's cool. Yeah, I'm good cool.
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