Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: October sixth, and the Ravens are getting ready to go
Speaker 1: on the road to face the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's going
Speaker 1: to be their third AFC North matchup on the road
Speaker 1: in the early part of the season. Of course, the
Speaker 1: Ravens have won the previous two games in Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: then last week in Cleveland, and they're hoping to make
Speaker 1: it three and zero on Sunday. As they got ready
Speaker 1: for that matchup, we had a chance to talk with
Speaker 1: head coach John Harball after today's practice.
Speaker 2: Okay, good seeing everybody, appreciate you being here. Good practice.
Speaker 2: We'll all pointing all eyes earlier, begining to be pointing
Speaker 2: completely towards Sunday at one o'clock. That's what we're working for.
Speaker 2: We're looking forward to it. What questions you have coaching up?
Speaker 1: Anyone's actually asked you this week to talk about the
Speaker 1: rivalry a little bit. But is there a particular Gamer
Speaker 1: series that stands out a year that stands out in
Speaker 1: your memory?
Speaker 2: There's a lot, you know, there's so many. I think
Speaker 2: more than anything, Yeah, I remember all of them. I
Speaker 2: think probably couldn't tell you which year the wins were
Speaker 2: a lot better than the losses. I can tell you
Speaker 2: that I probably remember the losses sometimes more than the wins.
Speaker 2: But right now, really I'm not thinking too much about that.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody really is. We're focused on the
Speaker 2: task at hand. Try to go in there and really
Speaker 2: play our best football game and be ready to go.
Speaker 1: How have you seen the rivalry evolve over these last.
Speaker 3: Few years, of particular since ye so many players retire
Speaker 3: and just then changes ahole rosters.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, you know brat Kisa was playing
Speaker 2: four technique. You know when I first started to give
Speaker 2: you an idea as a heck of a defensive line.
Speaker 2: I remember it. Well, you couldn't get him cut off
Speaker 2: on the backside. So that's part and parcel of the
Speaker 2: evolutionary nature of the National Football League and life. I
Speaker 2: would say so. But right now the president is at hand,
Speaker 2: and the president is Sunday at one o'clock.
Speaker 3: John Aaron Rodgers mentioned that he had kind of your
Speaker 3: achille surgery that Aaron scoop and that would be able
Speaker 3: to play at the end of the season. Have you,
Speaker 3: I mean, is it sole believe that Jk's gonna be
Speaker 3: done for you or is there still a possibility that
Speaker 3: make it late in the year.
Speaker 2: As you could Well, I mean, I don't know. That's
Speaker 2: something that's between JK and the trainers and the doctors.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's not something I've been focusing on this time.
Speaker 2: You know. It's kind of more week to week for
Speaker 2: us in terms of the challenge at hand. So you know,
Speaker 2: if a Killy, if he can get back, that'd be awesome,
Speaker 2: that'd be all for it. But I really don't know
Speaker 2: the answer to that is.
Speaker 1: That it.
Speaker 3: Is keeping three quarterbacks a week or week thing? Is
Speaker 3: it something that you about is depends on you know,
Speaker 3: I know Tyler had the hamstring for a while, Like
Speaker 3: how do you evaluate that when you're getting guys back
Speaker 3: and roster space becomes a bigger deal you does that
Speaker 3: make it more challenging that three quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Around that it does? We kind of made a decision
Speaker 2: that we were going to try to go that route
Speaker 2: this year already, as you know, So that's obvious, and
Speaker 2: so we want to do that, you know, because the
Speaker 2: opportunity to have three quarterbacks available in a given game
Speaker 2: is something that we feel good about and we and
Speaker 2: we like all three guys. We've got three three quarterbacks there,
Speaker 2: you know, to two backups that are you know that
Speaker 2: could start in the National Football League and have so
Speaker 2: we feel we feel very strong about that. So we
Speaker 2: want to take advantage of that situation as much as
Speaker 2: we can.
Speaker 3: Availability. But I mean, this is a guy that has
Speaker 3: always pilate himself.
Speaker 1: Won't be available. What do you kind of able?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean he's starting right tackle. I think
Speaker 2: he's playing. Morgan's been playing the best football here. He
Speaker 2: might tell you this of his whole career. You know,
Speaker 2: he's really played really well, and uh, he's a force
Speaker 2: out there. He's a force in nature, especially on the
Speaker 2: polls and things like that. So, uh, he's doing everything
Speaker 2: he can to get back for Sunday, and we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens.
Speaker 1: I don't know there are any players who willing to
Speaker 1: rule out in his times to have a lot of
Speaker 1: science to be made.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I don't think anybody's
Speaker 2: gonna be ruled out, but that will be coming out
Speaker 2: very soon. You'll see the elev phrases very quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Di Well, I'm I'm like probably everybody here, all especially everybody.
Speaker 2: That's our my you know, in our in our realm
Speaker 2: our age group. Yeah, yeah, yeah, clarify that. You know,
Speaker 2: we grew up watching Dick Butkus uh videos because it
Speaker 2: was it was just after his career basically, and you
Speaker 2: couldn't talk about a linebacker in the National Football League
Speaker 2: not talking about Dick Butkus. Dick Butkers like that is
Speaker 2: the same as saying linebacker. Right, you said Dick Buckets,
Speaker 2: It meant linebacker next to the definition of linebacker with
Speaker 2: Dick Buckets. And then there was Ray Nichke right in
Speaker 2: there and Chuck bed Nerik was right in there with
Speaker 2: that group, you know. So uh, that was that was
Speaker 2: an era that h that we grew up looking at
Speaker 2: black and white NFL films about, you know, and and
Speaker 2: with with with a voiceover, so rest in peace. Dick
Speaker 2: Buckers is a legendary, legendary player who without without players
Speaker 2: like Dick Buckets, and without Dick Buckets, the league would
Speaker 2: not be what it is today. It's no us about that.
Speaker 2: We should all be very grateful, those of us who
Speaker 2: love football.
Speaker 1: All right, great.
Speaker 2: Real quick, I know you've been talking about Rowan and
Speaker 2: what he's added to the team, but particularly lately he's
Speaker 2: been drawing comparison, that's the regular word. Do you see
Speaker 2: any similarity between them? Yeah, I mean they're both great linebackers,
Speaker 2: you know, and we're talking about linebackers. It's linebacker day obviously,
Speaker 2: and that's this era, right Ray Lewis and and now
Speaker 2: the next generation is Rokwan Smith and I do. I
Speaker 2: do see a lot of similarities. They both play for
Speaker 2: the Ravens. I think that's a real big one that
Speaker 2: I'm really appreciative of. I'm glad they both played, you know,
Speaker 2: for the Ravens. Ray did and and Roe does. And
Speaker 2: I think the leadership, the ability to to make everybody
Speaker 2: around them better, the style of play certainly is in
Speaker 2: the same kind of kind of world. But they're their
Speaker 2: own individual player. You know, They're not the same. No
Speaker 2: two players ever are. And that's what's really important, I
Speaker 2: think as a coach to understand is like, you know,
Speaker 2: you're not searching for the same player. You know, the
Speaker 2: replacement is not the same player. No two players, no
Speaker 2: two human beings, are ever alike. But you do look
Speaker 2: for the same qualities. You know, and Row certainly has
Speaker 2: the qualities you know in that in that in that
Speaker 2: in that world. But you know, he's got a lot
Speaker 2: of football in front of him and have an opportunity
Speaker 2: to write his own, you know, the book on his career.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harbaugh. Now, the matchup on
Speaker 1: Sunday kicks off at one pm. You can watch it
Speaker 1: on CBS. Also, make sure you check out the Lounge Podcast.
Speaker 1: We did an interview with Gus Edwards that dropped yesterday,
Speaker 1: So here what Gus had to say about this matchup
Speaker 1: and his performance so far this season. You can check
Speaker 1: out the Lounge Podcast wherever you find your podcast. Also,
Speaker 1: you can watch the episode on YouTube. Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: have a great weekend. We'll be back with you on
Speaker 1: Sunday after the game in Pittsburgh.