Speaker 1: Welcome to the Raves Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens have
Speaker 1: an AFC North matchup this weekend. They're heading on the
Speaker 1: road to face off with the Cleveland Browns. As they
Speaker 1: get ready for that game, today we heard from head
Speaker 1: coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Okay, good seeing everybody. Appreciate you guys being here, beautiful day,
Speaker 2: good practice. We have a lot on our plate and
Speaker 2: we're you know, you guys have done a good job.
Speaker 2: It's been a good week of practice, very focused week.
Speaker 2: We've got to try to go out there and Sunday
Speaker 2: and put our best foot forward and play our best game.
Speaker 2: That's what we'll be striving to do. What questions you have, John,
Speaker 2: With Marland.
Speaker 3: Not really practicing at all this week, we kind of
Speaker 3: think his chances are from Sunday.
Speaker 2: I think we'll find out as we get closer to Sunday,
Speaker 2: get through the injury report today, and then to see
Speaker 2: where we are on Sunday with really all those guys.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 2: On the flip side, how excited are you to get
Speaker 2: Arthur Molett back given some of the guys banged up
Speaker 2: in the secondary and knowing what he did for you
Speaker 2: guys last year defensively Arthur's done a great job of
Speaker 2: working hard. You know, he's he's been out for a while.
Speaker 2: It's been he's been chomping at the bit. He's uh,
Speaker 2: he's been anxious and uh he's uh, he's worked hard.
Speaker 2: So we'll see how it looks and see how he
Speaker 2: looks and looking forward, Tony. Anybody that we have that
Speaker 2: healthy and wants to play and it's a good player,
Speaker 2: we like to have him out there. John, John, there
Speaker 2: is a report while we were while you guys are
Speaker 2: out there, that Rokwan was fine.
Speaker 4: I guess for the for that in the game.
Speaker 2: We didn't chose to ask you about that on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: What did what did you make of that play?
Speaker 2: Did you did you see any element of a hip
Speaker 2: drop when you look at that on film? I mean,
Speaker 2: what was your Yeah, I mean you can parse all that.
Speaker 2: It's it becomes really fine. It's fine tuning, you know,
Speaker 2: to determine those things. So I think they'll look at
Speaker 2: I'm sure they look at every element of that, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure there'll be continued conversation on that. But just
Speaker 2: as far as as Rogue goes, you know, Rose fighting
Speaker 2: to go make a tackle there, we're trying to get
Speaker 2: off the field. We're trying to get out of the
Speaker 2: game with a victory, and he would never do anything. Well,
Speaker 2: Number one, he would never do anything to hurt another player.
Speaker 2: I think everybody knows that. And he would never do
Speaker 2: anything that's outside the rules, and everybody knows that. That's
Speaker 2: how he plays. So he tries to do it according
Speaker 2: to the rules, just like all our guys do. I
Speaker 2: think Kyle showed that too with that hit you know,
Speaker 2: downfield in the on the on the receiver. You try
Speaker 2: to do it as best you can within the rules.
Speaker 3: John. Obviously that type of tackle isn't being coached. It
Speaker 3: seems more instinctial than anything. How tough is it to
Speaker 3: kind of take it out of the game. I know
Speaker 3: that's what the league wants.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm not really not probably the place
Speaker 2: right now in my mind right now to have that
Speaker 2: whole debate and conversation. We had that conversation you know,
Speaker 2: in the off season, and there's a lot of ins
Speaker 2: and outs to it, but right now, you know, for me,
Speaker 2: for Row, for all the guys, just try to do
Speaker 2: the best you can to play within the rules, you know,
Speaker 2: and do it the right way, and the effective way,
Speaker 2: and you know, the fundamentally sound way and the safe way.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's what we try always to do
Speaker 2: our best at Johnny.
Speaker 5: Think that Jalen could come back with without a lot
Speaker 5: of RUSS after missing that.
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of possibilities for who could
Speaker 2: be active on Sunday and playing, you know, So we'll
Speaker 2: be working through that for sure. Got forty eight hours.
Speaker 2: Really it's a little less than forty eight now, it's
Speaker 2: about forty seven hours and fifty minutes. You know, we'll
Speaker 2: probably be able to work all that out by game time, hopefully.
Speaker 3: With you working with what you saw from Keaton Mitchell
Speaker 3: about this.
Speaker 2: Week, Yeah, I think it's good to have Keaton back
Speaker 2: and he's ramping up.
Speaker 4: Likewise, I'm having Zay back.
Speaker 1: How much does that you know? Yeah?
Speaker 4: How much does that help for the offense?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Self evident probably answer. You know, I mean Zay
Speaker 2: being back, if he's back, would be awesome. You know,
Speaker 2: he's a big part of what we do for sure.
Speaker 2: John Marlin's injury aside, how impressed you've been within this season, uh, Marlin?
Speaker 2: How impressive I've been with Marlin? Yeah, I've been very impressed.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I you know, just the thing
Speaker 2: about that game last week was the fact that, and
Speaker 2: this is true really of any game, you know, you
Speaker 2: got to step up and make plays at some point
Speaker 2: in time just get stopped. Somebody's got to make some
Speaker 2: kind of play. You gotta make a tackle at least
Speaker 2: a sack, a sack, fumble, turn on an interception or
Speaker 2: recovered fumble, a fourth down stop, a third down stop.
Speaker 2: You know, all those things are playmaking things. So Marlin
Speaker 2: made two huge plays in that game. You know, it's
Speaker 2: probably indicative of heighs played all year. He's not perfect,
Speaker 2: he wants to get better. We're all chasing improvement every
Speaker 2: single day. But you know that was that was huge
Speaker 2: for us.
Speaker 1: We also heard from a wide receiver or shot.
Speaker 3: Baby, we're starting to see your impact show up on
Speaker 3: a more consistent basis. I mean, how do you feel
Speaker 3: right now in terms of your game compared to this
Speaker 3: point of your career.
Speaker 5: I'm blessed, you know, I feel good, but you know,
Speaker 5: always hungry for more. I'm just following the leader of
Speaker 5: Lamar right now. You know, we only on what we
Speaker 5: ate right now. It's a long season. We're trying to
Speaker 5: get back to the RIC Championship. So you know, I'm
Speaker 5: thankful and them blessed, but you know, my main goal
Speaker 5: is winning more games.
Speaker 3: Is there a different vibe in this locker room considering
Speaker 3: how far you guys did go last year and you're
Speaker 3: right back in the thick of things again this year.
Speaker 3: What what's kind of the tone right now compared to
Speaker 3: maybe where you guys were last year?
Speaker 5: It definitely it, It's definitely you know, the same, you know,
Speaker 5: as far as the vibe. But this team does a
Speaker 5: good job, you know, separating the two seasons. You know,
Speaker 5: last year, you know what we did don't carry over
Speaker 5: into this year. And you know we done a good job,
Speaker 5: but keeping them too separated and just coming to work
Speaker 5: every day and and showing up, you know, putting the hours.
Speaker 5: They relate to the guys that were here last year
Speaker 5: know what winning feels like, and the leaders that we
Speaker 5: have on this team. So they done a a good
Speaker 5: job of you know, sharing what they know how to
Speaker 5: continue to win games.
Speaker 3: You guys have another dominant Russian attack again this year.
Speaker 3: Now Derrick Henry is a part of that. H I
Speaker 3: do you notice as a receiver how difficult it is
Speaker 3: for defenses to try to stop you guys.
Speaker 5: I mean I would, I would definitely assume it. It's
Speaker 5: probably hard. It's a lot of a lot of weapons
Speaker 5: you gotta think about, especially with the run game doing
Speaker 5: what it's doing in the past game do what it's doing,
Speaker 5: and and you gotta account for a la more so.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm just glad I'm not a defensive coordinator
Speaker 5: because I don't know how we'll do it right now.
Speaker 4: So see them?
Speaker 1: Is the big play? Like a point menis that you
Speaker 1: actually hit it in Sunday's game?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 1: Are those big plays?
Speaker 2: Something that are forts is you want to see him.
Speaker 5: We want every play to be a big play. So
Speaker 5: you know, e every run that's called, every you know
Speaker 5: past no matter what it is, you know, our job
Speaker 5: is to turn it into a big play. Uh. It
Speaker 5: might not happen every time, but that's the goal of
Speaker 5: every play. So hopefully, you know, we can make every
Speaker 5: play a big play.
Speaker 1: We saw the the uh the scramble drill last week
Speaker 1: where Lamar was kind of directing you. You called it.
Speaker 1: How talk to me about the feel of those plays
Speaker 1: where you had to have to know where he's going.
Speaker 1: He has a sense of of where you are when
Speaker 1: the play breaks down.
Speaker 5: I've been able to put in those hours with him
Speaker 5: and like learn how you play football, and it's been
Speaker 5: it's been carrying over like that kind of.
Speaker 3: Speak to where the chemistry is between YouTube right now
Speaker 3: hit on a play like that on.
Speaker 5: Scramble, Yeah, I mean, I mean we can call it
Speaker 5: chemistry or we can call it unavailability. I I haven't
Speaker 5: been available for Lamar you though, and be able to
Speaker 5: be comfortable with me in those situations. And I am
Speaker 5: on the field more. I'm getting more targets than I
Speaker 5: ever have, you know, since I've been in the league.
Speaker 5: So I think that's kind of bound to happen at
Speaker 5: some point.
Speaker 2: Did you guys see the difference in coverage, because, uh,
Speaker 2: you fels have to, especially the safeties that have to
Speaker 2: play up a little more now.
Speaker 5: I mean, I just feel like we see a lot
Speaker 5: of different things just because you know, we do have
Speaker 5: a lot of weapons and it's a lot of different
Speaker 5: ways you can play us, and it's not just one
Speaker 5: best way to play us. So you know, everybody's gonna
Speaker 5: give us the best shot, you know, and give us
Speaker 5: you know, exotic defenses, you know, weekend and week out,
Speaker 5: But it all starts from the more I get done
Speaker 5: a good job of dissecting everything and breaking it all down.
Speaker 5: And yeah, you know, uh hopefully we continue to do
Speaker 5: that trying.
Speaker 4: You had to deal with a lot of criticism just
Speaker 4: from your availability standpoint, as you said, and just uh
Speaker 4: connection with Lamar wasn't always where it was for you
Speaker 4: to have this kind of season, to start breaking out
Speaker 4: over the past few games and demonstrate more over the.
Speaker 3: Course of the season.
Speaker 4: Just is there a satisfaction for you?
Speaker 5: And not right now? It was so bad that all
Speaker 5: I can do is just want more, you know, for
Speaker 5: the team and for myself. And I've always been, you know,
Speaker 5: confident in what I can do my abilities, But I
Speaker 5: don't know why I got hurt in the past. It
Speaker 5: really wasn't nothing that I could even do to prevent,
Speaker 5: you know, eat the injuries that happened to me. So
Speaker 5: you know, right now, I'm just you know, thankful, but
Speaker 5: you know, just being a competitor and just coming to
Speaker 5: work every day, you know, not trying to get complacent.
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