Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Presspass Podcast. It is Friday, November first.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are geared up for a game on Sunday
Speaker 1: against the Denver Broncos one o'clock at M and T
Speaker 1: Banks Stadium. Today, as the Ravens prepare for that game,
Speaker 1: after practice, we heard from head coach John Harball.
Speaker 2: Okay, great seeing everybody, appreciate you being here. A great practice,
Speaker 2: great day. Excited for Sunday. One thing to start with
Speaker 2: is make a wish. They found the Make Waish Foundation
Speaker 2: and the good work they do. And we had two
Speaker 2: great Ravens fans here, Ashton and Liam, and they were man,
Speaker 2: they were great. They broke the huddle, the guys cheered
Speaker 2: for him. They got a bunch of autographs and got
Speaker 2: a bunch of pictures, and I think they're having a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. They will be honorary captains for the
Speaker 2: game on Sunday. They'll be out there at the coin
Speaker 2: toss and join that. So I just congratulate them for
Speaker 2: being here and for the type of people they are,
Speaker 2: and also to the organization. They do a great job.
Speaker 2: Heather does a great job all the organization, Steve's leadership,
Speaker 2: there's an amazing job of of reaching out to the
Speaker 2: communities and the and the kids like Liam and Ashton
Speaker 2: and and all kinds of other situations. So very proud
Speaker 2: to be a part of something like that. All right,
Speaker 2: what question do you have.
Speaker 3: John We saw the more back out there. How did
Speaker 3: the work out?
Speaker 4: Pat?
Speaker 2: You look good? Yeah, you look good. Good day for Lamar.
Speaker 3: Did you guys make a trade over there? You were
Speaker 3: there long time?
Speaker 2: Yeah? We Uh, we had a good conversation, had a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. Steve joke.
Speaker 3: Sometimes there is a Junke siptimes.
Speaker 2: If they only knew how much time we spent actually
Speaker 2: making fun of people, they would So it was a
Speaker 2: good conversation. But well, that's what I mean, that's what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 5: We we have we we do.
Speaker 2: But uh no, it's good having Steve here and uh
Speaker 2: and they spend time with the players, spends time with
Speaker 2: the coach is very involved with everything we do and
Speaker 2: so much appreciated. No way effect Montorians is playing, Yes.
Speaker 3: About Lamar said he's playing so right.
Speaker 4: Right, but don obviously Jonfrey Johnson's coming in mid season,
Speaker 4: it can be challenging with only a few days of practice.
Speaker 5: How did he do and do you feel that he's
Speaker 5: at least up the speed that he can contribute in
Speaker 5: some ways from that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did well and I do feel that.
Speaker 4: Yes, John, like pet Mitchell, was full part thats been left,
Speaker 4: has two practices. He said. One of the most important
Speaker 4: things with him is whether he can protect himself on
Speaker 4: the fielders. That's something that he may have seen over
Speaker 4: the courts of practice this week.
Speaker 3: He looked good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and we'll just have to make a decision
Speaker 2: as we go forward here this roster up. You know,
Speaker 2: implications to all that as well, but the main thing
Speaker 2: as a coach, you look at he's looking good. So
Speaker 2: it's good to see him back. And that's a tough
Speaker 2: re have we had these. It's been stellar his progress,
Speaker 2: So we'll see where we're at.
Speaker 5: Are you feeling about the depth of yournaria defensive wine
Speaker 5: right now? Though You've had a couple of guys Nick
Speaker 5: dept A return to practice today as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had some guys back and some guys not,
Speaker 2: so we'll just have to see where that. I do
Speaker 2: I feel good about the depth? Is that your question?
Speaker 2: I feel really good about our depth on the D line,
Speaker 2: and I feel the guys that to go out there
Speaker 2: whether it's the guys coming back or the guys that
Speaker 2: step in are going to do a really good job.
Speaker 4: The general sense is that obviously more challenging when you
Speaker 4: know you have a Thursday game coming right after a
Speaker 4: Sunday game, the kind of way where guys are physically and.
Speaker 2: You know, wanting to have as many guys available for
Speaker 2: either games, right, it's a consideration. You definitely have to
Speaker 2: keep both games in mind. I think when you watch
Speaker 2: the Thursday night games, you can kind of tell what
Speaker 2: a challenge it is to have you have your team,
Speaker 2: you know, as ready to play as they can be.
Speaker 2: So that's definitely part of their consideration.
Speaker 6: You mentioned Pethan Mitchell and the defensive lineman, these rosters decisions.
Speaker 1: What does that look like?
Speaker 2: IM say Saturday, that doesn't have to mad by four.
Speaker 4: But if does that discussion go till thy fifty nine tomorrow,
Speaker 4: what will happen with that?
Speaker 2: Well, I I don't know if it's ever gone to
Speaker 2: three fifty nine, but it goes as long as it
Speaker 2: needs to go. So when whenever, you know, we kind
Speaker 2: of get the information we need on the different there's
Speaker 2: always a lot of variables involved with something like that,
Speaker 2: so We'll just have to see John.
Speaker 4: What's kind of a chance when you have more does
Speaker 4: a practice for two days and has the one practice,
Speaker 4: you know, what's kind of the big job for him
Speaker 4: to be ready?
Speaker 2: Uh? You know, he'll be ready. I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 2: He studied all week, he was involved in all the
Speaker 2: all the preparation stuff. He knows the game plan, he
Speaker 2: knows the opponent. He'll be ready to go.
Speaker 4: Kind of a related question not to you guys, but
Speaker 4: a lot of concentration on Anthony richardson Indianapolis and just
Speaker 4: like him taking himself out of that one play because
Speaker 4: he was so exhausted after the last one. We've seen
Speaker 4: Lamar make a lot of high exertion plays that you
Speaker 4: guys have like a kind of protocol place for not
Speaker 4: putting himself in the spot where he's not related to
Speaker 4: his injuries or anything. But just like when he makes
Speaker 4: a really really tough play, he's exhausted after that kind
Speaker 4: of have assistant set of play where he's Guys, I
Speaker 4: feel a little bit.
Speaker 2: Distracted.
Speaker 3: I what was your question again?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, we're ware of it. I mean I think
Speaker 2: it's something that's important to be aware of that you know, uh,
Speaker 2: really for any player, but certainly of course the quarterback
Speaker 2: and uh, you know when they when they do something
Speaker 2: extraordinary like that, which Lamar does quite often. So it
Speaker 2: is something that we do try to take that into account.
Speaker 2: You and Lamar are kind of hinted at its being,
Speaker 2: you know, a long tree.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of wear and care when.
Speaker 2: It's in terms that I'm getting the rest games.
Speaker 5: Is that something you could see happening again?
Speaker 2: This is phenomenal right here, This is great. Yesterday was Halloween,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean, could you see this rest thing
Speaker 2: for Lamar?
Speaker 3: That the way he went through this weekend?
Speaker 2: Could you see that happening again for him?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I absolutely could. I think that what he's saying
Speaker 2: is right. And uh, and that's just kind of goes
Speaker 2: hand in hand with your question here. I think all
Speaker 2: that stuff you got, you gotta take that into consideration
Speaker 2: for sure. And you want your players to be at
Speaker 2: their best on Sunday, you know, and so it's always
Speaker 2: a little bit of that it has to be taken
Speaker 2: into account.
Speaker 4: N Was there a point of emphasis with holding the
Speaker 4: ball when you brought to the goldline.
Speaker 5: There a couple of those that happened to be downs
Speaker 5: of the week.
Speaker 2: We did show the one last week. We do that
Speaker 2: on Fridays where we show different situations, and that was
Speaker 2: one of the ones that came up just yesterday. The
Speaker 2: one the week before, we showed that one when they
Speaker 2: didn't have the camera angle down the line, and then
Speaker 2: it came up last night too, So yeah, that's definitely
Speaker 2: something to talk about. There's so many little things to
Speaker 2: the game that you just want to teach your guys,
Speaker 2: and the goal really is because you got to decide
Speaker 2: how deep you want to dig into that is really
Speaker 2: what are the guys need to know? What if they
Speaker 2: need to know? What do the players need to know
Speaker 2: to make good decisions as much as possible in all
Speaker 2: the myriad of things that can come up like that.
Speaker 2: So you do try to go through that and we
Speaker 2: do a good job that Daniel Stern does a good
Speaker 2: job of that. We actually we have scenarios, but we
Speaker 2: call them Stern areos for Daniel Stern, and he's outstanding
Speaker 2: with that and does a great job.
Speaker 1: We also heard from quarterback Lamar Jackson. He did not
Speaker 1: practice on Wednesday or Thursday, but did return to the
Speaker 1: practice field on Friday, and here's what he had to
Speaker 1: say when he talked with the media. Some good.
Speaker 3: So the big question, Uh, do you feel like you're
Speaker 3: gonna be able to play on Friday?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sorry, excuse me, Lamar, was that ever valbri Or you
Speaker 4: knew right away?
Speaker 6: No, that wasn't a doubt the rest of my body.
Speaker 6: You know, it's a long season, that's all.
Speaker 1: He add at u Peth Johnson.
Speaker 3: Just roll with your reaction.
Speaker 5: Getting another.
Speaker 6: Good pick up, great pickup. God can get separation like
Speaker 6: our other guys. Just got to see what he made of.
Speaker 6: You know he's over here now, South Florida.
Speaker 4: You guy from South Florida, I believe as well.
Speaker 3: He's from Tempa. That ain't South, That ain't South Florida. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but he's from Florida. Though we love all Florida, but yeah,
Speaker 3: like South different. Yeah, that's where I mean where you were?
Speaker 3: You more banged up than usual all coming out of that.
Speaker 3: I'm giving out of that game. I'm on some day.
Speaker 3: I look where where you hurting?
Speaker 6: I mean, no, we got a a lot of games
Speaker 6: when these next couple of weeks. So just trying to
Speaker 6: get my body right, just keep it fresh some more
Speaker 6: so that uh, rope on I got up the super hold.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a reaction to that. I was laughing
Speaker 3: like before before I uploaded it. He sent it to me.
Speaker 6: I was just don laughing. I'm like, but that's funny.
Speaker 6: It's like that was a great costume putty like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why was big abs is?
Speaker 5: Uh? After practice? Is that you give it?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 3: Was the game at all?
Speaker 4: Game playing that the impact anything?
Speaker 2: No, not at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, won't handle me, slow me down at all? Just
Speaker 3: rest of my.
Speaker 1: Body what I would be describe as uti gets divined.
Speaker 5: I ain't getting into the game.
Speaker 3: So I believe about God's locked down.
Speaker 6: I wasn't that practice the first two days, but just
Speaker 6: from watching them, guys were locked in making things happen.
Speaker 6: Practice look good, Practice looked great, looked like I.
Speaker 3: Was out there but going see Sunday. See how guys
Speaker 3: responding after that?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: That lost last Sunday and you got on his bront defense?
Speaker 3: How motive team? How more? The defense? Uh defensive line
Speaker 3: is tremendous.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: I believe they number one defense right now.
Speaker 6: Those guys are just flying around making things happen, creating turnovers, uh,
Speaker 6: creating chaos in the backfield, just all around good defense or.
Speaker 3: With with Theonta Jackson.
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Was he somebody that you had kind of taken notice
Speaker 2: of his game in Pittsburgh and just.
Speaker 3: Offense? Absolutely?
Speaker 6: I see him in Pittsburgh. I couldn't stand him when
Speaker 6: he was in Pittsburgh. Yeah, but yeah, his game is
Speaker 6: His game is great, like I said before, great separation,
Speaker 6: great route runner. Uh he's a home run hitter guy.
Speaker 2: We saw him.
Speaker 3: We saw him come kind of ship their hands during
Speaker 3: the locker rooms.
Speaker 2: That the first time you guys have ever met?
Speaker 3: No nah nah nah?
Speaker 5: So he said he thinks with Deontae coming down, when
Speaker 5: teams try to play man cover there could look like
Speaker 5: seven on seven out there. I mean, how scary and
Speaker 5: can't it look for the guys for opposing defenses actually say,
Speaker 5: trying to stop this the weather weapons you got there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Man creating a lot of one on one matchups, got baits,
Speaker 6: great guy against one on one covers, Zay, great guy
Speaker 6: gets one on one covers? Uh, deontaey uh? Mark uh
Speaker 6: likely Nellie, Like we got all these great guys. So,
Speaker 6: like I've been saying, it's a picket person offense, I'm
Speaker 6: starting to tornado right here.
Speaker 3: What that what you done.
Speaker 2: Let's one more?
Speaker 4: One more?
Speaker 5: Oh what was it like to happen in back out?
Speaker 3: As to the guy?
Speaker 2: What you look like? You keep and dark out.
Speaker 5: Far see time.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's great to have him back out there. I
Speaker 3: told him earlier.
Speaker 6: He caught like a little small pass and he took
Speaker 6: off him like he starting to look like last year.
Speaker 3: Uh kidding.
Speaker 6: Uh So it's great to see him. Uh back in
Speaker 6: good sperience. Ye oh, this is a great spirit.
Speaker 3: But just to say, I want to feel with us,
Speaker 3: it's great to see right to say that you look
Speaker 3: the stinger at John Shock looks the same.
Speaker 5: What do you.
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 4: Thanks?
Speaker 3: Aving a lot to talk about.
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