Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past Podcast. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: November tenth, and the Ravens are getting ready for an
Speaker 1: AFC North showdown coming up on Sunday against the Cleveland Browns. Today,
Speaker 1: we had a chance to talk with head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Good seeing everybody appreciate you being here.
Speaker 3: Really focused on the task at hand in front of us,
Speaker 3: which is a big challenge, but we're up for it.
Speaker 2: We're looking forward to it. What question did you.
Speaker 1: Have, John, you mentioned earlier able that I'll just because.
Speaker 2: As any easy to add to that myself. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: look at the calendar going into week ten?
Speaker 3: How bim makes you feel to have all fifty three
Speaker 3: players and they work through it makes me feel good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's happy, But people haven't given it that much thought.
Speaker 3: To be honest with you, I'm just focused on the
Speaker 3: next game and having a good practice today. But the
Speaker 3: fact that the guys are out there practicing, yeah, sure,
Speaker 3: it's a it's a big, big plus for us.
Speaker 2: I agree with that. That was easy on get my
Speaker 2: easy button.
Speaker 4: How do you see you guys are gonna deal with
Speaker 4: mental physical physics.
Speaker 3: How we're gonna deal with mental and physical fatigue? That's
Speaker 3: like the best question we've had right here, by the way.
Speaker 3: Nice nice job. I think I think we're dealing with
Speaker 3: it right now. We've we've done a good job of that. Uh,
Speaker 3: we've been on the road, we've been on the you know,
Speaker 3: different very tough teams, very physical games, and I feel
Speaker 3: like our guys have handled it very well. And we've
Speaker 3: got to continue to do it because you know, we've
Speaker 3: got this game against the Browns then, which is a
Speaker 3: division game and it's gonna be a physical game that
Speaker 3: always is another physical game against Cincinnati on Thursday.
Speaker 2: So that's probably probably the main point.
Speaker 3: Right now is how we handle that and how we
Speaker 3: approach it, and our job is to handle it better
Speaker 3: than our opponents.
Speaker 2: To you, guys can learn a lot.
Speaker 4: What you're about, just young guys kind of buddy.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's how it always works. You know, you're
Speaker 3: always growing, it's always a process. You're always putting new
Speaker 3: guys in and well, I don't care if it's offense,
Speaker 3: defense or special teams. It's always a growth mindset and
Speaker 3: a process. So it probably wasn't as bad as as
Speaker 3: you thought it was early in the year, and it's
Speaker 3: probably not as good as maybe you're making it out
Speaker 3: to be right now, but I think we're playing good
Speaker 3: and we're gonna have to play our best, and we're
Speaker 3: playing a really good special teams unit coming in here
Speaker 3: tomorrow or Sunday, and another good one on Thursday. And
Speaker 3: our division has four great special teams, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: operations and they always have So that's another reason that
Speaker 3: makes this division good. And we're gonna have to be
Speaker 3: at our best to you know, to.
Speaker 2: To help our team.
Speaker 1: We also had a chance to talk with some of
Speaker 1: the guys in the locker room. Here's what they had
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 2: I can put up the VIP.
Speaker 4: Wrote that that was Morgan. You know.
Speaker 5: We just there's a ton of medios over here for
Speaker 5: Gino and all the pacey's being is so we kind
Speaker 5: of need to separate to get our space back a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 6: What's your mindset going into this Browns game? Obviously the
Speaker 6: big matchup with Miles Garrett.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a battle, it's gonna be a war.
Speaker 5: We know it's gonna be a physical game. We know
Speaker 5: the type of teams that are in our conference, and
Speaker 5: the Browns are a physical team, and we got to
Speaker 5: bring our our a game.
Speaker 6: Oh, well, do you feel like this offensive line is
Speaker 6: gelling together right now? Obviously you're running the ball really well.
Speaker 6: What do you think is kind of in behind that?
Speaker 5: I just think we have great chemistry, you know, uh,
Speaker 5: be able to have the same guys in the room
Speaker 5: the last couple of years and uh, just having a
Speaker 5: great room of guys, and we just have the mentality
Speaker 5: and attitude and you know, we're still not where we
Speaker 5: want to be, and we just you know, are not
Speaker 5: getting complacent and what we're doing, and we're just always
Speaker 5: working to get better.
Speaker 7: Nie Hole's Garris having one of our best seasons or
Speaker 7: defensive player in the league in the first half. Do
Speaker 7: you relish these these kind of battles against the best
Speaker 7: players in the league.
Speaker 5: Definitely, you know, you look forward to these opportunities and
Speaker 5: uh in this game and these are one of those
Speaker 5: games where you know there's something an opportunity to uh,
Speaker 5: you know, to prove you know, the type of player
Speaker 5: I am and the type of offense line that we are,
Speaker 5: the type of offense that we are, the type of
Speaker 5: team that we are, and you know, we look forward
Speaker 5: to opportunities for you.
Speaker 7: You're sitting here on seventy two and you have two
Speaker 7: back and back division games. You know, what's the mentality
Speaker 7: of the team knowing you know what he could do
Speaker 7: with over these next couple of weeks in terms of
Speaker 7: this division race.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we we know where we are as
Speaker 5: a team and where we lie in this league. But
Speaker 5: like you said, we're just trying to take this one
Speaker 5: game at a time. We know I'm pouring these division
Speaker 5: games are and uh, we're turning this game like a
Speaker 5: super Bowl, So you know, we're trying to make sure
Speaker 5: that we're putting our best foot forward and you know,
Speaker 5: leave everything out there. N you've etually what a couple
Speaker 5: of other offensive guys have said that the offense is
Speaker 5: trending in the right direction, but it's not where you
Speaker 5: want to be get what what are you looking for.
Speaker 2: To get to that next time?
Speaker 4: I mean, for us, it's perfection.
Speaker 5: For us, it's making every blog for the perfect technique
Speaker 5: and uh for seventy five.
Speaker 4: Plays a game.
Speaker 5: And you know that's a hard feat to do, but
Speaker 5: that's that's our goal, that's our mentality. And you know,
Speaker 5: maybe we won't, maybe we won't get there, but you
Speaker 5: know we keep that, keep that mindset.
Speaker 4: We're I think we're getting pretty close.
Speaker 5: Where you're playing like super like nine games where you
Speaker 5: can do all and I guess you know, for yourself,
Speaker 5: there's any you know we've been trying to get to.
Speaker 1: What do you feel like, Oh, things are really good?
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: You know, it's the same standard I hope for myself.
Speaker 5: You know, I try to be perfect out there. I
Speaker 5: try to make sure I not only get the job done,
Speaker 5: but I'm doing it with great technique and every play
Speaker 5: of the game, you'd be consistently, you know, I think
Speaker 5: I'm getting better.
Speaker 4: Definitely, not where I want to be at the.
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Speaker 1: and enjoy the game on Sunday