Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: November sixth. The Ravens approved to seven and two on
Speaker 1: the season after a thirty seven to three victory over
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. The Ravens are tied for
Speaker 1: the best record in the AFC and they currently lead
Speaker 1: the AFC North Division race. Today, we had a chance
Speaker 1: to hear from head coach John Harbaugh during his Monday
Speaker 1: afternoon press conference, and here's what he had to say.
Speaker 2: Okay, so been a good morning, working on evaluating the
Speaker 2: game in terms of what we can do better and
Speaker 2: really where we're at, and then going to work on
Speaker 2: the Browns getting ready for that huge game here on Sunday.
Speaker 2: So we're excited about it and we're just kind of
Speaker 2: getting started on this version of it. We know the
Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns have they know us, so you can't kind
Speaker 2: of start way ahead of where you might be in
Speaker 2: terms of just shared understanding of our opponent. But we've
Speaker 2: got a lot of work to do and we're looking
Speaker 2: forward to it. We can't wait for the game to
Speaker 2: happen on Sunday. So what questions you have, John Lamar.
Speaker 3: We've talked about his efficiency all year. Thick now even leaves.
Speaker 4: The envelopletion rate.
Speaker 5: Why do you think his efficiency?
Speaker 2: I mean he's always been pretty efficient, but this year.
Speaker 5: It's kind of really taking that big jump.
Speaker 2: This year, you know. I mean, I think we're getting
Speaker 2: better on offense right now. We've got a lot of
Speaker 2: work to do still. There's so many things that we
Speaker 2: can we can be more efficient at. You know, just
Speaker 2: talking to Lamar, I know he feels that way. Everybody
Speaker 2: in offense feels that way. So it's really just more
Speaker 2: of a function of where are we at, you know,
Speaker 2: where are we standing in terms of stacking our development
Speaker 2: improvement and then the ability to make sure that we
Speaker 2: keep getting better because there are just so many areas
Speaker 2: that we can continue to improve be more precise on
Speaker 2: in every area of our offense. So that's what we're
Speaker 2: working on.
Speaker 6: John.
Speaker 4: I think we saw the Keith Mitchell even going back
Speaker 4: to Ota this season.
Speaker 3: You can go out and get to the perimeter, roving the.
Speaker 4: Speed, really how impressed it wasn't running between the tackles
Speaker 4: and you know his yardage after contact.
Speaker 2: Was Yeah, that was really great. I Mean the guys
Speaker 2: were so excited for him, you know, and he's a
Speaker 2: guy that's been just working every day and he just
Speaker 2: he has a great attitude. He's definitely a very talented guy.
Speaker 2: And we all knew that. You guys knew that. You
Speaker 2: saw him in practice and in the preseason games and
Speaker 2: just finally get an opportunity at this point in time,
Speaker 2: mid season already, he finally gets a chance and it
Speaker 2: makes the most of it. So it's it's a guy
Speaker 2: that we were talking about making sure he you know,
Speaker 2: got some chances and got some touches. It was something
Speaker 2: we were all hoping would happen, and I thought Todd
Speaker 2: did a good job of making sure it did happen.
Speaker 2: And then to see him take off like that, I mean,
Speaker 2: you couldn't have predicted that. Like you said, between the tackles,
Speaker 2: breaking tackles, those kind of things, that was really great.
Speaker 4: You envisioned more, you know, came in more and more
Speaker 4: now for assuming he's healthy, getting more those reps.
Speaker 2: Sure, I mean I think we have you know, those
Speaker 2: three backs are going to be all playing a lot,
Speaker 2: you know there are now you've got three healthy backs.
Speaker 2: You know, we haven't had that a lot, so I'm
Speaker 2: sure there'll be a rotation. You know, they they work
Speaker 2: that out. Sometimes it's by by certain scheme. Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: by who's hot, sometimes it's by who's tired. You know,
Speaker 2: with running backs, it just kind of depends.
Speaker 7: One understanding is saying that Kate Mitchell's are different from
Speaker 7: your linage running. Thus it allows you guys to be
Speaker 7: more dynamic And what ways do you see him in
Speaker 7: his role of changing what.
Speaker 4: You can do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just I think it adds another dimension to it. Like,
Speaker 2: you know, the plays are the same plays. We always
Speaker 2: find ways to run the plays in different ways because
Speaker 2: you have to. Our defense gets onto you at this level.
Speaker 2: But the dimension is probably a good way to say it,
Speaker 2: because it's just a different style. You know, it's just
Speaker 2: a different guy running the play makes it different for
Speaker 2: the defense. You know, the timing of it for the defense,
Speaker 2: you know, finding where the ball's at, you know, all
Speaker 2: those things different with each back. So it's nice to
Speaker 2: have different types of backs.
Speaker 8: I think obviously we were saying Geno make the team plays,
Speaker 8: they'll continue to lead the league. And interceptions. What's the
Speaker 8: biggest difference are you saying between his play from when
Speaker 8: he stepped in last year to right now?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's just you know, players grow. You know,
Speaker 2: Gino is a really good player last year too. You know,
Speaker 2: he played really well last year. So you know, the
Speaker 2: ball's finding him. He's finding the ball. You know, I
Speaker 2: guess probably all of it goes together. You know, maybe
Speaker 2: the balls being pushed in his direction for some reason.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe maybe quarterbacks are taking some shots downfield
Speaker 2: to try to make something happen. Sometimes with that rush.
Speaker 2: I just think it's all complimentary, you know. But to
Speaker 2: make the plays, you got to be a playmaker, you know.
Speaker 2: And one thing that to your point, I think is
Speaker 2: a really good point, Gino has established himself as a
Speaker 2: playmaker this year, and that's really great to see.
Speaker 4: Coach. If they say you are what your record is.
Speaker 9: You've seen a lot of.
Speaker 5: The teams in the NFL this year. You're remodeling the
Speaker 5: league right now, especially in the Conference.
Speaker 9: Do you feel like the team has played at that
Speaker 9: level with some of the best the NFL.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, a million times, you know, and at times
Speaker 2: we haven't. But it's really not a measuring stick against
Speaker 2: the other teams. It's really not really at this point.
Speaker 2: It's kind of irrelevant that way, because it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: until the end. You know that what the standings are
Speaker 2: now are not important. It's what the standings are after
Speaker 2: the last regular season game that matter. So our guys
Speaker 2: really understand that, Jerry, I think you know, and that's
Speaker 2: something that we're focused on one game at a time.
Speaker 2: It really matters is how we compare to ourselves from
Speaker 2: the week before, and that's what we're working on.
Speaker 3: Does the ANFC North sort of guarantee that you never
Speaker 3: have to worry about your team sort of getting complacent?
Speaker 3: I mean, because as good as you've been, every team
Speaker 3: in the division would.
Speaker 2: Be the plays right now.
Speaker 3: Does that always sort of light the fire?
Speaker 2: I think it's really really awesome that we have such
Speaker 2: a great division, and I'd really be disappointed if we didn't.
Speaker 2: You know, it'd be just terrible if everybody was not
Speaker 2: a good team in our division. So you know, uh,
Speaker 2: that's my best answer. You know, Hey, we respect these teams.
Speaker 2: This is a great division. I mean, it's no doubt,
Speaker 2: it's the best division. It's proven. We know the teams.
Speaker 2: You know, these teams are real. You know we we
Speaker 2: when you're in this division, you got to play them
Speaker 2: twice a year. You understand them. It's not just this year.
Speaker 2: So we understand that they all understand it, you know,
Speaker 2: and everybody knows what's what's gonna happen when we all
Speaker 2: play each other.
Speaker 4: John just might found the very's the leads?
Speaker 6: Maybe a stupid question, but uh, you guys.
Speaker 9: Have not trailed for a lot for you know, very
Speaker 9: often this season is this team being deprived of anything
Speaker 9: made by leading ver As much as.
Speaker 2: Uh my mom always says get the lead, keep the lead,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm going I'm gonna stick with that. Mom's
Speaker 2: advice is always the best advice.
Speaker 7: An aspect John Simpson.
Speaker 6: You know, the rest of the starting guys on the
Speaker 6: O line have played for at least a season with
Speaker 6: each other. But he seems has seamlessly found his way.
Speaker 6: And you know, we don't talk about a whole lodge
Speaker 6: good thing I think for him, But what do you
Speaker 6: see from him and how he's been able to transition
Speaker 6: him just fit in.
Speaker 2: So well, yeah, that's that's a great point. I mean,
Speaker 2: he has John is really fit in great, and the
Speaker 2: line is cohesive and it's getting more cohesive. We got
Speaker 2: a lot of cohesive still to grow into too. I
Speaker 2: can tell you that they'll tell you that pass protection
Speaker 2: and run blocking, and they work on that so hard
Speaker 2: every day. I think Joe does a great job, Mike
Speaker 2: Devlin does a great job. But the guys themselves do
Speaker 2: a great job, you know. So you know they're they're
Speaker 2: welcoming to one another. But the bottom line is John's
Speaker 2: playing well. And when you're playing well, you fit. You
Speaker 2: tend to fit in, you know. And he he had to,
Speaker 2: he had to earn the job. I think he's transformed
Speaker 2: himself in his career a little bit.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: He made some technical changes technique wise to his to
Speaker 2: his to his game both running pass blocking, and it's
Speaker 2: paid off big time. So it's just great to see.
Speaker 7: About how they wanting to root for one another playing office.
Speaker 5: How you've seen that road.
Speaker 9: In your locker room progress and develop over the courses.
Speaker 2: You know, it's really it's really great. It's what you
Speaker 2: want as a coach, and I mean I've seen it
Speaker 2: in the locker room really from the beginning. But it
Speaker 2: is something that's like, uh, it's dynamic, right, it grows
Speaker 2: and evolves. It's a living, breathing thing. Relationships always are.
Speaker 2: And then you see it like in a game like that,
Speaker 2: you kind of see it. You see evidence of it, right,
Speaker 2: And so that was what you guys saw, That's what
Speaker 2: we all saw. That's fun, that's what that's what you want.
Speaker 2: I guess you could call it chemistry or whatever. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of words for it. But really I like that.
Speaker 2: I'm happy about it. I think it is the heart
Speaker 2: and soul of a team. And uh, you know we
Speaker 2: can build off that.
Speaker 8: General You've got two division games coming up to and
Speaker 8: to span of five days within each other. Does that
Speaker 8: does does the Bengals game kind of affect how you
Speaker 8: guys prepare for this one considering how closed the games?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I have to say no. It's a
Speaker 2: good question and a fair question, but we have to
Speaker 2: We've got to take care of business first things First,
Speaker 2: you know, we have the Browns and we have two
Speaker 2: division games in four days, five days. So that's our
Speaker 2: that's our challenge, and you know it's all going to
Speaker 2: be all about the Browns and that's it. And then
Speaker 2: when the Bengals game comes up, it'll be a short turnaround,
Speaker 2: but then it'll be the Bengals at that point.
Speaker 3: So we saw the video Mike mcconalds step four got
Speaker 3: a game all to the defense and talk a lot
Speaker 3: about this defense this year. But what what does Mike
Speaker 3: McDonald's kind of fingerprints.
Speaker 4: On what, what what.
Speaker 3: Does he specifically bring? How has it changed under him
Speaker 3: last year or so?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, you know, Mike's a great coach.
Speaker 2: You know, we talked about that when we hired him.
Speaker 2: You know, he's been he's been here for a long time.
Speaker 2: He's he's a really good guy. The players like him.
Speaker 2: I think the staff there is really great too. You know,
Speaker 2: all those guys have really worked together. They understand teamwork,
Speaker 2: you know, they understand that, you know, working together. I
Speaker 2: think everybody's idea. Everybody has good ideas, and they're all
Speaker 2: used and they all support different ideas and things like that,
Speaker 2: all the things that you know, you think would be
Speaker 2: givens that aren't in human nature, right, those guys have
Speaker 2: done a great job with you know, be an example
Speaker 2: for the players and you know all that. So I'm
Speaker 2: really proud of that. But you know, it's uh, it's
Speaker 2: just it's just day to day. You know, it's just
Speaker 2: just day to day trying to get ready for the
Speaker 2: next game. Teaching, coaching. I think Mike does a great
Speaker 2: job of that. The guys do a great job of that,
Speaker 2: and it's really what we're all about. So, you know,
Speaker 2: we played what how many games we played now nine?
Speaker 2: So we got a lot of games left, you know,
Speaker 2: and we got one big one coming up Sunday, and
Speaker 2: that's really what we're our thoughts are on.
Speaker 5: A popular topic in the locker room after the game
Speaker 5: is a lot of players are getting fined for things
Speaker 5: they don't see. Fine Worth, does that cross your desk
Speaker 5: at all? I know it's nothing you could do about it,
Speaker 5: but you talk to your player. If we usually has
Speaker 5: a lot, has that been discussed and do you think
Speaker 5: it's kind of gotten little lot of control what some
Speaker 5: of these players are getting dark?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I call every now and then I'll
Speaker 2: make a call just to understand it, because you know,
Speaker 2: the guys do talk about it, you know, when we're
Speaker 2: coaching these things, So we want to understand how the
Speaker 2: league views it. Also understand that there is a a
Speaker 2: process that is in place to take a look at that.
Speaker 2: So it's not just one sided. It's not like the
Speaker 2: NC double a whereout just the judge, jury and executioner.
Speaker 2: You know, it's in NFL and there's a player's association
Speaker 2: that has an opportunity to uh to create some fairness,
Speaker 2: you know, which which is good. That's the way it
Speaker 2: should be. So uh, they'll they'll, they'll, they'll challenge those
Speaker 2: fines and the decision to be made and then you
Speaker 2: move forward. That's just how it works. That's collective bargaining,
Speaker 2: and it works. It actually works out really well.
Speaker 4: There's obviously a lot of good blocking that goes on
Speaker 4: when you run the tree mid yards.
Speaker 3: But Tyler Linderbom's effort or initials are suppose you're.
Speaker 4: Reacting to that, and just in a general sense with Taler,
Speaker 4: how you see.
Speaker 3: Him grow from your one where he.
Speaker 2: Already Yeah, well, first of all, the effort that Tyler
Speaker 2: showed was was funny and it's not the first time,
Speaker 2: but not just him, I mean a bunch of guys
Speaker 2: you know, running down and getting blocks. That's what that's
Speaker 2: part of what you're talking about, you know, with the
Speaker 2: guy's playing for one another.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then Tyler, Yeah, he's he's just he grows. He
Speaker 2: just he keeps it simple.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: He's very very talented, he's very tough, but he keeps
Speaker 2: it simple, you know, and he works on being a
Speaker 2: great center every single day and is what he thinks about. So,
Speaker 2: you know, so we don't have to worry about it
Speaker 2: because he's got it covered. You know. He does a
Speaker 2: great job.
Speaker 7: You know, blocking.
Speaker 9: Isaiah likely had a really good game. It seems like
Speaker 9: his blocking has really improved. Also got involved in the
Speaker 9: past the game. Just how important is it for him
Speaker 9: to kind of immerge in that way?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. I mean Isaiah, like, you know, he's
Speaker 2: just he's such a great guy. But also I can
Speaker 2: read his body language, you know, and he hasn't he
Speaker 2: doesn't even realize it. But he's an open book, you know,
Speaker 2: and he gets he gets down when he he wants
Speaker 2: to do stuff. He wants to make plays, you know,
Speaker 2: and sometimes I tell him and bring juice, man, the
Speaker 2: players are coming, you know, and he does. And to
Speaker 2: see it play payoff, you know, that's really awesome.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 2: One thing I also want to mention is Kyle van Noy,
Speaker 2: you know, didn't get a chance to mention him last night.
Speaker 2: How about the swing of events that he led at
Speaker 2: the end of the half right probably that probably probably
Speaker 2: flipped the game or broke the game in a way,
Speaker 2: kept them from getting back within one score. I mean
Speaker 2: just just crazy good pass rush right there and then
Speaker 2: broad her jumping on that ball. So side note, Kyle
Speaker 2: was awesome.
Speaker 5: John would be tough to go for wins one day
Speaker 5: if we kind of injured. One question two parts is
Speaker 5: there's no issue with Lamark.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 3: And I think.
Speaker 5: I could be wrong here when you mentioned some of
Speaker 5: these some guys that could be returning on off I
Speaker 5: R I don't think you mentioned the job, but is
Speaker 5: there any update on his where he's at?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a job, you know. I don't really want to
Speaker 2: make an announcement on that, but there's a yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: have an announcement soon on that, okay.
Speaker 4: And Ma's completely marshall than anything a serious sound you
Speaker 4: don't want you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was nothing on the X rays or on
Speaker 2: the exam this morning. I think he went to an
Speaker 2: MRI this morning, which we have. I haven't heard about
Speaker 2: the result back on that, but it looks okay, but
Speaker 2: we'll see. I mean, you know, it may be day
Speaker 2: to day this week, we'll see.
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