Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: September eighth, and the Ravens twenty twenty three season kicks
Speaker 1: off on Sunday afternoon, one o'clock at the Bank against
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. There's a lot of buzz and excitement
Speaker 1: in this building and around town as Ravens get set
Speaker 1: to open this season and head coach John Harball I
Speaker 1: met with the media after practice today and looked ahead
Speaker 1: to Sunday's game.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, we're ready to go. Time you go
Speaker 2: play football. What question do you have Ransas Island?
Speaker 3: You're sixteen years ago for you?
Speaker 4: Do you remember that that first time you wor sure?
Speaker 3: Remember?
Speaker 2: Well the Bengals Joe Flacco, we have like a double pass,
Speaker 2: did Joe? And you caught it? Guy's down scoring range.
Speaker 2: We won a one score game, right yeah?
Speaker 3: Uh yeah.
Speaker 2: Demiko Ryans is obviously done it all in this league.
Speaker 2: You know, he's he's a great player, he's a great
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator. Now gets his opportunity as a head coach.
Speaker 2: I have no doubt that he'll do very well. I
Speaker 2: think he's got all the attributes and everything you see,
Speaker 2: you know, is very impressive, got a good staff, very
Speaker 2: good staff, So it's gonna be a big challenge for us.
Speaker 2: We're trying to focus on us and what we do,
Speaker 2: how we play, and that'll be our focus a little bit.
Speaker 4: And how much of this, you know, week one were
Speaker 4: obviously a lot of the star has been talked to,
Speaker 4: are really excited, anticipated to get out there.
Speaker 1: How much of this is about them?
Speaker 2: But about like yourself, that's supposed to be a part. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean you try to define that, and it's it's
Speaker 2: about the opponent the sense that that's our opponent. You know,
Speaker 2: we need to know him inside out the best way
Speaker 2: we can in every area in order to defend them,
Speaker 2: you know, to play against them, to attack and all
Speaker 2: those kind of things you want to do in a
Speaker 2: football game strategically and every other way. So we try
Speaker 2: to know him as much as we can. But it's
Speaker 2: about our execution, you know, It's about how we play,
Speaker 2: and that's what we try to focus on. We can't
Speaker 2: concern ourselves with them in terms of how they're gonna play.
Speaker 2: We concern ourselves, you know, how we're gonna play. Try
Speaker 2: to focus on that cold gas the first year to
Speaker 2: push what do you remember about fifteen years ago when
Speaker 2: you first Yeah, I mean I just like I said,
Speaker 2: I remember, I remember the uh for the first time
Speaker 2: you go out there and you kind of you've been
Speaker 2: in a few preseason games, you have a sense of it, uh,
Speaker 2: and I think you find out pretty quickly.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's it's all fine, you know, and
Speaker 3: you you.
Speaker 2: Learn, you start to learn what you need to concern
Speaker 2: yourself with, think about, uh, where you need to be.
Speaker 3: It's it's every game is different.
Speaker 2: Really, to be honest, and you just kind of you
Speaker 2: kind of just learned how to deal with those that
Speaker 2: that that role.
Speaker 3: You know, which is a little bit of a new
Speaker 3: role when you're a first time coach. Marketing account Andrews.
Speaker 4: Has been limited with the quad. Uh.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like he'll be ready for the game?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like I think the time now is you know
Speaker 2: as we as you well know, and the answer that
Speaker 2: you expect to get is that we'll be uh, you know,
Speaker 2: referring all that to the injury report, and that's where
Speaker 2: we're at.
Speaker 3: How do you go about balance?
Speaker 2: So you go and you know, obviously he wants to
Speaker 2: be out there and you'd like to still out there
Speaker 2: working balance saying he's want.
Speaker 3: Think what we need to be out there versus playing
Speaker 3: the dolls game.
Speaker 4: Take the area.
Speaker 2: I think that's one of many considerations that go into it, certainly,
Speaker 2: and every every week is different in terms of what's
Speaker 2: at stake, et cetera and all that. But like I said,
Speaker 2: you know, the injury report kind of tells the story.
Speaker 2: Guys want to play and if they're capable of playing,
Speaker 2: they'll be out there playing.
Speaker 4: There's been so much attention with the changes with the offense,
Speaker 4: but the offensive line, you have four or five starters returning.
Speaker 4: It seems like you decided on Simpson, you know, to
Speaker 4: give some time for that group to jel. How good
Speaker 4: are you feeling about the offensive line as it kind
Speaker 4: of with the big picture of the offensive general?
Speaker 3: Oh of course, yeah, I'm feeling very confident, Luke.
Speaker 2: I'm I feel great about those guys and they I know,
Speaker 2: nobody's worked harder than that group of guys right there.
Speaker 2: So they're ready to go and they want to go
Speaker 2: play a game and see where they stand.
Speaker 3: John got a little bit of a late start to
Speaker 3: get on the field.
Speaker 4: How comfortable are you with where he is in the
Speaker 4: offense right now? Are you expecting him to kind of
Speaker 4: just play normal in terms of his snapshit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're gonna just play the game strategically
Speaker 2: the way we play it without regard. You know, we
Speaker 2: don't have any concerns about you know, how many snaps
Speaker 2: JK has had going into this point. I mean he
Speaker 2: said he's had enough and he's ready to.
Speaker 3: Go next year.
Speaker 4: I think increased your interceptions by like by for the way,
Speaker 4: what do you feel like the key for interceptions and
Speaker 4: was it just an you think it was kind of
Speaker 4: empsus last year.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I think there's a lot of factors,
Speaker 2: but just play good defense. Uh, you know there are
Speaker 2: different reasons maybe, you know, in terms of what coverages
Speaker 2: you play sometimes, but everything like that is just a
Speaker 2: byproduct of the way the games go and how well
Speaker 2: you play. We definitely want interceptions, we want turnovers, we
Speaker 2: want recovered fumbles, we want TFLs, we want sacks. You know,
Speaker 2: those are all things that we're chasing. Would say that
Speaker 2: William Josh Johnson are still competing as they were for
Speaker 2: much of the summer for playing Timmer. Is that quarterback
Speaker 2: hierarchy kind of looked down in Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 2: just the hierarchy. Those guys gonna help us win. I
Speaker 2: think you go week to week based on the circumstances
Speaker 2: right now in terms of where we're at and what
Speaker 2: our needs are in a particular week. Of course, you've
Speaker 2: got the hell factor and all that, so we'll just
Speaker 2: figured it out as we go. We're just very I think
Speaker 2: blessed to have have three really good quarterbacks and I
Speaker 2: have two guys that are very capable of doing the job.
Speaker 4: But significant injury in the holicins would the past a
Speaker 4: couple of years.
Speaker 3: But I'll look out there and see how these guys
Speaker 3: are good to go week ones.
Speaker 4: Just you know, what do you kind of feel about
Speaker 4: what what that means for this team?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Man, it means a lot. I feel great about it.
Speaker 2: You know. Also, how hard they've worked, I feel great
Speaker 2: about that. I feel great about the tension of detail,
Speaker 2: you know, and all those things. So really it's just
Speaker 2: a matter of getting out there now with the team
Speaker 2: we have right now and putting our best foot forward.
Speaker 2: We're playing as hard and well as we can, and
Speaker 2: let's see what happens on one of those guys. A
Speaker 2: job obviously, and want to talk after you about how
Speaker 2: nice to see them smile us, they say, last few
Speaker 2: weeks and curious, you know in a few parts you know.
Speaker 3: Seas right just figure physical standpod. It's interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks he looks full speed right to go.
Speaker 2: H Rashad definitely me. It means so much to him,
Speaker 2: you know, and he was he was very frustrated, you know,
Speaker 2: with the fact that the thing kind of just kept
Speaker 2: lingering and lingering and he was not able to kind
Speaker 2: of put it behind him. But I think he kind
Speaker 2: of put his foot down, you like that one, right,
Speaker 2: and uh and just uh and really when you know,
Speaker 2: really just kind of made a determination that he was
Speaker 2: gonna beat it. And uh and he did a great job,
Speaker 2: you know, he really he did. And I'm kind of
Speaker 2: proud of him. And I'm excited about him too. I
Speaker 2: want to see how he does. And you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: guys aren't gonna beat a thousand out there, but they're
Speaker 2: gonna they're gonna go out there and play and it's
Speaker 2: gonna be interesting and fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: Great, Thanks appreciate.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harball. You're listening to the
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