WEBVTT - John Harbaugh: Ravens Practice 9/8 Press Conference 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.920 Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Friday, 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.559 September eighth, and the Ravens twenty twenty three season kicks 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:15.120 off on Sunday afternoon, one o'clock at the Bank against 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.239 the Houston Texans. There's a lot of buzz and excitement 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:21.239 in this building and around town as Ravens get set 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.840 to open this season and head coach John Harball I 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.000 met with the media after practice today and looked ahead 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:28.280 to Sunday's game. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.239 All right, okay, we're ready to go. Time you go 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:38.240 play football. What question do you have Ransas Island? 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.839 You're sixteen years ago for you? 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.200 Do you remember that that first time you wor sure? 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:46.640 Remember? 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.840 Well the Bengals Joe Flacco, we have like a double pass, 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.519 did Joe? And you caught it? Guy's down scoring range. 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.720 We won a one score game, right yeah? 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:58.000 Uh yeah. 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.240 Demiko Ryans is obviously done it all in this league. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.680 You know, he's he's a great player, he's a great 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.479 defensive coordinator. Now gets his opportunity as a head coach. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.160 I have no doubt that he'll do very well. I 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.160 think he's got all the attributes and everything you see, 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.600 you know, is very impressive, got a good staff, very 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.840 good staff, So it's gonna be a big challenge for us. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.400 We're trying to focus on us and what we do, 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:24.160 how we play, and that'll be our focus a little bit. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.160 And how much of this, you know, week one were 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:28.080 obviously a lot of the star has been talked to, 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.479 are really excited, anticipated to get out there. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:31.640 How much of this is about them? 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.240 But about like yourself, that's supposed to be a part. Yeah, 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:35.840 I mean you try to define that, and it's it's 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.760 about the opponent the sense that that's our opponent. You know, 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.000 we need to know him inside out the best way 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.040 we can in every area in order to defend them, 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.880 you know, to play against them, to attack and all 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:46.880 those kind of things you want to do in a 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.600 football game strategically and every other way. So we try 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.800 to know him as much as we can. But it's 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.280 about our execution, you know, It's about how we play, 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.200 and that's what we try to focus on. We can't 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.440 concern ourselves with them in terms of how they're gonna play. 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.040 We concern ourselves, you know, how we're gonna play. Try 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.400 to focus on that cold gas the first year to 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.280 push what do you remember about fifteen years ago when 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.040 you first Yeah, I mean I just like I said, 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.680 I remember, I remember the uh for the first time 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.480 you go out there and you kind of you've been 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.200 in a few preseason games, you have a sense of it, uh, 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:19.640 and I think you find out pretty quickly. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.920 You know, it's it's it's all fine, you know, and 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:22.480 you you. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.080 Learn, you start to learn what you need to concern 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.840 yourself with, think about, uh, where you need to be. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.480 It's it's every game is different. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.320 Really, to be honest, and you just kind of you 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.519 kind of just learned how to deal with those that 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:33.880 that that role. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.200 You know, which is a little bit of a new 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.320 role when you're a first time coach. Marketing account Andrews. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.880 Has been limited with the quad. Uh. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.440 Do you feel like he'll be ready for the game? 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:44.600 Yeah? Like I think the time now is you know 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.320 as we as you well know, and the answer that 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.080 you expect to get is that we'll be uh, you know, 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.959 referring all that to the injury report, and that's where 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:52.320 we're at. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.640 How do you go about balance? 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.560 So you go and you know, obviously he wants to 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.120 be out there and you'd like to still out there 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.000 working balance saying he's want. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.360 Think what we need to be out there versus playing 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:05.040 the dolls game. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:06.679 Take the area. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.160 I think that's one of many considerations that go into it, certainly, 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.239 and every every week is different in terms of what's 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.880 at stake, et cetera and all that. But like I said, 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.600 you know, the injury report kind of tells the story. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.720 Guys want to play and if they're capable of playing, 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:21.600 they'll be out there playing. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.880 There's been so much attention with the changes with the offense, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.680 but the offensive line, you have four or five starters returning. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.960 It seems like you decided on Simpson, you know, to 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.280 give some time for that group to jel. How good 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.440 are you feeling about the offensive line as it kind 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.160 of with the big picture of the offensive general? 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.160 Oh of course, yeah, I'm feeling very confident, Luke. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.360 I'm I feel great about those guys and they I know, 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.160 nobody's worked harder than that group of guys right there. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:44.920 So they're ready to go and they want to go 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.160 play a game and see where they stand. 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.040 John got a little bit of a late start to 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:51.160 get on the field. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.800 How comfortable are you with where he is in the 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.160 offense right now? Are you expecting him to kind of 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.280 just play normal in terms of his snapshit. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.080 Yeah, I mean we're gonna just play the game strategically 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.320 the way we play it without regard. You know, we 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.760 don't have any concerns about you know, how many snaps 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.160 JK has had going into this point. I mean he 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.720 said he's had enough and he's ready to. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.720 Go next year. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.359 I think increased your interceptions by like by for the way, 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.800 what do you feel like the key for interceptions and 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:22.240 was it just an you think it was kind of 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:23.120 empsus last year. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:25.600 No, I mean I think there's a lot of factors, 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.360 but just play good defense. Uh, you know there are 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.919 different reasons maybe, you know, in terms of what coverages 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:35.200 you play sometimes, but everything like that is just a 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.920 byproduct of the way the games go and how well 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.200 you play. We definitely want interceptions, we want turnovers, we 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.919 want recovered fumbles, we want TFLs, we want sacks. You know, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.240 those are all things that we're chasing. Would say that 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.039 William Josh Johnson are still competing as they were for 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:51.960 much of the summer for playing Timmer. Is that quarterback 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.240 hierarchy kind of looked down in Yeah, I think that's 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.880 just the hierarchy. Those guys gonna help us win. I 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:58.800 think you go week to week based on the circumstances 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.320 right now in terms of where we're at and what 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.760 our needs are in a particular week. Of course, you've 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.200 got the hell factor and all that, so we'll just 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.280 figured it out as we go. We're just very I think 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.720 blessed to have have three really good quarterbacks and I 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.000 have two guys that are very capable of doing the job. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.080 But significant injury in the holicins would the past a 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:17.520 couple of years. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.120 But I'll look out there and see how these guys 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:21.200 are good to go week ones. 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:22.800 Just you know, what do you kind of feel about 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.280 what what that means for this team? 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:24.640 Yeah? 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:26.039 Man, it means a lot. I feel great about it. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.960 You know. Also, how hard they've worked, I feel great 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.000 about that. I feel great about the tension of detail, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.480 you know, and all those things. So really it's just 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:35.800 a matter of getting out there now with the team 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.479 we have right now and putting our best foot forward. 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.200 We're playing as hard and well as we can, and 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.600 let's see what happens on one of those guys. A 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.480 job obviously, and want to talk after you about how 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.640 nice to see them smile us, they say, last few 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.159 weeks and curious, you know in a few parts you know. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:58.320 Seas right just figure physical standpod. It's interesting. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.320 Yeah, he looks he looks full speed right to go. 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.240 H Rashad definitely me. It means so much to him, 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.880 you know, and he was he was very frustrated, you know, 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:07.760 with the fact that the thing kind of just kept 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.160 lingering and lingering and he was not able to kind 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.160 of put it behind him. But I think he kind 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.760 of put his foot down, you like that one, right, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.680 and uh and just uh and really when you know, 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.120 really just kind of made a determination that he was 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.200 gonna beat it. And uh and he did a great job, 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.279 you know, he really he did. And I'm kind of 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.160 proud of him. And I'm excited about him too. I 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.080 want to see how he does. And you know, I mean, 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.080 guys aren't gonna beat a thousand out there, but they're 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.120 gonna they're gonna go out there and play and it's 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.599 gonna be interesting and fun to watch. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:36.720 Good. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:38.839 Great, Thanks appreciate. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.600 That was head coach John Harball. You're listening to the 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.919 Ravens Press Pass podcast and if you want more to 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.200 get you ready for that game. To make sure you 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.240 check out the Lounge podcast feed, Ryan Make and Eye 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.960 do a deep dive into this game and discuss what 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.800 the Ravens need to do to start the season. 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