Speaker 1: Welcome in to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: December twenty second, and the Ravens are getting ready to
Speaker 1: play the San Francisco forty nine Ers coming up on Monday,
Speaker 1: which is Christmas Night. They're Friday up about this game
Speaker 1: and we talk with head coach John Harbaugh today to
Speaker 1: get his take on this matchup.
Speaker 2: Okay, great to see everybody. Appreciate you all being here,
Speaker 2: especially in the holiday season, and I know make a
Speaker 2: lot of sacrifices to come out and do your jobs,
Speaker 2: and we sure appreciate the job you do for us
Speaker 2: and for the fans and to keep the fans connected
Speaker 2: to the team and to the league and everything else.
Speaker 2: So thank you for that and to everybody out there,
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas. Well question, Jeah.
Speaker 3: Coach, you see Christian McCaffrey lea NFL Russia.
Speaker 4: Have you seen how they get me a long passing
Speaker 4: game and was able to do that?
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's probably the thing for sure, Todd im
Speaker 2: and they kind of find a way to get every
Speaker 2: guy at the ball, all other players the ball, you know.
Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey obviously is a is a big part of that.
Speaker 2: But Deebo is a big part of that. They got
Speaker 2: guys everywhere that they interchange, they put in different spots,
Speaker 2: they kind of play all the positions together. It's just
Speaker 2: still a really good job. And that's kind of how
Speaker 2: they do it.
Speaker 4: When you first saw the schedule, saw all right, Christmas
Speaker 4: night in San Francisco. I'm sure it's probably not what
Speaker 4: you would have selected for yourself. But then did you
Speaker 4: start thinking, oh, here's the plan. Here's that we're going
Speaker 4: to make this good for our team, good for the families,
Speaker 4: and try to make sure everyone's like, look, this is
Speaker 4: a great opportunity and not it would be easy maybe
Speaker 4: to kind of get down about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there's a lot of moving parts to it,
Speaker 2: for sure. You know, we've got to think, not the
Speaker 2: least of which is coming back. You know, we've obviously
Speaker 2: got a big game the next week on a short week,
Speaker 2: coming back with that long trip art, we'll get back
Speaker 2: about seven in the morning, probably something like that. Coming back,
Speaker 2: turning around and trying to get ready for the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: So all that goes into it, but also Christmas. You
Speaker 2: know that Christmas goes to your point, and we tried
Speaker 2: to set up a little bit of a different week
Speaker 2: where we get started earlier in the week. Now as
Speaker 2: we break, the guys are going to get some time
Speaker 2: with their families for Christmas because they're going to be
Speaker 2: leaving and are not going to be here Christmas Eve,
Speaker 2: Christmas Day, Christmas night. Then they'll be back, you know,
Speaker 2: twenty six basically. So so we try to give them
Speaker 2: some time, some family time to have a Christmas with
Speaker 2: their families tonight and then tomorrow during the day and
Speaker 2: then they'll report for the plane when we leave tomorrow
Speaker 2: after late afternoon.
Speaker 4: It was also just kind of like mentally and pep
Speaker 4: talk for anyone and just not not just the schematics
Speaker 4: or the logistics of it, but the dealing with is playing,
Speaker 4: trying to make sure everyone is fight you know, just
Speaker 4: not doubt about that, have anything.
Speaker 2: No, we didn't have any problems with that. I mean,
Speaker 2: the guys kind of know what's coming there prosy and
Speaker 2: they understand this is a big part of how it works.
Speaker 2: Are excited to go play in a game like this.
Speaker 2: I mean the other side of that is you get
Speaker 2: an opportunity to play in a real big game on
Speaker 2: a big stage with a lot of people watching. One
Speaker 2: of those games that you're gonna remember, you know, as
Speaker 2: part of your career for the rest of your life,
Speaker 2: so they understand that part of it too. Did you
Speaker 2: have any preference on the timing of the Dolphins game
Speaker 2: or you find with it saying at once I'm good
Speaker 2: with data one. Yeah, that's great at one o'clock.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: The thing that stood after you when you were looking
Speaker 4: at playing back Jenny Funk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the Maryland guy, you know. Matter of fact,
Speaker 2: you know, Steve is a practice yesterday and he's a
Speaker 2: big Maryland guy too, so he knew all about Jake
Speaker 2: and they had they a little conversation, you know about terps.
Speaker 2: But no, it's good to have him here. We played
Speaker 2: against him. A very good football player, very good guy,
Speaker 2: hard workers, so we're pleased to have him.
Speaker 5: Do you have to make a decision on Malie Cam imminently?
Speaker 5: It's weird when I think the twenty one day window
Speaker 5: falls on a Sunday or right around there. Is that
Speaker 5: something you guys have been discussing and how much does
Speaker 5: your roster flexibility kind of come into play there?
Speaker 2: Right, that's a conversation I think Eric and I are
Speaker 2: going to probably have today tomorrow and see where we're
Speaker 2: at with at.
Speaker 3: How important is a guy like when Pleye Carrison, you
Speaker 3: know we've be see him in the lineup, could come
Speaker 3: on the field when you guys are I guess you
Speaker 3: kind of base personal against there's twenty two twenty one
Speaker 3: says what was his development of having him healthy for
Speaker 3: being like.
Speaker 2: I suppose for you guys, well, it does give you
Speaker 2: versatility and it is part of the package. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're going to obviously be in base against this team
Speaker 2: some percentage of the time. And you know, Malik has
Speaker 2: done a great job him. He's a starter out there
Speaker 2: in base He plays the sambacker position. That's in the
Speaker 2: history of Raven football. You can look at those guys
Speaker 2: and who's played that spot. That's it's a pretty glorious
Speaker 2: position to play here, and he's playing it at a
Speaker 2: really high level. So h yeah, he's gonna be a
Speaker 2: big part of the game plan. He's been playing really well.
Speaker 2: Really proud of him.
Speaker 3: Ken Wa didn't I didn't see Arthur Mulette out there today,
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 5: Know he's on the injury report. That's Thay, Is there
Speaker 5: any any concern there?
Speaker 2: I guess in terms of yeah, I kind of went
Speaker 2: to day to day mode with him, so a little
Speaker 2: flare up there, so we'll see where we're at come
Speaker 2: game time.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harball and the Ravens are
Speaker 1: gonna be heading out west. They're leaving on Saturday and
Speaker 1: then we'll play the game on Monday night. So we
Speaker 1: wish all Ravens fans are very merry Christmas. Also, hit
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Speaker 1: Enjoy the weekend. We'll see you back here on on Monday.