Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: August fourteenth. The Ravens held another practice of training camp today,
Speaker 1: but prior to practice, the team released a pair of statements.
Speaker 1: The first was related to offensive line coach Joe D.
Speaker 1: L Sandras. The team announced that Joe D was hospitalized
Speaker 1: over the weekend with an acute illness and he is
Speaker 1: going to be sidelined for an extended period of time
Speaker 1: as he continues to receive treatment. With Joe D currently
Speaker 1: out and hospitalized, the team brought in offensive line coach
Speaker 1: George Warhop to take over for the time being. Additionally,
Speaker 1: the team released a statement about tight end Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1: He's fine, but he was in a car accident Wednesday
Speaker 1: morning and did not practice on Wednesday. The expectation is
Speaker 1: that he should be back on the field in a
Speaker 1: couple of days. Head coach John Harbaugh met with the
Speaker 1: media after practice and talked about all of that this afternoon.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to see everybody. Sure appreciate you being here here.
Speaker 3: A good tough practice pads, very physical practice. Guys stepped
Speaker 3: up and we've got a lot of good work done.
Speaker 2: What questions you have you heard.
Speaker 1: About the good news doctors.
Speaker 2: Uh, pop out, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: He does your Yeah, Joe d Joe delessandras Uh we
Speaker 3: love Joe de and Uh. He had a surgery early
Speaker 3: in the summer and he came back a little bit.
Speaker 3: Uh you know, some complications have arisen from it. So
Speaker 3: he's in the hospital right now and he'll be focusing
Speaker 3: on his health for the next significant period of time.
Speaker 2: And it's it's a blow.
Speaker 3: I mean it's a blow because he's a great football
Speaker 3: coach that he's beloved by the players, by the coaches.
Speaker 3: He's uh, he's he's one of our time. He's a
Speaker 3: top game planner, he's a top coach. He's a huge
Speaker 3: part of our offense.
Speaker 2: And he's gonna be missed very much.
Speaker 3: But we're gonna be much more concerned about his health
Speaker 3: and his welfare and as well being going for Ford.
Speaker 3: He's got his daughters back with him. His daughters have
Speaker 3: been a made all summer. They're the absolute best I know.
Speaker 3: He cherishes those girls. So it's gonna be okay. And
Speaker 3: then we're bringing to George Warhop. George war Up's a
Speaker 3: guy that actually we played against each other in college.
Speaker 2: Now he was at Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: I was at Miami, the oldest rivalry west of the
Speaker 3: Alleghany Mountains. It's about one hundred and thirty years old.
Speaker 3: That's pretty old, right, and continuous rivalry. He played every year.
Speaker 3: The victory bell was always at stake. They won too,
Speaker 3: we went to I can tell you I remember George
Speaker 3: very well as a player. He does not remember me.
Speaker 3: He didn't notice me out there, but I noticed him.
Speaker 2: He was a great player.
Speaker 3: He's been a great coach in this league, and we're
Speaker 3: very fortunate and blessed to have him come aboard.
Speaker 2: A statement about Mark Andrews, how is he feeling? What
Speaker 2: else can you say about that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's feeling good. I would say, you know, I
Speaker 3: would say about that, I would say, where your seat belts?
Speaker 3: You know, Mark wore's seat belts. And that was an
Speaker 3: accident that happened, and it was pretty significant, I believe,
Speaker 3: and he came out of it with nothing, nothing.
Speaker 2: At all, not a scrape.
Speaker 3: So we're your seat belts, and we're we're thankful to
Speaker 3: God for that, for him coming out of that's safe,
Speaker 3: and for God protecting him in that circumstances. Comes back
Speaker 3: to the entry interception today. What did that missing the pen.
Speaker 3: How good is that to back playing list? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's great, you know, it's great. It's great to have
Speaker 3: him back playing. Great and uh he bro a resilient guy.
Speaker 3: What a leader, leader by example, leader by every way.
Speaker 3: But uh, but he had He's had two great practices
Speaker 3: since that.
Speaker 2: John all along chat there with Brandon Hyde, What did
Speaker 2: you guys talk about?
Speaker 3: We were talking about the uh, the suicide squeeze, you know, Hitt,
Speaker 3: hit and run, Hello, Hitt and run in there. Uh,
Speaker 3: we're talking about about our teams. Really, you know, he
Speaker 3: was I kind of had some questions about his team,
Speaker 3: and he had some questions about my team, and maybe
Speaker 3: some things that were coming up with his team, and
Speaker 3: I had no I had no advice for him, and
Speaker 3: some things up with our team, and you know, we
Speaker 3: just that's kind of how it works, you know. So
Speaker 3: as Joey you watch him. I have so much respect
Speaker 3: for Brandon. I think is a great coach, great skipper,
Speaker 3: and what a job they've done a team. So exciting
Speaker 3: having those guys they're right there right there behind the
Speaker 3: A got them right up there behind you know, with
Speaker 3: the players they were fifteen yards away from the play
Speaker 3: and I think they were really enjoying it, you know,
Speaker 3: just like our guys would like be right there on
Speaker 3: the dugout rail if you could be, you know.
Speaker 2: So it's pretty cool having having those guys here.
Speaker 3: So Steve Wilkes on the sideline today, can you talk
Speaker 3: to us about your relationship with it? Yeah, Steve obviously
Speaker 3: another guy he wanted to come visit practice. I think
Speaker 3: Steve is visiting certain teams here during training camp. And
Speaker 3: you know, like coaches do, coaches like to get out
Speaker 3: and they like to learn, like the research, and Steve
Speaker 3: is another coach we have tremendous respect for. Uh He's
Speaker 3: been a guy that we've known for a long time.
Speaker 3: And having him here and picking his brain a little
Speaker 3: bit that was that was really cool.
Speaker 2: Too, John or Saturday.
Speaker 3: Is it kind of gonna be the same philosophy for
Speaker 3: your starters, especially for something like Lamar from the preseason
Speaker 3: or will you get any more guys out there? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know it's gonna be case by case for sure, Morgan,
Speaker 3: but it'll be in the same direction as last time.
Speaker 2: Uh No is not gonna play See he's tough man,
Speaker 2: He's tough. The old follow up Christ here. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: tough follow up.
Speaker 3: Christ I mean y'all knew that already, right, Okay, good,
Speaker 3: he didn't divulge anything there, but there'll be headlines about it,
Speaker 3: which is crazy to me.
Speaker 2: But that's it's cool. That's a good point. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a good problem to have. Forest park and said he's
Speaker 2: not injured at Andrews is not injured. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: you said in the statements that he's effectively back in
Speaker 2: a few days, because that still kind of yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean Marks, the guys played for a long time.
Speaker 3: You know, there's always gonna be you know, the the
Speaker 3: bumps and bruises and things like that. And he's definitely
Speaker 3: a guy that we watched closely, watched. We watch those guys.
Speaker 3: We watched We watch Rokwan closely. Those guys have played
Speaker 3: for a while, watch him closely, we'll take You'll see
Speaker 3: some guys will come out and not have as many
Speaker 3: reps in a day, things like that.
Speaker 2: So we're always watching those guys closely.
Speaker 3: There have been so few really headlines. I can't thirstart
Speaker 3: you act you make out of a quiet, good, solid
Speaker 3: range camp and then you know he was on Joe d.
Speaker 2: And Mark and axident.
Speaker 3: Did I feel like a day like I can get
Speaker 3: together and talk to everyone, like just to kind of
Speaker 3: be together a little more and just talk about what's important.
Speaker 2: Well we've been. I think we talk about it every night.
Speaker 3: We have team meeting every night, offensive defensive meetings morning
Speaker 3: and night, and I think we're talking about everything we
Speaker 3: need to talk about every day. And so much of
Speaker 3: it is just is getting getting good at what we
Speaker 3: do in football, communicating and being on the same page
Speaker 3: with our football. I don't have to say much to
Speaker 3: these guys about taking care of themselves, because they do.
Speaker 3: They get their rest, they take care of their bodies.
Speaker 3: They come in ready to go to work, and they
Speaker 3: come to work ready to work, and and you see
Speaker 3: that by the way they work. So I'm just proud
Speaker 3: of them. They're getting they're making the most of this
Speaker 3: training camp for sure. I mean they really are.
Speaker 2: And let's see where it takes us.
Speaker 3: Every Yeah, it's an interesting it's an interesting dilemma for sure.
Speaker 3: It's definitely not something I've ever been associated with. I
Speaker 3: would just say, by the grace of God, George Warhop
Speaker 3: is available, a guy that we've known for many years
Speaker 3: and respected, who Todd has worked with in the past
Speaker 3: and Tampa Bay other coaches have known him and worked
Speaker 3: with him that are our staff.
Speaker 2: He knows our he knows, he knows.
Speaker 3: He doesn't know our system per se in terms of
Speaker 3: our terminology, but he can learn that very quickly.
Speaker 2: But he knows our techniques.
Speaker 3: He knows the style, the way we're running the plays,
Speaker 3: the principles of the plays. He knows all that stuff.
Speaker 3: He's an experienced coach and knows that stuff inside now.
Speaker 3: So he'll step right in and he'll start working with
Speaker 3: those guys right away. And I'll say this, Trevell Warton's
Speaker 3: been doing a great job too. You know, he's played
Speaker 3: all those years, brings that player coach experience, and he's
Speaker 3: done a good job in the interim and he'll continue
Speaker 3: to do a great job. Travis Sweitzer has done a
Speaker 3: great job as well. So we're happy with all of
Speaker 3: our coaches technically.
Speaker 2: Have about working ship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, George will be the offensive line coach and and
Speaker 3: Travell will be working with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be working together that way. He'll be the
Speaker 2: main offensive Lineam you get a call like that this morning?
Speaker 3: Pre tramatizing?
Speaker 2: You get a calling god bt more?
Speaker 3: Well, No, because I got a call you. I got
Speaker 3: the call that I got. The text that I got
Speaker 3: said he was okay. So it was a text, so
Speaker 3: maybe that softened it a little bit. And I saw
Speaker 3: that he's okay, So he was okay, I was okay.
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