Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens fell
Speaker 1: to the Cleveland Browns on Sunday twenty nine to twenty four,
Speaker 1: dropping them to five and three on the season. The
Speaker 1: loss snapped a five game winning streak for the Ravens.
Speaker 1: After the game, we had a chance to hear from
Speaker 1: several key players and head coach John Harball. So let's
Speaker 1: kick it off with Coach.
Speaker 2: Hartball Hard Fraud.
Speaker 3: Appreciate the effort and the fight with our guys. As always,
Speaker 3: we'll get ourselves organized, get back to Baltimore and start
Speaker 3: getting ready for Denver next week at home. What questions
Speaker 3: you have, John, how much did with.
Speaker 4: The increase you're not having the corners having ements in
Speaker 4: line and good down how much did that change things
Speaker 4: deem pass.
Speaker 5: Away for you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just impossible to really put a metric on that.
Speaker 6: You know, it's.
Speaker 3: Obviously a factor. But I appreciate the guys going in
Speaker 3: there playing, fighting, competing. Love our guys, and I thought
Speaker 3: that they competed out there. The guys that were out
Speaker 3: there playing in those spots that you're talking.
Speaker 7: About, John, was Marcus Willieve the health decision or something else?
Speaker 6: Uh, it was a personal decision.
Speaker 3: We're we're kind of working through some things there which
Speaker 3: I feel very confident Marcus is going to be out
Speaker 3: there playing great football the rest of the season. So, uh,
Speaker 3: I'll just talk about it being an internal type of situation.
Speaker 8: I mean, coach, I mean.
Speaker 5: You guys have a little corner stats coming up against
Speaker 5: teams like the Stealers, Chargers, Eagles. Teams are more than
Speaker 5: capable of passing the ball. How do you guys expect
Speaker 5: to overcome these defense defensive struggles when it comes to
Speaker 5: the thing.
Speaker 3: Now, we're very confident our guys, we always are. We'll
Speaker 3: we played great defense and uh, we'll keep working and
Speaker 3: well we'll put up some good defensive games to promise
Speaker 3: you that.
Speaker 7: John, Uh, you know you see certain times where defensively
Speaker 7: the seam the balls were in those guys hands.
Speaker 9: You need to ensure you how to post. You guys
Speaker 9: are to you know, finishing the only Kings.
Speaker 6: Get one player to do.
Speaker 3: So yeah, sure, I mean that's part of it.
Speaker 4: Doubt John, I think the TV cameras caught you saying
Speaker 4: something on that first opening track where you.
Speaker 9: Guys went for to Pourtland one.
Speaker 4: Did you think it was a first down.
Speaker 7: Did you know it was more than one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are, but we were gonna go for one
Speaker 3: one and a half even if any side of two
Speaker 3: early in the game. That was our metric the whole time.
Speaker 3: I mean, we were planning on doing that. That was
Speaker 3: what we were doing. I was, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: the thing that you gotta understand is like, that's a
Speaker 3: long gain right there. You don't exactly think you're gonna
Speaker 3: probably get it into one right there, And I was
Speaker 3: kind of I don't know what the odds would be,
Speaker 3: what was it?
Speaker 6: What was it third?
Speaker 10: And what.
Speaker 4: I know?
Speaker 3: But going into it, no third.
Speaker 6: And what right?
Speaker 3: You're asking me the question and help me with the details.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of the point there. I mean, you
Speaker 3: don't really expect to gain one short, but so we're
Speaker 3: trying to work through that. And plus there was a
Speaker 3: penalty before that, so.
Speaker 4: Before John Adam, were you expecting more from your past rush?
Speaker 3: Yeah, We're just gonna go out there and try to
Speaker 3: compete and do the best we can. I mean, we fight,
Speaker 3: fight to get pass rush, we fight for everything, we
Speaker 3: fight for everything, so you always want to do enough
Speaker 3: to win the game. We weren't able to do that
Speaker 3: in this game, So we'll definitely break it all down.
Speaker 3: You know, we'll break every aspect of it down. We
Speaker 3: sit there and watch the film, everybody will look at
Speaker 3: everything that they did they can do better, and everything
Speaker 3: we did, and we'll try to continue to keep improving.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of football left to be played.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna win every game, and you know, it
Speaker 3: was a tough situation coming in here. I think our
Speaker 3: guys handled all that pretty well. We operated pretty well,
Speaker 3: but we didn't do enough. We didn't make the plays.
Speaker 3: We didn't make the calls that we needed to make
Speaker 3: to win the game. And that's really what it boils down.
Speaker 9: To the Browns.
Speaker 7: None of the last touch on the other Tilm touchdown,
Speaker 7: he called this land inside looked like you guys weren't
Speaker 7: lining lined up defensively.
Speaker 9: There's a lot of movement.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we weren't.
Speaker 6: We weren't. We weren't.
Speaker 3: We weren't well organized on that play, There's no doubt
Speaker 3: about it. We got to that play was not a
Speaker 3: good play for us.
Speaker 2: But with the direct snap to to Derek early in
Speaker 2: the game and then the third down with Charlie, obviously
Speaker 2: you guys going to were there, But what was just
Speaker 2: the thought of.
Speaker 3: Charging quarterback sneak? You also, you try to draw moost sides.
Speaker 3: They said he moved his head too much when he
Speaker 3: was calling this cadence. That's that's that's tough, you know,
Speaker 3: I guess that's the interpretation on that.
Speaker 6: So that's what happened on that.
Speaker 3: We overcame that one, the the the wildcat off tackle play.
Speaker 3: We just didn't do a good enough job with it,
Speaker 3: you know, And it is what it is is to
Speaker 3: call you know, you look back, you wish you hadn't
Speaker 3: called that. You wish you maybe it would have been better,
Speaker 3: you know, as a play. But that's football, you know
Speaker 3: that that that happens, uh, And we understand that. So
Speaker 3: you keep fighting. You gotta backed up and you keep fighting.
Speaker 7: All right, John, John, How difficult are the penalties making it?
Speaker 7: When you're behind the special teams? They're forcing you guys
Speaker 7: back inside, deeping your own Yeah.
Speaker 3: Especially team you return party. Specifically is ever you're talking about, okay,
Speaker 3: because specifically, yeah, those biose billsballs should have been kept
Speaker 3: in the end zone. So we set ourselves up on
Speaker 3: that one that was that was not good.
Speaker 1: Next up is quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4: Obviously l every losses has just lost a little bit
Speaker 4: more frustrating you.
Speaker 12: Like you said, you know every loss is frustrating. Yeah,
Speaker 12: because we been we been doing so good, you know,
Speaker 12: officer office side of the ball, defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 12: We just been pulling points on the board, kimming teams
Speaker 12: out the end zone. We just gotta play better.
Speaker 5: Guys started off kind of shaky offensively. I mean a
Speaker 5: few a few drives you got into any territory, even
Speaker 5: into the red zone at first, had specifically without scoring
Speaker 5: touchdowns and if you if you turn off or where
Speaker 5: he plays things like that, where you guys just kind
Speaker 5: of did it take a minute for you guys to
Speaker 5: kind of get seen. I mean it was just something
Speaker 5: Browns were doing defensively, and you just talk about that
Speaker 5: a little bit.
Speaker 10: M nah.
Speaker 6: I mean, we just gotta put points on the board.
Speaker 12: You know, we were doing a good job moving the ball,
Speaker 12: and then we just getting started soon as we uh
Speaker 12: change change feels. We just gotta g do a good
Speaker 12: job at making downs count, you know, first and shaking down,
Speaker 12: stay stay out of the thirty stuff like that. Second
Speaker 12: and long so omar uh.
Speaker 11: Well, everybody will trying to go layer by the or
Speaker 11: what thing to you guys have been on the losing
Speaker 11: side of it. But also just be in sensitive familiarity
Speaker 11: between both teams. You guys playing each other two times
Speaker 11: a year. They're not being much of life secrecy between
Speaker 11: you guys as well.
Speaker 12: I mean, you know, people probably look at Brown's recording
Speaker 12: and be like, oh, yeah, that's a sorry team. But
Speaker 12: it's like this the NFL. I always say that this
Speaker 12: is the NFL and any given Sunday a team can
Speaker 12: be good. Any given Sunday a team can you know,
Speaker 12: wake up and just be It'll be their day, be
Speaker 12: their day. Uh, we just got to play better all around,
Speaker 12: that's all. They did a great job. Browns did a
Speaker 12: great job off phases.
Speaker 7: Or were your receivers complaining about losing.
Speaker 12: Balls and the sign was that A no, they didn't.
Speaker 12: They didn't tell me that. If they did, I believe
Speaker 12: because the.
Speaker 6: Sign was it was clearing to day, shining.
Speaker 9: In the last drive.
Speaker 7: Obviously not a lot of time is there, thought about
Speaker 7: going out of bounds a couple of times and some
Speaker 7: shorter passes to set up maybe get a little closer
Speaker 7: that be I I believe.
Speaker 6: That'll be easier, uh to catch the ball and bounce.
Speaker 12: If we got probably a couple more times out time timeouts, we.
Speaker 6: Were probably closer to the end zone.
Speaker 12: You know, we were far out, so we were just trying
Speaker 12: to get the ball closest possible to the en zone
Speaker 12: to give up. Give our guys a shot, that's all me.
Speaker 9: Lamar a little bit.
Speaker 5: You guys did have a little bit of trouble sustaining
Speaker 5: on and drives our times.
Speaker 6: I mean two potent that, I mean two.
Speaker 5: Potentdo on third downs? I mean what what kind of
Speaker 5: what kind of led to that?
Speaker 6: A little bit us? They were just doing a great
Speaker 6: job of stopping us.
Speaker 12: You know, we wasn't We wasn't converting on third now obviously,
Speaker 12: you know we gotta do a better job at that.
Speaker 12: Sometimes we got a couple pennanties here and there push
Speaker 12: us back further or sack or something like that. We
Speaker 12: just got to do a better job at what's what's
Speaker 12: standing at?
Speaker 9: How aggressive do you think that they were? You know
Speaker 9: on some of those free.
Speaker 4: Option players, do you hand it off Derek's you know,
Speaker 4: tackle even when you have to just have a ball together,
Speaker 4: guy Finance, you just how aggressively if you think they
Speaker 4: were kind of trying to defend your.
Speaker 6: Oh those guys were triggering.
Speaker 12: You know, they got the safeties all down, Uh, linebackers, Uh,
Speaker 12: they were switching it up, doing a great job at
Speaker 12: switching it up.
Speaker 6: Uh, but the read was still the same. They did
Speaker 6: a good job though, Thank you more.
Speaker 1: Next up is cornerback Brandon Stevens.
Speaker 7: Communication the back end or is that the case?
Speaker 6: Though? You know, I think our communication was good this game.
Speaker 6: You know, we we.
Speaker 10: Definitely had our plays uh uh gave you know, gave
Speaker 10: up some explosives. But you know, I think we're uh
Speaker 10: good with communication. We just gotta you know, uh execute
Speaker 10: better playing and sip.
Speaker 7: How challenged you was it with missing two of your
Speaker 7: better corners and then losing two more guys early in
Speaker 7: the game.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, uh, you know we missing some guys
Speaker 10: obviously that you know, I mean a lot to this defense,
Speaker 10: to this team, but you know it's, uh, it's just
Speaker 10: no excuse. You know, the guys out on the field.
Speaker 10: You know, we were here for a reason, so we
Speaker 10: gotta you know, play play to our standard.
Speaker 2: Friends with you know, a number of guys on Cleveland
Speaker 2: being COVID for for a lot of those catches. Is
Speaker 2: that just a matter of you guys either yet not
Speaker 2: being in the right positions them being in the right positions.
Speaker 2: How do you kind of explain that?
Speaker 10: I guess, I mean, I gotta uh, you know, I
Speaker 10: gotta gotta look at the film, you know, and for
Speaker 10: me to answer that, you know, but yeap, but you
Speaker 10: know right now, we just we just gotta execute, you know,
Speaker 10: we we gotta make plays on the ball, you know,
Speaker 10: and sh just just get off the field.
Speaker 6: I it's gonna take for for this defense to push
Speaker 6: the fourth quarter, to consistently finish and and finish.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's gonna take uh, it's it's gonna take one
Speaker 10: two and you know, just uh a will to to
Speaker 10: wanna in the game. You know, we we probably you know,
Speaker 10: we pride ourselves. You know I'm finishing and you know
Speaker 10: we haven't done that. We s especially didn't do it today.
Speaker 10: But you know it's just gonna take, you know, work,
Speaker 10: you know, day in day out, you know, to to
Speaker 10: to excel.
Speaker 7: Right, we see almost every practice catch the balls in
Speaker 7: the Jackson machine. How much do you think these issues
Speaker 7: not turning these Aaron throws into picks are holding you back?
Speaker 9: To fassive leak.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean we uh, we definitely have had our opportunities,
Speaker 10: you know, we we we had some opportunities in this game,
Speaker 10: even late in the fourth to end it. But it's
Speaker 10: I mean it's tough, man. We we just gotta capitalize,
Speaker 10: you know, when we got our hands on the ball,
Speaker 10: you know, and you know that gives us the opportunity
Speaker 10: to go out to the field and get you know, offensive
Speaker 10: ball back.
Speaker 6: Right cool than.
Speaker 1: In the locker room. We heard from several key players
Speaker 1: in this game, including safety Eddie Jackson that has a
Speaker 1: lot of.
Speaker 9: Probably, first, what do you feel like the frustration level
Speaker 9: is right down for the defense?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 13: That's very frustrating. That a lot of opportunities out there.
Speaker 13: I gotta come out and get better everybody being on
Speaker 13: a cord and just make the plays when they come
Speaker 13: to us.
Speaker 8: We want to talk about and need to catch it all.
Speaker 6: I guess what more people do you want with all that?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 13: Just just keep getting on the drugs, making those players
Speaker 13: in practice.
Speaker 9: Uh s, and we just gotta make 'em.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 13: It's you say just to say that I feel like
Speaker 13: we been we been on the drugs. We been doing
Speaker 13: everything it's just just in a funk right now.
Speaker 8: You Uh, teais a point out you all to know
Speaker 8: how to catch the ball, you.
Speaker 4: Say, when that's a lot of this point.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I got I.
Speaker 13: I feel like it's just just not making those players
Speaker 13: when they come to us. Man, it's feel like as
Speaker 13: simple as that, we just gotta make 'em. You know,
Speaker 13: it's no big theory behind it. It's just it's.
Speaker 9: Just in a funk right now.
Speaker 13: We gotta get out of cause you know a lot
Speaker 13: of those just big game change and plays when we
Speaker 13: if we make those.
Speaker 3: So when did you find out it's gonna be you
Speaker 3: in arth areas starting to dry?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 13: During the week we kind of we kind of figured
Speaker 13: newer Newer was gonna me and me and Ad out there.
Speaker 2: So okay, do you it's your kind of dun question,
Speaker 2: But of what happened on those couple of opportunities, you
Speaker 2: you had a a on your.
Speaker 13: Reception and just gotta come down with it, man, Just
Speaker 13: continue to work on it and see the ball through.
Speaker 9: Man, It's just it's just like a funk right now.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 13: It's just like I said, it's no big theory behind it.
Speaker 13: Just gotta catch the ball. You know, and it sounds crazy,
Speaker 13: but just gotta come up with 'em.
Speaker 9: A couple of the the losses this year and it
Speaker 9: Raves has a lead late and that not being able
Speaker 9: to hold on to it.
Speaker 6: What's it take to kind of finish off this game
Speaker 6: is step passively.
Speaker 13: Just gotta keep our foot on the pedal, you know,
Speaker 13: everyone be on one accord, Gotta continue to play, don't
Speaker 13: get losed.
Speaker 9: And like I said, we gotta make.
Speaker 13: Those plays like it's no excuse for you know, nothing
Speaker 13: that happened out there.
Speaker 9: We just gotta make those plays.
Speaker 13: When they come to us, you know that, but them
Speaker 13: it's huge games, change the plays for us, and we
Speaker 13: got the guys that can do it in the room.
Speaker 9: We just gotta continue to work out it and come
Speaker 9: up with it when it.
Speaker 10: Comes to you.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I know a couple of games, like earlier
Speaker 2: in the year, guys are talking about communication and things
Speaker 2: like that. Back there is that still cropping up in
Speaker 2: some of these situations for you guys.
Speaker 9: Or I mean it's here and there.
Speaker 13: You know, we just gotta echo to call everyone, you know,
Speaker 13: so everybody can do on the same page. That's something
Speaker 13: we can continue to work on and keep improving. Uh,
Speaker 13: but you know, we just gotta like I said, man,
Speaker 13: it's we had some big opportunities that we missing left
Speaker 13: out there that a lot of us which were gonna
Speaker 13: have back. But now we just gotta l you know,
Speaker 13: live with this one, take it on the chain and
Speaker 13: get ready for you know, next week. But it's gonna suck,
Speaker 13: you know.
Speaker 6: Now I knew a lot about getting back to this too.
Speaker 14: Uh standard of do you think or where do you
Speaker 14: think it would take for uh decent platuna?
Speaker 6: Where do we get back to that?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 9: Just keep working, Uh, keep working. I feel like we
Speaker 9: work hard.
Speaker 13: We come in every week, we work hard and practice
Speaker 13: and we just gotta let it translate to the game.
Speaker 13: And then again, like I said, we just gotta make
Speaker 13: those plays when they come to us. You know, I
Speaker 13: had a few of 'em I just left out there.
Speaker 13: That's you know, got me sick. I know, I just
Speaker 13: gotta come out. We just gotta make 'em.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 13: That's that's it coach putting us in position and make
Speaker 13: those plays. And I said, we gotta get out this
Speaker 13: phone that we in get one more.
Speaker 7: Places that last touchdown until men gets to give her ones.
Speaker 9: What's that every play there knock him out.
Speaker 7: Of the Yodo runs her.
Speaker 13: Top of the part was that man, you know, covers
Speaker 13: zero tough spot. But you know I gotta play play
Speaker 13: it better, simple as that.
Speaker 6: Thank you, God, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: We else I heard from wide receiver or shot baiting.
Speaker 14: I just don't think you know what I'm saying. We
Speaker 14: followed the script, you know what I'm saying. First and
Speaker 14: from most, I don't think we executed it.
Speaker 6: You know at uh every now.
Speaker 8: Highest level, we played behind the change a lot. Yeah
Speaker 8: we can't beat that.
Speaker 14: Uh let Scott any team to make play somehow, some
Speaker 14: get consistent going on the show.
Speaker 9: The shout as a sun a factor at all? Or yeah,
Speaker 9: the sign got me on that one hundred people.
Speaker 8: Huh yeah, yeah, that's right in the middle, right in
Speaker 8: the middle. Okay, Uh I gotta learned how to catch too.
Speaker 9: It still though, yup, did you just see at the
Speaker 9: last minute? Uh Now, I saw the.
Speaker 14: Ball all the way up to the last minute, and
Speaker 14: then the ball all went directly into the sun.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 8: I can't do nothing about that. So, uh God, you
Speaker 8: got me on that one. That's That's all I could say.
Speaker 4: What was the I guess the plan on offense, big
Speaker 4: picture on those us to come in play with them,
Speaker 4: the prince with the person today and sound where for
Speaker 4: something short or.
Speaker 9: Was just kind of questions.
Speaker 14: But I think we were just looking to get in
Speaker 14: the end zone, somehouse, some way with the players that
Speaker 14: we're call. We didn't do that, you know, clear when
Speaker 14: you did a good job of defending us, you know,
Speaker 14: uh towurist end of the game, and you know it
Speaker 14: came up short, came up.
Speaker 2: Short third down. You guys have been really good all year.
Speaker 2: What do you think was the you know, a sideline executed?
Speaker 2: What do you think was the issue on on third
Speaker 2: downs today?
Speaker 14: Honestly, man, it honestly goes back to back to execution.
Speaker 14: I mean, whatever the place is, somehow, some way, you know,
Speaker 14: no matter what it is, I think.
Speaker 6: You know, we beat ourselves.
Speaker 14: I don't know what position that could have been. It
Speaker 14: could have been a receivers, it could have been old line.
Speaker 14: You know, we never know, but you know, we are
Speaker 14: our team and I just felt like we all, you know,
Speaker 14: we all feel when we should until we're very aware
Speaker 14: of that.
Speaker 15: And you know, we're just looking forward to going fitting
Speaker 15: how much of a reality check or come down. Is
Speaker 15: this for this team after you guys have been just
Speaker 15: rolling teams for five, five or ten row.
Speaker 14: Now reality checks the NFL bro This happens a weekend
Speaker 14: and week out.
Speaker 9: I mean, this is reality feels.
Speaker 8: I don't we treat this does how we treat any
Speaker 8: other game. But win or loss, we're gonna go to
Speaker 8: work tomorrow, the next day and the next day after that.
Speaker 9: All right, that's all we can do.
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