Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. The Ravens are
Speaker 1: gearing up for a Divisional round game. They don't know
Speaker 1: their opponent yet, but they're still working towards that game.
Speaker 1: They will find out on Sunday who they will ultimately
Speaker 1: play next weekend. Now, as the Ravens prepare for that game,
Speaker 1: they've been going through a fundamental week of practice and
Speaker 1: really focusing on themselves from a scheme and personnel standpoint,
Speaker 1: and head coach John Harball met with the media today
Speaker 1: after practice.
Speaker 2: Good to see everybody. Appreciate you being here. It's a
Speaker 2: great day for football, right It's perfect and every day
Speaker 2: is a great day for football. Our guys were into it.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the energy, the focus. It was a good
Speaker 2: football practice. It's good to be practicing football at this
Speaker 2: time of year, and our guys were into it. So
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that from them. The The other thing
Speaker 2: is that some of the guys, some guys were named
Speaker 2: the All Pro Team first team and second team. Just
Speaker 2: want to congratulate those guys and that a complim you know,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's a heck of a thing
Speaker 2: to be a Pro Bowl player. It's it's even it's
Speaker 2: a heck of a thing to be an All Pro player.
Speaker 2: And also Eric DaCosta for the I think it was
Speaker 2: an Executive of the Year, was it pff? I think
Speaker 2: it was. So that's a very very well deserved for
Speaker 2: Eric and and I think it's an honor for the
Speaker 2: whole personnel department and a great job that they've done.
Speaker 2: So what questions you have, John, we saw Marke and Wrew's.
Speaker 1: Who's back out on the back of the field.
Speaker 2: Any kind of time Cable will win, he might actually
Speaker 2: be available to play game. I think we're on the
Speaker 2: same timetable that we were on. You know, we'll uh, we'll,
Speaker 2: we're in that range, you know. But uh, today was
Speaker 2: the first day did did individual. That was it, So
Speaker 2: we kind of ran from there and just, uh, we'll
Speaker 2: get into the next week and we'll have a better idea. Well,
Speaker 2: you're pretty happy with the way the guys progressing health
Speaker 2: wives leading up the next week. I'm happy with it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's still early to really predict too much.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's a ways to go for guys,
Speaker 2: but they're they're they're certainly on track, and I think
Speaker 2: we'll know more next week.
Speaker 3: Mark, you know, just having him out there participating. What
Speaker 3: kind of a lift does that give his teammates? You guys, like,
Speaker 3: just just having that type of player back out their
Speaker 3: pact with you guys.
Speaker 2: Sure, I mean everybody's excited for Mark. I mean you guys, Mark.
Speaker 2: You see him in the training room every day, is
Speaker 2: in the weight room, he's in the meetings. Everybody knows
Speaker 2: and everybody kind of knew he's coming out and practicing,
Speaker 2: so they're they're happy for Mark. You know, it's you
Speaker 2: always want to see one of the brothers back out
Speaker 2: there doing everything.
Speaker 4: You got all the news if this week you're running
Speaker 4: coaching staffs and everything, or with old guard that's moving.
Speaker 1: On or moving elsewhere, just the second most tender, I
Speaker 1: don't know, coaches, what's that like?
Speaker 4: Is there anything ti whether brother?
Speaker 2: Just seeing more of that moving on the second most
Speaker 2: tenured and the second oldest dude. You failed to mention,
Speaker 2: you know, you were being appreciated. I appreciate that. Like
Speaker 2: my grandfather always used to say, it's it's better than
Speaker 2: the alternative, right, So we appreciate that. And uh uh,
Speaker 2: those guys, I think those guys are guys I can
Speaker 2: remember coming up as a young special teams coach in
Speaker 2: this league. And the old guard there Scott O'Brien's and
Speaker 2: Pete Rodriguez is the Brad Steelys, the Wayne Severees, those
Speaker 2: guys who you take you under your wing and treat
Speaker 2: you with respect, you know, and and the kind of
Speaker 2: show you the ropes. You know how much those guys
Speaker 2: mean to you. And those guys some of them have
Speaker 2: passed on even you know, and are out of football
Speaker 2: now or are with us anymore. And then now some
Speaker 2: of the head coaches that are moving on, you know
Speaker 2: and moving to the next thing that you have the
Speaker 2: same kind of regard for that you look up to
Speaker 2: and you feel so appreciative of what they gave to you,
Speaker 2: you as a coach, and what they gave to the game,
Speaker 2: you know. So and these are iconic coaches, you know,
Speaker 2: so nothing but respect and admiration for those guys and
Speaker 2: what they've accomplished. The opportunity to compete, you know, take
Speaker 2: teams against those guys is something that I always cherish
Speaker 2: and remember, you know, for as long as as long
Speaker 2: as I live. So those guys are great coaches. Hey,
Speaker 2: you know, I wouldn't be surprised. We saw them back though, too,
Speaker 2: so we'll see what happens. Hey, coach, we were talking
Speaker 2: with some of your coordinators yesterday and obviously they're getting
Speaker 2: calls from other teams. What type of advice have you
Speaker 2: been able to provide them, obviously with their focus being
Speaker 2: on a game. Yeah, yeah, that's uh yeah, lock in,
Speaker 2: lock in, it's my advice. But they're they they are,
Speaker 2: you know, those guys are locked in and and and
Speaker 2: and just they're they're excited about about where we're going
Speaker 2: as a team, and I think, you know, they just
Speaker 2: take the opportunities as they come. These are preliminary type interviews,
Speaker 2: get to know each other type interviews. So it's a
Speaker 2: great experience for those guys. I'm really happy for them,
Speaker 2: really proud of them. I think you're going there and
Speaker 2: you be yourself present who you are. The one one
Speaker 2: thing that it's important to me is I feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, this was something going way back to two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, was you know, you want to make
Speaker 2: sure that you're genuine with with the people about who
Speaker 2: you are and what you believe in as a coach,
Speaker 2: and and that the teams are genuine and honest with
Speaker 2: you, you know, And I just look back on Steve and
Speaker 2: Ozzy and everybody involved in those interviews just presenting exactly
Speaker 2: what they were looking for in a coach and who
Speaker 2: they were in an organization. I tell you, you know,
Speaker 2: sixteen years later, everything I learned about the Ravens organization
Speaker 2: or and and and came walking out of those interviews
Speaker 2: understanding who they were has proven to be the case.
Speaker 2: Over sixteen years, there's still who they were. And to me,
Speaker 2: and I'd like to think I'm still who I was
Speaker 2: then in terms of, you know, just being honest about it.
Speaker 2: And to me, that gives you a chance when you're
Speaker 2: when you're honest with one another, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: walking in you know who who you're going to be
Speaker 2: and what you believe.
Speaker 4: In Lamar the other day and he talked about how
Speaker 4: anxious he was to get to the game. How is
Speaker 4: it for you with this week off and even watching
Speaker 4: these weekend games?
Speaker 2: Same thing? You know, you just you know, you kind
Speaker 2: of one one party wants to be out there playing
Speaker 2: and going at it, and the other party he appreciates
Speaker 2: that you already want to know for the week you know,
Speaker 2: And like I told the guys, you know they have
Speaker 2: earned this victory. Every one of the thirteen victories had
Speaker 2: a part in this, this win this week that has
Speaker 2: been accomplished in the wild card weekend because of what
Speaker 2: they did all season. That's a big deal. That's that's
Speaker 2: something very valuable and very meaningful. Thing with that, you know,
Speaker 2: it's not a vacation week. It's not an off week.
Speaker 2: It's a work week. It's a work week to become,
Speaker 2: you know, the team that we need to be going
Speaker 2: forward into next week. And our guys are taking that
Speaker 2: real seriously, how quickly you guys kind of snap into
Speaker 2: action at the status when you figure out Bunday afternoon, Well,
Speaker 2: you know, that's right. I think what we'll do is
Speaker 2: we'll look at the Saturday, the Saturday game, and we'll
Speaker 2: assume that's our opponent. We'll snap into action after that
Speaker 2: and we'll start working on that team, and then if
Speaker 2: it changes, then we'll resnap into action for the new opponent.
Speaker 2: But the good thing for us is that the opponents
Speaker 2: that will be the opponent that would come into the
Speaker 2: picture on Sundays one that we played very recently, so
Speaker 2: that help. It's helpful. The way it worked out for
Speaker 2: us Are you happy you don't have to play in
Speaker 2: some of the weather these guys are.
Speaker 3: Have to play in.
Speaker 2: My goodness? Yeah, I mean, you know, I thought the
Speaker 2: Denver playoff game in twenty twelve was cold. I know
Speaker 2: it was because I was free. I couldn't speak. I
Speaker 2: was trying to say field goal. Randy Brown last me
Speaker 2: all the time. He said, you got the f out.
Speaker 2: It's like, what do you think? I was trying to say,
Speaker 2: time for a field goal? You know. Uh So, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be interesting in Kansas City. It's gonna be very interesting.
Speaker 2: We've got we got some scouts whose flights have been
Speaker 2: canceled going out there. We're trying to get out there
Speaker 2: to scout the game. So which is legal in pro football?
Speaker 4: By the way, its articles giant.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, that was hey coach John Harball. You're
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Speaker 1: Really good insight from him about this team and what
Speaker 1: the Ravens need to do to stack some wins in
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