Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: October eleventh. The Ravens are gearing up for Sunday's game
Speaker 1: at M and T Banks Stadium against the Washington Commanders,
Speaker 1: and today we heard from head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: All right, great to see everybody here. We sure appreciate
Speaker 2: you being here. Beautiful day for practice, beautiful day for everything.
Speaker 2: Just to shout out to our friend Rachel Yaffi and
Speaker 2: she goes through some some hell things that she's dealing with,
Speaker 2: and our prayers are with her that God would heal
Speaker 2: her completely. We pray that what question do you have?
Speaker 1: All eyes are.
Speaker 2: One this game, but you hope We were talking a
Speaker 2: little bit about Tampa. Do you think about it or
Speaker 2: try to gage anything about you know, the upcoming game
Speaker 2: of whether it's going to change anything, or have you
Speaker 2: heard anything about that. I haven't heard anything. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to gauge Allison's apartment complex right now because we don't
Speaker 2: really have word. We know the power is still out.
Speaker 2: We don't know if they're underwater or whatever, if they
Speaker 2: give the car. She got a car down there, so
Speaker 2: we're hoping not underwater, but so we got two things
Speaker 2: going on there. We don't know much about either at
Speaker 2: this point. You've been really good inside the red zone.
Speaker 2: Obviously got Derek henry Wood anything dress, don't skim back
Speaker 2: or anything to be so successful that Yeah, probably all
Speaker 2: those things tought to me. You know, being good in
Speaker 2: the red zone usually does start with running the ball.
Speaker 2: It does go next probably you know you got to
Speaker 2: block people and protect, but goes next to scheme for sure,
Speaker 2: because you know, it's kind of a different kind of
Speaker 2: a scheme game that get downer because things happen so
Speaker 2: much faster. And thirdly, it ends up being about extended plays,
Speaker 2: which we've been good at as well. So all three
Speaker 2: of those areas our offense is doing a real nice job.
Speaker 2: You got to try to keep it going.
Speaker 1: Going on with that.
Speaker 2: Yesterday you asked me munking about the red zone. We
Speaker 2: talked about how the packful. The discussion ars after the
Speaker 2: one in the game where you said you guys are
Speaker 2: just trying to win a game when to make field
Speaker 2: goals off. We just need to talk a bit about
Speaker 2: that conversation if you remember that from last year and
Speaker 2: won the game, and just what kind of was the
Speaker 2: proposit that discussion. Yeah, it seems like that's the century ago.
Speaker 2: I don't remember, don't remember the conversation that well, probably
Speaker 2: had one, you know, and we didn't. We'll kick the
Speaker 2: field goals if we have to, but we sure we
Speaker 2: want to score the touchdowns. I do remember. Also, if
Speaker 2: if you remember, we were coming into that game, we
Speaker 2: were coming off the Pittsburgh game where we had the
Speaker 2: disappointing loss to Pittsburgh, and we we had something. We
Speaker 2: had a we had a team meeting in the in
Speaker 2: the chapel there at the at the resort we were at.
Speaker 2: It was an old basically an old monastery seminary kind
Speaker 2: of the type of thing, and they had a beautiful
Speaker 2: chapel and we called it the U the Chapel of
Speaker 2: Truth because we had to put some truth out there
Speaker 2: about how we were playing and what we needed to
Speaker 2: do to go ahead and get right, you know. So
Speaker 2: I remember that meeting. So there's a lot of meetings. Yeah,
Speaker 2: John O fill years out of elevations. Do you anticipate
Speaker 2: our lead to see is this his time? Because I
Speaker 2: know you need a number three back right. Definitely a possibility.
Speaker 2: I practiced full. So we'll see where we see where we.
Speaker 1: Go with that.
Speaker 2: We have a plan and it'll be obviously announced, you
Speaker 2: know when we get to Saturday with the reporting of
Speaker 2: the elevations and all that. Hey, coach, I know that
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh is probably your main rival, But because Washington is
Speaker 2: better now than they've been in the past, and because
Speaker 2: of proximity, could this be sort of a budding rival
Speaker 2: where you may be more so between the fans and
Speaker 2: the teams because you guys don't play each other then, Mark, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. It's really fun. I mean
Speaker 2: I feel I'm sure that everybody's excited in the region,
Speaker 2: you know, the d mvuh. It's it's cool. It's fun.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what it's about sports is to have fun,
Speaker 2: you know. For the fans, I mean, we we take
Speaker 2: it as life and death and and to us on
Speaker 2: a given day it kind of feels like it is.
Speaker 2: But in the end, it's it's a it's a great distraction.
Speaker 2: It's a great thing to have fun with. I hope
Speaker 2: people have a great time around the Ravens, you know,
Speaker 2: and the Commanders and everybody else in the league. I
Speaker 2: hope they enjoy it. I hope it's something that gets them,
Speaker 2: you know, gets their mind in a different place sometimes
Speaker 2: and they can enjoy it. So to whatever extent that is,
Speaker 2: that's great for us. It's a rivalry because it's our
Speaker 2: next game. We do respect this team. They're very good,
Speaker 2: we're playing it and they're tough, physical outfit, you know,
Speaker 2: so we're looking forward to the challenge of that and
Speaker 2: we'll be ready for it.
Speaker 1: That's it for the Ravens pres Past podcast, but thank
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