Speaker 1: Welcome into the Raves Presspass podcast. The Raves are heading
Speaker 1: up to MetLife Stadium for a matchup against the Giants
Speaker 1: on Sunday at one o'clock. For that game, we had
Speaker 1: a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: All right, appreciate everybody being here. Have the coach of
Speaker 2: the year winners from the season. The high school football
Speaker 2: coaches of the year, both the tackle football and the
Speaker 2: flag football coaches are here. So we're excited about that.
Speaker 2: We'll be naming the coach of the year here, uh
Speaker 2: for the season. All are very very qualified for that.
Speaker 2: Of course. It's an awesome Coaches are the best coaches
Speaker 2: to you guys. You guys are the best because what
Speaker 2: you do to me, you're on the front lines of
Speaker 2: our youth, you know, and and teaching them the lessons
Speaker 2: and the values that you can only really learn through,
Speaker 2: you know, team environment, team endeavor, especially something like football.
Speaker 2: It's challenging and toughest football. And so thanks for what
Speaker 2: you do. It's the best tribution that anybody could make
Speaker 2: being a coach. What questions you guys have.
Speaker 3: Done, you know, three games eleven days that you're about
Speaker 3: park on. What's kind of the final. I know you're
Speaker 3: focused on Sunday obviously, but what's kind of the final
Speaker 3: What is the message about getting through that?
Speaker 2: And really the messages, The message is one day at
Speaker 2: a time and one game at a time, one play
Speaker 2: at a time, one series at a time. That is
Speaker 2: the final message, you know. That is the process, is
Speaker 2: the message. We've mapped it all out, like we talked
Speaker 2: about earlier in the week. We have a plan as
Speaker 2: far as all the different practices and reps and loading
Speaker 2: and all that to be ready to be at our
Speaker 2: best physically in all three games. But that's up to
Speaker 2: us as coaches, the players and really the coaches in
Speaker 2: terms of the scheming and the teaching. Is we have
Speaker 2: our biggest challenge Sunday, and we've got to be at
Speaker 2: our best on Sunday and then tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll worry
Speaker 2: about itself.
Speaker 3: John, it looks like ben Noy's on track to play
Speaker 3: his practice fully all week.
Speaker 4: In a general sense, how important has he been for
Speaker 4: that group.
Speaker 3: With his experience, his performance and also knowing the rest
Speaker 3: of those that dressers aren't pretty young.
Speaker 2: Well, I just think it's always good to have Kyle
Speaker 2: out there. You know, he's healthy. Uh, he's played a
Speaker 2: lot of plays, a lot a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of plays all year, played very well. Uh, definitely the
Speaker 2: week that off and then the bye, I think has
Speaker 2: really probably helped him in terms of being being fully
Speaker 2: raided a role. So he's ready to go.
Speaker 5: I know that Michael Pierce has been a full go
Speaker 5: all week. I mean, have you seen what you wanted
Speaker 5: to see from him in terms of being physically ready?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael looks good.
Speaker 3: Is a justice?
Speaker 6: How's justin looking out there?
Speaker 2: Justin looking good? Yeah, very good. Yeah, he's uh practicing well,
Speaker 2: hitting the ball great. He has been, you know, doing
Speaker 2: a good job of that. So he's ready to go too.
Speaker 3: We didn't have to be better on Wednesday because it
Speaker 3: wasn't firm yet. But what are your thoughts like seeing
Speaker 3: Bill Belichick go taking my job in college?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Yeah, I'm really happy for coach. You know,
Speaker 2: I think it's just a it's a it's a really
Speaker 2: cool thing. I read. I texted him. I haven't heard
Speaker 2: back yet. Game of rat so he's get a little
Speaker 2: bit busy. And uh, and I just just and I
Speaker 2: know Bubba Cunningham, you know the A D there from
Speaker 2: way back. He's he's a great, great athletic director, great
Speaker 2: great person. But h I saw where it was something
Speaker 2: he's always said he's always dreamed of, you know, which
Speaker 2: is really something to read that. It's like, I mean,
Speaker 2: he's won how many Super Bowls? You know, he's got
Speaker 2: all those rings. Arguably the greatest NFL coach in the
Speaker 2: history of the game and certainly the most successful. And
Speaker 2: to say, you know, I always dream of this, You
Speaker 2: know that that that speaks and that says something that's
Speaker 2: something he's always thought about wanting to do. Now he
Speaker 2: gets a chance to do it, He'll be amazing. He'll
Speaker 2: do a great job. He'll have great players. One thing
Speaker 2: about coach Belichick, Uh, he's gonna have a bunch of
Speaker 2: guys that like football. He's gonna have a bunch of
Speaker 2: guys that that that that want to be great, that
Speaker 2: want to work hard, that think about football, think about
Speaker 2: football going home, think about football coming into coming into work.
Speaker 2: They're gonna think about classes a little bit now too
Speaker 2: proudly you know, I'd be part of it. But uh uh,
Speaker 2: if you if you're interested in football and you want
Speaker 2: to be great, and what you do, you know North
Speaker 2: Carolina's going to be a destination for those guys.
Speaker 5: Have you ever thought about what it would be like
Speaker 5: to go back to college after being in the NFL
Speaker 5: for a very long time, and obviously your brother has
Speaker 5: kind of gone back and forth. I mean, what how
Speaker 5: big a difference would it be.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's too big a difference. I mean,
Speaker 2: coaches coach, you know, coach at any level. He coach
Speaker 2: a high school and there's great coaches at every level.
Speaker 2: There are coaches in high school football that could coach
Speaker 2: in the NFL like that. There are coaches in the
Speaker 2: NFL that can coach it, you know, high school. So
Speaker 2: I think coaching is coaching pretty much. It's different challenges,
Speaker 2: for sure, and there's different you know, schemes and everything
Speaker 2: are different. But the ability to kind of connect with guys,
Speaker 2: to put the players first, their best interests at heart,
Speaker 2: put together a team, build a team, all those things
Speaker 2: are the same, all right, So coach, all right? With
Speaker 2: that in mind, what did I segue? Child? That's good?
Speaker 2: All right? So so twenty eight years, twenty eight years,
Speaker 2: the Ravens have named high school Coach of the Year,
Speaker 2: and this will be the first for girls flag to
Speaker 2: be eligible, you've got to be aimed a coach of
Speaker 2: the week throughout the week for what your team has
Speaker 2: done and the job that you did. So here the two
Speaker 2: coaches that have been named the Ravens Coach of the
Speaker 2: Year all right and Arundel High School Jack Walsh, three
Speaker 2: A state champs, Arundo's first title since nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2: Come on up here, man, graduation, graduation, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Sir for sure.
Speaker 2: All right, what do you want to say? Yeah, you
Speaker 2: gotta get up here and say.
Speaker 6: This is really different for me. Thank you guys, and
Speaker 6: thank you for the Ravens and Coach Harball for having
Speaker 6: all of us out today. Let us tour the facility.
Speaker 6: It's been fantastic. And thank you to Arundel. We've been
Speaker 6: waiting forty nine years and we did it, so thank
Speaker 6: you guys.
Speaker 2: Great questions. Come on, It was a quite tough question
Speaker 2: after you've been there before, but you haven't quite gotten there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's something we've been chipping away at for years
Speaker 6: and it's just been out of our grasp, out of
Speaker 6: our grasp. It was a very surreal aside from my
Speaker 6: daughter being born and I have to say get married
Speaker 6: to my wife holding that trophy up in front of
Speaker 6: the home crowd was just second to none. So it
Speaker 6: was a great feeling.
Speaker 3: He think he could just take over.
Speaker 2: His job, and he could.
Speaker 6: He could definitely do my job. My line is his
Speaker 6: His problems aren't my problems. I don't think I could
Speaker 6: handle the stress of his job. So I'm perfectly happy
Speaker 6: and content where I am. And we're good coaching on
Speaker 6: teaching high school book kids.
Speaker 2: It's hard to follow up state championship pic shoes of
Speaker 2: all right the Ravens flag Coach of the Year. First
Speaker 2: year we've had this one be the first first time
Speaker 2: ever award. Chad Hartman, Boonsboro High School. Chad, Hey, graduations.
Speaker 4: Man, great, appreciate it, Thank you, congrats Hey, this is weird.
Speaker 4: Uh again, thank you to the Ravens. This has been
Speaker 4: amazing to be able to start girls football last year
Speaker 4: Frederick County. I think it went really well, expanding into
Speaker 4: Washington County and now across Maryland. It's it's been wonderful.
Speaker 4: The girls have taken to it amazingly. It's it's crazy
Speaker 4: to see some of the athletic ability of some of
Speaker 4: the young ladies in the state of Maryland. Some of
Speaker 4: the games we've played against some of the coaches out
Speaker 4: here just unbelievable and I can't wait for it to grow.
Speaker 4: We're short like thirty some teams to make it an
Speaker 4: official state sport in Maryland. We're really hoping Baltimore County,
Speaker 4: Carroll County, really hoping they jump on board and kind
Speaker 4: of make this, uh something that's gonna last a long
Speaker 4: time to come. So again, thank you guys very much.
Speaker 2: I got questions. What is it about football?
Speaker 5: Flag football?
Speaker 2: Then something that the tracks tracks the girls to play?
Speaker 5: And what are the benefits of it?
Speaker 4: Why is it so great? It's it's different, right I have.
Speaker 4: We have a lot of dual sport play on my team,
Speaker 4: and I will say this, a lot of them they
Speaker 4: love to come to football practice. I think it's it's
Speaker 4: fun for them. They've seen it on TV for all
Speaker 4: these years and now they get to actually go out
Speaker 4: there and compete, and I think they appreciate that. As
Speaker 4: a father, it's awesome to have daughters that are getting
Speaker 4: into football now that I can sit on the couch
Speaker 4: with and they're you know, they're understanding it because they're
Speaker 4: sitting there and the coming to practice with me. All
Speaker 4: the time. This is just it's great as a father,
Speaker 4: it's great as a dad. It's great. As you know,
Speaker 4: twenty three girls have all become my daughters now because
Speaker 4: of this and what y'all helped me put together.
Speaker 6: So it's awesome.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast and again
Speaker 1: kickoff on Sunday is at one pm for the Ravens
Speaker 1: matchup against Giants. Thanks for listening and we'll see you
Speaker 1: on Sunday