September 5, 2025 • 12 mins
Head Coach John Harbaugh and cornerback Jaire Alexander speak with the media ahead of the Ravens' game against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome into Raven's Press Past podcast. The date is Friday,
September fifth, and before the team heads to Buffalo tomorrow
to take on the Bills on Sunday Night Football, we
heard from head coach John Harbaugh and cornerback Jay Year Alexander.
First up is Coach Harbaugh.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Okay, great to see everybody here. We appreciate you being here.
Beautiful day, very good practice. We're excited to go see
where we're at, play the football game, put our best
foot forward, to our best of our ability.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
We've worked hard for this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You're in the right to be in games like this
and playing games like this, and our guys are ready,
So let's go see what happens.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
What questions you have, John, as far as injuries, you know,
we haven't seen it was all.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Isaiah and you're walking on sidefield and inbcard not out there.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Looks like this, Len, we're booking.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
And not playing.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, like I said, I'm just going to kind of
leave that alone for now. You might give me a
tell you something next Friday or Friday after or you
might not, So we'll just kind of we'll see how
it plays out. But I'm just gonna leave all those
alone right now going into the opener. Well, I guess
that's all you got there.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Huh, John, you alluded to it, but obviously you've been
at this.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I saw so many sad faces, so many sad media
faces right there.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh, I got nothing with tweet right now? But what
is that ever? Hell, you guys back something you can
put out. John, you alluded to this, But how much
excitement is there to get to the first game? I mean,
you guys have been putting work, and Rtia is going back.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
To May and now you have something to you know, kind.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Of gauge that off of them.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I mean, obviously you evaluate and practice, but it is
a little bit different when you're going up against another.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Team, right right. It's it's just it's it's it's what
you do it for. You know, all that work.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
There's a lot of work. There's a lot of work
that goes in. You would say for the first game,
it's really not just for the first game. It's for
the whole season because you build your you build your
football team through all of that. You build the foundation
of your team that's going to carry you forward for
the whole season. And once you get through the first game.
You realize as soon as you're in the locker room
after the first game, you realize, oh, we got the Browns.
The Browns are up next, and it's going to come fast.
(02:08):
So this one's hard to get to. It takes forever
to get to. And then you're finally out there and
you just want the guys to take a deep breath
and play ball, and then you realize the next one's
going to come fast.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's kind of how it works.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So it's it's well learned and we're ready and we
know that it's the beginning of a long season.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
John, when the reps were out here during the summer
and we met with something about the correckdown of sportsmanlike.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Conduct and then trying to get that out.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
When you see I don't know if you saw parts
of the game last night, but how.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Much do you show players clips of.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
That as a reminders, Look, they're looking for this stuff
this year.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well, we have a segment of our week where we
show everything.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You know, we show all kinds of plays, situational plays,
penalty plays, all kinds of plays that come up the
are important to just learning from. It's not putting a
learning opportunity. So We'll show a lot of plays like
that today.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Times that he wants to be clean football from the
offer that, how much did that line up to the
standard you want.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
To see from the phases?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Absolutely? I mean that's that's definitely true for all three phases.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And we want our team to play winning football, you know,
and winning football is definitely synonymous with what Todd's talking
about with clean football.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You know, we want to we want to operate, we
want to we want.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
To get our plays in, we want to communicate our
place to one another, all three phases. We want to
get our subs on and off the field cleanly. We
wanna we want to we want to be clean with
our snaps and all the different things we do, our assignments,
our alignments. We want to play clean technique as much
as you can. And with that, we want to play
really hard. We want we want to set standards for
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how hard we play. We want to bring a physicality
to the way we play, because those are those are
those are all things that are fundamental and winning football.
So I would say, yes, it applies to all three phases.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
We heard the defense of guys talk a lot this
summer just about wanting to force more turnovers and uh,
we've got a glimpse of that throughout camp this summer.
Youth with the stef that you feel like they have
taken to achieve that goal. And do you feel like
how confident you that it will carry over?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, I mean you know you believe it will.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You know, we've we've we've come up to a lot
of those plays in practice and also in the preseason games.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I think that the intentionality has been very good.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know, we're one of the leading turnover teams two
years ago and historically we've always been pretty high, pretty
high takeaway team generally, but last year was not good,
you know. And uh and we still overcame in and
won a bunch of games, but we need to be
we need to be a top And I would say,
you know, our goal every year and this is just honestly,
this has been true for all these years. Our goal
(04:38):
is always to be the top takeaway team. I mean,
that's our goal and uh, and that'll be our goal
again this year. And if we achieve that goal, we're
gonna be playing some really great defense.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Coach something he's been very successful with those the years,
and especially last year and early in this season. Is
it something maybe even more you can take advantage of
because of the change and game speed, I mean really early.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, you know you might be able to. It's definitely
a thought.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And there's a lot of things that go with the
early season football, you know, tackling special teams, things like
pump protection, all those things that you know come up
early season a lot of times that can be not
quite ready.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
And you got to you gotta be careful of your
own team with that.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You gotta make sure that you're looking for those those
opportunities as well on both sides.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
John, Obviously, you guys didn't reach your own standard.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You're very high stand off special teams last year. Beyond
just the kind of personal changes, do you think it's
just kind of small topees or ors that they change
to get you guys back to where you are, you know,
usually at the top of league.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, I think it's a continuation of of the idea
that we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna attempt to play
the game harder and more physically and a better technique
and a better understanding of the different of the nature
of special teams. Special teams is a little different than
offense and defense. It's more of a free.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Flowing type of a play. You know, there's more.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It's a little more like basketball or hockey. You know,
you've got to understand the flow of the play, the timing,
the angles. And we've been really working hard on all
those things. So our young guys. We're young, and last
year we weren't there, you know, as far as that
standard you're talking about, and this year expects us to
be further along. Johnson, for you, when you talk.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
To the team, you know, leading up to that game,
how do you keep the message differently new or do
you go back and go I'll see what.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I said this year.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh no, it's always a new message. Yeah, it's always new.
It's always different. That that's easy to me. I mean
that the idea basically is that you just you meet
people where they're at, You meet their team, you meet
your team where it's at, You meet circumstances where they're at. Uh,
things come up that are things that we reference or whatever.
You know, it's conversations. It's never the same, it never
gets all, it never gets old. Jamison, This is the
(06:49):
greatest This is the greatest thing. I mean, this is
the greatest, most fun thing ever. Here we are, we're
in sports. All of us in this circle right here,
get to do this for a living, right, I mean,
I know, I know how greatful you guys are as
well that we get to do this for a living
and we're talking about things that people really enjoy, uh following,
you know, and we get out.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
There in the field. Yeah, it's gonna be tough. It's
gonna be a tense you know.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I'm sure we're gonna feel victimizing wrong by by some
call at some point in.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Time, you know, and and all that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But at the end of the day, it's it's Uh,
it's the greatest thing in the world to get to
be a part of sports and be a part of
the National Football League, being a game, be the the
Ravens versus the Bills on Sunday Night football open the season.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I just couldn't be more grateful or excited. And no,
it never ever gets home.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
So what actually the message and is in any different
when you play a team that ever your season last year.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Uh, there's a message.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
There's a really good message and that one day you
probably you know, it'll be in the Uh, it'll be
in the history books. You have a chance to listen
to it, but uh, I don't think it's gonna be anything.
There's no message that you wouldn't expect, Brian, you know.
It's it's uh, it's it's you know, the idea that, uh,
we're gonna go out there, were gonna play our best football,
our way, you know, and you try to you try
(08:02):
to do that in a way that you can kind
of dictate the game the way you wanted to go,
you know. And that's the same thing they're gonna be
trying to do. But we'll talk about all those things
that go with that, and uh, we should be a
confident team, you know, and I expect us to play
really well. You played on Sunday nights football many times before,
but the opening weekend you've got to sit through last
night tonight, of course your brother's playing, and then all
(08:22):
the game Sunday.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Hey, you can your time on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well my time, and I didn't really I didn't watch
that much of the last yesterday's game, but I'll probably
watched most of I'll probably watch all this.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Game, you know, and we'll be rooting for the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Anybody's wondering, Yeah, you know, sorry, Andy, you know, bloodsticker
than water and.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Sunday Sunday. I could even tell you Sunday's hard day.
It's tough.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's not easy, you know, to uh to play a
night game because everybody's ready to go. You gotta you
gotta set your clock. I tell the guys all the time.
Set your clock, you know, make sure you're peeking, you know,
emotionally and spiritually at the right time.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
This year, I think it was one and oh.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Last year, Yeah, we got a couple of themes. Yeah,
we got a few themes. Something that we could repeat,
something we couldn't you know. Yeah, one of the themes
has gradually then suddenly you know, that's something that is
worth talking about at some point in time.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And then uh you know, uh raised raised the four or.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Something that we talked about and Steve kind of brought
that to us recently, Steve Bushatti, which I thought was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So, but themes, it's more it's more to me, it's
more about.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
The relationships in day to day, you know, just growing together,
I'd say that, and the intentionality about what we're doing.
Probably you've heard that so many times from me. Probably
that's probably the main thing all set?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Great? Thanks? Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That was John Harbaugh addressing the media one final time
before the Ravens face the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night.
Next up on raven Press Past podcast, you'll hear from
cornerback Ja Yere Alexander.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Do you feel physically after being out there on the
practice field all week? It feels good.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
It's always a blessing to be on the field and
that's you know, that's my happy place, and you know,
it was good getting back acclimated.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
With the guys. Is there avery much of challenges getting
acclimated again or do you feel like it's pretty smooth
once in the background. Know, that's pretty smooth. You know,
it's like riding a bike. You know, it takes some time.
Didn't want you to keep going, you know you'll get
the floggin.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
How do you feel your balance, defense, comfort.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Up with the guys back in the secondary all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Yeah, you know what I mean, it's early in this season,
you know, so we're still working through things. But you know,
ultimately we've hung out outside of here, so I mean
that builds more chemistry in closeness there. Vincent's last November
he played in the game, Like, what do you expect
the nerves to kind of be like nah, nah, noah,
no nerves, man, just just excitement and uh, just you know,
(10:55):
extreme gratitude.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
You know, how do you go down to your area.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
You'll be out there Sunday?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Huh uh. I mean I don't have a doubt. Obviously
you weren't in that game in Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Just being in those d groups, have you sets the
the want and the the motivation of going back to Buffalo.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And getting a win there.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Oh yeah, no, I feel it, man, It's the urgency
is there. You know, I didn't play in the game
last year, like you said, but I feel like I
did play the game after seeing so much film of it,
So you know it, the urgency is there.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You practice and said, well, have a great training kIPS.
Was it tough at all? Haven't you kind of missed
some time there at the other camp?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
You know, not really tough, but you know I would
love to be out there, you know, I understand. So
it's not tough cause you know, life always throws you curveballs,
you know, So it's about how you respond to its urgency.
What's like, what's the mindset of the secondary going into
the game as the dad. Uh, well, you know, the
mindset would be for every game, and that should be
the best second year in the league, you know, and
and just set the tone.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Set the tone really is uh is it a seatbelt
or a sword? Ah, it's a sword man. That's a
sort definitely sort yeah. Yeah, can you tell us.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
The orgin of that for you?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
The origin? Not right now? At some point.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That was Jair Alexander answering questions before his first game
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to Raven's Press Past podcast and we'll see you next time.
Welcome into Raven's Press Past podcast. The date is Friday,
September fifth, and before the team heads to Buffalo tomorrow
to take on the Bills on Sunday Night Football, we
heard from head coach John Harbaugh and cornerback Jay Year Alexander.
First up is Coach Harbaugh.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Okay, great to see everybody here. We appreciate you being here.
Beautiful day, very good practice. We're excited to go see
where we're at, play the football game, put our best
foot forward, to our best of our ability.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
We've worked hard for this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You're in the right to be in games like this
and playing games like this, and our guys are ready,
So let's go see what happens.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
What questions you have, John, as far as injuries, you know,
we haven't seen it was all.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Isaiah and you're walking on sidefield and inbcard not out there.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Looks like this, Len, we're booking.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
And not playing.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, like I said, I'm just going to kind of
leave that alone for now. You might give me a
tell you something next Friday or Friday after or you
might not, So we'll just kind of we'll see how
it plays out. But I'm just gonna leave all those
alone right now going into the opener. Well, I guess
that's all you got there.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Huh, John, you alluded to it, but obviously you've been
at this.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I saw so many sad faces, so many sad media
faces right there.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh, I got nothing with tweet right now? But what
is that ever? Hell, you guys back something you can
put out. John, you alluded to this, But how much
excitement is there to get to the first game? I mean,
you guys have been putting work, and Rtia is going back.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
To May and now you have something to you know, kind.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Of gauge that off of them.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I mean, obviously you evaluate and practice, but it is
a little bit different when you're going up against another.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Team, right right. It's it's just it's it's it's what
you do it for. You know, all that work.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
There's a lot of work. There's a lot of work
that goes in. You would say for the first game,
it's really not just for the first game. It's for
the whole season because you build your you build your
football team through all of that. You build the foundation
of your team that's going to carry you forward for
the whole season. And once you get through the first game.
You realize as soon as you're in the locker room
after the first game, you realize, oh, we got the Browns.
The Browns are up next, and it's going to come fast.
(02:08):
So this one's hard to get to. It takes forever
to get to. And then you're finally out there and
you just want the guys to take a deep breath
and play ball, and then you realize the next one's
going to come fast.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's kind of how it works.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So it's it's well learned and we're ready and we
know that it's the beginning of a long season.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
John, when the reps were out here during the summer
and we met with something about the correckdown of sportsmanlike.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Conduct and then trying to get that out.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
When you see I don't know if you saw parts
of the game last night, but how.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Much do you show players clips of.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
That as a reminders, Look, they're looking for this stuff
this year.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well, we have a segment of our week where we
show everything.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You know, we show all kinds of plays, situational plays,
penalty plays, all kinds of plays that come up the
are important to just learning from. It's not putting a
learning opportunity. So We'll show a lot of plays like
that today.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Times that he wants to be clean football from the
offer that, how much did that line up to the
standard you want.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
To see from the phases?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Absolutely? I mean that's that's definitely true for all three phases.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And we want our team to play winning football, you know,
and winning football is definitely synonymous with what Todd's talking
about with clean football.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You know, we want to we want to operate, we
want to we want.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
To get our plays in, we want to communicate our
place to one another, all three phases. We want to
get our subs on and off the field cleanly. We
wanna we want to we want to be clean with
our snaps and all the different things we do, our assignments,
our alignments. We want to play clean technique as much
as you can. And with that, we want to play
really hard. We want we want to set standards for
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how hard we play. We want to bring a physicality
to the way we play, because those are those are
those are all things that are fundamental and winning football.
So I would say, yes, it applies to all three phases.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
We heard the defense of guys talk a lot this
summer just about wanting to force more turnovers and uh,
we've got a glimpse of that throughout camp this summer.
Youth with the stef that you feel like they have
taken to achieve that goal. And do you feel like
how confident you that it will carry over?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, I mean you know you believe it will.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You know, we've we've we've come up to a lot
of those plays in practice and also in the preseason games.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I think that the intentionality has been very good.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know, we're one of the leading turnover teams two
years ago and historically we've always been pretty high, pretty
high takeaway team generally, but last year was not good,
you know. And uh and we still overcame in and
won a bunch of games, but we need to be
we need to be a top And I would say,
you know, our goal every year and this is just honestly,
this has been true for all these years. Our goal
(04:38):
is always to be the top takeaway team. I mean,
that's our goal and uh, and that'll be our goal
again this year. And if we achieve that goal, we're
gonna be playing some really great defense.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Coach something he's been very successful with those the years,
and especially last year and early in this season. Is
it something maybe even more you can take advantage of
because of the change and game speed, I mean really early.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, you know you might be able to. It's definitely
a thought.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And there's a lot of things that go with the
early season football, you know, tackling special teams, things like
pump protection, all those things that you know come up
early season a lot of times that can be not
quite ready.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
And you got to you gotta be careful of your
own team with that.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You gotta make sure that you're looking for those those
opportunities as well on both sides.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
John, Obviously, you guys didn't reach your own standard.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You're very high stand off special teams last year. Beyond
just the kind of personal changes, do you think it's
just kind of small topees or ors that they change
to get you guys back to where you are, you know,
usually at the top of league.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, I think it's a continuation of of the idea
that we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna attempt to play
the game harder and more physically and a better technique
and a better understanding of the different of the nature
of special teams. Special teams is a little different than
offense and defense. It's more of a free.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Flowing type of a play. You know, there's more.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It's a little more like basketball or hockey. You know,
you've got to understand the flow of the play, the timing,
the angles. And we've been really working hard on all
those things. So our young guys. We're young, and last
year we weren't there, you know, as far as that
standard you're talking about, and this year expects us to
be further along. Johnson, for you, when you talk.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
To the team, you know, leading up to that game,
how do you keep the message differently new or do
you go back and go I'll see what.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I said this year.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh no, it's always a new message. Yeah, it's always new.
It's always different. That that's easy to me. I mean
that the idea basically is that you just you meet
people where they're at, You meet their team, you meet
your team where it's at, You meet circumstances where they're at. Uh,
things come up that are things that we reference or whatever.
You know, it's conversations. It's never the same, it never
gets all, it never gets old. Jamison, This is the
(06:49):
greatest This is the greatest thing. I mean, this is
the greatest, most fun thing ever. Here we are, we're
in sports. All of us in this circle right here,
get to do this for a living, right, I mean,
I know, I know how greatful you guys are as
well that we get to do this for a living
and we're talking about things that people really enjoy, uh following,
you know, and we get out.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
There in the field. Yeah, it's gonna be tough. It's
gonna be a tense you know.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I'm sure we're gonna feel victimizing wrong by by some
call at some point in.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Time, you know, and and all that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But at the end of the day, it's it's Uh,
it's the greatest thing in the world to get to
be a part of sports and be a part of
the National Football League, being a game, be the the
Ravens versus the Bills on Sunday Night football open the season.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I just couldn't be more grateful or excited. And no,
it never ever gets home.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
So what actually the message and is in any different
when you play a team that ever your season last year.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Uh, there's a message.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
There's a really good message and that one day you
probably you know, it'll be in the Uh, it'll be
in the history books. You have a chance to listen
to it, but uh, I don't think it's gonna be anything.
There's no message that you wouldn't expect, Brian, you know.
It's it's uh, it's it's you know, the idea that, uh,
we're gonna go out there, were gonna play our best football,
our way, you know, and you try to you try
(08:02):
to do that in a way that you can kind
of dictate the game the way you wanted to go,
you know. And that's the same thing they're gonna be
trying to do. But we'll talk about all those things
that go with that, and uh, we should be a
confident team, you know, and I expect us to play
really well. You played on Sunday nights football many times before,
but the opening weekend you've got to sit through last
night tonight, of course your brother's playing, and then all
(08:22):
the game Sunday.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Hey, you can your time on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well my time, and I didn't really I didn't watch
that much of the last yesterday's game, but I'll probably
watched most of I'll probably watch all this.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Game, you know, and we'll be rooting for the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Anybody's wondering, Yeah, you know, sorry, Andy, you know, bloodsticker
than water and.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Sunday Sunday. I could even tell you Sunday's hard day.
It's tough.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's not easy, you know, to uh to play a
night game because everybody's ready to go. You gotta you
gotta set your clock. I tell the guys all the time.
Set your clock, you know, make sure you're peeking, you know,
emotionally and spiritually at the right time.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
This year, I think it was one and oh.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Last year, Yeah, we got a couple of themes. Yeah,
we got a few themes. Something that we could repeat,
something we couldn't you know. Yeah, one of the themes
has gradually then suddenly you know, that's something that is
worth talking about at some point in time.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And then uh you know, uh raised raised the four or.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Something that we talked about and Steve kind of brought
that to us recently, Steve Bushatti, which I thought was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So, but themes, it's more it's more to me, it's
more about.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
The relationships in day to day, you know, just growing together,
I'd say that, and the intentionality about what we're doing.
Probably you've heard that so many times from me. Probably
that's probably the main thing all set?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Great? Thanks? Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That was John Harbaugh addressing the media one final time
before the Ravens face the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night.
Next up on raven Press Past podcast, you'll hear from
cornerback Ja Yere Alexander.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Do you feel physically after being out there on the
practice field all week? It feels good.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
It's always a blessing to be on the field and
that's you know, that's my happy place, and you know,
it was good getting back acclimated.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
With the guys. Is there avery much of challenges getting
acclimated again or do you feel like it's pretty smooth
once in the background. Know, that's pretty smooth. You know,
it's like riding a bike. You know, it takes some time.
Didn't want you to keep going, you know you'll get
the floggin.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
How do you feel your balance, defense, comfort.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Up with the guys back in the secondary all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Yeah, you know what I mean, it's early in this season,
you know, so we're still working through things. But you know,
ultimately we've hung out outside of here, so I mean
that builds more chemistry in closeness there. Vincent's last November
he played in the game, Like, what do you expect
the nerves to kind of be like nah, nah, noah,
no nerves, man, just just excitement and uh, just you know,
(10:55):
extreme gratitude.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
You know, how do you go down to your area.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
You'll be out there Sunday?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Huh uh. I mean I don't have a doubt. Obviously
you weren't in that game in Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Just being in those d groups, have you sets the
the want and the the motivation of going back to Buffalo.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And getting a win there.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Oh yeah, no, I feel it, man, It's the urgency
is there. You know, I didn't play in the game
last year, like you said, but I feel like I
did play the game after seeing so much film of it,
So you know it, the urgency is there.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You practice and said, well, have a great training kIPS.
Was it tough at all? Haven't you kind of missed
some time there at the other camp?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
You know, not really tough, but you know I would
love to be out there, you know, I understand. So
it's not tough cause you know, life always throws you curveballs,
you know, So it's about how you respond to its urgency.
What's like, what's the mindset of the secondary going into
the game as the dad. Uh, well, you know, the
mindset would be for every game, and that should be
the best second year in the league, you know, and
and just set the tone.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Set the tone really is uh is it a seatbelt
or a sword? Ah, it's a sword man. That's a
sort definitely sort yeah. Yeah, can you tell us.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
The orgin of that for you?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
The origin? Not right now? At some point.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That was Jair Alexander answering questions before his first game
as a Raven. Thanks for listening to the Ravens Press
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