September 29, 2025 • 21 mins
Head Coach John Harbaugh speaks with the media on Monday following the Ravens' 37-20 defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,
September twenty ninth. Today the Ravens held their standard Monday
afternoon press conference with head coach John Harbold.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Okay, appreciate it by being here to work on the
next game coming up, the Texans game on Sunday, be
at home, and we're gonna look at all the things
we need to do to be the best we can
be in that game. And there's a lot of factors,
a lot of things we're dealing with, for sure, like
a lot of teams are, I'm sure, but that'll be
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our opportunity to get going and get our momentum going
a little bit. And that's a really good team. I've
just been watching them on tape. The Texans defense is
playing at a high, high level, very aggressive, very fast,
very well coached. A lot of good players, a lot
of good pass rushers, good coverage guys, playing good football.
Then offensively, obviously, young quarterback working to find their way
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in a little bit running the ball, good backs, trying
to play compromentary football with their defense. So that's what
we're looking at right now. What questions you have, John.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Specifically with Lamar's injury. Do you have any update with
that and do you do you expect him to practice Wednesday?
Do you expect them to play with something?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, We've got a pretty good feel on all the injuries,
you know, with the different guys right now where we're
at really not commenting on those things today. We'll comment
on them on him later in the week a little
bit more. I can't give you information on Broadwick and
a nomdi Nomdy is going to be out for the year.
That's going to be a year long ir Broady will
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not be be the four week ir.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Sean.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
That's Matadka. Obviously it's a knack. There's a lot of
concerns with that. What's his long form podcasts before? Are
you guys confident will be able to return last year?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Is his career in.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Jet or what?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, that's a good question, you know, it's like and
just if I'm trying to guess, I'm trying to explain
it and the best way I can in terms of
what I'm allowed to tell you, Like, a lot of
that is something things that he needs to address with
you guys, you know, in his time. So I really
don't I really can't speak for him. I wouldn't want to. Uh,
those are questions that would be best answered by him
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going forward, and he may be still getting some information
on that as well, but I believe that for him
to answer, John.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
You know, actually you have so many injuries. I'm sure
it's hard to sort of to rag me evaluate, you know,
especially your defense where you lost I don't know for
your four star or dissipate between the force of the
game happy. He says, this is the second year where
outside of the ball.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Start off and slow.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Obviously, if there's a competition, there's the injury on the
confidence you give in the Apple order to be able
to want to turn the defense round.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I have confidence in all of our guys, including Zach,
our players, our coaches, and I watch our guys every day.
I watch how they work, I watch I watch how
well they coach. I'm in I watched the meetings. I
know the schemes that were running. I know the soundness
of what we're doing. I understand who's you know what
what we're what we're up against. You know, from week
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to week and play to play. Even in this game,
you know this is a challenging game against you know,
good offense. They were healthy, they got their guys back,
and complementary football wise, you know, the defense is putting
some tough spots, you know, field position wise for sure,
and I think that had something to do with it.
We got we got some stops early in the red
zone with some short fields and then and then we
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didn't play as well in the red zone. They made
a couple of plays in there that that they ended
up getting touchdowns on. So yeah, yeah, you know, that's
what you do. You believe in your people, and we
have really good people and good players. I thought a
lot of the young guys stepped up, you know, they
got their opportunities that had never played before, you know,
and went out there in that environment and played well.
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You look at the individual performances, there's a lot of
really good things there and the things that you know,
when I watched the tape, you know, I was I
felt better watching the tape. I can tell you that
a lot better watching the tape than I did standing
on the sideline watching the game. I felt like there
was a lot of a lot of really good play
going on, and I think the things that were that
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were issues were very definable and also sometimes a result
of some you know, some real tight plays being made
by them, you know, in some situations. So those are
plays that we just got to start making, you know,
start making, you know, get some turnovers, get knock some
balls loose, get some TFLs, you know, create some things.
We were a step from getting a couple of sacks
at times. At times, you know, I thought Pat did
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a good job of getting the ball out a few times,
things like that. So you know, we're not we're not
too far away. On defense. I'm I really feel confident
that we're going to play good, really good defense this year.
I really am. And I know the fans here that
and I hope they have a little bit of confidence
in us that we we've been down this road before
a little bit. We do need to get healthy, for sure,
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That's that's an important part of it as well. But
also play with the guys that we've got. Let's go
play some good defense.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Because with Lamar, there was speculation, I guess yesterday because you.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Had talked about maybe he might go back into the
game if it were closer. There was no way he
was going to go back into the game. Was that
the case, or if the game.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Was closer, what do you have gone No, that was
the case. There was no way he was going to
go back in the game. That that would The injury
precluded it. You know, as you know during the game,
you know, you really just you're you're playing the next
series as a coach. But uh, there was no way
he could go back in the game. I know Lamar,
I know the way I know Lamar. If he could
have gone in the game, he would have been in
the game. That's how Lamar, That's how he is. So
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but I can assure you that he would not have
been able to go back in the game under any circumstance.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Now, what happened on the situation where you end up
getting two delayed games in the span of free plays
but broke down.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
There, Yeah, we we were trying to check plays one
time a run a run play to another run play,
and the next time it was a trying to get
a signal to get up to get a pass route changed,
and we just didn't handle the clock management. Well. We
usually do a really good job of that. That's something
you know, I've had. I've had so many of those
times over the years, especially in really the last seven years,
where I'm watching the play clock, watching the play clock,
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and you get you get nervous about it. But we've
gotten the playoffs numerous times, even in that game we
did where it runs down close. We always have a
pretty good handle on that. But those two times we didn't,
you know, those were those are aberrations for us, you know,
and I thought we would get them off in both
of those occasions, you know, with the communication we had,
and we just didn't get them off. That was that
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was a really tough, a tough series for us. I mean,
the fact that we got knocked back on both those
two plays, that that really hurt us.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
John, it seems like this guy's the style of play
hasn't been up to your usual standard to this point.
Do you feel like your team has matched the physicality
that you like to play with them? Do you feel
like they're being out physical especially in some of these
losses to start.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, I'm not really too much into the generalities, you know,
just general terms like that, and there's a lot more
to it than that. We've our guys are playing hard,
we're playing with we're playing fast, we're playing physicality. We're
not executing particularly well in circumstances. Let me just go
back and break the game down, you know, offensively in
the first half. You know those two uh, those two
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the second, third, and fourth series where the series that
kind of dictated the game for us to put our
defense in a couple of tough spots, and those are
situations where you know, we we we operate better, we
score points, and it's a completely different game. I mean,
you know, the fact that what we had, what happened
with the interception, I thought that I thought the linebacker
made a nice play, but it wasn't It wasn't a
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good play for us. It wasn't a it wasn't a
good play call. It wasn't a play where we put
our guys in the right position in that situation. I'm
not happy with it at all, None of us are.
It was it ran a you know, double backer kind
of blitz inside where they were right in Lamar's face,
and we had downfield routes with no checkdowns, you know,
and we were chipping our way out, trying to take
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care of the edges, and they run in side blitz
and and it's not picked up. It's not going to
be picked up, and and that that, and Lamar throws
it and it's a tough throw and the guy makes
a nice play. I mean, the guy made a great play.
I give him credits. You know, Leo made a nice play,
But that end that kills your drive when you're moving
the ball right down the field. So no, I don't
like that play call at all or that with the
result of that. And then then then we have the
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series where we have the the two delay games. I mean,
that's what knocked us back. And then you're then you're
back there really second and ten and you make another
another type of situation where we invite a blitz and
now you're now you got to now you got the
penalty and and Lamar backing up. I mean, that was
that was bad series for us. I mean we just
got to look at it honestly as the coaching staff
and just say that was not good and we put
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ourselves in that situation. Then the next one, the next
one was a tip ball and screen they defended. Then
a tip ball. Next thing, you know, you're third and
ten and you're off the field. There that was a
more normal one, but those three series I think dictated
the course of the game really against a good offense
because we were going to play aggressively. We're going to
go for it. And then later you gonna be aggressive.
You're gonna go for it, you go for it, and
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you and you don't have a good plan. You just don't.
You don't have a good plan. And uh, and we didn't.
We didn't do a good job at all. We all
we all know it, we all agree with it. We
came up short. We didn't put our players in the
position we need to put them in to execute and
convert on third and short and fourth and short. That
in the first half and throughout the course of the game.
And that's just those are just like turnovers. There's no
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different than turnovers because you give you put your defense
on a short field. So we just got to own
all that. Understand it. That was bad ball, and it's
it's uh, it's uh. It can be fixed and we
got to fix it going forward. That's how I see
it from a football standpoint.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And you just you just answered a lot of this.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
But I mean when when you look when you look
back at your work against their blitzes in general, I mean,
you you knew that was coming from from them. Did
you feel it was a matter of the preparation off
did you feel it was a matter of the adjustments
were off as it was happening.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I mean, what, Yeah, I don't think our approach was good.
I think we I think we didn't. We didn't stick
to the plan that we had. We had we had
an idea how he wanted to approach their defense and
we and we didn't stick to it, you know. And
I'm not happy about it. Neither's neither's anybody now our
coaches are happy about it. Especially I'm talking about the
coaches right now. You know that's that was us, you know,
so it was it was. It was not a good job.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
There's a short yard edge plays where it didn't it
didn't work.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
How much are you missing Pats per car these situations.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I haven't thought about that, you know, I can't measure that,
you know, I think uh I think uh Zaire did
a good job, though, you know I can answer that
question for you. I mean I watched him. He blocked,
He blocked well in those plays. You know, he did
a solid, solid, good job. I'd take a real good job,
you know, so well in there for nine plays. But
I thought he blocked well. So I don't think that's
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really the issue of it. I think it's much it's
much deeper than that. It's it's it's you know. I mean,
if if you're saying that we didn't run the ball
because we didn't have Patrick card the answers, that's not
why you know, Yeah, we should have been running the ball.
Number of those uh, or have some more creative passes
up and just drop back passes, no situations, John, and then.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Just go back on the on the list when you sit,
you know, you just have a plan and stick to it.
Was that something the chiefs had done to you that
called you not to stick to it or it was
a combination.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Thing, but no, I put it on us. It's on us,
you know. We just we gotta learn from it. We
gotta learn from it, we gotta be better.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Just back to nominally first, I think, I mean losing
the player of that magnitude obviously elated Brant or.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Like Josh last week.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
But you know, is this a case where you guys
have to look in and Marco Eric without you know,
other personal solutions or other options that might.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Address that to the leader?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Well, yeah, I mean it's uh, it's always something that
would be on the table, for sure.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
John, we I I know. Uh, the other day we
had asked about a pretty staff adjustments.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
D how good? How has that been?
Speaker 8 (12:01):
Do you feel like that has taking a step back
in terms of the adjustments of the line offensively? I
know it was a topic good discussion last week with
Rose and Garden saying something along those lines. And it
seems like there's a disconnect in terms of what you
guys are seeing prest now with the pressure coming and
not getting in the right place.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
You feel like the pre stamp adjustments have been where
you'd like gonna be.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well, I don't think any of us where i'd like
it to be. You know, we're not. We don't have
a r a rhythm on offense right now. I think
we've gotta you know, and it's gonna you know, it's
it's just going forward. The challenges is to get a
feel for, you know, what we wanna do and how
we wanna do it. Uh, we gotta, we gotta we
gain a rhythm, you know. And yeah, it's execution at times,
it's it's choosing what we're gonna do in certain situations.
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I don't know if it's so much about pre snap adjustments,
so to speak. That's kind of a broad way to
state it, but you know there's gonna be times you
wanna be at the last scrimmage and you wanna be
able to get into the right kind of play. For sure,
that's part of an offense and everybody does we do
it well. We had some really good plays doing that
during the course of the game and the course of
the last few weeks. So uh, that's going to be
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part of our plan for sure. I mean that's important
to be able to do.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
That, only with with Derek only having four carries in
the first half or thinking for the game. You talked
about this last night, just you know some of that
stictated two.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Minutes, et cetera.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Is that an area that you know, you guys need
to have more of the emphasis on and execute it on.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, I mean we need more plays on offense. I
mean we've been we've been in the fifty play range,
you know, and so that that's the biggest thing, and
you need more plays, you need more consistent, more consistency,
and uh, and definitely, I mean running the ball is
a big part of our plan in that game, and
we didn't do it. You know, we just didn't do it.
So part of it's the three you know, the three series.
We you know, we got in some dropback stuff there
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and got knocked off, got knocked off the field, and
we made the we had the two penalties that both
talking about, and uh and the next thing, you know,
you know, and then we throw a couple of screens.
We hit some screens, but we didn't execute on those screens.
And next thing, you know, there's a three and out,
more of a legitimate three and out, and then you
don't have an opportunity to run the ball like you
want to. But but yeah, running the ball with Derek
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running the ball Justice that that was good too, you know,
and breaking some tendencies there with that. We like that too.
So those are all things that that have got to
come together in a way that just it is cohesive
and you start building a little rhythm on offense. I mean,
we've scored some points, but this game I think exposed
us in terms of not doing a good job with
some of those things.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Justice going on and.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
We know what he does with pick off protection and
all that, and we know what Derek does as a rumber.
Has that been a concern when you're just kind of
looking at the four games in that to not be
too predictable or to just not necessarily being a place
where you're putting off stress when.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
The defense, well we do that. I mean, I feel like,
you know, that's something we take into account because you know,
you're going to do what players do well, that's that's
that's important, but you're also gonna change it up so
it's not just predictable. I mean, York was in there
for numerous numerous passes and he had two screens thrown
to him, and then uh, Justice was in there for
the one big run, you know, and I like to
see him in our I like him with the ball
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in his hands, running the ball. So you know, you
never want to be one hundred percent. We always on defense.
We kind of consider eighty eighty percent to be a
true tendency on something if it's if it gets under
that too much and it's really can't count on it
because it can be something different more often, and we
want to make sure that we keep people guessing and
keep keep moving on people. So that's one of the
things that we do take into account.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
You take there when you take Derek off the field,
I mean, is that sort of telegraph that you're not
going to be running the.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Football, And well, that's which is what I'm saying, No,
it shouldn't. I mean, you're going to run the ball
with Derek off the field too. And I think you
got to run some of the same runs that you
would run with Derek. You know, you run run some
of the power runs, run the you know, the the
wide zone play we ran that was a touchdown run.
You don't you don't want to telegraph that it's going
to be. Yeah, And it's also situationally, because a lot
of time it's third down, it's passing downs that those
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are situations where people know just comes in there, so
you're already passing the ball, so that mitigates the tenancy
just a little bit. Then he runs screens and he
runs draws and things like that too, so some of
it's down in distance.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
I have a tough spot yesterday for Cooper Rush to
get thrown in when he did.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But if you what do you like about him?
Speaker 7 (16:15):
You're saying, if he is forced to play this week,
what was it that you liked about him?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And broad how you bring him in this year?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, I mean, you know, Cooper, Cooper's Cooper. You've seen
him play, So everybody kind of kind of knows what
his game is and he can he can he can
play that game, and that game is part of what
we do. Uh So if he's out there, it'll be
it'll be geared toward toward him, you know. And then
the guys around him, I mean, we've got to We've
got a good group around them. You know, we got
a lot of playmakers around him if he's playing. And uh,
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you know, same thing for for Tyler Huntley, if he's playing.
You know, we got guys around him too. And h
you go, you go as a team, and you go
compete and battle and get after it and find ways
to win games. We can win. We have a really
good team, and we can win games with our guys,
the guys that we have that have to step up.
Everybody gets in injuries in the course of the season,
and you have who deals with them the best. So
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any of our players out into the next guy steps
up and we plan to go win the football game.
I mean, that's it. I wouldn't have to tell the
guys that It's not something I got to talk to
him about. That's that's what we do. And and and
that guys relish their opportunity when that time comes, just
like the guys did this last game, and they build
off of that and and it's our job to put
them in the best position to be successful. As coaches.
That's our job. That's what we're supposed to do, and
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that's what uh, that's what we're required to do, and
that's what we owe to the to the team and
to the fans and everybody to do.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
When you have.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
A sort of a pile up of some soft tissue
injuries like Mark.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Amster and broke quant astering the mom's calf, is there.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
A look at you know, strength and training condition inside
of that, or were preventive or I mean, is their.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Sort of valuation, Yeah, there is. We do look at
it and and those you know, those are kind of
ongoing right now, you know, I know there are our
guys injuries just happened these particular ones. We haven't had
many soft tissue injuries, so it's a little surprising. So
they'll look at that and they'll see what they can
come up with along those lines. I mean, it happens
around the league a lot, a lot of it's I'm
telling you, man, it's a violent, fast game. Out there,
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you know, and Rokwan was accelerating to go cover that
the past the kels and you know what a throw
and catch and he's got got him down and that's
when it happened, you know. And he was he was
at ninety five percent of his speed, his full speed
when that happened. And I'm sure he extended to make
the tackles. I assume that's when it happened. So that's
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part of it too, you know. Just the violent nature
of the game and the exertion that these guys put in,
you know, from play to play over the course of
a game is pretty pretty incredible.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Was it the last player that he was or did
he tell you was me?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I think it was more of a I don't know.
I think I do know kind of, but I don't
know for sure, because you can't know for sure. It's
probably a little more kind of added up a little
bit maybe in there, maybe is what I was told,
but I can't say. I don't know enough to be
able to say any kind of accurate way.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
You've dealt with every aspect of what you're going through
right now before and so and form, whether it's a
disappointing start, or a decisive loss, or you know, raft
of injuries, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Do you feel a need to deliver any kind.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Of overall message to the team this week, like kind
of a sky isn't falling message or.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, I mean you know, I think, yeah, we have
been down these roads, you know, and we understand. I mean,
you guys have been down these roads too, like you
guys have covered us, you know, so a lot of
these times we've been through a lot of this kind
of sort of together. The fans have been down these
roads too, So everybody kind of in their role, these
are you come to understand that this is this is
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how it works, you know, in professional sports, especially in football,
it's a tough league, you know, and and there's going
to be these challenges, and that's why it's why it's
so meaningful when when when you when you when you
can overcome them and start, you know, come through the
other side and have success, or or take it all
the way to the end and then go deep in
the playoffs or win the Super Bowl. I mean, that's
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why it's just such an amazing thing. And I think
why it's such a compelling environment to be a part of.
So you're in the thick of it right now. So yeah,
I mean there'll be messages. I'll be talking to the
guys that guys will be talking. They'll be things that
we've got to kind of share an understanding about. And
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and you know, it's it's going to be pretty straightforward
and let's go win the football game. And so do
we got to do to win a football game? And
within that, what is it going to take? You know,
That's that's what the message will be surrounded It'll be
very practical type message. All right.
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the Houston Texas
Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday,
September twenty ninth. Today the Ravens held their standard Monday
afternoon press conference with head coach John Harbold.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Okay, appreciate it by being here to work on the
next game coming up, the Texans game on Sunday, be
at home, and we're gonna look at all the things
we need to do to be the best we can
be in that game. And there's a lot of factors,
a lot of things we're dealing with, for sure, like
a lot of teams are, I'm sure, but that'll be
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our opportunity to get going and get our momentum going
a little bit. And that's a really good team. I've
just been watching them on tape. The Texans defense is
playing at a high, high level, very aggressive, very fast,
very well coached. A lot of good players, a lot
of good pass rushers, good coverage guys, playing good football.
Then offensively, obviously, young quarterback working to find their way
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in a little bit running the ball, good backs, trying
to play compromentary football with their defense. So that's what
we're looking at right now. What questions you have, John.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Specifically with Lamar's injury. Do you have any update with
that and do you do you expect him to practice Wednesday?
Do you expect them to play with something?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, We've got a pretty good feel on all the injuries,
you know, with the different guys right now where we're
at really not commenting on those things today. We'll comment
on them on him later in the week a little
bit more. I can't give you information on Broadwick and
a nomdi Nomdy is going to be out for the year.
That's going to be a year long ir Broady will
(01:36):
not be be the four week ir.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Sean.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
That's Matadka. Obviously it's a knack. There's a lot of
concerns with that. What's his long form podcasts before? Are
you guys confident will be able to return last year?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Is his career in.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Jet or what?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, that's a good question, you know, it's like and
just if I'm trying to guess, I'm trying to explain
it and the best way I can in terms of
what I'm allowed to tell you, Like, a lot of
that is something things that he needs to address with
you guys, you know, in his time. So I really
don't I really can't speak for him. I wouldn't want to. Uh,
those are questions that would be best answered by him
(02:14):
going forward, and he may be still getting some information
on that as well, but I believe that for him
to answer, John.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
You know, actually you have so many injuries. I'm sure
it's hard to sort of to rag me evaluate, you know,
especially your defense where you lost I don't know for
your four star or dissipate between the force of the
game happy. He says, this is the second year where
outside of the ball.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Start off and slow.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Obviously, if there's a competition, there's the injury on the
confidence you give in the Apple order to be able
to want to turn the defense round.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I have confidence in all of our guys, including Zach,
our players, our coaches, and I watch our guys every day.
I watch how they work, I watch I watch how
well they coach. I'm in I watched the meetings. I
know the schemes that were running. I know the soundness
of what we're doing. I understand who's you know what
what we're what we're up against. You know, from week
(03:10):
to week and play to play. Even in this game,
you know this is a challenging game against you know,
good offense. They were healthy, they got their guys back,
and complementary football wise, you know, the defense is putting
some tough spots, you know, field position wise for sure,
and I think that had something to do with it.
We got we got some stops early in the red
zone with some short fields and then and then we
(03:31):
didn't play as well in the red zone. They made
a couple of plays in there that that they ended
up getting touchdowns on. So yeah, yeah, you know, that's
what you do. You believe in your people, and we
have really good people and good players. I thought a
lot of the young guys stepped up, you know, they
got their opportunities that had never played before, you know,
and went out there in that environment and played well.
(03:51):
You look at the individual performances, there's a lot of
really good things there and the things that you know,
when I watched the tape, you know, I was I
felt better watching the tape. I can tell you that
a lot better watching the tape than I did standing
on the sideline watching the game. I felt like there
was a lot of a lot of really good play
going on, and I think the things that were that
(04:12):
were issues were very definable and also sometimes a result
of some you know, some real tight plays being made
by them, you know, in some situations. So those are
plays that we just got to start making, you know,
start making, you know, get some turnovers, get knock some
balls loose, get some TFLs, you know, create some things.
We were a step from getting a couple of sacks
at times. At times, you know, I thought Pat did
(04:34):
a good job of getting the ball out a few times,
things like that. So you know, we're not we're not
too far away. On defense. I'm I really feel confident
that we're going to play good, really good defense this year.
I really am. And I know the fans here that
and I hope they have a little bit of confidence
in us that we we've been down this road before
a little bit. We do need to get healthy, for sure,
(04:55):
That's that's an important part of it as well. But
also play with the guys that we've got. Let's go
play some good defense.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Because with Lamar, there was speculation, I guess yesterday because you.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Had talked about maybe he might go back into the
game if it were closer. There was no way he
was going to go back into the game. Was that
the case, or if the game.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Was closer, what do you have gone No, that was
the case. There was no way he was going to
go back in the game. That that would The injury
precluded it. You know, as you know during the game,
you know, you really just you're you're playing the next
series as a coach. But uh, there was no way
he could go back in the game. I know Lamar,
I know the way I know Lamar. If he could
have gone in the game, he would have been in
the game. That's how Lamar, That's how he is. So
(05:36):
but I can assure you that he would not have
been able to go back in the game under any circumstance.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Now, what happened on the situation where you end up
getting two delayed games in the span of free plays
but broke down.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
There, Yeah, we we were trying to check plays one
time a run a run play to another run play,
and the next time it was a trying to get
a signal to get up to get a pass route changed,
and we just didn't handle the clock management. Well. We
usually do a really good job of that. That's something
you know, I've had. I've had so many of those
times over the years, especially in really the last seven years,
where I'm watching the play clock, watching the play clock,
(06:08):
and you get you get nervous about it. But we've
gotten the playoffs numerous times, even in that game we
did where it runs down close. We always have a
pretty good handle on that. But those two times we didn't,
you know, those were those are aberrations for us, you know,
and I thought we would get them off in both
of those occasions, you know, with the communication we had,
and we just didn't get them off. That was that
(06:29):
was a really tough, a tough series for us. I mean,
the fact that we got knocked back on both those
two plays, that that really hurt us.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
John, it seems like this guy's the style of play
hasn't been up to your usual standard to this point.
Do you feel like your team has matched the physicality
that you like to play with them? Do you feel
like they're being out physical especially in some of these
losses to start.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, I'm not really too much into the generalities, you know,
just general terms like that, and there's a lot more
to it than that. We've our guys are playing hard,
we're playing with we're playing fast, we're playing physicality. We're
not executing particularly well in circumstances. Let me just go
back and break the game down, you know, offensively in
the first half. You know those two uh, those two
(07:15):
the second, third, and fourth series where the series that
kind of dictated the game for us to put our
defense in a couple of tough spots, and those are
situations where you know, we we we operate better, we
score points, and it's a completely different game. I mean,
you know, the fact that what we had, what happened
with the interception, I thought that I thought the linebacker
made a nice play, but it wasn't It wasn't a
(07:37):
good play for us. It wasn't a it wasn't a
good play call. It wasn't a play where we put
our guys in the right position in that situation. I'm
not happy with it at all, None of us are.
It was it ran a you know, double backer kind
of blitz inside where they were right in Lamar's face,
and we had downfield routes with no checkdowns, you know,
and we were chipping our way out, trying to take
(07:58):
care of the edges, and they run in side blitz
and and it's not picked up. It's not going to
be picked up, and and that that, and Lamar throws
it and it's a tough throw and the guy makes
a nice play. I mean, the guy made a great play.
I give him credits. You know, Leo made a nice play,
But that end that kills your drive when you're moving
the ball right down the field. So no, I don't
like that play call at all or that with the
result of that. And then then then we have the
(08:20):
series where we have the the two delay games. I mean,
that's what knocked us back. And then you're then you're
back there really second and ten and you make another
another type of situation where we invite a blitz and
now you're now you got to now you got the
penalty and and Lamar backing up. I mean, that was
that was bad series for us. I mean we just
got to look at it honestly as the coaching staff
and just say that was not good and we put
(08:41):
ourselves in that situation. Then the next one, the next
one was a tip ball and screen they defended. Then
a tip ball. Next thing, you know, you're third and
ten and you're off the field. There that was a
more normal one, but those three series I think dictated
the course of the game really against a good offense
because we were going to play aggressively. We're going to
go for it. And then later you gonna be aggressive.
You're gonna go for it, you go for it, and
(09:02):
you and you don't have a good plan. You just don't.
You don't have a good plan. And uh, and we didn't.
We didn't do a good job at all. We all
we all know it, we all agree with it. We
came up short. We didn't put our players in the
position we need to put them in to execute and
convert on third and short and fourth and short. That
in the first half and throughout the course of the game.
And that's just those are just like turnovers. There's no
(09:24):
different than turnovers because you give you put your defense
on a short field. So we just got to own
all that. Understand it. That was bad ball, and it's
it's uh, it's uh. It can be fixed and we
got to fix it going forward. That's how I see
it from a football standpoint.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And you just you just answered a lot of this.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
But I mean when when you look when you look
back at your work against their blitzes in general, I mean,
you you knew that was coming from from them. Did
you feel it was a matter of the preparation off
did you feel it was a matter of the adjustments
were off as it was happening.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I mean, what, Yeah, I don't think our approach was good.
I think we I think we didn't. We didn't stick
to the plan that we had. We had we had
an idea how he wanted to approach their defense and
we and we didn't stick to it, you know. And
I'm not happy about it. Neither's neither's anybody now our
coaches are happy about it. Especially I'm talking about the
coaches right now. You know that's that was us, you know,
so it was it was. It was not a good job.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
There's a short yard edge plays where it didn't it
didn't work.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
How much are you missing Pats per car these situations.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I haven't thought about that, you know, I can't measure that,
you know, I think uh I think uh Zaire did
a good job, though, you know I can answer that
question for you. I mean I watched him. He blocked,
He blocked well in those plays. You know, he did
a solid, solid, good job. I'd take a real good job,
you know, so well in there for nine plays. But
I thought he blocked well. So I don't think that's
(10:47):
really the issue of it. I think it's much it's
much deeper than that. It's it's it's you know. I mean,
if if you're saying that we didn't run the ball
because we didn't have Patrick card the answers, that's not
why you know, Yeah, we should have been running the ball.
Number of those uh, or have some more creative passes
up and just drop back passes, no situations, John, and then.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Just go back on the on the list when you sit,
you know, you just have a plan and stick to it.
Was that something the chiefs had done to you that
called you not to stick to it or it was
a combination.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Thing, but no, I put it on us. It's on us,
you know. We just we gotta learn from it. We
gotta learn from it, we gotta be better.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Just back to nominally first, I think, I mean losing
the player of that magnitude obviously elated Brant or.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Like Josh last week.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
But you know, is this a case where you guys
have to look in and Marco Eric without you know,
other personal solutions or other options that might.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Address that to the leader?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Well, yeah, I mean it's uh, it's always something that
would be on the table, for sure.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
John, we I I know. Uh, the other day we
had asked about a pretty staff adjustments.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
D how good? How has that been?
Speaker 8 (12:01):
Do you feel like that has taking a step back
in terms of the adjustments of the line offensively? I
know it was a topic good discussion last week with
Rose and Garden saying something along those lines. And it
seems like there's a disconnect in terms of what you
guys are seeing prest now with the pressure coming and
not getting in the right place.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
You feel like the pre stamp adjustments have been where
you'd like gonna be.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well, I don't think any of us where i'd like
it to be. You know, we're not. We don't have
a r a rhythm on offense right now. I think
we've gotta you know, and it's gonna you know, it's
it's just going forward. The challenges is to get a
feel for, you know, what we wanna do and how
we wanna do it. Uh, we gotta, we gotta we
gain a rhythm, you know. And yeah, it's execution at times,
it's it's choosing what we're gonna do in certain situations.
(12:46):
I don't know if it's so much about pre snap adjustments,
so to speak. That's kind of a broad way to
state it, but you know there's gonna be times you
wanna be at the last scrimmage and you wanna be
able to get into the right kind of play. For sure,
that's part of an offense and everybody does we do
it well. We had some really good plays doing that
during the course of the game and the course of
the last few weeks. So uh, that's going to be
(13:06):
part of our plan for sure. I mean that's important
to be able to do.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
That, only with with Derek only having four carries in
the first half or thinking for the game. You talked
about this last night, just you know some of that
stictated two.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Minutes, et cetera.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Is that an area that you know, you guys need
to have more of the emphasis on and execute it on.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, I mean we need more plays on offense. I
mean we've been we've been in the fifty play range,
you know, and so that that's the biggest thing, and
you need more plays, you need more consistent, more consistency,
and uh, and definitely, I mean running the ball is
a big part of our plan in that game, and
we didn't do it. You know, we just didn't do it.
So part of it's the three you know, the three series.
We you know, we got in some dropback stuff there
(13:51):
and got knocked off, got knocked off the field, and
we made the we had the two penalties that both
talking about, and uh and the next thing, you know,
you know, and then we throw a couple of screens.
We hit some screens, but we didn't execute on those screens.
And next thing, you know, there's a three and out,
more of a legitimate three and out, and then you
don't have an opportunity to run the ball like you
want to. But but yeah, running the ball with Derek
(14:11):
running the ball Justice that that was good too, you know,
and breaking some tendencies there with that. We like that too.
So those are all things that that have got to
come together in a way that just it is cohesive
and you start building a little rhythm on offense. I mean,
we've scored some points, but this game I think exposed
us in terms of not doing a good job with
some of those things.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Justice going on and.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
We know what he does with pick off protection and
all that, and we know what Derek does as a rumber.
Has that been a concern when you're just kind of
looking at the four games in that to not be
too predictable or to just not necessarily being a place
where you're putting off stress when.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
The defense, well we do that. I mean, I feel like,
you know, that's something we take into account because you know,
you're going to do what players do well, that's that's
that's important, but you're also gonna change it up so
it's not just predictable. I mean, York was in there
for numerous numerous passes and he had two screens thrown
to him, and then uh, Justice was in there for
the one big run, you know, and I like to
see him in our I like him with the ball
(15:09):
in his hands, running the ball. So you know, you
never want to be one hundred percent. We always on defense.
We kind of consider eighty eighty percent to be a
true tendency on something if it's if it gets under
that too much and it's really can't count on it
because it can be something different more often, and we
want to make sure that we keep people guessing and
keep keep moving on people. So that's one of the
things that we do take into account.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
You take there when you take Derek off the field,
I mean, is that sort of telegraph that you're not
going to be running the.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Football, And well, that's which is what I'm saying, No,
it shouldn't. I mean, you're going to run the ball
with Derek off the field too. And I think you
got to run some of the same runs that you
would run with Derek. You know, you run run some
of the power runs, run the you know, the the
wide zone play we ran that was a touchdown run.
You don't you don't want to telegraph that it's going
to be. Yeah, And it's also situationally, because a lot
of time it's third down, it's passing downs that those
(15:57):
are situations where people know just comes in there, so
you're already passing the ball, so that mitigates the tenancy
just a little bit. Then he runs screens and he
runs draws and things like that too, so some of
it's down in distance.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
I have a tough spot yesterday for Cooper Rush to
get thrown in when he did.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But if you what do you like about him?
Speaker 7 (16:15):
You're saying, if he is forced to play this week,
what was it that you liked about him?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And broad how you bring him in this year?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, I mean, you know, Cooper, Cooper's Cooper. You've seen
him play, So everybody kind of kind of knows what
his game is and he can he can he can
play that game, and that game is part of what
we do. Uh So if he's out there, it'll be
it'll be geared toward toward him, you know. And then
the guys around him, I mean, we've got to We've
got a good group around them. You know, we got
a lot of playmakers around him if he's playing. And uh,
(16:42):
you know, same thing for for Tyler Huntley, if he's playing.
You know, we got guys around him too. And h
you go, you go as a team, and you go
compete and battle and get after it and find ways
to win games. We can win. We have a really
good team, and we can win games with our guys,
the guys that we have that have to step up.
Everybody gets in injuries in the course of the season,
and you have who deals with them the best. So
(17:05):
any of our players out into the next guy steps
up and we plan to go win the football game.
I mean, that's it. I wouldn't have to tell the
guys that It's not something I got to talk to
him about. That's that's what we do. And and and
that guys relish their opportunity when that time comes, just
like the guys did this last game, and they build
off of that and and it's our job to put
them in the best position to be successful. As coaches.
That's our job. That's what we're supposed to do, and
(17:27):
that's what uh, that's what we're required to do, and
that's what we owe to the to the team and
to the fans and everybody to do.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
When you have.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
A sort of a pile up of some soft tissue
injuries like Mark.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Amster and broke quant astering the mom's calf, is there.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
A look at you know, strength and training condition inside
of that, or were preventive or I mean, is their.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Sort of valuation, Yeah, there is. We do look at
it and and those you know, those are kind of
ongoing right now, you know, I know there are our
guys injuries just happened these particular ones. We haven't had
many soft tissue injuries, so it's a little surprising. So
they'll look at that and they'll see what they can
come up with along those lines. I mean, it happens
around the league a lot, a lot of it's I'm
telling you, man, it's a violent, fast game. Out there,
(18:12):
you know, and Rokwan was accelerating to go cover that
the past the kels and you know what a throw
and catch and he's got got him down and that's
when it happened, you know. And he was he was
at ninety five percent of his speed, his full speed
when that happened. And I'm sure he extended to make
the tackles. I assume that's when it happened. So that's
(18:34):
part of it too, you know. Just the violent nature
of the game and the exertion that these guys put in,
you know, from play to play over the course of
a game is pretty pretty incredible.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Was it the last player that he was or did
he tell you was me?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I think it was more of a I don't know.
I think I do know kind of, but I don't
know for sure, because you can't know for sure. It's
probably a little more kind of added up a little
bit maybe in there, maybe is what I was told,
but I can't say. I don't know enough to be
able to say any kind of accurate way.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
You've dealt with every aspect of what you're going through
right now before and so and form, whether it's a
disappointing start, or a decisive loss, or you know, raft
of injuries, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Do you feel a need to deliver any kind.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Of overall message to the team this week, like kind
of a sky isn't falling message or.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, I mean you know, I think, yeah, we have
been down these roads, you know, and we understand. I mean,
you guys have been down these roads too, like you
guys have covered us, you know, so a lot of
these times we've been through a lot of this kind
of sort of together. The fans have been down these
roads too, So everybody kind of in their role, these
are you come to understand that this is this is
(19:43):
how it works, you know, in professional sports, especially in football,
it's a tough league, you know, and and there's going
to be these challenges, and that's why it's why it's
so meaningful when when when you when you when you
can overcome them and start, you know, come through the
other side and have success, or or take it all
the way to the end and then go deep in
the playoffs or win the Super Bowl. I mean, that's
(20:05):
why it's just such an amazing thing. And I think
why it's such a compelling environment to be a part of.
So you're in the thick of it right now. So yeah,
I mean there'll be messages. I'll be talking to the
guys that guys will be talking. They'll be things that
we've got to kind of share an understanding about. And
(20:25):
and you know, it's it's going to be pretty straightforward
and let's go win the football game. And so do
we got to do to win a football game? And
within that, what is it going to take? You know,
That's that's what the message will be surrounded It'll be
very practical type message. All right.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
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Wednesday as the Ravens ramp up their operation for their
Week five matchup at M and T Bank Stadium against
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