Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens fel to the Indianapolis Colts twenty two to nineteen at M and T Bank Stadium on Sunday. It was a frustrating game. The Ravens had opportunities to close out, but they just weren't able to do it. A Head coach John Harbill discussed that with the media after the game.
Okay, appreciate you being here. Congrats to the Colts for finding a way to finish the game and win it. A tough one for us. Our chances to win the game and it didn't happen for us. It's fourteen games left in this season and our focus is going to turn very quickly to Cleveland and Cleveland the division game on the road. I'm going to do everything we can do to go in there and be the best football team that we can be in player best football. What questions you have?
Do you get any explanations?
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Think you talking about face mask No no no, when they or the last yes yes, would you get an explanation, that's the question. No, I got no explanation on that.
You talk about the performance Kyle Hamilton pretty sacks tech for loss.
Yeah, I mean I thought Kyle played great.
I thought he played great and really pretty much all over the field tackles, defending, put him in that nickel position there, and he had to cover their receivers in the slot and all the different ones and run defense, obviously space tackling. Thought he played great.
John understanding the elements were rough in the first half, How disappointing was the ball security when you guys were on the move and had a chance to go to schools you.
Yeah, I mean that's football. You have to you have to protect football. That's that's it. That's a you know, we're gonna bef We're gonna be a good ball security if we're gonna be a winning football team. That we got to understand that can't spot in possessions like that. You gotta hold onto the football guys know that. Uh, they'll be working very hard to get that done. You've got to. You know, it's it's challenging. It's a tough
it's a tough game. I means there's a lot of guys flying around out there, and there's a lot of hard hitting going out. But that's the number one job of anybody who has the ball in their hands is.
To protect it.
John was there on the free kick after the safety was there was zay cold to fair catch that far.
We were going to fair catch that ball because it was one fifty eight. That was before the two minute warning. After the kick or turn team was on the field. They pumped it up over two minutes and we were unable to get it communicated to him. We were trying, but we couldn't get it communicated to him. They were their winding it, so that was unfortunate.
John, on that last drive of overtime, I know if Justin came up short on sixty one, was there any consideration or given given another shot at the kick or were the elements against you? Just wasn't sure about that.
The sixty would have been a sixty four yarder, sixty two year three yarder. No, that was too far, and that there's really the footing more than anything else on that.
That was Head coach John Harball and quarterback Lamar Jackson also talk with the media after the game discussed the issues of the Ravens had that prevented them from only out the victory.
Why what would you contribute your uh timing with your receivers if you were thrown behind.
And fight a bit of the players chase that again.
What would you, uh say, what was a role with your timing with the receivers today?
You were throwing behind the.
Guys a lot. I mean.
All day, all day.
That was all day. Oh some of'em, you know, just mishouse part of the game, you know, try not to miss those passes. Uh, great coverage sometimes that's.
All you went.
You went a long stretch.
You guys went a long stretch in the middle of the game without getting a lot of first sounds on five or six strouds in a row, and then at the end of the game you had a chance to split the game away. I couldn't get for some what what is your explanation at this point? And what do you think broke down in those periods of games?
You just gotta lock an more, they focused more, Uh kate what the defense gives us. Try to move the ball fast as we could. But you know, conservative well, Mar.
How challenging was the the weather and just being wet in the first half of how disappointing was you know, just the ball security issues were really kind of short circuit at a strong start.
Yeah, the you know it, it brought it messed with us a little bit. I guess, you know what, the turnovers, the the fumbles, the mishaps, the bad the bad passes. But you know it's part of football. Things happen with the weather. But you gotta do a better job.
Why Yeah, they're play late, say Flowers, was there a lot of people actually passing fairs?
What did you see on that play?
Man?
We had plenty of opportunities in the game to finish from you know, but that is what it is there to fight another day.
Mar What happened on the uh C Was there a communication issue with UH.
You and must for on the snap that kind of was.
A little bit low.
Yeah, it was just miscommunication.
Alright.
The more you feel like this is kind of one of you guys like you slip away, I mean they did you feel like you Yeah you feel.
That, yeah, absolutely, that absolutely. Like I said, you know, we had plenty of opportunities to put the game away, uh especially when our defense did a great job stopping those guys. You know, great field position and we didn't move the ball at all. That that that took me off. You know, it took all of took all of us off. We'd like to finish the job. The defense is great today, they always do great, but especially today, you know, giving us the opportunity to finish the game, and we did it.
Can you find the end up.
Twice in your first TEO or USU your touchdowns of the year?
Was that also attributed to the more designed a.
Lot of plays that we saw from him.
Uh?
Yeah, absolutely, that was kind of designed like a RPO and yeah, that's part of it.
Now.
One of the bright spots in the game was safety Kyle Hamilton. You had three sacks on the day, which all came in the first half. It was a really strong showing from the second year defender. And he talked about is the individual perform what's and how the Ravens doubts back from this game.
Kylie had a highly successful day as a as an individual.
Was there something on the film maybe.
That you guys saw that you're able to attribute to your success as a pass.
Rush for today?
I mean, anytime you get an edge blitz like that, it's it's kind of a team rush. You know, you got Clowny on the edge. It was one of the best pass rushers in this league, and he's pretty much giving himself up so I can free up and get the get those sacks. And we were joking about going back and forth the whole game. But it's him doing his job allowing me to get TFLs and sacks and stuff like that.
So it kind of just goes hand in hand.
We were practicing all week and executed it well.
So were you surprised if they didn't find you a second the third time coming off.
The edge of anthy Yeah, honestly, that's that's probably about as unblocked as you can get. And you know, you gotta make your lips. So like the offense says they want to take advantage of the defensive mistakes, we want to do the same thing on their side. And they were having some protection next year, I guess, And like I said, it was team effort and guys in the back end allowing time for me to get there covering well because we were pretty much in zero and those
pressures and allowing me to get there. So it's a team effort.
How would you live like even back to nickel little.
After etreatch out here.
Yeah, coaches do a good job of sprinkling in there every now and then and kind of keeping it fresh so it doesn't leave my mind. And we can have that that flexibility in our defense if I need to go to nickel or Gino went down today and went back to safety and Art came in and played nickel for a little bit. But I think it just allows us to be a little flexible and kind of just a little deeper at each position, honestly, because guys can't play so many places.
Oh what's the movie in that locker room?
After losing game like.
That at home, I mean pretty bad. You want to win every single game that we come out here for. And I thought we had a great week of practice offense and defense, special team is included. And it's just not the result that we want. But luckily there's Cleveland next week and hopefully get a win there. But gotta really review the game, see what we did well, improve on what we didn't do well, and move on next week.
More specifically, all frustrating is it when opposing kick or mixed four kicks from beyond the fifty yards and you know, Sen's up the.
Int the difference in the game.
Yeah, I mean, there is only thirty two kickers in the league in the world that kick in the NFL, and they're good. And unfortunately we kind of get a block and we had a lot of opportunities. I had a lot of good rushes by guys from the inside, but I mean they got guys on their side who were paid to do things well at the same time, and shout out to that guy. He made a lot
of big kicks in the game and never flinched. And but at the end of the day, we shouldn't have even been in that position to lose on a game when you field goal. So, like I said, there's a bunch of stuff to go back, watch the film and prove on and when there was week three now and hopefully week thirteen, we won't even be remembering this, but
we got to work our way there. At the same time, was there maybe an air of confidence after on defense you're called on and you get the safety and the balls coming back to your offense.
Was at a good area that you guys felt as a defense that you've made the stops necessary.
I mean, it's nothing's necessary until the clock is at zero, and you know, everybody was celebrating, but after we looked up at the clock and really the situation that he actually stepped out of balance at the time going off a little bit and two minute morning being used, then that they pretty much had two timeouts left and we weren't gonna be able to run a lot of clock off.
And I think the defense did a really good job of resetting because in that moment, I think it was sixteen nineteen at that point and they still had the opportunity to go win the game. I think the defense did a good job just limiting them to a long field goal. And unfortunately the game didn't end up how we wanted it to, but we give ourselves the opportunity after a little.
Roall frustration level at all that you you guys felt so good coming off of the last one out of in Sanity. You probably felt like you had a chance to build on that today and then it gets away.
I mean, it's a funny, not funny part about this league. I mean, every single week you don't get any layups. There's no real bad teams in this league, and every single week you gotta practice well, you gotta prepare well, you gotta play well. So at the end of the day, we did beat a good team last week and play a great team this week as well, and dan't go away. But I think it's kind of a lesson that we can learn from that never get too high, never get
too low. And in this league, every single week's to challenge, so we gonna have to bring it.
In the locker room after the game. We also had a chance to hear from a veteran outside linebacker, gidebian Clowney.
So many guys down and all this time you got Tavious playing a ton. You have to play a ton.
It held them really well in check.
But a couple of plays, I know you you frustrated a few things too.
What do you blush right now?
For one, this is National Football League, Next man up. All these guys get paid, everybody get paid, and you know we expect them go out there and play like starters and eating myself regardless who's out there. Uh too, I feel like we shouldn't have lost, so of course everybody here feel like that.
Uh.
We we trying to go underfeed it and win all the games. That's a goal here. I mean, I feel like that's a stand up here, and uh, we gotta get back to doing that next week. To David, you've been a part of a lot of games in this league. Did it feel like a a as kind of like bizarre weird of a game as it looked from from what we were watching. I definitely did felt, uh, because you know, we playing everything going good on one side
and stuff and not. It's a complimarion Football league. You gotta have compromary football to win games in the National Football League. Like I said, everybody get paid. They got professionals, just like we had professionals. But you gonna play confer in football. Get a bard of offense. They walk down there, score. We keep playing defense like we was playing. And you know, I hope everything work out. What everything, I'll always work out.
We gotta get back to work and prepare for next week. Yeah, Free Sacks, I call him the avatar S six four had safety, can run, can hit. Uh like playing with him, I think he a great player, a smart guy. You know, come in, he gonna bring it everybody. I feel like everybody here I play with on defense, fly around to the ball, not just ky, just in general. And uh, we play well together. We just gotta keep bringing it.
Is there a either the safety or the fourth or the overtime to stop you guys made?
Was there a play where you guys like, Okay, this is it, we're gonna we'renna be what h I thought we would turn the ball over and gave it back. I felt like the game was over at there. But like I said, you can't take no game over til the clock says zero zero zero. You just wanna try to make players. We did. We put our offensive position to win the game. We we thought we did, and you just wanna get especially at home. You just wanna get away with the winds at home, and today we
let one slip away. I think we shoulda had is the topic shitting?
You got the next three on the road?
Shoulda have that one? Does that make any sense? Yeah? But I don't think we care about playing nowhere. We can play us in the back yard somebody's house and we still gonna fly around and hit wow.
Uh.
We got a division opponent next week to Cleveland Browns, and I'm sure everybody here looking forward to it that game. It's the division game, and we need something to get back from what happened today. So we gonna go to practice, and I know how it is last week since I've been here. It's gonna be a pretty exciting practice. Get back to it and get back to the raven ways that we been playing all see and they and they had success.
On the ground to that.
You guys are usually really good against the run.
What what what allowed them to have that time?
So, like miss Tacos, guys been out of position, include myself. I don't don't put nobody but include myself a few times. And you know, lets stuff slip up, slip up, too many opportunities. You know, they should've getten getting off the field.
We had.
You put 'em in good situation, get out the field. We had a lot of situations where we dig out the field. But them times we didn't hurt us. You known did a complicate things stuff going out, rotating out together, nuh because we we brought four linebackers into the game anyways and expected to rotate when he went down. This is the next man up. Like I said, we all
kept playing, playing at a high level. Playing where hats off to t Rob and uh Mooney for stepping up playing big today and Chuck for putting us in position. Chuck Smith putting us in position and you know, training us up there on the week and let us go out here and let uh practice seane doing the game, and you know, trying to do that every week. Well, like I said, some guys play big today. T Robbie Mooney and I respect him.
That was outside linebacker Gidebion Clowney. Another key leader on this defense is Patrick Queen, and he said that everybody collectively had things that they could improve, and he talked about that and what the Raves needs to do to move on from this game.
Let's talk just soon we come into locker rooms and then how do you feel?
What are you what are your thoughts for that after this year?
Uh?
So you gotta get better.
Uh.
I ain't no excuse for what we put out on the field to day. They had too many rush yards, too many big players that we didn't capitalize on. Uh just simply not doing our job. You know, I gave up a touchdown. I don't give up that touch down we went so Uh it just it starts with us. Just start with me and Roe in the middle. Uh taking over. There's too many players that uh we want back,
and that's the that's the thing about the lead. You can't have have players that you wanna get back, so uh, you know, order us and order for us to be the team that we wanna be. Uh, we just got a count of loss when you supposed to.
How'd you can you talk about the run game?
They had a lot of success on the ground.
You guys are usually really stout against the run.
What what was the case to the just ain't player our type of law?
Uh?
Communication was off? Just doing our job was off? Uh dingle. That's why our me and Roe here to stop stuff like that. And uh you know put that on me. Yeah, we didn't communicate good enough. And we'll get to fix what you mentioned both get.
Fiction being off.
It Is there any example of you specifics with you with that?
Uh? Just every run that got out communication, the ras and uh, like I just said, we can't have that. So uh we'll take the CHR we'll take the charge back in the middle, and we'll get a fix.
You get that safe. Agy kind of sense that what's gonna be the right on you know what you guys needed to make you know when you had that safe, you can free quickly.
Uh we kind of knew, like there was still a chance that they could get the ball back, so we were still prepared, but it was definitely felt like a momento ship for us. It felt like it was gonna be a positive thing, and unfortunately, Uh we give us some plays after that, and we knew it had to be back on the field and we need big get to stop when we didn't.
Get that stuff. Chris, where what did you see on the uh touchdown pass?
It looked like you were in good position.
Was it just a perfect pass or what?
What did you choose it?
Uh?
I think I turned my head around too early and he kind of c you got to extend it off of me. Like I said, I can't afford to do that stuff. I think I had a good adjustment on the bar and unfortunately didn't make the place. So like I said, I don't give up that touch now we win, so I put it on me.
I know you don't wanna make excuses, but just how talk is that to cover somebody like Moss and cover the mob.
Like I was in good coverage that just judged the ball, went for the jump, kind of got extend it off of 'em and we had a heck of a catch. Ha heck up to throw him, and like I said, that's on me. It'll be facing out. Guarantee you won't happen again.
Next man up. Obviously you have to the m it has to be that the motto.
But when the reality is when it's next man up, the next man up, next man to continually happens right now, how hard is that?
When you start looking around see all the guys that aren't.
Out there, you can't have no fall off? Uh, no excuse. We practice hard, everybody practices. It's not like guys are not getting reps. Everybody geting the reps. We all communicating and the coaches make it real simple for the game plan, so it's no excuse for us to having to drop off. That's why we gotta go out there communicating and do do our job to the best of our ability.
What's kind of the moodle in the locker room?
You have a big winning Cincinnia, Cincinnati, and then let one.
Slip through your fingers here, just kind of what's the news of tenor coming up?
As uh right, we knew we had it y sitting there coulda been three enough a w and we not. So there's nothing we could do about it now, it's just gotta capitalize next time. Don't let just one turn into two.
Pig Patrick, what will be the mentality do you put the groups after? You know, just turning the page and thinking the two divisional games.
Just can't let this turn into two. Uh, we know who got coming in next week or w who we going to next week and stuff, and it gonna be the same thing running the ball. So if we can't stop the run, we gonna be in trouble, so Mon said, just now focusing on them getting better and just being a communicating make the plays that we.
Need to make.
Lastly, we had a chance to hear from kicker Justin Tucker. He missed a sixty one yard field goal that would have given the Ravens a win at the end of regulation. Came up just a little bit short on that really difficult game winning field goal attempt, and he talked about that kick and how the Ravens move on from this game.
Right, it wouldn't change anything that I did on the sixty one yard attempts at the end of regulation. I felt like I approached ball with balance, I got my plant in the ground, I struck the ball right on the sweet spot and sometimes, you know the nature of this game is the ball just does not go through or you fall short sometimes. But you know, I'm going to choose to, you know, take on a positive mindset and look at the things that we can improve upon.
I'm gonna look at the things I can improve upon, and I'll just leave it at that.
Just in the overall team aspect, You've you've seen the good times and tough losses too. Just how you go forwards a tough one like this.
I think you just you know, the way you pick up the pieces and move on is, uh you just take it one step at a time. And I think this team has uh the you know, the guts, the fiber to you know, to get that done. I think it's just about coming in on you know, Monday through Saturday this upcoming week, taking it one day at a time, one meeting at a time, one practice at a time, one practice rep at a time.
I know that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna do everything I can to uh, you know, make myself the best football player possible, uh for this team when we uh play in Cleveland next Sunday.
That was kicker justin Tucker, you're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. Also make sure you head over to the Lounge podcast feed. We have a full breakdown of this game and what it means for the Ravens and how they from this one. Thanks for listening. We will be back with you again on Monday after John Harbaugh's Monday afternoon presser.