Coaches & Players: Ravens Press Conferences 10/29/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Welcome in to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Thursday, October 29th. The Ravens are getting ready to play the Buffalo Bills this week. And today we had a chance to hear from the coordinator. So let's kick it off with offensive coordinator Declan Doyle.

SPEAKER_2 (0:18)

Declan, I know the past couple of weeks you don't have your starting quarterback, but in the second half, no points the past couple of weeks. What have you seen from that?

Is there something, as far as the half time adjustment, that could be made, what have you kind of seen in the past?

Declan Doyle (0:33)

Yeah, I'd say first of all, like having the backup quarterback is not an excuse for that. I mean, that's just like, I would say this, when that happens, when you look at a pattern starting to emerge, you're starting to figure out like, okay, how do we solve this pretty quickly? How do we go back to the drawing board and figure this out? And really it starts with the process. You start to try to like, hey, leave no stone unturned. So it's watching all those drives, trying to figure out, is there something consistent that's showing up that we can control as a coaching staff, whether that's operationally what we're asking them to do?

You know, I'm looking at my role as a play caller, like, can I call different plays? And obviously, if you're not executing, the answer is not the place you're calling. So you got to figure something out there.

But I would say this, like, we can do a, I can do a better job of putting them in better positions and making sure that they're able to go out and execute. When I watch the tape, the pattern that I would say that I see is that we don't execute what's being called at times. And so obviously that starts with myself. I got to do a good job of going back through that. I got to go through the process of how those calls kind of come out. You know, during the week, I do a lot of, I spent as much time on the opening script as I do on the second half script. And obviously they're very different results right now. And so we got to figure out kind of how to reshape that. We got to figure out how that information is being conveyed to the players so that they come out and they're ready to go and ready to execute what we're asking them to do. And then kind of how we're meeting at half time and all those things. And so that's really a concerted effort from myself, the staff, going back to the drawing board, the process, like how do we get the results we want? I've asked the players, they brought up the suggestion that maybe we should just stay in the end zone for the end of the first half. And it'll always be the first half for us. We'll never go in the locker room. So certainly obviously open to a little bit of feedback, but it's something that we have to get correct in moving forward if we want to go where we say we want to go.

SPEAKER_1 (2:27)

Do you have a second half script that's like you prepare to go into a game?

Declan Doyle (2:31)

Yeah, I would say that in general, I script a lot of the game.

There are times where that has like, I would say I probably haven't stuck to that second half script enough, and I probably got to stick with my guns a little more at times. And that would be kind of my own self-evaluation of that.

But yeah, I go in with an opening script, I go in with a second half script, and then I go in with kind of here are my next calls. And then in each section of situationally, I kind of have what I'm going to call the first one, two, three, I have them ranked. I go through those with the quarterbacks, so they have a pretty good idea of what may come up. And for example, like we're third and four to six, we've talked through that as a staff, I've kind of ranked them. Lamar Snoop has ranked them. We've talked through what we like in those sections and who the ball needs to go to. And that way, when those things come up, we have a play call ready to go, and they can kind of anticipate what I'm thinking and why I like it. And it gives us a better chance to go execute. And so, you know, obviously, there's a lot of preparation there, and I'm still working through that myself. You know, it's only seven games in. And I think that that always can improve the more we look at it.