Head Coach Jesse Minter: Ravens Press Conference 10/5/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Welcome in to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Monday, October 5th. Today, we had a chance to hear from Head Coach Jesse Minter after that Ravens victory over the Titans on Sunday.

Jesse Minter (0:13)

Appreciate you guys being here.

Always good to always good to be up here on a Monday after a win. I think just watching the tape and studying the film, proud of our team. You know, I think it was a tale of two halves a little bit of that. Starting the game, you know, starting fast with the turnover and a touchdown. I thought that was really important. I think of, you know, energy games coming off of the travel the week prior. I thought we really had really good energy. And then really just handle the first half the way we wanted to. You know, obviously with when Lamar wasn't in the game in the second half, you know, chose to probably get a little bit more conservative offensively. And I told the team today, like just because you get more conservative doesn't mean that you don't want to convert and get out of your own way. And we had three plus third downs between the 50 and the plus 40 that we weren't able to convert and really keep some drives going in the second half that I think would have maybe changed the outcome of the game even more so.

But just, you know, we handled a lot of adversity. We had a lot of moving parts and we were able to get the results that we wanted while also having plenty of things to continue to chase and improve, which is always great. And so we look forward to just having another good week worrying about us, trying to fix some of the things that continue to show up. We'll shoot for that this week and look forward to a great challenge on Sunday night.

SPEAKER_3 (1:41)

Jesse, with Lamar, what did you learn from any tests from him and what are the chances of him playing Sunday night?

Jesse Minter (1:49)

Yeah, I don't know the chances yet. We're still gathering a lot of the information and the imaging and things like that. Just dealing with a little bit of an ankle and we'll kind of see where that shakes out.

You know, full trust and confidence in him that, you know, when it's ready to roll, that we'll roll and go from there.

SPEAKER_4 (2:08)

Irrespective of Sunday, are you able to see whether or not it's a long-term injury or for a shorter-term thing?

Jesse Minter (2:16)

I really don't think it's going to be crazy long-term, but we'll see what happens.

SPEAKER_5 (2:26)

Sorry, to keep on the injury trend, I mean, some pretty significant sounding injuries with Durham, Andrew, Marlin also left the middle of the game. Any updates on those guys?

Jesse Minter (2:38)

Yeah, nothing concrete yet, just as we use Monday to kind of figure all that stuff out, have a meeting here this afternoon. We'll see how all that shakes out.

SPEAKER_4 (2:48)

Jesse, you said yesterday when we were asking you about Benga in the post game, that you thought the film would show what you wanted it to show.

SPEAKER_5 (2:55)

Now that you've seen it, what did it show?

Jesse Minter (2:57)

I thought it was really impressive for him. Again, like play that position, start to work it a little bit over the last few weeks and have one full week of preparation to be able to play, particularly against some of their D tackles in their front that they have. Play the way that he played, really physical in the run game, really good in pass protection, probably a couple of snap infractions that he'd like to have back as his first game going through the operation.

But overall, I think that guy, wherever you put him, he's going to play really well.

SPEAKER_6 (3:29)

Was there enough there to feel comfortable with him then going forward if he be in that position?

Jesse Minter (3:33)

Yeah, Mitch talked about this a little bit last week.

I think we're still in that stage of like, what's the plan for right now in this particular game? And then, is there any long term things that may happen? We'll have to kind of see how that shakes out. But I think he's proven that he's definitely one of our best interior linemen, if not our best interior linemen. And wherever he plays, we'll feel really good about whatever position he's playing.

SPEAKER_5 (3:59)

Where he's going on in the journey of playing his career high and snaps in a Ravens season game.

SPEAKER_6 (4:05)