Jesse Minter, Derrick Henry, Ronnie Stanley, and Mike Green: Ravens Press Conferences 10/28/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Wednesday, October 28th. And today, the Ravens were back on the practice field preparing for this weekend's matchup against the Buffalo Bills. After practice today, we had a chance to hear from head coach Jesse Mentor.

Jesse Minter (0:17)

All right, a really good Wednesday practice for our guys.

Really, really good response from from the last game and a great challenge this weekend that we're excited about one of the obviously one of the top teams in the AFC. And a great challenge and really all three phases. And put in the work so that we're ready to roll on Sunday. Questions?

SPEAKER_3 (0:35)

Jesse, we did see a little more out there. Do you think he'll be limited or full?

Jesse Minter (0:42)

He was able to get some work in, but I think that'll come out around four, I believe.

SPEAKER_4 (0:47)

Jesse, are you kind of optimistic, given what you've seen, you know, given last week and given today, that things are trending in the right direction?

Jesse Minter (0:55)

Yeah, I think, you know, the more you're able to do and respond from and feel from, certainly raises your optimism. But again, we'll kind of see how it goes throughout the week.

SPEAKER_5 (1:04)

Jesse, we didn't see Kyle Hamilton out there today. Is he doing okay? It looked like maybe he tweaked something early in the game and played through it on Sunday.

Jesse Minter (1:10)

Yeah, a few guys that missed today, I would say dealing with dealing with typical after game things. And so, you know, feel feel pretty good about it. We'll kind of see how they are throughout the week.

SPEAKER_6 (1:22)

Jesse, what would you say he was able to do more today than he was last week?

Jesse Minter (1:26)

I think the injury report will say kind of how how the practice went.

SPEAKER_7 (1:30)

Jesse, you guys we talked to earlier said obviously you're watching together. What sort of your philosophy after a loss that you guys had, have you tried to make the process as like any other as possible? Is there a little bit of extra, hey, we got to look at work with ethics, we did behind, how do you know?

Jesse Minter (1:53)

I think it starts with taking accountability myself to how we play is really my responsibility. And so I think when you own that first, and things that I told the team a bunch of things that I would have done different in that game from play calls to leadership opportunities to everything. So I think when you do that and then you allow for some of the tough conversations and it's any game whether you win or lose, the ability to go back and look at every play as kind of its own individual entity to learn from. But then in a game like that, there's moments where you need to learn from too besides just plays. And so I think we were able to do that over the last few days.

There's that fine line of making sure that we learn from it and also clearing our minds and clearing our heads and getting ready for the next challenge. But those are certainly some of the problems we needed to address and feel good about where we're at. But our actions will really determine our future, nothing else.

SPEAKER_7 (2:54)

You talked about on Monday, so the players can take a look at how they respond to it in your home ground. Did you see any guys taking a different tone this week?

Jesse Minter (3:06)

You know, we have, like, listen, we have a great locker room. We got a great bunch of guys that really, really care. We have a ton of capable leaders on our team. One of the reasons I wanted this particular job was because of the guys in the locker room and the leadership capabilities that they have. And so, I think, I think, again, me, all of us, there's things that we could have done better as players, coaches, play callers, leaders, all those things.

And when stuff like that happens, the really good ones respond in the right way. And that's what I've seen, you know, obviously, in the last couple of days.

SPEAKER_1 (3:42)

Jesse, you've been out in practice today. Just kind of, what do you like about being in Pats?

And how do you go about making that decision over the course of the season?

Jesse Minter (3:50)

Yeah, there's, you know, it is a week-to-week thing. I think there's, you're early in the year, you know, there's thoughts of, obviously, we have a short week next week where we won't be. So there was a little bit of talk today. It felt like, you know, with the run game that we're getting ready to defend, that we really needed some work in that area.