Jesse Minter & Lamar Jackson: Ravens Press Conferences 10/30/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Halloween edition of Ravens Press Pass podcast. The date is Friday, October 30th, and it was the final day of media availability for the Ravens this week, as they get set for a Halloween road trip to Buffalo to take on the Bills at the brand new Highmark Stadium. Today, it was all treats and no tricks, as we heard from head coach Jesse Minter, as well as quarterback Lamar Jackson.

Coach Minter answered questions about Jackson's status for Sunday and how exciting it is to have Ape back on the field.

Jesse Minter (0:34)

All right, good Friday for us.

Exciting opportunity for our team to, just a chance to play a really good team in a really good environment, one we're really excited about. I've just been happy and proud of the way our team has responded this week with the preparation and with the work.

We do think we'll have Lamar this week, so we can go ahead and put that out there. I'm excited about that. He's had a really good week of practice. It probably ended up showing that he was full in all three days. So excited about that opportunity for him to be back out. Again, a credit to him and the work that he put in dealing with an injury, put himself in position to be back. So that's obviously exciting for our team and open up for questions.

SPEAKER_3 (1:18)

Jesse, how confident are you there?

He talked to Lamar last week. He kept his eyes on how he wants to be Lamar Jackson when he gets out there. Do you expect to see him look like his usual self?

Jesse Minter (1:31)

Yeah, I think he'll look like Lamar Jackson.

Again, I think he's just done such a good job dealing with the injury and doing things to help it get better and get better and get better. And I think now he'll be in a position to be able to play Lamar Jackson football.

SPEAKER_4 (1:50)

Yeah, he had talked about not wanting to be a statue.

SPEAKER_5 (1:53)

That will not be the case.

Jesse Minter (1:55)

Yeah, I think we'll see a great version of Lamar.

SPEAKER_6 (1:59)

What does that do for the group?

SPEAKER_7 (2:00)

Just obviously, we know his ability, all that kind of stuff, but just from like an energy standpoint, I didn't know that something else.

Jesse Minter (2:06)

Yeah, I mean, look, it's your starting quarterback. It's a guy that's meant a ton to the organization and a ton of the league in general, and just with his success and obviously the type of player that he is, that would give any team, I think, a jolt like that. We're excited about that opportunity. Again, we don't, you know, there doesn't need to be like this crutch of Lamar, even though we know how great of a player he is, so it's like that balance.

But, you know, I thought Snoop over the last three games put us in position to be successful in a majority of those games, just looking back at it. So credit to him, but again, exciting certainly to have Lamar back.

SPEAKER_3 (2:43)

Jesse, do you think we will see Vega play in the game?

Jesse Minter (2:47)

To his credit, he's put in some work to potentially have that. We'll figure that out over the next couple of hours, and the injury report will show. But again, credit to him for just trying everything to be able to get back.

SPEAKER_4 (3:01)

To rule like Hauk in the dirt.

Jesse Minter (3:03)

Yeah, Hauk will be out this week. All right, thank you.

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SPEAKER_1 (3:41)

That was head coach Jesse Minter on Ravens Press Pass podcast. You'll now hear quarterback Lamar Jackson answer questions about playing Sunday in Buffalo after being sidelined the last three weeks. Lamar discusses the sense of urgency this team has as well as what the Ravens have to do Sunday to get the week eight win.

Here's quarterback Lamar Jackson.

SPEAKER_9 (4:04)

So Jesse Cota, the plan is for you to be out there in Buffalo.

Lamar Jackson (4:07)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_9 (4:09)

What's kind of the feeling for you? I mean, after three weeks of not being in a play, getting out there on your own.