Jesse Minter & Players: Ravens Press Conferences 11/1/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Welcome in to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens fell to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, losing 36 to 10 on the road. The loss drops the Ravens to four and four on the season. And the biggest piece of disappointing news is that quarterback Lamar Jackson went down with a right thumb injury on the first offensive play of the game for the Ravens. Afterwards, head coach Jesse Minter announced that Lamar is going to need surgery and is going to be placed on injured reserve potentially ending his season. Here's what coach Minter had to say after the loss and his thoughts on where this team goes from here.

Jesse Minter (0:38)

All right, give them credit to obviously a good football team, bunch of good players, good coaches.

I was really, for a lot of the game, really proud of the way our guys fought and played. You know, when you lose your quarterback early, we lost him on the first play. That'll be a surgery deal. He'll go to IR.

You know, that's a tough deal. And then the next guy as well, I thought Joe came in, you know, to his credit, not really getting a lot of reps and preparation, you know, hung in there, did some good stuff. And so it's a short week. You know, it's an opportunity again, to stick together, to work together, come together. And, you know, we'll figure out what we have, what we have available, and we'll try to put the best plan out there for this short week. So questions.

SPEAKER_3 (1:31)

Jesse, when you said Lamar's going on, injury reserve, is that season-ending injury reserve?

Jesse Minter (1:36)

Potentially, but we'll see where it's at.

Could you define the injury? No.

SPEAKER_5 (1:46)

I mean, when it's the first play, I know it's always next to me and up, and you guys have been here before without Lamar, but when it is the first play and you just get them back, how long does that take to process it and try to move forward in game?

Jesse Minter (1:57)

It's tough. You know, when it happened, I think at the time, you know, you're just hoping that maybe it's something small, and then I think pretty quickly kind of realized what had happened.

And so, again, you go next man up. Again, Snoop came in. We did a few things. I thought that defensively, we did some good things in the first half to kind of keep the game close.

Had a couple of turnovers, had some good plays in the red zone. We were able to kind of hang around. And it was just tough. It was tough to kind of get any consistency going there after that first drive in the third quarter. And then, defensively, thought the guys played hard. But you kind of get to a point where you're really kind of searching and reaching for plays and probably exposed yourself to a couple of big plays there, trying to reach for some plays. So that's what happened.

SPEAKER_6 (2:53)

What is Huntley's status going forward?

Jesse Minter (2:55)

Yeah, I'm not sure of that yet. We'll see.

SPEAKER_7 (2:58)

Jesse, what do you think that today showed you about Joe, just the way that he was able to step in there, obviously not losing situation to do that on the road?

Jesse Minter (3:05)

Yeah, that's the type of guy he is. And we saw what he did during training camp and preseason to put himself in position to make the team.

And so, again, give him a lot of credit. You go in there, after really running, kind of mimicking Josh Allen all week on the scout team. But he's really engaged in the meetings, pays attention, was ready to really execute some of the plays to his credit. And then I think when stuff like that happens, you need everybody to raise up a little bit. And that's probably what we weren't able to do, honestly.

SPEAKER_8 (3:37)

Jesse, I know it's next man up, and you're in the game, you're just trying to get to the next play and so forth. And you lose Lamar that quickly, then you lose Snoop. Does it sort of feel like the football gods are working against you, and is it tough to kind of manage to do that?

Jesse Minter (3:55)

That would be the self-pity version. I don't really believe in that. Again, things happen, it's how you respond.

There's no testimony without a test.

And so we'll do everything in our power to keep rolling, to keep this thing going. You know, to get it back on the right side. Again, with whatever that looks like, whoever that's playing, if it's Joe, we got a lot of belief in Joe, whoever it is. But that's what we'll do. Coach, you talked about the defense.