Jesse Minter: Ravens Press Conference 9/21/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Welcome in to the Ravens Press Pass podcast. It is Monday, September 21st. The Ravens are coming off a tough loss on Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. And today we had a chance to hear from head coach Jesse Minter during his Monday press conference.

Jesse Minter (0:15)

All right. Appreciate you guys being here. Open it up again.

The good thing about having the guys in on Monday, you know, is you get a chance to quickly kind of address the game and what happened and how we can improve and get better from it. Always looking inward first, looking at ourselves, looking at play calls, decisions, all those things. I think when you do that, you know, you create an environment where everybody tries to just get better from things and learn from things. That's what we'll hope to do from this game. There's our guys play really hard, they play physical. But at the same time, we need to find a way again to, you know, all three phases to me, you know, you have chances to break the game open at different times or finish the game off at different times. Obviously, we weren't able to do that. So an area of focus for us going forward.

Get a great opportunity this week to travel to Brazil, play against a really good Cowboys team. So we'll kind of have a normal practice Wednesday, Thursday. We'll fly there Thursday evening. Get there Friday morning. Have kind of a focus of obviously recovering from the long flight as we're there on Friday. Get some work done like we would on a Friday. And then I'll be ready to roll on Sunday. So with that, open up for questions.

SPEAKER_1 (1:38)

You mentioned about the Rio game.

SPEAKER_3 (1:39)

There's been some kind of talk about the field condition. From the Ravens' standpoint, do you have any concerns about what condition the field will be in Rio?

Jesse Minter (1:49)

Yeah, I mean, look, it's really in the league's hands, and I think we've been in contact with them.

They got people there, feel pretty good about it. You know, so both teams are going to be playing there, and we'll be ready to roll.

SPEAKER_4 (2:05)

Jesse, kind of this union challenge, your staff is completely new, but then the Ravens do have this history of losing these leagues. What's sort of the approach when you're kind of dealing with, okay, we have this one loss, but also we know there's a history that predates your tenure here?

Jesse Minter (2:27)

Yeah, for me, you know, I'm focused on creating a mentality and continuing to create a mentality that we play our style in those big moments. I felt like, you know, I felt like guys start pressing a little bit and you start trying to make plays and you're searching for that big play in those key moments.

And in reality, I've said this a bunch, and like in reality, it's your identity as a player needs to show up in those crunch time situations. You don't have to go be somebody else. You don't have to go out of the scheme or out of sorts from a play caller standpoint and from a player standpoint. And I think that's what we'll keep searching. So I don't put a ton of stock into all that. I do recognize, and obviously we got a lot of players that have been here for a while. But I think there's a, you know, our first real adversity as a group together, I would say. And it's a chance for us to kind of learn each other and how we handle adversity. And that's what we'll do, and we'll attack it, and we'll own it.

We're not into the blaming business of blaming a call or a player or this or that. So we'll own it together and we'll try to get better.

SPEAKER_5 (3:41)

Jesse, the third and one call, and you kind of had a chance obviously to go back and look at it, talk about it with Declan. Would you make that same call again in that situation, and why not give the ball to Derrick?

Jesse Minter (3:54)

Yeah, I think, look, there's a lot of calls in every game, win or lose, that you go back and you, and especially as a play caller, I've done that a ton in my career.

And so you go back and the unfortunate thing is when you wake up on Monday, you can't change anything that happened in the game. You can't change, well, I would have called this or I should have done this. You can talk about it and you can learn from it. And to say that, oh, we wish we would have done this different. We would have done that different. To me, that's not productive. It's more about learning from the situation, knowing that we have a capable team that we're gonna be in that situation a lot. And that's really what I try to tell the guys is like, we're gonna be in a situation. We're gonna have a lead a lot of times. And I think it speaks for itself here over time, like this team is gonna have a lead. And we're gonna continue to chase and learn from what happened in those situations and get better and put our guys in the best position to be successful given the circumstances.