Jesse Minter: Ravens Press Conferences 9/14/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Monday, September 14th. The Ravens are coming off a week one victory over the Indianapolis Colts. The Ravens won that game 41 to 23 And today we had a chance to hear from head coach Jesse Minter as he broke down the film and talk with reporters about the big takeaways that he had from that opening victory.

Jesse Minter (0:22)

Thank you all for being here.

Just had a chance to obviously study all the film from the game. I think I was probably most proud of was just the play style that we talk about showing up really in all three phases, physicality on both sides of the line of scrimmage, our own lineman running off the ball, being down field, blocking down field by our wide receivers and tight ends and everybody on offense, swarming to the ball on defense, handling adversity on both sides, being able to be able to have each other's back. You know, we didn't start the game off great defensively. And then our special teams had a big play. Our offense goes down in scores. And all that just really ties together, to having each other's back and playing together, playing as one.

And so, really happy with that. And so many things to clean up, so many things to get better at. It's always nice when you get the results you want, but now you can really chase improvement, especially from week one to week two. Oftentimes, that's the biggest improvement teams make. So, we'll be excited to attack this week, kind of get into that normal game week. And go from there, so questions.

SPEAKER_3 (1:29)

Any updates with Zay and Jacoby?

Jesse Minter (1:32)

Yeah, Zay's probably a little bit more like in the day-to-day range.

You know, feel pretty good about where that's at. We'll see how the week goes, though. They're, you know, Jacoby may be a little bit longer. We're getting some more things looked at right now and talking to different people.

That's kind of where those two guys are at. Jesse, can you identify the place where Jacoby injured his wrist or fractured it? It's, you know, it wasn't one of those plays where you feel it right away. And so it was kind of an after-the-fact thing and felt it. And then obviously you start looking at it. And unfortunate for him, you know, I have a lot of confidence in the guys that we have. And, you know, got a couple of guys that weren't active yesterday that we have a lot of confidence in to bounce back and give us what we need there. So excited for those guys to get the opportunity now.

SPEAKER_4 (2:26)

With Zay, I mean, even though it's not a serious injury, is there a concern that that is something that he might have to manage for a good portion of the season?

Jesse Minter (2:34)

Yeah, there's a lot of thoughts that go into that. Anytime you're dealing with things that it's not enough to really, like, be a major detriment for multiple things, but you want to make sure that it's not something you're dealing with for 17, 18 weeks.

And so, that's all things that as the day-to-day things, you know, we'll look at it and make sure we're putting Zayn in the best position.

SPEAKER_5 (2:58)

Jesse, was TJ Tampa's injury significant?

Jesse Minter (3:01)

Yeah, it's another one that we're still kind of looking at.

It could be a little bit more than a week, but it could be more than that. I'm not sure. We'll get that figured out as we get the information. With the change of schedule this year, we have the guys in on Mondays now. And so, a lot of those things are getting kind of those final tests and different things looked at, talking to different people this afternoon, and probably know more about it as we go throughout the week.

SPEAKER_4 (3:29)

Jesse, as you looked at the tape, specifically looking at the offensive line, we know some of the obvious mistakes that you want to clean up, but what were some of the things that you liked, and then what were some of the things that you think will be priorities this week to get out?

Jesse Minter (3:45)

I mean, I thought in the run game, we were really good. We were rolling off the ball. I thought a lot of our movement passes and play actions, we handled really well.

It's the pre-snap penalties. There's a couple of those. It's the Ronnie and kind of got caught one time where he didn't really realize that another guy was blocking the guy. We ended up kind of in the chop block situation. A couple of those penalties like may happen, you know, first game as you're dealing with it.