Jesse Minter & Several Players: Ravens Press Conferences 9/27/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Welcome in to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens took down the Dallas Cowboys 34 to 31 in thrilling fashion in Rio, a 56-yard game-winning field goal by Tyler Loop for the win. After the game, we had a chance to hear from Head Coach Jesse Minter.

Jesse Minter (0:18)

I want to start off again just thanking everybody involved. This was a really good trip for our team. We enjoyed playing here. We were thankful to be one of the teams that got picked to come play here. Give a lot of credit to the Cowboys. That's a really good football team. Obviously, the game went all the way to the very end. But I think that's a huge step for our guys.

Really all three phases.

We didn't finish the game the way I would have liked on defense over the last quarter. But they got the ball first and goal at the one-yard line with a chance to win the game, and we hold them to a field goal. So major credit to those guys, training all the way till the end. All right, we hit a nice play with seven seconds left. We felt like we had time to maybe get the ball in range. Unbelievable play by Lamar and Zay, and then obviously Tyler Loop, you know. So major kudos to our whole team, our whole organization for just handling this whole thing really well. It's a baby step for us, you know, but we're never going to apologize for winning a game. And, you know, it's great to have the guys that we have just fighting all the way till the end. We're really proud of our team.

SPEAKER_3 (1:29)

Last week, we had a lot of complaints here about the teams, the summer teams, about the field of barman. How do you felt in this pitch? The ground, how do you feel about it?

Jesse Minter (1:41)

Yeah, I mean, to our guys' credit, we didn't really let that bother us. So it is what it is.

I thought overall the field held up well. I didn't see a bunch of plays where guys are falling down or anything like that. I thought our guys, with the mentality of let's go play the game. Doesn't matter if we're playing in a parking lot or playing on a field, let's go play the game. Let's play 60 minutes and see what happens. And I think that was our mindset coming in. So credit to those guys for doing everything that they could in their power to try to get it as best as they could.

SPEAKER_4 (2:11)

Okay, next question.

SPEAKER_5 (2:12)

Jesse, Rokan had a big sack in the first half. Can you tell us about Rokan, what he brings to the team and how important that play was to keep it up?

Jesse Minter (2:21)

Yeah, it was a huge play.

You know, they moved the ball down there. We felt like if we could play well in the red zone in this game with just some of the weapons that they have, that that was going to be really critical. There's going to be times where they were going to move the ball and we were going to have to bow up and do that. We did it a couple of times. Would have liked maybe one or two more where we held them to a field goal, but a huge play by Rowe. He's our leader, man. He wears the green dot. He gets everybody going. He gets everybody lined up and he's a great player on top of that. So we're lucky to have him.

SPEAKER_4 (2:51)

Okay. Next question right there.

SPEAKER_6 (2:52)

You're so much discourse obviously on the final move. You have really struggles at the three or more footballers here. Obviously makes this one. What do you think it says?

It's kind of about Raymond and you guys.

Jesse Minter (3:08)

Yeah, I mean, I think the reality is like we thought he was kicking really, really well in training camp. You know, there's a couple in the games in the preseason games that happened that got away.

But it just felt like a few little things, maybe that he was doing a little bit better this year, would carry over and it would just take a little bit of time to get in rhythm. And man, obviously super happy for him. You know, he kind of sticks to his process, keeps his head down, he works. He's got a real positive mindset, I would say. So really happy for him.

SPEAKER_4 (3:41)

Okay, next question right here, Globo.

SPEAKER_7 (3:43)

Jesse, Giba Petri from Globo.

You think that the way that this win happened, it was the best way, because after the Saints lost, that way you had the lead, then fall, now you won, after almost lost the game. What do you think that that's the script?