Jesse Minter, Vega Ioane & Nick Moore: Ravens Press Conferences 11/2/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Welcome into Ravens Press Pass. Today, we heard from head coach Jesse Minter, as well as rookie guard G Vega Ioane and long snapper Nick Moore. Here's head coach Jesse Minter.

Jesse Minter (0:14)

All right. You know, we're 70 hours or so, till we get an opportunity to play on Thursday night. Super excited to be back at home, playing in front of our fans on Thursday against a really good Jags team.

And so, you know, proud of our players, they're just showing up today ready to work, ready to try to improve and, you know, shoot our shot on Thursday night. So that's where we're at.

SPEAKER_3 (0:38)

Does it look like that Joe Finano is going to be the starter for Thursday?

Jesse Minter (0:43)

Yeah, we're kind of working through some things. But, you know, to Joe's credit, he's kind of fighting through a couple of things he's dealing with, but expect him to have a chance to play on Thursday.

SPEAKER_4 (0:54)

What challenges is this for you as a coach in having to deal with the losses, turn around, deal with the new quarterback?

Jesse Minter (1:01)

Yeah, you know, it's really not about me. Certainly, you know, I just say this, man, there's no testimony without a test. Adversity happens, and it really shows, it reveals things about people.

And so I think, you know, I'm excited about our team. I'm excited about the chance to play these guys on Thursday. And then obviously you get a little bit of a break after that, but the timing of it for us is good. But we're excited to play against these guys on Thursday, put our best guys out there that are healthy and ready to play and shoot our shot and see what happens.

SPEAKER_5 (1:37)

Jesse, with where you are a quarterback, has that had to force you to alter your week at all? Not that you're going to go out in pads tomorrow, but are you doing a little more on field work or trying to get a little more reps just for whoever's going to be a quarterback?

Jesse Minter (1:48)

Yeah, you know, the Thursday games in general, it's interesting because obviously you do a lot of walk throughs, but sometimes in the walk throughs, you may actually even get more reps than you might get in practice. And so we're trying to make sure that we get the amount of reps that we need for particular players that may be getting more playing time than they've gotten. And that'll be today, tomorrow, Wednesday, even up to Thursday, where you get a chance to try to do some things and make sure that guys that haven't had those type of reps are ready to play.

And then tomorrow, there'll be a few guys that we may do a little bit more with, whether we're getting a guy ready to play or seeing if a guy's able to play. So we'll look at that tomorrow.

SPEAKER_6 (2:30)

Jesse, after the game, Roger Rosengarten was talking about how he feels responsible for Lamar's injury. I guess as a coach, how do you approach that?

Jesse Minter (2:40)

I would say that's never the case. Football is a funny game. There's a 100% injury rate for guys.

And guys get hurt on stuff sometimes where there's no contact, where there is contact, where it's this, it's that. It's all part of the game. And would never want a player to feel that way. You certainly understand a guy's saying that. That's just because the competitor that he is, and how he feels about Lamar, and how he feels about his teammates, and what you try to do to protect your teammates. And so, honestly, I feel for him for thinking that, but we got Rogers back, and definitely don't think that at all within our walls.

SPEAKER_7 (3:23)

That being said, I mean, you have three quarterbacks who got banged up in this game. I mean, I know you've been dealing with turnover at the offensive line, but what has to happen bottom line to make sure nobody else gets dinged up that way?

Jesse Minter (3:36)

Yeah, there's a lot of things to improve on, I would say. And that's really all across the board, but in particular in the offensive line, you know, in pass protection, in the run game, so many things. And so we're chasing improvement, and we're chasing continuity, which we haven't quite had, but that's not an excuse. I think it's unfortunate the way that happened. Again, a couple of those almost fluky type injuries where something like that happens, where it's not like he's really getting hit or pressure. It's more so not being able to follow through on the throw.