Post-Week 4: Ravens Press Conferences 10/4/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens took down the Tennessee Titans 24 to 18 on Sunday at M&T Bay Stadium to improve to 3-1 on the season. After the game, we heard from head coach Jesse Minter.

Jesse Minter (0:18)

All right, proud of our team, get a home win. Obviously, we had some adversity to overcome a little bit, you know, with some guys going down, things like that. So, you know, we obviously played maybe a little bit more conservative in the second half with the weather and the lead. I thought the defense did a really good job all game after that first quarter. Right there until the end, there's a couple of plays we'd like to have back.

But proud of the guys, proud of Snoop coming in there when his numbers called. All right, and a nice, really good long drive there. Where we wanted to take a three-scorer lead, obviously we didn't make the make the kick. But again, it's all part of building a team, man, overcoming things.

And again, just proud of our team. We're never going to apologize for getting to win. Questions?

SPEAKER_3 (0:59)

Jesse, what's the latest with Lamar?

Jesse Minter (1:01)

Yeah, I was just dealing with a little bit of an ankle. We hope, you know, I don't know enough about it right now, but we'll have to see where that's at. But again, thought Snoop came in and ran the operation in a way that allowed us to get the win, you know, which is most important.

And so we'll see where that's at.

SPEAKER_3 (1:18)

Do you think if he had to, could he have come back into the game?

Jesse Minter (1:21)

Yeah, there were some talks about that. So I think, you know, hopefully it's in a good spot.

SPEAKER_4 (1:26)

Jesse, you get the win, but how do you clean up the penalties? 13 more today, and I guess it's over 50 in four games.

Jesse Minter (1:32)

Yeah, it's obviously it's unacceptable, I would say. The amount of penalties that we have starts with me, starts with our coaching staff. And so we'll continue to strive, continue to work. At the end of the day, I mean, we got to get out of our own way. And if we do that, that game probably looks different.

And so, you know, it's great to use cadence and use weapons and use motions, things like that. And we had a bunch of penalties on defense, too, that really extended drive. So both sides of the ball really just, again, if we can get out of our own way, I think there's a high ceiling for us.

SPEAKER_5 (2:09)

Jesse, I mean, obviously you took another injury on the offensive line, took an injury at tight end.

I mean, is the attrition starting to chip away at you guys? I mean, is that a worry going into this week?

Jesse Minter (2:19)

Yeah, I mean, you know, I think we got really good depth on the 70 guys that we have on our team right now.

But yeah, it's a national football league, and there's all kinds of injuries on every team throughout the league. So nobody's going to feel sorry for us. We're not going to feel sorry for ourselves. We're not going to make excuses. We're going to figure out the guys that we have and put them out there and give ourselves the best chance to be successful, so I don't look at it that way. I look at it as just opportunity for guys to go in and step up and make plays, and that's what we'll try to do.

SPEAKER_6 (2:52)

Jesse, how do you think you won a play in his first start at center and just in general about the offensive line?

Jesse Minter (3:00)

Yeah, I mean, that's a, you know, hey, first start at center, hey, it's going to be a little raining. You know, you got Jeffrey Simmons lining up across from you. You know, so I thought he probably did some really good things. There's probably some things on the whole front that we want back.

Our ability to kind of really sustain a run game and sustain pass pro. You know, we're always chasing improvement, but, you know, for that guy, again, to do what he did, to be able to play center, you know, with a week's worth of work, a major credit to him. And I bet you the film will probably look pretty good from his regard.

SPEAKER_7 (3:34)

Jesse, there's been a lot of talk about the tack when leading up to this week. How did you feel like that point of it?