John Harbaugh: "Tyler Linderbaum Is On Schedule" | Baltimore Ravens

appreciate you guys coming out good work day for us and we're we're getting pointed toward two things we're pointed toward Green Bay but we're also pointed toward the opener in Kansas City what question do you have work out well um how do you try to get I mean practice The Joint practices what do you think really helps him get ready for season when he get well we you know we want to start the season off well I mean we want we want to put our best foot forward right out of the right out of the gates as much as we can there's it's hard to do there's no guarantee you're going to do that there's a lot of question marks to that every year we have done well over the years doing that because I think we practice well it comes down to practice I mean practice is what makes it preseason games don't make or break you that way it's the practices that that make you because that's what you stack there's advantages to practicing you see teams do it like the Chiefs for instance they've always done it way back all the way back to Andy in 99 they've always done it and then uh you know we we done it for a while and we haven't done it the last few years so uh I you can do it either way and that's the way we're doing it this year going back to Saturday night Atlanta in that first half ran as many boots as I've ever seen can you give us a little bit of insight into the relationship between you and Zach and what you're talking about in terms of trying to get that stopped as you see it play after play the yeah I mean the boots really weren't a problem it was his own play actions with the Deep Over routes that gave us the trouble off the play AC and mostly I think mostly in the second half really but those Deep Over routes those what we call burner routes with a PO with a a top off or a clear out right on top of it um that's just execution in terms of getting our linebackers popped out underneath there or our nickel we were in Zone on a few of those and that's tough on Zone plus getting to the quarterback but it's it's just more about right now it's less about scheme and more about you know calling our basic defense and having our guys execute them and be physical and see who who can play and where we need to work that's really what it's more about in the preseason than trying to stop something with some kind of a scheme doesn't mean you don't get mad you do you get upset I mean we want everything stopped we don't want the ball to be run on us ever that's probably our biggest thing and uh but right now we're also trying to get guys ready to play and see who can play John you said um you know ideally you play P the offensive line through down open spots after the first few weeks Camp how close you making that decision you to see particularly with yeah I think we're close I think we have a pretty good idea uh what what way it's trending in different areas uh it's not altogether solidified but uh we're in a good place right now coach with all this uh training camp two preseason games uh obviously probably difficult for you make to make a decision uh with running you know running backs and back field and wide receivers is a good problem to have to make this final decision uh you talking about like the last few roster spots uh yeah I mean you want to have guys competing for those last few spots you certainly don't want to be scouring the waiver wire you want to have guys here that you want to keep on the team and you want to have a few more than you might be able to keep on the team that's that definitely be the idea so uh we're probably in that situation but still there's guys who have something to prove still and this last week Green Bay practice Green Bay game is going to matter John what have you learned over the years in the joint practices to to get the the most out of them yeah I mean uh uh the mindset of the two teams is the most important thing if both teams come in with the same idea that they're the two good football teams are trying to take advantage of the of the opportunity to to practice against another good football team and get a good football practice in that's what you want if a team's coming in like they're trying to prove something you know some some Junior High thing then you know it's usually not good so we're we're excited to go against Green Bay we think they're that kind of a group you know good football team uh right there you know almost in the AFC Championship game uh proven team so we're looking forward to the opportunity to go practice against those guys John we haven't uh asked about Tyler lindbom in a bit is he progressing well how's that going yeah he's right on schedule just kind of where we were planning he will won't be any kind of contact work this week but he's uh he's uh in all the uh the ACT practices that we do he's been doing all that so he's in a good place John we know you've designed new returns and coverage schemes for the kickoffs how much if at all have you Incorporated defensive gapping principles and offensive blocking principles into that and has been more than the yeah uh no more than the past I mean that's always been what you try to do you just don't have to the thing that's eliminated is the deep Long drop you know so you're teaching basically where to get set up a lot more in the past on the run now it's now you basically stand there and you see the ball in the air so it kind of gives you an idea what your what your geometry needs to be on the play but it's always defensive Gap principles and offensive scheme principles then scheme fits so uh it's just it's not exactly like the offens and defense but the principles are the same to your point coach after B battles an injury was frame just through two preseason games what have you SE for them so far in this training camp Bo yeah Bo what out yeah you know I tell you Bo is a he has he has he has dealt with a few injuries but quiet until we got him in the rookie skit then he wasn't quiet anymore he's funny so that was fun to see his personality even more more but yeah he's he's he's stepped up he's made he's covered well but he's also made some hits that's what I I've enjoyed seeing both in defense and special teams ni snaps today have you seen his development he of development guy of a viable option you know he made a big move this last week he finally I think his ankle's feeling better finally had the ankle injury there and uh it probably did hamper him up until now and he really he played well in the game he was he was he was Stout at the point of attack and I had an opportunity because of not practicing and we wanted to get Ben some reps at guard he had an opportunity to get in there and uh and do some stuff so I thought he did a good job today and he did a good job in the game Mark Andrew is progressing okay yeah it's a very minor thing very minor thing I'm just not was we're just not messing with him right now don't worry about Mark he's gonna be fine is he going with the team to Green Bay yeah yeah I mean I like it I I just said don't worry about it it's like oh no you can't travel to Green Bay that would be a problem problem it's like a follow-up question you know you should have been a prosecutor not sure I would I would tell you got to go to law school though that's a problemes from whatch uh no the guys though you could ask the guys yeah they could do better than I could add it they were funny probably on that one yeah that's good thanks