John Harbaugh on Joe D'Alessandris' Passing | Baltimore Ravens

good to see everybody here appreciate you being out here uh really the last day of training camp in terms of uh getting into game week next week for the Chiefs when we come back on Friday we'll be in official game week we'll be in six days up until the night game against the Chiefs on Thursday night so uh this practice was pointing us toward that and uh that's our preparation right now I just want to say uh a little more looking back um on Joe D just want to express again our uh our heartfelt condolences and our very best wishes and prayers to to uh Joe's family his three amazing daughters who have been with him every step of the way all of his great grandkids that we saw tape today with our players his grandkids on the sideline before a game uh running around here in the Fieldhouse all those kind of things that means so much when we look back on Joe's life and what an impact he had on so many people you see some of the tributes that you that you all did so appreciated I mean you guys really captured Joe I thought just perfectly well with your tributes both in the uh you know written and in the in the in the in the TV stuff so thank you for that this was a good man a good coach uh just just a great person a great man of Faith so he was kind of an inspiration for all of us here for sure so we want to honor him for sure with this season and we want to honor jacobe Jones with this season those are two people that we're going to dedicate our season to this year and do everything we can to make them proud of us when they're watching from where they're watching so we appreciate those two great men very much what question do you have as do do you have a special moment or story that kind of stands out during your time with him yeah I mean you know there's so many really cool things but just uh you know when he was telling me stories about growing up in alqua Pennsylvania which is a football hotb a small town and all he do is play football and he said he'd grow up basically had small town you had the you had the Italian neighborhood you had all the different encl enclaves and they were small towns so they're right close together it's a block here a block there and they'd get together and they'd play against each other and with each other and he said all grown up you know from dawn until Dusk and it was really football it was a football town then they'd get to the high school and they were all the same team and they were a Powerhouse and those are some of his best friends this day I think that's pretty cool he was working in the in the steel mill when he was uh 17 and 18 years old and that's that's the molten you know the steel you know the molten lav molten Steel coming out of the big Vats uh that we don't have anymore that America needs to bring back you know we're for that right are we yeah you know it's not getting political here but let's bring back the steel mills because guys like Joe delis sandras worked in the steel mills as a teenager and he did mention that what he was taught by the older guys working in steel mill that before you took your shift you had a shot of whiskey one shot of whiskey to get you ready for your for your uh for your tour Duty there so uh that was pretty cool and then all the great coaching stories over the years and then all the players that just you know that that that said stuff you know and I think even guys like RG3 as a quarterback talking about him so those are pretty cool things John do you get a sense of How It's impacting you know I'm sure all of you guys are feeling it but it's specifically the office in line the guys that that were working with him on a daily basis you get a sense of how those guys are dealing with this uh yeah you know Ronnie Stanley said some really good things talk to Tyler Pat mcari to spoke to the team today about it those guys that have been with him for a long time even the young guys who were impacted by him the the rookies even uh I think they were they were a little quieter today you know and locked in as was the the whole team especially in the team meeting I think he's is his uh his memory is going to be on our minds you know and it should be and it should motivate us coach how difficult is the next 24 hours sitting the roster talking to guys not making a team Etc yeah that's a great question Todd I mean that that's an ongoing process so I think we continue on it's not like all of a sudden we we have to make cuts and we haven't been think about it we've been thinking about it really every day so we have a very good idea of where we're at there are moving Parts uh there's different rules and eligibilities and different things like that different needs injuries things like that that you take into account in order to set the roster and take advantage of trying to keep as many of the good players as you can and because we have a lot of good players so that's what we're trying to work out now and we'll have that done by tomorrow there was a report that the that third quarterback rule has changed and now if you want to have that emerging quarterback available able he has to be on the 53 will that change how you approach that it sure could I mean it just depends we uh we were kind of counting on the RO I didn't know it changed until Chad told me walking off the field just now so I think the PA vetoed it that's that's what happened so they vetoed it for for whatever good reason that they had and we'll have to change our thinking on that J do you um made the decision on the on the three U open spots in the offensive line a start there we have yeah I'm not going to make any announcements on any starting positions going into the chief's game you know what would be the point uh we'll just go play the game you anticipate any as in last year you rotated tackles throughout the back do you anticipate that be a practice you have regular season sure I that definitely could be a possibility I think it's something that we did last year effectively so that's a kind of a new strategy you know not many people have done that before you know we'll have to take credit for with Joe D you know one of J D's Innovations John it look like Tyler lit bomb was back out there today um how do you feel like he looked coming back today I thought he looked good out there it's good to see Tyler Lind mom out there practice so it's good that was I I I'm pleased with that uh anything you can share about um maybe what you might have heard on on Mi Max injury yeah it was an ankle spring not not a major ankle spring at all he was out there today as well practicing was full speed so was okay done on injuries also saw Kyle hon leave you know with practice and then wasn't out there today and then Nelson a as well yeah I I'll just say this about all those things I I definitely don't mean to interrupt you but it's uh there's no serious injuries none of those guys have anything that's going to keep them out unless something crops up that I don't know about so I you know I'll say that to you know something will happen maybe and you guys will be like oh you didn't tell us the truth so you know it is what it is but there's nothing now that's going to keep anybody out of pra out of practice on Friday or uh that that you don't know about like Ali still up in the air I can tell you that but other than that it's just we're not really going to get into too much too much talk about the injuries because why you know it's a it's a competitive disadvantage to to get too deep into what your guys' injuries are puts them not in the best position competitively and us the same thing we like to keep our opponents guessing a little bit you know that's that's a benefit to us so that's kind of where we're at during the season if it doesn't have anything to do with like if I if I if I think the opponent already knows and it's obvious I'll just say it but if uh because they know he's on the concussion protocol with Ali so until he gets off the concussion protocol they know he's out so I can talk about that anybody else like that it wouldn't wouldn't be favorable to us or to the player to to to you know give out information to the Chiefs or the Raiders or anybody else uh just doesn't help us you know we're trying to have every possible Edge we can does it feel there are more kind of questionable injury types when you're trying to sort this 53 than other years you mentioned Ali and other players that you have to kind of figure out how plus with the change this year where you can put two to IR short term before you cut does that all feel different this year or not really well that's a little different yeah that you don't have to you don't have to you know cut guys and then bring them back and all those kind of go they they clean that rule up so you you can just do it you know guys need to be on short-term ir and I think those rules have been good used to be you had to put a guy in IR for the rest of the season or you had to carry him that wasn't good for anybody so I think the NFL has done a fantastic job of just bringing common sense into the equation with that stuff because guys don't want to bounce around teams they want to they want to get dug in they want to keep developing usually with the team that they're at so uh why should injuries cause people to start moving around so that's been really good um as far as the difference in the injuries we've haven't had a lot of serious injuries that's probably the biggest difference you know we've had we've had little things here and there you know but that's that's you're not if you don't have little things here and there you're not not even practicing we've had we had little things off the field you know Jo Josh Ross's issue was a car accident so I think we've had a great camp that way but uh you know that's that's day by day so we just kind of keep going day by day with that and see where we go John I mean it will be about 24 hours until everything gets on for you I mean what is the next 24 hours I mean are you constantly talking to Eric are you talking to coaching staff how how does that process maybe over the next 24 hours goes for you we've had most of those conversations already and I think for now it'll be just if anything changes if anything becomes available we'll have a conversation other than just talking but uh we we have a plan in place and then everything is uh written in firmly and uh chalk you know it can be erased at any moment and change so well not everything I mean you know Lamar will be here Mark Anders will be here you can you can you know that's engraved that's in stone that's engraved in stone tablets Mountain at least for now we know how important special teams is to those consideration of those final three spots I mean did you kind of get a sense for with the new rules by the end of preseason just what the kind of traits you're looking for from those guys to to fill those kind of spots right we have a we do have a plan for that I think it's still going to you know remain to be seen because it's still in experimental stages right now but uh we kind of got some Clues as far as what type of body types you want different spots and uh bigger smaller faster all those kind of things hopefully and we'll just see how it plays out mention obviously the injuries by and large went went quite well and this being the end of Camp overall assessment then of kind of where you think all right did you get done really all that you wanted to get done during this time I I think we did Pete you know I mean you always want to get the most done as you possibly can so what is that what are we measuring that against that's kind of hard to say what that number what that what the amount of getting stuff done was but I'm really I I feel good with the process in the sense that everybody was locked in everybody was fully committed everybody did the best they could in every circumstance uh uh you know we chased Perfection as best we could and uh we're going to try to do the same throughout the course of the Season like I told the guys we're going to play Thursday night against the Chiefs we've been pointed toward that the whole you know off season of course since the schedule came out but after that game we get in that locker room we come back Friday from that game there's going to be another game in front of us it's going to be the Raiders you know after that I think it's the Cowboys is that right so we're going to have a whole season so that will be a beginning for us not an end it's an end right now because that's the next challenge after that it'll be it'll be a beginning and a launch point and we're going to try to improve every day throughout the course of the Season Owen rights injury are you this m have talk about the number three running back role do you feel pretty good about the options in house or is that something you feel like you may have to look outside yeah I mean I would just say Jeff that that's all speculative you know I mean it just depends I like the guys in house if there's something outside that looks really great I'm sure we'll look at it it just depends who the names are you know and what the options are like it's like going forward on fourth down you know what I mean what are your chances of getting it is it going to help us win the game or not so it just kind of comes down to that we'll be open to anything I mean if the right player becomes available I'm quite sure Eric will will be looking at him but you know people aren't in the habit of getting rid of really great players uh right before the season starts you know we do two more should we bring back a shot of whiskey before work yeah we got all right before the press conference well you know we can do that you going to be the first Buy you gonna buy for everybody good anything else all right thanks guys we could do that for