Coach John Harbaugh addresses the media after the bye week

John Harbaugh (0:00)

Good seeing you guys here, it's been a long time. Really missed everybody, very much.

But back at it today, it was great to have the players back in the building, great to have meetings, great to have practice, great to start getting ready for our next opponent, rival in the division, long time rival, was a part of this way back as an assistant coach in Philadelphia.

And now to be on the other side of it, playing the Vaunted Giants against the Vaunted Eagles, it's really exciting. And we're looking forward to it. A lot of respect for that team, that organization, everything about them, we understand. Defending champs in the division, recent world champs, all those kind of things. We're looking forward to our opportunity. What questions do you have?

SPEAKER_2 (0:45)

What's your concern level at this point with Scott Aboo and Abdul Azhar, I don't think we saw it came on the side.

John Harbaugh (0:51)

My concern level, what's the scale? How does it work? Is it color coded or is it number coded?

SPEAKER_3 (0:57)

I'm going to make up my own scale now.

John Harbaugh (1:02)

Well, I don't have a scale. See, that's the deal. But yeah, it's going to be probably day to day up to the game for those guys.

We're going to just have to see where we're at. I'll probably have more information toward the end of the week. We'll see on both those guys where we're at.

SPEAKER_2 (1:18)

With Abdul at the cap?

John Harbaugh (1:20)

Abdul? Yeah.

No, he was sick today.

SPEAKER_3 (1:25)

Who's the other guy you're talking about, then?

John Harbaugh (1:26)

I thought you were talking about the running backs. Did you say Scott?

SPEAKER_2 (1:28)

Scott had been with Abdul. Wasn't out there, so those are the two I said.

John Harbaugh (1:31)

I was thinking about Tracy. Oh. Tracy's a little more, a little tougher one than Scott, just for the record.

SPEAKER_2 (1:38)

He's on IR though, so he has to sit out.

John Harbaugh (1:39)

Yeah, did we put him on IR? Well, there you go. So he won't be playing.

SPEAKER_3 (1:45)

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

John Harbaugh (1:47)

You can tell he was trying to be coy there, but it didn't work out so well.

SPEAKER_5 (1:52)

We finally broke you.

John Harbaugh (1:53)

Yeah, you got me. You cornered me.

SPEAKER_4 (1:57)

What's your approach with the short week after? How do you approach the two weeks span?

SPEAKER_5 (2:02)

Right.

John Harbaugh (2:03)

Yeah, it's a challenge, especially when you're playing just two big games like that, important games, and they're all important, but division games.

We have a schedule for that that we kind of over the years kind of developed. We come back in on Monday and afternoon, and we have what we call an ACT practice. So we practice, and then we get right to it. Then we have more of an un-tempo practice on Tuesday, more of a mental practice on Wednesday, a walk through, then even Wednesday again, and maybe Thursday morning, and then we play. So you really try to condense the week into really what ends up being three and a half days, three days of prep. So it's all hands on deck to try to prepare for the game.

SPEAKER_6 (2:44)

How, in the bye week, how busy were you as far as receiving and making trade deadline costs?

John Harbaugh (2:54)

Not too busy. You know, it's not really, it's not my main thing.

I'm sure you guys are going to ask me the next question in a minute. But not too busy. That's Joe and those guys are very busy and not just in the bye week. I mean, they've been doing it all along and they'll continue to do it, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_6 (3:10)

So let's get to the next thing, which is, did you call the Titans owner and why was that?

John Harbaugh (3:16)

I did. I left a message.

The why? Because you're turning over every stone. You know, going to try everything. I mean, I just, I'll put it out there, man. We're open for any call. Anybody wants to call us or call anybody? Call.

You know, is there a song? There's a song like that. Call me. Is it like, who sings that? Call me.

SPEAKER_4 (3:35)

Blondie. Blondie. Call me.

John Harbaugh (3:38)

Blondie. That's one. That's the, that's from our generation. I'm thinking of a newer one now.

Call me maybe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_6 (3:44)

That's what I'm thinking of.

SPEAKER_2 (3:45)

Yeah. That's what I'm thinking of.

John Harbaugh (3:47)

That's what I'm here for.

SPEAKER_6 (3:47)