Coach John Harbaugh on seeing the fans in a White Out: 'I know they're going to be loud and excited'

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Hi, good to see you, everybody.

John Harbaugh (0:00)

Appreciate you being here. What questions do you have?

SPEAKER_3 (0:03)

Made any deals?

John Harbaugh (0:05)

Where's Joe at, Joe? He's been working on it. We'll see. I think we have about an hour. So I haven't heard of anything yet. No reports.

I'll tell you, one thing we are thinking about, though, is the game. And very fired up about the whiteout. Pretty cool deal. Can't wait to see the fans out there. I know they're going to be loud and excited.

It's going to be fun.

SPEAKER_4 (0:29)

How did McCarthy look today, moving around?

John Harbaugh (0:31)

He looked good. He looked fine.

We practiced, we moved, we were going fast. He looked good.

SPEAKER_4 (0:37)

What happened to Colton?

John Harbaugh (0:39)

He got his finger dislocated right there. He was doing a pooch putt early in practice and like landing on his finger or something, got dislocated, so they had to go. But it was tough on to get back in, so it took a while to get him back in. But he'll be fine.

SPEAKER_5 (0:50)

Good to see Scadable back out there?

John Harbaugh (0:52)

Scadable back out there, yep. He was moving well.

SPEAKER_3 (0:56)

John, a trade like the Jaguars made for Jordan Davis yesterday, when a team is spending that much on a player, is there a chance that today less gets done on your end because the prices get too high?

John Harbaugh (1:09)

I think that's something to think about, for sure. I don't know if one thing leads to another or not, but there was a lot of high prices over the last week or so. So it certainly impacts.

Do high prices impact the market? Is that kind of economy, economics?

SPEAKER_3 (1:27)

Sounds like you know the answer. Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_6 (1:30)

John, you mentioned just the other day about weighing the long-term, short-term, and you said, well, the now takes press vent, it's possible, the now. So if there's not a big move or a move made, it's not for lack of trying obviously, but if there's nothing happens, what do you say about the now? Is it we just couldn't get it done, or is it disappointment that you couldn't help for the now?

John Harbaugh (1:56)

Yeah, I mean, I think it's just the now would be it was better not to make a deal than to make a deal. You don't want to make a bad deal. You make a bad deal, that doesn't make you better. That makes you worse. So sometimes the best deal is the deal that you don't make. And that goes to weighing it out.

So to me, if it's a 50-50 thing, and whether you make a deal or not, in terms of what you got to give up, we're willing to pay a price to make our team better, but it's got to be something that really makes our team better.

And it's got to be worth it. So if we don't make a deal, it'll be because we didn't have anything that we felt good enough about that way.

SPEAKER_5 (2:35)

John, you had said when you had made the quarterback switch a couple of weeks ago, you didn't feel the need to make a big statement in the team meeting or anything like that. You just went on for the week and the guys figured it out. With the trade deadline, is it something with you feel the need to address the team after a trade deadline scenario, or will it be the same take for you that we just move on to tomorrow and not even bring it up?

John Harbaugh (2:57)

Yeah, no, I don't feel the need to even bring it up. It's not, I mean, everybody, the guys know that the business part of it is the business part of it. They know that there's probably, I'm sure they read about the trades and they're like fans, you know, they read about it. They're like, yeah, you see this, you see that.

But the focus is on the game, man. That's all we're talking about, it's the game.

It's exciting, it's what we do this for. We don't do it for the trades, we do it for the games. And so as a team of coaches and players, you definitely focus on the game.

SPEAKER_1 (3:29)

John, this could be JJ's first home start. He's been through a lot already with the team, but it's first home start. So what can you tell him about playing in front of the Giants fans from your small sample?

John Harbaugh (3:40)

Yeah, you know, I hadn't thought about it. That's a great question. I'm probably going to have to think about that.