Coach John Harbaugh reviews Giants vs. Commanders

John Harbaugh (0:00)

Sure, yeah, I mean, I do believe this team, you know, you've watched this play, people watch this play, you know, where we are. We're going to do everything we can do to try to win the game. Our guys are going to fight like crazy, Evan, and they're going to compete.

And we're capable of making plays. I mean, it's pretty obvious that we can make plays on both sides of the ball. We're chasing consistency, just like every single team in this league is chasing consistency. So the so-called heavyweights, you know, I've seen them play bad games too. I've seen them have plenty of bad plays. There's no perfect team in this league. Is that, I mean, is that pretty obvious to everybody? You know, this is a tough league. It's pretty even. So, you know, we're in it just like everybody else, Evan. We're going to be fighting in there just like everybody else. And I know our guys, nobody's going to outfight us.

That's for sure. Nobody is going to outcompete us without question.

Jordan Renan (0:51)

Thank you.

Tom Rock (0:51)

Jordan Renan.

Jordan Renan (0:55)

Hey, John, what's going on?

John Harbaugh (0:56)

Hey, Jordan.

Jordan Renan (0:57)

You said you're more confident in JJ than ever, right? Especially late in the games there, to like you put the ball on his hands.

Where do you see the biggest growth? Obviously, you know, aside from learning the offense and becoming comfortable and everything, where do you see the biggest growth in him so far? The reason that you have so much confidence in him?

John Harbaugh (1:18)

Well, I mean, we've had him for four weeks. Is that what we've had him for? Did you say? Is that what it is? Yeah, he's played in four games. Four games, so he's been here for five weeks, maybe. I'm really having a chance to see much growth. You know, I mean, I think he's, I think he's grown a lot in terms of knowing the offense. And he's with his, he's, you know, gained an understanding of the guys he's playing with, for sure.

You know, that's still a work in progress. I mean, just time on task, even time pregame, you know, getting the guys together and throwing routes and timing things up, timing routes up, getting on the same page with routes. I mean, those are, those are things that aren't really that easily attained. So sometimes maybe it doesn't look perfect, you know, in situations and things like that. But I don't think it looks perfect even when players have been playing together for years all the time necessarily. So I think he's done a great job, they all have, of getting up to speed quickly enough to compete and give us a chance to win football games. I mean, that's pretty impressive.

So that's what gives me optimism. We can continue on that track.

Jordan Renan (2:25)

And real quick, you talked about Scadaboo and how that wasn't a touch push.

John Harbaugh (2:29)

Right.

Jordan Renan (2:29)

Why not? How do you differentiate when and when not to use it? Because you guys have been very successful with that play.

John Harbaugh (2:35)

Yeah. I mean, yeah, we have four or five of those two different types of calls and motions and pushes, not pushes, check with me plays. There's different things that we have. One of those ones was called, probably not going to, you know, I mean, we have different calls that go with quarterback sneaks. So we didn't call the same one that we've been calling. That's really the only answer I have for you. We didn't call the same exact play.

What else? What else can I say? Just wasn't he wasn't supposed to be up there pushing.

Bruce Beck (3:07)

Bruce Beck. Hi, John.

John Harbaugh (3:10)

Hey, Bruce.

Bruce Beck (3:11)

Hey, John, after two games in five days, you've got 10 days.

Is this a time for tweaks, evaluation, rest, motivation? And how important is it just to have this little bit of a break here in that in that regard?

John Harbaugh (3:27)

It's pretty helpful, I think.

We measure how fast we're playing and all these different kind of things, and we measured that stuff, you know, our guy, our performance people do, and we played that game really fast. You know, our guys, we had a lot of energy. We played with a high, high level of effort. Guys were flying around. They were playing fast. That was really good to see on a short week. That's kind of the goal. And so that part of it, you know, I was really happy with. Couple extra days will be good for the guys to recover. We came out of it healthy. That's very positive. Didn't have anything that's going to be lingering going forward. That's a big deal. Maybe the first time all year, we've kind of been in that situation. We should get Malik Harrison back next week. That'll help. So I feel really good about that too.