John Harbaugh, Derrick Henry, Lamar Jackson, Odafe Oweh: Ravens Press Conferences 9/24/25

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Welcome back to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Wednesday, September 24th. The Ravens are gearing up for a week four matchup on the road against the Kansas City Chiefs. They were on the practice field today. And after practice, we had a chance to hear from head coach, John Harbaugh.

John Harbaugh (0:18)

Good seeing everybody, appreciate everybody being here. Good start to the week, short turnaround obviously, but right back to it. Guys are in good spirits and working hard today. We're looking forward to the opportunity on Sunday to get at it in Kansas City with the Chiefs who we have great respect for. Been a lot of fights and battles there against them.

And, you know, it's always a big challenge. So we're going to get ready and be prepared to go play our best football game of the year. That's what we're hoping to do and that's what we're working for. What questions you have?

SPEAKER_3 (0:52)

John, and, you know, after following the one and two and like you said, Kansas City is obviously a tough place to play. What's kind of the message that you've kind of told the players?

John Harbaugh (1:02)

Yeah, we're just locked in on trying to play the best football we can. You know, we're still in the process of developing ourselves as a football team. You know, we do a lot of good things and we do a lot of not good things. That's the way it is for every team in the league right now. Nobody's playing perfect football. It's early in the season. We're playing some good football teams. I mean, that's a good thing because that forces you to be your best. And you can't worry too much about any kind of record or anything like that at this point. It's a long season, a lot of games to be played. But what kind of team we become is really the important thing right now. And that's really what we're focused on.

SPEAKER_4 (1:36)

How do you, after looking at the film, how do you look further on defense from what you've seen?

John Harbaugh (1:41)

We'll be okay. We'll be fine. There's a lot of real simple things that we didn't do very well at times.

We'll have the same play really against the same defense two different times. And one time it's no game because we're pretty much exactly where we're supposed to be. And another time, we're not where we're supposed to be. And I think part of it's just trying to do too much sometimes. I mean, sometimes we try to do more than our job, and that's not really required. So that's playing with a little more, just calmness and belief in the whole structure and the 10 guys around you. Then also tackling in the back end. That's the other thing, it's like those runs, they shouldn't go to what they did. I mean, those runs should be tackled 8, 10 yards if they break through the line, and we're focusing on that as well.

SPEAKER_5 (2:26)

John, especially with the run defense, is that sort of when you get together as a team, is that something where the coaches have to kind of tell hard truths or is it kind of a situation where guys have already looked at the film, they're already sort of self-assessing and taking it kind of...

John Harbaugh (2:40)

Well, I think it's both. Yeah, the guys definitely self-assess and definitely look at it, and they've seen it. And the coaches, we all speak hard truth all the time about everything we do. One of our biggest points of emphasis here is we confront everything that has to do with football. It's what you got to do, you got to be right out about it.

We're a football team, so everything that has to do with football is going to get talked about and worked on because we all want to be on the same page and we want to play our best football together. It's a team sport. Everybody's got to be working together and that's what you're chasing all the time and you're doing it against an opponent that's trying to separate you. You know, they're trying to move you out of a gap or a hole. They're trying to fool you and get you out of position if you're on defense. That's the competitive nature of the game. It's what makes it so great. And so it's a big challenge. It's tough to do and communication and being willing to confront every aspect of the football is really the important thing. We don't take anything for granted that way. We talk about everything, we look at everything, we self-assess all the time. We try to be our own best critic in every aspect of what we do, coaches and players and try to embrace that. So our guys uniquely do a real good job of that. Like, I really like our team that way.