John Harbaugh: Monday Press Conference (1/1)

SPEAKER_1 (0:02)

Welcome in to Ravens Press Pass. Today, you'll hear from head coach John Harbaugh following the Ravens' 56-19 win over the Miami Dolphins.

Here's Harbs.

John Harbaugh (0:12)

Okay, good to see everybody. Appreciate you coming out for the press conference.

Very pleased with the victory. Very pleased with our positioning at the end of the regular season, which has one more game left, and then moving into the playoffs. So, we have kind of a two-fold thought process right now.

We have our priority, which is the Steelers game, and putting our best foot forward, playing our best game against our biggest rival, who we expect to be playing great football, and we expect it to be a very hard-fought game. So, we've got to get our minds right for that, as we will, and then just planning for the next step in the playoffs. So, those are the two things we're looking at today, and after today, it will be focused on the Steelers completely. So, from my perspective, the coaches are focused on the Steelers right now. So, what questions do you have?

SPEAKER_3 (1:08)

John, being that you kind of clicked everything you need to do, have you made a decision on Lamar?

John Harbaugh (1:17)

I have not made a decision on any personnel yet. We've got to kind of work through the injury part of it first, and that will take us probably 24 to 48 hours to get a real handle on that, and then we'll make those decisions. We're not going to keep it a secret, Jamison. We'll let you know what we're going to do once we start practicing.

No Harbaugh, no Stevens, and the secondary plays literally lights out. Well, it's a key, because this guy's always being ready, because they never know whether they're going to be able to come in there and play. Yeah, Todd, I think that's one of the best points about the game, really, you know, the fact that those guys stepped up, and we had some things come up that we didn't anticipate. You know, we had some game time decisions, and we had some things happen during the game that knocked guys out. I thought the corners, the safeties, just played tremendously well. I mean, Darryl Worley comes in and plays great ball.

And all three of the corners, Arthur played great, Rock played great, Ronald played great. Those guys played against a high, you know, high, high-powered offense. I thought they played good, sound football. They covered man.

They handled the motions. They handled all the different combination coverages we were in against that offense, and I thought they just did a great job.

SPEAKER_4 (2:23)

John, you mentioned you're still sorting through the injuries, but as of now, any of the guys who were out yesterday or who got hurt yesterday, are you worried to not be available for the playoff game?

John Harbaugh (2:35)

I had way too early to say that. I would say not at this point, you know, but, hey, that's a ways away.

SPEAKER_5 (2:41)

Specifically with Marlon, was he campaigning to try to go back in? We saw him pacing on the sidelines, riding the bike, all of that, you know, just with the cap.

John Harbaugh (2:49)

Yeah, he wanted to. He wanted to, but it wasn't meant to be.

SPEAKER_6 (2:52)

John, can you talk about Ben Cleveland's performance yesterday?

John Harbaugh (3:05)

Right. Another one of probably the great stories of the game.

He played very well. And you've seen it in practice with Ben, probably for, really, all season. He's had a chance to... One of the things he didn't have a chance to do sometimes earlier in his career was stack practices because he had little nicks and bruises and things like that. They just kept him out of practice. He stacked the whole season's worth of practices, and to me, it showed up in the game. He played really well. Run blocking, pass blocking, really all of it. I thought he had an excellent game.

Especially, yeah. You know, that... We've seen it in practice a lot. Justice has really good hands. He's an excellent route runner. He's also excellent in pass protection, too.

And then Lamar, you know, saw the coverage, diagnosed it a couple of times, and got us into certain routes that freed Justice up on some of those rail routes, and that was... I was pretty impressed to see those two guys working together at the line of scrimmage like that.

SPEAKER_7 (4:04)

John, our team nowadays kind of sits next man up, and the successful teams are the ones that kind of usually don't see a big drop off when, you know, some major injuries happen, but do you kind of feel like one of the defining characteristics of this team to this point has just been that, the ability for guys to kind of come in when you've had some front line get injured and not have a drop off?