John Harbaugh: Monday Press Conference (10/2)

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Welcome in to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Monday, October 2nd, and the Ravens are coming off a big win on Sunday over the Cleveland Browns. The Ravens won that game 28 to 3, really dominated in all phases of that game to improve the 3-1 on the season and first place in the AFC North.

Today, head coach John Harbaugh talked with the media about that game and also what's ahead for this team.

John Harbaugh (1:40)

Okay, good to see everybody. Appreciate everybody being here. Very happy with the outcome of the game.

Certainly, having studied the tape, spoken with the coaches and a lot of the players, we played a really good game on the road, in the division, against a team that is playing well and is gonna have a heck of a season.

In their stadium, their crowd, very loud, just one of those environments. You know, it was really an AFC North kind of a showdown game early in the season. And our guys responded very well. They answered the bell. I thought it was complimentary football. All three phases played well together.

Played off of each other as the course of the game went on and did everything necessary in order to win the game. So, happy with that. Yet, we look at it, and even the guys are talking about it this morning in the weight room and stuff, and so many things we can get better at and improve at. And that's what we're gonna have to do. To go into Pittsburgh and play our best football and win the game, we'll have to play a better game than we did last week. So, what questions you have?

SPEAKER_6 (2:44)

John, it looks like, again, LeBron had a very high percentage passing today, another efficient day. How much do you think it helps?

How much do you think that has helped him and maybe just look over the defense, and that has kind of led into, you know, more completions, things like that?

John Harbaugh (3:06)

Well, I think having completions like that against this defense is a heck of a thing, you know, because they're not a defense that's going to give up a high completion percentage generally at all. They're more of a defense that you've got to try to make the completions count against, which Lamar also did along with the receivers. I mean, Mark and Zay and the different plays that were made were some chunk plays out there that you really have to get against the style of defense and the talent that the Browns have and the way that Coach Schwartz does it, which is great. Our guys made plays, man, and that's what really counts.

All the other stuff, the operations stuff that you're talking about, very important, very important. We're trying hard to do a good job of that and shave as much time as we can through every part of the process and yet get everything communicated really well. So I think our guys are doing a good job of that and we'll continue to try to keep improving that and be the best we can at it.

I'll say what I've always said. You know, Lamar's an accurate quarterback. I mean, he always has been to my eyes. And I'll just take the one throw to mark for the touchdown in the corner of the end zone. I mean, that's as good a throw as you're ever going to see in a football game from a quarterback.