John Harbaugh: Monday Press Conference (10/23)

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SPEAKER_3 (1:12)

It's Monday, October 23rd, and you'll listen to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens are coming off a dominant win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday, winning 38-6 to improve to 5-2 on the season. The Ravens are clearly fired up about this victory.

One of the most dominant wins in recent memory. It was a complete game, really, on both sides of the ball.

But they're also turning the page. They know they have a matchup coming up next week against the Arizona Cardinals, and head coach John Harbaugh talked about that today when he met with the media.

John Harbaugh (1:46)

Just finished up the post-action work for the game yesterday, and we're moving into the preparation for the next game against the Cardinals.

We'll kind of combine those two things over the next two days and try to hit the ground running on Wednesday with a great practice. So what questions do you have?

SPEAKER_5 (2:06)

Touch on defense too much after yesterday's game. Why is this defense, it's just like every week, and it's been so consistently tall of a shield?

John Harbaugh (2:15)

Well, we're doing a good job playing hard. Guys have been physical up front. I think we've done a pretty good job in terms of the tackle to tackle run game consistently.

You know, we've controlled the perimeter stuff generally. There's been some plays here and there, some screens. They hit some screens yesterday. They got some yards.

We've kept the ball in the run game pretty much inside lately. The last couple weeks, nothing's really bounced around us. That's big. I think we've kept the ball in front of us. Deep stuff has been in front of us. There hasn't been too much deep there up till now, so we've got to continue to keep building on that and keep looking for that. People are going to look for opportunities to get shots and big plays against us, so we've got to keep doing those kind of things. So generally good sound, hard playing defense. I think our guys are doing a good job with that.

Yeah, no, exactly right. To add him in there, he's a guy that was jumping at the bit to be right and be healthy. Came back, played hard, got a sack, was good against the run.

Just another good player.

Really good player, obviously. You want to be full strength. We've got some other guys that are working their way back as well, so always pulling for those guys to get back and be healthy and be ready to go.

SPEAKER_6 (3:37)

The season so far, if I haven't had Sacks, kind of on pace for a career year, what have you seen in his evolution this year, to take that next step and kind of continue the progression? What's he doing differently, I guess?

John Harbaugh (3:51)

Well, I think he's continued to grow ever since he's been here. He's always had a lot of upside, for sure.

You would see the kind of dominant plays here and there, and he's probably just, I think he's just made more of those. You know, he's more consistent making more, you know, dominant-type plays, you know, whether it's run or pass, more explosive, more consistent with his technique, all those kind of things that you would expect as a player would grow and get better, who works as hard as he does consistently. You'd expect his play to be more consistent, and I think that's what's happened.

SPEAKER_7 (4:22)

John, you see Gannon's talking more and more now about him and Patrick Queen just sort of bumping up their market value week by week. Do you just sort of look at that as a good problem to have for the short term, at least?