John Harbaugh: Monday Press Conference (9/25)

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For Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens dropped two and one on the season after losing 22-19 to the Indianapolis Colts in an overtime game on Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium.

On Monday, head coach John Harbaugh held his Monday afternoon presser with the local media. He talked about what went right, what went wrong, and what played into some of the key decisions that he made over the course of the afternoon. Here was the entirety of Coach Harbaugh's press conference.

John Harbaugh (1:14)

All right, good to see you, everybody. Appreciate you being here. Had a chance, obviously, to study the tape this morning, early this morning and through this afternoon, and from there, get on to the next challenge against the Browns. So we're looking forward to that. It's gonna be a tough game, tough division game on the road in Cleveland. It always is. And we're looking forward to the challenge. It's a great opportunity and a great challenge. And we'll be putting every effort we have into that starting today. As far as the game, you know, I just appreciate the way our guys play in terms of how hard they played. I mean, our guys were competing, fighting, throwing their bodies around. It's a very physical game and doing everything that they could to find a way to win the game. And we made, you know, numerous plays and critical situations throughout the course of the game. It was one of those games probably where, you know, there were probably more critical moments and critical plays, situations in that game than any game I can remember in a long time. It was just a very unique, different kind of a game.

And we made a lot of them and other ones we didn't make and other ones they made, you know. It was just one of those kind of crazy games. And unfortunately, we came out in the short end of it. But when you watch the tape, you know, I don't want, you know, from a coaching perspective, it's really important not to let the outcome blur you know, the facts.

And when you watch the tape, the fact of the matter is we got a bunch of guys that play their hearts out and are physical and tough and accountable and trying to do everything they can to find a way to win the game.

When you have that as a coach, you're happy because you can build on that. And it's early, you know. It's the third game of the season.

The difference between being two and one and three and oh, is, you know, it's a significant thing. You're much of that be three and oh than two and one, but it's one game early in the season. And so it's not so much about whether you're three and oh or two and one right now. It's what you do with it going forward and how you build on it. So that's what I'm looking forward to. I mean, you know, our guys, we make no excuses. You know, we acknowledge our errors and we move on to the next game. You know, it's a week to week league. So that's what I'm looking forward to is this week and getting to work on what we got to get better at. So we pinpoint what those things are. We go to work and try to define ourselves as a football team and see what we can become. What questions do you have?

Yeah, you know, hey, you know, we'll take responsibility for that. We didn't, in the confusion of all that, it was chaotic, which I didn't realize at the time, but I think Gardner stepped out of the back of the end zone, right, so they ruled it 158, which changes everything in terms of the clock management. And while that was going on, we were in the huddle, and, you know, we made the determination that we were going to fair catch anything because we were looking at an onside kick, pop-up kick, those kind of things for them to try to get the ball back. So the smart play was to get the, you know, to fair catch anything.