John Harbaugh: Ravens Press Conference 10/6/25

SPEAKER_1 (0:02)

Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. Today, head coach John Harbaugh held his Monday afternoon press conference to break down everything that happened in Sunday's loss to the Houston Texans. Here's what head coach John Harbaugh had to say.

John Harbaugh (0:18)

OK, good seeing everybody. Appreciate you being here. Hard at work and ready for the upcoming week. We've got a lot of decisions to make. We've got a lot of planning to do. We've been at it since last night, and we plan on putting ourselves in position to win this football game and then going forward to win a lot of football games this year.

That's what we've got to do, and the urgency is high. So what questions do you have?

SPEAKER_3 (0:47)

John, with Lamar not playing yesterday, any thoughts about his status for this week?

John Harbaugh (0:55)

Yeah, with Lamar and the other guys, the list of guys, I would say, we're in process of figuring that out right now. So through the week, we'll know. Those kind of injuries are going to be, just have to see how they progress.

SPEAKER_4 (1:11)

Do you hope that maybe a couple of those could be back, Hamilton, Stanley, etc.

John Harbaugh (1:16)

Maybe? Yeah, there is. There is hope for that. Yeah, I would think there'll be some number of those guys back, you know, how many is up in the air. It won't be everybody.

So we'll have a pretty good handle on who those guys might be probably as the week goes on, and we should be in a little better shape than we were. The good news is we didn't have any new major injuries from this game, so that really is, that's a plus. I mean, that's heartening. That's good. So we should be in better shape than we were last game. I mean, last game was, you guys are going to ask the question, and it was tough. I mean, it was a tough circumstance. It's one of those, I don't know how many games in the NFL have had that many guys out for a team, so on top of NAMD. So that's just reality of it, but I appreciated the way our guys fought. I thought our defense played really, really hard, really hard. And there were some big mistakes. There were some mistakes that some young guys made that hurt us against a good offense. And those guys were, they did a nice job against us. But there's a few plays out there that really shouldn't happen that are kind of young guy type of mistakes. So they'll learn from that. There's positive in that. And we'll get some guys back.

SPEAKER_5 (2:38)

John, you mentioned you just said decisions have to be made. Are you talking about personnel lineup changes, decisions or what kind of decision?

John Harbaugh (2:45)

Oh, yeah. Well, I talk about everything. You know, I got a long list. I got a long list, you know, based on how the game went. I can tell you that. There's a long list, all three phases. But it starts with, you know, it starts with that for sure. You look at, you know, how guys did and where guys are at and what you need to do and who else might need an opportunity, you know. And a lot of that's with the injuries too. I mean, getting guys back, you know, that'll take some pressure off some guys that, you know, thrown into a tough spot, did their best and they'll grow from it.

And then scheme-wise too, there's a lot of scheme stuff we have to look at. A lot of scheme stuff on all three sides, a lot of scheme stuff offensively, some scheme stuff defensively as well, that we got to continue to evolve and tweak and get better at, that we can improve upon, I think. And it's nothing that is not good, but you know, there's things that we just got to look at and say, you know, we got to find some different ways to put our guys in some spots to be able to make some plays. You know, that's something we've got to try to manufacture some things. You know, and that's what coaches always need to do. You need to find a way to manufacture some success for your guys as much as you can with schemes. So that's a big part of it, too.

SPEAKER_6 (3:55)

John, you mentioned the young guy mistakes. I guess have you ever been in a situation where you had to rely on so many rookies? And how do you, I guess, balance it being the excuse of you've been in experience versus just not performing up to standard?