John Harbaugh: Ravens Press Conference 10/7/24

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Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens are coming off a thrilling victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday to improve to 3-2. It was an instant classic of a game, probably the best in the NFL this year, and it moves the Ravens to the top spot in the AFC North. The Ravens have now won 3 straight games, and they are leading the way in the division. Today, we had a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh, who talked with the media during his weekly Monday press conference.

John Harbaugh (1:42)

Appreciate y'all being here. Hard at work putting this game in perspective and trying to learn everything we can from it. We have so much to learn from it to get better. It's good to win and improve. That's a real big part of it. You learn a lot about yourself in situations like that. I feel like we learned a lot of things that we suspected about our team in terms of our character and our competitiveness, toughness, and also things that we just have to get better at, just flat out things that we're not doing nearly well enough. But that's an opportunity, right? That's an opportunity to really improve. So there's a lot of room for growth on this football team, and that excites me as well. So we'll get to the work of that this week and get ready for a very, very good Washington commanders team that is playing at a very high level, maybe the highest level in the league right now. So what questions do you have?

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John, on the Lamar play with the two yard pass to Lightly, where he drops the snaps, the storms, the guy, and throws it, you know, where does that play kind of rank for you? I mean, everyone's pretty amazed by it, but for you, I mean, where does it kind of rank for you?

John Harbaugh (2:49)

On the rankings of extended scramble plays, I don't know, like my dad always says, you've never had a better win. There's probably never been a better play today. You know, it's an amazing play. And, you know, Lamar, the thing I preach about Lamar is he's not even happy with it. He's mad about it, you know, because it's not the way, it's definitely not in the playbook that way. But that goes back to what we kind of talked about. A lot of times you got to find ways to win, you know, and you have to overcome, sometimes you have to overcome your own things. And certainly the opponent throws so many things at you that are challenging. I just thought it was an incredible, fabulous play that will go down in history. I mean, we'll be watching that play for years to come on NFL Films.

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The adjustments Lamar made, the way they were stacking the box, they were right there getting beat them, the way he started prefer to ball, they went to cover zero, they threw everything at him, he was making plays downfield. Just the adjustments he made to deal with that defense.

John Harbaugh (3:43)

Todd, I mean, it's one of the great points of the game right there, you know, they attacked us, how we expect them to? They've used those same defenses in the past against us to great effect. They're an aggressive team. Lou is a heck of a defensive coordinator, and they're come and get you type of a mindset, and that's what they went to, and we handle it for the most part. You know, with the zero blitzes, the zero shows and bluff outs and play cover three, we handled those for the most part, and they got us and we got them. And I was really proud of the way Lamar handled it, certainly, he got us into plays, got us into protections, made throws, made throws under duress on target, on point, guys made catches, guys got open, you know, both Zays, Mark Andrews, Rashad Bateman, Tylon Wallace. I mean, guys made plays like crazy in those situations, and that's what you have to do. You have to come up and make those plays and get into a play that, you know, is effective against that stuff. So that's a tremendous point you're making.