John Harbaugh: Ravens Press Conference 11/17/25

SPEAKER_1 (0:02)

Welcome in to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Monday, November 17th. The Ravens won their fourth straight game by taking down the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. Next up, they have the New York Jets coming to M&T Bay Stadium. Today, we had a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh.

John Harbaugh (0:19)

Okay, good to see everybody here. Appreciate you guys being here. Good win, and we're focusing on the next challenge, which will be the Jets on Sunday. Very important game again, and opportunity to get above 500 and keep in the hunt for the division title, or game behind there. That's the big picture, but the focus is on preparing for the next game. What questions do you have?

SPEAKER_3 (0:49)

As far as entry-wise, did you guys come out of this game okay?

John Harbaugh (0:53)

We look pretty good. We had an issue after the game. John Keon, Martin had to stay in Cleveland with a, they were looking at a chest injury. Looks like he's okay. Had a bunch of testing there in the hospital last night. All came out negative, you know, in a good way. And he's back now. So we'll see how that kind of progresses in the next 24 hours.

SPEAKER_4 (1:22)

John, is your sense that Marlon Humphrey is available this week, possibly? You said a week, too, based on the community data surges.

John Harbaugh (1:30)

Yeah, I'm optimistic about that right now, Bo. Yep.

SPEAKER_5 (1:36)

Is that something where you could play with that? We saw that wrap on.

John Harbaugh (1:39)

I'm not sure right now. I'm sure they'll have some protection for it, probably, though.

SPEAKER_6 (1:45)

John, when you went back and looked at the red zone possessions where you ended up having to take field goals, what were the combination of things that you saw that didn't work as well as they should have?

SPEAKER_5 (1:56)

Right.

John Harbaugh (1:56)

Yeah, well, just a lot of different things. I mean, each play is a little bit different. Some plays could have been executed better. Some plays, they did a great job of defending, tried to run it a couple of times, maybe didn't get it in. But bigger pictures, that's an important part of the field for us.

We want to score touchdowns down there. You know, and you least want to protect the three as well. You know, we didn't do that one time with a kind of a fluky play. But we need to score touchdowns down there. It's going to definitely continue to be a point of emphasis. It has been. We want to be more successful down in the red zone, for sure.

SPEAKER_7 (2:32)

What are some of the things that you can point out that you can do to try to help improve that area?

John Harbaugh (2:37)

What was that?

SPEAKER_7 (2:38)

What are some of the things that you've pinpointed already that you guys can do to try to improve?

John Harbaugh (2:43)

Some of the things we can what?

SPEAKER_7 (2:44)

Do you use to improve in that area?

John Harbaugh (2:48)

We can actually do better. We can call better plays. We can make plays.

SPEAKER_8 (2:53)

Coach, when you go back and look at what Miles Garrett did, you knew that he was going to come in and try and wreck the game. Was there different things that you guys could have done, maybe as the game went on, to try and limit the way he was getting?

John Harbaugh (3:06)

We did about everything you can do. We tried about everything you can do, and we blocked him a number of times.

That's the kind of defense, really, that you want to try to hit big plays on. You know, that's really the way they're organized. We hit some big plays. You know, the red zone is probably the biggest thing. You know, if we could have got the job done down there a little better, we would have had a big scoring game. But it's always going to be that way when you play that defense, because they do a good job of creating chaos, and then especially him, you know. So, that's kind of how it goes with him.

SPEAKER_4 (3:42)

John, Chris Horton last week was talking to us about the idea of decision making on the punt returns, and the one wester return kind of backing up field, and I think the two, and then on the windblown muff. What do you say to him? Did you tell him later in the game, hey, be careful, you know, let those drop in the wind like this?

What do you say to him?