Ravens at Bills Week 1 Postgame Press Conferences

SPEAKER_1 (0:02)

You're listening to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens failed to the Buffalo Bills 41 to 40 in the season opener after the game we heard from head coach John Harbaugh.

John Harbaugh (0:12)

Loss, very disappointing. We're just gonna have to regroup and get ready to go play a long season. We got 16 games in front of us. And good football team, tough environment. Obviously we did many good things, but we didn't play well at the end. Two big situations, the fourth down play. I mean, that's kind of a play that you don't really expect to happen. I mean, that's a pretty lucky play. But they made it. And between the scrambles, I had Josh Allen played a great game, obviously, especially at the end, on the fourth quarter to make those plays. Scramble plays, extended completions. And then a couple big pass plays. So that's it.

And we're disappointed, but we'll be fine. Questions you have?

SPEAKER_3 (1:00)

You mentioned you have to recruit.

John Harbaugh (1:04)

Excuse me?

SPEAKER_3 (1:04)

You mentioned you have to recruit.

John Harbaugh (1:07)

Yeah, we'll go back to work. We'll go back to work like we always do. You know, we've been here before. This is how the NFL works. It's a tough league, you know. You play tough games in tough environments, and hopefully you learn from it and keep getting better. You get better throughout the course of the season, become the team you're going to be. It's a long journey.

SPEAKER_4 (1:24)

John, there's been a few of these losses of two score leads in the fourth quarter of the last two seasons for this one. What's the pattern and why does it keep repeating?

John Harbaugh (1:34)

Well, you got to make plays. I mean, you got to make plays on the ball. You got to get sacks. You know, you got to turn the ball over. They got four downs. So, you know, it's kind of hard just to play even. You know, you've got to come up with a turnover somewhere. You got to knock the ball out, get a stop. The fourth down stop would have been a play, you know, nobody threw it back there and they made the play on the extended scramble. So that's what you have to do. You have to make a play and get off the field. You got to extend, stay on the field. You know, we've had situations where we have done that in the past, but there have been too many of them, but we'll get ready for the Browns.

Derrick Henry (2:06)

What were your thoughts on Lamar's performance?

John Harbaugh (2:08)

I thought Lamar played great. Yeah, it's a big shift.

SPEAKER_6 (2:18)

John, what happened late in the second quarter? You guys ran off the field with the late field goal. You know how they...

John Harbaugh (2:24)

The clock ran out, the clock said on it.

I mean, I don't need to be out there for the field goal block plays. Is that what you're asking? I came back out.

SPEAKER_6 (2:34)

And how disappointing was it to allow them that sideline play?

John Harbaugh (2:39)

Yeah, oh, what happened with the play, you mean? Oh, oh.

SPEAKER_6 (2:42)

And it also looked like offensively, you snapped the ball a little early on one of those, the field goal.

John Harbaugh (2:47)

Well, you try to run the field goal. The idea is to save the timeout, because you might want to use it, which we did use a timeout, to get lined up. Because in that situation, we didn't, we run the clock down to, I think it got down to about two seconds. So that's a milk and field goal. We practiced that before. And that's one of the things we do. You can do it the other way. You can run it down and call timeout in one second. You can do it that way, too.

We decided to do it the other way. You know, we had six seconds, I think. You know, to get in there, it's pretty crazy that they got it done.

SPEAKER_4 (3:19)

How disappointed is it that those small things that have been so large a game like this?

John Harbaugh (3:25)

Yeah, I don't really rank it that way. You know, it's just disappointing. But we got a game to play next week and that's what we'll be focused on.

SPEAKER_7 (3:30)

Hey John, did you get an explanation into the first half with the clock?

John Harbaugh (3:34)

No, I didn't get an explanation. They didn't tell me anything.

SPEAKER_7 (3:36)

Did you think that it definitely ran out?

John Harbaugh (3:39)

Well, I did. I could tell. But you guys saw probably more than I did. You probably saw the TV. You know, you probably saw it. Didn't you see it?