Ravens-Chargers Week 12 Postgame Press Conference 11/26

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SPEAKER_8 (1:13)

Welcome in to Ravens Press Pass. The Ravens beat the Chargers 20 to 10 on Sunday night football to move to 9 and 3 this season. Big win for the Ravens.

And let's hear tonight from John Harbaugh. We're also going to hear from Lamar Jackson and then safety Kyle Hamilton. Let's start with Harbs.

John Harbaugh (1:32)

All right.

Tough game obviously Chargers a very good football team. I thought they played really well, very well coached team.

And that's a big win for us. You can tell we're really, really happy with this win. This is a challenging place to play. It's loud. This team we're playing is really good. And I thought our guys just played a great football game to come out here on Sunday night football and win the game. And I'm just proud of the players, the way they played. I thought the fourth quarter was a statement and put an exclamation point on the fourth quarter, defense getting the stops and offense finishing it at the end there. So just proud of the guys. So many guys deserve credit. I'm sure we'll get to them as we as we answer the questions and stuff like that. But defensively, I think deserves an extra extra shout.

That's a really good offense, the pressure coverage and the turnovers were big and then broader Washington getting a sack at the end was really special. So, okay, what questions you have?

SPEAKER_10 (2:26)

John, after they scored that one touchdown in London, you kept saying, I can envision many more. Were these kind of the couple that you could have envisioned later on?

John Harbaugh (2:36)

Yeah, right. Didn't think about that. That's an interesting tie together there. But Zay's electric.

He ball in his hands. We have a lot of guys like that. I mean, it starts with our quarterback Lamar Jackson, who just set the all time rushing record for a quarterback in NFL history.

That's a historic statement for him. But he's just playing the game out there and competing. I think O'Dell came out, especially in the first half and had a bunch of plays. I mean, you can name guy after guy who made plays when plays had to be made. Gus running the ball downhill, Keith Mitchell with his speed on the outside and inside stuff. So a lot of players doing what they had to do.

SPEAKER_4 (3:11)

John, given some of the questions you were asked about fourth quarters early this year, how important is it to go into the by, you know, by kind of changing that narrative a little bit, by winning a game, a close game in the fourth quarter?

John Harbaugh (3:22)

Right. Well, I mean, the narrative is not something that we really care about. It's the fact that the guys stepped up and won the game. And, you know, you have, we've won, we've won nine games and all those games had to be closed out in the fourth quarter, one way or another. A couple of them are closed out in the third quarter. So three of them weren't, you know, and we want the three back, but we got the one tonight, you know, and I'm proud of the guys for that.

SPEAKER_6 (3:42)

John, I know you said last week that it will take a lot of guys to fill Mark Andrew's shoes, but given what Zay's already showed you, does it feel like with his sort of ability, he needs to be one of those guys really taking a headlining role in this offense?

John Harbaugh (3:57)

Zay Flowers? Isaiah Likely?

Well, yeah, Zay Flowers already, yeah, sure. He is in a headlining role. He already was, you know, and I just think all those guys together, I stand by that, all those guys together are headliners.