Ravens-Jaguars Week 15 Postgame Press Conferences 12/17

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SPEAKER_4 (1:13)

Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast.

The Ravens improved to 11 and three on Sunday with a prime time win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Ravens took down the Jags 23 to seven and they punched their ticket to the postseason. The Ravens maintained their top spot in the AFC and became the first team in the AFC to secure a playoff bid.

Now it was an all hands on deck effort, but Lamar Jackson delivered an iconic performance. He showed just about everybody why he remains in that MVP conversation. Lamar finished the game with just under 100 yards on the ground. He also completed 14 to 24 passes for 171 yards and a touchdown, but he was remarkable throughout the game. He was avoiding tacklers and finding guys down the field, delivering some iconic plays, like a big play touchdown to Isaiah Lightly, and then also another scrambling play where he hit Lightly down the field.

It was a depressive showing from Lamar and head coach John Harbaugh talked after the game about the win and what it means for this team.

John Harbaugh (2:13)

Okay, appreciate everybody being here. Thank you.

Late night with a great outcome for the Ravens, really proud of our guys. I mean, come in here, very good football team, very well coached team that played well. Kind of a playoff type environment that we were in. Place was rocking, man. It was loud. It was full. It was a night game here. I think it might have been the first Sunday night game here in a while. And they were into it. Their team was into it. And we had to play a really good football game, a playoff style football game to win. That's kind of how it played out, that kind of a football game which we expected. So proud of our guys for the win. A lot of guys played really well.

Of course, there's things we can do better.

But that's a big win. So we'll get a day or two and then we'll be on to San Francisco. We do have some injury announcements. Keaton is going to be a serious injury, knee injury. So it looks like he won't be back for the rest of this season.

Marcus is going to be kind of day to day probably. We'll see. We'll know more tomorrow, but that looks like it probably be day to day. Is there anybody else?

Ronnie, Ronnie, think it'll be okay. Those guys will be looked at concussion wise. We'll see how that, how that plays out. What questions you have?

SPEAKER_6 (3:26)

John, you said last week that Lamar played that game as well as, you know, what do you say about this?

John Harbaugh (3:33)

I stand corrected.

I played even better this week, you know. And so to give Lamar Jackson our game ball every single game, you know, he wouldn't take him, you know, he wouldn't even know where to put him in his house, you know.

Too many game balls. But that's the way he plays, you know. That's just, I think I've said it before. I believe he's the best quarterback in the National Football League. I've said it many times before.

And he continues to prove it. He proves me right, you know. He proves he's just, he took the game over in so many different ways, all the different ways he does it, but some spectacular throws, handled the game plan. We had a lot of no huddle stuff. We had a lot of plays at the line we were switching to and calling and changing around. We had a lot of motions and shifts they had to deal with. And then the play clock comes into factor there. Nobody's better handling the play clock than Lamar Jackson managing the game, but also making the plays. So just very proud of him, obviously.