Ravens-Steelers Week 5 Postgame Press Conference 10/8

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SPEAKER_3 (1:13)

Welcome in to Ravens Press Pass. Ravens fell to the Pittsburgh Steelers 17 to 10 in a frustrating loss in week five, the fall to three and two. We heard from head coach John Harbaugh, quarterback Lamar Jackson, linebacker Roquan Smith. And then we went into the locker room and heard from some more guys, tight end Mark Andrews, linebacker Patrick Queen, cornerback Marlon Humphrey, center Tyler Linderbaum and wide receiver Zay Flowers.

First up, let's go to coach John Harbaugh.

John Harbaugh (1:47)

Obviously congratulations to the Steelers making the plays they had to make to win the game. That was a great win for them. Disappointing loss for us. Had our opportunities obviously. And you know, played hard. I mean, I just, I love the way the guys play. They play hard, they fight.

You know, we've got to finish plays and do things like that that you need to do to win a game like this. And that's what we got. We have to fight for that going forward. Got a lot of football left to be played.

It's going to be week six. And we need to clean that stuff up and finish games. What questions you have?

SPEAKER_5 (2:18)

John, what went into the decision at the end of the first half not to kick the field goal on 4th and 2nd?

John Harbaugh (2:22)

Yeah, we were planning on kicking the field goal there. The idea was to run the clock down, you know, and not leave them time coming back the other way and then, you know, just call time out and kick the field goal. But we had just a miscommunication, heat of battle.

We weren't on the same page. They jumped on the neutral zone, and the guys thought they were in the neutral zone and went ahead and snapped it. So that wasn't what we were planning on doing. You could see Lamar was surprised by the snap. So that was just one of those things, operationally, that we just have to get better at. And I think that's kind of an example, really, of where we're at. We just got to get better at operational things and clean stuff up and make those plays. I think we're that close in so many ways, but that's the difference in a game on the road like this in this kind of a rivalry game. So we'll learn from it. We have to get better and move forward and be better next week in those areas.

SPEAKER_6 (3:09)

Coach, were you close to calling a timeout at that time?

John Harbaugh (3:12)

We were going to run the clock down and call a timeout.

So, you know, if they would jump, now Lamar's doing a great job trying to get cadence and trying to get him to jump. If we get to free, then that's good, but it's a no-snap type situation.

SPEAKER_6 (3:27)

John, was there any thought given just to pounding the ball after the punt recovery inside there to run in gusts and try to run it in there?

John Harbaugh (3:34)

Well, we did run the first time, you know. That was the first call.

Make the play calls that were made. That's the things that you think are going to get in the end zone. That's what we try to do.

SPEAKER_7 (3:44)

John, I'm going to just see on the punt block.

John Harbaugh (3:47)

Just an eight gap rush. We didn't block the guy we were supposed to block, you know. And another situation where we can, you know. To me, that's kind of an example of the whole game right there. You know, we did not do the things we needed to do in certain situations that we're capable of doing, we can do, we will do going forward. But we didn't do them today.