Ravens vs. Browns Week 2 Postgame Press Conferences

SPEAKER_1 (0:02)

Welcome in to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. The Ravens took down the Cleveland Browns 41 to 17 on Sunday to improve to one and one on the season. After the win, we had a chance to hear from head coach, John Harbaugh.

John Harbaugh (0:16)

Appreciate you guys being here. Appreciate you all being over there too. Thanks for being here.

Great win, great bounce back win, a great winning football win in terms of handling a really tough week, a really challenging week, but also understanding what it takes to bounce back and win the next week or play a good football game. I thought we did the things we needed to do. The guys already knew how to do those things, but to come out here and do them in this game in terms of winning maturity, if you want to call it that. And Marlon mentioned that, something we had talked to the team about, that maturing as a football team to win games like that. They did that in this game, and this was a tough game. The score doesn't really indicate it, but this was a grind of a football game. You guys saw the game, you know that's true. So it was a grind, and probably maybe one of the biggest things, there's a lot of turning points in that game. You know, the block pond and Nate's interception set up the first ten points. But also the fact that our offense was backed up three times in the first half, all the way back inside the ten, even inside the five yard line, and didn't cave to that high pressure defense in terms of them making a play there that would have turned the game around and put them in the game. That was, I think that's probably the winning key to the game, especially offensively. And you just keep pushing, you don't make mistakes. They overcame some things on a couple drives, especially to drive the guys back to 17, and then made plays at the end against a defense that is loaded up to stop the run. So that was good to see too. Proud of the guys. What questions do you have?

SPEAKER_3 (1:41)

John, was there anything said when you're going into that fourth quarter, you got that double digitally end, was there anything to say? Because you had talked about one of the things you want to do was how people communicate on the side. Was there anything to say in that fourth quarter?

John Harbaugh (1:54)

Yeah, I don't remember a specific thing other than, you know, game's not over, you know, game's not over. Let's go. Let's finish it up and do what we got to do, things like that.

SPEAKER_4 (2:02)

John, how important was it to see that type of response and immediately from your defense, especially with the takeaways?

John Harbaugh (2:07)

It was important. It was important. You know, I wanted to see a good defense. You know, I wanted to see the defense that I believe we can be, you know, a defense that we've been working to be. I wanted to see that. We saw that a lot and we can get better. We need to get better. But, you know, we'll chase that too, you know. But I thought the defense really stepped up, played a good football game.

SPEAKER_5 (2:25)

John, we're seeing Roquan over the years play pretty well as a Raven. I heard you say that's his best game ever.

John Harbaugh (2:32)

Well, man, it's a tough question. You know, I don't know if it's his best game ever, maybe. Probably he could answer that better. I've seen so many good ones. You know, it's in that category. But he's such a consistent player. That's probably why it's such a hard question to answer, because he plays so well, you know, pretty much every week.

Teddye Buchanan (2:46)

John, another thing that Marlon said this week was, you know, we're not going to have a repeat of last year. The guys who do it right are going to play. You know, you saw more opportunities for a guy like TJ Tampa, a guy like Teddye and linebacker. How do you feel like some of those decisions played out after?

John Harbaugh (3:03)

Yeah, and, you know, those decisions are all, should be looked at in a positive light. You know, we were going to want to give guys opportunities. TJ has been practicing well the last couple weeks. Teddye's been practicing well, you know, but that's no slam on anybody else. I mean, Trent's been playing well. He played well in the game, too. So I don't have any negative to say about any of those guys. You know, but it's good to see those guys step up and play well in the opportunity. It presents itself, and we want everybody to be able to respond that way. So, you know, and even, I know you're going to ask me about Jair. Jair Alexander is going to play great football for us this year. You know, it's just, I kind of made the decision. He's pushing me hard, but I made the decision, let's get completely right in football shape, you know what I mean? And you got to be in football shape. And he didn't get a chance to be in training camp for the full thing. So he's healthy, he's going to be fine. And he'll be out there very soon playing great ball for us.