Ravens vs. Chiefs Week 4 Postgame Press Conferences

SPEAKER_2 (0:03)

Welcome in to the Ravens Press Pass Podcasts. The Ravens fell to the Kansas City Chiefs 37 to 20 on Sunday to fall to 1 and 3 on the season. After the game, we had a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh.

John Harbaugh (0:19)

Congrats to the Chiefs, I thought they played really well.

Executed both sides of the ball, played good physical football, and won a football game handily. All three phases, I feel like they coached better, they played better, everything was better. So that's it. That's a game in the National Football League, and we'll have to go back to work, figure out how to try to win our next football game. And we've got issues that we're dealing with, and we've got to deal with them in a real smart way, and find out how to line up and play our best game against the Texans. That's going to be our task this week, and I know our guys will go to work, I know our coaches will go to work to do that, and that will be our challenge. So any other questions or any other conversations about it are just going to be really, are going to be just that. We've got to get to work and get ready to play our football game and play well and try to find a way to win a game and get on track. I believe we're going to be a good football team. We're just not a good enough football team yet. And all the things that go with that are the challenges that you face in the National Football League when you get circumstances that we've had. So that's what we'll go to work on. What questions you have?

SPEAKER_4 (1:28)

On the left of the game, with an entry and a read.

Tyler Linderbaum (1:31)

Are you in the seriousness of that?

John Harbaugh (1:32)

No, I don't. I don't have any really updates on seriousness of injuries right now. There's nothing that looks like it's season ending by any stretch for anybody, any of those guys. But we'll have to look at those injuries tomorrow and see where we're at going forward. Coach, I know you're not going to make excuses, but you down four starters to begin with on the defensive side.

Keon Martin (1:50)

You've lost three more.

SPEAKER_2 (1:51)

Just talk about the impact of losing that many starters.

John Harbaugh (1:55)

Yeah, that's kind of what I'm talking about with the challenges. I mean, those are the challenges that you do face from time to time. And, you know, it's tough in a game like this against a really good team on the road. But, you know, you got to try to find a way to win anyway. And we've never made excuses for those kind of things. And the guys who are up there are going to play well. And we've got to find ways to put our guys in the best positions to execute, play after play and play a winning football game. You know, that will be our challenge.

SPEAKER_2 (2:21)

So if Lamar have come back in, had it not been a three-score deficit?

John Harbaugh (2:24)

I don't have the answer to that right now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_7 (2:26)

Do you know when, what play the...

John Harbaugh (2:28)

I don't have the answer for that, no.

SPEAKER_7 (2:32)

John, I mean, can you think of a time when you have been this adversely impacted by injuries in a single game?

John Harbaugh (2:42)

You know, I haven't really thought about that. I don't know the answer to that. I just know that this is our circumstance right now. This is what we're going to have to deal with. You know, like I told the guys before, and I told the guys after the game, I respect our guys. I respect our players. I respect our coaches. I know that we're going to go to work. And there's football to be played.

There's a division to be won. We've got to find a way to become good enough to win it. So, it's a long season. But short term, it's a challenge right now. Our focus is on the Houston Texans game. That's what we've got to get locked in for, really, and find a way to play the kind of football game that we're going to need to play to win.

SPEAKER_8 (3:20)

What do you think happened offensively? The first drive you went right down the field, got a lot of people involved. What sort of changed for you guys?

John Harbaugh (3:26)

Well, I mean, I think you just take it drive by drive. The second drive, we went down the field again, and we had an interception in 54, made a great play. I mean, it's just a great football play he made. So, that stopped that drive. Then the next drive, we came out, we had two good plays, but we got two delay of games. So, we're trying to crowd noise, we're trying to signal some things, or change plays, or whatever we were trying to do. And we took the delay of games, unfortunately. And it really weren't circumstances where we wanted to take timeouts there, because you know you're going to need those timeouts. I thought we could overcome them, and we almost did, but then we got another delay game. So, that's really out of character for us. I mean, I can't remember the last time we really had delay of game penalties. That's never been something that's been an issue for us. So, that's surprising, but we've got to deal with it, you know. We got to handle it. The next drive we came out, and we had a no game play to start with. It's a quick out pass. We don't complete it, it's a quick pass. You want to try to do that against these guys who are playing split safety, or they're playing zone, and you want to try to get the ball out, and it gets incomplete. Then you get a screen batted. Now you're third and ten.