Ravens vs. Eagles Week 13 Postgame Press Conferences

SPEAKER_1 (0:02)

Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast, the Ravensville to the Philadelphia Eagles 24 to 19 on Sunday to drop them to eight and five on the season. After the game, we heard from head coach, John Harbaugh.

John Harbaugh (0:14)

Okay, appreciate everybody being here. Hard fought game, congrats to the Eagles. They played very well, made the plays they needed to make, especially in the second half, to find a way to win the game. Guys played hard, fought, competed. We didn't play well enough, didn't coach well enough in the end to score enough points or to get the stop we needed at the end. So we lost. But I'm excited about the opportunity going forward. We got four games left. We played 13, and we've been fighting and competing and playing a lot of good football against a lot of good football teams. I like where we're at big picture.

I'm looking forward to getting back and getting started after next week. What questions you have?

SPEAKER_3 (0:54)

John, Justin missed from 47 and 50, I believe. What did you see out of those misses? Was it just him miss hitting it, or are there some operational things?

John Harbaugh (1:03)

What did you see? I just saw the misses. I mean, we'll go back and look at all that stuff and just do the best we can to try to figure it out. I mean, he's definitely capable of making every kick, and you know, we need him to make those kicks. Nobody wants to make them more than Justin does, I promise you that.

SPEAKER_4 (1:19)

Are you envisioning continuing the same approach with Justin, giving him space to try to work through this?

John Harbaugh (1:24)

Well, we've been working through it. I mean, you work through with every single player, every single thing, you fight to try to help guys to be successful, you know, so we'll do that. I mean, if you're asking me if we're going to move on from Justin Tucker, I'm not really planning on doing that right now. I don't think that'd be wise. But, you know, he'll be the first to tell you he needs to make as many kicks as he can. And I just think if you look at Justin Tucker's history, you'd have to say he's capable of doing that, you know, so. But that's something that he's going to want to do, and I know we're all going to want him to do it.

SPEAKER_5 (1:57)

John, your offense started pretty fast this week, you know, scored on their first two positions. What about their defense? What adjustments did you see that maybe gave you guys trouble after that?

John Harbaugh (2:05)

Yeah, no adjustments. It just, we just didn't really get, couldn't get any rhythm going. We had a couple mishaps, you know, a couple got behind the chains once or twice and really couldn't get a rhythm in the end of the second half and then the end of the first half. In the second half, we really couldn't finish, you know, with points. That was the biggest issue.

SPEAKER_6 (2:22)

John, Rashad Bateman wound up with a knee injury. Is Deontay Johnson available? I know it didn't look like he played with...

John Harbaugh (2:28)

Yeah, there's, I'm not really ready to comment on that right now. I will be. Just don't have enough information right now to talk about that.

SPEAKER_6 (2:35)

Do you have an update on Rashad Bateman?

John Harbaugh (2:37)

His knee was sore, I can tell you. Too sore for him to go back out there at the end.

SPEAKER_7 (2:44)

Tom, what did you like out of your defense's performance in this game?

John Harbaugh (2:49)

I thought the defense played well. We don't like the one drive, you know, we let them run it on us a little too much there in the fourth quarter. That was disappointing, but other than that, I thought they stepped up and played very well. Past defense, no big plays. Run defense was stout. I thought we did a good job. They had one drive where they got some of the RPO, read option stuff going a little bit, then we adjusted there at half time and got that cleaned up. So I thought they played well.

SPEAKER_5 (3:19)

That was disappointing not to be cleaner across the board, special teams wise, in that kind of a game where, you know, you're going up against a good team. Not to be cleaner across the board, special teams wise, you know, tiling with punt return decisions.

John Harbaugh (3:32)

Yeah, you want that stuff to be clean. I mean, you always want that to be clean, for sure.