Ravens vs. Raiders Week 2 Postgame Press Conferences

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Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Sunday, September 15th. The Ravens dropped to 0-2 on the season after losing to the Las Vegas Raiders, 26 to 23 at M&T Bank Stadium. It was a disappointing loss for the team. And after the game, we heard from head coach John harbaugh.

John Harbaugh (0:45)

OK, I appreciate you being here. Disappointing loss, tough loss. Could have gone our way for sure, but we didn't get the job done.

We're going to play a 17-game season, and we will be defined by the next 15 games. So that's going to be our objective, to play the best 15 games we can, be the best football team we can be. And if we do that, then we're going to have a really good season, have a shot to win a lot of games, and get in the playoffs and make a run. So that's what we have to do. Big picture, short-term, we got to go back and look at every little thing, continue to clean up the things that we know we can clean up and get better at that make a difference in games. And we'll work, continue to work very hard to do that. What questions you have?

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John, when the Ravens team, sorry, Ravens team is the guest interference panel, it's called, did you have a good vantage point for seeing that and what was kind of your view or the topic of meeting that?

John Harbaugh (1:38)

Right, well, I saw that one and I saw the Marlin one on the big screen. So until I see the TV copy, I'm not going to be able to say, because on the big screen, it looked like he had his hands completely off of them. I wouldn't know on either one of those what to say to those two guys for better technique. It looked like perfect technique from where I was. But I'll have to look at the TV copy to see what the official thought he saw when he called that. John, what did you make out of the second half defense? You guys had over like 40 yards in the first half.

Justin Tucker (2:07)

What changed? What did you see today?

John Harbaugh (2:08)

Did you start doing anything different? I think the penalty is extended drives. That's the biggest thing. If those drives don't get extended, you got them backed up, you're going to be off the field, they don't have an opportunity to make plays. But when drive gets extended, for some reason, then you're playing really good play makers, and all of a sudden the play gets made, the pass gets made here and there and all that. But we held up really well, we were fighting right down there. You got a fourth in forever, and a pass interference takes it down to the one. It's usually going to score from the one. So that's just hard to control that one.

SPEAKER_7 (2:38)

John, similar influence on your offense, it seems like especially late in the fourth quarter, penalties kind of set your own drives back.

John Harbaugh (2:47)

Yeah, we had the starts, those really shouldn't happen. You know, those are things that we just got to just take a deep breath and clean and that shouldn't happen. You know, we're better than that, we will be. I'm not worried about those going forward, but we've got to make sure we're diligent and intentional about not having those starts. That would have extended drives, especially the one coming out there in mid fourth quarter with a quarterback sneak. The holding on Ronnie, I mean, I don't know, I just have to look at it and see. Nothing I think I could really coach him on that I saw on the replay, but maybe there's something more there than meets the eye.

SPEAKER_8 (3:20)

John, 0-2 on the challenges today, were you surprised in the decision in the end of both of those?

John Harbaugh (3:27)

Well, the one in the first half, you know, that was close. I think if they, I think if they, you know, I thought that one was had a real chance, but it was also, we had two timeouts, we had plenty of time, almost felt like it was calling a timeout, and kind of giving our guys a chance to get a breath of air, which I wanted to do, so it was worth taking a shot there. The other one was such a high leverage play, so you had such an opportunity, it went so fast. I just thought it was worth in the heat of battle, taking a shot at it. I would have hated to have, you know, seen it later that he was clearly off the ground and not done it, you know, so that's the challenge of the speed of the situation sometimes.