Ravens vs. Rams Week 6 Postgame Press Conferences

SPEAKER_2 (0:03)

Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Sunday, October 12th. The Ravens dropped to one and five on Sunday, losing to the Los Angeles Rams 17 to three at M&T Bank Stadium. After the game, we heard from head coach John Harbaugh.

John Harbaugh (0:17)

Obviously, getting a little tired of getting up here and having this conversation, but we had our opportunities. We created our opportunities and we put ourselves in position where we could have won that football game. Probably you could say, in some ways, we should have won it, but we didn't do the things that you have to do to win the game. And we made some critical mistakes that cost us an opportunity to win the game. And that's really what it boils down to. So that's what we've got to get straightened out. That'll be the key going forward. Within all that, there's a lot of good things there that tell me that we can be the kind of football team that we want to be for the rest of the season. And we'll build on all those things. And like I told you guys, what we've got to be able to do is understand that you've got to understand really how close you are sometimes. And you can't allow the weight of the disappointment or the weight of the scrutiny. You can't allow that to derail you or to sidetrack you or to push you away from your goal because we can accomplish what we want to accomplish. We can do it. We're the kind of team that can do it. So we take the rest of this time now. We'll practice on Tuesday and Wednesday.

And there's plenty of things we can work on. There's plenty of things we can build on, which I'm happy about. And then we push into next week and we got to go win the next game. All right, what questions do you have?

SPEAKER_4 (1:44)

John, John, at quarterback, were there any thoughts of maybe going to Tyler a little earlier than what you did in the fourth half?

John Harbaugh (1:50)

Yeah, well, the plan, my plan was to play both throughout the course of the game. And as we went through the game, as you feel the game, when you do, when you make a change, it wasn't going to be necessarily a change. It was going to be Cooper then Tyler. It could have been Tyler then Cooper again, you know, it could have been any one of those things. The way the first half went, didn't seem to be a moment to bring him out. The second half, we had a drive going, you know, and then we turned it over. So I think you could say that maybe, but I don't really necessarily think there was an obvious moment to do that. But the plan all along was to play both quarterbacks.

SPEAKER_5 (2:24)

John, I think only three teams have gone, started one and five, gone on to make the playoffs. You talk about things you can build on from this game. What things do you kind of find as building blocks out of the bye?

John Harbaugh (2:37)

Oh, yeah, I mean, it's just so many things in the game itself. I mean, the players we have, we're going to have healthy players coming back. I mean, our quarterback is going to be back. That's probably a big one. Our middle linebacker will be back.

And then all the things from the tape that we saw, I thought our defense played pretty darn well against a high-powered offense. It was good to see. We needed to see that. We added a safety. I thought that dynamic was a good dynamic for us on defense. When you watch that, you're probably going to feel pretty good about that when you watch that tape again. And within that, the way individual players played. So, that's it. Only three teams have done it? Good. Good. What an opportunity.

SPEAKER_6 (3:15)

John, the tush push with Mark there at the end of the first half twice in a row, did you give any consideration to not going to it a second straight play?

John Harbaugh (3:23)

Well, of course you do, but I feel like the main consideration, I think all of us would agree, every single player and coach would agree that we should be pushing that in there. It should get pushed in on the first one. And if not the first one, it should get pushed in on the second one. So, yeah, we gave consideration. The fact that it didn't go in, I think it's easy to criticize it, and I do the same myself, you know. But, I mean, come on, you know, we should be able to put that in there. So, I'm disappointed in that one. Then the other play, you know, I didn't love that play either, so.