John Harbaugh on Falling to the Lions | Baltimore Ravens

John Harbaugh on Falling to the Lions | Baltimore Ravens

we’re going to be disappointed in when we watch that tape. Things we got to get better at. Our focus right now has got to be toward toward Kansas City. Uh and that’s what we’re going to do. Get ready for that game and uh get ready to go play it. What questions do you have? John, I know you have a much more detailed answer when you watch the film, but just out there watching the run defense, what do you think was the biggest problem? Well, I mean, yeah, I don’t I’m not going to be able to give you the biggest problem. I just The biggest problem was we didn’t play good run defense. I mean, we didn’t as a as a defense complete. We didn’t do it. And uh that that’s not going to be good enough. There’s nobody in that locker room that thinks that’s good enough. That’s disappointing. That’s bad run defense. And that’s not who we are. It cannot be who we are. It’s just it’s not going to be good enough. It’s not going to be acceptable. And uh it’s got to be better. John, specifically, how how you feel like the absences of Nomi and Kyle? I I don’t really have those measurements right now. You know, it’s hard to measure that at this point. Uh, but you play with the guys that are out there and the guys that are out there are good enough to do it. We as coaches got to figure it out and we got to get it uh get it done. Do you have any update on Nambdi’s health? I do not. John, what do you think they were doing on Lamar? Was it a spy situation that was giving you guys some problems offensively or uh, you know, I don’t think you could just put it in one category. I mean, we we threw the ball pretty good and we we Lamar made some extended plays. He made some ontime throws and, you know, trying to move around in the pocket and make some plays. They got us on some sacks when you’re trying to throw the ball like that at the end of the game, too. So, I’m not sure what your question is really, but uh they play good defense, you know, and we were competing on offense. You know, we didn’t run the ball as well as we wanted to either. That that had a lot to do with it. I think uh I’d like to see us run the ball better. John, last week um you know, you guys were pretty physical. It seemed like this week lines were pretty physical with both on both lines, defensive and offensive. Um, did you did you feel like they were just more physical up front there? Yeah, I’m not really putting words and terms on it. Um, I just think we can play better than we did for sure. John, and we need to play better than we did. Sorry, Derek Henry’s been able to take care of the ball throughout his career to this point this year. Fumbling has been an issue. I mean, what do you even say to him considering this hasn’t been the norm for him? Yeah. Um, it hasn’t been. And, uh, I don’t I don’t think it’ll be going forward, but we got to get it fixed. I mean, that was that was kind of a a blind shot there. I thought he had the ball in good position. You know, I thought the defender got a good look at it, though, because it was kind of a retrace cut back play. So, um, a little bit the perfect storm, but still, I mean, we just want to protect the football, you know, all our guys do, and we got to we got to do it. We got to be good at it. John didn’t golf tonight. I can’t hear you. Didn’t sack golf tonight. the pass rush especially felling in critical third downs didn’t really seem to alter his pocket just how much did you wish that you maybe did you try to send more pass rush more blitzers and and Matt DK’s absence yeah we’ll go back and look at the the number you know the calls and we sent some number of fiveman rushes we had a couple sixman rushes um we got to get better pass rush I mean there’s no doubt about it I mean to your point you know that’s that’s not going to be good enough ever so Um, we got to figure it out. We got to have an answer for that. John, when you think back over the years, can there be a value in a loss like this that sort of forces you to confront a lot of things about what you’re doing? Yeah, I mean, that’s always life. We we’ve had that conversation here. But right now, I think we just got to get we got to go to work on the things we need to get better at and get ready to play Kansas City. You know, we got Kansas City, then we got a tough team, then we got a tough team, then we got a tough team coming up. So, the next tough team is Kansas City. We just played a tough team. That’s a good football team we just played. Okay. So, um, we go to work on the next tough team we’re going to play and try to find a way to get that win. And that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to keep it simple, lock in on that, and go to work. How concerned, how concerned are you with some of the goal to go situations? I mean, third drive that in the first half you guys are at the one yard line on third down and I mean, is it play calling? I mean, just what did what did you Well, I’m going to see the tape and if it what it was, I don’t know, you know, until I see the tape. Um, try to put the ball in the end zone, you know, as we’re trying to do that for sure. We didn’t get it done in that one particular drive. I appreciate the fact that our, you know, our defense got got the stop, got the ball back, and scored on the next drive. So, that was good. Um, but you want to score when you’re at the one yard line, that’s for sure. John, when you punted with about four and a half minutes left, was was there any consideration for going forward or was there a yardage threshold? Yeah, it was fourth and what? It was fourth and I don’t know, five or six. Oh, was it that much? Yeah, it’s pretty far. Yeah. John, given how well they were uh running the ball on the on their fourth and two there, do you think they caught you by surprise on that? I don’t think it caused by surprise, but I, you know, we we uh we can certainly play that, but you’re trying to It’s a great It’s a good play call. It’s not a surprising call at all. Uh we were talking about it in the huddle. I think they executed well on it. We can certainly play it better, and that’s kind of what you That’s kind of what we got to do. I mean, we got to learn from those things and get better at them and and and carry it forward. Two more. Joe, are you concerned how much they were getting with four at times. Uh I I I am, but I also understand kind of how we play and I just think Lamar’s doing, you know, he makes so many plays, makes so many things happen. So, you know, I like that part of it, too. Um I don’t want to be in desperate situations at the end of the game. You know, that’s not what we’re trying to do. But when we’re in those situations, we can go score. You saw it. We can go score. We can make plays because of our quarterback, you know, and and uh so we’re gonna we’re going to do that. But do I want to do everything better? Absolutely. That’s one of the things. All the things you guys are talking about are all things that we’re going to look at and uh we got to play better in those areas next week. All right. Thanks,

Head Coach John Harbaugh on the Ravens’ run defense against the Lions, the need for a better pass rush and more.

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