QB Joe Burrow
On his first game back going the way that it did: “Obviously, I had to knock the rust off in the first half, so I expected myself to play better, but it was good to be out there. A lot of emotions running through it at the end of the game. It’s just good to be back with the guys.”
On how he would grade himself: “I thought the second half, I started to put it more where I wanted. I settled in a little bit. I certainly missed some throws that I typically make. But after that, I felt pretty comfortable back there. I thought the O-line did great, we ran it well. Obviously, the defense played great. I’ve just got to keep getting better.”
On what issues he saw in the red zone: “Well, I’m trying to think. I think for the most part, you’ve got to give credit to them. They mixed up their looks down there. They zero-pressured us. They doubled Ja’Marr [Chase], they singled Ja’Marr. They did a lot of different things down there. At the end of the day, we have to make plays and put the ball in the end zone. We can’t kick six field goals, but that’s the kind of game that it was. Our defense was playing the way that it was, and the way we ran the ball, it was a ‘take your points’ kind of game. Obviously, the one that really hurt us was when we got the turnover down there and came out with no points. Typically, that’s going to be tough to win the game, but we were able to pull it out.”
On the Ravens zero-blitz on all four snaps: “Yeah, that was really the only drive that they did that. And then the next couple of times, they were still playing some man, and like I said, doubling Ja’Marr [Chase] sometimes, not doubling Ja’Marr sometimes. But we needed somebody to make a play, and Tanner [Hudson] made that play on, in my opinion, the best safety in the league. He just continues to make play after play, and that one really opened the floodgates, so credit to Tanner for that one.”