John Harbaugh discusses the Ravens season opening loss to the Chiefs | Full Press Conference

Published: Sep 05, 2024 Duration: 00:05:02 Category: Sports

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I appreciate you guys being out here. Good hard fought football game, very exciting football game a lot a lot of a lot of back and forth, I'm proud of the way our guys played. You know, I think the way we fought, the way we competed, the challenges that we faced just by the situation of the game and all the things going on around the game and obviously the challenge that our opponent presents us, which is a great opponent. And then the adversity throughout the course of the game is a challenge. And I thought our guys, you know, met all those things, all those setbacks at times and, and, and fought like crazy to overcome it, you know, and, looked like we had an opportunity there to, to, to tie the game up or version. So it didn't happen at the end, but proud of the way the guys fought. We're only going to get better from here on out and I'm looking forward to that. I'm really looking forward to getting back to work next week and getting ready for the Raiders. John, just starting with obviously Isaiah just was huge for you guys all night and even battled back to get on the field for that last possession. What did you see out of him and what did you tell him after coming so close. Oh I think Isaiah played just a great football game a courageous game I made so many plays, especially down the stretch, play after play. I put Lamar obviously in the same category. All those guys, I mean, those guys were making plays and fighting the offensive line, I thought did a heck of a job out there. A lot of question marks that, you know, the pundits and the prognosticators had about the offensive line saying that with that offensive line, we couldn't do anything. And to see the way they went out there and played against that defense, I thought was pretty impressive. And that's a challenge, especially in this environment. Communication and there were there were problems on both sides. But I thought Isaiah played a great football game. I was proud of him and a lot of other guys too. John, what are the kind of emotions though at the end of the game when you feel like, okay, you've tied the game and then you're told no, I'm really tired. I'm we're going to talk about emotion. Jimmy, you're disappointed. You thought I mean, I don't know what it looked like on the replay, so I can't say. But I really couldn't tell on the big screen. You guys probably had a better viewpoint of it. So John, what were you talking about? Illegal formation anyways. Yeah, they put a thing out that they said they were going to call that, differently. I think understanding how differently we were the first offensive series of the season with that. And I think they saw probably everybody watching it. It'd be interesting to see if they call it the same way the whole season, and I'll challenge him to call it the same way they called it tonight the whole season. So hopefully they'll be consistent about that. Lamar has called Kansas City his Kryptonite. How do you feel about his late drive, and does it give you confidence moving forward if you play them again? I thought his late drive was great and I thought he had some other good drives in there, some great conversions in there. So, we'll be looking forward to the Raiders. You know, we've got to get ready for the for the Raiders. And that'll be a big challenge for us in our in our own home stadium our home opener. So that's what we'll be getting ready for John. How much was communication defensively early in the midway through the third quarter difficult where you had to take the two timeouts? Yeah, we just had some issues with the substitutions back and forth. They were running you know different groups on the field and stuff like that. And we did have some communication problems. That's something that we'll have to iron out for sure. We can be better with that. We will be better with that. And you know, it wasn't what we wanted. So we'll have to improve on that. And we will. John said something that happened on the TD pass. Where were they slipped behind? Yeah, we just didn't play the defense exactly the way we obviously we didn't play the defense the right way. There was nobody deep back there. So that was a that was that was we had certain mistakes during the game that were problem substitutions were an issue. That was probably the one big mistake we had the rest of the way. I thought our defense played really well. I mean, you know, that's a heck of an offense out there. And our guys played so hard, fought, fought against the run. I thought, did a good job against the run covering their guys. You know, it's not easy with all the screens and all the different things they do. And then you've got, Mahomes who extends. And I thought our D line and our rushers did a good job of keeping him in there, especially in the second half. You know so many good things happened. But there's going to be a lot of things to work on for sure. There's no doubt. And that will be one of them. All right. Thanks, coach okay. Thanks Sean. All right. So week one is only a starting point. Coach Harbaugh looking forward to cleaning things up. Season starts with a loss here against the Chiefs. Next up it's the Raiders. So for Vegas that is the rare Harbaugh. Harbaugh back to back to start the season. That's a lot of enthusiasm. Back to this one. Cowboys bills Bengals a tough start schedule wise here for Baltimore. We'll see how they bounce back off the near

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