With what coach John Harbaugh called “one of the toughest practices of the year” not producing the results he wanted on defense, the eighth-year head coach started providing the intensity himself.
“It’s always the one where the coach — at least in my case, this coach — gets a little crazy because it’s a tough step to take from the hitting level of intensity to this level of intensity," Harbaugh said. “You push them hard, and they responded very well. We’ve got a bunch of tough guys, and really what we’re trying to build is a tough team.