Intro:

Reaction after the New England Patriots beat the Baltimore Ravens 35-31 in their AFC (American Football Conference) divisional playoff game on Saturday (10 January) at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: John Harbaugh, Baltimore Ravens head coach

"Obviously very tough loss, salute the Patriots. A hard fought game and they came out on top at the end, made the plays they needed to make and they're obviously a very, very good football team, a very deserving football team. Very proud of our guys, not just in this game, but I think in this game you probably saw, for those of you who haven't watched us much all year, the same thing that our guys have been doing all year, as far as overcoming adversity and competing and fighting and doing all the things that our guys have done all year. So, never been around a team, I told them this, never been around a team that has handled distractions and those kinds of things with minimal amount of drag like this team has, focused on the important things and became the very best football team they could be."

SOUNDBITE: Bill Belichick, New England Patriots head coach

"They're tough to play against in all three phases of the game and obviously took it right down to the final play. So, good to win, good to be moving to the AFC Championship Game. I thought our guys really hung in there, down by 14 to start the game, down by 14 in the third quarter. You know, we just battled back. They hung in there and we made a couple big plays. Obviously the turnovers were big, but we just got a lot of plays from a lot of different people and played good situational football there at the end. We were able to bleed out the clock and make the play on the Hail Mary at the end."

SOUNDBITE: Tom Brady, New England Patriots quarterback

Playing these guys from ahead was the best way to play them and behind twice by 14 wasn't necessarily in the plans. So, it took a lot of good execution to overcome it. A lot of guys fought through a lot of mental toughness and I'm glad we pulled it out."