Ravens' Harbaugh praises millennial NFLers after previous critique

Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh extended an olive branch Tuesday to the millennial NFLers he may have upset by seemingly critiquing their "football fitness" a day earlier.

"Young people today are amazing," Harbaugh told reporters, per Mike Garafolo of NFL Network. "This generation is going to change the world ... We don't need to baby them."

Harbaugh made headlines Monday by suggesting the up-and-coming crop of players aren't put through the wringer in the same way their predecessors were.

"One thing I've noticed: Guys coming out of college aren't as callused up as they used to be," he said Monday. "We used to practice twice a day in full pads. And those players know - I'm talking to you out there who know, who've played in the National Football League or played in college 10, 15 years ago - (that) it's not even close to the same thing.

"There's a certain type of 'in shape,' certain type of football fitness, certain type of (callused-ness) - muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments - that kind of toughen up. They callus up a little bit, and you can practice all day and run all day. Then our guys coming in right now, most of them don't have that."

The 55-year-old Harbaugh has been in charge of a program in Baltimore that is viewed perennially as one of the league's hardest and most physical to play against.