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If John Harbaugh's Ravens find a way to sneak into the postseason, they'll be the first team to come back from an 0-3 hole to make the playoffs since the 1998 Bills. According to Bill Barnwell, a staff writer at Grantland.com, since the Bills pulled it off, the last 82 teams to start 0-3 have all failed to make it into January.

Still, Harbaugh isn't backing down. Instead, he's borrowing lines from Winston Churchill to describe his team's current situation and how they'll handle it moving forward.

"What's the old saying, 'When you're going through hell, keep going,'" Harbaugh said on Monday via ESPN. "That's what we're going to do. We're going to keep going. We're going to find a way out. We will come out of this the other way."

On Sunday, the Ravens were defeated by the Bengals, losing by just four points. In total, the Ravens have lost their first three games by a combined 14 points, which should inspire some hope for a less bleak future.

"We've been in a whisker, a play of winning all three of these games," Harbaugh said. "That doesn't count for a hill of beans when it's all said and done when you look back. But it does count for something going forward. We understand what kind of football team we're capable of becoming."

Chase Stuart of Football Perspective briefly outlined how the Ravens can make a comeback. It doesn't seem entirely promising, but it doesn't necessarily seem impossible.

Fortunately for the Ravens, they do seem poised to win their first game of the season in Week 4. On Thursday, the Ravens will take on the Steelers at Heinz Field. The Steelers will be playing without quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

Harbaugh took a line from Winston Churchill to describe the state of his team. (USATSI)