Here’s what The Baltimore Sun sports activities employees needed to say instantly after the Ravens’ 17-10 loss to the host Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday’s Week 5 recreation at Acrisure Stadium.
Mike Preston: The Ravens aren’t prepared for prime time but. Their receivers couldn’t maintain on to the ball, they couldn’t pass-block on the finish of the sport, quarterback Lamar Jackson melted down below strain and their protection couldn’t give you a cease in crunchtime. You need extra? Please, coach John Harbaugh, please enable Justin Tucker to kick a area purpose on the finish of the half.
Childs Walker: What a disastrous loss. Lamar Jackson made his worst throw of the day for an interception when he had an opportunity to place the sport away due to a Pittsburgh particular groups fumble. Then, he fumbled to value the Ravens their likelihood at a comeback. Will we bear in mind it for these mishaps or for the unimaginable litany of errors by Jackson’s receivers?
The Ravens dominated the primary half, however 4 drops, a Justice Hill fumble and a botched fourth-down try saved them from constructing a commanding lead. They blew one other scoring likelihood on a drop by Nelson Agholor within the third quarter, then courted actual catastrophe once they allowed a blocked punt ultimately zone that was a few foot from being a landing as an alternative of a security. Their protection, with coordinator Mike Macdonald designing inventive move rushes in a number of clutch spots, performed nicely sufficient in opposition to a struggling offense. But George Pickens beat Marlon Humphrey, enjoying his first recreation of the season, for a go-ahead landing, and the Ravens’ likelihood to construct a considerable lead within the AFC North was gone.
C.J. Doon: So far this season, the Ravens’ hardest opponent has been themselves. Where will we begin? Dropped landing passes, extra fumbles — now a league-leading six misplaced this season — a blocked punt for a security, an interception ultimately zone and a head-scratching choice to forgo a area purpose try on fourth-and-2 from the Steelers’ 13-yard line with 19 seconds left earlier than halftime are the forms of errors Super Bowl contenders don’t make, not to mention in the identical recreation. Given the slate of dreadful, inexperienced and/or injured quarterbacks they’ve confronted, they need to be undefeated and have a commanding lead within the AFC North. Now they’ve to take a seat on an abroad flight to London enthusiastic about this horrible efficiency. At least they’re getting key gamers again from damage.
Tim Schwartz: Here we go once more. The Ravens are discovering methods to lose and making a grasp class of it. It’s harking back to a number of the 2021 disasters they’d, and it’s arduous to place into phrases. The fourth-quarter interception when all you want is factors. The blocked punt for a security earlier than that. The drops — and there have been many — by the Ravens’ extensive receivers (Nelson Agholor, yikes). Just an ideal brew of disasters leading to a gut-wrenching loss. And now Baltimore faces its arch-nemesis — London — subsequent week. Falling to 3-3 would appear unfathomable contemplating how shut they might be to being undefeated. But the Ravens gonna Raven, I suppose.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com