Ravens tight finish Mark Andrews stated there have been too many issues going incorrect and that the crew must get up. Linebacker Patrick Queen referred to as it the identical outdated scenario, including that he’s sick of it.
First, it was the Indianapolis Colts in Week 3, then it was the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.
“We should be 5-0, I believe,” quarterback Lamar Jackson stated Wednesday from Tottenham Hotspur coaching floor, the place Baltimore is working towards this week forward of Sunday’s recreation in opposition to the Tennessee Titans. “We just have to put up the points on the board [and] protect the ball.”
In their loss to the Steelers, the Ravens had seven dropped passes and two turnovers — an interception from Jackson and a fumble by working again Justice Hill.
The script was comparable in opposition to Indianapolis final month after they had 4 fumbles and misplaced two of them, with Jackson and working again Kenyan Drake every coughing it up.
There have been different similarities between the losses, too. Jackson was sacked in important moments after holding onto the ball too lengthy, the offense failed to complete off drives, and there have been particular groups blunders, together with a blocked punt for a security in opposition to the Steelers.
The frustration of all of the errors and missed alternatives led to a 45-minute crew assembly on Wednesday.
“The message was that, essentially, what we’re capable of doing and becoming and what we need to do to get there,” coach John Harbaugh stated. “It’s a superb line between good and nice, and breaking unhealthy.
“The idea is, we’re a good football team. We’re capable of being great. Let’s go to work and do the things we need to do — every little detail — to take that next step and become a great football team. You do that week-by-week. It’s a week-to-week league. You don’t, all of a sudden you’re there, and all of a sudden you stay there. You have to do it time and time again.”
Instead, the Ravens have been making the identical errors time and time once more.
It’s why Harbaugh stated that the Ravens are holding themselves again offensively with missed alternatives and turnovers, some extent that was expressed to the crew within the assembly.
“Coaches feel how we’re feeling,” Jackson stated. “Every week we had a turnover, whether it was me or someone else. … Our defense is doing a great job, so we need to help them out if anything.”
Indeed.
The Ravens’ 12 fumbles this season are the second most within the NFL behind the Cleveland Browns. Jackson has additionally thrown two interceptions, in contrast with 4 landing passes. Baltimore’s 21.8 factors per recreation rank seventeenth, simply behind the Washington Commanders and simply forward of the lowly Arizona Cardinals, who’ve only one win this season.
Sunday, they scored simply 10 factors in opposition to a Steelers protection that had surrendered a mean of 25 factors per recreation by means of the primary 4 weeks and twice allowed 30.
“Obviously we have to score more than 10 points,” Harbaugh stated of the Ravens’ offensive struggles. “That’s something that we’re very capable of doing, and we should’ve done. [We] should’ve separated early in the game, and we didn’t do it because we didn’t do the things we needed to do. We didn’t protect the football. We didn’t score in the red zone. Just too many mistakes, pretty much holding ourselves back.”
Still, on the subject of the dropped passes, Harbaugh stated he isn’t apprehensive about that persevering with.
“They were a concern on Sunday,” he stated. “That was a big part of the game. They don’t need to be a concern going forward, because we need to take care of business in that area. That’s below the line, and that’s what receivers do. They catch the ball. Our guys are going to catch those balls 99 out of 100 times.”
Jackson echoed an analogous sentiment and stated there wasn’t any want to return down on his teammates, regardless of Andrews, Rashod Bateman, Zay Flowers and Nelson Agholor all having pricey drops in opposition to the Steelers.
“It’s self-explanatory,” he stated. “I don’t must say something. Those guys, they really feel they really feel how I really feel. They need to make a play. We haven’t had that earlier than. It was the primary time it occurred. It occurred in a rival recreation once we didn’t need it to occur. I imagine our guys are locked in proper now. They’re going to be higher, and so will I.
“I believe we’re headed to the right track. Each and every week, we’ve been having explosive plays, but we haven’t been consistent, and that’s been the biggest emphasis for us right now.”
Yet, it’s the Ravens’ personal miscues which have prevented them from being what may’ve been the AFC’s solely undefeated crew and the one different one within the NFL together with the San Francisco 49ers.
How do they stop ones just like the interception Jackson threw proper to Joey Porter Jr. in the long run zone late within the fourth quarter in opposition to the Steelers?
“I believe it’s just fundamentals,” Jackson stated. “Guys simply need to make issues occur. We have been attempting to make one thing occur. … The very first thing is to catch the ball, and that’s simply what we wanted to do. My job is to guard the ball, so once I’m within the pocket, I’ve to have higher pocket presence. It’s simply [on] all of us.
“You hate to lose. You’re going to be frustrated, but [we] can’t dwell on it.”
Week 6
Ravens vs. Titans
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.
TV: Chs. 11, 4, NFL Network
Radio: 97.9 FM, 101.5 FM, 1090 AM
Line: Ravens by 4
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Source: www.bostonherald.com