The Ravens lost to the Steelers, 17-10, in Week 5 in Pittsburgh. RSR staff react to the loss here.
Darin McCann
Absolutely ridiculous, horrendous, disgusting, rancid, stomach-churning, humiliating defeat to a team the Ravens should have beaten about 37 different times on Sunday. There are far too many failures to mention them all here. We’ll have all week to re-hash this nonsense over and over again.
Derek Arnold
Just completely inexcusable by everyone involved. The Ravens shot themselves in the foot for 3.5 quarters following their opening-drive TD, with dropped passes (so, so many dropped passes), a blocked punt, an interception in the end zone (run the ball, maybe?), and a completely inexplicable call to go for it on a fourth down in chip-shot FG range.
Getting so many players back from injury, against THAT Steelers team, this should have been a cakewalk. But the Ravens refuse to make anything easy on themselves. Steelers fans were ready to riot early on. Instead of helping them light their torches, the Ravens lit their own butts on fire. The only way Pittsburgh can win is if you make mistakes. So, you make them, nonstop.
Embarrassing.
Jared Pinder
The Baltimore Ravens beat the Baltimore Ravens, the Steelers were just on the field. What makes this loss so bad is that this year was supposed to be different. New OC, better weapons, and nothing ever changes with this team. To say the receivers let Lamar down today would be the understatement of the year. Everyone had a bad game. The Ravens had over eight drops today and along with that Zay Flowers completely cost them when he fell down on what would be an easy touchdown. Todd Monken isn’t escaping criticism today either because his stubbornness to not run the ball cost them in the fourth.
The defense was awesome but they were so done by the fourth quarter.
This game is an embarrassment and it was a waste of talent.
This game was a complete waste of time.
Chad Racine
This game should have been a three score game at halftime. The Ravens looked like the superior team early but continued to make one mistake after another, mainly dropped passes with six-plus of them. Another reminder it’s a week to week league.
Rob Shields
Absolutely pathetic. The Ravens were dominating that game. They were thrashing them on the ground, dominating them up front and, yet again, another fumble kills momentum.
Dropped pass after dropped pass, bad coaching decisions, poor execution, bad ball security and your $250M QB unable to make the plays down the stretch to secure a win.
Last week, the Steelers were dominated by the Texans and they shut down Watt. You can’t figure out how to do the same thing?
This is becoming an indictment on John Harbaugh. It’s the same problems every week. It’s the same issues year after year.
Harbaugh is going come out and talk about how hard they fought and how proud he is of that. I wish he would just shut up. He’s a broken record.
On top of all of this, they go overseas to play a decent Tennessee team next week.
Kevin McNelis
Last year, the Ravens collapsed against Pittsburgh in January, losing their fifth game of the season in which they had blown a double-digit lead. They’re up to two now, going into Week 6. I watched two of my teams make the same mistake in back-to-back days (thanks, Maryland): take the damn points.
I caught flak two weeks ago for saying that Harbs’ “win or learn” mantra is getting played out, with a few people saying that the messaging isn’t for the fans. Fair point. So if it’s not for us, is it for the players? Because I guess they must have missed the memo.
Talk about pissing down your leg.
Tanner George
What a horrendous, horrendous game.
The Ravens were absolutely terrible today and threw away a golden opportunity to start the year 4-1. The “new and improved” receiving corps get an F- in my book with six official dropped passes, but it looked like a whole lot more. Odell Beckham and Rashod Bateman were nowhere to be found all game… except when Bateman dropped an easy touchdown and OBJ left with an injury.
The coaching staff needs to take a long, hard look at this game after some pretty terrible decisions, such as throwing away a drive starting at the Pittsburgh 7 yard line. Rather than just pounding the ball with Gus Edwards, who picked up four on first down, Harbs and Monken decided to pretend Lamar-Andrews is just as good as Mahomes-Kelce with that unnecessary little shovel pass that went nowhere. The third down back-shoulder fade was equally atrocious. Don’t get me started on the decision to go for it on fourth down instead of taking three points at the end of the first half.
Not sure why the offense completely disappears in the third and fourth quarters, but it’s something that the Ravens need to figure out… and fast.
Overall, a very bad, bad game. Let’s hope this doesn’t carry over to the London game against a Tennessee team that’s given us fits in the past…
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This is the kind of games that get a head coach fired. This is been going on for the last seven or eight years. We lose to a clearly inferior team three or four times this season. This cost us seeds company of time and away games instead of home games. There is no fixing this. The head coach needs to go. Thank you for the Super Bowl, harbs but enough is enough.
Sure is poor couching, QB to inconsistent 2nd time they were given ball on the 5yard line & haven’t scored yet.Not even a FG. I realize there pros, but fir 3Q’s played like semi -pro. Right now don’t look like a championship team. Jackson & Prescott both over paid, can’t handle pressure.
You’re a little late with your criticism of Harbaugh, who may be the worst game day coach in the history of the game and always has been! As for Lamar, they will rue the day they gave him all that money!
Amen. Will be watching 2007 all over again, you know, Billick’s last season here, and I look forward to a 9 to 10 game losing streak to make mgmt realize Johnny Boy is done and gone.
Only been asking for his departure since the 2019 fiasco. Glad many commenting here have caught up…
This was a team loss but the head coach continues to make mistakes (Indy game with clock mismanagement) and his trademark horrible decisions—today passing up the 1st half field goal.
How long will Mr. Biscotti put up with this?
surreal…we scored 10 points….once again harbaugh eschews sure points in a game in which points are at a premium..we have the best fg kicker in the league…harbs is still doing the same stuff…we would have been up 2 possessions going into the half in a game in which the steelers offense was inert…thinking back last year we LOST several games in which our back-up qb did enough to win but harbs kept going for two or just chose to go on 4th in imapprpriate situations…..it`s a REAL problem…a perpetual problem…TAKE THE DAMNED POINTS…points are hard to come by in this league…
the drops were horrific…but the real problem is lamar`s inabilty to finish games..against indy we had multiple opportunities to get one or two first downs from roughly midfield …we got none….
he was let down by his receivers…but he also missed a bunch of passes…that play where zay tripped was was because that pass forced him to redirect in full stride……jerry sandusky called it a “drop”….he needs to have his play by play credentials pulled for that flight of fantasy….
now the radio crew will be in full fledged damage control….
i`m glad you guys aren`t apologists…….that was a disgrace…one of thee worst…
Its like the Colts game all over again. Ravens can’t seem to close the deal and the drops from our so called WR’S are killing us!
Did anyone see Watt just punch Flowers in the face with the ball no where around. Players get ejected for punches less obvious then that for sure we would have been tossed
Harbaugh single handedly costs the Ravens at least 2 games every year. He coaches like he is the most important part of the team and needs to interject his personality into the game. Just stay home please.
And Lamar, you need to be a leader and not a pouter! Your negative facial reactions to screw ups on the field
do not help the team. Ever hear of the saying “cool, calm and collected”? Try it. That stuff rubs off.
After sitting in the rain watching the pathetic play with the Irsays this game was not surprising to me at all. Pickett is not Big Ben. Ravens are the king of hype in the offseason but year after year they wet the bed. The injury list got smaller as the loses mounted.
Steve B. needs to pull the plug on the John Harbaugh era. He was instrumental in the loss today as well as in the Colt’s loss. The Ravens should be 5-0 instead of 3-2 The loss today and the Colt loss are the reasons why the Ravens are always a wild card instead of hosting a playoff game.
After 6 seasons and how many coaches do we have on the team, can someone teach Lamar how to see or read blitz pressures and get rid of the ball? That’s what Hot Routes are for, why is this not part of a Monken offense, or is it and just not being ran? Unnecessary sacks, fumbles, and turnovers will always lead to defeat.
$260,000,000/yr…..$52,000,000/yr…..$1,000,000/wk…let that sink in…$1,000,000 PER WEEK. The next 5 years are going to be tough going I believe.
Were you around for 2000 and 2012? I guess not.
Steelers have won exactly the same number of Lombardis as the Ravens since they have been in existence. The Ravens have a much better team and beat themselves today.
The Ravens beat themselves.
Good teams find ways to win and bad teams find ways to lose! The same applies to…..head coaches!