Ravens Offense Faltered After Touchdown Reversal
While the Ravens aren’t satisfied with the call on reversing Likely’s touchdown, Harbaugh also acknowledged that they did not get the job done on their end on that play or afterwards.
While Likely extended the ball to box out Steelers cornerback Joey Porter Jr. at first, he didn’t protect it well enough. Likely has now lost a potential touchdown in back-to-back games due to ball security.
Harbaugh said that is not how Likely is coached to catch the ball.
Even after that ruling, the Ravens had a shot to score a touchdown. They got an 8-yard completion to Derrick Henry on the next play, but their third-and-2 play was doomed from the start and resulted in a 3-yard loss.
“It’s crazy that that happened. I don’t think we had an understanding between the [coaches]’ box and the field, in terms of what we wanted to do there, and that’s [a] communication [issue],” Harbaugh said.
“We have to take responsibility for that on the coaching side, so I’ll take responsibility for that one. It shouldn’t happen. We thought we were going to be OK with the formation, and it didn’t turn out [that] we were. So if I had to do it again, I definitely would’ve called timeout if I’d known that [and] felt that way.”
The Ravens went for it on fourth-and-5, but Jackson’s pass was tipped by Mark Andrews and fell incomplete. It looked like Jackson may have actually been targeting DeAndre Hopkins in the back of the end zone, though Harbaugh said he didn’t know for sure.
