Knee-Jerk Reactions: Steleers 17 Ravens 10

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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