Ravens not hitting ‘panic button’ after one other late collapse

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Earlier than speaking to reporters after Sunday’s 24-20 loss to the New York Giants, Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson sat bent over in a chair off to the aspect along with his face buried in his left hand.

It was the portrait of essentially the most irritating begin in franchise historical past.

The Ravens now have misplaced three video games by which they held double-digit leads within the first six weeks of a season. Jackson turned over the ball on the ultimate two drives as Baltimore watched a 20-10 lead within the fourth quarter flip into one other late-game collapse.

“We have made some errors, let some ballgames slip away,” Ravens defensive finish Calais Campbell mentioned. “However we will use it as gas to get higher, to maintain preventing, to not chill out and to discover a approach to enhance. Or we will simply let it eat at you and make extra errors. I feel it is sort of simply a kind of locations the place it is nonetheless early within the season. We’re not going to hit the panic button.”

Baltimore (3-3) is the thirty ninth workforce in NFL historical past to carry a double-digit lead in every of its first six video games. It’s the just one to not have a successful document.

“If you find yourself your individual greatest enemy, that is actually one thing that may frustrate anybody,” Ravens left sort out Ronnie Stanley mentioned. “We all know how a lot expertise we now have on this workforce. We will pull it collectively. That is sort of the frustration that everyone has.”

With 3 minutes, 4 seconds left within the recreation and holding a three-point lead, Jackson ran to recuperate an errant snap and threw an off-balance move over the center of the sphere, the place it was intercepted. The Giants turned Jackson’s sixth interception of the season into Saquon Barkley’s successful 1-yard landing.

Then, when trailing for the primary time all recreation, Jackson fumbled after being stripped by Kayvon Thibodeaux.

In his first 4 seasons, Jackson had three regular-season losses as a starter when main by 10 factors. In six video games this season, he has matched that complete.

After the sport, Jackson went across the locker room and shook about 20 gamers’ palms.

“We simply cannot preserve beating ourselves up as a result of that is what it’s,” Jackson mentioned. “It isn’t our opponent … I really feel like we simply beating ourselves with little errors right here and there.”

Failing to complete video games has been a recurring nightmare for Baltimore. In Week 2, the Ravens misplaced to the Miami Dolphins, 42-38, after main by 21 factors within the fourth quarter. In Week 4, Baltimore fell to the Buffalo Payments, 23-20, regardless of holding a 17-point lead late within the second quarter.

After Sunday’s meltdown, Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey tweeted a quote from Albert Einstein: “Madness: Doing the identical factor over and over and anticipating totally different outcomes.”

“We’ll regroup, we’ll go to work, and we will discover ourselves as a soccer workforce,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh mentioned. “That is what we now have to do proper now: discover ourselves as a soccer workforce. We now have a possibility to be an excellent soccer workforce. We will be pretty much as good as we wish to be and resolve to be.”