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Đã gửi: Thứ 6 12/07/19 11:38The Baltimore Ravens find themselves 4-4 at the midway point of the NFL season and with a once vaunted and top-ranked defense suddenly looking inward for answers."I'm very concerned Tommylee Lewis Jersey Stitched ," Ravens nose tackle Michael Pierce said. "We have to find a way to correct this ASAP if we want to reach our goal, which is to get to the playoffs."For the second week in row, the league's top-ranked defense struggled against an NFC South opponent.Baltimore allowed Cam Newton and the Panthers to roll up 386 yards on offense and score 24 first half points in a 36-21 loss Sunday in a game that wasn't as close as the score indicated. Newton scored three touchdowns in all, and the Panthers used misdirection plays to keep the Ravens off balance.Baltimore never sacked Newton and failed to create a turnover.It didn't help that Joe Flacco threw two interceptions and running back Alex Collins fumbled, leading to a Carolina touchdown.But the defense, which has been the strength of this team, once again wasn't there.The loss comes one week after Baltimore's defense allowed Drew Brees to throw for 212 yards and two touchdowns and the Saints to run for 134 yards in a 24-23 loss."You know, we are 4-4. We're an average team," safety Eric Weddle said. "We just lost, got blown out. So we're, I wouldn't say rock bottom, but we have to look at ourselves and get back to work."Division foes Pittsburgh (4-2-1) and Cincinnati (5-3) both won Sunday, leaving the Ravens in third and in need of a win next week when they host the Steelers Youth Tyeler Davison Jersey , who've won three straight."It's a huge game," Weddle said. "Obviously a divisional game leading into the bye. The way our division is shaping up, this is a big game for us. Look at yourself — don't get emotional, don't get sensitive. This is part of the National Football League, so get coached up, look at the things you didn't do well and move on. Don't let this loss linger in any way. Just continue to get better. That's all we can do. "Added Pierce: "It's personal pride and we have to man up to what everybody's doing and see what is going on, because two weeks in a row we didn't get the job done."Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs said the team will need to rely on its veteran leaders to get through this tough time — and stay even keeled along the way."We are not going to get too low, but the attention to detail increases now," Suggs said. "We have to play better in the red zone, and we have to play better situational football. Therefore, the game doesn't get so on top of us. We are extremely disappointed, but we have enough veterans on this team and we understand the task at hand. Especially with all these home games we've got coming, so if we handle our business at home Tyeler Davison Jersey Stitched , we will be all right."Ravens Coach John Harbaugh said he was "surprised" at his team's disappointing performance, particularly after they jumped out to an early 7-0 lead and seemed to have momentum."Yeah, I didn't expect that," Harbaugh said. "We just didn't click in anything. We weren't good in any area. There was nothing we did well and that starts with me. I mean, that's where it belongs, so put it on me and then move forward and get ready for Pittsburgh." Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh said the lessons his team learned losing improbable fashion will help his team the rest of the season.Harbaugh praised his team's performance against New Orleans 鈥?with the possible exception of one missed kick.Playing without two starting offensive linemen and with standout cornerback Marlon Humphrey watching from the sideline on Sunday, the Ravens limited Drew Brees to 212 yards passing and scored the potential game-tying touchdown with 24 seconds left by virtue of a six-play, 81-yard drive engineered deftly by quarterback Joe Flacco.Then, with overtime looming, Justin Tucker's seemingly automatic conversion sailed to the right . He was previously 222 for 222 since turning pro in 2012.The 24-23 defeat dropped Baltimore (4-3) out of a first-place tie in the AFC North with a matchup at Carolina upcoming Sunday."Our guys played very well," Harbaugh said Monday. "Many of the things that we learned in this last game, we can apply to the rest of the season. And we're going to try to do that and make the game a positive in that sense."At kickoff, the wind was blowing at 15 mph. Tucker didn't use that as an excuse Youth Craig Robertson Jersey , though that might have been a factor in his unexpected misfire."The wind was definitely part of it," Harbaugh insisted. "But at the end of the day, it's a missed kick."Tucker couldn't deny that."I feel like I cost us the game," he said Sunday night. "Every single one of my teammates thus far has told me the opposite, and no one play wins or loses a game. But that's a tough thing to grapple with when you're the guy in that situation at the end of the game."Harbaugh considered for a moment going for a 2-point conversion, but dismissed the notion because the plan all along was to kick the ball in that situation."The numbers say to put it in overtime. That's what the analytics say. It's a clear choice," Harbaugh said. "We have a Saturday morning meeting where we go through all those factors, and we had decided we would put it in overtime if it came to that."But you know, I had thoughts about going for 2. I was asked that, I thought about it. Your gut sometimes talks to you and you make a decision at the end based on that. At the end, I decided to go with what we talked about doing."One reason the Ravens are tough in overtime is because Tucker is the most accurate field goal kicker in NFL history and is 36 for 50 over his career from at least 50 yards out.Give Baltimore credit for getting in position to tie the game in the final minute, in part because the offensive line was thinned by injuries to Alex Lewis and James Hurst. Rookies Bradley Bozeman and Orlando Brown Jr. saw extensive action, and through it all Flacco was sacked only once."I thought they acquitted themselves very well Craig Robertson Jersey Stitched ," Harbaugh said of Bozeman and Brown. "Both of them will learn from it. I think they'll get a lot better because of the game experience they had and the speed of the game and all that. It was a positive in that sense."A victory would have given the Ravens sole possession of first place in the division. But who's to say they would have won in overtime?"It's one of these games that could've went either way," Flacco said. "There's no sense in putting your head down and crying about stuff like this. You just have to move on."The Ravens don't intend to let the loss define their season."We're not feeling sorry for ourselves. We fell one point short," said linebacker Terrell Suggs, who had the team's lone sack of Brees. "We've got the best kicker in ball, so we're not going to worry about that. We go back to the drawing board, get over this one quick, learn from your mistakes and get ready for Carolina."If that game comes down to a kick from Tucker in the closing seconds, there is a good chance he won't be thinking about his miss against the Saints."Justin's the best in the world at what he does, and he's the most confident person that I know," Flacco said. "It's not going to be an issue."