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John Harbaugh had a talk with NFL officials about the catch rule following Lamar Jackson's overturned touchdowns and got zero answer. The Ravens coach expressed his feelings about how the league handles receptions.
Harbaugh has been managing Baltimore's sideline since 2008. The controversial call took place in Sunday's game against Pittsburgh, which the Raens lost 27-22.
"That's how I feel about it," Harbaugh said on Monday, via The Athletic's Jeff Zrebiec. "We had a conversation with the league office and we appreciate that. It didn't clear anything up. It didn't make it any easier to understand."
The Call came following officials waving off the go-ahead touchdown from Jackson to tight end Isaiah Likely. The play happened with Baltimore trailing 27-22 with under three minutes left.
Harbaugh highlights inconsistency after back-to-back costly calls against Baltimore
John Harbaugh did not stop at the Isaiah Likely play. He remembered another reversed call from earlier in the game.
The Ravens believed that they had an interception when a Steelers pass got tipped and Baltimore linebacker Teddye Buchanan and Aaron Rodgers both caught the rebound. Officials reviewed it and labelled it incomplete, saying the Pittsburgh quarterback never completed the catch process.
"When you're making a catch, you have to survive the ground," Harbaugh told reporters after the game.
"(Rodgers) didn't survive the ground. He's not down by contact, he was catching the ball on the way down with another person. You gotta make a catch there and survive the ground. I don't know why it was ruled the way it was on that one."
Lamar Jackson's next three players went nowhere, and Mark Andrews could not haul in a fourth-down pass.
Baltimore's playoff odds got split in half after the defeat. The Steelers (7-6) are alone atop the AFC North, one game clear of the Ravens (6-7) going into Week 15.
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