Uncle Si":2nmojjra said:
Harbs also said they lost communication in the fourth quarter as well. Coach John Harbaugh said the communication system was down on the visitors' sideline when the Ravens tried to drive down the field in the final minutes and tie the game with a touchdown and a two-point conversion.
“The phones were going out. We lost our phones,” Harbaugh said. “There’s always going to be some confusion. The good thing was that we got everything done fast. We didn’t lose any time. We’ll go back and study it, but according to the clock, we got things done pretty darn quickly. But the phones were going out.”
Harbaugh said Flacco couldn’t hear offensive coordinator Marc Trestman, which forced players to have to run on the field with play calls and personnel groupings. The Ravens ultimately got all the way down to the Cardinals 4-yard line in the final seconds, but Flacco was intercepted by Tony Jefferson to seal the game.
“It was happening on and off throughout the game, but it got bad in the final drive,” Harbaugh said. “All those kinds of things are really challenging when the phones are out.”
“It was way too hectic out there,” Flacco said. “We were running guys in and out. It was just too much communication going on for the amount of time that we had left and guys were just confused. Rightfully so, it is loud out there and it was just a little bit too hectic.”
But hey. The refs called a phantom hold on the Cardinals in the 2nd to last drive that made it go from 2nd and 3 to 1st and 20 killing it.
They then missed a hold going for a sack where our DL was tackled by the neck in desperation and brought down.
They then missed 12 men in the huddle on the Ravens (all in the final 3 minutes of the game)
It was a poorly officiated game overall. Only 1 holding call the entire game and it was a phantom call.