Ravens - 23, Jaguars - 7
Q. Doug, you talked about eliminating the BS earlier in the week. How disappointing was it to get into Ravens territory so many times and come away empty in the first half?
COACH PEDERSON: That's the head scratcher. That's the frustrating part. Again, we can't get out of our way. That's the frustrating part because we do some really good things, and then it's a play two or here and there that keep us from scoring.
Q. When you keep saying week after week the team keeps shooting themselves in the foot, and it's things that are controllable mistakes, how frustrating is that?
COACH PEDERSON: It's extremely frustrating because, again, it's the pride of the team. It's the individual efforts. There's great effort out there. It's just that we've just got to be ultra focused on doing our jobs and doing their jobs. And the number one prized possession on the field is the football and we've gotta do a better job protecting it.
Q. Could you walk us through the final 30 seconds of the first half, the decision to -- obviously the completion to Zay and the decision to not immediately spike the ball and give it to Parker?
COACH PEDERSON: We're going to stay aggressive. We've scored before in those situations. It was just a mistake, I think, by Trevor, obviously, knowing the situation and knowing how much time is left right there.
It's a great learning experience for us from the standpoint of don't throw it inbounds to be tackled in that situation. We're learn from that one, but just another great opportunity for us to try to get in the end zone.
Q. To be clear, though, the plan, he was not going to spike it?
COACH PEDERSON: He was not going to spike it.
Q. Defense, how do you feel it played? Communication-wise, that was an issue the last couple weeks. How did you feel?
COACH PEDERSON: I felt the defense really came to play. Kind of kept them down. Did some good things in the first half. Obviously I think it was the third quarter Baltimore did the Baltimore things. They began running the football, and those were the things that kind of started to show up in the third quarter.
They rattled off a couple of big runs. I thought for the most part defense kept us in the game, kept us close and did some good things for us.
Q. Not to belabor the point, but should Trevor be beyond making that kind of mistake right there at the end of the first half and throwing it inbounds at this point, year three?
COACH PEDERSON: You can put it on us, too, put it on us as coaches. Coach that situation a little bit better.
Q. When you saw the pass get completed, did you initially think (indiscernible) spike, or did you initially think in your mind go and make sure --
COACH PEDERSON: Initially I was hoping -- when you're anticipating that we'd get out of bounds, in that situation right there, you get to the sideline or you score. We did out-leverage the defense. They made a nice play, tackled him inbounds. When the pass was completed, I thought we had a good chance of getting to the front pylon.
Q. They ended up running for about 250 yards. You were about 75 yards on the ground. Are you concerned at this stage with the physicality of the team in terms of running the ball, defending the run?
COACH PEDERSON: When you say physicality, what do you mean?
Q. Seems like you guys are losing in the trenches a lot.
COACH PEDERSON: You get beat. You get edged. Those are things that are going to happen. But we've got to continue to just grind away and just figure out how to win a football game, whether we're running it, throwing it, kicking it, it doesn't matter.
Right now we're just not good enough to pull these games out against good football teams. That's the honest truth. Until we figure that out, it's going to be rough. And so it's just a matter of continuing to work and taking your job serious and getting ready for another one next week.
Q. In baseball, there's a thing that says you're squeezing the bat too hard, trying too hard to impress. Do you sense that with this group? And how are they reacting with all this adversity at this point?
COACH PEDERSON: I don't see us pressing. I just think that it's a matter of just we have to understand that the number one thing out there is the football -- pre-snap penalties and the football. That's the one thing that's kind of plagued us all season. We're just giving points away. And it's hard. We're making it too hard.
Q. On the subject of running the ball, seemed like you guys established Travis on the first few drives. Got D'Ernest and Tank involved and then got away from it. Did you go away from it because it wasn't effective at some point?
COACH PEDERSON: No, I think, too, it was dependent on what they were giving us defensively, with going in and out of their base defense, nickel defense and taking advantage of some opportunities and putting the ball in the air.
And obviously we did some good things throwing the ball, but then you fall behind and you have to put the ball in the air more.
Q. How significant is Zay, the hamstring, do you know? And was Trevor okay on the last drive or two? Looked like he was shaking his arm a few times.
COACH PEDERSON: Zay, hamstring. I don't know the severity of it. But it looked bad on the field. So he'll be evaluated tonight and tomorrow. So I'll probably have a better update for you.
And in Trevor's case, he was evaluated after the game and he'll actually enter the protocol.
Q. What's your confidence level in Brandon McManus right now?
COACH PEDERSON: It's still high. He's a veteran kicker. He knows that these last couple of weeks haven't been his best. And he had opportunities tonight to score some points for us and keep us close, and I know he takes a lot of pride in that, and he'll work on it this week and be better for it.
Q. Did you say concussion protocol for Trevor?
COACH PEDERSON: Yes.
Q. Did that happen on the run play, do you know?
COACH PEDERSON: I think so. I'm not 100 percent. But I think so, yeah.
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