Broncos’ Vic Fangio calls Ravens’ late rush ‘bulls—’; John Harbaugh responds

Vic Fangio did not care in regards to the Ravens’ milestone they had been chasing. That late rush was nonetheless bush league to him.

The Ravens had been main Sunday’s recreation towards the Broncos 23-7 and had the ball again with three seconds left within the recreation. As a substitute of taking the knee to finish the sport, Lamar Jackson rushed ahead for 5 yards to present the Ravens 102 speeding yards on the day, extending Baltimore’s streak to tie the NFL report with 43 straight video games of 100-plus speeding yards in a recreation.

Fangio made his ideas identified in regards to the rush on Monday, based on Denver7’s Troy Renck.

“I believed it was kinda bulls—, however I anticipated it from them,” Fangio mentioned. “Thirty-seven years in professional ball, I’ve by no means seen something like that, but it surely was to be anticipated. We anticipated it.”

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Fangio defined he noticed it coming as a result of he is aware of how they function.

“That is simply their mode of operation there,” Fangio mentioned. “Participant security is secondary.”

And Fangio did not wait till after the sport to point out his frustration with the decision. He was seen on the sidelines getting visibly annoyed and yelling out expletives as quickly as Jackson rushed forward because the clock was winding down.

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Ravens coach John Harbaugh had his personal response, saying that he thought he and Fangio had been on good phrases however that he wasn’t “going to present that insult one second thought.”

He mentioned the Ravens did not anticipate to get the ball again, but when they did, they had been going to attempt to get the yards.

“Throwing the ball in the long run zone with 10 seconds left, I do not know if there is a 16-point landing that is going to be doable proper there so that did not have something to do with profitable the sport,” Harbaugh mentioned. “Like I mentioned, what’s significant to us won’t be significant to them and we’re not going to concern ourselves with that.”

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The choice to run the ball was a bit shocking. After the Ravens intercepted Broncos quarterback Drew Lock in the long run zone with three seconds left, all they needed to do was take a knee as soon as and the sport could be over. Especially with Jackson already having come into the game questionable to start with again soreness, opting to hurry the franchise quarterback to select up 3 yards on the very finish of a recreation appeared like taking an pointless danger.

However Harbaugh defended the choice after the sport, saying it was his resolution to go for the yardage.

“100% my name,” Harbaugh mentioned. “That is a kind of issues that is significant. As a head coach, you must be aware of your gamers and your coaches and what it means to them.”

Even Jackson was caught off guard by the choice to run for it.

“My coach, James City, informed me that coach needs to run a play to get three yards actually fast to maintain the report going and that is what we did,” Jackson mentioned, according to Sports Illustrated . “I do not know what he was considering. I believed we’d take a knee and he mentioned, no, we’re going for it. The sport was put away. ‘Double-A’ (cornerback Anthony Averett) caught that decide behind the top zone, congratulations to him, however I do not know what coach was considering.”

The Ravens will now take their share of the record of consecutive games with at least 100 rushing yards into Sunday’s conflict with the Colts. The Colts have allowed 456 speeding yards in 4 video games, together with 180 yards to the Titans in Week 3.