Ravens' Queen On Loss To Colts - 'No Excuse!'
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Patrick Queen took responsibility after a 22-19 home loss to the Indianapolis Colts in overtime.
"Just gotta get better," Queen said. "No excuse for what we put out on the field today. They had too many rushing yards, too many big plays that we didn't capitalize on. Just simply not doing our job. I gave up a touchdown, I don't give up that touchdown we win so it just starts with us. It starts with me and Ro in the middle, taking over."
Queen registered 12 tackles, seven of which were solo, in the overtime loss. The Ravens gave up 122 rushing yards to Colts running back Zack Moss and 227 passing yards to backup quarterback Gardner Minshew.
The 139 rushing yards that Baltimore allowed were by far the most it had permitted in any game this season. It gave up 72 rushing yards to the Houston Texans in Week 1 and 66 rushing yards to the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 2.
On the last drive of overtime, Moss had a 13-yard run on the first play of the drive to move Indianapolis into field goal range. Three plays and five rushing yards later, Colts kicker Matt Gay drilled a 53-yard game-winning field goal to hand the Ravens their first loss of the season.
"There's too many plays that we want back and that's the thing about the league, you can't have plays that you wanna get back. In order for us to be the team that we wanna be, just gotta capitalize when we're supposed to."
Baltimore's linebackers, Queen and Roquan Smith, have had an exceptional start to the season, but it wasn't enough to get the win on Sunday. Through three games, the two have combined for 64 tackles, three tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks.
The Ravens will try to bounce back next week when they head on the road to play the Cleveland Browns on Oct. 1 at 1 p.m. Both Baltimore and Cleveland will be coming into the game with a 2-1 record.
