The Ravens had a five-game winning streak to move from 1-5 to 6-5, but they never won two straight games after Week 12. Baltimore was just 3-6 at home and ended the season by losing four of its last six games.<\/p>\n
To Kolar, the end of Sunday’s game felt like a horror movie he had already seen somewhere before.<\/p>\n
“The last game was kind of an encapsulation of the entire season,” Kolar said. “Good teams find a way to win, and we just didn’t do that enough this year. All three phases have to find a way to play complementary football.<\/p>\n
“We all thought we were going to win that game. Twelve hours later, it’s the team meeting and the season’s over.”<\/p>\n
Ricard is a pending free agent but wants to return to the Ravens next season. He doesn’t believe that Baltimore’s window to win a championship has closed with its current nucleus of players.<\/p>\n
“As long as we have Lamar Jackson, I feel like this team can win a Super Bowl,” Ricard said. “He makes this thing go. And to have Derrick [Henry], that’s a big reason I signed back last year. That’s a dream backfield to have Lamar and Derrick.”<\/p>\n
Ricard was asked if close losses in recent years leave scar tissue that makes it harder to eventually break through. As a veteran, Ricard plans to use this latest bitter defeat as motivation.<\/p>\n
“I think, if anything, you just have to look at it as a lesson, something to fuel you,” Ricard said. “We all want to win. We all want a Super Bowl, and when we fall short, you have to look in the mirror and [at] yourself and try to think of what you could have done better.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ravens had a five-game winning streak to move from 1-5 to 6-5, but they never won two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[184333,184334,19686,257,11179,17263,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-390202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2025-week-18","9":"tag-2025-week-18-news","10":"tag-clifton-brown","11":"tag-general","12":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","13":"tag-inline-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}