Before the controversial ending, there were also missed opportunities.
With 10 seconds left in the game and the Ravens trailing the Chiefs 27-20, Lamar Jackson desperately scrambled in the end zone for a receiver.
Zay Flowers found a gap in the zone defense and was completely free, but the pass just didn't get anywhere near him.
Replays suggested Flowers was the intended receiver, but Jackson made a different claim in his post-game press conference.
“I see [Rashod] “Bateman was coming up, and I was pitching the ball thinking Bateman was going to stop, and I saw Flowers, and I was like, (f sound),” Jackson said in his postgame press conference. “It wasn't for Zay Flowers.”
Jackson's explanation makes sense, as his errant pitch was well behind Flowers.
Bateman was running left across the field as an under receiver, and Jackson expected him to settle into the zone, but Bateman just kept going.
But Bateman looked well covered while Flowers was begging for the ball in wide space.
“I was pissed at the time. I felt like if I'd kept the ball a little longer, I could have thrown it to Zay for a touchdown,” Jackson said. “Zay, when he threw the ball, I wanted to say something. These things happen.”
Bateman deserves a lot of credit for completing a wild 38-yard pass play that led Baltimore to the 10-yard line with three attempts in the end zone.
On his first crack, Jackson again fumbled a pass to Isaiah Likely, who was open in the back left corner of the end zone.
After Flowers missed, Jackson targeted Likely again, and this time the tight end Likely went down with the ball but with his toe on the out-of-bounds line.
Coach John Harbaugh suggested that if the Ravens had scored, they would have gone for the two-point drive to win the game.
Baltimore will be able to bounce back from this defeat at home against the Raiders in Week 2.
