Joe Flacco on Ravens' loss to Cowboys: 'We should beat this team'
Joe Flacco wasn't content to come within striking distance of beating the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
The Baltimore Ravens quarterback was left with a frustrated feeling after his team came up short in a 27-17 loss. Afterward, he spoke of the game as a missed opportunity.
"We should beat this team. I'm not kidding," Flacco told reporters in a news conference. "I felt very confident coming into this game, and I really feel like we should beat this team. We should beat pretty much every team we play. The couple that you lose, you hurt yourself and you lose them. That's not what we're doing right now.
"We're obviously not as good as we would like to be. No, I don't want to take any moral victories. I came into this game — I think we all did — very confident that we were going to do something nice and, not shock ourselves, but shock everybody else. And that just didn't happen."
Baltimore trailed 24-17 early in the fourth quarter after Flacco's 5-yard touchdown pass to Steve Smith, but Dallas responded with a field goal drive that took 6:26 off the clock. The Ravens edged the Cowboys in yards per play (7.1 to 6.2) but had 12 penalties for 136 yards and converted just three of nine third-down opportunities.
Flacco finished with 269 yards and a touchdown on 23-of-35 passing.
The loss allowed the Pittsburgh Steelers, who defeated the Cleveland Browns 24-9, to jump into a tie for first place with the Ravens (5-5) in the AFC North.
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