Last night, John Harbaugh said he asked a game official for a clarification, "but no one was explaining too much at that point in time." He also said he thought breaking the plane was the determining factor. The players on the field couldn't tell. They said no one in black and white was telling them, either.
Otherwise, they kept their lips buttoned, unwilling to repeat the embarrassment of a year ago, when two debatable calls that helped the Patriots survive at M&T Bank triggered a meltdown on-field and in the locker room, for which they were heavily fined.
Still, they pushed the idea that they cost themselves long before that call, and that the call did not lose the game. Sorry, but they're two separate issues.
