"Clear as mud right now": John Harbaugh doesn't mince words on catch rule after confronting NFL for disallowed Lamar Jackson to Isaiah Likely TD

John Harbaugh spoke to NFL officials about the catch rule after Lamar Jackson's overturned touchdown and got zero answers. The Ravens coach made his feelings clear about how the league handles receptions.

Harbaugh has been running Baltimore's sideline since 2008. The controversial call happened in Sunday's game against Pittsburgh, which the Ravens lost 27-22.

"That's how I feel about it," Harbaugh said on Monday, via The Athletic's Jeff Zrebiec. "We had a conversation with the league office and we appreciate that. It didn't clear anything up. It didn't make it any easier to understand."

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Harbaugh said the catch rule "is about as clear as mud right now." "That's how I feel about it. We had a conversation with the league office and we appreciate that. It didn't clear anything up. It didn't make it any easier to understand."

The call came after officials waved off the go-ahead touchdown from Jackson to tight end Isaiah Likely. The play happened with Baltimore trailing 27-22 with under three minutes left.

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John Harbaugh didn't stop at the Isaiah Likely play. He brought up another reversed call from earlier in the game.

The Ravens thought they had an interception when a Steelers pass got tipped and Baltimore linebacker Teddye Buchanan and Aaron Rodgers both caught the rebound. Officials reviewed it and called it incomplete, saying the Pittsburgh quarterback never completed the catch process.

"When you're making a catch, you have to survive the ground," Harbaugh told reporters after the game.

"(Rodgers) didn't survive the ground. He's not down by contact, he was catching the ball on the way down with another person. You gotta make a catch there and survive the ground. I don't know why it was ruled the way it was on that one."

Lamar Jackson's next three plays went nowhere, and Mark Andrews couldn't haul in a fourth-down pass.

Baltimore's playoff odds got cut in half after the loss. The Steelers (7-6) are alone atop the AFC North, one game clear of the Ravens (6-7) heading into Week 15.