“It was a clean tackle,” Smith said. “It was just on ‘Monday Night Football,’ the entire world is watching and, hey, it may look like something, but it wasn’t.”
Maybe the Ravens would have lost no matter what. Or maybe, if they had made just one interception, the locker room would have been filled with smiles and laughter.
In his two-year NFL career, Flowers has missed only one game. He was inactive for the Ravens’ final regular-season game against the Pittsburgh Steelers last year.