Ravens players certainly did not expect to be here, early on Sunday morning, filling heavy-duty trash bags and pondering an offseason that came upon them as quickly as a blind-side sack.
“I think everyone’s just shocked,” fullback Patrick Ricard said.
“Obviously, it’s a shocker,” tight end Mark Andrews said. “I don’t think anyone thought we were going to feel this way today.”
The Ravens, who had won 12 games in a row en route to a franchise-best 14-2 regular-season record and the No. 1 seeding in the AFC, were left to lament their lost opportunity and clean out their lockers a day after they were upset, 28-12, by the sixth-seeded Tennessee Titans in the divisional round of the playoffs Jan. 11.
