BALTIMORE (AP) — A day later, John Harbaugh still wasn't satisfied with the way the NFL determines if a catch has been made.
“It’s about as clear as mud right now," the Baltimore coach said.
The Ravens lost their biggest game of the season Monday, 27-22 to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Two replay reviews went against Baltimore in the fourth quarter. One of them turned an interception into a Pittsburgh catch, and the other changed a touchdown by the Ravens into an incompletion.
Harbaugh said Monday he and general manager Eric DeCosta had spoken to the league.
“It didn’t clear anything up. It didn’t make it any easier to understand in either one of the two calls,” Harbaugh said. “They’re very hard to understand how they get overturned, but they did, and that’s where it stands.”
Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was ruled to have caught his own pass and been down by contact before losing control of the ball and having it intercepted by a Raven. Then Isaiah Likely lost a TD when the ball was knocked away from him after both his feet landed in the end zone, but before he completed an additional step.
Harbaugh said the league did acknowledge a mistake on a second-quarter penalty on Baltimore that occurred when the Steelers were attempting a field goal. Travis Jones was called for unnecessary roughness, giving Pittsburgh a first down. The Steelers scored a touchdown on the next play to go up 17-3.
“The Travis Jones call, they told me, and they told me I had permission to state this, that it was a wrong call,” Harbaugh said. “It should not have been called.”
Now Baltimore (6-7) is playing catch-up again. The Ravens staggered to a 1-5 start thanks in part to an injury to Lamar Jackson. Then they won five in a row, but the star quarterback didn't look totally healthy and the offense was out of sorts. Now they've lost two straight divisional games at home, and next week's prime-time visit to Cincinnati feels like a must-win.
Baltimore is just a game behind Pittsburgh (7-6) atop the AFC North, and the teams meet again in Week 18. But if the Ravens fall to the Bengals, they would need the Steelers to lose to Cleveland to have any shot at winning a tiebreaker with Pittsburgh.
Baltimore’s offense still settled for too many field goals, but Jackson and Derrick Henry looked a little more like themselves in the second half. The Ravens finished with 420 yards of offense, their highest total since Week 1.
The Baltimore offensive line still has plenty of issues, but the defensive front was a concern in this game. The pass rush against the 42-year-old Rodgers wasn't nearly good enough. He wasn't sacked a single time and had enough time to revive a downfield passing game that had been dormant for Pittsburgh.
Kyle Van Noy has just two sacks this season for the Ravens after posting 12 1/2 last season.
Likely hasn't had a particularly good season, but he was a factor in this game, scoring a third-quarter touchdown and nearly adding a game winner late in the fourth.
Tyler Loop missed an extra point and wasn't great on kickoffs. Mark Andrews had only one catch in his first game after agreeing to a three-year extension.
Keaton Mitchell's 55-yard run in the third quarter gave Baltimore a much-needed jolt, but he left with a knee injury. With Justice Hill also out, the Ravens are running out of rushing options besides Henry, who had 94 yards on a season-high 25 carries.
Harbaugh did say Mitchell was day to day.
“We got good news," he said.
The Ravens lost at home for the fifth time this season, tying a franchise record set in 2015. Baltimore has one home game left, against New England in two weeks.
The Ravens take on the Bengals on Sunday, just 2 1/2 weeks after losing 32-14 to them at home.
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Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Joey Porter Jr. (24) breaks up a pass intended for Baltimore Ravens tight end Isaiah Likely (80) during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh greets fans before an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Charli XCX is making a trip to the Sundance Film Festival in January. The pop singer-songwriter appears in three films premiering at the 2026 festival, including a mockumentary that she produced and stars in. Programmers on Wednesday unveiled a lineup of 90 feature films set for the festival’s last hurrah in Park City, Utah.
The slate includes documentaries on basketball great Brittney Griner, Nelson Mandela, Salman Rushdie, Courtney Love and Billie Jean King. There are starry features with the likes of Natalie Portman, Jenna Ortega, Seth Rogen, Channing Tatum, Danielle Brooks, Olivia Colman, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Alexander Skarsgård and Ethan Hawke. Olivia Wilde directs her first feature since “Don’t Worry Darling,” in “The Invite.” Judd Apatow chronicles comedian Maria Bamford’s mental health journey. And Gregg Araki will be back in Park City with a restoration of his 2004 coming-of-age drama “Mysterious Skin” and a new film as well.
“It’s a broad, eclectic and bold program,” Sundance public programming director Eugene Hernandez told The Associated Press. He said the lineup for the festival's final year in Park City “really honors that well with this mixture of new, exciting voices paired with some really, really great familiar faces from Sundances past that I think will create a great alchemy for this really unique edition in Utah.”
Ever a festival of discovery, of the 90 features culled from 4,255 submissions, 40% are from first-time directors. The programmers laugh when they hear people say things like “that’s a Sundance movie,” as if it’s one, easily categorizable thing.
“I look at the films in this program and say, ‘You tell me what a Sundance film is’ because they’re so different,” said programmer John Nein.
Charli XCX plays a rising pop star prepping for her first arena tour in the mockumentary “The Moment,” which Hernandez said is “like her version of ‘This is Spinal Tap’.” She also appears in Araki’s “I Want Your Sex,” in which Cooper Hoffman plays an intern who gets wrapped up in the world of an artist and provocateur (Wilde). And she’s among the ensemble of “The Gallerist.”
“There’s a sense of humor that she has about herself and her work, but also a creativity and a star quality that is apparent. I mean, she is magnetic on the screen,” Hernandez said. “It’s great to have someone who represents sort of a next generation of creativity embracing the world that we inhabit.”
This year’s slate includes more than a few exciting comedies in unexpected places. Cathy Yan directed and co-wrote “The Gallerist,” a satirical look at the art world and attempting to sell a corpse at Art Basel Miami, with a large ensemble including Portman, Ortega, Sterling K. Brown and Zach Galifianakis. David Wain also has “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” about a woman out to even the score after her fiance uses the “free pass,” starring Zoey Deutch and Jon Hamm.
Programmer Kim Yutani said she thinks “Wicker,” about a woman who asks a basket maker to weave her a husband, starring Colman and Skarsgård, will be a big crowd pleaser.
Other standouts are Jay Duplass’s grief-themed “See You When I See You,” with Cooper Raiff and David Duchovny, “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” set inside Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene and Wilde’s “The Invite,” about a crumbling marriage in which she stars alongside Rogen.
“They are finding comedy in some of the toughest places,” Nein said.
In the Midnight section, there’s “Buddy,” from “Too Many Cooks” creator Casper Kelly, about a girl who has to escape a kids TV show. There are some quirky, humorous documentaries too, including “Joybubbles” and John Wilson’s “The History of Concrete.”
Sundance has become famous for its documentary programming, many of which go on to be nominated for and win Oscars. This year is likely to be no different.
“Across the board, both in the U.S. and internationally, you have a program that deals with the world where it is right now,” Nein said. “These documentaries, they're incredibly sophisticated, they’re very mindful of how complex world issues are, and they bring you into that process.”
One that might make waves is “When A Witness Recants,” in which author Ta-Nehisi Coates revisits the case of the 1983 murder of a boy in his Baltimore middle school and learns the truth. “American Doctor” follows three professionals trying to help in Gaza. “All About the Money” looks at heir-turned -communist Fergie Chambers. Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell take on artificial intelligence in “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” and “Sentient” is about animal testing.
“A lot of them are sort of optimistic in one sense, in that they’re about people power,” Nein said. “It’s about the power of community to affect change, the power of one person who you haven’t heard of necessarily.”
Those include “Jane Elliott Against the World,” about an Iowa schoolteacher who taught anti-discrimination in 1968, and “Seized,” about the police raid on the Marion County Record in Kansas.
New talents often emerge from Sundance, like Eva Victor last year with “Sorry, Baby.” This year programmers noted several gems in the lineup, including Beth de Araújo’s “Josephine,” about an 8-year-old who witnesses a crime, with Tatum and Gemma Chan.
TV veteran Molly Manners’ “Extra Geography,” about boarding school friends in England, is one that Nein said is one of the funniest, most sophisticated debut features that he’s seen from the U.K. in years.
He also spotlighted “LADY,” a first feature from Nigerian filmmaker Olive Nwosu about a cab driver in Lagos, as well as the queer genre film “Leviticus.”
As in years past, the Sundance competition titles will also be available to watch online. Yutani said her go-to recommendation for the remote audience is the world dramatic competition title “Levitating,” from Indonesian director Wregas Bhanuteja.
“It’s set in this community where there’s these trance parties,” Yutani said. “It is a thrilling film.”
This year’s festival will also honor its late founderRobert Redford with legacy screenings and serve as a celebration of its 40+ years in Park City before it relocates to Boulder, Colorado in 2027.
The 2026 festival kicks off on Jan. 22 and runs through Feb. 1.
FILE - The marquee of the Egyptian Theatre appears during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Jan. 28, 2020. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File)
