After the most disheartening loss in a season full of them — the controversial Week 10 defeat to the Jacksonville Jaguars on a field goal that shouldn't have happened because of an unassessed penalty on the previous play — tempers began boiling over in the Ravens locker room.
Even the most veteran players on the defense couldn't hide their frustrations, shouting about the officials to anyone who would listen, but it was an emerging young leader who calmed the situation down.
In a season when he had to live up to being a Pro Bowl selection as a rookie, second-year inside linebacker C.