ExtremeRavens Posted October 20 Posted October 20 Zay Flowers took some accountability. The Ravens’ Pro Bowl receiver opened his post-practice scrum apologizing for leaving the locker room after their Week 6 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in which Flowers was involved in a pair of fumbles. With his normal toothy smile, Flowers, who has been media averse much of this season, vowed it wouldn’t happen again. How do the on-field mistakes get fixed? “I think, lock in a little bit more,” he shrugged. The first turnover came early in the third quarter, down one score, flushing a drive near midfield. Flowers caught a pass over the middle and squirmed past the linebacker behind him. He jetted to the left and turned upfield when Rams linebacker Nate Landman punched it loose. “I was just trying to make a play,” Flowers explained. Later in the same quarter, Baltimore within two scores, Flowers motioned through the backfield for an end-around handoff from backup quarterback Cooper Rush. Rush put the ball in his stomach and Flowers “just mishandled the ball,” he said. “Ain’t really too much to think about,” he continued. “I just got to hold the ball.” Baltimore’s No. 1 wide receiver didn’t agree with there being much of a difference between taking handoffs from Lamar Jackson versus Rush because he was at fault for it. Either way, Flowers felt the bye week offered Baltimore a much-needed reset, after two games without a passing touchdown that fed this calamitous 1-5 start. They want to “make an example” out of the Bears on Sunday. Flowers’ 423 receiving yards this season are more than double the team’s next most productive pass catcher. His 46 targets are 19 more than tight end Mark Andrews and 25 more than wideout Rashod Bateman. Flowers was also on the wrong end of a first quarter interception by Rams safety Quentin Lake that was more a credit to the defender than an indictment on the receiver. Lake said postgame that down-and-distance call had come up in practice in the week leading up to Week 6. After his involvement in the interception and his part in two fumbles, Ravens veteran receiver DeAndre Hopkins told Flowers to not let anyone see him with his head down. Zay Flowers with an apology for leaving immediately after the loss to the Rams #Ravens pic.twitter.com/nqMSZ3U1mP — Brian Wacker (@brianwacker1) October 20, 2025 “He’s a great player, and he’s going to be a great player for years to come,” Hopkins said. “It’s not just on him. He’s out there trying to make a play, so you can’t fault him. But Zay knows what he needs to do to be better, but my message to him is just, ‘Keep your head up. Play the next play.’” That uplifting message from a mentor in the same positional room after the young guy made a big mistake in a costly spot had a similar feel to the last time Flowers fumbled: at the goal line in the 2023 AFC championship game versus Kansas City. Flowers owned up to his first-career fumble postgame. He faced the cameras through a well of tears, a show of human emotion. Then, it was Odell Beckham Jr. who offered words of comfort: “‘Bro, you gon’ be straight. It’s tough. Yeah, you may hear something about this. That’s just the way the world is.’ Just keep his head, just like everybody else in here.” On that chilly night, Flowers owned up to his mistake. He did the same thing this time — albeit over a week later. Have a news tip? Contact Sam Cohn at scohn@baltsun.com, 410-332-6200 and x.com/samdcohn.x.com. View the full article Quote
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