According to Football Database, Mekari leads the league with six holding penalties. Ronnie Stanley and Daniel Faalele have four points each, which puts them fourth in the league.

While Harbaugh praised the offensive line for not having too many holding penalties in pass protection, Baltimore is being flagged for too many holding penalties in the run game.

“We’re trying to put points on the board and we’re getting expensive penalties on every drive,” Jackson said. “I believe every time we go out there there is a penalty called on almost every drive, it’s crazy.

“I believe it’s been that way since last year, we killed ourselves coming back to the AFC Championship game. We killed ourselves in the opener (of the season) against the Chiefs. (The) Raiders game (Week 2) We can’t beat ourselves in those types of games, we’ve got to find a way to fix that; that’s a big deal.” boring.”

The Ravens still have the league’s top-ranked offense and have proven difficult to stop when they don’t stop themselves. But the performance against Pittsburgh was proof that the penalty issue needed to be addressed.

“We’re probably the best home run offense in the league right now; we handle those things,” Harbaugh said. “But when you play defense like we play or play a game like we play, we shouldn’t have to deal with that. … Sometimes it gets too high to scale.”