Coach John Harbaugh tip-toed his way around a second day of questioning regarding the controversial roughing-the-passer penalty on linebacker Terrell Suggs that contributed to the Tennessee Titans' game-winning, touchdown-scoring drive in the Ravens' 13-10 loss yesterday.

Answering a query about Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth's throw-down of rookie quarterback Joe Flacco on the Ravens' opening drive of the second half, Harbaugh pointed out that coaches and players are not permitted to criticize officials without risking a fine. Teams with a question can send game film to Mike Pereira, the league's vice president of officiating, and seek clarification.

"Not commenting on it has nothing to do with being fined or not being fined," Harbaugh said. "I don’t care about fines. I want to get to the bottom of it and find out what’s right and find out how to coach our players as we go forward. And the NFL does a nice job of giving you an avenue to do that."

"What we do is we send the plays in to Mike Pereira, and he’s great about looking at them and getting back to us and just saying, ‘This is how the officiating sees it,' Harbaugh continued. "And a lot of times, he’ll tell you that the officiating was wrong, that they should have called it differently. Other times, he’ll say, ‘This is why we call it that way by rule,’ or ‘This is why we call it that way by interpretation.’ And that’s how we try to coach our guys based on how the game is going to be officiated. We haven’t heard back on that one yet, but we’ll send it in. Absolutely."

Asked if whether he could tell on the game film that officials tried to stop play after whistling Tennessee offensive tackle Michael Roos for a false start prior to Suggs' penalty, Harbaugh said, "You can’t see any such effort on the tape. You can’t see anything on the tape."

Other notes:

* The Ravens missed a golden opportunity to add points prior to halftime when they marched to the Titans' 22-yard line with less than 40 seconds left in the second quarter. But the offense wasted precious seconds setting up a play and then left offensive tackle Jared Gaither was flagged for a false start with 14 seconds left, which forced the team to spend its third and final timeout of the half. Instead of taking a shot at the end zone, the offense was removed and kicker Matt Stover's 45-yard field-goal attempt sailed wide right.

Asked whether the offense should have spiked the ball to stop the clock, Harbaugh said, "We were in a situation there where we wanted to hurry to the line and get a call and see if we could steal a touchdown on the run. It was a scenario where we’ve got to operate better there. We’ve got to do a better job of communicating, a better job of getting on the line and making it happen fast. It took us too long to get up to the line and then bam, we’ve got a situation where we got the penalty and now we’ve got the 10-second runoff – or potentially the 10-second runoff, which forces us to take the timeout. So it wasn’t so much the decision to kick the field goal. The issue was how long it took us to get the play off and get the right play call. That’s part of the process, and we’ve got to improve on that."

* Kicker Matt Stover has missed all three field-goal attempts from beyond 40 yards, but Harbaugh said he is not worried about Stover, who is the league's third-most accurate kicker at the age of 40. "I’m not concerned with Matt’s age," Harbaugh said. "He’s kicked very well in practice, and even the balls he’s missed, he’s hit very well. So it’s not like he’s losing leg strength. Plus, you’ve seen the kickoffs. He’s probably kicking off better than he has in a long time. It’s not so much age as it is knocking it through the uprights. I think sometimes Matt, he’s thinking about the direction of the kick and things like that instead of just punching it right between the sticks. I think he just needs to go ahead and do what he always does well, and knock it between the sticks. But we’ve got confidence in Matt. I know he can kick, Matt knows he can kick, and I don’t doubt for one second that he’s going to make a ton of field goals for us."

* The Ravens now begin a stretch of five of their next six games on the road. That didn't spook Harbaugh. "We don’t talk about that," he said. "I think the NFL’s a challenge whether you play at home or you play on the road. Our guys are very capable of winning on the road. We expect to go win every one of those football games when they come up, and that’s the plan. So we’ll be there. Whatever time they say we’re playing, we’ll be there and be ready to go."