With four blocked punts in his career, free safety Ed Reed almost got his fifth blocked punt in the first quarter of Sunday's 30-7 thumping of the Denver Broncos. Somehow, Mitch Berger's punt escaped Reed's outstretched arms.

"The ball went through my hands," Reed said Wednesday. "That was a rookie mistake. You’ve got to have those hands tight to take it off the foot."

Special teams coordinator Jerry Rosburg said he had never seen a punt squirt through Reed's hands.

"We’re not exactly sure where it went," Rosburg said Thursday. "I think Harbs [coach John Harbaugh] said it well. We actually think the ball vaporized and went through his body and came out the other side. We can’t see any space in there, but it got past him somehow. We still haven’t figured it out yet."