Mekari leads the league with six holding penalties, based on soccer data. Ronnie Stanley and Daniel Faalele each have four, which is tied for fourth in the league.

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

“We’re trying to put points on the board and we’re getting costly penalties every race,” Jackson said. “Every time I’ve been there, I think it’s been almost a penalty for every drive – that’s crazy.

“It’s been that way since last year, I think going back to the AFC championship game, we killed ourselves. The Chiefs game (in) the (season) opener, we killed ourselves. (The) Raiders game (Week 2) , we killed ourselves in these types of games. We have to find a way to fix this.

The Ravens still have the league’s top offense, and when they’re not stopping, they’ve proven they’re tough to stop. However, the performance against Pittsburgh was more proof that the penalty problem needs to be put to rest.

“We’re probably the best punt return offense in the league right now — we overcome those things,” Harbaugh said. “But we shouldn’t go over them when you’re playing a defense like we played, or you’re playing in a game we were playing in. … Sometimes it gets too high of a mountain to scale.”