The Cleveland Browns held a 6-0 lead and the football at the two-minute warning in Sunday’s loss to the Baltimore Ravens. Despite not using a single timeout or creating a turnover, the Ravens managed to score twice to seize a 14-6 advantage, one they would not relinquish.

It might seem impossible. Or to (mis)quote the great Christmas movie, Die Hard,

“You ask for miracles, Theo. I give you the Freddie Kitchens.”

A booming Jamie Gillan punt pushed the Ravens to their own 37. Two blown coverages in two plays led to a quick Lamar Jackson-to-Mark Andrews touchdown pass, giving the Ravens a 7-6 lead.

Cleveland got the ball back with 1:18 on the clock after a touchback. The next three plays were all passes. All fell incomplete, bleeding just 16 seconds off the clock. The Ravens didn’t have any timeouts.

They didn’t need them. Jackson quickly maneuvered the Baltimore offense down the field fast enough that they scored again with time to spare. Andrews caught his second TD pass inside the 2-minute warning with 15 seconds left, capping a drive that took just 46 seconds.

“We were trying to get the clock started,” Kitchens explained in his postgame press conference. “A couple of short passes that got batted down. We could have ran it and could have done a lot of things but called a couple of 5-yard routes and the clock never got started so it is second guess once it happened.”

Had the Browns run the ball twice on their possession, those 46 seconds would not have existed. Had they run even once, it would have fundamentally altered the Ravens strategy. But Kitchens didn’t think of that in the game.

The topic resurfaced a few questions later. Kitchens softened his tone a bit but still stuck to his guns on the decision to throw on all three downs.

“Yeah, definitely. I called one I thought that we could have potential to run after catch, and it got knocked down. If I had to do it over again, I would not do it, but I do not have it to do over again because of the result. You can’t always coach off results. I am trying to move the ball.”

That answer is the difference between the Ravens clinching the AFC’s No. 1 seed and the Browns being eliminated from the postseason.