After the Ravens picked apart and dismantled the Rams on Monday night at the Coliseum, Marcus Peters and Jalen Ramsey got into it on the field and exchanged words. Ramsey had to be restrained by a member of the Rams and was held back all the way down to the team’s locker room.
Peters was seen taunting Ramsey during the game and even mocked his usual celebration, which appeared to anger the Rams cornerback. Ramsey refused to answer any questions about the altercation after the game, attempting to move on from the disappointing night.
Sean McVay wasn’t immediately aware of the confrontation between Ramsey and Peters and didn’t see them arguing until they were separated, but on Tuesday, he was asked if he talked to Ramsey about it.
“I have not, I haven’t spoken to him,” McVay said. “I addressed the team, we talked about a couple of things today. We’ve been getting ready for Arizona. (Rams communications director) Artis (Twyman) had mentioned (it) to me before we started here. And then, I saw those guys talking when I was walking off the field, but by the time I had circled back, they were separated and really that’s kind of all I had seen about that.”
Postgame incidents are never something the NFL or its teams want to see, but this one was pretty harmless – especially compared to the fight between the Browns and Steelers a couple weeks ago.
McVay would not compare the Ramsey-Peters spat to the Myles Garrett-Mason Rudolph fight, saying it was just a matter of competitors going back and forth.
“What, just them talking back and forth? I’m not sure,” McVay said when asked if this was in the same category as the Browns-Steelers fight. “Guys have fun, that’s a part of it. What we always talk about is, as long as what goes on doesn’t take away from what we are trying to get done as a team, those are things that competitors (do), they go back and forth, but I think that’s a little bit of a different scenario than kind of what occurred in that game.”
McVay had a strong relationship with Peters while he was with the Rams, and he still does. He said he talked to the cornerback before and after the game, saying he’s playing at a high level for his new team.
“I talked to him before the game – Marcus and I have a great relationship – then I talked with him afterwards. He did a good job. That’s a really good football team and he’s playing at a high level for them,” he said.
McVay clearly wasn’t bothered by the incident after the game, as long as it doesn’t deter from the task at hand: winning games.