"No," Ogden said late Sunday afternoon.

Ravens coach Brian Billick says Tony Banks is still his quarterback despite struggling for weeks.(AP)

Tight end Shannon Sharpe, a man of many words, contemplated the same issue that now hounds the Baltimore Ravens -- regardless of their 5-2 record.

"It came down to one play. They made one play and we made no plays," Sharpe said after Stephen Davis' fourth-quarter, 33-yard touchdown run made the difference in the Washington Redskins' 10-3 victory at FedEx Field. "How can you go 60 minutes without making one play on offense?

"In my 11 years, I have never seen anything like this. We have to go back to square one and find a way to get the ball in the end zone. Right now, we are killing our football team. Offensively, we are killing our team."

The Ravens are far from dead overall, no question. In fact, they emerged through the seven-game stretch that made them so leery as they broke training camp -- with five games on the road -- in sound shape for their playoff drive. They will finish with six of their final nine at home, against a relatively weak schedule.

There's a major "but" coming, of course, and it revolves around the Ravens' entire offensive complexion.

The complexion has blemishes everywhere -- from quarterback Tony Banks' erratic play to a sense of impending catastrophe that surfaces whenever the Ravens move inside an opponent's 5-yard line.

In a game that quickly took on the aura of a defensive grudge match, a touchdown for either side had the value of two or three.

So it was a critical time when Baltimore was in perfect position for a touchdown, with three timeouts in hand after the defense recovered a Davis fumble at the Redskins 42 and Banks and running back Jamal Lewis drove to the 18 with 56 seconds before halftime.

What followed was the kind self-combustion that also plagued the Ravens when they shut out Cleveland on four Matt Stover field goals two weeks ago and couldn't turn six Jacksonville turnovers into anything more than five Stover field goals last Sunday night.

First, they consumed nearly 40 seconds off a running play on which Lewis lost 2 yards.

Then, given the gift of an end zone pass interference call for a first-and-goal at the Redskins 1 with 10 seconds left, Banks threw a hard, flat pass for Sharpe. The pass zoomed right into linebacker Kevin Mitchell's hands.

Said Mitchell: "It turned this game around because, I feel, if they had gone in, we'd have been down 10-3 and we would have had to come out fighting and trying to catch up. It changed the momentum and it gave us an opportunity to come out and take the lead."

Instead, no Ravens touchdown for another quarter.

No time for Stover to kick a chip-shot field goal that would have given the Ravens a 6-3 halftime lead.

No opportunity for Banks -- who will remain coach Brian Billick's starter -- to take a step in the right direction so that Banks could, as he admitted afterward, stop pressing.

"You've got to be very careful," said Billick, whose wrath toward Banks is usually limited to these kinds of mental lapses.

"If you're going to throw it hard and straight, and deep, in the end zone -- that usually is a bad scenario. Not a good thing to do. We have to be more efficient, smarter," Billick said.

Sharpe said: "It's not Tony's fault."

And he is absolutely right.

Indeed, the Ravens' breakdown during this critical stretch could be traced to numerous hands and minds who impact the offense -- Billick included. The Ravens let too much time run off the clock when they had two timeouts to spare, putting themselves in a one- or two-play hurry-up mode after they found themselves at the 1.

"My concern was with only 10 seconds, we weren't going to get it unraveled in time," Billick said of the decision to pass.

With a few more seconds, the powerful Lewis could have had one chance to run it in. Had the Redskins stopped him, the Ravens still had the luxury of calling a timeout to let Stover kick another field goal.

"I'm not going to get into my play selection and my clock management right now," Billick said.

Understood. From the coach's standpoint, once a play is called, the quarterback must be smart enough to avoid the worst possible scenario.

This was the concept: Throw the ball once, and lob it out of the end zone if no one is open. Thus enough time is left to cut bait and go for the three points.

"I thought I had a good line, but obviously I didn't," Banks said. "Coach tells me constantly not to throw a flat ball down there, and I threw a flat ball."

For his part, Banks didn't dwell on this play so much as one he missed to 5-foot-7 receiver Jermaine Lewis down the right sideline midway through the first quarter.

Lewis had veteran Darrell Green beat by a couple of steps. But Banks' pass floated too far, forcing Lewis to catch it out of bounds.

"I haven't lost any confidence," Banks said. "Get that play to Jermaine today, and that's seven points. Amazing in the NFL what one or two plays can do. ... If that ball is two feet to the left, Jermaine's still running right now."

Lewis first grimaced when thinking back on that play. Then he smiled.

"I wish we could have that one back," Lewis said. "I had just a little stutter-hesitation move."

He and rookie receiver Travis Taylor giggled over the satisfaction of that move.

It went for naught, though, like so many other offensive opportunities.

"The guys around (Banks) aren't playing well," Sharpe said. "Right now, offensively, we are not a very good football team, to make a long story short. We've got a lot of talent. But I guess everyone thinks that if you mix a lot of ingredients in there, you are going to have a great dish. Right now, the dish is stinking."

It is too early for Billick to make a change at quarterback. Banks is not the only problem. Moreover, he is the leader on offense of a team that opened the season with seven road games and won five. This is no small feat, regardless of the competition.

"Tony Banks is my starting quarterback, without question," Billick said. "We are a 5-2 team, and that's the guy I think gives us the best chance to win right now."

Until Banks re-connects with the touch that allowed him to excel in the second half of last season, the rest of the offense must elevate its performance. An injured offensive line must get healthy. Answers must be found.

"I've said it since training camp," Sharpe said. "I don't care how good your defense is, (with the poor offense) it's going to catch up with you.

"It's caught up with us now."