It's one game, but Loop passed his test and feels good about what's to come as the Ravens still have four more AFC North games remaining against the rival Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals. Loop felt like his season started last Sunday.
"From the day I got here, it was all about, 'The first eight-nine weeks of the season, you'll be fine. The one we've got to prepare for is the back half of the season when you're playing in Cleveland, in Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh – those places where the weather is unpredictable and it's going to be windy and it's going to be cold,'" Loop said.
"We were working on hitting a ball that survives that weather in April and May when we first got here. Going out there and doing it, that was fun."
Loop said making all five of his kicks in blustery Cleveland didn't prove anything to him that he didn't already know. It just confirmed it. He had kicked in tough conditions in cold high school playoff games in Texas, as well as around the Big 12.
A couple weeks of windy practices in Owings Mills also helped build his confidence. One day last week, Loop and Ravens Senior Special Teams Coach Randy Brown went to battle against 25-30 mph winds.
"I frustrated him a little this week. We kicked a lot of balls into the wind, side winds," Brown said. "It was a lot of experimenting, a lot of frustration at times from him. But we had a good time with it and he learned a lot from it."