Just over a month ago, the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals played one of the best games of this NFL season. The Ravens’ 41-38 overtime win in Cincinnati got Baltimore to 3-2, and the league’s top offense was in top gear. Lamar Jackson threw for 348 yards and four touchdown passes, while the ground game rolled up 175 yards. Not to be outdone, Joe Burrow was phenomenal in the loss, throwing for 392 yards and five scores, alongside one interception. Bengals kicker Evan McPherson missed a 53-yard field goal in overtime, which allowed the Ravens to win with a Justin Tucker field goal.
That loss dropped Cincinnati to 1-4 on the season, but as they’ve done several times over the last several years, the Bengals have bounced back and enter tonight’s matchup at 4-5, needing a win to climb back into the AFC playoff picture. Baltimore comes in at 6-3, and needs a win to keep pace with the Steelers at the top of the AFC North.
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And now a roughing the passer penalty that turns an 18-yard Ja’Marr Chase catch into a 32-yard gain. They’re at the 12-yard line now.
Marlon Humphrey gets called for the Ravens’ ninth penalty of the night. This time it’s a facemask that moves the Bengals to the Ravens’ 45-yard line. 1:11 still left.
The call stands and Bengals still have 60 yards to go with 1:36 left and one timeout remaining.
The Bengals juuuust get the conversion after Burrow weathers a blitz and finds Andrei Iosivas right at the first-down line. Refs are reviewing the first-down call and it’s hard to see any reason to overturn it.
Oof, looks like the refs missed a facemask on Nnamdi Madubuike on a Joe Burrow incomplete pass. The next falls incomplete too, and now the Bengals face 4th-and-10.
TOUCHDOWN: Ravens move ahead on Lamar Jackson’s 4th TD of the night
Jackson goes back to Bateman and it’s a touchdown this time. The Bengals will get the ball back with 1:49 remaining and one timeout. With how quickly they’ve scored tonight, this game is nowhere close to over.
Huge break for the Bengals after the Ravens opt to throw on 2nd-and-goal. Lamar Jackson’s pass to Rashod Batemen falls incomplete and stops the clock.
This game has reached the two-minute warning, with the Ravens on 2nd-and-goal at the Bengals’ 5. Cincinnati has only one timeout remaining, and won’t have much time if they hold the Ravens to a field goal here.
The Bengals use their first timeout with 2:16 left and the Ravens having 2nd-and-10 at the 24.
The Ravens are at the Cincinnati 24 and now the name of the game is burning clock, which is below three minutes after a Derrick Henry first down. Bengals still have all three timeouts.
Ja’Marr Chase’s 431 yards receiving this season vs Ravens are the most ever for 1 player for 1 opponent in a season, topping Art Powell’s 428 for #Raiders vs Oilers in 1963
Lamar Jackson worked some magic on a scramble then threw to the wrong guy: Bengals CB Cam Taylor-Britt. The Bengals started celebrating a pick, but replay shows Taylor-Britt let the ball hit the ground. It’s an incomplete pass and the Ravens avoid a disaster.
The Ravens entered tonight with the worst pass defense at 280.9 yards allowed per game. Burrow is now up to 390 yards.
TOUCHDOWN: Ja’Marr Chase answers with a 70-yard TD
On the first play of the drive, Joe Burrow finds a wide open Ja’Marr Chase (again) and it results in a 70-yard touchdown catch. He pulled up right before the end zone to draw out the play and the M&T Bank Stadium crowd did not like it.
Chase has 238 of the Bengals’ 432 yards tonight.
Here’s what happened on the two-point conversion. Just your basic read option with two of the most dangerous runners in the league.
This happened right before the comeback started.
TOUCHDOWN: Ravens take the lead on Lamar Jackson’s 3rd TD of the night
The Bengals blitzed on 3rd-and-9 and didn’t have anyone left to get Mark Andrews. Lamar Jackson finds him and the Ravens are up 28-21 after a successful two-point conversion. That’s 21 straight points after falling behind 21-7.
Ravens open the drive with two straight first-downs via the arm of Lamar Jackson and they’re already in field goal territory to take the lead. This game turned very quickly.
