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The “Thursday Night Football” sport between the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals was among the finest and most entertaining video games of this NFL season, and it got here proper all the way down to the wire.
The Ravens managed to outlive with a 35-34 victory, and each beginning quarterbacks — Lamar Jackson of Baltimore and Joe Burrow of Cincinnati — threw 4 landing passes with no interceptions.
It was one thing of a press release win for the Ravens over a division rival that got here in having received 4 of its previous six video games, however the temper reportedly was slightly subdued within the locker room afterward.
“One note from last night in Baltimore: Ravens’ postgame locker room scene was more somber than you’d expect after a heated divisional win. People with the team could sense it. Pass defense owned the bad play. Wasn’t exactly a celebration. That can be a good thing long term,” Jeremy Fowler of ESPN wrote on X.
One be aware from final night time in Baltimore: Ravens’ postgame locker room scene was extra somber than you’d count on after a heated divisional win. Folks with the group may sense it. Move protection owned the unhealthy play. Wasn’t precisely a celebration. That may be a very good factor long run.
Whereas the Bengals fell to 4-6, the Ravens improved to 7-3 and are on the doorstep of overtaking the Pittsburgh Steelers for first place within the AFC North.
Fittingly, they may go to these Steelers in Week 11 in a sport that can have main implications for each groups as a attainable playoff preview.
Baltimore got here into this season with very excessive hopes after ending with the NFL’s finest document final yr and including working again Derrick Henry through the offseason, but it surely misplaced the primary two video games, which precipitated some anxiousness.
Since then, nonetheless, they’ve been almost flawless, and though Henry was held to 68 speeding yards by the Bengals, he nonetheless has a shot at reaching 2,000 speeding yards for the season, which might be the second time in his profession he has carried out so (2,027 yards with the Tennessee Titans in 2020).
Jackson is having an amazing season as effectively, and may very well be on his technique to a second straight NFL MVP award and his third total.
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