Baltimore Ravens Decide to End the Game By Giving up a Safety

They return home dead on arrival after Justin Tucker pulled the plug on them.

Wind and a clumped-up middle of the field, be damned. That is the Raven way. You do a good job on defense and the ball is left in his hands.

The game can end on a penalty by the offense, unlike an infraction against the defense, and that’s exactly what happened in the 19-14 decision that kept the Ravens in first place in the AFC North. One thing is for sure, little emotion from the sideline and little in game adjustments are a visible struggle. Harbaugh ordered the entire team to hold the Cincinnati Bengals on the final play while Sam Koch stood alone in the end-zone until time expired, then run out of bounds resulting in a safety. “It felt like a typical game against Baltimore, coming down to the end where we had a chance to win or tie it up”. Meanwhile, the defending AFC North-champion Cincinnati Bengals have fallen well below the.500 mark: What remained of their title hopes nearly certainly came to an end Sunday after falling 19-14 to the Ravens. Back then, the Ravens chose to punt from their end zone while clinging to a five-point lead over the San Francisco 49ers with 12 seconds remaining.

“This was a typical Bengals game against Baltimore”, Dalton said. Even with the foul and Koch running out of his own end zone for a safety, Baltimore Ravens was able to win the game due to the league rulebook. “I thought our team played exceptionally hard, exceptionally physical and played with poise throughout the course of the game”. “We were close. Very close”. But that’s the Raven way. “We just need to cut down on our mistakes and convert when we reach the red zone”.

Without Green, the Bengals’ passing game came to a halt in the second half: no points, four straight three-and-outs, and just five first downs.

“We got the best kicker in the league”. So, we’ll look at it and see what the issue was. Not celebrating too eagerly about a 10-0 lead has become a conditioned response for the Baltimore Ravens. “I think he’s a fundamentally humble person who loves life, loves to perform”. “They have been kind of picking on us”, Suggs said. I mean, he’d feel that way anyway.

“There’s no way [to keep him humble]”, quarterback Joe Flacco said with a laugh.

Tucker, who never minds taking a good-natured ribbing, joked afterward that “it’s really great to have the support of your teammates”.

West and fullback Kyle Juszczyk each had three catches, as the checkdown dumpoff continues to be one of the Ravens’ favorite offensive plays.

Moreso, Brett’s bomb was defined in the rules as an illegally batted ball, and the penalty for hitting “an illegally batted ball” was that the batter was to be declared out, under the then-existing provisions of Rule 6.06. Ravens head coach John Harbaugh took advantage of the break to see the officials made a mistake on the spot and won the challenge to force a Bengals punt. The Ravens started the game out as if they had a plan.

Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis elected to stick with Nugent after the 11-year veteran missed both extra points in last week’s 16-12 loss to Buffalo, but he may have to re-evaluate things after the latest miss.

On a team with a sputtering, inconsistent offense, Tucker’s ability to bail them out when drives stall has been invaluable. Predictably, Tucker wasn’t backing down from the responsibility.

“Yes, I’m going to make him try it from 57 yards”, Lewis said.