Ravens receiver Steve Smith injured, out for season

He also threw for three touchdowns, two to Malcolm Floyd. “We don’t make it easy”. Rivers was 28 of 37 for 301 yards. He set a franchise record with four straight games with 300 passing yards or more.

But never has the wall been this uncomfortable, especially for a fan base dismayed by the team’s play and disheartened/angered by ownership’s apparent determination to leave town. “There’s just no easy solution”. After a slow start to the game, quarterback Phillip Rivers finished 38 for 58 with 336 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions.

Steve Smith Sr. had to be helped off the field by the medical staff. It was revealed after the game that he tore his Achilles’ tendon and will miss the remainder of the season.

As Rivers likes to say, the Chargers are best when they’re balanced.

Recalling a conversation he had with Smith when the wide receiver joined the Ravens a year and a half ago, Harbaugh said he told Smith: “You’re going to write the final chapters of your career in a way that nobody expects”.

The next drive saw Flacco complete big passes to Chris Givens and Kamar Aiken while Justin Forsett ripped off an 11-yard run. “Hopefully we can get a few guys back from injury and come out in the second half of the season blazing”. “And those things work together and right now, we’re not getting it done on either end”. “If it’s the end, I feel like it’s the best place for it to end”. That is a month too long in the what-have-you-done-for-me lately world of the NFL.

“I have a feeling Steve Smith will be back”, he said. Rivers’ lack of mobility could put him in harm’s way. By 2011, he became the 35th National Football League player in history to amass 10,000 receiving yards. It is going to be ugly for the Baltimore secondary. This allowed San Diego’s front seven to focus on pushing back the Ravens’ offensive line. Baltimore ranks No. 26 while giving up 5.9 yards per play, and last season the mark was 5.2 per. The Ravens defense hasn’t forced a turnover since a fourth-quarter strip sack of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton in Week 3.

Flacco (25-for-37, 319 yards, touchdown, 103.3 rating) then employed a new strategy -trying to buy himself time to make the kind of big plays his defensive teammates have been allowing all year.

On the season, the Baltimore Ravens average 253.0 yards in passing and 103.1 yards in rushing.

Right before the Arizona Cardinals game in week 7, Ravens wide receiver Jeremy Butler was bumped up from the practice squad to the 53-man roster, only to not be activated for the game itself. However, he misfired on a deep pass to Malcom Floyd, and Josh Lambo’s 49-yard field goal could only tie the game with 2:27 remaining. “It just so happened, on a couple of wins that we have, we’ve won the field goals. We’re never going to use excuses”.

– Bears RB Matt Forte left the game in the third quarter with a knee injury. “They have a good stable of guys that they’re working with, it revolves around Philip Rivers“. Dunlap’s status for the next game is uncertain. He was able to jog on the sideline and returned to the game in the second quarter. Backup center Chris Watt also sustained a shoulder injury.