The “Thursday Evening Soccer” 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 gained 4 of its previous six video games, however the temper reportedly was quite subdued within the locker room afterward.
“One observe from final evening in Baltimore: Ravens’ postgame locker room scene was extra somber than you’d anticipate after a heated divisional win. Individuals with the workforce may sense it. Cross protection owned the unhealthy play. Wasn’t precisely a celebration. That may be an excellent factor long run,” Jeremy Fowler of ESPN wrote on X.
One observe from final evening in Baltimore: Ravens’ postgame locker room scene was extra somber than you’d anticipate after a heated divisional win. Individuals with the workforce may sense it. Cross protection owned the unhealthy play. Wasn’t precisely a celebration. That may be an excellent 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 may 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 greatest document final yr and including operating again Derrick Henry in the course of the offseason, but it surely misplaced the primary two video games, which precipitated some anxiousness.
Since then, nonetheless, they’ve been practically 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 performed so (2,027 yards with the Tennessee Titans in 2020).
Jackson is having an incredible season as nicely, and could possibly be on his solution to a second straight NFL MVP award and his third total.
