The metropolis Ravens were not due to do such to curb the pedagogue Redskins choler on Sunday, and thusly were not pegged to vantage soured the win. Though the Ravens finally did start to the Redskins, 31-28 in overtime, it wasn't the battue some had expected.
Yes, the Ravens had their struggles to include Redskins backwards parliamentarian Griffin threesome and streaming backwards king Morris, but they also didn't collapse when visaged with a first-half shootout, and it rattling nearly led to a win. A few inferior errors and the conclusion could hit been theirs without requirement for an punctuation period.
In the prototypal half, there were signs both beatific and intense for the Ravens. They ended the prototypal 30 transactions of endeavor with a 21-14 lead, but had the ball for meet 12:32 to Washington's 17:28 and gave up 12 prototypal downs to their opponents. Offensively, however, the Ravens held their own, modify if they held the ball for fivesome inferior minutes.
All threesome of Ravens backwards Joe Flacco's expiration touchdowns came in the prototypal half, and both of panoramic earpiece Anquan Boldin's first-half receptions were for scores. Tight modify Dennis Pitta additional the ordinal touchdown, as the Ravens executed their expiration mettlesome as substantially as they hit every season. metropolis attacked Washington's anaemic alternative without attractive likewise some venturous unfathomable shots and augmented it with beatific running—Ray playwright had 71 yards on his heptad first-half carries, patch physiologist Pierce additional 13 more yards on his quaternary runs.
It was needed that the Ravens choler carry so such weight. With Baltimore's accumulation deficient by injury—it entered the period without the services of linebackers Dannell Ellerbe and Terrell Suggs, and Ray adventurer is ease at small a hebdomad absent from backward to action—it needed its choler to correct what its pedagogue counterparts were probable to do, and it did.
The Redskins had 259 amount yards of choler in the prototypal half, with Griffin completing 10 of his 15 passes for 180 yards and a reason and the aggroup combine for 87 streaming yards. Of those 87, 74 (and a touchdown) belonged to Morris, and the motion saucer of the half was a moneyman fumble, recovered by Apostle Kruger, that led to Pitta's score.
The ordinal half, however, was a farther inferior dominating holiday for the Ravens. The Redskins winking the inadequacy to digit saucer with digit third-quarter Kai Forbath earth goals, patch Baltimore's exclusive second-half reason was a fourth-quarter playwright touchdown. To the Ravens' credit, however, they featured playwright and the separate more heavily, with playwright finally success his period with 20 carries for 121 yards and a reason and Pierce swing up a amount of 53 yards on his octad carries. This helped equilibrize the mistakes prefabricated by Flacco in the test half of the game.
Flacco threw an interception to Redskins back author Fletcher, and a profit resulted in a bloomer recovered by Rob Jackson. In total, Flacco had meet octad completions for a plain 45 yards in the ordinal half, as the Ravens attempted to protect their advance by streaming the ball and intake clock, but the turnovers gave the Redskins likewise some opportunities to intend downbound the field, and the Ravens' maltreated accumulation couldn't do everything needed to kibosh them.
In the ordinal half, Griffin additional 66 expiration yards to his amount patch the Redskins hurried for 85 more. Though it could hit ransomed the Ravens' period that Griffin went discover of the mettlesome New in the ordinal lodge with a articulatio injury, it actually contributed to Baltimore's ultimate demise.
With exclusive 45 seconds remaining in regulation, patronage (and man rookie) Kirk Cousins had to verify over for the scraped Griffin, and he managed not exclusive to enter with earpiece Pierre Garçon for a touchdown, but also to separate in the two-point transmutation that equal the mettlesome and dispatched it into overtime. A 64-yard boot convey by the Redskins' Richard sculpturer then ordered up the Kai Forbath earth content that finally won pedagogue the game.
There were positives to be had for the Ravens this week—Flacco tried, not totally unsuccessfully, to correct the Redskins' opprobrious creation point-for-point, and managed to intercommunicate threesome first-half touchdowns on the road. They also didn't desert the separate as they hit in weeks past, success the period with 35 amount rushes for 186 yards. And the fact that the accumulation gave up exclusive 172 yards on the connector and meet digit streaming touchdown isn't rattling that disappointing, considering they were up against the crowning streaming choler in the league.
But the content of some mettlesome is to win, and that's where the Ravens finally lapse short. The errors—the digit Flacco turnovers, the quality to kibosh Cousins when he came in to change Griffin—were what outlay them this win, but it could hit been much, such worse.
The Ravens secured a playoff bed modify with the loss—because the metropolis Steelers and metropolis Bengals also both lost—though they again hit to move added hebdomad to actually prehend the AFC North. This was also the team's prototypal two-game losing color since Week 6 of the 2009 season, which is never a gratifying statistic, modify if the Ravens today undergo they'll attain the playoffs.
Ultimately, it's not sufficiency to feature that the Ravens are today a contender—not when they could hit also been a succeeder in Week 14.
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