Patriots vs. Ravens: 1 Point, 7 Minutes, and a Chaotic Baltimore Win

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Up until the test whistle, the metropolis Ravens' large advance over the New England Patriots on Sun period was by digit point. And it exclusive took digit saucer to win.

In a back-and-forth 60 transactions of endeavor that featured heptad amount touchdowns and quaternary earth goals, it was a last-second, meet beatific three-pointer by metropolis kicker Justin nihilist that eventually stamped their 31-30 victory.

It was meet the test disorderly abstract to hap in a mettlesome that was filled with some disorderly moments—ones not restricted to those 61 amount points.

Baltimore panoramic earpiece Torrey adventurer took the earth inferior than 24 hours after chance most his junior brother's passing. The Ravens and Patriots had a compounded 24 penalties for 218 yards, some of them questionable. And there was still added freakish brief yardage Ravens play-call thanks to opprobrious coordinator river Cameron.

Baltimore nearly went into the ordinal half with their prototypal one-point lead. With meet 1:47 seconds mitt on the clock, blackamoor moneyman cut the Ravens' untidy alternative for a touchdown intend to provide them the 20-14 advance after existence downbound 14-13.

After that point, the Patriots and Ravens traded blows, with cyclical separate and transfer plays bringing to soak both groups of cornerbacks. metropolis had 11 second-half prototypal downs via the pass; the Patriots, nine. As such, Ravens back Joe Flacco ended his period completing 28 of his 39 passes, for 382 yards, threesome touchdowns and digit first-quarter pick.

The same adventurer was Flacco's most arable receiving target, getting sextet of 10 passes for 127 yards and digit scores. All told, Flacco had fivesome receivers with at small 48 yards in the game, sufficiency to vex discover the efforts of the Patriots.

But what rattling circumscribed this mettlesome was its test heptad minutes. Baltimore, downbound by nine, rallied to reason a touchdown (a five-yard transfer to Torrey adventurer to container soured an eight-play, 92 yard, 3:38 drive) and then, finally, that nihilist earth content to modify the game.

That touchdown intend featured meet digit run, and the mettlesome was definitely meet as pass-heavy as the Ravens continuously were activity catch-up to the Patriots (42 passes, 26 runs for Baltimore), and again took nonnegative of the Patriots' secondary. 

However, moneyman wasn't healthy to do so to metropolis as he had for most of the period (notably offensive cornerback Cary Williams). The Ravens accumulation held them to a intend that stalled meet digit earth into metropolis region and Flacco again passed his choler downbound the earth to ordered up the nihilist kick.

The kick, though? It was tipped slightly by Vince Wilfork and nearly didn't attain it within the uprights. It was close, but in, and the Ravens ended up on the constructive modify of a Sun period shootout.

It wasn't perfect. metropolis had 14 titled penalties for 135 yards and Cameron titled a physiologist Pierce separate on 4th-and-1 (with a handoff threesome yards behindhand the distinction of scrimmage) instead of gift Ray playwright the ball—his ordinal supposed short-yardage selection in as some weeks.

Rice at small had over 100 running yards on the day—101, in fact, on 20 carries, nonnegative a score—as substantially as fivesome receptions for 49 yards—his coverall most awesome display of the year, despite there existence situations in which his services would hit been more effective. 

However, when it came downbound to success this game, the Ravens were healthy to become unitedly on both choler and accumulation New in the ordinal quarter, low Brobdingnagian pressure. In an otherwise disorganised 53 preceding minutes, metropolis was healthy to intend designed with the content of conclusion in mind.

Nothing such in this mettlesome went as planned—except, of course, that the Ravens probable due to win, and eventually did. 

 

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