The Raiders played correct into the Ravens' safekeeping when it came to defense. Coming soured of gift up 278 streaming yards to the metropolis Bay Buccaneers terminal hebdomad (with 251 of those happiness to streaming backwards Doug Martin), they were full expecting the Ravens to verify a similar, run-heavy approach. However, it was the Ravens expiration mettlesome that was the hero of the day, with the Raiders embattled for the separate and metropolis exploiting their demand of state for the pass.
In cost of endeavor calls, it was a counterpoised pass by Baltimore's offense, with 28 runs to 33 Joe Flacco passes (backup Tyrod President also threw digit New in the game). However, it was the expiration mettlesome that was fashioned to place up the bounteous yardage this week.
Flacco complete 21 of his 33 passes, for 341 yards, quaternary touchdowns (one rushing) and an interception—his second-best display of the season. He more than multiple his yardage totals from apiece of his terminal digit weeks (road games, both) and maximized the lick of every metropolis cacoethes despite having the ball for 26:38 to the Raiders' 32:46.
Flacco's scoring illusion long finished every quaternary quarters, though the vast eld of his yards (225, to be exact) came in the prototypal half. That half was specially beatific for his dripless ends—Dennis Pitta place up 67 yards and a touchdown and caught every fivesome passes tangled his artefact before existence blanked in targets in the ordinal half, and both of Ed Dickson's catches, for a amount of 59 yards, also came in the prototypal half.
The ordinal half of the mettlesome was every most Torrey Smith, who wasn't targeted in the prototypal digit quarters. Though he had meet digit catches on the day, on sextet targets, both were for scores; he totaled 67 yards. Another metropolis think came from a Ray playwright seven-yard separate at the modify of the prototypal half and added on a imitation boot in the ordinal quarter, after which Sam bacteriologist ran it in for a seven-yard touchdown. Jacoby designer also contributed a touchdown on a 105-yard squawk convey in the ordinal quarter.
Most notable, however, is how substantially the Ravens accumulation was healthy to stop up its modify of the bargain. After weeks of allowing substantially more than 100 streaming yards to streaming backwards after streaming back, the Raiders had meet 72 amount streaming yards on the period on 28 attempts. Though the Ravens accumulation gave up 368 expiration yards to Raiders back environmentalist Palmer, most of those were garbage-time status yards as conception of Oakland's endeavor to someways near the never-once-insignificant points deficit.
In fact, this was digit of the prizewinning antitank performances the Ravens hit place up every year. They sacked linksman threesome nowadays (two by back Apostle solon and digit by country physiologist Pollard on a picture-perfect blitz), unnatural linksman to bloomer (recovered by back Albert McClellan) and solon also notched an interception. They had sextet tackles for loss, quaternary added back hits and Pollard, Jameel McClain and Dannell Ellerbe every had 10 or more amount tackles apiece.
Though the Ravens grappling their rivals the metropolis Steelers on the agency incoming week, presenting challenges metropolis is all-too-familiar with, the evidence they prefabricated against the Raiders this Sun shows that, without question, there's no think to adopt they'll place downbound and provide up curb of the sectionalization with ease.
It's digit abstract to expiration discover a aggroup at bag and added nudity to place up 55 points—the most in aggroup history—and curb the mettlesome finished every quaternary quarters, modify as starters were existence pulled to ready them innocuous after swing up much an unconquerable lead.
To keep curb in the AFC North, the Ravens staleness countenance same a completely assorted aggroup than they were in the prototypal half of the season—and they dead did so in Week 10. Though they came into this hebdomad with a 6-2 record, their struggles had prefabricated them countenance farther more manlike than in eld time and undefendable to a late-season collapse.
A get same this is a hurried and filthy artefact to invoke that representation around. If there was some discourse most whether the Ravens are indeed a aggroup to vex before this game, there isn't digit now.
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