New York Jets
at
Baltimore Ravens
🏈🏈🏈🏈
Baltimore Ravens 42, New York Jets 21
The results of this game were hardly surprising. This was pretty much what most people who know anything about football, and anything about the way that both of these two teams have been playing, would have expected.
Baltimore took an early 13-0 lead in the first quarter, and never looked back. They basically easily cruised to a blowout win, and the Jets never challenged.
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was deadly with both his arms and his legs. He completed 15 of 23 passes for 212 yards and five touchdowns. It was the third time this season that he threw for five touchdowns, as he also did that in week one at Miami, and just a few weeks ago at the Los Angeles Rams.
He also led his team with rushing yards, collecting 86 yards on eight carries, and surpassing the NFL single season rushing record by a quarterback previously held by Michael Vick. Vick had rushed for 1,039 in 2006. Plus, he has thrown 33 passes thus far in the season. Now, Jackson holds that record, as well. Plus, he has thrown 33 passes thus far in the season, and just seems to be running away in the race for the NFL MVP award for this season.
Otherwise, running back Mark Ingram II picked up 76 yards on 13 carries. At one point, commentators Troy Aikman and Joe Buck commented that Ingram could have stayed in New Orleans, and possibly gotten more money in so doing, but he wanted to be the main guy. So, he left for seemingly greener pastures in Baltimore. Who knew that he would be overshadowed by the quarterback? Yet, the Ravens seem ready to become the first team in NFL history to average over 200 yards rushing per game during the course of a 16-game season, which would be a hell of a feat. And the Ravens clearly look like serious title contenders.
Seth Roberts caught three passes for 66 yards and one touchdown. Mark Andrews collected 52 yards and a touchdown on four catches. Marquise Brown had 44 yards and another touchdown, also on four catches. The Ravens offense just keeps rolling.
As for Gang Green, Sam Darnold completed 18 of 32 for 218 yards, with two touchdowns and one INT. Jamison Crowder was his favorite target, reeling in six passes for 90 yards and two touchdowns. Running back Le'Veon Bell collected 87 yards on 21 carries. Unfortunately, though, most of all of the more impressive numbers for the Jets came when the outcome of this contest was no longer in any real doubt, largely in the fourth quarter, which began with the Ravens holding an insurmountable 35-7 lead. So, these were kind of padded numbers to make the game, and the Jets overall offensive production, look more competitive than the game actually felt. Really, this one was over by somewhere early in the second half, in the third quarter, by which time any real suspense was long over.
Baltimore took an early 13-0 lead in the first quarter, and never looked back. They basically easily cruised to a blowout win, and the Jets never challenged.
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was deadly with both his arms and his legs. He completed 15 of 23 passes for 212 yards and five touchdowns. It was the third time this season that he threw for five touchdowns, as he also did that in week one at Miami, and just a few weeks ago at the Los Angeles Rams.
He also led his team with rushing yards, collecting 86 yards on eight carries, and surpassing the NFL single season rushing record by a quarterback previously held by Michael Vick. Vick had rushed for 1,039 in 2006. Plus, he has thrown 33 passes thus far in the season. Now, Jackson holds that record, as well. Plus, he has thrown 33 passes thus far in the season, and just seems to be running away in the race for the NFL MVP award for this season.
Otherwise, running back Mark Ingram II picked up 76 yards on 13 carries. At one point, commentators Troy Aikman and Joe Buck commented that Ingram could have stayed in New Orleans, and possibly gotten more money in so doing, but he wanted to be the main guy. So, he left for seemingly greener pastures in Baltimore. Who knew that he would be overshadowed by the quarterback? Yet, the Ravens seem ready to become the first team in NFL history to average over 200 yards rushing per game during the course of a 16-game season, which would be a hell of a feat. And the Ravens clearly look like serious title contenders.
Seth Roberts caught three passes for 66 yards and one touchdown. Mark Andrews collected 52 yards and a touchdown on four catches. Marquise Brown had 44 yards and another touchdown, also on four catches. The Ravens offense just keeps rolling.
As for Gang Green, Sam Darnold completed 18 of 32 for 218 yards, with two touchdowns and one INT. Jamison Crowder was his favorite target, reeling in six passes for 90 yards and two touchdowns. Running back Le'Veon Bell collected 87 yards on 21 carries. Unfortunately, though, most of all of the more impressive numbers for the Jets came when the outcome of this contest was no longer in any real doubt, largely in the fourth quarter, which began with the Ravens holding an insurmountable 35-7 lead. So, these were kind of padded numbers to make the game, and the Jets overall offensive production, look more competitive than the game actually felt. Really, this one was over by somewhere early in the second half, in the third quarter, by which time any real suspense was long over.
The Jets drop to 5-9 on the season, and clinch another losing season. Not a surprise, especially after a 1-7 start in the first half of the season. But Gang Green was really dominated in this one, and their defense simply could not handle Baltimore's explosiveness. They were not able to keep Lamar Jackson in check.
The Ravens improve to 12-2 on the season, and finally clinch the AFC North title officially, for the second time in a row, and for n eighth time in franchise history overall. They now need only one more win to outright clinch the top seed in the AFC playoffs and secure home field advantage throughout, which now seems inevitably. They will travel to Cleveland next weekend to take on the Browns, before finishing their regular season with a home game against the Steelers, in a game that might now mean much for them by then.
No comments:
Post a Comment