Ravens Knock Broncos From Unbeaten Ranks With 23-7 Rout

DENVER (AP) — Lamar Jackson threw for 316 yards, including a 49-yard touchdown walk to a diving Marquise Brown, and the Baltimore Ravens utilized a relentless defence to swat the Denver Broncos from the ranks of the unbeaten with a 23-7 triumph Sunday.

The Ravens (3-1) won their 3rd consecutive crippled pursuing an overtime nonaccomplishment to Las Vegas successful the opener. They were successful information of coming up conscionable abbreviated of tying the Steelers’ NFL grounds for consecutive games with astatine slightest 100 yards rushing earlier Baltimore cornerback Anthony Averett intercepted Drew Lock successful the extremity portion with 3 seconds left.

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Instead of taking a genu successful triumph formation, Jackson took the shotgun drawback from his 20 and hustled astir near extremity for a 5-yard gain. That gave the Ravens 102 yards connected the ground, their 43rd consecutive 100-yard rushing game, which tied the people acceptable by Pittsburgh from 1974-77.

The Ravens knocked Broncos starting backmost Teddy Bridgewater from the crippled with a concussion connected his last walk of the archetypal half. Rookie linebacker Odafe Oweh wasn’t flagged for hitting Bridgewater successful the chin.

Neither was cornerback Tavon Young whistled 1 play earlier for hitting a defenseless receiver erstwhile his brutal deed sent WR/KR Diontae Spencer from the crippled with an wounded to his sternum.

The injuries occurred during a bid of funny calls by Broncos violative coordinator Pat Shurmur, who had Bridgewater propulsion 3 times aft Denver got the shot astatine its 17 with 1:02 near successful the archetypal fractional and Denver down 14-7.

All 3 throws fell incomplete — Bridgewater completed conscionable 7 of 16 passes aft posting 75% days successful each of Denver’s 3 wins — and the Broncos punted the shot backmost to Baltimore with Justin Tucker, caller disconnected an NFL-record 66-yard game-winning tract extremity astatine Detroit, warming up connected the sideline.

Tucker didn’t request to effort a grounds agelong tract extremity this clip due to the fact that Devin Duvernay’s 42-yard instrumentality acceptable him up for a comparatively abbreviated 40-yarder arsenic the archetypal fractional expired, giving the Ravens a 17-7 halftime lead.

The Broncos (3-1), whose 3 wins came against opponents who were a combined 0-9, turned to Lock, who mislaid his QB clash to Bridgewater during grooming camp, and the Broncos struggled to determination the shot successful the 2nd half.

Lock was 12 for 21 for 113 yards with 3 sacks and the interception. Bridgewater was sacked twice.

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One play aft bouncing a abbreviated walk to Sammy Watkins, Jackson coiled up and deed Brown with a 49-yard touchdown walk that gave Baltimore a 14-7 pb successful the 2nd quarter.

Brown, who dropped 3 touchdown passes astatine Detroit a week earlier, broke escaped erstwhile information Justin Simmons got turned around. Brown dived for the shot conscionable aft sprinting crossed the extremity line.

Both teams punted connected their archetypal 3 possessions earlier uncovering the extremity zone. Noah Fant caught a 3-yard TD walk from Bridgewater to enactment Denver connected the committee and the Ravens responded with a agelong thrust capped by Latavius Murray’s 11-yard touchdown romp.

Fant’s TD was acceptable up by rookie Javonte Williams’ 31-yard tally successful which helium broke 5 tackles earlier cornerback Marlon Humphrey yet knocked him down. Williams carried tacklers 4 and 5 much than 10 yards earlier yet getting brought down.

The lone scoring successful the 2nd fractional came connected Tucker’s tract goals of 46 yards and 20 yards. The archetypal came connected a 13-play thrust and the 2nd capped a 15-play drive.

Broncos linebacker Justin Strnad had 2 of Denver’s 3 sacks connected Jackson.

INJURIES

Ravens RT Alejandro Villanueva hobbled disconnected successful the 3rd 4th with a genu injury. His replacement, Andre Smith, was flagged for a look disguise distant from the play that negated TE Mark Andrews’ 30-yard touchdown reception. Broncos starting guards Dalton Risner (ankle) and Graham Glasgow (knee) were inactive and replaced respectively by Netane Muti and rookie Quinn Meinerz.

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