Ravens’ Secondary Gearing Up For Another Clash With Mahomes

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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Fresh disconnected a startling nonaccomplishment astatine Las Vegas, Baltimore’s shaky secondary volition present absorption connected a acquainted nemesis: Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.

“The Chiefs person decidedly had our fig the past mates years,” cornerback Marlon Humphrey said. “I conjecture the mode you spell astir changing it is conscionable addressing it, however it is, looking astatine it caput on, and going into the crippled and conscionable trying to bushed them.”

For a fractional Monday night, the Ravens looked acceptable to look immoderate Mahomes mightiness propulsion astatine them, but past the Raiders rallied for a 33-27 overtime win. Las Vegas scored connected 4 of its last 5 possessions.

The Ravens allowed 409 nett yards passing, the astir by a Baltimore hostile since 2017. That full was inflated a spot due to the fact that the crippled went into overtime, but it was inactive concerning.

“They conscionable capitalized connected truly what we did, mistake-wise,” Humphrey said. “We had immoderate things with effort, immoderate things with conscionable lining up incorrectly. They truly took vantage of it.”

Since the commencement of the 2018 season, Baltimore is 35-14 successful the regular play — but that people includes an 0-3 grounds against the Chiefs. The 2018 matchup went to overtime, and the pursuing year, the Ravens mislaid 33-28 aft trailing by arsenic galore arsenic 17 points.

Last play Baltimore mislaid 34-20. Mahomes has been remarkably accordant against the Ravens, throwing for 377, 374 and 385 yards successful those 3 games.

“When you look astatine the teams that bushed the Chiefs, it’s a batch of plays that the Chiefs get distant with that should beryllium made. The teams that bushed them conscionable marque those plays,” Humphrey said.

“When it’s like, ‘Oh the Chiefs made this brainsick play.’ And they marque truthful galore big, brainsick plays. But the biggest happening is you’ve got to tackle their accomplishment and marque the plays you’re expected to make.”

Humphrey issued a spot of a mea culpa erstwhile asked astir imaginable precocious hits connected Las Vegas receiver Hunter Renfrow.

“I did deed Hunter Renfrow a small aft the play,” Humphrey said. “I thought Derek Carr was retired of the pocket. I apologized to him connected the field. Yeah, that was a play I privation I could instrumentality back.”

The Baltimore secondary is missing Marcus Peters, retired for the play with a genu injury.

“That was huge. It benignant of happened truthful fast, and we had to get connected to Las Vegas,” Humphrey said. “His play of course, we missed him there, but the happening I’m going to miss astir astir him is the things helium does erstwhile we’re not connected the tract — talking to me, talking to the guys, calming america down.”

Cornerback Jimmy Smith (ankle) missed Monday’s crippled and was constricted successful signifier Wednesday. Receiver Marquise Brown missed signifier due to the fact that of an ankle issue, though it’s unclear if that’s superior capable to enactment his presumption successful immoderate jeopardy for Sunday night’s game. He caught six passes for 69 yards and a touchdown successful the opener.

Mahomes is 11-0 arsenic the starting backmost successful September, with 35 touchdown passes and nary interceptions. And Kansas City tin origin problems defensively too.

“They’re going to beryllium precise aggressive, they’re going to effort to make the illusion of chaos,” Ravens manager John Harbaugh said. “You’ve got to signifier that and get it organized successful your caput offensively and beryllium acceptable to onslaught that.”

NOTES: The Ravens promoted DB/LB Anthony Levine and DT Justin Ellis to the 53-man roster and signed T Andre Smith and CB Kevon Seymour to the signifier squad.

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