Ravens Tie NFL Record With 19th Straight Preseason Win, 20-3

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Many of the Baltimore Ravens players weren’t alert they’d made NFL past until manager John Harbaugh walked into the locker country aft Saturday night’s 20-3 triumph implicit the Carolina Panthers and told them.

Tyler Huntley threw for 187 yards, and the Ravens tied an NFL grounds with their 19th consecutive preseason win.

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Nate McCrary and Ty’Son Williams rushed for touchdowns for the Ravens, who equaled the people acceptable by Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers, who had a 19-game winning streak successful exhibitions from 1959 to 1962.

“It’s a bully feeling to person due to the fact that you tin spot the benignant of civilization we person arsenic an organization,” said Huntley, who played astir the full game. “We strive to triumph each clip we measurement connected the field. It shows you however overmuch extent you have.”

Harbaugh said portion immoderate critics whitethorn discard the accomplishment due to the fact that it’s the preseason, helium doesn’t.

“I judge everything successful beingness has meaning,” Harbaugh said. “… It’s thing lone 1 different squad has done, the Vince Lombardi Packers and I deliberation that is notable.”

Lamar Jackson did not play for the Ravens.

McCrary ran for 64 yards and Williams 47 yards, including a grinding 20-yard score, arsenic the Ravens outgained the Panthers 167-33 connected the ground.

Huntley started slow, missing connected his archetypal 4 passes, including the pick. But helium started to vigor up against Carolina’s second-team defense, completing 15 of his adjacent 16 walk attempts.

“I conscionable had to get into a bushed and get america connected track,” Huntley said.

Sam Darnold had his archetypal enactment astatine backmost for Carolina, but near aft 1 seven-play series.

Darnold started the thrust astatine the Baltimore 33 aft Derrick Brown tipped Huntley’s walk astatine the enactment of scrimmage and borderline rusher Haason Reddick, who had dropped backmost successful coverage, grabbed the casual interception.

But aft a 16-yard completion from Darnold to erstwhile New York Jets teammate Robby Anderson and a 9-yard tally by Chuba Hubbard, the Panthers thrust rapidly stalled. With a first-and-goal astatine the Ravens 6, Darnold threw 1 walk distant portion nether unit and the Ravens stuffed 3 Hubbard moving plays to instrumentality implicit connected downs. DeShon Elliott came up with the large halt connected fourth-and-goal astatine the 1 aft Hubbard appeared to marque a atrocious cutback.

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“We conscionable were going to tally our basal stuff,” Panthers manager Matt Rhule said. “We didn’t person our goal-line packages retired determination and each of those small things.”

Darnold said that didn’t matter.

“We should beryllium capable to people with our basal plays,” Darnold said. “We should person punched it in.”

The Panthers didn’t play moving backmost Christian McCaffrey, who has 29 touchdowns rushing successful 51 games.

Darnold said it was bully to get his feet bedewed successful a crippled and hopes to play much successful Carolina’s 3rd preseason game.

“We conscionable privation to proceed to physique disconnected that archetypal thrust — evidently people touchdowns — but conscionable proceed to spot a bully operation, getting successful and retired of the huddle and making the close checks and everyone being unneurotic and past punching it into the extremity zone,” Darnold said.

Will Grier relieved Darnold and played into the 3rd quarter, completing 11 of 14 passes for 144 yards. P.J. Walker finished up for Carolina, and was 1 of 8 for 8 yards, further clouding Carolina’s No. 2 backmost situation.

Grier said the Ravens defence threw a batch of blitz packages astatine the Panthers.

“They bash a batch of antithetic things, astir apt much exotic than thing I person seen successful the preseason,” Grier said.

Carolina’s violative struggles continued successful the reddish zone, wherever it is 1 of 7 scoring touchdowns successful the preseason.

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Baltimore lone started 5 regular starters connected discourtesy with receivers Sammy Watkins and Marquise Brown sitting out. The team’s starring receiver was fourth-string choky extremity Josh Oliver, who caught 7 of the 10 passes thrown his mode for 50 yards.

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