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BALTIMORE (AP) — The past clip the Minnesota Vikings played astatine Baltimore was 8 years agone — yet Ravens manager John Harbaugh tin inactive callback galore of the details vividly.
“I retrieve getting the pb with similar 2 minutes near and reasoning it’s OK. Then, each of a sudden, the tract looked similar an crystal rink, right?” Harbaugh said. “Our guys are sliding around, we couldn’t tackle.”
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The Ravens yet won that 2013 crippled 29-26, but lone aft the teams combined for 5 touchdowns in the last 2:05. There’s a YouTube clip of that snowy decorativeness titled “The Craziest Final 2 Minutes successful NFL History” — it was a singular clash betwixt teams that seldom play each other. The Vikings instrumentality to Baltimore to look the Ravens this Sunday.
The Vikings person had precise small occurrence successful Baltimore implicit the years. They went 0-8 against the Colts determination earlier that squad moved to Indianapolis. They’re 1-3 connected the roadworthy against the Ravens. Minnesota came adjacent successful that 2013 game, but mislaid connected Marlon Brown’s touchdown drawback with 4 seconds left.
“Five teams won that day, but we won the past time, and that’s the 1 that counted the most,” Harbaugh said.
The Ravens (5-2) participate this week’s crippled coming disconnected their unfastened date, which was a productive play disconnected for them. Cincinnati’s nonaccomplishment near Baltimore successful sole possession of archetypal spot successful the AFC North.
The Ravens, however, got a wake-up telephone successful their last crippled earlier the break, losing to the Bengals 41-17 astatine home. Baltimore has allowed 3 opposing quarterbacks to propulsion for 400 yards this season, including Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow.
“It’s implicit with. We expect better,” information DeShon Elliott said. “We person precocious expectations of ourselves — each idiosyncratic individually and arsenic a squad — and astatine that point, aft a mates days went by, we were conscionable benignant of like, ‘All right, it’s implicit with. New week, caller opportunity.’”
The Vikings (3-4) are successful a much hard spot. They are 3 1/2 games down NFC North-leading Green Bay, and they’re successful the mediate of a pugnacious agelong successful the schedule. Minnesota lost to Dallas 20-16 last week. Now the Vikings play astatine Baltimore earlier traveling to look the Los Angeles Chargers and hosting the Packers.
“We inactive person 10 much games,” antiaircraft extremity Everson Griffen said. “If we spell retired present and triumph these 10 adjacent ones, we’d beryllium 13-4 and it would beryllium a full antithetic speech we’d beryllium having. We’re 3-4 close now. The airy astatine the extremity of the passageway inactive is agleam for us.”
TIME TO REST
Since their inception successful 1996, the Ravens are 17-8 successful games instantly pursuing a bye week, the champion people successful the NFL. Harbaugh is 10-3 successful those games.
DEEP THOUGHTS
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The Vikings didn’t crook the shot implicit and took lone 1 sack successful their nonaccomplishment to Dallas, but aft a touchdown connected the opening thrust of the game, 8 of their adjacent 11 possessions lasted 5 plays oregon fewer. They had 3 consecutive three-and-outs successful the 2nd half, each the portion failing to found immoderate benignant of a bushed successful the passing onslaught with stars Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen.
According to the NFL’s Next Gen Stats, backmost Kirk Cousins averaged 5.2 yards abbreviated of the sticks per walk effort against the Cowboys, by acold the worst people of the week successful the league. Jefferson had less catches (two) than fullback C.J. Ham (three) arsenic Cousins struggled to get comfy successful the pouch with the mode the Cowboys were pressuring astatine the enactment and covering downfield.
“There volition ever beryllium those moments erstwhile you measurement whether you should propulsion the shot downfield oregon not, and I deliberation determination were a mates times I privation I had,” Cousins said. “You support trying to larn each azygous time.”
STREAK
The Ravens person the longest progressive winning streak successful the league against NFC teams. They’ve won 11 successful a enactment and haven’t mislaid since an October 2018 decision astatine Carolina.
HEY, D.J.
The Vikings pb the league successful sacks per game, having already topped their 2020 full (23) by 1 successful 9 less games. A 4th of their sacks person come, however, from prima Danielle Hunter, who tore his pectoral musculus successful the past crippled and volition miss the remainder of the season. That means D.J. Wonnum volition beryllium backmost successful the starting lineup other Griffen.
“It has decidedly been a batch of learning curves, being capable to instrumentality a batch of reps and instrumentality that measurement guardant from my rookie year,” said Wonnum, who has 14 tackles, 1 sack and 3 backmost hits successful 7 games portion playing 66% of the snaps.
Fellow youngsters Patrick Jones and Kenny Willekes volition besides fig into the rotation with Hunter out.
THIRD DOWN
The Baltimore discourtesy ranks 23rd successful the league successful third-down efficiency, and Minnesota is tied for 24th.
“Hopefully, we marque it a affirmative this go-around disconnected the bye week,” Ravens backmost Lamar Jackson said. “Just dial successful connected that 3rd down a small much and effort to enactment connected the tract for our defense.”
On defense, Baltimore ranks 4th successful the NFL connected 3rd down and Minnesota is tied for fifth.
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