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Jamison Hensley
ESPN Personnel WriterJamison Hensley is a press reporter covering the Baltimore Ravens for ESPN. Jamison signed up with ESPN in 2011, covering the AFC North prior to concentrating solely on the Ravens starting in 2013. Jamison won the National Sports Media Organization Maryland Sportswriter of the Year honor in 2018, and he authored a publication entitled: Traveling High: Stories of the Baltimore Ravens. He was the Ravens defeated author for the Baltimore Sunlight from 2000-2011.
Kris Rhim
Nov 25, 2024, 11:25 PM ET
INGLEWOOD, Calif.– Baltimore Ravens instructor John Harbaugh continued to be unbeaten in the NFL’s historical brother or sister competition, defeating his sibling Jim’s Los Angeles Chargers 30-23. He maintained the edge over Jim with some gutsy phone calls and one more leading initiative by quarterback Lamar Jackson on Monday evening.
John Harbaugh boosted to 3-0 over his more youthful sibling partially due to the fact that Baltimore was 3-for-3 on fourth-down conversions– every one of which expanded drives that caused goals. This noted the very first time that John and Jim had actually dealt with each various other as opposing head instructors given that Super Dish XLVII 11 years ago.
Jackson amounted to 3 ratings, competing one goal and tossing goal passes of 40 and 6 lawns. In 9 “Monday Evening Football” video games, Jackson has actually taped 22 goal passes and no interceptions– one of the most successive goal passes without an interception in “Monday Evening Football” background.
The Ravens (8-4) relocated to within half a video game of the Pittsburgh Steelers (8-3) for top place in the AFC North.
Baltimore Ravens (8-4)
Promising fad: Running back Derrick Henry remains to reveal Baltimore has success when it feeds him the sphere. The Ravens are currently 9-1 when Henry obtains 15 or even more brings. Henry acquired 140 lawns on 24 reaches end up being the 2nd gamer to tape-record over 100 lawns hurrying versus the Chargers. However this noted the very first time in 12 video games that Henry really did not get to completion area. He dropped one reluctant of connecting Hall of Famers LaDainian Tomlinson, Jerry Rice and John Riggins for the third-longest touch of racking up a goal within a period in NFL history.
Eye-popping stat: The Ravens came with on a huge wager with 2 mins left in the very first fifty percent, when limited end Mark Andrews took a straight breeze and got along to transform a fourth-and-1 at the Baltimore 16-yard line. According to ESPN Study, no group had actually transformed a 4th down that deep in their very own area in the very first fifty percent given that the 2012 Rams, that did so on a phony punting. 4 plays later on, Jackson went deep and gotten in touch with Rashod Bateman for a 40-yard goal, which offered the Ravens their very first lead at 14-10. The 2012 Rams made that conversion versus Jim Harbaugh’s San Francisco 49ers.
Explain the video game in 2 words: Never panic. Tracking 10-0 very early in the 2nd quarter, Jackson led Baltimore to ratings on 5 straight drives, getting to completion area 4 times. This protested a Chargers protection that rated No. 1 in least factors permitted (14.5) and had not permitted a group to rack up 30 factors this period. The Ravens’ 4 success after routing by 10 this period connects one of the most for any type of group in a complete period given that 2000. — Jamison Hensley
Next video game: vs. Philly Eagles (4:25 p.m. ET, CBS, Sunday)
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Los Angeles Chargers (7-4)
As the Chargers leapt bent on a 7-3 beginning this period, their unskilled obtaining corps came to be rather of a second thought. Tainted first-round newbie receiver Quentin Johnston showed up to have actually located his ground, leading the group with 6 goals. Novice receiver Ladd McConkey became Justin Herbert’s leading target and among the organization’s finest newbies. Pass receiver Joshua Palmer had actually been a constant security shutoff for Herbert, making huge catches on vital downs.
However on Monday evening, that altered. With the Chargers down by 7 and on their 34-yard line, Herbert located a wide-open Johnston stumbling upon the area, yet Johnston faltered.
On the following drive, Ravens running back Justice Hillside racked up a 51-yard goal, which successfully finished the video game. It was a finishing that last period’s Chargers had actually expanded familiar with, yet that had actually been missing with the very first 10 video games this period.
Unpleasant fad: The Chargers remain to have a hard time to rack up in the 2nd fifty percent. They entered into Monday evening balancing 8.2 factors in the 2nd fifty percent, the 3rd most affordable in the NFL. Those battles proceeded as the Ravens outscored them 16-3 in the 2nd fifty percent, prior to a late rating by running back Gus Edwards with 46 secs left. “It’s simply something we’re going after,” offending planner Greg Roman has actually stated regarding second-half battles.
Opening in strategy: Quiting the run. The Chargers surrendered 212 hurrying lawns, one of the most they have actually quit in a video game this period. It was the very first time in Jim Harbaugh’s NFL head training job that his group has actually quit 200 hurrying lawns in a video game.
Forecast for following week: Edwards has his very first 100-plus lawn hurrying video game. Running back J.K. Dobbins has actually been the celebrity of the Chargers backfield this period yet left Monday’s video game as a result of a left knee injury. If Dobbins misses out on time, that gets rid of the means for Edwards to have the mass of the Chargers brings versus the Atlanta Falcons. — Kris Rhim
Next game: at Falcons (1 p.m. ET, CBS, Sunday)
