CLEVELAND, Ohio – Lamar Jackson injured Brown most of his legs Monday night from his game, but in the end, he crushed him with his hand.
The Jukebox eventually led the Ravens to a 2-24-4 victory, culminating in a y goal-yard field goal by Justin Tucker, and safety when the Browns took the next kick-off on the last play and threw in a series of frustrations that ended in their own end zone.
He dropped Brown to 9-4 to improve the Ravens to 8-5, fighting for his playoff life.
Jackson, who ran nine times for 124 yards and two TDs, left the game 34-22 with the Ravens to treat a stretch. When he came back with 2 minutes left, his team was trailing 35-34 and was facing fourth and 5th from 44th.
On his first play, he wandered around as if he was going to run for the first down. Instead, he gave Marcus Brown a 44-yard touchdown pass, and J.K. Dobbins ran two to put the Ravens up 42-35.
Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield had 1:04 left to tie his third straight touchdown at at રમત in the game.
He handled it at 1:51 left at 25 and fired a 28-yard pass to Donovan People-Jones. He completed a y-yard to Jarvis Landry, a 16-yard TD from Karim Hunt and then a 22-yard TD from Hunt, making it 42-42 with 1:04 left.
Mayfield finished with a passing rating of 28-of-47 and 87.5 passing for 343 yards. He had two TD passes and a key interception that set the Ravens touchdown.
Jackson took charge in the 25th with 1:04 left and hit Mark Andrews with two straight passes and eventually put Tucker in a game-winning position. Safety swept the Ravens series regular-season.
“Obviously very disappointed,” Browns coach Kevin Stefansky said after the loss. “We came here to win and we didn’t … I appreciate how people fought, but we didn’t do enough to win.
“We made mistakes …. we weren’t clean enough to beat a good team, and that was disappointing. We’ll own it, and then move on and do our best next week.”
Stephensky was asked if the opening in Baltimore, which started with season 38–6, showed how far the Browns had come from their season.
“I don’t want to go down the path of‘ moral victory ’,” Stefansky said. “Beat us …. for us to reflect Week 1 to Week 13, I don’t think we’re in that mind frame.”
Mayfield rebounds Hiffins and his TD run with a TD pass
Mayfield rose from a costly third-quarter hurdle with a 21-yard touchdown pass from Rashard Higgins and then his own 5-yard TD run. From those plays, the Browns came back from a lack of Storm-20 defic-20 and in the game: 33: 33. With the remaining -3 35–34 advanced.
Mayfield turned to his right and saw Higgins open in the final zone for the score. On a two-point conversion attempt, the ball went into the end zone from the hands of Creme Hunt and into the hands of the rough Donovan People-Jones and the deficit reached 34-28.
Jackson was given a stretch treatment in the locker room, Mayfield turned to his right, but for a 5 yard TD he slipped into the final zone and made it 35-34.
Cody Parky missed a field goal and an extra point early in the game.
Mayfield broke his straight five-game streak without interruption
Mayfield threw his first INT since Oct. 25, but it couldn’t have come at a worse time or place.
Mayfield fired a left-handed pass to Rashard Higgins, back-to-back in his own end zone, from 20-20, and was taken down by Tyes Bowser to give the Ravens the Browns’ ball. Of the line but it instantly closed in side-side coverage and he was able to get his hands on the ball and then catch it.
JK Dobbins ran from there to extend the Ravens’ lead to 34-40 with a third: 21:31 left. Tucker’s conversion attempt was blocked.
Mayfield’s streak was broken without interruption on 187 consecutive passes, the fourth longest in Browns history.
After the game, Stephensky took the blame for the pick.
“At that barrier, I’ll give them my cap,” Stefanski said. “It was a good defensive call, a great play by their defensive end. We became fools there; I became an idiot there. ”
After the game, Mayfield was upset about the pick as he puts the Browns in a hole.
“It did a good job of letting them go … Bow 54 Bowers played a great game,” Mayfield said. “I just need to see him go down the aisle, take care of the ball and give us a better chance of winning. …. he sucks.
“I hate to roll over. It hurts the team, and I don’t want to do that. I wanted to win, and we needed to get points on every drive, and that was the mindset. “
Jackson’s first half numbers
To make their 21-14 halftime lead, the Ravens ran 134 yards, including 78 yards and two TDs by Jackson. The ground game was very efficient, Jackson barely had to throw the ball. In fact, he completed just 3-6-attempts for 53 yards in the first half. He was fired four times in the first half, twice by Olivier Vernon, once by Sheldon Richardson and once by Sion Takitaki.
Meanwhile, the Browns ran just 55 yards in the first half, 44 by Carrie on 9 carry by Nick Chubb, 7 by Mayfield and 4. by Hunt but Chubb ran for two TDs in the first half for all Browns points.
The crows get a terrible double-dip
This is the wish of all the teams: to score again at the end of the first half and then at the beginning of the second half. The Ravens scored on a four-play drive early in the half and then on another four-play drive to start the third quarter to extend their lead to 27-14. The first was a 17-yard TD run by Jackson and the second was a 19-yard TD run by Gus Edwards.
Miles Garrett suffers from an elbow injury, compensates
Garrett had about 9:11 left in the second quarter against J.K. The elbow was injured on a 1-yard run by Dobbins, and he went for a medical tent examination. He returned to the next drive, but in four plays he went out, the Ravens went down and scored on an 11-yard run by Gus Edwards, which put the Ravens 14-7.
Both teams score on their opening drives, but the Browns trailing 21-14 from the half
The Ravens won the toss and elected to field, and the Browns marched downhill to the first quarter with a 9:06 left drive from a 7-yard TD run by Chubb. Mayfield hit his opening game and kept Chubb unfinished, but came back with a 20-yard strike from David Jokoku on a play-action pass. He found Karim Hunt in the 10th to convert a third down, and then passed to Jarvis Landry, who finished with a 12-yard chub. The 11-play, 81-yard drive knocked off the clock at 5:54 and looked easy against the league’s No. 8 defense.
But the Ravens responded with their own 9-play, 73-yard TD drive, ending with a 5-yard bolt in the final zone by Jackson, tying him in the first place with a 3:04 at 7 p.m.
The Ravens were aided by two MJ Stuart penalties on the drive, holding K, L and Brown 25 with a 29-yard interception call. He was almost all Jackson from there, with 13 and 6 for TD and then 5 runs.
To help Brown move to Baltimore’s 21st – including pass interceptions on the fourth and 4th – the Ravens paid the favor with three defensive penalties on the front drive. They plan to move to the fourth and 8th, but the first quarter ended and Parki pulled the 39-yard field goal to the left on the first game of the second quarter.
Oliver Vernon and Sheldon Richardson were forced to make three-and-push on the Ravens ’next drive with back-to-back sacks, but on their next possession, they had J.K. Dobbins, Goose Edwards and all three ran down Browns’ throats. Jackson. He ran seven of eight plays on an 80-yard drive, including 11 of 20 by Jackson.
From there, Edwards headed it right past Porter Gustin and pigeoned close to the pylon for an 11-yard TD, leaving Baltimore 14-7 with 7:49 in the half.
Garrett was off the field with an elbow injury after the fifth game of the drive.
The Browns, with an aggressive mindset, run back to the front possession with a yard-yard touchdown drive, ending with a 14-yard run through the middle of the chub, so that it will be tied at 14 o’clock. The main role on the drive was a 37-yard strike for the Rupee People-Jones, who established themselves as a formidable threat.
Verno put Jackson on a drive to push the other three and out in the Ravens ‘first game for an 11-yard loss, but Browns’ offense failed to capture the moment. Peoples-Jones were flagged for offensive pass interference and Mayfield was whistled for intentional grounding to bring Pamter Jamie Gillan out of the 24th.
With 1:01 left in the half, the Ravens started in their 44th and Jackson threw two imperfections to Marcus Brown, but he barely got out and Mark Andrews reached the 17th from 39 yards. Jackson took him from there and ran. Right for TD who made it 21-14 with 30 seconds left in the half.
Aust Stein Hopper disabled
The Browns were able to start without a tight end to Austin Hopper, who was ruled out with an injury to his neck in the early days. The Browns hoped Hopper would probably be able to play, so they postponed the decision until the day of the game. But it wasn’t. Hopper was inactive and was replaced by Rookie Harrison Bryant. Browse used many two-tie-end formations with Bryant and Jokoku, and a fair amount of three-tie-end sets with Stephen Carlson.
Next
Brown is in primetime next week, next week, against the Giants on Sunday night football at MetLife Stadium.
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