Ravens poised for stretch drive; Bengals’ run is a stretch

Juszczyk and Pitta aren’t going to make those types of plays, but Smith and Wallace can.

With the Ravens leading by seven points, they faced a fourth down at their own 22-yard line with 11 seconds to go.

Wind and a clumped-up middle of the field, be damned.

“I don’t know how many they tipped at the end. Being out there with my teammates – I couldn’t ask for a better day”. That is the Raven way. In my case, at your feet.

“You can’t really dwell on that”, Newton said. The Ravens got the win on Sunday, but the Bengals are still taking shots long after the game ended. During Sunday’s game alone, he nailed four field goals in the team’s 19-14 win over the Cincinnati Bengals. Then, he stepped out of bounds in the back of the end zone for a safety.

Tucker, who was 5 of 5 from 50 yards and beyond this season, drilled the field goal to extend the Baltimore lead to 13-3.

The NFL’s rule book indicates that a game can not end on a defensive penalty, discouraging players from doing anything necessary to prevent potential game-winning or game-tying scores.

Baltimore responded with Tucker’s fourth field goal from 36 yards that provided a 19-9 lead with 12:16 remaining in the game.

The last time the Bengals won a game was in late October, and they have yet to string two wins in a row together, let alone five.

Because the play ended in a safety, though, that was it.

“We’ve always got to keep pounding, and there are things we can get better on”, Dixon said.

The Ravens hadn’t beaten the Cincinnati Bengals since November 2013, so it shouldn’t be surprising that when they finally broke the losing streak, it didn’t come easy. The Bengals put CB Chykie Brown on injured reserve.

Given the Bengals’ dominance over the Ravens, it probably shouldn’t have been surprising that the game came down to the end. Terrell Suggs had two sacks and forced two fumbles, and the Bengals gained only 64 yards on the ground.Baltimore had something to do with it, but Cincinnati was playing without running back Giovani Bernard and wide receiver A.J. Green, both of whom were injured last week in a loss to Buffalo. But that’s the Raven way. And we very rarely take timeouts on offense for those reasons, and it happened there. Then it’s important to have a holder who’s confident in his hands, who won’t hesitate in his movement. “He’s close. He’s been able to run for about a week, so we’ll see”.

“It just felt like we got a little bit conservative”, Flacco said of the erratic offense.

There’s never been a better year to be mediocre, beaten-up and even occasionally inept in the AFC North than this year. “It’s great to have a kicker with ice in his veins”.

The strategy behind giving Tucker another way to score may be beneficial to the Ravens’-and other teams with huge-legged kickers-ability to score.

Taylor Gabriel caught four passes for 75 yards and two scores, overshadowing another outstanding performance by Arizona running back David Johnson, who has gone over 100 yards from scrimmage in all 11 of his team’s games so far this season – the second player in National Football League history to do that. The fumble in the red zone on the miscommunication between Andy Dalton and center Russell Bodine resulted in a turnover. The deal included an NFL-record for the position $10.8 million in guaranteed money. The ending to this one just reminded me why I love John Harbaugh.

The Bengals had two decisions backfire on them in the first half.

“There’s no way to keep him down, man”, Flacco said.