“I imply, what are you able to say? We’ve seen it earlier than. I simply suppose he took the sport on his shoulders like he does,” Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh stated. “However admire the opposite guys with him.”
The opposite guys with Jackson included the seldom used Tylan Wallace, who adopted Jackson’s tightrope scramble with a tightrope TD catch of 84 yards on the following drive. Then it was Jackson’s longtime prime goal, Mark Andrews, who hauled in an 18-yard lob. After that, Jackson made a leaping alley-oop to Rashod Bateman for a 5-yard rating with 1:49 to play that may stand because the game-winner after the Bengals’ got here up brief on go-ahead two-point try.
“It begins with Lamar and infrequently instances it ends with Lamar,” Harbaugh stated. “However in between Lamar and Lamar, there’s lots of nice gamers on the market which are surrounding him, and I believe that is type of the place our offense is at proper now.”
Jackson got here up clutch repeatedly within the second half after struggling by the primary to the tune of simply 71 yards passing.
Over the ultimate two quarters, Jackson was an ideal 7 for 7 on third down, throwing all three of his second-half TDs for 133 yards within the course of.
It was the second nail-biter of the season in opposition to the Bengals, and the second win for Jackson and the Ravens, who prevailed, 41-38, in extra time throughout Week 5.
In every recreation, Jackson piloted his squad to comeback triumphs regardless of double-digit deficits within the second half, throwing a quartet of TDs in each roller-coaster rides.
Statistically talking, it was his counterpart Joe Burrow (428 yards, 4 landing passes) and Bengals broad receiver Ja’Marr Chase who supplied essentially the most jaw-dropping stats. But it surely was Jackson and Co. who prevailed as soon as extra.
“That is an explosive offense,” Jackson stated. “Burrow’s a terrific quarterback. Chase is a superb receiver. Knew what kind of recreation it might be and we got here out on prime, and that is all of the issues.”
Although it was the reigning AP NFL Most Useful Participant’s arm that keyed the vast majority of the Ravens’ offensive success, the comeback was borne from a Marlon Humphrey compelled fumble and Jackson’s fleet ft.
Holding a wholesome 21-7 benefit within the third quarter, the Bengals fumbled away possession when Chase Brown was stripped by Humphrey.
“I really feel like when Marlon had compelled that fumble,” Jackson stated, “that type of woke us up as a result of I really feel like we had been sleeping all through the entire first half.”
4 performs afterward second-and-9 from the Cincinnati 11-yard line, Jackson dropped again — method again.
Jackson, per Subsequent Gen Stats, traveled 58.1 yards in complete en path to a primary down run to the Bengals’ 1-yard line. There have been myriad large performs forward, nevertheless it was Jackson’s run of ridiculousness that acquired all of it going.
“I used to be telling my guys on the sideline we acquired to attain,” Jacksons stated. “In the event that they rating, we acquired to attain, that is the kind of recreation it is gonna be. We noticed that from the primary snap, however I am pleased with my guys as a result of we completed one in every of these tough-type environmental video games. We got here by.”
