M&T BANK GAME PREVIEW

GAME PREVIEW CHIEFS VS.

RAVENS

QB Lamar Jackson

QUOTH THE RAVEN

“It’s a new year – new people, new faces, new schemes, new things – we’re a different team. We’re just going to continue to work and build in practice, get out there and try to start fast, finish strong and just continue to build on that trend.”

– C Bradley Bozeman on the team’s mentality at the start of the season It’s a Sunday Night Football primetime showdown when the Baltimore Ravens (0-1) host the Kansas City Chiefs (1-0) tonight at M&T Bank Stadium. This marks the Ravens’ first home game of the 2021 campaign and the fourth-consecutive year in which these teams have battled each other in regular season play. Under head coach John Harbaugh, the Ravens are 11-2 in home openers, winning five-straight such games. In overall Ravens history, Baltimore is 18-7 in home openers. The Chiefs own a 7-3 regular season series lead vs. Baltimore, last winning a 34-20 at M&T Bank Stadium in 2020. Dating back to 2015, the Chiefs have won four-straight games against the Ravens. Including playoffs, Coach Harbaugh is 3-4 vs. KC. Last Monday (9/13), the Ravens dropped a wild, back-and-forth contest at Las Vegas, falling 33-27 in overtime when QB Derek Carr hit WR Zay Jones for a 31-yard TD with 3:38 remaining. Initially, Baltimore jumped out to an early 14-0 lead and surrendered just 10 points through the opening three quarters. However, Las Vegas stormed back by scoring 17 points in the fourth quarter, including a game-tying field goal in the final 37 seconds of regulation. QB Lamar Jackson finished 19-of-30 passing for 235 yards and 1 TD (10 yards to WR Marquise Brown), adding 86 rushing yards on 12 attempts. Jackson also lost a pair of fumbles, including one in OT that set up the Raiders’ game-winning TD.

NUMBERS TO RAVE ABOUT

1– Rushing TD scored by RB Ty’Son Williams in his NFL debut last Monday at Las Vegas. Williams finished with 9 carries for 65 yards, becoming just the 14th undrafted player since the 1970 NFL merger (and first since RB Jalen Richard in 2016) to record at least 65 rushing yards and 1 rushing TD in an NFL debut.

7– Receiving TDs by WR Marquise Brown in his last seven regular season games, marking the NFL’s second most (Davante Adams, 8) since Week 12 of the 2020 season. 17 – Receiving TDs by TE Mark Andrews since 2019, ranking as the NFL’s second most among all TEs, only behind the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce (18). 4O – Consecutive games the Ravens have rushed for 100+ yards, ranking as the second-best streak in league history (Pittsburgh, 43 games, from 1974-77). 44 – Consecutive games Baltimore has scored at least 14 points (including all 33 games with Greg Roman as the play-caller), marking the secondlongest streak in NFL history (New England, 63 games, from 2009-13).

Under Coach Harbaugh, Baltimore is one of four teams (NE, GB & Sea.) to earn a playoff berth in nine of the past 13 seasons. The Ravens are also one of four teams (KC, Sea. & NO) to make the playoffs in each of the past three seasons (2018-20).