Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is renowned for his love of competition but many in the media as well as around the league believe that the organization is content with bottoming out or taking a reset year in 2022. The team opted not to take a player at the position in this year’s draft and neither Smith of Lock inspires much confidence or excitement about the prospects of their offense and team overall in 2022. Smith served as the team’s backup for the last two years and Lock was acquired as part of the trade that sent their former franchise quarterback Russell Wilson to the Denver Broncos.
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They were essentially forced to do so by default because fourth-year pro Drew Lock made a woeful final push for the job in a poor performance against the Dallas Cowboys where he went 13-of-24 for 174 passing yards and threw just one touchdown to three interceptions. The Seattle Seahawks named career journeyman backup Geno Smith their starting quarterback following their final preseason game on August 28. The saddest and most uninspiring battle by far took place in the Pacific Northwest and came to an anticlimactic conclusion. Several teams around the league had open competitions in training camp and the preseason at the most important position in all of sports, quarterback. Five of Baltimore's final seven games are against AFC North teams.Ravens QB Tyler Huntley drops back to pass in a preseason game on August 27, 2022. The Browns are in last place in the division - but just 1 1/2 games behind the Ravens. It's the big plays that have been a problem for the defense.īaltimore hosts Cleveland on Sunday night. Baltimore has generally done OK this season in terms of preventing sustained drives. Tight end Nick Boyle made it back from his knee issues and played for the first time in just over a year.ġ4 - The number of first downs the Ravens allowed. Not all the news was bad for Baltimore on the health front. Tackle Alejandro Villanueva had one of the lowest offensive grades on the team Sunday from Pro Football Focus, and he had a big holding penalty that put Baltimore in that third-and-long situation that they converted on the pass to Watkins. Sammy Watkins has been limited by injury problems this year, but his 29-yard reception on third-and-12 set up the winning TD by Freeman. It's kind of a privilege as a coach to be a part of that, a little bit. "It's a great learning experience, but it's also just a great growing experience. “There was some consoling going on, even after the game with the win, in the locker room," Harbaugh said. Harbaugh said Westry took that play hard. Poor tackling turned a short pass into a 60-yard TD in the third quarter, and cornerback Chris Westry was beaten deep on fourth down for the 49-yard touchdown that gave the Bears a 13-9 lead with 1:41 left.
“We knew we had to go down there and score, so we practiced that every day in practice, two-minute drill, so that’s all it came down to.”Ī generally strong defensive performance was nearly undone by two big plays - the kinds of touchdowns that have plagued the Ravens all season. You’ve just got to go with the flow about winning the game,” Huntley said. “I think if I was feeling the pressure, we probably wouldn’t even have won this game.
Huntley threw for only 219 yards and was intercepted once, but he completed 26 of 36 passes, and at the end, he kept his cool enough to guide Baltimore on a 72-yard touchdown drive in 1:19, which ended on Devonta Freeman's 3-yard scoring run with 22 seconds to play. "Every single week has been a challenge in terms of who's going to be up and down, so we've got to get everybody ready.”
“It's been that way all year,” Harbaugh said. Not only was Jackson out, but top receiver Marquise Brown (thigh) also missed the Chicago game. NFL teams talk about a “next man up” mentality so much that it’s become a cliché, but the Ravens this season really have embodied that mantra. “He was feeling much better today from what I was told," Harbaugh said. This was only the third game he's missed since becoming Baltimore's starter in the middle of the 2018 season. Jackson's status will be a big topic going forward this week. Then they lost him and were still able to win, albeit against a Chicago team that isn't all that threatening and lost its own starting quarterback during the game. No matter who else was injured or how poorly the Ravens were playing, if Jackson was in the game, they had a chance.
"I think our guys are content in every circumstance right now, in every football circumstance, and determined to try to find a way to win.”įor most of the season, Jackson was Baltimore's ace card. “Like anything else, you get experience with something, you get more comfortable in that type of a situation," coach John Harbaugh said Monday.
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