Kansas City’s All-Pro defensive sort out Chris Jones does not disagree. Jones gave the Ravens props for the resiliency they confirmed on their remaining two-minute drive led by Lamar Jackson.
Starting from their very own 13-yard line with 1:50 left to play and no timeouts, the Ravens marched to a 1st-and-goal on the 10 with 18 seconds remaining. The Chiefs barely escaped with the victory after on the sport’s remaining play, when Jackson’s 10-yard completion to Isaiah Likely was overturned by replay after it was initially known as a landing on the sphere.
Likely’s toe was dominated a fraction of an inch out of bounds, sending Baltimore to a loss by the narrowest of margins. However, the Chiefs know they’ve little margin for error in opposition to the Ravens.
“First off, heck of a job by them to even get it within the pink zone with like 40 seconds left to go,” Jones mentioned. “There was a whole lot of effort and a whole lot of grit that was performed in the previous couple of performs by our protection. We had been in a position to maintain on. We had been inches away from going into time beyond regulation within the first sport of the 12 months. We knew it was going to be a battle. It was an thrilling sport that got here all the way down to actually the top. That’s a playoff caliber workforce proper there with an MVP quarterback. We stay up for seeing them afterward down the street.”
Even Patrick Mahomes thinks the 2 groups may face one another within the playoffs.
“It’s a terrific soccer workforce and I’m certain we’ll see them once more in some unspecified time in the future within the playoffs,” Mahomes mentioned.
If the Ravens get the rematch they anticipate in opposition to Kansas City, they will not lack confidence. The loss dropped Jackson’s profession file in opposition to the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes to 1-5, however Jackson scoffed at a reporter afterwards suggesting that the Chiefs are his “kryptonite.”
“They’re not my kryptonite,” he mentioned after going 26-of-41 for 273 yards and one landing whereas speeding for 122 yards on 16 carries.
