It is a sport you need each few weeks, as a result of it options two of the three most dynamic quarterbacks within the NFL.
Anybody who’s not fired as much as see quarterbacks Lamar Jackson from the Ravens and Josh Allen from the Payments on the sphere in the identical sport merely isn’t fascinated with soccer.
Jackson is the reigning MVP, having received it twice, and his 254 yards speeding are essentially the most of any quarterback by way of the primary three video games this season.
Allen is the present oddsmakers favourite to win the MVP this season now — forward of Kansas Metropolis’s Patrick Mahomes — and has thrown for 634 yards and 7 touchdowns, and rushed for 2 extra TDs. He’s but to throw an interception after throwing a career-high 18 final season.
That is what you get when the 3-0 Payments play the 1-2 Ravens on Sunday evening in Baltimore.
“I am just grateful to be a part of it and to be around it,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh instructed reporters this week, referring the rivalry between the 2 star quarterbacks. “These are the things that you’re going to look back on and you’re going to say, ‘Wow, wasn’t that cool to be there for that?’ ”
There’s mutual admiration between the 2 quarterbacks.
“[I] love watching him play because every play is never dead with him,” Allen mentioned of Jackson. “He’s got a crazy ability to keep plays alive and make guys miss and then get the ball downfield, so he’s a special player.”
Jackson instructed reporters he embraces the highlight he and Allen share.
“It’s always going to be that way as long as we are in the league,” Jackson mentioned. “I really don’t know how people will judge it or what people will say. I’m just going out there trying to get a ‘W.’ ”
Each Allen and Jackson have been drafted in 2018 and made their NFL debuts as backups in Baltimore’s 47-3, season-opening rout of Buffalo later that 12 months.
Allen, in his six-plus NFL seasons, has led Buffalo to 4 consecutive AFC East titles and 5 consecutive playoff appearances. He has accomplished TD passes to 6 completely different gamers — which is spectacular contemplating he misplaced his prime two targets, Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis, within the offseason.
Buffalo receiver Khalil Shakir known as Allen “a freak of nature,” including, “He’s putting the ball to where only we can make the play on it.”
The Payments, who’re coming off a 47-10 annihilation of the Jaguars on Monday evening, have scored an NFL-high 112 factors — their most by way of three weeks since scoring 113 over that span in 2011.
The Ravens, after shedding their first two, ripped the Cowboys final week in a desperation sport. It was in that sport by which Payments edge rusher Von Miller took discover of Jackson paired with energy runner Derrick Henry.
“I remember watching the game on TV, and I was like, ‘This is going to be a problem,’ ” Miller mentioned of the Dallas sport. “And it has.”
Henry is coming off speeding for 151 yards and two TDs at Dallas, his greatest sport since becoming a member of Baltimore.
One factor that’s been a problem for the Ravens has been their protection defending leads. The Ravens blew a 10-point fourth-quarter lead in a Week 2 loss to the Raiders, they usually practically squandered an enormous result in the Cowboys earlier than surviving final week.
“We need to just lock back in,” Ravens security Kyle Hamilton mentioned throughout the week. “We’ve [started] so strong, and it’s hard to keep that up for 60 minutes straight, but I think we have the people to do it. Reset, refocus in the fourth quarter.”
The Payments have received eight consecutive video games within the common season courting again to final 12 months, the league’s longest lively streak. They’re making a 3rd consecutive prime-time look.
The Ravens are 20-3 in prime-time house video games beneath Harbaugh since he arrived in 2008.
