Steelers Defeat Ravens 18-16, Jackson Struggles Again

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00:00The Steelers beat the Ravens 18 to 16 at the place the Steelers play.

00:09Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, six field goals for Chris Boswell and

00:15the Steelers yesterday, but it was enough to get the job done.

00:19Lamar Jackson struggled again as he has in the past against Pittsburgh, but he did find

00:24Zay Jones with just over a minute left to go in regulation.

00:28The hard part, though, is then you got to get the two-point conversion to tie the game.

00:32The Steelers' defense coming up big on CBS.

00:36Jackson keeping it, Jackson fake, Jackson tosses, incomplete, but pressure was there.

00:45Joey Porter Jr. flocking to the quarterback.

00:51There you go.

00:52A huge play on the two-point try, and look, the numbers are the numbers, and Lamar's had

00:56a great year.

00:58He's a great regular season player.

01:01There's absolutely no disputing that whatsoever.

01:04Ravens could be a little bit of a bully team, though, sometimes, and one team that they

01:08cannot bully is the Pittsburgh Steelers, who, as we mentioned, have now beaten them eight

01:12of the last nine, and Lamar has lost five of six of those games himself.

01:18Now, here was the thing that stuck out to me, Cam.

01:21Lamar, 16 for 33 for 207, and he threw a pick.

01:24Go look at the rest of his games.

01:27Those numbers are a lot different than the rest, and Henry, only 65 yards on 13 carries,

01:33and I believe they didn't even give him a carry in the fourth quarter, I believe, of

01:38a game that was relatively close.

01:40They did not give a carry, and again, maybe they're throwing a little bit more, obviously.

01:44They're down, but he's also what's made them so good this year at times, Cam, so to Henry

01:50not to get the rock, that is interesting to say the least for the Ravens.

01:56Interesting.

01:57That's how you bury teams.

01:58You put your foot on the throat.

02:00We just talked about that.

02:01This guy's a battering ram.

02:02You're supposed to give him more carries in the late third and fourth quarter to wear

02:06down teams.

02:07That's your MO.

02:08I know you got guys who can catch the ball, but Baltimore needs a running game to establish

02:13everything else that they want to do.

02:15Unbelievable, and Carver, I'm going to say one damn thing.

02:18We talk about Butker, and Chris Boswell, to me, could be one of the most underrated

02:24kickers in NFL history.

02:26The guy hitting, I mean, all the time, and you know how hard it is to kick in that stadium.

02:31Crazy wins and stuff.

02:33That guy nuts everything.

02:34He's a really, really good kicker that people don't talk about enough.

02:39He's 29 of 30 this year, and the one that he missed was from over 50, so he's missed

02:46nothing short, and he's 29 of 30, and of course, he hit six yesterday in that game.

02:53Hell of an effort.

02:54Three turnovers for us by the Steeler defense.

02:57Let's hear from Lamar Jackson.

02:58All right, Lamar.

02:59So, what's going on?

03:00Why can't you beat the Steeler?

03:01Do you think with the penalties and the turnovers that you guys feel like you're your own biggest

03:07detriment?

03:08It wasn't really what's up, but what you guys did, do you feel?

03:10Absolutely.

03:11It's been that way for ever since last year, I believe.

03:14Coming back to the AFC Championship game, we killed ourselves.

03:17Chiefs game, the opener, killed ourselves.

03:20Raiders, we killed ourselves, and today, same thing.

03:24We can't be beating ourselves in these type of games.

03:26We got to find a way to fix that.

03:27F*** no more.

03:28It's always them.

03:29Yeah, it's always them.

03:30Don't tip the cap to the other team ever.

03:34It's always mistakes that they made in the big spots, and I think one of those mistakes

03:41is quite honestly, Cam, and I think this was a problem for them in the AFC title game.

03:45Last year against the Chiefs, I think it's been a problem for them as well in the past

03:49is their offensive play calling gets, you know, it gets questionable sometimes when

03:54they get into these close games, it gets very questionable.

03:58I remember they ran Justice Hill right out of the gate, looked good, and then I'm like,

04:02why are you changing your game plan?

04:03This is what you have to do to the Chiefs.

04:06Like, you're right, Carver, you're at, you're dead on.

04:08Like, Harbaugh and that staff, they got to take some blame for this.

04:11These guys, they do some really stupid things sometimes, like really dumb.

04:16And one other thing I'll say too, Cam, and I know they've had some times the past couple

04:19weeks where they've put Lamar on a, you know, a rest, do not practice on a Wednesday or

04:24something.

04:25He's not running the football as much as he used to.

04:27He had only four rushes yesterday.

04:28I mean, he had 46 yards, he had a 25-yard run.

04:31But if he's not able to do those other things, it makes their offense a little bit more predictable

04:37in terms of what they're going to do.

04:41And I think that's a good thing.

04:42I think that's a good thing.

04:43I think that's a good thing.

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