Ravens at Steelers 2011 Week 9

in Pittsburgh tonight it's a heavyweight fight in the guise of a football game as the Baltimore Ravens get into the ring with the Steelers on Sunday Night Football [Applause] [Music] nighty-night come outside under Prime is where [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Terrible Towels twirly over Heinz Field in Pittsburgh as Ray Lewis leeches Baltimore Ravens in the western Pennsylvania to take on Troy and the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night now Michaels Cris Collinsworth Michele Tafoya welcome to the NFL's version of a back-alley bra so many memorable games in this series and we're set up for another one tonight Ravens come in five and two an opening day they beat Pittsburgh in Baltimore 35 7 they pitched a perfect game but as usual it's all about defense again this season in Baltimore they have the number one defense in the National Football League but don't have that he has school tonight these the Steelers are playing very well after that opening day shellacking in Baltimore they won six of their next seven so they come in with a mark of six and two they have the number two defense in the league and Ben Roethlisberger and a word has been outstanding as far as its rivalry this intense rivalry is dessert course we asked Mike Tomlin to sum it up the other day he said I know one thing both training rooms on Monday are a mesh that's one way to put it the only thing to make this game better is if these two defenses got a G is the play against each other out there but in this era of quarterbacks throwing the ball 50 times the game and for over 400 yards this game just feels different it's about fight it's about toughness and it really become my favorite game of the year and then ironically each of these quarterbacks through 50 times last week and they won their games now as far as the matchup is concerned it doesn't figure a team's gonna win this game by 28 points so what do you see happening here tonight well Ben Roethlisberger you hit on it's really been playing about as well as anybody in the National Football League just named the AFC Offensive Player of the Month and yet when you go back to that opening day game I thought Joe Flacco played perhaps the best game of his career and if the Ravens are gonna come out here with a win he's gonna have to match that game he did indeed this is a game that sells itself it's the Ravens it's the Steelers enough said on Sunday Night Football [Applause] [Music] perfect title for a film about this series my komlin in his fifth season as the Steelers head coach has been to two Super Bowls already moments ago spoke with Michele Tafoya coach of counterpart John Harbaugh said you got to go to a dark place to get ready for this rivalry how would you describe what it's like to participate in this game well for us it just has to be fundamental we acknowledge that emotions gonna be a big part of this thing we got to do what we normally do we got to do the ordinary things we just got done extremely well we were really disappointed in your team's week one performance at Baltimore you said it'd be a long time before you got rid of that stench what's gonna happen tonight to be Baltimore we got to take care of the football I think that just the defense's distinguished yourself by creating splash plays and scoring we can't let that happen we got to get a few of our own coach thank you thank you and on the injury front a mixed bag for the Steelers linebackers Lamar Woodley and James Farrior are out but they get James Harrison back wide receiver Hines Ward returns he will play on a sprained right ankle but he'll be limited as for the Ravens left guard Ben Grubbs returns hasn't played since week one he will start Thank You Michelle as you look at John Harbaugh in his fourth season as the coach of the Ravens his brother the rookie head coach of the San Francisco 49ers one of the big surprises of the Harbaugh and has taken his team to the playoffs in each of his three seasons pittsburgh won the toss and deferred so they'll go on defense as Sean suiza sent to the yard into the to read to bring it back Annalee hit hard as he reaches the 23 yard line and that is where Joe Flacco will shut up shot played his even though he doesn't say that he necessarily ranks at number one in week one probably the best game he's played three touchdowns no interceptions there were his numbers in his career in seven regular season games three and four against the Steelers and he's faced them twice in post season as well with the Steelers winning both of those games from the 24 on first down and they start on the ground and give the ball or rice and he cuts it back and race off to the races as he was in Game one in Baltimore but there's a flag down at the line of scrimmage for the moment rice has gone into the end zone but the way the Ravens are reacting and riced into what was celebrating he lost the way that he looks back and sees that flag was this good indicator 76 yard that is Tory Smith the wide receiver with the hole Torrey Smith young phenom not even at the point of attack here this goes down against William Gay and it grabs the outside of the shoulder pads there Wow I tell you we were watching to see whether or not Marshall Yonder was going to cut Casey Hampton on the very first play that was such a big part of the first story but he did not but definitely Casey Hampton was going backwards on that play and in part created that hole here is the hold one more time let's take a look well game was in a position to make the tackle so it's easy to say the cost of the 76 yarder but with alcohol he makes a stop after a gain of maybe eight that's a play that doesn't get called a lot [Music] Williams comes in because the race needs a breather after that 76 yard scamper polo model makes the tackle Ricky Williams the Heisman Trophy winner at Texas a dozen years ago the back up to rice which Troy Polamalu was making an early statement on that when coming off the edge basically circling all the way around and making the tackle and James get big that guy seems to get even bigger second down the full backers give it the ruins that's a big bowl over the right side a metal set up a third and two as we take a look at the Raven offense Joe Flacco the University of Delaware Ray Rice Rutgers University Vontae League East Carolina Anquan Boldin before the state university toys Smith man ed Dixon Oregon Ducks brian Kinney University [Applause] Iowa Michael Oher Ravin shuffling around they're really happy to have grubs back as the cell reported at the top for the first time since she'll open it 30 to go out of the shotgun short pants to the outside that's going to get the first down as Ricky Williams takes the ball to the 43 yard line knocked that by Jason whirls first now well so many times when the Steelers were playing the Ravens it's Ray Rice coming out of the backfield as a receiver that makes such a difference Ricky Williams won playing that role there and here's James Harrison his first brush back from the engine itself now rice they give it to readiness time sampling over the left side of the line that's a game of two polo model knifing through to make the tackle same thing again Troy Polamalu going to come around the edge this is the kind of speed this guy has to hit the play from all the way on the back side a little help from Jason worlds as well but some early play action maybe an order if that's the way polo model is going to play around the line of scrimmage second and eight Rocco has not used play action as much as he has in the past with Chris talking about what Paul Amato was doing maybe we'll see more of it not here as it's a slinky taking down in the open field by Larry Foote and we meet the Steeler defense Vicki her Missouri Casey Hampton Texas Brett Keisel Grable high school go buffs Jason we're Oaks marshmallow defense Larry Foote Michigan Mars Timmons Florida State interesting well you'll get Troy Polamalu University of Southern California Brian Clark LSU I t-square universe [Applause] at secondary are doing a good job this year third down and six Krakow under pressure and then it's caught it's brought by Dennis Pitta one of the two tight ends they use Pitta and Dixon alarm Flacco loves to go to both of them that's a 23-yard game just before he got hit in the first down great job by Flacco here they're gonna bring all the pressure around this way and Flacco is gonna retreat just a bit and buy a little bit of time and these two tight ends for the Ravens now starting to have a big impact on this organization they are moving towards those guys playing together more black the light of what would be like a pistol formation here that short snap and here's Ricky Williams for the 28 yard line taken down there by Timmons so Flacco comes out of Delaware originally went through school in Pittsburgh and then left here and wound up at Delaware got drafted in the first round and was the starter for the Ravens right from the get-go has the third longest consecutive game streak going right now in terms of consecutive starts behind Eli Manning and Phillip Rivers 2nd down and 7 all-out blitz and the pass is incomplete Anquan Boldin covered on the play by Taylor yet Harrison among others racing in to put the heat on it's third down in 7 Lawrence Timmons back in at middle linebacker now he's going to come on to blitz and watch Ricky Williams right here pick it up for Joe Flacco that's going to be key he's going to take some shots as he's throwing the ball tonight and Ike Taylor you were talking about him out that's where they tried to get into Goldman a lot successful last week third down and seven opening drive of the game this is the tenth play for Baltimore the pass is caught on a slant by Bolden coming off a huge day in that win last week against Arizona erasing a 21-point deficit tackled by Taylor another third down conversion and a 15 yard gain for a first well not many guys tougher than Anquan Boldin to try and get a jam at the line of scrimmage that time able to get inside of Ike Taylor to pick up the big first down I'd say it was Antwon Bolden who took this team on his back last week they were down twenty four to three bottom all the way brilliant performances we've seen all year the caramel and then the pee is fought out of bounds by Cory Smith flag on the play William game with the coverage the flag is down at the goal line while Coleman is the referee so you had contact receiver defensive back and the call goes against against against gay a lot of pushing and shoving in its first and goal at the one yeah you'll see William Gay extend both hands and get him in there early tough call but I think the right call and for the Ravens they had three pass interference calls last week in that game to put them on the one-yard line and here they go they start this game the exact same way it's amazing Ravens going against the league's second ranked defense fake to rice Flacco almost has a ticked-off dangerous pass in the end zone Ryan Clark came over and knocked it away second down and goal not only was it ill-advised it was poorly thrown Flacco comes out and I think okay he's gonna lead him out over the in line he throws it behind everybody he even threw it behind Ryan Clark almost a monumental mistake on first down and a second nothing it's stonewalled going through the middle of the line setting up a third down and goal well two of the toughest guys joy pole omalo and Larry foot are both going to hit the same hole at the same time [Applause] [Music] 13 play of the drive six passes six runs [Music] eggs going and doesn't get it he has stopped just short of the goal line so now what so now if you're horrible you've got less than you are they go rice sinks it's a touchdown yeah for progress out watch the entirety of this play rice is going to get stuffed no question apparently they blow the whistle here but as he continues to fight and Vontae leads comes up and pushes him he is actually going to get in the end zone but I think the officials are going to say we blew the whistle dare so it doesn't matter what happened after that wasn't a scoring place I'm not going upstairs they could have challenged it probably they lost it meanwhile they're gonna go for a field goal three inside the 1 and Baltimore the Allegheny Monongahela and the Ohio Pittsburgh PA beautiful day beautiful weekend temperatures today up in the low 60s 48 at game time the Ravens Cundiff it's good news bad news two-thirds of his kicks are touchbacks but when they run him back the Ravens are giving up 35 yards per return which is awful [Applause] run back from 2-yards in mr. Dantonio brown and this time the coverage is pretty good Brown brings it out to the 23 yard line to Big Bend and the Steeler offense will happen to the first side when we come back ben roethlisberger look at those numbers last week against New England fifty attempts completed 36 had a huge day beat the Patriots he said I couldn't believe when I got the game plan I thought they were kidding on Tuesday but that's what they did they came out throwing built up an early lead and won the game from the 23 on first down they start on the ground with Megan up to the 30-yard line take another look at Ray Rice on that third and goal play and listen to the whistle when the whistle sounds and there it was so it's before he reaches to go on now if you want to challenge it you could if you're Harbaugh but keep in mind - audio doesn't play a part in it they only look at the pictures they don't listen for any wishes it would have lost the challenge anyway second down and one from the 31 yard line by Bernard Pollard a little floater and he couldn't hang on it'll be third down and one it's kind of one of those triple pump fakers from pit and Roethlisberger and then he tried a little finesse e1 over the new safety Bernard Pollard who's really no more is a big hitter but almost came up with a huge interception on this one so we maybe have some quarterbacks out here with a little case of the nerves we saw Joe Flacco with an ill advised pass and then been returned the favor and that makes it third down and Redmon are both in the backfield right now and a ruler flip to mendin go buy ladarius web the corner so they start out with a nine yard gain on first down and in comes the punting group they've lost Daniel Sepulveda their punter he's on injured reserve again and they've refined Jeremy CAPA knows who comes in what a play by ladarius web off the block of Mike Wallace gets in the backfield not only makes the tackle but doesn't allow him to move him forward that's a much bigger man than what ladarius webb is this tone has been set his cap knows who kicked for them last year at the end of the year the sapota was hurt and it's a line drive kick and that's Webb we'll just made that last in finish this play bringing it back to the 32 yard line so the Ravens get the football back leading Pittsburgh three nothing here's the website at the top you can check out SNF x-ray that's highlights Michelle from the sidelines you can even directly the game yourself I know drew cough and you'll know dresser though even fool around with your own camera angles anyway SNF extra that NBC sports.com so now the Ravens from the 32 yard line after they opted to go through a field goal on a fourth and goal from inside the warned the board with the 32 yard line and they give it to rice and Chris we will look at that decision that's the kind of thing down the line you'll think back well maybe that will be a very big decision to go for the three instead of going for the touchdown you just wonder if John Harbaugh may have gone for it against any other team in any other stadium but they all spoke of how important they felt it was to play with the lead and they played with the lead the last time they played the Steelers my feeling is he just wanted to strike first and guarantee so they get the three of second down and six second down to six minutes left in the quarter and rice they've stopped the 35 when you look at these two teams and the opening day game 35 seven in that game the Steelers turned the ball over seven times OKC Hampton on the nose tackle here is trying to get penetration up the field against that stretch play but you can tell he is cognizant of those guys coming down around in the first game tomlin telling us that just because it was the Baltimore is going to take before a third and seven 3-nothing Raven this week Jay Leno will have come see Jay Leno CC momenti bridge Pittsburgh pirate behind still third down and seven after the timeout that's going killing books which is something they're doing great frequency good protection pants caught over the middle and that's Dennis Pitta picking up the first down so Flacco patient live protects them well and it's a first down for the Ravens nice play that time by Ben Grubbs right here is going to slide over and pick up James Harrison coming on that blitz and that allowed Joe Flacco a rare opportunity to just sit in the pocket and find somebody open for the first down Flacco five out of seven for 59 yards loves to go to his tight ends and his running back over 60% of his passes to those guys as Williams takes it out to the 44 Rickey brought aboard to really just to give Ray Rice a blow from time to time came in on the first series and there's rice on the sideline again Williams has set up a second and eight he's already carried four times tonight for 13 yards I think James Harrison his back we've watched him come off the edge here he could piece of tennis and just come off and make the play I had some doubt [Applause] the toughest guys playing there was a broken orbital going for the fleet Tory Swift covered by gay Smith the rookie and Smith we will recall against st. Louis week three the first three passes he caught and his career all went for touchdowns let's see if gay gets away with a hold here right there it grabs the jersey slowed him down just enough a ball that still should have and could have been caught but the official simply did not see the hold on that one for Flacco go flacco is 5 first eight for 59 yards that's coming again they took a parish sit again and this time adjusting and making the kacct is Tory spit pants a little under throat he came back toward the line of scrimmage and makes the catch of the 28 yard line got inside in position on Keenan Lewis for a gain of 29 Keenan Lewis is the nickel guy here and once Troy Polamalu shifted over to the middle of the field Joe Flacco just threw that one up and I think intentionally under threw that ball and allowed Torrey Smith to come back and make the play now they picked up the pace get to the line of scrimmage in the right surround the left side it's planted by Lawrence Timmons and Larry Foote loss of one Lawrence Timmons is a guy that is taking on a unique role on this defense an inside linebacker for Dick LeBeau who's had to play outside linebacker because of all the injuries they were excited to get James Harrison back but then they lost Lamar Woodley so the shuffle continues at the back her position we talked about all the cutting inside there's marshal yonder got him again no second down to ten pump fake and then why judges lay inside the 25 spotted at the 22 setting up a third down and five inside three minutes to play in the opening frame we talked about the fact that they're cutting Kacey Hampton a lot want to emphasize that is not an illegal play an adjacent lineman is allowed to go and cut the guy next to him it's a point of frustration however for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Casey Hampton and it was one that was much talked about after that first game Hampton out on the third and five Ravens have converted five of six third down opportunities already which again pass tipped in the air and false incomplete William gay got a hand on it and it's 4th down and Cundiff will come in to try to make it six to nothing you know they're working against William Gay inside with these tight ends here's Edie Dixon and you would think that's a bit of a mismatch but Dixon was a wide receiver in college and a lot like the New England Patriots we're seeing this Ravens team go to more and more the two tight end set that they can run from or spread it out and make the drugs 40-yard attempt as you saw a 32 in a row from inside 50 of course the minute you put up something like that it's the kibosh the kibosh strikes [Applause] well you see those numbers 22 plays to 3 it's been all Baltimore on offense and yet it's only 3 nothing and after the missed field goal Pittsburgh begins this drive from the 30 so pundit who had 32 straight from inside 50 misses long here here at linemen Pittsburgh they go a three tight ends here on first down from the 30-yard line [Applause] protecting the salùte said he caught six passes against New England in the first quarter last week he had an appetizer an entree and dessert ball in the first 15 minutes early action we talked about it both the strong safety Bernard Pollard and the inside linebacker Jamil McClain came up on the play fake and Ben was able to hit it over the top a minute and a half left in the quarter after a gain of 15 and then he's gonna pack it in takes it to the 48 let's take a look at the stealer offense dead roethlisberger Miami University Rashard Mendenhall Illinois David Johnson Arkansas State might wise old parrot Walter high school Antonio Brown Central Michigan Keith Miller Virginia Mack Stars Florida Gators Christine went out to Utah marquise pounces Florida Ramon Foster Santa suit marques Gilbert University of Florida every time a she didn't like Wallace hairstyle classic we just wish we could do it yeah we don't look good we don't look good second down and eight Roethlisberger [Applause] it's by Reid just for the moment the lead that enough of them to stop him to the 21-yard Ben Roethlisberger's so good at rolling right coming back going all the way across the field beam of 32 Antonio Brown just got lost in the wash early down [Applause] and just one of those plays where you sneak somebody out the back side and the Ravens just dropped the ball on that one so now we're starting to see been in this offense that's been playing so well of way starting to loosen up a bit [Applause] their first drive another grunt three plays were 49 yards and that's going to take us to the end of the quarter before the snap end to the first 15 minutes in Pittsburgh it is Baltimore 3 Pittsburgh nothing an NBC Sunday Night Football after these messages yeah I'm this Sunday night yeah Michaels Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya Hines Ward active tonight inactive last week the limited third down and special situations on the sideline right now as we start the second quarter and walk this Bergen has to get it away and then sidearms at the Mendenhall and he gets taken down at the 18 yard line let's take a look at that Baltimore defense number one in the league our tans coder album gory reading the University of Texas Jared Johnson Alabama Ray Lewis University of Miami Jamel McClain stearic use University consistently ball so hard University the areas with Nicholls State University for nonpolar V Boilermakers and you carry Williams Washburn Suggs about those Arizona State guys second down and seven the ball at the 18 yard line sizzling raucous will get throwing and that but he wants a flag but there is none web covering ground and it'll be third down and seven one of the first things you have to do is get subs blocked on the outside one of the top tight ends in the game Heath Miller handles that part of it and now is this interference and get the is there a turn was it catchable all those things went into quick decision 37 to get warden to the right snacking receivers on both sides and Redman in the backfield it's very close to the first time then the ball comes out and they say no they're gonna say that it came out after Ward hit the ground hit there by Ray Lewis these two guys are facing each other for the 23rd time in regular-season competition and Ward is now hurt well here we go already here's Hines Ward who is defined so many of these matchups with big hits you think of the one against Edie Reed a few years ago and now here's Ray Lewis returning the favor is it helmet-to-helmet contact that'll be one thing they'll look at because this is a defenseless receiver at that point and so Ward nearing the end of his career and he's aware of that obviously is there make me the transition and now has to obviously come out of the game here after making the catch a little bit short of the first down the glue the whistle so there was no fumble and the shaky Ward comes out there also - one of their emerging receivers tonight Emmanuel Sanders whose mother died last week and he went back to Texas he is back in town tonight but not in uniform so now Ward has to come out and Sanders is inactive tonight [Applause] well ray is gonna come up no question helmet-to-helmet and that's what did the damage there the ball came out afterwards and now big decision time as well we've got fourth down and a yard so now Tomlin deciding to go for it in this situation our ball have decided to pass earlier at least to line up to go for it just be trying to draw offside watching the Steelers for the Israel things gonna take a look I wanted to see what that defense would look like and then the Ravens are also going to challenge the reception so before he could even call a timeout if that's what he wanted to do Harbaugh may want to challenge whether it was a catch and here's wall Coleman Baltimore is challenging the ruling on the field of a completed catch so Coleman will check it out after Lewis checks out ward [Music] so hardball has challenged we think that the play is going to stand that ward was down hand control hit the ground whistle sounds take another look here remember you're making the catch contact in the process of going to the ground so you have to maintain control all the way to the ground there it is now did the hip of Pollard cause that ball to come out here's the real time and a lot of times officials would use this and from that angle you could make the argument he didn't complete the process of the catch this the angle from the other way made it look like he did and then Pollard's hip knocked it out late so interesting challenged by John Harvey being the play the receiver did not maintain possession going through the ground Baltimore would not be charged the timeout well closing it went the other way we thought it would stay in a bar ball wins the challenge and that will set up a field goal attempt and remember officials will use this sort of real-time view of it as well as all the slow motion as well and that may have been the defining look so it would have been fourth and one they were lining up to go for Deshawn SWE's him in the second season with the team he's been around been a lot of places through the years and Jeremy Kappa knows is the holder remembered Sepulveda the kicker or the punter now on injured reserve Kappa knows did hold last year he's been around he's held in Green Bay and here last year even in the Superbowl and now they're going to go over where the ball was and all of the rest which was the 18 yard line which is going to set up about a 36-yard field goal attempt or make sure they've got the time on the clock right yard line is correct that's all taken care of Captain oats will hold now for sui's him a 36 yard attempt to tie the game snapper is Greg Warren get into the open end of the field and this one is good so a minute into the second quarter we're tied at 3 in Pittsburgh tomorrow night Rock Center with Brian Williams right here on his since 2000 it's reason to kick off read run it back [Music] [Applause] from four yards in the end zone straight up the middle he gets by suiza man at the 40-yard line and the Ravens alert me recover the ball at the 41 McFadden on the tackle and the Ravens are able to come up with the ball with Vontae leach saving the moment serene with a good run back all the way through the middle it was McFadden dislodging it and leach is there to keep the ball for the ratings then squeeze him some credit though he slowed him down just enough to allow the posse to get there Torsten 10 [Music] go off the play fake throws I pass incomplete trying to get a cup it Dixon will explode free second down and ten now we've talked about James Harrison's return and what it means to the Pittsburgh Steelers sort of white on time for this defense on the outside the other really key matchup is Ike Taylor going against Anquan Boldin pretty good coverage on that one James Harrison just brings a different Pittsburgh Steelers is to do with that eight years he's been in the lead and that pass kind of threaded in there with Tory Smith incomplete third down and ten for the Ravens you know this is an interesting Ravens offense right now because they're sort of stuck between two offenses as we speak they've got the full-back Vontae leach and Ray Rice and sort of the power running game that's been successful but lately especially last week Joe Flacco come back out of the two minutes hurry up offense and trying to merge the two a little bit you see the feast or famine they've been awful in there two losses to Jackson Tennessee but in their five wins twenty-nine very tentative escapes the pressure in frozen that's pluck on the Quan Williams a rookie from Maryland as his Torrey Smith and a first down on a third and 15 now one of the things that happens when Ray Rice comes out of the backfield you end up with a guy like Troy Polamalu who has to pay so much attention to him the underneath coverage on that zone just wasn't there James Harrison working the stunt inside and there's been Grubbs who is a welcome addition back on this offensive line Andre Jerrod did a good job but nowhere close to what Ben Grubman Ravens third down for the most part here is rice for a gain of one the Steelers when you take a look at this team that defense number two in the league but only three takeaways in half a season that's the fewest by any team in NFL history through eight games it's amazing there - ten on the gift take table of course we were - seven on open a day against Baltimore only three takeaways in all year then a team of the mark of six and two second down and nine right one thing we should frame with this game if Pittsburgh wins they would go to seven and two they'd be all alone in first place if Baltimore wins they go to six and two they've already had their Buy and they would be tied with the Cincinnati Bengals it's amazing and for the Cincinnati they catched Pittsburgh next week and of course Pittsburgh coming off of this game and the game against New England how focused you think that really been so not bad timing for the bangles we're so funny as you looked at Pittsburgh schedule I said well they're done with Baltimore in early November then they get Cincinnati twice all of a sudden it's a difference Cincinnati [Applause] that's the flag in an effective free playing Pitta makes the catch and a first down that is a big one so you want the plays about the distance of the penalty number 92 defense the piddly supplied play results in a first down yeah you get a five-yard penalty in a first down or maybe a five and a half yard gain in the first down that's when the quarterback says I'll take the stat thank you very much you're in the tight end those two as good it makes his third catch of the game you see the field pretty chewed up to quit a college game here last night because we're the University of Pittsburgh plays and they played the Cincinnati Bearcats and lost to them last night Williams that's taken down by campus at the line discovery two guys the University of Texas one of the things that Casey Hamptons wants to do on this stretch play is to get penetration back this way does it perfectly right here no way for Matt Burke to get there and that plate never had a chance once again Troy Polamalu come on the edge and get Sun on it as well second and 11 name tied at 3 early second quarter rice and that he flanks to the right and they'll send it out to him annal rice gets the 25-yard line three receivers for that side city hood the defensive end out there to make the tackle setting up a third and two Joe Flacco is going to remember this blitz remember last year al and it was Troy Polamalu coming off the edge got the strip fumble that turned that game away and in favor of the Pittsburgh Steelers a lot of room on the outside you have to get rid of the ball quickly and blacoh is definitely quicker with his pace than what he was [Music] I play help pull the model win of the Year Defensive Player of the Year right splice to cut it back and gets taken down perish and makes the initial contact and it will be fourth down well I tell you why James Harrison is just too much over on that side of the ball he is bolting inside of Bryant McKinney here and making these plays in the backfield actually on that play that was JA Reed he was a tight end Cundiff foolish attempt this one puts it down and this time Cundiff stick is good so he is two out of three that's the difference in the game at the moment six to three Baltimore Ravens all about defense going back to 2000 the core for a lo de nada there are the numbers for week 1 against the Steelers Suggs with three sacks Lewis a pick and a forced fumble Reed had two interceptions his only two of the season but the core for Lewis and read for sure go to the Hall of Fame such probably and then not not as only in a sixth season but there's certainly a great start to his career [Applause] goes through the Enzo fund of two-thirds of his kickoffs our touchbacks that defense they're ranking number one in total yards allowed 263 lowest in the league and in points they are second and the Steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians said that his top goal against this team is to not let their defense score Chuck Pagano has done a tremendous job Ray Lewis describes him was just one of the guys that when we get loud he gets loud allows this defense a lot of input he was known for his days when Fergana was in the section at the University of Miami one that's ready when the emerging young players along that defensive front for the Ravens yeah I tell you what this is not a good matchup right here David Johnson too tight in against Corey reading watch him shed that block and hit Rashard Mendenhall Mendenhall averages about a yard less per carry against this Ravens defense than he does against the rest of the league hit a little reminiscent of the one that Ray Lewis put on him to break his collarbone second down and nine very short game for Miller gets taken down by Jarrett Johnson Johnson in his ninth year in the in the league and he engaging guy we talked to him last night asked him about you know playing on a team with with nothing but superstars defensively you get lost in the shuffle he said look as long as my peers understand what I am good enough for me what he is is a crazy man when you watch him play the whistle is only part of the equation he goes to the echo of the whistle on every play 36 which on Roethlisberger hangs in the the pace is go up by Antoni to the 45 yards then hanging right in that pocket with all of the fringing around of it it's a 20 yard game well the good news is if you get the Blitz blocked you get single coverage on the outside and I tell you this Antonio Brown has come out of nowhere here lately he is 16 catches I think over the past couple of games and he has just been one of those guys that has emerged a kick returner a guy that is used to playing in the open field that's absolutely no fear 36 catches on the year second loeli loeli Wallace who's yet to catch a ball tonight [Applause] the minute you mention it he goes for Wallace and the pass is incomplete broken up there by Carrie Williams chicken will the show well there is no official word from the steelers yet on hines ward but i can tell you since taking that big hit on their last drive he has been on the sidelines no where is his helmet and usually that's an indicator when a guy's not holding his helmet that he's probably not coming back in he's talked with trainers he's watching the game intently but no helmet also Arnez battle is questionable with the hamstrings so they are at thin at wide receiver I'll be back Michelle we mentioned before that there - Emmanuel Sanders who had to attend his mother's death and funeral and just got back into town but inactive tonight now Ward done probably in 2nd down and 10 in watchos Berger sensing the pressure extending the positive they're seemingly so in the past incomplete Antonio Brown and Miller were both in the same area you know Chuck Pagano told his defensive backs this starts our coverage starts after three seconds because Ben Roethlisberger is going to do this he's going to buy time don't think because you covered somebody for three for five seconds that that's going to be enough Roethlisberger scanning the entire field probably none better at just buying time down the field and actually the two receivers knock each other off the ball Roethlisberger doing it for eight years and takes a timeout here before a third and ten seven minutes to go in the opening half with the Ravens leading by three you're gonna get some different looks out of the Ravens on defense this time they line up look at this up here there's a lot of money on that side of the field marquise pounced he's going to go where that one two three bins gonna say now that's the knot let's go time we've seen a lot of football I don't think I've ever seen that formation defensively you know in the weird thing about that formation and here it comes again now everybody's over on that side they'll drop the nose tackle back in coverage often rubbing this look this time Lewis who had been wonderful three on that side that drops back through a conventional position we still got suds over there and now you got a whistle before a third and ten look at SOGs he's upset final timeout Baltimore 30-second timeout since 2000 the year that warmer won the Super Bowl these two teams composite Lee first and second in points allowed first and second and yardage rush yards allowed first and second sacks dealers first well in that decade then would take the ways the Ravens would lead the dominant bees the difference the students have won two Super Bowl since the Ravens won there's the difference has been the offense Ben Roethlisberger and the offense doing the job through the decade and of course this is the the hunt team no doubt the hump team for boil order to get by Pittsburgh has knocked them out of the playoffs three times in the decade and nothing stings this Baltimore Ravens defense more than that knowledge that gives him sort of the title of toughest team between these two and the Ravens don't like it this is their chance for a sweep this year [Applause] more conventionally defensive whoops let the listener take care of him Rafa slip the steps up in the fences incomplete Carrie was really coming along at corner the Raven corners playing pretty well of late knocking it away fourth down I tell you how you really hit there right on the head here Carrie Williams up here is a guy that I think he had one start in his career before this year even the Steelers were like who is this guy that keeps making plays and in reality they're going to go after the more veteran guy ladarius Webb on the other side at the 20 and minor skirmish nothing this is like a preliminary bout this is the main event for Baltimore in Pittsburgh you know we were talking about the rivalry reminds me and we mentioned it on the pregame show it's like with New England and Indianapolis Chris through the early part of the decade Manning couldn't get by Brady the Colts couldn't get by the Patriots Patriots with three Super Bowls and then finally about the middle of the decade Indianapolis turns the corner they get by the Patriots they win a Super Bowl they get to another one this is the same thing with Baltimore in Pittsburgh okay get over that hump from the 23 yard line the outside that's dropped by Cory Smith well there's no doubt for all the plays that these young receivers can and will make they are still rookies and this is a single one-on-one coverage against the fastest guy on your team hits them right between the eight and the two and you drop it in a game like this you just simply cannot afford those kinds of plays and look at the young guys the Bolden and everybody else the one veteran and they really needed him last week but it looked like they were second lieutenant stuffed at the line of scrimmage and full amato Head & Shoulders Fame right there I'd say Avante leach thinks he has pollo Malo dead to rights here lines them up Polamalu jumps around and makes the hit in the backfield that's really one of those plays is an offense you're just trying to stay out of third and ten so you don't throw the ball you run the [Applause] like that flacco ratcheting it up on third down tonight as it ought to do here third and ten the pass is incomplete before they finally plant him back at the 12 yard line that was James Harrison knocking into the ground and Flacco slow in getting up as he goes off the field on fourth down yeah it's kind of interesting they're using Troy Polamalu now in coverage on these tight ends on the outside the Ravens have been throwing so much to Ed Dixon and Dennis Pitta on the outside they've made the decision to take him out of the safety position and put them in bunk on those tight ends Sam Cooke with Luther punting ain't told me a brown is back [Applause] it's a 47-yard boot from the 31 ground down at the 39 to go in the opening hand 6:3 Baltimore [Music] you know he's still the original I mean drew brees has picked up a little bit of that of course through the past few years keep Brooking in Dallas but there's only one Lord from the 39-yard line that pass is incomplete into a lot of traffic intended for my welding more on the subject of lewis now in his sixteenth season he's closing in on a record most takeaways by a linebacker in history I would figure that's Baltimore in Pittsburgh again ray with 49 and he's four behind Jack ham so he said to Lewis last night here a at the peak of your career if you were a hundred percent what are you now he said probably 100 phone the tell you what most of the time he looks like it second intent with the ball at the 39 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Jason to the 36 yard line the fullback tight end edy Reed makes the tackle Roethlisberger again with a play extension and finds the man now they're just going to make a little crossing route over the ball seems both guys contry comes in front of him but then he ends up coming back to the back side and Ben this is what he does and those pump fakes they don't look like much but they're deadly for his own defense they move guys away from his receiver and that's what enables him to make those kinds of plays gain of 25 [Applause] Lord picnic providing the convoy second down and two we were talking about Ray Lewis and what people probably don't understand when they see how emotionally is he is the Peyton Manning of the defensive side of the ball this guy probably studies more tape than just about anybody in the league constantly in communication with his defensive coordinator but he and Ed Reed make more adjustments just before the snap of the ball probably than any pair in the NFL second and a deuce [Applause] gonna back his way and do a first down very close and appears to happen we wind it up right there you know it's amazing as a running back sometimes in this game how good you feel about a 2-yard run you know I mean you're are fighting for every inch of turf out here on this field obviously the score reflects that already but this is just one of those games that drop passes or a missed interception or a missed opportunity oftentimes the site and a lot of times it's decided by a defensive score homeland bringing in the change one link short mike tomlin branson all right we get our third and inches player you know you got a love tom when he is one of the most quotable guys in the league love the way he phrases things we asked him the other day we ever in high school debate team he said yep he said they didn't know whether to throw me off or make me captain but he does get you fired up doesn't he I mean he really does he's one of those guys that it makes you just sort of love the game of football when he's around he said about Troy Polamalu oh he says you know he really isn't from here he's just visiting when you watch him play you do get that feeling sometimes [Applause] and an inch make it singular Isaac Redmond is the running back wants to do that big frame and strong legs and very often he'll do that on third down and inches worth that in issues and pick up the first down Big Ben I tell you last week he looked more like Tom Brady than Tom Brady did he had 35 or 36 completions in that game 31 of those 10 yards or less through only one pass more than 20 yards down the field when they simply brilliant off the Patriots first down from the 24 over the minutes hit and then it winds up as a completed pass at the 8-yard line Jamil MacLean got his hand on it but that didn't stop Jericho cotchery the former jet who signed in training camp in August for making the catch Jamil MacLean he just talked about missed opportunities here was one this one should have been picked off by MacLean goes right through his hands and how happy are the Pittsburgh Steelers with Jericho Khatri they basically described him as Hines Ward six years ago especially tonight with Wharton out of the game and Sanders inactive except two maybe three or Darius Webb with the tackle his michelle hines ward at this point it is official they're calling it a stinger and saying he is questionable ow well the same questionable but as you pointed out I think they took his helmet away so yeah well and the other thing remember the officials are now being asked to watch guys that have potential concussions on the field and they may have said that's enough giving a warning second and going we come back to Pittsburgh [Music] they have a halftime show approaching Mark Sanchez leaving the Jets to a win in Buffalo Aaron Rodgers another huge day in San Diego Bob will talk about that dramatic finish in Foxborough Super Bowl 42 reduct Giants beat the Patriots second and goal to the next to the half from the four [Applause] Roethlisberger and then a lot of action at the goal line contrary the intended receiver in the past incomplete third down plenty of time there but it was drill sucks coming out on the inside stun here that got the first shot against Ben Roethlisberger and that has to be the goal they can't let Ben just keep standing back there the way that he is and moving these defensive backs with his eyes and pump fakes third and goal [Applause] is gonna get sacked at the 12-yard line full Kreuger four sacks last three games for him is in there and get a little jabbing going on and it'll be fourth down well I'll tell you this Paul Kruger is really starting to make a difference he's coming off the edge working against the rookie Marcus Gilbert but this pass rush move has just been so effective for him lately I think put forth sac in the last three games and when you can bring guys off the bench on the Ravens now with a lot of depth says Pernell McPhee getting some sacks Arthur Jones he's been good but really Kruger has been the guy that's been the difference 30-yard field goal attempt by Sean suiza who's just inside right upright figure 6x with a minute to go in the half mark visiting Pittsburgh Shilla middle school for at least 60 campaign her children to be active for at least 60 minutes each day we know them as the cover guy but you see them there the best way to cover somebody's a knock them down [Applause] Oh [Applause] at the 30-yard line that's heresy you know the number 92 is gonna get into the offensive backfield when James Harrison lines up in the middle of the field he can basically blitz from anywhere it creates big issues because when you get a late for Ray Rice on that one I was trying to pick him up and just got run over second and 15 [Music] and that ball is this launch flag is Brian lacking the receiver in Dixon as the flag comes in [Applause] back judge making the call calming with the explanation personal foul [Applause] in the previous five any other era this is called a great football play in this era you make helmet-to-helmet contact let's see there it is that is a penalty that is a but out and talking to these players I'm not sure they care I think they are that's the second week in a row cork has been involved in a playlist is owned in the band that is caught by Anquan Boldin who stuffs at about 16 seconds so what we're trying to get into field goal range of course the crowd hates that cold they like sort of old-style Pittsburgh Steelers football as well but you know for Ryan Clark that's one of those sometimes you lose the battle and win as a receiver you start taking those kinds of shots down the middle venomoth think about it phase Ravens trying to get 1015 more yard makeable for mentally still have a timeout and then the ball is loose but recaptured by Bouldin at the 30-yard line Bouldin is there clock is running down and Baltimore will take its final timeout let's say you what they almost let him run all the way out with two seconds and this is going to set up about a 49 yard field goal attempts and Bolden is limping a little bit this was bizarre did he ever really have control that football over and be surprised if they take a look at that one I think he recaptured it at the end and again there are no coach's challenges in the last two minutes check it out upstairs and they can call for Coleman to come over and take a look at it official review bold and indicating hey you know I gotta cut it back yeah I would say probably did there he did never never really control so he's going to have to make this catch clean it's worth the look I'll say that he's gonna if this ball hits the ground if we make the case that that is not a catch at no point does he control it so now he has to not allow that to hit the ground it sort of rolls out the outside of his arm well that that angle is the is the most interesting and I think that's a definitive yeah because he can touch the ground but if the ground helps you control the ball through the catch then that would be incomplete so if it's if the ruling stands will attempt to 49 yard field goal if he doesn't they'll either do a kneel down or a Hail Mary and what hurt there was they assumed they were in field goal range and they had the catch so if it gets overturned they've already run all the time off the clock and would be reduced to kind of a Hail Mary situation yeah I'm gonna we're gonna originally originally we thought he had recaptured it but the ground helps him control the ball and if that is the case if that's the way Colman's season which we now think is what Poland's going to see versatile good job by Ike Taylor getting in there and fighting his way through I don't think there's any fly but who knows horse heads they say we've been wrong before big dad picks oh I don't think so i think that's incomplete what a first half this is though you know it's just classic you can almost just predict what's going to happen but the one thing is neither one of these offenses has made the big mistake that so often turns these games around if they reverse this the other thing is going to happen going to put a few seconds back on the clock so the Ravens I guess that some like thought it was six seven seconds I'm guessing so they could still want to play and trying to get out of bounds we'll see and they still have to play the resuit receiver never had possession in the ball the ball hit the ground [Applause] please reset the clock 11 seconds Baltimore will get their time out back so Baltimore has the time out I have got 11 seconds so you still have a chance to run a play you know 15 yards or so and then set Cundiff up for a half ending field goal attempt 11 seconds plenty of time with that timeout to even work the middle of the field remember seven field tens of 50 yard or not that he leg strength he certainly does we see that but longest read currently [Music] this freakin 32 straight from inside 40 so from the 42 yard line sack three receivers that's the Steelers came across the line but where they induces the question false start number 66 five-yard penalty fail second and that is the answer that's been Grubbs I can't answer the question of how hard it must be to not flinch when you see this distinguished linebackers jabbing at you sort of simulating the stab [Applause] for those offensive linemen and that's without farrier and Woodley in the game - you see that 92 in the second and 15 now coming out of the swamp Rose that's rice and rice we'll take the ball to the 33 and they'll take a timeout here 33 yard line with 4 seconds you bring Cundiff in for what will be a 50 or 51 yard field goal attempt so Cundiff hasn't made seven straight now from 50 or more said his range is 53 and of course in heinz field it's probably the worst place in the league to kick a field goal through the years but tonight a near-perfect night one shouldn't be a factor and the good news is I'm sorry out then typically going in this direction it's easier the open into the stadium is on the other way which creates so many more issues than this close though 10 years in the stadium only two field goals of 50 or more both by Jeffrey and make 1 by jomega me as well that's three here's a 51-yard Thunder and this one is good so Cundiff has one streak end and then begins a new one here the seventh straight of 50 or more missing bangs one through the gun then they get nine six Baltimore at the head go ahead a halftime show coming right up [Applause] [Music] but there's a flag down [Applause] going it doesn't get it gonna get sacked at the 12-yard [Applause] second half beginning Baltimore leading Pittsburgh nine to six even following your favourite team all season long for the itunes.com slash NF L now Michaels Cris Collinsworth Michele Tafoya seasoned at the halfway mark week 9 of 17 and let's go to Michele I just spoke with Mike Tomlin he said he is not at all displeased with the way his offense is moving the ball he said just when we get to the red area we can't settle for field goals we've got to score touchdowns speaking of field goals I spoke with John Harbaugh that big early decision to kick the field goal on fourth and goal rather than go for it he said was twofold he wanted to get points on the board he said points are at a premium he also didn't want to get shutout on that drive and let the crowd into this game early but here in the second half he said we're going to put points on the board we're gonna work their corners Thank You Michele a lot to chew on as we start the third quarter so no touchdowns in the game three field goals walk the foot of that man punter - by Sweden nine to six that is Brown I'm getting ready to run the kickoff back [Applause] at the time well it's gonna be a touchback and is gonna be a touchback he's Redman sister brown wool AFC North standing right now up to the minute Cincinnati a winner today at Tennessee six and two at the halfway mark Pittsburgh six and two they'll either be seven to six and three after this game Baltimore would go to six and two obviously with the win Cleveland in last place at three and five so if Baltimore wins this game you're gonna get three of the four teams at the halfway mark of the season with six wins and I think coming into this game it was for the top five defenses in the NFL all out of that AFC North now the Steelers start this drive from the 20 Roethlisberger 7 of 15 415 yards and from Mendenhall this is carry number six for a total of 21 yards now well for me one of the stories of the first half has been trill sucks it just really has not been much of a factor and let's give some credit to Mack starts doing a good job as he had helped absolutely he's had back skipping over there tight in staying in and helped but sucks has been a game wrecker over the years for the Pittsburgh Steelers and so far not so much brought she's overweight left camp got back into shape and we've signed them in that Mendenhall works his way to a spot about a yard short of the first down strong has been around for a while third round pick and all four out of Florida and he's huge six eight and number one he weighs right now Chris about 340 345 but he'd gotten to the point where he was out of shape and overweight and then worked very hard to get back and Vince said we got to get him back silent [Applause] [Music] left side of the line ben roethlisberger who is really the biggest proponent of mac starts on the outside he they cut him before the season even started in camp and all of a sudden he was gone ben says you know max has lost 30 pounds and Tomlin said call me when he's lost 40 what something he did they got his job back and it was really right on time with all the injuries that they had an attacking position Syd is going no-huddle making sure the raven defense can change up said been going no-huddle but not hurry up single coverage and that's tipped at the line of scrimmage OD 62 now we're really seeing I don't know maybe a little more brave coverage out of the Ravens than what I've seen in the past it's like they've got a newfound faith in these quarterbacks on the outside of course every great at covering up as well but a lot of just single coverage and at some point you've got to think that they're going to take a shot with Mike Wallace who's one of the best big play receivers in the game they've held him in check tonight Wallace hasn't caught a ball I think he's only been targeted one time second down [Applause] [Music] [Applause] stop by Pollock first down say a Mac starts if the Steelers were to come back and win this game he would have to be one of the candidates for MVP so far no help on that one on Suggs and you're gonna give Ben Roethlisberger that much time he's gonna find somebody [Applause] she was having huddle on this drive Redmond is the running back [Applause] the pressure spinning around spinning away and at about the 33-yard Williams no doubt about it Ben Roethlisberger wanted to take a shot at Mike Wallace the top of the spring the Darius Webb was there so he pulls it down as Ben can do and here starts working and the protection again and then it was just that extra time that allowed Roethlisberger ultimately to make the play all the 33 hands it off to read been watching was burger do this for years and there's a moment in time in his career and so many great plays some of the big plays but nothing bigger than the Santonio Holmes catch in the waning seconds of the Super Bowl to beat at Arizona after the OAH season and you think about it that was Holmes was Ben's fourth action on that play spectacular catch to win the Super Bowl he's calling his own plays at this point Ray Lewis matching which was just been at this one second and six side and that's called final waters he makes his first catch and he and whether we're gonna have a little debate of sorts try and hurry up here but you're going to end up with Wallace on the outside with no health and you don't get one of the Ravens safeties over the top you see how much of a cushion they have to give Mike Wallace and Ben really wanted to work the underneath coverage is to Wallace for that reason where's fancy tonight for the guy who leads the team in receptions so such a great job being done on Suggs tonight and then all of a sudden his great drive going no-huddle not allowing the Ravens to change that defense and then out in the flat is Suggs with the interception just so many game changing plays in this series by such any [Music] terrell suggs who just made that plate to stuff that pittsburgh drive as the steelers had Ward down the field [Applause] intercepts offensive to bugging out to the 32-yard run and back to go to the pic it's just hard to understand what Roethlisberger really saw in this play here Suggs and they're going to release heeds Miller out here but Roethlisberger really I don't know if he was trying to disguise it or what was just looking to his left almost throughout and never really checked that side I'm sure he didn't want to try and tip at all but with Suggs in the position that he was in I just had to assume they were in a bit of danger on that yep we're time you rap ready for your close-up second and seven well such is a budding filmmaker and he always knows where the camera is that would be a tough director to work for the British are letting people up man take 47 no crime no problem even for you you might even get you to do something third down and five from the 34 [Applause] one more time [Applause] turn up at the first down with forward progress to dennis pitta the tight end that to the 40 moves the change one of the things about altering the snap count is you get to see some of this movement in here it gives us offensive line and a chance to sort of filter through both of these teams probably the toughest part about playing these defenses is understanding who the offensive linemen are supposed to block and who the Batchelor supposed to block the snap can't really help Joe [Applause] cuts it off the righty some of these and writes out to the 46 yard line Ray Rice by Michael Shawn McCoy last week a guy who now needs to be thought of as one of the very best in the league and you know rice is pretty much in that category to leading rusher just one catch away from being the leading receiver coming into this game I talked to Dick LeBeau the great defensive coordinator and he said let me tell you something our game plan begins and ends with this guy right and stop them on the ground that I yards four balls the 32 second to snitch on the outside let's victus take it down right there by William gay a lot of balls being thrown to Smith because I Taylor's doing such a good job on n quant it's last week that he is in a battle out there with the best cover Steelers have to offer brought back this year and then a little questionable for a while [Applause] simply to in theory [Applause] born on the outside and close to a first down that's Pitta again and let's see where they spot the ball gonna spot it at the 49 of Pittsburgh and that is a first down one of the really difficult parts of this bunch formation is how do you play man coverage back here you know everybody's going to criss cross and so it gives you just enough space to run your route in those short third and four kind of plays and pick up the first down situation twice times [Music] the Heisman Trophy winner the only kid of Marshall Yan to the guard gain to warn second down and nine now we're starting to get everything going now aren't we were getting Vontae leach the full-back this is sort of old-fashioned Marshall yonder getting his hat knocked off and you know we talked about this a little bit in the open sometimes I wonder if these teams even care what the scoreboard says it's more a battle of who went to at the end of the day and these guys know it they know who's winning the physical fight going on for years second down [Applause] the dinosaur making the grab is ed Dixon six instead of the two tight ends talking earlier about the fact that Flacco throws to his running backs and widened and the tight end sixty-two percent of the time let's see did he make this catch well he gets the arm underneath it then the ball again the ball starts to roll around the hard part on a risky challenge over that when you still have a third down exactly exactly 33 they will risk it here and a game this tight on a play like that Tomlin gets the word from up high that you have a good chance to win this which we think he does because again the ground helps him control the football Berg is challenging the ruling on the field of a completed catch cylinder that last fall we saw at the end of the first half where the ground helps him control the football Tom little lot of success on challenges this is this is very close again Coleman is going to look at this those the ground help him control the football not on the initial hit but I think this one right there is the question [Applause] they're controlled all the way through the cash I think he has it there has it but that one is in doubt the question is did it come loose it can hit the ground but if it is perceived to have come loose that's a different story happy remaining the play ruling on the field stands will be charged well we're out of showers yeah I tell you and you know that timeout in a game like this comes back to haunt I can remember Bill Parcells talking about don't you guys waste one of my timeouts especially in the second half so we'll see yeah I can't blame Tom woods for that though I think there was enough there and we thought it was going to be overturned and it would have made a third and nine is in his third down so Pittsburgh that over the last 20 minutes of the game and its third and three he wants it to rice rice makes the catch and goes out of bounds you had Kiesel backing up covering and he fell down and a first down for the Ravens yeah tough assignment right here they're going to end up with rice coming out here Keisel is going to try and go with him because they bring the slot blitz great job by Joe Flacco and recognition took advantage of the exotic blitz and Brett Keisel going out and coverage that one's not going to happen if you can execute for the one-yard line now you got rice in the fullback [Applause] mine's a little bit of rule through the middle to the 27-yard line a beam of for setting up second down and six now the Ravens starting to get a little something going with their running game we talked about it before but this is a team and this is a physical type of game that typically you don't see great ones in the first half but as the defense begins to wear down remember the Steelers fairly spin on the defensive side these ones may start working a little better second and six Volvo has yet to rupture first man going view from the passion containing four golden and then of [Music] [Applause] I Taylor just as Bolden was giving a little push-off himself grab hold of Bolden and Ike Taylor doesn't like it at all but I saw it [Applause] pass interference around a 24 [Applause] quartz family once again a big pass interference call helping the Ravens let's see just his bowling game a little nudge off grabs a shirt grabs the wrist yeah he did I think sometimes these two teams would like to play without officials cage match first and goal they spotted before there's a 23 yard penalty first and goal [Applause] Ravens looking for the first [Music] layout of his own second the goal with a mock fear here nothing was pulled like when the seven of eight on his drive they've been trying these play-action passes at aim these two teams who take such great pride in their physical play it's amazing when they get the ball inside the 5-yard line it's been a pass almost every time and you just can't run the football on these two teams and basically these offensive coordinator knowledge that Susan [Applause] rice and rice took the hit for the touchdown he got in behind the fullback hot day leaves these from Houston to provide that leverage to provide the convoy and Ray Rice evil to follow into the end zone Timmons read it perfectly just shot the gap but Vontae leach the full-back picks them off and Ray Rice with a brilliant little jump cut to get out of the hole Larry Foote may have overrun that one just a bit and this crowd not have with that penalty on I Taylor Billy Cundiff for the extra point the game's first touchdown they managed to the Ravens through with 427 remaining now in the third quarter thanks to such that pic ending Pittsburgh's Drive and off they go to the end zone 16 six Ravens tonight Mount Lebanon defeating Woodland Hills by seven first round Pennsylvania high school playoffs it's adjacent to there's a home on Steve Breaston former Arizona receiver now at Kansas City Rob Gronkowski booing Wood Hills in a kind of bangs this one through the end zone and so Roethlisberger will go to work from the 20-yard line with the Steelers down by ten off to the Meadowlands we go next Sunday night said that I football the Patriots in the Jets now wat in the AFC East football night started seven o'clock Eastern ferment Life Stadium John Brady today as the Giants came from behind the knocked off the window 24:20 in the thriller and the Jets got things rolling at Buffalo good defense in particular 27 to 11 so that's the green Pat's jets a week from tonight now pittsburgh starts from the 20 Mendenhall gets hit the backfield and then spins away and is close to a first down the tackle and it will be war pullman winds it up first up suds with the game changer to this point misses that tackle in the backfield you didn't miss that interception and that's really the difference in this game if they just get a field goal out of that last drive it's 9 9 and it's just business as usual between these two teams Steelers don't know hugging again a big hole from Mendenhall so the flag here , by an eight-yard gain but it's coming back holding 178 offense 10-yard penalty still first down that starts the left tackle well and it starts out there slugging away and now get in one of those situations because for max starts he's shaking his head and I've gotta say I was watching that area of the field didn't see a lot maybe I missed it yeah we saw Tomlin's reaction he looked at the replay up on the on the big screen he had that room where he actually said why first in 20 from the 20 yard and now it's going to be first down in 25 false start remember 17 offense five-yard penalty first down Wallace well they're going backwards right now in this Drive let's take a look at Starks right there on the end of it no he's down he hooks Maclean's arm but not really a graviton well that almost like it was sort of it accidentally was missing him out close call tough call in a situation like that first out of 25 [Applause] what 22 yard line Mike Wallace making the catch tackled by web and make it second down and it's called 17 one of the problems with getting behind this Ravens defense is they can be a little bit more conservative now you can see the coverage back here so now the threat of a Mike Wallace going by U is much less because of the fact those safeties are able to play a step or two deeper so now they're gonna first you to sort of go the hard way here we've been playing that really since they took the lead second down and get 17 for the 23 [Applause] bouncing one incomplete third down at ten to four Antonio Brown Antonio Brown slipped on the play and you talked about it earlier this field was eaten up they will completely rethought it a little bit later after I think the state high school playoffs but sometimes coming in and out of these cuts you would think the Steelers would have the advantage on this field but there are some pretty thin spots out there a lot of issues in regard to this point short force over the years third down and 17 [Applause] it's coming and Roethlisberger steps away and then throws at the 43-yard line it is caught by brown the pea caught that ball that is simply remarkable and the Steelers the Steelers are going to race up to the line they don't want a challenge here what he did for men what a catch is amazing and Roethlisberger just a little slide step to get away from the pressure to like [Music] [Applause] not a problem and then and a half to go in the period that was a third and 17 first now from the 44 and Wampus burger [Applause] and affirm Miller at Lewis and Williams with the coverage second and ten you know typically Edie read sort of picks aside and will lean to one side of the field or another but Ed's is right back here in the middle of the field which puts tremendous pressure on the corners on the outside there has been sort of a renewed confidence if you will in these two corners and plus they're just now getting Jimmy Smith their number one draft pick into the mix so when these corners can play like that allows the Ravens to do a lot more with games inside up and Williams second down and ten lowest blitzes and they pick him up and it launches for the throws of the breaks away from we told you of a shard mendenhall one time at his collarbone [Applause] that which get the single coverage Bernard Pollard certainly not the best of the cover guys in the secondary a big hitter that when they can get that match up with a little time [Applause] to the 26-yard line first thing back cosplay good for 30 yards Roethlisberger's stepping up Miller dirty blanket takes it to the 15-yard Ben Roethlisberger's thread of the run watch Ray Lewis here react to that drop coverage and that allowed Heath Miller to pick up that first down waning seconds of the quarter and then it's the snack-off [Music] take the ball to the 9 yard line and that will take us to the 4th quarter so another good steal to drive two of them here in the third quarter Baltimore 16 Pittsburgh 6 after three Sunday Night Football to the fourth quarter we go out Michaels Cris Collinsworth Michele Tafoya Pittsburgh Baltimore on top five ten second down and five for the Steelers at the nine yard Wallace split wide to the left mendenhall the early god fake to Mendenhall off the play fake Roethlisberger [Music] Patri in the back of the end zone while this burger looks free flag on pass interference doesn't get it third down tell you one of the untold stories of this game has been the coverage of these corner backs and the job they're doing it's not that the play-action is not working linebackers are stepping up but there just hasn't been anybody open in the back of the end zone that time with Darius Webb just pushed Khatri out of the back of the end zone wouldn't have been eligible to make that catch anyway third and five Louis calls the defense blockless burger in trouble stepping away first down and it loses the ball but when did he lose it they rule in a touchdown lost the ball they said he crossed the goal line of course reviewed upstairs has a roll scoring place for the moment Pittsburgh in the end zone [Applause] [Music] the goal line it's close there was contact oh yeah right where need down wall not in yeah and in this game some games you say Oh big deals play yeah designer review [Applause] it'll be just short just shortened as they take a look [Music] the fictional review scoring play we think the ball is going to come out just outside the goal lump Youth Ross's burgers knee was down watch this his his knee will go down he's contacted there's contacted his read flies by I am bday show comes in and then right there that is the end of the play so even though he fumbled at the end he'd already been contacted his knee was down the ball will come out to about the you know six-inch line and that'll be the end result of this this were out of our minds but the play the runners right knee was down with a ball at the half a yard line from the first and goal the half yard line well and Baltimore was unable to score a touchdown from this same situation let's see how the Pittsburgh Steelers play it Pittsburgh Steeler fans sometimes get uncomfortable of the bag that they are not always a power football team I would be stunned if they don't play power football for three and probably four downs at this point Freyja six comes in as an extra tight end this is Pittsburgh's six possession tonight four time they've been in the red zone but they get to get into the end zone trying to make it a three-point game David Johnson as the fullback goes for the touchdown [Applause] as for the Steelers in this hand the first deputy with a sucks pick this time they take it all the way in you basically have to guess on the goal line and they slant inside great call here by Bruce Arians the offensive coordinator anticipating that really no way they could have stopped the ball with that hard slant on 80 yards 11 plays they got six first downs on that drive and Sweden in maked 16 to 13 Ravens up by three with 32 left to go in Pittsburgh team beginning the 16th of November on the Golf Channel and NBC [Applause] suiza sends it into the end zone David Reath welcome back James Harrison one of the more dominant players in the NFL you can see the incredible pork and angles that he creates as he tries to come around the edge not a tall guy anyway and for some of these offensive tackles six seven six eight an issue but maybe more of an issue is his rush inside when they get in those Nichols situations when he gets a chance to go one-on-one against a pack or in this case it tight in Dennis pen [Applause] especially with Woodley out and farrier so the crowd of the wine speaking advisor being warned because of the broken orbital bone a month ago this time they try and use two backs to block James Harrison initial success ultimate failure as Joe Flacco had nowhere to go with the ball down the field but this is when you start to look for the big-time player [Applause] takes care of rice third and long coming up that's some play by Larry Foote right there who's had to take over the play calling on the defensive side took on Vontae leach the lead fullback here and still able to get off Vontae leach one of the best blocking fullback that there is [Applause] we got it go on in Fitz defense has left me to free it out they were on the long time of Atlantis and put me back on the field very shortly third and ten chaoxin it's thought were first down by Torrey Smith Fatah's Flacco got away James Harrison came in came close to getting the sack instead it's a first down for the Ravens a big one yeah little pick play working out here backhand cross and then back under tough play for Cortese out in the Wookiee to try and come up with a play there the whole key though was Flacco had to hold this ball barely able to get he's playing by Joe Flacco [Applause] having him in his grasp the ball is at the 34-yard line they take the rice and then the coastal needs the 39-yard line oh my gosh it is they are getting it going right now I think that was Ryan Clark who came up on about a two hundred and sixty pound fullback Clark the leading tackler on this team and just a violent hitter we saw a little bit up before do had an exclamation point that was it Ricky Williams is the running back second and five Williams picks up the first down Ricky Williams after the 40 yard line tackled air by Stevenson Sylvester Lewis keep that with that expression but he loves that this is intensity time Marshall yond at that time who I think is the best of these offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens got out with the lead block and this guy was cutting Casey Hampton but he's more than that he's approval you watch him the more you know is the best of what they have here Williams again put the over the 50 into stever territory Dean of three second down and seven under 11 minutes now in regulation you know how you get so used to watching a style of defense over the years and Dick LeBeau zhh defense has always brought so much pressure and attacks you in so many different ways turnovers just come for this defense and yet this season it's just remarkable they just have not been able to create any and usually this game will turn on a turnover as it did last year when Paul Amato made the play of the game when they three turnovers WAIS to the 47 now every third down becomes a big one so you got a big third down and five coming with a very traditional blitz that time against Joe Flacco who's really done a heck of a job on third down tonight these two teams talked about they thought third-down would decide the game but give Flacco credit he has stood tall in the again playing almost like he did the last Smith wide left flaca and he since risin over the middle is fought by folding that supports down gold and gets positioned that time on Taylor and again another third down conversion and Chris you talked about it they talked about third down how important is that's 12 out of 16 for the Ravens which is tremendous yeah and the Steelers got confused on that one Lawrence Timmons went with the motion to guys cover the motion here this way boy underneath to the other side which Flacco saw and took advantage of Flacco looks very calm tonight does very much under control 200 back to the ground they go to rice for the 36 yard line true enough so Clarke as well a five and a half minute drive at this point started back at their own 20-yard line and the next play will be the tenth [Applause] second down eight the defense's we mentioned they were jeopardy coming back onto the field after a three and and said that big early third down conversion drive for the six-minute walk on this Drive second and eight Williams gets bumped at the line of scrimmage and stopped there for a minimal gain by Timmons third down another coming up say what Larry Foote is doing some back side run throughs anticipating what's happening here and these this is what great linebackers will do they will see the play fullback gets the front side [Applause] see the playlist under 8 minutes [Applause] really she was to the left [Applause] back into it 13800 person loses the ball so we're that driver is William by the sack fumble yes sir ninety-two always a good guest Harrison [Applause] [Music] [Applause] J recovers in Harrison gets the sack that's his third of the night they play by William gay wasn't there initially but Joe Flacco had to pull the ball down William Gay jumped the route underneath to his side they made Flacco hesitate bears gatewatch him on the outside against Torrey Smith jumped that round and that's what made Flacco pull the ball down and create the turnover and give people a little credit forcing Flacco deceptive his right and right into the path of Marisa now walkest burgers step it away at the 42 [Applause] [Music] for the Pittsburgh Steelers they are going to be set for a long time Antonio Brown a manual Mike Wallace's kids as special teams player returns punch returns kickoffs and on the outside Mike Wallace completely barbecues Kerry Williams but does not get the ball in that instance so there's a van no huddle the whole second half from the 43 yard line with seven minutes to go Mendenhall nothing the play [Applause] the Steelers really have no choice against the coverage the Ravens are showing them they've got all these guys back here so you only have seven up here you have to be able to run the football against that but you can't against Ray Lewis and company and that really has been a significant part of this game can play cautiously in the secondary and still stop the run second down and ten [Applause] passes away archery hatchet he won't may have untipped no question about it Jared Johnson became completely free right here tip the ball and luckily for the Pittsburgh Steelers that falls right into the arms of Jericho Khatri when this traffic is still alive or this is some game this is some serious between these things [Applause] [Music] five of the 25 yard line was five go Ravens down here Brendon Ayanbadejo and the crowd thinks that this may be intentional to try and slow down this no-huddle offense who knows who knows [Applause] it's Berg PA Voldemort Pittsburgh's are good to be a great one it's a 3.3 522 going bidet show off the fuel Engels on power second down and five now for the Steelers so I party fine oh what a shot he takes and they say no completion incomplete McClane down there is going to be nobody volunteering for these crossing routes anytime soon this time Jameel McClane is going to polish this one off earlier it was Ray Lewis knocking Hines Ward out of the game let me tell you what this is not for the faint of heart out here he left it out as he went to the ground for [Music] from the swamp [Applause] breaking away [Applause] - my cross or down there Antonio was [Applause] fact I think he sees Brown stolen from [Applause] you see Antonio Brown shuffling back coming back to the football that most surprised of aweful probably was Ben Roethlisberger breaking away from the pocket as he's done so brilliantly through the years SWE's them for the point after and for the first time tonight took them 55 minutes in one second but the Steelers are on top 22 16 [Music] pittsburg up for the first time in the game [Applause] says it [Music] a good one backs tonight this time like we go to the touchdown Ravens defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano said for our secondary coverage starts at three seconds because Ben is going to do this you have to stay on you have to stay on unfortunately 6.1 seven seconds too long for Kerry Williams to keep up - the speedster Mike Wallace in the street isn't it the three football [Music] people just don't talk about it enough Finn's ability to keep those play [Applause] from the 23-yard line the Ravens begin describe with brocco looking to throw in conclusion race second down Brett Keisel basically just tackled Ray Rice coming out of the backfield they are not going to let Rice beat them in this situation coming out right here watch Brett Keyes will come off and just not let them go he's gonna [Applause] hit it out of the slot to the left of fire in the second man he is looking like Superman out there the time off has done him good the heck but trying to run through the blocker he's going to jump over the blocker you don't think Joe Flacco sees that coming beginnings in number superstar is too [Applause] got out of the way that time this is I'm not going to play the role of a high hurdle covering very fast three it out that is just a big play by Ryan Monday because Joe Flacco that time looked like Ben Roethlisberger bought that extra time and usually when that happens you end up with a big play down the field but Pettit did not come back to the ball and it cost him Sam Cooke to do the punting Brown is back from the 33 [Applause] to the ground at the 46-yard line with 4:30 left Terrible Towels and getting a workout tonight James Harrison has given Flacco and the Ravens offense will work out tonight three sacks for him after missing a month Ray Lewis now and that defense at the stiffened these Pittsburgh can start thinking about the clock here Baltimore has all of its timeouts [Applause] from the 46 it's dropped by Johnson second down that hurts yeah it helps warm on two levels we have seen the drop past and it stops the clock every second you know when you throw the ball in that situation on first down you take that high percentage throw because you do not want the incomplete pass and those drops where they are painful and Ravens here with all three timeouts so plenty of time but they're enjoying looking at that clock stuck on for 24 for three time ice plus the two-minute warning so for stoppages and front of us second down and ten from the 36 27 yard line Natha makes the tackle it'll make it third and nine and here it comes because when you end up in a third nine with this defense you can get anything the big guys go out the pass rushers come in and now Ben Roethlisberger can't make one of those mistakes Brown on the left and Wallace to the right country swap right third nine and what's bread look defensively again action left foot that's Cory reading coming across the line boy oh boy what a great job by Roethlisberger [Applause] third and four now what a it's tough to get a veteran in that situation but he got Cory running with this [Applause] Pouncy can laugh because he's fine and they pick up five big yards completely different play call situation now for instead a third nine [Applause] [Music] [Applause] fourth bite actually first down huge absolutely an ala completely changed and an exotic blitz on before now because of this they've got to go bump and run all the way across the board in a pretty easy pitch and catch that all sides call was huge he really got his picky manage to move everybody with that pump-fake comes backside and welcome to Pittsburgh Jericho Khatri a man who'd lead the play clock and force Baltimore on the front side of the two-minute warning and they're almost in field goal range on the 34 ineffective runner and we'll stack them up for a loss of a couple 12 and led the charge that time but the clock ticking down and now it's stopped by a Baltimore timeout with 12 47 new series on NBC it's Friday nights number one show it's gold with blue Rimbaud yeah and you'll see this Friday at 10:00 Eastern at Pacific at 9:00 central NBC say the Ravens for all the talk of their great defense they blew a big league 21-7 I believe at the half in the playoff game last year and they had a comfortable margin in this one and just unable to finish it off at least to this point so if Pittsburgh holds on they will have split the season series so that won't be a tie-break factor at the end of the day Pittsburgh would go to 7 & 2 in Baltimore we go to 5 & 3 and that would be a game and a half lead three straight games with 300 or more passing guards what's different about that number in the past couple of years is quarterbacks who speak normally news when they figure 200 yards music playing catch-up now they normally win as he did last week and as he did the week before and as he's doing tonight second and 13 that's another lethal Redmond they're not making the tackle the 31-yard line and the Ravens will take another timeout it'll be third down and six with 237 best analysis about the NFL the players would like claw really Pro Football Talk NBC Sports calm this November joined the NFL salutes a service campaign to honor our nation's veterans and active servicemen and women learn more nfl.com / salute well this time they tried that sprint out to the right side again and then brown going all the way across the field the Ravens were there though and bent not wanting to take a chance just checked it down and here we go again I can't imagine not kicking the field goal in this situation so pretty much with the timeouts the way that they are this is the ball game well if you don't get a yard here you'd be looking at a 47-yard field goal in a place where it's tough to kick a 47-yard field and if you missed it the Ravens would get the ball at about the 37 first things first he was deployed [Applause] basically the responsibility the offensive line incomplete and that time war turned around late and that's the perfect situation to occur without a yard being game with a clock stopped so they have saved their time out plus they get one of the two-minute warning with two thirty four and four thousand five now squeeze him and his group are coming in you know anything really is possible here because you know we've seen plays where you snap it to the field goal kicker and he punts it down the field you've got your great defense a long field goal the Ravens are going to get some great field position if he misses and this is top this way and the Capitals just signed so he takes the pole whose job is not only the punter but the holder like the malfunctioning play clock delay of the game offense five-yard penalty for back well not really I mean please malfunctioning offense oh that is big now Thank You chef now you punt the foot short yeah otherwise as I say a 47-yard and the open end of the stadium at Heinz Field no sure thing in the 52 yard or even worse so now they'll hunt as Kappa knows we'll try to pin them deep so the just we sign capital those down yard line was caught by wedge so 225 one time out the two-minute warning and they need a touchdown not a field goal 22:16 Wakko leads his group out Joe Flacco's won a lot of playoff games over the years but where it has not happened is against these guys and a series sweep would be huge all the tiebreakers would then go in the Ravens favour but this is a long road against one great defense from the everything going 90 against the number two defense in the league on Flacco escapes slings of that about so to be second and ten one more time the standings in this division where the Cincinnati Bengals shocking everybody have won six out of eight Pittsburgh with a win would go to seven and two they haven't had their bye week yet Baltimore's have expire week but the don't think about the Ravens that home playoff game they've been to the playoffs three straight years they played seven playoff games ever conflation Ray Rice as usual [Applause] over the middle let's toy and that he's brought by Antoine Bolden and the veteran takes the ball out to the 30-yard line and that will take us to the two-minute warning first down they spotted at the 29 yard line so this one will go right down to the end we're back to the Sunday Night Football we knew and loved in September 2260 [Music] ladies postgame report coming up Michelle with an interview from the field Bob told you Mike today and Kristen I'm thinking look ahead to the Patriot and the Jets next Sunday night from the 29 one timeout [Music] 71 yards flacco protected and fought in bounds at the 43 yard line and staying in is laQuan Williams who the clock keeps on rolling and that's a first down over the 42 yard line with 130 it's too hard it was Paul Amato in the neighborhood stopping the clock with 90 seconds second down 10 [Applause] Roethlisberger has done his work [Applause] for a poll tomorrow here watch the break on the football [Applause] going to end up is not usually secondly ten the pocket and that's caught at the 50-yard line that is going across the 50 setting up a third down and one from the 49 the clock keeps on rolling 13:12 this way to try to keep the ravens alive foot knocking it down forth and one with 66 legs left good just getting everybody settled right there sixty-five thousand is able to keep it alive as bold and makes the catch that position I'm gay he makes the tackle that ball be spotted in the 39 yard line by moving and Quan bold and into the slot he's got an William instead of a tailor before a very short game by addiction and the clock stops with 42 seconds g-sizzle says this is what it's supposed to be this is fun this is Baltimore this is Pittsburgh this is first place on the line this is the whole deal secondly 37 Rocko under pressure stepping up again going deep off the fingertips of Torrey Smith he'd gotten behind Ike Taylor the speedy Smith was there off his fingertips third down SOI Polamalu was in pursuit to the other side of the field one-on-one coverage gotta make a play got to make that play that's a championship moment right there not a simple catch but a catch that has to be made for Polamalu right here is going to sprint to dump of coverage on the other side whatsoever Flacco reddit view just missed it that is thought and that is pulled and again and pulled and having another huge game last week Hughes the star against Arizona Bolden tonight has caught seven including a couple of very clutch catches on this drive 28 seconds left well just a good move in here and now they've got Ike Taylor in there on Bouldin but Bouldin breaks away and Pittsburgh now takes a timeout we're no Torrey Smith that drop on top of that holding call on the opening play where Ray Rice took at the distance a lot to think about remember Hurley and cam Torrey Smith was so down on himself all the drops he had in camp basically some of the players had to sit him down and go listen man you're okay and build his confidence here's the very first play of the game the hold right there cost an opening play touchdown the Ravens unless gate would have made the tackle on he was in position to do that but you know what we were talking about early on farm boys decision to kick a field goal from inside the one yard for the touchdown and that's coming off the at this point first down 28 seconds one time out and 26 yards away extra for Flacco's right and in the pass is incomplete that time intended for David Reed who runs back kicks their son he's been targeted tonight painter with a coverage second down no I Taylor like any veteran corners going to take an angle here and cut off the receiver Reed and basically just beat him to the point we see real Revis do that all the time nice play there by ten little surprising that really Flacco just looking for single coverage now and taking his shots read to the left they got golden in the slot to the right the gun Smit outside of the right the pocket throws the golden cane make the catch at the 11 yard line he was there and dropped it at the 11 and they could have stopped the clock with a timeout instead its third down in ten was 16 second receivers just not making the play here he is he gets to go against gay again makes a nice move and simply drops the football Joe Flacco is doing a great job on this Drive and his receivers are completely letting him down [Applause] they're too bold against slot right Smith wide right [Applause] again protecting the world to the end zone he goes in its [Applause] with offensive interference that they'll hold up and with eight seconds left the Ravens will conclude a 92 yard drive with a touchdown pass interference 22 these fans volley we placed in the spot as well first down well you can't write this script Smith drops one bold and drops one and then the rookie comes back and makes his first touchdown catch since he caught three in one quarter at st. Louis in Week three and you just have to wonder what Ryan's doing on the play I mean he basically has the deep responsibility here to get over the top a little nudge off there on the part of Torrey Smith but that's a play that you have to have your safety Ryan Clark get there he's not very fast a very physical safety he just undercut that one a little too much in a costume and for Joe Flacco that was sensational well Flacco played the best game of his career in the minds of almost everybody an opening day and then that drive that drive was gigantic in so many ways because this will give them a sweep of the series it'll give the time rate if they wind up with the same record as Pittsburgh and we're not forgetting the best Cincinnati but just these two teams and where they've come from every game they've played in the last few years a memorable one there we go here's Ryan Clark he's gonna have to defend that when he has half the field you have to get deeper than the deepest in this situation he was a little short probably looking for Bouldin on that crossing route there's that little nudge I'm sure will be talked about by Tory Smith looks like a veteran player got away with it and it was huge remember another guy's Santonio Holmes who missed one in a key situation and came back and made a big catch in the Superbowl speaking of 92 yard drives that was a 92 yard drive by Roethlisberger in the Super Bowl and then Ray Lewis Ray Lewis and Ed Reed basically sat that young man down when he kept dropping so many balls in training camp and said listen you have to get over this you have to not worry about making mistakes and start making plays and boy did he come up in a monster way there Joe Flacco said the Torrey Smith is finally the deep threat that we have not had that I have not had since I've been here tremendous Ravens head to Seattle next week then the Bengals pay a call with Baltimore and then four nights after that on Thanksgiving night it's far more versus car boy with a 49ers coming in to take down the Ravens eight seconds left now you have a chance here well you've got the 20 yard line got eight seconds and you have a timeout right well yeah but what is the 20 yard line good luck well I'm just saying do you end up throwing one down there get out of bounds quickly and who knows take a shot at a long field goal yeah well you have to get it down the field what 40 yards you've been watching the NFL is she welcome I'm gonna bash this but I'm giving you about 500 to 1 on that right not a 450 [Applause] Ravin with guys all the way back it's the ridge were to cover six they've even got Luis about 20 yards downfield Baltimore Ravens we'll take a timeout here just to make sure they're either the cover six or recover seven the other thing you have to be exceptionally careful of here is no pass interference down the field because then you can get an untimed down right then you're talking about something different this Drive will be talked about for a long long time he had a chance earlier beat the Steelers best corner extension of the arm got away with Ray Lewis if they finally turned the tide against this Steelers team on one hop with two seconds left now I'm giving you ten thousand to one all right let me get the stand for band out it's about your only hope boy oh boy this is one that you end up with the Steelers defense out there on the field and having to defend 92 yards and they can't do it well you know coaches were always saying we got to go off the field on third down and a lot of different components going to the result of every game but tonight on third down the Ravens were 14 of 21 which is sensational including the winning touchdown and Rory reading jumped offsides and made him punt the football in that situation instead of the field goal let's play the game barring a defensive [Applause] on the ground and the Baltimore Ravens will have swept the season series go to 6 and 2 and there's Harbaugh John Harbaugh has been such a magnificent job in his fourth season and Mike Tomlin who's seen the highs and the lows of course two Super Bowl appearances and the Baltimore Ravens come in and pull one off after having the lead for most of the game fluffing it up and then winning it with 8 seconds to go twenty three to twenty pull two more coming right up the Wendy's postgame report now you'll see that after these messages from your local NBC station [Music]

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Published: Sat Oct 07 2017