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The Pittsburgh Steelers handed the Baltimore Ravens their fourth lack of the season on Sunday, a sport during which self-inflicted wounds had been the story for the Ravens.
Baltimore turned the ball over 3 times—an interception from quarterback Lamar Jackson and fumbles from Derrick Henry and Isaiah Probably—and had 12 penalties. After the loss, Jackson mentioned errors like people who got here on Sunday have change into a theme this yr.
“Completely. It has been that approach ever since final yr I imagine,” Jackson mentioned in his postgame press convention, through Professional Soccer Speak’s Josh Alper. “Going again to the AFC Championship Recreation, we killed ourselves. Chiefs sport — the opener — killed ourselves. Raiders, we killed ourselves, and at the moment similar factor. We won’t be beating ourselves in these sort of video games. We gotta discover a strategy to repair that.”
Coming into Sunday’s sport, the Ravens had fumbled the ball simply 4 instances and had simply two interceptions on the season, the second-lowest mark within the league. Baltimore set the tone for its unlucky sport early as Henry fumbled on the second play and the Steelers capitalized with a subject purpose.
Probably’s fumble got here late within the second quarter and allowed Pittsburgh to take the lead on a subject purpose within the remaining seconds of the primary half. The Steelers had one other made subject purpose after Jackson’s interception.
Turnovers weren’t the one problem for Baltimore, although. Veteran kicker Justin Tucker made simply one in every of his three subject purpose makes an attempt which value the Ravens six factors off misses. Had he made the 47-yarder and the 50-yarder, the end result of the sport may have been a lot totally different.
Jackson, who has dominated the remainder of the AFC North his whole profession, now has a 1-4 file towards Pittsburgh. He hasn’t crushed the Steelers since 2019 and has thrown extra interceptions than touchdowns in his matchups towards Pittsburgh, including to his decide complete on Sunday.
The win additionally put the Steelers within the driver’s seat within the AFC North, although there may be nonetheless loads of time for Baltimore to retake the lead within the division.
The 2 groups will face off once more in December, the place Jackson will look to lastly discover success towards the Ravens’ rival.
