Baltimore Beatdown
The Baltimore Ravens stormed into Lambeau Field on Saturday night and walked out with a 41-24 victory over the Green Bay Packers. Less than 24 hours later, the Browns beat the Steelers to set up a divisional championship in Pittsburgh next week. Before we move onto that game, here are the latest updates from Baltimore’s Week 17 win.
The Ravens came out of Saturday night’s game without any notable injuries beyond what players are already dealing with.
“We’re in good shape, health-wise,” said John Harbaugh on Monday. “Nothing else that’s a major thing or looks like it’s going to be an issue at this point in time. Hopefully nothing will pop up as the week goes on.”
Harbaugh also said that running back Justice Hill could be designated to return from injured reserve this week. He suffered a neck injury in Week 12 and landed on IR shortly after.
John Harbaugh on RB Derrick Henry: “It’s one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen. It was hard, downhill running, but also, a lot of ‘make miss’…I’d be remiss not to talk about the offensive line and the tight ends, but also the wide receivers….’Little Zay’ out there blocking people. ‘Bate’ is blocking people. ‘Hop’ is blocking people. They all are. 81 [Devontez Walker] is in there fighting, blocking people. That’s what I’m talking about.”
Harbaugh grading Tyler Huntley’s performance: “A+. A+. Give him two pluses on top of that, maybe three. That’s how it was. It couldn’t have been any better. I just thought some of the clutch plays – the kind of plays that you have to make. I see Tyler every day in practice, so I’m not surprised. I see him execute every day in practice, but for him to make the third-down conversions, the scramble plays, the throws, the on-time throws, the accurate throws that he made to run the offense in Lambeau field – it’s loud. In Lambeau field, to run the offense the way he did, make the checks the way he did, get us in the plays we needed to get in, just A+.”
Derrick Henry on where this games ranks in his career: “Tonight was just really fun. Just like Coach said, I did the prayer before the game, and I just talked about guys just playing free, trusting and believing in each other…Hats off to the guys for just blocking, the O-line – like ‘Coach Harbs’ said – tight ends, receivers, fullbacks; the unselfishness of them sacrificing their bodies for us to have success in the run game, dominate the line of scrimmage and dictate the game the way we want to.”
Henry on his workload: “I was just worried about being effective with any opportunity that I got and being efficient in the run game to give ourselves a chance to get into drives, let those drives end in points, run the ball physically and just focus on us dominating the line of scrimmage...
