Ravens Shoot Themselves In The Foot One Too Many Times, Lose To Giants 24-20

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Gross. Just fucking gross the whole way through.

By all means this game was the Ravens to lose. They outgained the Giants, they dominated on the ground, and held control of this game damn near the whole way. And they lost. They lost because of sloppiness with a side of questionable officiating.

The game was as good as iced when they converted a 3rd and 1 near midfield on a Lamar sneak. Bur whoops! Illegal formation, the type of penalty that should never ever happen. Inexcusable stuff. Of course the 3rd and 6 that followed was the most disastrous play of the game. Bad snap, worse decision by Lamar to try to play hero ball.

Giants convert on a short field and take the lead after Marcus Peters got called for a baby shit soft call on a ball thrown right to him.

Both guys were jostling, Slayton turns outside and Jones throws it inside right to Peters and gets completely bailed out. Awful.

Either way, the Ravens played sloppy all day. Tons of false starts and bad penalties taken throughout the game. I simply can’t sit here and say that they deserved to win today. If anything maybe this can serve as a wake up call to clean up some very uncharacteristic penalties. Still control the division and still have a great football team. But holy shit man. Clean it up.