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00:00Hands up to force third and five led this team in sacks a season ago with eight and they have added a lot of depth around him at those positions but he is still their best out on the edge.
00:14The Andre Hopkins in the game number 10 and white he's played five snaps so far no targets timeout Baltimore you saw the pressure on that last play Chris from Cole Bishop Bishop in with Taylor Rapp as the starters it was DeMar Hamlin who started the playoff game.
00:44Against the Ravens Hamlin still on the team he's the third safety for now there he is on the sidelines covered a couple of kicks and special teams but Bishop the second rounder who they've been trying to get on the field now in his second year becomes the starter and Hamlin's a reserve and Cole Bishop is much more athletic he's much faster than either DeMar Hamlin or Taylor Rapp but I'll say this DeMar Hamlin made some really big tackles against Derrick Henry in that playoff game.
01:12At some point what's hurting you more the passing game or what Derrick Henry still he they tackles a sack of the forced fumble in that divisional playoff win here in January.
01:24Third and five.
01:27Hills bring in four.
01:28Lamar throws in the middle and is caught two receivers there and say Flowers slides to the catch.
01:35Ravens in the red zone at the 17 yard line.
01:37And a timeout taken.
01:38Really interesting you saw the tight end Mark Andrews trying to adjust his route held on to the catch yes he did and say Flowers is that answer that with teams try to do what Buffalo has done early on here and try and place a man coverage against them.
02:00And he's the one they can't cover I mean he really is Melissa.
02:04Yeah Mike there is so much energy down here on the Ravens sideline we know this is a revenge game for them but the hype the trash talking the yelling the high fives and Ravens fans behind the bench chanting MVP for Lamar and John Harbaugh.
02:19After that looks last touchdown went over to his offensive line and said all you all night.
02:25You want to send a message here right from the start.
02:28Very confident team always but you felt that when we visited with the Ravens yesterday.
02:34That was a Buffalo timeout each team has two he lost the football he's got it back but he's taken down for a loss of 15 yards.
02:49The linebacker Bernard goes back to make the play but Bosa forced the fumble.
02:55Tremendous play that time by Joey Bosa and that's what they need.
02:59They need a couple of explosive plays on defense you can't just sit back and let Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson and Zay Flowers just go one play after another because they're capable of taking it 40 yards.
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03:29Second 15 yard loss on a play for Baltimore.
03:58In this first half Jackson had a 15 yard loss on a sack earlier.
04:05Bills took the timeout they're down to one.
04:08Second and 25.
04:09Top pass A Flowers.
04:10Nowhere to go.
04:11They'll go right down.
04:12Cut his losses.
04:14No gain.
04:14Timeout McDermott his last as Buffalo would like to get the ball back because the Ravens get it to start the second half.
04:21Yeah and it forces some decisions as well on the part of the Ravens because an incomplete pass would certainly help them coming out of this too.
04:29So we were talking getting ready for the game about Baltimore and the volumes of offense that this is a defensive coordinator nightmare when it's Ravens week for you isn't it.
04:38It really is and Todd Monk and we have to give him a lot of credit the offensive coordinator three years here now with the Ravens and what he's done with Lamar and we've sort of been talking about it a little bit.
04:49But he has really opened up the ability of Lamar Jackson now to make changes at the line of scrimmage.
04:55They'll have two or three play options and Lamar can go to any one of those that he wants to.
05:00It has just been step by step by step and Lamar has been eating it up all the way through.
05:06Play caller for those college championships in Georgia doing a great job here in Baltimore.
05:11Todd Monk and heck of an offensive coach.
05:14Third and 24.
05:16Jackson's going to run it.
05:17Bosa out there with him.
05:19Oliver there as well.
05:20And that big loss forced by Bosa on the first play changes the tone of this drive as now Baltimore will let the clock run down to around 45 seconds.
05:32Well it took Joey Bosa a few minutes to figure out how fast Lamar Jackson is but he's got it wired now.
05:39No no no no no no at least make him stop his feet and here comes the cavalry so he burned him a couple of times early.
05:47But the old veteran got it figured out.
05:50Ravens have options here.
05:51They can use a timeout to maximize the time off the play clock and the game clock and leave Buffalo with very little on the back end.
06:00As Tyler Loop settles in for his second field goal attack from 49 yards.
06:05Operation clean and a loop one more time knocks it through two field goals two extra points a perfect debut 31 seconds no timeouts for McDermott and the Bills trying to get on the board again.
06:25Always one of the most watched fixtures of the Premier League season the Manchester Derby.
06:36City and United not off to the best of starts so important early game for them.
06:39You can see it Sunday on Peacock.
06:44Back here in Buffalo we've had kick returns of 31 40 and 41 yards sitting up good field position so far.
06:51Buffalo could use one of those here trying to get it from Tyne Johnson.
06:55He's well covered by Baltimore and the Bills will take over to 27 with 25 seconds left.
07:02I mean the hard part is Baltimore is going to get the ball to start the second half and you don't love your odds with 25 seconds and no timeouts but I think you've got to be a little aggressive here.
07:13It's we haven't seen any indication yet that the Bills defense is going to be able to shut down this Ravens offense.
07:22Matt Prater who is now kicking here although he's only been here a couple of days has more 50 yard field goals than anyone in NFL history.
07:29So the Bills need about 38 to 40 yards in short order without timeouts.
07:36So it's a deep drop and Allen buying time ready to swing it downfield and coming back to catch it is Shaq here at the 46.
07:45No timeouts.
07:47Try to kill it here.
07:49And the Bills will get there and kill it with 7 seconds left.
07:54So Allen's rocket arm and legs by the machok.
07:57That was so good by Shaq here watch him and the way Mike described it perfectly that ball was sort of floated up almost thrown to a spot instead of to a guy and Shaq here's just going to come flying in the picture here and make a diving catch that is tremendous.
08:15That guy has done so much catching the ball yards after the catch but you can tell Josh Allen just trust him in a way he doesn't really anybody else on this offense.
08:27Baltimore's going to take a time out here to try to set the defense after that Shakir grab.
08:32Ball at the 47 so if you do some quick math and say okay can Prater do it from 50 and going right to lefty to 53 in warmups can you get 12 yards on the sideline in six seconds.
08:48That's the question right now for Joe Brady Josh Allen and company.
08:53Yeah it's it's tough.
08:56It is tough.
08:57Especially when Baltimore knows that they're going to take care of the sideline right.
09:00Yeah and the one guy that is sort of that's his area of expertise is Keon Coleman.
09:05He's coming down to the bottom of the screen here and he is that contested catch guy on the sideline and if you're going to try one that's probably the guy they try.
09:14Crater back in his younger days had a 64 yarder third longest in the league history.
09:21From the 47 Allen no rushes throws and they get it and get it on the bounce at the 25 with Kincaid.
09:31The clock says zero.
09:34Allen looks at John Hussey the referee who says hang on a second.
09:38Josh thinks there's a second left.
09:40The Ravens are gone.
09:41That's right.
09:43So let's check the clock.
09:46Hold on.
09:47John Hussey says hold on.
09:48Rolling on the field.
09:50Hold on Baltimore hold on please.
09:52Baltimore hold on.
09:54The rolling on the field is we're going to put one second on the game clock.
10:00Terry McCauley our rules analyst.
10:03Explain why.
10:05Sure.
10:05When his rear end hit out of bounds we see on our clock one second.
10:11It had not gone to zero so the officials on the field they can get together and decide to put one second.
10:17They can also get assists from replay.
10:19Right.
10:20On that one to help them with that one second.
10:22And it is clearly one second when he's down.
10:25Out of bounds.
10:26There was even a proposal this year.
10:28It didn't get to a final decision for tenths of a second on the clock.
10:32But you can see there was one on the frame when he went out of bounds.
10:35Unbelievable against a zero-man rush they completed to the sideline.
10:39Here's Prater from 43 yards.
10:41We have seen some terrific performances at the end of a half by teams in executing that.
10:50And Buffalo just did a remarkable job to make this a one-score game at the half.
10:56Good stuff.
10:5820-13.
11:00Baltimore gets it to start the second half.
11:03Pretty high energy.
11:05First half here in Orchard Park.
11:07That was some call that time by Joe Brady.
11:09Three guys over here look like maybe they're going to try a Hail Mary.
11:13Bring them all the way across.
11:15Melissa.
11:16Sean, you managed to get points on that last drive.
11:18How important was that going into the half?
11:20That's big.
11:20They get the ball after half.
11:22We've got to find a way to shut them down on offense and fundamentally be better.
11:25Yeah, so let's talk about that defensively.
11:27How do you slow down this Ravens rushing attack?
11:29Well, we've got to calm down a little bit on defense.
11:31Tackle better.
11:32Get off blocks.
11:33We're doing some more in the quarterback run game as well.
11:36So we've got to come up with some answers for that as well.
11:38Sean, thanks.
11:39Ravens ran for 160 yards, scored on all four possessions, and McDermott took our job.
11:45He said it.
11:45They get the ball to start the second half.
11:47So I'm going to shut up and go to Maria for the two-year-and-a-half time.
11:50Maria?
11:51Thanks, Mike.
11:52Coming up on the two-year-and-a-half time, Micah Parsons' big debut in Green Bay,
11:56while Aaron Rodgers served up some revenge to the Jets, and yet another milestone for Matthew Stafford.
12:02That's all coming up next.
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12:14We're all day for Sunday night.
12:18This is an excellent rivalry.
12:21The Ravens, in throw, touchdown!
12:23There was a whole lot of home baby on that one.
12:26One of the best sacks I've seen in a long time.
12:29Derrick Henry, get out of my way!
12:32Can't tackle.
12:33Oh, no!
12:33Oh, Max, it wasn't even touched on that play.
12:36What a matchup!
12:37All day for Sunday night!
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12:45Nine drives, seven scores in that first half.
12:51Ravens by seven.
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12:55Nine-plus games with 150 or more rushing yards of last season and the start of this season.
13:01And that ties a long streak in the last 50 seasons in the NFL,
13:05led by Derrick Henry, who had 101 in the second quarter.
13:08Six times he's had a 100-yard quarter in his NFL career.
13:12And on the other side, Josh Allen's passing the short stuff.
13:15Quick pass is seven of nine.
13:17And 41% of his passing coming behind the line of scrimmage.
13:22That'll be a career high.
13:23So we'll see if that's part of the Buffalo offensive adjustment in the second half
13:27as we welcome you back to Western New York and the NFL kickoff weekend
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13:34The show here in Orchard Park during halftime.
13:37500 drones to the sky above the Bills practice facility.
13:42Josh Allen in drone form.
13:45And thank you for the welcome.
13:46So good to have Sunday Night Football back here in Western New York.
13:50The last season opener in this stadium opened in 1973.
13:56The Bills move to a new $2 billion-plus stadium.
14:00The other side of the parking lot here next year.
14:04Baltimore up seven.
14:07May get the ball.
14:08This kick going to the end zone and a touchback.
14:10So the Ravens will get it at the 35.
14:12Melissa, a moment to go with John Harbaugh.
14:15John, you picked up right where you left off last season with the rushing attack.
14:18How do you continue to run the ball in the second half?
14:20Well, I think we're getting the premier plays.
14:22Lamar's doing a great job of getting us in the play we want, especially in this environment
14:26with this crowd.
14:27And I think the checks are making the difference, really.
14:29And we're blocking really well.
14:30And you held last season's MVP, Josh Allen, to just one touchdown.
14:34What's working?
14:35Well, we've got to do a great job of getting him in the pocket.
14:37He gets around.
14:37He extends plays.
14:38He made a couple throws on us that we'd like to have back.
14:40So that's the biggest thing.
14:41If we can keep him in there and make him throw from the pocket a little more.
14:43Thanks, John.
14:44Thanks, Wilson.
14:44John Harbaugh is feeling really good about this team as we talked to him before the flight
14:49up here to Buffalo.
14:50And Chris, we'll get into what he said maybe as the second half goes on of Lamar getting
14:55the team into premier plays.
14:57It's a little bit of an advancement in version 3.0, as they termed it, of this Ravens offense.
15:07123-yard half for Derrick Henry.
15:09The second half begins with a run of three to the 38-yard line.
15:13And they're going to a base defense look here.
15:17Dorian Williams, the third linebacker, is coming in there.
15:21So we are likely going to see an effort to do what they did in the playoff game, which
15:28is to sell out, do anything that you can possibly do to stop Derrick Henry.
15:33Because if you don't stop him, then you can't stop Lamar from running it.
15:37Then you can't stop him from throwing it.
15:39You have to come up with something.
15:41And it looks like they're loading up to try and take away him.
15:50Second and seven.
15:51Bring an extra rusher here.
15:53And Lamar trying to escape.
15:54Oliver hit him and finished off.
15:57After a gain of about a yard, it was Matt Milano, the veteran, who ends up making the tackle,
16:03setting up third down.
16:03Yeah, he was picked off on the pass rush, but athletic enough to get back in on it.
16:10You'll see him right here come up and have to loop back.
16:12But it was a huge tackle for this defense because they have a chance now.
16:16It's third and eighth.
16:17They have a chance.
16:18They desperately need to get off the field right here.
16:21They go quick.
16:27Bills bring late pressure.
16:28Jackson throws to save.
16:29Flowers crossing.
16:31Flowers accelerates.
16:33Almost gets all the way.
16:35Rapp pulls him down at the 22-yard line.
16:41Quick snap.
16:42The late pressure never got there.
16:43They had Cole Bishop blitz from the farthest I've ever seen anybody blitz from, and he had
16:51absolutely no chance.
16:53The other safety comes running over the top, Taylor Rapp, and left nothing on the other
16:57side.
16:58I don't know if they mistimed that, but that was a ridiculous blitz.
17:02That one had no chance whatsoever and gave up the big play.
17:07The Ravens on the move again at the 23.
17:11Justice Hill in with Henry.
17:12The fake to Hill, the throw to Flowers, who got a terrific block and will score.
17:17What a block throw by Ronnie Stanley to freeze A. Flowers and extend the Baltimore lead.
17:26The two best athletes on this offensive line, Ronnie Stanley and Tyler Linderbaum, both of
17:33whom had great first halves.
17:36Watch these two guys go out and make these blocks.
17:39They're basically tight ends playing on the offensive line, and when they get in space, they do not miss.
17:45And Zay Flowers, who became Baltimore's first pro bowler ever in the 29 years of the franchise,
17:55has a wide receiver, gets in the end zone for the first time this year.
18:01And Luke, that's the extra points.
18:06So Buffalo goes through halftime in the adjustments, and the Ravens just get to the next level of their offense.
18:13Scoring on every drive.
18:15At time, it's Zay Flowers.
18:16It's 27-13.
18:19Lamar and the Ravens up.
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18:40Always love showcasing high school football on Sunday nights.
18:44Lancaster here in Western New York, Section 6, beating McKinley 29-28.
18:49There's one of their proud alums, Joe Andresen, known in these parts as Buffalo Joe, made the team.
18:56Never playing college football.
18:58Across the way at UB, University of Buffalo.
19:01That ball hits shy of the landing area, the target zone, so the Bills will get the ball at the 40-yard line.
19:07The first mistake of the night for the rookie kicker, Luke.
19:13Free kick.
19:14Did not make it in the landing zone.
19:16The ball he placed at the 40-yard line, first down.
19:20That helps.
19:22I've seen that a couple of times this week.
19:23A lot of the kickers are trying to get those balls that land in the target area, target zone, but are tough to field.
19:29So, Chris, what now if you're Buffalo offensively, as Baltimore just cannot be stopped when they have the ball?
19:35Well, I think that Josh has more time than he thinks.
19:40Maybe they came in here believing they couldn't get it protected.
19:42They've been very quick, but he may have to start holding on and working it down the field side.
19:47He goes Cook for a round for five yards.
19:51Mike Green, the rookie out of Marshall, taking the second round, comes up with a tackle for Baltimore.
19:57Yeah, looking forward to watching Mike Green play.
19:59Kyle Van Noy had 12 sacks for this team a season ago.
20:02Odafe Owe had 10, but there is something about this Mike Green.
20:07We spent more than a little time watching him in college.
20:10He can go, and they think that not only can he be a factor with the pass rush, he can be a factor against the run, too.
20:18Second down.
20:19Back to Cook inside.
20:21With three yards to the 48-yard line.
20:24Green some thought would be first-round level talent, but dropped in the draft in part to some off-field concerns.
20:30It was an investigation into two separate sexual assault allegations in high school and then in college at Virginia.
20:36There were no charges filed in either case.
20:39The Ravens did their due diligence and decided to take him in the second round.
20:45And from what everyone with Baltimore has said, they think he could be a significant pass rushing factor for this team as the season goes on.
20:53Right now, we need a rushing factor from Josh Allen.
20:57This is a huge moment in this game.
20:59There you go.
21:00On cue, he takes off, and Allen gets the first down into Baltimore territory at the 47-yard line.
21:06Teddy Buchanan, the rookie, brings him down.
21:08It's a Buffalo first down with Allen.
21:10Great job by these offensive linemen setting inside and creating that lane.
21:15And I'm not sure it was a designated run, but those guys know.
21:20They've been around Josh and know.
21:22It's third and two.
21:23That sucker's going to take off.
21:24And he did again.
21:25And he is one of the best at it.
21:27So the ball moves there.
21:30Got that second hand back on it.
21:34Last two MVPs and one and two in the voting and showing you why again here tonight.
21:38And the 47, Cook slipping inside.
21:42And there's Cook with a first down gain of 11.
21:46Travis Jones retracing his steps, makes the tackle.
21:49First down, Buffalo.
21:50Take a look at Spencer Brown here, right here.
21:55Watch him take his man and almost get him airborne.
22:00Completely moves him, completely out of the spot.
22:03That's Tavius Robinson, big, strong, physical guy.
22:07And that's what it's going to take.
22:09I mean, they're going to have to balance this thing up a little bit with this running game
22:13and be as physical as what the Ravens are on the other side of the ball.
22:17Spencer Brown used to being bigger than the people who plays football against.
22:20He did that when he was growing up in Lenox, Iowa.
22:25Allen first down from the 36.
22:27First in the middle.
22:28Pass broken up.
22:30And incomplete.
22:34Kyle Hamilton again.
22:36It's always seemingly around the football.
22:39Yeah, and he was just sitting on that one.
22:41It was for Josh.
22:42He sort of got away with one there, right down the middle of the field.
22:46And it looked like it was thrown to Hamilton when he threw it.
22:49And if Kyle had broken up just a little bit, he might have gotten that one.
22:54But I do like the idea that what we're seeing,
22:57Josh is beginning to realize he has more time than he thinks.
23:00This line's doing a good job for him.
23:02For Green Bay Packer, Jair Alexander's 23.
23:05Left side of his screen.
23:06He checks in at corner.
23:08Allen throws underneath.
23:10Limited gain.
23:12Jordan Cook and Chittabelle Wussier makes the tackle.
23:16So Wussier, Alexander, a couple of the corners that they've added to this Baltimore defense
23:21to get ready for what they hope is a Super Bowl run.
23:24Yeah, we haven't even really talked about Malachi Starks, the rookie starting at safety now for the Ravens.
23:32And they said, we kind of forget he's a rookie sometimes, that he knows everything our veteran guys know.
23:39And he has fit in very nicely in this secondary.
23:42Could be fourth down territory here.
23:46Third and eight.
23:49Pressured coming.
23:50Allen gets rid of it.
23:51It's caught short of the first down by four yards.
23:55With Roquan Smith making the play on Elijah Moore.
23:59And they'll go for it.
24:01So fire zone here, drop out there.
24:03So basically going to force the quick throw right here.
24:07Got a free runner in there.
24:09That's the guy that Josh Allen was talking about.
24:14Kyle Hamilton coming in.
24:16Josh was trying to tell John Hussey hit to the head.
24:20No flag.
24:21Fourth and five.
24:22So good in this spot last year, Shakir stumbles.
24:30Allen looks flinging end zone.
24:33It is flag on Palmer.
24:36Alexander covering Palmer.
24:38And it looks like pass interference on the new Raven, Jair Alexander.
24:42Pass interference.
24:53Defense number 23.
24:55Well, he plays a spot in the foul.
24:57Automatic.
24:58First down.
25:00Sometimes you just love veteran receivers.
25:04Here's the case right here.
25:05That ball was thrown up.
25:07No chance.
25:08And Josh Palmer just refused to be held up on the play.
25:13And comes back and made it a no-brainer call for the officials.
25:17Veterans understand if you go back through the defender,
25:20you will get the call almost every time.
25:2327-yard penalty on fourth and five.
25:27Gives Buffalo first and goal.
25:30And Allen looking for a spot to run.
25:32Turns it up.
25:33Roquan Smith brings him down at the two.
25:36A gain of two.
25:38You know, it's like a duel.
25:42You know, don't you feel like that?
25:43Like, I think both of these guys are so hyper-competitive.
25:47And now we're starting to see Josh get some of that going in him as well.
25:52It is really just fun.
25:54This is good football.
25:55This is not like people are playing poorly and making mistakes.
25:59This is good football.
26:00And two tremendous quarterbacks going at it.
26:03The Bills had a habit and they get it.
26:32Cook finishes.
26:33That's the battle right there.
26:35That was the battle.
26:36You've got the huge guy, Osiris Torrance, and I believe that was Nnamdi Matabike, but that
26:45is the inside running ability of James Cook that I think took everybody by surprise a
26:51season ago, and he's doing it again.
26:56The point for Prater.
26:57We have a penalty marker down on this one, thrown by the two officials under the uprights.
27:11So that usually means it's an extra man on defense.
27:16And Sean McDermott being given the option, do you want to move it closer and go for two?
27:20And here's John Hussey.
27:29Defense at two minute men on the field.
27:34Buffalo is elected to go for a two-point try from the one-yard line.
27:39And when you have a Josh Allen, it makes sense to try those things.
27:45And when you have a Lamar Jackson, it makes sense to try and get as many points as you
27:49possibly can.
27:50And, you know, that's what's fun about this matchup to me.
27:55It's people almost understand that the impossibility of completely stopping either one of these
28:01quarterbacks.
28:02Like, it was a huge moment in that game on the last Ravens drive, that third and nine.
28:06They didn't get it.
28:07Didn't get it stopped.
28:08And now, you know, paid a price.
28:10So now here they come.
28:11I mean, cut this thing down to six.
28:13And we see Philadelphia, these situations go with the tush push.
28:17In Buffalo, it's affectionately known as the snowplow, among other names.
28:23But they're spread out here from the one.
28:29Davis in motion.
28:31Allen looking to throw.
28:34Now fires to the back for two with Keon Coleman.
28:38And the penalty on the Ravens cost him a point.
28:42And makes this a six-point game.
28:45Hang on one second.
28:46One second.
28:47We do have a flag back here in the end zone.
28:50Did he step out of bounds?
28:51Because there's a hat down with one of the officials in the back.
28:54There you see.
28:56Anthony Fleming.
28:58Field judge.
28:59Through his cap.
29:00Let's see.
29:02As Coleman's working the back line.
29:04Clearly out with contact from Nate Wiggins.
29:11And here's John Hussey.
29:13The receiver went out of bounds and was the first to touch the ball
29:17before he came back in bounds.
29:21Therefore, it is an incomplete pass.
29:23The try is no good.
29:28So, mistake and mistake on the try.
29:32And we dial back to 27-19.
29:36Car score.
29:38Yeah, boy.
29:44We go from Buffalo to the Twin Cities in Minneapolis.
29:47The Falcons take on the Vikings.
29:48Michael Pennix Jr.
29:49The Falcons.
29:50Tight loss to the Bucs.
29:51J.J. McCarthy and the Vikings.
29:53Their season debut tomorrow night on Monday Night Football.
29:56We'll see you Sunday night for that.
29:58Speaking of Monday night, our friends at ESPN, Joe and Troy, will have that.
30:01And Peyton and Eli will have a Manning cast on ESPN, too.
30:05And thanks to Peyton Manning and Marshall and Eli as well for his cameo
30:09for bringing us on the air tonight, reflecting on the Manning Bowl 20 years ago.
30:14Manning cast on ESPN, too, and the all-new ESPN app tomorrow night.
30:19Marshall's welcome up here anytime he wants.
30:22Come on up, big guy.
30:24He got the right gene.
30:25He got the humor gene.
30:26Oh, my gosh.
30:27Did it, right?
30:28That was great.
30:34So 27-19 is the two points coming off the board.
30:39Player out of bounds.
30:43It's the return of Baltimore and Ali, and he'll bring it to the 34-yard line, Chris.
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30:57One of the great centers in the game, Tyler Lindebaum.
31:00Watch number 64 and what he does.
31:03This is like ballet if you're an offensive lineman.
31:06Stays in front on the tough blocks.
31:08Watch him leap through on this next one.
31:10It has just been so much fun to watch him play the center position.
31:14Hasn't given up a sack in the last two years.
31:18Their best run blocker.
31:19What an athlete playing sevens.
31:21Great stuff.
31:22Great stuff.
31:22Henry inside run for about a half dozen.
31:25Mark with a 38-yard line.
31:29Officially a pickup of five halfway through this third quarter.
31:32Just back to that two-point conversion real quick.
31:34Terry McCauley, can I bring you in?
31:36That was a penalty, so why wasn't it a penalty and a retry for Buffalo?
31:39Because the foul, the penalty for a player going out of bounds and coming back in the first
31:44to touch is loss of down at the previous spot.
31:47So they don't get to repeat the down.
31:49They lost it.
31:50Got it.
31:51Awesome.
31:51Thank you, Terry.
31:52Appreciate it.
31:53He's the best.
31:54Three-time Super Bowl referee.
31:56Second and five.
31:59Henry in the backfield.
32:01They get to him.
32:02Ed Oliver, who has a sack, has a big tackle for loss, and puts Baltimore in third and long.
32:10Wow.
32:11That is two career-making plays right here out of Ed Oliver.
32:18Just watch the contact here, and he's going to take Rosengarten right back into the middle
32:24of Derrick Henry.
32:25I'm just telling you, Mike, there's some good stuff going on for the first week of the season.
32:30Great game.
32:31These guys are playing.
32:32Third and ten.
32:33They go on the first sound again.
32:35Jackson going deep for Bateman.
32:38Incomplete.
32:39Bateman was entangled briefly with Christian Benford.
32:44No flag, and Baltimore's going to punt for the first time here tonight.
32:51Christian Benford has just done this since the beginning.
32:55When he came in at 22 as a six-round pick, nobody would have ever believed the influence
33:00of the impact that he would have at the cornerback position.
33:03And I tell you, on the other side tonight, Dorian Strong, we even mentioned his name, but
33:07for one penalty early on in this.
33:09Jordan Stout's first pick.
33:11Buffalo bench saying that he was contacted before he could catch it on the tight coverage from Keyon Martin.
33:29The undrafted rookie who is down there to make the play.
33:33Long field for the Bills.
33:34For the first time tonight, Baltimore doesn't score.
33:38Almost perfect timing by Martin.
33:40Back here at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park.
33:52See, as high as that light tower is, that's the top of the stadium is going to be like this stadium's old style.
33:59It's kind of built in the ground.
34:00The field level is well below ground level, but it has seen some moments.
34:06It's seen some great players over the years, and that's one of them.
34:10Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills quarterback.
34:13He and Lamar Jackson giving us everything we thought we'd see here tonight.
34:21His defense with a stop.
34:23Buffalo takes over at the road 16.
34:25All right, this look at Josh Allen's throwing motion is brought to you by our friends at Accenture.
34:39Watch this.
34:40Back when he was in Wyoming, I don't know what that was.
34:43He's kind of all on his left leg and tilted over, and his leg's flying off the ground, and they've been working with him.
34:49We've been watching this on Hard Knocks, HBO Max, and now look at the rhythm.
34:53The hips go first, then the trunk, and the arm follows behind, just like that mythical golf swing I've been working on my entire life.
35:02But he really is just a different thrower today than he was when he got in the lead.
35:08The 16 resets, escapes, takes off.
35:12The open field, Marlon Humphrey down at the 25-yard line.
35:16We do a penalty flag on the field.
35:18This one's coming back.
35:19Holden, offense number 79.
35:2810-yard penalty, second down.
35:30That's on Spencer Brown.
35:31Just couldn't quite get in front.
35:38Sometimes when you have help on the outside, it doesn't always help.
35:42And he's working against Kyle Vannoy, who put a good move on him.
35:46The old savvy veteran went off to the Pro Bowl last year.
35:50Congratulations.
35:50I think that was his first.
35:51It was his fifth team in the league.
35:55He had 12 and a half sacks at 34 years old.
35:59A couple of Super Bowl rings.
36:02It's still so effective.
36:06And the hole pushes Buffalo back to second at 18.
36:09Four, Allen climbing out of the end zone, chased down by Vannoy.
36:18Little flip to Shakir.
36:20First down, Buffalo.
36:24Oh, he's starting to feel it now.
36:27This is turning into one heck of a duel out here between these two quarterbacks.
36:32But to escape up, really had no chance to get his body in that perfect throwing position.
36:37Just flip it out over the top.
36:40They were short of the first down.
36:42The initial mark was past it.
36:44They get the first down as they go for their version of the tush push.
36:48Meantime, the blocking with Dalton Kincaid.
36:53And Chidabay Wusie went way downfield.
36:58The mark of the ball is at the 27-yard line.
37:01And now it's a Buffalo first down.
37:03That's what was going on.
37:05Yeah.
37:06Sean McDermott, the old wrestler, would have liked that move.
37:09I mean, this is what it turns into with these two teams.
37:12I mean, it really does.
37:13It's these two teams, Kansas City, throw in Cincinnati a little bit.
37:17Maybe we're going to throw in the Chargers.
37:19I don't know.
37:19But, I mean, they know this game means something.
37:22Because at the end of the year, home field advantage, whatever, it's going to mean something.
37:27Toss, Ray Davis.
37:29A lot of Ravens over there.
37:31The game of a yard or so.
37:34You lived this when you were with the Bengals.
37:36You guys were on good teams.
37:38Every week, of course, you're up.
37:39But when you know the other team is one you respect and one you had to do everything to knock out of the playoffs a year ago,
37:45you can't help but be at max effort going into a game like this.
37:49Well, I think the Pittsburgh Steelers will tell you this, too.
37:52When you play the Ravens, it's like a challenge to your manhood.
37:55It really is.
37:57Like, you cannot back down to these guys.
37:59You've got to go out and slug it out.
38:01And I'll say this.
38:02The Bills look like they could not figure out a way to stay in this game.
38:06But here they are.
38:08Second and eight.
38:09Allen unloads the sideline.
38:12Incomplete for Palmer.
38:14Recoverage from Humphrey.
38:16It'll be third and eight.
38:17I'll tell you, throw out the name Marlon Humphrey, and, boy, what a difference he makes for this football team.
38:25He can play outside.
38:27He had six interceptions last year for this team.
38:30He is the savvy veteran that, along with Kyle Hamilton, makes the calls, get them in the right position.
38:38I just, honestly, I don't know what they'd do without Kyle Hamilton and Marlon Humphrey on this team.
38:42They run the show.
38:44See what he did last year.
38:44He was talking to Marlon on the field before the game.
38:47He said, I'm that unk status guy.
38:49I'm the uncle here.
38:50Nine years in the league, but feels great.
38:52So excited for what this team can do.
38:55Again, Allen pressure.
38:57Gets away.
38:57Free space here.
38:58He's stopping to throw.
39:00Flinging Shakir again.
39:02Broken up.
39:04No flag.
39:05Fourth down.
39:07Hamilton again.
39:10Well, that was close.
39:12That was a great escape that time by Josh.
39:15Let's take a look at the tail end of this play.
39:19Whether or not the kind of contact we did or did not get.
39:22I think the question is, did he grab a shoulder and turn him, Terry?
39:35Time to punt.
39:36LeJounte Wester, the rookie, back for the Brad Robbins kick.
39:39And Wester battles the wind in the twisting ball for the fair catch at the 32-yard line.
39:45So both teams are stopped on back-to-back drives for the first time tonight.
39:50242.
39:51And a good one here in the third.
39:52All right, let's take a look at this play.
40:00And Kyle Hamilton is going to recognize almost immediately Shakir coming across the field and end up picking him up.
40:09Little contact down at the end.
40:11We've talked to our officiating friends.
40:14They say too much, just bang, bang.
40:16So that's a legal play.
40:17But here's the news.
40:19Kyle Hamilton goes in the locker room.
40:21And if there is a position that the Ravens are very thin at, that would be the one at safety.
40:28So we'll keep an eye on what happens next.
40:31And the player, you can't live without.
40:33Right.
40:34As good as it gets back there.
40:36They check on Hamilton.
40:38Lamar Jackson first down.
40:40Zay Flowers having a big game.
40:42A lot of space.
40:43Flowers in the open field.
40:44All the way to the 32-yard line.
40:48Huge first down game for Flowers.
40:54It happens so many times.
40:56You get in these little tight formations.
40:58And they get confused as to whose man it is going across the formation.
41:04And remember this.
41:05When you're in your home stadium, the crowd is very loud.
41:10And it impacts your defense.
41:13And probably no defense communicates more at the line of scrimmage than does the Buffalo Bills.
41:18I wonder if they just missed a call because of the crowd noise.
41:22Now a career high in receiving yards and engaging Flowers.
41:26Henry for about three.
41:28Rory Williams the tackle.
41:29Here's Melissa.
41:30Yeah, Mike.
41:31I was watching Zay Flowers in the first half.
41:33And he was talking to Lamar Jackson on the sideline.
41:35He said the corners were grabbing him.
41:37That he just couldn't get open.
41:38Well, he's not talking about that in the second half after he scored that last Ravens touchdown.
41:43He went up and down the bench saying with a huge smile, I'm here this time.
41:47Even yelling it to the crowd.
41:48Remember, he missed the divisional playoff game last season with that right knee injury.
41:52He's enjoying himself down here.
41:54Got a big hug from Harbaugh right there.
41:56Big embrace.
41:57Lots of smiles.
41:58He's come back.
41:59Ten pounds.
42:00Strength of strength.
42:02Adder to his five-foot-nine frame.
42:06He is having an opening night.
42:07Lamar laying it up for Hopkins.
42:10One hit.
42:11Oh, the veterans still got it.
42:13DeAndre Hopkins touchdown.
42:16Oh, wow.
42:25I'll say this.
42:27I have had a handshake with that hand right there.
42:30It is no surprise that that ball stuck.
42:34And if DeAndre Hopkins can do anything for this football team, that's it.
42:39Those contested throws, those balls on the sideline, in the end zone, he could end up being the difference for this team come playoff time.
42:48DeAndre Hopkins, 33, still chasing that ring.
42:53Those big, huge hands.
42:57John Harbaugh telling us last night what he can be for.
43:00Ramsom, middle of the field, contorting his body, that his first target as a Baltimore Raven.
43:10I'd say 1-0 is one for one.
43:13D-Hop grabs another one.
43:16His 84th career touchdown.
43:18Another beauty.
43:20DeAndre Hopkins, three-time first-team All-Pro, 179th NFL game.
43:32He's had a lot of quarterbacks.
43:34He's made a lot of good plays.
43:35But how about this one?
43:37Yeah, it looks like disadvantage for Hopkins.
43:40It was actually an advantage because as all that contact was taking place, he knew he was going to catch him with one hand.
43:47With the kickoff, line drive, Codrington with the return, sideline, Brandon's right at the 35-yard line.
43:54But we have a penalty marker thrown where he was trying to break through.
43:58Kyle Hamilton went into the locker room, coming back out, looking at that left hand with another glove.
44:06And John Hussey will tell us what the foul was.
44:09During the return, Balding, receiving team number 42, that 10-yard penalty will be enforced from the spot of the foul.
44:20First down.
44:23One more time, the touchdown.
44:28They go to celebrate.
44:30And over by the fence.
44:31Fan hits him up on the head and then hits Lamar Jackson.
44:35And after that fan, who wasn't celebrating at all, hit him, Jackson pushes the fan back.
44:42Obviously, both in the wrong there.
44:44But you can't be pushing the players because you're a fan there as well.
44:49It wasn't as though Hopkins was doing anything that he was extending himself into the crowd.
44:56And I think Lamar saw the first one and then took one himself.
45:00And I'm not excusing.
45:02I know there's no way you're allowed to go after fans in the stand almost no matter what happens.
45:08But sometimes that gets a little ridiculous, too.
45:14This is second and six for Buffalo, now down 50.
45:16And Allen's protected, only covered downfield, clings it to the sideline.
45:31It's caught.
45:33It'll be a first down with Wiggins covering Joshua Palmer.
45:36But the Bills will move the chains as this third quarter comes to an end.
45:4414 points for the Ravens, including the highlight touchdown for Hopkins.
45:48Six points for the Bills.
45:52Ravens 34, Bills 19 as we head to the fourth quarter here in Orchard Park.
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46:24Melissa Stark down on the sideline.
46:25Mike Tirico, Chris Collinsworth with you here in Orchard Park, where the Bills were so good last year.
46:32Didn't lose.
46:34They're down 15 with 15 to go.
46:36First down, Allen through the sideline.
46:41Keon Coleman brings it in.
46:43That's another Buffalo first down.
46:45They're going to have to make up for this deficit in a hurry.
46:50Came down to that one high look, which means one-on-one on the outside.
46:55And of the tape I watched during the summer about this team, he throws it to Keon Coleman when that happens almost every time.
47:02He's going to have the pattern here.
47:04Underneath James Cook.
47:07He's tackled by the rookie Teddy Buchanan.
47:09Kyle Hamilton comes back in in that break between the third and the fourth quarter with some padding on that left hand.
47:16He's been checked out.
47:17He's been playing great.
47:18Kyle Hamilton's just had a night.
47:20Fourth year.
47:23Got a big contract.
47:25Highest paid safety in league history.
47:28Burning it again.
47:29Pressure right here.
47:30Allen goes to Coleman.
47:32He's not turned around.
47:33It's incomplete.
47:34Melissa?
47:35Yeah, Mike.
47:35So we saw Kyle Hamilton leave the field.
47:37He went immediately into the x-ray room where he spent five minutes.
47:42And then when he came back out, you see him there.
47:44He was with the athletic training staff.
47:45You mentioned the padding at the base of his pointer finger.
47:48Then they put his glove back on and taped his middle finger to his pointer finger.
47:53And we'll keep an eye on it.
47:55All right.
47:55You see the tape job there.
47:57The athletic training staff and great job by our crew.
48:00After a long weekend, the game in Philly Thursday with the weather delay up here on Sunday.
48:04Best in the business.
48:06Back at work.
48:06I don't want to be with all of you again.
48:13Off in time.
48:14Here comes the blitz.
48:15Get rid of it to Cook.
48:16If he can get past that, he's got space.
48:18And there he goes.
48:20Cook.
48:2020.
48:2215.
48:2310.
48:24What a run.
48:25Cook.
48:26Down at the one-yard line.
48:30Sensational play to keep the touchdown from happening by Nate.
48:34Wiggins.
48:35What a 52-yard game.
48:38That was all Josh Allen on that one.
48:41You heard the Lester call.
48:43Which means he's going to slide the line that way.
48:45They still brought pressure away from him.
48:48So he had to throw it hot.
48:49And now you've got James Cook over there making it happen.
48:53Allen trying to run left for the touchdown.
48:55Gets thrown down aggressively by Malachi Starks, the rookie.
49:00When they get in close, Chris, you've pointed this out the last couple of years.
49:03Bills love to go to the left.
49:05Baltimore is loading up for that one.
49:07And now we have a whistle stopping play here for an injured Raven.
49:10And that is Marlon Humphrey in the end zone.
49:25I wonder if it happened on the play before.
49:27So this audible is just so good.
49:36He's going to go Lester, Lester, Lester, right?
49:38So we're going to go that way.
49:40And if they come from the other way as well, then he's got to throw that thing hot.
49:45They do.
49:45Vannoy comes off the edge.
49:47There's nobody left.
49:48Roquan Smith had to try to make the play and catch up.
49:51Because ultimately that was his responsibility.
49:54But that play and what we've seen from Lamar tonight as well.
49:58In the first week of the season, these guys are all over what defenses are trying to do to them.
50:04And they're making the adjustments to make them pay.
50:07And don't lose the back end of the play where Nate Wiggins comes all the way over across the field.
50:13Gets off a block.
50:14Makes the tackle of Cook.
50:16And then a loss of a yard on that rushing attempt by Allen.
50:21So it's second and goal from the two.
50:25Big bodies including the fullback Reggie Gilliam.
50:29It's a fake.
50:30Allen looks at the back of the end zone.
50:32He'll take it himself with a touchdown.
50:43Down nine.
50:44They're going for two.
50:46I hope everybody's enjoying this as much as I am.
50:54I mean, all the way down, every detail covered, when you see Josh Allen with that play fake, watch his head when he does that.
51:02It looks like he made the handoff and he's just staring at the running back going through there.
51:07That sold the final person that had to be sold and he walks in the end zone.
51:10Go in for two.
51:20Go in for two.
51:21Coleman was covered.
51:23Allen now ad-libbing.
51:25As always, intercepted by Hamilton.
51:28He can take it back the other way.
51:29Dangerously pitches it back to Van Nooy, who will take a knee.
51:33Just because you have the interception doesn't mean the Bills can't score points.
51:39Could have the odd one point there for Buffalo.
51:41That was almost a safety.
51:45With Van Nooy taking a hit.
51:48In any case, nine-point game.
51:51Well, becoming one of the great players in franchise history and passing records, Josh Allen with that rushing touchdown, his 66th, passes Thurman Thomas, the most rushing touchdowns in Bills history.
52:09And there is Thurman, Pro Football Hall of Famer, who, like many of the Bills, stays around the area and is here on hand tonight.
52:21So, it's a two-possession game.
52:23Bills go for two.
52:24We've seen teams do that often, going for two the first time around, especially with this much time on the clock, just so you know what you need to do the rest of the game.
52:34Ali with the return, and he's got a seam, and he takes it across the 35 to the 36-yard line.
52:42Chris, let's go back to that two-point play and almost a boneheaded play by Walter.
52:45Yeah, let's bring in Terry, because once he lateraled the ball back into the end zone, if he had taken a knee or just gotten tackled, that is a safety and one-point, right, Terry?
52:56Absolutely, Chris.
52:58Once the entire ball gets out of the end zone, it's now on him.
53:01He puts it back in with the backward pass.
53:04Luckily, Van Nooy came into the field of play and went down on one knee rather than doing it in the end zone.
53:09The veteran figured it out.
53:12We haven't had a play like that in NFL history, but anybody can recall where it would be one point because the possession was on the defense and then back in the end zone.
53:21In any case, the pass incomplete intended for Zay Flowers.
53:25And, Chris, you mentioned a few times Zay Flowers not being in the playoff game.
53:30Just in that third quarter, 39-23 and 36-yard completions, Jackson to Flowers.
53:36Well, and the reason it was so significant is because the Buffalo Bills did a great job with their man coverage and taking that extra guy to take away Derrick Henry.
53:45And that was the reason his not being there because he is the man-to-man specialist.
53:50He would have been a very difficult cover for this Bills team.
53:56Huge first half for Henry.
53:58Held a check in the rushing in the second half.
54:00That ball ruled a catch for Hill.
54:02And nine yards, one shot of the first down to the 44-yard line.
54:07Aequann Jones helping to go back and make the stop.
54:09The other thing I remember about that playoff game was Justice Hill.
54:14That was down.
54:15That was down.
54:17We'll see if replay assists will take care of that.
54:20And they will.
54:21After assistance from replay, the ruling on the field is an incomplete pass.