Bengals Beat Ravens 34-23 on Thursday Night Football

[ PHOTO: THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER ]

September 14, 2018

Jonas Shaffer, The Baltimore Sun

As Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco took the field early in the second quarter Thursday night, it was hard to say which was more daunting: the past, the present or the possibility of a bright near future.

For as long as he has led the franchise in Baltimore, Flacco has struggled against the Cincinnati Bengals. Now linebacker C.J. Mosley, the quarterback of their defense, had left the game with a bone bruise. What hope was there for a happy ending with Flacco’s history of inefficiency, Mosley’s absence and, maybe worst of all, the team’s 21-0 deficit in hostile AFC North territory?

Hope did arrive, on the backs of an improved Flacco and a resilient but depleted defense, both sparking a Ravens rally. But in the team’s last gasp, Flacco could not deliver the excellence he had supplied in abundance just days earlier.

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