Denver Broncos 55 - Baltimore Ravens 28
The Broncos came off a tough road loss to the Jets and hosted the defending Super Bowl champs in perhaps their toughest test of the season. Thankfully the team showed up in a big way and put together probably their best total effort of the season. The teams were trading haymakers in the first half, looking for all the world like it would be a "last team with the ball wins" sort of game, before the Broncos D finally showed up in the second half.
Osweiler was on target all day, going 10 of 14 for 218 yards and a TD. He was particularly great on 3rd down, coming through with conversions time after time when the running game was sputtering early.
Flacco was 7 of 19 for 99 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT.
McFadden carried 14 times for 100 yards even and 4 TDs. McGahee added 10 carries for 30 yards and 1 TD.
Ray Rice was basically unstoppable in this one, carrying 15 times for 280 yards and 3 TDs.
Demaryius Thomas broke out of his recent slump, catching 3 balls for 130 yards. Vincent Jackson had a 14-yard TD with his only catch.
Torrey Smith lead the Ravens with 3 catches for 39 yards and a score.
The Broncos got another pick from Jason McCourty (who's been huge since coming over from the Titans) as well as a strip sack by Albert Haynesworth which DJ Williams scooped up. They also got a return TD from Tim Trinca-Pasat.
The Ravens got a sack from Kruger, but couldn't manage to turn the Broncos over, or stop them on 3rd down, which was the difference.
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gg mog! Definitely didn't expect this one to play out this way, I thought it would be either a close contest or a blowout loss.
Broncos cling on to that second wild card spot with the win, but it's still a tough schedule going forward.