St. Louis went into the game without rookie starting right tackle Rob Havenstein (calf) and shifted right guard Andrew Donnel to tackle, until he departed with a knee injury that Fisher fears might be serious.
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The Monday night game will snap a streak of 122 straight regular season starts for Flacco since he was selected in the first round of 2008 draft.
Even though the AFC is exceptionally weak, the Ravens have virtually no shot of making the playoffs now that Flacco is done for the year.
“It’s just the nature of the game, man”, Flacco said. “We haven’t had anything pictured”.
Winston completed 19 of 29 passes for 246 yards and had four of his TD passes in the first half to four different receivers. Case Keenum has been underwhelming, but thanks to a litany of penalties from Baltimore, the Rams maintain the lead.
“It was a courageous performance by him at the end”, coach John Harbaugh said. Keenum has kept plays alive with his legs and has survived the onslaught of Baltimore pass rushers, but the end result has not equated to a better offense.
According to NFL.com: “Rams coach Jeff Fisher, the league’s Competition Committee chairman, seemed unaware of Keenum’s concussion during his postgame press conference”. The switch did not pay immediate dividends.
“We looked like our old selves in a lot of ways”, said Dallas TE Jason Witten.
“We’ve got too much talent without getting things done”, he said. Baltimore (3-7) will look to add a backup this week.
The Ravens were able to rally for a last-second win against the Rams, but the team suffered a major loss with the injury to Joe Flacco. This weekend, Lovie Smith’s team travels to Indianapolis, where they’ll face a Colts team who is also coming-off a big win. Tucker closed it with a game-winning 47-yard field goal.
“It’s kind of a new life for me, so I’m looking forward to that opportunity to go battle with these guys and the group that we have”, he said. That said, I’m woman enough to admit when I might be wrong. Regardless of whether he was concussed or not, and it sure looked like he was, Keenum should have been taken out of the game.
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco tore his ACL against the St. Louis Rams Sunday and is done for the rest of the 2015 season.
Flacco threw his second interception of the match in the third quarter, and this time he was punished by the Rams as Case Keenum, preferred to the out-of-form Nick Foles at quarterback today, combined with Lance Kendricks for a 30-yard score.
A 20-yard field goal by Tucker tied it with 5:12 to go. The kick capped a 76-yard drive, highlighted by a 46-yard completion to Crockett Gillmore.
The Ravens’ injury epidemic has removed the team’s starting quarterback (Flacco), its most experienced receiver (Steve Smith Sr.), a stalwart running back (Justin Forsett), its most lethal pass rusher (Terrell Suggs) and left tackle (Eugene Monroe) from the field; the latter at least temporarily.
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One sequence in the third quarter summed up the struggle each team experienced trying to generate offense. But two of his second-half mistakes – a botched handoff from Keenum and a fumble – were recovered by Baltimore.
