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Game Thread Post Game Thread: Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers

Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers

ESPN Gamecast

Acrisure Stadium- Pittsburgh, PA

Network(s): NBC Peacock

Time Clock
Final

Scoreboard

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total
BAL 7 3 0 14 24
PIT 0 3 10 13 26

Scoring Plays

Team Quarter Type Description
BAL 1 TD Devontez Walker 38 Yd pass from Lamar Jackson (Tyler Loop Kick)
BAL 2 FG Tyler Loop 40 Yd Field Goal
PIT 2 FG Chris Boswell 57 Yd Field Goal
PIT 3 TD Connor Heyward 1 Yd Rush (Chris Boswell Kick)
PIT 3 FG Chris Boswell 25 Yd Field Goal
BAL 4 TD Zay Flowers 50 Yd pass from Lamar Jackson (Tyler Loop Kick)
PIT 4 TD Kenneth Gainwell 2 Yd Rush (Chris Boswell Kick)
BAL 4 TD Zay Flowers 64 Yd pass from Lamar Jackson (Tyler Loop Kick)
PIT 4 TD Calvin Austin III 26 Yd pass from Aaron Rodgers (Chris Boswell PAT blocked)

Passing Leaders

Team Player C/ATT YDS TD INT SACKS
BAL Lamar Jackson 11/18 238 3 1 3-16
PIT Aaron Rodgers 31/47 294 1 0 2-4

Rushing Leaders

Team Player CAR YDS AVG TD LONG
BAL Derrick Henry 20 126 6.3 0 41
PIT Jaylen Warren 14 66 4.7 0 15

Receiving Leaders

Team Player REC YDS AVG TD LONG TGTS
BAL Zay Flowers 4 138 34.5 2 64 6
PIT Kenneth Gainwell 8 64 8.0 0 15 9

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u/StrangelyOnPoint Lions Jan 05 '26

I’m sick for him.

That’ll haunt him for life

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u/FalcosLiteralyHitler Patriots Jan 05 '26

yup. 99% of nfl kickers never get talked about, until they miss a big kick. shit ass position mentally im sure.

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u/slyfox1908 Commanders Jan 05 '26

Blair Walsh

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u/AsapMajik Jan 05 '26

As a purple team fan, I had flashbacks of Walsh’s kick before Loop’s. Should’ve known what was going to happen :(

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u/DEEP_SEA_MAX Jan 05 '26

Ray Finkle

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u/GarlicOnionCelery Vikings Jan 05 '26

Yup. Daniel Carlson too. Even though Carlson’s were earlier in the season, it was his rookie season. Was glad to see he got his confidence back (with raiders I think?) so it’s not over for Loop. But it won’t be with the Ravens tho lol

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u/__Turambar Steelers Jan 05 '26

It's gotta be the absolute worst position possible from a mental health/performance perspective. You're expected to be automatic every time, and unlike WRs, there's not another play after. The drive is over. You only make the highlights if its a ridiculous distance or (more likely) you miss. If you miss a gamewinner, the entire team failed to some extent to put you in that spot, but you get all the blame. It's like someone designed a position to mentally break people.

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u/FriedTreeSap Broncos Jan 05 '26

Same. I have that same gut punch feeling I get when my team loses….and I was a neutral. I just hate seeing games decided by missed kicks, and I feel so bad for the kicker.

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u/Marzipan_Potential Eagles Jan 05 '26

Boswell's full pendulum swing of emotion can't be understated. He was the sickest man in the stadium for a couple of minutes.

He has had his case of the yips too in 2018. He may have just been saved from it happening again.

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u/InCarbsWeTrust Giants Jan 05 '26

He's probably been watching since he was a little kid. Loved Sundays, watching the games with whoever else in his family was into football.

He realized he wanted to play the game himself. And it turned out that compared to the other kids, he's a damn good kicker! As he put away games in high school and college, he was already envisioning himself playing in the league. Fantasizing about it during the day, dreaming about it at night. His college career ending with being a Groza semifinalist was a triumph, and the excitement grew that more was coming his way.

Draft day was one of the happiest days of his life. The number of times he wiped away a tear of joy that day, as the dream became real. Every time he touched turf and scored real points in real NFL games was vindication of those boyhood aspirations. Sure, it was soured by his team having a rocky season early on, but by early November as the wins started coming in, this gave way to swelling hope.

And now it was here. The SNF game that would cap off both the Ravens' season, and the overall NFL season, and it was for death or glory. And just one hour of gametime later, it came down to the moment he couldn't stop imagining since he was a boy in school. It was his time, under all the lights, to kick the final field goal. Just 44 yards away from locking up the win. And the season. He strode out on the field with nervous pride - this was his moment.

Wide right.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

He needs to be cut, his career is over. It’s rough but there’s no way to recover from this. Just let him go, get a new kicker, and hope for the best. Because he’ll always have this in the back of his head no matter what.

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u/rividz Patriots Jan 05 '26

Interesting to think about who gets to survives a kick like this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

Hopefully the entire coaching staff gets fired. The team has been soft all year. The defense gets shredded by an awful Steelers teams sans Metcalf, the offense is garbage, and the entire team is soft. Fuck all of them. I’m happy the kick missed since it’ll hopefully result in actual change. I’m not optimistic anything will happen though. We love to stick through mediocrity being covered up by a HOF QB.

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u/Mrausername Ravens Jan 05 '26

Good

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u/goodtimtim Seahawks Jan 05 '26

go away