After an improbable Hail Mary pass from quarterback Andy Dalton to wide receiver A.J. Green tied the game on the final play of regulation, Ravens kicker Justin Tucker booted a 46-yard field goal in overtime to give Baltimore a 20-17 win Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium.
After getting sacked on back-to-back snaps as the game bled away in regulation, Dalton launched a 51-yard Hail Mary with no time left that got tipped twice into the arms of Green all by himself in the right corner to tie the Ravens at 17 and send the Bengals into overtime for the second time in 11 days. It marked the first time in club history Cincinnati had been involved in back-to-back OT games and its third one this season (a 27-24 win in Buffalo on Oct. 13) is also a team record.
The Bengals won the overtime coin toss and elected to receive. A mixture of Dalton quick passes and timely runs by Giovani Bernard got the Bengals to the Baltimore 33 yard-line where they faced fourth-and-two. Heading into a strong breeze, Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis elected to eschew the long field goal attempt and go for the first-down conversion.
Mike Nugent had hooked a 42-yard try to the left earlier in the game into the wind.
However, the play blew up when Bernard hauled in a swing pass but was quickly bottled up near the right sideline. Similar to last week’s 35-yard touchdown in Miami where he reversed field, he tried it again but the Ravens defenders caught up to him for an 11-yard loss back to the Ravens 44.
A 13-yard pass from Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco to running back Ray Rice got a first down at the Bengals 41 and later Flacco found tight end Ed Dickson for eight yards and another first down. After three more run plays netted just two yards, Tucker came on and connected on the game-winner.
After the first half From You Know Where, the Bengals tried to crawl back from a 17-0 deficit and cut it to 17-10 with 8:22 left in the game when Bernard scooted 18 yards on a screen for a touchdown set up by cornerback Terence Newman’s interception.
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