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The newly relocated and rebranded Baltimore Ravens took the field to face the Raiders, who only the previous season had themselves returned to Oakland from Los Angeles. It was the first time Al Davis’ team had played in Baltimore since winning the famous “Ghost to the Post” double overtime playoff game on Christmas Eve, 1977, the Colts’ last brush with glory before their departure for Indianapolis. On January 27, 2014, the Ravens hired former Houston Texans head coach Gary Kubiak to be their new offensive coordinator after Jim Caldwell accepted the new available head coaching job with the Detroit Lions. During the offseason, the Ravens signed former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith to a three-year contract. They also signed tight end Owen Daniels and running back Justin Forsett, as they played for Kubiak in Houston and would seemingly fit in Kubiak's new system. On February 15, 2014, star running back Ray Rice and his fiancée Janay Palmer were arrested and charged with assault after a physical altercation at Revel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Focus groups, a telephone survey, and a fan contest were all held to help select a name for the new franchise. Team management started with a list of 17 names from an original list of more than 100. From there, focus groups of a total of 200 Baltimore area residents reduced the list of names to six, and then a phone survey of 1000 people trimmed it down to three, Marauders, Americans, and Ravens. Finally, a fan contest drawing 33,288 voters picked "Ravens," a name that alludes to the famous poem, The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there. Edgar Allan Poe also had distant relatives who played football for the Princeton Tigers in the 1880s through the early 1900s. These brothers were infamous players in the early days of American football.
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During the team's bye week, coach Billick tried to install the idea that after the bye, the season starts anew and they forget about their past losses. This strategy led the Ravens to a Week 4 Win against the Jets (13–3), but the Ravens fell apart against the Lions (35–17), setting a franchise record for penalties in a single game . The Ravens rebounded at home the next week against the Cleveland Browns, with a final score of 16–3.
Huntley was not asked to do much in terms of playing quarterback in that game, so instead of having him attempt to throw like a pro bowler, they kept it on the ground. Dobbins and Gus Edwards dictated the game to perfection, and it ultimately led to a win. Testaverde also became the first Raven to score, rumbling in on a nine-yard run to put Baltimore ahead 7-0 with 39 seconds remaining in the first quarter. He was 4-4 passing for 68 yards at that point, a great start to a season that would end with his appearance in the Pro Bowl. The Ravens ran 18 plays in the opening quarter to just 8 for the Raiders, who came into this game with a six-game losing streak carried over from 1995.
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Good puzzles and good for teams, however we just barely made it in time because we where only 5 people. Baltimore should also take note of the fact that Atlanta’s running defense has had trouble stopping anyone all season long. The Falcons rank in the bottom six of the NFL in rushing defense and have allowed the second-most first downs by run in the league with 143. All Wild Card game buyers will also receive pre-sale access to potential Divisional Round playoff tickets.
The Ravens were eliminated from playoff contention during the final week of the season against the Cincinnati Bengals. Needing to stop the Bengals offense one last time in the closing seconds of the fourth quarter, they instead allowed Andy Dalton to connect with Tyler Boyd for a 49-yard game-winning touchdown on fourth and long. The Ravens finished at 9–7, losing out on tiebreakers to the Tennessee Titans and Buffalo Bills for the wild card spots in the playoffs. The Ravens beat the Patriots 33–14, aided by Ray Rice's 83-yard touchdown run on the first play from scrimmage, helping them to a 24–0 lead at the end of the first quarter. Two touchdowns late in the first half gave the Colts a 17–3 lead at halftime, and Baltimore miscues in the second half ensured the end of their season, by a 20–3 score.
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However, from Week 7 to Week 10, the Ravens would lose to the Chicago Bears (10–6), the Pittsburgh Steelers (20–19), the Cincinnati Bengals (21–9), and the Jacksonville Jaguars (30–3). In the 1999 season, with a newly renamed stadium, PSINet Stadium (now M&T Bank Stadium), Baltimore showed a marked improvement. Quarterback Tony Banks came to Baltimore from the St. Louis Rams and had the best season of his career with 17 touchdown passes and an 81.2 pass rating. He was joined by receiver Qadry Ismail, who posted a 1,000-yard season.
Browns rookie York made two field goals — and missed two tries — but outkicked Ravens All-Pro Justin Tucker, the league’s most accurate kicker, who missed a 48-yarder and had another attempt blocked. Marchibroda inherited a team that was 4-5 before Modell announced the move to Baltimore, then won only once the rest of the way to finish 5-11. Between the relocation, coaching change, and late-season collapse, only 11 of the 22 players who started the Browns’ 1995 season opener were in the starting lineup for the 1996 Ravens’ debut.
Eight victories in its last ten regular season matches enabled them to clinch the sixth seed in the AFC playoffs at an 11–5 record. Possibly the biggest win during that stretch came in Week 16 with a 33–24 humbling of the Dallas Cowboys in the final game at Texas Stadium. Willis McGahee's 77-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter established a new stadium record which would last until Le'Ron McClain, on the very first offensive play of the Ravens' next possession, secured the victory with an 82-yarder.
Tony Banks began the 2000 season as the starting quarterback and was replaced by Trent Dilfer when the Ravens fell to 5–4, and failed to score an offensive touchdown the entire month of October. Coach Brian Billick announced that the change at quarterback would be for the rest of the season. The thousand yard rushing season by rookie running back Jamal Lewis combined with the stout Ravens defense kept Baltimore competitive in games even when the offense struggled. At one point in the season the team played five consecutive games without scoring an offensive touchdown but still managed two wins during that stretch. The team regrouped and won each of their last seven games, finishing 12–4.
Atlanta also lost this past weekend as they fell short by a field goal to New Orleans. If that wasn’t bad enough, their quarterback situation took a recent twist when Marcus Mariota was benched in favor of rookie third-round pick, Desmond Ridder, who turned in a dreadful NFL debut last week. The Ravens would finish their first season with a 4–12 record under coach Ted Marchibroda, who coached the Colts before and after they relocated and has a 41–33 regular season record in Baltimore. At the Ravens’ first-ever regular season game, a then-record attendance of 64,124 was present in their win against the Oakland Raiders, 19–14, on September 1 at home. Their second victory came in Week 5, against the New Orleans Saints at home, in which they became 2–2. In Week 7, the Ravens traveled to Indianapolis to play Baltimore's previous team, the Colts.
But forced to throw while playing from behind in the fourth, Huntley couldn't come up with a big play. Tyler Huntley, who was only cleared from concussion protocol a few days ago, started again for Jackson but couldn't get Baltimore going. Huntley went 17 of 30 for 138 yards, but threw a critical interception inside Cleveland's 10 in the third. Jackson missed his second straight game with a knee injury, and the Ravens aren't the same without his dynamic playmaking ability. The Browns headed into Saturday’s game with just one player with an injury designation. Defensive-end Jadeveon Clowney was ruled out for the rest of the game for a head injury.
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