For the first 1 ½ quarters against the Bengals, the Ravens looked lifeless, WFLAT in Cincinnati, particularly on offense. They had the look of a team that had mailed it in – one that had just showed up to punch the clock, grind through a workday in an uninspired way and pick up a check for their ho-hum efforts.
The Ravens had just 9 yards of offense in the opening quarter. Then, during the first drive of the second quarter which was jump started by Keaton Mitchell (3 consecutive runs for 25 yards), the Ravens turned the ball over when Lamar Jackson hit Zay Flowers on a deep in-cut route with a perfectly place ball that went through Flowers arms and into the appreciative hands of Bengals’ safety Jordan Battle.