Eric Murray returned amongst Justin Herbert’s career-high 4 interceptions for a aim, C.J. Stroud tossed a TD cross and the Houston Texans rolled previous the Los Angeles Chargers 32-12 in a wild-card championship recreation Saturday.
It’s the 2nd straight yr Stroud and the Texans (11-7) gained within the preliminary after they defeat Cleveland final interval.
Herbert tossed merely 3 interceptions within the regular interval and had truly by no means ever tossed better than 2 in a online game previous to coping with a Texans further led by AP All-Pro cornerback Derek Stingley, that had 2 INTs. Kamari Lassiter had the assorted different alternative.
The Chargers (11-7), that went again to the playoffs beneath first-year teacher Jim Harbaugh, shed within the wild-card spherical momentarily straight time after likewise shedding within the 2022 interval to remain with out a postseason win as a result of 2018.
Stroud tossed for 282 backyards with the aim cross to Nico Collins and an interception. Collins do with 7 catches for 122 backyards. Joe Mixon competed 106 backyards and a score.
Herbert was 14 of 32 for 242 backyards with a 40.9 passer rating.
Ravens 28, Steelers 14
Lamar Jackson tossed for two objectives in a exceptional preliminary fifty %, Derrick Henry racked up two occasions whereas main Baltimore’s ruining operating online game, and the Ravens defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 28-14 to progress to the 2nd spherical of the AFC playoffs.
The Ravens keep it up to come across both Buffalo or Houston after leaping bent on a 21-0 halftime lead and hanging on versus their AFC North opponents. Baltimore had a 19-2 profit in preliminary downs within the preliminary fifty %, when the Ravens generated aim drives of 95, 85 and 90 backyards,
Henry competed 186 backyards, and Baltimore outrushed the Steelers 299-29. It was some of the backyards hurrying permitted by Pittsburgh in a championship recreation, damaging the mark of 232 established by the Oakland Raiders 51 years earlier.
Jackson, the two-time MVP nonetheless on the lookout for a postseason development, made it clear from the start he was mosting prone to make Pittsburgh (10-8) safeguard his arm and his legs. He maintained the chains relocating, and the Ravens (13-5) mored than joyful to progress the spherical systematically versus a Steelers group that has truly counted vastly this era on requiring flip overs.
Pittsburgh’s interval finishes with 5 straight losses, 2 of which was obtainable inBaltimore The ending was an acquainted story for the Steelers, which have truly shed 6 successive championship recreation. The final 3 occasions they’ve truly remained within the postseason, they’ve truly dropped on the roadway in video video games which have truly exhibited the house in between Pittsburgh and the seminar’s actual opponents.
The Ravens had 10 aim drives of a minimal of 90 backyards within the regular interval, some of the by a gaggle as a result of a minimal of 2000. They started at their very personal 5 on their preliminary property and drove 13 wager a aim.
The Steelers have truly made a habits only in the near past of profitable restricted video video games versus the Ravens, profiting from Baltimore blunders. The Ravens stayed away from that situation Saturday, taking couple of great threats.
They did acquire imaginative on the preliminary drive, mobile lining Henry up for a straight breeze from centre whereas Jackson discovered and cast a transfer. Henry maintained the spherical for a 34-yard acquire. Jackson lined the property with a 15-yard racking up strike to Rashod Bateman, that was Baltimore’s main wholesome and balanced receiver with Zay Flowers (knee) inaccessible.
Jackson went 16 of 21 for 175 backyards and hurried for 81.
Henry made it 14-0 with an 8-yard sustain 4:09 left within the fifty %. After a Pittsburgh punting, the Steelers known as timeout on third-and-2 from the Baltimore 18, wishing to acquire the spherical again, but the Ravens remodeled and after that swiftly relocated proper into setting to score.
On 2nd beneath the Pittsburgh 5 with 11 secs left, Jackson nearly consumed the persevering with to be time clambering about, but he in the end unloaded the spherical off to an open Justice Hill, that entered into completion space with 2 secs left.
The Steelers drove 98 backyards for a aim on their preliminary second-half property, with Russell Wilson tossing a 30-yard racking up cross toVan Jefferson Baltimore swiftly responded to when Henry broken maximize the middle for a 44-yard TD– Pittsburgh protectors had been captured out of setting since Jackson cast a go to the left after handing the spherical off.
Wilson responded to with a 36-yard aim strike to George Pickens within the third, but that was it for the racking up. Wilson went 20 of 29 for 270 backyards on a night when neither group remodeled the spherical over.
