Ravens power past Bucs, Cardinals sneak by Chargers on Monday Night Football: Live reaction and analysis (2024)

Lamar Jackson threw five touchdown passes and Derrick Henry rushed for 169 yards as the Baltimore Ravens beat the Buccaneers 41-31 in Tampa Bay for their fifth straight win.

The Bucs lost both of their top two wide receivers to injuries, as Mike Evans suffered a hamstring injury before Chris Godwin was carted off the field with an air cast on his left leg, implying a much more severe injury.

In the second game of today's Monday Night Football doubleheader, Chad Ryland kicked off walk-off field goal as the Cardinals beat the Chargers 17-15 in Arizona.

It was a dominant performance for the Baltimore Ravens, who throttled the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the road.

The Athletic's Ravens beat writer Jeff Zrebiec breaks down the Ravens offense, the impact of losing Marlon Humphrey and the Bucs struggling when Mike Evans left the game with a hamstring injury.

Click below to read the postgame analysis.

Also speaking after his team's win, John Harbaugh says: “There’s a lot of things that we can get better at. Our defense had six straight stops and we scored on six straight possessions.

“There’s too many big pass plays (and) we didn’t play the screen game well. We can do better. We will do better. And we’ve got to catch the ball. How many interceptions could we have had?”

On Marlon Humphrey's status after he left the game with an injury, he says the cornerback was walking around the locker room. He’s hopeful the knee injury isn’t too serious but they’ll know more tomorrow.

Speaking after the Ravens' win, Lamar Jackson says: “Those guys were coming after us … It was like, let’s go. We have to start scoring. I’m chasing something right now. All these games mean something.”

On breaking Baltimore's franchise record for career receiving touchdowns, Mark Andrews says he’s incredibly grateful, “but I’m not satisfied.”

Above is the updated AFC West standings.

With tonight's loss, the Chargers fall to 3-3 and are third in the division behind the Denver Broncos and undefeated Kansas City Chiefs.

Above is the updated NFC West standings.

The Arizona Cardinals improve to 3-4 with their win tonight over the Chargers, just one victory back of the Seattle Seahawks.

Tonight marks Kyler Murray's 20th career game with at least one passing touchdown and one rushing touchdown.

He ties Jalen Hurts for the second-most such games since entering the league in 2019, behind only Josh Allen who leads the league with 34.

Q4 0:00 Chargers 15-17 Cardinals

The Arizona Cardinals win by two over the Los Angeles Chargers at home.

Chad Ryland made a 32-yard field goal to secure the victory.

Will Dissly is having himself a career night for Los Angeles. His eight receptions marks a career high, while his 81 receiving yards is tied for the second-most in his career.

The 81-yard game is the best by a Chargers pass-catcher this season, while Joshua Palmer's 63-yard performance comes in as the team's third-best of the season.

Ravens

• Lamar Jackson: 17/22 passing, 281 yards, 5 touchdowns; 9 rushes, 52 yards
• Derrick Henry: 15 carries, 169 yards; 13-yard touchdown reception
• Rashod Bateman: 4 receptions, 121 yards, touchdown
• Mark Andrews: 4 receptions, 41 yards, 2 touchdowns
• Marlon Humphrey: 2 interceptions

Buccaneers

• Baker Mayfield: 31/45 passing, 370 yards, 3 touchdowns, 2 interceptions
• Rachaad White: 10 carries, 40 yards; 6 receptions, 71 yards, 2 touchdowns
• Cade Otton: 8 receptions, 100 yards

Q4 Chargers 15-14 Cardinals

Cameron Dicker gets his fifth made field goal tonight.

A 40-yarder to give the Chargers a one-point lead.

Can the Cardinals get a game-winning field goal?

Lamar Jackson will get a lot of the shine for his action through the air, but Derrick Henry's 169 rushing yards tonight has put him on a historic pace. His 873 total rushing yards are the eighth most through seven games in the Super Bowl era, and the most since DeMarco Murray's OPOY season in 2014 (913). With 134 carries on the season, Henry's 6.5 yards per rushing attempt are the highest yards per rushing attempt by a back with at least 850 yards through seven games (prev. best: Dalvin Cook, 2020 - 858 yds, 6.0 YPA)

Surprisingly (or not, considering it's King Henry), this 2024 performance only barely eclipses the best pace of the 30-year-old running back's career. Henry's previous best performance through the first seven games came in 2021 with 869 rushing yards. That was the year after Henry posted a 2,000-yard season, which was unfortunately shortened by a season-ending broken foot.

Q4 0:43 Ravens 41-31 Buccaneers

Godwin is being carted off the field with an air cast on his left leg. The fans still in attendance give him a supportive ovation as he leaves.

Q4 0:43 Ravens 41-31 Buccaneers

Mayfield found Godwin for a gain on 21 yards on third down to keep the Bucs drive alive, but Godwin was injured as he was tackled by Smith. ESPN's broadcast makes a point of declining to replay the injury, saying that it's an ugly one. That's tough news for the Bucs, who lost fellow star wide receiver Mike Evans to a hamstring injury earlier in this game.

Q4 Chargers 12-14 Cardinals

The Chargers’ lack of viable pass-catchers is showing up here in the fourth quarter. Justin Herbert made two sensational throws on that drive. One came on first down on a wheel route to Stone Smartt, who could not make the diving catch. On second down, Herbert threw a back shoulder ball to Will Dissly into double coverage. That throw was on the money, as well. It went off Dissly’s hands.

The Chargers settled for a fourth field goal of the game.