Derek Carr rallies Raiders past Ravens in wild OT win

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer

LAS VEGAS — Derek Carr threw a 31-yard touchdown walk to Zay Jones aft the Raiders squandered their archetypal possession of overtime, beating the Baltimore Ravens, 33-27, connected Monday nighttime successful the team’s archetypal crippled with fans successful Las Vegas.

Carr’s 2nd touchdown walk of the crippled came aft Carl Nassib’s portion sack of Lamar Jackson astatine the Ravens’ 27-yard line. Nassib made large quality this offseason erstwhile helium became the archetypal progressive NFL subordinate to travel retired arsenic gay.

The Raiders had thrown an interception aft driving to the 1 connected the opening possession of overtime and made different blunder with a hold of crippled earlier a field-goal attempt.

Coach Jon Gruden past sent the discourtesy backmost connected the tract and Carr deed Jones connected the adjacent play for the game-winner that elated a delirious Allegiant Stadium assemblage of 61,756. Gruden did a triumph lap, of sorts, slapping hands with fans successful the reimagined Black Hole confederate extremity zone.

The Raiders trailed 14-0 early, ending a 98-game, regular-season winning streak for the Ravens erstwhile starring by astatine slightest 14 points dating to 2004.

The nonaccomplishment capped a unsmooth agelong for the Ravens, who person had a tally of injuries that sidelined apical 3 moving backs J.K. Dobbins, Gus Edwards and Justice Hill, arsenic good arsenic cornerback Marcus Peters, for the season.

They had won the past 5 openers by a borderline of 177-26, but they came up abbreviated successful this nail-biter acknowledgment to a beardown crippled from Carr, who threw for 435 yards and 2 touchdowns, completing 34 of 56 attempts with 1 interception.

“It reminded maine truthful overmuch of my vocation to this point,” Carr said of the up-and-down game. “… I’m thankful for this radical due to the fact that connected some sides we made plays to assistance america suffer it and to assistance america triumph it, but the lone happening that matters astatine the extremity is that people that we’ve talked about. I’m gladsome that we won.”

The overtime came aft a chaotic back-and-forth 4th fourth that featured the Raiders rallying to necktie the people connected 3 abstracted occasions, with Carr driving Las Vegas to a tying 55-yard tract extremity successful the last 37 seconds.

The Ravens had taken the pb erstwhile Jackson scrambled 28 yards to assistance acceptable up Justin Tucker’s 47-yard tract goal.

The Raiders earlier got a forced fumble by Quinton Jefferson against Jackson to acceptable up Josh Jacobs’ 15-yard TD run, tying the people astatine 17. The Ravens answered erstwhile erstwhile Raider Latavius Murray ran it successful from 8 yards 1 play aft Jackson recovered Sammy Watkins connected a mismatch for a 49-yard pass.

Carr past connected connected a 37-yard walk to Henry Ruggs III that acceptable up a tying 10-yard touchdown to Darren Waller with 3:44 to play.

SPECTACULAR PLAY

Jackson’s touchdown walk to Marquise Brown successful the archetypal fractional was a spectacular idiosyncratic effort. He escaped unit from Maxx Crosby and Yannick Ngakoue and scrambled earlier uncovering Brown successful the backmost of the extremity portion for a 10-yard score.

According to NFL NextGen stats, Jackson took 7.84 seconds to propulsion for the 5th longest yardage connected a touchdown walk successful the past 5 seasons and scrambled 27 yards for his astir ever connected a TD throw.

GO FOR IT

The Ravens went for it doubly connected 4th down successful the archetypal half, getting a 35-yard TD tally from Ty’Son Williams connected 1 of the first. Murray got stuffed by K.J. Wright connected the second.

The Raiders got stopped connected a fourth-and-1 tally by Jacobs astatine the Ravens’ 13 successful the 3rd quarter.

SLOW START

The Raiders got disconnected to a sluggish commencement offensively aft sitting astir of their starters successful the preseason. A holding punishment and botched drawback spoiled a promising archetypal thrust that reached the Ravens’ 21 earlier going backward and ending successful a punt.

The Raiders past punted connected the adjacent 3 drives, marking the archetypal clip successful 15 years they punted connected the archetypal 4 drives of the season.

They recovered a groove precocious successful the fractional with a 75-yard thrust capped by Jacobs’ 2-yard tally and past getting a 34-yard tract extremity from Daniel Carlson to marque it 14-10 astatine the break.

INJURY REPORT

Ravens: Guard Tyre Phillips was taken disconnected the tract connected a cart precocious successful the archetypal fractional aft injuring his limb and didn’t return.

Raiders: Guard Denzelle Good near successful the archetypal fractional with a genu injury. … Ngakoue near successful the 2nd fractional with a hamstring injury. … Defensive tackle Gerald McCoy was taken disconnected connected a cart successful the 4th fourth with a genu injury.

UP NEXT

The Ravens big Kansas City connected Sunday night. Baltimore has mislaid 4 consecutive against the Chiefs, including each 3 matchups betwixt Jackson and Patrick Mahomes. … The Raiders sojourn Pittsburgh connected Sunday.