BALTIMORE — — Facing its largest deficit in three years, Lamar Jackson led Baltimore back with another dazzling performance.

He danced along the sideline during one scramble, turning a potential 20-yard loss into a 10-yard gain. He left his feet as he threw the winning touchdown pass and found Rashod Bateman in the end zone with a flick of his wrist and a follow-through that almost resembled that of a basketball player.

Jackson threw three touchdown passes in the fourth quarter, and the Ravens stopped Cincinnati with a two-point conversion with 38 seconds left to hold off the Bengals 35-34 on Thursday night. The Ravens came back from trailing 21-7 in the third quarter and overcame a huge play from Cincinnati receiver Ja’Marr Chase.

“It starts with Lamar and often ends with Lamar,” Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said. “But between Lamar and Lamar, there are a lot of great players surrounding him. I think that’s where our offense is right now.”

Baltimore had 231 of 389 total yards in the fourth quarter.

Chase finished with 11 catches for 264 yards and three touchdowns, including a 5-yarder in the final minute to pull the Bengals (4-6) within one. Cincinnati – which lost to Baltimore in overtime last month – decided to go for 2 and the lead, and Joe Burrow‘s pass for Tanner Hudson sailed high.

“We had our chance,” Bengals coach Zac Taylor said. “We went out there, went for two and it just didn’t work for us. This team will continue to put us in good positions, and there will come a point in the season where that will change.”

The 14-point deficit was the largest for Baltimore (7-3) since the 2022 regular-season finale at Cincinnati — a game Jackson missed due to injury. The last time the Ravens trailed by 14 with Jackson on the field was exactly three years earlier. On November 7, 2021, Baltimore recovered from a 24-10 deficit to defeat Minnesota 34-31.

Cincinnati actually had the ball when up 14 in the third, but a Chase Brown fumble gave the Ravens a short field, and a nifty scramble down the sideline by Jackson set up Derrick Henry’s 1-yard touchdown run. With the ball on the 11, Jackson dropped back and retreated all the way to the 30 before outrunning a pair of rushers to the sideline, turning upfield and managing to stay in bounds all the way to the 1.

“I’m just trying to make something happen. That’s it,” Jackson said. “I wanted to throw the ball away, but when I turned around I had space.”

In the fourth, Tylan Wallace turned a short pass into an 84-yard touchdownbarely staying in bounds himself as a few Cincinnati defenders couldn’t stop him. Justin Tucker missed the extra point, but the Ravens were within one point.

Cincinnati drove into Baltimore territory, but on both third-and-2 and fourth-and-2, Burrow threw incomplete deep. Jackson gave the Ravens the lead with an 18-yard touchdown pass to Mark Andrews, then the two-time MVP-winning quarterback ran himself for a two-point conversion.

Chase beat Baltimore from deep for a 70-yard touchdown, tying the game at 28 with 5:37 to play, but the Ravens answered with Jackson’s 5-yard scoring toss to Rashod Bateman with 1:49 left to go ahead 35–28 .

Jackson threw for 290 yards and four touchdowns. Burrow threw for 428 yards and four touchdowns.

The Ravens lost All-Pro safety Kyle Hamilton late in the first half to an ankle injury.

Cincinnati scored on a 1-yard touchdown run by Brown on the game’s first drive. The Ravens thought they had stopped the Bengals on fourth down near the goal line, but a holding call on cornerback Brandon Stephens gave Cincinnati another set of downs.

Baltimore also burned two timeouts on that first drive, one on a failed challenge.

Jackson threw a 6-yard scoring pass to Nelson Agholor in the second, but the Bengals took the lead on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Burrow to Tanner Hudson shortly after Hamilton’s injury.

The Ravens got back to midfield at the end of the half, but by then they were out of timeouts and the clock was running out on them.

Burrow threw a 67-yard touchdown pass to Chase early in the third.

No answer

Chase had 457 yards receiving in two games against the Ravens this season, an NFL record for one player against another team.

“Honestly, man, it’s just two great football teams going at it,” Chase said. “Every time we play Baltimore it’s a dog fight, the game is always close to over.”

Snapped

Jackson’s kneel on the final play of the game dropped the Ravens to 99 yards rushing. The Ravens had scored at least 100 points in 42 straight games, one shy of the NFL record.

Injuries

The Bengals needed a big game from Chase as receiver Tee Higgins was out with a quad injury. … Harbaugh said Hamilton has a sprained ankle and the injury is not too serious.

Next

Bengals: at the Los Angeles Chargers on November 17.

Ravens: At Pittsburgh on Nov. 17.

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