CINCINNATI — An particularly annoyed J.K. Dobbins said he believes it would have been a different consequence experienced the Ravens given him the ball — and not quarterback Tyler Huntley — on a important fourth-quarter participate in in close proximity to the aim line in Baltimore’s 24-17 wild-card loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday evening.
Huntley designed the game’s most important mistake when he fumbled with the rating tied at 17, getting rid of the ball on a leap towards the end zone and having his turnover returned 98 yards for a touchdown by Bengals defensive conclusion Sam Hubbard. The Ravens went from being on the verge of getting a touchdown guide to slipping behind by 7 factors with 11:39 remaining.
“He ought to have hardly ever been in that condition,” Dobbins claimed of Huntley. “I never get a one carry. I failed to get a solitary have. He really should in no way have been in that predicament. I consider I would have put it in the conclusion zone, yet again.”
The Ravens managing back was upset that he was restricted to 62 yards on 13 carries and failed to acquire a further crimson zone contact soon after powering his way to a 2-yard landing in the second quarter. In that critical fourth-quarter collection, Baltimore ran 3 performs within the Bengals’ 3-property line, and Dobbins did not get the ball the moment.
“I’m a guy who feels like I really should be on the field all the time,” Dobbins claimed. “It really is the playoffs. Why am I not out there?”
This just isn’t the initial time Dobbins has vented about his wish to get the ball far more. On Friday, he informed reporters he preferred the activity “on my back.” Next Sunday’s defeat, Dobbins described that he informed coaches on the sideline he needed to be much more involved.
“I must be the person. I am exhausted of holding that back,” claimed Dobbins, who experienced averaged 6.9 yards for each have in four games since obtaining a knee scoped. “I’m a playmaker. I am a man that my teammates feed off me when I’m on the discipline.”
Ravens mentor John Harbaugh was requested no matter if there was any discussion of supplying the ball to Dobbins or working back again Gus Edwards instead of likely with the quarterback sneak.
“We felt like we experienced a fantastic simply call it was a force-sneak participate in. It wasn’t executed just the accurate way,” Harbaugh reported. “Tyler went over the top rated. That’s a ‘burrow’ engage in he has to go very low on that. Which is the way the participate in is developed. We felt like that was the most effective call we just failed to execute it correct.”
A lot of Ravens gamers claimed they didn’t consider about no matter whether they would have won if their quarterback experienced been Lamar Jackson as a substitute of Huntley, who also threw an interception on the opening generate. Jackson skipped his sixth straight match with a sprained posterior cruciate ligament in his remaining knee.
Baltimore cornerback Marlon Humphrey estimated that Jackson is 50 per cent to 60 p.c nutritious.
“I just never think he truly was healthier adequate to definitely go out there,” Humphrey said of Jackson. “There was a good deal of speculation with him not having the contract. I never even know if I need to say this, but he is like limping all around the facility. Which is form of the crazy matter that individuals will not see. Of course, we understood that he was not heading to be out there with us, but hopefully, we indication him to a massive-time period deal and he is a Raven with me without end.”
Dobbins failed to hold back on how a lot the return of Jackson would’ve impacted Sunday’s playoff sport, either.
“If we might have had Lamar, we’d have received as well,” Dobbins reported.
