If there were a documentary about the Baltimore Ravens’ 35-10 beatdown of the Buffalo Bills Sunday night, it’d be titled “Untouched.”
Untouched is how Derrick Henry started the night, blasting 87 yards on the Ravens’ first play from scrimmage for the longest rush in club history. Lamar Jackson said after the win that he thought it could have been a big play based on the Bills’ pre-snap alignment.
“Yes, just watching film and reading the front, we kind of knew what the defense would do,” Jackson said via the team’s official transcript. “Like I said, the offensive line [was] giving him a lane, and the receivers and tight ends [were] blocking down field and then Derrick just doing what he [does]. Like I said last week, if he gets in the secondary, he’s pretty much gone. It’s hard to catch him, because he’s fast. He’s not just a powerful back. He’s also fast, and he showed it on that first possession for the offense.”
“I kind of saw it, too,” added Henry of the TD. “I was like, ‘I’m just going to see it and burst over the open — hit it — and get north and south.'”
