With 10 seconds left in the game and the Ravens trailing the Chiefs, 27-20, Lamar Jackson scrambled, desperately looking for a receiver in the end zone.
Zay Flowers was wide open after finding a gap in the zone defense, but the pass was nowhere near him. Lamar Jackson told reporters that Rashod Bateman was his intended receiver on the errant throw with Zay Flowers wide open.“I see Bateman flying across, so I’m thinking Bateman is about to stop, and as I’m throwing the ball, I see Flowers, and I’m like ,” Jackson said in the postgame press conference. “That wasn’t intended for Zay Flowers.
“I was teed off about that because I was like if I held onto that a little bit more, I would’ve just fired it to Zay for a touchdown,” Jackson said. “When I threw the ball, Zay, I was like I wanna say something else, s–t happens.”Bateman gets a ton of credit for connecting on a wild 38-yard pass play to get Baltimore to the 10-yard line with three shots at the end zone.
The first crack saw Jackson miss another throw, this one to Isaiah Likely who was open in the back left corner of the end zone.After the Flowers miss, Jackson again targeted Likely and this time the tight end came down with the football but with his toe on the out-of-bounds line. Had the Ravens scored, coach John Harbaugh indicated they would’ve gone for a two-point conversion to win the game.Baltimore can pick up the pieces of a brutal loss with a home date against the Raiders in Week 2.See All ColumnistsLamar Jackson told reporters that Rashod Bateman was his intended receiver on the errant throw with Zay Flowers wide open.
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