 It's not about how you start but it's about how you finish and to cap off this 2020 season the Ravens finished against the Bengals and they finished in a major way but before we get into this of course y'all know this is my post game thoughts where we talk about the previous game in this case the Ravens and the Bengals and y'all know we do the live streams after every single Ravens game but not everybody can be a part of those live and not everybody can rewatch those because we can go on for a while so these are the more condensed versions of those and this this is all for y'all man I appreciate y'all thank y'all for making this such a fun season we had a whole lot of fun whether the Ravens won whether the Ravens lost I just I appreciate y'all a lot man thank you for making team keep it clean what it is thank you for just helping it grow and being a part of the growth so thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you this has been a super fun season and we ain't done yet that's the best part about it we ain't done yet oh that's a beautiful thing so Ravens of course they play the Titans next week at 1 p.m. on Sunday just in case any y'all hadn't heard it already I'm sure you have by now but that's the schedule anyway in this game just to start off with Lamar Jackson Lamar Jackson he he's just continued to be amazing man he has continued to be amazing yes he did have a couple of hiccups this game back-to-back where hunt their defensive linemen tip to his passes in a row the second one ended up being an interception but besides that Lamar Jackson he was on point throwing that ball all over the field getting the different guys involved now he only did complete 10 passes but he threw three touchdowns and he ran for I think what 97 yards I believe so Lamar is he contributes in so many different ways and as we know just a threat of him it helps the running backs be even better even better because defense has got to worry about Lamar taking off too and we know how much of a special player he is but we see more and more of it every week when he's making guys miss when he's completing these crazy passes and whatnot we just it gives you that much more of an appreciation for one Lamar Jackson so shout out to him shout out to the Ravens for allowing him to play his game shout out to him for playing his game and what we've been talking about every week especially the post non-team keep it clean Lamar ever since he came back from missing that Steelers game he has just been on another level before the Steelers game he was sort of like this throughout the season but after he missed that Steelers game and came back it's just been it's been up it's been straight up he's been doing great JK Dobbins in this game beautiful beautiful game from him he continues to establish himself as a feature back Gus Ellis in this game that the usual the usual Gus Ellis is just so powerful man and even Mark Ingram he got a little piece of the pie to Justice Hill got a little bit duvanae of course y'all know the play that they run with duvanae but yeah they they all did that thing the running game if they ran for 404 yards they were like 25 yards I think away from the record but it's okay as long as they got a win in that record today that's all that matters moving to the passing game Hollywood he had two touchdowns today which is a beautiful thing one of those touchdowns came when he was in the slot and another touchdown came from him just not giving up on the play while Lamar was running Hollywood was running they were both running to the right Lamar hit him in stride boom back in zone touchdown so it was nice to just it's been nice to see that chemistry continue to come through especially when we needed to the most then Miles Boykin Miles Boykin I was really happy for him especially happy that Lamar hit him in stride on that play Lamar trusted him and he delivered and we've been seeing how recently those two that their chemistry is getting a lot better and they've been on the same page a lot more when it comes to the passing game and then that's very important because you need everybody clicking on all cylinders the offensive line in this game they they did a really good job it was interesting with the Ravens deciding to go with Tristan Cologne Castillo over Matt Scurra and I think that really says where the Ravens stand with Matt Scurra moving forward so with Tristan Cologne Castillo he did a great job as he did when he went against the Steelers he did a phenomenal job then and he continued that and the offensive line overall I mean you think they did pretty good if they ran for 404 yards because this all starts with the offensive line it all starts with them if they have a bad day everybody has a bad day so shout out to the offensive line now Greg Roman Greg Roman in this game again for the most part for about 99% of the game he did a great job 99% of the game just that 1% was that one play on that first drive where it was third and 10 and they did the Lamar keeper I just I didn't like that at all wasn't feeling that at all but overall it was a really good game he got different guys involved and that's what you got to do again using all your weapons to make your offense that much more dangerous now defense defense in this game they got two interceptions Chuck Clark he had one of them Marcus Peters he had the other one and the defense they did a little bit of bending but they didn't break it all even with their backs against the wall after two really bad passing affairs calls on Marcus Peters I really thought they were gonna get a touchdown I thought they were gonna I knew they were gonna force for you AJ Green to touchdown since that's his last game but Raven say no we ain't going out like that we don't care if it's AJ Green last game we don't care if it's his first game we don't care we not going out like that and Marcus Peters ended up getting that pic almost all they should have been a pic six but he was like you know whatever it is what it is and it was a beautiful thing to have him back thought we were gonna get Jimmy back for this game but it's okay they obviously didn't need him yet Marlin Humphrey he had a pretty quiet game but that's a good thing for a cornerback it's a real good thing if you having a quiet game because the Sean Elliott he was quiet this game as well Chuck Clark was pretty quiet for the longest until he got his interception but it wasn't a bad quiet for those guys Anthony Avery he is somebody that has been coming to his own he got some guys some real good guys in front of him that he's been learning from but now he's been he been holding it down to he's found himself in position a lot more over the past couple of weeks than out of position when it comes to making plays on the ball so Anthony Avery's game it is it has stepped up a lot so shout out to him glad he's been doing a great job now to pass rushing this game we saw some glimpses here and there of the good past rush but it wasn't consistent didn't need to be but it wasn't consistent this is sometimes with Bowser would be chasing a little bit with Jude on would be but they just couldn't get there but again they didn't need to now with wink one thing that I want to point out that I loved in this game is that wink he had the cornerbacks pressing he had those cornerbacks manned up they were right in front of their receiver jamming them at the line and I love that I love that because we've seen so many games with a receipt or with a cornerbacks excuse me a back way off of the receivers and they have all this space to work underneath but wink said no y'all are playing up on these boys today and they did a phenomenal job one thing that I noticed from this this team today and it's something that we talked about in the preview was them wrapping up they did a pretty good job tackling and the effort the effort was there from all three phases of the game there was one play where I believe it was Giovanni Bernard but maybe it was a different running back where he broke he broke for a long run and it could have been a touchdown and he ran past Marlon Humphrey initially but Humphrey was like hold up I'm a track star and he hawked them down and caught them and and it's plays like that they make such a big difference because again bingles didn't score a touchdown had Marlon Humphrey given up on that play we could have been having a whole another conversation right now about the score think the game still would have been the same but it would have been a whole different score but shout out to Humphrey not giving up Patrick Queen there was a play where you could just he was feeling it man and they needed this they needed this but he burst through the backfield and tackled the running back in the backfield and it was just a beautiful thing him and Jude on on that same play they both did and we need that that confidence booster going into this Titans game next week they need that confidence booster so and I'm glad that the Ravens took care of business in this game the way that they did because something that we also talked about in the preview I did expect them to win and I expected to win by 21 or more and they did more than that but it would have been very questionable if this Ravens team if they were to struggle with these bingles if they would struggle with these bingles it would have been pretty scary and my guy Josh Hoffman made a very good point and he and he worded it best he said if these Ravens if they would have struggled with the bingles then what would they do in the playoffs what would they have done in the playoffs but they took care of business and just because they took care of business in a major way does not guarantee that they would do the same thing in the playoffs to the Titans but it does set them up a lot better in the playoffs than had they just barely come out of this game against the bingles so Ravens closed it out man they took care of their business they did what they had to do and they closed it out and that's so important again it's not how you start it's how you finish throughout this season the Ravens have had plenty of tough games they've had plenty of games where a lot went their way and then some other ones where didn't so much go their way but they're here now 11 and five they made it out this first part but now it's about to get that much tougher now it's about to get that much more difficult now it's about to get that much more harder but this is what they built for this is what they built for and these guys they got everything they need to get it done now it's just a matter of doing it team keep it clean I love y'all I appreciate y'all again thank you for making this such a great year and let's see what these Ravens got in store for us in these playoffs appreciate y'all