DENVER — Late in the week, Von Miller likened the Broncos' Week 4 matchup with the Ravens to an early-season playoff game.
In true postseason conditions, Denver would not have advanced, as the Broncos fell 23-7 to the Ravens and dropped from the undefeated ranks.
Denver's offense struggled for much of the game — especially after losing quarterback Teddy Bridgewater — and the defense could not prevent Lamar Jackson, Mark Andrews and Marquise "Hollywood" Brown from making their share of plays.
The Broncos jumped ahead early in the second quarter on a short touchdown pass from Bridgewater to Noah Fant, but the lead could have been even larger, as tight end Albert Okwuegbunam dropped a pass down the right sideline that would have resulted in a touchdown.
Following the Broncos' initial touchdown drive, the Ravens rebounded quickly on an eight-play, 75-yard drive to tie the score. Then, after the Broncos went three-and-out, the Ravens made their biggest play of the afternoon. On second-and-10 from the Denver 49, Jackson found a diving Brown for a 49-yard touchdown that gave Baltimore the lead for good.
"He stemmed for the outside and that's my leverage, and it [was] miscommunication with Kareem [Jackson]," Justin Simmons said. "I expected some post help, but that's why I'm so big on — I'm talking about it every week — communication. And there's a few communication mishaps within the secondary team like that, and a guy like Lamar who can create the scramble, plays like that will happen. So, you've got to clean up the communication."
Denver's offense couldn't muster many drives with Bridgewater still in the game, and the task got tougher in the second half after he suffered a concussion on the final offensive play of the first half. Bridgewater took a helmet-to-helmet hit on the play from Baltimore's Odafe Oweh, but the Ravens were not whistled for a penalty. Bridgewater was replaced by Drew Lock, who played the entire second half.
"Well I think his performance was just like the rest of the offense," Head Coach Vic Fangio said of the offense. "We just weren't good enough today after the one touchdown we got, and we really couldn't get anything going. We weren't getting it going with Teddy either after the touchdown drive, so I think it's more of a collective thing offensively than a quarterback thing."
The Broncos' defense only allowed three points in the second half prior to the final moments, but Denver ultimately didn't have enough offensive firepower to overcome their largest deficit of the season.
"It's unfortunate seeing Teddy go down, but as a defense, it's a chance for us," Simmons said. "Teddy is out and we see that Drew is in. Let's help him here. Let's give him a short field and get a takeaway. Let's get a three-and-out, have them backed up and hopefully you get good field position. Defensively, those are the things you talk about on the sideline and that you're focused on throughout the game. I just don't think we did enough to be able to help him towards the end of the game."
With the loss, the Broncos fell to 3-1 on the season with a trip to Pittsburgh awaiting the group in Week 5.
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