Three Things to Know | Week 1 Jets vs. Ravens
Joe Flacco Starting Against Former Team; Baltimore Dealing with Injuries
Carl Lawson, Jets DL vs. Lamar Jackson
Sunday can be the primary time DE Carl Lawson will take a regular-season snap for the Jets after signing in March 2021. He ruptured his Achilles tendon that July. Lawson, who performed with the Bengals for the primary 4 seasons of his NFL career, will play former department foes in his first 4 video games in inexperienced and white. Against Baltimore, he has 1 sack and six QB hits in 7 video games, in his five video games towards Lamar Jackson.
Jackson is a risk to make a huge play every time he touches the ball. He`s the most effective NFL participant with three,000 passing yards and 1,000 dashing yards in a unmarried season (2019). The 2019 NFL MVP, however, is coming off a down season managing accidents that brought about him to overlook the very last 4 video games. He threw for 2,882 yards, sixteen TDs and a career-excessive thirteen interceptions in 12 video games. The Green & White final performed Jackson and the Ravens in 2019, greater than years earlier than Saleh turned into hired.
“Dynamic, fast, violent as a runner,” Saleh stated. “He’s were given a truly properly arm, can throw the soccer, he is were given properly objectives to throw to. He’s special. … “He’s one of the maximum dynamic soccer gamers withinside the league and he is an absolute endure to put together for, so that is the closing project and it is in Week 1. Thankfully we have got had all offseason to sort of put together. We’ll see the way it works out.”
Joe Flacco vs. Old Team
As if out of a storybook, QB Joe Flacco’s first begin in 2022 comes towards the group that drafted him in 2008. Flacco turned into named the starter on Wednesday as Zach Wilson maintains to rehab from an August knee surgery. Flacco, who began out all 163 video games he performed with the Ravens, will begin beneathneath middle for the Green & White for the 6th time in 3 seasons. In 5 starts, he is thrown for 1,139 yards, eight TDs and three INT finishing 56.1% of his passes.
“I’m truly excited for him and his opportunity,” Saleh stated. “Even at 37 I understand that it is withinside the again of his head that he is getting the threat to play Baltimore and these kind of distinct things. He’s were given to maintain to the primary aspect the primary aspect and simply do his quality and agree with his quality is ideal enough.”
Hurt Flock
The damage computer virus bit the Ravens withinside the 2021 season.
Running backs J.K. Dobbins, a second-spherical choose out of Ohio State in 2020, and Gus Edwards neglected the Aentire season with knee accidents. All-Pro CB Marcus Peters neglected all of final season after tearing his ACL in exercise main as much as Week 1 and LT Ronnie Stanley performed in a single sport earlier than he turned into close down. Dobbins, Peters and Stanley, who all currently lower back to exercise, ought to play Sunday.
“It simply relies upon on how he is doing,” Ravens HC John Harbaugh stated of Stanley. “A lot of it has to do with how he is feeling and if he is geared up to go. If he feels strong, if he is transferring and appears like he may be a hit and if we see what we want to see. Same aspect with J.K., Marcus or any of these guys.”
