Ravens wide receivers start the season on a high note
BALTIMORE - Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens offense got off to a real good start against the New York Jets.
The wide receivers certainly got it going. Although the Ravens typically run the ball, the pass game is what carried them Sunday.
Devin Duvernay had two touchdown catches for the first multiple TD game of his career.
And Lamar kept airing it out. Rashod Bateman caught a 55-yard strike for a score.
The Ravens receiving corps, and the passing game, is a constant subject of scrutiny. The group showed up well in Week 1.
"I'm happy for those guys, I'm proud of those guys," head coach John Harbaugh said Monday. "It's something that, I think that they were visualizing happening in the first game, for them to kind of break through in the first game and make those plays. It's a shot in the arm. So we've just got to keep building on it."
Following the game, Duvernay said all the receivers are confident in their abilities.
"We know what we're capable of," he said. "So we just focus on proving ourselves, not really trying to prove the critics wrong or anything like that."
After the road win against the Jets, the Ravens come home to face what appears to be a tougher foe, the Miami Dolphins.
It's a game you can see here on WJZ. Kickoff Sunday at 1 p.m. Our pregame show from the stadium starts Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
Will the Ravens offense get a boost from the return of running back J.K. Dobbins?
J.K. Dobbins said during an interview at Jimmy's Famous Seafood on the "Purple Playbook" show is ready to reintroduce himself to the Ravens offense
This was the first interview for the Ravens running back since the devastating knee injury that kept him out all last year.
He said he was ready to play in the opener against the Jets, but the Ravens weren't ready to clear him just yet.
But Dobbins is determined to keep on trying.
"It would mean the world to me if I can go out there this Sunday and play well in front of a full house, you know, because I haven't done that yet," Dobbins said. "You know, I haven't played in front of a full stadium in Baltimore and I hope I get to."
