As good as Ravens rookie vast receiver Zay Flowers has been this season, there’s one space he can nonetheless enhance within the eyes of his quarterback.
Touchdown celebrations.
After scoring the second landing of his NFL profession — and his first on American soil — on a 3-yard cross from Lamar Jackson within the second quarter of Sunday night time’s 20-10 win over the host Los Angeles Chargers, Flowers flipped the ball over his head as if it have been a bouquet of flowers, mimicking the normal post-wedding celebration. Left guard John Simpson caught the ball and handed it to vast receiver Rashod Bateman, who obtained down on one knee for a mock proposal.
The scene didn’t impress Jackson, who was caught on NBC’s tv cameras with a deadpan response as Flowers defined the choreography.
“I told him I didn’t know what was going on,” Jackson stated. “I was just standing there like, all right, come along with it, and then I seen what happened and I was like, yeah, that was a—. But I told him that. I’m like, ‘That was the worst celebration I’ve ever seen.’ But he scored, so I’m good. I was still happy.”
Flowers didn’t want to attend lengthy for an opportunity at redemption.
After the Ravens compelled a turnover on downs to protect a 13-10 lead, they confronted third-and-3 from the Chargers’ 37-yard line with 1:36 left within the sport. The rookie took a jet sweep handoff from Jackson across the left edge, broke a deal with and raced for a landing to seal the victory. This time, he channeled Cristiano Ronaldo by blasting a pretend penalty kick previous “goalie” Odell Beckham Jr. and doing the soccer star’s well-known “Siu” celebration.
That landing didn’t come with out its personal controversy among the many Ravens gamers, both. Safety Kyle Hamilton stated the protection was a little “salty” that Flowers didn’t give himself up after choosing up the primary down, which might have allowed the Ravens to expire the remainder of the clock. Instead, the protection went again on the sphere and compelled one other turnover on downs, as Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert’s cross on fourth-and-19 from his personal 37 fell incomplete with 57 seconds left.
As a first-round draft choose who leads the staff in catches and receiving yards, Flowers has supplied only a few causes for criticism — particularly after he wildly outperformed the receiver taken one choose forward of him, Los Angeles’ Quentin Johnston, on Sunday night time. But in terms of celebrating touchdowns, there’s at all times room for enchancment.
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