NFL Sunday takeaways: Dolphins, Tua Tagovailoa stun Ravens in comeback win
Tagovailoa’s seven-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jaylen Waddle with 14 seconds left gave the Dolphins a lead. The Ravens took a 38-35 lead with 2:18 left on kicker Justin Tucker’s 51-yard field goal.
Tagovailoa had six touchdown passes and threw for 469 yards. He also threw two interceptions.
Waddle had 11 catches for 171 yards and two touchdowns. Fellow wideout Tyreke Hill had 11 catches for 190 yards and two touchdowns. Tagovailoa had touchdown passes of 48 and 60 yards to Hill as the Dolphins rallied to tie the game at 35 with just over five minutes remaining.
Jackson threw three touchdown passes, including a 75-yard strike to wide receiver Rashod Bateman, in a 29-for-21, 318-yard showing. His passer rating was 142.6, just shy of a 158.3 mark. He added 119 rushing yards, 79 of them on a third-quarter touchdown dash. It was the longest streak of Jackson’s NFL career.
He set a league record for a quarterback with his 11th career 100-yard rushing game, and became the first quarterback in NFL history to have a touchdown pass of at least 75 yards in a single game. And there’s a touchdown run.
The former league MVP is doing wonders early in the season after failing to reach an agreement with the Ravens on a contract extension before Opening Day. The crowd chanted, “MVP! MVP!” When Jackson’s rushing record was announced late in the third quarter.
The Ravens’ record fell to 1-1.
Lamar Jackson is perfect in the first half as the Ravens put it on him.
BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Ravens, looking to start the season 2-0, got a pair of quick strike touchdowns to lead the Miami Dolphins 28-7 at halftime at M&T Bank Stadium.
The Ravens had a 13-second touchdown drive, as Devin DuVernay went 103 yards on the game’s opening kickoff, and a 10-second touchdown drive, on a 75-yard catch and run by wide receiver Rashod Bateman. Run by Quarterback Lamar Jackson threw one-yard touchdown passes to Mark Andrews and 12 yards to DeMarcus Robinson.
Jackson had an excellent passer rating of 158.3 in the first half. He completed 11 of 13 passes for 210 yards and three touchdowns.
Another touchdown for the Ravens was overturned on instant replay review that showed Jackson was shy of the goal line. The Ravens lost a fumble on a fourth down attempt from inside the 1-yard line on the following play.
Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa threw a six-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jaylen Waddle but also threw a pair of interceptions in the first half.
Alvin Kumara is inactive as the Saints face the Buccaneers.
The New Orleans Saints will be without tailback Alvin Kamara as they host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an early afternoon game on Sunday.
The Saints placed Kumara on their gameday inactive list. He was listed as questionable on the injury report because of a rib injury.
Quarterback Jameis Winston will play for the Saints as they try to defeat the Buccaneers for the seventh straight season meeting. Winston was listed as questionable on the injury report due to a back injury. Winston is playing with four fractures in his back. Fox reported..
Jameis Winston is playing today with 4 fractures in his back from L1 to L4. Playing in a lot of pain with extra padding to protect the area but still playing @NFLonFOX
— Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) 18 September 2022
The Buccaneers will be minus wide receiver Julio Jones. He is on the inactive list after being listed as questionable on the injury report due to a knee injury. Jones joins fellow wideout Chris Godwin, who is inactive after previously being sidelined with a hamstring injury. Tailback Leonard Fournette and wide receivers Mike Evans, Russell Gage and Breshad Perryman are active for the Buccaneers and will play after all were listed as questionable.
In Baltimore, Ravens cornerback Marcus Peters is active and expected to make his season opener. He missed all of last season with a torn ACL in his knee.
Tailback JK Dobbins and left tackle Ronnie Stanley are on the Ravens’ inactive list. Patrick Macari is expected to start at left tackle in Sunday’s early afternoon game against the Miami Dolphins.
Tyrod Taylor sues Chargers doctor over 2020 injection
Former Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Tyrod Taylor filed a lawsuit last year seeking damages from the doctor who administered a painkiller injection that caused Taylor to have a collapsed lung in September 2020. was faced with collapse.
Taylor, now with the New York Giants, filed the lawsuit in May 2021 in California Superior Court for Los Angeles County. The lawsuit accuses David S. Gazzaniga and Newport Orthopedic Institute of negligence, medical malpractice and medical battery and seeks at least $5 million in damages.
“As a direct and legal consequence of the negligent, negligent and other tortious, unlawful and wrongful acts and conduct of the defendants … plaintiff Taylor was prevented from pursuing his profession as an NFL starting quarterback and /or was limited, and thereby suffered damages. Past and future loss of earnings and diminished earning capacity; Plaintiff’s injuries caused him to be the starting quarterback of the Los Angeles Chargers for the 2020 NFL season. but lost his position,” the lawsuit says. “Plaintiff’s contract with the Los Angeles Chargers expired in 2020 and as soon as he returned to free agency, he entered as a backup quarterback as opposed to a starting quarterback. The starting quarterback’s salary and the backup quarterback’s salary.” The economic difference between the salary is at least $5,000,000.00 and more than likely.
Gazzaniga administered painkiller injections to Taylor before a game at SoFi Stadium on September 20, 2020 after Taylor suffered a rib fracture a week earlier. According to the lawsuit, Taylor experienced “unusual pain” after returning to the field and “reported numbness traveling toward his collarbone.” He consulted Gazzaniga and had an X-ray done. According to the lawsuit, Taylor was transported to the hospital by ambulance at the recommendation of other medical personnel. Tests there revealed a pneumothorax, or collapsed lung.
“Dr. Gazzaniga’s failure to create, follow, and/or maintain an appropriate, consistent protocol for injecting local anesthetics, including administering large volumes of anesthetic with low percentages, and procedures; including, but not limited to, administration without proper guidance, including but not limited to radiological imaging of the areas around Mr. Taylor’s ribs, and the timely recognition, diagnosis, and subsequent pneumothorax that Taylor developed. And failing to treat, and causing Taylor severe pain and suffering, Taylor’s lawsuit says.
According to ESPN, which first reported the lawsuit on Sunday, Gazzaniga is involved in caring for Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert, who suffered a rib injury during Thursday night’s loss at Kansas City. Coach Brandon Staley announced Friday that Herbert suffered a fractured rib cartilage, and that Herbert’s playing status is improving day by day. Herbert replaces Taylor as the Chargers’ starter in 2020 with a pain-killing injection.
The Chargers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After the opening weekend craziness, the season begins for real.
Now that the second Sunday of the regular season has arrived, the NFL season can begin for real.
The opening weekend of the season could prove to be a mirage. That’s especially true now that some view the opening weeks of the long, 17-game regular season as, in effect, the new preseason. Many coaches are increasingly wary of playing starting quarterbacks and other key players during the actual preseason, meaning those players must shake off the rust from their games once the regular season begins. That could lead to some lopsided games — and misleading results — in Week 1.
The Los Angeles Rams, the defending Super Bowl champions, The NFL lost its season-opening game.. At least they had a good excuse, given that they were facing a team that many see as this season’s Super Bowl favorite, the Buffalo Bills.
The Green Bay Packers, Cincinnati Bengals, Tennessee Titans, New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers all lost last Sunday, with results that were met with varying degrees of surprise. The Denver Broncos began the Russell Wilson era. Monday night loss in Seattle To the quarterback’s former team, the Seahawks.
So it’s going to be a bounce-back for these teams on Sunday, or at least they hope. The Patriots play at Pittsburgh in the early afternoon. The Rams, 49ers, Bengals and Broncos are part of the late afternoon slate. The Packers host the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field on Sunday night. (The Titans don’t play at Buffalo until Monday evening.)
This is familiar territory for quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. Recall that last season, Rodgers threw two interceptions, and the Saints outscored the Packers 38-3. The opening game was moved. Jacksonville, Fla., due to Hurricane Ida’s impact on New Orleans. Despite this, the Packers won their next seven games during the regular season for a 13–4 record and the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs. Rogers saved it. Second straight league MVP award.
The Titans, likewise, were the top seed in the AFC playoffs last season despite opening with a 38-13 loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
So as Rodgers famously once instructed Packers fans in a supposedly dire situation that wasn’t so insurmountable: RELAX.
For some teams, it can start to feel too early late in the season. Not only did the Dallas Cowboys lose their opener to the Buccaneers; They also lost quarterback Dak Prescott. On a thumb injury which required surgery. They will have Cooper Rush at quarterback on Sunday when they host the Bengals. Niners quarterback Trae Lance struggled mightily in wet, sloppy conditions at Soldier Field in last weekend’s loss to the Bears. He’ll need a better performance Sunday at home against the Seahawks to further fuel speculation that Jimmy Garoppolo is back.
So, as always in the NFL, there’s a lot at stake on Sunday. An 0-1 start? This could very well be a drawback. But an 0-2 start? Well, it might just be a trend.