Ravens, Bengals meet again in a rematch of their overtime thriller from last month

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Ravens, Bengals meet again in a rematch of their overtime thriller from last month

2024-11-07 03:55 Last Updated At：04:01

Cincinnati (4-5) at Baltimore (6-3)

Thursday, 8:15 p.m. EST, Amazon Prime.

BetMGM NFL Odds: Ravens by 6 1/2.

Against the spread: Bengals 5-4; Ravens 5-3-1.

Series record: Ravens lead 31-27.

Last meeting: Ravens won 41-38 in OT at Cincinnati on Oct. 6, 2024.

Last week: Bengals beat Raiders 41-24; Ravens beat Broncos 41-10.

Bengals offense: overall (17), rush (27), pass (7), scoring (7).

Bengals defense: overall (19), rush (18), pass (17), scoring (25).

Ravens offense: overall (1), rush (1), pass (3), scoring (2).

Ravens defense: overall (21), rush (1), pass (32), scoring (23).

Turnover differential: Bengals plus-1; Ravens plus-3.

DE Trey Hendrickson had four sacks last week, bringing his season total to an NFL-best 11. Now the question is whether he can chase down Ravens QB Lamar Jackson.

WR Zay Flowers was impressive as a rookie and has taken another step forward in his second season. He's surpassed 100 yards receiving in four of his past five games.

Ravens RB Derrick Henry vs. the Cincinnati defensive front. The Bengals did a decent job against Henry in the first meeting between the teams — until overtime, when the powerful running back broke free for a 51-yard run to set up the winning field goal.

Bengals: WR Tee Higgins has missed two games with a quad injury after missing two earlier in the season with a hamstring issue. ... OT Orlando Brown has missed two games with a right knee injury. .... TE Erick All Jr. injured his knee Sunday and went on IR.

Ravens: Jackson (knee) missed a couple of practices last week, but was excellent in the win over Denver. He also missed practice Tuesday, but is expected to play against Cincinnati.

Baltimore has won the past three meetings. ... Both defenses had their problems in last month's matchup. Cincinnati scored TDs on four straight possessions before a late INT allowed Baltimore to force OT. The Ravens scored on five of their six post-halftime possessions.

The Bengals got their first home win Sunday of the season against the Raiders. … Burrow had one of his best performances of the season, going 27 for 39 for 251 yards. He threw five touchdowns for the second time this season. … Cincinnati's Chase Brown had a career-best 120 yards rushing. … The 130 yards rushing was the Bengals' best mark since they had 141 against Carolina on Sept. 29. … Cincinnati’s four wins have all come against sub-.500 teams. … Bengals star WR Ja’Marr Chase is first in the NFL with seven touchdown catches, second with 717 yards receiving and tied for third with 55 catches. … LB Germaine Pratt leads Cincinnati with 47 tackles. ... Baltimore is 21-3 at home in prime time under coach John Harbaugh, the best record in the league. That includes an 8-0 mark on “Thursday Night Football.” ... The Ravens have averaged at least 6.0 yards per play in all nine games, tying the 2000 Rams for the longest streak in a season. ... Baltimore has rushed for at least 100 yards in 42 consecutive games. The NFL record is 43 by Pittsburgh (1974-77) and Baltimore (2018-21). ... Jackson produced a perfect passer rating last week. He's done that a record four times. ... Jackson has led his team in yards passing and rushing 39 times. The record is 40 by Cam Newton. ... Jackson has thrown 20 TD passes and two interceptions on the season. He's the fifth QB in NFL history with at least 20 TD passes and two or fewer INTs through nine games, joining Tom Brady (2016), Drew Brees (2018), Russell Wilson (2019) and Patrick Mahomes (2020). ... Baltimore has produced a league-high 48 plays of at least 20 yards — 15 runs and 33 passes. ... The Ravens have been outscored 93-61 in the fourth quarter.

It's hard to go wrong with any offensive player in this matchup, but Henry in particular has been a fantasy star, scoring in every game this season.

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AP VoteCast: Voter anxiety over the economy and a desire for change return Trump to the White House

2024-11-07 03:58 Last Updated At：04:00

WASHINGTON (AP) — A disaffected electorate wanted former President Donald Trump to return to the White House, a blatant rejection of Vice President Kamala Harris and her nearly four years with President Joe Biden.

The Republican’s victory came from a public so put off by America’s trajectory that they welcomed his brash and disruptive approach. About 3 in 10 voters said they wanted total upheaval in how the country is run, according to AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide. Even if they weren’t looking for something that dramatic, more than half of voters overall said they wanted to see substantial change.

Both nationwide and in key battleground states, the Republican won over voters who were alarmed about the economy and prioritized more aggressive enforcement of immigration laws. Those issues largely overshadowed many voters’ focus on the future of democracy and abortion protections — key priorities for Harris’ voters, but not enough to turn the election in her favor.

Trump’s victory, however, wasn’t a total mandate. Even as Trump prevailed in the electoral college, there were concerns about how he could wield his power. Most voters said they were very or somewhat concerned that electing Trump would bring the U.S. closer to being an authoritarian country, where a single leader has unchecked power. Still, more than 1 in 10 of those voters backed him.

Anxiety about inflation was high nationally, and voters broadly believed that Trump would be better equipped than Harris to handle the economy and jobs. The key swing states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin largely mirrored the mood of the nation.

The share of voters who said their family’s financial situation was “falling behind” rose to about 3 in 10, up from roughly 2 in 10 in the last presidential election. Many voters were still reeling from inflation that spiked to a four-decade high in June 2022. About 9 in 10 voters were very or somewhat concerned about the cost of groceries, and about 8 in 10 were concerned about their health care costs, their housing costs or the cost of gas.

Trump picked up a small but significant share of younger voters, Black voters and Hispanic voters, many of whom were feeling down about the economy. Majorities of younger Black voters and Latino voters said the economy is not working well.

The economy carried more prominence than in the 2020 election, including for these groups. Four years ago, COVID-19 and racism were important issues for Black and Latino voters. But this time, they were more focused on the economy, and Trump managed to make inroads with both groups even as the majority stayed with Harris.

Among voters under 30, slightly less than half went for Trump, an improvement from his 2020 performance. About three-quarters of young voters said the country was headed in the wrong direction, and roughly one-third said they wanted complete and total upheaval to how the country is run.

There was also a divide between young men and women on which candidate they backed. About 6 in 10 women between 18 to 29 voted for Harris, and more than half of men in that age group backed Trump.

Voters were more likely to embrace hardline immigration policies than they were four years ago, which aligned with Trump’s tough approach.

About 4 in 10 voters said that immigrants living in the U.S. illegally should be deported to the country they came from, up from about 3 in 10 in 2020. And while most voters said that immigrants living in the U.S. illegally should be offered a chance to apply for legal status, that was down from 2020.

Trump has seized on an increase in illegal crossings at the U.S. border with Mexico as a driver of crime and falsely accused Haitian immigrants in Ohio of eating dogs and cats. That position may have echoed in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin – three states far from the southern border where at least three-quarters of Trump voters said they supported deportation over a chance to apply for legal status.

Trump’s return to the White House will likely challenge the established global order, as he has questioned the commitment to defend fellow NATO counties and called for large tariff hikes on allies as well as competitors. Voters were more likely than in 2020 to adopt many of Trump’s isolationist stances. About 4 in 10 voters wanted the U.S. to take a “less active role” in solving the world’s problems, up from about 3 in 10 in 2020.

Most of Trump’s supporters opposed continuing aid to Ukraine in the war against Russia, undoing a Biden administration policy that had strengthened and expanded NATO. But there were limits to their isolationist stance: A majority of Trump voters separately favored continuing aiding Israel in its war against Hamas and Hezbollah.

Some of Trump's voters acknowledged his flaws even as they chose to send him back to Washington.

Nearly half of voters said they were “very concerned” that another Trump presidency would bring the U.S. closer to authoritarianism. Roughly 1 in 10 in this group voted for him anyway. About 6 in 10 voters said he is not honest and trustworthy, but about 2 in 10 in this group backed him. A majority of voters said he does not have the moral character to be president, and about 1 in 10 of those voters supported him.

For all his promises, Trump will likely find it challenging to endow the nation as a whole with a new sense of unity and optimism. Asked if he would bring positive change, voters were about evenly split.

AP Polling Editor Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and AP reporter Hannah Fingerhut contributed to this report.

AP VoteCast is a survey of the American electorate conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for Fox News, PBS NewsHour, The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press. The survey of more than 120,000 voters was conducted for eight days, concluding as polls closed. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish. The survey combines a random sample of registered voters drawn from state voter files; self-identified registered voters using NORC’s probability based AmeriSpeak panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population; and self-identified registered voters selected from nonprobability online panels. The margin of sampling error for voters is estimated to be plus or minus 0.4 percentage points. Find more details about APVoteCast’s methodology at https://ap.org/votecast.