2000-09-10 Jacksonville Jaguars vs Baltimore Ravens

[@travismannix5178]

Jimmy Smith 15 catches 291 3 TDs Nine 1,000 yd seasons he's literally the most underrated WR of all time

[@отпирайте]

Travis Mannix against the greatest defense of all time

[@slofever512]

@@отпирайте exactly lol

[@codyviera92]

Never even heard of him but he has the highest ever fabtasy score for a nfl wide out. Crazy had to look him up to believe it

[@mards2479]

sterling sharpe, jimmy smith, derrick mason, my 3 most underrated all time.

[@d-mo733]

Greatest def of 2000s maybe..Couldnt compete with 70s Steelers! 1 SB isnt enough to call best ever. Id rank em in top 5 but Pitt had the most vicious and unstoppable Def! ALSO, Pitt Def played in REAL FB days and not this touch football crap of today. 2000 wasnt as bad as today but was still watered down. Best def of last 25 yrs tho

[@paulkearney7077]

This was my first ever live NFL game. Even after going to more Ravens games than I can count, I have yet to attend a better one than this.

[@MatthewDaSmitdog]

Criminally underrated game as far as impact on legacy goes for both clubs. Practical 180 degree turns for both the Jags and Birds after this one. It was that huge.

[@Eli-ss9gj]

@@MatthewDaSmitdogI’d argue that the Ravens don’t win the Super Bowl if they don’t win this game, it was that defining.

[@joeshipley666]

I'll never forget being at this game with my Dad and Brother. It was an unreal experience.

[@bacchys]

Tony Banks's finest hour as a Raven.

[@chrismacola9945]

This was the first Ravens game I ever attended. Before that year I wasn't even interested in football. I decided that year that I was going to get into it because everyone else I knew was into it. What a game that was to attend. I really do think this was the best game I ever attended and I had season tickets for seven years after this. Incredible game! I'll never forget it. Everyone was yelling "Here we go Ravens, here we go" as we were all exiting the stadium. It was loud! I was hooked.

[@jasonc9722]

Uncle Verne's final NFL game - he worked the first two weekends while Enberg was at the US Open and the next weekend started his legendary run calling SEC games with that year's Florida-Tennessee game. The rest is history.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

He actually called one more game- Patriots/Bills week 1 2003

[@JaegarLourdesHeathman]

C. K. No his last one was the Denver Broncos Miami Dolphins game week one 2005

[@okaybye75]

Who else misses the Ravens jAgs rivalry from 96 to 2001 they had some epic battles. Ravens always lost in heartbreaking fashion until 2000 when they got over the hump and beat jags for the first time twice actually. Ravens won Superbowl that year as well something jags never did even though they had great teams but couldn't get passed afc championship game.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

That early window that day was GREAT. As this was going on, my Raiders were coming back from 24-7 down against Manning and the Colts to win 38-31 with Rich Gannon running for three TDs (and the team with five total). And Tennessee came back late to tie in regulation, then beat the Chiefs 17-14 in OT.

[@ajbahus]

Jimmy Smith put up Madden numbers that game. Even more impressive was that it was against that Ravens D.

[@ceeeej4765]

And little over a decade later, the Ravens draft his defensive counterpart lol

[@dp233332]

@@ceeeej4765 the ravens CB Duane Starks was matched up with Smith and wasnt anywhere near as good as people thought, gave up about 140yds and 3tds to Smith on 3 plays alone. Pats brought Starks in to replace Ty Law in 2005-06 and it was a disaster...he was benched permanently for incompetence by midseason

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

@@dp233332 Yes, he was so trash that teams picked on him...to the tune of scoring 7.6 points per game in the other 19 games the Ravens played that year. Jimmy Smith was just THAT GOOD.

[@dp233332]

@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 Jimmy Smith was exceptional, but I watched Dunae Starks prove he was below avg at best as a Patriot...the team tried to replace ty law with him and it was an unmitigated disaster the 2ndary didnt stop being a flamboyant liability that yr until they took him off the field for the rest of the season...Its not that hard to look good at CB when you have the front 7 that he had in Baltimore as well as C.MCalister and Rod Woodson in the 2ndary...That defense was absolutely loaded upfront, great linebackers & linemen and significant depth on every level...You cant control who you play and you have to give em credit for what they did against who they facedm but as far as ppg allowed was concerned look at who they played that yr-the bengals twice the browns twice kordells steelers...as great as they were the titans werent exactly the highest scoring offense in league history either-they were a run 1st smashmouth offense which the ravens were tailor made to defend...Kerry Collins Giants???the only thing resembling a truly outstanding, prolific offense that they faced was the raiders but they injured gannon so early in that game that its pretty much impossible to determine what they would have otherwise held Oakland to...hate to say it but if you look hard this is very similar to the 72phins who went undefeated maybe because their schedule consisted mostly of teams who were sub500clubs that yr...I saw this play out with the 2019 Pattriots defense...The 1st half of their schedule was for the most part a joke, they faced offenses that couldnt get it done and at the halfway point of the season were on pace to smash that 2000Ravens ppg allowed record, but then the 2nd half of the season finally presented them with consistently better competition and they fell to pieces. I wont say the case is equally true of the phins or ravens, but I sure as hell wont ignore the lack of strength of their schedules 1 yr after witnessing that.

[@ajbahus]

Starks balled in the playoffs. Three interceptions in the 2000 postseason including a pick 6 in the SB. I think he also had a fumble recovery the following year in Miami for the WC game. @@dp233332

[@ORIGINALTHUNDERDUDE]

man, jimmy smith has to be the most underrated, under appreciated and overlooked WR ever to play in the NFL. I know he later became an idiot and got involved with drugs, but prior to his indiscretions, this man was a freakin' beast on the football field. he definitely is on of my favorite all-time receivers!

[@fulldrillout]

Should be a H.OF.

[@MatthewDaSmitdog]

Mmm, perhaps the off-field stuff is what's keeping him out of Canton...and that's the ultimate shame. He earned his ticket, but let his personal temptations throw that away.

[@intrnlprym84evr]

What a game

[@attackalpaca9410]

2 years earlier the Jaguars went into Baltimore and put up 42 points on the Ravens......in the first half. The Ravens were pretty awful in their first few years after moving from Cleveland but they turned things around really quick.

[@MatthewDaSmitdog]

Leave it to Marvin Lewis to turn the D around. And he did a hell of a job going through all the motions, he was coaching that D that allowed those 42 first half points...but by the end of 2000 the unit hit the ultimate payoff.

[@WHISPERED77]

As a Jaguars fan it is a crime Jimmy is not in the Hall

[@adriankendrick4281]

After this game I thought the Ravens were going to be a explosive offense but instead they became one of the best defenses of all time.

[@ceeeej4765]

Back before the realignment, and the AFC central had eleventy billion teams

[@Lewis-pr8cr]

I remember thinking after this game that Travis Taylor was going to be the next Randy Moss. Boy was I wrong(and so were the Ravens).

[@bradp1103]

he was never the same after his collarbone injury this season.

[@jiw1330164]

This game was the turning point in ravens franchise history

[@BmoreKreative320]

Davon Taylor, Ray Lewis, Jamal Lewis, McAlister, Shannon Sharpe and Tony Banks though!!!

[@MatthewDaSmitdog]

This game would change the fortunes of these franchises forever. Jacksonville was the powerhouse of the AFC Central, and Baltimore had been for the most part the cellar dweller in that very division since the franchise moved from Cleveland. The Ravens upon coming back to win...they'd win 12 games on the season, make the playoffs for the first time since relocation, and of course win Super Bowl XXXV. After that...another Super Bowl win, two all-time greats on defense in the Pro Football HOF, and today's club boasting an all-purpose superstar QB in 2019 league MVP Lamar Jackson. As for Jacksonville...7-9 in 2000, and they would not reach the playoffs again until five years later. Only two more playoff appearances after that, and a whole lot of Ls each and every year to date.

[@lewis9702]

I miss these Ravens

[@jturner2577]

12:05 Ben Coates last NFL score.

[@ajbahus]

Coates caught more passes than Shannon Sharpe in SB 35 which is a fun fact. He was banged up with the Ravens and had limited mobility but he showed up in the AFC Championship game and Super Bowl (4 catches for 54 yards in those two games).

[@donteoliver8947]

I hope they gave starks that int that was incredible 😅😅😅

[@estavenhixon4571]

Can someone put the 1999 matchup Jags vs Ravens 30-23 great game

[@carnationvideos4258]

Estaven Hixon wasn’t that a night game when Brackens picked off Banks and scored a TD at Jacksonville?

[@carnationvideos4258]

The 6-3 game too

[@bruiser4638]

How about the 1998 game Jags 45 Ravens 19

[@carnationvideos4258]

Harsh Toke That was a good game too! Darius has a good day. I think he scored a TD on defense.

[@jrfly4307]

This game shows how dominant and nasty Jimmy Smith really was ... One of the best all time WR ... He owned and destroyed that Ravens Secondary by himself. Also Fred Taylor didnt play in this one , Jags win if he does. #JagNationForLife

[@carnationvideos4258]

JR FLY why didn’t Freddie T play? Injury? And I agree bc Howard fumbled twice and Mack fumbled once.

[@rickwilliams4573]

JR FLY Should be considered one of the best..but sadly doesn't get the credit he deserves, outside of Jacksonville.

[@bradp1103]

don't think lack of offense was the problem for the jaguars here. RBs did nothing to the Ravens that year. Still the record for lowest rushing yards in a season i think. Jaguars did about all they could offensively just was a bad day for the defense and uncharacteristically great day for Ravens offense that year. Second matchup of these teams in 2000 was one of the worst-played games by both sides I've ever seen.

[@marshawnlynch6244]

@@rickwilliams4573 The cocaine issues hurt a little. Still I think during Smith's Era it's 1. Rice 2. Smith in the NFL.

[@ajbahus]

It’s surprising that the Jags couldn’t beat the Ravens at home later that year since they were in the middle of their TD drought. I remember Brunell throwing some costly picks to Woodson and Herring.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

The Ravens gave up 36 points in this game. Take this away, they allowed 145 points in the other 19 games they played, postseason included. That's 7.6 ppg. It's actually remarkable they lost four times.

[@thefrase7884]

Actually take away 21 from that 145 total. 14 of those points were scored by Tennessee’s defense and 7 were scored by the Giants special teams in the Super Bowl

[@babarazamsucks]

They were also quarterbacked by Tony Banks until Trent Dilfer stepped in.

[@davidgentry2494]

Look at the rest of the schedule. The easiest schedule in Ravens history. If the 85 Bears played that soft schedule they would of had all shutouts.

[@MattBnl2ih]

@@davidgentry2494soft schedule comes off as a pretty stupid argument when the dominance gets *more* intense in the playoffs, through the Super Bowl, don’t you think?

[@johncole273]

Let's go ravens

[@MattBnl2ih]

The 2000s ravens being forced to, and actually succeeding in coming back from a 3 possession deficit in a shootout feels so intrinsically wrong

[@codyviera92]

Why does this game look like it was filmed in the 80s? This was only 20 years ago

[@smoothALOE]

It’s not the original footage. It’s a copy of it.

[@KiloMafia9]

Duane Starks was awful in this game. Still had a great year overall

[@ajbahus]

Big in the postseason that year. I think he had 2 picks in the AFC championship game and a pick-6 in the Super Bowl.