CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Baltimore Ravens brought a “Hurricane” to the shores of Lake Erie on Sunday evening.
That’s the play call for the Ravens’ fake tush push that they used against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. It worked to perfection, giving them a 35-yard TD run by tight end Mark Andrews off a direct snap.
With the score, the Ravens to pulled ahead with only 2:31 remaining in the game, and ultimately beat Cleveland 23-16.
“You think sneak in those situations and we just got to be ready in all phases,” Browns linebacker Carson Schwesinger said. “It’s a hard play to stop, especially when you’re trying to stop the sneak because of how that play works and just try and see anything you can that’ll give you a key that they’re not running the sneak there.”
The “tush push” is a term and short-yardage play popularized by the Philadelphia Eagles. It involves multiple offensive players physically pushing the quarterback (or in this case, a tight end) forward after the snap.
The Ravens appeared to be setting up for a variation of it from the Cleveland 35 with Andrews taking the snap directly under center and running back Derrick Henry and fullback Patrick Ricard lined up behind him.
But as Andrews received the ball, he rolled out to his right around the edge, as Ricard hit safety Grant Delpit with a block and opened up a running lane.
“I mean we were just trying to stop the QB sneak and we had two five techniques and they had a perfect play call, honestly,” Delpit said.
Schwesinger was the last line of defense, and was unable to catch Andrews as he raced down the right sideline, diving to try and tackle him in a last-ditch effort inside the Browns’ 5-yard line.
But Andrews found the end zone, and gave the Ravens the go-ahead score.
Ravens coach John Harbaugh told reporters after the game that the play could have gone in multiple directions.
“I think just the fact that we practiced it so much, and we felt good about it,” he said. “We felt like Mark would execute it well. It looked really good in practice. It was a good idea. And if you get the look you want – if they give you the sneak, you could do that. There’s other checks involved there, too, that we have. But like Mark said, we can’t say too much, but I just felt like it was going to be executed well.”
The Browns’ offense had one final chance at a two-minute drill, led by rookie QB Shedeur Sanders in the second half after Dillon Gabriel was ruled out with a concussion. But their drive stalled out at the Baltimore 25 with Sanders throwing an incompletion to tight end David Njoku on fourth-and-5.
Other than the Andrews TD, the Browns defense had a decent day. They picked off Jackson twice with Devin Bush returning his interception for a touchdown and Schwesinger turning the tide with his, recording the takeaway one snap after Sanders threw his interception. Myles Garrett also finished with 4.0 sacks, and now has 15.0 for the season.
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As for what more the Browns could have done differently on the play, it was unclear in the immediate aftermath of the loss.
“I mean, I’m not certain as to who has him in that moment,” Garrett said. “I know that we all committed on the sneak and it was a well-executed play by them and I’m not going to point the finger at anybody. I don’t know whose responsibility that was, but they had a good call for what we were in.”
It led to the first rushing TD of Andrews’ career, and was the kind of trick play that might only claim one victim in a season.
This go around, it was the Browns.
“That was a good play by them,” Bush said. “Division opponent. We know them, they know us. So they pulled a great, great play out their playbook and nobody will probably see that play again. Maybe in the playoffs. But I thought it was a good play.”
In Week 11, it was Hurricane Andrews that swept off Lake Erie, confounding the Browns and leaving them grasping at the wind.
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