BALTIMORE — Working again Derrick Henry set free his frustration after one other pricey fourth-quarter fumble by slamming his helmet into the bench on the sideline.
By the point Henry reached the locker room, he appeared in shock at how his third fumble in three video games performed a pivotal function within the Baltimore Ravens’ 38-30 loss to the Detroit Lions on Monday night time.
“I am confused,” Henry stated. “This sucks proper now. I ain’t going to deceive y’all.”
With Baltimore trailing 28-24 halfway by the fourth quarter, Henry received the ball punched from behind by Lions defensive finish Aidan Hutchinson at his personal 16-yard line and the Lions transformed the turnover right into a area objective. This marked Henry’s second fumble within the fourth quarter this season — each of which got here within the Ravens’ losses this season.
These ball safety issues are uncharacteristic for Henry. In his earlier 9 seasons, he had misplaced two fourth-quarter fumbles in 136 video games.
Henry apologized to his teammates, coaches and followers.
“It is simply loopy,” Henry stated. “Three fumbles [in three games] straight. I am making an attempt every single day to repair the issue that simply retains occurring. I am my worst critic, so I am not going to attempt to beat myself up an excessive amount of. Nevertheless it’s laborious to not when it is consecutive and constant [instances] of me doing the identical factor.”
Ravens coach John Harbaugh would not imagine it will proceed to be a difficulty for Henry.
“That was sort of a blind shot there,” Harbaugh stated. “I believed he had the ball in good place. Nonetheless, we simply wish to defend the soccer; all our guys do, and we now have to do it. We’ve to be good at it.”
Henry, 31, is without doubt one of the most completed operating backs in NFL historical past. He at the moment ranks 18th on the league’s all-time speeding record with 11,665 yards and is sixth with 109 speeding touchdowns.
However Henry was held to 50 yards speeding on Monday night time after being restricted to 24 yards speeding in a win over the Cleveland Browns on Sept. 14. The Ravens (1-2) now head on a brief week to play at Kansas Metropolis, the place Baltimore is 0-3 in opposition to Patrick Mahomes.
“Adversity is tough proper now,” Henry stated. “However so long as we keep targeted — and all people else will keep targeted — we’ll attempt to flip this factor round. I do know we’ll.”
