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The Baltimore Ravens are riding a 17-game winning streak in the preseason, which is the longest active streak in the NFL. Baltimore is chasing the NFL-record 19 consecutive preseason wins that Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers stacked up, and the New Orleans Saints have an opportunity to cut them short.
No team has lost to the Saints fewer times than the Ravens, who have won five of their seven regular-season meetings with the black in gold over the years. New Orleans lost its previous exhibition games to Baltimore in 2017 (14-13) and 2015 (30-27), too, which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
But there’s a first time for everything.
Just look at what happened the last time the Saints made the trip, which was in 2018. Ravens kicker Justin Tucker had an opportunity to tie the game with an extra point in the game’s final minute. He had 456 successful PAT kicks on 463 tries (98.4%) behind him among his high school, college and NFL careers up to that point. All seven of his previous errant extra-point tries came at Westlake High School, an alma mater he shares with Drew Brees.
But against the Saints, Tucker missed. He shanked it, staring in shock as the Saints paraded off the field in front of a stunned Baltimore crowd. It was his first failed extra-point in the NFL or in front of bigger crowds in college at Texas. After missing that point-after attempt, he has gone on to convert 132 of his next 135 extra-point tries (97.7%). If nothing else, he has to be eager for a win to get his mojo back and recover from that 7% drop in performance. Definitely.
Seriously, though: All this is to illustrate that anything can happen in the NFL. It’s a league where any team can win on any given Sunday. Or Saturday, in the preseason, when teams are more focused on evaluating their rosters than the final score. So be sure to tune in (on Fox 8 in New Orleans at 6 p.m. CT) and see how they perform against another playoff hopeful.
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