RAVENS GRIND PAST PANTHERS IN LOW-SCORING DEFENSIVE STRUGGLE

The Ravens won a game that looked like two teams playing not to lose rather than playing to win—273 total yards of offensive mediocrity, zero red zone touchdowns, and a defense that forced four fumbles but couldn't convert them into points tells you everything you need to know about which team wanted it less. Panthers kept it close on paper with 268 yards of their own, but the obvious read—"look at B.Wright's 222 passing yards"—misses the real story: the Ravens' defense turned Charlotte's mistakes into a suffocation job that mattered, while the Panthers' offense couldn't generate a single explosive play when it counted.