BALTIMORE _ A quick look at the Bengals' 32-14 win over the Ravens on Thanksgiving Night, Ravens head coach John Harbaugh's first loss of his career in 10 Thursday night home games.

Player of the Game

Yes, Evan McPherson had a career-high six field goals, defensive end Joseph Ossai had his first two-sack game of his career, defensive end Cedric Johnson had his first two career fumble recoveries and wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase had his fifth 100-yard game against the Ravens.

But, this is why Joe Burrow came back to play this year after sitting out 75 days with turf toe.

The Bengals' first win here since 2021. Their second win over Lamar Jackson in 12 starts. Burrow's second against him. Two touchdown passes on the money in the second half aftera first half where he said he had to knock off rust.

"There's no better feeling than that," Burrow said after hitting 24 of 46 for 261 yards. "Putting in work for a long time and going out and it paying off. There's no feeling like going out with a group of guys who work really hard to go try and win games and going out and putting on a good performance winning that game."

Not vintage Burrow. But he outclassed the two-time MVP Jackson, 83.7-65.4 in passer rating. And no turnovers. Jackson three.

Ja'Marr Checks Off Bucket List

What hasn't Chase done in this sport?

After his seven catches for 110 yards, he feasted on NBC's turkey, and after growing up watching the winning team doing that on Thanksgiving, Chase said it was a bucket list moment.

"It was not that bad. If I'm being honest, it was not that bad," Chase said. "All of my life, I've been watching that game on Thanksgiving. I would see players make the crazy face after they bite it, because it was not good, but it wasn't that bad. Maybe I'm hungry, so who knows."

Burrow, ever the meticulous eater, didn't partake.

"I don't know who cooked it," he said.

Joey Mobile

Head coach Zac Taylor said he knew Burrow was back early when her left the pocket and found Chase on some obligatory 9-1 off-script huge third downs.

"I was a little more mobile than I expected to be," said Burrow, who is wearing a steel plate in his cleat. "We've got a good system on the sideline changing shoes and doing what I need to do to stay fresh."

Play of the Game

Tight end Tanner Hudson got a bit of redemption for last year's two-point pass from Burrow that went awry in the last minute here as the Bengals fell short, 35-34

Not Thursday.

With the Bengals leading, 12-7, on their first drive of the second half, Burrow faced a third-and-nine from the Ravens 14 and saw Hudson running a one-on-one route toward the back corner pylon against Ravens Pro Bowl safety Kyle Hamilton. Hudson stuck out his left hand, and drew it to his right falling down for the score Zac Taylor said, "Gave us some breathing room.

"We needed somebody to make a play, and Tanner made that play on, in my opinion, the best safety in the league," Burrow said. "He just continues to make play after play, and that one really opened the floodgates, so credit to Tanner for that one."

More Money Mac

A week after hitting a team-record 63-yarder, McPherson drilled a career-high six field goals on all six attempts. He's the second one in his family to ever do it.

"My little brother did it two weeks ago, and I thought that was impressive. That must be tiring," said McPherson of the little Money Mac at Auburn. "And I'm tired.

"I never really had the chance. I feel like to hit six, it is kind of rare."

The only Bengal to have more in a Bengals game is Shayne Graham, and he scored all of their points with seven field goals in this building in a 21-7 win over the Ravens in 2007.

Ossai Comes Up Huge

Ossai had two massive sacks in the half. The first one, working a stunt, he came loose inside the Ravens 5, popped the ball out of Jackson's arms into the hands of the other edge, Johnson, at the 2.

Then, late in the first half on third down, his second sack knocked the Ravens out of field-goal range. Ravens left tackle Ronnie Stanley went to pick up blitzing safety Jordan Battle and Ossai was unblocked and finished.

"Everybody has to do their job on that one," Ossai said.

Game Changer

The Bengals defense took two Ravens' long touchdowns off the board in the first half. Alert play took what should have been a 21-9 Ravens lead into the Bengals' 12-7 halftime lead.

It looked as if Jackson had hooked up with tight end Isaiah Likely for a catch-and-run 43-yard touchdown over the middle of the field past Battle. But Battle didn't give up on it and chased down Likely at the goal line, where he ripped out of his hands and became the Bengals' ball when it went out of bounds.

"Game changer," said edge Myles Murphy.

Then, on the first play after the two-minute warning, Jackson connected on a 36-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Zay Flowers that was waved off when Flowers was called for pushing cornerback DJ Turner II.

Murphy was a game changer when he batted a pass for a pick by rookie linebacker Demetrius Knight Jr.

"We had Zero blitz on," Murphy said, "and that gave me a straight path the quarterback."

The five turnovers were the second most in the seven years of the Zac Taylor era.

Immense Defense

The last time the Bengals had five turnovers against the Ravens was that 2007 Shayne Graham game. Lamar Jackson, 10-2 against the Bengals, has never been manhandled like that by Cincinnati. Not for three sacks, three turnovers (two fumbles and a pick) and just 17 of 23 for 246 yards with no touchdowns.

"Just constant pressure. I feel like Lamar was flustered, so it was hard for them to get momentum," said cornerback Dax Hill of a defense that stopped Baltimore seven out of ten times on third down.

"We kept them guessing. When you have pressure in your face, it's hard to make your throws and go through your progressions. I just felt like we kept (Jackson) on his toes."

Burrow could sense defensive coordinator Al Golden's crew was going to break out soon.

"That's been building. That's been building all year. Seeing them putting in all the work. See Al talking about a lot of different things, they end up showing up tonight and in the last couple of games as well," Burrow said. "So, credit to those guys for working so hard the way they do and putting on that performance."

Slants and Sceens

Dax Hill was looking for his brother after the game. But he couldn't find Ravens running back Justice Hill after a night of friendly, brotherly trash talking.

"I think took off early," said Hill, who had six tacklws and two passes defensed. "Being out there and seeing him on the sideline, there's always some jawing back and forth, so that was awesome." …

Cornerback DJ Turner II had a pass defensed to add to his NFL lead and had the last fumble recovery of the game with 4:12 left …

Battle led the club with eight tackles to go with his game-changer.. …