BALTIMORE — There weren’t many ghosts littering his night this time, just ferocious football players cloaked in black, all of them carrying bad intentions and ill tidings. The Jets were huge underdogs Thursday night, so it came as no surprise that the Ravens barely broke a sweat in swatting them away, 42-21, at M&T Bank Stadium.
Sam Darnold came in an underdog, too. If that might’ve been hard to fathom less than two years ago when the Jets made him the No. 3 pick of the 2018 draft — 29 selections ahead of Lamar Jackson — it is no longer so, because Jackson has zoomed to a comfortable place at the head of that draft class ahead of Darnold, ahead of Baker Mayfield, ahead of all of them.