The clock was at 0:00, and Blake Bortles was on the ground.
At that point, if the Jacksonville Jaguars were going to break their horrid road losing streak, it was going to take a miracle.
''Call it what you want,'' Bortles would say later. ''Whatever. It happens.''
Not often, that's for sure. Bortles rose to his feet and was promptly grabbed by Baltimore linebacker Elvis Dumervil, who snagged the quarterback's facemask while dragging him to the ground.
That gave Jacksonville 15 yards and one more play, and Jason Myers kicked a 53-yard field goal for a 22-20 victory on Sunday.
''I've never seen anything like that before,'' Jaguars linebacker Paul Posluszny said. ''That was wild, but I'm glad it ended the way it did.''
Long after the final whistle, the players were whooping and laughing in their locker room. It was a celebration nearly two years in the making, because Jacksonville had lost 13 in a row on the road since winning at Cleveland on Dec. 1, 2013.
''Unbelievable game,'' coach Gus Bradley said.
Down 20-19 with no timeouts, the Jaguars got the ball at their 20 with 1:06 left. After moving to the Baltimore 49, Bortles got collared by Dumervil after time expired.
Because a game can't end on a penalty by the defense, the Jaguars got the ball at the 35.
''I take full responsibility for that one,'' Dumvervil said. ''It can't happen.''
Dumervil's penalty was merely one of many by the bumbling Ravens (2-7), who committed four turnovers and were penalized nine times for 121 yards.
Baltimore was on the brink of surviving those miscues - until Myers' decisive kick.
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