Only seven seconds remained when Lamar Jackson took the snap and sailed a pass downfield. When it came down, Zay Flowers was there. The rest, as Breitbart reported, was Tyler Loop.
The Ravens escaped Rio de Janeiro with a 34-31 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, riding a 34-yard field goal from Loop — a second-year kicker making his presence felt in his first real moment of consequence — as time expired.
For much of the afternoon, it looked like the game would be remembered for a different kind of chaos. Baltimore and Dallas, both 1-1 entering Week 4, combined for nearly 800 yards of offense. There were goal-line stands, a blocked kick, and a handful of calls that had both sidelines screaming. In a game featuring two teams desperate to get above .500, style points never arrived.
Instead, the final drive gave the Ravens just enough, and left the Cowboys with nothing.
A controversial final possession
The sequence began with Dallas clinging to a 31-31 tie and seven seconds on the clock. Jackson dropped back on first down and delivered a 27-yard pass to Flowers, who went down at the Dallas 39-yard line. The broadcast clock showed all zeros, and Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer immediately stormed the sidelines arguing that the game should have been over.
Officials overruled him. According to the referee’s explanation, Flowers got down and the Ravens called their final timeout with one second remaining. That was all the opening Baltimore needed.
The decision left plenty of room for second-guessing. Dallas’s defensive alignment appeared to anticipate either a hook-and-lateral or a deep Hail Mary attempt. What the Cowboys didn’t seem to expect was a medium-range pass over the deep middle, followed by a quick timeout to set up a long field goal attempt.
Schottenheimer will spend the week trying to answer why Flowers was so open.
The call heard round Brazil
If the NFL hoped to grow its fanbase in Brazil, the league couldn’t have scripted a better advertisement. The Portuguese-language broadcast call of Loop’s kick quickly went viral, with X users celebrating the energy and passion of the announcers.
“Better than every announcer in the United States. There is no excitement in announcing anymore,” one user wrote, according to Breitbart. Another called it an “early game of the year contender.”
One user simply asked, “How did they allow that to happen?” while another predicted, “Cowboys will need a lot of therapy after that loss.” Another asserted, “Americans will never have passion to call games, ever.”
The reaction underscored how much the ending resonated beyond the usual NFL audience. Whether it translates into a permanent footprint in the Brazilian market remains to be seen, but for one afternoon, the league got exactly the kind of highlight it wanted.
A redemptive moment for Loop
For Loop, the kick carried extra weight. A Dallas native, he grew up on the other side of this rivalry. More importantly, he spent the offseason hearing about his misses in last year’s regular-season finale, a game the Ravens needed to keep their playoff hopes alive and lost partly because of his inaccuracy.
On Sunday, the second-year kicker trotted onto a divot-filled field and delivered the kind of kick that can change a career. The distance was manageable, but the circumstances were not. A one-second clock, a hostile environment, and a stadium packed with Brazilian fans witnessing their first in-person NFL finish of this magnitude.
That kick, and the viral call that accompanied it, turned a messy, penalty-marred game into the most memorable moment of the young season.
What the win means for Baltimore — and what it leaves for Dallas
The Ravens move to 2-1, while the Cowboys drop to 1-2. For Baltimore, the win is a reminder of what Jackson can do when the game is on the line, and a confidence boost for a team still finding its footing in a crowded AFC race. For Dallas, it’s a loss that will sting for weeks, one that will be replayed on film rooms and talk shows alike.
Schottenheimer’s decision to defend the deep middle — or, more accurately, his defense’s failure to account for a medium pass with time for a timeout — will be examined relentlessly. But the ending may simply have been unavoidable once Jackson found Flowers with a clean throw and the sideline officials ruled the timeout valid.
For now, the Ravens leave Brazil with a win, a kicker’s redemption story, and a viral moment that NFL international expansion efforts will happily point to as proof of concept. The Cowboys leave with the opposite: a long flight home, a loss they gave away, and the knowledge that one second was all Baltimore needed.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2026/09/27/trio-in-rio-portuguese-call-of-ravens-kicker-tyler-loops-thrilling-game-winner-over-the-cowboys-in-brazil-goes-viral/