The Baltimore Ravens hit the road to face the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium for Sunday night’s primetime clash on NBC. Entering the game, quarterback Michael Penix Jr.’s return had turned the Falcons into the unlikeliest of primetime darlings over recent weeks, while the Ravens were without two-time MVP Lamar Jackson, who was out with an ankle injury.
The Ravens, who started Tyler “Snoop” Huntley in Jackson’s absence, were underdogs heading into the game. Unsurprisingly, star running back Derrick Henry was undeterred, carrying the ball 24 times for 102 yards and catching an 18-yard touchdown pass from Huntley in a gutsy 30-23 overtime win.
During his post-game press conference, the future Hall of Famer noted that six of eight Baltimore Sun staffers picked the Falcons to win, and made sure to acknowledge it with the Sun’s Brian Wacker.
“I do want to say, I saw a post on Instagram, Baltimore Sun; there wasn’t a lot of y’all picking us to win,” Henry said with a smirk, before pointing at Wacker. “Yeah, you were one of them. I couldn’t wait for this moment. I’m going to go back and look because I saved it.”
Sorry, Derrick
The @ravens running back was keeping receipts.
: Brian Wacker https://t.co/ommrBWeRzN
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) October 12, 2026
“Derrick, for the record, I was one of the guys who picked the Ravens,” Wacker responded.
“Okay, that’s why I treaded lightly,” Henry responded, earning laughs from the other media members in the room.
The entire exchange between Henry and Wacker was all in good fun, and one of the Sun’s non-believers owned up to taking Atlanta afterward.
“Derrick Henry saw most of us at The Baltimore Sun predicted a Falcons win,” Sam Cohn wrote on X. “We were wrong.”
Given how Penix left the game with a rib injury, and how the Falcons looked since his return to the field, it’s understandable that Cohn and so many of his colleagues picked a shorthanded Ravens squad to lose. Luckily for Baltimore and unfortunately for what had been a surging Falcons squad, the Big Runner and Huntley had other ideas.
The post Derrick Henry kept receipts, called out local media for predicting Ravens loss appeared first on Awful Announcing.