Zay Flowers and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Baltimore Ravens rookie receiver Zay Flowers had quite the little up-and-down series of events in the third and fourth quarters of his team’s AFC Championship game against the Kansas City Chiefs. The first-round pick has played excellently through most of the season, and with 49 seconds left in the third quarter, he smoked Kansas City’s ordinarily outstanding defense for this 54-yard catch.

That would have put the Ravens in prime position to get closer than the 17-7 deficit they had, but Flowers’ youthful exuberance got the best of him, and he was flagged for a rather obvious taunting penalty.

That took the ball from the Kansas City 10-yard line to the Kansas City 25-yard line. Now, the Ravens were fighting for a field goal as much as a touchdown.

And THEN… at the start of the fourth quarter… Flowers had a shot at his second receiving touchdown of the game. Instead, Flowers fumbled the all just short of the end zone, encouraged by Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed.

But wait — there’s more! A frustrated Flowers then went to the Ravens’ bench, hit a bench with his hand in frustration, and injured that hand.

You ever just have one of those days? Flowers had himself a truly Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day… in the space of just a few minutes.

Story originally appeared on Touchdown Wire