BALTIMORE (AP) — Jacoby Brissett is officially a Baltimore Raven.
He's walking into a bit of a crisis.
After Thursday night's 33-10 loss to Jacksonville, the Ravens have lost three straight games by at least 20 points for the first time in franchise history. The losing streak is at four overall. After Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley were both injured last weekend against Buffalo, Joe Fagnano was next man up at quarterback. Him having to make his first career start on a short week against the Jaguars was predictably difficult.
Now the Ravens have completed a trade for Brissett, who has started eight games this season for Arizona. He gives Baltimore more experience at the position, but it was clear again Thursday that quarterback is not the only problem the Ravens face. Brissett can certainly make Baltimore (4-5) more competitive in the coming weeks, but issues on the offensive line and in the secondary persist.
“We’ve got to make a decision over this break,” coach Jesse Minter said. “Got a little bit of a break for the guys to kind of mentally reset and come back and seek improvement really in all three phases.”
The Ravens managed only 227 yards of offense against Jacksonville, 65 of which came on a long touchdown run by Justice Hill long after the outcome had been settled.
On defense, Baltimore has allowed more than 30 points three straight games.
“It sucks losing Lamar, but we all know at the end of the day, in this league, it’s the next man up, regardless of who you are," linebacker Roquan Smith said. "Very unforgiving game. No matter who you are, what you’ve done for the game, the game will slap you in the face every day of the week and twice on Sunday. So, it’s just about us honing in on our details and doing our job.”
Baltimore has scored on its first offensive drive in five of its last six games, the lone exception being against Buffalo when Jackson went out with an injury on his first play.
The offensive line remains a concern, but with so many different player combinations, the Ravens sometimes can't even make it to the snap. Baltimore had four more false starts despite playing at home Thursday. It's not just the linemen either. Two of those were by tight ends and one was by a wide receiver.
Even before Thursday's game, the Ravens led the league with 20 false start penalties, according to nflpenalties.com.
“I just have to be better,” veteran tackle Ronnie Stanley said. "I’m trying to get off the ball as soon as I hear the quarterback, but that’s too fast, so I need to hone that back a little bit and maybe come off slower. But whatever the case, we have to be on the ball. We can’t afford to have pre-snap penalties. They stall drives and take away points from us.”
The Baltimore defense did a decent job stopping the run and forced Jacksonville into more field goals than touchdowns.
Even though Jacksonville wasn't being overly aggressive on offense, the Ravens still allowed a couple big plays in the first half. Trevor Lawrence found Nate Boerkircher behind cornerback Marlon Humphrey for 52 yards on the second play from scrimmage, setting up an early touchdown. Then Parker Washington beat safety Malaki Starks for a 50-yard TD catch shortly before halftime.
“I think when we’ve got some guys out on offense, whatever the game plan was, it kind of kills momentum to give up one early. So, that was just an explosive, a scramble drill,” Humphrey said. "Just have to play better fundamental football, and that’s kind of just been (what) I’m chasing.”
Nate Wiggins (illness) wasn't able to play, and safety Kyle Hamilton (hip) left the game. Those absences, should they linger, would make a bad situation worse defensively.
Over their last four games, the Ravens have been outscored 84-10 in the second half.
The Thursday game means Baltimore gets a little more time off before its next contest, Nov. 16 against the Los Angeles Chargers, who are currently winless. After that, the Ravens have road games against Carolina and Houston before their open date. Those are winnable, but Baltimore desperately needs its offense to wake up.
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Jacksonville Jaguars safety Antonio Johnson (6) tackles Baltimore Ravens running back Justice Hill (43) during the first half of an NFL football game in Baltimore, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker Branson Combs (50) tackles Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Fagnano (12) during the second half of an NFL football game in Baltimore, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Protesters broke into a construction site for a new Microsoft data center in Amsterdam on Friday, with some climbing a crane and setting off flares while others clashed with police.
Nathan Timmer of the protest group Geef Tegengas, a phrase that translates as Push Back, told local broadcaster AT5 that protesters were occupying the site in an effort to stop construction.
Campaigners against data centers in Europe are expected to stage protests and other actions in several countries on Friday and Saturday, demanding a moratorium on large-scale developments to address social and environmental concerns around the energy-hungry behemoths.
“We don’t want it to be built. Nobody needs it,” Timmer said. “The only thing this will be used for is AI slop. AI warfare, data surveillance, and committing genocides. We don’t want that,” he added, vowing to continue protesting until construction is halted.
Pro-Palestinian activists also joined the demonstrations in the Dutch capital. By late afternoon police were escorting activists off the construction site, though some still remained, local media reported.
Microsoft said it was aware of the Amsterdam demonstration. “We understand that people feel strongly about the project, and we respect their right to express those views peacefully," a spokesperson said. “However, we do not condone any actions that are unlawful or that put people’s safety at risk.”
The demonstrations come days after the U.S. midterm elections ushered in a wave of Democrats promising to clamp down on data centers, which face resistance around the world due to the massive amounts of computing power and water they use.
Dozens of civil society and grassroots groups have said they will join the “Stop Dirty Data Centres” events on Friday and Saturday in 15 European countries, including Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France and the U.K., organizers said.
“There’s a gulf between where elected leaders are at in terms of buying into the hype about AI and where people are at,” said Owen Espley, coordinator of StopDirtyDataCentres.eu.
In Germany, a dozen protesters gathered in front of a data center on the outskirts of Berlin on Friday.
“We want to put a stop to this blind construction of data centers around Germany, regardless of any environmental concerns,” said the protest spokeswoman Caro Weber. “This is really, really dangerous for our future.”
Around 100 people also protested against data centers in front of the Polish parliament on Friday, representing communities around Warsaw where new centers are planned.
In Italy, the fast-growing data center industry faces an equally rapid rise in grassroots opposition, particularly in the northern Lombardy region, the country’s main hub for digital infrastructure.
Activists argue that the boom in facilities serving cloud computing and artificial intelligence is moving faster than public consultation and environmental oversight.
The movement reached a milestone on Oct. 10, when more than 1,000 people and representatives of around 40 local committees gathered in Milan’s Piazza della Scala for what organizers described as Italy’s first national demonstration against data centers.
Protesters called for a moratorium on new projects and demanded a national strategy governing the industry’s growth. The demonstration followed a series of increasingly large mobilizations in towns around Milan.
Europe is projected to attract $5.6 trillion in cumulative data center capital expenditure from 2026 through 2050, accounting for around 18% of global investment, according to PwC’s Global Data Centre Outlook 2026–50.
The U.S. is forecast to attract $15.1 trillion in capital spending on data centers during that period, the report said.
Naishadham reported from Madrid. Associated Press journalists Giada Zampano in Rome, Pietro De Cristofaro in Berlin and Claudia Ciobanu in Warsaw contributed to this report.
A banner reads “Two data centers, 35 metres from our homes! Prime Minister Tusk, help!!!” during a protest against data centers in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Claudia Ciobanu)
Protesters hold signs reading "What is the true COST of this investment?”, “Let’s not let the world drown in AI slop!” and “Water consumption: 1 data centre = 3,000 people. And they tell US to save water?!” during a protest against data centers in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Claudia Ciobanu)
In this image made from video, protesters climb a crane at a site where a new Microsoft data center is being built, in Amsterdam, Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
In this image made from video, protesters cut a temporary construction fence at the site where a new Microsoft data center is being built, in Amsterdam, Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
In this image made from video, protesters wearing scarves over their faces climb over a temporary construction fence at the site where a new Microsoft data center is being built, in Amsterdam, Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
In this image made from video, protesters wearing scarves over their faces climb through a temporary construction fence at the site where a new Microsoft data center is being built, in Amsterdam, Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
In this image made from video, protesters wearing scarves over their faces climb over a temporary construction fence at the site where a new Microsoft data center is being built, in Amsterdam, Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
