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    #1 2008 - My favorite season. John Harbaugh, Joe Flacco and Ray Rice all rookies and we make the Championship Game. Unfortunately I was at the game at Heinz Field when they lost. Derrick Mason in Dallas is as good as it gets.

    #2 2003 - Watching Jamal run for 2000 was pretty exciting.

    #3 2014 - Never expected to be in the playoffs.

    #4 2006 - If they could have gotton past Peyton Manning they win the Super Bowl.

    #5 2011 - Could be #2 but the ending is just to painful.

     

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    17 hours ago, Tornado700 said:

    I don't know if he is injured or not, but I gotta admit that he is starting to make me pretty nervous out there. Wright looks great but I freak out everytime they throw Jimmy's way. Also, too many flags are thrown because of him. I say rest him for at least a game and let's look at another one of these DB's.

     

    Is this for real?

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    The Good:  7 Ravens rookies contributed to the win (Ronnie Stanley, Chris Moore, Tavon Young, Alex Lewis, Matt Judon, Michael Pierce, Kamalei Correa). Best Ravens draft ever after '96?

    The Bad: The run game and Justin Forsett. Run blockong appears subpar and Forsett doesn't seem to have an burst. How could he run out of bounds at the end of the game?

    The Ugly: The First Quarter.

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    9 minutes ago, rmcjacket23 said:

    One particular issue with this is that it implies that the Browns would have the right to decline the holding penalty. When fouls occur on both teams, regardless of whether they are live or dead-ball penalties, you typically don't give both team the option to accept or reject the penalty, because that implies that one team gets preference over another for committing infractions. So you'd be essentially committing "penalty bias". 

    So in your scenario, you either have to enforce both penalties as offsetting, or enforce both as they exist. So it would be a five yard holding penalty, negating the play, and then a fifteen yard enforcement of the taunting, netting the Browns a loss of 10 yards.

    Also, I'd point out that even IF the taunting penalty would be enforce separately, the Browns would decline the holding penalty to get the yardage from the completion but then would be march backed 15 yards from that spot. So it would be 1st down at the 25 with 20 seconds to go in a best case scenario.

    So at maximum, its a 5 yard benefit for us.

    However, the taunting call is just applied. The Ravens would not be asked to accept or reject the penalty. So I can't see where penalty bias would occur. Seems more logical to call the play as is and have the Browns decline the defensive holding. The taunting call would be automatically applied placing the ball at the 25.

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    Ravens will win this game. They came out of Cleveland with no major injuries and this isn't the Jaguars home opener. The offense will only get better each week and I'm convinced the defense is better than last year's version. They're 2-0 with a chance to return home undefeated. I think Cleveland was the letdown game and a wake up call in the first quarter. If the get the running game on track they may even win convincingly.

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    I don't know if the Browns got hosed or not on the Terrelle Pryor taunting call at the end of the game. It depends on Pryor's intentions which only he can speak to.

    In any event, what I don't understand is why a dead ball foul after the play is over results in offsetting penalties with something that happened during the play. Had Webb not been called for defensive holding (which the Browns would have declined) the ball would have been placed at the 10 yardline and then marched back to the 25 due to the taunting call on Pryor. However, since Webb held on the play the ball was placed back at the 30 yardline. It was to the Ravens advantage that Webb held on that play. Of course, Webb had no idea Pryor would be called for the penalty so it's not like he planned it. It just seems to me a deadball penalty should not result in offsetting with a penalty that happened during the play.

    Thoughts?

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    Just now, rmcjacket23 said:

    You are standing in support of the government and the country. How is that not a political statement?

    If kneeling during the anthem IS a political statement, then by definition, standing for it would be a political statement as well.

    In particular, if you are of the mindset that your government and country isn't supporting you (which I don't agree with), then why would you stand in support of them?

    I guess everyone has a different interpretation. For me, when I stand for the National Anthem I not supporting any particular party or even the government. The government works for us - for the people by the people (that's how it's supposed to work). When I stand I realize we are not perfect, but I do believe we are the greatest nation and I merely saying I'm proud to be a part of this country.

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    1 minute ago, rmcjacket23 said:

    Ironic isn't it? 

    The public absolutely can't stand when athletes take political sides publicly... we just want them to "stay in their lane".

    Yet, simultaneously, we get offended when an athlete chooses not to stand for the National Anthem, which standing for it, by definition, is a political statement.

     

    Standing for the National Anthem is a political statement? How so?

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    3 minutes ago, BOLDnPurPnBlacK said:

    I have no problem with these guys doing it, but what's the point? Thats what i dont understand. I dont get why anyone hasnt gone at Kaepernick kinda hard and asked directly... "yea but what specifically are you kneeling for, what do you hope to achieve by kneeling, and once achieved whats the next step towards resolution..." 

    Because right now... all ive really heard is that hes upset with a country that doesnt treat his race equally. Ok, but is political, social, socio-economically, in the judicial system... maybe its all of it, but then make that clear so people know. If it's just to get attention and bring attention to the issue - ok well now that a dialogue has started... WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH IT to capitalize on the momentum.

    Because right now it looks and sounds like a whole lot of nothing. I get this is a country founded on freedom. And if you wanna kneel then kneel. But dont expect me to buy your activism if theres no organization to it. You cant fight an ambiguous, general idea. its got to be something specific, and i dont think anyones specified what exactly that is. It's not a battle you can win if you dont even vocalize what winning is or what winning looks like.

    Its a little childish to me and the fact that its getting praise as being courageous is kind of silly to me. Hes not getting anyone from point a to point b. Well, im kneeling bc we're oppressed, and i dont stand for that. Ok, and what do you hope to achieve by kneeling? Well, i dont want us to be oppressed. Ok, but how are you gonna get there by kneeling? Well, ill kneel and people will talk about it and know that i care.... and then we wont be oppressed! But, theres been some form of inequality and social injustice in this country for decades, centuries... and while the divide has been closing ever slowly, its been clear for some time that the progress hasnt met the ideal that the government and society try to portray. People are aware already, yet change is slow. SO how again is kneeling going to change that?

    Welllllll - i didnt think about that part, but like people will know i didnt stand for it. See that its literal and figurative. Thats deep.

     

    Not to trivialize it. Do your thang Kap, but i havent heard one person put together an educated response as to why theyre kneeling.... And thats the problem with my generation and the ones after... all wanna be revolutionaries but dont have the follow through. I believe the heart is in the right place, but they want it to be as easy as well i said i dont agree so i did my part. MLK, Malcolm, Garvey... they walked the walk. They had a belief, a vision for change, they demonstrated that belief with civil disobedience at times but also put forth an action plan that people could get behind, and logically follow on a path to change. 

    This crap - not so much. Seems more attention seeking than anything. Dont think that was the intent at first, i actually dont think he thought anyone would notice... but then it blew up and he had to say something more than... well i uh didnt feel like standing. 

    Well said!

    There's nothing wrong with protesting. But I have no idea what they are protesting. So for right now this really is no "conversation" and it's nothing more than a minor annoyance.

     

     

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    4 minutes ago, flynismo said:

    Pushing the issue to the forefront is doing something about it.

    But I agree with Ray, if you're going to make a stand, have a solution to offer, not just opinions.

    The issue is based on a false narrative. So now kneeling has become merely fashionable. It's a fad. It will fade away and nothing will be down about whatever it was the original protest was about - if it was about anything.

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    I like all the Sunday 1pm games. Getting home at 12:30am - 1am on a work night sucks. Not to mention my 6 year old who loves the Ravens can't stay up late to watch the games. I really don't care what anyone else thinks. If other teams want to underestimate the Ravens go right ahead. It's impossible to stay on top every year. 5-11 in 2015 was bound to happen after all the veteran losses in 2013.

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