Smitty012

Welcome Marlon!! Looking forward to the Ravens secondary dominating again!

Fully support more cameras on the sidelines and goal lines. Commercials: ridiculous, repetitive and time wasting around every score. C'mon NFL/Networks...3 commercial breaks for every score?? If I don't walk away from the TV during these times, I turn the volume to OFF so I don't have to hear that banter repeated, which hardly changes week in, week out. Refereeing: the playoffs , especially evident in the Greenbay-Dallas game. Marginal at best. They hardly called any of the holding going on when the replays clearly showed, in some cases receivers getting the jersey ripped over their shoulder pads!!! With two refs right in the gunsight of the replay!! They even had to get one mis-call overturned, maybe the MOST important call of the game, on the last sideline catch by GB, when the head official called the pass incomplete/out-of-bounds and was overruled by another official. It makes one wonder who the head official wanted to win that game. Player celebrations are already, in this day of the Me-generation, over-the-top. It takes 10 other guys to help that one guy score. No one is above the team. Exploding with exhilaration after a score is great; but team choreographed ( or any choreographed) celebrations in the face of a just- defeated opponent is not what sport is about. That stuff smells of "look at me". Let it be natural celebration. ( This fan's opinion) Some one already spoke about younger generation losing fan support. I think he hit it on the head with shorter attention spans, but may also be related to playing soccer and not football, or no sport participation at all because they don't know what a tree feels like.

Proud to be a Raven Fan!

You will definitely be missed, BIG # 89!!! Thank you for your amazing game and your huge heart, SSSr!

Go Ravens! Beat Philly! let it all out!

Nice article Kevin Byrne. Yes, we have a lot to be thankful for.

Still wondering why the article states he got 38 rushing yards + 59 receiving yards to equal 80 yards total. ( 97 ?)

Great to see Ravens play a second half offensively like that. Hope we're past the low or non-output stages. Great to see the defense dominate and NOT drop back to give up easy touchdown drives when they got ahead. GO Ravens! Dominate!

Can't agree with you more. Especially when we are up 21 points and have been dominant the entire game, we should keep the pressure up, not loosen it like a rubber band.

John, if we want to muddle through a mediocre season by losing to the Jets, then, NO, this is not a must-win game. But any fan with a heart for this team knows it IS a must-win game, because we already know what a mediocre and sub-par year looks like (thank you, 2015). We the fans want the players to gel, no matter who is out there on the field, super-star or blue collar tackler. We want to see "fight" and unity. Not disheveled and lax penalty-damage and unexecuted blocks that are as important as the guy with the ball in a play. It is a truism that a team grows closer in unity as they travel the battle-worn road through the season, and that can only be done with leadership and team members taking account of their own self-improvement, thus putting the team first. Thank God we have that leadership in the senior and some junior members of the team. The PR gurus continue to state how many of our stars are hurt and thus put us at a disadvantage. John Harbaugh stated that he will change the way mistake-prone players are playing or find someone else. I have complete faith in that. But (you, the media-in-general) don't say that we have a pinch on receivers with SS Sr. out, when a guy the calibre of Kamar Aiken is his replacement. And our young linebackers have to step up too. And, in the end, If we can't beat the 1-5 Jets, that's a clear statement by our team of what they are not ready to do.

Thanks for this article Kevin. The PR job and perspective behind the scenes is as important from a "wholeness" of the organization angle as the rest of the folks who comprise our team, often referred to as family. Visibility and transparency are important to the us, the fans. And in my humble opinion, an athlete who doesn't get upset about a loss hasn't learned some of life's ( and sports') valuable lessons, starting with an awareness for the setback of the team, and humility...

I can see being patient up to the point where we are still trying to find answers. But the poor offense performance through the first 5 games tells me that the OC is not the guy we need to make this offense talent gel and produce its greatest output potential. Flacco continually states we need chunk plays but we too often hit the short receiver, well short of the first down markers on 3rd down. That is frustrating to watch.

Encouragement. I have yet to see a major running hole for our running backs, so lets stop saying Dixon is the answer to our running game when the entire offensive line has to get together with the RB's to make it successful. As Yanda and Forsett have said, they are close to putting it all together. Last year the media kept harping on Perriman's injury as if he was the answer to the receiving issues. Well, Aiken proved out but unfortunately SSS got hurt. And so will these running backs prove out, once the Offense puts it all together.