KidNme

In four games not in Baltimore so far this year, Joe has thrown only two touchdown passes and six interceptions and has a 11.6 point avg. Our D had better be stellar against Dak and Elliott! It's the only way we'll pull off the upset.

Joe may be "Cool and calm" but I'm sure he's feeling the pressure to do better. The 2nd half of last game showed me something. I think he'll play up to the competition Sunday and give Dak a run for his money. I'm not saying we got this one in the bag but I do believe we'll hang with them enough to keep it interesting till the end. We need to control the clock, keep the penalties to a minimum, run the ball and don't let anyone behind us and hang tough in the red zone (The latter being the toughest task Sunday I think). Our ST keeps doing what they've been doing and we can get a fumble recovery or a pick or two, it may just be the recipe for an upset.

Steve Smiff, Too funny!

I believe this game will come down to whoever makes the most splash plays. I believe we have that edge on those but Dak can throw the ball very well and they have a varied playbook to get guys open in space. I just hope we aren't in Zone D all game and if that IS the game plan, I sure hope our guys are studying game film till the wee hours so we can pick off a few!

I see why some may dislike what Suggs did however, it is Suggs being Suggs.
He's getting into Dak's head a little bit but also calling himself out to be a force come Sunday. As long as he brings it against Dallas, he can do those type of things and I'll have no problem with it. He's not beating his wife, getting arrested or getting into fights on the field so he's cool. Suggs has come a long way since his rookie year when the team voted him as most Ugly! :-)

I agree, let Doom get a few plays under his belt in Dallas and see how he responds, both physically and performance wise then plan on bringing him out 100% against Cincy if all goes well. Looking forward to seeing CJ get back out there and having Yanda back is a big help too.
I'm getting a sense that our guys are preparing for a tough game but have every confidence they could pull an upset. Dallas is going to be tough right up to the last 25 seconds if the Pittsburgh game was any indication so I'll just expect the worst and hope for the best.
GO RAVENS!

Something has to give here. Cowboys have never won against the Ravens & have never won 9 games in a row. I'm liking the Ravens chances.

They also hadn't won 8 games in a row either before Pittsburgh so that doesn't matter much.

I think we have the players to beat the Cowboys if they play to what we have seen from them. I think we have finally come to the realization that Joe needs to be choreographed with his footwork and not let him do as much ad lib as he has been doing. Three steps fire it out, five steps, fire it out. Accuracy with Joe is a work in progress. I wonder if it is accuracy as much as just knowing where to put it. I have seen too many post patterns where the receiver is cutting diagonally across the field and it is green grass in front of him and he throws over his head to his back side. It is the identical throw he made to Wallace for the first touchdown of the season. He had the exact same pass numerous times and throws the ball in the wrong place. Most recently, he had Aiken wide open in front of Haden and he missed him. Missed a touchdown just sitting and waiting to happen. Even after 8 or 9 years, Joe is still like coaching a rookie. All those things he learns he quickly forgets and the OC has to constantly stay in his ear. Watch your footwork, watch you mechanics, lead your receivers, quick drifting to your back foot, change out of a bad play, pay attention to the play clock. Same messages over and over to the same QB for 8 years and he is lazy, if your not on him, he will revert. He needs a dedicated QB coach like Dennison with the authority of the OC to get on him and keep him focused on those things that are important. I love Flacco, but I love my children too and it doesn't stop me from telling them to clean their rooms over and over and over if they don't do it. I don't judge them, I just make them do it and find a way to get them to do it on their own. Flacco is like my child.

Love this post! Right on the money!

I'm going to go with, "We don't stand a chance of winning this game".
Maybe then, Joe will play like he means it and our O line will protect him and everyone will be going for the brass ring for 60 minutes. From what I saw, Dallas has a penalty issue so maybe that will help us out some as well.
Win or lose, I just hope everyone brings it, come game time. We love being the under dog and boy are we! Time for some of the young guys to make a name for themselves.
GO RAVENS!

Our pass rush is going to be key, if we expect to make it to the playoffs.
We need to get pressure with 4 or less and our CB's will need to be on their toes the ENTIRE game. A few more first downs by our Offense would go a long way in letting our D get a breather so I expect the coaches to have them running wind sprints in practice the rest of the season!

I'll believe we've turned a corner if we beat Dallas next week. So far, our "tremendous games" have been against failing teams. Getting a win against the 7-1 Cowboys, even if it's only by 1 point, will go a long way!

Ya, Joe has been practicing that signature move all season. I'm just glad he had a chance to do it after the play was over for once.

Again.... I said it last week and I will say it again. Congrats to Dean Pees who had the defense playing great. I have been very outspoken against Pees and his Defensive philosophy but I will give credit where it is due. Dean did a remarkable job over the past two weeks and I am not sure what the difference is (Tavon Young?) but I am sure that something is clicking. Lets hope he can keep it rolling vs the Cowgirls.

I would say the difference was playing a flailing Squeelers squad with a hurt QB and playing the worst team in football last night but then again, I'm a glass half empty kind of guy. :-)

Ya, Ya, Don't get too excited.
Remember, this was against the worst team in football. We needed and got the W but that was the last team of Girl scouts we get to play this season.

Harbaugh has to go this offense is pathetic, win or loose tonight, Harbaugh has to go. Flacco is as average as usual, no reason for the Ravens to at least give him competition for the job next year.

Average?,,,, Average??? That's sure a positive outlook! Flacco SUCKS!

  55 minutes ago, fusuymada said:

Love our Ravens and love our Ravens defense. Twice our defense has gotten us to the promised land and we can win if Marty can get Joe's footwork and mechanics back to where Kubiak had them. Why do I say that?

Qadry Ishmael made an interesting point on the TV yesterday (and I played it back a couple times just to be sure I heard this), He said that Kubiak was always on Flacco and made him accountable for his mechanics and follow through. He said when Trestman came and was more laid back and wasn't pushing Joe, Joe slacked off which led to his drop in numbers and horrible mechanics. If you have listened to Marty recently he has been pounding the message "getting back to details" and I believe from what I gathered from what Ishmael said, that Marty is starting to push Joe and starting to make him accountable for his work and work ethic. I hate to think after 9 years and 120 million dollars that Joe needs a babysitter to keep him focused and working hard, but that is what I gathered from what I heard.

No one knows what goes on behind closed doors at the castle, but that certainly explains alot of things including Joe's play with Kubiak here and how it dropped off so much after Kubiak left, even before the injury.

It's more than just having him held accountable man. He had no offensive line last year and he's go no offensive line again so far this year. Offense is all based on rhythm and being in sync. When your play calls for a 5 step drop and gives your receivers those 4 seconds to get to the spot on the field and your QB is able to make the drop and make the pass then you will have a successful QB and offense. When you are calling those very same plays that call for a 5 step drop but by the 3rd step your QB has a defender in his face or on his back it's kind of hard to concentrate on footwork when you're scrambling out of the pocket. Give him the same protection he was getting on 2012 post season and see what he can do. Look at Prescott and Ez in Dallas - their OL is a beast making holes like parting of the Red Sea and Prescott has all the time in the world back there. Give the QB some protection!!!!

Bologna! Joe has time more often than not to make a play. In a perfect world, we'd like our QB to have all day to throw but that's not how it goes. He needs to make better decisions because we ALL KNOW that he's NOT going to have 4 seconds every down so have a backup plan for gosh sakes. There are several options, Roll out of the pocket, Step up into the pocket, Run (As he did last Sunday) or throw it away and so on. It may be "Hard to concentrate on footwork when you're scrambling" but that's why he gets paid so well. Figure it out!
Our O line is doing fine, not great but fine. It ain't all on them!
Also, if we ARE calling "5 step drop" plays, that's just asinine on the coaches part and I doubt we're doing that!

  15 hours ago, fusuymada said:

  16 hours ago, PurpleRainBlackVeins said:

“There’s not disappointment right now. They are tough football games to win,” Flacco said. “But yeah, there is a little frustration in the fact that we’re not playing as well as we want to.”

Harbaugh "I really do believe we have the pieces in all three phases to be very good, but we have to find a way to make it happen and keep trusting in one another, and that’s it.”

Idk who's more delusional Flacco or Harbaugh. I'm so sick of the two of them and their little love affair with each other. This offense sucks and it's not getting any better despite what strides they think they have made.

I think its important to remember through the tough times that we are fans of the Ravens. I hear a lot of people that sound like they would rather support another team. I remember hearing exactly the same thing in 2012 when we lost a couple games in a row. Perhaps we should appreciate what has happened and where we are as we encourage our team to get better. I think hating people, being sick of them and that we suck, sounds like someone who would be better suited supporting a team that is perfect all the time. We have 2 super bowls in less than 2 decades and a QB coming of a serious knee injury. Ben had a minor injury to his knee and how well did he play yesterday? He wasn't as good as Joe, he threw 4 balls that should have been interceptions, our defense just can't catch, and until we went into prevent zone with a 21 - 0 lead Ben could do nothing. I was there when the 2000 Ravens defense got us a super bowl after no TD's after 5 games and I was there in 2012 when the defense got us into the playoffs where Flacco shined. Looked at Flacco's stats. This is who he is, who he has always been except for when he is in the playoffs. We have always leaned on our defense. If our defense gets there and Flacco comes alive in the playoffs, I can see you bandwagon fans just piling on.

I totally agree with you fusuymada..... I am probably only one of very few right now, but I am still not going to throw Joe under a bus. Up until this season, he has given all he has to this team for 8 years, several playoff wins, a Super Bowl win, and has virtually kept us in most every game along the way these last 8 years. Even last year, he did everything you could ask of a QB, scored enough points in most games to win, but it was the defense that let us down in those games. And lets not mention the 2 tons of season-ending injuries to half the team last year. So this is the first year Joe is not doing well, and I am sure HIS season-ending injury has nothing to do with it (just a little sarcasm)..... I don't understand how one year out of nine, so many fans are wanting Joe gone, or wished he had torn his knee again yesterday, or any other number of derogatory sentiments toward him. He just doesn't deserve the nasty vitriol, and I don't think any other player or coach of ours deserves it either.....

Bull, Flacco absolutely deserves it. I'll cut Stanley some slack on penalties because he's a rookie however, Joe is a 120 million QB that has 9 years under his belt and he has digressed the last couple years. Most of his issues are correctable but it's not happening. That man has always thrown into double and triple coverage's or just throw it up and let his receivers "go get it". Flacco throws off his back foot a lot and that just happens to be his "bad leg", not to mention how he has no pocket awareness and will bail out before he needs to or not throwing it away before taking a sack. All correctable things but we keep seeing the same mistakes from him time after time. I don't want Joe gone, I want him to step up!

I will mention that Webby has been looking terrible all season but Sunday, he was all over the field. I'll blast him (Or any player for that matter) when they deserve it but Webb stepped his game up for sure! Hope he can keep that kind of play going.

The Steelers weren't playing well at all. While our defense did well, some credit has to go to Pittsburgh for having more penalty yards than Offensive yards.
We looked a lot like the team we were before the Bye, only Pittsburgh helped us out a lot. Ben wasn't himself by any means but still put up more passing yards than Joe.

We won this game despite Joe and I'm sick of seeing that all the time now. (Although it helped that Pittsburgh was stinking up the place so much, they looked a lot like us, including big Ben throwing like Joe!). When Mallett came in, I was excited! I'm not saying Malett is the future or that I was glad that Joe may have been hurt. I would't wish that on any player but it would have been nice to see a lower salary QB expose Joe for his crappy play. If Mallet would have stayed in there for one series and marched us down the field, all hell would be breaking loose now. I bet Harbs was sweating bullets too, for just that reason and Joe got off the field and came back really fast too. That's the fastest I've seen him move in a couple years. I think Joe was thinking the same thing. Didn't want to give Ryan any chance to show him up.

So the title and the article are saying the same thing....Who's playing and who's not???? It's questionable. Would love to see SSS and Stanley out there. Web could use another couple games rest though I think. :-)

  3 hours ago, KidNme said:

  7 hours ago, CQ1 said:

  7 hours ago, KidNme said:

Weather it's the Steelers or the Browns, we tend to keep them close no matter who we play. I have little doubt that we'll play better after having the Bye and with the extra week to game plan, we should be able to throw in a few wrinkles that get the Squeelrs off balance, for the 1st half. It's the 2nd half we tend to suck at. Both teams are rested so no real advantage there. My man cave will be split between Steeler fans and Ravens fans this weekend so although I do expect a close game, we need to pull it out or I'll be hearing it for at least the rest of the season. The players may be able to forget the "last game" but us fans have to live with it forever! :-)
LET's GO RAVENS!!!

Good luck in your man cave with Squeely fans, KidNme :)
Yes- LET's GO RAVENS!!!

Thanks CQ1! We'll be starting off the day's Mojo with some 12ga target practice in the back yard. My Steeler fan guests don't know it yet but, I got orange clay targets I painted Steelers names and jersey numbers on. Should be fun! "PULL"!

Thats a classic.......as long as the target doesn't later become the television. If you run out of targets, flinging some Maalox- if any are left, make great targets :)

:-), Naw, the clay targets are cheap. The big screen TV, not so much!
I got a few pumpkins to splatter after the game If we need to. They're cheap after Halloween and I'm keeping them blank just in case we have to paint a couple Ravens jerseys on them to vent a little but hopefully it's to let our Squeeler fans get some payback for the stomping we're going to give them! Oh ya, we'll also be serving Purple Kool-aid during the game! :-)

"Burnell" has no choice. He's a Raven now and he'll feel the tingle of the rivalry come game time. I don't see how he can avoid it at M&T stadium. He's gotta bring it. Lets go Ravens!

Oh no, Shareece Wright is practicing

:-) Right?
Probably just in case someone goes down during the game.

  3 hours ago, KidNme said:

Weather it's the Steelers or the Browns, we tend to keep them close no matter who we play. I have little doubt that we'll play better after having the Bye and with the extra week to game plan, we should be able to throw in a few wrinkles that get the Squeelrs off balance, for the 1st half. It's the 2nd half we tend to suck at. Both teams are rested so no real advantage there. My man cave will be split between Steeler fans and Ravens fans this weekend so although I do expect a close game, we need to pull it out or I'll be hearing it for at least the rest of the season. The players may be able to forget the "last game" but us fans have to live with it forever! :-)
LET's GO RAVENS!!!

Good luck in your man cave with Squeely fans, KidNme :)
Yes- LET's GO RAVENS!!!

Thanks CQ1! We'll be starting off the day's Mojo with some 12ga target practice in the back yard. My Steeler fan guests don't know it yet but, I got orange clay targets I painted Steelers names and jersey numbers on. Should be fun! "PULL"!