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As far as Suggs and SSS playing late in the game, there are incentives in every contract for snaps, tackles, sacks, hits on QB, INTs, catches, etc... You can't protect a player from himself when he is out there trying to make money. If you tell them to sit down it looks like the organization is trying to cheat them out of a few bucks. Especially in a game when both sides were playing less than hard towards the end. Besides, the article says Suggs is blowing up Brandon Albert when in reality he actually just beat a tight end (#80).

Alex Lewis will more than suffice at right tackle so we can stand to lose Wagner. Ducasse has done well enough at right tackle that we can either swap him and Yanda or leave them where they are at. I still think Urschel will do better at center than Zuttah but until it happens, I will be told I'm nuts. But to show how nuts I am here is what I said before the Miami game and was nuts then too. "This defense is much more than Jay Ajayi could imagine in his worst nightmare. It will be interesting to see what he has to say after 4 quarters of some up and close personal time with Brandon Williams and co. He would have done better had he faced the Ravens earlier in the season when his legs were the strongest and the Ravens defense was still getting it together. Right now, I am actually excited to watch our defense play, takes me back to the old days. You can see Flacco is running better and moving easier and when it gets cold, he gets hot. (if you watch Wired, listen to Dixon say that "for a big man, Joe was moving." You could see in his face Dixon was honestly impressed.) That's making me feel like the old Joe is getting close to healing and being himself again." I stick by my premise that Joe is still healing and will continue to get better, he is started to jive with his receivers now that he has had actual quality time throwing to them, they are getting more used to Joe. The running game continues to develop and our offensive line has the same group playing in the same positions for the third straight game. Our defense is also gelling and is hard to believe they can get better (knock on wood). I knew we would blow out Miami but NE is going to be close and we can win, but its not going to be easy. We know we can stop the run, we now need to prove we can stop the pass and make someone run the ball.

It is called challenging when you are a peer of the person you are challenging. You can challenge if you can do it yourself, otherwise, your just a complainer. How many of you would tolerate someone coming behind you, not knowing your job, and telling you how to do your job, even though you know they don't have a clue about your job and how to do it and what needs to be done. Especially an artist. I can see some of these people on this comments board coming behind Da Vinci and asking "Well, why are the people in the Sistine Chapel naked when its a church?" "You should have used better oils in the "Nativity" and it wouldn't be fading." Would you consider that challenging you to do better, or just a complainer who doesn't have a clue. I would say it was just complainers. I think that answers your question.

He coaches for Rex Ryan.

Just like a cheesy horror movie.... I can see Bellicek just shaking his head at his desk, hoping, all along, that cold-weather Flacco just wouldn't appear. The Patriot Grinch.... Hey Bill, "HE'S HERE!" HAHAHAHAHA Cue cheesy music........ Your a mean one, Mr Flacco, your Stealing our Lombardi......

West has always said he is a back who performs better in the 20 - 25 attempt mode as it gives him time to wear down the defense and break some long runs. If you look at his best outings, that has been the case. I agree with RB by committee if that's what is most productive for both backs but if you are holding back a runner just to give runs to another guy, then you are doing a disservice to both. Dixon has missed a lot of time, West not so much. I say make West the bell-cow until he proves otherwise. His drop off came as a result of lack of touches, not as a result of lack of production. The fewer times that West runs the fewer yards per carry he has. Doesn't take the Browns analytic front office powerhouse to figure that one out, huh John?

I am with you with being psyched for this game. Even with our quick start I just didn't seem to have the same fanaticism that I usually show. Comments have been negative and I find myself looking for the bad and not the good. I think I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel in several areas. Flacco has never been a warm weather qb. He has always thrived when it gets cold and other teams have trouble throwing into the wind, handling the ball and moving downfield. Never bothered Flacco. Add it that the it is just looking by his movement out of the pocket that he is feeling himself again. That's a good thing. Marty is starting to get a feel for the team, and its clear he has been trying different things to see what works. I know what hasn't been working, timing routes. That was a Trestman leftover where Trestman was trying to get Joe to get the ball out faster with timing routes. Isn't working for whatever reason and time to get Joe back to hitting open receivers. Game after game we just keep getting closer with our offense and I look for us to make this our statement game and go out here and slam Miami. Warm weather team coming into a cold environment, with our run defense, cold weather and wind playing on Tannehill, this is our type of game and the type we have dominated in the past.

Sometimes rookies don't really have a sense of what a big boy, pro, double chin strap game is about. I admire him, think he has done well, but whether or not he knows it, the type of hitting that goes on in this game will knock 2 or 3 years off your career. He thinks he has faced some tough defenses and maybe he feels he has, but it isn't the #1 run defense in the league who not only leads the league in fewest yards allowed but in running first downs as well, by almost 20, over the next closest team. This defense is much more than Jay Ajayi could imagine in his worst nightmare. It will be interesting to see what he has to say after 4 quarters of some up and close personal time with Brandon Williams and co. He would have done better had he faced the Ravens earlier in the season when his legs were the strongest and the Ravens defense was still getting it together. Right now, I am actually excited to watch our defense play, takes me back to the old days. You can see Flacco is running better and moving easier and when it gets cold, he gets hot. (if you watch Wired, listen to Dixon say that "for a big man, Joe was moving." You could see in his face Dixon was honestly impressed.) That's making me feel like the old Joe is getting close to healing and being himself again.

I would think by the time you hit the NFL if you need something like a draft position to get you up for a game then your a slouch. I am sorry, I hear it all the time, this old team, that draft position, sitting on the bench, whatever, if by the time you hit the NFL you are not putting out 100% at all times then your a bum. You get paid millions of dollars to play a game and if it takes something for you to "get up" then explain to your other 52 teammates why they don't get everything from you in every other game. We like to talk about it but in reality you give 100%. There is no 110% or 120% so it is against the laws of physics to give more than your all and if your not, then I wouldn't want to play beside you. That was all for Tunsil getting up for the Ravens, but I guess if he's still sleeping with his gas mask on, it may take more than the Ravens to get him up. Stanley is a starting tackle as a rookie, Tunsil is a guard. Comparisons between the two are hard because the position that Stanley plays is far more difficult than the one Tunsil plays.

Instead of criticizing the fun kicking rule, or beating up on players and calling them busts, I think I will talk about something relevant like our run defense, who by the chart is tremendous so I would like to mention 2 things. 1. Sign Brandon Williams. Just do it, no excuses, I don't care, he is like Ngata in his prime, or better, we need him bad. Other players improve when he is playing beside them. That is a person we need to keep as we have few of them on this team 2. Lets shut down the Miami run game and make Jay Ajayi useless and then lets go to town getting Tannehill to throw balls to our secondary. Granted, our secondaries not so great on the catching side, but I think we are due for a couple interceptions in this game once we shut down Ajayi. Tannehill is known for poor decision making. Let's go Joe... Go Ravens!!!! SLIDE!!!!

When we had that genius play where everyone was holding the other team and it was a great play except for I just thought it was the Ravens blocking the way they normally do. (rimshot). To quote Harbaugh from 2008 "Penalties are unacceptable and it has to do with discipline and that is on the coach." 8 years later we either lead the league or are second in the league in penalties and penalty yards. Just goes to show that knowing who is at fault and fixing it has a completely different meaning to the Ravens. Then I thought about being told we were going to develop wide receivers and improve our offense, 8 years later, we are still waiting, but at least now we know the Harbaugh timetable to working on fixing our issues is when hell freezes over.

Every game I sit and ponder before the game starts, what are we going to do this week that is going to change the way things have gone with our offense. I envision some long throws that open up the running game, or even some run game to pull some safeties in. I imagine this will be the week Joe actually sees a blitz and checks into a play and scores (he has done that before with Wallace, once). I imagine play calling won't be the same repetitive run and pass plays we have seen since week one and we will be able to keep a defense on their heels. I sit and imagine every thing I can think of to make this team better but when I watch the game I just get confused about what happens at the castle during the week. I can see all this really hard work and dedication and planning and we come out and do something different than we have done all week and I can lay my head down and sleep well knowing that the team is hard at work and the status quo just isn't okay. However, after watching game after game where everything from input to output is identical to the last 5 game, I am convinced that there is an Animal House frat party that goes on there 24 hours a day, a lot of hilarity and fun and they go out and play on Sunday and produce what one would expect if they sat around and partied all weekend. I would love to go one day and just see from top to bottom, meeting rooms, before practice workouts, practice, after workouts, etc... I can not believe that there are that many grown men working on generating plays that get receivers open, run plays that develop holes. and blocking schemes that allows Joe more time than a brief glance before dropping it off to his back and that they are at it 80 hours a week.

Joe is atrocious, I hate to sound like a broken record but the guys mechanics, footwork, release, etc.. are trash. Remember Trestman said he was going to work with Joe and get him to release it faster and all the good mechanics went to the dump to get him to get it out, supposedly to hit open receivers, who now can't get open. Face it, none of that crap we were fed worked and Marty is trying to piece together a garbage system the whole time we have a QB who can't hit the broad side of a barn and should take a pay cut to put those pieces around him he knows he needs to win. If Flacco looks at film and doesn't think he is robbing someone, then he has no morality. I would like to think he's not the I soaked you too bad you made a bad deal guy and will work that deal because it is a horrible deal for the team. He is not a good QB, he's not even a good backup NFL qb. When are we going to do something about getting him to drop his salary to get quality players or when are we getting rid of him. Has to be one or the other because people will be fired because Bisciotti isn't putting up with this for the length of Flacco's contract. Joe was borderline pre-injury (thus the elite, not elite crap) and post-injury he is 5 more years of this trash. Don't think Steves buying that.

I would rather see Asa Jackson out there than Wright. Being the high school teammate of Jimmy Smith doesn't magically transfer some special coverage dust over to him. He is just bad and I am at the point where I would try someone who may be a diamond in the rough as opposed to just rough. Still waiting for a GOOD, LOGICAL explanation as to why we are dominating running the ball at 6.3 yards per carry and we stop running. Has been every coordinator except Kubiak. Grow some Harbaugh and make demands of your coordinators, suggestions only go so far. Funny how Gilmore is well when his job is on the line because Nick Boyle is off suspension and his roster spot is in jeopardy. That really makes me wonder because that seems to me to be an underlying issue with the Ravens. Don't know who what where or when, but there used to be a saying that you can't make the club in the tub where this team has turned the tub into a personal club, serving drinks, music, watch tv and has become a home away from home for a lot of these guys, over and over and over. Either we have a pathetic medical staff or are players are being allowed to grow soft or showed up here soft already and are just sitting back cashing the checks. I don't think we have a bad medical staff so if you are asking am I saying guys like J Smith, E Dumervil, Et.al. are soft, I say yes. No way I can look at SSS, T Siz, Yanda, our QB who just came off double ligament surgery last year, and if I don't take that stand then I am disrespecting these guys. They won't come out and say it, I will, these guys are just cashing checks.

Which 80%? I think you would have a tough time coming up with 20% and just because the same people keep repeating the same message, doesn't mean there are more of them. Like you said, "I said before", if you said it before and the bandwagon didn't fill up, then pretty much you're on you own and are speaking for 1. Lonely bandwagon you have going there.

No, you were a one armed half a man who didn't even play most of the season but was fortunate enough you had a QB who had your back and stood up for you when you needed someone to stand up for you and got you to the playoffs where you could make it about you. You dropped interceptions that could have cost games in the playoffs, you were routinely beaten by Vernon Davis to the point he got in your face and told you that you were nothing and you had nothing to say except McPhee jumped right into Davis and knocked him down. This team didn't carry each other, because you were carrying no one, this team carried you. Stop trying to make more money and get more power by pretending you are something you are not. We all know in Baltimore what went down and we were cool with it. Now that you want to run your mouth, maybe more of the truth of you needs to come out. You had a fan base who had your back when we didn't know if you were a murderer or not, as it is you were guilty of abetting a murder and paid and paid and paid your way out of it. We love the Ray that spent his time here, bled for the Ravens and was honest about who and what he was, this Ray Lewis is not loved in Baltimore and if he wants to get it back, then it will take more than a half baked apology with back hand insults still included.

My five thoughts and I think we have shown that we can compete with the best in the league now that we have got ourselves in a little better position. Had we won two of those four we lost, we would be looking like superstars but here are my 5 thoughts. If everyone is healthy and ghost players like Dumervil finally show up, 1 Bengals - we will beat them twice 2 Dolphins - not what people thought they would be 3 Eagles - have been figured out 4 Steelers - did it once, can do it again 5 Patriots - okay, so we may lose one, but this one isn't out of reach. The NFL is fluid and to say at the beginning of the year that the Ravens toughest stretch will be at the end was a little premature. They can easily go 5-1 during this run and end up being a 10-6 team.

So far we have had a number of starters miss games. Say what you will. Flacco played pretty good for a guy who just came off of a surgery to repair two ligaments in his knee and doesn't miss a snap. doesn't miss a game, barely misses a practice, yet we have have people eating up roster spots that simply produce when convenient. If Ray wants to talk about Joe and his motivation, how about Jimmy Smith, big contract guy for his position, supposed leader, but he is no more outspoken than Flacco and misses time, Where is the Ray Lewis speech regarding him and his lack of effort. Elvis Dumervil has played this Ravens team since we went 5-11. He made sure he wasn't going to be part of that again so he has an excuse every single game as to why he can't go out and participate. He is high dollar, high profile, but I don't see him doing much leadership. Where is his Ray Lewis speech about lack of effort and lack of motivation for Elvis. Ronald Stanley who is our #1 draft pick who has barely played more games than he has sat and was a full participant in practice and not play. He's a rookie but as the #1 overall team pick then he should be grabbing the reins and start at least getting the snap count right. Where is the Ray Lewis speech about motivation and dedication. Why do we have coaches who put players like Stanley, Dumervil, etc being full participants in practice and eating up time that the people who will really be playing in the game are now not getting. I don't get it, you can pick on every player you want but when it comes down to it, it is poor coaching decisions.

No matter how long the Ravens are in existence they will be the forever hated, whipping boys of the NFL. Whether people want to fault Art Modell for moving the Browns and are carrying that grudge, or the people who want to hate us for Ray Lewis, or Ray Rice, or the most un-elite/elite QB in the history of the game, to John Harbaugh who happens to be Jims brother who everyone seems to dislike to Steve Smith who just makes everyone mad. It doesn't matter what we do, how we play, or whatever, there will always be the pundits who hate us. We could have the number 1 offense in every stat, the number 1 defense in every stat and the pundits would find a way to justify placing the Ravens 10th on every power listing. WHO CARES. These pundits probably know less than the average Ravens fan and is going to make prognostications based on a couple of lines they read from another pundit who doesnt know anything about the Ravens. People laughed when we said we would shut down LeVeon Bell and Antonio Brown to beat the Steelers. Our own local radio talk show beat us up all Steelers week saying we didn't stand a chance and it will be the same this week. However, the Cowboys look very much like the 2008 Ravens. Great running back, some good pass catchers, rookie QB who can do just what he needs to do to win,etc... Best way to beat us back then, stop the run and put the game on Joes back. Thats what we do to the Cowboys. Shut down Elliott completely and make Prescott win the game. Maybe he will, maybe he won't, but I won't be surprised in the least if the Ravens come away with a 3 point win, not surprised at all. I remember a couple other years where we were counted out, had some losing streaks, got hot late, started to produce, Joe got hot, we got in the playoffs and the rest is history.

another? he's been the best blocking fullback in the league this year and if im being honest he did the right thing on that block - he forced the player to go around him and then looked for the next block - there's no point in pancaking someone there because the play is already past that potential block Thank you for saving me the hassle of educating someone about the basics of football. It is funny how people think they see one thing and then that player becomes the epitome of the point the person is trying to make. I know as fans it is easy to go from off to 350 in 1/2 a second, but slow the roll their buddy.

Just the nature of doing business in the NFL. If I was to look at the Ravens and think, where does this team need help, I would guess on offense, more specifically wide receiver. Which would lead me to activate Campanaro who is just as good as Asa Jackson on the punt return side and is probably better than all but two wide receivers we have. Joe needs to get the ball out quick, other than SSS we don't have that quick twitch guy who can get open from the line, the only other guy who meets that criteria is Campanaro. The Ravens has become a world of fake injuries, overblown talent, patchwork drafts, questionable decisions, hazy doghouses, etc...

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.

Flacco is recovering from a two ligament tear in his knee. I have heard more than one doctor and expert who said that he wont be back to 100% until next year. Although it is healed, there is still weakness in the knee, takes longer for him to get moving and still some pain which Joe has alluded to. However, we are starting to see a progression of a couple things, Joe getting healthy, Marty is leaning towards a Kubiak style offense, Marty has Joe focusing on short drops, footwork and accuracy and that started showing in the second half as well. Its also a matter of figuring out what everyone does well and does well together. Our RBs are completely different than what we thought they would be, our offense has two rookies on the left side who learn more each day, Perriman is also starting to learn as was evident by his catch last night. Wallace and Flacco just get more productive every game. You know, if all of this from front to back from drafting to coaching to playing was easy, there would be a lot more leagues. Unfortunately, there aren't even enough quality QBs to go around so you have to figure it all out. We are getting close, real close. Dallas may be that statement game that says we have got it fgured out.

I didn't even realize he was doing a mannequiin. I just thought it was Joe's normal speed so I missed it both times.

Good game but everyone know that getting to Flacco and causing him to fear the rush efffectively shuts down the ravens offense. Dallas won't have a bit of a problem making Flacco so afraid that he probably doesn't complete half his passes, suffers a major blow out and will probably have to change his pants IF we don't find a way to fix this line. I made the comment that we have a bunch of old guys up front and we are paying the high wages of the old guys and letting quality new guys walk. We can't afford to do that anywhere on this team. Where would we be if we kept KO, OR Kyle Long would have been a great backup addition to have but although he was signed elsewhere, we argued over his knee and now we have no backup save THE flacco-killer. The Ravens FO has become procrastination central. When solutions come up they make up an excuse why it won't work , its a little hot and we will wait something will eventually pop-up. So we wait and something else comes along but its a little too cold so Ozzie says no. And then something else comes along and its too hard, or too soft, or too whatever. Sounds like Goldilocks (Goldislost). Nothing is ever just right to pick up a good quality player but we can turn down good food from the table to go dumpster diving for talent. Sorry for the metaphors, just am out of ways to say this team needs to add quality pieces and if the QB has to take a paycut for that to happen so be it. The best QBs in the league have all done that when the team needed to add key pieces. We've shown we can win, now lets go out and get the pieces to nail down a post season spot. We are now past the trade deadline so the only thing we can pick up at this point since the boat already sailed on trading for quality players, is the dumpster of refugee players that can't make it on other teams. All the diamonds in the rough are gone Ozzie, you blew the chance to make the team better until the next draft. Think Ozzie either has too many or the wrong people whispering in his ear.