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"If some of you can give Joe more time to get himself together Devin needs the same thing! " It's not anywhere close to the same situation. Why not they both have two injuries! Joe missed a few games last year, Hester hasn't played since 2014. Comparing the twos rehab and injuries is a difficult task. There is really no comparison at all. The problem is, when skilled position players don't play football for two years they have a tendency to start pulling things when they get back on the field because they have been away from being in "football shape" for such a long time. Joe isn't suffering from that because he hasn't missed that much time. Hester has. In addition, you have to consider age and wear and tear as well. Hester is older and as a returner has been hit significantly more and harder than Flacco has. Also, Flacco was involved in training camp, Hester was signed days before the season started. My opinion when they signed Hester and now is exactly the same. I said at the time they signed him he had been out too long, would be on the injury report constantly and we should have kept Butler, who by the way can catch anything close and can also GET OPEN, something our present receivers are having quite a bit of problem with. When Steve Smith Sr went down, we desperately needed Butler but instead we got an injured Hester who has fumbled more and missed more games than games he has played in. And since our front office has bumped their heads and are just in shambles now, they signed him (and Forsett) before the first game so now we are on the hook for their salaries (and cap space) if we end up cutting Hester if he cant keep playing.

If we gave up Butler to sign Hester and then end up cutting Hester next week that will just be the icing on the dysfunctional cake that has become the Ravens. We just can't seem to carry out the simplest of player personnel decisions correctly. Every one they do they mess up and we end up without the guy we need and we get stuck with a dumpster refugee for the stupidest of reasons. To listen to Harbaugh and Rosburg talk, Hester was not only still the guy who could get it done, they could hardly wait for him to show he was still great, yet they didn't even test him enough to see if he could come back and perform after missing two years. That's because of their special teams background and they wanted SO bad to be any part of Devin Hesters history. I have yet to see any player who missed just one year that didn't come back and suffer some muscle tear or strain whether it be hamstring, bicep, or whatever. Once again, leave it to Ozzie and John to let a guy go who catches anything around him and keeping a guy who hadn't been on the field in two years and it will soon will be three. All I have to say to Ozzie is, you better take those draft picks you store up like they are gold and use them to get at least 2 picks in the first round and 2 in the second round to start filling these holes, or should I say caverns that the Ravens have. We need PLAYMAKERS, and rarely do they come in the third round or later (have some teams scored later with players, yes, but rarely and we never have). We don't need functional players because we can't coach them up, we need legitimate first round picks that can become pro bowlers. AND we need them NOW. When you have playmakers like Lewis, Reed, Ngata, Rice, Boldin, etc... you can draft 15 players and hope for a diamond in the rough. When the only great player you have is your kicker, Tucker, then you need a bunch of picks in the first couple rounds because you don't even have a core to build around. I know they thought Flacco would be that guy but he is not and he needs to take a paycut so they can get the players around him so he can be successful.

Why do we always have to "coach up guys" or "speed up their learning curve". Other teams get rookies who go out and produce day 1, other than Mosley, we haven't drafted a ready to go first rounder since...since I can't even remember when. We need a change with the player personnel staff. If Ozzie isn't to blame for all these bad draft picks, then certainly the scouting staff we have has to be. And if Harbaugh has input into player decisions, Bisciotti needs to relieve him of those since he clearly has failed at choosing players and coaching them. Maybe he better concentrate on coaching and leave the player personnel side to someone else. I don't know what the problem is with draft picks, trades and free agent signings. We can't seem to do well with any of them when other teams are doing great. After having a losing record after winning the super bowl in 2012, Bisciotti is going to have to make some sort of change in the person that decides who is or isn't drafted, who is or isn't signed and who or who not to trade for. I say make that the domain of Ozzie and lets see who is at fault. If the problem is corrected when Ozzie is in control of it all, then we know the problem, Consequently, if we still have issues and Ozzie is in full control we know where the problem is. I don't know but we have to find out soon and get it fixed because it clearly is not fixing itself. We can't win when we have players that aren't as good as other teams. Finally, its hard to be competitive when you are paying a 60 million dollar qb 120 million dollars. He isn't good enough to make up for 60 million dollars worth of players we would have if we paid him what he is worth, not what he earned by winning the 2012 super bowl. Sorry, its a what have you done for me lately league and Flacco has done nothing since the 2012 playoff run.

I guess he is glad. When you are as bad as Elam has been since he was drafted and still have a spot on a team, then that alone is reason to have a party. As far as giving him too much, he is a first round pick, and he covered the slot receiver the majority of the time he was at Florida. But even watching him at Florida, he was routinely beaten by the slot receiver so I think that putting him at corner was a blunder, not because they gave him too much, but because he was never successful in college doing it, what makes you think he can do it in the NFL. I said when they signed Hester and cut Butler it was a huge mistake. I said at the time that Harbaugh and Rosburg, being Special Teams coaches, wanted to put on their resume they coached the "Great Devon Hester". That is the reason he was signed, certainly not because of any abilities he has shown since 2014. What should have been the dead give away on Hester was when we played Atlanta in 2014 and Brendon Trawick went down and tackled Hester on the opening kick return on the 9 yard line. I knew when Trawick was able to do that by himself to the great Devon Hester that Hesters time had come and gone. Two years after than and not playing in the NFL, we decide to sign him like he was jut out of college. SMH What is even more pathetic is to go back and listen to Rosburg and Harbaugh continue to defend him over and over and over when everyone but them seemed to know Hester needed to retire. But John Harbaugh knows everything when it comes to player personnel. Isn't he the one who cut all our good players and replaced them with dumpster refugees that no other team wanted and then acted like he thought he was going to win.

We won't get Torrey Smith, Ozzie and John only shop for dumpster refugees, they aren't interested in players that can actually play. They just put bodies out there. No Torrey, no tackle, no one who can help this team because our FO and our Head Coach are obviously out of touch with reality and are "excited", according to Harbaugh about the upcoming games. SMH. Did anyone expect Harbaugh to say that Stanley is in his doghouse and that is not why he isn't playing? Sure, lets all believe that after being involved in full practices all week he couldn't play but Jimmy Smith was in a non-contact red jersey all week and he was active. What he says and what the facts obviously show are two different things. And to think, after catching Harbaugh in lie after lie about why guys are inactive or were relegated to the practice squad for eternity or just cut to think anyone believes what he says to me is just hilarious. I hate first that my team is losing, I really hate the fact that our FO and coaches are all show and no go. If talking BS scored points then Harbaugh would lead the league. What is the proof that Harbaugh is feeding us BS about the draft, the players he chooses, the people he makes inactive for games, the people he cuts, where is the proof? It is in the 5-11 season last year and the 6-10 season we will have this year. If nothing else shows that Harbaugh and the FO has been horrible since the super bowl it is the fact that since we won it, we have a losing record. To me that is the ultimate proof of what Harbaugh and the FO has done and is doing to the Ravens. Harbaugh rode the coattails of the players that Billick brought in and slowly but surely one by one they left or were released until the mass exodus and mass cuts after the super bowl. Since then we have been a very bad team and who else is to blame but the people who assembled (or disassembled) the team and the coach.

The majority of players that injure their knees come back slower than prior to the injury. One thing I have noticed with Webb more than anything is just how slow he is. He is slow to react, slow when running and slow in decision making. With Weddle back there who is also not the fleetest of foot, we really needed someone faster back there. The last two games, receivers have caught passes 10- 15 yards in front of Webb and he can't react or run fast enough to even slow them down so someone else can get them. Lets be realistic, which the front office and coaches have a problem being, Webb is done. After his multiple knee injuries he just is not fast enough to play in an NFL secondary. Would have been nice to have Jalen Ramsey back there because we got nothing out of our first and third round picks, which would have gotten us Ramsey. But knowing Harbaugh, who is to say, maybe he would be in the doghouse now and inactive the way our other first rounder is. Never have I seen a first round player practice at a position all week long without issue and then be inactive when the game comes around. For those that fail to acknowledge the facts, the fact is he was ready to go, was able to play, even said that we had to ask the coach why he wasn't playing and Harbaugh lied and said it was an injury. Hard to fathom how Jimmy Smith can practice in a red jersey and be active, but our first round pick wasn't protected all week but couldn't play. Harbaugh is up to his old tricks again. Seems like he is trying to lose and lose his job. Why would you do that?

Two brutal, honest thoughts. First is that Flacco is broken. We have not seen the 11TD, 0 INT Flacco since 2012. Joe was never a mobile QB. He could get you a few yards here and there because no one expects him to run, but since his knee injury he is a statue making protection the most important part of making Flacco successful. For whatever reason, our coach has had Stanley inactive for the last three weeks when Stanley has been blunt that he could go but he says we have to ask the coach why he's not playing. We could have had Ramsey who would make an incredible difference in out back end and we couldn't give up that pick we got with Kaufusi, who is just another one of those injury prone rookies that we seem to be drafting, and Stanley. With Stanley who isn't playing and Kaufusi who isnt playing we could have had Ramsey who is playing and at a high level. I mean, if we are going to choose to sit our first round pick when he says he can play, then we might as well have traded him away and Kaufusi's picks to get Ramsey. Coach's decision to leave our QB vulnerable when our first round left tackle says he can play. Putting Stanley out there means that we can alter the whole line making it better. Coach's decision.... which leads me to my next point. Second, Harbaugh wants players with that "killer" mentallity to put games away. Well, you got rid of all those guys and got a bunch of choir boys who tuck their tails and drop their head and say nothing and go home and be happy with their families but are willing to accept they are losers. We have a team of Joe Flaccos. Guys that put in their time, lack any motivation or energy whatsoever, don't run to the line or hurry when time is running out, they are guys who are there to punch a clock, cash a paycheck and don't really care. I know they don't care because guys like Lewis, Reed, and other leaders would be up in people's faces and demanding they play better. We have a team of guys who go sit on the bench, drink water, discuss what was on TV yesterday, joke and kid around and don't care they are out there embarrassing themselves and us at the same time. Harbaugh got what he wanted and now that he has it he realizes it doesn't constitute an NFL lineup. Thanks John and Ozzie for two straight losing seasons. Could you please get some guys with some fire, starting at QB?

Stanley is out again after the third week in a row that he said he was able to play and basically you have to ask the coach why he is inactive. So he we go again with the Harbaugh doghouse, it cost our franchise QB his shoulder last week and now he puts him out there again without the best line possible. Is Harbaugh trying to get fired? Does he want to go coach with his brother? Based on his in game decisions, who he is sitting and why, and the systems we are running looks like we are trying to lose. Give up points, give the other team more opportunities, lock up a rookie man to man on a superstar, sitting healthy starters and having Flacco throw 50 times a game (and things haven't changed with Marty). We are already down as a result of decisions before the first snap.

Based on info that is out there, apparently Flacco isn't on the injury report so I would anticipate he is playing. With Weddle the defense isn't as leaderless as it was the last time it lost Suggs and Orr is doing a good job filling in for Moseley, but we need Moseley back. He has 3 int's already this year and was on track for another pro-bowl. Jimmy Smith has to be the most missed. With the way the league has gone pass happy, without at least one shut down corner you can lock up on a receiver and forget about allowing you to concentrate your resources on the remaining wideouts, you become vulnerable all around. Filling the secondary from the practice squad is a recipe for a highly motivated Geno Smith to throw for 400 yards.

Don't think that's the case. Maybe a few fans will be calling for Mallett. Bottom line is Joe is our QB. This would be 1 game. Nobody in the Ravens organization is going to give up on a franchise QB based off the performance of a backup in 1 game. This isn't Dallas where Dak has half a season of starts for the organization to consider....plus Flacco is WAAY more durable than Romo. *knock on wood* Flacco's durability is in question since his knee injury and now a shoulder issue that isn't allowing him to practice all week. When have we ever heard that Flacco missed a week of practice due to an injury? Never. He is older, has taken a beating over the years and you can tell in the pocket (and I will be nice here) he is tentative. Mallet's previous issues had to do with off the field problems which appear to be resolved. I think that it will be more than a "few" fans if Mallett comes out and lights up the scoreboard. However, you are accurate in the fact that Flacco is Harbaugh's boy and no matter what, if Joe can play this year, Joe will play. I think with Flacco's age it is time we start looking for the next franchise qb in the draft. To get a good qb we are going to have to finish like we did last year so we can get a high pick. I can honestly say, if we go 5-11, Harbaugh will be looking at QB's in the draft because his future with the Ravens is now tied to the productivity of Flacco and if we do that bad, then it is possible that Harbaugh might make a change to save his own job.

My grandfather had an old saying. "Wish in one hand and poop in the other and see which fills up first." I think that says it all about putting in rookies against proven vets and expecting them to produce. After all, we stuck rookie Tavon Young on Odell Beckham and the next thing we know, Beckham is in the endzone making the entire team look like the 3 stooges as Weddle wipes out Young and Webb looked slower than my grandmother trying to react to him as he ran right by him. Someone made the comment that he looked old and slow and thats because he is old and slow. We need quality players to rebuild and that isn't happening with 3 picks in the 5th round, 3 in the 6th and a couple in the 7th. Those late rounders need to be turned into trades to move up in the first and second round and get quality players. We are a team of late rounders and we wonder why our rookies aren't faring well in the NFL. We are asking division II players, who couldn't make college teams in division I, to come out and be superstars. It has rarely turned out that way. If we can't replace good players then we need to figure out how we can keep them. We let McPhee walk and we look at our pass rush, it is non-existant. We let Torrey Smith walk and our wide receivers rank 28th in the league and we let KO and Monroe walk and our offensive line is pathetic. We let high quality players go, replace them with late rounders and expect a miracle to happen. Those days are long gone. This is a different NFL than it was just 5 years ago. This whole sport has been raped of quality by handcuffing the defense so that wide receivers can run up and down the field every week and score 50 points. There will never be another 2000 Ravens because the league has made it so there can't be. We have never been able to draft wide receivers and we don't have an accurate QB so we can't be one of those high scoring teams. Therefore with the NFL rules the way they are and with the way we operate, it looks like the we are going to be bad for awhile.

Personally, I think the problem with the Ravens occurs during the offseason and not during the time they are actually playing. We knew when we moved Webb to safety he was too slow to play in the secondary anymore but we ignored the facts and moved him there anyway. He was too slow to even react to Beckham as he flew by him even though he caught the pass 15 yards in front of him. We knew Shareece Wright isnt a starting NFL cornerback but yet we ignored it and stuck him out there. After being shocked the first week, he is what we knew he was. Drafting a rookie at left tackle and then turning around and dismissing your backup. We knew when we let Monroe go that our backup was Hurst and yet we did it anyway because Harbaugh didn't like his stance on things that have nothing to do with football. We knew SSS, Suggs, Yanda, etc... were long in the teeth, but we still put the load on them to carry the team and now we are short players because we are relying too much on old players. We could have had Ramsey which would have shored up our secondary and since Stanley has missed half his games and Kaufusi hasn't even played in one, we should have known. Once again, we have 2nd and 3rd round draft picks that just aren't producing. You should be able to plan on starting your first and second rounders and outside of Jernigan, I can't think of a second rounder that has amounted to anything in recent drafts. I am sure if they polled the front office people like they have in the past, the Ravens FO which usually ranks in the top 2 or 3 would be a lot lower considering the results of the last 5 years of off season activity.

This is where I wish we would have kept Josh Johnson and ditched Mallet. Besides the fact he played better than Mallet this spring, with the O-Line worries, Mallet is no more mobile than Flacco. Johnson certainly could have caused defenses a much bigger problem with his ability to move around and run for first downs. However, had Johnson been on the roster, then prior to today I would have been screaming to get him out there. Especially, since Spags, the Giants DC, was our Defensive Backs coach and he most certainly learned when he was here that if you put any pressure on Flacco he folds like a two dollar bill. That is what they did and that is what Flacco did, However, had we had a chance to put Johnson out there it would have screwed up the whole Giants game plan. Once again, we ended up keeping the wrong person. Personnel decisions are killing us.

I didn't think I would ever say it but i'm looking forward to seeing Elam on the field. Webb looks like a moth around a light bulb. Carl Davis is just another whiff. I have to agree with you. Moth around light bulb, deer in the headlights with the reaction time of my grandmother. Yeah, Webb is no better at safety than he was at corner. Another old guy paid more than he was worth. Stanley can't get healthy, Kaufusi was a waste of a draft pick and those two added together equal Jalen Ramsey. Could we use him right now. If we had moved up, and traded the Stanley spot and Kaufusi spot, that was what Dallas wanted for the draft pick that would have gotten us Ramsey. We could have kept Monroe (he couldn't miss any more time than Stanley has), been no different on the line, but we would have added a pro bowl safety to go with Weddle. I was a straight up get Ramsey guy but accepted Stanley when he was producing. As it stands now, he is Eugene Monroe version II.

As defenses continue to embarrass our secondary, I am reminded of the unscripted poll shortly after winning several games as to whether we wanted to keep Stanley/Kaufusi or should we have traded up and gotten Ramsey. The majority at the time chose Stanley/Kaufusi. In addition, with Webb moving through the secondary like someone's grandmother, I am re-thinking whether trading our first round pick (Stanely) and our third round pick (Kaufusi) for Jalen Ramsey might have been a better decision. Granted, hindsight is 20-20, but our secondary could have used a playmaker who could have played at either corner or safety and with Hester down, he was also a skilled returner. I initially wanted Ramsey but got on board after Stanley's first couple games. However, Stanley has now missed more than half his games and Kaufusi never got onto the field. At this point in time, where initially I bought into the way Ozzie handled it, the more the season drags on, the more it becomes obvious that Stanley isn't helping, Kaufusi can't help and Ramsey is eating it up as a Jaguar and is sorely missed in our secondary. If unscripted put it to the poll again, I think the majority would rather have Jalen Ramsey now, I know I do.

Let's face it, the Ravens just aren't that good. From the FO who has blown I don't know how many drafts in a row, to the HC who has lost the last 3 games by being aggressive and making poor decisions, and the players that drop passes, can't get separation, can't tackle, can't pass the ball, can't block, can't do anything productive. We just are not a good team. From top to bottom we need to change how we do things. Maybe we should give up some draft picks (that we end up cutting anyway) and move up and grab playmakers in the draft. Or maybe take some of those draft picks (we end up cutting anyway) and trading for a CB that can actually cover or a WR who can actually catch. Maybe we should stop being so aggressive seeing as how it has cost us 3 games in a row and a 6-0 record. Maybe we should light a fire under our QB and DEMAND that in the last 2 minutes he actually runs to the line to get a play off or DEMAND that he looks at the play clock so as to not lose 5 yards on the final drive. There are so many things that need changed on this team that it isn't even funny anymore. We have made a major decline and Bisciotti needs to start demanding change because apparently those people in charge right now can't see the forest for the trees. Based on what they say they actually think they are on the right track. A losing record since the super bowl says otherwise.

I guess I don't understand the article. In the beginning he says that the problem isn't all the things he said later in the article are the problem. Then tops it off saying its kicking FGs not touchdowns but aren't the penalties, injuries, and all the other stuff he says the reason we are kicking FGs instead of getting TDs. As far as put them away instinct, we don't even have the motivation to hurry to the line or get a play off without a delay of game penalty in the last minute and a half, much less have the motivation to put them away. Where I blame all these things, I blame mostly the coaching. How do we not provide help with Beckham who prior to the last game winning TD already had several big plays against us? Instead the answer is to put a rookie on him. SMH. Then we have been within a field goal in the last two games but we decided not to take a field goal earlier in both games that would have either won the game or set us up on the last drive to win it with a field goal. Our head coach tells us the reason is that he is aggressive and thats why they make those calls. I tend to not think of it as aggressive I refer to it as gambling with the rent money. I believe it is being too arrogant to know the implications of your actions by not taking points earlier in the game, like your offense can just rip off 20 or 30 points at the drop of a hat. I don't know whether anyone told Harbaugh, but our offense sucks this year. If your offense sucks you take points when you can get them you don't gamble with what you can't afford to lose. Harbaugh is a gambler who is so addicted to gambling that even though he knows that it is his rent money, he feels he is going to win so there is no risk. Hey John, they have a phone number you can call to get help with the gambling away our victory problem you have. You know, where you are gambling away victory after victory like you are a division leader when in reality, you just blew the rent money three months in a row. Now that the eviction notice is in the mail, he is like that gambler who is now blaming the electric bill, the cable bill, the car payment, Uncle Sam and everything else except the problem he has with gambling. Yet when questioned about it he says that is who he is and he isn't going to change. This guy needs an intervention.

I guess the front office has found the secret of life that Dr. Frankenstein discovered. Or they must have because instead of going out and finding good players to trade for, they keep resurrecting bodies from the Raven graveyard and I guess they think they can take the broken pieces and put together a football player out of them. Yep, as I see the Packers made a trade with the Chiefs to pick up a player they needed, the Ravens call out the grave diggers to drag up an old body they think will magically be something they weren't before.

And we chose to sign Yanda to a long term deal and let KO walk and here we are again with another aging vet signed to a long contract who can't make it to the field. I also want to point out that we chose not to move up and get Jalen Ramsey because we wouldn't be able to sign Stanley and Kaufusi. Where are Stanley and Kaufusi? Injured and unable to make it to the field. Stanley has now missed more games than he has played and Kaufusi never even got through the first week of training camp. Jalen Ramsey however happens to be balling out and with our secondary the way it is, we surely could be doing a lot better. When I see Webb standing 15 yards in front of Beckham and Beckham goes by him before he even can make an attempt to tackle him, we need someone else back there. That someone could have been Ramsey, But thank goodness we didn't get him and saved that third round pick for Kaufusi who has been so productive for us this year.

To have a day like Beckham you have to have the lousy coverage of the Ravens and the lousy defensive calls of Pees and since we don't ever play ourselves, that's hard to do. And if you consider our QB and the lousy defensive teams we have played, we still couldn't come up with a serious passing game. So if we want a receiver like Beckham we have to get a different QB and find another team who doesn't double team the best receiver in the league on a fourth and 1 with the game on the line. It doesn't look like that will happen so get used to what you have. We have the best receivers we have had in years and Flacco couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, I am not even sure at this point if he even sees the barn to hit it, he is so inaccurate. The last game he just straight up quit on the team. When the defense gave up the last TD, you could tell when he came out he wasn't putting his all into it. From rushing to the line, to missing open receivers, to delay of game penalties, he wasn't into the game, wasn't trying, wasn't putting any more effort into it than was required to snap the ball.

And you have as many people asking why we didn't pressure Manning and why didn't we at least have over the top help with Beckham but that he should have been double teamed to start with especially on 4th and 1 with the game on the line. Young gets wiped out by Weddle, (Pees called the play) and they score a TD. These people are calling for Pees head so you want to make head coach out of the person who just blew the game because he put a rookie CB on the best receiver in the league and gave him no help at all. AND after Manning had a 35 passer rating when blitzed, we don't put any pressure on him and almost zero blitzes the whole game. There is plenty of blame to go around, but it sounds like you have an axe to grind with Harbaugh so facts don't figure into your arguments.

We knew we were going to be suspect in the back end when Jimmy Smith went down, yet, we provided no cover over the top to help Young or Davis when they went up against Beckham. No DC in their right mind would leave a third string corner on their own against what could be the league's best receiver. I have seen team after team double him which was why he was having a bad year, teams adjusted, that is, all teams except the one that Dean Pees is in charge of. The one touchdown by BEckham, Weddle thought he was reading the mind of Eli and cut across to get to the tight end and not only was he wrong and caught out of position, he took out Tavon Young on the play. If we are going to fire Trestman for what he did, we have to start looking at Pees. No pressure, no coverage, and no help. Will Davis is supposed to lock up head to head with the best receiver in the league, when he couldn't even make the active roster to start the year. What is Pees thinking? What is Weddle thinking? We can afford to give them a couple yards and a first down, we can't afford to try to be a hero and blow the whole game. I like Weddle, but that was just stupid football. And Webb is useless. He was standing 15 yards in front of Beckham and all he had to do was slow him down and his reaction time was like that of my grandmother. He was up to him and by him before he even took a step. Not only can we not draft wide receivers, since Ed Reed we haven't drafted a decent safety either. I hate the fact that my team has reverted to the Kyle Boller Ravens but without the defense provided by Ed and Ray. Sorry to say, but the Ravens are in a sorry state and once again, it doesn't look to get any better. And trashing Butler for Hester who has proven to be a detriment not a benefit is really starting to make zero sense as our need for a receiver with good hands increases and Hester either doesn't suit or when he does he fumbles or lets punts drop and roll inside the 5. But Harbaugh and Rossburg were drooling over themselves thinking they could coach the great Devon Hester and make excuse after excuse as to why we desperately needed him when everyone else in the league knew he was done, but being a special teams guy, Harbaugh and Rossburrg had to have that on their resume.

My head hurts just trying to understand what this means and how you came up with it. Ozzie is ultimately responsible for the draft. Yes Harbs gets credit for a SB. So does Flacco. The former, in going for it on 4th down again, conceivably lost the game for the second straight week. The latter is working on getting our new OC fired. Actually, ridiculous calls in THREE straight games, cost these losses. actually, if we hadn't gone for it on fourth it would have only resulted in a field goal and three points, that wouldn't have assured a victory by kicking the field goal, we lost by 4. The other two games, yes, I give you that the HC decisions lost the game, but this last game actually proved he should have gone for it because at the end we needed the 7 not 3. It was a horrible play call to run a sweep but the decision to go for it was a good sound decision. Personally, I thought a fake run up the gut with Joe rolling out and two tight ends running a shallow and a deep route in the endzone would have been better and if we fooled them, Flacco could have run it in. With as little movement as Joe showed all day, no way the Giants would have thought Flacco would bootleg. Instead we get a straight toss when our O-Line consisted of 4 players who didn't start in those positions at the beginning of the year and were getting pushed back all day. I give Marty a B- for his day, but he did miss that one big time.

I see alot of improvement with this OC. I saw we threw the ball downfield that when it doesn't always mean a completion, we saw Perriman go up and get one, we saw Wallace grab one, and we saw some PI calls, so I don't think it was a total loss. We also ran alot more, at least in attempts and had stretches of success. However, I feel there is only one important point to this whole game. Flacco. What is it with him? I have said it before here and on twitter, "cool" shouldn't be mistaken for lack of effort. When you are at the end of the game, and everyone is hustling and the QB just walks up to the line like he has all the time in the world, its a problem. Then just zones out and doesn't even look at the play clock. I know he knows how to, and can run, his knee is fixed, so I don't get the lack of effort, not only at the end of the game, but during the game as well. He looks like he would rather be somewhere else and is playing like it. Just totally oblivious to the fact that Wallace was out on the right with no one on him for 20 yards and we only needed 25 for a TD. Had he not overthrown him, it would have been a first down on the 3 or 4. Same with the bloop over the top throw he made with Wallace and Pitta both behind their defenders and he lobbed it 50 feet in the air, nowhere near them. Flacco got Trestman fired with his lack of effort, if I am Harbaugh, I am realizing that I am next if someone doesn't light a fire under Flacco. Perhaps a little effort might help him with his inconsistency as well. Since Flacco's knee injury he is almost acting like that is his excuse for not trying to avoid a rush, or not move faster than a snail. At this point in time, with the line issues we have we need a mobile QB. Of course, Tyrod is gone, and when we had the chance to secure Josh Johnson, who would fit in real nice right now, we decided Ryan Mallett of all people is a good backup for Joe. I am all for sitting Flacco the next time he goes through on of his inconsistent, pouting fits. The end of the game reminded me of when Cameron used to run a wildcat and Flacco would just stand out there with his hands on his hips. When questioned he said it was "Harry High-School" stuff. Maybe he needs to sit some plays, run some wildcat or bring Mallett in for a couple plays. Joe needs something to get him motivated. For the money he is making I expect a whole lot more than we are getting and if we aren't getting it, then lets get someone else in there.