OUravensfan

Remember when Haushka (sp?) was going through a mechanical glitch where he hooked everything and it cost us an epic comeback against Brett Favre and the Vikings, and yea Billy Cundiff essentially ends this debate. I'll never forget that night.

Since we all experienced Billy Cundiff, I think we know the importance of a kicker that is money.

I think we can all be greatful we didn't give a contract with a 28 million dollar cap hit to a nose tackle.

Steve Smith did drop 4 TDs but even this season he still had more 300 yard multiple TD games than all of our other qbs combined this year. And just one pick six lol, hard to compete with Schaub on those.

I think Flacco looked pretty confident when he audibled on 4th and 1 in the Super Bowl. But he doesn't show emotion! I mean this is literally insane, idk, maybe it's like a president sentiment type thing, half the fanbase is always going to want the backup when things aren't going our way.

Me too, they setup the bengals so well. I was livid when it happened, they're a joke and don't deserve to have an upside right now after that lol. Throw Tampa on that list too, they set up the bengals with a comp pick 3rd round for Michael Johnson, then they cut him, bengals get him back for a discount and they still get a pick. You literally can't make this stuff up and recently it's been benefiting them. I hate football

Yea that sucked, I knew that would fire up the crowd and his stupid spike would follow. But then we miraculously regained another 14 point lead....And then Rashad Melvin happened.

I watched the games, never missed one and was at the Bengals game where his inaccuracy became even more glaring in person when you see how open some people were. I watched him beat Pittsburgh by having a lot of time to throw and for the most part checking it down, inaccurately I might add. That's the 31st ranked defense I promise you if Joe was back there for THAT specific game he dominates them similar to 2011s home opener. But Pittsburgh knows Flacco is 10x the QB Mallet will ever be and they would have been foolish to bait throws and not bring pressure.Like someone just said above me, he made no throws Joe can't or wouldn't have made, and he certainly hasn't shown he can consistently make the throws Joe does make. And he looked very rattled, he threw a WR screen into the dirt that nullified a great play and TD from Butler. The point I'm making with McCarron is he actually threw multiple touchdowns in multiple games which is more symbolic of strong play versus Mallet throwing 2 TDs in 2 games and a few picks where he's lucky it was kept to a few. Not to mention a few temper tantrums that are embarrassing considering this is from a guy that was just kicked out of Houston for oversleeping and has less career wins than Flacco has playoff wins. I get the on the team for 2 weeks but he has more starting experience than McCarron does. Poor example though because I think I could throw some TDs to AJ Green lined up against Wright, I'll give you that. Ryan Mallet has no impact on Flaccos contract negotiations, if nothing else we have a backup that's better than Schaub.

Brady scrambled a ton in that super bowl

Surprisingly strong play? I want him to restructure too but Ryan Mallet is irreverent in this discussion, he shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence as Flacco, he's a joke. We probably have a 2011 opening game type performance against Pittsburgh if Flacco was starting, we need to stop acting like Mallet threw 3-4 TDs a week. It's not like he did what AJ McCarron did in his short starting period, granted way better talent, but Mallet looked terrible on Sunday and average against Puttsburgh.

I'm with you man, I just want to win period, this season was beyond frustrating and certain things happened that really made you question if this really isn't supposed to be our year. The ideal situation is we can do both well to exploit match ups and or not be dead in the water if one unit is off a given day. When you talk about 4 different qbs it does look puzzling they threw so much, maybe some of it was forced to see what we have at WR going forward? Yesterday showed no team should be afraid of that unit, I love Aiken but correct me if I'm wrong, he has one game over 100 yards and it was largely due to a Hail Mary? He seems to be a good possession WR but he is not a game changer.

Not saying I disagree but I always get irritated with the, so and so is 35-3 when they have 30 carries or more type stats. They're incredibly misleading when the pass was used to gain a lead and open up the run, a lot of times a good share of those carries are accumulated in the 4th quarter after the lead has been obtained.This game last week for example, I understand you don't want Mallet throwing 60x a game, but the defense knows that too and force you into having to pass. If we ran the ball more we would of lost by more, they weren't getting it done more often than not this year. Games where we were running it well we didn't necessarily go away from it, we just didn't have too many of those. So I guess we do agree, we need to improve our running game to be more efficient and produce more big plays and setup play action to that guy we drafted this year.

A lot of 4th quarter meltdowns and we can all agree and be thankful San Francisco is not part of that list.

I don't know if it's the DC, the secondary coach, or the personal, or a combination of all 3, but when the ball is in the air, I can't think of a team that has a worse sense of ball awareness. It is laughable at points, we have safeties hitting WRs full seconds before the ball even gets there, we have guys afraid to track down the ball in the air, players afraid to turn around, etc. This really becomes evident when you're at the games in person and can see how long the ball is in the air and just how are secondary is tracking it during its flight relative to the WR. We need more ball hawks, I don't care if they're on our team now and they just need to be coached differently or if the players with this capability are just not on our current roster, just fix it next season. We need more playmakers on both sides of the ball. It will be hard to watch if we have constant let downs in the 4th quarter with a Dean Pees defense again next year, very hard to watch.

And the Oakland game, the defense needs to be more opportunistic, the turnover ratio is more attributable to the lack of turnovers forced versus conceding turnovers which also needs to improve and can improve with better pass blocking and more consistent separation from WRs.

That notion is literally insanity, it really emphasizes the lack of perspective some of the anti-Flacco crowd has and he is very Brady like with the whining, very un-Brady like with his play and unearned whining.

If that's what having a larger presence is than I'm glad Flacco doesn't have one. Mallet is a joke.

Definetely a better option than Schaub and Clausen.

Accuracy? Looked awful throwing downfield and threw a WR screen into the dirt that should of been a TD

And every time we needed a crucial stop we couldn't get it besides the Pittsburgh games. Bengals week 3 sums up my opinion of what we'll see more of if Peas stays and I can't watch that secondary incompetence for a 3rd season in a row. At a minimum, Hewitt better be gone. This defense got no turnovers, that needs to be fixed next year, and it seems like a different governing mentality could help with that.

I agree he definetely has problems shutting down their offense, it's not so much that he gets torched, but that he fails time and time again at stopping them during crucial moments in the game. And some of the matchup decisions on Green in big moments have been brutal and we've paid the price.

Yea nothing physical obviously, but there will probably be a lot more animosity going on between the fans compared to what the environment was like today.

Being there today and watching them lose reminded me of being there last year and watching them lose. That play still makes me mad, it took away a great play from a good rivalry.

I'm very excited and I'm going to the game to hopefully see some fights between the team and the fans. It should be a very hostile environment on both fronts.

This season sucks