OUravensfan

If it's this bad now just imagine if we beat Cincinnati and Mallet plays decent.

Flacco put up 30 at home vs Cleveland and San Diego without Smith and threw 3 TDs vs Jax. Not to mention Smith dropped 4 TDs this year.

Which is why I tend to speculate that the small minority of our fan base (which thankfully has become much smaller) that is dissatisfied with our QB must not have been watching 2001-2007, aka the wasted talent years.

Thank you, been trying to drill this one home, it doesn't appear to be resonating, apparently Flacco isn't capable of 275 yards and 1 TD.

I definetely agree with this

Our offense was top 10 with Flacco and isn't anymore without him. So all this production hasn't dropped isn't true.

One game against the second worse pass defense in the league, at home, with great O line play and limited game film for the opponent..1TD, and some decent YAC left on the field. I want to beat the Bengals next week but I am terrified to read the forums if Mallet plays well.

I'm particularly mad at him for giving up two 14 point leads in New England

Top 10 with, not without. And how many TDs did our offense score for the other team. Mallet threw one TD pass, I forgot Flaccos career high is 1.

Oh I know, I just want people to realize there's a small sample of QBs that could do that, and we want to move on from him for Ryan Mallet.....

Yea but the trolling is working on me, I have to say something lol. Seriously if Joe got that much time he would of torched them, but something tells me Pittsburgh would have blitzed him more as he is more of a threat than Mallet for obvious reasons. The fact that this is being entertained is embarrassing, we really think Flacco isn't capable of 274 yards and 1TD against the 31st pass ranked defense?

Joe's never played well against Pittsburgh and can't beat Ben so yea I agree with you.

Good problem to have, with an aging Forsett lets keep the depth. I always like a rotation that can feature a change of pace as well, hopefully this RB committee can rival the 2008 crew.

I can't stomach losing to the Bengals the same way 5x in a row. Maybe he'll put Wright 1v1 on Green next.

True, wish we could channel that energy into the Bengal games where it seems the opposite is true. Even last year minus the Ben game with 6 TDs, we shut them out at home.

No they're not but I think he's referring to the OPI in Miami, the illegal motion no call vs JAX and the Illegal Contact call in Oakland. Of these 3 I want to beat Oakland the most, watching Carr celebrate like he won the super bowl was frustrating.

Top 10 offense with him this year, not top 10 without, what more do you want. We have bigger problems, a defense that can't close out games, lack of downfield weapons, no pass rush, a secondary that lacks ball awareness. QB is the least of our worries and thank god for that.

Honestly an easy qb replacement assessment for me is this, can they do what Flacco did in 2012? Can they consistently go into New England and play well? I hope Mallet plays lights out next week and some QB desperate team offers us a 1st or 2nd round pick for him, crazier things have happened...Matt Flynn

If he restructures and keeps his cap hits to what they are the first 3 years of his contract (10-13 range among qbs) would you drop the criticisms? Not for anything but if a certain WR holds on to a pass in 2011 then we're in back to back Super Bowls. Big drops in 2010 playoff campaign as well and he had a good regular season that year too, we play in a balanced offense, he makes clutch throws in big moments and is a big reason we led the league in wins from 2008-2012. Stafford has some impressive numbers but has 1 win on the road against a winning team in his career, more to it than just stats. We also play in the AFC North and traditionally build our team around defense and a strong running game, all deterants to big QB numbers.Yea I'll give you his rookie year, but his clutch throw vs Tennessee to Heap was a sign of things to come. It's a shame, Vet Flacco takes that team to a super bowl for sure.

I meant between Mallet, Clausen and Schaub since you were saying they were matching his production. And not that it's that important but I think Flacco has thrown for the most yards vs Cincinnati than anyone this year.

Maybe, but he has thrown a TD to him each game so far.

Hopefully our Odell Beckham is on his way.....

If Palmer is worth 2 1st round picks then Flacco is worth 3. But no team will make that mistake again, Oakland set up Cincinnati so well with that stupid trade and we pay the price for it.

Yes and they've been doing that the last 4 years

Unfortunately agree, maybe Arizona. Can't tell a difference with the QB back there.