Purple Punishment

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    Not to be rude, but whomever decided that FB and Twitter were better vessels for fans to connect, needs to have their head examined.

     

    I come here for quality football talk and I will certainly not get it anywhere else because I DONT HAVE A FREAKING SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT. I can't wait to have out quality community here battle with twitter trolls and give up on team social media. 

     

     

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    I joined this site in 2008 when I was deployed and the ravens were on their way to the playoffs. I literally lived in this forum in my downtime and I learned A TON about the game of football as broken down by our members. I feel it's a real mistake to move away from this as BR.com is looked at by all Ravens fans. I don't have social media accounts so I guess the terribly written articles at NFL.com will be my comfort now

    I remember this forum being much more active than now. However there is still a lot of activity here. I seriously hope the powers that be will reconsider.....

     

    if if anyone decides to make a Flock 2.0 board. I'll happily join and support in any manner I can

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    3 hours ago, gtalk12 said:

    I thought the game was pretty simple to me, the defense played well and aloud Ryan to do what a QB does which is take advantage of turnovers which to his credit he did. Once the Pats finally got some momentum, the Falcons rather than run the ball put it in Ryans hands to make some plays. Instead, it turned into a turnover which really isn't his fault and a MASSIVE sack that put them out of field goal range. Statistically, he played a great game....as the game continued and someone needed to come up big and make plays it happened less and less.

     

     

    You can not expect to shut down a Brady offense all game if you are not on the field enough to keep him off.

     

    Exactly! The falcons offense couldn't stay on the field and the defense eventually got gassed! They looked completely exhausted on the GW drive

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    19 minutes ago, cobrajet said:

    IMHO, I know they say defense wins championships, but in this day and age, that is very difficult. Defenses are just too hindered in today's game like they never used to be in the past. There are some teams that, when healthy, can really get after the quarterback (like Denver a few years ago) and some teams that have a very good secondary (like Seattle a few years ago), but I don't think we will ever see another Super Bowl ever again where a defense holds an offense to zero points like the Ravens did in Super Bowl 35. It just won't happen. You can have the #1 run stopping defense in the league and a pretty good pass rush, but if your secondary is average it is going to be tough beating a team like the Patriots. You absolutely need an offense that can constantly keep putting up points.

     

    With that said, do you think The Pats have been so good because they had the foresight of what was coming in the league and evolved before the rest of the NFL

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    19 hours ago, Grapple Raven said:

    As for changes to the coaching staff, I may be in the minority here but:

    The rushing stats since Castillo was brought in in his first full season in 2013-2014:

    2013-0214:  30th in rushing yards, 30th in rushing yards per game, 32nd in rushing yards per attempt.

    2015-2016:  26th in rushing yards and 26th in rushing yards per game, 24th in rushing yards per attempt.

    2016-2017:  28th in rushing yards, 28th in rushing yards per game, 21st in rushing yards per attempt.

     

    The one outlier was 2014-2015 when Kubiak was here with Dennison helping installing Kubiak's strategies with the offensive line:

    2014-2015:  8th in rushing yards, 8th in rushing yards per game, 7th in rushing yards per attempt.

     

    You have to ask the question is this why we aren't running the ball more?  Because we can't run it with any success?  We had lesser backs than probably what Castillo had in all those years, especially since Kubiak's year was without Ray Rice and he did much better.   What is Harbs seeing in those stats or is he blinded by loyalty?  Castillo might can coach fundamentals and technique, but he has no business being in charge of a run game, offensive line or whatever the hell title Harbs gives him to justify his job.  The common denominator in the stats above is Castillo.  This is beyond ridiculous.

     

    Juan isn't the problem. It's abandoning the run because your banged up offensive line cannot run block well. Joe hitting the check down Charlie because the line isn't great at pass blocking either. When healthy we are a force! When unhealthy, just reference how a team performs with backups like Connor Cook for the raiders coming up soon.

     

    Both coaches should've been canned. To quote Brandon Marshall: 

     

         "The best way I can describe it is, having a diaper on and never changing it. And just sitting in that diaper".

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    Our problem is talent evaluation and scouting. We haven't nailed a draft in forever. We've missed the mark on way too many picks since our 2012 season.

    Taking chances on developmental players with top picks is a testament to the ability of our scouts. Everyone says it's Ozzies fault, ultimately it does fall on him. We don't have the same scouts we had when we put together monster defenses. We need a better scout team

     

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  21. Posted · Edited by MTRavensFan
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    6 minutes ago, Bohica5 said:

    Harbs has had plenty of "time"..........No More Time!!!!!! he is done!

    Ozzie had plenty of time to draft quality players, what did he give us? Matt Elam, Art Brown, Kamalei Correa. Should he be done, giving Harbaugh a bunch of weak players and saying make chicken salad out of...

     

    Harbaugh doesn't build the team, he makes cuts and employs a coaching staff, and tries to put the best product on the field. He gives us the best of what Ozzie gave him 

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    3 hours ago, TNRaven24 said:

    IR or not, more than likely going to end up a bad pick.  I still don't see how you pass on Noah Spence there.

     

    You don't pass on him. We got cute thinking Kevin Dodd would have fallen to us in the second, then we traded back thinking Spence would be there and we got served a big helping of yet again another Bad Pick

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