NeilfromBarbados

I am also confident in the WR group. However, I am not always confident in the plays that are called and the QB wants to give me a heart attack every Sunday with some of the throws. The O line needs to protect this guy better... give him a second longer, and he could really be good.

Lardarius Webb is a class act! He was never the biggest, strongest or fastest, but he played with heart and no fear. Whatever you decide to do, Webby, you will always be a Raven! God speed!

West is a good RB but I don't know if he can beat out a healthy Dixon who looked like a game breaker late last year but if west does beat him for the job its still going to be an up hill battle for him to hit 1000 yards hope he kills it this year lets go ravens nation

Why can't we have both West and Dixon? If one beats out the other, it should still be a 2-headed monster.

The Ravens need a more consistent pass rush and inside pressure. Defensive backs will always benefit from that. If QBs like Brady and Big Ben have time, they kill you. You can only cover for so long. So if the QBs are getting off their spots and improvising, so are the WRs, and there will be opportunities for big plays. So whether we go for that top rated CB or not, we have to find ways to pressure opposing QBs. Our edge rush was dismal in 2016.

What are Ryan Mink, Eisenberg, Ellison and the other Ravens' writers supposed to say? Flacco stunk it up for yet another season? But he did. This guy looks brilliant at times, and will turn a great game into another 1 or 2 "dumb interceptions", according to Rich Gannon and other commentators. Every other QB shows improvements. I blame part of it on the Ravens organization: there is no consistency at the OC position... Agent 89 said it. The language and terms change from OC to OC, and you just gotta learn the new guy's way. None of the OCs want to stick around, because it's way too much of a challenge to wake up this sleeper of an offense. I love the Ravens, but I am more excited to watch Redskins games with my wife because their offense looks far more exciting.

Since Ray Rice's penultimate season, we have stunk up the running game, and rather than continue to feed West and Dixon to get #5 into a flow in certain games, they let those guys turn into blockers, receivers or bench warmers. The D can't continue to keep us in it. According to Warren Sapp, defense doesn't win championships, but it gives you a chance... and he would know. If you can't put points on the board or stop turning the ball over or move the ball in every way possible, why not try some balance instead of airing it out 600 times a season. Even their boss said is was bad.

I think it's foolish to believe that if Jimmy Smith was on the field that we would have limited them somehow. The Cowboys have been rolling over everybody this season. The offense needs to be able to score more points. Period.

Sorry to hear about Lewis. He's a very good guard that will be great one day. I'm not always sure about Urschel. He's really smart (really, really smart!), but he's not as mean and nasty as he really should be.

Watch... once a couple of Pittsburgh players get in his ear with the smack talk, his blood might start to boil. We may see Wallace get mad like how Torrey Smith used to get when playing Pittsburgh: mild mannered like Clark Kent, but turns into a crazy dude after kickoff.

I agree with a couple of fans on this board: Zuttah has bee stuttering lately. He tripped Flacco twice in the last game by getting pushed back. I don't think getting all of the starters back is the only answer, but I'll take it, because it has to be better than it has been. Maybe then they can run the ball better and create some play action opportunities. O linemen like to run the ball because they move forward. They go backward on pass plays. They establish their physicality on run plays, and which man doesn't want to dominate the guy in his way? Somewhere, KO is giggling and gleefully rubbing his hands together.

I heard that Torrey Smith is in the trading block in SF. If only...

I hate to blow people up when they're down, but Flacco is the worst starting QB in the NFL this year statistically: most attempts, lowest completion %, worst QBR, lowest average yds per throw. It's hard to describe. Injuries? All teams are banged up. Offense can't get it going, and D is on the field too long, and expected to make magic. I hate to complain, but it is really tough to watch at this point.

This is getting tiring every week. Too many excuses. Each week, the Ravens find new ways to beat themselves. If it isn't penalties, it's injuries or turnovers, or something else. They are not a good team, despite what Harbs or anyone else may say. "You are what your record says you are," said Parcells, and the Ravens have lost 4 in a row, after barely having won the first 3. No commitment to the run game, vanilla offensive schemes, throwing interceptions, zero red zone efficiency, poor conditioning, poor tackling, poor blocking, and the list goes on perpetually. Yet here we are, the fans, hoping that the Steelers lose so that we can stay a game back (and they lost, but to NE - I wish they both could have lost). Flacco is the worst QB in the league right now. Perhaps he should not cash a couple of game checks. He may have earned the big contract back to start the 2013 season, but he's definitely a joke right now, new OC or not.

I disagree with Eisenberg. The main problem is identity. Who are the Ravens? Are they going out there and hitting people in the mouth? Nope. Are teams seeing them on the schedule and circling the date? Nope. Are they aggressive, mean and nasty? Nope. It seems like the Ravens have gone a bit soft. The O-line used to be frightening. My friend Zeus (God rest him) was mean as a rattler, and Ogden would repeatedly humiliate pass rushers. Vonta Leach was simply not a human being. Don't even talk about Ray Lewis. Derrick Mason took hits, and kept on playing; arm hanging down and all. There are too many others to mention. The Ravens NEED to find that identity again. Coach Harbs is tough as nails, but the message is no longer sinking in. The whole AFC North has gotten a bit soft, but the Ravens have fallen a bit further than the others. It's not fun to watch anymore. But there is hope. I am hopeful.

we need a jamal lewis/jerome bettis type of back for short yardage and change of pace situations. juice has not done it and he always seems to slip or trip over himself after making a catch. west and dixon are the same type of back, allen is a dime a dozen and taliaferro will retire on ir. hope this patchwork line can open some holes so flacco does not have to pass the ball 45 plus times and run for his life. start perriman from now on. he needs the reps to get better

Wow! You should be in the Ravens' front office. You seem to have an answer for all of the ills.

I think that I trust Ozzie, Harbs and Eric DaCosta a bit more, though.

Some of these posts are fun to read. There's even a guy on here that states that Flacco isn't playing up to "what we're paying him"... as if he is signing the checks. LOL! It's great to love the team so much that we take some ownership. But when people don't perform, somebody gets fired. Should it be the play caller or play maker? Either way, I'm not in their front office, so I sit on the outside and watch their decisions. The players got to make plays. Perriman dropped a HUGE catch, then didn't get both feet down on a near TD. Flacco was throwing this dink-n-dunk stuff. K Dixon couldn't get traction. Many other infractions. Perhaps a new OC could provide a spark. We'll just have to see.

This is getting silly. T West is an absolute battering ram, but he doesn't get the ball as much as he should. The O Line has woes, but that's what practice is for... other guys have to step up. Flacco needs the run game to get popping, and then he can do his thing. He's not the type of QB that can always take over a game, particularly in the regular season. My wife is a Skins fan, so she's happy. But we lost to the Skins? At home? C'mon man!!

Don't do it Pitta! As much as I love to see you on the field, cut your losses and save your body. I am concerned that we could see him go down for good...

I like the move. It's insurance... Pitta needs to preserve his body and retire. Boyle is ghost. Gilmore is currently fragile. It's a good move. He's got to work on blocking, but with that speed and receiver hands, he could be trouble for defenders.

Go ahead and retire Pitta! Don't be crazy! I live in a neighborhood where several Ravens lived. I remember the great Mike McCrary walking with 2 canes. I remember speaking with my boy Orlando "Zeus" Brown (God rest his soul!), and he always said that he retired before any major injuries (apart from the eye), even though he said that the team called him to help protect a young Flacco... he refused. Pitta already has a SB ring, and nothing to prove. As a fan and a human, I hate to see these guys go down week after week with torn ACLs and other major injuries. Pitta's next one may be the one. So he shouldn't risk it.

Torrey Smith is a class act. There are those on this board who, unbelievably, think that he ran for the money. What was he supposed to do? Stay and get low-balled? Any of us who is working a job that we really love, when presented with a great opportunity to make our family more comfortable, we'd all jump on it. The ones who don't are either crazy, or the boss has some blackmail-ish stuff over their heads. Torrey did his thing here, and he did a great job. I always remember how he would turn it up a notch against Pittsburgh. Rather than snicker and be snide about Torrey, show him some love, but cheer for our Ravens this Sunday. Torrey is cheering for the 49ers.

That sucks. He was just coming into his stride, too. Wishing him a speedy recovery.

I have a lot of respect for Coach Harbaugh, but this is rhetoric that he HAS to say. What else is he supposed to say? We keep losing by 4 points or less... our secondary was looking lost, and the inside linebackers were looking lost... worst of all, Josh McCown threw for over 400 yards on us. What? If a Ravens fan went to sleep after either of our SB seasons and woke up today, they would not recognize our defense. Come on Harbs! Get 'em straight!

Does Sarah Ellison really believe that Kraft would be upset with the Ravens because what may or may not have been said about Deflategate? She must be crazy! As much as we "dislike" the Bengals and the Browns, no other teams make Ravens' blood boil more than Steelers and Patriots. I know that they really hate when they play Baltimore, because it's always a dog fight, and more than any other team, the Ravens hit the Pats in the mouth in their house. So forget Deflategate, Sarah Ellison... it's so 2014. Kraft KNOWS that if there's a Ravens-Patriots playoff game, not many other teams have gone into Foxboro and showed up to play as we do.

This does not look like the run offense from last year, as much as the RBs are saying that it is. Maybe they need to do something new, because as good as it was in 2014, OTHER TEAMS WATCH FILM, and probably figured it out. But, it has to be said, the offense is not the problem as much as the D. The pass rush is sorry, and the secondary is a joke. I am a big Webb fan, but he's out there looking like he needs a map or a GPS. The secondary aren't covering anybody, and they sure ain't tackling. Both Dalton and Carr threw for nearly 400 yards. That equals NO pass rush and NO tight coverage. And the penalties are no joke. Penalties had more yards than the run game for 2 weeks in a row, I believe. Somebody needs to step up the leadership most of all.

I think that we over-analyze these things sometimes. Folks on here telling other receivers to step up. If you watch the games and the replays, Flacco is missing key open players all the time. he has got to read the field better. In addition, our offense has not had a consistent OC, so we always have a vanilla offense. It's still better than Cam Cameron's run-run-deep ball nonsense. Receivers got to work hard, but our O is too vanilla. But if you can run the ball better, anybody who watches the game knows that it makes everyone better.