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8 hours ago, Raven'evermore said:

 Speaking of atmosphere; wonder what it be like if the NFL brought in actual DIs and established a militaristic atmosphere for training.  R. Lee Ermey types.  Half the players might drop out, but I'd imagine the teams would be that much better for it, also nobody could say they weren't earning their pay checks.  LOL. Just a thought.  Not really serious.

Are YOU John Wayne? Is this me?

Here it is.. 

Wins-

Buffalo

Cleveland 

Cleveland

Jacksonville

Pittsburgh

Jets

Giants

Bengals

Eagles

Washington

Miami

11-5

We lose to

Oakland

Bengals

Steelers

Pats

Cowboys

14 hours ago, Tank 92 said:

Caps were very tight, almost seemed nervous in that first game. Of course, as you mention, both teams were on the PP/penalty kill for a crazy amount of time. The game flowed a bit better last night after they settled down. Holtby is in form and a beast. Glad they held serve.

Good to see the pens lose yesterday. They were arguably the hottest team in hockey the last few weeks of the season. Time for them to chill!

Yeah Holtby was impressive in game 2. 

  THough I think the Flyers played a better overall game than the Caps, the caps were blocking shots all night, and of course the goaltending. 

 I'm a Flyers fan, die hard since age 6. I can honestly say that the Capitals are just a better team right now, though I'm definitely proud of the way my flyers are fighting. 

  Its just great to see two tough teams, two excellent coaching staffs and two excellent goaltenders in a series. 

Suprised to not see a thread already so I'll start it.

I know at least a few here are watching the Capits-Flyers series. 

This is going to be a great series. Caps are up 1-0 after a great very close game 1. 

 I thought the referees called way too many penalties against both teams in game 1. Traditionally, they let all but blatant stuff go in the playoffs, so hopefully we can see more 5 on 5 tonight!

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It took an insane amount of bad calls, fluke plays, and injuries to put us at 5-11 last year..and even then, this team wasn't a pushover by any stretch. 

 This year, there are a lot of if's...players that have to come back healthy like Flacco, Suggs, Monroe, Gilmore, Smith sr etc..

If we draft well, are relatively healthy, and Flacco is able to come back stronger,then I don't see any reason why they shouldn't  make the playoffs. 

As long as the NFL doesn't try to screw us via terrible scheduling

I don't see 10-6 or 11-5 as a stretch

Yup, time flies when you're having fun. Or as one frog said to another, time's fun when you're having flys.

But yeah there have been some great moments on here for sure

I remember we had Denver after our bye week one year, and that was easily the most we've been trolled ever. Two solid weeks hearing about how Kyle Orton and Knowshawn Moreno were going to pummel us...pretty sure we beat them 60-10 or something rediculous lol. 

1 hour ago, rmw10 said:

Smith has 1 more year. Aiken is a UFA after the season. Wallace is essentially on a 1 year deal unless he really rebounds here. Perriman still might not actually exist. 

Its not an immediate need, but there is a long term one at the least. 

I've been a Ravens fan since 1996. Receiver is a need EVERY year, just how it goes here. 

However, I do like the deal for Wallace. Low risk, high reward. He gives the Offense that much more speed on the outside to go with Perriman Smith and Aiken...I'll say this, we've had WR groups who could all burn..but nobody could actually catch the ball (if it ever made it there) we've also had groups of 3-4 possession receivers who just couldn't stretch the defense vertically. 

 This is (if all stay healthy) we will have as diverse a receiver group as we've ever had. 

 I'm honestly excited to see what they can do. If we can establish the run game, this could be a pretty potent attack. As always though, time will tell. 

I became a fan back in 96, watching Vinny Testaverde and Michael Jackson absolutely light people up! 

17 minutes ago, Winchester said:

47 minutes ago, beanfigger said:

Couldn't resist, could you? Under throws "every" deep ball with "average" time, though? Don't even think Flacco was mentioned to draw that comment.

How could this NOT turn into a Flacco thread? The idiocy amuses me. 

Let's not forget that through the first 6-7 games the starters played only a handful of innings.  

Most of the guys out there playing won't even sniff big league ball. 

  If they started 0-9 in the regular season,then I would worry. 

I can't wait until they draft another 1st round bust of a quarterback this year. 

On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Vergil2008 said:

You can tell even the country feels so. Ravens/Steelers is almost ALWAYS on SUnday Night football through the years. And actually I recently found out the Steelers have YET to beat us on SuNF since like.. 08 or something, cool fact.

Here's another one, we've beaten them 5 of the last 6 Times that we've played them. Not too shabby! 

Sucks to see D Smith go, he's still imo the most underrated mlb in the league..although last season he looked just a little slower and wasn't nearly as good in coverage as he had been. 

 Unfortunately, in today's NFL linebackers have to cover. 

 There were a lot of blown coverages by Smith and Mosely particularly early in the season..a lot of Times because it's a passing play, the secondary gets blamed..but a huge problem that I saw when we were playing zone was that the LB's weren't getting deep enough drops and teams were able to attack over the middle. 

 Who knows, they may still bring Smith back on a cap friendly deal..we've seen the Ravens do that several Times with veteran players. 

 I haven't seen Brown play enough to really know much about him..is it because we've had better starting options ahead of him or is he just not that good? I guess well find out. ..

Good thread

Here are my boys;

-Femmie and Brendan Ayanbadejo..Both extremely high effort guys. 

- Buddy Lee(aka Kelly Gregg) He wasn't the biggest Dlineman out there but he did a lot of the dirty work that made those defenses great. 

- Chris Chester..an unsung hero of that 08 team. 

On 2/27/2016 at 6:54 AM, Tank 92 said:

 

There's no risk here and who knows, stranger things have happened. How great would it be to have a young beastly bruiser who could be counted on for the tough yard. We haven't had that for a long time.

Throughout sports, not just the NFL you see players turn their careers around with new teams..so who knows? I don't think that should be the expectation, but just look at Justin Forsett. None of us here thought he would have taken the starting spot and be a top 5 rusher in his first year. 

16 hours ago, cobrajet said:

Roberto Alomar over Bobby Grich, Frank Robinson over Ken Williams, Dave McNally over Mike Mussina, Mike Cuellar over Urban Shocker, Hoyt Wilhem over Stu Miller, and Harold Baines over George Sisler.

16 hours ago, cobrajet said:

Roberto Alomar over Bobby Grich, Frank Robinson over Ken Williams, Dave McNally over Mike Mussina, Mike Cuellar over Urban Shocker, Hoyt Wilhem over Stu Miller, and Harold Baines over George Sisler.

Thank you for mentioning Harold Baines. And most definitely Dempsey over Hoiles..I'd go Weiters over Hoiles anyway.

Hmm wondering if they worked on Parades' defense in the off-season? He has a good arm..

Yes they won the Super Bowl..but are they REALLY among the all time greats? Just for fun, let's. Count how many other ravens defenses were actually better than the Broncos 18 points per game.

-99 Ravens (17.3 ppg)

01 Ravens- 16.6 ppg

03 Ravens-17.6ppg

04 Ravens- 16.8 ppg 

06 Ravens- 12.6 ppg 

08 Ravens- 15.3 ppg 

09 Ravens- 16.3 ppg 

10 Ravens- 16.9 ppg 

11 Ravens-16.6 ppg 

14 Ravens actually allowed just .4 ppg more 

Yeah to people not as used to seeing dominant defense on a weekly basis, they are the second coming..but we all know better

Also that's just the Ravens..not counting other teams such as the Steelers and Titans for example that have had some nasty defenses too.

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Another thing that gets overlooked is the fact that the Ravens offense in 2000 was ungodly bad..the fact that they went 1 MONTH without scoring an offensive TD yet still finished 12-4..remarkable. 

Back to who they beat in the playoffs which was the authors main point, the ravens beat:

Denver- They were slouch,remember they were only a season removed from back to back Super Bowl wins. Greise and Ferotte actually combined to throw for 4500 td's and 28 td's while Mike Anderson (later a Raven) had a monster year, rushing for 1500 td's and 15 td's. They had the #2 offense in the NFL that season, scoring 485 points..by comparison that would have been the #3 scoring offense last season..only 4 points behind the #2 Cardinals. 

Then they beat the Tennessee Titans who were 13-3 and only had Steve Mcnair and Eddy George to go with what was also a VERY tough defense. They only allowed 191 points which is still amazing, and actually allowed less total yards than the Ravens. 

Then they beat Oakland in the AFCC- Oakland was a VERY good team back then. They had the #3 offense in the league which would have still been top 5 last season, and a top 10 defense. People forget that Rich Gannon was a VERY good quarterback he actually had over 500 yds rushing that season and 4000 total yds..The Raiders scored 3 points that game. 3. THREE. That's it. 

Then we obviously know what they did to the Giants in the Super Bowl..which would have been a shutout had it not been for a return TD for the Giants. 

No defense has ever dominated in a SB game like that one did..honestly..I can't really name a Super Bowl team since 2000 that would hands down beat that Ravens team. The didn't just win ugly games, they battered opponents, they made opposing offenses tap out. 

Yeah the Broncos were good last year, and I was rooting for them. But the aren't nearly the greatest.

On 2/4/2016 at 5:20 PM, Steve0x said:

Yeah but they only play in Toronto and no where else in Canada. They should play in other cities than just Toronto

I think it might have something to do with the fact that Toronto is close to two NFL cities in Buffalo and Detroit, plus Toronto is generally an English speaking City, where others like Quebec or Montreal are mostly French Canadians who probably have less interest in Football. 

Now, I'm sure if they played a Seahawks game in Vancouver it could go over well. 

They should play the PRO Bowl in Calgary in January on a frozen pond. Then I'd watch it. 

On 2/11/2016 at 2:22 PM, ALPHA said:

Agreed, and in it's place the NFL needs a D league. When someone like Dak Prescott is a top 5 QB prospect it shows just how badly the position has declined over the years, most if not all QBs are ill prepared for the pro game and are often cut before they get a chance to develop. The game would be bigger if not for the lack of competitive parity.

Agree 100 percent. I've been saying it for ages 

So the Denver post just put out an article comparing this year's Broncos defense to some of the greatest of all time, and even went on to say that they were better than the 2000 Ravens because of who they beat. 

 They were a good defense, we saw that first hand. But, lets not get carried away here.. Comparable to the 2013 Seahwaks? Definitely .Better than last year's Patriots? Yes. 

 By their reasoning, the 2000 Ravens beat Rich Gannon, Steve Mcnair, Kerry Collins and Gus Ferotte. While the Broncos beat Ben, Tom, and Cam. 

By comparison, the 2012 Ravens beat Luck then made Manning (still in his prime) look miserable IN Denver, dominated the Patriots offense IN Foxboro, then had only allowed 6 points to the 9ers before the lights debacle. I'd say that they fit somewhere between the 12 Ravens and 13 Seahwaks. 

I think people have forgotten just how stacked that 00 defense was with talent. 

I lost it when they referred to the Broncos stadium as Medicinal Marijuana field at mile high. Rofl

hates the word "elite" such a fad word. 

Love how the media hypes these things up now. They even give snowstorms names! This one is "Jonas" lol For the last few days i've been reading nothing but "potential record breaking snowstorm" ect.. It seems like every year there's a new "storm of the century" 

Anyway, here in Delaware it's not really snowing anymore, hopefully that's the end of it.