Bat-mite

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    5 minutes ago, bioLarzen said:

    There's one thing seldom mentioned - one that I think was painfully apparent last nioght. Flacco has been quoted several times throughoput his career saying football is a very simple game. And eindeed, he's been often criticized for playing too siple: no variation at all in his pre-snap and snap routine, play-reading so repetitive it's almost automatic at times, making it extremely easy for opposing D's to anticipate, and maybe his most annoying of antics - an apparent total lack of a sense of urgency when there is urgency - mainly in the ends of halves. Tens of seconds flat out wasted as the O sluggishly jogs - or often walks! - up to the new LOS after a completion, with less than a minute on the clock and one timeout... And then passes/runs going to anywhere but towards the sideline, with no chance of stopping the clock... The O's 2-minute routine has become a genuine shame. The most obvious example might have been the Cowboys-game where down by 2 scores, Flacco orchestrated a 2.-minute drill that, although kept proceeding down the field, was slower than a snail, mostly passes and runs up the middle with no chance to strop the clock, and arrived at the red zone with about 10 seconds on the clock, with no timeout... And that was supposed to be enough for a touchdown, a recovered onside kick and making it to at least FG distance with the clock stopped... The "pace" and total lack of a sense of urgency on the O's - mainly Flacco's - side ALONE made it impossible to save that game. He gave the O no chance.

    Yep, Joe, NFL-level football can be played as a very simple game. But it can also be played as a very, very complicated, nuanced and intricate one. You know who looks at NFL football like this? Bill Belichick. Check his success rate and decide whether he's wrong thinking about football as a compléicated game, or you insisting that football is a simple game even at the NFL level...

    Flacco's attitude IMHO needs a serious, decisive change. Being cool even when most QB's aren't has its advantages - but it also makes him look like he couldn't care less whether the game is won or lost... And while the results more or less came, nobody thought it would actually be the case - but now that they don't come so "easily" anymore, one starts to wonder whether Joe values W's as much as anybody who's ever achieved greatness in the game, has or does...

    Agree 100%.

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    1 minute ago, potomacpitbulls said:

    6. I bet Gruden is still telling everyone he meets this morning that the Pats rushed three but he still doesn't know which three.
    7. RIP Konrad Reuland. The Raven's have lost too many family members in the last year and a half.

    6.  OMG!  I started throwing stuff at my TV every time he said that,  I think I counted seventeen times!

    7.  Did not know that Reuland passed.  Very sad.  So young.  Can't imagine losing my children; his parents must be devastated.  :mellow:

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    I feel bad for Tucker, but kicking is a team effort. A bad snap, a missed block, anything can cause a FG attempt to fail. So, while Tucker is great, the whole crew should get the credit. And there was just nothing they could have done differently on that first attempt. Good that they made it a one-time thing my changing up the snap count.

    I am so sick of EVERYONE IN THE WORLD knowing we need to pick up the pace in close games EXCEPT THE RAVENS! Man, it is so frustrating when you are watching the game, screaming "Go faster! Get to the line!" And then the announcers say, "They ought to be hurrying to the line."

    I am not starting a "Harbaugh is great/Harbaugh sucks" argument. But his clock-management is atrocious, and it never gets any better.

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    Dolphins played to a 31-24 loss to the Patriots earlier in the year. That was when the Dolphins were playing poorly. We got them at the end of a 6 game win streak and blew them away. Football isn't algebra, just because team 1 is greater than team 2 and team 2 is greater than team 3, doesn't mean that team 1 is greater than team 3, it is all about matchups. The matchups heavily favor the Ravens. I will be the one on here tomorrow after the Ravens smack them around saying I told you we would smack them around.

    I'm not willing to go out on that limb, but I very much hope you are right!

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    Just now, PurplenBlackFan2392 said:

    Frist thing first, I a no way, shape, or form scared of the Steelers! I know we can beat them! plus Big Ben played like garbage...(he got me 2 fantasy points, its the playoffs) we proved we an shut the run down! We aren't the #1 defense in the NFL for nothing!! We can easily go 4-0 down this stretch, but I see more like 3-1. btw anyone else surprised at how damn fast the NFL season went by?! Geez!

    Yeah, it happens every year.  Then we get that long, dark, cold stretch between football season and baseball season, made even worse if the Ravens aren't in the playoffs.

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