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    32 minutes ago, rmcjacket23 said:

    And I'm glad that you finally admitted that playing 6 out of 8 home games is a very big benefit to an NFL team and something that not many teams get to have on an annual basis.

     

    Since I mentioned that in my very first post of this conversation, I guess you've been glad for a while. That doesn't sound like you. Enjoying it?

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    10 minutes ago, Cville-Raven said:

    It's pretty crazy for me to think that it's the same guy from Spinal tap which is probably my favorite role of his. Him in BCS is a totally different style performance from anything I've seen him in, all being comedic roles.

    Comedic actors in drama television works so well. Tons of examples to back that up.

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    3 hours ago, rmcjacket23 said:

    But to me, it doesn't really matter. 5 out of 7 on the road, 4 out of 5, 6 out of 8, doesn't really matter. Its just something for fans to complain about when things don't go their way.

    If we played 5 out of 7 on the road and we won 4 or 5 of those games, would this be a topic of conversation or a complaint? Did we do that? Nope, we didn't. 

    Its kind of hard to play the "our schedule was too tough" card when you see how effective (or in our case, ineffective) we are when the schedule gets easier. So I mean its wonderful to say "well we had a tough start", but then I take total stock of our team, talent, etc. and can't really say that a tough road schedule really altered our overall performance that much.

    At least I finally got you to admit you have a differing opinion and not some factual information that the rest of us "ignorant" and "hypocritical" fans aren't smart enough to understand.

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    4 hours ago, rmcjacket23 said:

    Well, it pretty much has to happen, because the Ravens aren't the only team in the league. One way or another, several teams in the league are going to have stretches like that on an annual basis, because there's no possible way to have a perfectly fair and balanced schedule for 32 teams at once.

    That's sort of the point. If that schedule happened to the Steelers, would we be saying its unfair? Of course not. Why? Because we only think things are unfair when it happens to the team we cheer for. 

    We play both West divisions every 12 years. Perhaps next time the schedule will be more "beneficial" for us in terms of less consecutive road stretches. But regardless, people will always fine some way to complain about scheduling. Most of the time, that's out of ignorance on their part, not on the league's part.

    But starting with 5 out of 7 on the road does NOT happen every year to a team. It hadn't happened to a team before last season since 2000 (again, that was also Baltimore). I'm not ignorant, and I'm not trying to say the league has it out for us. I was saying that that was an unfair start to a season that is very, very rare, does not get "made up for" by a later stretch, and was unlucky. And of course it would be unlucky for the Steelers to start that way, but they didn't, and you have to go way back into the previous century to try and find an instance where it did happen to them, if ever. That point is completely invalid.

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    2 hours ago, rmcjacket23 said:

    I mean we had a very favorable home schedule in the middle and end of the season. That's a very, very, very good thing, and something all NFL teams would like to have.

    So, difficult in the beginning, much easier in the middle and end. I believe that's a pretty fair schedule. 

    When a coach voluntarily asks for multiple back-to-back road trips in a season, its pretty much impossible to formulate a schedule (while dealing with 31 other teams) that doesn't involve a lengthy stretch of road games lumped together. You basically can't have one without the other.

    Call it in unexpected consequence if you will, but to me, I just don't see the issue. By definition, you play 5 out of 7 on the road, you pretty much get 5 out of 7 at home. And we pretty much did... we had 6 out of 8 at home in one stretch.

    That's all I'm asking. When people complain about a 5-7 road stretch, they conveniently ignore the 6 out of 8 home stretch. Its almost as if people think we played like 12 road games last season.

    I'm not ignoring the lighter part of the schedule. I even mentioned it. I'm saying it doesn't work. Having a tough stretch like that shouldn't happen. Having a light stretch shouldn't happen either. And the tough stretch like that certainly does not belong at the very beginning or end. The rest of the schedule doesn't "make up" for that or make it fair. That's why it doesn't ever happen like that but once every fifteen years.

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    3 hours ago, rmcjacket23 said:

    Maybe because you get a backloaded home schedule, and fans have been telling me for years that November and December is more important. Did that all of the sudden change because we were terrible in the beginning half of the season?

    We were in Baltimore for basically 30 straight days for one stretch, and the entire month of November we had 3 home games, a bye, and a long road trip to Cleveland.

    And then there was 3 of the last 4 at home, and in the last six weeks, our furthest travel was to Miami and we never left the Eastern Time Zone.

    Funny... I never see anybody praising the NFL for such a favorable second half schedule. I wonder why that is...

    John wanted the road trips lumped together. He got it. He also got almost four weeks on in the East in between, so its not like it was four straight WC road games.

    You can't ask for something, get it, and then complain about it when things don't go your way. 

     

    Easy, easy. It's not that serious.

    For the record, starting with 5 out of 7 on the road is not what we asked for, and certainly not anywhere near close to doing us a favor. That's why it hasn't been done to a team in 15 years (ironically, also the Ravens).

    Now, it was not the schedulers fault that all our players were hurt by the time we got to an easier part of the season with more home games. That was bad luck, but that stretch to start last season was unnecessarily brutal.

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    11 minutes ago, usmccharles said:

    Yea but I think that comparison is a little skewed, I believe our overall team is much better than the Vikings (I think that's who you are referring to).  One player doesn't determine playoff wins, but a well rounded team, I know you know this...just venting. 

     

    Weird that you only saw the last bit of my post. That was addressed. Here was the rest:

    Considering 10-11 of the 12 playoff teams last year made it without relying on a solitary number one back the whole season, I still don't see much upside to drafting a running back so early in today's league. Only one team made the playoffs with a 1000-TD back last year, and that accomplishment isn't even that impressive a benchmark anymore.

     

    The only way I take Elliot is if I really feel that last year was a fluke and the team is in really good shape overall already. I can see the argument there, but I'm not sure it's the case. Trench play and passing game (offense and defense) is where you win today. That's where you start when you need to turn things around.

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    7 minutes ago, usmccharles said:

    Seven Pounds and Pursuit of Happiness are the only ones he come to mind.   Honestly don't know what he won an Oscar for... 

    Pursuit of Happiness I want a fan of and I haven't seen seven pounds in a long time. But this also depends in what context we are asking,  performance or the the movie itself 

    He was nominated for Pursuit of Happyness, as well as Ali. I also liked Enemy of the State and I, Robot. Hitch isn't bad, and Focus is nothing amazing, but is by the far the best thing he's done in a while. Never saw Seven Pounds.

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    1 hour ago, usmccharles said:

    Yea from 08-12.   But looking back: bad boys,  enemy of the state,  I am Legend,  bagger Vance, Independence day are about all I enjoyed.   Not a fan of men in black

    Not into his Oscar-nominated roles? There are more from him that I like, but really I've been a huge fan from Fresh Prince. Nothing will take away from that.

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    42 minutes ago, usmccharles said:

    Has will Smith actually done anything good recently? I'm very happy he passed on Django 

    You made me check, and it's been longer than I thought. Granted, he does far less than he used to when he was the biggest star on the planet.

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