darklight1216

I thought this defense was supposed to be good.

That was a gift.

If Jordy Nelson's play was a catch, that should be too.

Same here. I was thinking about the low ratings of NFL games during the game last night. First you have a primetime matchup featuring Houston, then it's in Mexico, and on the first possession of the game the refs blow a huge and obvious call. The league really needs to scrutinize the quality of their product.

Pittsburgh has such an easy schedule remaining. They will at least beat Cincy and Cleveland again as well as the Colts. There's really no reason for them to lose any of those games except vs Ravens. Baltimore really couldn't afford those losses to New York.

With A.J. Green and Gio Bernard out, and considering that this is a three win team, there is no reason that Baltimore should not win at home especially after a frustrating loss. It's hard for me to be optimistic when the Ravens play Cincy, but they really should take this game. Who is the Bengals' OC these days?

I'm not sure, but I didn't think that was one...at least not compared to some other non-catches.

I tend to think the coaches deserve a lot of the blame for not sufficiently disciplining the players. I need to go back and look at the numbers through the last few years, but my first instinct is to consider all the coaching changes that occurred when Kubiak came on board. He brought a bunch of positions coaches with him and then took some to Denver, didn't he? Maybe that upheaval resulted in some lax coaching. I'll agree that Harbs does have the ultimate responsibility. He's obviously been doing a less than stellar job at hiring OCs and now the team has had complete meltdowns in penalties for at least two years in a row. Something has to change. I'm not sure if that means getting rid of positions coaches or benching players like Zuttah or something else entirely, but they can't keep giving up entire football fields in penalty yardage.

96 of those yard should have been offset by a holding penalty on Dallas's o-lineman, but I get your point. I'm a Harbs fan, but this team is among the league leaders in penalties. Someone is responsible for this.

The Cowboys are what their record says they are. But if they meet NE in the SB, Dallas is going to remain tied with San Fransisco. NE's offense would abuse that secondary, and refs wouldn't help them in that one.

Flacco's oline can't spike the ball correctly, but everything is Joe's fault?

It's Dallas, the hype machine will never shut down. But that offensive line deserves the praise (even if the refs are turning a few blind eyes).

Great observation; ugly stat.

If Jimmy Smith played things might have worked out differently, but alas, it's not really surprising.

They could have saved him a few fractures if they'd played like this.

They can't stop any passes. Even if they could though, these refs would just throw a flag. On the plus side, the Ravens might make it through an entire game without a turnover... or a takeaway, unfortunately.

No wonder they're about to score on five consecutive possessions.

They would have had a chance if all hands were on deck. But hey, when you rely on starters as injury prone as Webb and Jimmy, something like this is bound to happen.

Poor Young. Who's the next man up? Webb (with Elam at safety)?

Two of eight on third down for Baltimore's offense... Seven of 11 for Dallas now. Jimmy, they needed you today.

If Wright did that in Baltimore's endzone, I'll bet they'd notice.

The Ravens defense has to make a stand. They will be totally responsible for this loss if they can't. And they will look like frauds who have inflated stats due to weak competition too.

Has Dallas scored on their last four possessions?

How can they let that no call go?

I hope Flacco doesn't have a lacerated cornea or any other eye injuries.