alexbayrobin

I think that Steve Bisciotti is the best owner in the NFL. I'm really glad to see webb back. It"s been proven over the last couple of years that we need good backups and he can be a backup for 2 different positions safety and CB. That makes him a valuable asset.

I have always love Eric's sense of humor. I really enjoy listening to him. He always makes me laugh. I think the Ravens will be in very good hands when Ozzie leaves. He may be even better than Ozzie.

Home for Christmas.. Thanks to everyone who had such nice things to say. Happy holidays and have a great new year. Go Ravens Beat them Steelers. I am going to try to watch all the videos on this site. I want to catch up on what I have missed. 

1 minute ago, Moderator 3 said:

I remember your first post.  It was like taking a baby step and now you're all grown up. 

Please try to stay in touch. We'll miss you.

Thank you moderator 3. I remember getting a heads up warning from moderator 2. I guess you read it too. He beat you to the punch. Hope I can post again soon.  Robin

4 minutes ago, MTRavensFan said:

Best of luck to you, Robin, as you journey forward. It's been a pleasure having you as a member of the Flock, I've always enjoyed your posts.

Just remember, as you grow older and move forward in your life, that we're still here if you want to drop by from time to time. You've been a positive contributor to our community, and we'll miss you.

Wishing you only the best. Go Ravens!

I really appreciate your comment MT. I will be back but not sure when.

I was fifteen when I first posted here and knew little about football except that I liked the ravens style of football. Now I know a lot more about football and may have to leave it behind for a while. I don't even think about any other team and I will be so far away living with my aunt that I doubt i will be able to keep in touch. She doesn't have internet. I just wanted you to know what happened to me in case anybody wonders. Goodbye Budman and whoever else I have talked to on my PM.

With all my heart goodbye until I know more:  Robin

8-8 until they (hopefully) prove themselves a more formidable team.

16-0 until proven otherwise. we may go to the Superbowl Mr. Bruce.

On 7/21/2016 at 7:02 PM, mearzunkies said:

Pot is dangerous to the unfinished brain. Anyone that started later in life(Talking 22 plus not ancient lol) will fare WAYYY better then those that smoked as a teen. Look at the research.

I'm glad you've warned me. I am going to university in the fall and who knows what my new friends may be into.

1 hour ago, b93333 said:

He actually retired as soon as the Ravens gave him that multi-year contract.

Wow, that's mean but could be true. He hasn't played much and was nearly always injured after that big contract.

Do we still owe him money?

I see how guys can be they don't want to be sissies so they do things to look brave or something. I hope Joe just does what needs to be done and doesn't over do it. We need him to be ready without any setbacks.

I was really hoping that what his agent said was just to get the ravens to act quickly and not make him play under that franchise contract. Glad to have him back where he belongs. Wouldn't want to see another Billy Cundiff . I would be worried every game that he would fail and lose the game for us. No worries with Justin.

At this point, I think Perriman is more of an 'issue" - has a similar injury to the one last year, and from what I understand, they are prescribing the same treatment program. How did that work out? - a year lost; so, we may be looking at the same thing this year? Real shame, can always use more viable weapons on offense. We'll just have to wait and see.

I know what you're saying and I agree. He seems to be one of those people who takes longer to heal than others. I wouldn't want to guess when he might be back healthy. I just hope that he heals much faster than last year and is ready to play soon.

1 hour ago, Ravensfansince03 said:

1 hour ago, RavenROC said:

Pay him now. Didn't you learn your lesson with KO? Players want long term deals, and he hasn't shown any indication he's the type of player who needs to be incentivized. Lock him up.

No sir, Osemele was a MUCH MORE VALUABLE PLAYER than Williams. A coach said last night that the key to a dominant O-line is having a group of guys on the line that have played with each other for years, and trust each other. With Osemele gone, and Monroe out, I wouldn't be surprised if our O-line has taken a step backward, even with Stanley.

Osemele was key to our offense success. He literally drove defenders to the ground. And made sure they knew not to mess with him again.

Wow, I really hope you're wrong. we are going to need that offensive line to be very good and possibly great. According to PFF Joe doesn't do well under a lot of pressure but not many quarterbacks do. That's the key to stopping an offense a lot of pressure on their quarterback

10 hours ago, cobrajet said:

Boldin put the team on his back in the second half of that game. He was fired up and I became a serious fan of his after that game. One of my favorite games.

My first game watching the Ravens was the super bowl. Anquan looked like the best receiver in football to me. So I couldn't understand why they got rid of him. But now I do. Every year they have to sacrifice good players because of the cap. I really liked that game against the Vikings in the snow it was like they were playing here where snow is on the ground nearly all winter. I think they might have set a record for points scored in the final two minutes, not sure.

We weren't supposed to win any of those games. Since this is about youtube check out America's game  the 2000 ravens and American's game the 2012 ravens. I think you will learn a lot about the ravens attitude and where play like a raven came from. And why I love my Ravens.

8 hours ago, K-Dog said:

This game is available in DVD and Blu-ray. 

Yes I have the Denver game. My grandfather buys me all the games that are on dvd.  There are many games that i love. I loved how the crowd was high fiving and congratulating each other and then the miracle. I'll never forget.

7 hours ago, JoeyFlex5 said:

Selections are horrible. The 2000 afc ship simply doesn't belong on there. I'll take quite a few regular season games over that in terms of entertainment. Tennessee in the playoffs in 00 and 08, SD regular season 06 and 09, @pit 2010 and 11, These games were all wildly entertaining and as far as I can remember the 00 championship was a total bullying of one offense and the ineptitude of another.

Most of those games I have never seen but since you seem to know more than I do I would certainly like to see them. That Tennessee game was a fight between two teams that hated each other. Even before the game started they put things said by the Ravens on their big screen and got the fans upset. I saw Shannon on the sideline saying  yeah we said it whatever you say we said we said it or something like that. I love that game. It was a real grudge match.

14 hours ago, sflegend89 said:

I actually think the 2000 Ravens vs 2012 Ravens scenario would be close, not because the 2000 defense wasn't legendary but because the 2000 offense was beyond pedestrian. It would be a low scoring affair and the 2012 offense wouldn't need to do all that much, especially in the the type of form they were in during that postseason. They shredded the 49ers defense pretty good early in that game and that was probably one of the best defenses of the last decade. 

I would give the 2000 Ravens squad the edge but like I said, it would probably be close and I could see the 2012 defense putting the clamps on the 2000 offense.

 

Like Ray said just get us ten points and it's all over. That 2000 offense wasn't so bad they had some excellent players. The weakness in my opinion was quarterback. But all he had to do was give the ball to Jamal and pass the ball to Shannon and Qadry And Patrick and nobody was going to get around that left side of that offensive line and Harry wasn't bad on the right side.

10 hours ago, K-Dog said:

I would not vote for a game I can easily get on DVD.

I understand what your saying. If you can watch it on dvd why put it on YouTube. But they asked for your favorite game to put on YouTube and that is my favorite game ever. I can still see ray stealing that ball from Eddie and running for a touchdown

I can understand why younger fans would vote for these three 2012 playoff and Superbowl games. But I am not the average younger fan. I would have voted for the 2000 playoff game against the titans. Anybody who saw that game might agree. That 2000 team would easily beat the 2012 team. That's my opinion of coarse. But I have the complete set of 2000 playoff DVDs and I know a lot about that team.

The Ryan family is a football family. I am so glad the Ravens chose Harbaugh over Rex. I really appreciate you Rex but IMO you are a great D coordinator but a average at best HC.

i agree that the choice of John as head coach was the right choice. But don't tell my father who is a Bills fan that Rex is just average. He's thinking the Bills are going beat us easily. I can't say any different even thought I think we will beat the Bills easily.

  3 hours ago, Bat-mite said:

I could tolerate a year where the Bengals don't make the postseason.

I would love beating them at their place to knock them out the playoffs.  

They've owned us the last 5 games. 

I hate the bungles more than any other team including the Brady Bunch and the stealers.

I find it very hard to believe that grown up and sensible men are making serious predictions about the regular season NOW. Anyone who can't see how absurd it is, just take a look at the predictions on the Ravens' 2015 season from a year ago...

I understand what you are saying. No one could have predicted all of those injuries. So to predict what a team is going to do now is only a guess with many question marks. i just think maybe they have nothing else to write about.

  14 hours ago, OLD SCHOOL SMASH BALL said:

2 things affected Joe's performance. 1) Lack of a consistent Left Tackle Blind side stability, and 2) Loss of weapons. Boldin traded, Pitta injured, Torrey eventually gone, Jacoby fizzled out and gone

I still think that Flacco is all the quarterback we need and more. However, the problem now is that the Front Office has allowed the team to deteriorate around him, both offensively and defensively.  (Worse yet, seeing how they didn't appreciate the chemistry, I'm now convinced the aggregation of the Championship team was mostly luck.) Flacco is 31 years old, his window of opportunity was upon us when Newsome made the decision to rebuild the championship team and jettison key contributors and Flaccos favorite weapon.  Everything that has gone South since those purges has been the result of Front Office scrambling to undo the harm of the purge. 

Realizing Flacco was gonna miss Boldin they sign an injured Pitta.  I won't get into how the Boldin Cap Savings was squandered due to bad decision making. Having purged their safeties they draft an unqualified Elam. Having missed on Elam, they have gambled on Free Agents that really weren't up to the task. They just gotta have Monroe and then they don't to more dead money. Our receiving corps has been horribly neglected under Flacco, for crying out loud, look who our leading receiver was last year! 

You think the Monroe purge was quizzical? To my eye its the same move as stranding Elam without a mentor. This time it's Stanley and yeah, he needs some help.  I just don't get it, but I'm convinced Newsome is older than his years.

Flacco has about 4 more years.  Will the team he needs be there for him during his window of opportunity? It's a stretch.

I certainly hope that you're available to straighten this out. We need you at least to advise Erik in the future.

Maxx is the next Heap. He'll be better than Pita ever was.

I've seen Dennis make some great catches. If Maxx can do better than Dennis he will be great. I really hope you are right.