JayRaven82

Remember I said this. If we drop this game to the Dolphins, the Ravens will finish 8-8...9-7 at best. It's not all on Joe, but he's an easy target because he is paid to like an elite player. I see the same Flacco, with the exception on Kubiaks year here. This team is missing an identity. We use to be a smash mouth, run the ball down your throat offense, with a solid or sometimes great defense. We don't Run the ball nearly as much as we should and we are often running out of the shotgun. I miss the days of bruising fullbacks in the I formation, but Juice doesn't have that blocking characteristic in him.

This team is like 19-21 since the Super Bowl and retirement of Ray and Ed Reed leaving. We have a losing record. I want that to sink in. I don't think we are a good football team anymore.

A really good pass rush will mask a weak secondary. I honestly don't believe we have a weak secondary. Will Hill is graded as a top Safety, and Smith and Webb (When healthy) are solid CBs. I honestly think its the lack of pass rush. This is the NFL and you cant expect a corner to cover for that long. Coupled with them playing 6 yards off the ball at some points. I don't understand the reasoning behind that. Our offense if far from the problem this year. With Cap space opening next year, and maybe a decent draft, we should be fine.

Perriman has been a huuuuuuge disappointment so far. There is something wrong with him, and im sure its more than a "nagging knee injury". Its week 8, and he isn't even in practice yet. Our last few drafts have been extremely disappointing.

Winning at this point only hurts our draft. To think that we make the play offs is outrageous....and to think that we can make the play offs and beat a play off team is funnier than the thought of actually making it. We need a high draft pick and we need to build in FA after this dead money clears for next season. These is no need to panic. This team just isn't good enough this year.

You know what good QBs do when the pressure comes from the outside? Step up in the pocket. I'm not buying into the "The receivers aren't getting separation" talk. I have seen with my own eyes, receivers wide open and Joe doesn't look their way. This is Joes 8th season? What we see is what we get. He isn't going to carry a team by himself, and needs someone like Torrey and someone Like Anquan. They need to draft a big receiver like Carolina did for Cam (Because Cam Newton consistently misses high, and that's the reason for moving on from Steve smith). Torrey knew how to draw the PI on underthrown deep balls, and as we have seen this season, a lot of Joes balls are underthrown. I don't see this as doom and gloom though. Lets get a a high draft pick. Its not like we are going out and getting blown out every game. we are missing a strong pass rush, which helps our DBs on the back end. I think we are only a few pieces away from being contenders again. All we need is a good draft and actually make moves come FA, and we have the cap space next year to do so.

Tyrod and the bills have been playing with injuries as well. Sammy Watkins has been hurt and so has Shady. Im not saying Tyrod is better than Flacco, but Tyrod is better than Flacco this year. I watch both of them play. I don't just watch the Ravens, I watch football. Joe has regressed. He throws a lot off his back foot for some reason, and throws a lot of floaters that Anquan use to make up for. He also throws the deep ball to short, which we have seen this year. The only thing that made up for that was Torrey's ability to draw the PI on a lot of those underthrown balls. Joe doesn't have that now.

Pretty simple actually... look at the players he's playing with. You're going to the boxscore and taking statistics that are based on numerous factors and applying them solely to an individual, which is why when people evaluate QBs these days, they don't do such a thing. I get the love for QBR as an ESPN groupie, but seriously, nobody recognizes that as a stat. Its QB rating, which nobody liked or understood, converted to a number between 0 and 100... thats it. Every other sports site on the planet mocks ESPN on a daily basis for coming up with another meaningless statistic that nobody knows how to calculate. Its a made for TV stat. What makes you think QBs these days are judged by on completion percentage or even TD/INT ratio? If I considered TD/INT ratio to be a heavily weighted stat, then I'd think Andrew Luck has been a mediocre QB for years, but anybody that actually watches games can tell differently. If I considered completion percentage to be a heavily weighted stat, than RGIII is one of the best QBs I've ever seen. If I actually watched other QBs play, nobody would be impressed by most of anything QBs are doing these days. As I said earlier, there's 6-7 guys playing at a high level, and then there's everybody else in a group who are sometimes good, sometimes bad, and are largely dependent on players around them to even win a game at this point. Flacco falls in that group. If the personnel around them is better (Tyrod), then they win more games. If its not, like a Stafford, then they aren't winning many games. Numbers lie all the time. They lie when they have no context, they lie when you mix a bunch of numbers together to form a different number that nobody understands (hello QBR), and they lie when flaws of other plays lead to a statistical change in an individual player. Numbers Lie? Tyrod and the bills have been playing with injuries as well. Sammy Watkins has been hurt and so has Shady. Im not saying Tyrod is better than Flacco, but Tyrod is better than Flacco this year. I watch both of them play. I don't just watch the Ravens, I watch football. Joe has regressed. He throws a lot off his back foot for some reason, and throws a lot of floaters that Anquan use to make up for. He also throws the deep ball to short, which we have seen this year. The only thing that made up for that was Torrey's ability to draw the PI on a lot of those underthrown balls. Joe doesn't have that now.