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There have been a lot of bogus reasons posted for Harbaugh to be fired, but if he plays Flacco and Flacco gets hurt, that should be a slam-dunk.

Given that SSS will probably retire, we want to run the ball more and we have good receiving tight ends (Pitta, Waller, Williams) and blocking tight ends (Gilmore, Boyle), we should definitely look at using a two tight end set a lot more next year.

Don't understand why everybody is so down on Aiken. No, he isn't SSS, but he catches every ball thrown to him and was our leading receiver last year. Brady would make him a star.

No way Flacco should play. Sit Pitta too. Play Elam the whole game. See if he gives them a reason to bring him back next year. Start Camp in the slot. If he gets hurt, he has the whole off-season to heal again.

I know everybody thinks the Ravens should contend for the Super Bowl every year, but the only team that does is New England. If Antonio Brown had come up 8 inches short and the Ravens won the won, people in Pittsburgh would be calling for Tomlin's head. Denver won last year and didn't make the playoffs this year. Think their fans are happy? How about Carolina fans? Cardinals, Colts, Bills, and Bengals all had lousy years. Should their coaches be fired? (Re: Rex Ryan -- YES.) Seattle has fallen behind the Raiders and played some terrible games this year. Should Pete Carroll take a hike? At least the Ravens field a competitive team. Imagine being stuck with the Browns, Jets, 49ers, or Rams! Yeah, Correa and Kaufusi have been busts so far, but look at how many rookies made an immediate impact -- Stanley, Lewis, Young, Moore, Judon, Dixon. Repeat that in the upcoming draft and the Ravens will remain a playoff-contending team.

It's funny how many picks taken after Correa worked out really well -- Tavon Young, Matt Judon, Kenneth Dixon, Chris Moore, and the undrafted Michael Pierce. If they were taken ahead of Correa and Kaufusi, everyone would be happy.

Ben and Antonio are making snow angels.

Remember when the Ravens were practicing without pads and everyone was raving about Correa as being the player to watch? Then comes real football and the guy hasn't a clue. Another Arthur Brown. Why don't the Ravens donate their next second round pick to charity and save us all the disappointment?

Adam Vinatieri is lock for the HOF, so i so if Tucker stays this productive over a long career, he'll get in too.

I do not understand why the Ravens O continues to hit the brakes after the first drive. They go up-tempo, get the ground game going, throw some nice passes, score a touchdown, and then say, "Enough of that! Shut it down!"

You gotta love the irony here. Jimmy Smith, our best corner, is out. Then A.J., the "Ravens Killer," gets injured. Dalton must still be in tears.

The Ravens lost because of three things. 1) Prescott had all day to throw to Bryant and Witten. 2) The Ravens seem determined to commit stupid penalties at the worst times, especially on offense to kill drives. 3) Flacco has never been an accurate passer. How many wide open receivers did he miss yesterday? Even on that meaningless hail mary at the end, he lofted it out of the end zone. Prescott -- a rookie -- on the other hand, was lights out. Given Flacco's contract, there's no way to improve at QB and that means a .500 team. Oh well, the Packers, Panthers, and Bengals are stinking up the joint too, so maybe .500 isn't so bad.

The main reason accuracy has improved is because today's kickers are good athletes, not slow, fat guys or pint-sized refugees.

Up-tempo has always worked well for this team. Can't understand why they don't go to it more.

Hester looked like he was scared of the ball on Sunday. Returning kicks is his only job. If he doesn't look better on Thursday, can definitely see Camp replacing him.

I really was hoping they were going to leave Mallett in the game. Flacco won't admit it, but he's worrying about reinjuring his knee and it shows in his play. He doesn't step into the ball, he throws backing up. He isn't accurate, especially under pressure, and lacks the ability to put teams away. Given the caliber of his targets (SSS, Wallace, Pitta, Aiken, Waller, Moore, even Perriman yesterday), there is no excuse.

At this point, the only two players on the Ravens who deserve Pro Bowl consideration are the kickers. No one else is even close. When kickers are your best players, your team either lacks talent, is poorly coached, or both.

This team makes the same mistakes and the same excuses every game. It's like they're trying to lose. If they can lose four straight to the teams they just faced, who can they beat? Maybe Cleveland, but that's it. This team is short on talent and short on leadership. Ask yourself this -- who is a star on the Ravens? Someone who takes over a game? Someone whose dominating play demoralizes the other team? You can't name one, can you? Not one.

Is Joe Flacco elite? If the definition of "elite" is the inability to make clutch throws to win the ballgame in the final seconds, then, yes, he surely is.

Father Time ain't ever missed a tackle!

I did not say, "Fuss."

This news would have been a lot easier to take if we had won the last two games as we should have. Karma is a Fuss.

Meant Giants. It was the beer.

If neither Yanda or Stanley can play against Cincy, Ravens have no chance. You could blitz Don Knotts and he'd get three sacks.

If our O was playing as well as our D this year, we's be 5-0 and the wins wouldn't be squeakers. Yes, the O line is banged up, but the play-calling has been atrocious and Flacco is playing way below his pay grade. Run the damn ball! Then throw deep off of play action. Other teams do this all the time. We throw 4 yard passes to the flat when it's third and nine.