Week 8: Oakland Raiders At Baltimore Ravens

[neepo13]

Cam Cameron has done a GREAT job so far. Our defense hasnt been on the field for most of the second quarter. Offense is looking good.

[saved72907]

[quote name='kze' post='79732' date='Oct 26 2008, 02:20 PM']Seriously, I'm REALLY enjoying watching the offence. It's not every day you get to say that.[/quote]
Amen brother. We're almost unpredictable today.

[#1 D]

i think the raiders will air it out this one play

[#1 D]

...or not

[JimJ]

That was the best first half of Raven's football I've seen in a long time.

[neepo13]

[quote name='#1 D' post='79746' date='Oct 26 2008, 02:23 PM']...or not[/quote]
Do you blame them? Why give Reed a chance to slam the door shut?

[Perfekt]

this is the best birthday present the ravens ever gave me LoL

[CARavensFan]

[quote name='#1 D' post='79746' date='Oct 26 2008, 11:23 AM']...or not[/quote]

They wanted this half to just be over

[theFRANCHISE]

As excited as we are about Cam Cameron opening up the playbook even more this week, you have to keep in mind what we learned last week about gimmicky offenses.

We can't just rely on option plays -- look at what happened when Miami leaned on the Wildcat offense last week.

At the end of the day, solid fundamental football is all any team needs to have success on both sides of the ball.

Why do you think New England and Indianapolis have been successful for the past decade? Or the old Cowboys and 49ers of '90s?

It wasn't because they were flashy -- they just played good ol' fashioned football, extremely well. They were able to execute the simplest plays to perfection. That's what this team needs to do to have success for years to come.

[JoeCool#5]

Great 1st Half.

[GermanRavensFan]

Man... McGahee, Rice and McClain!!
What is that?? A 1,2 , 3 punch??

[macbrak]

[quote name='#1 D' post='79746' date='Oct 26 2008, 01:23 PM']...or not[/quote]

They should have or just taken a knee.

[neepo13]

I cant believe it, I am actually excited when our O is out there. I love it. And we are getting everybody involved in everything. I am still waiting to see Smith throw one deep, you know its coming.

[meckman71]

19-0 That just sounds nice. With the cherry of 0 offensive turnovers and no gaffs from the Dbacks

[EXEravenforlife]

great first half! just run the ball with our 3-headed monster and this game is in the bag

[PuRock]

[quote name='Perfekt' post='79749' date='Oct 26 2008, 02:24 PM']this is the best birthday present the ravens ever gave me LoL[/quote]

BTW, happy birthday.

[#1 D]

[quote name='theFRANCHISE' post='79751' date='Oct 26 2008, 02:24 PM']As excited as we are about Cam Cameron opening up the playbook even more this week, you have to keep in mind what we learned last week about gimmicky offenses.

We can't just rely on option plays -- look at what happened when Miami leaned on the Wildcat offense last week.

At the end of the day, solid fundamental football is all any team needs to have success on both sides of the ball.

Why do you think New England and Indianapolis have been successful for the past decade? Or the old Cowboys and 49ers of '90s?

It wasn't because they were flashy -- they just played good ol' fashioned football, extremely well. They were able to execute the simplest plays to perfection. That's what this team needs to do to have success for years to come.[/quote]
That's what i see in the near future...with a future in Flacco and a strong running game, what can go wrong?

[CARavensFan]

[quote name='theFRANCHISE' post='79751' date='Oct 26 2008, 11:24 AM']As excited as we are about Cam Cameron opening up the playbook even more this week, you have to keep in mind what we learned last week about gimmicky offenses.

We can't just rely on option plays -- look at what happened when Miami leaned on the Wildcat offense last week.

At the end of the day, solid fundamental football is all any team needs to have success on both sides of the ball.

Why do you think New England and Indianapolis have been successful for the past decade? Or the old Cowboys and 49ers of '90s?

It wasn't because they were flashy -- they just played good ol' fashioned football, extremely well. They were able to execute the simplest plays to perfection. That's what this team needs to do to have success for years to come.[/quote]

Exactly, generally speaking you want to have, at the max, 3-6 trick plays in the entire game, depending on the game situation. You use them to keep the D off balance and give the offense the chance to break some big plays on them.

[Perfekt]

very tru but at the same time sometimes mixing it up isnt such a bad thing

[neepo13]

[quote name='theFRANCHISE' post='79751' date='Oct 26 2008, 02:24 PM']As excited as we are about Cam Cameron opening up the playbook even more this week, you have to keep in mind what we learned last week about gimmicky offenses.

We can't just rely on option plays -- look at what happened when Miami leaned on the Wildcat offense last week.

At the end of the day, solid fundamental football is all any team needs to have success on both sides of the ball.

Why do you think New England and Indianapolis have been successful for the past decade? Or the old Cowboys and 49ers of '90s?

It wasn't because they were flashy -- they just played good ol' fashioned football, extremely well. They were able to execute the simplest plays to perfection. That's what this team needs to do to have success for years to come.[/quote]

But it does open things up, we've got Oakland on their heels they dont know what to expect.

[macbrak]

[quote name='theFRANCHISE' post='79751' date='Oct 26 2008, 01:24 PM']As excited as we are about Cam Cameron opening up the playbook even more this week, you have to keep in mind what we learned last week about gimmicky offenses.

We can't just rely on option plays -- look at what happened when Miami leaned on the Wildcat offense last week.

At the end of the day, solid fundamental football is all any team needs to have success on both sides of the ball.

Why do you think New England and Indianapolis have been successful for the past decade? Or the old Cowboys and 49ers of '90s?

It wasn't because they were flashy -- they just played good ol' fashioned football, extremely well. They were able to execute the simplest plays to perfection. That's what this team needs to do to have success for years to come.[/quote]

But Indy and the Pats had something that helps a whole lot, an excellent QB. Wildcat is still mostly a running O which doesn't work that well against us.

[CARavensFan]

[quote name='neepo13' post='79762' date='Oct 26 2008, 11:26 AM']But it does open things up, we've got Oakland on their heels they dont know what to expect.[/quote]

Yep it does, you can't just rely on the trick plays either; when you start relying on it too much then you get what happened to Miami last week where everyone expects the trick. The point of the trick play is to surprise the D.

[tweety]

Imagine when we get Mason, Rolle, Landry, and CMac back we will have so much depth. Then a more healthy Reed and McGahee.

[CARavensFan]

[quote name='tweety' post='79765' date='Oct 26 2008, 11:29 AM']Imagine when we get Mason, Rolle, Landry, and CMac back we will have so much depth. Then a more healthy Reed and McGahee.[/quote]

That's just plain scary . . . for whoever is playing us that week

[saved72907]

Maybe after this week we'll have the number 1 total and passing defence again. I hope the Giants totally shred the Squealers D.

[b-ravens4ever]

Time to put a beatin' on them Oakland GayTards!

[Eurich]

**** Fox

They show highlights for every game except for ours.

[CARavensFan]

[quote name='Eurich' post='79771' date='Oct 26 2008, 11:33 AM']**** Fox

They show highlights for every game except for ours.[/quote]

I know, that just pissed me off. I was hoping being here in CA they would show the game because the Raiders were the other team, but no such luck so I'm watching the Bus play the 'Boys and the Saints whoop on the Chargers.

[Lets_Go_Joe]

Billick is doing game coverage on fox......

[Perfekt]

im just glad that we are willing to atleast try it out