Who Is The Ravens?

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[quote name='Truefan' post='92895' date='Nov 20 2008, 01:19 PM']I think you all are over-reacting to what steelerkillers is saying. especially for the disrespect with regards to misspelled words. We're all suject to human error and the inability to spell certain words.

im pretty sure theres isn't 3 people in this forum who are English Majors. If there are, so what and who cares. there are some things you just can't (whit) your way out of, or earn a degree in.(that would be your nasty-negative-judgemental attitude). Nobody's perfect here,except the (Titans).we're here to talk football.

Steelerkillers is right about the flaws we have as a team. they definitely have room for growth. concidering the team we have, being 6-4 is an excellent record thus far. i believe we are better than the teams we've lost to.but, our beliefs can only get us so far.we have to start beating the better teams in order to gain some kinda respect from Espn or other teams around the league.i think losing to those good teams shows us what we need to improve on.believing we are one of the good teams,and beating the good team are 2 different things.

Every teams has flaws.its just more hurtful for us as Ravens fans because we know what our team is capable of.they always seem to come up a little short at the end of games.if we can x-out the mental errors,stay healthy and don't give the refs/officials any reason to help our opponents,we wouldn't be 6-4 but 9-1.the only game we truely lost was against the Colts.[/quote]

"Inability to spell certain words"? Now who's insulting who? We're not saying you...(i mean) he's a moron, just lazy. No one can have an inability to spell words correctly, it's called a dictionary, spell check, or English class. I think if you download firefox, they have an automatic spell check on what you type in an e-mail or in a post. Face it, this is a post. We can only communicate by reading what you write and people are going to look at how you write it. It serves you better to use correct grammer (for the most part) so people spend more time on the content instead of the mistakes. Plus, we're picking on you/him because we feel his topic is degrading the team and the hard work they put forth to be where we are. We are 7-4 barely out of first place in the division (1.5 games) and in good place to get a wild card, which is a fantastic position to be in considering where we were last year. Why the hell would we want to talk about our our flaws? No team can be perfect, but we have all been discussing our flaws the ENTIRE off-season. It's time to stop and celebrate our progress going forward as a team. As for ESPN, who cares about what ESPN thinks?? They have their favorite teams that they talk about and "the rest". They do it in every sport, which leads me to think they don't know what they're talking about. If a team is good now, it should matter what they did in the past or if they're popular or not. They should give credit where credit is due. They should stop talking about the Cowboys and talk about the teams that look good to go to the playoffs. Where is the talk about the NY Jets, Tampa Bay, Carolina, Atlanta, Cardinals, or Ravens? They have all done very well this season and have turned around losing records into playoff berths. ESPN might not respect our hard work, but other teams around the league have a lot of respect for us. They know our defense is incredible, our offense should not be overlooked anymore, and our fans are as intense and extreme as they get.

Steelerkiller's key points about a rookie coach, young O-line, and young running backs, short wide receivers, etc don't make sense. They show inexperience, but in no way does that mean they're bad or that they can't produce (ie: Adrian Paterson, Matt Forte, Matt Ryan, HC Mike Smith, HC Tony Sparano, Santana Moss, Steve Smith). This leads me to wonder if he reads about football or if he actually watches it. We may look bad on paper, but we look great in action.

[T-Sizzle55]

[quote name='flynismo' post='92978' date='Nov 20 2008, 07:50 PM']I don't mind biased fans. Biased fans are true fans who love their team; they are miserable all week when we lose and won't shut the f up when we win. I love that people have that much passion for our team (their opinions may not always be credible, but so what?), it's not even comparable to the bandwagon jumpers.[/quote]

Well played! The crazy true fans are the work horses that pull the bandwagon while random people jump on and off. Doesn't matter, we'll still keep pulling.

I'm not biased, just well informed.