Week 6 - Baltimore Ravens vs. Green Bay Packers

[cobrajet]

Ravens are in second place

[dinkmark]

Can't say I was happy with Caldwell's playcalling today

Are we sure cardwell is calling the plays? U know it's not totally out of the question. Seems that a certain coach like to be the center of attention.

[MrPlankton]

Oh, and Doss not dragging his toe on that would-be TD pass.

[T3hRaven]

Bengals in sole possession of first place.  Awesome.

[PoeDinkum]

Agreed. I'll be the first to call out Joe when he has a bad game, and be labelled as a "hater" by some kneejerkers for it too ( :P :D) but he had a good game today. Our palycalling was the issue o offense. Very janky and uneven, 

 

And of course our run game. Too much is said of our D, but when the O is hot, the D needs to get off the field and give the ball back to them. 

 

Fair is fair and a spade is a spade- and that means Joe had a good game and the D, while good, couldn't make the palys when needed.

Joe was decent, but had a couple of throws he flat missed that could have given this team a lift when everyone was playing mediocre around him. When he has an opportunity to lead his team in the regular season by picking it up, he falls short..he won't cost you many games, but he won't rally the troops when necessary...now post-season play is another story.

[Scotty410bmore]

This was horrible...we could always depend on our homefield advantage, and now we cant even do that anymore.....Caldwell is too predictable.....10 games left in this season, im really not sure well make the playoffs at this point

[PoeDinkum]

Ravens are in second place

Critics were right...thus far.

[BMORE_96]

biggest thing: we should have shut down the run game. they had no receivers. we needed to shut the run all game. 

 

this offseason was devoted to being a shut down run defense. if we did this game and against the bills, we could be 5-1.

 

the run defense allowed the packers to run the clock. 

[admartian]

Do even know what the phrase "final nail in the coffin" means? It means that at the end of the game when we just needed the defense to make a stop, they couldn't do it, and that this was the final thing that had to go wrong to ensure that we lost this game. These are facts. If the defense could've gotten the offense back on the field rather than let them run 10 minutes off the clock in the fourth quarter, we could have had a chance to win.

And Flacco did not suck in this game. I guess over a 110 in QB rating is a bad game. That when you had numerous dropped passes, sideline catches that our receivers just have no clue how to tiptoe their feet in bounds on, blanketed receivers all day, no time to throw too often on drop backs, and a total failure of a run game... Flacco stood tall in the pocket, got the ball to the receivers when the receivers were open, he rolled out and scrambled and extended plays... He had a very good game, both statistically and according to the analysis eye test. He was 0% of the problem in this game.

Yep - Joe looked great there. The line, pass pro, looked improved. Yes they were still getting beat at times, but they looked better.

 

This is on our coaching and our D (late in the game anyways)

[luvrayrice27]

Ravens are in second place

well we deserve it

[T3hRaven]

Critics were right...thus far.

 

Most of the criticism was of the defense, which hasn't been that bad, so no they were wrong.

[Smothy]

Too many good AFC teams to make the wildcard. The Ravens won't make the playoffs unless they win the division, and right now they aren't a team physically or mentally capable of doing that.

[jimmypowder]

[quote name="callahan09" post="1626341" timestamp="1381695641"] Do even know what the phrase "final nail in the coffin" means? It means that at the end of the game when we just needed the defense to make a stop, they couldn't do it, and that this was the final thing that had to go wrong to ensure that we lost this game. These are facts. If the defense could've gotten the offense back on the field rather than let them run 10 minutes off the clock in the fourth quarter, we could have had a chance to win. And Flacco did not suck in this game. I guess over a 110 in QB rating is a bad game. That when you had numerous dropped passes, sideline catches that our receivers just have no clue how to tiptoe their feet in bounds on, blanketed receivers all day, no time to throw too often on drop backs, and a total failure of a run game... Flacco stood tall in the pocket, got the ball to the receivers when the receivers were open, he rolled out and scrambled and extended plays... He had a very good game, both statistically and according to the analysis eye test. He was 0% of the problem in this game.[/quote] But the Flacco haters ra gonna hate . I even saw post to bring in Tyrod Taylor . Ridiculous .

[PoeDinkum]

Most of the criticism was of the defense, which hasn't been that bad, so no they were wrong.

No critics who said Bengals win the division

[Suaidan]

Do even know what the phrase "final nail in the coffin" means? It means that at the end of the game when we just needed the defense to make a stop, they couldn't do it, and that this was the final thing that had to go wrong to ensure that we lost this game. These are facts. If the defense could've gotten the offense back on the field rather than let them run 10 minutes off the clock in the fourth quarter, we could have had a chance to win.

And Flacco did not suck in this game. I guess over a 110 in QB rating is a bad game. That when you had numerous dropped passes, sideline catches that our receivers just have no clue how to tiptoe their feet in bounds on, blanketed receivers all day, no time to throw too often on drop backs, and a total failure of a run game... Flacco stood tall in the pocket, got the ball to the receivers when the receivers were open, he rolled out and scrambled and extended plays... He had a very good game, both statistically and according to the analysis eye test. He was 0% of the problem in this game.

He didn't show up until the second half. Are we now going to simply quote stats overall? You have to play an ENTIRE game of football not just do nothing 1/2 and then do amazing the second half.

[luvrayrice27]

bengals look like the realistic better team in the division

[Guest RBates]

Nope, Flacco decided not to kick a FG

lol good one.

[Scotty410bmore]

we ran the ball on every first down...lol Caldwell called this game like a game of madden

[PoeDinkum]

Can't say I was happy with Caldwell's playcalling today

True that, lame coaching and inept line play NOT a good recipe for success.

[cobrajet]

What is this teams identity...They said we have the WORST run per carry average in Ravens history this year through 6 games

And we run it four straight times when we were first and goal and turned the ball over.........I had no faith, but I guess Caldwell still did. How after all those runs for losses idk.

[Guest RBates]

we ran the ball on every first down...lol Caldwell called this game like a game of madden

i said the same thing. 

[Raving_Heathen]

The reason this loss hurts more is because the Pack were missing playmakers on offense and defense. When you hold Rodgers to a single TD, against their D, you should win going away at home.

 

Same situation in the Miami game... And in the Bills game.... And even against Denver.

 

Teams are missing key players on their DL and secondary, and this offense still struggles to move the ball. Not put up points, but just move the ball... At least under Cameron, the Ravens rarely had problems moving the chains between the 20s.

 

The Ravens have to lead the league in 3-and-outs... I bet if you take out the first half in the Denver game, they lead that category going away.

[admartian]

Joe was decent, but had a couple of throws he flat missed that could have given this team a lift when everyone was playing mediocre around him. When he has an opportunity to lead his team in the regular season by picking it up, he falls short..he won't cost you many games, but he won't rally the troops when necessary...now post-season play is another story.

Eh? Not really. He's no captain comeback, but he's got the play to do that, and has done that (in the reg. season). He didn't have a perfect game, and no one is saying that. But he wasn't the problem.

 

The playcalling is an issue.

 

Not hard to get one's head around it tbh. NOT JOE'S FAULT GUYS.

 

Like I said, I'll be the first to say it if it were. Kneejerkers and labellers (those quick to say "hater") be damned. ;)

[Scotty410bmore]

SERIOUS QUESTiON...What is our strength on offense...don't see any consistent strengths

[flynismo]

SERIOUS QUESTiON...What is our strength on offense...don't see any consistent strengths

Our QB and our deep pass attack. That is it.

[T3hRaven]

we ran the ball on every first down...lol Caldwell called this game like a game of madden

 

That's not how I call plays on Madden.

[Suaidan]

Our QB and our deep pass attack. That is it.

I think his key word was "consistent". We have not been Consistent on offense at anything this year.

[T3hRaven]

Our QB and our deep pass attack. That is it.

 

I think we have a lot of interesting players at receiver, but we don't utilize them correctly because of this false belief that the Ravens have to constantly run the ball and win games 13-10.

[J.O.14]

I think this is more on the coaching staff than the players....we kick the field goal when we got stuffed at the 1. We should have atleast tried a Play action pass on 2nd down or 3rd down in that situation as well. And with 12 seconds left we try to throw the ball? Just take the knee and go to the locker room being down 3.

Why can't we get anything going in the first half? We always decide to wake up in the late 3rd and 4th quarter. If we don't run the ball better, we will be lucky to win 8 games, because we don't have the weapons to sling it around all over the place. Notice when we started moving the ball on the ground, the passing game came alive.

The defense did enough to win, until the end of the game. That drive where they took 7 min off was the killer. We have to get off the field and give our O another shot.

We have to move on, hopefully something is figured out, because the steelers are not a joke. We have a very tough game ahead of us.

[Scotty410bmore]

Our QB and our deep pass attack. That is it.

We need to establish a strength, a legit bread and butter soon... because l don't want to be scoreboard watching in December