[News] Game Recap: Browns 24, Ravens 18

[outkast1]

Our O-line can't function as a core, Ray Rice is getting old, and Tandon Doss straight up through us under the bus with that punt return fumble.

You can,t blame doss,he put us on the 40 yrd line his next return and still did,t score.

[RavensReck27]

Honestly with us winning the SuperBowl, and losing all of those players we are pretty much in rebuilding mode, we have all been used to watching a winning team the past few years, and watching a struggling team now is making us all frustrated and confused. We can only afford to lose 1 more game, 2 tops. Let us see what John Harbaugh is made of through the rest of the season.

[Ravensfansince03]

I miss Ray Lewis.

[stixfix69]

We have good players....but not playing to their strengths....Our O-line is made up of Maulers, not ballet light on their feet O-Linemen....Seems the world can see it, but not our coaches...

[raylewisrocks787668]

Here come the negs, but i have a bad feeling that we are screwed.

[TorryGundy]

Flacco has not been accurate. He threw behind recievers all game. He has also been underthrowing recievers all season. Our pass protection was not that bad. It was good enough to win with. Joe played poor and has been playing poor. He is 20th in the NFL in QB rating. He has As many TD's as Interceptions. This is not people dropping balls anymore, it is him missing plays. And Zone blocking does not work for us. You made all the big boy statemnts Harbs, change is coming except for the one needed. Juan! Oh and I am sick of Sam having horrible punts too. He will be gone next year.

[RavensReck27]

You can,t blame doss,he put us on the 40 yrd line his next return and still did,t score.

He fumbled within the 10 yard line that led to a TD when we had momentum on our side that directly diminished due to that fumble. But yeah he shouldn't even be blamed i guess...

[Purpleghost23]

even campbell have more rushing yard than or running backs..okay thats no good

[bradkessler1]

Well Ravens fans...It is time to come to the realization that John Harbaugh is a BAD coach that was given a GREAT situation. You take 2 sure-fire HOF'ers and on-field coaches out of the mix and he is floundering. He brings in Caldwell, Pees, and Castillo in an effort to change the identity of a team overnight. The Offense cant get anything going until after halftime, the line cannot block at all, the defense is a turnstyle (Please explain why we do not blitz at all), and special teams has committed huge blunders on multiple occasions.

This is coaching plain and simple. At the end of this year it is time for the brass (Steve and Ozzie) to put the leash on Harbaugh and let him know that from now of they choose the coordinators cause the ones he has picked are about to cost him his job.

[arizonaravensfan]

To come out of bye week and play this poorly is really disappointing . Starting slow , no run game ,poor pass protection , questionable coach decision on 4th down and defense caving at the end .Seems like a repeat performance of the last two games. Glad we'll be home next week but our season is on life support .

[ellicottraven]

How is God treating us Ravens fans? Like step children! He is forming us in the image of the hater pundits hopes! God knows Jamie Dukes and his fellow haters are giggling like young girls in a Bieber concert right now!

[LouisianaRaven]

Time to keep it real. This Ravens team is not going to the playoffs

[rmcjacket23]

How can the FO help Joe with players? Joe took all of the money. Duh...

In 2013, that's whats called a myth.

 

$122m in cap money spent, and Joe Flacco accounted for $6.8m of it, a whopping 5.5% of the overall space.

[Bruce_Almty]

Good News is we'll have a high draft choice. :(

[Purpleghost23]

Flacco has not been accurate. He threw behind recievers all game. He has also been underthrowing recievers all season. Our pass protection was not that bad. It was good enough to win with. Joe played poor and has been playing poor. He is 20th in the NFL in QB rating. He has As many TD's as Interceptions. This is not people dropping balls anymore, it is him missing plays. And Zone blocking does not work for us. You made all the big boy statemnts Harbs, change is coming except for the one needed. Juan! Oh and I am sick of Sam having horrible punts too. He will be gone next year.

The punt part also makes me sick

[PurpleRainofPain]

Why is Harbaugh not firing castillo like he did Cameron.

[General Flacco]

Embarrassing. Totally embarrassing. The zone blocking crap has to go ASAP. Can't run the ball, and Flacco is scrambling for his life on 90% of our pass plays. Watching the game, and every other game this season, we look like we stand a better chance throwing the ball 100% of the time. Running the ball has become a total waste of downs. Go back to the blocking scheme that worked, and give Rice some space. Also, go back to throwing the deep ball, because that plays to the strength of our QB.

On another note, what the heck was that on the final drive? We didn't even try to get a TD. With 14 seconds left, they acted like there was 1:14 on the clock. Horrible calls. Here's the 2 easy fixes I propose: 1) Go back to last years blocking scheme. 2) Let Flacco run more hurry up offense, cause they look their best when they do that.

[cobrajet]

I hate to say it, but I think Ray Rice is trying to set an NFL record this season for most touches with negative yards during a season in NFL history. I know our o-line is horrible in the middle but he looks really bad. I hate giving running backs huge contracts.

[Crusader]

Trade Rice for a offensive line.

[Ravensfansince03]

How can the FO help Joe with players? Joe took all of the money. Duh...

The timing of when that contract was signed, and the amount of money that was paid might of been the biggest mistake this ball club has made since it was established in 96'.

 

Imagine how short we will be on elite players down the road when Flacco is taking up $20 million in cap space. Say bye to players like Suggs and more who will still feel they are worth big money as well.

 

What's your take on Flacco throwing a lot of off target passes thus far?

[d1957w]

Flacco has looked bad at times, but Ray Rice looks absolutely horrible.

[imabmoraven]

Please don't headline and blame the defense. We had time to prepare for Cleveland and we were out coached. Joe under threw his receivers, which led to Browns scores. We have no leader, no "go to guy"...Our coach/QB led team is losing to more intense/More prepared coaches in the league. I'm OK with the loss, I'm just not OK with fake Harb interviews and SOOOoooo tired of the excuses.

[reed20fence]

I thought I was being reasonable coming into this season, given the massive overhaul in personnel, that the year would be judged as a success if we just got into the playoffs for a sixth straight year and lost. No one would blam e the FO cuz clearly they know how to win even with so much turmoil. But it's fairly obvious that unless the running scheme goes back to power football, this team (offense really) isn't worthy of the playoffs.

[ReginaldColeman1]

It all goes back to player personnel. Joe can be plain and say they're not executing (players are let's say below par) but it's the FO who picks the players. Steve B. is going to have to get his legal team together and try to find a clause in someone's contract for an early out.

[J.O.14]

Offensively, our Offensive line is really killing us. We can't get the running game going, at all. For people saying that Rice is old, what pierce doing? We aren't protecting Joe either, there were times where he couldn't even get set to throw. He was constantly on the move. Our defense is average, at best. We did stop the run, but we mmade Campbell look amazing. We also can't get off the field when it really matters. I'm not going to say we are a bad football team, because we have talent, but there are key positions on this team that are making us a below average team.

[Crusader]

"We have good players....but not playing to their strengths.."

I want what your smoking

[PurpleRainofPain]

We need to hire our old offensive line Coach back. Castillo has to go. And we need to start looking for another defensive Coordinator.

[Ravensfolyfe]

Rock bottom defending super bowl champions...how did this happened...special teams head coach hired rejects.

[Ravenshine]

Sucking is relative. Was it a Jaguars level performance? No, but sucking also occurs when teams that are perceived to have the talent and leadership to play better don't for weeks at a time.

 

There are teams that suck due to lack of talent, and there are teams that suck due to lack of execution. The Jags are the former, and currently, we are the latter.

If the ravens players took this opinion they might as well hand in their helmets. I am glad they don't adopt such opinion. Rule one in any competition is believe in yourself. Which includes not thinking you suck. They don't anyway, but sports is a mental game in addtion the the physical talent, which lots of the fans are currently losing their mental game and thinking the sky is falling.  But hey, if you want to think they suck, go ahead. Just don't be so quick to jump back on bandwagon when they are winning again.

[pitta88islove]

having a root canal is way better than dealing with this loss to the browns.