[News] Harbaugh: Defense Has To Get Off Field

[RayEdBoldinSuggsNgata]

John is so full of it. He been lost the plot & now casts blame everywhere except for HIS deplorable coaching decisions. I never get caught up in anything he says cause this man is just repetitive & mundane in his pressers & to top it off i'm never truly convinced by anything he says as he comes off as a phony politician. You go out & mess with what has historically been our strong suit on offense which is our run game, you throw players under the bus at every opportunity or flat out cut guys but when is it any fault of yours John? No wonder there was unrest amongst players last season & no wonder players opted to go elsewhere this offseason. The defense does more than it can to keep us afloat but when we suck on offense for the majority of games & all we do is punt what do you expect the results to be late in games? Joe sucked today for the most part & our O line continued to get worse if thats even possible & don't even get me started on our run game. We average a grand total of 1.9 points per 1st qtr this season but somehow the defense is to to be blamed right? smh. 

[edreed2o]

I said this during the last drive for the browns game. Our defense has failed to get off the field in almost all our losses. Our defense last year was ranked pretty low but the difference was that last years D could get that final stop they needed. This year we cannot do it no matter what. Lardarius Webb really keeps giving up key plays. A little concerning.

[outkast1]

I said this during the last drive for the browns game. Our defense has failed to get off the field in almost all our losses. Our defense last year was ranked pretty low but the difference was that last years D could get that final stop they needed. This year we cannot do it no matter what. Lardarius Webb really keeps giving up key plays. A little concerning.

You keep saying its the defense.....the defense keeps us in the game.Juans o-line and that hurry up offense fails with 3 and out.

You can not put the defense on the field that quickly.

[bioLarzen]

I respect ur opinion Bio, but Campbell did not get better protection than Flacco he was just more mobile and threw more accurately especially into tight coverage.

 

... and i respect yours - seems like we saw it differently.

 

bio

[The Greek]

offense needs to give the defense a break

[RavenWarrior]

How can the defense perform at it's best when they were on the field as much as they were. Our offense is horrible (except for Marlon Brown shining moments. We officially have the worst running game in NFL history (at this point of the season). Even worse than the Jags. Our Offense needs to have a good balance between rushing and passing. Flacco had a very inaccurate passing game as well. Fix it Harbough! This is embarrasing. . . .

[wise ole owl]

please tired of hearing this team is good,,they're not,,, below average at best.

[slowboater]

Yes, I do think he was very good - given the support he got. Campbell had a good day because he got a better protection. Or, at least that's how I see it.

 

bio

 

I respect ur opinion Bio, but Campbell did not get better protection than Flacco he was just more mobile and threw more accurately especially into tight coverage.

Hmmm. What game were we watching. I watched Joe get sacked twice as much as Campbell and  get hit more as Cleveland's line, for the most part, protected Campbell better. In addition, the Brownies are fianlly reaping rewards for al their high draft picks over the years and now have a nice defense.

 

Has anyone thought we should start thinking about a high draft pick next year yet?

[axisofeeble]

No John! It's the offense that needs to stay on the field with a run game that shortens the game and keeps the defense off the field&fresh for those 4th&1s.. Look at Juan Castillo's zone blocking scheme for the culpret in this season's game results .

[Moderator 3]

How can the defense perform at it's best when they were on the field as much as they were. Our offense is horrible (except for Marlon Brown shining moments. We officially have the worst running game in NFL history (at this point of the season). Even worse than the Jags. Our Offense needs to have a good balance between rushing and passing. Flacco had a very inaccurate passing game as well. Fix it Harbough! This is embarrasing. . . .

You need to check that. The defense was on the field a whole 30 seconds more than the offense and 6 minutes of that came at the end of the game. There was no excuse for the defense not being able to get a stop. They had plentymof in-game rest.

[I Roll With Purple n Black]

As long as our team has a play from behind mentality then this scenario will keep playing out. I dont mean our team actually has a game plan to play from behind but they also has No sense of urgency until they are forced to have it. Im sorry but I have to question leadership at this point. When the chips are down somebody has to get in there an light that fire. I have not seen a fire this entire year. Our team was known for shining its best when our backs were against the wall. But we also used to put our stamp on teams before getting our backs put against the wall. I watch ti the same game everyone else is watching but this year team our Ravens look average. It drive me nuts. We continually let teams dictate our tempo and then play from behind to try and win. What kind of crap is that? That's not the Ravens way. We need our fire, edge and nastiness back. But honestly I dont see anyone bringing that out of our team right now. Somebody has to step up.

[Crusader]

I must admit, John had me going there that this was a good team. He should be a politician he can BS with the best of them. Totally unlike his brother.

[Crusader]

One last thing, Can you imagine the embarrassment nation wide when Ravens go to Detroit on Monday night. Life without Ray & Edd

[5+27]

I need to see a headline that reads "Offense needs to stay on the Field" before I read this article.

[btfan2]

"We have to get the defense off the field" OH my God Harbaugh is a genius!!!

Not so much. What happened to we'll leave no stone unturned, until we fix this team; really dude. Let's face it the Ravens this year are unable to reach an acceptable level of mediocrity.

IMHO this loss lands squarely on Harbaugh and his Cronyism. We have NO running game. You can't tell me a former 5 star running back just can't hack it any more. It's the "O" line. Fix the "O" line, Harbaugh is going to do the same thing with this Castillo guy as he did with Mathision and Cam.

Oh well it's just a game. Losing to Jason Campbell, I repeat Campbell. Holly cow!!! WE didn't lose to the Brown we've become the Browns.

[fight fight fight]

Ravens do just enough to lose again. It all comes back to the O-line. If you can't run the ball, opposing defenses can just lock down receivers in coverage if they don't have to respect the run. I think it's time to declare the zone-blocking schemes worthless, and abandon them. I think it's pretty clear that it doesn't work, at least not for us.

And despite all other problems, if Tandon Doss doesn't gift-wrap a TD for them, the Ravens still win this game.

Still love my Ravens, but we're in for a long year if we can't get more than 2.8 yards per carry.

[KingCaw]

The defense couldn't get a stop??? The offense can't stop getting stopped is more like it. Time for a humble pill Coach Harbs. The offense is the problem, and once again it's the O-line blocking scheme. Zone blocking doesn't work for our guys, especially when you spread them out. The tweeks didn't work again. Horrible call allowing these changes to O-line. Getting real tired of watching these games.
The players need to play better, but this time it starts with the coaching more so, I think. I don't even want to read this article.

[PeRK82]

I guess im one of the few, that think the D played pretty good for the most part.

The OFFENSE has atleast bare min. get a few first downs to give the D a rest once in while.
If the Offense were able to score, we wouldnt have had to rely on the D to stop the opposing Offense at the last min because now all of the sudden the Offense got into a little rhythm.

Its been the samething all yr, Too Little, Too Late.

Flacco was off in the first half, for once it wasnt the WRers fault.

No Question about it though, the o line is a SERIOUS Problem

[purple-raven]

Defense has to get off the field REALLY. How about you offense staying on the field! How about the offense stop taking quarters and halves of game off. Prior to the final drive of the first half the offense had a total of 47 YARDS! As I see it you have a defense that played a full game. If this is the way he saw it we are in worst shape that I thought.

I have to ask him. Why when you couldn't run or pass block they still had Flacco taking deep drops trying to throw the ball down the field instead of quick hitches, slants etc..

[JamesA119]

I wrote last week that Huff was scapegoated not because he was playing well, but because the team's overriding MAIN problem was in the O-line. Harbaugh cut 2 players from the defense. How important is a good O-line? Probably as important as a whole team. The O-line is the single most important reason we are a losing team right now! It's absolutely the one thing that if not fixed a 5-11 record will be hard to achieve. Not sure what goes on behind the scenes, but I wonder what Ozzie and Bisciotti think about this new blocking scheme. My prediction is that if we keep this scheme, Flacco can play out his $120M contract and we won't be back to the playoffs.

[mendii]

Maybe the reason our defense can't get off the field is because they're tired at the end of the game because the offense keeps going 3 and out or getting otherwise nowhere. We have scored 3 TDs once this entire season. Let's look at it this way, Tucker hit 42 extra points this year, he's on pace for 32 this year. We're missing roughly the equivalent of 35 points of production from this year so far. If our blocking scheme is really that much of a problem, Castillo should already be out the door. Why hasn't the o-line shown any signs of improving? We've been waiting all season for some kind of turn around. We'd be 7-1 with those 5 TDs.

[WaitSayWhat]

So much whining in these posts,example crusader,ray Lewis retired and Ed reed walked,they are not coming back get over it. We all remember how good they were but they had what, one playoff win between their first Super Bowl and harbaugh getting here. We had to have a down year sometime, with the amount of players that get poached in free agency amd even more importantly the coaches we have lost in all these successful year. Maybe we aren't that good right now but I would never want our head coach to start the year with how bad it's gonna be,what do you want him to say?

[Space11jams]

For Flacco to have a crappy O-line this season, he's playing really well in my opinion. Yeah he's made some mistakes but he's extended drives with his legs which he wasn't doing in prior years. FO really need to look at what Castillo is doing and have him revert back to what we were playing last year. Just like the commentators said, these defenses that we play against front line is to big for us to play zone. It's ridiculous to change something that was working so well for us last year. We didn't lose anyone significant from our line except for Birk and Eugene is a big upgrade replacing B-Mac. We should be atop of the division but......

[SenseiRaven]

Sorry Garrett - totally disagree with Harbs. The D gave the O more than one opportunity yesterday, and they blew every chance given to them.

[haarvik]

"WE didn't lose to the Brown we've become the Browns."

Lol! No truer words...and Ozzy should know!

[Mystigo_Dragon]

No, no, no, no, no!

Your Offense that you proclaimed would "take over the leadership role" in this new Ray & Reed-less year should maintain long drives resulting in points maybe half the time to rest the defense to protect our lead rather than save your woefully inadequate Offense!

That's why, each week, you are losing more of the locker room you tore apart last season!

[Mystigo_Dragon]

A neg! rofl,.... was it something I said?  :lol3:

Well, while you're at it! you may as well neg me for the fact that I have two favorite teams:  an AFC and an NFC favorite,... the Ravens, first, then the Eagles!

Yet, once I saw how 180 out Jim was from John, solidified by the Q trade, I dumped the Eagles and both of my teams have a bay where they call home! One coach talks the talk, the other walks the walk!

 

The Chessie team will always be first, but the Frisco team balls more like what I was used to seeing here!

[krnraven]

Defense let us down, but the offense has to play for more than 1 quarters worth. How about the offense in the first half had like 70 yards total offense. They should forfeit half their gmae check for the half effort.

[Bmore00]

Why do with have new guys voicing their feelings of what needs to happen, when with have Ray Rice, Vonta Leach, Webb, Suggs,Ngata and Flacco who should be speaking for the  whole.  Nothing really agaisnt Canty but you got to put some more sweat in blood in the black and purple sir. 

[KingCaw]

I think the leaders are starting, as well as alot of other players, are being lost by the coaching. Seems like the players know the problems, and the coaching staff isn't listening. If it hasn't worked yet, change it. Can't play any worse than we are now. Who knows maybe the team will "catch fire" when that change happens. Cause the changes promised during the bye were horrible, and I didn't see any "fire". Harbs???