Week 1 - Baltimore Ravens vs. Cincinnati Bengals

[jdynamite]

Oh well. At least we saw some life. Just blown coverage. And blown protection in the end.

[ellicottraven]

Now it's time to get our butts kicked in by the Squealers...

[Cville-Raven]

We need to play four quarters of the 2nd half offense. 

[ravensfan520]

That game ending play had two defenders come in unblocked..... Wth was he supposed to do.

See that the defense had 4 guys on one side and only 2 blockers and no back to pick up a blitz... so he could have done a lot. He needs to learn how read a d... even I say that one coming.

[codizzle]

And everyone is going to blame the offense, who took the lead late in the 4th and excuse the defense, who had a looonnnggg rest.whatever. I'm out.

Same as every game last year pretty much..

Both sides to blame for multiple reasons

[Bravens292]

 

hardly putrid at all. in fact we ran the ball great. we simply chose not to in the final drive. cincy knew we were going to pass the whole drive. they pinned their ears back the whole time and it cost us the last 2 plays. should've ran the ball more.

[Purple Nurple]

No. You gotta go. How is joe responsible for multiple dropped passes and, on the last play, poor o line work?

[darklight1216]

I don't who to blame on that. Should Flacco have changed the protection or is that on Kubiak for not sending the right personnel?

 

That game ending play had two defenders come in unblocked..... Wth was he supposed to do.

Fly.

[hn68wb4]

our run game wasn't putrid, Forsett picked up the slack and then some

[ravens rule]

I told y''all watch Aj Green at all times. Even if he is struggling he gonna make that deep play.

[jimmypowder]

We take the lead and another 4th quarter defensive meltdown . Green didn't even catch it cleanly .

Deja vu 2013

[Dr. Kelley]

And everyone is going to blame the offense, who took the lead late in the 4th and excuse the defense, who had a looonnnggg rest.whatever. I'm out.

THIS. Our defense is nowhere near good enough for us to compete with elite teams. It would have been nice for the offense to show up in the first half though.

[kassaiscool]

Joe flacco threw the ball 62 times, I am disappointed in Kubiak for the first game of the season. We averaged 4.7 a carry on 19 carries for the game.

[Bandwagon]

Yeah the same exact thing I saw last year.. NOTHING in the first half, something in the second half. 

SOMEONE tell me why Chykie was covering AJ Green. I believe Chykie is the least of our current corner backs and hes covering the best receiver on the bengals?! Yeah this team is going nowhere

[playlikeawhat]

I expected worse from Flacco first game so I won't complain too much but I didn't expect the receivers to miss so many catchable passes today.

[admartian]

O line still not fixed.

 

How much is a sack of potato and what are PFFs grade on it?

[ellicottraven]

There goes our chance at 16-0! Now we try to go 15-1 the rest of the way. Now, this is what I call demented optimism.

[kennethyamini1989]

Dont forget the many dropped passes in the first half...Jacoby dropped an easy TD in the first half and Smith missed several balls. This team better get it together..starting off 0-1 is never good statistically, and going 0-2 pretty much guarantees we miss the playoffs. 

[ravens rule]

This game was on the slow start by Offense what a surprise.

[RaineV1]

This loss is on the D, specifically Chakie Brown. 

No, it's on Dan Pees who decided not to have Smith stick to AJ Green on the play and didn't have safety help against Green.

[Raving_Heathen]

Honestly it sucks we surrendered the home win streak, especially to Cincy, but not like it did us any favors last year... or really most years where this team was only above average.

[darklight1216]

And everyone is going to blame the offense, who took the lead late in the 4th and excuse the defense, who had a looonnnggg rest.whatever. I'm out.

Nah, the defense got let themselves get punked by Andy Dalton. There is no excuse for that happening twice in a row. And allowing 23 points is not impressive either. I mean it's not 40 or anything, but it's nothing to write home about.

[Sir Spooky]

Flacco could have brought a back into the backfield assuming we weren't using 5 wrs. The offensive line has got to communicate better and slide over like a zone. 

[hn68wb4]

if it takes a whole half for our offense to get going every game then its going to be a really long season, second half offense looked really good, receivers caught the balls and Forsett was running well, now if that can happen for an entire game then we will be in a good position

[cursona pirate]

Also guys its week 1. Calm down.

[kassaiscool]

[profanity deleted]. O line still not fixed.

 

How much is a sack of potato and what are PFFs grade on it?

62 passes don't you think the bengals are gonna get to the Qb sometimes?

[jimmypowder]

O line still not fixed.

How much is a sack of potato and what are PFFs grade on it?

Forsett showed you need some speed for a zone blocking scheme . Pierce don't have it

[dhstandard]

THIS. Our defense is nowhere near good enough for us to compete with elite teams. It would have been nice for the offense to show up in the first half though.

 

Our Defense is fine.  We need Webb back.  Why Chykie Brown, the worst corner on our roster, was covering AJ Green makes no sense.

[Raving_Heathen]

Joe flacco threw the ball 62 times

 

That's just nuts. Jeez. New OC, new schemes, but nothing has changed.

[PerpetuallyBored74]

Too many drops.by the WRs

Too many misreads by the WRs

Too many slips & trips by the WRs

Too many bad/wrong/misplayed routes by the WRs

 

Especially on 3rd down, and even worse on potential TD throws.

Joe shoulda/woulda/coulda had 3 more TDs.

 

Torrey is NOT a #1 WR, and it's doubtful he ever will be.

He can't even run the go route properly, he looks back too early and slows down too much when he does, and he looks lost trying to track the ball.

Ozzie NEEDS to draft our #1 WR next year.

 

Because Steve Smith, at 35 years old (who had a horrible first half) IS our #1 WR.