Remaining Schedule

[757RavensFan]

Looking at the remaining schedule and considering how the Ravens are playing, I would be surprised if we finished worse than 11-5. Considering how the other teams are playing so far, we

honestly have the talent to run the table.  That's truly wishful thinking and highly unlikely, but 

I like how the season is shaping up for us all things considering. 

 

@ Indy

@TB

vs ATL

@ CIN

@PITT

vs Tenn

@ NO

vs SD

@MIA

vs Jax

@HOU

vs CLE

 

 

 

[rmcjacket23]

We've still got to prove that we can consistently win on the road. We certainly have plenty of winnable home games, and we could probably conceivably run the table there. But there's no shortage of tough road games ahead (including 4 out of 5 coming up), and we didn't look all that great in our first road game, particularly on defense.

[wademan2636]

the only games i see on there that are going to be very difficult are @CIN and home vs. SD.  those are the only 2 opponents that I am afraid of.

[wademan2636]

the only games i see on there that are going to be very difficult are @CIN and home vs. SD.  those are the only 2 opponents that I am afraid of.

besides the colts this week that is.

[Militant X 1]

We've still got to prove that we can consistently win on the road. We certainly have plenty of winnable home games, and we could probably conceivably run the table there. But there's no shortage of tough road games ahead (including 4 out of 5 coming up), and we didn't look all that great in our first road game, particularly on defense.

 

I said this in another thread as well.  Sure, we got the W and that is all that matters but the reality is that we struggled with the Browns in Cleveland.  Now, we're heading to Indy and Tampa for back to back road games.  To win on the road it has been said that we need a running game and defense that travels well.  Hmm...

 

@Mili

[rmcjacket23]

the only games i see on there that are going to be very difficult are @CIN and home vs. SD.  those are the only 2 opponents that I am afraid of.

If history shows us anything, its that, particularly in road games, we typically lose to teams that we "aren't afraid of".

 

Isn't a single game on our schedule, especially on the road, where I feel 100% confident that we will win.

[PurplePassion824]

We still have a lot of away games.  I still can't figure out if Houston is good or not.  New Orleans is a hard opponent in their stadium no matter what their record is.  Could be some tough games.  I think we can beat Cincy in their stadium.  I think this team is going to be pumped up for vengeance.

[Tank 92]

If our offense continues to improve and the secondary gets it together, watch out!

 

 

Go  

[callahan09]

L @ Indy

W @TB

W vs ATL

W @ CIN

L @PITT

W vs Tenn

L @ NO

W vs SD

W @MIA

W vs Jax

L @HOU

W vs CLE

 

That's 11-5.

 

 

It's tough though.  I could easily see us winning in Indy.  Unfortunately, I could also see us losing at home to San Diego if Rivers stays as hot as he's been.  He's having a career year, and if they remain that tough throughout the season that'll be a scary game when they come to town.  I don't see anyone else beating us at home.

 

Houston will be a tough test for us.  If we had them at home, I'd put it in the W column, but on the road against a very good defense with some superstar talent on the D line, it could be a difficult day for us.  I could see myself being way off on this one, too, though, with Kubiak here and being an offensive guru and having something to prove against his former team, we could pull it out.

 

New Orleans, who knows what happens.  I see them improving and probably scoring a ton of points against our defense so we wont' be able to win that one on the road.

 

CIN is an interesting one.  They've looked like the best team in the NFL, but I swear we SHOULD HAVE beat them in week 1.  Our whole offense just came out of the gate looking jittery and confused.  So many bonehead mistakes from everyone.  And yet, we still almost won that game.  Had a 4th quarter lead blown up by a fluke catch, and almost had a chance to win it at the end as well.  We go to CIN and punch them in the mouth, we will get revenge for how we lost to open the season in our house.  I believe we will win that game!

 

The rest of the home games, I think we take easily, and the rest of the games against bad teams, I think we don't suffer any let-downs like we did in previous years.  Kubiak is too smart not to get us a lot of points against bad teams.

 

That leaves @PIT, which is another toss-up for me.  I see their offense as being pretty scary since they had that horrible outing against us.  In their house, they'll bring the points.  We just need to score against them.  We can do it... but I'm not sure how it'll go, so I picked it as a loss to be conservative.

 

 

Realistically, I see between 9-7 and 13-3, with 11-5 the conservative and confidant guess from me.

[callahan09]

If history shows us anything, its that, particularly in road games, we typically lose to teams that we "aren't afraid of".

 

Isn't a single game on our schedule, especially on the road, where I feel 100% confident that we will win.

Throw away the Cam/Caldwell years.  Kubiak is too good and too smart to let some scrub team bully this offense and hold us to field goals just because it's on the road.  Kubiak is a brilliant game planner, genius strategist, and he knows how to make in-game adjustments, and he'll have this team prepared to face off against the opponents they should beat.

[rmcjacket23]

Throw away the Cam/Caldwell years.  Kubiak is too good and too smart to let some scrub team bully this offense and hold us to field goals just because it's on the road.  Kubiak is a brilliant game planner, genius strategist, and he knows how to make in-game adjustments, and he'll have this team prepared to face off against the opponents they should beat.

That might be true, but its not like our offense on the road is always the problem either. I think I had previously ran the numbers on the Harbaugh era, and we also gave up like 4-5 points more per game on the road than we did at home.

[callahan09]

That might be true, but its not like our offense on the road is always the problem either. I think I had previously ran the numbers on the Harbaugh era, and we also gave up like 4-5 points more per game on the road than we did at home.

Could be important. Not sure myself... because if we were turning the ball over and/or punting more on the road as an offense, and I think we were at a drastic split with our home performance on offense during the Cam years, that could be a reason why the team gives up more points. Could even be fumble/INT return touchdowns contributing to that, I haven't done the research, maybe I will later today! But at the very least, I'd bet that just sheer fatigue from being on the field more when the offense can't get it done is a reason why the defense probably hasn't been as successful on the road. Of course you could just be correct outright, since we have a pretty good home field advantage with our crowd noise that might just help make our defense a lot better at home and when we don't have that on the road the defense suffers. I'm not really sure, but there's definitely things to consider. Thanks for the suggestion!

[hn68wb4]

L @ Indy

W @TB

W vs ATL

W @ CIN

L @PITT

W vs Tenn

L @ NO

W vs SD

W @MIA

W vs Jax

L @HOU

W vs CLE

 

That's 11-5.

 

 

It's tough though.  I could easily see us winning in Indy.  Unfortunately, I could also see us losing at home to San Diego if Rivers stays as hot as he's been.  He's having a career year, and if they remain that tough throughout the season that'll be a scary game when they come to town.  I don't see anyone else beating us at home.

 

Houston will be a tough test for us.  If we had them at home, I'd put it in the W column, but on the road against a very good defense with some superstar talent on the D line, it could be a difficult day for us.  I could see myself being way off on this one, too, though, with Kubiak here and being an offensive guru and having something to prove against his former team, we could pull it out.

 

New Orleans, who knows what happens.  I see them improving and probably scoring a ton of points against our defense so we wont' be able to win that one on the road.

 

CIN is an interesting one.  They've looked like the best team in the NFL, but I swear we SHOULD HAVE beat them in week 1.  Our whole offense just came out of the gate looking jittery and confused.  So many bonehead mistakes from everyone.  And yet, we still almost won that game.  Had a 4th quarter lead blown up by a fluke catch, and almost had a chance to win it at the end as well.  We go to CIN and punch them in the mouth, we will get revenge for how we lost to open the season in our house.  I believe we will win that game!

 

The rest of the home games, I think we take easily, and the rest of the games against bad teams, I think we don't suffer any let-downs like we did in previous years.  Kubiak is too smart not to get us a lot of points against bad teams.

 

That leaves @PIT, which is another toss-up for me.  I see their offense as being pretty scary since they had that horrible outing against us.  In their house, they'll bring the points.  We just need to score against them.  We can do it... but I'm not sure how it'll go, so I picked it as a loss to be conservative.

 

 

Realistically, I see between 9-7 and 13-3, with 11-5 the conservative and confidant guess from me.

Losses against Pitt, Houston and New Orleans? you have to be joking

If the Saints have proven anything this season its that their secondary is in shambles (very good for us) and they can't score like they have been in years past - they couldn't even score on the Cowboys. They obviously can still score, but they won't rack up points. That secondary can't stop the Smith brothers along with Brown, they can't stop all three, they'll have trouble stopping even 1 of them.

 

Don't get brainwashed into believing that Houston defense is as good as you think they are, they are ranked 23rd overall, they are no better than the Panthers D and they are in the same boat as that D, not as good as they were supposed to be. Plus you have to add in who they have starting at QB, Fitzpatrick won't pick apart our secondary by any stretch of the imagination and Foster is not having a good season so far averaging less than 4 yards/carry, plus our D is ranked 8th in stopping the run so Fitzpatrick won't be able to lean on that to open up the passing lanes. Our secondary played really well last week, outside of 1 blown coverage by Stewart it was a lockdown day with Cam getting less than 200 yards.

 

I won't even comment on how wrong it is to have us losing to the team that just lost to the Bucs, Pittsburgh is pathetic, I get that usually the games are close but just look at our first game against them, when our offense can actually move we beat them easily

 

We'd have more chance of losing against Cincy and SD, but houston and NO? no way

I can see a loss to Indy, won't argue that

[Static]

Tampa won't have Evans when we play. That's huge.

[xxhighriser]

Finally we don't have to go to San Diego, I think that's huge.  Rivers is having an mvp like season and we're def gonna have to have our secondary figured out by then.  I like the chance of 12-4 IF we beat Indy this week.  But 11-5 sounds a lot more realistic.

[rmcjacket23]

Losses against Pitt, Houston and New Orleans? you have to be joking

If the Saints have proven anything this season its that their secondary is in shambles (very good for us) and they can't score like they have been in years past - they couldn't even score on the Cowboys. They obviously can still score, but they won't rack up points. That secondary can't stop the Smith brothers along with Brown, they can't stop all three, they'll have trouble stopping even 1 of them.

 

Don't get brainwashed into believing that Houston defense is as good as you think they are, they are ranked 23rd overall, they are no better than the Panthers D and they are in the same boat as that D, not as good as they were supposed to be. Plus you have to add in who they have starting at QB, Fitzpatrick won't pick apart our secondary by any stretch of the imagination and Foster is not having a good season so far averaging less than 4 yards/carry, plus our D is ranked 8th in stopping the run so Fitzpatrick won't be able to lean on that to open up the passing lanes. Our secondary played really well last week, outside of 1 blown coverage by Stewart it was a lockdown day with Cam getting less than 200 yards.

 

I won't even comment on how wrong it is to have us losing to the team that just lost to the Bucs, Pittsburgh is pathetic, I get that usually the games are close but just look at our first game against them, when our offense can actually move we beat them easily

 

We'd have more chance of losing against Cincy and SD, but houston and NO? no way

I can see a loss to Indy, won't argue that

There is literally no team in this league, including Jacksonville, where we would play a road game and be guaranteed to win.

 

New Orleans can simply beat any team in this league by double digits at home at any given time.

 

I know its cool to say "well because this team beat that team, there's no way that we will lose to that team", but then again, the NFL doesn't really work that way.

[Ravenseconbeast]

Don't forget the Bills game last year.  Theres bound to be a dud game vs dud team somewhere.  

[hn68wb4]

There is literally no team in this league, including Jacksonville, where we would play a road game and be guaranteed to win.

 

New Orleans can simply beat any team in this league by double digits at home at any given time.

 

I know its cool to say "well because this team beat that team, there's no way that we will lose to that team", but then again, the NFL doesn't really work that way.

What NO team have you been watching? They can't beat any team by double digits, their defense won't allow it, it took a Peterson-less Vikings with Cassel starting at QB for the Saints to win at all. And even against the Minnesota Vikings defense thats ranked 24th in the league they could only score 20.

Way to pick out the single most unimportant thing about my comment (also not irrelevant) and act like its some big news that any team can beat any team given the right circumstances, way to go, go ahead and call up ESPN and give them that news. Its not simply that Pittsburgh lost to the Bucs, its that they aren't very good, especially defensively, they have 1 consistant receiver, 1 good consistent RB, their D is injury riddled and is a terrible mixture of players that are either too young or too old, they've got no one in the late 20s with experience thats any good. They are awfully matched against us, they've got 1 good WR - Jimmy can stop him, he won't have an invisible game but Jimmy will stop him for the most part, They've got 1 good consistent RB - we are ranked 8th against the rush, and apart from 1 big run the first time, Bell didn't do too much, don't be fooled by his stats against us, most of that came on 1 or 2 runs. Their defense is just plain bad - our offense is ranked 6th in the entire league. If Flacco continues how he is playing along with Smith Sr. and we continue to have a potent running game, there's no way the steelers win that game

[callahan09]

Losses against Pitt, Houston and New Orleans? you have to be joking

If the Saints have proven anything this season its that their secondary is in shambles (very good for us) and they can't score like they have been in years past - they couldn't even score on the Cowboys. They obviously can still score, but they won't rack up points. That secondary can't stop the Smith brothers along with Brown, they can't stop all three, they'll have trouble stopping even 1 of them.

 

Don't get brainwashed into believing that Houston defense is as good as you think they are, they are ranked 23rd overall, they are no better than the Panthers D and they are in the same boat as that D, not as good as they were supposed to be. Plus you have to add in who they have starting at QB, Fitzpatrick won't pick apart our secondary by any stretch of the imagination and Foster is not having a good season so far averaging less than 4 yards/carry, plus our D is ranked 8th in stopping the run so Fitzpatrick won't be able to lean on that to open up the passing lanes. Our secondary played really well last week, outside of 1 blown coverage by Stewart it was a lockdown day with Cam getting less than 200 yards.

 

I won't even comment on how wrong it is to have us losing to the team that just lost to the Bucs, Pittsburgh is pathetic, I get that usually the games are close but just look at our first game against them, when our offense can actually move we beat them easily

 

We'd have more chance of losing against Cincy and SD, but houston and NO? no way

I can see a loss to Indy, won't argue that

It's just a guess, obviously football is a hard game to predict. Underdogs win with some frequency in the NFL. Those 3 games you pointed out all happen to be road games. New Orleans is probably the one I least expect to lose, but I just marked it down for a loss because it could be a trap game. We've seen the Ravens lose many games they should have won over the years. The Patriots weren't particularly good last season, and when we had them come to town last year, we were 8-6, and we just had to win this game against a Patriots team that we've beaten or outplayed consistently for the past couple of years, and that leaves us in the driver's seat for the division crown, I thought, hell yeah, we can handle a depleted NE team in our house.

And you may recall the result of that awful game.

Anything can happen. These are just my guesses. I think we have a great chance to win EVERY game from here on out, but 15-game win streaks aren't very common, so I had to pencil in some losses to be realistic haha.

[rmcjacket23]

What NO team have you been watching? They can't beat any team by double digits, their defense won't allow it, it took a Peterson-less Vikings with Cassel starting at QB for the Saints to win at all. And even against the Minnesota Vikings defense thats ranked 24th in the league they could only score 20.

Way to pick out the single most unimportant thing about my comment (also not irrelevant) and act like its some big news that any team can beat any team given the right circumstances, way to go, go ahead and call up ESPN and give them that news. Its not simply that Pittsburgh lost to the Bucs, its that they aren't very good, especially defensively, they have 1 consistant receiver, 1 good consistent RB, their D is injury riddled and is a terrible mixture of players that are either too young or too old, they've got no one in the late 20s with experience thats any good. They are awfully matched against us, they've got 1 good WR - Jimmy can stop him, he won't have an invisible game but Jimmy will stop him for the most part, They've got 1 good consistent RB - we are ranked 8th against the rush, and apart from 1 big run the first time, Bell didn't do too much, don't be fooled by his stats against us, most of that came on 1 or 2 runs. Their defense is just plain bad - our offense is ranked 6th in the entire league. If Flacco continues how he is playing along with Smith Sr. and we continue to have a potent running game, there's no way the steelers win that game

You already acknowledged that on any given Sunday, any team can beat any team. After that statement, nothing else really matters. Everything else you said is just long-winded stats that support theories, yet theories don't actually become reality until they actually happen. Too many "if this" and "if that" and "these guys are playing at this level and they can't stop us" and a lot of stuff that just sounds good on message boards, but it doesn't quite translate.

 

I've heard all of these lines before. I heard the same line back in 2011 (and I was the one saying them) whe we, a legitimate SB contender, went into Jacksonville and played a Jaguars team that was frankly worse than this team. They had nothing. The two best players on their team were a punter and a plack kicker, and it was the only positions on the field where they were better than us. We literally were significantly better, position by position, all the way from coach to bench, up and down the roster.

 

They outplayed us (and outcoached us) on every single possible phase of that game.

 

We have lost many road games in the past several seasons against vastly inferior teams, and all of those games were led up to by comments just like yours...

[rmcjacket23]

It's just a guess, obviously football is a hard game to predict. Underdogs win with some frequency in the NFL. Those 3 games you pointed out all happen to be road games. New Orleans is probably the one I least expect to lose, but I just marked it down for a loss because it could be a trap game. We've seen the Ravens lose many games they should have won over the years. The Patriots weren't particularly good last season, and when we had them come to town last year, we were 8-6, and we just had to win this game against a Patriots team that we've beaten or outplayed consistently for the past couple of years, and that leaves us in the driver's seat for the division crown, I thought, hell yeah, we can handle a depleted NE team in our house.

And you may recall the result of that awful game.

Anything can happen. These are just my guesses. I think we have a great chance to win EVERY game from here on out, but 15-game win streaks aren't very common, so I had to pencil in some losses to be realistic haha.

I'll take it a step further...

 

I will place a friendly wager (not for money, but perhaps a posting or some other friendly wager) that the Ravens will absolutely lose at least one of the three games you listed (NO, Pittsburgh, Houston). I think that is a mortal lock at this point.

[3-4ravdef509]

Looking at the remaining schedule and considering how the Ravens are playing, I would be surprised if we finished worse than 11-5. Considering how the other teams are playing so far, we

honestly have the talent to run the table.  That's truly wishful thinking and highly unlikely, but 

I like how the season is shaping up for us all things considering. 

 

@ Indy - L. 

@TB - W

vs ATL - W

@ CIN - L

@PITT - W

vs Tenn- W

@ NO- W

vs SD - L

@MIA- W

vs Jax - W

@HOU - W

vs CLE- W

 

12-4. This is how I see it happening. The upside is I think we easily make the playoffs with that record, but I don't see us having good chances of winning at Cincy. That means we'd be dependent upon Cincy having a worse record than us if we wanted to win the division, otherwise we'd likely be the 5th seed.

 

Indy I think will be a close game, but I don't think we will win unless the defense steps up. I expect a high scoring game tbh, like 33-27 the more I think about it. 

 

I think we'll win the rest at home except San Diego, as we always have trouble with them.

 

The rest of the road games are no brainers practically except NO, but I think we match up against them well, plus being in New Orleans where we won the Superbowl should provide some spark.

 

I could very well see us winning against Indy and losing a trap game. I don't see anything higher than 12-4. 

 

But after I put my purple shades back on...I see 15-1

[hn68wb4]

I'll take it a step further...

 

I will place a friendly wager (not for money, but perhaps a posting or some other friendly wager) that the Ravens will absolutely lose at least one of the three games you listed (NO, Pittsburgh, Houston). I think that is a mortal lock at this point.

ill take that "bet" no problem

and if you want we can take it an extra step forward where we'd each show the remaining schedule with wins and losses and if either of us gets it 100% right then we can do something there

on top of the "will definitely lose against at least one of the Steelers, NO, and Houston" "bet" of course, they won't depend on each other

[Militant X 1]

You already acknowledged that on any given Sunday, any team can beat any team. After that statement, nothing else really matters. Everything else you said is just long-winded stats that support theories, yet theories don't actually become reality until they actually happen. Too many "if this" and "if that" and "these guys are playing at this level and they can't stop us" and a lot of stuff that just sounds good on message boards, but it doesn't quite translate.

 

I've heard all of these lines before. I heard the same line back in 2011 (and I was the one saying them) whe we, a legitimate SB contender, went into Jacksonville and played a Jaguars team that was frankly worse than this team. They had nothing. The two best players on their team were a punter and a plack kicker, and it was the only positions on the field where they were better than us. We literally were significantly better, position by position, all the way from coach to bench, up and down the roster.

 

They outplayed us (and outcoached us) on every single possible phase of that game.

 

We have lost many road games in the past several seasons against vastly inferior teams, and all of those games were led up to by comments just like yours...

 

Jacket, I'm in total agreement with you on these points!  This is only the Ravens 2nd road game and they struggled on their 1st road trip with their win over the Browns.  I see no one mentioning that in this discussion.  To me, that can't be so easily dismissed or overlooked.  I feel that PITT, NO and CINCI will all be tough road games for the Ravens. 

 

IMO, Pitt wants payback for their beat down in Baltimore, NO has been embarrassed of late and want to right their ship and then there is Cinci that came in to Baltimore and left with a W on opening day!  Smh!  Surely, they are more than confident to feel that they can and will beat us at home.  Way too many moving parts for me to be so overly confident in assumptions that our Ravens will be and are legitimate "road warriors" at this point!

 

@Mili

[Tank 92]

Finally we don't have to go to San Diego, I think that's huge.  Rivers is having an mvp like season and we're def gonna have to have our secondary figured out by then.

 

 

Although 11/24 may be a bit early, I'm praying for 30 degrees and snow.  That would pretty much seal the deal against the left coast, fair weather bolts.

[rmcjacket23]

ill take that "bet" no problem

and if you want we can take it an extra step forward where we'd each show the remaining schedule with wins and losses and if either of us gets it 100% right then we can do something there

on top of the "will definitely lose against at least one of the Steelers, NO, and Houston" "bet" of course, they won't depend on each other

Not interested in picking the rest of the schedule, because neither of us are going to get it 100% right, so there's no point.

 

I have no issue betting anything that we will lose one of those three road games though. Heck, I'd even bet that we lose at least 2 road games total this season, and more realistically 3.

[Kid87]

Dang 6 out of our next 9 games are on the road. Well lets be real...we should be 4 -0 right now. The end of that bengals game was disappointing..

@ Indy L

@TB W

vs ATL W

@ CIN W

@PITT W

vs Tenn W

@ NO L

vs SD L

@MIA W

vs Jax W

@HOU L

vs CLE W

11-5 Division Champs!!

[bMore Heathen]

There's still a lot of time between now and the end of the season. A lot can happen. I'm optimistic, but I'm not going to start thinking about making playoffs till week 11 or 12. If we play like we did VS the Panthers, I don't think we will have any problems.

[rmcjacket23]

There's still a lot of time between now and the end of the season. A lot can happen. I'm optimistic, but I'm not going to start thinking about making playoffs till week 11 or 12. If we play like we did VS the Panthers, I don't think we will have any problems.

That's correct. And the other side of it... if we play like we did against Cleveland or Cincinnati, we are going to be playing a LOT of tight games down the stretch, and some of them we will likely lose.

 

Precisely the reason why all of this talk about teams we can't lose to and all of this is just a bunch of nonesense at this point.

[The Mom Gene]

Dang  6 out of our next 9 games are on the road.  Well lets be real...we should be 4 -0 right now. The end of that bengals game was G*Y...

@ Indy  L

@TB W

vs ATL W

@ CIN W

@PITT W

vs Tenn W

@ NO L

vs SD L

@MIA W

vs Jax W

@HOU L

vs CLE W

 

11-5 Division Champs!!

First...  I don't believe that.....   N.O. got their butts handed to them the other night

San Diego.....  questionable, but I'm not handing us a loss there either...... 

Houston..... probably...  but there are other teams that I am more worried about than those....