Week 9 - Baltimore Ravens (5-3) at Pittsburgh Steelers (5-3)

[Sir Spooky]

It does this game. The refs got so many wrong. Even the announcers were pointing it out. 3 and 1 - ball clearly well short - gave you the first down - became a TD. 2 neutral zone infractions- both times were false starts. Baltant OPI on Webb. This stuff is on tape man. No denying it.

Questionable DPI on Mosley, missed pass interference on Torrey. 

[ravensdfan]

Leave Flacco in and now he's limping. Smart!

 

Yeah it was a pretty stupid move. No chance of winning this game.

[PoeDinkum]

Wait. Wait. Did we really just spike the ball?

[JO_75]

2007 all over again........ 

[K-Dog]

Turn overs and penalties started the spiral.

[Bravens292]

They played conservative and we still almost got sacked. can't believe this performance. We never lose after a loss but to get blown out after a loss? Tells me all i need to know. season over folks. no need to get a 6th seed and repeat a performance like this. i don't want us in the playoffs.

[GrimCoconut]

Obviously, the facts are that the Ravens were very penalized tonight…but we have been on the other side of this so many times that the "NFL" or "Refs" favor the Steelers is just not backed up by facts. 

Yeah, I don't know about you guys being favored historically. I know there have been some controversial calls on the Steelers' side, but whatever. I'm guessing that's what they are referring to when they say favored. 

[The Raven]

We quit. We quit on this game. We quit in the third quarter. After some calls didn't go our way. And that's soft. Good teams play good enough so that the calls don't decide the game.

[Militant X 1]

I think deep down we all knew our secondary would be [profanity deleted] without Jimmy. Although I didn't see it being 6 pass TD's bad

 

And one poster said that Ben's 6 TD passes last week was a fluke and he comes out here and throws 6 more TD's against the Ravens this week.  Fluke that!  Lol!

 

@Mili

[hn68wb4]

Yep. Relying on his O line for protection and his WRs to get open. Don't know why he keeps thinking those things will change.

its ridiculous that you can't even criticize Flacco without someone coming out of the woodwork to absolve him of all guilt. I have never been a Flacco hater, and I'm still on his side, but to ignore his bad play and make excuses is just sad, criticism is good. Does he deserve all of the criticism that he gets? maybe not, but absolving him is ridiculous \

[Dr. Kelley]

So, I guess its wishful thinking to hope for accountabilty for what went wrong with this game.

[jdynamite]

I think what we really need on this team. Is a new secondary coach and new WR coach.

WRs can't run decent routes to create pockets of separation.

Entire secondary is what it is which is why that position coach needs to be relieved of his duties.

[playlikeawhat]

Well, that is exactly why the Steelers went for another TD...to embarrass the Ravens like the Ravens embarrassed them in week 2.  I LOVE IT!

 

@Mili

I know a lot of coaches would "burn the tape" after a game like this but the secondary needs to watch this and be told repeatedly "That was you....YOU....on Prime Time television in front of millions.  Is that how you want to be remembered?" lol

[GrimCoconut]

Let's call Chris McAlister up and see if he wants to come out of retirement since Pittsburgh got Harrison to come back from the Assisted Living facility. 

[The Raven]

No he didn't...  Our O-line allowed him to play well.....

 

There's playing well and not playing well. Don't say he didn't play well. That's loser talk.

[Alaska Alaska!]

We quit. We quit on this game. We quit in the third quarter. After some calls didn't go our way. And that's soft. Good teams play good enough so that the calls don't decide the game.

I didn't see a team that quit.  Your assumptions are assumptions

[Dewy101]

Something I've noticed through the years if our receivers get press man covered they have no chance of getting open.

[Ravensfolyfe]

THIS SEASON IS OVER! NO PLAYOFFS!

[GrimCoconut]

We quit. We quit on this game. We quit in the third quarter. After some calls didn't go our way. And that's soft. Good teams play good enough so that the calls don't decide the game.

We did, I agree. Some of the Ravens' players quit on the team when they saw the referees were making bad calls. I'm specifically thinking of Suggs here, and some others. 

[playlikeawhat]

Joe made legimitmate mistakes tonight.  I'm not placing all the blame on the O-line but I'm going to pretend Joe needs help, the same way they do Peyton, etc.

[The Raven]

I didn't see a team that quit.  Your assumptions are assumptions

 

We played soft. It's obvious. We let the refs decide the game. We missed tackles, blew easy coverages, and all that

[The Raven]

We did, I agree. Some of the Ravens' players quit on the team when they saw the referees were making bad calls. I'm specifically thinking of Suggs here, and some others. 

 

Suggs, Monroe, and steve Smith are the ones that stick out to me.

[Dewy101]

Amari Cooper. Ozzie, start making calls to the teams who will be ahead of us in the draft so we can get Cooper.

disagree on that we would have to give up too much which would hurt us in the future. 

[StingerNLG]

We quit. We quit on this game. We quit in the third quarter. After some calls didn't go our way. And that's soft. Good teams play good enough so that the calls don't decide the game.

except that they did. Most of those calls change the momentum and complexion of the game.

[Alaska Alaska!]

The sad part is that we just need 1 threat that can open up the receiving game for every other player on our team and somehow Ozzie has failed to find a player like that.

How will Joe throw to said receiver if he's getting blitzed each down?

[Dewy101]

Its easy to throw 12tds when Vontae Davis and Jimmy Smith aren't playing

[The Raven]

except that they did. Most of those calls change the momentum and complexion of the game.

 

you must not have read what I said, "Good teams play good enough so that the calls don't decide the game." 

 

And there's not a coach anywhere that'll tell you different.

[Guest I-70WestRaven]

Well, last one out turn off the lights.

[redrum52]

Amazing what beat downs on two pathetic teams does to mask what/who we really are. Yikes!

Wheres the are we the best team in the league thread now? I was called out for not being a fan when I said I thought we would lose this game. Called a hater when I said we stomped sub par competition and came out slow against the Falcons. Say what you will about the end and how this turned out but the offense once again cost us another game with 14 easy points early. From there penalties bad tackling and... the secondary. Didn't capitalize early. Story of ALL our losses. New year, same inconsistencies on offense.

[ravensdfan]

its ridiculous that you can't even criticize Flacco without someone coming out of the woodwork to absolve him of all guilt. I have never been a Flacco hater, and I'm still on his side, but to ignore his bad play and make excuses is just sad, criticism is good. Does he deserve all of the criticism that he gets? maybe not, but absolving him is ridiculous \

 

I will call out undue criticism this week forever and a day. Man's been running for his life the entire game. Not one receiver was getting open. When he was running around trying to find something, the receivers are standing around with their thumbs up their butts. The O line was garbage and the one boneheaded INT he was heading down to the ground and the intended receiver just stood there as usual and made NO PLAY for the ball to help out his QB at all.

 

Those are facts and it is all there to see on tape. Our receiving corps is sub par outside of Smith Sr who is starting to show his age as the season wears on. And that is on Ozzie period for treating offense like a red headed step child at draft time for 3 years running and giving his well paid QB no help.