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

[pep_meister]

harbs was trying to get more fantasy points in the last few seconds. 

[Alaska Alaska!]

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

Pretty sure we played to our best abilities on coverage.  Don't want to sound negative for the sake of being negative; however, we don't have a talented back field.  

[stat19]

Someone needs to make Harrison piss in a cup right now.

 

[Dr. Kelley]

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

This.

Ugh now peyton manning is gonna go out and showboat to break this record

[Challenge Accepted]

Colts lose top CB= ben scores 6 TDs

Ravens lose top CB= Ben scores 6 TDs

See the trend? We cannot win any games without better CB play period.

[ravensfan520]

this game was horrible... everyone on this team played like dirt... and we are now in last place... the way we have played we deserve it and we may not make the playoffs 2 years in a row...

[The Mom Gene]

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

It was our O-line.....  they are who didn't play well.

[baroquenspirit]

Ben seems to play better when you guys beat the crap out of him early or break something on his face. 

[ravensdfan]

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.

 

Normally, I'd agree except it is really tough to play well enough to cover all the bad calls & non-calls this game. It was just astoundingly bad and abundant.

[StingerNLG]

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.

and you're not reading what I'm saying. There were calls that should not have been made that left the defense on the field longer than they should have been. That is a fact. And that changes the momentum of the game. No coach is going to go in front of the camera and say otherwise but don't think for a second but they're going to talk about this privately with the league.

[Neil]

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

 

It might have been a fluke last week, but given protection it's not that difficult to throw for a ton of TDs against the Ravens secondary.  If the pressure doesn't get there (for whatever reason, be it poor performance or holding that remains uncalled due to pro-Steeler officials), the DBs will get burned on every play.

[Dewy101]

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

you get the ball out faster to the said guy that is open.

[pep_meister]

 can we honestly entertain the idea of trying to pull champ out of retirement.

[codizzle]

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

Agreed..

Think steelers took it to heart when they were called out for being soft recently

[The Raven]

It was our O-line.....  they are who didn't play well.

 

Our oline didn't let Ben throw six touchdowns. Our secondary is trash.

 

And don't blame the whole line. Like I've said, the right side locked it down. It was Monroe and KO who sucked tonight.

[Minionhunter]

Calls the Ravens must ask the league to review:

 

1. Deliberately giving the steelers the ball at the wrong spot on Harbaug's challenge.

 

2. The must ask that James Harrison be fined since Ushaw was fined for delivering the exact same crown of helmet to chest of quarterback hit to Rothlesberger in the first game. Exact same hit and the refs did not call it this time. I think both were fine, but if they upheld the hit that Upshaw delivered was a penalty, then they must fine James Harrison and say it should have been called a peanalty.

 

There were others, mostly offensive and defensive PI peanalties that were not called on the Steelers.

 

Also inappropriate bringing up Ray Rice at the end of the first half, they talked about it pregame, but it was inexplicable (except to disparage the Ravens) for bringing it up when they did at the end of the first half, totally uncalled for.

[1/28/01]

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

Ha

[ravensdfan]

you get the ball out faster to the said guy that is open.

 

lmao yeah timing plays - we've tried them - they become INTs because our receivers aren't where they're supposed to be.

[Corvus]

Our secondary is god awful.

Only bad play I saw from Flacco was the INT, looked like he was trying to throw it out of bounds. Otherwise it was constant pressure and good coverage by Pittsburgh almost all night. Credit due to them.

Monroe is not looking good at all back from his surgery, Daniels meanwhile is doing a good Pitta impression back from his knee scope. Can't believe I'm saying this but we may need James Hurst back in until he is ready to play.

[baroquenspirit]

I know how this feels because we have been on the other side of  it. Yes, this was a huge game…but this division is far from decided. One thing for sure…the rivalry is back in full swing. 

[Ravensfolyfe]

what a waste.

[GrimCoconut]

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

I think only certain players quit. You could see it happen when we started to become more undisciplined, which actually allowed the Steelers to really take over the game. 

[ravensdfan]

Ha

 

Yeah our O line was exceptionally poor but you can't take away from what Harrison did tonight.

[Militant X 1]

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

 

LOL!!

 

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.

 

I believe that as well.

 

@Mili

[Dewy101]

Webb is the most overpaid player on our roster

[Ravensfolyfe]

I'm tired of this team breaking my heart.

[ravensfan520]

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.

 

what happened to the quick strike offense we had at the start of the second half... well he was completing those because he didn't stand and stare down everybody... even the announcers were pointing it out the that everything that flacco was doing that was working he was abandoning it...  how many int has Joe thrown in the last couple of games... even before the game Kubiak said we need to limit turnovers... well we still can't figure that out.

[MTRavensFan]

Ugh..

 

and now they trot out Harrison like he's some kind of hero.

While discussing Peterson and Rice ad nauseum, ignoring Harrison's past,

 

Puke,,, cough, cough... puke again.

Totally disgusting. No accountability for the media at all.

[1/28/01]

Yeah our O line was exceptionally poor but you can't take away from what Harrison did tonight.

But she did, does and always will. Also certain players are infallible and the refs are to blame for every game.

[ravensdfan]

I know how this feels because we have been on the other side of  it. Yes, this was a huge game…but this division is far from decided. One thing for sure…the rivalry is back in full swing. 

 

And the refs did a good job of making that happen beginning with that bogus OPI call to take away our victory against the Bengals to the completely horrid lopsided officiating of tonight's game that kept the Steelers on the field for 2 TD drives when they should have been punting.

 

Go refs for bringing back the rivalry!