[News] Steve Smith Sr. Puts Loss On Himself

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The veteran WR had a chance for a game-winning touchdown catch on the final drive.

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[The Mom Gene]

Steve... We shouldn't have been in that position to begin with. The Ravens have always taken the position of TEAM.... THE TEAM; THE TEAM; THE TEAM...

[AvianBrain]

Tough game all around. At least they did not get blown-out like the 2013 game. Respectable for the first game of the season against another top tier team. Maybe SSS should have made the catch, but the defender was clearly face-guarding on Gilmore on the next pass. He never turned his head around and just put his hands up to prevent him from making the catch.

[Fullblack_RAVEN]

Nope. This loss wasn't on steve. It was on the entire offense. Hopefully steve brushes this off and balls out vs. the raiders.

[balfan23]

Way to man up ... I'm sure your team mates appreciate it, but we win as a team, lose as a team. Get em next time, Senior.

[salamander]

I feel that the entire offense was a disappointment today, I respect SSS for taking responsibility for dropping a pass he felt he should have caught. I think SSS is enough of a pro to channel that frustration in to determination on the field rather than let it demoralize him. SSS is a fighter and he will more than make up for a pass he knows he had the ability to come down with. Next week SSS will respond like the warrior he is.

[cobrajet]

We just need to beat the snot out of the Raiders next week.

[BirdWatcher]

We just need to beat the snot out of the Raiders next week.

I'm onboard with that idea.

[ciro]

so sad to hear about suggs and i hope that he's able to get back to his dangerous form and any decision he makes about his career is one he makes from a position of strength. As tough as this lose was, its so good to see our dangerous defense play. I hope that we can play through sugg's lose because man we looked terrific out there today.

I was really looking forward to this season because we had found weapons for flacco, but this game even flacco's elusiveness was gone. Trestman, you have got to make it easier for Flacco because our receivers aren't able to get any separation. No deep threat, so they just sit down on our wide receivers and stuff the run, if this isn't fixed, i foresee more games like this

[Purple Punishment]

I'm onboard with that idea.

Last time we played them we almost put up 60

[BallSoHard808]

the raiders are gonna feel the Ravens wrath next week. Hopefully breshad comes soon we need him. Go Ravens!!!

[catgirl54]

Funny how Smith always takes the heat on himself, while Joe says "We" have a lot of work to do.

I like Steve Smith.

[RavensDieHard21]

That bounce off the hands was hard to watch! i swore it was about to be game over!=[ get the offense going early next week. Remember, Denver is a legit top 3-5 defense at home and our young talent needs time to gel. It's hard for the o-line to hold up during heavy blitzes and their corners and linebackers playing great in coverage. We need Permian to come back and regret playing so close to the line.

[Maryland]

He did have a bad game, especially on those two plays, but it's never on one player. We need our O-line to play better and have our other receivers step up. On the bright side, this is probably the best defense we will face all season, and yet we still almost won despite unexpected injuries and our own mistakes.

[thecommish]

i am hearing people say that Ozzie needs to trade for an OLB to replace Suggs... I think if a trade is to be made... it should be for a WR... we need a legit Number 2 of it may be a long season offensively!

[Purple Dawg 96]

No Triple " S " the play calling SUCKED!

[smiley4660]

Trestman. nuf said.

[AirforceOne79]

I don't even blame Smith, I blame the offensive coordinator with not making adjustments until the last 2 minutes of the game.

[Hardhitters]

We can't put this on Trestman or Smith, all game long the O-line edges was outplayed. Flacco had no time to let anything develop. Honestly, playing Peyton in the summer without getting blown out is a moral win, we'll pay him back in the winter game that counts more.

Edited September 14, 2015 by Hardhitters

[Zeus]

Why is SSS the only receiver that can produce? What's the problem?

[RavensBaltimore]

How would it have been a "tough play" for him to catch a pass that hit him in right square in the hands?

[Vitalvicious]

We looked absolutely pathetic on offense! Steve can't take all the blame, although he did drop a potential game winner... I'm not sure Trestman is the guy for the job. Our O line looked lost when it came to run blocking and pass blocking, we surely didn't have any big plays, no speed on offense, idk...I think we need to reassess our receiving corp for sure. Not too much going on in that department at all. Defense looked great tho!

Edited September 14, 2015 by Vitalvicious

[RavensBaltimore]

I don't even blame Smith, I blame the offensive coordinator with not making adjustments until the last 2 minutes of the game.

 

 

Trestman. nuf said.

 

 

No Triple " S " the play calling SUCKED!

Thank you. I posted this on another page, and I'll post it again. Before the final drive, we had 11 1st down rushing attempts, which led to just 3 first downs. We only had 5 1st down passing attempts, which led to 4 first downs. Flacco was 5/5 in those 1st down pass attempts. Trestman kept running into a wall on 1st down, putting us in long yardage, obvious passing situations on later downs, and because they knew we had to pass, they could pin their ears back and go after Flacco. We were successful almost every time we threw on first down, but we chose to do something that wasn't working instead. It reminded me of Cam Cameron. It shouldn't take a genius to figure out that 4/5 > 3/11. In the future, I really hope that Trestman is more aggressive from the start, and I hope he does a better job of making in-game adjustments.

[CQ1]

Flacco had no time to throw a deep ball, so enough of the Perriman hoopla; not quite sure why Joe didn't roll out to the right at times (the Maalox usual; he did a lot of rolling out in preseason)regardless: the bottom line is that we were in the perfect position to win the game. Were.

[sticks999]

Sure the O was bad, awful. But you have to say Flacco was the worst. He threw 2 picks and the last one should have been a touchdown. He under threw it.

[huntrgathrr]

If Flacco and Trestman can't do any better than that this team will end up 8-8 with the best defense in the NFL. Absolutely horrible.

[RavensBaltimore]

Flacco had no time to throw a deep ball, so enough of the Perriman hoopla;

If Perriman was on the field, I doubt the Broncos would have been as comfortable leaving him in single coverage as they were with Aiken or Brown, which means they would have fewer players to send after Flacco or stack the box. Besides being a deep threat, Perriman was good at getting off press coverage in college and early in camp. If he can translate that into NFL games, that would have been a huge help today, because in order to beat the blitz, you have to get rid of the ball quickly, and in order to do that, your receivers have to be able to separate from single, press coverage, and our receivers failed miserably at that today.

[ravenstime]

Flacco holds on to the ball too long. Manning gets rid of it in half the time, I noticed.

Even though, I'll also point out, Manning got sacked as much or more, I think, than Flacco, which is very uncharacteristic of Peyton. 2 INT's will lose most of the time, anyways, so it was partly Joe's undoing, as well as Steve Smith. He's right, that he's the No. 1 receiver, so he should make No. 1 type plays. I'm glad he put that one on himself; he's better than that, I know. He'll make his share of No. 1 receiver-type plays this year, I bet.

[reed20fence]

Honestly it fealt like the olden days of Cam Cameron where the central driving force of our scheme is one thing... fear.

We played the percentages like a textbook all game and telegraped our intentions to the defense all game long.

1st down, run the ball and hope to get 7-9 yards so we can take a shot deep.

2nd down, oh that didnt work, let's run again for fear that we miss a pass and get stuck in 3rd and 6

3rd down, ok we got 3rd and 4, let's go shotgun and all routes break within 5-7 yards.

The reason most Ravens fans recognize this psychology so well and are so aggitated by it is because we've seen it before. Playing it safe and by the probabilities all the time just makes it that much easier for rival defensive coordinators.

Sometimes you hafta go out there and coach like a banshee by throwing deep on early downs to throw people off the scent and freak rival safeties out.

Sure, it may not work and you may not connect or draw interference flags, and may go 3 and out the first couple of drives, but stretching like that pays dividends the rest of the game.

You gotta fight that voice in your head that says "but there's only 60 minutes" and doesn't trust your defense to keep you in the game.

Have some spine!

Edited September 14, 2015 by reed20fence

[mettro79]

First game of the year in Denver against a pretty stout defense and we still almost walked out with a win. That loss isn't on Steve's one play, but on a lack of execution on several plays. I'm unhappy with how mediocre our offense looked, but it will get better. We can't expect to be firing on all cylinders in Week 1 and the limited practice time the offseason provides. I hope Trestman can look at what worked and what didn't and adjust accordingly. We can't go into every week so complaisant on offense, but we will get better.