Merged: Season Isn't Over (or is it)

[ratedr]

@JO_75 I totally agree with you. I see a distinct possibility of 3 losses for the Bengals if not 4 at the hands of the Chiefs, Cardinals, Seattle and possibly Bills. Possibly a 4th or 5th at the hands of the Broncos. The Bengals aren't as good as the talking heads are making them out to be. You could see the frustration and self-doubt creeping in today in the fourth quarter of there game with us today, albeit it didn't last long, but it was evident in some of the players faces. They aren't as confident as they want everyone to believe. They also haven't been hit with any major injuries yet either which are bound to happen as it happens to all teams throughout the season.

Agreed, it's easy to see why they always get trashed in the playoffs. They should've blown us out yesterday really.

[OLD SCHOOL SMASH BALL]

Until we can stop ANYBODY in the 4th quarter and close out games, we will keep losing. The funny thing is, as soon as we go PREVENT D, every team we play marched right down the field and got a TD on us, we cant even hold them to a fg. Its sad. Even NE last year. The problem is the PREVENT. And it is the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

[HomeoftheBRAVENS]

After looking over the schedule,I think there's a chance that we could go 3-0 in the next three weeks.The steelers just lost their QB so this next game looks winnable.The browns play us tough and their defense usually chokes our offense out,but I don't think Hoyer has the fire power to out score us at home.I'm hoping our problems aren't that bad.Dalton's big day can be put on the amount of weapons he has and that oline the bengals have and I think we were unfortunate enough to be the first ones to find out that the Carr to Cooper connection is real.For some reason I just like the way we match up against the browns at home.The 49ers game is a coin toss IMO.They look like they have more problems than we have,but I don't like the way we match up or the idea of going back out west.I think that game could come down to who has the ball last and whether or not our defense can hold a lead late in the fourth just like these last few games have.These next three games look challenging,but also look way easier than first three.Our fate after those games looks scary,but Perriman coming back COULD give us the offensive boost to outscore teams and play with a lead so I'll wait a bit before I start predicting those games.

Edited September 28, 2015 by HomeoftheBRAVENS

[The Mom Gene]

I gotta tell you one thing...  When things aren't going well and your coordinator is sitting up in the box, I have a hard time with that.  You come down onto the field, and you get into the mix.  You face your people, you fight with your people, and you lift them up.  I just don't like that "box".  Caldwell did that too, and that experiment didn't work either.  Get down there with your guys and motivate them.​

[Dilferian]

After looking over the schedule,I think there's a chance that we could go 3-0 in the next three weeks.The steelers just lost their QB so this next game looks winnable.The browns play us tough and their defense usually chokes our offense out,but I don't think Hoyer has the fire power to out score us at home.I'm hoping our problems aren't that bad.Dalton's big day can be put on the amount of weapons he has and that oline 

Hoyer is gone, and they will have 10 days to get ready for the Browns. Lose that game, 0-16 is possible.

[FlackAttack]

the whole "shouldve won" or "couldve won" mentality is complete nonsense. for the most part we played terrible on both sides of the ball the majority of all 3 games and theres no excuses for poor execution. the denver game peyton played poorly, the raiders defense is atrocious, and the bengals made so many mistakes to keep us in the game and we still lost. so the whole "shoulda coulda woulda" can go both ways IF you want to play the game, but in reality we are flat out an 0-3 team.

 

you are what your record says you are, to quote the great bill parcells. we absolutely deserved every loss thus far due to poor execution and need to really start digging into the coaching staff, because they are not utilizing the type of players we have. thats the only way to fix the problem at this point is to dial up plays AROUND the players, not force them to make plays AROUND the schemes that obviously arent working.

Edited September 28, 2015 by FlackAttack

[52520Andrew]

the whole "shouldve won" or "couldve won" mentality is complete nonsense. for the most part we played terrible on both sides of the ball the majority of all 3 games and theres no excuses for poor execution. the denver game peyton played poorly, the raiders defense is atrocious, and the bengals made so many mistakes to keep us in the game and we still lost. so the whole "shoulda coulda woulda" can go both ways IF you want to play the game, but in reality we are flat out an 0-3 team.

 

you are what your record says you are, to quote the great bill parcells. we absolutely deserved every loss thus far due to poor execution and need to really start digging into the coaching staff, because they are not utilizing the type of players we have. thats the only way to fix the problem at this point is to dial up plays AROUND the players, not force them to make plays AROUND the schemes that obviously arent working.

 

Yeah agreed, we have come close to winning all 3 games but close does not count in this league and that Bill Parcells quote is spot on. If we don't like what our record says about us, we have to go out and change it.

[FlackAttack]

Yeah agreed, we have come close to winning all 3 games but close does not count in this league and that Bill Parcells quote is spot on. If we don't like what our record says about us, we have to go out and change it.

 

exactly. you can only blame the players for so long, but the coaches are the ones who recruited said players and drew up the plays these players arent performing correctly. at that point its in the coaches hands, and if they refuse adjust and better suit the players on the field then fired. we cant go out in the middle of the season and pick up retired players via free agency and fix the problem. you have to take what you have and make it work, no excuses.

Edited September 28, 2015 by FlackAttack

[RaineV1]

I think the game against the Steeler's will decide how the Ravens season ends up. Losing to them would mean an 0-4 start, which you simply can't come back from. Not while in a good division.

[FlackAttack]

An Andy Dalton led team is not the best offense in the NFL. I really hope you don't believe that.

 

im by no means an andy dalton fan or think he'll ever win a super bowl (or a playoff game for that matter) but according to NFL.com, the bengals offense is currently 2nd best in the NFL in overall performance, behind the one and only patriots.

[Cillmatic]

you listen to alot of media and do very little analysis of ur own, dont you...

No, actually I room time to watch his college film... I don't see #1 WR or first round pick at all.

[Militant X 1]

Ok, after coach Harbaugh's presser...I'm drinking the purple kool-aid for this game vs the Steelers!

 

That's right!  I said it!  I'm all in!

 

GO RAVENS....YOU CAN DO IT!

[GrimCoconut]

Ok, after coach Harbaugh's presser...I'm drinking the purple kool-aid for this game vs the Steelers!

That's right! I said it! I'm all in!

GO RAVENS....YOU CAN DO IT!

What did he say?

[Militant X 1]

What did he say?

It's at the bottom of my sig.

[GrimCoconut]

It's at the bottom of my sig.

I hate coming out of the mobile browser but I did to see it. Lol. Hopefully we dig our way out before December or November.

[Inqui]

I hate coming out of the mobile browser but I did to see it. Lol. Hopefully we dig our way out before December or November.

3-3 isn't out of the question imo, given we're facing the Steelers (without Ben), Browns and Sailboats next. And the Steelers were a missed FG away from making the playoffs a couple of years ago after a 0-4 start, so I think it's still a little early to start performing our Last Rites.

[JoeyFlex5]

No, actually I room time to watch his college film... I don't see #1 WR or first round pick at all.

well from that last analysis it sounds like you just parrot other peoples opinions. saying he is torrey smith with injury concerns is so far from the truth i dont know where to begin.. hands, build, body control, tenacity, physicality, YAC, highpointing, contested catches, he does all of this much better than torrey, and you dont even need to see him against pro competition to determine these things. and one injury after a injury free college career doesnt exactly qualify as "injury concerns"

[Inqui]

well from that last analysis it sounds like you just parrot other peoples opinions. saying he is torrey smith with injury concerns is so far from the truth i dont know where to begin.. hands, build, body control, tenacity, physicality, YAC, highpointing, contested catches, he does all of this much better than torrey, and you dont even need to see him against pro competition to determine these things. and one injury after a injury free college career doesnt exactly qualify as "injury concerns"

Imagine if we'd drafted OBJ last year. The people calling him a bust after he missed the first eight weeks (and there would be people calling him a bust) would look incredibly silly by now.

[FlackAttack]

well from that last analysis it sounds like you just parrot other peoples opinions. saying he is torrey smith with injury concerns is so far from the truth i dont know where to begin.. hands, build, body control, tenacity, physicality, YAC, highpointing, contested catches, he does all of this much better than torrey, and you dont even need to see him against pro competition to determine these things. and one injury after a injury free college career doesnt exactly qualify as "injury concerns"

 

i agree with you. if you compare torrey smith college tape with beshard perriman college tape, perriman looks MUCH more promising. but only time will tell. 

[JoeyFlex5]

No way i could ever get behind this mentality.  I want to win, regaurdless if thats the SB or not.  I have to much pride and i hope any professional athele does as well to have that mentality.  I always took pride in the fact that we always pick in the mid 20s and always field a sb contender.  I wouldnt trade a winning season for a 3-13 season just to get a high draft pick, i just cant have that mindset.  but to each their own. 

after having such a great run for the past 8 years, there will come a point where we just run out of talent. this isnt brady and bellichick, we dont have a plug and play system, our coaches get snatched up and so do our players, and we are left searching through the scrap heaps to field a team. eventually we are going to need good draft positions for a year or 2, otherwise we are going to keep stocking up on average talent while other teams are getting elite players year after year for cheap contracts. 

 

i would never be ok with our team tanking on purpose, but if we were as bad as our record currently indicates and we finish 4-12 or something like that(which is nearly impossible for this team), then i would absolutely be ok with it, because i know a top 10 draft slot in the first 3 rounds would be HUGE for us. year after year we watch the players that we desperately need fall just out of reach by a few spots, i love mosley and all, but we were just 3 spots away from beckham, and i love jernigan but the next round we were just a few spots away from jordan matthews, in the 3rd round we just barely missed on jarvis landry, and now look at how desperate we are for a wr.. one really bad season would propel this team into 4 years of absolute dominance, i have a hard time ozzie would miss on any draft picks if he was picking in the top 10

[FlackAttack]

even in the 2013 season we were a 4th quarter away from a playoff birth. Il take it. Anything can happen. Big Ben is down for th next 7 games or so. If dalton goes down all bets are off. You never know. All we have to do is win the division. Heck we could potentially go 7-9 and make the playoffs if something like that happened. That's why you never throw in the towel and fight to the finish. Lotta quitters here, I'm assuming when faced with advertisy you all quit in life as well.

 

lets not hope for dalton going down. lets hope for us going to cincy and shutting down dalton

[JoeyFlex5]

Imagine if we'd drafted OBJ last year. The people calling him a bust after he missed the first eight weeks (and there would be people calling him a bust) would look incredibly silly by now.

lol exactly, just because we need him, doesnt mean he is gonna magically get healthy again so he can play. if hes hurt hes hurt, it happens and you cant call someone injury prone after ONE injury in his entire documented football career. 

 

also to say his osgood schlatters means his knees are problematic.. i suggest you look into just exactly what that disease is, it absolutely is 100% a nonfactor once your adolescent growth spurts are finished, the only time it will affect you into adulthood is if your ligaments never finished growing, which is a whole other disorder.

[Inqui]

after having such a great run for the past 8 years, there will come a point where we just run out of talent. this isnt brady and bellichick, we dont have a plug and play system, our coaches get snatched up and so do our players, and we are left searching through the scrap heaps to field a team. eventually we are going to need good draft positions for a year or 2, otherwise we are going to keep stocking up on average talent while other teams are getting elite players year after year for cheap contracts. 

 

i would never be ok with our team tanking on purpose, but if we were as bad as our record currently indicates and we finish 4-12 or something like that(which is nearly impossible for this team), then i would absolutely be ok with it, because i know a top 10 draft slot in the first 3 rounds would be HUGE for us. year after year we watch the players that we desperately need fall just out of reach by a few spots, i love mosley and all, but we were just 3 spots away from beckham, and i love jernigan but the next round we were just a few spots away from jordan matthews, in the 3rd round we just barely missed on jarvis landry, and now look at how desperate we are for a wr.. one really bad season would propel this team into 4 years of absolute dominance, i have a hard time ozzie would miss on any draft picks if he was picking in the top 10

Ozzie wrecked the 2014 draft, so just imagine us drafting that high for a couple more years. Even if this is a down season, it's not the end of the world.

[Cillmatic]

well from that last analysis it sounds like you just parrot other peoples opinions. saying he is torrey smith with injury concerns is so far from the truth i dont know where to begin.. hands, build, body control, tenacity, physicality, YAC, highpointing, contested catches, he does all of this much better than torrey, and you dont even need to see him against pro competition to determine these things. and one injury after a injury free college career doesnt exactly qualify as "injury concerns"

Better yet still iffy hands, besides that and his size they are the same. What did you see on his film that made you think he's a #1 WR? Edited September 28, 2015 by Cillmatic

[JoeyFlex5]

Better yet still iffy hands, besides that and his size they are the same. What did you see on his film that made you think he's a #1 WR?

i just listed those things, do i need to type out the same list twice? maybe ill just point you to his film and tell you to look past the speed and the hair and maybe youll start to see how different they are. 

 

if one player excels at attacking the ball and adjusting his body to make extremely difficult catches, and the other one cant catch the ball unless you drop it directly into his forearms, then how can you call them the same player? 

 

torrey and perriman both have questionable hands, but id take the guy who can routinely contort his body to actually get his hands on the ball over the guy who can barely find the ball.

[FlackAttack]

get 'em flex

[FlocksGottaFeed]

Ok, after coach Harbaugh's presser...I'm drinking the purple kool-aid for this game vs the Steelers!

 

That's right!  I said it!  I'm all in!

 

GO RAVENS....YOU CAN DO IT!

Ravens 20th Season and the 50th Super Bowl...I'm still thinking "Destiny". 0-3 or 0-4 comeback to win it all would be Epic! Until it's all said and done...why not?

 

GO Ravens! Be Legendary!

[drdoub]

We have to beat steelers this week without big ben. This ID a must win or our season is over. We have yet again 2 major problems. 1) our DB are/ scheme for pass defensive is poor. 2-our receivers like always except SS can't get separation. Why is it that every other team can get separation except us?

Honestly I see us beating Pitt and Then I see us being 4-4 at the bye week

I then see us beating Jacksonville, rams, browns and Miami to be 8-4

We then go 2-2 to finish the season to be 5th seed to play Cincy ( in back to back weeks). End up beating them to play in foxbororo for rematch.

[K-Dog]

Question.

 

If we were 13-3 would you be in panic mode?
12-3, 11-3, 10-3, even at 3-3 ?

[Militant X 1]

the whole "shouldve won" or "couldve won" mentality is complete nonsense. for the most part we played terrible on both sides of the ball the majority of all 3 games and theres no excuses for poor execution. the denver game peyton played poorly, the raiders defense is atrocious, and the bengals made so many mistakes to keep us in the game and we still lost. so the whole "shoulda coulda woulda" can go both ways IF you want to play the game, but in reality we are flat out an 0-3 team.

 

you are what your record says you are, to quote the great bill parcells. we absolutely deserved every loss thus far due to poor execution and need to really start digging into the coaching staff, because they are not utilizing the type of players we have. thats the only way to fix the problem at this point is to dial up plays AROUND the players, not force them to make plays AROUND the schemes that obviously arent working.

 

I see that as well.