[News] Joe Flacco Wishes Ben Roethlisberger Was Playing

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The Ravens don’t expect a whole lot to change with Michael Vick playing instead of Ben Roethlisberger.

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[jboy19]

I wish he was playing.

[ibleedpurpleandblack]

I'm sure they are all saying - Sure am glad Suggs is out...You play with who is suited up!!

[johnmike72]

I bet you Dean Pees is glad Ben is not playing.

[The Real#42]

I wish we had #52 coaching our defense

[757RavensFan]

Ben realized this game wouldn't feel right w/out Suggs playing, so he decided to sit this one out as well. 

[ravens4life86]

Joe is Nice. But now its time to get Serious no playing around.

[EliteRavens]

Hopefully we can catch a break and come out with a Win

[RavensFanThick&Thin]

TBH, its looking like anyone with an arm and a decent pocket can score against the Raven's defense. Suggs is a beast whether it shows on the stat sheet or not but they didn't just collapse because of him. I feel like Dean Peas doesn't adjust well to key players going down. The talent is clearly there to at least not be ranked 29th in the league against the pass.

[trevorsteadman]

Does Flacco really want our defense to lose the lead late in the 4th quarter again then? Our offense has been alright but remember that two touchdowns so far this year is from the defense. Sure the offense had a good game against Oakland but the defense is getting turn overs which is good, but it is terrible watching a team march down the field 6/7 times to score a touchdown in 4 plays. The whole team needs to be pushed hard this week. Steve Smith has been loud where are the rest of you?

[WNC-Raven]

I think we will win Thursday but man is it embarrassing when we get beat by Pit's backup QB. Let go out there and make sure that doesn't happen again

[Ravenshine]

Well...I would not want us without Flacco so I'll take the high road and wish Ben a fast recovery for Pitts team and fans...but largely because I read @ NFL website some Pitts fans sending nice comments about our losing Suggs...they said basically same thing Flacco said that they'll miss seeing Suggs play and wished him/us well. Must say it was a surprise to read that. So I'll pass on the gesture. Not everyone had nice things to say (but I did appreciate those who did).

[Bob21043]

Don't know, Derek Carr tore us up all day, Vick has a lot more experience than him, and better receivers. This could be uglier than we realize. Hoping for the best, but won't be too surprised for the worst, given this year's history so far. Come on Ravens, dig out of the hole!

[The Greek]

looking down the road im afraid what arizona will do to us on mnf if we do not improve significantly by than

[Purple nd Black]

I know this is off topic but I wouldn't mind seeing us make a move for Alshon Jeffery. He's on the trade block now

[Ravensfansince03]

I did some digging behind enemy lines. This is what one fan said on the Steelers website.

 

 

"The D missing Ngata Thuggs and McPhee????, Bell always has big games against the Ravens... Ravens are 0-3 for a reason its called free agency... Ngata gone McPhee gone Torre Smith gone Jacoby Jones gone!!! Their run game sucks Flacco has a lack of quality receivers!!!!!"

 

Just to give us a picture of what other teams see us as.

Edited September 29, 2015 by Ravensfansince03

[The Greek]

off topic man has brandon williams turned into a monster or what. i really like what im seeing from carl davis as well.

[ravenstime]

That's good work Ravensfansince03. Now get out of there without getting blown up and try not to seduce any of the dark sides women while your're at it 003.

[FloridalovesRavens]

I don't give a fig what other teams think of us. Just go in there and get a win. Doesn't have to be pretty (usually never is) a field goal difference is fine. Start off quick please! Go Ravens.

[ciro]

i swear we better not be the team that makes micheal vick look competent.

[Purple Dawg 96]

Hey Joe me too! Didn't want to hear any excuses at the sports bar! LETS GO!

[steelcityraven]

Ben / Vick ... its the sqeelers... its anotnio brown and Levon Bell that we need to concern ourselves with! Take it to the and get the win! We can beat Ben up in the playoffs again - if we are missing him that bad!

[metalraven]

As we've seen before, it makes no difference who's at QB for Pitt. Remember Byron Leftwitch? That dude runs 18.3/40 and still scored on a bootleg...and won the game. Lol

[metalraven]

Vick is very good when asked to come off the bench. He is not good QB for the long haul, however. As we know, Ravens suck against running QBs. Hell, they apparently suck vs ALL QBs

Edited September 29, 2015 by metalraven

[DonnieRaven]

this game is going to depend on our secondary and how they perform, in order for us to win this we need big plays and excellent coverage downfield, will hill needs to get his head in the game and make better decisions we need better tackling from our db.'s as well. there's no doubt our offense cant keep up with pitt I think but its gotta be defense making big plays and containing mike vick and antonio

[riseNConquer81]

no he doesnt. he doesnt care one way or the other. i hate all these obligatory flattery pieces that have to come out about these forced platitudinal answers to cliche questions from reporters every time an opponent gets hurt. This script is super old.

[stixfix69]

It's pretty simple, all 2 of the 3 games we could have won, but the defense couldn't close the deal...

[Ravensfolyfe]

I hope the football gods are on our side Thursday.

[OzzieBisciotti]

Joe Flacco Wishes Ben Roethlisberger Was Playing..

Why?? So we can go 0-4??

[Zeus]

Who remember when we got Batch slapped? Now it's Vick turn