Ravens Make the Playoffs? (Merged)

[curtis0360]

Sorry moderators, i just can't stop tearing it up hear. The ravens despite making their first 0-3 in franchise history, can and WILL make the playoffs. Here is how, first and most importantly we have one of the best head coaches in the national football league, and you guys year after year trash him, which i dont understand. If anyone can salvage a good football team out of this, its him and we all know it. Secondly we got a four star general at quarterback, Joe Flacco, granted what i just said might raise eyebrows, but like john, Joe can scrape a good offense together with what he has, chris givens will contribute, this team doesn't have a choice, he and flacco will fire off together. In my opinion Chris Givens is the perfect weapon for Joe;s cannon arm. Plus we should be receiving reinforcements in the coming weeks, Crockett Gillmore should be making his return against the browns plus Eugene Monroe should relieve the hapless james hurst. Well maybe not hapless, but you get what i mean. Plus Chris canty is coming back to the defensive rotation so that is a plus. Alot of key players coming back when we need a big winning streak, is going to help us ALOT. Finally the favorable schedule, looking at the schedule we are in good shape. Alot of subpar teams at our house the coming weeks following the bye, we should put together a nice winning streak, if everything i said above works out, then we face a tough test in december, we start by facing the seahawks YIKES, thats going to be a war, Dennis Pitta should return by then too, more reinforcements, then the chiefs thats going to be tough, that one might be for the wild card. Then the steelers at home, its very difficult to get a sweep over them as we all know. Then our toughest test the bengals, in the crucial month of December we need to win at least two games for us to be in good shape for the playoffs. We would be 10-6 with a wild card birth, we will back in again but thats about the only way i see us getting in after our 0-3 start what do you guys think.   

[0_o]

We won't miss the playoffs because the AFC is weak.

 

To put it in perspective, if the playoffs were to start a month from now we would currently be 1 game back in the wild card standings.

 

-2 of our 3 losses game from teams who are currently undefeated and atop their division.

Of which, the Bengals and Broncos have arguably the 2 best defenses in football right now....

 

keep in mind our offense is in it's 1st year under a new coordinator so a rough start was expected. 

 

-4 of our next 6 games are at home with a bye week sandwiched in between.

 

-Of these next 6 games coming up, 5 of those teams currently have a combined record of 7-13.

To put THAT in perspective, our first 4 opponents currently have a combined record of 12-4...

 

We lost 3 games by a combined 14 points...2 touchdowns. We've dropped more touchdowns then that this year...

 

This team is not a bad team. We've hung in their toe to toe with the best the AFC has to offer right now, on the road, and came up short by less than a touchdown in each loss. Each of which came down to the last drive in the last minutes of the game.

 

We'll get the kinks ironed out. We always do. We'll contend for a wild card spot as always. And hopefully the Bengals come through like only the Bengals know how and choke away the last half of their season like they always do..

 

The Bengals started the 2014 season 3-0 and lost the division.

The Steelers started the 2014 season 3-3 and won the division.

The 2014 Ravens were the only AFC North team to win a playoff game...

 

we're only 1-3 and we have an easier road ahead of us then we had at the start of the season. If you hit the panic button now you're going to miss the ride.

 

One of the things i cherish the most about the 2012 season was never giving up on our team even though there was every reason to do so. Don't hang up your fan card now only 4 games into the season.

 

We'll make the playoffs...and we'll be a different team come January then we are now. A better team. This is how we roll every season. The Ravens without adversity wouldn't be the Ravens!

[JEEPercreepermd]

What happens if they lose to Cleveland?

[757RavensFan]

After watching some of the projected playoff teams in the AFC falter yesterday, I'm starting to feel that the AFC wild card race is gonna be crazy and we should be right in the middle of it. But we're gonna have to earn it with those last 4 games. SEA, KC, PIT,and CIN...that's a tough way to end the season.

[K-Dog]

What happens if they lose to Cleveland?

This website goes completely bat poop wacko.

[RaineV1]

After watching some of the projected playoff teams in the AFC falter yesterday, I'm starting to feel that the AFC wild card race is gonna be crazy and we should be right in the middle of it. But we're gonna have to earn it with those last 4 games. SEA, KC, PIT,and CIN...that's a tough way to end the season.

And this is why I don't think the Ravens will make the playoffs. They'll be in the hunt but that last stretch is brutal. That's gonna require Joe to be at his absolute best, and likely for Perriman or Givens to have great chemistry with him.

 

And I don't think those will be teams sitting their starters. Cincy would be the only one in position to, but they would likely want to knock the Ravens out of the playoffs if given a chance to.

[RavensFanMania]

What happens if they lose to Cleveland?

This is a postive thread, why take it off the tracks.

[January J]

After watching some of the projected playoff teams in the AFC falter yesterday, I'm starting to feel that the AFC wild card race is gonna be crazy and we should be right in the middle of it. But we're gonna have to earn it with those last 4 games. SEA, KC, PIT,and CIN...that's a tough way to end the season.

gotta feelin it's gonna come down to the cinci game again. @ cinci.

[AsianRice]

keep it positive guys........We will make it to the dance............one game at a time....

[BOLDnPurPnBlacK]

with the way the AFC is shaping up, an 8-8 team may take a wild card spot. This season is completely up for grabs and we're just as in the mix as anyone.

 

If we can get out of the Cardinals game at 3-4 i really like our chances. If we can win the next 3 and be at 4-3? We're going to be trouble come January. Just in time to hopefully have SSS, Perriman and Urban back... and maybe even Pitta who has been all but written off at this point.

 

Would love it if he came back out of no where. No mention of him whatsoever, and all the sudden we get an update that he's practicing and active for the 49ers game. Obviously thats a pipe dream, but i do think he'll shock us and come back this year - sometime between weeks 8-10.

[Bobby]

I like us to be sitting at 3-4 after 7 games and right in the mix.  A home win over the Brownies and a road victory in SF get us to 3-3.  I think Monday night at Arizona is a tough game that we probably lose...but you never know.  The point is that as the original poster said, we have a very favorable schedule ahead of us and will be getting healthy along the way (fingers crossed)....I am with you, OP - we will make the playoffs!

[Ravens4Real]

I will stick by my prediction and say that we aren't going to make the playoffs. Until we beat a team that we deserve to beat, that will stay the same.

A team with a has been QB and ineptitude at HC and kicker and we still should have lost? I need to see more. We made a defense that was supposed to be towards the worst in the league look like a top ten one. We won but it was a pathetic performance.

You guys state that we have many home games left but we have already lost a home game. I know home game gives you a slightly better chance to win. With the way I see our team collectively playing, at this point, I still see losses to the Cardinals, Chargers, Seahawks, Chiefs, Steelers and Bengals.

Like I said, let's see a game where they play a complete game. May be they just aren't very good and are already putting out their best? I have no clue anymore.

[LosT_in_TranSlatioN]

What happens if they lose to Cleveland?

Then reccomence with the hiring and the firing as the forum members go "I told you so. I'm obviously better than Ozzie and Harbaugh. And than we will go get BOSA"..

Oh. The serious answer? Then we buck up and move on

[Dfence4champs2052]

Shades of 2013 all over again. 

[SomeCreepinaVan]

Ravens WOULD be 0-4 if the Steeler's kicker was decent and that's without Ben even playing.

Edited October 6, 2015 by SomeCreepinaVan

[Inqui]

Ravens WOULD be 0-4 if the Steeler's kicker was decent and that's without Ben even playing.

But if you can discount a win because of a one-time mistake, surely you can discount a loss for the same reason - at which point you can take your pick between Sr's drop against Denver or the weird decision to put Kendrick Lewis on AJ Green.

[curtis0360]

Shades of 2013 all over again. 

or 2012

[Dfence4champs2052]

or 2012

Didn't we already have like 9 wins when we went on that losing streak? Yeah not the same.

[JoeyFlex5]

But if you can discount a win because of a one-time mistake, surely you can discount a loss for the same reason - at which point you can take your pick between Sr's drop against Denver or the weird decision to put Kendrick Lewis on AJ Green.

but the thing is, we deserved to lose all 3 of those games, we were extremely lucky to even be IN those games, and if you watched those games and honestly felt that we deserved to win, then im sorry, but youre mistaken. 

 

this roster is ugly, and this team is in trouble for the year. we'll be back shortly, but it wont be in 2015.

[Inqui]

but the thing is, we deserved to lose all 3 of those games, we were extremely lucky to even be IN those games, and if you watched those games and honestly felt that we deserved to win, then im sorry, but youre mistaken. 

 

this roster is ugly, and this team is in trouble for the year. we'll be back shortly, but it wont be in 2015.

We deserved those losses, but if we'd won any of them I'd argue we'd have deserved those results too. It's one thing for a team to flub the game away (like the Steelers did) but you have to be good enough to cash in on it too and we still had to drive without Sr, Crockett and Monroe, and keep Bell and Brown in check.

 

I'm a huge believer in making your own luck, which is why I never blame a loss on a ref's call, and as bad as our roster's looked on paper (and I'd argue the 0-3 start has influenced everyone's views on how it looks) we've still been able to stay in the games and been a couple of plays away from being 2-2 or even 3-1. Point is that luck like that cuts both ways.

[beanfigger]

but the thing is, we deserved to lose all 3 of those games, we were extremely lucky to even be IN those games, and if you watched those games and honestly felt that we deserved to win, then im sorry, but youre mistaken.

this roster is ugly, and this team is in trouble for the year. we'll be back shortly, but it wont be in 2015.

But if we won, we could have said the exact same thing about the opponents. It is a two-way street. You can't just pick the poor plays we made and forget all about the ones made by the other team.

[curtis0360]

Didn't we already have like 9 wins when we went on that losing streak? Yeah not the same.

Yet to be seen, if we go on a winning streak then you are wrong, if we end bombing then you are right

[Inqui]

But if we won, we could have said the exact same thing about the opponents. It is a two-way street. You can't just pick the poor plays we made and forget all about the ones made by the other team.

You put it in a much better way than I did.

[JoeyFlex5]

We deserved those losses, but if we'd won any of them I'd argue we'd have deserved those results too. It's one thing for a team to flub the game away (like the Steelers did) but you have to be good enough to cash in on it too and we still had to drive without Sr, Crockett and Monroe, and keep Bell and Brown in check.

 

I'm a huge believer in making your own luck, which is why I never blame a loss on a ref's call, and as bad as our roster's looked on paper (and I'd argue the 0-3 start has influenced everyone's views on how it looks) we've still been able to stay in the games and been a couple of plays away from being 2-2 or even 3-1. Point is that luck like that cuts both ways.

eh, at the seasons start I thought we were at best a 10-6 team and that was before Kendrick Lewis turned out to be a raging poostorm and sizzle and perriman got hurt, and before the OL showed a huge regression. With the injury bug once again beating down on our roster that already had too many holes, paired with the apparent issues coming from our coordinators, I just don't see much upside to this team for this season.

[JoeyFlex5]

But if we won, we could have said the exact same thing about the opponents. It is a two-way street. You can't just pick the poor plays we made and forget all about the ones made by the other team.

except our opponents didn't suck 3/4 of a game away like we did. We suck extremely bad for a long time, have a nice chain of defensive stands, get 1 or 2 nice drives for some false hope, and promptly fall apart once again. It's not like we're hanging around in shootouts, we explode for a few drives and have been completely incompetent at all other points of our games.

[redrum52]

We deserved those losses, but if we'd won any of them I'd argue we'd have deserved those results too. It's one thing for a team to flub the game away (like the Steelers did) but you have to be good enough to cash in on it too and we still had to drive without Sr, Crockett and Monroe, and keep Bell and Brown in check.

I'm a huge believer in making your own luck, which is why I never blame a loss on a ref's call, and as bad as our roster's looked on paper (and I'd argue the 0-3 start has influenced everyone's views on how it looks) we've still been able to stay in the games and been a couple of plays away from being 2-2 or even 3-1. Point is that luck like that cuts both ways.

It's kind of like the oppositend of 2012 where these 50-50 games went our way. Still think this team has a fair shot, but only at a WC spot.

[usmccharles]

Sometimes being a realist sucks.  That being said, we still have a chance to make the dance, but the way things are going its unlikely.  3 close losses, key injuries, etc...that stuff is very hard to overcome.  Our SB year we did have injuries, but we also had two of the best leaders of all time still on the team in Ray and Ed.  Now we are leaning on different players and we will see who has that mentality and who doesnt. 

 

Of course all ravens fans want to make the playoffs (exluding some "fans" on this forum), there is just a wide difference of opinion and thats what the forum is for, voice your opinion.  I just dont see a reason for counting us out when its still mathmatically possible to make the playoffs, even as unliikely as it may be.  But wouldnt that make it that much better?  Seriously, if we make the playoffs this year, what cant this team overcome?  Yes somethings need to change as far as staff and players go, which i think we see changes next year, but each year we are the team that no one wants to face in the playoffs, there is a reason for that, its that never give up mentality.  On paper, we shouldnt have been in that game with the bengals, but we were, i think that says a lot about the team and the amount of fight they have. 

 

Now i understand some of the guys saying that they dont think we make it and all and thats fine.  What i dont get is the guys who just sit there and type away and trash our guys every single post, saying so and so is garbage, 4-12 etc....how can you call yourself a loyal fan when you talk that negatively.  Theres a difference between a realist, optimist, and a straight up pessimist. I like to think im a realist.  where do you stand? (rhetorical)

Edited October 6, 2015 by usmccharles

[beanfigger]

except our opponents didn't suck 3/4 of a game away like we did. We suck extremely bad for a long time, have a nice chain of defensive stands, get 1 or 2 nice drives for some false hope, and promptly fall apart once again. It's not like we're hanging around in shootouts, we explode for a few drives and have been completely incompetent at all other points of our games.

Right, those teams were playing so well that they allowed us to have a chance after "sucking for 3/4 of the game and having 1 or 2 nice drives." They must be world beaters.

If you didn't see the numerous mistakes and problems that all the teams we faced had, then you are really tunnel-visioned. It wasn't just the Steelers who made mistakes all over the place against us. The Broncos offense was crawling on their face, and Peyton did his best to give us the game himself. We scored double digits in three of the four quarters against the Raiders defense. The Bengals made so many poor calls and plays it is unthinkable that they were able to pull it together for those big plays at the end and still win.

We have played poorly, yes, but for you to think we were the only team that deserved to lose those games is ridiculous. Had we won, we would not have to apologize to anyone.

[Kid87]

I think we are still in the hunt.we have alotta home games in the last couple months.from week eight to week 17 we only have 3 road games.. you guys know if Pitta will still be valuable weapon? That would be really great for our team

[beanfigger]

People are doubting that we can become a different team later on, but with injuries that may heal up, we could actually have a different team later I the season. Maybe they aren't exponentially better than what we have, but we won't know until we see it. If Urban gives a pass rush, Perriman becomes a Martavius Braynt-type big play guy, Pitta returns to his old, reliable third down and redzone guy, Monroe earns his contract, etc., that makes more than a little difference. All ifs, but all possible.