[News] Game Highlights: Browns vs. Ravens

[hen826957]

Please Harbaugh wake up we can't keep losing like this you have to fire Dean Peas.

[Crusader]

Agree one hundred percent. no more giving away picks.

I would agree to that but Ozzie has been picking some real loser lately.

[Crusader]

If we can't blame Pees then is it alright to blame Ozzie for the guys he gives Dan Pees and his coaches?

[Ravenshine]

What we need is to heal...so many injuries of top players. If we get just half of them back next game or next few games, we'll do so much better.

[Edgar]

I would agree to that but Ozzie has been picking some real loser lately.

Sorry. This team is frankensteinish enough for me as it is.

[PalmBayRaven]

We should be getting a sweet deal on Flacco because he surely isn't worth what we are paying him. Cut Monroe and get some cap relief too. Tryouts for the 2016 season starts next week. Let's clean house and rebuild.

[cigarman]

Can we just give Dean Pees the Cam Cameron treatment and fire him mid-season? Never mind the playoffs... We can't just keep losing in THIS way. Defense just STINKS! And that is straight BLASPHEMY when speaking of the Baltimore Ravens. Somewhere, Art Modell is stirring in his grave. Harbs, you better recognize.

[drillem]

Many of the teams players should be stripped of their purple and black and not allowed to stink up M&T Bank again.

[cigarman]

I agree with you one hundred and ten percent. We have no defense at all. Not only that but the OC need to go as well. Scratched my head on some of the offensive plays called. Ravens are looking BAD on the field. Can't get used to seeing our team looking this awful.

[PalmBayRaven]

We are all just a little shell shocked. The team hasn't been this bad in awhile even 2013 might be a better year when all is said and done. Missing on draft picks hasn't helped and is coming back to haunt us. I fear it may get worse before it gets better.

[drillem]

Just no excuse for the penalties. Inability to figure out where to line up is inexcusable. Every time they got a good play they also got a penalty. Get 'em off the field. Poor, poor showing by the players.

[FloridalovesRavens]

On please lets not go overboard. We lost and couldn't hold the lead. Do we have enough players to even field a team? They are dropping like flies! We still have another 11 games to play. Injuries, penalties, a poor showing by defense equals 1-4. Offense was moving the ball but had to overcome onslaught of Browns time after time. Sad for my Ravens.

[Puntit]

Offense put up more than enough points to win and once again had a lead late in the fourth quarter. The defense is simply not good enough to keep opposing teams from marching down the field and scoring. I think this has nothing to do with Flacco and lack of weapons. If you put up 30 points in a game, IMHO the fault shifts 100% to the defensive side of the ball. I could buy that Carr was better than we expected. The Cleveland QB makes me believe we are just making these guys look great with horrible coverage.

A couple more showings like today and I think Ozzie has to decide who in their contract year we will be able to afford to resign and swap the other(s) to an actual contender for draft picks before the trade deadline -- we are unfortunately quickly moving from contending mode to rebuilding mode.

[PalmBayRaven]

The Offense died in portions of the game and the Defense allowed them to come back and take the lead. The Offense did not keep scoring when they had too. How many 3-outs? Please the defense sucks but Flacco sure isn't doing his part either. To be fair he really doesn't have the quality receivers and has never had the quality receivers. Makes you wonder if he can ever lead us to another Super Bowl without Ray Lewis and Ed Reed?

[drillem]

In any organization when things get stale like this the only way out is to shake things up, personnel-wise. That includes coaching. This season is toast but at least the team can use the remainder of this season to begin to rebuild starting with the people.

[drillem]

And if you lose to both Oakland and Cleveland in the first quarter of the season you know just how bad things really are.

[baltimore1975]

And if you lose to both Oakland and Cleveland in the first quarter of the season you know just how bad things really are.

Sad thing about it is we have a 120 Million Dollar QB so there's no such thing as giving the young QB (if we had one) a chance to play so we can improve our draft status lol. 

[baltimore1975]

We lost the game by not scoring on the last drive in regulation. The play calls were horrible on that drive when we got to the end zone and on the two point conversion on the previous TD drive. The offense rhythm was better today, but I'm still not sold on Trestman. Seems as if we can't keep our good O-Coordinators. Joe catches lightening in a bottle in 2012 playoffs and Caldwell gets the Lions job, last year Joe has career numbers and Forsett rushes for 1000 yards and Kubiak gets the Denver job. Is there a young up and coming OC we can hire that needs a few good years before he is considered a HC candidate? At least if you hire from within with a DC that scheme stays very similar, but our OC situation is a revolving door.

[Bruce_Almty]

This season spiraled out of control way to fast. Now it's a question of who can we beat.

Edited October 11, 2015 by Bruce_Almty

[SteveinEC]

I sincerely thought the 0-3 start was just a hiccup and that the lucky win in pittsburg would somehow right the ship. The defense would tighten up and the offense would stop committing bad turnovers. Now I see I was just being delusional. The reality is Pittsburg should have beaten us and now cleveland has. Our defense is the worst its been in a very long time and the offense cant put anyone away when they get the chance(vs Oak and now vs Clev) This should be an 0-5 team and at 1-4,"You are what you're record says you are." Forget any playoff aspirations. Will this team even make it to .500 this year?

[jackrogers]

How did everyone think the Raven's would look without Smith Sr., Gilmore, Forsett, Camp, Perriman, Suggs, Dumervil, Webb, Davis, and Taliafero? They say injuries are not an excuse for losing. Seriously?

[Puntit]

How did everyone think the Raven's would look without Smith Sr., Gilmore, Forsett, Camp, Perriman, Suggs, Dumervil, Webb, Davis, and Taliafero? They say injuries are not an excuse for losing. Seriously?

The offense still put up 30 points without Smith, Gilmore, Camp, Taliafaro and Perriman actually. The next men up on offense performed adequately.

The defense however let a second tier QB throw for 450 yards, with essentially no pressure or coverage. Oakland may have been better than advertised -- I can buy that. The Browns really aren't. If you can't protect a lead in the fourth quarter on multiple weeks, maybe you aren't good enough to be playing for the Ravens. (I'm pretty sure Webb and Doom were on the field when Oakland moved the ball 80 yards x2 on us two weeks ago, BTW). Suggs went down and the defense seems to have thrown in the towel. On paper our defense looks adequate, even with injury, but for whatever reason, they seem content to tank games and then say "I need to play better", "this one's on the defense". No kidding.

I see what Steve Smith was complaining about when he went off a few weeks ago that some of the Ravens "are just happy to be on the team" and aren't focused on the win. That's what I think we saw today. Bunch of guys who pull up on rushes or coverage waiting for the next guy to make the play, and then all too happy to mug for the camera post interview and say "my bad".

Really weak effort. If the Ravens are smart, someone's young head will roll if only just to wake up the rest, like they kind of did cutting Doss a few seasons ago.