[News] Eisenberg: Not Too Late To Prove Ravens Are Winners

[Tdot.to.Bmore]

"1st down, Flacco drops back, has pressure-- throws it in the fat to Juszczyk- gain of 2. 2nd down, Flacco play action, drops back---dumps it to Forsett for 2 yards,,,,bring up 3rd down. 3rd and 6---flacco in the shotgun, throws it deep-----HAS MARLONNN----OHHHHH HE DROPS IT!!!!!"

if Trestman calls that same play on first down this weekend i will lose my mind.

[The Greek]

i appreciate the few years daryl smith has given us but at his age he is struggling in coverage. lets see what arthur brown can do. if he is that bad than shame on the front office and scouts

[Drew P]

"1st down, Flacco drops back, has pressure-- throws it in the fat to Juszczyk- gain of 2. 2nd down, Flacco play action, drops back---dumps it to Forsett for 2 yards,,,,bring up 3rd down. 3rd and 6---flacco in the shotgun, throws it deep-----HAS MARLONNN----OHHHHH HE DROPS IT!!!!!"

 

You forgot a penalty in there making it 3rd and impossible with a 0 yard toss to Marlon for the drop

[ellicottraven]

I would've preferred that the Ravens tanked the rest of the way only if Andrew Luck was coming out next year! Right now, because there is no Andrew Luck, I'll just take wins instead!

[Drew P]

I would've preferred that the Ravens tanked the rest of the way only if Andrew Luck was coming out next year! Right now, because there is no Andrew Luck, I'll just take wins instead!

 

I haven't seen this guy live up to half of his hype

[AvianBrain]

Every week on game day, I start thinking...today is the day the Ravens will break-out and everything will fall their way and they will come away with a big win. I start watching the game and start thinking...it's not this week. Next week comes and I start all over again and I will continue through the end of the season because I am a Ravens Fan. Win or Lose, I will watch them until the end of the season. I will read all the articles, follow the draft, and wait anxiously until next year starts and begin hoping all over again. I moved here from PA and grew up an Eagles fan, and I am immune to disappointing seasons. The Ravens have won 2 Super Bowls...the Eagles went to two Super Bowls. Time to start thinking about Sunday afternoon...

[stayhigh_247]

win or lose I'm all in...and in other news Dwight Freeney is looking like the much better choice between him & the Babin experiment, such is life....Go Ravens!!!

[Barry S]

Some body explain to me how each week it's the same scenario at the end of the game they get their stuff together drive down the field only come up short to reach the endzone? It's like watching a guy walking a tight rope strung across 2 skyscrapers and he makes it almost all the way and falls to his death before he reaches the end. Crazy!!!!!!!!

[MarioDrama]

With there being only 11 teams left with winning records at this point. I would say it is a reasonable thought that at least one team with a losing record will be making the playoffs. So it isn't impossible to still make the playoffs with a 10 - 6 or 9 - 7 records. But lets just win the next one and take it one game at a time.

If you think the Ravens will be able to win at least 9 games you are truly wrong. I can see the Ravens maybe winning 2 or 3 more games, but other than that it's a bad year. This team is playing with 0 heart, 0 confidence and 0 drive. This season to me was over after the Oakland loss. A playoff team doesn't lose to the Browns at HOME, Raiders and 49ers. They will lose to the Chargers as well. Rivers is going to torch the secondary so hard. When we have a top 5 pick this year, Ozzie better wake up and draft well. To address the secondary with a 4th or 5th  round pick is beyond me. They need a secondary badly. There is not one guy on the secondary that is playing well right now. Hill may be the only guy. It's also sad when SSS a 35+ year old man is playing with more heart than any other Raven on the team. This is not a playoff team, period. 

[steelcityraven]

many pundits were calling us a super bowl contender going into this season. Many even had us as a favorite to win the super bowl.... that was knowing that we lost Torrey and Haloti, etc. Yet when we are 1-6 it is funny how we like to make excuses... "THEY LOST TOO MUCH" .... Suggs is the biggest loss since those predictions. And while that is a giant loss... it isn't so big that we go from super bowl favorites in the AFC to 1-6. I am sick of the excuses. Our defense sucks! It is absolutely horrible. We average giving up 27.5 points per game! In other words it we don't put up 30 points per contest we cannot win! Ohhhh we will keep it close. We will make it interesting but we cannot slow even mediocre offenses with average qbs down... enough to really win a game. Our only win is vs a 4-3 team with a backup QB and without one of their top WR's... That's it! Our defense couldn't even stop them.... it took us more then 3 TDs and OT to pull that one out! Our defense has regressed every year since Pees got here. We continue to make a giant investment in the D (with draft picks and FA) over the past 2 years alone we have added CJ, Timmy, CFavis, TBrooks, TWalker, ZSmith, and Urban... We brought in a ton of FA... Will Hill, KLewis, LGuy, KArrington, (DSMith the year before)... (BWilliams the year before).... Heck at almost every position on defense we have made a big investment... bc Pees said out guys couldn't cut it (even though they did before he got here)... we have made giant investments on that side of the ball... and we have gotten worse! Significantly... to the tune of 27.5 points per game. What????? They say its not too late for the Ravens to be great and I say that we will not be great until we get rid of Pees! He is the defensive twin of Cam Cameron... we lost CAM and went on to win the Super Bowl... lets get rid of Pees now so that we have a chance to win the super bowl next season... They are right its not too late for the Ravens to be great... but it wont happen until Pees is gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[North1900]

Is it me but I just hate looking at Mark Tresspass on the sidelines. He never looks confident, his playbook is the size of Tecmo Bowl playbook on Nintendo. I don't even like his glasses...We dialed up a flea flicka for a total of 5 yards lol.....I never seen a team run a bootleg and the run isn't working. You can't fool nobody with that garbade!!!! Flacco probably will have 20 coordinators by the time his career is over lol

[partmachine]

I'm not a tank the season guy, but I'd rather be picking top 5 than 5-10. We don't need a QB so some needy team would likely give us a nice package to trade back. Everyone wanting to slam Ozzie for his picks lately but seems to me when you're slotted in the bottom 8 year after year, draft value is somewhat more important than taking a stab at a guy. It's caught up to us and we're paying for it now. Love the Ravens, can't wait for Sunday, can't wait to see top 5 talent in Purple.

[OzzieBisciotti]

Eisenhower - no more articles on excuses as to why we're 1-6. We killed ourselves with penalties, lack of execution, and most importantly lack of play makers. There's no such thing as the best 1-6 team. Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? I hope Bisciotti asks Oz and staff what happened with our drafts over the past five years? Someone has to be responsible? Players who stink usually get cut after one year.

[OLD SCHOOL SMASH BALL]

We will definately be winners, if we get Boyle and Gilmore on the fiekd in a 2 TE set as a base offense. Marlon isnt doing squat for us, so he can ride the bench. This will set us up to run, play action, control the clock, and hopefully score more often.

[ReginaldColeman1]

Just to keep sane and healthy looking up some bad draft picks not made by our Ravens.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25137781/worst-first-round-nfl-draft-pick-for-each-team-since-1990

So if u think Elam was bad Mark Barron was grabbed in '12 by the Bucs who could have had Luke Kuechly. Then there is the hilarious description of the Jags receiver picks who failed. Of course who can forget Gabbert being picked right before JJ Watt? Falcons overlooked Patrick Willis and Marshawn Lynch in '12. Dolphins passed on Revis in '07 for Ted Ginn. The Bills picked local Maybin from PSU who never reached his expectations having left school for the big return. Horn blowing time: My son actually started at the other OLB position with Aaron in an all star Baltimore metro game back then. Fortunately he decided on grad school and engineering. The list goes on and on like the '95 Eagles passing on Warren Sapp. Take a look and enjoy life a little bit further back from the edge.

[Flamengo1265]

The Ravens are really an 0-7 team with a 1-6 record. You really think the Ravens would have beaten the Steelers if Ben had played?

[Jim Giampaoli]

Eisenburg, not another rah rah, we can still overcome article. We, out here in reality land, have intelligence enough to know that we may win a few more ballgames before Christmas/Chanukah rolls around. Just stop trying to spoon feed us the Gerber creme of wheat. This season is toast. I will be pleasantly surprised if we finish 7-9

period

[thieverycorporation]

I really Never thought that I would Ever say something like this, but I'm not so sure that the more games we lose from here on out, the better for us in the long run. I think most of us would admit that we are probably in a rebuilding mode. Well, if that's the case, and I think that it is, it seems like the best thing we could do is to get All our players as many snaps as we can in order to best evaluate who we want to keep and try to build around and who we'd rather say goodbye to, especially the younger players. I think we should experiment a little too. KO at LT, when he's ready to play again, and Urschel at LG, would tell us if that would strengthen our OL, and also help us determine if we want to try to re-sign KO. I think we should move on from Monroe if possible. Every loss gives us a better draft choice in each round, making better players available to us and our rebuilding an easier task to get done. I'm Certainly Not saying that we should Try to lose, Heavens No. But, I think at this point evaluating and beginning this rebuild might be the more responsible and beneficial goal. I believe that we've got a lot of work ahead of us to get back to being the good, competitive team we've always been, and I submit to you that the earlier we get started, the better.

Any logical fan would agree. I would say sacrificing potential sure wins for talent evaluating wouldn't be throwing the games/season away but rather in-house scout reporting to the front office/coaches. IR'ed  players that have/had non-season ending injuries would qualify as that. I'd have a scripted playbook ready for the practice squad and bench warmers handy ever game. If they'd learn something early about there player's going into next season would bode well in all aspects. Injuries would heal during the off season, player's would be more familiar with assignments and playbook. Technics would be refined. Evals would be game speed and team specific. Plays omitted from playbook. Game tactic's and tendencies of opposing teams would provide intel. etc 

Seems like a leg up out Belichek's handbook. But it wouldn't be cheating. A competitive edge comes in all forms. Ask Tommy boy!

[OLD SCHOOL SMASH BALL]

I feel like we are floating down a river in a rudderless boat, with holes in the bottom taking on water, with rapids up ahead, no hope in sight.

[Ravensfansince03]

I said its too lattteeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[CQ1]

To "maximize" our efforts.....to make the BEST chicken salad out of chicken dropplings ....Being a "winner" is in the eye of the beholder. A true 'winner' is content, and or satisfied knowing that they have given their utmost best. I'm not quite sure where I am rolling with this......however, I tend to place the onus of our LACK of winning on the front office. First and foremost is the inability to draft well. When you lose the many micro-nucleus' of the team year after year, while mixing in mega-contracts [i.e.Joe]the strain to have successful drafts looms large- and that is where we are.

[thieverycorporation]

It's to late baby! Baby it's too late! Though we really try did try to make it. Something has died inside and we just can't fake it ! Oh no, no, no, no………………….

[Zeus]

Nice work John, and we know your just doing your job towing the company line but it's wayyyyyy to late. Be realistic

[Crusader]

Remember the last time the Ravens were bad? Those home games turned into road games and you can't blame fans. You fail to plan then you plan to fail.

[FloridaRaven]

There are many worse things in life than high draft picks! I'm pulling for Detroit!

[Baller MD]

The Ravens are really an 0-7 team with a 1-6 record. You really think the Ravens would have beaten the Steelers if Ben had played?

 

Or maybe the Ravens are a 7-0 team with a 1-6 record...  Every game we played in was winnable.  Do you really think we'd be losing as many games as we have if we didn't have so many injuries ourselves this year?  Every team at some point has key injured players whose lose is truly felt during games they miss, not just Pittsburgh.  Can anybody say "T-Sizzle"?  And who's to say we couldn't have beat Pittsburgh with Ben?  Everyone thought the Cardinals and Cincy would totally destroy us, but they didn't.  It was right down to the wire.  And if you really think about it, it's the worse QBs that have fared the best against our defense. 

 

I'm also tired of hearing about how we would have lost if the Steelers kicker hadn't missed.  Yea?  Well let's turn that around - maybe we would have won some of these games if we had receivers who could catch.  Or maybe we'd have won some of our loses if we had players that didn't make bone-headed penalty-causing mistakes at critical times.  What about a QB who doesn't throw off his back foot and miss wide open receivers?  Anyway, you get the point.  So, can we please just accept the dang on "win" we got and stop crapping all over it?  

Edited October 29, 2015 by Baller MD

[ellicottraven]

I haven't seen this guy live up to half of his hype

I didn't mean Andrew Luck specifically but a widely thought of generational talent coming out next year.... 

[drillem]

The first step in getting better is admitting you have problems. This team has some glaring problems. Penalties, wr-dropped balls, turn-overs, leaky backfield-defense, questionable play calling, execution issues, and those bone-headed decisions to not go for the 3 fg points when you can. There are probably more. From top down this is one team that can improve by admitting it has problems and working on them. The best way to keep the other teams offense off the field is to keep your's on the field. That is a problem when you are 3 and out all the time.

[ravensohyea]

What are we really proving by winning a few games at the end of the season and losing out on draft position?

Let's just beat the Steelers on Dec. 27 and be done with 2015.

[baltimore1975]

What are we really proving by winning a few games at the end of the season and losing out on draft position? Let's just beat the Steelers on Dec. 27 and be done with 2015.

Believe it or not there are still some people thinking we can make the playoffs? Silly if you ask me. But yes I love beating the Steelers!