Ryan Mallett is the most confident QB that has ever lined up for the Ravens!

[OUravensfan]

The Flacco vs Mallett talk was 90% nothing, people are just tired of average Regular season Flacco, not seeing the QB mess up and throw a pick was a rarity this season and Flacco certainly didn't help that. And lol at you being upset that our team which is 90% backup and practice squad lost to one of the best teams in the league; we can only dream. Maybe next year my brother.

 

[flynismo]

There PLENTY on this board who think he's a top 5 guy...and some who say only Rodgers and Brady are better, meaning top 3. Whatever, doesn't really matter and isn't the topic here, so sorry for the derailment.

Mallet is a quality backup. Nothing more.

I'm among those who think he's easily top 5. After a good game, I'll claim top 3 ha...

 

Mallet, I think at worst he will be a very good backup. I do think he has it in him to be a starter. Not here of course, but I think the talent is there

[flynismo]

People are mad that a backup QB didn't beat the bengals...

Why not? People here find things to whine and complain about when our starting QB beats them too

[Cillmatic]

Why not? People here find things to whine and complain about when our starting QB beats them too

Our starting QB beats the bengals?

[flynismo]

Miserable game to be at, a hopeless offense and it felt that way too, you could see Mallet was rattled. When he couldn't complete the WR screen to Butler in the face of an all out blitz that's when it became evident we weren't scoring any significant points with our offense today. Butler showed great field vision on that YAC too.

He didn't take any chances downfield and when he did he was horribly off, our receivers don't really get open and dropped passes you have to catch in a close game. Max Williams played well but even he had some big drops that we're gonna have to have if we want to win the division next year.

 

 

Well, like Mallet said earlier this week -- "his name isn't Joe"

Edited January 4, 2016 by flynismo

[flynismo]

Our starting QB beats the bengals?

He's 7-7 against them. Not as good as we'd want, but against a team that good, can't expect much more than that

[K-Dog]

Mallet is going to be a A-  back up which I guess would make him a C- starter.  ( please don't challenge my analogy, you know what I mean without getting overly specific with the grades )

He will fit in well if need may be.  He is not a starter he is a back up, and he will be fine in that role.

 

He reminded me of Boller today a little bit.

"Oh my gawd he is great" 
"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he is great"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he is great"

"Oh my gawd he is great"

"Oh my gawd he is great"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

 

you get it from here....

[flynismo]

Mallet is going to be a A-  back up which I guess would make him a C- starter.  ( please don't challenge my analogy, you know what I mean without getting overly specific with the grades )

He will fit in well if need may be.  He is not a starter he is a back up, and he will be fine in that role.

 

He reminded me of Boller today a little bit.

"Oh my gawd he is great" 

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he is great"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he is great"

"Oh my gawd he is great"

"Oh my gawd he is great"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

 

you get it from here....

I don't recall ever saying Boller is great that many times in his career, much less in a single game lol

[LosT_in_TranSlatioN]

Mallet is going to be a A-  back up which I guess would make him a C- starter.  ( please don't challenge my analogy, you know what I mean without getting overly specific with the grades )

He will fit in well if need may be.  He is not a starter he is a back up, and he will be fine in that role.

 

He reminded me of Boller today a little bit.

 

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

"Oh my gawd he sucks"

 

you get it from here....

My actual thoughts of Boller btw. 

[Steve0x]

Forget what i said about Mallet he had a bad game today..Ill just have accept Flacco is our QB now.

[Ravenseconbeast]

There PLENTY on this board who think he's a top 5 guy...and some who say only Rodgers and Brady are better, meaning top 3. Whatever, doesn't really matter and isn't the topic here, so sorry for the derailment.

Mallet is a quality backup. Nothing more.

My thought was he isnt a quality backup. I think this is the he can give you. Id rather draft a QB @late round and hope we can get a kurt cousins

[PurpleDoc]

excluding no one! yes, excluding no one!

 

that voice...that body language...that intensity....no deer in headlight looks...the focus!!! seemed like a broke Tom Brady for his early NE game manager days. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

he will be a good number 2 for us next year if not an off-season trade piece!

 

 

 

WOOHOO...PLAY LIKE A RAVEN!!!! 

Agree, he definitely has a larger presence on the field that Flacco ever did.  Leadership, pocket awareness, sense of urgency...

[OUravensfan]

Agree, he definitely has a larger presence on the field that Flacco ever did. Leadership, pocket awareness, sense of urgency...

If that's what having a larger presence is than I'm glad Flacco doesn't have one. Mallet is a joke.

[ravensdfan]

If that's what having a larger presence is than I'm glad Flacco doesn't have one. Mallet is a joke.

Well someone did say about him being Tom Brady-esque. He doesn't have the talent down but at least he got the whining and blaming other players right!

[jazz1988]

Agree, he definitely has a larger presence on the field that Flacco ever did.  Leadership, pocket awareness, sense of urgency...

 

I didn't see any leadership . Mallet has the potential to be a solid back up quarterback and he's similar to Joe Flacco which can be beneficial. I'm not sure if Mallet has better pocket awareness than Joe Flacco the offensive line overall did a good job with protecting him ..

 

I think the only reason Mallet presence is felt because of his attitude than anything. He's not cool Joe but the total opposite. 

Edited January 4, 2016 by jazz1988

[DenverRaven]

It's pretty obvious that some here are not watching the same Ravens the rest of us are.

 

Anyone who thinks Mallet is better, more confident, or poised than Joe, is simply not paying attention.

 

Ask Patriots' fans what they think of Joe.

[OUravensfan]

Well someone did say about him being Tom Brady-esque. He doesn't have the talent down but at least he got the whining and blaming other players right!

It's pretty obvious that some here are not watching the same Ravens the rest of us are.

Anyone who thinks Mallet is better, more confident, or poised than Joe, is simply not paying attention.

Ask Patriots' fans what they think of Joe.

That notion is literally insanity, it really emphasizes the lack of perspective some of the anti-Flacco crowd has and he is very Brady like with the whining, very un-Brady like with his play and unearned whining.

[The Raven]

Agree, he definitely has a larger presence on the field that Flacco ever did.  Leadership, pocket awareness, sense of urgency...

 

If you think Mallett demonstrates good leadership by throwing his hands up and yelling at WRs and blaming everyone but himself, then I don't think you know what the hell good leadership looks like. Mallett is everything a good leader isn't: selfish, unwilling to take blame, and overly critical of others. 

[beanfigger]

Just putting this question here because it has to do with quarterbacks. Did we really lead the league in pass attempts this year, or did I get bad information? We should work on lowering that number and trying to help the running game again.

[OUravensfan]

Just putting this question here because it has to do with quarterbacks. Did we really lead the league in pass attempts this year, or did I get bad information? We should work on lowering that number and trying to help the running game again.

Not saying I disagree but I always get irritated with the, so and so is 35-3 when they have 30 carries or more type stats. They're incredibly misleading when the pass was used to gain a lead and open up the run, a lot of times a good share of those carries are accumulated in the 4th quarter after the lead has been obtained.

This game last week for example, I understand you don't want Mallet throwing 60x a game, but the defense knows that too and force you into having to pass. If we ran the ball more we would of lost by more, they weren't getting it done more often than not this year. Games where we were running it well we didn't necessarily go away from it, we just didn't have too many of those.

So I guess we do agree, we need to improve our running game to be more efficient and produce more big plays and setup play action to that guy we drafted this year.

Edited January 4, 2016 by OUravensfan

[beanfigger]

Not saying I disagree but I always get irritated with the, so and so is 35-3 when they have 30 carries or more type stats. They're incredibly misleading when the pass was used to gain a lead and open up the run, a lot of times a good share of those carries are accumulated in the 4th quarter after the lead has been obtained.

This game last week for example, I understand you don't want Mallet throwing 60x a game, but the defense knows that too and force you into having to pass. If we ran the ball more we would of lost by more, they weren't getting it done more often than not this year. Games where we were running it well we didn't necessarily go away from it, we just didn't have too many of those.

So I guess we do agree, we need to improve our running game to be more efficient and produce more big plays and setup play action to that guy we drafted this year.

I wouldn't mind throwing every play if that is what gets us wins. However, this year with four different QBs and a band of misfits at receiver was not the ideal season to throw it more than any other team. We threw it so much, and we were only way behind in two games. We even had the lead through the first half this past week and still threw it almost 60 times. I have to think with better balance we wouldn't have been so inept in the third quarter.

[jimmypowder]

Ryan will be a nice backup to Joe.He has earned it and is certainly better than Schaub and Clausen. 

[OUravensfan]

I wouldn't mind throwing every play if that is what gets us wins. However, this year with four different QBs and a band of misfits at receiver was not the ideal season to throw it more than any other team. We threw it so much, and we were only way behind in two games. We even had the lead through the first half this past week and still threw it almost 60 times. I have to think with better balance we wouldn't have been so inept in the third quarter.

I'm with you man, I just want to win period, this season was beyond frustrating and certain things happened that really made you question if this really isn't supposed to be our year. The ideal situation is we can do both well to exploit match ups and or not be dead in the water if one unit is off a given day.

When you talk about 4 different qbs it does look puzzling they threw so much, maybe some of it was forced to see what we have at WR going forward? Yesterday showed no team should be afraid of that unit, I love Aiken but correct me if I'm wrong, he has one game over 100 yards and it was largely due to a Hail Mary? He seems to be a good possession WR but he is not a game changer.

[The Raven]

Just putting this question here because it has to do with quarterbacks. Did we really lead the league in pass attempts this year, or did I get bad information? We should work on lowering that number and trying to help the running game again.

 

Yes, we led the league in pass attempts with 676. Next up was New Orleans with 667. We led the league in pass attempts, but we finished 29th in yards per pass attempt. That's pathetic, and Trestman needs to work on that. That shows that we're really ineffective at what we're doing most. Granted, we couldn't run the ball well either, but...

 

We need to lower that number badly. Balance balance balance is the key to good offense. That's why our best offensive season came with Kubiak, who I believe had the ideal 45-55 run pass ratio. Kubiak is fairly unpredictable as a play caller, unlike Trestman, despite what many think. Conservative, yes, but not predictable. What helped our offense was balance. Trestman couldn't spell balance. We were 25th in rush attempts with 383. That's a 36-64 run pass ratio, which is pretty bad.

 

And yes, it's even worse when your starters for half the season are Schaub, Clausen, and Mallett.

Edited January 5, 2016 by The Raven

[flynismo]

Forget what i said about Mallet he had a bad game today..Ill just have accept Flacco is our QB now.

err...you're about 8 years late to the party

[flynismo]

And yes, it's even worse when your starters for half the season are Schaub, Clausen, and Mallett.

..and when your primary targets are Aiken, Givens and Brown..and a crap run game. This offense needs a lot of work...those three QBs may not be very good, but wowsers..they had no chance at all

Edited January 5, 2016 by flynismo

[frozen joe flacco fan]

Yes, we led the league in pass attempts with 676. Next up was New Orleans with 667. We led the league in pass attempts, but we finished 29th in yards per pass attempt. That's pathetic, and Trestman needs to work on that. That shows that we're really ineffective at what we're doing most. Granted, we couldn't run the ball well either, but...

 

We need to lower that number badly. Balance balance balance is the key to good offense. That's why our best offensive season came with Kubiak, who I believe had the ideal 45-55 run pass ratio. Kubiak is fairly unpredictable as a play caller, unlike Trestman, despite what many think. Conservative, yes, but not predictable. What helped our offense was balance. Trestman couldn't spell balance. We were 25th in rush attempts with 383. That's a 36-64 run pass ratio, which is pretty bad.

 

And yes, it's even worse when your starters for half the season are Schaub, Clausen, and Mallett.

 

You can malign Marc Trestman all you want but the fact of the matter is that his offense wound up only 90 yards behind Kubiak's franchise record setting offense. That's pretty amazing when you consider Schaub, Clausen and Mallett were his QBs for the last six games. Facts are stubborn for you, aren't they?

[The Raven]

You can malign Marc Trestman all you want but the fact of the matter is that his offense wound up only 90 yards behind Kubiak's franchise record setting offense. That's pretty amazing when you consider Schaub, Clausen and Mallett were his QBs for the last six games. Facts are stubborn for you, aren't they?

 

Hardly, but thanks for your attempted condescension. I've supported Trestman all season and in no way want him gone; that doesn't mean he doesn't have his faults. All season I tried to forgive his pass happiness, because we were ALWAYS playing from behind. It's hard to run the ball with a bad defense. I will remind you here that, although we led the league in pass attempts, we were 29th in yards per attempt. This indicates to intelligent people that we got a lot of yardage because we passed a lot, not because we were good at passing. For example, Mallett had 56 passing attempts against Cincy, and he only had 5.2 yards per attempt. That's freaking pathetic. 5.2 yards per passing attempt? There are teams that have 5.2 yards per rush.

 

Tl;dr? We sucked at passing, but we got a lot of yards because we passed a lot. That's not impressive.

Edited January 5, 2016 by The Raven

[1/28/01]

..and when your primary targets are Aiken, Givens and Brown..and a crap run game. This offense needs a lot of work...those three QBs may not be very good, but wowsers..they had no chance at all

Yeah, I can agree there. This offense was not setup for success from the QB from top to bottom...whatever order that is for you between Flacco, Schaub, Clausen and Mallett.

[frozen joe flacco fan]

excluding no one! yes, excluding no one!

 

that voice...that body language...that intensity....no deer in headlight looks...the focus!!! seemed like a broke Tom Brady for his early NE game manager days. 

 

he will be a good number 2 for us next year if not an off-season trade piece!

 

WOOHOO...PLAY LIKE A RAVEN!!!! 

 

I really admire your exuberant feelings abut Ryan Mallett and agree with the premise of your original post to this extent. Ryan Mallett is the most confident QB that has ever lined up for the Ravens since Joe Flacco got hurt! You obviously never saw Vince Testaverde or Steve McNair line up.