[News] Late For Work 12/28: Snoop Dogg & Internet React To Ravens' Shocking Upset Over Steelers

[RavensDieHard21]

Santa made his final trip to Baltimore yesterday! For a season full of disappointment and frustration, this win made it all feel alright! TheBank was deafening! I love my Ravens family out there.

[raven5286]

I hope everyone was watching Ravens Postgame Live last night because if u didn't, here's a piece of advice: if you are on the stage crew who lives in Baltimore and you are a Die-Hard Ravens fan since the franchise started and you put on a Steelers' jersey, be prepared to face the consequences!! That's exactly what happened yesterday when one guy had to do 20 pushups( one push-up for every point Baltimore scored if they won).

[berad]

I'll throw in my two cents about the officiating, too. What in the world happened on the Givens play? The refs didn't rule him down, he ran for another 20 yds or so and was tackled and marked there. Tomlin throws his challenge flag - go to commercial - come back the refs say he WAS down, no need to challenge (not true), Harbaugh throws his flag - commercial break - refs say you can't challenge a runner being ruled down (untrue).

 

If you're confused, join the club. That was bad. And just the latest in a terrible year for officiating across the NFL.

[RavensDieHard21]

Oh yeah, great job flexing us out of prime time, that Vikings and Giants game tore up the ratings and put fans on the edge of their seats%uD83D%uDE05

[metalraven]

Snoop is such a phony hack and a moron. What a fake.

[budman]

Snoop is such a phony hack and a moron. What a fake.

The dude just hops on Bandwagons. I remember him a Raider Fan,Raven Fan, Patriots Fan, Steelers fan. Who ever is winning at the time he is there (except Raiders. He was there because of Ice Cube).

[metalraven]

For the neutral zone infraction; the ref did throw the flag immediately. They just didn't blow the whistle; and they wouldn't, because it's a free play. And that is on Upshaw. A total brain fart. Regardless, the refs were clearly terrible...as usual.

[budman]

M&T was wild and loud all day. Not bad for a bunch of Fair weathered Fans right? And to the person on these boards that said that Steeler fans would out number Raven Fans yesterday---I told you there was NO WAY!!

Edited December 28, 2015 by budman

[metalraven]

The dude just hops on Bandwagons. I remember him a Raider Fan,Raven Fan, Patriots Fan, Steelers fan. Who ever is winning at the time he is there (except Raiders. He was there because of Ice Cube).

 

 

You're absolutely right. Dude has been a fake from day one. I never, ever liked him. Even when west coast hip hop was at it's peak.

[budman]

If Mallett keeps this up there will be some tough decisions to make this off-season.

It's really been decided already. Mallett is the back up next year. That's why we paid him 2 mil., and thru 2016. If not we would have just signed him for the rest of this season .We will still keep another because of uncertainty of Flacco's knee but it won't be Schaub.

[smiff1980]

Did you guys see Harrison vs. KO? Harrison did not want it with KO!

[Bohica5]

We really need to resign K O to a long term deal even if it means trading or cutting joe.....Mallett can plug right in for way cheaper and joe is just not worth keeping at his current contract price but we cannot do without K O.......We cannot spend 20 mil on any 1 player especially joe....

[Ravenshine]

Ok, this was the game I wanted to attend in person. BUT, it fell on 2 days after Christmas, so I opted to be home for holidays and instead attend Seattle game. But man this would have been a good game to attend! Hope everyone there had lots of fun, I'm sure you did. Fwiw, I saw 2 games the other was Washington vs Dallas. So I got to check out both fed ex field and M&T...M&T put on way better show (intro of players was great...DC didn't do that). And the Ravens band sounded really good, the Redskins band meh...not so much. Not that I really care about the bands but at least play in tune skins really. Lol. Oh and male and female cheerleaders...good job on equal opportunity employment.

Ok, so a rant: the hotel I stayed at had all Seattle guests besides me and my companion, and everyone knew it. One lady talked to me day after game. She said she saw at game Ravens jersey wearing parents with Seattle jersey wearing kids. How come? She asked. I said I noticed that a lot too. I told her I thought it was because the kids liked the Seattle colors. Just a guess. She said she thought it was because kids prefer to root for winning teams (say wat ?!) ...and went on to tell me about all their winning seasons. Total snarky comment. My companion looked at me like "you gonna say something about that?" Probably it's fortunate I kept my thoughts to myself in that moment. But, I was so happy yesterday...the 'winning' (lmao) Seahawks lose (wow imagine that...no way?! ... ) AND we swept the Steelers! It was a great day

Edited December 28, 2015 by Ravenshine

[WNC-Raven]

The referees in the NFL are like a bad waiter at your favorite resteraunt. You love the place so much that you put up with the horrible service but find yourself going less and less.

[cushrinada1986]

%u201CRyan Mallett has a great arm, possibly more physical tools than Joe Flacco". Maybe its me but that kinda sounds like the Ravens trying to tell Flacco if he makes it hard on them in the offseason with his contract, they will have "other" options if need be. I assume the man upstairs has already let OZ and John know that the team will not be having another season like this or the one before so best believe Ravens may look increasingly different next season if players dont play ball and reduce salaries when needed.

[ReginaldColeman1]

Potential picks around eight are nothing to sneeze at:

Emmanuel Ogbah, DE, Oklahoma State

Ronnie Stanley, OT, Notre Dame - I can't see the franchise going this way but I think it's a winner!!

A'Shawn Robinson, DE/DT, Alabama

Jaylon Smith, LB, Notre Dame

Jalen Ramsey, S/CB, Florida State - can still be on the board

[MTRavensFan]

Hahaha. Justin Forsett holding that baby in his broken arm, purple cast and all. LOL.

 

And I have to admit, I was one of those firmly against the Mallett signing, but he has surely won me over this week, both with his play and composure on the field and his humility and demeanor off of it.

[reed20fence]

People are not thinking clearly if they think Mallett is going to cause some sort of QB controversy with Joe.

For starters you can't underestimate the complete lack of scouting tape the Steelers had on Mallett with this grouping of skilled players and in Trestman's scheme. Not to downplay Mallett's extraordinary efforts in getting up to speed and then near-flawless execution on game-day. But that's why backup QBs that come in during games can oftentimes be more dangerous than the starter.

Secondly, Mallett was squarely brought in to be the closest possible clone to Joe as possible. Same build, same weight down to the pound, same height down to the inch. This is why we let Tyrod go. You can't expect your guys to learn and be proficient in two completely different styles of offense because of their QB. There has to be continuity. That's why Schaub was brought it. He ran Kubiak's offense for years. We only got down to Clausen when it really hit the fan and you just needed someone versed in Trestman's verbiage to quickly get up to speed.

Mallett is squarely playing these games as pre-season outtings for 2016 to be an insurance policy if Joe's recovery takes longer than expected, or Lord forbid Joe goes down again.

Plus, why on earth would you want a kid like Mallett engaged in another QB controversy when it's clear that the last one stressed him out and produced a bunch a weird behavior? 

[cushrinada1986]

Oh yeah, can we give it up for the juice and Butler for they great plays in the game!? The tandom of #Buck&West was too much for Pits run D and Mallet finally gave Givens the type of arm to really show how dangerous the speedy WR can be. Now that we have a clone of our current franchise QB, I think we can at the least wipe back up QB as one of the many positions(RB, K, P, LS, RG, SS, TE, FB) we can say we feel good about going into 2016.

[GangofRavens]

People are not thinking clearly if they think Mallett is going to cause some sort of QB controversy with Joe.

For starters you can't underestimate the complete lack of scouting tape the Steelers had on Mallett with this grouping of skilled players and in Trestman's scheme. Not to downplay Mallett's extraordinary efforts in getting up to speed and then near-flawless execution on game-day. But that's why backup QBs that come in during games can oftentimes be more dangerous than the starter.

Secondly, Mallett was squarely brought in to be the closest possible clone to Joe as possible. Same build, same weight down to the pound, same height down to the inch. This is why we let Tyrod go. You can't expect your guys to learn and be proficient in two completely different styles of offense because of their QB. There has to be continuity. That's why Schaub was brought it. He ran Kubiak's offense for years. We only got down to Clausen when it really hit the fan and you just needed someone versed in Trestman's verbiage to quickly get up to speed.

Mallett is squarely playing these games as pre-season outtings for 2016 to be an insurance policy if Joe's recovery takes longer than expected, or Lord forbid Joe goes down again.

Plus, why on earth would you want a kid like Mallett engaged in another QB controversy when it's clear that the last one stressed him out and produced a bunch a weird behavior?

I don't know why you are so hyped on Flacco. Mallet and Clausen come in and make our lousy WRs look far from it and they have only been here a combined 5 weeks. Joe's been here for 8 years and has done zero with them. Here's to controversy.

[rmcjacket23]

I don't know why you are so hyped on Flacco. Mallet and Clausen come in and make our lousy WRs look far from it and they have only been here a combined 5 weeks. Joe's been here for 8 years and has done zero with them. Here's to controversy.

When you say WRs, you mean one WR...Aiken. There has been literally nothing impressive from the other guys across the board. Catching one or two passes a week isn't impressive.

We aren't scoring nearly as many points without Flacco. People thought we had a great offensive performance yesterday, yet we scored a whopping 20 points.

[budman]

When you say WRs, you mean one WR...Aiken. There has been literally nothing impressive from the other guys across the board. Catching one or two passes a week isn't impressive.

We aren't scoring nearly as many points without Flacco. People thought we had a great offensive performance yesterday, yet we scored a whopping 20 points.

Agree. If our Defense didn't play as well as they did, we would of had to score 30 or more.

[Raven_Don]

Like to shout out all the analyst who said the Ravens didn't shut down AB... that it was Vick who shut him down... All his catches came mostly on quick passes and his lone deep catch was against zone coverage... He hasn't had a touchdown pass in his last three games against the Ravens... I personally wasn't sure if we would win the game... but I knew it was going to be close... proud of the guys for the way they fought and played winning football for the first time in sometime... we will see if the Bengals have n.e. thing to play for come Sunday... they might rest some guys...

[GangofRavens]

When you say WRs, you mean one WR...Aiken. There has been literally nothing impressive from the other guys across the board. Catching one or two passes a week isn't impressive.

We aren't scoring nearly as many points without Flacco. People thought we had a great offensive performance yesterday, yet we scored a whopping 20 points.

It was all we needed. We are also missing our starting running back and some starting O-linemen. Mallet won with backups against the starting line up of our hated rivals. Flacco who?

[GangofRavens]

I don't get people who say we need to score more points--after we've won the game. Listen, for any game played you only need one more point then the other team. That's it folks. Pretty simple.

[WNC-Raven]

How about this as a possibility. Mallet want to start next year, we need more talent at other positions, Mallett takes advantage of next weeks finale to once again play lights out against CIN, with no real star QB's in next years draft we trade him for a second round pick and use Clausen as our backup.

[Drew P]

How about this as a possibility. Mallet want to start next year, we need more talent at other positions, Mallett takes advantage of next weeks finale to once again play lights out against CIN, with no real star QB's in next years draft we trade him for a second round pick and use Clausen as our backup.

 

Pump the brakes. He went from unemployed to worthy of a second rounder just like that? The Squeelers D sucks and there isn't any film on Mallet. Let's see next week if there is a repeat performance

[WNC-Raven]

Pump the brakes. He went from unemployed to worthy of a second rounder just like that? The Squeelers D sucks and there isn't any film on Mallet. Let's see next week if there is a repeat performance

I'm with ya. Just a possibility, nothing more. The QB market is very thin and this years draft is one of the worst in recent memory for QB's. If ever there was a year for what I said this would be it. Bad teams get desperate for a new QB and with Malletts quiet time at NE he may persuade all those teams that avoided him that it was an underqualified coach obrian that caused his issues in Houston. He completely mishandled the QB competition like they are college students and not the proffesionals that they are.

[Bohica5]

People are not thinking clearly if they think Mallett is going to cause some sort of QB controversy with Joe.

For starters you can't underestimate the complete lack of scouting tape the Steelers had on Mallett with this grouping of skilled players and in Trestman's scheme. Not to downplay Mallett's extraordinary efforts in getting up to speed and then near-flawless execution on game-day. But that's why backup QBs that come in during games can oftentimes be more dangerous than the starter.

Secondly, Mallett was squarely brought in to be the closest possible clone to Joe as possible. Same build, same weight down to the pound, same height down to the inch. This is why we let Tyrod go. You can't expect your guys to learn and be proficient in two completely different styles of offense because of their QB. There has to be continuity. That's why Schaub was brought it. He ran Kubiak's offense for years. We only got down to Clausen when it really hit the fan and you just needed someone versed in Trestman's verbiage to quickly get up to speed.

Mallett is squarely playing these games as pre-season outtings for 2016 to be an insurance policy if Joe's recovery takes longer than expected, or Lord forbid Joe goes down again.

Plus, why on earth would you want a kid like Mallett engaged in another QB controversy when it's clear that the last one stressed him out and produced a bunch a weird behavior? 

if you really think joe is worth paying 20 mil a year after you just saw Mallett play(without an interception by the way which has been flaccos calling card lately,and for waaaaaay less than 20 mil) you sir are the one who's either not a true Ravens fan or just outta ur mind!!

[ellicottraven]

That Upshaw 'lazy' stance cost us a win by 17 points, but hey we still won! I feel for Jimmy's INT return for a TD and also feel sorry for Upshaw. He explained he just wanted to be close to his man because they were so close tot the goal line - totally understandable, but foolish.