[News] Late For Work 6/30: Media From AFC North Rivals Say Ravens Won't Make Playoffs

[ravenpic]

Love that the Browns writer predicted no playoffs for the Ravens. Really? Why don't you just stay focused on the Browns and how they are 5 years away from being 5 years away.

I liked that too. The Cleveland media is about as smart as the Browns and the Browns fans. I'm proud the Ravens are considered by the NFL and the Ravens franchise to be an expansion team. We have no ties to those losers. Think Ted Marchibroda would have been hired as head coach had Art stayed in Cleveland? That they would have drafted J.O. and Ray in the 96 draft? I laugh when a Browns fan says that the 2000 SB Champs were their team. Some Browns fans are still saying that to this day. They make me laugh too

[Popeye the sailor man]

22 hours ago, Winchester said:

Joe Cool can play as good as anybody with a dominant oline and legit weapons. But he is not the qb that can carry a bad team like the elite can. And that is the reasoning behind fans that don't want him to get the pay of the qbs that can. Let's be honest here all qbs need help. Some qbs need more help. Some qbs can't put up numbers even with good help. Joe will never read and slice thru defenses at warp speed with a bad oline. He needs his time. But his arm can put the ball anywhere. I get it the league has been shelling out to average qbs and that's the going rate. The argument is when will a team tell its average qb like osweiler or good qb Joe cool you are not Aaron Rodgers. You need more pieces around you and if we pay you like Aaron Rodgers we can not put those players around you. Denver played it well with osweiler. Pretty much said you need and have a team around you and if we pay you nearly $20mil per then we will lose one or more of those players that you need around you to win. And the Broncos opted to address left tackle. And When Sanchez has players around him he went to championship games. Now Sanchez has the best team and qb friendly system around him he ever played with. He could play his best football ever. If so it could send a message around the league

Attn Winchester and Ravenpic...You guys are absolutely right the more I think about your replies,  perhaps I've spoken to soon. Joe Flacco does need the right people on the O-Line behind him to be successful, no doubt about that, Thanks for both of your replies...Popeye

[OUravensfan]

23 hours ago, ravenpic said:

I liked that too. The Cleveland media is about as smart as the Browns and the Browns fans. I'm proud the Ravens are considered by the NFL and the Ravens franchise to be an expansion team. We have no ties to those losers. Think Ted Marchibroda would have been hired as head coach had Art stayed in Cleveland? That they would have drafted J.O. and Ray in the 96 draft? I laugh when a Browns fan says that the 2000 SB Champs were their team. Some Browns fans are still saying that to this day. They make me laugh too

Yea it's a joke, most of the coaches and players left pretty quickly becasue they were upset with the move, so we didn't benefit from a relocation in terms of being ready now, we also didn't get the benefit of an expansion draft. So their claim on the 2000 title because of the draft pick Belicheck traded for is a joke, and they need to choose, if this is your team then cheer for the Ravens don't cheer for the Browns. They try to discredit everything Baltimore accomplished because of the relocation, I hope they hold every team that's relocated to that standard, but that's Cleveland for you.

I believe that Super Bowl roster had 2 original Browns, a kicker and a full back....

Edited July 4, 2016 by OUravensfan

[steelcityraven]

THe playoff formula remains the same for us. 1. Win at home....( if we win at home that is 8 wins... and we only need 1-2 more to get into the playoffs. Even 6-2 at home would make our return to the playoffs fairly easy)... and 2. Win the divisional games. (Harbs seems to have solved the Pittsburgh riddle and has Tomlin figured out. The Browns are always changing so hard to predict what they will bring to the table but we should be more talented and then there is the thorn in our side in CIncy. We need to at least win the home game vs Cincy.

If we win our home games and win our divisional games -our return to the playoffs is a lock!

[rmcjacket23]

On 7/1/2016 at 6:58 PM, OzzieBisciotti said:

First of all. Flacco had not have beeen the highest paid qb- only Oz and DaCosta would do that- he is not elite. If he was elite, he would win more games on his own, and he simply can't carry the team like an elite qb. Secondly, I've been saying that this team doesn't make the playoffs in 16 or 17. We will see Oz get the can at the end of this year or by 17. The team is full of holes, dead money, and old players- our FAs we picked up this Summer are old- we are already old...

Still have to wait for the 2016 final rosters to come out, but for some perspective, in 2015, we were smack dab in the middle of the league in terms of age (average age was 27.08 years old). That ranked us 16th in the league.

In 2015, we were also the youngest team in our division by average age.