Pulling players out during blowouts.

[757RavensFan]

After seeing how injuries totally devastated this team last year, do you think Harbs will be inclined to pull key starters out in games that are decisively one-sided?

[trevorsteadman]

Ravens don't pull out.

[Militant X 1]

7 minutes ago, 757RavensFan said:

After seeing how injuries totally devastated this team last year, do you think Harbs will be inclined to pull key starters out in games that are decisively one-sided?

We can only hope to be winning one sided games this season.  I'd love to see it...

[trevorsteadman]

6 minutes ago, Militant X 1 said:

We can only hope to be winning one sided games this season.  I'd love to see it...

I agree and how many blowout games were there actually last season? Against the Seahawks and Chiefs? So there was very few even last season and by that time we were already down to our bench so there wasn't too many real key starters still playing...

[rmcjacket23]

There's an Antonio Cromartie joke in there somewhere...

[Daft Classic]

Gotta be winning by that much first to even consider taking players out. We played 14 games within one score, and the other two were blowouts on us. 

23 minutes ago, trevorsteadman said:

Ravens don't pull out.

Yup this guy wins the message boards for the day

[OUravensfan]

1 hour ago, Militant X 1 said:

We can only hope to be winning one sided games this season.  I'd love to see it...

This

[JoeyFlex5]

We didn't have any starters to pull out last year.

[K-Dog]

No. Not at all.

I remember a game against the 49'ers a few years ago.  We were totally blowing them out. I think it was the largest lead we ever had. They eventually came back but still only lost by less than three. ( one point? )

If that game were any longer I am convinced we would have lost.

 

So, no. The game will never be put away enough. 

Edited August 16, 2016 by K-Dog

[BmoreBird22]

2 minutes ago, K-Dog said:

No. Not at all.

I remember a game against the 49'ers a few years ago.  We were totally blowing them out. I think it was the largest lead we ever had. They eventually came back and lost by less than three. ( one point? )

If that game were any longer I am convinced we would have lost.

 

So, no. The game will never be put away enough. 

More recently, I remember a game against the Bucs were Flacco threw five touchdowns in a half and the starters were in fact pulled.

[ravensdan]

There are very few blowouts in the NFL overall. 

[IGwheaties_man]

If you're speaking of pulling out our players when we're on the right side of a blowout, it only makes sense. Protect the investment, if nothing else. If we are on the wrong side of a blowout, still yes, pull the starters out. Protect the investment. Give backups seemingly meaningless playing time. Though, to my relief, the Ravens have only been blown out a whooping 4 times in the last two seasons, 2 in 2014 (Pittsburgh, Houston), 2 in 2015, albeit back to back (Seattle and Kansas City [at home]). Dating back to 2013, I only remember getting blown out by the Patriots and Bengals back to back. If I'm wrong on those being the only two blowouts that season, please let me know. This year, we had the chance, starting 2-6 , to finish 8-0 and possibly in the playoffs, I wholeheartedly believed. We couldve even accomplished the feat with a 9-7 record possibly, but due to overcrowding in the AFC, this was highly unlikely. When we lost to the Jags, I was saying pull the starters from the rest of the season. Protect the investment. What happens? We lose our #1 WR, RB, and QB in back to back consecutive weeks. The injury to T. Sizzle wasn't preventable, unfortunately, but the rest were. Why they deemed it necessary to replace turf with grass made no sense to me. With the way injuries has been affecting us in these past few seasons, someone in the strength and conditioning department has needed to receive a pink slip. More likely than not, it was due to a combination of that and a workout schedule that possibly could've overexerted our guys. By pulling them after Jacksonville last year but still competing and hopefully winning against the rest of the teams on our schedule, the backups we did play possibly could've been ushered out on the trade block, so we could obtain necessities, whether that was actual veteran players or more draft picks, since we follow the "right player, right price" mantra. How we missed out on Stefon Diggs, a homegrown talent, to obtain a guy with questionable hands to begin with and knee problems due to genetics is baffling. Stefon, a rookie, beat out Mike Wallace, a veteran, in terms of running the go route. We signed Mike Wallace. So much money could've been saved... Point in that statement is we don't employ enough homegrown talent, but that is a story for another day. In conclusion, pull the starters. 

[Newsome is Awesome]

On ‎8‎/‎16‎/‎2016 at 0:34 PM, K-Dog said:

No. Not at all.

I remember a game against the 49'ers a few years ago.  We were totally blowing them out. I think it was the largest lead we ever had. They eventually came back but still only lost by less than three. ( one point? )

If that game were any longer I am convinced we would have lost.

 

So, no. The game will never be put away enough. 

The Championship Game?

 

[redrum52]

On 8/16/2016 at 10:06 AM, trevorsteadman said:

Ravens don't pull out.

To the irony of my seeing this now.  I'm in the middle of the Always Sunny episode where they wanna sell pies.

 

[redrum52]

On 8/16/2016 at 1:37 PM, BmoreBird22 said:

More recently, I remember a game against the Bucs were Flacco threw five touchdowns in a half and the starters were in fact pulled.

Was my first live game and it was beautiful.  Brandon Williams had a MONSTER game.