[News] Late For Work 8/22: Nine Takeaways After Ravens' 2-0 Preseason Start

[cbrook1862]

  13 hours ago, budman said:

  14 hours ago, FerrariFan87 said:

Not sure why there's concern about the D when Suggs and Doom weren't out there. That changes everything. I'm ecstatic that we're actually forcing turnovers!

 

Moore looked legit and I think he'll be making some big plays for us this season; Butler too.

Perriman coming back probably hurts one of these guys. That's a shame both have looked decent so far and it would seem that with more reps, they would get only better. Some of those reps go away now.

Here's what I want to know. Suggs tore his Achilles, and he's back. SSS totally ripped his Achilles and he's back. Flacco tore his ACL or MCL, and he's back. Forsett broke his arm and he's back.

But Perriman, with what was originally reported to be a knee strain before the preseason last year, is only just starting to return to the field for drills.

WHAT AREN'T THEY TELLING US? No knee injury has ever sidelined a guy this long, that I can remember. If Flacco is back, Perriman should have been back months ago.

Not true. He went down the latest and they didn't want a repeat of last year. He's back now that's all that matters

[hen826957]

Man the Colts signed Antonio Cromartie. The Ravens should've pick him up veteran corner. I'm not confident of Shareece Wright as the 2nd starting corner for some reason. Now l'm a little bit worried about the secondary. Nobody else l could think of that is still in the open market that decent except or a trade.

[20306cab]

  18 hours ago, hen826957 said:

  19 hours ago, whobilly said:

We need more impact players. We have to many roster fillers. Unless we score 40+ points per game this could be a very average season which is what you get with a lot of average players.

I hate to say it but l agree with you. It's gonna be an average season. Maybe we will get like a 9-7 or 10-6 to squeeze a playoffs at most. Until John realizes to get rid of Dean Pees the defense won't get any better. If we had like the 2011 Ravens defense or even 2008 this team could be a 13-3 easily due to the easy schedule we have this year. The schedule is easy, but the Ravens will make it difficult than it already is due to lack of play on defense.

You guys could be right about our poor chances of success this season, especially considering some of our disappointing play on defense so fat. But there's the other side of the ball to consider - our opponents during the real season. We have one of the weakest set of opponents in our schedule, especially through week 11 except for the Steelers at M&T. Not saying it is likely but we could be 7-0 by the time our bye week comes up during week 8 since our opposition will supposedly be so weak themselves. Not exactly a compliment to our team, I guess. But hey, a win is a win.

7-0 huh? Well, that would be nice, but you know it ain't gonna happen.
The only team the Ravens play, who had a worse record than B'more last year is the Browns, and they have their struggles with them. I'd be happy with 4-3, and still in the playoff hunt.

[RRRRRavens]

  17 hours ago, RRRRRavens said:

  20 hours ago, hen826957 said:

  21 hours ago, whobilly said:

We need more impact players. We have to many roster fillers. Unless we score 40+ points per game this could be a very average season which is what you get with a lot of average players.

I hate to say it but l agree with you. It's gonna be an average season. Maybe we will get like a 9-7 or 10-6 to squeeze a playoffs at most. Until John realizes to get rid of Dean Pees the defense won't get any better. If we had like the 2011 Ravens defense or even 2008 this team could be a 13-3 easily due to the easy schedule we have this year. The schedule is easy, but the Ravens will make it difficult than it already is due to lack of play on defense.

You guys could be right about our poor chances of success this season, especially considering some of our disappointing play on defense so fat. But there's the other side of the ball to consider - our opponents during the real season. We have one of the weakest set of opponents in our schedule, especially through week 11 except for the Steelers at M&T. Not saying it is likely but we could be 7-0 by the time our bye week comes up during week 8 since our opposition will supposedly be so weak themselves. Not exactly a compliment to our team, I guess. But hey, a win is a win.

7-0 huh? Well, that would be nice, but you know it ain't gonna happen.
The only team the Ravens play, who had a worse record than B'more last year is the Browns, and they have their struggles with them. I'd be happy with 4-3, and still in the playoff hunt.

I find past records useless. I use current consensus power rankings to compare current teams which, I grant you, are also not so hot but better than year old news.

[rmcjacket23]

  20 hours ago, budman said:

  21 hours ago, FerrariFan87 said:

Not sure why there's concern about the D when Suggs and Doom weren't out there. That changes everything. I'm ecstatic that we're actually forcing turnovers!

 

Moore looked legit and I think he'll be making some big plays for us this season; Butler too.

Perriman coming back probably hurts one of these guys. That's a shame both have looked decent so far and it would seem that with more reps, they would get only better. Some of those reps go away now.

Here's what I want to know. Suggs tore his Achilles, and he's back. SSS totally ripped his Achilles and he's back. Flacco tore his ACL or MCL, and he's back. Forsett broke his arm and he's back.

But Perriman, with what was originally reported to be a knee strain before the preseason last year, is only just starting to return to the field for drills.

WHAT AREN'T THEY TELLING US? No knee injury has ever sidelined a guy this long, that I can remember. If Flacco is back, Perriman should have been back months ago.

Perriman suffered what was thought to be a partially torn ACL earlier in June, so he's missed about two months with that injury.

Completely separate injury from the one he suffered last season.

[Crusader]

2-0 DMS

[ravenken]

"Starting Defense’s Slow Starts Are A Growing Concern" - I'm not on that bandwagon... I don't want to give up TDs. Don't want them to drive down the field either BUT, don't want to give up TDs. Keeping the game in front of you will allow a team to drive on you. Red zone shortens the field. Dan P is doing fine. I do see TOs in our future. Webb is a natural and it will come through. Going to be a good year. Go Ravens!