[News] John Harbaugh Confident Ravens Can Fix Mistakes And Start Winning Again

[BR News]

Head Coach John Harbaugh outlined two problems that have hurt the Ravens: big plays allowed and penalties. He feels like the self-inflicted wounds can be healed and the Ravens can get back to playing winning football.

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[AlwaysA_Raven]

I hate when Flacco start talking by saying "We've go to...." or "We got to...".. it seems so repetitious .. Just count how many times he says that after every single game.. How about that; you have take responsibility about your bad playing and focus on getting everyone on track starting with yourself.. Instead, you are not helping any of your teammates nor helping yourself .. your own mistakes are the same every single game; missing open receivers, over- or under throwing receiver, lack of patience when you have time, and holding the ball too much when you do not have time to.

[JD08]

Honestly I think we will be ok, we got the Jets next. Should be a win, one of the worst teams in the league cant get much easier for us. Steelers have the Patriots next without Big Ben, so we should be going into the bye tied for 1st in the division. In the 2nd half of the season, we have a few tough games but not like they was saying at the beginning of the yr. Steelers are always tough, don't know how healthy Big Ben will be at that point, Bengals are not looking as good as projected, Eagles have been falling off a bit, Dolphins aren't that good, Cowboys and Pats are the real deal, and the Browns are the Browns

[Drew P]

His clock management sucks

[ravens4life86]

Coach Horrible can have all the rhetoric and tough guy talk..but I dont belie in him or them anymore until his in game decisions get better, and they win again

[ravens4life86]

Believe* in him or them anymore

[ravens4life86]

Just read a great piece over at RSR done by Tony Lombardi bout Harbaugh seat getting hotter.
Talking bout every recent draft and his influence of taking character guys, not Flambouyant highest ceiling guys. And he questions whether Ray,Ed,Sizzle,Ngata would have ever been drafted under coach horrible. Whos montra of taking high character overachievers, as being outdated and killing the Ravens.

Fans have said this for years.
Get back to taking DOGS,Killers. Not the "Character" Guy..take the Chris Mccalister,Noah Spence,Ray Lewis etc top 10 talent, personality alpha males.. not the Correas,Koufusis low ceiling character guys

For this Coach Horrible may lose his job

[Ravenshine]

"Taking a look around the league, it’s easy to see that just about every team has problems. At 3-3, the Ravens are still just one game out of the AFC North division lead, and one game up on the Cincinnati Bengals, who have lost four of the last five.

“Put yourself in any other city, and ask yourself what article you would be writing. It would be three or four cities that everyone thinks things are great. There will be about 28 cities where everyone will be wringing their hands,” Harbaugh said."

This is very true imo. 32 teams and many are in middle range or below in record and that determines how every team is perceived... the record. So for example, Vikings are perceived very well atm, and Browns ...not so much. One weird fact tho is no matter how good Ravens play they rarely get any credit but the minute they make a mistake everyone wants to point it out. Talking about the NFL ppl in general not the fans here. The fans...we point everything out lol, good or bad...because this website has a comment section that allows us to do so...not all teams have that it's quite nice actually the Ravens open up their board for fan comments. Much appreciated!

But getting back to the quote...yeah plenty of other teams with several issues going on...it's the nature of this highly competitive sport involving multiple game details, multiple personnel...and refs...refs who hate celebrating of any kind LOL!

[SanDiegan Raven]

I hate when Flacco start talking by saying "We've go to...." or "We got to...".. it seems so repetitious .. Just count how many times he says that after every single game.. How about that; you have take responsibility about your bad playing and focus on getting everyone on track starting with yourself.. Instead, you are not helping any of your teammates nor helping yourself .. your own mistakes are the same every single game; missing open receivers, over- or under throwing receiver, lack of patience when you have time, and holding the ball too much when you do not have time to.

Kick Rocks! Last I checked it's a team game! Flacco takes responsibility for his faults and owns up because it is a team. One man fails they all failed. I'll take Flacco over Cam... who by the way are 1-5!

[Molson Man]

If you can somehow fix the mistakes we are 3-1 in the conference 2 of our losses were to NFC teams and we are also 1-0 in our own division. It doesn't look good now but these numbers are more promising than say the 3-3 Titans. They are 2-2 in conference and 0-2 in the division. Plus all things considered, we sit in the seventh seed currently. Not a terrible position, add in the injuries and it explains the close losses. When one or two plays makes the difference, more healthy playmakers on the field can tip that balance into wins. That being said if we want to put teams away and keep our feet on their throats, we need more motivation. Harbs that your que, since you don't coach any phase of the game. We do all this and we can win enough to see what happens in the postseason. As we learned in Denver in 2012 once you get there anything can happen. That was a good Denver team we beat that year, they scared me a lot more that the Pats did.

[Molson Man]

I hate when Flacco start talking by saying "We've go to...." or "We got to...".. it seems so repetitious .. Just count how many times he says that after every single game.. How about that; you have take responsibility about your bad playing and focus on getting everyone on track starting with yourself.. Instead, you are not helping any of your teammates nor helping yourself .. your own mistakes are the same every single game; missing open receivers, over- or under throwing receiver, lack of patience when you have time, and holding the ball too much when you do not have time to.

But when he does throw those dime and there have been quite a few already, our receivers need to actually catch it. More drops than I've seen in years. The rust on this offense is deeper than just Flacco being consistently inconsistent. You know exactly what that nonsense means. Week 10 or so we will be clicking on all cylinders based on the coordinator change and bye week. I'm still excited about our chances.

[Purple Dawg 96]

  1 hour ago, AlwaysA_Raven said:

I hate when Flacco start talking by saying "We've go to...." or "We got to...".. it seems so repetitious .. Just count how many times he says that after every single game.. How about that; you have take responsibility about your bad playing and focus on getting everyone on track starting with yourself.. Instead, you are not helping any of your teammates nor helping yourself .. your own mistakes are the same every single game; missing open receivers, over- or under throwing receiver, lack of patience when you have time, and holding the ball too much when you do not have time to.

Kick Rocks! Last I checked it's a team game! Flacco takes responsibility for his faults and owns up because it is a team. One man fails they all failed. I'll take Flacco over Cam... who by the way are 1-5!

You stated a fact and I love facts and that fact is " One man fails they all failed"! The QB had a chance to win all three games and what happened?! This is the NFL and a QB has to perform under pressure like all the other QBs I see week in and week out! Big ben got hurt Sunday I guess his O line suck also huh?! Tyrod scrambling for his team and got a record better than us now so I ask you why can't our QB get it done under pressure no wall of china in the NFL! Kamar Aiken balled outta control with Mallet and he beat the hottest team in football what's wrong with us now?!

[ellicottraven]

Hasn't this same record been played last season after every loss we suffered? A lot of confident bluster with the same end result - a loss in the next game. I hope Harbs is right, but it rings hollow when he uses the same talk over and over again without being proven correct.

[ellicottraven]

1 hour ago, Drew P said:

His clock management sucks

Yep and he's in constant denial about it too. 

[whobilly]

Why do I have this sickening feeling about the Jets game. They just got embarrassed on national tv and they have the perfect team coming in to make amends. Road game. Embarrassed team. Loss.

[bluehen]

What's Harb's going to say, the team is a shambles, an I am not sure what to do?

[designermaryland]

if he is confident, why do the same things happen every game? Late hits, stupid undisciplined false starts or illegal formation. poor game planning and failure to make any offensive adjustments or adapt play as the game intensifies. you can only say we need to fix the mistakes so many times before people stop listening, as the boy who cried wolf taught us.

[EdTheMythicalOne]

I don't pride myself on knowing any game plan of any team in the NFL, but if I can guess what the Ravens are going to do in a certain situation, you have to know NFL defensive coaches know what's going to be called. It is way too predictable.

Why on Earth do you call a stretch run play to the left on a 4th and short when the left side is arguably the weakest side of the line? All of their success running was up the gut and off the right side. Of course Juice completely whiffed on the lead block which didn't help at all, but even if he had made it it is debatable whether West would have beaten the rest of the defenders that were waiting in the wings for him.

I don't see how you can fix the problems without replacing the players that are constantly the culprits. So many off sides/encroachments are ridiculous. Holding penalties. Illegal formations. And yes the clock management. There was one play where a receiver (forget who it was) was running off the field thinking he was out on the play. Then they wave him back onto the field and he starts to go back to the huddle, then they call him back, he starts to come back to the sideline, then they push him back out to the huddle. The playclock was already down to like 13 or 12 seconds before the guy even got into the huddle. There was no way that play was getting off in time.

With so many people hurt, not like you can threaten a guy who is making mistakes with somebody creeping up behind him to take his spot.

BTW, Zach Orr playing like a champ. He was a bit of a question mark coming into the season, but he's proving he deserves to be out there.

[CQ1]

Harbs has to show that confidence card to subdue fan turmoil- and gives us hope. (And I am not feeling it).
What is stewing in me is: Flacco and his agent held us against the eight ball with his large contract (overpaid). Given that, we should have every right to sit Joe and give Mallett a chance- soon. Real soon.....and yes, I am wise enough to know that all of our team issues do not fall on Joe.

[CQ1]

Why do I have this sickening feeling about the Jets game. They just got embarrassed on national tv and they have the perfect team coming in to make amends. Road game. Embarrassed team. Loss.

If I'm the Jets, I'm feeling real good.

[purpledown]

Harbaugh is close to losing this team, if he has not already. The game against the Jets will tell the story.

[Purple Dawg 96]

It's funny how people point fingers at Harbaugh and never at Joe! Joe is the Tony Romo of this team and people will never ever blame him! But like I said before look at them cowboys now w/o Romo and look how Mallet beat a GOOD Squeelers team with backups! But people will never think about that it's like they have "Convenient Amnesia" because I guess beating the squeelers wasn't supposed to happen! The QB makes "EVERYONE" look bad and we stuck with him till Smh! Sounds like to me some people will gut this entire team just for one players diminishing talent from the Head Coach on down and this cannot happen! Got rid of Torrey because of a pass that should not have been thrown got rid of Justin because he wasn't hitting the holes but our QB is missing open WRs under and over throwing WRS but he good to go! Smh! Jets have a good pass rush I guess I can hear it now more whining about the O line when our QB will not move away from pressure like other QBs are doing and Brandon Marshall can see double moves can hurt our secondary and the Ravens will just run up the middle on 1st and 2nd down making themselves predictable and make the linemen on the O line jobs that much harder! Smh!

[20306cab]

Hey, I've seen this exact same headline for the last six weeks.  Only the "start winning again" was missing the first three weeks.

Edited October 19, 2016 by 20306cab

[CQ1]

......and, for some time "everything will be ok once we get Joe some weapons"
Helllllllo.

[Crusader]

It's funny how people point fingers at Harbaugh and never at Joe! Joe is the Tony Romo of this team and people will never ever blame him! But like I said before look at them cowboys now w/o Romo and look how Mallet beat a GOOD Squeelers team with backups! But people will never think about that it's like they have "Convenient Amnesia" because I guess beating the squeelers wasn't supposed to happen! The QB makes "EVERYONE" look bad and we stuck with him till Smh! Sounds like to me some people will gut this entire team just for one players diminishing talent from the Head Coach on down and this cannot happen! Got rid of Torrey because of a pass that should not have been thrown got rid of Justin because he wasn't hitting the holes but our QB is missing open WRs under and over throwing WRS but he good to go! Smh! Jets have a good pass rush I guess I can hear it now more whining about the O line when our QB will not move away from pressure like other QBs are doing and Brandon Marshall can see double moves can hurt our secondary and the Ravens will just run up the middle on 1st and 2nd down making themselves predictable and make the linemen on the O line jobs that much harder! Smh!

I bet you would feel different if you were behind this high school offensive line.Still being run by Juan Castillo.

[Crusader]

  On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 5:31 PM, whobilly said:

Why do I have this sickening feeling about the Jets game. They just got embarrassed on national tv and they have the perfect team coming in to make amends. Road game. Embarrassed team. Loss.

If I'm the Jets, I'm feeling real good.

Knowing these Ravens players their looking at the time off and not the Jets game.

[Crusader]

John team have the same problems as it did last year. Yea, I'M not real confident in anything being fixed.

[Jvc]

Harbaugh is close to losing this team, if he has not already. The game against the Jets will tell the story.

I watched the jets on Monday it's no way we lose to Fitzpatrick.

[gr2522]

“The thing that I’m most excited about is that our problems are easily correctable,” Harbaugh said Monday.

For the sake of the team please fire yourself coach Harbaugh so a new HC can come in with fresh ideas and instill a winning attitude because these Ravens seem to sleep walk on offense!

[Fastynart]

Ok, lets all buy into this crap that Harbaugh is saying. I don't believe a word of it, but I am sure there are those out there who still think Harbaugh knows what he is doing, despite years of evidence to the contrary. One last chance. Beat the Jets soundly this week and maybe, just maybe, we can start to buy it. If we see more of the same inept and incompetent play, we are doomed. The schedule gets one heck of a lot tougher after the Jets. If they can't beat Fitzpatrick, then God help them.