[News] Late For Work 11/7: Internet Can't Stop Laughing At 'Worst Ever' Onside Kick & 'Not Elite' QB Slide

[TheConquerorWorm]

To our DC. NO NO more of the prevent defense. It does not work as we saw yesterday. 54 yds in 3 quarters 210 in 4th quarter. Also, maybe it is time to put
our defensive backfield on the Jugs machine. Should have been a 4 int game/

The Ravens were not in a prevent defense. Pees started blitzing CB & Safeties which allowed guys to get open (hence the Powers sack on Ben). The Bend don't Break defense worked great for 3 quarters - the exotic blitzes in the 4th - not so much. And as they say - if a defender could catch, he would be on offense.

[TheConquerorWorm]

  2 hours ago, SUGGStobeDUMED said:

Ive been one of his biggest fans, and still think he can play adequately, but with the skill on both sides of the ball, Flacco is holding this team back.


Flacco and 6th round pick for Rivers and the Lombardi comes to Baltimore again.

I would love Rivers as he is way better than Flacco, but it unfortunately would never happen. Rivers has worked with far less and has looked great. Flacco will get a pass this year because of the injury, but he looks about as good as he did in 15' before the injury so?

Better how? At choking in the play-offs? Or a better fantasy QB? No thanks, I'll take a guy that shows up in big play-off games over a guy that chokes them.

[metalraven]

The line could not open holes for the backs yesterday, and Stanley is showing rust. A better effort, but it's still two rookies on the left side.

IMHO Flacco's play indicates he is injured. He did have a great lookoff on the 2 point conversion. If he gets that going, it will help him out tremendously.

You're slowly inching your way into accepting the fact that Flacco sucks.

[TheRavengers]

Flacco's performance yesterday was average at best, nothing great but nothing god-awful. With the Browns coming in 3 days, it'd be nice to see him throw more than 1 TD in that contest, or preferably more than a 1 TD every game from here on out.

Matter of fact the offense needs to drink tons of Red Bull or Energy drinks, they're 27th in league. They put up a grand total of 274 offensive yards (the Steelers had 3 more yards) and were 4/17 on 3rd down and I know they're capable of doing much better than that.

[TheRavengers]

As for the defense, well that was excellent for the most part, reminded me of the old days when Ray, Ed and co. were around and could manhandle basically any QB. Pees called a great game except for the last half of the 4th quarter where the Steelers scored 2x when previously they didn't sniff the end zone.

[January J]

Anybody know if Elam saw any snaps?

[BigUgly]

Flacco's performance yesterday was average at best, nothing great but nothing god-awful. With the Browns coming in 3 days, it'd be nice to see him throw more than 1 TD in that contest, or preferably more than a 1 TD every game from here on out.

Matter of fact the offense needs to drink tons of Red Bull or Energy drinks, they're 27th in league. They put up a grand total of 274 offensive yards (the Steelers had 3 more yards) and were 4/17 on 3rd down and I know they're capable of doing much better than that.

Flacco was average? Relative to what? Stoney Case? Kyle Boller?

[donkeyking64]

Hey MODs and content providers/beat writers, would it be too much to get a section of the site or article every week that highlights who got injured during that week's game?

[bostonraven]

  1 hour ago, steelcityraven said:

Why cant we run Juan Castillo??????

I doubt he'd get many yards after contact. He's kinda old.

Hilarious!!!

[eze17]

  2 hours ago, crazyboutravens said:

To our DC. NO NO more of the prevent defense. It does not work as we saw yesterday. 54 yds in 3 quarters 210 in 4th quarter. Also, maybe it is time to put
our defensive backfield on the Jugs machine. Should have been a 4 int game/

The Ravens were not in a prevent defense. Pees started blitzing CB & Safeties which allowed guys to get open (hence the Powers sack on Ben). The Bend don't Break defense worked great for 3 quarters - the exotic blitzes in the 4th - not so much. And as they say - if a defender could catch, he would be on offense.

Have to disagree with you this time...We were in Pee's version of a prevent defense. Yes, he did start blitzing with the secondary more, but he also went into his zone coverage and protection packages more often, instead of letting the defense do what it had done very well for the first three quarters. And he does this in most games, sometimes leading the opposing team to score on us and letting them back in the game, or even down right losing the game. It's one of the more frustrating aspects of the Ravens recently: look like game winners, yet give up that crucial drive in the waning moments of the game. And I fault the play calling more than the players a lot of the time.

My biggest knock on Harbs and his coaching staff is more clock management than bad play calling. Bad habit he seems to have picked up from Andy Reid, who has lost more than his share of games from unwise usage of the play clock. The Raven's seem to either have complete ignorance about the clock, or go dramatically overboard trying to hurry and finish games in too much of a rush. Unfortunately, this has always been Harb's achillie's heel, so not much chance correcting it now.

[stixfix69]

it was nice to see Webb play a very solid game at safety, for the most part he was in position to make plays, and made some nice tackles, we need that...

[Crusader]

That "Dominating Defense" almost crumbled like the last times in the remaining minutes." but he also went into his zone coverage and protection packages " and look how that almost turned out. For 3 quarters of the game the owned Pitts and then they went into stupidity mode and gave up touchdowns

[Crusader]

What's really funny is the Cleveland Browns are 11th in rushing the ball and Ravens are 28th and have a better offense but hey,..... we have an elite QB!

[PurpleRainBlackVeins]

Should change the title of this page from "LFW" to LOL or LMAO.

Definitely LMAO lol

[allblackraven]

Everybody should get off Flacco's back for that slide. There's no QB who does it better than him. This one was out of the book until brace gave.

[Somerset Ravens]

It was nice to see the onside kick shown on Monday Night Football's Cmon Man. It is always good to see the Steelers look bad.

[TheConquerorWorm]

  10 hours ago, TheConquerorWorm said:

  12 hours ago, crazyboutravens said:

To our DC. NO NO more of the prevent defense. It does not work as we saw yesterday. 54 yds in 3 quarters 210 in 4th quarter. Also, maybe it is time to put
our defensive backfield on the Jugs machine. Should have been a 4 int game/

The Ravens were not in a prevent defense. Pees started blitzing CB & Safeties which allowed guys to get open (hence the Powers sack on Ben). The Bend don't Break defense worked great for 3 quarters - the exotic blitzes in the 4th - not so much. And as they say - if a defender could catch, he would be on offense.

Have to disagree with you this time...We were in Pee's version of a prevent defense. Yes, he did start blitzing with the secondary more, but he also went into his zone coverage and protection packages more often, instead of letting the defense do what it had done very well for the first three quarters. And he does this in most games, sometimes leading the opposing team to score on us and letting them back in the game, or even down right losing the game. It's one of the more frustrating aspects of the Ravens recently: look like game winners, yet give up that crucial drive in the waning moments of the game. And I fault the play calling more than the players a lot of the time.

My biggest knock on Harbs and his coaching staff is more clock management than bad play calling. Bad habit he seems to have picked up from Andy Reid, who has lost more than his share of games from unwise usage of the play clock. The Raven's seem to either have complete ignorance about the clock, or go dramatically overboard trying to hurry and finish games in too much of a rush. Unfortunately, this has always been Harb's achillie's heel, so not much chance correcting it now.

The Ravens were playing their Cover 6 defense. It's the same base defense that they run on 3rd & longs (They ran it throughout the entire game). A prevent defense is where you rush 3 and drop 8. Ravens rushed 4 almost the entire time with some CB & S blitzes mixed in (their typical Cover 6 packages).

It only looks like they "switched" but they are really just reacting to the Squealers players and play calling. If an offense is going to sell out and only throw long passes, doesn't it make sense to defend that? You want to keep 3 LBs in the game to defend against 4 speedy WRs running deep routes every play? That's an even surer way to lose. If the other team is going out there and throwing 4 hail mary passes every time, I think you are going to play your guys back.

[Rav'n Maniac]

It was a good win. The D played great until they didn't. The O played good on one drive. The ST saved our butts.

[Crusader]

It was nice to see the onside kick shown on Monday Night Football's Cmon Man. It is always good to see the Steelers look bad.

Just like when the coach tried to trip Jacoby Jones.

[RavenSwag]

OK the slide was bad but I seen Joe slide plenty of times, the grass caught it no big deal but that onside kick is a different story. I get what he was trying to do but don't do that unless you have that style of kick down to a science. Now you look like a MORON like Eric Weddle said. Couldn't imagine where we would be if we didn't have Mr. Wallace. The boy Tavon Young is BALLIN!! We may have found a corner finally. Keep Shareece Wright on the bench, don't even use him for nickel and dime packages.

[ellicottraven]

When you think about it and compare this team to the 2000 team that won the SB, the 2016 defense isn't close to the dominance of that defense (obviously), but I sincerely believe that the 2000 offense wasn't any worse than this offense to this point. I know the 2000 offense didn't score a TD for several games in a row, but still they were able to run effectively with J. Lewis and Dilfer as average as he was, was effective in getting us timely TDs and moving the ball. It is stunning to think that the 2016 offense in real terms is no better than the 2000 offense. I know there will be disagreement on my opinion, but looking back I really believe so.