[News] Game Recap: Cowboys 27, Ravens 17

[BR News]

The Ravens were tied with the Cowboys at halftime, but Dallas' offense grinded down Baltimore's top-ranked unit in the second half and dominated possession.

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[terpmaniac]

Penalties, penalties penalties, nearly every freakin game and Harbaugh says the same nonsense after every mistake-riddled.."duh, duh..we need to play smarter." Well Duh, Coach! Jesus!

[KingCaw]

Penalties, penalties penalties, nearly every freakin game and Harbaugh says the same nonsense after every mistake-riddled.."duh, duh..we need to play smarter." Well Duh, Coach! Jesus!

Can't agree more. A game where the defense needed the offense to show up... And yet again, a spotty offense with no identity at best, and once again too many penalties. Depressing and growing real tired of watching. A lot more issues then Trestman. No one shows up on offense on a consistent basis other then Smith Sr. Just plain tired......

[pocket]

Penalties, penalties penalties, nearly every freakin game and Harbaugh says the same nonsense after every mistake-riddled.."duh, duh..we need to play smarter." Well Duh, Coach! Jesus!

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[JamesA119]

I don't think this game was called evenly. The Cowboys played almost penalty free. How's that possible? When will the refs ever stop taking sides?

Defense didn't play well. This is clearly on Ozzie. He got his cheap CBs Wright and Powers. Enjoy that money saved . Thank you.

It appears that the offense never clicks. Left too many points on the field especially early when they had chances to increase the lead. Are they really practicing enough? It just seems that other offenses are executing better.

[Purple Dawg 96]

Good game they "FINALLY " got one off us! We were rite there! Smh still pumped though!

[scottsdaleazravensfan]

Not having Jimmy Smith was tough but the corners played way too soft . Cowboy receivers were wide open for three quarters and when combined with little to no pass rush we didn't have a chance .The offense was inconsistent and had a chance to open things up in the first half but as usual faltered . I felt very confident going into this game but came away realizing we are not a very good football team . Too may penalties and too inconsistent .

[ravens4life86]

I had a bad feeling, if Jimmy played Ravens roll.
But even without Jimmy... if Tefs werent so blindly bias towards cowgirls Ravens win.
I stand by this, Ravens were the better team, shutdown Zeke and were movingbthe ball on Dallas if not for bias refs

[Bruce_Almty]

Pretty much as expected; Ravens looked like a .500 team playing against a playoff caliber team. We have a ways to go b4 success rains down.

[ravens4life86]

Also...Once again MARTY shows lack of commitment to the run game. I said 30x running to control T.O.P. you dominate the first drive by running then you barely run rest ofvthe game.


Run the dang ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fastynart]

No one should be surprised by the outcome. The Ravens held their own through the first half.....UNTIL...the last Cowboy possession, where the defense went soft and allowed the Cowboys to march down the field unchallenged. They played the same way in the second half. Wright is abominable and the rest weren't much better. It is so frustrating to watch them line up 10 yards off the receivers, watch the receivers catch the ball and run before anyone lays a hand on them. Just a ridiculous defensive alignment.

[bluehen]

Where was Perriman, did he dress, if he did "0" targets, what's up?

[Fastynart]

OH, and maybe we should draft some more wide receivers again next year. Obviously the great Oz thinks that is where our problems are. Good grief.

[ravenwildman]

I don't think this game was called evenly. The Cowboys played almost penalty free. How's that possible? When will the refs ever stop taking sides?

Defense didn't play well. This is clearly on Ozzie. He got his cheap CBs Wright and Powers. Enjoy that money saved . Thank you.

It appears that the offense never clicks. Left too many points on the field especially early when they had chances to increase the lead. Are they really practicing enough? It just seems that other offenses are executing better.

Agreed, the Cowboys were all over our guys, and the officials acted as crowd pleasers calling questionable penalties against the Ravens more often than not........but I don't believe that was the losing reason.

[Raven1995]

29 minutes ago, JamesA119 said:

I don't think this game was called evenly. The Cowboys played almost penalty free. How's that possible? When will the refs ever stop taking sides?

Defense didn't play well. This is clearly on Ozzie. He got his cheap CBs Wright and Powers. Enjoy that money saved . Thank you.

It appears that the offense never clicks. Left too many points on the field especially early when they had chances to increase the lead. Are they really practicing enough? It just seems that other offenses are executing better.

The cowboys should of been called twice for Interference in the first half. One Db was holding Steve Smith"s arm with both his hands. Even the announcers said they got away with a lot. Too may penalties by Zuttah. The offense Ran the ball 3 times in the 2nd half and were playing like they were down by 4 TD's, Bad Coaching.

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[ravenwildman]

The Ravens had a real chance to take this game. But what ever happened to our defense in the second half earned the loss. They got shredded in the intermediate passing lane (playing way too soft in zone) and gave the rookie way too much time. But.....it is what it is, on to next game. GO RAVENS! CB 25

[Raven1995]

OH, and maybe we should draft some more wide receivers again next year. Obviously the great Oz thinks that is where our problems are. Good grief.

We need to Draft Some Tight Ends. Dennis Pitta whiffed on 2 Blocks, he does not belong on the Line, He Has Zero Blocking Ability. We need a Big TE like Witten or like we had With Todd Heap.

[TheRavengers]

Wanna hear something funny? Zeke ran 25 times and got 97 yards out of it. The Ravens as a whole had 16 running plays.

That's awful.

[ravens4life86]

Im hearing AJ Green tore his hamstring pretty severe probabky out multiple weeks good for us next week.

Didnt commit to the run, lost t.o.p.

Bias refs

And defense held up aslong as humanly possible.

Theres a formula...we saw it for 2 straight weeks...
Why is it so hard for coaches to duplicate..
Run 30x, and pass 35x

[law215]

Cowboys showed the Ravens and really the league the importance of an offensive line. You knew if the Ravens offense could not sustain drives, the Cowboys o-line would wear them down. Dak had all day o throw.

The weaknesses of the Ravens talent level showed. They lack a good pass rusher, Wright is a liability (You an tell they drew a circle around him for the second half), and Zuttah ruined at least 4 drives today by himself.

Ravens need pass rusher (they blew it not picking up Ngakoue or Spence). Correa will not see the much time as a starter because Orr and Mosley are just better ILBs.

[Ravenole]

All the previous comments are right on but I saw a lot to be optimistic about. Yes the penalties and the inability to cover the dump off passes are disturbing but the offense looked so much better. Joe was on target most of the game when given time. That 2nd half drive and the TD pass to Smith was a thing of beauty. I think the Ravens played the best team in the NFL better than most observers think. Except for the Patriots (ugh) the Birds could win the remaining schedule and finish 10-6 and into the playoffs.

[verified]

I figuered we'd loose this game once i noticed jimmy smith was going to be out. Cause that means shareece wright would play and we all know what that means. Shareece played and does what he does best which is give up Defense deflating catches and touchdowns. Our D been good the last couple weeks because he hasnt been on the field

[verified]

The Ravens had a real chance to take this game. But what ever happened to our defense in the second half earned the loss. They got shredded in the intermediate passing lane (playing way too soft in zone) and gave the rookie way too much time. But.....it is what it is, on to next game. GO RAVENS! CB 25

Sharrecce wright happened to the defence

[RavensBaltimore]

Also...Once again MARTY shows lack of commitment to the run game. I said 30x running to control T.O.P. you dominate the first drive by running then you barely run rest ofvthe game.


Run the dang ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We didn't score in the 2nd half until we stopped running it. Besides that one drive in the 1st qtr, running the ball was just killing drives. If we wouldn't have waited so long to spread it out and put Flacco in the shotgun, I think our offense could have torched them.

[JamesA119]

Not putting this on Flacco but how come the rookie Dak Prescott has so much control of their offense. He seems to have audibled several changes. He even drew our guys off sides.

[JamesA119]

If one just dropped from mars they would think that Dak Prescott was the veteran QB

[KidNme]

Ya, Shareese was an issue. Missing Jimmy big time. I also hated the soft defense in the 2nd half. Didn't run the ball enough either. It was like they thought we were 4 scores down or something, SMH. Joe did look a lot better today though. He was on target more often than not and was pretty mobile when he needed to be. I was pretty happy about that. Pass rush sucked in the 2nd half too!
I didn't expect us to win this game but thought many of our guys stepped up, just not enough to get the win. Smiths sideline catch was a thing of beauty!
I believe coaching had a lot to do with that 2nd half. Too much room given to the receivers and no one got a pick which should have happened at least once in Dallas's last drive but our guys were too far off to do anything. Coach says we'll play aggressive but I just didn't see it today. Too much soft zone.
We had a big chance to get some respect today and just let it slip through our fingers.
Here's hoping for a great game next week!

[ravens4life86]

Also just go in on defense though they did best of all units...

Pees could of send more exotic blitzes 5-6 man pressures. Early on they had Dak rattled. Then after that 1st&30 conversion we never saw that same amount of pressure.
I know Jimmy didnt play that hurts coverage but you xant just sit in zones all day to be picked apart.

This is why people wanna run pees outta town sometimes, cause hes not on the level of a Rex. If rex was a man down. He would still be dialing up bkitzes and chaos with all our defensive studs

[billiejean]

Cowboys showed the Ravens and really the league the importance of an offensive line. You knew if the Ravens offense could not sustain drives, the Cowboys o-line would wear them down. Dak had all day o throw.

The weaknesses of the Ravens talent level showed. They lack a good pass rusher, Wright is a liability (You an tell they drew a circle around him for the second half), and Zuttah ruined at least 4 drives today by himself.

Ravens need pass rusher (they blew it not picking up Ngakoue or Spence). Correa will not see the much time as a starter because Orr and Mosley are just better ILBs.

Zuttah is going to get a lot of stuff on this board as he does even when he has graded out as one of our top 5 players on offense, which he has been at least 3 times, but he had three penalties. I can say conclusively that the one called for holding on the screen to Juice, and the call for personal foul (blocking after play was dead) were both ridiculous. I don't remember what the third was for but Zuttah has been playing really well. Zuttah made contact with that safety at the exact same time the running back (forget which one) stepped out. There is no way the whistle was blown before the hit, and I love nothing more than to see an offensive lineman blocking down field until the end of the play. The odd part of the whole Zuttah hate train (im not implying your on it btw) is that many of them scream for Urschel to be put in his place. Its Odd because at the break JU was rated as the 49th best gaurd in the NFL. The only time I saw Correa get in was when he was playing OLB in the last drive of the game. He completely lost contain (ZS was guilty of this toward the beginning of the game)and EE got 12 yards. He seems over matched even when rushing the passer. If its any constellation (and I know its not because it doesn't make me feel any better about it) Judon has just one less sack than Ngakoue and Spence. Cowboys OL tried their best to give him another tonight. Im not sure how you don't account for the DE on that play. There clearly wasn't a TE there and there is no way that they would let the RB handle him by himself.

[PalmBayRaven]

How many Offensive Coordinators will it take to get fired before they realize it was Flacco all along?