[News] Game Recap: Ravens 38, Dolphins 6

[BR News]

Baltimore's offense exploded in the first half and the defense nearly pitched another shutout, halting a hot Dolphins team in its tracks. Quarterback Joe Flacco had his best game of the season and one of the best of his career.

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[RavenzOz]

Consummate performance by the team today .... what a pleasure to see

[WordProphet]

Now, this is how you play like a Raven!!! I remember this type of play and how it got us to the playoffs, and you kinda get use to that and when it doesn't happen folks get a little upset because we remember when!!! Maybe the Ravens spoiled the fans in Baltimore by being so good in the past and winning Superbowl's, we remember Ray Lewis and Ed Reed and Anguan Bolden, and all the rest of the Superbowl team!!! Now we want that back with different names on the shirts, sure we still have Suggs and Dumerville and Pitta, but they can't do it by themselves, and today it was proven just how good this Ravens team can be with the new names on the jerseys, this is truly playing like a Raven!!! And the penalties were down to a minimum, and that always a good thing, you made me proud Ravens, you made me proud to be part of the Ravens Nation, GO RAVENS!!!

[cobrajet]

This offense reminded me a little bit like we did under Kubiak. I think Joe and Marty are finally on the same page, and that is a good thing!

[BigUgly]

Wow! Joe's footwork was good, getting rid of the ball quickly, and amazingly taking advantage of the middle of the field. Would like to have seen more of a commitment to the run, but you obviously can't argue with the results! A great statement win in December. Let's keep the momentum rolling all the way to the playoffs!

[lowcountryraven]

Great job all around! Defense, Offense, and Special Teams! It was a pleasure to watch our team today. Monday night football at Gillette stadium next week. It is time to show the Patriots as pretenders in prime time. We know they're soft!!! Let's go all the way, one game at a time.

[Bline1027]

Most complete game of the year. Wish I seen more of the run. But we did not settle for field goals and scored touchdowns.

Go Ravens.

[Fastynart]

I have been very vocal in criticizing Flacco and the abysmal offense this whole season. Well, today they finally listened. Joe was near perfect. His throws were on target, leading the receivers instead of throwing behind them, in the dirt, or over their heads. Also, he stopped throwing 2 to 5 yard passes and threw down field. And what a difference. We have been screaming for this type of offense all year. Why did it take the Ravens 11 games to do it? I actually have hope that we can beat the Patriots next week. If Joe shows up like he did today, good things can happen. Kudos to the entire team for a great effort and performance.

[lowcountryraven]

We want our team playing its best football and healthy in December.  We control our own destiny.  As a fan, it doesn't get any better than this going forward!  I believe we only got 4 or 5 penalties.  That is another good job!  We will show the rest of the league in prime time next week, who is playing the best football now and who hits, tackles and bruises the best on defense.  This could be Brady's early retirement game.

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[picke]

finally a blowout against a team over .500, too.

[iluvpurple]

Now that's what I'm talking about from Joe and the rest of the offense, could have easily been a 400 yard-plus game for Joe, and the defense was stellar as usual...... Even Ryan Mallet got to play and played very well...... No negatives today, please, just enjoy this game and hope it continues ????

[RavensBaltimore]

Wow! Joe's footwork was good, getting rid of the ball quickly, and amazingly taking advantage of the middle of the field. Would like to have seen more of a commitment to the run, but you obviously can't argue with the results! A great statement win in December. Let's keep the momentum rolling all the way to the playoffs!

Amazing. Even when we score 38, Ravens fans still want to run the ball more. Other then a few drives, running the ball has been holding this offense back and killing drives all year. I said before the game that we need to stop trying to run the ball and put Flacco in a hurry up offense out of the shotgun, and I was obviously right. During the game, the announcer said our offense was among the league's best in the last 2 mins of halves this year. I wonder why? Now that the pass protection has improved and the receivers are healthy, the offense could be very good if they continue being aggressive and avoid getting conservative.

[law215]

This game came down to one key factor. Ravens won the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. Joe looked and played comfortable and the results speak for itself.

Also, Pitta was dominant, Perriman and Dixon looked explosive, Tucker is money, and both coordinators attacked for 4 quarters.

[Doc]

A taste of The Playoffs may be what the Ravens need heading into NE in Primetime

[Molson Man]

Best performance all year. That said a more balanced attack would be more preferable. This defense is awesome I really hope we don't waste it like the 2006 defense.

[Bruce_Almty]

Finally!!! (heavy sigh of relief)

[FloridalovesRavens]

I have been very vocal in criticizing Flacco and the abysmal offense this whole season. Well, today they finally listened. Joe was near perfect. His throws were on target, leading the receivers instead of throwing behind them, in the dirt, or over their heads. Also, he stopped throwing 2 to 5 yard passes and threw down field. And what a difference. We have been screaming for this type of offense all year. Why did it take the Ravens 11 games to do it? I actually have hope that we can beat the Patriots next week. If Joe shows up like he did today, good things can happen. Kudos to the entire team for a great effort and performance.

Well well well. Imagine that a compliment. Hopefully next week will get the same compliments from our hard to please fans lol. Go Ravens.

[Crusader]

  4 hours ago, BigUgly said:

Wow! Joe's footwork was good, getting rid of the ball quickly, and amazingly taking advantage of the middle of the field. Would like to have seen more of a commitment to the run, but you obviously can't argue with the results! A great statement win in December. Let's keep the momentum rolling all the way to the playoffs!

Amazing. Even when we score 38, Ravens fans still want to run the ball more. Other then a few drives, running the ball has been holding this offense back and killing drives all year. I said before the game that we need to stop trying to run the ball and put Flacco in a hurry up offense out of the shotgun, and I was obviously right. During the game, the announcer said our offense was among the league's best in the last 2 mins of halves this year. I wonder why? Now that the pass protection has improved and the receivers are healthy, the offense could be very good if they continue being aggressive and avoid getting conservative.

Are you serious? Running the ball would keep Brady on the bench and wear down their defense. Whats killing the offense is bad blocking and penalties. Nobody in their right mind wants to get in a shoot out with Brady the best QB this generation has seen.

[balfan23]

10 minutes ago, Crusader said:

Are you serious? Running the ball would keep Brady on the bench and wear down their defense. Whats killing the offense is bad blocking and penalties. Nobody in their right mind wants to get in a shoot out with Brady the best QB this generation has seen.

Not all passes are created equal. The pass game we incorporated today ... so many of them were really like runs. Short over the middle ... tackled in the field of play, clock keeps ticking. A really high percentage pass can effectively work like a run. It gets the ball into the hands of a play maker in space. Many of our drives were still at least somewhat time consuming, so we were still keeping the opposition's offense on the bench quite a bit. 

But yeah ... if I agree I don't think going hurry up through the game and having Joe live in the shotgun isn't a recipe for a win in Foxboro. 

[balfan23]

3 hours ago, RavensBaltimore said:

Amazing. Even when we score 38, Ravens fans still want to run the ball more. Other then a few drives, running the ball has been holding this offense back and killing drives all year. I said before the game that we need to stop trying to run the ball and put Flacco in a hurry up offense out of the shotgun, and I was obviously right. During the game, the announcer said our offense was among the league's best in the last 2 mins of halves this year. I wonder why? Now that the pass protection has improved and the receivers are healthy, the offense could be very good if they continue being aggressive and avoid getting conservative.

@BigUgly did at least say, "you can't argue with the results". 

[smalljaws]

A great weekend of football. Flacco and McSorley (PSU) both throw for 380 yards and put 38 on their foes.

[BallsoHard622]

This was the best overall game we've played in years on both sides of the ball. The offensive and defensive play calling was good to go. If we keep this up an don't beat ourselves we can go all the way.

[Crusader]

This was the best overall game we've played in years on both sides of the ball. The offensive and defensive play calling was good to go. If we keep this up an don't beat ourselves we can go all the way.

Back in the day the Special Teams scored too and not just kicking. Wish Ravens could have found another Jermaine Lewis.

[manofsteel]

Jimi Smith still stinks. He still could not keep up with the offensive WR. Lucky for us the QB did not pass to him. The most Smith did was to keep the fans fired up. Watch the game tape if you don't believe me.

[RavensBaltimore]

  On 12/4/2016 at 2:53 PM, RavensBaltimore said:

  On 12/4/2016 at 2:07 PM, BigUgly said:

Wow! Joe's footwork was good, getting rid of the ball quickly, and amazingly taking advantage of the middle of the field. Would like to have seen more of a commitment to the run, but you obviously can't argue with the results! A great statement win in December. Let's keep the momentum rolling all the way to the playoffs!

Amazing. Even when we score 38, Ravens fans still want to run the ball more. Other then a few drives, running the ball has been holding this offense back and killing drives all year. I said before the game that we need to stop trying to run the ball and put Flacco in a hurry up offense out of the shotgun, and I was obviously right. During the game, the announcer said our offense was among the league's best in the last 2 mins of halves this year. I wonder why? Now that the pass protection has improved and the receivers are healthy, the offense could be very good if they continue being aggressive and avoid getting conservative.

Are you serious? Running the ball would keep Brady on the bench and wear down their defense. Whats killing the offense is bad blocking and penalties. Nobody in their right mind wants to get in a shoot out with Brady the best QB this generation has seen.

Did you watch the last game we won in NE? We tried running on every 1st down in the first half, and we were down 13-7 at halftime. In the 2nd half, we stopped running, put the game in Joe's hands, and we blew them out. We got into a shootout with Brady and dominated.

Also, we have not kept other QBs on the bench by running the ball. Running the ball has kept OUR offense on the bench. Passing it has kept us on the field recently.