[News] With Tough Final Stretch Coming, Ravens Like Their Position

[BR News]

Baltimore has a difficult final four games against the Patriots, Eagles, Steelers and Bengals, but Head Coach John Harbaugh said the Ravens have ‘just the men for the job’ to make it to the playoffs.

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[KidNme]

It's going to be tough. Brady and company, especially Belichick knows how to win games and playing in Foxboro only makes it harder however, if any team can beat them, we can! I don't think we do great on Monday night games (about 50-50) but we do have a slightly better Monday night record % than they do, .524 to .500 so there's that!
I believe our last 2 Monday night games were against the cardinals @ Arizona in Oct, which we lost 26-18 then we beat the Browns @ Cleveland with a 33-27 score in Nov 2015, keeping with our 50-50 Ratio. Another stat is, we usually win when we only play one Monday night game in that year (Which is the case this year) and in 2010, we actually won both Monday night matchups on the road! (Jets 10 to 9 and Houston 34 to 28).
The stat I love the best is the fact that we have won 6 out of 8 in Foxboro! Now that's a stat I can get behind! We rule NE in their house!

[dirtybird66]

health is key,but if they put together full team efforts,theres noone they can't beat.

[dirtybird66]

unforchunately the most consistant thing about FLACCO is his inconsistacy.

[dirtybird66]

and if they come out on top of the next 4 games,they will be ready to face anyone in the playoffs

[dirtybird66]

i think if the team doesn't look at the names of teams on the schedule,and focus on what we can do as a team,it will help alot.in their physcy

[The Greek]

shareece, elam and jerrod must step up and help this secondary. even without gronk the pats have many weapons that have been elusive, quick and quite effective thus far this season. we cannot blitz brady or he will tear us apart. pees will have to get creative applying pressure and the guys whom i mentioned above must help out. hopefully the offense has turned the corner as well. go ravens!! none of these games will be easy and hopefully the steelers will drop a couple.

[Sherly_Tebow]

It's going to be tough. Brady and company, especially Belichick knows how to win games and playing in Foxboro only makes it harder however, if any team can beat them, we can! I don't think we do great on Monday night games (about 50-50) but we do have a slightly better Monday night record % than they do, .524 to .500 so there's that!
I believe our last 2 Monday night games were against the cardinals @ Arizona in Oct, which we lost 26-18 then we beat the Browns @ Cleveland with a 33-27 score in Nov 2015, keeping with our 50-50 Ratio. Another stat is, we usually win when we only play one Monday night game in that year (Which is the case this year) and in 2010, we actually won both Monday night matchups on the road! (Jets 10 to 9 and Houston 34 to 28).
The stat I love the best is the fact that we have won 6 out of 8 in Foxboro! Now that's a stat I can get behind! We rule NE in their house!

The Patriots have won 6 of 8 all-time in Foxboro, not the Ravens.

[VermontRaven]

"If the Steelers beat the Ravens on Christmas day and both teams finish with the same record, then more complex tiebreaker procedures will come into play." 

What's not mentioned here is that the Ravens would win those "more complex tiebreakers" (not factoring in any ties)

The 3 records the Steelers/Ravens could tie with are 10-6, 9-7, or 8-8. 

If we are tied at 10-6 (and Steelers beat the Ravens), the Ravens would have to win all remaining games.  2nd tiebreak is division record, which would be tied (both teams at 5-1)  3rd tiebreak is "Common games" record which Baltimore wins.

If we are tied at 9-7 (and Steelers beat the Ravens), Steelers would have to have at least one more division loss (games left vs. Bills, @ Bengals, and vs. Browns)...meaning 4-2 in the division would be the best they could do.  Even if Ravens lost to Pitt and Cincy, their division record would be 4-2 and we'd still win the common games tiebreak.

If we are tied at 8-8, Pitt would have to lose 2 division games, and we would still win tiebreak (Bengals would have to lose a game in this scenario as well)  Bottom line, Ravens are guaranteed to win any tiebreak with Pittsburgh (barring ties--haven't calculated those possibilities)

Edited December 6, 2016 by VermontRaven
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[ByTheBay]

6 minutes ago, VermontRaven said:

"If the Steelers beat the Ravens on Christmas day and both teams finish with the same record, then more complex tiebreaker procedures will come into play." 

What's not mentioned here is that the Ravens would win those "more complex tiebreakers" (not factoring in any ties)

The 3 records the Steelers/Ravens could tie with are 10-6, 9-7, or 11-5. 

If we are tied at 10-6 (and Steelers beat the Ravens), the Ravens would have to win all remaining games.  2nd tiebreak is division record, which would be tied (both teams at 5-1)  3rd tiebreak is "Common games" record which Baltimore wins.

If we are tied at 9-7 (and Steelers beat the Ravens), Steelers would have to have at least one more division loss (games left vs. Bills, @ Bengals, and vs. Browns)...meaning 4-2 in the division would be the best they could do.  Even if Ravens lost to Pitt and Cincy, their division record would be 4-2 and we'd still win the common games tiebreak.

If we are tied at 8-8, Pitt would have to lose 2 division games, and we would still win tiebreak (Bengals would have to lose a game in this scenario as well)  Bottom line, Ravens are guaranteed to win any tiebreak with Pittsburgh (barring ties--haven't calculated those possibilities)

Nicely done

[FloridalovesRavens]

unforchunately the most consistant thing about FLACCO is his inconsistacy.

It's "unfortunately" by the way. You are jinxing this team with your negative comments concerning Flacco. At least we can say you're consistent lol.

[FloridalovesRavens]

Spread the ball around. A lot of no huddle and good protection for Flacco. Good recipe for a win. Go Ravens.

[Purple Dawg 96]

Just keep the pedal to the metal! Take your foot off the gas meaning running on 1st and 2nd pass on 3rd and punt and it's a "WRAP"! This entire team "FEEDS" off Joe Flacco and it showed and now it's time for Joe to put them all away! I want a rematch with them cowboys!

[callahan09]

Just a correction on the article, the Bengals are 4-7-1 not 5-6-1.

[The Greek]

Just keep the pedal to the metal! Take your foot off the gas meaning running on 1st and 2nd pass on 3rd and punt and it's a "WRAP"! This entire team "FEEDS" off Joe Flacco and it showed and now it's time for Joe to put them all away! I want a rematch with them cowboys!

cowboys will lose 1st playoff game. i want the hawks or packers

[purpledown]

The Ravens have a tougher schedule then the Steelers, if the Ravens continue to use their RBs and the defense continues to play good, i like our chances.

[Moderator 3]

50 minutes ago, callahan09 said:

Just a correction on the article, the Bengals are 4-7-1 not 5-6-1.

If you're getting that from NFL Mobile, they're wrong.  The Bengals beat the Lions, Jets, Dolphins, Browns, and Eagles.  They're 5-6-1.

[KidNme]

5 hours ago, Sherly_Tebow said:

The Patriots have won 6 of 8 all-time in Foxboro, not the Ravens.

Gosh darn it, you're right! Must have been my wishful thinking!

Thanks for the correction!

[RavensBaltimore]

  1 hour ago, callahan09 said:

Just a correction on the article, the Bengals are 4-7-1 not 5-6-1.

If you're getting that from NFL Mobile, they're wrong.  The Bengals beat the Lions, Jets, Dolphins, Browns, and Eagles.  They're 5-6-1.

Wrong. The Bengals are 4-7-1. They have definitely not beaten the Lions, seeing as how the AFC North does not play the NFC North this year.

[Moderator 3]

1 hour ago, RavensBaltimore said:

Wrong. The Bengals are 4-7-1. They have definitely not beaten the Lions, seeing as how the AFC North does not play the NFC North this year.

Well poop!  You're right.  They beat the Lions in preseason.  The format of the results is a little less than clear.  :-(

[megalomarc]

Apparently, believing some analysts, the Ravens are not contenders, but are pretenders.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000752469/article/contender-or-pretender-borderline-teams-in-nfl-playoff-race

The Steelers and the Colts, on the other side, are said to be contenders.

A good way to motivate the troops !

[Ravens8383]

Why does it always seem the Ravens have to go to NE to play MNF or a prime time game? Oh well let's just hope Suggs and Brady get to know each other a little better Monday night.

[PersianRaven]

Damn Mink, you still have not figured out what the Bengals record is? lololol

[sami]

Hey Mink, you sure you know how to work that thing? lol

[Fastynart]

I would "like their position" had they beaten the lowly Jets, and the Redskins. That way we would have some breathing room. Since the Ravens tanked those games, they find themselves having to win 3 of the last 4. A loss to both the Steelers and Patriots would spell disaster. The Ravens MUST beat one of them. Depending on which Flacco shows up, the Ravens could either win them all or lose them all.

[RavenzOz]

12 hours ago, VermontRaven said:

lots of good knowledge

awesome writeup VermontRaven, glad someone is smart enough to figure this stuff out because I am not.

4 hours ago, megalomarc said:

Apparently, believing some analysts, the Ravens are not contenders, but are pretenders.

I wouldn't sweat anything on nfaildotcom, they didn't believe the Ravens were contenders in 2012 until the final whistle sounded in the superbowl.

 

Yeah it's a tough schedule, but the silver lining is that if our team makes it to the dance it means they are playing hot and should go deep. I honestly think our Ravens can beat any of those four teams if they play the way they did Sunday.

Also like Marty finding something to exploit about the 'phins D.  Let's hope he is buried in pat's tape finding some leads.  I think the guy is a good step up on Trestman, and hopefully doesn't get HC aspirations any time soon. 

[Rav'n Maniac]

Can't let this opportunity slip by. Sounds like the team is up for this game. We need to slam our foot down on their throats, go for the jugular and not let up all game.

[Purple Dawg 96]

  On 12/6/2016 at 4:59 PM, Purple Dawg 96 said:

Just keep the pedal to the metal! Take your foot off the gas meaning running on 1st and 2nd pass on 3rd and punt and it's a "WRAP"! This entire team "FEEDS" off Joe Flacco and it showed and now it's time for Joe to put them all away! I want a rematch with them cowboys!

cowboys will lose 1st playoff game. i want the hawks or packers

Yeah cowboys have no defense give up mega points is why I knew the Ravens needed 30 pts to get a win and our Defense did good holding the Cowboys under 30 pts and big Zeke under a 100 yds!