[News] With Division Title Still Within Arm's Reach, Ravens Focus Eyes Forward

[BR News]

The Ravens will win the AFC North crown if they win their final three games. It will likely hinge on a Week 16 game in Pittsburgh, but the Ravens know they need to handle the Philadelphia Eagles first this Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium.

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[surfdude]

Bye Bye Hester thank God. Bring back Cap.

[The Greek]

cannot overlook the eagles or they will sting us

[Bat-mite]

Hester just got waived. Bringing up Campanaro. Any decent cornerbacks out there, all coached up and ready to play?

[Tdot.to.Bmore]

if we don't win out then i don't see us sneaking in as a wildcard. That would mean that both Denver and Miami would have to go 1-2 in the last 3 games while we go 2-1. Its possible but i wouldn't count on it.

[The Greek]

malcolm mitchell is a 4th rd rookie for the pats that plays light years ahead of perriman. why cant we develop receivers. need to focus one game at a time. the offense needs to have a players only meeting because it is awful watching it every week. happy to see hester go. not sure what we do at cb the rest of the season

[Militant X 1]

48 minutes ago, The Greek said:

malcolm mitchell is a 4th rd rookie for the pats that plays light years ahead of perriman. why cant we develop receivers. need to focus one game at a time. the offense needs to have a players only meeting because it is awful watching it every week. happy to see hester go. not sure what we do at cb the rest of the season

That's the $1 mil question.  

The Ravens have an old archaic mindset when it comes to younger players imo. 

[sami]

if we don't win out then i don't see us sneaking in as a wildcard. That would mean that both Denver and Miami would have to go 1-2 in the last 3 games while we go 2-1. Its possible but i wouldn't count on it.

its very possible. Denver has the toughest 3 games of anybody and Miami just lost their QB.

[sami]

malcolm mitchell is a 4th rd rookie for the pats that plays light years ahead of perriman. why cant we develop receivers. need to focus one game at a time. the offense needs to have a players only meeting because it is awful watching it every week. happy to see hester go. not sure what we do at cb the rest of the season

It wasn't Perriman fault. Joe under thru him twice. If Joe gets the ball out front of the receivers instead of hanging it up like its his laundry, we would have won that game.

[Purple Dawg 96]

Confidence level still through the ROOF! If the Ravens handled business weeks before the record be 10-3 ! Redskins Cowboys and Pats beat us STR8T UP! Keep yall heads up and go hard for your squad or kick rocks! I'm down for whatever!
10-6

[The Mom Gene]

if we don't win out then i don't see us sneaking in as a wildcard. That would mean that both Denver and Miami would have to go 1-2 in the last 3 games while we go 2-1. Its possible but i wouldn't count on it.

Very possible for Miami... VERY

[Purple Dawg 96]

Make the last home game build momentum for the run at that Lombardi Trophy! Everybody needs to be there! That was a good game last night "Keep your head up"!

[ravensrock89]

if they play like yesterday it not in reach. thanks to the schedule they have 7 wins. a important game like yesterday and showed no emotion. Were out coached clock management sucked and more stupid penalties. 4 of which came before the ball was snapped. Cant go into NE and win like that

[BigUgly]

So frustrating that the Ravens offense couldn't adjust to what the Pats were doing. They were rushing 3-4 and dropping 7-8, but we made no attempt to run the ball or try more extended routes and verticals to find holes in the zone or stretch the zone. If the O-line can't give Joe time with that rush, I question the scheme and coaching more so than the talent (which has largely proven itself previously).

[purpledown]

Harbaugh should be on the hot seat, this will be another year with no playoffs. This team is too talented to be this bad, a new philosophy is needed.

[purpledown]

the Ravens WILL NOT run the table. Just being realistic.

[sp3ctor]

Easy fix, fire Morningweg this off season and replace him with a youngster who has no hope of leaving for a head coaching position for years to come. Think about it. Did the front office think Kubes would stick around for the necessary time it would take to properly install that offense? He was a great head coach who had a bad year and got fired (mostly Shaub's pick-6s to blame for that), and they hire him to come in and install a new offense that is a complete reversal of the offensive ideology of this team. Then he leaves a year later, we hire a guy who was more fit to antagonize Adam West in the classic Batman series than lead an offense, fail to move on from him in the off season when they should have, and handed an imbalanced offense to a guy who also isn't fit to lead an NFL offense. Like I said, this front office needs to smarten up and start thinking of the future. Look at Pees. He has no interest in leaving because he's settled as a defensive coordinator. Does that mean he wouldn't leave if the offer was right? Of course not, but he isn't going to be actively perused. He likes where he's at and there's very little chance he'll move on anytime soon (probably not until he retires). Hiring Kubiak was like signing Aaron Rogers to a one year contract and building an offense around him. You just don't do that. Plan ahead. Gain some stability. Drew Brees has had 5 offensive coordinators in his 16 years in the league. Flacco has had 5 in the past 5 years, soon to be 6. Stability starts at the top.

[KidNme]

So, all we have to do is win our last 3 games! No sweat because we're capable of winning them all according to JH! I wonder if they'll let us into the playoffs on "Potential"? Oh well, maybe we'll still get a trophy for participation :-)

[KidNme]

Easy fix, fire Morningweg this off season and replace him with a youngster who has no hope of leaving for a head coaching position for years to come. Think about it. Did the front office think Kubes would stick around for the necessary time it would take to properly install that offense? He was a great head coach who had a bad year and got fired (mostly Shaub's pick-6s to blame for that), and they hire him to come in and install a new offense that is a complete reversal of the offensive ideology of this team. Then he leaves a year later, we hire a guy who was more fit to antagonize Adam West in the classic Batman series than lead an offense, fail to move on from him in the off season when they should have, and handed an imbalanced offense to a guy who also isn't fit to lead an NFL offense. Like I said, this front office needs to smarten up and start thinking of the future. Look at Pees. He has no interest in leaving because he's settled as a defensive coordinator. Does that mean he wouldn't leave if the offer was right? Of course not, but he isn't going to be actively perused. He likes where he's at and there's very little chance he'll move on anytime soon (probably not until he retires). Hiring Kubiak was like signing Aaron Rogers to a one year contract and building an offense around him. You just don't do that. Plan ahead. Gain some stability. Drew Brees has had 5 offensive coordinators in his 16 years in the league. Flacco has had 5 in the past 5 years, soon to be 6. Stability starts at the top.

Makes sense to me.

[RavensBaltimore]

So, all we have to do is win our last 3 games! No sweat because we're capable of winning them all according to JH! I wonder if they'll let us into the playoffs on "Potential"? Oh well, maybe we'll still get a trophy for participation :-)

Are you aware that our only 2 losses since the bye were to the top 2 teams in the league, on the road, by 10 and 7 points? A couple of our wins since then were against 8-5 teams. Yet you act like it's so irrational to think this team is capable of beating the Eagles, Steelers, and Bengals. Fans are seriously overreacting to a loss.

[surfdude]

The Ravens are gonna have to run the table. Yes Denver might lose 2 out of 3 , but Miami would have to lose the next 2 because their last game is against New England and they'll take a Miami team in as a wildcard rather then the Ravens. Miami is at Jets and at Buffalo so they could lose those games especially in Buffalo with the bad weather. So this Saturday the Jets game is huge.

Even IF the Ravens get in as a wild card they'll play Pitt again in a 3 week period. Then back to New England. Tough stretch for the way their playing. I still see 8 - 8.

[Shaky End of the Quarter]

  4 hours ago, Tdot.to.Bmore said:

if we don't win out then i don't see us sneaking in as a wildcard. That would mean that both Denver and Miami would have to go 1-2 in the last 3 games while we go 2-1. Its possible but i wouldn't count on it.

its very possible. Denver has the toughest 3 games of anybody and Miami just lost their QB.

The loss of Tranny-hill might make the Dolphins better. Tranny is hot garbage.

[bigcatfrank1]

Who would have thunk at the beginning of the season that the Ravens would have faced The Giants, Raiders, Redskins, and Dallas all with winning records and lose to them. Then top it off with the loss to the Jets, when we all know then put NE in that mix and what game goes on bottom as most likely a win/loss record. The Ravens have a wins against Pitsberg, Cinci and 2 against the Brownies. The Ravens get back to work and get these playmakers to up their game! Be Playmakers!

[law215]

The fact that the Ravens played as poorly as they did and still only lost by 7 points gets overlooked. In fact, almost every game is close.

Brady exploited a depleted secondary and Pats defense dropped 7-8 into coverage to force Flacco to make reads and accurate throws which are not his strengths.

If Ravens can add playmakers to the secondary and rediscovered the importance of a power run game they are back in the hunt next season.

This season, without J. Smith, Ravens will struggle against Steelers and Bengals on the road.

[Shaky End of the Quarter]

Make the last home game build momentum for the run at that Lombardi Trophy! Everybody needs to be there! That was a good game last night "Keep your head up"!

Good game last night? Are you serious? I understand how some fans are very pessimistic but you are delusional my friend. There was nothing in last nights game that inspires confidence. The supposed #1 defense allowed 496Yds and our offense is abysmal to watch.

The Def ranking is skewed by many factors including playing a garbage schedule at the beginning of the year (Bills and Jags), Browns x2, NYJ, NYG, Pitt with Ben 10 days removed from surgery, Bengals without AJ...

Ever since week 2 when the Browns hung 20Pts on us in 7mins I knew this team was garbage. At least we weren't the ones that gave Cleveland their only win (if they ever get it).

Keep believing what you want to believe but its been blatantly clear since the preseason that this team was never destined to finish over .500. The way things are going the Ravens wont make the playoffs for another 2-3 years.

[bigcatfrank1]

Hester just got waived. Bringing up Campanaro. Any decent cornerbacks out there, all coached up and ready to play?

We lost our chance, we should have picked up a Corner when we had the chance! man o man we need a corner, somebody go knockin on some doors. Hey how bout calling Mark Walberg...

[Flacco4President]

I just don't understand why we don't run the ball. Flacco has 549 passing attempts and Dixon and West combined have 222. That's a 72:28 ratio. In 2014 (arguably our best offense) It was a 62:38 ratio. Moreover, we could pass that much because the run opened up play action. It's not like we're not running well either; Dixon is averaging 4.3 yards/attempt. To put that in perspective Ray rice averaged 4.4 yards/attempt in 2012 and went for over 1,000 yards. We have two of the fastest receivers in the league - why can't we spread the field and run play action anymore? The bigger concern is this has been addressed and was allegedly a large reason we fired Trestman. Nothing has changed. Crushing the dolphins might have been the worst thing for us; it gave validation to the coaches that Flacco can throw the ball 50 times and win a game handedly.

[Ravensfolyfe]

I don't see us winning out how can we when our offense is weak. Flacco delivery sometimes just makes me shake my head,why can't we have a balance offense,we avoid balance offense every game it seems. I just don't understand this team and the thinking behind all the dumb decisions that they continue to make. Ugh....

[purpledown]

the team may lose at Philly this weekend. Harbaugh words are falling on deaf ears. Its time for a change, the OC needs to go as well a total overhaul. They need someone to challenge Flacco, a more mobile qb , a guy like Deshone Kizer who just declared for the draft.

[Ravensfolyfe]

the team may lose at Philly this weekend. Harbaugh words are falling on deaf ears. Its time for a change, the OC needs to go as well a total overhaul. They need someone to challenge Flacco, a more mobile qb , a guy like Deshone Kizer who just declared for the draft.

change is need yes sir.