Ravens 2017 opponents

[allblackraven]

Our games for 2017:

http://www.espn.com/blog/baltimore-ravens/post/_/id/32818/baltimore-ravens-home-and-away-opponents-for-2017

Home:
Pittsburgh Steelers*
Cleveland Browns
Cincinnati Bengals
Houston Texans*
Indianapolis Colts
Chicago Bears
Detroit Lions*
Miami Dolphins*

Away:
Pittsburgh Steelers*
Cleveland Browns
Cincinnati Bengals
Jacksonville Jaguars (in London)
Tennessee Titans
Green Bay Packers*
Minnesota Vikings
Oakland Raiders*

(* 2016 playoff team)

I swear we play Miami like we are in the same division

[RaineV1]

Obviously a lot can change between now and then, but most of those games look winnable. That one that really worries me is going against Rodgers in Green Bay. If the Ravens' defense hasn't drastically improved its pass rush, he'll light us up.

[DomMcRaven]

Can the schedule makers NOT have us play at Cincy in week 17? It's getting ridiculous. 

[Doomville]

Pretty tough schedule if you ask me, at least going by this year.

[allblackraven]

1 minute ago, Doomville said:

Pretty tough schedule if you ask me, at least going by this year.

Agree. Six playoff teams are getting better for some time now, Titans on the up, Vikings will get Teddy back, Colts are due one good season. Not going to be easy.

[Ravensfan23]

Christmas Day is on a Monday in 2017

Is anyone else thinking rematch with the Steelers like I am? The game will be in Baltimore of course. 

 

[usmccharles]

5 hours ago, allblackraven said:

Agree. Six playoff teams are getting better for some time now, Titans on the up, Vikings will get Teddy back, Colts are due one good season. Not going to be easy.

Some people thought teddy could be out two years.  

[allblackraven]

2 minutes ago, usmccharles said:

Some people thought teddy could be out two years.  

Yep, nasty injury. Bradford worked out OK for them, though. 

[RavensDieHard21]

Well that's great. Raiders, Steelers, Titans, Bengals, and Vikings on the road. Lol easily going to lose 4/5 of those. 

[Cville-Raven]

lol I was expecting the chargers to be on here. Seems like they throw them on our schedule every year or so. Quite a number of those games looks pretty 50/50. No gimmes but they can compete with most of the teams on here.

Edited January 3 by Cville-Raven

[RaineV1]

35 minutes ago, RavensDieHard21 said:

Well that's great. Raiders, Steelers, Titans, Bengals, and Vikings on the road. Lol easily going to lose 4/5 of those. 

Add in the Packers on the road. It's a tough schedule.

[allblackraven]

37 minutes ago, RavensDieHard21 said:

Well that's great. Raiders, Steelers, Titans, Bengals, and Vikings on the road. Lol easily going to lose 4/5 of those. 

You can take Steelers off that list - they got their one win in 5 games vs us on Christmas. That'll carry them over to 2019.

[kjbmore]

going to need to take care of home, which looked to be getting back to, kind of, this season
prob still going to drop 1 or 2 between, cinci, detroit, colts, houston, pitt

dont know if we can go and pick up a few games on the road, past the browns or jags

looks like 8 and 8 to me

[Rav'n Maniac]

The difficult task is that we have to face 6 of the playoff teams from this season.

[RavensDieHard21]

9 hours ago, allblackraven said:

You can take Steelers off that list - they got their one win in 5 games vs us on Christmas. That'll carry them over to 2019.

I'm talking about on the road lol, we have been a terrible road team, plus I forgot the packers, it's going to be another tough year.

[RaineV1]

2 hours ago, RavensDieHard21 said:

I'm talking about on the road lol, we have been a terrible road team, plus I forgot the packers, it's going to be another tough year.

Sadly this year wasn't that tough. Our strength of schedule was pretty low. Next year the strength of schedule will be much higher.

[rmcjacket23]

4 minutes ago, RaineV1 said:

Sadly this year wasn't that tough. Our strength of schedule was pretty low. Next year the strength of schedule will be much higher.

Good news is that the preseason SOS and the post-season SOS are oftentimes dramatically different from each other, for better or worse.

[TurkishRaven]

10-6 easy

[Cillmatic]

With a WR, pass rush and CB we can win a bunch of these. 

[PurpleCity5]

We have to win that one game that will define the season and make the push for us. IMO that Greenbay game seems like that kind of game and it could be a prime time game. It seems like a very interesting one at least in my opinion.

[reed20]

Weakest division in the NFL in the AFC South is on our schedule so that's not too bad. Sweeping that division is not unlikely.

[nextgen_RavensFan]

10 - 6 seems in reach. Of course the bulk of the wins coming at home. 

Green Bay, Steelers and Cincy are the three away that i have us losing for sure. Along with the Raiders and Minnesota.. The Titans and Miami are games that could go either way.

[OUravensfan]

Schedule is the schedule, we really need to sweep the Bengals it's getting ridiculous. 

[Purple_City39]

22 minutes ago, OUravensfan said:

Schedule is the schedule, we really need to sweep the Bengals it's getting ridiculous. 

I'm just happy we finally beat them.  I can overlook week 17 to a degree because the team never came out the locker room

[January J]

On 1/2/2017 at 5:10 PM, Doomville said:

Pretty tough schedule if you ask me, at least going by this year.

People literally say this every year.

On 1/3/2017 at 1:50 AM, RavensDieHard21 said:

Well that's great. Raiders, Steelers, Titans, Bengals, and Vikings on the road. Lol easily going to lose 4/5 of those. 

We play the Steelers and the Bengals on the road every year so what? 

We need to stop worrying about our opponents and focus on ourselves. We already can hang with literally any team in the league- make the right moves this off season and have another strong draft and teams will be worried about coming to face us.

We drew the AFC South- which is arguably the weakest division this year.  Only team in the NFC north that I could see giving us a hard time would be green bay. And the AFC north hasn't been as strong as it usually is. I could easily see 12 wins here- but a lot depends on how this off season goes and how healthy we stay over the course of the year. Hopefully this time we won't be so vulnerable if jimmy goes down- and a strong pass rush will do wonders for the secondary. Just as a strong running game will do wonders for the passing game and play action. Get back to ravens football and it won't matter who we play.

[BNat]

On 1/3/2017 at 2:29 AM, allblackraven said:

You can take Steelers off that list - they got their one win in 5 games vs us on Christmas. That'll carry them over to 2019.

Wow really? so damn cocky when this team lost to them year after year until their defense retired all at once.

[Purple_City39]

37 minutes ago, BNat said:

Wow really? so damn cocky when this team lost to them year after year until their defense retired all at once.

Huh??? By "their defense retired all at once" I take it you mean Hampton, Keisel, Smith, Polamalu, and Taylor?  The earliest of all them to retire was Smith after the 2011 season.  We'll use that as our starting point. 

2011 - 2-0
2010 - 1-2
2009 - 1-1
2008 - 0-3 (ouch)
2007 - 1-1
2006 - 2-0
2005 - 1-1
2004 - 1-1
 

Stopping here  because they didn't have all those players until this season as it was Polamalu's first season as a starter.  8 year record against the Steelers with their defense" 8-9.  And that's because we had to start a division 3 rookie QB who was supposed to be the 3rd string QB before injury and sickness happened to the two QBs ahead of him.  This also ignores the fact that the Ravens took over the rivalry even though "our defense" started leaving.  Thomas, Scott, Pryce, Rolle, and McAlister all left between 07 and 2010.

 

[allblackraven]

2 hours ago, BNat said:

Wow really? so damn cocky when this team lost to them year after year until their defense retired all at once.

[Ravens4Real]

There is a better chance that we sweep the Bengals next year than the Steelers. 

Steelers young defense will only continue to get better and their offense will have even more weapons next year than they did for our games this year.

Bengals are just going downhill quickly.

[Bruce_Almty]

The past 4 drafts we picked 14 players in the first 3 rounds. Only Brandon Williams, CJ Mosley, Tim Jernigan and Ron Stanley have excelled, and Williams looks to be moving on. This team lacks talent.