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The Defense, the Offense, and the Crabtree....

Grim

Grim

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Edgar said:
I'd say that special teams have been darn near atrocious. Off the rails pathetic with blown assignments, two blocked field goals, a blocked punt with another block saved by a desperation hold executed by Levine.

Crabtree needs to be benched. His body language (and maybe this is how he's always been) suggests a disinterested observer and the drops, particularly those taking points off the board are unacceptable.

It's two weeks in a row that we have "fumbled" away points at the goal line. The play calling and the reluctance to run the ball inside the five showed no feel for this particular game.

Flacco struggles against disguised coverages from 4-3 teams with athletic linebackers....for years. He processes a click slower...he makes bone headed decisions.

If Tim White is going to be at a loss for how to get upfield and make people miss, he better darn well hold on to the ball.

Tony Jefferson made plays.
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Amen. Special Teams has to be fixed. It’s cost us a lot. Don’t forget White fumbling and then recovering the fumble else he would also be in here
 
Oldfaithful

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Grim said:
I think that’s where we made our worst error. They left the defense open late when they wanted to keep us between the numbers leaving for more opportunityin the middle and we should’ve gone for it deep with the TE like Andrews and split them with Brown also going deep on a decoy so you draw the safety and Ward with Brown and use a CB on Andrews.

You’re missing the fact that this is a divisional game against coaches who know this team well in Saunders and Hue. I think you’ve underscored that quality
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Fuck you man, our season is clearly over. RAGE
 
allblackraven

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Darklight1216 said:
He's bad, but as the saying goes, "beggars can't be choosers." The Ravens history with wrs suggests that they probably won't be able to choose a decent replacement.


The Browns gave up 45 points against a sorry team like Oakland. There is no excuse for the Raven's offensive "performance."

Even when Baltimore is firing on all cylinders they struggle against Tennessee. Now, we're supposed to believe that a team who lost to the Browns is going to win a road game against an opponent that they usually lose to?

I knew it was going get tougher, but man if they can't beat Cincy, can't sweep Pitt and can't beat the Browns, then where does that leave Baltimore?

I guess it will leave them with a whole new regime next year.
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Well not all of 45 Raiders points were scored by offense, Mayfield had 4 TOs that game but every other team, including Raiders, has scored multiple TDs on Browns.

We just suck.
 
cdp

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Edgar said:
I'd say that special teams have been darn near atrocious. Off the rails pathetic with blown assignments, two blocked field goals, a blocked punt with another block saved by a desperation hold executed by Levine.
If Tim White is going to be at a loss for how to get upfield and make people miss, he better darn well hold on to the ball.

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It's hard to return punts if there no proper blocking in front of you. Levine had to play jammer because of the injuries he's better suited to play inside. It's hard to evaluate S.t on broadcast angles but going for these blocks all the time clearly didn't help.
 
Darklight1216

Darklight1216

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Grim said:
I hope Harbaugh hands put effort stickers to everyone
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Harbs is coaching for his job this season. I wouldn't be surprised if Marty was fired during the season like Cam was.
You can't score 9 points in nearly 70 minutes against Cleveland.

allblackraven said:
Well not all of 45 Raiders points were scored by offense, Mayfield had 4 TOs that game but every other team, including Raiders, has scored multiple TDs on Browns.

We just suck.
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You said it.

I just can't even.

I'll watch the rest of the games, of course, but I have zero expectations for this team going forward. They shouldn't lose every game or anything crazy, but I'm not confident in any other game. At home against Cleveland is the "easiest" game on the schedule now fro what I recall.
 
Darklight1216

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JoeyFlex5 said:
Before anyone calls Lamar’s snaps wasted snaps, point to the jumbo packages on first down goin for negative yards
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It was amazing how ineffective the offense was. How can anyone be this bad?

And also I remember seeing plays where the Ravens sent two receivers, everyone else was blocking and Flacco still didn't have a clean pocket. This line is tragic.
 
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JoeyFlex5

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Darklight1216 said:
It was amazing how ineffective the offense was. How can anyone be this bad?

And also I remember seeing plays where the Ravens sent two receivers, everyone else was blocking and Flacco still didn't have a clean pocket. This line is tragic.
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on a 3 man rush where Flacco downed it, he almost got sacked. And it wasn’t a coverage sack either
 
balfan23

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My God I didn’t get to see them game but trying to follow that mess on game cast while on a road trip was maddening trying to understand what the fuck was going on.

Countless opportunities to win this and we blew them all is what it sounds like. Turnover on the goal line dropped game winning touchdown penalties negating key plays and letting kicks get blocked. WTF!!!

Just unforgivable
 
DeVito52

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RavensMania said:
I can understand the one in the end zone, but the other two he definitely should have had
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Right, the one in the end zone was a tough catch, but granted one he usually makes.

One he dropped wasn’t even a first down, I can’t remember the other. And most of his drops are contested, they aren’t breshad drops. Besides the one in the end zone they’re normally without much consequence. He needs to play better absolutely but he’s being blamed just a little too much today
 
Darklight1216

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JoeyFlex5 said:
on a 3 man rush where Flacco downed it, he almost got sacked. And it wasn’t a coverage sack either
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Yeah, everyone on offense needs to walk home.

I wonder how long they keep this up. I mean as a fan I can declare panic mode, but will the coaches shake up the line? Will Marty be put on notice? Or will Harbs just say it was a tough loss against a good opponent?
I guess everyone is in notice this season...
 
DeVito52

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Is this the loss we needed to get Brown in the lineup?? Probably not but a guy can dream
 
RayRayRaven

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TheCity5 said:
I'm so pissed at Crabtree. I can't take his drops anymore it's seriously frustrating lol. Like I've never been so pissed at one player in my life.
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He was inexcusable. When we were down 6-9, with crabtree having 2 or 3 drops already in the game, Flacco laid an endzone laser right on his hands and he let it go through. Seen enough to consider him a liability. He's a great big endzone body, but he is not catching the ball like an NFL receiver.

DeVito52 said:
Im not one to complain about Lamar plays but fucking running on 1st and 16 with Lamar fucking pissed me off. Throw the fucking ball fuck you marty you fuck
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The Lamar plays are wasted plays. Remove them from the gameplan and throw to our plethora of tight ends more often.

JoeyFlex5 said:
Lol you think we can beat Tennessee?

Their defense is more than average, so we’ll score 1 TD if we’re lucky, waste 12 first downs by running for negative yards, and if we get good field position a few times maybe a fg or 2.

If THIS is who the ravens are we’re gonna go .500 again.

I think very very strongly that if we just fucking sat crabtree and used Snead, Brown, Moore, and targeted the TEs very often we would’ve won this game handily. The gameplan made no fucking sense to me
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29BmoreBird22 said:
I wanted Harbs fired so bad in favor of hiring McVay
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Not sure but think we letdown after a big Pittsburgh Road win, think we'll play better vs the Titans, but its kinda a make or break game.

Harball is playing for his job maybe he's coaching with a knot in his throat.
 
DeVito52

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It is very weird that our TEs weren’t involved more. Especially considering joe loves them.

I blame Marty for this loss. He really sucked it up today. Other things contributed but he’s the main factor.
 
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Deebo813

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DeVito52 said:
It is very weird that our TEs weren’t involved more. Especially considering joe loves them.

I blame Marty for this loss. He really sucked it up today. Other things contributed but he’s the main factor.
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maybe they tried but they werent open? cant blame the coaches when the team
As a whole played terrible
 
DeVito52

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Deebo813 said:
maybe they tried but they werent open? cant blame the coaches when the team
As a whole played terrible
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You can absolutely blame the play caller when numerous times we ran the ball twice in a row on 1st and 2nd down and had 3rd and 10 every freaking time.
 
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