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The Refs, the Special Teams, and the Mistakes

JO_75 said:
It doesn't help losing at home the way we have this year too. Got trounced by Houston earlier, losing to a divisional rival in primetime on Thanksgiving Night, with your own fans leaving the stadium early. Now back to back losses to division rivals at home, where the week before all the talk was how Mike Tomlin could be fired. Then you allow Tomlin to come in and win? You let Rodgers and the offense put up their best numbers in like two months? ON YOUR HOME TURF. He can't be happy having to see more fans of the opposing team being noticeably loud like we are playing on the road.

If your guy is hearing more chatter than usual, I think we might get some kind of news tomorrow. I don't think it will be Harbaugh but I truly think it's possible Monken is let go tomorrow and we are mutually parting ways with him or whatever. The offense is under performing way too much with too much talent on this team, something has got to change. If they want a short term answer now, we'll get the news of Monken getting fired tomorrow. Maybe Orr, as perhaps they see it more as a defensive issue with the offense putting up points and Orr simply not doing his job to keep the opposing offense out of the end zone.
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We'll see. It's a shame that Harblow, EDC and the multiple OC have ruined LJ career. Sure he has the MVPs and all the accolades, but falls short when the game is on the line. Frankly I'm done with it.
 
Simba said:
I think you’re confusing what you want to happen with what will happen. I’ve been steadfast all season with never say never, but firing anyone at this stage is much more throwing in the towel than trying to improve and make a run.
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Dude, there is no run this year...it's over. Check please.
 
The line hasn't been an issue much until this year at fault of edc. 2020&1 got a wrench thrown in them when our LT who was pacing for a maybe HOF snapped his melon ankle in half and took 3x longer than expected- literally days after we gave him 120 mil.

Should we have not signed him and traded him before dirty bitch tj watt purposely rolled up on him? We should have kept zietler. That was a huge mistake, but it's mostly in hindsight that we assumed a few 3rds and 4ths should be enough to plug one position which is a fair assumption.

I think a lot of people would be less upset if we at least tried Cleveland or admitted a mistake and traded for a mid tier guy.
 
Outside of Marlon being an over payed bum who I could beat on any out route to that side of the field, the defense played pretty elite. Run D was nuts. Without Lamar's pick and Marlon being ass we probably hold them to 13
 
What hurts most about this season is it was our one chance to catch buffalo at home and avoid kanas city. We could smack the pats or broncos if the line was just a tad better and Lamar never gets hurt - everything else staying exactly the same
 
purplepittabread88 said:
Outside of Marlon being an over payed bum who I could beat on any out route to that side of the field, the defense played pretty elite. Run D was nuts. Without Lamar's pick and Marlon being ass we probably hold them to 13
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Really? I saw multiple missed tackles that led to either 1st downs or extending the play. To say the D was elite today is mind boggling.
 
purplepittabread88 said:
What hurts most about this season is it was our one chance to catch buffalo at home and avoid kanas city. We could smack the pats or broncos if the line was just a tad better and Lamar never gets hurt - everything else staying exactly the same
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Hopefully next they'll get it right.
 
Simba said:
I think you’re confusing what you want to happen with what will happen. I’ve been steadfast all season with never say never, but firing anyone at this stage is much more throwing in the towel than trying to improve and make a run.
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I know 2012 was a different team, nobody was beating us in Ray's final year and the way Flacco played, I get all of that. We fired Cam Cameron in December of 2012 with a few games remaining in order to try to salvage the season. Obviously with this team and coaching staff, we aren't going on a run but as I said, short term in an attempt to save the season while the Division is still in play then someone may be sacrificed to try to salvage anything with a few games left.
 
JO_75 said:
I know 2012 was a different team, nobody was beating us in Ray's final year and the way Flacco played, I get all of that. We fired Cam Cameron in December of 2012 with a few games remaining in order to try to salvage the season. Obviously with this team and coaching staff, we aren't going on a run but as I said, short term in an attempt to save the season while the Division is still in play then someone may be sacrificed to try to salvage anything with a few games left.
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That is an extreme outlier. We've had this conversation before. Most firings in the middle of the season that look good are just a temporary spike in play followed by even more disarray than there was previously.

Again, not saying it won't happen, but your expectations of this saving the season are slim to none.
 
I pulled up an old article from NFL.com from 2012 when we fired Cam Cameron. Tell me if this sounds familar to you in 2025.... I mean just replace Ray Rice with Derrick Henry and look, the defense can't hold on to a late lead. Same issues, over a decade later. This is just to point out the similarities, again I don't think we will go on a run if we fired Monken or our defense will suddenly start shutting out opponents if Orr is gone. Just think it's odd how the issues back then still apply today.

"Cameron's offense was wildly uneven this season, like much of his tenure in Baltimore. But we're still stunned at the timing of the decision. The Ravens are 9-4 despite their two-game losing streak, and they hold a two-game lead in the AFC North. The Ravens put up 28 points during Sunday's overtime loss to the Washington Redskins, and it was their defense that couldn't hold on to a lead late.

"Sunday's loss to the Redskins was typical of Cameron's run as offensive coordinator. There were flashes of brilliance, with three touchdowns on the team's first four possessions. But then the offense bogged down; nine of their 13 drives lasted four plays or less. The lack of use of running back Ray Rice was a constant concern, and there were reports of frustration with the team's no-huddle approach during the season."

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Cam Cameron fired by Ravens; Jim Caldwell new OC

The Baltimore Ravens did what some fans long hoped for: They dismissed offensive coordinator Cam Cameron. He will be replaced by quarterbacks coach Jim Caldwell.
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Dean said:
Whatever man...prove me wrong.
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lol you're a fan. So is everybody else on here. We don't have the power to prove shit. That's up to the players.
The same things people are saying about Lamar are the same things people said about Flacco, Elway, Peyton Manning, etc. for the first like half of their careers. It's nothing new.

The standard "fan" position is "somebody can't do something because they haven't". And that's accurate right up until the point when they do it, and then it's just one in a long, long, long line of "fans fucked up" takes that get forgotten as quickly as they were formed.
 
Lmao.

Andrews with the best defense of the night, knocking away a ball intended of DHop on 4th down at the end of the game
 
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