What world do you live in that a 14-2 team is a "laughing stock", when everyone and their grandmother were praying to god that they did not have to meet us in the postseason?
When Ray Lewis was past his prime, he was still worth every penny we paid him. Why? Because of his leadership, his ability to keep everyone focused and pumped up, even when his performance on the field declined. Mark Ingram has become that leader for us. And he can still play, regardless of whether you choose to ignore his importance to our offense. We will be Big Trussing louder than ever next year; may as well get used to it.
I live in a world where the most dominant team in football, a team with more wins than any other team, a proven team that beat nearly every tough playoff caliber team in the regular season. A team that set league records for team rushing stats, and numerous other records from their MVP QB.
When that team given 2 long weeks to rest and prepare to play one of the worst teams in the AFC all things considered, and then lose the way we did? After all the smack talk and swagger we had during the regular season?
That sir, makes you a laughing stock. And its been a painful week with a lot of players mocking us, throwing that "Big Truss!!!" right in our face.
And how DARE YOU compare Mark Ingrams so called "Leadership" to Ray Lewis'. Mark Ingram had a calf strain in his prime and couldn't tough it out and was seen getting treatment on the sidelines more often than he was on the field.
Ray Lewis may have declined pushing 40 years old down the line, but make no mistake...he lead by example. After he tore his tricep off the bone and was facing a career ending injury, he returned and helped fuel a miraculous Ravens post season run.
And he didn't just run his mouth and clown around like Mark Ingram, we are talking about maybe the most legendary motivator in sports history...and he backed it up on the field.
You say he declined or whatever, but the stats don't lie bro. Ray was a tackle machine in that post season run posting double digit tackles in 3 of 4 games as an older declining MLB with a messed up arm and multiple other nagging injuries.
Ray Lewis backed up his speeches every single game, and players knew that 110%. I do appreciate the long lost swagger we got this year from guys like Ingram, Peters, L.J. and others. But when you lose. The way you do to a team like Tennessee you become an absolute laughing stock. Hense why there have been a hundred, thousand jokes about our team around social media.
The difference between Ray's legend and Mark Ingrams hype train, is that Ray backed his talk up on the field, yet Ingram couldn't do much nursing a calf strain and while our offense could get nothing going Ingram was seen getting treatment on the sideline making you wonder why they didn't just rest him for a potential championship appearance where maybe he could make a difference.
There is no getting around the fact that this team is a joke/laughing stock after being one and done for 2 straight years in winnable matchups. People used to mock Joe Flacco and those vanilla Cam Cameron offenses that had little to no talent at skill positions and obviously one of the most trash QBs in league history as the majority of people liked to tout Flacco (not my thoughts). But atleast Flacco was good enough to win games and gave us some memorable playoff pushes throughout his career.
So far the "big truss" Ravens have not been able to get a playoff push going and one more of these mediocre performances and Harbaugh will be firmly on the hot seat and we will be looking at other potential franchise changes to figure out how to get wins with all the talent we have on both sides of the ball.
Not regular season wins...we had 14 of those and they were all for naught given our first Rd bounce.
Im talking bout playoff wins, the most important wins. A loss in the AFC championship/Superbowl would have given more validation to those 14 wins and would have hurt less, but getting embarrassed by a wildcard team when you are the undisputed favorites?
Those 14 wins mean nothing other than John Harbaughs job security will be intact for atleast another year or so
