Tank
Hall of Famer
Yep, right after the pick. Short field, hope he gets 7 there and gets on a roll. At that point it was dumb and ignorant to leave a seasoned playoff vet sitting on the bench. It was obvious Lamar was lost.
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Joe Flacco
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allblackraven
Hall of Famer
I'm telling you, you are dreaming if you think Joe would have made any difference after 2 months off and with this offensive line and Marty's play calling.
Grim
Ravens Ring of Honor
Damn Sharpe is on fire!
Damn you just crushed my heart. I thought we had more options for C. Fml
Grim
Ravens Ring of Honor
I thought it may be time to put in Joe, but you’re right to an extent. Their DL sold out to rush us because they knew we wanted to run and maybe Joe would’ve had success but I think this game came down to OL vs DL and their DL just beat ours. It’s that simple really. We may have been destroyed even more with Joe
allblackraven
Hall of Famer
Check Risner, Kansas State
cobrajet
Hall of Famer
I have to respectfully disagree brother. Put Joe in the shotgun and roll him out with his strong arm and it is very possible he could have hit Snead, Andrews, Smokey, Dixon, and Crabtree to move the ball and would have been better in the time management department since we were playing from behind. And a 1000 times better than running up the middle all damn game until midway through the fourth quarter. If Joe failed, I could have lived with the fact that we at least tried. We make no changes, go down three scores in the fourth quarter and then expect Lamar to then win it being a gunslinger. Clearly we were most likely to come up short, which we did. All I asked is that we do something different than what we kept doing until it was really too late.
allblackraven
Hall of Famer
Cville-Raven
MVP
Its like Lamars game against the bengals. They got into our backfield a lot and I’m not sure we win that game without some those make shit happen out of nothing plays that Lamar was pulling off in that game. Flacco simply would have been sacked in crucial downs.
Grim
Ravens Ring of Honor
I’ll look at him. My boy Gaillard from Georgia is a senior so he’ll be in there regardless so he’s my top option right now. I’ll look at others in a week or so. Need some time after this
Tank
Hall of Famer
Who knows?, no way of knowing what would have happened, but it was down right stupid not to try. The game was theirs to win after the 3rd quarter interception. And most including the talking heads knew it was the right move, but Harbs was brain dead. No matter how it panned out no one would have blamed him for putting Flacco in.
Tank
Hall of Famer
LMFAO! Shannon needs to stop flappin’ his soup coolers and think before he talks. Who could they have replaced Joe with in that 2008 playoff game? That SB MVP Todd Bouman?
yeah joe gets killed behind that OL today - i mean lamar still didnt have much of a chance
and ultimately in the 4th quarter (when harbs admitted they actually considered it) lamar got the 2 tds anyway and im not sure joe does much better than that in both those 2 minute offence situations... im not saying joe doesnt do that but i dont see how we score those 2 tds much quicker in that situation
allblackraven
Hall of Famer
I will disagree. If Joe went in, the final score difference would have been more than 6 .
allblackraven
Hall of Famer
He still got a credit for leading Ravens to playoff win in his first game.
Tank
Hall of Famer
The point is we may not have been down by 3 scores at that point, maybe even could have had the lead. But we’ll never know because Harbs has no balls.
Tank
Hall of Famer
That means nothing. Shannon trying to draw an analogy between the two games and situations is dumb and irrelevant.
And he is the reason we had two TD scoring drives. Not saying Flacco couldn’t have done it, but he most likely wouldn’t have been able to escape the pass rush. They weren’t in prevent
Oldfaithful
Hall of Famer
If anything the reason we don't play Flacco today is that behind Skura and Hurst/Bozeman he gets clobbered and it plummets his trade value.
I do think Flacco gave us the better chance to win but I get not playing him.
I do think Flacco gave us the better chance to win but I get not playing him.
balfan23
MVP
Fake ass Ravens fans were not the only people advocating the move. Every former player on TV was advocating it as well.
cobrajet
Hall of Famer
I respect your opinion and I cannot say you are wrong, but still wish we would have at least tried airing it out with Joe. We will never know now with absolute certainty if we could have pulled out a win. In my opinion, it just proves to me that Harbs may still be as stubborn as many people say.