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The Beatdown, The Tackling and Yet Another Injury

My takeaways...
1. Offensive line will get crapped on, and they didn't play well, but I didn't think they were dreadful either. Pressures were too many, but a lot of the sacks were either coverage sacks, or Lamar simply holding the ball too long. A lot of the latter happened yesterday. I know I counted on at least two of his sacks that he had at least 5-6 seconds to throw before he was contacted or even pressured, which is an eternity by NFL standards.
Injuries not helping, and it obviously got worse when Mekari went down, but the Oline isn't close to the reason we lost yesterday.
2. Defensively, it felt like the Chiefs game from 2020. Wink just decided he was going to keep pressuring with numbers against Burrow, not realizing that Burrow has been one of the best QBs while being pressured this year.
I rarely watch games with friends, but yesterday I did. I turned to them mid-1st quarter, when our defense looked great, and said "if we continue to play man coverage and blitz, Burrow is going to bury us". What was obvious to me, at the time, was how open the Bengals receivers were when we did, because playing man coverage with no help against those receivers doesn't work, regardless of who your Corners are. Burrow was just missing them because of the pressure. That means once the pressure gets picked up, or dialed down, he hits those throws. And, well, he did.
So either you need to maintain that level of pressure all game (likely impossible), or make adjustments. Neither happened.
3. If you want to watch a play that screams "how to quit without saying you've quit", just watch the last TD by Perine. It's a textbook example of how a defense that got fucked all game long just gave up. Not a single defender looks to be making any effort to get off a block, and the linebackers and especially Chuck Clark basically said "fuck it" to gap integrity and lane assignments, and just ran where all the bodies were, leaving gaping holes up the middle. If you re-watch it on film, it'll be glaringly obvious nobody gave a crap on that play.

Did it impact the game? Nope. Just shows whether you've quit or not. And they did.
 
purplepittabread88 said:
I wish they would let purple flock members in for a debrief during the bye... teach Lamar not to get sacked in field goal range, tell Harbaugh to stop challenging clear losses. Tell the defense to stop trying to force fumbles and just wrap up. wed be beautiful
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I had no issue with John's challenge yesterday. It's a big play, and in a real time, it was 50/50 catch/incompletion.
"Clear" to the fans involves 20 different camera angles played out over 5 minutes. They don't have that luxury.
 
Deebo813 said:
He is good for what he does. Not top 5 as far cvg skills but def a good cb. Not really consistent enough and doesnt have any ball skills.
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When you put great receivers in man coverage with no help against any DB in the league, they'll make them look bad. Ramsey, Alexander, Marlon doesn't matter who it is.

That's what happened yesterday.
 
It was bad.
It was very bad.
Action Jackson, aka, "Fuck Ass Fumbles Fuck", who in better taste will now be referred to as FAFF played very very bad.
Number 44, aka, Humpf, played like the Stong Safety he is destined to become and that play was very, very, very bad.
FAFF, was clearly a better runner than a quarterback, but Ravens fans have Always known that. FAFF was not good. Very, very, very very not good.
 
The Last Great Raven said:
It was bad.
It was very bad.
Action Jackson, aka, "Fuck Ass Fumbles Fuck", who in better taste will now be referred to as FAFF played very very bad.
Number 44, aka, Humpf, played like the Stong Safety he is destined to become and that play was very, very, very bad.
FAFF, was clearly a better runner than a quarterback, but Ravens fans have Always known that. FAFF was not good. Very, very, very very not good.
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How to tell somebody you don't know football without telling them you don't know football...
 
The Last Great Raven said:
It was bad.
It was very bad.
Action Jackson, aka, "Fuck Ass Fumbles Fuck", who in better taste will now be referred to as FAFF played very very bad.
Number 44, aka, Humpf, played like the Stong Safety he is destined to become and that play was very, very, very bad.
FAFF, was clearly a better runner than a quarterback, but Ravens fans have Always known that. FAFF was not good. Very, very, very very not good.
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Okay the fact that you somehow thought 'FFAF' was going to be funny is the real hilarious thing here
 
OURavensFan said:
We need to smart with that contract, he wants to be Brady so that includes $


We drafted that guy, his name was Mosley, too bad we didn’t want to pay him
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and you would have said the same thing about him. Wasting the cap the last few years. 2019 He played 2 games, last year he sat out and this year he absolutely has been horrid. We did the right thing not resetting the market with C.J. Mosley.
 
RavensMania said:
and you would have said the same thing about him. Wasting the cap the last few years. 2019 He played 2 games, last year he sat out and this year he absolutely has been horrid. We did the right thing not resetting the market with C.J. Mosley.
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The problem here is that a lot of people here are speculating that Stanley will never play football again
 
  • Bateman looks legit. He's going to be a big part of the offense as he gets more healthy and I can't wait to see him on the field along with Hollywood and Sammy (when he comes back).
  • The Hollywood toe-drag catch in the back of the endzone was a thing of beauty. If Hollywood can just eliminate some of the bad drops that he has occasionally then I don't think anyone will be questioning whether he's a legit WR1 or not.
  • That's really all I got for positives this week. Just a bad performance, all-around and this team needs to figure some shit out during the Bye.
 
I totally agree with everyone who is saying hey remember it's just 1 game and we're still on a really good position. Everyone with a brain knows the NFL is a week to week league and we just played against a good team with a chip on its shoulder. The individual loss component doesn't bother me too much. The part that does is the fact that it seems like you can actually start to see the tipping point where the injuries are becoming too much. We're only 7 games into a 17 game season. If we continue to lose guys, which we will, that's just football, we're just not going to be able to keep up with inferior but healthier teams. The announcers said it yesterday, the Bengals were one of the leagues healthiest teams. We're the most unhealthy. I do believe most people would think we're the better team, but that certainly wasn't the case yesterday.

I'm just nervous that all our division games are at the end of the year and that it's possible we pick up more injuries and see an uttlery terrible collapse where we lose like 6 more games
 
UPennChem said:
I totally agree with everyone who is saying hey remember it's just 1 game and we're still on a really good position. Everyone with a brain knows the NFL is a week to week league and we just played against a good team with a chip on its shoulder. The individual loss component doesn't bother me too much. The part that does is the fact that it seems like you can actually start to see the tipping point where the injuries are becoming too much. We're only 7 games into a 17 game season. If we continue to lose guys, which we will, that's just football, we're just not going to be able to keep up with inferior but healthier teams. The announcers said it yesterday, the Bengals were one of the leagues healthiest teams. We're the most unhealthy. I do believe most people would think we're the better team, but that certainly wasn't the case yesterday.

I'm just nervous that all our division games are at the end of the year and that it's possible we pick up more injuries and see an uttlery terrible collapse where we lose like 6 more games
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I would say that while it was one game, it’s not like we haven’t seen these problems week after week. I feel like the LAC game was more of the aberration than games like this.

That’s not to say we’re not a good team by any means. We’re still talented, but also heavily flawed. Of course the reaction is heavier when we get blown out but it’s still a team with a lot of holes and the Bengals exposed us.
 
RL52TheGreatest said:
  • Bateman looks legit. He's going to be a big part of the offense as he gets more healthy and I can't wait to see him on the field along with Hollywood and Sammy (when he comes back).
  • The Hollywood toe-drag catch in the back of the endzone was a thing of beauty. If Hollywood can just eliminate some of the bad drops that he has occasionally then I don't think anyone will be questioning whether he's a legit WR1 or not.
  • That's really all I got for positives this week. Just a bad performance, all-around and this team needs to figure some shit out during the Bye.
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The week our wrs look ready for a big game our OL can't block.

Simba said:
I would say that while it was one game, it’s not like we haven’t seen these problems week after week. I feel like the LAC game was more of the aberration than games like this.

That’s not to say we’re not a good team by any means. We’re still talented, but also heavily flawed. Of course the reaction is heavier when we get blown out but it’s still a team with a lot of holes and the Bengals exposed us.
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The OL will eventually be our downfall this season unless something incredible happens or Nick Boyle is the 2nd coming...
 
This team clearly quit in the 3rd quarter. It’s odd they didn't come out with uptempo trying to speed things up like they did against Indy. These guys usually fight till the end but they were still huddling taking things slow.

Positives:
Bateman will be a stud.
Can't think of any more....
 
ravenslord said:
I hope the Ravens are as angry as I am after this performance. It was a despicable performance
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The last time a Ohio Team did that to us at home was 2019 when the Browns did the same thing. Then they awoke a sleeping giant, we never loss in the regular season again and Lamar won MVP.

Bengals don't know what they just did....
 
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