BoredMarine13
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Gotta get better players in that room starting this off-season. And no the answer is not wait on Bowser and Ojaboo to get healthy and hope they play well. Even if that were true, we still have a gaping hole at MLB.
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The 1st half, The Refs and The Collapse
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SaltyDog
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Yes I agree. we Need help.
It really breaks my heart cause I see it in real time have seen it for years but it's like am I on the Truman show here or something? I've said it before and people got a little chuckle out of it but at this point real talk I believe harbs should be investigated for point shaving. I saw a stat yesterday that showed something crazy like losing losing 10 straight games by less than 6 and 4 by less than 3 at home...how many times has harbs kept the greatest kicker on the bench? Ahh and here comes the dry throwing Lamar under the bus "I asked Lamar if he wanted to go for it and he said yes!" Yea coach when in the history of professional fb has a player said no coach let's kick it. Lol trade him for 2 first rounders? chit I'd be good with a 5th. This team literally needs no HC cause it seems the HC doesn't do anything except decideds when and when not to kick a FG
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rmcjacket23
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rmcjacket23
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Make your jokes when they laughing at all of Raven Nation all over the radio this morning. Best secondary in the league in closed quarters...int sounds about right. Mckenzie out, ravens doing well shutting down the rest. Stupid is as stupid does.
Point is he tried, unlike harbs. Good (smart) coaches win those games.
rmcjacket23
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rmcjacket23
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Umm... he didn't try. Pretty obvious you didn't watch that game. The only thing Bill tried to do was to play for a tie and make sure his QB didn't turn the ball over in regulation.
His entire offensive philosophy in the 2nd half was "please don't throw an interception".
And he lost that game because of it.
I'm getting the general consensus is that the defense was good, but the Bills had costly drops consistently in the first half and of course the two turnovers.
I had a sinking feeling after the Bills scored right before half that it was a sign of more to come. The Bills, obviously, moved pretty effortlessly in the second half and really just abused the defense.
I find it kind of odd that they fixed their drops as the rain got heavier, but they did. And that seemed to be the difference for them.
I just didn't feel like the defense played well. It felt more like the Bills made critical mistakes and the Ravens caught breaks that, when corrected, would stop existing.
I had a sinking feeling after the Bills scored right before half that it was a sign of more to come. The Bills, obviously, moved pretty effortlessly in the second half and really just abused the defense.
I find it kind of odd that they fixed their drops as the rain got heavier, but they did. And that seemed to be the difference for them.
I just didn't feel like the defense played well. It felt more like the Bills made critical mistakes and the Ravens caught breaks that, when corrected, would stop existing.
UPennChem
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I've been saying exactly this since yesterday, but not many see it this way. People are generally saying the defense did well. I think they were actually atrocious and got bailed out by 7 poor execution plays by the Bills in the first half. Those went away and look what happened.
rmcjacket23
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I think overall box score wise they did.
I didn't like the pass rush, I didn't like the poor tackling, I thought we got pushed around up front on both sides of the ball, and I really hate the lack of open field tackling on Allen. I know he's a bear to bring down, but he pushed around some of our bigger guys multiple times.
Do agree though Ravens kept it closer through mistakes by Buffalo, namely dropped passes, turnovers, etc. BUT... same can be said about Bills.
People can point to the Ravens offense struggling in the 2nd half, but it started before that. We had a three and out on the last drive of the 1st half, and the drive before that, we completely stalled once we got into Buffalo territory, including Lamar taking (what I thought) was a pretty terrible sack on 2nd and 10 from the BUF 29. At the time it would have put us pretty close to out of FG range. Ravens really only had one TD drive of their own volition the whole day.
Meanwhile, Bills four of the last five drives for Buffalo were 76, 51, 80 and 77 yards. Lucky to give up only 20 points on those drives, and obviously Buffalo would have scored a TD if they wanted to at end of game.
rmcjacket23
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I don't think they were atrocious. I think they made some key situational stops and forced some turnovers. Also feel like they did a good job of limiting the big plays. I wouldn't say they were good, but I also grade it on a curve for who they were playing.
I think they look better than they probably were because the offense literally did nothing for like 2 hours of real time.
