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The Defence, The Offence and The Clutching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Also want to give props to Huntley. A lot of us have been shitting on him all season. And while he wasn’t great, he was much closer to the guy we saw last season than the one we got late this year. Looked a lot more mechanically sound which provided some semblance of a downfield passing game today. Decision making was still rough but glad he rebounded some.
Yeah James Urban probably deserves some credit too for how he has Huntley and Anthony Brown prepared during this back to back face off with The Bengals defense.
 
makes you think the shoulder really was part of the issue

feels rough praising him when ultimately he shoulders the blame for the biggest plays in the game not going our way

and im not gonna rag on him that much about them because he's probably gonna be torturing himself about those plays anyway

but no reason not to bring in competition - or allow AB to improve and compete
Agreed. Still don’t think he’s the solution but has to make you wonder if that shoulder was the biggest issue all along. Ultimately a big reason for our loss, but also a key reason we were in the fight.
 
Yeah James Urban probably deserves some credit too for how he has Huntley and Anthony Brown prepared during this back to back face off with The Bengals defense.

think it was the steelers win that Harbs made a point of saying to Urban that that was one of the best coached games he's ever seen (referring to Urban's work with the 2 QBs)
 
think it was the steelers win that Harbs made a point of saying to Urban that that was one of the best coached games he's ever seen (referring to Urban's work with the 2 QBs)

Excellent hint at who the next OC will be
 
It’s been mentioned a few times, but also have to highlight the inexplicable play calling at the end of the 1st half. What the fuck even was that? Getting 7 there swings momentum heavily
Actually, our entire season was exactly the same. It's like they never sat in the room or practiced on the field together and then new OC came in.
 
We had that game in our hand man and we gave it to them. What way to go down.

the tough thing is that we really were the better team
and that was kind of unexpected

but in classic 2022 ravens fashion, we have to find a way to lose

very few games this year we lost where we werent the better team
 
I know this is a meltdown thread, so sorry for ruining the mood:

I'm actually happy with the game. The team played hard, the defense was awesome all day. The game was close throughout and quite fun to watch. So they lost, but I can't complain as it probably should have been a lot worse.

Anyway, my short takes after burning off my adrenalin shoveling off wet snow off my driveway:
Truly a game of inches
1) The fumble bouncing to Hubbard instead of Edwards
2) Stone inches from blocking the punt
3) Proche inches from getting a gift at the end

Just one of those could have change how the game ended
Now, breakfast, walk the dogs and then off for work. I'm surely going to me massively productive today :)

And go S.F. Purdies the rest of the playoffs.
 
I don’t mind running out the clock at the end because they were close to red zone with two timeouts. They were betting on getting a quick TD and not leaving Burrow time. What I didn’t like was the run call from the 20 yard line that caused the holding penalty and set them back.
 
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