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The Nightmare, the Turnovers and the Season's Over

purplepittabread88 said:
One play that isn’t getting talked about enough is when we had the ball at the 41 and Lamar got sacked to the 50 and we had the punt, that’s so unacceptable in a playoff game when you have Tucker. Get 4 yards there and kick a fg
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I think that’s the one that Hill just whiffed on his block.

I think
 
purplepittabread88 said:
One play that isn’t getting talked about enough is when we had the ball at the 41 and Lamar got sacked to the 50 and we had the punt, that’s so unacceptable in a playoff game when you have Tucker. Get 4 yards there and kick a fg
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Oh no... I mentioned this. This was the first play that took potential points off the board.

JoeyFlex5 said:
And this is at the tail end of ray and Ed’s careers, the window looked like it had slammed shut.

It feels that way now, but there’s some fucking dogs on this team still, guys that will learn from this. And we have a newish staff and a lot of guys that are rounding out their roles here like Martin and dubb and weaver etc. along with Steve Saunders being shitcanned. Then of course, there’s Capo DeCosta who really shouldn’t be doubted anymore.

We are a next man up franchise if there’s ever been one.

Biggest concern is, can we win the big game with harbaugh at the helm… I believe we’re gonna knock at that door over and over, but unless harbaugh can fix whatever the fuck it is that has us looking like this in EVERY big game, then it’s gonna take luck for us to get over the hump.

This was a Joe flacco problem as well, he was the streakiest fucking guy ever and we really disliked his ass at times, how much of it was really Joe and how much was Harbaugh?
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Seen somewhere EVERY season we make playoffs our lowest scoring output is a postseason game.
 
Also what was up with our lack of disciple yesterday? Chiefs were getting in our fucking heads before the game even started. Is Harbaugh not telling our guys to calm tf down and focus?
 
allblackraven said:
He threw off balance, while being hit into double coverage vs Jacksonville. Likely caught it and Lamar was proclaimed a genius. That shit was on every channel and podcast non stop for two weeks. Threw behind Likely vs Texans but Likely caught it - genius again. Yesterday Likely was blatantly tackled and was robbed of the opportunity to fight for football. It's feasible he could have caught it or at least could have done enough to break the INT - Lamar sucks in critical moments.

It's fucking hard being Lamar. Always under the microscope, regardless of the fact everybody is forgetting - offensive game plan was atrociously bad. No attempts to alter it, either. Playing under the pump AND under the microscope with almost no help is sometimes too much even for Lamar.
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That throw to Likely against the Texans was actually really good placement... He threw it where only Likely had a play on the ball.

I can't remember the one against the Jags, but the Texans throw was GOOD.
 
Tank said:
Eh, I think that tune is overplayed, and some may be over sensitive to it because Lamar's our guy. He had a bad game at the most important time, and we lost. Who would get a pass there?
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Thats what im saying.. we lost and he had a bad game.. i dnt mind the criticism, he deserves it if we being honest.. as 2 time MVP, i feel like he shouldve been the one to tell coach “ we may need to run the ball coach”….
 
redrum52 said:
Oh no... I mentioned this. This was the first play that took potential points off the board.



Seen somewhere EVERY season we make playoffs our lowest scoring output is a postseason game.
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Its like our coaches forget the game plan.. that and lamar trying to prove a point. He def went back to looking for the deep ball instead of taking check downs or even scrambling. I feel like the game gets in his head. Seems desperate to make a play whenever we are down
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
I don’t think much is open to interpretation. Likely threw his hands up, for a second it would’ve looked like a good idea, they wanted six, but then Lamar underthrew tf out of it and everybody bailed on the way back to the ball that was uncatchable to likely.

If Lamar throws a good ball, that contact draws a definite flag and if Likely has a better ball to play he might fuck around and come down with it had everyone tried to play the ball, if that’s a true high pointer idk if any of those guys stands a chance.

Lamar threw an awful ball there and underthrowing into triple coverage hoping to draw a flag is not an idea any nfl qb would have
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I disagree with this assessment of the intention wholeheartedly, so we'll have to agree to disagree.
 
I’m starting to think maybe it is Lamar who wants to throw like this. I say that because (someone tell me if I imagined this) from the Texans game I thought someone said that Lamar wants the ball in his hands in these games,
 
I am now starting to doubt Harbaugh, Lamar and Monken. That was just absurd, Kurt Warner was right, our offense was not good, it was just Lamar bailing it out. We need better players and a better line.
 
allblackraven said:
He threw off balance, while being hit into double coverage vs Jacksonville. Likely caught it and Lamar was proclaimed a genius. That shit was on every channel and podcast non stop for two weeks. Threw behind Likely vs Texans but Likely caught it - genius again. Yesterday Likely was blatantly tackled and was robbed of the opportunity to fight for football. It's feasible he could have caught it or at least could have done enough to break the INT - Lamar sucks in critical moments.

It's fucking hard being Lamar. Always under the microscope, regardless of the fact everybody is forgetting - offensive game plan was atrociously bad. No attempts to alter it, either. Playing under the pump AND under the microscope with almost no help is sometimes too much even for Lamar.
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lol, I don’t think you even read my whole post. I think I said I/you/any fucking body can’t blame Lamar completely. There were plenty of fuckups to go around, including Monken and his game plan. But I said what I said. Go back and look again at the play. There was no way he should have thrown the fuckin ball. Period. Was it Lamar’s fault we lost the game? Well no, but he contributed to the clusteryfuck of a game.
 
purplepittabread88 said:
Yea we can’t even be that upset because the entire media liked him in this game, picked us, heavily supported the narrative he should be mvp, and gave us every shot. Hell we were 4 1/2 point favorites to the fucking chiefs. If we lose this game and we play well, his status as top 3 holds. We deserve to be critized and bitched on.
(to clarify I mean top 3 to media holds I obviously think he is)

On a personal level of all the shit talking I did this year claiming it’s our year, boy am I going to be eating it for the next 8 months. Worst part about being somehwere like California is you are the only ravens fan anyone knows so you get 100% of shit thrown back at you. Ugh.
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Man, my phone has been blowing up with text messages from cats that I talk football with (fans of other teams) and even from those that I have not. Cats have been hitting me up on Facebook messenger calling the Ravens the great pretenders, and chokers, and how Lamar will NEVER get us to a Super Bowl to win it because he's a running back who chokes under the pressure of big games. Hard to argue.
 
allblackraven said:
Ball is nowhere to be seen when they start pushing Likely off. He would have definitely had the opportunity.
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29BmoreBird22 said:
I posted still shots, but it wasn't uncatchable at all. I don't know why this is a prevailing narrative.
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Because the ball was intercepted far short of where Likely was at the time contact. Db had a clear unobstructed path to the ball, Likely, even without contact, would have had to backtrack from inside the endzone, back to the goal line, and highpoint 3 defenders where 2 had far superior leverage to the catch.

Flag should be thrown because it removes Likely’s ability to get on defense, but that’s it, that’s an uncatchable ball in that scenario, that ball needs to be coming down just shy of the cross bar, not the goal line.
 
We’ve looked unprepared for the majority of every playoff game since Lamar took over so who’s going to take accountability? This shit’s becoming a cycle and it’s fucking unacceptable at this point. I mean this is Cowboys-level of unraveling and it’s getting extremely difficult to defend Lamar and Harbaugh
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
Because the ball was intercepted far short of where Likely was at the time contact.
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If you look at the screenshots I provided, this is objectively false.

Edit: I see the link is now not working, but Likely was literally contacted where the ball was intercepted.
 
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