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Dom McRaven

Hall of Famer
Nope. Chase, Burrow and company still gonna put up at least 24 points against this D. We just need to out score them but I don’t think it will take 41 again
I disagree. I think their offense is gonna find a way to drop 30+. I think we need to score 40 and either win the turnover battle or have 40 mins of offense.
 

Adreme

Ravens Ring of Honor
This game will be interesting. Whenever Chase, Higgins, and Burrow are healthy, either Higgins or Chase have had a monster game. Higgins won’t be 100% even if he plays.

It should be noted though that when one of the 3 isn’t healthy the Ravens have always looked much better defensively against the Bengals. It remains to be seen if that will be the case here.
 

marklar

Pro Bowler
Curious to see if Keaton gets activated this game or not. Roster crunch is real at this point.
But is it that real yet? Would you be upset if they cut or IRed one of: Ali, Brade, Samac, Board, Kane or Walker (only IR for the last one). Losing one of those would be quite painless and not hard to get similar skill off some team's PS
 

Simba

Staff Member
Moderator
But is it that real yet? Would you be upset if they cut or IRed one of: Ali, Brade, Samac, Board, Kane or Walker (only IR for the last one). Losing one of those would be quite painless and not hard to get similar skill off some team's PS
I'd say yeah.

Ali has been an IR possibility for multiple weeks now and they've opted not to, so clearly they want to keep him up.

Board and Kane are key STers. Walker seems to have found a ST role as well.

Samac would require us going to 8 OL on the 53 which we won't do.

Brade is probably one I'd say is most at risk, although I'd guess that's actually more likely to be Eddie Jackson at this stage.
 
Likely and Urban ruled out for the game. Travis Jones has no injury designation and was a “full participant” in the walk through today. Higgins listed as doubtful
 

UPennChem

Hall of Famer
This game will be interesting. Whenever Chase, Higgins, and Burrow are healthy, either Higgins or Chase have had a monster game. Higgins won’t be 100% even if he plays.

It should be noted though that when one of the 3 isn’t healthy the Ravens have always looked much better defensively against the Bengals. It remains to be seen if that will be the case here.
100
 

Dom McRaven

Hall of Famer
This game will be interesting. Whenever Chase, Higgins, and Burrow are healthy, either Higgins or Chase have had a monster game. Higgins won’t be 100% even if he plays.

It should be noted though that when one of the 3 isn’t healthy the Ravens have always looked much better defensively against the Bengals. It remains to be seen if that will be the case here.

My only issue with this is that McDonald did a great job ensuring that they our defense wasn't gonna get beat over the top. It required their offense to be patient and forced them to continually go on 75-yard scoring drives. I think 3 out of the last 4 meetings or whatever had their offense scoring only 17 points.

I don't trust this defense to do such a thing. I think we all agree that the Bengals offense is better than the Broncos and yet we put up little resistance in stopping them from driving down the field. Now granted we did stop them on 4th down a few times so that helped, but Bo missed a number of throws that Burrow EASILY makes.
 

UPennChem

Hall of Famer
My only issue with this is that McDonald did a great job ensuring that they our defense wasn't gonna get beat over the top. It required their offense to be patient and forced them to continually go on 75-yard scoring drives. I think 3 out of the last 4 meetings or whatever had their offense scoring only 17 points.

I don't trust this defense to do such a thing. I think we all agree that the Bengals offense is better than the Broncos and yet we put up little resistance in stopping them from driving down the field. Now granted we did stop them on 4th down a few times so that helped, but Bo missed a number of throws that Burrow EASILY makes.
They're gonna score a lot of points. But if it's even 7 less because Higgins is out, we'll take it
 

JO_75

Hall of Famer
We got Clete Blakeman as the ref who currently leads the NFL in penalties called at 16.3 per game and leads the NFL in penalty yards at 142.5 per game. Let's hope our offense can keep doing its thing and we won't see any bail outs to keep the Bengals in the game or close enough to win.
 

RavensMania

Staff Member
Administrator
We got Clete Blakeman as the ref who currently leads the NFL in penalties called at 16.3 per game and leads the NFL in penalty yards at 142.5 per game. Let's hope our offense can keep doing its thing and we won't see any bail outs to keep the Bengals in the game or close enough to win.
I'd like to know the average amount of penalties per game this season vs the last couple seasons.
 

Deebo813

Hall of Famer
My only issue with this is that McDonald did a great job ensuring that they our defense wasn't gonna get beat over the top. It required their offense to be patient and forced them to continually go on 75-yard scoring drives. I think 3 out of the last 4 meetings or whatever had their offense scoring only 17 points.

I don't trust this defense to do such a thing. I think we all agree that the Bengals offense is better than the Broncos and yet we put up little resistance in stopping them from driving down the field. Now granted we did stop them on 4th down a few times so that helped, but Bo missed a number of throws that Burrow EASILY makes.
We are saving our real defense till after bye week/playoffs
 
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