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Originally Posted by Max H
In reality the Ravens are not better than a 6-6 team. I often hear fellow Ravens fans will say they should have beaten Minnesota but they could have just as easily lost to San Diego.
They will finish no better than 8-8 this season and it will be an accurate reflection of their ability. They have virtually no shot in Pittsburgh and will likely lose one of the remaining games against Chicago or Oakland.
Defensively, this is the least talented Ravens team since the Marchibroda era.
It is becoming more apparent that Joe Flacco has not been 100% since injuring his ankle in the Minnesota game. The offense has devolved into a one man gang of Ray Rice. Plus, this team has no discipline at all. Excessive penalties, repeated blown assignments, horrible timeout management and questionable game planning are all signs that this team is poorly coached and ill prepared.
disagree almost entirely.
i think we should take last nights game with a grain of salt, one of the most penalized in history. 300+ yards combined? did you watch the game? two of those three raven's DPI's were pretty flimsy calls, one of them being just terrible. green bay got away with murder on a few non-DPI calls too, like the one deep to clayton. not to say the ravens didn't get it back, green bay got penalized too, but this was not a well called game. i'm not taking anything away from the packers, though. ravens did not get much pressure and when rodgers was flushed he still hit his man.
come pittsburgh in what, 3 weeks, we (hopefully) should have reed and suggs back, besides lewis they are our two biggest impact players on defense imo. ngata is also great, too. of course, we beat pitt with dixon at the helm, not ben, and no polamalu either, but they still outgained them by a hundred yards while being outpenalized.
my point is that they've had a pretty tough schedule for the first 12 games, and of our six losses, they've only really been out of the game twice (the 17-7 loss to the bengals and this packers loss). they were driving and an easy first down pass was dropped late against the pats, they could have kicked the field goal to beat the vikings, were in the game the whole way against the colts and the bengals in the first match, and they've handed denver a pretty good beating.
i will agree though that they need to stop taking these terribad penalties, and definitely the defense isn't what it used to be. i don't know if changes need to be made, though.