Seems to be more panic than I thought out of Baltimore after this week's Bills game. Is it just me, or is anyone else not worried at all about it?

We were going into the bye week and now have two weeks to get everyone health(y-ier). Sure, "it was the Bills," 500 yds of offense, corners looking lost, etc, etc

I'm not worried. Bills put up 30 points in New England.

It's going to take a game or two to re-adjust to having Reed back. We'll be able to provide a bit more pressure up front knowing he's roaming the backfield. So I think with the bye, they should come back strong. Washington looked bad though one and one and Fitzpatrick picked on him a bit. It's still our weakness, but the defense is consistently playing in a bend-but-not-break type way... they still can manage to get the big stops and we're -2 in turnover differential I believe which is a reason some of these games are closer than I think the talent of the teams involved indicate. imo ldo.

good timing for a bye... Miami coming to town in week 9 and then we have a tough game at Atlanta. 1-1 out of those two would be okay, 2-0 would be fantastic and really set us up well.

31 points and 500+ total yards indicates more break than bend.

munsoned

actually, it was 34.

but I'm still optimistic. if Miami lights us up, I'll likely be singing a different tune.

bye = zzzzzzzzzzz

finally, a game

wheeeeeeeeeee

some pretty lolbad red zone offense this week. the series right after Webb's INT was just awful, like one of the worst series ran by any team that I've seen for the entire year. and the botched hold on the kick later was bad, but Koch redeemed himself on the fake punt which was great.

Brown ran on us pretty well, especially on the first drive. not sure why Miami just didn't keep hammering the ball on the ground but it's worrisome that we got moved on in that drive. can already see the effect of having Reed back though, defended the pass pretty well and Wilson had a really solid game with a few deflections. Washington needs to pick it up.

anyways I'm pretty happy with this, this was a really solid win on both sides of the ball. another game coming up though where we have to go on the road against another tough team... not been easy so far with games @NYJ, @PIT, @NE and now @ATL. plus it's on short rest... the only benefit that I see is that it's only a 4 day wait for the next game.

xposting my thoughts from the Dolphins game that I wrote up on another forum.

oh well. Falcons are a good team and it was good that we didn't roll over and die after an awful first half.

still very confident in this team.

panthers tomorrow

feasting on the likes of brian st. pierre

good to see defense creating points again

played decent enough aside from those dumb fumbles. also have to get better in the red zone but I'm liking the way the team is trending...

whee 8-3

die

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssss

ship it

2011 schedule:

PIT
@TEN
@STL
NYJ
bye
HOU
@JAX
ARZ
@PIT
@SEA
CIN
SF
@CLE
IND
@SD
CLE
@CIN

Looks like a very easy schedule this season. Only 5 significantly above-average opponents (PIT, SD, IND, NYJ). Should probably be 3-1 heading into the week 5 bye.

What do you guys think about losing Chris Chester ?

Ravens sign Ricky Williams.

In the name of all that is Holy, the Ravens performance against the Titans was putrid. It is true that Flacco did not have the time to throw that he did against Pittsburgh, but his decision making was atrocious.

The defense has picked up where it left off last year by not being able to defend QB's who unload the ball quickly. Not being able to get off the field on 3rd down is killing this team.

Last two Ravens playoff losses have been so brutal. First to blow a big halftime lead to your division rival with a Super Bowl on the line and now for Lee Evans/Billy Cundiff to make incredibly unlikely poor plays that could've won/tied the game. I'd say the Steelers lost hurt more(I didn't even want to think about football for months after that game and barely paid attention to the SB that year while at a SB party, but its close. Being on the bad end of variance hurts so much. Pretty much any one score game could've had a different outcome if one key fluky play does or does not happen. There easily could be a world where the Ray Lewis Ravens have as many SB titles as the Brady Pats or Big Ben Steelers. With that said...


The Ravens have given us one SB already. They have so many good things going for them. Their front office destroys all but maybe 2 or 3 other FOs in the entire NFL. Their franchise QB was GREAT today, their defense was GREAT today, and they pretty much played the Pats to a draw in New England. Overall I'm very happy with the Ravens. I think Torrey Smith's development could take the offense to the next level. Flacco will be 27 next year, so he should be entering his prime.

Bottom line: Variance happens, our team played like SB champs today and I'm happy with their performance

Are there any Ravens fans still here? I think they will win today.

Go ravens! But uh, hard to win today. Hard to see who will be catching passes for Flacco.

sup

best defense afc prob