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Ellicottraven said:
The bye week is a huge relief and reprieve from watching the Ravens lose. We are blessed for two weeks of normalcy.
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Yep, can’t lose at least. I’m going to TNF this week too to cheer on Flacco lmao. Gonna be surreal. We need him to deliver too, let’s make the AFCN have a 7 win winner lmao
 
purplepittabread88 said:
I don't think the 7 seed is even possible this year due to the wild card. We aren't beating out loser of pats bills or loser of colts / jaguars, and that leaves 2 afcw teams and the Texans who have a tie breaker over us as teams we literally can't topple. Truly our only path is the 4 seed in the north and the Steelers will likely go 10-7 or 11-6, I really can't see it going any different with there schedule and that's best case for us.

We'd have to basically win out and sweep pit, which we have never done with Lamar outside of 2019. If a healthy Lamar on a stacked ravens team hasn't won in Pittsburgh, what's this group of morons going to do
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It’s true, and if the chargers or broncos win the division we’ll lose that tie breaker to Cheifs.

Watch us go 10-7 and miss the playoffs, ugh. That truly is worst case scenario but whatever I guess
 
Whatever coach you end up with HAS to be dominate to the team on one side of the ball (oc or dc). Long term, it easily hurts most having a different oc year after year. Having Lamar in the same system he's comfortable with is a pretty good move.

I really would love to see monken as the coach to end of this season. Why not just see if there is this potential of him - what if the players really love him- cuz I bet he does things differently.
 
purplepittabread88 said:
Whatever coach you end up with HAS to be dominate to the team on one side of the ball (oc or dc). Long term, it easily hurts most having a different oc year after year. Having Lamar in the same system he's comfortable with is a pretty good move.

I really would love to see monken as the coach to end of this season. Why not just see if there is this potential of him - what if the players really love him- cuz I bet he does things differently.
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the only benefit to having harbs is that the team can transition easily schematically across eras even if the coordinators are inflexible (because you just hire different coordinators)

that being said, the best OCs and DCs are able to adapt to the schematic paradigms of the league (or innovate to stay ahead of them like mike macdonald)

it's why kyle shanahan and sean mcvay consistently have good teams, they've reinvented themselves multiple times
 
purplepittabread88 said:
Whatever coach you end up with HAS to be dominate to the team on one side of the ball (oc or dc). Long term, it easily hurts most having a different oc year after year. Having Lamar in the same system he's comfortable with is a pretty good move.

I really would love to see monken as the coach to end of this season. Why not just see if there is this potential of him - what if the players really love him- cuz I bet he does things differently.
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I'm partial to OC's, largely because a) you can win with average defenses in this league, but basically can't win with average offenses and b) OC's tend to last longer.
Most of the "elite" DCs in the league today have ended up coordinating many different teams and/or have failed as HCs before.
 
Deebo813 said:
I believe his contract is up but he will likely get an extension if he wants to stay in san fran
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Yeah HC contracts expiring is rarely a thing. Pretty much every single HC coach in the league is coaching with at least one more year after left on their contract. If Shanahan is available, it's because SF fired him.
 
rmcjacket23 said:
Why is Stout bad? I didn't like him at all like a year or two ago, but I'm struggling to see what people are complaining about with Stout this year?
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Pff has him ranked 30/32. Honestly the only good punts I can really remember him making were against the Lions and our defense didn’t capitalize. But I usually remember him hitting poor punts in important spots, constantly. I expected a killer for a 4th rounder. He’s a jag at best , and league worst currently per pff
 
OURavensFan said:
Pff has him ranked 30/32. Honestly the only good punts I can really remember him making were against the Lions and our defense didn’t capitalize. But I usually remember him hitting poor punts in important spots, constantly. I expected a killer for a 4th rounder. He’s a jag at best , and league worst currently per pff
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I'd have to look at PFF rankings. I don't think Gross or Net are the be-all metrics for punting, but he's top 5 in average punt length and literally second in net yardage per punt.

I would imagine a lot of that assessment is based on punts inside 20 and 10. The problem with that is the lack of opportunities. Looking at the games:
BUF - Last punt in the 4th qtr wasn't great. 42 yard net from BAL 38.
CLE - punted 5 times. Had one bad one. 39 yard net from BAL 9. Was up 10 early 2nd qtr
DET - last punt in 4th qtr wasn't great. 38 yard net from BAL 32. Were down 7 at the time. Had some exceptional punts in that game.
KC - only punted once, and it was good
HOU - he was bad this game
LAR - only punted once, and it was good

I basically see one bad game in here (Houston) and otherwise he's been pretty solid.
 
rmcjacket23 said:
Why is Stout bad? I didn't like him at all like a year or two ago, but I'm struggling to see what people are complaining about with Stout this year?
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He's been bad his whole career. Shanked one at the worst time at the end of the Buffalo game. A couple have been touchebacks when there's absolutely no reason for it. Also if you want something quantitative, pff has him 30th put of 32 in the league. So if there's any value whatsoever in that, he's less performant than the overwhelming majority of his peers.

And at the same time I do agree this is probably his best year. Which is pretty sad
 
UPennChem said:
He's been bad his whole career. Shanked one at the worst time at the end of the Buffalo game. A couple have been touchebacks when there's absolutely no reason for it. Also if you want something quantitative, pff has him 30th put of 32 in the league. So if there's any value whatsoever in that, he's less performant than the overwhelming majority of his peers.

And at the same time I do agree this is probably his best year. Which is pretty sad
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I think he's having his best year by far, which is all that really matters at this point.
I have no idea how PFF grades punters, but I've been a long time subscriber of there's and I can tell you that they've been total dogshit with a lot of rankings last several years. Especially Oline rankings. Evaluating Punters isn't super complex. I'd struggle to see them reconcile being one of the worst punters in the league with being top 5 in both gross and net yardage. Unless they're severely weighing like inside 20/10 punts, in which case that would be skewed by where the punts occur from. A guy punting from inside his own 30 yd line isn't going to have many inside 10/20 yard ending punts. You're talking about 60-70+ yard punts at that point, which isn't something many punters do.
 
Get rid of Faalele... I've seen too many videos of him not knowing what's he doing, and looking like a turnstile out there. Harbaugh please admit his pet project is a failure and we can find someone else. Based on Faalele's play, it doesn't have to be a Pro Bowl or All Pro, just average will be fine.
 
JO_75 said:
Get rid of Faalele... I've seen too many videos of him not knowing what's he doing, and looking like a turnstile out there. Harbaugh please admit his pet project is a failure and we can find someone else. Based on Faalele's play, it doesn't have to be a Pro Bowl or All Pro, just average will be fine.
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That’s Harbs and EDC’s boy
 
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