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The Defense, the Special Teams, and the Ugly: Week 9 Edition

rossihunter2 said:
well i dont really know what to say at this point - i feel like every non-blowout loss looks the same:

good defence with 1 or 2 bad drives
and an offence that scores in garbage time but can never muster even close to enough offence to even threaten a lead change let a lone an actual win in close games

this team is ugly to watch, hard to watch and doesnt even play particularly interesting games

at this point id almost rather we were on bye every week so that i could watch the rest of the nfl on a sunday without it being soured by the inevitably lacklustre/poor offensive performance
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lol

Special teams: Koch's horrific punt did not help anything.
That offense could have threatened a lead change if Harbs takes the points and did threaten a lead change on the defense's turnover before the defense shit the bed when it mattered most - again.

The offense goes nowhere under Marty. I find it amusing the excuses everyone comes up with for bust Perriman and the defense when they shit the bed but the offense quite literally had all their starters in together for the first time in 4 weeks. Flacco has not been himself since his injury so not making any claims he's playing great. But our O line is shit, our receivers can't get separation to save their lives, Marty couldn't scheme his way down an ice covered hill if someone gave him a sled. When you look at other teams' offenses with franchise QBs what do you see? Teams that built AROUND their QB. This team ignores him. Glaringly. Then y'all expect Aaron Rodgers out there. It's comical.
 
rossihunter2 said:
well i dont really know what to say at this point - i feel like every non-blowout loss looks the same:

good defence with 1 or 2 bad drives
and an offence that scores in garbage time but can never muster even close to enough offence to even threaten a lead change let a lone an actual win in close games

this team is ugly to watch, hard to watch and doesnt even play particularly interesting games

at this point id almost rather we were on bye every week so that i could watch the rest of the nfl on a sunday without it being soured by the inevitably lacklustre/poor offensive performance
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Yeah! I feel the same!
 
K-Dog said:
I am officially off the Flacco / Marty bandwagon. Well, more so on Flacco. I might have one finger on the Marty bandwagon, but it is my pinkey. On my LEFT hand.

The thing is, not NO ONE can argue this, Flacco has what it takes to be an amazing top five QB. He absolutely does. But in order for that to happen there is an enormous checklist that needs to be checked off. And is even a few of those go unchecked he struggles. He is a high maintenance, QB. Not like princess Brady, although she seems to be pretty high maintenance too. He seems to lack the ability to improvise, compensate, adjust, or alter in anyway. Not that I think he is a spoiled "my way or the highway" type, no at all, but I think he is at his absolute best when all his ducks are in a row and if a duck gets out of line he gets all thrown out of kilter and doesn't know what to do to make up for the the duck not in the row, and we are in no way shape or for even in the zip code of getting things to that point. Not this season at least. The injuries, the lack of depth and the lack of remaining talent, has completely taken its toll on Joe. It is a shame, because he really could be an amazing QB.
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I reached your same conclusion three years ago. our front office has failed the man because they did not understand his needs either. the key bonehead move was the boldin affair. how they didn't see the importance of boldin to joe was surreal to say the least. they played musical chairs with joes best linemen.

the only workable solution to me is to ask joe to give back about 2/3's of his salary in an effort to build something for him to function in. but the truth is joe is 32 years old. its too late.
 
Hard to remember after so much bad shit that happened, but there were actually chances to get rolling in the first half that were short circuited over and over. Just seemed at every turn it was one step forward, two steps back with ball busting momentum killers. Dropped passes and more drops, terrible officiating, strange plays(WTF was that punt?), just a myriad of effed up BS. Some of those breaks go the other way things could have been much different.
 
RayRayRaven said:
I reached your same conclusion three years ago. our front office has failed the man because they did not understand his needs either. the key bonehead move was the boldin affair. how they didn't see the importance of boldin to joe was surreal to say the least. they played musical chairs with joes best linemen.

the only workable solution to me is to ask joe to give back about 2/3's of his salary in an effort to build something for him to function in. but the truth is joe is 32 years old. its too late.
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There are other QBs making more and their front office manages to give the offense some love. The days of attempting to blame Joe's salary are long gone.
 
Please bench Perriman and play anyone else.

I never thought I’d be saying Torrey Smith is much better but it’s the truth .
 
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It's kinda sad to know that flacco wouldn't even think of helping this team out with a paycut..and no..a restructure is not a paycut, it's all better for him.
 
The good news is the Koch punt was about as extreme of an anomaly as you can possibly get.
I doubt we will EVER see that again.
 
ravenslord said:
This was Perrimans game to show something as they were targeting him .
Zero agressiveness .
He is done. Put a fork in him .
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Dom McRaven said:
Prior to this game, I was reading something about how the team was trying to get Perriman the ball. After seeing that, I knew that would serve as a detriment to this offense. I'm completely done with Perriman now. At least Maxx showed me a little something something.
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Yeah, they made a concerted effort to get him involved and he failed miserably. After the last drop they showed Harbs walk over to Engram and say something. Gotta believe he’s done.
 
Sami84 said:
It's kinda sad to know that flacco wouldn't even think of helping this team out with a paycut..and no..a restructure is not a paycut, it's all better for him.
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lol name one QB who took a paycut? No one. They ALL restructure their contract to be more friendly to the team and it benefits every damn one of them. That year they made a big deal out of the Brady thing? It was a restructure that paid him MORE in the end.
 
RavensDFan said:
That offense could have threatened a lead change if Harbs takes the points and did threaten a lead change on the defense's turnover
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The issue I have with this line of thinking is this.

1. The Ravens offense had scored six points in three quarters and change to that point. They had reached the end zone two times, including that drive. What signs pointed to the Ravens reaching the end zone again?
2. We make the assumption that the Ravens get an interception again after taking the points. Believe it or not, the play calls likely change with points from the Ravens.
3. The Ravens had been incredibly successful on fourth down to that point and actually were across the game. I think that was the only one they didn't convert on the day.
 
I seriously want to get a team together to put up "Fire Harbaugh" banners on the nearest 95 and 295 overpass thats on the way to the stadium. I want to do it in the morning of our MNF game so everyone (Steve, Ozzie, John, his staff, the players, the fans, ESPN.. everyone) see's it.
 
Militant X 1 said:
THIS....

TEAM....

SUCKS....
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lol hey I said we needed to clean house weeks ago and was told we didn't suck and I was crazy. But, we truly just are that bad. We have talent soooo that pretty much leaves position coaches and coordinators. Not saying it doesn't fall on Harbs too but don't think he's going anywhere.
 
The quarterback sits alone and disinterested while his line resides quietly on the bench, conveying defeat with eleven minutes still to play.

This is leadership?
 
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