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The Ravens are frauds until proven otherwise. They continue to struggle to close out games and they continue to play down to their opponents.
Their defense is also considerably worse.
Sorry Cowboys fans.
Obviously nobody watches every game, and every NFL game has high variance high impact single plays or sequences that decides the outcome and spins the narrative.
Ravens are, as currently constructed, an elite team with flaws on defense. For whatever reason they put up duds against weak competition, something that generally the Chiefs, Lions, Bills, etc. manage to avoid. Points to preparation, coaching, I dunno. They just seem to be a team that has severe ebbs and flows, when it goes good its league best but vice versa occurs more than it should.
Top two corners were out yesterday, and for some yet to be released issue our #2 safety was benched and didn't see a snap. Dropped 3 easy interceptions, 2 by those backups. Bateman had a wide open 50 yarder clang off his facemask. Just Ravens stuff I guess. Still outgained the Browns by ypp. Anyways that all relates to my first paragraph.
Definitely not frauds. They can hang with any other team, but the variance is real.
I don't think they're frauds in the sense that they aren't a good team; clearly they're one the of the best on their good days. But your whole post sums it up. They're frauds in the sense of putting it together consistently and having what it takes to string together a Super Bowl run, until proven otherwise. The regular season is just a means to an end, but they've done nothing to convince me they can put together 3-4 straight games against the best teams to win a SB.
Duds against weak competition, poor preparation, struggle to close out, dumb mental mistakes that good teams avoid, ebbs and flows, etc. They create a lot of the bad variance. "Just Ravens stuff." At a point it becomes expectation and not just variance.
Hearing all the talking heads [rightfully] rip into AR for taking a play off because he was "tired" has been amazing.
He is not the answer.
Here's another one. AR is no Cam.
Hahahhah yes.
I accidentally had McAfee on and turned it off once I realized my mistake but not before finding out of 225 qualified qbs with more than 200 pass attempts since 2000 richardson ranks 222nd in completion
Dude went 10/32 and took 3rd and goal off?
Cook this ****er
Would've been real bad if JaMarcus Russell wasn't on that list.
He's literally the modern day version of him because he has mobility.
Obviously nobody watches every game, and every NFL game has high variance high impact single plays or sequences that decides the outcome and spins the narrative.Ravens are, as currently constructed, an elite team with flaws on defense. For whatever reason they put up duds against weak competition, something that generally the Chiefs, Lions, Bills, etc. manage to avoid. Points t
You are looking at the Browns record and thinking they are a bad team. They aren't. Deshaun was just that bad they couldn't win games. Their defense is good, and they would easily have a winning record of Jameis was the starter the entire season.
The only "dud" they put up was against the Raiders and week 1 and 2 is just preason nowadays; you saw it with the large number of upsets early in the season.
That being said, the defense is a major concern.
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Here's a video of Matt Stafford's arm nearly falling off and him trying anything to can to fight past his trainers in order to play. Just something I thought of today
I have no idea who Ben Solak is but that diagram he showed is one way to cover a hail mary not the only way. I've watched it a few times and, yes someone should be playing deepest man. But I have no idea how he "knows" it is Stevenson's guy.
I've seen Invert there where a corner who is forcing inside release trails to deepest. I've seen teams use their physically strongest cover guy take deepest to punch away any chance. I've seen teams take TE's and put them on the field. I've seen teams take WR and LB's and put them deep.
I swear these twitter people jump on, act like they know get 1.5 million views on the tweet and look like a genius.
It's annoying.
So is this Steichen making the call, or is it coming from the top down to keep playing AR?
Indianapolis Colts coach Shane Steichen said he's "evaluating" the quarterback situation amid Anthony Richardson's recent struggles, but the coach indicated that Richardson's surprising decision to ask out of Sunday's game for a late-third-quarter play will not be a factor in his decision making.
Richardson was 10 for 32 for 175 yards in Sunday's loss at the Houston Texans, and the team's offensive struggles have prompted Steichen to take a closer look ahead of their Sunday night matchup at Minnesota.
"We're evaluating everything," Steichen said when asked whether Richardson would start that game.
When pressed if Richardson was still the team's starter, said Steichen: "Right now, today, he is, yes."
Hearing all the talking heads [rightfully] rip into AR for taking a play off because he was "tired" has been amazing.
He is not the answer.
players should take themselves out if they feel hurt or tired.
maybe he should be criticized for his conditioning(and other things), but you should def take yourself out if you're tired.
as sports evolve, people will realize that athletes should be subbing themselves out more. its just smart play... as long as you're not being lame about it, like with a quitter's mentality. but AR did not look like a quitter on that scramble to me
Perhaps if he knew how to throw the ball he wouldn't have to run around so much.
That's fine and all. But if you can't go and you are the QB you need to go to the ground. I don't know if that is what he did or not. But OL/QB need to go down. It's discussed and understood.
So is this Steichen making the call, or is it coming from the top down to keep playing AR?
My gut feeling is: Ballard (GM) felt forced to make to finally draft a QB after years of refusing to and playing the "Chris Ballards Home for Aging QBs" game. He's perpetually scared of actually committing to anything that isn't a mortal lock, so he didn't trade up to get Stroud even though 1-1 was available. Instead he stands pat at 4 and takes AR.
Steichen is a decent coach and almost immediately realizes that the game can't hit water if he fell out of a boat and this thing isn't going to work out, but he has to play him since...
So Shane is looking for any reason to get off this ride, but the FO is tied to this guy.
That's fine and all. But if you can't go and you are the QB you need to go to the ground. I don't know if that is what he did or not. But OL/QB need to go down. It's discussed and understood.
****ing THANK YOU! This is the point I've been trying to make to others (not here LDO). If he's hurt, take a knee and take the officials TO. It's the middle of the 3rd quarter, you aren't going to be assessed a TO. Go down, stop play, and let Flacco get a few warm up tosses.
Instead, he goes to the sideline tapping his helmet, the universal symbol for "spell me", as the ****ING QB1.
The worst part of all is that the Colts just...went with it. I have zero way of knowing this, but their reaction tells me this has to have happened in practice before. Like they have to have been running 7-on-7s or something and AR just got tired and asked to take a break. No other way in hell he and the organization feel comfortable coming out and saying this.
****ing clownshow.
I have no idea who Ben Solak is but that diagram he showed is one way to cover a hail mary not the only way. I've watched it a few times and, yes someone should be playing deepest man. But I have no idea how he "knows" it is Stevenson's guy. I've seen Invert there where a corner who is forcing inside release trails to deepest. I've seen teams use their physically strongest cov
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I'm guessing he's assuming that Brown is Stevenson's guy since Brown ran down that side of the field.
Who knows what the actual call was, but I posted it more for the hilarity factor of Stevenson talking **** and waiving bye to the Commander fans and not looking engaged when the ball is snapped. He was never really in the play until the very end when he flew in for the tip that led to the catch. Maybe that was part of the strategy, but it looks more like he was distracted and just ****ed up and wasn't where he was supposed to be.
