The Good And The Bad (Week 10)

[PurpleRulz]

The Good:

1. Steve McNair. He won this game for us. 373 yards passing? When was the last Ravens QB to throw for that many yards? Has any Ravens QB threw for that many yards?

2. The Receivers. Mason, Clayton, and Demetrius Williams! Wow. Look how far we have come at the WR position. Clayton is a star in the making. Mason is what he should be, and Demetrius is going to be a huge star in the NFL. The catches that Demetrius made today shows that he has serious talent. Imagine DW in about a year or two. Todd Heap also made some key catches.

3. Sam Koch. Some good punts especially in the second half. The Tits started field position deep in their territory for most of the second half, save for that INT by McNair.

4. The OL. Kuddos for this group giving McNair lots of time to throw the ball. Looks like pass protection is becoming this unit's specialty.

5. We are 7-2 and lead the division by 3 and half games. If we keep our heads, we will own the AFC North.

6. Dawan Landry. Led the defense in tackles. Does anyone miss Will Demps?

7. Matt Stover. What would we do without him?

8. Trevor Pryce. Great hands on that blocked kick.

The Bad:

1. The defense. Where did our intensity go? There were so many missed tackles left on that field. Additionally, we have got to get to the QB much faster if we are going to commit so many defenders while blitzing.

2. Billick. He has to set the precedent for keep his composure. His penalty was unacceptable and is probably what led to Ogden losing his cool. Also, someone must get CMAC under control and quick. It seems he can be counted on for a costly (and stupid) penalty. I guess Billick can't be counted to get CMAC under control.

3. JAMAL. As stated in another thread, "Jamal Must Go!" Enough of stutter step. He can't gain anything on the 31st ranked run defense? He just does not have IT anymore. Can we please get more of MA and Musa (now that we know that he'll be alright)? If Jamal wants to whine inspite of the fact that we are so far in first place in the division, pay Jamal and send him home. I think we could get more production from PJ Daniels and Cory Ross, than what Jamal puts out.

[psuasskicker]

1. The defense. Where did our intensity go? There were so many missed tackles left on that field. Additionally, we have got to get to the QB much faster if we are going to commit so many defenders while blitzing.

Okay I'm gonna say it. This game was a near exact clone of the Jags game in 2000. Now, the Jags were a better team, and we were at home. But the rest was almost exactly the same. Jumped all over us early in the game, ran up a bunch of points, then we stoned them in the second half and came back to pull out a very close win.

That game really propelled our season IMO. Our losing streak was after that, but it felt like we knew we could overcome great adversity after that game. But more importantly, the defense started to play lock-down after that game.

Hopefully this will have a similar impact.

- C -

[RavenDavey]

1. The defense. Where did our intensity go? There were so many missed tackles left on that field. Additionally, we have got to get to the QB much faster if we are going to commit so many defenders while blitzing.

I'm gonna say it.....Ray Lewis is our defense against the run!!! what an underrated player!

[Sephy]

I'm gonna say it.....Ray Lewis is our defense against the run!!! what an underrated player!

Hehe, underrated.

[bassgtrst]

Steve McNair. He won this game for us. 373 yards passing? When was the last Ravens QB to throw for that many yards? Has any Ravens QB threw for that many yards?

Today's game is the second most passing yards a Ravens QB has put up.

The most was 429 by none other than Vinny Testaverde.

[Merlin]

Jamal is the weakest link on the team at this point , when Ray comes back

If we don't address this problem it will come back to bite us . .

[RavensNTerps]

not like the jacksonville game....more like the bears/cardinals game this year.

[StingerNLG]

Excellent post PR. Not much to add to what you said, especially when it comes to the receivers. D-Will is going to be the guy the FO and coaches THOUGHT Clarance Moore was going to be. He sat down in that zone in the 2nd half like he had been doing it in the NFL for years. He's going to be special in this league. Can you imagine just going 4 wide a lot with Mason, Clayton, Williams, and Heap? I can only think of MAYBE 3 other teams with better receiving tandems than us. One of them lost today. :)

I did want to disagree with one thing though:

4. The OL. Kuddos for this group giving McNair lots of time to throw the ball. Looks like pass protection is becoming this unit's specialty.

Sometimes they did, sometimes they didn't. I wouldn't yet say pass protection is becoming their specialty. McNair had to do a LOT of running around today, and thankfully Billick has decided to bring in the rollouts and waggles that this offense has been missing for years.

I will also contend that our special teams play had a big hand in winning this game. When it looked like the defense was going to blow it for us ala Cincy 2004, the ST unit comes up HUGE and blocks the game winning FG.

Other than that, dead on posting PR.

[donnaj]

One obvious BAD must be the play of McAllister! The stupid penalties and undiscplined play was part of what he concentrated on in the off season and was supposed to be more disciplined to putting an end to this season. WHat happened? The last few games CMAC has been good for at least 2 pass interference penalties a game, instead this time we get a personal foul and an off sides! The personal foul was extremely costly, because of it it made the opportunity to challenge the Vince Young "TD" null and void. As was pointed out earlier, if we had challenged it and won, we still would have had the personal foul so instead of it being 4th down and the Titans having to settle for a FG attempt they would have gotten the ball on the 3 with 1st and goal.
The second penalty again allowed the Titans to continue their drive when they should have been punting and they ended up taking that penalty on to score again.
Billick's penalty...well we didn't get to hear him on the sideline this time, but last week we very clearly heard him yell to the ref that it was "close enough for a f*#$ing measurement" I am sure CBS had a hefty fine for not bleeping that one out. Again I could read his lips (gee he must be a friend of George Bush - read my lips) today with much of the same colorful language. He needs to remember that he can't bully the refs by screaming obscenities in their ear on the sideline.
JO's penalty - I know that it was a lapse in discipline, but if you look at the play again. JO seemed to be defending Mike Anderson who was having his arm/elbow twisted and pulled on in the opposite direction it is supposed to go while he was sitting on the pile. I know some dirty things can happen in the pile, but it seemed to me that JO was trying to protect his teammate!

I think our secondary needs to take a hard look at how they are preparing for games. I have seen footage on Comcast and Ravens Wired about how they all meet at Ed Reed's house to eat and watch game film, well maybe they need to go somewhere without so many distractions and be a lot more disciplined in their preparation. Our corners are scaring me and quite hoestly so was Ed Reed's play across the middle today. Was Ed really not well enough to play? I am hoping that is all it was, because I am not accustomed to Ed just letting a player go after not being able to bring him down or even failing to pursue a tackle. He seemed to have no drive or filler instinct on the field today - what happened?

[GreenWave52]

The good is that we stole a win (and all the stuff PR mentioned).

The bad is our D without Ray Lewis. To think a majority of posters wanted to ship him off for a 2. We were crap and it was one of the few times since Billick has been coach where I wasn't sure if we could hold our lead- AFTER SCORING 27 POINTS!

I'm thrilled we won and games like this can help define a season. It was a real up and down game (well really down and then up) and our boys showed that if they don't quit they are never out of it.

Go Ravens!

[Heap86]

Its bizarre, without Ray our Run D is crap, but last season without Ray they didn't miss a beat, was Tommy Polley really that good?

[bobw2829]

Its bizarre, without Ray our Run D is crap, but last season without Ray they didn't miss a beat, was Tommy Polley really that good?

It's one game people. You all act like this has been going on for years. Damn, sounds like "what have you done for me lately" symdrome.