Results 1 to 12 of 77
Hybrid View
-
11-24-2012, 09:16 AM #1
Ravens road woes on offense should be blamed on Harbaugh
During his annual visit to the Ravens Rap in Ocean City, Maryland I asked Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti what the organization has done differently since the arrival of John Harbaugh that has kept the window of opportunity open for the club with a league leading four consecutive playoff appearances.
Is it the coaching? The personnel? The front office? All of the above?
Bisciotti’s answer: “Joe Flacco.”
Here’s more on Bisciotti’s response.
Yet more than half way through his fifth season the Ravens still don’t know what they have with Joe Flacco.
Is he the kind of quarterback that can carry a team into the Super Bowl?
No!
If you want evidence, just look at the game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh last Sunday when facing a third and 2 with two minutes to play the Ravens asked Flacco to play it safe and only throw if there was a 100% chance of success – otherwise take the sack.
Despite having a wide-open Ed Dickson standing alone in the middle of the field for an easy first down, Flacco, perhaps driven by fear of failure, took the sack to keep the clock moving.
He played it safe.
Would Messrs. Brady, Manning, Manning, Rivers, Brees, Rodgers or Roethlisberger play it safe? Would Messrs. Ryan, Dalton, Luck, Griffin, Palmer, Cutler, Stafford or Bradford even play it safe?
The call was about playing afraid – playing not to lose.
This is what you want from your franchise quarterback?
Isn’t this the kind of play calling you might expect for a rookie quarterback?
Continue reading HEREFollow me on Twitter @RSRLombardi
-
Re: Ravens road woes on offense should be blamed on Harbaugh
The gameplan worked, we won the game, Flacco made the right decision there as the score board ended as 13-10 and has given us a two game lead on the AFCN. I also find it hard to believe that most of those QB's you mentioned would have thrown it there, I mean Andy Dalton... Philip Rivers?? lol.
-
11-24-2012, 09:24 AM #3Regular 1st Stringer
- Join Date
- Sep 2012
- Location
- Redskins Land (North Virginia)
- Posts
- 146
- Blog Entries
- 1
Re: Ravens road woes on offense should be blamed on Harbaugh
Oh my ****ing god, even Ravens fans don't like Flacco. For gods sake he's been to the playoffs every year!
-
-
11-24-2012, 09:29 AM #5Regular 1st Stringer
- Join Date
- Sep 2012
- Location
- Redskins Land (North Virginia)
- Posts
- 146
- Blog Entries
- 1
-
11-24-2012, 09:27 AM #6Regular 1st Stringer
- Join Date
- Sep 2010
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD
- Posts
- 251
Re: Ravens road woes on offense should be blamed on Harbaugh
Ravens fans love Flacco, unless they are trying to drum up hits to their website.
Dickson can never be counted on as a "100%" completion. He's the least reliable receiver on this team.
-
11-24-2012, 09:31 AM #7
Re: Ravens road woes on offense should be blamed on Harbaugh
.
.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable…
There is another theory which states that this - has - already - happened…
"We don't have a town drunk...we all take turns..."
-
Re: Ravens road woes on offense should be blamed on Harbaugh
I honestly don't understand how you can complain with what Flacco did though. The conservative call would actually be trying to run it. We won the damn game!
-
11-24-2012, 09:54 AM #9
-
Re: Ravens road woes on offense should be blamed on Harbaugh
I've got to watch a few regional televised games of the Ravens this year. 2 at M&T and 2 away. While the Ravens offense looks like juggernauts at home, that same offense looks confused, inept and unsure when playing away. To their credit the team has pulled out the close games on the road with wins. If the Ravens manage to get home field through out in the playoffs they will be a pain in the ass to beat at the vault. If they have to go on the road to Houston, Denver or New England I seem them getting bounced out on their ass.
The coaching staff does not seem to have a lot of confidence in Flacco at times, especially on the road.
-
11-24-2012, 10:25 AM #11Hyperbolic curmudgeometer
- Join Date
- Oct 2011
- Location
- Balmer Merlin Hon
- Posts
- 5,854
- Blog Entries
- 1
Re: Ravens road woes on offense should be blamed on Harbaugh
I'll be holding you to that...:p
Seriously, Tony, everyone's page views--even the best Crow forum in existence--go down between the Great American Pig-Out & Jesus' Birthday (Observed). It's a function of too frakkin' much to do & it affects every entertainment venue that ain't dressed in a Sanity Clause suit & shaking jangle bells. Stay classy, suck it up for the duration & eschew clickwhoring, why doncha? Yule ;) be better off in the long run...
-
11-24-2012, 09:32 AM #12
Re: Ravens road woes on offense should be blamed on Harbaugh
Web your told to play safe, you play safe. If he wasn't told that extra bit of info, he makes that throw I that situation every time.
That's a joke claim you've just made. Lost a bit of respect in my eyes with it
Bookmarks