godsshoeshine
Joined: September 18, 2003 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: How bout my Ravens
January 18, 2011 at 05:54 PM UTC
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haha, i couldnt even form texts i was in such a daze
the pass was floated too. even single coverage gets a jump ball at best
Mobius
Joined: March 28, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: How bout my Ravens
January 21, 2011 at 05:18 AM UTC
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couple of other thoughts on that pick. ravens' prior pass plays in the second half went sack, sack, knockdown/incompletion. the pass game was in shambles at that point, not necessarily flacco's fault since the o-line was getting smoked by a fired up steelers d. also, it was just an insanely terrible playcall and execution. the ravens of the past few years could be expected to set up a play action bomb like that with a single receiver going long after like 20 consecutive runs, or at least repeated runs on first down (with the throw expected to harmlessly sail over the receivers head rather than sail over receiver's head into the waiting arms of a safety) . . .but the ravens weren't even consistently running on first down . . .the play action wasn't properly set up . . . then flacco fake handoff was weak further not fooling anyone (LBs bit for about a nanosecond then booked into coverage) . . .heap was the only receiver going long . . . flacco was watching him the whole play . . .the throw sucked . . . heap was totally bracketed. and why are they even trying this sh*t at that point instead of focusing on working the ball to boldin, housh and mason and heap on shorter routes? it was all just ridiculous.
hutch
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Re: How bout my Ravens
January 21, 2011 at 04:14 PM UTC
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what i don't get is why the ravens insisted on running the ball on first down..running it right down the middle.. no creativity.. they got stuffed over and over and over again.. why do that?