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Hey Greg Roman, I have an idea. When a team stacks the box on you for literally the entire freaking game, leaving the middle of the field wide open, don’t call receiver screens and 10 yard buttonhooks. Cool? Cool. 
 

The hate he gets from Ravens fans is overboard sometimes but tonight was straight up incompetence. I could have called a better game from the booth by saying “uh yeah, you run here.” 

30 minutes ago, DoctorWhom said:

Poor Darnold can't seem to catch a break. 

The meme template that keeps on giving. 

After this year, I would be absolutely fascinated to see someone do a study of NFL games with the most egregious ref calls and their impact on the gambling line. It has to be the only explanation for how consistently garbage the refereeing has been the last several years. 

I rest my case. 
 

Thanks for ruining football, John Mara. 

I have never in my life seen a sports city consistently get the benefit of nearly every single blown referee call quite like Pittsburgh does. 

Ole in. 

EDIT: Wrong thread. 

Chiefs got extremely lucky tonight. If the Giants had any semblance of a competent offense they take that one easily. 

1 minute ago, Red Comet said:

I’m at the game, can confirm, Zeon Kansas City is exhausted. Would be great if they can pull off the win, but my point still stands. 

“I’m tired Robbie”

2 hours ago, Sport said:

 

This is why I never hated the Ravens the way I do the Steelers. Even in years when the Bengals had good teams and were making the playoffs the Ravens were never the same mental hurdle for them the way the Steelers were. They'd steal at least a win every season it felt like, even though the Ravens were/are consistently in the top half of the league. The Ravens also didn't have a habit of injuring our players either. The other thing is I only know one Ravens fan and he's a nice guy whereas I have met hundreds of Steelers fans and, best friend included, they're all the Worst People Alive^TM. 

 

But it's been a bloodbath since Lamar came along. First win against the Ravens since 2018. First win in Baltimore since 2017. They didn't score a TD against the Ravens last year and it was probably Burrow's worst game of his rookie season. Regardless of how the rest of the team looks they needed to prove they could beat ole Lammy Jaxx and prove they could play with Baltimore. That TD pass to Brown to put them up in the second half is why he's so scary - He's a legitimately great passer. I was very impressed with the secondary's coverage and the line's disciplined contain.

 

 

Absolutely. The thing is, Lamar’s been capable of making throws like that his whole career. Look at his deep bomb to Hollywood in Week 1 2019 or his throw to Boykin in Week 17 last year. He’s always been capable of throwing passes like that. The problem has either been 1) his consistency, or 2) his receivers have never gotten enough separation to make those throws effective. This year, Hollywood, Andrews, and Watkins (when healthy) are getting separation, and Bateman looked good yesterday too being that possession, big-catch-radius receiver the Ravens have needed since Anquan Boldin left. The passing game is fine; everything else around it fell apart yesterday, which is pretty ironic considering for most of the last two years the story was the exact opposite. 

1 hour ago, Sport said:

That was a watershed moment. That's my favorite Bengals win since they came back from 17 to beat Seattle in 2015. I was expecting a hard lesson because that's what always happened in these kind of games in the Marvin Lewis era and I'm conditioned to expect the worst. Instead they just went into Baltimore in a prove-it, measuring stick type game and bullied the Ravens. Ja'Marr Chase is amazing (and amazing the Bengals, the BENGALS!, actually made the right pick), the defense is actually good, and Joe Burrow is exceeding expectations. 

 

That's the second time this season they've politely escorted the home fans out of a divisional opponent's stadium well before the final gun. Love a boring game with the backups in with 5 minutes left. I think the rest of the NFL should get used to the idea that the Bengals are for real. 

 

 

You guys wholly deserved that win.  The Bengals used to be a huge bogey team for us but there was a stretch there in the Lamar era where they gave us no trouble at all.  The commentators said it a couple times during the game but this is 100% a different team.  Burrow is the truth and everyone who doubted the Chase pick (including myself) looks like a fool,

The thing is, though, anyone who actually watched the Ravens for every game this season knows how wildly overrated they were starting to become.  The defense has been emasculated for 5 of 7 games now.  Ray Lewis, Ed Reed, and the other great defensive players that have come through this organization are probably embarrassed beyond belief by a unit who consistently loses the LOS and refuses to tackle people most of the time.  The offensive line has been in shambles and would be recognized as one of the worst units in the league if they didn't have the best mobile quarterback of our generation making them look better.  Le'Veon Bell is completely and utterly washed.  Devonta Freeman is less washed but still old and slow.  The only reason we even got to 5-1 was because Lamar put the team on his back and singlehandedly won us the Chiefs, Lions, and Colts games.  Without him this team is easily 2-5 and maybe worse.  He didn't look great yesterday and when Lamar can't be Superman the team falls apart around him.

We've had a lot of injuries and I'm incredibly grateful to even be at 5 wins with a good chance of making the postseason if the Ravens can move on from this stinker and take care of business after the bye.  But right now the Bengals are the more complete, better team.  Kudos to them.

I think so. I think it’s pretty clear that Dwight’s “right” jersey is the ‘09 Finals jersey. 

So, is Deshaun Watson actually going to Miami this time?

6 hours ago, GhostOfNormMacdonald said:

The acquisition of Florida puts John Quincy Adams solidly in the bottom 5 presidents

I don't know if it'll be in my signature, or my member title, but I have to find a way to immortalize this post.

6 minutes ago, DNAsports said:

You’re right. HE’s not. We’re talking about a number. I’m a Washington fan 100% and Taylor was an incredible player for the team, but I still deny the sentiment that his number should be retired. He (sadly) wasn’t able to accomplish enough in his very short career to justify a removal of number in circulation or number retirement

Pretty sure he was still talking about Gruden in Madden and not Taylor. 
 

On the subject of Taylor’s jersey retirement, announcing it so suddenly (literally less than a week before the actual ceremony) seems to indicate that they’re just hoping this distracts everyone from what’s swirling around right now. 

Lamar. Jackson. 
 

That’s it. That’s the post. 

3 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:

I love that the Steelers never had a solid succession plan for the guy.

And when they did try to draft the succession plan in Rudolph, he pouted about how it “wouldn’t help the team win now” or whatever. His arrogance and insecurity, and the Steelers’ enabling of that arrogance and insecurity has caught up to both of them. He’s now legitimately one of the 5 worst starters in the NFL and is holding back a playoff-caliber defense. 
 

I mean this in every sense of the phrase: you absolutely love to see it. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy. 

Lamar threw for 300 yards yesterday. People are (rightfully) talking a lot about Carr, Herbert, and Kyler a lot this year but this is easily the best Lamar’s looked as a passer since 2019 when the Ravens could essentially run the ball as effectively as they wanted. He still has his moments but if you pay attention to the Ravens and the holes we have on our roster you would understand how much he carries this team. 
 

Also watching Roethlisberger suck after years of crushing our dreams brings me great joy. 

JUSTIN TUCKER OH MY GOD

I don’t wanna hear any more arguments about best kicker in NFL history. It’s over. He’s only in his early 30’s too!

14 minutes ago, Nordiks_19 said:

So it begins..

 

Looks like it was photoshopped in. Absolutely awful. 

2 hours ago, the admiral said:

Jim Hughson retired just before the season. Wasn't expecting that. He really got on my nerves with his Vancouver homerism during the Blackhawks-Canucks rivalry, but he's certainly one of the great voices of hockey, and it'll be strange not to hear him.

 

EDIT: I think I pointed this out already, but the Gretzky hire is a reprise of Turner going out and grabbing Cal Ripken Jr. for their new baseball coverage. They pulled out all the stops hyping the presence of Cal Ripken Jr., who turned out to have not a single interesting thought.  They were fortunate to hit on the Shaq hire, but Shaq was a known commodity as a Personality, it was just a matter of whether he would jell with the crew, which he did. Gretzky borders on a known non-personality.

As an O's fan it was obviously cool to see Cal be in the national spotlight again.  But yeah, as a commentator he really flopped.  That entire broadcast team never really felt right.  Ernie Johnson is, was, and always will be a basketball voice first.  He never seemed to have the rhythym of calling baseball games down.  We know about Cal.  And Ron Darling just kind of annoyed me, couldn't really put my finger on why.  For as much stick as Joe Buck gets, I think he's a fine baseball commentator and I'd take him and Smoltz over that TBS lineup 10 times out of 10.

3 minutes ago, LMU said:

One thing has bugged me ever since they brought the Kachina look back as a throwback.

 

Would it have killed them to put "ARIZONA" on the moon patch?  The Coyotes script is specifically shaped to accommodate text and the void there really sticks out.

After watching the reveal video, yeah.  That blank space sticks out like a sore thumb.

Really sharp looking kit.

Oh my god. What a game. Ravens have 15 guys on IR and lose two more defensive starters and Lamar throws two awful picks and still win!! 

When Pittsburgh loses, America wins.