sven233

Look.....we all know this is a long season and we weren't going to win them all. I think if you would have told us before the season started, we would be 4-2 out of the gate, we would have all signed up for that without thinking twice. This is a bad loss, but it's not the end of the world. Suck it up, learn from it, and go beat Houston next week and get back on track. Then, find a way to get an AFC East win against the Jets and you're 5-1. Tonight was a bad night for sure, but it happens. It will happen again. Just can't let 1 loss turn into 2 in a row or 3 in a row.

The Ravens are running the exact defense I wanted us to run tonight. They are blitzing all the time. They are sending corners off the edge and are just getting untouched rushers in Allen's face every play. I was thinking we would do the same, but with run blitzing our corners instead. Not sure I have seen us run one of those run blitzes yet. Just terrible coaching.

Lots of drops tonight is not helping the situation.....

Ball just not bouncing our way tonight. The good news is there isn't another team in the league that is as physical running the ball as the Ravens are. This was our toughest test to stop the run. Unfortunately, the bad news is that they are in our conference and we need to beat them, or have some other team beat them first, to get to where we want to go. They are just on a different physicality level than we are. While I don't think they are a better team overall necessarily, unfortunately, they are bigger and tougher than we are up front, especially with their offense. As I said, styles make fights. We have spent so much time trying to build a team to beat the Chiefs and their passing attack and in turn, got smaller and lighter. Not good against this particular team.

Bass has to go. Dudes off the street are banging 60 yarders all over the league. Bass may catch on somewhere else and turnout to have a great career, but they talk about a standard around here. That needs to apply to everyone, including the kicker and punter. Both on this team are bad.

It's a long shot to come back, but if we do, this kick has to go through to make it a 2 score game. I have never been less confident in a kicker, so there's that.....

The players on the field haven't been great, but the coaches are the ones I am putting a majority of the blame on. The game plan stunk coming in on both sides of the ball. And then in game decisions from punting when you shouldn't, calling trick plays when you shouldn't, etc. We were out-coached severely tonight.

Hamlin is awful. He's so behind in what he is seeing and he is slow physically as well. Not a good combination. We need a huge upgrade there as well.

Whelp.....you had them. Can't tackle and your done. That's where you miss Taron Johnson.

If we can hold them to 3, that will be a gigantic win. Just hoping Allen is OK.

That call by Brady just took away everything we were building. No need to get cute there.

Ugh......not what we needed there. So hard to run a play like that when you can't hold up on the line.

It's probably going to take one of those "Hero Ball" games from Allen to win tonight. It's obvious that the game plan was to try and beat these guys with short to intermediate passing tonight and the Ravens seemed to know that was coming. They didn't believe the Bills could beat them down the field with their WRs and they were getting exactly what they wanted from us. It's time for Allen to take over and flip the script.

That throw is absolute insanity........

It's a game like this that shows just how much you need a WR1, especially in crucial situations. I just don't think Coleman is that guy. The "Everybody Eats" mentality is great, but you still need supreme talent to pull it off consistently. Right now, we may have the guys with the right mentality, but lack the talent that you need to beat good teams. I said it after this draft was over.....we are going to enter next year's draft still in search of that true WR1.

The difference in this game to the previous 3? The trenches. Allen was hardly touched/pressured in the first 3 game. It looked like our line was a wall. This week, everyone is missing blocks and getting beat physically. Same thing on defense. While our defensive line can rush the passer in most cases, when they are getting mauled in the run game, it changes everything. They aren't built to stop the run. Styles make fights and the Ravens are the exact opposite of what we are built to stop.

Whelp...... that's probably it. 4 down territory for the rest of the game.

For the first time this season, a team is exploiting our backup LBs. We are really missing our All Pros in this game in Milano and Johnson along with Bernard.

If we're going to win this game, it's going to have to be on offense. We might have to score 50, though. Should have gone for it there too..... I was way too quick to give McDermott his flowers for going for it deep in his own end on the first drive. There have been 2 times since where he should have gone for it to try and get momentum back and he chickened out. Playing scared just like our defense is right now. Oh well. Gotta hold them to a FG at worst here.

There are a lot of strange things going on so far and none of them are good.

Why did they blow the play dead? I'm really confused. They literally threw the flag for holding and then blew the play dead??? Did I miss something? Allen had the ball and could have drawn a defensive penalty to offset them. I have never seen a play stopped in the middle of it due to holding. It's not like it was a pre-snap penalty. Seriously, did I miss something?

That right there is one of the reasons I would have liked to see McDermott go for it in that situation. Gotta keep the offense off the field early and try to make them play from behind. Best way to beat the Ravens is scoring early and make them throw the ball.

Ugh.....

Just once I would like to see Brady go play action on 2nd and short. Ugh...... McDermott giveth and McDermott taketh away. Would have liked to see them go for it there too.

Good on McDermott