Sweats

I said kicker.......Bass is getting a little stinky and its time to throw him back into the river.

You bring up some good points and that's what i love about these boards......a forum to bounce ideas and concepts around and people pointing out that we may not be necessarily right or wrong, just need to see the point from a different view. We all see the games differently and from different points of view, so it's good to see differing opinions on the games, strategies, etc. and brining up points that i never even thought of or considered. Case in point......you saw the game that our O had to score more points and i agree with that, however i am of the opinion that our D had to stop the Ravens from scoring points. Both opinions i believe are right, just in how we saw the game i suppose.

Is that right? Marv Levy, great HC, couldn't win a SB when he had 4 tries.......what is he remembered for outside of Buffalo?.......couldn't win a SB out of 4 tries. Sorry brother, i don't make the rules of the legacy game. People remember what they remember, and society has a short memory unless it's something worth remembering.......like a SB.

I can see that no one wants to talk about the elephant in the room here..... We want to keep our O on the field as long as possible to come away with points and chew up the clock, i get it, but i'm seeing that we want to keep our O on the field as much as possible to keep our D off the field.......and why is that? Our D is compromised and a liability. Well, let's consider that last night they looked lost, confused and unsure of assignments. Is that on coaching or is that on the Ravens spectacular play schemes? Baltimore has no hidden agenda with their play calling, run, heavy run and run some more......own the trenches and use the run to set up the pass. It's very basic schemes all around. It all starts in the trenches and builds from there. So, it's safe to say it's not the Ravens spectacular play calling. I would say it's execution and you know what limits a teams execution?......coaching. So, why was our D ill prepared for play calling that most of us knew was coming?.........why was the D completely confused on assignments? Obviously, poor tackling is on the players, but our D schemes blow. Injuries perhaps, but every team has injuries, so that is no longer an excuse in my eyes. Could it be limited talent?.......yeah, probably a major factor in execution. What about coaching?.......i am probably the hardest guy on our coaching staff, bar none. I don't understand how a running team can run through our D with very little effort untouched, mind you and our coaching staff either has no answers or clueless to change their game plan on the fly to correct. Coaching 101.....when something is working for a team, you shut it down and limit its progression, forcing that team to change its strategy on the fly and do something else. You know, exactly what the Ravens did to us. They took away everything, they understood the assignment, they did their homework, they read the memo. We had no answers for any of it. I see some of you guys are okay with a loss and for the most part so am i, however, the Ravens basically came in with one plan.......run the ball and even when we knew it was coming, we did nothing, however, we tried every trick in the book to keep our compromised D off the field as much as possible. Not a rant, just an observation.

A primetime game against an AFC opponent which may or may not dictate homefield advantage come the playoffs is fairly big i would consider.

But his "feel good" story should warm every fans heart and he should remain as a roster staple.................................................................................(rolls eyes)

I actually wouldn't even see an issue with this if Carolina was a dynasty or a juggernaut, however, we shouldn't be looking at another man's garbage......we have enough of our own.

When i'm by myself at the grocery store, i usually just send the cart sailing down the roadway and then jump in my truck real quick before i even see where the cart ended up, which usually ends up in some form of argument (sometimes even a fist fight) because no one really knows where the cart came from, so people just start blaming each other........when my wife is with me, i make the effort to actually take the cart back to the designated cart spot because that's the "decent" thing to do. Yes, i am a bit of an ***hole.......no need to point it out.

I certainly wouldn't be opposed to this.

As much as i don't like the guy, he got so much out of so little with his rosters. Well, the primetime spotlight for one.......an AFC opponent that will see the playoffs for sure and a generally overall good team. That's how i see it as a big game.

beer......and lots of it

I'd say the game was a write-off when the King ran for 87 yards on the very first play to score a TD.......everyone knew the King was going to run hard and heavy, but our coaching staff didn't see it coming. Like, no idea that Henry could run the ball......completely clueless. That spelled the beginning of the end right there.......3 minutes in and we lost the game cause our coaching staff were caught off guard that a RB might actually run the ball. It was all i needed to see.

I need to know........why can McD not win big games? It seems our D always falls apart at big moments, but why is this? Why are they never prepared for the big games and why do they always look like they've never coached a game before? It's like they are lost, confused, ill prepared. Anyone?

The sad part is the Ravens could have definitely scored more points throughout that game......the only bright spot is they didn't completely and utterly shellac us. This game could have been so much more worse for us.

Well, you're not going to hear that in the rah, rah speech.

Can we just win the big ones regardless?

I'm of the belief that you keep using the plays that are working in a game. The same way a team runs up the gut continuously until you show that you can stop it and then they are forced to try something else to compensate. You could clearly see that the Ravens were blanketing Kincaid, so we should have been targeting Knox and get him more involved. It's like our coaching staff doesn't see what's going on out there or refuse to change a gameplan that clearly isn't working. #confused

When are you guys going to wake up?.........how many times has our D **** the bed in big games. I don't want to hear about injuries, every team gets injuries, however, when we get them it's the last bastion of excuses from the fanbase and franchise. A D minded HC, that can't bring his team D to compete in big games. You notice how i said compete in big games, not win big games. There is a difference. I'm frankly getting a little sick of seeing the O carry this whole team.......and when the O has an off night, well that's a good night for competing cause you know the D ain't going to get it done. sorry, no sorry.

Like motions or play action?.........none of which happened last night.

And you guys were scared that some other team was going to ***** him up as their HC.........like, come on, man.

Exactly. You would think that our coaching staff would have done their homework......There were no trick plays or tomfoolery going on with the Ravens last night. They basically said from the very first play, "here's our gameplan.....stop us if you can" and it's the same gameplan every week and every season with Baltimore, so it's not like they tried to fool anyone with anything new.......heavy dose of runs, LJ runs, and some throw in some passes to mix it up. It's like the Ravens gameplan caught them so off-guard, like they had no idea it was going to happen or even how it could happen, that they panicked and tried to stop the bleeding by any means necessary. It's like they thought, "how dare you run on us" mentality......like they had no idea it was going to happen. #disgusting

I wouldnt say they played better than they are, they are good. Their record may not have reflected it, but they matched up well against every team theyve played so far this season and theyve played them tough......took KC to the wire. We, however, did not play them tough, we got manhandled and dominated from the first play on and we couldn't keep up. We lost to a good team.

I don't know what i can clearly see today. I saw a team steamroll to a 3-0 start against some bad teams and then **** the bed against a semi-good team. This reminds me again of why i never bet on the Bills cause i never know which team is showing up, but i do know that when we play good or semi-good teams, you can bet the farm that our D will be lost, confused, not know assignments and miss tackles. I've seen this story wayyyyyyyyyyy too many times now.

He's a 100% "feel good" story and just the type of player that this franchise loves, regardless of skill.

Last week?.....no Today?......yes This team has got me so ****ed up and confused, i have no idea what's going on.......you know, kind of like the way the guys were playing last night.