Strong chance Ravens miss playoffs?

[Mr. WEO]

4 minutes ago, Process said:

Yes, literally right now

 

looking at their schedule they might be an 8 win team

[SoTier]

2 minutes ago, Process said:

Sportsbooks still have the Ravens as a very slight favorite to make the playoffs. I wouldn't call them making it "very unlikely."

 

Didn't the sportsbooks originally have the Ravens as the favorites to win the Super Bowl before the season actually started?   All the sports talking heads claimed that the Ravens had "the best roster in the NFL".  When they started to play actual games, though, the reality turned out to be that the Ravens weren't anywhere near as good as everybody thought -- and that was before all the injuries.

 

Sure the Ravens aren't mathematically eliminated, but they sure haven't looked like a team that could go 9-2 since the fourth quarter of the opening game.

[GunnerBill]

Yea the Ravens are toast. They lost all thwir best guys pretty much inside 3 games. Any NFL team in that position is toast. But it is fair to say their roster is not built for depth.

[Low Positive]

3 minutes ago, loedward22 said:

I can’t find it at my book. I was however seeing the Bills as bigger favorites to win the superbowl than I’ve ever seen them this season (+450). Which is very surprising to me with how pessimistic it feels right now. 

It only feels that way because you read this board, where the BBFS flows like a mudslide and McDermott is the worst coach since Rich Kotite.

[loedward22]

Just now, Low Positive said:

It only feels that way because you read this board, where the BBFS flows like a mudslide and McDermott is the worst coach since Rich Kotite.

I hope you’re correct 

[Low Positive]

1 minute ago, GunnerBill said:

Yea the Ravens are toast. They lost all thwir best guys pretty much inside 3 games. Any NFL team in that position is toast. But it is fair to say their roster is not built for depth.

Their fans are angry at DeCosta for taking a luxury pick at safety instead of investing in depth for the DL where they were really thin. I would say they are engaging in hindsight, but lord knows we do a lot of that around here. 

[GunnerBill]

1 minute ago, Low Positive said:

Their fans are angry at DeCosta for taking a luxury pick at safety instead of investing in depth for the DL where they were really thin. I would say they are engaging in hindsight, but lord knows we do a lot of that around here. 

 

It is what DaCosta does. He takes the best player available in round one regardless of positional value. If you are mad at Starks you have to be mad at Linderbaum and Hamilton too. Otherwise it is a definite example of Monday Morning Quarterbacking. 

[HappyDays]

11 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

Their fans are angry at DeCosta for taking a luxury pick at safety instead of investing in depth for the DL where they were really thin. I would say they are engaging in hindsight, but lord knows we do a lot of that around here. 

 

Interestingly they took supposedly a 1st round talent in Mike Green in the 2nd, but he has been an utter disappointment to this point. Nothing like what the scouting reports said.

 

One thing a lot of people were guilty of, myself included, was assuming that because Baltimore drafted a 1st round safety and a 1st round DL in the 2nd round, and then added Jaire Alexander, that their defense was guaranteed to be elite. It turns out that's why you let them play the games first. Even before accounting for the injuries Starks looks like a rookie, Green hasn't contributed, and Alexander looks like he is just washed. Then you add in the injuries and they have become flat out a bad unit.

[SoTier]

26 minutes ago, loedward22 said:

I can’t find it at my book. I was however seeing the Bills as bigger favorites to win the superbowl than I’ve ever seen them this season (+450). Which is very surprising to me with how pessimistic it feels right now. 

 

Have you watched any of today's games, especially that travesty from London this morning?  Any of other teams' games all season?   The NFL is filled with amazing plays -- both good and bad.  There's a group of fans on TSW who see only the problems the Bills have.   They want the Bills to not only be perfect but to be perfect in the way that they think the Bills should be.  The loss to NE last week has put them into a frenzy of self-pity, each Chicken Little feeding off the pessimism of the other like-minded Chicken Littles.

 

22 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

It only feels that way because you read this board, where the BBFS flows like a mudslide and McDermott is the worst coach since Rich Kotite Hank Bullough.

 

Fixed it for you.

Edited 2 hours ago by SoTier

[Sojourner]

17 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

Their fans are angry at DeCosta for taking a luxury pick at safety instead of investing in depth for the DL where they were really thin. I would say they are engaging in hindsight, but lord knows we do a lot of that around here. 

True they might but Starks has been one of their best players. Don’t think it was a luxury at all, But Washington was an average player and he’s ended up on the PUP list. So Starks immediately became a need. 
 

Bounce off that, he did address the line somewhat by what @HappyDays mentioned. Greene only fell due to off the field issues but definitely isn’t replicating what was projected but he is playing and contributing. 
 

Their drafting is actually pretty solid. They draft well for the most part and evenly split their tops picks to each side of the ball. 
 

Piggybacking off Happy again, injuries are the only reason that team is where they are. Not that they drafted a “luxury” pick or didn’t address what fans felt was needed. 

[SoTier]

1 minute ago, Sojourner said:

True they might but Starks has been one of their best players. Don’t think it was a luxury at all, But Washington was an average player and he’s ended up on the PUP list. So Starks immediately became a need. 
 

Bounce off that, he did address the line somewhat by what @HappyDays mentioned. Greene only fell due to off the field issues but definitely isn’t replicating what was projected but he is playing and contributing. 
 

Their drafting is actually pretty solid. They draft well for the most part and evenly split their tops picks to each side of the ball. 
 

Piggybacking off Happy again, injuries are the only reason that team is where they are. Not that they drafted a “luxury” pick or didn’t address what fans felt was needed. 

 

The Ravens were 1-2 and their defense had given up 96 points in 3 games before the plague of injuries began.  

[harryS]

They need to beat the Patriots for us in Week 16.  All I ask.

[Governor]

1 minute ago, SoTier said:

 

The Ravens were 1-2 and their defense had given up 96 points in 3 games before the plague of injuries began.  

Right. Their problems started before that. It was the defense, then the OL, the OC abandoning the run game, then Lamar being pulled. DL was highly underperforming. 

[DapperCam]

Stick a fork in 'em. They're DONE.