Panic has ensued among Ravens fans after Baltimore’s week two loss the the Tennessee Titans. The Ravens went into the game as heavy favorites after their beat down of the Pittsburgh Steelers in week one. Last week, Ravens fans called the talk radio shows, commented here at BSR and flooded the message boards with a new “Super Bowl or bust” mentality. Today, their licking their wounds after a pounding in the Music City.
The million dollar question on this Monday is ‘who are the Ravens?’ We thought they were a team that proved the naysayers wrong and finally turned the page by defeating the seemingly unbeatable Pittsburgh Steelers. Today they’re just a fluke. A flash in the pan. An overachiever.
The truth is that Baltimore is probably somewhere in the middle of this bipolar spectrum that Ravens fans have undergone in just two weeks of football. If anyone can keep an entire city level headed, it’s Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, who predicted the Ravens would make the AFC title game this season. After their week two letdown, King is holding strong that the Ravens are still a good team.
“Ravens fans shouldn’t panic after a bad loss at Tennessee just as they shouldn’t have waved the purple towels so confidently after the Ravens whipped the Steelers so decisively,” King writes in his Monday morning quarterback column. “This is a very good team.” First things first Peter, we don’t wave no stinking towels.
But seriously, King is right in his analysis.
The Ravens are a team that will likely see its best days in November and December. They made some valuable player transactions that made them younger and faster, but the majority of their changes didn’t occur until close to regular season kickoff. While the offensive line held together against Pittsburgh, they too likely won’t produce consistently until they see more playing time together. Remember, this is only the second time that these guys took the field together and this time they did it without Ben Grubbs and instead with Mark LeVoir.
While I fully anticipate Ravens fans to feal the doom and gloom for a full week, I ensure you that a strenuous work week has already begun for the players and coaching staff at The Castle. We might not see the week one Ravens return until Thanksgiving, but a stronger team will emerge against the Rams in week three.
I’m still waiting for the Baltimore Raven community to realize that Joe Flacco is nothing but an average QB. Nothing more, nothing less… Flacco will not win you games like Rodgers, Brees, Brady, Manning, will.
The local Baltimore newspaper has an article about Flacco not clicking with his wide receivers. Since when has Flacco ever clicked with his wide receivers?
Flacco cannot hit a receiver past 12 yards consistantly. He’s great with his little short passes to Rice, Dickson and Pitta but Boldin, Evans, etc might as well hang it up.
It’s going into Flacco’s 4th year and he has not improved.
Average q-back , average GM , average coach,,,,,,,,,,,,
The Ravens are not going to get rid of Joe Flacco wheather he is average or not. The last time i checked he was not the only one who played poorly sunday so stop singeling him out. The Ravens were one of the worst teams in the NFL at the QB position before he got here lets start Kyle Boller,Jeff Blake,Tony Banks,Scott Mitchell,Eric Zeir,Vinny,Stoney Case,no need to go on. He did not replace Tom Brady in Baltimore Big Ben is good but he is not Brady,Rodgers,Manning, or Brees either and he has two rings sooooooooooo. Spy STOP IT with your Ozzie bashing you have nothing to back it up with.
Proof is ======= Ozzie has not made it to a super bowl as the GM of any team,,,,,,,,,,,,almost twenty other GM’s have made it to a super bowl since ozzie was named GM , that puts him in the bottom half of the league……..case closed , proof enough for ya ?
It’s still a team sport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahha there is spy, I knew you would be commenting somewhere. You were non-existent last week spy because you couldn’t give us your downer attitude. Average does not make the play offs three years in a row. There was a point in Green Bay’s season where average could be attached to them as well…..well you know what happened there
@Nancy –
Mark Sanchez got the Jets to the AFC Championship game 2 years in a row… You consider him above average?
Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl with the Ravens… You consider him above average?
Mark Brunell went to the playoffs 3 straight years with the Jaguars starting in 1997… You consider him above average?
Matt Hasselbeck went to playoffs 3 straight years with the Seahawks starting in 2005… You consider him above average?
@DB –
I agree with you saying the Ravens had alot of bad quarterbacks. You are correct. You are also correct in saying that the Ravens will not get rid of Flacco. However @DB, I never singled Flacco out as playing badly against the Titans. I never even mentioned that game nor any game in reference. So @DB, go back and read my comments. I’m talking about Flacco being average overall, not in a certain game or two.
Not only is Flacco not in the same class as:
Brees – Brady – Rivers – Manning – Roethlisberger – Rodgers – Vick – Ryan
But these young QB’s are pushing Flacco already:
Newton – McCoy – Sanchez – Freeman – Bradford – Schaub – (Not mentioning Stafford or Kolb because they either have just started or have been injured)
I consider Flacco equal to these guys:
Ryan Fitzpatrick – Jay Cutler – Tony Romo – Eli Manning
But better than these guys:
Cassel – Hasselbeck – Campbell – McNabb – Orton
Look, I like the Ravens, wear the jerseys, watch the games intently, want them to win the Super Bowl, etc. But I don’t wear blinders and I just think Flacco is average.
That’s my opinion just like your opinion of him is that he’s not average and I respect and understand that.
Have a good one @DB & @Nancy