The Ravens proved once again that 695 is greater than 495. I guess. Baltimore locked up a 34-31 victory against the Washington Redskins in week three of the preseason, here are my thoughts on Joe Flacco, the Ravens offensive line, secondary and rookies.
Joe Flacco – He can make you that happiest fan in the world or the most frustrated fan. Flacco’s inconsistencies are enough to drive you batty. His pass intercepted for Dante Hall was one of the worst decisions I’ve seen him make in recent memory, but then he threads the needle to Lee Evans in the back of the end zone and all is forgiven. I’m impressed with Flacco’s pocket presence again, considering how bad the offensive line is, and his chemistry with Lee Evans. It could be fun to watch those two this season.
The offensive line – Flacco wasn’t given any love by the boys up front last night and the Ravens never felt confident enough to stick with a game plan that featured Ray Rice up the middle, everything was to one side or the other. New Raven Mark LeVoir and Jah Reid got tossed around and Michael Oher was playing left tackle for some strange reason. It didn’t look good from the big guys. Needs more Yanda.
Torrey Smith – As I tweeted during the game, acquiring Lee Evans was huge for the Ravens as they just can’t rely on rookie Torrey Smith to be their number two. Smith missed a couple balls thrown right to him and he looks uncomfortable in the Ravens offense right now. For what the team is paying him, I still expect to see him on the field, but the rookie out of Maryland has a lot of growing to do.
Jimmy Smith – The other Smith, Jimmy, looked to make some improvements over his performance last week against the Chiefs. Jimmy Smith got burned early on a touchdown pass by Santana Moss, but stuck a little closer to receivers as the game went on. He still needs to learn when to look back at the ball coming instead of playing the receivers. Good quarterbacks will beat him on that all day.
Overall, my thoughts about this team are relatively the same as last week. Joe Flacco needs to take the steps to lead this team during big games, but his offensive line needs to be good enough to allow that. The same remains true after this game.
Good comments,,,,,,,,agree with most of them,,,,,,,,,Torry Smith reminds me of Travis Taylor, not a good thing……….
With time , Joe can be really, really good……….
Jimmy Smith is the real deal , will remind us of C-mac………
O-line will keep the Ravens out of the super bowl with help from the corners……….
Smith is lucky he is a 2nd round pick because if he was a 7th round pick he would probably be packing his bags today. I would rank Doss, Reed and LaQuan Williams ahead of him in the battle for the #3 receiver. He is starting to remind me of another speedy Maryland receiver. He should change his name to Torrey Smith-Bey
Does spy have any thoughts?
see jim from dundalk above……..
Nothing on Tyrod?!
Tyrod was an absolute beast last night. So poised and composed, and knew when to get out of the pocket and scramble. His performance reminded us all why he was the best player in the ACC the last two years. I think everyone with the Ravens loves him, and he’ll be successful in the NFL, whatever his role turns out to be.
-E
The Flacco to Evans pass was a thing of beauty. I think Evans will make Flacco a much better QB. He’s got speed, savvy, and hands…amazing.
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Bills OT Wang embraces role as first Chinese-American to be drafted
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The Bills drafted OT Ed Wang out of Virginia Tech in the 5th round of the 2010 draft. He is beleieved to be the first NFL Player, with Chinese descent.
Correction, he is believed to be the first NFl Player, of Chinese descent.
How would you like to go through life with the last name of Wang ?
Your nickname would be Teeny………..