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LOL not so fast. We still have an HP that my wife spent 1400 on in the basement. It was only 18months old when the screen went out. If I can get that up and running for less than $300 I'm going for it. If not, well i'm buying a Sony - I'm about done with HPs

My laptop crapped out Sunday so I will be limited to the periodic use of my wife's comp till I get mine fixed or get a new one.

I beg to differ. You give up 400 passing yards in one game and an average of over 300 total yards a game you have been playing average D.

Switching back and forth between Jay-Z's "Blueprint 3" and Fabolous' "Loso's Way" in my car's CD player. The local Hip-hop station shut down a couple weeks ago so I am burning a hole in those two discs.

People are nuts. All week Steeler fans at work have been telling me: "wow, your team looks great man" and i reply "Well...our offense does." From the regular fan to the so-called "experts", people are so infactuated with offense, that they completely ignore the defensive side of the ball. For years we had a dominating D and average offense and everyone underrated us. Now (granted it's only thru 2 games) we appear to have a dominating O and average D and people can't give the Ravens enough props!

Yea I was screaming at Mark after that drop late in the game. He could've easily been the goat.

One thing that isn't Mattison's fault is the fact that Fox and Fabian haven't been great at playing the ball when they are matched up in single coverage and the ball's coming their way. I'm talking about the plays where they are running step for step with a wideout and can't knock the ball down. Fabian got burned for a 50 yarder in this situation last week, and Fox and Fab both got hit with big plays this week. Fox did come back and made some nice plays on Jackson right before Rivers threw that pick at the end of the game, but overall this is something that shouldnt be too difficult to turn around (they are already doing the hard part in staying with the wideout) and it should make a big difference in the pass D.

I had one or two flash backs of the 2000 Ravens-Jags game and the Ravens-Jets Testaverde game today as I tried to convince myself that the performance of our D today doesn't mean they will stink all season. Matty has his work cut out for him - 400 passing yards is insane. I still think the Rust Buckets are the best team in the division - they lost today because of two missed fgs by Reed - that might not happen again all season cause he's usually money. They have the better D and special teams. We'll see next week if they continue to miss Polamalu. It's great that they lost today because if you look at their schedule, there aren't many L's on there.

I don't think we'll have to worry about *** I'm stupid for thinking this game is easy *** statments this week

Couple things on my mind. 1.) Is our new offense going to be to pass 5 times as much as we run, or did the coaches just think they had some room to test drive the new pass offense since we were playing the Chiefs? It'll be intersting to see how we come out next week. We probably could have controlled the game better by running more but heck, I can't complain since we had 500 yards of offense. 2.) Flacco looked great to me. He started to float the ball a little after the interception, but got things together enough to hit big throws to Heap and Clayton on the last drives. I see what you are saying Max (hi btw), that on a day when Flacco left many completions on the field, he still managed to throw for 300+ and 3TDs - it's very exciting to see where he progresses from here. 3.) Special Teams - blah! I really hope Hashuka gets it together because you need a good kicking game to win in this league. I was praying that the game won't come down to a FG attempt. He seems to be kicking the ball straight, it just tailed to the left at the end - it even happened on the kick he made. It's like he just needs to better judge the effect of the wind on the ball. I really hope he gets it together. I keep telling myself it's ok - Stover seemed to always look bad in his first game. 4.) McGahee, Rice, and to a lesser extent McLain looked good. I'm thrilled McGahee is taking his demotion well, because I really don't think he did anything to lose his job.

I think thats the first time i've seen Clayton get separation ever

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

I can't believe we let them march down the field and score.

Flacco is learning to use Heap...this is good.

That would have been good from 63

Come on D...we need a big take-away here.

maybe he is rattled. He's been missing badly.

I think I was more Rattled from my couch than Flacco was.

YAYA HEAP!!!!

Ok, let's get a running game going huh?

Lovely...i can't believe we are losing

Is stover the answer? We need a long term solution and Stover is in decline.

Let's get some points to start the second half

FG kicking will be our undoing this season

I'll take that all season : )