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The good news is Pittsburgh's defense is just as bad. We might have ourselves a good old fashioned shootout.

You would have been choosing from this fine talent pool of QB's coming out in the 2013 NFL draft. No offense papa, but even with the benefit of hindsight the Ravens decision to resign Flacco still looks better than your plan to trade him. Drafted Quarterbacks NAME POS SCHOOL ROUND PK(OVR) TEAM EJ Manuel QB Florida State 1 16(16) Buffalo Geno Smith QB West Virginia 2 7(39) NY Jets Mike Glennon QB North Carolina State 3 11(73) Tampa Bay Matt Barkley QB USC 4 1(98) Philadelphia Ryan Nassib QB Syracuse 4 13(110) NY Giants Tyler Wilson QB Arkansas 4 15(112) Oakland Landry Jones QB Oklahoma 4 18(115) Pittsburgh Brad Sorensen QB Southern Utah 7 15(221) San Diego Zac Dysert QB Miami (OH) 7 28(234) Denver B.J. Daniels QB SOUTH FLORIDA 7 31(237) San Francisco Sean Renfree QB Duke 7 43(249) Atlanta

Third place next week

No we beat the Steelers straight up so we're in 2nd

No, Franks and Brooks. So a rookie and a bum. We can debate if Pees had the right play call on but clearly his players weren't prepared for it and that's on him and his secondary coach.

And replace him with who? If you have a franchise QB you don't trade him unless you have a viable replacement waiting. We can argue whether Flacco is elite or top 10 or whatever, but with his win total he is definitely a franchise QB

The ball was late because Flacco was under durress (Oline was a joke on that final drive). I thought the call was BS based on the situation. The Bengals have one job to do there which is prevent the deep pass. Not exactly a difficult task based on how much time was left. If the Bengals screw that up you don't bail them out with a OPI unless it's egregious.

Let's refocus this thread on the main issue today. With the game on the line, our coaches and/or players are too dumb to prevent what EVERYONE knew was coming. Dalton isn't some clutch precision QB. He just isn't afraid to chuck it up for grabs. No deep bomb to Sanu on that last drive, no loss today. It's as simple as that. Someone said they miss Ed Reed in the game thread today. We really miss his smarts in the secondary. A leader who is smart enough to understand situational football and opponent tendencies.

Agreed

I thought the offensive playcalling was fine. Execution as a team was pathetic. We should have mopped the floor with the players the Bengals put out there today. This is a big W for them.

Remember when Suggs said this after we kept allowing game turning blindside strip sacks of Flacco against the Steelers? You're the Ravens. You've battle back from an early deficit to take the lead against the Bengals. It's late in the 4th quarter and the Bengals are far from FG range. What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO? FIND THE BEST FUCKING RECEIVER ON THE OTHER TEAM AND PROTECT AGAINST THE DEEP PASS. It's not fucking rocket science. Dalton does it every time! We should be so well prepared for it we should be picking these desperation bombs off. Instead we keep letting this happen time after time after time.

what a bullshit call

Wow, we had no beef up front

Ravens need to take time outs now

Every fucking time Dalton heaves a despration pass late and every fucking game we can't cover it.

Wow shocker city

Deep ball to Sanu coming. cover it Ravens

Glad they got it, but I don't understand going for 2 in the 3Q

Kick the extra point. Too early for 2

Outside of that unreal postseason run Flacco's deep ball accuracy sucketh greatly

Fantasy time later papa, there is still a game to watch.

Keep Torrey on the bench until he decides to play 100%. Haven't seen it all season.

Ok I thougth I saw Jimmy at the end of the first half by maybe that was 32.

He was back in the game

Every NFL team should make their QB's dump the ball whenever the play is blown dead after the snap. McNair used to do this. It would limit the chances of then taking a big shot from a Defensive player that doesn't realize the whistle has blown.