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The beauty of professional football was tough minded, excellent play in all phases. Respect for the game and its history has been phased out in favor of glamour. Follow the money...

Lamar needs to learn the art of passing in pros before a "test" can be run. Feeding him playing time before he is similarly ready is just throwing him to defeat without a system so he has a true opportunity, just like Joe hasn't had over the last four years.

Missing his good buddy A.J.

Forgot a QB

Extended use of Jackson v Bills is a ruse to have other teams waste more than usual practice time.

Getting people in the stands by selling tickets is a high priority. Nothing better than a positive bent. My purple glasses are on. Might need a few glasses of the brew, too!

Agreed on defensive points. OL still has center woes, and guards health issues, reserves aren't great but no team has starters grazing on the bench. Still entering a season with more question marks rather than periods and exclamation points. Early, but I'd lean towards 8-8 or 9-7. If they can form great team chemistry, they could scare some. Practices look like a team with hard working but average guys, trying to achieve.

The "Fearsome Foursome" were indeed something to fear. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: ump to navigationJump to search 1967 Baltimore Colts season Head coach Don Shula Owner Carroll Rosenbloom Home field Memorial Stadium Results Record 11–1–2 Division place 2nd Coastal Playoff finish did not qualify ← 1966 Colts seasons 1968 → The 1967 Baltimore Colts season was the 15th season for the team in the National Football League. They finished the regular season with a record of 11 wins, 1 loss, and 2 ties, the same record in the Western Conference's Coastaldivision with the Los Angeles Rams. However, the Colts lost the tiebreaker based on point differential in head-to-head games and thus did not make the playoffs. The Colts' official winning percentage of .917 (based on the NFL's non-counting of ties for such purposes prior to 1972) is the best in North American professional sports history for a non-playoff-qualifying team.

There's a time and a place for such...and that was not it. Rude.

8 week IR candidate.

When I was in elementary, junior ans high school, I often looked around and could not imagine how a number of my classmates could be good parents.

I truly do not think that what has happened is difficult to comprehend. The football pedigree of the Ravens' draft choices changed with the Harbaugh administration, or rather Harbaugh himself. The "alpha male", or problem child tag is never a highly desired draft choice of the coach. Hey, he has to coach these guys and doesn't want to put up with any challenge to his authority or his challenged coaching/play calling practices.there's only so much room in his dog house.

Was Bam Bradley showing much b4 his injury? Can Skura play center?

Roman remains as "assistant HC". Hope he is given a top hierarchy position on offense, and take the mike away from Harbaugh when the Ravens have the ball.

To that end, injuries are a problem for this team, as much or more than all in the NFL. I think that we had the 2nd most on IR. The line play in the second half of games appears to wear down sooner and longer than most teams. Defensive substitutions are not solving the problem. It is part of what blows a late-game lead. Conditioning is lapse and is part of coaching responsibilities. Noticed that a small bit of conditioning, on-field before games, began half-way through the season. They need more pre-season conditioning.

Vmax-"And who did Harbaugh chase out that went somewhere else and played well?" Not so much the "who" but the what - the raven culture, veteran alpha male part of leadership that Harbaugh doesn't wish to share nor deal with. Evidently not only from players, but coaches too.

...and that (training/conditioning) could contribute to injuries as well as late game pooping.

With the right hardass QB coach who would not be conflicted with a decent hardass OC and not impaired by the HC, Joe would improve. He is a follower that can be led so long as someone grabs the ring in his nose. With the next year's schedule, and the firing of the HC and OC by the end of the season, a new HC may have a good QB to pick in the draft.

From January 3, 2018 http://drewsmorningdish.com/

From Todd Schoenberger at "Drew's Morning Dish" "Welcome to 2018, RavensNation! Normally, this is the time for fresh starts, new beginnings, establishing goals, and optimism for the upcoming twelve-month campaign. Well, not in Baltimore. Nope. After Sunday’s utter disappointment, all in Charm City are left in a state of disbelief and anger. The Ravens didn’t just let its fans down; it embarrassed the city in a way violent riots and meteoric homicide rates do. Is it time for the Ravens to go in another direction and bid farewell to John Harbaugh?Think I’m being overly dramatic? Perhaps, but the Ravens bruised the city’s civic pride and the team needs to be called out on it. First, let’s discuss the coach. As engaging and charismatic as John Harbaugh may be, he has single-handily destroyed the culture of the Ravens. Following the SuperBowl victory, he began making moves by forcing several of the team’s key personalities and hard hitters out of Baltimore. Harbs didn’t want the A-type extroverts on the team. Rather, he wanted…no, demanded…to be the face of the Ravens. Normally, NFL teams prefer to let its star players stand out, but Harbaugh has some kind of personal attention requirement, where he is the one-and-only mouthpiece for a team historically equipped with trash-talking savages. He’s a classic micro-manager. A person in control of every detail rarely trusting his staff in full, guys like Harbaugh know how to manufacturer a bond with those of influence. And the most influential person connected to the Ravens is owner Steve Bisciotti. Their relationship is more about friendship, than employer/employee. This is why Bisciotti finds it hard to make the necessary change at the top, despite another average record and repeat non-playoff berth for a once-storied franchise. But Harbaugh failed, miserably, as a coach on Sunday. He did not have his team prepared, despite his management style being all about dotting I’s and crossing T’s. He may have focused on the details, but he made a crucial error with the one that is the most important: Always have your team ready. A few reports are beginning to sprinkle into articles about Harbaugh being “distracted” in the days leading up to the critical Bengals game. Valid or not, the idea that stories like this would even be discussed is alarming considering what was at stake on Sunday. If true, it would explain why the team seemed distracted in the beginning of the game. The lack of energy on the sideline was crystal clear and gave the impression the team had other things on their minds rather than football. That’s the problem when you run your leaders off the team, though. If Harbaugh was mentally jarred from something else, he needed a player to step-up in the locker room and rally the troops. Flacco can’t do it. C.J. prefers to play in the shadows. And Suggs—who was once a vocal antagonizer—has been silenced over the years. Many say Suggs has quieted down because of his age, but my guess is the head coach told him to pipe down and not ruffle any feathers. The lack of player leadership is a red flag for the Ravens, and its staff. Many in the NFL must view the team as subpar, not carrying the same gravitas in the Ravens locker-room as it once did in its heyday. NFL teams always had Ravens’ coaches on the short list when filling personnel vacancies. Other teams believed they would get the secret sauce for success when luring a coordinator or assistant to join their staffs. Not anymore. And as a matter of fact, when the Ravens saw their season end on Sunday, three ex-Ravens coaches were either fired or forced to resign from their head coaching jobs on the same day: Chuck Pagano, Jack Del Rio, and Marvin Lewis. Funny, but I don’t believe any of John Harbaugh’s assistants have been hired by opposing teams since the Super Bowl season. The reason is simple: The kindler-and-gentler version of Harbaugh’s Ravens is toxic in a league best known for violent hits and turbocharged masculinity. Bisciotti needs to terminate Harbaugh and begin the process of culture recovery for the team. If he doesn’t, then the Ravens will be looking at another mediocre season in 2018, and beyond."

Agreed. If the Ravens do not get up in points early....RED ALERT...ALL SHIELDS UP...fasten your seat belts.

Both ways, Papa. Refs should be forced to draw straws as to what game they're assigned. Refs are as bad as the talent on the field. Inconsistent....certainly not an easy job.

With a Bengal win the Ravens could stomp the Turdible Towel Sunday and get an assist from Tom Terrific the following week, winding up with a North division lead (better division record by still needing to win out).....................or a Bungle loss drops them below the maginot line solidifying a potential #6 for the local fall Fowl. But still dropping in the draft... The Ravens are not really that good (really weak OL, play calling, etc., but this year no one stands out (Philly v Seahawks, etc.). Then again, who is a top team that stands leaps and bounds above the mediocrity?

Must be the grime rate.(quality of NFL game play)