Ravens/Steelers Week

[vmax]

However the Ravens AND THE STEELERS stumbled into this position to be playing for the AFC North Championship...doesn't matter.

Both kept stumbling and fell forward to this point.

Both Teams.

Both teams are flawed.

 

The Ravens winning the last 4 straight games and 6 out of the last 7?

Doesn't matter. Well...this season's win matters...a lot, but you get the point.

 

One team will find a way to win. One will find a way to lose.

 

I've been looking at the last few games and at Sunday's game trying to see what the Ravens can bring to Pittsburgh to be competitive and possibly win.

I see enough that think the Ravens have a good shot at climbing this mountain.... if they can match the Steelers intensity and stay composed.

There are enough pieces to win on the table, in place and developing, but they have to work in tandem.

They can pass. The weapons are there and chomping at the bit.

They ran Sunday.

Special Teams is very good.

The defense has been steady and good most of the season.

They are healthy.

 

Oh...they are really good at committing penalties.Almost league leaders. They still make stupid mistakes and lose focus at times.

And there are the inexplicable brain farts like Sunday.

And so it is....Ravens/Steelers Week...as we chew our nails and pull our hair out.

Edited December 20, 2016 by vmax

[ravinmaniac52]

Hate, love which ever team, this is why Art wanted his team to stay in the AFCN

[OutsideRzAcE]

The Steelers are monsters at home. I don't see how we stay in the game without a healthy jimmy smith.

 

Offensively we need ball control offense, which is not a strength. This is going to be a tough game to pull out.

[vmax]

The Ravens are 5 point Underdogs.

yea OTR....Not having Jimmy Smith is scary.

 

 

The Ravens have won the last three meetings against the Steelers in which they were underdogs. Baltimore upset Pittsburgh in the 2014 playoffs and last December, when the Ravens were 10-point underdogs. This year, the Ravens were three-point underdogs at home in November and the beat the Steelers, 21-14, to end a four-game losing streak....http://www.espn.com/blog/baltimore-ravens/post/_/id/32659/ravens-are-five-point-underdogs-for-afc-north-showdown-at-steelers

[vmax]

Remember 2008...I think...

 

The Ravens played Pittsburgh in the conference championship and lost.

Polamalu jumped over the line from Flacco's blindside and caused a sack or fumble????

 

That is the kind of play the Steelers are going to bring to this game to snap their losing streak against the Ravens.

I don't know if they have the talent to pull it off but the Ravens weak link is the O line.

Run blitz, pass blitz and It will give iin.

 

The Steelers are not that awesome. All they could get isv a ton of field goals Sunday.

 

The Ravens need to bring 60 minutes of this and they walk away with the win...

[varaven45]

Max,

 

All things are possible but .......:

[vmax]

I found somebody who's picking the Ravens. It took some serious work searching but...

 

Baltimore 17, Pittsburgh 13 (Sunday afternoon): For these two teams, remember this credo: when the stakes are high, the scores are low. Things won't be much different at Heinz Field on Christmas afternoon when these two decide the AFC North. The Steelers are probably encouraged that Chris Bowell put on a Justin Tucker-like performance with six field goals last week, but if the Ravens can run the ball well, stop running back Le'Veon Bell -- as they have done in the past -- and get the kind of downfield big plays they occasionally get, they might not need Tucker to win. Plus, the Ravens have won four of their last six games at Heinz Field......https://www.pressboxonline.com/2016/12/21/joey-ps-week-16-nfl-picks-still-hot-even-when-its-cold

[oldno82]

I don't think our weak link is the O-line. I still think it's in the secondary and the coaching.

 

Ron Stanley has been a success I'd say. Yanda is a star.Wagner has been playing well. Zuttah ain't the greatest but he'll do. The only weak spot I see is Ducasse. I can't believe they have this guy playing. If I were king, I'd put Urschel in there.

[vmax]

 

"When you dream of being in the NFL, you dream of going into hostile environments in high-pressure situations, where a lot is on the line and people are into it. You don't picture playing in front of 10 people like you do in high school for some of us. You picture going into a place and playing in front of 70,000 people that hate you. That's what makes it fun," Flacco said Wednesday. "I think we've all said it a bunch: There's not too many feelings in this world that are better than winning an NFL football game. That probably gets amplified a bit when you get to silence the crowd."

 

 

"We've had to throw the ball a lot more in a lot of instances," Flacco said. "It's tough to look back at the whole thing. We've hit our bumps here and there, but we're starting to hit our stride. When you come out here and watch our practices, you can tell. We're starting to hit our stride. The second half of the season, it's come together with some of the new guys, our offensive line play and myself. I think it's all come together at the right time and we're playing well lately.".........http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/bs-sp-ravens-1222-20161221-story.html

 

Damn I hope this is true and happens Sunday.

One can dream....

[varaven45]

Yep. Like the kid in Rudy said "dreams make life tolerable"

Either way, it's going to take a Herculean effort to pull off a W in the burg !

[vmax]

Found another one "Oh Ye of little faith!"

 

 

 

SUNDAY: RAVENS AT STEELERS
It may all come down to this, and I like the Ravens. If they can channel that 2013 magic, Baltimore can be the team no one wants to play in January. It has to start here. Win in Pittsburgh. Win in Cincinnati. Win in the wild-card round. Win on the road in the divisional round. Win on the road in the AFC Championship game. Finish the job in Houston. The challenge is out there, Ravens. Go get it. In a game of this magnitude, I’m taking the defense. And head-to-head, it’s been the Ravens who’ve had the better unit.
The pick: Ravens 27, Steelers 23.....http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/nfl-week-16-cheat-sheet-peter-schragers-picks-for-all-16-games/ss-BBxswsO?li=BBnb7Kz#image=16

[cravnravn]

Dam I thought I was a homer

[thesteelhurtin]

Ratbirds

[oldcrow]

what uniforms are you guys wearing

not the purple color rush right

you wearing white

[thesteelhurtin]

Hahaha I wonder if they are going to wear their Steelers gold pants.

[cravnravn]

Oh look, our bitches are here.

[vmax]

Ahhhh.... Back from the dead!

 

Here...let me put up some excuses for you....

 

 

PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Ladarius Green (concussion) and wide receiver Sammie Coates (hamstring) are listed as doubtful for Sunday's game against the Baltimore Ravens.

Four key players are questionable, including defensive end Stephon Tuitt (knee), defensive end Ricardo Mathews (ankle), wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey (foot) and linebacker Anthony Chickillo (ankle).

If Coates and Heyward-Bey miss the game, that leaves Antonio Brown, Eli Rogers, Cobi Hamilton and Demarcus Ayers as the only eligible receivers on the 53-man roster. The Steelers have three healthy defensive linemen if Tuitt and Mathews get ruled out............http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/18340697/pittsburgh-steelers-te-ladarius-green-wr-sammie-coates-doubtful-vs-ravens

[oldcrow]

Oh look, our bitches are here.

i surprised your fingers are

STIFF

enough to type

[vmax]

I agree....

 

 

 

......asked whether current Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin still needs to prove himself as a great coach. "I don't think he's a great coach at all," Bradshaw said."He's a nice coach. He's really a great cheerleader guy. I don't know what he does, but I don't think he's a great coach at all.

"His name never even pops in my mind when we think about great coaches in the NFL."....http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/bradshaw-on-steelers-tomlin-hes-a-cheerleader-guy/ar-BBxvlny?li=BBnbfcL

 

[oldcrow]

WHEW!!!

Holy cow!!

 

fun football game

i know it's better being on the winning side

real lucky we got

 

I can't stand my team

i thought they actually blew it

 

one of these days

the Steelers might have an easy win against you

Ravens have had a few against us i'd like one for once

 

 

thanks for making our football team actually have to man up every year

 

our division is still the baddest in the league