Jags at Ravens

[tsylvester]

Short weeks can make for a long weekend. For the working person or the school aged peeps, a Holiday at the end or beginning of the week can be awesome sauce.

But when you are an NFL player, a short week doesn't indicate a Holiday break, but a Thursday night game following a game on the previous Sunday.

Yeah, soreness is real and strange things happen in Thursday night games.

There seems to be an easy answer to the question of who ya got?... 

But maybe that question should be posed to the Ravens coaching staff or even their front office. The injuries are not just piling up, they are tribbles when they get wet. Yes you know you are old if you get that reference.

Who starts at qb for the Ravens, anyone not named Lamar Jackson, maybe our Ole buddy crav will come out of retirement and suit up.

Huntley has a toe issue, if ya buy that. Maybe he just didnt want to get back behind that offensive line, I think everyone on the line gave up a sack or multiple hits against the worst defense in the league.

So who ya got?

[tsylvester]

Well it appears that Fruit Loop pulled more than his field goals, has a possible pulled groin and might be heading to IR, instead of a check out line near you.

Time to play the Blues, maybe a little crazy Rock, say like the Moody Blues.

Moody, Jake, to take over

In our "Wildest Dreams" I doubt anyone saw all of these injuries coming.

5 centers

Lamar 4 games one time, now IR with a different injury

Huntley with a foot or ankle or toe

Loop conveniently with a pulled groin, 

Even Nano has an injured ankle that he says he can play through. Atta boy!

[tsylvester]

Round and round the wheel turns and it lands on...... Who knows

Will it be the rookie with a sore ankle, Nano

Will it be Autson Reed, he of the preseason heros now back in the practice squad

Or will it be the recently signed journeyman, Kedon Slovis behind center? 

This should be no fun, but as we said, in a short week, strange things happen. Shoot, if the Bucs can win a game not completing a pass, 0-3, why can't the Ravens win with an inexperienced or no experience quarterback?!

[oldno82]

I still haven't recovered emotionally from the damned Bills game so I can imagine how the team must feel. I wonder how many players are just going to make business decisions all through this game or just mail it in. Or is that the same thing?? 

Time for the coaching staff to show us what geniuses they are.

[tsylvester]

So Huntley to IR, done for the season and likely his playing days for the Ravens is also over.

Nano to get the start, see how long his ankle lasts.mmm

Night game, so I will be recording it and focus on the offensive line, point out who screwed the pooch

[oldno82]

I think you can safely point to Rosengarten and Vorhees without even having to record it.

[tsylvester]

Ioane is set to start tonight, hope the knee holds up. Great that he and Nano who is also hurt, are playing through it

[tsylvester]

Ravens are gonna wanna run heavy, but the Jags are only given up 77 yards per game, 3.3 yards per carry, #1 in the league. But it is a short week, maybe, just maybe hitting Henry for 4 quarters will eat them up

[oldno82]

Well tonight was a disaster. The Ravens using a bunch of wildcat plays with hardly any attempt to have Nano play the game. A pathetic strategy with a predictable ending. I heard a lot of boo-ing in this one too. Humprey-Dumphrey sucked. He should be let go tomorrow and he can take his comments about fan negativity with him.

Also, Tsyl is right that Kyle can't cover. He can be a deadly linebacker but he's truly not that good at covering receivers. And, he's not big enough to really be a linebacker.

Speaking of 'enough', tonight was the first time I can recall turning off a Ravens game after before the fourth quarter.

[tsylvester]

If I told you the Ravens would run for 179 yards and win the time of possession, you might think this game was not only close, but that the Ravens would have won. Boy that was a long, inappropriate sentence.

However, the Ravens killed drives with penalties, again, the second series where they were driving down field after starting at their own 11 yard line because of a penalty, Stanley and Andrews go false start back to back to kill the drive at their 45.

The run game was working, trickery or not, early on. Henry was running hard, lineman were getting to and sticking to their blocks. But then, the much maligned defense took the field.

I've don't know if I have ever seen such confusion in a secondary, leaving guys wide open. There was little reason for it, the front 4 were getting good pressure on the pocket, tight coverage would have stopped this Jags offense.

It was not all their fault, in a normal game, with an offense scoring points, maybe, ah nope, just kidding.

The offense did move the ball, but never got into the redzone. There were less than 60 yards passing. Even the 170+ yards rushing is a bit misleading; a long touchdown run spoils those numbers, done when the game was out of hand.

3 turnovers made short work for the Jags offense, 2 picks, one fumble. Another 3rd and inches, failed with Amdrews behind center.

I don't fault the play calling, though the screens clearly were not fooling anyone. Only 1 sack given up, this was mostly due to all of the screens, very little down field passing. Why? To shorten the game, help protect the rookie with no one to really come in if he gets injured.

But we see the faults of the rookie, he missed a wide open Flowers deep after a trick play on their 3rd series. Instead throwing to Hibs on a crossing route that was tipped by an underneath defender. Then of course the turnovers.

[tsylvester]

A great sight to see, finally someone on the team shows they care about winning

https://nypost.com/2026/11/05/sports/ravens-coach-flips-lid-and-smashes-tablet-with-teams-o-line-in-massive-struggle-on-tnf/

Down big, Ravens offensive line coach Dwayne Ledford looked like he had seen just about enough from his unit when the Prime Video broadcast captured him irately addressing the Ravens O-line. 

The Ravens assistant coach was seen yelling and chewing out his unit on the sideline before he launched his tablet to the ground in anger amid the ugly effort from Baltimore in its 33-10 loss to the Jaguars on “Thursday Night Football.” 

“He’s seen about enough,” Kirk Herbstreit said while the broadcast played video of the outburst. “They’ve had a lot of injuries. They’re on their fourth center. Just a frustrating night. … I’m sure they challenged them all week.” 

[oldno82]

Yeah, I don't know what else the OL coach can do at this point. Maybe throw Rosengarten down to the ground along with the tahlet?

[oldno82]

Very concerned that Minter and his staff can't make halftime adjustments. Other teams are killing us there every freaking week.

I'm now starting to doubt the competence of all the coaches. Minter needs to show more fire on the sidelines and I think Doyle starts out with a good gameplan but can't adjust as the game is in progress.

We've got 4 relatively weaker opponents coming up, just in time to make Brissett look like 'the answer'.

[tsylvester]

You can bake a cake with rotten eggs, it may or may not rise. But in the end, you're gonna make everyone who eats it, sick.

A lot or a majority of the points given up in the 2nd half last night were due to turnovers. Frankly, the D did well to hold them to mostly field goals.

Even then, The Minter can only do so much with what/who he has to work with.

Starks is not living up to his draft profile. Humph is done, Ro is done, Simpson is good around the line, but terrible in coverage, man or zone.

That is just 4 of the 11, who cant cover or just cant get into the right position to take away the passing lane.

Humph will be gone at seasons end, Ro might be as well.

[oldno82]

They should cut Humph loose before the trade deadline.