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Ya joking right? Ravens have executed under pressure in the last 16 seasons.....

We just turned front runners worse and worse over the last several seasons.
Execute under pressure? They have 4 division titles in the past 15 years. If they executed under pressure, they wouldn’t have lost to the colts or Steelers and they damn sure wouldn’t have lost to the browns with a 14 point 4th quarter lead at home and would’ve effectively wrapped up the division by week 10. That’s what teams who execute under pressure do. They finish games. The ravens don’t do that. They’ve won 2 playoff games in the past decade. Go look at the 2010 divisional round, the 2011 divisional round or afc title game, the last 2 games of 2013, the last 3 weeks of the 2014 season and the 2 games vs Cincinnati, the 2014 divisional round, all of 2015-17, the 2019 divisional round, or the 2020 divisional round. They’ve always been front runners.


Ravens never gonna win the big game, especially with that offense .. 13 completions from a starting qb is trash and Lamar my nikka
Doesn’t matter who is under center or who is the OC. This team always ends up outsmarting itself on offense, especially with the playcalling.
 
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Yeah I'm done for the season. Good luck to the rest of you brehs holding out hope.


That's a wild take. You don't expect a season split within the division? Browns have good defense and Watson is getting back to normal.

AFC North is best Division in football.


Lamar's fault or not....too many Fumbles and/or INTs. I expect that every game....be it someone falls down, D- Line tips it or bad exchange with RB. That's the big issue of the season, imo. That's hard to clean up in the same season and usually carries over into playoffs.
 

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That's a wild take. You don't expect a season split within the division? Browns have good defense and Watson is getting back to normal.

AFC North is best Division in football.


Lamar's fault or not....too many Fumbles and/or INTs. I expect that every game....be it someone falls down, D- Line tips it or bad exchange with RB. That's the big issue of the season, imo. That's hard to clean up in the same season and usually carries over into playoffs.
It’s not about who you lose to it’s about how you lose.. under no circumstances should a superbowl team lose that game
 

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That's a wild take. You don't expect a season split within the division? Browns have good defense and Watson is getting back to normal.

AFC North is best Division in football.


Lamar's fault or not....too many Fumbles and/or INTs. I expect that every game....be it someone falls down, D- Line tips it or bad exchange with RB. That's the big issue of the season, imo. That's hard to clean up in the same season and usually carries over into playoffs.
It's not about losing to them, it's how we lost to them. They basically beat us playing the type of football we play because we refused to establish the run. Yes we were scoring but that meant our defense was on the field more than theirs. And look what happened at the end of the game, our d couldn't get stops and theirs could. Hell we got bailed out by thr refs a few times and still lost. It's a pattern of behavior with this team under this coaching staff. I didn't want to admit but at some point we need to honest with ourselves. Hell we should be asking why Harbaugh has only been to 1 SB and he's had some really good teams.
 

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That's a wild take. You don't expect a season split within the division? Browns have good defense and Watson is getting back to normal.

AFC North is best Division in football.


Lamar's fault or not....too many Fumbles and/or INTs. I expect that every game....be it someone falls down, D- Line tips it or bad exchange with RB. That's the big issue of the season, imo. That's hard to clean up in the same season and usually carries over into playoffs.
That’s the point though. They have the same problems every year and it’s been this way the entire time Harbaugh has been the coach. Bad penalties, mental mistakes in critical moments, giving away conference and division games where they have a big lead in the 4th, bad tackling in the clutch, a defense that always seems to fold when the game is on the line. They should be 10-0 right now with a 4.5 game lead on the other 3 teams who should all be 5-4. Now they have to worry about all 3 teams in the north and the 3 conference losses hurt them in a race with Miami and Kansas City for higher seeds in the event they do win the north.
 

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It's not about losing to them, it's how we lost to them. They basically beat us playing the type of football we play because we refused to establish the run. Yes we were scoring but that meant our defense was on the field more than theirs. And look what happened at the end of the game, our d couldn't get stops and theirs could. Hell we got bailed out by thr refs a few times and still lost. It's a pattern of behavior with this team under this coaching staff. I didn't want to admit but at some point we need to honest with ourselves. Hell we should be asking why Harbaugh has only been to 1 SB and he's had some really good teams.
Borderline criminal that he reached just 1 Super Bowl with the 2008-12 teams. Lost the afc title game vs Pittsburgh in 2008 because Flacco stared down his man and forced a ball into double coverage down 2 in the final minutes. In 2009 they lost a playoff game where they basically made no effort to throw beyond the first down marker after the opening drive. Taking a 21-7 lead into halftime of the 2010 divisional round and losing 31-24 should’ve been the end of him, especially with how they blew 4th quarter leads to New England and Pittsburgh that year to cost them both the north and the #1 seed. Giving away the conference title game 3 plays straight the next year should’ve gotten the entire offensive staff blacklisted from the league.
 

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It’s not about who you lose to it’s about how you lose.. under no circumstances should a superbowl team lose that game

It's not about losing to them, it's how we lost to them. They basically beat us playing the type of football we play because we refused to establish the run. Yes we were scoring but that meant our defense was on the field more than theirs. And look what happened at the end of the game, our d couldn't get stops and theirs could. Hell we got bailed out by thr refs a few times and still lost. It's a pattern of behavior with this team under this coaching staff. I didn't want to admit but at some point we need to honest with ourselves. Hell we should be asking why Harbaugh has only been to 1 SB and he's had some really good teams.

That’s the point though. They have the same problems every year and it’s been this way the entire time Harbaugh has been the coach. Bad penalties, mental mistakes in critical moments, giving away conference and division games where they have a big lead in the 4th, bad tackling in the clutch, a defense that always seems to fold when the game is on the line. They should be 10-0 right now with a 4.5 game lead on the other 3 teams who should all be 5-4. Now they have to worry about all 3 teams in the north and the 3 conference losses hurt them in a race with Miami and Kansas City for higher seeds in the event they do win the north.



We can change play calling and We can run the ball better situationally......that can be fixed quickly.


Slop and penalties are the hard part....And well, that goes back to the Brian Billick Era for the franchise. I'm more concerned about how that stuff can be reduced as opposed to play calling as the staff seems more flexible in that regard this season.
 
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