Horrible, just absolutely horrible. Easily the worst performance in the NFL so far this week. The Ravens are the only NFL team in the league not to score in a game so far, and it looks as if it will be a major victory if we do put something on the board against the NFL’s worst run defense, huh!? The playcalling continues to have me bewildered. Indy’s defense is small but athletic and very fast, much faster than the Ravens offense. Therefore, it doesn’t take an idiot to realize you can’t do long, slowing forming plays and need to utilize your power up the middle or off tackle, but certainly not on the corners. Cam Cameron seems determined to prove we can pass, as he continues to be hesitant to run the ball like the Ravens have done in the past.

Defensively, Chris McAlister looks like he is on drugs, just standing still waiting to react long after Harrison makes his move. Why in the world would you sit back with Indy on the four yard line and not jam Harrison at the line? I just don’t get their thought process. Great tackling on that long Indy run, with seven Ravens missing shots to make the tackle.

Overall, everything went wrong for us and everything went right for Indy. they are worlds better than us and if this continues, I will be embarassed to wear my Ravens colors when I travel to Miami for next week’s Ravens game against the Dolphins, who at this point, must be figuring this will be another easy win for them over us.

Think I’m frustrated?

The long drive by the Ravens had some good signs, such as the running of rookie Ray Rice. Once again, Willis McGahee cannot stay uninjured and Le’Ron McClain has been way too slow and ineffective. Hence, the appearance of Rice, whose speed is a sort of an equalizer to the Colts’ team speed on defense. However, the drive stalled due to the o-line’s inability to protect Flacco all day, and Willie anderson was beaten like a rented drum by Robert Mathis for his 3rd sack of the day, leading to Matt Stover’s 38 yard FG. Of course, Stover is money from inside the 40, but o-for outside of it.

The Ravens need to win the fourth quarter, move the ball and resist the urge to let out their frustrations and implode with personal foul penalties. Just stay healthy and get out of town with your tail between your legs, saying, “uncle!”

Wow, what an embarassment. Was this the same team that was the NFL’s #1 defense for the first four games of our season? We certainly didn’t look formidable on defense, and forget about the offense. Brand new coaching staff and QB, same old Ravens. Flacco looked exactly like the rookie people said he was when they drafted him out of Division I-AA (oh, sorry College Football Subdivision!). He looked confused, slow and made terrible decisions and poor passes. Once again, Coach Harbaugh made poor decisions, deciding to use his last timeout at 2:02 in the final quarter, and the announcers called him on it just like I was, when sitting on my sofa, screaming once again at the TV.

At last the Dolphins lost in the final seconds, to the Texans, both teams that I now expect to beat us as well, as the Ravens fall to 2-3 and are now looking at a season similar to last year, and the only positive will be a high draft pick come next April.

God, I’m frustrated. Time to drink – heavily.

If Troy Smith is in playing shape, he needs a shot soon. He played well in the 2 starts of last year, and the team has lost 2 games DIRECTLY BECAUSE OF JOE FLACCO! He did a great job managing the game in weeks one and two, and shot the team in the foot in games 3 and 4.

I thought we had put turds like that behind us with the Brian Billick era.

The offense was terrible. Terrible. And the playcalling was worse. They made no effort to either stretch the field or pound it up the middle. It was Brian Billick all over again. Dear Coaches Harbaugh and Cameron. If Brian Billick could come up with an offensive game plan to beat Indy, he would still be working here. No longer do that again. Le’Ron McClain has been our best offensive skill player this season and he got 2 CARRIES. Not only that, but they were both doofus counter plays that had absolutely no chance of working against any defense. Counters are great… For McGahee. Willis McGahee. Le’Ron runs up the middle and off tackle. If he’s going outside, it’s to catch the ball. They put 8 and 9 in the box, and yet the Ravens didn’t take shots downfield. The one time they tried, Flacco stared down his primary receiver so long the Safety picked it off. If Flacco hadn’t underthrown his guy, it could have been a great play.

Now McGahee and Marshall Yanda are hurt. This means that we stand a very real chance of having to watch Chris Chester start a game next week. That is not good.

Special Teams was absolutely awful, and there is no excuse for it. Whoever is forming that wedge on kickoffs needs to be cut or fired. I haven’t seen the wedge hold once this season. We might have the worst return team in the league. This from the team that hired a ST guy to be a head coach, who then went and brought in 3 people to be special teams aces. The team then drafts an army of rookie special teamers in Smith, Gooden, Zbikowski, and Nakamura. I miss Gary Stills. Sam Koch is the only Ravens player who earned his paycheck today.

Defense was awful, of course. They were, however, the least bad of the three units, as Peyton certainly seems to have mostly gotten himself together. He placed some balls in tight coverages. C-Mac had a horrible game. He at least had the decency to look completely ashamed of himself. He’ll rebound, as an instinctual player like C-Mac is prone to having a couple bad games. Part of our secondary problems is the freaking injuries. Ed Reed was brought up in the one game he should have been kept back. Everyone knows Indy likes to throw it deep. Keep Ed Reed in center field to cut off the field. But he had to be brought up to protect our awful corners. Corey Ivy is absolutely terrible. I saw his number on 60% of Indy’s completions. He can’t cover anything. He also had two penalties. He might be the worst player in the NFL.
What the hell has happened to the Ravens pass rush. As of right now, Terrell Suggs does not deserve half of the money he’s asking for, although he at least beat his guy once on a play that he got seriously held on. If he was held more often and the Ref’s didn’t call it, that might be an excuse, but the ref’s seemed willing to call holding today.
That running play by Dominic Rhodes was absolutely embarrassing. It was quite possibly the most disgusting play of the day. The Ravens weren’t even trying to tackle him.

I really was hoping Harbaugh would turn out to be a great coach. He certainly says all the right things, and I loved his hiring decisions and the personnel decisions he was making. Now it looks like the team is about to crumble out from under him. At least we get to host Oakland in two weeks.

I knew the Ravens were going to lose this game by a wide margin. We were ethier going to win a close one or lose big and we now know which one it was.
     Im not surprised we lost by this much. I hate to say it but, i was aspecting the game to turn out like this. It seems like every time we play the colts, Manning has a field day on our D and our offense gets shut down. We never stick to the gameplan of running the ball. It seems that if Manning throws a TD pass, we gotta do the same thing. Our coachs should know that we cant compete with Peyton. We should had been running the ball about every 2 plays to set up the pass. When the decided to put 8 guys in the box, do a play-action pass.
     Joe Flacco……… I felt sorry for him. It seemed as if he didnt know what was going on. This game really brought him back to earth. This is just somthing he gotta build on. I really wish Baltimore would of went after dante culpepper in the off-season. It’s not all Flacco’s fault. The O-line could have provided better protection. Matter of fact, Cam could have provided better protection by calling less passing plays.
     One thing we must do better is take care of the ball. I dont care how good a team is. No one is going to win when they turn the ball over 5 times. We gotta protect the ball and also our QB.
     I believe the ravens will be feeling this one for a while. The bset defense in the league just got tourched and one of the best running games just got shut down. I really hope we turn it around because we can not afford to lose 4 stright games.

If we couldn’t beat a winless team last year, what makes you think we can beat a resurging Dolphins team that has an offense and already beat the two teams who were in last year’s AFC Championship Game?