I can’t get the game on TV in Richmond, so I went out to the bar and met possibly the only other Ravens fan in town. Anyways, by the third quarter, I was all set to come in here and whine about how we always give away the games we should be winning. Consider me relieved to be eating my words.

For the good: Flacco looked great. Ray Rice had his best game yet, hands down. I didn’t realize Clayton still played for us, but I’m glad he got his first touchdown in, what, 66 touches? Mason was excellent, but that’s just par for the course at this point. Old Man Stover went 3/3 (although I must admit that I get antsy any time I see him lining up this season). And it’s nice to see Suggs playing for that payday.

For the bad: Can we trade Ivy for someone from the CFL? At this point, I’m not sure that even a forced fumble can redeem this guy. And is it just me, or does it feel like we always lose steam after half time?

For the ugly: Harbaugh is a Special Teams specialist. We drafted like four guys for special teams. We picked up Ayanbadejo (SP? Am I even close?) in the off season. How are we so terrible in special teams? Maybe it’s just a Baltimore legacy now, considering Billick was an offensive genius.

Overall, I’m stoked to be going into the second half of the season as a legit contender. It feels great to see 37 points on the scoreboard, with 21 coming from the offense. Hopefully we can see more of the same going into the rest of the season.

If you told me that the Ravens would give up 27 points this game, and still win. I would have thought you were crazy. The offense carried this team this game. When the defense and special teams were struggling, Joe Flacco and the rest of the Ravens offense picked up this team, put it on their shoulders and carried it to victory.

429 Yards offensively. The Baltimore Ravens haven’t gotten 400+ yards offensively since… the last time they played the Cleveland Browns at their stadium. But we lost that game, and were treated to the indignity of seeing Willis McGahee get 104 yards… on 14 carries. This time, our offensive coordinator put our team in a position to score points, and instead of 13 points like last year, we got 37, nearly tripling our scoring from that game. The last time the Ravens scored 37 or more points was December, 12th 2004 hosting the New York Giants. The Ravens just did that to a team previously allowing only 17 points a game (7th in the NFL).

Joe Flacco has officially done something that Brett Favre has never done… Lead his team to victory after being down by 14 points. He’s also gone 3 consecutive games without an interception or a lost fumble.

Welcome to the land of awesome Mark Clayton. Please Please Please don’t leave.

Oh, and Ray Rice you were incredible in the second half. I always loved you in college, buy was a bit disappointed when we drafted you, because I felt like we had bigger needs. I was wrong. You are totally worth it.

This could turn out to be my absolute favorite win of the season. I can’t begin to describe how exhilerating it was to see Terrell Suggs pick off another pass and bring it to the end zone.

I said before this game that the Ravens weren’t a playoff team this year. Now, I just don’t know if that’s true. It will be really difficult to overcome the injuries to our secondary, especially without a bye week and against a brutal second half schedule, but this team has simply exceeded my expectations on the season. There’s no other word for it.

It was a great win, and helped reinforce my love for this team. I won’t criticize this team today. It was an absolute treat to see the Ravens come back, and obviously, we were going to have to do some crappy things in order for there to be a situation where we would come back.

Umm…. I’d just like to say Go Ravens, and to all my friends who predicted the Browns to win…

CHEA!!!

btw, at the moment my feelings go something like this…
GO REDSKINS!!!!!

Man, my crappy whole wheat spaghetti dinner never tasted so good. Friggin’ delicious…Now I can watch every sports highlight show until 2AM just waiting for 30 seconds of Raven’s action…something only a win makes possible. My week will be great as I read every little newspaper article about this win..Optimism rules…but for me to remain true to form- we need to beat a winning record on National TV : ) That’s next!

Can someone tell me how to remove myself from the Cleveland blog??? Since we wont be seeing them again I’d like to remove myself from their group/blog

i only know how to take threads started me off..done through Manage Fan Posts at top right on screen…or you can delete it right below your thread at the blog site..not sure if you can take comments off.

No not comments… I mean, I want to remove myself from Dawgs By Nature. I just joined it so i could get some insight and some extra reading for the week. Now that that the game is over, and since we dont play them again this season. I have no need of being in that group

NEVERMIND. lol.

On a side note: Does anyone else think commentators are going to start talking about how the ravens should be 7-1 during the week? I sooo see it coming, whenever we start winning they get excited. And we’ve been on a 3 game winning streak, and scoring substantial points too.

Announcers will be praising the Ravens all week.

Many people have said it before: If Baltimore ever gets a good quarterback (much less, an offense), they will be extremely hard to beat. I think that we finally have it. This game was Flacco’s coming out party against the Browns “stingy” pass defense. If our offense can continue to develop like this, we will be a serious play-off contender that no-one will want to play in the post-season.

I have to admit that this win is a little more satisfying than most. After all the hype and trash-talking during the preseason, the Ravens brought down the sledge hammer and added the exclamation point to the “Browns are a fluke” statement. Look out AFC, the Ravens are playing for the post-season now!

The Browns had a very good d-line. Flacco not only survived he played well. He threw the ball away and avoided risky passes. I bet Mason never thought he would be catching 9 for 130 with a rookie. He has to be juiced. With Clayton having over 80 yards, it was the first time in a long time 2 Raven receivers had over 80 reception yards in the same game.

Our D has enjoyed a 30 point average the past 3 games. I think everyone is trusting each other and the locker room has to be real positive. This is probably the most content team we’ve had in a while. On a negative note, we’re rushing but little (although timely)pressure is getting through. Opposing QB’s have a lot of time. With a weak backfield this is a huge worry. Thankfully, Derrick Anderson didn’t use all the time he had and was the victim of some terrible coaching.

The way we are playing. I loved the effort our team showed today, not giving up when down 14. We really stayed optimistic and it paid off in the end. Flacco is my hero, Ray Rice is disgusting, and that is a top 5 d-line in the NFL he got 154 on. Our offense had it’s best all around game today, and finally we scored some points!!! Lovin it guys

BUT, I hate the way we acted before the snaps. We cannot be burning timeouts the way that we did. Even though they were not needed too much in this game, we will need them sometime this season, I can bet you that. Then, the 2ndary. Wow, we are not gonna keep getting this lucky against these teams. If we have this same lineup in our 2ndary when we play dallas with romo back, he will torch us for 400 plus and 4 tds. We need to do something about this, even though we have won our last 3 games without cmac and rolle, we in a way squeaked by. Teams are going to eventually GET IT. Watch out for Andre Johnson next week.

But we are 5-3, im happppppppppppppyyyy, Flacco and ray rice co-rookie of the weeks????

Yea, I would love to see Flacco get ROW, but Ray Rice played just as much of an important role as Flacco did. Even though he didnt have any scores, that 154 yards was huge. He basically won us the game with that 60 yard run, cause you cannot give our defense any sort of lead and letting them win the game in the late 4th quarter. But hey, rookie Headcoach, Rookie QB, and Rookie RB, who in the world the Ravens would be 5-3.

yeah..i don’t even want to think about games against elite QB’s..holly heck. we’ll get carved faster than Madden’s Turduckin.