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Round Two: Ravens @ Bengals

Well, how many of you would have predicted that these two teams would be at opposite ends of the spectrum at this point of the season? Certainly, Cincinnati Bengals fans would have thought they would, but the records would have been exchanged between the teams. I predicted a Ravens win in game one, mainly because I thought the Ravens were better than they were being given credit for, and that the Bengals were not as good as they were being given credit for. Cincinnati was even a favorite coming into M&T Bank Stadium as the visitor, but left bitter and angy after a 17-10 Ravens victory that was not as close as the final score indicated. The only TD scored by the Bengals was off of a Ray Rice fumble late in the game. Rookie QB Joe Flacco, making his first career NFL start, was unremarkable but still had a 38 yard jaunt to the end zone for his first career TD.

Still the Bengals fans gave us no credit. He is a quote from a post by one of their fans after that week one Ravens victory:

Enjoy your only win of 2008

The Bengals were terrible yesterday. To be serious, however, Cincinnati will still have a better record than the Rat Birds in 2008. If history serves, the Bengals offense will score points and the defense, though not spectacular, will be effective enough to steal a few games.

For the Ravens, however, Joe Flacco will make mistakes. The aging Ravens defense will get injured. PK Sams will drive drunk. (oh wait, he’s no longer on your team…that’s too bad) Maybe the Ravens will win one more against Houston (who looked awful) and another at home against Cleveland (because Cleveland sucks), but I don’t see any more than that.

It’s a travesty that the Bengals lost to the Ravens yesterday, but I chalk it down to a poor gameplan and horrible execution more than the Ravens’ bright prospects in ’08.

I’ll give you credit; your post is just about the most intelligent thing I’ve ever seen from a Ravens fan. You have basic noun-verb agreement, several adjectives used correctly, and do not have expletives embellishing your points. One point of contention, however, sentences should not end in prepositions. Bravo, young sir!

Seriously, however, good luck this season – but not too much luck.

"Ryan, Things in here don't react too well to bullets." - Marko Ramius

by TarZander on Sep 8, 2008 8:44 PM EDT

 

 Gee, I wonder what they're thinking today. I remember they also dissed our city, saying there was nothing to do and it was all filled with trash and empty syringes. I resent that remark, as there are really not THAT many empty syringes!

Now, we have two teams headed in completely different directions. The Bengals will have a ton of decisions to make after December is over. The first will be whether or not to retain head coach Marvin Lewis. While Lewis will always occupy a warm spot in Ravens' fans' hearts due to being our defensive coordinator in our Super Bowl season, he has not exactly earned a wonderful reputation as a head coach. Heck, if we lost Rex Ryan to a head coaching position next year, I'd gladly take him back into his old position here. What do the Bengals do with their talented, yet disgruntled receiving corps? I'll gladly take either of their "castoffs" onto our roster. Finally, I'm not too sure what the Bengals and Carson Palmer are thinking as he is still on their active roster and considering the possibility of making an appearance before the end of this season. I posted the question over at Cincy Jungle, asking them what did they hope to gain other than further injuring his arm beyond its current status? The way their backup QB Ryan Fitzpatrick has been running for his life, their offensive line could get Palmer killed or risk a career-ending injury for no reason whatsoever.

On the other hand, the Ravens are fighting not only for a playoff spot, but are hot on the heels of the division leading Pittsburgh Steelers for the lead in the AFC North. The remainder of the season schedule favors the Ravens and a couple of tough losses by Pittsburgh, including their December 14th rematch in Baltimore, would give the Ravens the division title and a possible first round playoff bye followed by at least one home playoff game. This would be the topping on the cake for a truly improbable 2008 season, where most experts had the Ravens finishing below .500 in 2008, and the Bengals certainly somewhere above us.

Next thing we know, the stock market will shoot up, there will be peace in the Middle East, and Osama bin Laden will turn himself in. What, are you crazy!? The other stuff is a possibility, but the Ravens winning the AFC North!? Insane!

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trash talking bungle fans

don’t you love when the Clown fans and the Bungle fans talk trash. Cincy has had one good year in the last decade. Cleveland has had none and yet they love to dismiss the Ravens and tell us how we are always lucky to win. As if having one of the top administrative staffs and coaching staffs in the league has nothing to do with it. Cincy will SUCK as long as Mike Brown owns the team. He won’t invest in scouts. He won’t pay his assistants the going wage and he drafts TURDS because "he believes that everyone deserves a second (3rd, 4th, 5th etc) chance. He undercut his coach by bringing back Chris (The big TURD) Henry and has emasculated his staff on a consistent basis. Meanwhile in Cleveland Jim Brown (who likely has Alzheimers) keeps putting his 2 cents where it isn’t needed or wanted. He undercuts the GM by having the ear of the owner who cares more about his soccer team in England than his football team in the mistake by the lake.

Call us Ratbirds all you like. I’ll take Biscotii, Ozzie, DeCosta, Kokinis, Harbaugh and our group 7 days a week. You keep you team and your colors. We know ours Purple and Black and we bleed it. While you two poor excuses for football teams are waiting for your first SB trophy, I’ll go over to 1 Winning Drive and take a picture of ours and email it to you. Its as close as you will get to a Lombardi trophy in the near future.

Have a great day!!!!

by ppdoc on Nov 25, 2008 9:37 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

This is a game

of epic trap-ish proprtions.

ITS A TRAP.

The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST

by the fix is in on Nov 25, 2008 9:57 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Face it

there isnt much to do in Baltimore. Aside from the inner harbor there isnt that much to do. But the Cheese Cake Factory kicks ass.

by archon095 on Nov 25, 2008 11:06 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Uhhh,..but it's a chain!

So there is little to do in Baltimore other than going to a chain restaurant? Wow, that’s not too much tolok forward to. I don’t get downtown too often anymore except to go to the games and occasionally a restaurant (try Mother’s in Federal Hill. It’s a bar, but they have restaurant seatong and a great chef!).

Rexx

by Rexx on Nov 25, 2008 11:28 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah... I hate when people go

“So whats there to do in this town”
Me: The Inner Harbor
Them: I’ve been there before
Me: How bout the Aquarium… specifically (Ive been trying to go back to the aquarium since elementary school)
Them: Sounds good…

It never happens, stuff always comes up.

Anyway… Really… our city needs a few more attractions

Life is nothing but Beats & Rhymes

by Matchz Malone on Nov 25, 2008 12:09 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I can’t understand why people would go to the Cheesecake Factory over Vaccaro’s in Little Italy. Vaccaros is one of the best desert places I’ve ever been to.

Certainly the Inner Harbor is the dominant thing to do in Baltimore, although there’s several days worth of stuff there. Fort McHenry is a good day trip every once in a while. I’m not big on Fell’s Point but I know that some people are. There are plenty of art museums if that is your thing.

Reducing the stuff to do in Baltimore to the inner harbor and the Cheesecake factory is way too reductionist if you ask me. But I guess it depends on what you are looking for.

But, Seriously, go to Little Italy and go to Vaccaros.

by math_geek on Nov 25, 2008 1:46 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

reductionist!?

You are way to literate for this blog!

Rexx

by Rexx on Nov 25, 2008 8:09 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I love it

I love the fact that the Pussy Cats and Brownie Pies will never give us credit. It is truly intriguing to hear teams with 4-7 and 1-8-1 records still think that their team is in a sense “better than ours.” The Bengals I can only sit back and laugh at. They think they have a better all around organization and team than we do and our record is still a fluke. They are an absolute JOKE in this league. You have arguably one of the top 5 offenses in this NFL and you still cannot produce in all the years you have been together. You allow every player on your team to not give one shit about winning and let them run around like uncontrollable children. The Bengals are a disgrace to the NFL, and they will not be back on top for a very long time, probably never again.

As for the Browns fans, I do not know where to start. When they loss to us, BOTH TIMES, they treated it as they lost the game and we did not win. They hate the fact that they had us practically beaten down with a 14 point lead and we were able to come back against their “Amazing Defense with better d-line, d-backs- DEEZ NUTS BROWNIES!”. Oh yea I forgot, it was a Rookie Headcoach, a Off. Coor who coached a 1-15 team, a rookie running back, and what is that other rookies name we have, the one with the uni brow, forgot his name, Joe Falco or something. Hey Browns, YOU SUCK! Talk about us having QB problems right?? Yea, who was giving us shit last year about how stupid the Ravens were to get rid of Derrick Anderson? YOU! Who is now sitting on the bench behind a 2nd year pretty boy? DA!

Again, when the season is over, and we release the players we feel do not have a place on our team anymore, you Brownie Pies will go and sign all of them, trying to live the dream that you want to be just like us.

Ok, so the “Ratbird” shit, what does that mean? Did you know that Ravens are the only predatory birds that hunt in flocks? Did you know that Ravens are bigger than most falcons, eagles, and hawks? I would bet any money that a flock of our RATBIRDS would destroy any other bird out there. You call us ratbirds because???? We have the same coloration as crows? We came up with our name based on a home town hero, Edgar Allen Poe, you knw the poet. “QUOTE THE RAVEN NEVERMORE.” But you all do not know how to read up there in Cleveless. You do not know what you all are talking about, and you only make yourselves look less intelligent then you already are.

Give up on the season Pussy Cats and Orange Helmet Browns. Did you guys name your team after Jim Brown?? Joke, relax, I am not as uneducated as you all are. Have a fun time in the off season and over at your Dawgs By Nature crapsite wining about how much you hate your team. It must suck to not have a franchise you can trust in this league.

Oh yea, almost forgot, Ravens 38 – Bengals 12

by Mr MaLoR on Nov 25, 2008 12:26 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

One other thing

I have to give credit to the boys over at the Pittsburgh Website. Even though I have an absolute hate for your team and wish nothing but terrible things upon them, I rarely ever see anything along the lines of what the Cinci and Clev blogs are posting. There is a hate between theses two teams and our two blogs, but their is also respect, deeeeeep down inside. We both know how hard the other plays on Sundays, giving their lives for a win and I think that we both respect that in a way.

Just throwing that out there. I still hate the steelers, but it has been a battle of opinions that has been kept to ourselves for the most part. Still the occasional trash talk here and there. But at least they do not make posts like Cleveland’s about who they hate the most and how much flacco sucks. We stick to our team, they stick to theirs, and we will handle the battle on Dec. 14.

by Mr MaLoR on Nov 25, 2008 12:36 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Only on the Cleveland site

and a little on the Bengals site, do you have that type of boorish behavior. Every other site, including the Steelers and Colts, are a group of better educated, fair sounding and open minded to other teams’ fans’ opinions.

Rexx

by Rexx on Nov 25, 2008 8:12 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I was trying to come up with the worst names for teams in the NFL. I got started on this because of the giants vs. cardinals.

It’s hilarious that the cardinals players make this little “wing fly away birdie” sign. Cardinals? Are you kidding me?

The only other team I can think of with a potentially equally unfrightening name is the dolphins. But they are pretty big mammals, so I think cardinals has to win.

The birds of prey are all winners, then someone decides they’ll name a team after seed-eating birds?

by steelguy99 on Nov 25, 2008 1:07 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

the Cardinals name has been around forever

they were the Chicago Cardinals for crying out loud. Not like Arizona’s team name is Johnny come lately or something.

by math_geek on Nov 25, 2008 1:48 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I didn’t mean to imply any sort of chronological ordering. People have probably been naming sports teams for millenia, and I wouldn’t be surprised if cardinals is the pansiest name to have been discovered in that timeframe.

Unless we’re talking baseball names, but I was trying to stick to interesting sports.

by steelguy99 on Nov 25, 2008 1:56 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

What about Stanford University!?

Their name is the “Cardinal” (no "s"), and their mascot is a real stupid looking and cheaply made TREE!!!??

Rexx

by Rexx on Nov 26, 2008 8:33 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Dolphins are cool

They might not be fierce like a tiger, but they are pretty tough in the ocean and can beat the shit out of the sharks. Besides they’re mammals like us!

This is a weird topic!

Rexx

by Rexx on Nov 25, 2008 8:13 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Enjoy your only win of the season..........................................Cincinatti

“The Bengals were ARE terrible yesterday EVERYDAY” -Mr. iLL

RaVeNs-34
BeNgaLs-10

by iLL on Nov 25, 2008 1:52 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Wow, you actually think

the Bengals will score 10 points on us!? Crazy!

Rexx

by Rexx on Nov 25, 2008 8:14 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

you guys are getting extra cocky again

smh… last time that happened Rexx made a bet we’d murder the giants and we lost……

Fortunately the bengals arent the Giants.. :-)

Life is nothing but Beats & Rhymes

by Matchz Malone on Nov 26, 2008 1:41 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Just so you all know

ESPN Power Rankings just came out and the Ravens neither dropped or moved up in the rankings. We stayed right at 13 and ESPN thinks that we are the worst team sitting at 7-4.

The whole league gives us so much shit for not beating a team with a winning record and when we finally do it, we get no credit. We did not just beat Phili, we embarrassed what was considered to be a top 5 offense in the NFL and a top 5 pass rush as well.

I HATE EVERYONE!

by Mr MaLoR on Nov 25, 2008 2:07 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

No we didn't

beat the Eagles. Just like the Browns and Bengals, they beat themselves and will finish the season with more wins than us “Ratbirds!”

We should postively “adopt” the term, Ratbirds, for the rest of the season, with pride!

Rexx

by Rexx on Nov 25, 2008 8:15 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Look at what DBN said
Plus, I see you have had plenty of other detailed informed discussions: 8 comments on trash talking with Bengals fans, 9 on your last game wrap up, no comments on a NFL picks post, 12 posts on a Eagles preview thread. Not too inspiring.
I think this is what you mean. 33 comments on your last game thread? Real passionate. Real nice site. Ha. No wonder you have to join the sites for all your rivals, the 3 people that post on Baltimore Beatdown don’t seem to have much to say.

I had a little battle with them today.

by Mr MaLoR on Nov 25, 2008 2:13 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

They warned me

and you better watch out or they’ll ban you and you’ll go home and cry to mommy! Tell them we’ll take the quality, knowledge and class of our few posters than all of their imposters (get it, posters vs. im-posters,….just kidding!).

Rexx

by Rexx on Nov 25, 2008 8:16 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

What annoys me most

about the Browns and Bengals is that in the long term, their inability to turn anything around (although granted, at least Cleveland seems to go through the motions) will hurt both the Ravens and the Steelers. We need competition, not two dysfunctional teams that do nothing every year. How in the NFL today, can any team continue to disappoint their fan base? Also, bashing the cities…what’s next…your momma jokes? I am fine with shit talking and I definitely enjoy hearing from opposing fans prior, during, and after games but the pure nastiness of these two fan bases is just sad.

"When they get drafted by the Baltimore Ravens, we expect them to play like that. Are we surprised? No."

by UMBC Oriole fan on Nov 25, 2008 2:21 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I'm done w/ them

They are just not worth the effort to get the reaction you know is coming. Worst case scenerio is that they’ll come here and start the foul mouthed personal attacks, but I’d ban them for that in a heartbeat, as I am the King of Baltimore Beatdown, dammit!

Rexx

by Rexx on Nov 25, 2008 8:18 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I wish they would ban me

Since we beat them the 2nd time around, I was trying to find a way to leave blogs I have joined. Only way is for them to ban you, why cant there just be a leave button. Damn this website sucks! GO RATBIRDS!

by Mr MaLoR on Nov 26, 2008 2:58 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Ratbirds is a way cool nickname!

Think about it. They fly around at night, looking for rats. Then they swoop down out of the darkened night skies to grab an unaware huge rat off the filthy streets and trash-strewn alleys of Baltimore and fly up into the night in the light of the moon to their lair where they tear the frozen with fear marsupial limb from limb. With rat blood dripping from their razor sharp beak and talons, they enjoy a meal, knowing that there is now one less rodent roaming the ground in our fair city.

LSD is great! Ask Hendrix and Jim Morrison and John Lennon, Janis Joplin, and …who else?

Rexx

by Rexx on Nov 26, 2008 8:39 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Ask Rexx?

Gettin a little strange hear Rexx. I did see a Rat that was as thick as a football and about 16 inches long once walking to the subway near lexington market. It crawled out of a trash can and looked to weigh about 25 pounds. Very scary animals

by Mr MaLoR on Nov 26, 2008 2:47 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

You go all the way downtown to buy your crack when you can probably get stuff just as good in Owings Mills!?

Rexx

by Rexx on Nov 27, 2008 10:04 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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