offered here.

This game is about attitude.
I’ve always seen the Ravens as team that plays well from the underdog perspective.

If you guys can tap into that mentality, that you have something to PROVE now—you can go prove that YOUR defense is still as tough as it was, and that the BiQueens are the imposters—you might very well be able to take this game over.

The Ravens defense needs to get MAD, dammit!
GET MAD over giving up that 100+ yard game to Benson, get MAD that you gave up the game last week, and fell short the week before—and take it out on the Vikes!!

You’re right—Bratt Favre is a league, darling, and they will be overly prtotective. The 3 step drops and quick releases they have him using this year and sparing him from a lot of his usual blunders/sackability.
But I think you guys still have tthe talent to get to him and disrupt the Vikes’ o-line in the middle.

The other thing to consider about the Vikings is that they’ve played a lot of cupcake teams this year, their schedule has been a cakewalk…look at these wins:

@ Cle — a gimme game

@ Detroit — another gimme game

GB — problems on the o-line, not the contender everyone thought

SF — SF has some problems that ATL exposed (inability to pass), and the Vikes BARELY beat them, and that was at home, and w/out the 9ers having Gore

@ STL —another gimme game
 
In other words, don’t be fooled by the 5-0. Sure, Vikes have some talent, but that haven’t faced any REAL adversity yet.

This is a more-than-winnable game for the Ravens…as long as they approach it with their minds “right”.

Best of luck,
A Bears fan in Westminster

“You just know the league will be waiting and watching for us to swipe, touch or even breathe on another one of their prized possessions in Vikings QB Brett Favre.”

Did anyone watch MNF and see (can’t recall the defender) the 4th quarter rush on Sanchez on the intentional grounding call? The defender dove, grabbed Sanchez’s leg and then grabbed onto his ankle. Sanchez was sideways and for a brief moment it sure looked like it could have wrenched his knee. The result was no flag. At least Sanchez had some pants on and didn’t jump up and down for a penalty. If it was Bradey or Farve, that would have been 15 yards for “touching the passer”.

What constitutes a penalty is maddeningly inconsistent, and from my perspective biased to help the offense. The Ravens just must assume they’ll come out on the losing end of these ticky tack calls and tone it down.

Favre playing within himself in the passing game (i.e. no stupid gunslinging) and a good running game are going to make this a tough one for the defense.

Are you able to get people on the phone at the Ravens front office to ask them how they feel about personnel? I’m just asking because, A) I’m wondering if they’d be willing to make a statement about personnel decisions; either if they’re not going to make any changes or if they have other options on the table, and B) it would be pretty sweet for the blog if you could get statements from the front office.

Just asking.

its official. Ho Hum.

I am trying to move on, but I CAN’T!!! (I know I sound like a broken hearted 14 year old who just got broken up with…)

If you need a shoulder to cry on after the Ravens loss this Sunday..just let me know. ;-)

we should have got a guy off the vikings practice squad, debriefed him and then sen him back the following week. bilichick style.

its been that type of week…off the handle seems to be the flavor of the day.

with the loss on sunday, it became increasingly obvious that upcoming game with the vikings would very important, so to sit around and mope about the bengals loss would only hurt the mission at hand. Hopefully the ravens looked at it the same way. Oher played well against odom so if hes playing allen then, im not too worried. I do hope to get Gaither back, i feel like we missed him for the ground game last sunday. Overall i hope this loss fired up the ravens and i look forward to a good game this sunday

one: cincy is perhaps the most stacked team at WR in the league. For them, it was a no-brainer to keep at least 3 wr on the field at all times, because it kept their best players out there, and our worst players out there. It kept men out of the box for Benson, and it provided multiple choices of mismatches for Palmer to make his selection from.

two: Palmer is back and as good as he’s ever been. He’s also cut his teeth in the NFL playing against better Ravens D’s than the one he saw sunday. So he was expecting Ravens Stout, and he got Ravens Lite. Needless to say he chugged the beer.

three: Favre has neither the personell at WR nor the experience against us that Palmer has. although Favre will be watching some pretty mouth-watering game tape, that isn’t the same as playing us twice a year for your whole career. Last time he played us was the last time Kyle Boller had a good game. Remember that? 2005 I do believe.

four: we haven’t seen bad/reckless Favre at all this year. That may mean he’s due for an egg. He’s probably also feeling pretty smug following that GB win. If there’s one guy who’ll love to see Favre make some ill-advised throws, it’s no. 20.

That’s what we can hope for. Obviously, its also quite possible that we get dropped to 3-3. We shall see…

we did okay on sunday but got burnt by penalties, no calls (chad arm barring on the INT attempt on the final drive), chris carr should not be in the secondary. he’s too small and had that costly interference penalty. flacco needs to see the field better. he could have won it with just a little more placement. we are close to getting it together. VERY UNLUCKY. I have never seen 2 back to back games where a team has been this unlucky with calls and breaks.

benson was totally stuffed in the backfield by #50 before he wheeled around and scored. foxy quit on henry. carr go toasted. edwards should not be in pass coverage as he was and got torched. i take back a lot of things i said earlier this week but it was how i felt. i shouldn’t blog until wednesday after losses..or at least until i see the replay. things can look a lot different from my stadium seat. like, they called ed reeds number on the pass interference call. so i layed into ed reed. i was wrong. ray had a decent game and I can understand why he worries about his backside- chris carr in coverage. oh well. onward and upward. thats why i changed my picture. trying to get the bitter out.

we did a great job on coles. i forgot about him completely.