is that he shouldn’t have had to make in the first place.

and digest this bad feeling in my stomach.

not that i feel good about it

were never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever going to win these games (ever)!

well pay u more than NY i almost threw up watching this game ugh

I sure do miss that kicker of ours…..that REAL kicker.

the rex that had us sitting at no2 in the AFC and would definetly not have had us /give up 33

wowww wowww wowww wowwww (wow)

During this bye week, Baltimore really needs to step back and evaluate our team and what direction we want to go in. Samri Rolle will be able to practice for the 1st time in six weeks. Hopefully, we can active him off the pup list and insert him as our nickle or maybe even as our starter. Our DB’s are terrible! On the play action pass in the redzone to their T.E., Dawan looked as if he didn’t wanna cover the guy. Frank walker may be cut after this game and we may need to fire Mattison. I really don’t understand why he even made him or D.C. after one season with us as our LB coach. Hopefully we can get this team going again

which was one of rex’s big strategies. i miss him. we aren’t good now unless we immitate him.

Hauschka is such a bitch! I could tell by the look in his eyes on the sideline he was going to miss the game winner no matter how close we got him.

Silly Ravens thinking you could beat the vkings. Just so silly

lets map this out on what we learned.

1.)ray lewis still got it but to bad he cant be in the secondary and is not 200

2.)ed reed can still tackle some wht but was no where to be found

3.) frank walker um if i said it i would be kicked off of this blog

4.) chris carr um almost the same thing not as much

5.) dawan landry needs to change his name to leonhard

6.) gooden is good jus doesnt no how to stay home on the cutback lane

7.)ellerbe should start playing more

8.) were never gunna win a close game ever!

9.)foxworth stepped up but still aint that good

10.) the best for last

were the *&^% is stover when you need himmmmmmm

and bonus*

rex would be nice hell anybody that can coach a defense would be nice

sickening=/

this aint the time for this please if you know whats best for you

(How does it feel to be a fan of a completely irrelevant team that has been outclassed by three division opponents in the first six weeks of the season?)

o really ??? ; lv

pls i went to church today dont make me go there

if your not aiming that at the ravens im just very hostile right now =/

sorry

for a moment there >=/

my whole week is pulverized because we have a bye week and cant avenge ourselves for two full weeks

um

good question yyou got me there?!

Get Ray rice the ball more. They guy is amazing with the ball in his hands.

Your team did better than I thought they would. Should have been at least a 20 point differential loss for you. but I was right in how you got the loss. Silly silly Ravens

someone should put hauschka under the witness protection program this cud b ugly

and i wish you luck and more luck against the steelers i think you guys will beat them if you guys play your hearts out and thank you hopefully that prediction comes true

Yeah, this was a tough one to lose. Joe cool and the rest of the guys played their butts off. Hopefully, they can take what they used in this near-comeback win, and use it in week 8.

Your team stayed in it until the end, only good teams do that.
My Vikings stole a win today – but luck on our side has been about 40 years coming…

You’ve got a great QB there – young and talented – we are jealous!

good luck the rest of the season – take it out on the Packers and Bears!

GO VIKES!!

ozzie would rather waste picks on players like peerman, drew, or phillips.. we wont do anything

all the kicker gets paid to do is kick the ball threw the up rites and when they can not do that to win a close game they have got to go.

We need to see more of Webb. Not just special teams, but more at corner. Can Nakamura play corner?

Wait. for a second there I was parroting the pathetic line the Orioles fed us all year.

Joe Flacco i and Ray Rice are fun to watch. The secondary is painful to watch. They’re (almost) always a step behind. It’s not going to be easy to fix. It’s tough watching a team good enough to come up just short against the league’s better teams.

Is my hero, in a few seasons…we will be an offensive team, and I cant believe I just said that. Im sorry I havent been able to chat it up with my boys here at the Beatdown much this week, school and work are getting the best of me. But I wanted to pop in before bed and remind all of us to keep our heads up, with 5 division games left to play we are far from out of it. Keep it cool men.

Has anyone else heard that rumor? I’ve read, and can’t find it now, that the Raiders have pretty much said internally everyone but 5 people( Russle, McFaddin and three others i can’t remember) are on the block.
I think its time for Oz to suck it up, admit foxworth and washington are good but not good enough and bring in Asomugha in the bye week. I remember in the article seeing that since his money was guaranteed the Raiders pay the bill for most of his cap space. Is this true anyone have the resources to know how that deal would work out?

Thanks man. Its our M.O to lose like this. It’s not bad luck or calls or fate or the way the ball bounces like Ray lewis says. It runs deep. Ray Lewis and Ed Reed continue to give us nothing in big games. Where’s Reed on these deep balls? Maybe Reed needs to be a DB and start having reponsibility. He avoids all blame because he hawks for the INT and escapes criticism.

Ray Lewis is useless in the pass. He should just vacate the middle and blitz because he isn’t worth a damn in shallow secondary. With 2 straight 100 yard rushers, I’m not sure where he is.

Cam again went to the Clayton jump ball on the last drive to waste a play when Rice was chewing the Vikings up. Rice should have gotten the ball by air and run once we got to the 40. We had barely sniffed field goal range when Cam settled into chuck and duck. We even burned a play by spiking the ball. That may have not been necessary if we took back the to deeper balls to Clayton and Mason that failed.

Cam tightened up, took his foot off the gas and put the game on a very young and inexperienced kicker. The snap was poor to top things off and had the kicker out in front.
Cam plays loose when the game is a mismatch or out of control. Put him in a pressure situation and he turns into a chicken.

The secondary flat out stinks. Walker held his mans jersey on Favres last deep ball for 10 yards when he simply needed to disengage and step in front of the ball for an INT. That ball was in the air forever and he played the receivers back. A joke.

I didn’t need to watch this game. I know this team. I know what Ray Lewis will say after the BIG game as he expects divine intervention and chalks it up to “that’s football”. No dude, you flat out can’t win THE BIG GAME and haven’t in 10 years. If we continue to walk Lewis’s walk and talk Lewis’s into the Flacco era we will be mistaken. This teams D has been bad for a few years now. They have been handed victories every other week and shit on them.

I guess that’s football or the way the ball bounces or official’s calls or Gods way.

Now that we softened them up and injured a few Vikings, the Steelers will walk over the Vikes. That’s our bye week gift.

The Ravens are so close now I feel for the purple faithful. I thought Harbaugh was the coach to help the team make that next step to being an elite team, but after watching his leadership the last 3 weeks I’m having 2nd thoughts. I like his aggressive style of offensive play but it ends there. The best way for a coach to help his team is to get them to play their best. Harbaugh is failing at that & the team is moving backwards. His face shows frustration when the team performs poorly & he looks incredulous when calls go against them. We have enough cheerleaders, we need a coach who calls out players when they hurt the team & reign them in when they act like children. In the last few weeks Harbaugh has shown that he has given up his leadership role with the Ravens to Ray Ray. He’s fallen into the ‘Everyones out to get us & it’s us against the world’ Baltimore self pity. Playing like champions, like a truly elite team is something Baltimore has found hard to accomplish. Right now I believe they have no one to lead the way.

This year Ravens vs. Steelers might be a display of offense instead of defense. That will be odd. With both defenses looking questionable this year, the 5th and 7th ranked offenses could make it very high scoring.

Bruce, if you look at the elite teams you see a championship character that translates to championship play. Great coaches create, then lead great teams. Some teams & fans never learn this & wallow in the pack. Quoting Billick only proves my point, he failed as a coach. It’s not all about play on the field, preparation is the key to success. Part of that preparation is not just the X’s & the 0’s, but transforming players into champions. I question Baltimore’s ability to do that. Answer me this, would you trade Harbaugh for Billichek?

We can win the division BUT we need to change the personnel on D. We need a number 2 LB with experience. We need a DB. Gooden and Walker are way to inconsistant and out of position. I’m sorry but I just don’t see Gooden’s value…yet.

I just want to say thanks viking fans for your positive support. I have always had mutal respect for the vikings and hey your colors are cool. I believe in my Ravens and I predict that they would win, but I think we are in a bitt of a funk. You really can’t blame anyone it is a team effort and it takes team spirit and playing ability to get there. Sure I felt like someone punched me in my gut, I am over it looking forward to next week’s game. I honestly don’t care to much for this new defense coorinator, I can only hope our defense can do better. We really can not afford to loose anymore games. I know the Ravens don’t to be in a wildcard position they need to secure themselfs for a playoff spot. My guys need there mojo back.!!!!!!