Ravens Set Offensive Record: Win 38-24
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 13, 2009 4:53 PM EDT
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While it may not have been anywhere as easy as me and a lot of fans thought it might be, the Baltimore Ravens outscored the Kansas City Chiefs 38-24 berhind a record setting offense that churned out over 500 yards of total offense on the day.
Take away the poor blocked punt and the interception return by Kansas City, and my 30-10 prediction would not have been that far off. However, the Chiefs came to play and they made the Ravens prove the offense can win games for them as the defense could not stop Brodie Croyle and the KC offense when they needed to. However, at the end of the game they did what they needed to and while it was a lot closer than the final score indicated, the Ravens still covered the point spread.
Either way, the Ravens are still winners and starting the season with a victory is huge, as they travel to San Diego next week for what should be a tough game. Post your comments about the game and give credit to as tough effort by Kansas City, a team that did not look like the 2-14 team that most fans expected to see today.
So enjoy the win for a few days and let's start looking ahead to the Chargers next week.
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Just got back from the game. I just love Sundays where we win and I can do nothing but watch football for the rest of the day and Entourage at 10:30.
Feeling amazing right now!
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 13, 2009 4:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
True Blood Season Finale tonight!
Entourage has gotten stale and corny!
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 13, 2009 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree. I mean, driving cars into houses and all that stuff? Come on. The show is no longer about Vince, but more about relationships.
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 13, 2009 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
By the numbers!
Offense ruled!
Flacco: 26-43 for 307 yards, 3-TDs, 1-INT
Rice: 19 carries, 108 yards
Clayton 5 receptions, 77 yards, 1-TD
Heap: 5 receptions, 74 yards, 1-TD
Defense Needs Work!
Croyle: 16-24, 177 yards, 2-TDs
LJ: 11 carries, 20 yards
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 13, 2009 4:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Your serious? Defense needs work?
Besides a few big passes, the Chiefs were not existent on offense. They had like 125 total yards heading into the 4th quarter or something.
Hope that is the infamous internet sarcasm.
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 13, 2009 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not really
That one long drive to tie the score when we just scored to take the lead and we couldn’t stop them, with the gift of a bogus roughing the passer penalty.
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 13, 2009 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
What's new there
a BS call to shift the mo (remember the Titans) . Can’t blame the D there (or for the INT return for that matter) ..The main problem I saw was with ST, blocked punt, missed FG…
by adh on Sep 13, 2009 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
there was some sloppy play all around
i think the team as a whole kindof didn’t put the game away when they had a few chances too, until late in the game when they seemed to wake up. But Flacco fumbled once, and he did almost get saftied (bailed out by offsetting penalty) and helped cause the subsequent punt block. He also threw a near pick six that amounted to six anyway after the defense couldn’t stop KC on a 7 yard field.
In general, we looked good. I was a little worried by Foxworth looking so sheepish against the run, but our defense was generally solid except for one drive when they couldn’t seem to put it all together. But we should expect our defense to play better next week, while our offense will probably continue to kick ass just like today.
"I know where you're at, man. You had it all, and now it's gone. It's torn a hole in your soul bigger than my Escalade. So you turned to the drugs, the alcohol. Pornography, free-basing with OJ, human trafficking, dog fights slash orgies... darkness."
-- Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy in Season 1, Episode 5 of Eastbound & Down
by jackmca on Sep 13, 2009 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
First game
give them a pass and it would have been a lot worse had we lost, huh?
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 14, 2009 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
absolutely
i completely agree. I think we saw them ironing out some wrinkles, and when the 4th quarter came around they collectively said “holy ****, we might actually lose to the cheifs.” And when they played the way we all knew they could, they clearly dominated the chiefs.
I tip my hat to Haley though. When he fired his OC I thought “wow, here comes a train wreck of a team,” but now I don’t think so. They played with a lot of heart and at no point did we seem to truly intimidate them. This team seems to play with a purpose, even if it’s a few years behind the top 15 NFL teams in terms of talent.
"I know where you're at, man. You had it all, and now it's gone. It's torn a hole in your soul bigger than my Escalade. So you turned to the drugs, the alcohol. Pornography, free-basing with OJ, human trafficking, dog fights slash orgies... darkness."
-- Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy in Season 1, Episode 5 of Eastbound & Down
by jackmca on Sep 14, 2009 9:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
But theyplay in the
AFC Worst, and still have a chance there.
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 14, 2009 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i just went on their blog
and wrote exactly that. I think they should feel encouraged.
"I know where you're at, man. You had it all, and now it's gone. It's torn a hole in your soul bigger than my Escalade. So you turned to the drugs, the alcohol. Pornography, free-basing with OJ, human trafficking, dog fights slash orgies... darkness."
-- Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy in Season 1, Episode 5 of Eastbound & Down
by jackmca on Sep 14, 2009 10:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Defense was a mixed bag
They dominated in the first three quarters, only to choke for one drive. I wouldn’t say they were terrible however. They only gave up one legitimate long drive all game.
by math_geek on Sep 13, 2009 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have to say
when it was 24 all I was REALLY pulling for the chiefs…good win though guys
by Redcol70 on Sep 13, 2009 5:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
When it was going into overtime in your game, I was REALLY pulling for the Titans. But at least the Browns and Bengals are in the basement right now.
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 13, 2009 5:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
both of them looked awful today.
and Cincy got beat in the most depressing way! haha good ol’ brandon Stokley!
"I know where you're at, man. You had it all, and now it's gone. It's torn a hole in your soul bigger than my Escalade. So you turned to the drugs, the alcohol. Pornography, free-basing with OJ, human trafficking, dog fights slash orgies... darkness."
-- Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy in Season 1, Episode 5 of Eastbound & Down
by jackmca on Sep 13, 2009 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Phew
We played well most of the time but had four or five critical mistakes. Like Bruce said, it should not have been that close, but you have to give the Chiefs credit for battling. Haley is going to be a good coach, and I think they will improve to 5-6 wins this season, which is a step up when you went 2-14 last season.
They were smart and did not give Reed many chances to make plays. Cam should have run the ball more in the first half, but overall he called a great game. Take away Joe’s Pick Six, and a few errant throws, we looked great for the majority of the game. Our Special Teams has to get better. (Why did Carr fair catch that ball inside the ten with room to run?) Our D was very good but gave up a few big plays in the passing game. As expected LJ did nothing, thankfully I benched him in fantasy. Overall, a tougher battle then expected but a win nonetheless.
As ex-Chiefs coach Herm Edwards said… We can build on this!
by DT711 on Sep 13, 2009 5:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I agree that we should have ran the ball more. Especially at times in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. But I think we will all take 198 total rushing yards on 41 attempts to compliment 307 passing yards.
Us running more is not necessarily to get more yards or points all the time, but to simply eat away clock and give the other team less time to make plays. We got the yards with the yards with the few attempts we had, but we did not eat away enough clock at times throughout the game and let the Chiefs make some of the FEW plays they had.
Crazy for me to say this when we held the ball on offense for 38:49!
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 13, 2009 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Exactly
Us running more is not necessarily to get more yards or points all the time, but to simply eat away clock and give the other team less time to make plays.
by DT711 on Sep 13, 2009 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Crazy to thing though
That if we did run the ball more, we could have possibly held the ball for 42-45 minutes of the game. That is offensive dominance at its finest.
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 13, 2009 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
run more? 3 rbs got there hands on the ball. short passes to rb’s=runs to me. even better with our speedy backs.
by raven on Sep 14, 2009 11:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm so glad we won
Otherwise I would have to deal with a bunch of idiots saying RAVENS SUCK, THEY LOST TO THE CHIEFS tommorrow.
Ray Rice is so agile. He's a whole new breed for agile you need a new word to describe his agility... UBER-AGILITY!
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 13, 2009 5:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The game against Chargers
Will give us a strong idea of how good we really are.
Ray Rice is so agile. He's a whole new breed for agile you need a new word to describe his agility... UBER-AGILITY!
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 13, 2009 6:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Agreed
That is a hell of a team that will not back down. I think we match up a little better against them than they do against us, but still going to be a battle. Be nice to get half of our AFC West match-ups out of the way with 2-0!
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 13, 2009 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We can't give teams oppurtunities like that...
From a statistical stand point, we absolutely killed the Chiefs today. They got three lucky breaks (The blocked punt, Flacco’s interception and the big 50 yard pass to Bradley.) It’s all part of the game, but if we were to lose today, we would of had nobody to blame but ourselves.
by mlb32001 on Sep 13, 2009 7:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
ye
for the most part, we were good. the cheifs had like 59 yards of total offense at the half.
"I know where you're at, man. You had it all, and now it's gone. It's torn a hole in your soul bigger than my Escalade. So you turned to the drugs, the alcohol. Pornography, free-basing with OJ, human trafficking, dog fights slash orgies... darkness."
-- Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy in Season 1, Episode 5 of Eastbound & Down
by jackmca on Sep 13, 2009 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is pretty funny.
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 13, 2009 8:49 PM EDT reply actions 12 recs
I literally watched it 20 straight times. So funny. Thanks to whoever provided that from your blog.
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 13, 2009 9:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
HAHAHAH WOW.
oh god. I like Haley.
"I know where you're at, man. You had it all, and now it's gone. It's torn a hole in your soul bigger than my Escalade. So you turned to the drugs, the alcohol. Pornography, free-basing with OJ, human trafficking, dog fights slash orgies... darkness."
-- Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy in Season 1, Episode 5 of Eastbound & Down
by jackmca on Sep 14, 2009 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I rec'd it also!
One more rec & you’ll get a green post!
Congrats on the victory! You guys get the sno-cones this time & I assume that they will be grape rather than cherry!
Good luck with the rest of your year.
by ttownmikey on Sep 13, 2009 9:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I rec'd it as well
one of the greatest lip-sync I’ve ever seen!
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 14, 2009 9:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
how do you rec
somebody help me learn my powers in the blogosphere.
"I know where you're at, man. You had it all, and now it's gone. It's torn a hole in your soul bigger than my Escalade. So you turned to the drugs, the alcohol. Pornography, free-basing with OJ, human trafficking, dog fights slash orgies... darkness."
-- Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy in Season 1, Episode 5 of Eastbound & Down
by jackmca on Sep 14, 2009 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I believe
you click on “actions” at select “rec”
by adh on Sep 14, 2009 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
oh
actions always dissapeared when i clicked it before
"I know where you're at, man. You had it all, and now it's gone. It's torn a hole in your soul bigger than my Escalade. So you turned to the drugs, the alcohol. Pornography, free-basing with OJ, human trafficking, dog fights slash orgies... darkness."
-- Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy in Season 1, Episode 5 of Eastbound & Down
by jackmca on Sep 14, 2009 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That used to happen to me, but since it started working, I’ve been Flagging like crazy.
Water covers 2/3 of the Earth's surface. Ed Reed covers the rest.
by Ampallang on Sep 14, 2009 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Missed watching the game.....How did Oher do on the line?
by jviet on Sep 13, 2009 8:51 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Great
Contained the Chiefs first round pick, Tyson Jackson, the whole game and gave up not a single sack. We rushed the ball on the right side way more than we did on the left side, and Oher was a reason for most of our rushing success.
The whole O-Line could not have played better besides the holding penalties. Not a single false start all day.
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 13, 2009 8:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I noticed that whatever pressure KC got
came from our left side, where Gaither was supposed to be blocking. Oher was a beast and believe me, it won’t be but a year or so until he’s on the left side and Jared walks for ridiculous “Jason Brown-type” of cash.
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 14, 2009 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yup
Oher will be the one cashing in, in a few years. He is our Blind Side Protector for the foreseeable future.
by DT711 on Sep 14, 2009 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
dude, Oher is a monster
I think he may even be better than Gaither, although Gaither’s measureables as a prospect are way more attractive. Oher may be smaller, but the guy seems to have pure talent. Total beast.
"I know where you're at, man. You had it all, and now it's gone. It's torn a hole in your soul bigger than my Escalade. So you turned to the drugs, the alcohol. Pornography, free-basing with OJ, human trafficking, dog fights slash orgies... darkness."
-- Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy in Season 1, Episode 5 of Eastbound & Down
by jackmca on Sep 14, 2009 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oher is a beast
Played great and the right side dominated throughout the game. After all the second guessing, it looks like Oz made the right decision selecting “Big Mike,” over some WR, wouldn’t you say?
by DT711 on Sep 14, 2009 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
With the retirement of Willie Anderson
AFTER the draft, plus Adam Terry’s injury, can you imagine what would have been if we didn’t grab him?
That’s why he’s the “Wizard of Oz!”
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 14, 2009 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oher may be playing better than willie already.
"I know where you're at, man. You had it all, and now it's gone. It's torn a hole in your soul bigger than my Escalade. So you turned to the drugs, the alcohol. Pornography, free-basing with OJ, human trafficking, dog fights slash orgies... darkness."
-- Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy in Season 1, Episode 5 of Eastbound & Down
by jackmca on Sep 14, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Willie from last year
Much better already. Not quite up to the Pro Bowl Willie yet, but he’ll get there.
by DT711 on Sep 14, 2009 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Special teams nearly cost us this game.
Dominating on offense, defense and the line of scrimmage saved it.
by math_geek on Sep 13, 2009 9:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Even though I did rag on the WR a good bit this off season, I will always support who wears purple on Sundays. I am very excited to get raven’s one of a kind game analogy tomorrow on how our WR group did. Should be interesting.
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 13, 2009 11:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
picking on leggett...
is just not fair. Dude is a nickel for a reason. :(
Would have been much more of a game with flowers in there. Oh well. At least it was a good entertaining game for about 50 minutes.
by g00dn1ghtm4r3 on Sep 14, 2009 12:46 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Joe spread it around real well
Mason, Clayton, Heap, K-Wash, Rice, Willis, LeRon. where was D-Will?
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 14, 2009 9:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
good question
Guess Washington is now numero tres?
by adh on Sep 14, 2009 10:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Like some of us said in the offseason
The improvements in O-Line, RB, and QB, as well as bringing Wash, have greatly improved out aerial attack. Joe is going to spread the ball around, ala Tom Brady before he got Welker and Moss. And no, I’m not comparing Joe to Brady, just the way they spread the ball to multiple WR’s.
by DT711 on Sep 14, 2009 9:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ravens.....
It was a good game. We came out there and fought hard against the second best defense in the NFL. Would have been closer if we had a running game. Guess they didn’t want LJ to pass 100 yards on them again. We made some big plays to help out our helpless offense. That gives me hope. If we can play hard and come close to beating a top tier team the easier teams we face should be cake. Go Chiefs. Good luck to Ravens the rest of the season. Just have to beat the Steelers and it will be easy sailing. Kill the Chargers for us.
by Chiefsfan85 on Sep 14, 2009 12:27 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Hey, thanks for the traffic
from the best blog in the NFL, at AP. We’ll help you out w/ the Chargers but take care of Pittsburgh for us!
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 14, 2009 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
So what's the big news here?
First of all, the O-line. They clearly came to play, and they made everyone more effective, including the D. But, as noted above, the Chiefs are not the real test, but those guys looked awesome, and they made everything else possible (see below).
HEAP! He’s back! Let’s hope this lasts. Heap across the middle of the field could totally change the red-zone equation.
And speaking of back, how about Ray Rice? Looks like he’s ready, running and catching—the return of Lydell? I think MacGahee makes a better change-of-pace back than an every-down back, anyway. The only remaining question mark in the backfield is how to get the most out of McLain in other than short yardage and lead blocking.
WRs: Clayton shows up to play, matches up nicely with Flacco. But why can Mason suddenly not hold onto a football? Not enough reps in his shortened preseason?
One quibble—I thought Flacco was way too predictable in the second half, handing off to Rice on every first down, then throwing on 2d. Once you set that pattern, why not mix it up—air it out on 1st, or run a screen, dump it off to McLain, anything they’re not looking for. I get that you don’t want to get stuck with 2nd and long, and the Chiefs weren’t exactly stuffing Rice even when they knew he was getting the ball, but still.
And extra practice and no ice cream for special teams this week.
by fishoutawata on Sep 14, 2009 5:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Kruger
Anyone know why Kruger was out? I missed it.
Also After getting back from the game I watched the games the rest of the day and didn’t hear one word about the Ravens game. Can’t get any coverage no matter what we do.
by ECURUGGER on Sep 14, 2009 9:33 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Good point
I don’t think I saw him out there once. But Suggs was back in full form and Kruger is his back-up. Suggs probably just played every defensive snap and never gave Paul a chance to come in. No need to worry though, I am sure we will see plenty of our 2nd round pick this year.
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
by Mr MaLoR on Sep 14, 2009 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Kruger was inactive yesterday
It may have just been a numbers thing.
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 14, 2009 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah i figured it was just a numbers issue, but it was probably a good opportunity to get him some game reps
by ECURUGGER on Sep 14, 2009 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He does not play Special Teams
And is a rookie. This is why he was inactive.
by DT711 on Sep 14, 2009 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Depending on Tavares Gooden's status
for next week, will go a long way to making him active.
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 14, 2009 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ravens Offense is no joke.
They had the running game down, but now their passing game is looking good too.
Nice that Mason came back.
by WarWolf on Sep 14, 2009 9:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Paul needs to play. We ned to get him on that line somewhere. He’s a wild man.
by raven on Sep 14, 2009 11:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
With tavares Gooden injured
even if he does play, I think Kruger will be active Sunday.
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 15, 2009 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Kruger should have seen some action
Paul Kruger could have used some action this week especially against a crappy KC offense. The D looked ok but I must say it seems we get porous late in games and give up way too many 12 yard passes as in drive 9 by KC – we didn’t even slow them down. How many times has Rothlisberger done this very thing to us to end a game? As has been the case since the day the Ravens were created we still have holes in the defensive backfield. Yes Ed is great but they can avoid him. Would love to see more knocked down passes.
by Rayfan1 on Sep 15, 2009 5:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
KC threw short passes
in directions difficult to pick or block, but then again for only 188 yards of total offense. Without those ST TD’s, they be forced into throwing it up a lot more, leading to blocks and picks. Trust me, those mistakes in bunches won’t happen too often to us.
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Sep 15, 2009 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
our cryptonite- short passes on slants and curls
by raven on Sep 16, 2009 12:00 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I thought
Pittsburgh was you kryptonite
by Redcol70 on Sep 16, 2009 10:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
we've since developed a tolerance
and you’ll see it in November.
"I know where you're at, man. You had it all, and now it's gone. It's torn a hole in your soul bigger than my Escalade. So you turned to the drugs, the alcohol. Pornography, free-basing with OJ, human trafficking, dog fights slash orgies... darkness."
-- Craig Robinson as Reg Mackworthy in Season 1, Episode 5 of Eastbound & Down
by jackmca on Sep 17, 2009 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That was so
politically correct. And badass at the same time. Kudos.
Scott Hines
by shines on Sep 18, 2009 1:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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