Ravens over Giants: 24-10

Could be 8. I think Smith has a better chance to make it than Reed. Special teams play, he doesn’t have many drops this year, plus they were game-planning for him late in the game. I’ve yet to see Reed do anything that impressive (granted, I missed the ’Skins game).
On another note, Clayton also has a mild concussion.

on that penalty hit. Hopefully, he’ll sit out next week and be ready for the Jets. Looks like Q, Mase, D-Will, hopefully Clayton, Reed and Smith all make roster with Donte PUP’ed.

He had his pads on. He was said to not be playing in the game before it even started, but love the attitude for him to want to dress for the game even though he was not playing. This guy is special.

hopefully our DC will have that remedied come reg. season. Good game.

I don’t think it will affect it that much at all. Clayton brings almost the same things and I think most of us have said that at this point in Clayton’s career, he can be a great slot WR. Still think we will have an elite passing attack, but the injury to Stallworth is very unfortunate considering how hard this guy has worked in order to come back into the league.

And all 5 this year against the Angels!!
Plus, the first win against an AL team for the Mentor!!!

If the Jets don’t have Revis, I say we win easy. I really liked what I saw out of Joe tonight, and he can have that kind of production in one half, I’m practically drooling over the thought of what he can do in a full game.

Definitely felt nice. I was really impressed with the catches the WR made. Most of those completions were very tough passes to catch and the guys made it look easy. Was really encouraging to finally see the passing dominate.

Yea, 3rd down was a struggle tonight, but most of them were rather long downs. We will get there…

It didn’t hurt us too bad tonight (3-3 on 4th down, including Boldin’s TD catch), but during the regular season, those failed conversions take points off the board.

and the Giants first stringers were no slouches. Team looked very good and ready for 2010.

Besides, it’s still nice to have a coach out on the field barking directions smelling out plays in advance.

I said the same thing at the game last night. He did look a half step slow when he is running to the sideline and is a liability in pass coverage. But he also snuffed out a third and one anticipating the right hole and hitting it hard for no gain.

It may be heresy, but we really need to think about taking him out in passing situations and make finding his replacement a priority in the draft.

has room for improvement. But going through progressions simply wasn’t happening in these last two years. It was good to see. Reading single press coverage on the 2 TD throws, making those passes, was good to see, even if the throw to Boldin could have been better.

The interception was a terrible decision and a bad pass. Joe knows it. Walking on the sideline after that play, I read his body language as saying ‘Damnit, I want that one back.’ These happen, even to elite NFL QBs.

At the end of the day, Flacco has the potential to be a top 5 QB in this league, while Bulger is going downhill. If the Ravens only wanted to win the Super Bowl this year, sure start Bulger. But to be a dynasty that consistently wins games, the division and playoff games, which is what the front office want? Start Flacco.

“I’ve never been accused of being a patient man, but seeing everyone suddenly pleased with Flacco’s first decent performance is a little irritating.”

Everyone has been pleased with Flacco for the last two years, this is nothing new. A few fans have liked seeing Bulger’s quick release this preseason and jumped on that bandwagon. Most raven fans believe Joe Flacco is our franchise QB (I’m one of ’em).

The only commenter here I can think of that doesn’t like Flacco is raven (and you now). That’s it.

If you expected Flacco to be Peyton Manning in his first two years in the league, you set yourself up for dissapointment. Year three is when things really start to get good for QB’s in this system. Look at Rivers’s and Breesus’s numbers for comparison.

Are you kidding? How exactly do you define solid?
Sure, he hasn’t been elite, and he hasn’t been consistent. But you can’t look at the Minnesota game last year, a game in which he constantly got pounded by Jared Allen et al., yet still led his team back from 17 points down to attempt what would have been the game-winning field goal and say that wasn’t a solid performance. There were other solid games last year, KC, NE, Pitt game 1 (along with some good games against Det, Chi, Cle, games against not great teams). What exactly do you expect from a 2nd year QB?

Bulger’s 33. He’s not Brett Favre. How many years does he have left, especially after the recent pounding he took for 2-3 years in St. Louis? He was already questioning his desire to keep playing. I never claimed he was a flash in the pan, only that he was on the wrong side of 30, and that for a team that wants to make the playoffs 10 times this decade instead of 6, it behooves them to continue grooming their franchise QB who has shown promise.

Progression to me is no longer locking on to Mason, then checking down to Rice. It was noticeable how many times he looked at more than one option last night. I spouted my displeasure with some of the things Flacco did in the gamethread, but there’s no way I chalk up yesterday’s performance to poor defense by the Giants. Sure, he has things on which he can improve, even Manning and Brady do. But to say he has made no progress since he started his first NFL game against the Rams 2 years ago? That’s ridiculous.

-I saw a play or two where you may be upset with Landry (a missed tackle, like everyone else when Bradshaw stiff-armed), and I’d honestly prefer to see Zbi or ‘Ruki out there, but I wouldn’t be so harsh as to say he stinks.
-To avoid a controversy, or to keep their $3.5m back-up QB from getting hurt behind a horrible O-line in a meaningless game?
-Truth about Joe.
-If I recall correctly, he threw for a TD. And completed something like 7 of 9 passes. He ran when he needed to. That is to say, when the pocket collapsed far too quickly.
-Any team running on the Ravens D is troubling. DeAngelo Williams did so 2 weeks ago as well.
-Ellerbe? Really? I’ve yet to see another LB step up. I think it’s McClain’s job until someone takes it from him, which as yet to happen.
-Ray was so invisible they forgot to block him when he stopped that 3rd and 1 or 4th and 1 run. Knee injuries are certainly frightening though.
-Where exactly could Parmele be a #2 RB? Denver, behind Fargas or Buckhalter? Green Bay behind Grant?
-I’ve suffered through enough dropped passes by #3 and #4 receivers so far in my life. I’ll take a receiver that catches the ball please.
-Agree about being lucky to have Bulger as a backup.
-Just wait for Webb and Reed. Then the secondary should be a strength instead of a weakness.
Please get off of Troy’s jock. Better than Roethlisberger and Palmer? Child please. Dixon may be a better QB.