Injuries A Major Concern For Ravens.
by lastcallbmore on Dec 25, 2011 7:01 AM EST
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The Ravens are faced with several key injuries after Sundays game against the Cleveland Browns. Right guard Marshal Yanda had to leave the game with bruised ribs. Return specialist David Reed suffered a serious knee injury and Danell Ellerbe and Cary Williams both suffed concussions.
The most serious injury from a personnel standpoint would be Yanda. If he is forced to miss significant time the Ravens would be missing perhaps their most dominant offensive lineman.When asked how he felt after the game Yanda said:
"I'm in bad pain, other wise I would have never come out. Its pretty bad, Ive just had real bad trouble breathing"
Yanda was on pain medication after the game and said he did not feel much better.
Back up lineman Andre Gurode replaced Yanda against the Browns and looked like he was doing well. Gurode previously played right guard in Dallas years ago before being moved to center.
Chris Carr came in for Williams and was active on the field. Browns quarterback Seneca Wallace targeted him often. Carr was flagged for a big pass interference penalty shortly after entering the game.
Brendon Ayanbadejo got more reps with Ellerbe out and was also involved in a lot of plays, including the play that ended the game for the Browns on fourth down. Cleveland tried a swing pass to Peyton Hillis and Brendon sniffed it out and tackled Hillis out of bounds for no gain.
With David Reed out Baltimore will look to Tom Zbikowski for kick-off returns. Zbikowski is sure handed but does not posses the explosiveness of Reed and will not be breaking any huge runs for the Ravens. Reed's injury looks to be season ending. When asked after the game if his season was over Reed responded with a solemn "yes".
During the season Baltimore had a tough time when faced with an injury to left guard Benn Grubbs. Now, heading into a pivotal road match with the Cincinnati Bengals, they are faced with even more challenges. Let's hope the rest of the team can band together and make it through to, what will hopefully be, a first round bye...
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It's the healthy one that bothers me the most
They must not have told Joe that a football game is sixty minutes long.
The last win of the season.
Looking at yesterdays game, I don’t see how the ravens win anymore games for the season. Yeah they will make the playoffs but if you ask them to go to Denver and win, that’s not gonna happen this season. What’s truly amazing to me is that this is a passing league now, yeah running the ball in important, but if you can’t pass the ball with any consistency, then your not going anywhere. Joe can’t do that right now in his career, and I’m not sure if he ever will. He doesn’t seem to see the field completely. Once teams stop Ray Rice, that will leave the Ravens Defense vulnerable.
We were playing the #1 ranked pass defense yesterday! Did you expect Joe to have an amazing game? I will gladly take a 2:1 touchdown/turnover ratio from Joe every time, especially considering the defense we were playing yesterday.
Had their not been 5 drops in the game, we are looking at Joe as a god.
Flacco has to trust his receivers to make catches, but shouldn’t throw towards coverage. He needs to attack deep more often, but shouldn’t hold onto the ball so long. He needs to show more awareness in the pocket and move to extend plays, but nothing good comes of him leaving the pocket. He should run with the ball if nobody’s open, but he definitely can’t run with the ball.
Flacco should have the awareness of Roethlisberger, the elusiveness of Vick, the control of the offense of Manning, the leadership of Brady, the accuracy of Brees, and the arm strength of … Flacco? - Ampallang
I'm subbing for Ravensfan89 today
Yeah but if Joe threw those passes better our receivers would have caught them lol.
The 3 drops Dickson had were dead on in the numbers. And 2 bounced off of Torrey’s hands.
Flacco has to trust his receivers to make catches, but shouldn’t throw towards coverage. He needs to attack deep more often, but shouldn’t hold onto the ball so long. He needs to show more awareness in the pocket and move to extend plays, but nothing good comes of him leaving the pocket. He should run with the ball if nobody’s open, but he definitely can’t run with the ball.
Flacco should have the awareness of Roethlisberger, the elusiveness of Vick, the control of the offense of Manning, the leadership of Brady, the accuracy of Brees, and the arm strength of … Flacco? - Ampallang
but Flacco overthrew them and had an interception… sorry, I’m not very good at this blind Flacco hate thing.
Browns #1 ranked defense is SO misleading!
Know why they’re “ranked” #1? EVERYONE runs on the so there’s no reason to throw, hence the limited stats against their pass defense. Trust me, Joe and everyone else whould gladly throw against Cleveland than Pittsburgh, Houston and even Cincy!
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Dec 25, 2011 11:03 AM EST up reply actions
this
the #1 ranked pass defense is completely misleading indeed. That said, Flacco had a grade B performance: not bad, not great, but good enough. The drops were huge difference makers, and are as serious of a concern as are the injuries. But to be fair, Flacco’s INT and the drive that resulted from it were serious stains on the game.
But I’ll take the win.
I love it knowing that there are a handful of Ravens fans in this area who despise the fact that Joe will be our QB for the next 10 years. --Mr. MaLoR
It is harder to catch a pass when you are running
Than to throw the ball to wide open men for a touchdown
wrong sir..
Don't let my defense dictate your offense..
by lastcallbmore on Dec 25, 2011 11:31 PM EST up reply actions
sometimes i wonder what else in your life you are so nihilistic about.
I love it knowing that there are a handful of Ravens fans in this area who despise the fact that Joe will be our QB for the next 10 years. --Mr. MaLoR
Maybe it's harder for our QB to do it
But the rest of them don’t seem to have a problem hitting receivers for touchdowns
right, because the 31 other QBs in the NFL are all sooooooo much better than Flacco.
The vast majority of them would kill to have Flacco’s success and they fail despite having fewer dropped passes.
But of course my argument could easily be refuted by saying something cryptic like “the tiger beetle put my left nut in a figure-4 leglock this morning.”
I love it knowing that there are a handful of Ravens fans in this area who despise the fact that Joe will be our QB for the next 10 years. --Mr. MaLoR
David Reed injury
How much does his injury hurt our Special Teams punt coverage? He’s normally our gunner right? I watched Doss (# 17) get manhandled on that return. However, there were also several missed tackles and a small block in the back that made Cribb’s job easy when all he had to do was beat Koch.
Reed is not impressive as a gunner
his tackling abilities are suspect at best.
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Dec 25, 2011 11:04 AM EST up reply actions
Doss looked like a rag doll
for anyone wondering why he hasn’t seen much playing time, that return should tell you why.
It hurts our return game more than coverage
he is by far our best returner, and I know everyone kills him over the one bad game he had, but he is a field position changer, all of our other options are 20 yard line guarantees.
Trust me,
Reed may have a chance (quite small) to break one, but he likes 20 yard returns just as much as everyone else it seems.
You come at the king, you best not miss.
by organizedchaos52 on Dec 29, 2011 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
He led the league in return average last year
and this year, in limited duty, was around the same average he had last year. Nobody else is even close to him on this team, at least among the guys they put out there on returns. I’d like to see Torrey get a shot once or twice, but I’d worry about his hands and he’s too vital to the offense.
Yes, he led the league in return yardage.
He also had half the returns of everyone else in the top ten except Eric Decker (10th). With his one long return (103 yards), he brought his average up greatly. So, that argument holds no weight with me.
As for no one else being close to him, everyone is pretty much the same in terms of kick returns on this team (in terms of statistics from this season).
You come at the king, you best not miss.
by organizedchaos52 on Dec 31, 2011 5:24 PM EST up reply actions
When did Yanda get hurt?
I was at the game and I noticed Andre come in, but didn’t notice a single play where it looks like he was injured.
Yanda’s injury is the only one that really scares me. We need him if we are going to make noise in the playoffs.
There was a play where Yanda got beat for that sack where I was thinking something must have been wrong. Not that Yanda getting beat is completely unheard of, but the fashion in which it happened was unusual. I’m thinking that it happened in a play before that and Yanda attempted to tough it out farm-boy style.
The Bengals game is gonna be tough
They are playing for their playoff spot
We are playing for the bye week. Whose will is going to be stronger?
We need that bye week to repair. Also we need a good outing for Flacco to have some confidence going into the playoffs.
Bengals pass D aint something to look forward too though
Bengals pass D aint something to look forward too though
We did pretty well against them in the first matchup.
Flacco has to trust his receivers to make catches, but shouldn’t throw towards coverage. He needs to attack deep more often, but shouldn’t hold onto the ball so long. He needs to show more awareness in the pocket and move to extend plays, but nothing good comes of him leaving the pocket. He should run with the ball if nobody’s open, but he definitely can’t run with the ball.
Flacco should have the awareness of Roethlisberger, the elusiveness of Vick, the control of the offense of Manning, the leadership of Brady, the accuracy of Brees, and the arm strength of … Flacco? - Ampallang
It's their offense you struggled with
Turnovers, as usual, determined it. Keep Dalton contained, you shouldn’t have a problem, with or without Yanda (no chance he doesn’t play).
by Neal Coolong on Dec 25, 2011 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
Oh, was it jazz?
Flacco has to trust his receivers to make catches, but shouldn’t throw towards coverage. He needs to attack deep more often, but shouldn’t hold onto the ball so long. He needs to show more awareness in the pocket and move to extend plays, but nothing good comes of him leaving the pocket. He should run with the ball if nobody’s open, but he definitely can’t run with the ball.
Flacco should have the awareness of Roethlisberger, the elusiveness of Vick, the control of the offense of Manning, the leadership of Brady, the accuracy of Brees, and the arm strength of … Flacco? - Ampallang
infinitely more worried about Yanda.
I love it knowing that there are a handful of Ravens fans in this area who despise the fact that Joe will be our QB for the next 10 years. --Mr. MaLoR
well, to be fair
we had just lost our #1 corner against Pittsburgh and were reeling, but our guys have been gelling in the defensive backfield pretty well, L. Fittzgerald was held to 6 catches for 67 yards on sunday, and one was a missed tackle for 40 yards, Adam Jones is really coming into his own again, Taylor Mays has been getting some decent P.T. and Nate Clements has done remarkable all season
get your ass out there and pop em in the mouth, and if that don't work knee em in the nuts
Fitz also has no QB to throw to him.
You come at the king, you best not miss.
by organizedchaos52 on Dec 29, 2011 2:38 PM EST up reply actions
And Clements did wonderfully on Torrey.
Please match them up again.
You come at the king, you best not miss.
by organizedchaos52 on Dec 29, 2011 2:39 PM EST up reply actions
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