52. What does the number mean to most Raven fans? Raw Lewis, usually. Not the number of passes that the Ravens had Joe Flacco make.
5. What does that number mean to a Raven fan? Joe Flacco’s number, not the number of carries Ray Rice had.
Okay, here it is. The moment everyone has been waiting for. Drum roll please. This loss is put squarely on the head coach.
John Harbaugh, I would like to ask you a question. Who is the head coach? John or Cam Cameron? There is no way, NO WAY a sensible head coach allows a team to go into the loudest stadium in the NFL and throw 52 passes.
Sorry, if you are going to grab Ellerbe by the facemask in a pre-season game John, you need to grab Cam Cameron by his new chin scruff and scream into the man’s face, “run the damn ball”! Instead, I see John on the sideline with that blank stare, as if part of the game plan is going to have the Ravens offense turn into the Packer offense.
Guess that part of the plan never happened, eh?
I am sure everyone who knows football, writes football, and plays football are all wondering why we didn’t run the ball. Let’s see, the offensive line looked good. Check. There is a battering ram at full back. Check. And a guy named Ray Rice. Check.
I guess wasting money on Leach is a part of the plan to get the running game going. See, I am of the thought that the owner should stay out of the way. Today, if I was Steve Bisciotti I’m bringing everyone on the coaching staff to explain to me how we only let Ray carry the ball 5 times.
Sure, everyone writes great things when they win. When they lose, the sky is falling. I’m inclined to give the team, as in its players, a pass; seeing how they just got out of a slugfest with the Steelers and then flew across the country to play in one of the most difficult stadiums to play in. Bah, don’t give me the Seahawks record, and our new method of losing to teams with losing records. It is what it is. Any given Sunday, and they were in it until the end.
But, one player deserves special attention. You didn’t think I was going to let you get away with two fumbles and a half-the-distance-to-the-goal line penalty inside our own 20! Sorry, but I take the Bill Parcells route her – I’d cut your ass today. Maybe the lesson will do you good on your next team, but your fumbles led to exactly 6 points, and the Ravens lost by what? FIVE! You are no Devin Hester but YOU ARE RIDICULOUS – and not in the good way!
I’d really like to be able to put on the happy face and say move on. But I can’t see how this is a Super Bowl caliber team. Really, it is exasperating. We’re (6-3) with the Steelers a half game up on us. Oh, by the way, the Ravens beat them twice. A lot of good will it do when the Ravens are on the road again and get no home play-off game, if they make it that far.
As a matter of fact, I’d like to ask our head coach, Cam Cameron what he thinks about that. Oh, I’m sorry. It has been brought to my attention that this guy named John Harbaugh is our head coach, and he is going to have MORE input this year on the offense. I guess he doesn’t like running the ball. But damn he looks good on the sideline. I guess he thought they give out GQ points for looking the part. Maybe he should call his brother up and ask for some advice.
Andy Reid just called to say almost, good-enough, and maybe are things that set the chrome-standard of winning. Gold, we’ll leave that to the other teams that actually have game plans that don’t involve EA Sports strategies.
Seriously, did someone have big money on the Seahawks?
