Flacco has been bad but he isn't getting any help, either. As you point out, the O line is bad and the receivers aren't very good. The whole offense is BAD. Ravens have problems and I don't know if they can fix them at this point. -- Al
Have to give Flacco credit; he had a career year, or more importantly, played out of his mind vs Denver, New England and SF and the Browns won a Super Bowl. He did it in a contract year, had the Browns over a barrel and they paid him.
He's been mediocre ever since for the most part.
But you know what; good for him.
I found out over the weekend that Dwight Clark has ALS; these guys sacrifice they bodies and minds to play this sport, so they SHOULD cash in while they can.
I find myself less and less interested in the NFL, mainly due to the ginger haired stooge who's in charge, he's nothing but a puppet, he does what the owners tell him to do, the product on the field is awful. After every score, big run, big punt or kick off return, huge pass, fumble recovery, interception or huge third down stop, I wait for the inevitable flag to be thrown, wiping out the play, not to mention the arbitrary calls they make.
Two examples from last night; Gronkowski makes a great catch, but is flagged for OPI; then Jones mauls the defender in the end zone and catches a TD pass, no call.
Then on a long run, Cannon gets called to a ticky tack phantom holding call; on a long Falcon run, a Patriot defender comes through the line and literally gets tackled from behind by #73 (and that was about the third time he did that), no call.
And yes, both went against the Patriots, so slow your roll; point being, the officiating sucks too, that combined with a ****ty product is not good.
, my God, I've seen the Ravens play bad stretches before but this is about as worse as it has ever been in a long time, Flacco is a laugh right now with the trillion dollar paycheck the Ravens gave him a few years ago, the O line is embarrassing, and all that bullshit talk of this defense being as good as the 2001?? well, how's that working out so far??? at this rate maybe a 7-9 but 6-10, 5-11 wouldn't shock me one bit.
