Comments on: Ravens Steelers MNF Open Thread

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:06:33 +0000

I don’t understand why Johnson is getting all this flack from the press. Yes, he committed a penalty. So did a number of other players. Did Johnson make Santonio Holmes avoid 3 defenders for a TD? Did Johnson fail to block James Harrison half the game?

Every play counts. There is no way to pin a loss on one player, especially for a single bad play. There were 100+ plays in this game, and they all contributed to the outcome of the game equally. That’s my rant.

By: df1570

df1570 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:23:15 +0000

I saw Flacco in the locker room last night and said to him, “any chance you can pitch, too?”

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:52:03 +0000

Indianapolis doesn’t look very good recently, I think we can beat the Colts but not the Titans. We can run all day on the Colts.

By: dan the man

dan the man — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:42:00 +0000

Yeah despite my knee-jerk comments I came away ultimately impressed. For one, it was just a great game to watch. Real deal ground n pound game, so to speak. They lived up to the hype of this being a “heavy weight match”.

Flacco certainly learned a lesson about protecting the ball, eh? But he didn’t throw an interception, he showed that he’s not too stupid to throw the ball away at times, and after turning the ball over he led the team right back down the field to tie the game. You don’t see that with Ravens football in the 4th quarter. That’s something real quarterbacks do.

By: random dude

random dude — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:35:33 +0000

I was frustrated by some stupid penalties (Johnson), but I liked how Harbaugh was in his ear when he got to the sideline. Obviously I would have like to see a different outcome, but BBOL is right. We completely outplayed them. They won in 15 seconds when our rookie made a mistake. Flacco does look for real, and this is one of (if not the) toughest environments he’s going to play in all year. Anyone know what the time of possession battle was (I’m late for work or I’d look it up). I’d think we had to have won that pretty handily.

I wish we didn’t have Ten and Ind in the next two weeks. I’ll be happy if we go 1-1 there. And I think we’ll go 1-1, giving Ten their first loss hopefully.