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Old 09-22-2024, 03:36 PM   #3989
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This game has been a clown fiesta of the dumbest laziest play calling playing from ahead, some of the worst officiating ever, Tucker being cooked to the point where he misses from 46 in garbo time, and the refs straight up stealing a safety

3 good quarters and 1 bad quarter is fine though against the best garbage time QB in the league (either him or Carr)

So my take on the 3 quarters is that the O line looked much better this time around, and I'll have to wait for the snap counts to come out, but it looked like they called on Pat Ricard a lot more in this game, blocking for Henry which allowed him to go crazy. There's a major issue with the play calling when ahead, which was an issue for Monken last year, and Roman before that. They call the most basic runs straight into an overloaded box. Yes you have Derrick Henry, but when they know exactly what you're going to do, it's going to be 3 and out. And that allowed them to get back into the game attempting their miracle comeback. When the game got tight again and Monken started having to call a game again, they had two good plays (including one that faked out the broadcast and everyone in the stands, and me) and killed the game.

Defense was a lot tighter in coverage, which Tom Brady was calling out (thought he did a good job in this game). They shut down CD and basically put him out of the game mentally.

I can't overreact to the 4th quarter, because it's basically started out as Dak racking up garbage time points as he always does, along with a really bad onside kick play by Zay, and one extremely bad penalty for roughing the passer.

I watch at least 5 games a week, and I can tell you that usually refs fuck up for most teams equally (except the Chiefs), but it's not the same the last two seasons for the Ravens. You could tell from the first game of the season last year something was up, and it started immediately this season and has continued through to today. Lamar was caught saying something about it between plays, coach said he complained to the league, and Oweh had this to say about it after today's game


Ravens are the #1 penalized team in the league, up by 40 yards over the second place team after 3 games. They were #1 last year too. Usually through the Lamar era they hover around the middle

Can't blame the refs for bad play calling and bad play, but it makes it tough to watch sometimes. Bad play can be overcome, bad officiating cannot.
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