View Full Version : Jeff Blake Redux
A few minutes ago we got a close up of McNair laughing and smiling on the sidelines.
Pack his locker and hand him his shit when he gets back to the complex.
Losac
11-05-2007, 10:48 PM
So were Boller and Heap.
Boller and Heap hadn't shit the bed.
camdenyard
11-05-2007, 10:51 PM
Another QB you want to toss over the upper deck, Greg?
Ravenfan_11
11-05-2007, 10:54 PM
Also, Ray and Ed Reed were doing there best to rub up all over Big Ben like he was their prom date.
These guys don't care, they are all friends off the field and our team is just happy getting their paycheck and having fun on their radio show. They don't care about the fans in this city.
We need to learn a lesson from Pittsburgh's players.
StingerNLG
11-05-2007, 10:55 PM
The whole team needs to be laid into like nobody's business.
Actually I said I would jump from the upper deck if Blake came back, thankfully he didn't.
ravenjoe
11-05-2007, 11:02 PM
The whole team needs to be laid into like nobody's business.
Billick would Never lay into this team - it's not his style; thus, fire his you-know-what and get someone who will.
flraven
11-05-2007, 11:22 PM
A few minutes ago we got a close up of McNair laughing and smiling on the sidelines.
Pack his locker and hand him his shit when he gets back to the complex.
Yeah, pack his locker but make his ass walk back to Baltimore.
BertJonesMyHero
11-05-2007, 11:23 PM
Half the team was yuking it up. Not just 1 guy. I was disgusted. But that is Billick ball for ya. The inmates run the asylum.
Sephy
11-06-2007, 12:59 AM
This season is definitely Billick's last dance for me. Same tired O, same old unprepared shit.
ravenwoman
11-06-2007, 06:32 AM
There is a total lack of discipline starting from the top-down. I don't like this player's coach mentality. We need a dictator like Vince Lombardi, Bill Belichick, etc. These players need to be yelled at and humiliated early and often. I would call them out in front of others and do everything possible to make them feel like crap. If they didn't like it, they can quit.
crpravens
11-06-2007, 08:20 AM
And people really believe this team has heart.. haha :rolling:
deuce
11-06-2007, 08:32 AM
Why wouldnt they be smiling? Isnt today payday? Nothing pisses me off more than players laughing and smiling at the end of a game like that. It is worse than celebrating a tackle when we are down 5 scores.
purplepoe
11-06-2007, 08:36 AM
Why wouldnt they be smiling? Isnt today payday? Nothing pisses me off more than players laughing and smiling at the end of a game like that. It is worse than celebrating a tackle when we are down 5 scores.
With this team you get a healthy dose of both.
It's about to get alot worse too.
PP
festivus
11-06-2007, 09:07 AM
The Blake incident was after he had thrown a bad pick in the endzone in the playoffs to close out a game we should have won. The soiled toilet paper of a man then went on to blame Randy Hymes for his own underthrown ball. God that was dreadful.
Anyway that was after a hotly contested playoff game with a gut wrenching conclusion.
In defense of the guys who were laughing at the end of the game, with the exception of McNair they were *not* the guys who had wet the bed, this was not a playoff game, and it was not the horror-movie-awful ending that Blake gave us.
Also giving credit where credit is due, Rothelissburger (spelling? whatever) had the game of his *life* last night against our depleted secondary, so I don't have a problem with Reed giving him some props. I know if someone has a good game against me in whatever sport, I tell him so.
Reed congratulating what's-his-name was good sportsmanship. I don't have a problem with that.
McNair should have walked back to Owings Mills, I'll agree with that.
deuce
11-06-2007, 09:17 AM
I am not saying to be bad sports about it. But at least give the appearance that you are half as pissed as the fans back home surely are. I mean this is a "rivalry game."
Losac
11-06-2007, 09:17 AM
The Blake incident was after he had thrown a bad pick in the endzone in the playoffs to close out a game we should have won. The soiled toilet paper of a man then went on to blame Randy Hymes for his own underthrown ball. God that was dreadful.
Anyway that was after a hotly contested playoff game with a gut wrenching conclusion.
In defense of the guys who were laughing at the end of the game, with the exception of McNair they were *not* the guys who had wet the bed, this was not a playoff game, and it was not the horror-movie-awful ending that Blake gave us.
Also giving credit where credit is due, Rothelissburger (spelling? whatever) had the game of his *life* last night against our depleted secondary, so I don't have a problem with Reed giving him some props. I know if someone has a good game against me in whatever sport, I tell him so.
Reed congratulating what's-his-name was good sportsmanship. I don't have a problem with that.
McNair should have walked back to Owings Mills, I'll agree with that.
The Blake incident wasn't after a playoff game. It was the final game of the 2002 season against Pittsburgh. And yes, it was a game we should have won.
I don't have problems with the players complimenting the competition or talking with them nicely, but on our own sideline in the midst of a career piece of crap I don't think smiling and laughing is appropriate.
festivus
11-06-2007, 09:22 AM
The Blake incident wasn't after a playoff game. It was the final game of the 2002 season against Pittsburgh. And yes, it was a game we should have won.
Oops. But if we'd won we were in the playoffs? Darn it, @#$!ing brain going at such an early age.
Thanks for the correction, Losac.
purplepoe
11-06-2007, 09:25 AM
Oops. But if we'd won we were in the playoffs? Darn it, @#$!ing brain going at such an early age.
Thanks for the correction, Losac.
Nope. We were out of it either way.
PP
festivus
11-06-2007, 09:40 AM
:doh:
FellsPointRaven
11-06-2007, 09:53 AM
They should have had a word with Mel Blount. It's a shame when an ex Steeler seems more embarrassed for a team than the actual players themselves.
Losac
11-06-2007, 10:56 AM
They should have had a word with Mel Blount. It's a shame when an ex Steeler seems more embarrassed for a team than the actual players themselves.
Everything Blount said was right on the money.
RavensNTerps
11-06-2007, 12:32 PM
Sad that jeff blake was probably the best QB that we've had under Billick.
I know there are those that will blame Billick for that, which is laughable in its own right, but its just a sad fact.
In fact, I'm not even sure its debateable.
Galen Sevinne
11-06-2007, 12:52 PM
Sad that jeff blake was probably the best QB that we've had under Billick.
I know there are those that will blame Billick for that, which is laughable in its own right, but its just a sad fact.
In fact, I'm not even sure its debateable.
The best quarterback we had under Billick was buried under McNair and Boller and never saw the light of day in Baltimore. He is currently throwing for 300+ yards and 2+ Tds a game up in Cleveland.
festivus
11-06-2007, 12:58 PM
Grbac was a better QB then Blake, who had a tendency to throw for 300 yards each game, 200 for us, 100 for their interception returns. I didn't care for the attitude of either one, for different reasons.
Grbac was doomed when Jamal went down in training camp.
Blake was not a very good QB, he is a stats compiler and game loser.
RavenTD
11-06-2007, 01:19 PM
A franchise QB in Baltimore, it feels like Johnny U' used up all the greatness in that position.
When can Baltimore have a long lasting great leader behind center again?
Mr OC
11-06-2007, 02:39 PM
The best quarterback we had under Billick was buried under McNair and Boller and never saw the light of day in Baltimore. He is currently throwing for 300+ yards and 2+ Tds a game up in Cleveland.
Maybe Olsen will go down to the Panthers and do the same thing. Then everyone can say how we should have kept him too.
http://www.charlotte.com/panthers/story/350249.html
highwater
11-06-2007, 02:52 PM
Sad that jeff blake was probably the best QB that we've had under Billick. In fact, I'm not even sure its debateable.
Not debatable? Come on RnT, Blake had his moments, but so did McNair last year, and even Grbac probably played better, considering he had basically no running game or pass protection.
RAVENOUS52
11-06-2007, 02:57 PM
I was already sick when I hurried home from work in California to watch the game...
And now after McNair's performance (or lack thereof) I believe I might be terminally ill!
Mista T
11-06-2007, 03:46 PM
Sad that jeff blake was probably the best QB that we've had under Billick.
I know there are those that will blame Billick for that, which is laughable in its own right, but its just a sad fact.
In fact, I'm not even sure its debateable.
I don't know how this got sidetracked into a debate about the best QB under Billick -- or, more accurately, the least sucky one. But I'll chime in: the best overall QB performance by a Ravens QB performance under Billick came from Tony Banks in the 2nd half of the '99 season, carrying into the early '00 season, when he ran out of gas (and TD's) 1/4th way into the season. Tony had tremendous passing games in defeating the eventual SB loser Titans 41-14, the Steelers on the road 31-24 (three bomb TDs to Qadry), and the 39-36 thriller over the Jags.
Both Grbac and Randall Cunningham (just two games in Grbac's relief) also had better performances than Blake.
Maybe Olsen will go down to the Panthers and do the same thing. Then everyone can say how we should have kept him too.
http://www.charlotte.com/panthers/story/350249.html
Not to dwell on the woulda/shoulda, but Olsen should have earned the #3 QB spot based on preseason performance. I don't think he'll ever become star material, but it would not surprise me to see Olsen playing in the NFL for a few years, while Troy finds a home in the CFL.
ladyraven127
11-06-2007, 09:26 PM
Tony Banks? Ya had to go there didn't you.
:alien:
Mista T
11-06-2007, 11:31 PM
Tony Banks? Ya had to go there didn't you.
:alien:
Well hon, we can dwell on the bad memory of Banks' constipated passing, fumbles, picks, & the tripping over his shoes during the first 4 TD-less games .... or the good memories of his whooping the Titans, Steelers, and Jags with bombs to Q. But even Banks - at his worst - played better QB than "Air McNair" has been playing since last December.
Billick fired Banks after the 4th TD-less game, yet he stubbornly continues to play the dead-armed and apparently frightened or shell-shocked McNair, flushing our season down the crapper as a result. Go figure!:eyes:
Rochardrik
11-08-2007, 10:31 AM
Did anyone besides me wonder, while watching those TD passes from loosemeatburger, that we don't do that? It has been a slow morphing, maybe, but our system has not produced a TD pass along the lines of a receiver running toward the end zone, and being hit with a pass, in stride, for a TD for a long while:rolleyes: I have been racking my brain trying to remember that same scenario playing out in purple, but for the life of me, I cannot recall the last time.... We have receivers, do we not? Why do all other NFL teams have that play in their playbooks, but the Ravens do not?:rolleyes: I can't help but believe, poor execution or not, that this system is severely lacking!!!
festivus
11-08-2007, 10:37 AM
McNair to Williams in Pittsburgh last year, someone correct me if there's been one since.
What irks me is the rainbows are not even that demanding, compared to the out patterns and some of the other stuff McNair doesn't do. Boller throws deep balls and hard to the sidelines and all the routes, and McNair throws dump offs and 5 yard slants. Very frustrating.
I suspect McNair will get some of the Bengals game to prove himself, home field and hopefully dry conditions, otherwise he will be benched as starter during the game.
:ihope: