Comments on: Take a Lap – Baltimore Ravens

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:38:56 +0000

The real important question is: did the play even make that big a difference? These Ravens act like that ended the game. I don’t know if it was important as they think. The Suggs shot was on second down on a completed pass, setting up third and long, but thats not a guaranteed stop, seeing as the Pats were at nearly 50% (4-8, maybe 4-9) on third down at that point and averaging around 7 yards per pass and were already at the Ravens’ 40 when this happened. There were any number of plays that made a bigger difference: a 4th down conversion inside the five, a 4th and 1 stop at midfield, a coach so wrapped up in one call he gave away fifteen yards and ultimately a dropped pass on 4th down that would have given the Ravens a chance to win. The refs are a convenient scapegoat for the Ravens, who think they are better than they are.

By: Steve Bevacqua

Steve Bevacqua — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:14:57 +0000

THANK GOD someone else saw that Suggs play the way I did – I thought I was the only guy in the western hemisphere who thought they got that call right. Suggs definitely went at the knee and it was only Brady’s ‘matador’ move that saved New England from another year of rooting for the backup QB. And I have no problem with TB asking the the ref “WTF was that?” and getting the call. If it was me, I’d have done the same.

Kind of ironic that the same guys who are whining and crying and blaming someone else for their problems are asking the othert guy to ‘man up’. Dude – look in the mirror first.

By: Chris Warner

Chris Warner — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:19:09 +0000

Nice work, Scott. I was thinking the same thing about how the Patriots have never actually beaten the Ravens – at least not without an officiating conspiracy.

By: David

David — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:53:24 +0000

Look at the replay – Suggs wasn’t pushed into Brady, the ball was gone and he took two full steps before getting there. The 15 yards doesn’t come on the result of a QB knee injury, it comes on the action of diving at the knees of the QB.

And let’s get something straight, the “NFL” didn’t implement this rule, the owners did, *through* the rules committee. None of the owners want their biggest investments going down on the turf with an ACL injury. None of the fans want that, and it would appear that no players, outside of those diving at the knees of QB’s want that either.

It’s a rule, deal with it.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:13:28 +0000

The whining is pathetic.

I’ll say it again: what if Brady had not been able to get his leg out of the way just in a nick of time as Suggs was (clearly) diving low well after the ball had been thrown? Would throwing the 15-yard flag been acceptable to the Ravens then, given that Suggs probably would have ended Brady’s career and the hit wouldn’t have been a glancing blow?

And I’d really like to know what “spots” they thought they were screwed on? McGahee clearly was stopped short of that first down in the 4th quarter; it wasn’t even close. And while the first down mark on the fake field goal was not a slam dunk, it certainly wasn’t that bad. Baker’s feet were still inbounds as he was stretching the ball to the orange marker.

Harbaugh is not a leader in my opinion. He’s actually encouraging his team to make excuses about losing.