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TJ Houshmanzadeh dropping the perfect 4th down throw from Joe FLacco that costed us a playoff game to the Steelers. Lee Evans drop that would have gotten us to the SB. Mark CLayton dropping a 4th down catch that him in the numbers that lost us a game to the Pats. All of them were pretty sickening to watch.

That is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have ever heard fall out of somebodys mouth in regards to anything much less football. I cant believe somebody would even say that is they are trolling. beg to differ if you will you just ensure nobody else takes you seriously. You think your run defense could compare to the 2000 Ravens defense ???? Are you out of your mind ? Ravens Average Rush yards per game: 60.6 Jaguars Average Rush Yards per game: 104.2 Season totals the Ravenz gave up less all season that you gave up in ten games, so please re think the statement your guys can stop the run so well again. Your whole list is possibles and maybe's and about to be's that is all fine and good and all the 2000 Ravens WERE....big difference. Ray Lewis has amassed more tackles in 10 years than all three of those guys combined. so again just slightly better. Kim Herring played extremely well that year and better than Dawan landry has any single year. Overall though I think Landry is better just not that year and I watched Dawan Landry play more games than you unless you are a closet Ravens fan and if that is the case you know nothing about them. And ok keep it to 2000 but how many people from the jags team were all pros ? What about pro bowlers ???? Yeah.... Do you even think before you type ?

And I could do the same thing for Joe Flacco and bring his up to around 95....but the point is that is not how it works, just as many errant balls as gabbert threw no receiver has caught every ball. They will make mistakes like gabbert just less often.

You are missing on the fact that the 2012 Jags defense is not even in the same ballpark as the 2000 Ravens where. you are about 1 current hall of famer short. 5 all pros short and 6 probowlers. It is not close. if you go position by position the jags dont win a single one of them except maybe strong safety, that said Herring played out of his mind that year.

Well that is definitely one logical perspective about the situation, and I cant say it is not. That said just thinking about it from my personal perspective I would have waited as well. there are a couple of reasons. First yes I would want to wait until the whole thing was over so I could see everything that was in his hand first. If it was just a ho hum punishment that amounted to nothing than I would let it alone. That being said since it was so severe he now knows what is up Goodell's sleeve as far as punishments. Now that it is in court it si all up to Goodell to prove his case. He is the accuser and Vilma is innocent until proven guilty so now the proof has to be brought out by Goodell if he wants to win. Another thing Vilma probably has taken into consideration is the Patriots spygate scandal. The one where Goodell destroyed evidence. What if Goodell did that and that is why no evidence is brought up ? What if the evidence is not conclusive except from just some sworn statement by a NFL lackey? Vilma may have baited a trap and Goodell thinking he was all powerful may have just walked right into it. If there is indded no evidence either ever or anymore than he fucked himself out of a case since this is not a NFL matter but a civil matter in a civil court so the burden of proof falls on Goodell.

If all of this is true why does this bother you ? If you are correct then Roger Goodell is going to take Vilma to the cleaners and it is going to empirically prove that the saints were in the wrong and when the evidence is released and it turns out that Goodell was correct than Vilma will not have a leg to stand on. Now for one second lets just assume the opposite. What if Vilma knows he did not and he wants it called into question about half the crooked shit that happens in this league because of that stupid fucktard Goodell. I personally think this is all in the middle because Goodell has something or else he is just plain fucking stupid. Either that or he thought nobody would question any of his authority for the fear of the repercussions of the all powerful douche bag. So I think he will get caught with SOMETHING that makes him look like the pompous, long winded, douche bagged fuckwad he really is. Also Vilma would not have done this if he knew he was going to lose on all counts so I think that he has something up his sleeve. There is no way he cuts his own throat without gaining something. If he can even discredit GODell a little bit than the backlash will be ten times worse than what it will be if Vilma is proved on all counts.

Not if you are the Ravens.

Ray Lewis, Terrell Suggs, and Anquan Boldin.

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It is pretty shitty that he is an incompetent doctor who can not only fuck up the whole process but turn around and either not catch it or not lie about it. that said the lady was obviously not able to take care of a child or did not need one so she should not be treating abortion as a form of birth control for a number of reasons but if for nothing else that rubbers are way cheaper. So that being said he should handle the medical costs of the pregnancy and his botched procedure. After that the doctor did not fuck for those kids so I am not sure he should be the one who should have to pay for the consequences of two other peoples actions that had nothing to do with him. Another question is where is the dad in all of this ? Does he not hold any of the burden of the responsibility ? how about the him and the doctor split the costs at the most EXTREME judgement on top of the medical bills. it is also kind of sad how she says well I would have aborted until it was too late. it is a little fucked up that only after she gets some publicity and know her kid will Google her one day and find the article of where he is the life that should have never been. But hey its OK she will not have to work for the next quarter century of her life..... Is this one justice system that might be more fucked up than our own>

Again the defense is not old. The Texans and the Ravens are both logical choices for it aside from the others you mentioned. Also I know they perennially choke but if the Chargers can get hot a little earlier they could be up there.

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I dont know their have beens things that will help hin on the offense and things that could hurt him. Tolbert being gone could really put some lead in his pencil as far as the TD vulture and carries go. However do we thing Malcolm Floyd can put up VJ -like numbers and then whoever their number two receiver is (Meachem or Brown) can replicate the production of Malcolm Floyd as the number two receiver. If so then yeah he can.. If not he may be looking at more stacked boxes. I would say it is definitely plausible though.

This is some serious shit. Why is it the NFL is trying to expand outward. A corporation that pulls in billions in revenues a year should stick with the one that brought them to the dance.

In 2010 when he was a 1000 yard rusher with a 4.4 YPC average. He was in an extremely pass heavy offense his entire career and has NEVER fumbled the football. The Bengals might have just made one of the best FA pickups this year.

For all the Rex Haters, look at him on the field. Take his antics on the camera out of the equation for a moment. This guy has two things going for him. First: A good offensive line with decent to good running backs depending on the game, an underrated FB, and a tried and true philosophy of running and then play action. Second: Love him or hate him he can get the most out of the defense and the personnel he has. He has done it for years and fielding top 10 defenses for a long time. I am not saying he is the greatest ever, but his coaching gets a bum rap because of his off the field shit.

uh oh....he forgot his other shirt at the cleaners.

^^^ What both said. Depending on how luck turns out and if he really is the next peyton I will say him next year just for the age factor and it would be nice for the Ravens to finally have one QB we could say would be TRULY elite and not just self proclaimed. honorable mention: Jake Long Joe Thomas

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So last night me and the old lady are at some super swanky restaurant because I am trying to convince her into letting me by a 1969 Camaro SS/RS and putting off the retirement for a couple of year with the understanding I would do most of the maintenance myself. So anyway to the point, we are sitting there and actually enjoying ourselves and talking about all the random shit that popped into our head, and this kid is running in between tables like he has lost his rabbit ass mind. he yelling and his parents are just sitting their watching him admiring what a precocious child they have. Then the kids starts yelling and throws a dinner roll across the restaurant and hit a guy sitting at the table next to me. I overhear him say, "my parents would have whooped my ass as a kid...thanks tree huggers." Before I noticed it I said, " No shit right." He laughed and I bought the fellow a beer for his outstanding self control. Anyway me and my wife were talking it over and was wondering what is the deal with spanking your kids. I understand there is a fine line between a good ass whoopini and abuse and in todays society they are interchangeable. I have always been a muscular cat so at about the age of 16 it was not the belt that did the trick anymore it was my old man taking me behind the old proverbial woodshed and kicking my ass. It was nothing super serious like kicking me when I was down but enough to where I got his point. I am not saying all kids need that but I was a hard headed little prick and it honestly taught me a few things and I think had served me well in my military career because of the personal responsibility factor. Now there are psychologists on the TV all the time saying it mentally scars kids and so on and so on, but I guess I am the exception because I hold no ill will and am far from scarred and if he hadn't have whooped my ass and I had ever won one I might be able to admit I appreciate it. So the question folks is, do you think it is right or wrong? I would like to give some differing viewpoints to try and understand another side. Is it something I am missing. Was my Dad to old school ? Am I just fucked in the head ? Or is it in fact true that from time to time a kid just needs an ass whoopin ? Now if you do people can call SRS, you can be arrested, you can have your kids taken, I mean it is just a lot of the government trying to raise your kids now. My mom's saying was, "I brought you into this world and I can take you out." I threatened to call the cops once and she said it will give me a good 20 minutes to whoop your ass until they get here and believe I will make the jail time worth it. That quickly quelled my cleverly thought out rebellion.

First and foremost the recent schedule thing has cam up about the Ravens in particular. 2011 Strength of Schedule goes as follows for the AFCN among the rest of the NFL: Cleveland: 19th Cincinnati: 27th Pittsburgh: 27th Baltimore: 31st So that said nobody in the AFCN had a hard one and Pittsburgh and Cincy only had slightly tougher schedules definitely not tough enough for people to give an edge one way or the other. The Browns had by far the hardest and it reflected in the record. Source Second lets get past this Age thing because it is complete horse shit. Average Age for defensive starters: Pittseburgh:30.2 Cincinatti: 26.2 Baltimore: 26.9 Cleveland: 27 Average age of Offensive starters: Piitsburgh: 24.9 Cincinatti: 25.4 Baltimore: 27.2 Cleveland: 24.8 So this same old tired ass talk of Blatimore is getting old is indeed getting old. And once Ray and Ed are gone look for that average age to be right around 24.5. And truth be told no team in the AFCN is getting all that old. Although Pitt is the leader but not by a wide margin. Source

I took all that into account. as far as how old will they be when the season starts. As for the cake schedules it was not really to dispute your claim of a cake schedule because it indeed was. I twas to show that scheduling really wanst something that should be a knock because almost every year you know eight games and then you know what teams you will play based off of divisions so it is not like you can really point to someones schedule and say that well they should have been this or that because in the end you will never know until the game unfolds. As to the Ravens you are again correct in the ascertainment that they played up and down to their competition so that being said had the schedule been different they may have ended up with the same record due to that fact. Again we will never know however this year they the AFCN has a very tough schedule so we are going to see. And they were SB contenders it was a dumb ass catch away with a perfectly thrown ball away from winning and an idiot kicker from tying. And do not sit here and point fingers as if the steelers were not overrated. Every year it is the same shit. I think last year the slogan was stairway to seven and every analyst gave the ravens no shot of winning the division just like every year for the last decade. I really ahve no problem with it though because we are still in the playoffs every year. A?nd if you are an honest pittsburgh fan you can not lie and say you know you are going to beat the Ravens every time because just about every game in recent memory has been one score more often than not coming down to a field goal. Again this was not meant to disprove an argument one way or the other, more or less to point out division rivals rarely have schedules that are stark contrasts to each other. So if you say the person who wins the division has a cake as schedule then your team generally does not have it much tougher. However take it as a victory if you like but their was no argument intended just making sure that from here on nobody makes some irrational argument and everybody has a full deck. Side note though: WE lost to the AFC champs you lost to probably the second shittiest QB in the league so lets not go there.

That was quite the 10,000th post.