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2024 Season: AFC Divisional Round @ Buffalo Jan. 19th 6:30PM


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#961 Biggsy

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Posted 23 January 2025 - 05:19 PM

KC was the better team in that game last year. Buffalo was not the better team on Sun. That makes it a bit easier for me to take last year. That doesnt mean we didnt shit the bed last year, but I thought that game was more about how KC defended Lamar than anything else. A bit of a hat tip to them. Buffalo, I dont really have anything to hat tip them for this past week. They just took the gift we handed them



100% disagree. Ravens were the better team position for position. KC was a great team no doubt. But they were better poised to take it all that season than this. Biggest difference being the defense. No one can question Macdonald's defense was far superior to Orr/Pees.
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#962 mdrunning

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Posted 23 January 2025 - 06:24 PM

Bill Belichick was on a podcast earlier this week (I didn't see it; it was mentioned on radio today) and he said the Ravens were the best team in the playoffs this year. They just beat themselves, which is something his teams rarely did in their heyday.



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Posted 23 January 2025 - 08:53 PM

Still not over it btw, in case anyone was wondering.
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Posted 23 January 2025 - 09:02 PM

Still not over it btw, in case anyone was wondering.

That's the way I felt after the loss to the Colts in 2006.  It took a good week before I could even come to terms with it.  Maybe being 19 years older and a different perspective takes away the lingering sting from these kinds of losses.  But I know how you feel, believe me. 


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Posted 23 January 2025 - 09:49 PM

That's the way I felt after the loss to the Colts in 2006. It took a good week before I could even come to terms with it. Maybe being 19 years older and a different perspective takes away the lingering sting from these kinds of losses. But I know how you feel, believe me.


That was probably the toughest loss that I attended. The second was the Chargers loss in Lamar's rookie season. You can rank the last 4 playoff losses in any order (Titans, Bengals, Chiefs and Bills). All 6 are crushing and we aren't even talking about the losses to the Patriots and Steelers.

I still need another week to get over this one.

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Posted 23 January 2025 - 09:54 PM

My opinion, the Colts loss at home and the Titans loss as home were the biggest groin kicks to me.

KC sucked but it's KC and Mahomes and yeah. BUF sucked but it was Allen and on the road and Cheffers crew so I watched expecting short straw. And frankly I'm programmed now to expect Harbs to help blow playoff games.

But the 2006 squad was head and shoulders the best team in football that year in my view. The defense was practically 2000 level, run game was solid and McNair was a game manager type but all year long made the right decisions and the right throws at just the right time. They held Peyton out of the endzone. It was at home, coming off a bye, and the crowd was as amped up as any home crowd ever.

The TEN game was also one where the Ravens talent wise had NO BUSINESS losing to that team. Vrabel and company outcoached Harbs drastically from the moment a slightly high throw went off Andrews hands and got picked.
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Posted 24 January 2025 - 02:42 AM

Idk man.

It sucks. Especially the way we lost. But this roster turned itself over completely and lost a ton of coaching staff, and won the division.

It feel like Lamar can will us into the playoffs pretty much whenever he wants right now. He just needs to get lucky once he's there (or figure out how to play January football.) We can run it back and be a top 5 team. That's something.

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Posted 24 January 2025 - 06:25 AM

My opinion, the Colts loss at home and the Titans loss as home were the biggest groin kicks to me.

KC sucked but it's KC and Mahomes and yeah. BUF sucked but it was Allen and on the road and Cheffers crew so I watched expecting short straw. And frankly I'm programmed now to expect Harbs to help blow playoff games.

But the 2006 squad was head and shoulders the best team in football that year in my view. The defense was practically 2000 level, run game was solid and McNair was a game manager type but all year long made the right decisions and the right throws at just the right time. They held Peyton out of the endzone. It was at home, coming off a bye, and the crowd was as amped up as any home crowd ever.

The TEN game was also one where the Ravens talent wise had NO BUSINESS losing to that team. Vrabel and company outcoached Harbs drastically from the moment a slightly high throw went off Andrews hands and got picked.

 

I think I would agree.  Buffalo was never going to be easy at their place.  They were undefeated at home this year and the weather factored in.  I said on the playoff thread that I thought the Ravens would beat the Steelers at home and lose in Buffalo.  Disappointing the way it happened, but the result was not unexpected to me.  The Ravens did beat themselves, but drops and turnovers can happen if you aren't used to that kind of weather.

 

The ball slipped out of Lamar's hands on the fumble.  Maybe that doesn't happen if they were in Baltimore.  Buffalo made a good play on punch out of Andrews.  He probably should have just gone straight up field instead of running laterally, but still credit Buffalo for punching it out.  The bobble on the two point conversion?  Again the ball is slippery.  

 

KC is KC, you usually need to play perfect to beat them and the Ravens did not.  The also went off of their game plan which should have been to run all over KC the way Buffalo did the week before.  

 

In 2006 the Ravens offense totally sucked against Indy.  But Indy had Peyton and he finds ways to win.  They lost to a great QB.  But they were clearly the better team they year.

 

But the all time disappointment as far as playoff losses go has to be 2019 in my mind.  The Ravens were a #1 seed and had blown everyone away most of the year.  They were double digit favorites to a Tennessee team with Ryan Tannehill.  Lamar threw two picks and had a fumble, the Raven failed on two fourth down attempts where they were perfect during the season, and lost by 16 points to a team that was a 9-7, #6 seed.  That is still hard to believe.



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Posted 24 January 2025 - 03:01 PM

100% disagree. Ravens were the better team position for position. KC was a great team no doubt. But they were better poised to take it all that season than this. Biggest difference being the defense. No one can question Macdonald's defense was far superior to Orr/Pees.

 

When we did "The Bank" prior to the AFC title game last year, I said the Ravens needed to play the 2023 Chiefs, not the ghost of the Chiefs. Meaning we didn't need to play run and shoot, go for 2 all the time and worry about a shootout, as if it was the 2018-2019 Chiefs. The '23 Chiefs were very vulnerable and we let their aura get in our heads.

 

As disappointed as I am in how things went down this year, I was way more bothered with last year's loss. We were the best team in football, with the MVP and the all around best defense in the league, playing in our building against a diminished Chiefs team that wasn't in our stratosphere. And we choked.

 

Last Sunday was a little bit of choking and a little bit of bad luck, IMO. Henry and Andrews having drops, Lamar and Andrews putting the ball on the carpet were all plays that happen when the moment is too big and the lights are too bright. We've seen it happen to this group too many times in this era to think otherwise. Then, it was really bad luck with that DPI call. I know, I know, complaining about officiating rings hollow when your -3 in the turnover column but that flag was an absolute game changing dagger.


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Posted 24 January 2025 - 03:06 PM

Idk man.

It sucks. Especially the way we lost. But this roster turned itself over completely and lost a ton of coaching staff, and won the division.

It feel like Lamar can will us into the playoffs pretty much whenever he wants right now. He just needs to get lucky once he's there (or figure out how to play January football.) We can run it back and be a top 5 team. That's something.

 

I just don't want Lamar to have to be picture perfect for us to win. It's been bandied about on social media but it bears repeating, the lack of turnovers generated by the defense in the Lamar era is pretty staggering. The fact that we've gone 5 straight playoff without a turnover on defense is unbelievable.

 

I would like to see us make a splash at pass rusher. Either see if Cleveland is willing to deal Myles Garrett or see if maybe Maxx Crosby is available. Otherwise, we need to move up in the draft and land the best pass rusher. God bless Van Noy and I have no problem with him being back but I'm sick of veteran retreads at edge. We need a game wrecker on defense.


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Posted 24 January 2025 - 03:19 PM

I just don't want Lamar to have to be picture perfect for us to win. It's been bandied about on social media but it bears repeating, the lack of turnovers generated by the defense in the Lamar era is pretty staggering. The fact that we've gone 5 straight playoff without a turnover on defense is unbelievable.

 

I would like to see us make a splash at pass rusher. Either see if Cleveland is willing to deal Myles Garrett or see if maybe Maxx Crosby is available. Otherwise, we need to move up in the draft and land the best pass rusher. God bless Van Noy and I have no problem with him being back but I'm sick of veteran retreads at edge. We need a game wrecker on defense.

Would need to be drafted. Cant afford to both trade for and then pay a guy like Garrett



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Posted 24 January 2025 - 03:28 PM

Would need to be drafted. Cant afford to both trade for and then pay a guy like Garrett

 

The cap will be going up and there's always room to maneuver. It's just a matter of how you want to allocate your resources. You would have to be creative and stretch out some deals but it can be done.

 

To your point, however, it would be easier to draft someone. 


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#973 jamesdean

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Posted 24 January 2025 - 03:36 PM

If the Browns were interested, I'd give them my 1st and 2nd round for Garrett.  He's that good and would transform that defense into a scary one.  It will never happen, though.  EDC values draft picks too highly. 



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Posted 24 January 2025 - 03:38 PM

I will add that this year's draft is loaded with edge rushers but I still think EDC will pick the best player at 27, regardless of position. 



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Posted 24 January 2025 - 08:04 PM

I just don't want Lamar to have to be picture perfect for us to win. It's been bandied about on social media but it bears repeating, the lack of turnovers generated by the defense in the Lamar era is pretty staggering. The fact that we've gone 5 straight playoff without a turnover on defense is unbelievable.

 

I would like to see us make a splash at pass rusher. Either see if Cleveland is willing to deal Myles Garrett or see if maybe Maxx Crosby is available. Otherwise, we need to move up in the draft and land the best pass rusher. God bless Van Noy and I have no problem with him being back but I'm sick of veteran retreads at edge. We need a game wrecker on defense.

 

 

He didn't have to be perfect.

 

If he only gave up 1 of his 2 turnovers he would have won the game.






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