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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
I'm still on vacation mode and haven't read much this week, but here are a few interesting things:
A) only two NFL teams have scored more TD's this season than the Houston Texans. Those teams are QB'd by Peyton Manning and Aaron Rogers.
B) after two weeks, Ben Tate leads the league with 8.2 yards per carry.
C) dating back to 1990, 90% of NFL teams that start the season 0-2 miss the playoffs: Pittsburgh, NY Giants, Washington
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There is an asterisk, Houston had to set a franchise record in that come from behind win last week, and win at the final seconds for the first game. In other words, y'all scored those TDs because you needed them, desperately in fact. So be wary, just like Ravens need to up our game on catching the football. If Ravens hadn't dropped literally FIVE TD passes (that would be 8 instead of 3) Flacco would be up there with Peyton (9) , Rodgers (7), Rivers (7) (!!! wtf??) and Schaub (6) with the most TDs..
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"Game day is not the time to go and beat somebody’s confidence up," Flacco said. "The thing our guys need is confidence. If anything, they need me to sit down with them and say, ‘Man, you’ve got a ton of ability. Just go out there and let it go.’ Sunday is the time to go out there and let all of your ability take over [and] not think about a single thing because all of the preparation we’ve done during the week has taken care of that. That’s the biggest thing these guys need to know is just go and let your ability take over."
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That's why we love Joe Flacco, he ain't getting all frazzled and emotional like Mr. GQ ..err Tom Brady
Vick should get more credit, he's thrown for 4 AND ran in for 2 (its only been two fucking games, hot damn Chip Kelley is working his magic on Vick)
PSS.. I hate to say it, but for the third year in a row, Giants will fight Cowboys for the play-off berth, and may just get it again as a 9-7 (shit, the division might even go as bad as the NFC West three years ago and be a 7-9 team)
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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
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Article was OK, there is so much more depth when looking at Ozzie Newsome. They guy is a fucking FOOTBALL psychic, no fuck it, he got the connection to the football Holy Ghost as if he were the Metropolitan Archbishop of the AFC. Seriously, name even ONE guy that Ozzie cut that went on to be improve, do better, or even match their performance with the Ravens. Name more than a handful of guys we've drafted or traded for that went entirely bunk or had to go? Even with Ed Reed, we ALL though it was a gasp bad mistake, and yet all the more a prophet, Ozzie scouted better than the rest of us, look at Ed going down with multiple injuries, and may not suit up for several games if any this season, AND he wanted several million dollars? That is why we let Boldin go, we LOVED Boldin, but he wanted too much money, and Ozzie knows there are plenty of faster WRs out there in the near future who will take much less money.
I think Ozzie is the best scout in NFL history, the guy almost can never go wrong, his first draft picks ever are in the Hall of Fame already and on their way, his first team ever went on shortly to win the Superbowl with possibly the best defense EVER, and the guy has won as many play-off games as anybody else in the league. Now with Harbaugh and Flacco, both are the first QB/coach to win a play-off game consecutively for their first five seasons, in fact Ravens are the ONLY team over the past six years to win a play-off game every year (not the Patriots, not the Steelers, not the Colts/Broncos, not the Giants, not the Saints, not the Packers, that is right, Joe Flacco's Ravens haterz
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We say, "In Ozzie we trust" because this guy will go down like Al Davis as one of the most intuitive minds in the history of the NFL.