idle thoughts reaction, Ravens edition.
1. No, there are no good losses. However, there are no good 19-0 rumblings before the Super Bowl is over. I mean, if we were 18-0 again, there would be
inevitable ones... so I guess it's nice to have that pipe dream in the rear view. But yeah, losing is never good.
2. Dang. Guys who have been in our receiving corps this year would CRUSH my 2012 fantasy league. What's that you say? Irrelevant? Eh well. At least they didn't cost us much mon...SON OF A B@#$*&^!!!!
3. Good morning, sunshine, this is what the good part of the NFL looks like.
4. Lamar Jackson is smart to want to be a pocket passer, because running quarterbacks break. So, good mindset for the announcers to assure us he has. Definitely an outstanding QB in the style they're using him in, which is manifestly
not a screw-everything, use-him-as-a-runningback fashion. One to watch, and one for NFL defenses to absorb, gameplan for, and spit out...
in most cases. Don't order the annointing oil for a few more games
5. Too small a sample size to say "this defense is nothing special." But they now have 2 weeks to come back firing and showing us that they
are. That's the test of a great D (I've been singing this song for a while...) Not how they look statistically through the feast games, how they look after some slightly more scary opponents have had their shots.
5a. Do great defenses allow 53-yard scampers? Imunno. Maybe "that one time." Definitely not on the regular.
5b. Until they get back on the field and shut us up, say snarky **** rookie fans say. "More like the
boogermen" would be utterly appropriate. It's either true, or
prove it's not. And yes I do like the relative anonymity that online fanhood offers.
6. Any time BB was supposed to respond to a zero blitz and it worked, that's what you do the Pats on a zero blitz. CHECKMATE mothaf****. Now if what the Pats did against a zero blitz NEVER worked, who
really won those downs... Um, yeah, that's bullsh1t. But say that to a drunk fan of an opposing team (and then tell them we all know the refs will give us the games that count). Remember, it's one loss. We still live in everybody's head rent free year-round.
7. Ken's much better at this. But daylight savings somehow made me wake up at like 4:30