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Originally Posted by MMXcalibur
What is most depressing about this effort is that this was the Ravens offense at their weakest. A collection of zombies and JAGs at running back all the while missing their best offensive line talent and still, STILL this shit defense got gashed left and right by Baltimore.
We're still playoff-bound, don't get me wrong (and it's cute seeing the Raiders and Broncos' fans get excited in Week 2)....but that awful rush defense is going to be our kryptonite come January.
EDIT: Also what stings most is that we had this game all but won until CEH elected to put the goddamn ball on the ground. Even with all those flaws, this was a very winnable game that is now a "1" in the loss column. Enjoy your Super Bowl, Baltimore.
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I remember getting absolutely gashed by the Titans on the ground. It was a week 10 game. The first game Mahomes came back after his kneecap injury. It was a
very similar type of loss. Our offense was wrecking them and the defense got complacent. We could've put them away but we didn't and they came back. Then we blew our tying field goal chance at the end. We had been awful against the run all year to that point. Everyone said we had the worst run defense in football and it was true. Then our defense turned it around in a big way. We beat the brakes off of Oakland the next week and then went into New England and beat them. We won out the rest of the season and ended up winning the Super Bowl.
A big part of that turnaround was because we had acquired Mike Pennel. After strangely making him inactive for the game against Tennessee and watching DT Joey Ivie get destroyed in the run game, we put him in the starting lineup and it worked. So adjustments can be made. Things can turn around.