Game Thread W14 - Baltimore Ravens at Houston Texans (1 Viewer)

[FUBAR]

Anquan Boldin is easily my most disappointing player of 2010 for my team. I really expected great things. He keeps putting up these stinkers and I keep starting him. I will try to trade him this week to the Flacco owner. I doubt I'll get much of a nibble.

He's exceeded my expectations as they were pretty low and he's a top 20 WR right now.

 

[JaxBill]

Kubiak has the Texans +18.5

 

[Hipple Long Ware & Peete]

Stop throwing it to anyone but AJ. Problem solved.

XContinue throwing to Andre The Johnson © (sm)..

 

[hailskins81]

A nice 80 yard TD from Flacco would win for me...LOL.

 

[biggamer3]

Schaub has really picked apart the Ravens, i cant recall this many drops in such good weather

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

Reed Trains by outrunning the DEA...

I almost went there...

 

[CrossEyed]

Jacoby was trying hard there to make up for that drop.

 

[Irish Chaos]

Jacoby was trying hard there to make up for that drop.

loved him going into the year, now i uunderstand why no one else was nearly as high on him, thought he wud supplant walter as the #2...

 

[CrossEyed]

Ridiculous that a flag was even thrown on the sideline there.

 

[Irish Chaos]

how is that even going to be overturned...

 

[Pyramid Scheme]

Gruden and Kubiak seem to have a lot in common in their thinking tonight. I wonder which one of them has the better chance of being a head coach in the NFL next year?

 

[Ghost Rider]

Probably won't be overturned, but with the refs this year, you never know.

 

[CrossEyed]

Give it to them, make a game out of it.

 

[timschochet]

I just don't get why coaches challenge plays like this. Doesn't he have someone in the booth watching the replay? The knee landed out of bounds, very clearly. Why waste a timeout?

 

[hailskins81]

I guess Houston forgot that Foster can catch the ball, too. Maybe they just need him in for protection.

 

[Hipple Long Ware & Peete]

I might have gone for it there. With your defense two scores is a lot. But I can see cutting it to 15 too.

 

[GroveDiesel]

Stop throwing it to anyone but AJ. Problem solved.

XContinue throwing to Andre The Johnson © (sm)..

I think we're agreeing on this one here GB.

 

[Pyramid Scheme]

I just don't get why coaches challenge plays like this. Doesn't he have someone in the booth watching the replay? The knee landed out of bounds, very clearly. Why waste a timeout?

Because on the sideline behind him and in the crowd they were all calling for the challenge, and he took so long to make up his mind that he was going to spend a timeout anyway.Mamby-pamby coaching, in other words. As is kicking the field goal in that situation, by the way.

 

[tombonneau]

Kubiak has the Texans +18.5

Seriously. If you a want to know why Kubiak is no the answer at HC, his gutless decisions on makeable fourth downs in this game say it all. Does he think there are five quarters?

 

[GroveDiesel]

I just don't get why coaches challenge plays like this. Doesn't he have someone in the booth watching the replay? The knee landed out of bounds, very clearly. Why waste a timeout?

You have to remember that he comes from the Andy Reid coaching tree. So it's his destiny to make horrible challenges and never win them.

 

[Milwaukees_best]

Just tuning in - No Super Mario?

 

[Irish Chaos]

I just don't get why coaches challenge plays like this. Doesn't he have someone in the booth watching the replay? The knee landed out of bounds, very clearly. Why waste a timeout?

You have to remember that he comes from the Andy Reid coaching tree. So it's his destiny to make horrible challenges and never win them.

what he said.

 

[fasteddie_21]

Why o why does Schaub suck so badly tonight?

That's 3 throws to AJ that have been junk.

 

[massraider]

Stud play by Webb.

 

[Pyramid Scheme]

Setting up nicely for the Texans to make a heroic comeback only to blow it on a stupid play in the final minute.

 

[Romofan]

C'mon AJ you gotta catch that - hit him in the hands...

 

[jylly18]

Second half is flying by.

 

[fasteddie_21]

Nice throw, Matt. Better catch, AJ!

 

[GroveDiesel]

Nice throw, Matt. Better catch, AJ!

How the heck did Johnson catch that ball?

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

Texans playing that invisible receiver threw Tirico off.

 

[CrossEyed]

Jacoby held on to that one. Texans with a pulse.

 

[fasteddie_21]

This is the best (worst? hardest?) sweat I've had in memory. Think AJ or Rackers...not a Houston RB please!

 

[flc735]

hmm, didnt we have a thread on this before?

score a td to put you down by 9, 7 min to go

to you go for 1 or 2?

i remember i said 2

 

[Tau837]

Where are all the guys advocating to go for the two point conversion there? This is actually a perfect situation to go for two on the first TD... without doing so, they will kick away, Baltimore will run off some clock, and even if the Ravens drive for a second TD, if their two point conversion fails, they will likely not have enough time left to drive again even if they recover an onsides kick. Alternatively, if they went for it there and failed, they would have known they still needed two scores and may have chosen a different strategy.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

Should have gone for two right there.

 

[Ignoramus]

Setting up nicely for the Texans to make a heroic comeback only to blow it on a stupid play in the final minute.

 

[bulger2holt]

you never go for 2 when you are down 9, because if you don't make it, it's now a 2 possession game.

 

[CrossEyed]

Kubiak could use that timeout he blew on the challenge.

 

[rick6668]

Should have gone for two right there.

 

[CrossEyed]

Great play there.

 

[Pope Benedict XVI Fan]

Why throw it on that 3rd and 2?

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

I think the Ravens should have gone for it there.

If they make it, the game is over. If they miss it, it's the same as a punt except for about a 35-yard difference, but that's not a huge deal.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

you never go for 2 when you are down 9, because if you don't make it, it's now a 2 possession game.

It's a two-possession game whether you miss it now or miss it later. The only difference is that if you miss it now, you know it's a two-possession game. That knowledge may come in handy.

 

[CrossEyed]

I think the Ravens should have gone for it there.

If they make it, the game is over. If they miss it, it's the same as a punt except for about a 35-yard difference, but that's not a huge deal.

 

[biggamer3]

I think the Ravens should have gone for it there.If they make it, the game is over. If they miss it, it's the same as a punt except for about a 35-yard difference, but that's not a huge deal.

you cant go for it and give them ball at that spot on field. only Bellichek goes for it there

 

[biggamer3]

you never go for 2 when you are down 9, because if you don't make it, it's now a 2 possession game.

It's a two-possession game whether you miss it now or miss it later. The only difference is that if you miss it now, you know it's a two-possession game. That knowledge may come in handy.

i dont get your knowledge, now they still have a fighting chance of tying game. If the missed 2 before they know they are done.

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

MT drinking the clear stuff tonight.

 

[bulger2holt]

you never go for 2 when you are down 9, because if you don't make it, it's now a 2 possession game.

It's a two-possession game whether you miss it now or miss it later. The only difference is that if you miss it now, you know it's a two-possession game. That knowledge may come in handy.

i dont get your knowledge, now they still have a fighting chance of tying game. If the missed 2 before they know they are done.

yup

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

I think the Ravens should have gone for it there.

If they make it, the game is over. If they miss it, it's the same as a punt except for about a 35-yard difference, but that's not a huge deal.

The difference between driving 55 yards for a TD and driving 90 yards for a TD is trivial compared to the difference between having the ball and not having the ball.

 

[rick6668]

you never go for 2 when you are down 9, because if you don't make it, it's now a 2 possession game.

It's a two-possession game whether you miss it now or miss it later. The only difference is that if you miss it now, you know it's a two-possession game. That knowledge may come in handy.

i dont get your knowledge, now they still have a fighting chance of tying game. If the missed 2 before they know they are done.

There's a very long thread on this, but why do you think they would miss it earlier, but make it later?