Maestrobjwa

Bruh Lamar isn't going anywhere. And I cannot believe you would be okay with Lamar going somewhere else and getting a ring and leaving us with nothing (hello days with no franchise QB). Lamar can be here for the overhaul that a needs to happen mostly on defense alone! (That + OL). Pocket passer Lamar will still be able to get a ring, imo Mobility can still last a couple more years. And...Biscotti firing DeCosta is not an impossibility either. I can't imagine Biscotti being happy about us missing the playoffs again. But what you can't do while you're overhauling the defense is to completely dismantle your offense by not re-signing Lamar. That's just dumb to me.

I'm saying the 3 years since 2023. It has been all downhill from there. Both 2023 teams were false peaks-- Orioles 24 season had a winning record but sucked the second half and embarrassingly mentally feckless in the Wild Card. Ravens 24 season had blown leads and obviously the Andrews drop in the playoffs Orioles 25' season: Awful. Ravens 25' season: Awful Orioles 26 season: New manager, inherited mentally weak mentality, failed to capitalize on momentum each time, .500 team, missed playoffs. Ravens 26 season: New HC, inherited bad mentality--no dawg in 'em Looks to be a .500 season missing the playoffs. One embarrassment after another and nobody has known how to win. Now in both cases...both new manager and new HC could very well do better in 2027...but time will tell. 2027 is gonna be a defining year for Baltimore sports: Either we'll finally be released from this prison of mediocrity, or we'll be suffering for more years to come.

Maryland is the worst place for professional sports. All of these teams need to be ashamed of themselves. What did we do to deserve this? Smh I mean no joy to be found in any of them for 3 years. All have leadership problems or are trying to recover from leadership problems. I mean at some point it has to turn around I mean dang...historically Baltimore has always had at least one good team. But now every team in the state has been mediocre or plain awful.

No. He and Roquan gotta go end of this year be it trade or free agency. OL can be fixed too; Jurgens, Vega, Rosengarten could be a pretty good start. Another LT (if Stanley's play is declining) and LG would have to be signed. Lamar gets extended...that will at least give more room to work for the next 2 years. These are not blow it up start over changes--soft rebuild/retool like this could improve things next season.

Why are folks acting like he's not under contract next year? Lol

If you commit to Lamar you can fix the issues around him in a year...two at the most. Heck, this defense is two pieces and months of therapy away from being good enough. The mental problem is bigger than the talent issue. 2) You don't jettison your franchise QB at 30 and just magically find another one. Even if he misses 3 games a year, you still have a better chance of getting a ring with him than without him. If he can throw whatever mobility he maintains will be a plus but not absolutely necessary.

No clue why EDC has been so incredibly bad at building an OL...I mean, this is 4-5 years now, smh. But firing him would take more losing which we aren't likely to have. .....We call for firing a lot in Baltimore, lol Can we like...just get a good GM with no glaring, repetitive issues?

Awful timing, smh I think we need to be prepared to try and make the playoffs at 12-5 or 11-6 (the latter is more likely)

People need to stop blaming Lamar for not playing--we now know it's a high ankle sprain. Players routinely miss multiple weeks with those when they get them. And the Mahomes 2022 comparison is bull: Mahomes played through that because it was the playoffs. This is Week 7; Is it worth playing through an injury that keeps most players out a minimum of 4 weeks and have it linger the rest of the season? When you still have time to make up ground vs. playing hurt in the playoffs? Lamar also mentioned his plant foot yesterday: When he said that I realized that his whole mechanics of both running and throwing could be off if he feels too much pain in that foot. The timing sucks; we could start the season 0-2 in the division. But it's just something random that happened.

I mean...is there any evidence fo suggest that low doesn't park there like that? Guessing that's how 97-98 failed

Awesome! Love the branding, lol

Respectfully, sir...this is an all-time record niño with being the furthest east on record. Warm, warm, warm! Outside chance of getting something during prime window if we are even capable of getting it cold enough and timed well--but that's about it. I mean that's just the reality of what we're heading into--no sense trying to look for what might be different or whatever...outcome is kinda historically baked in to me.

Exactly. I pointed this out a couple weeks ago and got weenied for some reason...but it's true! I mean in any winter the prime window always starts around that time anyway.

Maybe nobody feels like doing it, hahaha

First time in NFL history a division goes winless for two consecutive weeks...I mean dang, lol

I legit feel bad for you guys. I mean just when it looked like things are falling into place...I mean y'all finally got rid of Snyder, then it looks like you finally got a franchise QB when he leads ya to the NFCCG...and then it starts to turning to crap again. Goodness gracious, smh

Contract BS doesn't really exist...almost sure of it. Feels like something the fans started--nah invented--in 2022 in the absence of more info on his injury. And the narrative that refuses to go away, lol Lamar has never been like that (i.e. "holding in" and using an injury to do so). Dude loves the game too much I think Lamar is more cautious to not make things worse--and if it were later in the year I think he plays through this (2022 pcl sprain with swelling more serious). It kinda sounds like the team may have made the decision to sit him out this week too... That being said you're right about this week...2 weeks for a sprain like this oughta be enough and given the situation...he HAS to come back!

Gotta wonder what they're gonna do with him. The misses from 40-49 are consistent enough to wonder if it's something mechanical as opposed to simply choking under pressure. If mechanical maybe it's fixable? But we can't keep doing this all season.

I mean we oughta know what the deal is. But I don't get why some here just can't accept somebody saying it won't snow or will be very difficult to. Soon as you say it probably won't snow *WEENIE* It feels like the same psychology as those sports fans who don't wanna hear/can't handle criticism of their team even when it is 100% true. I guess it's a "positive thoughts only!!!" kind of thing. But anyway...we all know what the deal is. Strongest niño on record, most east-based on record. I mean those are facts. A futility winter of less than 5" is very possible...but it's not like we haven't been through it twice this decade so l mean, lol Also a small possibility maybe a big storm pops but absolutely nothing to put your hat on in that regard but pure luck/timing. I mean again, these are facts, no?

It's like we gotta treat it almost JV level at this point, right? Not to the degree of it can't be right but just not being able to take it seriously until a certain range?

i.e January 15th-20th at the earliest, lol

Guess this is the drop day the Ravens have to have once or twice a year, smh

Welp, at least we'll be even with the rest of the division even with a loss tonight...would love for us to find a way, though!

Commanders wut, lolol Man that was the most Cowboys way to lose a game ever, haha

And during a super niño, no less. Isaías vs Niño and I is kicking butt and basically said "Shear? What shear?" lol And as others have pointed out, having not having any other storms in the Gulf probably helped this outcome...wow.