Works for me.

a hell of a fight in 6 out of 7 games, and won 4 of those. Winning against the Raiders means nothing really, as they are terrible team facing a huge away distance. Beating Miami means a lot more to me personally. They’ve beaten the Bills, Chargers and Patriots. That’s a heck of a list. They’ve also played it close against Houston and NY Jets. Most importantly, Flacco proved he could play well on the road, just as he did against Pittsburgh. I know Flacco’s going to give us several more of those “OMG WHY DID WE DRAFT THIS GUY” games, but there’s no reason to believe he’s going to do that on Sunday as opposed to some other time.

We aren’t playing Troy Smith because Troy Smith had a lung infection an lost 30 pounds and quite possibly almost died. Flacco has established himself in the starting job because Smith is a bit rusty and wasn’t playing very well in the preseason before he got sick. Flacco has played quite well in five of his seven games, and one of those bad games was against Tennesee who makes most every team look awful on offense.

Cleveland has been playing a lot better. I was quite surprised to see how you guys started the season. I honestly don’t believe the Ravens are a playoff team this year (my fellow fans will flog me for that one), so if the Browns pull ahead of the Ravens by the end of the season, I won’t be too disappointed, as I’ll take it to mean the Browns regressed (progressed?) back to the mean of who they really are and it will hopefully guarantee that the Browns have to play Indianapolis and New England next year and the Ravens will be spared that unlucky piece of scheduling.

That being said, I’d still pick the Ravens in a close one.

A lot of the offense is geared towards Flacco’s rookie-ness (?). However, he’s not being babied like Billick did to Kyle Boller not only his rookie year, but his entire career. And yes, having our defense set up the offense is great. Many of us fans rather would see our D on the field because we’re used to them scoring more than the offense. (Joke: Q-How do you keep the Baltimore Ravens off of your front yard? A-Erect a set of goalposts!).

Anyway, I’m surprised to see such a poll that gives your fans an option of voting for their hatred of us Ravens fans. We do not hate you or your fans. We just hate your team as it is in our division. We like to visit other teams we play and never have these type of responses, although there were some with the Bengals fans (can you believe they can trash talk? About what?). Perhaps it’s an Ohio thing. Nice writing though, Chris. Good luck with the blog. It sure does great, numbers wise.

We actually haven’t had all that great field position, but the offense definitely seems to capitalize when they get it. We actually had a 97 yard TD drive against the Raiders last week. Special Teams were definitely struggling in the beginning of the season, although they are getting better.

I think what makes us different from JAX offensively is while they have a better QB and RBs, their interior offensive line is terrible, where ours has been pretty good. Losing Yanda was a big blow, especially for this game as Chester really struggles against big D-lineman, but Chester has been playing well and is extremely effective in the screen game.

Who knows what Flacco will look like next year. Just about anything is possible.

Also looking good in the national spotlight, when the pressure was on.

The Giants game was an aberration of MNF and that sort of thing happens to plenty of bad teams. We followed that up with the same old crap.
I brought up turning point because I’m reading the tea leaves. Sure, once it’s obvious that the team is playing differently we can all look back using hindsight. I felt like going out on a limb.