2015 Ravens: Achilles 4, Suggs 0, Karma 7

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Terrence Cody is charged with 15 offenses, including animal cruelty and illegal possession of an alligator. 
 
Cody, who was officially released by the Ravens on Monday, turned himself in when a warrant was issued and posted $10,000 bail.
 
 
 
 

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Bisciotti recently commented that 2014 was "one" bad year that the Ravens have had, and an aberration that, while regrettable, is painting the wrong picture about the franchise.
 
One bad year?  Excuse me?
 
Ray Lewis - 2000 (accessory to murder), followed by over a decade of adulation and positioning as the face of the franchise
 
Jamal Lewis - 2004 (conspiracy, narcotics distribution)
 
Terrell Suggs - 2009 (domestic violence/bleach incident)
 
Ray Rice - 2014 (domestic violence), plus 5 other player arrests
 
Cody, Hampton, Peirce - 3 arrests in 2 1/2 months.
 
Bisciotti has been the owner all this time and has "overseen" all of these (admittedly cherry-picked) incidents.  What the hell is he talking about... "one" bad year.  My Aunt Fannie...
 
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An unabashed Ravens hater.
 

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If Ray Lewis kills a guy in ATL and gets in a car driven by Bernard Pierce heading North and Ray Rice beats up his girlfriend in NJ and gets in a car driven by Victor Hampton heading south...
 

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He also admitted to tampering on another occasion. Less than brilliant.
 

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And not only did he say that, the Ravens official twitter account then quoted him.
 
And hasn't deleted it.
 

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What a moron. Outside of saying what his contract offer would be he couldn't have tampered any worse.
 

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NortheasternPJ said:
What a moron. Outside of saying what his contract offer would be he couldn't have tampered any worse.
 
Unfortunately it does not appear that tampering is prohibited in the NFL any longer. Natural laws of physics impacting footballs is prohibited, but not tampering.
 

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Yeah, if you're going to tamper you better do it on a conference call with season ticket holders.

And this quote: "I respect Haloti. I had a wonderful conversation with him after he was traded. We are going to miss him, but I haven’t heard anything about him getting an extension from Detroit. As far as I know, he could be a free agent a year from now, and we may be watching the second coming of Haloti Ngata,” Bisciotti said during a conference call Wednesday night with Ravens personal-seat-license and season-ticket holders. "Who knows? I never give up hope that we couldn’t get him back. I talked to [former Ravens linebacker Jarret Johnson] about that when he left for San Diego. Players like that are always welcome back. There were no hard feelings on either side. Haloti is a wonderful guy. I wish him the best, and maybe we’ll see him again.”

is really code for something.

I guess.

Slow off season.
 

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I received a recorded call from Jerry Sandusky (the poor broadcaster, not that other guy) inviting me to this conference call, and I blew it off. No inkling it might be newsworthy.

Lions have already announced no biggie, so this probably goes away.

The NFL has too much money, occupies too much of the calendar, has too many rules and too many people eager to play "gotcha" with them. Apart from the Pats' amazing run of success, bein a fan of this sport is not nearly the fun it used to be. I feel like I am in court all the goddamn time.
 

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Their offense was a mess down the stretch in 2012 till they fired the OC. Then Caldwell took over and they won a Super Bowl.

Caldwell left in 2013 and their offense sucked again. So they hired Kubiak and he got a fluky, career year out of Forsett and ran an offense tailor made for Flacco's strengths and they had another great year.

Kubiak is now gone, and I think we may very well see a regression to the mid-2012 / 2013 offense. Combine that with the Suggs injury and a tough division and the Ravens may well be one of the 5-6 annual previous season playoff teams to miss out.
 

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I know everyone hates the guy, but he's a hall of famer, right? I have a terrible grasp on the football HOF, but what are his chances? Seems like a super borderline case that needed a couple more years like the last couple to have a genuine shot. But now he wont play again until he's 33 and he's torn his achilles twice. Darn.
 

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Klostrophobic said:
I know everyone hates the guy, but he's a hall of famer, right? I have a terrible grasp on the football HOF, but what are his chances? Seems like a super borderline case that needed a couple more years like the last couple to have a genuine shot. But now he wont play again until he's 33 and he's torn his achilles twice. Darn.
You mean the Ravens HoF. There is close to zero chance joining Brady when time comes.
 

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Klostrophobic said:
I know everyone hates the guy, but he's a hall of famer, right? I have a terrible grasp on the football HOF, but what are his chances? Seems like a super borderline case that needed a couple more years like the last couple to have a genuine shot. But now he wont play again until he's 33 and he's torn his achilles twice. Darn.
 
Ain't that the truth
 

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Does this team have anybody that can gain separation in a pass pattern? Maybe Williams and Perriman break out as rookies but this group looks awful right now. I almost feel bad for Flacco.
 

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I will shed no tears for any bad fortunes that happen to either the Ravens or Indy, but I have to say I turned a little on this guy when he came out in support of TB. At least to the best of my recollection.
 

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He poured bleach on his wife and young child. He could take a bullet for TB12, and I'd be more concerned about a potential blood splatter ruining Tom's shirt than I would the fact that he was lying on the street dying.
 

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In case anyone else starts to feel sorry for this asshole:
 
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2014/09/terrell_suggs_domestic_violence_like_his_teammate_ray_rice_the_ravens_linebacker.html
 
 
Suggs said [Williams] had hurt his arm and began yelling obscenities at her, and Williams said she spat on his chest. She wrote that she heard one of Suggs' friends, who was present in the home, say, “Oh no, Sizz [Suggs’s nickname], come on, don't do that.” When she turned around, according to her complaint, he knocked her to the ground and sat on top of her, grabbing her neck and holding an open bottle of bleach over her.

 


 She put her hands over the cap, but the cleaner spilled onto her and their son, she wrote. He then told her to get out of the house, dressed and left for the game, she wrote.
 
 
 A day later, Williams alleged that Suggs “punched her in the neck and drove a car containing their two children at a ‘high rate of speed’ while she was being dragged alongside.”
 

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Yeah if there is such thing as karma, this is a good example of it.  One of the largest POS's in the NFL and hypocritical as any I've ever seen.
 
On the Ravens football side - Flacco was under seige the entire game, I've never seen such sustained pressure on a QB.  He had 3 seconds at best to throw all game, either their line absolutely sucks, or the Bronco's are world beaters up front.  If they can't get some protection with the reduction in weapons for Flacco this is going to be an ugly season for the Ravens.
 

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Well we might not have to wait long on the pressure front.

Flacco/Harbaugh were instrumental in losing a winnable game. With Manning apparently unable to complete a pass > 15 yards, the key there was to win ugly. Go with your running game, trust your punter and defense, and stay away from the middle of the field when you do pass
 

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Valek123 said:
 
Yeah if there is such thing as karma, this is a good example of it.  One of the largest POS's in the NFL and hypocritical as any I've ever seen.
 
On the Ravens football side - Flacco was under seige the entire game, I've never seen such sustained pressure on a QB.  He had 3 seconds at best to throw all game, either their line absolutely sucks, or the Bronco's are world beaters up front.  If they can't get some protection with the reduction in weapons for Flacco this is going to be an ugly season for the Ravens.
 
Rick Wagner has had problems in the past with speed rushers (and was was coming back from last year's Lisfranc sprain) and James Hurst, who replaced Monroe, has had problems period.  So it was not altogether unexpected.
 
But to me, the bigger issue was that none of the Ravens receivers (WR or TEs) can get any separation at all (except at times for SS Sr.) so everyone else on the DEN side was just attacking the QB or the running game.