In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : Actually ...dwick...I work in Roslyn.....
Posted by bmorecityboy

I think the PATS are going to win but the Ravens are not overrated. Looking at their website inciates they have won 12 of their last 14 regular seaon games (two losses to Giants and Steelers)  Including the two playoff wins the Ravens have won 14 out of 16.  A pretty damn good record. We can exploit the Ravens secondary and win. But I don't think it makes us look good when we make arbitrary remarks about the Ravens being overrated when clearly their record indicated they are an elite team.
Posted by carolinagrad

In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : Is Roslyn anywhere near Rosslyn?  Don't tell me you can't even spell that correctly. 
Posted by newenglanderinexile

The Giants are everyone's number 1 ranked team, but they've only faced the Buccaneers, the Skins, and Tony Uh-oh (Skip Bayless, my hero) and the incompetent Dallas Cowboys. Not many 3-0 teams have faced any good teams yet, besides the Jets, I can't think of any other. The Ravens aren't overrated, they are a damn good team. The Pats will win, but that's only because they are the best team in the league. The way I look at it is that teams have 3-5 more weeks to have a chance of beating the Patriots. Once Mayo comes back, this defense will be complete. It will be shutdown mode. The offense is about one or two more practices from being the offense we all thought it can be. Knowning Brady, he probably had Edelman and Galloway over to his house to run their routes over and over again. He wants to win, he needs these guys to help him. 
Posted by 49Patriots

In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : Don't worry, Gillette sits nearly 70,000. That means that the 60,000 Pats fans out number you 6-1. Please, be on your best behaviors. 
Posted by 49Patriots

In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : I can understand why you are posting on this forum, it's because you are such a moron after all Baltimore is made up of such  distinguished and intelligent beings. Now go play kickball in the streets and show those little kids your terrific athleticism, I'm certain they'll be impressed.
Posted by sonieboy

I would hope that fans can comment about each other's teams without resorting to bashing the other person or their city. After all, you are all Americans, so whether you are from Baltimore or Boston should not matter. But this topic is about football. To say that any given Sunday your team can win or lose should negate any argument about a team being over or under rated. It is all subjective and determined by how the team plays on that given day. That said, the Ravens showed up and won all their games so far. The Pats, on the other hand, have not. You guys should have lost the Bills game if not for McKelvin, and the Jets handed it to you in week two. So you guys could easily have been 1-2. Now to say that you guys should win because you have faced the same defense already and should be prepared for it this time, makes absolutely no sense! If I am wrong correct me, but the Jets do not employ Ed Reed, Ray Lewis, Haloti Ngata, Trevor Pryce, Terrell Suggs, Jarret Johnson and Kelly Gregg. May have similar schemes but totally different personnel and co-ordinator. Please also keep in mind that the best defense is a good offense, and this version of the Ravens offense is second in the league right now with an average of 34 PPG. We also have several weapons to defend against. Seven different people have scored TD's. We are capable of moving the ball in the air and on the ground. On the other hand, we have the ability to make you one dimensional. Fred Taylor and Lawrence Maroney can easily be taken out of the equation with our run defense and you risk a lot being over dependent on the pass with our pass rush and ball hawking secondary with Ed Reed back there. We may not be up there in yards allowed so far this year, but we are in PPG, turnovers, sacks, and redzone D. Please try to look a little more carefully at the numbers, Won't want you to be misled. Before you are quick to point out that San Diego gashed us for 436yds, please take a closer look with a more critical eye. Zero TD's inside the redzone, lost the turnover battle, they absolutely could not run on us and had to play from behind until the 4th quarter. It's never as good or as bad as it seems. The bottom line is, that when the game was on the line and both teams had to make a play, we did and they did not. KC and Cleveland combined for only 4 plays of over 20yds on us. So please don't draw to much comfort in the SD game, thinking that Brady will also gash us for yards. He does not seem like the same QB behind that line and we both know that if he is knocked around a little, he gets very uncomfortable and is prone be off his game. Admittedly, this can be a well contested game. Either team can win it. You're entitled to your optimism, but please don't try to preserve it by claiming we're overrated. I know Tom doesn't feel that way, neither does Bill. I'm sure they're not as comfortable and probably losing some sleep planning for us. The same probably goes for our coaches. What I am confident in is that we will show up to play on Sunday and play like Ravens. Bottom line is that I respect your team and look forward to the competition on Sunday.
Posted by samic

In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : You idiots in bean town have no clue...first of all, do your research..You'll find Maryland is the richest state in the country with the highest median income. You speak of Baltimore as if the fans come from the inner city where the crime is...NO CLUE. The Raven fans come from the affluent areas, not the one bad area of Baltimore..You chowder heads have no clue. Do your homework next time. Although it would be nice to drop one of you idiots in the hood and see if you make that kickball comment then.
Posted by ravenmad

In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : Thanks for the heads up (not ) sent my kids there......Brilliant you genuis!!!!!
Posted by bmorecityboy

In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : Sicko, Here are some statistics that I looked up. Murder rate; 6 times that of New York 50% of all students are out of school or unemployed. 10% of the population is addicted to drugs. All that from the "one" bad area of Baltimore, wow! Oh, and I live in Texas...you want to take us on too!
Posted by pezz4pats

I've been to Baltimore a dozen times and if you take the inner harbor off the table you'd think you were in Detroit. I went to a Red Sox home game there (at least 10 to 1 sox fans) and after the game a cab driver gave me a scenic tour of that cesspool while ripping me off going every direction but the one I wanted. Based off pezz's stats I guess I'm lucky.  It tells me everything I don't want to know about you.
Posted by Sam-Adams

In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : I love football...but what makes Boston a 1st tier city.......Racism? The biggest white ghettos in the country?   Organizied crime?  All the broke little town that surround it? Maine?   You are so use to thinking that you don't stink...but homey you stink......
Posted by bmorecityboy

In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : Whatever......my self worth does not depend on your old azz beliveing me.....I probaly make more money than you!!!!!!......If you are mad that I don't write and speak as you do....well it's something in life you must deal with!!!...I don't need your approval......feel me!!!!! my household income is well over two hundred-thousand...althought thats not alot of money.....as any black man from Baltimore would say...I ain't hurting.......feel me.....
Posted by bmorecityboy

In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : Damn...20 years......that Tom McCan's shoe store still open in downtown Boston?
Posted by bmorecityboy

In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : Laugh now Mr. webster Dictionary...but you also laughed when I use to say 'Diss" and "Sic"...now look.....'I too sing America'....my vocab...counts also.......oh I forgot......feel Me!!!!!!!!!
Posted by bmorecityboy

In Response to Re: Ravens are overrated! : Actually ...dwick...I work in Roslyn.....
Posted by bmorecityboy

Is this a geography or social studies discussion string?  Thought it strange to find one on a football chat page.  Did I make a wrong turn? Come on... talk football and not where you are from!!
Posted by agcsbill

I'm not sold on the Ravens at all.  The Ravens are 3-0 after beating the Chiefs, Browns, and the overrated Chargers.  Everyone talks about their defense, but this defense minus Bart Scott, gave up 24 pts to the Chiefs and a Chargers team minus L.T.  The only allowed 3 pts against the semi-pro Browns, so that doesn't mean much.  Flacco has played well thus far, but that's against two very bad teams.  I expect a big win this sunday for the Pats, they'll contain the Ravens offense and run it up on this grossly overrated D.
Posted by Grogan77