In a gesture that is hard to explain, Terrapin great and Ravens wide reciver Torrey Smith elected to play Sunday night after his brother tragically died in a motorcycle accident in the early morning hours Sunday. Torrey informed Coach Harbaugh of the tragedy and the Coach after hearingbukket wounxbbc
In perhaps the most memorable game ever played at M&T Bank Stadium, the Ravens behind the brilliant leadership of Joe Flacco got off the canvas to defeat New England 31-20. The game was exciting for certain but the 25 flags the refs threw and the lack of consistent quality refereeing is doing severe damage to the game. I am not going to get into the calls because there were 25 of them.
Torrey caught 6 passes for 127 yards and 3 Tds’ in a magnificent display. Without Torrey there would be no victory. It broke my heart to watch him teared up on the bench all night. I’ve known what a special kid he was from his days at Maryland but now the whole state knows.
Some questions I would ask:
With the Ravens down 30-21 and facing 4th and 1 from the Patriot 33 why not kick the FG? 2 scores were needed and there was no guarantee that had they made the 1st down a TD would have resulted. And by the way why have Bernard Pierce attempt to run instead of #27.
With the way Brady was carving up the defense why dis it take 3 quarters and 10 minutes to try all out blitzes. They certainly worked down the stretch.
Why didn’t Bellichick use his timeouts down the wire?
Why can’t we play a real no huddle not a slo motion one?
I wonder how much credit #5 gets tomorrow.
Much more tomorrow.
freddy from boca
final score 31-30 smith had 2 td’s some words in the blog i think were in russian but nice job of reporting considering you probably go home after 1 am. the idea of the no huddle is to help stop the defense from subbing. if you ran it at top speed all the time physically you wouldn’t last . plus if you go 3 and out a couple of times in a row you kill your defense. there is a time and place for running a hurry up.
· 11/12/2019
Mricklen
Great performance by Joe and Torrey!
Sad that our line backing corps is the weakest in memory. A big concern…
Finally some return threats, which are game changers.
As for the refs, I think the veteran referees on strike are the worst in any major port. Competitive with the MLB home plate umpiring. Both are pathetic.
· 11/12/2019
Mricklen
Do hope someday that out third own passing recognizes the first down markers..
· 11/12/2019