A win is a win and with significant ground to make up in the AFC North, the Ravens will take last night’s 16-0 victory over the Cleveland Browns. But what we once called lapses on offense are now full-blown trends, and we now know that unless dramatic changes occur, the Super Bowl team we once [...]
Maybe it is not so much what we learned, but more what we’ve confirmed about the Baltimore Ravens and their chances to be an elite team this season. Here are a few of my personal confirmations. Technorati Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Joe Flacco, Ray Rice
My heart was set on using this space to fret over the impending doom of three or four years from now, when the Ravens will be pained to decide which young superstars – Joe Flacco, Ray Rice and Le’Ron McClain – will they retain for big money. But right now, it’s easy on the eyes [...]
Throughout the night, I heard Ravens fans in the stands reacting to the Michael Vick-to-the-Eagles news. It trickled throughout the 140 section and around the stadium, prompting a mixed response when the big screen showed the AP lede on the story. And I found it to be poetic in two ways. One, all of the [...]
You have to hand it to Baltimore Sun columnist Mike Preston; he may hack his way through his work, but at least he can identify historic trends. Take for example today’s offering on the Ravens’ need for the offensive line and quarterback Joe Flacco to step up. Were this 2005, it would be right on [...]
Wouldn’t you know it, the Baltimore Orioles have some PR savvy in the front office. They went out and got Mike Flacco, a third baseman from Catonsville Community College and the brother of Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco. Isn’t that deliciously perfect? The interesting part? M. Flacco and his brother believe that he is much better [...]
He was a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback for The Ohio State University, and were it not for an untimely illness, Troy Smith may have been the Baltimore Ravens’ starting quarterback last season. Now? He may be the NFL’s next Slashback, an athlete classically trained at quarterback, but naturally gifted enough to do almost anything else on [...]
You have to admire Joe Flacco. He’s in his second year as the starting quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens, and in his first year of comfort in the position. So comfortable, that he’s making public declarations of support for his receiving corps of Derrick Mason, Mark Clayton and Demetrius Williams. You admire him for taking [...]
The world may never know what would’ve been of Troy Smith. Last year, Kyle Boller was injured and maligned, Joe Flacco was newly drafted and unready for the pressures NFL stardom, and Troy Smith was the second-year player with a Heisman Trophy and some manageable expectations from Ravens faithful. Then he got sick, Flacco stepped [...]
Sure, he got snubbed in the Offensive Rookie of the Year voting, but count on the fans to do the right thing by Joe Flacco. The NFL announced today that Flacco is the Diet Pepsi Rookie of the Year, as voted upon by more than a million voters via the NFL.com website and Sprint Wireless [...]
