Ravens 30 Saints 24
 

Ray Rice, was a one man wrecking crew on our defense today. No one could stop him. I'm wondering if another run stuffing defensive tackle seems like a good idea to everyone now? I love Sharper, but he seemed to be out of position almost every play. Leigh Torrence is no Jabari Greer. ONE GUY beat us today. Blitz pick up was off all day.... Wow.... We battled back, but it just wasn't good enough. If you can't stop one guy, from running it down your throat, then there's no point. Alot of work to do before Atlanta next week. Turner is going to be licking his chops watching this tape.

Ya win sum ya lose sum.... The seasons not over... it was a tough game came back jus didnt have enough for the W.... Gunna be another close game next week... I think we will come away with the W tho !

We need Ivory back next week, thats for sure!

guess Robinson was still hurt... so when Greer went out, Leigh Torrence was not getting it done ... but yeah ... we need a guy like Ngata.

Not the end of the world, this loss... we were going to be a wildcard anyway if Atlanta wins ... we'll have to bring the wood for the playoffs though!

Missed tackles, dropped passes, play calling, Reggie Bush lost us this game. Once again we beat ourselves.

the screen. what teams loses against the screen?

Well that wasn't encouraging , lol. We pretty much lost that trench battle. Bushrod was jacked. Bush again gains negative yards. Most of our drives looked forced. Reggie better wake up and earn his big bucks soon.
Drew did a ok job, seeing how badly the OL was. Hmmm

Silly

Reggie better start tearing it up, i'm really disappointed at how he ran backwards all the game. I was high on him coming into the season, but man he better produce something real soon cuz he aint earning his dollar that hes due.
The ravens only used ray rice, and still our 11 guys couldnt stop one man, they ran screens and our D lineman just ran straight after the QB, Ya gotta think if the one guy who is between you and the QB suddenly moves out of the way and shimmy's past ya - ITS A SCREEN!!!
Run D was pathetic all day, Bushrod looked as though he didn't care out there and just let suggs and everyone get past him all game.

My props go out to Lance Moore, Jimmy Graham and Brees, they were the only guys that i saw playing hungry, the rest were just lulling about playing half paced.

Yeah, I agree with most that was stated before. We had no answer for Rice. He really carved up our D. We did some poor tackling out there today. And Bush, wow where do you even begin with his performance. He had a horrible day. Oh well, you win some you lose some. Now let's go Seahawks!!

How about quote the whole thing.

Disappointing. Rice made a joke out of our defense today. GW needs to come up with something better than what was shown out there today. This loss had better pi$$ everyone of them off and the defense better show up to Atlantas game

You can't run without blocking. OL was horrible today. Didn't matter who we had back there.

And knowing that the OL was crap and Reggie couldn't produce anything, Payton still insisted on throwing screens to him. WOW!!!! REALLY!!!???

Bush didn't lose the game for us, but if I want to see a performance like that Reggie, I would watch Dancing with the Stars. Now what about all the dropped passes. We probably left 80-100 yards of offense laying on the turf. CATCH THE DAMN BALL!!!

True , can you name me a good game he's had this year?

We need a far more agressive offensive game for next Monday against the Falcons.

And a defensive lineup to hold our lead.

I'm willing to bet that without Reggie, we win the game. The play call to Reggie on the last possession was total garbage.

I'm no Bush fan, and I hope we replace him in 2011, but I disagree with this.
We MIGHT have won without him, but we had numerous chances that didn't involve Reggie and failed.

Baltimore was the better team... today. I hope we play them again.

The defense, or lack of it is what lost us the game. Flacco made a couple of incredibly lucky completions as well as Rice running thru our D like a hot knife thru butter. We still had a chance there late but just couldn't quite get it done. Gonna have to do much better these last 2 games and in the play-offs.

D lost this game for us. Our O put up the points. How does a Ravens Offense get 30 points?

There is no time for gloom & doom. Time to move on to next monday night in Atlanta.

I think it's funny how so many want to blame Reggie. How about Drew throwing a bit behind Colston on our last drive? Dropped passes? Defense getting too risky and allowing 3rd down conversions.

The problem started when we came out and threw, threw again, threw again, and again. We should have used the run more, even if it didn't work. We tried the screen to combat it, but the screen doesn't work again a D line, and backers like that.

They knew we would pass to high heaven, and we sure tried to.

I give a lot of credit to the Ravens. They stuck with their bread and butter all game and the Saints D had no answer for it. Our offense did their job, sure they had a few issue but the defense was lost.

Most of us thought they would lose one more game and most of us thought it would be this one so don't worry. The Bucs, Rams, Seahags lost. Giants are one game behind us, if the Packers lose they're still 2 back with the Yucs so we're gonna make the playoffs and I would rather play the Rams and then go play the Falcons again. Gives us alot better chance to win it all again.

Payton's game plan of attempting to wear the Ravens defense out with relentless three-and-outs, didn't really work out too well. The Ravens seemed to be jogging off the field after the third incompletion each time, with no adverse problems.

I liked the spunky kick return at the very end, though -- was surprised that McMahon had it in him to draw up something with actual X's and O's like that. Get the ball to Reggie, then get the ball away from Reggie, then back to Reggie with some room to run. Too bad we missed on the ol' Fumblerooski move, otherwise it was looking pretty good. Probably our best field position on a kick return all year, too bad there was no time left! They ought to do that on every kickoff from here on out -- it'd certainly be better field position than Roby or Thomas running straight out to the 20 and smacking ineffectively into a wall of people like they always do.

As one of many Who Dats in the stands for the game I can tell you that Ray Rice getting 133 offensive yds on our D boiled down to one thing: TACKLING There are several plays when our guys just looked like they were moving in slo-mo and not wrapping the guy up. Stops were made, but when a RB like him gets into the second tier of the D with a head of steam, he's going to smash you in the mouth! Pitiful...

Unless GW can slap some sense into our D, you're going to see the same result in the ATL.

[QUOTE=SaintsBro;271542]Payton's game plan of attempting to wear the Ravens defense out with relentless three-and-outs, didn't really work out too well... QUOTE]

Now that's funny rat der! I don't care who you are.

How many games this season have we been in the situation of Drew having to pull off a fourth quarter save? Didn't pan out this week, and it was overdue. The Ravens are a good team, and we all know we beat them on any playoff day. Poor poor poor tackling, the only reason they won. We got our ass kicked defensively all day and only lost by a few. The road to superbowl is obviously through ATL now and I say good, nothing better than knocking the dirtybirds out in their own house.