How Big Is The Ravens Game Really

[Garrus]

(10-10-2022, 05:05 AM)TheCincinnatiKid Wrote: Maybe in the minority here, but I actually think thats a 'quality' loss.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy with losing that as it was a big game. But the Ravens are a good team, and have had a good start to the year. Really they could (maybe should) have been 4-0 going into that game. Their offence had been rolling, Jackson had been looking strong... yet our defence shut it down, and held them to little. Defence so far has been more than playoff calibre. To go on the road in Prime Time, and lose to a last minute FG to a team who are good, and were probably really amped for revenge... to me it's a sign that the Bengals as a team aren't 'quite' the Bengals of old.

So I think it's a 'quality' loss, and we wouldn't be quite as down on this had we beaten the Steelers and were sitting at 3-2 right now. But it is still a loss, and there are still fairly big issues with the offence. Obviously at 2-3 the team will have to go on a winning streak and we'll likely have to get a win or two in that brutal end of season schedule.

No such thing in the NFL. Ravens had the worst ranked pass defense in the league, and we yet again laid a giant egg on offense. The defense has played very well, but our offense is mediocre at best. Zac Taylor does not help that with his abysmal in game decisions.