For as much hate as he gets on this board, Peko played a hell of a game, even if it didn't show up in the stats.
I always say his job as a NT in a 4-3 is just to hold his place and clog up the middle, but he was actually getting a good push into the backfield on a lot of plays and was opening lanes for backers and even just causing the QB and RBs to have to change direction.
It seems like he's been playing that well all season, so let's hope he keeps it up!!
Our next 2 opponents, KC and Seattle, play the Monday night game before playing our Bengals. Nothing like getting 2 good teams at our house and both having short weeks to prepare.
Maybe the good karma is finally starting to turn around in favor of the good guys!
Says Steve Tasker. More analysis from the mid 2000's passed off as in depth analytics.
Analyst Truths: Baltimore has a great defense (23rd in yds, 27th in points, 2015). Flacco is good... Andy is not (AD has a career higher rating, higher ypp, higher completion %, yrds per season, more yds per rush, more rush yards, rushing td's and fewer fumbles). Dalton chokes ... (the same completion % and higher rating than Flacco in +/-7 4th quarter stats). Cincinnati is soft/finesse (average top 10 defense since 2011).
If I could keep the sound from the game...players calls, crowd noise, whistle, pads... and turn the talking heads off it would be awesome.
IMO, the game play has deteriorated rapidly in the last 10 years.
in 2005, 8 NFL QBs finished the season with an Passer Rating over 90. 2 Had over 100 Ratings.
in 2005 1 QB had over 30 TDs (Palmer)
Last year 16 Qbs had over a 90 rating for the season, and 4 were over 100.
9 tossed over 30 TDs.
This season, more penalties have been called than in any stretch of games in the history of the NFL.
More plays are being reviewed
More Calls are getting blown.
More commercials are being shown
Injuries are through the roof (Even tho team can not even play defense)
The average NFL game has 11 minutes of true live action in the 4 hour broadcast.
Grated, I understand why most of this is happening - Rule changes to favor the offense, shift away from running to an air attack, more controlled field and weather conditions, bigger, stronger, faster athletes.
I am just curious if anyone else feels the same drop in quality of play? 4 quarters, 40 commercial breaks, 2 two min warnings, 5 challenges, 3 booth reviews, 20+ penalties.....
I feel like I am 12 years old again, trying to watch scrambled porn on my parents TV. And the actual NFL plays that stand without flags or reviews are the fleeting rainbow colored whole boob shots you used to get once every 30 minutes of watching.
I do not think the current penalty trend is sustainable for the NFL. People will lose interest, hell even players will too.
The components to the machine we have seen thusfar hasn't changed, but this is indeed an completely new and way improved model. Everything about this team right now I am in love with.
Watching the Bengals play always would make me nervous. I felt like even though the week before we done well, we could come out and scrub it up. During games i was always waiting for the momentum swing and us falling on our faces. Things have changed. During all the games this year, i just havent had that feeling. I expect us to go out there and put together a good performance and take home the win.
A lot of that has to do with our weapons and our defense but mostly its Dalton. He looks different in the pocket and his throws, for the most part, are on point.
I've always been one to be critical of Dalton but I also always wished he would put it together. I have also always said "he can never put this team on his back and carry it to a big win."
He has done that this season. All of our guys have stepped up so far. Im finally drinking the kool-aid without wondering if it will make me a little sick.
We have a confident team and for good reason, and I believe their confidence is starting to rub off on me and others like me.
I think we all have options on the rule that took back the Eifert TD. To me it's a rule that has no basis to provide the officials rationale to make a proper judgement.
If you think about possession, how many times have we seen a receiver catch a pass only to have it scrutinized by the officials of whether or not it was considered a catch - meaning 2 feet down and the player making a football play? In the Eifter TD scenario there was no question about the feet being down or it being a football play (as Marvin indicated afterwards), otherwise it would have been ruled an incomplete pass. If that's the case then him stretching the ball across the goal line has nothing to do with completing the catch because he is essentially a runner at that point - otherwise the pass would have been ruled incomplete (ironically netting the same result but still nonetheless ridiculous).
Problem is the NFL doesn't know how to define the rule and thus leave it up to the ref's judgement, of which they did and called it a TD. To reverse that call was complete and utter BS, regardless of what Marvin and all of those other competition committee guys say!
For most of the game I was caught up in the moment, and didn't really notice how we were defending. Not to mention I had to step out for a while and caught the game on the radio. Anyways, I know Steve Smith is good, especially after the catch, but was he really THAT good yesterday or did the Bengals not choose to double cover him and not give him a free release so that his after the catch running actually come into play.
If they double covered him and he still had 186 yards and 2 TDs, then a (Reluctant) hats off to him. Otherwise, if they played him man to man, they really ought to change this and figure out a way to double cover him all the time, considering he's pretty much the Ravens' only weapon, when they play next time at PBS. Some safety coverage over the top, some gunner like coverage the way the Saints played Calvin Johnson last year or before, etc., would probably cause Flacco to hold onto the ball and take sacks or throw it to one of their less heralded receivers who don't have the same ability to run after the catch.
Who Dey!
