Not bringing in competition for Darnold or Slye was a huge mistake

[Call Me James]

If the team keeps failing its on rhule and tepper. 

No more excuses about Ron, Cam's shoulder, nor Hurney. 

 

Embrace the moment. We're either going to turn it around or continue to suffer. 

 

[bobcat91]

9 minutes ago, stbugs said:

I don’t know what their plan is with Sam but I hope you noticed that Lamar Jackson didn’t take a single snap. I don’t know what KC did during the week of practice but seems like Rhule and Harbaugh were both satisfied with the joint practice reps.

Can't be. We have shoe salesmen and garbage men telling everyone how bad the players, coaches and front office is. 

[ncstatekwi]

[hepcat]

43 minutes ago, TrevorLaurenceTime22 said:

Slye I get, but Darnold? Dude attempted two passes.

Exactly! How is this Darnold not playing more???

How is there not a completion for the QB position? Darnold has done NOTHING to deserve the treatment he is getting. This isn’t some established veteran that doesn’t need reps. The Ravens not playing Lamar Jackson, I get it. Dude is an MVP caliber QB. Darnold has stunk it up his first 3 seasons. That is not a recipe for a winning team.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

Its the pre season lol I remember how in 10' or 11 this board was clamoring about how we fixed our rush defense because we finished 1st in the pre season.... we went on to give up a team worst (at the time # of rush yards).

[ncsfinest21]

This has muchadoaboutnothin. We a running vanilla offensive plays and showing 5% of the playbook. Slye is the bigger concern but Darnold 2 passes was simply to get him in game speed. Yea I think they shouldve let him play longer but I believe the joint practice from the colts to the ravens helped them to where they feel comfortable not throwing him out for a half. There has been a big improvement overall from the colts to the ravens. But Joey geez.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

2 minutes ago, hepcat said:

Exactly! How is this Darnold not playing more???

How is there not a completion for the QB position? Darnold has done NOTHING to deserve the treatment he is getting. This isn’t some established veteran that doesn’t need reps. The Ravens not playing Lamar Jackson, I get it. Dude is an MVP caliber QB. Darnold has stunk it up his first 3 seasons. That is not a recipe for a winning team.

Id wager they dont want him out there until the line is decided and his top two weapons are in the game.... 

[hepcat]

5 minutes ago, TrevorLaurenceTime22 said:

Id wager they dont want him out there until the line is decided and his top two weapons are in the game.... 

and they’d give less of a sh*t about the line if they had a backup plan at QB. They are scared as f*ck to start PJ or Grier

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

3 minutes ago, hepcat said:

and they’d give less of a sh*t about the line if they had a backup plan at QB. They are scared as f*ck to start PJ or Grier

As they should be..... I mean PJ did win a game (albeit one that a fg would have won)

[top dawg]

I can see not bringing in any competition for Sam, as they really committed to him. Once they passed on Fields, it was Sam's team for 2021. What I can't see is not bringing in more competition to push Walker on out the door. Grier could leave right behind him, but I've always viewed him as more of a project on development curve. 

As for Slye, I just don't see any excuse. All the "there's no one better" and all that BS is just that: BS! If the Ravens can get a kicker in our backyard, what's our fuging excuse? 

The problem is that Rhule is too damned comfortable with mediocrity at certain positions. Starting QB? Hopefully not! Backup QB? Yes! Kicker? fug yeah! And as far as I'm concerned, Tepper needs to give him a kick in the ass. If we can see a problem, then Rhule (and by extension, Fitterer) needs to see the problem with clarity.

 

[NiceDreams]

 

42 minutes ago, stbugs said:

I don’t know what their plan is with Sam but I hope you noticed that Lamar Jackson didn’t take a single snap. I don’t know what KC did during the week of practice but seems like Rhule and Harbaugh were both satisfied with the joint practice reps.

Two important factors here (1) Jackson is a former unanimous MVP of the league and Harbaugh knows exactly what he has with him and (2) Jackson is also just getting over his second bout of COVID-19. Not exactly an apples to apples situation.  

[Fright]

Bringing in competition would make people think Rhule has doubts on his decisions on who to play. 
 

He’s a mental midget and would never allow that. Now he’ll always have QB1 to blame alone if he shits the bed. 

[NAS]

3 hours ago, hepcat said:

How is there not a completion for the QB position?

Am I the only one who noticed he keeps saying “completion” in every post?

[kungfoodude]

3 minutes ago, NAS said:

Am I the only one who noticed he keeps saying “completion” in every post?

Deshaun Watson fan.