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Kawalimus
Jan 17, 2008

Better Living Through Birding And Pessimism
I admit there's a part of me that wants to see Russell Wilson and the Broncos beat the Ravens today. Why? Because this could be John Harbaugh's loss like Brian Billick's loss to the 1-15 Miami Dolphins in 2007. After 2006 Brian Billick signed a several year extension. The Ravens were struggling but a lot of it was from injuries and he wasn't considered in jeopardy. But the team blew a lead to the 1-15 Miami Dolphins and that changed things. So if Harbaugh loses here to the Broncos and the Ravens end up missing the playoffs then he might get fired too just like Billick did. And that gives us the chance to bring in Ken Dorsey.

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Kawalimus
Jan 17, 2008

Better Living Through Birding And Pessimism

a neat cape posted:

Are you real

https://twitter.com/sgellison/status/1598425416276279296

Is this man real?

For more context: Roman calls two plays instead of one play before each snap. Because of this, the Ravens will often just barely get the snap off and are always rushing to do so, and risk/take delay of game penalties on like every snap. This is the kind of nonsense a guy like Harbaugh does nothing about. Supposedly he told Roman to cut it out late in the Jaguars game but I'm skeptical that it won't just be back again. In the second part of the tweet he says they were having headset issues causing the problem but that's horse poo poo because this is happening every single week for years now.

That's what having a cipher like Harbaugh in charge of the team does. A guy like Dorsey would NOT have this. We need a guy here who runs a tight ship and has an active role in what the team does on the field. Not a glorified overseer like Harbaugh who is completely dependent on his coordinators.

Kawalimus fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Dec 4, 2022

Kawalimus
Jan 17, 2008

Better Living Through Birding And Pessimism

This can work against him though, because he won't have a scapegoat to sacrifice to save his own rear end if Roman is leaving anyway. Macdonald is too new to be an effective scapegoat.

Harbaugh's basically had a horseshoe up his rear end when the heat gets on him. In 2012 he fired Cameron after the team's window seemed already closed but Jim Caldwell saved his rear end with the SB run. Then in 2018 he made the Lamar Jackson gambit benching Flacco for him before he was really ready, but it ended up working out very well. So I wonder if his luck will finally run out.

Kawalimus fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Dec 4, 2022

Kawalimus
Jan 17, 2008

Better Living Through Birding And Pessimism

Borsche69 posted:

yeah we were really lucky that jim caldwell threw and then also caught that pass in denver, and then he kicked the winning field goal in OT (i also credit him with picking off peyton twice that day)

Those aren't the only handful of plays that happened that day. Denver was only even in the game because of two SP teams touchdowns. The Ravens had come a long way from where they were just a month before when Cameron had just been fired and we were thoroughly outmatched by the Broncos in Baltimore. Nobody would have thought after that first Denver game the Ravens had any chance of a Superbowl.

If Caldwell had been OC earlier we would have likely made the SB and/or won in 2010 or 11.

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