12/10/17

IT’S STEELER WEEK!

Before we move on to the Steelers we must reflect last week’s impressive 20 to 44 victory over the Lions.  Forty four points! Are you kidding me?  Forty four points was the most score by any team last week. Great all around win-offense, defense and special teams all played well. Eric Weddle had a pick six late in the fourth quarter to put the nail in the Lion’s coffin.   Only 2 penalties against the Ravens, Detroit turned the ball over 3 times we had zero turnovers, I could go on and on.  Did you see Eric Weddle’s pick six?

Last week we faced and beat a real quarterback. This week we travel to Pittsburgh and face a real quarterback times two.  As I said in the blog last week about the Bengals Steelers Monday night game go to bed and delay the disappointment until Tuesday morning.   I took my own advise and went to bed with the Bengals beating the Steelers 17-0 only to be depressed to see Tuesday morning the Bengals truly stink allowing the Steelers to out score them 23 to 3 in the second half.  So the Steelers are 3 games ahead of us with 4 games to play.  By the numbers we can still win the division.  We need to win out and the Steelers need to lose out, and that starts tonight on Sunday Night Football in Pittsburgh.  Did I mention Eric Weddle had a pick six last week?  First a shout out to Ryan Shazier ILB for the Steelers who was carted off the field Monday night with a spinal cord injury and remains in the hospital.  Get well soon Ryan!  The Steelers are a beatable team for out of  their last 5 games they have needed to come from behind and win late in the game by an average of only 3 points. They truly are beatable. Not only are they beatable they are banged up and missing players.  Four starting players are out for tonight’s game ILB Ryan Shzier, CB Joe Haden, and with WR JuJu Smith-Schuster, and OT Marcus Gilbert both suspended.  Of course we will miss Jimmy Smith but for the rest of the team is healthy.  If the Ravens play like they did last week we can beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh tonight.

On the subject of Ben Roethlisberger, I quote the famous philosopher Terrell Suggs “His soul may belong to God, but his ass belongs to me”

As a side note Roethlisberger for the last two weeks has been talking above the week 15 game against New England.  He is looking past the Ravens and we are going to make him pay for it.

GO RAVENS!!!

Thursday Night 8:30

Saints 17 Falcons 20

Sunday 1:00

Colts over Bills
Flash back to the old days of being a Colts Fan.

Cowboys over Giants
The Giants are 2-10 and hoping for the first pick in the draft and that’s a good thing keeping it in the NFC.

Lions over Bucceneers
Matt Stafford should play today after getting his throwing hand stepped on by Suggs last week.

Raiders over Chiefs
Both teams are 6-6, one game behind us but we beat the Raiders so we hold the tie breaker.

Texans over 49ers
Even though this is a NFC / AFC game we are rooting for the Texans to help the NFC team get the better draft pick.

Browns over Packers
Sorry Packer fans, we don’t want the Browns to have the first pick in the draft.

Bears over Bengals
The Bengals could be eliminated from the playoffs with a loss today.

Panthers over Vikings
Rooting for the home team and against the Vikings

Sunday
4:00

Redskins over Chargers
NFC over AFC
It must be really hard to be a Redskin fan. There’s always so much drama with the team.  They just can’t get their act together to have a good season.

Broncos over Jets
You always get the same old lousy Jets but what happened to the Broncos? They are 3-9 and last in the mediocre AFC West.

Cardinals over Titans
NFC over AFC
The Titans have a better record than we do.

Eagles over Rams
This could be the number 2 game of the week just behind Raven / Steelers.

Seahawks over Jaguars
NFC over AFC
The Jaguars have a better record than we do and I just can’t believe what they did to us in London.

8:30
RAVENS over Steelers.
Let me start out by saying we will miss Jimmy Smith tonight.  But if we play like we did last week we CAN win this game.  The Steelers have a balanced offense leaning heavy on the fourth quarter passing of Roethlisberger.  It’s hard to say they don’t run the ball, after all, they have one of the best running backs in the league.  But since they are behind late in game they lean on the passing to win the game.  Leaving LeVeon Bell to pass block.  We can run the ball against the Steelers defensive line.  With Collins running around the end and Allen up the middle this should open up the passing game for Joe. We have gone into Pittsburgh and won and will again tonight. Eric Weddle will have another pick six.

GO RAVENS!!!

Monday Night
8:30

Dolphins over Patriots
Even though it probably would be better for the Ravens if the Patriots were to win, but we could still be the number one seed in the AFC.  OK  OK I really an drinking the purple cool aide but it is possible.  There’s always hope until there’s note.

Did I remind you of Eric Weddle’s pick six last week?

Enjoy the games knowing the Ravens play on the 23rd giving you Christmas eve to get you shopping done.

GO RAVENS!!!

And that’s just the View from 151.