The Ravens offense was an unstoppable force against the Bills defense who put 10, and many times 11, in the box within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage. The Bills just couldn’t stop what the Ravens threw at them. Up the middle, to the left, to the right, down the field, pulling linemen, it just didn’t matter. Starting with the first Ravens play from scrimmage, a 87 yard touchdown run by Derrick Henry, the Bills had no answer. The Ravens scored touchdowns on the their first three offensive possessions. I have never seen Justice Hill run so fast, the delayed catches and runs were amazing. Lamar threw the ball with zip and pin point accuracy. The part of the Ravens game plan that impressed me the most was the play of the offensive line. Those guys were running all over the field. The O line has had their troubles with run and pass blocking, so the way to correct that is to eliminate it from the game plan. No need to conventionally block when you are running sweeps and pulling left to misdirect the defense when the real play is going right. It almost brought a tear to my eye to see the brilliance that was the Ravens offense last week. And how about Justin Tucker… no, wait, did Justin kick a game winning field goal like I said he would in the last blog? No he did not, he didn’t need to. Has this ever happened before? The Ravens scored a touchdown on every scoring possession they had. While Justin was perfect on extra points he wasn’t asked to kick any field goals because we were scoring touchdowns. Again, I say has that ever happened before? I don’t think so. I will need to up the View from 151’s research budget and find out. Truly if anyone out there knows please message me back. It was like Justin had the day off. Oh, by the way our defense held the NFL’s highest scoring team to only ten points. As you know I am a defensive guy and I would have normally gone off on the great play of our defense but I just can’t get over how fantastic our offense was. GREAT GAME!

GO RAVENS!!!

Remember don’t bet your leftover Orioles playoff ticket money on my picks since they are who we want to win not who we think will win.

Thursday Night 8:00

2-2 Falcons over 3-1 Buccaneers
Just because we don’t like Baker Mayfield, and we get to crush him Week 7 on Monday Night Football.

Sunday Morning 9:30AM

4-0 Vikings over 2-2 Jets
The Vikings will not get Jet lagged from the flight to London.

Sunday 1:00

2-2 RAVENS over 1-3 Bengals
The Ravens take their running show, passing show, and defensive show on the road to Cincinnati to face Joe Burrow and the Bengals. Both teams are coming off wins last week. The Ravens beat an undefeated Bills team and the Bengal got their first win against a winless Jaguars team. While Joe Burrow has not been bad he does like to get sacked a lot, playing into our defense who loves to terrorize quarterbacks. The Bengals defense can’t stop the run, need I same more? I’m excited to see what the game plan is for our offensive line!

GO RAVENS!!!

3-1 Commanders over 1-3 Browns
At 1-3, the Browns are who we thought they were: “The Browns”.

3-1 Bills over 3-1 Texans
I don’t know if the Bills can even show up this week after the beat down they got last week.

0-4 Jaguars over 2-2 Colts
I would like to thank Joe Flacco and the Colts for beating the Steelers last week.

1-3 Dolphins VS 1-3 Patriots
You pick’em
The Patriots only win was against the Bengals.

Sunday 4:00

2-2 Broncos over 2-2 Raiders
We play the Broncos week 9 so we will beat them then.

2-2 Packers over 1-3 Rams
For our Packer fan friends.

Sunday Night 8:00

2-2 Cowboys over Steelers
I refuse to mention the Steelers record until we have a better record.

Monday Night 8:00

2-2 Saints over 4-0 Chiefs
Say your prayers. The Saints are going to need them.

Don’t forget to set the alarm to go off early Sunday. We have football at 9:30AM!

Enjoy the games with a cold one and a friend.

I hope I didn’t forget to mention how impressed I was with our offensive line.

And that’s just The View From 151.

GO RAVENS!!!

OK, I was not able to post after weeks one and two. I say as usual I work too much and didn’t have time to write the post. Some might say that after a Ravens loss, I just can’t gather myself together enough to put two coherent sentences down that would make any sense. Now that may be true it is difficult to face the world after a loss. I have now come out of the basement this week to savor a Ravens win and take on whatever challenge the football world has to throw my way. That challenge this week is the 3-0 Buffalo Bills Sunday night in Baltimore.

So from now on the magic number is 22. The Ravens need to be leading by 22 going into the fourth quarter in order to win the game. I was watching the game with my brother when I turned to him during the third quarter and said “Man we should have gone to Dallas for this game. It would have been great to see the Ravens beat the Cowboys in the house Jerry built”. Then came the fourth quarter, and Dallas scored and scored again AND SCORED AGAIN! This was getting way out of hand when finally Lamar and the offense were able to get a first down to run out the clock for a road win. As I always say, ” I will take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day”.

This week we play the 3-0 Bills on Sunday night at M&T. We will need some good home cooking and a little luck to beat Buffalo and the referees. Don’t get me started on the refs. Well, I’m already there. I’m not a conspiracy guy so I won’t go there, but what I will go to is that the referees are just awful with bogus calls and no calls, they all seem to go against the Ravens at pivotal times in the game, and this has been in all three games. So the luck part is that we get an officiating crew that knows what they’re doing and has 20/20 vision. The home cooking is to fuel the defense to give them stamina to play all four quarters.

GO RAVENS!!!

Who we are rooting for or against. Remember my picks are who we want to win not who we think will win. So don’t bet the beer money on my picks.

Thursday Night 8:00

1-2 Cowboys over 1-2 Giants
This is a big divisional game for both teams who need a win to keep pace with Washington and Philadelphia. We are rooting for Dallas and our Cowboy fan friends.

Sunday 1:00

1-2 Panthers over 0-3 Bengals
Currently there are only three winless teams in the NFL and I am happy to inform you the Bengals are one of them. Rooting for the home team Panthers.

2-1 Packers over 3-0 Vikings
Another big divisional game, the Packers need to catch up to the Vikings. Rooting for Green Bay at home.

0-3 Jaguars over 2-1 Texans
Rooting against Houston at home.

1-2 Colts over Steelers
Nope not going to do it. This is not a misprint. I deliberately omitted the Steelers win loss record because I just couldn’t bring myself to acknowledge it. Rooting against the Steelers as we do every week.

1-2 Broncos over 2-1 Jets
Something is terribly wrong here, the Jets have a better recorder than the Ravens. The world truly must be upside down. Rooting for the Broncos on the road.

2-1 Eagles over 2-1 Buccaneers
Rooting for the Eagles to beat Baker Mayfield.

1-2 Falcons over 2-1 Saints
Now that Matt Ryan is gone we can root for Atlanta at home.

Sunday 4:00

2-1 Commanders over 1-2 Cardinals
Rooting for Washington.

1-2 49er over 1-2 Patriots
NFC over AFC

2-1 Chargers over 3-0 Chiefs
The Chiefs need to be humbled and maybe a few penalties go against them.

1-2 Raiders over 1-2 Browns
The world is just not right when the Ravens and the Browns have the same losing record.

Sunday Night

1-2 Ravens over 3-0 Bills
Well it’s just like I have been telling you, the world is definitely out of balance. The proof is the Ravens offense is ranked number one in the league and our defense is ranked twenty third per NFL.com. If that doesn’t say it, I don’t know what does. The Bills are good but not that good. Who have they beaten? 1-2 Dolphins, 1-2 Cardinals, and 0-3 Jaguars, so nobody. The Ravens are 1-2 by a toe out of the end zone and a couple of bad calls. It may not look like we are a good team, but we are. Lamar and Derick will run all over the Bills and control the clock. Our defense will harass Josh Allen all night long. This is going to be a close game that we will win by a toe, Justin kicking the winning field goal at the end.

GO RAVENS!!!

I have not figured this one out yet we why we have two games on Monday night. That’s right, I know it makes more money.

Monday Night 7:30

0-3 Titans over 1-2 Dolphins
Don’t rush home from work, this is going to be a dog. Wait for the second game to come on.

2-1 Lions over 3-0 Seahawks
Rooting for the home team and a good game.

By the way, you can thank me for the win last week. For those who don’t know I fly a Ravens flag at home on game days. I went out and bought a new flag that I raised for last week’s game. I thought we needed to start the season over, so I got rid of the flag from the first two weeks that had the bad MOJO.

Enjoy the games with a cold one and your brother. Remember don’t jinx the Ravens in the third quarter like I almost did last week.

And that’s just The View From 151.

GO RAVENS!!!