Real, real sick of the toxic positivity brigade in here after every abominable pants shitting saying “its just one game we’'re fine.”

We’ve lost three very winnable games out of 10 so far. We play in the toughest division in football and have an extremely good Bengals team in 4 days with several impact players almost certainly out. If we lose that game - and I’d favor the Bengals right now - we’re 7-4 with a chance to be in last place by the end of next weekend.

If you still think that’s fine and we have a chance to make it up, well, no. We have the second toughest remaining schedule of any NFL team. at Jags, at Niners, at Chargers, Rams, Dolphins, and Steelers are left. We’ll be lucky to go 3-3 in that stretch. Couple that with a Bengals loss Thursday, and we’re 11-7 on the season. At best. That’s not winning this division. That may not even get us a wild card given how easy the rest of the division’s easy schedule.

Thursday’s game is as high-leverage as it gets. And the only reason why is because we didn’t bank wins against dogshit teams - the single most important thing to do in the NFL - when we had the chance.

  • RRSC14BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Nothing you said in your post makes being optimistic a toxic trait. Foh.

  • marylandrosinBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This sub is largely incapable of having a reasonable reaction to a win or a loss. It’s 1 game and we’re still leading the division with an opportunity to strengthen that lead in 3 days. Let’s relax.

  • Cities42BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    People are mad cause all ravens fans aren’t mad too? If you wanna go be depressed all week go for it. I have work and a family.

  • Don_JefeBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If the Ravens are as good as we think they are they will win simple 🤷🏽‍♂️. The Bengals last year had a tough schedule and needed every win down the stretch and guess what they did? If the Ravens don’t make the playoffs even though they have the second best record in the Afc then they simply don’t deserve to be in it 🤷🏽‍♂️

  • TriggeringThinkingBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My first thought is that there’s no possible way in the world we end the regular season 11-7 because there aren’t 18 games. If we went 3-4 down the stretch right now we would be 10-7. I may end up having a nice snack on my foot for this, but I think we’re more likely to go 4-3 or 5-2 during that run and end up 11-6 or 12-5. Also, I understand if you’re leaning towards the Bengals winning Thursday. I get it, and you may very well be right. Still, they just got beat by a team we held to 9 points and put up 25 against. They don’t seem to have improved dramatically since opening day, considering they’re barely over .500 right now.