Just a reminder from last year... [Archive]

Sports Guy

10-23-2007, 01:56 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/teams/schedule?team=bal&year=2006

Going into the Ravens bye week, they were 4-2....They had just lost 2 in a row(including their only home loss of the year) and they barely escaped against SD and Cle.

They then came back off of the bye and played a hot NO team in NO and kicked their butts which kicked off a 9-1 run after the bye.

Our schedule wasn't easy last year but not as hard as this year of course.

I can't remember if the sky was falling last year around here or not going into the bye but i suspect it was.

NewMarketSean

10-23-2007, 02:01 PM

Here is how I see things after the bye, healthy or not...

Nov 5 @Pittsburgh LOSE (but if you want to say that the Ravens are a great after-bye team and that the Steelers aren't looking their best, then OK, I can see us stealing a win from them in PIT. So this could go either way for me.)
Nov 11 Cincinnati WIN
Nov 18 Cleveland WIN
Nov 25 @San Diego LOSE
Dec 3 New England LOSE
Dec 9 Indianapolis LOSE
Dec 16 @Miami WIN
Dec 23 @Seattle LOSE
Dec 30 Pittsburgh WIN

So if we lose in Pittsburgh next week, we finish 8-8. If we win, we finish 9-7. I really don't see us coming close to beating NE or IND, so we are going to have to take the SD and SEA games and it's going to be tough to win all 3 games on the west coast this year.

Tony-OH

10-23-2007, 02:50 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/teams/schedule?team=bal&year=2006

Going into the Ravens bye week, they were 4-2....They had just lost 2 in a row(including their only home loss of the year) and they barely escaped against SD and Cle.

They then came back off of the bye and played a hot NO team in NO and kicked their butts which kicked off a 9-1 run after the bye.

Our schedule wasn't easy last year but not as hard as this year of course.
I can't remember if the sky was falling last year around here or not going into the bye but i suspect it was.

We will end up no better than 8-8, probably 7-9 due to the second half schedule. With Billick's horrible play calling and his terrible red zone offensive schemes, this team will not score enough to keep up with a lot of the teams they have to face in the second part of the schedule. The defense is good, but with the injuries, it's not dominate and I'm not sure McAllister will be 100 percent all year.

The Wedge

10-23-2007, 02:53 PM

Well, last year in the bye we jettisoned Fossel. Any moves like that forthcoming?