Well, at least the Ravens won... This game quite possibly was the most boring Monday Night Football game in a while even for the most dedicated NFL freak. I found myself checking Facebook as well as what new gadget was nearing release on all my favorite gadget blogs.
Brady Quinn, isn't very good at all. I don't know if he's thinking too much and afraid to make a mistake or if he has too many muscles. He makes great supplement commercials but not much else. Seriously, look at that guy and compare him to other quarterbacks in the league. He has some seriously sculpted arms. The great quarterbacks in the league, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and others, don't carry around well sculpted pipes in their arsenal and they don't need them to throw the ball accurately down the field. The few times late in the game when he finally decided to throw more than checkdown passes, the ball landed 5-10 yards out of bounds leaving the receiver NO CHANCE to catch it. Any quarterback worth his salt and drafted in the first round needs the ability to threaten the defense with an accurate 9 route. I can't place all the blame on Quinn because that offensive line played like a disorganized pile of poo. Granted they were playing the highly respected and equally talented Ravens defense which seem to have lost a step or miss big Rex. The Ravens were able to get a pass rush with rushing only three guys and gave up a sack to Trevor Pryce. How in the hell does 3 guys beat five??
Raven fans, listen up. Don't take this win as some great victory. Granted a win is a win and as Herm Edwards once said, "you play to win the game, hello!!!" Cleveland's defense played well and made Joe Cool, Joe Flacco, look decided average. Ray Rice had a nice game and even McGahee showed up a bit but the win by the Ravens was ugly. I'm hoping they'll fix whatever is wrong because they still have to play Big Ben and the Steelers twice this season. Getting swept by the Bengals AND Steelers would be disastrous to say the least.
