The Joe Flacco Poll!

Mancunian Raven · Joined: 09 Oct 2012 Posts: 2438

If you're classing 'elite' as being Brady, Manning, Rodgers levels, then no, Flacco won't ever be elite. Not many QBs are. Those guys are going to go down as some of the best QBs in the history of the league.

But if you're expanding 'elite' to the level of Roethlisburger and Ryan, then I definitely think Flacco can be as good as those guys. He can be the fifth or sixth best QB in the NFL, if he can just find a level of consistency.

We've seen that he has the tools to be that good, and that he can make any throw he needs to make. He just hasn't done it for three, four, five games in a row. That's a combination of what looks like a lack of focus, fragility in the O-line and difficulty in reading defenses and anticipating certain things that defenders are going to do.

Some of that can be fixed, through coaching and building the team and the offense to best suit Flacco's strengths. Giving him a quick/intermediate passing game out of the shotgun and play action passing set up with good run plays.

Some of it perhaps can't be fixed, and he may never be that good at avoiding sacks (although he's shown a fair amount of elusiveness at times). But if he's getting the ball out quickly, and his O-line is protecting him effectively, that shouldn't matter too much for the most part. At the moment, he still seems to freeze quite often when rushers get past their blockers, and that's definitely something that can be fixed with coaching, because it's purely a mental issue.

He will get a new contract, or at the very least be franchise tagged. I don't see how that can be in doubt, because there's no one on the free agent market who could come in and do anywhere near as good a job, and there are not enough good QB prospects in the draft for a potential rookie starter to make it to the bottom of the first round. Plus, the Ravens have other draft needs.

Then we'll have to see how he does next year, with a new OC (whether that's Caldwell or someone else), and we'll have to hope that it was indeed Cam that was holding him back, and preventing him from becoming the player he's capable of being.
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StRawz11 · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 3752 Location: Not in Pittsburgh

I have a feeling the Ravens have been losing because the gameday thread has not been up till actual gameday lately....but I could be out of line here
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drd23 · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:35 pm Post subject:

SnA ExclusiVe · Joined: 01 Jun 2011 Posts: 33596 Location: Spokane, WA

Personally, I think it's because our GDT's have been lacking comedy and stories for the past few weeks.

But I definitely agree that our GDT's are some of the reason we've been losing Laughing

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drd23 · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:54 pm Post subject:

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ravens5520 · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 8614 Location: New York

You know what sucks about the whole madden curse??

Ray Lewis is in the opening dialogue and to me that's close enough to a curse from madden with all these injuries.

Next we start seeing all the Ray Lewis commercials.
--- madden commercials
--- Player safety commercials: now the whole team is injured.

Lol it was just an odd coincident to me

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