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It helps that they're not bitches
It's the rotten culture and atmosphere surrounding the team that turns players into such soft bitches. Football isn't the only priority (maybe even not the top priority) whereas in places like Baltimore it's all football all the time.
 

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Jackson obviously helps their run game but if you look at the Ravens OL they aren't better at a single position than our group except at center.

Stanley was out about half the season and is about equal to Tyron, the other 3 are journeymen JAGs who would probably look no better than Edoga in Dallas.

OL is the spot where you can really tell whether a team is well coached or not.
Linderbaum is the man tho.
 

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notice Ravens not playing prevent...the most cowardly, gutless D there is.
 

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It's funny all this praise Baltimore is getting for being a better more serious franchise based on 1 win over an overmatched Houston team.

Meanwhile they are like 2-4 in the playoffs under Jackson.
 

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I disagree. I don't think it makes any difference. I don't remember them doing that back in the day and it had a better feel back then. Partly because they had better announcers and leaned on them.
Yep, part of it is that we don't need 25 commentators for each game... Five in the studio, five on the sidelines, five piano music tear jerk feature narrators, etc.

And of course ESPN is the worst about it.

A few in the studio and a couple of good game announcers in the booth are fine.
 

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It's the rotten culture and atmosphere surrounding the team that turns players into such soft bitches. Football isn't the only priority (maybe even not the top priority) whereas in places like Baltimore it's all football all the time.
Spoiled in a dome and our soft bitches still get ruffled by sun glare.
 

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Only two of the last 26 Super Bowl participants (SB XLV 2010 season) have been dome - Falcons and Rams.

Dome teams: Cowboys, Texans, Saints, Chargers (recent), Raiders (recent), Colts, Rams, Cardinals, Lions, Vikings, Falcons
Good info, Phil. I actually didn't realize there were that few domes.
 

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Good info, Phil. I actually didn't realize there were that few domes.

Which probably has a lot more to do with the lack of super bowl dome teams than anything inherently bad about playing in a dome.

Especially since at least half of those teams are historically bad franchises.
 

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It's funny all this praise Baltimore is getting for being a better more serious franchise based on 1 win over an overmatched Houston team.

Meanwhile they are like 2-4 in the playoffs under Jackson.
They won the Super Bowl like 10 years ago, and another one 10 years prior to that, what are you talking about?
 

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It's funny all this praise Baltimore is getting for being a better more serious franchise based on 1 win over an overmatched Houston team.

Meanwhile they are like 2-4 in the playoffs under Jackson.
Yeah, the Texans are absolutely outclassed by the Ravens. Jackson still has to prove himself against one of two really good teams. Homefield or not, his work will be cut out for him.
 

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The Ravens have had basically the same front office/organizational structure for the last 20+ years. That structure has built two separate Super Bowl winners in that time and look to have built a third group that will at least make the Super Bowl.

Three Super Bowl caliber teams all about 10 years apart with completely different rosters, all while being a consistent 10+ game winner most years in between those Super Bowls.

This isn't the Patriots catching lightning in a bottle with arguably the GOAT QB and HC joining forces for 20 years, and then going back to irrelevance, this is an organization that's consistently built winners with completely different players and QB's over 20+ years.
 

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Yea and I have a wider perspective than the last 4 years, I realize social media has warped how people view everything with a hyper focus on the present but that's not what I'm looking at.

How about the past decade?

Social media? I don't even do social media so that's a dumbass assumption. :lol

How about you are overreacting to a win over a nothing Houston team. Social media must be making you do that.

Everyone knows we've been insufficient for 30 years. The point is Baltimore is kind of a bad example to hold us against.
 
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