BOOO! FIRE COACH HORRIBLE!!

I think the Ravens hired the wrong Harbaugh. They should have hired Jim Harbaugh.

Who takes a time out in the fourth quarter behind by 2 points and then immediately call a Challenge and lose two time outs.

This boneheaded move made us miss Brian Billick. At least Brian could fire up his team and get us a Touchdown.

Also, I think it stinks that Matt Stover comes back to Baltimore to score 5 points to beat the Ravens.

This is UGLY!

Harbaugh sucks... can't use time management... the Ravens are a bunch of undisciplined plays, Ngata's penalty, really? Reed's fumble, really?... Cam Cameron can not call plays, a Joe Flacco option? really? They sure find more ways to give the game away then to win the game..

Peter-

What the hell is Harbaugh doing?
1st of all, I thought he was going to end all of the stupid penalties?

Also, all of the talk about a weak defense, but lets look at the facts, in both Cincy games, and now the Colts, we hold to 17 points, and WE LOSE ALL 3!.

This team has no WR that can open up a defense. That I blame on the front office, because it has been a problem for years, and the knew coming into the season and did NOTHING about it.

This team puts NO MONEY WHAT SO EVER into the offense.

Plus, Flacco has not played very well since the Minn. game, and there he did it only in the 2nd half.

I don't blame him, because he has NO WEAPONS!

The Ravens need to clean house!!!!!! Ozzie and everyone else have abandoned the pursuit of excellence. Bad drafts, poor coach decisions/hirings have us as an also ran. They won't even do the smart thing and lose out to get great draft position......Let's win a game or two more for pride!?!?! then we can pick between 18 and 24 when Ozzie is at his most indecisive,,,,Boller, Flacco,or trade DOWN and still not get value

Harbaugh has to go immediately. He's running this team back into the stone age.

Nobody in their right mind thought the Ravens had a chance to beat Indy. But still, Bisciotti needs to clean house. Newsome has to go, great new kicker by the way.

Fire Harbaugh, he's killing this team.

Fire Newsome, he's killing this team.

Everyone bashes on Ozzie, but I don't hear anyone complaining about Oher, Webb, Rice, or Flacco.

However, I could agree more about cleaning house. Just look at the stats today. Aside from Rice and Mason, there are zero offensive threats.

You gotta give it up to the D - forcing turnovers, limiting the the Colts to 17 is a pretty good day.

Lets not forget missing a chip shot with our "new and improved" kicker (yeah, yeah, I know he accounted for all of our points) and the Flacco interception.

The Ravens looked the equal (and occasionally the better) of the Colts for about 50 minutes of this game. Unfortunately, when it came down to crunch time, they folded. Mental errors lost this game for the Ravens.

Pete excellent post everything you said is absolutely true. Way to many bone head things that good teams do not do. The coach seems to be lost out there and after further review seems to be way over his head. They played there hearts out but still found a way to lose. They need to make some very difficult decisons at the end of the year.

can't seem to get things done in crunch time this year. For all intents and purposes, this D HAS played well, it's the Offense that has really been baaad. No TD today when we hold Indy to 17 pts??!! Huh, I was expecting Peyton to put up 30. The D did very well!! Unbelievable. We always make Indy look like a great defenseive team. always.

Football is great.

With so many fewer games than every other sport, there's a lot more luck involved. And since teams are generally built around one or two star players, if one of those guys (especially if it's a QB, RB or WR) has a bad season, the entire team suffers accordingly.

And here comes the fun part: With generally successful franchises, like the Ravens, the fan's view of the top of the organization wavers with the team's record.

Last year, when the Ravens were one of the best teams in football and were one win away from the Super Bowl, Ozzie Newsome was as great as he ever was and John Harbaugh was a fantastic head coach.

Now that the team is scuffling, Ozzie and Harbs are both complete failures.

Priceless.

PS - Can't wait to see someone come out and blame the refs for this loss. Already saw that on Facebook a few times.

Also, Peter, you may want to consider not allowing comments until Wednesday when the emotional, knee jerk reaction idiots have gone back to their parents basements.

Fire Ozzie? Without him we don't have Rice, Flacco, Oher, Reed, Heap, etc etc etc... Let's not forget he's responsible for Mason, and Trevor Price being here as well. Yeesh...

Four killer losses this year...missed field goals have absolutely cost the Ravens at least two wins...a dropped pass inside the ten at New England and late defensive penalty/giving up last second TD to Cincinnati...all games which last year likely went the Ravens way and this year Ravens have gone 0 for 4 in these.
Even a split of these would have us at 7-3
Today's game- Ravens can't score at the goal line and an absolute shank of the easiest field goal attempt of the day (but the only one with increased pressure of taking the lead)
Ravens will likely need to split with the Steelers and run the table on the rest.. .

Four killer losses this year...missed field goals have absolutely cost the Ravens at least two wins...a dropped pass inside the ten at New England and late defensive penalty/giving up last second TD to Cincinnati...all games which last year likely went the Ravens way and this year Ravens have gone 0 for 4 in these.
Even a split of these would have us at 7-3
Today's game- Ravens can't score at the goal line and an absolute shank of the easiest field goal attempt of the day (but the only one with increased pressure of taking the lead)
Ravens will likely need to split with the Steelers and run the table on the rest.. .

I'm sorry guys, but the score was a lot closer than the game was. The Ravens tripped over themselves, but that wasn't what cost them the game. The Colts defense made up for Manning's miscues. Sure, the Ravens got into the red zone a few times, but they didn't capitalize because of...I don't know...the other team's defense?

Had the Colts not made uncharacteristic turnovers, that game wouldn't have been close at all. It would likely have been a blowout.

This team just isn't good. However, I don't know if we should use the Colts as a measurement.

I criticize this game as tripping and wacky at the same time.I thought the offense knew that punching tds is the way to go in this league?Reed's lateral was surprising to me.We did'nt get ourselves whipped but boy, we are our worst enemy,sometimes.This game had a W written all over it since the 2nd quarter.I feel like a schmuck for saying these things.

Pete, where did the third timeout go? The scoreboard said we had two left and, the next thing you know, they're both gone. Was I in the bathroom when they used a timeout and forgot to log it on the board?

10-6 & pray. We are not elite, we are not bad, we are currently slightly above average. See Cardinals 2008, we still have a shot if we come together.

Reed has been doing that lateral thing for years now...it's nuts to even be thinking about it when you have the ball in your possession unless it's the last play of the game.

I've never been completely sold on Harbs, he gets a total pass this year because of what his team did last year but I see him as being on the hot seat next year.

This team plays undisciplined football, with a knack for getting penalties at exactly the wrong time. Harbs committed his first major coaching faux paus today with his double time out, but more important is the overall way this team has played this year. They constantly beat themselves against the good teams and this is !00% coaching, or lack of it, or lack of respect for the head coach by the players.

Ravens will not make the playoffs this year. Next year if we see another sloppily coached team that plays like this one, then IMHO Harbs is not the man for the job and Biscotti has a really tough coaching decision to make.

ravenczar: the stadium scoreboard was wrong. The Ravens used a timeout after the 2nd down play, and I noticed that the scoreboard still read 3 timeouts for the Ravens after the following play (the 3rd down pass to Wayne).

Peter- agree. Basically, everyone on this team made some sort of mistake to contribute to losing this game. Mason dropped a pass that hit him in the numbers, Flacco threw the INT, etc. etc. I guess Ray Rice played mistake-free football. But, in the NFL where there isn't much separating the teams, the team that makes the most mistakes usually loses.

We still have a good team, even if this isn't our year. They'll play their game and see if they can get on a roll, but with some good recruiting the team has a bright future.

I would prefer the expected blow-out than to have to go through that. My hopes will be in check the rest of the way.

I loved the Reed/ Lewis dislodging at the goal line. That was reminiscent of days gone by.

The rest of it was agonizing.

I was (and still am) a Brian Billick believer. I'm not saying he was perfect but I haven't seen a coach yet who was.

Having said that, I'm not ready to give up on Harbaugh. Believe me, the timeout-then-challenge scenario is mind-boggling to have happened but semi-understandable. The Ravens knew they needed every stinking second so they called a timeout immediately when the play was over. Then, they realized they should challenge the play.

I'm more irked by not going for it on a 4th-and-short, and especially irked by not going for it on a 4th-and-goal at the one fairly late. I'm more irked by some of the play-calling.

Still, the Ravens have four teams ahead of them for two wild card spots, none of them more than one game ahead. HOU and JAX play each other, and both play IND, MIA and NE. JAx also plays SF. BAL plays PIT twice and PIT still has to play GB and MIA. DEN still plays NYG, IND and PHI, and BAL owns the tie-breaker.

Peter Schmuck said, "Sorry, the times they have come down to the final seconds with a chance to win this year, the Ravens have shown they are not ready to be an elite team."

Maybe it's just semantics but given the closeness of the losses against teams who are currently 40-10, I'd say the Ravens ARE READY to be an elite team ... they just haven't YET taken that step.

The Ravens are good enough to make the playoffs; they are good enough to beat the teams they have lost to. Improvements in personnel would be nice but this personnel -- players and coaches -- can improve.

Those who have erred have the capability of improving. Let's start with PIT this week. Their '09 incarnation ain't so tough. Let's tidy up and bury them for starters. The five weeks after that may be more fun than anyone bemoaning a 5-5 record can imagine.

We just might want Harbaugh and Ozzie to stick around a little longer after all.

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Pete's reply: Fair points all. It seems like the NFL is conspiring to keep the Ravens viable. If Tennessee beats Houston tonight, the Ravens still have a good chance to make the playoffs.

The ravens got all the important breaks in this game and still lost. The play calling that was new and promising last year has disappeared. The run or pass is never established and the offense lacks any direction from one series to the next.
Biggest error was 1st down on the one yard line. With 6'6" quaterback needing to gain 1 foot, 3 sneaks and your in.