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We are in 2024. Amazon is worth more than the GDP of some countries. Yet they have animated replays of the scoring drives that looks like madden 1995

Zero chance this is legal. Even in focked up California. What is really great is them pretending not to know WHY black kids are 4.5 times more likely to be in foster care. But giving them 725 bucks (which is really like 300 bucks because of the cost of living) is surely going to solve this.

This is a good read as to why he has not put up the numbers everyone expected. The Ravens are 0-2 in games where Henry did not get 20 plus carries. They are 2-0 in games he did get 20 carries. Because of this Andrews is being asked to block more than he probably ever has. Tight end Mark Andrews was all over the Baltimore Ravens’ highlight package from their 35-10 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night, just not in the way you’d expect. There’s Andrews making the final key block on safety Taylor Rapp to spring Derrick Henry’s 87-yard touchdown run. There’s Andrews attracting two defenders in the middle of the field as running back Justice Hill beats a linebacker on the outside for a 19-yard touchdown catch. There’s Andrews occupying defensive back Cam Lewis as quarterback Lamar Jackson runs around him for a 9-yard touchdown. “Mark had some phenomenal blocks out there,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Monday. “I mean, some dominant blocks.” Andrews is a three-time Pro Bowler because of his prowess as a pass catcher. He has nearly 400 receptions and 5,000 receiving yards on his NFL resume. Yet, for the first time in his seven-year career, Andrews has been held without a catch in back-to-back games. He’s been targeted just twice during that span. His blocking, though, has been on point. The Ravens have rebounded from an 0-2 start with two straight wins heading into a key divisional matchup Sunday afternoon against the Cincinnati Bengals. Through four weeks, they lead the league in yards per game (429.5) and are fifth in points per game (26.5). They rank first in offensive DVOA (defense-adjusted value over average).With 545 yards rushing over the past two weeks, the Ravens have found their offensive identity. A big part of that is Jackson putting the ball in the belly of Henry, the NFL’s leading rusher, or just keeping it himself to either run or connect on mostly short passes. In Sunday’s throttling of the previously undefeated Bills, the Ravens ran the ball 34 times and Jackson attempted just 18 passes. Of his 13 completions, eight were to running backs Henry and Hill. The offensive game plans the past two weeks have been a success, and that’s only because of the buy-in from the team’s skill position players who, if given a choice, would surely prefer to have the ball in their hands rather than engage with would-be tacklers with blocks. However, if you watch any of Henry’s or Jackson’s notable runs over the past two weeks, you’ll undoubtedly see a wide receiver or tight end, often downfield, making a key block or series of them. “Football is the ultimate team sport, and when you have a bunch of players that are team guys, I believe you have a chance to be a good team — that’s what we have,” Harbaugh said. “As we’ve said before, if Derrick or the running game doesn’t quite get going from a stat-wise (perspective), the questions are always going to be, ‘Well, what about the running game?’ The running game gets going, and the questions are always going to be, ‘What about this player?’ ‘That player is not getting targeted’ or, ‘You’re not throwing the ball that much’ or, ‘Passing yards aren’t up.’ It’s part and parcel, so we understand that.” As early as training camp, Harbaugh cautioned the team’s offensive game plan would change week to week, as would the players who got the preponderance of touches. There would be games when the Ravens would go run heavy. There would be games when they relied more on their receivers. Other times, it would be their tight ends most involved in the passing game.The plan coming into the season was to be more balanced offensively and show they can attack defenses in myriad ways. The Ravens know their running game is productive, but can they create explosive pass plays if their running game stalls or they fall behind early, like we’ve seen in recent playoffs? Team officials believe they can. But over the last two weeks, the Ravens just happened to face teams that were vulnerable to Baltimore’s downhill running game — so offensive coordinator Todd Monken called a lot of runs. In Week 3, the Ravens opposed a Dallas Cowboys team that was banged up along the defensive line and couldn’t stop the New Orleans Saints’ run game the previous week. Sunday, the Ravens faced a Buffalo defense that was without its top two inside linebackers and often lines up in the nickel or dime package with extra defensive backs on the field.The results? The Ravens rushed 45 times for 274 yards and three touchdowns against the Cowboys and 34 times for 271 yards and two scores against the Bills. And Baltimore’s cadre of pass catchers, a group that includes wide receivers Zay Flowers, Rashod Bateman and Nelson Agholor and tight ends Andrews and Isaiah Likely, had very limited opportunities with the ball in their hands. Over the past two weeks, those five players have 13 total receptions on 20 targets. “I’ve been coaching skill guys my whole life. That’s a hard deal,” Monken said last week. “That’s a hard sell when a lot of their pride and what they get paid to do is to showcase their skill set. I don’t care what position you play, you want to touch the football. But it said a lot about those guys. However long the game is, for three hours, it’s about the team. It’s about what I can do right now to help the Ravens win, and that’s been a staple of this organization for years. Then we can figure out afterward how we can get other guys involved. But at that moment, that’s what I control as an individual player, what’s (been) called to execute at the highest level.”At least publicly, Ravens players are saying the right things. Andrews had multiple interviews last week and predicted that “good things will come.” “We’re all doing our job and there is no greed,” he said. Andrews, the 29-year-old tight end who has been Jackson’s favorite target since 2019, has been forced to make the biggest adjustment. From 2019 to 2022 — he was limited to 10 games last year after he broke his fibula early in Week 11 — Andrews averaged 7.4 targets per game. Mark Andrews (right) hasn’t been getting the target share he’s accustomed to, but he’s been making an impact in other ways. (Terrance Williams / Associated Press) Through the first four games last year, Andrews had 20 catches on 28 targets for 225 yards and three touchdowns. During that same span this year, Andrews has six catches on nine targets for 65 yards and no touchdowns. He also has played 21 and 26 snaps over the past two weeks as the Ravens have opted to use bigger and more run-oriented personnel, which means more fullback Patrick Ricard and blocking tight end Charlie Kolar. To put those snap counts in perspective, Andrews averaged just over 51 snaps in the nine games he started and finished last year. “I could probably try to talk to Mark to make sure everything’s OK, but he would just look at me like, ‘What are you talking to me about? Everything’s fine, everything’s good,’” Harbaugh said Monday. “Guys are competitive — everybody wants to be the difference because they know that they’re great players. Mark Andrews is a great player. All those guys are special in their own way, but Mark is a star — there’s no doubt about it. The fact that we’re doing well on offense and as a team, and that part hasn’t been expressing itself in the last two weeks, gets me kind of excited, because that’s another weapon that we have that’s going to happen. It’s just part of the versatility of the offense, which is really important.” Andrews is hardly alone in his diminished pass-catching impact this early in the season. Flowers, a first-round pick last year who led the Ravens in receiving as a rookie, has four catches on six targets for 30 yards over the last two weeks. In weeks 1 and 2, Flowers totaled 13 catches on 21 targets, 128 receiving yards and a touchdown. Last year, Flowers averaged nearly seven targets per game. Bateman averaged 3.5 targets per game last year, but the departures of receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Devin Duvernay were expected to lead to more opportunities for the 2021 first-round pick. However, Bateman is averaging the same number of targets so far this year. Agholor’s targets are down slightly from his season average last year, too. Advertisement Then, there’s Likely, the third-year tight end. When he started the season with nine catches (12 targets) for 111 yards and a touchdown in a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, it appeared to be a breakout for a player who impressed in the second half of last season when Andrews was sidelined. But Likely has just four catches on six targets for 56 yards in three games since. However, as is also the case with Andrews, Flowers, Bateman and Agholor, you can find plenty of highlights over the past couple of weeks of Likely keying a long run with a block on the perimeter. “The answer is always that the whole is greater than the parts, and the parts make the whole. Those guys get it — they’re contributing in a big way,” Harbaugh said. “Mark Andrews is going to definitely have big games here catching the ball. Isaiah’s going to have big games catching the ball, all those guys are. We’re going to have a big passing game coming up here at some point in time soon. It’s hard to predict when it’s going to be, because games go where they go, and the ball goes where it goes, and it’s just a competitive deal. My point is that the reason we ran the ball so well is because everybody bought into the play that was being run in that moment and executed it so well. “That’s what gives you the chance to be successful. When those guys are running routes and catching the ball, people will be blocking for them as well.”

They live in a dream world. NO ONE is going to pay for the trash they push. They literally only have 2 things. White men are evil and climate change. That is it.

I think Will Ferrells brain is just damaged from all the crazy shitt he has done over the years and the liberal brainwashing he has had. He is clearly a pansy at this point in his life.

maaaannnn I would love to see the lions bring him in. Imagine Jamo and Adams on the outside and Amon Ra in the slot. They could use laporta to block and be the greatest show on turf part 2

The odds on this dropped from +6000 when I first started buying into this to + 650 now

I want to home school my kid. I realized during the pandemic that he is at school for 8 hours a day because I work 8 hours a day. We could get ALL of his daily work done in 3 hours. Then he could move on to learning what he really wants to do which is to create games.

How much value does having a degree carry in the working world? Sure if you are going to be a doctor. Lawyer or an accountant but for the rest of us the cost of college is going to carry with us for half our adult life. For something that we signed when we were 18. Too young to rent a car. The bank would not give us a loan for a house but it is perfectly fine to go in debt 90k. The education system is broken because it is for profit. A 4 year degree could be completed in 2 years easily if not for the fluff classes students are required to take that have ZERO to do with their grade but but certainly help the schools bottom line.

I picked up mason and burned my #2 waiver early in the season. I actually did not get the number one guy I wanted in Likely but I thought to myself that I have seen enough coachspeak bulllshit that anything could happen and the best thing possible did. I hope they rest CMC till playoffs and ride mason like a workhorse. He could be my league winner.

the "professionals" disagreeing is a LARGE part of the problem.

I just do not see how you can see it as anything other than a mental illness. They are saying that they FEEL like they are a gender other than what their body presents as. That is in their head. It ABSOLUELY IS a mental illness and liberal doctors have convinced the world that it is something else.

If you had a daughter that insisted she needed to puke after meals to feel normal, would you encourage her to keep puking or would you get her help for a mental illness. The medical community encourages trans kids to change their gender instead of treating them for a clear mental illness. It would be like a doctor saying...oh if puking your guts out makes you feel better go for it.

I watched as a beautiful young woman went to the U of M because of suicidal thoughts. When she came out she claimed to be a boy and she was ALWAYS a boy. Now she will only go by a boys name that she chose. At no point was this child ever a boy, ever acted like a boy, ever looked like a boy. Yet somehow. Going to see a shrink at the U convinced her that she was in fact a boy. She pretended to be a boy for a year or so, THEN she got put on ozempic, lost a ton of weight and suddenly she was a girl again. What I think happens is that the medical community goes out of it's way to convince kids they are transgender.

Too bad. He always seemed like a legit nice person who was happy.

I said he was going to be the AP offensive player of the year and I put my money where my mouth is. I bet 630 bucks at the start of the season at odds ranging from +6000 to plus 4000 for a total possible payout of 35k. They have proven that the MVP is going to the best QB when they focked him over in his 2k yard season so the offensive player of the year will go to the second best player.

I have 630 bucks out on Derrick Henry to be offensive player of the year ranging from +4000 to +6000 for a total possible payout of 34k

King Henry in full effect.

Is he hurt by chance? 10 carries for 0.4 yards? That is crazy

The jags still suck sooo bad. He is hard to trust with robinson healthy

They would be so much better if flacco comes in and lights it up and they bench him like the Panthers did with Young. Just sit him and let him grow.

Richardson out for the day with likely a hip flexor. 2 weeks injury at least

You are labeling people transphobes because they have a different view than you on this and they believe this is a mental illness. To be a transphobe you would have to be afraid. Thus the Phobe part. No one is afraid of the Ts. I could care less what they want to call themselves.. I am just not playing along with their mental illness and the government should not bend to it either. Boys should not be able to compete against girls in sports. If you think that is fair you are stupid.

No such thing as a transphobe. Just people that are not brainwashed and that can see a mental illness being paraded as normal. Good talk.

All because he is friends with a T who he worked with at SNL. Weak minded. He lets mentally ill people use him for PR.