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Christmas Football: Ravens @ Texans - Week 17

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Ravens: RB Justice Hill, WR Nelson Agholor, C Nick Samac, LB Adisa Isaac, CB Jalyn Armour-Davis, S Marcus Williams

Texans: LB Devin White, DE Jerry Hughes, G Shaq Mason, G Juice Scruggs, WR Diontae Johnson, DT Folorunso Fatukasi

Line: BAL -6.5
Total: 47.5

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at this point it is looking like the Texans just dont have an answer for the Baltimore run game

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3 minutes ago, Ray_T said:

at this point it is looking like the Texans just dont have an answer for the Baltimore run game

wow, the minute I opened my yap to say this, the Texans stuff Henry for a safety after a real nice special teams kick 

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Coaches and their refusal to take the easy 3...just stupid.

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25 minutes ago, Law said:

Coaches and their refusal to take the easy 3...just stupid.

Yeah this has been a bad trend in football.

there are times when it makes sense to try for more, but sometimes its also about momentum.    and taking the guaranteed points at least keeps the arrow pointed the way you want it.  but a failure can result in a momentum shift.   especially if the other team then puts up points off of that turnover on downs.

the decision to gamble should be based on more than just the stats.  you gotta take things like this into account and I feel that at times there is a serious lack of accounting for other factors.

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Kudos to the NFL and Netflix for putting on a Christmas extravaganza. Watching Love after Lockup reruns

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Wow! That is so cool! Getting a ZERO from your K in the Championship!

 

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10 minutes ago, Law said:

Wow! That is so cool! Getting a ZERO from your K in the Championship!

 

No offense, but I dont know that I'd have started a kicker against Baltimore.  They have been shutting down a lot of teams and the offense just kills the clock by running the football. Baltimore beats teams on the Line of scrimage.  both the O line and the D line are very very good.

 Not an ideal recipe for a lot of points if you are on the other side of this.  I have to think there would have been better options on the wire this week.

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1 hour ago, Ray_T said:

No offense, but I dont know that I'd have started a kicker against Baltimore.  They have been shutting down a lot of teams and the offense just kills the clock by running the football. Baltimore beats teams on the Line of scrimage.  both the O line and the D line are very very good.

 Not an ideal recipe for a lot of points if you are on the other side of this.  I have to think there would have been better options on the wire this week.

The Ravens were 26th in the league against kickers going into this week - meaning only 6 teams gave up more points kickers per game. Their defense against the pass has been bad so teams can move the ball on them (other than Houston it seems) but then maybe stall when they get close and can't run. That IS a recipe for kickers scoring and it has been all season.

But that's ok. I also had Henry so he carried the load. Just would have been nice if Houston had done anything on offense. Anything at all.

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1 hour ago, Law said:

The Ravens were 26th in the league against kickers going into this week - meaning only 6 teams gave up more points kickers per game. Their defense against the pass has been bad so teams can move the ball on them (other than Houston it seems) but then maybe stall when they get close and can't run. That IS a recipe for kickers scoring and it has been all season.

But that's ok. I also had Henry so he carried the load. Just would have been nice if Houston had done anything on offense. Anything at all.

yeah, if you started Henry in the same game, his production makes up for an awful lot.

Either way, usually with kickers(and RB) , they usually score reasonably well if they are on the winning team.   Not so well if they are on the losing team.

interesting stat about Baltimore though.   Though I'd like to see which teams lit them up.   I suspect  with kickers vs Baltimore its feast or famine and if we look at the week by week stats, I'm betting thats what you see.

 

correction, just looked it up on fftoday....  

Kicker: 2024 FF Points Allowed, Regular Season - FF Today

they are tied for 12th,.... so mediocre.   but still there were a couple big games against.   the 18-16 loss to Pittsburgh where the Steel got 6 FG and no TD.   and I get it.  if the red zone D is keeping teams from getting in the end zone, you will give up more FG in games like this.

but it does seem to be feast or famine if you look at the game by game stats.

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