5-11 Not too Good

The Title, a phrase made famous by former Redskins Coach & famed College Coach, Steve Spurrier. 5-11 Not too good... and not too good this season was. I feel like I'm on a loop or something as I've been writing this all season, this team had so much promise in the pre-season & it never came about. But you know what, I'm feeling positive todaynas I sit here in New Orleans site of the Sugar Bowl. We are, and need, to put 2007 behind us. Why not is my question, why think, talk or care about it. It's over, I don't know about you but I don't have a time machine, so why try and go back in the past. The Future is the where our focus needs to be. With that said lets not be blind to reality, the past is how we learn about the future. Things the Ravens can hang their hat on. Good front office, good ownership, good facilities, good fans, good stadium & they have a pretty good mix of young and old talent. The negative, well I'm going to leave that alone. 2008 is a new season, a new chance and a new year. Lets all give 2008 all we have and we'll see what happens.

Glenn Younes
From New Orleans, Site of the Allstate Sugar Bowl

The Final Countdown

Well here we are, the final week of the season, a season that by all accounts was a disappointment. A disappointment in the standings, for the fans, in the locker room, front office and really around the league. This Ravens team had such high expectations pre-season & it was all for not. Injuries were a plenty and the mental state of the team was as low as I've seen in a while. I've said it before but I really think Billick lost his team this year and he has gotten bigger than himself. Last week with the game all but over he called two timeouts before the 2 minute warning. The players, coaches and fans from Seattle were beside themselves. Who does Billick think he is, it's almost like he wanted to Rub it in to HIS players that they are losing and are going to lose. Why not let the clock tick down and get the hell out of there. Instead he extended the game for the sake of extending it. Like he wanted to prove a point that it's his show win lose or draw. I just hope if he is back next year, no matter what the players and fans think about this year, we all can put it behind us and start fresh. No reason to let 2007 get in the way of 2008. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and God Bless

Glenn Younes

M.I.A in Mia

Talk about a team missing in action, and when I say team I mean TEAM. EVERYONE, the players, coaches EVERYBODY. Up 10 points at half to a team, that at the time was 0-13. That’s when a good or even decent team just mans up and pounds the ball all day long. Throws when needed, makes no mistakes and gets out of Miami anyway they can, WITH A WIN. It’s funny too because I was thinking during the week that this game has a Dolphins win written all over it. A team WAY underachieving in the Ravens, a team and a staff that has clearly given up on its head coach, and players that can’t help but let the sub-conscious idea creep into their head that a loss to a team without a win could help get them a new coach. Not to say this was a tank job at all. The players clearly wanted to win, tried to win, but in the end LOST. I can go in a 100 different directions from here and I won’t. I’ll just say this; Troy Smith looks to have POISE which seems to be a HUGE part of being successful in the NFL as a QB. The difference in talent level from player to player is overall very small; it’s what they have inside themselves and in their heads that can put them over the top.

Glenn Younes

QB Reigns

It's not the 1st or even the 20th time someone has brought up the irony that Billick was thought of as an offensive GENIUS. But let me be the 21st person, or so, to bring it back up. How come year after year after year this Franchise does such a Fantastic job scouting & bringing in talent at, what seems like, every position except QB? QB being the only real department "Coach" has the say so on. My father said something to me over the years as I was growing up to teach me. He did so as it related to School, Life, Sports... EVERYTHING. He'd Say "Son, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." That same adage holds true here too. If the same person year after year is in charge of the "O" and QB, and the overall results have been sub-par, you have to be crazy to think that will ever change. A leopard can't change it's spots, and either can Brian Billick. As much as he thinks he can, HE CAN'T. WE all are who we are, for better or worse. Yes, we can all grow as people, tweak things etc, but we are who we are. I'm done for now maybe later this week I'll actually break down the game, but don't count on it.

Glenn Younes

2008 PRO BOWL VOTING

DON'T Forget to vote for your Favorite NFL Players for the Pro Bowl In Hawaii. Of course ED REED should be on your ballot. VOTE FOR ED AND OTHER AT ttp://www.nfl.com/probowl/ballot

11-1, 12-0, 12-1...could be, is, and will be...

First lets say JOB WELL DONE. Just because a team doesn't win also doesn't mean they lost. On the scoreboard, sure, in our hearts, not so much. This Ravens team, lets be honest, has not much more to play for other than Pride, contracts for some, personal goals & just because it's their job. But the way they played showed us all, & maybe more importantly themselves, that this team is who we thought they were, one that can compete and be competitive with ANY team in this league. Sometimes you don't know why or how but teams just fall apart during a season or don't reach goals they or the fans/media put on them. What we should take from the Pats loss is that this Ravens team can be just that, A TEAM. As a fan if you're in this for the long haul the Ravens will be just fine. Now, a player may feel different because each game is like a mini season and every season is a mini career, and at some point they run out of time, so my pain today after MNF is for the TEAM. Forget the Refs, the timeout, everything. Remember that the Ravens HAD the Pats all game long, they know it, the Ravens know it, as do the fans & the rest of the league. Today I'm proud of the boys in Black.

P.S. Watch out for the Steelers, they can learn from what the Ravens did to New England.

Glenn Younes