Ravens v Commanders game thread

Ian Rapoport on Twitter

Good news out of the MRI: Sources say there is optimism for Week 1 for Terry McLaurin. More day-to-day than anything, with the scans showing no major injury.


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Was reading a Ravens site after the game and they were making fun how excited the players and fans were about winning a preseason game.

Sure, they wanted to win, especially after having joint practices together. But that was just a part of it.

1st home game with no Dan Snyder and winning in that fashion, was like another huge piece of weight being lifted off of the franchise. Just a fun way to win and nice to get the 1st one at home, that had mostly fans of our team, even if just preseason.

I haven't verified this, but a friend of mine who is an Eagles fan said that Harbaugh popped champagne after beating the Eagles last week, so he was rooting for us. He said "it felt dirty rooting for the Redskins last night...but I had to"

Dumb streak - and it's over so we don't have to hear about it anymore - thank goodness.

I haven't verified this, but a friend of mine who is an Eagles fan said that Harbaugh popped champagne after beating the Eagles last week, so he was rooting for us. He said "it felt dirty rooting for the Redskins last night...but I had to"

Dumb streak - and it's over so we don't have to hear about it anymore - thank goodness.

The streak is over, the other 31 teams can rejoice. And it looks like McLaurin is fine. All around, great night.

I think Nick Gates has been a low key great acquisition by the team.

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Quan Martin looked atrocious last night. I know he is a rookie but im pretty sure he wasn’t taught to tackle by flailing a single arm in the direction of the ball carrier at Illinois. Looked like he was deathly afraid to get physical. The int was great but sort of a weird play that just broke his way. He was beaten badly on it initially also.
Forbes on the other hand looked awesome.

I think Nick Gates has been a low key great acquisition by the team.

https://twitter.com/BrandonThornNFL/status/1694058684303777952

Good stuff! Yeah man I like his nastiness, it’s needed on the Oline. I hope it rubs off on Cosmi

Quan Martin looked atrocious last night. I know he is a rookie but im pretty sure he wasn’t taught to tackle by flailing a single arm in the direction of the ball carrier at Illinois. Looked like he was deathly afraid to get physical. The int was great but sort of a weird play that just broke his way. He was beaten badly on it initially also.
Forbes on the other hand looked awesome.

Forbes is a tough SOB. He throws his body around with wreckless abandonment. That 3rd and 1 stop was super-impressive.

Quan Martin looked atrocious last night. I know he is a rookie but im pretty sure he wasn’t taught to tackle by flailing a single arm in the direction of the ball carrier at Illinois. Looked like he was deathly afraid to get physical. The int was great but sort of a weird play that just broke his way. He was beaten badly on it initially also.
Forbes on the other hand looked awesome.

I think they are asking Martin to do a lot more, the same stupid way they did with Jamin Davis, dumping 3 positions worth of information at once and seeing how much he can absorb. Forbes is only being asked to be an outside corner. And for some guys it takes a little longer to get used to NFL speed. His film doesn't show him being afraid to tackle. He is the #7 or #8 DB right now so it is not like they desperately need him to be a day 1 starter.

It really was our A/B team vs their B/C team. Im glad fans showed up. Im glad that Howell looked good. But, honestly in a regular season game…A team vs A team they would blow us up. We still have a lot of work to do, which will happen now that Douche bag is gone. We are still a year away from actually contending for anything. Our LB’s and O line are completely meh.

Agreed. Overreacting to pre-season works both ways: don't panic when we look bad, but don't pop the champagne just yet when some of our starters on D got embarrassed by a bunch of 2s and 3s, and when all our 1s on O couldn't get it in the endzone against their 2nd and 3rd stringers...

Watched the 1st quarter so far, Sam looked pretty good, minus that really bad sack he took on the first drive. But yeah, he looks confortable, throws a good ball, seems to have a nice connection with both Terry and Cole Turner, makes good decisions. Promising for sure.

Oline is worrying, they looked decent only because they were facing back ups. Sam Cosmi was man handled on the first play of the game. My worry is if we're not able to establish a run game, we'll end up asking too much from Howell, which could cost us against good defense.

It's only the pre-season but I didn't like seeing both Forbes and Jartavius Martin missing tackles on the first drive (Forbes made up for on the next drive).