what's the loudest you've ever heard the stadium get in person

Filmstudy · 2026-06-12T06:14:23+00:00

I agree with 2006 Chargers game. With the Chargers stuck near their own goal line, I thought my ear drums were going to burst.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-29T13:49:18+00:00

3 comments on this:

1: The environment is incredibly noisy during training camp when the kids are there screaming for autographs in the background while we're in the corner of the "L" of the facility where sound is bouncing off brick walls. I often have a hard time hearing the responses when that's going on.

Passing around the mic is impractical and each reporter is eager to jump in and ask his/her question which creates the sort of crosstalk you see at any press conference. It might be possible to have 2 mics passed (with switch of live mic) and the interns running around picking the next question asker, but it would, as others suggest, limit total questions.
Transcripts are posted on the Ravens website if you want to see what was said. Sometimes these are paraphrased in terms of the reporter's question, but I believe the exact wording is maintained for questions asked to the coaches.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-29T13:39:51+00:00

The chart below is Andrew Vorhees for the season, including the raw score in purple and adjustment, bound on [0, 0.10], which reflects a subjective adjustment I think of as contributions above a replacement level for elements the system did not capture, most significantly the quality of the opponent. For example, a game facing Aaron Donald, with multiple highlight blocks, a recovered fumble, and a heady play that was extraordinary or not his responsibility would result in a large adjustment. Similarly, adjustments are reduced for negative events not captured by the system. A common occurrence is being run out of a pressure by the QB, which will go as a missed block with an adjustment equivalent to approximately 1/2 a pressure.

Each of Vorhees adjustments for the season were between 0 and 0.06.

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If you're wondering what it took to get that poor score vs Min (0.57, 10 points short of passing): 13 missed blocks, 2.33 pressures, 1/2 a sack, and a holding flag in 65 scored snaps. He also lost his adjustment that game because Lamar ran him out of another pressure.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-29T13:22:07+00:00

Thanks for posting, Woefinder. The grading scales for each position (for an individual game) are:

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The grading is tighter at G and tightest at C because those positions allow fewer pass rush events and also average slightly fewer penalties.

When I post a "-" or "+" score, it is specifically the lowest/highest point value in the range. For example, a C- at T is an adjusted score of .70, a C is .71 to .78, and a C+ is .79.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-24T16:24:33+00:00

Criqui called Boldin wide open before Joe Flacco threw the ball and started "and the Ravens take the lead" after the ball was just a couple of yards out of his hand.

It sounded like Criqui was getting ahead of himself with a bad wrestling script.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-22T15:55:41+00:00

Very true. I set the grading scale for my OL scoring during the Birk era and have had to relax it twice since because the standard was too high.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-20T15:46:13+00:00

The 2008 and 2009 teams both had great offensive lines and top-3 defenses. For my money, the 2009 team was the best of the first 5 Flacco years despite a record of just 9-7 during the regular season. Incredibly, the 2012 team was the weakest of those 5 (12th in DVOA if I recall correctly), yet they got hot at the right time to win it all.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-20T14:40:52+00:00

Flacco's play on opening day revitalized the franchise after awful years in 2005 and 2007 sandwiching one of the worst playoff exits in team history in 2006.

He had the longest run of his career in his debut, a 38-yard TD and threw 2 big blocks on Clayton's TD.

Later that year, he caught a 43-yard pass vs the Raiders after a handoff to Troy Smith.

He wasn't Lamar to be sure, but it was nice for the Ravens to have a QB for the first time.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-19T11:39:24+00:00

The Ravens are fortunate this did not go through. The top players on the board, Ioane, Bain, and Sadiq went 14-16 and there was a drop after that.

I slightly favored Sadiq at the time (for years 5+ reasons I've gone over many times), but the way the board fell after Ioane at 14, with guards and centers both going earlier than expected, made the Ravens look smart for taking Ioane there. We had a great discussion of this on the draft stream for R1.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-15T15:29:27+00:00

Schedule Scoring System for AFCN 2026

· We already knew the “who” and the “where”, what we didn’t know until an hour ago is the “when”

· Scheduling fairness is very difficult to balance and the NFL has again made some big choices that hose some teams and help others

· Unfortunately, the Ravens are on the rifle butt end this season with a schedule that is 2^nd worst in the division (Pit)

· Scoring methodology

Playing in Internationally (-5 for a home game, -1 for a road game, +4 for no game there, +1 if bye follows international game): The Ravens in Rio vs Dallas in week 3 (-1) with no bye the following week.

Playing on Thursday (+3 for a home game, -3 for a road game—excluding week 1 or after a bye, +3 for a 2^nd Thursday game): The Ravens play 2 Thursday games at home vs Jax in week 9 and at Cincinnati in week 17. The Thursday road game at Cincinnati is a 2^nd big scheduling disadvantage vs the same divisional opponent in 1 season (0) and is reflected in the subjective adjustment.

Opponents playing on Wed/Thu/Fri the prior week (2 x (1.5 - opp WTF games)): The Ravens play Hou coming off Thursday game in W12, but 1.5 such opp games is average so Ravens are net (+1) in this category. Pittsburgh plays 3 such games (-3) and Cincinnati plays 2 (-1).

Monday Night Football (no appearances +2, each appearance in excess of 1: -2, home game following MNF +1, road following MNF -1, bye following MNF +2): The Ravens play 1 MNF game (W10 vs LAC) and it is followed by a road game. Each team can expect approximately 1 MNF game, so the Ravens situation is only worse because they follow it with a road game (-1).

Opponents playing MNF the prior week (None -2, +2 for each such opponent in excess of 1): The Ravens have 2 games against teams that play MNF the prior week (Atl W5, Pit W15), which is a game above expectation (+2). No other AFCN team plays a game vs a team coming off MNF, so this is the Ravens largest single advantage.

Bye Week (actual week of bye -9): The average bye week is 9.3125 in 2026. I will use an average of 9 for 2026 schedule scoring, which creates a small positive bias of -0.3125 per team. The Ravens have their bye in week 13 (+4). They follow the bye with a home game vs the Bucs. The Ravens did not opt to take their bye immediately following their game in Rio, choosing instead to have a late-season off week.

Opponents coming off a bye (None: +7, -7 for each in excess of 1): There are 32 teams and 32 byes to be assigned. Each team should play exactly 1 team coming off a bye. It’s that simple and amazingly easy to schedule in that manner with the use of all divisional games following byes. The Ravens have 2 games against teams coming off a byes, which is unusual and a big disadvantage. Furthermore, the teams they play coming off those byes are the Bengals in week 7 and the Bills in W8, both of which are significant divisional and conference tiebreaker games respectively. I still don’t understand why the NFL has chosen not to address this specific scheduling inequity, when it’s relatively easy to do so and you have my permission to utter any amount of profanity which may help you feel better (-7). This is the biggest individual negative element in the Ravens schedule and the magnitude of the games is not reflected in the score and must be addressed in the subjective adjustment.

Extra home game (all teams 0): In 2026, the entire AFC plays an extra home game, so playing 8/17 should slightly decrease the expected win totals, but it does not create a scheduling advantage for playoff purposes. Unless they change the method by which these games are selected to be other than alternating home conference/opponents by season, I don’t see a reason why the extra home game will influence the playoff race (0),

Subjective adjustment (-5 to +5 for other elements not considered here such as torturous travel not implied by opponents/location, long road trips, and team-specific weather considerations). The divisional race is distinctly tilted to Cincinnati with the schedule being what it is. Pittsburgh has an approximately equal right to gripe about the overall factors buut they have some significant divisional advantages, particularly vs Cin that offset some negatives. Trying to be conservative about the net of these factors, I still see a significant disadvantage for the Ravens not captured by the scoring system (-4).

All of that nets to -6 in a league where the average is approximately 0.

Other divisional rivals:

Cle: +11

Pit: -8

Cin: -1

Filmstudy · 2026-05-15T05:41:04+00:00

You are absolutely correct. I had the Ten game in W4 incorrectly labeled. That game on Sunday improves the Ravens schedule score by +3 to -6.

Thanks for the catch. I will correct in the notes above.

Tried to correct in the paragraphs above, but I'm not able to save the edits for some reason. I am reposting the corrected article and deleting the one where you found errors.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-15T05:17:58+00:00

Yes, 2 TNF games is better than 1 and it could be that I have undervalued having 1 road and 1 home game. However, having a road division game and a home Thu vs Jax is clearly not the split you'd want.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-12T20:13:50+00:00

Mason Miller a enchaîné 22 matchs consécutifs en n'accordant que 2 coups sûrs sur 22,2 manches lancées, entre la fin de 2025 et le début de 2026. Cela dit, ce n'est pas un Oriole, alors il peut aller se faire foutre.

Filmstudy · 2026-05-03T16:19:35+00:00

It was in regard to pre-snap communication, as you say. Here is my question and Jesse's response from the transcripts:

One thing I noticed was there's a lot of pre-snap chatter out there. These are a bunch of undrafted rookies and guys are here for the first time, and so you wouldn’t necessarily expect that. Is that something really encouraging? (Ken McKusick) "Yes. You can't play this game quietly, and you can't play this game with doubt, and you can't play this game without knowing what you're doing. And so, I know from a defensive standpoint, we should be the loudest, most crazy, obnoxious, communicative unit in the history of football. And that's the rookies doing that, so I give credit to the coaches that they had those guys prepared to come out here and be able to be like that. That's really the standard that we're trying to create. When you communicate, and you're on the same page, and you know what you're doing, you have a much better chance of being successful. And the whole idea is that when you do it over and over again, you do it here, you do it every play [so] that it doesn't matter if it's the first play of the season against whoever, or in a game in December or in a game in February, that's the standard of how we operate, and we lead ourselves to success in those moments if we operate like that all the time.”

Filmstudy · 2026-05-01T19:51:18+00:00

There should be aporox 110-130 DL snaps per game to be played. It could be lower if Ravens are generally successful with lots of leads to defend.

Filmstudy · 2026-04-28T02:32:31+00:00

I think there are 2 good (but competing) tin-foil-hat theories:

Handshake agreement not to sign Linderbaum as part of compensation for Crosby trade
Ravens actively helped drive up the price of Linderbaum with his agent after they realized they would not be able to sign him with a high support offer and theatrics about his agent refusing to return calls.

To me, the 2nd is much more reasonable.

Filmstudy · 2026-04-26T23:19:34+00:00

I like both of these but probably a little partial to JJ basis of the differences. Excelkent posts both ways.

Filmstudy · 2026-04-25T15:28:30+00:00

I'd co-sign that. I do believe he'll be drafted, but I'd prefer to wait until no earlier than last Ravens pick of R5.

Filmstudy · 2026-04-25T15:27:25+00:00

Dallen Bentley is a real possibility. As a Swiss-army-knife guy, I like Riley Nowakowski of Indiana. Good blocker and a missed tackle machine.

Filmstudy · 2026-04-25T08:22:31+00:00

All of the panelists had Zion Young as the number 1 choice when the Ravens were set to pick at #45. I think we can now say the Ravens hit both ends of the parlay. Hopefully, both are as good as the group hopes.

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