Comments on: John Harbaugh forced to clarify remark to radio caller

By: laxer37

laxer37 — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:03:21 +0000

The old saying goes: “If you listen to the fans, eventually you’ll be sitting with them”

Even the most knowledgable fan probably has a grip on about one-tenth of what goes on with their team behind closed doors.

By: elmobad

elmobad — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:16:52 +0000

hard to criticize Ozzie’s drafts over the last decade.. very few misses..

go steelers!

By: nokoolaidcowboy

nokoolaidcowboy — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:16:30 +0000

Caller has every right to make that remark. The coach had an opportunity to edify him. Talking about pride is irrelevant. Telling him to root for another team is fanboy nonsense. Fans should expect more from a an NFL Coach.

By: philcommander

philcommander — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:46:48 +0000

I think the question was fine and the response was fine. The economy is bad now a days and I guess a lot of unemployed people have the time to make mountains out of molehills.

By: andyreidsappetite

andyreidsappetite — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:32:38 +0000

How was the question out of line? The Ravens lost that game with all of their dumb mistakes. I don’t like the Steelers one bit but have to hand it to them in that they normally don’t beat themselves.

By: mswravens

mswravens — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:14:14 +0000

@waccoforflacco – with all due respect my fellow Ravens fan, the caller was not simply asking those questions…he was asking why Clarence Brooks hasn’t been fired.

I don’t think the question is out of line – as fans, we can ask what we want. It’s just a stupid question, because you wouldn’t fire a guy like Calrence Brooks because a ROOKIE hasn’t developed yet!

…and Harbaugh was not out of line either. he’s right. hey, if you don’t like us & can’t be proud of us, then find someone else!

Whatever, not a big deal.

LASTLY – ON TERRENCE CODY…I think it’s hilarious that everyone is writing this guy off. He’s a freaking ROOKIE…and a rookie who looked good in the pre-season & has shown flashes during games. Give the guy a break and give the guy some time to develop. Is Ziggy Hood, a FIRST ROUND PICK in his 2nd year teraing it up in Pittsburgh? NO. He has been pressed into action due to injuries & done well…but I’m sure he’s nowhere near the player he will be in another couple years. Just wait until 2 years from now when Cody is our NT and Ngata our DE in a 3-4…or those guys are side-by-side DTs in a 4 man front with Sizzle on the edge. We need to bring in some LBs, ala the Steelers Timmons & Woodley draft & we’re set. This guy has a future…just ridiculous everyone has written him off a few months into his career!!! Lest we forget that Ngata came into the league with a tag of taking plays off as well.

By: bradwins

bradwins — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:50:44 +0000

Typical trash Raven fans. Although, in that division they are hardly alone.

By: waccoforflacco

waccoforflacco — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:48:35 +0000

I know one thing….if Harbaugh keeps morphing into a Brian Billick he’ll get a phone call from Steve Bisciotti to come up to his office just like Billick did.

By: jeffa43

jeffa43 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:47:18 +0000

He should have answered… we are a great football team, but you have to remember as great as we are… we are not as great as the Pittsburgh Steelers….

By: PCa Survivor

PCa Survivor — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:45:41 +0000

“I was walking out of the stadium after the game and I was told by the fans that the redskins (sic) suck and I should go back to washington (sic)…”

________________________________

Give the fans partial credit. They knew that the Redskins suck.

By: hobartbaker

hobartbaker — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:37:49 +0000

“..jackasses”? I BRAYYY your pardon, Rosenthal.

This mule train wouldn’t run without us.

By: Steeler's Will

Steeler's Will — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:27:40 +0000

Unfortunately coaches are forced to explain themselves from time to time, against idiot fans who think they know more than them. I like that he didn’t apologize.

By: Kaz

Kaz — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:26:37 +0000

Where is Mt. Cody? Has he been playing? Is he hurt? I know I talk a lot of smack, but I forgot all about the big guy.

By: seanx40

seanx40 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:26:21 +0000

I have a more stupid question. Why didn’t Cody learn these things in high school and college?

I mean my high school and college coaches certainly beat such things into my head.

By: jamaltimore

jamaltimore — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:24:49 +0000

If you think the ravens players are whiners you should hear the fans. Harboh’s right, the other team in MD is the Skins go head down 95 to that dump of stadium and throw your money away to the Danny. Win the next 4 games and raven’s still win AFC North.

By: xxwhodatxx

xxwhodatxx — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:21:15 +0000

What he should of been asking is why were they still throwing the ball when then could of ran it then maybe punted and won the game

By: CT Pats Fan

CT Pats Fan — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:21:01 +0000

A bigger question is why are Head Coaches putting themselves in a position to be baited like this. At very least the callers should be screened for appropriateness of their questions and the inflammatory “fire/cut that guy” hung up on.

By: brasho

brasho — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:20:40 +0000

As I stated before, I wouldn’t touch Cody with a 10 foot dinner utensil. He is extremely fat and grossly out-of-shape… add in a big-time rookie contract (compared to what he and members of his family had made before the NFL) and it is a recipe for a slovenly disaster. Cody shouldn’t have been drafted. I think Harbaugh’s a good coach and the Ravens are a good team, Newsome is certainly an excellent GM… but they swung and missed on Terrence Cody.

By: cowboylover

cowboylover — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:17:44 +0000

Everyone’s a coach.

By: steelersmichele

steelersmichele — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:15:04 +0000

Never, ever call out the fans. Whether you’re a player or coach or owner, doing so never yields good results.

By: bbrophy1

bbrophy1 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:12:29 +0000

It would be funny if the caller was Jim Harbaugh

By: domeunit

domeunit — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:11:48 +0000

Most Ravens fans aren’t pissed about what Harbaugh said, the fan who called was out of line. The people who keep calling and whining about an 8-4 team are idiots, the fans who agree with Harbaugh have jobs so they don’t spend all day calling a radio show

By: citizenstrange

citizenstrange — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:10:53 +0000

I’ll criticize Jim Harbaugh
For a thousand years
Nothing’s gonna touch me
In these golden years

By: xtb3

xtb3 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:08:59 +0000

same harbaugh who defended the multi-team failure cam cameron for calling his ” joe flacco – joe pisarcik imitation” near midfield too . harbaugh said “we like being aggressive late in game”. hogwash. the problem not his hirlings but the lot of them from harbaugh on down.where it started, instead of safely running the clock down

By: waccoforflacco

waccoforflacco — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:08:48 +0000

Mr. Rosenthal….you also might want to check the original story posted by Jamison Hensley and notice you DID leave that part of the story out of your piece.
Selective editing I suppose.

By: haleyistheman00

haleyistheman00 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:07:51 +0000

Baltimore fans are just dumb. When the chiefs played the ravens last year I was walking out of the stadium after the game and I was told by the fans that the redskins suck and I should go back to washington…I was there for the chiefs

By: JeffreyAuburnDixon

JeffreyAuburnDixon — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:07:22 +0000

“In this case, we’d say Harbaugh’s response was appropriate. Since when did jackasses deserve to be treated with such sensitivity?”

Just like you! Why do you censor so many of our comments? Why so sensitive, you jackass?

By: brazy44

brazy44 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:06:01 +0000

How is the caller question out of line?
Seems you left off part of that call or your writing sucks. I bet the latter.

As for your comment – Since when did jackasses deserve to be treated with such sensitivity?

I wonder the same thing, when they ban commentors on here.

By: waccoforflacco

waccoforflacco — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:04:46 +0000

Dear freedom is popular. They left out one critical part of the story. Three weeks ago on a prior John Harbaugh show he was asked by a caller why our top draft pick, Terrence Cody, since “he is” since Sergio Kindle got injured, wasn’t playing more.

Harbaugh answered the caller by saying that Terrence was having problems with keeping his pad level low….had trouble getting off blocks…AND was running “around” blocks. These are three basics of defensive line play. The caller simply wanted to know why after OTAs, Mini camps, and 5 months after training camp began in July these were still an issue for Cody and thence his limited playing time.

Funny how this critical part was left out of the story.

By: possiblecabbage

possiblecabbage — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:04:27 +0000

Strikes me as this is a classic example of a fan falling into the trap of believing that all draft information worth knowing is available from a four letter sports network, and that Todd McShay is the greatest draft mind of all time. Buying into the hype on players is dangerous, but it’s easy to do.

Right after the draft, everybody believes that all their picks were steals and that their GM is a genius… and that’s what’s great about the draft: it gives everybody hope. But in between April and August, draft steals turn into dumb rookies.

Cody was an immovable object in college, but that’s pretty much all he was, and his conditioning was suspect. NFL defensive tackles need to be more than “immovable”. Things like gap responsibility, and proper hand technique are things that defensive tackles tend not to learn in college, where they get by on pure physical prowess alone, and so the adjustment to the league where nobody is significantly more physically dominant than anybody else is tough for those guys.

I don’t want to rip Ozzie Newsome for taking Cody where he did, he took him pretty much where he should have been taken. But people who thought they got a top 10 value with Cody in the 2nd are idiots.

Harbaugh’s comments were appropriate, not diplomatic, but appropriate.