Yeah, that panic button is getting hammered.
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The Baltimore Ravens will have alarms going off all over the building as they dropped to 1-4 after a 44-10 loss to the Houston Texans, which has put their season in danger of slipping away.
Yes, Lamar Jackson is scheduled to be back in Week 7 against the Chicago Bears after their bye, but by then, Baltimore could be 1-6 and its season done. Especially if what the offense looked like with Cooper Rush and the defense looked like yet again, as anything to go by.
For NFL analyst Chris Simms, he sees no light at the end of the tunnel if you are a Ravens fan, particularly on the defensive side of the ball.
“Beat down in Baltimore, that's what I would say,” Simms said on PFT Live.” I mean, there’s nothing to explain on the Baltimore side of the football. It was atrocious. There's no silver lining that you'll look at on the defensive side of the ball and go, "Wait, I think they can do this or do that, and then they'll be okay." It's panic time there in Baltimore.”
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Can Ravens with Lamar make the playoffs?
The question you have to ask yourself is, if you were John Harbaugh, and the Ravens are at 1-6 when Jackson comes back, are you playing him?
Granted, you likely do until it is impossible to make the playoffs, and by then, it would be unlikely, but not impossible.
Baltimore would need to run the table or only lose one, maybe two games, from their remaining 11 outings. Could they go 9-2? Maybe, but there are division games against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals in there, so too is a date with the Green Bay Packers.
So, it is a tall order, but right now, the Ravens aren't worried about that; they just want to survive until Lamar gets back...if they can.
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