"This one's for all the Joe Flacco haters out there, the ones who woke up this morning thinking: another NFL Sunday, another chance for no. 5 to screw up.

The haters have been all over talk radio since the Ravens' win over the Jets two weeks ago. Sure, they're a small minority of Ravens fans. But, boy, are they loud.

My buddy Mark Viviano has a theory about sports talk radio. He says 75 percent of the listeners are normal, intelligent sports fans. The other 25 percent are hateful jerks. But it's the hateful jerks who make 90 percent of the calls.

Anyway, going into Sunday's Ravens-Texans game, the Flacco-haters are all lathered up."