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Five things: Ravens and Steelers Wild Card Matchup
1. Joe Flacco will become the first QB in NFL history to start a playoff game in six of his first seven seasons in the league. The last time Joe Flacco was here, the Ravens we’re a 10-6 team, and Flacco threw 11 TDs with zero INTs enroute to four straight wins and...
The need for a play making receiver
Ravens wide receiver Steve Smith signed a three-year, $10.5M contract this past offseason to become the Ravens #1 atop the depth chart. It was a skeptical move based on his age (35) and coming off of one of the statistically lowest seasons of his great career (64 rec,...
Should the Ravens re-sign Pernell McPhee?
The Ravens have plenty of decisions to be made this off-season with regards to retaining its own personnel. Haloti Ngata is the big name everyone has an opinion on, but one of the under the radar guys is Pernell McPhee. The versatile McPhee is quietly having a very...
Ravens 21 Personnel Pose Match-up Problems for Teams
The 21 personnel is an offensive formation that features two running backs and two receivers. This personnel grouping allows Gary Kubiak to mix and match Receivers and Running Backs based on the down and distance. If speed is needed at the Receiver positions, Jacoby...
Ravens must account for Watt
The Ravens travel to Houston on Sunday with the Texans having big questions at quarterback. But the Ravens would be foolish to believe this game will be a walk in the park. On the defensive side of the ball, the Texans have potential MVP candidate J.J. Watt, who is...
NFL Player Rankings Through Week 15
I’ve been unveiling the NFL’s All Decade Teams using Z-score to determine the best individual seasons. With the 2010 to the present seasons left to unveil, which we’ll do at the end of this season, this is a build up to who may be the top players when the season ends,...
Ravens Persevere Amidst Injuries
Injuries are a part of football.Such an expectation seems reasonable considering the high impact nature of the sport and every team must deal with them and their effects on the field at some point during a season. But the Ravens seem to have been hit extra hard this...
No excuse for losing. AFC North: Week 16
This is the portion of the week where I usually breakdown the AFC playoff picture. The Ravens were on the outside looking in last week, and after a 20-12 win against the Jaguars, a Chargers loss to the Broncos, the Ravens now find themselves in the sixth and final...