With a depleted running game and lacking of receivers, the Ravens 120 million dollar man has them in line for a playoff spot, but nothing is guaranteed in this offense. I'm sure Jim Caldwell doesn't want to play this game, especially after spending so many years with the ultra efficient Peyton Manning. However, he has no choice, because with Anquan Boldin gone and Ray Rice no longer running well for the Ravens this is the hand he's been dealt and he's going all in.
Last year, Ray Lewis sparked the Ravens into a Superbowl. The Ravens still have a top ten defense, it just doesn't feel like it with them missing their heart and soul. Also, their offense seems to have become one dimensional. Caldwell has channeled the one thing that Joe Flacco is great at, throwing the deep ball. You may say that the Ravens need a new offensive coordinator, but truly Jim is getting the most out of what Joe can give him. However, the Ravens' game plan is really quite simple - hold the opposing team to below 20 points and hope that Flacco can hit three deep balls a game, because Rice is no longer moving the ball on the ground.
The Ravens 6-6 record really is a microcosm of them 50-50. That's their chances. They've become a quarter flipping through the air. If they are going to live with the ball in the air, then that's how they're going to die too. It wasn't Ray Lewis that got them to that Superbowl. It was the fact that one 50-50 ball thrown in the Denver night landed in Jacoby Jones' hand instead of Chris Harris'. That is why, though, the Ravens are only 6-6. They are also a team to be reckoned with, because they can slow your team down and though you know exactly what's coming on the offensive end you don't know where that ball is going to be. So, though Baltimore is not an elite team, they are a team that is permanently all in.
Tim Martin II
Last year, Ray Lewis sparked the Ravens into a Superbowl. The Ravens still have a top ten defense, it just doesn't feel like it with them missing their heart and soul. Also, their offense seems to have become one dimensional. Caldwell has channeled the one thing that Joe Flacco is great at, throwing the deep ball. You may say that the Ravens need a new offensive coordinator, but truly Jim is getting the most out of what Joe can give him. However, the Ravens' game plan is really quite simple - hold the opposing team to below 20 points and hope that Flacco can hit three deep balls a game, because Rice is no longer moving the ball on the ground.
The Ravens 6-6 record really is a microcosm of them 50-50. That's their chances. They've become a quarter flipping through the air. If they are going to live with the ball in the air, then that's how they're going to die too. It wasn't Ray Lewis that got them to that Superbowl. It was the fact that one 50-50 ball thrown in the Denver night landed in Jacoby Jones' hand instead of Chris Harris'. That is why, though, the Ravens are only 6-6. They are also a team to be reckoned with, because they can slow your team down and though you know exactly what's coming on the offensive end you don't know where that ball is going to be. So, though Baltimore is not an elite team, they are a team that is permanently all in.
Tim Martin II
