Sad Day For The Ravens Family

This morning Baltimore awoke to the news that Art Modell had passed. I know the view on Mr Modell is mixed. Especially those living in Cleveland. He's even been compared to Irsay in the way the moved his team. Let me first say that Art was nothing like Irsay. Art tried and did what he could to keep his team in Cleveland and there was no cooperation. Irsay was a drunkard that had no intention on staying no matter what was offered to him and like a coward shipped the team out in the middle of the night. Another difference was the class move by Mr Modell to allow Cleveland to keep their history and team color's and name. For that I say "Thank you Art!" Man would I hate to be the Baltimore Brown's. Indy is sporting our name and took our history with them, all while pushing all the Baltimore greats like Unitas and Mackey aside and not wanting to have anything to do with them until recently when they wanted to make money off them with license plate sales. Let's not focus on this one dicision Mr Modell made, and let's look at all of the other's that has helped mold this league into what it is today.
Mr Modell was a supporter of expansion of NFL teams and growing the league, and was part of the merger of the AFL and NFL back in 1970. Was a part of creating preseason football bringing in more revenue for the league and also revenue-sharing plans which leveled the playing field for all teams in the league. In 1970 he offered his team the Browns to play the Jets on Monday night. Which was the first Monday football game and was the start of the Prime Time game it is today. Beyond his contributions to the league and bringing football back to Baltimore Art and his wife were always even in Cleveland big on helping the community and doing their part to help those in need.
A few years ago I was lucky even to be given the chance to help with the camera crew down on the field. That season was also the last in which Art was the majority owner and his two sons John and David were in their roles with the team. I wasn't able to meet Art himself but did meet John and David and if they were anything like their father I'm sure he was a great person, as the two of them came across to be. I also had a front row view of Mr Modell on stage after we won the Super Bowl and after the parade was over and they gathered on stage Mr Modell did his best Ray Lewis dance. It wasn't quite the same but he gave it his all. Mr. Modell may you rest in peace! From all of us fans here in Baltimore, for bringing us our Ravens we say to you...

Still out there?

Alright so it's been some time since my last post. To be exact my last post was back in March. You had the NFL season close and the end of the season buzz started to fade. Giving way to the increasing excitment to the start of the MLB season. I have to apologize for the break. We've been busy with summer stuff and the start of our product review blog which has taken off faster than we could have imagined. So I've been spending some extra time with that. Also honestly I've been enjoying this baseball season that the Orioles have provided us. I keep saying I hope the Orioles can keep this up and not let things slide like they ave in seasons past. So far they haven't let me down. My hopes for a strong finish continue to grow since in years past they have played the role in beating teams with winning records. The problem was we already had 80-90 loses by then. I like the little acquisitions they have made in Thome and Quintanilla. Just bringing a guy like Thome with his personality and experience your giving these young guys something they haven't had since Kevin Millar was in town. Wei Yin Chen has been a great surprise coming over considering most of the talk before the season was about Wada. Then you had Hammel who was lighting it up on the mound until he was injured. Hoping he can make it back and give us a little extra push. Alright am I drinking the orange cool-aid? YES and by the pitcher full at that. After 14 straight losing seasons I have been dying to see this team back in the mix and I think that time has come. I'm not saying they're taking it all but it's nice to be back in the mix.
Now that football season is about to get going I will definitely be more active. The Ravens have their first preseason game this week and I will try to break down some of the things I see in that game. I'll tell you what. In the past couple years I would have been all about football since the O's are usually out of it but this year I have been all baseball.
Please excuse any grammar or spelling errors as I'm typing this on my phone while I'm waiting for my wife at the park and ride.

Goodbye 2011-2012 NFL Season

Well with the Ravens not in the big game I got the outcome I was hoping for with the Giants winning. There was just no way I was going to pull for the Patriots. Not only because they beat us but I'm just tired of the Patriots winning and Brady and Belichick this and that.
Speaking of the Ravens I didn't have a chance to post anything between our loss and the SB mostly due to personal life scheduling and honestly I had to take some time to get over the dropped passes and whatever you call that poor excuse of a kick. Unlike most in Baltimore though I'm not putting this loss on Cundiff and his botched field goal kick  There were dropped passes by Dickson, an inexcusable false start by Dickson and many other factors that lead up to that loss. Anyway before I start to get worked up again I'm just going to leave it alone and move on. The offseason will be starting up before we know it and it will provide us with plenty to talk about. Now we move on to the rest of the NHL season and MLB which is quickly approaching. So I'm going to switch gears now and get into baseball mode. So long 2011 NFL season you weren't very pleasant to us here in Bmore this year but when has the NFL ever been good to us. My fault it wasn't the NFL that has a history of hating on Baltimore mainly Paul Tagliabue. I will close this post with just one question for Mr. Taglibue. Do you still believe Jacksonville was a better fit than Baltimore for an NFL team or should we stick to what you thought we did best "build museums"? I think you'll find your answer in comparing the two attendance records there Pauley boy.

Conference Championship Weekend

So last week I went 3-1 and should have gone with my gut feeling that NY was going to take down GB. I was really happy with how things turned out last week.

Looking at the Ravens game I know a lot of attention has been turned on how bad our offense looked. In addition to that Flacco has taken a TON of criticism this past week. Heck he has taken flak all season. Look Flacco is a good QB, has he been inconsistent this season? Yes. All QB's have had a down season. With that said he has still quarterbacked this team into the playoffs 4 straight years and for 2 of those years we were 1 game away from the superbowl. I'll definitely take that over what we had before. We were never getting that from Boller or the should have been retired McNair. Look at the film from this past game in Houston and if anyone should get the criticism our O line and receivers should get some of that heat. Houstons front 4 pushed through our line like it was nothing. To the point we had linemen knees bent hands up to block and the guys they went to block already had Flacco on the ground. They need to step up this week. Again looking back at the film our receivers had NO separation from Houstons defenders so Flacco had to throw in other places to try and make a play. I for one am not putting everything on Flacco's shoulder's for the lack of production last week or for the season in whole. The receivers have had their share of drops this season. I also want to add that the Ravens struggles last week are also contributed to the fact that they played a very good Texans team and nothing should be taken away from their performance. In fact if they had Schaub we probably wouldn't be talking about the Ravens/Patriots game.

Now looking forward to this weeks games:

Ravens @ NE

• Comparing the 2 teams.
• QB: NE gets the advantage with Brady being the more polished and talented QB
• RB: Baltimore with both Rice and Williams have the better backfield
• O Line: Ravens right side struggled last week. I'm going to say they're even with Baltimore having a very slight edge. Both QB's have been sacked 31 times this year.
• TE: Both teams have 2 very capable TE's a piece, although the Patriots TE's have been used more and are bigger threats. Edge goes to the Patriots
• WR: As it stands right now I'm giving the edge to the Patriots. If Lee Evans was producing I would say it's a push, but he hasn't given anything so far. He had an amazing catch last game so here's hoping he does something this week. Patriots have Branch, Welker, and Edelman while the Ravens have Boldin, Smith, and Evans
• Offense as a whole: You have to say that the Patriots and their pass game get the edge but the Ravens threat with the running game keeps the 2 close
• Defense: I'm just going to save time and say that the Ravens not only have the edge when it comes to defense but it's not even close. The talent and production the Ravens defense lines up with is something that is not comparable when you look at the Patriots D which is ranked 31st out of 32 teams against the pass this season.
• Another note with the Patriots D and it's something I have heard from a lot of Patriot fans on their local sports station was that they have given up a lot of yards but only average 17 points a game. Now you can say yeah that stat is a little skewed but you give a team like the Ravens and they will move the ball enough in the air and on the ground to eat up game clock. Doing that you're keeping Brady and their offense off the field. Want to see an example of this? Look at what the Steelers did to them earlier this year. That's what I expect to see this Sunday with the Ravens.
• Ravens will eat up game clock and will keep the Patriots offense off the field enough to not be a factor. You look at Brady's stats against the Ravens defense and there is no other team that has played worst against than our very own Ravens.
• Ravens win and move on to "Festivus Maximus" winning 24-20
• Let me add here because it appears weather may be moving into the area this weekend up in Mass. If that's the case I am definitely giving the Ravens and their running game the edge.

NYG @ SF

• I can't wait to see this game as well. 2 great games this week.
• SF's QB Smith had a great game last week but there's no sense in getting carried away and start comparing him to the likes of Brady, Manning, Brees, and Rodgers. He had a good game but he needs more than one game like he just had to make me think he's anything other than a game managing QB.
• Weather also may play a factor here as rain is predicted. Which may favor the 49ers and their run game.
• Manning has been playing great for the Giants and has proven in my opinion that he is one of the top QB's in the league. Up there close to his brother.
• Giants defense now that they are healthy are playing great and are right there with the 49ers and their defense.
• Since both have great D's I'm giving the edge to the better QB in the Giants. Again if it rains that could change if the 49ers have success running the ball.
• Giants win 20-16 setting up a rematch of the Ravens first SB trip.

Still here...and maybe some picks too...

Alright so I missed last weeks picks. It's been crazy running around with all the Holiday stuff for Chirstmas and new Years. Which by the way I wasn't able to celebrate New Years this year due to having strep throat and getting hit with a high fever around 9pm NYE. Great way to ring in the new year, sleeping. Then you throw in us getting prepared for moving back into our old house this weekend. With this economy and our old house not selling as fast as we thought it would have we have to move back. I mean who would have thought that a nice house fairly new listed way under other comparable homes on the market wouldn't move in 2+ years. Oh well, let's see what the new year brings. Maybe a buyer? Hopefully.

Anyway with everything going on I couldn't get things together in order to pick games. So I just sat back and watched as the Ravens did Bmore proud and brought home the # 2 spot in the AFC and the Division title. Looking back I really wish we had our act together and won the games we should have on the road, but we didn't fair too badly coming in 2nd in the conference, sweeping our division for the first time in team history, and our 3rd Division title. I can't tell how relieved I am that we have a bye week and home game to start our SB run. Looking over the roster and who is practicing so far this week I'm really liking what may unfold this year. Those that were injured and missed the last game of the season are on the field practicing and we are going into our first game in the playoff's totally healthy. Alright well as healthy as a team can be after playing an entire season. you still have some guys with nagging injuries to toes and such but nothing keeping anyone off the field. More importantly nothing keeping any of our starters off the field.

While we're at it let's look at this week's games shall we.


Cincy @ Houston

• The last time the Texans have won was almost a month ago against the Bengals. Since then they have lost to the Panthers, Colts, and Titans.
• The Bengals since that loss to the Texans have gone 2-1. The loss came last week to the Ravens. The 2 wins came against the Rams and Cardinals, so take that for whatever.
• I think due to injuries the Bengals look to have the advantage here. Although with another week of practice can Delhomme put together a good game? If Yates is playing he's seen this Bengals team once.
• One thing that made me shake my head was hearing that knowing Houston is closing the roof this week, Cincy is still practicing outside. Wouldn't be a big deal other than it was in the 30's and you'd rather have your guys out in the cold rather than prepare for the environment you're going into? Univ of Cincy isn't far and you have the ability to use their bubble for $5000 and use choose not too and have your guys freeze. That's cheap! Even Dan Snyder wouldn't have his guys inside.
• Close game but I'm going Houston squeaking by and heading to Baltimore in the Division round.

Pittsburgh @ Denver

• Want to know what my hope is here? I don't have to I'm sure you already know.
• Both are beat up and in key areas on both sides
• Ben's hobbling around which is also affecting his downfield passes.
• Flip side of that Tebow can get the ball downfield but the problem is you NEVER know where it's going. Is it going to hit the receiver in stride or the guy in the third row back holding up some goofy sign just to get on TV?
• As much as I'd like to pick the Broncos because that's my hope. I just can't. The Steelers are the better team even with a gimpy Ben. Which by the way I not of the same mind set as many opinions I've heard that they are better with Ben even if he's at 50%. Really? Batch is no where close to a 50% Roethlisbeger? Why is he on the team?

Detroit @ NO

• The last time these 2 met NO won 31-17 in NO
• Something I found interesting was these 2 teams have never met in the playoffs. In 44 years these 2 have never met in the post season. Although that's how long it's been since the Lions have had a winning season, alright sorry I couldn't resist.
• Two teams I don't really care for. Nothing close to how I feel about the Steelers. Just when the 2 are mentioned it's more of a ehh, next.
• I was pulling for Schwartz and the Lions early on. Especially since he's a Maryland guy, but after seeing a different side of him this season and the whole mess with Suh I've changed my view.
• The Saints kinda wore out their welcome with me the year they won the SB. It may make me a terrible person but with them CONSTANTLY using the whole Katrina disaster to paint "them" (a sports team) in this heavenly portrait. Katrina was devastating, but plastering the 2 together EVERY second was too much. Sports are to be a release from tragedy and everyday crap. Focus on the game and that's it. Sorry just my opinion.
• That aside I think NO is the better team and should win this week. NO has their running game going and combine that with their air attack they stay on top of the Lions

Atlanta @ NYG

• Both teams scratched their way through the season and found themselves in the playoffs.
• Weather shouldn't be brutal but you take any of those dome teams from the South and put them outside in January I'm always leery on picking the dome team to win.
• Another game where 2 teams with a good deal of history have never met in the postseason.
• I'm liking the Giants D and Eli controlling the Offense than I do the Falcons and Ryan.
• Giants move on.

Out with the old in with new...Ravens edition

Alright so I've been wanting to put this together for a while now but wanted to wait until later in the season.  All I have heard from Ravens fans and Ravens haters was that all the guys we cut in the off season is going to bite us in the butt.  All I heard was "How can the Ravens win without Mason, Heap, McGahee, Gaither on the O line, Gregg on the D line, and Josh Wilson in the D backfield?"
I from day 1 liked the moves. I like the players themselves, well majority of them but they were aging. Not only were the aging but declining in production, injury prone, and over paid. I liked the idea to get younger and trusted that Ozzie and the front office would find younger more productive guys to fill those spots.

Here's a break down of what the guys we lost have done this season and what their replacement's have done.

WR Derrick Mason played in 12 games he only started 2 games. He has 19 Receptions 170 yards averaging 8.9 yards a catch and no TD's (That's between 2 teams this season.)

He was replaced by Lee Evans who was injured and replaced by Torrey Smith a rookie out of Maryland. I will give both of their stats because even though Evans has been injured he has been almost as productive as Mason.

WR Lee Evans played in 6 games he started 1 and has 4 receptions for 74 yards averaging 18.5 yards a catch and no TD's

WR Torrey Smith played in 13 games starting 11 he has 37 receptions for 693 yards averaging 18.7 yards a catch and has scored 6 TD's.  Younger faster and more productive than the aging veteran.

Then you have Heap who as a person is very much missed in Baltimore.

TE Todd Heap played in 7 games starting 4 of them. He has 13 receptions for 150 yards averaging 11.5 yards a reception and no TD's. He has been injured this season as well which has been a problem as of late.

He was replaced with 2 young TE's Dickson and Pitta.

TE Ed Dickson has played in all 13 games starting all 13. He has 48 receptions for 458 yards and averaging 9.5 a catch and scored 3 TD's.

TE Dennis Pitta has also played in 13 games and has 31 receptions for 318 yards and averaging 10.3 yards a catch scoring 2 TD's.

Again younger, faster, and more productive than the aging vet.

RB Willis McGahee has been a good addition to the Broncos this year and is putting up decent numbers but he had too high of a price tag to remain here as a back up to Rice. We signed Ricky Williams to take over for Willis and Williams not only comes in with a more cap friendly salary he has posted similar numbers that Willis put up when he was here as a backup.
As a backup last year in 15 games Willis rushed for 380 yards for a 3.8 avg 5 TD's had 55 receiving yds for 1 TD
Williams this year for the Ravens as a backup in 13 games has 351 yards for a 3.9 avg 2 TD's has 62 receiving yds and no TD's

Without Gaither on the O line we have held our own. We replaced him with veteran LT Bryant McKinnie who has played pretty good this season.

DT Kelly Gregg moved on to KC where he has 34 tackles and 1 sack. He was replaced by monster 2nd year Terrence "Mount" Cody. He has 24 tackles and no sacks but takes up space being 6'4" 349lbs directing all traffic to Ngata and the outside of the field.

DB Josh Wilson left for the Skins and took some shots at the Baltimore fans, but has played alright for them. He was one I was hoping we could have kept. With the skins he has 52 tackles 12 deflected passes 1 INT. You can say he was replaced by either Lardarius Webb or Cary Williams. Either one no matter which you choose has played amazing in coverage this season. Webb has 62 tackles 14 deflected passes 1 sack 1 forced fumble and 4 INT's one of those going for a TD and not to mention so far this season he hasn't given up a single TD to opposing WR's. Cary Williams has 62 tackles 15 deflected passes and 1 forced fumble.

So I think it's safe to say now Baltimore looking back to all the pessimism going into this season because we let go of our "old reliables" these young guys and a couple vet's we added have done their job. They have not only filled those holes they took over, they have out performed their predecessors.

Ravens / Steelers Week

I'm not going to go into the preview or pre-game analysis of this game because the two teams know each other so well, and are practically mirror images it's going to be a great, hard fought, hard hitting, take no prisoners kind of game.  I'm just taking in all that is Ravens / Steeler week with all the trash talking that goes along with it.  Can't wait!  You fellow Ravens Fans have a GREAT Purple Firday!!!

Ravens / Cards Phew!

Before you continue I have to give you fair warning because I happen to like stats when it comes to sports, so I'm going to throw some numbers your way.  They don't tell the whole story but add a lot I think.

Alright so that game wasn't the prettiest win, but one I will take nonetheless.  Now I'm not going to sugar coat the fact that the Jacksonville game and first half of this game our Offense looked rough, but this is the NFL.  All 32 teams have professional players, and their win loss record doesn't paint a complete picture.  Let's take the Jaguars.  Yes I thought we should have had no problem with them, but after taking a step back you can see somewhat how we could have stumbled.  All I hear is how much better the Steelers are than us yet even they were shut out in the second half of their game against the Jags.  A look at some numbers, Jacksonville is 10th best in pts allowed and 7th best in yards allowed per game.  Anyway enough of Jacksonville, let's look at this Arizona team we just played and the game itself.

Offensively Arizona is averaging 20pts a game and putting up 319 yards a game which has them in the bottom of the league in points and middle of the road in yards.  Defensively they're at the bottom.  Averaging 26pts a game which is good enough for 29th and 391 yds a game which is 27th out of 32 teams.

I'm not going to get up in arms about how close this game was because you take away a sack fumble and a pass that goes off your rookie receivers hands.  Both leading to Arizona having a short field to work with you're talking about a 30-13 game.

Starting out I thought all was going to go good this game.  I mean Ray Rice had 10 carries 41 yards through the 1st qtr and part way through the 2nd, and then Flacco was sacked and fumbled.  That lead to a Ari TD and the next drive we get pass happy have to punt and it's ran back for another Ari TD.  Right now sitting 17-3 we start our next drive off with a pass that goes off the hands of Torrey Smith and intercepted.  Leading to yet another Ari TD.  You talk about getting UGLY QUICK.  You had a 3-3 game in which you were establishing a nice offensive rhythm and then all heck breaks loose.  We get the ball back and drive down field to get a Cundiff FG to make it 24-6.

Second half I was very happy with.  The Offense came out and got in rhythm thanks to a very determined Boldin.  When all was said and done Flacco ended with 336yds and a INT, Boldin had 145 receiving, and Rice had 99 total yards and 3 TD's.  The one thing that gives me a lot of hope for the future of this offense and the upcoming games is seeing how Flacco, Boldin, Rice, and T. Smith reacted in the second half.  There was a fire, a passion, leadership, and communication that seemed to be lacking so far this season.  Guys were talking and discussing the previous drive, there was a hurry up offense that has been in slow motion.

Ugly win this week, but a big one and one that may give this offense the spark they needed.

Now that was ugly!

Alright so I haven't gone into too much depth in my thoughts on the games so far, but you got to start somewhere.  So let's start with this embarrassment that occurred on MNF.

I'll go ahead and start with the only positive of the night and that was the play of the Defense.  They played the way they should have against the leagues worst Offense who is only averaging 252.4 yards a game.  Thankful to get out of that terrible game without any injuries other than some stingers suffered by Reed and Cody.

Now for the rest of the team, AWFUL!  Alright so the Jags going into the game I think had the 8th best defense in the league but I was still thinking we would have got something going at least in the run game.  What I wasn't expecting was 8 carries for 28yds for Rice.  Was this really the game plan for our Offense this game to only have our backs carry the ball 12 times?  What did it get you 34yds.  Our line couldn't hold any kind of rush, our receivers couldn't get any seperation and we didn't help any of that by running the ball 12 TIMES!  There's been a lot of talk on Bmore sports talk radio about Flacco and how this is on him, and he's not the guy to get it done.  Which is the reason I don't listen as often anymore because it's all everyone harps on.  All this guy has done is improve year after year since he was thrown in his rookie season.  I'm not going to throw it all on Cam either, although you go out and sign Vonta Leach and you hand the rock off 12 times. I know I keep bringing that up but come on Cam.  In fact after Rice fumbled with 8:59 to go in the first quarter he didn't get another carry until 1:59 left to go in the first half.  We saw this last season in the playoffs when Rice fumbled against the Steelers.  He was on the bench and didn't get a carry until later in the game.  This guy has 4 fumbles in 765 carries.  I don't think you need to have him sit once he puts the ball on the ground.  He's pretty reliable when it comes to holding onto the ball.

Hopefully we can get Grubbs and Lee Evans back soon.  I think if we can get Grubbs back in the middle of that O line we can get better pass protection.  I'm curious to see Evans back on the outside.  You put him opposite T. Smith giving us speed on both sidelines and Boldin running in the slot along with Dickson/Pitta and Rice and now Flacco has serious options.

Anyway I'm not too worried about this game.  This team is too talented and better than what they showed in the spotlight of the world on Monday night.  I was worried about them going in too confident like in Tennessee and was in a way prepared for it.  Although I seriously didn't see us losing this game.  I thought we'd come out sluggish, but as the saying goes any given Sunday or Thursday or Monday.

NFL Week 7 Pick Results...Glad this week is over!!

Ugly, ugly week.  The positive is that I went 8-5 and that gave me more wins this week than points scored by my Ravens.  That put's me at 48-23 67.6% right so far this season.  Quick run down.  I thought Washington was better than that, seriously SD, should have picked Chicago, darn you Boller you're not even with the Ravens anymore and still ruining football for me, and like the Ravens offense I have nothing for ya.

Washington over Carolina     WRONG
Cleveland over Seattle          CORRECT
Atlanta over Detroit               CORRECT
Denver over Miami                CORRECT
SD over NYJ                         WRONG
TB over Chicago                   WRONG
Houston over Tennessee     CORRECT
Pitt over Arizona                   CORRECT
Oakland over KC                  WRONG
Dallas over St Louis             CORRECT
GB over Minnesota               CORRECT
New Orleans over Indy         CORRECT
Baltimore over Jacksonville  WRONG

Week 6 Prediction Results

Luckily I was able to get the last two games this week to fall my way and push me to 9-4 for the week.  Which is a slight improvement from my 8-5 record last week.  My record for the season now sits at 40-18.


Atlanta over Carolina              CORRECT
Cincy over Indy                      CORRECT
Detroit over SF                      WRONG
GB over StL                          CORRECT
Buffalo over NYG                  WRONG
Pittsburgh over Jacksonville    CORRECT
Washington over Philly           WRONG
Baltimore over Houston          CORRECT
Oakland over Cleveland         CORRECT
NE over Dallas                      CORRECT
NO over Tampa Bay             WRONG
Chicago over Minnesota        CORRECT
NYJ over Miami                    CORRECT


I was going back and forth with the Detroit  / SF game and thought that the Lions D line would be too much for Alex Smith and the 49ers O line.  I was wrong, and really like the job Harbaugh is doing out there in SF.  Can't wait to see the Harbaugh brothers square off Thanksgiving day.  I'm not too worried about the match-up this season.  I think the Ravens can take it but we'll see as the game gets closer.

Glad the Ravens were able to take care of Houston and we can go into these next two weeks against opponents we should easily beat.  Now a days I can't stand to listen to Baltimore sports radio because all everyone talks about is Flacco and criticizes every little thing with him.  Look you can't compare him to Brady, Manning, or even Rodgers!  I as well as many others will place them as elite QB's, but Flacco is a good QB.  Does he make mistakes? Yes, but so do these elite QB's mentioned.  We should be happy we have a good QB that can make plays and get the ball down field.  How long have we gone without a QB?  I don't know about you but I'm ecstatic we have Flacco and not a Stoney Case, Chris Redman, Kyle Boller, Troy Smith to name a few.

Ravens vs. Jets (My take)

Here we go week 4 in the NFL!  The Ravens are taking on the Jets and both teams are 2-1.  The Jets however in my opinion should be 1-2 but won a game that the Cowboys blew as they were up 24-10 early in the fourth quarter.  The Ravens should be 3-0 and lost to a team they should have had no problem beating in the Tennessee Titans, but this is the NFL and you have to show up every week ready to play.  The Ravens didn't in week 2 and the Cowboys let their foot off the peddle so that's how we find ourselves both sitting at 2-1.

I'm liking the Ravens to take this game, and not just because I'm a homer and love the team.  Sanchez last week for the Jets threw a pick and was sacked 4 times, and even though our defensive back field is banged up.  I think we will be able to create enough pressure up front to help our our DB's.  I'm not afraid of the Jets running game at all this year, so we should be fine there.  I'm impressed with the way our offense has been performing with the exception of the Titans game.  Our "O" line is coming together and even our back-up's are stepping in and playing great, especially Gurode.  I don't expect Smith to have the type of game he had last week but by putting up the performance he did last week it forces the Jet's to account for him as a serious threat.

My call is Baltimore with the win 28-13 over the Jets