Joey007

Talib vs. Smith.

This should be pretty obvious. What has Flacco done well at the last few games?? The deep ball, and the guy that he throws it deep to most would be Torrey Smith. Torrey Smith can flat out light it up down the field as we saw last week. I think besides the Refs, Smith was the main reason we lost the SNF game in week 3. Fortunately, Kyle Arrington hopefully won't be matching up with him this time.

Besides Brady, I think no one is under more pressure to perform at their best than Talib Sunday. We've seen Talib play very good football at corner since he arrived midseason. Once in a while, however, we've seen him get beat on the deep ball. Not often, but it'll happen on occasion. Great corner, but he's not quite shut down. One slip up could change this game into Baltimore's favor. We need the best out of him Sunday.

I'll even go as far to say if we neutralize Smith, we will most likely win the game. And if Smith has a monster day, we may likely lose the game.

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Joey007

No I will not.

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patsfaninpa

I wouldn't put Talib on Smith. I'd play Talib at LCB because Flacco likes to throw right or down the middle. Have McCourty sitting back on that half of the field. Let Dennard play RCB and if they put Smith over there fine. Flacco completes less than 50pct of his passes when throwing left.

Wax Frog

I just wish we had a coach who could figure this matchup stuff out

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andrewgarrr

I'd expect to see Dennard across from Smith more often.

ALP

how has Talib been playing recently in terms of who hes been covering?

is he taking a team's specific WR or taking a side of the field? (Left for defense? usually a teams #1?

the deep balls that were open for Flacco in the denver game were on the right side of the offense, usually where Talib lines up no? Smith/Jones either streak down the field next to the sideline or to a little post to the middle of the field than turn it up


the defender we need to have the best day is McCourty, whose really sole job this game will be to stop Smith and Jones deep

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I agree that Talib will likely play his usual position of LCB, however the potential matchup of Boldin vs Dennard isn't making anyone comfortable either.

Safety help is great obviously, and I would think that there will be some, depending on their initial success of course; however, it also limits having someone come up to help out in the run game, as the front 7 will have to do their jobs effectively stopping Ray Rice.

Another thing is that while Flacco is completing less than 50 percent of his passes to the left, that very well could also be one of their "wrinkles" that they don't expect us to see coming. All it takes is one or two nice gains. That isn't out of the realm of possibility, and it makes me wonder if some are making too big of a deal about the L vs R side statistics (not you personally).

I think we have to start with the most obvious choices of first limiting Rice's effectiveness, then limiting Smith's deeper play potential. Boldin's possession catches and 3rd down conversions would definitely be third, and Pitta and the TE's ability would likely be on the same level of concern. Then we'd have J.Jones and his potential blended in somewhere too....but I think they need to focus on taking away the first 2 options and that should allow them to be a limiting defense.

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The Ravens are an obvious target for bend-don't-break, so the real question to me is how bendy the bend will be.

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randomk1

It's all about the OL.

Solder,Vollmer are playing at a high level and i think Mankins might be getting healthy at just the right time.

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