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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.The New England Patriots are 5-0 lifetime against the Baltimore Ravens and beat them in Week 4 at Foxborough, but rest assured, the Patriots won't be looking past Baltimore when the teams clash in an AFC wild-card battle Sunday at Gillette Stadium.
I will be shocked if the Patriots don't win comfortably.
I suppose we will know the outcome at around 4 p.m. on sunday...
I will be shocked if the Patriots don't win comfortably.
That may be a bit of a stretch. Without Welker our passing attack will be limited, and Baltimore is a pound the ball/defense style team. A low scoring tight game is probably more likely than a comfortable win for either team.
During his WEEI segment yesterday, BB said he had been pretty sure they'd be up against the Ravens for the 1st round. I recall he said he was "playing the percentages" that the Ravens and Jets would win their respective games, and had already begun preparing for the Ravens as the 1st PO opponent. Therefore, he already had begun preparing, had "watched all their games", etc. Combine that with playing at home, and having an undefeated record both at home this season and against the Ravens even at their best in previous years, and I'm feeling pretty good about this one. Not great, but pretty darn good.
iam quite sure the ravens will come out throwing the ball trying to exploit our secondary insteadof running the ball at least initially. Cam cameron like to throw the ball. We won that charger games in the playoff thanks to him not handing off to LDT during the potential game tying FG drive after he had got 6 yards running the ball on first down.I second this but Cam sometimes overthinks his game plan and tries to be something we dont have the horses to be.... A consistant, effective, pass-orriented team.
iam quite sure the ravens will come out throwing the ball trying to exploit our secondary insteadof running the ball at least initially. Cam cameron like to throw the ball. We won that charger games in the playoff thanks to him not handing off to LDT during the potential game tying FG drive after he had got 6 yards running the ball on first down.
If the ravens get the lead then we might see ray rice more IMO.
Bottom line,this game is on the offense as always...playing from ahead will help our D.
Ray Rice = Ravens offense
Stop him and you'll pretty much shut them down. Defensively they're still solid against the run, but against the pass they are very susceptible. Ed Reed is banged up and outside of Ngata they lack a serious pass rush.
We have never lost in Foxboro in January.
i agree with bakes781. As long as we can hold rice and get the offense going we are sure to win this game, we do have the highest odds for any game this weekend lol.
Opening odds:
Jets at Bengals -4
over/under 36
Bengals -3 +100
Eagles at Cowboys -4.5
over/under 45.5
Cowboys -4 -110
Ravens at Patriots -6.5
over/under 42
Patriots -4 -110
Packers at Cardinals -3
over/under 48.5
Cardinals -2.5 -110
i agree with bakes781. As long as we can hold rice and get the offense going we are sure to win this game, we do have the highest odds for any game this weekend lol.
Opening odds:
Jets at Bengals -4
over/under 36
Bengals -3 +100
Eagles at Cowboys -4.5
over/under 45.5
Cowboys -4 -110
Ravens at Patriots -6.5
over/under 42
Patriots -4 -110
Packers at Cardinals -3
over/under 48.5
Cardinals -2.5 -110
I think we can count on the Ravens playing with a lot of emotion, especially at the beginning of the game. They left Foxboro angry and it seemed to have a carryover effect on much of their season, as they came in 3--0 but then lost four of five beginning with the L at Gillette and didn't put together back to back wins again until Weeks 14 and 15.
I think it's going to be a very tough game and that a victory for the Pats will be a function of the offense adapting to the loss of Welker and putting up a lot of points right up to its final possession, because, as much as I'd like to wish otherwise, we just can't rely on the D to hold a lead in the Fourth Quarter.