Eh, go easy, they're not bad, and generally not biased. Billick usually flocks to NE's corner in most cases and Baltimore is easily the best team we've been slated to play thus far. You can flip a coin and get a good choice for who will win this game.
It's the classic top offense vs top defense.
Also, on another show, Billick basically calls it a wash. The one that annoys me is Marshall Faulk with "Suggs has had games after games". Hasn't he had 1 sack in the past 4 games or something like that (I read that somewhere today, I didn't research anything, no idea about his pressures either).
In a much more relevant game with two teams that look more similar that the 2009 playoff game, lets take a look at the 2010 game in Foxboro.
The physical running game that is supposed to trample us was held to 99 yards on 34 carries, that's 2.9 yards a clip. Ray Rice had 28 carries for 88 yards, 3.1 a clip with a long of 8 whopping yards.
New England had 26 carries for 127 yards at 4.9 yards per carry, with runs of 14, 18, and 22 yards.
Both teams had 3 sacks from their front 7 with Baltimore registering two extra QB hits.
So, who was the more "physical" team, everyone likes to describe physical as the team that wins the battle at the LOS.
In my opinion, New Englands front 7 this year is better than last year, and we've proven more recently that we are the more dominant teams on both sides of the LOS in this matchup. Does Baltimore have any new faces in their front 7? They are approaching the "old and slow" moniker that Pitt has been labled with in a few areas (not to say they are there, yet). We are also getting healthier and had a relatively easy day and had 0 injuries on the defensive side, plus one extra day to rest.
