Patriots 2013 Opponents, Five First Impressions of the Baltimore Ravens

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Patriots 2013 Opponents, Five First Impressions of the Baltimore Ravens
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Once again the Ravens are getting hot at precisely the right time and will be a dangerous, tough out if they reach the playoffs. One thing is for certain, no one wants to play them in a first round playoff game regardless of the location....

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Flacco diplomatic on Pats' defense in Baltimore Sun

Gotta hand it to Joe Flacco, he knows when it's not a good idea to poke the bear. These quotes could have come from Tom Brady.

From the Baltimore Sun on 12-19-2013:

The Patriots' defense is allowing 372.7 yards per game, ranking 24th overall. They're 18th in pass defense, allowing 240.2 yards per game, and 31st against the run with an average of 132.5 yards allowed. The Patriots are tied for 10th in scoring defense, giving up 22.2 points per game.

"I think the biggest thing is, just overall as a defense, they’ve probably let up a decent amount of yards, but they keep teams out of the end zone," Flacco said. "They don’t do a lot of things to allow teams to just have quick drives. They don’t commit penalties to allow you to just run them over and get cheap ones. They do a lot of things very fundamentally.

"I think sometimes they give up some yards, no matter what way it is, rushing or passing the ball in their secondary, but they play fundamental, and they have good guys back there so that when they need to and they are called on, they make plays.”

Read more: Patriots coach Bill Belichick praises Ravens TE Dennis Pitta - baltimoresun.com

 

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Re: Flacco diplomatic on Pats' defense in Baltimore Sun

It really is a shame what injuries did to this unit. This defense was so promising at the beginning of the year. They were stopping the run without scheming in order to do it, they were covering TE's and RB's well (Mayo, mostly), and the secondary was arguably one of the better units in the league when healthy. It was so refreshing to have the confidence that they were going to get off the field on third and fourth downs and force much needed three and outs.

 

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Re: Flacco diplomatic on Pats' defense in Baltimore Sun

It really is a shame what injuries did to this unit. This defense was so promising at the beginning of the year. They were stopping the run without scheming in order to do it, they were covering TE's and RB's well (Mayo, mostly), and the secondary was arguably one of the better units in the league when healthy. It was so refreshing to have the confidence that they were going to get off the field on third and fourth downs and force much needed three and outs.

The biggest disappointment of the season for me. Remember the first few games, they were making mediocre QBs play like mediocre QBs? Really sucks what happened. But the remaining guys have stepped up and won't give up, have truly played a great season despite all the adversity.