I think we can beat the Ravens

thunderpimp91

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The Ravens don't have speed like Saints do.

I underestimated the Saints offense, but the Ravens simply do not possess the same vertical threat ability.
Yeah I'm way more worried about the Ravens defense than I am their offense. The Cowboys should be able to play any coverage they want this week and will be free to commit additional resources to containing the run game. Their TE is probably their best opportunity to create mismatches. Not sure their OL is that great either.
 

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He is slow but they were gashing the raiders at 7 yards a pop every run.... the OC does not like running the ball with the lead.
Well year sure if we are just going to lie, the Ravens are great! Henry had 18 for 84 but had a long of 29 - a play that was blocked so well he wasn't even touched until about 15 yards downfield. The rest of the day he was 17 for 55 (3.3) and had 8 runs of 2 yards or less. You can't operate an offense when half of your carries don't go anywhere. In the first half, giving the ball to Henry was putting them behind the chains every time.
 

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I’m going to bet on Dallas this week which I rarely do. Home dog(+1 atm) coming off an embarrassing loss should be easy money. This is right in the Cowboys tendencies, their M.O. if you will. Contain Lamar is the only game plan here, focus on that and Dallas wins while everyone is counting them out.
 

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Stop or slow down Henry, contain Jackson, make him throw.
 

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Here's how I see it:

Ravens play in the AFC North. The most bone bruising, hard hitting, head splitting division. All 4 teams play this style. The Chiefs of 2024 belong in that division now.

But we're not actually that bad against those kinds of offenses. See how we handle the Browns who I'm willing to bet will play competitively with the Bengals and Ravens this year.

It's team like New Orleans we struggle with. The motion, the misdirection, the screens, the dual threat running backs. It seems they primarily play to avoid as much contact on the line as possible. Ala GB and Arizona last year. Altho I will say the run defense got wrecked. But not all run plays are the same too. There are different things the coaches do on the offensive line to get the running backs free as well. If you play to avoid Parsons like GB did, you can find success with our defense knowing they don't get better along the way. Just worse. New Orleans has to be the most finesse team in the NFL.

I'm not guaranteeing a win or anything, and I don't know about our offense and i dont know our offensive plan against them - but I think we should come after Jackson. Make him hoist up passes. See if we can grab a pick, or two. We risk him scrambling for 12 yards. But gotta take the good and bad. I say definitely blitz and play to hit and hard contact in case he dumps it off. I do think we have the players for contact. Ravens always play like that imo.

But also, they're 0-2.
the game I saw all the do is throw to Flowers if we let one guy kill us then yeah it's over
 

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we can beat anyone.Unfortunately we can also lose to anyone. These are professionals. Some of yall think we can just line up on Sunday and win based on pay scale or records etc. The fact is anyone can lose on any given sunday. How many of you picked Minnesota to beat san fran. cincy should have one as well but the stripes helped out KC. Raiders won, New England almost won. Its a week to week league and id rather be hitting on all cylinders in week 17 and beyond. That said you can eliminate yourself from contention early in the year.
 

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Well we thought the Saints were beatable as well at home they all they played was the carolina panthers right?lol

I know why they're doing it because the Dallas Cowboys have had a problem stopping mobile quarterbacks not just regular mobile this guy's the best running quarterback in the league and then they have a bruising running back with him now it hasn't helped in the first two weeks but I imagine this is our Achilles heel and they better come up with a great game plan and Overshown better play the whole entire damn game 'cause he needs to spy Lamar Jackson....
he's about to have a record game
 

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Ravens won’t even practice this week after watching the Saints run the ball down our throats, which is what the Ravens do best. They’re laughing at our tape right now. It’s going to be a hilarious cakewalk for them. Get ready for a Carolina level blowout.

Only way I see Dallas winning is if we all collectively dream of them winning in our sleep Saturday night.
looooooooool right
 

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Of course the Cowboys CAN beat Baltimore. The bookies have Dallas as a l point underdog at this time at home. Sure they CAN. Trouble is the Ravens likely think they CAN beat the Cowboys after what they are seeing watching the Saints/Cowboy tape this week.
 

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Here's how I see it:

Ravens play in the AFC North. The most bone bruising, hard hitting, head splitting division. All 4 teams play this style. The Chiefs of 2024 belong in that division now.

But we're not actually that bad against those kinds of offenses. See how we handle the Browns who I'm willing to bet will play competitively with the Bengals and Ravens this year.

It's team like New Orleans we struggle with. The motion, the misdirection, the screens, the dual threat running backs. It seems they primarily play to avoid as much contact on the line as possible. Ala GB and Arizona last year. Altho I will say the run defense got wrecked. But not all run plays are the same too. There are different things the coaches do on the offensive line to get the running backs free as well. If you play to avoid Parsons like GB did, you can find success with our defense knowing they don't get better along the way. Just worse. New Orleans has to be the most finesse team in the NFL.

I'm not guaranteeing a win or anything, and I don't know about our offense and i dont know our offensive plan against them - but I think we should come after Jackson. Make him hoist up passes. See if we can grab a pick, or two. We risk him scrambling for 12 yards. But gotta take the good and bad. I say definitely blitz and play to hit and hard contact in case he dumps it off. I do think we have the players for contact. Ravens always play like that imo.

But also, they're 0-2.
I mean typically we don’t have issues with these type of teams. But if the offense gets punched in the mouth I’m telling you right now I don’t think we will fight back and the game will go the way of 13-19.
 
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