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Sunday was a blowout in the Ravens’ favor from the jump. The Ravens were great, while Tampa Bay’s performance was miserable.

Unfortunately for us viewers, CBS’s broadcast fell more in line with the Bucs’ performance than it did the Ravens.  The network screwed this thing up from the opening kickoff.

When CBS came out of break they went straight to the sideline reporter, Chris Fischer, so he could show us a thermometer and explain team preparations for the heat.  Meanwhile, in the background the opening kickoff had already started and we still had not heard from Spero Dedes and Solomon Wilcots, the guys actually calling the game.

The opening kickoff quite literally had all the flair of a man explaining Florida weather.

In all fairness to Dedes and Wilcots, they were barely given the opportunity to introduce the starting offense and defense before the Ravens busted off a 50+-yard run deep into Bucs territory.  Play-by-play man Dedes got through the Bucs defense just in time to make the call for Torrey Smith’s opening drive touchdown.

Torrey’s big performance opened up Solomon and Spero for the storyline of the day which would be how unproductive the fourth-year wide out had been this season.  Smith scored two quick touchdowns and hauled in some gashing underneath routes for good gains.  The broadcast team must have had pages of quotes from John Harbaugh, Joe Flacco and Torrey himself about his lackluster season to this point.  Needless to say, Smith rewrote that storyline.

Solomon criticized Flacco for a pass to Kyle Juszczyk where he said, “…don’t throw the ball late over the middle of the field.”  I thought it was pretty ridiculous considering Flacco hit Juice right on the hands while on the run.  If Juszczyk would have held onto that it would’ve been a Flacco lovefest for making that throw…late, over the middle of the field.

Matt Elam made a great shoestring tackle in open field after shedding a blocker that didn’t get any recognition from the announcers.  They had to go to a game break right after so my guess is they were distracted by someone talking in their ear during the play.

My biggest problem with the broadcast was the fact that Solomon brought up the “Tampa 2” defense multiple times throughout the game.  He never explained to listeners what it meant.  Your regular viewer has NO IDEA what that means.

(For those of you that are curious, CLICK HERE for a familiar face to explain it to you.)

It’s tough to complain about too much when the Ravens come out to play like they did; I would have enjoyed the broadcast even if my man Dan Dierdorf was the analyst.

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