GAME THREAD - Wild Card edition - Ravens/Pats

**Sephy** · 01-10-2010, 10:34 AM

Welcome, welcome! Hopefully this thread marks the kickoff of a big run for the Ravens. Will they take out the Pats and move onto Indy to continue the payback tour? Be here at 1 and take it in with us here in the friendly confines of 24x7.

See you in an hour and a half, and GO RAVENS!!!!

**Sephy** · 01-10-2010, 10:47 AM

Patriots inactives: Brace, Connolly, Green-Ellis, LeVoir, Ohrnberger, Stanback, Wheatley & Williams

**RavenScallywag** · 01-10-2010, 11:04 AM

Ravens inactives:

Moll, Talavou, KRUGER, Harper, Paschal, Fitzhugh, Hale...Beck is 3rd QB.

**Sephy** · 01-10-2010, 11:06 AM

Ravens inactives: Moll, Talavou, Kruger, Harper, Pascal, Fitzhugh, Hale, Beck (3rd QB).

**RavenScallywag** · 01-10-2010, 11:07 AM

oh brother...Flacco looks pretty gimpy in the video they showed from warm ups. VERY stiff.

**Sephy** · 01-10-2010, 11:11 AM

Gooden will play today.

Cundiff hitting his kicks well from 40-50 in warmups. Hit a 53 yarder.

**purplepoe** · 01-10-2010, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by Sephy

Gooden will play today.

Cundiff hitting his kicks well from 40-50 in warmups. Hit a 53 yarder.

Gooden better be on special teams and only in on D due to an injury.

PP

**StingerNLG** · 01-10-2010, 11:18 AM

We need a good fast start to make me feel better. I can't get over this bad feeling.

Suggs needs to earn that 65 mil , and Cam needs to do more than run the ball 2 downs every series open.

Come on Ravens. Prove me wrong today!!!

**RavenScallywag** · 01-10-2010, 11:18 AM

Gooden on D only helps, but to me, Ellerbe is playing better. I hope they stick with Ellerbe and just rotate Gooden in now and again.

**RavenScallywag** · 01-10-2010, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by StingerNLG

We need a good fast start to make me feel better. I can't get over this bad feeling.

Suggs needs to earn that 65 mil , and Cam needs to do more than run the ball 2 downs every series open.

Come on Ravens. Prove me wrong today!!!

Hate to break it to you, but I'm fully expecting 55-65% of our plays will be runs. As they should be, our running game is firing on all cylinders and Flacco's injuries are limiting him a bit in handling the pass rush.

**baltimore_hokie** · 01-10-2010, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by RavenScallywag

Gooden on D only helps, but to me, Ellerbe is playing better. I hope they stick with Ellerbe and just rotate Gooden in now and again.

Ellerbe is better for what we need. We need a guy to blow up fullbacks and let Ray make all the tackles. Ellerbe can do that, it doesn't seem Gooden's body can hold up.

GO RAVENS

**StingerNLG** · 01-10-2010, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by RavenScallywag

Hate to break it to you, but I'm fully expecting 55-65% of our plays will be runs. As they should be, our running game is firing on all cylinders and Flacco's injuries are limiting him a bit in handling the pass rush.

And the pats play the run well, so that isn't a good sign.

**GaRaven** · 01-10-2010, 11:32 AM

Stinger: I agree with the "bad" feeling, but maybe we just don't want to get our hopes up!

Also, we NEED to run the ball and just pound them over and over all game! It may be their strength but it is OUR strength. I hope we man-up and just shove it down their throats.

**Dade** · 01-10-2010, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by StingerNLG

And the pats play the run well, so that isn't a good sign.

Not really. They give up over 100 yards and 4.4 average on the ground a game. I like Rice and McGahee going up against a Defense like that.

**RavenScallywag** · 01-10-2010, 11:35 AM

Their secondary is pretty bad too though. Hopefully we can get the run game going, then go with some play action and exploit some of their weakness at CB.

**StingerNLG** · 01-10-2010, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Dade

Not really. They give up over 100 yards and 4.4 average on the ground a game. I like Rice and McGahee going up against a Defense like that.

But that's also without Wilfork in the lineup the last few games. He's healthy and playing today.

What's the over/under on Demetrius Williams seeing the field today?

**StingerNLG** · 01-10-2010, 11:56 AM

We get Jim Nantz and Phil Simms today. Thank goodness for that.

**GaRaven** · 01-10-2010, 11:57 AM

We will know early on what Cam's plan for today is going to be....We have been run heavy but we all know that Cam is capable of going against what some of us feel is the strength of the team.

**RavenScallywag** · 01-10-2010, 11:58 AM

I really hope Harbaugh and Flacco aren't too proud to sit Flacco if his injury is so limiting that we start suffering on offense...

If Joe can stand in the pocket and make all the throws, then he should stay out there. But if he can't, I'd rather have Troy Smith go out and play "safe" in the passing game, that way Smith can take off and run if our protection breaks down.

Given how he's looked to just about everyone in warmups, it's a push on whether he can survive the whole game.