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    Stealer offense in bottom third of the league

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    Against the Ravens he averages 43 yards a game and 3.3 yards per carry in six career games. And in his last four starts against the Ravens (aka since 2006 and Jerome Bettis' retirement) he has averaged UNDER 40 yards a game and 3 yards a carry.

     

    I actually think the Steelers putting their faith in him more will HELP the Ravens.

     

    AMEN!!! He didnt play our first meeting, he had the "Jerome Bettis" mystery injury. I dont buy it for one minute that Parker is peeking now.. The Natl megia is stroking his ego, telling him thats the best that they have seen him run all season. Keep stroking his ego..Mr Parker, get ready to meet the wall come Sunday.

    Did the Ravens’ Defense ‘Take Out’ Tennessee’s Chris Johnson?

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    Ray Lewis’s smashing hit on Titans fullback Ahmard Hall, which caused his helmet to go flying, was probably the most memorable play from Baltimore’s 13-10 victory over Tennessee on Saturday. But it appears the play that had the biggest impact on the game occurred immediately after the Hall-Lewis collision.

     

    When Tennessee had the ball at its 12-yard line with just under 10 minutes left in the second quarter, Chris Johnson, a rookie running back, was in the middle of a monster performance. He had 79 total yards, including an 8-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. His one reception had gone for a 28-yard gain.

     

    So when Johnson knifed his way through the Baltimore line for a 7-yard gain on first down at the Titans’ 12, the good news for the Ravens was that Johnson had not broken off another big gain.

     

     

    Johnson had only two more carries, before leaving the game for good. (CBS Sports)That was when the sequence in question occurred: Johnson’s forward momentum was being stopped by linebackers Lewis and Terrell Suggs — and right before the whistle blew ending the play — safety Ed Reed jumped into the scrum and grabbed Johnson by his upper body, preventing him from falling to the turf. With Lewis and Suggs draped over the back of Johnson’s legs, Reed continued to push Johnson, bending him backward awkwardly. The contortion was so serious that with the whistles blowing ending the play, Titans guard Leroy Harris had to push Reed away. The after-the-play activity resulted in a personal foul call on Tennessee. No penalty was assessed to the Ravens

     

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    Two points are scored for the opposing team when the ball is dead on or behind a team’s own goal line if the impetus came from a player on that team.

     

    So in other words the ball has to be entirely beyond the line? if thats the case he did not get out.

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    Yo dc, I knew he didnt make it out of the endzone!!!

     

    TITANS AVOIDED A SAFETY, GOT EXTRA DOWN Posted by Mike Florio on January 12, 2009, 9:08 a.m.

    Lost in the aftermath of Saturday's Ravens-Titans game are two mistakes -- one questionable, one obvious -- that fueled a second-quarter Tennessee drive, and that possibly saved the Titans from a safety.

     

    (Several readers have pointed this issue out to us over the past couple of days, but we didn't have time to study the issue properly until this morning, and we didn't want to go off half-cocked . . . like we usually do.)

     

    Facing second and nine from their own two, the Titans' first stroke of luck came after Terrell Suggs of the Ravens blasted through the line and hit running back Chris Johnson in the end zone.

     

    Via the official PFT TiVo service (we could put those ads in a rotation with the Lucky Charms banner), it appears that the ball was not completely out of the end zone at the moment Johnson's knee hit the ground.

     

     

     

    But the CBS announcing crew never even mentioned the possibility that the play should have been ruled a safety, and Ravens coach John Harbaugh didn't challenge it.

     

    The Titans converted a first down on that drive, thanks to Ahmard Hall's catch and run that was capped with a viscious hit from Ray Lewis.

     

    On the next drive, a first-down run from Chris Johnson ended in a penalty against the Titans. And referee Terry McAulay was clear: "After the play, personal foul, unnecessary roughness, offense number 76. Forearm to the head. Half the distance to the goal. Second down. The down counts."

     

    The only problem? On the next play, the down marker still showed a "1?.

     

    On "first" down, Johnson gained nine yards, giving the Titans "second" (i.e., third) down and three. On "second" (i.e., third) down, LenDale White was bottled up for no gain. Then on "third" (i.e., fourth) down, quarterback Kerry Collins found Justin Gage for a first down.

     

    As Dan Dierdorf of CBS said after the play, "If this drive results in no points whatsoever, it is already an outstanding drive for Tennessee."

     

    It was not an outstanding drive for Dierdorf or Greg Gumbel, who missed not only the potential safety but also the extra down that the Titans received.

     

    The drive ultimately ended in an interception inside the Ravens' 10. But the drive should have ended just as it was starting with two points to Baltimore and a free kick, or a punt from deep in the Titans' own end of the field.

     

    The fact that the Ravens won the game makes the errors less consequential, but errors indeed they were.

     

    And, at a minimum, the mistakes help to balance out the perception that the Ravens were handed the game via the failure of the officials to call a delay of game penalty that would have wiped out a key gain during the game-winning drive.

     

     

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