Ravens Playoff Predictions Revisited

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http://www.totalprosports.com/2013/01/04/9-nfl-playoff-predictions/#1

 

It’s been a growing critique, particularly this season, that the NFL is becoming a softer, gentler place that cushions the Quarterback into insane statistics and cultivates a pretty passing game that racks up points, taking the tough out of it — a kind of Wiffle ball Football dynamic. That will not be true in the playoffs, predominately. Forces like Adrian Foster, Marshawn Lynch, Ray Rice and Frank Gore, not to mention mobile QB’s like Russel Wilson and Robert Griffith III, will turn the field into pulverized meat making the old dogs of the game proud, leaving helmets and in Lynch’s case, Skittles (his good luck charm) everywhere.

 

 

Push.

 

The Baltimore Ravens, once creatures to be feared, have come into the playoffs with all the killer instinct of Big Bird. As if to EKG the team back to life longtime backbone, heart, and alpha when it comes to attack Ray Lewis announced his retirement on Wednesday, starting immediately after the playoffs. But when the Ravens are bounced in the first or second round, either by arguably the NFL’s hottest team, the Denver Bronco’s, or it’s most passionate – the Indianapolis Colts, playing luekemia recovering coach Chuck Pagano, Ray’s own passions will get the best of him and he will have flown too close to the sun once more to come all the way back to earth. Injury prone and aging Ray will come back for one last season, this time the specter of his leaving and the pressure of it being over the whole schedule.

 

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Many of the League’s titans of the gridiron are operating on reputation mostly these days. Offense might be fancy, but defense separates the men from the boys. It’s also said to be the key to winning it all. But with the Steelers out, the Niners less scary, the Ravens hobbled, and the Texan’s D becoming something of a myth, offense will ultimately rule the day. This year’s playoffs lack a front seven quite as clearly ready to go and menacing as last year’s Giants that got hungry at the exact right time. This year when the going it’s tough, the tough will start running and throwing things — mainly the football, to win.

 

Survey says: idiot.

 

 

To go along with Beyonce’s inevitable oopsy, and the weakened defenses taking the field, the mighty will fall. The NFC’s top seed, the Atlanta Falcons, haven’t been taken seriously all year and aren’t likely to be now. The once unlikely Seattle Seahawks are incinerating opponents and the Falcons look to be hiding under a desk for cover. They lack the grit to make it this time of year and entered the playoffs sputtering, slowing down until a loss in their last week. Likewise the season long AFC big man on campus, the Houston Texans, lost their ridiculous looking letterman jackets to the Patriots and Colts, who beat them up for it and didn’t even leave the once toughs a bye week. The Ravens have long since shown their only straw filled scarecrows, losing 4 of their last 5 and likewise the Denver Bronco’s, thought to be the hottest game in town, are riding a wave of less than quality wins, and one very intriguing loss to the Patriots, to their No. 1 seed in the AFC.

 

lolololololololololol.

 

Maybe the single greatest pleasure of watching football since the beginning of the millennium has been the epic duels between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. Though Manning’s now a QB of a different color, that is Bronco orange, these two have had sights on each other from day one, and Peyton’s kid brother Eli has kept the rings from Brady’s last two Superbowls off his fingers. These two all time greats will meet again in the AFC Championship game in a no love lost shoot out that’d make Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid nervous. Brady once had Manning’s number, going 9-4 overall, but in Peyton’s most recent years with the Colts he showed signs, including a few Super Bowl games himself, of surpassing the Golden Boy. This is Batman vs. Bane, solid Terminator vs. liquid Terminator, The Bush Presidencies vs. Saddam Hussein, Kirstie Alley vs. Weight Loss — with all having their own opinions on who’s the good guy. Boxing’s lost a step and the MMA can go back to it’s cage, this is the greatest fight in sports today. And it’s back.

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

Eventually the house will always win. And in the NFL the New England Patriots are the house. A dynasty stretching over a decade the Pats, with Belichick and Brady at the head, have been to 5 Super Bowls and won 3, losing their last two leaving unfinished business. This year that business will be closed, for which the rest of the NFL will be glad, and the duo will get their last ring. They’ll keep going of course, at least for a few more years, but this is The Last Crusade before the muddled adventures after Crystal Skulls. Bill Belichick will tie Steeler legend Chick Noll for the most Super Sunday wins by a coach all time with four and with that victory not only take the Lombardi trophy, but the name on it replacing it with his own. In 2007 The Patriots were near perfect, but too proud. In 2011 they lacked a strong defense and running game. In 2012 they are poised with a sharp as ever Brady, an offense that seems to be running in a Tecmo Bowl NES mod, a true ground attack and enough defense to unsettle the rookie QB competition. The Patriots will finish what they started, becoming the greatest Coach/QB pairing of all time. The rest is history.

 

ROFLMAO!

[vmax]

"They're just Losers Dee."

 

[oldno82]

So much for the so-called experts!

[cravnravn]

That is fantastic!!!!