Dude...pour me another drink of whatever you're having. These are NFL starting players. Not athletic?? Let me clue you in on something....If you strap on a helmet and play on Sundays in the NFL....you're pretty fucking athletic! They only thing I would do that follows your advice is to pull Ray Lewis off the field on 3rd downs. And the coaching staff just may well do that.
And re-read your last post...you did say that the Ravens defense was, and I quote...."flat out old and not very fast".
Lol, god you are fucking slow. Let me try to be remedial as possible for you.
They're pros, of course their talent is a given. (Did you really try to make the simpleton argument that all nfl players should be categorized the same because they're all in the nfl?) By nfl standards, the raven lb core is just not athletic. You can send ray lewis to a pro bowl year after year until he turns 90, he still doesn't belong. He is old and a liability in pass coverage. Your other inside lb, is a boulder and can't play a lick of pass defense either. The two edge guys, suggs and johnson are more than capable of getting to the quarterback, but to say they accel at shadowing receivers and making plays in the open field would be laughable. The LONE explosive passing offense you played this year RIPPED YOU A NEW ONE at the same time the ravens were FIGHTING FOR HOME-FIELD in the playoffs. Not to mention that they were fighting all year to keep their head above water and were playing for absolutely nothing. Lmao.
Your damn right I have doubts about the ravens playing some pass defense against a competent passing game.
And yeah...no shit if the Ravens can't get to Brady, they're going to get burned...Thanks Captain Obvious. That goes for all the other 31 defenses in the NFL when they play the Pats. LOL.
Hey smart ass, my comment on them getting to the quarterback during the
regular season had nothing to do with what they needed to do to win this sunday. The fact that they were getting sacks (about half of their 48 came against 3 fucking teams by the way) helped their pass defense statistics. And the fact that they didn't do squat in getting to a 3rd string rookie qb should be a little worrying for you raven buffoons.
Yates gift wrapped about 8 INT's, and STILL any person with a semblance of understanding knew that the ravens were lucky as HELL to walk away with a win. The ravens were losing the point of the attack on both sides of the ball.
Sunday is now or never for the ravens chances of getting a ring any time soon.