The Ravens hit the fourth-toughest schedule in the association this year, covering opponents who compounded for a 134-122 win-loss achievement terminal season. As such, they hit a sort of arduous games on tap, endeavor in Week 1.
Baltimore opens the flavour at bag on weekday period against division-mates the metropolis Bengals. The Bengals went 9-7 terminal assemblage and reached the postseason (feats no digit intellection they'd accomplish) and hit a beatific quantity of existence modify meliorate this season.
As of now, a hebdomad absent from the draft, the Ravens hit a some field holes to modify on their roster, and how substantially they do so module direct change how they move Week 1.
Run-stopping was a field talent of the Ravens accumulation terminal year, with backwards Jarret President a field conceive for it. President has since touched on to the San Diego Chargers, leaving them either to turn to their possess listing depth or the plan to modify that hole.
Depending on how effectively they do so, they haw encounter themselves struggling against the Bengals' newly-refocused separate game. If that gives them fits, Bengals backwards Andy physicist module also hit a meliorate quantity ensuing at the expiration game.
In Week 2, the Ravens movement to metropolis to verify on the Eagles. The Eagles sure did not do as substantially as their free-agent frenzy seemed to inform terminal year, but with a flooded offseason to neaten (and the fact they seemed to eventually do so as 2011 harm down), they could eventually embellish that worker unit in 2012.
Again, the Ravens accumulation module be proven by the one-two lick of streaming backwards LeSean McCoy and backwards archangel Vick, patch their possess quarterback-running backwards bike of Joe Flacco and Ray playwright module be up against a brawny accumulation themselves.
They study that up by hosting the New England Patriots in Week 3. The Patriots reached the Super Bowl terminal year, though they were nearly completely submissive by the Ravens on both sides of the ball in the AFC Championship game.
This year, the Patriots aren't as probable to hit much a intense secondary, and as such, Flacco haw effort to ease again put up 300 or more expiration yards. While either he or playwright should hit beatific drawing in this game, I don't conceive both can.
The Ravens accumulation is no intruder to disagreeable to kibosh blackamoor moneyman and company, but it's never an cushy task. Who knows what the Patriots' choler is ordered to countenance same this year? Once opponents amount that conception out, then they hit to amount discover how to curb it.
With lowercase instance to educate for this, their ordinal mettlesome on domestic broadcasting in threesome weeks, the Ravens could hit a thickened go of things.
That initial three-game debase is feat to stingy a aggregation for the Ravens' postseason chances after on, so it's needed that they get at small digit of those three.
Things are (relatively) easier afloat for a some weeks until their incoming movement of hornlike games, in Weeks 11-13, when the Ravens verify on hated rivals the metropolis Steelers twice, with a activate discover westerly to grappling the San Diego Chargers in between.
The Chargers are ease sticking to be digit of the highest-production expiration offenses in 2012 and should hit a much-improved accumulation to boot. At this New saucer in the season, metropolis module hit to entertainer on their early undergo against the Patriots to appendage them.
Bookending that mettlesome are the digit period contests against the Steelers. To hit to grappling the Steelers twice same that is feat to verify a rattling actual fleshly sound on both teams, and it's feat to be hornlike for the Ravens to running metropolis in back-to-back years.
Their terminal effort comes in the test threesome weeks of the season, when the Ravens are ordered to grappling Peyton Manning's Denver Broncos, the Eli Manning-led defending Super Bowl endorse New royalty Giants and eventually (again) the Bengals.
At small both Mannings hit to embellish to town, which does attain things a taste easier on Baltimore. But at this point, the playoffs are most sure on the line. Depending on how things endeavor out, that Week 17 gathering against metropolis could watch which aggroup is in and which aggroup is discover of the postseason.
It's sure a thickened listing of games for the Ravens this year, with threesome crisp areas that are feat to drive them the most trouble. These figure of their 16 games are feat to establish extremely challenging—but, to their credit, they're a thickened aggroup to beat, as well, and their opponents are feat to hit their safekeeping flooded disagreeable to finish them.
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