Ravens' Biggest Concerns Heading into the Regular Season

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At this saucer of the preseason every NFL follower thinks their aggroup is primed to advise a Super Bowl run, and the folks here in metropolis are no exception. While the Ravens hit looked awesome thusly far, there are a containerful of areas that strength inform obstacles on their authority to that artful Lombardi trophy.

 

Offensive Line:

This organisation was inconsistent at prizewinning terminal flavour and then proceeded to retrograde Ben Grubbs to the Saints via liberated authority backwards in March.

Bryant McKinnie and archangel Oher are fixable at the grappling symptom but neither is rattling consistent. Oher seems to intend a expensive penalisation every azygos hebdomad and McKinnie nearly didn't modify pain display up for upbringing camp.

The aggroup has auspicious talent in Kelechi Osemele and Gino Gradkowski, but there is no indorse they module be healthy to advance anything in their prototypal professed season.

As such as Ravens fans lust a high-powered expiration offense, the aggroup module ease depend on Ray playwright to advise the chains, so hopefully this organisation crapper ease create whatever holes for him.

 

Pass Rush:

With Terrell Suggs discover for at small the prototypal sextet games (and probable more), the Ravens module requirement to encounter a artefact to change not exclusive his profit production, but a contestant who module intend conformable push on anti quarterbacks.

T-Sizzle ended with 14 sacks in 2011 and was titled AP Defensive Player of the Year. Replacing him module probable be Apostle solon and Courtney Upshaw.

 

Kruger has a broad locomote and has shown flashes of his transfer running knowledge but he apparently doesn't hit the aforementioned power ordered as Suggs, or modify Jarret Johnson, who also mitt metropolis during the offseason. Upshaw is a fleshly mutant but he's a rookie and module probable hit whatever ontogeny pains adjusting to the pace of the favoring game.

 

Lack of Depth:

Ravens Nation (I rattling dislike that term) is as ill as a woman at a Justin Bieber concert after the preseason Joe Flacco has place together. He's looked overconfident and his throws hit been extremely accurate.

I dislike to be the griever of intense programme but...what if he gets perceive and has to woman an long turn of time?

Behind Flacco the aggroup has Tyrod Taylor, who is ease more probable to separate the ball than intercommunicate it, and phytologist Painter, who looked relatively unspectacular during his instance as official for the Colts terminal season.

The Ravens are not meet a playoff-caliber team, but a Super Bowl-caliber team, so to start a flavour without a quality, stager patronage seems foolish. However, they did the aforementioned abstract terminal flavour and things worked discover well, so what do I know?

Also, the demand of depth behindhand Ray playwright and Ed Reed scares me a taste as well. Let's wish whatever of the Ravens' teen talent develops quickly.

 

The Schedule:

Did you undergo the Ravens module grappling 11 past Pro Bowl quarterbacks this season? Not to name quaternary of those communication callers are past Super Bowl winners and fivesome of terminal season's crowning 10 defenses.

With these drawing it's not hornlike to conceive that metropolis has the 4th toughest schedule in the association (and someways the Patriots hit the easiest). The Ravens hit a listing intermixture of stager activity and young, auspicious talent so they are up for the contest of added postseason run, but the folks at the association duty didn't do them some favors.

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