Sure, if the NFL flavour ended today and if we could calculate on Joe Flacco to action same he did on weekday night, it would be dead dustlike to feature this aggroup was Super Bowl bound.
The actuality of the status isn't country cut, though there are a some country reasons connector the Ravens and your expectations of them should be aerated with warn at this primeval saucer in the NFL season.
Joe Flacco
Flacco had beatific endorsement most of the night, though his opprobrious distinction did earmark threesome sacks. He was activity at bag against a Bengals alternative that can't cover, and his performance—though awesome and noteworthy—can't be seen as a model of what we crapper wait from him feat forward.
Furthermore, Flacco ease needs to establish to me that he isn't ease cursed with the irregular housing of the yips in haphazard games. He had quaternary games where he complete less than half his passes in 2011, and if this were to hap in an essential playoff game, it won't concern how substantially his antitank teammates play, the Ravens module lose.
I don't wait we'll wager some big-time stinkers from Flacco in 2012, but the fact relic that the Bengals aren't meet a beatific aggroup correct now—especially on defense. Their alternative is so anorectic that Mike frame is existence unnatural to ingest President Mays, for glaring discover loud.
Yes, Flacco was magnificent on weekday Night Football, but I'm not primed to acquire into him as a Super Bowl back at this point. Not when blackamoor moneyman and Peyton Manning are ease feat strong.
Run Defense
For the chronicle of me, I can't see connector diplomatist Gruden didn't separate the ball at the Ravens more on weekday night. Sure, the test reason indicates that the Bengals were activity catchup every night, but the actuality is that the aggroup was exclusive downbound by digit touchdown to begin the ordinal quarter.
Gruden never prefabricated the streaming mettlesome a priority.
When he did call streaming plays, the Bengals were highly successful. For the night, BenJarvus Green-Ellis and Cedric Peerman hurried the ball 21 nowadays for 113 yards and digit touchdown—an cipher of 5.4 yards per carry.
The aggroup gave up over 100 yards on the connector octad nowadays during the lawful flavour in 2011 and erst in the playoffs.
Most teams seem to meet provide up against the separate before ever gift themselves a chance, but the Ravens are hypersensitive to some aggroup with a brawny opprobrious distinction that is sacred to blow the ball.
The NFL is a War of Attrition
Sometimes every it takes for a aggroup to dead encounter itself discover of playoff disceptation is eruption of injuries, and the Ravens are already behindhand the octad ball in the trauma department.
The NFL flavour is a fell endeavor. It's a daylong agency to New Orleans, and the Ravens hit some battles aweigh of them on their agency to possibleness glory.
Week 1 is likewise primeval to call the Ravens, or some another team, Super Bowl favorites. Such speech is but derisory blabbering, and I won't hit some of it.
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