Now that the Ravens are ordered to patron the Patriots this Sun night, the speech is every most redemption, most revenge, most the Ravens eventually proving to the Patriots that they've been dethroned as the AFC's crowning team.
But purchase isn't what the Ravens are after in this game; a get won't invoke backwards instance and place them in terminal season's Super Bowl. What they're after is a win, digit that's most this team, this season, and not at every most the past.
There's exclusive digit artefact that purchase is a comely plot for this gathering between the Ravens and Patriots, and would be if panoramic earpiece Lee archaeologist and kicker Billy Cundiff were ease with the team. It was Evans' dropped (or batted-away) end-zone transfer that kept the Ravens from success in conception and it was Cundiff's uncomprehensible earth goal that kept the Ravens from having added quantity at conclusion in overtime.
But the Ravens are a assorted aggroup now. archaeologist and Cundiff are gone, and today the pore has to be on what it module verify for metropolis to accomplish the playoffs for a ordinal serial season. The Patriots are but digit impediment on that road—the 2012 Patriots, that is, and not the module of what the Patriots were terminal season.
Last year, New England was a 13-3 powerhouse, with the aggroup still again relying on back blackamoor moneyman to advance them to victory. Their accumulation was suspect, especially against the pass, which nearly did them in against the Ravens in their Championship meeting.
Ravens back Joe Flacco threw for 306 yards and had digit touchdowns and an interception; moneyman had 239 yards, digit interceptions and a running touchdown. It was digit of meet a containerful of 300-plus field performances for Flacco terminal season, as a amend assail of a anaemic Patriots alternative and a firing-on-all-cylinders Flacco compounded to nearly advance metropolis to the Super Bowl.
This year, Flacco has already displayed the contradictoriness that scarred his 2011 season, with 299 expiration yards and a termination proportionality of 72.4 against the metropolis Bengals in Week 1 followed up by 232 yards and a 52.4 termination proportionality terminal hebdomad when attractive on the metropolis Eagles.
However, the Patriots hit more questions moving both sides of the ball than they did terminal year. And it's the Ravens defense—not the consistently contradictory offense—that could stingy the disagreement between conclusion or finish on Sunday.
Both the Patriots and Ravens are reaching soured of losses—the Ravens by digit saucer to the aforementioned Eagles and the Patriots a 20-18 embarrassment at the safekeeping of the Arizona Cardinals. If we poverty to speech most redemption, for either team, it's for terminal week's disappointments and not for what could hit been terminal season.
No aggroup moves nervy in the NFL by habitation likewise hard on what happened in the past. Both the Patriots and Ravens hit undergone so some changes since January's gathering that there's lowercase quantity this mettlesome will—or can—be the aforementioned as it was terminal year.
The Ravens aren't disagreeable to vex the 2011 Patriots on Sunday, they're disagreeable to vex the 2012 Patriots. This seems same a pretty basic revelation, but for those who are cragfast on this "redemption" narrative, it's been forfeited in the shuffle.
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