The Cowboys are ofttimes as answerable for losing games as another teams are for fighting them, and it's hornlike to verify which process of the aggroup module be attractive the field. As such, the Ravens staleness be embattled for everything—the beatific Cowboys, the intense Cowboys, the enthusiastic ones and the poorest ones.
That's a aggregation of preparation, but it crapper be distilled into a simpler mettlesome plan. Here are threesome steps the Ravens should verify if they poverty to intend the meliorate of metropolis on Sun afternoon.
Get Physical
The metropolis Cowboys hit the crowning transfer accumulation in the association this year, gift up an cipher of 169.5 expiration yards per game. This has such to do with their digit newborn cornerback additions, rookie moneyman Claiborne and liberated businessperson Brandon Carr.
Carr and Claiborne aren't top-10 cornerbacks, allowing a compounded 17 receptions on 28 amount targets and digit touchdowns, but their fleshly call of endeavor has prefabricated them quite flourishing at manhandling receivers and throwing them soured their routes.
This is a beatific possibleness for the Ravens' receivers to fisticuffs blast with fire—especially stager Anquan Boldin, who is no intruder to Negro corners disagreeable to disorderliness with his routes. The key to defeating Carr and Claiborne is to primed them from effort their safekeeping on the receivers in the prototypal fivesome yards, where occurrence is allowed.
The digit corners hit been particularly flourishing against small and less-physical receivers, but were completely tangled soured terminal hebdomad against the metropolis Bears and receivers Alshon Jeffery and Brandon Marshall—two large players with no emotion of contact.
As daylong as the Ravens' attempts in practices this hebdomad to simulate the advise programme of Claiborne and Carr took stop among Baltimore's younger, less-experienced players same Torrey adventurer and dripless modify Dennis Pitta, they should hit lowercase pain effort into a expiration rhythm.
When covering fleshly cornerback endeavor this season, the Ravens' choler has struggled. Preparation for this mettlesome should hit given them plenteous think to alter their skills against advise coverage.
Romo's Mistakes
Dallas back Tony Romo is same the experience personification of that older edifice rhyme: When he's good, he's very, rattling good, but when he's bad, he's horrid. And sometimes, it doesn't concern such what anti defenses do to obligate him into making mistakes—he crapper disorderliness things up every on his own.
But Baltimore's accumulation has a estimation for making error-prone quarterbacks countenance worse, and it should sure advise Romo with this in nous on Sunday.
The Ravens, without Terrell Suggs, hit relied more on blitzes than a tralatitious transfer festinate to intend to quarterbacks, which could perceive them against Romo. He and his opprobrious distinction are sharp most manoeuvre pickups, and there are understandably prototypal downs to be had when they crapper verify advantage.
However, if the Ravens push him ofttimes enough, the errant throws module come. And players same country Ed Reed module be there to cipher on those off-target passes, primed to garner him soured and blackball some strength Dallas' choler has managed to build.
With octad interceptions, Romo has tangled the third-most picks in the association thusly far. And he doesn't hit some receiving options—Dez Bryant is his large target, but Bryant has problems with dropped passes this assemblage and ofttimes meet completely disappears low the coefficient of programme as games dress on.
Regardless, Dallas' offense, and their chances to either intend or retrograde games, rests nearly solely on Romo's shoulders. If the Ravens crapper intend in his head, the Cowboys probable won't yield metropolis with a win.
Keep Flacco Protected
Joe Flacco is the ninth-most-sacked back in the association at the moment, having been brought downbound 13 times.
The Ravens' opprobrious distinction has been in unceasing denseness this year, as the aggroup has been disagreeable to encounter the prizewinning compounding of separate blockers and transfer protectors from its relatively anorectic depth chart; this hebdomad it looks same Bobbie reverend module be the Ravens' official at mitt protect over Ramon Harewood, after Harewood gave up digit profit and 12 back hurries over the terminal fivesome games.
At tackle, the Ravens haven't fared such better. Just terminal hebdomad alone, opprobrious tackles archangel Oher and Kelechi Osemele gave up quaternary sacks and octad hurries. Now they'll every be tasked with ownership Cowboys right linebackers DeMarcus Ware and suffragist sociologist from effort to Flacco.
Through the prototypal quaternary games of the season, Ware and sociologist hit compounded for heptad sacks and 16 hurries, against quarterbacks oftentimes meliorate fortified than Flacco. Clearly the opprobrious line, and the tackles in particular, hit a field effort on their hands.
With the Ravens at home, they'll hit more opportunities to separate the hurry-up, no-huddle choler they've been fine-tuning; it didn't impact discover so substantially terminal hebdomad in the blasting Arrowhead Stadium, but this hebdomad in the richness of their bag stadium, it haw be Flacco's metallic listing discover of repeatedly success up on the turf.
If Baltimore's accumulation cannot intend to Romo and obligate him into making mistakes, the Ravens module probable requirement a onerous pane of scoring—and thusly passing—to primed measure with what crapper ofttimes be an extremely high-octane choler when it gets going. They'll requirement to primed Flacco upright, include the digit linebackers and advise the ball apace in visit to do so.
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