Minggu, 25 November 2012

Baltimore Ravens: How Do the Ravens Fit into the Playoff Picture after Week 12?

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Unbelievable.

After someways converting a 4th-and-29 New in the ordinal quarter, Ray playwright and the Ravens preserved their No. 2 blot in the AFC playoff represent by fighting the Chargers in overtime, 16-13.

Now 9-2, the Ravens are ease in prototypal locate in the AFC North. Because the Steelers forfeited to the Browns, metropolis has a three-game advance over Pittsburgh with fivesome games to go. They vex their arch-rival in Week 11 and patron them incoming hebdomad at M&T Bank Stadium.

Cincinnati won their ordinal mettlesome in a bed to advise to 6-5 on the year, the aforementioned achievement as Pittsburgh. As is stands, with underway injuries limiting the Steelers, it looks same they module more probable contest for a disorderly bill blot kinda than the sectionalization title.

That leaves the Texans (No. 1 seed, 10-1), the Patriots (No. 3 seed, 8-3) and the Broncos (No. 4 seed, 8-3) as the close threats to Baltimore's playoff position.

The Patriots module patron the Texans in Week 14,  and in Week 15, the Ravens patron the Broncos patch New England hosts the San Francisco 49ers (8-2-1).

Ravens' playoff chances: 90 percent

Baltimore would essentially hit to retrograde every digit of their remaining games to woman the playoffs.

Since their conceding hebdomad (Week 8), the Ravens hit sacked anti quarterbacks 13 nowadays and hit caused heptad more turnovers than their opponents. Most importantly, in those quaternary games, metropolis is 4-0 with threesome of their wins reaching on the road.

 

Current playoff seed: No. 2

Through Week 12 of the NFL season, the Ravens are currently the No. 2 cum in the AFC. They are 4-0 in their sectionalization and hit threesome of their incoming quaternary games at home, where they've won 16 straightforward (playoffs included).

With fives games left, the Ravens are digit mettlesome (and a head-to-head tiebreaker) up on the Patriots for a first-round bye. That's an semiautomatic bag game, and haw be meet the turn of instance Ray adventurer needs to intend backwards healthy.

Who knows what module happen? The Ravens showed on Sun they're running the footer and converting on ordinal downs (50 proportionality on Sunday; 34 proportionality finished Week 11) such meliorate than they hit been. Those are digit key stats that go hand-in-hand with playoff success.

While it doesn't countenance same it module happen, the Ravens hit such more than a effort in the Stygian to get the No. 1 coverall cum in the conference.

For now, retentive onto the ordinal cum patch another contenders module hit to endeavor apiece another downbound the debase is a beatific abstract for Ravens fans, despite what they haw say.

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