The Houston Texans are no joke, boasting the league’s #2 defense and #2 rushing attack. They ran for 188 yards last week against the Cincinnati Bengals, who were one of the best in the league at stopping opposing running backs in their own right (at least until their final two games). While the Ravens will [...]
When the Indianapolis Colts come to town on Sunday, the Ravens have a very good chance to take out a full decade’s worth of frustrations. It has been over 10 full years since Baltimore’s “new” team last beat Baltimore’s “old” team, way back on December 2, 2001. The Ravens and Colts have met 11 times, [...]
As Goob pointed out, the San Francisco 49ers roll into town this week looking like a mirror image of the Ravens in a lot of ways. More accurately, though, they look a lot like the Ravens USED to look. The slow, plodding, yet efficient ball-control offense headed up by a game managing quarterback and solidified [...]
While the obvious subject for this week’s installment of “What’s Important Now” with the Pittsburgh Steelers next on the schedule would have been improving the atrocious pass-blocking of the offensive line, with the news today that neither James Harrison (9 sacks in 10 career games against the Ravens) nor LaMarr Woodley (9.5 in 10) that [...]
After their 35-7 stomping of Pittsburgh on opening day, the Ravens, for whatever reason – I myself like to blame the Sports Illustrated Cover jinx – suffered a huge letdown in Nashville against the Titans, losing 26-13. While it remains to be seen how legitimate of a team Tennessee really is – they didn’t show [...]
The Ravens made it to their early bye week (week 4 is the earliest a team could possibly have a bye) boasting a very 3-1 record, with all three victories coming in dominating fashion, and two of those over the squads that faced off in last season’s AFC Championship Game. While having a bye week [...]
In last week’s W.I.N. installment, we said that the Ravens would need to improve their passing game moving forward. Well, 389 passing yards and 3 aerial touchdowns later…mission accomplished. For now, anyway. The next step is obviously for the team to continue to improve, and show some consistency from week to week, not take a [...]
I was originally going to single out the passing defense – not the offense – in this week’s W.I.N. However, upon further review, I’m actually more concerned about the Ravens’ inability to move the ball through the air, and especially the complete absence of wide receivers from their game plans. Sure, the passing defense was [...]
For the last couple years here at the Nest, we’ve had a weekly segment called “Play Like a Raven.” In it, I chose a player (or group of players) who most “played like a Raven” in that week’s game and gave them my e-game ball. I also picked a guy or a group to berate [...]
