Archive for September, 2009

Live Ravens Chat With The Baltimore Sun’s Jamison Hensley

Thursday afternoon should be a time to get your Ravens questions in as  Baltimore Sun Ravens beat writer Jamison Hensley will conduct a chat session. You’ve got questions? Jamison’s got answers! The chat begins at 1:00 PM Eastern; to visit the chat room, please click here.

Sunday Match-Up: Cleveland @ Baltimore

Any team can win and this year especially there have been major upsets in the NFL. The Browns are 0-2 under new head coach Eric Mangini and are featuring quarterback Brady Quinn . The Browns are looking to find their rhythm offensively and are hungry to get a win. OFFENSE: After a competitive training camp [...]

Short Sighted

On Tuesday afternoon the Ravens decided to sign journeyman tight end Tony Curtis and trade special teams linebacker Prescott Burgess to the New England Patriots for a conditional 7th round draft pick. Am I the only one who sees this as perhaps the most bone-headed, short sighted decision that Ozzie Newsome has made in recent [...]

Defense Playing Second Fiddle To Offense

Remember the Baltimore Ravens of old? A questionable offense most weeks, but one thing was certain every week: their defense is what made the team relevant – and very successful.  Ray Lewis, Ed Reed and the usual suspects making a mockery of most teams’ offenses on nearly a regular basis. But things have changed a bit [...]

The Stop Heard ‘Round the NFL’

“That was probably one of the greatest plays of my career because of what we did as a team,” “You see a couple of big plays here or there, but I told the defense earlier, those third- and fourth-down goal-line stances will win us the ballgame,” Linebacker Ray Lewis     Baltimoresun.com  In a game that was [...]

LB Burgess Traded to Patriots; TE Curtis Signed

From Baltimoreravens.com The Ravens made several moves on Tuesday, signing free agent tight end Tony Curtis and trading linebacker Prescott Burgess to the New England Patriots for a conditional seventh-round draft pick. Curtis, 6-foot-5, 251 pounds, was an undrafted rookie out of Portland State when he joined the Dallas Cowboys in 2007. In two campaigns [...]

Defensive Adjustments

You heard it all pre-season. The Baltimore Ravens will not be as good on defense in 2009. Rex Ryan took his schemes with him to New York along with Bart Scott and Jim Leonhard and with it the Ravens decade long dominance on defense After two games, Baltimore sits atop the AFC North at 2-0 [...]

Week Two Highlights: Ravens @ Chargers

All the big plays from this shootout in San Diego. I think you can guess which play was my favorite.